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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - April 21, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather fair and cooler Tont it lows mostly in Low a increasing run urine a and mild wednesday nigh Rona try in Tea Washington Davit news if you do not get your paper ,. Dial 942145 i tween a a and 7 00 o Stork and one will be delivered to you eight q1�o Washington. North ca9q11na. Tucs aft noon. Aptly 21, 1970 of airy except sunday a if 1 Nixon announces withdrawals resulting from Vietnam nation astronauts to Tell w orld about flight of Apollo 13 by Frank Cormier a asocial Ted Pran writer Washington a put a president Nixon he fixed a foal of withdrawing in additional 150,000 u. S. Too fwd from Vietnam in the next year a ticking roughly to the pullout Pace of recent month. In a television radio address to months give or take a few weeks the nation monday night the barring the unforeseen or said. President said the number would the decision is irreversible he boasted should there be a staff photo by Latch dam the Quot system Quot needs modernization by Howard Benedict a aerospace writer space Center Houston apr Apollo 13 s astronaut Tell the world tonight the Story of their space adventure the oxygen tank explosion that crippled their spaceship and a fou Day fight for survival to return safely Home earlier they met with the head of a review Board named to investigate the Accident that aborted the $375 million Moon Landing Mission. James a Lovell jr., Fred w Haise or. And John l Swigert or. Make their report on a nationally televised and broadcast news conference at 7 30 . Est they la also narrate a film and slides they took in space Lovell has already Given an indication of the feelings of the astronauts during their Momenta of peril when he told a welcoming ceremony in Houston sunday they there were times they Felt they would t make it Back to Earth. The review Board head. Edgar m. Cortright flew to the Manneff spacecraft Center monday night to meet with the astronauts today starting a lengthy probe to determine exactly what went wrong 202,000 Miles in space and what Oukine done in Correct the problem until a solution is found All future Apollo Moon flights will be grounded White experts Analyse the trouble preparations moved ahead at Cape Kennedy for the planned oct. 1 launch of Apollo 14 a a Well proceed on a routine schedule until we re told to do a space Agency spokesman said. Cortright. Head of the space Agency s Langley. A research Center met monday in Washington with the Nasa administrator or. Thomas o. Paine. They began forming the membership of the High level review Board and said the names would be announced later this week Lovell Haise and Swigert began monday an extensive or or in Flag on t or Mission in a tape recorded session with space experts astronaut chief Donald k Slayton and air Force maj Lloyd Reeder an astronaut training specialist listened for eight hours As the spacemen recounted their trip including the moment when an oxygen tank erupted depriving the command ship of precious oxygen and Power and forcing them to use the lunar module systems to save their lives. Additional eight hour sessions Are scheduled each of the next nine Days As the astronauts recall every aspect the journey. go Over systems in the command and lunar ships discuss medical details assets the Rescue procedures that got them Home and make Persona observations and recommends tons a 150-Man Mission evaluation team continued to sort through Mounds of data seeking clues to see astronauts. Page 8> negotiations however he pm Pha aired Quot i must report with regret that no Progress has taken place on the negotiating front a Nixon expressed concern about if the Nixon plan is carried out. The Autt Irmard t s troop ceiling would drop by May 1971 to 24,000 men the Peak ceiling Early in 199 was 594.500 Nixon said his decision Quot has the approval of the government of South Vietnam Quot he also politics Money no investment rom Muntari itt Mury Timur Sawr in Cambodia and Laos but took a generally optimistic View of the Sou i Hea s t Alta n Bittua trim. Quot we finally have in sight the just peace we Aro seeking a or said a we can now say with Confidence that pacification is succeeding we can say with Confidence that the South vietnamese can Dev it lop the capability for their own defense we can say with Confidence that All american combat forces can and will in withdraw Nixon spoke from his office in the Western White House at san Clemente Calif. Immediately afterwards he and his wife Pat flew Back to Washington a White House official who declined to he quoted by name told reporters Nixon plans to Complete the withdrawal of 150.000 men during the next 12 Conati fled m Advance with v s Field Corn Manden hut did not claim her plan met with Thror wholehearted approval. There had been indications that some highly placed military men wanted the withdrawal rate slowed the exact timing and Pace of the new cutbacks in troop deployments said Nixon a will be determined by our Best judgment of the current military and diplomatic situation a declaring that Hanoi would take a grave risk should it jeopardise remaining u. S troops through military moves in Vietnam Cambodia or Laos Nixon said a if 1 conclude that increased enemy action jeopardizes our remaining forces in Vietnam i shall not hesitate to take Strong and effective measures to Deal with that situation a South vietnamese hearing set what is wrong with american mail service on Middle Cree needs chasing enemies editors note postal Reform looms larger but americans Are still asking Why is our mail service so Lousy this comprehensive. Tac comm Gawers that question and. Details what postal Reform will mean. By Mark Brown associated press writer Washington a for almost two centuries the Grey garbed men had lived by their Credo taken from the ancient Greece of Herodotus a neither Snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the Swift completion of their appointed rounds.�?T1 and when for the first june in a nation s history the mails did rib move the . Post office could blame neither Snow or rain nor heat nor gloom of night. Instead it was a combination of everyday issues wages working conditions and Job advancement that brought last month s mail snarling Wildcat walkout by 185,000 of the Post office s 750,000 employees. It brought into focus As never before the rickety postal system. Titak Kepote every Jane can who mails a letter subscribes to a Magazine pays his taxes and it fuelled a drive to drastically overhaul the Post office department. The House Post office committee opens hearings today on Nixon s plan to a amp to up a new . Postal service a insulated from direct control by the presi Dent the Bureau of the budget and Congress but against the backdrop of coming postal Reform and the Prospect of higher postal rates a a americans Are asking a cations what is wrong with the american mail service what could make a letter mailed to an address fewer than 100 Steps away take Days to deliver what makes magazines and newspapers arrive Days and even weeks stale packages reach. Their destinations late with contents often bruised or broken and vital business communications dribble in tardily a a it a the Ayatey a answers win ton a. It had Blount the tall raw boned alabamian whom Nixon. Appointed postmaster general and assigned the task of reshaping the postal service. The system Blount decries still retains vestiges of the Post office created by the first con see Post office Page it meat animal show h funds Are 4,000 boy scouts Quot i of of assured for continues Here or. E. W. Glazener Glazener to speak at banquet or. E. W. Glazener director of ins traction for the school of agriculture and life sciences at North Carolina state University will be the principal speaker at the annual Beaufort county meat animal show and Sale banquet scheduled at the red men s Hall thursday night. Another highlight of the meeting will be the presentation of awards and checks. As director of instruction or Glazener supervises the curricula for about 1,800 students. These students Are enrolled in die schools 19 degree granting departments and. The two year agricultural Institute the curricula which includes Sudy in agricultural science see speaker Page St the 19th annual Beaufort county four hand Fra meat animal show and Sale continued at sermons warehouse Here this morning with the judging of Swine and steers fitting and showmanship Competition and the Fra judging contest. The event got underway monday afternoon with the weighing and placing of animals. Twenty eight steers and 100 hogs Are entered in the show and Sale. The highlight will come at 3 . Today when the Sale begins. John Morgan Beaufort county Register of deeds will be the auctioneer. The awards banquet will be held thursday night at 7 . At the red menus Hall Here when awards and checks will be passed out. Or. E. W. Glazener of North Carolina state University will make the address. The show Ami Sale is sponsored by the Washington chamber of Commerce the Beaufort county Board of commissioners and the Beaufort county farm Bureau in cooperation with Beaufort county vocational agriculture teachers and the Beaufort county agriculture Extension service. Boat inspection set Here Bath Courtesy boat inspection held at Bath Marina. Sunday april 26 from i til 3 . The inspection will be conducted by the North Carolina wed life Protection division in Thi interest of Safe and enjoyable boating during the upcoming season. Bath Marina a located on Highway 92 at the foot of Back Creek Bridge. There with be an inspection Lar boaters a the Washington Kupcs pm saturday april 25 from a . Is Tel 12 noon. Operation to attend Camp the Kenneth wools re fund today contains $3,509.11, according to Darrell Martin chairman or. Martin said today that because of the wonderful generosity of the people of this area a we feel that we have just about enough Money on hand now to see Kenneth Woolard through. Because we do not wish to have anyone feel that we Are seeking More Money than is absolutely a minimum we Are bringing this phase of the drive to an end. It could be that later on we shall have to reopen it. And we know that there Are several sunday school classes which have not yet bringing the drive to a successful close at this stage Means that enough Money is on hand to have the operation and care following the operation. It was estimated that the Bill would be Between $7,000 $10,000. However the committee and this newspaper feel that $4,000 should be adequate to get the operation and care. The operation on Young Woolard a heart was scheduled for wednesday tomorrow morning. However the youngster see fund pm pc 8 share you Good health a ii by a blood d0h0r Call your red Cross 11 . To i Fri. Wed. April 8 Moose Lodge final arrangements have been completed for the 1970 East Carolina Council boy scouts of America Camporee to be held at the Herbert c. Bonner campsite near Washington this weekend Walter Jones congressman from the first congressional District will officially open the Camporee at a Flag raising ceremony saturday april 25, at 9 00 . The Public is invited approximately 4,000 boy scouts Are expected and. Will begin arriving about noon Friday. Pete Long personnel manager of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company in Tarboro will be Camporee chief. To reach the campsite visitors should follow u. S. Highway 264 East f rom Washington to Douglas Crossroads about 8 Miles and turn right on a secondary Road All roads will be Well marked with signs local officials will also assist in directing traffic. Maps indicating campsite areas will be available at the Entrance to the reservation. Scout leaders City officials and prominent local citizens will participate in a fish Fry at the ranters Creek herring club thursday april 23,. At 7 00 . The Rev. Irvin Hulbert Rector of St. Peters episcopal Church Here assisted by five other protestant ministers and a Catholic priest will conduct Church services for the 4,000 scouts on sunday morning. Police Protection will be provided by the Washington City police the Beaufort county i see scouts Page 8> first District congressman Wash re Jones announced today that a meeting has been arranged by his office with the u. S. Army corps of engineers District office in Wilmington to be held at the Malta skeet Lodge at new Holland on wednesday april 22, at 11 this meeting is to be held to discuss the shoaling and other navigation problems which Are hazardous to navigation in Middletown Creek Hyde county Jones stated that the hazards involved to commercial fishermen As Well As other Boatmen utilizing Creek facilities have been plagued for Many years with not Only shoaling hut with sunken vessels floating debris and a Lack of navigation aids Jones commented a this meeting has been arranged with the corps of engineers and Tom Swain of the District engineers staff will be present All to Terestea citizens Are urged to be present and express their views and concerns in the Hopes that the end result will provide sufficient statistical information in order that a construction project might be established to the end that Clearing snagging dredging and the necessary navigation aids might be possible Quot Jones said outer Banks Booklet Manteo . Apay cock Brown director of the dare county tourist Bureau says the Bureau has published a 40-Page Booklet promoting the North Carolina outer Banks. He said the 75,000 copies will Agen in Al be distributed by travel cies and to individuals Saigon a South Viet a somese tosses were making their third naj it to a hit Cambodia today Wutti 14 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops reported killed during the first 24 hours of to operation initial Field report said 20 South vietnamese Oid ters were killed and 75 a it United monday the first Day of fighting it was the heaviest ism reported for the South vietnamese in three massive sweeps armas the Bor Der in the past week informed sources said a task Force of up to 2 too South vietnamese rangers and scores of tanks and armoured personnel carriers drove As much As two Miles into Cambodia s Svay Rieng province about 55 Miles West of Saigon the crossing was made near the South vietnamese town of Tuyen Binh. On the under Side of the territorial protuberance known As the parrots beak and about 25 Miles Southwest of Tholf Highway i Border crossing where the two previous penetrations into Cambodia were made the sources said the Saigon troops ran into Strong enemy forces shortly after the operation was launched monday morning pushing across open ground through Rice paddies and a Cluster of villages the South vietnamese reported capturing 1$ prisoners 71 weapons nearly 4,000 pounds of Rice and 1,000 russian Rifle cartridges. As it did during the two previous operations across the Border. South vietnamese head quarters announced the new Sault by placed it on the. Viet rut Mese Side of the Border highly placed sources said this a Wurstl can although informed snares Hevr said the Cross the Border operations have the full of local cambodian a Hottie. There was no immediate evidence of any american involvement. One officer said that to the Best of Tus knowledge american advisers were not with the troops who moved into Cambodia a spokesman for the . Command said there had been do reporte of american air or artillery strike into Cambodia in support of the South vietnamese. The bombers and artillery participating in the opera lion were reported to be South vietnamese the South vietnamese a Pera turns inside Cambodia Are directed at scores of North vietnamese and Viet Cong base Camps and staging areas used for attacks against us and South vietnamese forces in South Vietnam in the two big operations last week South vietnamese forces claimed they smashed two base Camps and killed 450 Viet Cong and North vietnamese. The us. Command announced the loss of two More helicopters in South Vietnam and a . Air Force f105 fighter bomber shot Down while sup porting laotian forces near the Plain of jars in North Central Law. One of the helicopters hit a i see War Page 8 labor Roundup teamsters strikes. A # bringing layoffs by the associated press issues in the Goodyear strike the Goodyear tire amp rubber were not disclosed and there co has been struck by 23.000 was no word on developments in rubber workers and layoffs re any of the negotiations. The rub suiting from Wildcat strikes by truck Drivers increased across the nation. The United rubber workers Union struck 15 Goodyear plants monday night after contract negotiations in Cincinnati were broken off. The rubber workers postponed a strike deadlines against the three other giant tire companies and continued negotiations with Firestone tire it rubber co., uniroyal and b. P. Goodrich her workers currently average $3.87 an hour the Union says. In other labor disputes 430 mechanics struck Ozack air lines shutting Down the midwestern Carrier teacher strikes continued in los Angeles and Minneapolis and new York newspaper negotiations resumed in an air of pessimism Hopes of settling the trucking strikes dwindled when Federal mediators were unable to bring sew labor Page and leave the hauling to us packages pile up 20-fold Over Normal at the greyhound loading Dock in Cleveland during the teamsters walkout. Walter Thomas greyhound employee smiles and raises his hands in despair. Its this Way nationally

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