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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - March 19, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather partly most film Fem 0 Ruff tit Friday it Irwi mainly Over Wal and Centra i portion warmer Friday. Loara tonight 4441 High Friday Low to Washington daily news if you do not get your ma214.s Between a 30 and 7 00 o Dorli and one win be a Sta bushed 19q5aam Toa a Atuba. Frn Washington. North cat Una. Shubsda v afternoon match t9 tv7�o Datto except sunday in 3 states mail strike spreading by Bob Mon Hob Asteria Ted Prett writer 0 new York api a letter carriers in part at three state today joined the illegal wage strike begun by new York mailman despite a Federal court Back to work order indications were the mail tie up would Coo Niue m the 11 of kit Bikit Feu and financial capital locals of the letter carriers a Union in several new Jersey Cit a yes in parts of Westchester a Rockland and Orange counties North of new York City and in Stamford conn., voted Pednea a Day night to walk out. Votes were scheduled in other cities around the nation a National embargo ordered at the Start of the Day old strike already had diverted tens of millions of pieces of mail addressed to new York to storage a bins to Post offices around the if Ifni lion the Impact of the strike the first of its magnitude in american postal history was immediate. It was Felt in brokerage houses Banks businesses and Law offices. Gus Johnson head of the striking Manhattan Bronx local of the Al Cio National Amo-0 nation of letter carriers publicly appealed to hit men to return to work the Union attorney conceded in court tint a a the strike is illegal a but Jack Leven thai president of the striking Brooklyn local said the Union s Constitution required three Days notice before a membership meeting to vote on whether to obey the Injunc-0 lion. That meant the earliest such a vote could be held was Satur Day and the decision meanwhile mrs. Alla Lee Hardison Dies mrs. Alia Lee Nobles Hardison age 63, resident of it. 2, a Chocowinity died wednesday night in the Beaufort county Hospital following a critical illness of a few hours. Mrs. Hardison was born in Beaufort county aug. 7, 1906, daughter of the late James David and Annice Cayton Nobles. She was a member of the Providence United methodist Church. She was married to Ernest a Hertford Hardison april 20, 1928 who survives. Other survivors Are one daughter mrs. L. J. Ingalls of it. 2, Chocowinity three sons Ernest Hertford Hardison of Chesapeake va., Hertford h. Hardison of Chocowinity and John Taylor Hardison of Chesapeake v a. 12 grandchildren three Brothers Theodore and Blake Nobles both a of Chocowinity and Murl Nobles of Philadelphia. A. Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 30 from the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home conducted by the Rev. David Lupton. Burial will follow in Pamlico memorial gardens. Pallbearers will be Max Jones Richard Buck Luther Brame Jimmy Flemming Gennie 0 Brame and Richard Boyd. On whether to return was my to the individual workers Only about 12 per cent of the 6.000 night shift workers showed up at Manhattan a huge general Post office and overnight pickets outside the facility said they were determined to stick it out Pena Kies a who the hell cares about penalties?1 asked Martin Rafferty a 22 year Veteran with the Post office. A a in a not making enough Money to support helicopter crash claims 2 lives general injured Dave Arnold Day to be Leaf men seek mph Barlier opening survivors rescued 4 in Jungle a staff photo by Turt Flam a off Paf cloth and Rubott in chamber speech Here poverty is East a big problem today Faircloth Quot Eastern North Carolina s big problem today is not pollution but thus spoke d. Lauch Faircloth chairman of the . Highway commission last night at the annual Washington chamber of Commerce banquet held at Brentwood Lodge. Or. Faircloth said a there might be times when conservation and development and Industrial a Progress Are somewhat at Odds. The need therefore is for Good sound Industry Industry which contributes to a better he reviewed the Highway plans for Beaufort county listing among them Market Street a at Tention West third Street. 15th Street the four Lane Highway from Washington to Greenville cow head Springs Road Road from Aurora to phosphate Complex six Miles of Highway from Choco Wini to Tow a re Aurora along with the four Laning of both 264 and 64 he said All these projects Are either committed already or Are now on the drawing Board for improvements shortly. A was Highway chairman i have said the main thrust in Eastern North Carolina must be toward primary roads a or. Faircloth said. He reviewed the scope and work of the . Highway commission saying a it is the largest in the nation under state he listed 74,000 Miles of state highways of which 54,000 Are secondary. 5,000 in City streets and 11,000 in primary roads he said that there Are 23 Highway commissioners in North Carolina. Or. Faircloth was introduced by Graham Elliott. Himself a former Highway commissioner who once served with or. Faircloth. Richard Ross president presided Over the meeting. Bill Abeyounis gave a report of what the Washington chamber of Commerce is doing in fact he see chamber Page 101 with 25.000 sermons and 10.000 baptismal behind him David w Arnold will be 100 years old on Friday March 20 the City of Washington and Beaufort count have through their officials declared Friday a Daw Arnold Day Quot and. Invite the Public to his first Century floating birthday party at the Beaufort county nursing Home a Friday from 2-3 30 pm or Arnold was born during the presidency of general Ulysses s. Grant Only five years after Abraham Lincoln was shot. Since that time he has seen is different presidents. He lived through civil War reconstruction and Granger farm movements the spa. Nish a Menean w a r. W or id War i the depression. World War ii and decade of the 60 s. He has spent Over seventy five years preaching the gospel from tar Heel pulpits he has delivered his messages from almost every Church of his denomination and visited others in Eastern North Carolina. David Arnold was baptized at Philippi at the age of 16 and was ordained As a minister in Grifton m ims. In 1902 he served fart Ville As school principal mayor a see Arnold Page 10 John Williams Dies wednesday Raleigh m a lunged Early opening of flue cured to Haden sales is being sought for some markets on the big Eastern North Carolina Belt Manning a attorney representing the Eastern Carolina warehouse association and the coastal Plain tobacco warehouse association proposed wednesday that some Eastern Bell markets open As Early As one week after sales begin in Georgia and Florida a subcommittee from the Industry wide Fine cured tobacco marketing commit tee took no action on the request it Wilt meet later to draft ret emendations to the full committee which will then adopt a Mark eting program for ipod normally the Eastern Belt salad a not beam until uner four weeks after the Georgia Florida Belt opens in late july mannings proposal Calls for markets in the Georgia Florida hell and in South Carolina to be Gin sales the same Day sales on the North Carolina Border Belt would begin a week later the same Day As the Eastern Belt opening under his proposal. 10 sets of see tobacco. Page 10� teachers Challenge . Contract Law president proposes Reform of Aid to College students by Frank Cormier associated press writer Washington api proposing a major Reform of Federal Aid to College students president Nixon asked Congress today to put even the poorest students on an equal financial footing with those coming from families earning $10,000 a year. In a special message the most arresting feature in a series of Nixon advocated changes would greatly increase dollars available for Grants and Loans to students from Low income families he said Quot every Low income student entering an accredited College would be eligible for a combination of Federal Grants and subsidized Loans sufficient to give him the same ability to pay As a student from a family earning $10,000.�?� the administration program would make federally guaranteed Loans available to every qualified student regardless of the income level of his family. A but the president said direct a Federal subsidies would be directed. To students who need them Nixon said the effect of concentrating subsidies in the lower income brackets would nearly double the actual amount of assistance available to most students with family incomes be deadline attention is once More called to the fact that the deadline for filing notice of candidacy for state or local political offices is tomorrow Friday March 20. At 12 00 o clock noon. The elections Bureau office will be open for any last minute filers. The elections Bureau will adhere strictly to the 12 00 of clock noon deadline it is pointed out. The elections Bureau office is located in the agricultural building in Washington. Low $7,500. And under his plan a fall eligible students from families of $4,500 annual income would be guaranteed a total of $1,300 each in Grants and subsidized Loans this would constitute the financing floor it will be supplemented by earnings other scholarships and Access to unsubsidized he said it is now time to achieve a Long held National goal that a no qualified student who wants to go to College should be barred by Lack of another Nixon Tion would create a National student loan association which could Purchase student loan paper from Banks and other financial institutions thus making available additional funds for private Loans under the Nixon plan the government also would Lay out $100 million in fiscal 1972 to launch a program aimed at see education Page 10 John. S. Williams., age �6 resident and Carpenter of Market Street Extension died in the Beaufort county Hospital wednesday afternoon at 4 55 of clock following a critical illness of two months or. Williams was bom Here Jan. 20, 1904, son at the late Arthur and Mary Edmondson Williams. He was a member of the first United methodist Church and Tau tribe no 18, improved order of red men or. Williams was married to the former Eunice Garris of this City aug 23. 1930 surviving besides his wife ire two sons John s. Williams or. Of Lynchburg a and Raymond Williams of this City one granddaughter three Brothers Tom Bonner Williams of Newport Dan Williams of this City and Arthur Williams of Kansas City to. One sister mrs John Goode of Norfolk a and one granddaughter funeral services will be held at the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home Friday afternoon at 2 o clock conducted by the Rev Kelly j. Wilson jr., pastor of the first United methodist Church. Burial will follow in Oakdale cemetery. A the following win serve As pallbearers w. G. Allen Jimmy Oakley j. L. Waters., David Roberson w b. Scott or. And John 1 Morgan. Raleigh i api a a North Carolina Law governing termination of teacher contracts is being challenged in court by three teachers who contend they were unfairly dismissed last year. They Are seeking a total of up to $300.000 in damages in suits filed wed Neada y in three court. The suits Are backed by the North Carolina education association Quot a two of the suits were filed by or. And mrs. Joseph r still former teachers at Clyde Jerum High school in Asheville still filed his in u. S. Western dist. Court at Asheville and his wife filed hers in Buncombe Superior court also at Asheville mrs Dorothy j Bridgeman. A former teacher at Manten High school filed in a s dist court at Kaleigh j the three contract were terminated at the end of the last school year. Under state Law. A teacher is reemployed unless he to Noti fied to the contrary prior to the end of the school year a Board is not required to Tell a teacher Why he is not being Reem pm Sod v a see contracts Page my Hyde continues Faith in Saa fit Michaei. I Tekl Tor till a pres writer Saigon map a a helicopter carrying the commanding Gen eral of the u 8 army a a men cat division crashed on a Jungle Biu sur id Days ago Kilhof two men and injuring the Gener Al and the other five person aboard the command announced today la he command also announced that tit i s troops were killed in action Tost week and 620 wounded it was the second week this year that the number a of american Battle dead exceeded too the America i division s commander. Maj. Gen Lloyd b Ramsey and other survivors of the helicopter crash were rescued wednesday after an All night ground and air search helicopters lowered medical personnel to them on stings through a Loo foot double canopy of Jungle Trees because the choppers could not land then he survivors and the two to Odiea were lifted out in helicopter slings. Ramsey St broke his left Arm and suffered other lesser injuries sources in his division six id lie was reported in Good condition the other five in Prai men were reported in Lair to Good condition most of them with lesser injuries than the general but All were suffering from exposure to rain and cold after waiting All night on the Mountainside a they were to Dittoe in Chu part to divisions Headquarters on Hie coast seven Miles East of the crash site a. H. Wilson 1 asses de. Before ouster by Cambodia Sihanouk accused of corruption murder Engelhard Hyde county a one of the charter members of the Southern Albemarle association is continuing its Faith in and support of the coastal organization. Speight Burrus 32-year-old vice president for 1970, says that while the Saa is by no Means a political . It can and does carry a certain amount of influence in Eastern North Carolina Quot such an influential association should not nor will be allowed to become inactive Quot said Burrus declaring that to insure this the Hyde county chapter is stressing youth to Lead the Way in 1970. A and involvement by qualified Young people can do much to further the goals of the Quot Quot Saa in Hyde Cotty a he adds the Southern Albemarle association organized in 1935 by the late Wallace Tatem of Columbia and the late Victor Meekins of dare is comprised of six counties with a population of almost 100,000. The county members Are dare Hyde Tyrrell Washington. Beaufort and Martin the association was formed primarily for the development of Road Bridge and ferry systems within the area Only two major Road and Terry goals remain unit tamed they Are a a a a Bridge across the Pamlico River a a ferry Between Ocracoke Island and the Hyde Mainland. Burrus has announced the appointment of Roger Swindell. See Saa Page 10 it former resident Dies James b Little former resident of this City died in a Greenville s. C. Hospital Early this morning or Little was the son of mrs Ethel Archbell cattle and the late Claude Little. Funeral services will be held saturday afternoon at 4 >0 of clock in Greenville s. C. Will., Wilson age a died at the Home of his son Whf Elsm Earl Wilson of near Tejaro wednesday night at 7 30 o clock. Funeral services will be edit ducted saturday afternoon at 3 o clock at the United Tabernacle holiness Church near Vanceboro by the Rev Marvin e Wiggins a former pastor and the Rev Sam Worthing on burial will he in Juniper Chapel free will Baptist Church cemetery surviving Are four sons William Earl Jesse j and John Henry Wilson All of near Vanceboro and Charlie Ray Wilson of new Bern five daughters. Mrs Earl Smith mrs Pittman fill Inga me and mrs Quot Raymond it gems All of near Vanceboro mrs William r. Smith of new Bern and mrs. Cecil Mcclahann of Norfolk a. Five Brothers James w. Of fort Barnwell a. A. Of new Bern. John a. Of Vanceboro George w of Norfolk. A. And Fred Wilson of Vanceboro two Sisters. Mrs. Mamie Fornes of Vanceboro and mrs. Lula Tripp of Clarks 20 grandchildren and Rune great grandchildren by Peter o Loughlin associated press writer 9 Bangkok Thailand apr members of cambodians National Assembly accused Prince Norodom Sihanouk of corruption murder nepotism and protecting the Viet Cong before they voted to depose him the cambodian radio reported today. A a a broadcast recording of the debate wednesday indicated Many deputies joined in the at to tack before the unanimous vote of no Confidence which overthrew the Man who had ruled them for 29 years. Deputy Trinh Hahn. Who called for the no Confidence vote called the 47- . Prince a dictator and said Sihanouk a wife and Mother in Law had made fortunes a oiling government jobs. He accused Sihanouk a of running a gambling Casino far personal profit a executing a Large number of peasants without trial wasting National funds and. Kindly following his wife a another Deputy named ouch Elk charged the Prince with killing Many peasants Quot because his brother in Law was police commissar Quot a and. With Supply ing arms to the Viet Cong. Princess Monique Sihanouk s wife has been reported in Singapore while her Mother was in Europe with Sihanouk and arrived in peking with him today. The of the brother in Law was announced wednesday. Another broadcast said Sihan Ouk had Quot provoked Quot the political crisis during which crowds took to the streets at phenom penh last week in violent demonstrations against the presence of North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops on the cambodian Mansfield praises Sihanouk by Walter a Mears associated press writer Washington a Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield foresees disintegration and chaos in Cambodia unless Prince Norodom Sihanouk a the one Man in All of his kingdom who can. Keep it together a returns to Power. Quot i think he is the Moat capable in All of Southeast Asia probably in All Asia.,�?� Mansfield said after the cambodian government ousted Sihanouk wednesday As chief of state. While Mansfield says the return of the mercurial neutralise Leader would be in the Best interests of the United states he counselled against any american involvement in Cambodia. Quot by All Means we should stay out of that country and we ought to get out of the rest of Southeast Asia As soon As possible a said Mansfield who visited the area eight months ago on a fact finding Mission suggested by president Nixon. While two colleagues voiced suspicions at secret involvement in cambodian affairs Mansfield said he was certain that is not True. Sen. George s. Mcgovern d-s.d., said there has been a disturbing indications and reports Quot of . Assistance to right Wing groups in Cambodia he said such groups seemed to be involved in the ouster of Sihanouk. J. W Fulbright d-ark., chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee said there to Quot on general principles a a suspicion of Centra intelligence Agency involvement a there Are very few americans in there Quot Mansfield said. A it is my very very Strong feeling that the Cia or any other government Agency had nothing to do with what has been going on in phenom penh a S.D. of the Border with South Vietnam. Radio phenom penh also said Assembly chairman Cheng Heng who was named acting chief of state announced that Cambodia will continue to follow a policy of a Independence neutrality and territorial integrity Quot and the government will recognize and respect All treaties which had. Been formally concluded. The broadcast reported that the foreign ministry had protested four alleged violations of cambodian air space last month by . And South vietnamese planes and had asked the . Government a to take appropriate measures to put an end to such provocative nothing was raid about any official protests to Hanoi about the presence of the estimated 50,000 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia but the broadcast did report new a anti Viet Cong Quot demonstrations in three provinces. East germans break police r a Quot. .7 a 7 v a a barriers to Greet by Andt by Herbert j. Erb associated press writer Erfurt. Ehst Germany a shouting a Willy Willy Brandt a thousands of East germans broke through police barriers today to Greet the West German Chancellor shortly before he sat Down to his historic meeting with East German pre Mier Willi Stop. The Heads of the two German governments met for the first time since the division of Germany 25 years ago and promptly agreed to hold a second meeting in an undetermined West German town near the Border. Brandt proposed they meet in May though a specific Date was not sey before the two men held their one hour and 45-minute morning session Brandt was Given a noisy and Friendly Welcome As he and Stop walked 50 Yards from Erfurt s main railway station to the hotel where the discussions were held. Police had lined up steel barriers about 150 Yards from the government chiefs path but the pressure from the huge crowd was so great that the barriers toppled. Unofficial crowd estimates ranged from 2,000 to 5,000. The cheering continued when Brandt entered the hotel and at one Point he appeared at a window and made a hand motion Catling for Calm. Conrad Ahlers. West German government press chief also appeared at a window and was cheered. Brandt made the Brief window appearance after the crowd shouted a Brandt to the win Dow Brandt to the windows a there were some counter Calls Lor Stop to appear at a window also. A Are the historic talks Between Brandt and Stop began on schedule half an hour after Brandts arrival it is the first meeting Between chiefs of the two German governments and Brandt is the first. West Germain Chancellar to set foot on communist controlled German Terri tory. East German police set up Road blocks around Erfurt and checked All vehicles entering the City it appeared that Brandts hosts were anxious to avoid an influx of East Ger a during his visit

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