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Established 1828 MihuiMrn, Hililuriul I'ae K.ditor Montgomery, Alabama Page 4 Thursday. April 5, 1979 That nagging doubt ABOUT A FREE RIDE- The death warrant wasn't signed. Aides noted correctly that is legaly unnecessary, but it is the sort of thing that might encourage a gloomy warden. He'd like to think someone told him to pull the switch. More telling is the parade of those who would like to intercede.

The governor might reasonably duck some international team which usually deals with political prisoners. But others included a group of top ecclesiastics headed by the bishop of the governor's own church who officially sanctified inauguration day. The governor steadfastly refused to see any of them. Word around the Capitol was that since they just want stop the execution, seeing him would be a waste of time. He'd had nothing to do with the Evans case and would like to keep it that way.

It was the action of a man who dreaded trying to resist persuasion, but that wasn't to be. He granted the prisoner's mother an audience Wednesday. So the mind and door need stay locked only a short while longer. It'll be all over but the doubting. Tell It To Old (fomftma They'll allow a tax cut for whom? Pigs, like people, provide less By George F.

Will WASHINGTON Nothing is private anymore, so consider the sexual behavior of sows. Many of them choose to live in the Midwest, where winters can be, and the 1977-78 winter was, fierce. Pigs are only human and are less prolific, sexually, when cold. Had the winter of 1977-78 been less severe, there would be more pork on the way to market to ease pressure on beef prices. Regarding beef, the public is a big disappointment to the government, which seems to want to impeach the marketplace and elect a new one.

The administration complains that consumers are not doing their bit against inflation because they keep eating beef while the price soars. Why is the price soaring? Cattlemen's confidence began to fall in 1973 when the Nixon administration imposed price controls on meat, and consumers staged a brief but remarkably effective meat boycott. Trends take a while to turn, and cattle hit a peak of 139 million in January, 1975. But then cattlemen quit building their herds. In America, nothing is more predictable than the demand for beef will vary directly with disposable income.

More Americans are working today than ever before, but herds are are down to 110 million. There are too many dollars chasing too few roasts. Result: rocketing prices. All kinds of taxes On a single day recently, the New York Times' main business page (why do papers segregate so much of society's most important news on "business" pages?) contained two stories with a common theme: Government is suffocating the supply side of the economy. An oil-and-gas story reported that drilling activity had declined for nine straight weeks, primarily because of confusion about the regulations created by last year's natural gas "deregulation" bill, and because of uncertainty about future controls of oil prices.

A tax story reported that Massachusetts is crippling the high-technology industries that employ about one-third of the state's total manufacturing force. One executive explains: "We offer a guy a job, and the first thing you hear is taxes. You hear the income tax. the unearned income tax, the surtax, the property tax and the excise tax. It sounds kind of funny to rattle them all off like that, No it doesn't.

The only people laughing are in places like North Carolina, one of the states to which high-technology companies are directing investment. Massachusetts' per capita income ($7,258) is third best in the nation, just behind California and New York. North Carolina's is $5,936. But after taxes, North Carolina's is $5,008, Massachusetts' is $4,857. The neglected supply This story about the supply of skills for Masschusettts' industry like the problem of pork, beef, and oil and gas concerns the economies of supply.

That is a subject whose time has come. Republicans believe, reasonably, that their tax-cutting drive of last year including the Steiger amendment that concentrated attention on capital gains taxes, and the Kemp-Roth bill directed at personal income taxes also focused attention on increasing productivity (and the supply of goods and services) as a way of dampening inflationary pressures. Republicans also can, and impudently do, note that language in this year's report strongly resembles language contained in minority sections of previous reports. Under the stern tutoring of inflation, Americans are coming to realize this: The nation never was, and certainly is not now rich enough to take for granted the "Supply side of county board of commissioners to levy a special tax for any purpose. Any attorney who might become involved in such a court procedure is in danger of almost destroying his private law practice.

The board of commissioners and the citizens of Coffee county will continue to control the legal activities of the County. JOHN KNIGHT Samson Channel change Editor.The Advertiser: I read with interest the letter by Mr. Jason R. McGee, Jr. March 11 on the petition tied at the FCC by WCOV-TV which would make several chnges in TV channel assignments in the cities of Montgomery, Selma, Tuscaloosa, and Columbus, Ga.

In my opinion, what WCOV-TV is attempting to accomplish is to make the Montgomery TV market more competitive among the three commercial channels and, therefore, give the public more of a choice in local programming. The proposed channel change would allow all stations to share more equally in revenue rather than the current situation where one station, By now, you face the death of John Louis Evans III with at least as much composure as he seems to. He wanted to die. and the mail indicates there are many glad to accommodate him. For most of us.

the spectacle of a rational man who has removed any question of his own guilt settles our thinking on capital punishment. He's guilty and dangerous; so kill him. But by the same token, the man's intrusive demand to lay his blood and with it his guilt on our hands outrages others. Either way. your position on capital punishment is solidified.

I'nless you are Fob James. The courts appear to have played out their role. Evans himself, in a paltry effort to "do something constructive with my life." wants to make a speech he has indicated he is appalled at the admiring letters he's been getting from young people. The logical remaining actor is the governor. Gov.

James has said that he. too, approves of capital punishment, but viewed from the outside, gubernatorial enthusiasm for it is a study in reluctance. The nosey A story from New York this week may spell trouble for the U. S. Census Bureau as it prepares for the annual deceniel nosecount next year.

In a test run in lower Manhattan, the Census takers encountered a startling amount of hostility and uncooperation repeating the experience of other dry runs in other test areas. Such citizen resistance comes as no great surprise inasmuch as events of recent years indicate that the government, through such intelligence and law enforcement agencies and even through the Internal Revenue Service manipulation by the White House, is not above using and abusing its power to pry into the private lives of citizens for ignoble purposes. A recent book reviewed in our Sunday edition catalogued in grim detail the erosion of citizen privacy through government action as well as action of private organizations. And further general alarm over intrusion into private lives is reflected by the Carter Administration's current proposal calling for "a national privacy policy to protect individual rights in the information age." While there is much to be said for the proposed privacy policy it another week like this, hack to candles' now operatin on VHF, accounts for 907c of TV income while the other two must operate on UHF and share the remaining 10 percent To my knowledge, the only persons affected would be persons who live over a hundred miles from the Montgomery area, and I cannot see it being detrimemtal to the economy, growth, and culture of Montgomery. When this proposed channel change is discussed, it is mandatory to say loud and clear that Montgomery is in no way going to lose WSFA-TV and all of its superb news coverage, outstanding programs and personnel.

The only change will be a change from a VHF channel to a UHF channel. WARREN JONES, JR. Wetumpka Free gasoline Editor, The Advertiser: I notice that George has made the news again. He must be satisfied he drained the taxpayers for almost sixteen years, got a nice pension, security for the rest of his life. Now he is getting gasoline off the taxpayers.

Looks like we won't ever get George off our backs. JOHN H. McGINNIS Clan ton Louise Hardison was wearing a kerchief and a worn black coat, and she was made. She raises goats, and "another had to be hauled away an hour ago." And since the worst nuclear accident in history had occured, three newborn baby lambs who seemed perfectly healthy, "just curled up and died. "I can't be evacuated.

I can't leave those animals. I've got 17 pregnant goats. They'll have to lasso me." Hardison has owned her property since 1957, and is a member of the small local nuclear protest group, "The Three Mile Island Alert." "What can we do? Now the bubble is going down, people will say it's all over, and they'll forget it ever happened." Catherine Mayberry is returning to her parents' home in Harrisburg Wednesday. It's 10 miles away from the plant and she thinks it will be safe. But she can't imagine living so close to the reactor again.

She would like to see the plant shut down, but she doesn't think that will ever happen. "If someone came to me with a petition, I'd gladly sign it," she said. "But what can one person or any group of persons do to stop anything that big. I thought about it, I could see the towers from my windown, and I wondered what would happen if a plane from the airport it's very near crashed into one of them. "I'm totally against nuclear power," she said.

"I'm for coal or solar now. I'd go back to candles rather than go through another week like this. I just couldn't do it." Editor, The Advertiser: I noticed in your morning paper that the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington were going to pass legislation, or try to, to allow themselves a $50-a-day tax deduction. Inflation is this countrys' biggest problem, so why make it worse? I am aware that it takes quite a lot of money to live in Washington and also maintain a home in the home state of each Senator and Representative. But it also takes a lot to live in New York.

Los Angeles. Chicago, and even in Montgomery. What relief can the people living in these cities expect to get? Surely they are not going to get a $50-a-day tax cut not by any means. I think that the Senate and House should take a long look at what they are about to do and consider some relief for the people who are living on limited or fixed incomes, for these are the ones who put these people in Washington. W.M.

PUGH Montgomery No coffee tax Editor, The Advertiser: There will never be any court, in the county of Coffee that will force the 'Rather than I'd go MIDDLETOWN. Pa. Last Thursday morning. Catherine Mayberry, stepped out of her small house on the Susquehanna River, under the shadows of the troubled towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. She was carrying her year-old daughter, Kimberly.

She had put a blanket over the baby's head someone had told her "it might help." An alert UPI photographer, one of the thousands of press people who have flocked here to record Pennsylvania's "silent spring," spied her, made a U-turn on Highway 441, and took her picture. For the thousands who saw Catherine Mayberry's strained face over her blanketed baby, the picture told it all all that could be said about dread and futility when technology goes bad. Catherine Mayberry is no longer in her house. She's not sure she will ever set foot in it again. Friday morning, after the second radiated belch from the monster the one plant owners said was "controlled" and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said was not Catherine Mayberry packed up Kimberly and fled north to relatives in Sunberry, 70 miles away.

Her husband. Rick, a Buick salesman, has been staying at different family homes ever since, and went back to the house on Highway 441 only once, to get some papers for an insurance claim to the NRC for the expense and disruption of Cathy's flight. 'We were unprepared' "She's scared to death," he said of his 22-year-old wife. She woke me up at 4 o'clock on Thursday morning because she heard a noise from the plant. I told her they were just working on the reactor, but she was holding the baby and shaking all over.

I liked nuclear power before, because it was clean, but I'm afraid of it now." Catherine Mayberry said on the telephone from Sunberry that she doesn't see how she could ever sleep in her own house again, "not knowing if we would wake up in the morning." Kimberly is her main concern "I wish people could see her face, she's beautiful. I want her to grow up healthy and I want to be around with her. People say that only a small percentage of the population would be affected, but I don't want it to be her. If something happens to her 10 years counters which presumably would strengthen legal safeguards against misuse of personal information jamming the Census next year could become something of a national disaster. Some of the information sought, to be sure, is of a personal nature, such as income, housing conditions, and the like.

But in general the Census seeks nothing more than information which is essential in public policy planning. A huge number of social programs, and the money that is to be spent under the programs, is based on statistics which can only be gathered by the Census. Perhaps many will not find comfort in such reassurance, but the Census has an impeccable record of confidentiality. In fact, the citizen counting house has operated under legally mandated confidentiality long before anyone else ever thought of proposing such legislation as that now put forward. A massive defiance by a suspicious citizenry can result in substantial harm.

It could make the business of setting public policy, always difficult at best, a matter of groping in the dark for the next 10 years. I. Legare themselves together in a baseball club. And this club has challenged the world, including Mexico to measure bats on the diamond." (Mullin's "Passing Throng 25 years ago (1954 Don Carter Ashworth. son of Dr.

and Mrs. J.R. Ashworth, Troy, is making scholastic and military records at Marion Institute. He is member of Morgan's Raiders, Cadet 1st Lieutenant, also member of the Sheiks' Orchestra, and numerous other honors and school activities. ByMaryMcGrory from now, I would never be sure if this was to blame.

Some of the people around got pamphlets telling them what to do if there was radiation, and what to take, but we didn't get any. We were totally unprepared for this." In the door of Catherine Mayberry's house, there is a yellow evacuation notice stuck in the door. The primroses are blooming in the garden, watched over by an orange platic owl. The doormat has two more owls and says, "Welcome to our nest." Two of her neighbors were still around on a rainy Monday, down the street from the fog-shrouded towers. David Barbaretta, a small, wiry furniture builder, had spent Sunday driving his wife and 7-year-old son to the safety of the mountains in Perry County.

He had come home to find his house robbed of several guns and his television set. The NRC had turned down his insurance claim because, he was told, only pre-school children had been required to evacuate, and his son was over-age. The Iambs all died Barbaretta has been thinking of selling his house, which is awash in daffodils, but has had no offers. "Real estate has gone down," he said, "they can't guarantee it would never happen again. They don't know what they are doing up there.

I hear they had robots in to close the vent. I just want to get out of here." While he was talking, another neighbor who lives across the street came to collect her mail. Hie 4ttonlgoracrj SmS mm-i! ajcdn NEWSPAPER JAMES MARTIN Publiiher ClYTON PARKS Ant. to the Publiiher RAY JENKINS Editor DON H. SEASE General Manager BILL DACKVOLD i Advertiiing Director DONALD R.

OSBORN Managing Editor i OwnM attar and Mom. morn Sfnoti Dff 4 Writ An or FROM ADVERTISER FILES LIVING TODAY By Thomas Lane Butts Elizabeth Kubler-Ross More than 500 people gathered at a great university to hear a notable person, Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, speak on death and dying. While waiting for a renowned person to arrive, one often conjures up mental images of her. Well, she did not fit the image at all.

She lacked all of the ostentation that one associates with the appearance of famous people. Dr. Kubler-Ross slipped in a side door, and after a gracious introduction, she took the microphone and the audience in hand at the same time. She held both for two hours as she spoke of death as transition from life to life. When the audience rose as a body to give her a standing ovation, she slipped out a side door as quietly as she came, into a world that would never be able to distinguish her from a housewife on the way to pick up the kids after school.

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