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Editors are told
Newspapers in 'efficiency era'
BOCA RATON, Kla. (AH) —
Mochanizalion has hurled the
Aiiiericaii new .spaper into an era
of production efficiency where
"it is impossible to say anylhinji
is impossible, Robert M. Hed-
erman Jr., president of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association, said Sunday.
The publisher of the Jackson,
Miss., Clarion-Ledger and Daily
News gave his views in an in
terview as the SNPA opened its
65th anniversary convention.
"A short 17 years ago, type
setter equipment manufacturers
said it was impossible to de
velop a machine to set in excess
of seven lines of type a min
ute,' he said. “Now we have
the development of equipment
that has the capacity of more
than 1,000 lines a minute."
Modern machinery has been
necessary, he said, as an effort
to stabilize the increasing costs
of producing a newspaper.
“Equipment is needed—and
developed—to produce more ma
terial per hour and yet be op
erated more simply,” Hederman
said.
In the newsroom, he pointed
Jim Gardner
lists three
mistakes
HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) —
Republican Jim Gardner says
he made three mistakes in his
unsuccessful campaign for gov
ernor which cost him votes in
North Carolina’s large cities.
Underestimating the state’s
large Negro votes was one mis
take, Gardner said Sunday
night in appearing on WGHP-
TV’s “Focus" program.
Gardner said he also lost
votes because of his last-minute
switch to California Gov. Ron
ald Reagan at the Republican
National Convention.
He said he also was hurt be
cause the state’s big daily news
papers criticized him “every
day ” during the campaign.
But the retiring 4th District
congressman said, “We aren’t
going to make these mistakes
again. ”
He did not say what his 1970
political plans were, but prom
ised, “I plan to be in the fore
front of what is happening,”
Committee
to study
disorders
HILLSBOROUGH, N. C. (AP)
— A committee was set up
Thursday night to seek a solu
tion to the problems which have
caused racial disorders at Or
ange High School in Hills
borough.
Some 100 Orange County eiti-
Hillsborough courthouse. They
agreed to elect a committee of
two representatives each from
several communities in the
county.
The group expressed belief
that the committee of about 18
can be more effective than larg
er gatherings have been in seek
ing a solution to the racial prob
lems at the integrated school.
The latest trouble occurred
Monday when about 50 Negro
students were expelled after
they staged a walkout to meet
with Negro activist Howard Ful
ler of Durham.
Fuller helped representatives
of the students who were ex
pelled to draw up a list of griev-
'ances. Acting school Principal
Fred Claytor said Thursday
none of the grievances has any
validity.
One of the grievances charged
that Negro students have been
discriminated against by white
teachers. Claytor said he knows
of no instances in which this
has happened.
He said he has never been ap
proached by any Negro student
to discuss any problem.
Claytor said one Negro boy
was expelled after a fight Nov.
1 because he cut a white stu
dent in the face with a knife. He
added that others involved re
ceived lesser punishments be
cause they “weren’t carrying
knives and didn’t cut anybody. ”
Claytor said the students ex
pelled this week “are working
to get more students to talk out.
They want to keep things stirred
up.”
THANKSGIVING
to the use of computers and
clectric screens whereby editors
can, with the push of button,
call up from a vast storage file
of news and pictures whatever
they want for editing or printing.
'With all this mechanization
there continues to be an increas
ing number of persons neces
sary to produce a newspaper,'
Hederman said.
Asked to look into the fiture,
Hederman said; “Because of the
rapid development of new types
of equipment, it is impossible to
say anything is impossible, in
cluding electronic distribution of
newspapers.'
The SNPA Foundation re
elected are Bert Struby, of Ma
con, Ga., chairman; Robert M.
Hederman Jr., Jackson, Miss.,
vice chairman; WilUam C. Mc
Kenzie, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
treasurer; and Joe M. Dealey,
Dallas, Texas, secretary.
Soldier learns rice-paddy
deeper than 'two feet'
By RICK MERRON
.. Associated Press Writer
MT.COTO, Vietnam (AP) —
The intelligence report we re
ceived before the jump said the
water in the rice paddies would
be a maximum of two feet. It
was much deeper where we
landed.
Maj. John E. Borman, 35,
from Ft. Bragg, N.C., had to
fight for his life.
“I thought I had bought the
farm,” said Borman, meaning
he thought he would die. “The
water was over my head, about
six feet deep. The wind dragged
my chute and pulled me alon^
under water. I was able to get
at my quick release jist in time.
Air never tasted so good.”
I went into the greasy, muddy
swamp too. The knife one of the
advisers had given me the night
before, to use in just such an
emergency, was tangled up in
the chute cords. I fought for
breath, gulped in two huge
mouthfuls of water but still was
dragged under the surface.
Then the chute stopped and I
popped up. My cameras were
filled with slush and all my film
ruined.
No one had drowned. One
man had sprained his ankle. No i
one seemed to care about the
sporadic sniper fire that sang
out from the mountain slopes
200 yards away. They were hap
py to be down and alive.
One of the 20 Green Berets
who made the jump with the 500
South Vietnamese and irregular
troops had been waiting a long
time.
“I was with the 187th Air
borne Combat Team in Korea
and I missed their jump," re
called Sgt. I.e. raymond Slat
tery of Jersey City, N.J. “I’ve
been waiting for 18 years.”
Sgt. Arnulfo Estrada from
San Antonio, Tex., wiped the
water off his good-luck charm, a
platic model of the character
Snoopy that he has been car
rying five years.
“I’ve had snoopy on 65 com
bat helicopter assaults but this
is the first time on a jump,” Es
trada said.
Sgt. 1. C Bob Bunnell, of Yaki
ma, Was., took an American
flag from his unit’s day room at
Na Trang and jumped with it.
“I don’t want anyone to doubt
where I am from,” he said.
They'd make good cheerleaders
Those attending athletic events will never question the
cheering capabilities of this group. In fact if you want
to concentrate on the game, it is best to set apart from
them.
Two state newspapers
honored by AP group
Value of Cuban
money decreasing
sesu
By FENTON WHEELER
Associated Press Writer
HAVANA (AP) — Money is
going out of style in Cuba, but
it’s not worthless yet.
Mprt Cub«n». including those
in government ministries, still
work for money but their de
pendence on it is decreasing as
Prime Minister Fidel Castro
turns the domestic economy to
ward what he describes as a
genuine Commimist system.
Castro’s idea is that eventual
ly the state will supply all the
necessities of life to its workers.
His government has made a
small start on the plan. In some
agricultural sectors workers
now receive free food, lodging
and work clothes in addition to
the free medical and education
al services available to the rest
of the population.
Castro’s campaign against
what he considers evil capitalis
tic incentives coincides with the
economic realities; There is just
not much to buy.
With little on the shelves and
no advertising, there is little in
centive or desire to cam extra
pay. Paradoxically, those who
still have bankrolls are about
the only ones who can find a lit
tle relief from the present drab
ness. This is done by patroniz
ing the dwindling black market
or simply by hiring someone to
do the work, such as standing in
line for a turn at a seat in a res
taurant.
For many Cubans salary is
far less important than it was.
“I would work for nothing,”
says a 20-year-old mother put
ting in a 48-hour week as a
grapefruit packer on the Isle of
Pines, the place Castro has
picked to establish Cuba’s first
100 per cent Communist society.
"The only thing I need money
for is for personal things,” she
adds.
Her pay is $75 monthly plus
food, clothing and housing. Her
daughter attends one of the gov
ernment’s free nursery schools
while she works. A divorcee,
she finds plenty of young eligi
ble men working and thinking
as she does. Commimism by her
definition means “packing
grapefruit better.”
Lost and Found
Found;
5 pair glas.ses
Keys
I pair beige kid gloves
Zoology kit
Items may lie claimol from
Mrs. Parker in the Columns
lluilding.
A construction foreman who
earns $180 monthly says the
only reason he still has an inter
est in money is to save for a
record player. He, too, receives
food, lodging and work clothes
plus a week’s vacation every 75
days.
His life, however, is not so
simple as it sounds. His even
ings are taken up with “revolu
tionary” obligations and study.
He usually sees his wife, who
works in a nearby office, only
for one hour a day, normally
after 11 p.m. when he finishes
his extra duties and before he
returns to his separate quarters.
Except for civil defense duties,
his weekends are free. But hard
times and shortages limit him
to four beers per weekend and
make it difficult to eat away
from the workers’ dining room.
The country’s food shortage
plays an unofficial role in di
minishing the value of money.
“It is better to work on a state
farm for $85 monthly and get
three meals a day than battle
the lines and ration books for a
5200-a-month office job,” says a
young construction worker.
The Communist party asserts
overtime pay and tipping are
nonrevolutionary in modern
Cuba. It has pretty well elimi
nated both.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okfa.
(AP) — The News and Observer
of Raleigh and the Times-News
of Burlington were honored to
day by The Associated Press
Managing Editors for outstand
ing contributions to the AP’s
news report in North Carolina.
The two were among 38 news
papers throughout the United
States cited by the APME at its
annual meeting in Oklahoma
City.
The News and Observer was
cited for “providing exclusife,
dramatic pictures of the capture
by police of a man who had bar
ricaded himself in a house and
shot at officers, killing one.”
The citation, sent to Editorial
Director Claude Sitton, read in
part;
“The event occurred in a
small town in a sparsely popu
lated area far outside the pro
tective area of any AP Wire-
photo member. Caldwin Ren
ner, northeastern North Caro
lina staffer for The News and
Observer, arrived during the
shooting and, despite the dan
ger, photographed the entire in
cident for his newspaper and
The Associated Press.
“Renner drove his film 150
miles to Raleigh and immedi
ately made a selection of prints
available to AP. ”
In the citation sent to Times-
News Editor A. Howard White,
the Burlington newspaper was
praised “for providing other As
sociated Press members with
outstanding continuous news
coverage around the clock.
“For years it has been rou
tine," the citation continued,
“for Editor A. Howard White
and Associate Editor Don Bol
den and members of their staff
to telephone The AP immediate
ly on any major news break, re
gardless of whether the break
comes in the Times-News own
cycle of publication.
“In a typical example, the
Times-News gave AP a major
beat when accused killer Robert
Rogers of New York City sur
rendered in Graham, N.C., too
late for the Times-News’ own
press run July 12, 1968."
One South Carolina newspa
per, the Spartanburg Herald,
was cited for “consistently un
selfish sharing of its spot news,
pictures and enterprise stories
with other members of The As
sociated Press. ”
The AP is a cooperative news
gathering organization which
depends largely on its member
newspapers and broadcast sta
tions for completeness of its
news report. The APME is com
posed of news executives on the
AP member newspapers.
i
Flipping 'flips' in another 2-pointer
Henry Flipping goes high to add two
more points as Todd McConnell, right,
follows the action. Chowan’s Braves squeek-
ed out a “practice game” victory over
North Carolina Wesleyan College in ac
tion on the home court Monday night.
When the final whistle blew, the Braves
were out front 77-69. The next home game
is with Chesapeake College on Dec. 2.
Move to oust conservative Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
leader of a House Democratic
study group has promised to
submit to a Democratic caucus
a plan to strip conservative
Democrats from chairmanships
of House committees.
Rep. Richard EOlling, D-Mo.,
said he would present the plan
to the party caucus before Con
gress convenes Jan. 3.
He said it is aimed at South
ern Democrats “who are hos
tile to the national Democratic
program and are actually Re
publicans with Southern ac
cents. ”
Bplting’t nHWi release did not
mention any names, but a staf
fer for his Democratic Study
Committee said one of the
chairmen Bolling referred to
was L. Mendel Rivers, South
Carolinian who heads the House
Armed Services Committee.
Democrats on Ways and
Means would continue to serve
as a Committee on Committf^s
to nominate Democratic mem
bers of aU other committees.
New Indian talk
scheduled for movie
By SAM ASKINAZY
Associated Press Writer
DURANGO, Mexico (AP) —
They’re making a Western mov
ie here in which the Indians
won’t confine their dialogue to
“Ugh" or, on the other hand,
break into fluent English. The
Sioux Indians are going to speak
Sioux.
Even buffalo manure—100
pounds of it—has been imported
for producer Sandy Howard's
attempt to creatc authentic
Sioux life before the advent of
the white man on the Western
plains of the United States.
“We re trying to do something
nobody else has done before, ”
he said on the CBS Cinema Cen
ter Films location of “A Man
Called Horse. "
“We’re trying to give a true
picture of the Indian . . . his
cu.stoms and traditions and way
of life. "
Howard pointed out, however,
this is not a documentary. “It’s
drama with a historical setting
that's never l)cen done like
this, ” he .said, “but it's not a
rcflskin paloface adventure."
The buffalo manure is an
illustration of the producer's in
sistence on authenticity. More
than 80 percent of the dialogue,
for example, will be in the origi
nal Sioux tongue, Lakota. Mrs.
Olive Prettybird, a Sioux, is
teaching the language phoneti
cally to Richard Harris (as the
first white man ever seen by the
tribe). Dame Judith Anderson
(famous for her classic Greek
and Shakespearian portrayals)
as Buffalo Cowhide, Corinna
Tsopeo as Running Dear, and
others.
“We re using actors who will
be understood visually, even if
their speech isn't. That means
they're going to have to be good
at pantomime,' Howard said.
Howard and Director Elliot
Silverstein worked for weeks
with a Sioux reservation histo
rian, Clyde Dollar, researching
details for the script, written by
Aack Dewitt.
“I didn't want to settle for
just anything that would be
good enough to get by," Howard
.said, ^‘like real buffalo ma
nure. "
Later on, the location will he
Sioux country. There will he au
ttontic buffalo.
MONTHLY SEMINAR
PROGRAM
“Drugs and the Mind"
Professor Richard Plaugher
^epantmcHt ScieKCt and TKat^eMtotCcA
November 21, 1968
Robert Marks Hall Auditorium
4:00 P. M.
StucUtU^