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Rural Fira Fighting Effective

The broad scope of the countys rural fire fighting organization was illustrated by the annual report of the county fire marshall, Bobby Joyner.

There are 17 rural fire departments in Pitt County and during 1971 they spent 34,496 man hours an-swering^calls and fighting fires.

The departments reported fire losses totalling $386,055 last year, but there was a total of $2,219,875 in property value involved in the fires which the rural volunteers fought. It is safe to assume that in the years prior to organization of a county-wide system of fire fighting the value of property lost in the same number of fires would have been much higher.

Gardner Adds A New Factor

By BRY.A.N HAISLIP RALEIGH The entry of Jim Gardner brings about a reassessment of the gubernatorial contest in North Carolina.

Will a Republican primary help or hurt the partys chances in the November general election? WTiat will be the impact, if any, on the Democratic race?

Only time and the voters can tell. At this stage, the questions evoke answers as varied as the political stripe of the answerers.

One thing sure is that the Rocky Mount businessman, who lost to Gov, Bob Scott in

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1968. has put a new spark of interest in the campaign which will decide the next governor. The public likes to watch a fight; now they have two scraps over the governorship to follow instead of only one.

The GOP primary battle may serve to divert a little fire away from the Democrats for the time being. As long as he was the only Republican candidate. Jim Holshouser could concentrate on rapping the party in power. Now both he and Gardner will have to give attention to establishing differences between them to Republican voters.

Primary ,\o Problem A clean-fought primary will create no problems for the party, said FYank Rouse of Kinston. GOP state chairman. "Both candidates have said ^ublically they will conduct clean campaigns, with no mud-slinging." Rouse noted. "I hope both of them will stick to their word."

A primary might even be helpful in attracting new voters to register Republican in order to participate. Rouse agreed. As long as there was no primary contest in prospect, even those who intended to vote Republican in the fall might be inclined to register Democratic in order to express a preference in that primary.

For his part. Rouse said he will maintain strict neutrality in the primary. "My only interest is in getting good candidates on the ballot." he insisted.

In his book, he added, either Holshouser or Gardner would make a winnable contender against the Democrats.

In-Fighting Pleases Demos On the surface. Democrats showed unconcern about the GOP primary. If anyihing

they took satisfaction from the likelihood that the Republicans might bruise themselves up a bit with infighting.

Privately. some Democratic political observers were troubled. They worried that a Republican candidate might come out of a primary with an aura of success appealing to dissident Democrats and the growing body of independent voters.

"It doesnt matter how many Republicans get mad. Theres not enough of them to elect a governor, anyway," reasoned one knowledgeable politican. When a Republican becomes governor, Democratic votes will do it."

Gardner demonstrated ability to appeal across party lines in losing the '68 race. Out of 12 million votes cast, he lost by 84,000. In voter registration. Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly four-to-one.

If he beats Holshouser, Boone attorney and state legislator. Garner could be in position for a strong second try. On the other hand, if Holshouser wins the primary it might give him a "giant-killer" image which would enhance his general election chances.

Senatorial Contest Developing The certainty of a gubernatorial primary may open the door for another GOP spring battle.

Several hopefuls are eyeing the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate. Some have been hanging back, in the interest of efforts to find a candidate backed by party unity. Since a primary now is assured, they may be encouraged to plunge in.

William Booe of Charlotte, a school board member disenchanted with busing, is the only announced can-ate. Others mentioned in speculation include: Jesse Helms of Raleigh, a TV executive and commentator; State Rep. James C. Johnson. Jr. of Cabbrrus; and Hugh G. Chatham. Elkin industrialist and conservationist.

Most observers rate the Holshouser-Gardner duel for the gubernatorial nomination as close, and certain to engender high feelings. There is personal antipathy between the two men. and it could flare out in the heat of a campaign.

Holshouser. who served as state party chairman for several years, comes from the Old Guard wing of the party, based in the western area of the state. Gardner, elected to Congress in the Fourth District before his first run for governor, is from the east and has been a center of gravity for more insurgent party elements.

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Joyner reported that the receiving training in new fire fighting metnoc^ also. There were four night schools last year with 96 people enrolled and 66 erf these received certifica^. There was also a school in arson detection, hospital fire safety and an industrial fire brigade class at

Borroughs-Wellcome.

The firemen spent a total of 4,579 man hours m

classes during the year. .

The system of fire departments which has developed throughout the county has come about through a lot of hard work by many people over a number of years. The firemen volunteer their time and often community organizations make contributions so that adequate fighting equipment can be purchased. Coverage of the county is no longer haphazard since the county fire marshalls office coordinates the effbrts of the various departments.

Rural living is more secure now that fire departments are located in all sections of the county ready to offer fire protection at a moments notice.

Landfills Are Needed Ail Over The County

One does not have to drive far in Pitt County to determine for himself that waste disposal is not up to par in the county, just as a headline reported the other day.

Small dumps are to be found everywhere and usually the garbage is dropped on private land without authorization.

Rural landfills must be developed so that the mountain of trash which is being dumped all over the county can be placed in controlled areas.

Once designated places are provided then heavy penalties should be assessed against those who insist on throwing their trash just anywhere.

The Reasonable An Address To

AS THE SUN SINKS THE SHADOW LENGTHENS!

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT .NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The central aim of President Nixons dramatic revelation of the secret but now aborted U.S.-Hanoi peace negotiations was so completely to undercut domestic political attack on his Viet-namization policy that Hanoi would know it could no longer win the war in the halls of Congress and the Presidential campaign.

Thus, in confidential talks with White House aides and his legislative leaders. Mr. Nixon flatly said on Tuesday evening;

"What Im going to say in my speech is an answer to reasonable people with reasonable doubts about how to end the war. but it is not an answer to those demanding total American surrender."

In short by laying out his eight-point peace plan on national television, the President was playing for a strong national consensus for Vietnamization if Hanoi continues obdurate. That would mean leaving a_ residual force of American troops in Vietnam for a long time, together with the continued bombing of supply and infiltration targets in Laos and North Vietnam.

But that master political strategy was by no means the only object of Mr. Nixon's stunning revelations. They came, by no coincidence, only short weeks before the President's history-making trip to Peking.

For months. Mr. Nixon's foreign policy experts in the State Department and \Miite House have been puzzled as to how much Peking has learned from Hanoi of the secret American peace initiatives. The two long conversations between Henry Kissinger, the President's top adviser on opening talks with China, and Prime Minister Chou En-lai last year are still cloaked in secrecy. Nevertheless. there is strong reason to doubt that Mr. Nixon

Strength For Today

LIFE IS A STRUGGLE

The word "secular" means anxthing pertaining to the worldly or temporal as distinguished from the spiritual or eternal. The word "sacred" means dedicated, set apart, devoted exclusively to things that are elevating and enobling.

The lives of all of us are partly secular and partly sacred. If we throw ourselves with abandon into the secular it is not long before our life and conduct begin a gradual isometimes precipitant) decline. In every human being impluses both of good and of evil are at work on his nature, conduct, ideals. Sometimes the sacred aspects of life seem to be ^4-inning out and everything as the saying goescomes up roses. Then there are times

when life appears to be taking a nose dive into everything that spells exil. We come to the end of one day and as w e get ready for bed we shake our hea^ sadly and know that the secular had the upper hand that day. There are times when we can settle down to rest with the realization that the best aspects of our nature were excercised that day and deepened. But whether we like it or not. life is a struggle and in no area greater than the constant struggle between good and e\11.

The last statement of the Lord's Prayer is "Lead us not into temptation ^t deliver us from ex-il." We are asking the Lord to go easy on us and not let struggle between secular and sacred get out of hand.

By Earl L. Deaglass

By ART BUCHWAID

Is The Budget A Hoax?

authorized Kissinger to tell Chou even the broad outlines, much less the intimate details, of the continuing negotations in Paris with Hanois agent. Le Due Tho.

Accordingly, the President could not be sure that his proposals for what he called "a peace that is fair to both sides were known to or even suspected by the Chinese Communists. Peking and Hanoi have been operating on different wavelengths for a long time, a diversion of interest that grew much wider with Kissingers first visit to Peking last summer.

Now. Mr. Nixons Chinese hosts will have the full story in ample time to study and digest before the President arrives in Peking next month. With the Soviet Union having an ever-larger hand in Hanois military excursions into South Vietnam, the American peace initiatives toward Hanoi could play a vital role in the developing U.S.-China reapproachment.

Beyond that, moreover. Mr. Nixon tried to kill at least two other important birds with the stone he hurled on Tuesday evening.

Top Nixon political advisers have worried for months athat Republican candidates for all offices this year are running scared on the Vietnam issue. Their well-grounded fear; that with most Democratic Presidential candidates calling for immediate and total withdrawal conditioned only on the return of U.S. prisoners of war. Republicans would gradually be forced on the defensive.

"We have been flying blind." in the words of one top party leader. "We needed an answer and now we have one."

The other bird the President tried to kill is the host of amendments in the Senate and House setting a date certain for complete U.S. pullout from Vietnam in exchange for release of the (Continued on page 5)

WASHINGTON -, President Richard Nixon through a spokesman, said that the 1973 annual budget submitted to Congress was a forgery and he had nothing to do with .sit.

The book, which was purportedly authored by George Shultz of the Office of Management and Budget reveals in 1,103 pages the

innermost secrets of the government's finances.

Shultz claimed this was the first time Mr. Nixon had authorized such a volume and McGraw-Hill and Life magazine had paid S362.000 for the rights to it.

The budget director said he met with Mr. Nixon secretly all over the country and had taped the Presidents fiscal revelations over a period of

Other Editors Say A Responsibility

(Rocky .Mount Telegram)

The number of persons killed on highways in 1970 reached 55.200. The number of persons injured was tabulated for that same year at 5.1 million. Some 1.6 million of these were hospitalized, some for life. Number of licensed drivers in 1970 between ages 18-24: 19.108.300 involved in 20.000 fatal accidents, Number of licensed drivers the same year between ages 25-34 : 22.633.800 involved in 15.100 fatal accidents.

You have read an appalling set of highway accident statistics. We can. and do. shrug off appeals every day to come to grips with the problem of safety on our highways. But the indifference vanishes when the mangled forms are our families, when the twisted steel is our car. And what a way to get involved, what a price to pay for concern!

.And there is a grim figure lurking in the actions in these statistics: The heaxw drinker 25.000 deaths and 800.000 crashes happen every year involving pedestrians and drivers who have been drinking. The problem is as old as the automobile. The solution is not right around the comer.

.As Dr. Harold Bosley of New York City observes, "The old. old danger of death on our highways is now so much a part of our accepted way of life we seldom think of it as anything more than a statistic until and unless it brushes close or strikes home. It is hard to see how we can accept the fact that more people have been killed on our highways than in our wars; that more people die of such accidents than in all the murders in all of our cities.

"The students of highway safety tell us that three factors combine to cause these tragedies on the highways: speed, alcohol and incompetence."

The w hole tragic thing boils down to the person himself the man behind the w heel, to each person w ho drives a car. We have a moral responsibility to ask ourselves whether we are fit and able to drive the most deadly instrument available to the average person the automobile.

Not many of us would shove a surgeon away from the operating table and volunteer our services. "That would be murder." we say. and it would be. Yet we go out and drive on the highway, assuming our competence to safeguard our own life and that of others and many of us thus share in murder.

Dr Bosley suggests that in addition to the legal efforts to promote safety on the highways, those in religious institutions should launch an effort to create a sense of moral responsibility for pedestrains. riders in other cars and ourselves as well.

.Axiomatic' Too simple to help, you say' It may be. But this is bovious: until and unless we take some such step we shall have a tough time convincing skeptics of the sacredness of human life and the meaning of moral responsibility.

six months.

Lawyers for Mr. Nixon said that the President had never heard of Shultz, had never authorized him to put out a budget and had never received any checks from McGraw-Hill and Life for the book.

Spokesmen at both

McGraw-Hill and Life said they have handwritten documents from President Nixon attesting to the fact that the 1973 fiscal budget was authorized by him. and they planned to go ahead with

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printing it. no matter what Mr. Nixons representatives said.

There are things in this budget." a spokesman for Life said, "that only Mr. Nixon would know. Every page of it was initialed RMN" and our handwriting experts insist that the writing corresponds to the President's."

Mr. Nixon's representatives say the whole thing is ridiculous. They insist that Mr. Nixon hasn't left Key Biscayne for six months and whomever Shultz talked to was hot the President of the United States.

To further substantiate the charges that the budget was a forgery, Mr. Nixon s public relations people set up a telephone press conference call from the President's hide-out in Key Biscaxme to seven reporters in Washington who had known Mr. Nixon personally.

Mr. Nixon in the press conference said. "This must go down in historx as the greatest yarn of all time.

"Anyone who is familiar with me knows that I would never ask for a S25.5 billion deficit. I also would never, in

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Learn

It All By Mail

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

Do leg cramps disturb your nightly sleep? Three California doctors have found large doses of Vitamin E helpful in treating them.

Prosperity note: Bankruptcy is the last resort by which Americans now wipe out a billion dollars worth of debt every year. Over 200,000 bankruptcy petitions were filed last year. In 1950, some 22 out of every 100.000 persons filed for bankruptcy.'But last year 90 out

of every 100.000 did!

Quotable notables: "Its not the young husbands who run away from their wives, Just the opposite, my figures show that out of 100.000 husbands who disappear, close to 85 per cent are men past the age of 40. Daniel M. Eisenberg.

Dawn to dawn: Many people as they get older complain that the years seem shorter but the days are getting longer. The days are probably getting longerbut not at a rate the average man would not notice,-Sciencetists estimate the days are getting one second longer^ every 100.000 years.

Know your language: What is a boudoir' Today it is an intimate room where a lady can be alone or entertain her close friends or lovers. But in the Middle Ages it was a room where a girl was exiled when she had the sulks. Boudoir comes from the French verb bouder. which means "to pout."

Exit lines: Dying. Joseph Addison said. "See in what peace Christian can die." John QuincV Adams remarked. "It is the last of earth. I am content." .As he put his head on the block. King Charles I said. "Remember." Rabelais murmered. "Let down the curtain, the farce is over."

Folklore: When you sneeze, an evil spirit is forced out of your body. If two married women sneeze together, they'll have daughters: if two husbands do. they'll have sons. A sneeze is an indication of illness.

It was Benjamin Disraeli who observed. "The great majority of men exist but do not live." End Adv Mon Pms Jan 31.

Quotes

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is. not according to what he has." H..W. Beecher.

"I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line." Andrew Carnegie,

"To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult 'chapters in the great art of living." Henri Frederic Amiel.

Labor's Pendulum May Swing

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By ELMER ROESSNER

There are some faint signs that the pendulum is about to swing the other way in labor-management relations.

Since the turn of the century. labor has been gaining in its relations with management. The big leap forward came in 1947 when Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over the veto of President Truman.

Since then Congress, the courts, the administrations and the states have been increasing the rights and prerogatives of labor. The pendulum has swung far to labor's side. Ten days ago Irving Bluestone. director. General Motors Department of the United Auto Workers, told the Conference Board. New challenges are in the making as workers question authorization managerial prerogatives and seek more meaningful ways and means to participate in the decisionmaking progress...Industral democracy...is essentially

the extension ot workers rights and responsibility in the management of his work and in the decisions of the enterprise."

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At about the same time, on a new high-speed auto assembly line, young workers stood still, without turning the required bolts and performing other tasks, as cars moved by them.

But there are signs that management is determined to push the pendulum the other way:

. Walter J. Campbell, editor of Industrial Week, predicted that collective bargaining would give way to produc-tirity bargaining. "Instead of two antagonistic parties sitting at a table at which labor makes outrageous

economic demands and industry grudgingly gives as little as possible, we will tend toward bargaining to raise productivity and to make America more competitive in the world market." he wrote.

The unbiased Conference Board, in its Record magazine, published an article in which Irston R Barnes, former Columbia business ^ofessor and now efconorhic consultant, declared that profits of greater productivity should be used to lower prices instead of increasing wage rates.

J.D Hodgson. Secretary of Labor-a position that has traditionally supported labor's point of view said of collective bargaining; "There are increasing situations in which it DOES produce serious negative effects, some situations in which it does hamper the economy." He cited the West Coast dock strike in which "In two months Alone, last Julv

and .August, we lost an estimated 1200 million in exports...and there is danger that some of our export markets may have been lost forever. Losses to West Coast and Midwest farmers were severe - perhaps about Si million a day to farmers in Washington and California alone in the form of lost wheat and other grain The name of the game tomorrow will be productivity bargaining."

The Pay Board approved a 10 per cent raise for railroad members of the United Transportation Workers, provided the union carries out provisions easing restrictive work rules

The International Union of Electrical Workers has agreedtoapaycut of 25cents

an hour to maintain Frigidaire operations at Dayton. .And a scattering of other unions have agreed to lower wages to save their jobi.