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94th YEAR NO. 85

THE DAILY REFLECTOR

TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION

GREENVILLE, N.C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AP^IL 9, 1975

42 PAGES4 SECTIONS

INSIDE READING

Page Oscar Winners

j^age 12Obituaries

Page 19Maternity Changes

PRICE 15 CENTS

Coffman Elected Utilities Chairman At Tuesday Meet

By ALVIN TAYLOR Reflector Managing Editor George Coffman was elected chairman of the Greenville Utilities Commission Tuesday night.

Coffman, owner of Coffmans Mens Wear here, succeeds Dr. Howard Gradis, who told the commission last night that he would be unable to serve as chairman for another year. Gradis remains as a member of the commission. Coffman has served on the commission for five years and was recently appointed to a second five-year term.

Tom Shea, a Burroughs Wellcome executive, was named vice chairman of the commission. He succeeds Dr. Ray D. Minges, who nominated Shea.

Curtis Howell was renamed secretary and Donald Hudson was renamed assistant secretary to the commission.

The commission looked at a lot of deficit figures in the March financial report.

The operating income statement showed deficits for the electric, water and sewer operations. The electric deficit was $73,550, water, $13,485 and sewer, $13,718. Only the gas department showed a net income of $32,048. The total monthly deficit for all operations was $68,706.

Director Charles Horne said the report doesnt look too bright. But, he pointed out, new electric rates recently instituted had not

begun to reflect in March.

Horne also reported that GUC made its largest payment for electric power purchase in March $1,080,000. On a bright note, Home reported that the fuel charge is scheduled to drop this month.

Commissioners approved a rate increase for gas of 11.27 cents per million cubic feet to offset an increase from GUCs supplier.

Other matters the commission considered at the meeting:

heard report that natural gas may be in short supply during the summer.

-heard report that a site for future new water treatment plant has been acquired.

GEORGE COFFMAN

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VIETNAMESE ADOPTIONHOW?

How does one begin proceedings to adopt a Vietnamese child? B. J.

Hotline has had several inquiries similar to yours. Nguyen Van Phuong of the Embassy of Vietnam said all the children being evacuated from South Vietnam now have already either been adopted or are being brought to the United States with agreements already made for them to be adopted immediately. In other words, the proceedings for each of their placements were made long ago.

However, Phuong supplied the names of several agencies which are licensed to conduct intercountry adoptions. One he recommended, which Mary Lehman of Pitt County Social Services Departments Protective Services Division also mentioned is Holts Childrens Service of Vietnam, Box 2420, Eugene, Ore. 97402. ;>

There are many more American families seeking to adopt Vietnamese children than there are Vietnamese children available for adoption, Phuong said. He said persons wishing to adopt a Vietnamese child must comply with the laws of the state in which they reside, Vietnamese adoption law, and United States immigration law.

The first step, Phuong and Mrs. Lehman said, is to contact the local agency (County Social Services) and be vertified as meeting the adoption requirements of this state. Of course, contact may also be made with the agency.

Hotline has an adoption information sheet sent from the Embassy of Vietnam and names of several other agencies, but we are not publishing these because of lack of space and because we are not sure all are still active. Anyone wishing to see the list may visit The Daily Reflector news room.

REFUSE IT

How can I stop getting packages in the mail that 1 do not want? I recently got a hook from the National Wildlife Library that I had not ordered. E. K.

When you receive any package you do not want, you should leave it unopened and write REFUSED, the date, and your-signature on it. The Post Office will then return it at no cost to you, said Jim Wainwright, assistant superintendent of mails of the Greenville Post Office. It also would be wise to write to the company., telling than you are returning the package in ttiis manner and do not wish to receive any others, be said.

adopted resolution accepting state grant of $62,270 for the West Greenville sewer system addition and heard that an Economic Development grant may be possible.

approved policy for budget billing program for electric heat customers.

heard that work was underway on proposed 1975-76 budget.

heard report on fiscal control act, as it affects GUC.

heard report that Environment Protection Agency had ordered further treatment of affluent from Sewage disposal plant and ordered chlorinator at cost of $5,214,

authorized director to discuss further with two developers the cost of extending water lines to their subdivisions.

Eight Hanged

. .SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Eight persons cwivicted of plotting against President Chung Hee Parks government were hanged today, the Defense Ministry announced. ..They were the only executions to result from the emergency decrees Park issued in late 1973 and early 1974 to quell a growing wave of demonstrations demanding democratic reforms to modify his dictatorial rule, officials said. Six other persons including poet Kim Chiha and some student leaders were sentenced to death with them, but their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.

..On Tuesday the Supreme Court upheld the other death sentences passed by special military courts.

..The eight men were members of the outlawed left-wing Peoples Revtdutionary party and were arrested in April 1974. They were charged with conspiring to launch an uprising that would replace Park with a Communist regime.

THAILAND

Provincial Capital Bitterly Contested

SUPPLY LINE CUTKhmer Rouge insurgents have cut the supply land from Thailand to Battambang, Cambodias largest city. The Cambodian army is fighting to reopen the line. Roundrthe-ciock fighting raged on the east bahk of the Mekong across from Phnom Penh and fighting continued in isolated Kompong Speu. <AP Wirephoto Map)

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ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) Job-hunting is tough in these times, but Del Ausland has prospective employers calling daily. No doubt about it, his price is right.

Ausland, a truck driver and businessman, put a classified ad in the local newspaper recently that re&d:

40-year-old man would like to work free one day per week (for exercise and to help farmer).

He said he received nine calls through Tuesday, but already has settled on the man hell be working for.

Instead of paying for a health club, I decided to do what I did as a boy pitch hay and manure, plow, disc, he said.

Now hes toiling from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. one day a week for Norman Moe, who has a 160-acre .dairy operation just outside Rochester.

Ausland, who is married and has a 3-year-old daughter, averages two round trips to Chicago weddy for the trucking company. In addition, he owns a beauty parlor. Between them, he says he makes enough money so he can afford to give away one day of work.

CHILD ARRIVES BOSTON (AP)Actor Yul Brynner and his wife, Jacqueline, have received word here that their adopted Vietnamese child has arrived skfely in San Francisco. i

SURRENDERS HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Band lead Skitch Hendo^n has surrendered at the Alltm-wood federal penitentiary to begin a six-month torm for filing fiase inctane tax returns.

ERA

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RALEIGH (AP)-The North Carolina House Constitutional Amendments Committee gave a favorable report today to a bill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The final vote in the committee was 13-3 in favor of ratification. It came after the committee voted 10-6 against a motion to report the bill out without prejudice.

The bill is expected to come up for debate as a special order of business on the House floor next Tuesday. ERA sponsor. Rep. Herbert Hyde, D-Bun-combe, said he believes there are 65 or more favorable votes on the floor. There are 120 representatives.

Hyde predicted the debate would last two days. He said he did not think it would change many minds about the amendment, but that a handful of persons were still undecided and wanted to hear both sides.

Todays committee vote followed more than two months of wrangling over the amendment, which included charges that committee chairman Rep. Hartwell Campbell, D-Wilson, was stalling in an attempt to kill the biU.

Campbell denied tl and said he wanted to thoroughly study the issue before reporting it from the committee. Two subcommittees he named to study the effect of ERA on state laws and state government reported to the full panel today.

Landed A t VC Airfield

SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) The jet pilot who bombed President Nguyen Van Thieus palace Tuesday landed later at a Viet Cong-held airfield, a spokesman for the Viet Cong delegation to the Joint Military Commission in Saigon said today.

The sp^esman said the flier was promoted from lieutoiant to captain and given the Liberation Distinction Service Order Second Gass.

He declined to give the exact location of where the plane had landed.

South Vietnamese autiunrities earlier had identified the pilot as 1st Lt. Nguyen Thanh Trung, who was stationed at Bien Hoa Air Base 15 miles north of Saigon.

He took off on a routine mission Tuesday in siq;>port of South Vietnamese government ground troops, then'turned toward Saig(Ni to strike at the palace, they said.

TUeu, who was not hurt in the attack, lator vowed he would remain in office despite growing pressures that he resign. At least two other persons in the palace compound wo reported killed in the attack.

After making the bomb run, the and {dane a South ^etnamese air force F5 fight-j er-bomber vanished.

By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer

SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) North Vietnamese trooi fought their way into the heart of a provincial capital 40 miles east of Saigon today in the five-week-old Communist offensives first attack on a major city in the capital region, the South Vietnamese command reported.

At the same time, more opposition politicians in Saigon went into hiding to avoid a further police crackdown on dissent following the bombing attack Tuesday on President Nguyen Van Thieus palace by an air force pilot, political sources said.

The attack on Xuan Loc, the capital of Long Khanh Prov-inccj^began before dawn after a 2,000-round artillery barrage. Street fighting was reported around a church and the bus station, but later field reports said most of the North Vietnamese had been driven from the city, leaving small pockets of resistance.

Secret police reportedly moved on the homes of at least two opposition leaders hours after the apparent assassination attempt. The sources said the politicians had been warned by friends and had gone into hiding to avoid arrest.

The battle promised to be the first test of whether the demoralized South Vietnamese army could make an effective stand after its devastating retreat from the northern and central provinces. However, it was too early to tell whether the attack on Xuan Loc was te start of an offensive against Saigon itself.

The city is the headquarters of the 18th infantry division and an armored cavalry unit which have been under heavy North Vietnamese pressure in the area for several weeks.

Other North Vietnamese or Viet Cong forces overran a district capital near one of the Saigon governments few remaining footholds on the central coast and made a number of smaller attacks in the Mekong Delta. Most of the latter were reported between 70 and 120 miles southwest of Saigon.

In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge insurgents cut the supply road and railroad between the Thai border and Battambang, the countrys second largest city, and there was almost continuous fighting on the east bank of the Mekong River across from Phnom Penh and at Kompong Speu, an isolated provincial capital 30 miles southwest of Phnom Penh.

Premier Long Boret began picking up the reins of the government again after accompany President Lon Nol abroad, but he refused to confirm or deny a report that he met Monday night in Bangkok with representatives of the Khmer Rouge.

Wallace Charges Liberal Conspiracy

Israeli Official Coming To U.S.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon will go to Washington next week for talks with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, the government announced today.

On Tuesday qualified Israeli sources said the government was considering making an offer to withdraw from half the occupied Sinai Desert to promote a second stage peace pact with Egypt.

HHH Manager To Stand Trial

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has let stand a federal indictment accusing Sen. Hubert H. Humphreys 1970 Campaign manager of arranging an illegal $12,000 campaign contribution from Associated Milk Producers, Inc.

In refusing to dismiss the indictment Tuesday, Judge Edward Weinfeld (xrdored the de^ fendant, kfinneapolis lawyer Jack L. Giestnut, to stand t^ May 5 <m one count of willfully violating federal election laws.

By ROBERT B. CULLEN

Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace has come to North Carolina to fight what he says is a conspiracy of liberal Democrats trying to thwart his unannounced presidential candidacy.

Wallace was due to speak this morning to a committee of the North Carolina Senate which is considering a bill to abolish the states presidential primary.

Wallace won the 1972 North Carolina primary easily. He also won in Tennessee and Michigan. In those three states, as well as Texas, he and his campaign aides feel there is an effort afoot to deny him the 1976 delegates he feels should be his.

Wallace flew to Raleigh Tuesday night At an airport news CMiference, he said, Some top leaders of the Democratic party the so-called liberals are involved in a concerted effort to get rid of me by taking away the primaries. They dont want the average man to speak.

Abolition of the primary would mean a serious diminution of Wallaces strength in North Carolina and other states, he believes. The average man doesnt have time to stay up all night at conventions (where delegates are selected in non-primary states) like the liberal activists. Hes got to go to work the next day.

An Associated Press survey of the states mentioned by Wallace found efforts underway.in each of the legislatures to abolish or alter the primary.

In Michigan, the chairman of the House Election Laws Committee has called for abolition, saying the primary wastes money and proves nothing. Wallace aides say United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock is behind the move.

A UAW vice president, Donald Frazier, said he opposes the primary but the union is not lobbying against it

The Texas legislature is finishing work on a bill to give that state a primary for the first time. The bills sponsors acknowledge help in writing it from presidential aspirant Sen Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex.

The Texas bill would elect 75 per cent of the states delegates in 31 district races. Wallace aides note that there would be no proportionate shares of those delegates awarded and say it would probably work to Bentsens advantage.

WILL ARGUE FOR PRIMARYAlabama Governor George Wallace, shown at a news conference at the Raleigh-Durham Airport Tuesday, will speak before a legislative committee today against abolishing the North Carolina presidential primary. (AP Wirephoto)

Asks Wesleyan College Be

An ECU Branch

ROCKY MOUNT. N.C. (AP) The chairman of the board of North Carolina Wesleyan College has proposed that the Methodist institution become a branch of East Carolina University for at least two years.

Earlier this year, the trustees asked that the state take over operation of the four-year college, which is in deep financial trouble.

Dr. William Friday, president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, has recommended against state takeover.

The new proposal came in a letter from Chairman J. Phillip Carlton to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and was intended as an al-ternative to the earlier request. The letter was sent Monday but was made public today.

In the letter, made public to

day, Carlton proposed that the financially troubled college be operated as a constitutent institution or as a branch of East Carolina for not less than two years. During that time Friday would monitor the college operation to determine if it were serving a useful purpose.

The recommendation will be discussed at the governors meeting Friday.

If the decision were made to close the school, the facilities would be turned over to the Council of State of the appropriate state agency, Carlton said.

Calton has indicated that the school will not reopen next fall unless state aid or a substantial private grant is forthcoming.

Leo Jenkins, chancellor of East Carolina, said his institution would not object to taking over N.C. Wesleyan.

Bazemore Appointed To PNB Bd. Of Managers

J. Hugh Bazemore, vice president and city executive of Planters National Bank here, has been appointed to PNBs Greenville board of managers.

The action by the banks directors was announced by James B. Powers, PNB chairman and president, and Charles Gaskins, chairman of the GreenviUe board.

A native of Hertford County, Bazemore has been associated with Planters Bank since 1961 and held various management positions in the bank jx-ior to accepting his current position in September (rf 1971.

He is l^esently sawing as director of the Greenville Kiwanis Gub, director of the Coastal Plains Development Association, vice presictent of the United Fund, and director (tf the Boys Gub. In addition, he is serving on the advisory com-

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mittee for the Central Business pitt Hospital Memorial Gifts District and is a member of the Committee.

Bazemore holds a A.B. degree in business administration from East Carolina University, is a graduate of the Carolina School of Banking, Chapel Hill, and is currently in his final year at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University.

Married to the former Merle Council of Fayetteville, the Bazemores have three children and attend Immanuel Baptist Church.

Other members of the Greenville board, in addition to Bazemore and Gaskins, are: Dr. Harry R. Billica, Dr. James H. Bearden, H.T. Chapin, Dr. Ira M. Hardy, Max ay Joyner, Joe Pecbeles, Lester E. Tiumage, S. Eugene West, E.C. Smith Jr., Herbort W. Wheless, and Dr. Andrew A. Best.

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Hardly a likely source to debunk antiwrinkle creams he formulated a product that some dermatologists have said must have those properties Dr. Frank P. Panzarella insists "there is no such thing as an antiwrinkle cream and it is about time women realized it."

Panzarella achieved a Ph.D. in biochemistry and has taught biochemistry at Fordham University. He is speaking out because "so much malarkey has been disseminated about skin creams.

The skin is divided into three parts." he explained. The lowest is subcutaneous fatty tissue, the next part is dermis and the next is epidermis.

It is the dermis, often referred to as the true skin, that has the collagen, that is responsible for young people having firm and elastic skin. With age. and some people say with ultraviolet of the sun, deterioration of collagen takes place and the skin becomes less firm.

It is the dermis that would need to respond to outer treatment, but it isnt possible. Even though there is a lot of emphasis on creams containing collagen in Europe and the United States it cannot get through the skin to the dermis.

* The surface of the skin, the stratum corneum, is a tough barrier that keeps materials from entering the body and it prevents essential materials from leaving the body, he contends. About one-thousandth of an inch, it consists of 15 or 20 layers of dead cells that were formed at the junction of the dermis and epidermis. Nearing

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the surface, they break down and become Hfeless.

"It is these lifeless cells you see when you describe a woman as having beautiful skin," he remarked. "Actually you see only lifeless cells of hair, nails and skin when you look at her.

The stratum corneum gets thinner as we age, he says, and the aging process cannot be changed by stuffing oneself with any particular mineral, vitamin or anything else "no matter how much we hear about miracles.

"In our laboratories we have prepared highly purified diets providing every amino acid, fatty acid, polyunsaturated fats and so on, maintaining animals on it and we have discovered that all of these things are essential the body is balanced. The lack of any one thing can bring about changes to the skin. There is no single factor for aging, says Panzarella, who is president of the 50-year-old Doak Pharmacal Co., that makes more than 30 products for dermatologists. It entered the consumer field about 10 years ago.

No matter what is put on the skin, taken by mouth or injected, the aging process in the dermis will not change. Certain dermatologists are equipped to perform dermabrasion to get new young tissue to form in the derma, but it is a risky procedure in hands that are not expert, he cautions.

The only thing that can be done for the skin is to provide moisture to the stratum corneum and retain it. Moisture creams should perform this function, but none do, in his opinion.

Sun contributes to the wrinkling of aging skin if one doesnt

use sun screens and air conditioning has drying effects, he warns. An ideal climate would be moist and sunless, but no one would want to live there.

The cream he formulated was originally intended for minor irritants and is known by the number of the experiment which was successful after more than 400 tries. Its smoothing qualities appealed to dermatologists who concluded it must have antiwrinkle properties.

It looked as if wrinkles disappeared, but actually the cream binds moisture to the stratum corneum, plumping the surface to give the appearance of smooth and unlined skin, Panzarella explained.

When cosmetics companies are forced to list ingredients in their products by a government ruling which will take effect next year, Panzarellas secret will not be revealed he was able to patent the use of two moisture-binding agents.

There really isnt a cream in the world worth more than 25 cents for two ounces, he continued, "but other things add up the cost of containers, boxes, labels, advertising, promotion and so on.

Looking far younger than his years, Panzarellas own age-defying skin program includes using a cream at night, a deep-action cleanser and mild and controlled abrasion which helps remove dead skin cells "which just dont pop off, he says.

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BIOCHEMIST Dr. Frank P, Panzarella in his laboratory.

Home safety is always an important subject and the safety of mobile homes is no exception. The mobile home has come into prominence in recent years as a source of family housing for millions of people. Many innovations have come about in mobile home designs making them quite attractive to all type families especially retirees, young marrieds, military personnel and students.

Mobile homes meet a real need in our society; they are attractive, comfortable, and provide relatively low-cost

Grifton News

Mrs. L. B. Benson, Mrs. Tommy Sugg and sons, John and Richard, have returned from a weekend visit in Raleigh with Mr. and Mrs. Larry Benson. They were accompanied home by Tina and Kim Benson, who will spend this week here visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Davis, their grandparents.

Mrs. Barry Dunn and son. Trey, have returned to Wilmington after a visit here with Mrs. Dunns parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Davis.

Mrs. C. H. Pace visited in Mount Olive last week with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Criarles Pace.

Mrs. Edward Hart spent the weekend in Winston-Salem with her daughter. Miss Alice Lee Hart. '1^

Mr. and Mrs. J. Mack Albright and sons, John and Mack, visited here during the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Maggie Hart.

Miss Ann Denson, a student at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, is here for a spring break with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Denson.

Mrs. J. M. Hart has returned from Roockville, Md., where she spent the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Robert Crabtree, Mr. Crabtree and children. They were joined there by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gagnon and children of Hudson, Mass.

Mrs. J. C. Koon, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Koon Jr. and children, Debbie and James, have returned from a weekend in Lexington, S.C., with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Drafts and other relatives.

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By Abigail Van Buren

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Now there is one! The Nonsmokers' Travel Club, which I was instrumental in forming. We are an off-shoot of GASP (Group Against Smokers Pollution), and now have 71 members. We are in the Washington D.C, area, but have members from all over the U.S.A.

We have two domestic bus trips, and three foreign trips planneid for 1975. Our buses will have nonsmoking drivers and nonsmoking tour guides. Our foreigp trips will travel in the nonsmoking section of scheduled airliners. Once at our destination, we will travel in our own bus with a nonsmoking driver and guide.

If you think this will be of interest to your readers, please mention it in your widely read column.

MILDRED A. POST. CHAIRPERSON

DEAR ABBY; Some additional information on how one can improve his credit rating: Under federal law, anyone is permitted to inspect his (or her) credit file and offer corrections and inaccuracies. Erroneous information can result in a poor credit rating.

If one is refused a loan or a charge account, he has the right to know the name and address of the consumer reporting agency or credit company that supplied the adverse information.

This law applies to investigation reports causing denial of a job and is contained in Title 15, U.S. Code, section 1681.

DENNIS B. KAVANAUGH. ATTORNEY AT LAW

DEAR MILDRED; Its mentioned. Those interested in traveling without the annoyance of tobacco smoke may write to me (and please include a stamped, addressed envelope) for th address of the smoke-free travel club.

Everyone has a problem. Whats yours? For a personal reply, write to ABBY: Box No. 69700, L.A., CaUf. 90069. Enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope, please.

Hate to write letters? Send $1 to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasky Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212, for Abbys booklet "How to Write Letters for All Occasions. Please enclose a long, self-addressed, stamped (20e) envelope.

DEAR MR. K.: Thanks for the addition.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have only one child, a son. now married and living in California. (We live in New York.)

My elderly mother is very ill. and her days are numbered. She has always relied heavily on me. and being a very dutiful daughter, I gave her lots of time and attention. Because of this, my son has never been too fond of his grandmother. However, my son, husband and I are very close.

While talking to my son (long distance), I said, Keep your woolen suit pressed because you will need it when you come east for your grandmothers funeral." His reply: "I hadnt planned on coming.

When I told my husband this, he said, If he doesnt want to come, dont hassle him."

Abby, dont you think that out of respect for my feelings, my son should come for his grandmothers funeral? I offered to pay his plane fare both ways. If I had brothers and sisters, the situation would be different, but my husband and my son and his family are all I have.

I dont mean to be a demanding mother, but in a time of sorrow I feel it would be comforting to have those dear to me near. Would I be unreasonable to insist that he come?

MOTHER

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DEAR MOTHER: If your son, knowing how much you want him near you in your sorrow, chooses not to come, shame on him. But if you, knowing that he doesnt really want to come, insist that he does then shame on you!

DEAR ABBY: Some time ago, I wrote asking if you knew of a travel club for nonsmokers. You replied that you did not, but suggested I contact the American Cancer Society. They did not know of, any either.

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By CECILY BROWNSTONE Associated Press Food Editor

No doubt about it. Not since grandmothers day has there been so much interest in "putting up" foods. The craft renaissance has helped bring this about.

Now through May, when rhubarb is in its peak season, is the time to consider putting up Spring Fruit Jam in which rhubarb is combined with strawberries and pineapple. This jam is delicious; when we made it and gave away most of our yield, the recipients lauded it.

New Officers Are Named

Officers for 1975 were presented at the meeting of the Gamma Delta Chapter of ESA International held at the home of Mrs. Rubelle Goin Thursday night. ^

Included are ; Mrs. Ruth Cox, prwident; Mrs. Arlene Collins, vice president; Mrs. Muriel Modlin, recording secretary ; Mrs. Frances Cassick, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Goin, treasurer; and Mrs. Helen T. Sermons, education director.

Members voted to send $25 to the Loveland Home for retired EDS members, located in Loveland, Col., and $25 to the North Carolina ESA scholarship fund.

Members entertained residents of the Greenville Nursing Home at a have fun party last week.

The meeting was conducted by Mrs. Odell Evans.

The recipe calls for processing in a boiling water bath because the U.S. Agricultural Research Service now recommends this procedure for jams in order to protect their quality.

SPRING FRUIT JAM 2 pounds rhubarb 1 quart basket or 2 pint baskets strawberries 20-ounce can crushed pineapple, undrained 16-ounce bottle light corn syrup 6 cups sugar Cut off the leaves and trim the stem end of the rhubarb stalks. Slice stalks into Vz-inch pieces; turn into a large sauce-pot. Rinse, hull and crush strawberries; add to rhubarb with pineapple, corn syrup and sugar. Over medium heat bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Continue boiling, stirring often, until mixture begins to hold its shape in a spoon 35 to 45 minutes. Remove from heat; skim. Ladle into clean hot preserving jars leaving V4-inch headspace. Seal immediately according to jar manufacturers directions. Process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Label and store in a cool dry' place. Makes about 9 one-half pint jars.

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HEW Failed To Do Homework

KEY MEMBER OF THE QUARTET IS MISSING!

The Department of Health, Education and Welfares office of Civil Rights has told the UNC Board of Governors to suspend planning for a School of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State University.

It has told UNC President William FYiday to do new racial impact studies and if North Carolina stiU persists in locating a School of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State then the state must put a comparable institution in stature and attractiveness at North Carolina A&T.'

The letter in discussing previous study of the matter said, The study appears to justify the continued inequality between predominantly black and predominantly white institutions and fails to take into account actions promised in the plan to enhance the predominant black institutions.

Well, apparently HEW failed to do its homework on this issue, or else it really doesnt care too much about the facts.

As we understood the thrust of the civil rights action of the 1960s, it was to end segregation, not perpetuate it. This is being done as more and more blacks are admitted to the previously white institutions. These yoimg blacks would have gone to the all-black schools in the days of total segregation. The answer here, however, is to encourage whites to go to the former black campuses.

As for continued inequality between predominantly black and predominantly white institutions, the facts on annual expenditures per

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student simply dont bear that out.

It is true that N.C. State has more money to spend per student than N.C. A&T. $3,485 to $2,553, according to the 1974-75 figures.

But many other state universities fall well below N.C. A&T in annual expenditures per students and most oi them are the former all-white institutions.

There are nine below A&T: ECU, $2,283; Appalachian, $2,246; Fayetteville, $2,309; N.C. Central, $2,272; Pembroke, $2,161; Charlotte, $2,015; Greensboro, $2,494; Wilmington, $2,320; West Carolina, $2,192.

Admittedly there are a number of factors which go into such figures; some pr(^rams are more expensive than others. But it can readily be seen that, though there is a difference in what is spent on a per student basis at the various institutions, it in no way follows the lines of formerly all-white or allblack universities.

The capricious letter from HEW has created some grumbling in the Legislature about the vet school matter, with some thought being given to the idea of forgetting the whole thing. With money so short this idea could be attractive.

We hope, however, that the Legislature will go on and appropriate a tdcen amount for the vet school so iat a court case can be made of this ruling. Given the facts in the case. North Carolina should be able to rely on the fairness of the courts to obtain a reasonable ruling on this matter.

Crime Conflict In Focus

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHDebate on the floor of the Senate as bills put forth by a penal reform commission are argued is bringing into sharp focus two directly opposing viewpoints on crime in the General Assembly.

The first proposals are relatively min^ones: dont charge an inmate for escape if he voluntarily returns within 24 hours when he was outside on work or study release; let a sentence for escape run along with the active sentence already in effect.

These are the first of a host of reform measures generated by a commission chaired by former State Senator Eddie Knox of Charlotte.

Yet to come up for floor action are such highly controversial reforms as pre-court diversionallowing the district attorney and a suspect to sign a contract for rehabilitation action thereby avoiding trial, conviction, and a criminal record; and the quick-dip sentencing system which would give a convict a six-month look at

the inside of a prison, then parole him. Also, uniform sentencing systems, early parole, mandatory parole, and others.

Reduce Inmates

State Senator Lamar Gudger, D-Buncombe, chief sponsor of the reform legislation, defends the movement as designed not only to cut down on numbers of inmates in prison, but to catch and correct problems in young, first offenders; hopefully sidetracking a life of crime.

Stiff opposition has already sprung up to those early, minor changes-^romising even more bitter argument when the heavier pieces of legislation come up for consideration.

Senator Donald R. Kincaid, the senates lone Republican, joined the opposition largely headed by Democrats Thomas E. Strickland of Goldsboro, and Harold W. Hardison of Deep Run.

The principal line of the opposition is that reform action is largely directed at liberalization, and that runs against the demands of grassroots Tar Heels.

Kincaid denounced the 24-hour return period as a furlough, a head start on another crime, and warned that future consideration of the quick-dip sentencing innovation will be in reality offering a quick-trip for inmates headed for more trouble.

The vote was fairly close-26 for the measure; 17 against. But Hardison and Strickland argue that senators are not hearing the voices back home demanding the state crackdown on crime rather than getting easier.

You know, as long as that voice is way off yonder in the wilderness, we dont pay it much attention. But you just wait till it happens to you, or your neighbor, Hardison argued.

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He described a case in his county in which a man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a cold-blooded murder. . .and after just five years that man is going about his business in the community, hunting and fishing and visiting relatives. People are sick and tired of this. There is something wrong in

our society, and the people are not going to let this ' continue.

Strickland, who plans to run for governor to give conservative, grassroots opinion a voice, says both urban and rural crime is growing so rapidly it is the number-one problem in the state and demands prompt attention.

There are scattered reports from across North Carolina of citizen-backed vigilante organizations springing up: farmers who band together and take turns patrolling rural roads, jotting down license plate numbers and descriptions of strange cars; various court-watch activities in which citizens monitor trials and sentences; community crime prevention societies to test local attitudes and monitor police performance.

Kincaid told follow senators about one group in his home county (Caldwell) in the subrubs and rural areas surrounding Lenoir.

The Gamewell Community Crime Prevention Society, he said he grown rapidly to 75 mer^6(^.

The INSIDE REPORT

Strauss Found A Big Ally

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON Democratic national chairman Robert Strauss sealed an important victory over the partys left wing by quietly procuring undercover help from one of the lefts most prestigious figures: Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers (UAW).

On the day before Democratic state chairmen elected a head of their organization, Strauss persuaded Woodcock to halt UAW support for Alabama state chairman Robert Vance. That insured victory for Donald Fowler, South Carolinas pro-Strauss state chairman, over Vance, a bitter personal foe of Strauss

who became allied with the partys most militant liberals.

Woodcocks assist reflects Strausss success in broadening his political base after being elected national chairman in December 1972 by moderate-to-conservative Democrats . While compromises and retreats have cost Strauss support among old-line AFL-CIO leaders, he has won new allies on the left such as Leonard Woodcock.

Woodcocks underlings have been another matter, however. William Dodd, UAW national political action director, and other functionaries of the big union were collaborating with left-of-center unionists to reelect Vance. Whats more, their

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overriding intent was to discredit Strauss and establish the state chairmens organization under Vance as a rival to the Strauss-run national headquarters.

On March 19, Strauss telephoned Woodcock in Detroit. He informed the UAW chief that his lieutenants are messin in my affairs. Strauss then detailed four separate cases of UAW operatives pressuring state chairmen to vote for Vance.

Strauss reminded Woodcock that they had worked closely together to compromise intra-party disputes and promote liberal legislation. Hadnt he always played square, Strauss asked. But now, he said, this silly business was keeping him from working for progressive programs on Capitol Hill by consuming his time.

was news to him. He was leaving Detroit in one hour, he told Strauss, but he could make good use of that hour . He did. Woodcock effectively neutralized UAW operatives in the closing hours of the

Vance-Fowler campaign.

That not only guaranteed Fowlers election, but undermined attempt to forge the left-of-center unions into a monolithic opposition against Strauss.

A footnote: What to do about Strauss consumed much closed-door discussion time during the recent national meeting in Chicago of Democratic liberals. The consensus seemed to be that the only way to get rid of him soon was through indictment on technical charges arising from an illegal political contribution by Ashland Oil Co. covering two years 1970 and 1971 a prospect viewed as remote by Strauss and his aides.

Teddy Out West

Among the reasons Democratic politicians put less than full faith in Sen. Edward M. Kennedys pledge that I will not accept a draft for President in 1976 are backstage developments such as a secret meeting between him and Southern California Democratic fat-cats set for April 12 at the Bel Aire mansion of Carroll (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

WHAT IS MAN?

Chie answer is: He is a collectiMi of sul{diur, lime, fat, phosphorus, sugar, potassium, and water. Enough sulphur to rid a dog of fleas, enough lime to whitewash a chicken coop, enough fat to make six bars of soap, enough iron to make a small nail, enough idMisphorus to cover twenty match heads, enough sugar to sweeten a cup of coffee, enough potassiian to explode a toy cannon. Hie total value xrf these elements, if purchased at a drug store, would

be about three dollars.

But is this all there is to a man? Of course not. The Bible has a much more meaningful evaluation of man when it says that he is a being but little lower than the angels. He is an heir of God; a joint heir with Clirist; a being for whose salvation God suffered through the person of His son <m the crou.

The BiUe will not allow to go unchallenged the statement that man is nothing more than three dollars worth chemicals.

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Washington Celebrities

WASHINGTONSomething is happening in Washington. For the first time newspapermen are becoming more famous than the people they write about. I dont know if you can credit Spiro Agnew or the Nixon White House gang for the trend, but its having a tremendous effect on the business, and some journalists are finding it difficult to handle their celebrity status.

As soon as Burt Brillo broke the story on the break-in of the Wesley Heights Taco Hut, he was besieged by other reporters wanting to do profiles on him. Brillo, who happened to be a police

reporter at the time, achieved stardom overnight by discovering that the Taco Hut had been used by the CIA to feed their midnight-to-8 a.m. shift. While this in itself would have been enough to make it a front-page story, a source whom Brillo has yet to name leaked the fact that two of the employees of the Taco Hut had entered the United States illegally from Mexico.

It was luck plus per-serverance that made Brillo the most talked about man in Washington.

Besides getting a book contract to write the story of how he broke the story. Brillo was also signed up for a

Other Editors Say Picking Battlefield

(Greensbwo Daily News)

One side-effect of the Watergate affair was to stimulate bidding for the Democrats 1976 national convention. The other day the partys site selection committee heard city officials from Cleveland and Kansas City make strong bids for the convention. But that was considered no more than a warmup for the main bout, a free-for-all among Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York and Miami Beach.

Cleveland and Kansas City already have two strikes each because they lack the hotel and motel rooms to accommodate the convention delegates. Their combined record for producing losing nominees amounts to a third strike against them.

Each has been the scene <rf a single national convention since 1856, when the Republican Party was formed and the modern two-party system came into existence. The Democrats nominated Williams Jennings Bryan at Kansas City in 1900 and the GOP nominated Alfred M. Landon at Cleveland in 1936. Both candidates got buried alive at the polls.

If the Democrats chose their convention cities on the strength of past performance, they would pick Chicago (which doesnt much want ttie 1976 convenon), Philadelphia (another nonbidder), Los Angeles or Atlantic City: Nine of the partys 12 presidents in the last 119 years were nominated in those cities. Chicago conventions produced five winners in 10 tries. Philadelphia is batting two for two and Los Angeles and Atlantic City each had one hit for one a:t bat The two New York conventions, by contrast generated the nomihations of Horatio Seymour in 1868 and John W. Davis in 1924. Neither ever won free room and board at the White House.

The truth is that if the Democrats could unite around a candidate from the partys moderate (by Democratic standards) center, they probably could have a winner even if they held their convention next year in a tent city on the outskirts of Grand Rapids, Mich. But if they again split up into factions warring over ideology, they might do well just to call the thing off altogether.

lecture tour and was interviewed by Barbara Walters, Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and Johnny Carsonall on the same day.

Through his press agent I managed to get an interview with Burt in his ranch house overlooking Capitol Hill. The press agent warned me I could only spend 30 minutes with him as Womens Wear Daily was going to take pictures at 5 oclock.

I didnt know what to expect when I rang the doorbell, but I was pleasantly surprised to find Brillo a warm, sensitive human being who hadnt allowed all the adulation to go to his head.

We sat by the swimming pool and a Japanese manservant brought us gin and tonics.

Most people, he said, think that newspapermen are different. But actually Im just like anyone else except I live better and pay more taxes. Sure, I was lucky in the Taco Hut break-in, but I find in this business youre , only as good as your next story. Thats why Im being very careful what I choose for my next assignment. Oh, Ive been offered lots of reporting jobs, but theyre all junk-bank robberies, embezzlements, espionage trials and even a war or two. But Im not about to rush into anything. I have to think of my future.

Mr. Brillo, there was a-rumor that Omar Sharif was going to play you in the movies. How do you feel about that?

Omar tried to buy the story, but I dont think hed be right for it. I told the producers if they could get A1 Pacino or Steve McQueen, I would be interested. I dont want to make the error Woodward and Berstein did by having two nobodies like Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portray them. Most police reporters make the mistake of selling their stories without casting approval.

Whats the toughest thing (Continued oii page 5)

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By DENIS D.GRAY Associated Press Writer PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) The Americans appear to be great humanitarians. They give temporary aid, but ultimately they think only of themselves, the former government minister said. We in Cambodia have been seduced and abandoned.

Resentment against, the United States is mokinting among Phnom Penhs political elite. It is being stoked by a growing feeling that the U.S. Congress will turn down further military aid to Cambodia and that its delay on the vote is a parting act of cruelty.

The domino theory 4s not a debating point here in higher political circles. It is accepted as an undeniable law.

Government leaders insist that if the United States deserts Cambodia, ail of Southeast Asia will go Communist. They argue U.S. honor will be spoiled and Asian allies may well side with the Communist regime in China rather than believe the bankrupt word of the Americans.

But there is little evidence of anti-Americanism among those who do not hear the latest news from Washington. Frontline soldiers and Phnom Penhs average citizens say they cannot believe there may soon be no American bullets for their rifles or rice for their bowls.

Americans are regarded as being on their side; such loyalties are simply not severed in their insular world.

I dont think America will let us die, one young soldier on Phnom Penhs southern defense line says.

Among Phnom Penhs major groups, only the students have called for an end to U.S. aid, saying it prolongs the agony of war. Unlike South Vietnam, where an undercurrent of anti-Americanism has existed for years, there have been no overt acts of hostility reported against Americans in areas of Cambodia still controlled by the government.

Many government leaders see American policy in Cambodia as oddly ineffective and any U.S. withdrawal of aid as pure betrayal. A composite attitude gathered from numerous interviews runs this way;

The United States supported the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and its troops invaded the country in 1970 to protect U.S. soldiers and hasten their withdrawal from South Vietnam. The United States also bound itself to the Phnom Penh government through vast monetary aid and until August 1973 by air support.

Americans have obviously interfered in internal Cambodian affairs, but they failed to exert the pressure needed to force out useless and corrupt generals and inert leaders, including President Lon Nol. By their almost schizophrenic approach the Americans are in large part responsible for the near collapse of the Phnom Penh government.

Cabinet ministers, legislators and former officials insist that with more aid an energetic government could be generated and peace concluded through a formula of military strength and willingness to negotiate. Their solutions, however, are vague, almost fanciful, as are their explanations why five years of such aid has produced only military and political fail-

Fair Trade Laws In Disrepute

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) The most impOTtant activity of the Federal Trade Commission today is antitrust action, a spokesman said, but within that category the focus clearly is on fair trade (N'icing arrangements.

Fair trade laws are little more than anticompetitive px-ice-fixing, unadorned with any redeeming features, Lewis Engman, FTC chairman, told Congress earlier this year.

He added: We doubt that we needed them when we got" them. We are confident that we do not need them now. He pi ted a 1969 report suggesting that fair trade laws coat the consumer $1.5 billion a year.

Fair trading, in which a manufacturer genoally sets a price that his distributors and retailers are expected to honor, began during the depression (rf the 1930s, the.

first law being enacted in California.

In 1937, the Millen-Tydings Act went into effect, permitting individual states to write fair trade laws granting exemption from both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act And in 1952 the McGuire Act was passed, permitting manufacturers to hold retailers to fixed prices even though the retailers declined to sign contracts of agreement At their height fair tra<te laws existed in 46 states. The * number now is down to 36. Only 13 still have McGuire Act (HTOvisions.

The rationale for fair trading is that it x-events cutthroat competition. That might have been so during the depression of the 1930s, says Richard Givens, head of the New York FTC office, but it isif t true any longor. During the 1930s, the

problem arose from a deficiency of buying power, which led to drastic price declines and intense competition involving numerous sales below cost on a large scale, Givens said in an interview.

The type of economic pinch which exists today is entirely different. The present situation arises out of the scarcity of certain limited resources, such as petroleum, and the increase in the cost of such items.

Because certain expenses are forced higher, the manufacturer and probably the retailer also strive to keep prices compensa tor ily high instead of resorting to innovative, cost-cutting techniques.

The worst-type of price-fixing, according to Givens, is horizontal which exists when retailers, distributors or manufacturers, instead of competing, agree to sell for the same price.

By contrast, vertical leaves some room for competitioa It generally involves the n manufacturer of a certain product insisting that the retailer sell for a certain price. But that still leaves competition amixig retailers, and among different manufacturers also.

You may be certain price-fixing of some sort will always prevail. Practitioners fail to recf^nize that, in their self-interest, they are reinventing old techniques to avoid competition. Their excuses are seductively rational, says Givens.

Among the techniques are what have come to be known as phantom freight charges, the cu8t(xner being charged for freight frcxn a given distance even though that distance might not have been invdved.

Tying arrangements are another knot If you buy one product you must buy , I (Continued on page sV

-Evans-Novak...

(Contlnned from page 4) Rosenbloom, owner of the Los Angeles Rhms.

The partys big moneymen in that area, by no means all devoted Kennedyites, last week received this tantalizing and faintly conspiratorial telegram from Rosenbloom and two old Southern California Democratic warhorses, entertainment mogul Lew Wasserman and lawyer Paul Ziffren:

Please join us at brunch with a small, select group of Californians for Sen. Edward Kennedy...very casual dress. The Senator would like to have you join us, and he hopes to be able to call on you for advice and support necessary to assure that the goals of the 94th Congress are achieved and progress continued into the 95th. Recipients pondered whether this cryptic little telegram might be a clandestine signal for a Kennedy presidential campaign.

In fact, the small, select group invited to the 11 a.m.

. brunch will be asked to support Kennedys 1976 Senate campaign. Similar out-of-state fundraisers for the Massachusetts campaign are planned for New York and Washington.

What struck some of those who received the telegram was the fact that the blue ribbon invitation list to Rosenbloom's brunch would be exactly the same if Kennedy were running for President. Indeed, some who write those $1,000 checks for Kennedy next Saturday may feel they are in fact contributing to a campaign that will expand to Presidential dimensions in July, 1976 despite Kennedys no-run, nodraft statement of last Sept. 23.

Cunniff Col.

(Continued from page 4) another; that is, if you buy the copying machine you have to buy the paper too.

But of all the devices, fair trading is probably the most obvious. Says Engman: Repeal of the Miller-Tydings and McGuire Acts will encourage market innovation, it will reduce prices and it will increase consumer choice in the market place.

Buchwald.

(Contlaned from page 4)

about being a successful newspaperman? I asked.

The lack of jxrivacy. I cant go out to the store without being mobbed by my fans. Of course, theyre the peofde who made me and I shouldt complain, but sometimes I wish I was back to being just plain Burt Brillo again, covpring the Third Police Precinct on the lobster shift.

I guess youre bothered by a lot of female admirers, too.

What investigative

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reptMter isnt? But after a while the thrill wears off and you wish you could find someone who would love you for yourself and not just because youre the author of the Taco Hut story.

A tall leggy blonde came over to us. Mr. Brillo, your barber is here.

I apologized for keeping him so long.

Brillo gave me a wide toothy smile and a warm handclasp.

Thats perfectly all right. I used to be a newspaperman myself.

Big Profits By Steel Producers

PITTSBURGH (UPI) - The nations major steel producers have announced record earnings for 1974 and expressed confidence 1975 would be another year of high profits.

U.S. Steel Corp., the nations biggest steelmaker, announced it had doubled its earnings over the previous year and Bethlehem Steel Corp., second biggest, reported 113 per cent increases over the earnings figures for 1973.

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