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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - October 15, 1970, Washington, North Carolina# weather Shower it spreading Aero a the Arete Vil a a evening partial Clearing and turning cooler Friday. Low tonight m Ink High Friday iqjp4c 80s and 70� Washington daily news if you do not got your paper. ,. Hal 9m-21u hot wifi a w1 and ? to o clock and one 111 be delivered to you. A Sla amp a shed 190?. Doll Rufon pams Washington. North Caio Ilna. Thursday Ahern of Toff 15, 1970 daily i pc i i sunday in u. A new isolationism feared by Nixon 24 killed As Bridge collapses communists forcefully fire policy study proposed Here by Frank Cormier associated press writer Washington and spite talk of an intensified cold War president Nixon fears a Quot new isolationism Quot at Home and plans an Effort to revive a live and let live agreement with the Kurlat Ivaloe. In a continued meeting of the Washington City Council Here last night a request from Seacreas Marine to go into contract with the City for fire department Protection Lead to a request from several councilmen that the entire fire departments policy regarding business and Industry be studied for possible revision. The Council tentatively ape proved the contract with Seacrest which would provide a fee of .002 cents per Square foot of Plant under roof and $100 per additional truck sent to a fire. The county fire truck is sent initially without charge. The fee is charged Only in the event of fire or Quot Quot re a we a the City has verbal agreements with other industries in the immediate City area and the Council indicated it will probably invite these in Antles into written contracts along the lines of the Seacrest plan. Questions were raised to How far out of the City the contractual agreements should extend a and whether or not to include business outside the City. These question will be studied and the Council will reconsider its policy at the next meeting. Indicating a growing concern for possible City expansion the Council turned Down a request the second recently to provide a fire hydrant to Gregory Poole see Council Page 141 president signs ant crime Bill area Cha officials meet Here Farmers Home administration personnel from eight Eastern North Carolina counties held an area meeting Here wednesday to discuss Agency policy and procedures. Counties represented were Beaufort Hyde dare Tyrrell Washington. Pamlico Craven and Carteret. James p. Johnson state director was on hand for the meeting As were a number of other state officials. Johnson in an interview with a daily news writer said Rural housing Loans Are up 400 per cent. He said Cha will finance about 7,000 Homes in the state this year. The Cha director said North Carolina is one of the states in which Cha activities Are larger he explained that one of the reasons for the boost in housing Loans is the need for better Rural housing. Quot Rural housing in the state is inadequate Quot or. Johnson said. He said even though Cha is loading More Money for housing than Ever before the Agency is Quot Only scratching the surface in helping meet the need in the state. Johnson said the three areas of service being emphasized by 1 see Cha. Page 14i by Thomas Brady associated press writer Washington Apt a president Nixon today signed a sweeping ant crime Bill and said it would give Federal authorities the tools for an All out War on the mafia. He pledged Quot we will signing the measure into Law at special ceremonies at the Justice department. Nixon said the measure also provides the Means to Quot see that those who engage in terrorist acts will be brought to measure passed last week by Congress after being deadlocked for 18 months touches on two of the major issues in this Falls Campaign the growing strength of organized criminal activities and bombings by Radical groups which Are becoming a frequent occurred c a. One provision of the Bill added just last month provides the death Penally for those convicted of fatal bombings gives the Fri immediate jurisdiction in Campus bombing Mcdents and makes bombing an offence for which the government can use electronic surveillance. Quot it seems that every Day we pick up the papers and see some sporadic incident without reason without cause a terroristic act that we have not been Able to Cope with before a Nixon said. Nixon invited atty. Gen. John n. Mitchell and Fri director j. Edgar Hoover to witness the signing As part of an Effort to underline the importance of what one White House spokesman a lied Quot a very major piece of but civil liberties Organiza see crime Page 14� his idea while acknowledging his actions in Public life have stamped him a Strong anti communist is to seek a coexistence working to the Mutual Benefit of the United states and Russia. At the he Nixon believes weariness after 2$ years of shouldering global burdens May be turning the american people toward isolation which he feels would be a mistake. Otherwise according to his thinking and he has an inkling Moscow might agree a . Retreat to Home base would leave the world by 1995 with Only two superpowers the soviet Union and red China because no non communist nation could fill the void. Nixon is of the View the soviets would prefer quite a different world in 1995. To world in which the United states would continue its global role but one in which Moscow and Washington would avoid direct confrontation. Still the chief executive feels Competition will continue Between the two nations and differences now Are so deep and profound they cannot be bridged. By their leaders smiling shaking hands or coming to know each other better at a Summit conference. With these thoughts in mind Nixon is preparing a major address on oct. 23 before the . General Assembly. It could Well be he will make a direct Appeal to the soviets to coexist in peace a move that in a sense would bypass the machinery of the International or Gani Zatae while he believes the can be a useful v vehicle for settling difficulties Between some of the smaller nations it cannot be used to head off disputes Between the superpowers the United states and the soviet Union he is convinced would never submit their fates to the vote of More than 100 countries. Instead what is needed he feels is a resolve on each Side to find areas of common agreement while avoiding a potential nuclear apocalypse. In the presidents View three major factors work against any confrontation a neither country skely would unleash nuclear weapons that would claim 40 million to 70 Mil lion lives on the other Side knowing that retaliation in kind and similar casualties at Home would result. A each nation has a motive for scaling Down the arms race or at least preserving the status. Quo because of pressures on National budgets. He sees the soviet arms Burden As two to three times greater than the United states because of the russians smaller Gross National product. A the two countries can profit Melbourne Australia apr Twenty four workmen were killed and 19 injured today when a 2.000 ton Section of a Bridge under construction in Melbourne fell 134 feet to the ground Twenty five other workmen were missing authorities said. The collapse halted work on what is to be Australia s largest Bridge Over a mile Long Span rating the Yarra River in the reject . Peace plan egyptians request . Debate on Middle East s. \ Vietnam offers proposal try Southern part of Melbourne known As the West Gate Bridge its eight lanes Are expected to carry 30.000 cars and trucks Clai by. Completion was scheduled for next year j a i a a l la. A Nijar Fly in i to to attn ii Iii 9 of to of i Rurant. Unions withdrew their men from the $47 million project and Premier sir Henry Bolte of Victoria state ordered an investigation into the disaster. About 70 welders were on the prefabricated steel and Concrete Span when it gave Way and thundered Down on construction Sheds along the River Bank where other workers were eat ing their lunches a fire broke out. And fire engines and every available ambulance were ordered to the scene three huge Mobile cranes were moved in to lift debris. Quot the bloody thing cracked in the said one of the injured welders. Quot i was on top of work on the Bridge was halted temporarily two months ago so that its steel framework could be strengthened. This followed the collapse of part of the similarly constructed Milford Haven Bridge in Wales on june 2 in which four men died the consulting engineering firm of Freeman Fox and partners was employed on both projects. By Tom Uthil associated press writer United nations. By. Apr Egypt stole the spotlight from the Silver anniversary of the United nations today with a request for an urgent de Bole on the Middle East a soon As the commemorative session is Over. The question is already on the general Assembly s Agenda but diplomats had hoped to avoid a Public airing of the dispute Between Israel and her Arab neighbors. The commemorative session attended by chiefs of state and government from All Over the world began wednesday and ends oct. 24 the Middle East debate requested wednesday by egyptian am lbs ador Mohammed h. Al Zayyat is expected to get under Way Ort 28 a spokesman also announced that the big four for eign ministers have accepted an inv Tibon to Dine with Secretary general i Thani on oct. 22 or 23 in that s offices the american British soviet and French diplomats Art expected to discuss the Middle East and other world problems . Secretary of state Wil Ham p Roger was arriving today for the commemorative session he invited soviet foreign minister Andrei a Gromyko to dinner on Friday and Gromyko will entertain Rogers at the soviet Mission monday night Rogers was to see a number of other foreign ministers Dur in of in a his stay in new boric eluding Mahmond Riad Egypt Thant set the theme of the commemorative session wednesday with a message calling on member states to try to provide a Brig ser future tor i or one Quot billion people in countries that Havi gained Independence in the pay Quarter Century Quot squalid poverty lives Side by Side w Ith overabundance on our he said Quot we have reached the Moon but we have not reached each other a Thant a fahd for a fresh Start Tow Ard realizing the goals of the in charter Quot the United nations this hesitant. Almost reluctant instrument of nations of world peace isee . Pane str by Stephens by thing Tesori Ard press writer Paris a the Viet namese communists forcefully restated today Hanoi a rejection of president n to on a peace plan i nit us David wreck injuries fatal inv Washington blow becomes storm today Miami apr Tolje tropical depression that lashed puerto Rico with death dealing Rains grew today into a Winter Type storm with winds of Hurricane Force and gales whistling Over a 409-mile area. The danger to the Bahamas and the Atlantic coast lessened however As the 3torm veered off its Westerly Vourse to a northerly track. Mrs. Betty Stancill Leggett age 35, a resident of the whispering Pine Road it. 1. Washington died in the Craven county Hospital at i 30 a m. Today As the result of injuries received in an automobile Accident on Highway n. C.%1 near Vance Boro. Mrs. Leggett was bom Here july 2, 1935, Daugh Quot r Stancill and mrs. Eya Jones Gardner. She spent iter lifetime in Washington and graduated from Washington High school in the class of 1953. She was employed by the Federal Bureau of investigation in Washington d c. For one year and later has been employed by the Washington Belk Tyler store for the past 15 years officials warned of Kidnap threats Quot the storm system does not have the character or strut Ture of a Hurricane nor the chaotic and dangerous sea conditions that Are associated with a Hurricane a said a 10 a m Edt bulletin. She was married to Thelbert c. Legge tube Beaufort county on june 17, 1956. She was a member of the Wharton Trinity United methodist Church. It was described As navigable to oceangoing ships Bat Quot very dangerous to Small Craft Quot because of the turn to the North the danger of heavy ground swells and Beach erosion for the Northern Bahamas and the Southeast . Coastline is decreasing Quot the National Hurricane Center said. Surviving besides her husband Are her fathered Stancill of it. 3, Washington her Mother and step father or. And mrs. Bill Gardner of it. 3, Washington three sons Thel by Lawrence u. Knutson associated press writer Washington a a Kidnap Alert has been ordered in the upper Levels of government and Congress with the White House warning senators and representatives they May be on Njo a gets for abduction by Dws Penanes sen William b Saxbe a Ohio in telling of the warnings to members of Congress said he believes the Onk Way to Haft Quot political blackmail before it starts is to make it a Federal crime for officials to give in to it. Saxbe commented in an inter View with newsmen on the met Ormedia radio news program a profile a he disclosures came shortly after a Justice departments official told newsmen the Fri has in inf reports some us. We Aorist groups May try to Kidnap foreign diplomats or campaigning politicians in the style of re cent political kidnappings in can Ada and latin America. A for example a Saxbe said. The assassination kidnapping or assault of a member of Congress a Federal offence punishable by life imprisonment and death. Quot there has been some discus Sion and concern among my col Saxbe said Quot it was brought up at a recent White House conference red a Quot Quot an Alert at present i p e Tice department has a i members of Congress to y should be careful he said senators and House members have not been provid �1 with guards but said he believed that al times of crisis round the clock Protection May he fully justified a even if he in suits he does t want it Quot in a situation he said senators. House member and other officials become More in portent than their positions tie cause of the possibility blackmail might be demanded from the government itself bulletin see Nixon Page 141 Quot precautions should be continued however for dangerous Beach surf and undertow from Charleston s.c., to Virginia Beach Small Craft from Cape Kennedy to Cape Hatteras should not venture into open bertc., jr., Stanley and Jeffrey Leggett All of the Home one daughter Michelle Leggett also of the Home a sister mrs. Travis Stepps of a Woodbridge a. A step brother Bill Gardner or. With the if. S air Force in Thailand and maternal grandmother Quot mrs. Ida Williams of Swan Quarter. Quot if i am picked up and t certainly Haven to been threatened and they write in and Tell some government official. Quot if you done to release so and so we re going to kill i think if that official turns that criminal Loose he ought to be a a a last thursday tackling the problem from another direction the Senate passed a. Bill making k e Brut t quid them he was awaiting Quot a More considered and constructive response Quot at he same time. South Vietnam offered what a member of the delegation desc tied As new pin Stichl proposals in an attempt to break i he deadlock at the paria peace l carried a hint that Saigon might accept a formula other than elections to decide South Vietnam s political future Bruce called the Nixon plan a set of Quot specific Ami logical proposals that Short old become a a Sis or detailed negotiations a _ a a he reminded had Erss Ries Quot you indicated that you would be commenting on the presidents proposals More definitively at this and subsequent sessions Todas we await a More considered and constructive response Quot South vietnamese ambassador Pham Dang Lam told the weekly session of the Vietnam peace talks that his government Quot has the sincere conviction that free elections open Brail political parties and groups in South Vietnam including the National liberation front would constitute the Best and most rational Way for the South Viet namese population to exercise genuinely its right of Seif deter Man anon a Lam did not say what a it 118 than a Lection i me a red flu willing to d cuss. But when pie cent Nguyen Van Thieu fire proposed free elections on july or Tow he said. Quot the Only Way for the people of South Vietnam to exercise their right of self determination 7. Is through exec Fin a Quot Lam s softening on Thia Point we a True or. The five Point proposal Nixon made oct 7. Nixon skirted the que the of electrons and spoke of Quot the political Procesa agreed upon. Echoing a Hanoi broadcast earlier today mrs Nguyen thi Binh the Viet Cong s chief Dele a Jatto the talks told hew sirtes that the Viet Cong. North Vietnam and their allies in Laos and Cambodia Quot have categorically Istanbul al soviet Aeroflot Airliner Cut t y my 50 persons was hijacked on an internal Fligh today Atrul forced to Fly to Trabzon Turkey where it crash landed the official turkish news Agency Anatolia reported unconfirmed press reports said a hostess was shot dead and two pilots wounded pseudo reject. F i a a ice. F i it a a he a Micro phone outside the conference room ambassador Ruari Thuy of North Vietnam said Quot the peace put Forth by or Nixon is a false he said the americans must address them selves. To the Quot just and reason talks Page 14� reconvenes on nov. 16 Congress recesses leaving b in 13tack of Bills for after elections funeral services will be held in the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home Friday at 2 . Conducted by the Rev Jerry Smith pastor of the Wharton Trinity United methodist Church. Burial will follow in Pamlico memorial gardens. Must we change lifestyle to fit the ecology the following will serve As Active pallbearers Onnie Boyd Jessie Powers Lester Waters Billy Dawson Raeford Liller . Fourth of a series a news special by Yvonne Baskin replace them or live without them we must live within the limits they impose by Joe Hall associated press writer Washington apr with a last minute flurry of activity Congress has recessed for a month leaving for a lame Duck session a big stack of Bills including a major part of president Nixon a program. The recess began wednesday afternoon with Congress to reconvene nov. 16 for the first Post election session since the korean War. Before quitting for the final weeks of campaigning Congress sent to the White House a Bill providing tougher penalties against traffickers in drugs but easing penalties against those using some narcotics action also was completed on three health measures authorizing $2.5 billion for a variety of programs legislation setting up a government backed corporation designed to preserve same rail passenger service and a $1.6 billion military construction authorization Bill among Bills left Over for the Post election session which leaders Hope to adjourn before Christmas Are eight Money Bills needed to run the government during the current fiscal year and a three year farm program which limits crop subsidies for the first time. The sharpest fight in the lame Duck session May come in the Senate on the welfare Reform proposal which the president has called his no. 1 Domestic item in the 9lst Congress the House passed the family assistance plan in april. But it Long was stalled in the Senate finance committee before the panel voted to reject it. Supporters of the plan say they still can win in the Senate by attaching it to a social Security Bill considered certain to pass however the social Security Bill has not yet been cleaned by finance. It is entangled in a fight Over restrict Onist Trade legislation which the committee has added As a rider. A band of free Trade senators has announced it will do everything possible to Block this rider other Nixon proposals remaining to be considered Are a Job safety Bill a constitutional amendment on electoral Reform a manpower training measure and legislation to provide Emer gency Aid to fac with desegregation problems. The president has offered several other measures which Are almost certain not to be considered by the 91st Congress in this category Are Revenue sharing with the states and cities draft Reform higher education including a revision of student loan programs and Reform of the Federal Grant in Aid system. John d. Ehrlichman Nixon a consultant on Domestic matters charged wednesday Congress had been bogged Down in a lot of unproductive debate at the expense of . Quot there a been a lot of politics played by the democratic leadership and a lot of things have been bottled up because they did no to want to go into this november election giving the republicans a Chance to show Progress a Ehrlichman said in a metro Media radio news inter. View he predicted As live con the family will beat die Home on the whispering Pines Road it i Washington. Tobacco associated press writer Raleigh apr if an old elevator Felt and Many people were injured would any right thinking person press charges against the fastest passenger a the question was asked by a Winston Salem official who con Ipnar Apfl Hie Futy she Hlll du1 he in. The View of conservationists this Means the Quot fat Man Quot must increasingly be held accountable for his weight. Against All our traditions the exploitation and Over indulgence of industries govern ments and individuals in the use of our shared natural res arces the limitations will mean a change in our attitude toward Industry technology and drop erty rights and eventually change in our Way of life. Quot and changing a Way of life is much More painful than spending Money on a Wallace added. Lox Iscore Quot embarrassed Quot for being the must be curbed they say the Basic problem is that Industry and technology no matter How rigidly controlled pro the Washington tobacco Market yesterday sold major polluter 5f "25e Adit in River since Many minor polluters also had a part in it. Carolina s Roost noted conservationists or. James c. Wallace of Chapel Gressional leaders that Little of consequence will come from the lame Duck session. However the pre election session was not a Complete washout for the White House earlier this week Nixon was sent a Tough ant crime Bill aimed at organized crime and terrorist bombings. Legislation was enacted to set see Congress Page 14 282,506 pounds of tobacco for $184,654.63 for an average of $65.36 per 100 pounds the Washington Market to Date has now sold pounds of tobacco for $6,638,025.86 for an average of $71.78 per 100 pounds. Billy Dawson supervisor says Quot we believe Farmers can be assured of a Quick High Sale any Day next week. The big Rush has on next monday. October it first Sale goes to Hassell second Sale goes to sermons third Sale goes to Talley warehouse. In the Yadkin elevator Quot the official told the North Carolina pollution control committee. But conservationists and oth pig Ilana Attiani u 44 t hf1 in. A a a Xian invt Piru of Tjui a Quot to Viron ment contend there is a Falacy in the analogy which Points up a Basic idea they have been trying to Tell us for decades old elevators can be replaced. Worn out streams cannot. Our sluggish and polluted creeks and streams our foul air and our scarred land done to work As Well for us now As when they were we have used them hard. But since we cannot problem is that we live in a finite world and yet we behave As if it were Wallace and other Environ mint Ali is have found it hard a a wimp mini Duce wastes these wastes what have become popularly known As pollution a certain amount of this tech Wjk st Caln t>8 cleaned up by boy scout anti litter campaigns lawsuits by the government against major polluters and sophisticated ant pollution impress this finiteness in a state that still has Mountain and coastal wilderness and where there is still room for people to get away from one another Quot Moat people right now Are wholly unaware that we re on the eve of enforced brotherhood Quot Wallace said. Quot we re going to have to live within limitations. But our tradition is opposed to this we have never accepted but in the Long run As the country a leading ecologists Tell us there is no technological answer to pollution the Only answer they say is to curb technology to limit the amount and Type of Udu Stry we will allow. This Means the Public must change its lifestyle enough to cease demanding every time saving Gadget techno pollution. Page 14�

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