4TV Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Monday, December f, lt71

Exceeded Goal In Record Tirne

The Pitt County United Fund has exceeded its goal the largest in its history in retord time.

Campaign Chaihnan Ed Wareen reported Friday that a total of $148,110.50 has been collected, well over the goal of $141,299.04.

There are still some additional funds to be collected and pledged, as a few businesses and individuals make reports^ within the next few days. Warren said final reports should be in by Dec. 10.

This is the third consecutive year tht United Fund has exceeded the goal here and it is a welcome change from the years when, despite all that

One Birthday Is Remembered

By BRYAN HAISLIP HENDERSON -Everybody remembers the day Henry A. Dennis was 50 years old It was Sunday. After dinnr and birthday cake, the family moved from the table. Someone turned on the radio.

The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.

Dennis telephoned a coworker on the Henderson Daily Dispatch to ask what he though of the stunning news. It looks like the fats in the fire." the friend replied.

BRYAN

HAISLIP

Yes," said Dennis. Now. that were in it, were going to have to show them a thing or two.

He chuckled in recollection. I had no idea then it was going to take four years to do it," he said.

Looking forward to his 80th birthday on Dec. 7, Dennis said that fateful incident which launched the U.S. into World War II probably ranks as the top story in his newspapering career that sweeps backward 60 or so years.

Started As Student

He started while a student at Trinity College in Durham, now Duke University. A youth of limited means from Cabarrus County, he had to put himself through college the best way he could. One way was writing as correspondent for various papers across the state.

He worked for papers in Greenville, Rocky Mount, and Raleigh before settling in Henderson. He acquired majority interest in the Dispatch, and serves as its editor and president.

He doesnt contemplate quitting any time soon. Ill be here as long as my health holds out, physically and mentally, he said firmly.

Dennis may well be the senior member of the working press in North Carolina.

I dont know of anyone older than I am who is as active in the day-to-day operation of a paper, he said.

He drives to the office each morning, writes all the editorials, and on a typical day may prepare as many as a dozen local stories. As a reporter he goes out to cover the county commissioners, boards of education, and events such as the Christmas Parade.

No Retirement Plans

Hes thought about retirement, but only with

disgust. I get fed up with the idea that you have to retire just because you reach a certain age. he said. I reckon the best way to live longer is to have something to do

Too many people at 65 are turned out to pasture when they have abilities and talents which ought to be put to use, he added.

Dennis doesnt lament the good old days. Tar Heel newspapers do a better job today than 50 years ago in keeping the people informed, he said^. They have more space, more staff, and provide more news.

There wasnt as much going on in those days, he recalled.

Another difference is pay. He got his baptism in newspapering hanging around a Durham newspaper as a college student. An editor going on vacation asked him to fill in six nights. His renumeration, after he asked for it, was $5.

I ought to have cussed him out, but I didnt, Dennis said.

His first salaried job was at the scale of $17 per week.

Young fellows today just out of journalism school hoot as the salaries small papers can afford, which makes recruitment tough, Dennis said.

Local Ownership Best

The veteran editor feels strongly that local ownership keeps a newspaper close to its community. Its a disturbing trend, he said, to see papers passing into the hands of owners outside the state.

It gives him satisfaction that younger generations of his family are involved in the Henderson Daily Dispatch. His son, William B. Dennis, is city editor. Two grandsons have worked summers, and show an inclination for newspapering.

The Dispatch, circulation 6,600, survived disaster 25 years ago when fire destroyed its plant. Three or four days publication was missed, then for five months a four-page edition was printed by The Raleigh Times and hauled to Henderson. We lost money every day for five months, Dennis said.

The present one-story Dispatch building was occupied in 1957, the year Dennis served as president of the North Carolina Press Association.

His hearing isnt as good as it used to be, and roving arthritis takes a toll of pain. Henry Dennis at 80 keeps a glad heart.

Hes taught Sunday School and served other ways as a devoted Methodist. I thank God for good health and work to do, he said.

Birthdays dont bother me, he added. I hope they keep coming.

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chairmen and workers could do, the county still could not meet its goal.

We feel that there is a better understanding of the agencies which United Fund supports now, and also an appreciation of this convenient method of giving one time to support a wide variety of community agencies.

Our goal could not have bei reached without the full cooperation of the hundreds of volunteers who have helped in the campaign and the generous donations made by the citizens and business firms of the county, Warren said in announcing that the goal had been met. Our county now becomes an example to others and an inspiration to ourselves.

It has been said often before that the United Fund goal could be reached before we turned our thoughts to the Christmas season. This year we have done just that and it is to the credit of all Pitt County citizens that the goal has been mt so early.

A Distinct Honor For Greenville From A&T

It is a matter of pride to us that North Carolina A&f State University has named Dr. Andrew Best, Greenville physician, and Howard C. Barnhill, a Greenville native now living in Charlotte, to serve on the board of governors for higher education.

The 32-member board is being made up representatives from the boards of trustees of regional universities and from the board of the Consolidated University.

East Carolina University has three members of the board who have already been elected, ad, as it happened, none of the three were from Greenville.

It is anticipated that the 32 members elected will take a state-wide view of higher education as they set state-wide ^policies. It is an honor to our city, however, that the A&T trustees have chosen these two men with Greenville backgrounds.

Nixoh Stared Down Congress

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By ROWLAND EVANS and R0BRT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Atty. Gen. John Mitchells presence at the White House Monday morning when President Nixon met his congressional lobbyists was the tipoff to the political nature of a bold and, so far, eminently successful gamble.

Mitchell, the Presidents campaign manager, was strongly in favor of vetoing Mrs. Nixons own tax cut bill if it contained the Democratic plan for government financing of Presidential campaigns. Mr. Nixon thoroughly agreed. With none of the Presidents economic advisers present, the discussion over whether or not to veto was wholly political despite grave economic implications of delaying the tax cuts.

Thus, with no opposition expressed, the President decided to issue his veto threat to the horrified wonder of businessmen. Congress and a good many of his own officials. Equally surprising, it was Congress that blinked first in the confrontation. Within 24 hours of the decision, Mr. Taxation on Capitol Hill Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas was seeking an alternative to the political checkoff.

Such a train of events scarcely seemed possible the week before. Knowledgeable White House aides agreed with the outside world that Mr. Nixon could not risk further confusion of the uncertain economy with a veto merely to dispose of a Democratic campaign slush fund.

In fact, as we reported. White Hpuse staffers were fashioning a counterploy. Although Mrs. Nixon would sign the bill, a court suit would be instituted against the political financing checkoff that might prevent it

from being used in 1972.

But Mr. Nixon was having none of this. For Democratic leaders to attach the checkoff to the tax bill, the President told intimates, was pure and simple blackmail. And if he could be blackmailed now, he went on, he could be blackmailed later on other issues. He could not cave in, no matter what the economic consequences.

Moreover, since June 1970, Mr. Nixon has harbored regrets for having signed the 18-year-old vote provision rather than veto the Negro voting rights bill to which it was attached. Never again, the President vowed, would he approve any political measure to his disadvantage.

At Monday mornings meeting, Mitchell called the political fund checkoff unconstitutional. But Mr Nixon did most of the talking, making clear from the outset his mind was made up. The veto decision would be announced and business enlisted to convince Congress that the political find checkoff should be removed from the bill in order to let the tax cuts take effect.

When Mr. Nixons veto decision was announced Monday afternoon, angry Democratic leaders were all the more determined to pass the checkoff, veto threat or not. If vetoed, they said. Congress would pass it again. Mills publicly speculated that the President might just be bluffing.

Whatever doubt existed as erased Tuesday morning just before the convening of the Senate-House conference on the tax bill presided over by Mills. A Presidential aide relayed this message to Mills through a Washington tax lawyer close to him: If the chairman has any doubts about the Presidents seriousness, he should realize

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Strength For Today

GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE Violence. Cops against kids. Youngsters against their parents. Drop-outs against their teachers well, here we are back at the old theme again. Life is hard. Life is unjust. Nobody loves me. Somebodys picking at me all the time,

Okay. Now turn the record over. Isnt there some nice, sweet music on the other side? Wh;^ dont they listen to, me? I could tell them a thing or two.

(Ml no. If thats what the other side of the record is saying, then press the button, stop the record and see what the newspaper has to say.

Heavens above! Thats worse than the record. Why cant we haveta little ^happiness in life for a change?

Listen, BrotheMor Sister). Life has always been this

way. It started in the Garden of Eden when one of Adam and Eves sons, Cain, slew his brother Abel. Dont forget the famous statement made by a famous man that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. There are people starving today even in our own wonderful country. There is hideous starvation at far distant placs. War never settles anything, but we seem to keep at it in the hopes that this time it will settle something.

. You dont like our educational system? Then suggest another and put it into operation. You dont like this? You donf like that? Okay. Lets hush up and perhaps most of lifes problems will settle themselves. ____

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By ART BUCHWAID

Coach Calls A

President

WASHINGTON - In spite of all he has to do. President Nixon still takes time out of his busy day to telephone football coaches and offer them encouragement and advice.

While the President does this on the spur of the moment, it has never occurred to any football coach to telephone Mr. Nixon and offer him words of inspiration and solace.

I imagine if a coach did, the call would go something like this.

Hello, Mr. President, this is Ck)ach Hafold Elkins of the John V. Lindsay High School football team. I just wanted to call you and tell you to keep your chin up and dont get discouraged because youve lost a few lately.

Thank you, C^ach.

'The most important thing to remember is that when

youre on the five-yard line and youre fumbling, the other guy still has to recover the ball.

"I never thought of that.

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Soy History For Sale

(New York Tims)

With the nations bicentennial less than five years off, it is astonishing that the United States has yet to protect the environs of one of its historic treasures. Mount Vernon. There was a brief uproar (recently) when the Soviet (Jovernment sought to purchase the estate adjoining Mount Vernon as a recreation center for its Washington embassy employees, a proposal which became moot when the owner withdrew the property from the market.

Yet across the Potomac River there remains a distinct danger that an industrial or commercial development may ruin the view which is now mcuh as it was in Cireorge Washingtons time. Congress thought it had solved the problem a decade ago when it created Piscataway Park. But not all of the promised scenic easements have materialized. The most serious holdout is the politically well-connected owner of an amusement park who periodically threatens to build a Disneyland or an industrial park on riverfront acreage.

Senator Case and Representative Frelinghuysen of New Jersey have introduced a bill to remove the financial ceiling for land acquistion at Piscataway and thus enable the Federal Government to acquire this land outright. Ten years of brokoi promises and avaricious haggling over easements are quite enough. It is time for the National Park Service to commit itself on this issue and for the Senate and House Interior Committees to hold hearings and take definitive action.

An industrial development opposite Mount Vernon, power lines at Antietam, an intrusive viewing tower overlooking Gettysburg, the prospect of a supermarket at the entrance to the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park the threat? to the nations hollowed ground are seemingly endless. CJwigress could constructively celebrate the nations bicentennial by devising a law to provide compr^ensive and rdiable protection for the scenic approaches to all the nations historic sites.

C^oach.

Mr. President, my team has lost 39 out of its last 40 games, but I learned one thing. Never give up. You have to say to yourself, T may be losing the battle for inflation or the economy; or the right with labor or with Congress, or whatever youre losing at the moment, but Im going to stick in there and give as good as I get, because Im a pro. Those are inspiring words, C!oach.

Now, I want to tell you something Mr. President, that you.probably dont know about me. I always wanted to go into politics. But I wasnt light enough to make the team. I played some sandlot politics, and in my freshman year in college, I ran for a couple of offices, and so what I tell you now comes not from the heart, but from experience.

The game of politics is just like the game of football. You win some and you lose some, and you usually lose more than you win. But what counts is not when youre winning and the crowd is cheering, but when youre losing and youre still willing ~ to play. You have that spirit, Mr. President. Youve lost a (Continued on page 5>

Learn It All By Mail

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Things a columnist might never know if he didnt opoi his maU:

Life doesnt begin at 40, but you can get more relief from pain after that age. In fact, a study at five Veterans Administration hospitals showed that the older you get the better the results you receive from taking painkillers. Patients 80 years

old obtained almost twice as much pain relief as those between 40 and 45.

What did Czar Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Edward ^I and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill, have in common? All had themselves tattooed during the late 19th century when the fad became popular among European nobility. Lady (Churchill had a snake tattooed around her arm.

Getting a college degree has at least one advantage: it keeps you from getting the inferiority complex that afflicts many people who never went to college.

Do you have a philosophy of your own toward life? Walter Hagen, the great golfer, had a simple one which he used to say aloud every time he knocked a ball into the rough: Dont hurry, dont worry. And dont forget to smell the flowers.

Among the 30 parts of the body that can now be transplanted are hearts, kidneys, lungs, bones and corneas. But can you guess which is the most important transplant? It is blood.

Quotable notables: I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe that we shall be found.Thomas Wolfe.

Paper flood: One of the trou-. bles with science today is that it is publishing so much about itself that even an expert has difficulty keeping up with his field. In 1771 Benjamin Franklin founded the first scientific journal in America, Transactions of the American Philo-sphical Society, which is still in existence. But throughout the world some 500,(KX) scientific journals have sprung up.

Household hint: Eggs tend to keep longer if stored broad end up. This position helps protect the sealed air cell just below the broad end of the shell.

Widen your horizons: Oironic depression haunts the lices of millions of men and women during their middle years. This is most likely to happen, according to Dr. Francis J. Braceland, an authority in this field, among people who are narrow of outlook and rigid in their views.

Worth remembering: If you want to really know a man, observe his behavior with a woman, a flat tire, and children.

Behemoths: Two half-a-mil-lion-ton supertankers being built in Japan will draw 90 feet of water and are so huge that only about five ports in Ihe world are deep enough for them to enter. Even the English Channel is too shallow to

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Those Old Controls Never Die

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

The wage and price freeze will not suddenly collapse, at least for some time yet. But the process of erosion, that began well before Nov. 15, nay, before Aug. 15, is proceeding apace.

It almost seems as if someone forgot that 1972 is an election year and that union men have votes. There seems to be no end of the heat that my be applied to the wage freeze. Coal miners are getting something less than three times the 5.5i,per cent minimum increase. Other unions are getting more than the minimum, and the construction workers are playing ball in a park where the 5.5 rule does apply.

It was stated here, with finer accuracy than the. writer suspected at the time, that the 5.5 per cent boost would be a minimum, not a maximum. And few set-tlemehts^are within the jimit. Prices Escalate _ The same thing is happening in prices. The cost of

living, by the governments own figur^, has inched up. And curiously, farm products, which are not controlled, have dipped. Most of the rises have ben in controlled prices.

ELMER^

ROESSNER

The auto industry, enjoying one of its most, prosperous years in history theres even a boom in antique Edsels is asking for higher prices because of increased costs, notably in labor. Zinc producers are raising prices 7 per cent. They do not even have to ask permission because prices were 7 per cent higher for a period before Aug. 15.

If you sold a loaf of bread for $1 before Aug. 15, you can

raise your bread price to $1 a loaf today. You may not sell many loaves, but wouldnt it be fun to charge that?

And there are thousands of ways of increasing prices. A maker of frozen TV dinners could add a little bell that rings when the dinner is heated through. Or easier yet, he cant put 5.5 per cent less meat in his trays of stew.

Theres a lesson in our sieve-like control. Next time the government finds it necessary to freeze prices and wages, it can make the freeze absolute as of a certain past day, hour minute, affecting everything.

There will be squeals and howls, of course. But they will be drowned out by the cheers of consumers.

Other Look-Aheads Surcharge (Counterattack: Importers have, been growling about the lOper cent surtax which they declared is a blow to our friends and ruinous to their business. Now they may get aid from

an unexpected quarter. The Boston Federal Reserve Banks New England Economic Review, currratly points out that tariffs weigh more heavily on the poor, one reason being that tariffs tend to lower the quality of goods purchased by lower-income groups. One solution, not suggested by the bank: increase welfare payments to the poor.

Handless Watches: Two new watches without hands or any moving parts will be introduced next year. Tlie watches use solid-state electronics to illuminate digits to tell the time- They are by Hamilton and General Time.

No-fault insurance boost: Gov. Francis Sergeant, of Massachusets, the first states to enact no^ault auto insurance, has asked the legislature to cut the rate on compulsory insurance 27.6 per cent because of low loss rations. This will speed nofault,. If^slation op many states.