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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - February 6, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather variable d a my and general or air in fee East portion Mill slowly a going temperature saturday Law it tonight m highs sat 4lw Washington daily news if you do not got your paper ,. Dial ma2m Between a 30 and t to of clock and on will a delivered to you established 1909 twelve pages Washington North Carolina. Friday afternoon february 6, 1970 daily except sunda1 effecting n. C. Racial drive into colleges a if Richard Daw Astaci Atco preen writer it a Leigh api a Federal government drive for greater racial mixed on College campuses is Likely to have a pro their recruiting of Megr fies to get a greater racial mix within a year As in Public school integration matter handled by hew at stake eventually could be Ourng effect in North Caretina Federal funds of which North perhaps even eventually bring ing mergers of some schools exactly what will come in t known since the department of health. Education and welfare a first set of recommendations for the Stile were wide Public Only thursday. They Call for recruitment of More negroes at three campuses of the University of North Carolina but officials of the North Carolina Board of higher education have been pointing out for months that mergers were recommended in other states under circumstances similar to some in North Carolina. The mergers elsewhere were recommended for areas in which a predominantly White school and a predominantly Black school stood close together. North Carolina has four areas which fit that description a Greensboro. Elizabeth City Fayetteville and Durham a Chapel Hill. Thursdays recommendations affected the unc branches at Greensboro Raleigh and Chapel Hill. They were told to step up Carolina state supported universities now get about $20 million a year. The recommendations involving unc at Greensboro did not mention a merger but a spokesman at predominantly negro North Carolina Art uni verify in Greensboro said a at had been commended by hew for an integration plan which includes closer cooperation with the unc Branch the spokesman said a amp to a president. Or. L. C. Dowdy had submitted the plan to hew and had got Back a letter praising his Quot commendable a amp to a enrolment of 3,700 is about 1 per cent White. Dowdy a plan involved primarily increased recruiting efforts similar to those recommended by hew for the unc branches there was no mention of possible merger either in hews recommendations for unc at Chapel Hill which has the predominantly negro North Carolina a entry 1 University close by at Durham no report has been made Public on the hew team s visit to n. C. Central. Beaufort and Hyde Road projects okayed five secondary Road construction projects and Hyde county has been allocated More than $34,000 for one secondary Road project it was announced today. This was part of More than $12 million approved this month for secondary Road building approval of the projects was voted at the regular february meeting of the state Highway commission in Raleigh. The projects and the Money allocated included a right of Way acquisition Grade drainage and stabilization from . 92 to . 1718. $48.750. A Drain base and surface from Belhaven Man is killed in Roper mishap Belhaven a Twenty two year old Ronald Gray Bullock a drag line Helper was killed late thursday in an Accident near Roper in Washington county. Bullock an employee of Melvin Armstrong a Beaufort county dragline operator was working on a drainage project at the time of the Accident. There were no eyewitnesses. Reports from the scene said Pantego to . 1709 $80,450. Bullock was apparently hit on the a base and surface from . Head by flying debris during . 92, $63,000. Blasting operations and knocked a Complete base and pave unconscious. He fell in about two from . 264 to . 264 supp. Feet of water. Frlj 2.06551�?Hyde county death was attributed to 934,000. Drowning he was dead when found by fellow workers. Or. Bullock was born and reared in Belhaven. His father was the late John Bullock. Surviving Are his Mother. Mrs. Thelma Bullock Ayers of Paniego one brother John Thomas Bullock of Milford. Conn. Five sisters., mrs. Stafford b. Adams of Paniego. Mrs. Fred a Ere of Creswell mrs. Charles Foreman of Belhaven. Mrs. George Keech of Hampton a. And mrs Effice Gene Williams of Grimesland funeral services will be held sunday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home in Belhaven with the Rev. Willie Murl cordon officiating place of burial has not been announced. Weyerhaeuser lays Plant plans Plymouth. N. C. Api a plans for a $5.5 million Wood products manufacturing Complex at Plymouth were announced thursday by the Weyerhaeuser co. The project will include a saw Yard log merchandiser Sawmill kilns and planer these units will cover five acres adjacent of the company a existing plywood Plant preliminary work on the project is underway and the Startup is scheduled for Early next summer. It will provide jobs for approximately 100 persons company in which he1 was Active for a number of years. After farming for several years. Or. Blount accepted the Post of county accountant on dec. 1, 1934 and served in that capacity until his retirement on dec. 31. 1963. During his tenure As county accountant he was instrumental in getting such projects started As the Beaufort county health Center the Beaufort county nursing Home and the Beaufort. County Hospital. After his retirement from the county Post or. Blount operated the Washington locker Plant he was a member of St. Peters a see Blount Page 12 Jones funeral slated saturday Pantego mrs. Katie Russ Jones age 89. Of this Community died thursday in the Beaufort county Hospital in Washington after a critical illness of several months. Funeral services will be held saturday afternoon at 1 of clock from the Paul funeral Chapel in Belhaven with the Rev. Herman Shavender officiating. Burial will follow in the Russ family cemetery near the Home mrs. Jones was a member of the Pantego Christian Church. Surviving Are three sons Hub and Ben Jones of Pantego and Joe Jones of Portsmouth a. And two daughters mrs. Dick Squires of Washington and mrs Wayne Goltz of fort Lauderdale. Fia 17 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. President trying to sell new Urban Aid approach to governors photo by ohm it William a. Blount w. A. Blount county Leader passes today William Augustus Bill Blount age 79, retired Beaufort county accountant and resident of 121 North Bonner Street died in the Beaufort county Hospital Here this morning at 6 45 of clock following a critical illness of four weeks he had been in failing health for several years. Or Blount was born in Beaufort county sept 9. 1890, son of the late William Augustus and Sadie Lyon Blount he attended the local schools and worked As a Salesman for Washington real estate and insurance firms for several year prior to world w a i. A a during the War he served in the 113th Field artillery and was discharged a second lieutenant after overseas duty in France he was retired from the North Carolina National guard As a. Major in 1928. He served As a Captain in the state guard during world War it or Blount was married to the former Mary Elizabeth Hill of this City on oct. 22, 1921 after his marriage or. Blount returned to Beaufort county has been work As a Salesman and later allocated More than $ 222. 000 for organised the Loual Midyette peo pie govern ment Gap Nixon Cabinet team blend pollution toward people by g. C. Thelen or. Aeao cited Presa writer Washington a three approach4�?T dominate the emerging Republican Urhan Aid strategy president Nixon a trying to sell the nations governors this week break up rather than rebuild City ghettos give the poor Money not services and have local Rovern Inetti mini try and volunteers not u the work. By Douglasb Cornell associated press writer Chicago api a president Nixon and a Cabinet team blended pollution problems with practical politics today As part of a Campaign to bring government closer to the people the president started trying to close the government people Gap after a conference with mayors of Middle sized cities in Indianapolis thursday. Then he had a Chance to see air pollution from the air on a flight to Chicago past smoking plants at the tip of Lake Michigan Nixon s big Jet landed at Chi Cago s of Hare Field he shifted to a helicopter there that lifted him Over the City to Meigs Field he flew his Urban affaire on the Lake front for a civic re Council made up mainly of seption at which democratic Cabinet members from Wash Mizar. Richard j. Datev duta t in ton to . Motiu i stint the honors in Advance of an anti pollution conference with the governors of it Lois Indiana. Wisconsin and Michigan the first thing on the schedule today was an inspection of a pioneering sewage water treatment Plant the Plant is in Hanover Park a 25-mile helicopter flight Northwest from the Chicago Loop since september 4968 it has been turning polluted water into 99 per cent pure water which Industry can use the president also is doing a it of pioneering in the Midwest committee feeling out potential for boys club with the goal of seeing a boys club in Washington a reality a steering committee headed by Bartow Houston. Or a been organized to feel out potential a local support and establish a Board of directors members of the committee include Tom Boyd. Howard Chapin Charles Edwards. Rev. Tom. Apperson i it on Brown jr., Bill Rome Hackney Bill Abeyounis Bill White. It and Max Roebuck. A we believe the establishment of a boys a club in Washington will be oif inestimable value to the Community a hous �6n explained a and we believe there is enough interest to carry it prior to the committee s setting up interested persons contacted the National organization to Send a study group into the City the groups responsibility was to observe and. Talk with Community leaders and determine the feasibility of. A club in the City., Quot the report we got from the study group was very positive Houston said. Quot it recommended we establish our steering com Mittee and get to work on a Board of directors to set up policy Campaign for funds and i a suitable building Quot since its founding in i860 at Hartford it roup of ladle launched the dash away club a the boy a clubs movement has won Ever growing support in hundreds of major cities and towns in 1956. The boys clubs of America was granted a u,4? charter the Only boy guidance organization so recognized in More than 40 years today having More than doubled its clubs and Mem he ship during the last decade growing at a rate of one new club each week the boys clubs movement offers daily services to w Ell Over 750,000 boys in almost 9<�� clubs Quot building juvenile decency is its motto Quot the Basic function of a boys club facility is Houston explained a it is in no Way in Competition with a recreation program and in areas which have both a boys club and a Good recreation program it has Fhi found tha the two com see club Page 12� Nelson introduces Bill to outlaw 8 pesticide by Richard p. Powers associated press writer Washington map it sen Gaylord Nelson introduced a Bill today to outlaw eight Long lived insecticides including one pest killer that has been called dead Lier than Dot. A the eight insecticides Are members of the family of chlorinated hydrocarbons All Are first cousins of Dot. The step marked the first time that sweeping legislation to Han the widespread application of persistent pesticides have been introduced in Congress. A the Lon term toxicity of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides presenta a deadly threat to fish wildlife and the Over All Quality of our environment Quot declared the Wisconsin Democrat Nelsons legislative package would outlaw interstate Sale or shipment of dieldrin Aldrin chlordane. Endrin Hep Bachlor. I i dude a lindane and Taxa Phene. Where Haynsworth failed Carswell s emerging Triumph traced to 3 factors by Barry Schweid associated press writer Washington. It apr g. Harrold Carswell a emerging Triumph where Clement f. Haynsworth or. Failed May be traced to at least three factors court with much in common. Both Are experienced Federal judges. Both Are southerners with a conservative Outlook. Both offered the Prospect of contributing to the balance president Nixon and a try. Gen. A labor never worked itself John n. Mitchell find lacking in up into a lather Over Carswell. A stocks and Bonds never held a fascination for the Florida judge. A politicians can afford to be Mavericks just so Many times and there probably is a fourth Good reason. Something that May be called the pressure of the inevitable. Carswell and Haynsworth started out on the Road to Abe Portas seat on the supreme the court. But there Are important differences too. Haynsworth is a shy Man afflicted with a stammer that made his testifying before the Senate judiciary committee painful. Carswell with a past fling at both politics and newspaper work was a responsive witness almost never giving an evasive impression. Haynsworth aspired to the court from the 4th . Court of appeals often a Union manage ment Battleground there he evoked labor antipathy Fay frequently ruling against unions Carswell is from the 5th court of appeals further South. He Wasny to involved enough with labor to excite the Al Cio to Quot do More than formally Register opposition. To defeat Haynsworth labor and civil rights forged a powerful coalition that senators with Urban constituencies could not ignore in Carswell s Case the civil rights people have fought virtually alone relieving Many of Ralph Macmullan director of the Michigan department of natural resources has called dieldrin a far greater Hazard for fish and wildlife than Dot. He made the statement after watching the amounts of dieldrin and Dot build up in Lake Michigan fishes to the Point where they threaten natural reproduction. Noting the agriculture department late last year announced plans to outlaw Dot by the same senators of having to the end of 1970. Nelson said the be answerable to the unions department played into Indus still it is unlikely that a unit try s hands by failing to invoke with nine mayors from Oxer the nation on puzzling Urban problems never before had the Council met outside of Washington Nixon brought his Cabinet committee on environmental Quality mostly the same ten to Chicago to discuss with the quartet of Lake state governors his Aims and Hopes for what he has termed a Quot now or Oever Campaign to wipe out pollution and save the environment in a he 1970s. The Fri Wien to a to see Poua non Case 12� desegregation order Means Pupil busing Charlotte api a led eral judge has issued a desegregation order for the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system which provides for the is ism of perhaps 10.000 pupils in the state s largest system in a ruling thursday . Do judge James r Mcmillan ordered the desegregation of elementary schools by april i and of Junior and senior High d Hooili by it 4 High a chata end ors will be permitted to finish the year at the schools they Are now attend my Mcmillan cited recent desegregation rulings by the ii. S supreme court and the 4th . Circuit court of appeals As he basis Tor his decision in rendering his decision. Me Millan rejected a plan drawn up by the City county school Izard for the integration of elementary schools but accepter its Pian for to Lxi High schools tie accepted a plan for elementary schools drawn up by a court appointed educational consultant. Or John Finger of Providence. R i attorneys for the Board were unsure whether they would Ajr peal the hoards plan Mcmillan fat Llyl w0u>4 have maintained nine elementary schools with a predominantly Black enrolment it also would have left about half of the system s 31.500 White elementary pupils in schools a with largely White student id irs. The Finger plan provides for clustering and pairing elementary schools in Black neighbor hoods and White suburban areas to achieve desegregation it also provides for massive busing to achieve racial bal Anee Quot the Board plan for Elemen Wariex openly rejects the duty to eliminate the Black said Mcmillan the president has not yet for to ally. Stated his policy for Cit Tes but the outlines have be come Clear in recent weeks my my a Summum Mew sums and Road markers con tamed in the administrations Ridge i requests and actions in rest Deigtel adviser Daniel p Man i Han came closest to an administration statement thurs Day when he outlined a 10 Point program on Urban policy stress ing the essence of the three Points t he said however he was not giving an oficial rotation on Urban policy which he said was an evolving sort of thing not a hardened document Nixon himself fold a Chicago audience thursday it is Lime to return Power from the Federal government to the grass roots the Mart significant idea seen in the administration s thinking. _ is the Clear abandonment �1 the democrats strategy of massive uplift anti rebuilding for Urban get Dos gone is the doctrine of Quot Maxi mum feasible participation of the pop or in decision making to a tense gone too is the Prospect of Large in debut no buys Tor Urban renewal and Model cities tin concentrated slum rebuilding program the growth of exuding renew ,.fj projects has been Curta in d in admin Stradle action and i resident Nixon wants new re Nowal outlays held at the $1 Bil turn level \1txlel cities spending inv jelled by the. Democrats to reach to billion this year will lie halt that instead the republicans in tend to reduce slum pressures Ope i Tig off cml o housing and fobs Quot of torts to improve the Gondi turn of life in the present caste created slums must never a Lake precedence Over efforts to enable the slum population to Dix Perse throughout the metro poli Tan area involved says Moy ban housing and Urban develop see Urban. Page 12� f. Egyptian frogman hit 2 israeli Supply ships by Marcus Eli Amin a mkt toted t res writer Tel Aviv aim a egyptian t Roggen Mew holes in the sides of two israeli Navy Supply ship in Eilat Harbor Early a King one and causing the nth or to be beached in shallow a. Ter. F i alter in the Day to o egyptian it fighter bombers peaked across the Suez canal and at tacked a u n observation Post near the Southern end of the canal an israeli spokesman said the spokesman made no men Tion of casualties to u n. Per sound but said two other egyptian planes made bom lung of port Taufiq and wounded one israeli Soldier an egyptian military spokes Man in Cairo confirmed israeli suspicions Egypt was response Hie for the attack at Eilat israeli i Eltary censors would a not allow newsmen to identify of describe the ships attacked but the egyptian spokesman said they were the tank Carrier beit Shafei and the troop trans port beit Yam both were being a prepared fur a military opera spokesman cd a dlr Quot ships of those names ire not listed in Jane s fighting ships the Standard reference on navies of the world but it apparently both ships were Landing Craft 51 to i so feet Long it was the second attack in three months by Arab i Roggen a in Eilat israelis Southern port at the head of the Gulf of Aqa Dayan Iuteri the port and Lukl new a a a. The Futack Muf apparently were egyptians it a spokesman in Tel Aviv said no i Srael were Hurt a the explosions occurred in minutes apart but were not heard in the town itself less than an hour later one Cap sued Ami Sank the other was beached l�6 Yards offshore asked How Israel would react to the raid. Dayan said a we Aren t running a Hala Nee account with the egyptian we Are running a War with Egypt that has no connection with what Thev re doings to us they Don t want peace Ami Don t Hon or the cease fire a a the israeli aim he added Quot is to hit the egyptians hard a he commented that the attack was made against a military tar get a and the israeli army has strict to hit civil a in the previous attack at Eilat. Arab frogman inst nov tit blew fun Lubau Siuze holes in two Small israeli coastal freighters which the egyptians said had Lieen supplying garrisons in the Southern sin a i desert ipod the of Toft Muir Hwy sea few Galilee. Israeli warplanes bombed and started an Arab guerrilla position in Iordan a town from the settlement of Ham Adiya a Quot the israelis Kali the guerrillas had fired on an israeli army patrol but no casualties or damage were reported. Elsewhere. A the Beirut newspaper be Jour a defense minister Moshe it Sec mid East Page 12� Senate readies for Aid to education vote president wants drastic cuts its statute authority to suspend certain uses of the controversial de labor civil rights Fiona a Ion could have toppled Haynsworth he was faced with a third big Force a ethics a the repealed Celia Tion procedures suggestion the millionaire Jud it a. Quot if the department is serious was less than a tut about1 protecting the Quality of by Joe Hall vim he Tard pres writer Washington api the Senate today moved toward a vote on a key measure to expand an Aid to education program president a Ixon wants reduced drastically insecticide before initiating can pm Peter a Demmink. H Colo. Sponsored the amendment to eliminate a provision from keeping his financial and professional lives completely separate this Hurt Hainsw Orttie at Moog Small state senators politicians who generally done to have to worry too much about the sense abilities of organized labor Blacks. For instance when the a voted there were unanimous see Carswell Png i2> a our environment from pesticide poisoning it should move without. Further delay and immedi lately suspend All nonessential uses of Dot a he said. Appeals initiated by the pesticide Industry could delay final agriculture department action to ban All nonessential uses of Dot for years he charged. At the time the agriculture see pesticides Page 12 it the. $35 billion education Bill adding children from Public housing projects to the Federal impacted school Aid program Dominick argued thursday the expansion is not in keeping with the original purpose of the to year old impacted areas pro Grao that has provided an increasing amount Olaid to school districts crowded because of nearby Federal installations Dominick said the provision would add $236 million a year to tin Cost of the program at a time when president Nixon is trying i reduce it supporter of the move to add Mihlic housing projects to the impacted area program contend Llu Large tax exempt develop ment can add As much of a Lurden to a districts schools As military hates Aid to impacted areas was a main Issue in the dispute Between Nixon and the Congress Over a $10.7 billion health Educa Tion Money Bill the president successfully vetoed last month the administration originally proposed $200 million for the Impact program during the current to midget year but Congress voted $600 million Congress now is trying to work out a new funding Bill in another development on the big authorization Bill. Sen Joseph a to dogs l my won adopt urn thursday of an Amend ment allow my school districts to carry unexpended funds received under the elementary Ami secondary education act Man the Neta Gene he said this authority is needed because appropriations have been so late in recent years also adopted was an Amend ment Olsen Charles e. Good Ell u n to allow use of teacher corps members Ami Sfa funds to improve Corree lion education services in pcs on and Juvenio detention facile ties with the end of debate on Edu cation Aid programs in sight. So i them senators were ready a see education Page 12

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