The Daily Reflector. Greenville, N.C.Wednesday, October 15. 1975

Preserve That Responsibility

One doesnt kick somebody else when theyre down; and that isnt our intent. But the continuing debate over federal help for New York City involves a lot of issues that cannot be ignored; and, indirectly, involves even the people in Pitt County.

It isnt just a matter of economic health in New York. Conceivably, Greenville could be pushed into the same condition. So could Simpson; even county governments are not immune.

To us, bankruptcy could not mean the demise of New York City. Fun City will continue to exist even if it goes broke. Individuals go bankrupt; so do partnerships; so do small businesses and big businesses. History is full of instances when American cities have gone broke, but they do survive. It is not the end of the world.

Every governmental units financial standing is based on its fiscal responsibility ... a wholly impartial standard; and New York City is judged on that basis just as is Greenville. It is a matter of satisfaction for Greenville that its government has been able to function and serve its people on the basis of costs falling within the limits of anticipated revenues and known resources. In that respect we are matched by thousands of other American municipalities and county governments, as well as 50 state governments.

There is not a single municipality in North Carolina that is in default on a single general obligation bond.

So why the big fuss over one ... or six, or eight.

or a dozen . . . governmental units who fail their responsibilities. Other than their respective size, they are no different in their respcmsibility than the smallest village in the national make-up.

Sound government is more than at first meets the eye. Good business practices are a prime requisite; a candidate for office who promises pie-in-tlje-sky cannot ignore the price involved. Nor can government permit its budgetary responsibility be controlled by non-governmental forces. Those principles seemingly were abandoned in some of our larger cities, or, their power to govern nibbled away.

Logically, that could happen to any government, great or small; even to us. Its something to guard against.

It does concern us that because New York City is a big governmental unit it is asking federal help to resolve its problem. More than that, the call for help appears in no way linked to realistic steps to solve its own problem . . . that is, living within its income.

So, if Uncle Sam says Okay, heres a couple billion to bail you out; two years later theyll be knocking at Uie door again. More than that, a precedent will have been set. Every governmental unit in the country, every political candidate, every office holder, will get the message: Uncle will bail you out.

Theres no better road to ruin.

THIS AFTERNOON

Urge Drug-Running Fight

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH - North Carolina has some gorgeous, deserted coastline.

The beaches, inlets, creeks, and marshes draw thousands of tourists, hunters, fishermen.

They also draw visitors of another sort; dope smugglers who use the isolated waterways to bring their goods into the country.

Top law enforcement officers from throughout the Southeast gathered in Raleigh recently to exchange information and ideas on drug smuggling, with the goal of establishing an area-wide exchange of information, and pulling into the fight not only state and federal law enforcement officials, but state foresters. Wildlife Resources field men, park rangers, and any others who are regularly out and about in the isolated sections of the state.

Footpaths There are places on the North Carolina coast, one top law enforcement official says, where the constant

pounding of feet through the sand to retrieve drugs smuggled onto the beach have made permanent paths.

You can do down there, follow the path, pick up the right bush, and pull a package of heroin or cocaine out, he says.

The thousands of small boats along the coast, the numerous deserted waterways, and the huge profits to be made from drug trafficking make the problem a critical one, law officers say.

Drugs are being brought in by air, as well.

Deserted airstrips in isolated rural sections are apparently the scene of a great deal of activity if the few cases in which the drugs have been confiscated is any indication.

The thrust of the regional plan to combat smuggling will be toward organizing the various officials who are in the field regularly, and training them to recognize signs of smuggling.

North Carolinas major military installations located

in eastern counties compound the drug problem. Research has shown that the heaviest drug use centers around those bases, and the conclusion follows that hard drugs to supply that market must be brought in.

The State Bureau of Investigation has already put into operation special drug squads who concentrate in that field, and the record shows an average of 10 to 15 drug arrests daily in the state.

Concentration must be on the traffic in hard drugs, says Attorney General Rufus L. Edmisten, who hosted the Southeast planning session.

They Are Killers We would like to see every effort made to take those who are dealing in drugs off the streets.

They are murderers. They are killing young people who start using drugs and turn to the hard stuff.

Some states have relaxed law enforcement on what is considered minor drug

violations in order to zero in on the pushers.

Edmisten favors that approach. He does not endorse legalizing marijuana, and gives some credence to the idea that some number of those who start off smoking marijuana graduate eventually to more serious drug use.

But I would be in favor of simply issuing a citation to a marijuana user. They are doing that in some places and it is working quite well . . . why clog up the courts and the police stations with such cases. Police could simply issue a citation and the defendant could appear for trial.

Edmisten is directing the SBl away from involvement in marijuana cases, urging that agency to concentrate rather on the pusher and the hard drugs.

Its a matter of

priorities, Edmisten said, and my philosophy is to set the priorities on serious things. . .including the traffic in'hard drugs.

INSIDE REPORT

Intelligence Is Drying Up

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Overshadowed by congressional emasculation of the CIA but perhaps even more damaging to the national interest is the sudden drying up of valuable intelligence through exposure of National Security Agency (NSA) techniques.

Formerly super-secret methods used by the NSA in monitoring commercial international phone and teletype circuits became common knowledge soon after they were given to congressional investigations of the intelligence community. Thus forewarned, foreign users of commercial channels for transmitting information of great interest to the U.S. government switched to more secure means.

Losing this information is viewed at the Pentagon as considerably more serious

than Defense officials care to admit. While lacking hard proof of who leaked the NSA information, these officials believe it almost surely came from the staff of the House Intelligence Committee headed by Rep. Otis Pike of New York. I firmly believe none of this came from our staff, Pike told us. The fact remains, however, that descriptions of NSA monitoring techniques appeared in public prints (including a long account in the Sept. 8 Newsweek) soon after the secret material was handed over to Pikes staff.

Several foreign nations who had been using commercial channels switched to private couriers. One result: the U.S. government has lost valuable information 'about Arab strategy in internationar oil price manipulations. But even more important information, directly related to U.S. security, also is gone.

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Ford In N.H.

The Ford-Reagan confrontation in New Hamp-shires Republican presiden|ial primary begins on a strident note thanks to confusion over just what President Ford said to former Gov. Hugh Gregg at a picnic lunch in Amherst, N.H., Sept. 11.

Gregg got the distinct impression the President asked him to run his campaign there; Ford campaign sources say the President informed them he made no such offer. Former Sen. Norris Cotton, an old friend of the President who introduced him to Gregg in Amherst, was present for part of the conversation and remembers Mr. Ford talking about Gregg being a good man to take hold of his New Hampshire campaign.

There was no follow-up to the picnic conversation, and Gregg ended up as Ronald Reagans state chairman. Ford sources say Gregg went with Reagan only because he could not run the Ford campaign; Gregg contends the Presidents men reneged on the Presidents offer. Thus, another New Hampshire primary begins with the sour tone typifying that

Strength For Today

WHO IS DEFEATED?

There is an old political axiom which runs, Always beware of any really good man who has been badly defeated.

A weak man defeated is crushed and broken. A bad man defeated becomes one whose whole energy is turned into destructive channels. But a good man dfeated becomes a revitalized personality whose every power is now marshalled for victory. There it is that he girds up his loins and makes ready for a battle which makes all previous conflicts appear as

TAKES TWO TO TANGO!

By ARTBUCHWALD

The War Of The Stones

states Republican party.

A footnote; Until Oct. 5, Ford campaign managers were, planning major campaigning by Jack Ford for his father throughout New Hampshire. Since his admission of using marijuana, however. Ford operatives wonder whether Jack would go over with Granite State Republicans and are delaying speaking plans for him there.

Victimizing Sonnenfeldt

Totally discredited security allegations first made against State Department counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt two years ago are behind a new move to block his promotion by President Ford as a foreign service career minister.

An unpublicized objection by right-wing Republican Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina has held up Senate confirmation of Sonnenfeldt and seven other top diplomats as career ministers ever since the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved their nominations last July.

After keeping the nominations from the Senate floor in early August, Helms finally wrote Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Oct. 2.

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nothing. He and his cause become fused together into a mighty crusade.

We can test character by the way men take defeat. The weak collapse under it, the wicked grow bitter and vengeful, the righteous regard it as a challenge. With renewed strength they prepare to begin the battle all over again.

The next time you feel defeated, remind yourself that there is no such thing as permanent defeat for any person whose cause is truly in the right.

by Elisha Douglass

WASHINGTON Last week I had a kidney stepe attack in Evansville, Ind. I wouldnt have even mentioned it except that an alert Associated Press urology correspondent picked up the story, and it made the A.P. wire. So many people have written in asking what a kidney, i.stone attack really feels like that I decided to try to explain it in terms that the layman can understand.

A kidney stone is about the size of a tiny pebble to everyone except the person who has one. To this person it is the size of the Rock of Gibraltar. In fact, many people when they get a kidney stone attack scream out, Ive got a piece of the

Rock.

There are two kinds of kidney stones. One is made up of uric acid and the other of calcium. Doctors can differentiate between the two, but patients cant nor at the time of an attack do they give a damn. If youve felt one kidney stone, youve felt them all.

This is what seems to happen as far as the victim is concerned. He is going along minding his own business when suddenly, out of nowhere, a mountain forms in the kidney which, as I said, feels like the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

The kidney reacts angrily to this interference with its function and tries to push the

Other Editors Say Raises Problems

(J acksonville Daily News)

Picture the Soviet Union sending buyers to the United States with firm orders, and hard money to back them up, for a billion dollars worth of automobiles.

Now extend this impossible dream by imagining certain politicians and labor leaders demanding that the government scotch the deal because additional sales aboard might cause car prices to go up at home.

Ridiculous? But just substitute grain for automobiles and you have todays insane demand by some to shut off further grain shipments to foreign customers.

That is the analogy drawn by Keith C. Barrens, an agricultural scientist with Dow Chemical Co. and author of a just-published book, The Food in Your Future

For years the American farmer has been raising grain for export just as much as for domestic consumption, says Barrons. Currently he is harvesting more than two billion bushels of wheat, knowing that all the bread, crackers, pasta and pastry we will eat in the U.S.A. during the coming year, plus a reasonable addition to our reserves, will require less than half that amount The remaining billion-plus bushels were raised to be sold, just like every automobile that rolls off the assembly line, and this grain must be sold abroad Farm production for export has been a lifesaver for our economy, Barrons contends. Last year we exported $21 billion worth. If all this food had been retained at home just to keep domestic process down, the resulting high deficit in foreign trade would have caused further deterioration in the value of the dollar and higher costs for everything we import Even if a block to the free export of farm commodities had a temporarily depressing effect on food prices, the long-range rffect would be higher prices, he says.

Any manufacturer faced with the possibility of a ban on exports would gear his output to meet only the domestic market With lower volume his costs would go up, and these increases would eventually reach the consumer.

Farmers will certainly not plant for the superabundance we have been blessed with in recent decades if their foreign markets are in jeopardy. Do those advocating an export shut-off expect farmers to produce a high surplus in future years just so the prices they receive will go down?

With higher taxes and greatly increased costs for equipment, fuel, fertilizer and everything that goes into a crop, many farmers are already on the ropes, says Barrons. An export ban could knock them completely out of the ring.

Turkish

Base

Stakes

rock into what might be described as the Suez Canal. Obviously the Suez Canal cannot accommodate the Rock of Gibraltar, and without any warning war is declared between the kidney and the rock.

An urgent message is sent on the hot line from the kidney to the rock. Unless you get out of our canal immediately, we will attack with everything we have in our organ.

The rock sends back a one-word reply, NUTS!

The patient, who is a horrified neutral spectator to this exchange, tries everything to achieve peace. He paces up and down, rolls to and fro and eventually tries to climb the wall in hopes that the kidney and rock will come to their senses.

Using Kissinger diplomataic tactics, the patient tries to persuade the rock that if it will just move a few inches down the canal, the kidney will not try to break it up.

But the rock is adamant and demands tremendous concessions- in exchange for withdrawing - from its position.

How do I know, the rock asks, that if I move from where I am now I will not be driven into the sea?

' The victim assures the rock the kidney has no intention of pushing it into the sea. All the kidney wants to do is live in peace with the lower part of the body. As long as the rock doesnt try to prevent the kidney from doing its work, the rock can live in the bladdar for as long as it wants to.

If negotiations fail and the rock refuses to move, then a U.N. doctor is called in who immediately fires a volley of Demerol or some other painkiller into the bloodstream .

This does not stop the war between the rock and the kidney, but it gives some shelter to the innocent, while the kidney tries to push the enemy out of its territory. This can only be done with gallons of water which the kidney forces against the rock.

If the good guy (the kidney) wins, the rock will retreat and even sue for peace. If the rock is able to repulse the water attack and hold its

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By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the United States again shipping F4 Phantom jets to Turkey following the easing of the arms embargo, Pentagon officials are hopeful Turkish leaders now will allow the United States to regain control of military bases in Turkey.

Officials said six F4s part of the 24 to be delivered this month left Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., on Tuesday on the first leg of the long flight. After a stop at Torrejon Airbase in Spain, the planes are due to fly on to Turkey Thursday.

Twelve more Turkey-bound F4s will take off from Norh Carolina within the next week, followed by six in late October. Counting 16 planes delivered before the congressionally ordered embargo was imposed last winter, this will complete a current U.S. commitment of F4s for Turkey.

The United States already has provided Greece with 36 F4s, for a rough balance between the rival Turks and Greeks in this form of air power, n

U.S. officials say none of the restrictions imposed by Turkish officials after seizing control of U.S. bases last July have been relaxed, despite the recent easing of the U.S. embargo by Congress to permit movement of $185 million in arms to Turkey.

Turkish government leaders have said relaxation of the embargo was only a step in the direction of eliminating what the Turks have called an unjust decision to cut off the arms flow in the first place.

Congress imposed the embargo on grounds that Turkey used American-supplied arms in its invasion of Cyprus in the summer of 1974.

Of particular concern to American officials are key radar monitoring stations which formerly kept track of Soviet missile tests.

Pentagon specialists say the United States has lost important information on the progress of some Soviet weapons developments, including a new 2,200-mile-range missile.

CIA chief William E. Colby told Congress in August the loss of the information from the Turkish stations could not be fully made up by any other means of intelligence-gathering.

40 Years

Ago Today

October 15,1935

Preparations are about completed for the opening of the Greater Greenville Fair next Monday night at 6:00, secretary N. G. Bartlett said today.

Bartlett stated that the exhibit hall is being put in tip-top shqpe for the agricultural exhibits and that indications are that there will be plenty of exhibits for the visitors to the fair.

The old dangerous grandstand whiph was in use last year, will be replaced with cool open air bleachers, which will be erected to take care of the grandstand attractions.

Work on the forests of the Croatan purchase unit of the Summer National Forests was started this week by 200 men at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp 21, on Holston Creek near Stella.

This is the second CCC camp now at work on the national forest.

James Kyle

Working On 1976 Forecasts

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - At this time of year the economic forecasters usually are well into the process of constructing their projections for the coming year.

Its an old tradition, and one that many of the very esteemed names will have nothing to do with, feeling that it is somehow a prostitution of their calling, a bit like putting them in a category with fortune tellers.

In fact, it is as distasteful to some renowned academics as is the inclination of some of their colleagues to join the political bandwagon of one party or another, for politics, it is maintained, com

promises good economics.

Those economists who ply their trade in the business world, however, cannot have the luxury of simply analyzing events after they occur. They are paid to lo<* ahead, to foretell, and even suggests what moves to make.

So the tradition continues, and as always the same cry is heard: There are to many imponderables this year.

Can you imagine inviting an economist to your annual conventicm, paying him a stiff fee and taking care of his room, board and entertainment, and not squeezing out of him a forecast?

Can you imagine an econo

mist turning down the oppoi^ tunity of making the same 40-minute speech to three different conventions in two weeks and collecting three four-figure fees while enjoying the sun and relaxing

Can you imagine a commercial bank that must, for its own purposes, attempt to look far into the future, not sharing its views with its big corporate customers? Or a highly paid consultant declining to go out on a limb?

The forecasts, therefore, will be spilling forth in inrofusion tetween now and Christmas, despite a record of unsuccess over the past four years that in individual instances is quite lamentaUe.

In forecasting prices, for

example, none other toan the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers has understated the fact in 11 of the past 14 years, even though they did have more success in anticipating broad economic directions.

To praise economic forecasters, says Arthur Okun, a former chairman of the council of advisers, is like saying that the Titanic had a good trip except for that iceberg.

You may be certain, therefore, that the early forecasts will call your attention to the icebergs, which is toe equivalent of telling toe Titanics passengers well be in New York as scheduled if we dont hit one of those things.