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262 GREENWOOD, S.C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7, 1978 36 Pages 4 Sections 20 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Wholesale prices leap .8 percent' Stiff pfcfekjiTtiaUUli Laurens County youth killed in wreck Self Memorial Hospital at 7:25 p.m. Pitts, who was traveling to classes at Piedmont TEC with his brother William AA. Pitts, apparently lost control of the Jeep he was driving when a car pulled out in front of him, Duvall said. William Pitts, 21, was taken to Self where he was treated and released. 1.3 percent at the farm level, the smallest increase in three months.

The department said prices declined for beef, veal and fresh fruit and increases were smaller for pork. Prices of fresh and dried vegetables, chicken, eggs and sugar were higher. Elsewhere, prices were higher for passenger cars, silverware, tires and tubes and alcoholic beverages. Prices also increased rapidly for sanitary health products and prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Capital equipment, which is used by businesses and farms to increase production, rose a sharp 1 percent in price.

The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods, the main measure of wholesale prices, stood at 200.6. That meant the average wholesale product that cost $100 in the base period of 1967 cost $200.60 last month. The problem of rising energy costs has put the fight against inflation in a conflict with the need for more fuel. At a congressional hearing Wednesday, Kahn said: "In the long run, I believe the. government has to let the price of energy go up." He said the longer U.S.

petroleum prices are held artificially low, the sharper will be the increase when controls are lifted. "There is no way I can resolve that dilem- ma. I can't find a panacea," he said. As support for his position outlined before the congressional Joint Economic Committee Kahn said he thinks government regulations are to blame for spot shortages of high-octane unleaded gasoline. But Kahn questioned the reality of the shortage and said he is asking for a federal study to clarify the question.

Shell Oil Co. and AMOCO both are reporting shortages of that variety of gasoline, but neither company blames government regulations for the shortages and claims they are short-term. A Laurens County youth was killed Wednesday night when he was thrown from his vehicle as it overturned a quarter mile past the intersection of S.C. 254 and secondary road 95, according to Greenwood County Coroner Odell Duvall. Twyman Caroll Pitts, 19, of Route 3, Laurens was pronounced dead on arrival at Carter warns Egypt, Israel about talks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Wholesale prices leaped by 0.8 percent in November as the cost of gasoline, tires and alcoholic beverages posted big increases while the advance of food prices slowed, the Labor Department said today.

Food prices rose by 0.6 percent, a much slower rate than in previous months, because of declines in prices of meat, fruit and rice. The 0.8 percent wholesale price increase, if it continued all year, means an annual rate of about 10 percent, which is about the average this year for the cost of living. The November rise followed consecutive increases of 0.9 percent in September and October. The wholesale price figures are important because they usually influence retail price changes within a few months. The November report covered the first full month since President Carter announced his anti-inflation program Oct.

24. However, the administration says it may take six months for results of the program to be reflected in prices. While food prices were easing, the wholesale price of gasoline rose 1.6 percentin November and S.7 percent higher than in August. Prices of kerosene, fuel oil and other petroleum products also rose sharply, an indication these costs probably will be passed along to consumers by winter. On Wednesday, Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, acknowledged there is "tension between the inflation problem" and spiraling energy costs, but he said prices may have to rise to assure adequate fuel supplies.

The Labor Department report showed that food price increases were not as big at the early stages of processing as in the past three months. That might mean slower price increases in months to come. Food prices actually declined by 0.3 percent at the middleman's level and rose by Inside Getting high in the Old World BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON President Carter warned the leaders of Egypt and Israel today that failure to meet the Dec. 17 deadline on negotiating a Middle East peace treaty would be "a very serious matter." Failure to meet that deadline, set at the It was believed that "old world" traditions would keep drug addiction out of Europe. Not so.

Police in various European countries are finding that the drug situation is strikingly similar to what happened in the United States starting about 1966. European kids with their "old world" backgrounds are getting high, not just on marijuana but on heroin and other drugs. In Today's Topic, APwriter5 Robert H. Reid surveys the European drug scene at a time when police are beginning to worry about it. The story is on page 3.

Dear Abby 31 Community Calendar 10 Classified ads 24-27 Comics 32 Obituaries 2 Editorials Today's Living 16-19 Sports 12-14 TV Scout 5 Weather, forecast 2 by Dec, 17, "it would set a precedent that would have far-reaching, adverse effects." "We consider the Dec. 17 date to be very, very important," Carter said, adding the United States perhaps considers it more important than the Israelis and Egyptians do. Shortly after Carter made the announcement, the White House disclosed that Israeli ambassador Simcha Dinitz was to meet with Carter today. The peace talks are stalled over a timetable for establishing Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank Of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip. Camp David summit in September, "would cast doubt on whether the Egyptians and the Israelis would carry out the difficult terms of the upcoming peace treaty," Carter said.

4 I i Speaking with reporters at a White House breakfast meeting, the president said that If negotiations are not concluded Faces of George Wallace At lower left, Alabama's only three-time governor salutes during inauguration ceremonies in Montgomery. Campaigning for president, at left, he calls for the return of government to the people. Above, he is shown after his Florida primary victory in 1972, his fourth and final attempt at the presidency. Campaigning for the presidency The man who cried, 'Segregation forever' Wallace now says it's best segregation is gone the action and that they are a part of this state and they are." Did he, like many Southern whites, undergo an education process that eventually led them to rid themselves of their segregationist views? "Yes," says Wallace, "I think so." He regrets the violence that occurred during the civil rights struggle, particularly the deaths of four black girls who died in the bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. "THAT WAS AN unfortunate episode and one that I abhorred," he says.

"And the statement that I made right after it happened is whoever was responsible ought to burn the bottom out of the electric chair and I meant it and still do mean it." The death of Viola Liuzzo, a Michigan housewife who was shot to death while ferrying marchers back to Selma after the 1965 voting rights act, was "horrible," says Wallace, adding, never is the way to solve any problem." He felt that way then, and he feels that way now (See Wallace, page 2) paigns that, prior to 1976, were rallying points for Dixie-styled conservatism. In little more than a month, though, Wallace will leave public office, probably never to return. He leaves with battle scars and a sense that he played a large part in steering the South back into the mainstream of national politics. BUT AS HE readies himself for private life, the governor obviously is concerned about how history will view him and the policy of segregation that he once espoused. "In all my political career," he told the AP, "no speech or book can be brought forward in which I ever made light of black people or made fun of them or cast them in an inferior rank among whites.

"Of course, I' stood for segregation at that time, and if you call that offensive to blacks, then, of course." But, he adds, "Segregation is over. And it's better that it is over. And there's no need to go back to it or try to talk about it because it's never coming back." AT ONE TIME, though, Wallace fought hard against desegregation attempts by the federal gover- ment. "But it wasn't a fight against the blacks," he insists. "It was just the government we were fighting.

We lost those battles, and we adjusted and went ahead. We're now looking ahead instead of behind." Asked whether desegregation would have occurred in the South without federal court intervention, Wallace replies, "I think it would have come about eventually, yes." Then he adds, "But I will admit and can understand now that the things that the federal government forced upon us, such as doing away with segregated eating places and riding in buses and so forth, has turned out for the best." HE SAYS HE "opposed such as that in those days because it was an infringement upon private enterprise and an infringement upon property rights. "All those things are over now, though. It will be best if things are never back the way they were in the old days. It's better like it is now.

And it makes the black people of this state feel that they have a part of i By SCOTT SHEPARD Associated Press Writer MONTGOMERY, Ala. As he prepares to leave the office from which he once cried, "Segregation forever," Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace says he now feels it is best that segregation is gone, like the Old South from which it sprang. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Wallace discussed a wide range of topics, but dwelled at length on the 1960s civil rights struggle, in which he played the antagonist's role.

WALLACE BURST onto the national political scene in 1963 when, in his inaugural address as Alabama's newly elected governor, he cried: "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever." Six months later, he stood in the school house door to block two black students from entering the University of Alabama. He parlayed that defiance of a federal desegregation order into an unprecedented three terms as governor and into four tumultuous presidential cam- i Saluting.