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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - April 7, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather fair and Roo tonight Low right m to 45 Wewt and Al a if. Continued fair Wadna Day highest generally �5 to it. I Washington daily news if you do not get your owl ms-2145 Between a a and. ? m o Stork and m Wittl a de ii rred to you fstab115hcp t909 Rewt Faors Washington North Capo Iwic tut Soat afternoon Urru f trt0 >4k� my we Una when springtime comes. 11 ,4 Kite soars. ,4 Man relaxes. Bees spread Beauty. Man Stair i to Iota but t itrel Trad hew goal to double desegregation in South debate set on welfare act by c. C. Thelen or. Associated press writer Washington api a Secretary Robert h. Finch of the department of health education and welfare set a goal today of doubling the present amount of school desegregation in the South by next fall. That would have 80 per cent of the areas negro children attending essentially desegregated schools. A a we re striking for dramatic results/1�?T Finch said at a news conference. Finch and his civil rights chief j. Stanley Pottinger indicated generally that president Nixon a recent message on school desegregation would change their departments poli cies very Little. Pottinger read the presidents message a was a Clear mandate to bring into compliance All school districts which discriminate against children on the basis of race color or National Finch said the departments previous desegregation guidelines Are still in Force existing policies on busing have not changed and Southern cities will still be required to eliminate dual systems based on past policies or practices. Finch said 1.2 million Black children in the South Are now attending schools with significant numbers of White pupils double last years 600,000 total. A we think we can double that again next fall Quot he Secretary said the existing mix of court suits and administrative actions would be used to attain the desegregation goal for next fall. Finch denied several times that any a a backward motion has struck his department and its desegregation efforts. He was questioned in the Light of signs that Nixon a message had triggered new resistance to integration. Assuring a minimum income but he added later a there will be fewer desegregation plans drawn and More the departments office for civil rights both negotiates desegregation plans and helps Monitor Progress in school districts under court order. By Edmond Lebreton associated press writer Washington a the Nixon sprang perhaps its biggest Surprise when it sponsored what amounts to a federally assured minimum income for the poor of the Nabob this is the heart of the Wel fare Reform Bill the House is scheduled to begin debating wednesday and is expected to pass despite a belated Campaign led by the . Chamber of Commerce to defeat primarily on the ground that it is too expensive. Some congressional democrats. Among others speculated that a conservative Republican administration could not have thought seriously the $4 4 billion Bill would be enacted the democratic controlled Congress would reject it and be saddled with the responsibility for continuing the present almost uni Versalie deplored welfare system. But the record of How the family assistance plan slowly matured and was embraced by the administration after considerable internal debate gives no support to such speculation and when the Bill came to its first test before a dubious House ways and Means com Mittee health. Education and welfare department officials argued Long and hard for it Dis polling any idea the administration had tossed out the proposal to swim or preferably sink As it turned out the committee approved the Bill subs Tan tally intact 22 to i chairman Wilbur o. Mills a staunch fiscal conservative announced his personal support at the last minute and scoffed publicly at the idea the House would turn Down a measure m behalf of the the disabled and the elderly poor on its Way from tin a cadre Icso studies to Congress via the White House the idea of an assured Cash in Como pm need families picked up impressive support from business men As Well As conservative economists a development which if More widely known might have tem Quot Perecz the Surprise of the Scep tics. A a talk of a guaranteed annual income began to be heard in treas Gly in the Middle in s however that phrase which president Nixon and congressional hackers of the plan still recoil from was not universally used instead proponents talked Abou a negative income tax or children s allowances the idea of a negative income tax. Although in a form quite different from what was finally sent to Congress was advanced Early by Milton Friedman a University of Chicago economist. He became an adviser to sen Barry Goldwater the 1914 Gap presidential candidate and later to Nixon the pure theory is that if Titi Sce welfare. Page 6> at it. Bragg medical men hurry an c it a o a Apollo test murder suspect it. Bragg n. C. Api the army says a doctor in its elite Green berets is a a suspect in the slaying of his wife and two Young daughters seven weeks ago. The doctor capt Jeffrey r. Macdonald 26, of Patchogue new York had said after the bodies were discovered in the Kristen 2, were found before Dawn feb. 17 when military police responded to a pleas for help which he had telephoned to an operator. Macdonald who had been stabbed several times in the Chest Lay next to the body of his wife in the master bed the children were found room. Family a apartment at it. Bragg in separate Beds in other rooms that a hippie like band had stabbed the other members of his family and wounded him. Army authorities monday notified capt Macdonald that he is being a questioned As a sus he was advised of his right to obtain Legal counsel and to remain silent. An army spokesman said capt. Macdonald has not been charged but is confined to his quarters and can visit mess Halls and other necessary facilities Only under escort. He was relieved of his duties in the preventive Medicine Section at it Bragg borne of the special forces and the 82nd airborne division. Macdonald has been in the army since june 20, 1969, and volunteered for the special. Forces. The bodies of Macdonald a wife Colleen also 26, and their daughters Kimberly 6, and authorities said the word see Macdonald Page 8 mrs. Ellen t. Norman d ies Ernul mrs Ellen Toler Norman age 84, died in the Craven county Hospital in new Bern monday night. Graveside funeral services will be held wednesday at 3 . At pin tree cemetery near Askins by the Rev. Charlie Rice free will Baptist minister of Ernul. Mrs. Norman was born in Craven county and spent All of her life near Ernul. She was a member of Smyrna free will Baptist Church at blounts Creek. Surviving Are a son. 6. Leon Norman of near Ernul four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. By Howard Benedict a aerospace writer Cape Kennedy Fla. Cap a medical specialists hurried blood tests on the Apollo 13 astronauts today to determine whether their exposure to German measles is going to delay a $375 million shot to the Moon. James a. Lovell jr., Thomas k. Mattingly ii and Fred w Haise or have been exposed to what is usually a childhood ailment but is now carried by one of their backup pilots astronaut Charles Duke. If tests show the immunity of any of the three is Low their chief physician probably will recommend that they not be launched to the Moon on saturday As scheduled even if their immunity is High doctors will be faced with Apollo Page 8� Board oks Road link request u. S. Loses 2 fighters in Quot w Orrell gets extra was duties see Bull tin w1nton, . Apr the Hertford county schools were being closed today because of the existence of a blood disease in some pupils a spokesman for the county health deportment said. The Type of disease and the number of pupils affected was j. M. Worrell teacher of vocational agriculture at Washington High school has been appointed As coordinator for vocational departments in the City schools % his duties along with teaching will be to work with the instructors on curriculum and Overall planning including new Corse offerings in the vocational program he will be the Liaison Man Between the instructors and by George Esper associated press writer Saigon api two u. S. Fighter bombers were shot Down in Eastern Laos monday while across the Border in South Viet Nam government troops reported 496 North vietnamese killed in fighting around the besieged Dak Seang special forces Camp. There was no sign of any setup in the siege now in it seventh Day. A a propeller driven Al was downed in the Plain of jars presumably during an attack on North vietnamese forces who wrested control of the area from laotian government forces in late february. An f100 Jet was shot Down in the Southern laotian Panhandle through which the to Chi Minh Trail carries the superintendent and work closely with the administrative North vietnamese supplies and a a Quot i. <.,#�� a a it 1/iftlna no. Body of the school. Or. Worrell graduated from n. A Ste the. College with a b. S. Degree in agricultural command said. Education he taught in Hyde troops to South Vietnam. One Pilot was killed and the other rescued unhurt the . At Dak Seang. Eight Miles the Beaufort county Board of commissioners voted monday to concur with a request by the Washington City Council that the state Highway commission build a connecting link Between fifteenth Street and n. C 33, both scheduled for four Laning the Resolution enacted at the request of Jamies Hackney i chairman of the chamber of Commerce a transportation development Council noted that the n. C. 33 and the fifteenth Street project a could easily be connected by a four Lane link beginning approximately 1000 feet wet of the intersection of n. C 33 and whispering Pines Road and connect with 15th Street representing Only approximately three quarters mile additional the Resolution said further a this addition would provide an outer Loop for the City of Washington which would Aid the economic development of Washington and would also be of great value to the people of Beaufort county living East of Washington by providing a rapid Means of by passing Washington it also said it would seem to be poor Economy to undertake two major Highway projects and still leave them unconnected because of the Lack of a Short link of High m1craei, Waters b Etc Matthews for governor s school a Beaufort county student and he is also business manager and not immediately reported. See Worrell. Page 8 see War. Page 8 see Board Page 8 a City of Washington student have been selected to attend the North Carolina governor s school in Winston Salem june through August school officials of the two education units have announced a Pantego High school student has been selected from the county system and a Washington High school student has been selected from the City system. A they Are Michael Waters of Pantego and Beth Matthews Michael water a the son of or and mrs w t Waters of the free Union Community a Junior at Pantego and vice president of the student body. Michael is the vice president of the Pantego Beta club and has served As marshal for two years. A feature writer for the school paper. Campus columns. He has worked As assistant copy editor for the yearbook this near Michael has selected math As his Field of study this year at governors school his ambitions tie in a Tomoti be engineering and he feels the course will help him greatly. He plans to attend general motors Institute in Flint Mich after completing his schooling at Pantego High school electronics. Music and automotive occupy the majority of Michael s spare time. He also enjoys his part time work in his fathers business. Miss Beth. Matthews daughter of or and mrs. E h. Matthews see students. Page 8 a

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