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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - July 16, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather scattered Shower and Thunder Lorms tonight. Partly Cloudy Friday continued warm hut less a timid. Highs me. Lows mid. 70a. Washington daily news established 1909 ten pages Washington North Carolina. Thursday afternoon. July 16, 1970 if you do not get your paper ,. Dial ma-z145 Het wean a a an of clock and one will be delivered. To you daily except sunday u quotas on county commissioners expected to backtrack on medicaid Corn used to hide marijuana Pantego Man arrested on marijuana charges James Spencer under arrest russian troubles Kremlin revolt May be brewing by William l Ryan a special correspondent the Kremlin chiefs provided observers this week with reason to wonder whether a rebellion against the elders is slowly shaping up at the top of he soviet Power Pyramid Leonid Brezhnev the general Secretary of the communist party unexpectedly reversed himself. On july 2, in a Long speech on the shortcomings of soviet agriculture he said the 24th communist party Congress would be held before the end of 1970. On monday 11 Days later t iss announced that the party scentral committee had voted to hold the Congress next March three months after 1970 ends this suggests that Brezhnev was overruled by others. Party statutes require a Congress every four years but this statute has been repeatedly violated. However there Are other statutes which could be embarrassing to some top leaders. In 1961, when Nikita Khrushchev was in charge he revised the party statutes so that he could fire anybody who got in his Way and at the same time expect to keep himself at the Helm. Khrushchev a new rules duly adopted by the 22nd Congress required that not less than a Quarter of All Central committee members be replaced at each Congress. Nobody in top ruling bodies including the presidium now called the Polit by than three consecutive terms. That would have ruled out Khrushchev too except for another clause which said that members with a particular Quot talents could stay in office indefinitely. A Khrushchev was ousted in october 1964, possibly on the Legal basis provided by his own statutes in March 1966 the 23rd party Congress decided Quot there will be a systematic renewal of the composition of the party organization but did not go into specifics. The suggestion was that there would be some revision How much was not Clear. In recent years there have been hints that the party slower ranks were pressing those at the top to open the avenues to Power even before the 1966 Congress some party sources were deploring a tendency toward automatic re election of leading figures Only three of the 11 members of the ruling politburo Are under 60 the average age erf the 11 is 61 that Means there has been Little turnover at the top and not much encouragement for younger men. Brezhnev has been speaking with much authority lately chewing out ministries one aft. Or another for poor Industrial or agricultural performances. Apparently Brezhnev wanted the party Congress in 1970 fir a Quick reconfirmation of his leading position delay could provide tiny for formation of al it see Kremlin. Page 7 Pantego a state Bureau of investigation agents following a tip went to the Home of James Spencer 42, Here wednesday seeking marijuana and found the illegal Plant being cultivated along with Corn in a half acre Field behind Spencer a Home where they also found marijuana seeds and four pounds of the Plant. Spencer was arrested at his Home and taken to Belhaven where he was released after posting a $5,000 Bond a preliminary hearing is scheduled in Washington on july 21. It was the second Field of marijuana to be found and destroyed in Eastern North Carolina by the ssi in three Days. On monday near Enfield officers seized a Field which contained 87 marijuana plants. Doug Phillips one of the ski agents in on the arrest explained that Spencer was suspected for some time and had been involved in other illegal activities in the past. Phillips said the tip was received from a Man whose information had been Prev Souly found to be reliable. Quot this is the Way we oftentimes get our information Quot he informer a Law a enforcement official. Phillips related that the ski agents went to Spencer a Home and found he and his wife. They searched the House locating the approximately four pounds of picked marijuana along with a pint of seed in a Jar. Suspecting cultivation the officers then searched Spencer scorn Field and found the Plant growing in rows spaced several feet apart alongside the Corn. They pulled the plants up by the roots and compounded the remainder. Marijuana seeds Are relatively easy to come by in Eastern Carolina according to Phillips who explained that the a soil and Clin i in this part of the state Are unusually Good for marijuana cultivation. A the stuff is readily available Here a he said adding that what very often happens is that it is grown Here taken up North where mfr in a packaged Quot and then brought Back Down into the state to be sold. Phillips said the vast majority of those dealing in the drug Are Quot Shady characters Quot or those who have previous records in smuggling operations the agent expressed his a appreciation to Deputy sheriff Sherwood Sawyer of the Beaufort county sheriffs department for his assistance in the investigation of the Spencer Case. Board gives Okay for study Raleigh apr the social services Board has authorized a study of the states assuming the counties share of welfare costs a if funds for the study Are available. The Low bidder at $34,000-136,-000 was Booz Allen and Hamilton of Washington . The Board wednesday also said the state Purchase and contract division must approve the study. Foreign Oil a to continue by Edmond Lime ton associated press writer Washington a House tax writers have wrapped up a preceded breaking Bill to limit by. Ronti Fuir in a tha present system of quotas on foreign Oil. The house1 ways and Means committee completed its Basic decisions late wednesday on the protectionist Hill which Breaks with the1 country Freer Trade policies dating to the new Deal of the 1930s., Oil imports Are subject now to quotas under National Security legislation Broad enough to allow the president to use other control methods As the committee was finishing its report the s Tate Depagt me mtg Stop economic expert was forecasting the possibility of a business War Between the United states and. Its main trading partners Quot there is a danger of Trade a War if everybody gets into an Eye for Eye policy a Nathaniel Samuels Deputy undersecretary of state for economic affairs said in an interview the Basic trouble. Samuels said is an increase in protect a Hist sentiment All Over the world. A the question is can we contain it a he added. He referred to a fear that the european common a Market might retaliate perhaps by imposing heavy duties on american soybeans should Congress approve textile import quotas proposed by the ways Aik. Means committee ways and Means proposed tuesday quotas be established on textile articles and shoes the committee plan would allow the president to order quotas on other imports deemed to threaten . Industries the committee s language on Oil imports requires that Only quotas be used in control of imports under the National Security legislation leaving the president free to determine the level of quotas a Cabinet committee in a split decision had recommended president Nixon shift to a to Riff in st Fth tsp Nixon has kept the matter under advise ment ordering studies by another group. In another decision a mme Day the committee gave the president authority to increase imports of articles despite quotas when he finds the Supply in sufficient to meet . Demand a reasonable prices. Meanwhile the american footwear manufacturers association challenged estimates that costs of some consumer a tides might Rise As much As 30 per cent if the quotas Are put into a the unrestricted flood of shoe imports Over the past five years has not been accompanied by any Price association chairman Hadley Griffin said in a statement he added a import quotas do not mean a restriction in Supply Scott handed Ball in w Elfare revolt ra1jhgh at a Hie social item View Towd Quot a a nor Earl it to gov Bob Scott decide which of two Quot drastic a Linns the state should take to Force it twisting counties to anti up sufficient funds for wife Tore programs Board chair i in into Jordan. Ian ii in jeopardy if a to room not to inc up the Rod Eta Una a \ the state will have intake More drastic action than in the past in Omle Duhai a Case the stale it might against Jones county last sept Ember a not Quot yet come to trial Jones and meeting scheduled saturday it i Wivi a pm Kwh mrs Ursula. F. Loy Library gets new librarian mrs. Ersula. Fogleman Loy wednesday succeeded mrs Rana Harding Walker a librarian at the George h. And Quot Laura a Quot Brown Library Here mrs. Walker retired after serving at the Library since 1956 announcement of the appointment was made by the Library s Board of trustees. Mrs Loy has been a resident of Washington since 1960 when bar husband the late William h. Loy came Here to be associated with the Western Southern life insurance company. Mrs Loy. Better known to her Many friends As sue is a native of Randolph county. She is the daughter of the late Rev. And mrs l. W Fogleman she was educated at Eton Motte be and at fast Carolina University it was at ecu to fact a received her training in Library science sue Loy it already Well known to the patrons of the Brown Library having had seven years experience serving the Public there recently she has been serving As librarian at the John a Wilkinson High school in Belhaven mrs. Loy has three children to mrs Earl Rountree of Sunburst a registered nurse a in Bill recently returned from duty in Vietnam and Eric a student at the Washington High school aau Lii awl t Lwy i Steps when to three other no Tiem a fined tour Maii Titok editor the Beaufort county Board of apparently is Mug to backtrack a under protest on. Its position not to fund Medican after the end of Ata Lythe state in Orpet for it to keep 1275 million in pc Deal funds Are 11 i taking court a set top against recalcitrant counties or 2> cutting off then state welfare funds the boards meeting w a Cines Day came Only a Day after a health. Educ ado and welfare review team visited Raleigh and warned the tale Quot it could lose All Federal welfare funds if Hie counties did not come into compliance we have reached the Point now where we Auto do some thing extreme Quot in order to Safe guard the Federal Money for counties that Are tiling to put up their share of the funds Quot Jordan said Quot losing $275 Mill n is a right big risk to run for a fat of our limited resources 1 think the governor is going to tie extremely concerned when he sees this Money for needy a North Carolin year to put up Money for a work incentive program win to Tram welfare mothers and find them jobs Quot the Federal investigating team asked Quot some right pm harassing questions Quot about the delay in the Jones Case. Jordan recalled he urged Deputy ally Gen Robert Weathers to seek a special court term to expedite the ease Quot the delay Here has made the situation much want with a number of counties following junes example because a Bat count got away with it Quot Jor Dan said. A instead o four counties out of u refuting to participate in the win program six have refused to participate this year they Are Beaufort Graven Forsyth Gaston. Guilford and Jones a seven other counties have not a see state Page 7� b. L. Foster passes today Sherm Meece a a photos by Latch head Susan Smith Tel Hafft Juipi of Tod who again Beach died this morning in the n Beaufort county Hospital in Washington following a lengthy illness. He was a retired merchant. Graveside Quot services will in held saturday afternoon at 2 e clock in the rider Hill cemetery with Willie Murl cordon officiating. The body will remain at the Paul funeral Home in Belhaven and be taken to the grave site at a he funeral hour. 111 swim Back if i have to 59 see Trade. Page 7 or Foster a native and lifelong resident of Pamlico feb Ach he was a member of the waders Point pentecostal holiness Church. 11 v 1 Leaf growers g v ote t Oday Raleigh,. A flue cured tobacco growers in five states voted today on whether they want their acreage Pound age production control Ami Price support programs continued three More years. The flue cured states Are North Carolina Virginia South Carolina Georgia and Florida tobacco spokesmen have described the referendum As one of the most important in the history erf the tobacco production control and Price support programs and asked for a vote of approval. At least two thirds of tip growers must vote Quot yes a for the programs to be coating vied. In addition flue cured grow ers in North Carolina and South Carolina voted on whether to continue to assess themselves to support tobacco associates inc., which works to boost the overseas Sale of flue cured tobacco. His wife mrs. Minnie Irene Sawyer died in 1963 surviving Are one son Windell Foster of fit. Al Belhaven and three daughters. Mrs Earl Guthrie mrs. Dur Wood Potter both of it. 1, Belhaven and mrs Ronald Talley of Virginia Beach a. Five grandchildren a one brother Weslie Foster of it. 2, Belhaven and two sister mrs John Roy Foster and mrs. Frank Braddy both of it 2. Belhaven. Paul infant Dies today amp Belhaven a Dawn Aleene Paul one year old daughter of Darlene Keyzer and Dee Parij part 1, Pantego died this morning in the fungo District Hospital. Funeral arrangements Are incomplete and will be announced by the Paul funeral Home Here by i Walker. Or ugly editor Quot by to to it it for inv be pit about a to Send his daughter off on a six week Miudo eur of Europe much less plunk Down the substantial sunt Tefu Oil $1,560 without first checking m o the company both hts daughter and his Money would be entrusted with a concerned father and practical business Man. Bob. A local forester and resident of Honey put Ofago Chect edly la the reputation and financial status of world Academy foreign tour inc., a company based a Cincinnati he looked the company up in Dunn and Bradstreet a financial publication and even contacted education officials in Raleigh his daughter was assured at Meredith College in Raleigh that the company provided excellent Touana. After satisfying himself Bob wrote out a Check for the necessary expenditures helped his daughter Excil a prepare for a Quot once in a lifetime experience Quot and he and his wife hugged and kissed her off july 1, Happy at the Chance she was getting seven Days later Bob had a dejected disappointed mad hurl and tired daughter Susan on his hands. The company he had so carefully checked out had declared bankruptcy leaving approximately 3,000 students stranded in Europe including Susan and r Sherry Meece also of this City Sherry the it ought i of or and mrs. Fred Meece of 3th st was in France at the time of bankruptcy both girls were Lucky m that their plane fare Home had been paid for and was arranged by the company under a be surf Quot order to return the children As soon As possible Susan and Sherry were Back m Washington last week with hardly enough time in Europe to adjust to the time change the reflections of the Girts presented an interesting contrast. Sherry a High school student who got at least five plays in Rome before the bad. News seemed much More resigned to the situation she said she was very disappointed but stressed the things she did get to see like Pompeii the ancient City destroyed by a Volcano and the Vatican where she saw the Pope first hand Sherry left for Europe june 28 and landed in Rome. After five Days there she travelled by Ous to Milan for a Day and Shefi to Switzerland. Everything had gone smoothly until Swit Zerland. When her group arrived in that country they were told that their a coma nations were not paid for but still no hint As to Why. Her group was spread out sleeping that night on the floor in the lobby and anywhere they could see girls Page 7� a Sujon y of members in heated at an informal session Tost night that they would vote to increase the 1976-71 tax rate by Sofir rents to finance the �unify8 Shan of the1 medical Aid program boat during this Forrai \ ear or As far As such an appropriation will go. They instructed the clerk to Post notice of plans tor an official meeting to be held saturday morn my at o clock to approve a tax rate hike from $1 56 to to Tat and to Amend a motion passed in july 9 that the payments honouring medicaid fills be stopped of the end of july the a h Rati Tod been apr proved by the Board in the preliminary budget with a sit cents of the Levy included for projected medicaid expenditure. Hut when the budget was adopted Only a two cent Levy was included to cover Coats through july. Members indicating they would vote for the change were m d Whisnant onic Boyd and Jack Swindell Boyd and Swindl d had previously voted against funding medicaid after the end of july but All the commissioners indicated their continued concern about the spiral my of Modt cd Ami Velci a protest i in. To a tight a a it up Poi l in i what they Calk d at Quot open ended Quot program the informal meeting had a been called by Clirman Alton Cay ton to find out whether members had hanged their minds about the medicaid Issue and to present to the area s legislative representatives rep 1w r Rol Wtson and Senate nominee Ashley Futrell a request to seek modifications in de program the Matin game amid these developments Quot. A a meeting of -4he com miss loner in Raleigh tuesday with state social services of to Cunt arid a a kit re go Wiedt rat review team from the depart ment of health education and welfare at which time the possibility of Legal action by the state to Force participation was Raiani a a growing to pressures and protests from medicaid recipients about the proposed cutoff of medical Ait prospects of providing for medically indigent patients a Eide turned out of nursing Homes without Federal Aid continued projection by Hospital officials that the Beaufort county Hospital would soon be in financial difficulty if it lost As Cash receipts Money being taken in for services to medicaid patients a county attorney William Mayo told the Boa appropriate sufficient funds for the under existing Law. He pointed out that the county a position in the event of a court Case would be much better if it appropriated the $69,000 As recommended by the state rather than Lake the Chance of Gertig along far several months on the Money from the two cent Levy made to carry the program through july Mayo also said it would be better to appropriate funds for the 1970-71 fiscal year rather than take the Chance of having to appropriate twice that much next year to cover both years should the county lose the anticipated court suit which w Ould result Iron failure to vote the county a share erf funds. The commissioners indicated that they believed the $69,000 would not be enough but expressed the Hope. That legislative action might ease the Burden on the count is before next june however. Mrs Betty Agnew county director of social services pointed out that while Costa did Rise during the first six Montos it of uti Eratico of medicaid expenditures did not Rise above the budgeted Funda. Mrs. Agnew said the county see medicaid Page d

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