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Hardly had the United States gotti out of the Southeast Asia war when the new Cambodian regime grabbed an American merchant ship.

It is hardly surprising. In the eyes of the Cambodian rebds the great United States military power had been defeated. There was little to fear in capturing the merchant ship Mayaguez.

With the recent fall of Cambodia and Vietnam, the United States has had to view the act of piracy as sternly as possible.

President Ford warned of serious consequences' if the ship and its crew were not returned and yesterday U.S. Air Force planes destroyed three Cambodian naval vessels after, the government said, the planes were fired upon in the area where the ship Mayaguez was being held. Yesterday our military boarded the ship. The crew was recovered!

Hardly anyone expected the United States to become re-involved militarily in Cambodia because of the piracy and we wouldnt have recommended a

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new war over the matter.

Nevertheless strong action was called for if all of our shipping is not to be at the mercy of any econd rate power which wants to steal a ship.

Tie problem was how to take strong action in the case of the grabbing of the Mayaguex without getting involved in a whole new land war.

Since the ship was still out in open waters the major Communist powers respected our right to go in and take it back.

We have said previously that the end of the Southeast Asia war would not mean a time of peace for the United States. We predicted a number of tests around the globe of our will to protect our vital interests.

The piracy of one of our vessels by the Cambodians is one of our first tests.

If we thought world diplomacy was difficult^ when we were in the middle of the Southeast Asiajr war, we are going to find it to be twice as difficult now.

FEELING HIS OATS!

Strides In Hospital Care

ByBILLNOBLITT

RALEIGH-Th good old (tayi, loddng back over a 65-year career, were not all that great says Andrew Corbett; etpecially when it cornea to medical care.

"Were living in the beat of all timea, the 81-year-old High Point Hoapital employe aaya.

Corbetta long yeara of aervice to hia community have been wrapped up in hoapitala and doctors and medical care. He atill reporta to work daily as operating room attendant where his job is to help get the patient on the table and in the right position for the surgeon to begin.

He has seen so many operatitms"Lord, I couldnt tell how manythat he figures there are many he could perform himself. "And I wouldnt charge as much as the doctors do, says the lively, lanky veteran of medical progress.

Corbett has no intention of retiring. "Ill stay till I drop,

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as long as they let me," and his wifea registered nurse who can add her 35 years of service to her husbands for a grand total of 100 years of service to High Pointis still doing private duty nursing.

Drove Buggy

Corbett has outlived the doctors he started out with; Dr. John T. Burrus who first hired him to drive his horse drawn buggy on house calls and work as a handyman around the hospital.

The good old days? "Why we had an old two-story house for a hospital, an old frame building without elevators or such.

"We would always put the large folks on the flrst floor, and take little people to the upstairs that was to keep from having to carry heavy people up and down,(.Corbett recalls.

High Point Hospital today is a 325-bed, modern unit. The old house fell to the bulldozers in 1949 to make way for the new structure.

Modern operating rooms handle 25 or 30 surgery patients daily.

"Times are better now, much better, mainly because of better equipment and better medicine. People used to die because we didnt have proper medical care, Corbett said.

The old house on Boulevard Street housed Corbett in a back room; seven nurses in the attic; and Dr. Burrus lived next door.

The operating room was in the living room, and Corbetts duties included stoking the furnace, mowing the grass, gathering eggs from the hen house, carrying those patients up and down stairs, and delivering meals.

His hours were as long as they needed me; Id get up at night to drive the buggy, or go back to the hospital for an emergency operation, then spend the night waxing floors, Corbett recalls.

But the biggest changes he has seen are in the field of medical practice.

Long Weeks

Almost any operation once required long weeks in bed, and many operations were performed which today are replaced by giving simple medicines or anti-blotics.

People once spent a month in the hospital for surgery which done today requires less than a week. The doctor will have them on their feet the day after operating... its amazing," Corbett said.

Corbett was singled out recently by the North Carolina Hospital Association and the State Department of Human Resources as a symbol of Hospital Week in the state, this week.

It is thought he is the oldest, active hospital employe in North Carolina. Corbett isnt worried whether he is that or not. All he cares is that when he left the farm back in 1911, he launched a career in medical care which has been ' satisfying and rewarding to him, and one he wouldnt trade for any other.

Packard Joins Ford Team

By ROWLAND EVANS andROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON - When President Ford used the hoary politicians plea for help to tell multi-millionaire San Francisco industrialist David Packard that "I need you for the 1976 campaign, Packards quick affirmative response gave the President his first major conquest among party luminaries having past associations with Ronald Reagan.,

The private conversation took place during the Presidents Easter vacation in Palm Springs early last month. No specific role for Packard, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, was even mentioned. But he could wid up as the campaigns national finance chairman.

Mr. Ford was strongly advised earlier this spring by a senior White House aide to put a quiet arm on party conservatives asking their support in 1976 before Reagan makes any formal move toward the 1976 Republican nomination. The reason; with Reagan reluctant to cut off his lucrative speech and radio fees by becomeing an avowed candidate, the President could steal a march on his potential rival.

Inaddition, the Presidents old friend, Clark MacGregor, Richard Nixons 1972 campaign manager, strongly advised Mr. Ford several months ago to line up Packard.

Packard, a chief strategist and fund-raiser for Houston Flournoys unsuccessful campaign for governor of California last year, brought leading Reagan fat-cats into that campaign. While Packard was never a member of the Reagan political palace guard, the Reagan-Packard alliance nevertheless flourished during the Flournoy primary campaign, leading some Reagan operatives to hope that Packard would wind up as a Reagan-for-President man in 1976. The Presidents initiative has now squelched all such hopes.

Packards closest link to the Ford administration is his friend and former boss, ex-Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, who has agreed to help in the Ford presidential campaign, but only part-time.

A footnote: Selection of Dean Burch to head the Ford campaign planning group brought few cheers from Republican National Committee members who

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resented his speeqh to them last summer as a Nixon White House aide haranguing loyal Republicans to join the struggle against impeachment. Nor does Burch have much standing among the conservatives inclining toward Reagan against Mr. Ford.

Since Burch is distrusted by Republican liberals and delegate-hunting in presidential campaigns is not his long .suit, his major value may be his enduring relationship as friend and protege of Sen. Barry Goldwater. Burchs appointment is likely to bolster Goldwaters present tendency to oppose a Reagan challenge against the President.

Bob Strausss Buddy

The onslaught against Democratic national chairman Robert Strauss from the McGovernite wing of the party, orchestrated by an aide to Sen. George S. McGovern, has lost some steam because of a letter of fulsome praise for Strauss from none other than McGovern himself.

The letter was triggered by increasingly poisonous comments about Strauss in the regular newsletter of the super-liberal Democratic Planning Group (DPG), funded mainly by leftish labor unions. The McGovern connection: Alan Baron, founder and indefatigable sparkplug of the DPG, is top political aide on McGoverns Senate staff.

So. in early March, when

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the DPG newsletter gleefully reported the prospect of Strauss being indicted for technical violations of federal campaign laws, Strauss angrily telephoned cGovem to find oUt whether he agreed with Baron. What followed was a March 12 letter from McGovern asserting he had instructed Baron to perform his DPG role on his own time and disavowing any responsibility for the DPG newsletter. I do not want you to think for one minute that the statements of the Democratic Planning Group are either cleared with me or originate with me or are in any way initiated by me," McGovern wrote Strauss. "... I have seldom even read the newletters.

McGovern next laid on the encomiums for Strauss: I think you have worked with dedication and full commitment in the service of the Democratic party as our national chairman. You have always been kind and responsive in relations with me. . . 1 wish you every success in your efforts to strengthen our party."

Although Strauss has sent copies of McGoverns ltter to key party figures, Baron has not let up. The most recent DPG letter continues the attack, reporting with obvious dismay that the statute of limitations may shield Strauss from federal prosecution.

A footnote: The voluble Baron has told friends that McGovern had to disavow (Continued on pag^ 5)

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FORMULA FOR HAPPINESS

There are almost as many formulas for happiness as there are patent medicines on the market. But nearly all of the formulas postulate some change in our external circumstances as the magic wand which will bring about the desired result.

Financial and emotional independence, good health, a happy marriage, wealth, successthese are some of the factors which would be on most lists of ingredients. Yet happiness arises from an inner state of being, and can

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

The Genius Of Wallace

AUBURN, Ala.-This is Wallace country. Part of it is poor and scrabbly, and part of it is rich and rolling. The pines are green with new growth, and the fields are swelling with the promise of summer ahead. George Wallace is on his way, his supporters insist. This time the Governor will be reckoned with.

The immediate cause of their buoyancy lies in an interview, recently published, between Wallace and a group of foreign journalists. The interview was conducted in March, but it wasnt until a week ago that the Governors pungent remarks gained national currency. "Hoo, boy, they say down here, and they slap their knees. "He sent em a message."

To my sophisticated friends in Washington, the interview was pure disaster. They were shocked. They were aghast. They were reduced to the stammers and stutters. Here in Wallace country, the interview is seen as a stroke of

political genius. His responses to the foreign journalists were like Trilbys singing: Every single phrase a string of perfect gems, or purest ray serene.

What did Wallace say? His foreign policy, as president, "would be based on the fact that you cant trust a Communist. He recalled that he had opposed the Paris accords as to Vietnam from the beginning: I knew the Communists would never keep a single agreement."

Youve never been able to trust em, said Wallace. I dont believe in confrontation. I believe in negotiation, and I believe in detente. But while Im detenting, as they say, I wouldnt turn my back on em.

Wallace believes not merely in negotiating, but in negotiating from a position of strength. Military power would be basic to his foreign policy. He would make the United States "the strongest nation on the face of the earth, because the people

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The General Assembly completed the burial of the North Carolina Fair Trade Act recently, and it was about time that decaying corpse was decently buried.

By the time the State Senate gave final ai^roval to the repeal of the price-fixing legislation, its effectiveness had been pretty well whittled down by neglect (rf enforcemeif^evasion and an adverse court decision limiting its effect.

One senator, who opposed repeal, estimated at the end that only 5 per cent (rf the merchandise sold in North Carolina was affected by the law. While we doubt his accuracy, the estimate at least indicates the relative ineffectualness of the vestige.

Senator McNeil Smith of Guilford, who sponsored the repeal, said studies had showed goods under fair price controls sold at in-ices of 20 to 25 per cent higher than when unprotected. The protection in this case refers, of course, to the merchants prcrfit structure not the consumer price.

'The state law had required that the manufacturers iwice must apply to all dealers if oiily one distributor signed an agreement to maintain the price. The North Carolina Supreme Court struck this down as unconstitutional.

At the end this law only covered the individual signee so it was largely ineffective because a merchant signing the agreement would not be competitive with other merchants selling the same items.

Apparently, the state merchants association recognized the weakness of the law for Senatix: Smith said it expressed no opposition to the repeal. The Guilford senator could not resist a jab at his fellow solons who made the teacing of free enterprise in North Carolina schools comjHilsory. The repeal, he said, is an act in favor of free enterprise."

The first fair trade bills were enacted during the depression to protect small businesses from cutthroat competition from chain stores. Times change, and the emphasis is now on the protection of consumers from artificially rigged high prices.

were dealing with dont understand anything but strength."

The Governor had kind words for the Japanese and the Germans, though he rebuked Germany and West Europe for not paying a greater part of NATO expenses. He kind of wished we had conducted foreign policy more skillfully in the $20s and $30s so that we could have had the Germans and Japanese as allies instead of enemies in World War II.

Among the foreign

newsmen were Bq Holmquist of Sweden and Stein Savik of Norway. Wallace let

Holmquist have one barrel for Swedens anti-American harboring of draft dodgers; then he let Savik have the other barrel for Norways role in World War II. You people in Scandinavia were mighty glad when we came over and saved you from the Germans, Wallace reminded his vistors. Savik said later he was "shocked" by Wallaces attitude: "I dont know why he was so aggressive."

The Governor also got in a lick at India for building an atom bomb instead of feeding her starving people. When asked how he could criticize nations he himself had never visited, Wallace said he didnt need to see a bunch of buildings and a bunch of grass and a bunch of trees to know about Scandinavians, Russians and Indians. If he were running foreign policy, he wouldnt worry about whether the Netherlands approved. Hed do what was ^best for the U.S.A.

Hoo, boy! This is vintage stuff. To be sure, Wallace had some of his facts scrambled Sweden, for example, stayed neutral in World War Il-but his prejudices were superbly arrayed. When the Governor talks about those pointy-headed Swedish intellectuals, harboring those long-haired draft dodgers, he is talking in tones that have an anvil ring. Send em a message!

A few weeks ago, the Gallup Poll found Wallace the first choice of both Democrats and independents for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. A few days ago, a Christian Science Monitor poll of 129 party officials found that 118 believed Wallace couldnt win the nomination, and 105 believed (Continued on page 5)

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By JAMES GER8TENZANO * Associated Press Writer J

WASHINGTON (AP) - It ^ might seem like carrying coals \ to Newcastle but builders of a ! proposed natural gas pipeline ! above the Arctic Circle may have to bring snowmaking machines to northern Alaska.

The snow would be used to I build roads which would protect ! the tundra underneath. The tun- dra is the delicate arctic soil ^ that quickly erodes once Its i surface is broken. !

The environmental director of the Alaskan Arctic Gas Pipeline Co. on Tuesday expressed concern that sufficient snow might not protect the ground In late %utumn when construction of the pipeline would begin.

The environmental * expert, Russell A. Hemstock, said at a Federal Power Commission hearing that the areas climate is dry and as little as 30 inches of snow falls there each year despite its northern location.

He was testifying on behalf of an Alaskan Arctic application to build the pipeline from Prudhoe Bay on Alaskas North' Slope, through Canadas Northwest Territories and south into the upper Midwestern United States.

The environmental director of the Alaskan Arctic Gas Pipeline Co. on 'Tuesday expressed concern that there might not be sufficient snow to ixrotect the ground in late autumn when construction of the pipeline would begin.

Hemstock explained that the tundra in Northern Alaska is extremely delicate and that heavy construction equipment driving over it would quickly cause permanent damage, possibly extending to the per- mafrost 12 to 18 inches below the surface.

He said the pipeline builders would construct roads of packed snow, which would absorb the weight of the construction machines, some as heavy as 300 tons, and would thus protect the vegetation.

But, he said, if enough snow is not available when construction begins at the start of the Alaskan winter, snow would manufactured using machines similar to those used on idci slopes.

Hemstock later told reporters that with an adequate early snowfall and the use of snow fences to collect drifting snow the machines would not be needed.

40 Years Ago Today

May 15,1935 Eighty students, members of the Science Club of the college, visited Wilmington today. They left at 8 a.m. to visit chemical plants there.

The group plans to inspect a bromine plant, a fertilizer plant, and a plant that manufactures pine tree products. They may also visit the water plant.

Each year, the club makes some trip for special scientific study. Last year, they visited the biological laboratories in Beaufort.

The trip wasunder the charge of Miss Loraine Hunter, adviser of the science faculty. Robert Sugg Fleming of Greenville is president of the club.

A petition is being circulated in this area calling on the Board of County (Commissioners to call an election for the legalization of whiskey in Pitt County.

Pitt was one of 17 counties recently authorized by the State Legislature to vote on the question.

Susan Price

Confident The Worsf Now Over

exist in glorious fashion in the absence of any one, or even all, of the above circumstances.

Self-forgetfulnesS is probably the strongest stimulus to happiness. The man who has succeeded in renouncing himself, losing his personality in the lives of others, projecting his energy vigorously into circumstances part from himself, has found the secret of happiness. He has freed himself from one of the most grievous of all tyraitsthe introverted, all-encompassing self.

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By JOSH FITZHUGH AP Business Writer Businessmen around the country are confident that the worst of the recession is over.

Many executives interviewed recently by The Associated Press say inventories are back in line, a key first step toward increased production and lower unemployment Still despite a general decline in price increases, and price cuts in some industries, the business leaders remain convinced that inflation is the nations No 1 economic problem.

"As a general statement I would say the economy has about hit bottom but hasnt

started the upturn, says Jack Reed, a Mississippi retailer. He said he expected his invent(Xies to be below last years levels shortly.

We believe the early stages of recovery ar^well under way in wocid rat^cts industry, says an e^utive with Washingt^ States WeyerheauserJ^Zq- Its no longer a qu^<ton (rf when but how m^

Despite these sentiments, conditions are by no means uniform. Construction work remains depressed in some regions, recovery of autorelated companies is slow, and capital goods firms expect to lag behind the

national recovery as usual Our construction machine business has been down for about a year and as yet there are no signs of a tu^ naround, says Richard Seaman, vice {x-esident of Rexnord Inc. of Milwaukee. Still he expects 1975 to be a very good year.

Some companies report no effects from the recession In leisure activities, people seem to spend the money even though other parts of the economy seem to show that they are short, notes Ken Elling, treasurer of Hoigaards Inc., a retailer outside Minneapolis. <

They turn to skiing and camping instead of going to

Europe or doing something else

Clevelands American Greetings Corp. and Kansas Citys Hallmark Cards Inc., both (rf which make greeting cards, say work forces are up and business good

In the Southeast, the hard-hit textile industry shows signs of an upturn as iiv-ventorieS\ dwindle. About 75,(X)0 texthe workers were laid off there^ia^t year.

The businessmen say the recession has had an impact on prices and quality. Nearly all report greater competition in the markets they hujr from as well as thpse th^ sell in.