4The Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Thnraday, November 27, 17S

Reagan Promises Excitement

llie Republican Party has been given a shot in the arm by formal entry of Ronald W. Reagan in the presidential race. He is a man who can and will add color and excitement to what might otherwise have been a hum-dnun affair. Democrats, by the very diversity of their many candidates, have no problem in that respect.

Candidacy of the former California governor poses intriguing possibilities for pre-campaign speculation as well as a promise of joy in the hearts of all who relish contrast, high drama and suspense in the political arena.

A national audience will see an actor in action ... a polished actor . . . knowledgeable in all the tricks of the trade and capable of portrayals and casting the highly idealized image of what an American Leader should be like.

Unemcumbered by actual responsibilities of office, he will be in a position to say what many people want to hear, phrased in simplified and

general terms. One can well imagine the candidate will assure himself of having scriptwriters to match his considerable talents of moving an ai^ence.

He is not to be taken lightly.

Experience gained in two terms as governor and innumerable speeches and appearances in behalf of his party make Reagan a political pro.

Showmanship is part erf the game. It behooves listeners, watchers and voters to distinguish between imagery and the real thing. Tliis is not always easy; especially when the senses are caught up in the euplwria of enthusiasm and emotionalism.

In no way do we suggest Ronald Reagan could not make a very good president. The point we do wish to underscore is that the Republican contest between the incumbent and the contender is a very real test for both men, it is also posing a real test for the electorate; for they (the voters) are going to be tested too in 1976.

STILL so MUCH TO BE THANKFUjJOR[__ ^IdePS

Enrich Lives

Observing A Uniquely American Day

This is the day when Americans set aside a time to give thanks for our good fortune.

It is appropriate that Thanksgiving is uniquely American, since we have been so blessed in this counbry.

We live in a time of discontent and most of us.

THIS AFTERNOON

regardless of what we have, want more.

It is well to recognize, though, that even the poorest among us in this country at this time, have more than most humans who have lived on this earth since creation.

It is indeed a time to be thankful.

I 1^1 r* I By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Land Classification Ky q^p Heads

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH Land classification is the key to a developing plan for statewide land use regulation.

Basically, what the term means is a system for designating particular tracts of land for particular purposes, and while professional planners reject the idea that this is in fact rezoning, it is a step in that direction.

Zoning for particular uses is much more specific and minute in detail, and subject to rapid change to accommodate proposed development projects.

But the land classification system under study now as the foundation of the proposed future State Land Policy Act is the fremework for zoning.

Under the Land Policy Act destined for consideration by the 1977 General Assembly, each of the 80 counties outside the coastal area (where a program in already in effect) will be required to produce a land classification map and apply zoning ordinances to the ground.

Opposition Certain Opposition from city and county officials is almost

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guaranteed, despite the input they currently have on the Land Policy Council and will have on a State Land Policy Commission.

The nut of the problem is simply that local politics, local landownership, and local dreams do not always allow decision-making in the vacuum of idealistic desires.

In sum, if a major, attractive industry paying high wages and providing a lot of jobs wants to locate in a county on land which a state planner has labeled unsuitable or has said should be protected from development the conflict is obvious.

The people involved in writing the proposed land use regulation were reminded of these problems rather forcefully at a recent meeting when State Planner Jan P. Wells told them that a land classification system is frustrating and difficult to prepare, subject ^o considerable public misunderstanding and political pressure, but, with the inevitable cost, tediousness, and controversy . . . was proposed as a means of reducing the even higher

costs (public and private; economic and environmental costs) of unplanned development.

Wells also pointed up in his report the political nature of the system when he said, "The planning process is in part a political process, and successful politics requires widespread understanding and acceptance.

Accordingly, the classification system must in very obvious ways deal with a relatively few issues widely perceived as important, and it must deal with those issues in as straightforward a manner as possible, Wells wrote.

He warned that if the planning sophisticates of Academe quickly embrace a particular classification proposal, that is a sure sign that trouble lies ahead. Public Support

The need is for a proposal which the public will support. If we can better focus our existing local land use and public investment planning on most probably future urban lands, and if we can generally reduce unnecessary urban development pressures on our

remaining lands, we will have gone a long way toward accomplishing the purposes of the Land Policy Act.

In what he labeled a conservative approach to land use regulation. Wells outlined the five land classes which he suggests for local county mapping.

1. Transition and Developed: urban with city services in the ground or readily available, and suitable for intensive urban development over a 10-year period.

2. Community: places where limited commercial or residential development at moderate densities and not requiring city sewer service would be appropriate.

3. Mixed Rural: Areas where rural housing, some commercial, and trailer parks occupy large tracts a widespread fixture of the North Carolina countryside.

4. Rural Resource: Agricultural and woodlands.

5. Conservation and Management; To provide long-term protection of large tracts of land because of their isolation, beauty, scenic nature, etc.

Holding The Whip Hand

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-The fact that the U.S. still holds the whip hand in the Middle East is stunningly clear from Syria's soon-to-be-announced decision to renew the Golan Heights ceasefire with Israel.

Indeed, the reversal in Damascus of indications early this month that the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) might not be renewed in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria points to this conclusion: despite vicious attacks on Egypt for making a separate, U.S.-sponsored deal with Israel on the Sinai peninsula, Syria is still committed to Secretary of SUte Henry Kissinger's mediation

diplomacy in the Middle East.

The reason? Fear of Israel's military power, which is subject only to restraints from Washington; coupled with the subtle but momentous change in political emphasis the U.S. is now placing on the Palestinian question.

Since Israel's new Sinai agreement with Egypt raises at least a danger of Syria fighting virtually alone in any new combat on the Golan Heights, the Syrian government-considered moderate by historical standards wants above all to keep its Washington connection strong.

But the Ford administration's careful new public policy that the

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Palestinian question is the heart of (the Mideast) conflict is at least as important, and potentially much more so. That policy statement, delivered 10 days ago to a Houlte International Relations subcommittee by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Harold H. Saunders, spelled out the U.S. position in detail for the first time. The decision to do so was made by Kissinger after consultation with President Ford because of explosive election-year politics involved in any change or refinement of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The agonized reaction to Saunder's testimony in the regular Israeli cabinet session last Sunday (Nov. 16) fully confirmed the administrations decision to approach the matter gingerly. The authoritative Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the Israeli cabinet angrily denounced Saunderss testimony that the west bank of the Jordan River might become a

separate Palestinian state if the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recognized Israels permanent existence.

Although State Department diplomats claim the Saunders testimony staked no new ground, the mere fact that he was permitted to delve deeply and publicly into some of the political implications of (Continued on page 5)

Farm-City Week is

PARM AND CITT numeM pnocflBS

Being thankful for a bountiful supply of food.

Strength For Today

KEEPSATAN UNDERFOOT

In the Louvre Museum, in Paris, stands a picture of St. Michael with his foot on Satans neck. When the American philosopher, William James, saw this picture, he remarked, The world is all the richer for having a devil in it as long as we keep our foot on his neck. We are taught in the Bible that sin came into the world through disobedience, and that its coming was a calamity. But God has been employing this calamity throug^t the ages for the

purpose of raising human character to higher levels. Sin in God's world is an outrage against God, but without the possibility of sin there could be no moral choice, and without the possibility of such choice there could be no development of moral character.

If there were no sin in the world we mi^t all become very lax and complacent. Righteousness becomes more effective when waging war against evil. As William James said, Satan does enrich the world as long as he is underfoot.

By Elisha Douglass

SCRABBLE, Va. Thanksgiving Day can be observed with fitting reverence in the heart of Miami or Manhattan or anywhere eise, for that matter but somehow the tradition takes on special meaning in the country. Gods good providence seems just a iittie cioser.

Not only rural Americans, but aii Americans, have much to be thankful for this day. Peace, for one thing. Freedom, for another. Material plenty, for a third. We need only to read our newspapers to reflect upon the grace around us.

Other Novembers come to mind when we were not at peacewhen aii of us felt the bitterness of war. This autumn, so far as our own biessed nation is concerned, the guns are silent. We may have troops scattered around the world our son Kevin and his wife Cathy are stationed in Korea but theirs is garrison duty. This Thanksgiving Day we do not say the prayer for deliverance from our enemies; we say the prayer for absent loved ones.

Freedom, of course, is relative. We have to draw our comparisons with what was in our own country, and with what is in other lands. Nowhere on earth will one find a people with greater political and economic freedom than our own. There are times when we fret and fume at this or that restriction, but the big freedoms the freedoms that count remain secure.

In terms of material plenty, qualifications have to be voiced. We still have eight million persons seeking work and not finding it. We have millions of famiiies who wili be feasting, if at aii, off food stamps today. Yet to glance around the world is to comprehend the weii-being of Americans generally. We may indeed say the prayer of thanks for plenty.

Here in these quiet mountains, the meaning of Thanksgiving lies aii around us. Ours is a farming county; nearly all the people live by the iand. Cattle, game, crops, and orchards these are the substance of life. Here the cycle of the seasons is marked not by sales or

Other Etditors Say Codes Essential

(The Shelby star)

Rutherford County commissioners are on the right track in considering the possibility setting up countywide building codes enforcement We hope they follow through and set up such a system at the earliest passible date.

County tax supervisor Horace Yelton, at the boards recent meeting, characterized the county as a paradise for contractors because there is no building inspectioa This is not to imply a lack of competence on anyone's part, but having no inspectiMi department allows the possibility of evasions that couldnt exist with an efficient and knowledgeable building inspector on the scene Investing in a home is perhaps the largest single expenditure most families will make in a lifetime, and they thus have a right to know they are getting their moneys worth. With building codes implementation and enforcement, this assurance could be achieved Some builders may be opposed, saying inspection is not necessary, but actually codes enforcement should provide protection for them as weU as homebuyers.

Imposition of codes enforcement is a big step, but it is one governmental service that we believe most citizens would prefer to have if they would stop to think about it And the same holds true, we think, for governmental officials who have it within their power to provide their constituents this much needed protection.

fashions or production, but by the birth of a lamb or the harvest of grain.

It has been a good season. The apple growers, indeed, are complaining wryly that perhaps the Lord was a little too good to them this year. The market is glutted with apples. We cannot eat them, or pie them, or fry them, or turn them into enough apple butter and cider to make a dent in the crop. If it were possible to discuss all this with the Lord, maybe He could arrange next year a small late April frost a little nip, Lord, if you please, just enough to thin and set.

But we do not complain ioudly. Thanksgiving Day in these parts begins at dawn, when the turkey goes in the oven. Maybe, if the hunting has been good, theres a small rack of venison also. Have you sat around a country kitchen when the mince and appie pies are baking? A good fire giows in the kitchen hearth, the children come and go, and two helpful collies lie directly under foot.

We have barely 5,(KX)

persons in this county, but we must have fifty tiny chvu--ches. In mid-morning, with the turkey doing nicely and the pies cooling, we drive by winding country roads to our own white-steepled church. It rests contentedly Jn the heart of the Washington

metropolitan area Washington, Va., that is, the county seat, laid out by George himself as a lad of 17, population 169.

Here the church bells ring, just as they rang 200 years ago, and the congregation joins in a prayer of thanks for all faiths in all ages thanks for the return of seed-time and harvest, for the increase of the ground and the gathering-in of the fruits thereof, and for all the other blessings of thy merciful providence bestowed upon this nation and people.

Our land is not unblemished. The same newspapers that prompt reflection on peace and plenty also chronicle brutality, lust and folly. Mans inhumanity to man goes on. Poverty never (Continued on page 5)

By KARL SWANSON AsMclatod Preai Writer

DURHAM, NJI. (AP) - A summer program at five New Hampshire colleges and universities has launched a New England-wide program designed to eliminate planned obKles-cence for the elderly.

The program, dubbed Elder-hostel 76, centers on the idea that the elderly can enrich their lives by attending college and mixing with students, both young and old.

Program director Martin Knowlton says the program proved so successful last summer that in 1976 it wUl be expanded to 20 colleges and universities in the six New England states.

From inquiries we have received it looks like Elderhostel could spread nationwide, but wed iike to see it administered on a regional level. Theres more control that way, he said.

The program is funded primarily through private and fed-erai grants, but participants are required to pay a $50 per week fee. More than 300 persons, ranging in age from 55 to 91, enrolled in the programs in New Hampshire last summer. Knowlton says 2,500 are expected in the regional programs.

The hostels, Knowlton said, are designed to erase one of the most despicable aspects of industrial society; the disturbing concept that people are all used up after age 65.

After that age people are faced abruptly and simultaneously with retirement, inadequate pensions, increased immobility and loss of friends, Knowlton says. Our program is aimed at stimulating the elderly out of this agism trap.

In Elderhostel, each participating school sets aside for a designated portion of the summer standard dormitory accomodations and provides each week a minimum of three one-week courses. The courses are taught by regular faculty members.

The courses are designed to help the elderly see themselves as related in a meaningful way to the course of the world, Knowlton said. We do not specify what courses be offered. Our only requirement is they be of good intellectual content.

One of the courses that schools are encouraged to offer is an oral history seminar in which participants interview one another and discuss their recollections of events.

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40 Years Ago Today

November 27,1935 East Carolina Teachers College scored in the second and final periods Tuesday to defeat the Louisburg College Trojans, 13-0.

Each touchdown came on the end of a 30-yard drive, with Gibson doing the scoring.

The Teachers made the first scoring advance with ground plays, but in the second, a pair of passes set the stage for Gibson to do his second scoring act via line plunges.

Gibson and Cunningham shined in the E. C. T. C. back-field with Jordan pacing the linemen. The Teachers easily controlled the game, leading in first downs, 11-3.

James Kyle.

Found Market In Term Papers

By TOM BALDWIN Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -His professors at the University of South Candina would be proud of 28-year-old John Magee maybe.

Magee studied marketing at South Carcdina. 'Hien he took a job selling insurance. I sold a lot, he says. They were going to put me into managemmiL But the whole thing got me depressed. Magee quit insurance Via a newspaper ad he stumbled onto an idea. It might, he thought, be a money-maker: sell term papo-s to ctdlege students.

A popular ro<^ song fills Magees panned suite of offices as the youthful entrepreneurin jeans and casual shirt intones, Wherever theres ajlemand fur sunething, youll be able to sell your product....

Theres always been a demand for term papers. There always will be Magees firm, Ctdlegiate Research Systems, is four years old. Its founder laughs when he admits: Yeah, I guess if things keep going the way they have FU make a million dollars at it.

He first tried the term paper business in New Orleans. He was run out of town. The D.A., the newspapers, everyone was down on us.

He heard tfaoi that Pom-sylvania had just written a law against selling term papo^ Ideal He set up sh(q> in Camden, N.J., just across the Ddaware River from PhUadelpbia.

We put advotisnnents up at Penn. They sent us a letter saying the district attoraey was gcdng to investigate us if we ever came back, he said. But things now are dif

ferent That was two years ago. Now they dont care what we put up as luig as we dont put staples into live trees.

Before Magee sells a term paper, the customer has to sign a purchase agreement on which there is a disclaimer, with this purchase I have no intent to defraud any school.

We sort of expect them to rewrite the paper. Id be afraid to use it just as I got it, says Magee Every college bookstore in the country carries Cliffs Notes, Monarch Notes. Maybe someday theyll be selling our term papers.

Magee, who recently opened two new offices in Rutherford, N.J. and Los Angeles, claims his company isnt trying to fool anyone.... Whats the difference we do it or the kids roommate does it? How about fr^emities

that have them on file? Or the tX3>fessor who writes a book and makes it mandatory reading for his classed? Or the politician MdM has his speeches written for him?

Magees catalogue lists thousands of term papers. Whatever the subject, if he doesnt have it hell get it.

For instance Na 7038-A, Nigerias Agriculture Ektonmny, is five pa^ long, written from three smirces and costs the buyer $27.50 with a charge if you want same-day service.

It cost Magee $7.50 to have the papa- written Free-lance writers, jobless college profs, schoolteachers, housewives. These make up his stable of writers. He pays them a peimy a word.

The writer pens the paper and sdls it once. Magee can sell it 100 times.

"Us just good business, he says.