An Outrage At Olympic Village

Our reaction ranges between outrage and sadness concerning the horror of the terrorists raid on Israeli participant in the Olympics.

We are outraged that innocent people have been killed while participating in an international event of this magnitude; we are sad that any people could be so twisted with hate that they would attack so cruelly.

Race Issue No Longer Decisive

By BRYAN HAISLIP

CHAPEL HILL. NC -Race al^e cant win or lose an electionffn NJfth Carolina.

The candidate who has a program relevant to the needs of people has a chance to be elected to almost any office in the state, regardless of race or sex. said Howard Lee.

That doesnt mean white voters have lost all theic hangups on color, he admitted. or that blacks have gained the plateau of equal access and expertise in politics

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It does mean, Lee said, that the potential is present as never before for truly open and participatory politics.

At 38, Lee is his own best case in point for the argument he makes to young blacks that political opportunity is available.

He has been elected mayor twice of the predominantly white community that is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In last springs Democratic primary, he ran a creditable race for the Second District seat in Congress. Since then, he has played active roles at the partys state and national conventions.

He is now involved in the campaign of Hargrove (Skipper )Bowles Jr. for governor. He'll put in licks, too, he said, for the national ticket.

Lee is neither token nor [>awn in Tar Heel political circles. His rise in the ranks of leadership owes something to being black, but is based on peer recognition of ability.

Finding Common Ground

Ive seen tremendous attitudinal changes among older and more experienced politicians, Lee said. There is a new sensitivity to those who were closed out in the past. We are finding a true commonality.

Part of that comes as middle-age white males, traditional custodians of power, find themselves in a narrow corner within the parties under pressure from other elements.

At the national convention, Lee recalled, there were caucuses for blacks, women, youth. Chcanos and other minorities maneuvering for a piece of the action. The only one that wasnt held was one for white males over-30, he observed.

Quotas and caucuses have a purpose, but they are stages in the evolution to open politics and not ends in themselves, he added.

Wallace Following Analyxed

Lee rejects the easy assumption that there is a racist strain to the following Gov. George Wallace of Alabama has in North Carolina. On a third party ticket in 1968. Wallace ran just behind President Nixon and ahead of Democrat Hubert Humphrey. This year he captured a majority of ballots in the Democratic presidential primary.

The people who voted for Wallace are reaching for a place in the system, just as blacks are, Lee said.

Not toally, but in large measure, the Wallace vote came from poor and working class whites, he said. They were passed over in the gains of the civil rights movement and ignored in preoccupation with anti-poverty programs geared to minorities, he said.

To be really honest, the whites at the lowest end of the economic spectrum have been getting the short end of the stick. he said. The only thing they have to hold on to is their whiteness.

In his Congressional race, Lee found that he and Wallace carried some precincts by almost identical votes. Aside from busing and talk about welfare loafers, we were talking about the same things, he said.

Race Minor Factor^

Lee failed to unseat Rep. L. H. Fountain. He discounted race as a factor in his defeat. Voters, whites and blacks, had a strong relationship with his opponenet over many years, he pointed out.

A native of Lithonia, Ga., Lee described himself as a first generation escapee from poverty. He is on the Duke University staff as director of the office of human development which provides training and educational opportunities for non-academic employees.

Some innate urge impelled him to politics. His parents voted, usually Republican, but that was the limit of family political involvement.

The black aspirant for public office must stand head and shoulders in qualification above his white contender, Lee said. He must win respect as a candidate who can relate to people and their concerns, and then overcome hangups on racial stereotypes.

Those tasks become easier as blacks gain experience and expertise, and as the public is exposed to black candidates, he added.

The movement may not be so far and so fast that North Carolina will soon elect a black governor, Lee agreed. The chance is there, he added, if remote.

1 do feel the state is ready for a black lieutenant governor, said Lee, who toyed with the idea of trying for the office this year. We will be even more ready in 1976.

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This years Summer Olympics were a glittering succ^; Munidi had gone all out to provide the facilities and the hospitality needed for the ancient games. Here in the United States millions were following the events on television, relayed by the miracle of Satellite transmission. TMngs were going well for our representatives, to the immense pleasure of fellow countrymen here at home.

Then tragedy stitick as Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic village with machine guns blazing, killing two Israelis and holding 13 more hostages.

Among the demands were the release of imprisoned terrorists in Israel and the provision of aircraft to fly the terrorists to safety.

This was an outrageous act and one which should be deplored by aU nations of the world. Such violence had no place in the one event where represenUtives of all nations meet in peaceful competition. It is a sad day, indeed, when any fanatic group feels it can force what it wishes with such wanton deeds as this.

Cooperative Efforts May Extend To Europe

An early po^bility of cooperation among the states universities under the new governing board was mentioned by Dr. Leo Jenkins in his talk to the faculty here this week.

Jenkins heads a committee to study the feasibility of establishing The University of North Carolina in Europe. The university would be developed around ECUs branch at Bonn, Germany and would s^ve all 16 institutions.

It is another example of what the states institutions can do by pulling together, rather than fghting one another.

Helms Presents Curious Figure

By JOHN KILGO CHARLOTTE - Jesse Helms on the political stage presents an unusual, almost curious figure.

If I cant get elected being honest I dont want to win...Ill stand square behind what I believe...What I need most in this campaign is a 36-hour clock and two twin brothers.

Helms did that kind of talking before an exclusive audience of businessmen at Charlottes fashionable City Gub. Not all of the people there were fat cats but some certainly wre.

Charles Crutchfield, the very conservative man in charge of WB'TV in Charlotte, was credited with acquiring the room which Helms spoke in.

That room was packed. Mostly successful businessmen in conservative suits. I didnt see any long hairs there.

Many of these men had never seen Jesse Helms. They knew he was well-known in the East; where his editorials had hit the air over WRAL-TV in Raleigh.

Charlotte is Charlie Jonas country and they had sent that Republican to Congress for 20 straight years. Of course Jonas was there to introduce Helms.

I jumped at the chance to come here for this, Jonas said. Jesse belives in fiscal responsibility. Hes intelligent and a man of character; integrity and ability.

Helms was given a stan-ding ovation, not as loud or as long as the one given the man who introduced him, but not bad for a stranger in a big city.

I have no intention of making a political speech, Helms began. If the audience came to hear him shoot flames, the way he has done in the past on television, they were disappointed.

It was the shortest political

oratory I ever heard. Ten minutes by the clock. Some of the guests were still being served their orange sherbert when Helms sat down.

He didnt say much. He said hed level with the people, be honest, be a gentleman. Hes also proud of my partys nominee for President and I dont have to go around the state apologizing for him and disassociating myself from his programs.

He also said he had a lot of young people supporting him.

We might not like their haircuts but if youre honest with them and speak the truth, theyll listen to you. The vast majority of them are as good and responsible as the young people of our genration.

Tom Ellis, Helms state campaign manager, tok the stage to map a little strategy. Helms has hired a New York advertising firm to handle his commericals and ads. Theyve retained Oiff White to be their political-expert-in-residence.

Cliff White, Ellis said, is the man who put together Barry Goldwaters presidential nomination in 1964.

Ellis promised all sorts of groups for Jesse -- Athletes for Jesse, Democrats for Jesse, Farmers for Jesse, Students for Jesse, Young Businessmen for Jesse.

From Burlington east, Ellis said, crowds cheer and holler for Jesse. Hes that popular down there.

Ellis warned the gathering that Helms campaign would have some problems with the news media, especially the big city dailies that are to the left of Jesse. Before you knew it, the whole thing was over. Some people hadnt finished their second cup of coffee. Helms, for whom the spotlight shone, had not talked as long as Jonas or Ellis. There had (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

ADJUSTMENT-WHICH WAY?

One of the most common sights at the beaches in the summer in the bather who steps hesitantly into the water, gingerly wetting his toes, and them leaps out shrieking about how cold the water is. Gradually hq goes in up to his knees, then to his waist, and finally, after many heroics, he plunges in. A few moments later he is swimming around in perfect comfort.

Such is the human capacity for adjustment, and it is a capacity which we have morally as well as physically. The carefully brought up young man or woman with high ideals who gives way to indulgence finds the first shock of deliberate sin a chilling one. But if he keeps on his course of lying, drinking,, gambling, illicit

sex, and so on, he soon feels fairly comfortable in a moral atmosphere so low that it would once have frightened and disgusted him.

Fortunately for those who do not live as they know they should but hope to do better, the capacity for adjustment is quite as great in the other direction. Giving up our favorite indulgence or vice seems at first as painful as stepping into icy water. But the better way of living which appears so impossible and uncomfortable at first becomes even pleasant as we accustom ourselves to fit.

Strength and weakness both are the results of practice. Why settle for weakness? We can make out of ourselves almost anything we want to. Itjdepends on the will, or rather on the willingness.

By Earl Douglass

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By J.J. KILPATRICK

The Things That Count

Vast quantities of hot air and hard work are being expended these days in analysis of George McGoverns tax and welfare proposals. The labor is largely wasted.

His proposals in these areas have value for one reason only: They tell us something of McGoverns cast of mind. His hostility toward inherited wealth, for example, offers an interesting insight into the candidates social and economic attitudes generally. But it is a frivolous exercise to dismantle his tax structure, adding ten billion here, subtracting eight billion there, and little is gained by dissecting his welfare plans. The nit-picking details are irrelevant.

Presidential candidates ought to be judged primarily in two broad areas: by their personalities and by their instincts. And we ought to pay close attention to what they say in three specific fields: foreign affairs, national defense, and the Supreme Ck)urt. Most of the rest is fluff By personality, I mean to ask of a candidate: What kind of man is he? How does he react to a crisis? How does he get along with people? What of his sense of humor? When does he lose his temper? Presidents are not plaster busts or disembodied figures. They are mortal men. If the Democratic nominee had been Edward Kennedy or Edmund Muskie or Tom Eagleton, the voters would have been entirely

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I dont write to newspapers often. However I feel this letter needs to be written. I am a member of the Greenville Jaycees. Too often we go to the media, the merchants and the people of Greenville for help and support without the public acknowledgement of their help and support. The Greenville Jaycees conduct many different and varied projects during the year for a number of causes for financial and moral benefits. Of course, all proceeds possible are returned to the people of Greenville and Pitt County in various external ways. And we have plans to continue these projects for many years to come because we believe Greenville and Pitt County deserve our efforts and support.

The Greenville Chapter is in the largest membership division of the state, and while we strive to stay in front of the other state chapters in our area, we place our thoughts of Greenville first.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for your Jaycees, write us at P.O. Box 258, Greenville, N.C. 27834.

As a director this year I am proud to serve with our 1972 officers; Don Brady, president; Mark Meltzer, Jack Cox and Roger Collins, vice-presidents and the other directors and officers and, of course, the many members of our chapter.

On their behalf, may I extend sincerest thanks to the citizens of Greenville, area merchants, the media, and of course The Daily Reflector, for the tremendous help and support we have received throughout the years.

Remember, when the Greenville Jaycees go to work, we go to work for you, FOR WE BELIEVE.

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justified in considering the events ot Chappaquiddick, the tears at Manchester, the history of nervous exhaustion not as isolated misfortunes, but in the context of presidential tensions. If you cant stand the heat, said Harry Truman, stay out of the kitchen. How much heat can they stand?

By instincts, I mean primarily to suggest a candidates political philosophy. The White House is not likely to be occupied any time soon by either a flaming radical or a mossbacked reactionary. Presdiential attitudes lie somewhere in between. We are entitled to ask of a candidate; Are his instincts generally liberal? Or generally conservative? The terms cannot be precisely defined, but they are well understood all the same. These are the instincts the cast of mind that a President will express in a hundred differenct ways. One President names John Mitchell as Attorney Genral. And another names Ramsey Gark.

Except for what it tells us of his instincts, McGoverns statement on welfare reform is something chiefly to be clipped and filed. When it comes to legislation, a President proposes but Congress disposes. As a Senator from South Dakota, the gentleman has some direct say-so on capital gains: He can vote yea or nay. Presidents have great power, but theirs is power of a different sort.

One such area of presidential power lies in the conduct of foreign affairs. McGovern on Israel thus merits attention. McCJoverns recent public letter on Greece was directly relevant to his presidential bid. When a candidate speaks to these questions, we must listen.

By the same token, because a Presdient serves as com-mander-in-chief, McGoverns (Continued on page 5)

Words

That

Weary

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Remarks a doctors secretary gets tired of hearing:

Do I get 20 per cent off if I

pay his fee in cash right now? What do you work for a married doctor for, Maude? If I was a pretty single girl like .you. Id get a job with a doctor who was single.

Ck)uld I please have the key to the ladies room, miss? Maude, will you sneak me in to see the doctor at the very first chance? My husbands double-parked outside waiting to take me to the movie.

Ive been waiting over an hour now. I thought the reason the doctor started evening hours was so patients wouldnt have to sit around half their lives in his office in order to see him.

If I have to go without my dinner much longer, I wont need to see a doctor. Ill need an undertaker.

All right, Johnny, Im telling you for the last time. If you dont stop pulling your sisters hair, I wont let him give you a lollipop when he sees us.

Ive read all the National Geographic magazines about the Spanish-American War and the first World War. Do you have any copies of the magazine that have been printed since I was born? Id kind of like to creep up on my own times.

As a businessman, I can tell you that if I ran my office the way doctors run their offices, Id be an out-of-businessman in a week.

Does that wind up the patients for the night, Maude? Lets have a nip of scotch before we lock up. Boy, do I feel bushed tonight! Let me tell you my symptoms. Its not only that I

40 Years Ago Today

By GWYN COGHILL September 7,1932 Autumn swept over this part of the state today on chilly winds which caused the mercury to topple and bring an end to the unseasonal hot weather of the last several days. The chilling temperatures followed in the wake of rain yesterday and a slight drizzle last night and caused people to cast about for more comfortable clothing this morning.

Prices showed greater strength as the Greenville tobacco market entered the second day of the season today with offerings considerably lighter than the opening day. The market handled 110,930 pounds of tobacco at an average of $9.34 per hundred pounds and paid out $10,360.28.

Opinion In Brief

When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship. Aristotle.

Buyers Shift With The Times

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - A common assumption among Americans, especially those who believe strongly in the power of advertising and marketing, is that the seller rather than the buyer dictates trends.

This notion is sometimes fostered by the ad industry itself, and as if to prove their contention, copywriters can offer numerous examples of spectacular success by products of dubious value, heavily promoted.

But now and then industrys faith in its own powers is shattered as, from time to time, consumers assert themselves and buy

what they darn well please.

None other than the automotive Big Three General Motors, Ford and Chrysler learned this lesson in recent years as they attempted to sell big cars to buyers who were determined to buy small.

As a result, the penetration of the domestic market by foreign companies reached 16 per cent before the tide was turned.

The Big Three were forced to adjust to consumer preferences, to build compact cars despite lower profit margins on such units.

Something roughly comparable seems to have oc-ci^red in the market for new homes. As the price of con

ventional housing continues to rise, mobile homes are slicing off what appears to be a permanent segment of the market.

The median price of a nevv' one-family home now is more than $25,(XX), or 11 per cent more than in 1967. A fully equipped mobile home can be purchased for less than half that.

As recently as 1960, only 103,-700 mobile units were shipped. By 1965, the numbered had more than doubled. Last year more than 490,000 units were shipped. This year the total most likely will exceed 500,000.

About one of every three single family home sales now involves a mobile unit, a rate

that housing officials concede may represent a permanent change in the market.

The significance of this trend can be measured in numerous ways. Certainly it means that many Americans have accpted a different life style. It means also that the appearance and tax base of some towns is changing.

Perhaps most significant is the evidence that the buyer can shift with the times, can make up his own mind, assert himself ^nd realize his demands without any encouragement.

In effect, the buyer led rather than permitted himself to be led. He demanded economical housingind he got it.