4^ IMIy Reflector. Grc^vUle. N.C.^Wednesday. August 1. 1973

A Reprieve, But No Tax

Like most of the commilaries we fead and hear, the idea of a mutual reliance on each others natural resources betwei the U.S.S.R. and the United States is most appealing tg us.

It is not difficult to envtsitm a point in time (and not so distant, either) when this growth of mutual dependance will lead to a tacit understanding that nuclear weapons can not and will be used during a period of confrontation. * ^

Like the poison gas of World War I, they will hopefully become tools to have biit not to be used.

For that we,can be thankful.

Unhappiiy this does not represent any savings

THE CHIPS ON THEIR SHOULDERS!

Restless Scott . Looking Ahead

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGH Former Gov. Bob Scott is a restless ra'de horse out to pasture, and you can bet your bumper sticker that if he decides to trade fields of clover for a horseshoe of roses in a few years, hell be running for govenor again.

In a relaxed interview recently. Gov. Scott slammed doors right and left regarding theU.S.Senate. U.S. House: or other state posts.

But he made certain to leave that door to the Governors Mansion on Blount Street at least slightly ajar.

"Any former governor across the nation will tell you that once youve been a govenor. you cant really find any office as satisfying short of being president of the Unitied ^States or vice president

TTiere has never

for a while before he moved to another subject!

But before getting to that point in the conversation. Scott pointed out that right now he doesnt know what the future holds.

No Prediction^

"Ill make no flat predictions at this time. .1 have nd'^ plans at this time to seek another public office. he said.

He is currently commuting from his Haw River farm to the Agribusiness office he occupies in north Raleigh office park. He spends about 90 per cent of this time working from that office, and the rest working for the statewide Community College system or farming.

Wearing a blue knit pullover shirt and dasual slacks, and slightly out of breath from just moving into storage a roomful of files and mementoes from his four

been a

former governor in Northyears in the governors office.

Carolina who ran for re-election. The governor - is forbidden to immediately succeed himself, but nothing rules out coming back later.

Asked bluntly what about another race. Scott relaxed into a deep-cushioned armchair, sprawled his long legs across a stack of magazines on a coffee table and let his thoughts ramble.

Old North sute

Thosethoughts--------kept

coming back ,t North Carolina.

Asked if he is asking himself or others about the possibility of running for governor again, he said;

"Im not asking himself or others about the possibility of running for governor again, he said;

"Im not asking other people that. But I am asking myself that from time to time.

"Its never been done in recent times. Oh. somewhere way back when the Legislature elected the governor somebody did it. but not in public election.

"But that is not a reason to nin again. . .just to say you had done it.

"The only way I would run for governor again would be if I felt like there 'was something' positive that needed to be donea positive reason for wanting to get back into office to accomplish something. . .well, yes, then Id have to say that the office of governor would be the one that offered the greatest challenge and opportunity.

"And. it has ' its

prerogatives which no other office has: the mansion, the aides, all that hoopla. . and the prestige. Scott said.

"And. there his thoughts or at least his wordsended

Scott said he is more relaxed and fitter nowthan when governor.

He is enjoying life with his family, and points to four teenagers in high school and one pre-high schooler as a special reason to stay out of politics right now.

"I need to be with them at this time more than political life will allow, he said.

He also feels that a mans productive life runs till about age 65; that he has spent a third of his life growing up; he has spent a third of his life in public service (lieutenant .governor, governor, military service etc.); that a third of his life is left to him.

What am I gonna do with if

"My inclinaition is to get out of the pressure of public life where I can have more latitude to earn a living, start a business or so on, which you cant do in public office, he said.

Not Washington

Then ticking off his thoughts in rapidfire order, Scott eliminated those traditional offices of U. S. Senate or U. S. House sought by former governors.

"A U.S, House'campaign has to be run every two years, and I have no desire to do that.

"I dont have a desire at this point in time to run for the Senate. WTiy? Ive asked myself what can you do as a Senator. My answer is, very

little until and unless you stay there long enough to build seniority and become chairman^ of a committee.

He also dislikes the slow, legislative pace and. the distance of Washington from that much loved Haw River

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ConventionaJ^J^ftri^ dont come cheap; and unless there is an (^rnight beating of swords into pibwshares, our country faces ^

(a) continuing need to replace military aircraft;

(b) the necessity of replacing our aging ships of ,the Fleet; "

(c) the continuing maintenance of a readjj and able grouncl force to cope with forseeable contingencies;

(d) continuing weapons research ^.rand development

Confrontations between governments are a way of life, a fact of life. Being what we are, Americans can be reasonably sure their involvement in affairs "of the world also includes entanglement in'those periods of stress.

A true nuclear weapons detente, as seems to be shaping up,idoes n()t spelh relief from budgetary needs; it does, however, mean a reprieve from a too-recurrent nightmare. ^ ^ ^

The Televised Hearing Is Not Like Show Biz

We can better appreciate these days the reluctance of responsible spokesmen of governmental bodieslo have their proceedings telecast or broadcast.

The temptation to play to the gallery must be sometimes overwhelming; and the camera and microphone provide audiences to be wooed, swayed or influenced as the speaker is inclined.

The Senate Watergate Committee hearings, in addition to its task of seeking the truth, also offers a stage for the politically ambitious. One can sense the temptations such circumstances provide; the distraction is eVer-present. ' - -

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Cannot

Charles

By ROW LAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON - The recent Harris poll showing astonishing strength for ^n. Charles H; Percy of Illinois agamst Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, universally derided by politicians and fellow pollsters, is convincingly' confirmed by our own interviewing in a Nixon New Majority blue-collar neigh -borhood.

Liberal Republican Percy not only beat Kennedy but ran better than both Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York and former Gov. John Connally of Texas in presidential matchings we conducted during a Jersey City political tour last week.

Equally surprising was the awareness of Percy. A Midwesterner closely connected to big business and the liberal elite, Percy was as well known in Jersey City as Rockerfeller, Connally and' Vice president Spiro T. Agnew. Only Agnew did better against Kennedy than Percy, but only marginally.

The results of our interviews (with national pollster Oliver Quayle), among 92 voters, mainly ethnic Democrats who voted Nixon last year:

Agnew 37 voters. Kennedy 34 voters, not sure 21. Percy 36, Kennedy 34, not sure 22. Kennedy 36, Conally 33, not sure 23. Kennedy 39, Rockefeller 29, not sure 24.

These findings ^ack Jhe widely doubted report of July 16 by pollster Louis Harris that Percy was running ahead of Kennedy nationally by 46 per cent to 44 per cent (the balance undecided).

The explanation for Percys sudden presidential popularity is murky, but its existence should be a loud signaL to his party: Chuck Percy must be taken very seriously as "a 1976 presidential prospect.

Democratic Gag The Democratic National Committee last week on orders of Chairman Robert Strauss-^ secretly imposed a

Strength- For Today

A MODERN IDOL Just a little over one hundred years ago Karl Marx called upon men to drag off the throne ,(3( their thinking "and crown in his stead a usurper whom* Marx called dialectical materialism. For years he lingered long in th^brary of the British Museum combing the pages of history and interpreting everything he found there in terms of economic determinism. He ascribed no independent reality at all to spiritual factors and influences.

Some pteople think that the worst aspect of Marxs labors was providing the stimulus

for the erection of the monolithic communist states which oppress their people and deprive them of their heritge of natural and civil rights. But perhaps a more disadvantageous effect of Marxs work was creating a phil(^phy of 'materialism which has penetrated every corner of the civilized world. Unconsciously, millions of people have become economic determinists and ignore spiritual values. They are certainly the poorw for it, and will fnd that the god economics will give them no peace, merely anxiety and cupidity. ,

By Earl Doo^m_

Ignore

Percy

gag rule forbidding its staffers from talking to any reporters outdoing even the restrictive Ifeldeman-Ehrlichman White House in trying to close doors.

The gag was ordained last Tuesday by Mary Lou Burg, deputy national chairman,'in a confidential memorandum to staffers. Paying lip service to an Entirely open policy with the press. Miss Burg i m po sed u n p r ec edn t ed restrictions on reporters.

Miss Burg, noting the appointment ofVinceClephas as the National Committees press secretary, ordered that all press inquires should be directed .to him and him alone. The memo continued :

He (Clephas) in turn will confer with the chairman and his staff, the finance director and his staff, and will reply to these inquiries. There is absolutely no need for other staff individuals to respond directly to these press calls. If the press contacts you, courteously refer to thenf^o Vince. He will decide on the proper response. And if a more detailed reply is necessary he will assign the person to make the ref)ly.

Miss Burg, while refusing to show' us the memo, told us the gag rule is merely intended to keep Clephas informed of what other staffers tell the press.

In truth. Miss Burgs gag rule was directed by Chairman Strauss (who has always been entirely open with the press) .in spontaneous reaction to a young employe in the committees finance division discussing with us a $10,000 contribution by the milk lobby. Miss Burg, a Wisconsin Democratic leader, let it be known she wanted no more underlings talking to the press. Strauss, vacationing in California, did not see her memo.

Investigating The Investigators Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina, though first dismissing charges out of (Continued on page 6) ",

By ART BUCHWALD '

Sitting On The Tapes

WASHINGTON "Ron, have you seen my tapes?

You sitting on them, Mr. President.

Oh yes, I forgot. No one is going to get these tapes, Ron. I want to make that perfectly clear.

"I know that, Mr. President. But youve been sitting'-on them for three days. Dont you think you ought to get some sleep? We could put the tapes in a safe. Im not going to let them out of my sight. They would love to have me go to bed and leave my tapes in my safe. They? ,

All of them out there who are trying to get me. Ron, do you know theyre trying to hang me with my own tapes? Well^lhave a.big_surprise for them. Ive heard these tapes and Im innocent. But theyll never hear them. For the rest of their lives, theyll always wonder what was on them. Thats true, sir. But you

cant keep sitting on the tapes for the rest of your Administration. Why dont you give them to someone you V tnist 4o-5?rfeguard them for yoitr \

Hon, I learned a long, long . time ago that you cant trust 'anybody. Thats why I made all these tapes. Now they cant say thy told me one thing when they told me another. Ive got them, Ron, and they know Ive got them.

But most of the people you bugged, Mr. President, are those who worked for you.

. What about the March of Dimes child? The Maid of Cotton? What about,the Boy Scouts of American when they came to the White House? Im sitting on it all, Ron. Thats whats driving them nuts.

Arent you uncomfortable sitting on them day and night? 7

No, Ron, and do you know

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why? Bcause Im sitting on history. When future Presidents sit on these tapes, theyre going to saj), CJod bless Richard Nixon for not giving them to the Watergate Senate committee.

ART

BUCHWALD

Public Forum

Letters submited for publication must be limited to 300 words, and signed.

JTo the editor: .

this letter is an attempt to thank the Greenville Day Camp and to let mothers of Greenville know what a great experience their children are missing by not having taken advantage of the Day Camp.

First of all, its free to the public and the camp lasts from 9 to 3 oclock five days a week. The children take a bag lunch and 20 cents for a drink.

The camp provides three ECU counselors. These girls have the patience f Job, a rare quajity. They are diligent workers and provide the children with arts and crafts, games, stories, baseball, hikes, and tennis.

On Tuesday, the children go bowling. Wednesdays they play Putt PuU Golf, and on Friday they swim from 3 to 5.

They also have special days on which they have had a tour of Bath/^icnics, a movie, Mary Poppins.

There were three sessions lasting two weeks each.

The cljjld had a complete summer and met many new friends.

This is their last week, but there is always next summer and I urge the mothers to enroll their children next year. It would be a shame not to take advantage of an opportunity such as this.

My children and I have come from out of town for the summer and I cant express my sincerest gratitude to the Greenville Park Board and the three counselors, Connie Matthis, Katrina Wilson, and Sylvia Crocker, for making my childrens summer a happy and fun-filled one. . .

Mrs. Dee Metzler

All^ the same, sir, the Secret Service has assured me any time you want to give up the tapes, they will make, certain that no one gets them. ' '

Ron, I have nniy-903 days-as President of the United States, and do you know what Im going to do with that time?

No, sir.

Im going to sit on these tapes. ^

"Thats wonderful, Mr. Presi4pnt.

They can threaten me. , .They can subpoena me. They can even impeach me, but theyre not going to get one spooi.

Youre a real Profile in Courage, Mr. President. Now I know there are some people who are going t& say, Tricky Dick is up to his dirty tricks. And I know there are some people who are going to ask, If hes innocent, why doesnt he turn the tapes to Cox? And I know others are going to say I doctored the tapes.

But when I took this office in 196, I vowed I would never do the easy thing, the popular thing, the^litical tiling. Ron, the toughest decision I ever had to juake was whether I would tai>e some of the people all of the thne, or all of the people some of the time. It was only when I talked with Butterfield that I foimd out I could tape all of the people all of the time. It was probably the greatest day of my life. You sure you donjt want to go to bed, Mr. President? (Continued on Page6)

Strain

Leaves

Mark

By LAWRENCE L. RNU-rSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Their eyelids droop and faces sag. Son^times their tempers flare.

Early mornings and late nights, and 32 days of hearings over nine weeks have left their mark on the seven^Watergate, committee senatorsT *

TTie senators and their staffs are plainly tired.

Three of them want to stop for a rest, but four want to con-tinue working.

^en you see Chairman Ervin cock his elbow and poke Sam Dash in the ribs, hes not mad at him, hes just trying to keep him awake, one senator remarked of Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C. and Samuel Dash, the chief counsel. -Since the Senate Watergate hearings opened last May 17 senators have examined 29 witnesses whose testimony is now spread over more than 6,500 pages of official transcript.

The committee staff has conducted more than 200 private interviews with witnesses and potential witnesses.

It has sifted through thousands of pages of records and documents and recordings, and spent scores of thousands of hours trying to get answers to the constant questions of who, what, where, how and why?

Its really hard to describe how tired the staff is, said Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-fenn., who has beenone of the main advocates of a month-long August recess. ^

Everybody is snapping at everybody ... and its' not a ' gauge of anything in my mind except how tired everybody is, said Baker. -

Baker and two other senators contended the country needed a rest from Watergate as much as they did. They said it would be far better to take an August vacation and come back fresh in September.

Sen. HermanE. Talmadge, D-Ga., and three other senators contended that no matter how tifei people got, the hearings must go on without interruptions until the ^question of\ j possible presidential involvement had been thoroughly explored.

The final vote to continue the hearing after Congre$s recesses Aug. 3 was taken in private and the names of who voted which v/ay were not released.

After we voted* to go on after a four to three vote, everybody started snarling at each other, said Baker.

Rebelliousness Over Phase Four

By JOHN Ct NMFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) Two weeks pld today, Phase 4 seems not only to have failed in selling itself but to have fostered confusion and aroused a small but Incendiary-looking rebelliousness.

The latter, for the moment, may seem to be isolated among beef raisers who decline to ship their product to market until after Sept. 12, wlrcn Stage B of Phase 4 will permit higher prices.

\Meanwhile, packinghouse workers are being laid (rff and butchers in some areas are forced to limit sales to customers. At once, therefore, the heat of rebellion threatens to spread to labor and housewives.

Claims by Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, that

the shortage is unnatural and artificially induced by sup-. pliers does little to make the {roblem less real, nor does it remove responsibility from government. *

The fact is that in a series of phases, the federal government has assumed the role once played by the market place. If suppliers are withholding their product from market, well then, what is government going to do about it?

But this questiMi is merely one small problem in the midst of a larger one, which is Phase 4 itself, whose stated goal is for "eventual decontrol through increased supplies and productivity. Is it effective? Anyone can keep his own scorecard]^ referring to these stated objec-' tives:

To moderate the rate of inflation which has exist^l in

the United States during the first six months of 1973 with a minimum adverse effect on supply.

*-fTo continue expansion of the U.S. economy to fulfill its potential with further increases in employment.

To strengthen the international position of the dollar.

To build confidence of business, industry, agriculture, the Congress, and consumers necessary to fxomote an in increase in capacity and supply and to reduce long nm inflationary forces.

To work with business, industry, agriculture; and the public to terminate controls as soon as possible in manner which will avoid unacceptable rates of inflation after Phase 4.

Growing price pressures that havent yet been frit at the retail level now pose an

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ominous threat to that program and to economic stability. Little in Phase 4 suggests that higher prices can be averted.

The index of prices received by farmers for the month which ended July 15 did indeed drop, but only because export controls on soybeans led to a sharp drop to $6.69 a bushel from a price of about $10 a month earlier. But a sharp drop in soybean fxices -depresses the farm index, hiding the bad news about other prices.

Hog prices during the period rose to $41 per 100 pounds, a jump of $3.80 in one month. Potato prices of $8.03 a hundred were at a 50-year high.

Stage B will permit much of these higher prices to pass-through on a dollar for dollar basis.

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