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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - August 26, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather a variable can mex and mild m through thursday with Chance of rail. Lows tonight 70s. Washington daily news of you do not get your paper. Dial 946 z145 Between a a and 7 00 o clock and one Wal be a Varad to Emu established 1909 fou8ttfn pages Washington North Carolina wednesday afternoon August 26, 1950 daily except sunday 7 women liberation lists today demanding Equality with men a they did t get much else in streets women a liberation for soviets at Ork a i. Fri itt i / a get l o w or Kat Home hols a user Bellmon. Everett by William l. Ryan a special Correa pendent hey girls while you re Mil Liberia Fabj a Yms ahm nil my my Yin a to Karl Marx the Granddaddy of communism said Quot the foundation of female emancipation the liberation of the woman As boosts Everett arabs fight Bellmon Speaks each other to District gop during talks a eighteen months Isnit enough time for president Nixon to Narl All the problems he inherited a emphasized senator Henry Bellmon Republican senator from Oklahoma speaking tuesday night at a fund raising dinner for r. Frank Everett Republican candidate for Congress rom the first District. Speaking to approximately 200 guests which according to Jim Holshouser. State Republican committee was the largest . Ralley Ever held in it a the first District senator Bellmon concentrated on National issues. Senator Bellmon is no interloper his brother is a farm owner in Pantego although he m living in Oklahoma taking care of the. Senators business investments. Bellmon was elected to the governorship of Oklahoma in 1962. And to the Senate in 1966. He supported the veto on the health education and welfare Bill he also introduced a Bill not to hold american servicemen in Legal jeopardy concerning civilian casualties. He said �?�1 knew the Bill would not pass but it really has made a lot of people Start speaking of the High controversial senator Strom thu rams relations with the president it was said a no president can agree with every senator All the time a and in his opinion a the difficulty Between the two has been Over Bellman praised president Nixon and his accomplishments in the Short 18 months he has been in office. Quoting another senator he stated a the Quot Jar it see gop Page 14� Ltd by the associated pit pm palestinian guerrillas and jordanian Security men battled in downtown Amman today wit one guerrilla reported killed and three civilians wounded lebanese demonstrated against guerrillas in the biblical City of Sidon and in Beirut. The Middle East peace talks at . Headquarters in new York were in suspension after an. Opening round tuesday that brought no indication of any movement toward a Compromise. The cause of the Amman Street Battle was not Learned immediately. But eyewitnesses said group of guerrillas on one Side of the Street and a special Branch Security men behind a parked car on the other blazed away at each other with pistols and sub machine guns. Joint . Patrols raced to the scene stooped the fighting and made several arrests. It was the eighth such incident reported since the guerrillas vowed to sabotage the cease fire agreement in which Jordan s King Hussein joined Egypt and Israel on aug. 7. Day you might do Well to reflect on your soviet Sisters they got liberated. There was a big fuss about this great step toward. Trouble was. Though that the soviet ladies neglected to mind the store while they were Given on paper everything their Western Sisters Are campaigning for in reality they wound up with Little of anything. The canny russian Meh still run almost everything and Many of the ladies Don t even have the fun of acting like ladies. I Tutt Mius gel much Slusi would have to he liberated from dependence upon men a Cornomi rally out of this the women got the right to work they did t Independence Quot Marx s Faitt full sidekick. Friedrich Engels pro tweder that inequality of the sexes was the result of a economic oppression of worn % Quot soviet Power a said its founder. Vladimir Lenin. A is the first and Only one in the world to destroy entirely ail the old iniquitous Bourgeois Laws which have placed women in an unequal position As compared with a 1 Well said the communists that being the Case women what s the situation today a half Century later1�?T Well it says in article 122 of the soviet Constitution that women have Complete Equality with men in All economic social and political spheres the labor Law. Revised As of 1970. Lays Down in articles fill through 73 just How women Are to be protected against heavy labor or harsh conditions fact of the matter is that the men simply ignore the Constitution and the labor Law when it suits them any visitor to any City or farm in the soviet Union can see soviet women at heavy labor indeed they Are the pm Cipa i source of farm labor. A White Man Hoki Down practically five the Wsot Ltd in the streets at work and on the Home front. Women libera zionists today Are demanding equal nights with a nationwide a strike for Equality timed to coincide with the mph Annivera �11 the bureaucratic desk jobs there is Only a tiny percentage of collective farm chairmen who Are ladies it the soviet press Points proudly to the number of soviet worn in who Are engineers doctors lawyers and so Forth hut they Are a Small minority of the 130 million women in the soviet Union the press also notes frequently that there Are a Large number of women in government there1 russians Page 111 Piney Grove y Volunteer defeat sch�o1 bids for Highway a. V a a a a projects opened bulletin Raleigh map a the North Carolina Highway commission opened bids in Raleigh tuesday on 31 projects in 26 counties. The apparent Low bids received by the commission at its regular monthly letting will be reviewed when the commission meets sept. 3, apparent lows bids included Burke county�?1.025 Miles of grading bituminous Concrete Binder surface and structures tor improvements on . 70 near Morganton from approximately 0.03 of a mile Southwest of or 1201, northeasterly to approximately 0.1 of a mile East of . 70 bypass. Roadway. $476,601.00, misstate contractors inc., Hickory , structures $236.477.49. Bowers construction co., Raleigh. Final completion Date dec. 31, 1971. % Burke county�?0.764 mile of grading bituminous Concrete Binder surface and Structure tor improvements on . 64 from 1-40, northerly to Rhyne Street in and near Morganton. Roadway $353,972.00, e. D. Geymont Lineo in ton . Structures $157,564.52, Hickory construction co., Hickory. Final completion Date dec. 1, 1971. Burke county�?0.622 mile of grading bituminous Concrete surface and Structure tor improvements on Carolina Street or 1734 in Valdese from Masse Avenue to approximately 180 feet Southeast of Praley Street or 1733. Roadway $145,220.75, see roads Page 141 Washington api a a Sharp drop in food prices caused the governments wholesale Price Index to decline five tenths of one per cent this month the first drop in two years the labor department said today. The Bureau of labor statistics said the decline was the first since a drop of four tenths of one per cent in August of 196k. The report on August prices is preliminary subject to possible change when More Complete figures Are compiled. The report said the biggest decline was a 1.5 per cent drop for farm products particularly for hogs cattle vegetables and eggs. Camp meet thursday Piney Grove Camp meeting at Chocowinity is beginning its it annual meeting thursday night August 27th and will continue services through sunday september 6th. The Camp meeting which is widely known and to which Many from surrounding states attend has been held annual tor Over sixty years. This years invited guest speaker is Rev. J. D. Simmons assistant superintendent of the South Carolina conference of the pentecostal holiness. Church and pastor of Ebenezer pentecostal holiness Church in West Columbia. South Carolina Rev. J. Doner Lee. Superintendent of the North Carolina conference of the pentecostal holiness Church will be manager of the Camp meeting and Wil have charge of All services. Rev. And mrs. E Terry Tripp will direct the music program rendering special numbers nightly services will be conducted throughout each Day with a see Cam p. Page 14 guarantees draft by Lawrence l Knutson a a we face a june 30, 1971, be. Board Tours associated press writer Washington a de feat of a plan to maintain an All Volunteer army virtually guarantees Extension of the draft but the resulting pressure could quicken . Withdrawal from Vietnam senators say. Chairman John Stennis j>-miss., of the armed services committee who opposed the All Volunteer plan said the defeat a will make it simpler to get the draft extended a Ltd the draft did t get us into Vietnam but it May get us out a commented sen. Jacob davits in who opposes the War but also fought the Volunteer plan. The Senate Defeated 52-35 tuesday the plan to raise soldiers pay to a level that would make military life More attractive and possibly eliminate the need of the draft. Quot i feel the Senate took a very Long step today toward commit Quot Ting the country toward the Extension of the draft a said Send Mark o. Hatfield r-ore., who co sponsored the amendment with sen. Barry m. Goldwater,-r-ari., Leehive service expiration Date and if we do riot have by that time some alternative plan its very obvious the administration and the Congress will be forced into the role of extending the draft tor another Tavvo years a Hatfield said. Javits and sen. Edward m. Kennedy 11-mass.,. Who oppose the War and have spoken out against what they consider inequities in the draft system voted against the amendment a it is unwise to insulate from the horrors of War Middle and upper class americans who might Lead the protest against senseless foreign adventures a Kennedy said. He contended it is unfair to allow the burdens of military service to fall Only on the poor who might be induced to join the army because of a pay raise. A i frankly might question tor example Quot Kennedy said a whether the current pressures tor de escalation of the Indochina War would be As great in Young men from every social background were not threatened with service in that War a Ken Nedy said. A of a Btl Linin of amendment which gave women the right to vote the nations women s strike coalition sponsor of the demonstration has urged women to Stav away from work if Onasi ble. Stop performing menial household chore Boycott certain allegedly degrading products and take children to husbands offices to demonstrate the need for child care centers rallies were scheduled in most major cities including new York Washington. San Francisco. Detroit and Boston some local feminist groups have urged members to dump Bra and cosmetics in trash cans symbolizing opposition to women being forced to look sexy. President Nixon noting the a rage a a uni very try. Proc Lama Hen tuesday asking Exmer trans a to recognize the great debt we owe to those who crib ated their life a work to the a a cause us women a it suit rage. A l City schools open within five years Agnew says . Could withdraw from s. Korea by Carl p. Leubsdorf associated press writer Sun Moon Lake Formosa apr vice president Spiro t. Agnew declared today that a . Forces would be withdrawn from South Korea when the modernization of that nation s armed forces is completed pos-0 Sibly within five years. Continuing his. Four nation asian tour Agnew flew from South Korea to the nationalist chinese Island of Formosa after two Days of extended conferences with Korea president Chung Hee Par during the flight to Formosa Agnew told newsmen it was a very doubtful Quot that the United states would leave even a Token Force in Korea after the modernization of South koreans 600,000-Man army Navy and air Force. The United states now has 62,000 troops in South Korea and plans to withdraw 20,000 by next june 30. South korean officials claim they need $3 billion in american Aid in the next five years More than four times the present program a to improve their forces to the Point where they can fight off any North korean attack without . Help. Agnew said he a pointed out very frankly to president Park that at such time As the modernization program is Complete a the Long Range program it might take five years or More a we would Hope that they would be in a state of economic and military balance that would no longer necessitate any american forces in asked if this meant All . Forces would be withdrawn from Korea within five years Agnew replied a i done to know whether five years will Complete the asked if Park realizes this Long Range . Withdrawal plan Agnew said a the accepts that and i think he accepts it As Agnew said he and Park a reached a Basic accords but added this did not include any details about the increased . A military Aid which the vice a resident announced on his arrival in Seoul monday. Korean sources said these details would be worked out in further conferences Between . And korean officials. Korean Premier Chung 11-Kwon, in Farewell remarks to Agnew said he hoped he would report fully to president Nixon and the . Government on the a realities Quot in Korea. This was a reference to the korean governments Contention that the threat from North Korea is a Good Deal greater than . Officials think it is and that South koreans armed forces need a huge amount of Modem military material in the next five years to make them equal to North koreans forces. The chinese expect two topics to dominate Agnew s Confer Knees with president Chiang see Agnew Page 14 with school opening Early this wednesday morning the Washington City school Board last night conducted their an Quai pre school tour and. According to superintendent Jasper Lewis the Board left the tour a very pleased with the preparation for opening and a a spec tally the m a i Oten a Nee work completed during the after the tour the Board met in its monthly session a revision and adoption of new policies dominated the meeting approved upon first Reading were the following policy making retirement at the age of 65 mandatory for All school personnel the policy previously dealt Only with teachers. A approved a policy to elect a new chairman every two years and a Board attorney every year Auto ply a a policy establishing a quorum of five adopted a policy giving school principles the authority to deny admission to any student Quot until adequate information is available regarding the students a a Tienda Nee record and acknowledgement of Good standing from his previous school t a if upon second Reading the Board still approves of the policy changes and additions they will become official t Selt Board Page 14 he added. A Lei us Alt recognize that women surety have a still wider role to play in the political economic and social life of our country a ? several politicians endorsed. The women s cause gov Nelson a Rockefeller proclaimed today a women s right Day in new. York state mayors James Tate of Phy mph a and Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh took similar action in their cities sen Charles e Goddell r beheld a news conference with Betty Friedan a Leader of the National it Irani Klion of is women Page 14� tobacco Box score the Washington tobacco Market yesterday sold 349,643 pounds of tobacco for a a $232,26.oh for an average of ,. $72.4 per 1m pounds. The Washington Market to Date has sold Iju 2, m7 pounds of. Tobacco for $l.43h,535.66 for an average of $72.19 per Iii pounds Hilly Dawson supervisor. Says a every Day is a Good Sale Day in tin thursday first Sale goes to Talley second Silt goes to Hassell third Sale goes to sermons warehouse. Scott endorses Highway plans hands begin discipline a the Washington City schools opened classes today in what superintendent Jasper Lewis said was an atmosphere of a quiet and smooth Lewis said he and the staff were very pleased with the Way things began. Figures on school in oilmen were not immediately available. Pictured above Are the hands of a first grader. For my this Day is the beginning of discipline and work. Much of his future begins Here. Staff photo by Litchfield Atlanta a North Caro 1ma got Bob Scott proposed today that the coastal Plains regional commission endorse a $2 6 billion regional Highway development plan. In a statement prepared for release at an Atlanta meeting of the commission Scott proposed the adoption of a Highway development plan completed by Wilbur Smith k associates consulting engineers in july 1969 the Complete system would involve some 5,000 Miles of Road and would focus on two intermediate Levels of Highway construction in the three states linked by the commission a North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia. First would be a regional freeway system constructed to interstate standards which would connect the major Urban centers in the Region second would be a Quot four Lane partial control of Access system Quot jul link the secondary Urban centers into the regional network. Scott said a the main Fea Tures of this recommended Highway system involves a coastal corridor Between Norfolk. Va., and Savannah a. A fall line corridor Between August and Columbus. A. And several East West corridors which would connect the coastal area More closely with the Piedmont Region a the transportation program is closely related to the other commission programs a Scott stated a Industry will not go where it cannot ship its products and tourist will naturally go those areas where add quate Means of Access Are he said if the program were phased Over a period of 10 years. A then we Are talking about an annual expenditure of some $260 million at a minimum the states must provide $7 million of that amount assuming a 70-30 Federal state ratio a my own state would have to provide at least $27 million annually in order to develop this much needed Highway system. A if the Matching ratio is on a 50-50 basis then the states would need to earmark $180 million annually. North Carolina s share of that total would require an outlay of $45 million annually

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