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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - November 12, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather a becoming partly Cloudy this a of toon through Haiy lilt fit ill �1. Friday. Lows to night in pm 90s Washington daily news if you do not get your paper a thai Are is a $9 end 1 09 n a love Mil. Us will a Teli. Varad to you established 1909 ten parcs Washington North Carolina thursday afternoon november 12 Yff daily exc if sunday desegregation a mixing enforcers shifting northward enemy workers meet to decide building up p or move in Tulsa dynamite blast by g. C. Thelen or. A Atolia lad Pratt writer Washington apr a High Nixon administration official Tays the task of compelling school desegregation in the South a Complete enough that government enforcement offi kills nine today pan american spokesmen said they could not determine in darkness exactly what happened. The blast apparently occurred shortly before 6 . And Shock Waves were Felt in a wide area however it was some time before the source of the explosion was discovered a Tulsa county sheriffs office dispatcher said the first persons on the scene were members of a Power company Crew looking for a broken electrical line. The truck being used by the Seismograph Crew in drilling a test Hole was demolished. A drilling truck and a Van also were ripped apart. Several Sheds some used for storage of explosives were near the site of the blast and fear of other explosions led authorities to blockade the area for several hours. Dynamite is used by Seismograph Crews to make soundings for Oil deposits. Tulsa. Okla., api a dynamite explosion has kilted at least nine members of an Oil company Seismograph Crew and company officials were trying to determine today How Many men were in the Crew. Sheriffs and Tulsa police officers began investigating and Tulsa police officers began investigating at the first Light of the Day. Officers said explosives on a truck apparently were ignited wednesday night by Sparks from a High voltage electric line struck by a Crane. Only one victim was immediately identified. He was David k. Ellis 26, Tulsa who had been employed by the pan american Petroleum corp about five months. The explosion occurred at the pan american s Bird Creek testing site in Northeast Tulsa county. A company official said the Crew was conducting an Experiment on an underground geologic fracture. Cardiac devices causing concern by Brian Sullivan a science Willei Atlantic City . Apr the american heart association was told today that a study of electronic devices used in the cardiac care units of 12 leading hospitals in the United states revealed a significant deficiencies Quot in All 12. A the problems varied from time wasting nuisances to life threatening hazards Quot the study said. Quot some types of defects could also result in incorrect diagnosis and the report from the Wayne state University school of Medicine in Detroit did not name the hospitals or give equipment Brand names. It was presented for the annual meeting of the heart association. A both equipment manufacturers and hospitals seem to beast fault a the report said a although both were anxious to Correct the Situa Tion once it was of 51 Electrocardiography studied More than half exhibited unsafe leakage of electrical current among other problems the report said. These devices record heartbeats and Are used to diagnose heart illness. Another device studied is called a defibrillator. It is used to direct an electric Shock to the heart through a paddle placed against the Chest in an attempt to Correct an irregularly beating heart a critical condition requiring fast action. The Wayne state investigators a cardiologist and an Engineer said they studied 41 direct current defibrillators. A in one Brand Quot the study said a the main Power switch was difficult to find. Loosely fitting connectors were found in two brands allowing the Cable to be pulled out when the operator stretched the cables to reach the the paddles themselves were not always manufactured Well the study said. Some were easily Bent so they no longer conformed to the shape of patients Chest the study said. A when applied Quot the report said a there is then poor Contact resulting in arcing wasting Energy and burning the the team reported studying 57 pacemakers devices designed to Speed up a heart that is beating too slowly by applying a Small regular electric charge. All 57, the Wayne state team said contained a defect at the end of the lines leading to the heart that could allow minute amounts of current to go astray and produce an irregular heart. Page 2v Cere arc being shifted to such cases in the North. The official closely associated with civil rights enforcement said the administration will place increasing Reliance on Southern school officials Tom see. Bat classroom Mae. Quot just As had been predicted most Southern school administrators in fact want to fulfil the Law Quot the official told a group of newsmen at a background briefing. He could not be identified under ground rules of the session. The officials comments appeared to confirm in part charges by civil rights organizations that the administration does not intend to press the Issue of in school discrimination in the South. The department of health education and welfare has encountered difficulty in framing guidelines against such practices As discriminatory grouping of children in classrooms according to ability he said. Hew officials first announced their intention to publish the guidelines last june. They were prompted by reports that despite formal desegregation a number of Southern schools continue to discriminate against Black pupils and teachers. Instances of Bias in discipline practices extracurricular activities teacher firing and ability grouping have been cited. Administration officials have suggested on several occasions in recent months that enforcement pressure on Southern schools is being eased. But the statements in the background session were the first explicit expression of the shift. Desegregation in the South has eased enough the official said Quot that we can shift resources to the he identified resources As enforcement officers. The administration maintains 97 per cent of All Southern systems Are now desegregated. However officials will not estimate the percentage of Black pupils in predominately White classrooms this percentage was the formal measure of desegregation Progress until this year. Rascoe rites held blounts Creek a funeral services for George Washington Rascoe or. Who died tuesday at his Home at blounts creels were held today at 2 00 at the Chapel of the Stampley funeral Home conducted by the Rev. Lynwood c. Boyette. Burial was in the Pamlico memorial gardens. Active pallbearers were Arthur Norman Lester Cox Durwood Weston Phil Weston Harry love and Hinton Smith Wick. Honorary pallbearers were Dean Toler and Ralph Jones. Washington a North Vietnam has expanded its fuel storage capacity just above the demilitarized zone by about 1,500 per cent a preparation for heavy movement of Supply trucks into Laos says us sources. Reconnaissance photographs show the North vietnamese. A a o a i Ili top that can handle some 1.5 million Gallons compared with a 100,000 gallon capacity eight months ago according to the sources. Meanwhile the North Viet namese Are mid to have mar Sha lied about 5,000 trucks the the Haiphong area for use in the expected big dry season push to resupply their forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia according to recent estimates the North vietnamese have moved More than in tons of supplies s Day into the Laos Border area since the Start of summer compared with about 70 tons daily in the same period last year sources said. American reconnaissance has noticed also the construction of a sizable amount of covered storage facilities in the Panhandle. More supplies have been sighted spread out on pallets near Dong hoi about 50 mlle North of the demilitarized Zona. In addition to supplies and equipment arriving from Russia and other communist countries at Haiphong the North vietnamese reportedly have been sending Small cargo Craft to unload freighters standing off the North vietnamese coast Well out into the South Chine sea these boats sources said then move the supplies directly to the Panhandle unloading across the Beach at places like Quang Khe a trans shipment Point some 60 Miles above the demilitarized zone. Streams leading from North Vietnam into Laos and thence into Cambodia also Figur importantly in the North \ namese Supply movement. Experts estimated that about 40 tons a Day in fuel and other supplies Are floated into Laos in barrels and Waterproof bags. American Inte Uig ence in Thon ties say there is ample evidence that the enemy has made Early preparations even during bad weather inside Southern Laos for the big Supply surge to come. This year for the first time the enemy left some 40,000 men and 1,600 trucks operating As a logistics group in the Laos re Gion during the Rainy season. American airborne cameras have spotted More than 1,500 individual truck Parks away from the main roads there. Long funeral at 3 36 funeral services for mrs. Myrtle Mercer Long who died wednesday morning will be held this afternoon at 3 30 at the Chapel of the Stampley funeral Home by the Rev. Leonard Gerrald. Burial will be in the Oakdale cemetery. Pallbearers will be James Morgan Clyde him j9�b9� a chef Upton. Clarence Beacham and Geno Andreoli. On pm new contract offer strike takes its toll rejection i ill return on dealers government red the bar gainers Xuy Issue a by Charlea f Tai associated press writer Detroit apr the strike by the United Auto workers against Genera motors appears to have made its most noticeable and immediate Dent in the of the corporate re offt. A i Fri which represents its labor Force but each Day the worlds largest manufacturing concern is shut Down the strike takes an increasing toll on workers Auto dealers companies that Supply goods and services to pm and government treasuries that rely on the firm for tax revenues Law and pm reached tents Tive agreement on a new nation al rant Art and Nariny hut the company is not expected to be turning out cars at its Normal clip until dec l at the earliest. During the strike which began sept 15, the Law used up All its $190 million strike fund on week tax cnllflloia.9lafl.5u��gi strike in Carer a politics in Michigan the state hardest hit by the shutdown Glenn s. Allen. Michigan s budget director. Mid the strike has Cost the state about 135 Mil by a Hata Umra payment to Uon in reduced sales tax collect about 994.000 Union members pm lost $77 million for the third Quarter which included the first two weeks of the strike this was pm s first quarterly loss since 1946. And it it expected to show More red Ink in the fourth Quarter steel companies railroads trucking firms and airlines were among the Industrial hardest hit by the strike. State and local Dona and about $26 million in increased welfare Coats an oct 29 report to Mulliken said the cities of Detroit. Flint. Grand rapids. Pontiac Sag rum. Liming and Highland Park had last in the first month of the strike a total of nearly $1.5 million in City income lax revenues Jones a laugh to steel corp. Isec strike. Page 2� mourning simple grand France says to Charles goodbye Degaulle by John Vincour associated press writer Paris apr France said Goodby today to Charles de Gaulle. In the magnificence of notre Dame Cathedral yet with the simplicity he ordained world leaders joined thousands of parisians at an austere mass concluded with the magnificat. Degaulle s body was not at this Church of our lady where the tall general once celebrated the liberation of Paris from the legions of Adolf Hitler. The body remained at the Home Village where he lived and died and there a few hours later it was committed to the Sot of France. Great crowds had gathered at the Village of Colombey Lee Deus Eulises but a simple burial in a country churchyard replaced the military pomp that Degaulle had rejected for the final ritual. Nonetheless scores of world leaders including president Nixon made the notre Dame service the greatest such gathering since the funeral of Dwight d. Eisenhower 19 months ago. And the Bells of cathedrals and churches All Over France sounded a requiem. In Paris the monarchs and the princes the presidents and the premiers sat on Little red Plush chairs before the altar of the 80o-year-old Cathedral for the requiem mass celebrated by Francois Cardinal Marty the archbishop of Paris. De Gaulle a name was pronounced Only four times in 45 minutes of prayer for his soul. There was no Eulogy no playing of tape no symbolic cat Falque this simplicity hewed to the Strong willed general a wishes expressed in instructions he wrote in 1952 about 5,000 them invited people 2,000 of guests crowded into the Limestone Interior of the Cathedral. The High vaulted Selling and the mighty pillars holding up the galleries along the Nave were brightly it by television lights the crowd pressed under the galleries restrained by police and prayed aloud As the Cardinal celebrated the Masa. Thousands of French men and women gathered for the afternoon burial service at Coloro Bey the Little Village in Eastern France which de Gaulle chose for his Home in 1936. The body Lay in a simple wooden coffin in his Home there where the few Mer French president died monday night of a heart attack. At the Start of the funeral service la Colombey churches throughout the nation were to tot the inc emf Smunk parisians streamed into notre Dame filling every space not reserved for the official Dele a Lions. The Cathedra was open to the Public until an hour before the service started loudspeakers were set tip in the neighboring4 til f to a along the nearby of a Seine to relay the sen n e radio a Sec Degaulle. Pote it jury selection for Calley set by Jathryn Johnson associated press writer it. Benning a. A selection of a jury for it. William l. Calley jr., begins today from a court martial panel which Hab been attacked by the defense As biased against Calley. Maj Kenneth a. Raby chief defense counsel for Calley who is charged with murdering 102 unarmed vietnamese civilians challenged the prospective 10-Man jury panel tuesday on grounds that it is Quot psychological in design to convict the punishment for the slender Boyish 27-year-old lieutenant could be death or life imprison ment. Meeting scheduled water District proposed for area the subject of area wide water and sewer services will be discussed at a meeting in Washington next week. The meeting is slated to be held at the county courthouse on wednesday nov. 19, at 7 30 . Coming from requests for water service from Washington Park residents which has been discussed for several years the meeting will feature various experts who can respond to questions concerning the proposal. Slated to participate Are Jake Wicker of the Institute of government Marshall Staton director of the sanitary engineering division state Board of health Robert Pittman an Engineer from the Greenville based firm of Rivers and associates and Ben Lancaster director of the Roanoke rapids sanitary District the proposed water service area would extend water tines East of Washington from Washington Park along the River Road to the yacht and country club across to Highway 264 at Douglas Crossroads then West through Sherwood Forest Mac Woods and out to the Rosedale Section. Washington Park mayor Joe Rowlett said of the proposal Quot the need for such a water District is not Only essential for our residents but could be a vital foundation for the growth of our area and making it a better place to live. I Hope that everyone who shares in this interest will attend this meeting to seek answers to their questions and show their Public concern a the meeting is being promoted by the mid East commission at the request of Washington Park officials. Frank Olvett director of the mid East and Worth Chesson development specialist met with Washington City officials who took no action but directed a Sec water Page 2i proposed Boundary of the water District. The military judge. Col. Reid w. Kennedy rejected the defense motions seeking dismissal of galleys Case on the grounds that his fights were violated by the makeup of the panel. Raby contended that three of the 20 prospective jurors Are pilots and Quot pilots tend to inflate the number of bodies they claim they saw at my this was an obvious reference to it. Hugh Thompson a helicopter Pilot who first reported the suspicion of something amiss at my Lai. Thompson is expected to it be a key government witness. The defense lawyer also argued. Bal juror officers on the panel had served in related units of the service with higher ranking officers on the panel and might be swayed in their verdict. And he also said that a Only one prospective juror had had combat duty. In denying the defense motion Kennedy told Raby he would Quot be mindful of the relationship which you be shown me of the makeup of the jury. A jury of about five to seven officers is expected to be selected from the prospective panel named by maj Chen win k. Talbott Corti madding general of it. Benning. Held in jail Edward Lee Clark 54, of Aurora to being held without Bond in the Beaufort county jail Here in the shooting death Early today of Erma Moore Holmes 36, also of Aurora. S the shooting took place on the Cowherd Springs Road Between 6 30 and 7 . Investigating officials of the Beaufort county sheriffs office said they had been unable to determine the circumstances leading to the shooting. The hoi Mea woman died at 8 30 . In Pitt memorial Hospital la Greenville with gun wounds in the neck. Clark and the victim were both negroes. By a k Mahan associated press writer Detroit 1 apr represent a Uvea of striking Gener a i motors workers meal today is Flat of whether to accept of. Reject s new three year contract ten tevely agreed pm by Bergani nera for the corporation and los it United Auni workers if the tee member pm get Mictl of the Law accepts the pro posed pact it will be put before the Union rank and file for a vote rejection of the pact by the Council would Send the Union s negotiators Back to the bargain my table and would almost Caria Only push the right week old strike into 1971 the Council s meeting wit scheduled to begin at 9 90 . Est in Detroit although a Law Council has never rejected a National contract drafted at the bargaining table a few notes of Uon Over the proposed agreement reached wednesday have been sounded Jack Wagner president of a giant Buick local in Flint Mich. And prime author of a Union demand for retirement at $500 a month after 30 years service regardless of age said be was unhappy that tin Union had compromised on the pension plan details of the contract have been withheld until Afuso the Council s meeting but bargaining table sources said the pro pored pact contained these items a a re urn o a Cost of living allowance who moves wages up or Down with quarterly changes in the con Sumer Price Index the Union agreed to a ceiling on the allow Ance in the �97 big threw cob tracts and made a return to the unlimited formula a top demand this year a a first year wage meccas ranging from 49 to 61 cents an hour depending on the worker s Job pay scale the Union had sought a boast starting at 61 3 cents and the company a test of Fer started al 38 cents. The average hourly wage m the to Dis try under the old contras was $4.02. Automakers estimate that fringe benefits Cost them an additional $1.75 hourly retirement for workers with 30 years service on pensions of $500 a month at age 58 in the of the Contrail age 56 in the second year and possibly age 55 in the third a a see Auto Page 2\ Ormond kites slated Friday mrs Mathida Mac . = Are 82, of it 1, Bath died Early today at the Beaufort county Hospital i Here following r critical illness of three months and failing health of several years mrs Ormond was born in Beaufort county sept. 30, 1888, daughter of the late George and Cora Sadler respess. She was a member of the st. Claire a Church of Christ mrs. Ormond was married to George Pink Ormond dec. 13, 1905. He died aug. 13, 1965 surviving Are five daughters mrs. Willie Daw a r17 1, Pinetown mrs. Ray Bowen of it. 1, Bath mrs Myrtle Bonner of Swan Quarter mrs John Hodges of this City and mrs. Curnie Hopkins of Belhaven one son William Henry Ormond of it 1, Bath one brother George respess of it. 1, Bath one sister. Mrs Bart Kilby of re 1, Bath 27 grandchildren 28 great grandchildren and three great great Grandc Hildita. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 from the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home with the Rev. William o. Haney pastor of the Bath Christian Church officiating. Burial will Fullow in Pamlico memorial gardens. The following will serve As Active pallbearers Jesse Greg Harold or. And Thomas Ormond. Danny Coward and Jack family will be at her bom it 1, Bath

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