4The bally Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Tuetday, A|^ril 2. 1974

No Cause To Re-Open A Fight

The State Legislature is in its final days and soon the big $3 billion budget bill will be on the House floor.

Included in the budget, as most people know by now, is the authorization for expansion of the ECU medical school from one to two years with instructions to the board of governors to bring back a definite expansion plan next year. The budget also contains $15 million for the school, most of which would be for construction of a badly needed building..

It will be recalled that while the matter was in committee, the business of the Legislature was virtually halted for a time as bitter opponents maneuvered to get the ECU medicar school bill killed.

Finally the dramatic moment came when the Joint Appropriations Committee decided the issue. By a decisive 49-28 vote the committee approved the measure. On a second vote it was decidwl to include it in the budget 1)111.

That sh(Hild have decided the issue and we think

Signposts Of A Springtime

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHIts almost that time againwhen an oak trees leaves are as big as a mouses ear.

That sign will mean its okay to go ahead and plant things cold weather might hui^. You need a sign like that in a state where weather ranges from the coast to the mountainswith extreme differences between.

Afc. any rate, with rising costs at the grocery store and some shortages predicted,-the agricultural experts are urging folks to get out in the backyard and get busy.

Even though he figures it might hurt his business a little. State Rep. Vernon G. James, D-Pasquotank, agreed to share some of his knowledge with fellow Tar Heels.

James, serving his first term in the General Assembly after a 24-year layoff (he served two terms in 1945 and 1947), is a big farmer specializing in potatoes, cabbage, corn, soybeans, and catUe. The family farm, named Riverview Farms, uses some 2,000 acres in Pasquotank and Perquimans counties.

Keep It Small But size is not the important thing, James said. It doesnt matter how small the plot isjust a few square feet in the backyardand you can have a good garden and feed three or four people.

For the city dweller especially, James thinks theres Nothing better for health for a man who sits around all day.

Its the cheapest country club you can belong to. You can tell yoiir cohorts youre going to play golfhead home and tend the garden instead; .

You getall the same, good exercise, get out in the fresh air, and have something to show for it as well.

How much will a home garden cost? About three times as much as you figure it would, is the not-kidding answer.'

But for a reasonable amount, you can have a good, yielding gardenbut the expert farmer cauHous against overdoing it.

Stick with something small enough to handle. Two tomato plants will give you all the tomatoes a family will want to eat. If you put those tomato plants up close to the house and hang a lightbulb

over them to turn on, youll have tomatoes up in next winter,* James said.

Add two or three hills of pole beanseither snaps or butter beans and stake them to grow up; enough corn ^ figuring two ears to the stalk, and staggering the planting so the yield spans the season; some radishes and any other favorite vegetables, and the garden is complete.

Weeds Take Over

But keep it small. The biggest mistak so many people make is they work hard, get it all in shape and then go off to the beach and let the weeds and grass take over.

' Plan on spending a half an hour every day in the garden, or else set aside a longer time at least once a week or 10 days, to look after the garden, James said.

'Then plant some flowers marigolds or zinnias alongside the vegetable plot. That will look pretty, and help keep some bugs out. Sulphur will also keep some pests away if spread on the groundbut keep it out of the garden soil since it will sour it.

And despite the trend to organic gardening and environmentalist concern over pesticides, James said it is essential to use some dust very lightly and regularly Otherwise, you wont have much left. Malathon is best, its mild, and it controls most everything.

Then, if we have a long wet spell use a good fungicide like'Capitan, he said.

Also plan on two crops. Theres no point going to all that trouble if you dont get but one picking. Plan ahead, stagger your planting replace the pole beans ^;^ou can get produce and tonrtatoes until frost.

In that second planting, put out turnips, cabbage and collards for greens since they grow into cool weather.

But the single most important thing is the soil.

It doesnt matter how good the seed you buy or how much fertilizer you got, if the soil is no good, you wont make a thing. Have it tested, James said, by the state agricultural department, looking for an acidity level between 5*.^ and 7/^. That, he said, is the first thing you ought to do so any recommended additives can be |MJt in'" when , the first spading is done. ^

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that it probably did. Still, however, there are some die hards left who think they should make a last ditch effort to snatch the ECU medical school authorization and appropriation from the budget as it goes through the process of final apprbval by4he full Legislature. . .

Most observers do not think that thei^ is a great chance of breaking open the budget at this late date to get at the ECU med school appropriation. It rarely happens simply because the work that goes into producing a balanced budget, which is done in the committees, is so complex.

But, of course, we think the overriding reason . the Legislature wont reconsider the ECU med school appropriation is the fact that the step is so logical. The school is already functioning in interim quarters located in the ECU science complex. With the present shortage of family physicians it is perfectly logical that the school should, be expanded, and if it is jto function at all, it must soon have its own building and facilities.

These are things that the legislators on the Joint Appropriations Committee took into consideration when they voted to include the ECU medical school expansion in the budget. The reasons are just as valid this month as they were in late February.

We certainly hope that no effort will be made to reopen this old fight during the closing days of the General Assembly. If it should happen, though, we feel that the ECU medical school proponents have the facts on their side. Thus we dont believe that the Legislature will take any action Which would jeopardize the ECU medical school expansion authorization and, for that matter, the entire budget. ..

Environmental Fight Not Over

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON-The deep split between Russell Train and the White House over watering down the Clean Air Act reached a hysterical climax in the White House two weeks ago when conservative Republican Sen. William Scott of Virginia demanded that Train quit. Scott was rebuked by other Republican members of Congress present, but he was not far from representing the true sentiment in the Oval Office. If President Nixon were stronger politically, he 'might well have fired 'Train outright.

The scene, of Scotts outburst was the breakfast table at the White House mess. Train, energy czar William Simon, assorted White House aides and key Republican members of Congress were thrashing over the environmental dispute resulting from the energy crisis which has split the administration. Suddenly, Scott stood up.

' Anyone who will not support the administration on this ought to quit and I mean you, he told Train. Then, recalled one witness, he added; They can find some ambassadorship for you'lg maybe Russia or (^in. Train, impassive, replied Bill, youre way out

of llrS*? barrasse<

Republicans leapt to the" defense ofJ the administrationll embattled environmentalist. Conservative Rep. Ancher Nelsen o*f Minnesota complimented Train on the way he was doing his job.

Also in 'Trains comer was Sen. Howard Baker of Ten-' nessee, an administration stalwart. New Yorks conservative Republican^ Sen. James r Buckley (a strong conservationist) backed 'Train, as did Rep. John Heinz of Pennsylvania, a liberal Republican Simon, supported by President Nixons* Domestic Council, explained that Mr. Nixons proposed amendments to the (Hean Air Art would only delay, not wipe out, air quality improvements in the present law. This was essential, Simon said, to allow oil-fired electric utilities to convert back to coal.

In the final compromise between Train and the Sfmon-^Whlte House

position, four of the proposed amendments were dropped; on, the other two, the White House told 'Train and Simon to take their conflicting positions to Congress with the White House formally neutral. 'Trains refusal to accept the rape of the (Hean Air Act was strongly backed by Democratic Sens. Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Edmund Muskie of Maine.

Jobert vs. Kissinger

French foreign minister Michel Joberts campaign against the U.S. reached 'a high point in Riyadh, capital of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, just before he went to Syria in late January to lobby against a quick end of the anti-U.S. oil boycott.

Jobert, given high marks by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as one of the most subtle of the worlds diplomats, carried that subtlety a step too far in a long talk with austere King Faisal on the weekend of Jan. 25.

France, Jobert told the King, would, boycott the Washington conference of energy-consuming nations, scheduled for Feb. 11, out of deference to Arab sen-sitivities-^nd particularly out of deference to King Faisal.

The King was annoyed. 'The mid-February Washihgton conference was the brain-

ftf*" Itwsmgep.

Kissingers frequent visits to King Faisal since the Yom Kippur war have reinforced traditional ties ' between Washington and Riyadh, stretched to the breaking point by earlier U.S. backing of Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

So, when Jobert dropped his subtle hint about snubbing Kissinger, Faisal registered disapproval. He told Jobert he wanid the Washington conference to succeed and that harmonious relations between oil-producing and oil-consuming nations were in the highest interest of his country

Joberts sly approach to Faisal was really intended to give the French a pro-Arab cover for boycotting Kissingers February conference, a boycott highly attractive to the French government anyway. But when Faisal reacted harshly, the French felt compelled to come to Washington (where (Continued on Page S)

Strength. For Today

A PLACE FOR EVERYONE Hard as it is to believe, there is a place iif the wrtrld for ev7one. As one considers the vast herd of folk who make up the worlds population, mostpeople seem to be necessary. The great contributions to civilizacin, whether in the form of art, been made by only a handful of people, The declsion-rhakers in our own society are only a very. small proportion of the total population. It seems im-possible that everyone in the

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MODERN PROBLEMS IMAN ANCIENT KINGDOM j|^0y'11 ^

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^ By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press Writer

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (AP) -Californias newest rental service is Rent-a-Tree.

For as little as $^^a year, Michael Martin and Jeiy Abbott will rent an apple tree in their IS-acre'* orchard in this lush Russian River country 60 miles north of San Francisco.

With the fee go full picking, sitting and climbing rights. Only chopping is frowned upon. 'The owners take care of all the less romantic chores such as pruning, spraying and propping.

Our motto is We Care for Your Tree, Martin, a 35-year-old former social worker,said in an interview Monday. It will give people from the city a chance for some unusual recreation in the country.

We also hope it will give us a profitable way of harvesting apples by eliminating the middlemen, Martin said. He said he and Abbott, a 36-year-old attorney, both have been in apples il our lives, and bought the orchard bit by bit over the past few years.

Customers will be able to choose from among more than 1(X) trees, priced according to the number of apples they yield at harvest time.

Martin said the $25 variety is good for about three boxes of apples, while a few giant trees that rent for $150 apiece can fill up to 60 boxes.

Each rented tree will carry a redwood plaque on a chain giving the name of its tenant. Ren ters will have free use of a grove offir trees for picnicking.

Were selling more than apples, Martin said. Although theyll have only one tree, theyll be able to enjoy the whole orchard.

Martin said he and Abbott got the idea for Rent-a-Tree from similar experiments that have succeeded in the eastern United States and Europe.

'The first trees will be available for rental this weekend -ducing a local apple blossom festival, fiiarHfflsald:^ -----:

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Regaining A Stewardship

Almost without public notice, the Congress last week passed a watershed point. By this summer, if all goes well, a Budget Reform Act will be in full operation, and the relationship between the legislative and executive branches will have been significantly altered.

'The watershed metaphor is remarkably appropriate. Geographically speaking, Washingtons river is the Potomac. Politically speaking, our river is power. For the past 40 years, first slowly and then in flood, this river of power .has been channeled toward the White

House. 'The movement began even before Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It continues to this day. Now, with the Budget Reform Act, some part of governmental power will , begin to flow back toward the House and Senate.

The growth of what Arthur Schlesinger has termed the imperial presidency was perhaps inevitable. Part of this massive trend of power toward the executive was the result of population changes and social demands. Our people became less rural and more urban, and the accelerating urbanization created accelerating

Other E(ditors Say No Contempt

(Greensboro Daily News)

In a show of determination and good sense, the Supreme Court has overturned two lower court rulings which had held in contempt the sartorial display of the American flag and the use of mildy profane language in a courtroom.

'The high court invalidated a Massachusetts law that provided for up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $100 for anyone who treated the flag contemptuously. The case in question \n-, volved a young man who had been arrested and given a six-month jail term for wearing a small flag sewn to the seat of his blue jeans. Justice Powell stated with the proper touch of irony that althouth the defendants behavior can hardly be described as art, he was guilty only of immaturity or silly conduct, not contempt of any kind.

In a time of widely varying attitudes and tastes for displaying something as ubiquitous as the United States flag or representations of it, Powell wrote, it could hardly be the purpose of the Massachusetts legislature to make criminal every informal use of the flag. ~

The court did not larechMkPfflgiorm^ a new statute

problems. When state and local governments failed to cope with the problems, a host of federal agencies sprang into being. 'Ihese agencies, dealing with welfare, medical care, housing, urban redevelopment, industrial safety, and environmental improvement, swiftly became entrenched in the broad field of government.

'The years since Roosevelt have seen other developments space exploration, for example, and atomic power that led to highly sophisticated federal agencies. The changing nature of warfare tended to vest greater authority in the sent all

governmental cobS TBoanng.-

Senator Sam Ervin spoke to the situation last month. In January, he said, when the budget for fiscal 75 went to the Hill, it was With a sense of helplessness that Congress contemplated the figures. Tliis budget breaks the $300 billion barrier, lifts the federal debt above the half-trillion vmark, increases federal spending $36 billion above the amount first estimated for t^is year, requires $30 billion just to pay interest costs on the public debt, and delivers the fourteenth budget deficit in the past 15 years.

At the rate the budget is growing, Ervin added, it

40 Years Ago To<Jay

April 2, 1934 State and federal authorities in many states are seeking desperadoes wanted for terrorism and slayings in widely scattered sections.

In Texas, officers believed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, long sought killers, were responsible for the shooting of two highway patrolmen.

In Washington at

defining what is and what is not desecration of the American flag, as long as it met constitutional standards, which the Massachusetts law in its vagueness did not. The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, upon which the court based its decision, demands the most specific% definitions for such an offense. In approving a new statute,, a state would be compelled to clearly delimit the nature of a contemptuous act committed against the flaga process which should produce a saner and more realistic legal attitude toward a symbol whose sanctity has certainly diminished in recent decades.

In the second case, the court reversed an Oklahoma contempt conviction of a man who blufted out a barnyard epithet while testifying in a courtroom. The epithet was directed at the witness's assailant, however, and Justice Powell said that while he placed a high premium on courtroom civility, This single isolates usage of street vernacular not directed at the judge or any officer of the court cannot constitutionally support the conviction of criminal contempt.

'The need for national symbols and good conduct in a society is undeniable, but so too are the rights of citizens to choose their, own symbols, and to relegate more accepted ones to nether positions if they so choose. And to put a man behind bars for his spontaneous choice of less than delectable words seems nothing short of ludicrous.

this decade. By the time the U.S. celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1976, the government will be spending more than $1 billion a day, with no letup on Sundays or holidays. Congress, in Ervins view, has lost control. The White House effectively ' * has decreed what will be spent and what will not be spent. And a Congress that cannot control spending, cannot effectively control the executive branch either. With approval last week of a Budget Reform Act, the Senate took a major step toward regaining congressional stewardship. 'The Senate bill must tie reconciled with a House bill, but the outlines of a new (Continued on page 5)

Bremerton, a general underworld cleanup got underway with six persons bound, gagged and shot to death in a robbery The search for John Dillinger, Indiana gunman, spread throughout the northwest where he was reported to be planning a bank holdup.

East Carolina Teachers College baseball squad has been strengthened considerably the last few days when Doc Allen of Ansonville, former star pitcher of the Rutherford College, joined the ranks of the local college nine.

Allen has had considerable experience in the pitching position and has shown real ability in his daily workouts at EC7TC

Susan Price

Rate Competition Oh Wail St.

world is need^

But the Bible unwaveringly^ holds that every man is of infinite value in the sight of God Religion was not made by a few for a few, but^ universal in its embracd. ^ Everyman or woman has a\' niche somewhere. It may not be a place of great distinction. but it is a place of sucli necessary importance in the of God that ahy person may assume that if he was made for the world, the world was also made for him

Ry Ellslia Doaglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) On orders of the Securities and Exchange Ctmtmission, brokers now are experimenting wUh-^ negotiated charges on orders for $2,000 or less of stock. Rate competition at last comes to Wall Str^t.

Under plans laid down by the commission, to some extent with the cooperation of the industry, the Substitution of negotiated rates for fixed commissions will spread to all orders by April 1, 1975.

First indications are that charges will fall, but whether that will prevail is far from assured Brokers planning lower rates have bragged about it, but many brokers have remained suspickmsly

silent

About the best a small investor can hope for is about a $5 saving on the odd-lot purchase or sale of $1,000. At Merrim.,ynch, for exam^e, he might pay $20.65 on such

an order, versus the old fixed rate of $25 30

No matter how important the rate situation is in bringing back business, most Wall Streeters would agree that it is only one of several factork, that must be dealt with before mass interest in the market is aroused again.

A bull market would excite people, but a bull market isnt likely to develop unless the mass of investors is already participating And there are some obvious reasons why

stock investments arent popular.

Eveq^ the most forgiving cannot erase from their memories the debaucheries of the late 1960s when recordkeeping, common sqnse, ethics and money seemed to disappear into air.

(Xhers are aware that stock markets arent quite the random assemblage of buyers and sellers, small and large, rich and poor. Not when 70 per cent of trading on the New Yoit Stock Exchar^e is by institutions.

These institutions, such as pension and mutual fiaids, bank trusts and insurance companies, have enormous Influence on stock prices, in some instances being able to whipsaw the stocks" which

small investors hold

There is the matter of taxes too. Many leaders of the investment community, and tieads of corporations which depend on it for financing, are convinced that capital gains taxes are too high

If taxes were lowered, they say, many investors would be encouraged to seek apfx'ecia-lion in stocks instead of putting their funds into bonds and savings accounts that pay Interest

The introduction of negotiated fates on small orders is, it appears. Just the beginning of a long uphill fight to return popular interest to a market that jisit a ^cade ago waa the hope of millions