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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - March 5, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Toni Tol a How re ending atone coast and turning cooler else where Friday mostly Tunny and cooler. Lows to might 40 highs Friday 31 to m Washington daily news if you do not get your paper. 11.�i 94a-si45 Between % x and 7 a h and be de it Varad in Jurmu Estavil shr tw9 7en>agcs&Quot Washington thursday a a aft it noon March 5, 19.70 a ii f x c in r Sun 0a y formal ceremony nuclear treaty taking effect staff photo by la trifle a a Laverne Taylor and general Davis Nat guard chief visits local unit major general Ferd l. Davis head of the North Carolina inactive militia since february visited Washington a National guard wednesday on a Courtesy and a get acquainted inspection. The general is on a two Day tour of guard units in Eastern North Carolina in an Effort at familiarizing himself with the people and problems in the area. Commending the local Headquarters unit the general said he was very impressed with conditions in the 167th my battalion in View of the physical condition housing the unit. A it is obvious the unit has taken care of their facilities and is doing an excellent Job despite the building Handicap he related Quot i have Long been old friends of Many of the officers and men of the 167th,�?T�?T he went on adding that Quot i have always considered this to be one of the most outstanding guard units in the the general informed the local command that he would recommend to the advisory budget commission in Raleigh that they release funds for paving the area used for parking around the present guard building on East main Street. At a briefing held with local officers. General Dvis explained a new program being initiated by the National guard aimed at cutting expenses in manpower see guard Page 7 c a Berba Niquet theme highways Highway development will be the principal theme of the annual banquet of the Washington chamber of Commerce to be held at the Brentwood Lodge Here on wednesday night March 18, at 7 30 . Principal speaker at the banquet will be d. M. Lauch Faircloth chairman of the1 North Carolina state Highway commission. Plans for the banquet were released today by Albert Jowdy chairman of the membership development Council of the Washington chamber of Commerce. Jowdy said tickets for the banquet Are now on Sale at the chamber of Commerce. They Cost $3.50 per person. Jowdy said members of the chamber of Commerce will get first preference for the tickets but that some others in the Community will be allowed to attend who Are not normally members of the chamber of Commerce such As teachers nurses governmental employees and others. He said they May make application for tickets at the chamber of Commerce and will be allotted tickets after chamber of Commerce members obtain their tickets. See chamber Page 7� by Lewis Gulick associated press w Riter Washington api a the treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons lakes effect today with ceremonies in Wash in Tofi Laos Doii and Moscow president Nixon arranged to attend the Washington ceremonies. A formal diplomatic affair in the Flag decked International conference room of the state department the in Profera i ton t rest y originally was signed by the three nuclear sponsor the United states. Britain and the soviet Union july 1, 1968 president Johnson hailed it As a the most important International agreement since the beginning of the nuclear in Moscow Premier Alexei Kosygin called the treaty an important step toward a ridding Mankind of the threat of nuclear War at the same time he urged All nuclear Powers to Quot do everything possible to Speed up Progress toward general and Complete and he noted that a the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not liquidate nuclear it took until today to accumulate enough ratifications to bring the treaty into Force it takes effect when ratified by 4� nations plus the nuclear three. As of wednesday 40 countries had ratified including Britain but not the United states and the soviet Union. By pre arrangement the United. States and the1 soviet Union a and also Malaysia Mali Jamaica and Peru were depositing their instruments of ratification at the state department ceremony thus bringing the total country membership in the treaty to 46 and putting the pact in effect. Under the treaty the nuclear Powers agree1 not to provide atomic weapons to nonnuclear states and the nonnuclear countries pledge not to acquire them. In practice the treaty will formally commit its members to policies they generally follow already both the United states and Russia have had policies against giving atomic arms to others. Most nuclear have not states have decided not to build nuclear arsenals. The notable exceptions Are those who have not joined the treaty including France and red China already possessors of nuclear weapons and Israel India and Brazil who have not made final determinations on future atomic policies. The treaty also permit the nuclear Powers to move ahead in arms control efforts. The United states and the soviet Union Are going ahead in Vienna next month with strategic arms limitation talks begun in Hel Fink last fall. Prayer Day Observance the first presbyterian Church Here will open the doors of its Sanctuary Friday for Public use for prayers in Observance of world Day of prayer. Interested persons Are invited to use the Church for prayer and meditation. No formal program is being held Here this year in Observance of world Day of ire t Ruck Purchase a approved Belhaven a aldermen voted monday night to accept the John bean bid for fire truck equipment and the bid from Beaufort Hyde motor company for the Chasis fire department officials say the equipment is badly needed As Bel havens number one truck has been in use for 14 years and the number two is More than 25 years old the Board also approved unto have the Beaufort county registrar mrs. Carolyn c. Taylor sit in Belhaven one Day each month for the purpose of registering those persons not now registered to vote this Well Emmate the need for area residents to travel to Washington to Register fire chief Russell Johnston reported two local alarms and two Rural alarms approximately $200 fire and smoke damage was realized from one local alarm and $2000 on one Rural alarm Small amounts of damage were credited to the other two fires. The fire truck was driven 20 Miles. The Rescue squad answered five local Calls and five Rural Calls. On the Rural Calls there was one injury and one death and the ambulance was driven 16 Miles. Thomas Steadman reported from the Airport commission saying a suitable site had rot been located As yet but several prospects were being investigated. A Speight Burruss offer in regards to auditing the town books was accepted. The Board also gave approval for the town manager Richard Pinner to attend the annual civil defense meeting in Sanford on March 8 and 9. Mayor of Neal announced that the water and sewer anticipation Bonds had been signed and mailed As had the first Payrol draft for the project. Also he announced that a representative from the state wildlife resources Agency would be in Belhaven on wednesday to discuss the Wynn a gut project with town officials anyone wishing to talk with them Are invited to do so. The mid East planning Law enforcement commission will meet on Friday mar. 6, and Council approved attendance by a member of the local department. Mayor of Neal said the league of municipalities would hold a meeting at the Holiday inn in new Bern on april 30 and said he hoped that several of the local officials would be Able to attend. Attending the meeting besides mayor of Neal were councilmen h. E. Boyd jr., William Logan and Herbert Snell town clerk. Mrs. Thelma White town manager Richard Pinner and town attorney r c. Derosse bulletin Mills behind president on welfare Reform Bill on courthouse Board votes to ask new bids f or general contract the Beaufort county Board of commissioners voted last night to Call for new bids for the general contract on the Beaufort county courthouse scheduled for construction Here the new bid fips half it w to up if ii "1 the action came after it was Learned that changes and modifications resulted in lowering the original Low bid figures ill negotiations with the contractor by Only $230.000 the Low bids for the project which were opened feb 18 had run Arnost half a million dollars More than the $1.3 million available for construction and. Furnishings approximately $200,000 of the i s voted has been spent for a site and architects fees architect Guy Wilson and Engineer Sam Blount. Or. Told the Board that they believed a resetting of the contract will result 1 ill ll1 Al of flip fjli1 Fri Ifill of the Quot Competition which they expect will be generated in the first letting j Leroy Hawkins of Greenville was the apparent Low bidder with a figure of $1.354 .368 the Board voted to accept the Low bids for the electrical mechanical and plumbing work and to ask the contractors to give the1 county an Extension of time pending the re letting of the general contract the original Tod figures or this work were mechanical. Climate i rail of this City. $159.567, plumbing. Lenoir plumbing and heating company of Kinston $99 480 and electrical. Campbell electric a to Wilson. a the Board authorized numerous changes to the re letting action including changes in the Brick roof window door and floor covering materials elimination of a a nov Over the rear Entrance and some of the fancy work on the facade and changes from brass to aluminium Stair rails elevators were added see courthouse. Page 7 Quot blood Mobile schools county Board will visits set go to 5 members Lamar so. Apr state police continued today arresting Darlington county Whites accused of participating in a violent school protest in which some negro pupils were injured and by noon 28 were jailed shortly before noon the police began leading the defendants from the jail in Darlington to the county courthouse for arraignment. A crowd of about 50 Whites gathered outside Between the two buildings Twenty five armed Highway patrolmen stood by. There were no incidents. The state Law enforcement division sled began making the arrests wednesday night after 30 warrants were signed in Columbia the state capital. The Beaufort county Board of education last night adopted a Resolution which will reduce the membership of the Board from the present six members to five members to be effective after the primary election in May of this year. The action was prompted by a new state Law requiring county school boards to be comprised of five members. The Beaufort county Board has been operating under an earlier Law which provided for six members one from each township nominated in the party primaries and appointed. By the general Assembly. The new Law provides for a five member Board elected on a non partisan basis at the primary elections biennially. The general Assembly will no longer appoint members. The Resolution adopted by the Board states that two members be elected for a term of four years to the Beaufort county Board of Quot education at the time of the primary elections in 1970 to replace those members whose terms expire in 1970 and that three members be elected for terms of four years at the time of the primaries in 1972 to replace those members whose terms expire in 1972. The Resolution will change the upcoming primary election in the following manner. Whereas before the top three candidates for the Board would be elected by the voters and then appointed by the Assembly now Only the top two candidates will be elected under the earlier set up three vacancies would come due this year. The new organization provides Tor Only two vacancies the three members whose do not expire this year will remain on the Board. In discussing the new Law All j members agreed that they preferred the old organization which provided each township with representation. The members also expressed their feeling that the people would also prefer this. In. View of this understanding among members Lee Knott Board attorney was requested to study the possibility of obtaining from the state legislature a see Board. Page 7imrs. Zesta Baum of Hyde passes Fairfield mrs Zesta Berry Baum died this morning in the fungo District Hospital in a Belhaven. She was 57 years old mrs Baum was the wife of w. Edison Baum surviving besides her husband Are two daughters Patricia Baum Herman of Fayetteville and my la Baum Cutrell of Norfolk a. J funeral arrangements Are incomplete and will be announced by the Williamson funeral Home in Swan Quarter. Needed in Beaufort county according to the latest report from fungo District Hospital and Beaufort county Hospital approximately 1500 pints of blood is a Xing used annually by citizens of Beaufort county. This i several times the amount being donated through the blood Bank program blood Bank officials say the Point has now been reached where More blood must be donated in order to retain the program As it now operates Broi figh for Ftp at n program now enjoyed by residents of Beaufort county. Through this program the Cost of one pint of blood is $1.1 which covers expense without the program the same pint of blood would cowl $00 and Many rare blood types would Cost As much As $90 a can we afford this sacrifice a a the officials ask the Tidewater red Cross blood Bank will visit the county on monday mar 1.6th. It will be at the Texas Gulf Fulfur Plant at Leeds Creek Aurora from 12 noon until 6 pm Texas Gulf is throwing the Gates wide open donors will receive the red carpet treatment All persons in the Aurora area Are urged to participate. Co chairmen for the Day Are Earl relic Wenderfer and mrs c. T Allen. Pledge cards will be distributed by students of the Aurora High school anyone Between the Ages of 21 Sec blood Page 7i passage seems easy after boost try Edmond i a or Eton pro Wal try Washington up rep Wilhurn Mills powerful chairman of the House ways and Means committee is expected by sponsor the sweeping welfare Reform Bill giving the measure a Quot Toutsi we iffy Fiji go me. It Quot Haw been Learned. The Bill which closely follows president Nixon s recommend a Lions is now being worked into final shape in the committee previously the Arkansas Democrat had declined to support he measure publicly although he said he would not Block its was to a House vote. Now in addition to sponsoring t he Billr it is under Tond Mills also will handle it on the floor two principal considerations influenced Mills decision he is satisfied the welfare broadening ran he financed w Rhin the Adt Mnist rat Ion s $4 4 billion budget figure some estimates received earlier by the commuter put the Cost More than $ i i 1,11 on higher the com in it i bet inti tend the requirements that Able bodied adults in recipient families make themselves available for work and training tax principal change in work requirements affects the working poor families with a bread Iii Lief a a writ. However does a fat Quot earn enough for dimly support. A the original Nistra Hon Bill would not have required such persons to Register with state employment agencies for referral to Bette available jobs or to work training the cd not new or f Vin Regis tuition requirements a plying see welfare Page 7�hy-Dprn meet slated mar. 13 Fairfield the annual its Ilam dinner will be held on Friday. 51 Arch it at Cora restaurant in Fairfield it was urn Uteri today by 11. F it hem. Chairman of the Hyde comity democratic executive committee this rally and dinner will begin that evening at if3$ o clock Alex Lyrock. Executive Secretary of the n t Hoard a it i Iff Sims tool be the main speaker. Ticket i for the rally dinner Are 15.06. They May be Pur chased from any member of the Hyde county democratic executive committee or purchased at the door. Rail shutdown off grumbling Union leaders halt nationwide strike on orders by Neil Gilbride Nap labor writer Washington a rumbling Union leaders Post one a nationwide rail strike it dam under a 37-Day delay or ered by Congress that got the i makers out of a politically it ugh spot but. Satisfied no one ise including president Nixon a ridiculous a said Sheet met-1 workers president Edward a Carlough whose Union has locked voluntary settlement of be dispute Over wages and Job Iris diction. Quot a catastrophe a said William f. Winpisinger chief negotiator for four Al Cio unions whose 45,000 maintenance and repair workers have already waited 15 months for a pay increase. The Union leaders said they would order the workers to obey the Law but feared Wildcat walkouts a the Bill preserves the status quo for 37 Days but does not resolve the underlying dispute a said White House press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler in behalf of president Nixon who had wanted Congress to order a settlement now. Members of Congress Many of them dependent on labor sup port refused to act that quickly on Nixon a politically Touchy proposal to dictate a labor settlement for Only the second time in . Peacetime history. But Ziegler said Nixon signed the delaying Bill to protect the Public from a crippling nationwide rail shutdown at least for now while further efforts Are made to reach a voluntary settlement. A we Are going to make every Effort to do just that Quot said assistant Secretary of labor w. J. Usery Nixon a chief troubleshooter in trying to resolve the Long dispute. Usery said he would Start immediately trying to arrange new bargaining Between the Union leaders and chief rail Industry negotiator John p. Hiltz who also had strongly opposed the 37-Day delay. The delaying Mil was rushed through Congress in less than 10 hours. Wednesday and. Signed by Nixon just three hours before the 12 01 . Est strike deadline. The Senate vote was 83 to 0 and the House vote 343 to 15. A by contrast the legislation sent to the Congress by the president tuesday afternoon see rail Page 7. Ujj japanese visiting a a Ftfe Sage a a a a a Ltd Flanders filters takb1 and Nasu staff photo by Litchfield with Allan Industrial expansion has a Way of making the world seem smaller and Washington a Flanders filters is no exception. In conjunction with a japanese firm the locally based company will soon filters produced for the Eastern Market and is now in the process of training two japanese representatives for the upcoming move or. Takei and or Nasu both with the Nitta belting co. In Japan have been in Washington two weeks and Are learning More about the United states than How it produces High efficiency filters. Flanders has seen to it that the men enjoy their Sta v As Well As profit from the experience. The two had never eaten a pizza Hefner and after hearing about this. Artie Rawls Plant official quickly took them to Greenville for a taste of what they thought would be Sweet pie. A the Sweet pie turned out to be hot pizza a Rawls explained. A a but they liked the taste As part of their trip the two men spent last weekend in Boone North Carolina. Quot we Felt after two weeks of work they would enjoy the Carolina mountains a a Rawls explained adding that they did. A Takei is a former school teacher and asked to see a classroom in the-. To see How americans educate their Young John Small school was chosen and the two sat in on a class of san graders after observing for i while the students were anxious to hear about Japan. Takei and Nasu fascinated the children with japanese customs. The students were especially pleased when they heard that summer vacation in Japan Only lasts 40 Days but that three other to week vacations in the school year give the children a Chance to play in All seasons. Eating fish raw an old japanese practice Quot was Quot one custom the children did no to relish however Takei explained japanese and chinese writing and illustrated the characters on the Black Board. The children asked if he would write a i love you on the Board which he did in characters. Nasu explained the japanese fear of typhoons and the danger they present each year. Ending their tour of the school Takei told the children about n Japan the women take second place to the men. A we would never think of opening a door for a woman a he explained. Their training Procesa at see visitors Page 7�

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