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The Robesonian ESTABLISHED I87f Published daily, Moaday-w-Friday afternoon and Sunday morning, in Robesou County 1 By THE ROBESONIAN, INC. 121 W. r.th Street, LMinberton, Phone 7394322 Answering Service 739-432S Class Postage paid at Mimbertoa, N. 2W58 A. SHARPE, Editor Publisher 1907-194? "Just Keep Pouring If I' Going To Get Polluted, I Might As Well Do It Myself" delivery.

Daily and Sunday. 43c week- Year $23.40 plus .70 tax: total $21.10 Member Audit Bureau oi Circulation-Associated Press-SouUv era Newspaper Publishers Association North Caro lina Press Association. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use republication of all the Ideal news printed in this newspaper as weli as all AP news dispatches. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1971 Selective Controls Pressure for wage and price controls keeps building up as strikes are settled or averted by agreements on higher pay and industry passes on higher costs to the public. What seems needed is selective controls affecting industries in which wages and profits already are substantial.

A pay raise of 30 per cent over three years, plus unlimited cost-of-living increases, is fine for steel workers, but the resulting eight per cent increase in price of steel drives up costs for other industries and for the public. The Senate majority leader, Mike Mansfield, has commented that steel is not only pricing itself out of the world market but also out of the American market. The ironic thing is that such risk is taken to improve the living standards of workers whose earnings already compare favorably with the national average, and at a time when many other citizens are out of work. The trouble with wage and price controls, which have been imposed in wartime, is that they tend to freeze wages at existing levels whether too high or too low. Broadly applied, they affect industries with below-average wages and profits as well as those in which both are at relatively high levels.

The most successful gamblers usually are those who can afford to lose. In gambling with the national economy, the players who set the pace are in the big, vital industries. If the threat of a strike in the steel industry had failed to produce wage increases, the steel workers still could get along on the wages they had been getting. If the industry failed to hold the line against wage increases, it still could pass on the added cost to manufacturers of steel products, in the form of higher prices. The national interest particularly the interest of millions of citizens who need the products of industry and have no immediate prospect of wage increases is involved to the extent that sorne kind of intervention on behalf of the public is action probably would be a selective'roirafek of wages and prices in vital industries in which wages and well above the national average.

"That would be discriminatory, but the government discriminates every year in levying income taxes on a graduated scale. One of Jhe, basic principles of tax- atioft is that of levying orTability to pay. It should be possible to devise wage and price control legislation usirrg somewhat the same principle, and apply it to industries in which wage and price increases have taken place more on the basis of ability to exert pressure than on the basis, of need. "One of man's truly great triumphs" has been completed, according to the head of the National Academy of taking note of something other than space exploration. What earned this praise was a non-report: In 1970, not a single case of smallpox was reported anywhere in the world.

Clipped Comment WHO'S FAULT (Greenville, S. Piedmont) A fellow in Xevada, the fleecing state, filed a complaint that he lost about $200 in disability money tring to prove that a slot machine malfunctioned by paying $7.50 rather than $10 for a jackpot. The judge in the case disposed of it with a truth that all too often is overlooked in the gaming field. He told the complainer that his losses were due to his playing rather than the machine's cheating. There are no losses in this business where there is no gambling in the first place.

O--Bread of Life By the Rev. A. Purncll Bailey. D. D.

Inventions and new discoveries do not ncccssarilv bring progress. The greater the power in a man's nand the more he nccis ethical control. History has taught us that there is little ethical control until one has given himself to a living religion. Some years ago a professor in one of our state universities put it this xvay: "I have cornc to three conclusions. The first is Uwrt salvation is not to be found science; secondly, s-e must have a moral revival- and thirdly, we can have no moral revival without a living religion." Our doom or salvation, then, lies in men and women who have been transformed bv the powe rof God, and want to transmit what they have found to the lives of others.

Not a religion of form, but one of power which reaches out to all in need! I have longed for thy salvation. Lord. (F.salm Afternoon In North Caroling General Assembly Gives Mayors, Councilmen Extra 6-Month Term By BRYAN HAISLDP RALEIGH Mayors and councilmen of most Carolina municipalities got an extra six months in office as a bonus from the 1971 General Assembly. Citizens of cities and towns got a i registration system to make them eligible to vote in all elections, ending the old, awkward procedure of double registration. The state got a unified election process, applicable at all with the promise of an unbiased forum and clear-cut appeal rcute for settlement of voting disputes.

It all came in the package of a new municipal i statute, recommended by the Local Government Study Commission and sponsored by the North Carolina League Municipalities. The law. one of landmarks of the session, will provide a sound philosophy and workable machinery for the conduct of elections in cities and towns. "It will greatly enhance the image of al'l municipal elections." said S. Leigh Wilson, executive director of the League of Municipalities.

SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD Executive Secretary A Brock of the State Board of Elections called it the most significant single piece of legislation affecting elections passed by the a Assembly. "We will be able to give more coordination to local, state and national elections," explained. "I hope this will mean we can assist in raising the level of participation substantially." In many of the 4 2 6 municipalities of the a Brock observed, officials often are chosen by less than one- third of the registered voters. One result of the new law he'd like to see is a marked rise in that percentage of voter turnout. What will be most obvious to the average citizen is the change in the time to go to the polls.

In the past, municipal elections have been held in the spring. The general 1 a specified Tuesday after the first Monday in May in odd-numbered years. Two dozen or so cities, under their charters, had different dates all the way up to July. UNIFORM FALL ELECTIONS Now. all elections will fall in November.

a i a municipal elections fas most are) will be held the second 7 a a in odd-numbered years. Partisan municipal elections will coincide with ether local, state and national elections in even-numbered years. Partisan municipal elections are the rule in Asheboro, Asheville, Albemarle, Concord, Gastonia, High Point. Kinston, i 1 nton, Rutherfcrdton. Spencer, and Winston-Salem.

Lengthened terms for incumbents oomr about because oi the change in voting date. Moving from May to November will add six months. There are exceptions in some cities due to staggered terms, but in these cases, too, incumbents will serve the full term to which they were elected. "No one will have his tenn in office shortened as a result of the law," Wilson emphasized. As a matter of principle, the major accomplishment of the law is to end the practice for municipal governing a serving as judge for the conduct of their own election.

There is no history of abuse, but the potential is obvious, Wilson said. CONFLICT POTENTIAL REMOVED "We will now remove any vestige of conflict from the municipal election process," he added. Uniform procedures and a clear route of appeal will work to assure fair play for all candidates, and go a long way to give citizen's confidence in the election machinery, Cities have the choice of working out an agreement to come under county boards of elections or setting up their own. In either case, municipal voting will be integrated into a unified state system leading up to the state board of elections. For those cities with partisan elections, it is mandatory that they come under the county boards.

More work is the prospect for Brock and his staff. "It's quite an administrative feat," he a Full implementation will accomplished by 1973, the first year municipal elections under-the act. In the past, municipal officials with questions of laws covering their elections had access to Brock's expertise only on the basis of courtesy. They went to the Attorney General a a Municipalities instead. "Frankly, it about worked us to death," Wilson said.

Out of it all win come a single set of registration books, a boon for busy citizens. That alone, Brock suggested, should make it easier to get them to exercise the basic democratic privilege of voting. CHECKING UP By L. M. BOYD TO EXERCISE reasonable judgment in the selection of a husband, a single girl requires six years' experience in dating boyfriends.

If she starts dating at age 14, she should be able to pick out the right fellow by age 20. If she starts at 16, she should postpone her wedding decision until 22. Six years of romantic apprenticeship, that's what's needed to be a journeyman wife. He insists his studies of happy marriages prove it. ARGUMENT COXTIMJES as to whether an ambidextrous baseball pitcher is allowed to throw first with one hand and then the other to the same batter.

Checked this out with sports authorities. They said no rule prevents it. But the situation never arises because no pitcher can do it, they contend. That's wrong. Doesn't happen much.

But that famous fellow Paul Richards, now of Atlanta, pitched numerous games with both arms in his Waxahachie school days. COWS PREFER a familiar touch. They don't cotton much to strange har.ds. That's why the smart dairyman pays high wages to keep a good str- ingmilker. An oldtimer familiar with a happy herd can get half again as much milk as a new barn hand.

Or so a fanner of lengthy experience tells me. CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. "Are hippos bora on land or und a A. Underwater Q. "Which is the more apt to commit suicide, the man who kills his wife or the wife who kills husband?" A.

The man who kills i wife. a so Q. "What proportion of the people in this world eat with chopsticks?" A. About a third Q. "How many men did General Sherman lose during his march to the sea?" A Exactly 103 dead, 428 wounded, 278 missing Q.

"What's the densest thing on earth?" A. Not counting bill collectors, it's" something called i which is 22 times denser than water. NOW YOU CAN take out an insurance policy against rainy weather during your vacation Say you're going on a four-day trip. If it rams one day, you collect nothing, if it rains two days, you collect for one day- three days, collect for two days: four days, for three days. A daily premium of $4 will get you SICO-a-day reimbursement it the drizzle exceeds .01 of an inch between 10 a.

m. and 4 m. in accordance with the foregoing fine point. Mother of this maneuver, I'm told, is the American Home I a Company. Remember that, next time you choose to visit Mt.

Waialeale in Hawaii. Annuai average rainfall there runs 471.3 inches. QUERIES: Can you confirm the Chase Manhattan Bank's contention that the average housewife works 99.6 hours per week? EVER NOTICE you can tear a newspaper down the page fairly evenly, but it's pritnear impossible to tear it evenly a TRUTH to the claim that 'people who keep pets are not as prone as average to mental illness? Your questions and comments are welcomed and will be used in Checking Up wherever possible. Please address your letters in care of this newspaper. Washington Merry-Go-Rouhd Hughes Tried To Back Both Nixon, Humphrey By JACK ANDERSON LAS VEGAS The private papers of phantom billionaire Howard Hughes reveal how ht attempted to manipulate both presidential candidates in 1988.

Although the papers are still under court seal in Nevada, we have had access to them. Here are the highlights: Hughes directed his former factotum, Robert Maheu, to help Richard Nixon win the i "under our sponsorship and supervision." Maheu allegedly siphoned off $100,000 from the Silver Slipper, a Hughes gambling emporium, for xon's campaign. money was delivered Richard Danner, a Hughes exec, to Bebe Rebozo, a Nixon confidante. At the same time, Hughes suggested Maheu should "get word to (Hubert Humphrey) on a basis of secrecy that is really, really reliable that we will give him immediately full, unlimited support for his campaign to enter the White House." An immediate 5 0 0 0 0 contribution was supposed to have been made. Although heard Maheu had contributed to his campaign, there's no record the $50,000 was ever received.

Hughe's lieutenants also Offered to subsidize a O'Brien so he could serve without pay as Democratic National Chairman during the a a i acknowledges the offer was made, and O'Brien confirms he was sounded out by Maheu in 1958. But both ins'ist O'Brien never drew a dime from the Hughes interests during the campaign. Several later, however, he was retained by Hughes for a "substantial sum." Humphrey's son, Robert, was also employed by a Hughes company as a sales representative. MONEY ON NIXON startling strategy was to help elect Nixon as President in 1968, then to groom Nevada's articulate and attractive Gov. Paul Laxalt for the White House.

The fabulously rich recluse saw a Kennedy-like quality in Laxalt, who gave up the governorship this year. On March 14, 1968, Hughes in- Maheu: "I want you to go to see Nixon as my special confidential emissary. I feel there is a really valid possibility of a Republican victory this year. "If that could be realized under our sponsorship a supervision every inch of the way, then we would be ready to follow with L-axalt as our next candidate." Hughes used his gambling profits from the Silver Slipper to make political contributions. He owned the casino as a personal holding, therefore the money didn't pass through his corporate books.

We have evidence that Silver Slipper money was slipped to a number of Nevada and national politicians. In 1968, Maheu turned over $100,000 from the Silver Slipper to Danner, who delivered it to Nixon's close crony, Bebe Rebozo. The participants won't talk about the transaction. Responded Maheu tersely: "I have made it a matter of policy never to discuss political contributions on behalf of any client unless I have specific authorization in writing. In this case, I doubt whether the a i a i would be forthcoming." Danner, who now runs the Sands hotel-casino for Hughes, refused to comment.

A Rebozo wouldn't take our calls. While Hughes was supporting Richard Nixon, he also'courted Hubert The secretive billionaire hoped to use Humphrey, then Vice President, to stop nuclear testing in Nevada. "Bob," instructed Maheu, "there is one man who can accomplish our objective through (Lyndon) Johnson -and that man is H. H. H.

"Why don't we get word to him on a basis of secrecy that is really, really reliable that we will give him immediately full, unlimited support for his campaign to enter the White House if he will just take this one on for us?" HUMPHREY HELPS HUGHES The billionaire's secret, hand- scrawled instructions indicate Humphrey's help had secured. Hughes sought "an order from LBJ inspired by Humphries" to halt all Nevada testing or, at least, a 90-day delay to give him more time to prepare a case against the tests. "I completely." Hughes wrote Maheu on April 16. 1968, "with telling the V. P.

that he is free to tell the people in Washington if they don't grant the 90-day delay, I am going to the i immediately." He threatened to make public scientific opinions that the tests may have triggered an earthquake. "Bob," Hughes added, "I leave this whole campaign in your hands. I am sure you should personally go to the UTiifce House after we have obtained the 9klay delay and endeavor to sell the President on a permanent policy. I am sure H.H.H. would be glad to go with you and to set up the appointment." Maheu suggested a personal message from Hughes to the President would be more effective.

Replied Hughes on April 24: "You know I am perfectly willing to write a short personal message to Johnson, which we could ask Humphries to deliver hand deliver to Johnson. "Or if we feel it Would be more prudent, I could ask to deliver it. In that way, it need not interfere with anythin" Humphries has going "I feel we must start a negotiation with the A. E. C.

just as if we were negotiating a business deal, i think we can go through Humpliries." Humphrey, whose last name the billionaire could never get straight, acknowledged to us that he had opposed the Nevada tests. But he had taken this position, he said, before the approach from the Hughes people. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK CAP) Some things we'd like to see: A historical novel with a picture of a horse's bosom on the cover. A politician who never promised anything he couldn't deliver. An author who thought his publisher had spent enough money to advertise his book.

A surgeon who left a sponge inside a patient and then had the savoir faire to add the cost 'of the lost sponge to his bill. A bus driver who could smile A pair of sox, a razor blade and a light bulb that would wear, shave and burn throughout the buyer's lifetime. A 50-cent cup of restaurant coffee that tasted better than two cups of yesteryear's nickel coffee. Silent television become an art form equal to silent movies in their heyday. A national political platform- for 1972 that all parties could stand on together.

A telephone that would blab while you went through the cer- on anyone who tried to bug it. emOnv Of navintf fnr fi'Ho Vnr A emony of paying for the ride by dropping pennies one by one into the fare box, counting them aloud while you did so and the other passengers joined in the chant. The Indians sued for fraud on the grounds they misrepresented the value of Manhattan Island when the sold it to Dutch settlers for $24 and a keg of whisky. A rich dog who left all his money to the family cat-- and never bothered at all to mention his master in his will Two bald men a half' mile apart on a crowded beach exchange messages by light reflections sent in Morse code from their sunlit pates. The Statue of Liberty wearing a miniskirt on a breezy day.

A motor car with its exhaust pipe striking out the radiator-so the driver would have the privilege of smelling its fumes first. A revision of the English laiv guage so that its words would unmistakably mean what they say and say unmistakably what they mean. A law that would forbid dentists to tell Milton Berle's old while drilling on chairbound patients. Calories that would self-destruct and become weightless after being eaten. A 10-minute conversation between two hippies during which neither addressed the other as "man" nor employed the phrase "you know." An automatic vending machine that at least said "thank you" when it retained your coin but refused to yield you its product.

lr Sex become a personal "pleas- ure rather than a public nuis- cane. The light at the end of the tunnel. The Second Coming you you know WHo. Pollution-Conscious Firms Show Profits Up By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) Those who believe that pollution control must be paid for cut of lower corporate profits and higher consumer prices may find their thinking changed a bit by results of a study that is still continuing. The preliminary conclusion, a decided surprise even to its authors, is that companies ranked high in concern for the environment need not be less profitable and may in fact be financially stronger because of their concern.

"It was a conclusion I hadn't expected," said John Martin, an assistant professor of fi- that the outlook for pollution control may not be as bleak as once thought. From the corporate point of view, he says, the emphasis has been on costs rather than benefits. And what are the benefits? The most likely fallout of a good environmental record may be in lower operating costs in areas such as labor, health-insurance, maintenance, local taxes, legal fees, fines. Another possibility is that' "clean' companies may lower costs in raising capital pecause a favorable corporate image may command slightly higher stock prices and lower borrowing costs. And cot to be overlooked is VI ii-- VWi IVlMiCQ l3t nance and economics at Baruch 8 Possibility that buyers may College here and a self-de- dir ct tf 1 1 purchases to those in the scribed believer in the free, competitive marketplace.

"I'm excited," he said. Martin's studies show that the most successful companies in the pulp and paper industry are the very ones ranked highest in protecting the air and water environment in which they operate. That ranking was made in a highly detailed report released several months ago by the Council on Economic Priorities, a Washington-based, nonprofit group that studies corporate behavior in areas of social concern. Joseph H. Bragdoa an executive with H.C.

Wainwright a Boston securities firm, read the report and noted the correlation of profitability and high environmental ranking. He related his tentative findings to Marlin, a friend, who is now in the midst of completing the report, to be presented Oct. 8 before the annual meeting of the Financial Management Association in Denver. "Pending further research," said Martin, "the case appears conclusive. "We may modify and qualify the findings," he said, "but it is unlikely that we'll change the basic conclusions." One result, he believes, is companies with the best record in pollution control.

Martin that this benefit may as-' sume larger proportions in future. Library Group Attends Meet In California Mrs. Edith Sawyer, Robesoa i a supervisor and Mrs. Helen Williams, librarian at Robeson curriculum library are attending a two. week institute on ecology an tte environment at California State College, Long Beach, Calif.

They have joined media specialists from many states and will be sharing ideas on multi-media selection and production of i i a materials for libraries minute hand on the Em- State Building clock weighs a ton, is 17 feet long, and moves 1440 feet per day. HELP LINE 738-5261 Lonely, Worried. Cat! For Someone To Talk To Frl-Sat, iii 2 Via..