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Greenville, N.C.

Monday Afternoon, November 7,1988

Pitt Election Officials To Limit Number Of Voters Inside Polls

By John Bare

THE DAILY REFLECTOR

With more than 50,500 registered voters in Pitt County, election officials are set to implement crowd-control measures for Tuesdays general election.

The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. In past elections, Pitt elections Supervisor Margaret Hardee said as many as 60 voters have been lined up outside the poll

ing sites at 6 a.m., hoping to vote before going to work.

There is also usually a surge of voters at lunchtime, and Mrs. Hardee said this year election officials plan to limit the number of voters entering the polling site at one time, so that pollworkers are able to properly distribute ballots.

in tine, pushing and shoving and wanting to get their ballots.

Pitt has had high voter turnout in the past two presidential elections. In 1980, 70 percent of the countys voters went to the polls; in 1984, the number jumped to 74 percent.

If that pattern holds on Tuesday, more than 35,000 voters will pass through the polls.

Theyre all wanting to get in there, she said. You get the pressure of a lot of people standing

The county has rented 11 additional voting machines to accommodate the expected turnout: there are

now 40 machines available for the 25 voting precincts. The machines were to be delivered to the polling sites today, Mrs. Hardee said.

Pitt Democratic Party Chairman J.B. Spilman said a big turnout ,\vould help Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Jordan.

All the local Democratic candidates will do well, regardless of

(See CONTROLS, A-3)

Pollsters

Give Bush New Push

By Donald M. Rothberg

XHE-ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Daily Reflector/Shannon Wolfe

Pitt election official Mary Ann (iray sorts through ballots for Tuesdays election

Quake Leaves Hundreds Dead, Wounded In China

jeorge Bush and Michael Dukakis /voiced confidence today as they crossed paths in battleground states on the final day of campaigning before Americans choose the next president. Underdog Dukakis urged voters to send a message that can be heard from California to Ken-nebunkport while Bush declared he was finishing not in a power walk but in a sprint.

The latest polls bolstered the vice presidents optimism as he followed his Democratic rival into Ohio and roared toward St. Louis.

At a sunrise rally in a steelworkers union hall outside Cleveland, Dukakis was in high spirits after snatching a two-hour nap on an overnight flight from the West Coast.

Good Morning, Ohio, he said. We took the red-eye to be with the Buckeyes.

I dont need sleep, Im charging, he said. ... Were going to win.

Bush began his day in the Detroit si^Hrb of Southfield, Mich., and took a ^at Dukakis fondness for exer-cisiiig^by walking rapidly while car-ryingweights.

The vice president said the race m Michigan was close and its a very

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING - About 600 people were killed or injured by an earthquake that shook a remote mountain jungle region of southern China, the state-run China International Broadcasting Station said today.

The station said it did not have a breakdown on how many of the 600 were dead and how many injured in Sundays quake.

The highest previous count was from the official Xinhua News

The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, and was followed overnight and early today by 34 aftershocks, the strongest measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale.

Roads to the affected area were impassable and Yunnan authorities ordered an airlift of food, medicine and other relief supplies. Yunnan Gov. He Zhiqiang flew to the scene to direct rescue work.

Xinhua said most houses were destroyed in Lancang and Menglian counties, which were at the

epicenter of the quake. The population of the counties was not immediately available, but officials said the area is sparsely inhabited.

Buildings also were destroyed in 14 surrounding counties, Xinhua said. Most homes in that part of China are simple mud and wood structures.

Crews were working to repair roads, and radio contact was established, Xinhua said.

important place to be as we run right down to the finish line, not in a

power walk but in a sprint.

Bush said that when Americans vote they should ask themselves this question: Is the country headed in the right direction? The answer is, yes it is.

From Michigan, Bush was headed for rallies in Ohio, Missouri and Texas, where he maintains his voting residence.

Dukakis preceded Bush into St.

(See QUAKE, A-12)

(See Candidates, A-3)

Agency, which reported at least 37 deaths and said more than 100 people were injured. Telephone service was cut off to the affected region,, in Yunnan province near the Burmese

Sakharov Recalls Supporter

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BOSTON - Andrei Sakharov arrived on his first journey outside the Soviet Union, declaring himself a free man and speaking out for a supporter jailed over a protest on behalf of the Nobel laureate nearly eight years ago.

The human rights activist told reporters at Logan International . Airport on Sunday night that dissident mathematician Vazif Meilanov was imprisoned after staging a

one-man protest on his behalf'and now faces additional charges.

I feel it is my duty now, at this moment, to remember this man and many others who remain in prison, Sakharov said.

Sakharov, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his defense of human rights, is scheduled to spend two weeks in the United States visiting relatives, undergoing medical tests and promoting a new international organization. '

The trip comes less than two years

after he was freed from internal exile in the industrial city of Gorky, where he had been sent because of his outspoken opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Using stepdaughter Tatiana Yankelevich as a translator, the tall, balding 67-year-oId spoke for about 10 minutes but refused to answer questions. He appeared rumpled and Ured after a 14-hour flight from

Moscow.

(See SAKHAROV. A-12)

Germans Recalling Madness That Began Nazi Push On Jews

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BERLIN - The two German nations today recalled the fascist racial madness of Kristallnacht, the night a half-century ago that signaled the start of the systematic Nazi campaign to annihilate Jews.

Towns and cities in the East and the West have begun paying tribute to the victims of the night of Nov. 9. 1938, when Nazi sympathizers tooted and burned Jewish temples and businesses, beating and killing

scores of Jews and sending 30,000 of them to concentration camps.

The rampage became known as Kristallnacht or Crystal Night because of the shards of broken glass that filled the streets.

Josef Foschepoth, the general secretary of West Germanys Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, said the night marked the start of a new phase, the phase of the physical annihilation of the Jews.

This week, hundreds of gatherings, panel discussions and ceremo-

(SeeH0RR(^.A-12)

The Associated Press

Jim and Dottie Martin Greensboro rally Sunday

nies will mark the 50th anniversary Wednesday of what the West German news agency ADN called a night of fascist racial madness.

In the East German city of Leipzig, officials and members of the Jewish community today paid tribute to the victims by laying wreaths at the site of the synagogue that was destroyed and at the citys Jewish cemetery.

Peter Kirchner, the head of East

Martin Says GOP Needs A Mandate

By Greg Laudick

THE DAILY REFLECTOR

Approximately 70 GOP faithful gathered at the Pitt-Greenville Airport today to hear Gov. Jim Martin and candidate for lieutenant governor Jim Gardner deliver their final messages before Tuesdays election.

Their appearance was part of a cross-state series of news conferences which began this morning in Wilmington and will carry the politicians on their final day of campaigning to Raleigh, Greensboro, Asheville and

Charlotte. .

Martin, who holds a substantial lead in opinion polls going into Tues

days election, reiterated his campaign themes of better schools with higher salaries fot teachers, tougher policies regarding druj-related

crimes and completion of his Strategic Highway Corrider Program, which would put major highways within 10 miles of the vast majority of the states population.

Martin told cheering Pitt County supporters that, within the next year, construction will begin on the U.S. 264 bypass around Greenville.

Its much better to have unpromised paving than to have unpaved promises, Martin remarked.

Also joining Martin at todays rally were several Republican candidates running for local offices. . , u

Martin urged North Carolinians to send more Republicans to Raleigh

through Tuesdays vote. u, - u

I want you to send a mandate to the General Assembly, he told those in attendance. The way to send that mandate is not only to vote for me

(SeeJIM-TEAM.A-3)

The Associated Press

Jordan joins ex-Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt at church

Jordan Starts Day On Field At ECU

By Carol Tyer

THE DAILY REFLECTOR

Greenville firefighters backed by two fire engines and a few other citizens stood by this morning as Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan stepped from a

helicopter on to an East Carolina University playing field and scurried to a podium a couple of blocks away.

The firemen were there as a matter of routine. But the others many of them Jordan campaign workers, a few of them ECU students and faculty apparently came to see what the Democratic candidate for governor would say on election eve.

They heard him renew his oft-heard promise to "make North Carolina better.

Wearing an ECU T-shirt over his long-sleeve dress shirt, Jordan said he was starting his day at the best place to start off, right here at this great university.

He said hed be riding the red, white and blue helicopter to Raleigh, Greensboro, Asheville and back to Charlotte before today is over.

He declared that the gubernatorial vote Tuesday is a decision on the next four years, the next 20 years, and the new 50 years. He said he offers:

A new economic development strategy that puts less emphasis on the Fortune 500 companies and more emphasis on home-grown entrepreneurs and small business right here in the state.

A new education strategy that reduces the dropout rate, give unskill-

(See JORDAN, A-3)

In The Area

Everett Arrested

Curtis Lee Everett, 34, of Bethel, was arrested on possession of stolen property charges by Greenville police Sunday. .

Officer A.J. Dennison said Everett was charged with possessing a 1983 model Buick reported stolen from Scotland Neck.

Everett was taken into custody in the 400 block of W. 10th Street.

Day Care Meeting

The Pitt County Day Care Association will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the the commissioners auditorium on the second floor of the Pitt County office building. Lois Harrington, a Pitt County child day care consultant, will discuss Effective Use of Activity Centers.

Ushers Union To Meet

The City Ushers Union will meet tonight at 7:30 at Cornerstone Church.

Students Go To Museum Two Are Honored

Olivia Murrys and Melvinna Wiggins fifth grade students of G.R. Whitfield School will visit the Adventures in Health Museum at River Park North on Nov. 13 in conjunction with a unit on muscles and the human body.

The schools Boys Chorus will perform Thursday at 7 p.m. in the D.H. Conley area Arts Extravanga. The event will earn money for minigrants in the Conley attendance area. i

Pat Wilson, a deaf educational specialist from East Carolina University, and Donna Fowler, a student translator for the deaf at ECU, recenUy spoke to the second grade classes of Kim Jessup, Pam Finch and Ann Cannon about the ears and the hearing impaired. The program went with a study about sight and sound.

Fourth and eighth graders of the school recently saw a slide presentation of North Carolinas history and sights by Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Phillips of Coats.

Melanie Phillips Parrish of Gamer was presented a $500 scholarship, and Emily Stewart Boyce received the Mary Peacock Douglas Award at the North Carolina Association of School Librarians Conference in Winston-Salem.

Ms. Parrish is a candidate for the master of library science degree at East Carolina University. She is a part-time media coordinator at Washington GT Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh.

Ms, Boyce is professor and chaiiperson of the ECU Department of Library & Information Studies and serves on the state committee for elementary schools within the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. She has been consultant to 40 schools and educational institutions and serves in numerous elected and appointed professional posts on state and national levels.

Alumni Gathering

The Pitt County chapter of the St, Augustines College Alumni Association will have a tri-county (Pitt,

Martin. Beaufort) retreat on Nov, 20 at the Golden Corral on Greenville Boulevard,

The event will feature Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, president of St. Augustines College in Raleigh.

Dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6 p.m. For more information contact Terry Little at 946-9416 or Monty Frizzell at 758-2914.

Seminar Is Wednesday

Greenville Middle School will have an instructional seminar, Whats Happening in Math and Science? for parents of sixth and seventh grade students Wednesday.at 7:30 p.m. in the media center.

Revival Begins Tonight

A revival begins tonight at Warren Chapel Free Will Baptist Church on Route 1, Winterville. The Rev. Sidney Moody of Emporia. Va., is' the guest evangelist. Choirs and ushers from various churches will participate throughout the week. Services begin nightly at 7:30.

Bladen Swamp Has Ancient Tree Stand

THE .\SSOCIATED PRESS

KELLY. N.C. (AP) - T. Nelson Squires makes a living by cutting down trees, but hes not going to touch the huge cypress trees, draped with Spanish moss, that tower over 400 acres of swamp land he owns along the Black River in Bladen County.

There are some monsters in here, Squires said. 1 bet weve got some trees older than 2,000 years old. To have something that was here when Christ was here on this Earth, that just sort of excites you.

Scientists say the swamp contains the oldest trees in the nation east of the Rocky Mountains.

We had thought about logging for some of them, Squires said. But Ill tell you right now, there wont be any of them cut. I promise you that.

I would feel so guilty if I allowed that swamp to be cut, knowing what 1 know now.

The ancient trees grow along a 10-mile stretch of the Black River between Bladen and Pender counties. The coffee-colored stream flows into the Cape Fear River just north of Wilmington.

A team of scientists from the University of Arkansas discovered the age of the trees aboiit three years ago while studying tree rings for research on past climatic trends.

What they found astounded them. Dozens of trees in the swamp were more than 1,000 years old. The oldest identified tree had rings dating back to the year 364 A.D., and researchers estimated the tree was at least 1,700 years old after they accounted for missing rings and other factors.

"Millennium-old trees are rare, and the swamp-grown bald cypress at Black River are the oldest trees in eastern North America, the researchers wrote in an _ article published in Science magazine last summer.

The state Natural Heritage Program, which keeps track of rare plants and animals across the state, recommended the site to the researchers. But state officials said they were surprised by the findings.

"We knew they were old, and we knew it was an important stand of timber, but we had no idea they were that old, Julie H. Moore, a botanist and protection planner with the state pro^am in Ra eigh, said in an interview with The News and Observer of Raleigh.

At first, people didnt believe it, she said. But this is positive dating. This isnt an estimate at all. These are actual ring counts.

Bristlecone pines, which g[row in the White Mountains of California, are the oldest known living trees with the most ancient spwimen dated at 4,900 years. California also is home to the famous giant sequoias, which are estimated to be as old as 3,500 years.

Although the Black River cypress trees are much younger, Ms. Moore said they are important because of the scarcity of old-growth forests in the East that have never been logged or burned. Forests older than 200 years are rare in the East.

Heres this place thats a living laboratory, Ms. Moore said. Its absolutely one of the top areas nationwide. Its just so remarkable because of the age.

The thing thats so important about this stand is that its not just one tree, Ms. Moore said. "This is a whole stand of trees ... There are about 1,800 acres in here wed like to see protected.

The heritage program is working with the N.C. Nature Conservancy, a private conservation group, to protect the area, she said. So far, the two groups have focused on contacting local landowners to make sure they know how valuable the forest is.

The Nature Conservancy also is negotiating with some landowners who might be willing to sell their property. But the conservancy and the state primarily are trying to convince landowners to sign conservation easements, which specify that the forests will not be cut or damaged.

We are finding that the majority of owners have had their property for quite some time, said Frederick

Thefts Investigated

Investigators said 14 thefts were reported to Greenville police Sunday.

Officer C.M. Credle said $10 and a leather coat were taken from a vehicle parked at the intersection of Evans and Sixth streets in an incident reported at 1:30 a.m., while Officer J.G. Bridges said a videocassette player was taken from 112 Dickinson Ave. in an incident reported at 7:47 a.m., $40.50 was taken from 623 Albemarle Ave. in a break-in reported at 10:56 a.m. and a receiver, amplifier and two speakers were taken from an auto parked at 127 Avery St. in an incident reported at 12:23 p.m.

Officer Alexander Batts said a bicycle was taken from 307 S. Summit St. in an incident reported at 8:42 a.m., 30 tapes were taken from a car parked at 108H Cedar Court in an incident reported at 10:16 a.m., a bag containing $300 worth of clothes

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Nelson Squires checks trees in Bladen swamp

Annand, associate director of the organization, which is based in Chapel Hill. In cases like that, many people have attachments to their property and are unwilling to sell.

Generally most of the landowners are intimately aware of how im-

was taken from a car at 401F Eastbrook Apartments in an incident reported at 11:30 a.m. and a television, microwave oven and a stereo system were taken from 514B E. First St. in a break-in reported at 11:31a.m.

Officer R.L. Smith said a tool box containing $700 worth of electrical tools was taken from a truck in an incident reported at 9:13 a.m., while Officer J.K. McCarthy said a television was taken from 1112 Dickinson Ave. in a break-in reported at 9:59 a.m. and a wallet containing $60 and an immigration card was taken from a man by three others in a common-law robbery incident reported at 11:58a.m.

Officer J.A. Felton said a bicycle was taken from 705 E. Fourth St. in an incident reported at 4:54 p.m., while Officer C.S. Candler said a wallet containing $140 was taken from 112 Georgetown Apartments in a break-in reported at 6:32 p.m.

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Graduation Held

The 88th graduation of Pre Release and Aftercare Services recently was held at Holy Trinity United Holy Church in Greenville.

Alan Hoffman, executive producer and anchorman with WNCT-TV Channel 9, was the speaker for the 15 graduates of the N.C. Department of Corrections program. He challenged each graduate to set positive goats and to let nothing stop them from obtaining them, according to Melvin McLawhorn. training coordinator.

Those interested in sponsoring a graduation or volunteering time may call McLawhorn or Elbert Buck, center director, at 756-8400. or visit them at 108 Dexter St.. Greenville.

Support Group Formed

A support group has been formed for people who are caring for a parent, spouse or other loved at home.

The group is led by Freda \V. Cross of Pitt County Memorial Hospital and Susan Redding of the Creative Living Center.

The group will meet Tuesday from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at St. James United Methodist Church. Respite services are available.

To make reservations for respite care, call the Creative Living Center at 757-0303 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 24 hours in advance.

Magic Show Presented

.National Magic Week was celebrated at W.H. Robinson School with the magic show. "Those Magic Dinosaurs." starring magician Mark Daniel.

The program, which contained educational facts, used magic, storytelling, puppetry and comedy to entertain students in grades kindergarten through six. The performance was sponsored by the schools Parent-Teacher Organization.

Nursing Association

Nursing homes and nurses will be the topic of the North Carolina Nurses Association District No.^30 meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Mendenhall Student Center. Room 221. at East Carolina University .

Jess Heizer, director of nursing of the Farmville Guardian Care Nursing Home, and Sandy Hill, director of discharge planning at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, will lead a discussion on the roles of nurses and nursing homes.

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Candidates Voice Last-Minute Confidence

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Louis by a couple of hours and told his audience, This is the show me state, and Im here to show you how much I want your support, he said.

Then, in a reference to Bushs summer home in Maine, Dukakis asked, Are you going to let the pollsters and pundits decide this election, or are you going to send a message that can heard from California to Kennebunkport? Theyre getting so worried Bush is following me around can you believe it? Dukakis told a rally in Portland, Ore., Sunday night. The Democratic nominee was on a nonstop campaign swing with no time to see a bed until he arrives home in Massachusetts Election Day.

President Reagan was spending the day campaigning for Bush in California.

Both camps bombarded voters

with 30-second commercials and the two candidates were the stars of 30-minute prime time election eve programs running back-to-back on the three major commercial networks-ABC, CBS and NBC. ,

A rush of late national polls said the Republican vice president was leading by margins ranging from five to 12 piercentage points.

A 50-state, ABC News-Washington Post poll of 7,777 likely voters said Bush was solidly favored or leading in states with enough electoral votes to assure his election.

An Associated Press state-by-state survey said Bush was leading in states with 356 electoral votes 86 more than the 270 needed for a majority while Dukakis was ahead in states with a total of 101 electoral votes. Another 81 were in tossup states that included Pennsylvania, Illinois and Missouri.

Among the new polls, Gallup put Bush ahead by 12 percentage points, while USA Today-CNN made it 11. ABC set the margin at 10 and CBS said the difference was nine points. An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll and another by Louis Harris and Associates said the margin for the vice president was five points with enough people undecided or wavering to allow for dramatic last-rtiinute changes.

The presidential candidates werent the only ones winding up their campaigns

There were 33 Senate seats and the entire House being filled on Tuesday and 12 states were electing governors.

Democratic control of the Senate and House appeared secure and the Democrats appeared likely to add to the 27 to 23 edge they now have among governors.

Thousands of other offices were being filled and scores of initiatives also were on ballots, including 39 in California on which opposing sides spent more than $100 mil

Reagan: Bush Offers U.S. New Beginning

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LONG BEACH, Calif. - President Reagan told fellow Californians today their votes could be crucial in assuring, a new beginning for America by electing Republican George Bush as president and staving off a late-hour drive by Democrat Michael Dukakis.

In a speech prepared for delivery at the Queen Mary, a former luxury ocean liner converted to a waterfront hotel, the 77-year-old president said he was returning to his home state at the end of the Bush campaign just as he did in his own campaigns for the White House.

Today, of course, is the last day of this, my last campaign as president, he said. But tomorrow launches a new beginning for America.

Your votes tomorrow may be the most important ones cast in America, the president said. They will determine how California goes, and California may send the next president to the White House.

California has 47 electoral votes as the most populous state.

Reagan lavished praise on Bush, who has served under him for nearly eight years as vice president.

This year, one of the best qualified men to ever seek the office of president is on the ballot, he said.

Of Bushs personal qualities, Reagan said, He is strong, decent.

loyal. 'Wise, capable and compassionate.

As for his opponent, we only really began to learn about him during the last few months, the president said. He has been vague as to what he would do in office, yet when we focus on his record, he objects. Reagan contended that the Democratic nominee is against voluntary prayer in school... appointed judges to his state Supreme Court who have voted to strike down a ban on child pornography ... and. in every case, even for the most brutal crimes, he opposes the death penalty.

Hes free to have these views, but is this the man we want choosing the justices to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States? he asked.

The former movie actor recalled that it was from the Queen Mary, then a British liner, that he first saw the Statue of Liberty on his return from England, where he filmed The Hasty Heart.

This is my last campaign, and seeing all of you ... and seeing the Queen Mary again, its like closing a circle, like sailing into harbor after a long and wonderful voyage to be greeted by old, beloved friends, the president said.

From Long Beach, Reagan, 77, headed to San Diego for a nostalgic visit to the seaside city where he held his final campaign rally on the eve of his landslide re-election in 1984.

Jim-Team Stumps

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but to vote for Republican legislators who will work with me in the General Assembly. . w

Send them a mandate to work with me, not to be obstructionist, not to spend so much time trying to block the good things for the people of this

state. Martin said. . , *

Also sharing Martins enthusiasm and optimism going into the election was Gardner, a Rocky Mount native who predicted that, come January, the state will have the Jim-Team working for North Carolinians.

Gardner said his opponent in the race for lieutenant governor, Tony Rand, told him Sunday that he would not pursue a threatened libel lawsuit if Gardner would retract certain negative television ads.

I said sue us,Gardner said. The truth always prevails. Were going to keep running the ads and let people know about you. Gardner then called Rands last minute threats of a lawsuit a grandstand play. Rand did file the suit this morning.

The first time that we decided to let the people of this state know who Tony Rand is and know what he does, he squealed and cried like a baby, Gardner said.

Gardner also said Rand was asked in 1983 why he did not represent in-digents and accused Rand of responding by saying I hate poor people. I like rich people.

Jordan Stops In

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gives the taxpayers their moneys worth from the public schools.

A bold new commitment to building the roads, the schools, and the clean water facilites that the state needs A commitment to standing for the interests of working people and not for the interests of corporate buyout artists come from Wall Street, and for more affordable child care A new commitment to ethics in state government that eliminates political hit lists, no-show jobs for political cronies and political payoffs, and A new commitment to helping those who do not share the propsperity of our economy - children in poverty, lonely senior citizens, the handicapped and the mentally ill. . o j .

Jordan dropped in on Charlottes Friendship Baptist Church Sunday in a bid to court black votes. , , .

That clearly could be our margin of win, says Tommy Norman, Jordans state chairman. If the black turnout is there, that clearly could

make the overall differertce ill the campaign.

But Jordan will have to convince those voters to go to the polls, political activists said in interviews with The Charlotte Observer.

The key factor within the black community tends to be motivation, said Charlottes Kelly Alexander Jr president of the state NAACP. 1 think there is much less motivation now (than in the primary)

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Dukakis began a marathon race around the country late Sunday flying from Spokane, Wash., to Cleveland, with a dawn arrival in the Ohio city. From Cleveland he was heading for St. Louis and then on to San Francisco.

Aides were considering another 1,000-mile detour from San Francisco before addressing a rally in Los Angeles. Then it was on to a pre-dawn Election Day rally in Des Moines, Iowa, and a stop in New Jersey or Ohio before ending the campaign back home in Boston.

Whatever sleep he got would be in a tourist class seat on his campaign plane.

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the turnout, but the big turnout would help the presidential candidate and the gubernatorial candidate.

We think the turnout is going to be good. If we have a good turnout, were going to do well, he said. But its hard to say.... There are a lot of people who have been turned off by the negative commercials. Election records show there are 36,627 registered Democrats in the county and 11,012 registered Republicans. The Pitt GOP has registered about 2,000 voters since the March 8 Super Tuesday presidential primary, and Pitt GOP Chairman Gordon Walker has said he thinks Republican Gov. Jim Martin will carry Pitt. Martin received 48 percent of the vote in Pitt in 1984.

Walker has also predicted Republican presidential candidate George Bush will win Pitt.

In addition to controlling crowds in the polling sites, precinct workers also will be watching for voting irregularities or anyone giving improper assistance.

The precinct workers are looking for any kind of problem that might involve someone assisting when theyre not supposed to, Ms. Hardee said. They have been given guidelines.

Pitt District Attorney Tom Haigwood issued a warning Sept. 13 to Farmville businessman Marvin Speight, ordering him not to assist any of his employees at the polls in future elections.

Speight, a prominent Democrat and former chairman of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, was accused of illegally assisting an employee in the May 31 Democratic primary runoff by pointing out which candidate to vote for. Election statutes bar an employer from helping any employee at the polls.

Haigwood also asked.the county board of elections to monitor Speights activity at Tuesdays election and report any irregularity. He said he would move to prosecute Speight if he continues to aid employees in voting.

Mrs. Hardee said no special arrangements have been made to monitor Speight, but pollworkers will watch everyone at the polls.

There are approved ways in which voters may receive help at the polls. Election statutes state that any voter may request assistance from a near relative, and any blind, disabled or illiterate voter may be assisted by any person the voter chooses, other than his employer, an officer of his union, or an agent of either one.

Tuesdays ballot includes the presidential contest between Dukakis and Bush and the gubernatorial race between Jordan and Martin.

The ballot also includes the race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives between Democratic

incumbent Walter B. Jones Sr. and Republican Howard Moye. Neither North Carolina senator. Democrat Terry Sanford or Republican Jesse Helms is up for re-election this year.

In state races. Democrat Tony Rand is running against Republican Jim Gardner for lieutenant governor; Derhocrat Rufus Edminsten is running against Republican John Carrington for secretary of state; Democratic incumbent Lacy Thornburg is running against Republican Sam Wilson for attorney general, and Democratic incumbent John Brooks is running against Republican Richard Levy for state commissioner of labor.

Democratic incumbent Harlan Boyles is running against Republican Nancy Lake Howard for state treasurer; Democratic incumbent Ed Renfrew is running against Republican Ed Garner Jr. for state auditor; Democratic incumbent Jim Graham is running against Leo Tew for state commissioner of agriculture; Democratic incumbent Jim Long is running against Republican H.L. Rednour for state commissioner of insurance, and Democrat Bob Etheridge is running against Republican Tom Rogers for state superintendent of public instruction.

There are two contests for seats on the state court of appeals. Democrat. John R. Friday is trying to unseat Republican Robert Orr, and John B. Lewis of Farmville is trying to unseat Republican Donald Smith.

There are 17 Superior Court judgeships up for grabs Tuesday, but Pitt Superior Court Judges David E. Reid Jr. and Herbert 0. Phillips III are not up for re-election. Superior Court judgeships are statewide elections.

In other state races. Democrats Walter B. Jones Jr and Ed N. Warren are trying to retain their state house seats. They are challenged by Republicans R. Marshall Helms and C. Joe Sturz for the ninth district house seats. Democratic incumbent Gene Rogers is also running for re-election to his sixth district state house seat. Republican Raymond Carl Freeman is running against Rogers.

Democratic state Sen. R.L. Bob Martin is running unopposed to retain his sixth district seat, but Democratic state Sen. Tom Taft taces Republican Bill Dansey in his bid to win re-election to his ninth district seat.

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Democrat Annie G. Holder is run ning unopposed for register of deeds in Pitt County, and Democrat J Earl Sermons is running unopposed for supervisor of the Pitt soil and water conservation district.

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Truth In Preference To Fiction*Do Your DutyDemocracy Depends On Participation

Theres really only one thing a democracy requires of its citizens.

Only one obligation. One demand. One responsibility. Yes, beyond simply obeying the laws and maintaining a healthy interest in civic affairs, theres one huge duty a nations people are asked to perform.

They are asked to cast a ballot.

That doesnt mean citizens are required by law to vote. It means they are given a right to choose their leadership. Thats a hefty privilege and carries with it an equally weighty responsibility.

That one obligation dictates the success or failure of a democracy. How well its citizens respond to this obligation determines whether a nation is weak or strong; whether it is vigorous or faint.

And at no time has this responsibility to participate in government been more prominent than in 1988. Tuesdays Pitt voters will be asked to elect national, state and community leaders. With their vote, they will determine how well tough issues like federal deficits, equitable' finding for rural and urban areas and a diminished environment are addressed. That means some hard decisions await voters. But the choices facing them are meaningless if the people dont take the opportunity to have their say in the voting booth.

Democracy means government by the people. That principle, defined by the nations greatest thinkers in the U.S. Constitution two centuries ago, is the cornerstone of liberty. To be free, to resist tyranny and anarchy, people must govern themselves. That means voting.

You might not think your vote is terribly important. The American nation is fragmented, you might suggest, and there are too many special interests for your opinion to count. One vote wont mean anything. It has no impact.

But that point of view is not valid and youll be dead wrong if you use this flawed reasoning not to vote Tuesday.

In a 20th century democracy, struggling to meet the complex needs of a diyerse populace, the individual vote becomes even more meaningful. Beyond the political action committees, the cursed polls and ^ the media commentators, the vote means control control of national, state and community leadership.

It is the thread that secures freedom in the fabric of a democracy.

Voting is a right but it is also a duty. And that duty should not be shirked Tuesday. Cast your ballot for whatever cause or candidate you wish, but cast it. In a strong participatory democracy, there is no other option on election day.A ConcernNo Easy Answer To Halloween Party

Should the downtown Halloween celebration in Greenville be discontinued?

Mayor Ed Carter said flatly the partys over following last weeks activities in which some 50 arrests were made, 141 citations issued and numerous fights were reported.

City officials reported some people were attacked by roving teen-aged hoodlum ban^ and one officer was injured by a vehicle he was trying to stop.

Clearly that is too much difficulty on a night when most young people are on hand for fun. It is a situation which poses danger not only to police officers but also to the celebration participants who are there to enjoy the evening and want no part of fighting or destruction.

Now city and university officials are assessing the situation to determine what can be done in future years to restore Halloween to an evening where young people don costumes for pleasure without violence.

It becomes obvious that the city and the university cannot risk potential serious injury to police officers or to students who go downtown assuming they will be safe. A concern, however, is that if the students and other young people dont go downtown on Halloween they will gather at various spots throughout the city and county, making it more difficult to

police activities.

There arent any easy answers. This year police blocked off more streets than ever to provide plenty of room for the revelers to spread out without danger from traffic. One suggestion has been a limited activity on the Town Common. Others have said the celebration should be held on the university campus. Either of these might help but the young people can, after all, go wherever they want.

Whether the party is or is not over, the mayor and city officials are correct to assess the situation. They properly are consulting with campus officials and it is imperative that ways be developed to make Halloween revelry by students and others a safe activity. Neither police nor participants should be subjected to injury on such a night.

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This letter is response to the Oct. 21 editorial and cartoon showing the county finance office breaking the piggy bank. The question has been raised about improved financial planning for the county. We must look at how wisely the county commissioners have been spending taxpayers money.

911 is a long overdue system for Pitt County, so why did we need an independent consultant service hired to tell the commissioners that Sheriff Tyson was wrong and that we do need a separate communication center? Commissioners told Tyson he couldnt have 911, so Tyson stamps his feet and pounds his fists and the next thing you know the commissioners spend thousands of dollars to appease Tyson by knocking a hole in a courthouse wall and giving him his own communications center complete with

telecommunicators. ^ \ j u *

This is ridiculous when an agreement should have been reached between the Sheriffs office and 911. .

The money spent for this could have been better spent giving pay raises to deputies already serving with the department. It is a disgrace that deputies with the same time and service as Greenville police officers are making five-to-15 percent less.

Not long ago, a request to buy defibrillators for the rescue squads came before the commission. These machines are designed to save lives by correcting irregular beats of the heart. The commissioners voted no to fully funding them but reconsidered and decided they would access it on a case-by-case basis. Commissioners opened their hearts and gave unnecessary equipment to Sheriff Tyson, yet volunteer rescue squads must wait.

It appears that the present commissioners are more inclined to do party favors than to assess where tax money could be appropriately spent. So citizens of Pitt, lets pay our taxes early so commissioners can buy something else for Tyson to add to his personal collection.

King Gardner Greenville

Few citizens know that North Carolina is one of 30 states which has petitioned for a Constitutional Convention. Once Congr^s received^titions from 34 states, it will be required to call a national Constitutional Convention.

In 200 years, our Constitution has never been amended through a convention and the Constitution provides no guidelines on how such a convention should be funded, how delegates would be selected or who should establish and enforce its operating rules. Many Constitutional experts, included Judge Sam J. Ervin III, son of the late Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., are concerned at the implications of a Constitutional Convention.

The current drive to call a Constitutional Convention is led by proponents of a federal balanced budget amendment who failed to achieve their goal by Congressional amendment. However, no single issue is important enough to risk the loss of our Constitutional freedoms and protections.

A forum on the issue of a Constitutional Convention will be held Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Willis Building, comer of Reade and First streets in Greenville. Each citizen should avail themselves of the opportunity to leara more about this issue.

Celia Witt Buck, president American Assn. of University Women

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Bush Is No Better Than He Seems

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WASHINGTON - The campaign, having promised instruction and barely delivered diversion, now sags to a stop and I herewith complete the task begun in my last column.

Then I made the case for electing Michael Dukakis.

Today I undertake the comparably Herculean task of arguing George Bushs case.

Is Bush better than he seems? No. This low, dishonest campaign, which squandered the precious commodity of the nations attention, was the carefully prepared and freely chosen culmination of his public life to date. He seems to have passed through the tumults of the 20th century unmarked by any of its great passions or arguments or aspirations. Paradoxically, that may be the key to putting the best face on his performance.

Perhaps he has campaigned basely because he has, in place of substantive political motives, a single ideal. He is moved entirely by an abstract duty to serve, not by any idea he wants to be in the service of. In the absence of ideas, mere tactics are everything.

He is at once vaguely admirable and ominously empty. What matters is who will fill him up.

That brings us to 5,000 reasons for electing Bush. They are the appointments, from senior White House and Cabinet officers on down, that a President makes or are made in his name. An important question in any election, and the crucial question when both candidates are so inadequate, is: Which party has the better pool of talent from which to draw? The Republican Party is to be preferred until the Democratic Party regains its political acumen and intellectual vigor.

Three other reasons for preferring Bush also pertain to the presidential power to shape the composition of government. Four days after the election, Harry Blackmun will become the third Supreme Court Justice over 80. The others are William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. All three are liberals. The next President probably will have at least three nominations to make.

Almost the entire public agenda seems to pass through courts. It is urgent that new justices reverse the tendency to turn what should

be legislative decisions into litigation. This is important to the rejuvenation of the Democratic Party. The liberal partys powers of persuasion have atrophied as liberals have increasingly relied on judicial fiat rather than mass persuasion to achieve their aims.

A Bush-directed change in the Courts composition might result in reversal of the 1973 abortion ruling, but that might not result in much change in abortion policy. It would ignite 50 arguments by restoring to states the right to regulate abortion. The arguments are needed, given such bio-medical developments as intra uterine medicine. But abortion is, after circumcision, the nations most common surgical procedure. The culture has moved far in 15 years and there now is a majority in favor of liberal abortion laws.

The careful selection of justices requires an interest in constitutional theories that is as foreign to Bush as Mongolia. Liberals should take comfort from the possibility that he may squander his opportunities. There is preccilent. Two of the three liberal octogenarians were appointed by Republicans - Brennan by Eisenhower (who also nominated Warren) and Blackmun by Nixon. The fourth liberal, John Paul Stevens, was Fords choice.

In foreign policy, Bush will offer warmed-over Reaganism

7s Bush better thanjhe seems? No. This low, dishonest campaign, which squandered the precious commodity of the nation's attention, was the carefully prepared and freely chosen culmination of his public life to date. He seems to have passed through the tumults of the 20th century unmarked by any of its great passions or arguments... /

whatever Reaganism means after eight years of dilution Reagans grand passion, the Reagan Doctrine - aid to armed resistance within the Soviet empire (Nicaragua, Afghanistan), seems to matter little to Bush. Reagan has forcefully licensed detente, and hence the moral disarmament of the West. Thus there is little to do but watch to see if he is right - to see if the Soviet regime really has repudiated its first seven decades of words and deeds.

If not, we are in trouble too big for Bush. As Soviet military spending continues its steady increase, the U.S. defense budget is declining and is under increasing pressure that can not be resisted by Bush, the anti-tax warrior.

Bushs probable secretary of state, James Baker, is a clever fellow, but he may suffer the diplomatic fidgets that afflict political deal-makers when they become diplomats. They think that deals made are the only meaningful ratifications of their exertions. The arms-control lobby should rejoice. Arms agreements are always popular and Bushs campaign indicates that no consideration will ever weigh more than crude political calculations.

Still, Bush may at least have the instinctive caution of a man without a compass. That is faint praise but about as much as he has earned this fall.

Democrats Fortunes Hinge On Solid piack Voter Turnout

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CHARLOTTE (AP) - Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan no doubt was gratified when the Rev. Clifford A. Jones Sr., pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, endorsed Jordans gubernatorial candidacy from the pulpit.

But as Jordan acknowledged the congregations applause Sunday, the question hanging in the air wasnt whether most of the parishoners supported him. After all, polls suggest that at least 80 percent of North Carolina blacks favor the Democratic challenger over Republican Gov. Jim Martin.

What is not clear is whether enough blacks will vote Tuesday to give Jordan the boost he must have to pull an upset.

Blacks, historically the Democratic Partys most loyal constituency, are exhibiting the same disenchantment and apathy with the campaign that whites and others have shown.

The extent to which blacks shake off the lethargy and go to the polls could spell the difference between victory and defeat for Jordan and

other Democratic candidates.

Its very crucial, former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt said, standing alongside Jordan as he greeted worshippers after th'e Friendship Baptist service.

I see a strong black turnout being important for me, Jordan said.

Earlier this year, black enthusiasm was at or near an all-time high. Jesse Jacksons strong showing in the presidential sweepstakes inspired massive black turnout in North Carolina and across the South.

But after Jackson failed to win the nomination and Michael Dukakis re-

{'ected him as his running mate, dacks were deeply disappointed, some said. And when reports surfaced that Dukakis had asked Jackson not to campaign in some states for fear of alienating conservative whites, the disappointment turned to anger.

But some black leaders say friction between them and the Dukakis campaign has been exaggerated.

All the energy spent over where Jackson would hurt or help was wasted energy, said state Rep. Dan Blue, D-Wake, state chairman of the Jackson campaign. But he said most blacks were not so disenchanted that

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But Jordan said he repeatedly had appeared before black groups whose invitations Martin had declined.

ing majority of the black vote once again, the GOP is gradually making inroads in the black community.

they would pass up the opportunity to vote.

There will be a significant number sitting it out. but I dont think it will be any greater than the percentage of the overall population that stays home. Blue said.

Aside from the Jackson factor, there appear at least a couple of other reasons why Democrats have been unable to take heavy black turnout for granted.

First, Jordan and Dukakis have made a concerted effort to win over the moderate to conservative whites who have voted Republican in recent elections. Dukakis selection of Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen for the vice-presidential nomination was designed primarily to lure Reagan Democrats back to the fold.

Some blacks believe that in their effort to appeal to conservative whites, Dukakis and Jordan backed away from blacks and their agenda. Black leaders in North Carolina occasionally have been quoted this year as saying Jordan needed to

devote more attention to their constituents.

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Rand Files $2.5 Million Lawsuit Claiming Gardner Libeled Him

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Tony Rand, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Republican Jim Gardner, saying his opponent had libeled him in campaign ads.

Rand filed the suit after an exchange of telegrams in which Gardner refused to retract the ads or apologize for them.

Paul Richardson, Gardners campaign manager, said he sent a telegram to Rand in Fayetteville Sunday night, informing him that there would be no apology.

"No reason to ajxilogize or retract ads. Unlike your ads, the truth speaks for itself. Insist you file Isuit) early AM," Richardson said, teading from the telegram.

, Richardson also said his telegram told Rand that the campaign plans f'to make you a full-time lawyer for drug king pins after Nov. 8."

Stephanie Bass, a spokeswoman for Rand, said Rand had sent a telegram asking for the retraction as part of the legal process.

Meanwhile Sunday, The Winston-Salem Journal declined to endorse either gubernatorial candidate, saying North Carolina voters have a rare dilemma; a choice between equals:

"Republican Gov. James G. Martin and Democrat Lt. Gov. Robert B. Jordan III are both fit to fill the executive office not merely with competence but with uncommon distinction, the newspaper said.

"Citizens who have followed the campaign, and who have memories long enough to take in the past four vears, will have a hard choice in the polling booth, the Journal said. "The comfort they can find in the quandry is that state government will be in good hands, whoever wins.

In the race for lieutenant governor, the Journal endorsed state Sen. Tony Rand of Fayetteville, calling him more qualified to exercise the power responsibly and effectively.

As an insider, with alliances in place, he knows how to make the wheels turn, the newspaper said.

The Goldsboro News-Argus, meanwhile, endorsed Martin for governor, but did not eixpress a preference in the lieutenant governors race.

The newspaper said Martin has represented the state well, projecting a vibrant image of warmth, competence and confidence.

"While his management style may be enigmatic to many of us, he is both a salesman and a saleable commodity, the newspaper said. He should be given an opportunity for a second term, but he should build a better relationship with the Democratic legislature.

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Falling Down

The old Hotel Charlotte is destroyed by implosion Sunday in downtown Charlotte. The 64-year-old building was being torn down to make way for a hotel and office complex. Magician David Copperfield used the event to film an escape for a television special next March.

In the lieutenant governors race, the newspaper said a case could be made for breaking up the old cliches that have run the Legislature, but it asked whether Republican Jim Gardner, with a wealth of ideas and a dearth of legislative experience, could break bread with the collective heads hes been bashing all summer.

But the newspaper said Rands performance in the race has not matched his effectiveness in the General Assembly.

The Goldsboro paper also endorsed Republican George Bush for president, saying the nation had come too far and done too well economically to risk changing direction. The newspaper also endorsed Democrat Bob Etheridge for superintendent of public instruction and Republicans Donald Smith and Robert Orr for court of appeals. First Woman D.A. Expected

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RALEIGH - A significant increase in the use of seat belts in North Carolina has prevented thousands of serious injuries, saved 179 lives and saved about $500 million in medical and related costs, a study indicates.

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RE-ELECT

WALTER B.JONES JR.

Real Concern For Solid Representation

His record of service and his success in the North Carolina House of Representatives speaks well for Walter B. Jones, Jr. Those who know Walter know of his dedication, his hard work, and his commitment to the people of the Ninth District and the State of North Carolina.

During the past six years, Walter Jones, Jr. has introduced effective statewide leg-

islation of importance to all of the citizens of North Carolina. His record of positive reform has reinforced Jones' commitment to integrity and honesty in politics. His bills, which re now North Carolina law, are among the reasons that THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER selected Walter B. Jones, Jr. as one of the top 100 leaders of the future in North Carolina.

HE LISTENS HE UNDERSTANDS HE GETS INVOLVED HE TAKES ACTION HE SPEAKS OUT HE SUPPORTS

It is an honor and a privilege to represent you in the North Carolina House of Representatives.

I would appreciate your vote on November 8, 1988.

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RAEFORD, N.C. - Jean E. Powell, an assistant district attorney for the last 10 years, will take the oath of office on Jan. 1 as North Carolinas first female district attorney.

She will head a newly created judicial district comprising Hoke and Scotland counties.

After graduating in 1975 from the University of North Carolina law school, she worked for a year for a state legal services agency in Alaska. She spent 18 onths at a private law firm in Clinton, her hometown, before taking a job as an assistant to District Attorney Edward W. Grannis Jr., whose district comprised Cumberland and Hoke counties.

I really had very little courtroom experience when I came, Miss Powell said. I wanted a chance to get experience trying cases and being in the courtroom. 1 didnt realize I was going to enjoy the job as much as I have. That was a bonus.

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Researchers examined accident figures over a five-year period and compared what happened before the seat belt law was enacted in 1985 with what happened after, taking into account a warning period for motorists before tickets were issued.

Campbell said there was no downward trend in deaths and injuries among motorcycle riders, pedestrians and others not affected by seat belt legislationTAFT SUPPORTS DANSEY!

A successful businessman, dedicated father, active civic leader. Bill has the charac- , ter and willingness to work that is so important to the community... ^

Bill has always been an individual who looked to the future and was not afraid of change so long as it promoted positive and beneficial goals.

He is absolutely unafraid to make difficult decisions and to take an unpopular position > if he believes in the correctness of his position.

SENATOR THOMAS F. TAFT 9TH DISTRICT

Carnlina (grnrral Assfinbln Sfnafr Cifambrr $tatr ICrjislatilir Butlbing Halrigb, 27611 March 12,1985

The Honorable James G. Martin Governor of North Carolina State Capitol

Raleigh, North Carolina 27611

RE: W. E. Danseys candidacy for East Carolina University Board of Trustees *

Dear Governor:

Please accept this letter as my recommendation and support for W. E. Danseys candidacy for membership on the East Carolina University Board of Trustees. I know of few citizens in Eastern North Carolina who have demonstrated the loyalty and commitment to the progress of that ^University as has Bill Dansey.

'^A successful businessman, dedicated father, active civic leader, Bill has the character and willingness to work that is so important to the community and so necessary for a successful trustee.

s. Probably the most important measure of a candidates potential value \ to a university board of trustees is his vision for the future. Bill has ^always been an individual who looked to the future and was not afraid of change so long as it promoted positive and beneficial goals. Too often, trustees are merely caretakers or administrative overseers. Bill will bring to that Board of Trustees a willingness to ask pressing questions about what the Universitys community role is now and in the future. He is absolutely unafraid to make difficult decisions and to take an unpopular position if he believes in the correctness of his position.

If you trust my own character and commitment to North Carolinas future based upon my record in public and private service, then Bill Dansey will be one of your most serious contenders. The decision is certainly yours, but you can make no better choice to serve East Carolina University, North Carolina and the ideals of your administration.

Sincerely yours,

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Only 8 percent of the county commissioners in North Carolina are black, but that could change as at least 25 of the state's 100 counties change the way they elect their local representatives, officials say.

"Boards of county commissioners, particularly in the ^st have all been about the same size and most elected the same way, said Michael Crowell, a Raleigh lawyer who specializes in election law. Now theres going to be a lot more variety.

The primary goal of blacks has been to eliminate at-large voting, which forces candidates to run on a countywide basis. Critics say that dilutes the voting strength of blacks, who in some cases make up 40 percent to 50 percent of the population.

Leslie Winner, a Charlotte lawyer who has represented blacks in lawsuits against county commissioners, school boards and city councils, said election changes do not necessarily mean blacks will be elected. But the changes will give blacks the chance to elect the candidate, black or white, of their choice, she said

In Elections May Blacks In Office

In an interview with The News and Observer of Raleigh, Ms. Winner estimated that at least 40 black candidates will stand a better chance at the polls because of the elimination of at-large voting in about 20 counties.

In Pitt County, for example, where no black has ever been elected to the county board of commissioners, two blacks will take seats on the board after the election Tuesday, and a third may join them.

Currently, 42 of the states 508 county commissioners are black.

According to information compiled by Crowell, 18 counties have changed the way commissioners are elected in the past two years. They are: Anson, Bladen, Caswell, Craven, Duplin, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford, Halifax, Lenoir, Nash, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pitt, Vance, Wayne and Wilson.

Three counties Beaufort, Cumberland and Richmond are in litigation. Three others Chatham, Iredell and Perquimmans are threatened with lawsuits or are considering changes on their own to avoid lawsuits.

Chowan County changed its method voluntarily after watching

others unsuccessfully defend their election systems: The countys plan is being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice, and must be approved by federal officials before it can be implemented.

We're not dumb, said Chowan County Manager Luther Copeland. Weve got a lot more things we need to be spending a half million dollars on than attorney fees.

Blacks have had a good track record in overturning at-large elections in the past few years partly because of 1982 amendments to the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. The law was changed to eliminate a requirement that plaintiffs prove that an election plan had been adopted with the intention of discriminating.

In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the amended law in a case that challenged multimember districts in North Carolina.

It really gave plaintiffs a very heavy weapon to use and is really the cause for whats been happening in the last couple of years, Crowell said.

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WILMINGTON (AP) - A ; Carolina Beach man died Saturday ' morning when his jacket became tangled in a lathe at a machine shop ; where he worked.

Terry Long Molongy, 22, was found dead by his employer about 8 a.m.

Molongy was apparently using the lathe to repair a mowing shaft when , his left sleeve got caught, pulling his arm and upper body into the machine, said detective W.H. Simmons of the New Hanover County Sheriffs Department.

! Molongys employer heard the ! machine running when he arrived at the building. The employer found Molongy and tried to free him, but he was too late to save him.

Ugly Pickup

CLINTON, N.C. (AP) - Dancy Hayes, 82, of Clinton bought his dented, rusted, faded sky-blue Chevrolet pickup truck 25 years ago. But it wasnt until Saturday that the 1963 truck, which he calls, "OF Betsy, came into its own.

Or Betsy was named the winner of the fourth annual Eastern North Carolina Ugly Pickup Truck Contest.

About 50 people attended the contest, and the weather was perfect -gray, windy and wet. The contest

was sponsored by the City of Clinton and the Downtown Merchants Association.

Inexperience

ASHEVILLE (AP) - Ashevilles patrol officers have less experience on the average than most of their North Carolina colleagues, according to a study released by the local chapter of the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association.

And that inexperience could lead to serious injury or even death of officers and the public, charges Wayne Warren, president of the Asheville chapter of the Raleigh-based PBA.

Its a time-bomb situation, Warren said. We can rock along for years and nothing happen and then have two or three manhunts in one week. And, well have to send our rookies in there. Someone* could be hurt or killed because they just dont have the experience to handle the situation. It takes about five years for an officer to have experienced all the different things he can experience and learn how to handle it.

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Is Mr. Danseys Letter To You

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Based On Ignorance Or Worse?

Mr. Dansey has mailed a computer letter to every voter in the senatorial district

with the heart of his message ALL WRONG.

He said on October 20 that ECU was last in capital expenditures per student behind UNC and N.C. State.'

Senator Tom Taft corrected him on October 22 and showed that ECU was 8th on a per student expenditure and ahead of both UNC and N.C. State.

Now in his letter to the voters, he says ECU is 10th out of the 16 universities in the amount of money it receives from the General Assembly for capital expenditures.

WRONG AGAIN, Mr. Dansey. ECU is 3rd in the total amount of money it

has received from the General Assembly for capital expenditures.

The truth is that ECU has done extremely well during the last 15 years. This is the result of success and hard work by Dr. Leo Jenkins, Dr. John Howell, Dr. Richard Eakin, area legislators and hundreds of other friends of ECU. Not even Mr. Danseys double talk can change that.

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According to a table provided by Dansey, ECU. from 1973 through 1988, received $84.47 million for capital projects for an average of $2,252 per student.

Th* Daily Rallador ' Thursday, Octobar 20, 1988

* PER STUDENT EXPENDITURES 1973-

1988

1. Elizabeth City State

$ 13,059

2. UNC - Aahville

12,293

3. Fayetteville State

10,491

4. Winston-Salem State

8,655

5. A6T State

9,100

6. Western Carolina

8,655

7. NC Central

6,700

8. fait Caroline Unlvartlty

6.1S0

9. Pembroke State

5,380

10. UNC - Chapel Hill

5,312

11. NC State

5,297

12. UNC - Charlotte

4,299

13. UNC - Wilmington

4,197

14. UNC - Greensboro

3,920

15. Appalachian State

3,826

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CAPITAL

IMPROVEMENTS APPROPRIATIONS

TOTAL

N.C. State University

$117,421,458

UNC-Chapel Hill

114,515.635

loft Carolina Unlvartlty

83.473.200

Western Carolina University

52,222,550

N.C. A&T State University

51,159,817

UNC-Charlotte

44,484,238

UNC-Greensboro

38,901,679

Appalachian State University

37,672,000

N.C. Central University

35,003,850

10.

UNC-Asheville

32,551,600

11.

Winston-Salem State University

23,011,257

12.

UNC-Wilmington

22,798,600

13.

Fayetteville State University

27,969,550

14.

Elizabeth City State University 19,407,025

15.

Pembroke State University

11,415,995

Come On, Mr. Dansey-this is serious business.

Do your homework more carefully or be honest with the voters. You cant fool all the people all the time.

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Expensive California Propositions Top Nori-Election Issues On Ballots

By Steve Geissinger

THK ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Partisans of 29 statewide propositions Californians face Tuesday spent a record $130 million more than $9 a voter on a media war involving issues like car insurance rates, AIDS and raising cigarette taxes.

More than half the spending has centered on five conflicting propositions aimed at revamping the auto insurance rate-setting process and lowering premiums.

Insurance companies alone, fearing a budding car premium revolt, poured more than $60 million into the battle, and trial lawyers groups spent $15 million, making it the most expensive single campaign in the country outside a presidential race.

This is the most massive finan

cial attempt in corporate history to buy votes, said consumer advocate Ralph Nader, chief supporter of the proposition that would cut auto rates the most.

Other hotly contested initiatives would raise cigarette taxes by a record 25 cents per pack, override Republican Gov. George Deukme-jians veto of a state worker safety program, and tackle AIDS issues.

Elsewhere Tuesday: Maryland will decide whether to keep a 6-month-old law effectively banning cheap handguns; Michigan, Arkansas and Colorado will tackle the issue of abortion financing; South Dakota, Utah and Colorado will decide tax limitation proposals.

Florida. Arizona and Colorado voters will vote on whether to declare English their states' official language; and Oregon voters will consider the toughest statewide

smoking ban in the nation.

Insurance companies have tried to convince California voters that the only real hope for rate relief would come from Proposition 104, which would create no-fault auto insurance and cap attorney fees.

Insurers have condemned the rival Nader-backed Proposition 103, which would cut rates 20 percent and impose government regulation. They also have criticized a rival measure backed by lawyers to cut auto premiums by 20 percent for good drivers and prohibit limiting lawyers fees.

Despite the insurers blitz of television commercials, polls showed voters favoring the Nader-backed measure. But a large undecided vote left the outcome unclear.

If two or more of the measures pass, court battles may produce some unintended hybrid. Califor-

Student Reportedly Tried To Stop Computer Virus

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ITHACA, N.Y. - A student suspected of unleashing a virus" into an estimated 6.000 computers nationwide tried frantically to warn operators after discovering his experiment had gone awry, associates said.

Robert T. Morris Jr., 23. a first-year student in Cornell University's doctorate computer science program, is suspected of creating the computer virus that last week clogged the computers tied to a military network.

He has been unavailable since discovery of the virus Thursday. His father, Robert T. Morris Sr., a government computer-security expert, said his son left the university Thursday to avoid reporters.

The senior Morris has refused to say whether his son created the virus.

The electronic virus, so named because it multiplies after invading a computer, jammed computers across the country linked to the Pentagon-supported Arpanet network.

slowing computers by reproducing itself over and over. But affected centers reported the virus only took up memory space and did not destroy any files.

It could have been a whole lot worse. " said Dexter Kozen, one of Morris instructors. He could have wreaked a lot more havoc. I cant believe it was malicious. Mischievous, yes

Friends of Morris quoted today in The Washington Post said Morris created the virus as an intellectual challenge and that the virus was supposed to lie dormant in computer systems.

Morris reportedly went to dinner after setting the program loose Wednesday night and checked it before going to bed. Discovering his mistake. Morris desperately worked to find a way to stop the virus spread.

His machines at Cornell were so badly clogged he couldnt get the message out. said Mark Friedell, an assistant professor of computer science at Harvard University,

where Morris did his undergraduate studies.

Panicked, Morris called Andrew Sudduth, systems manager at Harvards Aiken Laboratory. He asked Sudduth to send urgent messages to a computer billboard, explaining how to defeat the virus, Sudduth told the Post.

The nets (computer networks) were like molasses, Sudduth said. It took me more than an hour to get anything out at all.

Cornell officials said Sunday they have no absolute proof that Morris caused the virus. But the evidence in the universitys computer system so far points to Morris, they said.

One Cornell official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Sunday that it appeared there was an early version of the virus in Morris computer files.

The elder Morris, chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center in Bethesda, Md., said the episode will clearly raise the awareness of the existing vulnerabilities, particularly of network systems.

More Families Depending On Multiple Wage Earners

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WASHINGTON - Americas wealthiest families are keeping ahead of inflation, the poorest are losing ground, and many of the rest are holding even only because more family members are working, according to a new economic study.

The study conducted for the Economic Policy Institute shows a widening gap between rich and poor since President Reagan took office, with the top-earning 20 percent making nine times as much money in 1986 as the poorest 20 percent, compared with seven times as much in 1979.

Institute president Jeff Faux said the report shows average American

families have been under greater economic pressure during the past decade than at any time since World Warn.

Without new economic policies it is clear that families can no longer count on steadily increasing incomes and that the next generations cannot expect to live better than their parents, Faux said.

Stephen Rose, a Seattle economist who wrote the report along with economist David Fasenfest of Louisville, said the widening gap between rich and poor is a reversal of trends in earlier decades.

The study concludes that without big increases in the number of women working, as many as 60 percent of American families those

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nia Proposition 102, backed by tax revolt champion Paul Gann, would require doctors to report people who have AIDS to county public health offices. It would also allow people charged with certain crimes to be tested for the deadly disease without their consent. The measure has been opposed by state health authorities.

Gann, who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome in 1982 ffom a blood transfusion, and other supporters argued that they were tii^ of watching public health sacrificed in the name of civil rights. Proponents received a boost late in the campaign when Deukmejian endorsed the measure.

A second AIDS measure would allow people charged with certain crimes to be tested for AIDS without their consent. Supporters claimed the measure would help protect victims of sex crimes, police and firefighters. But critics argued it could give victims a false sense of security.

Polls indicated voters leaning toward adopting both AIDS measures.

The tobacco industry spent $18 million to defeat a measure that would raise cigarette taxes 25 cents per pack and use the money for research and health care programs. But polls indicated the initiative could pass by a slim margin.

Health experts argued in their low-budget campaign that the measure would discourage smoking; the industry called it an unfair tax that would tri^er a crime wave by encouraging cigarette smuggling.

California Proposition 97, meanwhile, would in effect override Deukmejians veto in 1987 when he wiped out the private-employer portion of the California Occupational Safety and Health Act program, known as Cal-OSHA.

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NOTICE is hereby given that Winterville voters will vote in the Town Hall-Fire Station building, located at 105 North Railroad Street, Winterville, on November 8,1988, and until further notice.

Precinct Officials for the Winterville Precinct requested the change because space in the building previously used would not be adequate for the increase in voters and the voter turnout anticipated.

The change in voting place location has been submitted by the Board of Elections to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Questions concerning voter registration and voting should be directed to the Elections Office, 201 East Second Street, Greenville, telephone 830-4121.

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earning less than $40,000 a year in 1986 would have been unable to keep up with inflation between 1979 and 1986, the latest year for which complete data is available.

The report says the number of working wives increased from 55.4 percent in 1979 to 66.1 percent in

This is an important first step in measuring the real economic benefit of having a wife work, Rose said in a telephone interview Sunday. But he cautioned that more study is needed to determine the additional costs families incur when the wife works, such as greater need for child care.

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widespread anti-American senti- ment that has produced incidents t ranging from harassment to diplo-

matidexpulsions.

Diplomats stationed there also face the potential risk (

-emotions proposed for two or diplomats stationed in Cen-America have been blocked by Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., an poken critic of administration

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1 the region itself, life for many al Americans can be anxiety-len. In Panama, U.S. Marine tries at Howard Air Force Base hanged gunfire with unidentified uders on four occasions last ith.

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By Scott J. Higham

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WASHINGTON - A new national survey of 16,000 nursing homes finds that nearly one of every three fails to administer drugs properly and close to half store and prepare food in unsanitary conditions.

The report, conducted by the federal Health Care Financing Administration, evaluates all nursing homes receiving Medicare and Medicaid and says thousands of facilities fait to meet basic health and safety standards. The report is scheduled for release next month, but portions of it were obtained by The Allentown Morning Call.

The survey, which analyzes problems in nursing homes state by state, is the broadest of the industry to date. While the health care administration refused to comment, agency officials warn that the survey is only a snap shot of nursing home standards.

It is neither the final, definitive word on nursing home performance, nor a guide to answer all questions on selection of a nursing home," the survey notes. Rather, it provides a rich source of background materials on federal and state enforcement ^ programs and considerable informa- tion on individual nursing homes."

The consumer-oriented survey.

opposed by the nursing home industry and applauded by senior citizen advocates, relies on inspections of 16,000 facilities. Each nursing home is reviewed using 32 federally-regulated categories that range from the quality of care to patients rights violations.

Titled MedicareMedicaid Nursing Home Information," tne survey finds that 29 percent of the nursing homes improperly administer prescription drugs to patients. Slightly more than 42 percent of the homes fail to store, prepare and distribute food under sanitary conditions.

In several health-care categories, the survey notes that nursing homes have trouble maintaining the minimum standards set by the government. Nearly one of four facilities surveyed does not insure that residents receive rehabilitative care to prevent deformities and paralysis.

The survey also says that close to 3 percent of the facilities do not provide residents with adequate personal hygiene. One of every four fails to isolate sick residents to avoid the spread of disease, and nearly 18 percent take few' steps to prevent skin deterioration.

Additionally. 9 percent of the homes inspected misuse drugs to control behavior, the survey says, and two in UK) fail to shield their res

idents from mental and physical abuse.

The nursing home inspections, conducted by 3,000 health officers working for 53 different state agencies, show that homes providing specialized rather than intermediate care fare worse in the categories surveyed.

But senior citizen watchdog groups and nursing home industry officials caution that the guide can mislead consumers. Patient abuse is widely underreported, for instance, and nursing aides are not likely to slap residents in the presence state inspectors. If residents are being abused, studies show they frequently remain silent.

"The published data shows a disturbing difference between official and unofficial reporting of abuse in nursing homes," said U.S. Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., ranking minority member of the Senate Aging Committee. "Until these discrepancies can be resolved, our assumption must be that the official reporting paints only part of the picture."

Heinz cited a recent study by the Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Office that finds many seniors fail to report violence because of physical and mental impairments. Some fear retribution by their abusers. Still others are unsure of their rights and legal recourse, the study says.

Another study in New Hampshire found that nearly one-third of the 600 nurses and nursing aides interviewed by the University of New Hampshire last year witnessed one or more physically abusive actions committed by staff members.

The most frequ(mt abuse was unnecessarily restraining patients, followed by pushing, grabbing or shoving patients in anger. Six staff members reported seeing patients kicked or punched or hit with objects. the New Hampshire study found.

The new nursing home survey was ordered by William Roper, chief of the Health Care Financing Administration. which oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

It is the second time Roper has requested a report card on the health care industry, and both surveys have drawn sharp criticism from industry representatives.

Federal officials acknowledge the surveys shortcomings, saying it is an attempt to guide consumers through the complicated process of selecting nursing homes. Families should tour nursing homes and ask questions, the survey says. It includes a glossary, sample questions, tips of what to look for and phone numbers of federal health care officials stationed around the country.

The survey also includes profiles of each nursing home that note the number of beds, type of ownership, survey date and resident indicators.

such as how many senior citizens are confined to chairs and how many are confused or disoriented. The indicators are compared to state and national averages.

The profile also contains the 32 performance indicators that indicate whether nursing services are provided at all hours and whether the facility protects the rights of its residents.

We think individuals who use this information as a source document will be better informed about health care issues they or their family may face," the survey says.

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Sisters Reunited

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Joyce Lott, left, and Mary Jones are inmates at the Womens Correctional Center who believe they are long-lost sisters. The women realized they looked alike and began to talk about their backgrounds. Ms. Jones says she thinks God sent her to prison so she could find her sister.

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There are so many ways, she says, to wear the white shirt with a short skirt, the new long skirt, or with pants and so many ways to accessorize a white shirt, that its a natural to stretch the clothing budget."

The white shirt showed up in nearly every designer collection on both sides of the Atlantic during trade shows last April. From Yves St. Laurent to Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, it was shown with a jacket for day and with dressy pants or a skirt for evening.

The bright, white shirt will now come out from under the jacket. says Deane. The new shirts are better looking than ever and can stand on their own for career or after-five dressing.

In addition to the well-tailored, crisp shirt, this season offers white blouses with innovative detailing: lace, embroidery, scrolls, tucks and pleats and soutache, a flat decorative braid. More lavish touches include hand-finished flowers and faux pearl and ribbon appliques.

Fabrics are soft, necklines, variable. There are high, crushed collars; soft bows; portrait collars; ruffles.

Lucille Klein, fashion director of J.C. Penney, with stores nationwide, says the white shirt will not fade rapidly from the fashion scene.

I am currently working on fall, 1989," she says, and soft shirting ... will be a key fashion item. Also, with ... the emergence of the vest as a fashion piece, the white shirt becomes an integral part of dressing."

By Bruce Henderson

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BLOWING ROCK. N.C. - There is unalloyed love in Town Clerk Judith Burnss voice as she describes her hometown:

I cant help but believe that its everybodys dream of a way of life, she said. Its like a New England village, like a Christmas card, a small town the way its supposed to be. Of course, were not perfect...

As the October leaf-gazing season approached, the talk was about the thing Blowing Rock does best draw tourists. Business this summer was the best in memory, but its success prompted some municipal soul-searching.

There is worry over the lack of parking when Blowing Rocks popular arts-and-crafts show is held in the town park six weekends a year. And some Main Street business people add that they heard unruly voices shouting from cars this past summer, and even a few honking car horns.

That sort of behavior is not at all condoned in this venerable Watauga County tourist town of 1,506, where the unhurried ambience is both

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Tami S. Moore and Kenneth G. Williams announce their marriage. The bride is the daughter of Jimmy and Reva Moore of Route 2, Grifton. The bridegroom is the son of Ethel Williams of Route 3, Ayden, and the late Leon Williams.

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NEWTON, Mass. Nan Berman has a suggestion for all spurned lovers, tyrannized employees and anyone whos had an especially bad day; dont get mad, get even. And shed be glad to help.

Her month-old business Enough is Enough, billed as creative revenge for todays world, has already mailed a three-foot dead bluefish to a philandering husband in California and delivered a burned and messy suit to a lawyer who implied his girlfriend was unsuitable for him.

More common requests among those wronged, however, are the 13 dead roses, sent in a beribboned black box ($25) , or 13 black balloons tied together by a single dead red rose ($30).

Other insults to suit the occasion include a real stuffed shirt ($25) for pom{wus bosses and drinking glasses with cigarette butts on the bottom for obnoxious smokers.

Twenty years ago, people didnt speak up the way they do now, said Berman. But since the 60s, people have expressed themselves. And

with me, you really have a way to vent things out.

Berman, 43, was inspired to start Enough is Enough after a year spent driving a florist delivery truck for a boss she said wa% the grumpiest, most unpleasant person ever bom.

She never smiled, she was just miserable, said Berman. I hung in there for a year but I was so sick of it. I thought I can get this same atmosphere by making a business out of it.

Berman financed her venture with $30,000, some of it from her husband, a businessman. She prowled bargain-basement department stores and gift shows for ideas. She brought back artifacts such as a cloth witch on a stick (for those witchy people on brooms), porcelain pigs (for people on a diet) and real kites (to send those for whom you want to tell go fly a kite).

She buys her dead roses for $5 for several dozens at the Boston Flower Exchange and purchases other items in bulk. Her material is a combination of specialty store items from joke shops and objects she finds herself.

Berman is happiest fielding phone

calls in her small office behind a florist, surrounded by boxes of wilting roses, black balloons, and buttons reading First of All We Kill All the Lawyers.

She jumps up enthusiastically to point out another gag, like the cactus she recently bought. She plans to deliver it to an insufferable boor with the words sit on it, she said, laughing uproariously.

Maybe after a while it wont seem so funny but now I cant help laughing all the time, she said.

Since she opened her business, Berman has received more than 100 calls and 30 people have paid for her services. She promises her customers that she wont reveal their names.

I want to stress that well do anything, as long as its legal, she said.

Berman is most eager to coordinate more elaborate schemes. For people who want to play a prank on a boss, sh has a plan in the works to move thefesss office furniture and to anothe^rt of the building.

But well move it back during the day, she said. Most people we get are doing this stuff for a joke. Theyre not malicious.

Bermans part-time staff consists of her 23-year-old son, her cousin and a friend. Her days driving a flower truck are a distant memory.

We just sit around and laugh all day, Berman said.

Double Wedding: A Perfect Solution

Dear Abby

Abigail Van Buren

Dear Abby: You are correct to say that hotel managers do not care whether couples traveling together are married or not. After I lost my first wife to cancer in the 1950s, 1 made trips to Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Antonio and elsewhere - signing the hotel register with my name only, and marking 2 in the proper space when I took a lady along.

After losing my second wife to cancer, I was 79 years old and thought my time for romance was over then 1 met a lovely lady at church. She was a 65-year-young widow. Before we married, she wanted a trial honeymoon trip and .so did I. She wanted to go to the ;Swiss Alps and 1 wanted to go to the Orient. We compromised and went to both!

t The travel agent made all our res-.ervations in the name of Mr. and Mrs. However, our passports were in our own names. The tour hostess called us The Andersons, and the only embarrassment occurred when others on the tour asked us how long we had been married because we looked like honeymooners. We were, actually, but we werent married yet. Our biggest difficulty was getting a double bed instead of twin

Im 82, and happier than I ever bought I could be at this age. All I :an say is what my wifes daughter old her after meeting me: Go for t, Mama! - Andy Anderson, Des-;rt Hot Springs, Calif.

Dear Andy: Thanks for another estimonial to the fact that people ire not only living longer, they are mjoying their later years more. Go or it, Papa!

Dear Abby: You recently publish-sd a letter from a young woman who

wanted to get married before her sister, who had announced her engagement first.

My son had the same problem when he decided to get married after we had begun making the arrangements for his sisters wedding. The perfect solution for our family was to make it a double wedding! The brides agreed to it, and all the brothers and sisters from the three families involved were included in the bridal parties.

It turned out to be enormously successful, and the wedding was far more memorable than two small weddings would have been. Also, it was appreciated by the out-of-town friends and relatives who didnt have to make two trips. Marilyn Ippolito, Phoenix

Dear Marilyn: My twin sister and I also had a double wedding (circa 1939), and we recommend it. But not every bride would be willing to share equal billing with another bride.

Dear Abby: When my wife and I were married, there was no way I was going to call my father-in-law who is an elderly gentleman Roy or Mr. Henderson. I started to call him Governor. He loved it, and told all his younger friends about it. To his joy, they promptly adopted it.

This may be a solution to a tough problem. - Donald Ridge, Waukegan, 111.

Dear Donald: Wonderful. Now, do you have any ideas about what to call an elderly mother-in-law? How about Governess ... or just Hello, Beautiful?

Dont put off writing thank-you notes, letters of sympathy, etc. because you dont know what to say. Get Abbys booklet, How to Write Letters for All Occasions. Send a check or money order for $2.89 ($3.39 in Canada) to: Dear Abby, Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, 111. 61054. (Postage is included.)

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Bridal Policy

A black and white glossy five by seven photograph is requested for engagement announcements in The Daily Reflector. For publication in a Sunday edition, the information must be submitted by 12 noon on the preceding Wednesday. Engagement pictures must be released at least three weeks prior to the wedding date. After three weeks, only an announcement will be printed.

Wedding write-ups will be

printed through the first week with a one column picture. During the second week, a one column picture will be used with a write-up giving less description and after the second week, just as an announcement.

Wedding forms and pictures should be returned to The Daily Reflector one week prior to the date of the wedding. All information should be typed or written neatly.

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Stock And Market Reports

Former Haitian Strongman Dies

By The Associated Press HOGS: Market 50 to 75 cents lower at N.C. buying stations. Kinston, Spiveys Corner, Murfreesboro, Siler City and Robersonville, 36.00; Clinton, Fayetteville, Dunn, Pink Hill, Pine Level, Chadbourn, Ayden, Laurinburg and Benson 36.00; Wilson 36.50. Sows: (500 pounds up) Fayetteville 26.00; Wallace 27.00; Spiveys Corner 27.00; Rowland 27.00.

BROILERS: The North Carolina fob dock quoted price on broilers for this weeks trading was 51.25 cents, based on full truck load lots of ice pack USD A Grade A sized 24 to 3 pounds birds. 99 percent of the loads offered have been confirmed with a final weighted average of 50.94 cents. The market is weak and the live supply is adequate for a mostly moderate demand. Average weights desirable. Estimated slaughter of broilers and fryers in North Carolina Monday was 2,065,000. compared to 2,035,000 last Monday.

GRAIN: No. 2 yellow shelled corn 4 to 5 cents lower at mostly 2.83-2.97 in East and mostly 2.98-3.08 in the Piedmont; No. 1 yellow soybeans mostly 2 cents lower at mostly 7.62-7.90 in East and mostly 7.61-7.62 in the Piedmont; wheat 3.66-3.77. Exchange rates for P.l.K. certificates were steady and ranged from 96 to 98 percent of face value.

NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market opened lower today in quiet, early trading.

The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials was down 15.47 points at 2,130.33 after a half-hour of trading at 10a.m. EST.

Declining issues outpaced advancing ones by about 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, with 578 issues down, 186 up and 412 unchanged.

Volume on the Big Board totaled 18.29 million shares after the first 30 minutes of trading.

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On Friday, The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 24.54 points to 2,145.80.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti - One of Haiti's most powerful men. a colonel indicted on U.S. drug charges who until recently led the countrys most feared army unit, has died under suspicious circumstances, a family friend says.

Col. Jean-Claude Paul, who was forcibly retired Sept. 30 as commander of the Dessalines Battalion, died about 3 p.m. Sunday of a heart attack in his home in suburban Fermathe, Radio Haiti-Inter said. He was 49.

The independent station gave no other details, but a family friend said there was speculation the 29-year army veteran was poisoned.

Pauls maid and gardener were detained by police for questioning, said the family friend, who would not be identified further.

In addition, the colonels former wife, Mireille Delinois, was taken to the Petionville police station for protection because of fear of reprisals by Pauls relatives, the friend said.

The military governments spokesman, Frantz Lubin, sid he had no information on Pauls death. U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Susan elude also said she had nothing.

Paul was stripped of his command after a Sept. 17 revolt by noncommissioned officers ousted Haitis military leader, Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy.

The coup leaders, who said they

Sakharov Arrives

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Two years ago, I became a free man when I returned from Gorky to Moscow, Sakharov said. Now I have become even freer because I have been granted the right to travel around the world.

But a man who staged a one-person demonstration on my behalf in January 1980 when I was exiled to Gorky remains in prison. The name of that man is Vazif Meilanov. He has been charged once again with a very serious crime and faces a long imprisonment.

Meilanov was a cellmate of Natan Sharansky, who was deported in 1986 for his human rights work. Sharansky. who now lives in Israel, said last May that Meilanov remained in Siberia.

Sakharov is traveling without his wife, Yelena Bonner, who saw him off with a kiss at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.

He was starting his trip with a visit to her daughter by a previous marriage, Mrs. Yankelevich, Mrs. Yankelevichs husband, Efrem, and their two teen-age children in suburban Newton.

Sakharov is expected to visit Mrs. Bonners son, Alexei Semyonov, Semyonovs wife, Liza Alekseyeva, and their 4-year-old daughter, Alexandra. in the nearby town of Westwood. It will be his first meeting with his granddaughter.

He is also scheduled to undergo a heart examination and may receive a pacemaker at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mrs. Bonner had car-

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New York, then Washington, where he will participate in a board meeting Nov. 13-17 of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, the first such session outside the Soviet Union.

The foundation, formed in January by Soviet and U.S. scien

tists and educators, is embarking on a worldwide campaign to raise $10 million for research on global problems.

Sakharov said Sunday he believed my. country ... and your country can do a great deal togethei 'for peace, for a world that is happy and close and without hunger, violence or disease.

He said that since childhood, he has had a great deal of respect for the United States, which is indeed a truly great country.

The granting of an exit visa for Sakharov to visit the United States is a dramatic example of the changes in Soviet society since Mikhail S. Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985.

The foundation also played a role in obtaining the visa, said Jerome Wiesner, president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the foundations vice chairman.

The foundations position was not to meet outside the Soviet Union unless all the board members could attend, and that meant the Soviet government had to change its position and give (Sakharov) permission to travel, Wiesner said at Logan airport.

Sakharov was a top Soviet physicist and helped develop its hydrogen bomb in the 1950s, but became a dissident leader in the 1970s. He was exiled to Gorky, a city about 250 miles from Moscow, in January 1980, a month after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. His wife was banished to Gorky in August 1984.

They remained there until Gorbachev called them back to Moscow in December 1986. Earlier that year, Gorbachev had told a French newspaper Sakharov could not travel outside the Soviet Union because he knew too many state secrets.

Sakharov has continued his scientific work, and now concentrates on the origins of the universe. He speaks out occasionally on human rights issues.

Horror Recalled

Quake Hits China

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Lancang is home to the Lahu minority group, and the Va minority group also lives in the region.

There are about 300,000 Lahu people, most of them in Yunnan province. They are related to Tibetans and Burmans and practice Buddhism. The Va people number about 260,000, speak a language of the Mon-Khmer branch and are Buddhists. Both groups are primarily farmers.

At about the same time as the first quake in China, a less powerful temblor was reported in northern Thailand near the Burmese border. The quake caused minor damage to buildings and made high-rise buildings sway in Bangkok, hundreds of miles to the south.

In the Skylounge restaurant on the top floor of the 43-story Baiyoke Tower, Bangkoks tallest building, hundreds of panicked patrons fled without paying their bills.

The quake in China was also felt in Yunnans capital, Kunming, 240 miles northeast of Lancang, a city of 1.5 million residents. The seismology bureau said there was no damage there.

A quake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hit the Lancang region Oct. 15, but there were no reports of casualties.

The Richter scale is a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake as measured by the ground motion recorded on a seismograph. A quake measuring 7 is capable of causing heavy damage in a populated area, while one measuring 8 is 10 times as strong and capable of tremendous damage.

The Yunnan quake was the second in China over the weekend.

On Saturday, a quake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook northern Tibet and Qinghai province in far western China. Qinghai seismology officials said the epicenter was in an uninhabited area of the Tanggula Mountains and there were no reports of casualties.

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Germanys tiny Jewish community, said his nation which has emphasized how communists as well as Jews were persecuted by the Nazis appears to be learning more from th lessons of the past than neighboring West Germany.

In (East Germany), theres a greater cracking down on neo-fascist ways of thought than in (West Germany), where meetings of former Nazis can take place under police protection, Kirchner said Sunday in an interview on West Germanys Deutschlandfunk radio.

The city of Potsdam just outside Berlin has organized an exhibit about Jewish life during the Nazi era, which includes shocking, original fascist documents in which an expulsion order and the stripping of (German) citizenship are communicated to Jews, according to the news agency.

Residents of Koenigstein, a West German town of 16,500 near Frankfurt, on Sunday placed a wreath at the site where the syna-

were outraged by state-sponsored murder under Namphy, replaced him with Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril and ousted about 60 of the armys most repressive commanders.

Paul at first appeared allied with Avril, but the new leader reportedly became concerned Paul might turn against him. Last month, Avril said he planned to close the barracks of the 700-man Dessalines Battalion, the most brutal unit in Haitis 7,000-member army.

The unit has been linked to the Tonton Macoutes, the hated private army of the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship, and some of its members have been blamed for widespread violence that has thwarted moves toward democratization promised after a popular uprising drove Jean-Claude Duvalier into exile in February 1986.

The violence included attacks on polling stations that forced the cancellation of independently run general elections last November, leaving at least 34 people dead.

Paul had been a powerful force in the army, which has run this impoverished Caribbean nation for most of its 144 years. The barracks of his former command are adjacent the presidential palace.

In March, Paul was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.

The soldiers who ousted Namphy said they wanted to name him army chief but decided not to because of the drug charges.

Haitian and diplomatic sources later said Pauls retirement could help lead to the renewal of a $70 million annual aid package the United States cut off after the November 1987 election massacre.

The drug trafficking indictment alleges Paul conspired to import 220 pounds of cocaine into the United States in December 1986. It says the traffickers used a landing strip on Pauls farm 90 miles outside Port-au-Prince, the capital, to load and hy the shipment to the Bahamas.

Obituaries

gogue was burned down on Nov. 10, 1938.

West Germanys Bundestag, or parliament, will hold a solemn ceremony on Thursday.

In the city of Darmstadt, about 25 miles south of Frankfurt, a new synagogue will be dedicated Wednesday.

The number of deaths on Kristallnacht remains uncertain. At least 195 synagogues and about 7,500 Jewish businesses were either destroyed or badly damaged. Some estimates put the number of vandalized synagogues at more than 1,100.

Throughout (Germany) that night, 91 Jews met their death under the sticks, boots and bullets of the death squads of the Nazi movement, Foschepoth told 125 residents of Koenigstein on Sunday. How was all this possible?

Baker

BALTIMORE - Mrs. Ella Arm-wood Baker died in Baltimore. Arrangements will be announced by Phillips Brothers Mortuary in Greenville, N.C.

Bost

Mr. Warren J. Bost, 70, died today in Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Arrangements will be announced by Wilkerson Funeral Home.

Carr

Mr. Oakley (O.C.) Carr died Friday in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

His funeral will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Phillips Brothers Mortuary by the Rev. Elmer Jackson. Burial will be in Homestead Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Carr was born in Pitt County and later moved to Philadelphia where he was a carpenter. He retired and returned to Pitt County in 1973.

Surviving are a daughter. Pearl Hunter Williams of the home; three brothers, Alfred Carr Jr. of the home, Eddie Carr of Riverhead, N.Y., and Leroy Carr of Westbury, N.Y.; a sister, Earldine Carr of Baltimore, and two grandchildren.

The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the funeral home and at other times will be at 1808 McClellan St., Greenville.

Davenport

SOUTH MILLS - Mrs. Eva Dell Davenport, 79, died Sunday.

A funeral service will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Ayers-Gray Funeral Home Chapel in Bethel with the Rev. Steve Enloe. Burial will follow at the Bethel Cemetery.

Surviving are her husband, W.R. Davenport; two sons, James Carson of Hassell and John Allen Carson of Greensboro; a brother, Willie Roebuck of Robersonville; five grandchildren, and eight greatgrandchildren.

Family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Overby

SNOW HILL - Mr. Samuel Henry Overby, 92, died Sunday in Lenoir Memorial Hospital.

His graveside funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Snow Hill Cemetery by the Rev. Bill Braswell.

Mr. Overby had been the owner of the Overby Motor Company in Snow Hill.

Surviving are four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

The family will receive friends at the Taylor-Edwards Funeral Home in Snow Hill from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and at other times at the home of Martha Lura Glossip, Route 2, Snow Hill. Memorials may be to the American Heart Association, c/o Judy Carraway, Route 1, Box A-10, Snow Hill N.C. 28580.

Williams

Mr. Johnnie Clarence (J.C.) Williams of 1204 Myrtle Ave., clied Sunday in Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Arrangements will be announced by Phillips Brothers Mortuary.

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Waitz Victory Is Her 9th On The New York City Marathon Course

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Over 20,000 runners cross the Verrazano Narrows Bridge

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NEW YORK - For Steve Jones and Crete Waitz, the 19th New York City Marathon was vindication. For Joan Benoit Samuelson, it was a crashing, but not smashing, return tomarathoning.

Jones and Waitz, recent disappointments after years of glory, were the mens and womens first-place finishers in Sundays race, the argest marathon in history with

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Samuelson, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist who was running her first marathon in three years, was victimized by two collisions, one of which sent her sprawling to the ground, and an unexpected pit stop, which she attributed to nervousness over her inactivity.

Although Samuelson, who had been unbeaten in five marathons since 1981, finished third among the women, she provided the most spectacular action in the heavily congested field, which at times resembled roller derby.

Near the 11-mile mark, she bumped into Laura Fogli of Italy as the two were chasing Waitz, but neither fell nor was injured.

At the 14-mile point, Samuelson left the course briefly to relieve herself after suffering stomach cramps.

I think it was a case of nerves, she said, because I hadnt run a marathon since 1985.

And just past 21 miles, she was upended Ity a volunteer who came onto the course with a cup of water for another runner.

1 did a complete somersault, but I got right up, the stunned Samuelson said. I was so dazed. I dont think I was helped up. I think I got up on my own.

At that juncture, she was running third behind Waitz and Fogli.

I had Laura in sight, Samuelson said. 1 was too focused on catching her, I guess (to notice the volunteer). V^en I grabbed the water, I planted myself between the man giving me the water... I was stunned. Samuelson blamed herself in part for the mishaps.

Im notorious for not looking at the course beforehand, she said. Ill look at courses from now on. This one was a challenge.

Sidelined in recent years because of a series of injuries to her left leg, left hip and back, plus the birth of her first child last year, Samuelson said she was hurting and sore afterward.

I wont wait three years before I run another marathon, said Samuelson, adding that the probably would run the Boston Marathon in April.

After the final crash, Samuelson,

who said, I lost about 30 seconds to get myself back in order, thought she could catch Waitz or Fogli, but they were toostrong.

Waitz had no difficulty with the course, one that shes run every year since 1978, except last year, when she was injured. She has pvon every time she started except in 1981, when she did not finish because of stomach cramps.

Sundays victory was her ninth in New York, and her time of 2 hours, 28 minutes, 7 seconds was only one second slower than her 1986 clocking. No other marathoner has won the same marathon nine times. Waitz had been tied for the record with Johnny Kelley, an eight-time winner of the Yonkers Marathon.

Overall, Waitz has won 13 of 17 marathons, with one second-place finish - in the 1984 Olympics, behind Samuelson and three unfinished races, including this years Olympic marathon in Seoul.

The injury which kept her out of the 1987 New York City Marathon and the arthroscopic knee surgery which forced her out of this years Olympics made Waitz an uncertain commodity coming into Sundays race.

This victory is a tittle sweeter than the others, except for the first one 10 years ago, she said after

(See Waitz, B-3)

Grete Waitz and the N.Y.C. Marathon

Waitz, 35, of Norway, has won nine New York City Marathons since 1978.

1978

2:32:30 WR

1979

2:27:33 WR

1980

2:25:41 WR

1982