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Hope From Highway 264 Ass'n

BLOOD OUT OF A STONEI

A Highway 264 Association was organized in a meeting in Washington, N. C. last week, which gives hope that at long last there will be a serious effort to have U. S. 264 improved.

Greenville attorney Tom Taft was elected as chairman of the group which is dedicated to having U. S. 264 developed into a four4ane limited access road through this area.

Representatives from Greenville, Wilson, Farmville and Washington attended the meeting. Taft said the group plans to assemble econinnic and demograj^ic inf(H*mation which will make the case for im{*oving the busy highway which is Greenville, Farmville, Washington and Wilsons access to the state capital.

Taft said, Its our feeling that Greenville is becoming the economic focal point in the East and that its time for us to take the steps that are necessary to insure the development of adequate transportation into the Piedmont and to the p<^ on the coast.

Taft promised that some of the most prominoit and influential business and community leaders along iJ. S. 264 will serve <m the board of directors.

We couldnt be happier. This Highway 264 Association is something that has long been needed to look after the interests of the counties and communities along U. S. 264. Already work is wdl along on developing U. S. 70 from Raleif^ to the coast and even now a study is underway about improving U. S. 64. If nothing is done by Greenville, Wilson, Washington and Farmville we will find ourselves left out again in the development of east-west highways.

There is really nothing in the state which compares with the development that is going on in Greenville at present. W can see that in a few years Greenville will be a major dty. Yet, if nothing is done to begin planning improvements to U. S. 264, it could very easily be the turn of the century before anything is done about an adequate highway from Greenville to Raleigh.

Hie time to speak up is now and it will take an organization like to Highway 264 Association to make our feelings known. Every business and every individual in this area^ should support the association and, through it, efforts to improve U. S. 264.

THIS AFTERNOON

Restoring Early Splendor

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGHThe Capitol of North Carolina is not being remodeled. It is being restored to its original splendor, the team of experts involved are quick to remind you.

It has been remodeled before: carpets covering original wide pine planks in the floor; layers of brick covering original soapstone fireplace linings; layer-on-layer of paint obscuring the original color; wooden platforms supporting the rows of desks in both the Senate and Commons chambers.

All is being tom back carefully, painstakinglyto the original.

Important JOb

Yes, this job is ^ry important to me. . .personally, and to all North Carolinians. Even to the world.

This is the last building of its kind in the world in this fine a state of preservation, Dodge said.

When the workmen complete their taskshopefully by next June, in time for the Bicentennial, celebrations beginning in Julythe

Capitol will be very similar to the original. . .but with all modem conveniences in the way of plumbing, wiring, heating, and so on, says Fred Senter, the contractors superintendent on the job.

We can put it back the way it was, says Architect WUliam W. Dodge, III, of Raleigh. Dodge is obviously engaged in a labor of love as he spends long hours with dirty hands poking through the materials yielding to the woricmens tools.

We love renovation work, and this is one of the finest buildings in the state and the nation. It has been abused, but it will be a showplace, Senter said. He will supervise the Williams Building and Realty Co. crews.

Completed in 1840 after seven years of constmction, the Capitol is made of heavy

granite blocks quarried in Raleigh.

Inside walls are plaster over the thick granite, and the roofincluding the large dome at center and two smaller ones over the legislative chambersare

supported by an elaborate system of massive timbers, hewn by hand and hoisted into place atop the three-storied granite walls.

Behind Scenes

Behind a door still bearing the bronze marker Journal* Clerk-Private is a tiny spiral staircase whirling upward nearly 60 feet to the attic. Clambering over huge beans held in place by wooden pegs, you can reach a vantage point inside the Capitol dome97 feet above the stone floor of the rotimda.

Completed in 1840 at a cost just over half a million dollars, the renovation work now is costing twice that-including earlier completion of a new copper roof and exterior cleaning and sealing of the granite blocks.

Until 1888, the Capitol housed all of state government, but when the General Assembly moved to new quarters in 1963, followed by last years evacuation by Ck)v. James E. Holshouser, Jr., to make way for the renovation, only Secretary of State Thad Eure remains as a regular tenant. He will leave later and the building will become a showplace for the State Department of Archives and History.

Original mahogany furniture in the legislative chamMrs will be returned in refinished condition; the benches in the galleries will be cleansed of defacing initials and dates; ornamental ironwork, chandeliers, hardware and marble fireplaces will be gleaming in^ their renewed condition, and Tar Heels can welcome the visitors who come to see what will surely be one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture anywhere.

INSIDE REPORT

Rumsfeld Tactics Suspect

BY ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - The fact

that

a 34-year-old

presidential aide named Dick Cheney is increasingly taking charge of day-to-day White House business is a fascinating manifestation of backstage intrigue with far-reaching implications.

The reason Cheney is handling so much of the White House routine today, say knowledgeable insiders, is that his boss and mentor, presidential chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld, is quietly deepening his involvement in the management of President Fords election campaign. And that is widely viewed in upper reaches of the administration as a means to one end: putting Rumsfeld on the 1976 ticket as Vice President.

That a Ford-Rumsfeld ticket is talked about seriously in high places Is a clear sign that Vice President Nelson Rockefellers problems have by no means been solved. While Mr. Fords praise for his Vice President grows ever warmer and less conditional, Rockefellers stock among

party leaders perceptibly declines.

All this creates a tableau worthy of the Byzantine palace. Mr. Ford, typically open and straight-forward, clearly wants to reward Rockefellers loyal service the past year with a full term as Vice President. But constantly at the Presidents side advising him is Rumsfeld secretive, clever and no friend of Nelson Rockefeller.

Strengthening Rumsfelds hand in surreptitiously pushing to dump Rockefeller are two outside events: the Vice Presidents ill-advised Southern tour, which did not win over conservatives and sickened liberals, and the Harris poll showing him hurting the Ford ticket.

The result in agitation against the Vice President in Republican ranks which goes beyond the usual ]4ialanx of right-wing Rockefeller-ha-ters. State chairman Paul Haerle of California, who defled his state's Ronald Reagan zealots to announce his early support for Mr. Ford, is now publicly calling for a new running*ma^.

One prominent con-

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servative leader who is counted on by Reagan forces has come to feel so strongly that Rockefeller must go that he is thinking about making this offer to the White House: dump Rocky and Ill back Ford.

If Rockefeller, 67, is dumped, it is highly unlikely that Reagan, 64, will replace him. High-level speculation about a younger successor boils down to the three Bs Sens. William Brock, 44, and Howard Baker, 49, both of Tennessee, and Ambassador George Bush, 51 plus Rumsfeld, 43.

Baker is the best known but is widely distrusted both in the White House and party circles. With Brock up for reelection next year, his selection might turn another Senate seat over to the Democrats or, if a Ford-^ Brock ticket lost, remove him . from political life. As for Bush, he was one <rf Mr. Ford's final three choices for Vice President (along with Rockefeller and Rumsfeld). But now out of sight in Peking as envoy to China, he is also out of the political mind.

Enter Rumsfeld. While the Ford campaign Is technically removed from the White House, Rumsfeld actually runs it. He talks to party leaders far more Uian is generally known (including wily old-pro F. Clifton White of New York, architect of Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential nomination).

Whats more, antl-

Rockefeller conservatives get this private message from Rumsfeld: I cant do anything about it right now, but I agree that Rocky should go. Taking the overall drift of the way Rummy operates, one presidential aide told us, I can only conclude that he is running for Vice President.

But the cheering would be restrained if Rumsfeld succeeds. He reminds me too much of Nixon, says one conservative Congressman. You never know which way hes going. Similarly, Rumsfeld is not without ferocious enemies in the administration and the White House itself.

Some of those enemies think that if Rockefeller goes, he should be replaced by a non-Washington figure perferably a young, moderate governor such as Gov. Daniel Evans, 49, of Washington or Gov. Robert Ray, 47 of Iowa. Conservatives would much prefer Gov. James Holshouser, 40, of North Carolina.

There is, however, a built-in liability for Rumsfeld or any other seeker of the 1976 vice-presidential nomination young enough to become Mr. Fords heir-apparent in 1980: all other Republicans ambitious for the 1980 nomination would try to stop him to keep the post-Ford option wide open.

Whatever the choice, many (Continued on page S)

Strength For Today

THE PURPOSE OF LIVING

The most stabilizing belief a person can ever entertain is a deep-seated beli^ that life has its purposeOiat it is headed in a definite direction and is going to reach its destinatimi regardless of any works of man.

Human life is not just a physical phenomenon in a I^yslcal universe. It is an eternal heritage promised to everyone who lives by faith. We are on a pilgrimage, and what happens to us in the course of itwhat we suffer, what we get, or what we losethese are incidents of

trifling importance in the larger scheme of things.

The end is celestial triumph. We have the promise that the consummation will be eternal life with God. Every day of fidelity and endurance takes us one step closer to a realm in which there will be no more weeping or crying; neither shall there by any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

Eternity is not something we can take or reject. Eternity is the portion of every human heart.

By Elisha Douglass

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

The Dun Sparrows Free

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee went to prison in 1963, charged with two murders they insisted they did not commit. Ten days ago, after more than 12 years behind bars, most of them spent on Death Row, a pardon from Governor Reubin Askew set them free.

There is a story here of pride and shame, of dedication on the one hand and stubbornness on the other. It is a sad story, and only because happiness is relative, like other conditions of mankind, is it possible to say that the story had a happy ending.

The shame is a Southern shame, the stubbornness a Southern stubbornness. Southerners know these things. I know them. I am a Southerner, and I love the South, but the Pitts-Lee case in Florida, like the Silas

Rogers case some years earlier in Virginia, is a matter not for regional pride, but for regional shame.

The Pitts-Lee story began on a hot summer night in Port St. Joe, a small papermill town on the Gulf Coast. At a Mo-Jo service station, an argument developed when two black women sought to use a restroom marked White Ladies Only. Lee, who was then 28, was working as a wood pulper. Pitts, then 19, was a private in the Army. They are black. Perhaps that goes without saying.

Later that night the two service station attendants disappeared. Two days later their bodies were found 14 miles away. They had been shot in the head. They were white. Perhaps that, too, goes without saying.

Pitts and Lee had been among those at the station at the time of the argument. To

Public Forum

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To the editor:

Recently a five-year-old child was admitted to my service at Martin General Hospital, Williamston, N.C. because of advanced liver failure. His body was cadaverous. His features were bird-like. Death appeared imminent. Acting out of frustration and futility I left the order: Connect the patient immediately to the artificial liver machine!. Before I could leave the hospital the nurse in charge on the floor came running after me and inquired, Where is the artificial liver machine?. I replied, I dont know where it is?. A few hours later the patient died.

I often wonder: Where waz the artificial liver machine? Was it sacrificed for Vietnam? Was it on a space ship headed toward Mars? Did the Russians get it via detente? I concluded; The artificial liver machine's non-existence could be explained by a thousand different causes!.

Liver disease in America is bad and it is getting worse. One out of every 14 people will suffer soipe.form if it this year. It has become the third leading medi^cal killer of adult Americans, people over age 25. The number one medical killer is" heart disease. Last year the American Heart Foundation spent 50 million dollars on research. The number two medical killer is cancer. Last year the American Cancer Society spent 48 million on research. The number third medical killer is liver disease. Last the American Hepatic Foundation financed by a few private citizens, had only 913,133 to spend on all aspects of its research and educational programs. Obviously more priority needs to be given to liver disease research.

Martel J. Dailey. M.D. Secretary-Treasurer American Hepatic Foundation P.O. Box lOOS Williamston, N.C. 37892

make a very long story short (only to get at the happier aspects of the tale), they were arrested and charged with murder. They confessed. A publicly appointed lawyer pled them guilty. An all-white jury at a mercy hearing brought in a verdict of death.

Except for the confessions, there was no substantive evidence against them: no fingerprints, no gun, no ballistics tests, no stolen money recovered. The chief prosecution witness changed her story, time after time. But the 1963 verdict stood. It stood even though a white man, Curtis Boo Adams, who several months later was imprisoned for robbery, confessed in 1964 that he himself had killed the Mo-Jo victims. The Pitts-Lee prosecutors stubbornly refused to believe Adams account.

Years passed. The Pittsft Lee case dragged through appellate courts. At last came a retrial in 1972. Again the case was heard by an all-white jury in Panhandle Florida (the prosecutor struck every black talesman from the panel), and again the verdict was death. The story might have ended there.

But opposed to the shame and tjie stubbornness were the pride and the dedicatioa Southerners can indeed take pride in what happened.

A courageous newspaper reporter, Gene Miller of the Miami Herald, never gave up. Miller is one of the countrys top crime reporters. He early became convinced that Pitts and Lee were innocent. His newspaper, which offered a $15,000 reward to clear up the case, stood behind him all the way. Miller worked for nine years to keep the case alive.

He had help. Warren

Holmes, a polygraph expert,

labored with equal

dedication. Phillip A. Hub-

bart and Irwin J. Block,

attorneys, gave their time

and their hearts. Hundreds of

white Southerners, eager to

see injustice remedied,

contributed to a defense fund.

Finally Governor Reubin

Askew turned his attention to

the case. Askew read the (Continued on page S)

They'll

Want

Funds

By JAMES GER8TENZANG Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Secret Service, facing its first Senate investigation because of two assassination attempts against President Ford, is expected to plead for more money to provi(te better protectioa The Senate subcommittee mi Treasury, Postal Service and general government appropriations begins hearings today, hoping to find out what the Secret Service needs to do its job. Initial witnesses include Treaa ury Secretary William E. Simon, whose department is responsiUe for the agency, and Secret Service Director H. Stuart Knight

A subcommittee staff member said the agency, best known for its role in protecting the President and presidential candidates, probably will ask for additional funds to guard the 1976 candidates.

They are going to ask for a supplemental request, he said, predicting that the request would be based on the advanced starting date for Secret Service protection of the candidates.

The protection had been planned to begin in January. Then, after two assassination attempts on Ford within 17 days, it was decided the protection should start Wednesday. The Treasury Department announced Monday that protection would be offered to six candidates.

The subcommittee also will explore whether more agents or special programs would assist the agency.

The investigation is the first such probe by a government body since the Warren Commission looked at the Secret Service while investigating the 1963 assassination of President Jdin F. Kennedy.

Subcommittee staff members said that, although the panel handles Secret Service apixro-priations, the agency never has undergone slEeV-c(mgres8i(Hial scrutiny, f The Hearings hadNbeen planned < fter the first attempt on Fords life in Sacramento, Calif., Sept 5, but were moved up after the second assassination attempt Sept 22 in San Francisco.

Two San Francisco policemen and two Secret Service agents who talked with Sara Jane (Continued on page 5)

40 Years

Ago Tocday

September 30,1935

Morehead City High School comes to Greenville Friday to help inaugurate the football season ftec^The Greenville team has b^ working hard since Septenmer 9, and is beginning to show signs of playing some good football.

Of course, the strength of the team cannot be judged accurately from practice, but it has showed enough to lead its supporters to believe it will get somewhere this year.

Although the backs are not causing much worry, the line is the question mark of the team.

Morehead City defeated Nw Bern last Friday 13-6. New Bern generally has one of the best teams in the east, so as a result Morehead City is being looked upon as the leader among the eastern teams.

The game will be played at the Third Street stadium. An added feature will be the high schools newly uniformed

band.

James Kyle

Questions Growth Of Service

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - You often hear the U.S. consumer economy bdng described as turning more toward the production of services, in which travel, rents, education and the like are offered in greater abundance Ijhan goods.

The auumptim is widely accepted, but not by Fabian Lintton, research chief at The Conference Board, a priwte research organization. He nuiintains that such a trend, while it was true in the 1950s, hasnt been spotted since He says that in recent years the proportimi of total consumer spending that goes for services has remained noore or less ccmstant

He suggests that one reason for the persistence of the notion is that service prices

have risen more sharply than those for goods, in part because productivity of goods rises faster than that o services.

early sixties has been the decline in the importance o services.

For example, technological innovations, new materials, new work methods and other factors improve productivity in the goo^ sector. But how to you (A)tain similar inv ixrovements in the productivity of a barber or doctoi?

He concedes that following World War II services claimed a growing share of the family budget, "rising from roughly 35 per cent to 40 per cent of total personal consumption expenditures in the course of the Fifties.

Linden says the faster price increases for services helps lead to the illusicm that production-consumption ot services continues to grow at a rate faster than for goods. It may be precisely opposite.

Linden writes in the Cwiference Board Record toat" one of the more striking changes in the pattern of consumer spending since the

But, unless there has been a change in the past two years, this pattern no Ibnger seems to prevail It appears to have enctod in the 1960-1973 period, and since 1967 actually may have turned the other way.

Where does that leave uS? In 1973, cmsumer spending was 42 per cent per cent services, 58 per cent goods, and there probably has been little change since then.

Based on 1973 figures

which showed total personal consumption spending at more than 9800 billion and less than 9350 billion of that for services the board offers this percentage breakdown of service spending;

Shelter, between 34 and 35 per cent; medical, about 15; household operations, 14; personal business, between IS and 14; transportation, about 7; higher education, 2; foreign travel, lees than 2; other, 12 per cent There is an asterisk accompanying that shelter pe^ centagft Linden fears the rate is bound to rise. He explains:

'The condition of shelter seems to be deteriorating. Housing starts have been inadequate to acc(nnmodate growth and of offset obsolescence.

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