4TTie Dally Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Monday, July 2, 1973

Greenville Goals, Priorities?

By W. H. Carstarphen Greenville City Manager Guest Editorialist Any one wfro has ever tried to list a few basic objectives toward which he is willing to commit himself during Ae next decade knows what a difficult and sometimes agonizing process goal setting is. Even so, in todays fast pace, often non-directed world, many individuals, business, and even cities have concluded that setting objectives and sticking to them is the only way to acieve those goals which they consider to be important.

Greenville is fortunate to be expanding and changing. Even with the problems growth brings, it is far more desirable condition than stagnation. The pattern of growth that has been established by Greenville over the past decade gives every in

dication of continuing, perhaps even accelerating. Growth and change have occurred, not only in the physical side of the community but in the Social arena, the fields of education and recreation, and in community values. The strong evidence that change and growth will continue begs a question. What are our objectives as a community? What kind of city do we really want to be?

Communities are different. They are different largely becausje^'Of what their citizens, both individual and corporate, do to make them different. It is time Greenville gave some serious thought on an organized, community-wide basis to the establishment of goals and priorities.

We are fortunate to have many of the tools required for such an effort. We have a sound program of land use control. We have a representative arid concerned City Council and County Commission. We have a growing level of interest and desire for participation on the part of all segments of the community. We have, within East *** Carolina University, resources for research, analysis, and projection far in excess of that available to most cities. Most important, we have an interest and desire to maintain and protect those pleasant and exciting qualities which Greenville now has and to insure that our future development is not only K'derly and contoUed, but that is is harnessed to achieve those objectives of good

of our time is written 1973 mav crossroads situation, a catch-up comniunity life which we all desire. What better well stand out as the vear in following a sustained dry begin that as we approach the 20Qth an-

Thich North Carolina spell. I hope and believe that ^ niversary of the Citys birth?

rededicated itself to the concept Assembly wiU continue

of community college education. provide adequate nourishment for this vital program.

As the new year dawned, otherwise, the open door may bringing with it a new General begin to ease shut and North Assembly session, the North Carolina wiU not be amply Carolina Department of Com- supporting universal education munity Colleges was truly at a beyond the high school on an crossroads. educationally sound and

It has fulfilled in every respect economicaUy feasible basis, the basic expectations expressed

A Community College Effort

By Pres. Ben E. Fountain, Jr. North Carolina Department Of Community Colleges RALEIGH When the history

demonstrates a commendable concern and will help immeasurably. But I would emphasize that this was a

at the time of its establishment by the 1963 General Assembly. From modest beginnings, the department steadily bridged the gap between secondary and higher education, taking educational opportunity to the people. Growing, moving forward on a rising curve, the effort produced during its first 10 years a system of 56 community colleges and technical institutes spanning the State.

However, during this process of establishment and development, demand for educational service began to inch ahead of the supply of State funding. Slowly, State funds began to dribble off, particularly in the are of physical facilities. After

It should be noted that the recently adjourned General Assembly session produced two disturbing developments. I refer, first, to the imposition of a requirement that a uniform fise be charged for all community college-technical institute extension courses which are supported primarily by State funds. To comply with this legislative mandate, the State Board of Education has established the fee at $2. Secondly, the General Assembly directed that, in the case of recreationl or avocational courses, the students must bear the full costs. These actions of the Assembly could have the effect of discouraging many persons from taking courses

Justice Made Late Recovery

10 years, many institutions wereotherwise would have still housed in cast-off motel

Constitutional Mandate In considering the wisdom and the effect of this legislative action, we start with this premise contained in the Constitution of the State of North Carolina: The people have a right to the privilege of education, and it is the duty of the State to guard and maintain that right. The Constitution does not say that our people have a right only to those areas of learning that could be described as ordinary or traditional. This constitutional provision does not deny us access to any useful knowledge which the age itself, and the economy itself, make necessary.

To quote a recent editorial in The High Point Enterprise: There are understandable arguments against the States financing frivolous hobbies. But couch it in different language as personal enrichment and then go see these classes in action, and one may get an entirely new perspective. Well cast our vote for moving out of the ordinary.

Or, in the words of Dr. Dallas Herring, chairman of the State Board of Education: I do not know what course the State may now take on this basic question of the right of our children and our adults to know, but do not count me among those who would close the door of knowledge in the face of anyone who genuinely wants to know.

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buildings, old schoolhouses, old prisons. With the arrival of 1973, there was a real danger that the open door, symbolic of the systems bedrock principle of educational opportunity for all, would have to start swinging closed.

New Commitment The community colleges and technical institutes took their case to the 1973 General Assembly. The Assembly responded with understanding and generosity. TTie level of funding was increased substantially. Community college education in North Carolina was propelled into its second decade with a renewed sense of commitment.

Total State appropriations to the system for ttie fiscal year beginning July 1 will be $123.2 million, virtually double the $63.9 million for the current fiscal year.

The grand total of $123.2 million breaks down like this: $83.6 million for operations, compared to $56.9 million for the current year; $14.2 million for equipment, compared to $3.7 million for the current year; and $25.4 million for construction of new facilities, compared to $3.1 million for the current year. Practically all of the systems major budget requests were fulfilled to a substantial degree.

Time To Catch-Up The Assemblys investment in total education for the people

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ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-Before the Watergate scandal broke open this spring, the Justice Elepartments investigation of Nixon campaign dirty tricks in the 1972 Florida presidential primary either ignored or suppressed a key FBI reportpossiblities

under study by forthcoming Senate and federal probes of Nixon administration prosecution, or lack of it, of illegal political espionage.

On March 5,1973, U.S. Atty. John L. Briggs of Jacksonville, Fla., wrote Sen Henry M. Jackson that an investigation of a scurrilous letter about him had been completed without success. Yet, according to high FBI officials, a Feb. 6, 1973, FBI report provided enough information to lead to indictments. Indeed, once the Wat^gate scandal cracked, Nixon political espionage chief Donald Segretti was indicted in Florida May 5.

The Feb. 6 FBI report is now in the hands of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Moreover, Sen. Sam Ervins Watergate committee plans autumn hearings into the Segretti operation. Inevitably, both inquiries will judge political slanting of law enforcement.

The Florida case involves a spurious March 1972 letter on the campaign letter head of Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, falsely accusing two Florida primary opponents, Jackson and Sen. Hubert H. Hum-I^ey, of illicit sexual acts. A Florida Jackson supporter promptly supplied a copy to the UB. Attorneys office.

But Briggs, an ardent Republican, did not request an FBI investigation until last October when a column by Jack Anderson revealed Jacksons ^request. Even then, Briggs declared it absurd to connect the letter with Republicans or the Nixon administration (a judgment he now admits was based on no facts).

On Feb. 8, Jackson wrote Briggs jogging him about the investigation. Briggs original reply was so insulting, according to Justice Department sources, that it was cleaned up in Washington before delivery to the Senator. The sanitized version, dated March 5, informed Jackson the investigation has now been completed and we have been unable to establish the identities of who wrote the

letter.

An enclosed eight-paragraph investigative summary dealt mostly with Briggss inability to pin the letter on a right-wing extremist. After disposing of this red herring in seven paragraphs, Briggss eighth paragraph asserted that Patricia Griffin, a Muskie headquarters employe, was questioned and denied any knowledge of the letter.

But strangely, as Watergate unraveled, Briggss office stepped up. prosecution of the Florida case so successfully that on May 5 a grand jury indicted Segretti and another man. Two Nixon operatives directly involved. Miss Griffin and Young Republican leader Robett Benz of Tampa, testified before the grand jury (Benz under immunity) and were not indicted.

Why so fruitful in May when the investigation was so barren in March? Briggs told us he received unspecified new information.

In fact, high FBI officials have informed us their investigation, begun Oct. 21, 1972, was essentially completed in late January. The final report was dated Feb. 26,1973, although there were later supplementary reports. According to these sources, the report by itself did not provide sufficient evidence for indictments but did give any self-respecting prosecuting attorney obvious paths to foUow.

The FBI report contained much material about Benz and Miss Griffin. The implication, according to FBI sources, was that if these two young people were summoned before a grand jury, they probably would tell all. Indeed, most details of the case were reported in newspapers the previous October-duly noted in the FBI report. But none of this was in Briggss report to Jackson. Nor did Briggs reveal that Miss Griffin, on advice of counsel, refused to answer FBI agents questions.

Justice Department sources told us they believe the FBI sent its report to Briggs. However, FBI sources told us the Bureau sent it to the Justice Deparments criminal division, headed by Assistant Atty. Gen. Henry Petersen, but not to Briggs. A source close to Briggs denied that (Continued On Page 5)

By ART BUCHWALD

Demos For Ehrlichman?

WASHINGTON - My friend Cotswald, who was a Democrat for Nixon, seemed very depressed when I found him in a bar the other day.

I asked him what the problem was.

Ive been watching the Watergate hearings all week, he said, and its got me down.

Dont worry, I said, trying to cheer him up its John Deans word against the Presidents. Its still quite possible that Nixon had nothing to do with Watergate or the cover up.

Thats just the point, Cotswald said. Suppose Nixon didnt have anything to do with Watergate? The White House defense is that Nixon didnt know anything about anything. The whole country was being run by Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Wouldnt that depress you?

"Well, it wouldnt make me happy, I admitted.

I didnt vote for Haldeman and Eairlichman, Cotswald said bitterly, I voted for Nixon. If I had known he was going to turn over the Presidency of the country to two flunkies, I sure as hell

would have thought twice about it.

But President Nixon had the final say on all their decision, I pointed out.

We dont know that. From what weve heard, E3irlich-man and Haldeman gave orders to the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and everybody else. Everyone in the White

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Other Editors Say Maybe Competition

(Chapel HIU Newspaper)

The State Milk Commissions suspensira of its Fair Trade Order, a misnomer if ever there was one, raises a faint hope of restoring competition to the milk industry and maybe even bringing about lower prices for dairy products. Anyone who interprets the Commissions actiai as anything more than the raising of a faint hope might be in for a rude awakening.

The Fair Trade Order required dairy firms to post notices of [Mice changes ten days in advance. This usually signaled other firms to follow suit and competiti(Hi for business was effectively stifled.

Suspension of the order will enable firms to lower prices without advance notice in an effort to stimulate notice in an effort to stimulate business. In theory, competitim can now thrive in the industry and lower milk prices conceivably could result. That depends entirely on those in the industry and their eagerness to enter into (q>en competition. You can entertain a very large doubt here.

Still hanging in the balance is the exercise of the Milk Commissions authority to fix minimum and nuiximum prices statewide. So long as the Presidents retail price-freeze is in effect, the question oi fixing prices is academic. Once the price-freeze has been lifted, the Milk Commission will then decide whether to fix minimum and maximum prices. That decision, much more so than suspension of the Fair Trade Order, will determine whether wide-open competition will be restored and the price of milk will se^ levels determined by sui^ly and demand rather than the artificial level fixed by arbitrary ruling.

Suspensi(Mi of the Fair Trade Order might very well be the first strdce in a move to bring North Carolinas milk prices down to the national average. We hope it is. At the same tme, it might amount to nothing more than temporary or illusory relief. Please withhold your ai^lause pending further developments.

BUCHWALD

House except John Dean says the President had no idea what anybody was doing. If we believe this, it means that Ehrlichman and Haldeman were running the show. This is a frightening thought-much worse than having the President implicated in Watergate.

But, I protested, the President cant do everything himself. He has to have aides to carry out his orders.

Dammit, said Cotswald, if they carried out the Presidents orders, it means the President knew what was going on. If they did it on their own, that means I was a Democrat for Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Thats a terrible thing for any man to live with.

But do we know that? All the testimony-indicates no one ever got in to see the President.

We dont even know if the President was there half the time. The only thing Nixon read was Pat Buchanans resume of the news every (Continued On Page 5)

Japan': Crisis In Fish

By JOHN RODERICK Associated Press Writer

TOKYO (AP) - The spectre (rf widespread pollution has frightened many Japanese into dropping fish from their diet. Meat and other alternatives are beginning to take its place.

Hardly a day passes without some new horror story about bays, streams, rivers, fish and humans poisoned by chemical discharges from Japans burgeoning industry.

Fish sales in recent weeks have plunged by as much as 30 per cent. Thousands of fishermen, dealers and fish restaurants say they are threatened 8 with banlaniptcy., s Fish is the source of 23 per cent of the protein consumed g by Japans 105 million people.

The situation is so serious ^ that Prime Minister Kakuei Tanka has ordered his Cabinet g ministers to go on a daily fish odiet to restore confidence among shaken consumers.

With the slump in fii^ consumption, meat sales have soared 25 per cent, possibly presaging a drastic change in the fish-oriented diet if the pollution menace continues.

The Agriculture-Forestry Ministry is meeting the trend by increasing the number of shops eligible to sell inexpensive imported beef.

The Health and Welfare Ministry last week published a list of a dozen fish which could safely be eaten, together with recommended weekly limits.

The gesture did nothing to ease the anxieties of millions of Japanese. Sales plummeted.

Later the ministry said fish from deep ocean and nonpolluted areas can be eaten safely in normal amounts.

Whether these moves will allay what the Japanese are calling Mercury shock remains to be seen.

Deputy Premier Takeo Miki, director general of the environmental agency, said he will ask for a billion yen $3.77 million for a nationwide project to restore clean water, skies and land. The damage already done runs into the billions of dollars.

Fish, and humans who eat their meat, also have been found to be suffering from the crippling effects of PCB and PCT, chemicals which remain permanently in the body. All three attack the nervous system and death sometimes results.

The Japanese not only eat fish broiled, fried, baked and salted. They also eat it raw.

Fishermen by the thousands, angered by delays in cleaning up pollution, have struck

against offending plants, blocking their waste discharge outlets, dumping tons of fish encased in concrete on their premises.

Against these onslaughts, four companies in west Japan already have closed their

doors. Their action followed a five-hour blockade of the port of Mizushima by 6,000 fishermen aboard 1,500 fishing

boats.

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From a poor nation where nobody thought of themselves as being poor, to a rich nation where everybody is beginning to think of themselves as being poor; is what happened to the United States fo America in 200 years, from 1776 to 1976. -Lennox (S. C.) Independent.

A Vast Absence Of Foresight

Strength For Today

FOLLY OF CONCEIT Someone has said that self-conceit is harder to cure than cancer. St. Paul writing to the Romans, urged them not to be wise in their own conceits. Unless they were aware of their own conceit they would sit on the edge of the perennial spring of knowledge and never have sense enough (p turn around and take a drink. They would be forever fascinated the sound of their own voices.

Conceit is selfishness operating in the realm of

pinion. The conceited man puts himself in the center of his own world and believes that everything exists for him. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? asked the writer of the book of Proverbs. There is more hope of a fool than of a man. The conceited person has lost his chance to get an education, and has made himself ridiculous as well. As Benjamin Franklin once said, He who falls in love with himself will find no rival. By Earl Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - The most frightening aspect of the growing food dilemma is IM-obably not so much that (rf soaring prices as it is the failure to anticipate the size of the problem, and the failure to coordinate national goals.

There is no discounting the horror of prices: Soybeans are more than triple their price (rf a year ago; farm, prices in general are 38 per' cent higher in one year; retail food prices are expect^ to be 12 per cent higher for the year.

But underlying these rising jx-ices is confusicm, even con-tradicti(Mi, in U.S. farm and food policies. They suggest that the s<riution to the food supply and price problems

must first await understanding of the problems.

For example, it had been assumed that when meat in*ices reached record highs sho{q>ers would restrain their appetites and switch to cheaper cuts or to nonmeat products.

But consumers their pocketbooks stuffed with bigger paychecks, and to some extent feeling that [Mices werent going to be any lower in the,future went right on buying. There was a boycott, but that was only a tief, futile expression of naivete and anger. *

And who could hav^ foreseen a change of habit on the part of those creatures further down the ev(rfutionary scale, the anchovies of south America, who went iwimming elsewhere and left the

fishermen to find out where?

Anchovies are rich in protein and are one of the one ingredients of cattle feed. With supplies cut off, livestock feeders were fcx-ced to rely on soybeans and other products. And with soybean prices soaring cm the new demand, meat prices could go nowhere but up.

Who could have foreseen the widespread bad weather than reduced cr<^ in many areas? .

But there has also been an absence of foresight and insight. And there has been some contradictory behavior. Here are some points to ponder: '

While the government was actively engaged in controlling prices, the secretary of agriculture, Earl Butz, was vigorously arguing

the case for higher food prices.

While the government is allegedly seeking to increase production and hold down prices, its price controls program is now said to be limiting [M-oduction and even creating shortages that will put further upward pressure on prices.

While the U.S. trade negotiators have been trying to (ionvince Europe that it should accept more American farm products, government controls have been imposed that make implementation of that policy impossible.

In summary, the problem of prices and supplies is discouraging enough for the short term without a lack of coordinated policy making it almost a sure thiqg for the long term.