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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - February 11, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Clear to partly Cloudy film Day no important and Tui Hife la tempera tur Loary to it no it in a of Cha Thura my mortar so to x Washington daily news e5t a bushed 1909 twelve pages washing ten. Norih a my Ounas wednesday afternoon february 11, 1970 if you do not got your paper. Dial mb<c14s Between a a and t.0� o clock and Ana will a delivered to you daily except sunday pollution Nixon steals party Issue by Lawrence l Knutson a Teory a Ted pres writer Washington apr with a Blitz of rhetoric action and publicity the Nixon adm Nistra 1 m it i 4-�ft k t l 1=- it a Ami Al l w i 1 f i ii a Wal in Law Shah Phi i �bpprr1 a a bpm Pippy Quot Lapi a Quot Ward in the undeclared War to deprive democrats of a favorite and potent Issue the deteriorating american environment the latest move in the presidents environmental drive is a to Pant message sent to Congress tuesday including 23 proposals for new legislation. Nixon s proposals have drawn immediate counter fire from congressional democrats Many a of whom were identified with the Issue Long before it acquired political Glamor members of both parties acknowledge that Public concern a based on scientific cries of alarm and buttressed by personal experience has made the question of environmental Quality an Issue translatable in votes. Up to the time of Nixon a message. Democrats sounded the theme that his program involved More talk than action and lacked the muscle and Money needed to reverse the tide of polluted streams toxic air and i disposable garbage. But Many now concede privately the new Competition to be identified As pro environment will help generate the motion needed to pass and fund effective ant pollution programs the possible political Impact of the Issue which for years was the concern mainly of a group of scientists was forecast in a 1966 staff study of the Senate Republican policy committee a a lean air Means votes. Just How Many votes Are involved and where they May be found is Only now becoming fully placing an exclamation Point on that estimate. Interior Secretary Walter j. Hickel said recently the poll Tica party with the Best record on environment a is going to be the party that wins the most partisan Issue or not the environment in the last several months has spawned new Agen cies. Offices and programs to a degree not matched since presi Dent Lyndon b. Johnson de i see pollution Page 2 Scott will refuse to authorize funding for involuntary busing Senate puts Zoffl Battle Over mixing slowdown u. S. Lawyer says warning More general w. J. Lufton arabs want u. S. Oil out but need Money Belhaven picking top citizen Belhaven a this fungo port town is in the midst of picking the distinguished citizen of the year. Nominations for the Honor must reach the Community chamber of Commerce no later than. Friday feb. 13. Meanwhile it is announced that the annual chamber awards banquet will be held Friday night., feb. 27. At 7 of clock with rep Walter b. Jones first District congressman As the guest speaker. Banquet tickets Are now on Sale at 12.50 each. The meal will be catered by the River Forest Manor. There will be entertainment and door prizes. A the citizen award has been presented by the chamber of Commerce each year since 1958. In 1958 it was awarded to Gene a. Purvis 1959 to Russell Johnston 1960 or. And mrs. Vann Latham 1961, mrs. Mary King Mitchell 1962, or. . Wright 1963, . Of Neal 1964, Rev. James Waggner 1965, mrs. Bateman 1966, Cleve Woodward 1967, or. . Ralph 1968, Julian Goff. 2 commissioners file in Hyde Swan Quarter a two incumbent county commissioners in hyde1 county today filed fat renomination and reelection. Leonard Smith of Swan a Quarter and Tommy Jones of Fairfield filed with the chairman of the Hyde county Board of elections Fred Mason to Date no opposition has appeared for either Man. The democratic primary is set for May 2. By Elias Antar associated press writer Beirut apr the arabs should kick out american Oil companies unless the United states stops helping Israel said five Arab countries at their Mim Sun Watt conference in Cairo but nobody knows better than the arabs that they would be Hurt most. The communique issued by Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq and Sudan after their meeting Over the weekend declared a the Arab nation refuses to see its resources and wealth being exploited and converted into assistance and weapons for Israel. The continuation of such exploitation should be considered an act of imperialism which must be liquidated by the Arab countries. After the 1967 Arab israeli War the arabs decided to Cut off Oil shipments to Britain the United states and West Germany. The arabs soon realized they were suffering More than anyone else and Oil started flowing again. The three Arab state that have most of the Oil did not attend the Cairo conference. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait already have made1 it dear that they do not intend to Cut their own economic throats and even the new revolutionary government of Libya is not Likely to choke off the Goose that lays a Golden egg Worth a billion a year. Of the countries at the confrontation Summit so called because the five nations Are those with troops actively engaged against Israel Only Iraq is a big Oil exporter american interests comprise about 23 per cent of the Western owned Iraq Petroleum co., which produces Iraq s Oil. It would be impossible to hit the . Holdings without affecting the whole operation. This in turn would jeopardize an annual income to Iraq of $500 million. Syria is a minor Oil exporter see arabs Page 2j Dick Lupton announces for House Swan Quarter . Dick Lupton of Swan Quarter today announced his candidacy for state representative from the second , District which embraces Beaufort Hyde Washington. Tyrrell and dare counties or. Lupton a Veteran of three terms in the . Legislature was bom and reared in Hyde county. He is currently president of the Southern Albemarle association is civil defense director for Hyde county a member of the executive committee of the mid East economic development commission member of the Board of trustees of the University of ., Hyde county chairman of the Morehead foundation a scholarship awards committee. He is former Hyde county accountant and a former chairman of the Hyde county democratic executive Asp Smittee. Or. Lupton is married to the former miss Margaret Fisher also of Hyde county. They have one son Richard in military service in Washington. D a the leptons Are members of the methodist Church. Or Lupton. Is a Masrof. In making his announcement today my. Lupton said Quot when our House representative District was redistrict de it was the general feeling that with two , Beaufort county ought to. Have one full time. Then the other four counties it was Felt ought to have representatives on an alternating bases. The present representative from dare county has served two terms and i feel that the office now ought to rotate to another county. My experience . Legislatures has Given me a Fine insight into our problems in this area. I served As chairman of the House fisheries committee Andon the . Fisheries commission. If nominated and elected i solemnly Promise to serve All the people to the very Best of my ability. We Haw Many problems now with taxation roads tourism agriculture and others and i shall do my very Best to help find better solutions to these problems. I humbly ask for the help and support of the people of this second representative the democratic primary is on May 2. Spacecraft display Raleigh a gov Bob Scott announced tuesday that the Apollo 11 spacecraft that first took men. To the Moon and some of the Rock it brought Back will be on display in Raleigh late this year Scott said the capsule and Rock samples will be on display in Raleigh from dec. 30 to Jan. 6, 1971. By Joe Hall associated press writer Washington a with the Nixon administration s top education official openly joining the fight the Senate Haa put off until next week a showdown on a Southern sponsored provision to slow school desegregation. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield obtained an agreement tuesday for voting time on desegregation riders to a $35 billion education Bill. Beginning next tuesday each amendment to the massive Bill will carry a two hour limit on debate. Sen. Claiborne Pell d-r.i., floor manager for the measure said he expected Mansfield a move to Clear the Way for final passage by feb if. The main Issue is an amendment by sen. John Stennis d-miss., permitting Freedom of Choice plans in Public school at tax havens Tendance Federal courts have ruled such programs violate civil rights Laws unless they Are the Best method of achieving school desegregation James e Allen jr., . Com its Stoner of education injected himself by sending a letter to Pell opposing the Stennis proposal making its already slim Chance of approval. Even less Likely. Allen asserted the administration is strongly committed to nationwide elimination of racial segregation in education. The deep South senators have charged the administration with inaction in attacking segregation in schools outside the South. Allen said that a was an educator i am convinced that segregation by races in our nations schools for any reason is unsound educationally regardless see schools. Page 2 foreign Bank accounts largest tax loophole Washington a use of secret foreign Bank accounts probably constitutes the biggest single loophole in the entire Field of tax evasion according to a Veteran investigator of hid Den funds operations involving overseas Banks a Switzerland is a tax Haven no doubt about that Quot Robert Morgenthau told the House banking committee tuesday a it in t Only a for United states citizens South americans Arab leaders All Are using Swiss Banks for tax the former new York Federal attorney who was recently fired by president Nixon criticized the administration for what he called its withdrawal of support for a regulatory Bill to curb use of secret foreign Bank accounts by criminals and tax Ehy ats. Treasury officials have said the administration favors the Bill s goals but fears it is so Broad that it would do More harm than Good the measure would require record keeping and reports by persons maintaining accounts in foreign Banks protected by secrecy Laws and by couriers who transport Cash or securities to such foreign Banks. The Treasury a doubts apparently Center on for . Banks to keep detailed records including microfilms of checks cleared. But Morgenthau said record keeping provisions of the Bill Are essential for enforcement he voiced concern Over what he views As Success it it some Large Domestic Banks in undercutting support for the legislation. In response to Morgenthau a testimony a Treasury department spokesman summoned reporters and conceded that Bank ers had met with Treasury officials but protested implications the Bankers had forced the de apartment to change its position Morgenthau said proliferation of Bra inches and. Subsidiaries of . Banks overseas is linked with the rapid expansion of the Market in eurodollars dollars., held abroad and traded there a portion of this growth is undoubtedly the result of illegal uses of foreign Bank accounts Quot he said. A but in Many instances Quot he s Tiu in state lure Dollar a pcs its Are the result of tax Loop holes that might Well be plugged through legislation if the con Gress had the information necessary to formulate and Back up tax proposals Quot Frank a. Bartimo. Assistant general counsel of the defense department told the committee legislation that would help enforcement agencies get information about Hank accounts could result in a tapping of Money otherwise subject to . Tax Law which now escapes to numbered foreign Bank accounts Lewis e. Waters succumbs today Lewis Edgar Waters age 76, died this morning at 1 30 of clock at the Home of James Waters it. 1, Washington Cowherd Springs Road. Or. Waters was born in Beaufort county aug. 13, 1893, son of the late Jim and Nancy Tetterton Waters. He was a Veter ii of world War i surviving is one son James Wayne Waters of Soperton a funeral arrangements Are incomplete and be announced by the Paul funeral Home. _ by William Barton associated press writer Washington a the government s top civil rights attorney says his warning that a people who thwart Federal court orders go to jail was not aimed specifically a t Southern governors who. Defy school desegregation decrees what he actually meant in a Milwaukee television interview monday asst. A try Gen Jerri Leonard said was that those a who violate or interfere with Federal court orders run a terrible risk of involvement with the Federal government and Federal Leonard issued the explanatory statement tuesday after rep Thomas g. Abernethy a miss demanded to know if the Nixon administration is considering jailing defiant Southern governors. Abernethy sent telegrams to president Nixon and atty Gen. John n. Mitchell urging them to Quot repudiate the idea and order or Leonard to forget de Hinshaw a newsman for it my to in Milwaukee asked Leonard in the interview if the government is considering Tak ing action against goes. John Bell Williams of Mississippi John j Mckeithen of xxx Wisiana Lester g. Maddox of Georgia and Albert f. Brewer of Alabama. The four held an anti desegregation strategy session last weekend the tape showed Leonard responded Well Well continue to enforce court orders having to do with school segregation As we have in the past. I think we be made it Clear that no person is above the Law whether he be a governor or who he is. I think some have indicated a rather dangerous tendency toward a feeling that they can personally thwart Federal court orders. People who thwart Federal court or eng it it Tojo a Quot asked what specific action see warning Page 2 Agnew wants missionary in gop by Richard Daw associated press writer Raleigh apr gov. Bob Scott a Aid today he will refuse to authorize the expenditure of any Public funds for involuntary busing of pupils to achieve Public school integration. Scott said at n news conference he was taking his stand because at a Law Assembly. The governor said the Law had just been Cal led to his a ten lion it Quot elem Ray states and pro Vides that no Public funds shall 1 used Tor involuntary busing to achieve racial balance1 in the Public schools of North Carolina Quot Scott said Quot i have taken an oath to uphold the Laws of North. Carolina and until this statute is declared unconstitutional 1 shall not authorize the expenditure of any funds for such involuntary busing Quot list week is District judge James b Mcmillan ordered the busing of More than 12.500 pupils in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools to achieve racial balance the school Board Bao estimated it would have to Purchase 527 new tames to transport the pupils the school system requested 75 buses from the state. The Board has indicated it does not Tow the funds to. Pay for he Hipes t t or re publican St Lames h Carroi in let Charlotte has said he will file suit in Superior court for a restraining order to keep Charlotte Mecklenburg pupils from to eng bused involuntarily Carson was the author of the 1969 Law the governor cited today he said his suit would be based on the1 Law. The legislator told of Scott s comments today said he still will file his suit either thursday or Friday he said the governor is Quot exactly right i m delighted he finally realized what the general a Sembly did a a a spokesman at Quot the North Carolina Board of education said the governor s stand could affect an estimated 21.050 pupils in 54 counties the spokesman said the Board could not determine exactly How Many because a there s a question Over what i see Sci to. Page 2 15 state institutions receive hew s letters spirit brother Dies Joseph c. Daniels native of this City and brother of . Daniels jr., died in Asheville tuesday. Or. Daniels served As principal of Shiloh school in Buncombe county for 35 years he was living in retirement at the time of his death. Funeral services will be held in Asheville Friday. Pentagon sees Little serious effect 4m.k defense research on Campus undergoing acid test of dissent by Bob Horton a military writer Washington apr from Stanford in the West to Mit in the ea9t. Defense research on campuses is undergoing an acid test of dissent. But Pentagon officials say programs have not been seriously affected a my defense department leaders have watched with concern As military related research in . Colleges and universities. Have come under increasing attack during the Vietnam War now they indie Aie the opposition has reached a Peak and will v if subsided coincidentally or not. With the tapering off of the Southeast Asia conflict. A the Pul out of american troops from Vietnam probably defused the situation a one Pentagon research specialist says. A the student groups Are leaving the War Issue and moving to the pollution several american institutions were the focus of students and in instances faculty opposition last year prompting some Congress members to urge Pentagon cancellation of support of the schools research programs. Pentagon officials have chosen instead a policy Ltd rotting each institution work out its problems alone Anil on its own. The student opposition has ranged from reasoned discussion to wild demonstrations and some College laboratories doing Pentagon work were closed for a few Days in 1969 but an official described this As "less1 Sig nil least than an epidemic of asian the Pentagon also has been Able to take a somewhat Alolf attitude toward opposition because it has a huge Market seeking its defense research Dol lairs. The Pentagon Doles out approximately pm million a year if the form of 5,000 research contracts and Grants to some 306 academic institutions. The Pentagon also thinks it can ale tale some student pressure against research contracts and Grants involving secret work. Officials say these amount Only to 4 per cent of the 5.000 research contracts and Grants and they Are trying to Cut. This amount by eliminating Many unnecessary classification labels spawned by bureaucracy Pentagon officials say the give and take within the Aea Demic Community Over research is healthy and the merits of defense work can withstand the scrutiny. They argue that the benefits run two ways the Pentagon by investing dollars in universe ties gets questions answered while the schools by handling research projects have better graduate programs a most of the cooler Heads whether they Hale Vietnam or a see research Page 2 by Paul be bar associated pres writer St. Louis a vice pres ident Spiro t. Agnew has called for Republican adoption of a missionary spirit to wrest control from a democratic party teetering on the Edge of political and financial R.I. from the blunders and excesses of its cur rent leaders Quot we must adopt a missionary spirit within the Republican rank and an open door policy toward the millions of democrats who Are uncomfortable in their party a he declared tues Day night. Agnew address a i Fly a plate Missouri Republican fund R.I. ing dinner attended by 1and More than 1,000 others who paid $25 a seat to listen in the Al. Louis Arena a a Roosevelt a coalition Quot the vice president said a was a a great edifice that was built on four pillars the solid South the negro vote of the Northern cities the working Man and his family and the academic and intellectual Community. A by 1870, the first of these Pil Lars had collapsed the under pinning of the third were slip Ping away. Quot in the ii states of the old a a confederacy the disintegration riot charges. Dropped in Fuller Case by it 1 11 Alt i a a associated Presto writer Hillsborough n. C apr charges of engaging in a riot were dropped tuesday against Black militant Howard Fuller after his attorney argued sue act fully that no riot occurred. Judge Harry Horton of state District court accepted the a Glim it As Fuller it not o time counts growing out of a picket line disturbance at the University of North Carolina in Fearby Chapel Hill last novem Ber involving supporter sinking food service workers in addition to the rib count. Horton dismissed charges of disorderly conduct and failure to disperse against Fuller the head of the Black separatist Malcolm x liberation University at Durham. Horton said the presence of Fuller a came very close to provoking a very dangerous and serious had it not been for the indulgence of the officers present it could have been much More than a riot a Horton said but. He added there was no evidence that. Fuller a actually did any the judge made the same Rul my or one of fullers students i r Fuller Page 2 Raleigh apr fifteen North Carolina institutions of higher Educa lion have received desegregation letters from the department of health. Education and it Vire How and an official of the department says a forthcoming state a wide desegregation order for state supported colleges and universities will be More far reaching than individual orders being sent to the school of Quot the statewide order will be Quot wider a said David Gerard head of the educational Branch of hews civil rights office in Charlottesville a the statewide order could Call Tor consolidation of some state supported collages and universities and reassignment of programs Quot there Are certain things that it an be done As a matter of state policy that can to be accomplished within individual ins Titu. Lions Quot Gerard stated. He made these comments As he revealed tuesday that �0 More of the states institutions of higher education have received hew desegregation letters in addition to five whose letters already had been reported the 15 include eight state University units four Community colleges and Uppa private institutions. A Gerard said that in general the letters contained a Quot list of recommendations Oit what they the schools can do to improve. And come into full compliance with the civil rights act of see hew Page 2 Well to do families live in Federal houses by Ken Hartnett Assoc a Ted Quot press writer Washington App i lies with As much As in savings have been accepted into a special Federal housing pro. Gram while puff families in substandard dwellings remain on waiting lists according to a government watchdog Agency a report released by the general accounting office suggest Tif strength and support of the Congress consider Quot whether National democratic party is the teased housing program the most visible and advanced a should he operated so As to give the reason he said Quot is the housing priority to Tew income most Basic one in politics Lye persons who Are not adequately South is abandoning the demo housed Arago party in National elec he Gao the investigating tons because it cannot bide the Arm of Congress a remained kind of leadership and the kind to keyed tuesday in its critic of platform it currently offers at cism of the Lour year old plan the National .level., a designed to supplement the a Republican gains in the South Bon s Public housing Stock Agnew said have been made to but the report made Clear it the accompaniment of Quot howls of considered there to be serious indignation Quot emanating from tailings in the administration a and operation of the program Quot. The Gao called for several see Agnew Page 2 changes in the program allow ing local housing authorities to add to their Slock of Low income housing by leasing living space rom private landlords the program in the department of housing and Urban development is one of Severa t designed to meet the crisis posed by the shortage olt Low Mcmyne housing part Cutai k in the major cities. One stud it has estimated that eight i idiom. Tow inc itt la millies live Iii sub Quot a Standard housing tie yep or. Based on in spec turn trips to 11 unidentified locations. Found that \ eight of the 11 authorities studied Quot with hid approval and encouragement were us ing. The program to help persons already living in Standard housing a while applicants on waiting lists fur federally assisted housing continued to live in sub isee housing Page 2

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