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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - December 30, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather increasing do Odinez and a old to night thursday nun Likely Laws tonight mostly in 9u highs thursday near 40, Washington daily news if you do not get your paper dial Mailett Between a a and 1 00 o clock and one will be delivered to you established 1909 ten pages Washington North Carolina wednesday afternoon december 30, 1970 daily except sunday Days Are numbered Congress schedules another set bout staff photo by Litchfield it snowed last night coming to Carolina by the associated press a two Inch Snow which covered parts of North Carolina tuesday bag contrib a to three Highway deaths. And More Snow is on the Way to inconvenience new years eve revellers. A Quot the National weather service says that Snow will move into the mountains tonight and work eastward thursday. The Snow May be mixed with rain Over Inland sections on thursday this would mean More trouble on the highways for those going to new years eve parties thursday night. The Charlotte and Fayetteville areas had about two inches of Snow about one Inch Fdl in the Asheville Raleigh Durham and Goldsboro areas. Two residents of Greenville s.c., mrs. Richard Turner 30, and Sandra Darlene Clayton 11, were fatally injured when the car in which they were Riding collided with a Dairy truck tuesday night on interstate 26 in Southern Henderson county. Hospitalized were mrs. Turner s 26-year-old husband their 4-year-old. Daughter. Penny Ann Turner and James Todd whose age was not Learned immediately. Mrs. Mary Grant Morgan 34, of Newton was killed tuesday when her car skidded on icy . 64-70 near Hickory and collided with a truck. The indicated highs this afternoon were upper 30s in the Mountain and. 40s elsewhere. The overnight lows will be mostly in the 20s. The highs thursday will generally be in the 30s. Frontiers but will talk by the associated press israeli Premier Goida Meir says her government will not make peace with the arabs unless it. Gets a a defensible fron he Sand retains control of United Jerusalem. But she also said tuesday that Israel bolstered by new support from the United states is re entering the peace negotiations at the United nations a ready not Only to present our position but also to egyptian president Anwar Sadat speaking in Cairo labelled israelis decision to return to the peace talks a a Maneu very and ordered his country to get ready for deep israeli raids after the mute of East expires feb.�?�5. He gave virtual Assurance that Egypt will not agree to Extension of the cease fire without a timetable for israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the june 1967 War. Sadat spoke at a closed meeting of the Arab socialist Union Egypt s Only political party. Cairo newspapers reported the speech. J mrs Meir spoke before the Knesset israelis parliament after it voted 77-27 and with 9 abstentions to it join he Neir to nations with . Mediator Gunnar jarring As the go Between. Israel withdrew from the talks sept. 6. Before the really got started charging that Egypt had violated the cease fire by moving antiaircraft missiles closer to the Suez canal. Higher education Power gov. Scott wins increase backing for plans a sed Raleigh apr with a major hurdle behind him gov. Bob Scott today aimed his plans for revamping North Carolinas University Structure at a meeting with the systems presidents and chancellors monday. The session will be a follow up to a closed door meeting tuesday at which Scott won endorsement of the executive committee of the University of North Carolina Board of trustees. The powerful 15-member committee did no to say whether it agreed with details of Scott a plan but it praised his efforts a in bringing the situation to the attention of the Public and especially to the trustees of All state supported the committee also agreed to meet with trustees of the nine regional universities and. Members of the Board of higher education on the reorganization question coming from representatives of the six Campus unc system a the dominant sector of North Carolinas 15 state supported institutions a the action was clearly a giant step Forward for Scott. The governor said he was a very much encouraged by it. Scott a plan never presented publicly is understood to suggest moving to either a single Board of trustees for All state supported universities or a Board of regents Type system. Scott named a seven member subcommittee to discuss Scott. Page 10 restoration set the Vanderveer House built at Bath in 1625 has a been moved to the Bath historic site and will be restored to. Memory of the late Edmund h. Harding who served Many years As chairman of the Beth historic commission. Gov. Bob Scott announced monday a Challenge Grant of 37,500 for the project from the Smith Richardson foundation a a staff photo by Litchfield both Washington and Belhaven will depend on electric cities a statewide group of municipalities which Purchase Power from private utilities firms to voice opposition to a proposed Power rate increase by the Virginia electric and Power company municipal officials indicated tuesday. At the same time de Wyatt Washington City manager said it was Likely that representatives of the City would also speak in opposition to the proposed rate hike. He also voiced the Hope that private citizens would join in speaking out against the boost. Wyatt said the proposed rate hike would Cost the City $185,000 a year. At Belhaven John Brinson town manager said it would Cost the town of Belhaven $23,000. Both Washington and Belhaven Purchase Power from Repco for their municipal systems approval of the rate hike would Likely bring rate increases to customers on the a lines of the two systems. In addition to Washington and Belhaven other northeastern North Carolina municipalities affected would be Elizabeth City Eden ton Windsor and Hertford. The state utilities commission will hold a Public hearing on the Repco request on feb. 23. The company s rate hike request would produce More than $1.3 million in Revenue from its 22-county service area in North Carolina t t v under a Epcot a application a residential customers would experience increase of about 10.77 percent in their monthly Bills services to municipalities would be increased by 18.78 per cent in cording to the application with the utilities commission. Summons Cabinet by Fenton Wheeler associated Preu writer Madrid apr Gen. Francisco Franr summoned his Cabinet into special session today to consider death sentences imposed on six Basque extremists by a military court in Burgos. After consulting with the Cabinet Franco can either commute or confirm toe sentences if he confirms them the basques probably will be executed at the Dawn following the decision. In Burgos it. Gen. Tomas Garcia Rebull signed the death sentences and sent the documents along with the harsh prison terms for nine other defendants to Madrid. Three of the accused each received two death sentences. The 78-year-old Leader of the Spanish people scheduled a nation wide year end television broadcast tonight. Franco taped the speech tuesday. It is due to be broadcast at 4 ., est. Appeals for clemency continued to pour in. But in st. Jean de Luz across the Border in the French Basque country a Basque spokesman said one of the six condemned men had written a letter saying a we Hope strongly that clemency will not be accorded. We Are revolutionaries. We wish to die for the dignity of Man and the Liberty of our Basque the spokesman. Teleforo de Monzon said he believed All six of the condemned were a a a Serene and determined As the writer of the letter and shared his sentiment. De Monzon would not say who toe writer was. There were several demonstrations in Spain tuesday in. Support of the basques and one in support of Franco and the army but in general the country was Calm. The hydrant sneezes Earth elsewhere experiments suggesting life from a dirty ice mrs. Nan Perry Dies tuesday mrs. Nannette Chaplin. Peroff afe 41, a former resident of this City died tuesday in Sanford funeral services will be held at 3 30 Today at the Steele Street United methodist Church. Burial will follow in Buffalo cemetery. Surviving Are her husband Frank Perry four sons Gil Poss Chap and Don Perry All of Sanford a daughter Kay Penry of Sanford her Mother mrs. Wilma Chaplin of Columbia a brother d. C. Hal Chaplin of Charlotte. Redmen pow wow done to forget the red menus big pow wow at toe Hall and also the big old fashioned Square dance than Utah night Chicago apr pioneering experiments suggest that living creatures on Earth and conceivably elsewhere in the universe in effect evolved from chips off the a dirty ice of interstellar space a new York scientist reported today. A dirty ice is toe pet name Given by space scientists to super cold grains of solid matter suspended in the thin gases that pervade toe space Between the stars. Known to play an important role in the condensation processes leading to the formation of the stars and planets the Pip squeak dirty ice particles Are believed by some scientists to consist mainly of Frozen water methane and ammonia. Their a a dirtiness comes from a Small admixture of heavier elements As Iron. Or. J Mayo Greenberg of the state University of new York at Albany said there sat least suggestive new evidence that the heavenly grains May be potential fielders of seme of toe Basic chemicals of life itself in a report prepared for the closing session of the american association for the. Advancement of science s 137th meeting and amplified at a news Confer ence he gave this account in the worlds first Experiment of its kind Greenberg and several space science colleagues reproduced a Laboratory version of dirty ice by deep freezing a mixture of water ammonia and methane at nearly 300 degrees below Zero. Theft they bombarded the dirty ice with ultraviolet radiation to further simulate space conditions. Finally they evaporated the mixture studied the resultant gases with a Spectroscope and found a variety of Complex organic molecules a resembling those of biological most exciting said Green Berg one of the molecules closely resembled molecules of a cyanide acetylene mixture recently discovered mantel if ter space by a researcher of the governments National radio astronomy Observatory at Green Bank w. A. The implication said Greenberg is that the grains of dirty ice in interstellar space a icon lain rather Complex molecules a significant fraction of which Are possibly of biological significance a it May further be conjectured that the pre biogenic precursors of life materials in the universe May be created independently of the formation of the planets he said Greenbergh a report discussed work completed Only in recent weeks. It was a special added attraction to an association symposium at which a Battery of other scientists rounded up the a state of the arts on what they termed one of the most exciting new Fields of Speed science. They referred to toe relatively recent discover Yin interstellar space of a number of molecular chemicals which in theory at least could be elementary seeds it i life. Schree end a scientist of the National aeronautics an space administration reported evidence of amino acids the building blocks of living protein in a meteorite that had fallen to Earth. A Chance to be Beautiful it photo by Walken wears aim Iii pre a Werher w Ashington a it a bickering lit Congress scheduled another attempt today to resolve the controversy that May yet keep it in less pm As Long As the Law allows the future of the supersonic transport plane while the House and Senate settled one major problem tuesday night by passing a $66. A billion defense appropriations Bill. Democratic Leader Mike Mana Ptim Jhel there s still a Long new conference would even begin work before tonight the House recessed until evening while Many members attended the funeral of rep l Mendel Rivera in Charleston Tunnel Mansi eld said it appears con grass Wil i have to keep working into the weekend and to Laibly until noon sunday the final moment the 91s can do business after that the Constitution a ays that Capitol belongs to the 92nd Congress which actually does t Trian to meet until Jan. 21. _ the Senate tuesday tabled thus Kil Hng a Compromise $7-Bil-lion transportation appropriations Bill that includes $319 million to subsidize the air plane the Senate earlier had voted to spend nothing at All that action prepared the Way for a new conference with the House which first voted $290 million for the set and then accepted the conference recommendation of $210 million the Senate expanded to nine men its negotiating delegation adding. Sen. William Proxmire a wis chief set foe and sen a Norris Cotton r-n.r., who favors the plane but it appeared unlikely the anyway Senate members of the initial conference said they doubt the my round of Tain will do much Good Proxmire said if the dispute Isnit settled he will filibuster against the set Lojtek end of the session in other work h did finish tuesday the Senate passed a massive increase in Ocial Security benefits but that Bill appeared to be foundering in Between the two houses rep. Wilbur Mills d Ark ,. Chairman of the House ways and Means committee said it will be impossible to work out a Compromise for passage this Congress the social Security Bill would give 26 million americans a $6 5 billion increase in benefits and provide another $1 billion in welfare assistance for the aged the mind and the disarmed the House pa01 234 to 18, the massive defense Money Bill and the Senate sent it on to the White h ouse 70 to 2. More Snow Meir demands defensible Franco

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