4Tlie Daily Reflector. Greenville, N.C.Tlmrsdoy, November 8, lfT3

VP Ford Can Raise Headaches

WE LIKE TO BE OPTIMISTIC, BUT

There are serious questions that Congress and R^. Gerald R. Ford, himself must face up to before he is named president <rf the United States.

We must reo^nize that the main duty of the vice {R^ident is to be ready to become president if that office is vacated.

The question is can a man named Ford deal effectively with the Japanese govemmait, or with

Can Every Kid Be A Winner?

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEldftThere is a

growing movemCTt across the nation toward accountability in public schools. North Cardina has joined the movement, and the State Board of Education has set up a study group with the tongue-twisting name Advisory Committee on Educational Assessment and Accountability.

The 29-member study group met for the first time last week in what promises to be a long and difficult task, for simply defining what this is all about took the better part of a day.

But the effort is underway. At the heart of it is finding some way to answer the question; just how goodor how badare public schools in North Carolina?

And if that can be answered. what can we do about it?

Based On Consumerism Growing concern over accountability in public schools is an outgrowth of widespread interest in consumerism, these days, as people are more and more interested in pollution, fair business practices, honesty and responsiveness in government, adequacy of performance by physicians and lawyers.

The rally slogan for the movementtaken from a currently popular bookis, Every Kid A Winner.

Launching a committee on accountability in North Carolina schools is based on the belief by state officials that the public is already insistingand will increasingly do soon detailed and accurate accounting of results obtained in the schools, and in the philosof^y that when the public schools openly report aims and results of efforts, people rally to the support of the programs to correct weaknesses.

As a satement in a work-bo(rfc given members of the committee pointed out, assessment and accountability is Not just a program of testing or assessing studentsbut of dealing with broader questions of goodness and badness, adequacy of performance, or lack of it. And that, it comes clear, applies to teachers, administrators, parents, legislators anybody who has anything to do with schools.

Dr. Craig Phillips, superintendent of public instruction, believes efforts toward accountability should result in more accurately identifying educational ne^s and priorities; increasing general puWic understanding of attainments, needs, and problems of the schools; and supplying objective information for the Legislative (and public) to use in considering educational needs of the state.

Chairman Named

(Hyde Pressley, superintendent of Elden city schools, was named chairman of the study group, and Lura Tally, a member of the Gen-al Assembly and guidance counselor in Fayetteville schools, is vice chairman, "nie committee is to meet four or five times a year as it spends perhaps years seeking to outline some method of measuring, reporting and correcting weaknesses in the public schools.

The first meeting was spent wrestling with the knotty problem of defining what the program is all about.

Bru Monroe, vice president of a Los Angeles based educational research fime called Insgroup Inc. guided the effort.

Monroe noted that business has been practicing accountability from the beginning with 'daily reports on sales, profits, income production; that in spwrts, daily box scores and records provide accountability; and in entertainment the various ratings, annual awards and box-office reports show accountability. But that aside from those three particular areas, there has bei little previous interest in accountability.

"But there is now a whole new groiq} of things in which accountability is becoming importantlargely in the field of public service. It used to be that p>eople just went about doing their thing day after day and nobody ever asked about results.

But citizens are now demanding a reckoningan accounting. As for educators, it boils dowm to being able to say here are the things I set out to do; here are the things I have done; here is where the money went; and here are the ways in which the kids benefitted, Monroe said.

He said it will take North Carolina months, even years, to put a program together in a solid way, gaining benefits and avoiding pitfalls.

Teachers Worry A' major pitfall, and the reason some teachers op>p)Ose such efforts, is that teachers are the most visible factor, and it is easy to hold teachers accountable, and nobody else.. .evaluating teachers on the p>erformance of children without taking into account all the various factors and px-oblems.

The goal must be a p)rogram truly interested in benefitting students and society; not one which succeeds in scaring teachers and running some of them off, or whipping others into line, he said.

At the end, Monroe said, the goal is a program which will offer incentives and rewards for successful work in the public schools system. TTiere are two approaches, he said: rewards for success; or we can legislate what needs be done and imp>ose it. I hopje you choose the reward method.

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the West Germans, or French, Italians or English? Can the Japanese premier hold off the Toyota and Honda interests as he goes into talks with a Ford? How will the Volkswagen people view their chancellor discussing things with Ford?

For that matter could General Motors or Chrysler claim unfair competition if the chief executive advertises their competitions product every time he makes a speech?

Then there is the equal time provision for radio and television. In the event of a presidential appearance would the network newsmen be prevented from introducing the president by name for fear of the equal time provision? Would the networks be required to provide equal time to Chevrolet, Plymouth and all the other cars?

A president named Ford could present difficult problems for the country. We dont say it will happen and we do not like to raise such a sensitive issue, but it is something Congress must face.

Intersection Project Should Be Helpful

Improvements now underway on Dickinson Avenue and Tenth Street should be helpful at one of the citys most confusing intersections.

Traffic lanes are being redesigned and an improved traffic signal system, coordinated with railroad signals, will be installed.

The city, Seaboard Coast Line and Department of Transportation are cooperating on the project.

Traffic is heavy at this intersection and the improvements can go a long way toward alleviating the tie-ups that occur there during rush hours.

By GEORGE GALLUP

Get Together?

ByJOHNKILGO RALEIGH-Now that the Republicans have ousted Frank Rouse as chairman and replaced him with Tom Bennett, the question is: Can the Party get back together after the flow of blood?

Bennett, Gov. Jim Holshousers choice for the chairmanship, says his first act of business will be to unify the Party. Its easy to talk that way. But doing it might be something else.

Rouse says hell do what he can to help the (JOP. But a close friend of Rouses told me: Frank is keenly

disappointed over the results but he isnt bitter. He has the ability to snap back from a setback, but I doubt hell be asked to do anything.

Rep. Gilbert Boger of Mocksville took time off from his business to act as Rouses campaign manager. He teUs me the Party is split now.

Boger believes Republicans will be watching to see what (5ov. Holshouser does about his chief aide. Gene Anderson.

A lot of people who supported Tom Bennett told me they had been assured that Anderson would be put in the background or removed from his post, Boger said. Ill have to see that to believe it. In my opinion, we can unite if the Governor makes Anderson stay in the background. If not, I dont think well be back together for a long time.

The Legislature reconvenes in two months and the 50 (jOP legislators have to be as close as a summer day to hope to get anything accomplished.

I dont worry too much about the 50 legislators, Boger said. Im the only one who really went out on a limb. Those people up there know I always go out on a limb in a primary or a fight like this. They accept me for what I am. Im not worried about our Party as far as the Legislature is concerned. Its the general structure of the Party that concerns me. B<^er said the Republican legislators had very little contact with Gov. Holshouser earlier this year.

advice. It seems ridiculous, but its the truth.

Rouse supporters were amazed that the margin of Bennetts victory was substantial. They felt they had a chance to winand were positive the race would be close.

They underestimated (Jov. Holshousers stomach for a hard fight. The Governor lined up votes for Bennett and made sure they stuck.

Chances seem great that Anderson will be used more in the background and find himself featured less

frequently on the front pages. Gov. Holshouser now has a chairman he can go to and work through. He never felt^s^ comfortable with Rouse.

Frank Rouse is too good a man to leave on the sidelines, Boger said. The Party could use his talents. But 1 dont look for him to be called on to do much. This was a tough fight on both sides. Some people will be a long time forgetting.

PRINCETON, N.J. - A growing majority of Americans believe a newspaper reporter should not be required to reveal confidential sources if he is > taken to court to testify about i information appearing in a news article. A total of 62 per cent in the latest nationwide Gallup survey hold this view, compared to 57 per cent in a survey conducted last November.

A youthful civil servant reached in this survey commented: What with Watergate and all the other shocking things that are coming to light these days, if a reporter can get information that exposes wrongdoing, then all the more power to him.

Both the Watergate Committee hearings and the investigation of former Vice President Spiro Agnew have renewed discussion of the issue of newsmens privilege. In the absence of a so-called shield law to protect reporters, those favoring confidentiality for sources claim reporters must be able to assure anonymity for sources if they are to gain access to information necessary in investigative reporting. On the other hand, prosecutors say this information is often necessary to fully investigate and enforce the law.

The latest survey was conducted in early October at a time when newspaper as well as television and magazine reporters were

Other Eiditors Say Tobacco Problems

Opinions n Brief

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength; and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth . D .D . Eisenhower.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.Ernest Hemingway.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Anonymous.

Man is meant for happiness and his happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. Leo Tolstoy.

(Henderson Dispatch)

When final sales of flue-cured tobacco from the 1973 crop are completed, the industry, including growers, warehousemen and buyers, will have muddled through a marketing season with misgivings in many directions.

All-time record prices have been paid by buyers and that provided something of a cushion for growers who found they had to spend more mcmey to produce the crop than ever. Both warehousemen and producers smarted under sales restraints which were imposed by quotas during much of the season as a means of avoiding congestion in processing plants. That may have been a factor in sustaining the high prices.

There were not enough buyers to assure operations generally which growers and warehousemen wanted, and the companies were on the receiving end of criticisms.

Many suggestions have been offered to effect changes in the auction system before another crop moves to market in late summer and autumn of 1974. There will be more discussions, during the winter and spring months, but what the outcome will be, if anything, only time can answer.

The Flue-Cured Tobacco Marketing Committee, which has no legal status, has established schedules only to make changes as they were possible. Its rulings brought mixed reactions and without uniform acceptance, through all segments of the industry went along. Prices continued high most of the season, except as marketing neared the close.

Upshot is that there may be further demand for certain alterations in procedure in the months to come before another crop is produced.

The selling period ended in late summer in the Georgia-Florida Belt, and the South Carolina-Border North Carolina Belt held final sales the first of November. Most markets in Eastern North Carolina and the Middle Belt will close by Thanksgiving or soon thereafter. The Old Belt will run on well into December.

Growers are eager for a program that will allow them to sell their crop when it is ready for market. That they could not do this season. To make it possible would necessitate more buyers than are available. Fast sales early in the season would flood K-ocessing plants, thereby creating another phase of the ix'oblem.

being subpoenaed to testify with respect to the sources of stories about the governments case against Agnew.

The survey last fall was conducted shortly after Peter Bridge of the now defunct Newark Evening News and William Farr of the Los Angeles Times had both gone to jail for refusing to reveal the sources of stories they wrote concerning possible corruption in the Newark (N.J.) Housing Authority and the Charles Manson murder trail, respectively. Bridge and Farr were jailed as a result of a decision by the Supreme Court in June 1972. At that time the court held that newspaper reporters may not refuse to appear before a grand jury to answer questions about the sources of their information.

Arguments Given by Survey Respondents One argument frequently given by persons in the survey who think newsmen should not be required to reveal confidential sources is that decisions to jail newspaper reporters could eventually deplete the confidential sources on which newsmen often rely to meet the publics right to know.

A key reason given by those on the other side is that a reporter is under oath to tell the truth and should not be given special privileges.

Following is the question asked in the latest survey and last November:

Suppose a newspaper reporter obtains information for a news article he is writing from a person who asks that his name be withheld. Do you think that the reporter should or should not be required to reveal the name of this man if he is taken to court to testify about the information in his news article?

Following are the latest results and trend frbm last November;

Should Reporters Be Required To Reveal Sources?

Nov 72 Latest

Should 34^ 27^

Should not 57 62

No opinion 9 11

TTie latest surveys show the (Continued On Page 5)

Fight To Save

NATO

By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer

BRUSSELS (AP) The United Stat^ and its main European allies, at odds over the Middle East, are struggling to preserve the North Atlantic alliance to serve its basic purpose joint defense against any Soviet threat.

Both U.S. and European diplomats are keen to keep the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alive. They point with satisfaction to its success in keeping them together at current conferences with the Soviet bloc on security, cooperation and reduction of forces.

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is sending a deputy to receive his Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10 while he attends his first meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. A major topic will be a new statement on relations among the allies, a less pretentious version of the New Atlantic Charter Kissinger proposed last April.

The North Atlantic Council, made up of the allies permanent representatives at NATO headquarters, has been meeting regiilarly to put the statement together. One diplomat at NATO headquarters, beset by recriminations among the allies on Middle East policy, suggested, Events of the last few weeks certainly indicate that redefining the alliance might be a good idea.

The October Arab-Israeli war has underlined one thing; It is hard to get the alliance to operate beyond its original aim of defense against the Soviets and impossible to do so on short notice in a situation where the allies see their interests differently.

The European allies, especially France and Britain, argued that the United States does not depend on the Arabs for its oil but they do. So the United States coidd afford to support Israel, but they couldnt.

That is why only Portugal and, in the beginning. West Germany gave the United States any help in sending arms to Israel. Then the West Germans also refused after the United States embarrassed them by bringing an Israeli ship into Bremerhaven to load arms.

This lack of cooperation moved Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger to say that he wanted to reconsider the U.S. military commitment to West Germany. To West Germans that sounded like a threat to withdraw troops, which would be bound to raise a political storm for (Hiancellor WUly Brandt.

Lately there has been a determined effort to paper over the cracks. Schlesinger explained that he wanted to clarify with West Germany the right of access to stocks of U.S. weapons there.

But the Europeans showed no sign of backing the United States in its support of Israel. And also on Tuesday the nine countries of the European Common Market eight of them (Continued on page 5)

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I got to see the Governor only one time the entire months we were in Raleigh, Boger said, and most of my Republican counterparts didnt get to see him at all. TTie (5ovemor didnt pay us any attention or ask our

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. James Russell Lowell.

Controversy Surrounds Effort

Strength For Today

ON WATCH ALWAYS How many thousands of us can look back over our lives and see oi^wrtunities for doing good which we have missed! Any (me of these mi^t have been a visitation. Periiaps the Master himself appealed through some needy pmxm for help and was thoi^tlessly dismissed.

The Bible makes it clear that we will never know the time of visitation. Christ can come in the^uise of the.sick, th hungry, and the

sorrowing. And all too often we can turn away because we are too busy, or because we think that the persons are not worthy, or just because we are indifferent.

The Bible tells us to be always on the watch; to treat every needy pawn as though he were Christ. And we are further commanded to treat every commonplace moment as thou^ it carried within it the {xicdess gems of unlimited oj^rtunity.

By JOSH FITZHUGH AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - How does (Hie go about restructuring the nations sprawling securities industry into a modem, centralized model (rf efficiency?

Not easily, as it turns out. Efforts toward such a central market have raised a long list (rf interlocking issues that have surrounded the whole subject with (xmtroversy.

Almost everybody favors the idea of a central market linking the separate exchanges and markets into one coordinated network. But when It comes down to the specifics of who will take what role in that market, agreement has been scarce on Wall Street and in

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Washington.

Here is a capsule lo(A at some of the major questions that remain to be resolved;

ACCESS: One group, led by the government, wants access to the central market for everyone in the industry. This would include specialists, who match orders aucti(Hi-style (HI the exchanges, and dealers, who make maiicets by buying and selling from their own accounts. It would include all'~ exchanges and markets, particularly the so-called third market, who^ dealers serve banks and pension funds by trading in large blocks of stock listed (Hi the exchanges.

The New York and American Stock exchanges and Securities Industry Association, by contrast, prefer a maidiet operating

through market-making specialists only.

The government says dealers should compete directly to offer potentially better prices and to provide the liquidity to absorb large blocks. The big exchanges, however, say the inclusion of dealers would destroy the auction market and turn tx-okerage houses into dealer firms, thereby creating a (XHiflict of interest as one firm serves both as broker-agent and buyer-seller.

James Needham, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, wants the wh(de netw(H*k to adopt the exchanges rule prohibiting market-makers, the entities which set prices, from dealing directly with in-

IMPLEMENTION: The

Securities and Exchange Commission says the first step toward a central market is a composite tape to disclose all transactions. By showing discrepancies in {H-ices in various markets, the implementation would necessarily precipitate some restructuring of the way securities are traded today, the SEC claims.

The Big Board wants equal regulatioi^ and standards established before the tape begins operation, however. And the SIA feels that cratral administrative fa(lities are essential before any trading can b? conducted over the network.

As conceived now the composite tape would reveal the

stitutions, as dealers do.

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