4DaUy Reflector. Grecavtlle, N.C.TlHirsday. Jaly 3. itlS

The Advice Comes A Bit Late

Gov. Holshouser at last came out with some advice for the 1975 General Assembly.

TTie only problem is Uut when the governor finally exerted his leadership, the Legislature had finished its work and its members had gone home.

Holshouser thought it was a *%ad session. He was critical of evo^thing from the way the budget was made up to the Democratic leadership of the heavily Democratic Legislature.

He excused his own failure to provide leadership this year with the observation that from the first, the Legislature gave every indication theyd do their own thinking and run their own shop.

Gov. Holshouser said he couldnt afford to confront the legislators directly because they could retaliate by cutting his budget and power. ITiis strikes us as a regrettable attitude for the elected governor of our state to take. Its a sure thing that Harry S. Truman didnt take such an attitude when he faced a congress with the opposition party in control, nor even has Gerald Ford, a Republican who faces a heavily Democratic Congress.

Gov. Holshouser submitted a budget projecting

around $300 million more revenue than was actually forthcoming, and this amount had to be pared by the Legislature. Then he went out on a limb proposing elimination of the food sales tax and had to back off from this stand because of the revenue miscalculation.

Among other things, the governor criticized the funding of the ECU medical school, making reference to the accreditation problems of Pitt Manorial Hospital. If the governor would get out and around in the state he might learn that the Pitt Memorial accreditation situation involves to a laige extent a building constructed for a county hospital which has already become a regional referral center. He would also learn that an entirely new medical complex is under construction in Pitt County and will be ready in adequate time for use by the medical school.

It is all right for the governor to criticize if he wants. But he should review his own leadership role as the highest elected official in the state before he says too much. We think he could have done far better.

THIS AFTERNOON

Hardly Care In A Cottage

Jly BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGH-The term cottage used widely to describe the facility in which 16 residents of Murdoch Center for the Mentally Retarded were subjected to mistreatment by custodians is not really an apt definition.

No vine covered little home nestles in the pines; curtains flapping lazily across colorful window boxes.

Murdoch is a big institution, with over 1,000 residents; 600 employeees crowded into the facility.

Cottage G-3 is one ward. Fifty adult mentally retarded residents live tho-e,'claiming as home a single-person bunk and a foot and one-half of space on each side.

The bunks stand row upon row, side-by-side, head-to-foot in one big room; furnished in institution drab with a tile floor running half-way up the wall.

A day-room space for sitting is included in the sprawling open room. It was closed for painting when the incictent occurred sometime aroimd 4 p.m., June 9.

The occupants of Cottage G-3 wCTe scattered about. Most were out of the room at

various training or recreation programs.

One group, with the day-room closed, had gathered with their attendants in one area of the room, sitting about on bunks as they took part in a bath-training program.

The group was just breaking up. An attendant lit a cigarette, and as Dr. J.F. Elliot, director of Murdoch Center puts it, something popped.

What followed can hardly be visualized. Staff members, including Elliott, have tried to piece it together. For some reason, something happened, Elliott says.

1 cannot explain it to my satisfaction, or to yours, he answers when pressed for some answers. Sixteen residents were burnedsome two or three times. Necks, arms, ears were burned; branded with hot cigarette lighters.

Four attoidants are fired; charges pending. Not all took part directly, apparently, but as Human Resources Secretary David T. Flaherty puts it, you are just as guilty if you watch it and dont report it . . . youre ah ac

cessory.

Flaherty, Elliott, and Dr. N.P. Zarzar, director of mental health services for the state, are anxious to show they are not attempting to cover up the incident. They want everybody to know it happened, regretably; that it was reported, and strong steps taken to punish the ones who did it, and prevent such a thing happening again.

Still, it happened, to 16 patients, ranging in age from 26 to 40 years.

There are some signs that in the background of at least one of the attendants there was something which should have raised a red flag of warning to his emjrioyers. That information was not revealed until the investigation.

We do not check-prospective employees out. .

. only if there is reason for suspicion, Elliott explained. Information on the job application is accepted without question, and no check of police records or other sources is made. Time doesnt permit that, the director said.

It would seem that in a mental health system, of all

places, the resources would be available to screen employees, to weed out those potentially dangerous to the residents.

Zarzar sadly dismisses that contention; To predict what a person will do is not a true science. Maybe our ability to predict future conduct has been exagerrated."

Flaherty sees the answer in more staff, less crowded facilities, stronger supervision, and an atomosphere in which all employees know full well that such conduct will not be permitted, that it should be reported, and that strong and immediate action will result.

Yet, with foiff attendants in a room containing 50 people, abuses are almost bound to occurif not the open I^ysical abuse such as the Murdoch incident, then residents whose physical needs are not met, who go unfed because of the rush, who suffer from the inevitable prison-like atmosphere.

Some see the movement toward smaller group homes in residential communities as a step toward solving the problem.

INSIDE REPORT

The Menace To Thailand

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

NAGAE VILLAGE, Sakon Nakc4in Province, Thailand Here in proverty-stricken Northeast Thailand, the government is not doing nearly aiough to suppress a spreading Communist insurgency that could run wild with help from Hanoi.

The quiet village of Nagae, heart of Cmnmunist influence in the Northeast, bears the telltale marks of Vietcong country in Vietnam; roads to it that can be travelled only at peril by day and never by night; minimum government presence, with decrepit, indefensible outposts; sullen villagers declining to answer our questions, grimly amused over a foreigner ventuming here.

All this points to harsh reality scarcely perceived in Bangkok. The government is not committing enough mcMiey, men or energy or control the Northeasts decadeold insurgency.

Increased guerrilla activity since the Communist triumph in Indochina could be ohly the

beginning. The future menace is North Vietnam taking over Thai insurgents as it did Cambodias Khmer Rouge, turning them into an irresistible force.

Although Hanoi may need time to consolidate present conquests, there are ominous early warnings: automatic weapons, rocket launchers and even some Vietnamese advisers turning up among Northeast insurgents. This suggests that accommodating to powerful hostile neighborsThailands tactic for nearly a milennium of independence may fail against revolun-tionary Communism.

The governments handling of Communist insurgents in the far north and the south is equally unimpressive. Northern Meo guerrillas recently massacred two army units, who fought bravely but suffered over 90 per cent casualties (including some 160 dead). Although the government publicly writes off the southern insurgency, Thai army rfficers confide the guerrillas are gaining

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influence there.

But the most dangerous insurgency is in the Northeast, where ambushes and assassinations combine with a new Communist strategy of wooing rather than terrorizing villagers long ignored by the central government. Its a very dangerous situation at the moment, Gen. Saiyud Kerdphol, the often4gnored counter-insurgency expert, told us in Bangkok. The government, he conceded, provides villagers neither social justice nor physical protection.

Lack of protection was confirmed by a high officer at 2nd Army forward headquarters near here. His troops can lick the insurgents in pitched battle, but guerrillas fade away into the Phuphan Mountains after raids such as a recent ambush of a mobile development unit (MDU)h government construction team. If the local authorities cannot protect the MDUs, I will ask Bangkok not to said them up here, the officer told us. I dont have aiough men to protect them. Thus, a vicious cycle; lack of government presence invites ambushes which force less govaiunent presence.

With the shot-gun-carrying Volunteer Defense Crops no match for insurgents, army units are SfHoad too thin here. The U.S.-trained Royal Thai army of 132,000 is con

centrated in garrisons around Bankok, partly because the government balks at spending $5,000 for monthly rations to put one infantry company in the feld. Only

10.000 soldiers are fighting the insurgency, about half of them combat troops, so that Thailands Ug army is effectively outnumbered by

9.000 insurgents.

While Thailand boasts M-41 tanks and naval frigates useless for counterinsurgency, it lacks what is needed; M-16 rifles (short by 37,000), M-60 machine guns, M-79 rocket launchers, small ammunition of all kinds. Whats more, U.S. military aid, down to $30 million this year, seems destined to be eliminated.

Finally, responsibility is hopelessly divided between the interior ministry (police) and the defense ministry (army) causing Gen. Saiyud to urge Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj to take personal control. Kukrit indicated to us he might do it and is now trying to spread government spending into neglected insurgency areas.

Urbane, Oxford-educated Kukrit, longtime journalist and sometime movie actor, seems ill-cast to -su{^[>ress insurgents, but he Udd us he will move against leftist studmts jaiding insurgents: We cant have people stirring up trmible in the countryside. We cant allow (Coathiaed oa page 5)

Strength For Today

TROUBLE VALLEY There is a valley near Jericho in Israel whidi in ancient times was called ttie valley of Achor. The word Achor means trouble and the valley was associated with the death of that unhappy Achan who was sttxied to death for his sin.

Yet it was throu^ this valley named Trouble and over a road stained with the blood rin iat the diihhen of Israel entered the promised land.

Often we enter our promised land through the

valley called Trouble, and often the very sins that have marred and besmirched our Uves have been pattiways over which we walked with cleansed and penitent hearts to better things.

Though we walk through the valky oi the shadow of death, God is with us. Our concern must be that when we find ourselves in this valley, we must keep our face in the directicM) of the promised land and not turn bade again to flie unhappy land of bondage.

by EMsha Dgists

Symbol Of The

Changes

How dare you accuse me! Youre under arrest!

OUTWIonO L A. TMCt STNOKATI

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Beware Equempoppocom

In its rush to adjournment last Mrniday, the Supreme Court erupted, as usual, with so many opinions that only a couple of cases could get much attention. Among the overlooked cases was Albemarle Paper v. Moody. Employers everywhere will read it with justified alarm.

In this case the Court went farther than it ever has gone before to uphold the high-and-mighty demands of the Equal Employment Opportunities

Commission. The effect of the opinion is to subject a highly respected corporation, the Albiemarle Paper Company, to what Justice Rehnquist described as a ruinous liability for backpay.

TTie opinion has other effects. It elevates the mere guidelines of an executive agency to something approaching the laws of the Medes and the Persians. It further diminishes the right of an employer to test the

Other Editors Say A Pill Paradise?

(Rocky Moont Telegram)

Has the United States become a pill poppm^s paradis?

The latest evidence would seem to indicate the country is moving in that directionL Accix^g to a Health Insurance Institute analysis of a Roper Report, about half the American public swallows some kind of pill every 24 hours.

This compares to the one in three who said they had read a magazine during the past 24 hours.

Or the one in 20 who said they had participated in some active-sport

The pill pqppers include those pqpping vitamins as jvell as aspirin or actual medicines.

And the most avaricious of the {hU people seem to be those over age65, two-thirds of wlunn admitted to taking some type of 1x11 during the24 hours before ttiey weresurv^ed.

The analysis brought out some other interesting aspects about this trend in pill coisumptiiXL Fix: example:

While half of all whites took a pill, only slightly over <Mie-third of the blacks did so; possibly indicating the lower level of medical attention blacks receive.

Pill taking was more commixi .in the Midwest and the West than in the Northeast and South.

Of iose interviewed as to what they had done the previous day, twpper cent said they did not knowa response that may

or may n(^ be attributed to public pill pofqxng.

It is known that mwe and more people are taking tranquilizers of one kind or another. Peitaps the stresses of todays pace in the society in which we live is too much for the human bod^and mind.

Many who are not taking tranquilizers are using alcohol as a crutch or a shield. Some resort to both A movie several years back, Valley of the Dolls, was a harsh indictment of the indiscriminate use of pills in the ^ tertainment world. Stars were dqiicted as taking downers to calm them down, usually after a gruelling performance, then resorting to uppers to give them a lift as they faced another audience or as they went bef(x the cameras. It was a vicious trap

Fortunately, most people dont get on this treadmill But many da

aptitude of prospective employees. And the opinion casts some ominous shadows upon principles of equity that had seemed fairly clear.

This case began in August of 1966, when a group of Negro employees filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, racial

discriminatioCjq^iring and promotion at Albemarles mill in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. The Equempoppocom, as William F. Buckley has dubbed it, advised the plaintiffs of their right to sue, and suit thereupon was filed in U,S. District Court.

It is important to understand that the plaintiffs, as a class, did not demand backpay at the outset. No money damages are sought for any member of the class not before the court. Not until nearly five years later, after constructive ownership of the mill had changed hands, was the demand injected.

One of the ironies in the situation is that Albemarle should have been singled out for punitive treatment.- It is beyond dispute that Southern employers, as a class, had discriminated against blacks for a century prior to enactment in 1965 of the Equal Employment Opportunities Act. But Albemarle had launched affirmative efforts to remedy this discrimination before the law was passed. Voluntarily, it was taking its own steps, not then required by law, to discontinue the practices the 1965 act would make unlawful.

The companys personnel policies prior to trial of the suit in 1971 were in no way exceptional. Back in the 1950s, as its equipment became more sophisticated, Albemarle required at least a high school education of employees entering skilled production lines. It began using standard aptitud^ tests, such as the Beta Test, the (ContiiMted on page 5)

By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirty years ago, 1st Lt. Daniel James was arrested when he and other black pilots tried to break down a color barrier and enter a white-only officers club.

Now, two wars later, Air Force Lt. Gen. Chappie James has become the first black in U.S. history to win promotion to the four-star rank of full general, an advancement announced earlier this week.

Although opportunities for blacks in the armed forces still lag, James qualifies as a symbol of how far things have come since 1945 when he protested segregation at old Freeman Field in Seymour, Ind.

But there has been an undercurrent of jealousy among some white officers who fell out in the intense competition for promotion. James also has been the target of Uncle Tom jibes from some militants who resented his appeals to young blacks to work within the system. He has flicked off both kinds of attacks with a booming laugh and an air of total self-assurance.

Now 55, James first attracted public notice in the late 1960s. as a command pilot who flew 78 combat missions over North Vietnam. Then-Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird brought the big, friendly fighter pilot to the Pentagon in 1970 and installed him in the public affairs office.

. It was then that James began making speeches that mixed fervent expressions of patriotism with appeals for unity among the races. At a time of campus unrest, he went to predominantly black universities and advised the students to cool it.

On Wednesday, after returning from a three-day tour of bases in Germany, Spain and the Azores, James said at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., (Continued on page 5)

40 Years

Ago Today

July 3.1935 Greenville and Pitt County, along with the rest of the country, will celebrate the Fourth of July tomorrow, although no special exercises ; have been planned here in, observance of the occasion.

Greenville citizens, however, were looking forward to the double-header' baseball game with Ayden.' Greenville will play at Ayden! in the morning and Ayden, will be here for a game in the afternoon. j

As is customary, all public! buildings and stores will be closed during the day to give' employes an opportunity toa celebrate. Some people will' remain home for the balL games, while other will go to" nearby seashores and watering places for swim-" ming and fishing. -<

For the past several years,!! Greenville and Ayden have : reserved the Fourth for two o of the outstanding baseball battles of the year. The'* largest crowds of the season are expected to be on hand:: both here and in Ayden to see c the two clubs battle for supremacy.

~ Businesses in the city will ** be open Wednesday afternoon this week to take care of shoi^rs stocking up for the 4 holiday. After this week, ',Z however, the regular Wed-*}^ nesday half-holidays will resume.

-James Kyle j

Recession Is Still Deep-Seated

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Bosiaest Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) You might think that in a recasskxa the conqiMiy able to give away its product would not be hurt badly. But the effects of recessions are ubiqiBtoua Sometimes you cant even ^ve away your product This lesson is an aid one for puUishers of a type of magazine that is distritxtted to businessmen, tradespeopie and prtrfessionals. Popidariy called trade they

are bee and their riradstiin is controlled The publishers make tl^ money from the advertisers, who are assured that their mceeage wiO be delivmed into the hands of a

type of readers h^g eer-tain desirable ctarac-teristks, ivImHi^ hi^ in-

CLxne.

'The precise wording of the promise is up to the publisher, but the Business PuUications Audit of Circulation then makes ctain the publisher lives up to his guarantee by once-a-year dieck on tiie quality of dr-culatioa They phrase it in aaditable tenas, says Thomas Cam|>bd], presidefit of the noqirofit organization, which audits 652 major controlled circulation mi^zines.

Bat now the prdUern;

When tteaes gd toug|i,tet

have become - in the automotive industi, the Word goes to OteNcaMn, ajWl the edkd af|ite f Ihe room as weQ m 1i tite smhly line and ^ itive suite Controlled circulation

magazines often are mailed in bulk to company mail nxnns, to be distributed by the companys internal mail force Are-some see it, mail rooms are an ideal place to cut costs.

A't Fcatfs Rouge Ctffice Building and at its research and engineering center in Dearitwrn, ^tribution was .dixcontinned, although woihlea can pick up theb copies at the mail room. Clearly this presents problems.

Chrysla* said it notified publisbers that it would not distribute their pudjcations intemalfy for the f oreseeahle future The magazines, it snggsitedl might instead be sent teethe rec^rienfs home

Bf liMlifaig to a home aderan, hrever, some value is fast and some cost added. Welasethepaahxig. said

Campbell That is, only one reader sees the magazines instead of probably five who see an (rffice-delivered copy.

Home delivery presents otho: problems. The worker might quit his job and then Uk publisher must find his replacement With office-delivered copies the sub-scriptimi almost routinely is picked up by the successor worker.

While the situation certainly is more than just a nuisance to the publishers, Charles MiU, who directs American Business Press, an iniustry association, claims its a tempest in a teapot Campbdl says theres been some disruptioa

The fact ranains that tf the puUishers cannot get their tioaks into the hands jof the readers they promise to <teliver, they are in trouble.

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