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Pointing Up Trouble On Farih

Farmers across the nation have formed trac- It all indicates one thing: the nationsiarn

Farmers across the nation have formed trac-torcades to get across the point to the general public that the farm sector is in deep trouble.

In some areas the call has gone out for a farmers' strike in order to force higher prices for farm products.

In North Carolina farm organizations have not been quite that militant, but here in Pitt County some independent farmers did organize a trac-torcade Wednesday to dramatize the plight of the farmer.

There are all shades of thinking among farming about how the problem of disappearing profits ought to be handled. Demonstrations have been held and strikes talked.

It all indicates one thing: the nations^arm sector is in deep financial trouble and we had better listen if we want to maintain the abundant food supplies this nation has been blessed with.

The farmer really has little control over the price he gets for his product when he takes it to the marketplace. His costs for growing the product are already set. but the farmer must take what the market offers. If what he gets is not enough to cover costs thats just too bad.

It doesnt take much study, however, to recognize that if there is no profit in farming our unique system of private farms which furnish us such abundance will evntually disappear.

Soviet Still Active In Space Flights

The United States has been relatively inactive insofar as manned space flights go recently, but the Soviet Union is still at work developing its manned space flight program.

This week two Soviet cosmonauts linked up with

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a space laboratory.

It is likely that the United States is still far ahead of the Soviets in manned space flights, but it is clear that Russia is active.

Health Officials Scolded

ByBfLLNOBLITT

RALEIGH - Local health officials who are letting bureaucratic attitudes interfere with parental involvement in public schools have come in for a share of rebuke from Gov. Jantes B. Hunt. Jr Two cases have recently cxtme to public attention:

In Fayetteville, the county health department decided that any parent going into the schools for volunteer work would need a health certificate."

That certificate requires a physical examination, with particular emphasis on communicable venereal diseases and tuberculosis.

In Wake County, health officials came up with some apparently confused reasoning in discussing an invasion of lice in the public schools.

Parents, ruled those officials, could not go into the schools to inspect for lice, and teachers or school nurses could inspect a childs head

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only if they observed the student scratching, thereby raising a suspicion that lice exist.

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At a recent news conference, Gov. Hunt was putting forth his usual strong commentary on the need for public involvement in the schools.

The need for parents to work as volunteers, serve as aides to teachers, help with numerous school programs undergirds the Community School Act which was pushed through the General Assembly by the governor, and is now getting underway in several communities across the state.

How can the governor on one hand be such a strong advocate of parental involvement, while with another hand, government is discouraging or effectively barring parental involvement? the governor was asked.

I am more concerned

about an invasion of lice than I am about an invasion of privacy, Hunt commented flatly.

That struck me as pretty absurd.

'We need to get rid of lice, and everybody ought to appreciate that. . .and we need all the help we can get in getting of lice." Gov. Hunt said.

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Wake County Health Director Millard Bethel, when urged to conduct a mass screening at all schools, said the department has too few people to conduct such a service and that allowing parents to inspect children would be an invasion of privacy.

In the Fayetteville situation. the local health department wrote school officials suggesting that parental

Deregulation Or Nothing

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

W.ASHI.NGTO.N - On Dec. 6. a skilled, well-informed Washington insider serving as energy-bill intermediary between industry and the administration delivered this warning to Energy Secretary James Schlesinger: without some step toward natural gas deregulation, you will probably end up with no energy bill at all.

Two days later, conferees on the energy bill began moving ever so gingerly toward phased deregulation which could break the long impasse and produce an acceptable bill early next year. But many liberals who have accused Schlesinger of selling out to the oil industry want no loosening at all of the government's regulatory reins.

The decision rests with Jimmy Carter, who as candidate pledged gas deregulation and as President promised to veto gas deregulation. In this as on other issues, he is sensitive to the demands of the left. But having declared that success or failure of his first year depends on passage of the energy bill. Mr. Carter

may have to risk liberal outrage.

Actually, had President Carter come to grips with this choice earlier, he might already have an energy bill. Business lobbyists could smell a traditional compromise.

Indeed. Dr. Schlesinger was talking compromise in his now famous news conference of Nov. 21 when he told about giving ground. His partial intent was to attract a critical backfire from the liberals, which in turn would frighten the industry toward greater compromise. But the backfire also seemed to frighten the President a little.

Mr. Carter received a delegation of angry House liberals, led by vocal young Rep. Toby Moffett of Connecticut on Dec. 2. From that point, the mood changed. The President appeared apprehensive about losing liberal support in Congress and the nation.

As a result, industry spokesmen lost interest in compromise One corporate executive who had organized a business coalition in support of an energy bill quietly

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gave up. The word from Detroit was renewed disdain for the bill. Of major oil producers. only Exxon was still engaged in trying lo get a bill; the rest (with the possible exception of Gull) lelt no bill was better than a bad bill.

On that note, the influential go-between addressed this memo to Schlesinger: the administration appears less interested in compromise than in ramming home the House version of the bill.

Whats more, the memo made clear that concessions to industry on the industrial users tax would not be enough to mobilize industry support for the crude oil equalization tax or the bill as a whole. Something more would be needed: a ray of light at the end of the deregulation tunnel.

Herein lies a political fact not fully perceived at the White House. The oil industry is far less interested in achieving a high regulated price on natural gas than in a legislative commitment to get the regulatory hand off the industry entirely. Not motivated solely by simple greed as the liberals contend, the oil and gas men would rather live with a lower natural gas price for the present if they see real deregulation in their future.

On Dec 7. a narrow chink was found in secret negotiations between two conferees: Sen. Bennett Johnston of D)uisiana (pro-deregulation)

and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan (anti-deregulation). Those talks opened the possibility of deregulation for newly discovered gas after five years with an escape hatch permitting the President to reimpose controls in case of emergency.

That is clearly intolerable for the liberals, who would prefer no energy bill at all. But whether Moffett can summon many more than 70 out of 435 House members to vote down any bill containing a whiff of deregulation is doubtful. ' Ive never considered the Toby Moffett threat all that real. one Schlesinger lieutenant told us, reflecting the views of his chief.

But what does the President think? His switch from deregulation advocacy to opposition suggests lack of doctrinaire thinking. Yet, nobody in this city can be sure he will accept even a watered-down, stretched-out deregulation as the minimum price of a bill. After almost eleven months in office, Jimmy Carter remains that much of a mystery.

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. - Marlene Dietrich.

Strength For Today

HEALING BODY AND SOUL

"Every one of my patients inlhe second half of his life that is to say. over 35 - fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers and none of them has really been healed who has not regained his religious outlook

Thus wrote Dr. Karl Jung, of Zurich, one of the founders of modern psychiatry. These are words we might expect from a churchman, but to have them from a medical authority who had a life time of successful healing of

mental troubles to his credit is particularly significant. Many people fall victim to infectious diseases. Others .suffer from accidents and from troubles which can be relieved only by surgery. But still others are sick because their inner life has been disturbed.

Their sickness of soul produces real sickness of body, and no medicine can heal them. They must be healed by being made right on the inside of their lives, and only faith in God can do that.

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volunteers, like food handlers, should have a health certificate.

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Hunt not personally involved in that hassle, calling Human Resources Secretary Sarah Morrow and State health Director Jacob Koomen to express his displeasure and suggesting that they seek to stop such activities.

I talked with them about that matter, and I think we are getting that resolved.

"That is not reasonable to ask. In fact, as I recall, one of the tests (for venereal disease) suggested is totally inappropriate. The disease is not communicated in such a way that you would have any problem in the kinds of contacts which take place in the school.

"This is just not of much concern, and I think that Fayetteville situation will be dealt with effectively, the governor said.

By ART BUCHWALD

Who Needs Computers?

WASHINGTON-There is a great deal of publicity these days about the advent of the home computer.

Fuflirists are predicting that in a few years there will be a computer in everywws home which will store all sorts of useful information in its memory, such as birthdays. anniversaries, bank balances and inventories of household effects.

The computers will also be used to turn on lights, turn off furnaces and adjust air conditioners. open and shut doors and record what time your children come in at night.

When It comes to information retrieval I doubt if there really is the market out there

that home computer manufacturers think there is. The American wife has a memory far superior to any computer, at least she does in my house.

My wife can recall things in secwids that I have forgotten for years.

An example: The other night we were having a discussion over some remark I had made about an attractive lady sittinl next to me at a dinner party.

1 said. I dont see anything wrong in admiring a pretty girl at a dinner as long as you dont make a pass at her. Thats just the point. You cant admire a pretty girl without making a pass at

her.

This got me really angry and I said, When have I ever made a pass at a girl at a dinner party?

"Sept. 6. 1963, at the Stevens house. You were sitting next to Hope Lange and as the chocolate souffle with the coconut meringue cookies were being served you put your arm around her. I believe it was 10:14 p.m.

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EPAs knockout punch of the U.S. Steel Industry and subsequent addition of 60,000 to the unemployment roles has to rank with the blow it dealt the U.S. Aircraft Industry in banning the SST. (Or. if youre a history buff. Hitlers march into the Rhineland without firing a shot.)

Not to be outdone, the NLRB declared war on the textile industry singling out J.P. Stevens and vowed to make the industry succomb to all union demands. Asked if meeting all union demands would not jeopardize the industrys competitive edge to foreign textiles and put more people out of work. NLRB spokesmen said displaced textile workers could make a whole lot more money in Washington.

Perhaps the most adamant warriors can be found at the Federal Trade Commission. Their target is Sweet 01 Ma Bell. Why does the Federal Trade Commission want to bust up the most efficient, least expensive telephone system in the world ? Although everyone at FTC was on coffee break when we called, we left our question on the automatic answering recorder.

No wonder the stock market acts like its 1929 all over again. Add the demise of the railroads by the ICC. stifling of the drug industry by FDA. and the picture becomes crystal clear. What we have is defacto nationalization of American industry by the strongest and most expensive central government in the world.

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Are jrou sure it was chocolate souffle? I thought that night Liz Stevens served a vanilla mousse with fresh raspberry sauce.

Dont avoid the issue. my wife said. And what about midnight. June 12.1957, when we were in Paris at the Crazy Horse Saloon and you made a fool of yourself dancing to Til Never Smile Again with that lady in the green-beaded dress and pale green chiffon scarf and gold shoes and dyed blonde hair.

You remember that ? I said.

She was 5-feet-5. weighed 115 pounds, spoke with a Swedish accent and had a silver handbag shaped like a turtle.

You do remember it. While were on the subject. I suppose youve forgotten April 9,1969. at 7:40 p.m.

What happened that night?

The cocktail party at the Federal City Qub when you were telling Barbara Lipscomb of Area Code 212 Boulevard 3-2376 if you ever came to New York youd give (OoaUnued on page 5)

Magic Of The Tree

By JULES LOH AP Special Correapoodent

NEW YORK (AP) - This is the city of the cold shoulder and the granite heart, so it is said, the island of cynicism with no room for .sentiment. Bah. humbug.

When that tree goes up, you cant find a more neighborly place, Mike Russo said. That tree works like magic.

The tree is the one in New Yorks front yard, the one In Rockefeller Center, the one that is lit each year on television to the oohs and aahs of the nation. Mike Russo has watched it work its magic for 20 years Thats how long Mike Russo, a native New Yorker well versed in the citys moods, has worked in the security department of Rockefeller Center, watching the doors of the great buildings, greeting the hundreds of friends he has made over the years among the 60,000 who work in this city within a city.

"When I was a kid. he said. "1 never got a chance to come to Roc'kefeller Center at Christmas time. Those were hard times back then. I lived on the Upper East Side and we rarely got out of the neighborhood.

"But this year Im going to bring my grand.son down to see the tree and all the lights and decorations. Hes 10 months old. I don't think thats too young to enjoy it.

No. certainly not. and neither is any age too old.

At Christmas time in Rockefeller Center, young eyes brighten with wonder and old eyes glisten with their own best memories of childhood.

Lights, tens of thousands of them, warm the gray December sky like winter fireflies signaling a time of hope. Bells, tinkly bells on sidewalk Santas and deep-throated bells of St. Patricks Cathedral, serenade

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40 Years Ago Today

December IS, 1937

J. B. James, Greenville attorney for the F. S. James heirs, announced that the Rose five, ten and 25-cent stores, with headquarters in Henderson, had been given a long term lease on the business property located on the northeast comer of Evans and 4th Streets.

The Rose Company will take over the property on February 1, and extensive remodeling will be done before the new five, ten and 25-cent store is opened. It probably will be early summer before the store will begin operating.

The site is now occupied by R. E. Harris and company ' and Frozen Delight Both these firms have been notified they would have to vacate and it is understood they are making arrangements to move shortly after the new year.

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Business Itself Has Divisions

ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Busiiiess Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) -Commentators often use the term business interests, sometimes pejoratively, as if the business community speaks with one voice. It doesnt. It probably never has; it likely never will. Still, there is a tendency to categorize the conflicts of business as being between public and private enterprise, between corporate executives and government bureaucrats and between mangement and labor.

Little attention has been paid until recently to the conflict between big business 'and small.

General Motors and Smiths Machine Shop are not the same, declares the National Small Business Association in calling for unity against what it feels is the threat of big business.

And some of the bigs, with gross annual sales in nine figures, dont see eye to eye with the giants, the mighty concerns that make up the first 100 or so of the Fortune directory of the 500 largest industrials, some of which have sales in the billion of dollars.

The Committee of Publicly Owned Companies, many of whose members have sales in the hundreds of millions of

dollars, argue that the giants are crowding them out of the stock market and competition for investment dollars.

Few people are likely to guess the source of these fiery words:

We have condoned and inadvertently encouraged the manipulation of the national economy for the benefit of the bigs, permitting a handful of faceless but powerful men...to affect the infiltration of government agencies...

These words are from literature of the NSBA. which calls for an end to oppression by the bigs big government, big labor and big business, which it feels often merge their interests to the exclusion of smaller business.

The normal and proper workings of the marketplace have been subverted, states a document of the association, whose officials concede their ideas might sound revolutionary. They are frightened. Entrepreneurship is being smothered, competition frustrated, they maintain.

They told Congress that in I960, small-and medium-size manufacturers accounted for 50 percent of business assets and 41 percent of profits, but that the percentages had

fallen to 30 and 28 by 1972.

Business concentration, they argue, is as deadly as bureaucratic growth. Big business, the NSBA argues, accounts for 97 per cent of cereal preparations, 97 per cent of chewing gum, 100 per cent of cigarettes, 100 per cent of aluminum production.

The Big Three of big business, big government and big labor, association spokesmen assert, rule the country and formulate a national policy that :

...Discourages, handicaps, squeezes and often destroys small business. Their actions are counterproductive, incestuous, and self-serving in nature. As a result, only the scraps on the table are left for everyone else.

One voice for business? It probably never will exist. Independent, self-concerned, proud and ambitious, the various layers of businessmen are joined on some issues, independent on others and openly antagonistic on the rest.

What worries and angers members of the Committee of Publicly Owned Companies is their belief that the giants are sopping up much of the available equity capital, starving the so-called second and third tier companies.

The situation is not altogether the fault of the giants, but lies also in the increasingly institutionalized nature of the investment business.

Pension and mutual funds, insurers and bank-administered trusts control much of the equity capital available. Being large, they must invest in companies with sufficient stock outstanding to absorb the funds.

Moreover, the recent investment climate has been uncertain, leading many portfolio managers to seek the high dividends and security offered by the very largest corporations.

As a consequence, say managers of the less than giant companies, the big get bigger and expansion in the rest of the business world is thwarted.

If there is any genera! agreement among business people it is that they have a feeling of being separated from the larger community by critics, among them members of the federal establishment.

Business resents the polarization. It fears the alienation. It insists it is a vital, integral part of the national community.

On that, business is in agreement.