4The Daily ReHector, Greenville, N.C.Thursday, May 20, 1976

Looking To The Next Biennium

Hardly has the Legislature ended its work on the 1976-77 state budget than the attention of the governors office, the research people and committees must turn to the next biennium.

The next budget must be submitted to the Legislature when it convenes in January, only a little more than a year away. By then there will be a new governor and undoubtedly some new faces in the Legislature due to the November election.

One thing we hope will be kept in mind by officials on the local campus, the UNC Board of Governors and the budget makers is that the undergraduate and graduate campus of East Carolina University has been left out of capital improvements for four years.

Its true that the university has received a large amount of money for the development of its medical schoola project that we think is sorely needed.

Nevertheless all of that money will go to the medical school soley for that purpose. In the meantime all of the other higher education institutions in the state system have benefitted from a bond issue which was approved by the voters, and Chapel Hill is soon to receive an additional $32 million from sale of the utilities system in Chapel Hill.

Some $3.8 million has been moved from the present fiscal years budget to 1977-78 to construct an additional bed tower at Pitt Memorial Hospital for the Medical School. Thats a necessary project and should be funded. But capital improvements projects on the main campus of the university should be funded, too. The undergraduate and graduate facilities must improve, if the university base supporting the Medical School is to be maintained.

SPRING USED TO MEAN THOUGHTS OF LOVE! GrOUnd

Bone In

Back To The Think Tank For Watchers

Jerry Brown wins Democratic primary in Maryland; Jimmy Carter just squeaks by in Michigan; President Ford wins big in Michigan and Maryland.

THIS AFTERNOON

Those results send all the political experts back to the think tanks. Its that kind of year as voters state-by-state continue to search for a leader who will restore integrity in government.

Trying Assembly Session

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH - The May budget session of the North Carolina General Assembly provied to be a particularly trying one for most legislators.

The private offices, back halls and coffee shops have been the scenes of more complaining than usual by members who felt frustrated by the time pressures, the hardball politics being played, and the system whereby most members were left out of the decisions until finally asked to vote approval so the session could adjourn and go home.

A few random samplings of legislative grousing will illustrate the problem.

I know now why they called it a mini-session; that stands for minimum input from members, said a veteran member of the House of Representatives.

Hams Gone They asked us to come down a couple of weeks early and butcher the hog. We did. Then when the session opened

we discovered they had given away the hams and left livermush, complained a member of the House Base Budget Committee.

The reference is to the hard cutting done by that committee, only to have the mopey spent for new or expanded programs.

I want to know who these leaders are who are making all the decisions, fussed a veteran senator, who considered himself a leader, upon reading a newspaper report that the leadership had reached agreement on the pay raise question.

Two major problems plagued this assembly, and a host of legislators are vowing never to allow such elements to combine again:

1. Legislators seeking re-election face an August 17 primary, and several also are geared up for higher races; severe pressure was exerted to move rapidly through the sessions business.

To do that, both House and Senate reversed the usual procedure in which ideas and proposals are percolated up

from the bottom, through committees, onto the floor, and into law. The proposals were generated at the top and pushed downward for hasty proval.

Things were changed overnight; nothing would stick; members felt betrayed at times and blackmailed at others. And the rapidly worsening ill-relationship between House and Senate leaders only made t^e problem worse.

2. Lt. Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., is running for governor; House Speaker James C. Green is running for lieutenant governor; and two representativesCarl Stewart and Billy Watkinsare in a bitter fight for election as speaker of the house in the 1977-78 session.

W ho Wins

In numerous instances, those ambitions emerged in putting forth proposals or opposing themnot on merit, but on the basis of who might benefit or be hurt; who might get credit - and votes.

If 1 had not already filed

for re-election. Id just quit, one particularly able legislator complained angrily during the confused session. That person is on the important committees involved and is considered a member of the elite leadership group, but his first-hand look at the political jockeying and bitter feuding was upsetting.

A solution to the problems created by the May session must be carefully thought through by legislators, but already prominently mentioned are safeguards against allowing an assembly session and a campaign to run so closely together; changes in the method of choosing committee chairmen and other leadership people so that power would not be concentrated so completely; and guarantees that future sessions have sufficient time to allow membership participation in committee study and debate instead of proposals already written and agreed upon from the top being submitted for a rubber stamping.

REVIEWING HIS RECORD

Provocative Jerry Brown

BY SUSAN SWARD Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Jerry Brown has been a political mix of liberal and conservative in 16 months as California governor. He has made few sweeping changes in state government, but he has made an impact in areas ranging from sex laws to education spending Brown, who put a dent in the Jimmy Carter bandwagon by beating him in Marylands Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, rarely affects people in a neutral way. He is often viewed as representing the best or the worst of the new politics in the United States.

A leader of people. Brown says, must set a tone. He talks a lot about lowered expectations and limits on what government can do for people. I see nothing wrong with a creative pause, he

says.

Many columnists describe

the 38-year-old governor as the most interesting politician in the country loday. Provocative, flashy, bright, anti-big government, young, on the move, moving up.

But his foes say he has implemented a politics of drift in California since he took over from GOP presidential contender Ronald Reagan. They find him ambitious, cold, shallow, sanctimonious.

Much of the debate centers on the record of this tall, thin, animated politician who often tells reporters about his 16-hour-a-day, six-day work week and calls campaigning his idea of a perfect day.

Brown, a former seminarian who is fond of Biblical quotes and philosophical dialogue, doesnt do much to clarify his record. He says he is not a sixpoint program man.

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Browns stance ^ ottering more questions than answers gives fuel to his critics. But he has retained his unprecedented high in popularity polls.

Brown, the son of former California Gov. Edmund G. Pat Brown, has taken a conservative tack on several grounds: keeping a no-new-taxes pledge and signing bills imposing madatory prison terms for heroin pushers ad for the use of a gun in the commission of some crimes.

The state budget, now $11.8 billion, increased by 10.6 per cent in Browns first year in offica That compares to an average annual increase of 12.2 per cent in the Reagan years. Brown worked with legislators last year to cut a proposed school finance bill from $220 to $115 milion, then used his veto power to cut another $27 million. His fintee department officials have testified ugainst proposed spending increases for other social services, including Medi-Cal.

At the same time, he signed a bill sought by liberals abolishing a $40 million annual oil depletion allowance for major oil companies. He issued an executive order forbidding state-chartered savings and loan associations from redlining ghetto areas and denying loans to the poor

or members of minority groups.

He also pushed for a constitutional amendment, now on the June 8 ballot, which would make it possible to increase bank and corporation taxes on a majority rather than Iwo-lhirds

legislative vote. And he signed bills liberalizing marijuana penalties and

repealing sex laws used against homosexuals.

In his first year. Brown negotiated a landmark compromise law creating a farm labor board to supervise farmworker union elections in the states $6 billion agriculture industry.

But that board is almost defunct now. Its funds have been cut off by rural legislators who think Brown and the board are biased toward Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers.

On environmental issues. Brown has trod lightly, refusing so far to take a position on key coastline conservation legislation or a major nuclear safety initiative on the June 8 California ballot

Brown has sidestepped taking a position on the initiative by saying he wants to see how three bills he has endorsed on nuclear safety proceed through the (Continued on page 8)

Strength For Today

REVELATION IN TIME

These are days when we need to remember the wise saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson that the great lesson of life is to believe what the years and centuries say against the judgment by the hours. Our disposition is to pass judgment on the basis of what the hours say But these judgments will certainly be modified, if not reversed, by the passage of time.

A great preacher used to say that we judge God childishly in finding fault

with (he tapestries of His providences before they are finished on His loom. It is hard to believe that all things work together for good to them that love God, but the apostle Paul so declared, and the experience of believing men and women confirmed this.

Make us to meet what is or is to be With fervid welcome, knowing it is sent To serve us in some way full excellent.

Though we discern it all belatedly.

By Elisha Douglass

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Debate On B-1 Bomber

It doesnt happen often, but now and then the United States Senate provides a forum for debate in the grand manner. We have been hearing such a debate off and on for the past three weeks. The question is: Resolved, that further funding of the B-1 bomber should be suspended.

Two of the Senates old warlords are locked in this debate. Both William

Proxmire of Wisconsin and Barry Goldwater of Arizona have spent 19 years in the upper chamber. Proxmire is chairman of Senate Banking. Goldwater is ranking

minority member of Senate

Aeronautics. The genelemanly foes are worthy of each others steel.

Proxmire has the affirmative side. After reading a couple of his speeches against the B-1, I was ready to agree: Funding should stop. But it is a measure of the antagonists skill in advocacy that after reading Goldwaters rebuttals, 1 thought he had the better arguments: Press on!

It is a pity that the two senators are debating in a virtual vacuum. This is the kind of story that TV cannot possibly cover. Even the largest newspapers can

Other Editors Say Hold Price Line

(Jacksonville Daily News)

The nations bill for health care last year topped out at $118.5 billion, up 13.9 per cent over 1974s$104 billion. This$14.5-billion growth was the largest dollar increase in history.

Interestinglyand maybe significant!)^ expenditures on dental care continued a long-term decline as a percentage of health care costs. According to the Social Security Administration, dental care in 1975 accounted for $7.5 billion, or 6.3 per cent, of the health care total. This compares to6.5 per cent in 1974,9.1 per cent in 1971 and 10.1 per cent in 1950.

Why is the dental care tail getting smaller while the total health care dog is getting biggei? The answer may be found in looking at the level of public funding of health care, suggests Dr. Robert B. Shirea, president of the American Dental Association (ADA).

Currently, he points out, governmental bodies pay about 40 per cent of the nations total health care costs. Dentistry, however, is financed almost exclusively through the private sector, with only 5.5 per cent of the total national dental bill coming from government funds.

At- the same time, dentistry has managed to hold the price line. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, dental fees have increased slightly less than average prices in the economy during the past seven years.

One reason for this is technology and increased productivity. The high-speed drill, for example, developed by the ADA and offered gratis to all daists, has been comparable to adding the equivalent of 1,174 dentists, says University of Michigan economist Paul Feldstein.

But the primary reason, says Shira, is the system itself.

The private (dental) practitioner has none of the time-consuming administrative structures of a clinic, which is generally laden with paperwork and red tape.

The dental profession supports national health insurance IH-ograms if they can be devised to maximize the impact of federal funds on the nations dental health, he says. Priorities should be given to care for children and emergency care for all, and public funds should be restricted to those who cannot afford to pay for health care themselves.

But above all, national health care programs should take full advantage of the economics and patient conveniences provided by the nations existing private dental system which, claims Shira, has given the United States un(]uestionably the best dental care and health level in the world

barely nibble at the edges of the senators give-and-take. Proxmire and Goldwater are speaking to a handful of colleagues who show up for the morning hour, and they are making their cases in the Congressional Record. The matter is much too important to be left at that.

The argument goes back six years, to the time that Congress first authorized the Air Force to proceed with design and testing of a new bomber to replace the B-52. Pursuant to that authorization, one prototype plane has been tested extensively at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A second prototype has made three flights. A third plane will arrive for testing this summer.

The argument for replacement goes to this effectthat the existing B-52s are from 14 to 23 years old; that while they performed excellently in Vietnam, they are too slow for the missions that can be imagined in the future; and that so long as the manned bomber figures significantly in our deterrent strategy, we should not settle for a second-best aircraft. We must have the best we can afford.

Proxmire contends that the price is too high for the benefits that would be gained. Largely by reason of inflation, the cost per bomber has soared from $35 or $40 million, as of 1970, to an estimated $84.3 million loday. This puts the projected cost of a fleet of 243 bombers somewhere between $20 and $25 billion.

The price would be much higher, as Proxmire sees it, if the Air Force had not kept reducing its design standards in an effort to keep the lid oa. The prototypes now being tested will not fly as far, nor as fast, nor have the elaborate vionics first comtemplated. Proxmire argues that these multiple billions will not buy much of a bomber. He urges that alternatives be considered-refitting the B-52s with nvore powerful engines, or -putting our reliance 'm cruise missiles.

Goldwater disagrees totally. It is true, he con-

(Continued on page 8)

Meats

By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -j There will be some finely ground chips from pig and cow bones in your hot dogs if the Agriculture Department carries through with its plan to let food processors use machines to gnaw meat closer to the bone.

But those bone chips should not be noticeable and, besides, they are a good source of calcium, the department says.

The plan is to allow deboning machines to scrape the bones of processed livestock carcasses. Deboning machines are used now by the industry but not in the final bone scraping manner being urged by the Agriculture Department for processed meat products.

The departments plan would allow processors to include up to one pound of bone chips in every 100 pounds of meat to make such things as pork sausage, canned beef stew and frozen pizza.

Officials say the technique could add nearly one billion pounds of meat a year to the U.S. food supply, about five pounds per American.

The department, explaining the new approach, said, Under traditional hand deboning methods, loss of meal typically occurs when packing house employees attempt to cut the meat from neck bones, ribs and backbones. Mechanical deboning machines can strip such bones clean of all meat that otherwise would not be gotten by hand deboning.

In the process, however, the department said that a small amount of very finely ground bone would be left in the meat. The proposed regulations would allow up to one per cent "calcium content in mechanically deboned meal for processing.

The plan was criticized by Rodney E. Leonard, director of the private Community Nutrition Institute, who said there are no microbiological standards in the proposal and that there is a greater threat of bacterial contamination when such scrapings are processed into food.

Leonard is a former USDA executive who during the 1960s was head of a consumer and marketing agency which included federal meat inspection.

Officials said they recognize the issue is controversial and therefore will hold consumer briefings on the proposal, which will be opened for public comment at least through August 25.

The first briefing will be at the departments headquarters (Continued on page 8)

40 Years Ago Today

May 20,1936 Judge M. V. Barnhill delivered the key speech at a meeting last night held to form a citizens Law and Order league for Pitt County.

The organization was

formed through the adoption of a resolution prepared by a special committee. The

resolution was unanimously approved and the group signed m^bership cards which pledged them to work against any form of gambling in Pitt County.

The resolution called for the removal of all gambling devices, such as slot

machines, in the community, .specially those in public places.

Approximately 500 persons attended the meeting.

James Kyle

Report Money To Lend, But

By JOIINIUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - The (Oficial statistics show that savings and loan associations have record amounts of money to lend, but a builder in upstate New York complains he cant make sales because his customers cant get mortgages.

The 25 largest lenders arouncf here havent made more than a few mortgages in the past few months, he said. You ask any of the real estate people around here and theyll tell you the same thing.

'This is but one example of an American who feels he hasnt as yet participated in the economic recovery. You can find his like in a wide variety of pursuits, including unskilled workers and stock

market investors.

As always, economic conditions vary geogra{^icaily, and they vary also among occupations, age groups and industries, and even by sex. But some people seem to feel the exceptions are more common this year.

One explanation seems to be that some of the problem areas are very close to the basic needs of people

While the employment situation is improving for example, more than seven million Americans cant find jobs, and while consumer prices in'general have been rising less slowly, the price of a new house has rocketed ahead.

Ironically, the news about a recovering economy seems to make the contrast even worse because it tends to raise ex

pectations. The discouraged worker re-enters the labor force, only to find he cant find a job. The young couple, tired of renting decides to buy and finds the price too high.

The typical new singlefamily dwelling now is estimated to cost $43,700 far beyond the ability of a. couple with gross income of $13,000. And the initial cost is only part of the story; operating expenses also are rising.

The frustration of the homeseeker nevertheless is hardly that of the job-seeker

who reads about the recovery iind then finds it doesnt apply

to him

Many thousands of these people are now counted as unemployed for the first time in a vear That is. thev were

listed before as discouraged workers those who had given up looking and thus not counted in the labor force.

Now that their hopes are up but their opportunities arent, these saddest of the sad have ascended into the ranks of the officially unemployed. At least they are now counted, if they are not included in the recovery.

Meanwhile, many Americans lis^n to some monetary and fiscal officials proclaim that the recovery is threatening to get out of hand and therefore needs to be restrained. They can hardly be encouraged.

No proliferation of numbers can convince the discouraged or the nonparticipant As does everyone else, they believe that recovery begins with them.