Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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West sr BY BETTY WOODRUFF Staff Wrilar Foreign commercial develop ment and "possibly the highest rate of growth in the nation" form South Carolina's major "good points", Gov. John C. West said. Speaking to approximately 125 students in the Towers' M&N Lounge, the governor said he was there to speak on South Carolina's good and bad points and "answer or dodge questions the best I can." Gov. West said the rate of growth in the' state was "t remendous." "Last year I recommended tax increases, but due to tremendous economic growth we could finance all the programs we wanted and ended with a $36 million surplus." In answer to a later question, the governor said he recommended the sur plus be spent on health care delivery programs. "We are now a fiscally strong state," West said. "I must weigh this against the needs of the people." According to the governor, South Carolina has two major areas of need; education and health care delivery. "We still have a high illite Peace. Calling the Vietnam settlement signed in Paris Saturday an "im mense diplomatic achievement," Dr. Paul M. Kattenburg of USC's international studies department said Indochina faces six to eight weeks of instability before "things may hopefully fall into place." Kattenburg speculated if the big powers involved, China, Russia and the United States, agree to stop military input into the area, then the three factkons in Vietnam (North, South and the Vietcong) will be forced to reach a political settle ment among themselves. To Kattenburg the cessation of military aid, other then replace ment of existing equipment on both sides, is the key factor in taking STUD Piz2~ SPAG] Serving W Located, )eaks on racy rate," he said, "but we have developed well-defined solutions which require money "We still he have devek require mor excuse this < it. The mon and work. We can no longer excuse this deficiency by say ing we can't afford it. The money is now here." The governor further stressed the need for health care. delivery. "forty per cent of the deaths in South Carolina are premature or unnecessary. You can look at the obituary col umn and cross out four out of ten names and think if we had proper health care delivery, that death would have never happened." "Life expectancy in S. C. is diploma PENT 1 At The aHi FIE TTI__ ed with garlic, bread and chef u Buy one dinner - get one fret ednesday .3p.m. ' at the intersection of 37 ross from the Ramaa state's five years less than in any other state and we have the lowest number of doctors per popula ive a high illeteracy rat( )ped well-defined solutic ey and work. We can Jeficiency by saying we c ey is now here." Johi tion in the U. S.," the governor said. "The whole medical pro fession must review itself." "I recommend putting emer gency systems within 30 minutes of every South Caroli nian," he said. "The basic plan would be set up health care delivery units of a team of doc tors flanked by a medical technician staff. We also must get into preventive medicine." Moving to the "plus side of the state." Gov. West said he was most proud of the interna tic achiei Indochina out of the world arena and putting-it on "the back burner." However, Kattenburg said he doesn't see the United States re entering the struggle if the cease fire should fail because, he said, Presidential Advisor Henry Kissen ger was able to get an agreement extricating the U. S. from military involvement there and leaves the political settlement to the Vietnam ese. He added even if the cease-fire were broken, and thus the return of U. S. prisoners of war were ham pered, it would be unlikely Presi dent Nixon would go back into Viet nam forcefully, but rather would apply what pressure w-s available FIGHT -1.5 alad. 1 midnight 8 and I-26 Inn problems tional aspect of development in South Carolina. "This state has taken the lead in developing , but we ins which no longer an't afford 1 C. West foreign commerce. There are about 50 foreign companies here now--especially from Swit zerland and West Germany." He said the main reasons for this development were the "good quality of life here--lack of pollution, urban blight, etc." and "human resources with good attitudes and feel for development of self." The governor later said that he inequivocably believed that South Carolinians wanted more industry in spite of the former BASF controversy. "According /ement' to him to persuade the parties back into line. Citing his belief of President Nix on's having been a steady course for the past four years in Vietnam, one entirely different from those of the two previous administrations, Kat tenburg said the settlement was evi dence that Third World nations will no longer be the focus of the big powers. "The Cold War is passe," he said as he noted the turn around on foreign policy from former Pres ident John F. Kennedy ("We will bear any burden, pay any price...") to Nixon ("Let us stop the politics of paternalism--of Washington knows best.") LESTER'S COMING Feb. 9, 8 p.m. Township Auditorium Easy To Open Gamecock Charge Account *100 (Limit) BRITTON S ,goals to a survey, more want industry than ecology," he said, and explained that he believed ecology and growth could be compatible. Spinazzolo speaks on SGA Student body president Dave Spinazzolo will make a "State of the Government" address to the Student Senate at the Senate meeting Wednesday, January 31, 1973 at 5:00 p.m. The address will include pro jects currently underway and in the planning stages in the executive branch of student government. Photo The display photograph appearing on the front page was shot by Thomas A. Price, Gamecock Photo Editor. DR. EUI HANG SHIN ...expands study. Mortality study is expanded What started as a study of South Carolina's black-white mortality rates has expanded to a survey of this same study on the deep south. Dr. Emi Hang Shin, who is con ducting the study, originally planned to use only the vital statistics of South Carolina from 1920-1970, to analyze trends of age and death rate according to sex and race. According to Shin, he hoped to explain why the difference in mortality rates between blacks and iwhites in South Carolina is not decreasing. To date, this same study is being applied to the deep south where a similar pattern exist, Shin explained. "It (the study) has turned into an endless endeavor," Shin said. The original study was to have been completed by December. Completion date for the extended study is uncertain, Shin said.