4nie DUy Reflector. Greenville, NX.~Fridny. Angust 31, 1973

Always A Degree Of Concfrn

TAKE.SOME OF THE FUN OUT OF IT!

Almost no one is nleased when a tobacco sales holiday is called, but Eastern and Border Belt markets are facing or^^xt week.

Sales will be haltd cmnng the weekjdue to a decision made by the industry wide l^^lue-tkired Tobacco Marketing Committee. The decisioi^/was made after buying companies reporte^ problems obtaining enough labor and trucks to move tobacco from the warehouses to processing plants.

There is always concern when a tobacco marketing halt is called. There is the fear that when markets reopen prices will take a dip. Also these days farmers are anxious to sell their tobacco once they have gotten it out of the fields because their money has been tied up by the high costs of raising and handling tobacco and they need the cash to come out.

Banking Land For Tomorrow

By BILL NOBLITT T

BEAUFORT - The federal government is stepping up efforts to acquire two islands offshore for a second National Seashore Park.

At stake is some 38 miles of shoreline on the Core Banks and nearby Shackleford Island which form a barrier system running from Morehead City and Beaufort eastward and northward along Carteret Countys shoreline.

To speed up the process, a veteran Parks Service man, FTeston (Mack) Riddle, who has been woricing at the Cape Hatteras Seashore Park, has been named director of the new park further south and w'ill get his offices set up this fall on Markers Island.

Riddle, who served a lot of years with the Parks Serv ice as director of special events at the ^\Tlite House under both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, considers tha-move an effort to put some of this seashore in escrow in the bank for our children. If we dont do this, what will our children have?

Walking the wild beaches and towering dunes of the almost deserted islands with Riddle and with Bob Barbee, director of the Hatteras Seashore, is not only an education its fun.

For People

Their vision of what ought to be done here is geared tcmard people using the now-dwerted strands of beach and waters on the sound side along the backs.

They want to leave both islands pretty much as they are now, but make them accessible to visitors.

These beaches, after all, are the last remaining available land in a natural state along the Eastern coast

except for some islands off the shore of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico which the experts class as inhospitable to people.

Accompanied by a representative from the parks design division in Denver. Colo., the federal people trekked the land .with an eye to future use.

We propose to provide ferrv service across from the mainland and have just minimum facilities out here

some picnic areas, rest facilities and camping areas. On Core, vehicles would be provided to carry people up the beach, Barbee said.

On Shackleford, the smaller island, but the prettiest with its dunes and forest growth, only a land

point would be developed and visitors would be encouraged to travel on foot the rest of the way

In The Future

Asked if no causeways for cars to cross on or roads to drive about on were in their thinking, Riddle summed up his attitude toward the future ^ of the park.

No, we should leave it mostly natural and let ouf children make some future decisions on what to do with it. We want to put in structures and development that will live with the land and water out here . . . structures that can change and be adaptable and flexible, not ones which will block the flow of water or alter the Ian scape. Riddle said.

Park Service pesonnel said surveys show that 65 per cent of the people asked where they would perfer to live given a choice say the seacoast.

But the coast is just a narrow sliver and south of Virginia in fact, the Carolina coast is about the only place land in its wild state can now be fund.

The investment in the new park which will embrace Cape Lookout and the towering lighthouse there will be big. The best guess right now is between $5 million and $10 million. As Riddle said, just removing the junk cars people have left to rust on the outer banks will 1^ a costly problem.

Goats And Sheep Another problem will be what to do with the herds of wild goats, several hundred. sheep, scattered cows and a. handful of horses which make up Shacklefords population.

The federal people plan to ask Congress -to push legislation authorizing them to go ahead and buy Shackleford right now while the state finishes getting remaining acreage at Cape Lookout to make up the entire park. The state has agreed to buy the Core Banks property but has not been able to get it all together. Original federal law called for waiting until the state finished land acquisition before moving ahead with the park, but the park director hopes that will be changed.

With the rush of the people to the sea intensifying road-building. motel construction and related activities, the parks people hope they can get this beach land soon and make it available^ to all visitors, not just a few who can afford the luxury of membership in private clubs.

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On the other hand there is always the possibility that if the buying companies are unable to handle the tobacco coming in for warehouse sales, they will simply quit buying until the glut subsides. This, of course, would be certain to bring about a drop in prices since competition would be lessened.

As J. N. Bryant, sales supervisor for the Greenville Tobacco Board of Trade pointed out, the sales will actually only be suspended for three days. Monday, which is Labor Day, is always observed as a holiday and no sales are held on Friday. So only Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be dropped from the normal sales schedule.

We think everyone would feel better if tobacco sales proceeded as rapidly as possible. It appears, though, that the processing plant problems offer an adequate reason for suspension of sales and farmers may in the long run receive better prices because of the suspension.

A Murky Legal Area Poses Grave Dangers

Federal District Judge John J. Sirica has ruled that President Nixon must make tape recordings of White House conversation available to the judge for private examination.

The Nixon administration has said it would not comply with the order on the basis of separation of powers as provided in the Constitution.

The president may simply ignore the order and even the most eminent Constitutional authorities cannot agree who is correct.

We are in a murky legal area where dangerous ^egal precedents could be set. The wrong moves could permanently alter the balance we now have in government.

Hard Question For Kissinger

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Jumping to conclusions: ^

Which would you rather keepumbrellas or girls? A man who says he never loses an umbrella usually cant make

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y ART BUCHVVALD

The Man Named Harold

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Although eventual Senate confirmation of Dr. Henry A. Kissinger as Secretary of State is not in doubt, Present Nixons ace diplomatic operative is going to be pressed hard on the secret U. S. bombing of Cambodia in 1969 when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee starts its hearings Sept. 7.

TTie fact that President Nixon, in his Aug. 20 speech at New Orleans, took full responsibility for the Cambodian bombing decision has not in the slightest dim inshed the senatorial appetite for a full-scale expose of how the decision was made and whether Kissinger himself will be able to justify it.

One reason: even Senators completely committed to confirming Kissinger are / troubled by his future duaLT role as Secretary of State and^-* also as the Presidents White House foreign policy adviser, in charge of the National Security Council staff.

Their question: will

Kissinger give them the full background of the March 1969 decision to bomb Cambodia or will he claim executive privilege on grounds of his confidential relationship with the President? If the latter, Kissinger will risk raising senatorial hackles at a time when congressional suspicion of presidential power and-^ secrecy has reached its high point of at least the last 50 years.

Moreover, what gives the Cambodian issue special spice is th fact that high officials now in the Defense Department, most particularly Deputy Secretary William P. Clements, left the impression with the Senate Armed Services Moreover, what gives the Cambodian issue special spice is'the fact that high officials now in the Defense Department, most particularly Deputy Secretary William P. Qements, left the impression with the Senate Armed Services Committee

and the nation on Aug, 9 that the orders to falsify bombing reports in order to maintain total security had emanated from the Pentagon.

Clements, in*fact, actually produced a now widely published document authorizing 14 B-52 strikes into Cambodian border areas jpadjacent to South Vietnam on the nights of Nov. 24-25 and Nov. 29-30, 196^: -Tke...

document, which Clements indicated was the only one he could find in Pentagon files on the Cambodian bombing, bore the signature of Gen, Earle G. Wheeler, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the initials of MRL for Melvin R. Laird, the then Secretary of Defense. It was marked top ' secreteyes only and dated Nov. 20.

" So astonished was ,De;pocratid . Sen. Stuart Syijiingtoh of 'Missurij,^=ap- tin^'chairman of the committee, when Clements produced his document that he telephoned Laird in (Chicago (where he was addressing the National Legi^Jative Conference) and wari^d him: Mel, theyre trying to do you in up here.

As a former Air Force Secretary, Symington knew neither Gen. Wheeler nor Laird had authority to falsify bombing reports. Only the President himself could order an official cover-up of bombing operations against a neutral nations, tovether with the falsification of reorts essential to make the cover-up work.

At the White House itseiiki^ the disclosure by Clements was received with amazement and chagrin. Clementss Cambodian scapegoats was not appreciated, even though some cynics at first thought that Clements must have had White House authorization before producing the top secreteyes only memorandum.

In fact, he had none at all. Clements, an aggressive Texan who had hoped to be (Continued on page 5)

(Art Buchwald has gone off for a few weeks to forget about Watergate. He left behind some of his all-time favorite column which he insists to the best of his recollection, at that point in time and in hindsight, everyone wanted to read again.)

WASHINGTON-I - have bought a new house and in so doing I have a discovery that will shock everyone in the United States. \

I have discovered that America is a nation^of middlemen and subcontractors and that there is only one man in the entire nation that actually does

work.

His name is Harold.

I discovered Harold accidentally. I had made a call to a company that had promised to build me some bookshelves. I demanded to talk to the head man to find out why they hadnt been delivered. He hemmed and hawed awhile and finally admitted his company didnt actually make the bookshelvesthey subcontracted the work to another company. ^

I called that company, which said that the work had been subcontracted to a company in Wisconsin that specialized in bookshelves.

A call to Wisconsin revealed that the company didnt make bookshelves, but supplied the wood.

Well, w^o make the bookshelves?

ART

BUCHWALD

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To the editor:

The month of June was designated as Cat and Kitten month by the Humane Society of the United States, but the only recognition given to it in Pitt County was to permit the continued birth of dozens of unwanted kittens who were later thrown out on the highways to starve, be injured or killed, or an even worse fatebeing dumped at the Pitt County Dog Pounda hell-hole for all animals.

A report is to be compiled covering atrocities viewed there in the name of Pitt County aid. All persons having experienced such contact with the Pound are invited to commit them on paper and mail to me for inclusion in such report. The Pound is partially supported by taxes of animal owners and it is time that we demanded humane officers for Greenville and Pitt County rather than dog catchers.

Let us take a giant step towards not only controlling overproduction of unwanted animals but when we must, to remove the burden humanely at the veterinary hospitals rather than submit the animals to the reprehensible treatment at the dog pound.

We point out again that the reduced-fee spaying prc^ram is still available for needy cases so that there is little excuse for permitting extra litters of puppies and kittens to end up in suffering. Many persons do not read this paper so that it is up to the readers to pass this information along. A little help at a time can become a big help when added up. Start now! Attend our next meeting Monday night, September 10th at downtown Planters Bank at 8 oclock.

Evelyn Beasley, Member Pitt County Humane Society , , / Friends of Animals, Inc.

Harold does, the manager replied.

I managed to get Harolds address from the man and out of curiosity I went to see him.

Harold lived on a farm near Delaware.

I found him in a large barn surrounded by lathes, machine tools, lumber, upholstery, saws, drills, electrical equipment and presses.

In every corner of the barn piled high were appliances to be fixed, furniture to be upholstered, lamps to be rewired, cabinets to be repaired, rugs to be rewoven, desks to be refinished and mattresses to be restuffed.

When I walked into the barn Harold was shouting into the phone, but Ive only got two hands! Then he hung up. Everyone want everything in a hurry. That was a decorator in Oregon, he said. Shes been waiting on two upholstered chairs for six years. Big deal!

Tell me, Harold, I said, is it true youve the only one in the United States who can do anything?

Thats what they tell me,

> Harold said as he took a chew of tobacco. There was a guy in Denver who also did the work, but he decided to go into sales, so now I have to do it all alone.

But how can you do everything by yourself?

It isnt easy, he replied. But there are 14,587,908 (Continued on page 5)

the same brag about the girls in his life. They are harder to hold on to. Someone who borrows an umbrella from you may bring it back; a man who borrows a girl may leave her someplace else later, but rarely will he return herand never in the same shape.

Do you have good luck in some towns, bad luck in others? Many traveling men say that certain towns are always a hoodoo to them, but that in other towns their luck is always good. I have spent nearly half my life in New York City and always felt it is a kind of jinx. For all the magic it is reported to hold, it has given me few unexpected happinesses. On the other hand, I have always felt that if I ever went to El Paso, Tex., where Ive never been, something nice would hapipen there to make my life better.

In this respect, the names of girls are like townsyou have better luck with some than others. Check your memory and see if that isnt true in your own case. I love the sound of Mary and Sarah, but girls with those names never gave me anything but a sad or bad time. Never, however, have I had any trouble getting along with girls named Frances, Marge or Dorothy.-There are so many girls named Susan that you cant draw any firm con-clusionL This Sue will cheer you upthat Susie will make you eat your heart out.

Why are so many elderly former policemen flatfooted? Well, it isnt from pounding a beat while they were on the force. It is caused, after they retire as cops, by standing for years on marble floors as bank guards.

Physicians say it is unfair to leap to the conclusion that a middle-aged man with a big florid nose got it from drinking. They say it is a syndrome that can have many causes. That may be true. Yet Im sure that in my own lifetime Ive seen more red-nosed men in bars than at the operaand Ive been to two operas.

Is there such a thing as a male menopause? Some doctors deny there is. They insist that the menopause is strictly a female phenomenon, as feminine as womanly intuition. But anyone who has had much experience with middle age knows that it upsets men as well as women, and provokes some men, who cant stand the thought of losing youth, into acting as crazily as if they were underoing two menopauses. Among middle-aged married people, I long have felt, the menopause is catchinglike scarlet fever. Sometimes the wife gets it first, then her husband catches it from her. Sometimes it hits the hus-

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Bicycle SalesJTop Auto Sales?

Strength For Today

HEAT OF THE FURNACE

George Whitfield, the great evangelist, used to tell the story of a workman he once observed who took a piece of glass, put it first into one furnace and then another, and finally into a third heated to a very high degree of temperature. When Whitfield asked why this process was necessary, he was told that the great heat of the last furnace was required in ordw to make the glass transparent.

The people who have taken

the hard things in life in the right spirit have a crystal-clear quality to their personalities. They have a power, poise, and resourcefulness which other people do not have. These people do not grow bitter, they do not spend the rest of their lives wringing their hands. They take the heat of the hottest furnace of adversity, and ever afterwards their lives have about them a quality which peo[de discern i and respect. /

By Earl Doaglass

By JOHN CUNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (A)Back - in 1960 the bicycle was hardly considered a serious means of locomotion, even by bikemakers themselves. It was a youngsters toy at best, and a decidedly unglamorous one too.

The automobile was king of the road. A bicyclist dared not venture onto the highways, where curb-to-curb cars left him bar4y a gutter for safety. At home, two cars crowded the bike out of the garage.

In all of I960 only 3.7 million units were sold, 1.1 million o( them imported. There were about 23.5 million bik in use, but an opinion exists that half of them were used but once or twice a year.

Americans were too busy living the easy life. Affluent and demanding what they con.sidered ttie good things in

wisdom of their attitude. Halfheartedly, cities set aside bicycle lanes at the edge of roadways, but more (rften in parks, since the bike was still thought to be a recreational vehicle.

Responding to the renewed interest, bikemakers produced more highly engineered models. By 1965, according to the Bicycle Institute of America, sales rose to 5.6 milliim. Nearly 33 million bikes were in use.

Although sales declined in 1%9 and 1970, the saga of the take remains generally ccm-sistent, benefitting from one sociological change'after another.

Ecology became a major consideration. Everywhere people complained about the paving over of the countryside. Bikes, they observed, didnt need as much pavement as cars. Neither did they contribute to air

pollution.

Seeking to keep their families together, parents often joined the kids on bike trips. And when they learned the convenience of the bike, they sometimes pedalled on to work.

Sales in 1971 rose to 8.9 million units. An estimated 53.1 million bikes were in use. And bike users, imrluding those who rented, were estimated at close to 80 million, compared with only 35 million in 1960.

Sales last year made the kxggest jump of aU, to 13.9 milliim units, 5.1 millicki of them imported. More than 60 milliMi bikes were said to be in use and there were close to 92 million ridm.

That was a milestone year. For the first time in history, bike sales exceeded those of the ' auUxnobile, which at nearly 11 million units also were at a record high.

life, millions of Americans q)ted for a life of ease, comfort and automation.

Understandably, these same people tended to become more obese and prone to circulatory [x*oblems. The so-called good life often was an abbreviated one, an observation only the foolish could ignore.

For reasons of health, . many Americans decided they would shine up the frame, pump up the tires of the old bike in the basement and use it as an exerciser. The bikemakers got their first encouragement in years.

Discovery of the bike spread. Thoughtful individuals realized it while they couldnt take their bikes out mi the superhighways, they certainly could use them to advantage on local trips and around town.

Increasing congestion by automobiles confirmed tl^