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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - January 10, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather inn song Dousta and warmer tonight. Fair and not a rom Irmi tonight iv24 Sun Dar mostly Cloudy and not As com in the Waart rain in cast Washington daily news Al if you do not got your paper. ,. Mal m84i46 in Twain tick Aad 7 00 o dark and Ana will Bada Livard to you. A a raw Ishad top float rao�,5 Washington. To Toita a Omowa Quot Satut oar Matt Tyty Tif a to tout figures show Consumers French claim Jet Deal not b by less contradictory goods spend More drink Levy Godwin believes move coming to scratch tax by Reeme Dart a idled press writer Raleigh a gov Bob Quot Scott who reluctantly advocated North Carolinas one a cent soft drink tax apparently holds the key to its possible repeal by the 1971 general Assembly that a the1 feeling of House speaker Phil Godwin do Gates who is opposed to the tax. He said in an interview Friday he believes a Strong move will be made to repeal the Levy if the states Economy and Revenue will permit it. A a we la know More about that at the end of the year a said Godwin. A i think the governor holds the key to what might be done on repeal. Personally in a not satisfied with the tax. Neither Are the people in my area. There Are a lot of bugs in administering he added a if it comes to the Point where we must keep the soft drink tax to provide the necessary state services in a sure the governor will say the soft drink Levy was Advocat d by Scott Only after the general Assembly refused to enact a five cent cigarette tax the governor called for and in Stead approved a two cent cigarette Levy the governor said the Money was needed to provide pay raises for teachers and increased state services the soft drink tax which went into effect oct. 1, has brought in $3.9 million so far and is expected to produce about Sis million a year. The legislature also enacted a two cent tax on cigarettes and increased the tax on gasoline by two cents a gallon. A i Haven to heard any complaints in my a Rea on the cigarette tax a a Godwin said. Gov. Scott recently stated he would not oppose a move to repeal the soft drink tax if the soft drink Industry would return its Price to the pre tax level. Earlier this week the North Carolina soft drink association announced it would reduce its wholesale prices one cent if the general Assembly would repeal the tax. Sam Whitehurst the associations executive director noted his organization cannot regulate retail prices but said he was confident two thirds of the re see tax Page 8> slight warming trend forecast for Carolina Washington a american Consumers apparently spent More Money but bought fewer goods in 1989 than in the previous year according to the. Latest figures retail sales totalled $352 i billion last year the department said Friday. That a about a 4 per cent increase in the Dollar figure Over the $339 3 it Tel sales of 1988 but since prices were up sharply in 1989. One economist explained the figures show clearly that actual sales were Down. The consumer Price Index went up 5.2 per cent for the first 11 months of 1989 the lag in purchases was most evident in durable goods such As automobiles and washing machines sales for durable goods totalled $112.9 billion a Dollar increase of Only 2 per cent Over the previous year. The 1968 sales totalled $110.2 billion. Nondurable goods such As food and clothing showed a 4 per cent increase to a 1969 figure of $239.2 billion. In 1968, the figure was $229. 1 billion. Economists saw consumer resistance to Price increases As a possible cause of the sluggish sales one expert said the figures indicate that Consumers still have considerable Reserve buying Power because of their increased personal income and the fact that families have dramatically increased their savings whether the Consumers hold on to their savings or decide to spend it could have a considerable effect on the Nixon administrations anti inflation program the government experts said. A we done to know when and if they la spend it a one economist said. Mother of City school supt. Dies in fire Bel voir a mrs Luzetta b. Lewis age 75, Mother of Jasper l. Lewis superintendent of the Washington City school unit lost her life in an Early morning fire Friday. Mrs. Lewis lived alone five Miles North of Belvoir and the Blaze which destroyed her Home was discovered about 7 30 . Firefighters were hampered by sub freezing temperatures which caused water in a number of Hose lines to freeze hampering efforts to control and extinguish the fire. Trucks from several areas responded to the Call. In addition to or. Lewis of Washington she is also survived by a son h. L. Lewis or. Who is clerk of Pitt county Superior court. Funeral services will be held sunday at 2 30 of clock at gum swamp free will Baptist Church at Belvoir. Named commander Charlotte a Brig. Gen. A. Scott Ferebee or. Of Charlotte was named this week to command the 106th division of the . Army reserves replacing maj. Gen. Ian m. Davidson who retired in december. By the associated press bitterly cold temperatures continue to dominate North Carolina s weather causing inconveniences and at times emergencies but a flight warming trend was expected to begin today. Quite cold temperatures Are expected to prevail Over the state again tonight but the weather Bureau says there will be slowly moderating temperatures and an increase in cloudiness sunday. Temperatures from the mountains to the coast remained below freezing Friday. West Jefferson had a High of 3 below Zero Friday and Asheville a High was Only 13 temperatures in most Inland sections reached Only the Low to mid 20s during the afternoon. Even along the coast temperatures stayed Well below freezing with Cape hat Teras Cherry Point and new Bern having highs of 27 and Wilmington recording a 29. During the night tempera Tures again plunged to near Zero in Many places. Overnight lows included 1 at Asheville 3 at the Raleigh Durham Airport. 4 at Greensboro 5 at Hickory 4 at Charlotte 8 at Winston Salem and 1.3 at Wilmington. West Jefferson which at 6 . Had not been above Zero for 50 hours had a Low of 14 below Zero. See weather Page 8 Sylvia s water Supply Frozen Silva n. C i a i sub Zero Tures continuing into the weekend May bring the most critical emergency in the history of this Small Mountain town of about 2,000 persons. Mayor Roscoe Poteet said Friday night a we could be out of water at any minute and since last night there has not been enough water available to fight fires should they break he called it a the most frightening thing in be Ever Poteet said the towns Mam Reservoir of one million Gallons is gone and All the lines to it Are Frozen. He said the emergency Reservoir of 250,000 Gallons was less than one third full late Friday night. 4 water to Supply boilers at c. J. Harris Community Hospital is being transported by truck. Loan approved Washington apr sen. B. Everett Jordan d-., said Friday a $335,348 loan to the Greenville ., housing authority to build 17 Low rent housing units in the move Wood estates has been approved by the housing and Urban development department. By Stephens Broening via Ocia Ted pm writer Paris it apr France indicated today that setting 30 Mirage jets to the revolutionary regime in Libya will not conflict with Basic French Poi Icv in seeking a peaceful settlement m the Middle East. Official government source confirmed the Sale Friday night but took pains to Point out that the contract forbids Transfer to another nation. Arms r enforce. The French experts said the no Transfer clause was intended to reinforce the arms embargo that France maintains against countries it considers the Middle fast Syria. Jordan and Israel. As an indication of French intentions for peace informed sources said French diplomats at the big four Power talks on the Middle East in new York will press next week for formal adoption of several key Points to Settle the conflict. Israel fears that the French weapons will wind up in the hands of egyptian presiden i Gamal Abdel Nasser. These fears were reinforced when it was Learned that three men identified As egyptian military officers were part of the libyan Mission that went to Paris in m id december to a Range the Sale. The Mission returned to Paris thursday the sources said fifteen of Frances front line and bomber aircraft will be delivered to Libya in 1971 under the terms of the agreement the sources said and the rest a Over a Long period of French officials insisted that the 50 planes were not the mirages that Israel already has paid for but that Are kept in France under a government arms embargo an israeli foreign ministry spokesman said in Tel Viv that the French Sale would provide enough arms to a Supply every libyan Soldier with his pet tank and libyans army is estimated. To number about 7.,000 Mien. In addition to the planes Tel Aviv sources said France has agreed to provide Libya with 200 heavy tanks they estimated the purchases will co6t Libya $300 to $400 million after a reporte of the libyan arms Deal appeared last month the United states expressed its concern to France about the Quantity of arms involved and the implications for . Oil interests in Libya. French foreign minister Maurice Schumann assured ambassador Sargent Shriver tuesday that the arms Sale will not harm . Interests in Libya 21 aged patients victims of Ohio nursing Home fire scientist says Pentagon kept quiet i a r i i pm in a a a Jons fremen study showing korean War atrocities in rescuing by George a Faker associated press writer Honolulu apr an anthropologist who made refugee studies in Vietnam says he gave the Pentagon documented evidence of South korean War said the report was stamped top secret and kept quiet a. Terry rambo. Now a graduate student at the University of Hawaii disclosed Friday his government sponsored research project in 1986 uncovered systematic terror by korean marines Quot scores of refugees told us the reason they had left their villages was because the koreans were shooting them a he said a 0 rambo. 29. Said hts interviewers mostly vietnamese students. Quot got so angry they want re to org mip a protest Tomm stration in Saigon to kick the koreans out at their country a he did refugees in Phu yen province located on South Vietnam s Central coast about 259 Miles Northeast of Saigon told of Korea a raids try Shah snuff vietnamese men and women civilians were picked nut at ran Dom and shot apparently in retaliation for sniper fire he said he was told nearly 200 civilians had been massacred but after reporting his find mrs to High ranking military authorities in Saigon he said a i was told not to include any allegations of korean atrocities in my research report of it would never get out of the City,.�?� in Saigon today a South k it Roan spokesman denied that korean marines Ever murdered civilians. A Mamhot a graduate or me University of Michigan and american University and is studying Here for his doctor s degree in anthropology in 1988, no was employed by human sciences research inc., a private Rete Krch firm in my to lean a. And wis sent to Vietnam to direct a research project under a $139, depart men of defense contract hts Job was to study the effect of Viet. Cong control on vietnamese peasants and learn Why they left their villages a out of rambo said Quot nearly 290 responded with various accounts of South korean atrocities a when his student interviewers wanted to organize a protest. Rambo said he talked them out of it on grounds it would Aiden Emy propaganda 1u Perry a tilth Rescue ships Exchange program Quot two chilean teachers come to county schools sinking tanker cold a dorms Boone . A when the latest cold wave embraced North Carolina thursday night and Friday the heating Plant in several women a dormitories at appalachian state University failed to operate. When its minus 14 degrees outside the girls found it mighty cold inside. In one dorm Counselor reported some windows were completely iced on the inside some coeds moved into Center Hall lounges to keep warm. But several of the most Crea Tive girls donned warm clothing and turned on hair dryers to pump warm air under bedcovers. San Francisco api Rescue ships converged today on the stricken tanker Connecticut leaking and floundering without Power in the Stormy Pacific. The coast guard reported there had been no evacuation of the 41 crewmen and earlier fears that the ship would sink were eased six emergency pumps were deliver fully by Heli copters despite f 10-to-15-foot swells and by Nightfall Friday were out water faster than it was leaking i the 676-foot tanker left los Angeles thursday night for to Kok j with 280j090 barrels of jp5 it to aviation fuel. She radioed for help Friday night reporting her engine room flooded from water pouring in through drive Shaft packing Power out and her own pumps useless the coast guard indicated there might be a Chance to restore the Connecticut a Power earlier Friday Cape Ernest Ayres had radioed that the emergency pumps had run out of fuel and additional supplies were helicopter red in. Up in seven feet of water had soaked the engine room and water. Was 20 feet deep in the drive Shaft Way. Unsafe tires being sold in North Carolina by Noel Vance associated press writer Raleigh Lapof the sex Quot press Ion Quot update at any Speed Quot Quot applies to some tires being sold in North Carolina for Highway use according to motor vehicle commissioner Joe Garrett and atty. Pen Robert Morgan. R Garrett and Morgan issued a warning Friday to the state s tire dealers and motorists against the Sale or Purchase of Quot inferior Quality farm use Only tires for use on passenger cars and other vehicles travelling the highways of the the two officials said investigation by the License and safety inspection division of the motor vehicles department Quot has definitely established the fact that a factory reject tires have been sold. In North two chilean tear tiers have Tome to Beaufort county under an Exchange Prog gun begun last summer when three students from Watauga High school in Boone Quot spent two months living with families in Chile both Young ladies arrived t a Ide one will be i Chocowinity High achoo other Bath High school my Mica a Lucero who will be at Choco will live with Wayne West Spanish instructor and mrs. West. Cecilia Walker who will be at Bath High will live with the Venters family. The Spanish instruct Quot at Bath is mrs sue Tver. A or West who picked the two up at Raleigh Durham Airport Friday morning says the chileans will be visiting in classes speaking s. At tout their native country in eluding talks to civic clubs and most of All trying to perfect their usage of English. He said they will be in the county two months. According to mrs. Tora Ladu director of the division of language arts education of the state department of Public in a traction the Exchange program Quot getting to the people Quot new demo party head prepares for Fence mending by Richard Daw associated press writer Raleigh apr the Man tapped to become chairman of the North Carolina democratic party is preparing to make a first item of business some political Fence mending. The new official Eugene Simmons of Tarboro made that Clear at a meeting with news men Friday. Without being asked Simmons took Issue with those who say the party is sick a Contention originated by the Man he a going to succeed and a claim that angered Many old line democrats. �?�1 do not believe the democratic party is sick a Simmons said in rolling tobacco auction Eer tones. A what the party needs is leadership in getting to the people a he added. A the party can to be All things to All Simmons made no direct reference to the current chairman James v. Johnson of Charlotte. But it was Johnson who first used the phrase a the democratic party is sick a during a speech several months ago. The statement so angered one of the states Veteran democrats Secretary of state Traad Eure that Eure suggested those who think the party is sick need some medical attention themselves. Simmons nomination by gov. Bob Scott expected to be approved routinely by the state democratic executive commit tee tuesday brings the chairmanship Back to the heavily democratic East where party leaders concede considerable Fence mending is needed. Simmons did no to go into detail about any special plans for the East but he did say he would be a working to bring Back into the party those who have the most spectacular Deser dons from democratic ranks in the last general election came in. The East where Many who had voted democratic All their lives cast ballots for two Republican candidates a Richard Nixon for president and James Gardner for governor and third party presidential candidate George Wallace. Johnson whose will become effective tuesday was one of the few party chairmen in recent years to come from a Section other than the East. Johnson a soft drink bottling company executive announced his resignation several weeks ago after months of speculation. A had first drawn criticism for his unsuccessful efforts to Avert a soft drink tax during the 1969 general Assembly. In contrast Simmons despite his tobacco business interests defends the states new cigarette tax also enacted by the 1969 legislature. A i think the Farmers and the responsible citizens in Eastern. See demos., Page 83 to be ordained As Church elders three persons will be ordained to the office of elder in the first presbyterian Church Here at 11 . Sunday including the first woman to Ever be elevated to the High Post. They Are James w. Bowen acting City manager Shepherd r. Grist principal of Jones Junior High school and mrs Colon w Mclean mrs. Mclean will be the first woman Ever to be ordained to this office in the nearly 150 years of the local presbyterian churches history. Also to be installed As an Active elder will be Beverly g. Moss a member of the congregation who has previously been ordained. At the same service three persons will be ordained and installed in the office of Deacon these a persons Are l. T. Harris Howard Stampley and Harry Upton. Being installed again in this office which he has filled previously is William p. Mayo changes sign Quot Goldsboro . A Goldsboro Barber l. E. Gurney was about ready to remove a sign which he had erected three years ago after being robbed of about $8.000 in Cash and belongings. The sign has the message a live been robbed a a Friday he was robbed again instead of removing the sign Burney added the word a twice Quot to it. They said details of the investigation have been turned Over to the consumer Protection division of the attorney Gener at a office and a report made to the Federal department of . Garrett said Federal officials have warned tire manufacturers a against the Sale of Quot these generally inferior tires for Highway use Quot Quot Quot of a a my la led pm writer Marietta. Ohio a fire flashing through a nursing Home killed 21 aged patients a 19 women and two men and injured. 27 persons some critically Friday Wight neighbors joined firemen and personnel of the Larmar House nursing Home in rescuing old ers among the 48 patients of it Eta is said were in the Home the injured included two. Firemen and a nursing Home employee volunteers from other communities joined Marietta firemen in Hattling the Blaze in 8-Drgree weather they were hampered by High winds ice and blowing Snow the Maze was the worst nursing Home fire in Ohio since nov 23,1983, when 63 patients died in a fire at a Home in Fitchville that Blaze was the worst nursing Home fire in the nation in the imps fire chief Bead Stehl said the cause was not known hut that the fire apparently started near the outside end of the South Wing of the Cross shaped a one Story Structure the modern Brick building stands atop a Hill on. The West Side of this Ohio River Community of 17.500 persons or Kenneth Owen. Washington county Coroner said most of the deaths apparently were. From smoke inhalation Quot Quot it was so bad. The people were so old. So frail a said Anna Hupp 23, one of the Many neighbors who helped Rescue Patton. 0 10 a Etc Jolt pvt a in the a Ftp Bur hand was there before the be men miss Hupp said Quot we broke windows and pulled people out As fast As we could after the first 15 minutes eve a Rythma that came out was charred a there weren t enough ambulances. They had to use private ears to1-take them to the Hospital Quot she said at the injured mask cousins a nursing Home employee Tater hospitalized aroused neighbors with her screams outside the building witnesses said she carried one patient irom the Home Down an icy drive and put him in a car Mildred Hall in charge of the four employees on duty at the time said she was alerted by a fire sensing device and switched on a fire alarm. She said smoke blocked her from a phone in the building and she rushed to a nearby House to summon fire then returned to help Public instruction As a language consultant recently. Under the was conceived by mrs Gabriela Gonzalez an English teacher at the University of Chile who men visited the Siete department of rescuers said the building was without Light except for Dlan students and teachers Oak Lames whip no or Quot a a a their own transportation a so a nne and some Lashot this that personal expenses White in the Host country they have with , _ s�?or�?�1 carefully selected Host families a but we two la Jinks of the building. The chilean ventors. Seven with the most severe damage in the Halls. See fire Page it. See students Page. 8 you re cordially invited to attend Man s extinction in summer of 1979 by Beverly Peterson associated press writer Honolulu apr you re Are cordially invited to attend the extinction of the human race summer of 1979, one performance Only a the invitation reads near the Entrance to the performance site is a pile of wrecked cars., and a mass of twisted Metal with a broken wheelchair topped by a pair of crutches. The conglomeration is entombed in a heavy layer of Dull White paint. The Label reads Quot freeway a collage of broken and battered household appliances is just around the Corner with a sign asking a too old to ride the Range a voices on a loud speaker Are jumbled in an argument. A. Few words can be picked out. A birth control. Do something do we have the right4lovesta Rva Tiona a Small boy looked up to his father and said a a it a spooky in Here Why is it so crowded Quot the last cubicle is Black Hodges. 30. A City planner was disappointed that arc i Tactual and planning groups had shown Little enthusiasm and. Failed to take part a in 10 to 25 years it will All be Over unless we do something about the overpopulation and Hodges said a this is a War for survival Quot 1 emerging Quot into the rest of the circus one passes under signs Hung from the ceiling. One signed Pogo says a we have met the enemy and they Are us a television sets with a live better electrically painted on the screens Are nearby the junk Art is part of an ecology circus sponsored by the University of Hawaii. The exhibit is entitled Quot Hawaii Shibai is japanese for Quot today conservation Means survival a says Tony Hodges coordinator of the exhibit a not planting Trees. Visitors pass through a series of brightly coloured cubicles which represent the world in various eras. Each visitor is counted As a population of one half billion. In the first cubicle the visitor a alone. The year is 1650. By the time the visitor reaches the cubical for the year 3930, he is cramped in with 29 others. Population of the world has reached 15 billion

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