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Price Program Needed

BECOMING A BIT NERVE RACKING!

It had appeared the tobacco price support program would not be cut by the Reagan administratkxL There could be a change In the future, however. Budget Director Davids Stockman has said the program is still under review and is subject to reductions. Future budget cuts are to be outlined March 10, according to Stockman.

Hopefully senators and representatives from tobacco-growing states can hold their ground in the fight to retain the price support program They have adequate

argument in that the program has worked. Its coat to the government has been minimal, and it has helped tobacco growers produce a cgiality of tobacco which is in demand throughout the worid.

Our farmers could release a flood ot tobacco, and by growing much more they could perhaps produce it at less cost per pound The aim, however, is to grow a superior quality tobacco. To do that the crop allotnoent and price support program is essential'

Soviets Must Change Ways

Soviet President Leonid 1. Brezhnev has indicated he would like a face-to-face meeting with President Reagan in the near future to discuss mutual problems.

Such a meeting cant do any harm, although It is not likely to solve the problems facing the two nations

Will Brezhnev be willing to call his troops out of Afghanistan, for

instance, or agree to noninterference in Poland? Will he agree to end Cuban interventkm in the affairs of South American nattons*

Certainly concessions in these areas would be necessary before the United SUtes and the Soviet Union can get down to serious negotiations once again.

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Could Cut Crime

BY ART BUCHWALD

ByBfLLNOBLlTT RALEIGH - Home U where the crime is. Statistics prove that property crimes iare the fastest growing area of unlawfulness, and the hardest In which to catch the thief

Demanding that 'something be done" atxwt crhne, people are laying a jint share of blame on police and the courts But the njost eectlve, least expensive, and most rewarding way to fight back for the concerned individual is to protect your valuables Break-ins are almost an accepted risk of living in some places, particularly around a city. Lately, though, even rural settings are not escaping criminal attention.

So common have burglaries become that law en-forcemeik agencies can do UtUe more than file a report so the owner can collect insurance. Lately, the pressure is mounting to monitor second-hand sales outlets where stolen goods can be disposed of; a measure which strikes many people as trying to shift the responsi-bUity elsewhere after police and homeowners have failed to do their parts.

Watch Out One approach to self pro-tecUon wtoch has caught on. and has demonstrated its effectiveness, is the Cn-munity Watch program launched by Gov. Jim Hunt several years ago when he was lieutenant governor.

But so far there has been no official motion on what many police specialists consider the most promising approach - security of the home and commercial building

Criminals and police will tdl you that the wouldbe thief is deterred anything which causes him to aiake a loud noise, or spaid very much time trying to get into a building.

An amazing number of thefts occur when occupants - dashawayon^^iefwr^^

looking at amended state and local building codes wtocfa

leaving doors unlocked

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with newspapers in the would retpnre anti-break-m driveway and mail several e<piipment on ne or. re-

Who Getsjhe Money?

By ROWLAND EVANS Md ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - The Reagan administraUoat sharply revised private forecast tor the critos to Poland now rules out Soviet mter%'entiea tor the next tox months, but predicts martial law irapod by the communist govenaneat as the next tfep to reprfwing the free workcn, famen and itudenu movement That switch from recent forecatos of tnmiDent Soviet tovaotoo ii haoed on to-telUgence reports from Eastern Ewepeen nuroes folkwH^ vistts of CommBin Party leader Staaiaiaus KjoU to nei^toonng hard Itoe CxechoolovalUa and East Germany and the elevattoo of Gb. W^ciech JaroKtoia to prhne minster Kama is believed to have aaaured his coraoaonist brethren in Eastern Europe that Jaraeetoki. who la also defcQoe minister, would iaa^ poM martial law agotaat the free workers movement if tenuous government control coU^wes Althou#! outri^ Soviet inervcntioo wmdd unify the Western alliance. marUal law as an mternal Polhh affair would be len of an iswe for Reagan to use against the Kremlin RehahUltattog Nixon The Reagan administra

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modeled buildings, just as present codes deal with fire, health and safety concerns

The insurance industrv has also been looking into this area, with the pmsibility of proposing that rate incentives might be used to encourage property ownm to take effective self-protection steps After all, who has more to lose from the grow ing burglary problem than the insurance companies

But 90 far there has been nothing definite presented in the General Assembly to accomplish toer of these

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^WASHINGTON - There is no doubt in anyones mind that the military is going to get everything it asks for in toe new Reagan budget But it's easier to give money to the Pentagon than it is to spend it All toe services want their mitts on the new funds, and once its been okayed, we may see internecine battles between the armed forces, the likes of which this country has never witnessed before As sotei m Congress appropriates the money, it will be delivered in a Brinks truck to the doorstep of the Pentagon, where hi^i- ranking officers of the four bran-

ches'^'of service^^.'be wailing for It. -An admiral will say to the Brinks employees. ' OK, men. bring the money up to

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owners have taken to install secure window locks and approved deadbolt locks on the doors, you wUl often see ladders just waiting to be used for entry' in unlocked second floor windows.

Another little appreciated fact; the prMessnnal bursar can get in almost any place regardless of your precautions. But, once loaded down with your valuables, he must be able to make a quick and safe cit. If door and windows can not be opened from the inside without a key, his escape roMe is in jeopardy.

A recent case was noted in whidi toe burglar ertered through the air-return duct from the crawl space under the boifie. loaded up, and strolled casually out the garage door Lights, strong locks... anything which delays entry and exit, and makes a noise ... will have the best chance of sending a burglar dsewhere NoActtoo The Governors Crime Commission and others concerned with the fi^ on crime have been seriously

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During February, Black History Month, let us highlight some of the unrecognized Blacks who have made our American way of life more orderly, healthy and meaningful When we wear shoes, we need to thank JAN ERNEST MATZEUGER. who was granted a patent in ISB for creating a marhine that couid automatically make shoes When we see w hear trains, we need to thank GRA^NVILLE T. WOODS, who was granted more than 35 patents, many of which were sold to General Electric and Westinghouse His most notable invention was the system for letting the ei^ineer of a train know bow close his train w|M to others.

When we stop for toe traffic light, we need to thank GARRETT A. MORGAN, who developed the automatic stop light that coittrois the flow of vehicles througi: street iittersections. ^

When we use the li^it bulb, we need to thank LEWIS H LATIMER, an electrical engineer whose idea erf fine carbon wire which lights up went into Edisons light bulb He was the only Blac^ member of the Edison Pioneers,, and worked with Alexander Graham Bell on his invention of the telephone

When we see refrigerated trucks on the highways, we need to thank FREDERICK M JONES, the first Black member of the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers, who, in 1938, designed the first working truck refrigeration system, patented in 1942.

When we watch Black wwnen enhance their beatoy with cosmetics, we need to thank SARAH BREEDLOVE WALKER, who developed the straightening comb and produced more than 2.000 agent in the Walker product line When someone has been ^>ared life because human blood was stored, we need to thank DR. CHARLES DREW, who created blood banks.

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toe safe in the Navy procure-mert office."

The hell you say, an Air Ftece general will shout. That money is going for our MX missile program. The Air Force needs every penny of it, and more

An Army four-star groeral will chip in. Keep your hands Mf those bags Theyve been set aside to build up our conventional forces

"In a pig's ear," the admiral says Every cent has been allotted for new nuclear carri^ and anti-sttbmanne ships

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huTij Keep your handte off that bag Thats gou for our M-iOlank

President Reagan says be

wants a Rapid Deployment Force." the Marine Corps general says "And the Marines are the only ones who can do the job "

You stay out of this," the admiral warns "Well give you whats left o\er. once we. build our missile cruiser ships."

The Air Force general says to the Array general, 'Dont ever push me again or well bomb Fort Bragg back to the Stone Age

"Oh yeah, the Army general says How would you like to see SAC headquarters filled with nerve gas?

While the two are ar^iing, the admiral is heaving bags of money behind a bush The Air Force general and Army general start beating ig) on

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Donald Devine appointed as _________ head of toe Office of Perion-

lion's qtoeTrehabUilatioo of n nri Management <OPIIi was

Richard M Nixon continued^ poasiMe only becMHe of In-iast week when a senior terventlon by Whtte Hour

' White Hour aide wr dnpM ched to bnri the former president on the new economic program

The duty was assigned to Dr Martin Anderson. Presi dent Reagans domestic policy chiri who was a junior White Hour aide during Nixons first term. Anderson went to Nixons Manhattan apartment Tuesday to give him a 24-hour advance peek at Reagan's tax-budget plans.

A footnote; Althou^ the Reagan tax plan is diametrically opposite to Nixon adnunistratioo policy, old Nixon economic policy makers, Arthur Burns. George Schultz, Herbert Stria and Charts Walker were brought in to adviR Reagan on the final stages Even White Hour aides were surprised to 9R Stein, who has been publicly horillc to

chief of staff James Baker -tnterventioa which fits a pri tern

Baker, a suave HouMon lawyer with an Ivy LeaffK background, has been distruited by conaervatim becaiMofhlfpotlticalpaMr manager of Gerald Fords and George Binhs campaigns against Ronald Reagan in 197B and IMO. But Baker In toe White Hour has gone out of his way to promote hard-nosed cooRr-vaUvestokeypoMs.

The moat impoftaat was Devine, who was oppoRd (or the 0PM slot - toe old CIvU Service ComfflMon - by presidential oouoaelor Edwin MeeR m. Now, Balter has just about tied down a Department of Educ^on poet dealing with private schools for a key figure of toe New Right: theRey^^BUl-

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What about* me? a Marine Corps general says.

Oh. shut up, the Army ^neral says The Brinks dnver is annoyed. "Will you guys make ig) your mindsWe have to go to lunch.

I talited to the Senate Armed Services Committee and they said we could build a new bomber with this money, the Air Force general says, trying to grab one of the bags The Armv general pushes

Taking Any Kind Of Forecast ^

This list could naturally conttawe. Even today, the true merit of the Black contributk to the American way of life is not fully reco^iized. respected, appreciated and shared Black History is every day and it is being made presoitly. Let us all be of every humans worth, regardless of

race, creed, crior or economic advantage or disadvantage HIS TRLTH is marching on !"

John W. Maye Jr.

30 foutoo Apartments W. Main Street Troy

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ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - You know things arent well with the economy when so many people are thinking about the future, a firfure so ill-defined that you can pedde almost conceivaWe - type of

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THE CITY WITH FOUNDATIONS We are trid that iriien toe patriarch Abraham went out from Ur of the Chaldees, be knew not whither he was going. The writer of toe Epistle to toe Hebrews tells us, however, that this same Abraham looked for the city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Abraham had faith, and he had an icteal which he 'pursued throughout the whole of his life BecauR of this, he stands as one (rf the most important figures in world history. Before Abrahams time religious

faith was nebulous and indistinct; the patriarch Abraham gave it purpoR and substance

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He set iq) an ideal which be rrientlessly pursued. Soroe*^ tiroes he was turned back. Once he failed becauR of weakness But he kept on until death.

rlike Abraham most of us go throu^ life not knowing whither we * go. BM, again like him, all of us should ' pursue an id^ - looking to the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. - Elisha Douglass

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II5 on the a times. Many Amencans have had their eooDMnic faith shaken, and even Ronald Reagan mi^t have a time restoring it. They think somrihing big is going to happen. They dont know what, but they want to be prepared for -whatever it is, good or bad, whenevor it comes.

In good times, it has been denwostrated over and over again, Americans are busy with-the [Meseot. with mak-ing money, raising kids.

X running businesses, enjoying themselves, expressing toemsrives.

In the past few years though tb^ havoit been making the money (pay raises have fallen behind

inflatioi) or raising kids (small families, and sometimes no ki(fe, are in), at least to the degrees the> had.

Small businesses are hurting, as shown in surveys by the Federation of Independent Business and the National Small Business Associatkm, which cite ^ inflation, mterest'ratesjjand paperwork as the big culjmts. Cl

While toe matta* of people enjoying and expressing themselves might be too subjective to measure, you may get a growling respome if you ask resort operates or the local art galleries "bows business?"

Some will say that toe maritetfrface is hardly a measure of lifes quality, bitt it is an indicator of sorts. And what it says^is that people areipostponing purdiRes, delaying enjoyments imtil tomorrow, when presumably things vdli be clearer. Ask homebuyers or carbuyers.

Maybe times wfll be woTR

You can have your pidi of high-priced newsletters forecasting the advent <rf tariMe times, of food shortages and rioting in toe streets, of total economic coUapR. They are full <rf advice on how to stop living; hoard food and gold, and hibernate. ^

The physical posRssion of precious metals is your ultunate security against inflation, aimouDces a gokl trader, immindful o( the seeming contradictioD in sriling away that ultimate security. Anmxmces a stock investment firm: Grid as an investment? Dont bet on it

As many confidential newsletters seem to exist as there are pririsol view, good and bad, and almost all of them deal with the future The Presideri will win bis gamrie and well have an era of Republican prMperity, arid he will loR it, leaving a dead party and economy.

What can be said about thoR who make a livmg

from such forecasts is that theyre imlike toeir readers. Tb^ believe ta the present; they enjoy theinRives id express ttemRlves and make money in toe present.

They need not (ear eon-tradictkm, becauR nobody elR knofWB very much about the future ritoer, and iti a f general fact of life that as old sitoscriben catch on and quit, mknowing new ones

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IheyU do the same thing. Theyll rrireat frwn the market and hatch toeir plans for the terrible or great i irt ure that's jtot around the corner, fifPHiBg tori if they plan now theyll look pretty then.

In so acting, they become a forecast or a commentary themsdves.

So long as they remain ^ engrossed in toe futm you can be certam some form of economic distreK remains. But when they begin returning to the present, you know good times are here Mid tori toefuttsetonow