4The Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Wednesday. April 21, 1(7<

Military Manpower Is Needed

ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT!

A civilian commission has concluded that reductions in size and cost of the military are not possible for the next ten years.

The Defense Manpower commission which was authorized by Congress to study the cost of the military, expressed concern about the allvolunteer military, calling it far from a reality. The commission called for returning to the standby draft machinery with annual registration of young men.

In the event of sudden major hostilities our volunteer forces would be weakened by casualties, without adequate loss replacements, in time would be unable to conduct sustained operations, and could be annihilated.

The nation must plan to maintain the 2.1 million man military force and the one million civilian military employees in view of the continuing Soviet military buildup.

The commission has raised points that concern us. We have never liked the idea of dismantling the draft machinery. That move could leave us vulnerable to military manpower shortages in the event of sudden attack.

The volunteer military concept is working better now than at one time, but high civilian unemployment is pushing many young men to join the branches of the military. The civilian employment situation could change rather quickly and create military recruiting problems.

Nobody likes the tremendous costs of maintaining the military, but it is done because strength is what keeps potential enemies from miscalulating and launching an outright attack on us. We have to be certain that we have adequate military strength so that noantagonist will risk attacking us, and that means adequate manpower must be available.

Some 10,000 bumper stickers have been distributed proclaiming 4-Lane U.S. 264.

The plan was promoted by the Highway 264 Association, which is dedicated to getting the road

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to Raleigh improved.

No doubt motorists of this area may be asked, Whats a U5. 264 on trips past Raleigh. Nevertheless the highway project is essential to this area and we should support it in any way possible.

Agencies 'Hide' Employes

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHIn bureauc

ratic jargon, it's known as work against juggling of personnel.

To some legislators, it is pure and simple deception and ought to be against the law.

The practice is one used by some state agency managers to get legislative approval for essential people to do one job, then swing them over to do another which the General Assembly might not approve.

How much of it goes on? Theres no way to tell without a constant watch, but some lawmakers are convinced the deception is costing North Carolina taxpayers hundreds of thousands of misspent dollars.

Here is one isolated example of how the system works.

At Richard T. Fountain school for juveniles, a check discovered more than (200,000 in annual salaries being paid to shifted personnel.

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Shift People

A legislature convinced that the school needed a psychological counseling assistant approved that. A public information assistant was hired to work in Human Resources Secretary David T. Flahertys office in that slot.

Another psychological services officer was authorized; a business manager was hired at the salary of $16,236 instead, and carried on the books as the psychologist.

House parents are obviously needed to look after the children in the school. But one carried on the books as a house parent was performing clerical work in a regional officenot at the schooland another was an administrator in the regional office.

Another psychological assistant was actually doing data processing work.

Ray T. Shurling, who worked several years as a legislative research staffer, recently took over the reins of the Youth Division of Human

Resources.

Shurling has written State Rep. John Ed Davenport, D-Nash, in response to Davenports inquiry into the situation.

Yes . . . this division has heretofore practiced the work-against proposition . . . and other indiscriminate use of positions . . . Shurling said.

Nefarious Activity

Then, recalling his experience in monitoring agencies, Shurling hastened to add that he on many occasions spoke against this . . . and this division will never again engage in such nefarious activities, Shurling said.

A source at the Department of Human Resources said that agency now has only three work-against jobs, others having been eliminated over a period of time.

Agency people say the system is regularly used when legislators or top administration officials insist

on a job for somebody in a hurry. If no job slot exists, another will be used as a cover.

Legislators, however, do not accept that explanation, suspecting rather that the technique is used more often to cover up agency intentions to hire people not authorized.

We have only seen the tip of the iceberg, Davenport says. He suspects there are numerous such ruses currently in use in state agencies, and that only a constant, in-depth monitoring would keep it under control.

The General Assembly budgets money for particular services, and then the agencies keep the job-title on their books while actually assigning people to other duties . . . its a pattern to cheat us," Davenport believes.

He thinks the growing state use of regional offices is another layer of fat which will allow further deception by agency people in assigning personnel.

Weakness Of Old Guard'

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK HARRISBURG, Pa.-The coalition of formerly feuding Democratic politicians and labor leaders contrived to stop Jimmy Carter in Pennsylvania is burdened by decaying organization, tardy preparation and a stultifying lack of enthsiasm for the coalitions candidate. Sen. Henry M. Jackson.

The nature and weakness of the stop-Carter movement is typified by the private attitude of a prominent Pennsylvania labor leader. I am every, very dubious about Scoop being nominated, and so is everybody else, he told us. But thats not what this is about.

What this effort is about is ABC" Anybody But Carter. Aware that outsider Carter winning in the April 27 Pennsylvania primary might clinch the presidential nomination, insiders here

worried about doors being closed to them have temporarily forgotten past blood feuds to unite behind Jackson. Thus, the Pennsylvania showdown mirrors what the race for the nomination has become nationally: remnants of the Democratic establishment desperately trying to survive by stopping Carter.

Never have organized labor and regular party organizations posed so monolithic a front in a Pennsylvania Democratic primary. In Philadelphia, even Mayor Frank Rizzo and his blood enemy, city Democratic leader Pete Camiel, are on the same side. So is Gov. Milton Shapp, operating through his political lieutenant, Democratic state chairman Harvey Thiemann.

After recently agreeing on a unified statewide slate of pro-Jackson delegates,

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Thiemann and state Public Utilities Commissioner Mike Johnson, the states top labor political operative, shook hands and agreed how nice it was to be on the same side this time. In the 1972 primary, the establishment was split L labor and Johnson supporting Sen.

Hubert Humphrey (the

winner), the party and Thiemann backing Sen.

Edmund Muskie (the loser). United in 1976, Thiemann and Johnson (eel confident they can crush Carter.

Thiemanns confidence was bolstered by a recent tour of smaller counties, during which he observed no Carter campaign at all. Indeed, hardly any experienced politicians have joined Carter (Pittsburghs maverick Mayor Pete Flaherty and brother Jim Flaherty, chairman of the County Commissioners, being exceptions), Thus, party leaders see a relatively easy Jackson win with Carter running so poorly he may finish third behind Rep. Morris Udall a misjudgment stunning in its distance from reality.

The regulars have misinterpreted the absence of familiar faces as the absence of any Carter campaign. Mayor Flaherty, who ran

statewide only two year^ ago as U.S. Senate nominee, was amazed to attend a meeting of Carter supporters in Erie and find not a soul he knew. Carters backers were insurance agents, small merchants and other white-collar workers all new to politics.

Such newcomers forming the Carter cadre provide the only presidential campaign activity in many areas in Scranton, for example. The regular delegate candidates there, while part of the statewide pro-Jackson slate formed by Thiemann, say nothing about Jackson and identify themselves as Humphrey supporters.

This points to the real interests of the Pennsylvania ABC movement: electing their own as national convention delegates; pro-Jackson for now but poisted to embrace Humphrey. Coalition leaders from Gov. Shapp down show little interest in the preferential primary (or beauty contest) which will be stressed on national television and could finish off Jackson as a viable candidate.

Nor do some key Jackson backers disguise their true desires. President I. W. Abel of the United Steel Workers,

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Strength For Today

REACHING FORFREEDOM Build thee more stately mansions,

0 my soul.

As the swift seasons roll Leave the low vaulted past Till thou at last art free; Leaving thine outgrown shell

By lifes unresting sea. And thus the poet tells us to learn about life from its experiences. There is much to be learned from tjooks, and more from people; but the greatest teacher of all is

experience. Every experience educates us either in a positive or a negative fashion.

If the process is what it ought to be, we leave the "low vaulted past and push into something higher. We learn some new skill out of every failure, some new truth out of every mistake; and we gain some new insight into a larger body of knowledge every time we can be candidly critical of ourselves rather than of others.

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One Way To Support Highway 264 Goal

By ART BUCHWALD

Is Anybody For Slavery?

WASHINGTON-The ethnic issue has become a major one in this year's campaign. Every presidential candidate, in one way or another, has assured his audiences that, while he is not for ethnic purity, he doesnt believe the government should get into the business of ethnic impurity.

I have a black colleague who is very nervous about the direction the campaign is taking.

"They don't talk about unemployment, corruption in government or tax reform any more. Theyre all trip

ping over themselves trying to explain that, while they think blacks should live anywhere they want to, the government should not do anything to hurt the neighborhood.

Thats reasonable, I said to Wilson. "If youre a candidate, the ethnic vote is very important in this country and it would be political suicide to get those people mad.

I agree. But what worries me is that some reporter is going to ask a canditlate what he thinks about slavery. Suppose the newspaperman says Are you in favor of

Other Editors Say Changed His Mind?

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Several recent events at East Carolina University may have reflected the end of any gubernatorial campaign this year by ECU Chancellor Leo Jenkins.

First, last week ECU withdrew from the Southern Conference and embarked on a most ambitious building program to expand the seating capacity of Ficklen Stadium.

Then, there is the continuing struggle the newly created Med School is going throughgrowing pains they could be called.

While the Med School has been funded it still has to admit that first student, in fact one projected entry date has been postponed until this coming January and most think that it will be the Fall of 1977 before the Med School, long something Jenkins has worked for, will admit its first student The continued struggle with the med school, plus the new expansion on the athletic front ere two programs Jenkins has supported hard over the years.

And, whether he would leave the Chancellor's post to run for Governor with these projects in the works is doubtful we feet There is no doubt that the ECU Chancellor would like to run for the states top poet Jenkins feels he could bring much to that position and on that we will agree Many political observers had contended that after getting the Med School approved Jenkins would run for the Democratic nomination for governor as something as a last hurrah, since state law would force his retirement from his current position in a couple of years.

But the Med School that he sought so long is still not yet a concrete institution A bid for the states top post could result in repercussions that the shaky med school does not need.

Then, there are the new goals for the athletic department at the school. Jenkins has long pushed for a top notch athletic program at ECU. No Pirate booster is more devoted than Jenkins who once dubbed the Pirates victory of N.C. State in football several years ago the greatest thing to ever happen to ECU.

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repealing the Thirteenth Amendment? Whats the politician going to say?

"I'm certain hell say he's against bringing back slavery, I said.

'Tm not too sure, Wilson said. The South is very important to the election and most of the candidates might waffle on it, just as they have on ethnic purity.

What do you mean? "Well, one candidate might say, Everyone knows my record on slavery, and I dont believe in it. At the same time I do not think its Washingtons job to say to people they cant own slaves if they want them. I think each area should make its own decision on whether they think slaves are good or bad for the community.

I cant believe that, Wilson. Every one of the candidates is an honorable man and there would be a furor if a candidate even hinted he was for slavery. Maybe, But then what wod happen after the furot is that the candidate would apologize and say he didnt mea4 it the way it came out. The bad thing is that it would became an issue in the campaign and the reporters would ask all the candidates where they stood on slavery. Wouldnt they denounce it?

"Not during the primaries. There are a lot of states where the proslavery forces could swing an election. What would happen is that one candidate would say, I do not believe in slavery per se, but with the high unemployment in the country we shouldnt discard it out of hand. Another candidate would attack his opponents for raising the slavery issue, but would go on the record as saying, The economy comes first, and if we can reduce the welfare bill in this country by bringing slavery back I think it will benefit all Americans, (Continued on page 5)

Party

By JEFF BRADLEY Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister James Callaghan stayed away from Queen Elizabeths 50th birthday ball, and one newspaper suggested he feared attendance might hurt his chances of selling austerity to the unions.

Should the prime minister be seen dancing the night away in an atmosphere of diamonds and champagne when he is trying to persuade the unions to accept minimal wage increases and further cuts in living standards? the Daily Express asked.

Other newspaper commentators suggested that the 64-year-old Labor party veteran stayed home because he is a teetotaler and doesn't like late parties.

The official explanation from No, 10 Downing St. was that Callaghan, in office just 15 days, was unable lo attend "because of pressure of work. The statement said the queen invited him to dinner next week when they would have a better chance to talk.

Callaghan's two immediate predecessors, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, interrupted vacations to be among the 530 guests Tuesday night at Windsor Castle. Margaret Thatcher, Heaths successor as leader of the Conservative party, attended with her husband. And both Princess Margaret and her es-Iranged husband. Lord Snowdon, were there.

The party began with dinner for 60. The rest of the guests arrived at 10.30 p.m. The dancers paused at midnight to toast the queen and sing Happy Birthday. There was another pause at 2:40 a.m., the exact time at which Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, to the wife of the future King George VI.

The queens father died on Feb. 6, 1952, but her 75-year-old mother. Queen Mother Elizabeth, was on hand to celebrate with her daughters, the queens husband. Prince Philip; their four children. Prince Charles, 27; Princess Anne, 25; Prince Andrew, 16; Prince Edward, 11, and Annes husband, Capt. Mark Phillips.

40 Years Ago Today

April 21.1936 The city of Greenville and much of Pitt County observed a holiday today as a great part of its populace joined the march on Raleigh to seek to influence the governor to call a special session of the legislature to consider tobacco compacts.

Though Gov. Ehringhaus told them proposed tobacco compacts to control production of the crop would not given control, more than 6,000 North Carolina farmers voted after hearing him that they still wanted a special session of the legislature to consider the act.

The mass meeting adjourned without the Governor saying definitely that he would not call the session, but throughout his speech contended that new acts would not achieve control.

James Kyle

Investment Clubbers Happier

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - In 1941 a Detroit man began depositing (10 to (20 a month in an investment club. By February of this year he had invested $7,-800, withdrawn more than (30,-000, and still had an account worth more than (59,000.

The club, the Mutual Investment Club, was one o the four founding units of the National Association of Investment Clubs, now more than 7,000 strong, averaging about 12 members each, all regular investors for the long term

Even though most club members are amateurs, they often beat the pros over long and short periods. One club, made up of post office workers, reported a gain of 212 per cent from October 1974 to December 1975.

That report encouraged the association, based in Royal Oak, Mich, to take a random sample of ains by about 40 clubs through February. It found the average gam since December 1974, the worst of

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the bear market, to be 69.9 per cent

The Dow Jones industrial average during that time gained 59.9 per cent 10 per cent less than the average dub. Sixty-four per cent of the clubs in the sample did better than the average.

For the clubs that stuck it out through the recession, despite declines in value month after month, these results are satisfying and reassuring, but not totally unanticipated.

Although their nerves did quiver, club members were sustained by their faith that over a long period of time their investment philosophy averages out to a gain.

Many clubs did drop out, however. At one time in 1973 the association had 14,100 member units, but that number went down with the averages. Some clubs folded, and others simply ceased to remain members of the association.

Now the trend is about to be reversed. Inquiries are up sharply, and the criterion of

history suggests inquiries are followed by applications. Individual clubs also report they are adding to their memberships.

Thomas O'Hara, chairman, recalls that in the fall of 1973, when the fear and despair were thick, the sturdiest of clubs continued to believe stocks were a bargain. They were willing to wait Now, said OHara, who belongs to the Mutual Investment Club, We feel that the really big movement in the market is in the two to five years ahead.

With theories, concepts and systems as common in the in vestment world as they are at the race track, member clubs follow deceptively simple principles to help them achieve their results.

They invest regularly, usually at monthly intervals, over a long period ol time They do not tiy to guess whether the market is in an upward or downward trend Through the worst of times, they continue to invest They keep fully invested in order to put to work for

them the principle (rf compounding. They dont maintain big cash positions. And they reinvest dividends.

They endeavor to invest in companies whose sales and earnings per share arc moving ahead faster than the general economy.

While this seems to be a conservative philosophy, it really isnt. Ask any club that stuck to it during the dark days of the market. It gives you a pretty aggressive account, said OHara.

He explained:

Investing a set sum of money each month has a wonderful mathematical effect. As stock prices decline, lhat set amount buys a larger and larger number of sharas of stock.

Once stock prices turn around, a price increase applied to the larger number of shares help.s increase values rapidly. Ixtng before stock prices reach their former highs, the investors find Ihe value of Iheir accounts exceed their investments.