4Thr Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Wednesday. December 18. 1*74

Marketing Isn't Their Thing

GOING TO BE QUITE A GAME!

The Journal of the American Medical Association, in an article, called for ending the tobacco subsidy program.

Well, it is the AMAs business to be concerned about the health aspects of tobacco, but the opposition to the tobacco subsidy program shows a lack of understanding of orderly marketing procedures.

Tobacco is grown in this country, completely legally. Export of tobacco brings dollars back to our nation, and this is increasingly important in this time when higher oil prices are draining dollars from the American economy.

Elimination of the tobacco program would mean complete chaos for tobacco farming and the tobacco industry. Since there would be no controls over acreage, more tobacco would be planted. The effect, would be to glut the market with tobacco and send the price plunging. This would ruin many farmers and bring a declining amount of dollars from foreign markets back to the United States.

The main effect of the tobacco program is, not

THIS AFTERNOON

to subsidize something the AMA considers evil, but to maintain order and a quality product for an essential part of our farm economy and export market. To tamper with the program in any major way could mean disaster for an important part of our economy.

Fortunately Congressman Walter Jones' office doesnt think there is any immediate threat to the tobacco program. Charles McCleese, legislative assistant to Jones, says the threat is of no particular concern at present.

The tobacco program is permanent legislation and it is necessary to produce the quality product that U.S. tobacco is noted for, McCleese said.

Mr. Jones is a strong supporter of the current program and he doesnt forsee any alternatives being introduced, he said.

It is good that there is no immediate threat to the tobacco program. This is one government farm program which has worked and worked well and it should be left intact.

Eyes On Continental Shelf

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGHThere isjust east of North Carolina-a vast unspoiled wilderness land potentially rich in minerals and foodstuffs.

The wilderness area covers about 14,000 square miles larger than the state of Marylandand some view this territory in much the same way pioneer Americans looked to the West.

In those days, nobody thought about controlling land use, or zoning, or environmental protection there was enough land, it would never run out, our ancestory said.

The fallacy of that is now evident. Just as evident, say a team of marine scientists at several North Carolina universities, is the need for immediate steps to control development of the Continental Shelf which lies underwater to a maximum depth of 300 feet, and reaches into the Atlantic at a width varying from 10 to 50 miles.

Conquer The Land The scientists fear that many people today are looking at the continental shelf as a vast waste land to

be conquered.

Indeed, there are several signs that such is the case: In its recent report on The Future Of the South, the Southern Growth Policies Board predicts that current actions will have profound significance for the coastal states

Mentioned as possibilities are oil drilling offshore; superports to receive deep draft oil tankers; undersea mining for chemicals; mari-culture (farming)are

considered highly probably developments in the not-too-distant future. The point is made that the impact on fisheries is not known, while dangers of oil spills and blowouts are well known Further, that report calls attention to related onshore implications now barely perceived but including location of pipelines, refineries, adid process facilities.

The team of marine scientists reached similar conclusions independently, and has called on Gov. James E. Holshouser to move at once into land use management for the offshore

lands.

In a letter written by Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey, a marine geologist at Duke University, the group of 21 scientists (representing Duke, N.C. State, East Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) predicts that continental shelf development will begin rapidly in the next 25 years

Development Set

Off North Carolina we can expect construction of nuclear power plants, deep water ports, and perhaps a variety of petroleum gathering and refining plants

Mining of sand and drilling for oil and perhaps mining of heavy mineral placers and phosphate will begin within five years.

"As sanitary landfill sites become scarce and expensive or as special specialized chemical industries expand in our state, offshore dumping must begin. Sewage outfalls will soon be installed at sea, the team reports.

No state has yet taken over management of the continental shelf and there is some debate over who has

iurisc^iction. The federal government has claimed some rights, and granted oil-drilling permission in the absence of stte regulation.

Already, Pilkey warns, conflicting things are happening off North Carolinas shore: a deep water port site has been picked without sufficient study of on-shore impact; artificial fishing reefs are being created by sinking old ships, while permits are being given to destroy old wrecks for salvage purposes; mining sites are being planned without regard for nuclear power plant locations. The pressure will mount in coming years.

The scientists recommended to the governor that a study of continental shelf resources and likely future uses is needed; a land use plan map of the shelf should be made; fragile, unusual, or heavily used recreation areas should be immediately declared wilderness areas or marine sanctuaries for protection; and a state agency identified to oversee planning and development on the shelf.

The INSIDE REPORT

Angered, ButNoFiring Yet

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON-Although his deeper purpose was concealed in the rhetoric. President Ford sent a red-hot message to his own top advisers in his speech to the Business Council here Wednesday evening The message; Stop committing the President to energy and economic programs that he hasnt personally approved.

Particularly annoying to Mr. Ford was a day-long banner headline in the Washington Star-News on Dec. ,10 committing the President to a bigger job plan and indicating that he had decided to junk the "trigger (6 per cent unemployment for three months) in his jobs program.

That headline grew out of a television interview with Secretary of the Treasury William Simon on Monday night, in which Simon said the

administration was plotting an unemployment program that deals with the economy and with unemployment the way it exists today, not the way it was forecast Politicians of both parties were highly gratified by that Simon statement. particularly Republicans growing more disenchanted every day with bland statements from the President which they feel vastly understate the economic crisis.

But Mr. Ford was angry. He reacted with similar anger on several occasions the last two months when his energy aides, most recently Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, repeatedly talked of ' a new federal gasoline tax to conserve energ>

The key phrase in Wednesday evenings speech tipping the hand of presidential annoyance when he is taken unaware went this way:

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For a start let me say this: do not believe I have made any economic decisions unless you hear those decisions from me personally There can be only one person that makes those decisions and when I make them Ill announce them. Despite this barely concealed warning to Simon. Morton and other high-level offenders. Mr. Ford has no intention of replacing either Simon or Morton in his cabinet Indeed. Simon was (.'onspicuously invited by Mr. Ford to sit at the presidential table at the Symphony Ball on Dec 6 Behind that select invitation was the Presidents desire to undercut harshly critical press forecasts that Simons departure was only a matter of time.

But Mr Fords intention to keep Simon as his chief economic spokesman does not exempt him from presidential anger when Mr Ford feels he is being preempted A footnote: A principal purpose of the Wednesday speech which fell on disgruntled Republican politicians with a thud, not a bang was to stem the alarming loss of business confidence as the recession deepens. To his old

colleagues in Congress, the prescription needed is not misplaced confidence in the economy but confidence that Gerald Ford understands how bad the situation is and will act fast to start curing it.

Rocky's Bounce

The long televised hearings into Nelson Rockefellers personal and political past, far from doing him damage, increased his standing to the point of persuading one right-wing Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee to change his mind and vote to confirm him as Vice President.

Rep Trent Lott of Mississippi confided to high-level Republican party operatives three months ago. soon after Mr. Ford nominated the super-rich Rockefeller, that he seriously doubted hejcould ever vote to confirm him as Vice President.

Rockefellers performance under fire in both the House committee and the Senate Rules Committee, however, changed his mind. Just before the vote in the House Judiciary Committee, Lott said he would support Rockefeller because nothing in the hearings clearly made him unfit for the office (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

IN TI NE W ITH GOD'S PIR POSES

God IS trying to get something done in his universe, but he makes it plain to us in a multitude of ways that he can never get it done unless he gets it done through us The worst sin a man can commit is to be indifferent to Gods great purposes Year by year, century by century, the great purposes of God sweep on to their consummation, and woe be to that man who has not contributed to their fulfillment.

An old church in London

bears this inscription: Christ alone can save the world, but he cannot save it alone >Vhich means that in the last analysis the purposes of God depend upon the extent to which he can use men as instruments in his hands. The God who could make the world perfect tonaoirow is not going to do so until mens hearts so thirst for perfection that they will use the gifts of. God aright when he gives them. Salvation is a dual process! God reaches down to man. but nothing happens until man then reaches up to God

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By ART BUCHWALD

The Gold Fever Strikes

WASHINGTON-Muhle-nberg dashed into my office yelling, GOLD! GOLD. Ive discovered gold!

Take it easy, Muhlenberg, I said. You n^an youve hit a gold mine? No, you fool, he shouted, his eyes blazing. On Dec. 31 were going to be allowed to buy gold. Well all be rich. How can we be rich if we have to buy the gold?

, Havent you read the advertisements in the newspapers? Gold is going to go up to $4(X) an ounce. If we buy it at 8190, well more than double our money. ,,

But, Muhlenberg, there is no guarantee that gold is going to go up. Suppose it goes down? *

It cant go down, Muhlenberg cried. Everybody wants gold. Now we can get our hands on it and stuff it in our mattresses and

no one can touch us.

Youve really got the gold I fever, Muhlenberg. But I think I better warn you. Owning gold isnt what its cracked up to be. It breaks up friendships and marriages. It turns man against man, and woman against woman. If someone knows you have gold in your mattress theyll do anything to get itincluding pillage and rape.

Rape?

I read that somewhere. In any case, gold turns people into animals. Is this what you want to becomean animal?

Dont worry about me, he protested. When I get my gold Im not going to change. Ill still be the Muhlenberg you knew before. I may not go out as much because Im going to have to stay home at night to weigh it and count it to make sure Ive got all of it.

But outside of that you wont even know I have the stuff. Ive read articles about this crazy gold-buying thing, I said, and they indicate the only ones who stand to make money on gold are the dealers who sell it, the insurance companies who insure it and the banks who store it. Also the Mafia seems to be into it and a lot of gold bars may turn out to be brass.

I would be very careful if I were you before I got into this business

ART

Public Forum

To the editor:

One of the best speeches Ive ever read was the one given by Fred Morrison to the North Central Jaycees at the Triangle Correctional Center in Raleigh, As you know, there are now Jaycee chapters in our prisons in which inmates can join, thus performing a service while improving their lives.

Mr. Morrison called on the inmates to become an active part of the solution rather than a part of the problem in our penal system.

Meaningful and effective change may not come from without the system. Change must begin to come from within.

Morrison challenged them to not ask What have you done for me lately? but rather ask What have I done for myself lately. The Jaycee inmates were encouraged to help clean up their environmit within the system and to take pride in themselves as individuals.

The speaker hit the nail on the head several times in rapid succession when he called on those in prison because of drugs to never use them again and for those with an alcoholic problem to resolve to solve the problem by their own self-discipline and determination. Prisoners need to be encouraged to use their time constructively while preparing to return to society with a new outlook and sense of self-purpose.

North Carolinians suppwt reasonable prison reform, for they realize we dont need to simply lock people up and forget them. The next General Assembly should proceed with our states progressive approach in making our prison system more humane so that the inmates can indeed return to society as useful citizens.

In encouraging prisons to better themselves and asking the legislature to continue reasonable rrform, Fred Morrison has performed a valuable service

Bobby Simpson.

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Muhlenberg snarled like Humphrey Bogart. I might have known it. Youre just saying this because you want to drive down the price of gold so you can buy my gold cheap. Youre all alike. Everyones after my gold Well, youre going to have to kill me first before you get it. I-

Muhlenberg, will you please put that gun down. No one is after your gold. You can buy all of it you want to. Its yours to do with what you want.

Then why did you bring up the pillage and rape?

I was just trying to warn you that people have done it in the past to get their hands on gold. Perhaps this time they wont. After all Americans are much more civilized than most peoples Youre a perfect example of someone who hasnt lost his cool because his government is going to allow him to buy gold.

Muhlenberg put his gun back in his belt. Well, there are other things in life besides gold Ill tell you what. Because you were in on this with me from the beginning. Im going to let you in on a good thing Theres this guy in Florida who just discovered a cache of gold coins on a sunken Spanish galleon and for $10,000 . . .

Hiding

Food

Profit?

By BRIAN B. KING Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The nations food chains appear to be using misleading figures to cover up huge increases in profits, congressional economic experts say.

The staff of the Joint Economic Comnittee said comparison of quarterly profitability in 1973 with 1974 raises serious questions, including possible profiteering.

The staff memo to the committee stresses the preliminary nature of its conclusions and urges rigorous, fundamental questioning. The committee concludes hearings on food-pricing practices Thursday with testimony from three food chain executives.

Food chains, in explaining a 15 per cent increase in grocery prices for the second straight year, have pointed to profits in terms of a percentage of sales.

On Tuesday W.S. Mitchell, president of the industry-leading Safeway Stores Inc., said the major food chains received net profits this year of about 0.9 per cent of sales, up from last years controls-affected 0.7 per cent.

That stifl is below the penny for the grocer or 1.1 per cent of sales that is traditional for the supermarkets on that index, he noted. He said Safeways profits for the first 36 weeks of 1974 amount to 1.4 per cent of sales, which is also its 1964-1974 average net profit.

But the staff memo prepared for the committee members use during questioning at the hearings concludes that rate of return on equity is t,he more valid indicator of retail food chain performance.

And, the staff memo said, the food chains explanation of their profits appear to be intentionally misleading and designed to cover up the recent explosion in the profitability of these firms.

In Safeways case, Mitchell agreed under questioning by Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., vice chairman and principal instigator of the investigation, the return to investors this year has risen substantially.

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40 Years Ago To(day

December 18.1934 Santa Claus rode into Greenville last night and thrilled hundreds of children and grownups as he paraded down the main business streets of the city distributing candy, apples and toys.

Abandoning his reindeer several miles from town, St. Nicholas made his entrance into Greenville in a wagon pulled by two mules. He had to abandon his reindeer and sleigh at House Station because of a change in the weather conditions. He said the weather was too warm for the reindeer to continue their furious pace.

But regardless of the lack of sleigh and reindeer. Santa received a warm welcome from his admirers here, especially from the children.

St. Nick was brought to Greenville under the auspices of the merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce and his arrival ushered in the opening of the stores at night to take care* of holiday shoppers

Susan Price

Community Association Boom

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) As a consequence of the condominium concept, in which a resident owns his particular unit and shares in commoiy^ areas, a form of govemmefit called the community association is developing rapidly.

It really isnt new. In 1831, residents of New York formed an association in Gramercy Park. But its growth in the past decade exceeds that of the previous century.

An association sets regulations, standards, fees call them taxes just as any other local government It deddes on improvements and architectural changes. It attempts to resolve disputes.

as other governments do.

And, like otho- developing conceptsjt ^.eften entangled yia confbsion, uncertainty and even scandal. Its officers and directors, being amateurs, sometimes dont know what theyre doing. Insurers and accountants and lawyers sometimes dont know how to serve

In more than one instances the directors decided to close the swimming pool during evenings in order to save electricity, and were sued by members who claimed they were deprived of rights they had paid for.

When a thief hacks away your door, who is responsible for replacing it? Your insurer might agree he is responsible for the inside of the door but

insist the condos insurer of common properties must pay for the outside

Where does your property, and therefore your responsibility, end? At the rear of the paint? Or does It extend midway into the concrete or plaster? How should the accountants handle depreciation?

Newly formed by builders, lenders and associations, the Community Associations Institute. hopes to come up with some answers. Its goal is to keep managements informed and educated about planmng. maintenance and management Quite often, the first problem encountered by the community association concerns the transfer of ownershipL

It comes about this way: An automatic community association is created by a real estate developer of a condo. planned unit development or similar venture. The bylaws are essentially part of the developers sales package.

As homes in the venture are sold, however, the developers interest in the automatic community association diminishes and participation by the individual unit owners increases.

Governing power for the community thus is transferred from the developer to the home owners. The time span for this trnsfer of power is governed by the original community as-_ (ConUnaed o page 1)