4Tile Daily Reflector. GreenvUle. N.C.--^anday. October 22. Il7t

The Advantages Trees Offer

One thing noticeable about Greenville is the large number of trees within the city and also in the rural areas surrounding us.

We couldnt help but be impressed, sitting high in Ficklen Stadium at a recent football game, that trees could be seen in every direction.

Trees and other greenery not only beautify the city, but also manufacture oxygen which is so essential to life.

There are, of course, some disadvantages to trees in a city. The roots grow through sewer lines and wreck sidewalks; limbs fall on power lines during storms. However, almost everyone will agree that trees are a great asset in any city.

Now we find that trees serve another purpose in

Apple Center Of The State

By BRYAN HAISLIP

HEDERSOVILLE Best apples grow highest."

I believe it. Teetering on a ladder propped against tdue October sky, I reached greedily for a Golden Delicious on the top most twig.

The basket hooked on my arm tilted. Its load rained through the leaves. Mary Allen yelped as an aj^le bounced off her head. I swayed back to safety, the prize in hand.

The first bite was crunchy with mornir^ cold, wine -sweet with a season of

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mountain sun and rain. Not since Eden did an apple have such a taste of delicitHis discovery.

J.H. Stepp, Jr. smiled. A man likes to see his [H'oduct appreciated, even if he doesnt sample it himself. Fresh apples bother my . digestion," he ex{dained. He eats appiesatice.

Stepp is one of the growers making Henderson County the apple center of Nmth Carolina. This years harvest, now nearing completion, will send several million bushels from the county to the nations markets.

Its been a good year," said Stepp. Most every grower has had a heavy crop of good fruit. Quality has been the best in years.

The federal-state crop reporting service has estimated the North Carolina apple production at 226 million pounds - which converts to approximately Si^million bushelsup 11 per cent over last year. Henderson County accounts for roughly 50 per cent of Tar Heel apple production.

Prices started good when commercial harvest began in mid-August, ^but moved downward as apples in volume came to market. Now they are near a break - even point with production costs. Efforts to persuade the federal government to purchase apples as a surplus commodity for distribution, including the recommendation of State Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham, have been unsuccessful.

Apples Everywhere Red, yellow, large, small, sweet, tart we saw apples by the millions on our mountain weekend trip with

Mason and Pat Thomas of Chapel Hill. Roadside stands displayed full baskets, loaded trucks were parked along the hi^way, packing houses had bins piled high.

Orchards we passed looked like a Christmas forest, each tree sagging tent - shaped from boughs ornamented with heavy clusters of gleaming fruit.

I want to pick apples from a tree, said Mary Allen.

We met Stepp behind a roll -top desk marked by years and use in the general store at Dana founded by his father, next door to the packing house operated by his brother, Leon St^p.

Growers bring aisles to the packing house in wooden bins holding 18 to 20 bushels each. The bins are fork - lifted from the truck and moved into a washer which floats the fruit free without bruising.

Equipment sends the apples through a washing and waxing operation, and down chutes where they are graded for size, defects and color. After inspection and weighing, they are packed in ' boxes or bagged just as you find them in the super-mark^.

If the fruit averages well for size and quality, 2,500 to 8;000 bu^els can be handled in a days operation.

Large and Small Growers

Stepp grows apples on about 150 acres, some of it owned and some of it leased. Tliat (daces him in the middle range of Henderson County growers. There are many small growers who have 15 to 20 acres in orchards; probably half the growers have 50 or more acres; a few produce apples on as much as 500 acres.

I believe its changing back to more of a family operatiMi,' said Stepp. A family that can handle most of its own labor can'do all right with 15 to 20 acres. Labor and expense can make it tou^ to make money on a large operation.#

The' Stepp family has been in the apple business since the 30s. Some of the trees in his orchards are 40 years old.

Development of new strains to meet consumer preference makes it necessary for a grower to bring along new trees. It takes about eight years for an apple tree to produce enough to pay its way.

Over the past coufde of years, Stepp has experimented,, with the pick your own trade. Without advertising, he opened his orchard for families to harvest the apples they buy at $2 a bushel {xcked from the tree, and $1 picked from the ground.

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this age of noise pollution. The Soil Conservation Service said that 100 feet of forest reduces noise about eight decibels. This is quite meaningful when one considers that sound unbearable to humans begins at 120 to 130 decibels.

Here are the decibels given off in common modem situations: jet aircraft, 140; express train, 100; car honk, 110; chain saw, 100; dog bark, 92; busy inter-city highway, 72-78; normal speech, 48.

Thus the Soil Conservation Service plays an important part in urban growth planning and it has information about land use planning available.

As our city grows it is inevitable that some trees will go. It would be good planning to see that groves <rf trees are preserved wherever possible and tfiat new trees are planted in the proper areas when trees are chopped down to make way for highways and development We think civilization and nature can be compatible but the planning for this will have to be done by the humans.

Safety Campaign Can Prove Real Economy

It is somewhat encouraging that safety on the job has paid off to the point where Insurance Commissioner Edwin Lanier is calling a hearing on a request for an average 4.8 percent reduction in workmans compensation rates.

The new rate was proposed because of a favorable loss experience during the past year.

Strong safety campaigns can mean real savings to those who pay preniiums. The same thing can be true of auto insurance rates, if a real effort is made to reduce the appalling traffic toll. Fewer traffic accidents would mean lower rates for those insured.

Taylor Runs At'^ Full Throttle

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By JOHN KILGO

WADESBORO North Carolina Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor who is running for Governor with the throttle all the way out is one man who believes the Tar Heel chief executive has plenty of influence over the Legislature, without the power of veto.

Taylor was interviewed in his law office here and he admitted to being dog^ired from jumping from one end of the State to the other. Thats what happens to a man when he decides hed like to be Governor. Pat Taylor has made that decision, even though he isnt ready to admit it publicly.

Gov. Bob Scott said in a recent interview that his office needs the power of veto, because in the Governors opinion, the powers of the Executive and Legislative branches of North Carolinas government are all out of whack, in favo* of the General Assembly.

Lt. Gov. Taylor views it another way.

'To be honest, he says, Ive never seen much reason the Governor needed a veto in North Carolina the way weve been operating. In 15 years in the General Assembly, I havent seen a half-dozen things of major significance that the Governor wanted that he didnt get, or that he opposed that passed.

Taylor contends that circumstances and maybe tradition give the Governor of North Carolina a great deal of influence over the Legislature.

The law doesnt give it to him, Taylor says. Hes just got it. I guess its the prestige of the office, the Governors appointive powers and generally speaking, the Governor is a popular fellow who is a friend of many people in the Legislature who would like to help him. I think . most people in the General Assembly have respect for the fact that the Governor was elected in a State-wide

race, that gives him prestige and influence and rightly so. When Gov. Scott campaigned in 1968, one of his platforms was to make the Lt. Governors (rffice a fulltime job. Nothing much has happened to change the mercurial duties of the Lt. Governor.

The Governor and I talked after the election, Taylor says, and I told him Id be willing to serve full-time or go on like the office has been run in the past. Id say that Gov. Scott has uf^raded the Lt. Governors office in terms of responsibilities, Ixit there hasnt been a change in the legal structure of the office. Nobody ha exactly figured out yet what the Lt. Governor would do if it were a full-time job. Ive found that its a fulltime job with no statutory responsibilities.

Taylor has made the office full-time by choice and design and he achnits: If I didnt think there was a possibility that I might run for political office again in the future, I could turn down some of these engagements.

Its too early to forecast just who will be Taylors opposition in the ^72 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles of Greensboro seems certain to run. And in the background, lurking out of the shadows like a Jolly Green Giant, is North Carolina Attorney General Robert Morgan, who is swinging the hottest political bat in the State right now.

Politics doesnt have the glamour to it now that it once, did, Taylor says. Unless I felt like I was really gwina be able to contribute something...unless I thought I could be a really good (jtovemor, I wouldnt be as interested in it just for the title and just for the ceremonial aspects of the job. If I were to run for Governor, I would make as one of my platforms that I simply would not spend all my time (Continued on page 5)

Anoth^ Leaf Fmti the Anarchiste^ Handboi^

By JAMES KILPATRICK

A Few Heretical Notes

ATLANTA It is not often that you encounter an authentic heretic these days, but I offer you one this afternoon: Eh-. Max E. Brunk, (M-ofessor of marketing at Cornell. He turned up here in Atlanta for a speech to the National Broiler Council, and cheerfully talked himself into the outer darkness.

A heretic, by definition, is one who willfully and persistently advocates doctrines that are contrary to those of his church ; and the church in this instance is that marvelous new religion known as consumerism : Ralph Nader, high priest; Virginia Knauer,

chairman of the ladies sodality. . .

Ck)nsumerism holds as an article of faith that customers are fallen sinners, doomed to perpetual ignorance, inefficiency, and frustration; and like all first-class religi<ms, to pursue the metaphor another line or two, consumerism relies up<m revelation, holy writ, and divine command for example, the Truth in Packaging Act. Hie object is to save the customers soul.

From all this hocus^iocus. Dr: Brunk dissents. He defines consumerism as a movement of activists who champion issues which ap-

Other Eiditors Say Revolt In Canada

(Hendersoii Dispatch)

Kidnaping of two government officials in Canada and slaying of one of them is virtually the equivalent *of revolution. Hie government lost no timejin intensifying the hunt for the kidnap-slayers. A number of arrests have teen made but at last reports there was no certainty that the slayers were included.

Quebecs trade master Pierre Laporte was killed and his body was found Sunday. Hie other victim was James R. Ooss, British trade commissioner, i^o at last reports was still alive.

Canadas Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged that the law will find these vicious men and teing them to justice. It is imperative that he ^ so, for his coimtry faces revolution, at least in the Province of Quebec, and vdiich could spread.

Hie outbreak is attributed to what is known as the Quebec liberation Front, a groiqi lAdiich is agitating for separation of Quebec as a free and indepoident nation. Nothing could be more silly than that for the French-speaking populace. Quebec is a thousand times tetter off as a part of the Dominion than it would be as a separate government. Back of that is the claim by the agitators that the French-speaking province is in large measure ignored by the other provinces and the i*ovinces and the government. This, too, despite the fact that the presort prime minister is from (^ebec himself. The argument doesnt make sense, but that concerns the revolirti(iary elemoit not at all. It is difficult to understand what the kidnapers think they have to gain in the tactics they are following. The sooner and the more completely the gang is rundown the safer the Canadian government and the Dominion as a whole will be.

What should concern Americans is that this very thing could happen in the United States, where criminals are handled with gloves on, not off, and where there are elemoits just as vicious as these Quebec Liberation gangsters. There are hints that high officials here may be given security guards for their safety.

pear to be beneficial; they <xily look that way. And the first thing to understand about consumerism, says my heretical friend, is that it is not a movement of consumers themselves. Precisely. The same observation, perforce, may be made of pornography and womens lib. The moral crusaders who would ban a La'ddy Chatterlys Lover are themselves immune to temptation. Their lofty purpose is to protect the moral well-being of others. And the Aimee Semple McPhersons who preach the abolition of protective labor laws seem rarely to have consulted with real-life waitresses and salesgirls. By the same token, com-sumerism proceeds on the assumption that Bishop Nader, Mrs. Knauer and Siator Tydings know tetter than we do what is best for us; and we are the ^eep of their pasture.

It is hard to escape from the analogy of religion. As abstract propositions, the tenets of consumerism are admirable; so were the

precepts Paul gave the Corinthians. But as Dr. Brunk says, the trouble comes with the in

terpretations that professibnal consumerists put iqxxi them. Few persons would argue with the

proposition that consumers should have proper ^ l^al redress for their wrongs; but when that proposition is translated into Senator Tydings class-action bill, we encounter the kind of interpretation that makes heretics of marketing Ix*ofessors.

I reject the contention, says Dr. Brunk, that the consumer is ignorant, stupid or uninformed merely because her actions are not consistent with either my

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Watch

These

Clues

By HAL BOVLE NEW YORK (AP) Jumping to conclusions:

Absent-minded husbands usually have nagging wives. Hie faraway look they get in their eyes is an attempt to escape from incessant marital scolding.

If I were going to hide out from the police, I think Id go and watch a weight lifting cwi-test. Hieyd never think of lotting there. Hie only fans at such affairs are close relatives of the

contestants or former weight lifters recovering from hertiias.

Half the temper outbursts that occur in the forenoon between office workers are caused by the fact their stomachs are empty of anything except coffee. If they all ate an egg, some bacon and toast for breakfast, they wouldnt feud so mu<^. Nobody feels like starting a wT when his stomach is full.

Never marry a girl who, udien she goes to the zoo, spends the longest time staring at the reptile cage.

You can usually tell whether a man lives in or out of town by opening the bottom of his desk. If it contains a pair of overshoes or boots, you can bet hes a suburbanite.

Afto* losing a quarrel with your wife, you can always get even with her by brag^ng in public about what a good cook your mother was.

What an intelligent World wed have tomorrow if only the teen-agers of today would spead as many hours studying as they now spmd admiring their hair in the mirror!

Women are always good fw a laugh, and about the best one you can get from them now is watching them struggle in and out of a taxicab while wearing a tight maxidress.

Everybody in a studio audience breaks into a chuckle if a member of it tells the program emcee that he hails from Brodc-lyn. Professional comedians call this i^enomenon .the law of K, which holds that all towns with the letter K in them are automatically funny for reasons unknown. Examples: Hoboken, Keokuk, Kalamazoo, and Kokomo.

What about Peoria, oftra jested at in the days when vaudeville was in flower? W^, according to the rule, its mentk would have been an even bigger giggle getter if it were lulled Peorkia.

An optimist is a guy who lo(4cs at life through rose-colored glasses; a realist is one who refuses to wear more than a rose-colored monocle.

Opinions In Brief

People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told. Roger Babson.

Hie men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of staiiding by their own convictions. James A. Garfield.

Strength For Today Cities Charging Service Fees

THE NECESSITY OF ROOTS

One day a heavy wind storm swept across an orchard, wrenching a great limb from the parent stock and throwing it over by the roadside. The conclusion naturally would have been that the leaves woul^.^ wither and the trunk die in a few days or weeks.

But to the amazement of 'everyone who passed that way, the apples on the brancli that had been thrown out by the roadside ripened each day with the apples that hung 1 the parent stock which was rooted deep down in the subsoil. When harvest arrived, the torn branch bore just as luscious apples as did the parent branch. But when the next spring came around there were no buds <xi the tom branch while on the parent branch rooted deep

down into the subsoil there was the promise of abundant fruit.

This is a parable on the necessity of roots and soil. TTiere are quite a few people who profess no religion at all, who are separated from the church as the torn branch was separated from the parent trunk. And for a while such people tear fruit which cannot be distinguished from the fruit of those who put great confidence in the things of (]rod. But the times comes-after the vjinter of sorrow, or

persecution,, or strife has passed- that those who are of the branch lying by the roadside wither and bear no fruit, while those whose lives fktem from the trunk of Gods eternal love blossom again with the hope of new triumphs and eternal life.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER The day may wme when, if you call the cops to report your home has teen robbed, youll get a bill from the city

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for $50 for an investigation. Or wheao you turp in an alarm for a small fire, you get a bill for $100. Or when your wife calls the police to complain that you are beating her, the desk sergeant will tell her, Sorry, we cant help you. You havent paid for settling your last argument.

Cities, pressed for additional funds for salaries and other rising costs* are in

creasingly charging for their services.

Hie Tax Foundation, Inc., reports that in 1940, cities obtained 4 per cmt of their revenue from service charges and 16 per cent of much higher budgets in 1968. Hie total take that year was $2.4 billion and has probably gone up since then.

Why The Boost

It points out that cities increased their spending by more than 55 per cent between 1962 and 1968, while revenue from their own sources increased only 45 per cent. Hie difference was largely made up by federal grants, now averaging 30 percent of municipal budgets.

To supplement the federal largesse and loc|d prqperty and sales taxes, citieis have turned to levying fees for refuse collecti(Hi, sewerage, water supply, parking and

building inspection.

New York, which has about (ie million people on relief roles, has a sewer system largely paid for by local assessments. Now it is charging the people who paid for the sewer a monthly fee for using it.

The Tax Foundations study of fees found that cities with under 500,000 population rely on them more than the larger ones. Cities under 50,000 got 20 per cent of their revenue from fees; cities of one million or more got only 12 per cent.

An Old Ploy

(Charging fees has been an old custom in America. Time was when almost every town had its speed trap and motorists were hauled before local justices for . slight in-fractimis and forced to pay costs as well as fines. The costs usually went to the

justice, who often split with the speed cops, court attendants and other.

The Tax Foundation pointed out that while service diarges are similar to taxes, they differ in two respects: the government is required to render a specific service to the payer and payment is theoretically not compulsory. Hiat is, if you dont eat you wont have any garbage and henpe need not pay for disposal service.

It found 30 kinds of fees already levied by cities, including fees for school lunch programs, auditorium rentals, use of municipal hospitals, chest X rays, animal regulation, snow Removal, use of tunnels, ferries and bridges, nonresident library fees, police guards for payrolls, building inspection and on and (HI. I