4TTie Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Thursday, April 5, 1973

Let's Drop New Mansion Talk

We would he just as happy to see the idea of a new governors mansion forgotten.

A study commission has come up with plans for a new residence which would cost $500,000.

The Executive Residence Building Committee estimated that it would cost $575,000 to completely renovate and modernize the present executive mansion.

New Stress In Independence

By BRYAN IIAISLIP

RALEIGH Democratic leadership is evolving a role of greater independence for the legislative branch which can shape the future of North Carolina government and

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The impact of change will reach beyond the present Republican state administration. predicted Rep. William T. Watkins of Granville. House majority leader.

It can mean that the next Democrat elected governor will find it harder to bend the General Assembly to his will, even though his party dominates the membership.

Over the years, the separation of powers between legislative and executive has become less distinct. said Watkins, need to get

back to a fundamental balance.

That gave the philosophical impetus, while the election of Gov. Jim Holshouser as a' Republican chief executive ^ supplied the political motive, for Democrats in the legislature to initiate the use of the party caucus to delineate issues, and find concensus for action.

Aside from defining party position, the caucus is a vehicle for leadership in reaching decisions on operation in the transition to annual sessions, standing committees, and other changes in the legislative structure.

.Setting *74 Agenda It will have a voice on what items of legislation are carried over when the current session adjourns Ao next year, taking the first step to an annual schedule.

Matters likely to be deferred for interim study include state government reorganization, revision of the criminal code, and a rewrite of the probate laws, Rep. Watkins said.

As lawmakers aim for a mid-May recess with major issues unresolved, some fears have been expressed that they will face an overloaded agenda when they come back in 1974.

Thats unlikely, said Watkins. Committees will work hard in the period between sessions, he explained. and bills will be in shape for prompt attention when the legislators return. Iromoting Party Discipline As majority leader. Watkins assignment is to promote unity and discipline among House Democrats in carrying our decisions taken

in caucus. On occasion, he serves as a partisan .spokesman.

We are not in a rope-pulling contest with the governor to see who can pull the other into the creek. insisted Watkins. 'The caucus has a constructive function in fixing the position around which legislators of the party can rally, he said, and will be continued in coming sessions even should a Democrat sit in the governors chair.

In fact, it may take a firmer line with a governor of the same party. For example Watkins said, if a Democrat succeeds Holshouser there is a good possibility for revival of a proposal to take away the governors power to name the state and county boards of election.

The caucus backed off that one recently after a loud outcry that it would be unfair to Gov. Holshouser.

Elections Bill Retreat Heated debate in caucus and an obvious wide division among Democrats led Rep. Gerald Arnold of Harnett to drop his bill which would have tied election board appointments to the party with the edge in voter registration a device which would have kept Democrats in control.

The firnss dbctri would not be in question, Watkins observed, if the governor and the legislative majority were of the same party.

Personally, I think the approach taken by Rep. Arnolds bill is fair. Its the way it should be in'^the future, and the way it should have been in the past, Watkins said.

Observers scored the outcome as one up for Gov. Holshouser in the tugging between executive and legislative.

Watkins said he didnt think Democrats came out of the incident with smudges on the party image. If anything, it enhanced the standing of the Democratic party he argued. They said we were being unfair. We said, All right, we wont be unfair. 'Two factors will keep the party caucus a force in the legislative process, Watkins said. One is the need to further independence from the executive. The other is the changing legislative lifestyle.

Some years back, virtually all legislators lived at the same hotel. It was not as formal, but they had a caucus every night. Now they are dispersed, and have little contact outside the session and committee meetings. They need to go to the caucus to maintain continuity and communication with each other he explained.

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We agree that the present mansion needs considerable work if it is to be maintained as the governors residence, but we doubt if the differences in cost should be a factor.

The executive mansion is of historic value to North Carolinians. It is well located within the government complex of buildings and it seems to have adequate land to provide privacy and security for the states first family.

Even though the commission recommends retaining the present mansion if a new governors residence is built, it would seem to us to be a rather useless gesture to maintain the mansion without the governors living there.

Gov. Jim Holshouser has made it clear that he does not desire to replace the present mansion and we are in full agreement on that. The mansion can be remodeled to make it comfortable for the first family and, after all, nobody has it for more than four years.

Billy Graham Wise In Retracting His Remark

Fortunately Evangelist Billy Graham has expressed regret for suggesting castration for convicted rapists. -w

He call it an offhand, hasty, spontaneous remark which he said he regretted almost as soon as he said it. The comment was made in South Africa where the Rev. Graham made an appearance.

We could not believe Billy Graham literally meant what he was quoted as saying at the time. We think he was wise to express regrets for the off-hand remark.

At 61, Accepts New Challenge

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CHARLOTTE-At the age of 61 you don't look for men to go out searching for new challenges, but that's exactly what has befallen Warner G, (Bud) Maupin, who is taking over as State ABC Law Enforcement Chief.

Id been reading about all the problems in the ABC system," Maupin told me in an interview , and I asked Dr. (L.C.) Holshouser if it was really thaj^ bad. He said it was worse.

Dr. Holshouser, chairman of the State ABC Board, is the man who officially named Maupin to head up the law enforcement division. But it was board member Marcus Hickman, a Charlotte lawyer, who really convinced Maupin to take the job.

When Maupin was first offered the job, he turned it down.

I went up to Raleigh to talk when it became known the job was open," Maupin said. I didnt think much more about it. Then they called me back to Raleigh and offered me the job Frankly, I thought it was too much of a job for the money they were offering-and it meant, of course, that Id have to relocate.

Maupin told Dr. Holshouser he didnt think hed take the postbut when he got back to Charlotte he had a couple of men waiting for him.

One was State ABC Board member Hickman, the man credited with building the Republican Party in Mecklenburg County.

The other was Donald Stahl, a Republican and a former FBI agent who had wrestled control of the Sheriff's office away from Democrats in Mecklenburg County.

Stahl and Hickman talked with Maupin and when they finished he decided he should take the ABC post and move to Raleigh.

I dont know a single soul in the State ABC system, says Maupin, who will take

office on April 16. I dont even know all of the State ABC laws yet. Ill know them by the time I get to Raleigh, but I will be going in cold, as far as knowing anything about the personnel.

I tried to get Maupin to talk about liquor-by-thenlrink, but he said he wouldnt since legislation on the matter is pending in the Genera) Assembly.

I will say this, however, Maupin said, if liquor-by-the-drink passes, it will change the whole ballgame. It would increase the number of potential problems and I would suppose call for an increase in the nunmber of State ABC agents.

Maupin will go to Raleigh and direct a law enforcement squad of about 100 agents scattered across the state.

The man is no rookie when it comes to law enforcement. He received his law degree from the University of (Continued on page 5)

Public

Forum

To the Editor:

On Friday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Damone of the Pizza Hut on East Tenth Street were hosts to the Trainable Qasses of E. B. Aycock Junior High School at a Pizza Feast.

The students and teachers were treated to all the pizzas they could eat, soft drinks, and a candy treat for dessert.

The Damone family and their capable assistants provided a very delightful atmosphere for the occasion and students and teachers of the two classes agreed that it was one of the nicest experiences they could remember.

We would like to publicly thank them for their generosity.

Mrs. Ellie Rice

Strength For Today

A BREACH IN THE WALLS

TTironghout the whole of his reign King David left a breach in the walls of Jerusalem. He did it to show his faith in God. Through it an invading army might come at any time, but that breach stood as an eternal symbol that David trusted God for protection.

In a similar way every one of us living today has a breach in his personality or in his moral life, more likely in both. It is a breach through which assaulting armies of anger, temptation, financial

reverses, sickness, or sorrow may devastate our lives. Nothing that we can do will completely close that breach.

The Bible teaches us no to rely upon our own powers alone to close that breach. They simply are not sufficient for the task. If we put our trust in God and not spend our time frantically trying to protect ourselves from every harm thft might beset us certainly a futile effortthe power of the Eternal will be our wall and our protection.

By Earl Douglass

Things

Remain

Undone

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - For ev erything a man does in this world there are a thousand thinp he leaves undone or nev-er gets around to trying.

So when you meet anyMie who is bored because he feels hes seen everything, done everything worth doing and met everybody worth knowing, you know hes awfully Ignorant -or hes an awful liar.

By J.J. KILPATRICK

This Is Only A Beginning

Leading Republicans finally are coming to life, after months of uncomfortable silence, on the political issue that is shaping up like a Texas tornado. The issue is Watergate, and all that embracing word is coming to mean.

Republican National Chairman George Bush, speaking to a Young Republican Leadership Conference, recently denounced the Watergate affair as grubby. He warned that unless the charges of scandal are promptly and fully cleared up, it could cost the party heavily in next years elections.

Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott said he was deeply disturbed, Senators William Roth of Delaware, Norris Cotton of New

Hampshire, and Jcrfm Tower }f Texas appealed to the White House for more visible :ooperation. Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon labeled Watergate the most odious issue since Teapot Dome. Senator Jacob Javits of New York and Senator Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland took to the Senate floor to demand a restoration of public trust in public office. Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut publicly demanded an accounting from H. R. Haldeman, the Presidents closest aide.

Meanwhile, such conservative columnists as Holmes Alexander, Ralph de Toledano and William S. White, normally sympathetic to the administration, are voicing deep concern at the drifting situation. Adverse reaction also is developing

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To the editor:

Johnny calls someone in the crowd a name, falls down running away, and then calls everyone a LIAR because nobody agrees with his story that they pushed him down.

It is interesting that Jane Fonda, like Johnny, would have us believe that 589 men are liars and that she is the only one telling the truth. That 589 POWs, \ndio spit 24 hours a day, for years upon years in the POW camps know less about a conditions there than she, a visiting celebrity, who was only there for a short time. Despite the good schools Miss Fonda undoubtedly attended, she evidently missed one...the school of

common sense.

Americans, in our justifiable pride of our freedom of speech, forget that with this freedom comes the responsibility to face the results if we are proven wrong. Miss Fonda would have been more adult if she had admitted she goofed, in the light of the scarred POWs accounts, and asked them to forgive her misguided actions.

Fifty years ago, or less, a person who defiantly went to a country, with whom we were at war declared or not, and gave aid and comfort to the enemy would have been jx-omptly tried and convicted for treason. Since most of the POWs had been in captivity for years, and therefore nearly useless as a source of military information, their chief value to their captors was as a propoganda tool. Miss Fonda, and others who trekked to Hanoi, aided the North Vietnamese as no torture-prompted confession ever did. Unforgivably, she indirecy caused these valiant men even more pain. She can thank our 'enlightened thinking that she is not hanging by the neck or in prison for life. I, for one, am sorry that we have become so enlightened.

Sincerely, Mrs. John C.Rodd Jr.

Greenville

among party workers: In Minnesota, two members of the state Republican finance committee have resigned in protest against against the Watergate scandal.

This is only the beginning. Public reaction, as distinguished from professionai reaction, thus far has been marked by a curious combination of cynicism and apathy. George McGovern did his utmost, throughout the autumn campaign, to exploit the Watergate affair. He got nowhere. The crowds reacted with no mere than sniekers, nudges, and winks. So the Republicans had bugged the Democratic national headquarters? So what? The Democrats, it was supposed, would do the same thing if they thought they could puil it off.

This complacency is wearing thin. Once the Ervin investigating committee gets into its daily televised hearings, it will be a different story. The senior senator from North Carolina is not only a great constitutionalist; he is also a great actor, with the rubicund face of an aging pixie. He has the same keen sense of drama that we saw some 20 years ago in-another aging pixie, Joseph Welch, special counsel in the Senate Army-MCarthy hearings. No one who saw those hearings will minimize their impact.

All this, one hopes, will not be lost on Richard Nixon. Thinking of the President, one is remembered of the lamentation that Gibbon attributed to Diocletian; How often, the emperor was accustomed to say, is it the interest of four or five ministers to combine together to deceive their sovereign. Secluded from mankind by his exalted dignity, the truth is concealed from his knowledge; he can see only with their eyes; he hears nothing but their misrepresentations. Nixon is equally insulated from unpleasant truths. For months he has been basted like a roasting goose with the juices of sweet-smelling advice; Disdain Watergate, and it will all go away.

Well, it will not go away. Long before the Ervin I Coniinued On Page 5)

If a fellow feels a bit jaded or fed up with what he does and how he spends his time, he might make a list of things he hasnt got around to doing. It might get him to try to do something new.

Here right off the top of his head - are a few things one man hasnt got around to doing, for one reason or another:

Put out the fire in a dragons boiler.

Played the Moonlight So--nfta on a harmonica.

Written an anonymous letter.

Begged the issue.

Tried to make a living as a crying towel salesman in Utopia.

Hidden behind a womans slacks.

Raised or lowered the Federal Reserve Banks discount rate.

Rescued a horse from a bankers runaway daughter.

Made love in a helicopter.

Salted an abandoned gold "mine. ~

Woke up dewy-eyed.

Been able to tell the vintage of a bottle of French wine or cola, for that matter with eyes closed.

Sold anything under the counter.

Cast a peart before swine.

Barked up the wrong tree.

Traded recipes with a cannibal.

Decided a national election with a last-minute vote.

Taken Dracula to lunch during National Brotherhood Week.

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40 Years Ago Today

By GWYNCOGHILL Aprils, 1933 The new athletic field at Third Street School will be dedicated and formally thrown open to the public next Friday afternoon, it was announced today by J. H. Rose, superintendent of Greenville city schools. In addition to opening exercises, the high school baseball team will play New Bern. Mayor R. C. Flanagan has been chosen to hurl the first ball from the grandstand putting the game in motion and throwing the field open to the public. This will be preceded by flag raising exercises, a band concert and inspection of the field and clubhouse.

Playing at the State Theatre tonight is Private Jones starring Lee 'Tracy and Gloria Stuart.

Businessman Back On Campus

Editors Note TTiis is the first of two columns describing the experiences of a top executive, who returns to a college campus after a 40-year absence.

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) -Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, chairman and chief executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., is a self-described mossback conservative, a man of many prejudices, a righteously indignant critic of business critics.

He believes religiously in the work ethic. The key to success? Hard work and thrift. His entire career has been with Metronolitan. and

he still puts in 75 to 80 hours a week. I cant wait to get to work, he says.

Despite this, Fitzhugh, 63, recently stole weeks from work to accept a professorship at the University of CMclahoma, at Norman, in the heartland of America. Tlie confrontation, as some of Fitzhughs associates might have thought it would be, was part of the Businessman in Residence Program of the Institute of Life Insurance.

TTiese are some of his observations: ,/

It was a real pleasant engagement. Its different tha-e than in the East. New York is the most provincial place in the country. You have to get 100 miles out of New York to

know what the country is like.

Why did I do it? I always believe in getting the facts. Partly it was to see if I was right, partly to see if I was wrong. I love a debate. I found the campus much less skewed to the left than I had thought. I was encouraged.

I thought I was going to be able to take it easy, but I had classes that began at eight, with an hour off for lunch, and continued into the evening. I gave them all the same lecture, a 35-second introduction in which I told them:

You see before you, No. 1, a real live member of the establishment, and No. 2, an oldfashioned mossback conservative. I gave them a wide opening and they moved

right in.

They'didnt throw a low curve at all. The questions were direct and penetrating, about social responsibility, profits and the like. None of the beating your wife type of questions.

Sometimes I was righteously indignant and felt like saying you should withhold your comments until you learn something about business. But I didnt lose my temper.

Sitting on a couch in his dark-paneled office, Fitzhugh, a sharpfeatured man with a surprising sense of humor, was asked what he told them about the expanding social responsi-ixiities of business.

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