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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - September 4, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather cloudiness through _ Wiki i Chance of v uni stay afternoon and evening thundershowers right 90� lews mid 70s Washington a i by news if you do not get you Peper. Dial Mft-2145 Between his a fue. T 00 o clock. And one will be delivered to you. Established t9p9 ten a ftps Quot washin5t6n, to Fth Caroline a tfx a yet sept Ember 4 if Daviv fax Clef sunday Meany says cambodian workers in angry government Israel demands Egypt mood for Holiday Falls Back by a in mtr writer Washington it apr al Cio president George Meany said today the nations workers will observe labor Day in an mood Over inflation and lec Tivo bargaining this year a bigger share of the Meany said the 7ft-year old Lahore chieftain said workers Are angry at Nixon administration policies that Ben cent below a year ago despite wage increases Meany. Who will be president Nixon s labor Day dinner guest along with More than 100 other Labdor leaders said Nixon s eco recession and determined to win big wage hikes at the bar gaining table. A a the Only answer to malls intuition of the wealth american workers help create is to give workers a bigger share of the pie Quot said the Leader of the 13.6 million member Union fed oration in a labor Day message. A a and. In a single sentence that s what organized workers Are going to be seeking in col fit Banks through High inter a nomie pm lilies of High my Eres i. An a news Nal its by John t associated pm writer phenom penh a i to the two months since us troops pulled out of Cambodia Gen Lon nol s government has steadily i kit ground in its War against the communists Washington has granted phenom penh $49 million in military Aid and has committed Lim led is. Aig Pawer la Luck pull Back new missiles save u. S. Up rates but Hurt workers jobs and income Quot production is falling. Jobs Are vanishing. Soaring prices Are pushing the1 Cost of living to record Heights the workers buying Power ily Quot Meany said. Government figures show living Coats still rising at a rate of nearly 8 per cent a year unemployment at a five year High of 8 per cent and workers Pur chasing Power nearly one per tight Money and Federal spend ing cuts had resulted in inflation acid recession at the same time�1 Quot the Rich and the Blue Chip corporations were largely left untouched by the government s government troops in the Field. Rut this has. Not halted much less reversed the deteriorating military and political sit mat Ion. The overriding impression is that the governments strategy those who of abandoning More than Hall have Money to lend Are earning record profits Quot Meany said a a but the results for America % wage earners pensioners the poor and Small businessmen Meany Page 101 by Hud contract Okay Given housing the mid East regional housing authority has been notified of contract approval for annual contributions by the department of housing and. Urban development. The contract is for a total of $471,000 annually for the operation of 340 units of housing. Local investors or developers May inquire of the mid East authority. For information concerning How they May provide housing units. A it is the desire of the mid East housing authority to build the 340 approved units As quickly As possible authority chairman. Worth. Chesson says. A the Opportunity for local investment will be by the method of local development under contract or by the Purchase by local. Investors of units constructed by outside firms towns of the mid East authority counties Beaufort Bertie Martin and. Washington which desire units to be . Inside their corporate limits May also Quot inquire of the authority As to How this May be done. Some towns have noted interest already. Others should. Act promptly if they desire units. Interested in Selling for development purposes Are invited to Contact housing authority members. These Are John h. Oden jr., Beaufort county Charles cousins Bertie w. J. Dick it Lupton Hyde mrs. Christine Farrior Martin and Worth Chesson Washington county. E. Leon Roebuck mrs. Claude Ricks Dies it is. Units will be privately owned and will be taxable property. Revenues will accrue to the counties and towns in which the units Are built. Property development will include improving Sites construction. Of houses landscaping. Street building and up b 1 i c a c i 1 ity con s t r u it i o a including water and. Sewer where available. Owners of real estate who Are Paniego a mrs Rosalie Freeman Ricks age 77. Retired music teacher and Community Leader died at her Home this morning at i of clock. Funeral services will be held at the Paniego Christian Church at 2. . Sunday by be Hev. William o. Haney assisted by Dennis Davis burial will be in Oakdale. Cemetery in Washington. The body will be taken from the Paul funeral Home in Belhaven to the Church one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Ricks was born in Washington daughter of the late Samuel f. And Minnie Davis Freeman. She was married. Ai 14,1912 to Claude la Ricks e. Leon Roebuck d ies Here a see Ricks Page 10 bulletin Washington api a the nations unemployment last month inched up to a near 6 a year High of 5.1 per cent of the work Force while total employment dropped nearly 400,000, the labor said today. E. Leon Roebuck age. 77, pro mine n i Busia is am a tip Churchman and civic Leader died suddenly at his Home Early thursday evening. Or Roebuck was Bora july 12, 1.893., on a. Farm near. Robersonville son of the late. Edwin Baker and Mary Leggett. Roebuck. He graduated at Campbells College with the class of 1912� received a degree in business administration at. Richmond in ims or Roebuck was in the Quot Quot wholesale machinery Quot business in Richmond four years before accepting the position of sales manager of Harris hardware company of this City january 10, 1019 and. Had served the company As director and officer until his death. Or. Roebuck wats president of the corporation for 27 years and retired from that position in july i970 but remained the country to communist control to insure the defense of the capital and the nation is heartland is not working Well. The plan called for abandoning the entire Northeast most of the extreme North and some areas that were once held by South Vietnam Ese and american troops. The heartland starts sout beast of phenom penh and runs in a wide Belt to the Northwest taking in the Rich Rice and fish producing areas on tooth sides of cambodians huge Lake .,7 the tone sap. Most of the country s population is entered in this area. But nearly All of the North Shore of the Lake is controlled by the communists the government Strong Points at siem reap 155 Miles Northwest of phenom penh and Tompong Thom 80 Miles North of the capital Are my. Doing Well. Roads to siem. Reap Are out periodically and Kon Pong Thom i provincial capital has been surrounded for months. Government casualties have Queen heavy at Korn Pong Thom and food is so Short that soldiers and townspeople slaughtered the animals in the City s zoo for meat. The communists have made no serious attempt to attack phenom penh hut the City a defences Are not particularly Strong. The Cape. I so a in i a Early wide open to rocket a a Ltd mortar attacks from across Tilie Mekong River to the East. Four if Carob dial a. Seven have moves not e enough a my \xmh1 Viii treks Toree said thur Way night that Washington s Cali tor the egyptian Mil Hussion to Stop v totalling the Middle fast a Ujj be is mayor Ste tearl Poole sr., and Hof Erson Marr Marr Drift tested that the egyptians pull a Back the an thai Cratt tui Miles installed in the sue canal truce none since aug. 7. Y israeli 1 let Ettsel m i Nisi t r Moshe Day an said he approved of a Cabinet plan to give the United states time to get the missiles removed through Dipio main Means hut or warned that Israel is capable of Quot taking military Steps if a a a we want the violations stopped a declared v s state department Pees officer Robert j melt Toskes a in the meantime we relieve it is of the utmost that the talks Mcclellan barks at Cha funding Poole City break t ground labor Dav to be Day off for most a Pago to major highways have to teen dosed almost Quot continuously for three1 or More months. Highway 4, which links phenom penh with Kampong som the country s Only remaining Access to the a Ocean remains open Only toe cause enemy troops have not blown one of the Many lightly defended Bridges running through the elephant mountains. On the Northern front fishing areas populated mainly by eth Nic vietnamese have provided More or Quot less willing recruits and transportation workers to the. Communists especially after the cambodians slaughtered Many vietnamese living in Cambodia a Wing the Early Days of the War. A a. The government officially or Nies that the Khmer Rouge Quot the cambodian followers of Prince Sihanouk pose any problem. But Field commanders again Tell a different Story. First in series of id a r tides see Page Tico later Day monday sept 7, will he a Day off for most people Quot a ctn the Pataleon area. Federal slate county and City offices will be closed As will local Banks and most City stores in Observance of the Holiday the county. Board of com = or missioners which usually meet on the first monday of the month will meet tuesday. Some specifics a the n. C. Quot Driver s License Bureau at the Coco Whity Highway patrol station will be of posed. A a a a a the Washington. Post office will be dosed. There will be no City or Rural delivery service and All windows will be dosed holders of Post office boxes will receive mail perishable and special delivery mail will be delivered. I collection and a dispatch of mail will be made on a. Holiday schedule. A stamp vending machine and Scales Are located in the lobby of the Post office for the convenience of the Public. The sanitation division of the department of pubic works of the City of Washington a will maintain its. Regular garbage collection schedule on . 7 it. Was announced a by Earl Bonner director of Public works. ,. The. Washington Quot daily news will maintain its regular schedule. Legal loopholes appeals pesticide flurry fails to by g. A Thelen or. Associated press writer Washington it a it a the Federal government s flurry of action against pesticides has failed to reduce significantly the amount of chemicals polluting the environment and the bans it has ordered Arentt Likely to be effective for at least a. Year. The agriculture department Over the past 10 months has announced cancellation. Or suspension of a number of the registered uses for Dot and. Two of its close chemical relative a pesticides containing one form of the poisonous Metal Mercury and the herbicide 2,4,5-t, which has been shown to cause birth defects in animals. The actions however left intact registered uses that account for 75 per cent of Domestic applications of ddt1 and 2,4,5-t.&Quot and government officials concede that because of Legal loopholes and possibly lengthy appeals by manufacturers some retail sales of the pesticides for uses officially banned will continue until at Leas next year and perhaps for two to three years. Neve a flies Ess go be health officials say the agriculture department has demonstrated a new and unaccustomed willingness to act against pesticides that appear to threaten the environment furthermore the Nixon administration appears to be fulfilling its pledge to implement recommendations made last december by the Blue ribbon Mrak commission appointed by the Secretary of health., education and welfare to examine the problem of pesticides. A Start has been made on the commission s no. I recommendation that All Dot uses except those a a essential to the preservation of human health and welfare end by 1972. And both hew and the Interior department have because off fit commissions recommendation gained an equal voice with the agriculture department in deciding pesticide safety. Still the government has started action against Only 5. Of the 19 pesticides the commission listed As posing a Quot potential health Hazard to Many Quot because of Laboratory links to cancer or birth defects m animals. The commission recommended a a Quot a prudent Steps to Minimi human exposure a to Ttoe-19 but act no time limit. V the five pesticides affected by restriction so far Are Dot and. The related Aldrin and dieldrin 2,4,5-t, and Mercury based compounds. The remaining 1.4 Are Amirol armite Avades Bis 2-Chloro-Ethyl Ether Hep Bachlor. Mire f a hydroxy Ethyl it hydrazine Strabane Captan Carbary 1, 2,4-d, Fol pet and the government has begun usage review s off two of these 1.4�? Hep Bachlor and sir Bane reviews Are the first step toward possible restriction a. But even the restrictions an far bounced. So far.1, have barely dented the rapidly growing pesticide Market. Some 1,900 be suicidal chemicals Are blended in 46,000 for mutations. Sales Are estimated to increase -15 per cent a year Reaehtog-$3-btsto�4n 1974 �5 a a the Dot actions have left untouched the two Crope when 75 Pel cent of the chemical is used. A Cotton and Citrus fruit. The reason government officials Are unsure what substitute pesticide to recommend that would be less hazardous one manufacturer k continuing his Legal Challenge to the first set of Dot restrictions announced last november., other challenges Are expected to last weeks actions barring Dot from use on livestock. Lumber More than-so1 crops tir april the department banned 2,4,5-t for Home use and requested Peceu from hardware shelves of containers labelled for that purpose a spokesman now concedes the recall a has not been totally effective Quot and perhaps millions of "2,4,5-t Spray cans Are Stilt being sold. The department has no police fewer on the retail Quot Iever moreover the main us of 2,4,5-t for Brush control is still permitted. The1 series of actions against mercurial pesticides started with the government�?T9 Strong Call for removal of the compounds from All channels of Trade. Yet the Cam pounds still Are being applied to seed and crops. The reason Quot a Jjo Jhc agriculture department dropped its demand in it Hick iia it nos a s Flatt try fress writer. W As i f off get it a i Apt sen John l Mcclellan who has led past sip Arate investigations of a the teamsters Union and the federa i hons nig Acton Tafra tron sharply criticized Breh Over More than $30 Milton in transaction it made involving pension fund t Lif,.assoctated Presa report of thursday that the Cha s san _ Diego Alii. Off ice bad approved the transactions m die past two years involving the Central states Stoni thrust and Southwest areas pension fund and a san Diego builder Irvin a. Kahn. The i i a. Official who headed the san Diego office at the Lime now is employed As president of a mortgage firm ultimately owned by the pension fund and Kahn. Mcclellan is chairman of the Senate permanent investigations sub com Millee a 1 would say apparently my Sute Ommittee would have Jur indic fion Quot the Arkansas Dent Era i said Quot an initial Reading of the news _ article suggests the possibility of a conspiracy to defraud the government and it certainly indicate very Sloppy administration by Cha Ift the san Diego office a f he. Cha approved loan Guaran i Era a and government subsidized now in Erest Loans for quo housing. Construction to several corporations which Are Suh Sidi and a of Petija Iquitos inc a a a corporation owned 20 per Ceni by the pension fund and. 90 per cent. By Kahn a a a. The pension fund has been under numerous Federal investigations. Including one by a Federal strike Force and grand jury in los Angeles concerning a major land development project re Sun Flat hide site a the los. Afi1 Geles investigators had some recent knowledge of the san Diego transactions. Quot the Deport pen Quot of fou Sig Ltd Urban developments office of investigations would not com mint an the mat ter but indicated Quot an awareness of Quot it. After. Thi Csc. Vara a discussion with local leaders the elder and younger. Gregory Pontes climbed. Aboard two Earth flours Here Quot thursday and la of Quot Cums Drawe ground at tie Laramon a i 4lw4r com Paziy s new site North of the Citer on Highway 17. I tej Eow Otal i is Bdl -4 a for in the Spring of �971, will Cost an a in mailed $300.000 and employ 25 persons with some ii mediate pm a ferment of local personnel a a fhe firm anticipate increased Etopio ment in the Vitore the new Structure will House Eastern North. Carolina s most 111 Odd r n heavy a it j i i pm est repair fact Utju Gregory Poole is in Raleigh based Dealership firm for Caterpillar construction Njuki pruent a a resent for Fittl announcement and later i r i in lid Tinea k i tag 7wi in Oll Tok Between the parties proceed forthwith it was under st he Ilia . Ambassador Jacob beam in Moscow and Donald i Stergus. The top i a Diplomat in Cairo were asking for a lop to the missile buildup rather than a Roll hark i Ashin Puin Row Rodly did no want to or like its de to tends so Strong that they would prompt the russian and the Eiyen a is Tiv Alk a Ion t he quest for peace mrs Leif in a speech to her later party said her government was insisting Quot a that the United slates the rus sians and egyptians to uphold their obligations regarding the 1ualta�m�iic by m j . Re and military it a iat. And it. Return of the status quo at it acc canal Quot a a reliable israeli sources said the United states id offered to suppl v i Srael Antrin Issize dec a see mid East pase my. County native Dies in \ a. Mrs Effie we Ouirda Jackson age 79, of 1500 wat re Edge drive in Virginia reach a died in a vol Giuta feat tip a tempt were state w r. Roberson. Jr., Sena Moriat candidate Ashley r Ful Refl. Mayor a .thomas.stewart,-and m d Quot red Quot Whisnant. It Marty Corn missioner. Com Pany president Gregory Poole lits Tather brought along . Cd Pis of officials for the refusing. The Quot Washington chamber of commit Reavoil also Yrell repro Riu Das was the news Media a a we Are bringing our repair Quot . Page 10> thursday evening Tolli Wing an ill no i of of Varat months a mrs Quot Jackson a a was Tern at Yeats Seville daughter late a laude h and Sarah Arnold Woolard. She was a member of the a Hristian Church. At Bath surviving Quot Are one daughter mrs Ronald j Rashford of Vul Righta Beach Laa me moire mrs Foye Mason of lit a Bath and two Quot grandsons funeral service will be held at Holloman Brown Haviside Chapel saturday afternoon at 3 of clock. Burial a will follow to Rosewood memorial Park to get m Oney . Navy uses soviets Navy tobacco Box score by Robfrt a Dobkin a map military writer Washington a map Pheur a it comes to dealing with Quot Congress asserts one Pentagon of al Cial the american Navy s be. weapon is 4he Sovil Navy a Quot it always seems the rus sians Are steaming off the Coral at appropriations Lime, of see pesticides Page 10� the Washington tobacco in a r Ket y Este re a y. Sold _ �s�?zh2s pounds of tobacco for if i of an average of 811.42 per too pounds. The waa Wigton Market to Quot Dale Kirs do ii funds of tobacco Quot for 2.h07.h tli.k2 for an average of 972.17 per 100 pounds. Billy Dawson. Sales supervisor reminds Farmers that Alt markets will be closed All next Weet they will reopen on monday september 14 on a four hour schedule. On that Day first Sale will go to sermons second Sale will go to Talley third Sale will go to Hassell warehouse. Quot in a it Uttof. A done to lid yours err the russian Navy is the american. Navy s brat Friend Quot the comment Points out the Navy it strategy Quot of plumping. Congress for More Money to exp fund and randomize the aging flirt of Jota bag toe spectre of growing soviet naval strength but the Navy s concern Over the soviet warships in t exactly trumped up. The soviet Haw com a Long Way in a Short time. It was t Long ago when Moscow s archaic Fleet rarely Ven lured from Home Waters of the Arctic Ocean and Baltic sea., but the soviets today Are second Only to toe United. Stales As the world s Foremost naval a we a a soviet Navy task Force this week demonstrates Quot anew As Secretary of defense or Ivin it Laird said wednesday the soviets it Steirt Tom to mount in a Quot a Ocean Navy. The five1 Force including two missile firing ships and an Landing craft., is Quot the third russian i Arce since last summer and the second since april to cruise in. Americans backyard. A some defense department of tidal. The a a exercises. May serve to establish a Perma gent soviet naval presence in , once considered an american Lake. The situation is somewhat similar to the soviet build up in the Mediterranean sea following toe 1967 Arab israeli War. Prior conflict the Mediterranean was terminated Quot by the american sixth Fleet. The presence of the soviet Flag in Western Waters is considered by some to be a re in it see Navy Page 10

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