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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - August 12, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather variable cd wines and mild through. Thursday with Chance ult rain or Shower ii Row thursday mid 80� Low re a digit in the 90a Washington daily news established 1909 twelve pages Washington North Carolina wednesday afternoon August 12, 1970 if you do not get your paper. Dial ms-15 Between a a and 1 00 o clock and one Wal he delivered to you daily except sunday House democrats react quickly scheduled to Nixon a veto of Money Bills by Lawrence l. Knutson of is crucial abm vote Check Delegate list Washington police opt. Charle Cherry and chief Phillip Paul seated go Over the list erf delegates expected to be in attendance in Washington at the annual convention of the of c. Police executives association. Chief Paul is president. About 300 delegates Are a ported to attend. Photo by Litchfield i delegates arrive for police meet delegates will begin arriving late today in Washington n. C. For the 1970 convention of the n. C. Police executives association Phillip Paul Washington chief of police is president of the organization Holiday inn will be Headquarters for the delegates. The convention officially gets underway at 9 00 of clock on thursday morning with registration at the Holiday inn. A Golf tournament is set for the Washington yacht amp country club for thursday afternoon beginning at 1 00 o clock. An opening session is slated at Brentwood Lodge at 2 00 of clock with Washington mayor Tom Stewart bringing the Welcome. There will be an executive meeting at 4 15 . A fish Fry will be held in the evening at the Law enforcement officers hut on Tranter a Creek. Activities Start Early on Friday morning with pistol shooting matches to begin at 7 30 at the Washington police department Range. Later in the morning there will be a boat trip up the Pamlico River to Texas Gulf Sulphur company where lunch will be served. At 2 00 o clock in the afternoon another session will begin at Brentwood Lodge when capt. Thomas Estes of the metropolitan police Force of Washington d c. Will introduce Dwight j. Dalbey of the Fri in the main office in Washington d. C. At 8 00 of clock in the evening also at Brentwood Lodge the annual banquet will be held with Edmund Harding As speaker. On saturday morning at see police Page 8 Hurricane escape routes proposed by Lawrence l. Knutson a or tiled pres writer Washington a it with the outcome too Clow to Call the Senate faces a crucial vote on restricting the safeguard an Tiba Listic missile system amid warnings a vote against the abm will be counted a vote against president Nixon. Supporters of safeguard cd Abiaad Victory tuesday morn ing. But by Nightfall the situation was so Cloudy no one was sure even which of two amendments would be used to attack the abm system. The vote was scheduled at a a Ftp Telby the vote assured a new Senate White House confrontation a Day after Nixon vetoed two Domestic spending Bills because they exceeded his budget by More than $1 billion. Most senators opposed to. Safeguard have contended the billions it May coat�?$50 billion by the estimate of one critics could better be used to ease Home front crises. The pending $19 2 billion military procurement Bill contains $1.4 billion for safeguard during the next fiscal year. Announcements by three democrats Only added to the confusion about the outcome of the abm vote sen Jennings Randolph d-w.va., and sen. Clinton Anderson d-n.m., announced they will vote for an amendment which prohibits Extension of the abm to two mor Sites requested by Nixon. The amendment is sponsored by Sens. John Sherman Cooper r-ky., and Philip a. Hart a Mich. Sen. Thomas j. Mcintyre. D n.h., said he will vote against Cooper Hart but for another amendment to bar expansion of the two new Sites and spend $322 million to beef up the abm atthe two original Sites at Malmstrom and grand Forks air Force base a. The original safeguard program was approved by a one. Vote margin last year. Fund climbs House passed farm subsidy lid Only Small cutback in program by Don Kendall a farm writer Washington a the $55,000 ceiling on farm subsidy payments voted by the House represents Only a a million cutback in the $3.5 billion program. But some conkers Sfa a see the action As the first step to eliminating payments to Farmers for not growing crops. A this May be the last farm Bill Congress Ever passes said sen Robert Dole r-kan., after the House approved the omnibus Bill containing the subsidy ceiling. A one Way to end the program is to Cut Down on. some lawmakers Don t want to end the program. The result they say. Would be higher food prices a cutback m the number of farms and the threat of an economic disaster. The Bill which sets the $55.000 per crop ceiling on Cotton feed grains and wheat now goes to the Senate where president Nixon is expected to fight attempt to lower the limit to $20,000. Present Law sets no limit the House passed the Bill last week after Nixon urged acceptance of the agriculture committee version with the $55,000 lid. Backers of the lower figure have vowed to continue the fight after the Senate acts and the Bill goes to conference committee. His government payments in danger the subsidy lid was a land Mark move to include in a general farm Bill restraints on huge subsidy payments to individual growers it was time the House decided. To shut off million Dollar Dubowy payments five of them Jast year to huge operators like the . Boswell co., Corcoran calif., whose $4,370,657 # _ payment has become a rallying st a -5m cry for subsidy critics. The limitation to begin next year was introduced in the sen ate by Dole one of Nixon a president Nixon signs postal Reform Bill today by Ben Funk associated press writer Miami a expanding populations along the warm weather coasts of the Atlantic and Gulf states could become a sitting ducks for disaster Quot unless escape routes Are provided from tropical storms says the chief of the National Hurricane Center. A a Hurricane in the near future could kill 20,000 or 30,000, even 50,000 people unless we have sound planning a or. Robert h. Simpson told president Nixon a fourth regional disaster preparedness conference tuesday. A i am enormously concerned with development of High density populations right at the Shore lines a Simpson said. A if we stack in people by hundreds of thousands and fail to provide escape routes we will be sitting ducks for disaster one of these Simpson said Dade county Miami is a prime example of mushrooming population and poor planning. If a major Hurricane struck South of Miami he said 250,000 people jammed Between . 1 and Biscayne Bay would have Only the one Highway on which see hurricanes Page 8 to $2,765 there Are $2,765.84 in the David Taylor fund today according to Jim Mizzelle treasurer on thursday evening from 5 00-8 00 . There will be a Community Barbecue at havens gardens As a Benefit for David. The Price per plate is $1.50 and All profits will go into the fund. This will end the drive for funds. Meanwhile David 14 year old boy with a serious brain tumor is still a patient at memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. We Are informed that he will Start Cobalt treatments Over the weekend those wishing to contribute Are asked to Send donations to the a David Taylor fund. Box 1202, Washington . By Mark Brown associated Presa writer Washington apr presi Dent Nixon signed the postal Reform Bill today. He said the task of overhauling the Post office was accomplished Only through bipartisan support that Quot showed the system at its Quot Quot there is no Republican Way or democratic Way to deliver the mail Quot Nixon said at signing a Cerer primes in the office of postmaster general Winton m. Blount. Quot there s Only the right Way and that a what this occasion is All flanked by six of his predecessors Blount presented Nixon with a replica of the system s new Symbol a streamlined Bald Eagle. It r places the horse special olympics 34 Albert reaching Fruto tor Albert confident by de Walker jr., City editor when Albert Roberson starts out to do something the average person does no to do his Han to capped and limited world him. Many Steps behind the starting off place of others. But when Albert with the help of friends competes against 2,500 other Blind Multi handicapped children from the . And. Canada in Chicago a special olympics aug. 13-15, he will be reaching out far beyond his Small horizons. When asked if he thinks he will bring Home a Gold medal he smiles and replies a Chi bring Home Albert is 16 years old. He was torn in Paniego where he started Public school at the age of six. His Progress in school was near Normal in some areas but As Reading became More and More crucial be began to fail. In the sixth Grade he was placed in a special education class when he tested out mentally retarded. It was Learned that his eyesight was extremely limited by nystagmus giving him vision of $00-100, Only partially correctable. Alberto a family is Black and poor. It was next to impossibly to determine whether see Albert Page 8 Light bulb Sale Washington Jaycees will sell Light bulbs door to door tonight and thursday night to raise funds r to support scholarships the Junior chamber of Commerce awards each year. A Geches will meet at the knotty Pine inn at 6 . Each evening to begin the Canvas. This years Winner of the Todd Maxwell scholarship is David s. Hunt. Back rider which has symbolized the Post office wince 1837 the Law removed the postmaster general from the president s Cabinet and ostensibly takes the Post office out of politics Blount has declined to say what his Quot plans Are when the new postal system becomes fully implemented a year from now. A former postmasters general present for the Eert Nony were James a Farley James e. Summerfield j. Edward Day John. A. Gronouski. Lawrence k. Of Brien and a Marvin Watson a it was of Brien now chairman of the democratic National committee who first proposed replacing the Post office system with a corporate like Inden Pend ent Agency storting the drive in 1967, of Brien declared a the Post office is in a race with the comprehensive overhaul of the postal system approved by Congress last week is de signed to Cut costs and improve service by infusing the mails with modern management Lech piques a postal officials see the Reform As a Welcome end to the problems of inefficiency political patronage and outmoded procedures that several times in the past few Yean came close to causing a total breakdown n under the plan the Psi office becomes a corporate like Independent Agency with the sole task of providing service to the american Public eventually on a break even basis w. It. Roberson. Or. Buti will 0 conduct graduation degrees and diplomas numbering 131 will to awarded to a like Numor of candidates August 21 at Washington High school when Beaufort county technical Institute provides its largest class to Date with graduation certification degrees and diplomas will to presented in police science business administration secretarial science electrical technology practical nursing medical a a lab assistant automotive mechanics and cosmetology 126 of the graduates have already been placed in jobs. Dave Milligan school official a see tech Page 8i spearhead drive for reversal a it mii.1.1 am f hog ast an Odili a i or Rex writer Washington apr House Democrat meting sharply to president Nixon s veto of Educa Tion a my government Agency in Hwy Btl i. today to reverse the chief executive s action the democrats were expected to receive some support from republicans who earlier had it Bills become Quot liw without his signature Nixon vetoed tuesday the $4 4 billion education appropriation and $18 billion measure to run a variety of Federal agencies on grounds they pole Quot a threat to a very americans pocketbook a the two Bills would have added nearly to billion to the administrations budget recommendations Nixon said they represent a the kind of big spending that would drive up pricey or demand higher taxes Quot House democratic leaders a hoping to capture the two thirds necessary to override presidential vetoes scheduled the showdown votes thursday As the first order of business. Democratic leaders were of Tom ssh about their chances for overriding the office of education he but less certain about the prospects for the larger measure Many republicans in. Dulling minority Leader Gerald r. Ford of Michigan shared that appraisal the announcement that Nixon vetoed the Bill prompted a Sharp Exchange on the House a or a up a e Boggs a la. Said Nixon was attempting to shift the blame for inflation and High interest rates to the demo Cha Fri a Boggs said the $1 billion Addi Tion to the two measures amounted to less than half the additional Cost to the government from increased interest rates a Quot a Ford however said when spend More than you Lake you inevitably add to the Cost of interest to the Federal government a Nixon said his vetoes were Quot painful but necessary to hold Down the rising Cost of living,.�?� democratic National chairman Larry of Brien said Nixon s action Quot illustrated in starkest terms the distorted priorities of ills administration a a the overriding cause of the rising Cost of living is a Nixon s refusal to use the Powers of the presidency to control excessive Price and wage decisions and his refusal to use the economic tools which Congress has Given him Quot of Brien added democrats hoped the lure of big Money allotments for veterans hospitals and schools would give impetus to heir drive one Bill would provide $18 billion in new funds for the veterans administration and a score of other agencies Quot. One of the larger boosts in the education Bill was t2f million in funds for so called impacted school districts heavily populated by children a a Federal employees. Another hike Over the budget was $232 million for Var--, secondary and elementary school programs the impacted school districts Are scattered among More than 350 congressional districts at sunny Point by Howard Benedict associated press writer sunny Point . A stevedores today begin loading 418 steel jacketed vaults of nerve Gas aboard an Aid Liberty ship which will become a Tomb at the Bottom of the sea for the deadly chemical. Two heavily guarded train rolled into this military port tuesday night Ami Early today after uneventful trips from army arsenals at Anniston ala., and Richmond by. After the trate have been inspected Dock workers Are to use 50-ton cranes to Transfer the Concrete and steel coffins to the Liberty ship a relic of world War ii brought out of Mothballs for the assignment. The loading is expected to take two or three Days. Then the government plans to have Navy tugs Tow the 442-foot vessel the Lebannon Russell Briggs to a Point in the Atlantic 282 Miles East of Cape Kennedy Fla valves Sod Gas drains Are to to opened to let ill water so the Briggs will sink 16,000 feet to the Bottom. The scuttling is expected next tuesday. But the tugs accompanied by a destroyer escort and coast guard Cutter will not leave port until they have a 96 hour prediction of Good weather the army and Navy want to accomplish the Job before septem tor usually the most Active month for hurricanes in the Atlantic each of the Concrete coffins capped by a Quarter Inch layer of Metal contains 30 ms5 nerve Gas rockets a total of 12,540 a the Gas is called go. Or Quot Sarin Quot and is capable of killing a person in minutes after attack ing part of the Central nervous system it is in liquid form but would quickly turn to Gas if it escaped. In addition to the go Gas. Sealed in one of the Anniston coffins is a 10 Pound Container of vex nerve Gas. The substance that is believed to have killed 6,400 sheep when tested at a Utah proving ground in 1968 army chemical experts and the National Academy of sciences say the Gas manufactured during the korean War must be disposed of quickly to cause the rockets Are deteriorating it is believed the a seeping into the rockets propellant Chambers with possible danger of detonation the Only disposal method that can be achieved quickly the. Army says is to place the vaults aboard the ship and sink it. To destroy the Supply with an underground nuclear blast for example would require 15 months preparation there has been opposition from . Secretary general u Thant a few congressmen and Florida gov Claude Kirk who filed suit tuesday in Dis or. Washington. I he Sun died jointly with the environmental defense Fuad asks that the army be required to prove that the dumping site is the Best possible location and that the scuttling plan is the Saf

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