Monday, September 20, 1965

Time Is Short "On Reapportioning

There is an urgent need for North Carolinas legislative leadership to begin working on a plan of reapportioninent that will satisfy federal court opinion and at the same time be acceptable to mem* bers of the General Assembly. '

Gov. Moore, in consultation with House Speaker Pat Taylor and Lt. Gov. Bob Scott should as soon as possible appoint a special committee of legislators to work out a reapportionment plan.

Time may be much shorter than most Tar Heels think if the legislature rather than the courts is to reapportion representation in the General Assembly.

Special Session Decision Near?

By Wnj.IAM A. SHIRKS

DEaSION ~ A decision is believed imminent on whether Gov. Dan K. Moore will etll a special session ci the General Assembly on reapportlon-ment th Fall or wait a few more months.

It is aiHNirent that such a decision muM be made shortly. There are reports in administration circles that the coveroor hopes to make a decision about a special session and perhaps announce it putdicly this week.

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Moore has an early week new conference cm his scheduled and la certain to be ques-ticmed closely about the course he will take in view erf a recent federal court suit filed by attorney Rcnn Drum Jr. of Winston-Salem seeking to force legislative and Congrea-slonid reat^X^rUonment prior to next Sprlns'a elections.

Thu ftr Uiere has been little If any IndicaUon as to what Moore* decision might be.

URGED Meanwhile, there are also reports from usually reliable aources that the governor is being advised against trying the matter of reap-portlonment with action on the Speaker Ban in a special session.

On the other hand, some legislative leaders are saying privately they are strongly opposed to having two pedal sessions of the Assembly. They feel that If one special session is called, both of the current crises, that an apportionment and the Speaker Ban, could be tackled-In addition, there Is question as to whether the Speaker Ban controversy could or would be put aside. A special seasion of the General Assembly cannot be limited or reatricted to a single subject except by agreement.

And obeervers are saying it would be difficult if not Imponible to get unanimous aeree* ment at this time to put off legislative consideration ci proposals to amend or mpeal the Speaker Ban.

FRACTIONAL -- The possibility of reapportionlfig the 120- member House of Rcpre* entatlves on a fractional vote basis has been rained in informal, preliminary d^cuasioni.

This would be a plan whereby smaller counties would be allotted fractlimal votes In the Hooae aad retain their representative without Increasing House membership. Membership of the House is fixed by the state cduititution and an amendment wwild be required to increase this.

A major stumbling block in the way of any rcapportiwi-ment under the present set

up, dividing House districts on a basis of population, is that quite a few of the less populous counties such as Tyrrell, Hyde, Clay, Chowan. Macon and others would lose their present dire-ct representative.

A possible ana\*er now being suggested, at least on a tentative basis, is to give such small counties a fractional v<Xe such a one-half vote. For example, such a plan would givo a populous county such as Mecklenburg 10 or 12 votes and Tyrrell and Clay one-half vote, of the total of 120 votea.

fPTUDY The department of cccmomlcs oi North Carolina State University is undertaking a long-range study to determine effects of the Cape Hat* teraa National Seaahore on the economy of Dare County, N.C.

The study Is being made through contract with the U.S. Department of Interior.

Interior department officials said the depaitment of economic at N.C. State 1 recognized as a leading organiza-into auch subjects as geogra-research. The study will look into surh subjerts as geography, history, natural resources, population, labor force, payrolls and housing characteristics, recreation and vacation trade of the coastal county, OBJECTIVE Long range objective of the National Park Service Is to develop the national park system through Inclusion of additional areas of scenic, scientific, historic and recreational value.

The greater portion of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. unique in the nation, lies along the Outer Banks of the Dare coast. It extends from the southern portion of Bodle Island near Nags Head down Hatteras Island to Ocra-coke and may soon be extended.

The primary objective of the present atudy 1 to determine the actual and probable Impact of park establishment of local and regional econo-miea.

BOTANY - A privately, financed study is being started by Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. on plant life in the Aurora area of Beaufort County.

Thla is the location of the firm's $70 million phosphate mining operati(His on the North Carolina coast.

Reaearch work will be conducted by the department of botany of North Carolina State IMverslty under a ^,000 grant by Texas Gull Sulphur.

OHlolals said the studies will be used to evaluate changes which may occur In existing vegetation and plant environment in the Aurora area as a result of the phosphate operation and lubeequent chemical industries Including a huge phosphorla acid plant. In numerous other Instances, chemical plants or mining operations uaing strong acids have left large area devdd of vegetation. One example is the so-called "copper baj^n* of southeastern Tennessee, Just across the state line from Chro-kee County N. C. _

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It would be far better, in our opinion, for reappur-tionment to come from the General Assembly than from the court.

If reapportionment of representation in the North Carolina House of Representatives is to depart from the stipulation that each county is to have at lea.st one seat, a constitutional amendment will be necessary. The amendment would have to be approved by voters of the state, and that would have to be done at the general election in November.

With primary elections slated for next May, there is little time left for the legislature to hold a special session, approve a constitutional amendment and thrash out the knotty problem of House reapportionment.

Although the question of a special session of the General Assembly this fall remains to be answered, it would be wise for a representative group of legislators to be appointed to have recommendations ready on reapportionment if such a session is necessary.

Phenomenal Growth In Enrollment At ECC

Phenomenal!

That is the only word to describe the record enrollment of 7,888 on-campus students at East Carolina College this fall.

The record enrollment represents an increase of 1,100 in the student body since last f^ll. It means the college is serving this fall approxfhiately 16i/j per cent more students than at this time last year.

Needless to say the enrollment figure is taxing facilities at East Carolina to the limit. It is higher by several hundred than college officials had anticipated even with the significant increase in application for the fall term.

The enrollment indicates the increasing popularity of East Carolina College among North Carolina students seeking higher education. It also .shows again the effort being made at East Carolina to serve as many qualified students as possible who are seeking a college education.

Equally important, the record enrollment points up again that North Carolina's institutions of higher education have not reached the point where they can expect their enrollment to level off. Facilities for higher education must continue to expand in the state if they are to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of Tar Heels seeking a college education.

Students Going Out-Of-State

Say! 1 Disliiiftly Felt A Pat On The Back!

By ART BUCHWALD

?oes Of Free Enterprise

By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Ainerioss college students, like their parent, are on the move. The Increasing mobility of this natiwi "on wheel" and "in the air" has extended to the campus, and today one out of five of U.B. college students is enrolled In an institution outside his home state.

According to a recent study by the Kentucky Council on Public Higher Education, over half of these students are enrolled in private institution. drawn by special curriculum, family oonneotlcm with the institution, religious affiliations and the "prestige factor." Thre out of four of those who remained In their home state were enrolled in publicly controlled institutions.

An analysis of 14 Southern state revealed that South Carolina had the highest percentage of undergraduate students from out of state, replacing Virginia, whose instituti(ms were the most popular among out of staters in 1958. The state with the lowest rate of inmigration is Te.;as, drawing 9 per cent of Its students from out of state.

Turning to the other side of the coin, the Southern states with the highest undergraduate student out-migration rate is Virginia (3,3 per cent) and the state with the lowest, again, is Texas (6 per cent).

While the study reveals that Students from Northern and Eastern states migrate in substantial numbers to the colleges and universities of the South and West, the reasons for'^their college choices remain a matter of speculation. We do know that In Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, the largest number of students come from New York, Two states. South Carolina and West Virginia, receive the largest number of studenUs from Illinois. Ohio is the state at residence for the large.?t number of non-resident Students in Kentucky.

Students at the griiduate and professi(Hiai level are somewhat more mobile than are undergraduates. The Kentucky study gives evidence that the provisions made within each state for graduate and profes-

slonjU education have a direct bearing on the percentage erf youth from that state that go on to graduate and professional school.

It is true that few states can afford to provide an opportunity for every type of specialized graduate and professional education. But cooperative program between state are available In some fields to help meet this situation.

Who are our migratory students? They are above average academically; their family incomes are above average; they live in the larger urban centers and on the whole, their college performance is better than that of resident students.

These outstanding students have not always received a hearty welcome from the out-<rf - state institution of their choice. While the resident student pays only a fraction of the cost of his education, the balance coming primarily from tax appropriations, nonresident students have increasingly been required to pay a larger share of this cost in the form of a nwi-resident tui-tl(m differential. In the state college and universities of the South, the size of this differential ranged from $75 to 69 for the 1964 academic year.

It is argued that taxpayers of a state should not be expected to subsidize the education of re^dents of another state. But the economic value of the fou^yar residence of an out-of-stste student as compared with that of the freest spending tourist is obvious. Even more important may be the ultimate contribution which can be made by the superior out-of-state student who chos-ee to remain In the state where he was educated. Moat important of all, every institution benefits from a studont body drawn fnan diverse background and areas. Colleges and universities. both public and private have found that diversity within a stuctent body adds life and mesuilng to the intellectual dialogue.

Thus the freer the mobility of students, the more likely the benefit to students, institutions and states.

The Garden Clubs <rf America and the American Forestry Association met in Jackson Hole last week and dixcuseed ways of wrecking the American free enterprise system. Without any concern for the great role business plays in our economy, they advocated radical plans to protect nature, forests, and naUonal parks.

This convention, which had the support of Mrs. Lyndra B. Johnson, could, if carried to its ultimate, set air and water pollution back twenty years.

Every American that loves drive - in theaters, supermarkets, six - lane highways and junkyards would have been incensed by these people who

are only concerned with the beauties of America.

I talked to a few of the delegates and my blood boiled when I heard them say that public parks, natural beaches, and recreatitxi facilities should get priority over private commerce.

"Do you mean to say." I asked one of the ladies, "that you would rather see a tree than a billboard?"

She said she would.

"But with a billboard youre selling an American product. What can you sell with a tree?

"It Ix our intention to protect camping sites so Americans can enjoy the outdoor

life. We want to clean up the rivers so the fish will siMiwn; we want to clean up the land so flowers will grow.

What about the factories? I said. "We need land for factories and water from the rivers to get rid of the waste. You cant go around cleaning up the great resources of America.

ART

BUCHWALD

Other E(ditors Saying

S-290 Is Unwise

Chattanooga Tenn. Thms

Sen. Wayne Morse, Democrat of Oregon, has introduced a bill, S. 290, which would curtail drastically the publics right to know in the huge and vastly important area of crime and law enforcement.

The text is brief but the wor(te are potent. "It shall constitute, the bill says, "a contempt of court for any employee of the United States, or for any defendant or his attorney or the agents of eltl^r, to furnish or make available for publication information not already properly filed with the court which might affect the outcome of any pending criminal litigation, excesH evidence that has already been admitted at the trial. Such cMitempt shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.

tlntler this proposed legislation, it is easy to see, virtually all that a defendant could say in his own defense prior to court judgment Is "not gilty. This is an unnecessary stricture of his rights. His inablUty to say anything might have just as miM^ negative effect on his trial, because the accusation is left to stand, as any statement he might make. Fr^ the other side, the measure would preclude publication of a defendant's criminal record

even at the time of the arrest-even though everyone in town may know of that record. Communications media would be placed in the position of deliberately withholding information.

The Morse position is contrary to the new guidelines laid down last April by Attorney General Nicholas Kat-zenbach for the Justice Department. Mr. Katzenbach announced at that time that henceforth, the government would release details of a criminal record if asked for them, but would not volunteer them. Under the Morse Bill, in another example, the FBI might not even be able to IWt on its "Ten Most Wanted List a fugitive who had been indicted. To say that the man is armed and considered dangerous "might affect the outcome of pending criminal litigation."

Newspapers and broadcasters have a speclil responsibility to avoid possible prejudicing of a jury. Often there is a fine, thin line between the publics right to know and prejudicial material. The subject has been extensively debated by bar associations, judges and the press. But the Morse Bill steps over the Une and shcmld be put aside by the Senate.

I could see the lady was getting slightly annoyed, so I walked away and went to another group where they were talking about getting some money for the preservation of wildlife.

"This is the twentieth century, I protested. "Nobody cares about wildlife. The money that you are asking J o r should go into new aut^o-biles. taller buildings, and electric power plants. Show me a home where the buffalo roam and Ill show you a very good spot for a six - lane highway.

You would have thought they would have been interested in hearing another viewpoint, but instead everyone in the group went Inside.

I was left to myself and my thoughts. As I walked down to Jackson Lake, which lies at the foot of the snow - capped Grand Tetons, and peered out over the huge pine foresta mirrored in the water, I thought to myself, "A good real estate promoter could make this place pay for itself in less than five years.

Then I took a ride on a horse and as we descended into the verdant valley I saw moose, deer, birds, and flowers.

I thought, What are we doing with naticHial parks when our gross national product isnt anywhere what It should be?

But when I came back to the Lodge no one would tglk to iContlntied on psgt |i

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1965, King Peaturerf Syndicate, Inc.

FRANKFURT, West Germany You still meet them in Europe as you met them long ago in the Twenties, young men and women who have come to study or work abroad in order to escape the "conformity allegedly imposed by American life. It is useless to tell these young people that it may actually be easier on an' American university campus to oppose the war to Vietnam than to favor It. The Idea that there is a "liberal conformity as well as a conservative conformity repels them; they must see America in terms of the ultimate posdate of Marxism, which insists that capitalism produces the phenomenon of "alienation, forcing pereonal rebellion against the weight of a single overriding system (rf repression. It follows, naturally, that the alienation would be considered most unendurable in the United States, which Is the most advanceil capitalist nation.

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

The habit of criticizing tho capitalist order for producing psychological deformities is understandable, for the theory of "alienation happens to be the (Hily part of Marxism that hasnt obviously been blown sky high by recent history. All the other tenets of Marxism have crumbled. The old socialists thought that under capitalism the rich would get richer and the poor would be robbed of their shirts. But the growth statistics of the whole western world refute this. The steel union in America negotiates a fat new contract people whose grandfathers rode bicycles now have two cars In their suburban garages. The western social democratic parties abandon their Marxist economio philosophies in order to bold affluent workers and to attract a middlo class swing vote. And tho' whole of eastern Europe stirs uneasily when travelers bring back tales about the riches of the working classes in West Germany, northern Italy, and Prance.

Alienation, however, Is a subjective state, for if a per-s(m feels that he is an outcast, then the statistical proof of advancing prosperity is merely an affrwit to his nature. The economic system of the United States may send young people to Europe, either on their fathers money or by providing Foundation grants a scholarships, Ixit the young are oblivious to the irony of living off the hands which they bite with such ceremonial unanimity. The young feel as Uiey do, the heirs to an unloved system that produces, along with Its manifold wealth, the degradations of Harlem, Back-of-the-Yards Chicago, an the Watts district o Los Angeles. No use to suggest to them that when thousands of people pile into the narrow confines of a Harlem In order to take advantage of New York Citys liberal relief programs, it necessarily creates structural living problems that It would take any social order thirty years to overcome.

So the Marxist concept of alienation stands firm against its detractors. People are unhappy under capitalism. There are beatniks, bearded Castro-ites and Maoists, displaced Negroes. and Puerto Ricans living In squalor in a cold climate. The facts are inexorable.

But, as they say, there's nothing like travel to broaden ones thinking. A brilliant young Norwegian, Ole-Jacob Hoff of Oslo, who took his degree at Harvard in the United States, turned up at the Mont Pele-rin conference of International economists in Stresa, Italy, to read a pai>er on "The Decline of Dogma. Young Mr. Hoff (Continued On Page 5)

Can A Computer Boost Exports

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLA.SS THE PERFECT KINGDOM What was the purpoM of Qirtsts coming Into the worid?

We can. oi course, net understand fully the meaiiiBg el that great life and of Qed^s great purpose through that life. But we do know that this man Jesus was the only person ever to have lived confronted temptation, and alwMd oome out the victor. He wsa tempted In all points like a we are. yet without sin(Hebrews 4:15).

Many great seers such as Socrates. Plato, the Hebrew prophets, and the wise men (rf many nations have written words of guidanoe for humanity which have constituted a light in a dark world. But his man Jenus spoke a no one ever spoke before or has spoken since.

The New Testament seems to emphaize/7 primarily that Jesus came ?to establish the kingdom of God on earth. The kingdom of God meaas the rule of God. We know what the kingdoms of this world are like with their politics, their selfish interests, their materialism. Imagine a kingdom in which there Is no sin, no darkness, no evil. Jesus declared that He had come to estbil^ such a kingdom.

Little by little the worlds gets better, although there are times, such as the piresent.when all the world oeems to experi-enbe profound moral decline. But he establishment of the kingdom of God on earth is a possibility, and the assurance of what Jesus said and did wta that .such a kingdom wouW rventuallv be establish^

By ELMER R0E8SNER

The computer has been enlisted by the Department of Commerce to Increase exports.

There is a twofold purpose: by alerting American businesses to export opportunities. the government will improve its balance-of-payments positloe; by increasing cor-perte profits, the government wiu gain Income taxes.

About 350,000 businessmen are now receiving invitations from Commerce Secretary John T. Connor, inviting them to register in the American International Traders Index. An invitation is not necessary; companies with goods to sell abroad need only to notify the Department and they will receive appropriate forms. HOW nr WORKS

with Ctmnors invitation will be a return reply su'd. Those companies who reply, and others who volunteer interest, will be sent a registration form. Pacts on the registration form will be fed into a computer, then, whenever an

American consul abroad reports an interest in any product. or the Department receives a direct inquiry from a foreign source, the request will be fed into the machine.

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things will spin, and out will come the names of American companies making the desired product.

These companies will be notified that a foreign inquirer is Interested in their products. OTHER SERVICES

But thats not all. The stored information, the Deixut-ment says, will also be used to serve companies in these ways:

By matching international business oppertunitle with

known interests of U. S. ecn-panles;

By providing notices of major changes In trading policies of important U. S. trading partners to . S. firms shown by the Index, through c(xnputer check, to be operating in those countries;

By enabling the Commerce Department to (4iqit all po-tenttally intorealed U. S. manufacturipf eftfulidnnMits for Tra^ Cantor snaw$, ix-tematjQR! comhiereigl firs, or trade misie&$aggln by ccmiputer check; nd

By assuring mainte&aoce ef up-to-date lists in U. S. embassies and consulates of names d . S. business re-presentstlves overseas, enabling U. S. commercial officers to bring these names and addresses to the attention of foreign buyers.

The computerized aervice will be continuing. Manufacturers may add their names at any time, and those enrolled can add the names of new products and lines is they are developed.

And the servlet will also be

handy for the Defense De-partoaent md other government agencies procuring materials. However, the data will otherwise be confidential. Competitors cant get the facts any manufacturer submits. '

FEW RETIREES WANT TO GO TO WORK

A sqrvfy flnneed by Joseph Vm, pm|dBt of Hori-BW L^d Cori-, Shows that rttjrtd p0|6 dost want to wk, at good pay. Timan resulting from

interviews inth 2,000 oldsters, were presented to the American Geriatrics Society.

Many authorities have said and so have some retirees that retired persons would prefer to continue working if the job were rewarding both in satisfactions and pay. Timan. who is promoting retirement communities in Arizona and Mew Mexko, said be had (rftered good jobs to retired plumbers, carpenters and other craftsmen to worit on homes, but almost always they had gone out to retire, not work. a ^