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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - March 3, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather to Dinan Murm i rom West tonight Shower and Hwy thundershowers Ovar state tonight lows tonight Low so highs wednesday 70s Washington daily news if you do not get your paper., dial mfr Between it a and t 00 o Dock am one will be died to Sou. I established 1909 eight pages Washington. North Carolina tucs Oay afternoon. March 3, 1970 Dally excl Sunna 5 americans kilted reds Down 3 a copters by George Esper associated press writer Saigon Cap a Viet Cong and North vietnamese gunners shot Down three More american helicopters monday. W4nie i Fin of the enemy and five americans not was two Wilbon in were reported killed in other action arrows South Vietnam. One american was killed and six were wounded in the three helicopters. One went Down near the lao Tian Border 19 Miles South of the demilitarized zone a second near the cambodian Border 90 Miles Northeast of Saigon a and the fut Quot 14 Ellaa Quot Northwest of. Hue. This raised to 6.459 the number of american aircraft reported lost in Vietnam since Jan 1, 1961. The biggest claim of enemy casualties came from South korean forces whose Headquarters announced 81 Viet Cong and North vietnamese killed in a number of clashes along the coast from Cam Ranh Bay to hoi an. It was the koreans biggest Day of action this year and they said their casualties were a one Man killed and 11 wounded. Thirty seven North vietnamese were reported killed by warplanes supporting South vietnamese irregulars led by american Green berets near superstition Mountain in the lower Western Mekong Delta bordering Cambodia. A spokesman said the ground troops killed three More North vietnamese and there were no . Casualties. Tanks and armoured personnel carriers from the 11th a Mored cavalry regiment ran into More North vietnamese troops in Jungles 75 Miles North of Saigon. Helicopter gunship and artillery were called in and the americans claimed 27 North vietnamese soldiers were killed . School closed after clashes Lamar . Api pupils arriving at the newly integrated i a mar schools were injured today when angry a a Tica dashed with them and with Law enforcement officers after overturning two school buses the number of children injured and the extent of their injuries was not known immediately. The High school and grammar school which Are on me Campus were closed. Gov. Robert Mcnair who pledged in Columbia to a bring about a restoration of said they will remain closed until peace returns. The governor did not detail his plans but if was Learned that has ordered the Highway patrol Force in the Darlington county Community beefed up and that he is considering placing National guardsmen on duty. Mcnair said tear was used to disperse the crowd today and All was quite by 9 . There were no arrests. Mcnair said the Whites attacked the children and Law enforcement officers with chains spikes a handles bricks and rocks. One shot reportedly was fired from the group but no one was hit. The Highway patrolmen Drew pistols but did not fire. A spokesman in Mcnairs office said there were conflicting reports from Highway patrolmen about whether any children were on the buses when they were overturned. The governor called the incident a a unspeakable a and said a those who have resorted to violence against these innocent children and against the very principle of Public education have committed an act which defies All human reason and he called on leaders of the Community to help restore Calm. Gordon Cole principal of the High school said Only about 35 see schools Page 8> in 45 minutes one american Soldier was reported wounded about 10 Miles farther South along the cambodian Border another unit from the 11th armoured cavalry reported killing six enemy soldiers without an american casualty in a 30-minute fight. Ninety Miles South of Danang North vietnamese troops opened fire with rifles and grenades on patrolling american infantrymen from the America 1 divisions 11th brigade triggering a 2vhour fight. Three americans were killed eight were wounded and enemy losses were not known the . Command said seventy Miles to the North Viet Cong troops ambushed a Small . Marine patrol killing two marines and wounding three others. The patrol killed two Viet Cong. . B52 bombers kept on pounding major North vietnamese infiltration routes from Laos and Cambodia. About 40 of the bombers dropped 1.200 tons of bombs on infiltration routes base Camps bunkers and storage areas. The heaviest raids were in a Jungle a see Vietnam Page 8�lbs hospitalized with Chest pains by Richard Beene associated press writer san Antonio Tex. Api a former president Lyndon b. Johnson stricken with Chest pains was under constant observation today in his special Penthouse suite on the top of an army Hospital. Obj of is attending physicians col. Robert l. North said hardening of the coronary arteries was reducing the flow of blood to Johnson s heart and that this was the source of the pain. The physicians at. The army a Brooke general Hospital said a Here were no signs of a heart attack although they noted a minor change in his electrocardiograms which provide a graphic record of heart movements. A it they expressed concern Over a he frequency of Chest pains and said Johnson might be hospitalized for several Days. An aide termed his condition stable adding that he a continues to have some discomfort in his a major heart attack felled Johnson in 1955 when he was Senate majority Leader. He was 46 at the time. Now 61, the former chief executive was flown 65 Miles by helicopter from the lbs ranch monday afternoon following examinations by his heart specialist or. J. Willis. Hurst of Emory University in Atlanta ga., and three army physicians. The Penthouse suite was refurbished expressly for him when he became president in 1963. An aide said the Chest pains first struck feb. 20 and again last Friday night and that More pains jarred him awake about 3 . Monday. The pains recurred about 9 . Monday and again at 5 . After he had entered Brooke doctors said. North chief of cardiology at the Hospital compared the condition caused by hardening of Johnson. Page 8 funeral set for Vietnam War victim funeral services for sgt. Walter l Wilson jr., son at mrs Mary b. Wilson and the late Walter Wilson of Chocowinity who was killed in Vietnam feb 24. Will be held wednesday at 2 pm. From the Maple Grove missionary Baptist Church at Chocowinity with the Rev e. L. Fiver pastor officiating. Burial will take place in the Church cemetery with Whitfield and Whitley in charge of the arrangements pallbearers will be members of the air Force and full military honors will be rendered at. The graveside sgt Wilson was a member of Holly Hill free will Baptist Church in Greenville. He graduated in 1966 from the h. B Suggs High school in Farmville. Enlisting in the Usan october 1966he served in Vietnam for nine months. Surviving Are his Mother mrs. Mary b. Wilson of the Home seven Sisters mrs. Eva m Biggs mrs Mary Hamer and mrs. Nina Esthers of Brooklyn n. Y., mrs. Maggie Wilson of Newburgh n. Y., miss ear Lene Wilson of Durham miss even Wilson of Elizabeth City and miss Thelma j. Wilson of the Home and three Brothers Alton Ray Wilson. Andrew and Isaiah Wilson of the Home Rev. Johnson set to speak the Rev. Francis g. Johnson Rector St. Josephus episcopal Church Fayetteville will be the lenten speaker this wednesday mar. 4, at 7 a . In St. Peters Church on the subject a commitment to Chru his Church what to do Black Christian sneaks to White christians. The Rev. Or. Johnson son of an episcopal Clergyman was born in Charlestown w. Va., and has served churches in Arkansas a South. Carolina and Florida prior to becoming Rector of St. Josephus in 1960. He is a graduate of St. Augustine s College in Raleigh and the Bishop Payne divinity school which merged a number of years ago with the Virginia Seminary Alexandria a. Active in Community affairs As Well As in the diocese of East Carolina or. Johnson is a former president of the Fayetteville ministerial association. He serves on diocesan committees As a member of the executive Council the departments of Christian education and Christian social relations. Mrs Johnson also is Active with the diocesan Church women. The Johnsons have two children a son in Buffalo n. Y., and a teenage daughter. Waters r a Tes slated wed. Nichols . Mrs Lucille Carolyn Kelley Waters died sunday in a Charleston Hospital following an extend de. Illness. She was 54 years old. Quot mrs. Waters was born in Walhalla ., daughter of mrs. Ora Bagwell Kelley and the late Thomas Mcbride Kelley. She was married to the Rev. Wilbert t. Waters a native of the Pine town area., it. 4, Washington funeral services will be conducted at 3 30 tuesday from the Nichols methodist Church. Burial will be wednesday at the Waters family cemetery near Washington . At 4 . Surviving Are her Mother , two sons Wilbert to Waters or. And Thomas Cutler Waters both of Charleston. Meares funeral Home in Mullens is in charge of the arrangements. Nixon a american education in urgent need of Reform Fra report a a pvt a expanded pigeonholed lommiss10ners wite of research by Finch into action on Bath gym l i ii.-1.<i a a r r Tunem i. J Frank of Komiki to. I Hielen i x striated press writer Washington api a food and drug administration recommendation backing up an earlier White House directive to pesticide miked 4� Wrt the Beaufort county Board of commissioners voted monday to approve funds for construction of a new gymnasium at Bath High a Dubij m and when the Money v a if and when Money becomes available i or Board of com missioners Milt construct a regulation physical education plan at Standard size and Quality. Defects in mice and rats is pigeonholed in the office of health. Education and welfare Secretary Robert h. Finch. The Fra memorandum written late last december would precipitate cancellation of government registration of the potent chemical 2,4,5-t. Aides to the Secretary contend the recommendation from Fra commissioner Charles c. Edwards is based on now outdated information and is invalid because the manufacturers request that prompted it has been withdrawn. White House science adviser Lee a. Dubridge oct. 29 directed the department of agriculture to ban the chemical by Jan. 1 unless the Fra had in the meantime established a residue level in foods. Dubridge acted in response to a government contracted study that linked feeding of the chemical to birth defects in Laboratory rats and mice other reports blame heavy use of 2,4,5-t As a defoliant in South Vietnam for an epidemic of human miscarriages and Girth defects. Dubridge a order has not been carried out the agriculture department says because the Fra and hew have failed to Jorv Aat a recommendation on residue Levels for their part aides to Finch say no recommendation is Possi bet until further Laboratory investigations Are completed they complain Dubridge overstepped his authority and know Edge in setting the Jan 1 dead line the additional investigations were prompted according to an Fra fact Sheet by the finding of significant amounts of an impurity called dioxin in the 2,4,5 t that caused birth defects in the Laboratory anime is. The impurity must be ruled out As the cause of the birth defects. But some restive Fra officials argue Finch should act against the defoliant on the basis of present doubt alone a a it a the same old game of in Nocent until proven guilty said one official. A the manufacturer should have to prove the stuff Safe to continue Selling it not the government prove it guilty in order to withdraw it,�?T1 further Finch is under heavy pressure from the manufacturers of the chemical to establish a Safe food level department sources say. The Secretary they add is determined to build an Iron Clad scientific Case on 2,4,5-t be cause a court suit by Industry is expected to follow any unfavourable decision. At present the Fra has no Tol Era Nee or Safe food level for the chemical. But contaminated foodstuffs Are subject to. Seizure available a the Resolution offered by c commissioner Jack Swindell of Bath did not set the amount to be appropriated or a timetable for an appropriation. The school officials for the Bath school District and members of the Beaufort county Board at. Education had requested a special $100.000 appropriation for the project the school Board is the policymaking body for the school system which is administered by the superintendent of schools f i dances for operation and construction of the schools Are voted by the Board of county commissioners the Resolution reads As follows literacy Council organized Tho Washington .j literacy Council held an orgin Valiona meeting last night at St. Peter s episcopal Church highlighted but the election of officers elected to office were president mrs harm is Latham jr., vice president Dewey Walker second vice president mrs. Virginia Allen Secretary mrs. Ace Mann treasurer mrs. Colon Mclean. Recruitment chairman miss Ada Jarvis mrs. Catherine Smallwood mrs. Frank Rollins publicity chairmen mrs. Robert a a. Cooper and mrs. A. R. Allan or. Eighteen members attended the monday night meeting the Laubach program is underlined with prayer and mrs Charlie Terrell moderated this meeting and opened with prayer discussion entered around recruitment of pupils centers for t fuelling a Library Center and other pertinent matters. Methods of Reading and writing were reviewed. A the stated meeting for this see Council Page 8> a 11 eyes mining controls Winston Salem api the state legislative delegation from Forsyth county has called for stringent controls on mining in the state it denounced operations that destroy the natural Beauty of the Countryside. The statement issued monday grew from discussions within the delegation Over a proposed mining operation by Gib site corp. In Ashe Allegany Wilkes and Surry counties. The Dele a lion said it not Only represents the interests of Forsyth county but also has a responsibility to but also has a responsibility to All the people of the and that the Board will notify the county Board of when the Money does become available a a the commissioner also voted to authorize the mid East h Misino authority to make at plication with the v s. Depart men of housing and Urban development for Federal financial assistance for 400 additional Public housing units for the cd panty the commissioners had previously approved an application for 200 units which has been filed with a Ltd a Frank Rivett Sirret aty for the regional housing authority told the Board that it is anticipated that construction May get underway within six to eight months he said the Long Range projection indicates that it will require five to seven y ears to get the units requested funded and built. The latest request asks a conventional housing or that built and operated by the housing authority the earlier request was for Quot leased housing which is built by private Enterprise and leased to the authority k i vet i explained that a change in rules cutting the maximum lease period from 15 to 10 years made the leased housing program uni i Ting for private developers he added that this was a Factor in making the additional request no county Money was involved Iii making the housing request the Board also approved a request allowing the Register of deeds to do away with old chattel mortgages and see Board doge 8 Senate locked in 3rd r rights debate by it l Schwartz Iii associated press writer Washington it a it the Senate a locked in its third and probably biggest civil rights debate of the year. Ils or a to chamber ringing to the now familiar Southern cry for equal treatment Quot i Hope hat the time will soon arrive when american citizens living South of the Mason Dixon line can be accorded the full Faith and credit for being As de Tern nned to Honor the principles of the Constitution As citizens living anywhere else declared sen Sam j. Ervin jr., d-. The Beetle bowed 73-year-old former judge fired the opening Salvo monday As the Senate began a filibuster threatened de Bate on extending the 1965 Vot ing rights act. Majority Leader Mike mans Field told newsmen before de Bate started he hoped for a final vote by Hie end. Of the week. But the southerners appear in no hurry before the Senate is a Bill passed by the House last de member that would extend the 1965 act for another five years expand a ban on literacy tests from seven original target states in the South to a 1,1 50 and. Impose uniform shortened residency requirements for voting for president and vice president. The administration backed House Bill also would repeal a requirement that states wishing to change their voting Laws get approval from the attorney general. In its place would be a provi a Sion permitting the attorney general to bring suit when he bad reason to believe voting rights were being denied this last is a major Point of Contention Liberal say it would shift the Burden of proof requiring the government to demonstrate rights were being denied instead of making states show Pew plans would not deny rights Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and sen Philip a. Hart of Michigan ranking democratic Liberal on the judiciary cont Mittee Intro diced a substitute amendment monday authorizing the attorney general to bring suits the Scott Hart substitute would retain the uniform residency features of the House Bill and the nationwide application of the ban on literacy tests a it meets the argument we heard a. Short time ago about equal application of the Law. This is nationwide Ami accomplishes that purpose Quot said Scott he referred to the theme of Southern arguments in two re Mit debates on school desegregation one a of those debates ended in Surprise Senate approval of a provision urging the government to press school de segregation policies equally in All parts of the country the other ended Over the past weekend with defeat of three Southern attempts to curb busing and Sanction the Freedom of Choice approach to school desegregation Ervin followed the introduction of the Scott Hart Amend ment monday with a dozen amendment of his own that would sharply alter the Liberal proposal votes probably will come on the Ervin amendments hut just when that will be is anybody a guess Mansfield said be doubted persistent reports that southerners plan to bust into the midst of the voting rights debate with an see voting Page 8� Hgt Frank Cormier a Tori aled press writer Washington a it declaring that a american Educa it on to in urgent need of Reform a president Nixon asked Cumi Quot Cut today to set up a new Agency to conduct research and experimentation in that Field. In a special message Nixon said the country needs a a searching re examination of our entire approach to learning a he said Quot we must Stop pretending that we understand the mystery of the learning process or that we Are significantly applying science and technology to the que of a Ltd no when we spend less than one half of 1 per cent of our educational budget on research compared with 5. Per cent of our health budget and 10 per cent of defense to spearhead an expanded research Effort Nixon called for creation of a National Institute of education within the department of health education and welfare the Nie eventually would take Over existing research programs from the office of education noting that his budget for the 1074 Tecl year hum Start july i Calis for $312 million for educational research an increase of $67 million Nixon said Money to carry on the work of Quot the Institute or proposes would be in addition to that the message puts no Dollar Gurr on the Over All Cost of operating the inst Tutor in other areas Nixon said he was establishing by executive order a president s commission on. School finance with a two year lifetime to develop recommendations on the fiscal and organizational needs of both Public and private schools in the United states because we have neglected to plan How we Tsvili Deal with school finance a he said a we hive great instability and uncertainty in the financial Structure of education a he cited As a Quot cause for National concerns the in Edu. Rational spending Between Rich and poor states and school districts. Discussing the problems of parochial and other schools Nixon said their financial difficulties Are to be a a particular assignment of the commission Quot because he said if All private schools were to close or turn Public the Burden on Public funds by the end of the 1970s would exceed $4 billion a year for operation. In addition he estimated $5 billion More would be needed for facilities Quot in its deliberations Quot Nixon said a i urge the commission to keep two considerations in mind first our purpose Here is not to Aid religion in particular a but to promote diversity in education second that nonpublic., schools in America Are closing at the rate of one a Day a. Nixon endorsed Quot the right to read As a National educational goal for the 1970s and said he will soon ask Congress for $200 see education. Page 8 average consumer cattle feeder caught an erratic Price situation today by g. David Wallace associated press writer Washington apr the Price Farmer Calvin Goecke gets for his cattle is about the same As a year ago the Price Ricky Muriph Mother of three pays for beef is 8 per cent higher. Both Are caught in an erratic beef Price situation still recovering from a spasmodic summer and responding to the rising prices of competitive meats. Both Are unhappy about the priest and both Are reacting in similar fashion. Goecke is handling half As Many cattle on his Marshalltown Iowa farm. Mrs. Muriph is feeding fewer expensive cuts of meat to her South Weymouth mass., family. But there a enough Money in the pocketbooks of other Farmers and housewives to mute the actions of the Toeckes and my rips. So analysts expect prices to keep going up. A we done to look for lower meat says c William Mcmillan marketing executive for the american National cattlemen a association. A people Are generally paying the prices.�?�. Why. Are retail beef prices higher than they were a year ago while farm prices Are the same one reason is that retailers markups Are slightly fatter than they were last summer. Retailers say this is necessary to make up for thinner profits or even losses they endured when beef prices shot up last summer. Retailers had to hold Down the prices they charged the House wife during the summer to keep shoppers from turning away from beef and leaving it to spoil on the shelves said so Kent Christensen economist for the National association of food chains. Another reason for the disparity is that it takes a month or More for fluctuations in whole Sale meat prices to be translated into changes in retail prices even As retailers Are making up for past losses on beef they Are being squeezed by spiralling pork prices Christensen said in the past year pork prices at the slaughterhouse have risen 38 per cent. Retail prices have gone up 13 per cent. Despite periodic fluctuations the Farmer s share of the consumer s meat Dollar has remained relatively stable in the past two decades. In 1949. Government statistics show the Farmer got 67 cents for every $1 spent for beef Jan 1959, the. Figure was 62 cents in 1969, it was 65 cents. Middlemen like those in Christensen s association also say they Are feeling the Pinch of rising labor and handling costs. Helping sustain the increasing prices a is two products erf american affluence bigger a rips and a persistent craving for meat. The1 average Price for sirloin Steak went from $1 20 a Pound at the Start of last year to $1.42 by mid summer then settled at it 29 at yearns end. The once of a picnic Ham went from 48 cents a Hind to 56 cents a Pound during the year the association of California Consumers a local organization which organized a protest a see meat prices. Page 8

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