Florence Morning News (Newspaper) - June 9, 1970, Florence, South Carolina OUR YEAR No 160 The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina FLORENCE S C TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 9 1970 if if OAKY oc SUNDAY U S Envoy Kidnaped Released in Jordan By The Press f Israel fought the Arabs on two j fronts Monday and a an group in Amman kidnaped and then released a U.S diplo- mat after first announcing that he would be held until nian authorities set free about 40 captured guerrillas U.S Embassy officials in man confirmed the release of their political officer Morri Draper reportedly seized Sun day night at a guerrilla road block as he was going to a par Draper is in good shape is fine and as far as we can tell at this stage has not been said a spokesman The decision to free Draper apparently was taken at a cial meeting attended by all guerrilla organizations based in Jordan But there was no immediate word whether rillas arrested after a clash with Jordanian troops Sunday had been released Draper 42 is a native of fornia who joined the State De- in 1957 He has held a number of Middle East posts On the fighting fronts the Syrian military command claimed that its gunners downed three Israeli planes and de- six tanks than six hours of fighting along the cease-fire line A Syrian army communique issued in Damascus said there were more than 60 Israeli in the clash in the Golan Heights as the iest in that area since April It said seven Syrian soldiers were killed and 23 wounded A spokesman in said earlier 11 Israeli soldiers had been wounded in the action The Syrian spokesman said Arab artillery destroyed the settlements of Nahal er and Nahal Surman All important defense lations at the two settlements were the spokesman said He claimed that four observation posts and three gun batteries were de- or put out of action in the Golan Heights and Mt mon The Syrians claimed that the three Israeli planes were winged by their antiaircraft fire and were seen going down in the Golan re- gion They said one Syrian tar an antiaircraft gun and a military vehicle were damaged State's Voters Head for Polls Interest Centered On Congress Race Florence County voters face choices for from the U S Congress to the State House o the County Courthouse when they go to the polls Tuesday in the Democratic primary There will be no Republican primary in the ty this year although dates for the GOP will challenge Democrats in the November general election Court to Decide Housing Question in the fighting The military command in Tel Aviv denied the Syrians had destroyed Nahal Gesher It also denied that there had been any Israeli air losses In Cairo the military com- mand said waves of Israeli jets struck at Egyptian positions along the Suez Canal over a four-hour period Monday but CROWD GATHERS IN BUENOS AWES ARGENTINA FOLLOWING MILITARY COUP President Juan Carlos Organic Reported Deposed In Monday's Action Argentine Military Seizes Government BUENOS AIRES AP to assume immediately said Monday in Rio De Janeiro ran into ground fire caused no Egyptian losses of tina's army navy and air force announced Monday afternoon hat Lt Gen Juan Carlos had been deposed as resident and they were taking over the government Newsmen House said a t Government was Arizona Man Is Indicted In Hi barricaded inside the building protected by heavily ed cavalry troops that normally serve as the presidential guard personal helicopter landed on the roof of the building as 500 soldiers sent by the three military commanders up positions nearby The army reported that i troops loyal to the three armed forces chiefs also were moving two military bases i toward garrisons were said to support the political leadership of the country As a the com- said Lt Gen Juan Carlos has been removed from his duties as president of the nation A later announcement said a new president would be named within 10 days The initial communique was signed by Lt Gen Alejandro Lanusse of the army Adm Pedro Gnavi of the navy and Brig Gen Juan Carlos Rey of the air force Earlier in the day fired Lanusse and said he would take personal command o f Argentina's army Some observers traced the beginnings of the coup to the A communique broadcast I kidnaping May 29 of former NEWPORT NEWS Va AP A husky Arizona truck driver accused of hijacking a jet airliner with 58 persons and demanding a million ransom was indicted Monday for aircraft piracy and in- with a flight crew A federal grand jury of 12 men and 10 women returned the two county indictment against Auther G Barkley 49 of Phoenix who was captured by the two pilots of the TWA jet in a cockpit gun battle last Thursday night The court records spelled his name Auther However his wife and his personal records in Phoenix Ariz use the spell ing lover the network said the armed forces commanders had President Pedro Aramburu But Gen Osiris Villegas tina's ambassador to Brazil it had been in the works for some time Villegas former director of the tine National Security Council Aramburu still was missing Monday but a radio station in Montevideo capital of neighboring Uruguay received a call from a man who claimed to be one of the kidnapers and said the former released president in in the next few days Compassion MADISON Wis AP Truman Torgerson president of the Wisconsin Alumni sociation was the final er at the University of consin commencement day He said the theme of his talk was from Matthew chapter 14 verse He had compassion on the With that Torgerson left the speakers platform Maximum punishment for the first count is death and for the second count life imprisonment Barkley frustrated by the U S Supreme Court's rejection of his income tax appeal several weeks ago was into custody when the taken plane landed for the second time at Dulles International Airport after eight nightmarish hours for the 51 passengers and seven crew members Nixon Grants Million to Peru Finch Will Direct Relief Program Tapping interest in the area s the choice of a congressman rom the 6th District with four in the field On- the statewide ballot the op race will be for lieutenant The present governor John C West is unopposed for governor and will not be on the ballot He has been declared the party's nominee and will face two opponents in November On the county ballot the voters will choose between seven candidates for four seats in the State House of Represen They also will pick a probate judge from three and in County Council District 2 voters will choose between two in the primary for one seat Congressman L McMillan first elected in 1938 faces H Craig of Hartsville an attorney Olin B Sansbury of Darlington an in- at the University of South Carolina at Florence Dr Claud L Stephens a Kingstree stepping stone to the Governor's Mansion for three of the last four in the post State Sen Earle E Morris of Pickens County faces State Rep C Heyward Belser of See ELECTION Page 2A The Supreme Court will decide whether municipal voters can ban construction of federal low-cost housing See Page President Nixon conferred with textile i leaders and other interested in the tion of competitive imports See Page The local American Legion baseball season got under way Monday night See Page IB Index Classified Comics Deaths 2A Editorials Horoscope Markets 3B Sports IB Women WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild through High today and Wednesday in lower 80s low tonight in 60s Details Page IN PEE DEE COUNTY CONTESTS Those Dillon Incumbents State Senators Rest Up The two incumbent Dillon former Hep John Gardner Sasser Sidney Floyd McMillan has run usual quiet campaign in which he stresses his seniority and ing position on the House Agriculture Committee H e says that he has worked to handle problems of his con- with the federal government and says he is ning on his record The challengers have the value of McMillan's seniority and said the district needs a more vigorous voice in Washington Stephens the first serious candidate in- generations las brought the greatest unknown quantity into the campaign McMillan has always scored well with blacks and Stephens expects to take a ood part of his black strength away In the race for lieutenant which has proved a WASHINGTON AP dent Nixon announced Monday A million grant to earth Peru and pointed his new White House Robert H Finch to run the program Finch who became counselor to Nixon Saturday after 17 months as Secretary of the De- of Health Education and Welfare will coordinate all U.S relief efforts with the vian government There was no immediate word Monday on whether Finch himself would go to Peru Peace Corps Director Joseph is already in Lima where he was to meet Monday light with President Juan aseo to begin organizing a gram work in which Americans can on emergency and long term reconstruction projects The Peruvian government has estimated the death toll from the May 31 earthquake to be at least In this his first White House Dead LIMA Peru AP Repaired communications brought new reports of devastation Monday from Peru's giant earthquake and a government spokesman acknowledged the death toll is at least We have no way of ing how many were Augusta Zimmerman spokesman for P r e s I d e n I Juan told a news conference There are thousands but we cannot say how many assignment Finch will establish a special steering group to all government relief forts and work with the vian government The group will include of the Agency for International De- velopment HEW the Peace Corps and the Departments of State and Defense The million grant will come out of AID funds White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said He said lion of it has already been re- leased and will go for cy release the rest for tation Ziegler outlined other relict efforts including the dispatch of earthquake specialists from the Interior Department and cal personnel from Uic Public Health Service King-Size Lottery Set In New York NEW YORK AP Plans for the first tery were disclosed Monday by state lottery officials Tickets for the top prize plus smaller awards probably will go on sale Friday said Ernest B Bird the former FBI agent who directs the tery division of the state tax de- tickets will cost each The regular monthly tickets cost each The big winner gets the prize at a rate of a year for 20 years to take some of the sting out of the ax bite Besides the Bird said these sums will County members of the Warr Houes of Representatives the Lamar area Dar well Monday County Commission seat Gordon Brown is They were the only by Franklin Bud in the Pee Dee in countywide voting for seats in the House of Representatives two Tuesday's Democratic seats Reps H F Bel and Robert Raley are joined by State senators were H Pate in the race too None of them run one seat Rep Joe Coker Reps W B Hawkins and Charles Plowden and J McLeod were declared Odom County Democratic when no opposition Incumbent Hayes faces Victory In other counties Jr for delinquent tax races shape up like and road supervisor Darlington three House seats Heps D is challenged by Jack Carter and Gaddy Johnson and E J Smith four House George Burr Gary Byrd Jr seats Reps John TNT CHARGES 7 Bragg Die in FT BRAGG AP 10 or 11 trainees were to Seven Special Forces the charges then were killed and five 200 yards to bleachers to the blast he said But Monday in an explosion on the Ft said the instructor touched wire to the first charge The Army said the unaware the wire was were- participating in raining at the Coleman was not immediately known tion Area when the explosion the instructor involved curred at about among the five dead An and Charles face Howard Moore Kenneth Burr and Ben Todd Marion two House seats Rep John H Waller Jr and former Rep John Kirby Waddell Byrd William Derrick Carlisle Jones and B Cecil Powers Marion County Auditor uval Williams is facing Joe S Marlboro one House eat Rep Edward B ingham is opposed by Larry Overstreet and John Rogers II For auditor in Marlboro Grace Gibson and John Nicholson Jr are Williamsburg two louse seats Rep Ernest Barter is opposed by Jessie and Kingstree Mayor rank McGill Schnicke 27 of Madison An Army spokesman be a second prize of third prize prize and 10 fifth of each There also will be 10 prizes of each 10 prizes of each 10 prizes of each 10 of each and 100 prizes of each Three of the five admitted to spokesman said the in- jured and the other five dead would be identified when their families had been notified Womack Army Hospital were in serious condition a spokesman said The identity of the dead and wounded was withheld pending notification of next of kind Two of the seven dead diers were identified as Sgt 1st Class Ernest J Bryan 37 of Fayetteville and Sgt Phillip N Wis said Bryan's mother lived in the Panama Canal Zone A spokesman for the Special Forces Lt Col Charles Siler said the deaths occurred when an Army instructor y touched an electrically charged wire to a series of 20 one-pound charges of TNT ig- them all simultaneously Siler said the charges were lying on the ground in front of a of 12 men participating in training The roup included either one or two instructors he said Luxury Liner NORFOLK Va AP The liner United States once the queen of the North Atlantic senger route will be towed to the Norfolk International Thursday where she will be placed in dead storage The big luxury liner had been berthed since November at the giant Newport News ing and Dry Dock Co where a skeleton crew kept her under watch though not shipshape United States Lines owner of the ship said Monday it will pay the Norfolk Port and trial Authority per month to allow the vessel to remain lied up at the terminals Compromise Approved WASHINGTON AP The enate passed Monday and sent o the House a compromise illion extending for three ears the hospital id program The measure would authorize 1.26 billion to continue the grant aid for on and modernization of als considerably more than President Nixon asked It also contains a new lion guaranteed loan program with the government to pay 3 per cent of the interest costs Nixon asked for the loans but not the interest subsidies The retains the present formula for allocation of the grant money which gives extra benefits to low-income chiefly rural states The Senate originally had adopted a now formula which would have helped industrial states but this was deleted in conference However a provision was in- directing the Health and Welfare ment to make a study of ble formula changes and report in two years So far federal grants under have totaled lion They have assisted hospital projects over the tion
