Allie Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.-Wednesday, A|h1 18, 1973

Pressure From Wilbur Mills

TOUGH TO SADDLE!

Rep. Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has urged a return to Phase I economic controls, which would mean a price and wage freeze.

Mills said rampant runaway inflation is the nations most serious problem. A complete freeze without time duration is in order now, he stated.

The powerful congressman would not include farming under the freeze.

Mills predicted that Nixon would soon turn to Phase I controls to stop runaway inflation.

The congressmans statement came at a time when the House was to debate a bill that would set ceilings on interest rates at March 16 levels. Rents would be rolled back to the Jan 10 level with allowance for cost increase.

Mills influence is strong in Washington and the fact that he is advocating Phase I controls is bound to be considered in the White House.

Charlie Phillips Hot summer And Cold

Has Experience

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH-If the people hadnt hired him, Charlie Phillips would have had a hard time finding a job to use his talents.

Not that he lacked experience, but because he had too much of it. Forty years in education brought him to retirement still not ready for the rocking chair.

BRYAN

HAISLIP

I couldnt sit at home and read all the time. Im an activist by nature. I had to have something to do with my life. he said.

Private employers dont regard highly applicants in the upper age bracket. Phillips decided to apply to the public. He ran for the legislature. He won.

The folks in Guilford County seemed to like the way he did the job. Theyve kept him in it now for five terms. Three times, the seasoned Democrat led the ticket for the countys House delegation.

TTiat brings Rep. Phillips, at 75. to senior citizens staus among the 170 members of the 1973 General Assembly Its a distinction he brags about without using it as an excuse from any of the legislative labors.

Important Appropriations m Post

He served as chairman of the Appropriations education subcommittee, an arduous assignment involving long hours of study in sifting budget items related to education.

I say, in a kidding way, that if my brains hold out as well as my feet and legs Ill keep up with the rest of them, he chuckled.

He keeps up, with a springly step and mental alacrity that earns him respect from colleagues younger than his children. About the only concession they make to his age is to call him Mr. Charlie, a title expressing affection as much as deference.

Politics gave Phillips a second career after he retired in 1962, following 12 years as a Greensboro teacher and principal, and 27 years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Business and other walks of life are not so generous to those past retirement age, Phillips observed.

We are throwing away a great asset in the experience and training of men and women who have to retire at 65, 60 or even younger, he

said. Its a waste of a valuable resource to put them on the shelf.

Opportunity For Oldsters Not only in the legislature, but in all areas of society senior citizens should have opportunities to make a contribution, he said. Years do not wither ability nor stale the outlook, he reminded.

In fact, the septuagenarian remarked, he finds he relates to younger members of the legislature more readily than to those of middle age.

So many of the fellows in their 40s can see only the insecurity of the times.' Theyre inclined to think things look pretty dark, he said.

Ive sorta been over some of the rough sports, living through the Depression and two world wars. Sure, I realize we have problems but weve been through problems before.

I see some good, new days ahead for North Carolina. If thats optimism, it is tempered by experience and enlightened by involvement in fashioning legislation to hasten progress.

Education Progress Seen The current session will move the state forward, partiwlarly in public educat%n, Phillips predicted.

Extension of the school term, expanding the kingergarten program, reducing class loadall these will be red-letter advances, he said.

'Traditionally, Tar Heels have chosen education as the route for progress and the faith has not been misplaced. Rep. Phillips affirmed.

At the turn of the century, Jesse Lee Phillips moved his family from outer reaches of Randolph County to the village of 'Trinity so that his five children could have the advantage of good schools.

Son Charlie graduated from Trinity High School, went on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to graduate in 1921. He earned a masters degree through summer work at Columbia University. He received an honorary doc-trate in 1967 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Voters must have taken into account that background when they first elected, and then reelected, Phillips as one of their Representatives. At least, he said, he never felt they regarded his years as a liability.

This session Guilford has both the oldest and the youngest members of the General Assembly. Rep. Margaret Keesee, at 28, is the junior legislator.

That says voters in his county have an attitude of balance and opportunity without regard to age or sex, (Continued on page 6)

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Winter Are In Store

North Carolinians got the mournful news last that gasoline may be in short supply during theummer.

There is worse ahead, however. Heating oil could be short during the winter.

It is explained that heating oil was produced longer than usual this year and during the summer when refineries are supposed to be making heating oil they will still be at work on gasoline.

We suppose it adds up to a hot summer, if air conditioned cars are your thing, and a,cold winter, if you depend on fuel oil for heat

The Threat In Sihanoukville

By ROWLAND EVANS I and ROBERT NOVAK SAIGON Far more than chronic ceasefire violations by the Communists, the greatest threat of a total breakdown in the fragile Paris agreement is the possible reopening of the port of Sihanoukville in Cambodia to supply North Vietnamese armies in South Vietnam.

That is why the Cambodian crisis is critical enough to dispatch Gen. Alexander Haig, vice chief of staff of the U. S. Army, on last weeks emergency mission to

Indochina. To U. S. officials here, the prospect of

Sihanoukville reopened endangers the entire

ceasefire framework. South Vietnamese generals are deeply concerned that this would adversely transform the military equation.

To prevent this transformation, therefore, the possibility must be held open that the ARVN (South Vietnamese army) would ignore the peace agreement and move into Cambodiaa military adventure so far firmly rejected by the Saigon government. Considering the limited effectiveness of U. S. bombing and the hopeless Cambodian army, however, that might ultimately be necessary to keep Sihanoukville closed.

The Cambodian menace to South Vietman fits into a future, not present, (I^om-munist offensive here. What high officials in Washington expected to be a major April-May Communist offensive seems to be no more than a step-up in local small-unit action. Military experts here believe there is simply not enough North Vietnamese infantry now in South Vietnam to mount a major offensive.

Nevertheless, Hanoi is preparing for the future: building new supply roads and airstrips in South Vietnam, bringing down tanks and long-range artillery. This is intended to give the Communists the option, by next year perhaps, of attacking nationwide if political subversion fails.

Thats where Cambodia comes in. Nobody here is terribly worrried about Communist insurgents seizing the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and toppling Cambodias sickly.

faction-torn government. 'That does not seem Hanois intention. What is tremendously worrisome is the magnificent port of Sihanoukville, closed to Communist supplies (and renamed Kompong Som) after Prince Norodaom Sihanouk was deposed in 1970.

Dr. Henry Kissinger agreed to let some 145,000 North Vietnamese troops remain in South Vietnam (bitterly opposed by President Nguyen Van Thieu) on the premise, always doubtful, that Hanois army would not be supplied through Laos and Cambodia. Sihanoukville reopened would provide a firm logistical base for Communist troops to launch offensives in the heavily populated Saigon area and Mekong River delta.

So far, the Saigon government, markedly more scrupulous than Hanoi in respecting the Paris agreement. has been restrained about Cambodia.

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To the editor:

When we announced last month our plans at the TEACCH Centers here, in Chapel Hill and Asheville that we planned a summer camp for autistic children in the state, we had no idea that the response would be so enthusiastic and gratifying. The role you played in announcing our plans and the subsequent announcement of the contributions by the Jaycees, the Grifton Lions Club, and the Buck Supply Company will go far to insure a happy summer and a whole world of new experiences for these children not only in the Coastal Plains but across the state.

'The autistic children and their families, who have frequently been neglected and misunderstood, are now enjoying a new freedom.

'The TEACCH program is truly grateful to you.

Morton H. Rabin, Ph. D Clinical Director TEACCH

By ART BUCHWALD

Those Were The Days

WASHINGTON-Daddy, tell me again what it was like in 1973 when anyone who wanted to could drive a car. I know youre not going to believe this, son, but all you had to do was drive up to a gas station and say to the attendant, Fill er up. And you know what? He had to wipe your windshield, too, or you wouldnt buy any gas from him.

Aw, come on Daddy, youre putting me on.

Im telline the truth, son.

And not only that but we used to have these big carsthree times the size of the ones you see nowwith four doors and air conditioning and everything. Some of them got 9,10 miles to a gallon. I think there are some pictures of them in the encylcopedia here.

Gosh, those were some cars.

In those days you could drive your car to work or to the city all alone without violating th*e law. Youd see

Other Editors Say A Rocky Road

(Washington Daily News)

It is so easy to say that here is a big issue; let the people decide.

And when Rep. Larry Eagles of Et^ecombe County talks about presorting the issue of a medical school for East Carolina university to the peqple to approve or disapprove, thoi it sounds ever so democratic, and no (Xie can deny that the voice of the people represents the fullest expression we can have.

Mr. Eagles attaches a $50 millimi price tag to his proposal, and in a statewide referendum the voters of N(th Carolina would express themselves on the matter of establishing a four year medical school at ECU.

History tells us a real story. Eastern North Carolina, over the years, has had to fght hard fcsr whatever measure of (M-ogress it has realized. TTie fght so oftai has come from difficult opposition from the Piedmont and Mountain areas of our state. Along the way some battles have been won and some have been lost.

With the emotion feeling that exists today, if the ECU Medical school is put to a vote of all the people in North Clarolina, success would be hard to come by. After all people removed from Eastern North Carolina care little for a medical school in our part of the country.

Such a move, if successful, represents a sure method of disposing of a glaring need on a democratic basislet the people decide.

The fact is that we elect legislators to make such decisi<ms, and if this matter is shelved to the extent that a statewide referendum is called, it will surely be shelved for a generation.

We are in no manner condemning Larry Eagles. We suspect that he feels that the present legislature wUl not approve such a medical school now, and thus he sees this referendum plan as the only hope left. That is to his credit.

But thiis legislature itself ought to make the decision for or against an ECU Medical school.

The fact that the three existing medical schools in North Carolina are fighting the estaUishment of a fourth medical school in Eastern N(n*th Carolina should not be a major factor in the legislative consideration.

Practically speaking, just about everyone knew in advance that the medical schools at UNC, Duke, and Bowman Gray would be opposed.

If the move for an ECU Medical school is defeated, be it by the legislature or by statewide referendum, that defeat in no manner indicates that the need is not there. We cannot erase need simply through defeat of a proposal.

Eastern North Carolina simidy does not have the votes necessary to pass such a referendum.

people in eight-passenger station wagons all by themselves.

Is it true you could drive to the beach or to the mountains or a football game 100 miles away without getting special pass from the Automobile Authority? Yup. One time your mother and I drove all the way to Florida, and we didnt have to ask permission from a soul. We just went.

What happened. Daddy? Nobody really knows. People just kept using up gasoline and oil until there was none left. I remember in 73 Detroit announced it had its greatest year. Sold more big cars than any time in its history.

But nobody bothered to tell Detroit there would be nothing to put in the big gas tanks. They said it wasnt, their problem.

It was really funny because in Washington they were arguing about automobile pollution and the emission standards for 1976 when, in fact, the problem solved itself. 'There was no fuel left to pollute anything. Why didnt Detroit build smaller cars that wouldnt use so much gasoline? Because they said Americans wouldnt go for it. They said Americans had always had big cars, and they deserved big cars because big cars were what made America great. Of course now they have no choice but to manufacture two-cylinder automobiles because thats the only kind of car Americans can afford. I mean when gas is selling for $9.50 a gallon and youve got rationing coupons, nobody in his right mind is going to make a four-cylinder car. Is that why we moved back to the city, because you couldnt drive to work anymore?

Yup. We lived in the suburbs when you were very little, but when the country ran out of gasoline we had to move back here. Oh, I tried bicycling to work, but it was 40 miles each way and I was pretty pooped by the time I got home. So we came back. And it was curious because up until that time the blacks lived in the cities and the whites lived in the suburbs. (Continued on page 6)

Words

That

Weary

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

If you are having trouble balancing your budget, you might keep a bird for a pet instead of a dog, a cator a mistress. It costs only a penny a day to feed. Some 7,670,000 U.S. families do have pet birdsabout 26 million of them.

Was Abraham Lincoln the model of humility he is sometimes pictured as having been? Not according to John Hay, a White House secretary, who said in a letter to William H. Herndon, Lincoln biographer and onetime law partner: It is absurd to call him a modest man. No great man was ever modest. Hay wrote that it was Lincolns intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of authority that made enemies of some members of his Cabinet.

In the beginning of the automobile age, most cars were painted black. Today only three per cait are. What the trade calls earth tones are popular now.

Quotable notables: Many

jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly lean. Playwright Sir James Barrie.

Its criminal: Crime is prevalent in modem business offices for a good reasonless than 20 per cent of all office burglaries are solved.

Wet statistic: A dry martini addict will hardly even want to dip his toe in the Atlantic ocean when he learns this: it contains 82 quintillion, 171 quadrillion, 672 trillion, 174 million, 450 thousand and 100 gallons of watergive or take a drop or two

Hard to explain: 'The average man can grip or hand squeeze with a strength measured at 81 pounds, the average woman only 48 pounds. But which sex usually is usually able to put the squeeze on the other in a showdown?

Household help: Most experts agree that if you are trying to reduce your grocery bills you should always avoid supermarket shopping when youre hungry. You almost inevitably overbuy.

40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGIIILL April 18,193:1 Rivers on a spring spree wallowed over lowlands in New England, Indiana, Arkansas and the Mississippi Delta today while the weather staged a wild exhibition. Snow in California and in Dixie were among the special demonstrations of what April can do.

With the whooping cough and measles on the increase in this community the last few days, health officials today warned,parents to report such cases to the health department.

Strength For Today Free Trade Is Not A Reality

HOW TO LEARN

Benjamin Frankilin once remarked caustically, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will have no other. Dean Swift had somewhat the same idea in mind when he noted that the qnly preacher ultimately given attention is time. As he reviewed the repeated follies of men and their painful consequences, he came to the conclusion that mankind can learn only by nursing its bruises.

'This ,is certklnly learning , the hard way . We learn many of our lessons through making mistakes, but if we

only knew it, the best way to learn is not by making mistakes but by observing (he mistakes of others. If we possessed perfect wisdom , we would never adopt an important cousrse of action until we had checked up carefully to see what had happened to others who had adopted this same course. We would regard every mistake as wasteful and try to achieve our ends not by doing what we want to do, but by making very sure that our proposed course of action is supported by the experience of many others.

By Earl Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - I dont think theres a limit on economic demand, said Peter Flanigan. Human need, he insisted, is never satisfied. For me, for example, its a place in the mountains and a boat and more.

Flanigan, who led the team that produced new trade pro-> posals announced last week by President Nix(m, was introducing what for him is another incontestable thesis: 'The most effective way to meet demand is in free trade.

That notion isnt univer

sally accepted. While trade advocates claim that $1 txllion of exports produces 91,000 jobs, protectionist forces claim that imports might be destroying as many jobs and industries too.

Flanigan, assistant to the President for international economic affairs, believes that free trade promotes the most efficient utilizati(xi of resources, incluckng workers, and thus produces the lowest [srices. But, he add^, trade today isnt free.

Europe wants to protect its less efficiently grown crops from American exports. Japan seeks to protect its

computer industry. And some Americans would like to restrain imports of shoes that are produced at lower cost abroad.

The thrust of the Presidents approach to world trade negotiations that begin in September, Flanigan suggested in an interview, is to promote more open and equitable trade as the underpinning of international economic expansion, a bonus of which would be to give many nations a vested interest in world peace.

It begins with the assumption that needless frictions exist because of

existing inequities. Hiere is a fundamental imbalance in the system, Flanigan said. It was put in place after World War II when we had all the chips. Our priority wa^ to rebuild, and we were overly generous.

As other nations or groups of nations regained their competiveness, the need to change the monetary and trading systems grew evident. Other nations could devalue their currencies, for example, but not the United States.

The old monetary order has now been challenged and bur-(Continued on page 6)