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President Nixon is making more public appearances these days, and apparently seeking to regain the approval of the nation.

The appearances are varied, ranging from the Grand Old Opry to a Houston stroll. Tuesday night he appeared before the National Association of Broadcasters for a televised press conference.

The president found a generally friendly audience among the broadcasters. Viewers could decide for themselves why the station owners and executives would be so tolerant of a president whose administration is wracked by scandal.

There was^the significant announcement at the beginning of the conference of the lifting of the Sunday ban on sales of gasoline, welcome news to a nation which travels on weekends and to the industries which cater to travelers.

It was interesting that the president faced the press on the day that Conservative Senator James L. Buckley had called on him to resign from office and save tib^nation further anguish.

Nixons answer to that was that the world Needs a strong American president not a president who every time the polls go down says, Well maybe I better resign.

Conflicts Not To Be Avoided

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHWould it be possible to completely remove conflicts of interest from the legislative process?

I dont think you can avoid themits next to impossible, said Dr. John J. Hunt. Cleveland County dentist, storeowner, and legislator.

All of us, if you carried a question to the extreme,-could figure out some conflict of interest on many questions that come up.

Youve got teachers and lawyers and farmers and businessmen down herea cross-section of the population of the state.

And as long as you have citizen legislators, youre gonna have conflicts, Hunt said.

The only solution and the only protection for the people is individual conscience, electing lawmakers who will vote their convictions. Hunt said.

On Ethics The General Assembly is currently wrestling with several bills on ethics requiring disclosure of sources of income, and with campaign reform measures requiring reports on campaign contributions and spending.

Those measures are well and good. But, Hunt said in a relaxed talk about how he and fellow legislators cope with conflict problems, theres no substitute for conscience.

Heres how one man feels about the problem:

We legislators are an extension of the people. If you ruled out from public service any person with any possible area of conflictthere wouldnt be anybody to serve.

There are a lot of bills to vote on where you cant even find a hard clear position theyre just gray in the middle.

Those are the ones that cause mental anguish, for a man with a conscience. And all of us do have one. Ive talked to a lot of legislators about this, and they all have the same problems from time to time.

And the thing to be careful about is that you dont let your own conscience dictate any other mans conscience. I might have to make one decision, and the fellow next door make anotherbut we both have that right, Hunt

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...It perhaps wmild be an act of courage to resign. I should also point out, however, that while it might be an act of courage to run away from the job that you were elected to do, it also takes courage to stand and fight for what you think is right and thats what I intend to do.

He said, as he has previously, .dragging out Watergate drags down America, and I want to bring it to a conclusion.

Well, the president will decide on his own as to whether he should resign from office. He should recognize, however, that Watergate and related scandals will not go away during his term of office. While perhaps the matter has been too much discussed for purposes of fair trial of some of Nixons closest associates, it is also clear that too much has gone on that is not in keeping with\he way a democratic government elected to serve the people should operate*.

Nixon will always be symbolic of the people and deeds which surrounded him and his every decision will be colored by the trickery which went on under his administration.

Sugg Has Eye On Primaries

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Others may do it differently, but you cant say that is wrong. The main thing is not to take the attitude that you personally are setting the example for othersyou are only satisfying you own conscience.

Wide Distrust Hunt believesdespite

polls which show widespread distrust of politiciansthat there are a lot of good, conscientious people down here, and that fellow lawmakers have been in agonizing decisions just as he has.

There are, for the man with a conscience, some sleepless nights. Hunt confesses.

> One such was last years attempt to repeal the tax on soft drinks. Hunt owns stock in a bottling company, and the lobbyists and bottling officials turned on the heat. Hunt opposed the measure despite the potential for gain.

Hunts biggest problem came early this session when he broke a deadlock over a tax cut package which included removing the taxes on inventory stocks. His suggestion was to couple that with an income tax cut for low-income people, and the amendment swung support to the package.

My purpose was to get my income tax cut into the package. But it was obvious that the whole packge, including the inventory tax, ws the only thing that would get through the House.

This was my dilemma. I am a retailer and do have an inventory, so with a conscience problem, my first feeling was tp abstain.

But Speaker Jim Ramsey felt that since my amendment was in, I should vote. So there I was. Up until a few hours before the vote, I couldnt decide what to do. After a sleepless night I made a comrpitment that if the proposal passed and I made a profit from this, I would give that money to a church-supported college back home. * I got up and wrote a letter immediately making that commitment, and I was able to vote with a clear conscience, Hunt said.

But remember this. I was not setting an example for anybody else, I was just satisfying my own conscience, and thats what is important.

ByJOHNKILGO

RALEIGHDemocratic Party Chairman Jim Sugg has taken a get-tough policy on primary campaigns this year, in hopes of being able to unite the party in North Carolina for the November elections.

Sugg has sent a letter to all Democratic candidates for the U. S. Senate, and to all congressional candidates who will be in a primary.

It was not a threatening letter in any way, Sugg told me. I felt this had to be done for unity sake. We must forgive and forget and work for Democrats after the primaries are over.

Suggg told the candidates that he would be monitoring the primaries.

I will be watching the primaries, Sugg said. If they become too heated, if charges are made that serve no purpose but to divide us, if things are done that will not

Public

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To the editor:

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Immediately I dialed and the Carolina Telephone operator took charge by notifying the proper authorities and from that moment, help was on the way. I dont know the operators name, but I appreciate her work.

The firemen quickly sized up the situation and went right to work. The conditions were not favorable, but that did not deter them. The blasting heat, choking smoke, and that unpredictable wind created a hazardous interval. Forester Ronald Pagoda, driver of the bulldozer that was plowing a fire lane, was in a perilous state, as ^the winds changed directions and encircled him and the equipment.

Our family sincerely appreciates the services that this community offered us in our time of need. All done by volunteers, the</ cooperation displayed by these men was something I wish everyone could have witnessed.

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allow us to unite when the primaries are over, then I will not hesitate to call a press conference to talk about that candidate who did those things.

Sugg says all of the Democratic candidates for the U. S. Senate have written him saying they agree with his approach and support him in the effort. Sugg is taking the approach because he feels, though he doesnt talk about it publicly, that the Democrats must win this year.

If we blow it this year, then theres not much.. .Well, strike that, he said. This is a very important year for Democrats in North Carolina and we must be able to get together and work hard for all of our candidates in November.

Sugg says hes confident the Democrats will do well in the state this year, if they work hard. He warns them not to depend on Watergate to give them an automatic win.

Im telling everyone, everywhere that I go that we must work harder than ever, Sugg says. Watergate by itself will not be enough for us to win. Sugg says he doesnt think the fact that Republicans will control local boards of elections will hurt Democrats in the fall elections.

I hope it doesnt have an appreciable effect and I dont think it will, Sugg says. Boards of elections should be run in an impartial way. It shouldnt make any difference whos in charge. I know the Republicans have said we did some things that werent exactly right when we had control of all the local boards, but those charges are not true. Theyll be called to account for their actions if they try to run the elections boards in a partial manner, in a way that would affect the elective process. But I really dont think there will be any problem in this area. I foresee none, anyhow.

Tar Heel Democrats just completed th Jefferson-Jackson Day festivities in Raleigh last weekend. National and state leaders gave party members a good pep talk. Before that, Alabama Gov. George Wallace was in Raleigh for a rally, one that was criticized by some elements of the party.

The Wallace appearance was a good shot in the arm for the Democrats, Sugg said. It was a real help. It said to the people who maybe had been overlooked, forgotten or neglected in 1972, that Democrats are concerned about them. Weve received a lot of compliments on the rally.

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Strength For today

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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

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GOD LIVES How do you suppose p^ple Ate

beauties of nature and continue to maintain that there is no God? How can they observe the unfailing accuracy with which natural law operates and still hold that everything has come about solely by a fortuitous arrangement of circumstances? How can they see good in their fellow men and not surmise that this good must have some source above and beyond humanity? Surely, the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. Unbelief is the result of a

DlSTfflBUTeO BY I A TIMES SYNDICATE

Forget Genocide Treaty

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently gave its approval to the long-pending Genocide Convention and the proposed treaty is now languishing on the Senate calendar. The Senate would do well to let

this mushy mishmash languish a few more years longer.

Proponents of the treaty are hard-put to explain why the thing should be ratified at all. Either the agreement has meaning, or it has not

Other Editors Say Look At Me!

(Raleigh Times)

From the time Eve and Adam decided that running around in the raw was passe and fitted themselves with fig leaves, there has always been a segment of mankind that felt driven to call attention to itself by being different from the humdrum throng.

In particular, youth of the age- groiq) attempting to wrench itself from the parental nest and test its own abilities is the vanguard of the army conscripted by the overwhelming urge to be different.

As youths fads become popular, they of course pull in new recruits from those still younger; while of the more mature, some fall in line with the new fashions and some just turn their heads and mumble to themselves.

Through history, a little of everything has been tried by those seeking attentionfrom the squalling infant in the crib to the boy who cried wolf.

From original nudity, more and flashier clothes and adornments were piled on in the battle to stand out in the crowdfrom bareskin to bustles, to bird feathers in the hats, from five-inch heels to psychedelic blue jeans. And always, once those running out front paused to turn and look, a faithful crowd of humanity was falling in behind, and the problem of being different from ones fellows was the success engendered its own defeat.

Hairto the ears, to the shoulders, to the waist and to the groundwas tried, and within ten years every head in the world that could still grow hair sported a bountiful crop.

Now comes streaking. Back to the basics with Eve and Adam. Away with the bustles, the five-inch shoes and the flashy jeans. Will this time things really be different?

It is barely possible that running through the streets adorned only in natures own may be thei fad that will sparate the bold from the timid. Here at last may be the Valhalla sought by those whose battle cry is, Hey, man, look at me.

But lets not bet on it yet.

If the younger folks fall in line as usual, and the elders surrender or turn their heads and mumble this time, it is certainly going to be interesting at the beaches this summer, gas shortage or no.

meaning, and they cannot seem to decide which line of argument best suits their purpose. The committee report leans over backwards to emphasize that the convention is really harmless: It is no more than a modest attempt to curb the excesses of mankind. Other observers, without defending the excesses of mankind, take a more skeptical view.

The Genocide Convention was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December, 1948. Since then 76 nations, more or less, have ratified it, more or less. The Communist bloc nations ratified with so many reservations as virtually to nullify whatever meaning the treaty might have.

In recommending ratification by the Senate, the committee itself proposed three understandings and one declaration. The committee also noted, in a further effort to disarm the treatys critics, that the treaty is not self-executing. An instrument of U.S. ratification would not be deposited until implementing legislation had been enacted, and if such impementing legislation took as long as ratification has taken, it would be well into the next century before Americans had anything to worry about.

So, ho-hum, and why get aroused? As the proponents point out, in 25 years not a single action has been brought by anyone anywhere, pursuant to its terms. But some of us who have opposed this treaty since it first came half-baked from the U.N.s ovens are not so easily mollified.

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Nixon's

Speech

Themes

By WALTER R. MEARS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Any political campaign has its set piece, The Speech a candidate delivers day after day to stress his major themes. President Nixons campaign to rebuild public confidence and block impeachment is no exception.

Nixons forum has been the nationally broadcast and televised question-and-answer session. He has held four of them in less than a month. Two were White House news conferences, two on the road. He says there are likely to be more.

Whatever the questions put to the President, his two key answers have been the same:

He will not resign, contending that to do so would destroy the presidency itself.

He will not agree to turn over additional White House tape recordings and documents sought by House impeachment investigators, on grounds this would break the confidentialty essential to any president.

He has, at the same time, repeated his demands for a swift end to Watergate investigations. declaring anew that one year is enough, that dragging it out drags down America.

The words have changed somewhat; the tone became tougher at his session with the National Association of Broadcasters in Houston Tuesday night.

Nixon suggested, for example, that the House Judiciary Committee may be going beyond the limits of the Constitution in seeking additional White House documents.

... I am suggesting that the House follow the Constitution, he said. If they do, I will. Nixon did not answer directly (he question of whether he would comply should the House committee issue a subpoena for specific items. But he implied (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

By SUSAN PRICE March 21.1934 Although the term of the Greenville postmaster ex-pires tomorrow. Representative Lindsay Warren has been informed by the Civil Service Commission that an eligible list will not be completed for several weeks.

The Commission is now holding several thousand examinations throughout the country and each applicant must be interviewed.

Eleven candidates have filed applications for the Greenville position. The Postmaster General will certify the first three high on the list and Warren will make appointments from those three.

The summer school of East Carolina Teachers College will be conducted this year along the same plan as followed in previous summers. Two six weeks terms will be held, beginning on June 12 and July 18.

The program will be under the direction of Dr. L. R. Meadows. Students may register for one or both terms and will receive full credit for summer courses.

A Banking Heresy Being Heard

narrow and constricted , ^outlook on life. It^holdis that ytDfti cianni'see.Tl, or' ^ taste does not exist, ignoring the fact that some of the most precious things in life are not experienced in these ways. The unbeliever lives in a world in which he denies that there is any reality beyond what he has personally experienced. He calls himstf broadminded when he is in fact very narrow-minded. Th e more we broaden our outlook on life, the more unreal and unsatisfying does unbelief become.

By Elisha Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) In conservative banking circles the greatest heresy is to believe that inflation is in any way acceptable. You must deplore it. You must ex-ctH-iate those you feel are Sponsible and try to stamp out their beliefs.

A conservative Boston bank committed heresy > <inr(iig^e-^ast few oiays -i-rather than shrinking in anticipation of being whipped and ostracized, it is circulating its beliefs throughout the land.

Being dis^ibuted with the annual report of the State Street Boston Financial Corp., which operates the State Street Bank and Trust Co., is a statement on Inflation: The Need for a New Mentality.

We in the United States...have aoieconomic , and financial system which assumes price stability when

in fact such a condition no longer exists, the report proclaims. Therefore, it declares, let us learn to live with it.

How? By taking a tip from Brazil, says Francis Hassey, the banks chief economist, who spent six weeks in that booming but highly inflated South American nation at the urging of Gewge Rockwell, the banks preside;pt

In Brazil, where 10 years aigo inflatioci touched 100 per coit and where it is still between 15 and 20 per cent, interest rates, prices and wages are adjusted automatically to negate changes in currency values.

If, for instance, a bond holder was promised a 4 per cent annual yield he would receive that, plus the amount of inflation. If inflation amounted to 15 per cit he would receive 4 per cent plus about 15 per cmt ^ BrazU, with 15 to 20 per cut inflation, probably

behaves with more economic stability than we do with an annual increase of 8 or 9 per cent, Hassey maintains.

We know what causes inflation, he states, alluding to easy money anda loose fiscal policy. But we dont control government policy. So rather than saying how 'bad it is maybe we better learn to live with it.

Immediate reaction suggests the Brazilians will ^ '

report than most American financial, accounting and business executives. Most concede the problem, but apparently few accept the solution.

The report is not a new suggestion at ail, txit its time may have come.

The fact is that something of the sort, although on a vastly limited scale, is either being proposed or studied or actually being implemented here in the United States.

Labor, for example, is insisting on escalator clauses

that will give workers their raises in constant or comparable dollars.

The insurance industry, where the fixed-value dollar was dogma for a century, is gradually accepting the notion of variable return annuities and life [^licies.

Mortgage lenders are increasingly convinced they cannot continue to make 20-and 30-year mortgages at

persists, and are considering, variable or adjustable rates.

Says State Street: The IMTospects are that in the next few years the rate of inflati(m will continue to rise, and that a return to 1 per cent or 2 per , cent is most unlikely even in the distant future.

The debate over how to face this likelihood, for several years the subject of academic and business committee discussions, is now thrust into the open. Too many Americans, it appears, are tired of living an illusioa