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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - July 21, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Cloudy not a warm with Chance of showers and thundershowers through wednesday. Lows tonight 80s. Washington daily news established \909 eight pages Washington North Carolina tuesday afternoon i july 21, 1970 if you do not get your paper dial 48-2145 Between a 10 and 7 00 o clock and one will be delivered to you pah except sunday if imposed Nixon no coalition says by Douglas b. Cornell associated press writer Washington a presi Dent Nixon says the future government of South Vietnam must be selected through elections not imposed on the War torn a non a negotiators in his administration will not stand for an imposed coalition government the president said. A it must be a government selected by the people of South Vietnam a in to wide ranging news conference monday the president also said he would veto a Hill setting mandatory quotas on any imports except textiles. Such quotas he said Are not in the National interest and might set off an International Trade War a we Are an exporting nation rather than an importing nation a Nixon said. A it would mean in the end. White it would save us some jobs it would Cost us More jobs in exports that would be denied us and. Second even More important it is highly the ways and Means committee has proposed quotas on shoe and textile imports. Beyond Vietnam and imports. Nixon ranged Over a number of topics at the Surprise news conference. He said the United states has no idea of using armed forces to expel the soviet Union from the Middle East promised no a vigilante squad of department of Justice agents will Force school integration in the South predicted. Voters will turn against big spenders in Congress forecast an economic upturn for the last half of the year and said he sees Little Chance of a tax Cut during the next two years. The president announced plans for a major meeting m National defense and the defense budget at the Western while House july 27, followed by conferences on the Domestic budget for fiscal 1972. In ruling out any imposed Coa tettion government in Saigon. Nixon said he has no significant disagreement with South vietnamese president Thieu in this see Nixon. Page 8 costs up w Ashington it a it a living costs Rose four tenths of one per cent in Stine in a slight easing of the nations worst inflationary climb in 2 years the government said today. But prices of food housing clot h i n a transportation medical care and recreation still averaged six per cent above a year ago said the Bureau of labor statistics. And despite an increase of $1.85 in pay to an average of h2u.05 per week for some 45 million rank and file workers their purchasing Power was still below a year ago for the 15th straight month because of inflation the Bureau noted. Student fatally wounded in head Lawrence Kan apr an 18-year-old youth has been shot to death in the latest of a series of confrontations Between City police and about 150 Young residents of this University town. Harry Nicholas Rice of Leawood. Kan. A University of Kansas freshman last term was hit in the head during a disturbance monday night a Block from the main Campus Gate. Merton r. Olds 25, of Topeka a graduate student enrolled for summer stud suffered a minor gunshot wound in the calf a of his right leg. A Polie Manf Don Dalquist 2�, was injured when a Brick or Rock hit him on the right cheekbone. Confrontation with police have been going on sporadically fur the past year. The current series started last Friday a Day after a policeman shot. And. Killed Rick Donald Dowdell a 19-Yesr-eld negro student at the University this shooting occurred in the City a negro Section. Police said Dowdell was shot during an investigation of reports that there had been sniping in the area. Patrolman William Garrett was relieved of his duties pending a coroners inquest into Dow dells death. Friday night patrolman Eugene Williams was wounded in the Chest by a sniper police said while he was patrolling the a negro Section. Friday saturday and sunday nights youths gathered near the Campus started Small trash fires taunted police and firemen and tried to Burn Down a vacant condemned apartment House in the Block. It is owned by a University professor and be you the Page 81 w Elf Are package to Capitol Hill by h l Schwartz Iii Vimr Latzl Pren. Writer Washington a Elliot l Richardson took the Nixon administrations welfare package to Capitol Hill today needing All the mental footwork he used to impress senators in his first congressional appearance As welfare Secretary a week str a Richardson was scheduled before the sense finance committee As to turned again to the welfare proposals that have come under attack from members of both parties particularly the guaranteed an Tuai my come concept and the family assistance program committee chairman Russell b Long. D-la., said in a Senate speech monday a i am very reluctant to support. Anything so costly unless we have assurances that it is a Good National isee welfare Page 81 Womble funeral slated tuesday mrs. Clara Lewis Womble age 81, of 700 Che Smitt Street Franklin a. Died in the South Hampton memorial Hospital in Franklin monday morning at 4 . Following a Brief illness. Mrs. Womble was born near Arapahoe oct. 6, 1888 daughter of the late William Henry and Celeste Sawyer Lewis of Pamlico county. She was a member of the congregational Christian Church in Franklin and had been making her Home there with her daughter for the past 34 years. She was married to William Henry Womble of Franklin on feb 7,1907. He preceded her in death aug. 25. 1922. Surviving Are a daughter mrs. J. C. Copeland or. Of Franklin five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren graveside funeral services will be held at 4 ., today at the family plot in the Aurora cemetery conducted by the Rev. Charles Smith pastor of the congregational Christian Church in Franklin. The body will be moved from the Paul funeral Home to the grave site at the funeral hour. President still sees Bright economic future after bumps by a labor writer Washington Tapi the Nixon administration in a hat has become an almost daily twi Tine said again today the Economy it wire of brighter Days ahead although the Silver Cloud May have a Black lining of High unemployment �?the1 latest in a Peif Tifrit Roar after president Nixon vowed monday to veto any Strong Trade Bills imposing quotas on any imports except textiles Nixon skid such mandatory quo tas on other products could touch off a global Trade War Secretary of labor James f Hodgson told the joint econom k committee of Congress today the nation is moving out of its worst inflationary period in 20 years he predicted in prepared testimony slower Price hikes and real economic growth in the months ahead at the same time he said the port nation is continuing its shift anti. From wartime production to a Una peacetime Economy the mor changeover will rep Tine to pose i some in employ it ment problems Mano he said Advin his remarks were prepared Hus inc for delivery before the joint economic committee it trim n textiles after be h Japan to Sef vol broke off after 18 w Mccracken chair the Council of economic is. Predicted improved i s conditions in the second half of the year tot testimony Momian before the commit it to a rive conference monday in his Oval office said he would veto the Trade Bill now before the House ways and Means committee if it contained provisions he did not recommend 1 a mandatory . Is not in the interest of the unit cd slates,.&Quot he said a we Are an exporting nation rather than an importing nation it would mean in the end while it would save some Jota it w mild coat us More jobs in exports that would tie de Nied us he said he Only agreed to in George p Shults director of the office of management and budget said he expects Tummin employ ment rate to be about 5 per cent or slightly under on sept 1 hit a the resulted Quot shit is tin Economy rut despite Loo non Detent year and the f ment rate in i a Sec econ Slaw dowry to Job i i it backs and Many sectors of the Hodgson said drop of some is in the past test a employ it years he sex y Page by Hud additional housing units approved for mid East singing greenery a trash fire across from Carolina dairies on River Road threatened several Homes monday until firemen of done it off and let the 20-30 foot flames bum themselves out. The fire started in the Early afternoon and soon the leaping flames were singing the Lush greenery m Short lived expansions of fire. Rain and the of flute of firemen smothered the area in smoke and the fire was soon under control officials on the scene could not be contacted today for information As to Eppse or responsibility photo by Walker the mid East regional housing authority Here has received notification of approval of 255 add i Liona i units of Low rent leased Public housing from the department of housing and Urban development the authority last week received approval of 85 units for Beaufort county making a total of 349 units approved for the five county Region. Hud approvals in additional to those for Beaufort include 110 units for Bertie. 35 for Hyde. 75 for Martin and 35 for Washington the difference in numbers for counties is due to population difference and takes into account the number of units. Already available by existing authorities in some counties Bertie county with in units approved has no housing authority except the mid East. The mid East housing authority had its Start in the minds of the mid East economic development commission members jointly approved by five to nerds of county commissioners the mid1 East applications were developed after the authority was chartered on june it 1969. Having Little experience to see tot san it. Page coast to highways coast costly South vietnamese Becky grows into full Coupon x o replace cages All City subscribers who receive their daily news by Carrier Are asked to fill out the Coupon printed on the classified Page and return it to the circulation manager daily news Washington n. C. 27889. Ray Harris new circulation manager says the information will assist in providing better customer service. A your cooperation will be appreciated Harris said. Retaliating with suppression Saigon apr the South vietnamese government said to Day if win demolish the so called a Tiger cages at. The1 con son Island prison and replace them with new disciplinary cells. The cells Center of tonal controversy since two . Congressmen revealed their existence two weeks ago will be dismantled immediately a spokesman said. He added that a Survey of South Vietnam a correctional institutions will be made with a View to such improvements As atomic Energy commission comes under increased Public scrutiny editor note the atomic Energy commission has both promoted and regulated atomic Energy for a Quarter Century. Now its activities Are under increasing scrutiny As environmental concern increases. This first instalment of a four part series from the a special assignment team tells How the dec has coped with some of this dissent. 2___ by Donald m. Rothberg associated press writer Washington a the atomic Energy commission beset by increase opposition to its programs and attitudes is retaliating with tactics its critics Label suppression unneeded secrecy and personal attack. Criticism Over intertwining issues of pollution., radiation health and a safety is arising from both the emerging concern Over environment and the inherent conflicts in the Aecus dual role As promoter and regulator of atomic Energy. The bureaucratic devices used by the Agency to counter the a dissent Are heightening some controversies and threatening the Aecus reputation for scientific objectivity. A the Aecha the worst pub Lic relations since the storm troopers a commented one scientist. Many dec officials Are working to change that image but Many others provide ample evidence of How that negative image developed. For example a in Denver a state Public health service officer says when he asked the dec about reports plutonium had been found in the soil outside a nearby weapons manufacturing facility a they just said they a rather not discuss it at that a drs John Gofman and Arthur Tamplin of the Lawrence radiation Laboratory in Livermore calif., have attacked Federal radiation exposure limits As far too High. Their theory has set off an emotional name calling debate Between the dec and the two scientists. For years the Aecha had the task of Selling the Public the idea that there were peaceful uses for atomic Energy born in the Shadow of the mushroom Clouds that Rose Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki the dec faced a Public frightened by the Power science unleashed. After adjusting to the obvious potential devastation from nuclear weapons the Public gradually became aware of another Hazard radiation the potentially deadly rays emitted by radioactive material. As interest grew in pollution and the environment attention focused on the growing nuclear Industry and the minute quantities of radiation going into the air and streams. Was this the first stage of a news and particularly deadly form of pollution questions like these arose about activities the dec sponsors Are nuclear Power plants a Safe answer to the nations rapidly growing demand for electricity is there a Chance a Power Plant Accident could spew deadly radiation Over a heavily populated area will Small amounts of radiation that leak from such plants add to the cancer death toll can millions of Gallons of highly radioactive liquid waste a the garbage of the nuclear Industry be stored safely in dec depots for a thousand years the time needed for it radioactivity to die off is the dec moving fast enough to convert it from liquid to a safer solid form. Do underground nuclear blasts trigger earthquakes1 Why did the dec choose am Chitka an earthquake prone Aleutian Island for the bigger underground explosions yet on sunday May 11, 1989, the most expensive Industrial fire in american history swept through the main production building at the Aecus Rocky Flats Plant j Miles Northwest of Denver. That $50 million fire touched off a series of events that Tell a lot about dec attitudes Good and bad. The Rocky Flat Plant sits on a see , Page 8 William Pruitt passes monday William Pruitt age 48. Of Edward a former resident of Walnut Cove and an employee of the Texas Gulf Sulphur com Pany died in the Beaufort county Hospital at 4 10 Monday. Surviving Are his wife mrs Ida Pruitt. The body was moved from the Paul funeral Home to the Burroughs funeral Home at Walnut Cove. The government can afford about 9,000 prisoners Are held at am son to Miles Southeast of Saigon in the. South China sea. Many Are political prisoners and several Hundred of these have been confined to the a Tiger cages a Small cells open Only at the top in which three to seven persons Are confined the new cells said inform lion ministry spokesman Nguyen. Ngoc Huyen a will not be the same. They will be different they will be better ones a the Tige amp. Cages were first used by the French colonial administration in the mid-19th Century and the Saigon government said last year they had teen abandoned but reps. Augustus Hawkins a Calif and William r. Anderson a tit pro managed to see them and the prisoners in them when they visited the Island prison. The two congressmen and oth a Era in their party said the prisoners in Quot the cages were denied adequate food water and medi a isee cages. Page 8� Hurricane mum Fla. A tropical storm Becky grew into a Hurn Cane today and raced toward the Florida Panhandle with winds of 75 Miles an hour Hurricane warnings flags were hoisted from fort Walton Beach to port st. Joe in the Florida Gulf coast and Gale warnings from Mobile ala., to st. Mart Fla. Hurricane winds covered a Small area 20-to 30-Miles wide and Gale winds lashed an area 150 Miles in diameter. T. Moving on a northward course Becky was expected to Bend slightly eastward in the next 12 hours and Cross the coast wednesday Forenoon Becky was not a great storm but or Robert Simpson head of the National Hurricane Center at Miami said a any Hurricane is dangerous and urged coastal residents to respond to the warnings Alonso a. Buck Dies in Hampton Alonzo Alexander fuck age 73, of 1908 Baywood drive in Hampton va., a format resident of Beau Lori county died monday in the Dixie he Highway program Altes Pital in Hampton following ready behind schedule wont the an illness of several weeks _ finished until at least l978 a my a Book Vii to min to Ira i a soaring Mohta awl he Quot a. By James r a Lejk vow Sruti d a Ltd i writer Washington 1 a the nations push to build superhighways coast to coax la Zwil wind up costing three tunes what it took to put men of the Moon h Congress shoves the total expense fur the interstate Road system to $75 billion the latest figures also Randi Chocowinity y feh i it. 1897, son of the late John r. And Ellen Hill Buclke he was a Veteran of world War i and was a retired grounds Foreman at the fort Monroe army base in Hampton or Buck was married to the Lormer Eula Mae Padgett of Tarboro. Surviving besides his wife Are two sons. Alton cd. Burk of Fayetteville and Adam t Buck of Hampton. A four Brothers. I it Ayman Buck arid Walter Buck both of this City Oris Buck and Elbert Buck both of blounts Creek. Two a in to cry mrs. A. F. King of Choco witty and mrs Lila Cherry of it 3, Washington eight grand children and four great grandchildren. Funeral services held at the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home Wedy edgy afternoon at 4 of clock conducted a see Buck Page 8� _ so must double the original mate of $41 billion for the super Highway system begun a decade a and a half ago pushed by inflation average construction bids on highways skyrocketed by a record 9 per cent last year alone Ami the need for costly design changes the Federal Highway adminis Quot Bra turn last Spring sent Congress a $7o billion estimate for finish Uig the interstate program but that estimate based on two year old construction prices was outdated unrealistic and too Low according to a i u tigress ional source reflecting this the Blouse sub commit free on roads is a dishing a new Highway Bill this week that is expected to earmark an extra $ it billion in hiking the final Cost estimate 1075"billion? almost All the stunning in crease in the superhighway Mente ays. 8t--zc. Tags gives funds in 4-h Campaign Smith presents Check to Chesnutt Texas Gulf Sulphur com Feany is giving Matching fund Elp Beaufort county meet its quota for the 4-h development fund. A company Check for $700 was presented monday by Wilton Smith. Tags Public relations director to Max Chesnutt. Beaufort county Extension chairman. Another Check for $600 will be Given next year. Beaufort county had a quota of $4,000 for the 10-year Cam a sign launched in 1960 Sime 1.400 was raised in an initial efforts through operation of Concession stands at special events Selling and donations by Community clubs. It was at this Point that Texas Gulf Sulphur entered the picture the big company operating a phosphate mining and milling Complex near Aurora offered to match local Aorta in raising the remaining $26.000. Which was in effect a pledge of $ 1,300 county 4 h leaders have raised $700 to the second phase of the local Effort and Texas Gulf Sulphur has come through with the first payment on its share of the Matching funds. Efforts Are continuing to raise the additional 9990 of the county a portion and tit Ilen who wish to make a contribution May do so by. Making a Check payable to the 4-h development fund and sending it to the county agricultural la Tendon office. Texas Gulf Sulphur company is scheduled to make its final contribution of $600 after the see 4-h, Page 8

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