C 4The Dally Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Thursday, May 13, 1976

Population Shifts Responsible

After long hours of study, the Greenville Board of Education has redrawn the elementary school attendance lines.

For three^ourths of the elementary school children there will be no change in the schools they attend. It was necessary, though, to change the school attendance areas because of population shifts.

A map of the school attendance area was published in Tuesdays Daily Reflector and the school board will consider the plan at its Monday meeting in expectation of taking action at that time. If a final decision is not reached Monday a special meeting will be held 'Diursday May 20 to complete

the school attendance plan for the 1976-77 school year.

No doubt there will be some dissatisfaction with the plan which has been proposed, particularly for families where children have been assigned to new schools.

It should be kept in mind through that school officials had a most difficult job in planning the-school attendance areas so that they provide the federally required racial balance.

The new pupil assignments wont suit everybody but it appears the city school board has done the best it could.

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World Policy

Hopefully, Last Shot In The ECU War

We dare to hope that iat may be the last short in the great ECU Medical School war. We would hope that opponents and proponents alike will now

A Buncombe Medical Society proposal that ECU Medical School funds be diverted was soundly defeated by the N. C. Medical Society last week.

A Medical Society reference committee had recommended the Buncombe proposals defeat.

THIS AFTERNOON

turn their energies to building a medical school which will best serve North Carolinas unique medical care needs.

See 'Plus' In Salary Fight

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH-Leaders of the effort to unionize North Carolina teachers see the present salary dispute as working in their favor.

But based on their own membership figures, the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, affiliated with the AFL-CIO, has a long way to go in building any clout.

While spokesmen are quoted from time to time as claiming up to 30 organized union groups across the state, there are in truth only eight chartered locals, and two of those are on college campuses, not local public schools.

Altogether, the union has between 800 and 1,000 members from a total list of educators in the statepublic and private, lower grades and collegesestimated at over 100,000.

Few Active In Winston-Salem, home base for AFT President John D. Hartness, Jr, his union has 150 members from an eligible 2,400 teachers.

THE INSIDE REPORT

But willingness to allow his or her name to appear on the union rolls is not a sure test of teacher attitudes. Hartness argues in defense of his organization.

Many teachers are very militant and frustrated, but there is a great deal of fear among teachers . . . fear of harrassment and discrimination by administrators, he claims.

Hartness is a willing battler in the behind-scenes struggle between the North Carolina Association of Educators and the nationally-affiliated labor union. Leadership of the NCAE regularly put down the union effort and dismiss as padded the already meager membership rolls.

The NCAE likes to portray itself as a professional organization, and generally plays down militant posturing such as strike threats, sickouts, and such.

But Hartness claims the NCAE has lost touch with its own members. The core of the problem is that the NCAE is dominated by school administrators and does not

have at heart, the best interests of the classroom teacher.

Failure of the NCAE to go to the wall for a 16 to 19 per cent cost-of-living pay raise from the General Assembly rather than accepting a lesser amount proves his contention, and will work to the advantage of union organizing efforts, Hartness thinks.

Collective Bargaining

The key to^it is that teachers see that effective results can come only from collective bargaining ... not only on salary and fringe benefits, but also on educational interests, the Winston-Salem teacher believes. He is a social studies instructor at Aikens High School, a native of Sanford, and attended high school in Rocky Mount where his father is a dentist.

As a lifetime resident of North Carolina, Hartness confesses keen awarness of traditional anti-union .sentiment in this state.

Wouldnt increasingly

strident demands from militantly strike-threatening union members work to erode the essentiaL community support necessary for a successful local public school system?

There would be increased public support, Hartness thinks. There would of course be some opposition to our militancy, but the reaction would depend on our efforts to communicate to the public that the quality of education depends upon these actions . . . then there would be strong community support.

Should teachers be unionists? Of course, Hartness responds. They are only fooling themselves and the public by trying to call themselves, professionals. Professionals have some control over their own destinies, Hartness said.

In addition to the salary issue, the union is pushing for a state law in the 1977 General Assembly allowing collective bargaining by public employees.

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

The Slam-Bang Contest

Two months ago, most political observers probably would have agreed on one certain prospect; Gerald Ford would be. the Republican nominee for President this fall. At the risk of being proved remarkably wrong, which is no novel expereince, let me cling to that prediction. My money is still on Ford.

But the Republican contest suddenly has turned into a slam-bang contest. The GOP convention in Kansas City now promises to be even livelier than the Democratic convention in New York. At this writing, before the Nebraska primary, Ronald Reagan leads in the delegate count. Win or lose, his bid merits respectful comment.

In any political contest, as in any other game that men play, victory is a combination

of two elementsthe winners good moves, and the losers poor ones. Over a period of then days, starting with the Arizona and South Carolina conventions, Reagan won 282 delegates while Ford was winning only 27. Reagan staggered the Presdient in Texas, clobbered himin Alabama and Georgia, and won convincingly in Indiana. What is Reagan doing that is right? And what is Ford doing wrong? y

Reagan has three things going for him; He is not part of the Washington establishment. He has seized upon some gut issues of large appeal. Despite organizational and financial handicaps, he is proving a superb campaigner.

This is plainly no year in which to be identified with

Other Editors Say

Bombarding The Embassy Public Business

i (The Raleigh Times)

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union has resumed full-scale microwave bombardment of the U.S. embassy in Moscow at a level unsafe for American personnel an unannounced move spelling failure for Secretary of State Henry Kissingers efforts to smooth over an exceedingly ugly dispute through quiet diplomacy.

As we reported a month ago, the Ford administration early this year secretly removed some electronics intelligence equipment from the embassy roof in return for reduced Soviet microwave bombardment. It worked for a while. The bombardment, obviously a countermeasure against U.S. electronic spying, was reduced in duration and intensity. But within the last month, the Russians return to around-the-clock, full-force microwave bombardment.

This probably creates electromagnetic radiation at the embassy higher than maximum safety levels, causing Dr. Kissingers critics within the administration to say I told you so. These officials had felt removing spy equipment was a blunder from any standpoint. If the,U. S. were really crippling its intelligence capability, this would be appeasement. If the U.S. were only pretending, the Russians would not be fooled for long.

In fact, the latter may have happened. Officials here believe the Soviets resumed microwave countermeasures because they concluded the equipment removed from the roof was of no great importance.

Accordingly, hard-liners in the administration feel now is the time for what should have been done originally: to publicly demand that the Kremlin follow civilized behavior by shutting off the

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microwave machine.

With President Ford and his inner circle immobilized for non-campaign activity by Ronald Reagans challenge, nothing is being done about the Moscow situation. Ironically, if Mr. Ford took a hard line, he might score an effective counterthurst against Reagans Panama attack.

Fords Secret Campaigning

For several minutes after President Ford telephoned her at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, March 28, Mrs. Jenkins Healy, a Reagan-leaning Republican just elected GOP county chairman in Natchez, Miss., was sure she was talking to an impostor.

But after 20 minutes on the phone, just two weeks before the Mississippi Republican convention selected the delegation which included Mrs. Healy to the presidential convention, Gail Healy was convinced it was, indeed, none other than Gerald R. Ford. That was the strongest sign yet of Mr. Ford now stroking even low-level Republicans to advance his cause against Ronald Reagan.

The President congratulated Mrs. Healy for her election the previous day as Adams County chairman. When she told him she had not publicly declared her

preference between him and Reagan, Mr. Ford asked how the trees were blowing in the wind. Toward Reagan, she replied. Mr. Ford asked: Are you in that tree yourself? Mrs. Healy ducked, saying she would definitely support the partys nominee, whoever he is.

For that answer, a, laughing Mr. Ford replied, Mrs. Healy deserved appointment to the diplomatic corps. In fact, however, she is a Reaganite of long standing.

Two weeks later, the Mississippi state convention justified the Presidents concern. It not only gave Reagan a 2-to-l margin over Mr. Ford among the 30 convention delegates, but also voted the unit rule assuring that if Reagan is still a candidate at Kansas City, he will get all 30 first-ballot votes.

A footnote: Another

Keagan-leaning Mississippi Republican personally wooed by the President was Kirk Frdyce, longtime party leader in Vicksburg. When Fordyce met the President in Washington during the Associated General Contractors Convention, Mr. Ford made a polite but strong pitch for his support at the state convention. Fordyce, a longtime Reaganite, was charmed but not changed (Continued on page 8)

(The Raleigh Times)

Candidates for the top jobs, state and national, disagree about whether and how much they should or will tell the public about their taxes. Columnist Evans and Novak, elsewhere on this page, report some Ford strategists umbrage at what they call the noxious gimmick of the Presidents challenge to Ronald Reagan to reveal his income tax returns.

At the state level, Jim Hunts appeal for total financial openness-accompanied by airing of his own earnings and tax records-met only limited response from fellow Democratic gubernatorial candidates. Edward OHerrm revealed his net worth but not his tax records. George Wood, jdning the contest a few days later, indicated he didnt think people would be interested in his taxes.

We disagree. Though it was hard to tell which among the deluge of grim Watergate revelations worked the biggest public opinion shift, the news that the President had fudged on his income tax was surely among the biggest shockers of alL

People who would tolerate all sorts of marginal behavior in their leaders if the national interest might conceivably have justified it drew the line at exceptions to general rules of right conduct when taxes were invcved. What the leader expects of each follower, the message was, he had jolly well better expect of himself.

Evans and Novak call the White House reactim when Reagan refused to release his tax return moralizing that Reagan had not learned the lessons of Watergate. They imply Treasury Secretary William Simon was right that Reagahs taxes are nobody elses business, and they refer to the inquiry as county-level politicking

If it is county-level politicking to expect would-be leaders to be willing to disclose what perhaps tells best how the leader sees his relation to his government, then were in favor of county-level politicking And we wish all the candidates would meet that expectation

Washington. Jimmy Carter, the former Governor of Georgia, has demonstrated that political truth beyond per-adventure. One by one. Carter has bowled over the Washington opposition: Henry Jackson, Morris Udall. Birch Bayh, Lloyd Bentsen. And when Carter says bluntly that he has no fear of Hubert Humphrey, we have to believe him.

To be identified with Washington, family or unfairly, is to be identified with recession, inflation, welfare abuses, stifling bureaucracy, endless regimentationand in the case of Gerald Ford, to be identified with Watergate also. It is to be identified with all those formless, irrational ills that contribute to a national malaiseVietnam, detente, wheat deals, a kicking around in the United Nations.

Alas for Gerald Ford, it gains him little for his defenders to argue that he himself had nothing whatever to do with the Watergate scandals. He came to his office under the last will and testament of Richard Nixon; and that seems to suffice.

On the second point, it now appears evident that Reagan has tapped a spring of passion that had been flowing underground. Call it patriotism, or jingoism, or bullheadedness, or intuitive wisdomcall it what you will. Out there in the boondocks, far beyond the Potomac, Reagans identification with strong national defense and his saber-rattling on the Panama Canal have found a visible response.

Finally, as a campaigner, Reagan has proved even more formidable than his friends had thought. He has created an image of decisive leadership, and with it an image of modesty and confidence and good humor. He has shown none of the truculence that contributed to Barry Goldwaters undoing in 1964. He is fighting a clean' fight.

And what has Ford done wrong? He has failed to capitalize his greatest assets. He has kept the peace. By

(Continued on page 8)

By ANDREW TORCHIA Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -American delegates at the fourth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development say they want to avoid a blowup that could harm President Fords campaign in the presidential primaries.

But Ronald Reagans victories underscore the fact that we cannot go any farther than we have already, one representative of the Ford administration said.

We have consulted with Congress and have broad congressional support, this American said. But Secretary of State Kissinger made it clear to ministers in Nairobi that this is not just our opening position this is it.

Kissinger in his speech to the conference last Thursday made what appeared to be one major concession to the Third-World countries. He offered to negotiate a plan for the stockpiling of raw materials to stabilize prices.

But in the week since the U.S. delegation has made clear it is opposed to the key point in the stockpile proposal the underdeveloped countries have made. This calls for a price-stabilizing fund to assemble stockpiles of 10 basic raw materials that provide 80 ver cent of the Third Worlds exports. The fund would sell when the price of a commodity rose and buy when it fell.

The fund would be administered by an international agency, possibly UNCTAD, and the voting majority would held by Third-World members. U.S. delegates said this would mean a major shift in control, from the industrial buyers to the producing sellers.

We think the fund is unnecessary. We dont think there are that many commodities that can be stockpiled physically, said Paul Boeker, a U.S deputy assistant secretary of state.

The United States is urging an extension to other commodities of the one-thing-at-a-time bargaining that has produced individual pricing agreements on tin, coffee and cocoa.

French Finance Minister Jean Pierre Fourcade suggested a compromise: individ-up agreements on several commodities be drawn up during the next two years, with a central coordinating fund to be created later. He urged that new commodity arrangements be kept within the framework of the World Bank, in which the industrial nations hold voting control.

But other delegates reported that seven nations, including six oil producers, might not wait for an agreement and (Continued on page 8)

40 Years Ago To(day

May 13,1936 The Greenies added another win to their list of consecutive victories here yesterday afternoon when they stopped the Kinston'^ Eagles by a score of 8-1.

Howard Hodges turned in a strong pitching performance for the local team and L. G. Hamilton swatted a home run over the left field fence and bleachers.

Greenville got eight hits in the game while Hodges allowed only four scattered hits to Kinston and struck out 17.

Janies Kyle

Many Choose Existing Homes

Strength For Today

HUMAN FAVOR

Few men were as lionized in their own day as the Duke of Wellington, the conqueror of Napoleon at Waterloo. He was borne from that battlefield upon the shoulders of his admiring officers. When he returned to Britain as the savior of the nation, there were no honors too great to be heaped upon him.

Yet this same national hero lived to see his own house stormed and looted by an infuriated mob. After the attack Wellington refused to have the front fence mended.

He wanted it to be a perpetual reminder of how fickle human favor can be.

Wellington was right. Human favor is certainly a fickle thing. Popularity is not permanent, regardless of how great ones accomplishments are or how beneficial they are to the public.

The only thing which remains to comfort a person through good fortune and ill is the consciousness that he or she has done the right thing.

By Elisha Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - Many thousands of homebuyen in the past few years have chosen existing homes in preference to brand-new units, a review of bousing statistics suggests.

Last year the ratio of existing home sales to new rose to nearly 3.7 to 1, after maintaining a national average for many years of 2.5 to 1. Some of the increase is attributed to a low homebuilding rate, but not all.

The attractions, bousing and ieading executives say, are price, size, location and quality. Existing home prices remain below those for new, and some existing units are larger and more detailed than new homes.

Moreover, existing homes often are within easier

commuting distance to large cities than many hcanes built in the past few years.

Some buyers, it is believed, feel that a housing era may have passed and therefcxe have attached to existing homes an appreciation usually accored items of older, antique value

An estimate by Advance Mortgage Ck>nx, the nations second largest mortgage bank and subsiduary of Citicorp., puts at 3.1 million the number of existing homes sold in 1975. It said the gure is a record

Philip C Smaby, president of the Natioiil Association of Realtors, confirms the troid Through 1975, he said, existing home sales remained stron even though Interest rates were relatively high.

Smaby estimates that existing homes often sell for

$5,000 less than comparable new homes, whose prices have been forced up by rising costs of land labor, money and materials.

Nevertheless, many realtors say, a strong desire still exists among Americans for the Old fashioned unit on its own lot, because it affords a feeling of freedom and independence.

Smaby and others believe that in order to accommodate the desires of homebuyers, while still keeping costs within affordable limits, builders must cut dimensions and some extras that Americans come to expect

Advance Mortgage notes that existing home sales have increased 60 per cent since 1968, the first year for which realtors maintained a national index of the existing home market.

Sales this year are running 30 per cent ahead of last years record pace, it notes, and adds; "existing home selling may be as close to a recession-prottf business as we have in the country.

Merrill Lynch, the nations biggest securities firm, estimates that from a rate of less than one million at one point in 1975, new home starts will rise to between 1.5 million and 1.6 million units this year.

Still, it adds, that would leave the supply about 585,000 units short of demand, and thus provide one reason why sales of existing homes are expected to remain very strong this year.

The other reason, many builders, realtors and lenders believe, is that many Americans today are, for many reasons, strongly attracted to the existing home