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And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.

And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.

And Joseph also went up from Galiliee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he he was of the house and lineage of David.

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with chUd.

And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her first bom son, and wrapped him in a manger, because there was no room for him in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepards abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by ni^t.

And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.

And the Angel said unto them. Fear not; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is bom this day in the city of David a Saviour, vidiich is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you\ Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God, and saying.

Glory to God in the hi^iest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them unto heaven, the sh^herds said aie to another, let us now go even unto Behtlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning thischUd.

All they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

Luke 2:10-20

BY ART BUCHWALD

Merry Christmas To All

Carter Family 'Stuck'

It is Chistmastime again, and following all the frenzy of preparing for it we may now pause to reflect on what the day means to the Christian world.

The 23rd Psalms tells the story best, and we print it today as one of

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historys greatest messages.

All of us at The Daily Reflector appreciate the support of the community during the year and we wish for all a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year.

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Working Mothers

BYBILLNOBLnr RALEIGH - Fewer young people, but many more wonwn, will be woridng as majw changes sweep the North Carolina labor marlcet.

This phenomenon is presenting concerns for those who shape state policy; particularly when it comes to high school vocational education, and community college job training.

Only 40 years ago, a mere handful of women worked outside the home in North Carolina just 350,000. Today more than 1.2 million women work; an increase of more than 240 percent. By the middle of the present decide, half of the Tar Heel labw force will be women.

Mig with the numbers of womoi moving into the job market, thwe are major changes shining up in the kinds of work which women are doing. And more change is ahead. In 1940, only 25 percoit of the women who woited were in so^alled white collar jobs. Now over half the working women hold managerial jobs, while the percentage of women in so-called blue o)llar occupations has declined somewhat.

Stere<^ypes The stereotype of the woman as waitress, secretary, nurse, or seamstress is

fading fast as female construction workers, assembly line employees in all sorts of industries, police and fire service personnel, and the executive offices alike are increasingly occupied by

women have successfully pushed for ecpiallty In job of^rtunlties and salary with mai.

But the figures show that ideal has yet to be gained. Unemployment figures show the jobless rate among females running almost twice that for men. Joblessness is also a critical problem for young people.

Last year nearly half of all job referrals handled by the states E^loyment Security Commission Job Service involved young people. Even thou^ young people make up less than a qua^r of the entire state labor force, they account for nearly half of all unemployment. The younger (Contimiedonpa^S)

WASHINGTON -Everywhere I go, people ask me the same questkm; "Did Nancy Reagan really say she wished President and Mrs. Carter would move out of the White House eariy so she and Ronnie could move in?

The answer is that she didnt. Informed sources in the Reagan transition team have told me that it was just the opposite. The Carters asked the Reagans to move in earlier. This is what tran^ired:

Nancy Reagan received a telephone call from Mrs. Carter last week.

Hello, Nancy, this is Rosalynn. We were talking to Amy last night at dinner, and she suggested we move across the street into Blair House so that you and Ronnie could get into the White House ahead of schedule. Jimmy and I thoi^t it was a wondful idea.

Ronnie and I wouldnt hear of it, Rosalynn. Youre entitled to live there until January 20, 3 p.m.. Eastern StandardTime.

Nancy, you wouldnt be putting us out a bit. We know how eager you are to start redecorating, and wed Mily be in the way here. Jimmy mi^t have to come over to the Oval Office every once in a while to sign some piq)ers, but he would never go into

your living quarters Rosalynn, all that talk about wanting to redo the upstairs has been exaggerated. My decorator thinks the rooms are just perfect as they are. He loves early Plains, Ga., decw. Excqpt for adding some bright cd(n^ to

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women.

Far fewer women today are in household domestic work compared to the past, and women as hired farm labor is almost a thing of the past except for migrant labor.

As the divorce rate has soared and the single-parent family with children has become more commonplace,

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'niere is evideice that most of the country is sitting bacx and expecting a Walt Disney wonderland transformation in national conditions the minute Ronald Reagan tak^ office Jan. 20.

That isnt going to happen, and one of the reasons is stated in a report from a group called the Labor Outlook Panel.

, The panel says that United States oufout (production by p^le in our work force) will not improve in 1961, yet unions will continue to seek hi^r wages and benefits without offering increased productkm in return.

The panel says that failure of unions to adjust their philosophy and tactics to cooperate with U.S. industry facing foreign competition will brin^ higher unemployment, more inflationand a dn^ in union membership.

Instead of encouraging union woriters to ^leed iq) on assembly lines, unions will choose instead to go to the ^vemment and ask for hi^r tariffs on imported products in auto, steel,' rubber, electronics, machine tools and aerospace. Instead of attenqiting to conqiete, irtch siq>-pose^y is the name of the gmne in this country, unions are hewing to Qieir old line of job security, and wages automatically rising with the cost of living.

' The labor panelists say there is no evidence of unions lowing a mood of cooperation by allowing bargaining on a egional basis and a variation in wage rates for different ^tions of the country. It appears that during 1981 when contracts in raii transportation, longshoring, onmruction and aerospace come up, industry-wide settlements will be the goal. This, the panel says, wUl be the major cause of rising unemployment. When industry cannot meet the high wages, there will be layoffs, as there are ri^t now in the aiko Industry.

Arnold Weber, University of ColOTado presidoit, a member of the labor panel, says ctmtinuaticm of theninion wage pu^ will cut employment in the unionized industrial and construction sectors and induee a shift-of jobs to the non-union sectors. ^

One would think that union leaders would see this, and instead of cutting their own throats, seek to help employers weather ftie ectnomic storm.

The average rate of increase in mm-union pay has been below that of union pay for the past five years, tmt is it better to have a job and self-ropect, or go for the top wa^ dollar and then be laid off? It seems inevitaUe that those who are

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the rooms, changing the drapes and the slipcovers, as well as the rugs and the furniture, were going to ke^ the place just as you left it. Rumie said to me last night, If its good UKHigh for the Carters, its good uxMigh for us.

"nMit was vary sweet of him, but Amy has always wanted to live in Blair House and so has Chk>. wed be very comfortable there, and it would give us an qqxirtunity to adjust to smaller quarters.

Rosalynn, youre a dear to even think of us at a time like this, iHit Rumie and I would never be able to sleep in the White House at ni^t, knowing your family was all packed in together in Blair House. Ronnie said to me the other day, as he was branding cattle on our ranch, that he knows what it is to be thrown out of a house before someones lease is iq>. He told me to tell you that if you dont

find a place to live, you can stay with us at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., after January 20, 3 p.m.. Eastern Standard Time, as long as you like. Were all packed now, Nancy, and we can always go to Camp avid if we dont like Blair House

We wont allow you to move out one day earlier tharf you have to. I tdd the decorator he would just have to wait until you were gone before he put iq) the Scalman-dre wallpaper.

Well, if you feel that strongly about it, well have to break the news to Amy. Ive left a list on the refrigerator door of things that have to be fixed, and the telephone numbers of repairmen vho will cune when you call.

You didnt have to do that, but it was sweet of you.

I also have a little dressmaker in Georgetown, in case you want her name. Id love it. It was so kind of you to call.

Dont mention it, Nancy, and be sure and call me for anything - anything at all. Oh,wewill,wewill.

After Rosalynn hung up. President Carter said, Did they gD for it?

Ntq, said Rosalynn. Were stucktill the 20th. Dam it, the president said, that means were going to have to pay the oil bill for another month.

(c) 1980, Los Angeles Times Syndicate

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What we see dqiends mainly on vdiat we look for. John Lubbock

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagans Senate bead-cotmters p^ the maximum Senate vote againrt Gen. Alexander Haig for confinna-Uoo as secretary of state at less than 25, MI Democrats with the possiNe exception of Connecticuts maverick Republican Sen. Lowell Weicker.

Haig can whittle dovm that opposition vote to a nujch lower levM if he skillfully handles fu^ign rdations cunmittee questions trying to taint him with Wato^te. If A1 doesnt blow his top, one Reagan strategist told us, hell get a ^eat many Democrats, alo^ with the Republican liboals.

One quiet Reagan we^xn: Senators who use innuendo and not facts fo tryfog to tie Haig to unsavory Watergate events will not have easy access to the State Deputnieitf and its wuldwide network oi embassies and difdomatic aides. In addition, access to the secretary of state for well-publicized lunches and soirees is a prime pleaaire of Washington; Senate adversaries of Haig who try to revive Watergate will be off the invitatiui list.

Aborted Supercabioet Even befu% Reagan chief of rtaff James Baker publicly threw cMd wato* on the notion of a five-member supo*-caUnet, its critics felt that they had talked Presidentelect Reagan out of attonp-ting this innovation.

Transition officials, noting that the same plan was attempted by the Nixon administration in 1973, convinced Reagan it would be a serious mistake to create two classes of Cabinet officials. They also pointed out that David Stoclonan, expected to have a pivotal policy rMe at the Office of

and Budgrt (0MB), would be excluded from supercabinet meetings.

A footnote: Transition insiders interpreted Bakers public criticism of the stq>er-cabinet as the first encounter between him and Ed Meese, the presidential counsMor who had promoted the siq)er-cabinet idea. Old time Washington hands doubt that Meese and Baker can coexist as roughly equal senior presidential aides.

NoSawhill At Synfuels

The new Synthetic Fuels Corp. will be continued 1^ the Reagan administration but not with John Sawhiil, President Carters choice, as it"

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A hard decision has been made by the Reagan biW> command to find a new syn-ftiels chief despite frantic efforts by Sawhiil to keq) the job, which at $175,000 a year pays better than aiQr govom-meM post otho- than the presidaicy iteelf. Savdiill, who has ftUed enorgy poMs in both Republican and Democratic administrations, even soi^t out Reagan kit-dwn cMiinet member JusUn Dart to plead his case. ThM did not help SawhiUs came with the Reagan team. Nor did his lltb-hour acceleration of efforts to hire Synfuds Corp. onidoyees under longterm contracts. The corporation chairman is appointed for a sevai-year term which * cannot be terminated by the president. Bid since SawhiU was not conflrmed by the Senate, Reagan can name his own man.

The Efoergy Afterteougid Former Gov. James Ed-wantetd South Carolina, who * will be secretary of energy in the Reagan Cabinet, was not on any of the eariy UMs for the job and was considored only afto: his fdlow Soidh Carolinian, Sen. Strom Thurmond, protested the absence of any Soutboner fitnn the first wave of Catenet appointments.

Only 48 hours befwe Edwards was picked, Reagan transition insido*s were saying the energy post was set for John Sununu, a Tufts University engineering professor. But Reagans inner circle began seardiing fw a Southoner afta* Thiumood and other Southerner Republican senators sent *-Reagan a letto* protesting the lack of Southerners. Thurmond had pushed Edwards for energy during the.'' presldent-d^s dinner with Republican senators.

That drowned out protests by transition officials that Edwards had disqualified himself fte Cabinet rank by joining Thurmond in support of John B. Connally for the presidential nomination against Reagan. Edwards earlio' had spurned feelers to become deputy secretary of health and hunum services (HHS) (v any otho* sub-cabinrtpost.

^Buddeys Return Former Sen. James Buckley turned down Ronald Reagans trffer to become secretary of the Air Force but now is the leading prospect for a less cerononial and more activist post: under (Continued on page 5)

People do not lack strength, they lack will. Victor Hugo

Christmas Letter

Christmas in Greenville this is a first for roe. My parents moved to Flmlda last December and being a student and part-timer at the RdlectOT and Freddies Restaurant, taking a long trip like that just isnt possitee right now.

But its not so bad. Lrts lotA at the bright side.

For Greenville resldoits, Christmas time not (ly means a holiday cdebratkm but also gives them a chance to breathe i4hile all the ctelege students go home to their families, and they wont be back until the first (H-second week of January.

Now that the rtudent ptqMiIation is gone, the city streets of Greenville are q^iet and restful excqit for an occasional i^urt of last-minute shoppers. The streets are cleaner than they have been since summer. What a nice feeling it is to walk down Cotanche and not step (HI a beer can.

Its almost as if the town is recuperating by taking a mid-year break in order to take on the new year with full force.

Christmas has always been my favorite time of year, but ending it in Greenville and sharing the spirit with friends and members of this community makes me proud to call Greenville my home.

Merry Christmas Greenville.

LEIGH COAKLEY

The Savings Rate Has Climbed

ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP)-From Uncle Sams statistical grab-bag comes a gem of a Christmas present: We Americans have been saving at a better rate than we had thought, and we have more savings in our accounts too.

All "year, it seems, the savings rate has been measured a percoitage point lower than it was, and now, says Courtoiay Slater of the Commerce Department, we have more savings to draw (Hi than was thought.

Dont argue ate^ it. With stflittle g)od economic news coming out of Wellington you must accq)t uhat you can get, and this, it seems, is all youre getting for Christmas. Dont, for instance, aM( these (piestions: After giving us coal bi ^ Christmas stocking for

ruled by greed are the first< ticketed for destruction.' flje past several ye&h. Unfortunately, they drag the rest of us and the nations ^ couldnt some ek{daaation be - economyal(Mig with them. offered to he^ us get over

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the shock this year of receiving a little dianHHid instead.

Now that we have been told the savings rate is (Mily slightly below 6 percoit, the norm, instead of under 5 percoit, what slMHild we do ^with all the old warnings about the dangerously low rate of savings'

You know, the warning that Americans were off (m a spoiding spree, that they had dumped the old noti(is of thrift, that capital formatiim was oidangered and that the rebuilding of industry was threatened'

Shall all those elaborate studies be incenerated now that we have revised the savings statistics ail the way back to 1968, and found that for 1980 the figures for most nxHiths have beoi raised by a point' That in August, f(Nr instance, the rate was 6.1 percent, not 4.7?

How do you incenerate past political and economic

decisions made on the basis of erroneous information?

No, forget all these ques-ti(ms. To pursue them mi^t lead novdiere, or else down a statistical maze that will deprive you of your commiHi sense, uriiich is in stent enough supply. But dhmt forget the lessons.

The first lesson is that too much faith is put in numbers. For evidence, watch ttie stock, bond, and commodity maitets convulse aftor the money s^qdy figures are released. And lurch again vriien revised.

Most of than are revised - the price indices, sales figures, joteless numbers, savings rates. Some ore also seasonally actjusted. Stnne are wei^ted. S(Hne figures bear llttte rteemteance to raw counts.

The second is that you^ have in your own pocketbook the best indicator at your financial condition. Youll probably agree you dont

need the statistics factory to inform you how well or pooriy you are doing.

And the third is that you offer some Christmas generosity to those who connpile the statistics. Generally qiieaking, those revisiims are in the nature of statistics. They dont always represent errors.

The new numbers, said Courtenay Slater, the Commerce Dqiartmoit chief eccmomist, iocA more suitable in toms of historical norms. Iixteed th^ do; the historical norm is some-wlwre around 6 porcent. Ctnrect.

But, rdete peo|de lirton to the sound (d the statistics clashing rather fiian the grumblings of their own pocketbook, her suggestkm that the revisloBS mi^t wpor bqyer confitfece Is going too far.

Even ttex^ anything to lift the drabness is welcome at Qiristmas time. Or at any other time.

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