4The Dally Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Monday, October 6, 1975

Farmville, Greenville Voting

atizens in Greenville and Farmville should keep in mind that municipal elections are being held in their communities tomorrow.

The polling places will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.

In Farmvi]ile voters will cast their ballots at the fire station on North Main Street.

In Greenville all nine precincts will be manned for the election and voters will visit the precinct polling place at which tey are registered for all elections.

Voters in the old precincts of number 2 and 8 should keep in mind that these two precincts have been merged and the new polling place is the Thomas W. Willis building at Reade Circle and First Street__

Farmville voters will find three candidates listed on their ballots for mayor, while there are eight candidates for the three positions as town commissioner.

In Greenville there are two candidates listed on the ballot for mayor and 12 for the six seats on the City Council. However, there is a write-in candidate for mayor and one for the Council who have an-

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nounced and campaigned, and write-in votes can be legally counted.

Farmville has around 2,M0 roistered voters, while Greenvilles registered voters number 11,550. The experience has been in prior municipal elections that only a relatively small percentage of the registered voters turn out to determine who will operate their municipalies for the set terms. That is a shame. A majority of those who are registered should go to the polls on election day to elect those who will serve as mayor and councilmen or commissioners.

In Greenville the League of Women Voters has prepared a question sheet which gave the candidates opinions on local topics. Last week the League of Women Voters conducted a forum at which time all the candidates were invited to give their views and to be questioned by citizens who attended.

All of us should be deciding today which of the candidates we feel are best qualified to fulfill the jobs, and in both Greenville and Farmville we would like to see a record vote tomorrow.

Health Plan Discontent

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHRumblings of discontent are greeting the birth of a centrally coordinated health care and facilities planning approach in North Carolina.

State officials are urging physicians, hospital administrators, local agency directors, and others affected to get involved in the planning stages now underway.

The result will be a statewide Health Coordinating Council of 30 members, and a 30-member council in each of six Health Service Areas of the state to oversee all health facilities and programs.

The controversy is raging from several quarters physicians who see this as the last step before socialized medicine; numerous local agencies and boards which are losing their power and control; local hospitals, clinics, alcoholism or retardation centers, mental health agencies which will see pet projects scuttled on the new statewide priorities board set for activation next AprU.

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All health activities using U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare funds fall under jurisdiction of the centralized planning process.

Beyond those fears, however, are a host of others, not the least of which is the obvious intent of the federal law to construct the mechanism for administering a National Health Insurance program which most Congressmen see as imminent.

Additionally, the federal Health Planning and Resources Development Act signed by President Gerald Ford in January contains specific language which is causing alarm:

The familiar Hill-Burton funding of local hospital construction is wiped out;

Pilot projects to demonstrate the effectiveness of rate regulation over physicians and other health care services are established;

A National Health Planning Information Center

is set up, signaling further federal control;

Specific favoritism is shown to programs in low-income urban, and in rural areas, over other sections;

Control of planning and funding processes is deliberately given to grassroots consumers by the law requiring majority membership on the various planning councils of nonproviders;

A provision that failure to follow the law will result in a fund cutoff for anyone in the state otherwise eligible for assistance under the Public Health Service Act.

Fear Unknown

Dr. Frank Sohmer, a Winston-Salem physician, fairly summarized his feelings, and those of his colleagues, when he noted recently that the biggest buggaboo is a fear of the unkwn. . . such as what is meant by rate regulation. . . and a fear of the bureaucratic regulations certain to follow as the people at HEW begin interpreting what Congress

meant, and issuing their guidelines.

What is written on the Potomac might not apply to Manteo, Dr. Sohmer snorted as he warned of a federal intervention across the board in health care which will turn every hospital., in North Carolina into a Veterans Administration hospital.

Physicians currently facing federal guidelines on Medicare and Medicaid payments which are beginning to spell out what kind of treatment should be used in particular cases, how long hospitalization or treatment can last, how much it can cost, are looking head with trembling to the time when federal bureaucrats will be able to issue such guidelines in all cases.

Physicians and agency people as well also fear the deliberate consumer dominance of the new law. If the program fails, several have suggested, it will not be the consumer or the politician who takes the blamebut the health care providers.

$100Billion Plan Fumbled

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON-During a break at a meeting of corporate magnates and Congressmen in Hot Springs, Va., last week, an Exxon executive sidled over to a Republican Congressman and quietly denounced President Fords $100 billion scheme to make the U.S. energy-independent.

Send that plan to Congress and you have put the camels nose of government ownership under the tent of the free enterprise system, the oilman said angrily.

Considering the firestorm of abuse political and economic that has fallen on the Energy Independence Authority (EIA), drafted in considerable secrecy by Vice President Nelson Rockefellers brain trust, the Exxon officials view was scarely unique. No presidential program in recent memory has been shot at right from the launch pad with such withering fire from so many big guns as the Ford-Rockefeller energy scheme.

Pro-Ford Republicans see EIA as a thinly-veiled

political stunt to come up with something big, no matter how glaringly out of phase with Mr. Fords repeated pledge to make government smaller, more controllable. Conservative anti-Ford Republicans see it as a lurch toward commercial welfare statism. The Presidents entire economic high command see? it as a camouflaged road' to vast new off-budget spending not reflected in regular budget accounting (widely used by Rockefeller as governor of New York). Big business sees it as a threat to free enterprise, liberal Democrats as a sop to big business.

Indeed, in a rare departure from his normal hands-off policy of presenting economic options without offering his own opinions, White House economic aide William Seidman sent the President a toughly-worded memo just before EIA won Mr. Fords backing. The memos clear implication: accept this, Mr. President, and you are biting off more than the federal government can chew.

Why then, did cautious.

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consensus-minded Jerry Ford embrace the $100 billion plan?

Answer No. 1: Stuck in a veto rut he dare not leave, the President wants one glorious made-by-Ford initiative for 1976 campaigning so he cannot be stigmatized as Mr. Veto. Insiders believe this view influenced White House chief of staff Don Rumsfled, who was equivocal, and Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton, who supported the plan as chairman of the Energy Resources Council.

Answer No.'2: Rockefeller has been drafting plans for his $100 billion baby for months, tapping his far-flung brain trust. Rockefellers commitment up to his eyeballs, in the phrase of one unhappy energy official, had potent effect on the President, who had promised broad authority over domestic programming to his Vice President.

Answer No. 3: Energy independence, Mr. Ford feels, is as important to the U.S. as national defense. After years of talk, he would be the President to make it happen, as John F. Kennedy put a man on the moon and Franklin D. Roosevelt built the atom bomb.

What infuriates the Presidents political allies in Congress was the absence of any consultation during the long evolution of the Rockefeller plan, despite its glaring departures from the Presidents perceived

Strength For Today

LENIENCY AND JUSTICE Because of the manifold truth of the beatitude, Blessed are the merciful, people very often get the idea that severity and steadfastness have no place in the Christians dealings with other people. Sometimes the ideal Christian, perhaps modelled on the many sentimental pictures of Jesus we have seen, is conceived as a person who never challenges or thwarts the will of anyone, but always gives way before pressure and goes through life exuding sweetness and light.

economic and political ideology.

In the House Republican cloakroom this week, one conservative Republican tongue-lashed a member of the partys leadership for not having informed the House Republican Ckrnference about EIA. But the leaders themselves knew nothing of the plan until the President announced it in California Sept. 22.

Apart from all else that besets the new-born EIA, this failure to consult Congress not in keeping with Mr. Fords usual political tact is another heavy load on its back.

Key Republican members of House energy subcommittees directly involved, Reps. Clarence J. Brown of Ohio and Louis Frey of Florida, had no inkling of EIA until the Presidents California speech.

The phalanx of ad

ministration advisers who have fought major parts of the plan during its birth

pangs include Frank Zarb of the Federal Energy Administration and Robert C. Seamans of the Energy Research and Development Administration. It is,

therefore, a miracle that word of the fierce bureaucratic infighting never seeped through to Congress.

Rockefeller, not the

President, is beneficiary of laudatory stories in liberal newspapers claiming his

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Actually, this kind of attitude is an evasion of responsibility fpr aiding the cause of justice and helping right prevail over wrong. This point was what the Roman philosopher Senaca had in mind when he said, Misplaced leniency is an offense against society. Those who will not exert themselves to see justice done are indirectly aiding the cause of injustice. And justice will not get done all by itself. Someone has to be demanding, forceful, and often unpleasant.

By Elisha Douglass

Oh. stop flinching;. Henry! Fni convinced that \uure still holding out on us."

By ARTBUCHWALD

The Price Of Freedom

WASHINGTON-I came home the other night from work, and I saw a man sitting on my stoop steaming open my mail.

Hey, what the heck are you doing? I demanded.

He took out his wallet and flashed a card. Im from the CIA. Im just checking to see if youre getting any letters from the Iron Curtain countries.

Youre not supposed to open peoples mail, I said. Thats illegal.

He looked at me and said, Sometimes in this business you have to do illegal things to save a legal democratic

form of government. We have to know who is planning to overthrow our institutions. We dont like it. But the other side is playing hardball.

But whats that got to do with my mail? And why are you steaming open a letter from my mother-in-law? How do we know its from your mother-in-law?

It says so right on the envelope, I protested.

Aha, you say its from your mother-in-law, but we know the other side always corresponds with its agents through a mother-in-law. But youre violating my constitutional rights, I

protested.

If it werent for us and our vigilance you wouldnt have any constitutional rights. Just how long would this countrys form of government last if we didnt violate the law in the name of national security?

ART

Other Editors Say Salesmanship

(The Robesonian)

Every now and then a retired industrialist, Heinz Rollman, who lives in Waynesville, comes up with a proposal to boost industry in North Carolina. He has done so again, although he claims that South Carolina has made more use of a promotional plan he offered 15 years ago.

This time, Rollman proposes that an old liberty ship be leased from the federal government (possibly for a dollar a year) and christened the State of North Carolina. It could be outfitted like an exhibition hall, stocked with displays of the enormous variety of industrial and farm products manufactured in this state, and staffed by students receiving college credits for their work on board The ship would travel to ports in Europe, on a schedule planned with the help of economic attaches at American embassies and consulates and acjvertised in European business publications. Rollman also suggests that North Carolinas governor and groups of legislators fly to Europe for discussions with industrialists who show interest in establishing branch factories in this country.

According to Rollman, as quoted in the Waynesville Mountaineer, most European industrialists have hardly ever heard of North Carolina, and Europeans by and large, when talking about the United States, refer to New York, Chicago, Detroit, California, Texas and Miami Beach Many of them just have not the foggiest idea about the rest of the country.

Its an imaginative proposition, which might well be explored. If North Carolina doesnt go for it. South Carolina which Rollman says has attracted factories creating 22,000 jobs in the past five years just might take it up.

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Just then a man walked up to the house carrying a ladder.

Who the hell are you? I said angrily.

He took out his wallet and showed it to me. FBI, he said.

What took you so long? I asked him. Listen, I want you to arrest this man for opening up my mail.

I cant do that, he said, setting up his ladder so it would reach the second-story bedroom window.

Why not?

I was sent here to break into your house and find out if youre trying to overthrow the government by force. Do you have a search warrant? I asked.

Nope, thats why I have to break into your house. Hand me that black bag with my burglars tools in it, please. Who gave you the legal right to break into my house?

Its not exactly a legal right. You could call it a precedent. J. Edgar Hoover, may he rest in peace, decided the law was too soft on revolutionaries. So in order to preserve the 'justice system in this country, which the Commies and Fascists would take away from us, he (Continued on page 5)

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By ROBERT B. CULLEN Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP)-There ought to be more and better synonyms for crisis. The poor word is being worked to death and could use a breather.

The thesaurus is usually handy for this sort of thing. But for crisis it offers only a few weak suggestions like critical point, emergency, and the colloquial pinch. Although emergency has some potential uses, none of the thesaurus suggestions seem adequate. Whoever heard of an Energy Critical Point?

Until someone comes up with a better word, your newspaper will probably continue to offer stories and headlines about the Middle East Crisis, the Natural Gas Crisis, and the Malpractice Crisis, among others.

Politicians are quick to overuse crisis. 'They like to envision themselves and their jobs as important and necessary. Any plumber can deal with a problem, but it takes a man of stature and ability to deal with a crisis.

Reporters and editors should know better. But they play along on the theory that with so many crises around, no one will be interested in reading about a mere serious problem.

Unfortunately, words are not like muscles which get stronger with regular exercise. Quite the opposite is often the case. So it is with crisis. 'The word has just about lost its ability to alarm us.

Its no wonder. Take the Energy Crisis. Wasnt that where we had to wait on line for gasoline for a few weeks?

Take the Middle East Crisis. In various guises, it has been with us at least since Noah built the Ark. Somehow, the Middle East is still there and shows no signs of going away in the near future.

New York City has been having fiscal crises ever since Peter Minuet had to scrape together $24 to buy it from the Indians. It has yet to be swallowed up by the Hudson River, however.

Then there was last winters natural gas crisis in North Carolina. Everyone was going to lose his job, freeze, or perhaps both. Except that they didnt.

It is much the same with the states current favorite, the malpractice insurance crisis. Several doctors have lost their insurance, but none have gone bankrupt and no one has died because of it.

It is difficult to blame the av- j erage citizen or politician whho hears about the latest crisis, shrugs his shoulders, and assumes that somehow things will work themselves out.

The well muddle through attitude brings its own problems, as was seen in the malpractice situation.

Despite the fact that every- one concerned was talking about the impending crisis, no one seemed to believe it could actually happen until it just about did.

President Ford has discovered that its difficult to get Congress to pay much attention to the renewed energy, crisis he sincerely believes is coming.

Secretary of Natural and Econoniic Resources James Harrington has been frantically escalating his rhetoric in an effort to get people worried about the natural gas shortage he expects this winter.

And so it goes. The overuse of crisis has numbed our response to legitimate and serious problems.

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Fighting To Lift Rice Controls

By BERNARD BRENNER UPI Farm Editor

WASHINGTON (UPI) Backers of a plan to eliminate government production controls oil rice believe the prospects for pushing the proposal throui Congress are looking up.

A campaign for legislation to end federal marketing quotas on rice foundered last year in the House despite strong consumer support because of opposition from lawmakers representing several major growing areas including California, Texas and Louisiana. It is also opposed by national farm groups including the

American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union.

We know there is still strong, determined opposition to the bill, Rep. Bill Alexander, D-Ark., one of the leading congressional

backers of the proposal, said in an interview.

But Alexander said the opposition is weaker than it was last year. Some Louisiana and Texas growers who formerly were fighting the move now either support it or see the inevitability of it, he said.

If the pending rice bill becomes law, old growers who have held government rice planting allotments for years would continue to get government price protection on alloted acreage. But new farmers who wanted to get into the rice growing business without government supports would be free to do so without facing the stiff cash penalties which can be assessed on nonallotment rice under current law.

In the H(Hise Agriculture Committee, a subcommittee has already approved the legislation and the full committee is scheduled to act

on it Oct 21. Action by a Senate Agriculture subcommittee had been expected Sept 25 but was delayed by scheduling conflicts.

Alexander said in an intei^ view, 1 think we have the votes to win approval of the measure in the House committee.

Were in much better shape than last year when grower spokesmen from California, Louisiana and Texas were solidly united against growers from Arkansas and Mississippi, he said.

In addition to the farmer support from Arkansas and Mississippi, Alexander noted the rice planting bill also is being pushed by lobbyists from a wide range of consumer organizations. Those groups, which also include processors, met here last 'week for a strategy session to prepare for the coming drive.

The effort also has the support of Agriculture Secretary Earl L Butz who sees it as part of a broader move to dismantle the last traces of production controls from federal farm law. Acreage controls have already been dropped from major crops including grains and cotton, but still remain on the bodes for rice, peanuts and tobacco.

Some critics of the bill contend its prospects may be dimmed by the record 1975 rice harvest in this country. Coupled with big crops abroad, this has brought grower prices down this year and threatened a substantial buildup in surplus stocks over the coming year.

Alexander, however,' Mid he has been told by indtj^try experts that there is a great, untapped world market for rice which should provide an opportunity for expanding American production.