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0738-51 37 ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA PRICE 25' rm II EL '7" Cigarette tax back at eight-cent level Rep. Jim Broyhill, said he hoped the bill containing the tobacco section could be revived later if not enacted before Congress adjourns. But he said tobacco strategists probably "are going to have to attach it to something else." Broyhill and Rep. Charlie Whitley, voted for changes inthe bill that were likely to draw a Senate refusal and a deadlock. Reps.

Charlie Rose, and Walter Jones, voted to keep th Senate-passed version of the bill which President Reagan has indicated he will veto because of some of its tax provisions. gress is trying to replace. Block has until Dec. 31 to make the announcement. The law also requires farmers to vote, within 30 days of the quota announcement, in a referendum on whether to keep the tobacco program in effect for three more years.

Tobacco-state legislators have hoped to have the new law in place before the referendum. The new program would dramatically roll back price supports and give cigarette makers new say in setting quotas. It would also start a sale to manufacturers of some 800 million pounds of flue-cured surpluses. School merger Cooper backs plan WINNER'S CIRCLE son after the Goldsboro ly are preparing to celebrate Brandon Daniels, 4, poses youngster underwent liver their happiest Christmas with his race car which was transplant surgery in Oc- ever. (AP Laserphoto) given by an anonymous per- tober.

Brandon and his fa mi- Happiest Christmas for youth that child whose liver made Brandon's celebration possible. "We do not know who the donor is," Mrs. Daniels said. "The doctor would only tell us that Brandon received a very special liver. "I think about them (the donor's parents) often," she said.

"I wish they knew about Brandon and what their child's liver has done for us. They were able to give us the most wonderful gift we could get Brandon's life." become organ donors. "This is the gift-giving season," Mrs. Daniels said. "There are children who will need an eye, a liver, a kidney or some otlici organ.

What happens if there is not one available? "What better time to give the gift of life than at Christmas?" she asked. But Mrs. Daniels said she knows how easy it is to be unaware of donor programs. "I never thought about being a donor until Brandon got sick. I did not realize the importance of doing this.

It scares me now to think that there might not have been a liver for Brandon," she said. Brandon's illness has resulted in another kind of awareness during this joyous season, Mrs. Daniels said. "Children and relationships are so important," she said. "When we think about the unselfish act the parents of the donor child performed, we feel so fortunate.

We do not take each other for granted. "The support we have received from friends and from people we don't know, but who cared, is hard to comprehend. That's what makes this Christmas so special." Roy "Coop" Cooper III, candidate for the State House of Representatives, today reaffirmed his position on the school merger issue. Cooper said he reaffirmed "the position I have taken since the day I announced my candidacy that I support a merger whioh will result in two quality county school systems. "Most of the people in Nash County realize that a merger at the county line is the only realistic solution," he said.

Cooper's statement was in response to Rep. Allen Barbee's announcement Thursday thaf Barbee favored a county line merger. "Iam glad Barbee came around to Kennedy BOSTON (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's disavowal of a race for the White House in 1988 showed "political class" and portended a hot contest among the new generation of Democratic presidential contenders, politicians said.

"I know that this decision means that I may never be president, but the pursuit of the presidency is not my life. Public service is," Kennedy said in an unusual, paid political announcement televised Thursday evening in his home state of Massachusetts. His announcement led House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. to predict "a wide-open scramble" for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Kennedy spokesman Eddie Martin said the senator was at the family's home in Hyannis Port and would not comment until a news conference in Boston today. It was the second time in three years that Kennedy, 53, has withdrawn from a presidential race. In 1982, he called a news conference in Washington to say that, although he wanted to be president, his "overriding obligation" was to his three children. This time, Kennedy chose the unusual format of a videotaped political announcement to say he felt his place was in the Senate, where he Consumer WASHINGTON (AP) After the House and Senate failed to reach agreement, the 16-cent federal cigarette tax automatically reverted to 8 cents today, triggering automatic hikes in the tax levied in several states. The two houses worked into the early-morning hours today, but were unable to agree on legislation extending the cigarette tax for three months and other measures set to expire over the holidays.

Lawmakers were scheduled to return to work later in the day. Meanwhile, legislation to revamp the federal tobacco program cleared the Senate but stalled in the House Thursday night. In the House, Rep. Dale E. Kildee, sitting in the speaker's chair, declared the cigarette tax extension passed on a swift voice vote after brief discussion and no opposition.

But the Senate then passed a stripped-down version of the House measure, throwing out eight revenue provisions contained in the House version. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said the House bill did no more than extend features of current tax law until March 15. He said failure to enact the measure would be more expensive to the government than passing it "$500 million more expensive." Other provisions of the bill would havj extended a 25 percent tax credit on certain research spending by businesses, a credit for wages paid to the disadvantaged and disabled as well as an income exclusion of up to $5,000 a year for employer-paid educational assistance. The Senate Thursday night approved and sent to the House a $70 billion deficit-reduction bill that contained the tobacco provisions.

But the House rejected a compromise on the budget bill worked out hours earlier by House and Senate negotiators. A delay in congressional action on the tobacco legislation would prompt tobacco forces to regroup when Congress returns. The delay could cause more confu-sionhfr tobacco farmers as Agriculture Secretary John Block must announce a new 1986 flue-cured marketing quota under a law Con 11 couple, Stanley and Sara Trimnal. He fancies himself a hardbitten reporter, and doesn't even know if he believes in selfless sacrifice anymore, but he says this: Stan and Sara Trimnal are the greatest love story he knows. That story is in today's edition of The Telegram, on page 6.

my way of thinking on this issue," Cooper said. "Now we can get on with a positive, constructive campaign and talk about some other important issues facing the county and the state." Larry W. McAdams, Cooper's campaign chairman, said Barbee was "forced to react to the overwhelming positive response which Cooper's candidacy has received from the people in Nash County. "The school merger problem has been around for about 10 years and during that time, Barbee has neither taken a position or introduced any bills in the legislature to deal with the problem," McAdams said. won't run would run for re-election in three years.

"I have decided that the best way to advance the values that you and I share peace on earth, economic growth at home and compassion for all Americans is to be a United States senator and not a candidate for president of the United States," he said. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a close friend, said Kennedy told him his decision not to run was based on family concerns and worries that his candidacy would limit his effectiveness as a senator. "Number one, it's the family," Dodd said.

"Any time a Kennedy runs, there's a high level of passion. There's a certain amount of fear involved." Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962 for the seat once held by his brother, John F. Kennedy. As senior senator from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy lost the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980, but re-emerged as a strong contender after sitting out the 1984 race.

Kennedy, who had said earlier this year that his desire to be president was "the least well-kept secret of public life," said he felt he could be most effective by making his intentions clear as soon as possible. prices up reported today, retail prices have risen at an annual rate of only 3.6 percent so far in 1985. If that rate holds through December, it would be the slowest full-year pace since 1967, when consumer prices rose 3 percent. Retail prices rose 4 percent in 1984. Moreover, analysts cautioned against reading too much into the November spurt because it was attributed mostly to temporary factors driving up beef and gasoline prices.

Finish your shopping! GOLDSBORO (AP) Brandon Daniels is preparing to celebrate his happiest Christmas ever one few people thought lie would live to see. This Christmas his family rejoices with him as their thoughts turn also to a child they never knew. It was ip Focus a Burglary POLICE are investigating a burglary and have charged a man with carrying a concealed weapon, as well as possession of marijuana. These and other police items on ptge 7. Red Cross THE HOLIDAY season is often a critical one when it comes to Red Cross blood supplies.

Our local chapter is continuing its efforts to reach the level in 1985. Page 7. GARY COLEMAN'S return to the hospital for kidney problems will delay the shooting for "Different Strikes" in January. (AP Laserphoto) Still unbeaten NORTHERN NASH remained unbeaten Thursday night, coasting by Tarboro. Page 13.

Wolfpack wins N.C. STATE opened its ACC schedule with a victory over Wake Forest. Page 13. Reading index Classified 16-18 Local 7 Comics Crossword Editorial 15 Obituaries 2 15 School 5 4 Sports 13-14 15 TV, Bridge 10 16 Weather 3 8-9 Horoscope Legals Life The Telegram service desk is open 8 to 7 p.m. daily; 8 to 10 a.m.

Sundays. Please let us know if you don't get your paper by then. '-4 Three months ago, Brandon's life was slowly ebbing away as a cancerous tumor grew in his liver. Now, as the family looks forward to Christmas, sounds of rejoicing are heard throughout the home of Walter Ray and Sherrill Daniels. Their son underwent a successful liver transplant Oct.

10 at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics in Minneapolis. Without it. the doctors said, Brandon would not have lived to see Christmas, 1985. The operation came about three weeks after he celebrated his fourth birthday. Brandon has asked Santa for a High Rider truck for Christmas.

"One he can ride in," Mrs. Daniels said. His parents are asking for continued prayers for Brandon. They are also asking more people to Koop report is questioned By The Associated Press Tobacco officials are questioning the validity and intention of the surgeon general's report that says smokers have more accidents on the job, receive more disability payments and are absent more than non-smoking workers. "I don't quite understand it.

It seems like a vendetta. It appears to be a determined effort by someone in a high place in government to destroy an industry which is primarily in the South," North Carolina Department of Agriculture spokesman James F. Devine said Thursday. "He's performing brain surgery with a bush ax. That's the way it appears to me," said Devine, who said N.C.

Agriculture Secretary Jim Graham was out of the office and could not be reached for comment. The report, released Thursday by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, said people who smoke are 50 percent more likely to need health care than non-smokers and probably cost their employers $200 to $500 more each year. The report also said risks are lower for individual workers in places where smoking is controlled and exposure to smoke is reduced.workplace. "They won the Civil War and now they want to kick us around some more," Devine said.

"But this guy is relentless. "The thing that bothers me is the fright tactic. They're saying that smoking makes people trip and fall down, stick their head in the machinery. It sounds absurd," he said. "I keep hearing about all this statistical information about accidents in the workplace, all blamed on smokers, but it's hard for me to believe that smokers are more prone to have an accident in the workplace than nonsmokers," Devine said.

i TOM TIEDE Recalls Unusual Story By The Associated Press Sharply higher food and fuel costs sent consumer prices up 0.6 percent in November, the biggest jump in nearly two years, the government said today. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index had risen just 0.2 percent a' month from May to September before inching up 0.3 percent in October. In a separate report today the government said the U.S. economy grew a sluggish 2.4 percent in 198o, the weakest rate since the recession year of 1982. The Commerce Department said growth in the gross national product, the broadest measure of economic health, was down substantial y.from the revised 6.6 percent increase posted in 1984.

For the last three months of this year, the economy is growing at an estimated annual rate of 3.2 percent, according to an initial "flash" calculation released today. According to Labor Department figures, the last time retail prices rose at November's pace was January 1984. The last time they rose at a steeper rate was April 1983, when there was a 0.7 percent increase. But even with the advance Greatest love story i Columnist Tom Tiede still remembers his favorite story. One of them anyway.

He has traveled a million miles in the past 20 years, has written from 2,000 communities in 65 countries and has been in four wars. He has met kings and klutzes, but he's never repot ted on anything or anyone more unusual than a Gastoma, N.C, married 5 shopping days to Christmas rsx?.