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Moon Fat Staggers The Mind

^^'rile^^, comnientator5 and citizenp around the world have about run out of adjectives to descri)e ihc fantastic success of the American avStronauts in leachinp and explorinK the moon.

One of mans oldest dreams has at last been realized. Mortals, who have for so many centurie.s been bound to their earthly environment, now have stood on another heavenly body.

I'ven with all the interest and excitement that the jrreat event b.as Pti*red here on earth, it is still br\ ond comprehension just what unbelieveable nc'v fields of endeavor this stupendous event has opened f(*r humanity.

Out there may lie the answers to many riddles wTiirh have puzzled manind a.s long as humans have been able to reason. We may find the answers to the origin of life it.solf and thus cures to diseases which have plagued mankind for so long may he found. The things we need to eliminate poverty and \Vanl could he awaiting us in our solar system and beyond. Great new industries may he developed in .space and materials of which we cannot now e\en dream may be found.

^^e all owe an inestimable debt to Neil A. Armstrong and TCdwin K. Aldrin, who were the first to step on the moon, and to Michael Gollin.s, who i>i-

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By MARGORIE T. HV>EK

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RAVEN ROCK When I was asked if I would like to go along on a trip to the site of a new state^ park I could not turn down "tlie chance.

1 was warned thAl it might take a great deal of walking and time and a boat ride up the Tape Fear River. LiftJe did I know or do I believe too many'of the olJier people involved knew what w-e were getting into

We left Raleigh around 2.15 pud drove to I.illin^ton In meet Mr Conley Moffett, our pmde from Conservation nnd bevelopment and also the states chief Parks nafiiralisL

When Mr. Moffett, asked it Mr Shires and myself would like to ride with him to the Site where the adventure would start. 1 assured him that 1 would drive any where he wanted to direct us. I would have my car in case I needed it for anything. Also I had my snake boots and other items 1 might need. In another car also in Lillington to meet Mr. Moffett was Roy Woods from Atlanta who was here to look over the site of the new park. .Mr. Woods was ncompanied by his sister and bnr husband Mr. and Mrs. Gndfrey.

5k) we lift Lillington in our own little caravan. We were around five miles to the best of my knowledge wiicn we turn right on to a country road just around one more mile we fumed right on a dift-i^road My car has no air-conditioning and the windows were down so I tried to stav h.ark I little ways ircm the lead car, Mr.- ^6ffett. It was dusty .Suddenly I saw' Mr, Moffetts ear turn to the left into w'hat looked like a bunch of leaves fstill on the trees by the way) So a little reluctantly I followed into the leaves. Just on thp other side of the leaves thpre was a huge old home and we were in what at one

fiine was a beautiful yard Going tlirough" the yard we nii'-icd a fish pond by about seven to eight inches. It was the fish pond or a pine tree so at this time I had fast heart beats to say the least

When we finally stopped in the back vard of the house there sat the Dunn No. 1 Re .scup truck with tlie truck was Rescue Squad Captain ' Mr. Perry. Be.sidc him was a deputy sheriff and tlirce Professors from Campbell College all of tlie.se people came in by the way of the drive way.

We waited for a short time fort he vSuperutehdent of the State Parks Division, Thomas C. Ellis, who ^ was our host. Hut he was late. The main part of the party started out to view Raven Rock from the river.

To start on thi.s leg of oim trip wc were all to ride in jeeps. The ride was a beautiful but bumpy trip down a small dirt path that very much reminded me of riding in the (ireal Smokies. Alon^ the road there was mountain I.aurel and other types of plants not usually found in this part of the stale. After a short while we came to a pasture with a bunch of curious cows. On ward wc went and finally reached the top of a hill right above the river.

With ropes in hand the men made a rope line to the shore so that no one would slip.

After a few minutes of confusion on who would ride in which boat we were off. TI10 boats were all metal with the flat bottoms. The river bottom is all flat rock, tliey tell me (it was too muddy to fell when I was there.) However in places we w'ere told to take our paddles and touch the bottom which would only be around 7 to 20 Inches at most points. One boat sheared a pin and when that was fixed we were on our w ay again. Mr Mowett and the (Continued On Page 5)

hdeil tlic .space vchit !e until their safe return. We also owe an equal delit to the a.NroiiauU who pre-ccdcfl them in .^pace. risking tlveir lives to make the Apollo 11 mission po.ssilile. There are thousands more who designed and Iniilt the equipment and then saw from the ground that it did its work

In truth, the iiiomentons weekend ,succes.s wa.s the re.'^ult of no one mans or group of mens work.

All of the acciimidatcd knowledge of all men who have worked and dreanicd through the centuries has gone into making tins moon landing a succes.s.

This i.s truly a world accompli.^^hment. May it bring the people of the world clo.ser together. May the knowledge we have jiist gained be. used for the advancement'of all mankind.

Shadowy Restraint Is Undergoing Big Test

The truce in the Middle East can be only so-crlled because the almost daily skirmishes have not involved arinie.s, but bits of armies. People are dying, violently, every day.

Israel is not moldlized; though w-ithout doubt il.s .standing forces are in a stage of alert. The Arab world largely depends on its professional forces with few reserves Io call upon from tlie 'civilian populace.

Only a shadowy re.'^traint is keeping the prn-1agonist.s from more than sparring.

H.s a chancy game theyre playing.

Recent days have .seen heavier hlow's than

hn\T been risod in a long time, and prolonged re- iaxacc k^il pATOir^

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NEW YORK (AP) - Sooner or later, the fate of the moon appears sealed. Already a satellite of earth, in time it must come under the dominion of earths most strident creature -.man.

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WASHINGTON - President Nixon has agreed to rn urgent request from American,. Jewish Ijadcrs that he add one .secret item to the agenda of his visit to Bucharest; a request that Rumanias Communist government permit an exodus of Rumanian Jews to Israel.

Out of 90,000 Jews still in Rumania, some 70,000 would probably go to Israel if permitted. But like most Communist regimes, the regime of President Nicolao Ceau.se.scu forbids most foreign travel and almost totally prohibits emigration.

Although the plight of-Rumania's .Jews is definitely not a legitimate cocern of official U. S. foreign policy, American Jews with access to the Nixon White House have l)cen strongly urging that the President bring it up with Ceause-scu. The Israeli embas.sy in Wa.shington has been di.screet-1y maneuvering toward the same goal, and the request has been relayed to Mr Nixon through White House aides with ties not to foreign affairs but to the Jewish qommunity. Regular State Department channels are not involved.

A plea for the Rumanian Jews by Mr. Nixon could have an impact. Ceau.sescu likely will be a.sking him for closer commercial relations with the U.S., and the Jewish exodus could he a bargaining point.

Negotiations on tlie Jewish question between /fK two chiefs of state will never be acknowledged. But if Mr Nixon does succeed, that fact will become instantly known in the American Jewish community, where support for Mr. Nixon has been miniscule until now.

A footnote- In Bucharest, the FYcsident also will raise tlie subject of some .1.500 people of dual U. S. - Rumanian citizenship living in Rumania who would like to emigrate to the U. S. The Ceausescu regime has been intran.sigcntly opposed to this, refusing to even let U. S. diplomats in Rumania confer witli the dual citizens.

Hanois Foot Soldier* ,

The first published ac--knowledginent that Hantii has been sending thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers to

fight tlie war m South Vietnam has been discovered by U.S. intelligence in an obscure Community party newspaper in Hanoi.

The published report, moreover, makes clear tliat Hanoi has been selecting its best soldiers to send down the Ho Chi Minh Trai.^ For example:

Having an " abundant ^reserve, the big rear has provided more and more assistance to the Front (in the Soulh) and fulfilled all t h e needs of the Front in troops . . .outstanding soldiers who po.ssess a high degree of political consciousness and understand that we fight against the U.S.

Troops sent south, the account continues, possess a relatively high level of education. . .most of the officers have completed level III classes and college education.

Bos Bombshell

Members of the SOS Club, an informal group of Republican Congressmen who meet to talk politics, were astonished last Tuesday when their giie.st Howard (Bo) Calloway, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia strongly defended the Justice Departments decision to bring a unique school desegregation suit against the state of Georgia.

Calloway, an SOS member during his-one term in Con-grps.*?, told his ex-clubmates meeting over drinks in the office of Rep. Clark MacGregor of Minnesota that the Justice Department suit was the only fair way to force desegregation in the Southern heartland.

Moreover, Callow'ay said he planned as Georgia's top party official to issue a major statement defending the suit. That would put the Republican party squarely against Democratic segregationist Gov. Lester Maddox.

Calloway feels that the Republican party can make inroads into the urban Negro vote of (Georgia by taking a jxi.siiive political position on school desegregation that favors court action rather than fund cut-offs by the Department of Health. Education and Welfare (HEW). Maddoxs public fury at the Ju.stice Departments threatened suit, Calloway believes, gives the Republicans an opening they cant afford to miss.

Strength Foi Today

VVASgiNGTON^ - When Emerson wrote that an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, he wrote an epitaph for the ivy-clad Virginia institution that was known by its friends as the Organization, and by its foes as the Byrd machine.

Tlie political organization of the late Harry F. Byrd, Sr., had begun to lose its clout long before the Senators death in October of 196. Over the next couple of years the lingering shadow faded. This past Tuesday it vanished altogether. Sic transit gloria. . . It was great while it lasted.

The immediate cause of death was the lackluster candidacy of Lieutenant Governor Fred Pollard, who sought his partys nomination for Governor in the Democratic primary. He ran, more or less,

as an organization'* man. Certainly he was the most conservative of three candidates in the race. And he finished a pitiful third.

Twenty-five years ago, when the Organization put its blessing on Lieutenant Gover-nnor William M. Tuck of Halifax County, it was a very different story. Tuck won in a waltz and became a first-rate (Governor. But last week the venerable warrior couldnt carry Halifax for Pollard. Elsewhere in tlie State, the story was the same. Little remained of the Organization but a few old men on courthouse steps.

And that was the real caust of deaththe ailments of age. Over the last ten or 15 years of the Senators life, his friends uused to plead with him to bring young men into the Organizationmen in their

?ublic Forum

To the Editor: ,

Now is the time-for the working American to inform his leaders of his strong resentment of the surtax and the proposed guaranteed annual income.

Do your part. If the following article expresses your opinion, clip it out and mail it to your Senator or Representative in Washington. Let our voices be heard!

America is ceasing to be great. Our society is encouraging laziness.

The working American is not being considered when new laws are being passed. It is (he prideless American that youour leadersare helping.

Jobs can be found if really desired. However, people who really do not care need not work. They can obtain free food stamps, apply for welfare, and choose to live in a low income housing development.

Now it seems that even another hand-out program is under consideration a guaranteed annual income. While this is sounding good to people willing to take that which is n 01 rightfully theirs, the clouds are gathering for the honest working American.

You see, you are spending our tax money and we have no representation.

We have needs too. If you would end some of these giveaway programs, do away with the surtax, and limit welfare to the physically disabled or mentally f garded you would be doing all Americans a great service.

Are you aware that you encourage illegitimate children? This is not a false claim. It seems such a shame that these mothers receiving our taxes in monthly checks stay home and rear tlieir young while there are so jpany mothers (like me) who have to work to support them.

Can you remember when Dad gave you money to .spend? It sure was fun, wasn't it? But remember when you worked your first day? Did you spend that money mt-re wisely? I sure did, for then I realized the value of money, yu are our leaders. You have the authority to put money back where it rightfully belongsin our pay checks.

I am still proud of America and of my American heritage, but my question to you. Will our children be proud Carol Pennell

early twentiesbut the counsel proved unavailing. And perhaps the infusion wouldnt have succeeded anyhow. Byrd stood for a particular kind of conservatism, especially In State spending, that no longer sufficed. He never changed; but the State did.

In the July 15 primary, an inexperienced middle-of-the-roader, William Battle, claimed 39 per cent of the vote, and a windblown liberal, State Senator Henn^ Howell, ran second, a point behind. They will meet in a run-off August 19. The probabilities are strong that Battle will win handily, by picking up the Pollard vote, but an unpredictable factor could knock the probabilities awry.

This unpredictable factor is the Republican vote. You may think it peculiar that Republicans could exert a decisive influence on a Democratic runoff, but Virginia politics are, well, peculiar. The. State has no system of party registration. In times past, many of tlie States best odd-year Democrats were even-year Republicans. Democrats for Byrd were equally Democrats for Eisenhower, Goldwater and Nixon. In addition to these reversible troops, there always have been substantial numbers of open and unabashed Republican party members.

The jnischievous possibility is now discussed that thousands of these Republicans, quasi and regular, will pour into the run-off next month and cast their votes for orrible enry owell. The Machiavellian object, of course, is to fix things so that Howell would be the Democratic nominee against the Republicans respectable Linwood Holton. If the strategy worked, the November general election could well produce a Republican Governor in, of all places, the (Commonwealth of Virginia.

But to what use can man put the moon after he has conquered it? It is unikely that man will simply leave it alone, for it is not in his nature (0 leave things alone. He has a history of either improving them, as he defines improvement, or wrecking them.

Because of its barren nature, extremes of heat and cold, and lack of water and atmosphere, the moon doesnt appear off* hand to be a likely site to create another Garden of "Eden. It has no beach to rival the Riviera, and there are no immediate prospects of it growing a corn crop to match that of Iowa. ,

But while science may be puzzled as to what productive use the moon can be put to, many Americans, unbothered by scientific data, see as practically limitless the possibilities of our nearest celestial neighbcir.

.Some .man-in-the-street interviews brought forth these fanciful suggestions;

Pave the moon and turn it into a universal free parking lo. In another 50 years well need it.

Move tlie United Nations up there

Why not turn the moon into battlefield for all international wars? Of course, some smaller nations would complain they couldnt afford to send an army to fight on the moon, but if a country is too small to do that, it probably doesnt deserve to be allowed to fight a war anyway.

Tliere .must be* a lot of diamonds on it. Couldnt we export all the poor people on earth to the moon, give tliem a picka .e and a years supply of groceries. and give them a ch<;nge to strike it rich? They could get to keep half of all the diamoacls they found.

Several people had the thoufiht that the moon might be employed as a place of universal exile orAefuge.

We could shoot up there all the desperate criminals from every land, said one. It would be escape-proof, and there are enough rocks there to break up fn keep the convicts occupied for several lifetimes.

Why not turn it into an old folks home? said an embittered pensioner. Once we were there our relatives would have free consciences, and wouldn't have to visit us so often. Out of sight, out of mind.

Id ratlier just send my landlord up there on a one-way ticket, remarked a Manhattan apartment dweller whose rent

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the fluid situation creates a nice opportunity for honest realignment of paidy affiliations. Most of themominal Democrats who supported Pollard last week are philosophical Republicans at heart. With the old Organization dead and buried, this might be the hour for open transfer.

A weary father had an even more interesting proposal.

The moon could be an idesl instrument for solving the problem of the generation gap, he observed. We cwld move all our children there the day they became teen-agers, and keei them there until they had (Continued On Page 5)

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THE ETERNAL SOVEREIGN

A bereaved father who liad lost a daughter of malure ye.irs wrote recently and quot cd the following verse:

"God nothing does, nor >uf-fers to be, done, but that thou wnuldst thyself. CouMst thou ' but see through all events of things, .As well as He

He remarked that ne had often been comforted hv this septiment. And \^iho would pot, for It e\presse!|^omething very deep in our mith. If we can just believe tliat all things work together for goixi lo tJiem tJiat love God. and Uiat even the most tragic circumstances vmII hr ii.scd h> a loMiig God

to eiirirl/our lives and further our spiritual de.stiny, then we have something to lay hold on in live day of trouble.

The fa I her who wrote me could believe with tlie poet that if we could occupy Gods place we would see the reason tor many things we do not understand now and would be willing that life take for us tlic course jt has. God sees the end while we see only the begin-

By ELMER BOESSNER

Paul Rand Dixon, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, has warned merchants, particularly those in ghetto areas, that the FTC will crack down on those who engage in skinning purchasers.

In an address befqre the Conference on Consumer Affairs at the Vanderbilt University Law ^hool, Dixon listed 10 practices which he said

commercial and purchase a TV set.

4. Inducing customers to sign blank conditional sale contracts and later inserting prices and charges in excess of those agreed upon or understood by the purchaser.

5. Obtaining purchasers signatures on conditional sale contracts and promissory notes by misrepresenting the nature of the document.

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consummation of the sale.

10. Selling used merchan-di.se as new.

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Dixon added that an FTC study showed that the poor pay nearly twice as much for appliances and furniture sold in Washington low-income

mng, and very dimly at that. ^ credit payments as low as $2 He who sees* beginning and .'weekly, end and all that lies between ^f)R E.ARLY BIRDS'

were mulcting consumers in ^disclose the total' purchase ghetto and other areas, and price or merchandise covered about which the FTC was prepared to act. Among these were*

1. Falsely representing that name brand merchandise is sold with no money dowm.

2. Falsely representing thaC the seller arranges periodic

IS alone wise enough and powerful enough to order our lives day bv day.

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3. Falsely representing that the seller will give valuable free gifts to tlie first 10 callers who respond to a radio

by conditional sale contracts.

7. Inducing persons to fabricate the signatures of absent members of their household on conditional sal c(mtracts and promissory notes.

, 8. Failing to disclose that the conditi(Mial sale contract may be negotiated to a finance company, to which the purchaser will thereafter be indebted.

9. Failing to give the cus-tomera copy of the conditional .sale'contract at the time of

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A portable television set with a wholesale price of about $109 can be bought at any local department store for $129. 85. But a popr resident of the inner city is charged $219.95 for the same television set at

the store serving the low-income market in his neighborhood. '

One of the most sstriking of the studys findings is that low-income stores are consistently high markup and high price stores.

On the average, goods purchased for $100 wholesale are sold for $255 in the low-income stores compared with $159 in the general market stores.

The people paying thesa higher prices are mostly waitr resses, janitors, truck drivers, domestics and other low-income laborers and welfare and Social Security recipients. The good Mr. Dixon completely overlooked the fact that these people are most likely to fail to make instalment payments, and that stores in these inner-city areas are highly vulr nerable to rioting, looting ^and incendiarism.

With those hazards, a $155 markup on a $100 sofa or TV .set is almost a give-away, eh, Faul Rand?