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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - February 21, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather fab through sunday loan tonight Matiy in a a War mar sunday a Fttie High in the Washington daily news if you do not it your paper. In a 4145 bit non a so and t 00 o Stock and one a ill be Ltd Esta bushed 1909 eight pages Washington North Carolina. Saturday afternoon february 21, 1970 Dally except sunday meet in March East West Germany seeking agreements Laird thinks Congress will increase budget by 1�?Tktkh ke1iak set mph Ltd pm writer Bonn Iasi when West German Chancellor Willy Brandi and East German pre 30s i by Pari. P. associated press writer Washington a it a Sec re tary of decease Meam r Laird says the administration s 171.1 billion Pentagon spending re quest is a such a Rock Bottom Quot budget that Congress Likely will increase it his forecast brought an immediate reaction from some of the chief critics of increased defense spending Quot not if i have anything to do about it Quot said sen. J w fun Bright. D Ark chairman of the Senate foreign a relations committee. The budget is some 15 2 billion under estimated spending this year about the amount con Gress Oil in appropriating defense funds in 1909. Laird predicted the increase Friday As he outlined Pentagon spending plans to a joint session of the Senate armed services committee and the defense appropriations subcommittee he told senator of a i the re quest is so Low that Quot the nation Al Security would be jeopardized by any further reductions Quot chairman John c. Stennis. A miss. Of the armed services Ommittee agreed with Laird that it was a a rather austere budget Quot and that Quot there has been a lot of the fat taken out of this thing already a but Stennis also said that Quot there will be places where we can make reductions. No doubt Quot a and warned that russians Are expending their missile forces a i a Pace that could place the . In a second rate strategic position by the mid iwo. That argument came under see defense Page 5� Everett says no major change at air facility heart sunday Calls to Start Here feb. 22 the heart sunday Volunteer corps will be on the March beginning at 1 . Sunday to give every resident of Beaufort county a personal Opportunity to fight the nation s number one health enemy a the heart and blood vessel diseases. The residential canvass will continue through february 27 and it is anticipated that All kits will be turned in on february 28th. Two Hundred local residents will visit Homes in every Section of Washington to accept contributions to the 1970 heart fund Campaign and As educational ambassadors to distribute heart guarding literature. A in addition to distributing this heart saving information a Kathy Swindell heart sunday chairman said a the heart fund Volunteer wih it present a heart sunday envelope Schich the resident can use to strike a blow at the diseases which took More than 1.000,000 american lives last year and afflict about 27 million living where the Volunteer finds no one at Home he or she will leave a pre addressed mail in envelope in which a contribution May be sent conveniently to heart fund Headquarters during the next few Days. Heart sunday Marks the High Point in the Beaufort county a heart associations annual. Heart fund drive which makes possible the crusade against the heart and blood vessel diseases. Cherry Point. N c. It a it a Frank Everett the Republican who will run against democratic rep. Walter Jones next fall says he has been told by High ranking republicans in Washington that there will be no major changes for Quot the aircraft repair facility at Cherry Point a major Economy cutback had been feared at. The facility which employs 2,700 civilians and pumps $28 million a year into the Craven county Economy. The defense denied Friday in Washington that present plans called for a cutback or abolishment of the repair facility at the Marine station. Jones had said thursday he was concerned Over the possibility of a Large scale cutback and gov. Bob Scott said he would join Jones in fighting any drop in the level of activity for the station. The naval air rework facility is attached to the Cherry Point. Marine air station on the Mouth of the Neuse River 10 Miles Southeast of new Bern. Everett reached at his Home in Hamilton by Telephone charged Jones was making the cutback threat a Campaign Cudgel against republicans and was working to assign himself the hero s role if no cutbacks were decided Everett said he would meet with defense department officials in Washington tuesday to study the degree of possibility of any slowdown in the facility s operations but he added Republican congressmen had already told him Cherry Point was in no More a danger of curtailment than were All United states military inst 1.1alions during the budget tightening going on in the defense department. A if anything happens to Cherry Point it would be very minor Quot he affirmed a Tower with staph to be Lacfi her tout the negotiating table next month each will be pressing for his government s a prime objective. For Stop. It will be full diplomatic recognition by the Bonn government Tor Brandt it Quot win lie better relations with East tier Many without formally recognizing it he wants to improve the political climate in Germany and ease the Burden of tension on his people East and West Germany agreed Friday that their Dele Gates would meet March 2 in East Berlin to arrange a meeting Between Brandt and Stop the two leaders will then meet in mid March Brandt has said his government is prepared to enter into contracts or treaties with East. Berlin hut is not willing to Exchange ambassadors Brandt sees the talk As the first of a series and has already proposed Bonn As the site for the second session for years the East Germana have said that diplomatic recognition must precede any High level contacts while Christian democratic governments ruled in Bonn and East Germany s allies in the soviet Block remained hostile Thepe was Little reason for change but the picture changed when Brandt s coalition of social democrats and free democrats came to Power last september. The soviet Union took the Nix governments strivings for better relations with the East at. Fare Quot Quot value and started talks with it on Mutual renunciation of the use of Force and other subjects Poland a very orthodox Mem her of the european communist Camp followed suit. Little Progress has so far been made in these talks but the Ini tial rounds progressed with an. Unprecedented show of friendliness on the communist Side the soviet Union engaged some of its highest officials Premier Alexei Kosygin and foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in the talks with Bonn and virtually stopped their anti Bonn propaganda. The East Gentian evidently Felt themselves pressed to make at least an initial show of Good will and came up with the suggestion for the baby Dies in Virginia Belhaven Edward Ray Smithwick. Three Day old son of Carolyn Ember and John Edward Smithwick died in Newport news. A. Friday. Funeral services will be held at 2 . Sunday in the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home in Belhaven with Myron Elliott officiating. Burial will follow in the mount Olive Church of Christ cemetery surviving besides its parents Are its paternal grandparents or. And Quot mrs Cole Smithwick of Newport news. A maternal grandparents or and mrs. Quinten a Ember of Newport news. A. And his great grandmother mrs. De Smithwick of Ponze demo primary less contested than in past by Reese it it Sam a try pres writer Raleigh api the May 2 primary in North Carolina will find fewer congressional District contests than in recent years however Only one tar Heel congressman Democrat l h Fountain of Rocky mount in the 2nd District a has won reelection without Republican or democratic opposition primary Battles were As mired in Only three con ression at districts after the tilt Rig dead line expired at noon Friday Quot usually two to four i if Gress men win reelect Ion without said Alex Brock executive Secretary of the Board of elections Fountain is serving his ninth connect thre two year term. Democratic primary contests for Congress will be held in tin first and seventh districts while Republican primaries Are set in the fourth Ami seventh the Republican primary race in the seventh developed Friday when f. R. Weber 64, a retired army colonel of Limber Bridge in Robeson county and l c. Flowers 48. Of Fayette Vilie filed with the Board of elections the $425 filing fee for Congress represents 1 per cent of the $42,5411 salary for a. Congressman the democratic congressional race in the seventh District will be Between Veteran incumbent Alton a. Lennon of Winnington and Charles g. Rose ii Fayetteville attorney and former president of the state Young democratic clubs for the first time the Amer ican party will have two candidates for Congress on the ballot in november Gem Leggett a new Bern filed in the first District and Lynwood Bullock of Greensboro in the sixth _ a democratic primary Battle also developed in the first District on the final Day when the Rev i Quot cd Nixon of of Bern Deliho Crair Ines Bent Walter b. Jones of fam Tville had already filed Ottis w. Woolard Dies Friday . Attis w Woolard. Age 87 Well known resident and Farmer of the Broad Vek River Road Community. It 2. Washington Dilt a in the Beaufort county Hospital Friday at 6 20 after a critical illness of one week he had been in failing health for the past year or Woolard was born in i. Org acre township mar. 5. 1883. Son of the late Charles j7.j and mitts i Jane Alligood w Woolard he i spent most of his lifetime the neighbourhood where he grew up in addition to farming he worked weekends in Robert no a Cash store Here he was Active in Church and fraternal affairs throughout the years being a lifelong member of the by dam Church of Christ scr t a Deacon and traster for 34 years. He was an honorary Deacon at he time of his death he was a member of the charitable brotherhood Lodge. No. I and a served As its Secretary trea ire for 38 years. Quot he was a charter member of the Bunyan Puritan dub and was Active until his death. He was married to the former study recommends . Use All voluntary army bloody withdrawal tells Nixon North vietnamese forces sweep across laotian Plain of jars 500 men lost but Peter 01.411 t�111.1 n in a writer Vientiane Lam Apt across the Plain of jars today driving ii a supporter govern men troops track in a bloody withdrawal More than 54w lao defenders Wen reported killed or missing a High ranking laotian army officer said one third of the Man government Garrison at Xieng Khoang was dead or missing Quot there in utter confusion Ami chaos Quot he Saint Quot we do not know where the govern men units Are whether the wounded Are still lying on the Plain or whether they have Gol into the Mountain "�8 Chicago five gets five and $5,000 see Woolard Quot Page 51 judge gives defendants 2 hours before sentence by f. Richard Ciccone associated press writer Chicago api a the five men convicted in the riot trial were Given nearly two hours to speak in the courtroom before judge Julius a Hoffman sentenced. Each to five years in prison and a Fine of .$5,000. The 74-year-old judge passed sentence Friday in . District court on the five men convicted of crossing state lines with the intent of inciting rioting during the week of the 1968 democratic National convention he allowed the defendants nearly two hours to speak on their behalf then announced the sentences and fines and ruled that the convicted men must pay the costs of prosecuting their five month trial. The judge also ruled that the prison terms would run concur rent with the contempt sen Quot fences he imposed last weekend on the defendants and their two lawyers the prison terms were the maximum allowable under the Federal anti riot Law but the judge could have fined each Man $10,000 Thomas a. Foran us. District attorney and chief prosecutor. Estimated the Cost of prosecuting the Case at More than $50,000 he said Cost of the transcript would exceed $35.000 and fees for the 77 government witnesses would approximate $20.000. Jury fees and the Cost of hous ing the jurors who were sequel be red after the trials first week could reach $150,000, but the judge s ruling did not indicate the defendants would be liable for those charges. In sentencing David t. Dellinger. 54 Jerry c Rubin 31 Abbott h. Quot Abbie Quot Hoffman .31 Thomas e. Hayden �30, and Renovard c. A a Rennie Davis. 29, the judge did not mention jury fees judge Hoffman ruled that the defendants cannot be released from prison until the court costs and fines Are paid but the five men could avoid the payments by declaring themselves Pau pers two co defendants John r. Grotnes 31, and Lee Weiner 31, were acquitted by the jury 4 10 women and 2 men in the courtroom statements Dellinger Tofu tre Judi it think you Are a Man who has had too much Power Over too Many people for too Long you Are like George Iii of England King during the american revolution. You Are try tog to hold Back the tide of Davis said a i Hope that f will be allowed out by j976 and when i do come out i m going to move right next door to Tom Foran. In a going to organize his kids into the revolution a Hayden told the judge that his conviction would not halt the dissent of Young people in America. Quot they re doing things a see trial Page 5� enemy casualties were not known supported by tanks the North Vietnam so attacked that Xieng Khoang Airfield at Lam. And by midday controlled virtually All of the Plain the attack was the Climax to a tit Day enemy offensive to re Cap Tun the strategic Gateau. 125 Miles North of the capital and its Road network the Victory set the stage for More As against government Posi turns to the South Ami West. I no or mat Ion about casualties on both sides was sketchy but a a a military sources said govern men losses were Likely to to Etc High because of the scale and in Tensity of the North vietnamese attack soon i said the government forces some mum Tough Meo tries men commanded by Gen Vang too were still fighting a tut Ter rear guard action and trying to consolidate new Psi Lions in the Hills us ugh and West of the Plain they hoped to mock a possible a i see Laos. Page $1 methodists meet today speaker a Robert m arg an. N. A. Attorney general will lie the speaker at the regular meeting of the b Aufort to county democratic women on wednesday night february 25. At 7 Tim o clock at the rendezvous in Washington. Mrs Verona Cratch president is hoping for a Large crowd in attendance for this meeting or Morgan is on outstanding speaker and a Leader in the government of this stat Greenville names Pap committee f i been v11 be i n a meet i no at the Greenville country club thursday. Mayor Frank Wooten appointed a committee to guide the development of Greenville in becoming a Center of employment and services for the surrounding area. The committee identified As the positive action committee is a necessary function of a i d by the economic development administration As a a growth 4 enter i Greenville was designated As a growth Center of the mid East economic development District by the Eda along with Washington and Williams ton because of such designation each City a has become eligible for Public Grant and loan assistance from the Eda. Business and Industrial Loans Are also made available to area firms and an application for Grant assistance has been submitted to the Eda by the Greenville utilities commission review of the application is being delayed pending the work of the Pap committee Chartos Horne. Or. See mid East Page 51former Edward resident Dies mrs Lola Mae Bennett Warren age 64, a former resident of Edward died this morning in Elizabeth City. Funeral services will be held at i sunday from the Twiford memorial Chapel tin Elizabeth City with or. Robert Kicklighter officiating burial will follow in the Lee cemetery. It 1, Aurora at 4 30 sunday. Surviving Are one son Gerald k Warrensr and her Mother mrs. Effie Bennett both of Elizabeth City. 1 Raleigh api delegates to a special session of the North Carolina methodist conference gathered in Raleigh today to consider a revamping of top conference offices the More than Dele Gates half of them clergymen anti half laymen represented the 218.ooo methodists in 56 Eastern and Piedmont counties which make up the conference the proposed plan of reorganization would reduce from nine to seven the number of exec lives working out of the Confer ence Headquarters in Raleigh the a even. Executives would he a program director Siree Socrate directors and three coordinators. Bishop William h Gannon. Had of the Raleigh area of the United methodist Church pro sided at the meeting at Eden Ion Street methodist Church or Arnold k. King of Chapel kill vice chairman of la pro Gram Council presents the re vamping report which was approved by the 14 member pro Gram Council executive com eral Weeka ago the plan Calls for associate directors in the areas of Chr Tian nurture and training Ste a>idw4w a and communications and witness outreach and involvement to addition coordinators for children s ministries and ramp my Routh to ii a a a a a a. At Quot tug. And adult ministry mid research would work with the associated directors and the program director Blind help taxpayers by Martha 14 h e associated press write Washington it Al some limes the Blind can guide those who see. And its happening Dir ing the Tae Days of worry Over in come taxes the internal Revenue service has 31 Blind persons in major �1 files across the country answer ing telephones and Fielding Lay payers question they Are among the some my taxpayer service representatives who give advice for free although the taxpayer with a. Problem has no Way of know my whether the voice of the expert on the Telephone is that of a Blind person it s possible he could hear the Click of an Aba Cus the Oriental calculating instrument with counters on rods or in grooves is used by most of the Blind tax experts for Anth Mette problems they Wear Tele phone headsets to keep their hands free the a is started it program of training the Blind to help tax payers four years ago and Hopes to have 75 or it i at the Tele phom posts in that next few i be not had a single fail ure in this program Quot Nicholas irs coordinator for the employment o the Handi capped said m an interview Quot we Don t Pat per them these people stand or fall and so far they have All been successful Quot 1 a Rry Teeth Publica t ions. A n Ulyst for irs said i he Blind Are not coddled and a they want it that Way they want to Decorti Phish something on their own Quot Greco is involved because the tax instruction booklets Ami pamphlet aids Are publish a in Toadle for the Blind the braille publications for the Blind taxpayer can to re Quested from the Library of Congress free just As the Ordi nary sight a taxpayer gets them in the mail with the form the irs Eye its who Are Blind get additional helps in braille meld my a Juir Nophlet called see Blind Page 5i. It i ithe s my i m in up Militar it a Riler w as11 not it in l a be rial commission told president Nixon today the draft can be eliminated next year and the argued forces switched gradual Quot Ivlo an All Volunteer basis with higher pay and other reforms the commission told Nixon Quot lha nation s interests will be totter serve so by an All a Dun tech Force Mapp orly Why an of lec Tivo stamp he draft than by a mixed Force of volunteers and conscripts Quot the 15 member group set up last March recommended that the Nixon administration ask Congress Tor prompt enactment of ply. Increases particularly for Young first enlistment scr wet twin and lieutenants and Rottier improvements it proposed that the draft Law die a turn 30, li7i achievement of an All Volun to or military Torce would carry Mil a major Campaign pledge by Nixon the pane estimated it would Cost a shit Al 24 tall Tun to Pul the new draft free Force into effect the first year this would raise the Defene Hodges for. Fiscal 1471 to a a total <4 More than $75 Bilbo the group took no stand on How tug an All Volunteer Furce should to hut offered proposals Lor a two Dho i Man Force to Cost tot Ween $1 v billion and $4 u Bilbo Lor a three million Man Torce on a continuing bad to a. A appeared to urn toward a my Lamina Force of about a 5 million at an annual coat of Atout i. Billion military manpower specialists invt Atad in Advance that the commission was try ing to reach _ an All Volunteer for a at an unrealistically Low Cost / in the wit government stud yes have suggest a a True All a blunter Itrat it would in quatre up to $17 Hisiu a More a year the la Man panel headed by to Iriner a Secretary of defense Thomas , said ii believes that if reforms in hiding increased skill pay and Reserve pay and greater recruiting efforts. Put into effect tills year enough volunteers will to attracted to the service to permit a transition to a wholly voluntary armed Force in 1971. With the draft machinery on a standby i Tost for emergencies the United states now has Atoil 3 3 million men under arms and is gradually reducing that Force As troops ire with drawn from the Vietnam War pay it creams would to con Centra a a largely with the first term Serviceman raising the ise pay in a private irom Litho a month to $315 a month and increasing fringe in Nevils housing food and other allowances from $301 to $437 a month funeral set today for Bragg victims gun permits up in surrounding areas by lilt Iivari Daw ssh a rated press writer funeral service was planned to Day for the victims of a macabre triple slaying while author Hies pressed an investigation to had a tight cloak of secrecy the service was expected to bring the first up hic appear Ance of Apt Jeffrey Macdonald. 26 since the fatal stabbing it i his pregnant wife it Ole tie. 26 and their two children Kimberly 6. And Kristen. 2. Macdonald an army doctor has been in it. Bragg s to Mack army Hospital recovering from a Stab wound and other less serious injuries since the slayings tuesday. The Komah Catholic service was set for 2 est in the John f. Kennedy Center Chapel at it. Bragg s special forces training Section Cap Macdonald was with the Green berets of the special forces a the tosses were expected to to sent afterwards to Patchogue. Marl Lon alter Home town Quot for burial whether Macdonald would accompany them was not known army authorities refused to say military and Emit an invest gators were equally secretive atom the Progress of their investigation into the bizarre slayings which sent Waves of fear through the Post neighbourhood in which the Macdonald lived sheriff w c Clark said his office had issued 90 gun permits since tuesday almost twice As Many As in a Normal two month period he said almost Alt of them were to military person no i in Fayetteville adjoining police were picking up Young hippies for the Fri to question Macdonald had told police the attackers co stated of a hippie Type kind of three men and a blonde girl who carried a can die and murmured acid 19 groovy kill the pigs acid is a Slang term Lor the Halluma Tury drug us. Some of the girls questioned said they were asked to repeat. A dial phrae wide a Lape recur a _ my was made Macdonald told police he was awakened from a deep sleep on the living room coach of his six room apartment by a cry from hts wife and was immediately attacked military police who answered Macdonald s telephoned plea for help about 4am found him lying on a bedroom floor next to the body of his wife who had been stabbed repeatedly and whose Skull was fractured and arms broken scrawled in blood on the headboard of the Macdonald so bed see slaying Page 5

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