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County-Wide System In Sight

Pitt County is moving towa^il a county wide water system.

The County Commissioners last week approved applying to the Farmers Home Administration for funding of the county system.

The couhty will be asking for a $2.62 million grant and a $2.62 million loan for the system. A grant of $1.37 million from the State Clean Water Bond funds has already been approved. Also being looked into is funding from the Coastal Plains Regional Commission.

The plan is to finance a $6.63 million system which would reach a potential 2,750 customers. Of

these it is projected that 2,200 would use the service. There would be four 200,000 gallon elevated tanks and nine deep wells. One million feet of six-inch pipe would be required and 510,00 feet of four-inch main.

The system would serve areas not now served by municipal or rural systems and revenues would repay the loans and the operating costs.

It appears that construction of the rural water system is feasible once the loans and grants are approved. The water system will be helpful to rural residents.

N.C. Coastline Ideal For Smugglers

If there was any question that North Carolina has become a major site for smuggling in marijuana, it is dispelled by recent seizures on our coast.

This week agents raided a shrimp boat and other vessels carrying an estimated 20 tons of Columbian marijuana. Value of the contraband was placed at $16 million at the street sale level.

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There have been other seizures in recent months one of 12 tons and another of six tons. Twenty-two tons were captured in 1976.

With its many coves, creeks and secluded areas the states coast makes an inviting area for smugglers to operate. That fact will mean our coastal waters will have to be carefully patrolled.

Ports Gain Arab Shipping

ByBILLNOBUTT

RALEIGH - North Carolina is making a strong bid to keep some of those Petrodollars at home.

Oil-rich Arabian nations have been to blame for much of the unbalancing of the trade business for America. Now sultans and shahs are seeking ways to spend some of their money. Recent stories have detailed banking activities In Georgia, natural gas deals in Louisiana, and land deals elsewhere in the nation including South Carolina.

For this state, the ports at Morehead Gty and Wilmington seem to have caught the fancy of Arabians.

From apples to military to mobile homes destined for a desert oasis location, the activity is an indication of the growing importance of ship-ing to business in North Carolina.

Arya National Shipping Lines Co. of Iran has relocated its headquaters from New York to Wilmington, where some 100 containers will be moved out every three weeks. By June, the Iranian shipments should reach 100 containers per

week. Much of the cargo is for the Iranian government. Estimates are this activity alone will boost ports business by over 25 per cent.

NewRflstdeots

Location of the shipping line in Wilmington also means some new residents for that port city: three officers representing the Iranian army and navy and some eight shipping company executives and their families are moving in.

This winter approximately five million pounds of apples have been shipped. The apples came from North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Getting into such large shipments of apples will mean increased business later as contacts are made with similar suppliers and purchasers.

Hundreds of mobile homes have been shipped to the middle east, with more expected for shipment later this year.

William M. A. Greene of Spooners Creek is the new director of the State Ports Authority, named to the post last September. A retired rear admiral. Greene says he

sought this appointment aggressively because I am confident that in the position of executive director. . .1 can best serve the economic growth of North Carotina.

My goal is to make the ports of Morehead City and Wilmington together realize their full potential and compete with our sister states in world trade.

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Studies are now underway to make sure this state is competetive with other port locations in rates, and better in serving shippers and visiting ships.

At a recent meeting of the Coastal Plains World Trade Association at Greenville, Greene said, I want to assure this group that generating world trade is foremost in the minds of our board of directors. . .we intend to make the ports .. competitive... Programs

Ports staffers are already moving ahead with programs to get new ideas and suggestions from businessess and organizations who should be interested in the ports, and a public relations effort is underway to inform Tar Heels of just how valuable the ports are and can be.

That potential will cost, Greene says. A five-year plan is being drawn up to spur rapid growth of the portsif the money is available. We will prove to the legislature spending money will bring money. It is a good return for the investment... more profit from shipping contracts, and promote economic growth to the ports and the inland,Greene says.

Greene is a native of North Carolina, and attended Brevard Junior College and East Carolina where he received a degree in business. Before retiring from the Navy, he saw service in a variety of positions, including administering supply programs, publishing the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and directing the Navy recruiting program when the all-volunteer program was launched.

JIMMY'S WHITE HOUSE

Disposing Of Limousines

By FRANK OORIOER Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Carter administration isnt forgetting Its war on limousines. The White House motor pool is trading in cars that waste fuel for a fleet of smaller vehicles, including Detroits newest subcompact sedan.

When President Carter was inaugurated, he inherited 29 Chrysler Newport sedans used to ferry senior presidential aid to and from work. The Newports, with 400 cubic inch V-8 engines, were rated by the Environmental Protection Agency as getting 13 miles per gallon of gasoline in combined city-highway driving.

The president ordered his kinsman and chief staff economizer. Hugh Carter Jr.. to end portal-to-portal chauffeured service for White House assistants. Moreover,

the younger Carter was directed to trim the size of the fleet.

Ferry service was ended for all except Zbigniew Br-zezinski, the presidents assistant for national security affairs. The exception was dictated largely by security considerations, according to the White House.

Hugh Carter Jr., who has worked hard earning the nickname Cousin Cheap. reduced the fleet of 29 chauffeured Newports to 14 and slashed the rest of the White House fleet, which includes trucks, vans and messenger cars, from 27 to 14.

The presidential cousin thus exceeded his own announced goal of trimming the fleet to 35 vehicles of all types. Its down to 28.

For an encore. Hugh Carter is in the process of trading in the Newports for Dodge

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Diplomats equipped with 225 cubic inch six-cylinder engines that the EPA figures are good for 19 miles to the gallon.

Moreover, three Plymouth Volare messenger vehicles, EPA rated at 17 miles per gallon, are being traded in for Plymouth Horizon subcompacts. which are just now finding their way into dealer showrooms. The Horizon rating is 26 miles per gallon.

In an interview, the younger Carter said the moves were in keeping with an executive order of last July in which the president called for an average 18-mpg minimum for passenger cars in government service and a fleet average of 20.

Carter said all major American manufacturers were approached about equipping the White House and that Chrysler Corp. showed the most interest.

The government pays Chrysler an annual lease fee of $900 per vehicle, regardless of type or size. Repairs are made under warranty in the service shops of area dealers.

Many a motorist might c-ovet a similar deal. Chrysler presumably finds publicity

value in outfitting the White House with its products.

The presidential war on gobbledygook also continues. with mixed results.

Take the U.S. Information Agency, now being reorganized as the International Communication Agency. As part of the transformation, bureaucrats decided to change the name of the old International Press Service, which runs much like a news organization, to Printed Acquisitions and Programs.

When employees complained this would spell PAP, hardly a fortunate acronym for an organization dealing with news, some great thinkers developed an alternate designation: Print. Production and Procurement.

When the uranium-laden Soviet spy satellite flared across the skies of western Canada at a pre-dawn hour last month, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin did not hear about it first from his employers in Moscow.

A phone call from Br-zezinski brought the envoy the news. Woke him up, in fact.

Strength For Today

FACING FACTS

When the boy Beethoven first played before Mozart, the most celebrated composer of his day. the latter was convinced that he was listening to a genius. At ten Beethoven went on his first concert tour, and at fourteen he conducted the orchestra at an opera.

But it was not long before the shadow of a great affliction began to fall across his path. Little by little, his hearing became dulled, and when he reached the height of his fame, he could not hear a single note of the gorgeous

music he had written. Sometimes he would bend close to the piano, trying to catch the now faint sminds of his masterpieces. He died at fifty-seven, murmuring with indescribable pathos, I shall hear again in heaven.

An affliction is always hard to bear. Yet some of the worlds greatest figures have borne severe handicaps. These people became great because they refused to allow these misfortunes to destroy their gifts and their happiness.

- byEUihaDoiiglMi'

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want yall tgo on a DIET... voluntarily, of course.

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

40 Years

Step Toward Freedom Ago Today

LEXINGTON, Ky. - This wandering correspondent turned up in Kentucky last week, on the same day the Kentucky House of Representatives voted to legalize Laetrile. You could travel a long way and not see a more absorbing demonstration of the democratic process in action.

The proceedings were covered by the educational television channel, KET, and broadcast in their entirety at 11 oclock that night. The speakers at Frankfort werent quite as articulate as the actors on I, Claudius, but what the legislature

debate lacked in stagecraft it made up for in old-fashioned integrity. This is one of the lovely things about state legislatures: If you listen, you hear the people talking.

It would have been wonderfully useful if the nations medical establishment could liave watched the televised debate. It would have been even better if some of Commissioner Donald Kennedys minions at the Food and Drug Administration could have listened in. These hoity-toity fellows could use a little humility. They might have found it at Frankfort.

The bill passed the Ken-

Other Editors Say Taxpayer Revolt

(Tbelinisoa Times)

The prospect of a taxpayers revolution in America is beginning to receive public attention as an alternative to present directions in government.

Perhaps the most outspoken suggestion of such a move as the best hope of stopping a rush to bankruptcy has been put forth by a leading North Carolina executive. The article appeared in Bill Noblitts column of January 30.

Noblitt quoted John G. Medlin, Jr. president of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, headquartered at Winston-Salem. He believes present conditions hold "some of the same distasteful human circumstances which inspired a rebellion 200 years ago and which gave birth to this Republic. Therein lies the hope that the administration, the Congress, or more likely, the American people will soon act to rev^ the disturbing and hazardous trends in their governments policies and practices

Medlin concludes that government leaders in representative democracies are unlikely to make the unpopular and courageous decisions necessary to balance budgets without persistent prodding from the voters.

The remarks were made in December to the Rotary Club of Winston-Salem. The North Carolina Citizens Association, an organization of the states top level business and civic leaders, reprinted the speech in full in the January issue of We Qie People of Ndrtli Carollba magazine.

Editorially the magazine had excited hopes of a balanced federal budget but it now seems certain that lovely vision is nothing more than just another fiscal mirage.

Medlins comments, the editorial noted, suggested that the best hope for .a halt to our mad rush to national bankruptcy rests in a revolt by the younger American generation grown increasingly conservative in economic matters as it matures.

That is an encouraging thought. For it is that very age group which stands to suffer so grievously from the consequences of 40 years of governmental fiscal follies.

What is the legacy to this generation from those policies? A staggering burden of monstrous Social Security taxes, the inheritance of that Himalayan national debt and the annual interest of billions upon it, dismaying prospect of continued yearly inflation, the pernicious fantasy, fostered by the politicians upon so many people that a fat little man in a red suit realiy does bring gifts down the chimney on Quistmas Eve.

tucky House by the crushing margin of 79-14. That vote ought to tell the doctors something. And it was not as if the establishments position went unheard.

Opponents of the bill argued, for example, that Laetrile is dangerous. Proponents simply did not believe it and the proponents are clearly right. The contention that Laetrile is dangerous because apricot kernels contain cyanide recalls the contention twenty years ago that sodium fluoride is dangerous because it goes into rat poison. There Is no evidence that Laetrile is any more dangerous than other drugs, and it probably is safer to have around the house than aspirin.

Opponents also argued that to make Laetrile legally available would lure cancer victims into accepting treatment by quackery instead of treatment by chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. The proponents responded by pointing to the terms of the bill: Every patient would be required to sign a form acknowledging that he has been informed that the drugs worth has not been scientifically established. ^

The Kentucky legislators understood precisely what is involved in this controversy. It is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the freedom of the individual. In the whole of the debate, not a single speaker argued that Laetrile has value in the treatment of cancer. What they argued was the right of a cancer victim. having tried every conventional form of . treatment without success, to obtain possible relief from a drug that just might help.

Under the surface of the debate, one sensed a deep vein of resentment. The states legislative research service had conducted interim hearings on the legalization proposal. The FDA sent a representative to testify against the bill. But the federal spokesman just snickered at us, said Representative Ronald Cyrus of Flatwoods. He sat in the back of the room and snickered and talked.

The debate closed with a short, stunning speech by (CootioiiedoQpageS)

Febniaiy9,193S

Chief of Police George Clark, today called attention to a city ordinance prohibiting citizens from allowing dogs to run at large within the corporate limits and declaring that the law would be enforced along strict lines from now on.

We have had numerous complaints regarding dogs running at large and since the statute is on our books we will strive to carry out the law as intended, Chief Clark added.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-tung.

I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard Baruch.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.- Jonathan Swift.

The Asterisks Carry A Story

ByJOHNCUNNIFF APBusiiienAiialyit

NEW YORK (AP) - Now that we have absorbed the good news of a continued decline in the jobless rate, to 6.3 percent in January, we can reflect on the meaning of the asterisks, figuratively speaking.

Asterisks always contain a story, and sometimes a lesson as well, and in reference to unemployment the lesson is this:

That jobless rate which most of us watch like our own weight is not a count or a reading; it is a calctdation at best, but more accurately expressed, it is an estimate.

To accept it as a precise percentage of the total count of idle members of the labor force is to tolerate the butcher resting his thumb on the scale whBe <)uoting a {Mice for hamburger.

On this statistical indicator, as on others. Uncle

Sam rests a heavy hand on the scales, as Julius Shiskin, commissioner of labor statistics, revealed in material prepared for Congress.

It should be noted, he said, that the January fibres from the household survey (one of two surveys conducted as a base for the numbers) are not strictly comparable with prior months.

Why? Because of an increase in the sample and some improvements in the estimation procedures. And because we have introduced a procedural improvement in the current method.

The changes announced a month earlier, in January, were of even more substance. These modifications, you may recall, were for the month of December, when the jobless rate dived from 6.9 percent to 6.4 percent.

Weil, not really. It is true

that the December rate was 6.4 percent, the commissioner said, but the drop was more modest, from 6.7 percent, not from 6.9 percent.

But hadnt the commissioner announced a month earlier that the jobless rate was indeed 6.9 percent? Yes, but that was before the statistics were improved. Under the improvement. November was lowered to 6.7.

'There is little unusual in revising the figures in later months. Its done every year. Every year the figures for the previous year are reviewed and often changed.

But in this case, said Shiskin. the bureau and the country were very fortunate because. throui a combination of fortuitous cir-cumstances, the recalculations were ready earlier than expected.

Thus goes the explanation

Miss Kate Lewis class at ! East Carolina Teachers Col- i lege in Crafts for the Gram- " mar Grades, one of the Public ^ Schools Art classes, yester- day paid a visit to Smithfield, to the pottery just outside the town. I

The class had been study- ; ing pottery making and has -been experimenting with clay I found in this section. 1

Since the majority of the class had not had an op- * portunity to observe the pro- j cess of making pottery. Miss Lewis arranged for them to I visit the Smithfield business. At the pottery, the group J had a chance to watch the potter working with the slop and shaping the one type of thing he was making on Tues- day, a kind of pitcher or small * pot. 'They were especially in- terested in the potters wheel. <

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Opinions Brief

for what appeared to be an almost incredible drop in unemployment for December. from 6.9 percent to 6.4 percent. The previous months figure was inaccurate; it wascorrrected.

A procedural change also was made in selecting an earlier week in the month for the household survey, which helps determine who is employed, who unemployed.

As the commissioner explained, this deviation fnxn the monthly routine is an annual December event, because of difficulties in finding people at home in the period just before Christmas.

All these changes seemingly were made according to recognized statistical procedures. No. they were not the result of hanky-panky; the commissioners professional integrity is unquestioned.