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Uncertainties Plague Phase 2

STARDOM OVER NIGHT!

Phase 2 of President Nixons anti-inflation program has opened, but there seems to be considerable confusion as to how it will be carried out.

Hardly had it got underway before the Cost of Living Council went into sssion to decide whether to rescind an exemption which would allow car prices to go up without advance notice.

The board previously had ruled against pay raises retroactive to the teginning of the pay fre^e period, althou^ Jt was a^eed to consider individual cases on their merits.

Present regulations also require that companies of $100 million or more sales must report

Hard-To-Place Child Wanted

RALEIGH - Jimmy is four, and fooling the experts.

One year ago they said premature birth and cer^ral palsy had marked him for life with physical handicaps, a retiring personality, and limited intellectual func-

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tioning likely to make him always a slow learner.

Adoptive parents gave Jimmy love and understanding. He blossomed under the adoring attention of older brothers and sisters. Today, he is catching up fast, both physically and emotionally, and may not be a slow learner, after all.

Jimmys story is the bright side of the current trend in ad(^tion, in North Carolina and nationwide. As the supply of infants for adc^tion has declined, more families have opened their arms to hard-to-I^ace children the handicapped, the black, the older child without a home.

Not many years ago, Jimmy probably would have been destined to grow up in foster homes or a child-caring institution, said Peggy Patterson, supervisor of adoptions for the state department of social services.

Second Look At Adoption Both agencies and

families are taking a secmd look at their ccmcept of the adc^table child, she observed.

During calendar 1970,

county departments of social service placed ap

proximately 670 children in adoptive homes, and received 1,517 applications from couples wanting to adopt a child, Miss Patterson reported. Both figures reflected a slight increase over the jarevious year.

The widening ratio of adoptive applicants to available children means disappointmoit is in store for some families. For the most part, they are the couples asking for a cute, normal baby and unwilling to settle for anything else.

Cute, normal babies for adoption are simply in short supply. This decrease in the number of infants seems to be caused by a combination of factors such as legalized abortion, availability of OMitraceptive devices, and dianging attitude toward the out-of-wedlock child, Miss Patterson explained.

The majority of children placed for adoption by agencies are bom out of

wedlock and released for placement soon after birth, she said. The typical mother is 19 years of age and has completed high school, she added.

Unwed Mothers Keep BaMes

There are indications that it is the tyiNcal unwed mother who is b^inning to feel less pressure from society to release her baby for ad(^ tion. ^

Fewer babies for adoption has given agencies the incentive and time to cai-centrate on the needs of children traditionally regarded as difficult to fdace. It also has sparked a new degree of cooperation and coordinated effort between public and private agencies.

The Childrens Home Society of North Carolina, one of four private adoption services in the state, puts its home-finding capacity to work for children referred by other agaicies. Initiated in 1950 under a grant from the Duke Endowment, there has been an annual increase for the past several years in the number of children aided by the program.

During 1970, it resulted in the placement of 38 children who other-wise might still be in temporary care, said Ruth McCracken, director of casework for the Society.

Economic Savings Result

In terms of each childs emotional security and his opportunity for family life, as well as in substantial economic savings to counties and state, every placement was particularly significant, she added.

I^>ecial emphasis has been given by the Society to the recruitment of black adoptive homes. The response has been gratifying. Miss McCracken said.

For instance, she noted, the Society placed 22 black or bi-racial children in all of 1970; for the first six months of 1971, such placements numbered 28.

Another vehicle for agency cooperation is the North Carolina Adoption Resource Exchange. This service, now about one year old, permits the sharing of information on children available for adoption and families seeking to adopt.

In recent months. Miss Patterson said, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of families who can consider children beyond infancy and in the number of black families.

The trend that seems to be developing is a very exciting one in that the needs of children for adoptive homes are more readily being met, 1^ said. ... we are moving ^ard the commitment that any child for whom a family available is an adoptaUe chUd.

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proposed price increases to the government in advance. Smaller companies can be ordered to rescind price increases.

Generally wages can be increased by 5.5 per

cnt. .

While it is expected that economy figures may take a spurt following the freeze, there wiU still be limitations on price and wage increases which government offidals hope will keep long rai^e inflation under control.

For most of us the medicine is not {peasant; however the effects of continued rampant inflation could be worse.

A Long Way To Go In Motor Vehicle Safety

While Greenville might be among the ten North Carolina cities with the least number of traffic fatalities, the steady stream of smashed autos being pulled in by wreckers is indication enough that we still have far to go in vehicle safety.

The N. C. State Motor Club ranked Greenville among the ten safest cities after the city counted only one traffic fatality during 1970.

However, we all know that wrecks in which people are injured and property damage runs high are occurring in our city every day.

We should all be thankful that we had a relative low fatality rate last year. But we should all work to see that the appalling number of wrecks that take place in our city is recced. This can only be done if every driver resolves to operate his vehicle in a safe manner.

Muskie Tries New Strategy

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Sen. Edmund S. Muskies plans to meet privately December 17 with law-and-order Mayor-elect Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia reflects a new pragmatism in his Presidential campaign following still another staff reorganization.

Muskie telephoned his congratulations to Rizzo the day after his election and accepted an invitation to visit him in Philadelphia. For Muskie to consort with hard-boiled ex-police commissioner Rizzo anguishes liberal staffers at Muskie headquarters who view the mayor-elect as evil incarnate. But to pro-Muskie Democratic professionals the forthcoming pilgrimage to Rizzo is an essential political exercise. It also marks a departure under Muskies new chief political strategist; Democratic national committeeman George Mitchell of Maine.

In the latest of many unannounced Muskie staff reorganizations, Mitchell, a tough-minded, 38-year-old trial lawyer from Portland, gains full political control of the Muskie campaign. What makes this so important is that Mitchell, unlike other key Muskie advisers, regards the Senator as a centrist who must reach out to the right as well as the left.

Mitchells elevation ends an ambiguous inter^pde during which he shared political control with John F. English, national committeeman from New York.

A highly competent political organizer, English performed splendidly early this year in establishing a nationwide Muskie campaign. But schooled in the leftish sectarian squabbling af New York Democratic politics, English pursued an 3ver-all strategy of appeasing the Democratic partys left. Starting with Muskies appearance at a bipartisan antiwar rally at .Providence, R. I., April 18, Muskies overtures to the left

have caused consternation among Democratic moderates, fearful that Muskie was taking on a leftish image that would defeat him for President in 1972.

Furthermore, Muskie has suffered minor but undeniable damage inside party ranks. Texas regulars who leaned his way last year now say privately it is becoming impossible to support him for the nomination. Organization Democrats in Philadel{rfiia resent his failure to endorse Democratic nominee Rizzo after the primary election. He has generated enmity in the AFL-CIO hierarchy.

Nor have Muskies overtures to the left gained him much. Despite Muskies support of the losing campaign of Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa to be convention Credentials Committee chairman, the New Democrat leading publication of the partys left fringe was not satisfied. Muskies effort can be indicted as either duplicitous or vague, it trumpeted.

The last straw may have been Englishs appointment of leftish firebrand Donald Peterson, national committeeman from Wisconsin, as Midwestern coordinator. Muskie himself learned about Petersons appointment in the newspapers. Shortly thereafter, Mitchell was given full political command.

Mitchell is no conservative. He fully subscribes to the theory that the partys left wing must be partially mollified or the 1972 nominee will suffer Hubert Humphreys 1968 fate.

But Mitchell is on far better terms than English with the party establishment, including national chairman Lawrence F. OBrien and national treasurer Robert Strauss. Moreover, Mitchell has no illusions about .just how non-liberal rank-md^-file Democrats really are. Muskie scored his biggest recent spurt among Democratic voters after he

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Strength For Today

ASSURANCE Assurance is a mighty power in the living of an effective and significant life. If we think we can do a thing we are usually right in our assurance. Some people are defeated before they begin. They shake their heads and shrug their shoulders and raise their arms in a gesture of defeat. And of course under these circumstances they are ^ HrftW: But'th gur^o b^levek he sm usua^ an. He may stub his toe or faU flat on his face a number of times before he achieves but if he is confldent that he cao achieve eventually he usually does. Some men have run for office over and over again, defeated, scoffed at, but at last victorious. Pasteur could make certain pf his scioitific findings work with animals but he was afraid to try them-

By ART BUCHWALD

Where He Denies It All

WASHINGTON - If the American people are suspicious of Sen. Edward Kennedys political intentions, they certainly cannot be blamed. Every time you pick up the newspaper there is another story about Teddy Kennedy confirming he is not a presidential candidate in 1972. It isnt the denial that has people confused as much as where Sen. Kennedy denies it.

As the campaign heats up we can expect more and more news stories on the subject. Tliey might look like this;

WINDY FALLS, Iowa -Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told a cheering throng of 10,000 persons at the Windy Falls County Fair that he would not accept the presidential nomination under any circumstances in 1972.

The senator from Massachusetts said that the people must defeat Nixon or the country would be faced with inflation, unemployment, drought and financial ruin. He called on the citizens of Iowa to turn out the Republicans in 1972 and elect a Democratic President from the fine list of

candidates who were now running, of which he was not one.

After his speech Sen. Kennedy visited an Indian reservation, a Mexican-American migrant labor camp, a United Auto Workers

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Other Editors Soy Big Price To Pay

(The WUsoo Times)

CMiditlons are getting very serious when the cost of govem-moit is so high ethics are discarded in order to pay tax bills. We are talking about the trend toward legalized gambling.

The two largest states. New Y(Nrk and California, according to a special survey, find the people faving state legalized gambling to reduce the tax bite.

New Y(M*k already has a state operated lottery and horse betting establishmoit. Now with an IHS billi(m state deficit there is the apparent desire f(M* the state to turn even more to gam-Uing rather than taxes.

According to a survey 54 per cent say they favor opening the state to legalized gambling such as Nevada now has to obtain additional revenue.

In hard-pressed California, 64.8 per cent say yes to the question, would you be in favor of state supervised lotteries to {x-ovide additional funds for the operation of state government to decrease taxes?

In California only betting at track pari-mutuel windows is legal. Bookies are illegal, largely because they divert the action away from the tracks where the state gets a percentage (rf the betting take.

The claim is made by some that the states crime rate is due to police facilities being oigaged in cracking down <i bookies instead of being c<Nicemed with violoit types of crime. Regardless of the claim it is a sure bet that legalized gambling will increase the crime rate. In fact it will tear down the moral fiber of the people.

There was a time when the indepoident business people of Calif(Mmia, located in the area oi the race tracks, raised protests against horse racing on the grounds that people spent their money at the tracks and failed to pay their bills. This jias been the claim wherever there is gambling, whether it is turning the wheels of chance at county fairs, or legalized racing of any type.

Now the trend seems to be toward legalized^gambling and in Galifomia it is said to be due to the huge sums which go from California to Nevada casinos only a short distance away.

' When the time comes that it takes more to run govomment than the peo[de can pay, it is time to cut government, and this can be cut. This nation coming to a serious pss when ittak the income from legalized gamUing to pay the cost of government.

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communion breakfast, a chamber of commerce awards banquet and made a short speech during half-time ceremonies at the Iowa State-Nebraska Tech homecoming game, reiterating his determination not to run for the highest office in the land.

NEW YORK^ - Sen. Edward Kennedy spent 14 hours in New York City yesterday in a whirlwind tour. A Kennedy aide said that the senator from Massachusetts wanted to take his message that he was not a presidential candidate personally to all the five boroughs.

The senator unequivocally denied any higher political ambitions at a rally in Harlem, a Jewish temple in Queens, the Sons of St. Patrick in Staten Island, the Brothers of Italy in Brooklyn and the Save Yankee Stadium Citizens League in the Bronx.

Sen. Kennedy also met with Democratic Party leaders of New York in his brother-in-law Steve Smiths Fifth Avenue apartment, to discuss ways of keeping his name off the ballot.

He then talked for an hour with Mayor John Lindsay in an effort to pursuade Lindsay not to start a grass-roots Kennedy presidential campaign.

Before leaving New York, Kennedy rode up Fifth Avenue in an open convertible with his wife, Joan, hoping to discoqrage New Yorkers from considering him as a Democratic hopeful.

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Words

That

Weary

By HAL BOYLE new YORK (AP) ~ Remarks that a hospital patient geU tired of bearing: Confidentially, Harry, what did they really find wrong with you?

Do you think that in your case it mi^t be pey-cfaoeomallc?

What do they charge you at this resort, Hariy?

I never saw you looking bet-

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ter, kid, except when you were feeling worse.

My, my, Mr. Bilgewater, I do hope we had a pleasant night.

What are you looking so uneasy about, sir? Surely youve seen a bed^Mui before.* Im the priest at the hospital here. Would you care to make a confession, or just have a little chat?

Just between us, Harry, what did they really find wrong with you?

Yeah, Ive been in this room a month. The last guy in your bed seemed to be coming along just fine when, all of a sudden, he was gonejust like you blow out a candle.

As your wife, Harry, I hope that youll take this illness as a warning from heaven to live a more sensible existence than you have for the last 25 years. Im your wifes lawyer, Mr. Bilgewater. Of course, we know everything is going to be okay, but Mrs. Bilgewater thou^t we ought to bring your will up to date. Purely precautionary, naturally. Just sign here. (Continued on page 6)

40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGHILL Nov. 17,1931 Highway Patrolman E. L. Bradley received injuries last night when he was fired upon by motorists after his motorcycle had wrecked on the Greenville-Grimraland highway. The officer was returning to Greenville udien a car sped by him in a reckless manner and he gave chase. As he drew up behind the speeding car, the driver suddenly put on brakes and the motorcycle crashed into the automobile. The officer was thrown to the pavement and as he lay there occupants of the car fired upon him but did not hit him.

Showing its interest in the Sheppard Memorial Library here, the Falkland School has placed an attractive display in the windows of the Merchants Association office on Evans Street. The display contains cardboard buildings representing the Falkland School and Sheppard Library expressing their appreciation for the service the library has given them.

Approximately five hundred ministers and visitors will attend the 95th annual session of North Carolina Methodists beginning tonight in Greenville.

People Can Still Spend Money

on humans. When he did and they were successful he stepped to the forefront of his generation.

Abraham Lincoln was a sorry figure for many years but later a world leade^ George Washington ought to have known he could not win the Revolutionary War but he didnt know this and he came out victorious. Thomas A. Edison was told q^yqr and over^agaiiKthat h|B 'Wa ,

but he kept on' and the world honors him today.

Assurance by itself is not enough. It has to be supported with self-confidoice and with the assurance that whatever has to be done can be done.

It is not true that we can do anything we think we can do

if we think hard enough. But there is no victory in any field without assurance.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER R0ES8NER With higher postage rates, you might expect fewer mailorder offerings as this years holiday I> season approaches. So, like many others, you may be surprised at the volume of oflers, catalogs and inducements you are getting thrt)ugh the mails. And the Volume will increase for the nW three weeks.

There are many reasons for increase in Christmas mailorder promotions:

. Despite the high rate of unmj^c^meat HMad;--the^-m-comfortable stock market, people ,j|p have* spqndjUiA^ money. Total personal in-comq is still rising, savings totals are increasing and the spending potential is bettering. A new record in Christmas spepding has been in*edicted here.

. Evoi fears that things may get worse are a stimulus to Christmas spending. The last big fling is a recurring

drive in human pjsychology. Even Price Freeze Helps . Many people feel that the price freeze will get out of hand, and that orders now will be cheaper than orders later. This is despite the fact

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:rthat*many articies'offopedi'iq -Christmas mail order are not. fraque

they can.

. This is the get-away season for many mail-order operators. There are some specialists who offer glamorous items at attractive prices by mail. When they get a profitable response, they buy the item at wholesale and fill the orders. But if the item is a flop, they just forget about it and return the money only after Postal Inspectors, the Federal Trade (Commission and Better Business Bureaus XtwT i)rethiHg^d^ theff necks.-

price; catalogs were printed six months ago and price increases were rexmided then, long before the freeze. And niany gifts, citrus fruits, pearq, apples, etc., are exempt from the freeze.

. Many mail-order sellers fear an iincreas in mail rates next year and so its best to try to make a profit while

No Crackdown This Year The FTC has been looking into these cant-lose operations but, perhaps with Chrisitan charity, it wont -crack down until after (Christmas. It has called public hearings next Jan. 24 and 25 on a series of regulations, u[hich may be promultated sometime after

that, well after the last (Christmas dollar has been pulled in.

The FTC proposals are: that if an advertiser cannot ship a product within 21 days after receipt of payment, he must return the money, unless the seller clearly discloses that the shipment will be made at a later date; that the seller must keep records of sales with customers names and addresses, the dates ordered and the dates shifqied; that -the'~sHei^fi|0W|^ practkea;.^^ ihi^ trading * stamps are conrtdaried aX money, and that idngazines or rial deliveries, such as fruit or cheese of the immth, are not covered except for the first diipment.

' Now, or even after the new rules are promulgated, it will be safest for customers to buy from well-known mail-order houses and those they have done business with before.