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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - April 1, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather. News Washington daily news Estable Mcd 1909 Washington North Carolina it one so a anti noon april 1970 if you do not got your paper. Dial mwz145 to twin i and to o Lork and an i a de to Yea. Daily except sunday so North vietnamese pc named Alma by Frank Carey a science writer Washington a no launch heavy attacks mind Oia school building at old Ford Scopes goes Back to classroom Nashville Tenn apr 1 John t Scopes goes Hack to biology class today 45< Yean after he touched off the famous a Monkey trial by teaching Darwin s theory of evolution in a Tennessee High school the invitation for Scopes to make his first classroom appearance since the 1925 trial in Dayton tenn., came from the Peabody uni Venity student committee said Gary Reynolds. A 20-year-old Peoria iii., social science major who is the committee s co chairman a the has the Appeal today of a Man who stood up for what he believed this Appeal was valid in 1925, its valid today and it will hold up in the Scopes now to and a retired geologist living in Shreveport i la., planned to meet first with Peabody biology students to discuss his experiences. Later in the Day he was to meet with a newsmen and give a lecture in Peabody a 300-seat auditorium. The Tennessee trip also brought a reunion with a Roommate from College Days 82-year-old John l. Stark of Jackson. Tenn. A we roomed together at the University of Chicago after the trial a Stark recalled in a Telephone interview tuesday night. A the talked very freely about testing the evolution Law but he had a Good sense of balance. He turned Down movie contracts and the like did t want the Stark is a retired head of the Northwestern University Geolo-1 by department and a former . Geological Survey employee s Scopes was 25 years old just out try the University of Kentucky and teaching at Rhea county High school in Dayton when he decided to test Tennessee a Law against evolutionist teaching. That decision pitted William i Jennings Bryan against Clarence Harrow in one of the great courtroom Battles of the Century. In a steaming week in july special prosecutor Bryan argued for the Bible and fundamentalism. Defender Darrow tried to show that there was room in education for both the evolution theory of Darwin and the teachings of the Bible. Scopes was convicted and fined 9109. The verdict was later overturned by the1 state us Tsee Scopes Page 14 use of mine la tech City Board to offer proposal by de w Alker. Or. Staff writer or a 11 Ujj the ally Kabool 57 killed Board and Beaufort county tech officials agreed last night at if a a Quot in Morocco missioner with a plan involving the mine la school facility which both parties feel will meet their pressing needs and be economically sound the mine la school was vacated last year with its students transferred to other schools in the City. The building and grounds Are owned by the City schools. The plan proposed would be that the county commissioners appropriate approximately 160,000 for the construction of a maintenance and storage building behind Eastern elementary school for the use of the City schools. In Exchange for the new facility the City schools would deed the mine la school to the county commissioners which could be used by the technical Institute seeking to consolidate several of its six branches and do away with the High rent in their present locations. Leases expired tuesday night on the old fire House building along with the old Wachovia Bank building. Beaufort tech would move immediately out of the old Wachovia building and the building on Highway 17 currently used for practical nursing. The school would utilize mine la for these purposes. The use of mine la would also according to Charles Byrd tech president give the Institute several additional and much needed classrooms. According to Jasper Lewis City school superintendent the maintenance facility is priority number one for the City schools As the present facility is a falling Down on top of Byrd indicated that the Institute has absolutely no intention of changing its 10-year building plan now under construction and would use mine la Only to help consolidate its facilities during the interim period. Graham Elliott chairman of the institutes Board of directors said mine la could be utilized by Beaufort tech for a period of two to five years very profitably. A both parties believed the move to be economically sound As the see school. Page 14 crash today Casablanca Morocco apr a moroccan twin Jet Cara Velle crashed within two Miles of the no masseur Airport while coming in for a Landing today. Airline officials said 25 of the 82 persons aboard survived the crash and a fire which roared through the front part of the plane. The Royal aur Morac flight from Agadir an Atlantic resort in Southern Morocco to Paris with a Stop at Casablanca carried 76 passengers and a Crew of six. Among the passengers were 28 tourists returning from a stay at the club Modi Terra net vacation Colony at Agadir debris was scattered Over an area of nearly a mile the wings were found 350 Yards teamsters apart. The Tail of the plane was r fuselage0"1 Quot my a Quot Par s Tay on j of most of the survivors were believed to have been sitting in the Tail Section which was spared from fire after the Craft Tore apart under the Impact. Abdeslam Ben Hammou. Governor of Agadir province was one of the survivors two Cabin matter what women s liberation groups Tomk. The weather by u says the first Hurricane this year is going to be called Alma not Ambrose. Alpha. Aardvark or anything else the flip started last Friday Ronatte Bolton of the no. Liona 1 organization of women now a women s rights outfit stormed into the National Hurricane Center in Miami a woman Are not disasters destroying life and communities i a a. Ii a a a i ,�,.5 i a a t a Tating effect a she said demanding hurricanes be called something else if now s demand was not met in a week or 10 Days she said the women would move on weather Bureau Headquarters in Washington Bureau spokesmen said tuesday the 1970 list reads Alma. Beckey Celia Dorothy. Ella and so on. Roxie was on there in 1968 but no season has Ever had enough hurricanes to get past Martha or Robert m White of the Commerce department Branch that includes the weather Bureau said the subject of Hurricane names will be considered routinely next january when All the government Hurricane experts meet again that s All White would say about it. Several Bureau officials said the present system in effect since 1953. Is a Good one the names Are easy to understand Over radios for instance no one volunteered what would be in the Way of such names As Ambrose. The military presently uses a phonetic alphabet for radio clarity which goes Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo. As a matter of fact a Bureau official said they get mail All the time from women approving the system. Some even ask to have one named alter them Lack of Money squabbles hurting american party by Simmons associated press writer Ati Anta. A t apr two years ago. George Wallace of Alabama won a place on the ballot of All 50 states As a third party candidate for president he did it through the efforts of a group of state organizations using various names but referred to generally a the Amer ican Independent party air. At the Peak of hts Campaign there was speculation that Wal laces organization conceivably could form the nucleus of a a and competing with Repult cans and democrats in some states. As the 1970 elections draw closer however the air. Almost everywhere is suffering from a Lack of funds a Lack of organization and from Intra party squabbles its Chance according to a National Survey by the associated press of electing anything More than a hand Ful of local and or state officials Are extremely Remote in Many cases where Candi Datil Are being offered this Jor permanent third party offer year party spokesmen a knowl ing state and local candidates Edge that they have Little Hope of winning even in the five Southern Stales which Wallace earned in 1988. Air activity is either fragmented 6# my Stu Quot ent in Wallace s Home state of Alabama. Ironically there is no air in his presidential Campaign Wallace used the regular party machinery there gov Albert Brewer was one of his electors and Hubert h. Humphrey was listed As the Candi Date lot l i silent of two splinter groups the National democratic party of Alabama and the Alabama Independent dem a site american. Page 14 meaning of ruling decorum required in courtrooms see crash,.Page 14� . Abbie Coon Dies tuesday Grassy Ridge . Abbie Virginia Lee Coon age 92, died tuesday at her Home in this Hyde county Community. Funeral services will be held at 2 . Today in the Hope men Nortise Church by Marion Miller. Burial will be in the Church cemetery. The body will remain at the Williamson funeral Home in Swan Quarter and be taken to the Church at the funeral hour. Mrs. Coon was a native of new York state. Surviving Are two sons Lawrence Coon of new York and Lawson Coon of Grassy Ridge one sister Onnolee Jenks of Akron . Eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Bulk curing interest up tobacco meeting set Here tonight with interest in the bulk curing of tobacco on the increase in Beaufort county the agricultural Extension service Here will sponsor a meeting at the Beaufort county agricultural building tonight at 7 30 of clock on bulk curing and mechanization. Rupert Watkins a biological and agricultural Engineer at North Carolina state University in Raleigh will be the guest speaker. He has responsibilities at Nusu in research and Extension work in the area of crop Prorak lug Mast of his time is spent on problems related to the mechanization a we rang of a native of Clayton in Johnston can qty Watkins received a degree in 1964 and a . Degree in 1991 in agricultural engineering from North Carolina state University. He worked a Short period after graduation with Alkon industries in new Jersey before accepting his present position in 1962. Watkins was born nov a 1928. He is a presbyterian and an army Veteran being Dinah arg As a sergeant after having served in the army from 1962 to 1964. He and . Watkins the former Callie Thompson live on route 1, Clayton. They have two children Bonnie and. Arthur. A Max Chesnutt county Extension chairman says interest in both bulk curing and mechanization is growing in the county. He says at least. 90 or Rupert Watkins More Farmers have installed bulk curing barns this year previously Only a handful of Farmers scattered throughout the county have used bulk curing a a labor saving method Over the conventional Type which has come into increased use in recent years. By the associated press a Check of teamsters Union officials and major trucking company showed teamsters in North Carolina apparently were remaining on the Job this morn ing in some parts of the country mainly in the West and Midwest the truck Drivers walked out and picketed As their nationwide contracts with truckers expired and negotiations deadlocked a spokesman for teamsters joint Council 9 in Charlotte said she had heard of no walkouts in North Carolina a representative of teamsters local 71 said there had been no striking in the Piedmont. Spokesmen for major trucking companies including Dennis freight lines Johnston trucking co. And Carolina freight carriers said unionized Drivers remained on the Job Bald head plans ready Raleigh apr the Carolina Cape poor corp. Today called a news conference for thursday to announce plans for development of disputed Bald head Island the corporation gave no Advance word on what Type development it is planning for the sem tropical Island at the Mouth of the Cape fear River but anything that would change the uninhabited islands natural stale would ran counter to the of gov. Bob Scott s administration to preserve the Island. The news conference will be held at 11 . In the Albert pick Motel on 1-40 near Greensboro. The corporation had called a news conference once before to announce its plans but it was postponed and a series of conferences were bold Between corporation representatives and administration officials Scott s administration said later there had been no change in its position that the 14,000-acre Island should be acquired by the government and be preserved in its natural state. Scott blocked a previous attempt to turn the Island into a Plush resort area similar to Hilton head Island j. Jar vie Jarvis runs for sheriff in Hyde Jar vis deaf of Jan Fri Berit Swan Quarter hairy j. Jarvis Well known Hyde county food dealer is one of three lid ates seeking the office of Riff of Hyde county h a native of the St. Cat a Community of right or a. Moved to Engen 94 he went prior to that to m had operated a Barber Steof in Belhaven and before that worked with the corps of engineers id North Carolina Ami in Ohio. Or. Jarvis opened the Engelhard fish Oyster and shrimp company in Engelhard in 1945 and built the firm into one of the Well known seafood Eom ponies on the North Carolina coast. He also operates the Swan Quarter crab company and is Curre titty planning another Sec Jarvis pug 14 by Harry s4hweid associated press writer Washington it a a it the supreme court a response to the Tumuli and shouting in the nation a courtrooms is that above All there must be order the virtually unanimous approval tuesday of the removal of a Madcap Chicago defendant should gratify and encourage trial judges whine nerves Are Ira you a a it 9 strangely except for Justice William j. Brennan. Jr., who spoke Only for himself no judicial notice was taken of modern. Us of maintaining both decorum and the defendants right to face hts accusers acid hut for a Ingle vague sentence in Justice Hugo l Black s opinion for the majority Only Justice Williamo Douglas recognized that a trial judge May be wrong and the defendant May be shouting to assert his constitutional rights. William Allen who is now sitting m a new Orleans jail awaiting trial for robbery was a most unruly defendant in Cook county criminal court 4 years ago. The judge Grover Niemeyer. Was a very patient Man Allen whose defense to a $2uu tavern Holdup was insanity Terra Ted the examination of prospective jurors Tore up i file ignored the judges warn that he should behave and finally told Niemeyer a when i go out for lunchtime you re going to be a Corpse a the judge ordered alien re moved the trial proceeded with out him and the defendant was convicted and sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison last july the court of appeals in Chicago invalidated the conviction saying Allen s constitutional right to face his accusers had been violated if necessary the appeals court mid judge Niemeyer Shew id have bound and gagged Allen this suggestion later was used by judge Julius j Hoff Man in Chicago to bind and gag Bobby g. Seale one of eight radicals charged with inciting riots at the 1968 democratic convention. The net Row t of the supreme a of i 4 1 that All the judge evid Runty did the right thing if a Del end it ignore the judge s admonition that he should Beha e and makes further proceeding impossible be can be forcibly removed if the judge decide the Best Way to Deal with a rebellious defendant is to bind and gag him that Sall right too and of course. Blacks Deci Sion noted trial judges May use their old standby contempt Paw ers to cite a stubbornly defiant defendant and throw him in jail the heart of a Hack s opinion in which All justices except Douglas joined is this observation a it would degrade our country Ted our judicial system to per Tat our courts to be bullied insulted and humiliated and. Their orderly Progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with the Only notice Black took of the fact judges sometimes provoke the outbursts by Short ending defendants on their rights was the observation that a being manned by humans the courts Are not perfect and Are bound to make Quot some hit More than 100 bases towns by George Esper associated press writer Saigon a the North vietnamese and Viet Cong 1 i in ii liar in Cimfl Lii a litre l1rated attacks Serosa South Viet Nam in seven months tuesday night hitting More than too bases and towns and inflicting the heaviest Allied casualties since last August reports were still incomplete but the Allied commands and other sources in Saigon said casualties were at least 38 americans killed and 184 wounded. 85 South vietnamese troops killed and 178 wounded and 240 North vietnamese and Viet Cong killed the enemy inflicted serious american and South vietnamese casualties in More than a Doten of the attacks and at the same time kept their own casualties Down by employing Rock Eta mortars and Small com Mando Tapper units hurling dynamite bombs and firing rocket grenades the command termed the attacks a Quot highpoint Quot of enemy activity but sai4 the Sharp increase in activity would not be considered a Spring offensive unless it continued the command Abo announced that a . Air Force f4 phantom fighter bomber was hit by ground fire Over North Vietnam monday but said the two crewmen nursed it to within 4 x Miles of their base in thai land before the plane crashed the two crewmen ejected safely but two thai civilians were injured the phantom was escorting a reconnaissance plane and was the Lith american warplane re ported lost in action Over North Vietnam since the halt in bombing there 17 months ago it on tuesday the command reported that a . Navy phantom shot Down a North Viet Nam Ese mig2i saturday during another reconnaissance Mission Over the North a communique from us Headquarters reported 114 rocket and mortar attacks tuesday a night 39 of them against amen can air bases divisional and brigade Headquarters a spokes Man said 44 of the 114 attacks caused casualties or damage South vietnamese officials said 11 attacks were made in or near provincial capitals and major cities initial reports said seven vietnamese civilians were killed and 23 wounded the last countrywide High Point of enemy activity was sept. 4-5. When the Viet Cong and North vietnamese shelled i bases and towns killing six americans and wounding 75 other. There have been at least half a dozen regional highpoint in the interim a we think they la try to sustain it for a week but be see Vietnam. Page 14 hijacked Jap in Pyongyang feet and Tempro s. Plane can land n. Korea says by k a. Hwang associated Presa writer Seoul a North Korea announced today that the hijacked japanese Airliner grounded at the Seoul Airport could land in Pyongyang and the North korean red Croes said the passengers and Crew would be returned to Japan immediately there was no Emmet Fate reaction from South korean officials trying to get the approximately 15 hijackers to let the other 100 passengers and Crew members off the plane. Two american men arc among the passengers the hosta get after More than 30 hours inside the Boeing 727 Jet were reported in generally fair condition. The Pilot reported some were suffering from exhaustion and tension. The official North korean news Agency Kuna said in. A Brief broadcast from Pyongyang that the United nations command had contacted North Korea this morning in an attempt to solve the deadlock Between the hijackers and the South koreans the communist broadcast promised that the a safety of the plane. Would be ensured Dur ing the flight in the territorial air of our Side and those on Board the plane would be Given humanitarian treatment if the plane came to our Side a but it added a your Side cannot assume responsibility for a possible Accident on the plane itself Quot the japanese red Cross reported in Tokyo that it had cabled the North korean red Cross asking for All possible help in gaining the Early release of All aboard the plane should the aircraft Fly to North Korea. The Airliner was commandeered tuesday morning by about 15 sword waving Young radicals after it took off from Tokyo i a Domestic flight. It. Refuelled at Ita original destination. The southwestern japanese City o Fukuoka and let 23 passengers off the Pilot then tried to Fly to Ortii Korea but reportedly was driven away at the Border by North korean antiaircraft fire and fighter planes he then flew southward and the Seoul Airport was quickly disguised in an attempt to make the hijackers think it was Pyongyang after the masquerade failed japanese and South korean officials weal to the control Tower and by Fadio tried to persuade the hijackers to Tel the Passen Gers off before continuing to Pyongyang. Masa hide a Ama Japan s ambassador to South Korea talked to the group three times getting a cold response each time the Pilot. Shinji Ishida urged the ambassador to let the plane leave because Ita captors appeared to be armed with explosives. Several passengers also pleaded Over the radio that nothing be done to incite the hijackers. The Pilot did not report any one ill aboard the aircraft but the japanese ambassador asked the hijackers to let 16 of the passengers off because of their Ages and physical conditions. The youths made no response when the plane landed at Seoul one wheel slipped off the see Hijack Page 14

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