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Industry Plans
Participation
Bicentennial
observance in
1076, the 200th anniversary
orthe founding of the United
States, will be an important
patt of the nation’s birthday
celebration, according to E.
Douglas Kenna, president of
the National Association of
Manufacturers. He expressed
the Association’s interest in
serving as coordinator for in
dustry's observance in co
operation with the Bicenten
nial Commission.
_ Among ideas being con
sidered is the feasibility of
preparing a Bicentennial kit
which would* enable compa
nies to select programs which
would be particularly suited
for individual cities or areas.
Other proposals under
consideration are visits by
students to manufacturing
facilities, special literature
detailing industry’s contribu
tion to the nation, and busi
ness and industry use of the
official Bicentennial seal on
letterheads.
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“CAROWINDS" ATTRACTION —This sleek monorail train will ultimately make
“pit stops” in the lobby of a new hotel being planned for the attraction on the
North Carolina-South Carolina border south of Charlotte.
1975 Eyed As Completion Year For Hotel
CAROWINDS. N.C. - S.C -
The sleek monorail' glides to a
stop, and passengers step off
into the hallway leading to the
lobby of the glamorous, new
Hotel Carowinds, overlooking
all the fun of North and South
Carolina put together.
It’s a view from early in 1975
when the doors open to the first
10-story tower in .the hotel
complex serving the Carowinds
Theme Park. A second tower is
in later plans.
The hotel complex will be
located on Interstate 77 on the
South Carolina side of the state
line which divides the park.
Carowinds Corporation
President E. Pat Hall said the
first phase tower will cost more
than $6-million, and will include
a heliport for access by air
travelers.
A 2‘ >- mile monorail, already
in operation, will take hotel
guests into the theme park for
unloading at the Contemporary
Carolinas station. Park guests
may also visit the hotel complex
via the monorail system.
Each of the hotel’s estimated
400 rooms will offer a balcony
with a magnificent view of
Carowinds and the surrounding
countryside. The rooms will be
luxuriously furnished with
decor recalling periods in
Carolina history in the same
manner as the adjoining theme
park.
The hotel will contain a 1,500-
seat convention hall with nine
meeting rooms of varying sizes.
A large area will be set aside for
merchandise display booths.
A restaurant and lounge on
THE CHOWAN HERAT.n
the first floor of the hotel will
provide guests a unique
underwater view of the large
swimming pool outside.
A penthouse supper club, with
seating for 473, will feature live
entertainment and an
enchanting nighttime view over
the theme park.
The top floor also will contain
a number of executive suites.
These elegantly-furnished
suites will provide special
accommodations for executives
visiting the Carolina Center, a
planned office park complex
extending from the hotel site
along the six-lane Avenue of the
Carolinas leading to the theme
park entrance.
The center is to be developed
as a headquarters for regional
offices for many of the nation's
largest corporations.
The Hotel Carowinds was
designed by the Charlotte-based
architectural and engineering
frim of Grier-Fripp and
Associates.
The Carowinds
entertainment-office park
hotel complex is located on
Interstate 77. midway between
Charlotte, and Rock Hill, S. C.
The theme park, now in its first
season, is expected to attract
I'a-million guests in 1973.
March, 1973. was the *6oth
Anniversary of the US.
Department of Labor, created
in 1913.
Senator Sam J. Ervin
WASHINGTON-As every
North Carolina housewife
knows, the price of food has
jumped skyhigh recently. The
Committee on Government
Operations, of which I am
Chairman, and the Comptroller
General of the United States
have independently compiled
very detailed hearings and
reports on why this rise took
place in order to prevent such
drastic food price rises from
occurring in the future. Both the
Committee and the Comptroller
General have attributed much
of the recent jump on the cost of
food to gross mismanagement
of the Russian wheat deal by the
Department of Agriculture.
I am certainly not against
increased U. S. trade with
foreign nations. I believe, in the
case of U. S. Russian trade, it
could contribute to better
relations between the world’s
two largest powers.
Unfortunately, the
mismanagement of the Russian
wheat deal seriously depleted
the supply of grain here at home
and the price of wheat and feed
grains went up. Therefore, the
price of everything related to
grain went up and that includes
almost all the basic food
Americans eat.
After discussing in great
detail the mismanagement of
the Russian wheat deal, the
Comptroller General, a non
partisan, independent
investigative office,
concluded:
“Consumer costs
attributed to the (Russian
wheat) sales included
higher prices for bread for
flour-based products,
increased prices for beef,
pork, poultry, eggs, and
dairy products resulting
from higher costs for
feedgrains, and a severe
disruption of transportation
facilities with attendant
higher costs and shortages
or delays in delivering
certain supplies.”
The facts surrounding the
grain deal are as follows: in
July and August 1972 wheat
sales to Russia by six large
American grain companies was
largest single wheat sale in
history, comprising over 25 per
cent of annual U. S. wheat
production. Much of the wheal
sold to the Russians was
purchased by the grain
companies from U. S. farmers
who did not then know of the
huge Russian deal, and who sold
at prices far below those what
would have prevailed had the
Russian sale been disclosed.
There is evidence, uncovered
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UNIFLITE, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EI^LOYER
by the Senate Government
operations Committee, that the
Department of Agriculture
knew in early July of the
existence and size of the sale by
the grain companies to the
Russians. The Department
apparently felt no obligation to
communicate these facts to the
American farmer, even though
the Agricultural Act of 1954
specifically directs the
Department to assist
“American farmers. . . to
adjust their operations and
practices to meet world
conditions.” The Comptroller
General was equally upset
about this failure to tell the
American farmer the truth
about the grain deal and he
stated:
New Books At Local Library
New books received at
Shepard-Pruden Memorial
Library include the following:
ADULT-FICTION
A Life for a Death by John
Creasey.
Lydia; or Love in Town by
Clare Darcy.
The Leopard Dagger by
Constance Fecher.
The Hollow Hills by Mary
Stewart.
ADULT NON-FICTION
Male Chauvinism! How it
Works by Michael Korda.
The Law and You by Elinor P.
Swiger.
The Campus Survival
Cookbook by Jacqueline Wood.
State Census of North
Colonial Jfuneral Jfyom e
Dignity . . . Understanding . . . thoughtfulness
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“Although Agriculture
has fairly reliable data on;
general crop conditions and.
significant changes iij
worldwide supply and
demand, farmers generally
were not provided timely
information.. to help them’
make sound decisions.” ‘.
In other words, the American
farmer as well as the consumer
suffered at the hands of the
Department of Agriculture and
the big grain companies. *
Furthermore, knowing of the
desperate Russian need for
large quantities of wheat to
cover their own shortages in
1972, and knowing that the U. S.
was the only supplier in the
world market at that time, the
Department assured the grain
Carolina. 1784-1787 by A. K.
Register.
JUVENILE FICTION
The Secret Life of T. K.
Hearing by Jean Robinson. '
Good Ethan by Paula Fox.
A Day in the Life of Sea Otter
by Kay McDearmon.
The film to be shown at stefy
time next week will be Skater
Dater-the growing up
adventures of a young boy. At
the Library 3:300n Monday and
at the Blades Community
Building at 11:00 A.M
on Tuesday.
The search for truth is a field
of work that is not overcrowded.
Thursday, August 9, 1973
Says
companies that the U. S.
government would continue to
pay them a subsidy on every
bushel sold to foreign buyers
and that such subsidy would
continue at current levels
indefinitely. Considering the
information available to USDA
at the time regarding conditions
in the world wheat market, the
Department’s policy of
continuing subsidy payments
was at best a monumental
blunder, a conclusion which is
supported by the Comptroller
General. Moreover, if the
Department knew specifically
of the size of the Russian sale,
failure to disclose this
information and maintaining
the subsidy payments resulted
in grave injuries to the farmer
and the taxpayer. By the time
the Department was finally
forced by rising wheat prices to
phase out the subsidy in late
September the cost to the
taxpayer was well over S3OO
- The Comptroller
General concluded that "...
Agriculture should have
responded more rapidly to the
available information and
reduced or eliminated the
subsidies sooner."
It is obvious that the
American taxpayer, housewife
and farmer are now paying
painfully for the mistakes of the
Department of Agriculture.
With possible sales of grain to
the Chinese now in the news, let
us hope that the Administration
has profited by the lessons of
last year.