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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - June 18, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather hot with partly Cloudy skies through Rrthur. Cd inf of Thun trib Nfn till evening in Friday a a a tonight 70k Hiah Friday manily in my Washington daily news if you do not get your paper. ,. Dial 948-048 Between a a and 7 00 o clock and an will be delivered to you established 1909 vhf noes Wash Imp Tom Nowith Carolina. Thiu 9 so a y afternoon june in 1970 daily except sunday same w Oes mayors cry in unison consumer Price Index reports monthly to pinpoint troubles by Michael j Sniffen associated Erraa writer Denver Apt a whatever their political affiliation no matter where they come from Moat american mayors of Large cities rtt Olte a Simitar Litany woes unemployment a grow ing narcotics problem race relations and no enough Money to better the Quality of life in their communities the Only differences a listener hears while attending the to tuft conference of mayors meeting Here Are opinions on How Best to solve their problems for instance. 10 mayors were asked the following question a what is the most serious problem facing your City today an How can it Best be solved a Here Are their answers Carl b Stokes of Cleveland Democrat i Quot unemployment. Obviously i d like to see a healthy Economy which would be Able to absorb people in a natural Way in finding jobs. In the absence of this being done. I feel there is a responsibility on the government to furnish jobs. There have to be massive Public works programs at this time a Richard c. Lugar of Indianapolis Republican j a maintenance of full employment is our Basic problem More so now when the problem is National in scope if we can reach full employment we will have mobility people Able to afford private housing and less need for Public support. To the extent we do not have full employment we will have Many More problems a your prime solution is to seek new Industry for Indianapolis we have had help from Federal programs hut realistically we re not so politically favored in Wshington and we better have the ability to maintain it on our own a Wesley Uhlman of Seattle Democrat a your single big Gest problem is unemployment without question our Economy revolves around the Boeing company and its employment has gone Down from 102,000 last year to 42.000 they Tell us by the end of this year a it is absolutely necessary to constructively criticise the Nixon administration hopefully into changing the policy that in order to control inflation we1 have to have some unemployment i done to agree that its a healthy thing to have 5 million people unemployed Quot John v. Lindsay of new York a right now the problem Moat pressing on us is narcotics. Its immediate its big its largely unsolved. We re experimenting but its a very complicated and very big headache for Uay and a very dangerous thing too. Quot a solution has to be both in Law enforcement and in rehabilitation i. Lindsay a registered Republican ran and won on the Liberal party ticket. By Neil Giu Niide a labor writer Washington api a every month 240 men and women fan out in 5 cities Large and Small across the land to find out How Srdich you re paying to bring Home to Bacon and a lot of census info if you have not been counted in the Pansus Call 946-3544 immediately. A we know it just is not Bill Abeyounis executive Secretary of the Washington chamber of Commerce and Edward a. Wyatt City manager erf Washington today expressed their dismay and disgust with the Beaufort county and Washington City census preliminary reporto. The preliminary reports on the population count dropped Beaufort county from 36.014 in i960 to 34.641 in 1970. And in the City of Washington the preliminary count gives the City today 8,633 As contrasted with 9,939 in 1960 and 10,175 in a special census taken in 1966 a we know a lot of our people have not been counted says messers Abeyounis and Wyatt. We Are strongly of the opinion that Beaufort county has gained population and we know that Washington has not lost 1,542 people in four years they added because of the great Shock and total disbelief All out efforts will be made immediately to round up All those who were not counted in the census both in Beaufort county and in the City of Washington. A special Telephone Bureau has been set up to be manned 24 hours per Day around the clock sunday and holidays in order to do something immediately to Correct the count. The Telephone number is 946-3544. Every resident who has not been counted is urged to Call this number immediately. It residents pave census form not handed in then someone Wilmit the caller and pick up the forms shortly. The joint project of the City officials and the chamber of Commerce is taking on almost emergency proportions it was pointed out. And it is hoped that other groups such As the Belhaven chamber of Commerce and clubs or organizations in other communities will join the Effort if you have not been counted Call Washington 946-3544. John r Brinson Belhaven names new manager by Elizabeth g. Windley Dally news correspondent Belhaven a John r. Brinson has been named town manager Here. Brinson replaces Richard Pinner whose resignation becomes effective on june 30tb a Belhaven native or Brinson graduated from Slanesville High school and attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He has been employed by the Blue Channel corp. Here and worked with the Morrison Railroad in Buffalo n. Y. Until 1957 when he returned to Belhaven. He is married to the former Matilda Bragg of meets v i if and they have four children Johnny of Plymouth employed by Weyerhaeuser Ben a student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Jennifer a student at St. Andrews College Laurinburg and Caroline a freshman at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in other actions a a delegation of citizens from the Shio Yard Section to reared and presented a petition in opposition to the locating of a crab factory in the neighbourhood the Board although it Felt it had no jurisdiction voted to table the matter until the next regular meeting on july 6 when All interested parties might be present for the Reading of the petition. A mrs. Barbara Voliva gave the following report for the recreation commission recommended to serve on the 10 a see Belhaven Page 10 other items they Check the prices in -18,000 retail stores and service establishments from shopping Center supermarkets to the Little laundry on the Corner. The figures they compile Are sent to the labor departments Bureau of labor statistics which uses them to put together one of the nation s most vital economic indicators the con Sumer Price Index this is the monthly report that shows the Price trends for food clothing housing transportation. Medical care and recreation that pinpoints the Pinch you feel As the Cost of living continues to Rise a Quot tin the whole. I Quot to is quit an accurate said or Joel Popkin the Bureau s assist ant commissioner for prices government statisticians figure on no More than a one tenth of one per cent error in the Fig a fire. I the Bureau has been compiling the living Cost reports for 50 years periodically updating the items sampled to account for changing spending patterns and new products the latest Pofi Sion was in 1964 the Index lot the past year has shown a steady Rise in prices at a Fate of 6 per cent or More the won t inflationary 111nib in 20 a a re Pron. in per and con terms of Index Points and cant Gas not in dollars Cento hut can he. Readily Vertex into Monc terms. For instance the april Index for All items showed a climb of eight Index to a a it. March up from 133 2 Toj 134 this represented it per cent for a month. The Index figure based on a spotlight Willi not turn on individual violators by Sterling f. Green associated press writer Washington a it a administration leaders seemed Bent today on de emphasizing the inflation alerts portion of president Nixon a new anti inflation plan saying the White House wont turn its publicity spotlight on individual Price boosting companies. And congressional reaction gave ample evidence that Nixon a wednesday broadcast on the state of the Economy will not quiet the clamor in Congress for a tougher anti inflation Clamp Down. While Republican senators generally endorsed the Nixon proposals. Democratic confessional leaders branded them a a gauge. Soothing rhetoric too Little and too economic advisers to Quot pre pare a periodic inflation Alert this he said would Quot spotlight the significant areas of wage and a pc increases but when pressed for details administration officials said there would lie no jaw boning a in the sense of direct pressure on individual firms or the inflation alerts it was stated would not Deal with specific commodity officials seemed Bent on deflecting the attention of newsmen from the a inflation alerts plan insisting the problem of productivity a Sharp decline i the rate of increase in output per worker Vas the Core of the inflation problem. Democratic National chair Man Lawrence f o Brien a a charged Nixon s productivity 1957-59 prices Means it took f 134 in april to pay for the same a Market Basket of Type rat family go Ltd and sep Iees that Cost $100 a Little More than a decade ago a companion report based on Industry payroll figures shows average weekly wages for some lit Quot million a Khz add i 111 win Ken and How they Are faring with in flatten the april report said the weekly wage of 1117 98 was up 6 cents in pay hut Down 43 cents in purchasing Power be cause of inflation the average wage was up Itu Over if Farr but Down 20 cents in purchasing Power the Price Index covers costs a to everything people buy for living food clothing Automo titles Homes House furnishings household supplies fuel drugs and recreational goods fees to doctors lawyers Beauty shops rent repair coals transportation fares Public Utility Cates the Bureau said a in pricing lawyers fees for instance a Sampler will Price the fee for a Short form will a Popkin said the Price Index also includes sales excise and real estate taxes but not income or person Al property taxes because they Are not directly associated with the costs of goods or services some items Are priced every month Over a period of several Days or weeks other items that do show too frequent Cost changes will be sampled Only Ever three months or an the various items Are weight. De fur the Index according to the estimated in Nixon announced he weft commission a is a blatant attempt to place the blame for inflation on the american working Man while ignoring corporate name a new 24-member National commission on productivity he has ordered his Council of pricing and profit policies a openly critical reactions came also from labor leaders whose cooperation is vital to the Success of any voluntary Down hold on wage Costa. Al Cio president George Meany Sug rested the presidential plans might increase Public education on economic issues but added a however 1 fail o see How they will curb inflation reduce unemployment and Cut interest rates Emil Matey Secretary treasurer of the United Auto workers dismissed the speech with the comment a i was t i understand the speech did _ _ so wonders for the f Lowers and ii w w f i i i Bushes around the White k Gall an Al Cio witness before the House banking committe attacked the Nixon economic policies today As Quot a Combina # Tion of deepening recession and �1 it Lynn in continuing inflation Quot r t Furuto estimated Porta Ore of each t food is Given a weight of 22 68 per cent of the a Market Basket Quot on the estimation that the aver age City workers family spends that much of its Budge bit food housing gets 33 20 per cent of the weight of the Index Chuhing 10 73 per rent transportation 13.31 per cent health and rec eation 19 70 per cent including 6 25 per cent for menu a care and 5 12 per cent for other goods and services the samplers Price 400 different items in All a a prices Are obtained by per tonal visit to a representative Sample of about Muon retail stores and service establishments where wage and clerical workers buy goods and services including among the establish ments Chain stores Independent a Sec consumer. Pm i 10 it capital awaiting enemy attack heavily in Holly tree gets si000 reactions labor critical were you county demo state Grant Blush less mixed counted convention set were you counted in the census a wednesday. The daily news ran a free advertisement headed a were you counted in which citizens were asked to fill in the Blanks and mail. However inadvertently no mailing address was Given. Today we learn that the census office in Greenville. N. C. Has been closed. We Are advised that those who were not counted and who fill in the question Al re printed yesterday should mail the completed forms to u. S. Bureau of census. Dep t. Of Commerce 222 South Church Street. Charlotte. N. Cd a 26262. People who were not counted in the census Are urged to fill in the Blank and mail it immediately. The daily news plans to run the questions ire again Early next week. The Beaufort county democratic convention will be held on saturday afternoon june 20, at 1 00 of clock in the county court House in Washington according to an announcement today by mrs Mary Winfield vice chairman. Lloyd p Sloan chairman is on vacation out of the state and mrs Winfield will preside Over the meeting saturday. Officers for the ensuing two years will be elected at the meeting. A chairman three vice chairmen a Secretary and a treasurer will be named. One of the above shall be a member of a minority race and one shall be under 30 years of age following the county convention the Beaufort county democratic executive committee will meet. Democrats from All Over Beaufort county Are urged to attend this meeting on saturday. Raleigh apr a 208 year old Holly tree in Pamlico county known As grand Pappy legendary cure of sick babies will be outfitted with lightning rods and Given a general sprue ing up. Gov. Bob Scott and the coun cil of state approved an Alio cation of $1,000 wednesday to foot the Bill. The 72-foot High tree was found to need pruning bracing fertilizing and Ito cavities filled the state which the tree in 1964, claims there is no larger or older Holly tree in America former gov. Dan Moore Ere ated the n. C. Holly arboretum commission to protect and in serve it. 1 folklore has it that Many years ago sick babies were passed through a Hole in the trunk of the tree and a them Well. Recently Secretary of Stab see tree. Page 10 Mansfield s moves bold strategy passes vote Bill by John Beckler associated press writer Washington a a bold bit of strategy by Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has helped Congress pass a generation Gap bridging Bill that Lowers the voting age to 18. By a 272-132 vote the House wednesday accepted the 18-year-old vote provision As part of a Senate passed Bill that also continues the 1965 voting rights act for five More years. House approval sent the package to president Nixon putting him under the same pressure that Mansfield a strategy applied to the House accept the Bill on both counts or risk fur ther alienation of the nation s youth and Ito Blacks. Nixon has said he supports the 18-year-old vote but Only though a constitutional amendment not by a simple act of Congress. He also has opposed extending the 1965 voting rights act which applies mainly to seven Southern states on grounds it is regional legislation. At the end of wednesdays Brief but emotional debate. House gop Leader Gerald r. Ford spoke of Nixon a past opposition and raised the possibility the president might let the Bill become Law without signing it. There had been earlier speculation of a veto. Civil rights groups were alarmed when the Senate at Mansfield a insistence tied the 18-year-old voting proposal to the Bill extending the voting rights. Act. A one of the most successful civil rights Law Ever enacted the 1965 act has resulted in adding a million negroes to the voting Rolls in seven Southern states its supporters feared it would be dragged under by the weight of so controversial a proposal As teen age voting. Particularly unhappy was rep. Emanuel Celler d-n.y., chairman of the House Judi Jutt Easker in mme to up Porter of the voting rights act but equally Strong in his opposition to lowering the voting age. It was mainly to overcome caller s opposition that Mansfield devised his strategy. V it worked to perfection wednesday when Celler led the fight to accept the Senate Bill although still no fan of Youthful voting. Celler said there would be no Way to save the voting rights act from expiring in August i the House passed Only the Vot ing rights Extension and followed the Normal procedure a a House Senate conference to ran see voting. Page 10 by David Burke a bus inns writer new York a it top labor leaders criticized president Nixon a economic proposals while the business Community reacted with mixed views labor spokesmen said wednesday the president s plan for calling Public attention to significant wage or Price increases would Hurt labor without reducing inflation. Some business executives and economists expressed disappointment that the president did not go far enough in the area of wage and Price controls others lauded the president s stand saying they found his speech reassuring. A president Nixon a latest pro Gram against inflation is. Like his previous policies and tactics in the economic area weighted against the american worker said Paul Jennings president of the International Union of electrical radio and machine workers. A it includes nothing. To bring Down interest rates nothing to Correct the imbalance be tween High prices and inadequate wages and nothing to nut a Brake on excess he said. Paul Samuelson. Economist at Massachusetts Institute of technology. Characterized the bulletin Washington a living costs Rose four tenths of one per cent last month. A continuing the nation s worst inflationary rate in 20 years of More than 6 per cent annually the government reported today. Costs of All major categories were up. With transportation and clothing posting the largest Price hikes in May. Said the Bureau of labor statistics. Speech As and called the idea of spotlighting wage and Price increases Quot a very weak while expressing agreement with Nikon s optimism for the Long term. Gay Jesse Werner said he regretted that the president did not Quot give More consideration to Steps More closely approaching wage and Price University of Chicago economist Milton 4friedman called Nixon stalk a Quot further Demon stratum that the president has a steady Long Range policy and the courage to pursue it despite a lot of political pressure for wage and Price controls a Washington although president Nixon has said a the great majority Quot of us forces would be out of cambo a a by a a a a authoritative sources say half fit number of american troops sent into that nation is still there the president also Luis prom i sed to have at american troops out by june 30 he repeated the pledge wednesday in his Tele Vised report to the nation on economic conditions As of wednesday however the sources said about american troops remain in Cambodia a still searching still sweeping and still removing enemy supplies Quot from the Jungle sanctuaries along the South vietnamese Border in his May 8 news conference Nixon said a the great majority of All american units will be out by the second week of the defense department has said the u s troop Cambodia reached 20.000 men soon after the incursion started april 29 phenom a penh. Cambodia a enemy troops sproed two Quot More major highways out of Phrom Vonh Nitt no Trai Lle Between thit re tuned capital and Saigon and isolating a Large cambodian Force at the military Headquarters town of Kampong Cham Highway i. Leading to say gun was Cut by Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops about 25 Miles Louth of phenom Ivanh said travellers who tru d to use the Road potentially More serious was the cutoff on a second Highway near Skourn 38 Miles Northeast of the capital this is the Only land Jar regional military. He tir Diroff a at Kampong Chan. Where two cambodian regiment Are based in pm not penh the Popula turn waited tensely to see if a threatened attack by he enemy would materialize a Buddhist Monk who it and he escaped from North vietnamese troops at Kampong spec told a news conference the communists boasted they would attack phenom penh today. Three months to the Day after Premier a on nol said his associates div posed Prince Norodom Sihanouk As chief of state. Severa Diplomat so und the North vietnamese and Viet Jln org already had scored. I propaganda Victory by the City s population Quot meanwhile panum Perth was jute britons choose today Wilson favored to win by Fred Coleman associated press writer London apr britons began electing a new House of commons today with prime minister Harold Wilson s labor government strongly favored to win a mandate for another five years of Ito watered Down socialism an extra hour of polling forecasts of sunny weather and Extension of the vote for the first time to those 18-20 years old Al pointed to a record turnout More than 30 million of the ,4b million eligible were expected to vote. V v Edward heaths. Conserva lives trailing in every nationwide opinion sampling were hoping enough key marginal districts would Buck the nation Al trend to squeak them in but three final opinion polls today predicted labor majorities of 20. 60 or 100 seats in the 630-seat commons. In the last general election m 1966. Labor won 363 seats 47.9 per cent of the vote and a majority of 96. To 253 seats and 41.9 per cent for the conservatives when parliament dissolved for the election labor s majority had been Cut to just Over 60 but Ito fortunes had taken a Sharp turn upward the Field of 1.800 candidates today also included members of the Liberal party which had 13 seats in the last House and 10 lesser parties ranging from the National front on the right to the communist on the left. A mostly Placid Campaign fought on pocketbook issues of prices wages and taxes heated up on the eve of polling Heath charged labor s policies could Lead to another a valuation of the Pound and w i son called the charge a irresponsible a throughout the three weeks of electioneering foreign affairs look a Back seat to management of the Economy the two major parties spilt on one Oversea question labor which boasted it no More on education tha.-. On defense would pull Back All British troops from East of Suez by the end of next year and use the Money saved for welfare programs at Home. The tories would keep a Token Force in Southeast Asia and say they can still improve the Home Economy by cutting out wasteful government spending. Both parties favor joining the european common Market Wilson. 54, seeks to become i see England Page 10�

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