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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - February 19, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaMy Washington daily news if you do not get your paper. ,. Dial ms-x143 Wiwi a in and 1 Noel Stork and on a Rill be a live red to in established lf09 s1xtkn pages Washington Nortel Ca Houma thursday Apter Toom daily soviet reaction to president s address reveals difficulties Morton believes gop moving toward Resolution of its racial problems my mtg Tnp Lelh Teton lit Cal party can take Comfort financing of political county commissioners officials architect study photo by Litchfield courthouse bids Prat writ a Washington api the chairman of the Republican Nabona i committee thinks the rat Tion is moving toward a resold Bon of its racial problem thai will eliminate George Wallace As a presidential candidate in 1972 in an interview with the ass Eta Ted pres�., Rogers c. B. Morton said the policies of the Nix on administration Are leading toward a better environment in which there will be less Segre gated Community patterns Morton said neither major to from the fact that More and More americans Are registering As independents both parties specifically his own need to re examine themselves and find a new sense of Mission he said Hart a who also is a con Gressman from. Maryland said his knows of no plans for presi Dent Nixon to go on a political barnstorming tour this year on behalf of Republican Candi dates and the plight of the democratic party concerns him. He said because it might Lead to government intervention in the a nother stumbling Block courthouse bids half million More than Money available Finch recommends 2 children per family pm pee some key questions and an Swers q speaking of third parties. George Wallace is still in the picture do you expect him to he a candidate for president in but a i Don t think so i have a feeling that what George is going to do. Is try to keep his Power base by focusing it sharper on the Southern states. I can t see him in 1972 running a National Campaign q do you think that All this see Morton. Page 8 by William l. Ryan a special correspondent Prev adent in tron a state of the world add Rona and initial soviet reaction to it illustrate what a dangerous world Thia la and How difficult it will be to make dangerous i a wide chasm rep guard should be regarded As the a Antes the superpowers at a Best immediate response to a pm time when they Are preparing to significant soviet buildup by plans for construction of a new Beaufort county courthouse have hit a major stumbling Block that promises to further delay the project which has been plagued by delays since the Start. The latest and largest Holdup came late wednesday when bids were opened by the Board of county commissioners. Low figures were about half a million dollars above available funds. A $1.5 million Bond Issue was approved by county voters in May 1.968 to erect a new facility to replace the present building which was built in 1798. County officials moved immediately to get the project started they ran into difficulty almost at once in efforts to acquire a at a i. In March of 1969, the commissioners voted to locate the building on the North Side of second Street across from the county agricultural building. House poses for education confrontation Washington api a the House poised today for another showdown with the White House Over education spending taking up a massive appropriations Bill that once again is haunted by a veto threat. The possibility of another veto of the spending measure for the departments of health education and welfare and labor Rose tuesday when the House rules committee rejected a proposed presidential giving the White House spending latitude. A i would not be surprised if he would veto that a said Ronald l. Ziegler press Secretary to president Nixon when asked. Wednesday what the chief executive would do if the Bill came to him without the Compromise proviso Dot. The amendment spurned by the committee would have Given Nixon discretion to spend As much As he wanted on education regardless of the appropriation. The selection was the third the second by the present Board. Meanwhile time was ticking off and pressures were growing from both court officials and the Public to get the project started. Instructions were sent out to have county officials and Guy Wilson the architect move full steam ahead land acquisitions were completed and plans it ame off the drawing boards with approval by state officials including those for the jail which will be incorporated in the facility. The bids were opened and Low figures totalled $1,743,474-without furnishings or roughly half a million dollars More than Money on Hind to it now figures added up like this general contract. $1,354,368, a Leo Hawkins of Greenville $ 159,567, Mecha Nical Clima the Craft of this City $99,480, plumbing Lenoir plumbing and heating company of Kinston $135,059, electrical Campbell electric company of Wilson. With Only $1,300,000 available for the project the commissioners found themselves unable to accept any of the bids but instructed the architect to Confer with the apparent Low bidders to see if a substantial reduction could be negotiated by making some modifications meanwhile the Board is expected to meet with the architect on the results of the consultations not later than the next regular meeting on monday March 2. The commissioners will deckle at that time what options Are open and what decision to make. Plans Call for a three Story building of masonry and steel construction to House county offices and court facilities in addition to a jail. U. fail in space cooperation by Harry a Rosenthal associated press writer Washington apr the United states has offered 21 times in the last 11 years to cooperate in specific space ventures with the soviet Union a space Agency source says and each Effort has been ignored stalled or rejected outright. The overtures ranged in importance from joint exploration of the Moon and exchanging information on experiments to Courtesy invitations to u. S. Space launches the spokesman said. On april 4, 1967, when space Agency administrator James e. Webb sent condolences on the death of cosmonaut Vladimir m. Komarov and expressed the National aeronautics and space administrations wish to Cooper ate with the soviet Union the russians simply did no to reply. Flights. The us s r response was in effect a a done to Call us Well Call they did no to astronaut Frank Borman who got a heroes reception in see space Page 8 a a missing found in Atlanta seventeen year old Norma Ann Midyette missing from her it 3, Washington Home since monday was located wednesday in Atlanta Georgia. Sheriff Jack Harris said today he received a. Phone Ball from a Friend telling him of the girl s whereabouts. The girls parents or. And mrs. William e. Midyette were notified have teen in touch with the girl and Are now on their Way to Atlanta to pick her up Norma disappeared monday when the first soviet manned flight was still 17 months in the future administrator t. Keith calling the measure inflation Glennan offered u. S. Assistance see education Page 8� in tracking soviet manned As far Back As dec. 7, 1959�? night at about 8 of clock when she left the Home in a car to go to the Library. It. A no information was available travelled to As to Why Atlanta she it. Bragg bizarre slayings Dodor s Friend says they discussed Tate ritual murder before tragedy by Richard Daw associated press writer Fayetteville n c. Apr an army doctors Best Friend said today that he and the doctor discussed the Sharon Tate ritual murders in California Only two Days before the doctors wife and two children were killed in a similarly bizarre staying at nearby it. Bragg. A a it Sall so ironic a said it. Ronald Harrison 26, of Columbus Ohio. Harrison revealed his. Conversation with capt. Jeffrey Macdonald 26, of Patchogue As scores of army and civilian investigators continued a probe into the stabbings of the pregnant mrs Macdonald 26, and the Macdonald a two Chil Dren Kimberly 6, and Kristen 2 they were found dead and Macdonald injured in their blood marked six room apartment at it Bragg Early tues Day. The word a a pig was scrawled in blood on the headboard of the Macdonald a bed. Macdonald told police that toe strange predawn attack was carried out by a hippie Type band of three men and by a blonde girl who carried a Candle and murmured a acid is groovy kill the acid is a Slang term for the hallucinatory drug Ltd. Harrison one of the few persons to visit Macdonald in the Womack army Hospital where he is recovering from Stab wounds and a Bruise on the head said in an interview that his conversation about the Sharon Tate murders occurred saturday at Macdonald s Home. Actress Sharon Tate and some friends were slain at her Home last summer. Members of a hippie band have been indicted in the Case. The word a a pig had been scrawled in blood on the door of the Home Harrison and Macdonald Are Green Beret officers in the same unit at it. Bragg the 6th special forces and Bachelor Harrison was a frequent visitor to the Macdonald Home. Harrison said Macdonald see killers Page a study group proposed by rep. Jones Washington d. C. A a commission to study effects of Federal Laws court decisions Federal directives and guidelines upon the Quality of american a education was proposed thursday in Congress by first District congressman Walter b. Jones. v Jones joined with several of i members of the House a representatives seeking to establish a com Mission which would study at first hand and in depth the problem. Its membership would be composed of select members of the House appointed by the speaker the House study commission., according to Jones would include the effect of hew policies court decisions relating to busing of students to achieve racial quotas violence and unrest in the classrooms As Well As the multitude of Federal programs with educational objectives a was a result of the commissions study then recommendations in the form of legislative proposals to the judiciary educational committees civil rights committee As see Jones Page 8� mrs. Annie c. Marshall Dies Engelhard a mrs. Annie Cox Marshall age 84, died wednesday night at the Home of her son Norwood b. Marshall in a Norfolk a. A a funeral services will be held at 2 . Saturday at the Engelhard methodist Church conducted by toe Rev h. L. Martin pastor. Burial will be in the Amity methodist Church cemetery mrs. Marshall widow of Braxton c Marshall had made her Home in Norfolk for the past 13 years. She was a member of the Engelhard methodist Church and the woman a society of Christian service. Surviving Are two sons. Murl Marshall of Engelhard and Norwood a Marshall of Norfolk and one daughter mrs. Winifred s. Buchheit of Scottsboro three grandchildren and two great a. Grandchildren her nephews will Sene As pallbearers. The family will be at the Hoite of Murl Marshall the1 body will remain at the Williamson funeral Home in Swan Quarter and will be taken to the Church one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Annie Taylor succumbs today mrs. Annie Plummer Nicholson Taylor age 81, a resident of 420 West main Street died in the Craven county a Hospital in new Bern shortly before noon today after a critical illness of four Days. Funeral plans Are incomplete and will be announced by the a Oden. Funeral Home Washington api a top Nixon at ministration official a ays parents should limit their families to two children if they want to help Start improving the Quality of life in America. Robert h. Finch Secretary of health education and welfare disclosed his two chill suggestion in a speech wednesday night before an opening session of a conference on the environment the Secretary describing overpopulation As a Paramount concern that must be1 dealt with if other environmental problems a to be solved said a the Best kit Are can do now is make my i control information available to More women in a question and answer Peri was asked what people could do on a voluntary basis to improve toe environment. A i would begin with Rumm mending that they Start with two children Finch said a beyond that there Are Many other voluntary commitments others can he did not give specifics on the last Point. He also said the government might have to offer a a Divincen lives a to discourage parents from starting big families but he did not spell out what he meant Philip handler president of the National Academy of Sci Knees echoed finches remarks saying a the greatest threat to the human race is Man s own prese Ealion handler said the United states ill expected to have 100 million More people by the year 20txi he said virtually All the nation s Domestic ills Stem from the rapidly growing population. Finch touched on overpopulation at one other Point in his talk a unless the american people Are really prepared to pay pol Lution taxes and meet the costs of environmental restoration costs that May Range from less powerful autos to less frequently occupied bassinets no Politi Cal authority can control the excesses of affluence or rampant soviet missile construction slowing Down Washington it a it if us administration predictions hold True the rate of missile construction by the soviet Union will have slowed substantial by the end of 1970. This Long term trend shows up in an examination of soviet irm deployments Over the past three years and could be come a significant Factor in . Plans for Antibu Listic missile defences incoming months. In his state of the world Mes Sage wednesday president Nixon said the russians Are expected to have 1,290 land has it it i mis Siles capable of reaching the United. States by the end of this year according to figures on record at the Pentagon Thia would be an increase of less than 200 missiles in 21 months Secretary of defense Melvin r. Lam had estimated the soviet icbms Force As of March 1969 at a More than 1,910.�?� the 290 missile increase would be a Rise of about 29 per cent mrs. Cratch set to speak mrs. Dan Cratch will be the noon Day speaker Friday in the Layman Speaks series at St. Peters Church her subject will be a commitment to Christ his Church what to do a mrs. Cratch is a devoted and life Long member of the first presbyterian Church a native of Washington and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She taught school in Chocowinity and in the City schools Here Well know n for her Community interests. Mrs. Cratch is presently working with trainable and educable retarded youth the Cratch s live on Bonner Street have daughters living in Michigan Connecticut Greem Sboro and have two grand children the Public is cordially inv led to these Friday lenten services Frodo 12 05 to 12 25 Restum on How to limit weapons of mass destruction the chasm has widened recently because a a developments in the Middle East where each is aware of the grave possibilities of a confrontation _ Salt. Us stir wok arms lint talks begin again in Vienna april to president Nix on a read to advise americans to take them with a Grain of Salt he cautioned against a false euphoria a suggestion that the prospects for the talk Are severely limited the Basic obstacle remains one of Mutual distrust the president. While expressing Hofira for better soviet american relations seemed to reflect put Dement about Moscow s Aims the Russ la is though they pro less Hope for a Pool live results front Salt Are restating their belief tha t the i it is is in the grip of a militarized Leon univ which bodes ill for peace first soviet reaction to the speech noted that the president red i decision to press ahead w Ith the second Section of the safeguard anti ballistic missile system Ami build up nuclear potential a but the president noted that his proposed expansion of Safe Ttye Quot in a be Salt will he Clear enough the superpowers have sufficient potential to Mast one another Hack into the Stone age. This Means that if the chances Ola major conflict Are As Small As to i that is Job fug a risk. Some of the cautious opt mis in a with which Salt had Tern apron Chad Niay now be diminishing somehow at the moment the obstacles seem More stubborn than Ever not the least us these is the severe clash of soviet american inter eats in the Middle East Quot Salt could go ahead mde prudently of other specific prob lems but there now seems to be a direct link Between the prospects and the Middle East there Are Otter obstacles. Moscow professes to see the aim As worldwide and so Vietts to break up alliances and subvert the soviet system the americans react with deep suspicion to official soviet statements orienting Moscow s policy directly to spreading communist influence when such publicly expressed Aims Are View a is in the context of a known soviet strategic buildup. See soviets Page it southerners seek Law halting school busing by Joe Viall associated press writer w Ashington a South Ern senators flushed with a in Jor Victory in their fight to slow Down Dixie school a Legrega Tion. Sought today to strike the Power of Federal courts to order busing to achieve integration pending Quot As the Senate re Sumes its two week old debate on the Multi million Dollar Edu cation Bill was an amendment of sen Sam j Ervin or. D-n.c., stating simply that no court or Federal Agency would have the Power to order such busing. This proposal appeared to have less support than the amendment which gave the South its first big civil rights Victory in years wednesday with the 56 tit adoption of a pro vision by sen John Stroms. A miss to provide a uniform National policy on school desegregation. The rider requires the govern ment to attack neighbourhood school desegregation in the North As vigorously As it has moved against Legal segregation in Southern school systems however some Dixie senators conceded the Victory might be More psychological than real Totev expressed far greater in Terest in the More direct Relief the Ervin proposal would provide _. Taulis commented he would Quot not sex Pec t any great immedi a a a this i a thing a to happen in North As the result of amendment a but he and. Otter southerner made a i quite Clear they hoped if would exert enough pressure on the North to slow Down the school integration drive All Over the nation i my rights supporters who Loughl the amendment declared see Ervin Page i d. R. Mason succumbs Here David Roskam t buds Mason age 69. Died tale wednesday in a Tomid nursing teme funeral services will be held at 2 30 pm Friday at Soule methodist Church near Swan Quarter conducted by the Rev. J j Grimes pastor burial will follow in Soule cemetery or Mason was the son of the late William Edmund and Mary Benson Mason he spent his Early life farming in Hyde county but in recent years he has made his Home Here with his tester mrs Thad r. Taylor surviving Are two Sisters a re. Thad k Taylor of this City and mrs. Delle m Martino of Norristown pay and one brother e. Otis Mason of Engelhard the body will remain at the Williamson funeral Home in Swan Quarter and be take to the Chat Lech it the funeral hour salvation army meet held Here an inspiring address by major Loren Boone installation of new officers receiving a lifetime member and presentation of plaques of appreciation featured the annual advisory Board meeting of the salvation army Here last night. Speaking on the 190-year history of the salvation army major Boone told of the efforts on the part of Gen. William Booth founder in taking the gospel to toe slums of London. A Gen Booth said major Boone a a that you could not preach to hungry people therefore they were fed and clothed., and then ministered to spiritually. This has always been the Way with the salvation army a a he said. The speaker was presented by Gene Aligood incoming see meeting Page a a staff photo tar capt. Rawls chairman Al Good and major Boon

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