4Tli Daily Reflectar, Grecavle, N.C.niarsday. November 21, 1173

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State Senator Gordon P. AU^, D-Person, reportedly has said that the state should build postgraduate medical education facilities before development of a new medical school.

Sen. Allen is Senate majority leader and obviously will have influence with the legislators. He was reported to have spoken approvingly of the UNC Board of Governors plan for allocating $30 million to expand area health education centers.

He described the ECU med school plan as highly emotional and said he hoped the legislature would not in a fit of emotion make the wrong decisions.

Butr, he said he would not oppose expansion of

Promise Of A Heated Battle

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH-While public has been riveted in other directions such as the doctor shortage or mental health problems, a joint committee of the North Carolina Senate and House of Representatives has quietly hammered out a proposal vviiich holds promise of being the hottest issue in the 1974 General Assembly.

At stake are high-budget prt^ams worth more than $204 million currently being operatedoften competiti

velyby 22 different agen-4 cies in four different state departments.

And that very fragmentation and competitivoMSS prompted the committee on Exceptional Children to move in the direction of creating a super-agency for kids which would be a cabinet-level Department for Service to Children and Youth.

The proposed legislation would create the department and the method of naming a secretary to head it, and call for creation of local councils in various regions of the statewhich by law wmild have on them parents of children needing such servicesto run the system.

Storm Expected Rep. T. Clyde Auman of West End, co-chairman of the committee said he expects a storm when the proposal hits the General Assembly.

But our biggest problem probably will be the agenciel^ involved. AH of them are trying to do a good job, but theyre so fragmented they just cant handle it.

But Auman predicts the proposal will get favorable attention in the General Assembly since it is well known that sentiment in that body now strongly favors local (or regional) operation of programs and documentation of problems in programs designed to meet the needs of exceptional children is readily available.

North Carolina is the first state to move in the direction of creating a super-department for children, and according to members of the study committee is plowing new ground.

Impetus for the proposal has come from the Fiscal Research Division of the General Assemply itself, rather than from any of the agencies involved.

In fact, the committee met with and listened to several agency heads in the early considteration of the problem and left convinced that by their competitiveness and their tendwicy to specialize in a narrow field rather than speaking to the whole child, the agency heads should be bypassed, and they have been to a large extent.

The proposed legislation was drafted by Ray Shurling, a member of the fiscal research staff and formerly in the Department of Administrations systems management division.

Study Carried Out

Shurling also wrote with the aid of a former staffer. Ran Coble, an extensive survey of the situation entitled A Study of Exceptional Children in^ North Carolina.

That document has been the guiding hand for the l^islative committee as it moved toward the startling position of creating an entirely new department of state government.

In laymens terms, Shurling compares the current situation involving children with any of a host of problems as that of a man who has a car with the motor missing.

"The state has been, operating programs like this; you would take the car to the Ford place to have the motor analyzed; then you would to to the Chevrolet place for a carburetor adjustment, and across town to another place to have the spark plugs changed and the points checked. 'Then, you would end up somewhere else for timing adjustment.

We have been treating the disease instead of the child; weve been treating the symptoms according to the various disciplines and recognized authorities rather than working toward the whole child, Shurling said.

Auman agreed, and added that a great missing link has been lack of early screening techniques. Most physical, emotional and ' mental disabilities have waited until a child entered school before discovery. By then it is often too late to straighten out a problem that could have been corrected earlier in life, he said.

Something Needed There is a lot of need here, Auman said, and we only hope that something good can come of this effort, something that will provide services for all children of North Carolina, and provide a good and effective screening program to help solve some of these problems earlier. As a prime example of the gap in screening programs, Shurling pointed to the new kindergarten program in IMiblic schools. He feels that the screening segment should be expanded to include all youngsters.

What difference is there whether a child is six-years-old and ready to be screened, when earlier screening could help correct the problem. Shurling said.

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the school and I would hope that some day they would have the school.

However, he said, Youve got to have the clinical teaching facilities.

Well, thats fine as far as it goes. But the obvious question is still, What is wrong with developing the ECU medical school as the area centers are being developed?

No one has ever maintained that the ECU school could be developed overnight. It will take time to build the proper foundation, as it is envisioned, and if we put off its development on into the future while something else is done, it doesnt take much imagination to determine what is going to be done about the ECU med schod.

If the North Carolina Legislature next year puts its foot down and declares that what it had directed on three different occasions is going to be, no one can accuse it of hasty action.

Never has a State Legislature been so defied on a matter than has our Legislature on this issue. Those who have blocked development of the ECU medical school time-after-time despite legislative approval are going to continue to do everything they can to thwart it.

If the will of the people is to be carried out through their elected representatives, as is supposed to be so in a democracy, it will have to be done by prompt and decisive action on this issue by the 1974 General Assembly.

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The Honeymoon Is Now Ended

By JOHN KILGO

RALEIGH Right or wrong, the North Carolina Legislature feels it has been betrayed, and any honeymoon the Holshouser administration might have enjoyed on legislative turf a year ago, is over.

The Legislature is upset because of the number of people fired by Gov. Jim Holshousers administration since the General Assembly left town last spring.

I think the Legislature will treat the Governor fairly, says Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt. But a number of things the Legislature was given reason to believe wouldnt happen, have happened. In other words, I dont think the honeymoon is going to be nearly as much in bloom in this session as it was in the last one. Thats because of a number of things this administration has done. But in the final analysis, I think the Legislature will work with the Executive branch for the best interests of North Carolina.

Republicans maintain that Democratic partisans are blowing the dismissals ail out of proportion. They say Democratic governors have fired people, just as Gov. Holshouser did, and nothing was said.

House Speaker Jim Ramsey said the firings were anticipated in the House, and sparked House passage of the State Personnel Bill, which would have prohibited the firing of state employees except for good cause.

The bill, in Ramseys words, is now resting in the Senate.

As I indicated, Ramsey said, the House anticipated this siutation. I dont forsee any problems between the Legislature and the Governor.

As for Hunts select Senate committee to look into the firings and other personnel grievances, Ramsey said: "Im not sure what the committee is looking for. Jim (Hunt) hasnt said anything to me about it. I hope they do find some answers. Maybe that course is better than the State Personnel bill that the House passed and sent over there.

Rep. Carl Stewart (D-Gaston) says its hard to tell how the Legislature and the Governor will get along next year.

"TTiere has certainly been a widening of the gap bet- ween us during the past few weeks, because of the firings, Steward said. And

Im speaking as a Democrat who has not been unfriendly to the administration. Some of the firings, in my opinion, were wholly unjustified.

Stewart says hell be interested to see what develops during the weeks before the Legislature convenes in January.

1 think the Governor gets along fairly well with the Legislature, Stewart said, but some of his staff people have great difficulty in this area. I dont see any world shaking issues that should divide the legislative and executive branches during the next session. But the firings have put a gap between us, in my opinion. Stewart says he cant remember a Democratic administration firing as many people as this one, and he added: It was the way they were fired. 'There was an announcement that some would be firedand then the people involved werent notihed until later. They were kept in suspense. This, in my judgment, was a cruel way to handle it. The morale among state employees is at a low ebb, due to the firings.

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There is a divinity that shapes out endsbut we can help by listening for Its voice. Kathleen Norris.

An old and respected bakery in South Carolina, citing rising costs, has closed shop. It would appearand please pardon thisthe firm is out of dough. Asheville (N.C.) Citizen.

Strength For Today

RENOUNCING SEia^

An English curate was once talking with an old farmer and the question came up, What is the greatest impediment to spiritual growth and happiness?

^^ely to renounce our sinful self, insisted the curate. No, replied the old farmer, the gr^test difficulty is to reiounce our righteous self.

Jesus oftoi criticised the Pharisee ^o were so sure of themselves and so ctm-fident of their own righteousneSi$ th|it they looked with (iisdain on all

others. In all ages there are people who likewise are so confident of their own righteoiness and so completely unwilling to admit themselves wrong that they come under the same criticism which our Lord passed upon the Pharisees of this day.

Not even the best deeds we do are so perfect that th^' can bring salvation. We i^er b^in to grow spiritually until we confess our weakness and give the living Spirit of God a chance to do something with our hearts.

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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

No Time For 'Kid Stuff'

In his first epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul laid down some sound advice for all those engaged in the business of exhortation: Speak clearly, he said, for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?

As the country hunkers down to survive the energy crisis, Pauls question needs to be taken to heart, not merely by the President but by our national leadership totally. With a breath-taking suddenness, Americans are being called upon for all kinds of sacrifices, some minor, some major. Seldom in a peacetime have such demands been made for a spirit of unity and concord.

On the naked issue of ultimate survival, let there be no question: The republic will survive. The measures asked by Mr. Nixon in his messages of Nov. 7 and Nov. 25 will create some hardship and much inconvenience, but there are pin pricks. Western Europe and Japan must endure much more. The great laten strength of America, once fully mobilized, can triumph over this adversity. If the task is tackled in the

right way, we will enierge a stronger nation 10 years hence.

But the task demands at the outset, just as Paul also reminded us, that grown men put away childish things. It is kid stuff, and irritating kid stuff at that, for the President to be squabbling with Congress on the matter of who is to blame for the fix we are in. Mr. Nixon regrettably started the quarrel with his vainglorious boast that two years ago he dispatched the first energy message ever sent to the Congress by a President of the United States. It was not much of a first to brag about. But considering the vast legislative powers vested in Congress, speaker Cal Alberts defensive response was feeble and unimpressive.

If blame is to be allocated, the supply is abundant. There is plenty of blame to go around. As far back as 1953, energy consumption in the United States began to exceed domestic production. The handwriting has been on the wall ever since. No president and no Congress for two decades has done what should have been done. The

Public Forum

To the editor:

Many solutions have been proposed to relieve the current energy crisis, specifically the gasoline shortage. We are constantly being lectured (mi the probability of rationing and-or higher taxes to double the cost of a gallon of gas.

However, it appears to us that many Americans are only contributing to the gasoline shortage with their fanatical lust for big, high-powered luxury cars. We drive a small, comfortable car which gives us at least 28 miles per gallon, and we resent being told to limit our use of gasoline so that there will be enough fuel to sustain the monstrous automobiles flourishing on the highways. We agree that America should be a land of free choice and enterprise, but when someone else exercises his right to buy a luxury car with average six or eight miles per gallon, then it is infringing upon our right to buy as much gasoline as we need at rices we can afford.

We believe that the American dream of owning a prestigious automobile indicates poorly placed values. Why is it so important to many Americans to own a high-powered, luxury vehicle which devours gasoline at such an exhorbitant rate that it greatly worsens the fuel sh<rtage, when others can be just as comfortable in less powerful, more economical cars which contribute to the conservaticm of energy?

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hopkins Greenville

press, for its part, has failed to alert the people to the gathering crisis. Leaders of business and industry generally have led the way toward conspicuous consumption. Under the circumstances, finger-pointing is an unbecoming waste of time.

The task also demands, at every step along the way, image of clear and consis leadership from the Whiti House. The Presidents austerity decrees must make sense, and they must fall as equally as possible on the people. Every hint of special privilege will have to be avoided.

Unhappily, one already hears an uncertain trumpet. In his televised address of Nov. 7, the President twice spoke of reducing highway speed limits to 50 m.p.h. In his written message to Congress the following day, he employed the same language: The reduction to 50 m.p.h. of speed limits on highways across the country. But last Sunday night, a significant change had developed: Mr. Nixon announced a speed limit of 50 miles for passenger cars, 55 for trucks and buses. The proposed order is dangerous, unenforceable, and as a practical matter, intolerable. 'The modification evoked an instant suspicion that Teamsters and truckers had gotten to Mr. Nixon in the meantime. The decree smacks of political favor; it will have to be quietly abandoned, or it surely will be massively disobeyed.

The task demands high example, starting with curtailment of the Presidents own extravagant travel to his bases in California and Florida. If the people are to give up Sunday driving, government officials can give up their limousines also. If family income is to drop, oil and gas profits cannot be permitted to soar. We are all in this battle together. Given a sense of leadership, a sense of fairness, and a sense of humor, the troops will answer the call.

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Beverly Cole sat in the cab of her husbands tractor-trailer that had carried 41,(X)0 pounds of bomllon cubes from New York. She sighed wearily.

At least Im with him, she said. I sure wouldnt want him to be stranded out ho^ without me.

Mrs. Cole and her husband, Johnny, who drives for a southern California trucking cooperative, arrived here Monday en route to San Francisco. Hiey thought their stop would be a routine refueling at Jim Davis Arco Auto-Truck Terminal Inc. one of the largest truck stops in Northern California.

Instead, the Coles found themselves stranded because Davis had used up the 200,(X)0 gallons of diesel fuel he was given for November under the federal allocation program and wasnt due to receive another shipment until Dec. 3.

Some 30 other truckers here were in a similar predicament.

I have been stuck here four days and Ill just have to sit until they get some more, said O.C. Sullivan, from Amarillo, Tex. He had almost made it to Morgan Hill, Calif., with his load of furniture from Philadelphia.

This is a graveyard of truckers from everywhere, he said.

Like the other stranded drivers, Emma and Calvin Salyer, independent truckers from Ar-* cadia, Tex., slept in a bed at the back of their cab, ate their meals at the nearby Trucka-dero Cafe, and mostly drank a lot of coffee and sat in the cab.

Some passed the time playing cards and listening to the cafe__ (Continued on page 5)

40 Years

Ago Today

By SUSAN PRICE November 29,1933

Greenville today turned its attention to making last minute preparations for the observance of Thanksgiving Day,

With the tobacco market, banks, courthouse, post office, and other public buildings and stores preparing to close for the day, this years observance should be one of the most complete in several years.

The highlight of the observance will be the special service of Thanksgiving to be held at Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church from 8 to 10

a.m.

J. C. Latham and W. C. Cherry, prominent tobacco growers of Beaufort Ckiunty, entertained members of the Greenville Tobacco Board of Trade at a barbecue and brunswick stew dinner at the Yum Yum Inn last night. Sixty buyers and warehousemen of the local market were guests of the growers.

Duke University had special honors as four of their football players were picked as members of the Associated Press All-Southern Conference football team.

Honored were Freddie Crawford, captain, Tom Rogers, a tackle, and Horace Hendrickson and Bob Cox, quarterback and fullback, respectively.

The U.S. Dollar In Big Demand

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - Remember that weak old dollar that the United States was fwced to devalue (rffidally because nobody abroad was willing to pay face value for it?

Its a different dcdlar now, and foreigners are eager to pay list price for it, despite all the economic problems facing the United States, despite the oil cutback, despite Watergate ...

The fact is that the value of the dollar is now rising against most other well known currencies, and that could mean good news for American tourists abroad, for the U.S. stock market, and for domestic borrowers.

A few examples will demonstrate.

In the Oct. 22-36 period you

would have had to pay $2.44 for a British pound. On Nov. 20 ymi could have had it for a little more than $2.39.

In the same October period you would have had to pay 37.5 coits for a Japanese yen, but about a month later you cmild have [Hcked one up for less than 36 cents.

These arent isolated instances. The dollar also has be^ growing stnmger in relation to the German mark, French franc, Dutch guilder, Italian lira, Belgian franc-even when matched against the Canadian dollar.

While some economists were shrewd enough - to foresee the trend, a good many other confess to being surprised, mainly because die reasons are hiddoi at the bottom of a heap of bad economic news.

Perhaps the dearest ex

planation is to say that the economic problems of the United States, though challenging, arent nearly so bad as those confronting the nations of Eur(^, and of Japan. Inflation abroad, for example, is very bad.

As analysts of the First Na-& tional City Bank put it this week, After a lull in August, inflaticHi sparked through Europe in September like a flash fire in a hay field. And the absence of oil now adds fuel to the fire.

During September, in-flaticHi in Japan raged at 2.9 per cent, a rate which if continued would amount to an annual rate of nearly 35 per omt. In all Eurqpe the rate was nearly 1 per cent, or dose to 12 per cent a year.

Even with a continuaticxi of the oil cutback, few analysts expect the United States rate

to exceed 8 or 9 per cent; In the 12 months to September it averaged out to only 7.4 per cent.

Moreov? the United States trade account has now shifted into surplus. That is, after a whopping $6.9 billiai deficit last year, American exports have been exceeding imports in recent months.

Acting on their judgment that the United States is a relatively better place for their money, many fcH^ign individuals and institutions have been investing in U.S. stocks, weak as they are. In the third quarter, foreign purchases of US. securities h^ped $700 million.

The effect of these purchases, should they continue, would be to put a platform under the maricet, and to some extent exert downward pressure on interest rates.