Gastonia Gazette, The (Newspaper) - August 10, 1973, Gastonia, North Carolina Cars and pedestrians in downtown Gastonia came to a sudden halt during the lunch hour Thursday when a shot rang out and a man fell wounded The mans wife was charged with the shooting Good evening Its Friday August 10 1973 worst that can o good cause is not to be skillfully attacked but to be ineptly rederic A A A THE GASTONIA GAZETTE The Gastonia 1973 2 Sections 24 Pages THE PIEDMONTS ING NEWSPAPER North Carolina Single Copy 10 Doily Sunday i He put baby to be shot 1 t f A 23yearold father laid his daughter on the sidewalk when his pointed a gun at hirn on Main Avenue at noon Thursday When the child was safe the woman allegedly shot her husband wounding him in the leg v Danny W McCraw of Anderson St was the right leg above the knee with a 22caliber revolver Police arrested his wife Nancy Weaver of 320 Church St charging her with assault with a deadly weapon The man and his wife were reportedly bound for a lawyers downtown office Thursday and couldn t find a parking space and husband took the little girl and got out of the car City Police said Walking down the street the husband later saw his wife parked in front of Courageous Snack Bar at 238 W Main He told police that when he attempted to give the child back to her she pointed a gun at him He said he was afraid the baby would be shot so he placed her on the sidewalk Mrs McCraw then reportedly pulled the trigger Mrs McCraw was released in custody of her lawyer After the shooting traffic ground to a halt on Main Avenue A crowd gathered quickly as the Gastori Life Saving Crew loaded the wounded man into the ambulance for a trip to Gastori Hospital The wound was Laird kept bombing FREE GASOLINE Dellinger Jr of 339 Lane fills his tank with free gasoline at Service Distributing Gas Station this morning Stations at 813 W Franklin Ave and 1612 W Franklin Ave each gave away 750 gallons of high lest Assistant Manager Danny Martin leaning on pump said He gas was given away because the stations had been overcharging Word spreads fast when stations give gas away The word spreads like wildfire Service Distributing gas stations arc giving their gasoline Cars began lining up all true Stations at 813 and 1612 W Franklin Ave each gave away 750 gallons of gasoline on a basis beginning at today Within two hours the stations had given away gallons its one customer commented after filling his I dont know why Deaths June Peterson kings Mountain Mrs Kollaway Helmont Klaine Cobb Bessemer City Oils B Danny Martin manager of the 813 W Franklin wasnt sure either A government man told us wo had been charging too much for We jp just give the gas away than government for the The manager was Inking Ihc layoff Some service prices for gas have under federal like amount for a price The of which has five in refused in comment on the free gasoline Id rather no make any ho said Asked his name the manager replied Will While Secretary R Laird personally plan for thousands of raids against troop sanctuaries in Camr bodia according to a lop secret memo made public Thursday from March 1969 to April 1970 were ordered at a time when the United States was professing the neutrality of the Cambodian government The memo linking Laird now President Nixons top domestic adviser to the deliberately camouflaged raids was released by Deputy Defense Secretary William P Clements Jr during testimony before the Senale Armed Services Committee The memo dated Nov 20 1969 other areas would be selected inside South Vietnam which would not actually be struck Instead military record keepers would show each Cambodia mission as haying occurred in South Vietnam A second set of statistics showing where the bombs actually fell was held by a tiny number of top civilian and military officials with a The Armed Services has spent three weeks investigating why the Defense Department falsely reported lhat stroles in Cambodia occurred in South Viet nam Sen Harold E Hughes said This is Ihe first indication Ive had on paper that there were orders to false information in the Adm Thomas H the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said similar reporting methods were used as far back as 1966 and under Ihc Johnson before the committee released a second memo indicating former Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara approved a similar method lo the one approved by Laird and intended lo lead the press astray That memo concerned 1967 strikes in Laos The Laird memo said Ihe Cambodian strikes should be classed as one of the most significant contributions of the war by Clements said Ihe strikes and the way they were initially kept the public was a firstclass operation f dont think anybody in he Defense needs As to what happened in Ihc misreporting of Ihc bombing statistics to Congress last spring however we just dropped a slitch Clements in office for just six months was asked if the dual reporting system was de signed solely to keep the raids from the North Vietnamese and not the Congress and the American public A man and his trike Oscar Kenneth Boyer 66 Wilkinson Boulevard toward Gastonia as he heads for a nights lodging He didnt know then that during the night some body would chains that held it to a post at the Salvation Army transient lodge and would make off with it The bottom photo shows Boyer as be front of the courthouse this morning contemplating his fate now that his trike is gone Thief in night stole his By BIU Ten years and miles later a man who bus lo be he champion of the United Slates pulled into for a nights rest and promptly has his tricycle stolen For Ihc first time Kenneth 66 an of cheek and white of hair wheeled down about I oclock afternoon coming from He Headed for the Salvation Army transient lodge on Avenue however the went outside and chained his trike to a porch post He also chained the back wheels Early this morning one of the men with whom he bunked came in arid asked him if he had moved his bike during the replied Then somebody stole end Thats answered exactly Clements INSIDE TODAY Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Horoscope Opinion Page Sports Theaters Weather Womans News 6H 6B ft 21B T The two went outside and found only Ihc chains where the bike II was a big with an oversized seat It cost hirn when he bought it in about a It was bis ninth bike and all old more than miles by under their wheels described il as having 26inch wheels three speeds a basket oh Ihe rear rearview mirror and a light oh the handlebars The is 10020 He said be would stay town tonight hoping that Ihe police might find il before he has to leave Saturday 1 cant stay any longer than he said Ive got to get on down lo and gel me a few odd I can buy He said that he exists on his Social Security check along with a liltle money which people give me from time to said he stopped of fin Gastonia because night was catching him He said he was ravelling Highway 29 and would continue on to Spartanburg from here Gazette photographer Terry spotted Boyer corning into near The He snapped the picture that accompanies article said he decided 10 years ago that he would not end up in a rest home after he retired For awhile he Worked odd jobs hiked Then when his Social coming in he retired completely and went fulltime riding of his tricycle 1 enough money I decided wanted losee Ihc country and I didnt have enough money lo slay put anyhow So I bought He says he sleeps where he can op park benches in woods in transient homes After 10 years of pedaling arid pushing night where he is the first time he has had his trike stolen Somebody wanted il more n he said thai he would have to let his he buy another bike By odd jobs he figures j lo be arid have to spend money on lodging I hope they can i Wn Wn Once he road thai would satisfy the or train or bus You really gel to eyeball this great land on a get people in the world Ive never been hit by 1 a car and Ive never been rolled by some record t V salon Ihe benth in reflecting on Ws spend Ihe bus around Ihc on the courthouse bench hat would beable to turnip Ws mode of bad somebody stole that trike he Mid but no They wanted It p
