4The Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.-Titel*y. November 21. H72

10th St. Project Long-Needed

Greenvilles sparkling new Tenth Street thoroughfare is at long last opened and, except for a few finishing touches, it is ready to do the job of

No 'Obituary' For Democrats

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH - The Democratic party in North Carolina is alive and well, and living in the local precinct.

Time and timing brought reverses for some of its candidates in the general election, but no rejection of the party, said James B. Hunt Jr

BRYAN HAISLIP

What voters said at the polls on Nov. 7 was not so much no to Democrats as yes to a two-party scheme in Tar Heel politics, he suggested. In that light, he added, the results point to more competition and new vigor for both Democrats and Republicans.

"And I think thats good, Hunt said. "It will make all of us work harder at serving the people. listening and responding to them. Thats really what politics is all about.

Where the people are is where party organization begins, he reminded. That means in the precinct, he said, and it means everyone in the party.

Specifically. Hunt counseled in the election aftermath that the Democratic party needs to make room for the followers of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama.

Wallace Followers Important

Those who identify strongly with Gov. Wallace are important to the party, and they must play an important role in it, he affirmed.

Hunt has youth and political savvy and the position that will give his views influence in Democratic ruling circles. Running the first time for public office, he won easily as lieutenant governor while Republicans beat Democratic candidates for governor and the U.S. Senate

At 35. the Wilson attorney will be the youngest ranking official in the next administration and the top elected Democrat. He will be serving a heartbeat away from the governors office, occupied by James E. Holshouser Jr. as the first GOP chief executive in this century.

He will be one of those looked to in the days ahead as Democrats go about mending the party.

He discarded re-building as a word inappropriate for the task. The North Carolina Democratic party is strong. It is unified. he insisted.

Yes. we lost two major races. he conceded. Yes. we do need to do some things. We need to make crystal clear that everyone in the Democratic party is important. We need to have the

party operate on eight cylinders, from state to county to precinct level. Quota Question Raised

Some old-line Democrats have felt unimportant and shut out by a plan of party organization designed to assure access to youth, women and blacks. The interpret it as a form of quotas, identified in the national party with George McGovern, the defeated presidential candidate.

The rules brought a new crowd to the last state convention. and sent to the national convention a mixed-bag delegation in which longtime party figures were conspiciously absent. Some observers have read in the election results disgrun-tlement with the party changes.

Quotas are not part of the plan, said Hunt, who chaired the study group which wrote it. "I personally led the fight against quotas, he added.

What the language calls for, he explained, is that party make-up "reasonably reflect age, sex and race. To the extent that that might be taken to mean quotas, he said, there must be a clarification. "At the same time, we want all to have a reasonable voice in party affairs, he said.

Hunt declined to pick over the bones of the campaign. Its too easy to say, If you won, you did everything right; if you lost, you did everything wrong, he observed.

Good, hard campaigns were waged by Democrats Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles Jr. for governor and Nick Galifianakis for U.S. Senate, as well as their successful Republican opponents. Hunt said.

Time and Timing Factors

If one factor was decisive in the race for governor, he speculated, it was the long tenure of Democrats in power. "Seventy-two years and time for a change made an appealing call, he said.

Timing was critical in the U.S. Senate contest, he added, coinciding with the landslide sentiment for President Nixon. Voters attuned to national issues tended to couple the two offices.

Hard work was fundamental to his own race. Hunt said. "Im not saying other candidates didnt work hard, because they didf" he said.

Presiding over the Senate for the 1973 session and naming its committees is a first major assignment facing the incoming lieuteneant governor. When ^ the legislature convenes Jan. 10, Hunt promised, the list of committee appointments will be ready.

Whether any Republicans will be among committee chairmen is a decision yet to be made. In any evet. Hunt said, he is confident that the General Assembly can give fair consideration to issued before it without regard to -partisan differences.

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moving traffic through a heavily congested area.

The five lane facility is 64 feet wide and is curbed and guttered. It has a center lane for left and right turns and, where it passes through the ECU campus there is a pedestrian median to help make crossing safer for walking traffic.

Traffic signals will be maintained at strat^ic intersections including Toith Street intersections with Cotanche, Charles, College Hill Drive, Elm and Fifth Streets. A signal will also be installed at Greenville Boulevard, where Tenth intersects with the Eastern bypass now under construction.

The 2.4 miles project was built under construction contract of $1,877,200 and it has been under construction since April, 1971.

This project was way overdue and apparently was delayed during the administration of Gov. Moore. Funds were allocated after Scott took office and now this important local thoroughfare is a reality.

Tenth Street will tie in with the Eastern bypass and with planned improvements to Charles Street. It will channel traffic near the downtown area. With the construction of a short link on Cotanche Street it can take traffic to the Reade Circle throughfare now being constructed to serve the Central Business District.

For a decade The Daily Reflector has called for the much needed improvements on Tenth Street. At last the project is a reality and will be most helpful in our growing city.

Urgency

Policing

By ROWLAND EVANS

and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - 'The four powers picked to supervise the Vietnam cease-fire are under heavy pressure from the Nixon administration to complete the selection of their military contingents and place them on 72-hour notice for duty in South Vietnam.

Each of the four-nation contingents is expected to average about 1,200 officers and men. Altogether, then, the four countries Canada, Poland, Hungary and Indonesia will have a supervisory force of around 5,000.

However, each of the four countries has serious reservations about certain aspects of their policing duties, particularly the safety of their men in a situation fraught with obvious peril. The size of the total force strongly indicates that there is no remote possibility of the foul*-nation force stopping all or even most violations of the cease-fire when finally signed by Washington and Hanoi.

Rather, experts here believe the force will be split into small groups and positioned in headquarters locations between the South Vietnamese army and Hanois estimated 110,000 front-line trooops, scattered in many widely-sparated areas.

The danger that this policing force, despite the cease-fire, will be caught in military actions between the opposing troops is obviously grave. Of the four countries, Canada is the most skeptical about the whole undertaking. Canadian officials have sought assurances for the safety of its contingent. But with Mr. Nixon pressing hard for the force to be put in place at precisely the time the cease-fire takes effect. safety guarantees would seem to be utterly impossible.

As To Force

plications for the White House and the Democratic party.

No formal position has been defined for Kristol, but he is expected to perform roughly the role of Dr. Daniel P. Moynihan just before his return to Harvard in 1971 a broad-guaged adviser on domestic policy without operational responsibility. To thoughtful Republicans who have lamented the absence of intellectual content at the White House since then, Kristol will be a welcome addition.

But it is bad news for old-fashioned liberals fighting to reclaim the Democratic party from McGovemites. A professor of urban values at New York University and coeditor of the quarterly Public Interest, Kristol deserted the Democrats this year and endorsed President Nixon, writing in an Oct. 13 Wall Street Journal essay that the destiny of the Democratic party is in the hands of a movement committed to...the politics of irresponsibility. 'That essay became required reading by the White House staff, with routine FBI checks on Kristol following soon thereafter.

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Meanys New Crusade Riding high as a result of his accurate forecast of Sen. George McGoverns calamitous Presidential defeat, AFL-CIO president George Meany has now embarked on a new crusade: Congressional passage of the protectionist Burke-Hartke bill to end special tax concessions for multi-national U.S. corporations.

Meany has quietly appointed a committee of a dozen presidents of leading American labor unions, spearheaded by I. W. Abel of the Steelworkers, to organize a total labor effort in the new Congress. The move seems certain to put him on a collision course with President Nixon, who is now in Meanys debt as a result of his AFL-CIO neutrality edict in the Presidential campaign.

Other bills Meany will push in the new Congress include minimum wage legislation (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

HUMBLE SERVICE

There is a man in our home town who has devoted himself to volunteer service in a hospital. He goes about doing menial tasks. Probably the thing he does most is to wheel people about in chairs or read to others that are bedfast or think up some way to amuse people who are apparently beyond the capacity to be amused.

Great will be his reward in heaven. "As ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me (Matthew 25:40).

There is nothing very glamorous about housework, but we can be sure that many a woman who has slaved her life away for others will have her name in the Book of Life. The widows mite was not much of a monetary con-

T Learn It All

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By J.J. KILPATRICK

Board Chairman Burger

Warren Earl Burger, to judge from his opinions over the past three terms, is not likely ever to rank with Marshall and Warren among the great Chief Justices of American jurisprudence. Burgers mind has no bent for building landmarks. But it is 3 fair guess that the determined Minnesotan will achieve something else; He will outrank the rest as a builder of our courts.

It may seem a poor compliment to praise a Chief Justice in terms of judicial reform. One might as aptly praise a Prime Minister for laying a nice course of bricks.

Yet Burgers accomplishments in court administration merit a round of solid applause. The first obligation of a judge is not to be efficient; his first obligation is to be just. But if Burger has his way and he is getting his way justice and efficiency will march forward hand in hand.

As the Chief many times has pointed out, our nations courts (and especially the Federal courts; have been experiencing an explosive growth in litigation in recent years, largely as a consequence of new laws, changing court decisions, and

Other Editors Say Housing, 1973

(Christian Science Monitor)

It is certain that the new Congress which convenes in January-wili have to put the housing crisis close to the top of its priority list. The debate that goes along with reconsideration of federal intervention in the housing construction market, past and future, is bound to be explosive.

That much is already established by the contradictory conclusions of two studies on the problem. One. done by a panel of nonpartisan experts, for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, finds federal housing programs to be a crazy-quilt patchwork, offering insufficient and inadequate housing to the poor, and enriching the building and financing industries.

The second study, done for the building and lending industries by a private Chicago consultant, finds that the federal programs are basically sound, but in need of reform. A major conflict between recommendations of the two studies arrises from the porposal to stop pouring federal funds into building new housing projects and give direct cash subsidies to poor families to find their own housing on the open market.

One of the nmin objections to this latter course is that where housing is scarce, this would inflate housing costs. But in many-central cities, where most of the countrys worst-housed poor families live, there is an abundance of empty and abandoned housing which could be rehabilitated if the demand existed, as well as available good housing in areas which currently restrict blacks. By combining a selective program of cash housing subsidies in cities with a strong civilrights enforcement plan, the housing pressures could be relieved in these urban areas.

Congress should both consider the merits of a selective cash subsidy program, and subject existing housing programs to regorous scutiny and reform.

Neither the politics nor the economics of U.S. housing, which has unique regional problems, will yield to any one simple approach.

a veriable revolution in the criminal law. In 1960. some

59.000 civil cases were filed in U.S. District Courts. In the last fiscal year, the number was 96,000. 'The surge in criminal cases has been equally dramatic. Just under

30.000 criminal cases were brought in 1960; there were

49.000 last year.

Burger had been concerned at these trends long before Nixon raised him to the high court in 1969. Using his new position to excellent advantage. he became a roving apostle for judicial reform. He complained incessantly at the laws delays. Often he contrasted the slow and meticulous processes of American trails with the brisk, no-nonsense approach of the British. He urged a new standard of justice not the perfect trial, but the fair trail.

Largely as a result of Burgers missionary efforts, the creeping movement toward judicial reform decided to get up and trot. Many other individuals and institutions, of course, contributed to the new momentum. Marylands former Senator Tydings, for one example, pushed through the Federal Magistrates Act of 1968. The American Bar Association and other

professional bodies have played a major role. Most important, the Federal judges themselves, some of them pretty crusty characters, generally have shown a cooperative spirit.

The results, if not exactly dramatic, are surely encouraging. Under the Magistrates Act, which

became fully effective in July of 1971, a corps of 81 full-time and 400-part time magistrates last year disposed of more than 237,000 items of District Court business. They fried

thoubnds of minor offenses,

conducted pre-trial conferences. handled im-

(Continued on page 5)

Mail

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

How hard is a diamond? A diamond-pointed tool is so hard it can cut a groove through bronze 1,200 miles long before it needs sharpening. A tungsten-carbon tool can cut a similar groove through only 21 miles of bronze before resharpening.

Early frontiersmen on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains often cooked their meals with what they called burning rocks. The so-called rocks were taken from deposits of shale, which, when heated, released oil.

There are at least three animals which, because of their size or ferocity are relatively safe from any predator except man. They are the elephant and rhinoceros on earth, and the killer whale in the sea.

A Virginia doctor says it isnt true that tuberculosis is a curse brought to the Americas by the white man. Dr. Martin J. Allison of the Medical College of Virginia says he has found signs of tuberculosis in the mummified body of a Peruvian Indian child who died about 700 A.D., several hundred years before white explorers arrived.

Quotable notables: It isnt the things in the Bible I dont understand that worry me, its the things I do understand. Mark Twain.

The most numerous society: One out of every five persons on earth is Chinese.

Accidents are in the head: Several scientific studies have shown that psychological factors, such as anger, boredom, tension or preoccupation, are more important than physical factors in causing most accidents. If you want to be safe, keep your wits about you.

Folklore: If you put your hat on wrong, the surest way to avert bad luck is to throw it away and buy a new one. Simply touching anything made of iron invites good luck. Youll have poor weather if you refuse charity to a gypsy woman beggar at the start of a journey. You can also expect poor (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago To(day

By GWYNCOGHILL November 21.1932 The potato growers of Pitt County have signed marketing contracts with the Pitt County Mutual Exchange to the extent of fifteen carloads of sweet potatoes, according to reports from the office of the county agent, E. F. Arnold. 'The potatoes will in turn be sold to the Carolina Cooperatives of Florence, South Carolina.

Continuing their relentless fight against the illicit whiskey traffic of the community, county officers captured a copper still and thirteen barrels of beer in Pitt County this weekend.

tribution but it drew out the praise of the Great Master (Mark 12:42; Luke 21:2). The Lord is apparently more interested in little things than we sometimes realize.

And why not? Life is largely made up of little things. We remember our parents with awe and affection not just because they did some great things for us (if indeed they did great things) but because of the multitude of little things which went on day after day and year after year.

The line between greatness and mediocrity is hazy indeed. The Bible does not pay much attention to big and little. It is inner worth that counts the carrying-out of Gods purposes.

By Earl Douglass

Profits Embarrass Executives

By JOHN CUNNTFF .\P Business .Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - While the past year has been one of financial progress for both management and labor, the big increases in corporate profits that are now being reported are producing irritation and embarrassment for executives.

They are embarrassed because the percentage increases are so great. It now appears likely that the increase for 1972 over 1971 will be about 15 per cent. And there is the likelihood of a repeat in 1973.

While corporate officials concede these figures are high, they are irritated by the failure of casual readers to recall the reason why: 1971

profits were depressingly low

They are indignant also that labor leaders are inclined to seize on those percentages without explaining that what appears to be a mountain of profits has its base in a very deep ravine that is, in the recession of 1971.

Actually, they add. profits should be even higher if they are to return to more normal" levels and if industry is to attract the investment capital needed for expansion.

Price Commission regulations. however, may prevent thaf occurence, although some changes migjit be forthcoming in Phase HI, if there is one.

As of now. profit margins

must be kept to the average of the best two of the years 1968-1969-1970. But. as the corporate officials note, that was a period of poor earnings. Many of them want the base period revised. ^

If profits rise 15 per cent this year, the corporate defenders say. it will merely bring them back to where they were in 1968. when the gross national product, or total of goods and services produced, was considerably smaller.

Dr. Albert H. Cox Jr.. a former Nixon administration economists and now executive vice president of Lionel D. Edie & Co.. as well as senior adviser economic to Merrill Lynch, would like to see the Phase II base period

changed.

If it were pushed back to include 1966 and 1967. he observes. it would then permit corporations to use two more rewarding years as the base for measuring permissable profit margins.

Although some industries, such as airlines and aircraft products, have a long way to go before reaching their profit margin limits, others, such as pharmaceuticals and furniture are already pressing against the lid.

There is expected to be rising pressure, therefore, for a revision of price limitations this spring. And you may be certain there w ill be a heated rebuttal from critics who claim profits already are too high.