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Vo. t. J. HOOtt Nobel Peace Prize Award A Joke? Do you recall who the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 was? If it does not come to you at once, we can tell you a Dr. Henrv Kissinger and Le Due Tho of North i a were a as co winners of the award because of their supposed work toward bringing peace to Southeast Asia.

In the light of what has happened since, we would say that Le Due Tho a i a a something of a cruel joke out of the Nobel Prize selection, or at least that portion of it which went to him. Dr. Kissinger is, and has been a long while, seeking to bring peace to the Middle East just as avidly as he sought it for the a i i emerged from the old French Indo China. But what has happened to Le Due Tho? Off hand, we have heard little or nothing about the always smiling Le Due Tho since the' end of the Paris sessions. But one thing-is certain, he and his colleagues from Hanoi have done nothing whatever a completing a peaceful arrangement in the Southeast Asia region.

Rather, they have infiltrated additional troops in the tens of thousands along with tanks and other weaponry to continue their inteminable effort to seize the entire area. They have kept the war going in South Vietnam long after the departure of our forces, which was once what they claimed was all that was necessary to bring about peace rf The only peace they know or want is that of complete and total tryanny of Hanoi over all! End Of Fair Trade When the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee opened hearings recently legislation to repeal so called a i trade a subcommittee Phillip Hart said he had been unable to find anyone willing to a i 36 states still have 1 laws, allowing manufacturers enter into agreements with retail to set minimum prices their products, and 14 of those a a a i to dictate retail prices regardless of whether the retailer agrees. Despite the Senate subcommittee's experience, supporters of fair trade laws do exist. The most persuassive of them argue that manufacturers price maintenance is a legitimate means of compensating retailers for extra sales efforts. But the terms "price maintenance" and a i a a phemisms for price fixing, a.prac- tice that is otherwise illegal under federal antitrust laws.

It is legal in fair trade situations only because of the exemption provided by the two laws Congress is now preparing to repeal. The discrepancy between dwindling support for fair, trade laws and their prevalence in more than 70 per cent of the states can be explained a a of a i indifference and a lingering Depression mentality. The fair trade idea was born in the 1930s ostensibly to protect small retailers by assuring them of a profit margin that the big retailer's could not undercut. But there is no evidence of a higher percentage of failures of small retailers in states without fair trade laws. And Senator Edward Brooke cited studies by some, economists showing the failure rate among small retailers was actually higher in states with a i a laws.

Moreover, those laws are thought to have hurt small retailers by spawning private label merchandise. But fair trade's days are apparently numbered. In recent weeks any number of government officials, from President Ford on down, have called for their repeal. Most opponents agree with FTC Cahirman Lewis Engman that they are "little more than anticompetitive price fixing, unadorned with any redeeming features." We tend to agree, though as usual the market place is several steps ahead of the politicians. The commercial value of products sold under a i trade is estimated to have dropped from a high of 10 per cent of retail sales 15 years ago to 4 per cent or less today.

Even at that, though, estimates of how much this costs consumers range as high as $3 billion annually. Actually, i i wage laws and some regulatory agency edicts are a'lot more harmful to the consumer than are fair trade laws. Yet there doesn't appear to be much likelihood of repealing them any i soon, since i a effects generally a i hidden behind trie smoke screen thrown up a i a a I legislative allies. So it's probably a a anachronistic laws it's possible to get rid of at any i i meanwhile awaiting that econotnic englightenment, necessary for the repeal of laws that are even worse. The Wall Street Journal Top 0' The Morning- Books, BaysAsked Of Local Firm By EM1LE J.

HODEL It has been some time now since we received one. but for a long while some years ago we were regularly gelling partially literate letters from West Africa mainly Nigeria aimed at our letters column. The Nigerians or others were always "interested in getting pen pals" or something of that sort with whom they could exchange not only letters, but pictures and gifts and such. We used the first few of them which arrived, but then there was a flood of them all the time, it seemed. We could only assume that the few we used got good enough results that the word and our address spread widely.

In any case, it gol to be firs't a nuisance and then an impossibility for us to carry them. Thus, we quit carrying them at all. As a result, they dropped off almost completely. Rarely do we receive such a letter now -0- However. that does not slop the practice or its attempt.

Wilbur Bays who operates the Bays Buick automobile dealership here received a similar letter sometime within the last lew weeks and sent it to us. The letter is almost indecipherable, but it is clearly of the same sort. They all come on very thin, blue paper folded so that the message is on the inside and the outside is an air mail envelope. Thus the weight is almost negligible and the air postage low. This latest such epistle is addressed to "Bays Buick.

Inc." at the correct address except that it is "West Virginia" and then the telephone number of the firm is included where there would normally a so called zip code number. -fl- it is difficult to make everything out. but it appears that the senders are Ewwa Amevor and Harry Selby at a postal box in a region of a a i a a indecipherable scrawls but the printed return address is rather legible. The message is mostly legible and reads approximately like this: "I am so glad, that I am writing to you my dear friends today. "And it was a bless day, when I get whole of you address.

"I have had that, you company is one of the best company (in open road's company). "So I am begging you to send me. some of your best books and your beautiful bays. "Please we are' two people ording this things so you must send us three each (sic). "Even we wanted to post our photo to you but we would do it.

"My good friends you must sent me your photo to us. Awaining for "you. "I stop here with greetings to you all." The complimentary close is "Yours helper" ahead of the illegible signatures. -0- All of these letters we have seen before are pretty much begging letters, wanting Americans to send they offer hand crafted items in return. But none of them has ever been quite so nearly illiterate and funny as the one Bays Buick received.

It is odd that they asked only for "some of your best books and your beautiful bays" instead of a Buiek. Of course, there is also something pitiful and sad about it. The world is in many ways a a i inhabitants and we Americans are generally extremely fortunate! Collector's Item? Andrew Tally-Postal 'Workers' Demand Moon For Poorer Service WASHINGTON In a country (hat is becoming over populated with rabbits posing as public servants. Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar's response to a question asked him by the magazine, U.S. News unit World Report, was right in the old permissive groove.

Bailar was asked how the Postal Service would deal with a strike of postal workers' unions if they rejected a new contract this spring. This was his reply: have some contingency plans. Five years ago, the National Guard was brought i the picture. We probably would embargo non essential mail. There are a number of thing? we could do.

But I'm not predicting a strike and if it came I don't think it would last long or be pervasive." ALTHOUGH a postal strike is against the law. and. as Bailar Yesterday And Today-Revolution Veteran Has Descendant Here By SHIRLEY DONNELLY After wondering about the iden- i a a a Revolutionary War veteran who is buried in an isolated cemetery in Wyoming County. R. G.

Stewart of 108 a Ave. Beckley. filled me in on the subject. a Avenue resident is the great great great grandson of a a i a whose was pictured at the head of this column some time ago A A a a fomous Indian scout of the Indian wars period on the frontier. He was the son of a Stewart, a native of Augusta County.

Va. In September 1752. James Stewart was captured by Indians and burned at the stake in Shenandoah Valley. James Stewart's son of the ill fated pioneer witnessed the fiery death of his fahter. After the destruction by fire of James Stewart the dead man's son was taken away into captivity by the Indians.

"Some time later the lad escaped his captors. James Stewart was born in England but came to his death in Rockbridge County. THE MAN who was burned at the slake by the Indians, married Anne O'Lafferty of Dublin. Ireland. They were wed in the Emerald Isle.

After the untimely death of her a A a i Thomas Armstrong of Augusta County. Va. I A War line officer Ralph Stewart got his baptism of fire at the Battle of Point a a i Revolution, on Monday. Oct. 10, 1774.

Other Revolutionary War skirmished and battles in which he participated were Guilford Court a i i a i a Charlottesville. fighting in the regiment of Col. Robert McClung: in South Carolina in the command a a a Yorktown with General George Washington when Cornwallis surrendered. As an Indian scout. Stewart's mission was to roam their trails a a I i a movements on the frontier and to warn the inhabitants of possible forays by the Indians against white settlements.

SINCE THE Virginia colony was unable to pay her scouts and Jack Anderson- CIA. 'Secrets' Exposed Speedy Recovery Wished With the end of winter surely not too far away, there are all sorts of colds and influenza all around, it seems. Even worse, we had a shock our a brief weekend trip when we heard that i A foreman for the Poslllerald had suffered a serious heart attack. Jennings is quite young to be so incapacitated, probably still in his mid forties, we imagine. We certainly wish him well and a quick recovery.

Meanwhile, top of the morning to vou; "Baseball teams go south every spring to cripple their players. In the old days, they only stayed a couple of weeks and they couldn't get many of them hurt in that time, but now, they go south as soon as the season is over and start training for the following season. "Most all the men are in good shape when they go down there. But they stay till they get 'em hurt, even if it takes all spring." April 26, 1925. X) MUM by Brvxi Stor- Al rMiti rtwrwd Mr DM WM WASHINGTON CIA officials, whose lips have been sealed for two decades, are no beginning to talk about the clandestine operations of the cold war.

They have told us deadly erim tales of terrible tor- ture. violent death.I low treachery, and! high In the 1950's dozens of CIA i i a were! slipped "behind the! Iron Curtain. Rare-1 Iy did anyone makef it back alive. Invariably, theyi were caught and executed. But first, they were subjected to the most skillful torture the human mind has devised.

Only after they were more dead than alive, the last fragment of information extracted from them, were they allowed to die. our sources report. WE GOT the first inkling of this from former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, who once headed the civilian advisory board which watches over the CIA. He told us a undercover men had been caught and subjected to cruel torture. He praised these unsung heroes whose deeds, he said-, surpass the most valorous in our history.

From other sources, we have now learned more about these daring i i a some of them aliens, others Americans of East European ancestry. Some were parachuted behind the Iron Curtain: others slipped ashore from boats: some simply sneaked across the Iranian border on foot. One agent, known inside the CIA as "Tough Andy." lasted for two years, keeping one step ahead of the KGB. But the pilot who was supposed to pick him up at a secret landing strip "got chicken" at the last i recalled a source. This was the last that was heard of Tough Andy.

IN THE mid 1950's President Eisenhower became discouraged over the loss of life and disbanded the i i a i program. But not long afterwards, the missions were revived under the code names "Already" for the Soviet Union and "Okwhipper" for the Soviet bloc. Using the A as a cover, the KIA scoured military records to find servicemen and veterans who could speak Russian and other East European tongues. Those who could be recruited were given "hot a i i in i i a i and espionage. In addition to language experts, the keeps files on other contract workers i a professions.

If belly dancer or crop duster should be needed for a special assignment, I he CIA can usually find a trusted operative on its lists. a a locksmith's name, provided to the Watergate break in team by the CIA. must have come from these lists. TWO KEY files are used by the CIA. One is the enormous "RI" (Records Integration) i in i i i of a are meticulously corss indexed.

Almost every name the CIA has ever across, innocent or suspicious, can be found in the "RI." A more refined file, once called the "Staff index and more recently the "Green List," contains the names picked up from intercepted phone calls, opened a i wiretaps, and other surveillance activities. In sworn testimony. CIA chief William Colby has said these files are vital to intelligence work, but he agreed some material obviously gets into the files by "mistake." There are light moments at the a somber CIA complex at Langley, Va. A high CIA i i a was in charge of a project so secret Jhat its code a "Ladle." was known to only a few select agents. When the official was transferred, his employes threw a party for him and presented him with a silver soup ladle as a going a a present.

FOOTNOTES: The Argentine purchased World a I I destroyers, the Collett and a sfield, from the U.S. last year for the spare parts. The Collett turned out to be in better shape, however, than many ships in the Argentine fleet. Now Argentine officials are asking permission from the S. to' induct the Collett into their fleet and to dismantle one of their own ships for spare a i Dan a new book.

"The Race for Rome." reopens controversy over whether Pope Pius XII was' soft on the Nazis. Kurzman's findings- The Pope did little to keep Roman Jews from the Nazi gas ovens. Those who were saved can a lower level Catholics, I a i a off i i a a a i a a a i i a government report on shah; oil. which could solve the a i energy needs, warns a production of the rock bound fuel holds "hazard potentials for bodily injury and for illness and premature group of angry, older A officers from around the world are planning to sue the A for ils "accent on They contend a federal rules require ho based on a i i (ind age. The A i i a i iifit 1 dl.s- 'crlmlnalion.

Revolutionary soldiers in money, they were-awarded land grants. Tendered to Captain Stewart were tracts in Kentucky, then part of Virginia. His first wife was Mary Elliot Stewart. She died in 1786. Stewarl was first tendered a i i a commissioner in the Virginia militia by Lord Earl Dunsmore.

the last royal governor of Virginia. The last a commission given him was signed by Patrick Henry, then governor of Virginia GEORGE PETER STEWART (Dec. 17. 1749 Nov. 18.

1835) was the son of Ralph Stewart. He was born in Augusta County and died in Logan County. The second wife of G.P. Stewart was Mary Obedience Clay, whose a was the' first settler in Mercer County. He settled near Shawriee Lake in Mercer.

Indians massacred a number of members of his family. a a a Odedience Clay were married by the Rev. Edward Morgan on June 25. 1788. she was born in Mercer in 1772 and also died in Logan County.

A SON OF Stewart was Andrew Stewart (June 9. 1810-Oct. 11. 1864). who was born and died at Oceana.

He married Margaret (Peggy) Cooke (March 12. 1811 Oct. 12. 1884). who also was born and died at Oceana.

Ralph Stewart, (May 24, 1845 Oct. 9. 1903). son of A Stewart was born in Wyoming and died in Raleigh County. Raieph Stewart (Rafe) (May 1.

1946) died in Beckley. This latter Ralph Stewart's son is Robert G. Stewart of Walker Avenue. "Rafe" is a Scotish spelling for "Ralph." "Rafe" Stewart's wife was Vergie Lee Stewart (April 18. 1880 Sept.

25, 1957). who died in Beckley. They were wed at Rock View in Wyoming County. Oct. 20 1898.

added, redundantly, "against the our a i a a agreements with the unions," (he postal boss uttered not a syllable even suggesting that the unions and I ho striking workers would be prosecuted Well, baby, a nationwide postal strike is a definite threat. Just ask any union official. Postal workers are demanding fat raises on top of fat salaries, plus an almost endless litany of such expensive benefits as free incdicul care, free dental care. a more holidays and for all I know free hair styling. Yet Hie ueeraoe postal pay, including fringe benefits, has risen from $10.300 in 1971 to $13,695 in 1974.

The a a i i a worker makes S3.106 per year, according to Commerce Department figures. MOREOVER, postal workers have a no layoff provision in their contract with government -meaning us working stiffs. I am not sure laid off auto workers can muster up enough i altruistically over that gimmick they have helped bestow on their presumed pals in the Postal Service. At the same time, the reason postal rates are the highest in jiistory and probably will go higher is that labor and what Bailar calls "wage related items" account for 85 per cent of the service's total cost. DON'T THINK for a minute that the unions are interested in-new efficiencies that would reduce these COSES.

They are up in arms, talking about work stoppages and slowdowns, over the so called Kokomo pton. The Postal Service launched this plan in Kokomo. and through series of tests found that the number of mail carriers in one station could be reduced from 25 to 23. That of course is what sent the union bosses into a frenzy. The Letter Carriers Union estimated a a eliminate 15.000 jobs nationally, at a saving of some S225 million a year.

Some say the savings would be even more. In justice to Bailar. he is going ahead with the plan in Portland. and will test other cities. He told U.S.

News: "We're spending public funds, and we've got an obligation to handle the mail as efficiently as we can." A A a a a i Despite higher pay and the tender loving care lavished on postal, employes, mail service in the U.S. is still a sick joke. Bailar comes up with a laughter when he says "by our system of measuring it, the service is as good now as it has been at any time in the last six years." In other words, lousy. So. naturally, it will cost more to use the mails if Bailar has his way.

He proposes to raise the price of a 10 cent first class letter stamp from 10 cents to 12 or 13 cents. Rates on other classes of mail probably will be raised accordingly roughly 20 to 30 per cent. Anyone for carrier pigeons? Our Readers Speak-Monroe Board Member Opposed As we approach the time to go to the elementary schools- guidance the polls to cast our votes for or counselors in junior and senior a a i the i high school: and lower classroom Educational Facilities Plan in student teacher ratios I find Monroe County are being bom- that teachers are going to have i i eye a a i to be spread awfully thin to cover ,1 ng -l, not thcsc areas We have "'t TM against the little children. I would touched on all the new courses to be urge you to remember that the offered at the high school and issue at hand is not whether you where these specialized teachers are for or against children but will come from rather for a particular plan. A vote Incomes are limited in the coun- no is not a vote against children ty and we must stay within an it is a vote against this particular economically realistic budget This a a to i i the is all the more reason to spend on? educational system.

A vote no is a money carefully and wiseTM Our a more first priority should be moderniz- needs of ing expanding our existing facilities which we must use for vote a i a i i a Monroe County. I have some very grave doubts about this plan. Any comprehensive building program must start i the academic program. No details have been given on improved a i of education: onlv another 20 years at least. Our second i i development of a sound vocational program which will meet the needs of our students.

There arc various xlucation: only vague ways this can be done bv using in' references to improved curriculum novative scheduling and mofilHv and better utilization of existing of a and 1' numerous course equipment, implementing all this offerings and juggling of faculty with i work experiences figures dots not reassure me. Due in different areas of trainin ast I promises I am very leery about present vague promises of what TM'1" to point ouMhat a new building does not necessarily mean a modern ucation a mean a ucation will happen in a new building. Go- have to vote no to thfs Ian' whTch ing over figures in the comprehen- does not offer anv a a other sive facilities booklet I find that the a a new bu I dint" present professional a now numbers The proposed a a for the now plan would be 123 an increase of When I look over a we are promised -media teachers at all schools- art and physical education in new building. 0 member Education Sweet Water Farm Union a a Board of the small society by Brickman.