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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - August 3, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Chance at Ali Narni and. Thunderstorms Tani fit. Ending tuesday morning then Clear ing. Hours tonight Lour 70s, highs tuesday Low tos Washington daily news if you do not Goff your paper. Dial is h4& Between and 1 00 of cd pfc and one wll be delivered to you established 1909 ten pages Washington North Carolina. Monday afternoon August 3, 1970 daily except sunday thousands flee Hurricane Aims at Texas coast it Corpus Christ Tex apr Hurricane Celia aimed her 90 mile an hour winds at the Texas coast today As thousands of residents led the approaching winds rain and tides rolling in Well above Normal. Police ordered some 3,000 per sons evacuated from poet aran Sas. A resort Community on Mustang gland just off Corpus Christi North Corpus Christi Beach a vacation area of motels trailer Parks and beaches was ordered cleared Taw. A a some people were refusing to leave the weather Bureau said the storm was expected to strike the coast later today with As much As eight inches of rain As Well As High winds r but it was the tides that were feared most in this very Flat. Coastal area. They were expected to be five to seven feet above Normal at mid morning the Hurricane was about 135 Miles from Cor pus Christi and was heading straight for it winds were 90 Miles an hour a decrease from the earlier ilk . At Corpus Christi the main Bayfront area appeared Calm a few persons stood on the Beach watching the water which at 8 . Was Normal streets carried Normal morning traffic police cmdr. C. C. Hagan at Corpus Christi said speaking of experience in previous hurricanes Quot our problem Over there Ion North Corpus Christi Bradtl is the Mobile Homes rhe people in Mobile Homes Long to want to leave at first and Hen at the last minute they vant to go and they can t get Inchody to move them Quot Alton Catton chairman Libya and soviet Union put pressure on Iraq Southwest of phenom penh support . Warplanes flying sought in support of cambodians in 1 Alks swells it to s feet High a to the Delight of some Young surfers a pounded the coast in Advance of a a ft-4-,4 the storm sunday night while x o of Loci la thousands of persons seeking to cakes for Board tvs in Maiuu pm Fps highways leading out of calves ton. Aircraft owners As far from the coast As houston�?50 Miles a see Hurricane. Page 10� local child soviets observe drowns at new missile test Edgewater Charles Walter Walt Woolard. 111. It month old son of Charles Walter and Gloria Reed Woolard or. Of Edgewater Beach it. 2, Washington accidentally drowned while wading in front of its Home sunday morning. Walt was Bora Here March 5, 1969 surviving besides his parents Are his maternal grandpa rents or. And mrs. Charles Walter Woolard sr., paternal great grandmother. Mrs. Ottis w Woolard All of it. 2, Washington paternal great Grandfather t. L. Toler of Southport maternal grandparents or. And mrs. Ernest a. Reed of Sumter s. C. Maternal great grandmothers. Mrs. Lillie Oij amp 1��?��$. Re a . Both o Orin amp to in it Patonai great great Grandfather George a. Edwards of North shores funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4 o clock at the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home conducted by Irchard Mcbride pastor of the Beaver dam Church of Christ. Burial will follow in Pamlico memorial gardens. A the following will serve As pallbearers Braxton Dawson. Jr., Richard Leach Hobart Brown jr., and Royce Barrow. be atthe Home of or and mrs Hartas Walter Woolard or. Of it 2, Washington. M is. Williams Dies sunday mrs. E. H. Williams of Pallock Sivilie Mother of mrs. Floyd w. Gray of this City died sunday night at her Home following an. Illness of several months. Funeral services will be held tuesday at 3 . At the Pollocksville United methodist Church. Burial will follow in the pollocks Ville cemetery with Pollock funeral Home of new Bern in charge of arrangements. By How Ard Benedict a aerospace writer Cape Kennedy Fla a with a soviet spy ship observing the nuclear submarine James Madison today successfully unleashed the Navy a new multiple warhead Poseidon mis lie on the weapon s first submerged launching the Madison fired the two stage rocket while gliding beneath the surface of the Atlantic 30 Miles East of Cape Kennedy monitoring the Milestone test from a Short distance away was a russian fishing trawler loaded with electronic equipment such As radar. The trawler forced an earlier postponement of the shot when it probed to within 200 Yards of the James Madison during a practice firing run july 24 the Bullet shaped Poseidon being developed As a deadly deterrent in the u a. Nuclear Arsenal Rode a column of steam from a. Launching tube in the deck of the Madison spurted 120 feet to the surface and ignited a few feet above the water. The rocket left a serpentine Trail of White smoke in the sky As it hurled its multiple independently targeted reentry vehicle Mirve toward a target area tar Down the Atlantic tracking Range. Officials said it was to travel nearly the mis Sites full Range of 2,880 Miles the Navy announced shortly after the 11 Edt firing that the launch phase of the test was see Poseidon Page 10 Castro gets first look at new 747 chairman Alton Cayton was named today to represent the Beaufort county Board of commissioners at a meeting in Raleigh wednesday August 12, aimed at voicing opposition and complaint about the spiral my Cost of the medicaid program the appointment of or. Cayton was made at the request of d. L. Stallings president of the North Carolina association of county commissioners. Stallings in a letter to the Beard asked the county to name a it representative to a meeting of the social services action committee of the a acc. The medicaid program has been under fire across the state because of climbing costs which have caused budgets to go up and forced some counties to default in. Payments of the local portion of the expense the action by the commissioners in naming or. Cayton was in effect naming him to the social services action committee of the state organization. The Board also named commissioner Linwood Cayton to the Mosquito control Board replacing Walton Broome who resigned the program is operated Fey see Boford. Page 10 by George Esper aft to rated press w Riter Saigon Cap a us. Warplanes were reported flying combat missions in support of cambodian troops Southwest of phenom penh today while to the North of the capital cambodian and communist troops battled. In the streets of Kampong Thom. Little ground fighting was reported in South Vietnam but the command reported 33 enemy rocket and mortar attacks in the past 24 hours the largest number in a Day since june 28 the command said All the casualties were vietnamese including 10 killed and 24 wounded in the town of Giong trom in the Mekong Delta in Laos Indochina s third War front a new peace initiative got under Way but there was no Prospect of speedy and decisive were dropping bombs and napalm on Kiri rom and on ene my farces Between his head quarters at Kampong spec and Kiri rom these forces hive Cut High air Force phantoms were reported in action in Cambodia in support of five govern ment battalions massed on the slopes of the Kiri Korn plateau for an attempt to retake the i to fool High a re from Viet Cong and North vietnamese who captured it last week col. Sar Hor. The government and Deputy military commander of the province Southwest of phenom penh told associated press correspondent t Jeff Williams that the . Phantoms Way 4 through he province Cut Ting off phenom penh s Oil sup plies from the country s Only re finery on the coast and blocking reinforcements and supplies for the government Force at kin rom the provincial governor told Williams his immediate goal is to reopen the Highway and meanwhile the government Force at Kiri rom 4 marking time. Thera was no confirmation in Saiga of the reported amen Sec Indochina. Page 10 3 arrested Scott . Should pay welfare costs f following acquittals Oxford , it a three White men were arrested sunday on Bench warrants issued in connection with the shooting death of a negro a crime for which two of the Whites were acquitted. A Granville county Superior court jury acquitted Robert Gerald Teel. 39, and his 18-year-old son Robert Larry Teel of first dog lira charges in the May ii of Henry d Raleigh apr gov Bob Scott suggested today that the Federal government should take Over Complete financial re Pon Sibilly for welfare programs in North Carolina and ail other states Quot if they Are going to Call the shots we May As Well let them operate it Quot Scott said at a news conference Scott said he expects serious discussion of the proposal at the upcoming National governors conference meeting at Osage Beach to san Juan p r. A a bearded Young Hijacker gave Fidel Castro his first look at a Boeing 747 jumbo jetliner sunday. The Hijacker got off in Havana the Pilot showed the cuban prime minister around the outside of the plane and an succeed hts just mrs then the plane and the other 378 persons aboard flew to Miami and puerto Rico. It was the first 747 hijacking. The big plane went into service six months ago. A Young Man who spoke with an accent and a resembled Che Guevara Quot pulled a gun on a stewardess and ordered her to take him to the cockpit 90 min a utes after the pan american flight left new York for san Juan with 360 passengers and a Crew of 19 aboard. The gunman carried a bag which he said contained explosives he ordered the Pilot capt. Augustus Watkins to take him to Cuba. Castro was waiting at Jose Marti Airport when minute stay. Castro looked Over the plane for More than half an hour As he and the Pilot talked through an interpreter. Watkins said he invited Castro aboard but the prime minister declined saying a i would probably scare the Myra v �?________1________________ the 53-year-old flier said Cas tro asked Man v Mimi flow a 1. I about the passengers and cargo the 747 could carry the Crew needed to operate it its Speed and other performance details. Quot he was particularly interested in whether the plane would be Able to take off from the cuban Airfield a Watkins said. Quot i told him that was not a Watkins said the Hijacker wanted to get his Luggage off the plane but the Pilot explained that the necessary special equipment was t available a after i promised to see that the Luggage was shipped to Havana on another flight Castro gave orders to Clear us for take Tif a Watkins said. Marrow a 23-year-old Oxford s385.7s donated not to but when the jury s decision i to i was announced sunday judge 1 o 1 Aylor r und Robert Martin issued warrants for the tee is arrest and for the arrest of Roger Oakley the 19-year-old Stepson of the elder the giant Jet landed at.5 31 Only Watkins and the Hijacker the plane flew to Miami for got off during the planets 52 see Hijack Page 10 175-200 feared dead overloaded ferry boat sinks off West indies by Frank Murray associated press writer Nevis West indies apr a 75-foot motor launch designed to carry about 180 people on its ferry shuttles Between the islands of Nevis and st. Kitts had aboard a a probably 270 to 300�?� persons when it capsized and Sank in nine minutes saturday a government official said sunday night. Between 175 and 200 were feared dead. Forty three bodies had been recovered by late sunday and there were 88 survivors. All were believed residents of the two islands except three roman Catholic nuns two from Canada and one from eng land who were drowned. The us. Coast guard said some of the others might have been washed out to sea. But most were believed entombed with the boats Captain James Ponteen inside the steel Bull in 130 feet of water about a mile off the Southeast tip of st. Kitts. Coast guard divers were to inspect the Hull later this week harbormaster Drade Wal Wyn estimated the number of passengers aboard the ferry Christena when she went Down saturday but he said ticket re cords were aboard the boat. Lee Moore information officer for the local government acknowledged that toe government ferry Quot had on slightly too Many passengers Quot and added Quot we understand the capsize was caused by uneven distribution of passengers Quot the coast guard quoted an unidentified government official that the ferry a started leaning and toe people flocked to one. Side with the result that it the ferry boat was in trouble soon after it left Basseterre st. Kitts on the 11-mile, one hour trip to Charlestown Nevis. A it started leaning said Diana Williams 19, a Bank clerk returning Home to Nevis. Then it went under and everybody imbue to be hanging onto each other Quot she said she stripped off her clothes and swam through the shark infested water to Shore. Seventy nine of the 88 survivors owed their lives to Phillip Miller 37, who came to Nevis from Pompano Beach fla., four years ago and is a commercial Fisherman his 37-foot Cruiser sea Hunter no. 1, brought in 65 persons on its first Rescue , �2, of whom lived. The next trip he and his Crew pulled 17 survivors and 27 bodies from the Caribbean. A Friend of Ponteen said the Captain told him eight hours before the final voyage that the boat was unsafe. Poteet said he see ferry Page 10 the Quot David Taylor fund Quot stood at i�.75 this morning according to Jim Mizzelle treasurer. David Taylor is now in memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill where he underwent serious brain surgery last week for Reri Iqbal of a tumor he is expected to Start Cobalt treat Meiji shortly this. 14 year old youngster has four Brothers and Sisters at Home. His father died suddenly last May 27. His Mother is a his bedside. The family is in dire circumstances and a fund was started last week in his behalf the special committee is composed of his pastor the Rev. Wayne Smith of the first free will Baptist Church in Washington r l. Drake William Boyd and Jim Mizzelle treasurer. Several sunday school classes and Church groups reported Over toe weekend and several More Are expected to report today. Those wishing to give to the fund should Send donations to David Taylor fund p o Box 1202, Washington n. C. It Sawyer rites slated tuesday mrs. Johnna e Sawyer age 50, died at fort Carson army general Hospital at fort Carson col. Thursday july 30, at 12 15 following an illness of three years. Mrs Sawyer was bom at Hanau Germany feb. 23, 1920. She was a member of the Catholic Church and was married to sgt. W. R. Bobby i Sawyer of this City on feb 2, 1956. Surviving besides her husband Are one daughter mrs. Brigitte Brown of fort Sill. Okla. Requiem Maas will be held at Mother of mercy Catholic Church Here at 10 . Tuesday conducted by father Wiliam. C. Frost burial will follow in Oak Dale cemetery. Rosary will be held monday evening at 7 30 of clock at the Paul funeral Hornet pallbearers will be Jim Laviotte Charles Bateman Eldon Ward c. G. Swanner e cd a Brown and Jehu Nichols _. A a Ine Karmiy win Opeai me some to Donnell s observations in of or Sawyers Mother mar the aug. Tissue of life Maga River Road Iron Book he is writ Teel. Oakley and the elder Teel were charged with first degree murder teels warrant alleging he aided abetted counselled and encouraged Oakley Rober Larry Teel was Chi apr War Assanie inflicting serious a injuries All three were. Being lies a of an undisclosed jail of to de Granville county. When Martin issued the Bench warrants he indicated they were subject to Granville county grand jury action a spokes Man for the dark of court said today toe grand jury is not scheduled to meet again until the next term of Superior court scheduled nov. 9. The spokes Man said the grand jury could be ordered into special session but that no special session had been ordered today. Neither Martin nor members of the prosecution staff would comment sunday on the possibility of double jeopardy. Brought about by the1 teels be a ing charged in connection with a slaying of which they had been acquitted by the jury. When the jury a decision was announced sunday there were some angry statements by negroes gathered at the courthouse. But the tension seemed to Abate somewhat t later sunday see Teel Page 10 on other subjects the governor said a he a Quot very much concerned Quot Over complaints about inadequacies in the states Manta institutions and request for improvements will be Ltd Ltd to the next general Assembly a he does no to agree with plans to. Temporarily lighten claw loads at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enable students to Campaign in this All s election a he will support passage of All constitutional amendments proposed on the ballot in november. Including one to abolish literacy requirements for Vot a ets. Ihu 1 the governors comments on the welfare program came in response to questions about the Tirah Tufty of some North some Lina counties to pay their As signed shares of the cos of he program. The situation has brought about a crisis in which the state faces the possibility of losing about $150 million in Federal funds a a Scott said he believes the counties Quot will somehow be Able to meet their payments a a but. He said the situation brings up the question of whether All welfare activities should be turned Over to the Federal government. Scott spoke out strongly against the unc plan to curtail activities immediately prior to the november elections Quot i Don t want to see our universities become places for political activity in the sense that latin american universities Are Quot the governor said Quot i May be old fashioned be said Quot but campuses become refuges for political activists by both Scott and William c. Friday president of the cons ii dated University against pre Vioris similar suggestions mrs. Florence it. Harris Dies Swan Quarter mrs Florence Boomer Harris age 89. Died in the River Lew Manor nursing Home in Washington sunday afternoon funeral services will be held at 3 . Tuesday at the Swan Quarter Christian Church conducted by the. Rev Lawrence Mcintorff. Buna 1 will follow in Soule cemetery. Mrs Harris was a member of the Swan Quarter Christian if Friar the amp a Quot or Libya and the. Soviet Union put pressure on Iraq today to get behind president Gams i a Del Nasser in i coming indirect negotiation with Israel a defense and foreign mints term of some Arab states Yath Ere Din Libya to discuss strategy in the Wake of Israel s acceptance of the cease fire proposal libyan strongman must mar Sadafi conferred in Cairo with the egyptian presi Dent prior to visiting Baghdad. Meanwhile the soviet government issued an urgent invite lion for an Iraq delegation to visit Moscow tuesday the soviets were expected to threaten to reduce military and other Aid to Iraq unless the iraqis eased their opposition to the american proposal and the egyptian and jordanian acceptance of it. Iraq and Algeria both announced they would Boycott the meeting of Arab ministers opening in Tripoli today and Syria was expected to follow their Lead that would leave Only Egypt Jordan. Sudan and Libya represented. Nasser said in a statement he was a astounded Quot by the iraqi attacks on Egypt tor accepting the proposal for a 90 Day ceasefire to improve the climate for a new attempt at mediation by in. Envoy Gunnar y. Jarring. Nasser said Iraq should turn its attention to military action against Israel instead of Eri Tiei ing Egypt a diplomatic position. Jarring arrived in new York to discuss possible next Steps Quot following the acceptance by Egypt. Jordan and Israel of the american proposal the proposal Calls on these three main adversaries in the Middle East to a begin to work out under ambassador jarring1 s auspices the detailed Steps necessary Quot Tosee Mideast Page 10 4 Leaf barns hit by fire to raft. Lean f four tobacco barn fires Wert Harris surviving Are two sons Julian f. Harris of Swan Quarter and w Metrah Harris of Norfolk va., six grandchildren and five great grandchildren one brother. Henry Boomer of Swan Quarter and one-sister., mrs Emily Parkins of Beaufort the body will remain at the Williamson funeral Home and he taken to the Church one hour prior to the service charged with mtg order . It a Johnny Chavis a 60 year old Granville county Farmer has been charged with a murder in the shooting death of a neighbor. Sheriffs deputies said the victim was,50-year old Buster Edwards they said both men lived in the Berea Community and had known each other for most of their lives they said Chavis was a the unc plan was announced used of shooting Edwards after last week Despi it Public stands Ana argument Oyer some guns. Reported Over the week end and Early the Merenf by the Ideal fire department the cause of each fire was not known in the first fire saturday afternoon n at Leggett Crossroads. 650 Sticks of tobacco owned by Cecil Cherry were destroyed there was a no damage to the Bam in a second fire sunday morning around 8 30 . A barn owned by Charlie Roberson located two Miles off u. S. 17 near old Ford was Only partially destroyed the 600 Sticks of tobacco was considered a total loss. A nother barn Loca ted two Miles South of Chocowinity on . 17. Owned by mrs Charles Toler went up in flames late sunday might and around 500 Sticks of tobacco were lost. The fourth Bart located on Highway 17 and owned by w r. Moore was consumed by flames Early this morning. The barn and about 500 Sticks of tobacco were estimated at a total loss. O Donnell Juk chose Johnson to get rid of him in Senate new York api a former presidential aide Kenneth o Donnell says John f. Kennedh chose Lyndon b. Johnson As his running mate in 1960 because he Felt that if elected he would be unable to a live with Johnson As Senate majority Leader. Of Donnell who served in both toe Kennedy and. Johnson administrations said that four year later Johnson wanted sen Mike Mansfield of Montana As his vice president for the same reason to remove him from the key Senate leadership Post Isabelle Sawyer it. 2, Washington. Ing. In addition to Domestic poli tics the account offers new background on Early decisions on americans involvement in Vietnam. Of Donnell said Kennedy alter consulting with Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur and Mansfield in 1964 and 1962, agreed with both on a the need for a Complete military withdrawal from Viet but planned to withhold announcement until after the 1964 election. Mansfield confirmed sunday that Kennedy had Quot definitely and unequivocally made the withdrawal decision in the Spring of 1963, the Washington Post reported in today a editions. On the selection of Johnson for the vice presidency 0 Donnell quoted. Kennedy As offering this explanation at the 1960 democratic convention Quot in a 43 years old and in a the Healthiest candidate for president in the United states you be travelled with me enough to know that. In a not going to die in office. So the vice presi Dency does no to mean anything a i m thinking of something else the leadership of the Senate. If we win it will be by a Small margin and i won t be Able to live with Lyndon Johnson As the Leader of a Small Senate majority. Did it occur to you that if Lyndon becomes the vice president i la have Mike Mansfield As the Senate Leader some body i can Trust and depend on a on the Vietnam involvement o Donnell wrote Quot president Kennedy first began to have doubts about our military Effort in Vietnam in 1961, when both Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur and Gen. Charles de Gaulle warned him that the asian Mainland was no place to be fighting a nonnuclear land % Quot Macarthur was extremely critical of the military advice toe president had been getting from the Pentagon Quot he wrote. Quot Macar Tanir went on to Point out that there were Domestic problems a the Urban crisis the see of Donnell. Page 10 it a a

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