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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - December 1, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaThe a Trump Mimir Ltd a a Toni Gilt Clit not al item to a it to Day High a prone dam it Low tonight my a 1 att if j Washington daily news if you do not get your paper. Dial Between a i and 7 00 o clock and on will be to Routtu a a. Nee her to mfg armr daily Xci of sunday Why a space scope costly loss by Howard Benedict a aerospace writer Cape Kennedy Flo. Apr the Moat expensive Complex scientific satellite Ever built lies a ashes somewhere in Africa or the Indian Ocean today while a review Board seeks to learn Why it failed to reach orbit the doomed orbiting astronomical Observatory Oao a had carried the worlds largest space Telescope which might have unlocked Many secrete of the universe the National aeronautics and space administration blamed the failure of the to 5 million project on a protective nose Cone which did not Jettison As planned four Minuta after launch Here monday night the 12-foot-tall Cone made of honeycomb fibreglass was designed to protect the satellite during the Atlas Centaur rockets upward thrust through the atmosphere it was to have opened like a Clamshell and the two parts were to have been blown off the rocket by explosive charges once the Booster pushed above the atmosphere radio signals indicated the shroud deployed partially but did not fall away. There were these results a the alas Centaur had to carry along an extra 2,000 pounds of weight for the remaining eight minutes of powered flight. That was too great a Burden for it to achieve Orbital Speed a when the satellite s solar panels and antennae tried to extend they were restricted by the sides of the shroud thus even if orbit bad been reached ittlwi1 Oao is w Oil id Lesa Nasa said the 4.690-Pound satellite plunged Back to Earth Over Africa or the Indian Ocean. It probably broke up from atmospheric friction. Nose shrouds have been jettisoned successfully on hundreds of flights from Cape Kennedy. But there were three notable failures in the past. Shroud structural failures resulted in destruction of s Mars shot in 1964 and a communications satellite launch in 1906. The Cone on the Docking target satellite for gemini 9 opened Only Halfway prompting astronaut Thomas Stafford to Call it an a angry considerable confusion surrounded monday night s launch. Nasa at first announced Oao 3 had orbited Sucre awfully then said there was conflicting data. After 90 minutes the Agency announced the failure. The nose Cone Cost about 9200,000. It was the second failure in three launching for the orbiting astronomical Observatory program. Oao i suffered an electrical failure minutes after it reached orbit in 1966 Oao 2 was launched successfully two years ago and still is transmitting data. Italians of d divorce Bill by h1lmi Toros associated press writer Rome apr the chamber of deputies completed legislative action today on the Bill legalizing divorce in Italy giving the Vatican a major setback. Opponents vowed to seek repeal through a referendum. After president Giuseppe Sar Agat signs the i 1 and it is published form a Fries expected within a few weeks an estimated 500,000 legally separated italians will be Able to begin Legal Steps toward divorce. Three times Hal number Are believed separated without court decrees. Approval in the chamber of deputies was a virtual certainty since it passed the Bill a year and. Was acting Only on. Minor Senate changes. The deputies approved each amended Section during the night then approved the package 319-286 before Dawn. The Bill s principal provision allows divorce after Legal separation of five years. Legal experts say its complexity and Italy s jammed courts could keep divorce cases in litigation for up to five years. Attorneys expect fees to Range from 1640 to almost 12,000, huge amounts for italians in the lower income brackets. Parliament has wrangled Over the Issue for five years during which the Vatican repeatedly attacked divorce As a contrary to the Law of god and against family interests. A the holy see contended legalization would violate the 1929 Latera n pacts a or concordat Between Musso isee divorce Page s for sewing operation 1 # a i i a Aurora seeking Omen w orders Aurora a wanted�?125 women in the Aurora area interested in a Job in a sewing operation. That was the news this morning out of Aurora As mayor Frank Bonner and development corporation head Roy Edwards called for the 125 women immediately. The women interested in. A Job in Aurora Are asked to come to mayor Bonner a office on main Street in Aurora on wednesday afternoon december 2, Between 3 00 . And 7 00 . Team of four interviewers will be on hand to talk to the1 women who come. A sewing operation is looking Over Aurora As a possible site for immediate location. And Aurora officials have been told a if you can produce 125 women immediately who Are interested in working in this sewing operation you have a Good Chance of Landing this Back last May a labor Survey was made of the Aurora area. At that time 651 women and 342 men filled out Blanks signifying their interest in working in Aurora. Women Between the Ages of 17 and 44 Are asked to report tomorrow afternoon for the interview. Mayor Bonner said this morning a we must do this quickly it is urgent that we obtain the services of these 125 women now. Cooperation in. Reporting for the interviews on wednesday afternoon tomorrow is All it is believed that if 125 employable women seek work in Aurora this sewing operation can be started immediately there. Ellis a. Cutler passes monday Ellis a. Cutler age 67, resident and retired Farmer of 906 East eighth Street died in the Beaufort county Hospital monday afternoon at 1 of clock following a critical illness of six weeks. He bad been in failing health for the past nine years. Or. Cutler was born in Beaufort county May 27, 1903, son of the ble Thad and Margaret Cutler. He was a member of the Woodard a Pond Church of Christ and was married to Irene Burbage of this county dec. 6, 1949. Surviving besides is wife Are four step daughters mrs. Jsmes Crisp of Kinston mrs. Sayne Scott of Cherry Point see Cutler Page 5> White House criticizes pm wage settlement census mirrors troubled nation staff photo by Litchfield l up ton hands Gavel to mrs. Leary at Saa meeting Gas tax Issue held for study new Holland an Issue which might Well cause a serious split in the ranks of the Southern Albemarle association reared its head yesterday at the Annua meeting when mrs. Julia Rumsey of Washington read a Resolution which urged the Saa to approve the extra two cents Gas tax enacted by the but general Assembly. M. L. Daniels of Manteo expressed the opinion that the Saa was going beyond its Bounds in adopting such a Resolution. He made a substitute motion that the Resolution be referred to a special committee for study. John Winfield of Beaufort county observed that he Felt the Resolution by mrs Rumsey to be entirely in order and he urged its adoption. P. D. Midgett of Hyde sided with or. Daniels and said the association might be going beyond what it had Ever done before. Several others expressed opinions and when the vote on the substitute motion of or. Daniels was called it passed by a margin of 39-18. Earlier the association adopted resolutions asking for improvements on highways 171, 1311,264, and 64. The resolutions were offered by Carl Bailey of Plymouth. Mrs. Rumsey offered a Resolution which called upon the Saa to push for a Bridge across the Pamlico River near Aurora. The association approved it quickly. W. R Roberson jr., asked that the state be requested to furnish one of the present ferries to be used Between Hyde county Mainland and Ocracoke the motion passed unanimously. Mrs. Effie r Nek House asked that More Roadside Parks and a see Saa Page 5� by Bill n al Kirk associated Prat writer Washington apr the 1970 census mirrors a nation troubled by Central City decay and suburban sprawl trends. Which May Gat. Worse in the dec see ahead. Measured in human terms the census Means increasing problems for cities As the More affluent flock to Homes in the suburbs leaving Urban Core with declining tax bases and rising social troubles for the suburbs. It Means in increased demand for housing land and highways but implies problems of pollution unplanned growth and transportation. Releasing its final 1970 National figures monday the census Bureau said population in Many Central cities declined sharply in the last decade a Quot declines also occurred in the decade of the 1960s. But the number of cities showing popu lation losses in the 1960s appears to be greater than in the previous decade a the Bureau said the ration grew by More than 25 million persons Between i960 and 1970, to 204.7 million a suburbanites now outnumber those living in Central cities a the Bureau said. More than three fourths of the growth occurred in metropolitan areas a with suburban rings showing rapid and substantial population preliminary figures released earlier remained True indicator they showed that. 1.3 of the 25 largest cities had lost population including Chicago. Detroit and Baltimore but while population in Many Core cities dropped the flight from the nation s Countryside to metropolitan areas continued the farm population for exam pie declined by one third since 1960, from about 15 million to 10 million. The trend toward creation of megalopolis is groups of vast population centers stretching across state lines in an almost unbroken pattern continued. For example in the dense corridor a Long the East coast More than one sixth of the rations people now live in s 450-mile strip running from Boston to Washington along the Atlantic Ocean and stretching 150 enemy rocket wrecks . Medical station by George Esper associated press writer Saigon apr an enemy rocket wrecked an american medical station in South Vietnam monday killing or wounding the entire staff and in phenom penh a bomb exploded in the . Embassy at Dawn but injured no one. Meanwhile the Viet Cong announced its forces would observe three Day cease fires in Vietnam for Christmas and new years and a four Day cease fire during the tet festival of the lunar new year at the end of january. South vietnamese government sources said the allies would declare cease fires for the same holidays but would not announce them until shortly before each Holiday. They will probably be Only 24 hours each the medical dispensary was. Smashed during a 20-Roundrocket barrage on the Chu Lai to unto n halve base Camp Headquarters of the j . America division 50 Miles South of Danang. It. Was the first rocket or mortar attack on Chu Lai since june 19. Field reports said one of the 100-Pound missiles Tore through the roof of the first Aid station about 4 . The reports said a there were no patients in the dispensary but less than a dozen americans on the staff were killed or wounded. The . Commands Security regulations prohibit disclosing specific casualty figures in such attacks. Guards employed by the embassy and six other persons were being questioned. Embassy sources said they assumed the a track was communist inspired. The 50-Pound bomb had been planted presumably during the night in a Section of the 50-room building that was being renovated. Four rooms were heavily damaged. A of the handful of persons inside the embassy at the time Only the . Marine guard on duty was endangered a spokesman said. Despite recent terrorist attacks in phenom penh which have killed 25 persons the embassy was guarded Only by the Lone Marine and two cambo by Diane. After the explosion the 14 1001 11 cambodian military command sent a guard of military police to the building five of them armed with red China a ak47 assault rifles. On the battlefields of Indochina Only Light and scattered Contact was reported across South Vietnam. Pie cambodian command announced that its infantry and Navy gunboats had launched Oplt see Ini China Page 31 Hyde gets $33,000 Dies last night the bombing in phenom penh was the first terrorist attack on the . Embassy there since it reopened 15 months ago after the . And cambodian governments resumed diplomatic relations. Col. Chhun chhuon commander of phenom Penhos military police said two cambodian mrs m e. Reddick of Ahoskie the former Estelle Archbell of Beaufort county died in an Ahoskie nursing Home monday night mrs. Reddick was. The daughter of the late Joseph p. And Elizabeth Archbell of Beaufort county. She had made her Home in Ahoskie for the past % years. Surviving Are a number of nieces and nephews including mrs. David p. Pickles mrs Phillip Paul John Quincy Adams and Henry Harding of Washington Roy Archbell of Aurora and. Harry Adams of Yatesville. Funeral services will be held in Ahoskie thursday morning at 11 of clock. Hanoi Appeal inside Tod a w the plight of american prisoners held by enemy forces in both North and South Vietnam has been Well documented likewise the anguish of the prisoners families and the families of the More than t.000 americans listed As missing in action has been for Many years the concern of millions of persons throughout the world on Page 6 of this Issue of the Washington daily news is an Appeal to due thang. The president of North Vietnam on behalf of the 1,600 u. S servicemen who Are prisoners of War or missing in action in Southeast Asia. Also on the same Page is a translation of the letter which originally appeared in the a san Diego Union and was called to the attention of a scamp Lejuene a Globe Quot through a reprint in the a it Ledyne Ryan Aeron Utica 1 reporter a it is asked that one signs the letter and mail it 25 cents postage to ton due thang president democratic. Republic of Vietnam Hanoi North Vietnam. In this Way your action your drop in the bucket can be magnified a Hundredfold a thousandfold a million fold men in the service and families of prisoners of War Are trying to make this a rational drive. The goal is ten million letters to Hanoi before Christmas. You can help Start the action but Don t wait. Do it today Nance funeral slated wed. Funeral services for John h. Nance age 59, will be held at the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home wednesday afternoon at 2 of clock conducted by the Rev. Horace s. Garris pastor of the first United methodist Church. Burial will follow in Pamlico memorial gardens the following will serve As Active pallbearers Paul Leggett John Morgan Dick Walker Walter Canady jr., Milo Gibbs and Onnie Boyd honorary pallbearers will be Bill Mclain Howard Allen Charles Gurganus car Jackson Joe Giddings and it see Nance Page in us second inflation Alert president Nixon a Council of economic advisers also focused attention on Price increases by the automobile Industry the Oil Industry transportation in Deatry and the twin Pace a a a Tern of the Copper Industry the White House thus moved into fostering an a incomes policy a a phase covering presidential pressure to hold Down inflationary we Aryl Price boosts a tha Council said that theft a a Rara i Matt a settlement a if be the Council reserved an opinion on the Railroad wage package As a whole hut zeroed in on a so called Cost of living Escala tor clause under consideration a if an Assumption about Infra turn that represents no Unarose neral red throughout the Economy would crowd further upward costs per unit of output and. Ten Rimmi. The Price level Quot a apart from further increases through the Cost of living escalator for the years ahead the increase substantially exceeds any trend estimate of gains in National productivity the Council said a it also raises crate further in an Industry where producers overseas Are accounting for a substantial and growing share of the Domestic Market Quot ment is explicitly embedded into a contract for future yearn we thereby guarantee that these costs and Price will continue rising at an unchanged the Council said it said thai a freezing into the contract such an Assumption about future inflation would sad die the Industry for the larger cause of achieving a new stability for the Price Cost level Quot the president ill 1 Board has recommended wage increases m the Railroad Industry averaging ii per cent a year Over three years the Board did not specifically recommend a coat of living escalator clause but did note that including Ora would yield a wage increase in excess of nine per cent annual in. Sanford warning education groups 5 . Apr Duke University president Terry san Ford has warned that the nations educational interests Arentt adequately prepared to wage an effective Battle for a fair share of increased Federal funds which will be available if a Vietnam settlement occurs. A education is poorly represented right now to state a fair Case for itself a Sanford raid monday night in an address to the 75th annual meeting of the Southern association of colleges and schools the former governor of North Carolina called on the Southern educators to take the initiative in demanding a solid portion of the financial pie for education when the Vietnam War is a finally settled a a he added that the South has the capacity to spark a nationwide a educational Renaissance because the Region s educators have displayed stamina and leadership in overcoming the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of racial oppression and regional prejudice. A we in Southern education can not afford to wart around to see if other leadership will be forthcoming Quot Sanford declared. A we should move ahead on our own and begin pressing now for greater governmental attention to education Quot Sanford noted that if a Vietnam agreement is achieved Quot defense expenditures will be Cut Back and there will be a mad scramble for High position on the National administrations new list of Sanford appealed to the educators to Quot gird for an assault on. A a All the Many problems which beset this nation and our world a he said Southern educators have historically overcome bar i sea t a it it i it Wade f. Eborn. 63, succumbs Widt f. , age <63. Resident of 111 1, Bath Yea Tea Viil it Community died in the fungo District Hospital in Bel Haven monday morning at 10 45 of clock following a Brief illness. He bad been in failing health for the past several years or. Eborn was born at Yatesville feb 16, 1907 son of the late Nathaniel a. And Victoria Arnold Eborn. He was a retired Navy Petty officer first class \ he was a member Ltd st Matthews Episco Pitk Huron and a member of the Fleet Reserve association. Or. Eborn was married to the former Louise Jack son at this county dec. 5, 1934 he is survived by his wife and tio daughters mrs Bobby w Paul of Pantego and mrs c. R Askew or. Of it. I Plymouth two grandsons Michael Paul of Pantego and Christopher Askew of it 1, Plymouth one brother. Russell Eborn of Yatesville. Three Sisters miss ethral Eborn and mrs Lloyd Cooper both of Yatesville and mrs Eddie m Ricks of Plymouth funeral services Wilt to held wednesday morning at ii of clock at st Matthews episcopal Church conducted by see Eborn Page 51 i new Yolland for the fifth year in a Row the Bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife has presented Hyde county officials with checks totalling in excess of 133.000. On monday morning at the Mattam skeet National wildlife Refuge Headquarters Here checks in the amount of $33,211.29 were Given to Hyde county officials by representatives of the Bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife u. S. Department of the Interior. These funds were presented in accordance with Public Law 88-523 which is known As the Refuge Revenue sharing act. The act provides for annual payment to counties in which National wildlife refuges Are located based on either 44 of 1 percent of the adjusted current value of land acquired by the Bureau in the county or 25 percent of the net receipts obtained from use privileges on Public Domain. The county automat Rahv staff photo by Litchfield Davis chairman Baila Nee and Fields receives the larger of the two figures and cannot Benefit from both at the same time. These funds Are not paid in lieu of taxes. The act further stipulates that the funds must be expended solely for the Benefit of Public schools and roads. Since Hyde county does not administer or maintain Public roads the entire sum goes into the school of. A see Hyde. Page 5

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