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kThe Daily R^ector. Greenville, N.C.Thursday, October 18,

Judgment Must Be Reserved

3Y FOR BUSINESS ALMOST!

Much was heard during the troubles of Spiro Agnew about the publicity surrounding the case and the fact that this made the possibility of a fair trial for the vice president, if it came in the future, impossible.

This debate reached a climax when a federal judge gave Agnews attorneys the right to subpoena newsmen and other witnesses in an effort to track down the leaks.

We considered this order a violation of the first amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press and we trust that it would have been overturned if the

High-Rise Fire Risks Growing

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH - So far. North Carolina has escaped the disaster of a fire sweeping through a high-rise building.

But as more and more are built and especially with what state officials consider present weaknesses in building inspection and fire safety regulations, some people feel our luck may be running out.

In fact, use of newer construction techniques, modern materials for furnishings and the current attitude of workmen who pay less attention to detail in following regulations appear to be creating a potentially dangerous situation for high-rise office workers and apartment dwellers.

That is the view of Kern Church, a deputy commissioner of the states Insurance Department, and the man in charge of the engineering and building codes division.

So critical is the situation becoming that a special committee has been set up to review nationwide trends in fire-safety regulations and come up with some proposed new regulations for North Carolina.

Public Hearing Set A public hearing on the subject will be held in Charlotte Nov. 7. Wilmington architect Julian A. Altobellis is chairman of the Building Code Council Committee on fire safety for high-rise buildings which will report to che full State Building Code on the subject.

Church has some strong views on the problemand potential for disasterin high-rise buildings.

Personally. I think this. One of the principal problems is due to the way our society is operating today: people just do not pay attention to detail. Church said.

Even though regulations call for specific fire resistant building materials, the builders dont pay the necessary attention. For example, stairwell fire-stopping material is not always put in place. Fire stopping material is required between floors, but were not sure it always is. Workmen, in this age of air conditioning, cut duct-holes and install ducts running from floor to floor; even plumbing and electrical conduit holes are cut and not properly covered or installed.

Workmen leave holes in the floors, and all of these things create a chimney effect should fire break out. Church said.

All of this emphasizes the fact that supervision by architects and engineers during and after construction needs to be closer. Generally, theyre paid for designing the

buildingand arent paid nearly enough to keep on top of the job from then on, he said.

Not Enough Inspection

Additionally, local inspection departments generally dont have sufficient personnel to stay on the job both during construction and during any alterations, to make sure workmen are doing the job properly and using the right materials, he said. The state is responsible for statewide build-codes, but Church has only 13 people in his office to help in this respect, leaving enforcement almost entirely to local officials.

Modern construction styles are also adding possible fuel to the potential for disastrous fires. Older buildings are actually safer. Church believes, because each floor is built separately.

Today they put up a skeleton, then face it with a smooth, outside skin of metal or glasssuspended a few inches away from the structure. That creates another super-chimney for fires to sweep into. Of course, theyre supposed to provide fire-stops. But were not sure they always do, Church said.

Combustile furniture and interior walls are another compounding problem.

Materials and compounds being used today are a lot more combustible. Church said. There are plastics and foam plastics being used in furniture which are fan-stically combustible, and yet there is no regulation whatsoever.

All of this new furniture with plastic surfaces, chairs with foam plastic cushions, and so on are being made of materials which are highly flammable and potentially dangerous, he said. Much more dangerous than wooden or metal furniture.

Church said it usually takes a catastrophe to bring about major changes in fire codes. In North Carolinas case, though he hopes to see changes made before that happens.

Some New Directions

As the hearings on revising the state codes take place, here are several steps which will be considered to provide more protection in high-rise building construction:

A voice communication system so firemen can plug in and issue orders and instructions to occupants during a fire;

Pressurization pumps for stairwells and elevators shafts so fire and smoke will be held out by force of the air pumped in;

Each floor sealed off: special safe refuge areas constructed as fire-proof vaults for occupants.

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matter had reached a higher court.

As it turned out Agnew pleaded nolo contendere to a tax evasion charge and the government released its evidence against the vice president. The issue of whether ca* not newsmen could be required to reveal their confidential sources was dropped.

Nevertheless it concerns us that a court in our nation was willing to grant this extraordinary power in the face of specific Constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press. This was, after all, the vice president of the United States and certainly the public should have a very great interest in accusations of wrong doing against him. In addition, now that the entire story is out, we have to be impressed with the accuracy of most reports we read and saw prior to the Agnew resignation.

Many people view this matter as a question of whether the swirl of publicity prejudiced Spiro Agnews right to a fair trail. A bigger question is whether the American public is sophisticated enough to live in a society where a free flow of information is allowed and can still sit on a jury to render a fair decision, if called on to do so.

Our belief in this case is that most people we talked to could have done this. Almost everyone was aware of the reports swirling about the vice president, but most had reserved judgment on his guilt or innocence until the very day he was sentenced for income tax evasion.

The lesson we can learn from all this is that we have to turn from the Constitutional guarantees of freedom of press, speechj^nd expression in matters such as the nation has just gone through, or the courts will have to decide they can trust the American public to sit on a case and render a fair decision, even though the public is aware of pretrial publicity.

We think the public can be trusted to be fair. To feel otherwise would be to admit the failure of the jury system and perhaps turn to a system of cloistered monks to hear cases where publicity has been heavy.

choosing Ford Averted Revolt

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-Only the selection of Rep. Gerald Ford as Vice President, an unexciting but supremely sensible choice, could have saved President Nixon from the menacing backwash of rebellion building in his own party last week.

In particular. Republican House members were working up a nasty temper last Friday waiting out Mr. Nixons contrived suspense over a new Vice President. Months of growing resentment toward the President were reaching a climax. Republican Congressmen grumbled that the elaborate selection ceremony planned by Mr. Nixon for the White House East Room ill suited the mood of melancholy caused by Spiro T. Agnews disgrace. Worst of all, they believed the President had his own mind made up and was sure to ignore their overwhelming recommendation of minority leader Ford.

The choice of Ford, then, was a pleasant, air-clearing surprise to the Congressmen and other key Republicans. By inhibiting his normal impulse for the exotic shock, Mr. Nixon for once staisfied the party faithful. Both on Capitol Hill and in the states. Republican leaders saw Ford as the Vice President who would least hurt the battered party.

The Republican mood prevailing through the rumor-filled hours Friday was typified by the ruggedly independent Rep. Barber Conable of New York, a member of the House GOP leadership. Like most colleagues, Conable privately viewed the ostentatious selection ceremony that night as shockingly poor taste in a time of national calamity.

So, instead of accepting an invitation to the East Room, Conable planned to honor a speaking engagement in his upstate Congressional District and duly informed his floor leader, Gerry Ford. But Ford somberly asked him

to attend as a personal favor, and Conabletaking heart from that requestagreed to go.

Conable was not the only Republican who either stayed away from the East Room or was bludgeoned into attending. Sen. Barry Gold-water, fearing Mr. Nixons non-concern for Republican fortunes would produce a party-splitting choice, left Friday morning for a country weekend on Marylands Elastem Shore. He returned only after much pleading by the White House, still apprehensive that Mr. Nixon would rupture the party by selecting John B. Connally.

Goldwater had good reason for apprehension. Among the 1976 presidential possibilities (Connally, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Gov. Ronald Reagan), Mr. Nixon long ago picked Connally as his favorite. Just Thursday afternoon, Connally was still in the picture.

But even before Agnews resignation, it was clear that Democratic opposition and Republican misgivings regarding Connally had risen sharply. Once Agnew actually resigned, anti-Connally talk reached a fever pitch.

Presidential counselors Melvin R. Laird and Bryce Harlow, battle-seasoned veterans of Capitol Hill, reported to the President Thurday that Connally might well be rejected by the Senate and would not fare much better in the House. They also reported growing congressional sentiment for Ford. Beyond Capitol Hill, conservative state chairmen inclined toward Reagan sent word they would deeply resent Connally but accept Ford as no threat to Reagan.

Political allies advised Connally he should now avoid a bloody confirmation fight. Over the telephone Thursday night, the President and Connally agreed with this. Before he went to bed at Camp David that night, Mr. Nixon finally decided on Ford.

But Mr. Nixons carefully

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Strength For Today

HELD BY SILK THREADS St. Paul in his Second Epistle to Timothy uses the word entangle to describe the way in which the affairs of life sometimes gather around a man and gradually make him a prisoner. One little band of laziness is slipped about the body, to be followed by another of avarice, and another of self-centered ambition. Over the months and years others follow and the man finally finds himself hopelessly bound, not by thick ropes but by thousands of slender

threads.

To put it more literally, he has let a love of pleasure, a desire for ease, a good-natured attitude toward little vices, a weakness for genial but wayward friends gradually take possession of him, until every call of duty faUs on dull ears and an indifferent mind. This victim of little weaknesses has committed no great sin, indulged in no great vice. He has just become entangled in the things of the world, but his bondage is complete.

By E. P. Douglass

Types

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Let this much be emphasized at the outset: Dimethyl sulfoxide, the famous DMSO, is not a miracle drug.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let me ride piggyback on the broad shoulders of Pat McGrady, Sr., and return to a story that cries out to be told. McGrady, recently retired science editor of the American Cancer Society, has pulled it

all together in a book published by Doubleday last week, The Persecuted Drug: The Story of DMSO. I got onto this story seven or eight years ago, at the urging of several doctors who wrote to express their dismay and disbelief at what had happened. In DMSO, they believed they had found a marvelously effective substance for treating bums, sprains and certain manifestations of arthritis

Other Editors Say

Global Plague

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Continued inflation still jeopardizes the European Communitys progress toward full economic and monetary union, according to the Commission of European Communities third annual report on the Communitys economic situation. Thus, inflation isnt peculiar to our country alone.

Thus, the battle against inflation will be given highest priority among the European Communitys economic objectives.

Inflation is. of course, worldwide. Rapid growth in boomii^ indistrialized nations has been accompanied by inflation aggravated by monetary disorders, including thse of the United States, commodity speculation and supply problems which has skyrocketed raw material and foodstuff prices.

The European Communitys situation for the first half of this year was characterized by rapid economic growth and accelerated exports to third countries.

The leveling off of exports to the United States was offset by sales to other European and developing countries.

The growth of intra-Community trade was boosted by the first 20 per cent tariff reduction between the Community and the three new members. Britain. Denmark and Ireland.

Despite European Community anti-inflationary measures, overall price increases gained momentum in the first half of this year.

The rate of increase jumped from a range of 5.5 per cent to 8 per cent in $972 to a range of 6 per cent to 11 per cent for this year.

There was also a slight deterioration in the trade balance of the European Community.

Internal demand has stimulated imports, but sui^ly shortages have reduced exports.

And what about the future of the European Community? Observers expect a continued vigorous economic expansion for the year 1974.

And one might also suspect tht inflation will continue to be present to plague what otherwise is a bright picture.

And this holds true not only for the European nations, but for the others as well, including the United States.

and skin disease. And the FDA had ordered it banned!

There never was time for me to dig out the whole story. Now McGrady had taken the time. He is a partisan, an enthusiast, a believer. He is sharply critical of the Food and Drug Administration for what he regards as its indefensible timidity and its suffocating prudence. He makes an impressive case.

To go back to the point of beginning: Dimethyl

sulfoxide is a simple molecule, easily extracted from coal, oil or, most commonly, from lignin. It was isolated more than a hundred years ago in Russia. Its remarkable properties in the healing arts were first perceived in 1961 by Dr. Stanley Wallace Jacob, professor of surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School, and by Robert J. Herschler, a top chemist with Crown Zellerback Corporation.

At the time, Jacob was looking for a means of cooling hearts and ether viable organs freshly taken from dead donors. Some British literature had prompted him to believe DMSO might be useful. Herschler brought a gallon of the solution to Jacobs office, and Jacob began the experiments that in time would dominate his life and damge his professional career.

Almost immediately, Jacob discovered the phenomenon that offered a hundred thresholds for medical research. He dabbed some DMSO on his arm, watched the solution sink in, and was startled to note that he could taste the DMSO. This meant that the solvent had not merely gone deep into the skin, but actually through the skin and into the bloodstream.

Jacobs discovery raised the exciting possibility that < Continued on page 5)

In Any

Office

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - About the lowest form of life in the average business office is the character almost everyone calls the moocher.

Everyone lo<As,down <m him, and more bad things are said about him to his face than are said about the boss behind the boss back.

Every office, no matto* how small, has at least one moocher. and larger offices may have several. But they are all united by a common philoso-frfiy: They want something for nothing and, if possible, they want to mooch it from you. Here are a few familiar types of white-collar moochers you may have noticed in your office:

Prudence Is Compounded

Merton the Muncher Merton never buys a lunch or brings one. He depends upon the largesse of others for his midday calories. At lunchtime he goes from desk to desk, his eyes mournful, his tongue hanging out like a collies, and stares in turn at his fello# workers until they toss him a tidbit from their brown bags: Everyone despises Merton, but they cant turn him down. He has gained 30 pounds in 10 years, and the company doctor tells him hell have to go on a diet or die. Mertons probable choice: death before diet.

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40 Years

Ago Today

By SUSAN PRICE October 18,1933 Austrian government authorities continued their investigation of alleged Nazi plots to seize firearms from the Inz and other garrisons and it was disclosed that a native Nazi military , organization had been completed.

Europe contemplated the possible inplication of the declaration . of Prime Minister Stanni of Denmark coincident with reports that military units in Slesvig had been reinforced and that the Danish Southern frontier would be defended by all means at our disposal.

A lone bandit held up a mail truck driver at gunpoint in Wilson early today and forced him to drive into the woods near the city, tied him up and escaped with three registered mail pouches* believed to contain currency shipments for local banks.

The police later discovered that two other pouches, believed to contain $90,(KX) for Greenville banks, were received later by the banks. If the money was in the mail truck, it was overlooked by the bandit.

The stock market sagged today, apparently having lost the spirit of recovery which sent the market bounding upward late yesterday in the wake of improved grain prices.

Ho\v Document Cosmetic Ads?

By JOHN CUNNTFF AP Business .Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - Womens cosmetics and fragrances have succeeded over the centuries not only for what they do, if anything, but because of their allure and ambiance and the hope, the suggestion, the promise they offer.

Their advertising reflects this, much of it being based on the implicit benefits of pleasing men. catching and keeping men. maintaining or achieving social cceptability, and attaining personal wellbeing.

And. said a practicing psychologist and researcher this week, that puts cosmetic advertisers on the mpst-wanted list of the Federal Trade Commission, which has taken the position that ad claims must be documented.

But how do you document a fragrance ad that states simply. And suddenly nothing is the same. or a facial cream ad that contains the promise of smoothing away the years?

The FTC doesnt even have a most-wanted list, of course.

and it hasnt indicated any unusual interest in cosmetics. But Dr. Joseph Smith told a meeting of cosmetics people that if the FTC were to act. cosmetics would be caught in a gooey situation.

Smith is a market researcher who heads the firm of OxtobySmith Inc. A sardonic humorist at well, he titled his talk An Awful Shadow FloatsAmongst Us, which is a ghastly vision for c(metics people.

(Would Percy Shelley by chance have dreamed that these words, somewhat edited from his poem, A Hymn To Intellectual Beauty, would ever be so used?)

Said Smith, who has often knocked and joined heads with the FTC:

"The cosmetics industry is distinctly vulnerable to attack attack on the grounds that its communications to consumers are deceptive, unfair, and-or misleading. Not that they are, he saiit but can they be defended?

To date the FTC has taken (Ml the automotive industry, tires, air conditioners.

television sets, foods, hearing aids, detergents, analgesics, toothpastes, cold remedies and the like. But it hasnt confronted cosmetics.

The FTC doesnt ^ve to prove the ads false, said Smith. Instead, the advertiser must be able to demonstrate and document their truthfulness.

This might be a cut-and-dried matter with tires, but when the ad says, as does a fragrance ad now circulating. And suddenly nothing is the same. youve got problems.

When a cosmetics ad shows a svelte socity matron in a touched-up full-page portrait, does it suggest to the reader that she can be the same if she uses the product? Is it implied?

The commissions mandate is to prevent misleading ads rather than to prevent women from buying products. Its goal is to prevent the use of decption to obtain an advantage over competition and the customer.

In previous cases, however, it has asked for material fwoof, scientific evidence and the like. But what of the in

tangibles? If a woman believes the product helps, isnt that evidence of value? And if she believes, maybe the dream will come true no? And doesnt the ad make the dream believable?

Smith told the cosmetics people that the readers of cosmetics ads take their message from: 1. The overt communication; 2. The implicit and symbolic carriers of meaning, their situations, dress, the colors used, the music; 3. The perceptive set the reader or viewer has that is. knowledge and attitudes.

It means, he said, that advertisers must learn themselves just what their ads are saying, "not what you want them to say and not what you think theyre saying, but what the\ are saying.

And next, he suggested, cosmetic advertisers must convince the pragmatists of the regulatory agencies that not all important values are material, that benefits cannot be measured only in graduated beakers, but also reside in feelings and emotions.