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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - January 9, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather. Clear to pm it for Cloudy through saturday quit cold tonight with a orly Rigi temperature saturday Low to Atiglio mostly to to Washington daily news if you do not got a your paper. Dial m�a145 Between a so and t 00 o crack and Ana will has a in Varad to jaw. Established 1909 eight rages Washington. North cart Vilna. Of Joay afternoon january 9 197 sunday researcher discloses new cancer theory stolen tvs deputies Nelson Sheppard and Adrian Waters Are shown with five television sets stolen Early today from the Jefferson Gas company Here and recovered a Short time inter after a five mile Chase. The loot was valued at 2,259.75. Staff photo be three suspects caught in Early morning Chase giant tanker sinks off West coast by Jack Schriebman associated press writer san Francisco apr a tanker with 41 men aboard and loaded with 280,000 Gallons of Jet fuel was slowly sinking in the storm tossed Pacific 250 Miles West of los Angeles today As Rescue boats and helicopters sped to the scene. A c130 aircraft circling above the stricken . Connecticut reported the 676-foot ship s first deck the Well deck jammed with cargo fuel pipes was awash. There was no immediate word on the crewmen said coast guard spokesmen coordinating the Rescue operation Here. The refrigerator ship Tsune Shima Marti reached the tanker 44 hours after the distress Call went out and was standing by in Case the master decided to abandon ship. The tankers master who was not. Identified radioed that the Japan bound ship which left los Angeles thursday was taking in water through driveshaft tubes connecting the engine room to the propellers. Because of a Power failure the ships pumps ground to a halt. The coast guard c130 dropped emergency pumps to the ship but it was not known whether the crewmen had retrieved them. The Connecticut a Captain reported his ship was being tossed by winds up to 69 Miles an hour and seas .15 to 29 feet High. Three1 merchant ships the Oriental Pearl the Buckeye Atlan it see ship Page 8 two men and a woman All of new Bern have been charged with larceny in connection with the theft of five television sets from the Jefferson Gas company Here Early this morning. The three were caught by two members of the sheriffs night patrol As they abandoned their station Wagon on the old blounts Creek Road and fled afoot in a wooded area. Theodore Richardson age 47, of it. 1, Box 295 Johnny Mack Brown age 22, of 218 first Street and Marie Jones age 30 of 821 first Street new Bern were being held under $4,000 Bond each pending a hearing later in the morning in Beaufort county District court. Nelson Sheppard and Adrian Waters the two deputies who apprehended the suspects said three color television consoles and two portable sets were recovered. They placed the value of the stolen merchandise at $2,259.75. Deputies Sheppard and Waters Sid a burglary alarm signal at 3 . Today sent them to the scene of the breaking and theft. They said they chased the fleeing suspects Down ii. S. 17 to Chocowinity and East Down n. C. 33 to the old blounts Creek Road where the Trio turned North Down the Rural Road. The officers said the suspects abandoned their 1.962 Model station Wagon and fled afoot but that they ran them Down in the wooded area and arrested them in icy weather. The Mercury dropped to 10 degrees in the predawn hours. The deputies reported that the Gas company building located on u. S. Highway 17 South was entered after a window was broken out. Sheriff Jack. Harris commenting on the arrests said the see arrests Pace 8 by Frank Carey a science writer Washington a one of the worlds Foremost microbe Hunters has disclosed a revolutionary new cancer theory Sug resting seeds of the dread Dis ease Are present in All humans from the time of Conception but these seeds Are kept from Mab Gnant to people or Robert j. Huebner said thursday in explaining the theory he co developed with or. George Todaro. Both scientists Are with the National cancer Institute. Huebner said the concept might open the Way to eventual control of cancer through antiviral drug therapy or a vaccine previous concepts envisioned cancer viruses largely As external attackers the new one approach Points the Finger at virus related materials deemed present from the time of Conception. Quot we think that for the first time in the virus Field we have a Way to get at the cancer problem a Huebner said in an interview. A the concept is entirely different from what people had anticipated. We believe it is going to change the whole Field of cancer virus in effect the new theory holds that a the actual seeds for cancer a in the form off some of the1 genetic precursor ingredients for a certain Type of virus called a pc Type rna virus a Are present in All of us from the time we re conceived. But in most people other genetic forces keep them from developing. A when cancer does occur its the result of the previously suppressed mechanism being switched on by defective genes present in some people by such environmental factors As radiation or certain chemicals or in some people by the very process of aging a the cancer seed mechanism whether or not it ultimately generates malignancy May have a beneficial function in the Early development of the embryo it May be essential to life itself. Huebner said there is a a a lot of documentary evidence to support the concept. He said precursors to a Type rna viruses see cancer Page 8 Kkt Leader out of Federal jail Danbury Conn. Apr j. Robert Jones Kun flux klan Leader from North Carolina emerged from Federal prison today and vowed to head a Aback South of the Mason Dixon line where there a no Damn Yankee \ Jones had been sent to prison for one year for contempt of Congress along with several other Kkt leaders who had refused to answer questions of the House committee on in american activities. Asked whether he would take Over his old Post As head of the largest Kkt organization in North Carolina Jones told newsmen Quot i already have a bout 30 seconds Jones embraced and kissed his wife who was waiting for him at the prison doors spoke briefly with reporters and left in a taxi. A Jones entered prison last March. He received two months off his sentence for Good behaviour. He Quot a Tane n. Vietnamese people told to Beirut Beirut apr a Young Frenchman with a. Rifle and two pistols who said he hated All americans hijacked a trans world airlines Jet with it other Persona aboard to Beirut today. No one was Hurt the1 Hijacker dark haired bespectacled Christian be Ion. Told Security officials he commandeered the plane to protect the israeli Border raid last weekend in which 22 lebanese were kid naked and because he hated All that end of War is not near Belton to riddled the plane s instrument panel with bullets As the Boeing 707 rolled to a Stop on the runway at Lebanon a inter National Airport. Then he followed right other paste Ngn eight Crew members Ift three other Twa employees Down an inflatable escape Chute the Hijacker protested angrily when a police officer slapped him in he face and disarmed him As he Slid to the ground but he did not resist arrest. Belon took Over the new York to Rome flight Between parts and Rome. By then it was carrying three passengers who had boarded in the United states and six including himself who had boarded in Paris. The flight originated in Baltimore with a Stop in Washington before Landing at new York. Pointing a Rifle at Pilot Kenneth Marks. Belon ordered him to Fly to Damascus. Syria he was told they would have to Stop at Rome to refuel. While Airport police swarmed around the plane at Rome a fun Ticino Airport Belon held the Crew at gunpoint and refused to allow anyone to leave Quot he fired a couple of shots soon after Takeoff and ordered us to Fly to Damascus a said flight Engineer Earl Lima. Belon later apparently changed his mind and ordered the plane to Beirut. The other passenger All weft flown from Beirut to Rome a Gay a italia. Pierre Gemayel Lebanon a minister of works said the Fri Myrd two Ptero f would a be free to leave the country As soon As repairs were made. Bulletin Washington a the nations unemployment rate re-1 Maine in december at a relatively Low 3.4 per cent of the labor Force. However other economic figures continued to reflect a slowing Economy under president Nixon a anti inflation policies. The labor department reported today along with the jobless figures that employment Rose Only slightly last month manufacturing overtime hours were the lowest in two years and average earnings of some 45 million rank and file workers fell a Penny an hour to $3 11. The Bureau of labor statistics reported that total employment in december Rose 72,000 to 78,788,000 and the number of unemployed declined 82.000 to 2,628,000. A after allowance for strikes payroll employment Rose by Only 375,000 in the second half of 1969, compared with a 1.5 million increase during the first half of the year a the Bureau said. A since october payroll employment. Has been at a virtual standstill a it the National jobless rate was Only one tenth of one per cent above the Post korean War Low reached earlier in Ima the total of unemployed Rose 200,000 Over 1969, the report said. Nothing like a warm bathroom a the Ewa a Contd la at night a hundreds of water pipes froze and Many people awoke to find Thor morning hot water he family dial belongs to this faucet could t even Brush their Teeth. Staff photo diver s opinion refused in Kopechne inquest new officers new cd cers of Orr _ called tuesday night included front Row from left h. B. Cara wan installing officer John Ward Junior Deacon Harry Meredith Junior Warden Lester l. Woolard master. Jeffaro a d. Snuggs senior Warden John of Carrot Tew Deacon a. Oden. Latham installing officer Back Row from tall George w. Taylor treasurer. L. B. Wynne marshal Vernon Cheaton Junior Steward de Jones senior Steward Blake Lewis marshal George w. Farmer Secretary a a. Oden Latham jr., installing chaplain and John h. Gayle Tyler. Prior to the installation ceremony at the Lodge members attended a supper at or. De s restaurant. Photo by Vann mr8�?z. Colon Melean mrs. Mclean to become Church elder mrs. Colon Mclean will be installed on sunday Jan 11, As an Eider in the first presbyterian Church. This will be a landmark in the Century and a half life of the Church which never before hashed a woman inthe ruling body of the Church. Mrs. Mclean has been elected to1 the Post by member of the congregation a because of their Confidence in her judgment their appreciation of her Many years of devoted and unselfish service and their recognition of her great Pauline Berry maj Ean the daughter of the late or. And mrs. Floyd. J. Berry is a third generation member of this Church. She was born in Washington educated in the local schools and at Converse College Spartanburg s. C. She is married to Colon w Mclean prominent businessman and is the Mother of one son c. W. Mclean jr., principal of the John a. Wilkinson High school at Belhaven. Prior to her marriage she herself was a teacher. Mrs. Mclean s record is As follows a Circle Leader Many times a sunday school teacher for years and recently superintendent of the sunday school committee chairman and Infin Tum president of the women of die Church on More than one1 occasion treasurer of the women of the Church treasurer of presbyterian president of Albemarle presbyterian treasurer of the North Carolina synodical business manager of the synodical training school trustee of the presbyterian Home for children at barium Springs trustee of the William Black Home at Montreal. Her greatest contribution was see presbyterian Page 8 Edgartown. Mass a judge James a Boyle refused to allow testimony that Mary to Kopechne might have been saved of sen. Edward m. Kennedy had summoned help promptly it has been Learned ski diver John Farrar who had expressed that opinion publicly. Was permitted to testify Only about his role in recovering mass Kopechne s body from Kennedy a submerged car on Chappaquiddick Island last july 19 the information came from a courtroom source at the secret Kopechne inquest which ended thursday after 34 Days of testimony Quot the Law Quot the source said a is interested Only in fact not conjecture theory or casual opinion thais the Way this in-1 quest was conducted right Down the Kennedy and his Legal team had considered Farrar a testimony the crucial Point of the inquest which sought to determine whether the 28-year-old Washington Secretary s death called for criminal proceedings. Judge Boyle will give his Opin Ion on that in a report to the Superior court along with the transcript of the inquest. Only when All Chance of criminal prosecution has passed can the report be made Public the Massachusetts supreme court has ruled % 5, the attorneys had carefully prepared rebuttal testimony and a consulting firms report to the effect miss Kopechne could have lived less than a minute after the car toppled from up lighted Dike Bridge no matter How soon help was summoned. Farrar had said the victim could have survived in an air pocket in the overturned car. Record cold weather holds state in grip by thu associated press record breaking cold weather continues to hold North Carolina in its frigid grip a Large dome of Arctic air which covers Moat of the country East of the Rocky mountains sent temperatures plunging to record Low thursday night a Low of 1 degree at the Raleigh Durham Airport this morning is the coldest tempera Ture recorded at the Airport since the weather stat Torr was established there in 1944. The weather Bureau in Charlotte said the Low of 4 recorded in the City is the coldest temperature Ever recorded in the City on a Jan 9th, breaking the old record of 8 9 established Back in 1886 other overnight lows that Are records for the Date include 2 at Greensboro. 14 at Wilmington and 16 at Cape a Hatteras overnight lows in other spots included 4 below Zero at Asheville 4 at Hickory and 3 at . Gusty northwesterly winds circulating around the Eastern Edge of the Arctic air mass and flowing Over North Carolina have added to the bitter cold. Frigid temperatures Are expected to continue through tonight. But the weather Bureau says some moderation in the temperatures is expected Satur Day generally fair skies Are expected. For most of the weekend i however a storm system that was Over the West coast today and a weather disturbance expected to develop Over the Gulf coast May result in some precipitation in the mountains by sunday evening. High temperatures thursday afternoon were mostly in the teens Over the Western sections and in the 20s Iri portions by Peter a Nett a or Wilri press writer Saigon a North Viet ram s 21 million people on a War footing for nearly three decades have Horii told by their most prestigious military Leader that Victory a still not near and that the War can be a Apar Tad to continue indefinitely. A this unusually sobering View of the War was presented in a Serif s of seven essays published in s Hanoi newspaper in Deceron her they were by defense minister to Nguyen Gap the Victor of pen Bien i to senior is rate Girt for me War m the South. And a contender for the Power seat ii Hanoi left vacant by the death of president to Chi Minh last year Gen gup s pronouncements Are rare experts in Saigon compare these seven essays with Gupt a famous people s War. People s army speeches of the 50 that became a sort of textbook for guerrilla warfare1. They also compare them with his a big Victory great task articles of i9k7 in that they Are a major formulation of com my nist party military doctrine in the Vietnam War. Rut whereas a tape a previous two works rang with Confidence and were Flavoured with the taste of ultimate Victory the december essays Are Low on patriotic Fervour promising more1 of the1 same grinding conflict that has already Cost the lives of half a million North vietnamese troops and asking for even greater sacrifice Quot in general the process of a protracted1 struggle he wrote Quot is that of successively attacking the enemy gradually repel Ling him partially overthrowing him defeating every none of his strategic schemes gradually scoring victories and moving toward defeating him completely Quot this new of the War is hardly the clearcut progression that Glup Ipa led out Iff is people s War. Peak tfx of Quot afthy1 speeches and it seems that one theme of the december essays is his desire to provide the intellectual underpinning for the strategy now Tsing followed by his forces m the South vietnamese War front the entry of american ground troops into the War in 1965 snatched Victory from a Viet Cong people s army that had dutifully followed All Giap a maxims for insurgency the tet offensive launched in february 1968 but Iho Viet Cong and North vietnamese forces badly battered american resolve Rul Quot two years after that major Quot Effort. The United states still has Large numbers of forces in Vietnam and in addition is attempting to build the vietnamese armed forces into a formidable military machine. The Viet Cong Are being pushed into the Hills and across the Borders the North vietnamese troops deployed along the Frontier Are bloodied every time they move from their base Camps body found Roanoke rapids. N. C. Api a the body of a 16-year old who had been missing since sunday was found thursday in Woods near his Home a a Halifax county sheriff thu bin Daniels identified the youth As Richard Long Daniels said death was self inflicted Thieu says u. S. Troops will be necessary in Vietnam beyond 1970 by George Esper associated press writer Saigon apr president Nguyen Van Thieu said today american combat troop will be needed in South Vietnam beyond 1970 to protect remaining . Support troops and to Aid the Saigon governments forces. Thieu a statement to a news conference contrasted with Hopes expressed by some . Officials that All combat troops might be withdrawn by the end of this year a not All combat troops will be withdrawn in 1970,�?� Thieu said a because we have not enough combat troops for 1970 to replace All combat troops of the United state. A secondly it la very imprudent to withdraw All . Com Bat troops while Many . Logistical and support troops remain in to do this Obj cd said would be running., the risk of North vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks on the logistical bases. President Nixon already has w i t drawn 60.000a Meric a n troops both combat and support and another 50,000 Are scheduled to leave by april 15. This will lower the authorized . Troop strength in Vietnam to 434 ,000. Thieu said Money and mate rial Aid Are needed from the United states to raise the pay of the South vietnamese armed forces and thus boost their morale. A we have a plan a Thieu raid. A we Are working with the . Embassy Here and the . Command. I cannot Tell you the Content of that plan. But i listed All of our needs not Only for military equipment but also for funds and More particularly the material help to improve the condition of life of the vietnamese soldiers and their was you know we Are in a difficult economic situation. The soldiers and their families have a very Low salary. They cannot have an adequate condition of life. So that affects the morale of the troops in Thieu added that his troops also a need time for training we need time to provide leadership for new units. So i repeat the strengthening of vietnamese see War. Page 8

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