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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - May 22, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather Washington daily news if you do not it your paper. Dial a mud Laii a a a at i a a o r lock a my on Voll he a a Tabu Mcd 1909 Foutt fun profs Washington North cab Una pm amp a Aftin noon May 27. 1970 Daitor except sunday social Security House passes Booster Bill by Edmond librettos Asu origami pm writer Washington a late an to boast Early and Long Range increases in social Secu ity and tax i hat the House Ai a special to pen cent for Senate committee called for a major Reform of the system to avoid sentencing retired persons to a Twilight life of poverty. Tile House passed Bill Calls for a 5 per cent increase to benefits to 1971 with a pro Talon for future incr area geared to the coat of living. The Bill was sent to the Senate where considerable sentiment exists for further increases a feeling bolstered by the annual report released today by the special Senate committee on aging the committee said despite recent hikes in social Security benefits about 7 million of the 10 million americans age 05 or Over live in or near poverty the report recommended a substantial boost to the minimum individual payment now 9m a month and further a roae the Beard the House Pai creases mean that to 1171 s loners would get a s Par it raised from 91m to 9305.90 the avs Aga retired Mumpar the wage base on which the social Security tax to levied would increase from 97,900 to 90,000, meaning an increase to the maximum tax from 9974 to to 9408, counting the increase is ready built into the Law. There Are Ciao better terms for widows men retiring Early and persons earning Money after retirement. The new coat of living provisions would be used first to 1973 beginning the previous year computations would be made on Torr eases to consumer prices if these amounted to As much As 3 per cent a year benefits wild be adjusted accordingly corresponding computations would be made on wages leading to increases to the taxable see Security. Page 141 find relations Complex Nixon curb no i Rrt i Akes 1 in Senate. By Carl i. Leub8dorf associated press writer Washington api a four Senate sponsors of a proposal to curb . Activities in Cambodia have taken the initiative without waiting for White House agreement to broaden support and improve chances for a Quick vote. The proposed changes introduced late thursday leave intact the substantive parts of the Cooper Church amendment that would bar funds for a a retaining . Forces in Cambodia. Rut they make Clear the cutoff would Only take effect after the june 30 Date set by president Nixon for withdrawal of . Forces. It also they said would be a to. Concert with the declared objectives of the president of the United states to avoid the involvement of the United states in Cambodia after july 1, 1970.�?� the move was seen As an Effort to Force the White House which has been considering various Cooper Church modifications to either accept or reject the move by the amendments sponsors. Although Sens. John Sherman Cooper r-ky., and sen. Frank Church a Idaho expressed Hope the change might pick up see Cambodia Page 14� by John Best Canadian press writer Ottawa apr As Canada s foreign Secretary Lester r. Pearson said in i951 a the Days of relatively easy and automatic political relations with our neighbor Are i think Over a the statement Drew widespread comment including some criticism on not to a emf of the Border. Today the same opinion Likely would bring a what did to new reaction. In recent years As Pearson forecast the complexities of the relationship have spawned Many issues Between Canada and its neighbor. The issues Range from the area of defense to Canadas proposal to curb Arctic pollution. Washington opposes the Bill now before parliament which would extend Canadian jurisdiction 100 Miles Seaward from the Arctic coast for the purpose of pollution control. One ingredient in the new More hard nosed regime of relations Between the two countries has been what some Call a Ris. Ing tide of nationalism in Canada. Another is the present tune of troubles that the United states is going through domestically and. In Southeast Asia. . Greene Canadas minister of Energy lumps the two ingredients together in. A cause and. Effect relationship. A part of the cause for the Rise of that new Canadian nationalism and determination to build something unique rests in the malaise that exists in your land a what appears to Many As the sudden Ami tragic disappearance of the american dream which in some ways has turned see Canada Page 14 e. Germans want West Over Brink Ai a news analysts by Hubert j Erb Asteria Ted press writer Kassel Germany apr Chancellor Willy Brandt went thursday to the Brink of giving East Germany the full diplomatic recognition its communist rulers want but the communists want my Over the Brink. In the to Patota that the West Germany Chancellor proposed to East Gorman Premier Willm Stop at their second meeting Brandt offered the East germans an official representation in Bonn he made it Clear he would not oppose United nations membership for both German states if the communists did not insist on full recognition first. Stop speaking for communist party Leader Walter us Bricht held out for full satisfaction of Ulbricht a to demands no Date was set for another meeting indicating that. Boto sides want at least a pause while they maintain a technical what then has Brandt gotten out of his bid to ease the problems of Germany a division by better relations Between the two German governments in the Short run he has gained enormous publicity has awakened the Hopes of the divided country and has. Added some unexpected problems the East German people Cut off from the West entirely look to Brandt s dramatic gesture As a Ray of Hope. Their warm Welcome for him at the first meeting in Erfurt so disturbed the East German communists that they pressured the West German communist party to put on a rival show of support for Stop to Kassel Arab guerrillas hit school bus killing five children by Hal Mcclure associated press writer Tel Aviv apr Arth guerrillas tied be Bool bus today killing 10 Lanuis. At least firs a hem children and wounding 21. Jerusalem protested to the the bus had picked up . Security Council about the persons to take to school attack which occurred near is Quot this bus goes by Here every is sly a Boudar with Lebanon let Day so they roust know about Carl of Orch Edmund Harding rotarians Mark 50th the television audiences to both West and blast Germany saw and heard the or dds vell-c4,s name under is mod red banners. Demonstrators were also on hand from the Ultra right Wing National democratic party and the youth group of the moderate Christian democratic Union. But the rightists failed to rally any real strength and the moderates see germans Pace 14 summer school summer school classes will begin at Washington High school monday morning june 8, 1970 at 8 00 . Courses will be offered in English ii Iii and in algebra and geometry. We would also like to offer Spanish if there Are enough requests. All courses Are 10 weeks in length and 3 hours each Day. Monday through Friday. Cost for each course is forty five 945.00. Please notify the school 940-3257 by May 26 if you Are interested. In any of these courses and have not already applied. Application Blanks Are available at the school. Driver training will also begin on monday june 8, 1970 at 7 30 . At the High school. Students age 14 years 9 months who Are in the Washington school District Are eligible. Capps presents plaque to Bob Smith the Washington rotary club last night walked Down the Isle of Golden dreams As it celebrated 50 years of service in this Community Carl Govereh of Raleigh a charter member observed that there Are Only three chapter member still living they Are Edmund Harding Sam Etheridge and himself. Or. Goerch spoke of those Early years and called them Quot the happiest of my life. He also told the group that Quot Edmund Harding has spoken to More live audiences and entertained them More than any other living person in the history of the world Quot he paid special tribute to the late Maynard Fletcher Edmund Harding looked at the next 50 years and while he told Many humorous stones he kept his speech somewhat on s elder statesman Bahai u he said a if we Don t win this War we Are in. There will be no rotary Here in 90 he added Quot we want people with vision to carry on if you do your part for rotary it will Pav dividends year by year a he see rotary Page 14� Ltd not ask for a meeting the Arab fired a Soomaa and. Small arms about 19 feet from the bus As it headed towards a Border school the wounded children Mam i Shahe were to Hospital israeli planet and ground troops raided Egypt s major naval base on the1 red sea during the night aboard the ambushed bus bloodstained satchels and lunch bags were strewn Over the a eats at least five of the dead were aged 8 to 8. Two teachers and the Driver also perished the Driver was thrown 25 feet from the bus an israeli Soldier searching the area after the incident stepped on a mine and was wounded. Two packs of jordanian rigs irettes were found next to four Bazooka shells which had not been fired footprints indicated eight men were involved it a said one settler Quot Atoo five minutes earlier a taxi and a truck drove by and nothing happened the foreign ministry mid the letter to the Security Council Gravity of this crime perpetrated against innocent school children Quot the israeli raiders hit port a Faga 230 Miles Southeast of suet and 87 Miles South of Sharmel sheikh the nearest Israel held Point on the Sinai Peninsula a spokesman mid. All israeli forces returned safety he reported the spokesman gave no further details six Days ago israeli warplanes Ink an egyptian destroyer and a simile boat in the red sea South of Safas that attack was retaliation for the sinking of an israeli fishing trawler by egyptian a Miles. Toe Israel la mid. The ambush of the bus and the killing or wounding of so see mid Eart. Page 14� huh gives most students his of Allen Breaks with tobacco men to to pvt want action in Ixon on w a by o. C. Thelen or. Associated press writer Washington a Edu a cation commissioner James e. Allenjr. Has become the first presidential appointee to break Nixon administration ranks Over Cambodia. Allen publicly added the War in Indochina thursday to his list of disagreements with president Nixon. The decision to Send american troops into Cambodia he said have had a disastrous be cts on the country. At two separate meetings with office of education employees Allen also reinforced his known disagreements with the White House Over school desegregation and Federal spending for education. The 99-year-old, highly regarded former new York commissioner of education was asked twice about Cambodia a a i find it difficult to understand the rationale for the necessity of the move into Cambodia or indeed to continue the War in Vietnam a he answered the first time. _ Allen expanded in is second response Reading from prepared notes. A i find it difficult to understand the rationale for the necessity of the move into cambo Dia As a Means of support t melt see Allen. Page 14 on Imperial by Gerry Nelson associated press writer St Paul Minn apr after 19 months As a College teach. A. Former Vico presian he a lir Ophrey la mks ready a it. Be a passing grim to the vast majority of american students by and Large he Mars they Are an Active Bunch full of creative dissent and not willing to let a few Quot rebels of disorder Quot speak for All students Humphrey who will be 99 next wednesday talked in an interview of his fling As a Quot politician in residence at Maralys Ter College and the University of Minnesota where he has been a part time teacher of International relations since Tartu Ary 1909. He is expected to relinquish that role soon and announce As a democratic candidate for the . Senate from Minnesota probably on june 13. Humphrey takes a hard line against any violence on College campuses whether by students or government authorities. He does not condone either the killings of students in Ohio r a president a press pro Nixon method utilizes detailed planning by Harry f. Rosenthal associated press writer Washington a it is 9 45 of a warm Friday evening and the White House is swaddled in lights. Outside its Gates in restless procession come the first of the thousands massing in the capital to proclaim dismay about Cambodia Vietnam and Kent state. Unakie wearing a Blue suit and Light Dev Friob shakeup Richard Nixon Walta in the red room preparing to face reporter and a to audience of 59 million in me Hyfa formal conference of is presidency. It is toe events of toe the Welling a of it Haseoo followed is cambodian decision. Tost prompted Thi Nixon a preparation for 1l at 10 pan. Uhran strides into to glittering East room a he knows that this night toe questions will be Tough. And they Are from the very Start. A emr. President have you been surprised by the intensity of the protest of your decision to Send troops into Cambodia. Or. President do you believe that you can open up meaningful communications with this College age generation and How. Or. President what do you think the students Are trying to my a Nixon rocks Forward slightly. He looks directly at is questioner hands damped tightly behind As though he were supporting himself on an invisible rail. His. Voice Sokume s slight quaver. The answers Are the sentences parse. None if. Thi questions Surprise my. Each had been Atid Petoud by Ida staff and paced in Mantea the president Baa been studying far two Days. Nixon is not at his Best in a mall talk with strangers but he a s pro when it comes to speeches and press conferences. He crams for them like a lawyer about to argue a. Case before the supreme court. The emphasis is on detailed planning. Nixon chose to make his cambodian decision known with a televised speech on april 30, awl to respond to the criticism in toe press conference on May 8. How be went about it provides s Good insight into the Workings of the 37th. President. He began to think about the a Cope of the cambodian speech formulating ideas., on april .22. After meeting with the National Security Council. A the called for option paper aide. A that weekend he to Camp David. Henry Lew there on saturday with various Kos Stager is the or Addente Stop assistant for Security affairs. On the presidential yacht the next Day and later with the Csc Nixon discussed the Cam Bodian situation again. Quot a the decision to execute was. Made on tuesday the 28th,�?� the aide says. A the had to make it then to get. Started on United states support for the South vietnamese to get troops once the decision had been reached Nixon went into seclusion. In the executive office building next door to the White House in a Large room filed with official gifts and various Little elephant statues the president started dictating into across the Street to work in the sunny Rose Garden. This time the yellow Legal pads he prefers were used Only for the changes head make As each successive draft was typed by Rose Mary Woods his per j Sonal Secretary. She knows the Way he likes to a a see a speech and carefully puts each important phrase on a separate line. A it was dictate look think talk a mys the aide. A on wednesday be went to bed after Midnight and got up at 5. He dictated awhile and went Back to the draft he delivered that night was the eighth and each a machine referring occasional r word waa a own prob by to a list of major Point drawn up by Kkt Toger. Head sit there be a Gold cloth covered chair feat up of an ottoman tapping on the arms with his reeding Goa alas dictating occasionally wandering Bly writes Mare of is Awn speeches than any president since Woodrow Wilson. _ this is not to say that he modes his speechwriter a As Harry s. Truman did with Clark Clifford see Nixon Page 14 Rocky mount n c. It a it the Bright Belt warehouse association has been urged to a take every appropriate action to prevent Imperial tobacco co. From withholding buyers from 16 flue cured tobacco markets in the Southeast. The Eastern Carolina House association unanimously officials say approved a Resolution thursday night opposing the British firms i decision and asking the Bright Belt group to oppose it. The statement passed by the association at its annual meet ing said Imperial s action would materially diminish the buying Competition on the affected markets. The group said a threat to any Market should be viewed As a threat to All markets ,. The markets eight in North Carolina six in Georgia and one each in South Carolina and Virginia Are All Small markets with one set of buyers. Imperial said it would withdraw buyers from them As a matter of business necessity. Warehousemen from 13 of the 17 markets in the Eastern Belt were present at the meeting the Eastern markets affected Are Clinton and Robersonville spokesman for those two markets said imperials action confirmed by company officials last Friday could be a a the beginning of the end for All one Sale and perhaps two Sale markets in the five state flue cured producing area. Some 67 of the 94 markets in the area have Only one me requiring one set of buyers. The Eastern association a reelected s. S. Edmondson of Rocky mount As president. He told the association that a sub a committee from the Industry wide flue cured tobacco marketing. Committee a and Masai Lippi. Or the student disorders that brought in loaded weapons a a Al think one thing we have to learn a that the use at firearms in in he disturbance can Only or it just red in the most extreme circumstances a he mid. �?T1 also think there s a tendency to overuse our National Lut d in circumstances for which they re not fully trained. Now is not to justify at All the viol me of the handful who were throwing things and engaging in Campus anarchists mys Humphrey amount to a Small group who gain followers Only when authorities overreact to them As s teacher Humphrey appears. Satisfied that he has act Compi shed what he was hired to do reaction to his role As a professor has been mixed among both students and other faculty men oers. Humphrey describes As a a lightning Rod who tends to attract reactions of various kinds but he is proud of the fact a see Humphrey Page 14 n Clear d deterrent not for China see tobacco Page 14 by Jim Adams associated press writer Washington it a two ranking Pentagon officials say nuclear retaliation is not a reliable deterrent against a red chinese attack because there is no Way to know How much atomic destruction peking is willing to accept in return. Chinese citizens Are being told a they can accept an attack survive it and grow a the officials said in congressional testimony released today and . Retaliation against 1,000 chinese cities would kill Only 11 per cent of the country a population. The april 10 testimony by Deputy defense Secretary David m Packard and or. John s. Foster director of defense research came on behalf of the Nixon administration s safeguard antimissile system a a they mid it would be Foolhardy to rely on Tea nuclear deterrent when the safeguard system can atop any missile attack Cero Piniat China can launch against this country this decade. They told the mouse defense appropriations subcommittee us Retalia Tateo against 900 chinese cities would destroy up to 90 per cent of that country a Industrial capacity while killing about 9 per cent of its population it is impossible to assess whether chinese leaders who have a traditionally placed a rather Low value on human life a would not accept that Packard mid. Packard and Foster provided the subcommittee a 30-minute Chi pese made color film described in the transcript As showing Quot chinese preparations for the nuclear Testa held to observe Effee on. Their troops and ground equipment a the striking feature of this film a at least to us a Foster mid a is the attitude that it seems to he desc ring to the people in China that they can accept an attack survive it and grow a it is similar to some of the Early a tons a this country when Gray first had atomic bombs a he said. A i found it very urging no safeguard construction delays Packard and Foster repeated the Aas emment that even present. A see China Page 14

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