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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - October 29, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather rain spreading Over entire a Tete Tani my tul. Runt Nusim Friday High Friday in Lowra might in soa5 Washington daily news if you do not get your paper. Dial fed-s�43 �-40 and i or a Cloi i and ode will be delivered to you. Established 1909 fourteen pages Washington no eth �o20r3 ,thuh50 a t 1970 a from w Sun Oak 0 pm shows first loss since 1946 by a. F. Mahan associated press writer Detroit api a general motors corp., hit by a strike and sharply declining sales has posted its first quarterly Loas in 24 years. Pm reported wednesday a $77 million loss for the july september period of this year compared with a profit of $220 Mit Span of 1969 the last previous quarterly loss reported by pm was $36 i million in the1 first Quarter of 1946, when the corporation was shut Down More than 2w month by a United Auto workers strike that strike began in 1945 and ran 119 Days to March 19, 1946. The current Law strike in support of new contract demands now is in its 45th Day but it did not erupt until 15 Days before the end of the third Quarter and shipments from factory lots continued to approximately oct. 1. Third Quarter pm sales were $3.5 billion against $5 billion in the same three months the previous year and for the three quarters $15.7 billion compare with $17.7 billion Gmys Loas dropped its earnings for this years first nine months to $744 million compared with $1.2 billion for the january september Span of 1969. Repo Ting earlier this month Ford motor co. And Chrysler corp. Showed third Quarter profits of $73.9 million and $11 million respectively. Fords profits for the first nine months totalled $365 million Down from $402 million. Chrysler had a loss of $20.2 million having failed to overcome a first Quarter loss of $29.4 million in the two subsequent quarters. Chairman James m. Roche and president Edward n. Cole of pm mid in a joint statement that the beginning of the Law strike contributed to the quarters poor sales showing. A the decline in sales a they said a was due to the vehicle production lost in the United states and Canada because of the strike called by the United see pm. Page 10 Cox funeral held today funeral services for Herbert Matthew Cox age 78, were held a the graveside at the Weston family cemetery at blounts. Creek this morning it 10 30 of clock conducted by the Rev. P. A Howard pastor of the Washington Church of god. Or. Cox a former resident of Beaufort county died in the Onslow county Hospital at Jacksonville tuesday morning following a Brief illness. He was born at blounts Creek Jan. 17, 1892, son of the late William Henry and Lucretia Jones Cox. He is survived by a number of nieces nephews and Rowe rites held at 2 funeral services for Thurston h. Rowe of blounts Creek who died tuesday will be conducted today at. 2 from the Chapel of the Stampley funeral Home by the Rev. Billy b. Cuthrell assisted by the Rev. David Lupton. Burial will be in the Lewis cemetery at blounts Creek. Pallbearers will be Henry Lewis Floyd Stilley Henry Long Lewis Harris Jesse Trippe and Jack Rowe. Election revue sen. A a Riff Murphy Hep. Jolin v. Annm a actor turned senator George Murphy is in somewhat the same spot Richard Nixon was in at election time nearly two decades ago revelations that Murphy accepted $20,000 a year As a consultant to technicolor inc. The firms airline credit card and some rent payment in Washington. When president Nixon was Eisenhower s running mate revelations that he received an $18,000-a-year expense account from California firms hit like a Bombshell but the ticket weathered it. Murphy. 68, is up against. 6-foot-3 rep. John v. Tun Noy. 35, who seems to show As much political punch As his father did when he was heavyweight champions or More so. Blood Bank Back to recoup losses the blood Bank will return to Washington monday november 2 and according to Robert Mackenzie director the Bank will be hoping to recoup its losses when it failed to make the quota assigned in its last visit sixty Days ago. The quota for the previous visit was iso1 pints but the people of Beaufort county gave Only 115. A since that time at. The Beaufort county Hospital alone a Mackenzie explained Quot patients hive used 159 pints of blood and this figure does not include blood Given patients at the fungo District Hospital or that Given to county residents at other Hospital in the state which is also counted against our quota.,�?� he said. A your quota this time is 150 pints and we will have to make up our losses this time if we Are going to continue to participate in the blood Bank program a he added. A we Only got seven first time donors the rest Are the people who have Given and Given again we need some new donors and new help a Mackenzie continued. The blood Bank will be at the st. Peters episcopal Church monday Between the hours of 12 and 6 ., and on tuesday Between the hours of 10 . And 4 . Quot according to the american association of blood Banks Only a Small fraction about 3 per cent of those americans qualified to donate blood have actually done so Over the year a the director reported. A Beaufort county does not even measure up to this statistic a he said. A a it a time we got to work a he concluded. Belhaven picked As county entry by Elizabeth w1ndley correspondent Belhaven a Belhaven will represent Beaufort county in toe Village town category of the Community development Competition sponsored annually by the six county coastal Plain development association according to mrs Effie Raye Bateman president of the Belhaven Community chamber of Commerce. The announcement was made monday night at the regular monthly meeting of the chamber. Mrs Bateman said Belhaven was selected by representatives of the coastal Plain development association following a Runoff contest with Pantego last week. The town will be judged on the efforts made by its citizens to improve and develop the Community and the Progress made during the past year in Competition with towns representing each of the other five counties in the association. In other action the chamber endorsed the proposed coastal corridor Highway following a report by Russell Johnston on Nixon keeps his option �?T72 Frazier charged in killings in running mate in the coastal corridor Highway conference held at Myrtle Beach s. C. On oct. 19. He said the planned four Lane limited Access Highway connecting. Savannah a. And Wilmington with Norfolk a. Would Cross Highway 264 Between Washington and Belhaven at a Point near Yatesville and would be of great importance to this area. Construction of the Highway would require congressional action to provide Federal funding and he asked area resident and organizations to give their support to the project., or. Johnston Belhaven postmaster and Axson Smith owner and operator of the River Forest Manor in Belhaven attended the meeting. The chamber of Commerce also discussed a proposal to hold an annual soybean festival and. The location of the new crab factory in Belhaven. No action was taken on either matter at this meeting mrs. Bateman presided at the meeting which was attended by 16 members and. Their guests. By Doit. Wii Lis tor path pm writer Santa Cruz Calif api a the Santa Cruz county grand jury has indicted John Linley Frazier on a charge of murdering five people in a luxurious mansion less than a half mile from the dilapidated cowshed where he lived. The indictment is returned a try. Peter Chang or. Questioned 22 witnesses for three hours behind closed doors. Frazier 24, is. Accused of shooting the victims in the head oct. 19 and dumping their Bod Iest Frt the swimming Pool at or Victor Ohta a $256.000 Hilltop Home overlooking the Pacific. Within minutes of receiving the indictment judge Charles f. Franich of Santa Cruz county Superior court clamped Down on. Publicity surrounding the Case he issued a four Page order prohibiting statements to news Media about evidence motives or speculation on the slayings judge Franich said the news blackout applied to attorneys investigators and witnesses was necessary to insure a fair trial Frazier a High school dropout and former Auto Mechanic who became separated from his wife Sik months ago. Was arrested last Friday As he slept in the shed in a rugged Ravine strewn with wrecked automobiles and other litter victims of the mass slaying were or. Ohta. 45-year-old Eye surgeon his wife Virginia 43, sons Derrick 12, and Taggart 11, and his Secretary Dorothy see slayings. Page 101 Godley rites set for Friday a funeral services for Normad Godley age 56, will be held at the Chapel of the Paul it eral Home Friday afternoon at 2 of clock conducted by the Rev. L. V. Pierce pastor of the Assembly of god Church burial will fallow in Oakdale % cemetery with military honors the following will serve As pallbearers. Herbert Dixon a. R. Bright Roddy Roberson. Marvin Godley. Gene Dixon and Rayvon Cirro. Or Godley a native of Beaufort county died in a veterans a d. M. I n. I s t r a t i on Hospital in be Loughtan a. Tuesday night following a lengthy illness. He was a Veteran of world War ii surviving Are three Brothers the family will be at the Home of Roy Lee Godley on the Williamston Highway. Norman rites but flame intense student campaigners al o a than expected an a Newt analysis a a it a turned out just about As by Richard Blystone i expected a mid Princeton sen Praia writer a or John Sifko who is writing a the the number of student participating in tall election campaigns is not measuring up to expectations generated during the Campus strikes last Spring after . Troops entered Cambodia. But that does t Neces mrily mean youths political activism is a Flash in the pan Quot the fire Burns White hot for Short mid a Yale his tory professor whose class a have not been thinned by students departing for campaigns others however say the flame is intense and enduring but is. And has always been Small. Hook about the strike on his Campus a i done to think that anybody who had a reasonable perspective in May expected any More a k there were some reasons for expecting that the feeling aroused by the . Action in Cambodia and the student deaths at Kent state in Ohio and Jackson state in Mississippi would have a Impact on political activity thirty nine per cent of 820 Stu dents questioned in a nationwide poll released in july said they planned to work for peace candidates this fall the strike following the Cam Hodian action spread to some 400 colleges and universities and dozens considered proposals for a fall recess to Accomma Dale students who wanted to Campaign about 30 ultimately rearranged schedules with plans to make up the lost class time and Many More left room for informal arrangements such As moratoriums on quizzes and. Term papers the Campus based movement for a new Congress which was born and grew to a nationwide coordinating organization Dur i set students. Page i Story says Agnew May be dropped by Frank Cormier a vim Latryl in try a writer Chic ago apr president Nixon carrying his Croaa country Republican Campaign to the Pacific. Quasi today is keeping two sought fading away a today in wildlife is victim alleged plot of civilization held at 2 . Funeral services for j. Calvin Norman age 49, manager of the suburban Tulane Gas company Here were held at the graveside in Pamlico memorial gardens this afternoon at 2 of clock conducted by the Rev. Elbert e. Edwards., free will Baptist minister of Chocowinity the following served As Active pallbearers Melvin Mitchell jr., Harry Upton Joe Leary Jaroe Gilgo. Charles w. Cherry and j. M. Hodges or. Norman a. Lifelong resident of Beaufort county died in a veterans administration Hospital Quot in. Durham monday right following a critical illness of two months. He was a Veteran of world War ii and a former member of the Washington police Force. Chicago apr a report of two men. One with an automatic Rifle driving within a mile of a hotel where president Nixon spent the night prompted suburban police to Alert Federal authorities today about a possible Asmuss nation plot. Illinois state police imbued an All Point bulletin or the then who officers said were wanted for questioning about their presence in the area. The president arrived at of Hare International Airport wednesday night and was staying in a Motel not far from the Airport in Northwest Chicago before resuming his Campaign for Republican candidates in next weeks election state police said they received information on the two men. From police in Arlington Heights a Northwestern suburb. The Fri in Chicago said it had been informed and was investigating. It. Joseph. Ostermann of Arlington height said the informant reported the two men were travelling in a late Model Black Over Blue car and one was believed carrying an automatic Rifle. He said the men were described As White males about a a Brand reportedly were sighted in Schiller Park a Western suburb about a mile from the hotel where the president spent the night. Ostermann said the information was provided by the Arlington Heights police detective Bureau which obtained it from a a reliable the informant who was not identified told detectives the Driver of the car was brow haired and bearded and that the passenger had dark Blond hair and wore Large sunglasses. School evacuated c al Garner High school was evacuated wednesday following two telephoned bomb threats shortly after 1 . No bomb was found and pupils were permitted to retrieve their books and go Home after a search of the premises ended about 3 15 ?.�? principal William e Terry said school secretaries an Meredth two fails both made by females. By Bili. W inter associated press writer Missoula. Mont. A civilization is closing in even in the High Mountain Meadows and Rushing streams and the animals Are fading away. The grizzly Bear and Timber Wolf Are among the threatened species in the lofty Rocky Mountain ranges of Western mortar a and in surrounding Stales of the 29.096,827-acre Northern Region of the . Forest service this week the Forest service made Public a list of endangered and rare species saying it is time to begin saving these animals for there is not much time left. Included on the list of endangered species those which face immediate danger of extinction Are the Timber Wolf the whooping Crane and the Montana West slope cutthroat Trout. Listed As rare Are the grizzly Bear Arctic Grayling spotted Bat and Prairie Falcon Howard Foulger is chief of the division of Range and wildlife for the Northern Region which includes Montana North Dakota Western South Dakota North Ern Idaho and Eastern Washington. He says a interest in the preservation of wildlife has increased remarkable in the past few year but people keep crowding in. The animal May soon have no place to the Northern Region is lightly populated Montana the nations fourth largest state in land area has a population of Only 694,000, or about 4 persons per Square mile. The state was Long Rich in wildlife and monuments Mark spots where Indian tribes once herded Buffalo to the Edge of High Cliffs then stampeded them to their deaths. Now the reminders of the wild West the a Buffalo have been replaced by modern Day killers such As guns and Cheque is. Foulger said the Region is too lug for maintaining exact counts of species he said a is dete. Med in t. Wujen sightings Are infrequent or few Ajr felled by Hunters. Finding a proper balance Between the needs of Man and. Those of wildlife is a perplexing one cattlemen regard the Timber Wolf As the no. 1 threat to livestock in some Northern Region areas and fight him with Poison. Conservationists on the other hand see the Wolf As a valuable species a wild rugged animal an important part of the natural environment which deserves preservation. The grizzly Bear huge Amar singly Swift and sometimes vicious is a fabled Symbol of the Nigger mountainous country of the West but Many a intrusions into the grizzly s Domain have brought tragedy and outcries Quot against the animal. Park officials have found a partial solution by airlifting the meetings with humans Are unlikely it the Forest service Lias taken a number of Steps to alleviate a a extinction of certain these include monitoring of Stream to assure healthy water for Quot fish curbing poaching including that of the endangered Peregrine Falcon and cooperation with the Audubon society in set wildlife Page 10� open his option on whether to track vice president Spiro t Agnew As his 1972 running mate before flying to Illinois wednesday night Nixon was asked in Texas about a published report that Agnew might be dumped from the gop ticket in 1972 in favor of rep George hush provided Bush wins s hotly contested Senate race in the Lone Star state til cover that As 1 get along in the Nixon replied while ins seemed noncommittal and he never has publicly committed himself to hacking Agnew for renomination the chief executive added a cd words certain to encourage his vice president a i a must my that he is one of the great campaigners of All ,. I think he is doing a wonderful it was understood that Agnew placed a concerned Telephone Call to the White House after Reading the report tha t he might be sidetracked the Story published in the Dallas times Herald was distributed by the Washington Post los Angeles times news service and was written by David Broder. A Jim Allison Deputy chairman of the Republican National committee mid a i Quot Utah they run hat swy next reek. It does to help a Allison apparently theorized that texans might interpret the published account As an administration a Plant Quot to win their votes and react against it. Harry Dent one of Nixon a chief political lieu ten ants said of the Bush for vice president Story a there a nothing to Ronald l. Ziegler Nixon a press Secretary said today Quot there has been absolutely no discuss Ion by the president and his principal aides about the 1972 vice presidential nomination or even whether he will himself lie a candidate for reelect Iton a Nixon scheduled for today what he jokingly termed a a rather Light Day a Quot �?o1 have two meetings in Illinois one in Omaha. Neb one in Rochester minn., then in san Jose Calif., and then in san Clemente Calif.,&Quot he said. The president s immediate Mission in Illinois was to boost Ralph Tyler Smith for an elected term in the Senate. Republican Smith according to Illinois polls is the distinct underdog in his contest with Democrat Adlai e Stevenson 111 Smith was appointed to the Senate vacancy left by the death of Everett m. Dirksen to serve until the general election. High Mercury Levels Fra announces recall of 25,000 liver pills contain heavy amounts of Dot san Francisco apr Marine mammal study Center dead sea Lions washing up on m Fremont said most of the California beaches contained victims have been Young a s \ the highest concentrations Dot Ever recorded in sea. Life scientists say. But they think the animals died of something a Ige a we Are still checking a or. John Phillips of the Hopkins Marine station at. Pacific Grove said wednesday. A it could be due to Many whatever it is the affliction has caused at least 60 deaths in six weeks. Or Richard Hubbard of the Taring Quot teen age Type sea Lions suggesting some infection eloped an immunity. Phillips said pesticide counts in blubber examined in autopsies ran As High As 3,900 parts per million. He added that the highest level Ever measured before in sea life was 1,029 parts per million in a starry Rock fish in Southern californians Santa Monica Bav recently listed As having the highest pesticide contamination of any coastal Waters in the country. A this is pretty wild a he mid. Quot we never expected anything of this magnitude but we Are not to an epizootic is the animal life equivalent of an epidemic. Hubbard mid Mercury concentrations of 25 parts per million also have been found in the sea lion carcasses but that this was not enough to cause illness. A the Best evidence still suggests something of an infectious nature a he added Quot but we Are not and i repeat not closing any options at this there was a similar epizootic in 1947, Hubbard avoid and indications of another a decade later suggesting g cd tic illness but no detailed examinations were made of the dead animals at that time. Phillips mid the pesticide found in the autopsies apparently washed into the Pacific from the largely agricultural Satirias Valley settled to the Ocean Bottom and then worked up the Ocean food Chain into the fish on which the sea lion feed t a. St. Peters Parish House moo.-toes., nov. 2 awl 3 12 noon to it . Monday 10 . To 4 . Tuesday by g. A til Elen jr., associated press writer Washington it a it the . Today announced the first recall of a product contaminated with poisonous Mercury �?25.000 liver pills made from seals the Fra requested the recall in nine states after inspectors found Mercury Levels in the pills 60 times the Safe level established for food 0.5 parts per million. A half part per million is comparable proportionally to a Jigger of vermouth and a tan car of Gin. The Seal liver pills were manufactured by Randal nutritional products Santa Rosa Calif and Are sold in health food stores As a blood builder and mild laxative. The recall affects outlets in California Washington Oregon Florida Illinois Orado Michigan and new York. An Fra scientist described the. Contaminated pills As a a possible moderate health the pills were fashioned from the livers of seals killed on the Pribilof islands Southeast of Alaska in 1964. Randal freeze dried the livers for storage and used them Over the past six years to make 1,250,000 pills the said. Quot Seal liver attracted my attention because it came from an animal Moat free if contaminants Quot said Dow Ning b. Randal president of the company. A you can just figure from this that there Isnit any place in the whole Earth that Isnit or. George y. Harry director of the government s Marine to m i to a a Taw get to i Seattle said it is still not known How the seals became co Tami argot / 1 the seals Noemid a Ghita up and Down the Pacific coast and possibly could have picked us Mercury from Industrial discharges. The Seal contamination was the first finding of significant quantities of Mercury in Oesear fish and mammals said Harry a and it was abnormal amounts of Mercury have been found in water fish and game Birds in at Leas 33 states commercial Ivshin has been curtailed in so states because of Mercury pol i lion. Harry said the government i checking other Ocean fish i mammals following the s see pills. Page 10

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