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Holes Being Eaten In Iron Curtain

The change during the past 20 years in Mos- bid to establish counterrevolutionary reforms. It cows attitude in dealing with other nations of the may yet be that if the top Soviet leaders cannot communist bloc is shown nowhere rfiore dramatically 4he results they desire through negotiation they will , than in the current Soviet demand for a showdown resort to force. But that possibility grows more re-^meeting with Czechoslovakian officials. mote as the face-to-face talks draw closer.

There would have been no such meeting a few Even at the risk of over optimism, there ap

pears ago. There would have been instead Soviet pfear obvious holes being eateii away inj^ Iron Cur-tanks rumbling down the streets of Prague, Soviet tain thaf dhee enclosed all the Soviet satellite na-planes dominating the skv over the country, and tion. The chinks are coming not because of pressure Russian soldiers swarming" across the Czech coun- being applied from without the Iron Curtain, but tryside. Moscow would not have talked with of- the changes which have been taking place within ficials of another communist country with which it those countries that recognize the communist philos-. was displeased. It would have issued orders backed ophy doesjiot provide the answer to the lives of na--"iip with militarv force. tions or their citizens. . ^ ^ '

The situation in Czechoslovakia today poTntr~-~ If there has been a change in Moscow^ s attitude up vividlv the change which has come about in the in dealing with other communist nations, there has

' been an even greater change in many of those counj^

tries which now^ seek to remove themselves from the domination that has stemmed from Moscow for more than two decades.

MAKING It VERY HARD TO READ

in Moscow since" the terrible days in Hungary with Soviet troops moved to brutally crush that nations

New Regulation On Trash Fish

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH The same is moving toward a new attempt-to solve the knoty and controversial problem of how to regulate taking a hugh quan-tfes of young, undersized food fish by commercial trawlers.

WILLIAM

Intentional trash fishing, under a $965 law, is illegal. The law, however, provides for C&D regulation to permit disposition of undersized, im* mature food fish caught incidental to normal commercial fishing operations.

Despite N.C. Highway Efforts, Toll Climbing

In spite of its continued efforts to improve high-way safety. North Carolina is seeing its highw'ay death toll climb again this year as it has in years past.

So far this year traffic accidents in the slate have taken 88 more lives than during the same period a year ago. A total of 948 lives had been lost

Sports fishermen in North , through last Week-end.

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his is the so-called and probably misnamed tr ash fishing question which has plagued and perplexed fisheries officials, the state board of Conservaion and Develop' men (C&D), and the legislature for many years.

The (T&D board, 'upon re-commendaiion of its fisheries committee and fisheries advisory board, apparently will adopt a new regulation

Carolina, conservationists and others here and in other state contend that the taking of immature food fish such as croaker, spot' gray'trout and flounder,-and disposition of these for industrial purpos-,es is harmful to both the overall commercial and sports fisheries resources and should be checked.

Source Of Problem

The state's industrial Jish-ery plants are located in Carteret County and utilize trash fish for fertilizer, cat food, minks food, and bait.

This expanding industry had its beginning when former Gov. Luther H. Hodges visited the Carteret fish docks more than 10 years ago and saw quantilieT of small, undersized cull fish being thrown away. Hodges suggest ed there might be a profitable metlrod of utilising these fish

Highw^ay officials as*^w^ell as other citizens recognize there are more automobiles on the roads of the state now than a year ago. Those vehicles are traveling more mites and transporting more people. By JAMES KILPATRICK Although the number of accidents per passenger mile may be lower than in past years, those dents still result in more fatalities_ahd more i people every' yearF

Noilh Carolina must give greater attention to its highw'ay safety program. It must provide its law ^nforecment agencies with additional men and . . ,

equipment to help with the^ traffic *safety effort. It ciary Committee last Tues-must put additional emphasis on constructing high- ^ marked the first time, ways wnth greater safety features. Most of all, it must somehow impress upon its average citizen the importance of the role he must play in making the highways of North Carolina safer for every man, w'oman and child.

A Trial Ballon

sisi- Fortas -V s.-Inguisitors

When Justice Abe Fortas - ted "gravely to the Argus-came before the Senate Judi- eyed inspection of the photo-

ed it, that the President from time to time had asked him graphers*: corps. At 10:40 the to participate in meetings_ at _^nally are neutral or backing

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON The trial balloon for a Nixon-Lundsay. ticket raised by Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio is picking up suflTort from Republican stM_chirnnen in importagL populous states.'

This concern is the same^ as that of Rhodes: Can

Richard Nixon win enouRh Negro support to carry the critical urban states? Th e y feel that Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York is the only - possiblity for Vice President -who could actually help the ticket.

Particularly active in pushing this argument has been Joseph N. Dukert, the Maryland state chairman. In a July 12 personal' letter to Nixon, Dukert strongly urged consideration of a Nixon-Lind s a y ticket. During Nixons visit to Baltimore Wednesday night [July 17), Dukert proposed be idea personally to Nixon. Nixon was non-committal.

Dukert is not alone. Two of the most professional, most respected state chairmen in .the Midwest John Andrews of Ohio and Ody Fish of = Wisconsinare quietly plugging Lindsay for Vice President. Another four or five state chairmen, some of whom want their identities shielded because they nomi-

ncxt month to restrict both ' foi* industrial purposes, in-ratch and landing of trash stead of throwing them away

rtumpnrey Removes Doubt

fish during the trawling season for finfish November through April.

If approved, the recommended restrictions would become effective for the 1968-69 fin-fishing season ending a two year period during which there has been no restriction or limit on catch of juvenile fish in North Carolina coastal waters during the winter season.

Problem Defined

Essentially' the prob 1 e m has been how to restrict fairly and limit effectively and cnforceably the catch and landing of so called trash fish without hurting the states commercial fish i n g industry.

During the two years since October, 1966, when restrictions on quantity of undersized fish caught and Ian d e d were lifted, controversy has raged. ______

Suit was filed seve r a 1 months ago by a salt water sports fishing organizat i o n charging that arbitrary suspension of reasonable regulations violated a state law required C&D officials to regulate trash fishing in a man-^ fier to discourage the practice for its own sake. The suit is pending.

as trash.

Several Carteret individuals and interested groups set up dehydrators and industr i a 1 processing facilities. The operations apparently proved profitable but howls of protest arose from both sports fishermen and small commercial operators. They charged that taking of small fish was depleting the resource and hurting the overall fish e r y. North Carolinas nearby coastal waters and inland waters are a rich nursery area for both finfish and shellfish.

Recommended Limits

C&D's Jisher'es committee has given tentative approval to a recommendation by the fisheries advisory board that regulations permit the landing of no more than 40 per cent trash per vessel, load, through licensed fish dealers. November 1 through April

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By HARRY KELLY

WASHINGTON (AP) - The authorized campaign , biography of Hubert H. Humphrey, due out this week repeats the contention that the vice Presidents private feelings about the war in Vietnam match his public pronouncements.

The book, entitled A Man for All People, was written by Ralph Martin and will be released in Washington Wednesday. A copy will be sent to each delegation to the Democratic National Convention.

- In one part of the book, Humphrey deals with recurrent doubts that his support of the Johnson administration's Vietnam war policy is n't as enthusiastic in private as it is in public.

Muriel (Mrs. Humphrey) always called me the happy warrior, the vice president says in the book. She says

Presently, a 25 box per day . happy because there's no per vessel (approximately connict between, my prJvate

100 pounds per .box) limit is inforced during shrimp i n g season which begins in early May. This remains in effect for shrimping season.

The new recommendat i o n' according to officials, will in effect reinstate a 25 box lirhit on ajyear-around bais. ,

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views and my public views. The major jiortion of the heavily illustrated book, composed of captions in Humphreys words, deals with events in the past and present, including the problems of being a vice president.

- -The vice presidency is a job with sobering responsibi-liy and very litle authority, says Humphrey. I dont Ve-commend it to everybody. When I first became vice president' I was warned that my relationship with the President would deteriorate within six months to a year, according to the standard pat

tern of history. Well, we fooled them.

President Johnson and I have been friends for 20, years ... .He knows me well enough to expect loyalty but not mimcry. This has been my , standard, Humph rey says.

On Vietnam Humphrey says, Nobody wants to see the war in Vietnam come to an end any quicker than I do so that we can bring our boys back home. What Id really like to see in Vietnam is a cease-fire so that we can have peace while we talk peace.'

The book includes pictures of Humphrey with his chief opponent for the Democratic presidential nominat i o n, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, a fellow Minnesotan.

Humphrey recalls how McCarthy had supported him in his past campaigns including 'his abortivo attempt for the vice presidency in 1956 a year that Humphrey thought Adlai Stevenson would make him his running mate.

Back in 1956 Humphrey says' he had a meeting with Stevenson in Washington and I understood that if I could drum up strong support, that he could pick me at the convention to be his running mate,

However at the last minute the late Sen. Estes Kefauvers strength at the convent! o n forced Stevenson t( let the delegates choose the No. 2 man, to Humphiey's deep disappointment.

so far as anyone could recall, that a sitting Justice had been asked to testify on the question of his own confirmation as Chief Justice. Only two other sitting members of the Court Edward D. White, in 1910, and Harlan F. Stone, in 1941 had been so elevated, and apparently no questions were asked of them. This week the committee had plenty of questions to put to Abe Fortas. ,

He arrived a few minutes early, at 10:25, and submit-

committee members filed in, and Senator Eastland, with the rumble of a far-off freight train, went directly to For-tass relations with .Lyndon Johnson. What were the facts? Had Fortas advised the President on a steel price increase and the transportation strike? Had he drafted the White House. His func-sending troops to Detroit?

Fortas has the handsome facts of a pre-Roman coin, and the resonant voice of a good trial lawyer. He w a s proud, he said, and he look-

the White House. His function was to listen to what was said, and to sum up the several views. Such occasions were not frequent. He did not know about the steel and transportation issues; he could not place them. He had not written the Detroit statement, but he had seen it before publication.

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, plan promoting the idea to Nixon.

Opposition to Lindsay is coming from some of his old colleagues in the House (including the highly influential Rep. Melvin Laird of Wisconsin) who didnt care for him as Congressmen and li k e him even less as mayor. More important, some of Nixons

Eastland was curious: Had - own aides are anti-Lindsay Fortas approved the state- ^oar the mayor, as Vice

Other Editors For Senators,

Say

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^-orty Years Ago

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(The Charlotte Observer)

Sen. Sam Ervin has mounted a sway-backed mule of legislative obstructionism and charged off to joust with the windmill of judicial activism.

The one consolation in Ervin's long record of legislative negativism has been that he usually left such displays to men like Sen. Strom Thurmond. He has been willing to let the record show his obvious non-support for many of the views of men like Chief Justice-designate Abe Fortas without making a leather-lunged spectacle of himself.

For reasons apparent only to Ervin, he has now chosen to change his approach to a man whose wisdom and ability Ervin accepted thr e e years ago when he went on the court a man whose record then indicated he would be exactly the kind of justice he has been.

Ervins performance in the Fortas case would have been slightly (but not much) less disturbing if it had at least begun either with the raw honesty of Thurmonds antediluvian political opposit i 0 n or the partisan self-seeking of Republicans trying to preserve an opening on the court until after the November election. But Ervin apparently wants to play the role of a Thurmond while still main

taining the aura of scholarly

detachment. ________

His first thrust at Fortes was a petti-fogging charge that no vacancy existed on the court because of the form of retiring Chief Justice Earl Watfrens letter of resignation. Alas, for the senator this untenable charge was made doubly untenable by reminders tha he himself had proposed a nominee for a judgeship here athome that was similarly unvacant. The ex; cuses that Ervin had been the victim of slow mail delivery didn't change the facts in the

case. ........................

Nor does tlie recbrH of Fortes on the court provide any more grounds for misgivings about his sense of judicial restraint than-the record reviewed by Ervin and essentially the same set of senatorial questioners who passed on his original appointment. If Ervin feels he must dissent from the confirmation of a man whose views he most certainly does not share, that is one thing. But it is quite another to confuse disagreement with disqualification or to trump up reasons for blocking Fortas move from the end to the center of the high court bench.

The case for restraint embraces senators as well as justices of the Supreme Court.

ment? The President does mot ask my approval, Fortas said, his eyes narrowing. It was not a responsive answer, but Eastland let it go. The Senator went off on questions of constitutional construction instead. What was the Justices view?

I firmly and absolutely believe that the language of the Constitution is controlling, and that no body of men is entitled to deviate from that language by not jot or tittle. But I could not tell you that the majestic generalities of the Constitution are single and unmistakable in their meaning.

Eastland pulled reflectively on his cigar and let McClellan have a crack. The Senator from Arkansas pursued the matter of the White House meetings, but got little more, McClellan yielded to Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Ervin peered over his spectacles, his eyebrows twitching like

a rabbits nose. He waqted tP

emphasize the need for stability in the law. How did Fortes feel about the overruling of prior decisions?

Fortas had come forearmed for this attack. He had the same view, he said gently, that Senator Ervin himself had expressed when he was a judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Fortas just happened to have in his pocket the text of an opin-^ ion Judge Ervin had written in February of 1949, in State v. Balance, 51 S.E. 2d 731. The case involved the constitutionality of the States Board of Photographic Examiners. In order to reverse the conviction of a Raleigh photographer, Judge Er v i n (Continued On Page 7)

Presidential nominee, might undercut Nixon on the campaign trail.

Nixon himself is apprehensive of the" constitution a 1 question posed because he and Lindsay both are residents of New York. The 12th Amend-rr^nt of the constitution b^s Presidential electors of a state from voting for residents of their own state for both President and Vice President.________

Early boosters of the Nixon-Lindsay ticket suggested the possibility of Nixon moving out of New York after the election if New Yorks 45 electoral votes were decisive. However in his July 12 letter to Nixon- Dukert proposed that Nixon change his residences before the election to avoid charges of Machiavellianism. Dukerts suggestion for Nixons new home: Washington. D. C.

Goodbye, Unit Rule?

Leaders of Vice President Humphreys campaign have privately Toncitrded tiiat he" should, at the proper time, acquiesce in Sen. Eugene McCarthys bid to abolish the unit rule at the Democratic National Convention.

At Chicago, McCarthy forces .will attempt to ban the unit rule (a favorite device of Southern delegations which requires all votes of a delega-tioiT to cast their votes for the candidate favored by a majority of the delegation). By agreeing, Humphrey could deprive McCarthy forces of an issue on the convent i o n floor at the cost of only a few delegate votes for his cause.

Moreover, such a concession would relieve pressure OB Gov. Sam Shapiro of II-(Ck)ntinued On Page 7)

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By FOY H. DUNCAN July 23, 1928 Dan Cuprd Swoops On Pill And Send Em To Alter

Dan ('upid swooped down upon this section Saturday and sent exactly fourt e e n

number of friends .surpri s e d Mrs. James L. Evans, a recent bride, when they called at her attractive new home on East Ninth Street. . . . Mrs. Evans was presented a bouquet of giant sunflowers, the unfolding petals revealing ^i^Liples io the register of jiiany lovely and asetul gifts.

A further surprise awaited the hostess w hen she discovered the delicious fruit punch and wafers had been piaced in the breakfast room ready for serving the guests . . . Those present were Mr.> A. E. Hobgood, Mrs. S. B. Tuck-er, Mrs. E. F. Duke. Mi-s E. H. Allsbrcok, Mrs. Bernice Gardner. Miss Ahee Clark, .Miss Bille Williams and Miss Morgan.

No 1968 Hope For Tax Reform

deeds office to obtain licenses to marry. It was the first timev in a week that a single couple had appeared for license to wed, and great rejoicing was caused by the unexpected assault .starting early Saturday morning and continuing until nightfall wiih only intenrnittent brealis. . . .

Misses'Mayo Give Exhibition Dance Misses Elizabeth knd Mattie Vines .Mayo gav^ an exhibition, dance last Mon day evening at a special da n c e given for the Norm Carolina .\utomotive Trade A5.sociation y at the Pagoda by ih sea on .Atlantic Beacfi.

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Surprise ShOwor For Ktscent Bride

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Miss War^ Moore has returned from California and Texas, where she has been spending the past three niontlis.

.Misses Pinky ani Xtel 11 e Manning left todav for a trip to Ocean Viev,\ ** i .

Mrs. H.ll. ivnte ana Mls.s Kathleen .Spain have returned frofh Washington, D. C.

By ELMER ROESSNER There is no hope that anything will be done this year to reform the federal tax system which, as everybody knows, was designed by Rube Goldberg.

Congress has asked the President to submit proposals before the end of the year but, even if they were made long before that, Congress would not act. it is now racing to adjourn and, if called back after the party conventions, would be unwilling to tackle .so large a subject. Furthermore it would be embarrassing to tackle one of the most important aspects of tax reform, the notorious oih deple-t on allowance, in a year when many Congressmen are counting on campaign contributions from oil men.

Don't Hold Your Breath Furthermore, a good tax reform would require consid-,erable study and, perhaps, a lot of deals, compromises, log \ tolling and other finagl

ing. This would take time and the best hope for tax reform would be for some time in 19-71, and even then the lobbyists are likely to prevail and the reformed tax structure would be more of a monstrosity than ever.

Nevertheless, tax reform is a necessity if respect is to be restored to the federal government and if the economic extermination of the Middle class is to be arrested. As it is now, the poor are taxed lightly and may some day benefit from a reverse tax, in which the government will pay tax mpney to them. The wealthy have loopholes and escape hatches through which taxes can be minimized. But' the middle class gets taxes socked to em.

For example, a recent issue of Prentice-Halls Executive repor4'tells subscribers:

Handle things right and you can still take advanta.ge of one of the tax laws big-' gest breaks-despite a recent

congressional crackdown spe- will be at the tax-favored cifically. designed to eliminate long - term capital ga i n s

this special benefit.

Knows Whereof

Now Prentice-Hall Is a respectable organization; its tax experts are reputed to know as much about tax law as Treasury experts, it stands

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for strict compliance with the law, and it knows whereof it writes. It continues: Theres a way for your corporation to sell a piece of business property and to pass any capital gain through to you. The net result will be only one ta:^ on the profit and that

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rate.

Example: Youre the sole owner of your corporation. The company owns a piece of property it no longer needs. The propertys basis (generally cost less depreciation) is $50,000. Its now worth $150,-! 000. You would like to per-, sonally latch on to the pro-, ceeds of this deal. ... |

You may find the best solution is: (1) Have the corporation elect to be taxed as a p'rlnership and then (2) Have it sell the property on ^ the instalment basis (taking no more than $37,500 a year). Total tax on the $100,-000 profit: $125,000 or less.' So you get to keep $125,000 out of the total $150,000. Youll also save at least $14,000. . Otherwise, it adds, the tax could run as high as $112,* 000, $12,500 more than thi profit on the sale.

Have you a corporation? Tough, old fellow!

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