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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - April 8, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather in re a of do a Ltd a Hovd Shram thursday Kwh Lymm to no pm w4th Rhane of tonight 45 to 5 Hud thursday t5 log Washington daily news if you do not got your paper. Do man45 a Kwh a m and 7 00 o clock and Ana a Fol a Dato you 0509 four tin parcs Washington North Carolina. Of on Eso a afternoon Arril 8, 1970 daily except Sun a it ,. Third Moon trip Cli try Long fight Over Carswell will be different turns limitations subcommittee talk held on us arms by Cari. P associated press writer Washington it a a Senate subcommittee called hearings today entering on plans of the Arma line Faltz a Tal a set to resume this month with the soviet Union Mcgeorge Bundy former adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson was lined up As a witness for the two Days of hearings scheduled by Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore a foreign relations subcommittee. Gores panel is monitoring the Salt strategic arms limitation talks that will resume in Vienna april 16 the National Security Council meanwhile called a meeting at the White House to develop the . Negotiating position for the Salt talks and Heil Fly in off 016 armed services committee Are reported trying to sidetrack a Senate Resolution aimed at influencing us. Policy on arms limitation the Resolution approved unanimously by the foreign relations committee Calls on president Nixon to take the initiative by proposing the United states and soviet Union jointly suspend deployment of strategic isee arms Page i state will study b Baldhead for u be dedication of water system set Chocowinity a the Chocowinity town Hoard of comma Saners voted last night to set wednesday april 9, As the Date for dedication of the municipality a new water system. A t. Barns mayor said today that the program will be held on the grounds of the High school building. He said other details Are to be worked out later. Water from the new system was turned on in late february the $190,000 project was financed with a $135.000 Bond Issue and a Farmers Home administration Grant of $55,000. The project included the drilling of a deep Well installation of a 75,000-gallon water tank plus the installation of water lines. Insurance hearings Raleigh it a the next in a series of statewide hearings on automobile liability insurance and rates will be in Forest City april 21. Sen. Clyde m. Norton of Mcdowell county chairman of a study commission said those wishing to appear should write the commission at the state legislative building in Raleigh by april 15. Dies in Vietnam Washington a the defense department has announced that army pvt James. E. Byrd of Dunn n. C., has died in Vietnam not As a result of hostile action Raleigh a the state of North Carolina is paying $19,826 for a study to determine the Best use it could make of Bald head Island if it bought it. Director of administration William Turner announced tuesday that the research Triangle Institute has been contracted to consider options rang ing from preservation of the subtropical Island near Southport in its wilderness state to development of a state Park. Turner told a news conference that the study will presuppose state ownership. It will not Deal with the controversy Between the administration of gov. Bob Scott and private developers Over whether the Island should be owned privately or by the state. Carolina Cape fear corp., a High Point based firm holds an option to buy the Island and announced last week plays for a $288 million resort and residential development. Turner would not comment on the status of the states search for funds to acquire the Island. But he said Quot i see no reason Why the state1 have As Good a Chance to buy it As anyone the Scott administration last summer quashed the plans of a South Carolina businessman to develop the Island. At that time Scott said he would ask the next Legisla lure to consider state Purchase of the Island at the Mouth of the Cape fear River. Scott repeated his stand after the Carolina Cape fear corp. Announced its development plans. Turner said the study by Rte would be completed in four to six months. Once the options Are presented state officials would be responsible for picking which possible use for the see , Page mgt by the associated press Cape Kennedy Fla Apt a Man s third trip to the Moon scheduled to Start saturday will differ in Many ways from the previous two a the Landing site is More hazardous but new techniques will be used to help the Lander find its target. A the astronauts will stay longer on the Moons surfs than their predecessors will conduct new experiments that include the first lunar use of Power tools and will be Able to take a drink of water if they get thirsty on their Moonwalk a not one. But two spacecraft will be purposely crashed onto the lunar surface to obtain Seis me information. A and the Apollo 13 astronauts should get better pictures of it All than the pioneers of flights 11 and 12. The major difference for Apollo 13 is the Landing site. A Pollos 11 and 12 touched Down on relatively smooth Plains James a. Lovell or. And Fred w Haise or. Will attempt to steer their Craft into the Nigger Highlands of Fra Mauro on the Eastern Shore of the Ocean of storms. They Are going to this area of ridges Hills craters and Mammoth boulders to search for rocks that Date Back perhaps 4 5 billion years to the creation of the Moon. The stones collected by the earlier Apollo Crews were Between 3 billion and 3.5 billion years old this time the command ship will dip to within eight Miles of the surface before releasing the lunar module lm>�?52 Miles closer than Apollo 11 and 12 the1 a Para lion at the eight mile Altitude should help them hit a the target Lovell and Haise plan 33v hours on the surface and Hope to spend two five hour periods out Sid in Yaj Llu n a St of nauts were on the Moon 21v by Cornelius f. Hurley associated press writer Edgartown. Mass Apt a the secret testimony at the inquest into the death of Mary to Kopechne in sen. Edward m Kennedy s car last summer May be made Public within a week now that the Dukes county grand jury has adjourned a special session called to delve into the Accident and reported tuesday it had no findings the Way is open for releasing Quick to the inquest transcript and the report of District court judge a. Boyle who presided Over the january inquiry to . Kennedy Atad Quot i m Happy this Case seems to be coming to a close i m relieved As Well for everyone who a involved and i Hope the transcript of the inquest will be made Public As soon As Poasi ble Quot Kennedy drove his car off the Side of a narrow Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island into a deep tidal Pool last july 18 miss Kopechne 28. And a former Secretary for the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy was trapped in the car and drowned. Kennedy escaped and after he delayed for some 10 hours in reporting the Accident to police was charged with leaving the scene of an Accident he pleaded guilty a week after the crash and was sentenced to two months in jail on the charge. The sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for a year. The night of the court arraignment Kennedy went on National television to give his recollection of the Accident and exp Rem regret for his subsequent actions. He later testified for two hours at the inquest and upon leaving the court room told newsmen he was Quot satisfied that i responded completely to All a bet Kope. Page 14 draws to Uncertain end Battle a replay of % Haynsworth across Pamlico chamber officials continue 1 o fress by Tom Spencer managing editor Washington chamber of Commerce officials continuing to Proa Lor slate and Federal support for a Dike Bridge across the Pamlico nver East of Here remain hopeful that the project will get Early approval results Are awaited on a North Carolina Highway commission study on the feasibility of the project and in a study by the coastal Plains regional com Mission findings in both of these studies will have an important hearing on the project the coastal Plains study Dea is with the feasibility of a major arterial Highway in the Colita i Condor Between Savannah. A and Norfolk a a Pul Hie meeting on the proposed Roadway Dike Ridge was held Here april 11 in under sponsorship of the Beaufort county Board of com miss one is and t or Washington City Council two approaches were indicated at the time. They were an informal discussion by engineers of the Highway commission. Department of water and air resources and the army corps of engineers on. Possible Steps that might be taken and a request to rep Walter b Jones for a it Songro atonal Resolution seeking a re study by the army corps of engineers which had found lit an a flier indy mat the proposal Tor a Barrier across the River evaluated on the basis of Hurricane Protection Only was not feasible t in addition to providing a transportation link the Roadway Dike and Bridge would also ele Arup so billion Gallons of brackish water a Day behind he Odd 8b� communities and industries in Quot Pike Page 14 debating cambodians South v vietnamese joining hours and spent two hours out Side the Apollo 12 Mooonen mrs. Mina Boyd visited for 32 hours and had two j excursions totalling eight and Haise plan to de oies i be slav via. Mno i cd Alusas it see run i act ride Tux. W vote most of the first outside period to setting up a nuclear powered science Sta Tion. The Apollo 12 astronauts deliberately smashed their 5,000-Pound lunar module Cabin Sec mrs. Josephine w Mina Boyd age 86. Of the Everetts Crossroads Community died in the Beaufort county Hospital Early tuesday evening following Tion on the Moon aft a they re several years of falling health turned to the command ship. The Impact equal to a Force of 1.2 tons of int. Sent shudders through the lunar crust that vibrated the seismometer for 55 minutes. A similar Impact on Earth would vibrate Only five or six minutes. To find out More about this phenomenon ground controllers plan to crash the burned out 61-foot third stage of the Saturn 5 rocket on the Moon after it has shoved Apollo 13 into space. It is to smack into the Ocean of forms 140 Miles West of the Apollo 12 seismometer later after they have left the mrs. Alice Moon and rejoined Mattingly Washington 18 and a critical illness of three months. Mrs. Boyd was born in Beaufort county january 25, 1884, the daughter of the late Hardy h. And Martha Waters Boyd. She was married to the late John b. Boyd who preceded her in death on october 30. 1950 survivors include two daughters mrs Charlie Tetter ton Ami mrs. Hassell Tetter ton Hoth of it. 1, Pinetown one son Warren Boyd of it. 1. Pinetown three Sisters mrs. Lydia Waters mrs. Bertha Waters both of Pinetown and Wallace of grandchildren delayed on welfare Bill Washington a House debate has been delayed on the welfare Reform Bill providing assured incomes for the work ing poor and present Tjerne Feiar ies. Postponement a for further discussion in the House rules committee until next week Means Points scored for opponents spearheaded by the . Chamber of Commerce who have mounted a last minute drip r a inst Xor pro visions of the measure1. Chairman Wilbur d. Mills d-ark., of the House ways and Means committee told newsmen he has no doubt the Bill will pass easily. Quot i done to think there is a de liberate Effort to delay it a he said. Quot it was natural that Many questions would be asked about it. And there Are a number of people with different Points of a see welfare Page m by George a apr associated press writer Saigon. Apr cambodian and South vietnamese authorities Are collaborating in armed efforts to crush i turn yietruim�8�� a to View Cong Quot troops Naide Ca Midk official sources disclosed today american ground forces a patently Are involved so far Only As blocking or support forces on the South vietnamese Side of the Border in wait for any of the enemy who Are driven East 0 cambodian officials have approved armed forays inside their country by South vietnamese ground troops Bombera and helicopter gunships. One highly placed source said the sources reported that soul vietnamese helicopter gunships flew. File Miles inside a Amindia in the past 24 hours and killed an estimated 156 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The helicopters were reported on a reconnaissance Mission Over Svay Tjeng province tuft North of tit Ginny us an am. See War Page 1# government suggests judge May have abused discretion Lovell and Haise will set the and 21 great grandchildren computers in their pm and Send funeral services wiil be cont hurtling toward a crash land ducted thursday at 4 00 . Ing Between the two seism me from the Chapel of the Stampley ters that then will be on the funeral Home by the Rev. Jim Moon Hensley. Burial will be in Oak the major new Experiment on Dale cemetery. Apollo 13 will require Haise to pallbearers will be Oscar become the first Man to operate Boyd Leo Boyd Carmer Power driven equipment on the Wallace Jesse Wallace thur Moon Mon Boyd and Dennis c. Boyd. Wildlife protectors ring with the Advent of Spring and the coming of summer the Waters of Pamlico Beaufort and Craven counties will be filled with boats and people enjoying the water. Wildlife protectors from each of these counties gathered in Washington Friday to inspect and make ready for the coming season. The equipment consisting of six boats from 12 to 18 feet with engines ranging from 8 go 160 horsepower will frequent All Public Waters in the tri county area while enforcing the North Carolina boating safety act on the Watt inspections will be conducted of All machinery propelled vessels when observed i water Page m omens Masury Waters Barkley Watmon and Story Earl Hodges or. D ies tuesday a Earl Hodges., sr., age 75, Well known Farmer of it i Washington Market Street Extension died in the Beaufort county Hospital tuesday afternoon 2 30 of clock following a critical illness of one Day. Or. Hodges was born at Grifton sept. 15, 1894, son of the late Robert e. And Laura Cox Hodges. He spent most of his lifetime in Beaufort county. He was an Active member of the wares Chapel United methodist Church and a former member of the Board of stewards of the Church and was a member of charitable brotherhood Lodge no. 1. He was married to the former Louise Stephenson of Smithfield on oct. 29. 1919. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on oct. 29, 1969. Surviving besides his wife Are two sons Leonard Earl Hodges or. And Roland Ethan Hodges both of it. 1, Washington and mrs a. Sherman Edna Rutter and one grandson Robert s. Rutter both of Burlington it. Two Brothers Clifton Hodges of Morehead City and James w. Jimmie Hodges of Belhaven two Sisters miss Maude Hodges of this City and mrs Sam t. Moore of it. I Washington funeral services will be held at the Ware i Chapel United methodist Church thursday afternoon at 3 of clock conducted by the Rev. Jerry Smith pastor. Burial will follow in Oakdale cemetery. The body will be moved from the Paul funeral Home to the Church one hour prior to the service. The following will serve As pallbearers Charlie Mayo Norwood Chesson Alvin Parker Ralph Weathersby o. A. Lancaster and Alpha Edwards in lieu of Flowers it is suggested that memorials May be made to the wares Chapel United methodist Church f Washington a it the Justice department suggested today that a Federal judge May have abused his discretion by ordering massive busing. To achieve racial balance in a Large North Carolina school Dis to ctr in a memorandum filed with the . 4th circuit court of appeals in Richmond va., the government sided with White parents in Charloe Mecklen Burg county n.c., in opposition to a desegregation plan ordered by . District judge James b Mcmillan. The department said the courts should carefully consider whether a desegregation plan a would require a school Board involuntarily to make unreasonable increments in transportation expenditures., the number of students bused distances travelled and the like Mcmillan s order called for achieving integration through zoning pairing and Cross town busing it would leave no school More than one third Black and would require busing of about 13,300 additional youngsters in the 84,500-Pupil school system the department closely following president Nixon a March m desegregation policy statement. Said the appeals court should consider whether me Mullan invoked a remedy so extreme As to constitute an abuse of discretion it did hot put Forward an alternative to Mcmillan a propos Al. Now scheduled for implementation in september he John Chadwick Lour in press Weller Washington a the Long Senate fight Over judge g. Farrold car swells supreme court nomination Drew to Ita tense ending today with the out Tome in a a Fiou doubt a virtual replay of president Nixon s first attempt to fill the High court vacancy a it Bough both sides predicted Victor some senators said before the crucial Roll Call the Tine up was so evenly balanced a tie breaking vote by vice president Spiro t Agnew the sen ate a presiding officer was a distinct possibility Nixon nominated the 50-year-old Tallahassee. Fla it Federal a appeals judge Jan 19. Following the Senate s 55-45 rejection last november of his first Choice for the seat. Judge Clement f Haynsworth. As in the Haynsworth situation a handful of uncommitted senators held the key to confirmation and the result was a Large question Mark before the vote opened. Mane vering by both sides continued through the night tuesday and into today a Early hours sen Charles if Percy r4hreleased a statement shortly before 2 a making his name off the uncommitted list and placing if in line against the nomination Carswell meets none of the standards necessary for the nation s highest tribunal Percy Laid in fhe Nin a i publican sen. Or t announce against the a coition an associated press Survey made prior to the vote and disregarding the four expected absentees allowed 44 for confirm nation 41 against and ii uncommitted Sens. Karl e. Mundt r s d. And Clinton Anderson in both Weir ill and their aides said tuesday night neither would i on hand for the vote away attending a meeting in Southeast Asia were Sens Claiborne Pell. D h l. And Wallace f. Bennett h Utah Nixon who pledged in his election Campaign to place strict constitutional constructionists on the supreme court affirmed his total support of Carswell last week As controversy continued swirling around the nominees racial views and judicial record. Two Days ago in. A. First test of Senate strength a motion to return the nomination to the judiciary committee was Defeated 52 to 44. That initial Carswell Victory was not regarded As conclusive by either Side three senators who voted . Re committal already had announced they would vote see Carswell. Page 14 1midnight coi boy Best John Wayne Maggie Smith get oscars Grant honoured lib on Diamond in a necklace. By Gene hands Aker associated press writer Hollywood a rugged John Wayne the sentimental favorite has capped years of movie heroics by winning a Best actor Oscar for playing the fat. Hours one eyed a True grit a a spoof of his usual westerns. Motion picture Academy voters awarded Best picture honors tuesday night to a youth oriented seamy tale of Friendship Between a sick Manhattan bum and a Texas male prostitute a a Midnight Britian Quot a Maggie Smith in an upset Over such glamorous Domestic types As Jane Fonda and Liza Mindli was named Best actress. She played the opinionated school teacher in a a the prime of miss Jean Brodie scores of Start dazzling in their finery turned out for the ceremonies at the los Angeles show televised internationally by satellite ran nearly Waif an hour Over its scheduled two Goldie hawn the blonde Giggle of Telvi Sioux a Quot laugh was chosen Best supporting actress she played Walter Matthaus girl Friend in Quot Cactus gig Young bounded onstage As if on Springs to accept the supporting actor award for his performance As the Breezy Mas Ter of ceremonies at a dance Marathon in Quot they shoot horses done to they Quot it was also a night for memorable moments Beautiful Elizabeth Taylor in a Blue gown and wearing husband Richare Bui s gift i red Astaire doing a my caper my whirling Danea at 70 As nimbly As in his Filma of Yore a a Salvo of applause and a 20-second standing ovation for grading Cary Grant voted a special Oscar by the Academy a governors for Many memorable performances. A Wayne telling the audience in a John Wayne i work with my clothes on. I have to. Horses Are rough on your legs and you elsewhere Wayne received his Oscar f his role a hard bitten whisk drinking . Marshal Roo Cogburn in True grit. Quot strip g solid and massive a crash stage Wayne 62, said Quot i a <1 put that Patch on 35 ars Idee Oscar Page my

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