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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - February 23, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather variable cloudiness tonight tuesday Chance of rate sex Segrt coast. Continued Modem be Teova b Era Ture Low tonight upper 36 High tuesday 58-83 Washington daily news if you do not get your paper. Dial Mari 45 Between a 30 and t 00 o Stork and one Wal be delivered in you established 1909 eight pages Washington. North Carolina. Monday afternoon february 23, 1970 Oaky except sunday prices spiral upward housing Pinch begins to engulf affluent editor a Nett in an age of affluence America Isnit meeting its housing needs this the first of five articles from the a houses Are intensifying the1 pressures that Low income persons must fight to find a decent place to live. Special assignment team looks the is the pressure the newer mid die class housing miseries Are exerting downward it works this Way building at the problem through the eyes of the House Hunters by to Barnes associated press writer Washington api a a National housing crisis that Long has plagued the poor is begin Ning to engulf Middle class America As the need for housing outstrips production and prices spiral steadily upward at the same time the rising costs and critical shortage of government says m lion new housing units Are needed during the next 10 years. Current production is not even half that rate and it is declining but marriages the formation of new families who la need a place to live How million a year and Are increasing rap div the associated press investigated Home buying to isolate the tangle of Cost and other factors at work also evident however tit a costs and tight Money Moke it school lunch Bill changes Are sought kit Lawrence i. Environ associated pres writer Washington Lapi sen George Mcgovern chairmen of the Senate hunger committee to attempting to bolster Southern sponsored school lunch Legisla Tion he says is grossly invade quite to feed millions of poor and hungry . Children. The South Dakota Democrat has offered five amendments to come to a vote to French president leaves for 9-Day u. S. Tour Swiss press probe into plane crash i by the associated press Swiss investigators sifted through the wreckage of the Israel bound Airliner that crashed % saturday trying to determine whether Arab saboteurs caused the disaster which killed All 47 persons aboard in Jerusalem. Premier Golda Meir and Israel s Cabinet met for nine hours sunday to discuss the possibility of retaliation for the crash of the Swissair Jet which included 15 israelis aboard. Israeli newspapers demanded action but a Cabinet spokesman said none of the suggestions considered was a taken up a a shaken by the explosion which sent the Swissair Jet into its fatal crash and another which forced an austrian Airliner to make an emergency Landing saturday four leading european airlines cancelled Passen Ger or freight service to Israel. The Swiss government said it suspected a a criminal act Quot caused the explosion and crash of the Swiss plane in a copse near Weer Eslingen after it took off from Zurich. The government said it had instructed police and the Swiss foreign ministry to take a fall required measures to enable the Cabinet to act at once if the suspicion were a confirmed. Swiss officials refused to comment on a claim in Beirut by the popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command 1 that it was responsible for the Swissair crash. Later a spokesman for the group in Amman denied responsibility. The general command is a splinter group that broke away a from the popular front for the liberation of Palestine. The Parent organization has specialized in attacks on israeli planes and israeli offices in Europe. An emergency commission of 50 Swiss crime and aviation experts was working at the crash site it reported sunday night that it still had no conclusive evidence of foul play. Official sources said a firm conclusion might take several More Days. But there appeared to emerge a growing similarity Between the Swissair disaster and the sabotage of the austrian air a Sec Mideast Page 8 B. O Ham passes sunday B. Of Ham age 87, resident and retired Farmer of it. To blounts Creek died at his Home sunday at. 7 . Following a critical illness of one month. He hat been in failing health for the past several years or. Of Ham was born in Beaufort county july 21,1882. Son of the late Joel b. And Dorcas Gerrard of Ham. He was married to the former Margaret Moore of this county on dec 24, 1905, w to preceded him. In death Jan. 8, 1888. He was a member of the Warren Chapel United methodist Church surviving Are four sons Kugler o Ham of blounts Creek. Roscoe of Ham of Lenoir Cleo o Ham of the Home and Kenneth of Ham of the u. S Navy Rota Spain five daughters mrs Otis Cowan of blounts Creek., mrs., Charlie Byrd of Portsmouth arms. Earl keel of this City mrs. Johnny Fleming of Chocowinity and mrs. Stacy runnings of Greensboro 22 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 wednesday at the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home with Rufus h. Walker officiating. Burial will be in the Moore cemetery at Chocowinity. The family will be at the Home it. I blounts Creek harder for the upper Middle and upper classes to buy new Homes that in turn keeps the lower Middle classes from buy ing the used houses which the wealthier would otherwise sell. Thor creates More pressures on rental property where vacancy rates Are dropping and rents Are increasing in Stair step fashion each income level is kept in relatively poorer hous ing. With the pressure mounting As the production Gap increases with Middle America increasingly feeling the housing sting the crisis is getting priority attention from both Public and private sectors president Nixon referred Jan. 21 to Quot the Cri Sis situation we Are facing in the housing of our people a a but action that May eventually solve the shortage and Blunt Cost increases Isnit any help to today a House Hunters. The housing crisis facing these and thousands of other families is a com Pound of. Cost and availability the 1868 housing act set a National goal of 26 million new units in 10 years. But by december. The annual rate of housing starts had fallen to 1.2 million. This shortage boosts costs through the Workings of Supply and demand. A Battery of other Cost factors is at work too associated press interviews with buyers builders lenders realtors Union officials and government planners from coast to coast pinpointed expense areas like these a land values have skyrocketed example in the Maryland suburbs of Washington raw land prices have quadrupled in 10 years a some Anion work rules stifle efforts at example in san Francisco a builder complains that Union rules add $800 to the Price of painting a single House a a National tangle of building codes haphazardly bars Cost saving new materials and meth ods example in one Chicago suburb a requirement that foundations be 12. Inches thick instead of the Standard 10 inches adds $320 to per House costs. A government red tape brings expensive delays. Example one builder says a four week lag in Federal housing administration application approvals adds $85 to the costs of a House a soaring construction wages Are puffed higher by practices frowned upon even by some unions example a West coast dry Wall Hanger makes $36.000 a see housing Page 81 Day. Aimed at broadening the base of the program and increasing funds to run it. Mcgovern is opposed by the Bill a sponsor sen Herman Tal Madge,., a and a. Majority a i members of the so Nat and culture committee Talmadge said Friday the legislation is designed to make lunches available to every school child in America but Mcgovern contends i favors Southern schools and fails to take the feeding program to the truly needy one Mcgovern proposal would establish a National uni form Standard of eligibility based on an income of $4,00 1 a year or less for a family of four. He said it would expand the program to take in up to 9 million children Mcgovern also would change the Talmadge Bill to allocate Money to states based on the see lunch. Page 8 mrs. Loris Bill Gardner Dies mrs Willie Mac Bill Garu. Ner. Age 72, resident of 235 e second Street died Early this morning after a lingering illness mrs. Gardner wat born at Cochran Ajan 16, 1888 daughter of the late William b. C. And Julia Davis Towler she was married to Warren Gardiner of this City on december 20, 1920 or Gardner preceded Hei in death August 14� 144 it Gardner was a sates lady for Lewis inc. A local ladies dress shop for 30 years and later was employed by Bell jewelry company until her retirement in 1963 she was a member of the first United methodist Church. Surviving Are two daughters. Mrs Clarence c Hodges of this City mrs Harold Kruse of Wood River. �11, three Sisters mrs. Gertrude Harrell of Coral Gables. Fla., mrs c. T. Chapin of Daytona Beach Fla and Winnie. Lewis of this City four grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services will be held tuesday at 2 00 pm in the Chapel of the Oden funeral Home with the Rev Kelly Wilson or. Officiating burial will be in Oak Dale cemetery serving As Active pallbearers will be Selby Jones. Jr., Albert Jowdy. R. Lee Stewart jr., Alan Boyer. A Scott Irby or and Gerald n. Mitchell. The family requests that in lieu of Flowers a contribution be made to the Beaufort county cancer fund government forces Quot regrouping Quot North vietnamese Patchet lao pall cast on trip by pro Arab policy John Viva t h Laird prom writer tit tit vets War by Peter of lot Fihnn associated press writer Vientiane. Lao map the North vietnamese and it it Isa li1 Mara aft la j., i l it a we. A. A a a a. A if f Fri it 1 a or i Vurva Towt Roll a tured the Plain of jars May now tie heading toward Muong sum. An important laotian govern men position nine Miles West of the Plain american sources said today the sources reported a Quot Light probing attack Quot during the night on the Mountain out Post of Phou Kout. On the Western Edge of the Plain too Miles North of the capital and on the route to Muong Suoi there was no report of casual ties in the attack and it was not Clear whether the North vietnamese had captured the Vil Lage or pulled Back another unconfirmed report said an enemy Force was observed moving from the Plain of jars in the direction of Gen Vang Paov a Headquarters at methodist conference to Cut staff Raleigh map a the North Carolina methodist conference will reduce its Headquarters staff from nine to seven persons As part of a reorganization of top conference offices approval of the restructuring came saturday when some 800 delegates from the 867 churches in the conference met in special session in Raleigh adoption of the plan came with Only a scattering of opposition major debate entered on the question of tenure for the program staff the conference approved a motion by the Rev Graham s Eubank superintendent of the Fayetteville District that the tenure of the program staff be six years instead of eight the eight year tenure Rule for staff persons was adopted by the conference in 1966 the delegates also voted that the new six year tenure Rule would apply Only to clergy in staff positions and not to laymen the reorganization plan provides that in addition to its program director the conference will employ three associate directors and three coordinates a to correlate implement and administer Quot the program of the see methodists Page 81 1 Imp Cheng Jmiles to the West Vang Pao commands a Force of about met tribes men who Are paid Ami trained by the Baltod state the North vietnamese Ami Patchet Tain captured Muong Suoi and held it for a Short tune last summer t2b bombers of the Laio fian air Force operate from a Hast there government forces were re ported Quot regrouping after the ions of the Xieng Phouang air Field saturday drove them from the Plain of jars the situation was still Quot quite ,1 said col Thongphanh Knoks. The spokesman for the laotian de fens ministry Thongphanh said the North vietnamese had ump a three Belt copters and 18 tank to support some 2.401 ground troops in the successful assault on the Xieng Phouang Airfield he said it was the first time the North Viet namese Hud used helicopters in the North vietnamese Ami Patchet lao Are estimated to have a Torce of about 211,000 in area of the Plain it Jara. Georges Pidi left for a nine trav four of the United state today prepared for dam ont Fatinna against his Middle East indices ton ready to put those policies in the most a Ionising them Are Vang Pao in my Moo tribesmen along with Hundred of american lighter bombers that Fly attack missions from bases in Thailand and Smith \ to Nam and from 7th Fleet carriers in the Gulf of Tonky the embassy reported an american helicopter Pilot was killed thursday by sniper fire while ferrying supplies to government forces on the Plain lie was j c Maerkl of fort Worth tex., who was flying Tor the Ciao a charter airline air America the embassy said Maerkle Copilot landed the hell copter safely at a government Airstrip m Maerkl was the second a men can casualty reported it the vex laotian Page it Vit Rahte Light a possible in f his talks with president Nixon Pompidou and his dashing Donde wife 1 laude took Oft in a Light ram heavy Security precautions the threat of unfriendly picket amt Prospect for a sizeable congressional Boycott when Pompidou addresses a joint a Rasion in Washington wednesday made for a gloomy mood among the president a aide after arriving at Andrew air Force him outside Washington this afternoon Pompidou and tits wife s or to spend tonight at Pakip David the presidential Retreat to foil talks begin to mph Page 8 two Southern states pass anti busing Laws by Tiff Ajo hoc Jackd press two Southern states have passed Laws supporting Freedom it Choice school desegregation plans White prohibiting forced busing of pupils two other states in the deep South arc considering Simitar Laws All of thu it a patterned after a new York slate Law in Pasadena. Calif the school Board says it needs More thao $1 million for busing to carry but a Federal court integration order and a citizens group has raised $26,000 of its $30.un� goal for a Legal fight against the plan mean while in interviews Sun Day former Alabama. Gov George c Wallace Ami sen John Stennis. D miss. Spoke out against integration plans that involve forced busing but for Mer vice president Hubert h Pilipi Perry said busing to some times justified to break in segregation a Law approved by the lout Siana legislature and signed sunday by gov John me Keithen say there would be no racial. Discrimination in school systems he bars Ransler of Stdenis to achieve a racial bal. Me in Las Wctmxtot-w6 a Ritti officials approve such a plan Meke then said it would do Jimr Dimit integrations efforts in the state but will make the rest of the country aware of Louisiana s problem the Georgia legislature passed a similar Law saturday and it now awaits gov a Irater Maddox a signature Bui Are pending in the Mississippi leg tot Hus or. Page 8 bulletin Jerusalem Ai it Arab terrorist attacked a Busload of american touring the hop land in occupied Jordan today and kilted one woman and wounded three other the israeli in Hilary command \ announced. E. L. Thompson succumbs today Al Worth lev Thompson age 71 of a Iii a go died in a local nursing Home this morning at 7 n Wrick following a it Tara of three Days he had to in in lading health for several years or Thompson win Horn in to tvs bunty May 25, i tot ton of the late Kenai no Franklin and Ella May Awni drat Thompson he was engaged in the feat Watato business a it Long As his filth a Penn its it f he a Penn to to of to lifetime in tin Paniego Community lie was a member of the Hebron untied methodist Church in Paniego a Veteran of world War h serving in the army surviving Are two Brothers. B Frank Thompson of Paniego and t Cyril Thompson of Jacksonville Teg a two sister or. Ann of Brien of Oshkosh to and mrs k i new is Fth of Fresno Ltd a Ltd and several Niece or and nephews Funer Tii serv Leek w ill be held at the Chi apr of the Paul funeral Home tuesday afternoon at. 3 o clock it Midian a by the Rev Iames Elk. Pastor of the Hebron ruled methodist Church burial will follow in Oakdale cemetery the family will to at the Home of or and mrs b Frank Thompson at Paniego redevelopment set for West end area by de Walker. Or. Staff w Riter with the recent approval of a Federal $1.5 million Grant and the final approval of a leased housing program the Washington redevelopment commission is ready to launch its most ambitious project to Date the Ren Novation of West end area i. A in Many ways a a Dave Milligan commission chairman commented a this new project is what redevelopment is All about. East end and the downtown projects have resulted in a More Beautiful City but the human element in West end makes this our biggest Challenge yet a he said. The Federal Grant and the leased housing Are interrelated projects. The Grant provides funds necessary for the , renovation and or demolition and construction involved in rebuilding West end. The area Encomb Pises the Section of housing bounded by Van Norden Street to Market and seventh Street to the old town ditch behind ninth Street. The go ahead for the project was dependent upon action by the Washington housing authority. The approximately 100 families scheduled to be displaced by work in West end had to be relocated in suitable housing prior to the project s launch Date it was decided by housing authority officials to try a new approach in Public projects. The authority began research into the possibilities of cooperation with private Industry in the construction of leased housing. In this new approach a private business firm is contacted to Purchase land and build apartments. All expenses Are incurred by the private investor the housing authority signs a con tract with the firm guaranteeing full occupancy for a period of 20 years rent payments from the families and their Federal supplements Are paid to the investor. The housing authority in effect promises to pay the rent if an apartment is not occupied during the 20 year period. Housing inc in Winston Salem has contracted with the authority and purchased the old Waters lumber company property behind Eastern elementary school. Construction of 100 units of leased housing is scheduled for completion by november of 1970. Approximately 60 units will he available by june. Although a recent analyses by the housing authority reveals 206 approved applications on file for Public housing the Law gives immediate priority to persons displaced by Public projects the 100 families of West end will go right into the new apartments rent paid to housing inc. Will vary according to the size of the unit from $75 to $130. Of the total rent an individual family will pay a. Percentage less than the actual rent paid to housing inc depending upon How Many persons Are in the family their income and employment status ready to work a with the problem of where to put the displaced families apparently worked out Quot Bill Cochran executive director of the commission and housing authority explained a we Are ready with plans to begin the next step in the project involves approaching the individual Home owners and ten Nant housing owners with offers to buy the land and Homes that have been determined to be in too had a shape to renovate some Homes will remain intact. But those determined As dilapidated will be purchased and demolished there Are some 41 acres of land involved in the project. The commission is seeking Purchase of 18 acres of the approximately 196 structures in West end 30 Are Standard these will not be involved in the work Excel a i is hoped that owners will see fit to beautify their property As the project develops another 30 Are in need of extensive minor repair and 32 More in need of extensive major repair. For those who want to u Ork to fix their Homes up the Federal government is prepare t with Loans and outright Aranuk families with incomes >>1 Tew than $3,000 can receive a Grant of up to $3,500 for repairs families Over the income poverty line Are ehg Ihle for Loans at three percent. Home owners who wish to retain their ownership can get up to $5.000 in addition to the Money paid them for their property. Those relocated have priority to move Back into West end after its renovation and the Eom traction of Public housing the redevelopment commission is making available Lote i n the area and in other areas erf the City for those who want to build their own Homes. 102 structures have been determined to be totally dilapidated and Wilt be demolished. Many of the houses Are simple tenant shacks life for Many in the area is not pretty to look at or think about much less to live. One Man pays $65 dollars per month for a House with no hot water and no hath. Most of the shacks rent for Between $15 and $30 per month but few Are Lucky enough to have any plumbing. The roofs leak windows Are broken Steps Rotten porches collapsing weather boarding coming apart and rooms actually falling away from each other leaving gaps in Walls where there is any wiring its usually improper families with six children live in two bedrooms. Several years ago an elderly woman was taken to the Hospital for treatment of her feet the rats had gnawed them up until recently such simple necessities As commodes were denied to the occupants even when they were installed landlords placed them on porches in some instances heat in the ratting structures is supplied crudely by newspapers and fire Wood when available. A sanitary conditions in the shacks Are a see West end Page 5 now a Promise of a brighter

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