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4The Dally Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Frlday, October 3. If75

Must Break The Stranglehold

'WISH THEYD MAKE UP THEIR MINDS!

Leaders of the Organization of Petrdeum Exporting Countries have declared that their weekend decision to raise oil prices by 10 percent is a gesture of good will.

llie reasoning goes the increase could have been more and therefore the oil consuming countries should be thankful that the increase is only ten percent.

We acted very reasonably by holding the increase down to only 10 percent, Jamshid Amouzegar, Iranian Oil minister said. A 25 percent increase would have been justified in view of the inflation in the industrialized nations. We were very reasonable and therefore are going into the dialogue wito tl^ cons>imers with good feelings. The oil importing fiations are ii^eed fwtunate in a negative sort of way that there wasnt an even higher increase in the price of oil. Some of the oil exporting countries wanted an increase of 25 percent. We can probably thank Saudi Arabia for ttie fact that the increase was no more than 10 percent. Tliat countrys feeling was that now is a time for

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stability in oil prices. It can forsee that continued increases in the price of oil are going to force the industrialized countries to other sources of energy.

And apparently what the oil exp<rters cant see is that every price increase merely cimtinues the cyde of inflation about which they complain. When dl goes up, the cost of everything increases. In the United States, it means gasoline go^ up, and so also does the price of food, clothing; almost very item we use because of increase manufacturing and shilling cost.

In the under-developed countries the increased cost burden is enormous and those who have Uttle suffer the most.

So obviously these continued rounds of oil price increases are self defeating. Hopefully the good they will do will be to hasten the day when we develop the new sources of energy we need to break this strangle-hold. In this and all the industrialized countries, wed better realize that time is running out; that we are going to have to become energy independent, or we will be bled to death.

Build New Health System

ByBILLNOBLITT

RALEIGHA totally new system for planning and authorizing programs and building projects in the broad field of health is now evolving in North Carolina, and will take some final shape between now and next spring.

April is the target date at which each of six Health Service Areas established across the state will have a. 30-member board of directors and staff to operate regional councils answering to a new statewide Health Coordinating Council and the health planning and resource development division of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources.

Every move made in the health fielda new hospital or clinic, nursing home, major equipment purchase, etc.Hnust be cleared by that new system anytime federal funds are involved.

Beyond Planning

As Dr. Gordon H. DeFriese, director of the Health Services Research Center at Chapel Hill puts it in his report on the federal Health Planning and Resource Development Act recently enacted: The major thrust.

.. is that it seeks to create a

new mechanism for influencing the health care industry and that it goes beyond traditional planning functions.

Both state and areawide agencies are to perform expanded roles in the areas of resources allocation and regulation ... to stimulate the development of needed health care resources . . . (and) to make the health plans developed . . . forceful and salient . . .

The effect of all the present activity will be a system whereby the state health council can take one comprehensive look at all activities and set priorities for funding agencies ranging from alcoholism treatment to workshops for the retarded.

We cant have each of these out there doing its own thing if were going to have comprehensive planning . . . we must have identity and authority vested at the state level, says Dr. Archie T. Johnson, Jr., assistant secretary , of Human Resources and a practicing pediatrician recently named to the state post.

What the new plan means. Dr. Johnson said, is that there will be in each area of the state, and at the state

level, a total plan to look at manpower needs, facilities, equipment, training requirementsevery phase of the health system annually, and\ assign priorities.

IDeFriese, in his report titled, New Directing for Health Planning in North Carolina, labels the effort a bold, new set of expectations, and it is clear from Congressional testimony and provisions of the new law that the structure will function as the delivery mechanism for a National Health Insurance plan in the near future. '

Health Dilemma

Congress found that large segments of the population are not receiving adequate health careparticularly in rural areas and low-income sections of larger cities, that education institutions are not producing the kinds of health manpower needed, that health manpower is not fairly distributed geographically, and there is often duplication of service and equipment in some areas, while unavailable in others.

A key provision of the federal law being followed in this state is that the con

sumer of health care must be given majority control of both the state planning council, and the six area councils.

DeFriese echoes some of the Ck)ngressional findings in his state report: Traditionally, good health care was available on the open market-place; not until very recently has good health care been viewed as a public right, he noted.

Gaps in government planning were filled by a patchwork of public and private agenciessometimes overlapping, sometimes leaving great holes in the system . . . Health care remained a provider-dominated industry, whose funding was diverse and uncoordinated... licensing of health manpower ... the prerogative of nearly 20 independent licensure boards. Program services vary widely, particularly from urban to rural areas . . . politics and economics affect health policy s much as consumer need, he writes.

DeFriese also catalogs several local conflicts across the state to support the need for uniformity in planning rather than involving competing agencies and boards.

A Bicentennial Special

EDITORS NOTE Benedict Arnold escaped and lived, despite his perfidy. But Maj. John Andre, his British accomplice, was caught and hanged and it was 41 years bef(Mre his remains finally were r^umed to England for burial in Westminster Abbey. By SAMUEL G. BLACKMAN Associated Press Writer TAPPAN, N.Y. (AP) - It is called Andre Hill.

Thore, not far from the tav-071 where he was imprisoned as a British spy,, Maj. Jdin Andre was hang^ 195 years ago an Oct 2, 1780 for plotting with Benedict Arnold for the fall of West Point Andre was buried where he died. A plain monument marks the spot but his remains are in Westminster Abbey, England. They were disinterred in 1821 and removed by the British craisul in New York. He acted legally but secretly under cover of ni^t whoi he heard that hot spirits were determined to throw the coffin into the Hudson River.

Only 10 days before his execution, Andre, chief intelligence officer for Sir Henry Qinton and adjutant general in the British army despite his youth (he was 29 or 30), had met with Arnold near Haverstraw, N.Y. Unable to return to the British warship. Vulture, which had been forced down the river by American fire, Andre spent the day in a farmhouse.

TTie next day. Sept 23, Andre, disguised as a civilian but with a pass from Arnold made out in the name of J(^n Anderson, was captured by three rebel scouts near Tarrytown as he tried to reach the British lines. They found in his boots details about the defenses of West Point, loss of which might have damaged irreparably the American cause. Arnold got word in time to escape by barge to the Vulture.

Had he been captured or exchanged, Arnold, who tried to sell out his command for 20,000 pounds sterling and a

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commission of brigadier general in the British army, would have been executed. Negotiations to exchange Andre for Arnold were undertaken but the British commander refused. British policy was against returning defectors.

Andre was taken across the Hudson to Mabies Tavern at Tappan, close to George Washingtons headquarters. Hiere he was tried n Sqit 29 before a military board of general officers. The board found that he ought to be (XHisidered a spy from the enemy; and that, agreeable to the law and usage of nations, it is their opinimi he ought to suffer death.

Washington ordered the execution for 5 p.m. C]Nct 1. Andre had aiqiealed that he not be ctHisidered a spy, saying he had come ashore wearing his uniform and under sanction of a passport from Arnold. (HinbHi, the British coihmander, also ^pealed to Washington, who delayed the execution until noon Oct. 2, and then ordered it carried out.

Andre, dressed in a fresh uniform, was assisted in mounting the wagon boieath the hangrope. He adjusted it and, according to a witness, said, I pray you bear me witness that I met my fate like a te-ave man.

Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge, Washingtons chief of in

telligence, who had brought Andre across the river to his {x-ison, wrote many years later:

I walked with him to the place of execution and parted with him under the gaUows, itirely overwhelmed with grief that so gallant an officer, and so accomplished a gentleman, should come to so ignominious an oid.

Forty-one years after the executioa James Buchanan, British consul in New York, expressed concern that only a heap of stones marked the {dace of Andres suffering at TaRian. He wrote the Duke of York, then commander in chief, suggesting erection of a suitable monument or removal of the remains. The Duke of York suggested they be interred in Westminster Abbey. Gov. De Witt Clinton of New York said, Our laws interpose no obstacle to this measure.

Buchanans narrative of the exhumation, written for a military journal, is included in The Demarest Family, the history of a family that settled in this country fi7>m Amsterdam in 1663.

The owner of the field where Andre was buried, the Rev. Jdm Demarest, was agreeable to the removal.

With great care the broken lid was removed, and there in our view lay the bones of the brave Andre, (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

UNANSWERED PRAYER? An acquaintance once said, I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

This statement is at best misleading, if not incorrect. All of the acquaintances prayers had been answered, although many with a resounding No. The promise of the scriptures is, Ask, and ye shall receive. Our prayers are always answered but not always as we would like to have them answered.

If God gave to every man exaetljr wht he askedi the

world might well end Up in chaos. Gods no is just as kind as his yes, although it takes considerable faith on our part to appreciate the fact.

What then, you may ask, is the use of praying? And you might answer that God will do what he wants to do anyway. But the usefulness of praying lies primarily in the fact that it enables God to begin to give us the things we most need, and chief among these may be a change of mind and heart.

By RlliHa DobRlisI

Andre's Remai ns Removed

ByARTBUCHWALD

Hiring Jackie Is Gamble

WASHINGTON-I have a book publisher friend of mine in New York named Binding who was very upset that Viking had hired Jackie Kennedy Onassis as an editor.

If I had known she was available for $200 a week, he said, I would have hired her. I thought she would ask for $250.

Even is Jackie asked for $^, I said, it still would have been a bargain.

Im not so sure, said Binding. Suppose she decides to decorate her own office. You cant give Jackie Onassis a steel desk and a swivel chair. Youd have to find a Louis XV desk that came out of Versailles and a chair to match. Then you would have to have a sofa from Marie Antoinettes bedroom and at least one Pissarro and one Cezanne for the walls.

Dont forget the drapes

Other Editors Say Political Oil

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

fhe energy ccmtroversy in Washington, now being waged between the White House and Congress, is inexorably moving into the political arena, which is unfortunate.

Instead of being concerned about the consequences to the nation, both sides are looking to the 1976 elections and the impact that any moves in the energy question might have on the political picture Democrats in Congress, for example, are counting on the pressure of the 1976 election to force President Ford to yield on his proposals for increasing domestic oil prices or face the political consequences.

On the other hand, judging from the initial White House reaction, they seem more likely to get a political issue than a presidential retreat Perhaps that is what the President wants.

Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen informed Congress, after it voted to extend domestic oil price controls until Nov. 15, that the President wants you to know this is the last extension.

Though there was the usual talk of the need to compromise on both sides, the basic disagreement between the Republican President and the Democratic Congress remained Ford seeks higher oil prices as a curb against consumptiwi, while Democrats favor continued controls on grounds that Fords policy will damage economic recovery. The Democrats think they are right both economically and politically.

Both sides are wrong if theyre putting politics before the economic interests of the country.

Partisan politics ought to be laid asi(fe in the search for common grounds to improve the energy situatiwi in this country.

Sea enry Jackson says he doesnt believe Congress or the American people will permit a new surge of inflation simply to reach a paper agreement

And Sea Democratic Leader M&e Mansfield says a continued deadlock right up to the 1976 election is a possibility.

He hopes something can be woriied out, but admits that if it cant, both sides will be blamed But many Democrat believe the blame for failure to enact legislation is preferable, both economically and politically, to acceptance of the presidential plan to fdbe an increase in fuel IH-ices.

With Ford having made clear to everyoi^ fie favors higher in-ices as the best way to cut ccmsumption. Democrats are determined to avoid a situation where the voters can say they, too, apfx-oved such a policy. ^

Meanwhile, the Arabs have staged another ripoff, raising oil {X7ceslO per cent while our own energy situation in this country has not improved

and carpeting, I said.

Im afraid the Viking office manager is going to have to go to Parke-Bernet auction sales for the next six months, Binding told me.

Its still worth it, I said. Jackie has to be an asset to the firm. Everyone will send her their new manuscripts. Why?

Do you realize what a rejection slip from Jackie Onassis would be worth to Charles Hamilton Autographs Unlimited?

I never thought of that, Binding said, but still Viking is going to have problems. Jackie really doesnt think like a publisher. I can see an agent calling up and demanding $10,000 for a first book and Jackie saying well give you $50,000.

It could happen, I agreed.

She also doesnt know Jiow writers operate. You have to be on their backs all the time and many authors wont even take any calls from their editors because they dont have any pages to send them.

I think its going to be a terrible blow to Jackie when she telephones her writer and he tells his wife to tell Jackie he isnt there. Shes not used to people refusing her calls. It will be tough at first, I admitted, but shes going to have to take rejection like everybody else in the business.

Then, said Binding, lets not forget the lunches. Most editors do their businesss over lunch and theyre expected to pick up the tab. Jackie is not going to ^ take writers to Schrafts.

Id love to be Jackies writer; I said, just so I could go to 21 for lunch every day. What kind of books do you think Viking wiU ask Jackie to find for them? I heard her first project was going to be a travel book called Europe on $15,000 a Day. Binding said.

It could sell, I said.

I think another thing Jackie is going to have to face up to is that writers are very sensitive, unhappy people and they take out most of their frustrations on their editors. If the publisher doesnt advertise a book the writers scream like mad. (Continued on page 5)

Peak

Demand

Prices

By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer

Electric companies trying to encourage conservation and ease the brunt of rate increases are experimenting with new ways of computing customers bills. They are charging more for power in peak demand periods and are offering minimum service at a minimum price for low-income consumers.

An Associated Press spot check also showed some officials are urging an energy stamp program for the poor, similar to the federal food stamp project. Others advocate changing the traditional the more you use, the less you pay rate schedules.

The Edison Electric Institute, a trade group, said residential customers paid an average of 16.4 per cent more for electricity in 1974 than th^ did in 1973. At the same time, the average amount of electricity used by residential customers dropped about 2 per cit.

The AP survey found that the most popular type of program to cut costs is peak-demand pricing, in use in about a dozen states.

The Florida Public Service Commission recently approved a one-year test plan for Florida Power Corp. whereby 200 residential customers who volunteer for the program will be charged 1.7 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity consumed during nonpeak hours and 7.9 cents per kilowatt hour the rest of the time. The ix'esent residential rate is about 4 cents per kilowatt hour.

Peak hours under the plan are 1 to 9 p.m. from April to October and 7 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. the rest of the year. Company officials estimate that customers who take advantage of the new system, doing heavy electric-consuming chores like laundry in off hours, can cut bills by about one-third.

Commonwealth Edison Co. and the Illinois Commerce Commission are conducting a $500,000 peak-demand pro^am (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

October 3,1935 Italian bombing raids into Ethiopia today signaled in the view of the League of Nations circles the long feared beginning of war in East Africa.

British sources characterized the alleged bombing as the declaration of war the only declaration there will be.

Although Italy officially denied the bombings, it announced Italian troops had been moved into advance positions beyond our lines. Reports of fighting poured into Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The Ethi(^ian government today Udd the Italian minister to Ethiq;>ia to get out of the country. The Italian minister was handed his passports and will leave tomorrow.

The Detroit * Tigers, American League Champions, revenged yesterdays World Series loss whi they defeated the Chicago (Xibs in Ihe second game of the World lories by a score of 8-3.

East Carolina Teachers College will open its 1935 football schedule on October 12, when they play Wingate College at Wingate.

James Kyle

Desert Powr Plant Is Fought

By DAVE CLEMENS Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The Department of Interior will decide soon whether a giant power plant for Arizmia and California customers should be built in Southern Utahs picturesque desert country.

The decision, expected within the next few mcxiths, will center (m a plateau north of Lake Powell called Kaiparowits, a Paiute Indian word meaning Mountain of the Pe<^le

Three utilities Southern California Edison Ca, Arizona Public Service and San Diego Gas and Electric Ca want to build an electrical generating plant that could produce eiuxigh power for a city of 1.6 millimi persons. The site is <m federal land near the plateaus coal deposits.

The companies say growing urban areas of Arizona and Southern California need the electricity to run their air conditioners, light their streets and homes and turn the wheels oi their industries.

They say the Kaiparowits Plateau provides the right combination of coal to bum some three billion tons and nearby water for steam to turn the turbines.

Opponents say the 3,009-megawatt plant would despoil wild areas with its stack plume, trudcloads of supplies rumbling across Bryce Canyon Natic^l Paris and 10,000-to-15,-000 new residents.

The region, with six national parks and a national recreation area within a few hundred miles, is Sccustomed to environmental con-truyfetajri Cohflibt arose

before construction of Glen CapycMi Dam created Lake Powell and, more recently, when the lake began flooding Rainbow Bridge National Monument, site of the worlds largest natural bridge Other eqvironmental com-I^ints have settled on the triple stacks of the Navajo power project at Page Ariz., which can be seen for miles approaching the dam at Lake Powells southwest end.

Utah officials and commissioners of the two rural counties that would be affected directly by the Kaiparowits idant are almost unanimous in sui^Kxting it AU the economic factors are in the projects favor, says Gov. Calvin L Ramp-ti, who has championed the proposal (i grounds it would provide some 3,000 jobs, with 5,800 more jobs in associated oommsretk

Rampton said at one of a series of hearings held inSq>-tember in Utah, California, Nevada and Arizona that he believes a great majivity-of Utah residents want it built He said a recoit poll showed local acceptance of the project at above 90 per cent -

Sponsors say the project would mean $^.9 million a year in additi(mal property taxes and increase Kane Countys payroll $103.4 million by 1966.

But Joto McComb, Soutti-west field representative of the Sierra Club, say residents of Utah are being taken ^*^'These power plants are being located in Southern Utah by default because the surrounding states have tougher regulation and because Utah is literally anxious to give away its NMWreeii Moesiftk lilA