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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - December 21, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Hain or dry re and Cool tonight i it a it tonight in 46 mrs try r Widy and warmer with scattered How a Tim Day highs upper 60s Washington daily n Essif you do not get your paper. Dial Mills Between a so a ind i 00 o clock and on will be delivered to you. Iii. .1 �?.1. A a a a. A. 11 1 a. A. Established 1909 fourteen pages Washington. North Carolina. Monday a of noon. December 21. 1970 daily except sunday presents. Food presents bring 35 smiles the Washington Jaycees the elks dub and the salvation army worked in separate places this weekend with the same goal of bringing smiles to 35 Young faces Jaycee families each id opted a child for Christmas. At the Washington fire it it Arment sunday afternoon a a e families and the 15 children joined in celebrating the season with food a visit from st. Quot Nitsolas and Gilt. The Jaycee families or it the pm Rente of the child Ato find out what they wanted for Christmas each child received a gift and a Small Basket of gifts to Lake Home to their Brothers and Sisters. Santa Claus came roaring into the station with sirens announcing his visit the children beamed with Delight. The elks club in their annual Christmas Day dinner invited. 20 children to the salvation of my Headquarters. The children ate Chicken with trimmings and will receive presents later this week. Beth organizations were pleased and the children received a Christmas gift they will remember. It photo by Latch Fileki Santa Claus repelling russians states 18-year Olds win vote Wii documents to crisis in National elections reveal Allied rift by Kenneth l. Davis Ciuci ird press writer London l apr ten months before a Day Allied military strategists discussed the possibility of repelling the russians if they suddenly began overrun mag nazi Germany Gen George c. Marshall. World War ii is chief of staff asked his British counterpart in August 1943 if he thought Germany would help Allied troops enter Europe Quot to repel the rus a the quotation came from official minutes of the combined chiefs of staff which were made Public today in London and Washington sir al Airle Rooke British chief of staff told Marshall he had been thinking along similar lines he said however that or. Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia did not think the russians would try to sweep Over Europe immediately the British marshal quoted or Benes As believing soviet Russia would be bled so badly by the War that it would need a few years to get its Economy going again Marshall commented in a meeting of the chiefs of staff that Russia was turning an Quot increasingly hostile Eye on the capitalist world a the russians he said were becoming increasingly contemptuous of their Western allies. Although numb Taaff the meet to Britain. Marshall backed him up air chief marshal sir Charles Portal of Britain made a spirited defense of Gen. Ira Eaker head of the Ith air Force and told How difficult it was to get 2.006 bombers off the Field for by Jean Heller associated press writer Washington a the threat of fuel and Power shortages this Winter has prompted several rates to Call for a moratorium on Utility company advertising blitzes for hew customers but some companies have declined to go along an associated press Survey indicates that while some elec ing did riot Back ground the Rea sons apparently the russian View stemmed from Allied refusal to invade Europe As door As Moscow would have liked the major part of the record of. 43� Tiff combined chiefs of staff a total of 106,009 documents was made Public today by the British and Amer. Can governments. Allied military leaders them selves fought running battled Over strategy in Europe. Time after time the Brattm sought to pull men and Materiel out of the Pacific to strength or the planned invasion of Europe but . Leaders stubbornly fought backs and won. Gen. Henry Quot Hap Quot Arnold then chief of the . Army air corps grew so incensed by poor . Bombing results from Brit Ain to Europe that be threat ened seven months before d Day to Stop the flow of Bomben Rivers suffers setback Birmingham. Ala apr a Veteran congressman l. Mendel Rivers d-s.c., suffered a a a sudden cessation of heart action sunday night at Birmingham s University Hospital but was revived by a physician a Hospital spokesman said today. Rivers who underwent surgery dec. 11 to replace a faulty heart valve with a plastic one had spent a restful weekend and sunday night the Hospital reported it would Stop issuing daily reports on his condition Quot because his recovery process has followed a consistently Normal pattern for several Bui a Short time after the statement was issued the spokesman said Rivers heart stopped beating. A fortunately a he said a a resident physician was just a few feet away and resuscitative measures were a begun promptly. These were effective in restoring a Normal heart action All indications at present Are that brain and heart action Are again Normal. A however a the spokesman said a a this event is a serious sci in folks Page 141 an operation. The . Leaders did no to reply but. Portal assailing a . Proposal to install a supreme air commander in Europe and the Mediterranean told the americans that either the Royal air Force and the air Corpa should be led by a combined staff or one service had to be subservient to the other Portal said he was not pre pared to recommend that the Royal air Force be under . Air corps direction. The combined chiefs of staff was created by president roo Sevelt and prime minister Churchill during a meeting in Washington a month after Pearl Harbor. It ran the global military operations of the Western allies until after the Victory of Japan and was Quot disbanded in 1947. Trie and Gas utilities have voluntarily Cut Back or changed the thrust of their advertising others continue to court new customers despite the possibility of not being Able to service them earlier this year the Federal consent judgment ends tech Case a consent judgment has been rendered in the Case of David Milligan and Charles Davis i. Beaufort tech and president Charles Byrd on thursday of last week judge Howard Hubbard Beaufort county Superior court awarded the sum of s73q0 each to Milligan and Davis paid by Beaufort tech and ail charges on both sides were dropped. Davis and Milligan resigned from the Institute effective november 3. They were paid salaries up to this Date. Both sides consented to the judgment. John Wilkinson attorney for Davis and Milligan said that Legal fees were not included Wilkinson indicated that he considers the decision a Victory and a vindication for the two men. Charles Byrd president is. T tech Page 141 James Edgar Woolard Dies James Edgar Woolard age 62, resident and Farmer of it. 4, Washington died at his Home this morning following a lengthy illness. Funeral arrangements Are incomplete and will be announced by the Paul funeral Home. Power Cote Mission reported that 17 states had taken action to restrict or prohibit Utility promotional practices and that 26 states had investigated the promotional practices of utilities in their jurisdiction. The Oregon Public Utility commission warned electric and natural Gas utilities As Early As 1964 against imprudent claims for their products despite this and later warnings however according to Public Utility commissioner Sam Haley extensive promotional advertising by Oregon Gas and electric utilities continues citing a Utility company report Quot that there will not be1 sufficient Gas available hiring the next few years to meet All the requests. By present and potential customers Haley said a there appears to be no reason for Gas utilities to promote sales Thal will increase Peak loads in the face of S.C. a Bleak Supply the chairman of Michigan a Public service commission a Iser Energy Page 14� Cartwright funeral set Leon t Cartwright age 76, evident 8nd retired Fri Ril and produce merchant of 609 East sixth Street died in the Beaufort county Hospital saturday afternoon at 3 o clock following a Brief illness he has been in failing health for the past years or Cartwright was born in. Beaufort county june 27. 1894, son of the late Robert and Betty Burbage Cartwright. He was twice married first to i Iura Ross and second to Mary Patterson on oct. 4, 1946 surviving besides his wife Are his step Mother mrs. Maggie Cartwright of it. 1, Bath four daughters mrs. Calvin tet Teron of it 4. Washington. Mrs. Larry Elswick of san Mateo Calif and Sandra Cartwright Mary Cartwright both of the Home four sons Steve Cartwright of Creswell Terry Cartwright of the Home Maurice Cartwright and an Drew Cartwright both of Washington seven grandchildren one sister mrs. Annie Daniels of Beaufort two half Brothers Bertie Cartwright of it. 2. Washington and Aulbert Cartwright of Bath two half Sisters. Mrs. Dan Spain of it. 2 ,. A. J si-1 "1i�ompson, Page 14> �s., Cartwright. Page 14� Leon Thompson Thompson named director Leon c. Thompson president of Edinburgh Hardwood lumber company has been named a director of Home savings amp loan association. Or. Thompson succeeds the late e. Leon Roebuck. The announcement was made today by Harvey Elliott executive vice president of Home savings and loan association. Or. Thompson is most Active in Church civic and Community life of Beaufort county. He is chairman of the Board of trustees of the Beaufort county technical Institute member of the first United methodist 4 Hun Hilf i or null ally it tin a ill Weir or it Lintel Irvn Star like Silver Emblem in the Church of the nativity in Bett Huhem in i vet it As being Over the spot where Christ was Burn a greek Monk kneels in prayer at the site. Beneath the Church floor i a Grotto known amps the Chile of the nativity which is worshipped As the actual spot where the Manger was olt at a the Roumm emperor Constantine Hud the Church built w the Yeai .130. He a at i to zip Pecos made christianity the official roman religion after centimes a i eau to memoirs Nikita honest ambitious by William l. Ryan a special correspondent the Khrushchev memoirs it la Strate the Complex character of Nikita s. Khrushchev and provide clues to what made him one of the world s most spectacular political figures in his time. What was there about this roly poly with the Amia ble Grin which permitted him to Rise from the mines where he and his father had be Grimes themselves with Back breaking toil to become one of the most powerful men on Earth in the memoirs published to Quot Day in Book form the former Premier and communist party chief of the soviet Union shows himself As a Man who always was enormously ambitious and who in his younger Days developed a mighty thirst for Power. Another Side to his personality As illustrated by his words shows him. As a Man with a wide Streak of honest peasant in him. He seems to have had a Large capacity for indignation although often this even by his own accounts was misdirected Khrushchev could be terrifying when the occasion de state local \ ote excluded handed. But his reminiscences make it appear that he rather regretted the Means he had to use to climb to political pm Nence he probably did what he was told to do because it would Lead him where he by anted to go a to the top. If he did not particularly like what he had to do he was a realist about it. Stalin s enemies were automatically enemies of the people somebody had to liquidate them when the Job fell to Thrush they in the Ukraine he oversaw it with Cus so Klimt Slu Hev Twigt 14 Washington Tapi the supreme court approved % to 4 titty lowering the age for wiling in National elections to in years old but. In another 5-4 rate the court hatred lowering the age Lor state and Kiwal elections at tie same Lime the court _ unanimously it upheld the Reitmi nation of literacy Teste for voting wherever they exist in the nation and it ruled d to 1 that states cannot set residence requirements of More than 3n Days for voting in presidential elections the court issued on the 1970 Federal voting rights Art at its last Public session of the year the ruling split the court and the justices took several Hundred pages to set Forth their views on the 16-year old Issue. Justice Hugo l Black swung the significant fifth vote he and justices William o Douglas. William j or. Byron r White and Thurgood Marshall formed the majority to hold that co grew has the constitutional Power to enfranchise 18 year old citizens for National elections then Black swung to join chief Justice Warren e Burger. John m Harlan. Hotter Stewart and Harry a Blackmun to bar any theri Trerice Bycz Gresi with the age for voters aet toy the mates for state and local Dart com. Y i a or e Fioti in in of resident re i Cremente of More than to Day Thomas rites held Toda new time a a funeral services for mrs Bessie Alligood Thomas of new Bern will be held Here this afternoon at 3 36 o clock Sicuro the i Ouock funeral Home with the Rev. George a. Johnson pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church officiating burial will follow in the Cedar Grove cemetery mrs. Thomas a former resident of Beaufort county died Here sunday. Jibe a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church Here surviving Are three sons Wilham w and Manfred Thomas of Washington and a l Thomas of new Bern a step daughter mrs Elsie Winston of Washington and a half sister. Mrs Gertie Martin of Bethel six grandchildren and three step grandchildren and six great grandchildren

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