4The Dali}' Reflector. Greenville. N.C.Wednesday, November 12, lt7S

An Immediate Threat Ended

King Hassan II of Morocco has ordered his astounding March of Conquest" into the Spanish Sahara to return home.

The 350,000 volunteers which made up an un-precendited unarmed army is pulling back to home territory with the king declaring that the march has accomplished its purpose.

Hassan said, however, that the army would be held together near the border in case bargaining broke down with l^ain aver control of the territory.

It was reported that Spain had agreed to place the territory under United Nations control and in turn the UN would place it under the joint administration of Moroccan, Mauritanian and local Saharan officials.

The withdrawal ends an immediate threat to peace and the prospect that thousands of the marchers could have been killed by land mines or waiting Spanish military forces.

It does not end claims by both Morocco and

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Mauritania to the territory or Spanish and Algerian backing for self-determination by the Saharan people.

Morocco claims the northern part of the territory which has heavy phosphate deposits. Morocco already has major {osphate deposits in its possession and this additional territory would make it a major holder of phosphate reserves in the world. That touches our area since we have major phosphate reserves in the Beaufort County area whose development could conceivably be affected by Moroccan moves into Spanish Sahara.

At any rate or immediate crisis has been resolved with the Moroccan masses withdrawal from Spanish Sahara. With the Spanish soon to leave the area, however, we can expect still further squabbles for the territory. Hopefully, though this strange march of hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians wont be repeated.

I DONT KNOW ALL OF A SUDDEN

New Governor's Struggle

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH Just a year from now, North- Carolina will have a new governor-elect, awaiting inauguration in January.

That manby most odds, a Democrat-after the flush of election victory, will retreat about this time of the month to some isolated area to take stock of what he has done, and what is ahead.

The conclusion he must reach is that he is heir to one of the knottiest problems to face a newly elected governor in this century.

Following a Republican into office, the new governor will have no precedents and traditions to guide him. In fact, traditions which served well in the past are out the window.

It is of no litUe concern just how the new governor will be able to get people loyal to him into the hundreds of critical jobs in state government.

An Adversary Those jobs now are occupied by political appointees and their appointees, enjoying the rewards at the patronage system; some call it the spoils system."

The people in those jobs are critical to the success of a

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new governors program.

First, it is the upper to the middle management levels which implement bureaucratically the executive decisions which come from the governors office.

Secondly, it is state agency expertise which tells the governor the truth about programshow much they cost, whether they are working, or can be made to work, what ought to be done to rejuvenate or replace them.

Thirdly, any new governor's package of proposals must be speedily put before his first session of the General Assembly following on the heels of his inauguration. Early enactment of law to implement whatever bright and visionary new things he hopes to spend money on is essential, because historically the second General Assembly a governor works with is never as cooperative as the first.

Fourthly, members of the General Assembly are effectively without expertise and advice on the intricate and intimate workings of the numerous state agencies;

thus dependent upon state agency heads and division chiefs and their minions for facts and figures and opinion.

means the governor must have loyal agency people to support and sell, much as lobbyists, his proposals in the committee process of the General Assembly.

Real Power

Finally, every new incoming governor has used his power to appoint friends and allies to high-paying, status-loaded jobs to guarantee votes for his legislative program.

In case after case, vital support in the General Assembly has come from members of that lawmaking body who work hard for the governors program because they have been promised a specific job as soon as the session adjourns; or because a friend, relative, or political ally has been promised a job down the road.

The system worked pretty well in the past; office holders were largely left in place until the new governor could get settled in, get his legislative program moving, and use his appointive clout as a bargaining tool with the

General Assembly.

The same problem applies to the top-level cabinet people the governor appoints: they must depend upon the people beneath them to run things. The situation reaches deeply into state government, and not just the top. The administration of Republican Gov. James E. Holshouser, Jr., has replaced people all the way down the ranks to personnel officers, district highway engineers, regional supervisors, even clerical slots.

Democratic administrations have never had to move swiftly or deeply in the past in making job changes. If the next governor is a Democrat, however, he will face the demand for immediate action which will make Washingtons Saturday night massacre look like a Sunday picnic.

And in doing so, he may be cutting off his main source of bargaining power. But what is the alternative?

High-level Democrats are already puzzling this dilemma as they wonder how deeply in the ranks and how quickly Republicans can be fired and Democrats put on the payroll.

Connolly's Spirit Of '76

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK

MONTPELIER, Vt. - The fact that John B. Connallys curious quest for political power would bring him to the Republican back reaches of New England shows how determined the former governor of Texas is to establish a base no matter how ephemeral for 1976 presidential politics.

That determination puzzles even pro-Connally politicians, because until recently there seemed no conceivable way for the 58-year-old Texan to break into 1976 presidential politics either as a Republican or in some vague Connally third party.

Now, however, with Nelson Rockefeller out of 1976 vice-presidential contention and President Ford and Ronald Reagan on the verge of bitterly bruising primary combat starting in February, Connallys hope for a piece of the action looks less forlorn. If it comes, Connally makes clear to intimates, it will come inside - not outside

the Republican party.

Well before he arrived here last week in spring-like weather to address the $25 a plate annual Republican fund-raising dinner, he knew the political climate was distinctly chilly. For one thing, John McClaughrey, Caledonia County party chairman, boycotted the dinner. Conservative Republican McClaughrey attacked ex-Democrat Connally as a menace to America for advocating compulsory national service and embracing what McClaughrey called the corporate socialism of Lockheed-style federal bailouts while he was Richard Nixons Secretary of the Treasury.

Far more important, however, was the initial but quick to change reaction to Connally of old-line party patrons who came only grudgingly to hear the Dixie accents of Lyndon B. Johnsons political protege.

"Im here because 1 have to be," the chairman of one of Vermonts most populous

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counties told us in the bleak basement of the Barre auditorium near here while awaiting Connallys arrival for dinner. No matter what the jury said, Connally is still carrying that smear. We heard simitar references to Connallys acquittal in last years bribery trial a harsh rebuttal to Connallys own feeling that his indictment hurt not one bit.

Worse was the peremptory dismissal of Connally as a Republican leader, much less a party power, by one of the main managers of Republican Sen. Robert Staffords Senate election campaign next year. Asked how Connally might fare in New England as a candidate for national office, he said the question was based on an unimaginable premise.

Such open hostility to the state committee's controversial choice for the 1975 party fund-raising dinner (addresses last year by President Ford and in 1973 by Ronald Reagan) made Connallys conspicuous success as the evening warmed up all the more glittering.

For what Connally' proved here, to the great surprise of the Republican establishment. was that his flair and rhetorical drama on the political stump exceed that of any other Republican with the possible exception of Reagan. Even more attractive to the dour, no-

nonsense Yankee politicians who heard him was Connallys breathtaking positions on highly controversial political issues (a freedom he blandly tells friends he can indulge in because Im not running for anything).

Thus, following his speech here calling for a single, six-year presidential term, a maximum 12 years in Congress, forced retirement at 70 tor all federal judges and a host of other proposals, former Gov. Deane Davis was exuberant.

The best speech we have ever had at one of our fundraisers," he told us. He really aroused the party and he got a tremendous reaction. Indeed, repeated applause, including a foot-thumping ovation when Connally attacked the governmental bureaucracy Congress has allowed to envelop very phase of private business and private life, revealed a portent here that some politicians perceive across the nation: a yearning for what appears to be bold leadership under a charismatic )eader.

It is this portent that has aroused Connallys instinct and sent him out on the gruelling cream-chicken political dinner circuit around the nation. Connally senses the political vacuum and intends to be available to fill it if the chance comes.

That it will come is highly (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

MIRACLES ON THE WAY

As Jesus was entering a village one day, ten men who were lepers, standing in pathetic isolation by the roadside, called to him and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us! Jesus told them to start a journey to the temple at Jerusalem, and He assured them that as they went they would be healed.

They started off on this agonizing pilgrimage with no assurance save the word of this man they trusted. And we can be sure that they had

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ByARTBUCHWALD

OutOf A Job In 1976

WASHINGTON The first thing that came to my mind last week when I heard about all the different changes in President Fords team is what a blow it must have been to the Rockefellers.

In the last few months the Rockefellers have been throwing party after party to introduce everyone to the new vice-presidential residence on Massachusetts Ave., and it cost them a pretty penny. Im certain they wouldnt have gone to all that expense if they had any idea that President Ford was going to push Rocky off the ticket in 1976.

As a matter of fact I wouldnt have wanted to have been in Rockys shoes the night he came home and

broke the news to Happy.

Rocky, you looked bushed. Have a dry martini. Ive been making up the guest list for bur next party to show people the new vice-presidential mansion.

I wouldnt do that if I were you. Happy.

Why not?

I dont think were going to be living here much longer.

You mean youve been fired?

Not exactly. But Gerry doesnt want me on his new team.

Thats awful. What are we going to do? How are we going to make a living? Dont worry. Ill find something. My brother David knows a lot of people and Im

Other Editors Say The Pistol Packers

(Raleigh Times)

Is it really a surprise to anybody that in North Carolina gunshot deaths are statistically likely to pass car accidents as the leading violent- death cause within the next five yearS?

Or that death by gun is already the way one of every 50 Tar Heels lives ends?

What do we expect when each week in Wake County an average 40 pistol permits are issued?

And when any adult who lives in the county, has no obvious criminal record and can bring in a non-relative to vouch for his character can walk out (rf the sheriffs office with a permit that can provide the means to kill at close range?

Wake traffic deaths, new figures show, have dropped with tighter speed limits and other safety measures. Last year only 43 people were killed in cars compared with 53 in I960, despite a population increase since 1960 of S3 per cent But with gun deaths the statewide story* s the opposite, a death rate climbing to within five per cent (rf the car wrecks 32 per cent as causes of violent deaths.

So, too; with local pistol permits.

In 1966, the first year totals are available. Wake had just over 200,000 people, of whom715 got permission that year to be pistol-packers.

But in 1975, with population estimated at 259,000, the pistol permit business is so brisk that if the present rate lasts through December, 2,156 will have been issued this year.

Not only the number of permits but also the rate as a proportion <rf the population has risen enormously. If it cm-nues on the same track, by about 1978 one <rf every 100 Wake Countians will be joining the pishd-bearing ranks each year.

And permits have no time limit, expiring only when the holder commits a felony or a new sheriff takes office. Those who used their permits in 1966 presumably still have their guns, except for the ones whove since broken societys major rules with or without using their pistols.

It took a combinatiMi of public dismay and a gas shortage to prove what many had suspected, that traffic deaths could be curtailed through law and common sense What will it take with handguns?

sure one of them will give me a job.

How could he do it to you? Youve worked so hard and youve been so loyal.

That doesnt count when youre a Vice President. Gerrys worried about his own job, and he figures if he gets rid of me the Republican board of directors will get off his back.

But the least he could have done was tell you before we gave all those parties. We used up our life savings entertaining the very people Gerry is trying to placate. Dont be too harsh on him. Happy. He hit his head on a swimming pool a few days ago, and that might have had something to do with his decision.

Well, you can take it with equanimity, but Im the one who has to make ends meet. Weve still got the children to educate and well have to move and we still have the caterers bill to pay.

David will help us with a loan, Happy. It could be worse. Gerry fired Jim Schlesinger and Bill Colby today as well. Were still on the payroll until December 30, 1976. Those poor guys have to apply tor unemployment insurance next week. They took one of, Henrys jobs away, too.

Its disgraceful. I think you should write Gerry a letter and tell him what you really think.

I have to write him a letter, but I dont think I better tell him what I really think.

Why not?

I might need him for references in case someone offers me a job.

What I dont like about it is that he kept saying you were the greatest Vice President he ever had. If he thought so highly of you, why didnt he want to keep you on?

Maybe its because Im a New Yorker. Hes had it in for New Yorkers for the last six months. He makes jokes about us all the time.

Oh, Rocky, what are we going to do?

I dont know. I guess you better call the caterer and tell him we may have to default on his bill.

Ruling Is Still Studied

By DAVE RILEY Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 21 years after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools, the court still is studying questions of segregated education and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is launching a public defense of busing to achieve racial balance.

The nations highest court handed down decisions in four busing-related school desegregation cases Tuesday, then agreed to consider whether a private school can legally refuse to enroll black students.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which did not even exist when the high court handed down its landmark desegregation ruling in 1954, said it would sponsor public hearings, surveys and conferences in the next year in an effort to battle what officials see as a threat to antidiscrimination efforts.

Commission chairman Arthur S. Flemming said sentiment against the busing of children to achieve racial balance threatens the whole civil rights movement and that panel members will fight antibusing amendments in Congress.

In addition to agreeing to hear arguments in the private schools case, the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions that could require busing to desegregate schools in Omaha, Neb., and in three St. Louis-area school districts.

The court also announced it would review a lower court decision holding that the Pasadena, Calif., board of education still is bound by a 1970 desegregation order although board members claim their schools now are fully integrated.

The private school case was appealed to the high court by two private Virginia schools. Lawyers for the Fairfax-Brews-ter School of Baileys Crossroads, Va., and Bobbes Private School in Arlington, Va., say federal antidiscrimination laws do not apply to private institutions.

If the laws do apply, the lawyers say that would amount to violations of constitutional rights to privacy and freedom of association.

In the Pasadena case, school (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

November 12,1935

One of the safety measures needed in the state as much as anything else is the painting of a center line on all hard-surfaced highways, in (he opinion of Captain Charles D. Farmer, commander of the State Highway Patrol.

At the present time, center lines are painted only on curves and hills, but Captain Farmer believes the center line should be made continuous on all of the hard-surfaced highways.

One of the most daiigerous hazards on the roads today are the middle-of-the-road drivers who some way seem to feel that they are safer if they drive in the middle of the road, Captain Farmer said. But if highways had center lines, it would enable us to compel these drivers to stay to the right of the line and remain in their proper traffic lane.

James Kyle

See Solution In 'Federal Help'

doubts about the outcome of their journey. Yet they were healed, not at the beginning of the journey nor the end, but while they were on the way.

Thus does the grace of God work on human lives to this very hour. People are sometimes miraculously and instantaneously transfmmed by the spirit of the living God. But for most erf us this sort of thing takes place gradually and while we are patiently walking the pathway of everyday duty.

by EUsha Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF Associated Press Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The savings and loan people, who like to remind you how much theyve done to finance the houses of America, feel they need some understanding and perhaps some aid They are deeply concerned, f(xr example, that the typical American family no longer can afford to purchase the typical new single-family home. They are worried about the deep social implications of this.

More to the point, they are concerned about the decisions this thrusts upon them. Their business is lending money to finance home ownership, but their first responsibility is to protect their customers savings.

Builders, however, seem unable to bring housing costs down Attempts to do so have been frustrated by rising prices of land, labM- and materials, and often by old-fashioned, restrictive building codes.

Theres another complicating factor: the

American dream of a singlefamily hMne on its own green quarteracre lives on. More than one financial institution was convinced it could change this aspiration, and failed.

That is, they tried to move young families into modem town house-style dwellings, but the young mod-ns interpreted modem to mean

They observed that town houses were connected, that they shared party walls and that above all, they were

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not distinctly separate houses on their own grassy plots.

The head (rf one savings and loan association relates how his company still owns a town house development in which it managed to re<kice the price (rf a two-bedroom unit to about $20,000. There was little demand It now rents, instead

Young couples still want the old-fashioned, singlefamily unit on its own plot, said the frustrated (esident of the association which is situated in the Pacific Noo thwest They want what mom and dad had be said

Something has to give, he indicated and you get the feeling that many other housing and finance peo|rfe share that belief. Construction (rf new housing remains slow, interest rates re

main relatively high, and [M-ices are rising.

More than 8,000 delegates, spouses and exhibitors are gathered here for the83rd annual convention of the U.S.

Simply providing for the usual, middle-class need for housing is risky enough during periods of economic confusion, they point out, but at<^ this they face a dilemma on how to finance low-income, inner city housing.

The savings and loan people have made a ix-oposal: We will in good conscience be able to risk the savings of <>ur customers to finance such housing if the government will help.

How? Through federal guarantees. They propose that investments by them in blighted areas be insured to 80 per cent by the federal government