Robesonian (Newspaper) - August 23, 1973, Lumberton, North Carolina Temperature high 80 low 63 Noon today 76 degrees Call 7394322 Have your Robesonian delivered at home VOL 163 PUBLISHED 6 WEEKDAYS AND SUNDAY IN ROBESON COUNTY LUMBERTON NC THURSDAY AUGUST 231973 ESTABLISHED 1870 COUNTRY GOD AND TRUTH TWENTYFOUR 10 Cents Nixon Firm In Denying Any Guilt In Watergate President Reveals Nomination Kissinger Replaces Rogers As US Secretary Of State By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN CLEMENTE Calif AP Declaring that Water gate is water under the bridge and giving ex that conceded no personal negligence Richard Nixon responded Wednesday for the first time in five months to direct questions about the scandal that has shaken his presidency I shall not resign Nixon said And in the latest of his at tempts to put Watergate behind him he declared it is time to get on with the business of the people Polls show Nixons prior statements and speeches of Wa tergate innocence were vincing to many So the dent sought this time to regain public confidence by answering questions at a news conference a move urged by many of his political friends Nixons replies during the minute event outside the West ern White House contained few new disclosures to add to the mountain of often contradictory Burglaries Large By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON ident Nixon claims burglaries such as the one in the Daniel Ellsberg case occurred on a very large scale during the Johnson and Kennedy years But some officials from those administrations deny v any knowledge of such breakins No activity was authorized by me arid I think were en titled to know what hes talking about said former Atty Gen Nicholas deB Katzenbach who served in the Justice Depart ment in various positions under both Presidents John K Kenne dy and Lyndon B Johnson George Christian former press secretary to Johnson said I dont know what he is talking about Nixon at his press conference Wednesday in San Clemente Calif said he views as illegal unauthorized and completely deplorable the burglary of the office of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Pa pers defendant Daniel Ellsberg by a unit directed by White House aides But he also noted that under both Kennedy and Johnson burglarizing of this type took place on a very large scale See D on Page 2 Watergate detail produced by investigations and statements But they provided the dents view of how certain events struck him and why he reacted to them as he did And though there was not time for many of the lingering Water gate questions to be raised or answered Nixon by holding the news conference could now say he had made himself avail able to answer any of those questions Nixon opened with the an that William P Rogers is resigning as secre tary of state and will be suc ceeded by Henry A Kissinger But the preoccupation with Watergate showed strikingly when reporters asked not a single question about that top level change which in more normal times would have pro a barrage of inquiries Instead when questioning did veer from Watergate it moved to another area of rumored scandal the Maryland political ESCORTED BY FBI AGENTS William Frederick Sargent an American In dian Movement leader was transferred Wednesday from the Federal Court Building in Fayetteville to the Cumberland County Jail where he was com mitted in lieu of a cash or property bond Sargent was arrested in con with several tons of documents removed from the Bureau of Indian Af fairs building and discovered in the Maxton area April 9 Price Photo Actual Residence Proof Faces Some School Parents By VIRGINIA SIMKINS Parents who have previously lived outside the limits of the Lumberton City School District and who now claim to have legal residences within the same city school district so that their Critically Burned In Plane Crash By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer GALVESTON Tex AP Former astronaut Fred W Haise Jr has suffered critical burns in the crash of a World War II training plane during a landing attempt here Haise 39 was admitted to a Galveston hospital Doctors said he had second degree burns over 50 per cent of his body with patches of third de Partly cloudy skies are forecast for this with fair predicted for tonight Partly cloudy conditions are expected to prevail again on Friday with a chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers Winds will be northeasterly from 5 to 15 mph today and light and mostly easterly tonight Rainfall probability is 20 per cent today and tonight and 30 per cent on Friday The level of Lumber River was measured at 635 feet this morning at the Moore Bridge checkpoint Sunrise and sunset today am and pm Friday am and pm gree burns on his legs The former astronaut was flying a a World War II basic trainer when the engine quit Wednesday night officials said Haise said he attempted to the craft on a shoreline but a land ing gear failed to lower proper ly and the airplane cartwheel ed One wing was torn off and the aircraft burned Haise said that when he tried to get out of the wreck the can opy jammed He said he kicked his way free and was able to walk away When he got here he was alert said a hospital spokes man who described Haises condition as critical but stable Officials said the plane Haise was flying belonged to the Con federate Air Force an organ of aircraft buffs who collect fly and exhibit World War aircraft It was painted to resemble a Japanese torpedo attack fighter Haise was ferrying the air plane from Angleton Airport southwest of Galveston to an airport in this island city In his only space flight Haise was the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 13 moon mission in 1970 Haise resigned the astronaut corps earlier this year and was named a technical assistant in the space shuttle development program at the Johnson Space Center near Houston children may attend the Lum berton City Schools have the burden of proving that their residences are ac tual residences maintained with the full intent of making them legal residences This was carefully explained to some 15 the Board of Education of the Lumberton City Schools met with those families Wednesday evening at the boards offices Present to meet the concerned parents who wish to their children from schools to which they are under present residency cir into the Lumberton City Schools by reason of parents setting up a second residency within the Lumberton district were members of the board of education Dr Gilbert Carroll superintendent of Lumberton City Schools and Robert F Floyd lawyer of Fairmont who was present as counsel for the board of education Competition Remains Stiff On Local Marts The competition is stiff but the attitude is friendly on both Robeson County tobacco markets and both seem to hold better as the season progresses Fairmont Sales Supervisor Charlie Stafford reported that Wednesday sales brought an average price of per hundred pounds This was from a sale of 1020098 pounds for That brings the season total to 18687961 pounds which sold for The season averages is Stafford reported that highest price paid Wednesday was Supervisor Thompson of the See Page 2 Knox Barnes chairman of the city board of education in Dr Carroll who reviewed the matter of children from another school district attending the Lumberton City Schools He noted that several years ago the crossing of school lines was permitted under certain conditions Students from other districts were per mitted to attend Lumberton City Schools if a tuition fee was paid This fee was to balance the tax which Lumberton residents pay for the support of schools MOVES BARRED Then the Department of Health Education and Welfare banned the crossing of school district lines Children were required by law to attend schools in the district in which the Page 2 payoff probe involving Vice President Spiro T Agnew Nixon expressed confidence in his running mate and as Agnew did Tuesday voiced outrage at leaks to news media from sources close to the case In another coverup area See Page 2 Decision On Tapes Upcoming By DONALD M ROTHBERG Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP The tough federal judge who pre sided over the Watergate trial says he will decide within a week whether to order dent Nixon to release tape recordings of nine presidential conversations US District Court Judge John J Sirica who already had received 123 pages of written argument listened to a two hour courtroom debate day between Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox and Charles Alan Wright President Nixons lawyer He said he would rule by next Wednesday on Coxs request that he order the President to obey a subpoena demanding the tapes of conversations about Watergate See Page 2 School Buses Begin Rolling Around Robeson School buses are starting to roll in Robeson and County School Superintendent Young Allen has renewed his annual plea for driver safety Through Maxton St Pauls and Red Springs will be having some school traffic this week the primary affect will come next week when all 248 school buses venture forth for the opening of the new school year in the county Lumberton and Fairmont as well Allen urges drivers to view the big yellow buses as a rolling caution sign and asks that distances of 100 feet on open road and 50 feet in business districts by maintained behind the buses One of the most dangerous times for children is waiting for the school bus at a point alongside the road Drivers are urged to keep a sharp eye out for tiny tots particularly between the hours of 7 to am and 3 to pm By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP Hen ry A Kissinger the principal theoretician in the Nixon administration is moving in as secretary of state in a Cabinet shift that drama tizes the drive for warm rela tions with China and the Soviet Union William P Rogers is giving way as affable as ever he said Wednesday he felt like HENRY A KISSINGER the last of the whooping cranes to return to a suc law practice in New York Rogers 60 was the only re maining member of President Nixons initial Cabinet He said he never intended to stay past the first term but remained an additional seven months to help nail down the ceasefire in Viet nam and to fulfill other diplo matic missions I would have left whether there had been a Watergate or not he told reporters At a news conference in San Clemente Calif President Nix on announced Rogers resigna tion and said he is nominating Kissinger to replace him If confirmed by the Senate Kissinger a bach elor who admires movie ac tresses and other fashionable women will be the first Jewish and first secretary of state family fled Nazi Germany when he was a teenager He is now an Ameri can citizen Foreign policy is considered the administrations strongest point and Kissinger is clearly the chief strategist He pro moted Nixons overture to China including the historic trip last year to Peking the summit exchanges with Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I Brezhnev and the current ef fort to reshape US relations with European allies and Ja pan And he was the driving force to negotiate a ceasefire in Vietnam However Rogers may have felt privately he spoke proudly of the administrations foreign policy accomplishments and of his own role The 1970 ceasefire that halted the war between Is rael and the Arab states gave him the greatest personal faction My sole regret is that we were not able to end the war in Indochina more speedily he told a group of newsmen as he sipped a soft drink in his com office at the State Department I dont see much more that we could have accomplished than we have Kissinger still will hold his position as Nixons national se curity adviser The dual role is unprecedented Even Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who generally had his way was denied it by President Dwight D Eisenhower Swann Resigns Post As County Extension Agent Index Classified 1415 Comics 22 Editorial 4 Entertainment 6 Obituaries 2 Sports 910 Television 6 Womens News 1213 Earl Swann tobacco specialist and agent with the County Agricultural Extension Service active in agricultural governmental and social ac in the county for the past eleven years has resigned his position with the county ef August 31 planning a move to a similar job in Alamance County W C Williford county ex tension chairman and Swanns immediate superior says he and his staff sincerely regrets loosing Swann as he been a loyal dedicated and efficient member of the Robeson County Extension team His pleasant outgoing nature and eagerness to continually improve his subject matter knowledge has made his an important extension team member Although his moving to Alamance County will leave a big gap on the Robeson ex tension staff we wish him the best in his new job In his activities while in Robeson Swann has served on the Lumberton Planning Board serving for some 10 years as its chairman since September of 1972 He has also spent four years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Southeastern General Hospital and one year as of the Lum berton Civic Citizens association A Mason and Shriner Swann has been active also in Historic Robeson Inc an organization designed to preserve and protect historic items pertaining to the county serving as president for the organization Swann helped to found the organization as the result of an idea sparked by an antique display at the Trade Professional affiliations in clude in the district state and national associations of county agriculture agents with his See Page 2 Agnew Accorded Strong Support By President SAN CLEMENTE Calif AP President Nixon has declared his continued strong support of Vice President Spiro T Agnew and has personally asked the Justice Department to investigate news leaks about a criminal investigation in which Agnew is involved Nixons request for an inves was relayed to Atty Gen Elliot L Richardson on Wednesday by White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig said a Justice Department spokesman in Washington The spokesman John Hush en added that Richardson would take every reasonable step to plug the leaks At a news conference here Wednesday Nixon said he wel the chance to respond to reports that he no longer fully now that the vice president is involved in a Baltimore grand jury probe of alleged kickbacks and political corruption I want to set the record straight Nixon told newsmen in his first personal public statement on Agnews legal troubles I had confidence in the integrity of the vice dent when I selected him as vice confidence in his integrity has not been shaken In fact it has been strengthened by his courageous conduct and his ability Nixon said he felt it improper to comment on specific allega tions against Agnew because the matter is before a grand jury which legally conducts its business secretly He also de comment on whether Ag new would be asked to resign if indicted Nixon called such speculation inappropriate Nixon made his statement less than 24 hours after Agnew had publicly accused Unnamed Justice Department officials of leaking investigative informa tion in a deliberate smear cam 1 aimed at affecting the grand jurys deliberations Richardson has said there is no evidence of such tactics at this time Robeson Republicans Gather To Mark Switchover Of Avery Nye To GOP AVERY NYE By TONI GOOD YEAR Robesonian Staff Writer Republicans held a at the Holiday Inn North Wed night to celebrate the switchover of Avery Nye of Lumberton former vice president of the US Jaycees to the Republican Party The Republicans apparently have high hopes for Nye who at 33 looks every inch the part of a successful candidate and who admits he is thinking about running for office on either the state or U S levels He is expected to carry weight with the young middleclass population and may have some impact statewide as former president of the North Carolina Jaycees Gene Anderson special assistant to Gov Jim Holshouser described the political move as part of a conscious hard push to go after the most promising young men in North Carolina to attract the young leaders of our state to our party Nye a Democrat since first registering to vote officially switched his party affiliation Wednesday afternoon and three party men were on night to as Anderson put it be there when Avery Included were George Little deputy secretary of the Dept of Natural and Economic Resources and David Jones secretary of Social Rehabilitation Control At the reception Nye hosted about 25 Republicans and a few borderline cases and said he switched parties to work toward a system in Robeson and North Carolina With a system the most qualified man would get elected all the time Nye said The way registration is now a lot of people vote party line without caring about the can We need to work toward equal Republican registration He displays confidence that a system can be achieved in Robeson saying that many people who are dissatisfied with the Democrats have never been asked to switch Anderson regards Nyes changeover as proof to the state that Republicans are going to play the competition game in building for the future rather than accepting the current Republican administration as a deal In a brief speech to those at tending the reception Anderson said Nye means more to Robeson County the Seventh District and the state than anyone whos switched over in a long time Fore years this county has been reputed to be one of the most counties in the state Anderson siad It took guts for Nye to become Republican He could have made it to the top in time in the Democratic Party Anderson described Robeson as a county with more poten Soe Page 2
