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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1977 Code On Non-Conflict With the Carter code, the newly-formed administration goes on an ethical kick. It's worthwhile, in addition to competent performance, but not as a substitute for that. Such an inference can be drawn from the fact that the man Carter replaces had a clean record, established when he was nominated for vice- president, and a reputation for honesty and integrity. This did not keep Ford from being attacked politically, on other grounds. "Code of ethics" is a handy label for Carter's rules, but has more moralistic overtones than may have been intended.

The president-elect has taken steps to keep appointees from having conflicts of interest, by asking them to disclose their sources of private income and agree not to accept jobs in businesses or industries they deal with in public office. If this looks like a grandstand play, still the best time to put the requirements into effect is before the new team goes into action. Giving up the management of his peanut business is no more sacrifice than Carter made when he started campaigning for office, and he should be too busy as President to devote much time to that, anyway. The profits he can get along without, on a presidential salary, with an ex-president's salary to look forward to in the future. Still it can be hoped Carter's interest in the peanut business, to be placed in a trust, will remain available for him to regain when he leaves office.

His identification as a peanut farmer has been a down-to- earth political asset, worth preserving. The label, former peanut farmer, does not have quite the same popular appeal. -----Chemical 'Chaos' The public is not assured of full protection against danger from insecticides, according to a Senate staff report. The government's program for assuring safety from these chemicals was said to be in "a state of chaos." By way of explanation, it was pointed out that in the past 30 years about 50,000 new pesticides have come on the market. That attests to the durability of bugs.

However, the proliferation of products is due in part to the effectiveness of some of them. The most satisfactory killers often are least satisfactory from a safety standpoint, causing numerous substitute products to be developed. The report to the Senate would be more distressing if it showed the pesticide program had fallen short of an attainable goal. Actually, full protection is a near impossibility. If 50,000 chemicals were testified and classified, there still would be many times that many combinations of chemicals -one following another, or used on crops side by side -taking place outside the laboratories.

Nevertheless, the report shows the need for testing and control to the extent possible and consistent with the production of crops. The most immediate protection in the field as in the medicine cabinet is that of reading the labels on chemicals and taking care to use them only as directed. Clipped Comment The reason so many who mind their own business succeed is because they have so little competition. -Daisy Brown in The Wall Street Journal. This Afternoon In North Carolina Proposed Modified Open Market Liability Insurance Could Have Immediate Impact Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections in this country is to prove whether or not the polls are right? Rough Notes.

Our Daily Bread By THE REV. A. PURNELL BAILEY John Wesley once learned that one of his associates, Samuel Bradburn, was in straitened circumstances. He sent him this message: 'Dear Sammy, 'Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou Shalt be Yours affectionately, John Wesley." He then inserted a five-pound note in the letter and mailed it. The reply to this letter was prompt and to the point: "Rev.

and Dear Sir: I have often been struck with the beauty of this passage of Scripture quoted in your letter, but I must confess that I never saw such useful expository notes on it before. Your obedient and grateful servant, S. Bradburn." Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Rev. 2:10) ByBILLNOBLm RALEIGH To you, the buyer of auto insurance, a proposed modified open market plan developed by a legislative study committee for consideration in the 1977 General Assembly will have immediate impact on the pocketbook.

That impact may be up or down, however, depending on your particular driving circumstances. For the heart of the proposed modified open market scheme is the authority for your insurance agent and the company he writes for to tailor the cost of the policy to a particular driver. There would not be competition on coverage. The commissioner of insurance would review and approve all policies and forms for standard coverage to guarantee that the buyer would know how to compare items and cost from agent to agent. SHOPAROUND But you would be able to shop for the best price on the particular kind of policy you want.

Exposure to risk, says J. Ruffin Bailey, will be the key element in setting rates. "Your insurance agent will be able to make determinations based on his knowledge of his clients as to their coverage needs, their driving habits, and the potential risks," explains Bailey, lobbyist and counselor for the organization of insurance companies doing business in North Carolina. One big change will mean that the agent can set rates which are based on the age or sex or driving record of the prospective client. Previous efforts to eliminate age and sex discrimination are "all wrong, and this makes most people pay more for insurance," Bailey contends.

The proposed rating system prepared by the Legislative Committee on Fire and Casualty Insurance Rate Regulation, chaired by State Rep. J. Guy Revelle, D- Northampton, covers auto insurance and insurance for homeowners or businesses as to casualty loss. It does not involve health insurance and other special coverages. Most of the impact would be on automobile insurance, where the industry insists that the average rate is currently higher because they are required to write coverage for bad risks at artifically low rates and charge more overall to cover the loss.

The open market plan, says Bailey, will allow you to "shop around and get an insurance company that will give you the best buy--both in coverage and in price. BASED ON RISK "If you are a good risk, you will get a good rate the price will depend on where, when, how much, and how you drive." How can the insurance agent adjust rates to individual situations? There will be no written regulations; only experience and knowledge of the agent. If, for example, a young lady lives in Charlotte and drives downtown to work and back home each day in rush-hour traffic; owns an expensive sports car; and has some points on her driving record or a history of a wreck or two her insurance will cost a bundle. A middle-aged housewife who lives in the outskirts of a smalltown and drives to shop, church, and errands for the children would pay much less. A soldier at Ft.

Bragg would probably get hit hardest: his age, off-duty recreation, and the history of wrecks around that LM.BOYD base would make him a high risk. In sum, the driver who lives in an urban area and drives a lot has a greater exposure to possible loss; the elderly lady or farmer who only goes to town on Saturday has a correspondingly lower exposure to risk. "The agent must make the determinations on his clients based on his knowledge of their coverage needs, driving habits, and potential risk," Bailey explained. SEAVER NIGHT SET HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (AP) -Tom Seaver, the New York Met pitcher who has struck out 200 or more National League batters nine straight seasons, will be honored here by the Kiwanis Little Leaguers and other sandlot players Jan.

22. Other guests on the free program include Yankee playoff hero Chris Chambliss, Met rookie Lee Mazzilli and former Yankee pitcher Ed Lopat. IQ tests don't show a talent for sales Research by the students of the mind repeatedly has proved that intelligence tests are virtually worthless when it comes to the selection of the best sales clerks. This most certainly does not refer to sales executives who wind up as the presidents of their corporations. Nor to clerks who spend most of their time filing, typing or stocking shelves.

It applies specifically to those people-to-people conversationalists who show the merchandise and close the deals. Their talents, which can be remarkable and various, nonetheless are not revealed in IQ tests. Some psychoanalysts insist the proof that their profession dates back 3,000 years can be found in John "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February and March tend to have the highest divorce rates. NOMINEES Q. "How many former Army and Navy officers have been final nominees for the U.

S. presidency?" A. Army, 26. Navy, four. pur file on what women like most must be incomplete.

It only contains the results of one st'jdv which lists in descending orrior: To make- love, earrings, cars, handbaos and bright bath towels. Clearly, further research is due. A survey of 14 million girls between the ages of 13 and 19 indicates each spends an average of about S450 a year on the wardiobe. Estimators think a fifth of the world's running fresh water goes clown the Amazon. MARY'S LAMB It's well known that the first words which Thomas A.

Edison spoke into a phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb." Less widely reported was the fact that the children's verse surged more popularly thereafter. I can't confirm the claim, though, that it's quoted more by waiters than any other professionals with said waiters adding: "What will you have?" When you ask which two U. S. presidents has a surname containing only four letters, those few who reply usually say Polk and Taft, but hardly ever Ford, oddly. That hawk known as the kite makes its nest of paper and string and sticks mostly, which is what that toy you and I and Ben Fianklin once flew is mostly made of, too.

The toy was named after the bird, not vice versa. Reason Chinese brides wear red gowns is red for hundreds of years over thorn has been the symbolic color for happiness. Surveys show that three out of four amateur gamblers are under 24 years of age. Address null to Vi. Ooyrl, O.

Dox 681, Wu.iincrlord. TX 7GOB6 Copvtlght 1 0 7 7 L. M. Boyd Jf ashinffton Probe Indicates Nixon Bypassed Merit System By JACK ANDERSON andLESWHITTEN WASHINGTON The last of the Watergate investigations, an exhaustive, year-long probe of Richard Nixon's efforts to circumvent the federal merit system, has just been completed. According to the confidential findings, the Nixon White House set up a political clearance system, which checked the political philosophies and connections of hundreds of applicants for government jobs.

The applications were processed by a special White House Personnel Operation, which was established to tighten the Nixon grip on the federal bureaucracy. The politically favored applicants would be ranked, depending on how influential their backers were. Then the White House would plant them in key career jobs which, under the law, were supposed to be awarded according to merit. The hiring was arranged through a network of centrally controlled "special referral units," which operated quietly inside various government agencies. Even more shocking, top officials of the Civil Service Commission condoned and even participated in the political manipulations.

They not only were aware of the illegal patronage system but used it themselves. Yet they are responsible for safeguarding the merit system. These startling findings, perhaps the last echo of the Watergate years, are contained in a report by the House subcommittee on manpower and civil service. The painstaking study, which hasn't yet been released to the public, outlined how the Nixon administration tried to restore the discredited political spoils system, which was abolished 94 years ago. According to the study, political favoritism in the civil service system reached a peak during the Nixon years, 1969 through 1973.

Here's how it worked: Patronage units were set up within each federal agency to find positions for individuals who were given a "preferred" status by the White House Personnel Operation. The applications had to be forwarded to the Civil Service Commission, of course, for approval. But top CSC officials, instead of policing the illegal preferential hiring, aided and abetted it. Using their own "pink-tag" system to segregate the favored applications, they helped to expedite them. The subcommittee report charges that Commissioner Ludwig J.

Andolsek was personally responsible for expediting 100 to 300 special pink-tag cases. In one case, Chairman Robert Hampton intervened at the request of former Rep. Rkone of the ex- congressman's relatives. As an example of how the patronage system operated, the study cites the General Services Administration, which hired more than 300 employees through the patronage system. One GSA official gave an affidavit that he had been instructed by his superiors to hire a driver for former Attorney General John Mitchell during a hiring freeze.

The official said he was also directed to hire the sons of two former Nixon cohorts, ex- Attorney General Richard Kliendienst and ex-Budget Director George Shultz. For Shultz, testified the GSA aide, "we established a job we did not need and at a location of his choosing." Yet six weeks earlier, the GSA had dropped a custodial laborer with nine children from the payroll, because there was no money to pay his salary. Nixon's first GSA chief, Robert Kanzig, came out of the Pennsylvania Republican organization. He allegedly Today In History By Tic Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 1977.

There are 360 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1895, On this date: In 1477, the Swiss defeated and killed Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy. In 1608, the Virginia colonist Captain John Smith was captured by Indians. In 1781, a British naval expedition under the command of Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va. In 1933, former President Calvin Coolidge died at his home in Northampton, Mass.

In 1949, in a State of the Union speech, President Harry Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal. In 1973, the United States went to daylight saving time to conserve energy. Ten years ago: The fourth- ranking leader in China, Tao Chu, was led through the streets in Peking in disgrace, accused of being a foe of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Five years ago: North Vietnam stiffened its terms for freeig American war prisoners, saying all U.S. troops must be withdrawn from South Vietnam.

One year ago: South Africa permitted television in that country after years of resistance on the grounds that TV might be morally corrupting or promote racial integration. Today's birthday: King Juan Carlos of Spain is 39. Thought for today: Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Joseph Conrad, English novelist, 1857-1924. Concern Expressed Over Many Executives' Lifetime Income By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) Very few Americans ever will have to worry about W.

Michael Blumenthal's "problem," which is what to do with a guaranteed- for-life consultant's fee while serving as Treasury secretary. Many Americans, however, are deeply concerned about the practice that leads to his dilemma, which is for corporate chief executives to obtain from their companies lifelong incomes, sometimes even if removed from office. Blumenthal obtained his contract as chairman and chief executive of Bendix Corp. Now, as Treasury secretary-designate, he faces what would appear to be a conflict in receiving income from a corporation and the government. Some investors also think the entire notion of executive guarantees might conflict with the spirit of public corporations which, they remind you, are owned by the shareholders rather than by management.

Top management personnel nevertheless often obtain written assurance that upon their resignation they will be provided with a retainer for their advice, even when, as often oc- curs, that advice might be seldom sought. Daniel J. Haughton, former chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. during the period in which it fell into financial difficulties and charges of unethical payoffs, is amply compensated. Pressured to resign while a new management sought to restore the company's financial base and image, Haughton obtained a $750,000 settlement over a 10-year period.

So did his vice chairman and chief operating officer. The situation isn't isolated, and in many instances the former officers serve vital needs. They act as sounding boards, technical advisers, contact men and management consultants. Their experience sometimes is invaluable. Sometimes also they do almost nothing, and sometimes nothing at all, which periodically irritates some investors during annual meeting time in April and May, despite claims by management that the practice is necessary to attract personnel.

Many investors aee the practice in a larger context of liberal perquisites that include club memberships, cars, suites and generally unlimited expenses. established a special "Pennsylvania Connection," through which Pennsylvanians i i a treatment. According to the report, Pennsylvania's powerful senators, Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker, sent 95 and 134 job referrals, respectively, to GSA. One applicant recommended by Schweiker, Jack LeMay, played an active role in the patronage operation. At the Health, Education and Welfare patronage placements were made by the Office of Special Projects.

This was a special political office which was set up, according to a confidential memo, to serve "as a central point of contact on all politically sensitive matters which ought not be broached through regular Department channels." The office was headed temporarily by a political commissar, named Sam Schulhof, who explained his function to Undersecretary Frank Carlucci in this confidential language: 'political coordination' and 'quiet implementation' are key words which describe our mission." The office checked the political philosophies of hundreds of job applicants and even contract applicants. This political skulduggery was kept so secret that the Office of Special Projects wasn't listed on HEW's official organizational chart. The reason, according to the Schulhof memo, was "The sensitivity of its functions and, frankly, an unwillingness of anyone to really admit parents' lineage." Footnote: A CSC spokesman told our associate Larry Kraftowitz that neither Chairman Hampton nor Commissioner Andolsek had ever "exerted pressure on anyone" to procure jobs for favored individuals, although Hampton acknowledged that referrals he made before 1974 "might well have had the appearance of impropriety." A spokesman for Sen. Schweiker insisted it was "proper and legitimate" to help constituents find government jobs. We were unable to reach Scott for his comment.

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