The NEW BERN Re«^ional Library' 400 Johnson ot, IT0V» ^orn rr 2C560 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE HEART OP EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA 5^ Per Copy VOLUME 13 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1970 NUMBER 10 New Bernians who strongly admire Alabama’s George Wallace, and there are still quite a few around, aren’t happy over the posslbUity he wUl lose his run-off race against Gov. Albert P. Brewer. Not everyone on the local scene who leaned toward Wal lace in the last Presidential election favored him with a vote. A considerable number figured he couldn’t win, and fearful that Humphrey might emerge victorious, gave their support to Nixon. Just how much Jim Gard ner’s courting of Wallace sup porters, here in the East, con tributed to his loss to Bob Scott in North Carolina’s battle for governor is a subject for endless debate. Staunch Repub licans in the West reacted ad versely to His strategy. Gardner, of course, was caught in the middle- If he should run again, it would ap pear to his advantage to have Wallace out of the picture. De feat in the Alabama run-off might not kill the Wallace movement here and elsewhere, but it would be a severe blow- Hie White House continues to deny there is a Southern strategy in the Administra tion’s maneuvering. Of one thing there can be no doubt. Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew has become tremendously popular in Dixie, and he, not Wallace, is the man most list ened to, and quoted with vigor ous approval. We’re not suggesting that Agnew’s speeches carry weight only below the Mason-Dixon Line. Eor better or worse, depending on your point of view, he has millions of admirers from coast to coast. He says what they want to hear; the way they like it said. Liberals who tried to de stroy him by picturing him as a clown have, Instead, qualified for the dunce cap themselves. ’’Better believe that 135 IQ, hard as it is to check,” ad vises Brock Brower, writing in Life Magazine- ’’There may be considerable opinion around to the effect that the Vice-President is a fool, some of it expert, but in fact, he is not,” adds Brow er. ”In fact, taking Spiro Agnew for an oaf has been a snare and a delusion all along, the press’s biggest damfool mistake from the beginning.” Television’s biggest mis take, it seems to Hie Mirror, came when the three major net works, apparently expecting Agnew to deliver a blundering speech, carried in full his attack on the medium’s al legedly prejudiced news cov erage. He came up with a master ful performance that con vinced the great majority of Americans, and from that moment on the jokes aimed at him by second rate stand-up comedians had a dull and hollow sound. Ridicule didn’t dwarf the Vice-President, it made him. To this extent, television ex posure proved it is Indeed a powerful force. Nixon discov ered as much, years earlier, when he appeared, poorly pre pared, in debate with John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and un questionably as a^irect re sult lost a Presidential elec- (Coiiliniied on page 8) Srw (lottWlH Silirarg THE OTHER SIDE — Television commentators and cameramen, eager to publicize violence unleashed by student minorities, wouldn’t find this peaceful campus scene at the University of North Carolina very newsworthy. How can you make headlines out of a boy and girl, serious about their education, strolling together happily among giant trees on the grounds of stroying what has already been handed you,~reveaT8 the historic Chapel Hill school? Don’t get us wrong, lack of maturity. UNC has its share of bearded, long-maned militants. but overlooked are thousands of decent, law abiding youngsters. Believe it or not, they appreciate sacri fices made by struggling parents, many of whom never had the chance to go to college; and they even agree with oldsters that, establishment or no estab lishment, expecting something for nothing, and de-

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