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Bonds Just To Catch Up

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Nath OMtiUiiiam will be voting on a $300 miUion bond Inue to ipeed up highway construction when ttMy go to the polls on Nov. 8.

Itio funds idich ttw road bond issue will produce are urgently needed if North Carolina has any hope of catching up on its highway needs.

With the rapidly incraasing costs of highway conetnietlQn ttie funds produced gasoline taxes **P^ are not providfaig the roads that modem traffic reouirea.

The addtttional money which would come from the bond issue would be stretched out because it would attract matching federal funds in many

North Carolina has done a pretty good job of

paying from highway construction out of current revenues over the years. From time-to4ime however it has been deemed necessary to provide a road bond issue to catch iq) on lagging projects.

We have reached a time when some catching up is needed and we can issue these proposed bonds without an increase in the gasoline tax.

It is well known that Eastern North Carolin has suffered from lack of adequate highways. We feel ttiat our sectim of the state will benefit from the passage of the road bond issue, and this is going to be critical if our area is to continue to develop economically.

We recommend a vote for the $300 million high* way bond issue on Nov. 8.

Probably Encouraging To Bootleggers

Reps Robert F. Drianan, D-Mass., and Edward W. Pattison, D-N.Y., have introduced a bill which would increase cigarette taxes by 31 cents per pack.

The two congressmen claim it is a way to prevent cigarette smuggling since states and cities would

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be rebated taxes which they drop on cigarettes.

We suspect the tax would only encourage the bootlegging of cigarettes so that all taxes would be circumvented.

Hopefully Congress will lay this cigarette tax idar to rest without any delay.

Equal Rights Are Costly

ByBILLNOBUTT

RALEIGH It is costing a great deal of money and requiring considerable extra work by a lot of educators, but North Carolina is well along the way in providing equal educational opportunities for children with ^)ecial needs.

Such a project is not to be taken lightly. Current information inidcates a total of 140,000 public school children across the state fah in that category. State officials carefully use the term special needs rather than the handicapped, so it is clear that beefed up educational progran\s are also for the gifted and talented.

This year alone, local public schools are tapping a total of more than $10 million in state and federal funds to provide school services recently required by law.

Satisfy Law

Ted R. Drain, director of the division for exceptional children in the State Department of Public Instruction, feels action on a variety of fronts is moving to

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satisfy the requirements of new federal and state laws.

Each local school unit is ' drawing up a plan for meeting the particular needs of any child suffering a mental, emotional, or physical learning disability, and regular workshops are being held to make certain that all officials understand the requirements of the law.

At its simplest, the combined effect of recent law changes is that every child regardless of special problems must be provided an appropriate education free of charge.

Already identified in North Carolina are 140,000 making up some 20 per cent of the total school population of a million-plus. Drain thinks intensified efforts to identify all of those needing aid will bring the total to more than 200,000 following another massive child-find this November.

Among numerous programs underway schools now provide a complete ^ catalog of service available from whatever resource to

help children, each child is given psychological and aptitude testing and counseling as as part of the preparation of an individual plan for education, students are to the greatest degree possible kept in classrooms with their normal classmates and leave only for ^)ecial therapy or classes jor, at least, associate with their classmates at lunch, etc.) and physical barriers to free movement in the buildings are supposed to be eliminated iwthin a year.

State Action At the state level, most attention has gone to setting up an office to keep children from falling through the cracks and to help parents make sure their children are getting appropriate education attention. A Raleigh hot-line is in place for incoming telephone calls; an inter-agency council is at work keeping the flow of information open between educators. Human Resources, and others concerned; and study is being given to training requirements for

personnel to work in this area.

The state and federal money is being channeled to local school systems in lump sums allowing flexibility in meeting particular needs, and may be used for slaries, therapy, psychological services, supplies and equipment, or other purposes determined necessary locally.

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TTie new approach is not without its problems. Some schools, for example, complain it would cost too much to install an elevator to carry a crippled child to a third-floor class.

Such an approach overlooks an alternative which wouldn't cost anything, says Drain: move the class to the first floor. Removal of architectural barriers can be accomplished in some cases without physical building changes.

Cruise Missile Not 'Hot'

By ROWLAND EVANS

and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Secret computer studies show that the existing U.S. cruise missile would not have a chance to penetrate the Soviet Unions sc^histicated defense system, a revelation acutely embarrassing to President Carter and threatening to the prospective SALT n agreement.

The studies, conducted jointly over the summer by a private cmtractor and the Pentagon, found that a scheduled live test would result in the Tomahawk cruise missile being shot down by U.S. defenses. Consequently, the Defense Department some two weeks ago cancelled the live test and substituted a dead or simulated test. That was intended to sidestep severe embarrassment for the weapon which became strategically crucial when Mr. Carter shelved the B-1 bomber.

But word has filtered out of the Pentagon, giving ammunition to Capitol Hill critics of the Carter defense

policy. The new strategic arms limitation agreement (SALT II) being negotiated in Geneva becom^'s more vulnerable than ever to criticism that it gives the Soviet Union a dangerous advantage.

A Defense Department spokesman told us there was no computer study made and that there will be live tests of the Tomahawk. But our sources at the Pentagon reaffirmed in detail the story of the cruise missile crisis.

The Presidents unexpected decision against B-l production transformed the cruise missile from a theater to a global weapon. The Tomahawk, the only existing cruise missiie, was developed as a sea-launched weapon but eventually will be launched from heavy bombers. As such, it is now a critically important U. S. strategic weap(m.

The Tomahawk was to be tested beginning Dec. 6 at Nellis Air Base in Nevada against the U.S. Hawk air defense system on a live basis the surface-to-air

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sile actually sent against cruise missUe (which would be launched from a slow-flying aircraft). But the computer studies showed that the Hawk radar would locate the Tomahawk an^ a surface-to-air Hawk missile would shoot it down.

The implications are unnerving. The Hawk is similar to the Soviet SA-3 system, which the Russians consider obsolete and peddle to their client countries. If the Tomahawk cannot get past the SA-3, what chance would it have against the far more advanced Soviet SA-10 now guarding the Russian homeland?

The decision was made to scrub the liv test, firing the Tomahawk but not actually dispatching the Hawk surface-to-air missile thereby saving the glamor weapon the indignity Of being shot down. Instead, the test will be simulated via computer in a dead test.

Rq). Jack Kemp of New York, an important Republican voice on defense, plans to take the House floor to accuse the Defense Department of rigging a test. At the least, experts believe a simulated test always poses the temptation of self-deception.

Actually, there have been precursors of the Tomahawks vulnerability. The radar of the F-15 fighter has picked up a Tomahawk in

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Strength For Today

PHILOSOPHIES OF UFE Christianity has always contained a more natural, meaningful, and rewarding philosophy of life than other world religions.

The Stoic i^ilosophy of the andent Gredu ur^ men to live a passive life, neither loving good nor abhorring evU. The Stoic philosopher Seneca declared that pity was moral illness. Epictetus adnumished this followers never to show the least affection for anymore, even for children. To the Stoic the ideal man was the person who

That Legislative Itch

WASHINGTON - Among the pditical ailments that afflict Washington, in seas<m and out, through every administrate is the virus known as m legislative itch. Mr. Carter is down with it now. His new version of a consumar advocacy bill indicates that the condition is serious.

The syndrome is characterized an irresistible urge to pass a law any law! Just so long as one is passing a law. Caught in its throes, the victim tosses judgment to

the wind. Parliamentary restraints are abandoned. Common sense takes to the hills. Nothing matters in these dreadful spasms but the passing of a bilL Thus we now have KR 9718, the ill-begotten son of HR 80S, which was in turn the illegitimate offspring of the cmisumer bills of bygone years. In times past, we have seen proposals to create an Office of Consumer Advocacy, and Agency for Consumer Protection, an Office of Consumer Affairs,

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flight. Testing the Tomahawk against radar aircraft scheduled through next April at the China Lake and Point Mugu naval test sites in California now becomes the source of apprehension at the Pentagon.

Although the cruise missile team has boasted that their weapon presents radar a cross-section the size <of a seagull, that may be too big. Further reducing the cross-section or increasing the missiles speed would require major changes. Nor is there room on the cruise missile for anti^radar countermeasures; the miniaturized motor and warhead take up all the limited space.

Im very much afraid, one technical expert told us, that the cruise missile is about one weapon generation away from being able to penetrate Soviet defenses. Other experts believe a swarm of Tomahawks could overrun Soviet air defenses; but that would require thousands of cruise missiles, a number neither planned for production nor permitted under the pn^)osed SALT II treaty.

Yet, without a B-l bomber, Soviet siq)eriority in heavy missiles would provide all the more l(^sided a strategic advantage if the Cruise missile cannot penetrate Soviet defenses. Therefore, even thou^ it lost the fi^t for the (CcxRiniiedoDpageS)

TotbeedihHr:

A 1975 look at youth needs in N. C. was instituted by the Legislature. The State instnrcted each county to research juvenile delinquency and status of offenders (the latter, children committing offenses like truancy which would be no infraction if they were adults).

The State specified that consumers be included on this research team. Pitt Co. Commissioners neglected this recommendation and assigned a task force of government employees. The State then appropriated about $1 million for the counties to develop and expand community-based programs for status offenders. Each participating county was guranteed a minimum of $2,500. The money was to be used for such services as alternative educational' opportunities, youth service bureaus, volunteer programs, q>ecialized foster care and group homes.

Each county is required to match state dollars with local dollars, based on the countys ability to pay. Pitt fell into the most profitable category. $1,200 would bring us $12,000.

The Pitt County task force found in 1975,458 diildren between 10 and 17 had been referred to the courts. 54 percent were on probation. Visiting a probation officer weekly for a whUe is not an effective way to give these children the help they need 46 were placed in foster homes.

So after the need was documented, what was the Commissioners recommendation? Repeal the House Bill legislated to deal with the protdm.

The State of N. C. should be praised for this positive attempt to help our children. They realize that many social problems like crime and premarital pregnancy can most effectivdy be dealt with through local programs for youth. The req?onse of our Pitt County politicians is confusing.

A recent independent survey by ECU students found many professionals in Pitt Co. were enthusiastic about the possibility of using this grant to improve training and funding for Pitts Foster Parent Program. But the politicians evidently said No. ,

The Commissioners neglected citizens (pinions. Maybe they would like to hear what you think...

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David Elliott Greenville

To the editor:

Several times in my life I have seen a photograph or a painting that was artistically profound. I saw such a photograph today in the local paper. The portrait of Chancellor Jenkins with the double exposure of The Flag and toe band at attention was a thoughtful and provocative i^tudy-Mr. T(nnmy Fmrest should be very proud of his accomplishment I have toe feeling that this tooto-study will be reproduced many tones. 1 know thatl would like one.

CaroiP. Martoccia

and so on Some of these proposals had fearsome teeth; some of the bills would have given us an onmipotent administraUH* possessed of impressive clout In this latest version, nothing much remains. The presidents bill would create an Office of Consumer Representaoa The (rffice would serve three purposes only: It would fulfill one of Mr. Carters campaign promises; it would provide employment for an army of faithful bureaucrats and paper-shufflers; and temporarily it would relieve the legislative itch. Beyond these functions, toe OCR would perform no useful service whatever.

It is embarrassing. Mr. Carter is toe president who hates bureaucracy and promises to reduce its oppressions. His new bill provides for an administrator, a deputy administrator, five assil8&nt administrators, a general counsel, and all the employees that could be hired with an initial appropriation of $15 mUlion. The White Hmise says defensively that this new army of bureaucrats would be offset by the closing of 20 separate consumer offices in existing departments, but this is nonsense. Every one of these 20 existing offices would have to be maintained and staffed, if only to forward mail to the new agency.

The effect of thus centralizing the complaints and inquiries of cmsumers would be to delay effective action for five or sue months while memwanda flew like paper airplanes among the agicies of government. Nothing would be gained in efficiency. The handling of correspondence would simply take more tone.

In some curious ways, this watered-down bill is worse than its predecess<M3. The new OCR could not touch any federal acti(m having to do with organized labor or the farmer; every federal activity that involved the national security would be exempt Even so, the administrator would be given formidalde powers to throw his weight around among the regulatory agencies. All federal agencies, under this bill, are directed to serve the OCR promptly to the (Continued On Page 5)

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By DAVID TOMUN Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH N.C. (AP) dpline is a serious problem North Carolina public and getting worse each year] principals, teachers and dents agree But the three groups dlffeij sharply on the causes of problem and what to do about it although they do agree thaj facial integration is not a maj source oi trouble.

Those were among cor elusions of a poll of inore thai 1,600 individuals in high school all over the state.

Results of the poll, condu< more than a year ago, are put lished for the first time in booklet on discipline printed lasj wedc by toe state Departmoit ( Public Instruction.

The booklet also contains su{ gestions for dealing with cipline problems. Prominbnij among toese is that pac suspension and ex|dusion dmI work, and teachers should it instead to communicate ^t difficult students.

Here are some highlights fror results of the poll:

Most principals, teacher and students believe discipline b a serious problem in higl schools. Principals tend to lieve it is either remaining same or declining, but teacl and students agree it is on tl rise

Teachers and princijtisls tend to blame discipline lemsnito poor home life anc changes in society and its val ues. Students, on the other hand,| blame conditions at school, cite poor communication wit faculty members and boredoml with school among their reasons.'

Most students and teachers! believe that the typical dis-j ruptive student cannot be idei>I tified by race or sex Prindpalsl are more likely to believe thatl boys are more troublesome than] girls.

Teachers tend to belive that discipline problems an best be handled with suspensicHi from involvement in sports |nd| stricter enforcement of nfcs. Students favored improvements | in the the curriculum and stu-

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40 Years Ago Today

November 3, 1937 A concerted appeal f<H* direct negotiations between China and Japan to end their sanguinary conflict mariced the opening session of toe Brussels conference, with Italy asserting there can be no question of sanctions.

Delegates of toe United States, Great Britain and France joined in an appeal for the Chinese and Japanese to settle their conflict peaceful processes.

Negotiations wo-e underway to move Shanghai warfare away from the fringes of the French Concession, where many Americans make their hoines.

A Japanese spokesman tdd of the ccmversations to neutralize the Nantao area, just south of the Concession. He representatives of a power had approached Japai$ese with a plan designed to avdd further endangering of foreign and Chinese noncombatants.

A 22-year-old Fountain i^n was killed instantly when the wall of a sand pit in which he was woilring gave way and buried him beneato two tons of dirt.

The victim and two other inen I of the same section were hauHng j sand from the pit originally dug by the Hi{^way and Public! Works Commission to secure | sand for road construction.

Lynn Caverly

Catching Up With Inflation

could detach himself completely from life, remaining above and beyond any em-onal reacoa Likewise the Buddhist believes-that the person who purges his life of both evil passions and noble aspirations, has attained perfection.

By contrast Christianity gathers up all the passions of a persons life and directs them into channels which will glorify God, ennoble the person who entertains these desires, and make the world a better place to live in.

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By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Butineu Analyst NEW YORK (AP) In 1938 the minimum hourly wage was 25 cents. In 1978, because of legislation signed this week by President Charter, it will be $2.65, or 10 times the dollar amount of 40 years ago.

Now divide by (our.

The answer, in terms of purchasing power, is about where the minimum wage stands in relation to that 25 cents of 1938. Using a standard measurement, the 1907-1959 dollar, buying power was about $2 in 1938, less than 90 cents in 1977.

The impact on our economy will be very benefir#!, said Carter during a White House

ceremony. All that ever came of earlier increases, he said, is a little better way of life.

Carter said the newest increases, to $3.35 an hour by Jaa 1,1981, will put $9 billion into the pockets of Americas low-wage workers. He didnt mention inflaticm.

Neither, apparently, was much mention made of the critics .who believe the minumum wage itsdf feeds inflation and thus in part defeats its goals. The poor, who must spend all their money on necessities, are most hurt by inflation.

The minimum wage, aimed at redistributing more of the nations income into the lorwest income brackets, remains controversial, no

ntatto: how democratic its goal

Among the criticisms: it actually closes off job opportunities to the unskilled, it undermines apin-enticeship programs, it adds to teen-age unemployment, it contributes to the price spiral by forcing up all other wages.

This, in turn, it is argued, forces millions of Americans" into higher tax brackets. Although their higher inermes might be due largely to an illusion, they are fwced to pay more taxes nevertheless.

Among the defenses: it is required to help provide the unskilled with the necessities of life, it furthers the cause of mcHre equitable income dis-tributirm, it strengtotens democracy, it prime the

economic pump.

While the goals are noble, one commonly misuiv-derstood aspect of tb situation is how toe money is taken from workers by drdlar erosion almost as fast as they get it

Business expenses, that is. are simply passed on through as price increases. Some of the expenses might be absorbed if productivity rises, but history shows productivity doesnt rise by nudting unskilled labor more costly.

Instead, the greater the number of unskilled toe less likely are productivity gains to be realized, an economic phenomenon demonstrated during every recent business cycle.

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