Tke Dttily Reflector. Greenville, N.C.Tknnday. September M, it72

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Dr. Lennox Baker, secretary of the N.C. Department of Human Resources, expressed his support of a four-year medical sdiool at the opening of ECUs one-year medical program here last week. He described the occasion as a momentous one. Why am I here today? he asked. Because I jike a new day and a new dawn! Certainly this is a new dawn in this great states medical history. At long last an opportunity is bom to have first-class medical care in this region with the richest land and the finest people in the world.

Dr. Baker, first student admitted to the Duke

Some Private Colleges Aided

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH. N.C. - Private colleges in North Carolina, many of them struggling with money problems, are getting a measure of relief this fall from the state's coffers.

The 41 institutions are sharing in a $1,025,000 fund set up by the 1971 legislature to aid Tar Heel students enrolled in non-public higher education.

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Although limited in outlay, the program has significance beyond the dollars involved. It represents the first time the state has spent money on a systematic basis to encourage further utilization of private resources in higher education.

Were happy because of the psychological climate created. said V'irgil L. McBride, executive director ot the North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

What the passage and partial funding of the act said to us was that the people of North Carolina are both aware of the great role which private higher education plays in this state and are willing to assist those institutions at a time when so many of them find themselves in difficulty.

Hopes For The Future On that commitment, the private institutions rest their hopes for a future expansion of the grants program.

They have been encouraged by the budget recommendations of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina, the new agency for restructured higher education, that the program be continued at its present level in the 1973-75 biennium.

That recommendation still has to pass muster with the Advisory Budget Commission. Final disposition will be up to the 73 General Assembly.

NMiile heartened by the prospect of maintaining the program, what the private institutions really want to see is a substantial increase in the level of support.

An effort in this direction looks certain in the next legislature. How it will fare, in light of demands on the State budget, is an open question.

Asked S9.6 Million McBride and the association of independent campuses lobbied last time for a $9.6 million appropriation over a two-year

period. That envisioned annual grants of $200 for each Tar Heel student (based on 23,000, the total in-state private enrollment in 1970), plus an additional 1,000 grants of $600 each for enrollment over the 23,000 figure.

The legislature funded only one year, and on a scale allowing $25 grants under the first provision, and $400 under the second.

While the money is allocated among the institutions according to the proportion of resident enrollment, funds are paid to students as scholarship aid on the basis of need. The institution must match each grant with one of its own.

The thrust of the program is to reduce the disparity in cost between private and tax-supported colleges, encourage more students to choose an independent institution. and give some relief to the states burden in higher education.

Operation costs alone run to more than $1,3(X) per year for each in-state student at North Carolinas public campiises. Capital expenses for buildings and facilities require another layer of tax dollars.

Aid For Taxpayers Thus,every student who selects a private college does a favor for the burdened taxpayer.

The problem is that tuition at the tax-supported schools are so far below those at the independent campus that parents can ill-afford the choice.

From the states point of view, aid to private colleges can be a far cheaper means of assuring higher education opportunity than building and operating the facilities to meet the damands.

More than half the states have taken the route, with a variety of grant-in-aid programs.

The independent institutions see their primary role as that of aiding North Carolina and its people, McBride said. They hope, and the association hopes, that we can eventually provide the young people of the state an option of choosing the college they want to attend on the basis of academic programs, rather than economic factors alone.

A study a couple of years ago indicated there are 5,000 available spaces in private institutions, in contrast to the crush at state-supported colleges. Taking into account present capacity, out-of-state enrollment which could be shifted to Tar Heels, and possibilities for greater efficiency, McBride said, as many as 14,000 spaces could be opened up by 1975.

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Medical School, commented, I have been through it all before, and I can still get enthusiastic when I think of today and the future of this (ECU) school. The need for a medical school in Greenville and the East is far greater today than the need for the medical school in Durham some 43 years ago.

He continued, To reach our goal of a complete medical school will not be easy. I will help, even thou^ it may mean struggling against people with whom I have been associated over the years. But I will fight them to the last ditch to give our people what they have lacked for so many years adequate numbers of doctors to provide for better health care.

With men of vision like Dr. Baker standing alongside East Carolina University, there is no doubt that the ECU School of Medicine will continue to grow and fill the pressing medical need of North Carolina.

The study and public debate which has gone on prior to the opening of the school has been unprecedented in North Carolina. There have been two studies done by*^ teams unbiased medical experts from outside North Carolina, and the studies helped advance the development of the school. The last study by the accrediting committee found interim facilites, staff assembled to that point and projected funding for a two-year school to be adequate. Subsequently the Board of Higher Education and the Legislature approved the one year program which is now in operation.

The ECU School of Medicine has been founded on the best advice that top medical experts of the nation can offer. Its initiation came only after years of public debate, which proved that the need could be met through the development of the school.

There will continue to be opposition, of course, but it will be difficult, indeed, for the opposition to refute all the years of study and planning which have gone into the development of this school.

Highway Funds Said Top Issue

By JOHN KILGO RALEIGH - The highlv political nature of the State Highway Commission and the allocating of money for road building will soon boil over and become the number one issue of the gubernatorial campaign.

Thats the opinion of veteran Tar Heel politiciansand evidence continues to stack up to indicate theyre right.

Charles R. Dawkins of Fayetteville, a member of the 23-man Highway Commission told me in an interview;

I have a story to tell but Im not ready to tell it. Yes, there is too much politics involved in the Commission. Ive opposed them several times in private. Ive come close to blows with the chairman.

Another commissioner, who insisted that he not be named, told me: Its a good thing the public doesnt know how much politics is involved in determining where money goes for roads. Its a mess. commissioner Giff Benson of Raleigh recently ordered an underpass for golf carts be constructed at a Zebulon country club. The $7,3(X) cost of the project was approved by the Commission last week, but not before Dawkins kicked up a fuss in public and private.

That item should have never been on our agenda, Dawkins told me. Thats why I didnt vote for it. Benson was one of only two men on the Highway Commission who supported Skipper Bowles for Governor in the Democratic primary. Most of the commissioners actively supported Pat Taylor.

Reports leaked out from some sources that Bowles was planning to name Benson chairman of the next Highway commission. But then word of the golf cart underpass got out and Bowles office issued a statement saying Bowles had never

considered naming Benson chairman of the commission.

Republican Jim Holshouser has criss-crossed the state, retelling the golf cart story and charging that Bowles and Benson are long-time close friends.

Says Commissioner Dawkins; Some changes must be made in the next Highway Commission and the way its set up. Ive talked to Bowles about this. As a whole, this Highway Commission is a good one. But the system doesnt work. One man decides where the roads go.

Dawkins obviously has serious differences with Commission Chairman Lauch Faircloth but he absolutely refused to discuss them in public. However, when he says one man decides where the roads go, he has to be talking about Faircloth. And he did say, as we quoted earlier, that he had almost come to blows with the chairman in private meetings of the Highway Ck)mmission.

Bowles said last week that the Highway Commission Chairman in his administration would be responsible to the secretary of transportation.

Says Commissioner Dawkins about that proposal: Thats the way it ought to be, if you put a man in who isnt getting a political payoff. Otherwise, the road money will still be decided by politics.

Dawkins says he would not consider being a Highway Commissioner again under the present set-up.

My God, he said, when it gets so bad you cant sleep at night, its too much.

Coming on top of this controversy was a Raleigh News & Observer story saying (jOv. Bob Scott had paved more than 100 miles of roads in his home county of Alamance. The newspaper said Scott had used the High-(Continued on page 8)

By JJ. KILPATRICK

Gloria Steinem came striding into the NBC studios this past Sunday morning, trying to look frowsy and failing badly in the self-conscious attempt. As Number One Lib of the Womens Liberation movement, she was on hand to defend reproductive freedom, among other things, before Meet the Press. She did her usual cool and competent job, but I dunno. The Mses leave me not exactly cold, but acutely uncomfortable.

There is a kind of fanaticism here an obsessiveness that goes beyond dedication. It works a catalytic effect upon a good

and commendable movement, and transforms it into something an>raching a cult. The self-consciousness intrudes in irrelevant ways.

Why is Ms. Steinem Ms. Steinem? It is because Miss and Mrs. have become contemptible titles: They identify women in terms of men, not in terms of their own selves, and this is taken as an insult. It surely is not intended as an insult it is no more than custom, no more than civility but there it is. So Larry Spivak is instructing die panel to address questions to out guest as Ms. Steinem, and Carl Rowan is amused because the Mis takes him back to his

Other Editors Say Weighing The Deal

(Christian Science Monitor)

George McGovern is aiming his most stinging shots against Richard Nixon in the sensitive area of government probity. Much more so than he has been able to do in the bread-and-butter areas of social and economics reform. But whether or not he can reap meaningful political profit, charges of administration wheeling and dealing in the wteat and grain export market, of cloak-and-dagger hanky-panky in the Watergate bugging case, and of illegal use and secrecy in the matter of campaign funds, is a moot point.

Public opinion polls continue to show strong sui^rt of President Nixon, even among the supposedly restive younger voters. These soundings indicate that the bread-and-butter issues are where the voters interest is largely centered. They seem to be saying that the American people at this point feel less inclined toward a new turning of the liberal social-economic wheel than toward a consolidation of the unsettled status quo.

Still, one of the great pluses of the presidential challenge that grips the United States quadrennially is the incentive it gives not always out of pure motives, to be sure to subject the incumbent regime to the most rigorous scrutiny. Many a hidden scandal has been unearthed through just this (arocess.

The latest charges by Mr. McGovern that the Department of Agriculture has engaged in a large-scale scheme to enrich big grain dealers at the expense of the American consumer and the small farmer has enough circumstantial evidence to justify quick and thorough congressional investigation. If nothing else, the timing of the agreement to sell $750,000,000 in grains to Russia over three years, coincidental with a complicated shuffling of high officers frmn within the Department of Agriculture into jobs with large grain-dealing companies, and vice-versa, certainly is grounds for question. Those same grain dealers apparently made large prcrfits from the purchase of grains and grain futures, at a low price, from farmers who were unaware that the Soviet Union would be making such huge purchases.

As the House subcommittee on livestock and grains looks into these charges this week, it has a responsibility to openly investigate whether the switching of personnel were based on passing of advance information to the grain dealers. And whether federal laws and Agriculture Department rules dealing

with conflict of interest have been breached.

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childhood in Tennessee when that was the way boys addressed married ladies.

Why is Ms. Steinem wearing blue work pants and a brown turtleneck sweater? She is so attired, one assumes, because this is show biz, it is role-playing: Fidel Castro in fatigues, Leo Durocher in a sports shirt, Bobby Fishcher in the suit that he slept in. It is a terrible thing to say no insult is intended but Ms. Steinem, at 38, is a most attractive woman: good level eyes, lovely mouth, trim figure, slim hands long-fingered. But the assumption seems to be that nonliberated women tend to dress up, out of some self-abasing desire to please men, so liberated women must dress down. Ms. Steinem is conspicoiisly liberated this morning, and that is doubtless an admirable way to be, but it is as if a guy who were nuts about jogging came to high tea in his sweat suit.

The self-consciousness ripples out. All politicians and most male writers have gotten edgy about the very mention of man or men. There was a time when you tested a new typewriter ribbon by Arriting, Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Chauvinism! Now is the time for all good persons...

'This absurdity attained a marvelous peak earlier this month in the September issue of Grass Roots national publication of the Peoples Party. Here we were solemnly advised that Dr. Finley C. Campbell of Indiana had been elected a co-spokesperson at the partys St. Louis convention. Indeed, he and Marge Buckley of California had become co-spokespeople.

It is too much. The Womens Liberation movement, as best I can understand it, deserves applause and support: Of course women should be free to find social and economic fulfillment in terms of their own humanness, but why the gimcrackery of blue jeans and spokespeople? Are we supposed to equate the (Continued on page 8)

A Born Loser

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Luck is like the weather. People complain but do nothing else about it.

Of course, it is hard to think what you can do about luck except to take it as it comes. You hear of up-and-at-em guys who say they make their own luck, but if you investigate these cases you fnd they did it on inherited moneyor else, in its

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own good time, their bad luck finally came along and humbled their boasts.

Over his lifetime, the average man would probaUy say that his luck was fifty-fifty, and probably didnt tip the balance of his life unduly toward good or bad.

But some feel they were born under a curse and that luck never smiles but always frowns on them. They are bom losers. How can you tell a bora loser from one who only brags that he is?

Well, beyond doubt youre a bora loser if

Your shoestring breaks not once a year in an emergency but once a month.

The day after the firm you spent 30 years with finally names you a vice president it goes into bankruptcy.

You never got to show how smart you were in school because the teachers always called on the students to recite alphabeticallyand your name would be Zimmerman.

You were too small to make the basketball team and too skinny to play football.

It was only after you had paid 87 traffic tickets for going through red lights that your doctor accidentally found out you were color blind.

You were the only kid in the neighborhood whose own dog bit him every day at feeding time.

Your first blind date not only got blind after one drinkshe also got sick in your car. So has every blind date youve taken out since.

No matter how close you trim (Continued on page 8)

40 Years Ago Today

By GWYN COGHILL September 14,1932 Smoke pouring from the front window of the second floor of the building occupied by Quinn-Miller and (Company on Fifth Street early today probably saved that section of the business district from one of the heaviest fire losses in history. The building is located next to the police station which is in the same building with the fire department which enabled firemen to quickly bring the fire under control.

It was circus day in Greenville today and children and grown-ups alike greeted the early arrival this morning of the greatest motorized circus on earth. The great caravan of trucks arrived about six oclock at Winslows show grounds and immediately started work on erecting the big top.

Strength For Today off' Claim Questioned

UNDERSTANDING OTHER PEOPLE

Every human being is so completely a unit in himself that we find it almost impossible to realize what other people are thinking about and, as Jacob Riis put it some decades ago, how the other half lives.

What do you know about the people who live along your street? Would you be amazed to discover poignant sorrow in some household? May there be a saint living near you or perhaps someone of demon nature and dimensions? What about the town three blocks over from your residence? What ..about people of other colors and races living in your community?What about the poor? And what is equally important what abot the ,

rich? For taken by and large they have even less happiness and peace that the people who have to squeeze every penny.

Once in a while we encounter a person who seems really to be understanding. He looks into the hearts of his fellows and sees there much good which the rest of the world has overlooked. He will tell you that there are capacities in certain people which are waiting and eager to be utilized. He will tell you about acres of diamonds right in your vicinity. -

Who are the people who^ really know their fellows? Are they the cynical or the sympathetic? Almost always thoy are the sympathetic, the understanding. It is a great gift to be able to look into a human heart and understand.

By Earl Dougass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP)-One of the administrations greatest tasks, a frustrating one to date, is to convince the American people that they are better off than a year ago.

Official government statistics tend to support this contention, and administration spokesmen have not forgotten to sprinkle the figures liberally throughout their statements. The effect, however, has been questionable.

In all levels of business and ~ personal finance there can be ^ found a feeling that the hard figures are artificial flavoring for an unappetizing mixture of inflation, unemployment and social

unrest.

To a great degree, the administration itself is respmsiUe for the rejection of the official statistics because it has used them defensively and sometimes without an understanding of the modern mood.

Expectations are higher today, part of the unfolding American dream of economic progress on every front, private and public. The idyll is displayed constantly before the public by media, public officials and others.

Moreover, government has more than ever committed itself to actively speeding the process. It promises miSre. More^ is expected.

As increasing numbers achieve some measure of financial success, the quality

of life rises in their list of priorities. A clean environment, social justice, the dignity of life become elements of their broadened outlook.

Statistics do not measure these, and that appears to be a major reason for the credibility problem involved with those old sets of figures that are used to measure progress.

Gross Natioqpl Product, unemployment, cost of living, and other statistical series fail to tell the complete story. They are not suspected of being adulterated; but they are considered to be in-coniplete measures.

The statistics show that in the past year people built their savings, reduced their .debts, found more jobs. They

bought new homes at a nearrecord rate. Their incomes rose in real dollars.

In every region and state and in the District of (Columbia, it said, personal income gains exceeded the increase in consumer prices at least moderately, so that real purchasing power of consumers increased in all areas.

Since then, the inflation rate has slowly receded, but in the period from November 1971 to July 1972 the increases in personal income, basd on official figures, averaged more than last year 9.5 per cent at an annual rate.

Does this mean that people are better off? The mind ^ records the claim, but instinct quests it.