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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - March 2, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Mem teem Washington daily news if you do not get your paper ,. Dull ms-2145 Between s a mad 1 00 o Dork and on will be a a Horred to Jroud established 1909 twelve pages Washington. North Carolina. Monday afternoon. March 2. 1970 daily except sunday mid East Egypt reports 32 die in raid by the associated press Egypt reported israeli planes killed 32 soldiers and civilians in a raid on egyptian military positions in the Central and South Ern text Farr of the s17 nil. Sunday. It was the second time in two weeks that Egypt had charged israeli attackers with causing heavy casualties Egypt said on feb 13 that israeli planes killed to civilians in an attack on a scrap Metal Plant 17 Miles North of Cairo. The announcement today by the Middle East news Agency did not say How Many of the dead were troops and How Many civilians but it said the civilians were a working with the armed forces a the israeli military command in Tel Aviv announced three raids a Croas the canal and said some planes penetrated 18 Miles into Egypt the command said All planes returned safely. There was no a to mate of the1 raids effect. In israeli occupied Gaza City military officials stud three arabs were killed and even wounded today when a hand grenade was thrown into the passport office officials said it was possible one of the dead men was the attacker. It was the second grenade attack in Gaza in a week last week one Arab was killed and 39 were injured Whan a grenade was thrown activity also was reported it a the i israeli a Abs Nese front where an israeli spokesman said saboteurs from Lebanon blew up a House in a Frontier settlement but caused no casualties it was the fifth civilian Home attacked in two weeks by guerrillas from Lebanon. Israeli officials said. Guerrillas from Lebanon also blew up an irrigation pipe at the i Sec mid East. A 8� Pompidou meeting to talk policy new York Apt French president Georges Pompidou meets today with leaders of jewish organizations to discuss the pro Israel demonstrations that have marred his visit to the United states More mass protests were sex parted today but spokesmen for the jewish groups said sunday night they a deplore any use of disorder or physical Force to sex wer French ladies out Panetta blames 4 to preserve mini skirts Beverly Hills Calif. It apr complaints arose Over the below knee skirt length called Midi but nobody did anything about it until the ladies planned poof week a were starting immediately to solicit signatures for a petition against the new ugly in feminine fashions especially the Midi a say the ladies poof which stands for preservation of our femininity and finance is the creation of two dozen women who live in and around Beverly Hills. Most of them Wear miniskirts. Time for action is Short the ladies say because manufacturers and retailers Are deciding now the skirt lengths to sell this fall therefore poof week begins March 8, when the ladies will Bear Down on collecting petition signatures. They say they will encourage both men and women to sign the see skirts Page 81 Thornburgh Dies suddenly Rev. Conway d. Thornburgh age 54, son in Law of mrs. Caleb b. Bell of Washington died suddenly of a heart attack on saturday. He was assistant Rector of Trinity episcopal Church in Arlington va., and was married in 1954 to the former miss Mary Elizabeth Bell of tins City. He was born in Alabama educated at to Lane Unive Ralty Virginia Seminary and St. Augustine Canterbury England. Surviving Are his wife a son Allen by a former marriage and a daughter Claudia Simmons. Funeral services will be held on tuesday mar. 3, at 1 00 of clock at Arlington National cemetery. Burial will take place there also. The Rev. Gary Price will be in charge of the services the family asks that no Flowers be sent. By g. C. Thelen or. Associated press writer Washington apr a recently fired administration civil rights official says four powerful White House aides Are to blame for slackened government school desegregation efforts the charges were made As vice president Spiro t. Agnew head of president Nixon a special Cabinet level task Force on school desegregation declared the panel would not a give support to any evasion of the Leon s. Panetta. Dumped by the White House As civil rights head for the department of health education and welfare also said the vice president and two senators played major roles in his ouster. The four White House aides identified by Panetta As principal architects of the adm Nistra Ion desegregation policy Ware h r. A Bob Quot Haldeman the Man who control Access to the president Bryce n. Harlow Counselor and congressional re lations expert John d. Ehr lie Liman. Domestic policy chief and Harry c. Dent no. 1 political strategist at the White House Panetta said Agnew a former Maryland governor and sen. Robert Dole r-kan., became irritated after the department a a indic Ted to Maryland its higher education civil rights program was not Good a Dole was mad because a we were moving on Wichita kan., which was a Northern system where we were Able to establish discrimination and frankly where City leaders said there is discrimination a he said. Panetta also blamed the administrations request last summer for a desegregation delay in 30 Mississippi school districts on sen. John Stennis threat to withdraw As floor Leader of the 4 see schools Page s Moon dust gone los Angeles apr a vial containing about a spoonful of Moon dust is missing the first loss in 50 displays of priceless lunar samples. Officials disclosed sunday that the vial containing 2.3 Grams of material from lunar Rock no. 50 brought to Earth by Apollo 11, disappeared the night before during a Charity affair for scientific research that included a $100-a-plate dinner. A a in a going to Call it a theft a said Steven Lawrence business manager of the Institute of geophysics at the University of California at los Angeles who arranged the display. A but i hope1 it was a joke and Well get it several persons from the Institute were with the display he said but there was no guard a was police and the Fri said they were investigating. In Houston the National aeronautics and space administration said it had not authorized the exhibit and that about 50 samples had been displayed with authorization and without a loss. Nasa assigned the Sample last november to or. George weather will of the Institute for analysis to determine its age. A much of its value has been extracted Quot Weatherill said. A but we were going to try to work on it some More. Its possible we would have found something very important he estimated the samples age at 3.7 billion years the same As other samples Analysed elsewhere. Lawrence said he and or. Willard f. Libby Institute director arranged for the exhibit at Bullocks Wilshire department store where the dinner dance was held to raise Money for two Eye foundations for research curtailed by Federal spending cuts. Informed of nasal a statement that the display had not been authorized Lawrence said a according to their interpretation that is he did not elaborate. Nasa officials said the dust could have Little monetary value see dust. Page 8 bombers drop 1,000 tons against enemy takes no immediate action after info Board receives request of huge Middle Eastern policy a Pompidou s schedule Atoo Calis for a visit to the United nations where he will Confer with secretory general ii Thant on the Middle East situation his schedule winds up it tic a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria where a major protest to planned Pompidou decided sunday to go ahead with his scheduled two Day visit to new York despite misgivings and displeasure Over hostile demonstrations in Chicago. The decision came after mayor John v. Lindsay appealed to new yorkers to a avoid any discourtesy or other behaviour that would mar this City s Devotion to the lawful peaceful Besoiu Tion of All the demonstrations Are to protest the French Sale of 110 Mirage Jet fighters to the Arab state of Libya while continuing to a nose an embargo on the Sale of military hardware to is Rael Lindsay who announced previously there would be no formal reception for Pompidou will be in Washington during the president s two Day visit. He said his Appeal did not question the right of peaceful expression of feelings. Pompidou arrived at Westchester county Airport sunday where he was greeted by about 1.000 demonstrators. He spent the night at the Home of . Protocol chief Emil Mosbacher. A millionaire Yachtsman in White Plains. In addition to the Airport protest demonstrations began sunday in new York against Pompidou a visit. A rally at Hunter College Drew 1,500 persons Sun Day night. Sen. Charles e Goodell r-n.y., told the gathering that France was playing a a reckless and dangerous game of trading arms for Oil in an attempt to regain its influence in the Middle Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton a Democrat said France a cannot deliver mirages to Israel but it had no difficulty in delivering mirages to Libya that both you and i know Are intended for egyptian Pompidou has said that if the jets get to Egypt France will revise its position toward non combatant Libya. There were rumours sunday that Pompidou would Cut Short his tour in anger Over the demonstrations but a spokesman said there had been no change in the itinerary. Both French and american officials travelling with the president said he was distressed that 10.000 demonstrators were permitted by Chicago police to Block his Entrance from the hotel and Force him to push his Way through hostile crowds. For gymnasium funds the Beaufort county Board of commissioners took no immediate action today on a request by county and Bath school officials fora special appropriation of $100.000 for construction of a new gymnasium at Bath High school county school supt Gray Hodges presented the official request of the county school Board for the Money and a delegation from the Bath school District headed by Jack Wallace. Bath High school principal backed up the Requet the school Board Resolution noted that a the present gym Nastum at Bath to inadequate to Fry Oil effectively a education and athletic program for Bath students and that Quot the present gym does not meet minimum standards for a secondary school As to size and will not accommodate a sufficient number of spectators making it increasingly difficult to schedule basketball games with Oliver teams because of inadequate facilities a 12-member delegation including school committeemen and Community leaders backed up the school Board action Thad Tankard jr., one of the railed the need for the Bath gym desperate and said if something is not Dona to Correct the situation there will be a continuing deterioration in athletics an Ltd school spirit at Bath school the commissioners who had indicated a dec is ran would be made today on building the courthouse after bids turned up nearly a half million dollars higher than the Money available said a meeting has been set with the architect wednesday night apparently a decision will be a see Hoard. Page a it by id Hgt ewer associated press writer Saigon it api a about 40 hs2 bombers pounded a North vietnamese Supply build Buti offers on High seas four new cubans . Courses Public hearings in Senate unexpected House action boosts i a chances for Nixon welfare plan by Lawrence l. Knutson associated press writer Washington a several democratic sponsored welfare1 and Bunger Relief Plant get a Senate airing this week in the Wake of unexpected action in the House boosting chances for president Nixon a own welfare proposal. Public hearings before sen. George Mcgovern a committee on nutrition and human needs opening today will focus on Pehwa the South Dakota Democrat says Are intended to put a floor under family income and provide enough Money for every family in the nation to have an adequate diet among Mcgovern a witnesses called to testify on the a hunger and nutrition Gap a to the Rev. Jesse Jackson a top aide in the poor Peoples Campaign of the late or. Martin Luther King jr., and National director of operation breadbasket. New York City mayor John v. Lindsay is scheduled to testify tuesday. Mcgovern has promoted to own a human Security plan As a Multi step measure for fighting poverty including As a key element a guaranteed monthly payment of at least $50 for every american child. The Nixon proposal which emerged last week from the House ways and Means committee after languishing since August Calls among other things for a guaranteed family income of at least $1,800 a year. Mcgovern a hearings Are seen. By some Capitol observers As an accepting the Challenge response to the Republican administration s contentions that critics of its welfare ideas never of Fer workable alter a lives. Mcgovern said his plan would Cost some $10 billion the first year compared with the administrations allowance of $4 billion. But he said the payments for children to be accomplished through the elimination of personal tax exemptions would All but end poverty among families with children. A it would also provide a critical boost in the income of Middle american families a he said. Hie Mcgovern plan Calls Atoo for a guaranteed Job for every Able bodied citizen of working age improvements in the social Security system and a scaled Down Public assistance welfare plan to provide income for those unable to work the Nixon program covers the working poor As Well As families without a breadwinner. It would use food Stamps to give a family of four an effective income of $2,400 annually and it would allow states to provide additional help with the Federal government paying 30 per cent of the extra Cost up to a pre set level. The plan would also require Able bodied adults to Register for Job or Job training and would provide Day care centers to provide an incentive for a Mother to obtain work. Four outstanding Extension courses offered by Beaufort tech Are expected to attract heavy enrolment beginning tonight it was announced Here today by Jack Cherry Dean of continuing education. Seats Are still available in each of the class offered and per sons planning to take the courses should attend the opening class great decisions Herbert Cartier is sistan professor of political science at ecu and one of the outstanding professors in the state will conduct a series of eight study discussion sessions on key foreign policy topics and great decisions of 1970. The classes will be held each wednesday night at 7 00 from March 4 through april 22, and registration will be held wednesday at 7 00 . In room 106 at Beaufort tech tuition to be paid wednesday night is $2.40 a textbook if desired can be purchased for $3 00 landscaping registration is scheduled tonight in room 119 at Washington High school for a course in landscaping. Harry Hodges will be instructor and areas covered in elude landscaping layout Yard care and maintenance shrubbery and grass selection soil types soil conditioning and planning. Registration is at 7 00 . Tonight at Washington High see courses Page 8 Sawyer rites held today funeral services were held for Curtis Lee Sawyer age 35, today at 1 00 o clock in the Chapel of Paul funeral Home at Belhaven and burial followed in Ryder Hill. Cemetery. Services were conducted by the Rev. Or Casper pastor of the Pentecosta holiness Church at Pamlico Beach or Sawyer a resident of Pamlico Beach it. 2, Belhaven died suddenly in Norfolk Friday night following a heart attack he was born december 5,1934, son of mrs. Mary Robbins Sawyer and the late William Michael Sawyer and was employed by the Gulf Atlantic towing company As an electronic Engineer. He served with the . Army in the korean conflict. Surviving with his Mother Are Toree sons Curtis Lee jr., Steven Robbins and Christopher Michael Sawyer two Brothers Harold g. Sawyer of Washington and Delbert m. Sawyer of Greenville three Sisters mrs. W h Potter of it. 2, Belhaven. Mrs yacht Crew of 5 Miami a ship radio re ports today indicated a cuban patrol boat which apparently seized an american treasure Hunting Craft and its Crew of five on the High seas had escorted the vessel into cuban Waters As the 65-foot Jocelyn a and the patrol boat moved into cuban territorial Waters just off la Isabela on the islands North. Ern coast the us coast guard Cutter steadfast watched off Shore the Cutter remained outside cubans three mile limit. The steadfast was dispatched to the Atlantic Between Cuba and the Bahamas Early sunday afternoon when the Jocelyn a commanded by . Sten Carlson of East Orleans mass. Re ported by radio that the cuban Craft was approaching it. The vessel was 15 Miles offshore the radio report said moments before the Jocelyn cos transmitter went silent the Captain reported a a they re lowering their guns on the steadfast a 210-foot heavy duty Cutter armed with a a three Inch Cannon and several machine guns reportedly was operating under instructions not to attempt an interception of the two vessels. The Jocelyn a under charter to a Washington firm known As sub mar sailed from fort Lauderdale Friday after having repairs made to its electronic treasure Hunting equipment. The equipment was to be tested during the cruise the cubans reportedly boarded it near Cay Lobos an Island i the Uki Bahama Channel North of Cuba Carlson a wife Jocelyn for whom the boat was named said she spoke to her husband thursday. She reported he told her a Shakedown cruise had been Crumpl cad and that he would Call her again in about 10 Days. Mrs. Cartoon lives with the couple s two Hildre in East Orleans. Mass the Jocelyn a left Cape cod Harbor Jan 1. Cartoon 37, said at the time he was starting a three month search for sunken Spanish Gold in the Caribbean with Carlson when he sailed last january was William Crockett 27. A photographer and Fisherman. Crockett a Bachelor is a native of Richmond. Va., and has living in Chatham mass two other members of the Crew were identified As Pat Fitzsimmons and Joe Campbell their hometowns were not known a British vessel identified As the Arethusa described in Lloyd s registry of ships As a 318-foot, 3,15-ton training ship registered in London was near by when the Jocelyn a was boarded. It remained with the boat and the cuban vessel until the steadfast arrived radio reports state department said it had asked the Swiss government which looks after . Interests in Cuba to obtain information about the seizure Washington has no diplomatic relations with Havana up extending from inside Laos to the Northern Entrance of the a Shau Valley in heavy Rains sunday and today the eight Jet dropped More than 1.0� tons of bombs on base Camps bunkers and storage areas in the Northwest sector of South Vietnam and in the adjacent area if Eastern lao informed sources said in Saigon last week that Hanoi had launched the biggest Supply operation of the mar Down the to Chi mph Trail and was moving Hund bits of tons of War materials through the 25-mile Long a Shau Valley for distribution to North vietnamese and Viet Cong troop fighting in South Vietnam another to b5to dropped $09 tons of bombs on North vietnamese troop concentrations and base Camps in the Western Mekong Delta eight Miles from the cambodian Border the strikes were concent rated in the seven mountains Region which is used As a staging and storage area by the enemy two More american helicopters were reported lost one was shot Down in the Central Highlands a mile from the cambodian Border and Ali Miles North East of Saigon but the crewmen escaped unhurt a second Heb copter carrying South korean troops developed engine trouble and crashed 15 Miles Northwest of Cam Ranh Bay timing the american Pilot and in Jung three koreans the losses raised to f.456 the number of american helicopters and fixed Wing planes reported lost in. Vietnam once Jan. 1,1961. Eight Miles South of a nang., two exp Loaive charges believed planted by Viet Cong saboteurs ripped through a to foot Bridge across the song Thanh River temporarily closing National Highway one. Military spokes men said. It was the second time in three months that the Bridge had been blown up a 30-Man platoon of South vietnamese militiamen assigned to defend the Bridge was being held for investigation presumably to determine if they were negligent in failing to spot the saboteurs who were believed to be frogman / the command reported a dozen enemy rocket and mortar attacks Between h a m sunday and 8am today including a to round rocket barrage on the a Sec War. Page 8� Hanoi exhibits defences during strikes Over City editors note the writer of this dispatch to an assistant general manager of the associated press he and to wife have been making an authorized visit in North Vietnam. Robert Ratcliff of Leonard . And mrs. Elizabeth Mason of Raleigh serving As Active pallbearers were Sonny Potter Sammy Potter Alfred Wilkins Raymond Sawyer Hugh Foster and. Macey o Daniels. / by Daniel Deluce associated press writer Hanoi a the air defense of North Vietnam by super sonic fighter planes sur face to air missiles and heavy antiaircraft artillery has been dramatically simulated to Quot a Public exhibition by North Vietnam a Peoples army. More than a million persons Are said to have attended the military exhibition which opened dec. 22. It to housed in a series of Large pavilions on spacious grounds on the outskirts of Hanoi. Although temporarily closed this week to the Public the exhibition was opened for two hours for this correspondent and to wife by special arrangement of the foreign ministry a press department. The Walls of the pavilions Are Hung with Gold Star and red flags of North Vietnam and red flags with Gold Hammer and sickle of the Vietnam workers a or Community party. A Granite statue in an outdoor Garden memorializes the Unity of me civilian population and the people s army in a fighting against the United states air War of destruction Quot said to the Chi the party cadre in charge of the exhibition. It is 40 feet High and was built in a month by student engineers. Three Large and elaborate Relief maps depict two air Battles Over Hanoi on May 19, 1967, and oct 26, 1967, and an american raid on Hon Gai a coastal mining. Locality about 3q Miles Northeast of Haiphong and 60 Miles from red China on aug. 5, 1965. The most sophisticated defense was shown for the Hanoi Battle in october 1967. Tiny models of Jet interceptors attached. To wires took off and. Flew Over the Hanoi area. Models of . Attackers appeared on other wires clusters of heavy antiaircraft artillery simulated fire with blinding lights and background sounds of explosions on the Public address system. Then winged Needle shaped surface to air missiles entered the fray rising from the map on wires to strike american aircraft which then caught fire and fell a technician in a military uniform Manipula Ted. The models and sound effects at a console. A narrator also in a military uniform described the Battle through a Loudspeaker according to the narrator 12 . Planes were shot Down before the action ended credit Tor warning the population before the first wave struck was Given to the nations defensive radar net. Credit for Downing the . Planes was divided among Jet interceptors missiles and heavy antiaircraft Batter. See Hanoi Page 8

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