-TV Dally Reflector. GrccnvUle, N.C.Wednesday, August 8. 1973

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There can be no doubt that the confrontation now shaping up between the president and the Senate Select Committee over the issue of the president turning over tapes and documents to the committee is serious business.

The Constitution provides for separation of powers of the executive and legislative branches and there is really no provision for Congress demanding presidential papers.

Jt has come down to the point now, however, where th Senate committee has learned that tape recordings exist (rf conversations between Nixon and John Dean. Since Dean had testified that the conversations showed Nixon knew of the Watergate coverup, the committee was in a position of having

Land-Use Will See Big Change

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' By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH - You can look for a lot of timber to be cut in eastern North Carolina this late summer and fall as landowners get ready to take advantage of skyrocketing prices for crofespecially soybeans In fact, there are those close to the agriculture scene who are predicting tremendous changes in land uses in North Carolina in light of the shifting economic picture for farmers.

During the decade ending in l%7, built-up (urbanized) land in North Carolina doubled to some 1.5 million acres. Since then, experts agree, the same shift has accelerated causing nearly 3 million acres of the states lands to be turned to urban uses, now.

Wildlife Threatened More people to feed, less farmland available and spiraling income for farm goods combine, the experts believe, to make it no longer attractive to keep land in timberor even to protect it for wildlife and fish.

Dick Folsche, assistant state conservationist with the Soil Conservation Service of the U, S. Department of Agriculture, is one of those predicting change.

Nationwide, we are losing a million acres every year to urban use, meaning that much less farmland available, since the same qualities which made land suitable for farming also make it suitable for urban development: cleared,

relatively level and close to market, Folsche said.

Down east in North Carolina is one tremendous area that is a real resource for land use which hasnt even been tapped.

It could actually be one of the most useful resources in the nation in terms of potential development, Folsche said.

Two major steps will be required.

First, the timber will be cut. and soon. Folsche believes.

Secondly, widespread ditching to carry off excess ground water will be required "It used to that a mule could slog through that stuff, but with todays dependence on mechanizationheavy equipmentfor farming, they will have to have dry land, he noted.

Values Collide We have got to revamp our thoughts on land use in this state in light of the changing economic picture. But theres going to be a headon collision between

values. Folsche warned.

Cutting the timber and putting the land into production is going to drastically altereven eliminate in some casesthe wildlife in eastern North Carolina.

There will be a continued battle here, and continued loss or change in the fish and wildlife habitats in the state, and people who back the preservation of fish and wildlife havent come to grips with the realities of the problems.

^What is the value of the land? That is an economic assessment. What will peole pay to go hunting or fishing? Until this state depletes its resources (available wildlife lands) to the degree that keeping land for wildlife will pay. . .then the shift is obvious, Folsche feels.

Those who seek to preserve wildlife lands by pressuring private landowners not to develop are engaging in wishful thinking. Not that many people really want it, and we simply cant afford that luxury, Folsche feels.

Public Land The only reasonable solution Folsche sees is a speedup in acquisition of public lands. If preserving wildlife is a public good, then the wildlife should be housed on public lands.

If North Carolina really wants these things, they will have to put money into it. If the public really wants areas for fish and wildlife they are going to have to buy it, he said.

Nationally. 40 per cent of the land is publicly owned but that is overweighed by Alaska and some western states where the great majority of the land is owned by the federal government. In the east and Southeast where most of the poulation is. there is less public land.

In North Carolina only eight per cent of the acreage is publicly owned. Folsche hopes to see some shift in that direction.

We could come out with better fish and wildlife resources if conservationists, farmers, landownerseverybodywould get together to work it out.

There is fiperal money available on a '50-50 split to help buy public lands for fish and wildlife preservation.

We have this cost-share money available if local people want to preserve these land use valuesmoney to help on land acquisition and development. So far, there is zero dollars being used in North Carolina, Folsche said

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to go after the recordings.

Nixon refused to give up the tapes because they were in the category of private presidential papers, and the ereat confrontation was on.

The matter will now likely go to the courts apd it is likely to be considerable time before it is finally decided, ultimately by the U.S. Supreme Court. There is anger to a Constitutional government in the procedure, for if the Supreme Court ultimately rules against the president and orders him to turn over the tapes, who goes and gets them? If he still refuses to turn them over, who furnishes the forte and power that is needed to obtain them. Certainly the executive branch of government would not bring the power to bear to demand its own material.

There is plenty of reason to hope that such an ultimate test may not come to pass. It may be years before a final court decision is reached in the impasse. Too, the president has indicated a willingness to turn over^some documents and information relevant to the work of the select committee. This offers hope that grounds for mediation between the executive and legislative branches of government exist in this matter.

If the drama is played out to a final conclusion, though,a real threat to Constitutional government exists. A full-scale power struggle between the branches of government could upset the balance that exists.

white House Versus O'Brien

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By ROWLAND EVANS

and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON -Immediately after Lawrence F. OBrien filed his Watergate suit as Democratic national chairman, President Nixons senior aides developed an obsessive interest in causing tax troubles for him.

According to reliable

sources from the White House, OBrien became

Enemy No. 1 there after the Watergate burglary. It was OBrien who then led the political attack to connect the crime with President Nixons high command. Fearful

about what might be uncovered through OBriens law suit against the Committee to Reelect the President, Nixon aides responded by planning a counterattack against him.

The Senate Watergate hearings have revealed that the White House probed private sources of income for OBrien, unpaid as national chairman. But the hearings did not develop that presidential aides conferred at length about intensifying Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pressure on OBrien. This pressure was reflected in memoranda which may still be in White House files.

OBriens tax troubles began after his election on March 5, 1970, for a second hitch as Democratic national chairman. The IRS ordered an audit of his 1%9 tax return. In 1971, the IRS audited his 1970 return. Neither audit produced significant additional revenue for the government. But after the Watergate return again, without significant recapture of taxes.

OBriens accountant, an experienced tax practitioner, informed him the audits were conducted with un-precendented intensity. But non-biased tax experts believe it will be very difficult to positively link the IRS audits with the White House obsession to get OBrien.

Waiting For Martin

The continued isolation of i>resident Nixon from the outside workd, perhaps more intense than ever since the Watergate scandal broke, unnecessarily prolonged a dangerous vacuum of U.S. leadership in Vietnam.

That vacuum began last March when Graham Martin, U.S. ambassador to Italy, was named to replace Ellsworth Bunker as ambassador to South Vietnam. Bunker, completing a long and distinguished tenure in Saigon, thus became a lame duck at critical moment in

Vietman. He left his post May 11, but a slow-moving Senate did not confirm Martin as his successor untiP June 14 extending the vacuum another full month.

Martin was prepared to leave for his new posb immediately after conferring with Mr. Nixon. But Martin, like many officials before him with a similarly important need to see the President, simply could not obtain an appointment. After cooling his heels in Washington for a full month, Martin finally was granted an appointment with Mr. Nixon for Thursday, July 12.

But on July 12, the President was hospitalized with viral peneumonia. Martin left Washington July 15, without the benefit of having conferred with Mr. Nixon, arriving in Saigon July 17 to finally end the vacuum.

In the view of worried U.S. officials in Vietnam, the absence of a permanent ambassador in Siagon contributed to a an absence of U.S. plicy at a time when the Communists were skillfully using the ceasefire to improve their military position and develop a Third Vietnam within the borders of South Vietnam.

Connally Moves Former Gov. John B. Connally of Texas has quietly embarked on a path many close friends predicted he would never take: the rubber chicken banquet circuit to establish his new credentials as a Republican possibly a Republican presidential candidate.

Connally gave state Repulican headquarter in Austin, Texas, the green light about a month ago to start scheduling appearances for him across the cbuntry. Out of hundreds of requests pouring into Austin (as many as 60 in one week), Connally has accepted two so far; the kickoff banquet of the Republican state convention in San Diego, Calif., Sept. 8, and the annual Trunk and Tusk Republican dinner in Phoenix, Ariz., Sept 16. There will be many more.

Such appearances are essential for ex-Democrat Connally to melt the reserve of Republican regulars if he is to have any chance for the COP presidential nomination in 1976. But many veteran Connally-watcher felt his distaste for grubby campaigning would preclude such a necessary course. The fact that he is going on the burdensome banquet circuit is clear evidence of presidential ambitions.

Strength For Today

LET THE MOTOR IDLE

Every time I see a person racing his motor while the car is standing still I think of the scores of people I encounter every week who seem to be tearing themselves to pieces with in-consequentials. Sometimes they fly into rages about nothing; at other times they worry ?bout imaginary ills and anticipate the coming of dreadful catastitq)hies.

Some people just cant let a motor idle. They have to rev it up to see how it sounds. By the same token, many people

By ART BUCHWALD

The President Ble>w It

WASHINGTON John Ehrlichman testified before the Senate Watergate committee two weeks ago that it was well within both the consitutional duty and the obligation of the President for the White House aides to break into the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsbergs former psychiatrist.

Sen. Sam Ervin Jr. of North Carolina disputed this interpretation of the Presidents power and" argued there was nothing in the law which gives the President the right to suspend the Fourth Amendments protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Since this is a great consitutional issue, I sought out my old law professor, Heinrich Applebaum, who

holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the Watergate Technical Institute of Perjury.

Professor, who is right in the consitutional dispute between Sen. Ervin and John Ehrlichman?

Theyre both right, and theyre both wrong.

What kind of answer is that?

Well, Ehrlichman is right in saying the President of the United States has the duty and obligation to break into anybodys psychiatrists office that he wants to. But hes wrong in saying that White House aides could do it for the President.

Do you mean if the President wanted Ellsbergs psychiatric records, he had to break into the office himself?

That is correct. He had to * perform the burglary personally. Otherwise it would ^be considered illegal.

But isnt that kind of hard for a President to do?

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say The Buyers Explain

(Henderson Dispatch)

Some spokesmen for buying interests have offered an explanation of the lower tobacco prices on Eastern Carolina markets, creating dissatisfaction among growers. Only two markets in the Eastern Belt operated last week, while a few others began selling this Tuesday.

Buyer views rep)orted are that quality is lower than at last years opening. Mostly primings have appeared on the market, and much of that is said to have been sandy and off color as to quality. Devaluation of the American dollar has placed domestic; buyers at a disadvantage, it is said, while valuation upward of the German mark and the Japanese yen have favored those two countires, which are among the largest foreign buyers of U. S. flue-cured leaf.

Buyers who have expressed an opinoon say that when offerings get away from the bottom leaves and move upward on the stalk, quality will improve and prices will advance.

Senator Herman Talmad'ge of Georgia has said that an investigation by his Senate Agriculture Committee of alleged collusion between buyers on Georgia auction centers has turned up nothing of a definite character to substantiate the reports.

Prices have reached an all-time high in the Georgia Belt and have been satisfactory in the South Carolina-Border North Carolina Belt thus far in the season. Early reports before the marketings began were that the Georgia crop had been retarded ii^development by cold weather and excessive rain, but that did not affect prices appreciably.

This years crop is expected to be larger than last year due to "an increase in quotas. But fears have been expressed that the next government crop report will show prospects of smaller

yields than anticipated a month ago. Sh(wld that develop it would be bullish as to prices. The forecast is due this Thursday from the U. S. Crop Reporting Service.

Growers, lik"fevery one else in other areas, have experienced higher costs in producing the 1973 drop, and unless they can receive favorable prices will suffer proportionately.

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It All By Mail

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

Her royalty pays a special reward to a bumblebee queen -longevity. All her subject bees die during the winter. Only she remains alive to start another generation.

The writers of your Consitution didnt want to make it easy. They knew that every President of the United States at one time or another would have a desire to break into a psychiatrists office.

Its something that no man in power can resist. So they provided that the act itself had to be committed only by the President. The writers of the Constitution assumed that this would keep most Presidents from using the power unless it was absolutely necessary.

Now, had President Nixon borrowed a wig and a camera and tools from the CIA and gone to Dr. Fieldings Beverly Hills office, broken into the files and retrieved the Ellsberg records, he would be acting within the law. But the fact that the President turned over the mission to two White House plumbers was his undoing. As a lawyer he should have known that.

John Ehrlichmans lawyer, John Wilson^ has argued that the President has a vast reservoir of power given to him by Congress which makes it possible for the President to commit what would otherwise be an unlawful act for national security, I said. Do you agree with this?

I certainly do. When it comes to national security, the President can mug, steal and commit arson as long as he is protecting American citizens.

How do you arrive at that?*

Because, as Ehrlichmans lawyer has so well pointed out, the courts have never ruled he couldnt do it. Now the President cannot commit (Continued on page 5)

Speaking of longevity, the Washington Monument, a landmark in the nations capital that has drawn 56 million visitors, is holding up pretty well. The 555-foot white obelisk, started in 1848, has settled only six inches since its completion in 1884.

Would you like to send a happy birthday card to a business firm youre fond of? Well, to help you out, there is now on the market a volume entitled The Business Founding Directory, which lists the birthdays of almost 10,000 companies.

Buying a valuable pearl for his girl is enough to give a lover the heartburn today, but In the Middle Ages fresh water pearls were ground up and given as a remedy for heart palpitation.

Frogs are usually thought of as harmless, but some contain potent toxins. It is so deadly that darts dipped in it can paralyze and kill small game within a few minutes.

How good are your ears? Well, if they are very keen you should be able to hear a normal human voice a distance of 150 yards.

The price for overdoing some habits: "rhe American Hospital Association says that 25 to (Continued on page 5)

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To the editor:

East Carolina University is fortunate to have the services of Dr. Andrew A. Best as one of the new members of its Trustee Board. He has displayed a keen interest in the promotion of eudcation at all levels.

Dr. Best has been, and continues to be, involved in many areas of service. He is formerly a trustee of A & T State University, and until recentlv a member of the Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina. He is presently chairman of the Eastern Region of the Human Relations Commission, State of North Carolina.

His overall credentials for this new assignment are impeccable. His interest, involvement, and proven capability in the area of human relations represent a valuable asset to the University as it moves toward final compliance with Civil Rights Regulations.

LilUam Peel

Sepclal Emlssory Eastern Region N.C. Human Relations Commissison

What They'r Telling Citizens

just cant let themselves alone. Their motors are always running about five times faster than necessary.

If you read the Gospels carefully, you will see that our Lord counseled people not so much against the sins of the flesh as against those attitudes of mindanxiety, anger, discouragement, melancholy, etc.which

predispose people to many of the diseases which wo ravish modem life, such as high blood pressure and heart trouble. %

By Earl Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) There is hardly a group in this country that doesnt have a pet educational project, a sense of mission to communicate the word as revealed to it or to correct what it feels are assumptions of the ignorant. ^

The Chamber of Commerce .and the Tax Foundation never cease their efforts to educate the public to the dangers of government spending and deficits and taxes. Automakers preach religiously the doctrine of greater productivity. And construction workers hammer away at what they feel is a myth about their high pay scales.

Here are a few, recent examples of the genre:

1. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

As the 1974 fiscal year began July 1, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States reset its Federal Spending Clock to run at an accelerated pace.

The reason is that Federal spending this fiscal year is estimated to increase by approximately $19 billion, up to $269 billioa Rapidly changing digital figures across the top of the clock indicate how much the Federal government has spent since the beginning of the fiscal year. Each day the clock registers expenditures of approximately $736 milliwi.

Heres what the reset clock now shows:

$10,000, nearly the average annual income of a

typical American family, spent every 1.17 seconds, displayed by a sweeping dial.

$100,000, spent every 11.7 seconds, by a light flashing on.

$1 million, spent every one minute and 57 seconds, by a beep sounding.

2. If the sweeping dial, flashing light and beep-beep of your dollars being spent hasnt boggled your mind, you might consider the following preachment of constructicm workers.

Called The Perpetual Myth About Construction Costs, it was presented in the latest edition of Viewpoint, a publication of the AFL-aO, by Francis Burkhardt, research director for the International Brotherhood <rf Painters & Allied Trades.

If someone makes $8 an hour, he must be making $16,-(X)0 per yearright? Wrong. If hes a fulltime construction worker, his work-year only averages 1,400 hours, and of the $9 union hourly rate, he never sees $1.10. This amount goes into funds to pay for health and welfare and pension benefits.

So now we have a $7.90 wage rate, times 1,400 hours, or $9,940 per year, Burkhardt states, adding that this average is for only fulltime, year-round workers. Part-time summer workers are excluded.

Citing Bureau (rf Labor Statistics data, he concludes that union tradesmen can expect to earn on the average between $8,000 and $12,000 in 1973, depending on their craft.