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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1975
Helsinki Words . . .
No one believes the high-level pomp in Helsinki will transform
the face of Europe. From the beginning there have been no illusions
about the objectives of the Russians or the limited nature of the
Helsinki texts. But, amid all the skepticism that shrouds the grand
summit, it remains now to extract the maximum value from it.
It does set standards against which East-West actions can be
measured. The guidelines signed by 35 heads of state lack the force
of law but the important thing is that the Soviet Union has
committed itself to them.
This means West Europe, Canada, and the United States have
leverage in their dealings with the Russians, especially at a bilateral
level. Henceforth chapter and verse can be cited to them on such
questions as improved conditions of trade, more exchange of
information, reunion of families. As times goes on the Russians will
have to be on their best behavior if they want the West's
cooperation.
The Soviet leadership clearly did not expect the West Europeans
to be as cohesive and demanding as they were. It thought Helsinki
would be primarily a Soviet-engineered show which it could
manipulate. Originally, for instance, it wanted an immediate
follow-up to the conference but, realizing that such a follow-up
would be used to mark Soviet as well as Western performance, it
shifted to support for the first post-Helsinki assessment in 1977.
Inevitably, of course, the Ruddians will place their own
interpretation on the Helsinki declaration. Leonid Brezhnev warned
that Moscow would countenance no interference in its internal
affairs. To antidote the potential effects of the Helsinki summit the
Kremlin already has begun an internal campaign to warn the Soviet
people against the "subversive ideas" from the West.
But President Ford struck a right note in the Finnish capital.
Reflecting the views of America's West European allies, he declared
forcefully that the Soviet Union would be expected to live up to
promises for a freer flow of information and people across
ideological frontiers. He said that progress in East-West relations has
to be measured in such areas as arms control, force reductions in
Europe, and moves to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. He
also made clear the U.S. will continue to be a strong participant in
the affairs of Europe-a role the Soviet Union seeks to reduce.
The President no doubt spoke from conviction. But he was also
addressing political critics at home who take an increasingly dim
view of detente. Hence his description of detente as an
"evolutionary process" still confronted with "formidable
challenges" is a healthy, realistic acknowledgement that the
millennium has not arrived.
On balance, the lofty words uttered at Helsinki will prove to be a
pitfall only if the West allows them to be. The Russians exacted the
West's acceptance of postwar political borders and a promise not to
use force to change them. But the West has open the option of
peaceful change-and the moral and political means with which to
compel more humane conduct by their neighbors to the East. That
is something on which to build.
. . . And Actions
The agreement reached between Poland and West Germany on
the emigration of Poles of German descent is the kind of action that
can give meaning to the Helsinki declaration. The issue had roiled
relations for some time and the breakthrough came in Helsinki after
a meeting between the leaders of the countries.
There seems little doubt that Edward Gierek and Helmud
Schmidt saw this as an early opportunity to demonstrate the
possibilities of East-West cooperation. This makes the agreement no
less meaningful.
Under it, Poland will let out more than 1 20,000 ethnic Germans
over the next four years. In return Bonn will grant Poland a $400
million loan at low interest rates and S507 million to cover pension
and other claims.
It is to be hoped that Poland's readiness to resolve this sticky
problem will have echoes in Moscow. In the Soviet Union, too,
there are ethnic Germans. Thousands of families have been allowed
to leave but reportedly not as many as would like.
Moscow could gain credibility now if it. too, followed up the
Helsinki conference with concrete steps in the human rights field.
-The Christian Science Monitor
Browsing in the fil
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thunday, August 3,1975
Tobacco prices joined the rising
trend and leaped to the highest peak
in years for an average of
approximately $56 per hundred
pounds as auctions began Tuesday on
Border Belts markets in North
Carolina and South Carolina.
Battery A 130th Antiaircraft
Battalion, local National Guard unit,
is scheduled to leave Saturday
morning by trucks for its annua)
summer training and service firing at
Camp Stewart, Georgia.
A.A. McEachern, chairman of the
Hoke county selective service board,
said this week that complete supplies
and instructions for the opening of
the draft board's office here had still
not been received from Raleigh, but
that the board had arranged with
Mrs. J.M. Baker to register men
See BROWSING, page 11
Thanks for coming, Mr. Ford.
Please close the gate on your way out'
Th? ChrMr Settle* Monitor
- by Marty Vega
Get Your Birch Bark
Reminder
The deadline for getting your
entries in for the canoe making
contest is growing close.
Entries must be made of birch
bark picked in Hoke, Cumberland,
Robeson, Bladen, or Scotland
counties and must not exceed 18
inches in length, unless specifically
stated otherwise.
Entries will be judged by an
impartial panel of judges on
originality, design, construction, and
credibility.
Facts You Should Know
The shortest of all mammalian
gestation periods is that of the
American opossum (Didelphis
marsupialis) also called the Virginia
(Arlington) opossum, normally 12 to
13 days, but may be as diort as eight
days.
The gestation period of the rare
water opossum or Yapok
(Chiionectes mimimus) of central
and northern South American
average 12 to 13 days, and the
Eastern native cat (Dasyrus
viverrinus) of Australia may also be
as short as eight days.
Puppy Creek
Philosopher
Dear editor:
Never having mastered the old
math. I can't tell you anything about
the New Math, but 1 was interested
in an article 1 read the other day
about the subject.
According to it. a generation of
kids has grown up on the New Math
and as a result they understand how
math works but they can't figure up
what a grocery bill comes to at the
check-out counter and what's worse
can't even balance a checkbook.
"What's to become of these kids?"
the writer of the article moaned.
Obviously he can't see very far.
There are thousands and thousands
of jobs in Washington for people who
can't balance figures. If you want to
get thrown out of work, out of
office, and out of town, go to
Washington with the idea of
balancing the budget. These kids
have been superbly trained.
Changing die subject. I see that
the Russians are buying some more
American grain. Will you have The
News-Journal news bureau chief in
Washington ask somebody up there if
the Russians ever paid us for the
grain they bought two years ago?
You know, the 17 million tons they
bought at a ridiculously low price
with money we loaned them? I don't
know why the New York Times'
Washington correspondent or NBC or
CBS or somebody has never thought
of asking the question. It'd be the
first thing a Raeford banker would
ask.
Of course, we want to handle this
with the utmost delicacy; can't
afford to interfere with detente. You
question Russia's credit rating too
closely and no telling how mad you'll
make Dr. Kissinger.
Speaking of detente. I'm not sure
what it is exactly but whatever it is it
looks like we're giving a lot more of
it to the Russians than they are to us.
By the way, in case The
News-Journal doesn't have a
correspondent in Washington, that's
all right, Wadiington doesn't have a
correspondent in Raeford either.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
Modern Fairy Tales
The Rescue
Once upon a time, the scientists
and doctors of the country came to
believe cigaret smoking would likely
make people very ill and kill them.
They brought their findings to a city
called Washington, where the
shocked leaders who governed the
country cried "Can this dreadful
things be so?" We must act quickly
to save as many of our citizens as we
can. Let us call the makers of cigarets
and the congressmen from the
tobacco states!"
All the makers of cigarets and the
congressmen came and listened in
silence as the scientists and doctors
told of the grim evidence they had
gathered. As they finidied, one of
the cigaret makers jumped to his feet
and cried, "Let us put our own
scientists to the task df examining
cigarets," and a congressman cried
"Y'all tryin' to wreck the economy
of mah state, we got a right to grow
it and folks got a right to smoke it!"
The rest of the gathering turned
and stared at the two.
"You mean," said one, "you'd
rather grow tobacco and sell cigarets
than save our citizens' lives?"
"Unspeakable!" cried the rest of
the assembly as they fell upon the
two wretches and Hung them from
the room.
And so it came to pass that the
tobacco farms became food farms
and the cigaret companies went out
of business.
CUFF BLUE ...
People & Issues
SHORTER CAMPAIGNS, ^
ing the recent session of the
Assembly there was
about reducing the cost of politic*
campaigns, particularly so when to
fffort was underway to reveal the
presidential primary law in North
Cain proposing to hold the primary
in August, opponents of the
presidential primary felt that such a
law would eliminate th P . .
primary, which it might h?" h^
George WaUace not come to Rakifjt
and turned things ar^"nd N?w
have the presidential primary m May
and the State primary "' August
Proponents of the August date said
tha? August for the State primary
woild shorten the fall camped
save political spending, which seemed
like a good thought, but in practice it
doesn't seem that u wiU work oU y
Onlv last week Rep. Herbert Hya
of Atoeville announced his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
lieutenant governor. It seems that
campaigns for both governor and
lieutenant governor are getting
underway earlier than heretofore
even though the primary is three
m?LIEUT GOVERNOR.-In addition
to Herbert Hyde there are two others
who have announced, officially o
unofficially, Waverly F. Akin of
Fuquay-Varina and B. Fran*
Stephenson. Jr. of Murfreesboro. The
I a t ter has been an announwd
candidate for months. Others are
expected to enter die race for
lieutenant governor-a protionthat
now pays a good ? salary with an
office in the Legislative Building m
Raleigh along with ample secretarial
"taym Howard Lee of (JapelHUl
is expected to be a candidate for
lieutenant governor. State Senato
lohn Henley of Fayetteville is giving
consideration to runtMg. Fonner
State Senator Charles B. Deane, Jr.
of Rockingham is also known to be
ling w?h the idea of running
ilong with about a dozenofodi6"
whose names do not come to mind at
this writing, including State Senator
Tom Sudarth of Lexington in
Davidson County. .
Suddarths interest m making the
race brings a new face to the door,
that of a man not widely known
throughout the State A lawyer, a
former chairman of toe Democratic
Executive Committee and a shopping
center developer. Tom and wile
leannie have started traveling about
the State sounding out sentiment fo
possible support should he enter toe
race. Speaking of toe make-up of toe
General assembly, Tom, a 'J ?
whose look and dress would fit that
of a United States Senator from toe
chivalrous South says: "Most General
Assembly members I observed
close-rang are honest. But there are
who do not have toe moral
ortitude to stand up a8ains' toe
sower structure in North Carolina.
Continuing, Tom says: "I'm not
anti-establishment about anything,
but I do resist and resent any type of
unjustifiable pressure brought about
by special interest groups that would
dictate legislation or policv with no
regard to the good of the people."
CONGRESS PAT RAlSE...Last
week the House of Representatives in
Washington voted 214 to 213 for a
pay raise. Here is the way the Tar
Heel delegation voted: For the pay
raise: Congressman David Henderson,
Richardson Preyor, Walter B. Jones,
Charlie Rose and Stephen Neal, all
Democrats. Voting against were,
Congressman Ike F. Andrews, LH.
Fountain, Roy A. Taylor, and W.G.
(Bill) Hefner, all Democrats; and
Congressmen James T. Broyhill and
James G. Martin, Republicans. By
switching his vote from against to for
the increase, Neal may have left
himself wide open for formidable
opposition next year. ,
SQUELCHING DISSENT?...When
the University of North Carolina
board of governors recently refused
to reappoint Roddy L. Jones,
Raleigh businessman to the ECU
Board of Trustees they left the
governing board wide open for
criticism. Jones as chairman of
the ECU Board has been out-spoken
for the ECU medical school which
the UNC Board has strenuously
opposed from the beginning. Jones,
we understand, did a remarkable job
along with other ECU trustees in
helping Dr. Jenkins bring about
legislative approval for the much
needed medical school at ECU.
University personnel including the
governing board are supposed to be
broad-minded with opponents as well
as those who support their views!
The UNC Governing Board action
may bring about a study of the
Trustee appointing power in the
1977 General Assembly.
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Sir:
We and the whole staff of the
Hoke County Public Library wish to
thank you and your staff for the
excellent coverage of the Library
over the years, and especially during
the last several months.
We are excited about the support
of the county toward the new
building, and reading about it in the
paper has seemed to stimulate and
encourage that much more support.
We do appreciate your interest in
the library and all of its programs,
and we also appreciate your putting
that interest before the people.
Thank you very, very much.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Dorothy S.Cameron
Library Supervisor
Mrs. Pam Williams
Sandhill Regional Library System
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
Congress has passed a bill which
extends the Voting Rights Act for
another seven years, and has enlarged
it so that some other sections of the
country besides the South are
affected. When it was first enacted in
1965. it was designed to make it
easier for Blacks to register and vote
in seven southern states and in some
counties in North Carolina and was
drafted in a way to exclude coverage
to the minorities in other parts of the
country.
I offered an amendment to make
it apply to all parts of the country,
but my amendment was objected to
by a senator from New York on a
technicality and never came to a
vote. I regretted this because I feel
making this a national policy is
important and the rule used to
dismiss my amendment was one that
had not been used in many years.
The important aspect of this
whole matter is, of course, that every
qualified citizen should have the
right to register and vote. And I am
gratified that the bill was enlarged so
that minorities, including Spanish
speaking citizens in Texas, New
Jersey, California and other states,
are now covered.
tven though I supported the final
version of the Act, as did eleven
other members of the North Carolina
Congressional delegation, I resent the
fact that it wasn't extended
nationwide and that some members
of the Senate continue to act as if
the main problem remains in the
South. I believe that by supporting
this bill we are now in a better
position to continue to extend its
coverage to other parts of the
country.
It is my firm belief that any
person of any race who is a bona fide
citizen of North Carolina has no
problem in registering and voting.
And I think it is time the rest of the
nation recognizes that fact and
insures to its own citizens the same
priviledge.
We in North Carolina have met our
obligations under the Voting Rights
Act just as we have obeyed
enactments of Congress and Supreme
Court rulings which were directed
primarily or excluavely to the South.
I will be glad to see the day when all
areas of the Nation are treated
equally under the law.
AGRICULTURE AMENDMENT
An amendment to the Argiculture
Appropriations Bill which I
co-sponsored should help livestock,
poultry and dairy farmers and
feedlot operators meet existing
regulations of the federal act on
water pollution. Under the
regulations, animal waste runoff into
streams and riyers must be stopped.
This type of pollution control
requires the installation of gutter
system, retention ponds, mixing
ponds and spreading systems for
dispersal and these can be expensive.
The amendment I co-sponsored
adds $62.5 million to the Farmers
Home Administration soil'and water
conservation fund to provide 40-year
loans at 5 percent to fatmers who
must install this equipment and who
cannot secure loans from banks. The
amendment was approved by the
Senate and I hope it will survive the
House-Senate conference.
CAMPAIGN DEBT
One bit of extremely good news
during the past week was that we
have paid off the debt that was left
at the end of the 1974 campaign.
The fact that we were able to retire
this $125,000 debt so quickly
amazes me, and I am deeply grateful
to all those who worked so hard to
achieve this. I am also extremely
happy that we did it principally with
$50 per person dinners rather than
accepting larger sums from interests
who might have expected
preferential treatment in return for
their contributions.
Stories Behind Words
by William S. Penfield
Jerkwater
The early railroad locomotives were
steam engines that bumed coal. The
burning coal heated water, producing
steam to drive the engine's pistons.
Huge, elevated water tanks were
built along railroad lines so that the
engine's water supply could be
replenished.
When the water supply became low,
the engineer stopped at a tank. A large
nozzle was pulled down, or "jerked"
over an opening in the tender car, and
water was taken out.
Any town ao small that a train
stopped there only to take on water
came to be called a "jerkwater" town.