4The Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Taesday, May 22, 1973

Visit To ARC Is Worthwhile

Open house will be held at the Walter B, Jones Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center Wednesday from 1 until 5 p.m.

The observance is part of the statewide emphasis on Mental Health during the month of May.

Those who attend will be given a tour of the facility and they will get information about the

Combined But

program and Treatment of alcoholics.

It should be worthwhile to citizens of our area to visit and see the work being done at this unique facility. The ARC is one of three such centers in the state and it became a reality when Ccmgressman Jones, then a member of the State Senate, guided through a bill to increase the price of liquor enough to provide funds for rdiabilition centers. Greenville was later chosen as the site for the eastern facility.

The Walter B. JMies Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center is now a reality and it is furnishing a majM* service to the people of North Carolina.

Not Blended

Carteret Medical Soc.

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGHAmerica is a land of mulitple cultures and traditions, combined but not blended into a common heritage. ,

Our society can flourish as a collection of cultures. There should be no conflict. All can live and work logether, if we always remember we are Americans first, said Henry Ward Oxendine.

Bit VAN HAISLIP

A Turning Point He joined the Air Force after high school, a country boy in search of glamor. TTie dazzle quickly dimmed in the depersonalized military life. That marked a turning point for him, Oxendine said.

1 told myself there had to be something better than that, he said. When I got out, I went to Pembroke State University and then taught school for six years. Frustration in politics late

Offers Good Support

The Carteret County Medical Society voted by an overwhelming majority last week to support a four year medical school at ECU.

The physicians suggested in their resolution that the facility be oriented toward family practice.

This represents excelloit support for the ECU medical school and it is most pleasing that the Carteret Medical Society took this action.

His people were the first Americans, before the land was America.

The irony, he said, is that in the United States where citizens claim with pride thier ancestry from other countries, Indians have been without a sense of cultural identity.

To restore a positive self-image and an awareness of Indian values, he added, is one of the goals for the current thrust towards full participation in political and economic life.

At least a footnote in North Carolina history books is reserved for Oxendine, a Roveson County Representative, as the first Indian to serve in the states legislature.

What that means personally is less important to the young law student turned legislator that what it symbolizes for his people.

Doors For Others I am honored, not that much to be first, but to have the chance to do something about conditions for all Indians, Oxendine explained. I am concerned with trying to open doors that others can pass through. Oxendine, a Democrat, came to the General Assembly by appointment when death vacated one of Robeson three House seats.

It plunged him, midway the session, into a crash course in the legislative process. At the same time, he was completing law school at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Graduation and recess of the legislation came only a few days apart.

its been the most educational eight weeks of my life, he said. Basically, in the legislature, I am trying to learn as much as possible so that next January I will be ready to jump in and go. Oxendine grew up on the family farm in the Robeson community centered around Union Chapel Methodist Church, where his parents were lifetime members.

in the 60s helped turn his thoughts to law. A criticism used against Indian candidates, he said, was that they were not qualified. A law degree, he figured, would center that contention.

Law also will give me more independence than I felt I would have as a school teacher, he added.

For many years, Indians saw something was wrong with their situation in schools and job opportunities but they did not see what could be done about it, Oxendine observed. The civil rights movements by blacks in recent years helped awaken all minorities to the potential in political action he noted.

Change In The System

I believe in bringing about change within the system, he said. From where I sit, I can see definite improvement although it may not be as clear to others. And that doesnt mean things are so well now, but that they were so much worse in the past.

What a person thinks about himself has a lot to do with what he thinks he can become, Oxendine said. Not many years ago, he continued, young Indians accepted the sterotypes they saw on TV cowboy shows.

A negative self-image can be a serious handicap, especially for young people, he said.

Pressure For Stern Controls

The rise aspirations country has awareness of

of Indian across the brought an the worth of

their past which gives them determination for a share in the future, he said.

The biggest mistake that could be made would be to underestimate the determination of the Indian people to achieve equality, Rep, Oxedine declared.

Personally, I am prepared to pay whatever the price is, if it takes every penny, all my time, and work to the limit of my ability. And there are many, many more who feel the same.

As a history major in college, Oxendine read about struggles for freedom. Sometines we say, T wish I could have been living then. For Indians in 1973,1 say our strength is as great as any movement in the history of man, trying to accomplish the same thing, he asserted.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - A scathing indictment of President Nixons disastrous Phase III anti-inflation program, his economic advisers and his detachment from his own economic programs has been lying inside the Presidents Oval Office like a ticking time bomb for five weeks, bearing the signature of Mr. Nixons chief economic spokesman during last years presidential campaign.

The author is Canadian-born Dr. Pierre Rinfret, the noted New York-based private consulting economist vdio has intimate ties to both Mr. Nixon and his newest White House aide, John B. Connally. Hie April 12 attack on the currently disastrous rate of inflation was the result of a specific request from one-time chief domestic presidential aide John

Ehrlichman.

In making the request, Ehrlichman spoke for Mr. Nixon himself. In answering it, Rinfret proposes a return V^iftpandatory controls, sharp limits on profits and a temporary 15 per cttit income tax boost for both corporations and individuals.

Rinfret, regarded by some establishment economists as an irrepressible Pecks bad boy of the occult art, was a key author of the highly praised Phase II, which Shultz abruptly terminated last January. Rinfret refused to discuss his secret report with us beyond admitting his advice had been requested. His proposals, summing up in pungent language what many other economists are now starting to say, were made available to us by sources close to the White House.

By coincidence, the disclosure of Rinfrets tough new anti-inflation proposalsessential, he said, to avoid other dollar crises, a probable recession and a loss of so much credibility that the economy could become almost unmanageable parallels the reemergence of Connally as a temporary White House aide in the Watergate disaster.

One of Mr. Nixons first assignments for Connally (who spent Tuesday afternoon with the President) was to stop the current 10 per cent inflafion rate on an annual, compounded basis. Connallys own proposals, building on his glittering success as author of the August 1971 wage-price

freeze, are also expected to clash head-on with Secretary of the Treasury George Shultzs free-market bias against tough inflation controls. |

Thus, Rinfrets appeal for an immediate return to what he calls the mandatory program of Phase II is one more heady signal that the White House may be ready to dump Shultzs largely voluntary program.

The heart of Rinfrets plan is his novel 15 percent income tax scheme. Dubbed an antiinflation tax, it, would be collected and immediately sequesterednot to be spent until inflation ended.

Receipts from his tax would funnel into a special escrow account, patterned after West Germanys anti

inflation tax system. Rinfret wrote the President; The funds could be refun

ded...when adquate restraint on the economy had been exercised and when the refund would help expand economic activity.

In addition, Rinfret advised the President:

1. To grab the administrations economic reins in his own hands and not let anyone else get control (an obvious slap at Shultz). The pe(^le need to know that the President cares about their economic welfare, Rinfred counseled. He has to remain visibly involved.

2. To end the mishmash of phony forecasting which has come from l^ultz, Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Roy Ash, head of the Office of Management and Budget, whose apparent ignorance about the true force of todays roaring inflation had become a bad Wa^ington joke.

3. To embargo the export of short-supply commodities, such as meat and chicken, logs and grains. Foreign buying, he told the Presidoit, is adding intolerably to the inflation spirals.

4. More conventionally, Rinfret wants even deeper spending cuts and a more interventionist policy by the Federal Reserve system to slow the supply of new money. He would limit price increases to 1.5 per cent and wage hikes to 5.5 per cent a year.

Now that the President is reeling from the hammer blows of Watergate and has Connally pressing from inside and Rinfret from outside

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Strength For Today

RULES FOR PRAYING

There are few things concerning religion about which people speculate more often than about prayer. Everyone would like to know more about it. Even unbelievers are intrigued by its possibilities.

There are three things we should always bear in mind both when we think about prayer and when we pray. The first is that we never pray effectively until we deal with the sin in our lives. Hie second thing to remember is that prayer without faith is

nothing but the muttering of words. This does not mean that we have to be absolutely sure that God will give us what we ask for, but it does mean an abiding faith that if God does not give us that particular thing, he will give us something better.

Last of all, we must be persistent. If persistence overcomes the sloth and selfishness of wicked myh, how much more will it touch the heart of God who wants always to give us His best gifts!

By Earl Douglais

HOT m THE yOUNO ONLY

By JJ. KILPATRICK

A Shade Left Of Center

A year or so ago, the Oliver Quayle pollsters sought to identify the one person in public life in whom Americans repose the greatest trust. At the head of the list was Walter Cronkite, veteran anchorman for CBS. To judge from a long interview in the current Playboy, that trust is well placed. Diogenes could put his lantern down: B^old, an honest man.

Hiis is not to suggest that Cronkites perceptions are perfect, or that his opinions are necessarily sound. His conspiracy theory of the Nixon administration and the press has the same grim looniness that one encounters in the J(dm Birch Society. But on one of the most controversial questions in journalism today, Cronkite speaks with great candor and great truth.

Playnoys interview was conducted by Ron Powers, TV critic for the Chicago Sun-Hmes. Powers noted the administrations conviction that most newscasters are biased against conservatism, and asked Cronkite if there were some truth in the view that television newsmen tend to be left to center.

Well, said Cronkite, certainly liberal, and possibly left of center as well. I would have to accept that. Cronkite went on the define liberal in the classic sense of open-mindedness and noncommitment. By left of center, he meant to suggest a political position. The nature of a newsmans work much of it on the seamier side of human endeavor, tends to draw reporters away from the establishment and sort of pushes them to the

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To The Editor:

I would like to support one of your recent editorials regarding the preservation of natural areas in Greenville.

We have seen in the recent past much indiscriminate land use in all i^ses (rf Greenvilles development. Attempts by the Army Corps of Engineers to rechannel Green Mill Run and the Greenville Redeveloixnent Authmtys restored Town Commons are respectively futile and ugly, and hopefully we have learned our lesson. A pr(^>osed system of walkways and bicycle paths within natural areas would preserve what never can be replaced, and would become relaxing places to discover and rediscover things which have been literally bulldozed out of existence.

There is a beautiful stretch of riverfront between Tar River Estates and the dump which to me is just as important as a possible natural area on the north side of the Tar. One can find all sorts of wildlife along with wild rice, grapes, ginger, sage, holly, etc., etc. If this land ever comes on the market it will be a shame to make it susceptibel to Progress in the form of asphalt, apartments and-w subdivisions. The Recreation Commission would do well to consider this particular stretch on the south side also since its proximity to a large population area would benefit many peale.

Thank you for this opportunity to eiq>ress my views for a IH^oject which would have future generations thanking us for our insight.

Charles F. Chamberlain Greenville

left.

But I dont think there are many who are far left, Croite added. I think a little left of center probably is correct.

That judgment precisely confirms what a great many conservatives have been saying for years. There are exceptions, of course, for many broadcasters and newsmen have no more ideology than so many bullfrogs on a log. I grew up under a coiqile of managing editors who were not obsessed with politics; they were obsessed with golf. But Oonkites generalization, in my own observation, is an honest appraisal.

Why is it so? Why is it that so few persons who are politically right of center make it to the highest level of the media? Part of the answer, I suspect, lies in the ideological influence of our institutions of higher learning; part lies in a built-in system of job inheritance; and part lies in the nature of the breed.

Hie young man or woman who aspires to a career in journalism almost certainly will get his education indoctrination may be a better word under professors who are themselves a little left of center. If these professors are attractive and persuasive teachers, and most of them arc, the political coloration rubs off. Once the ambitious young journalist begins to climb within the profession, he finds rapport with fellow liberals on the next higher rung, and he becomes a natural inheritor to jobs that open up.

Beyond these tangible considerations is a quality of mind, or a cast of thinking. It is a fair generalization, I believe, that liberals tend to design houses, conservatives to build them. Hie liberal mind, by and large, moves more quickly than the conservatives to original thought. Those of us on the right tend to stand by tradition, precedent, and the old ways of doing things; those on the left are more

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Home

Cooked

Meals

By PENNIE SUE THURMAN Associated Press Writer

EVANSTON, m. (AP) -Even with meat prices still up, a home-cooked meal costs half as much and tostes twice as good as a meal prepared from packaged food.

Thats what I found out when I cooked the same meal twice-once from convenience foods and once from scratch.

What surprised me, though, was how difficult it was to get all those little tins unwrapped, into the ovoi and onto the table all at the same time while preparing the packaged meal. In a ^way, it was more work than mixing my own salad dressing, appetizers and soup.

To provide the four people to eat the four servings for which most recipes are written my husband, and I invited another coufrie to join us.

Hie menu: cheese puff appetizers, potato soup, lettuce salad witti Thousand Island dressing, beef stroganoff, mashed potatoes, broccoli with cheese sauce, biscuits, brownies and coffee.

Hie cost for the packaged meal was $9.22. Most of it was discarded as waste cardboard and tin foil. From scratch, using butter and fresh vegetables and meat, the meal cost $5.81.

The project was inspired by a local newspaper item written during this springs meat boycott. It noted that a check of neighborhood grocery stores showed that sales of TV dinners and other heat-and-eat foods swung upward as meat sales fell off.

What happened, the article asked plaintively, to homemade chicken soup swimming with noodles?

The menu included more starch than nutritionists might advise, but packaged food tends to be starchy and I based the menu on what could be found packaged.

All the food was bought at the local Jewel Tea Co. supermarket where I ordinarily shop and, to my knowledge, none of the food was on sale that day.

The frozen beef stroganoff, $1.09 for an individual Bounce serving, probably contained no more than four ounces of beef, according to a butcher in the (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGHILL May 22,1933 Four guest speakers occupied the pulpits of Greenville churches yesterday. Nathan C. Brooks, Jr., ministerial student at Louisville, Kentucky, delivered two sermons before the congregation of Memorial Baptist Church yesterday morning and last night. Rev. Ford Bums of Farmville spoke at the Immanuel Baptist Church yesterday morning. At St. Pauls Episcopal Church the Rev. J. Q. Beckwith, Jr. of Farmville spoke on the subject of Prayer. Mrs. J. F. Parrott of Kinston was in charge of the services at Eighth Street (Christian (Thurch.

Playing tonight at the State Theatre is Maurice Chevalier in A Bedtime Story. Admission is only 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children.

World Trade Is A Deadly Game

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - This is World Tracte Week, and as the United States observes it with speeches and dedications and the usual paraphernalia of official ceremony, it cannot forget that trade is also a deadly financial game.

Events of the past few weeks underscore the stakes; The dollar was again hit by a selling wave, speculators fled currencies for gold, the stock market slumped, and wwld commodity markets were said to be nervous.

All three troubles are related to trade, especially U.S. trade. A financially sound nation is generally thought to be a successful trader. The unsuccessful trader is financially suspect because he runs up deflcits,

or lOUs.

And so, when the United States, biggest trader of all, the biggest financial force in the world, fails to trade effectively or to keep its economy under control or otherwise convince the world of its strength, fear spreads.

The fact is that while the United sates is by far the biggest trader, it has become, in some respects, a weaker trader than befwe.

It ran up its first trade deficit of the century last year, with iniports exceeding exports by $2.7 billion. In the first quarter of 1973 it did manage to raise exports by $2.1 billion to $15.34 billion. But imports rose to $16.26 billion.

And for those who long have viewed U.S. industrial leadership as unassailable, consider this: The first-

quarter rise in exports resulted mainly from agricultural shipments; the rise in imports mainly from industrial purchases. '

A fact sheet (x-oduced for World Trade Week shows the U.S. automotive industry is dependent upon imports from 32 countries, that the telephones we use required 48 materials from 18 nations, that 75 per cent of newsprint is imported.

There are unique reasons for the problem. The United States assumed an enormous role in the security of much of the nonCommunist world in the past 30 years. Not only in Vietnam aixi Korea, but in Europe, too.

As a result, U.S. expenditures abroad have for almost two decades exceeded the input. The concern over

this was lessened somewhat by the working thesis, however naive, that these expenditures were temporary.

The mood of the United States is that of the offended giant, discriminated against by nations that once were weak but which now, either from economic merger such as in Europe, or innovation and self-denial, as in Japan, have themselves become giants.

Nations are loath to foresake privileges, and enthusiastic about claiming them.

That, say free trade advocates, is economic warfare. And judging from history, it is easier to wage war than to cooperate. The spirit of eWorld Trade Week is to effect an historic change. No less a goal.