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THE BAILY REFLECTOR

96th Year NO. 1 2

TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION

GREENVILLE, N.C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 14, 1977

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Page 2 — Longet case to jury Page 7 — Bills Introduced Page 14—Obituaries

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No Surplus, But Enough Money For N.C. Budget

By DAVID R. NEI^EN Associated Press Writer RALEIGH (AP) — There won’t be any surplus at the end of this fiscal year, but it appears there will be sufficient revenue to cover the budget, members of the legislative money committees have been told.

Meeting for the first time Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Ways and Means Committee were given a short lesson on where the state gets its money and how that money—nearing $4 billion a year-is spent. They were also given a rundown on the slate’s economic QUUOQik

Sen Kenneth Royall. D-Dur- tors Thursday goes through ham, said the committees will March and calls for three meet-meet jointly Ihrou^ the end of ings a week. After that, the March. By th«i, he said, the lawmakers will be trying to panels will be ready to break build the new budget, down into smaller committees ^ The legislature’s adjournment and begin putting together the traditionally has hinged on budget for the next two fiscal completion of the budget. Lt. years beginning July 1.    Gov, Jimmy Green commented

In the meantime, the major to the Senate Thursday that he work will be review of current believes the legislature will be programs with an eye toward able to finish in less time than cutting out anything that's ob- the seven-month session some solete.    legislators have predicted.

For the first time, there is a In the Iff^ legislative session, schedule of steps spelled out for the economic recession delayed the budget-making process. The completion of the budget for a schedule given to the legisla- number of weeks as predictions

Bids Accepted

Pitt County Commissioners yesterday accepted bids totaling $27,587.85 for rental of 102.68 acres of county-owned land and the associated tobacco and peanut allotments.

Alton Paramore was the successful bidder for the land with a high bid of $6,150, vriiile David Eastwood took the 14.3 acre j^eanut allotment with a bid of $886.60.

The county’s 46,723 pound tobacco allotment averaged more than 43.98 cents per pound, bringing in a total of $20,531.25

The tobacco was broken into 5.000 pound lots and hi^ bids ranged from 43 cents per pound to45 cents per pound.

Successful bidders for the tobacco included Dalma Hines. Herbert Newton. Carl Vandiford, Leroy Dixon and the Monk brothers.

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TELTRONICS

Hotline has received numerous calls and letters from Greraville area petóle who ordered watches before Christmas from the Teltronics Company of Des Plaines, Dl. We checked with the Illinois Attorney G«m’al’s Office after we were unable to contact the company and after one of the persons who ordo^ from the company said she had heard on a nationally televised news pro^am that the company was conducting fraudulent activity. Mcniee in the Illinois Attorney General’s Of fled said most of his time and effort over the past few weeks has been directed toward this situation. He said a persfKi by the fictitious name of John Rodine advertised throu^wut the cmintry a “six-function L. E. D. watch for $16.95 in a silver rhodium flni^ and $17.95 yellow gold plated.” There were 10 dlf-toent styles available and for each two watches ordered, one would receive a five-function elec-tnmlc memory calculator free.

He said be has not yet determined the real name of “John Rodine,” but said person is «^rted to be in Mexico with lots of money. At least l X),000 orders fw watches were sent in, McPhee said, pn^bly many more.

The Illinois Attorney General's office has oMain-ed a temporary restraining order against the company’s doing business in the State of minois and frozen all mmiey still in Illinois banks. Jan. 12 a petition for afi^intment of a receiver was appointed by the courts.

Mcniee suggested that any and everycme who has a complaint against the company should send all pertinent information, including photostatic copies of canceled checks, to Consumer Fraud Division, Illinois Attorney Goieral’s Office, 134 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, HI. 60602, and ^ould mark on the outside of tbe envelope Re; Teltronics. All of these letters will be forwarded to tbe receiver, and hop^uily at some future date at least a portion of tbe amoimt sent in by each person can be returned.

He said the U. S. Postal Authorities and the U. S. Attorney General are also involved in the case. He said mail-ordo’ r^fe are not unusual, but that ttUs one does aeem to be «le of the largest to have been popeCrated on tbe public in a Imig time.

Because of the large number Invdved, Hotline is asking each person who wrote or called us about Tdtronics to contact the Illinois attorney general himself. We have printed here all tbe information we have on tbe situation.

of the state's revenues kept getting gloomier. The legislature met again in 1976 to adjust the current budget to meet changes in the economy.

David Crotts of the legislature’s Fiscal Research Division told the committees Thursday that despite a slowdown of the economic recovery in    the

middle of last year, the state’s revenues should meet expectations.

“We are pretty much running on track.’’ he said. Wfiile it is too early to project revenues

for the next two-year budget period, be said he is somewhat opthnistic.

There are several factors that coulQ stunt the economy, he said, citing a. shortage of natural gas and reduced business in the textile industry as examples.

Crotts also warned that Congress could overstimulate the national economy, fueling inflation, or the mcniey supply ccHild be tightened, purring an economic downturn.

In a few months, he said, the

Fiscal Research Division will be able to predict the state’s economy for the second half of this year and all of next year.

The state's annual budget includes some $800 million in federal funds, said John Allen, director of fiscal research.

Of the total. 58 per cent of the money is general fund. 22 per cent if federal fund and 12 per cent is in highway funds while another 8 per cent is fees and other charges, he said.

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Anthony Eden Dies After Long Illness

ALVEDISTON. England .(AP) — Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden died peacefully in his sleep this morning at his country home in southern England after a long illness, his doctor announced. He was 79.

Eden, a successful foreign minister who failed as prime minister when he joined France in the abortive Suez invasion in 1936. was flown home from Florida last weekend when it became apparent that death was near.

His doctor said he was suffering from progressive liver failure One London newspaper reported he had had cancer of the lung and bone for a year and it had spread to the liver.

Eden, who as Britain's foreign minister in the 1930s advocated a strong stand against Fascist dictators but failed as prime minister in the abortive Suez invasion of 1956. was floHn home from Florida last weekend when it became apparent that death was near. He had been staying at the home of senior American diplomat W. Averell Harriman.

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Officers at noon today were continuing their investigation of a bomb threat call to Rose Hi^ School earlier this morning.

The bomb call was the latest in a series of incidents at the school that began January 7. when a fire caused heavy damage to a storage closet and an adjoining classroom and small fires were found in three hallway lockers.

Monday morning, firemen responded to a call shortly before noon, when a fire was discovered in an equipment storage closet in the field house.

Then Wednesday, fire units were called at 3;40 p.m. when a fire was discovered under a mobile classroom unit at the school.

No damage was r^rted from that blaze.

School and police officials said they did not know whether this morning's bomb call was connected with the fires.

Greenville fire officials. p<riice and agents of the State Bureau of Investigation are cooperating in the investigation of the incidents.

ANTHONY EDEN

said in an official statement after Eden's death: “We mourn the passing of a distinguishe(i parliamentarian and a statesman of exertional experience and determination”

Eden's doctor said he had been suffering from progressive liver failure. One London newspaper reported he had had cancer of the lung and bone for a year and it had to tbe liver.

In a statement issued from No. 10 Downing St.. official residence of Prime Minister James Callaghan, the government said it “has heard with deep regret of the death of Lord Avon. He spent

all his active life in the service of his country.”

Queen Elizabeth II. vacationing at her country home at Sandringham, sent a message of sympathy to Eden's widow which read:

“I am much distressed to learn of the death of Lord Avon. As a gallant soldier in the first World War and as a statesman in the second and in many years of peace he gave outstanding service to his country. He will be remembered in history above all as an outstanding diplomat and as a man of courage and integrity."

The suave, aristocratic statesman who resigned from Neville Chamberlain’s cabinet to protest Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler, was a brave soldier in World War I, a member of the House of Commons for 34 years, a brilliant diplomat before, during and after World War II, and a bitter and disillusioned loser in the Suez war that destroyed him as a political leader Eden, wtw was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Avon in 1961. became gravely ill while spending the winter at the Florida home of American diplomat Averell Harriman. and a Royal Air Force plane equipped as a flying hospital was sent from London to bring him and his wife home.

Confident Of FPC Action On Gas Needs

RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) - Gov. Jim Hunt has expressed confidence that the Federal Power Commission will rule favorably on North Carolina's request for emergency natural gas supplies.

“The FPC. I think, wants to help us in this matter." Hunt told an airport news conference Thursday in Raleigh, upon his return from an FPC hearing in Washington.

One FPC commissioner told him the panel “w<Hild be responsive to us." Hunt said.

Hunt led a delegation that included virtually all the stale's major elected officials into the FPC hearing.

Sens. Robert Morgan. D-N.C., and Jesse Helms. R-N.C., joined nearly North Carolina cwgressman and told tbe panel

that as many as 36.(XI0 pecóle might lose their jobs if the state is not granted an exemption from interstate gas price regulations.

Joining the North Carolina contingent in making similar pleas were S«is. Ernest Hol-lings. D-S.C., Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., South Carolina Lt. Gov. Brantley Harvey, and Rep. Robert Bauman. R-Md

The three states could share in the 4.8 billion cubic feet of gas that was ordered from Houston Pipeline Co.. an interstate supplier, if the FPC grants the emergency exemption.

The exemption would allow gas to be sold in interstate, commerce at the unregulated, inlrasiate price.

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Pushed Snow Into His Basement

GONE BY SUMMER — It's a pile of snow and it’s inside William Whitney’s basement in North Adams, Mass. Whitney didn’t know what to do with all tbe snow from his parking area out back.

so be opened the hatdiway to his basement and pushed the snow inside, near tbe furnace. He says it will melt and go down the drain — then he’ll have room for mwe. < AP Wirephoto)

Now Three Carter Nominees Cleared

By DAVE RILEY Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Carter’s nominee to be secretary of state, Cynis R. Vance, today became the third Cabinet ^^intee to win a preliminary stamp of approval from a Senate committee.

Carter’s selection of Vance to succeed Henry A. Kissinger was approved unanimously by the Senate Foreign delations Committee. The endorsement came without debate.

Vance and other Carter nominations are expected to be confirmed by the full Senate shortly after the president-elect’s in-augration Jan. 20.

Carter’s designated secretary of defense. Harold Brown, was the second Cabinet appointee in the new administration to win committee endorsment.

Brown won unanimous approval Thursday from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Carter's choice for agriculture secretary, Bob Bergland. was approved bv the .Senate Agri

culture Committee on Tuesday.

Labor Secretary-designate Ray Marshall testified Thursday before the Senate Labor Committee and Joseph Cali-fano. Carter's nominee to head the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, w'as before the Senate finance and labor-education committees.

Only Griffin Bell. Carter's choice for attorney general, continued to face opposition in committee hearings. .After three full days of testimony, there was uncertainly about when the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on w hether to recommend his approval by the Senate

Black leaders Thursday gave, the Judiciary Committee contrasting views of Bell's commitment to civil rights.

W arren Cochrane and Lonnie King, both blacks from Atlanta, recommended Bell, an Altanta lawyer and former U.S. Circuit Court judge. Their testimony followed that of R^ Parren J Mitchell. D-Md., chairman of

the Congressional Black Caucus, and Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP, who both urged the committee to reject Bell.

Parren Mitchell said Bell was the "mastennind'' of Georgia's resistance to court-ordered desegregation orders in the 1950s when he served as an adviser to the slate's governor.

King, former president of the Atlanta .VAACP chapter, said Bell has '•the background, the capacity, and the commitment to be a superb attorney general.”

And Cochrane, former secretary of Atlanta's Negro Voters League, said blacks will have "a real friend” as attorney general if Bell's nomination is confirmed.

Differing views of Bell also came from the liberal Amen-cans for Democratic Action and from former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski

Joseph L Rauh Jr, former chairman of the ADA. said Bell

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Local Troubleshooters Locate A Power Break

OREGON INLET - A two-man trouble shooting team from Greenville Utilities Commission was responsible for locating a power break at the Herbert Bonner Bridge here .Monday that had left Ocracoke and Halteras Island residents without electricity for two days.

GUCO Director Charles Home said today that the assistance of the commission's electric technicians was requested Sunday night in detecting the short circuit in the power cable that serves the Outer Banks customers.

Home said that GUCO has the imiy experts in the area for locating underground power faults and quite a bit of sophisticated equipmmt used in detecting tbe faults has bem ac

quired here over the last five years

Malcolm Green, superintendent of GL’CO's F'tectric Department. and Jimmy Smith, a department technician, took their equipment to tbe trouble site Monday and had the fault pinpointed by mid-afternoon, it was pointed out

Home said that the call for assistance came from Booth and Associates of Raleigh, engineering consulting firm to the Halteras Island Electrical Membership Corp. The cooperative owiis the one and uie-half inch power cable.

The power blackout that resulted from the break affected 2.650 residmts of the Outer Banks and cost the coc^rative from $30.000 to $40,000 in

revenues', it was reported.

GUCO was not involved in the r^air of the short circuit.

A spokesman for Booth indicated that he fell someone fired a rifle into the quarter-inch conduit which encased the power cable. The break occurred on National Park Service pn^rty Investigation into the possibility of vandalism is continuing

Home noted that GUCO has received calls before from area cities for assistance in detecting underground faults.

The bridge conduit presented the same situation as far as detection as an underground system, he added “We would hope that others would assist us if we had a problem,' ■ Home obsened

Campus Attitudes Changing, Reports Survey

ByMARYGANZ Attociated Press Writer

BERKELEY. Calif. (AP) - America's college students and teariiers are becoming more conservative about busmg and capital ptmish-ment but increasingly liberal about marijuana and women's equality, according to a Carnegie Council survey.

Fewer students are ideotifying themselves as “left'' in' “liberal," according to the survey, which questioned 25,000 undei^aduates. 25.000 graduate students and 25,000 (acuity members on college and university campuses in 1969 and in 1975.

“1 think studoits and coll^ and university

teachers in general are more liberal than the population at lai^. but not nearly to the degree that the papers have led us to believe.’' said Dr. Martin Trow, author of the report, in an interview prior to releasing the findings today.

Trow said there is some truth In the idea that students are buckling down to studies because the ecorxHTiic recession made it harder for C(dl^ graduates to find jobs. The change is reflected in increasii^y traditional attitudes toward educatkxi and reform.

But he said in many ways the campuses are not as quiet as they seem. “A lot of ideas are being created and circulated and new subjects

are being taught. “ he said.

"Th«e's a great deal of vitality, but unless the kids are throwing rocks or swallowing goldfish, the papers don't pay very much attention.:

The survey found that 74 per cent of the undergraduates in 1975 were opposed to busing for racial balance, up from 53 p^ cent opposed in 196B.

In 1969, 80 per cent of the students questioned believed capital punishment should be abolished; in 1975 the number had dropped to 36 pm-cent

But in 1975. 55 per cmt of students and 50 per cent of teacbns said marijuana use should be

legalized, compared with 46 per cent of students and 30 per cent of faculty members in 1969 In 19iS). 21 per cent of the graduate students and 20 per cent <al the (acuity members questioned agreed with the statement The female graduate students in my department are not as dedicated to the fieid as males ''

In 1975. the numbers had dropped to 8 per cent for both graduate siudentsand faculty Both the 1969 and 19^ surveys found students professing a hi|^ degree of religious belief

But the figures remained the same in the two surveys for graduate students 43 per cent left orliberal andiamdty.4lpercent.