4Tile Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Tuesday, March 1, 1W4 *

Sad Occasion For All Of N.C. the sort who should uve undeh a rqcki

The death of former Sen. B. Everett Jordan was a sad occasion for all North Carolina.

Outraged Over CREEP Funds

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NAVAK

WASHINGTONPresident Nixons Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) perpetrated its latest outrage, authorizing its remaining millions to pay legal costs for former CREEP officials defending criminal prosecutions, in keeping with its arrogant tradition; Republican leaders desperate for campaign funds were not consulted.

The new ruling was approved without even talking to Republican national chairman (Jeorge Bush, who has long coveted CREEP money for depleted party warchests. Nor was any hint given to Sen. William Brock of Tennessee or Rep. Bob Michel of Illinois, chairmen of the Senate and House Republican Campaign Committees. Thus, CREEP continues its brazenly independent escapades long after Watergate.

The $3.5 million of unspent 1972 Nixon campaign money may now be used to pay huge legal costs of former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, former Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans, and any other former CREEP official acquitted of Watergate charges or found guilty only of a misdemeanor. Indeed, Stans is one of three trustees controlling the $3.5 million who have lifted the prohibition against using the money for personal legal defense.

Brock and Michel, hard put to sell tickets to their annual fund-raising dinner for Republican congressional candidates here March 27, were furious and frustrated.

As chief fund-raiser for House Republican candidates, Michel has been tryingwithout success, so farto get CREEP money into the partys campaign coffers for the fall campaign. Earmarking a substantial part of that $3.5 million for legal fees, he said, is certain to exacerbate an already bad situation.

Brock and Michel have raised little more than $400,000 for the March 27 fund-raiser, far short of the $1 million minimum target. Big contributors are scarcely enthusiastic about buying $1,000 dinner tickets while tens or thousands of CREEP dollars are earmarked for legal costs growing out of scandals that menace Republican prospects.

Niether Bush, Brock, Michel or even some politically experienced White House aides knew that Stans and his co-trustees were considering the policy switch. CREEPS campaign practices of 1972, operating in isolation of the Republican party and under White House protection, thus continue as though there had been no Watergate, no Republican crisis and no outrage by party fatcats who saw their contributions go down the Watergate drain.

Gasoline Trouble Ahead

Working-level officials at the Federal Energy Office (FEO), do not view shortened

gasoline station lines in metropolitan areas as an unmixed blessing |)ut as a, harbinger of possible disaster late in March.

The reason; government and industry sources believe many-service station owners are pumping gasoline too rapidly in confidence that federal energy czar William Simon will bail them out with an emergency allocation from inventories just as he did in February. Indeed, these intentions were voiced openly at a recent meeting in Washington of FEOs gasoline dealers advisory committee.

But. confide some FEO officials, there is not enough gasoline in inventory to meet such an emergency. Hence, they see the danger of a real gasoline shortage crippling many areas, particularly the megalopolis running from Boston to Washington.

Top FEO officials scoff at these fears, contending that heavy pumping is a result of both a larger March allocation and late arriving gasoline from the February emergency allocation. More over, they contend there is enough gasoline in inventory to cope with any emergency.

Nevertheless, some critical FEO officials believe Simons tendency to respond quickly to demands for emergency helpwhether from service station owners or truck drivers has built unreasonably high expectations, and hence the condition for disaster.

Cappy For Reagan

Caspar W. (Cappy) Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), has been named to the top secret inner circle planning the 1976 campaign for President by Gov. Ronald Reagan of California.

A cabinet member breaking Nixon administration neutrality to support one candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is an act of dubious propriety. Nevertheless, Weinberger is expected to attend the extremely private meetings of the Reagan planning group whenever he is home in California. Weinberger, state finance director in the Reagan administration before coming to Washington, was unsucessfully promoted by the Reagan forces for the governorship this year.

Other than Weinberger, the Reagan planning group-consisting of less than ten membersis dominated by senior Reagan staffers and longtime political intimates (such as lawyer William French Smith and auto dealer Holmes Tuttle, both of Los Angeles).

A footnote: Conservative political mastermind F. Clifton White, who managed Reagans late-blooming presidential campaign in 1968, is no favorite of Reagans staff and has been kept off the planning group. But White maintains contact with Reagan himself and could yet play a key role in his 1976 campaign.

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Jordan died at his home in Saxapahaw Friday. He had been appointed to the U. S. Senate by Gov. Luther Hodges in 1958 after the death of Sen. W. Kerr Scott.

Jordan served from the time of his appointment until the end of last term in 1973. He had sought re-election in 1972 but was defeated by Nick Galiafanakis in a campaign which centered on Jordans age and general health.

Galiafanakis was subsequently defeated by Republican Jesse Helms and Helms succeeded the . genial Sen. Jordan in 1973.

Sen. Jordan was known as a hard worker and in 1963 he presided over the Senate investigation of the Bobby Baker case.

Sen. Jordan visited Pitt County a number of times during his career in the U. S. Senate and he made many friends in this area. He will be missed.

Grand Olei Opry Moves Into Grander Quarters

Nashvilles Grand Ole Opry ended an era last weekend when it held its last performance in Ryman Auditorium, its home since 1940.

The old home of country music was originally a church built in 1891.

But ending an era does not signal the end of Opry type music. Far from it. The Grand Ole Opry simply moved to a new $15 million modern home.

Some say country music wont be the same in the new structure, but virtually all agree that it is symbolic of the prosperous times for this field of entertainment.

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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Issues Remain A 'Gentleman Anarchist' For Legislators

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGH-The 1974 General Assembly, according to many observers, is not coming to grips with major issues which face it.

That, Republican leaders in the assembly say, will become a key political issue in upcoming and future elections.

Theres no question about it. If these people-oriented programs dont pass, it will become a political issue. The GOP should make it an issue, said Senator Charles Taylor, R-Transylvania, and minority leader in the Senate.

Taylor is among a large number of legislative leadersDemocrat and Republican, legislators and observerswho see the strong possibility that the assembly will adjourn in mid-April never having coped with a variety of major items on the agenda.

The legislature is simply not coming to grips. The special interest legislation just sails through while there is great indecision on the important things which affect

people. The leadership just cant seem to put it together, Taylor said.

Partisan Lines As a Republican, he is particularly upset that major legislation proposed by Republican Gov. James E. Holshouser runs into stiff opposition in the Democratically controlled assembly, while a I>emocrat could have pushed some measures through-Taylor thinks the assembly has spent too much time on political one upsmanship trying to strip the governor and not enough on meaningful legislation. He ticked off 14 items aimed at depleting the governors programs.

These things have con-sumed the governors time, and the Legislatures time and we never got back to dealing with major legislation, Taylor charged.

The Brevard attorney, timberman and investment banker thinks the Senate has done a right good job and had rather effective leadership (Continued on Page 5)

CLEMSON, S.C.The thing about Karl Hess is, he looks like a prophet. He speaks like a prophet and he thinks like a prophet. Allowing for two thousand years of difference between Biblical sands and American sidewalks, he even dresses like a prophet: blue denim fatigues, worn boots, a knitted cap. You are not likely to meet a more interesting character this side of Armageddon.

I ran into my old friend here at Clemson University the other night. We were under assignment to debate a nice prophetic question, Which Way, America? Left or Right? He was speaking for the New Left, I for the Old Right, but before the evening was over, we were talking about fish in his basement and tomatoes on his roof.

Those who follow political affairs will remember Karl Hess from the days of the

Goldwater campaign ten years ago. He was then a conventional contemporary conservative, coated, tied and clean-shaven. As a writer-researcher for the American Enterprise Institute, he had come to know an(Ladmire the Arizona senator. When the Goldwater train began its brief run from triumph to debacle, Hess came aboard as assistant conductor, speech writer, and Number One flack.

He stayed with <]k>ldwater for a year or so after the November rout, ghostwriting the senators syndicated column and thiidring long, heretical thoughts. The more he thought about the principles of conservatism, the more he felt he was failing to live by these principles himself. He found it increasingly difficult to stomach conservatives who denounce Big Government and support Big Business.

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Public Forum

To The Editor:

Pitt Memorial Hospitals Emergency Room is probably similar to many other emergency rooms, both in North Carolina and the United States. It is similar in its need for medically trained personnel such as doctors, nurses, aides, technicians, and ward clerks. Not only is this kind of personnel needed in the emergency room, but also all over the hospital and in hospitals and clinics throughout the state. In the Emergency Room, we see everything form the common cold to cardiac arrest. We service a number of treatments form the suturing of a laceration to the casting and splinting of a fractured limb. Sometimes we go beyond this in comforting the family and friends of a very critical patient or one that has died.

In aiding the doctors as personnel in the Emergency Room, we take the patients vital signs, record his medical hsitory, and complaints, and try to narrow his ailment down to that which requires the most attention. But even in assisting and aiding these doctors the best way we can and in trying to take safe shortcuts in an effort to save time, we often fall short in seeing to every patients need.

Tbe volume of people in Eastern North Carolina, like ever-where else, is too great and too much demand is made on too few medically trained pecle. The time we have to aid this volume of people is too small.

The need for a medical school at ECU for Eastern North Carolina is great. If it cau even make a dent in the problem of too much demand and too little time, when I feel the school is certainly a necessity.

Any kind of school that will train medically trained personnel to assist in treatment of human needs is most certainly a necessity.

James Oliver Roebuck Emergency Room Technician Pitt Memorial Hospital

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Public Forum

To the editor:

There are two medical matters of a preventive nature which I should like to bring to the attention of your readers.

First, the Department of Health and Physical Education of East Carolina University will again be offering a continuing physical education program for men. Executives and members of the various professions will find this program of great value in keeping themselves in shape. That this type of program can be a healthy step forward for the sedentary prcrfessionals and executives there can be no doubt. Those of us who have participated in previous programs are in a position to attest to its superior quality.

Secondly, your readers should know that the legislature has already created the North Carolina Alcohol Research Authority without a single dissenting vote. There are two bills pending to IM'ovide the Authority with funds with which to cxmduct research into the underlying causes of alcrii^ism.

Why is this research program so important? Ours was a leading state in developing alcoholism rehabilitation {ograms 25 years ago and we especially here in Pitt Ctounty have excellent treatment facilities for alcoholics. On the other hand, this is not enough. If we dont get at the causes of alcoholism what makes the one drinker in 12 have difficultieswe will spend as much as $5(X) million between now and the end of the century on rehabilitation and still be no further ahead. We must work not only to treat alcoholics but, perhaps just as important, we must study the causes of alcoholism so that we may markedly reduce it as we have other public health problems such as tuberculosis. Those who agree with this philost^hy might find it well worthwhile to ccmtact their legislators about these bills.

Philip G. Nelson, M.D.

Vice-Chairman, North Carolina Alcohol Research Authority

Hie time came for renunciation. He grew a beard, sold his worldly goods, and left.

For more than thiee years, Hes lived on a houseboat ahdiored off Buzzards Point in the Potomac. He learned the wielders trade, but he learned much more: He learned what was unnecessary. It is a large part of wisdom. Eventually he migrated to the Adams-Morgan section of Washington, D. C. It is an ethnic Walden Pond in the heart of the city. He lives there now, a kind of Henry Thoreau of Columbia Road, tending trout instead of beans.

The trout are in the basement. In a sense, these are sacramental trout, the outward and visible signs of an inner faith. Hess believes that communities must leam to live simply and self-sufficiently in a new kind of governmental and economic structure. Starting from the Old Rights dedication to federalism, he takes the concept of decentralized authority and treats it exponentially : federalism to the hfth power. For all practical purposes he would atolish the federal government, dismantle the great corporations, and return all political and economic management to the neighborhood level.

Hess is serenely certain that one of these days his prophecies will be fulfilled. Just as Rome fell, brought to disintergration by the excesses of greatness, so American civilization will succumb to its own complexity. Meanwhile, he and his neighbors are demonstrating that even in the heart of a great city, a community can sustain itself. Hence the trout. Hess and his feretics are raising ten thousand rainbow trout in basement tanks. They get the eggs out of Idaho and feed the trout to 12-inch sizt by this summer, if all goes well, they will be producing 400 pounds a week ' at a net cost, dressed, of 40 cents a pound. In the teeming streets of Adams-Morgan, that is cheap nutrition. They also are raising vegetables, (Cwtinaed on page 5)

By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent

The story just unfolded on Arab oil and the Middle East must create frustration and even humiliation in Moscow.

The United States has gained, not lost, influence among the Arabs even though it armed Israel before and during the Oc tober war and stood behind her even in the face of the oil diffi culties.

Moscow broadcasts long have been telling the Arabs the only way they could get what they wanted ws to punish the United States as the protectoi of their enemy.

Premature lifting of the oi: embargo will enable the Unitec States to undermine efforts tr settle the Middle East crisis at some stage, said a typica broadcast.

Now, despite Arab anger ovei U.S. positions on Israel and al the Soviet encouragement in re cent months to them to keef the lid on oil supplies for th< United States, the producer na tions have voted to lift that em bargo.

The men in the Kremlin must be asking why the Arabs didnt heed them. After all, didnt tht Soviet Union arm Egypt anc Syria? Didnt the Soviet Unior build the Aswan High Dam for Egypt after the Americans re fused to? Didnt the Soviet Un ion back the Arabs in all they ask? Didnt the Soviet Union al along espouse Arab aspira tions?

Moscow indeed did all thosf things, and that is precisely why the Arabs are suspicious The Arabs are nationalistic anc devoutly Islamic. They art fearful of what they have seer of Soviet sentiments in those spheres.

If there is to be peace, the Arabs know the United States still holds the key. If there is to be economic development in the Arab world, the keys are in the West, not the East.

The Russians sound a lot less like a regime bent on detente than one hoping to keep the wa ters roiled in the most sensitive strategic area of the world. Yet people who should know credit Moscow With wanting to avoid a major explosion, even while trying for all it can get short oi that.

Moscow seems to have some political problems in this re spect. Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Communist chief, wants detente and all it promises. But thpt costs a lot in terms of surren dering opportunities to be more disruptive in the Middle East.

There have been signs lately that Soviet hawks question the long-range prospective benefit of detente. This seems to be echoed in recent Soviet presf articles that for the first time in a long time are sharply criti cal of the Nixon Administratior and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

The reason: the Russian: dont want a settlement to tak< place that has the look of beini all the result of U.S. diplomacy

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Visionary Plans Change World

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AFFLICTION

^ fethe area man several years ago lost a leg in an accident. With the help of an artificial limb he was able to resume his normal life, but only after a lengthy and sometimes painful period of adjustment.

After overcoming his handicap he asked all of the hospitals in the neighborhood to notify him whenever they had a patient who was compelled to lose a leg. On these occasions he would thra visit the patient repeatedly,

encouraging him and giving him the benefit of someone

fliction.

Anyone who so cares for his fellows that he keeps constantly on the alert to find those who need the assuring and cheerful word of one who has risen above an affliction, is a follower of Christ who must be plaslng to the Master. This is . a fine example of love in action. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the Irast of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

By Elteha Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) There is a visionary glint in John McConnells eyes as he describes 1^ mission. He hopes for nothing less than to change the world. Inside his

Expect a miracle.

Many people wwit agree with McCionnell on the nature of the change needed. What is good to him might be unpala-tible to others, including many businessmen.

Son of an evangelist, former seaman, businessman and publisher, McConnell at age 59 is president of the Earth Society and founder of Earth Day, to be celebrated on the first days of spring, March 20 and 21.

He explains that Earth Day is set aside to remind each person of his right, and the equal right of every other person, to the use of this global home, and at the same time the equal responsibility of each person to preserve it

In just a few years the idea has spread to include observances by the Unted Nati<ms, governmental agencies, states, cities, villages.

"On our crow(ted planet, oil, minerals and land are not (xily (H-operty, but limited natural resources, McConnell said. It is imperative that their use c<m-form to environmental standards, and distributed equitably.

With this in mind, McConnell ' wrote to Saudi

Arabia petroleum minister, suggesting that 50 per cent of ril royalites be given to help the earth and its disinherited pecle.

Ten per cent of this, he suggested, shouldgo to:, organ-^ izations feeding and housing .the fwingry and ^

Another 10 per cent would be ,for specific envirmunental programs ,to enrich the earths natural resources.

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The larger portion, 30 per cent, would be distributed equally and directly to all adults in any poor area of any community of the world that would provide appreciate distribution of fundi.

A wild radical Not in the pei^pective of one billi(m years of life evolution, says 'McConnell. He has yet to hear

from the oil minister.

The priorities of survival, he postulates, include a change from a throw-away to a thrift economy, a basic change in values from destructive conspicuous consumpti(Hi to constructive selectivity and^ , im-_ TitcatSoh. ' " "

McConnells aim, it would seem, is to draw <m the aiergies and know-how of business to coordinate its activities for the environmental good.

Idealistic? Of course. But similar to recommendaticms by busmessmen themselves.

Nevertheless, it is do-gooders such as McConnell who cause otherwise clear-headed businessmm to dissolve into "a quivering, sputtering, inarticulate outrage.