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StiU Higher QuaUty Leaf Needed

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Whatever the long term future holds fr tobacco it is evidet that producers are going tOf Jiave to work harder than ever to produce a still higher quality leaf.

This is true because the future growth of tobacco sales will be in the world market rather than in the domestic field.

In most nations of the world tobacco is now under attack as it is in the United States. As population and affluence grow in these nations there will be a greater demand for tobacco.

However, U. S. tobacco will be competing for this great world market with tobacco grown in other nations around the world. Thus there is no assurance that there will be a continued increase in demand for U. S. tobacco even though the world

that contain American tobacco are in high demand in foreign nations. .

There is no guarantee that this will continue to be, however. Other countries are entering the market and as they gain experience they could improve quality. Rhodesia will undoubtedly eventually re-enter the world market.

In the meantime American growers must do all they can to improve'the quality of the tobacco they produce. There should also be a spirited promotional campaign by the industry to convince the world that American tobacco ks, indeed, superior.

In this way, as cmpetition increases, the United States should be able to maintain its share of the world market.

consumption growls. , J

Fortunately for American producers, the 1960s A.HO11IPI* C JTTimQllS OlQ0 has been a period of growth in tobacco exports. * ^

There are a number of reasons for this including the ^

exclusion of Rhodesia from the world markets. A

. Much of the credit, though, must go to the JLO U S6 i OllwlUtS

farmers of Eastern North Carolina and other to

bacco producing areas who have worked diligently to produce a higher quality leaf. Cigarettes

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH-Much of the amazing growth of the Raleigh metropolitan area in recent years, in terms of new residential areas, subdivisions, shopping centers and the like, Is directly attributable to the vision, energy, acumen and genius of E. . Richards.

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The reputation and the ac complishnients of Ed Richards, developer and businessman, is well known'in the Raleigh area.

In another capacity it ihould be well known statewide. .Aside from his private enterprise, Richards leadership ancT guidance led the state's ports at Wilmington, Morehead City and Southport to their-greatest growth and development in history during the past decade, Richards served eight years as chairman of the State Ports Authority, a fact which has not gone entirely unnoticed.

ResolutionHe was not reappointed in the recent shuffle of officials of state boards and commissions.

But at its most recent meeting, the newly - constituted Poi^ Authority paid tribute to Richards with a resolution.

The resolution also called for a permanent award to be created and presented to Richards in a public ceremony. Details of this have not been completed.

RecordFormer Gov Tcr-rySahldidcalled In 1961 and asked him to serve on the State Ports Authority

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The report by Marine scientists at Duke University that DDT posts a threat to marine life is ominous.

The scientists say that if the DDT level continues to increase it will pose a serious threat to the larvae of crabs, shrimp and fish.

This report should not be taken lightly for it is important that we make every effort to keep our coastal waters clean and thus protect sea life.

If DDT is threatening marine life then the state should take the lead in seeing what can be done about this threat. North Carolinas coastal areas too valuable to take chances with. Steps

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involved and very busy in various business ventures and development projects. He was hesitant, but agreed. Just a year later a vacancy occurred unexpectedly in the top administrative office of SPA and despite demands upcm his time Richard assumed t h e post as executive director of SPA.

This was a time of crisis for the Forts Authority, in several ways. But Richards solved the problems, brought now vitality and new energies into the program. He worked daily to bring SPAs programs back in order, but refused any salary or compensation.

I nprecedentedWithin a year Richards was appointed vice chairman of SPA. He became chairman upon the retirement of John M. Reeves of Pinehurst.

Under Richards chairmanship, according to the resolution. the outstanding progress of the Authority (SPA) in planning development, expansion, promotion and public acceptance has been unprecedented.

The resolution says public attention had been drawn to tremendous growth of the potential of North Carolina ports for world trade and expansion of its ocean port terminals.

And it calls for issuing of a citation of commendation to E. N. Richard for remaika-ble achievements during the eigHt year period of his tenure.

Editor=Max *E. Veale, a native of Apex, N.C., has been appointed editor of the Daily Journal at Rockingham, N.C.

Before going to Rockingham, Veale was city editor of the Hickory Daily Record in Hickory. He became managing editor of the Daily Journal recently succeeding J . Neal Gadieu, publisher. Ca-'dieii is pbRshef T Journal, the Harnett County News and the Spring Lake Times.

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WASIIINGTON-President Nixon plans to give Harry Dent, his razor-sharp political troubleshooter, the delicate chore of running his Congressional relations an assignment bound to evoke anguish among liberal Republicans when it becomes known on Capitol Hill.

Dent will take over day-to - day supervision of Congressional lobbying from Hrvce Harlow, who is being kicked upstairs to the Cabinet-level post of counselor under last weeks White Hou.se staff reorganization. What was not announced and is not scheduled for announcement is Dent replacing Harlow as chief White House lobbyist (though Harlow will still be available for board policy guidance in Congressional affairs).

Personally well organized Dent is expected to improve technical proficiency in the office. He may well end year - long Congressional grumbling about not getting VVhite House answers to telephone calls. Although Dent is a political protege of South Carolinas Sen. Strom Thurmond and was that man before joining,^ the White House staff, he is no hardline conservative indeologue.

Nevertheless, even Dents colleagues on the White House staff admit he ,s scarcely the best man to win over the large, unruly bk>e -of liberal Republieian Senators who constitute Mr. Nixons most sensitive problems in Congress. They resent Dents backstage efforts early this year in favor of school desegreation and his more recent lobbying for Judge Clement Haynswortlis confirmation.

Furthermore, Dent probably undermined his prospects for cooperation with Congressional Democrats by his widely reported wisecrack about Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at a Nov. 1 Republican fund-raiser in Anaheim, Cal. Commenting on whether Mr. Nixon will seek reelection Dent said: We, unlike Teddy, are going to cross that bridge when we get to it.

W'ith Dent in charge of CongressionaU relations, heavy

liberal Republician Senators will be placed on Eugene Cowen, who came to the White House lobbying staff from the office of Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. Helping Cowen will be Jamie Humes, a liberal-leaning former state legislator from Pen-nsylavania who has been on the White Mouse speech-writing staff until his recent transfer to Dents political operation. He now is likely to join Dent in Congressional relations.

bU Depletieir Impact

The oil industrys insistence that a reduced oil depletion allowance will result in calamitous drops in crude oil production has been undercut by one of its Emilio G. Collado, executive vice president of Standard Oil Co. fNJ),. -

In an unpublished letter of Sept. 29 to Phillip Areeda executive director of President Nixons Cabinet task force on oil import control, Collado forecast that a reduction in the oil depletion allowance from the present 27.5 percent down to 20 percent would not affect domestic production until 1974.

Whats more Collado projects only slightly reduced production through the 1970s. While official industry sources testfied that the 20 per-would result in a dangepus 50 percent cut in production by 1980, Collado estimates a rjBductiprj of wily 5.26 percent by 1980 under the redu<^ fax advantage. Indeed, a production cut'"that small could be attributed almost entirely to the lack of new pools of oil rather than higher tax.

A footnote: Collados surprising forecasts will be used bv fax reformers in their attempts to override the Senate Finance Committees action in setting the oil depletiwi at 23 percent. The reformers have a better than even chance on the Senate floor to restore the 20 percent figure passed by the House.

WASHINGTON - In 1 towering work that will be read and remembered long after more publicized books of this centuiy are forgotten, Whittaker Chambers wrote of what it means to bear witness:

A man is not primarily a wintess against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

In the light of the Presidents speech this past week, and more especially in anticipation of coming events, I

suggest that it is time for Mr. Nixons silent majority to meet the challnge; it is time to bear witness.

To be sure, public policies ought not to be decided by public demonstrations the greatest prize to the largest mob. No greater folly could be conceived thwi to determine truth by counting noses. I am not proposing, as to Vietnam, a national shouting ctmtest between those who cry stay and those who cry go.

But a challenge has been growing for the past several years, not merely as to Vietnam, but in other areas of American commitment. Who is to bear witness to our country? l^ere does the weight of testimony lie?

Will we be judged, in this coming week, solely by the masses turned out by the New Mobilization Committee? Are we to be guided by those twisted theologians who preach the immorality of Vietnam, and then demand that thousands of South Vietnamese be sacrificed to a bloodbath? Is the measure of our national will to be found in the :^oft counsels, of appeasement, withdrawal, and surrender?

What of our universities? The dedicated labor of generations went into building their greatness, at Harvard, Colum-Wa, Berkeley, Cornell, M.I.T.

Hy LEWIS GUUCK

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. negotiators plan to sound out Soviet representatives at Helsinki before offering any opecflc pro-pos^ to curb the superpower missOe race.

The United States thus will not <g>en the U.S.-Soviet talks with a proposed moratorium on the development of multiwar* head missilesan idea which has had considerable support in Congress.

But President Nixon may send a generally-worded message to the opening Strategic Arms Limitation TalksSALT next week, stressing American interest in halting the nuclear race.

Nixon met at length with tha National Security Council Monday in shaping the U.S. approach to the long-awaited negotiations.

The preliminary disoissioni start in Helsinki next Monday and hie chief U.S. negotiator, Gerard Z. Smith, intends to stop off at Brussels Friday to brief, NATO allies.

Th Americans hope during ie preliminary round to find out about the Soviet approach to strategic disarmament and to stake out the boundaries for tho future negotiations.

Washington now knows littlo about Moscows concepts. For example, do Soviet sfrategistS rate MIRVs-multiple independently targetable vehiclesand ABMs-antiballistic missiles as part of the same weap^ problem and thus favor dealing with both at the same time?

As for the scope of the negt^ tiations, the United States wants to eclude^from the bargaining those missiles it deems noostra-t e g i c n 01 long-distanced enough for an intercontinental strike.

This would leave out of the na-gotiati(gis the 7,000 U.S. wai>

They flourished as centers of heads Reported positioned learning prtmarily because Europe to defend NATO

Other Editors Say Ri^ts Need Safegudfds

(Boston Herald Traveler) After languishing in the House Rules Comnoittee for three months, a bill to extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for another five years will ap parntly be freed shortly for committee debate. An amendment expected to be offered later from the floor, however, could profoundly reduce its area of, applicatitm.

The 1965 Voting Rights Act prohibits literacy tests for registration and calls for federal supervision of elections in any state or county where less thon 50 percent of the vot^

Nov. 18, and Rep. Celler is hopeful the bill will reach the floor befwe years end.

The expected floor amendment would substitute the use of 1968 election statistics for the 1964 figures. Increases in Negro registration and voting last year, brought about by the 1965 voting act, would free many of the above-named areas from federal supervision in coming elections, thereby allowing previous offenders to reimpose old, repressive regulations.

Employment of the most re-. cent statistics to xeflect, cur

ing-age population was regis- rent conditions is advisable to tered or voted in the 1964 na- prevent the Voting Rights Act tional election. Alabama, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi,

South Carolina, Virginia, and 39 of 100 countes in North Carolina have been affected under this formula.

The House bill, simply extending current provisions through Aug. 6, 1975, has been in the custody of Rules Committee chairman William Col-mer of Mississippi since mid-July; upor( urgjpg by Rep. Emmanuel Celler hearings have been scheduled to begin

from becoming an anachronism, but care must be taken that updating its formula does not signal a weakening of its powers. The amendment to institute 1968 figures should be accompanied by a provision to prohibit any revival of literacy tests or unlawful election procedures abolished under the current act. Without such a safeguard, the progress of the last fbur years could turn into retrogression for the next five.

they retained a balance, as the universities of Europe and South America did not a balance between liberty and order. Freedom and discipline walked as handmaidcnsHn the groves of our academies. This was the ideal. Who now bears witne^ to it.

A few days ago a band of student militants marched at M. I. T., demanding, if you please, under threat of violence, that their notions of permissible research be imposed upon the institution as a whole. Harvards reputation for academic integrity has been irreparably compromised. Berkeley appears to have attained a state of perpetual chaos. True learning disintegrates; and the lamppost displaces the lectern.

Why have the silent ones kept silent? A part of the explanation lies, I think, in aspects of the American character that seldom are noted.

^ Wfi are not, as a people, much given to barroom brawls. We are restrained by manners, cu tom, courtesy, gobd taste. Publicly, at least, we shun the passionate involvement We will be couth at any cost; a black extortionist interrupts a meeting of bankers, and the bankers, rising, applaud.

A part of the explanation lies also in a lack of leadership. The New Mobe h a s leaders aplenty; the militants of M.I.T. have a placard to rally around. But the silent ones the serious itudems, fCoBtiaaed On Page S)

countries and the Soviet missiles in East Europe aimed at West European targets.

U.S. negotiaUx's also want to exclude from the discussions tha weapons of other countries both of die West Euri^n and East European satellite states and of Communist CSiina.

The Americans hope to reach agreement in a matter 0! weeks at Helsinki on a definition and program for full-scale negotis-tions.

This would set tiie stage for the next round, which U.S. negotiators hope will start ahottiy thereafter and speedily get into key issues such at what to do about MIRV. Meanwhile, both sides are testing multiwarhead rockets.

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There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.Napoleon Bonaparte.

^3.efining The Employment Data

By ELMER ROESSNER A few years ago this col-

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TO THE EDITOR,

I wonder how many Pitt County voters are aware of the strange uses to which their taxes are apparently being put by the county commissioners. 1 refer to the use of county postal funds, nery, and labor by 3 group calling itself The Pitt O. Jaxravers Assoc, in order to I exert alastminute influence u^n the outcome of the recent election.

Wh^ether or not the money

satisfactoryit sounds like the offer the captured burglar to put the silver back H only the police are not called.^

As a county property owner and taxpayer, I am opposed to the imposition of an additional solas tax, even if the alternativt is the rkii-inf of the property taxea; the sales tax is by far the mwt inequitable tax of all, striking hardtst at those least able to pay. The

umn pointed out that under method then used, a man worked on a Monday and Tuesday and was then laid off could be counted five times by. Uncle Sam, twice as employed arid three times as ununployed.

The statistical techniques have been improved since then, but they still produce fuzzyTesult.

Tbire ara nany kinds of unemployad today.

Thtbs the man who quit ene job to look for a better one. There!' the man who has a job but who has been Isid off for a few days because of a slump in orders,

who has a part-time job and is idle because the crops are in. Theres the self-employed man without any current orders. Theres a fellow who won a lottery and is taking an unpaid vacation, the fellow who is ailing, tiie fellow moving to California, the fellow ofi on a binge, and there is the fellow who just doesnt want to work.

Still More Jobless There is also the fellow who gets into fights with fellow employees qnd who is usually fired after a week. And theres one fellow I Heard about who was getting $57 a week*on welfare if he were unemployed, so he Ucked the foreman in the seat.

To get a full count on each of these categories would require so many more government employees that every unemployed person could be put to work. And that would worsen the labor shortage.

Labor shortage? With the With the rate of unemployment rising from 3% to 4 per cent In September?

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'-fundy PI ever put back, that- ttty taxer^ere*

is an outrageous abuse of being furtively used to pro-

public confidence on the part of the county commissioners to allow suph things to take place. 'The explanation offered fay the chairman of the fiommlssioners il wholly un-

mote the interests of a small group of property Holders at the expense of the general welfare is appalling and intolerable.

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inery or a plant fire. Theres a man on strike. Theres a young fellow who quit his job to go back to college; sometimes he can collect iin-

e m p 10 y m e nt insurance.

Theres the farm worker

hundreds of men who are seariously searching for jobs because the mine has run out or the buggy-whip factory is closed, or who simply cannot find a job for

Which they are qualified.

sands of people. Temporary help agencies are begging wives, retirees and others to come back to work parW time.

The missing ingredient, of course, is skills and training. You can, put a squaro peg in a round hole,.but who wants a square messing uD the work today?

The National Industrial Conference Board has, after deep study directed by Dr* John G. Myers, senior economist, suggested a new economic Indicator: a job vacancy index.

Analysis of J6b vadinita it reports may balp the discrepancies in untm-ployment data.

It found, for instance, that Jncreaset.^ i&-~tho. tntr* -

A New roposal Thats, right. Big city newspapers can^ thousands of ohelp-wanted ^ads every week. Governmmt and private agencies " need thoua-

age hours per \veek worked, manufacturing cmpanies in. crease their demand far la. bor and that an averait weekly increase of one hour leads to an 0.3 per cent raise in unfilled joto