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INSIDE TODAYMISS AMERICASusan Akin of Mississippi, the new-Miss America, started her quest for the title when she was 6 years old. See page 6.

INSIDE TODAYPRISONSThe national prison; population, swollen by stiffer sentences, has reached record proportions. Seepage 16.

SPORTS TODAYGANT WINS

Harry Gant won the Deleware 500 race, but Darrell Waltrip finished second to gain on NASCAR leader Bill Elliott. Page 9THE DAILY REFLECTOR

104th YEAR NO. 222

GREENVILLE, N.C.

TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION

MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1985

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PRICE 25 CENTSFugitives Sought In Trooper's Slaying

By TOM MINEHART Associated Press Writer SPRING CREEK, N.C. (AP) -Authorities are using tracking dogs and a helicopter equipped with infrared sensors to scour rugged North Carolina mountains for two tough, woods-wise Arkansas fugitives suspected of killing a state trooper.

Theyre tough, said Madison County Sheriff E.Y. Ponder. They spent four days in the Ozarks after they escaped in Arkansas. One of them stayed in a tree.

Its rough mountain terrain lots of outcroppings, lots of places to hide, added Deputy Sheriff Red Penland. Theres wild apples to eak ... and water in every hollow.

The helicopter, owned by Fairfax County, Va., police, can detect a 1 percent difference in heat and a human being would show on a video screen in the dense woods, said Fairfax County police Lt. Tom Sines.

We use it to find people and eliminate large areas from the search, Sines said. If they try to duck down

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into a corn field, this will pick them up.

Trooper Robert L. Coggins, 27, of Bryson City was shot to death Saturday after he stopped a pickup truck believed to have been stolen by the Arkansas jail escapees last month. Coggins had been a trooper for less than a year.

Authorities said they were searching for two white men in their early

20s, one of whom is believed to be Jimmy Rios. The other has been identified by North Carolina authorities as William Bray, who originally was identified in Arkansas as Ronald Bray. Authorities said Bray carried his brother Ronalds birth certificate when he was arrested.

Rios uncle, Ralph Robison of Charleston, Ark,, said in a telephone

interview his nephew is kind of ornery, but he has never been dangerous or violent. We think (Bray) is mking Jimmy do what hes telling him todo.

N.C. State Highway Patrol Sgt. George Dowdle said an area in the mountains has been contained by road blocks and roving cars ... and were putting some fresh dogs on it. Were gonna try to flush them out and see if someone can spot them and lake it from there,

The police command post is near

Spring Creek Elementary School, where Principal Larry Plemmons said school buses were escorted by troopers and the 100 children were taking recesses inside the building for safetys sake.

Dowdfe said about 200 men from about 20 agencies are taking part in the search in the western corner of North Carolina. Highway Patrol Commander Jack Cardwell said the search was concentrated in an area of 20 miles by 10 miles.

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New Trade Deficit Shifts U.S. To Net Debtor Ranks

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nations broadest measure of foreign trade registered a near-record $31.8 billion deficit from April through June, confirming that the country has now become a net debtor for the first time in 71 years, the government reported today.

The Commerce Department said the deficit in the current account was 4.9 percent higher than the $30.3 billion imbalance suffered in the first three months of the year.

The current account measures not only trade in merchandise but also in services, mainly investment earnings.

Since the country began the year

with only a $28.2 billion surplus in investments, the $62.1 billion in deficits has undoubtedly for the first six months of the year wiped that surplus out.

Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said in June that it appeared the country had become a net debtor but economists could not pinpoint when the country crossed over. Todays report provided further confirmation that the country is now a net debtor for the first time since 1914.

What that means is that the United States now owes foreigners more than they owe this country.

It also means that the country can no longer look to the flow of dividend

New Study Cites Cost Of Smoking

WASHINGTON (AP) - Smokings adverse effects on health cost the United States some $65 billion a year in increased medical bills, premature death and time lost from work more than $2 for every pack of cigarettes consumed, according to a congressional study.

The new estimate by the Office of Technology Assessment, Congress scientific advisory staff, is higher than previous estimates made by other researchers, in some cases substantially higher. But the studys

authors said even the higher figures represent a conservative estimate.

Focusing on the three major causes of disease attributed to smoking, cancer, heart disease and lung ailments, researchers said the habit adds $22 billion a year to the nations health-care costs and costs $43 billion in lost productivity and wages. OTA put the total cost of smoking in the range of $38 billion to $95 billion a. year, with a middle estimate of $65 billion, or $2.17 for each pack of cigarettes sold.

and interest payments to U.S. investors to help cover trade balances, since the United States will now be paying out more in such investment payments than it will be receiving.

That means that the country will have to depend on running merchandise trade surpluses, something very unlikely in the foreseeable future, to dig its way out of debtor status.

The current account deficit is likely to top $120 billion this year, making the United States the worlds leading debtor nation, substantially ahead of the previous leaders, Brazil and Mexico.

Todays report showed that the $31.8 billion current account deficit for the second quarter came near the record deficit of $32.5 billion in the third quarter last year.

The imbalance came from a record $33 billion merchandise trade deficit, which swamped a small gain in investment and other service receipts.

The trade deficit came from a $2.5 billion drop in exports, which totaled $53.2 billion from April through June as agricultural exports dropped for the second consecutive quarter.

Imports^ rose $1 billion to $86.2 billion as petroleum imports increased sharply, offsetting a slight decline in non-petroleum imports.

UP AND AWAY Balloonists put on a show for spectators at the third annual Kinston Balloon Rally held during the weekend in Kinston. The rally, which featured hot-air balloons, an air show and live bands, drew

balloonists from as far away as Michigan. The event was sponsored by the .National Balloon Racing Association. (Reflector Photo by Chris Bennett)

Local 'Witness For Peace' Thinks U.S> Wtong In Nicaraguan PolicyREFLECTOR

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ALLERGY SUFFERERS REQUESTED Dr. W. James Metzger, section head of the allergy and immunology section of the East Carolina University School of Medicine, is appealing for allergy and hay fever sufferers ages 12-65 to participate in a study of a new allergy medication. Compensation is available, he noted. For further information call 757-2562 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

By SUE HINSON Reflector Staff Writer Think globally and act locally is one slogan Mike Hamer has taken to heart, especially since his recent return from Nicaragua.

Hamer, a lecturer at East Carolina University, returned from Nicaragua

Aug. 3, where he spent six months as a Witness for Peace. And now, says the long-time Greenville resident, is the time to begin the real work, the work of talking to Senators John East and Jesse Helms and anyone else I can find about what I saw in Nicaragua.

Witness for Peace is a biblically based organization composed of what Hamer described as ordinary Americans, people who are committed Christians and who are commit-teed to non-violence as a means of change. Witness For Peace, he added, is directly opposed to the cur

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INTERVIEW During his visit to Nicaragua. Greenville resident Mike Hamer, right, .interviewed Blanca Hernandez, left, a Nicaraguan woman later reportedly killed by the Contra. The Contra is a group of ex-Somosa guardsmen whoj^r^ceive support from the Reagan ad-

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ministration. Members are referred to as "freedom fighters by Reagan, but Hamer said what he saw in Nicaragua disputed this terminologv. Hamer served as a Witness for Peace in the South American country.

rent manner of U.S. involvement in Nicaragua, an involvement he discussed in a recent interview.

While serving as a Witness for Peace. Hamer said he saw U.S.-financed operations being used by the Contra to terrorize and kill Nicaraguan civilians, the Contra, a group of ex-Somosa guardsmen whom President Ronald Reagan refers to as freedom fighters and who receive support from the Reagan administration, Hamer said, are actually murderers, terrorists... They are not freedom fighters, they are murderers and I d^ocumented this time after time as a Witness for Peace.

"For example, he said, in mid-July one week after a delegation and I had left a farming co-op composed of about 53 familes, the Contra deliberately mined a road near the co-op, killing* nine mothers and injuring IT, They knew those women would be coming down that road and the mining was clearly a deliberate terrorist tactic to scare the Nicaraguans into (Please turn to page8)Lecture

Reed Brody, former New York state assistant attorney general, will speak Wednesday on the East Carolina University campus about Contra activity in Nicaragua.

Brody will speak at 8 p.m. in Brewster C-103. His talk is being sponsored by the ECU Peace Committee. the ECU Anthropological Honor Society, the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Greenville Friends Meeting and the East Carolina Political Science Society.

Brody's observations on Contra activities are based on 145 sworn affidavits from icaraguan citizens.

Vice President

Melvin Lang, news editor of The Daily Reflector, was named second vice president of the Associated Press News Council of North Carolina during a news council meeting held in Wrightsville Beach this weekend.

' Lang has worked for The Daily Reflector since 1981. Prior to that time, he worked with the Associated Press for 15 vears.

Support Group

The Parkinsons support group wilL meet at 12 p.m. Thursday for exercise and 1 p.m. for a meeting at the -physical therapy wing of Pitt County Memorial hospital. The speaker will be Tom White, a physical therapist. .The meeting is o[n to the public.

For more information call 756-2463.

.Planning Conference

; The Pitt-Greenville Chamber of Commerce will hold its out-of-town -planning conference Nov. 1-3 in ^Williamsburg, Va. The theme for the conference is "The Future is Yours Now."

According to chamber officials, teservations should be made early ^nce romms are limited for the con-Iference. For information call the chamber at 752-4101,

:WOW To Meet

I Unit 218, Woodmen of the World Insurance Society, will meet at 7 Ip.m. Thursday in the Joyner-Lanier Building on Cotanche Street.

Planning Board

The Pitt County Planning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pitt Countv Office Building. 1717 W. Fifth St.

Included on the agenda is a discussion of drainage in subdivisions and consideration of preliminary plats for Strickland Mobile Home Park on Secondary Road 1142 in Farmville Township, Eaton Park Section II on SR 1110 in Grifton Township, and Twin Creeks Subdivision on SR 1755.

Youth Revival

Elder Hermon Young of Williamston will hold a youth revival at St. Matthew Free Will Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.

The,Cedar Grove Young Adult Choir will sing Wednesday, the Holy Trinity Choir No. 1 on Thursday and the Rock Spring Choir No. 2. Friday.

Mixer Scheduled

A Business After Hours mixer will be held from 5:30-7 p.m Oct. 1 at Sportsworld, 104 E. Red Banks Road.

The event is open to Pitt-Greenville Chamber of Commerce members and .admission is by business card. For further information or for reservations call the chamber, 752-4101.

Teleconference

The first transcontinental video teleconference ever scheduled on the much-publicized greenhouse ^effect will link by satellite some 1.500 to 2,000 scientists across North America Thursday.In The Area

The Sigma Xi chapter of East Carolina University is coordinating the local teleconference which will run from 8-10:30 p.m. at the Brody Building Auditorium of the ECU School of Medicine.

A panel 6f four cperts moderated by Ira Flatow of the PBS series, Newton's Apple at the Washington, D C., host site will open the broadcast by one-way video and two-way audio links to scientists, students and media at some 30 remote sites from Hawaii, Alaska and California to Mexico and Newfoundland.

The discussion will focus on research needs and opportunities concerning the long-term effects of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02), often described as the greenhouse effect, on ways to measure and predict these increases and their possible effects on the climate and life on Earth.

PTA Rescheduled

The Wahl-Coates Parent-Teacher Association meeting scheduled for Tuesday has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 in the schools all purpose room.

Weekend Thefts

Greenville police are continuing their investigation of six thefts reported to the department over the weekend.

Officer G.W. Williams said a box of chickens was taken from Pollards Trading Post at 100 Pollard St. in an incident reported at 6:53 a.m. Saturday. while Officer H.D. Hines said a number of tools were taken from a

^ . GIFT TO ECU Mick .Maxon, right, manager of the Union Carbide plant in Greenville, gives his companys * Imnual gift to the East Carolina Lniversity Department I of Chemistry. Accepting the gift is Chancellor John M,

Howell, left. According to Chemistry Chairperson Dr. Caroline Ayers, center, this is the 18th year Union Carbide has provided funds to support seminars in the department. (ECU News Bureau Photo by Tony Rumple)

Meetings 1 Dump Sites Checked

; Scheduled meetings for Greenville ?nd Pitt County governmental agencies for the week of Sept. 15-21 include:

; Tuesday

! 4:30 p.m. Community Appearance Commission, monthly meeting, first floor conference room, City flail, corner of Fifth and Washington kreets.

.* 7 p.m. Human Relations Com-inission, monthly meeting, first floor jionference room. City Hall. Fifth and JVashington streets.

; 7:30 p.m. Greenville Planning nd Zoning Commission, monthly meeting, third floor Council chamber. City Hall, corner of Fifth ^nd Washington streets.

CAMP LEJEUNE, NX. (AP) -Chemical dump sites at Camp Le-jeune - including one building used until recently as a day-care center -are receiving new attention from civilian military officials, authorities sav.

.No one has been harmed by the wastes, which have been spilled, dumped and burned at sites across the 170-square-mile military base over the last 40 years, officials said. But the long-term environmental risks have not been fully assessed.

Since February, 10 of Camp Le-jeupe's 100 wells have been closed after they were found to be polluted. Eight had been tainted by small amounts of fuel and solvents used to

RESCUE DAY ACTIVITIES - The fourth annual Rescue Day was held Saturday in Winterville hy the towns rescue squad. Eight area rescue squads participated in various competitions and were judged on "each rescue problem presented. Festivities also included

a parade, special shows, an auction and an equipment display. Proceeds from Rescue Day will be used to purchase equipment for the squad. (Reflector Photo by Tommy Forrest)

clean weapons and vehicles. Solvents found in two of the wells, in a residential neighborhood at the northern edge of the base, have been tentatively linked to civilian cleaning firms in nearby Jacksonville. State environmental officials who tested the wells cited Camp Lejeune in May for violating groundwater standards.

Inmowed or littered lawns should be reported to the City Engineering and Inspections Department at 752-4137.

vehicle which was driven from and then returned to 512 E. Gum Road in an incident reported at 9:20 a.m.

Officer R.S. Sawyer said $380 was taken from a cash drawer at Chicos Restaurant at 521 Cotanche St. in an incident reported at 9:44 p.m., while Officer B.M. Highland said a bicycle was takn from Ringold Towers on Cotanche St. in an incident reported at 0:55 p.m.

Officer J.E. Woolard said a bicycle - which had been recovered by Officer R.G. Mendenhall on First Street near the Ash Street intersection about 2:40 a.m. Sunday - was reported taken from Q-4 Wilson Acres about 10:18 a.m., while Officer C.M. Credle said four speakers and an equalizer, valued at $415, were taken from a vehicle parked in a service station lot at the intersection of 10th and Evans Streets, in an incident reported at 10:10 a.m. Sunday.

Three-Day Service

Evangelist George Hawkins will hold a three-day service at Radicue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.

Matthews Is Speaker

Evangelist Jean Matthews of Rocky Mount will lead revival services at Ayden Deliverance Center, 137 E. Second St., Ayden, at 7:30 p.m. today-Friday.

Fall Revival

A fall revival will be held at 8 p.m. Monday-Friday at Browns Chapel Apostolic Faith Church of God and Christ on the Belvoir Highway, Greenville. Services will be conducted by Bishop R. A. Griswould.

A business meeting will be con-

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Couple Exchanges Vows In Ceremony Performed Simday

Cynthia Ann Gaskins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Gaskins of RoQte 3, Greenville, and John Marvin Boyd Jr., son of Estelle Thorpe of Route 2, Greenville, and the late J. Marvin Boyd, were united in marriage Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Rev. Robert Stacy Carter performed the double ring ceremony. A program of organ music was presented by Peggy Hardee. Vickie Dixoa. sang Suddenly, You Needed Me and If. The Rev. Carter sang The Wedding Prayer.

The bride was given in marriage by her parents. Her sister, Kathy G. Riggs, of Route 3, Greenville, was honor attendant. Bridesmaids included Gaynor White of Elizabeth City, sister of the bridegroom, Sarah Buck, Alise Rowan, Brenda Martin, all of Greenville, Angie Venters and Angela Wilson, both of Route 2, Greenville.

The flower girl was Penny Hudson of Route 1, Grimesland. The ring bearer was Jay Boyd of Route 3, Greenville, son of the bridegroom.

The best man was Thomas L. Thorpe of Route 2, Greenville. Ushers included Jeff Riggs of Route 3, Greenville, brother-in-law of the bride, Spencer White of Elizabeth City, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, Robin Stokes of Route 3, Greenville, Clevie Averette, Linwood Hooks, uncle of the bridegroom, and David Hooks, cousin of the bridegroom, all of Route l,Winterville.

The wedding was directed by Jean Evans.

The bride wore a formal gown of white silkened organza over peau de soie designed with a high neckline encircled with rosepoint clipped lace. The empire bodice featured a sheer cameo insert centered by a lace motif beaded with pearls and sequins outlined in bridal pearls and beaded Chantilly lace. Self-fabric covered buttons extended down the back of the gown. The long sheer fitted sleeves featured appliques of lace with button closures and pearl trim at the cuffs. The modified A-line skirt and attached chapel length train were enhanced by scalloped rosepoint Chantilly lace at the hemline. She wore a chapel length mantilla edged in the seal oped rosepoint lace held in place by a Camelot cap overlaid in lace beaded with pearls. She carried a full cascade bouquet of white silk roses accented with red silk roses and white lace ribbon streamers.

The mother of the bride wore a formal gown of garnet silk with pinched pleats. The mother of the bridegroom selected a formal gown of embroidered champagne and grape crepe chiffon. Both mothers wore cymbidium orchids and were honored with long-stemmed red roses.

Meeting

Place

MONDAY

5:30 p.m. Greenville TOPS Club meets at Planters Bank 6:30 p. m. - Rotary Club meets 6:30 p.m. - Host Lions Club meets at Toms Restaurant 6:30 p.m. - Optimist Club meets at Three Steers 7:00 p.m. Sweet Adelines, Eastern Carolina Chapter meets at The Memorial Baptist Church 7:30 p.m. Woodmen of the World Simspon Lodge meets at community bldg.

7:30 p.m. Greenville Barber Shop Chorus meets at Jaycee Park Bldg.

8:00 p.m. Lodge No. 885 Loyal Order of the Moose 8:00 p.m. AA closed discussion at AA Bldg.,Farmvillehwy.

TUESDAY 7:00 a.m. Greenville Breakfast Lions Club meets at Three Steers 10:00 a.m. Kiwanis Golden K Club meets at Masonic Hall 6:30 p.m. Greenville Kiwanis Club meets at Riverside Steak Bar 6:30 p.m. Greenville Claims Association meets at Three Steers 7:00 p.m. Family Support Group at Family Practice Center 7:00 p.m. - Post No. 39 of American Legion meets at Post Home i .M p.m. lougiiiuve udieiiU) auppuii group at St. Paul Episcopal Church 8:00 p.m. - Pitt Co. Alcohlica Anonymous at AA Bldg., Farmvillehwy.

8:00 p.m. - Pitt Co. Al-Anon family

Cora Belle Gaskins, grandmother of the bride, and Lena McLawhorn, grandmother of the bridegroom, were honored with white carnation corsages.

The honor attendant wore a royal blue matte taffeta gown designed with an open neckline and complemented with a circle flounce of ruffled taffeta forming a drop shoulder bodice. A self-fabric bow accented the modified waistline. The intermezzo length skirt featured a side drape of matching taffeta. She carried a silk bouquet of ivory roses and gardenias accented with royal blue babys breath and blue and ivory streamers. The bridemaids were dressed identical and their flowers were also identical.

The flower girl was dressed identical and carried a miniature bouquet like the other attendants.

A reception was held in the fellowship hall of the church. Edna Mills served cake assisted by Louise kox, aunt of the bridegroom. Sandra Gaskins, aunt of the bride, and Joan Hooks, aunt of the bridegroom, poured punch. Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Boyd, aunt and uncle of the bridegroom, introduced the receiving line. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stokes greeted guests and goodbyes were said by Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Dixon. Rachel Hughes, cousin of the bridegroom, and Brenda Adams presided at the guest register.

Rice bags were distributed by Jay Boyd, Penny Hudson and Cathy Gaskins.

The couple will live near Greenville after a wedding trip to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.

The bride and bridegroom graduated from D.H. Conley High School. She graduated from Pitt Community College and is data manager at the East Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He is engaged in farming.

A wedding breakfast was held Sunday morning at the Three Steers given by the parents of the bride for members of the wedding party and out-of-town guests. An after-rehearsal dinner was held at the Riverside Steak Bar given by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Thorpe. The bride was honored at a bridesmaids luncheon and lingerie shower and the couple was honored at a riverside dinner and a miscellaneous shower prior to the wedding.

Births

Hunter

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hunter Jr., Farmville, a son, Joshua Andrew, on Sept. 8,1985, in Pitt Memorial Hospita.

Crawford

Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Ronald Crawford, Bethel, a daughter, Camarn Paige, on Sept. 9,1985, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Knowles

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Blount Knowles, Windsor, a daughter, Susan Louise, on Sept. 9,1985, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Cookus

Born to Mr. and Mrs. David Michael Cookus, Ocracoke, a daughter, Anna Felicia, on Sept. 9,1985, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Bunting

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Franklin Bunting, Robersonville, a daughter, Maria Danielle, on Sept. 9, 1985, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Griffith

Born to Mr. and Mrs. James William Griffith, Seaboard, a daughter, Victoria Lynn, on Sept. 10,1985, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

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Kenneth T. Perkins, D.D.S.PA HIDING THE METAL

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When you speak or smile you dont want people to know you have a metal tooth. You, want the superior endurance of metal, but not the glitter.

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Chautauqua Is Program Topic

Mrs. C.D. Scott of Durham was a special guest at the meeting of the Benevolent Circle of the International Order of the Kings Daughters and Sons Wednesday.

She presented a program of Chautauqua which is the location of the International Headquarters.

Mrs. Scott presented Jean Weaver, new president, a presidents pin. Other officers for 1985-86 are Beverly Bartik, vice president, Lou Wilson, secretary, and Annie 'Turner, treasurer.

Plans were discussed to attend state convention to be held in Durham Oct. 12.

Hester Gaskins was a guest for the covered-dish luncheon.

Bridge Winners Are Announced

Mrs. John McConney and Mrs. Everett Pittman tied with Clara Shackell and Mrs. George Martin for first place in the Wednesday morning duplicate bridge game played at Planters Bank.

Their percentage was .571. Eleanor Ford and Mrs. J.N. LeConte placed third and Mrs. Roy Hadden and Sally Kirkwood won fourth.

Sibyl Basart and Mrs. M.H. Bynum were first place North-South.winners in the afternoon game with .583 percent. Others placing were Mrs. Ray Gunderson and Dot McKemie, second; Mrs. Wiley Corbett and Mrs. George Martin, third.

East-West: Mrs. E.J. Poindexter and Mrs. Robert Barnhill, first with .568 percent; Beulah Eagles and Emma B. Warren, second; Mrs. W.R. Harris and Dave Proctor, third.

Winners in the North-South game Saturday afternoon were: Mrs. A.L. Roque and Dr. Charles Duffy, first with .648 percent; Lee Hastings and Selby Corbett, second; Mrs. William McConnell and Lewis Newsome, third; Nancy Pate and Fran Basnight, fourth.

East-West: Mr. and Mrs. Everett Pittman, first with .619 percent; Mrs. W.R. Harris and Mrs. J.M. Horton tied for third with Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McAllister; Audrey Solberg and Ed Yauck.

Hodson

Born to Dr. and Mrs. Charles Andrew Hodson, 603 Eleanor St., a daughter, Emma Jane, on Sept. 10, 1985, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

DEAR READERS; I recently printed a letter that read (in part): A busload of us senior citizens went to Niagara Flls for an outing. The Falls on the American side were grossly neglected and looked terrible, but the Falls on the Canadian side were beautiful, bright with flowers and well-maintained. The comparison made us Americans feel somewhat ashamed and therefore sad. I know it would cost our government a few dollars to restore our side of the Falls, but it would be well worth it to restore our national pride.Sad Senior

After it appeared, I received a sharp rebuke from the mayor of Niagara Falls, demanding a public apology for having printed that letter. He also released his letter to local papers and from there it made the national wires.

Readers, I take no pleasure in reporting that to date Ive received approximately 1,900 letters agreeing with Sad Senior and fewer than 200 in defense of the American side. Some, excerpts: '

DEAR ABBY: You do not owe the mayor an apology. He owes you one.

I teach a Sunday School class and one of my pupils (8 years old) said, I just came back from a trip to Canada, and their side is much prettier, and does not have any trash like the American side.

Children have no reason to make such a statement if it were not true. Its time to clean up, Mr. Mayor.

CHARLENE BAKER, MANCHESTER, KY.

DEAR ABBY; My husband and our 10-year-old son visited Niagara Falls. I had looked forward to this all my life. What a disappointment! The Canadian side was magnificent. The New York side was ugly and run-down.

MRS. JOHN CAPO, SATELLITE BEACH, FLA.

DEAR ABBY: Dont apologize! I was in Canada a few weeks ago and saw Niagara Falls from both sides. The Canadian side was just beautiful. It had lots of bright flowers and neat parks. The Amerf'an side looked poor in compe

SUSAN NOVAK, ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.

DEAR ABBY: When we visited Niagara Falls, the gardens on the Canadian side were an inspiration. The pride of the Canadian gardeners was evident in the immaculate care given every twig and flower. On the American side, a surly government worker charged us $1.50 to park our car ankle deep in mud.

B.E. TUCKER, LAKELAND, FLA.

DEAR ABBY; Having just returned from both sides of the Falls, we thought the Canadian side was a neon nightmare with a commercial sideshow look. The New York sides convention center area is still under massive construction, but if one takes a short drive over to the park area, he can stand between the Falls and hear the thundering water and feel the spray. How thrilling to see natural beauty win over the artificial

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DEAR ABBY; Your thoughtless, unauthoritative slap at Niagara Falls, N.Y., has greatly diminished your credibility.

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DEAR ABBY; So the Canadian side has more flowers. Big deal! Flowers arent everything. People go over to the Canadian side to get a better view of Niagara Falls, and

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John Flesher Chain Saws

Two trees in Croatan National Forest were chat-rting the other day. They were discussing, with : sincere solicitude, the U.S. Forest Service 50-year ' management plan. After reading it, the two coined a new phrase the chain saw syndrpme. Heres the scene and how the conversation went:

Setting: A breezeless, sunny autumn day in eastern North Carolina. The two trees are very large. They bask in the sunlight and wiggle their roots in the . ground wet by rain. They are mature hardwoods, age ^50-75 years. Dotting their limbs are bird and squirrel : nests and at their feet animals feed on the nuts they ; drop.

Dialogue: First tree: If I read this 50-year plan right, this neighborhood is going straight downhill. It .sounds like things may clear out some here in the forest. Im worried we may lose our home. Second tree: Lose our home we may lose our lives. If they come through here with chain saws, were going to . fall. Well b^ coffee tables in a trailer if that happens.

The U.S. Forest Service doesnt agree, but the 50-year plans for managing Croatan and Uhwarrie, the . two national forests most accessible to Pitt residents, reads like the script of the movie The Great Chain Saw Massacre. The Forest Service says its proposal calls for an expansion of timber cutting and a slight increase in road construction while reducing areas open to such recreational vehicles as trail bikes. The plan would also set aside more land for hiking and horseback riding. But the proposal has drawn barbed criticism, and with just cause, from environmental advocates such as the state Sierra Club and Wildlife Federation. What we want to know is, if the plan is so beneficial to flora and fauna, why are outdoor enthusiasts so opposed to it?

The plan will increase plant and animal populations without severely limiting recreation and timber uses, says the Forest Service. Not so, say environmentalists. The plan, which includes timbering, paving, wetlands draining and peat mining, will shatter the forests value as wildlife habitats and creation ceiers. We agree with the environmentalists we cant see how turning the Croatan and Uwharrie forests into the Croatan and Uwharrie National Tree Farm could add much to the nations lumber supply. We harbor the notions that asphalt and forest dont mix, trees are more attractive than stumps and that ditches and mine tailings have no business in publicly owned woods.

More accurately, the plan is an attempt to justify destroying aesthetic quality, wildlife and public use of the areas. The forest services slogan seems to be ^Lets cut down the federal deficit by cutting down our trees.

No final plan is expected until 1986, and we hope the one that emerges victorious isnt tilted toward tree-cutting at the expense of wildlife and recreation. It will take a lot of trees to fill the federal deficit many more than can be found in Croatan and Uwharrie forests.Ratings

* Two North Carolina congressmen are included in a list of the 12 most underrated members of Congress -by the editor of an almanac about that body and those .who comprise it.

: Alan Ehrenhalt says James Broyhill and Charlie :whitley are largely overlooked by the media but -nontheless wield substantial clout. He says they display the common characteristics in that they are unpretentious, rarely partisan legislative professionals who are well-informed and not prone to selfpromotion.

Broyhill is described as one of the more creative parliamentary minds in Congress; playing the inside game as well as anyone in the House. He does his .work where most of the work is done, in committee, says Ehrenhalt.

The writer says some of Whitleys colleagues cannot know he is one of a small number of members whose opinion shapes the political decisions of the House leadership. The speaker calls on him. His brief comment that an idea or proposition cannot win Southern support is sometimes enough to kill it.

- Having two of the 12 most underrated members in Congress, speaks well for the caliber of people representing Tar Heels in the House. After all, the body has 435 members.

The evaluation was made by a man whose career makes him an experienced watcher of lawmakers ; so his judgment is not to be taken lightly.Hunt's Status Undergoes Change

RALEIGH (AP) - Jim Hunts decision not to run for the U.S. Senate in 1986 brings to a close his nearly 13-year reign as king of North Carolina Democrats, with no heir apparent having seized the crown.

Although Hunt has been out of office since January, speculation over the former governors future plans kept him in the spotlight throughout the year. His political organization remained mostly intact as supporters awaited his decision on next years race. Other potential Democratic candidates put their plans on hold until his intentions were known.

Suddenly, his status is neither officeholder nor candidate, but not-so-elder statesman. And while party

regulars downplayed it in interviews last week, his departure clearly leaves a void that no single person is likely to fill. The (state) Democratic Party is almost a misnomer, said Thad Beyle, a University of North Carolina political scientist. Its more like a circus ... and the main attraction the past 12 years has been Hunt. The tent is still there and a lot of things are going on under it, but the main act is shut down for the time being.

Hunts grip on the party resulted largely from his ability to recognize unique circumstances and make the most of them.

He was elected lieutenant governor

in the Nixon landslide year of 1972, when Jim Holshouser secame the first Republican elected governor this century and Jesse Helms won his first Senate term.

For decades, the Democratic governor had been titular party leader. With Holshouser in office, the mantle fell to Hunt. It was a new experience, and the party was more or less drawn to him, said state Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland.

Hunt swept to victory in the 1976 gubernatorial election. The next year, he pushed through the Legislature a constitutional amendment permitting him to seek a second term, and won landslide re-election

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Senate Bid In Offing

WASHINGTON Breaking months of silence, ex-U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has confided to White House political aide Ed Rollins that she would be interested in running for the Senate from Maryland if Sen. Charles Mathias does not seek re-election.

The recently converted Republican, who ran into Rollins in France last month, left no doubt she is thinking seriously about her first quest for public office. Dr. Kirkpatrick has promised liberal Republican Mathias she would not oppose him in the primary, but he has made no preparations for a tough campaign (probably against Democratic governor Harry Hughes).

Her husband, fellow political scientist Evron Kirkpatrick, is enthusiastic about a Senate race. Many of her oldest political associates, dating back to her days as a Demo

cratic stalwart, have advised Jeane that a Senate race makes more sense than going for broke to be Republican vice presidential nominee in 1988.

Dramatizing White House indignation over Times commentary about its exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, one presidential aide grabbed a thick pencil and scrawled one word in the margin: absurd.

He was worked up about what the presidents men regarded as a soft description of the tough new Soviet leader, a protege of KGB boss Yuri Andropov. Time described Gorbachev using his left hand for emphasis as he talks, but always quite gently, and concluded with the verdict that his voice, though extraordinary, is not angry or bullying.

A footnote: The White House did not like Gorbachev singling out Under Secretary of State Michael H.

Armacost for specific criticism. But friends said the career Foreign Service officer was rather pleased by such unusual attention from the worlds top communist.

Although it has been presumed that Sen. Gary Hart will not seek re-election from Colorado next year because of his presidential ambitions, advisers have just about convinced him that a third Senate term may be necessary to get him into the White House. '

Hart is widely perceived to be the front-runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, but his prospects have been clouded by a poor rformance in reducing the $2 mil-ion-plus debt remaining from his 1984 race for president. The big problem in raising funds from Washington lobbyists, his advisers say, is lack of leverage resulting from his presumed departure from the Senate.

in 1960. His eight years in the Ex^u-tive Mansion enabled him to expand his political network in all 100 counties.

The governor has the patronhge to hand out, said House Speaker Liston Ramsey. He builds tfie roads, he appoints the judges,' he does the hiring.

Other Democratic officeholders sometimes complained privately that Hunt was too strong, that the party had come to be identified with him instead of the other way around. The grumbling grew louder duriftg the 1984 Senate race, when some Democrats accused the Hunt organization of monetizing ^ party machinery and distancing itself from the rest of the ticket.

Everybody was mad as hell, especially Rufus, said one associate of former Attorney General Rufus Edmisten, last years Democratic gubernatorial nominee who lost to Republican Jim Martin, The Hunt people just ran everything, all the Unity Campaign things. You couldnt tell them anything.

A key Hunt supporter who asked not to be identified said the complaints arose from misunderstandings and jealousy. 'The notion that he hogged it ail for himself is just not accurate, said the Democrat. '

Regardless of whos right, there is tittle doubt that Democratic leaders are taking pains to make the immediate post-Hunt period one in which no single figure dominates.

In the aftermath of the Helms and Martin victories, Lt. Gov. Bob Jqr-dan is in a position similar to Hunts in 1972. He has assumed the role of titular leader with gusto, but has tried to avoid the appearance of grabbing control.

He has enough political insight to know the more people you involve, the stronger your base is, said Ed Turlington, executive director of the state party.

Jordans recommendation of Wade Smith as party chairman symbolizes his commitment to collective leadership, observers say. He is not sponsoring any one candidate, which we needed for awhile, instead of being a one-person party, said Ramsey.

The 1986 Senate race will provide a test of how smoothly the Democrats are making the transition from the Hunt era. Had he run, he would have faced only token primary opposition, if any. Without Hunt, can the Democrats settle on a candidate without lapsing into a rerun of the bitter 1984 gubernatorial primary that left the party divided and dispirited?

I would say its absolutely essential, said D.M. Lauch Faircloth, the former state commerce secretary and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate last year. Faircldth, who has hinted for months he would run, said last week he hoped a consensus candidate would emerge who quickly could gain support* of party leaders, leading other major contenders to pass up the race, i

We used to say you fight in the spring, and the wounds heal in the summer and you unite in the fall, but thats not the way its been happening, said Faircloth.

James J. Kilpatrick

An Idea Ahead Of Its Time

WASHINGTON Eleanor Smeal, the gentlewoman who heads the National Organization for Women, was hopping mad recently. The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals had just reversed a major decision on comparable worth. She told an audience at the National Press Club that she was going to raise hell with Congress until the law is suitably rewritten. The gentlewoman has a long wait ahead.

The idea of comparable worth is an idea whose time has not yet come. In a free country, the idea ought never to be written into law.

By the way of background: In the early 1970s, the labor union representing employees of the state of Washington began pressing a novel doctrine. As a class, the states female workers manifestly were being paid less than the states male workers. The idea developed that while certain state jobs were not identical, these jobs demanded similar ciualifications. They were comparable. They were of comparable worth.Elisha Douglas

Strength For Today

The word cordial is derived from a Latin Word Which means heart. The cordial person is one who puts into eve^thing he does a quality oo*^art which people recogfize and usually praise.

A little of the cordial spirit is like magic medicine to -those feeling rejected and

disillusioned. We feel dissatisfied with ourselves, angry with the stupidity of the world. Then we meet a person who has a truly cordial spirit. He has a way of putting his arm around everyones shoulder, smiling, chuckling, and saying just the right word before he passes on. Such a person has

the quality of heart for which the word cordial has been created.

This sad old world of ours can stand a lot more cordiality than it usually gives or gets. Cordiality is a quality which comes out of the human heart and takes its delight in finding another heart in which to lodge.

State officials, to their later regret, commissioned a study by management consultant Norman Willis. The study examined 62 job classifications in which at least 70 percent of the employees were women, and 59 job classifications in which at least 70 percent of the employees were men. As the 9th Circuit noted in its opinion a few days ago, it appeared from the study that in jobs of comparable wori, the women were paid about 20 percent less than the men.

It is important to understand how these computations were made. The consultants arbitrarily created four criteria and allocated points to each one: knowledge and skills (280), mental demands (140), accountability (160) and working conditions (20), for a total of 600 possible points. Then a five-member committee scored each job within the 121 classifications. If it appeared that a highway maintenance worker and a clerk-typist had about the same total scores, their jobs were declared to be of comparable worth and therefore should have equal pay.

When the state government balked at immediate adoption of the Norman Willis study, the union in 1982 went into U.S. District Court. There the union contended that failure to pay equal salaries for jobs of comparable worth is a violation of federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in employment. After long and drawn-out proceedings. District Judge Jack E. Tanner ruled in unions favor. He awarded 15,500 state employees, almost all of them women, back pay estimated at $800 million to $1 billion. The state appealed to the 9th Circuit, and last week the 9th Circuit reversed.

The appellate court did not get into the controversy over comparable worth as such. It held merely that nothing in Title VII of the federal Equal Pay Act permits employees to recover damages and back pay from employers who dont buy the notion. The law demands equal pay only for the same work. The law simplv does

not require the relief sought by the union.

Wages and salaries, said the court, are responsive to supply and demand and other market forces. In this instance, the state did not create the market disparity. It fixed compensation according to prevailing rates in the public and private sectors. it acted according to fundamental economic principles. This implied no willful discrimination on account of sex. Neither law nor logic deems the free marketrsystem a suspect enterprise.

Charles M. Baird, professor of economics at California State University in Hayward, has summed up the fallacies of comparable worth in a single sentence: Some may think it good theology, and others think it is good philosophy; but it is lousy economics, and its imposition on the American economy by gov-ernmental force would have

disastrous effects.

Notice Bairds qualification: its imposition by governmental force. Nothing whatever prevents private and public employers from voluntarily negotiating contracts that award raises to women in the name of pay equity. It is the loony process of comparing points for discomfort and interpersonal communications skills that dos such violence to the respect that is owed the marketplace in a free society.

I arn in favor of raising the pay of librarians, most of whom are wonien. But their pay ought to be raised because they deserve it, and not because a committee finds that fi-brarians score 421 and electricians score 419 on some consultants test. Thats no way to run a railroad, a government or anything else.

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Weinberger Says Soviets Aren't Controlling Troops

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense S^retary Caspar,Weinberger is accusing the Soviet Union of failing to , control its troo(^ following a new military confrontation in East Germany in which a U.S. Army truck W9S bumped and its occupants held at gunpoint.

Weinberger on Sunday offered the first public word of the Sept. 7 incident in southwestern East Germany. He said the American unit involved was from the same unit as Maj. Arthur Nicholson, an American officer shot and killed by a Soviet guard last March outside an East German base.

The defense secretary, who for months has been denouncing the ^viets over the Nicholson shooting, demanded a Soviet apology for the latest incident, which he said was part of a continuing series of episodes."

Appearing on CBS-TVs Face the Nation, Weinberger mentioned only* the driver of the truck-like vehicle. But the Defense Department, elaborating later, said two Americans were involved.

The Soviets bumped his truck deliberately where we were supposed to be, and doing what we were permitted to do under a treaty that is some 40years old, Weinberger said.

. When he attempted to get out and ifix the truck they pushed him back into the truck and held him at gunpoint and detained him for roughly nine hours and generally behaved in the same way in which they did when Maj. Nicholson was killed and murdered, he said.

However, another administration official later said it was unclear if the U.S. vehicle was where it should be, and said the Soviet commander had subsequently apologized profusely for the incident.

Under a U.S.-Soviet pact, a limited number of American soldiers are permitted to travel in East Germany in return for similar rights by Soviet soldiers in West GeTmany.

Most of the trips - described for years as legalized spying, are to report on military activities on each side of the border.

Since the March 24 shooting of Nicholson outside a base near Potsdam, East Germany, the United States has held a series of meetings with the Soviets to complain of harassment against members of the U.S. missions. During that time, there was another incident, involving the collision of U.S. and Soviet vehicles.

We have had promises by the Soviets that they would tell their .people not to use force, Weinberger said. Either theyre not keeping their promises or they are very poorly disciplined.

Asked why the incident had not been announced by the United States at the time it happened, Weinberger said: Were trying our best to get the conditions corrected. Were not .interested in publicity.

.. He said a protest had been lodged with the Soviets and we hope that 'Ultimately they will do what they say they are going to do and that is discipline their troops and control

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LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher met separately today with the foreign minister and home secretary to discuss whether Britain would expel more Soviets in response to the Russians ouster of 25 Britons.

The British Broadcasting Corp. said the government was believed to be considering options including ordering more Russians to leave Britain, lowering the permitted level of (Soviet) diplomatic representation or imposing further restrictions on the movements of Soviet diplomats and officials in this country.

The Soviet action came Saturday, two days after Britains Foreign Office announced asylum had been granted to Soviet Embassy counselor Oleg A. Gordievski, whom it identified as head of the KGB secret police operation in London.

The Foreign Office said 25 Soviet diplomats and other personnel whom Gordievski had identified as spies had until Oct. 3 to leave Britain.

The Daily Telegraph, a pro-Conservative Party newspaper, said the Soviet expulsions seemed designed to demonstrate Stalinist resolve by the Kremlin and its new leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Press Association, the British domestic news agency, said Mrs. Thatcher, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and Home Secretary Douglas Hurd had reached a decision during a meeting late Sunday, but were keeping it secret.

An aide to Mrs. Thatcher confirmed the three had met, but refused to give details.

Press Association said the quickly arranged session and the inclusion of Hurd indicated the British were planning retaliation. As home secretary, Hurd has some responsibility for security matters involving foreigners in witain.

their troops.

He said there were reports that the Soviet mission had promised to look into the latest incident, but we have not had an apology.

He added there had never been any Soviet compensation for Nicholsons family.

Asked if the Soviet action would have an impact on President Reagans summit meeting with Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in November, Weinberger said, No. I dont think so. you just have to recognize that this is Soviet behavior. The meeting that the president has scheduled with Mr. Gorbachev should take place. I trust it will take place.

But it ought to take place with the full knowledge by the American people of the problems we are dealing with.

Weinbergers announcement came in response to a reporters question, and appeared to take the White House, the State Department - and even Pentagon officials by surprise. Public affairs duty offic|rs at all three branches initially initiallV said they had no information beyond what Weinberger had said.

Late Sunday, however. Pentagon spokesman Robert B. Sims offered a more detailed account of what happened and added, Our people were not injured and so we wont be providing their names.

Sims said the detention occurred near Suhl-Finisterberg, where the Soviets have a communications site. The site is not located in any restricted area, either a permanent

or a temporary restricted area, he added.

Our people were leaving that site when their vehicle became stalled probably tangled in some discarded wire. As they tried to get the vehicle out of that location, a Soviet truck approached at high speed and hit the U.S. vehicle.

At that point, the Soviets surrounded our vehicle, directed the U.S. personnel to stay inside....

A Soviet officer arrived several hours later after the detention began and interrogated our people. They (the Soviets) towed the vehicle to a different area. ... Then the (U.S.) crew worked on the vehicle for more than two hours before they were able to return to their headquarters, Sims said.

Another administration official, speaking on condition he not be identified, gave a similar account of the incident, but said, Weinberger may have overdramatized what happened. The official also said the local commander had apologized.

Its riot clear if the truck was in a place it was supposed to be, said the official. He said that after the vehicle was hit it slid into some wire along a road and became entangled. When a Soviet commander belatedly came to the scene blaming his delay on getting lost he ordered his troops to disentangle the truck.

The Soviet commander apologized profusely, the official said. He also said he had the impression that the soldier wasnt held, nine hours, but was gone from his headquarters on the mission for nine hours.

Farm Scene

By PHILLIP ROWAN Agricultural Extension Agent

Optimum reproductive performance of sows is a necessity in todays highly competitive pork industry. With an average gestation length of 114 days, a lactation length of 28 days and a rebreeding period of five days, a total of 2.48 litters per sow per year is possible. However, most reports indicate the national average is 1.6 litters per sow per year.

A major problem of lowered sow productivity in our area is failure of sows to recycle. Late-cycling sows can prove to ne a drain on efficiency and profits. The reasons why sows fail to recycle is not always known, but many times it can be corrected by changes in management.

Nutrition is the key to many swine problems and is often related to anestrous in sows. Getting lactating sows to consume more feed during lactation can overcome some of these problems. Sows with large litters are likely to become very thin during lactation unless feed consumption is high. Standardizing litters can help prevent too many pigs on one sow. Also, hot weather causes reduced feed intake by sows. More frequent feedings or addition of fat in the ration can increase energy consumption by the sow. It is also important to maintain adequate feed from weaning to rebreeding to get sows to recycle quicker. This is particularly true for first-litter sows and thin sows.

Several studies have demonstrated that separating sows from their litters 6-8 hours per day for several days can increase the percent that recycle on schedule. Another factor to consider in rebreeding sows is proper grouping and allowing boar exposure. Grouping three-six sows together and allowing physical contact with the boar daily after weaning is important for stimulating expression of heat.

There is a definite increase in the number of anestrous sows during late summer and fall. It is not knowm whether this is due to temperature or day length. Producers should plan on having 25-50 percent more gilts than normal to breed during the summer and early fall in order to fill vacancies created by sows that fail to breed back on schedule.

Optimum reproductive performance of swine is synonomous with optimum profits on the swine farm. Swine producers who are experiencing difficulties in getting sows to recycle should consider the factors mentioned in this article. For more information contact the Pitt County Agricultural Extension Office, 752-2934.

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Saudi Oil Price May Fall

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Saudi Arabia has concluded deals with three major U.S. oil companies that could lower the price of its oil and raise production, the Middle East Economic Survey reported today.

The authoritative oil and economic publication, published in Nicosia, said the deals on the basis of net-back price with Exxon, Texaco and Mobil have been confirmed beyond doubt.

Netback pricing relates crude oil prices to market prices for refined petroleum products in certain markets. Middle East Economic Survey said that using such a scheme could lower the price for Arabian light crude by $2 to $3 below the $28-per-barrel official OPEC price.

The Middle East Economic Survey said top Saudi sources had indicated the agreements would send a warning from Saudi Arabia to fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and producers outside the cartel that Saudi Arabia can no longer be taken for granted as the sole buttress of world oil prices.

In other words, if need be, the kingdom is ready for a price war, the publication said.

It was not immediately possible to obtain comment frorri the American oil companies on the report, which was made public while it was early morning in the United States.

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Carnegie Foundation Criticizes Colie^B StructureGrads Heavily In Debt, Unmotivated

By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL - ' Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) America must develop an entrepreneurial spirit and a sense of civic responsibility in its college graduates or risk losing pre-eminence in the worlds economy, a Carnegie Foundation report said today.

The U.S. system of higher education is the best in the world. but needs to change to encourage creative and chpllenging thought and to stop stifling these characteristics," the study said.

The report by Frank Newman also sharply criticized the excessive loans many college students now are being forced to shoulder.

A student who leaves college with a large debt burden may well feel he has already assumed all of the risk that he possibly should, said Newman, who charged that the trend toward loans may inadvertently undercut traditional values and make it harder for graduates to buy homes or cars.

The report also cited graduates emphasis on materialism and lack of civic involvement, saying, By every measure we have been able to find, todays graduates are fessinterested in and less prepared to exercise their civic Cesponsibilities.

iAcid Spill ]Neutralized With Lime

: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -Emergency crews built a dam and flumped tons of lime into a river to neutralize as much as 2(K),000 gallons of sulfuric acid spilling from derailed Canker cars, an accident that killed thousands of fish and forced the evacuation of 300 people, officials said.

- It looked like beer cans just torn apart," said Carl Mixon, Bexar County fire marshal, of the 29 tanker cars that crashed down the embankment in the Saturday night derailment. One cleanup crew member was treated and released for acid burns on his hands and face, officials said.

; Families living within a one-mile radius of the accident, about 300 people, would be kept from their homes today, officials said. A school was opened to house those with no place to go.

^ At least 21 of the cars were tankers loaded with the highly corrosive acid, said Art Henson, spokesman for Southern-Pacific railroad. The sulfuric acid apparently will continue to leak into the Medina River from the ruptured tankers until the cars qan be removed, he said, adding that i^ was uncertain how many were ruptured.

We dont even know how much is left inside them, he said.

Officials said from 100,000 to ^000 gallons of acid spilled into the ver, killing thousands of fish, shearing off small trees on the river-Banks and spewing hazardous fumes.

There was no danger to the towns water supplies, officials said.

Newmans report. Higher Education and the American Resurgence, is the latest in a volley of reform reports that began 24 years ago with A Nation At Risk by the National Commission on Excellence in Education.

Newman, a former president of the University of Rhode Island, was the author of two studies commissioned by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that influenced federal education policies in the early 1970s.

His new report calls for a reconfiguration of the current $8 billion federal student aid program, with a greater emphasis on Pell Grants and work-study funds. More student aid should be given in return for community service, it says.

Newman, in an interview, said the United States built its economic success in the past on a hierarchical, mass-produced society. Now we've begun to shift more and more toward creative, entrepreneurial activities.

The American economy, beset by intense new foreign competition, has continued to create millions of new jobs in recent years, but that growth has been in small businesses, not the Fortune 500 listings of the nations largest corporations, he said.

Newman held out Henry Ford and civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. as models of the entrepreneurial spirit in America.

QUEENLY WAVES Susan Akin of Mississippi, the new Miss America, kicks up the water along the Atlantic City, N.J., beach on Sunday in a session with photographers. Miss Akin was chosen Little Miss America when she was 6 and had spent 15 years training for the pageant she won Saturday night. (AP Laserphoto)

New Miss America Says She Started Training At 6

: ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -Susan Akin says her quest for the Miss America title began at age 6 in ihe-Miss La Petite Pageant in Meri-ia. Miss., and was worth all the leg Dfts, nights in plastic wrap and losing a boyfriend.

, : Miss Akin, 21, a computers pick to ^ome Miss America 1986, said Sunday during her first news conference as reigning queen that winning, had taught her never stop dreaming.

; When her name was announced Saturday night in Convention Hall here, the reigning Miss Mississippi said she thought, I finally did it.

- This tops it all, she said. What filse could you ask for besides being Miss America?

: Wearing a midnight blue knit dress with a black band around the V-neck and-her crystal and rhinestone Miss America crown, the queen fielded questions on topics ranging from her 4?ardrobe allowance to premarital ?ex.

* Her voice choked with emotion as she recalled the support she got from ;a younger sister who suffered from Downs Syndrome and died at age 11 .. When Miss Akin was in the 10th grade.

I Miss Akin, who j^rforms magic R-icks and has studied public rela-"Jions for three years at the Universi

ty of Mississippi, said she had entered more than 100 pageants since becoming Miss La Petite when she was 6.

Her other titles have included Ideal Miss. Little Miss Meridian, Little Miss America and Miss University.

I feel that today is the start of my career,.said Miss Akin, who won a $30,000 scholarship and can expect to earn more than $100,000 in appearance fees during her yearlong reign.

George Miller, a retired business professor now living in Bellevue, Wash., said last week that Miss Akin had the best odds at 7-1 of winning the title.

I feel pretty elated about it, Miller said Sunday from his suburban Seattle home of his fourth correct pick in seven pageants. Its nice to show a computer model you put together works so well.

But Miss Akin said shortly after she was crowned, I dont believe in computers. He was lucky this year.

After she won the Miss Mississippi pageant in late July, Miss Akin moved in with the family of a pageant official and spent her time working out, lifting weights, reading newspapers and shopping for a wardrobe.

She said that the state pageant gives the winner a $4,000 clothes allowance and two stores each donated $1,500 in merchandise.

Leaving her family, which includes two older brothers and a younger sister, was difficult but just one among many sacrifices. Miss Akin said.

I would sometimes call my mother and cry all day long, she said.

She said she lost a boyfriend because of her concentration on winning.

But that doesnt really matter if you want to be Miss America, she said.

Miss Akin said she tried dermabrasion, a dermatological sanding technique, in an effort to rid her right cheek of several pockmarks, but it didnt work.

Earlier in the week, she said that she used to sleep covered in plastic wrap before pageants to lose a few extra pounds of water weight.

During a news conference Sunday, Miss Akin strode smoothly through an answer about her views on abortion, saying she thinks it is a moral issue, not a legal issue, and that she believes in a womans right to choose.

But the new Miss America appeared embarrassed and giggled when pressed for her opinion on premarital sex. After a long pause, she said it was up to the individual," but it wasnt for her.

Greetings For Marxist

: WASHINGTON (AP) - President {leagan, who rarely shows friendship toward Third World leaders sympathetic to the Soviet Union, wilt depart from that policy this week Ahen he sits down with Mozambiques Marxist President Samora Machel.

The meeting planned for Thursday lias-some conservatives outraged, as Machel was once considered one of Moscows most loyal allies in Africa Ontil civil war, widespread hunger iliheconomic diecline induced him to strengthen his ties to the West.

What dismays Reagans critics is that he is extending a hand of friendship to Machel instead of supporting Mozambiques anti-communist rebel movement, which is believed to control much of the countryside.

Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips said, The only evidence of a pro-Western tilt by Mozambique is that they are willing to take our money.

State Department officials should be ashamed of themselves for encouraging Reagan to invite Machel, Phillips said. It really makes the

president look like a fool.

But U.S. officials say Machels views have undergone considerable change since 1975 when, as the leader of his newly independent nation, he established nationalizatio and collectivization as guiding principles of what he proclaimed a Marx-ist-Leninist state.

The officials said the most important evidence of Mozambiques shifting alignment occurred in March 1984 when it reached agreement with South Africa to cease supporting anti-apartheid guerrillas.

The most critical demand is to restore to higher education its original purpose of preparing graduates for a life of involved and committed citizenship, the report said.

There is a dangerous, growing mismatch between the countrys urgent need for civic mindedness and the parochial attitudes of its citizens.... it said. There are clear signs that self-interest is undermining public interest.

It cited the nuclear arms race, toxic wastes, integration, genetic engineering and reduction of crime, drugs and violence as issues that cry out for an active citizenry.

The era of radical student activism in the late 1960s has given way to an intense focus on careers and material success, it said. Perhaps it is partly a return to normality after a tumultuous period. Certainly such characteristics as being well-groomed may be considered an advantage. Being less interested in the affairs of the nation is surely a disadvantage.

Despite its advantages over higher education systems abroad that narrowly restrict access to college, the American system far too often stifles the iSierent creativity of the student, the report said. Students too frequently sit passively in class, take safe courses, are discouraged from risky or interdisciplinary research

projects and ... from challenging the ideas presented to them.

College education is nowhere near as exciting nor as effective as it could be. In many ways it is boring, the study said.

Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said the report sets the agenda for a vigorous new debate about the federal governments relationship to the nations higher learning institutions.

Among its recommendations;

An infusion of new help for minority fellowships and tutoring. Without such steps, we will move toward a society in which ... almost all (good jobs) are Jields by whites and Asian Americans.

An end to the rapidly increasing dependence on loans.

Restoration of the GI Bill and creation of a program for community service.

Stepped-up international exchanges of students and faculty.

-More funds for university-based research and less for the 700 federal laboratories, many of which have outlived their original purpose.

Original 'Kilroy' Wanted To Prove He Was On Job

HALIFAX, Mass. (AP) - Kilroy was here, World War IPs most enduring graffiti, was first penned by a shipyard worker who was just trying to prove he was doing his job, says the widow of James J. Kilroy, who died in 1962.

Margaret Kilroy, 81, said her husband came up with the idea for the phrase after his superiors questioned his work as a rate-setter at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy during the war.

Jim didnt like that, Mrs. Kilroy said in a recent interview. So, he printed Kilroy was here on the ships he inspected.

With his name all over the ships, she said, there would be no more questions about his work.

Soldiers everywhere were familiar with the words, finding them anywhere there was space to print. And endless speculation about Kilroys true identity ensued.

The name Kilroy tugged at the imaginations of millions, both in and

out of uniform, binding members of the armed forces with those at home. Next to I love you, the second most important three words of the war may have been Kilroy was here.

By the end of the war 40 years ago, the words, together with the caricature of a large-nosed, bald-headed man peering over a fence, had found their way onto the walls of buildings, inside ships and submarines, and on tanks, planes and trucks.

Mrs. Kilroy, who lives in this suburb 30 miles south of Boston, said her husband was hired by the Quincy shipyard at the age of 39, two days before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,1941.

From that time on, he printed Kilroy was here to attest to his presence and attention to duty. Mrs. Kilroy said her husband took a dim view of any possible cheating in connection with the piece-work involved in shipbuilding.

What began as a simple statement of fact found its wav onto the

overheads and bulkheads of a number of ships, including the USS Massachusetts, and the carrier Lexington, both built in Quincy.

Only in 1946 did Kilroy make an effort to identify himself as the real Kilroy, his widow said.

He won a nationwide contest sponsored by the American Transit Authority that sought to explain the legends origin.

The prize, an obsolete Boston Elevated Railway street car, was delivered to the Kilroy home at Halifax Beach in time for Christmas 1946.

Jim refused offers of endorsements from companies selling kids things, along with offers to furnish the street car, to go with the use of his name, Mrs. Kilroy, a former town clerk, said. I guess it was his Irish stubbornness, but he never took advantage of the name,^

Kilroy worked at, the Quincy shipyard until his death from cancer at the age of 60, she said.

Car Mileage May Hold

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time in a decade, the average gasoline mileage of new cars sold in the United States may not increase this year, even though the best cars are doing even better at the pump.

The 1986 mileage champ, the Chevrolet Sprint ER, is rated at 55 miles per gallon in city driving and 60 mpg on the highway, according to tests released Sunday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The figures are the highest ever recorded. But the two biggest automakers. General Motors and Ford Motor Co., are seeking to lower the governments required manufacturers fleet average for this year, so the average for all cars may not increase as it has in the past.

Spri.iis are imported by General Motors Corp. from Suzuki Motors of Japan. The three-cylinder minicar was sold only on the West Coast for

1985, but GM is spreading it throughout the country this year. Suzuki will start selling cars under its own name, though none with such a high ranking.

List years champ, the Honda Civic Coupe HF, is ranked second despite improving its mileage on EPAs tests for 1986 - 52 mpg and 57 mpg for one model, compared with 49 mpg and 54 mpg for the best of Hondas 1985s cars.

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Tobacco, Textiles Face Clouded Future

By The Associated Press Tobacco and textiles have been the backbone of the North Carolina economy since the early 1900s, but many workers are wondering how much support their livelihoods can give them now.

Sometimes when I walk out of this niill, I dont know what to look forward to, said Georgia Lee, a 41-year-old Siler City textile worker. It keeps you wondering, Will I have a job next week?'

People have lost the feeling for tobacco here, said Eli Joyner of Farmville, whose father established his furniture store in 1905, the year the towns tobacco warehouses opened. On opening day, everybody came to town. They roasted peanuts and sold them on the sidewalks. Now

you can't even tell when the market opens."

Since 1982, textile mills in North Carolina and South Carolina have closed at a rate of one every 11 days. Since 1973, more than one in four North Carolina textile jobs, or 83,300, are gone.

North Carolina's 1985 tobacco crop grows on about half the acres it did 10 years ago. In 1984, the leader in North Carolina farm revenue was not tobacco, which earned $1.05 billion, but the $1.15 billion poultry industry.

But in a rapidly diversifying state economy, tobacco remains a top cash crop, and textiles still employ more North Carolina workers than any other manufacturing industry.

The textile industry began moving south from New England a century

ago in search of cheap, unskilled labor. But the cheap, unskilled labor IS now found overseas, in Taiwan or South Korea.

To compete, U.S. textile firms are trying to cut production costs, plunging into automation, which can throw thousands of people out of work.

The North Carolina and South Carolina tobacco crops, meanwhile, are considered by some to be the worlds best - and the most expensive.

The federal tobacco program, which began in 1933 to keep prices stable and profits up, is weighted down with the surpluses to leaf that wont sell on the world market. And there is mounting medical evidence that tobacco is harmful to smokers.

Federal limits on tobacco produc-

REST FOR DOGS Two Burke County officers take a break as their bloodhounds rest and eat Sunday evening at the Spring Creek Volunteer Fire Department. The men

and dogs were part of asearch team looking for Arkansas escapees being sought in the fatal shooting of a North Carolina trooper Saturday. (AP Laserphoto)

State Democrats Seeking Unified Stance For 1986

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) - State Democrats say internal divisions and negative campaigning cost them electoral offices last year, and they vow not to make the same mistakes in 1986.

' We have met the enemy, and it is us. state Democratic Party Chairman Wade Smith told a meeting of $0 Democrats on Saturday. The Republicans did not divide us (in t84) - we divided ourselves.

:I think so long as we keep a

wholesome attitude toward one another and si long as we dont forget weve got to unite the Democratic Party, were not going to have any probiems, said former Gov. Terry Sanford.

Hours after former Gov. Jim Hunt announced Thursday he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican John East, Sanford indicated he would run.

Two other potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for the

tion tightened, to control surpluses. Since 1982, farmers have paid fees to help run the tobacco program, and those fees are rising, threatening to devour profits.

Most textile workers who lost jobs between 1979 and 1984 found new-work, a U.S. Labor Department survey shows. But they earned less than if they had stayed in textiles.

Everybodys getting hurt.^said Chap Tucker, 32, a Farmville warehouse owner and farmer. Youve got your tobacco haulers, your warehousemen, your fertilizer truck drivers. All of its related, and when one cog stops, it all stops.

Statistics indicate that there is work in other fields for those who lose jobs. Catawba County, although better known for furniture, was long a textile center. It has lost 2,158 textile jobs in the past 10 years but has created nearly 10,000 non-manufacturing jobs.

This is my life right here. This is all I know, said Tonie Hicks, 46. who makes $6.84 an hour at Burlington Industries Ramseur plant in l^n-dolph County. "If I cant work here. I'll have to start from scratch. Theres nowI|gw*tT?ffr make the money I make here.

Politicians have learned that power comes from providing jobs, and state leaders were eager to keep the two top industries healthy. The textile industry wanted a low-paid, non-union work force with little government regulation. The tobacco in-

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dustry wanted price supports, an^ little or no ciga rette taxation. ;

In return, the textile industry built homes, schools, churches, libraries and entire towns, and tobacco money built hospitals, power companies and universities. *

Of North Carolina and South Carolina's 20 largest grant-giving foundations, 12 were started by people from textile or tobacco interests. Those foundations in 1984 gave $56 million to causes ranging from the anti-nuclear power movement; to women's rights to hospitals and child care. -

But many workers in the two. in: dustries are unsure of their future. ^.

I dont know whats going to happen, but I do belive that a lot of us are not going to be farming next year,' said Delmon Lee, 60, a Greene County tobacco farmer., I think this is.niy last year anyway. Ive had enough. Maybe if I get out now I wont get in any deeper.

U.S. Senate seat Mecklenburg County Commissioner Fountain Odom and former Commerce Secretary D.M. Lauch Faircloth -joined Smith and Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan in repeating calls for a clean campaign to avoid divisiveness like that created by last years gubernatorial primary. Six major Democrats were on the ballot in that race.

Faircloth said to avoid the mistakes of 1984, Jordan. Smith and other party leaders must form some sort of consensus about who theyre going to back by Oct. 15.

But Jordan said that would not happen.

A lot of people who have held their names out may make their own decisions within the next several weeks, and ... a consensus candidate (may) emerge, but there will be no anointing, Jordan said.

Faircloth said he believed Oct. 15 would be an absolute deadline for himself and others to formally announce whether they will seek the nomination.

By TOM MINEHART Associated Press Writer The federal government is spending millions of dollars in an effort to develop a medically safe cigarette, but critics say the search will be fruitless.

If people are going to smoke, whats wrong with a safe cigarette?, said Michael Hoback, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said last April that the expenditure was a waste of money.

They cant develop a safe cigarette, said Waxman, who has successfully supported bills in Congress designed to discourage smoking.

The U.S. surgeon general has said that 350,000 Americans die each year from diseases associated with cigarette smoking.

The director of the federal tobacco research facility in Oxford says he is hopeful the experimentation ultimately will result in a safe cigarette, but he adds that scientists currently are not that close.

I think we can accomplish what were trying to do, but Id hate to say when, said Dr. James Chaplin, director of the Oxford Tobacco Research Lab. Were not that close. ... Its a slow process.

Chaplin said two of the labs 10 scientists are working on breeding tobacco plants with a lower level of tar by crossing lines with low tar and less-than-desirable smoking qualities with lines that have good smoking qualities and the usual amount of tar.

Although some 550 samples were grown this year, the scientists can test only 300 samples a year because they have to cure the tobacco, make it into cigarettes and smoke them on smoking machines that analyze the tar and nicotine, he said.

We havent come up with a real fast method of analyzing for tar, said Chaplin. We can go much faster if we didnt have to go through that process.

The Oxford lab has focused for the last five or six years on reducing tar in tobacco. He said USDA labs in Beltsville, Md., and Athens, Ga are concentrating on reducing the

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