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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - August 1, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaA weather Chance of thunem Howery mostly in afternoon through sunday with or humid Days and. Warm nights High a Low 10�. Washington daily news established 1909 eight pages Washington North Carolina saturday afternoon August 1, 1970 if you do not get your paper. Dial 94s-914& Between 9 k and t 00 o clock and Ana a Ftp be delivered to you. A Quot it daily except sunday in Cambodia n Orth pc launch Power offensive Housek a consultations underway wage Price to begin cease fire to Walton Broome Ralph Meconio 3 mental health # officials resign three resignations came out of the meeting last night of the tideland mental health Center advisory Board held at the rendezvous in Washington Ralph Mccoig. Administrator offered his resignation effective As of september i Charles Franklin recently named assistant administrator tendered his resignation for the same Date and Walton Broome chairman of the five county advisory Board resigned effective immediately. Or. Broome in resigning had this to say a was you know i was appointed a member to tips Board several years ago and for the last one and one half years have had the responsibility privilege and pleasure of being your Board chairman a in this position As your Board chairman i have worked diligently to develop a five county mental health Center. As you gentlemen recall in my visits to the various counties i have said to you that As Long As i was chairman this would not be a one county governing Board but a five county Board. A since our last meeting As a Board four counties have approved the budget As recon mended by the Board in reference to the area concept regretfully one county which happens to be my own county has elected not it up prove fee budget As recommended by this see resignation Page 8 desegregation suit in limbo david1 Taylor Only $20 received for boy Only 820 have been received into the a David Taylor fund according to Jim Mizelle treasurer the fund was started yesterday to help defray the medical and Hospital expenses of David Taylor. The 14 year old youngster was operated on yesterday at memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill for a tumor of the brain. Later he is expected to take either a Ray or Cobalt treatments. He will be in the 9th Grade this year at p. S. Jones Junior High. His pastor the Rev. Wayne Smith of first free will Baptist Church is chairman of the fund. Others serving on the committee Are r. L. Drake William Boyd and Jim Mizelle treasurer. The boys father died suddenly last May 27. There Are five children at Home and the needs for help Are great. Hope was expressed today that churches and sunday see fund Pape 8 Raleigh a a desegregation suit involving the state of North Carolina and 10 school units remained in limbo today after a Federal appeals court judge granted a delay judge j. Braxton Craven of the u. S. 4th circuit court of appeals at the request of atty. Gen. Robert Morgan agreed. Friday to Block enforcement of a court order requiring the state to see that the 10 districts file acceptable desegregation plans by tuesday. The order was issued by . District judge Algernon Butler last tuesday. It challenged the states traditional stand that it cannot control Pupil assignments at the local level. The court order would affect the City school units of Burlington Goldsboro Maxton. Rocky mount Tarboro and Raleigh and the county units of Bladen Edgecombe Guilford and Union. Cravens decision blocked the portion of Butler s order requiring the Board of education and the state superintendent of Public instruction Craig Phillips to see that the districts file acceptable plans i however Craven said the fact see schools Page 81 . Housing by John t. Wheeler associated pres writer phenom penh Cambodia apr thousands of North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched one of the broadest and most powerful of fee cambodian or today the offensive was aimed at crushing major cambodian a tron Points remaining in the Northern part of the country and expanding communist control North and Northwest of phenom penh. Heavy attacks were reported under Way at. Several key Points in an arc stretching from 35 Miles Northwest of phenom penh to 80 Miles North of the capital. The heaviest blow fell on the provincial capital of Kampong Thom 80 Miles North of phenom penh where South vietnamese ac47 gunships temporarily halted the attacks. North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops attacked a key route in a sector of Skourn in Kampong Cham province 40 Miles Northeast of phenom penh. Kampong Cham City capital of the province and a military regional Headquarters was harassed during the night a cambodian spokesman said 2,000 to 3,000 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were in the Skourn Kampong Cham area apparently preparing for renewed attempts to take Kampong Cham the key Mekong River City and government defensive Anchor in the Northeast. While the communist command mounted the big offensive fighting in South Vietnam lapsed into its quietest Day in More than a month. Neither the . Nor South vietnamese commands reported any significant ground fighting i. Their evening communique in a delayed report the . Command said an army helicopter crashed on take off Armstrong wednesday because of an in Gine failure. Five . Servicemen were killed and four were injured in the crash % Miles North of Saigon. In Vientiane Laos Prince souk Songsak a. Communist Patchet. Lao envoy arrived to meet with Prince Souvanna Houma diplomatic sources desert bed souk songs aka a arrival As a possible first step toward a negotiated settlement of the War in i up meanwhile . B52 bombers also hammered North Viet Samese infiltration corridors f freezing by Jim Llu ther associated press writer Washington api a climaxing a partisan debate the House has sent to the Senate a provision giving president Nixon authority to limit wages prices and interest rates for the next nine months. The gesture May be an empty one since Nixon has said refill not use such Powers to fight inflation democrats argued Friday the standby authority would be a Good weapon for the president to use in negotiating with labor and business leaders but is publicans claimed the whole affair was keyed to the november congressional elections. The no record vote against eliminating the provision from the defense production act was 78-41. The House showed it did not want to take responsibility for a wage Price freeze by defeating 279-11 a move that would have made the limits mandatory. The defense production act under which the government controls strategic materials and facilities., passed by a 257-19 record vote which gave no indication of the sentiment about the freeze the Senate has passed the act without the rider. The provision gives the president authority to order prices rents wages and interest rates at Levels not less than those prevailing May 25, 1979�?the Day the Bill was made Public. The authority would expire next feb. 28, and republicans charged that cutoff Date tipped off democratic strategy to criticize Nixon through the november elections for not using the authority. The defense production act creates a five member Cost accounting Board to develop standards for defense contractors with an Eye toward tighter controlling of costs. . Begins at once a we still have a Long Way to go by John m Hightower a special correspondent Washington a with Hope that an Arab israeli peace settlement May at last be Possi i cd a a. Ill a of t a Mica Elm its plans to Start diplomatic talks at. Once with Egypt Jordan and Israel on arrangements for a cease fire in the Middle East War. Authorities Here would not predict when a cease fire might go into effect but some believe it May be Only a matter of Days meanwhile following up is Raele a acceptance of a . Peace plan Friday Washington officials expect that United nations mediator Gunnar jarring will begin consultations in new York promptly on the time place and other details for open my actual negotiations on a Middle East a settlement 99 jarring. Swedish ambassador to Moscow who is operating As mediator under u n auspices is due in new York from swe Den late sunday the israeli gun Ament. Torn by a Cabinet dispute Over the risks of agreeing to cease fire and toe problems of negotiation was the last of the three governments which received the . Proposal to decide Anco Egypt was i by Jordan notification of the Tion was sent Imp Secretary of state Rogers and pre it i accept followed i israeli a id lately to William p Dent Nixon Friday. A formal statement from the israeli government is being prepared and . Off cd Ala expert it to reach the state department and the san Cle Menta White House within a couple of Days once that statement is in hand officials said detailed exchanges through Diplomat to channels will he started be tween Jordan and Egypt in one hand and Israel on the other regarding the time and conditions for halting the shooting some preliminary contacts apparently Are already under Way assistant Secretary of state Joseph Sisco a key figure in the us peace drive conf rred for an hour Friday with israeli ambassador Yitzhak a bin president Nixon a claiming the israeli acceptance in a meeting with newsmen at san oem Enle mixed expressions of hope4ar peace with warning of see u a. Page 8 funeral set Belhaven a Melvin Arm Strong of Ponzer it. A Belhaven operator of a heavy equipment business died last night at 11 40 o clock in the Beaufort county Hospital in Washington he was 35 year Oid. R an overflow crowd at the Tate Lobianco Murd. The hallway for seats inside to hear Linda Kasabian tinal in los Angeles is 11 about seven murder services Wei be Hei sunday afternoon at 4 3o o clock at the mount Olivi Kasabian showing Strain israelis prepare. Statement Fly Hie associated press consultations were under Way in the Middle East in the United stale and at the United nations today on How and when to implement the v s. Plan for an Arah Raeh Graae Iwu if s. Officials in w Ashington mid the israeli government which accepted the plan Friday is preparing a formal statement that should reach the state department and president Nixon a West porn White House in san n a couple of Days. As soon As the statement is received officials said detailed exchanges through us diplomatic channels will be started Between Israel and the jordanian and egyptian governments concerning the time end conditions for halting the shooting. A Egypt and Jordan have already accepted the . Plan which was proposed june 19 by Secretary of state William p. Rogers it has been condemned by the major palestinian guerrilla organizations. However., and has been rejected by Syria and Iraq although Rogers did not ask for their approval. The plan Calls for a a to Day ceasefire and for peace negotiations under u n mediator Gunnar Birring of Sweden it also requests Smth sides to Honor the u n Security Council Reso Lution of november 1967, which called on Israel to pull Back its forces from Arab territory captured Ini the june is War and asked the Araba to Reot Onize Israel s right to exist As a Date jarring u due to arrive in new York from Sweden sunday and is expected to begin consultations immediate Lyon the time Failace and other details for opening peace negotiations. A in Cairo the sem official newspaper at a or am attacked aral who have criticized Nas Aero i acceptance. Erf. The . Plan hut also said israelis acceptance statement went a Lar beyond the u n Security Council Resolution of 19�7 and the american proposals them he i.4nda pet tic 11 a Why did you or it a Elager a mid East. Page 8 and Supply depots in the South Ern Panhandle of Laos. The offensive in Cambodia came two Days after South Viet a namese president Nguyen Van Thieu speculated that the communist command would make its next big military move in Cambodia in an attempt to put president Nixon in the position of having to increase american Aid there substantially or let the government of Premier Lon nol fall. South Vietnam is about 18,500 troops in Cambodia but there were no reports of Large South vietnamese elements in the fighting zone. . B52 bombers pounded North vietnamese Supply depots 50 Miles East of Kampong Cham City in the fishhook Region of Cambodia about 80 Miles North of Saigon. Informed sources said the raids were not in direct support of the cambodian troops Church of r Christ with Myron l oof a Elliott officiating. Burial will --2�?� follow in the Davis cemetery it. 1, Pantego v his co workers will serve As pallbearers. The family will be at his fathers Home it. 1, Belhaven. Or Armstrong was born and reared in the Ponzer area and was a member of the mount Olive Church of Christ. Surviving in addition to his parents or. And mrs. Milburn Armstrong Are his wife mrs Cleata Linton one daughter Selicia and one son Douglas Armstrong both of the Home two Brothers Delbert and Bobby Armstrong both of it. 1, Belhaven three Sisters mrs Graham Radcliffe of Pasadena md., mrs. Wade Biggs of Pinetown and mrs Daimon Boyd of Bath and. His paternal Grandfather Mavis Armstrong of Newport news a. Authority Clear on Bonds Raleigh a the state supreme court has cleared the Way for the North Carolina housing corp. To Issue $200 million in tax exempt Bonds to help finance construction of Low Cost housing. The court ruled 5-2 Friday that a 1969 general Assembly act creating the corporation is constitutional in an opinion written by chief Justice William h. Bobbitt the court declared Quot we accept the legislative findings which Are supported by facts set Forth in the stipulation that there exists in North Carolina serious shortage of decent Safe and sanitary residential housing available at Low prices or rentals to persons and families of lower incomes Bobbitt said that private Enterprise and investment have not been Able even with assistance to produce the needed housing hence the Selling of tax exempt Bonds to finance such housing is to accomplish a proper Public purpose and is therefore constitutional he held. State Rapa. Perry Martin of Northampton and Sam Johnson of Wake had challenged the act contending it would use Public funds for private purposes Superior court judge James h. Pou Bailey ruling of last december the the act was unconstitutional was appealed to the supreme court. Gov. Bob Scott who asked the general Assembly to set up the housing program called the Rui ing a a landmark decision and a historic Day for North the program was designed to provide Homes primarily for families with incomes of less than 96,000 a year who Are unable to get Home Purchase Loans through conventional channels the governor had expressed the Hope that 10,000 new Homes a year could be built under the program to help alleviate the plight of an estimated 400,000 persons living in substandard see housing 9 Everett hit demos Swan Quarter a Republican speakers lambasted democrats at both the state and National Levels at a dinner meeting at school last night. Jota East of Greenville a former congressional candidate blamed democrats for the current trend of events m the country. He said the liberals w to he said Are democrats Are to blame for the wide Range of problems a. Education spending War a confronting the government. �?0fn East noted the happenings at the recent North Carolina democratic convention in which liberals won on a number of important issues including endorsement of the position of the Senate doves on Vietnam. Frank Everett of Rober Sonville gop candidate for the first District congressional seat held by rep. Walter Jones Tore into the democrats for their1 spending policies. Everett said the inflation problem in the nation today can be put at the door step of the Liberal spending policies of the democrats in recent years deficit spending has put us where we Are Quot he declared As he whip lashed the opposition for its spending policies. Or East was presented by Donald Green Everett a Hyde county manager and or. Everett was presented by or. J. H Liverman a Veteran Hyde county Republican Leader. Special guests included John Wilkinson of Washington District gop chairman and mrs East and mrs. Everett see gop Page 8 associated press writer los Angeles apr showing the Strain of five Days on the witness stand in Quot the Sharon Tate murder trial. Linda Kasabian has vehemently denied she is testifying Only to save her own life Quot i would give my life for the people who were killed Quot she said. Mrs. Kasabian who testified that Charles Manson ordered his followers to Kilt miss tale and , began crying Friday under Croas Aram lat Ion by defense attorney Paul Fitz Gerald. It happened when he asked the states Star witness to recall a Day last Winter when author ties took her from jail to miss Tate s rented mansion to pin Point locations described in her Story of the killings of the actress and in two nights last August. A some dogs Ca Rurup a she said a and i remember saying a Why dogs have been Here that night a and i started crying a id asked because i had seen some thing horrible and 1 was at the same spot a the witness said. Mrs. Kasabian said under questioning that she had been promised immunity for her Tes Timony and she realizes that this will release her from charges of seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy. On trial with Manson 35. Are Susan a Sadie Quot Atkins. 21 a Patri a cd a a Katie Quot Krenwinkel. 22, and la ate Van Louten. 20 a Large portion of the Eross examination dealt with mrs Kasabian a use of Hallucinogen she told of living in about 11 drug oriented communes across the country since the age of 16 her life she said was a just a constant moving Back and Forth but always with other mrs. Kasabian a Cross examination continues when court resumes monday. It. Samuel Pugh passes Friday Belhaven Samuel l Pugh age 71 r retired Seaman died late Friday in the . Public health service Center in Norfolk. A following a Long illness a funeral services will be held sunday at 2 from the Chapel of Che Paul funeral Home Here with the Rev. Martin Kershman officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows cemetery. Or Pugh lived most of his life Here and attended the Assembly of god Church. Surviving Are a a one son. Richard Pugh of Chesapeake Athree daughters mrs. Carl Wilkins of Belhaven. Mrs. Edward Sumer Don of Baltimore my and mrs Mary Elizabeth Rose of Belhaven 13 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Congress to investigate shipping of deadly by Gregg Harrington associated press writer Washington a both houses of Congress will invest Gate the Pentagon a plan to ship 68 tons of deadly nerve Gas to the Atlantic Ocean for dumping a a plan that includes emergency measures the defense department says will be unnecessary. Rep Paul Rogers d-fla., said Friday representatives of the army and departments of state. Interior and welfare will be invited to testify beginning monday before the House Mer chant Marine subcommittee on oceanography Rogers was followed several hours later by sen. Ernest Holl mrs . Who announced his Senate oceanography subcommittee will begin hearings on the plan next wednesday less than a week later about aug. 19�?one train will move put from Anniston Ala,., and another from Lexington by. Along unannounced routes no faster than 35 Miles per hour toward the coast near Southport . There according to the plan 15,540 Gas filled rockets encased in 418 Concrete coffins wrapped in steel will be loaded aboard a Barge and carted out 290 Miles off the Florida coast where the vessel will be scuttled. \ a. Rollings called the project a extremely important because of its potential threat to the safety and. Well being of our citizens Quot he said he Hope to a find the facts and talk to the experts a the army says it will inform hospitals along the Way to Stock up on atropine an antidote that has to he injected into a Large muscle immediately after Contact with the odourless tasteless Gas

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