4The Daily Reflector. Greenville. N.C.Monday. November 22. 1171

Impressive Prices For Tobacco

With the closing of the Wilson market the Eastern Beit ended its season last week with an impressive averaged $78.43 per hundred pounds.

The belt markets sold 322,499,696 pounds of tobacco for $252,931,778.

Wilson sold the largest poundage for the season with 56,545,077 sold, and concluded the year with the highest average of $79.47.

Morgan Action Brightens Image

By BHVAN IIAISI.IF

UALKIGH If Bob

Morgan could have made up his mind when he wanted to. chances are .^0-50 he would have run for governor next year

The pressure of supporters lor an earlier decision took him out of the race

His withdrawal from a contest in which polls ranked him the frontrunner sent

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shock waves through the North Carolina political landscape It shook up the developing Democratic primary campaign, and buoyed Republican hopes for capturing the state's highest office.

VN'hile the decision may have altered the direction, it did not dim Morgans political future. Long range, it may have brightened his prospects by giving luster to his image as a politician for whom conscience and duty come before personal ambition.

Unfinished business in the office of attorney general, which he has given a thrust for consumer protection since his election in 1968. was the reason cited by Morgan in removing himself as a candidate for governor.

Immediately, he said his plans are to run for second term although any formal start to a campaign will wait several months.

Senate In The Future? Beyond that, the beacon ahead seemed to be the U.S. Senate. If Sen. Sam J. Ervin. Jr. does not seek reelection in 1974. as has been widely predicted. Morgan could be in strong position to run for the seat.

Months of speculation on Morgans role in the race for governor came to an end with the statement he read last week to a crowded news conference. It spelled disappointment to his supporters, and relief to his prospective competitors.

The statement carried an undertone of frustration at the early start to 72 campaign activity. One year from the general election and six nmnths ahead of the primary, Morgan observed, candidates already are on the trail and local political leaders keenly interest in alliances taking shape

"Quite frankly, though, I have felt all along that we are

rushing the season, Morgan said

Uor this reason. I personally decided not to be hurried into a decision concerning the 1972 election. I wanted to run on my own schedule and 1 set about doing just that "

Friends 11 ged Decision

The timetable Morgan hoped to follow would have put off a definite decision until the middle of next Januaflty .As other candidates geared up their campaigns, friends and political advisors urged him to make his intentions clear He resisted until persuaded it was essential to avoid en-trammelling misunderstanding.

The Attorney General recited projects in progress in his office which he feels must be seen to completion In this year's peculiar political climate. I cannot delay a decision until these things are accomplished, as 1 had once hoped I could," he said.

My first duty is to the office to w hich I already have been entrusted I will honor that trust I shall not be a candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1972.

The first question in the wake of Morgans departure from the race was where his supporters would be likely to go

The best immediate answer seemed to be nowhere in a body, but dispersed to the camps of other contenders That group presently includes Lt Gov H. P (PatI Taylor. Jr., State Sen. Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles. Jr., Hugh Morton of Wilmington and Linville. and Dr. Reginald Hawkins of Charlotte, a black dentist repeating his '68 bid for the nomination

Candidacies May Fade

The next question was the likely impact on those who planned to run for attorney general on the assumption that Morgan would not. State Sen. Hector McGeachy of Cumberland and Former Sen. Elton Edwards of Guilford had announced, and House Speaker Phil Godwin was regarded as on the verge of doing so. Some, if not all. of these efforts likely will fade quietly away.

Republicans regarded Morgan as their toughest opponent for the governorship. on the basis of his appeal to independent voters as a consumer champion.

Some felt his absence could tempt into the race Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount, the 68 GOP standard-bearer. That would bring on a primary. since Jim Holshouser of Boone has launched his campaign,

Morgans inclination and experience leans to the legislative rather than executive branch. He considered next years Senate race before deciding not to oppose Sen. B. Everett Jordan who is running for another six-year term.

Should Sen. Ervin retire in 1974. when he would be 77 years old, Morgan and his friends might well see an opportunity which would make waiting two years and passing up the governorship seem worthwhile.

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The second highest average was at Farmville which sold 20,512,020 for $16,236,532 to average $79.16.

Greenville was second in pounds sold at 46,203,489 pounds at $36,142,794 with an average of $78.23.

Of course,-Pitt County remained the bright leaf capital with its two markets, Greenville and Farmville, selling a total of 66,715,509.

It was a good year for Eastern Belt tobacco producers, even though clouds still hang over the tobacco industry.

We can only hope that there will be continued improvement in prices paid for tobacco in the years ahead.

'Tip Of Ah Iceberg'

In Weapons Traffic?

Every so often one reads of lawmen turning up military-type weapons in unexpected places.

They may be in small caches, in shipments of one sort or another, or being transported (as was the case recently in North Carolina).

The arms range from rifles to machineguns, bazookas to grenades, and there are explosive materials, too.

It makes one wonder if the disclosures represent a sort of tip of the iceberg insofar as the domestic arms traffic is concerned; whether the accidental uncovering of such weapons indicates a much larger incidence that does not surface by chance.

Such speculation is fruitless on our part; but the odds are very great that such thoughts have occurred to personnel of many law enforcement agencies and the subject is getting considerable quiet attention.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

NEW YORK The severe problems faced by Mayor John V. Lindsays campaign for President in his own city were laid bare the evening of Oct 29 in a private meeting held here in Sen. Edmund S. Muskie's suite at the Plaza Hotel.

Flanking Muskie were John F English, Democratic national committeeman from New York and a national Muskie political operative, and Washington lawyer Lester Hyman. Muskie's out-of-state coordinator for New York The guest was city councilman Matthew Troy, leader of the regular Democratic organization in the borough of Queens.

Troy long ago endorsed Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota for President and has been paraded around the country since then as a rare specimen of a machine politician backing superliberal McGovern. But at the Plaza, Troy confessed he could not get and would not try to get his district leaders in the Queens organization to back McGovern delegates in the June 20 New York primary.

Whats more. Troy confided to Muskie serious doubts that McGovern would still be an active candidate by the time New Yorks primary rolled around. So, Troy informed Muskie and his delighted lieutenants, come right into Queens and make yourself welcome!

This scarcely makes Matty Troy a covert Muskie agent. As anybody with the vaguest knowledge of New York politics knows, his heart still belongs with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. What Troy was making clear to the Muskie camp was his determination to beat the Lindsay forces in Queens next June 20 whether the alternative be Muskie, Kennedy or somebody else.

The Queens situation is not

isolated. Lindsays attempts (0 woo the regular Democratic organization through selective use of patronage have proved a failure. The Bronx regulars are as hostile to Lindsay as the Queens organization. Regular leader Meade Esposito of Brooklyn has cooperated closely with Lindsay on patronage questions but would not dare attempt to elect Lindsay delegates in that most unfriendly borough.

Nobody is more aware of these power realities than Lindsays crafty political manager. Richard Aurelio. Rather, he believes that the city Democratic organization is so dilapidated that Lindsays precinct organization can outperform it at the polls next June, giving the Mayor a respectable bag of delegates from his own city.

Accordingly. the preliminary outlook for the primary takes on the typically parochial political coloration of the nations largest city. With the Democratic Presidential nomination at stake, the New York primary becomes a test for control of the state party between neophyte Democrat Lindsay and old-line regulars.

The talkative Troy now talks privately of working out some accomodation with the Muskie forces!, agreeing on a slate of delegates to oppose Lindsay in Queens. Troy naturally hopes Muskie might be so bruised in the primaries by that time that this slate will wind up backing Kennedy. But Muskie men are not hostile to siich an accommodation.

The Muskie camp, however, does not want to jump on the anti-Lindsay bandwagon. Figuring Lindsay may be around New York Democratic politics for some time to come and could be the partys nominee for governor

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Strength For Today

now?

This daily article will continue to point out the devastating character of drug addiction. The evil will not be neutralized or cured by a substitute in a few years. If we only knew it. the way to get happiness out of life is to live it to its full. But some people do not know this. An amazing number have turned to the use of habit-forming drugs. Many will Claim that the lightest form of addictive drugs will satisfy an acquired ( raving but experience is proving that the way to cure *'rug addiction is not by i^ubsiiiuting an addictive 'rug that may be bad but not so bad as the hard type.

^ certain minister in a coniparatively small city has set h.mself to the task of warning young people about drug addiction, trying to get

them off the habit and turning their feet into different pathways. This minister does not have a church. He never was and never wants to be pastor of a church. The streets of his village constitute his church.. His congregation consists for the most part of kids in high school. They call him Bill and like him immensely. He can be found at any time of the day or night with a group of a ddicted youngsters clustered about him and asking anxious questions. The local churches and luncheon clubs pay his^ salary.

This approach to the problem of drug addiction can be continued in any village or city but not necessarily the same way.

How can it be done in the communijty in which you live?

By Karl L. Douglass

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By ART BUCHWALD

It's America's Fault

WASHINGTON - The new bitterness toward the United States being voiced around the world has to do with economics. This country, but putting on a 10 percent surcharge. has alienated every nation except Albania, which as far as we know is the only country that refuses to trade with us for ideological reasons.

While the United States has much to answer for, the rest of the world is not blameless for the sad state of economic affairs.

Prof. Eberhardt Gold-

standard. who wrote the definitive book on the worlds economy entitled Evil, the Root of All Money told me: The problem is that the United States has been the major consumer of the rest of the worlds products. Every country's economy is geared to what they can sell to America. But there is just so much stuff Americans can consume. Our citizens can absorb only so many carving knives. cuckoo clocks, tablecloths, stuffed animals, tape recorders, weather vanes, music boxes, salt and

Other Editors Soy A Necessary Step

(The Wilson Times)

Gov. Bob Scott has taken a commendable step which could lead to restoration of some lost faith in North Carolinas public schools.

The governor says he intends to find out what is necessary to ease the tensions, unrest and discord in the schools and has called a statewide conference Dec. 6 in Raleigh to tackle the problem.

Parents with children in the public schools will agree wholeheartedly with Gov. Scott that something is wrong ... when fear walks the halls and corridors and lurks in the rest rooms of our public school.

Something is wrong when a youngster has to fear what may lie around the corner, when he has to worry about being badgered, intimidated, subjected to indignities or indecencies, shaken down for his lunch money, or physically manhandled or assaulted.

While Wilson has escaped the violence that has plagued some areas, there have been reports of alleged assaults, extortion and intimidation in the city schools.

We say alleged because most of the time there are no police records to substantiate the reports. The Daily Times has been told of several instances where students boys and girls are so afraid of being accosted that they avoid going to the rest room for the entire school day.

Rumors often disintegrate when subjected to investigation, but if even 25 per cent of the allegations are true the problem is deserving of more attention than it has received from school officials.

The finest buildings, highly qualified teachers and an elaborate curriculum are virtually worthless if a child must attend school in a climate of fear.

/%ain we commend Gov. Scott for calling the conference and hope Uiere will be frank discussions of problems and suggestions for their solution.

But the governors role will be limited to removing the lid from a boiling pot. Corrective action will be up to local school officials supported by the public.'*

pepper shakers and back scratchers.

We have reached what could be described as a consumer watershed, and unless other countries find new markets for their products, were all going to go down the drain."

Prof. Goldstandard blames World War II for the worlds economy problems.

With the exception of the United States, most countries who participated in World War II had to suffer great deprivation. There were shortages of everything, and

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the people in Europe and Japan havent forgotten it. They still save string and paper, they hoard boxes and they never throw away clothes, shoes or cigarette tinfoil.

Americans, on the other hand, dispose of everything. They buy something and two weeks later dump it in the trash can. It isnt our buying, but our dumping that has made us the greatest consumers of all time.

But now, Prof. Gold-standard said, we have no place left to dump what we buy. Since the countries around the world have upped their production, they are making things faster than the United States can throw them away. This is what has caused the crunch in the world economy.

What is the solution? I asked.

We have to make other industrialized countries realize that their salvation depends on making things that do not work, and selling them to their own people who do not need them.

We must have a new

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Learn It All By Mail

By IML BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

Home isnt as safe as most people think it is. Nearly one of every four fatal accidenta occurs-there.

Surgery is much more popu lar in America than in Britain, where its employment is far more restricted. There are

some 19 million operations a year in this country now, or one for every 11 people.

Red has been used as a symbol of danger for so long that many people no longer react to it Some color experts believe that it should be replaced as a warning signal by yellow, which is highly visible in all kinds of weather Because of this superior visibility, the German army used black and yellow road signs during the second world war.

One of the most weatherproof animals in the world is the Yak. the ox of the Himalaya mountains. Protected by thick hair and layers of fat. yaks are practically impervious to bliz zards. They are so insulated against cold that they some times suffer heat prostration when brought below an altitude of 11.500 feet. Their tails are often used by Indian princes as tly whisks or badges of office.

Safety belts are now avail able for about four out of five auto passengers, but a recent study of accidents involving 13,-000 people found that only 20 per cent of them were wearing any kind of seat belt.

Quotable notables: The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it

If you're on a diet, which should you avoid mostsugar or starchy foods? The answer, recent experiments seem to prove, is sugar Tests at the Brookhaven National Laboratory indicate that sugar is two to five times as fattening as foods with a high starch content.

Know thyself: One of the reasons so many people die of heart attacks is that they dont recognize it when theyre having one. They then fail to get the help they need. The American Heart Association estimates that half of the 600,000 people in this country who succumb to heart attacks do so before they even reach a hospital

Worth remembering: There are a lot of senile delinquents, loo. And theyd be worse than juvenile delinquents if they only had the strength

History lesson: Can you

name two U.S. Presidents who enjoyed playing billiards? Billiards was a favorite form of

relaxation for John Quincy

Adams and James Garfield. Calvin Coolidge. on the other hand, never hankered for a pool hall. He preferred pitching hay. a hobby held by no other president.

It was Thoreau who ob

served. The man who goes alone can start today. But he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.

Freeze Confusion To Continue

By ELMER ROESSNER

The confusion over whats frozen, whats not and whats slush will continue for several weeks. . However, the Administration realizes that the uncertainties are holding back recovery and perhaps for the first time understands how vast and complicated is the task of increasing prosperity, qontrolling inflation and at the same time making labor, business and consumers content. Intertwined is also the problem of gaining both votes and party contributions in 1972.

Both the Price and Commission and the Wage Board are under pressure to spell out rules that are fair, understandable and en-forceabl. Lights are burning late in Washington these days.

Meanwhile misunderstandings churn up troubles fn

the market place. Corporations are announcing price increases to see if they can get away with them; labor is making demands far above the guidelines to insure that if controls collapse labor

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will not have lost anything. Wave Of Trading Up If youre a customer, you can expect to be traded up through phase two of the New Economic Plan. if you are a merchant youre probably making plans to trade up your customers.

Trading up consists of pushing items and lines that have higher profit margins. And the Christmas shopping season is just the time to do it.

There are'many ways to

trade up. One is to cease displaying and advertising goods that dont carry fat markups, or not carrying them at all. At the same time goods in higher brackets are displayed and advertised. As a rule. higher-priced^j4tems carry higher percentage markups as well as broader profit margins.

Another way is to encourage salespeople to push higher-priced goods. When a customer shows interest in a coat, a well instructed, salesgirl will start out with the $l,2(Xt numbers and bring Out cheaper ones only as the customer shows ^resistance.

Paul A. Salamone, new president of Gimbels New York, frankly said that the 10-store chain was embarking on a trading-up program to obtain our more rightful share of the market . He said trading-up would not involve

stocking higher priced goods but would place more emphasis on better taste.

Other Look-Aheads Here are more glimpses over the business horizon: Gasoline prices will probably rise. They are now below ceilings.

Upward pressure on coca and chocolate %>rices has abated; there may even be some modest cuts. Brazil has a bumper crop and prices there are falling.

The carpet industry, having failed in its campaign to persuade school boards to ^carpet schools, is now planning to sell more carpets as wall coverings or decorations.

Westinghouse is working on a n^w kind of electric range that will heat pots and pans by magnetic* induction on a cool glass surface. It may be on the market next year.