4TTie Daily Reflector, Greoiville, N.C.MoMday, April It, i73

Now Three Med School Bills

A worried, frustrated and unhappy Legislature now has three bills before it concerning the ECU medical school

Rep. Larry Eagles of Edgecombe County and other legislators introduced a bill calling for a $50 million bond issue to support the ECU medical school. This was followed by a bill from Rep. John Gamble, D-Lincoln, Sen. Livingstone Stallings, D-Craven and Sen. James Garrison, D-Stanly which would set up a $25 million reserve for a new medical

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By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGHSpring, summer or fallwhich season is besf of all for North Carolina to hold next years primary elections^

BRYAN

HAISLIP

Normally, Tar Heels go to the polls in May to choose party nominees. That springtime date in 1974 could conflict with the legislature in session, making a trial run to an annual schedule.

Summer would catch many voters on vacation and might reduce the rural turnout with farm work at its peak. Fall would run close to the November general election, resulting in short and hectic campaigns.

The quandary is deep for legislators, hastening to recess the current session. The necessity for change is conceded but the solons are far from concensus on what it should be. It may take full-scale debate and wrangling on the floor to resolve the issue.

Thats on the horizon this week when the House takes up a bill to fix the primary on the third Tuesday in July.

How it came out of the election laws committee illustrates the sharp division of opinion on the primary date. Members split, 8-to-8, and it took the vote of Rep. Ernest Messer to Haywood as the chairman to give the bill a favorable report.

Opinion Insettled

There has been absolutely no polarization, said Rep. R. Lane Brown of Stanly. An early session showed lelislators scattered over the calendar in their choice, he said, and no coming together has since been apparent.

Brown headed a subcommittee which studied three separate proposals for June. July and September. It settled on the mid-summer date, amending the September bill sponsored by Rep. Roy Spoon of Mecklenburg, mainly out of a sense of obligation to get something to the floor, he .said.

What has legislators so perplexed is the tangle of political factors involved in shifting the primary.

Not the least of these is the probable impact on General Assembly races. Incumbents running for another term would be at a disadvantage in time to campaign if the May date remained unchanged, and balloting followed on the heels of a session.

From a party perspective, on the other hand, healing wounds from primary in-

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fighting would be harder if it were moved closer to the fall general election.

Presidential Primary Involved Another element in arriving at a decision is the fate of North Carolinas fledgling presidential preference primary. Some politicians didnt thing it flew well in 1972, and there is sentiment in the legislature to wipe it off the books.

Its friends fear that moving the state election to summer or fall would amount to an indirect repealer of the presidential primary.

Democrats have talked in caucus about a primary date, without reaching any conclusion. The caucus will take up the subject again before the House vote, but whether it will achieve unanimity is debatable.

Favor for a late June primary was voiced by Rep. William T. Watkins of Granville, House Speaker pro-tem and a caucus leader.

We should make it as late as we reasonably can, the third or fourth 'Tuesday in June, Watkins said. That would not be a hazard to the presidential primary, he added, since it would come before the summer national conventions.

Real Change Urged Change worth anything should be a real change, said Rep. Gerald Arnold of Harnett.

Im in favor of leaving the primary right where it is, or moving it to August or September, he said. It wont make any difference at all to move it back a few weeks to June. July would be a bad time, particularly for tobacco farmers in the east.

To shorten campaigns and reduce the costs, Arnold added, the primary should be held in early fall as a prelude to the general election. Im not convinced we couldnt hold the primary in September, he said.

Arnolds serves as liaison between state Democratic headquarters and the legislative majority, but he said a partisian position is unlikely on the primary date issue. I dont think the caucus will come to any concensus on this one, he remarked.

Party lines were muddled in the House committee acting on the primary date bill. Rep. Spoon, a GOP freshman, said a closer alignment of primary and general elections would pitch campaigns more on issues tjian personalities and reduce the expense of campaigning.

Rep. Joe H. Hege Jr. of Davidson, also a Republican, voted against the change. My people like the presidential primary, he said. A primary date in July would, to all intents and purposes, abolish it.

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school. This bill did not say where the school would be but Rep. Gamble, a practicing physician himself, made it clear that ECU is a logical place to start.

Then last week Rep. Gerald Arnold, D-Hamett, introduced a resolution calling for a legislative commission to study the states medical manpower needs.

All of this activity is an indication that the folks back home are exceedingly unhappy over the treatment that the ECU medical school matter is getting in the board of governors. Despite the assertations of fairness it is all too obviiHis that the the board of governors recommendations would have all of the funds flowing to the existing medical schools with none for ECU. The present study hardly even reci^nizes that the ECU schools exists, even though it is actively in the process of training doctors.

It is becoming painfully clear that a mistake was made in creating the new board of governors without first settling in the State Legislature the matter of full funding for the ECU medical school.

Most legislators, Gov. Scott, who proposed the reorganization, and this newspaper felt the matter was settled when the one-year program was funded.

Apparently, however, it was too much to expect that those who went on the board after years of fighting the ECU medical school would suddenly become acquiescent.

So after another year of fighting it appears to us the public has little confidence in the board of governors to fairly decide this issue and it still may fall back on the Legislature to seeUhat the development of the ECU medical school is carried out.

We feel the board of governors can work in developing the state-wide system of universities but the board cannot get on to things it needs to do until the infighting over the ECU medical school issue is favorably resolved.

Japan's Rising Nationalism

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

TOKYOA clue to the new nationalism among Japans emerging young leaders is quiet consideration by first-year Diet members belonging to the ruling conservative Liberal-Democratic Party

(LDP) of a political unmentionable here: acquisition of long-range bombers.

This is scarcely a return of imperial militarism. In fact, the young Diet members senior colleagues in the LDP are appalled by such talk. 'They believe public opinion polls showing the nation remains adamant against rearming.

But the fact that Japans potential future leader^ip is talking about heavy hardware as a defensive deterrent could be prophetic. Not burdened with the doubts of an older generation touched by the trauma of losing a war, these younger Japanese are muscularly self-confident and simultaneously anxious that the West is ganging up on Japana combination that could produce a lethal nationalism.

None of this means foreseeable change in Tokyos alliance with Washington. But Japans future leaders simply will not accept continued junior partnership and will be seeking a new, still undefined role.

That is strongly suggested by twice-weekly meetings of a study group composed of the 38 freshman LDP Diet members. Studying national security problems, they quickly concluded Japan would last daysnot weeks, as Japanese defense officials anticipateif attacked, say, from Soviet Asia. Consequently, they have considered long-range bombers to strike back so that an attacker could not conquer Japan without severely suffering in his homeland.

But beyond deterrence, long-range jet bmbers would be a nationalistic symbol of less than total dependence on the U. S. military umbrella. The same symbolism is found

in private views by other LDP politicians outside the government thatin opposition to present public opinion as well as official policyJapan must consider joining the nuclear club if Israel or India goes in.

Tliis new nationalism is reflected by a 42-year-old freshman LPD Diet member named Tetsuro Kondo. Scarcely a sword-wielding romantic in the samurai style of the late Yukio Mishima, he is an economist by profession, once worked for the International Monetary Fund in Washington and recognizes that the U. S. Japanese security treaty is essential. More comfortable with foreigners than old LDP leaders, Kondo is also less inhibited about national selfassertiveness.

In a distinct minority view even among his first-term colleagues, he wants a Japan producing first-class steel and autos also to produce first-class missiles and bombers. He would similarly give first-class status to the 285,000man Japanese armed forces now using Korean war vintage equipment.

Kondos military views cannot be separated from his feeling that Japans reliance on U. S. military power enables Washington to crack the whip economically against his country. Indeed, we found pervasive resentment here outside the government that the U. S. and Western Europe ganged up duringjhejiirffency crisis to penalize Japanese exports. Many put it in racist terms: a white eoalition battling the yellow peril.

This is regarded as poppycock by government leaders such as Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira. In an interview with us, Ohira complained of emotionalism being a Japanese trait, adding : In the currency crisis, one of the weaknesses of the Japanese people showed itselfthat is, the Japanese people became paranoiac. Furthermore, he contended, We Japanese fail quite often to grasp the kind of impact

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Strength For Today

KEYSTO HAPPY LIVING The Greek word for inherit is derived from the Greek word for key. TTie people who inherit are the people who have the keys. And so when Jesus said , Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth, what he really meant was, blessed are the meek for they have the keys. For them ultimately the doors will be opened.

Seen in this light, Jesuss statement has renewed importance for our lives. We tend to think that the aggressive, grasping type of individual usually gets pretty

much what he wants and that the meek have their consolation in other than material ways. To a certain extent this is true, but it is not the only interpretation we can place on Jesuss statement. True, the aggressive individual usually gets what he wants, but if he does so at the expense of the rights and welfare of others, over a period of time he will arouse such opposition from those he has injured that he will fail to achieve his goals. Then a larger share of the rewards will go to the people who have the keys.

By Earl Douglass

Anpther End To A War

By HAL BOYLE

PHILADELPHIA (AP) A war ends but once, but it dies 10,(X)0 times millions of times.

It dies with the death of anyone who was a part of it.

A portion of World War II called the Battle of the Bulge came to a kind of an end here last week in a flower-haunted room during funeral services for Lee Carson Reeves, a war correspondent.

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WASHINGTON-For a long time President Nixon complained that the Japanese were not buying enough from the United States and were causing a serious dent in our balance of payments.

He urged them to purchase more from us so he would not to impose tariffs on Japanese -goods imported to the United Staes. It could have been one of the Presidents major

mistakes.

A secret meeting of the Japanese Imperial Economic Command was held in Tokyo last week.

The notorious Hoshi Hamamura, whq is responsible for flooding the Western Hp^inisphere with tape recorders, told the gathering, Honorable gentlemen, the glory of Japan is at stake. We have billions of dollars in our banks, and

Other Editors Say Save The Sea Oat

(Cartaret County News-Times)

If county commissioners approve, a bill proposed by the county Environmental Resources Commission, to stop the rape -of the sea oat, will be introduced in this session of the l^islature.

TTie proposed statewide bill allows an individual to have in his possession 12 flowering sea oat stems (fruit-bearing clums. Unila paniculata).

But if he wants more, he must get a permit from a shoreline otection officer. Violators would be subject to $100 fine for each dozen sea oats above the dozen allowed an individual. It would make confiscation of sea oats, in excess of that amount, mandatory upon conviction of the person charged with unlawfully possessing the sea oats.

Many Carteret residents were outraged this past year when a person was charged with unlawfully taking sea oats but was freed by the court because no one actually saw him take the highly-desirable decorative fronds. He had a truckload of them. The present law forbids taking; it does not saying about possession. The sea oats were returned to the possessor, to sell as he originally intended, to a Florida firm.

Sea oats are abundant on the North Carolina coast. They are an extremely important plant in that they help anchor dunes. Dunes, held down by vegetation, help keep beaches in place. If not anchored, dunes wander, or are swept out to sea by an angry ocean.

We hope county commissioners will see fit to endorse the IM-oposed legislation on sea oats. If taking of sea oats is not controlled, their abundance will be a thing of the past.

Allowing 12 fronds per person in possession should satisfy the desire of persons who want them for home beautification, but remove them from the grasp of those who wish to make a profit from them at the expense of coastal dwellers.

The County Environmental Resources (Commission deserves thanks for taking the initiative in seeking such legislation.

unless we spend them immediately we may be struck with worthless paper.

Tishi Tojo, the architect of the Greater Wankel Engine Plan, said, We have bought up all the lumber in the United States, as well as Americas soybean crop for the next four years. Our agent have also put in a bid for thier entire 1974 beef production.

Oki Moto, chief economic war planner, said, My people have contracted for all the coal and steel produced in 1974 in the United States, as well as cotton, eggs, butter, cheese and nylon stockings. This is all good, said the notorious Hoshi Hamamura. but it is only a drop in the bucket. We must do more for the Empire.

Yushi Suzaki, the militant Minister of Color Television Sets, said, My agents are buying radium, glass, aluminum and cardboard cartons. 'The prices have skyrocketed in the United States and we have been credited personally with causing the greatest inflation in the United States since the Korean war.

Nashi Namura. the cruel Director of Culture, reported, We have bought every painting we can get our hands on in the United States. Next week we will make a bid for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You mean all the works? someone asked.

I mean the museum and all the works. Were going to bring it here stone by stone and rebuild it next to the emperors palace.

Will they'sell it?

Why riot? The Met has sold everything else. Honorable gentlemen, said the notorious Hoshi Hamamura, this accounts (Continued on page 3)

It seemed an irony that among the mourners at the brief and formal Episcopal ceremony only two of her legion of wartime comrades were present the recently retired NBC newsman, Gordon J. Fraser, and myself.

The casket was closed and covered with ferns and multicolored blooms. We would like to have had a final glimpse of her, but each of us could close his eyes and see Lees vibrant face again and hear her laugh ring through the pauses in the ceremony.

^ 'The passage of nearly 30

I years has dimmed Lee Carsons renown perhaps, but the memory of her flaming, boisterous, exultant spirit cannot be erased from the mind of anyone who ever knew her.

It can be argued whether Lee, a reporter for the International News Service, was the greatest woman war correspondent of World War II, But there is no question that she was the best-liked news chick who ever beat a male reporter to a story or the best seat in the jeep.

Miss Carson was built like a movie star, had great eyes that ranged from grwn to brown, and a mass of fng brownish^ red hair. She had a face as mobile as that of a rubber doll. She had the kind of a belly laugh that upsets kings. She had the mind of an imp. She had the soul of a tomboy.

She also had a quality men like in women but are usually surprised to find human gallantry. And she had enough physical bravery to fill an armys quota.

Lee covered the war from Normandy to its close at the linkup with the Russians on the Elbe River. He motto was Never let the Articles of War or maidenly modesty stand in the way of the news.

Army press officers were always telling her when she turned up unexpectedly, You cant be here. Lees simple rebuttal: But here 1 am. \ If the Battle of the Bulge had a belle, that belle was Lee. During the frantic days when the Nazis tried a do-or-die breakthrough in Belgium in the waning weeks of 1944, Lee ranged hundreds of miles across icy roads from one beleaguered post to another.

Her scarf-wrapped face and deep laugh became familiar to thousands of officers and men. She took down their stories, looked at the pictures in their wallets, accepted little presents from them and they loved her for beinc there.

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Few Ever Forget Home-Buying

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - -niree out of four heads of household between ages 35 and 54 own their own homes today, and few will ever forget the day they signed the morj^gage and closed the deal.

It was a day of ignorance, ctHifusion and surprise compounded by legalese, of papers signed and checks slid across the table all choreographed by legal and lending experts who had practiced the routine for years.

It was a day on which the buyers naivete was exposed to the lenders expertise. Nobody prepared them adequately for the ordeal, and if they left the table happy to have a home they left with a bundle of insecurities too.

While the scene is still re

peated every business day, the consumer movement has now provoked lenders and lawyer to better prepare their customers for what lies ahead, to offer help instead of maintaining the needless mystery.

One of the latest efforts at clarification, Your Guide to a Savings and Loan Mortgage, is now being readied for distribution to the nations savings and loan associations. It assumes that no question is too simple to answer.

For example, what are the kinds of mortgages?

There are three kinds, the booklet relates:

1. Conventional mortgages. 'Hie most common type. A private transaction between buyer and lender.

2. Mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration.

3. Mortgages guaranteed

by the Veterans Administration. FHA and VA mortgages are govemm.qnt-backed, but are obtained through the lender, who is assured of reimbursement by the government if the borrower fails to pay.

Simple, of course, but how many present homeowners couldnt have benefitted from an ABC when they first began looking? And who wasnt surprised to some extent by the fees lumped under the heading of closing costs?

Among those that may or may not apply: property survey charge, title examination fee, title insurance premium, attorney fee, mortgage origination service fee, transfer taxes.

What is a point?

A point, according to the guide, is a charge equal to one per cent of the loan. If the lender charges three points

on a $10,000 loan he is adding $300 to the cost. Even if the seller appears to pay it, he often recaptures his costs by raising the selling price.

Why have points? Well, youll get an argument on this. People have differing opinions on points, with some saying theyre meant to keep the market fluid, others insisting theyre a device to skirt the law.

Ttxe guide explains it in this manner: The government imposes rate ceilings on mortgages it backs. The market for conventional rates might, however, be higher at a certain time, such as now, when VA and FHA rates are limited to 7 per cent, while other mortgages are generally 7.5 or more. Die lenders therefore make up in points what they are denied in rates.

Simple questions, simple answers.