4Tbc Dally Renector. Grenvfll, N.C.Tlitmday, October l, 1975

May Benefit In Faster Action

The Stkte Utilities Commission is moving more rapidly in hearing rate cases, the Associated Press reported this week.

The speed-up has come about because of some actions by the General Assembly at its last session. The membership of the commission was increased from fve to seven and the l^y can split into two groups of three in order to hear two cases at the same time. In acklition $1.2 million was appropriated for expansion of the Utilities Commission staff. Utilities are also now required to submit their evidence at the time they make an application.

Two major cases were recently heard by the commission, one involved Southern Bell Telephone Co.s request for an increase and another Duke Powa* Co.s request for permission to build a new nuclear pow^ station. In the past the full commission would have heard only (Hie case at a time.

Another case involving Carolina Power and

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Light is expected to be completed in less than six m<Hiths because of the new evidence rule. In the past the case could have consumed nine months.

Speeding up the hearing of rate increases might not seem beneficial to the consume, who feels that rate increases in effect under bond while the cases are being heard. When the cases drag out the increase is almost forgotten by the consumer by the time they are finally decided. Then frequently there has been a new rate increase hanging as the Utilities try to justify it because of steadily increasing costs.

If the Utilities Commission can move more rapidly to hear these cases after application for an increase is made, then the state agency will be closer to the facts and hopefully the commission will be able to do more to hold down the increases.

The regulatory processes are at least moving more quicldy, and we would like to think that in ie long run the consumer will benefit.

Promises Exert Authority

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGHEd OHerron thinks North Carolina needs a governor who will exert authority and use the power of the office to solve some of the states problems.

The failure to lead, he says, particularly prominent with a Rq;>ublican governor in office facing a Democratic General Assembly and several key state agencies headed by elected Democrats,, is something which a gov^or could do something^bout.

First, the governor has control of the budget. Even more importantly, he could sit down with the people involved and tell them to get on with it.

Its a case of saying that as a party, we are supposed to provide leadership for the good of the people of North Carolina... and the governor should exert leadership and influence, OHerton believes.

On The Trail The Charlotte drugstore executive is on the campaign trail lining up support for his bid to win the Democratic nomination in next Augusts

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gubernatorial primary. He is trading in his jet plane, which he pilots himself, for S twin-engine prop craft so he can get around North Carolinas rural airstrips better.

And while he declines to detail specific problems and suggest solutions at this early timehe promises to do that when he formalizes his bid early next yearthere comes through loud and clear in his comments the belief that a governor ought to be more assertive and demanding of state government.

Agencies, he said, are showing a tendency to fly off in contrasting directions rather than working together to solve problems.

The state should be run as a team effort with competent, honest leadership, not a one-man show, and OHerron is convinced that early signs of a runaway win by Lt. Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., are premature. The man in the street hasnt been heard from.

He does confess a name recognition problem, and laughs at the suggestion that his success in that area would

be largely solved if his drugstores bore his own nameor if he were Ed Eckerd. OHerrons father launched the chain in 1921 with a single shop in Charlotte. It was named for . OHerrons grandfather. The corporation now has 228 drugstores in eight Southern states, and two clothing operations as well: Wrangler Wranches and Deb Shoppes, both specializing in female ready-to-wear. OHerron is chairman of the board, relinquishing his role as chief executive about a year and a half ago, to devote more time to politics and civic activities.

No Labels At 59 years of age, OHerron is robust and relaxed, with a mane of silver hair and conservative dress of a corporation executive. While largely considered the candidate of the consen^ative business community, OHerron refuses to attach labels to himself: Labels and Libel, he says, and adds that he would be conservative in fiscal matters, liberal in others.

He is also treading with reluctance in making political promises to win supportthey dont mean anything, he says. If they did, U.S. 17 (Ocean Highway) would be 16 lanes cause four governors have promised to four-lane it. Why face the rigors of a political campaign, instead of enjoying the fruits of his years and work? As Ben Franklin said. . . they gave us a Republic, if we can keep it. Getting involved is part Of that.

Like other gubernatorial candidates before him, OHerron zeroes in on the states low per-capita income (about $3,700) as a prime problem needing the combined efforts of trade and vocational schools, other educators, industry hunters, and community leaders.

A former Marine captain who saw battle in the Pacificincluding Iwo JimiOHerron won the Silver Star, and while widely traveled, he wouldnt live any place besides North Carolina. Its a great state... but Im not saying it cant be improved.

Mississippi New Politics

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

JACKSON, Miss.-Fueled by an unprecedented issue campaign with aggresive television exposure in this poorest of all states. Republican Gil Carmichael has tossed conventional orthodoxy overboard in his underdog race to become Mississippis first Republican governor since carpetbagger Reconstruction days.

Carmichaels self-professed new politics is a breathtaking departure for a state long torn apart by the bloody race issue. That corrosive, overwhelming factor in the past century of Deep South politics here seems all but dead and buried. Thats not even a Mickey Mouse issue anymore, conservative Republican state chairman Clarke Reed told us.

Thus, with both Carmichael and Democrat Cliff Finch, his bland, shadowy opponent, courting black voters on newspaper front pages and television screens, Carmichael has zeroed in with courageous abandon on explosively controversial issues no Mississippi politician has dared confrontincluding Carmic

hael himself when he captured 40 per cent of the vote against Sen. James o: Eastland in the 1972 senatorial election.

Gun control, for example. Carmichael began airing a television spot three weeks ago calling for registration and licensing of all handguns. While Reed and other political pros .in the Carmichael camp blanched, Carmichael insisted voters here are ready for state action in the face of an alarming Mississippi kill-rate from illegal Saturday night specials. In one small Delta town in the first half of 1975, 1,200 handguns were sold by a single pawnshop.

Statewide polls updated each week for Carmichael by Mississippi Opinion Research, founded and headed by Walter DeVries (a skilled political technician who once worked for former Michigan Gov. George Romney), indicate Carmichaels judgment about Mississippi voters may be right. The latest DeVries sample shows an astonishing 71 per cent statewide support for the registration-and licensing demand.

Or consider Carmichaels call for a new state con-

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stitution. To Eastlands Democratic party establishment, this has galvanized Democratic courthouse politicians, whose sinecures and perquisites would be threatened by a new constitution streamlining a state government that has 60 separate agencies dealing with health. Yet, DeVriess polls show 75 per cent voter approval today for Carmichaels new constitution, up from 10 per cent in March.

Fading away of racial politics has created the political change that underpins Carmichaels hardsell issue campaign. For example, his plan for compulsory education through the eighth grade (in the only state still without compulsory education) would have been suicidal ten years ago.

While racial politics dominated Mississippi, compulsory education raised this spectre: educating

blacks for heightened political action. But Carmichael and some other politicians now see a different Mississippi: a state rich in agriculture and raw materialsoil, gas, cotton, riceand abysmally poor in skilled labor. Thus, educating black youth becomes essential for Mississippi to develop a skilled labor pool and build its own domestic industries to process its raw material.

While Carmichael preaches the new Mississippi in tones not heard before, the Finch campaign is still in neutral, almost invisible to the voter.

A huge and surprise winner of last summers Democratic primary. Finch is protecting the 58 per cent of the vote he won then by avoiding all controversy, kissing babies and plugging the workers lunch pail which symbolized his successful primary election theme as the friend of the workingman.

Finch announces no

campaign schedule, holds no press conferences and ignores Carmichael. His big money backers in the

Democratic establishment here think that is just the right strategy and are

quietly pressing him not to change. But DeVriess polls are painting a different picture: a huge undecided vote (over 30 per cent) that is beginning to break toward Carmichael.

Whether it breaks sharply and soon enough for the Nov.' 4 election depends on the black minority. Republican haters since the New Deal. If the new Mississippi preached by Carmichael can penetrate and change black voting habits of four decades, Mississippi could find itself with a progressive Republican governora

momentous development in the swiftly changing South.

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strength For Today

BOOMERANG Whatever we do of good eventually comes back to us again to do us good. Similarly, whatever we do of evil comes back to injure us. The Bible expresses it by saying, Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Evil men may flourish for a time, but at the end God will put something on the oth^ side of the scales which will make them balance. God has made this world in such a way that although men may seem to be able to do evil with impunity, retribution always

takes place. Of course, the good or evil that we may do might not bring its reward or punishment quickly. Sometimes one or both may be delayed for a generation or more; occassionally for centuries. There are some situations in which full justice will only be done in the eternity of God.

Therefore we should be careful of our thoughts, more careful of our words, and most careful of our acts. These last two... are boomerangs which will come back to bless or punish us.

by Ellstaa Douglass

GUNS DON'T KILL BILLS, PEOPLE KILL BILLS.

()i*7S if Courirr-Siurual

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Best 'Watergate Book'

WASHINGTON Of the writing of Watergate books there will be no end. At least forty such works have appeared thus far. But if youre interested in one Watergate book only, to keep for permanent reference on your library shelf, this, is your book: Washington Journal, by Elizabeth Drew.

Most of the Watergate books that have crossed my desk are characterized by a combination liability and

asset; They are the work not of observers, but of participants. Even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Gold Dust twins of the Washington Post, wound up with active roles in the drama.

This observation also comes to mind: Most of the Watergate books have been written by persons who are not writers. The authors are lawyers, most of them, whose pens are filled with library

Other Editors Say

Goodbye To WWII

(The Wilson Times)

The visit of his Majesty, the Emperor <rf Japan, and the Empress has been much more personal than anyone expected. The Emperor and Empress of Japan stay almost in seclusion, they do not mingle with the people as he did on his trip to the United States.

His interest in farming carried him through the dusty furrows on the farms as he inspected the soybeans and other crops. Through his interpreter. Emperor Hirohito asked if the department stores in Chicago sell insects in bottles.

Mayor Richard J. Daley answrn-ed saying the children had plenty of insects at home The Emperor and Empress came to see They attended state dinners and every t}^ of entertainment to be (rffwed. But last week in a toast in Chicago he called this the land of Lincoln and the heartland of the North American continent And after luncheon he was on his way to inspect the livestock and ride a soybean combine and throw a switch on a grain dryer on a 2,300-acre farm.

Before starting west, he visited the colonial restoration at Williamsburg, Va., the nations Capitol, the Weeds Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and the United Nations in New Yorii City. In New York he watched a professional football game. When he left Chicago he stopped by Disneyland, San Diego and San Fram:isco, then flew to Honolulu on the way home to Tokyo The Emperors visit is called the realization of a long-held dream. There is little doubt that the trip was planned as a last good-by to World War n, and all it stood for.

The 74-year-old Emperor, stripped of real power by the 1947 Japanese constitution, which was written by the Americans, made references to the war without flinching. In Norfolk, Va., he sent but did not take a wreath to be placed on the tomb of General Douglas MacArthur, the man who saved him from a war criminals trial in 1946 and who is regarded as a conquering hero in Japan today. ^

When the Emperor and his party were ntertained at the White House, no mention was made of the war, which he later called a tragic and deplorable war. The Emperor personally placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers.

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Mrs. Drew, by contrast, came to Watergate as a good sports writer comes to a baseball season. She is a spectator, and experienced observer, a superlative reporter. She turns her level brown eyes on the unfolding history of an incredible year. Sh Jooked intently that is her secretand then she ran the photo-images through a disciplined mind. This is the reporters art. She is among the best in town.

The idea for Washington Journal developed in August of 1973, in a conversation with Willi^ Shawn, editor of Thfe w Yorker. The rumors about Agnew were slowly seeping, she recalls. It was like the smell of leaking gas. Both of us had the feeling that something was going to explode. He suggested that I watch it day by day.

She laid in a stock of 5 x 7 notebooks, large enough for copious notes, small enough to fit in her purse; and day by day for a solid year, from White House to Capitol Hill to U S. District Court, she was a one-womh press gallery. Hers is not the work of scholar or historian, written from the long view of hindsight. It is rather a distillation, drop by drop, from the alembic of each days events.

Good leporting demands something more than the camera eye and the tape-recording ear. Good reporters react. They question, they doubt, they wonder. In early March of 1974, Mrs. Drew penciled into her notebook a passage that might be assigned to a Greek chorus:

The question persists; What manner of men were these who once ran the Nixon administration andi the country? Of course, we do not yet know whether they are guilty as charged, but we already know much of what (Continued on page 8)

People

Love

Poetry

By LYNNE OIJSON Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) The crowd pushed hard to get close to Sergei Yesenins grave.

Teen-age boys perched in trees to get a better look, and old women listened raptly as a young man recited from memory the verses of Yesenin, a young lyric poet who killed himself in 1925.

It was the 80th anniversary of Yesenins birth, and hundreds of people streamed to Moscows Vagankovskoye Cemetery , throughout the day to lay fresh flowers, recite his poetry or simply stand silently in tribute before his simple grave.

When Yesenin, the former husband of the late American dancer, Isadora Duncan, slashed his wrists, dozens of grief-stricken admirers across the country followed his example. A young woman named Galya hanged herself on a tree near his grave. The tree still ' stands. 1

The Soviets love of poetry and the men and women who write it is a striking phenomenon in a country which was largely illiterate less than 60 years ago.

New editions of poems by Yesenin, Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail Lermontov the most -popular of the older Russian poets are sold out within hours after theyre put on bookstore shelves.

Those poets, particularly Pushkin, who died in a duel in i 1837, are idolized by young and old alike, and practically every educated Russian can recite some of their poetry by heart. # The best-known contempo-'" rary poets, such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky, are treated like rock music stars by the young, and ^ swarms of high school and col- ^ lege students flock to their infrequent poetry readings.

The Soviets are also fond of a ' wide range of Western poetry, from Sir Walter Scott to Robert, Burns to the U.S. black poet Langsto<) Hughes. They patiently stand in line whenever works by these poets become available a rare event.

For the Soviet people, poetry'' is not entertainment but a living necess|^, says Vasily Be* taki, a Leningrad poet who ^ emigrated to the West in 1973. ' Poetry is read, learned by heart and sung to guitars. * Russia is the only place where poetry is really impor-(Continued on page 8)

40 Years Ago Today

October IG, 193.5 ^

Officials disclosed today ' that France and Great Britain are asking , Washington if the United * States is willing to restrict imports from Italy in case a sanction is placed on Mussolinis facist government by the League of Nations.

The same question is also being asked other powers, ^ including Germany, Japan and Brazil.

Emporer Haile Selassie complained today at reports that Ethiopia had suffered some defeats on battle fronts. Italian occupation of Aduwa and Aksum, he said, was without military significance.

The North Carolina Tar Heels, undefeated for the e season, beat Maryland last week in Baltimore, 33-0.

James Kyle

I Default Can't Make It Worse

Ry JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - Some highly r^arded authorities on municipal bonds say financial default by New York City isnt likely to have further serious impact on the already inflated borrowing Costs of other cities.

Their reason for the relatively optimistic view, if that is what it may be called, is based primarily on the assumption that so much damage to confidence already has occurred that a default could hardly make it worse.

Borrowing through the is-surance of bonds has been made Uterally impossible for many local and state governments and their agencies. Even those with the

highest ratings are fenced to pay record, high rates.

What do you mean ripple effect, said a Kansas City dealer about the widespread loss of confidence and resulting higher borrowing costs. Its been a tidal wave here. Some dealers believe It cant get worse I dont think that in or out of New York municipal txmds will be discounted much more, saidSieselE. Canady Jr., ci John NuveenA Ce, a 77-year-old house that specializes in tax-exempt municipal bonde An actual default will be no catastT(^he, he sidtL "There wUl be an initial drop in the maitt for ciertain, but a rebound will follow and in a few weeks the martcet will be where it was before.

Canady doesnt eliminate the poinibility of damage to confldtice that might take yeai^ to overcne. Nor does he ignore, the chance that social and other problems might follow in New Ywk City. But he does feel the impact on the structure ol the market, and trading, wUl be relatively slight

A return to existing condi-tions however can hardly be construed as completely encouraging, because the maiicet today is so badly depressed. Roughly $20 Ullion has been erased from the value of municipal securities in just one year.

The Standard ft Poors municipal b(xid index shows average borrowing costs now are at 7.32 per cent, after

reaching an all-time high of 7.40 a wedt ago. A year ago the index was about 6.6 per cent

Dow Jones showed municipal bonds yielding investors 7.63 per cent last wedt, more than a full percentage point over rates of just one year ago.

The maricet is in a psychic panic, saidBrenton Harries, president of Standard ft Poors Ctnp., which assigns credit ratings to about 95 per cent of the ^re than $200 billion worth of municipal bonds outstanding.

Potential investors in municipal securities, he said, have reacted totally out of proportion to the risk. In other wwtis, he indicated, the worst might already have been taken into account