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U. s. Department o Education la at war with Texas over the issue o racial segregation in the public colleges and universities, and Texas is as much perplexed as is North Caroliiui In fact, in Texas they view the Department of Education-UNC fight as an example of what can happen there.

The Houston Post in reporting on the issue quoted a source, The last thing anybody in Texas wanted was what North Carolina went through and is still going through".

It tends to iixlicate that what has happened in North Carolina higher education is well-lmown to other

states facing Department o Education intervention in their college and university systems

It may. be that with a new administration in Washington the Department o Educatioo will be more understanding o the problems It is causing. Then, perhaps solutions to upgrading traditionally black campuses can be found without federal interference in the planning and operation of campuses.

If things continue as they have, however, many other states can expect to face that which North Carolina higher education planners have endured.

Texasgulf Suffers Loss

We share the sadness employees of Texasgulf, Inc. must feel in the death of several company executives due to a jet crash in New York

'Texasgulf has a major pho^ate mining operation at Aurora in Beaufort County and many area

citizens are en^^yed there.

Some of those who died were based in Raleigh with the Texasgulf offices there.

'nw tragic plane crash brought sudden death to some of the ccxn-panys top mana^meftf, and it is regrettable.

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By ROWLAND BVANB and ROBERT NOVAK WASiONGTON - la a politically lymbolic rehabilitatioa. President RMgM has dedded oo a top post for Lawrence Brady, the New Hamptbire busiwjsmM wfaoae hard Mae oa tecbnolocy exports la the Soviet Uaion od dwt bis Commerce Department career ta the Carter ad-mkiistratioB.

Brady teft as deputy direc tor of the depsrtawts Ex pert Cant rol Office la JBivyMl.aAma8erleso( nm-tam over Carter ad-

whm the Senate chB wm apparent n Wadungtan lobbyMs recdved a hmd-raWog appeal ior Btt hfsl defenae find of New Jerseys Democratc Sea. Harrlaon wmums. the lad Abadm* defendant slgwd by formar,' Sea. Oifford Caae. his. erstwhile RepUbUcaa col-'

Buying N.C. Land

ByKLLNOBUIT RALEIGH - Foreigners are buying Nortb CaroUna farmlaod in huge amounts; enough to cauae dann m some quarters of state gov v

CoMtal Plain counties have DO foreigi ownership reported.

State Senator Vernon E White of Winterville in Pitt County chairedjvthe

emment.

But the questkn of whether alien citizens or corporations should be restricted in land ownbership in North CaroUna is one which has not yd come into sharp focus.

Legislation has been drafted which would ef-fectivdy halt further land-buying by fordgm and a leglstdive committee which endorses that coirse hopes that serious public debate will take place before the General Assembly takes the matter under considerdion.

At the end of last year a total of 2l,(13 acres of (annland was in foreiga ownership in North CaroUna . an increase of neariy 24,000 acres held by foreign interests in just one year.

Fored and Umbertands dominate (at 78 percent), with only 17 percent of the forei0Knroed land producing crapa, and a tiny three percent in padiae APdten There is an irteresting pattern to foreign land ownership in the state Three partkuiar areas seem to attract the most activity:

A concentration of coastal counties fronting on Pamlico and Albemarle sounds where more than 111,000 acres are foreign-

for the production of agricul tural commodities, but rather as a hedge agadst inflation and instability abroad, and as a means of investing cheap" U S dollars flowing overseas to buy od and forcigQ goods

The scarcity md resul tad appreciation of value of agricultural land are evi-dently sufficient incentives for such investment. The income from fanning is relegated to secondary Importance. the committee reported.

The legislation provides for foreigners to own other than farmland without redricthm, 0 thd forel0i iBvedment in commercial, indudrtal. and (GanUmmdooPage5i

By JAMES J. KILPAT^CK

How Not To Cut Budget

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Washington these days it talk g of the governments 82 governmert budget. Theres nd much ex-citemed d the White House or the Supreme Court The Congress, exhausted by its labors, has been away on vacdkm The budget Is the only game in town Funny thmg about the budget In theory, almost everytxxly wants to cd the budget. Mr. Carter left behind a propesal thd called for revenues of 8711J billion and oiiUys of 8738.3 billion, for a deficit of 827.5 billion, but the figures were d once

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legislative study which was launched two years ago when a bill was introduced restricting foreign land owner-

Other Editors Say The Full Story?

A southern Piedmod and Sandhills concentration of more than 41,000 acres in Moore. Montgomery, Anson and Richmond counties,

-A Rutherford County concentration of more than 11,000 acres, with considerable holdings d between 3,000 and 5,000 acres in adjoining Cleveland, McDowell, Burke and Polk counties.

Smaller farm tracts are owned in* some Piedmont counties, but most western counties and most of the

The committees draft leg-islatk proposes that forei^i citizens, or corporations including those located in this country but whose money comes mostly from foreign sources, nd be allowed to buy fannland. Any presed owners could codimje, but could nd expand their holdings. And, m the future, even if a foreipi person inherited North Cardioa farmland, he would have to sell k within two years.

Three Conceras

Three main 'concerns prompted the study group to go ahead with propwed restrictions: that foreign ownership would drive local land prices up; that it would ckive crop prices up; and that it would hurt future availability oi both food and " land space to North (^aroii-nians.

One finding by the cmn-mittee is that most of the foreign ownership of fannland in this state is not

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This ABSCAM stuff thiU has stHnebow c^ a dark shadow over coogressknal oper^kms need! a ray of sunshine to dear the atmosphere somewhat And the biggnt ray of sunshine that wle can think of under present circtanstances is for the FBI to tell the country about the honest congressmen and senators to whom bribes were offered and refused.

We have heard so much about those who took money illicitly and we have followed several trials in which congressmen have been convicted of high crimes that in the minds of some people k seems so ei^ to look at one rotten iqiple and to say that the entire barrel is roten However, in this case there have been ta or more rotten apples already exposed, and there could be others involved But if the FBI sets up machinery to catch six or eight guilty ones, how about the failures or the refusals of honest public servants to get involved in such transactions

It would help this nation and k would tend to restore an element of confidence in our natioaal govonment, particulariy in the decency and honesty of congress itself, if we, the people, cadd know the names of the honest ones who stood in the wUdernesB, were tempted, and refused In the case we are now talking about, the ones who refused should be reco0iized with more than a passing mentkw. too. They should be held up as national txampks o integrity, and the American people Biould take pride in such a story.

Then, we fed the people have a right to know the full dory

- not merely the story pertainiiig to the feflows who accepted

bribes. It is our opinion thd the powers-that-be are missing the boat In whd we bdleve to be a ped and wonderful opportimity to capitalize on booeity and integrity. We realize that if it should ao happen thd eve^iMdy teinpted by the FBI fell vktim to money, the picture and the atmosphoe wUl become even more poUutod. But we just carmot believe now that everybody tended accepted Ixibes.

All we wad to know is the tuunes o the boned ones who were tenpted but who refused. We bdieve the release d these names would have a whoiestHne effect upon the American ocene.lf toere was ever a tone when this America of ours, this democracy under which we live, and the leadership guitong us today needed a real shot in the arm, that time is now. V

Great confidence and faith could be renewed ... and they should be. This h not asking too nmch

wotod collect less and spend more, so the t2 deficit would be clooer to 857 billion than 827 billion Whereupon everybody agreed that so great a deficit would be intolerabie The consensus was dear. Let us cut the budget The theory a fine. The fact is that except (or the president and his budget dUector, almost no one really wants to cut the budget The idea a to cut someone elses budget. To paraphrase the popular song. Giving Up Is So Hard to Do. Let me offer a case in pomt.

Back in 1861. Congre created a United States Travel Service with a missioo to promote tourism in Annesica 1^ home folks md foreign visitors alike. In the view of its penny-pinching critics, the agaicy never had much reason for existence. CooMitutionalists grumbled that promotion of an ki-dustry is no business of the ' Coi^ress At least the last three presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter - have tried to get rid of the outfit As one of his last acts in office, Mr. Carter in December vetoed a Senate bill to keep the function going Now, the Travel Service is small pol^oes on the vast smorgbord of the United States budget. The agencys current ap|t)priation is only 88 miiiion; k emf^ only 75 persons - 45 of them in six foreign offices and 30 here M home. But it has powntul friends r-the hotel people, for example, and the restaurant owners, and the operators of air lines and bus companies and taxicabs. They will teO

that the generates Pi 8140 billion in spending and N employs 6.6 million persons Tounsro is supposed to be our foiffth largest source of foreign currency, after chemicals, motor vehicles and grain

Very well. As I say, Mr. Carter vetoed the 19H) effort to keep a tourist promoUoo fifflction going But last nnofkh. South Dakotas Sen Larry Pressier abruptly summoned the old bill back from the vasty deep ODHMpenton ' of the rufos, after only 10 minutes of one-sided discussion. without bothering to hold committee hearings, without waiting upon the new atoninistratioo's recommendations. the senators who were preserk all cried aye.' Not a dissenting voice was heard.

Last year the House voted 211-84 for the Senate measure. It seems a fair assumption th^ the House will go akng tins time, too U so. we shortly will have a brand-new United SUtes Travel and Tourist Ad-miniAratkm. with directions to promote and facilitate the orderly growth and develop-merk of tourism The new agency, rqkacng the old TYavel Service, will be thoroughly independent; ks budget request cat be trimmed by a preskfonts budget director; the number of its employees cannot be cut back by anyone. ^ ;

So it goeT The president's majority leader, Howard Baker of Tomessee, made no effort to delay this little Wll. Indeed, Mr. Baker was named among the co-sponsors Other sponsors included such (ContoxjedonPageS)

ministrmian poBcy. BrMly in-lonMd Ognpw nfiatona deteped to Mock the export to Rwtea of todkxkoci -pmttotoarty computen -ware being undermined.

Praised In Iht prom as a skiNli htowm. Brw^ loft Wmhii^ iv Mi Bidlwd. NH. bone WMIe cmBpaip-k tar In the New

Hampshire pretldentlsl primMy, Brady was totd by Rei^ he woMd be offend s Conmeroe Department job In a RcofBD athnlniMnlinn The job now under conaidera-tiaa: eaatetaik aeaetary tar trade, a step up (ram Brady's oldpaal MHMs And Miases After a month in office, aeteor Whke House aides have graded the Reagan Cabinet: Transportation Secretary Drew Levris and Interior Secretary James Watt on top. Energy Secretary James Edwards on ^ the bottom Lewis, a ridlied prafes-siooal poUtidan As well as a milUonaire buslnem oonwil-taik. has outdlitanred all other Cabinet menben in getting hie department in working order. Watt, a onetime asnMortal aide who' ran a noD^xoflt foundation fighting environmentalists, has been ahead of his coi leagues in putting Reagan doctrine into practice Edwards, a dentist who was governor of South Carolina, has lagged in staffing the Energy Department He is also on a coUiMon oourw with budget director David Stockman on several energy Issues. Including whettwr to restart a nuclear spent fuel Processing pint at Barnwell. S.C.

IteSenMeOM) Nonpartisan loyalties

Canes letter colncidad kith' a hueb-buab fund-raising reccpaooforWIUiafflSlMldat the WaMrinBon home of a iob-byiat wkb strong DenHKrattc ttea.T1tovttationeigred to the lobbytta thM oUmt U.S. aanalon would be on

hand to help Pete WBUaaea, the tanner chairmao af the Senate labor canwnktee. la Mb hour of need They were not Even the ttea that bind members of the Senate chto have a Ufflit Former Sen. Wlliiem Hathaway of Maine attended, but not one locombent edup.

Dick Allens Uhanee Jamaica Prime Minister Edward Seagi's visit to President Reagan Immediately after the inaufura-tion tbamd that reports of Richard V. Allen being downgraded as the preri dents nattanal Kcwtty amia-tant were greatly exaggerated It has been Mreaaed that Alien reports to the president through presidential counselor Edwin Meeae III

and is cfoarty nkxirdlnMe to Secrrtary of State Alexander ? Haig in the nattanal lecwky field Neverthelem. k was ^

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Alien who convinced Reagan* that the firm forelB) guest at the White Houk should be* Seaga, symbol of free enfor- -prise in the Caribbean after ousting Socialist Michael MaMey.

Haig next submitted to the * preaidnl the State Depart ; ment bureaucracys eaii-;; ttonary reconunendattona not' to encourage Seaga when he asks for help But Alien ' recommended that Reagan, go as far as poaeibie in offer -tng hope to Jamaica Ihe president took Allens advice ' nd rejected Haigs lBvattgMliMGOPLMr ' As chairman of the SenMe : labor oonunlttee. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah did not aak for White Hour clearance wNea he sent invcstigalors to seek out corruptton in unkma thri ;

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To the editor;

1 was delighted to sk the article In the Sunday, Feb edition on Librarian Elizabeth Copeland

Several months ago I risked Sheppard Memorial Ubraiy and received the same warm greeting I knew 38 years ago ta Wamingtoa N.C. when Elizabeth was there God ^ve us a special person ta Elizabeth Oopdand Few > professkxials have the dedication, the helpfulness and the art of making one comfortable as does EUobethCopelaQd ,

I am thankful for her special grace md I am fateful tar' her touching my life.

GeneHodges

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Demand Is There-Houses Not

strength' For^fdday

HEED THE SIGNAL Receikly as I sat ta a taxi stopped at an intersectioa, I < saw a (friver cwni^ from the oppotale directton who got halfway ^ross the street before be discovered that he was running a red light He came to a sudden stop, backed up, iuid took his

proper place in traffic.

This may appear a Uttte thing, but it is a reflecttan a mans disposition and probaUy of his charada-. There are a Id of people who, when they do smniething

wrong, cast it over the shoulder, as it were, and go on about their business. There are others who ac-knowled^ the authority of the red light and back ig) and take their fkace where they bekmg.

Red li^ are real, and they mean stop ri^it where you are. If you have been unwise enough to start throt^ a danger signal, then have sense enou^. courage enough, and decency enough to back up to the place you are supposed to be. - Elisha Douglaaa

ByJOHNCUNNIFT APBustaem Analyst NEW YORK (AP) -Perhaps the greatest^ challenge to the construction iiKlustry today is to create a house that people can afford. Ifie dmand is out there, proven by baskets of statistics. The,bouses are not. 4;:?-, 'j.i

With the new single-family houM costing about $70,000. and with median houediold mcome dose to 820.000, it is' clear that a big gap exists . between supply and demand, -< a gap of maybe 815.000 or so.

What is needed, based on the old ride of thumb, is a new bouK costing about ^.000,* land induded. but exMpt in soBoe sunbdt areas you have to taok hard to find it. In most areas you wont find it at aU.

What you will find is an enormous pent up demand a^itii^ to be served, but finding no service at all. They are a huge group, the boom babtas of the 1950s. and they desperately want houses. TTiey dont need to be " sdd on the idea. ProAice the bouse and theyll Itae up fork.

WeU, that is. if they can get.

the financa^ whidi ta turn is the greikest challenge to the Ixane mortgage industry today. ^ assuming the fi-nmicir^ proWem will be reserved and it is being worked on the builder who produces the affordable hmne will find more than 40 militan people reaching age 30 JT honietwytag age during the l9(Kte Who will produce it? Perhaps nobody, but some realittc attenqits are bemg made. It begins with a nod to the inevitabie: The size of

dressed up with conventional siding and put on foundations, and they are winning approval ta many towns. They coMd be the answer.

First (Mize for trying, bow ever, appears to belo^ to a Joint project of Rural America, a non-profit organization. and the Department of Housing and Urban Devd-opment, which built a three-bedroom home in Metcalfe, Mist, for 816JX), land included.

Admittedly, sweat equity^

houses is shrinktag. accord-playl a big role to the tag to the National AsMKia- Metcalfe Dour If a con-

tion of Home Builders

One Home Builder study, for exan^ showed that the average livii^ space ta new homes shrank to 1,867 square feet in the firta quarter of 1880 from 1,784 atfon feet in the third quarter of 1979.

The extra bMb. the fourth bedroom, and the family room are being dropped smne builders Unfinished attics are more common And buyos are me ofteni iiritod to finish off decte, patios and landsciqHng.

Mobile homes, which uaially are stationary homes built ta factories, ae bdi

tractor btalt the same de-S0O. said a spokesman for Rural America, we esttaoate the home would cost 822,080, exdudtag land. Even so, sudi a house would meet m<^ affordability Mandards."

Among the problems oon-frontlng the inexpensive houR are hij^ land prices, code-making bodies and local zoning authorkies who view departures from convention as endangering values of otisttag homes '

Whatever, Rmal America and HUD are plankng 58 demonstration homes ta dtf-

ferent parts of the country by thlsiaU.

OneoftbeM^iUgksofthe recok Las Vegas convention of the National Aaoodation of Home BuUderi vu a tourof an "Approach M" Mlb-diriMoo featurii^ low cost land devriopment md can-strtiction.

The 38-imit lubdiviskn, a joint project of the Home Builders and HUD. is aimed at demonstrating that bikld-and sidadivisioajT sum-dj^ can be relaxed to provide hi^ qualky, tow cost, single family housing. r |

The five-acre devetapmezk tadudes zero-kk Itae homes ~ (homes with one comMoed side yard rMtaer than two small le usable ones on either side), street right-of-way widths limifed to .36 feet rather than 51 feet, 4-taot sidewalks on one side o the street rather than 5-fot sidewalks on both sides, and 64nch sewer lin instad o 8^^^^ incbes. .

Beginnings, anyway. Aiid Pt if lenders can work out the financing, then maybe an entire generation of youngs Americans wonl after all, be denied the opportunity to buyahouR.