4The Dally Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Tuesday, May 11, 1978

Poor Timing On Road Project

STUNNING BLOW!

Tlie Department of Transportation held a public hearing on road improvements in the vicinity of the new Pitt Memorial Hospital last week.

The plan calls for four and five laning of N. C. 43 from N. C. 11 to beyond the Alcoholic Center. The Stantonsburg Road would be improved similarly from the west city limits to Memorial Drive. SR 1267, which runs in front of the new hospital would be improved.

Total cost of the project was set at $1.6 million. There was little opposition at the hearing so there is no reason why the work cant move along.

What concerns us is why things couldnt have been better coordinated so that the road work could already be underway. The hospital has been in the planning and construction stage for nearly a decade and it would seem that with a little dialogue the

planning for the road work could have been done sooner so that completion of the roads would coincide with the hospital opening. Now it appears that the road construction wl get underway around the time that the hospital opens and we can expect to see some monumental traffic jams.

That, of course, is water over the dam and the important thing now is to get the highway improvement work underway just as soon as possible, since there will be still further construction at the hospital complex and even more congestion in the future.

We would hope, though, that in the future when a project of Pitt Memorial magnitude is planned there can be some thought given to coordinating road construction work so that both can be completed at the same time.

Basis For Optmsm For Williamston

The closing of Jefferson Mills in Williamston was a blow to the people of that city and Martin County.

But, as an article by Daily Reflector writer Jerry Raynor indicated, ie people of the area are hopeful, even in the face of a major industrial employer closing operations.

We think there is every reason to be optimistic. The building occupied by Jefferson Mills is a modern industrial facility, and with the nations economy rapidly picking up, we think that major industries can be attracted by this available plant.

We dont believe there is any cause for alarm about the economy of Williamston and Martin County.

THIS AFTERNOON

Prisons Talk Roadblocked

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH Gov. James E. Holshouser, Jr., has thrown a roadblock before legislative leaders who are seeking his cooperation in relieving overcrowded prisons.

Repeated efforts to set up a meeting with the governor have been ignored or rebuffed. Now, with the General Assembly in session and able to follow up on the executive action with funds, Holshouser has delayed to the point that critics believe it is too late.

Only through executive action can immediate steps be taken to relieve the tensely overcrowded prisons. The Commission on Correctional Programs chaired by former State Senator Eddie Know of Charlotte has outlined several alternative ways to move prisoners into other state-owned facilities.

No Response Knox asked Lt. Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., and House Speaker James C. Green to seek a session with the governor. A letter was sent, but no response was heard.

A spokesman for Hunt says repeated calls were made to

the governors office in efforts to arrange the meeting. Finally, the legislative leaders asked for a response from the goverTEJK in writing.

It is our beli^ that the prison situation is getting so critical that we stand a chance of having an eruption this hot summer. We wanted the governer, in writing, to turn down what we see aS the only immediate solution, Hunts aide Paul Essex explained.

The requested meeting would have called together with the governor representatives of the Knox Commission, the legislative leaders. Secretary of Corrections David L. Jones, Secretary of Human Resources Phil Kirk, and Prisons Director Ralph Edwards to explore the alternatives drawn up by the Know study group, and urge executive action.

The governor has the authority to demand cooperation from the various state agencies to put into immediate use vacant or little-used state property for prison housing. Over a year ago, Know sought similar cooperation from prison

housing. Over a year ago, Knox sought similar cooperation from Holshouser and was rejected.

This time around, he had gained pledges from legislators that some $2 million needed to prepare the buildings and move the prisoners would be made available. Some thought is being given to going ahead with the money appropriation in hopes the governor will see fit to cooperate later. Other lawmakers are mulling various ways of forcing the proposed population changes over the governors head.

Several Shifts While still fluid and in discussion, the moves would involve closing two juvenile offenders. The Womens Prison in Raleigh would be turned into a mens prison, and the women transferred to an abandoned school for the blind near Raleigh.

Honor-grade prisoners could be housed in less secure facilities; while Dillion and some of the Womens Prison could be used for gun-grade prisoners.

Central Prison, the states maximum security facility.

has 1,322 gun-grade inmate in space designed for 900. The most critical need is for secure sfJace to house those.

An earlier proposal was that the Western Correctional "'Center at Morganton, a high-rise building designed for 400 prisoners and used for youth- ful offenders, be turned into a secure facility for hardened criminals. The Knox group has backed away from that idea in light of the major impact such a change would have on the youthful offender program overall.

The governors leadership is required to gain cooperation between Human Resources, which owns the training schools and other available space at hospitals, and the Department of Corrections. The former school for the blind has been assigned to the State Highway Patrol for a rookie school and training center, but has not been developed for that purpose as yet, and exclusive action would be required there, also.

Meanwhile, Holshouser has been on a visit to Ireland and unavailable for comment or further contact regarding his intentions.

THE INSIDE REPORT

Rank And File Favor Ford

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-Having undergone primary election humiliations not experienced by a President since William Howard Taft in 1912, Gerald R. Ford is being braced with this stem advice: You will lose the nomination unless you place your house in order, starting with the sacking of Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.

Dr. Kissingers African safari, blamed for transforming defeat into catastrophe in Texas, has expanded the dump Kissinger chorus into a howling mob. Party leaders are also calling for pro-Ford campaigning instead of anti-Reagan counterpunching, which hit counterproductive

bottom with demands for release of Reagans 1975 tax returns. Therefore, these politicaians want an experienced wise man to travel full time with President Ford to protect him from the noxious gimmicks dredged up by press secretary Ron Nessen, author of the Reagan tax ploy.

But the Piresident may ignore such pleas, particularly if he sticks with his political operatives who publicly and privately attribute Reagans stunning victories to the cross-over Democrats rather than basic Ford campaign problems. They seemingly fail to comprehend the full gravity of the Presidents crisis, threatening him with the repudiation of an incumbent

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President, last suffered by Chester Arthur, if the contagion of primary defeats spreads

That contagion began with the May Day massacre in Texas, a many-sided disaster for Mr. Ford. The landslide generated not only an estimated 10 per cent vote turn around in Indiana which led to Mr. Fords stunning upset there but also brought his lavishly financed campaign to virtual bankruptcy. On the road to defeat, Mr. Fords agents engaged in profligate spending of nearly $1 million (four times Reagans spending) in Texas. The result is not only job layoffs at the Ford campaign committee here but a parity of poverty between the Reagan and Ford campaigns.

Perhaps the most critical aspect of Texas, however, was the point of no-return for Henry Kissinger. His championship of black majority rule in Rhodesia is blamed for the magnitude of Reagans win by Ford partisans who are publicly describing the Ford-

Kissinger relatonship in extraordinarily blunt terms. An example is Rep. Ed Der-winski, a conservative Republican and Ford delegate from Illinois.

You dont go down to Africa and promise away the federal treasury four days before the Texas primary, Derwinski told us. I think the President is a captive of Henry K. The subordinate is controlling his chief. Derwinski months ago urged Mr. Ford to fire Kissinger, but that idea is generating new disciplessuch as conservative Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, once an ardent Kissinger fan, but also including some moderates.

Besides a new Secretary of State, Mr. Ford is being pressed to name a cool head to travel with him and provide instant wisdom of the kind given Reagan by Dr. Martin Anderson. That became clear the day before the Indiana primary when Nessen talked the President into demanding that Reagan release his 1975 income tax (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

ENDURE TO THE END

Everyone is familiar with the story of Lots wife Led from the city of destruction by the strong hand of an angel who would save her from ruin. Lots wife looked back" and became a pillar of salt The Greeks have a similar story. Orpheus, plunged into unconsolable grief because trf the death of Eurydice, besought the gods to restore her to life. It was finally granted that he should lead her back to the light, provided that he went before and did not look even once

behind until the two had passed out (rf the underworld.

Esstatic with happiness, Orhpeus started out, but as he neared the surface of the earth, doubt tortured him to such an extent that he turned to see if his loved one was following. She was, but even as he clasped her, she died in his arms.

So often we lose all that we had long hoped for because we lose faith in the final hour, or even in the final minute. All of which gives point to the injunction, Endure to the end.

by E llsha D ougla 88

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

A Sell-Out Of Rhodesia

WASHINGTON - Henry Kissinger delivered his 10-point statement on Rhodesia in Lusaka on April 27. A text became available the following day. I am not a man who yields easily to the anger that passes into rage, but that contemptible statement did it. Shame! I would cry shame.

We must assume that President Ford approved the speech in advance. Any other assumption would leave him a mere dummy on Kissingers lap. This was a major policy statement. For good or ill, the responsibility for it rests squarely on Gerald Ford.

Why did Ford do it? To put the best possible face on this ugly business, let us suppose < that his purpose was to deter further Soviet adventurism in Africa. By denoucing the Smith regime in Rhodesia, and by declaring our unrelenting opposition to it, the administration may have hoped to curry favor with some of Rhodesias

neigh^rs.

Very well. The Ford administration will have purchased that favor at an awesome price. Hypocrites of the world, unite! Messrs. Kissinger and Ford have joined your ranks.

What has Rhodesia done in these past ten years to earn our unrelenting opposition? It has kept the peace. It has exported no terrorists. It has preserved Western traditions of law. It has provided for its own people, both black and white, the highest standards of education, health care and general well-being in the whole of Africa. And it has done this despite the terrible handicap of the United Nations economic sanctions.

But what else has Rhodesia done It has failed to provide majority rule. It has denied its six million blacks self-determination, It has not provided such civil liberties as universal suffrage. For these offenses, we are urged to believe.

Public Forum

Letters submitted for Public Forum must be limited to 300 words.

To the editor:

Hcrw do we define police brutality and harrassment?

To some, a policeman is being brutal if he makes an arresL To some, the officer is harrassing them if he stops them for questioning.

Having been tied up in crime on a rather large scale, I have met and been questioned by several (rfficers, both of state and federal levels. As yet I havent been mistreated.

I didnt like the idea of being locked up or questioned or taken away from my wonderful family. But I realized the officer was only doing the job society hired him to do, trying to serve and protect society.

My idea of brutality is seeing a little girl or boy crying because their bikes have been stolen, seeing and feeling for an older person who has been beaten up or robbed, seeing a sad congregation because their church has been vandalized and the organ and piano and such stolen To me, this is brutality and harrassment So if an (rfficer is being brutal in trying to stop it I pray. Police, please be brutal Be brutal especially for my childrens sake If you see them doing wrong, teach them at an early age respect for law and order. Dont let them end up as I have, serving a prison sentence. Richards G. Ada ms

P. 0. Box38 Maury Corrections Center Maury

Liddy Has A

Friend

Rhodesia merits our unrelenting opposition.

What monstrous hypocrisy is this! We are very selective, it is evident, in our unrelenting opposition. Would the President and his secretary examine a map of Africa? Would they name those nations characterized by majority rule, civil liberties and universal suffrage? They will find very few. On the contrary, they would observe a ragtag, bobtail assemblage of military dictators, petty despots and one-party rulers.

Kissinger was tenderly solicitous toward Mozambique. He would give Mozambiques new rulers $12.5 million in money taken from American taxpayers. The new rulers of Mozambique are a gang of Marxist terrorists led by Samora Machel, They have confiscated private property, suspended civil law, made children the wards of their proto-Communist state, and obliterated every vestige of self-determination.

The secretary chose Zambia for the deliverance of his pieties on moral principle and human dignity. President Kenneth Kaunda was at his side, and there was a splendid irony in this. If memory serves, and memory serves exceedingly well, it was Mr. Kaunda who four years ago evidenced his dedication to these principles by jailing his opposition. Zambia is a lovely model, it is not? A model of one-party rule.

In the Ford-Kissinger view, Rhodesias present status is illegal. If so, then Rhodesia must still be lawfully a part of the British Commonwealth. But if that is so, by what right does the United States pronounce its presumptuous position on a British dominion? What business is it of ours how a negotiated solution is worked out? Who clothed Messrs. Ford and Kissinger with authority to lecture the people of Rhodesia on their responsibilities?

This was effrontery. By this statement, the Ford ad-I Continued on page 5) ,

By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -James A. Gavin had no trouble enlisting a neighbor to be editor of the Indian Queen Elementary School PTA newsletter. Only one thing might get in the way, the neighbor said. I might have to go back to prison.

That was V/z years ago.

The neighbor, G. Gordon dy, did go back to prison to serve the longest term of any of the 58 men convicted of a Watergate or Watergate-related crime.

Gavin said Monday he thinks Liddy has been a prisoner far too long and his five children are suffering because of it.

Gavin is heading a petition drive to get him out.

He first tried the idea on 75 people. Maybe two of the 75 said they would sign such a petition, he said. Of the others, One said he never signed anything, another said they ought to throw away the key.

Liddy was the architect and field marshal of the Watergate break-in. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica sentenced him to six to 20 years for his role and another 18 months for his obstinate silence before the grand jury. He has now served three -years and is not eligible for a parole hearing until May 1981.

I lived in the neighborhood for eight years and never knew the Liddys, says Gavin, assistant director of the Washington office of Tenneco. But our children play on the same teams baseball, basketball. Boys Club.

Gavin was elected president of the PTA. One day, while Liddy was out on appeal, Gavin saw him in his backyard. Later, he telephoned Liddy, asked him to serve on the PTA executive committee and got his agreement to edit the newsletter.

We were supposed to meet on Wednesday, Gavin recalled. But he was returned to prison on Monday.

Liddy asked Sirica to reduce the sentence. The judge refused. Liddy appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals tuined him down. Now he has a petition pending before the Supreme Court, claiming his sentence is disproportionately higher than that of six break-in co-defendants.

Gavin said he got Mrs. Lid-dys enthusiastic okay for the (Continued on page 5)

40 Years

Ago To(day

May 11,1976 Italys envoy to the League of Nations walked out of a council session in Geneva today when the council took up the question of the conquest of Ethiopia.

The representative announced that Italy could not negotiate in the presence of the so-called delegate from Ethiopia.

His dramatic exit followed a bitter protest from Haile Selassie against Mussolinis annexation of the African kingdom and Italian hints that Italy would withdraw from the League rather than discuss Ethiopia in the presence of an agent of Selassie, Ethiopias dictator before the Italian takeover.

Members of the council said later they were facing a most delicate problem.

James Kyle

Capital Spending Outlook Is Up

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - Encouraged by some of the heftiest profits increases since the 1960s, corporations now appear ready to raise their commitments to invest in new plants and equipment this year.

Until recently, those plans were generally considered by economists to be disappointing and even to suggest that corporate America remained unconvinced about the future of the recovery.

As late as this March, the Commerce Department estimated capital spending would increase only 6.5 per cent over last year, but a more recent survey now points to a 13 per cent increase The latter percentage would bring spending to $127.3 billion, much of it in the second half of the year. It was found in a survey by

McGraw-Hill Publications, whose findings are heavily relied upon by economists.

While as much as 9 per cent of this gain must be disregarded because it represents inflation, the4 per cent real gain is a decided improvement over earlier estimates, in which no real gains at all were fweseea

The McGraw-Hill findings were released almost simultaneously with a report from Citibank that the after tax earnings of 770 manufacturers jumped imthe first quarter of the year.

The bank said the earnings of these manufacturers rose 20 per cent over the fourth quarter, on a seasonally adjusted basis. And for 1,149 concerns of various types, the year-to-year gain in the first quarter was 44 per cent.

It commented: Corporate afte^tax earnings in 76 are eclipsing last years wildest

forecasts. And they are much less distorted by inflation-bred inventory gains and inadequate depreciation charges.

At the same time, wage settlements are proving to be less costly than some corporations had anticipated. The Labor Department reports first-year settlements averaged 8.8 per cent in the first quarter, and7.4 per cent over the life of contracts.

These and other factors are causing some economists to consider reassessing their forecasts, although few prominent ones have so far raised their sights. Caution is still very evident in the fraternity.

An example is provided by a current report to clients by Rinfret-Boston Associates. Noting that the Gross National Product grew at a 7.5 per cent annual rate, Pierre Rinfret commented;

We have, therefwe, evidence of a vigorous economic expansion which could turn into something no one has said for a long time: an economic boom.

He does not forecast one, however. Instead he tones it down: Its too early to describe 1976 as a boom, but if this kind o expansion continues, that description may not be an exaggeration.

Other business economists are somewhat less enthusiastic. Albert Cox, Jr., chief economist of Lionel D. Edie& Ca, tends to discount the significance of the 7,5 per cent first-quarter growth figure.

It appears, he said, that we remain on basic trend of about 5 per cent real growth and 5 per cent inflatioa Growih in the first quarter was much higher because of a big inventory turnaround from liquidation to substantial accumulatioa