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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - August 17, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather variable Chou diner and Cov Thaida warm tue Dey wigs scattered mainly afternoon and evening Thunder Shower Kaighe so lows Fra Washington daily news h you do not got your Pipor. Dial man4ft Between i k and 1 1 o clock and Ana a Ftp a Day Ikard to you est Alii shed 1909 ten Paqos Washington Notum Cacouna monday afternoon August 17, 1970 Daviv except sunday damage heavy Hyde county f Pierce storm aka Uzi hits coast Hatteras. N c. Apr a fierce storm lashed the North \ # Carolina coast today with winds near Hurricane Force causing heavy property damage and temporarily knocking out utilities at some places gusts of 74 Miles per hour were recorded at Atlantic bears mar rape Lookout and the winds reached 69 At the Island of Ocracoke on the outer Banks Hurricane Force is 75 m p h., a but weathermen emphasized the storm was merely a turbulent Low pressure system and not a Hurricane such As is spawned in the Tropi is the winds at Atlantic Beach uprooted Trees Tore Down Power lines damages houses and boars and sent trashcans flying through the air. The head boat Darco was damaged when she broke out of her mooring at More head City a few Miles from Atlantic of trek Swan Quarter Hyde county schools Are scheduled to open thursday. Aug 27, school officials have announced the system will be totally integrated for the first time with Mattam skeet school serving All students in grades 7-12 students in grades 1-6 will attend at Davis school Jit Engelhard and Peay school at Swan Quarter Neil Singletary superintendent gives this information a. V plans for the new school if soviets Stop ss-9�?Ts, . Would halt Abms Forsyth ordered to bus some charter boat Skippers. Thinking they faced Only summer squalls left port Only to Stamper Back when the seas became violent. Heavy Rains accompanied the storm year in this column entitled a education in Hyde county the schools of Hyde county will open August 27. This is registration Day for student the school hours on this Day will be 8 15 Mol until 12 1� southward at Wilmington. 34 1 see tides. Page 10 mass strike �?�b52�?Ts Pound enemy forces by George Esper associated press writer Saigon apr the United states today committed its entire Pacific Force of ass bombers against the new communist offensive in the1 northernmost provinces of South Vietnam. Nearly 100 of the big bombers from Guam Okinawa and Thailand dropped some 3,000 tons of bombs on North vietnamese Supply and staging areas on. Both sides of the laotian Border during the past 4 hours the raids were the Hea Viest in two years in the sector. Informed sources said Clouds prevented any accurate assessment of the bomb damage but several secondary explosions in do wed i on am tuition stores. The . Command ordered the b52s out in full Force after attacks sunday on seven Allied bases guarding approaches to the populous coastal lowlands of Quang tri and Faua Thien provinces. The . Command also announced that three american helicopters were shot Down on the laotian Side of the Border saturday two of them As the it tried to Rescue the Crew of the first chopper downed Headquarters said one american was killed two were missing and five were wounded in the crashes. Official sources said they believe the enemy pressure against the Allied bases along the laotian Border and the demilitarized zone is part of the Prev Are Tinq for a big push against the Saigon governments pacification program in the lowlands lunch will not be served the next Day August 28, schools will operate on the regular schedule 8 15 a m to 3 20 . Insurance fees Are 12.75 for Mattam skeet school including football coverage and $2.25 for elementary schools. O. A. Peay and Davis. We have Many new educational opportunities for our boys and girls this year 197071. Mattam skeet school is offering introductions to occupational education in grades seven and eight. In High school the occupational educational program will consist of agriculture and conservation Home economics and health of c u p a t i 0 n a m e c h a n i c s gasoline and diesel engines and welding building trades including carpentry masonry plumbing and electricity and business occupations we have enough Money for the additional shop space needed which will be constructed this year 1970-71. We plan enlargement of seating capacity of the gym we will accomplish this through the building class and our maintenance department we will use funds for materials from the regular maintenance budget. Bleachers will be needed which we Hope the different communities together will provide. The Mechanic course will be see schools Page 10 Mattam skeet High school join i Itti 1.1.1j. Do vis elementary school a Greensboro n c it a it a Federal judge ordered the Forsyth county Winston Salem Board of education today to immediately implement a school desegregation plan requiring extensive busing of pupils the Lavoot him has said ii cannot afford to use the plan because 27 school buses would have to be purchased . District judge Eugene a. Gordon said that in ordering the plan he was following the dictates of appellate courts that trial judges base their decisions on precedents set in higher courts. He denied two motions by the school Board one to throw out the plan and one for a stay of execution the judge noted he was issuing the order without a hearing because1 of the time element involved schools Are scheduled to open aug 26 Gordon said is ruling did not preclude the possibility of a hearing later the school Board submitted the plan which Calls for the a clustering of eight elementary schools upon Gordon s order in doing to. The Board said the plan would be impossible to implement. In today a ruling Gordon also granted a request made at a see order. Page us former City resident Dies mrs. Ruth Hudson former resident of this City died last night in Cabarrus memorial Hospital in Concord after an illness of six weeks. Mrs. Hudson was born june 9. 1910 to Annis and Adolph Miller she Wias married to the late a am r. Hudson on december $0, 1923. Or Hudson preceded her in death on february 22, 1950. She is survived by six sons three daughters including mrs Nancy Wallace of this City and two Sisters., funeral services will be held in Concord at Roberta first United methodist Church with the reverend Warren Hawks officiating Golden rites held today funeral services for mrs. Eva Mae Mitchell Golden age 21, who died Friday from injuries received in an Auto Accident will be held today at 2 00 . From the Stiver Hill Christian Church in Pamlico county by the Rev. Rufus Walker. Burial will be in the Paul cemetery. Pallbearers will be capt Kerry l. Fairchild sgt. Henry t. Locklear sgt. Richard Meadows Tommy Boyd Julian Scott and Charles Hardison the body will be taken from the Stampier funeral Home to the Church at noon today to lie in state until the funeral hour bundled and ready in w Are houses record prices Eastern North Carolina Belt opens sales tuesday Raleigh a the big Eastern North Carolina Belt be gins flue cured tobacco sales tuesday. John Cyrus tobacco marketing specialist for the North Carolina department of agriculture has predicted a record opening Day Price of $73 50 per Hundred pounds he said he it looked for prices by Grade m be from $1 to $5 per Hundred pounds higher than last year support prices Are 4 per cent higher this year. A in other words All the Grade support prices Are up $1 to $6 ted if Allace above what they were last year Quot Cyrus said in an inter View. A a they be got a Good crop Down there he said a it s comparable to last year s Good smoking crop they got the Rains in time to produce a Good medium to thin bodied crop Quot Cyrus said tuesdays sales at the 17 markets Are expected to be Down from last years open my Day sales of lit million pounds because the markets will operate 4 7 hours instead of five. _ he noted that More tobacco 1 killed 2 Hurt in county wreck on the1 Georgia Florida Mark Eta and the South Carolina Border North Carolina Belt has been placed under government loan this year than for the same period last year a a we re hoping that with a Little better crop the stabilization receipts will taper off As we move into the East Quot i said Eastern beit markets include Ahoskie Clinton. Dunn farm Ville Goldsboro a Greenville Kinston Roberio mlle Rocky mount. Smithfield Tarboro Wallace. Washington Wendell Williams ton. Wilson and Windsor criminal court term starts president ready f or slowdown Washington apr claiming Severa i Bright new i 1 is 111 a a to my Uta Hie week peace the Nixon administration has expressed renewed enthusiasm to Ltd to b�0wd0wi in the weapon race with the soviet l the key Issue of the joint Stra Kwh arms limitations talks to a proposal to mutually abolish or curtail deployment of ant ballistic missiles they said administration spokesmen a Aid the safeguard abm system had been a major bargaining tool at the Vienna talks which dial ended a four month round last week the negotiations resume in Helsinki this november they said the soviet Union had expressed Moat interest in stopping development of the abm the United states has offered to do so if the soviets would limit their Large ss-9 missiles and cutback their abm. At a weekend briefing for editors and broadcasters in new Orleans during in resident Nixon s visit the officials said Nixon s Promise last year of negotiation a t her tha n cd my Ron to Lori had panned out As a turning Point in postwar policy the spokesmen who declined identification and prohibited release of their comments until sunday also said the1 conventional ground War in Southern South Vietnam is virtually end a or Quot the a said Security in that part of the natron was the Best it s been since im4 while noting that guerrilla warfare continue and the Paris peace talks , they said the at engiber a i South vietnamese army now should he Able to meet on its own the aggression in the Southern Region county native Dies in \ a. Beaufort county had its second fatal Highway Accident within m hours Early sunday when a one car mishap claimed one life and injured two. Trooper j. A. Hayes said std Lewis Wallace 24, of Pinetown was killed when he lost control of his car on Rural paved Road 1528 1 6 Miles East of Pinetown and was thrown from the vehicle before it rolled Over on him and burned. The trooper said two passengers Russell Waters 19, and c. M Espesa jr., 20, were injured and were admitted to the Beaufort county Hospital Here. He said Waters condition was serious. The automobile a 1960. Chevrolet was headed East when it ran off the Road on the left Side Hayes reported. He said the car crossed the Road and went off the right Side be fire it turned end Over end at least one time and finally landed upright on its wheels the trooper said the car was tra fling at a rapid rate of Speed time of the Accident was put at 2 30 a m the Accident was the second fatal mishap in a 36-hour period in Beaufort county. Mrs Eva Mitchell Golden 21, of at. 2. Chocowinity was killed Friday afternoon in a two car mishap on n. C. 33 East of Chocowinity three persons were injured in that mishap or. Wallace was born july 14, 1946 in Beaufort county the son of Charles And Minnie Waters Wallace of Pinetown and was the husband of Lynda Davis Wallace of the Home he graduated from Bath High school in>1964 and was employed by the Weyerhaeuser company until he entered the . Army in november of 1967, he served in Vietnam and was released Sec wreck Page 10 % a one week criminal term of Beaufort county Superior court got underway Here this morning with judge Howard h Hubbard of Clinton presiding a variety of cases Are on the docket for trial but most involve violations of the motor vehicle Laws All cases not reached for trial will a rescheduled for trial during tha week beginning aug 24. The docket is As follows monday a a Tim Thomason non support. Snodie Ray Banks manslaughter William Ellis Moore driving under influence Simon Brown Rich jr., speeding 70 in 60, David Gibbs Possession and Sale of whiskey motion to dismiss Appeal David. Gibbs Possession and Sale of whiskey motion to dismiss Appeal Edgar heckle speeding. 70 in 60 Charles 1 he judgment absolute. Charlie Austin worthless Check Richard Squires worthless see court. Page 10 mrs Mary Flynn Brinn age to. 373 Davis Street. Norfolk vs., died sunday at her residence she was the widow of John David Brinn and was a daughter of the late Lawrence and Johnny Lilly Flynn she was a native of Bath and lived in the Norfolk area for 50 years where she was a member of tha Good news Baptist Church in Norfolk surviving Are a son and four daughters four Brothers waiter Burbage of Tulsa Oila Monroe Burbage of Bath Jack Burbage of Hertford and Harold Burbage of Grifton four Sisters. Mrs. Maude styles of Bath mrs Bessie. Poston of Bath. Mrs. Martha Wright of Bath and mrs Lucy Cathrall of Belhaven. Two step Sisters mrs Sadie Capps of Belhaven and mrs Maude a Muley of Portsmouth. A _ _ Zzz a funeral service will be conducted in Holomon Brown funeral Home. Norfolk Chapel wednesday at 2p m Bunal will be in Riverside memorial Park Japan reluctant beneficiary Nixon a cutbacks bringing asian anxieties tary school by Spencer Davis associated Preas writer Washington a the administration s year old policy aimed at shrinking the nation s military posture and foreign Aid programs has created anxiety bewilderment and scepticism throughout Asia diplomatic sources say. Japan meanwhile is said to have emerged As a reluctant beneficiary of the so called Nixon doctrine which was spelled out by the president on Guam in August of last year. Ranking asian and american officials in 10 countries from Japan to Pakistan commented in interviews on the effect of the doctrine. There is agreement that Tokyo a prestige and influence has geared As non communist Asia faced with declining american involvements look to Japan to a fill whatever gaps the departing americans May leave. The Prospect of a greatly expanded role has somewhat alarmed japanese leaders who now Are urging the United states to go slow in carrying out the de americanization program in Southeast and Northeast Asia. The japanese would much prefer to be strictly an economic partner while the United Sta Tes continues to shoulder the major Security Burden for the Region. American officials stung by congressional criticism that u a sacrifices have succeeded in making Southeast Asia Safe tor japanese investment Are calling on the government of prime minister Eisaku Sato to take on More responsibility particularly to stepped up Aid to Vietnam and Cambodia. The Nixon doctrine hat been met by considerable scepticism to India it is not Clear say Indian authorities exactly what is meant by the Guam declaration on one hand there is the reduction announced for . Ground forces in Vietnam Korea Thailand and the Philippines. On the other they say it is the . Desire to get these countries to build up their own ground combat forces to pursuance of whatever International policy the states wishes. Consequently the indians argue there is no american withdrawal under this interpretation. But merely a change in the composition of . And Allied forces India Quot a foreign policy makers who keep an uneasy Eye on Mainland China Hope and expect that Hanoi will be1 the most powerful single Factor in any grouping of Southeast asian nations after the Vietnam War is ended. The indians say Hanoi is willing to allow South Vietnam a separate existence although it May not last for very Long perhaps five or ten years. The1 indians say they would go along with a coalition government imposed on Saigon from the outside because it would be impossible to hold free elections under the present conditions. In Vietnam the Indian View of a coalition is vehemently rejected on the ground that the government cannot Chukar to share its Power without popular sanctions. An election to which the National liberation front could participate however has been offered the Saigon government has taken a matter of fact attitude toward the Nixon doctrine and the Vietnam Iza lion program. Officials Point out that South Vietnam has built up its armed forces from 900,000 to close to 1.1 million men who are1 sup-1 plied with guns and ammunition by the a but who is going to pay for the salary and the maintenance of these men when the level of ., financial Aid remains Static Quot it is asked. Decreasing . Forces mean Leas Revenue at a time when Saiga mat spend Mere on combat pre4tens and they expect the u to pay the difference at the1 same time High american officials have pointed out that Japan is Selling Vietnam three times As much in consumer Goodfe As the United states. . Officials have asked a see doctrine Page 10

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