4—TheDtUy Reflector, GreenvlUe, N.C.—Friday. January 14, H77
Area Medical Growth Booming
It is not always easy to recognize just how important developments in the medical field are going to be for Pitt County in the future.
Both ECU Dean Robert L. Holt and Medical School Dean William E. Laupus saw accreditation of the medical school occurring in 1977.
And with that will come the opening of the new Pitt Memorial Hospital,
"We will experience a change few hospitals ever experience." M. E. Gilstrap, associate director for the hospital said,
"There are not many places in the United States
that can match Greenville for growth in the medical area.”
Tjiat is obvious enough. The new hospital and accompanying rehabilitation center were designed to be the most modem of facilities. Since then the Eastern Area Health Education Center ccmstruc-tion has gotten underway and additions have been made for the medical school. There is much more construction ahead.
Not only will some of the nation’s best medical care be available, but the economic impact from all the people who work in the medical complex, and of people visiting here will be tremendous.
Quick To Free A Suspected Terrorist
France was quick to release the suspected mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes, despite the fact that he was wanted by West German and Israeli authorities.
Abu Daoud was left free to leave Paris after a
THIS AFTERNOON
French court rejected Israeli and West German extradition demands.
The massacre was a horror comparable to Hitler’s gas chambers. It is regrettable that the French would not cooperate to the point where a prime suspect was brought to trial for this outrage against mankind.
A Dept. Of Protection?
By BILLNOBLITT
RALEIGH - A North Carolina Department of Protection pulling together under once crime-fighting boss the various elements of public protection and safety appears a "logical course" to Gov. James B. Hunt. Jr.
By whatever name it might be called, the agency being mulled by the governor and his key staff would bring together under one agency head the various units now involved in crime-fighting, public safety, and highway safety.
A handful of agencies would be affected: the State Highway Patrol in the Department of Transportation; State Bureau of Investigation in the Justice E)epartment; the Auto and Theft Division of the Motor Vehicles operation; Alct^lic Beverage Control officers who operate under the Department of Commerce; the National Guard which answers to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; the game-law enforcement operation of the Woldiife Commission which operates rather independently within the
The GALLUP POLL
Department of Naturai and Economic Resources.
Fight Likely
Needless to say, any prt^)osa] to bring unified control of those activities would produce much wailing from affected state departments and the constituents of services.
Impetus for such a change comes from the study commission report on morale in the State Highway Patrol handed Gov. Hunt this week which indicated leadership problems as a critical factor in overall decline of the patrol.
Logically, says Hunt, there should be central direction of public safety and anti-crime efforts under an agency concerned primarily with those factors.
Additionally, the governor is pushing a community crimewatch effort for North Carolina without any central place for coordination and direction. He said in position papers during his campaign—statements which upon examination signal many of his current plans— that, “Because elements of the criminal justice system are fragmented among the
Legislative. Executive, and Judicial branches of state government, central direction and priorities for improvements . . . must come from the governor . . . leadership over the system as a whole..
Besides eliminating the competition now evident among the various law enforcement activities, a central agency would provide top people who would be aware of programs and needs covering the scope of public safety. Whereas now. cm a given operation, agents from different units might be operating independently without communicating with one another, a central agency would provide a man in charge to call the shots.
Funds Fight
Another area of conflict— the bitter fighting for federal funding which has been seen in the Governor’s Law and Order Commission which funnels the Law Enforcement Assistance Act money to local and state units—could be brought under control.
Hunt is giving consideration to bringing about the new agency without need for creating a separate state
dq>artment.
The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs has a minor role in state government at this time, and was earmarked for destruction by an efficiency study commission under former Gov. James E. Holshouser, Jr. The major division of that agency-the Energy Division-is being transferred to the Department of Commerce as a lo^cal part of the ectmomic growth scene.
But with command of the National Guard within its jurisdiction the military agency appears a probable place to lodge the public protection activities.
Thus could emerge a Protection Department with one man in charge answering directly to the governor. Under his command would fall various divisions— hi^way safety, community assistance and training, and the State Bureau of Investigation. Each division would have its own boss, but the likelihood is that some of the smaller agencies such as auto theft or alcc^iolic control would be merged into a larger unit.
Betty Is 'Most Admired
By GEORGE GALLUP PRINCETON, N.J.- Mrs. Befly Ford is the woman most admired by the American people, winning the greatest number of votes from a list of 86 women in a recent GaliupPoli.
One survey respondent wtw picked the President s wife had this to say: "Mrs. Ford has carried herself with pnde and dignity throu^iout a very unique time in her husband's career."
Another commented "She has a neat attitude about her kids and their activities - and was not influenced by fear of a bad press when she talked about them. You have to admire a person with this candor. She’s a total person."
The magic of the Kennedy name is still apparent in these annual audits of most admired women in the world. Mrs. Rose Kennedy wins the second greatest number of
votes and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is No. lo.
Commenting on her choice of Rose Kennedy as the woman she most admires, one youthful survey respondent said: ‘‘She’s a remarkable woman, who has raised a remarkable family and has had to withstand tragediiS in her life which would have broken most people ■'
Third on the list is Shirley Temple Black. One admirer commented: "Despite her fame as an actress, she has managed to stay out of the usual scandal and controversy that so often surrounds an actress. From child star to Ambassador to Ghana to Chief of Protoco — quiteajump!”
Barbara Jordan is In fourth place. "You can’t help but admire her for her genuine guts and what she stands for in the political world," was the
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comment of one admirer. Another said: “She has conquered two big strikes against her — being black and being a woman. She's an example of the true meanii^ of American democracy. ’ ’ Rounding out the first five is former prime minister of Israel, Goida Meir. One respondent described her as “a tough and intelligent woman who led her nation during difficult and dangerous times."
This question was asked of the total sample in a recent nationwide survey:
“Here is a list of prominent women. (Respondents were handed a card with 86 names drawn from previous Galltqi surveys.) Would you tell me which three of these women you admire the most ”
Here are the results showing the top 20 names selected: MOST ADMIREDWOMAN -í976-TopTaw
1. Betty Ford
2. Rose Kennedy
3. Shirley Temple Black
4. Barbara Jordan
5. Golda Meir
6. Lucille Ball
7. Mamie Eisenhower
8. Barbara Walters
9. Joyce Brothers
10. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
—Sewmd Trail. Coretta King
12. Pat Nixon
13. Kate Smith
14. Rosal vnn Carter
15. Shirley Chisholm
16. Lady Bird Johnson
17. Margaret Mead
18. Bella Abzug
19. Carol Burnett
20. Queen Elizabeth II DIFFERENCES BY
GROUPS Analysis of the Results by major population groups yields some interesting results. For example, when just the views of women are considered, Rose Kennedy is the most admired female followed by Betty Ford and Shirley Temple Black.
Non-whites overwhelmingly name Coretta King as the woman they admire most. Mrs. King, Barbara Jordan, Jackie Onassis, and Rose Kennedy are the only women who are mentioned by more than one non-white in 10.
Differences by age also exist. Pecóle under 30 years of age name Mrs. Ford, Barbara Walters, and Rose Kennedy most often whereas those over 50 years old say they admire Mrs. Black and Mrs. Kennedy most.
Similarly, there are interesting differences by educational background. Those with a college background put Barbara Jordan and Golda Meir at the top of their list, while people with less than a college education indicate their t(^ choices are Rose Kennedy, Mrs, Ford
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Strength For Today
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“ALL WHO JOY WOULD WIN MUST SHARE IT: HAPPINESS WAS BORN ATWIN.”
We can no more imagine a happy person locking himself or herself in an ivory tower and devouring happiness ail altme than we can imagine a trumpeter locking bis trumpet in a closet and refusing ever to take it out and blast forth notes of triumph and exaultatkm.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!
By ART BUCHWALD
That Coffee Shortage
WASHINGTON - The first inkiing that the price of coffee had gotten out of hand was in early 1977 when the IRS announced you could deduct the price of the first cup of coffee, when discussing business, but you could not deduct the secwtd cup. Also, you could no longer buy your wife a cup of coffee unless you could prove it was necessary for her to be there \riien the business conversation was held.
In a few months coffee had become a luxury item and was only served in the finest restaurants. At a cup, some eating places offered to give you a free meal if you bought a cup of coffee to go with it (cream and sugar was extra).
But soon the idea of serving coffee after a meal was reserved for special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, Bar Mitzvahs and New Year’s Eve. It
wasn't enou^ to just serve the coffee. Pecóle began to toast each other with their cims, and waiters showed the can the coffee came from, before they poured it from a pot wrapped in a white napkin.
The coffeemakers started to put vintage years on the cans and connoisseurs emerged who could comment on the quality of each brand. They would say ^ch things as “It's an unassuming little Maxwell House, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption" or “This ‘Chock Pull o’ Nuts’ has a nobility to it that you rarely find in any of the domestic brands. I would put it up against a 1975 Chase & Sanborn anytime.”
The hostess or host would say rather proudly, "My grocer recommended this ‘Instant Brand* over Nescafe. But it has to be dnudi young
when it'sat its peak."
People started keeping “Coffee Cellars” which they showed off to their friends. There, gathering dust, lying on their sides, could be found Medaglio 1974, Wilkins 1976, Safeway All-Purpose Grind 1970 and A&P’s Perculator Ground which came from beans picked from a special plantation outside of Rio de Janiero.
It became such a luxury that voters accused their, congressmen and senators of
ART
Public Forum
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Totbeeditra:
I’d like to share some thoughts from Charles L. Black Jr.'s recent book, Csfiital Punishment: Tbe loevitabUity of Caprice and Mistake. It concerns the series of decisions that humans make concerning who shall live and \riio shall die.
The following paragraph is ipioted from this book:
“First, there is the decision of the prosecutor. He must decide whether to charge an offense carrying the penalty of death or a lesser offense. If he decides to charge the capital offense, be most commonly must decide whether to accept a plea of guilty to a lesser (and. therefore, noncapital) offense, thus permitting the defendant at this early stage to escape the possibility of execution at the price of going to prison without trial."
If the plea bargain is not accepted—then the prisoner goes on trial before a jury. The responsibility of decisions then is in the power of 12 human beings. They miQt decide whether the defendant planned the killing, or Whether it was done in passion, whether there were elements of self defense, or whether there was temporary insanity.
Juries somtíimes come in with a verdict of “guilty” of some lesser offense than the evidrace shows because of feelings of doiüit and a cracem for extenuating circumstances. Another jury with similar evidence may bring in a verdict of guilty for first degree murder.
After conviction, sentencing and appeal, there is yet the possibility of executive clemency.
Among the many who commit capita] crimes, our society has always chosen only a few scapegoats to suffer the extreme and final penalty. And the manner of choosing is capricious, for there is no way for us who are human to decide with justice vriiat men shalllive, what men shall die. \
Elizabeth B. Wall
BUCHWALD
(miy being interested in “coffee, women and song."
Lockheed lobbyists gave away cases of coffee instead of money, and Arab middlemen insisted on being paid off in Italian espresso Instead of Swiss francs.
Dictators and generals opened secret numbered coffee accounts in Geneva and Zurich, where multinationals deposited bags of coffee beans in vaults. The Soviet Union, sold gold to txiy coffee.
The Shah of Iran canceled his order for F-16 jets from the United States and ordered six ^iploads of Yuban instead.
Brazil took the F-16s to defend its coffee plantations from Ecuador.
But the worst thing that happened is that employees all over the country could no longer have a ‘ ‘coffee’ ’ break. Instead they were given “wine bréate,” which were much cheaper but caused a tremendous amcHint of accidents and mistakes in productivity.
Things became so desperate that President Carter asked James Schles-inger to dn^ his energy projects, and find a way of making coffee out of coal.
Just as World War III looked as if it would erupt over the coffee shortage. Brazil, Colombia. Kenya and Angola had bumper coffee crops, and (Continued on page 51
Cold Is Hiking Prices
By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer
The harshest winter in years has most of the nation In its icy grip, forcing up the price of heating bills, shutting down factories and schools and slowing navigation on major waterways. '
The frigid coid is even driving up the cost of oysters
And the National Weather Service predicts no big thaws for at least 30 days.
Robert Dickson, deputy chief of the weather service's long-range prediction section, said a drastic shift in normal wind patterns is bringing weather from the Arctic Circle as far south as Texas.
About two-lhlrds of the nation is feeling the chill in what the weather service said was the harshest winter in at least five years.
The demand for more heating fuels, such as natural gas, is threatening reserves, officials say.
In Binghamton, N.Y., one supplier, the Columbia Natural Gas Co., cut off service to industries with back-up capability, Other industries without such dual capacity have been cut back to 60 per cent of the normal supply.
Elsewhere, fuel supplies have been Increased by as much as 50 per cent and more to heat homes and businesses.
Some factories in South Carolina and New Jersey have been idled because of a natural gas shortage.
On Thursday, government officials and businessmen from the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland and other states asked the Federal Power Commission for authority to buy natural gas from Texas that is not subject to federal price controls.
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40 Years Ago Today
January 14,1937 Italy and Germany renewed their handclasp today. France, agreeing to meet the Nazi reich halfway in solution of their economic and political problems, took steps also to do her part in stopping foreign hands in Spain.
Col. General Wilheld Goer-ing, who functions as the German prime minister, talked in Rome with Benito Mussolini and King Emmanuel.
They told him Italy's friendship for and collaboration with Germany had not cooled because of the Italian agreement with Great Britain on the Mediterranean status quo.
Italy reportedly was taking action to shut off volunteer enlistment in Spain, seeking a general workable international neutrality plan.
Company and union representatives were called into a conference with Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan today in an effort to end the automobile strikes against the General Motors Corp.. biggest of the labor disputes which held about 200.000 employees idle nation-wide.
Gov. Murphy’s conference call proposed discussion of “an immediate and peaceful termination of the General Motors strike." which alone involved about 114,000 workers,
-—Barbara Mafltews
Sweepstakes Are No Accident
The only way to enjoy happiness is to share it. The only way to keep anything ft»* ouñelves is by giving it away toothers.
When Christ fed the five thousand, the miracle appears to have occurred as he broke the bread and made it ready iar distributioo. This was not only a miracle; it was also a parable. Life is made to be shared, not hoarded.
—by EUiha Douglaas
By MARTIN MERZER Associated Press Writer
'Twas the month after Christmas and all through the nation, many bills were piling up, as was aggravatkm. So through the mails were sent many sweepstake giveaways, to pecóle in need of cash soon after tbebdidays.
It’s no accident that for the past several days, millions of Americans have received invitatioos to win as much as $125,000 for merely licking an envelope, mailing it in — and reading an advertising message.
At least four major companies chose the month after (Christmas to make their pitches and sent out more than 80 millioo pieces of mail.
“Throu^ these mailings over the years, the best mailing period by far, as far as resprase is concraned. Is ht aftra CSiristmas,” said
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Maren DeGraff, direct mai: manager for Downes Publishing Co., which publishes Ladies Home Journal and American Home magazines.
“My personal (pinion is that pecóle have blown so much money, they say, ‘Well, it's only a few more dollars (for a subscription).’ Also, after (Christmas, petóle need money.”
“We’ve also found the reqwnse to any type (rf mailing is always better In January,” said Jim Lyles, a qx)kesman for the Exxon Travel Club in Houstm. “I know I've received four sweepstakes mailings in the past few days myself."
Reader’s Digest is offering a $450,000 giveaway, backed by a natkmal advertising campaign that one source estimated cost as much as the nrizes. More than 84.000
pe(^le will share the $450.000. Prizes range from a t(^ of $50,000 to $5 each to 21,000 respondents.
Ñjlisbers Clearing House, a Port Washington, N.Y., firm that sells cut-rate subscriptions to magazines, is offering $125,000 casli in a $400,000 giveaway that will include 60,000 winners.
The t(^ prize in the Exxon Travel Club's $100,000 swe^stakes is a vacation home, car and other prizes, or $50,000 in cash. About 1,160 people will share the prizes.
The Ladies' Home Journal and American Home are dividing $200,000 among 3,700 winners. Top prize is a new home or $77,000.
The ^veaways work in basically the same way. A computer selects winning numbers before the numbered applications are even in tbe mall. The rec^iient
returns a form, and the firm hopes it includes an order for the magazine or product. When the contest ends, entrants who held winning numbers are notified.
If a winning number is thrown away - and thousands are — rather than the prize money being returned to the company, it is given away through a drawing of previously losing entries. The companies say all prizes are awaited and all entrants stand an equal chance to win, whether or not they ordered the product.
Officials of the Federal Trade Commission support those claims.
"We haven't had a wealth of complaints on this type of thing,” said Noble Jones, a Cleveland-based attorney for the FTC, “It’s my feeling that there are very few abuses in these sweepstakes.”
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