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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - September 11, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather variable Cloud nem through a saturday turning Tittle tool or ton pit cd toil ii Sill a a saturday. Low in Low Dot. Highs in Low Fofe of you do not get your paper. Dial is is 45 Between Fecso and 1 00 of clock and one will tie do it Vered to you established 1909 ten pages Washington North Carolina Friday afternoon september ii 1970 daily except sunday Nixon moves to place guards on some flights Washington it a with the solid support of Republican and democratic leaders of Congress president Nixon moved today to place armed guards aboard International and some Domestic flights of . Airlines starting saturday to counter Aerial piracy. Nixon a decision was announced to newsmen at the White House by congressional leaders who had conferred with him. A presidential statement on the subject spelling out details of the anti Hijack plan was promised later in the Day. House speaker John Mccormack. D mass. Said in Addi Tion to the posting of guards there would be greatly increased surveillance of passengers and their baggage at air terminals. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania added that some Domestic As Well As overseas routes would be covered. The Senate a democratic Leader. Mike Mansfield of Montana. Was High in his Praise of the Republican administration for its development of the anti Hijack measure Sand its general handling of the crisis Persci Pattat de by the hijacking of International flights by palestinian guerrillas. A i think the government has done everything that it possibly could a said Mansfield Quot we Are Well satisfied Rory Well responding to a question. Mansfield mid the meeting of congressional leaders with Nixon who was flanked by key Cabinet officers went into the entire Mideast hijacking situation As Well As the plan to Post Aerial guards asked if he could report any Progress in efforts to win release of hostages bring held by the guerrillas on the jordanian desert Mansfield replied Quot some Quot Mccormack reported. There was Complete unanimity among the conferees on the Steps that will he taken to Roun ter hijackers Mansfield said the package program had been thoroughly explored before the u Hite House meet my. An informed source reported that armed Federal agents will ride Shotgun on overseas flights of two v n airlines Treasury agents and Federal aviation administration marshals will be assigned to transatlantic and fur Opean flights of trans world airlines and pan american world airways the source said the sky marshals currently a a. Marsh a. Page Loti Nixon says demos y s Jet hijackers thwart plan stall legislate Block push t0 move 280 hostages. .rgpimr-.-Ifis. A 1. A a a a a a to. A amp a reports new Industry in . Nags head a the North Carolina Board of conservation and development was told today that investments in new and expanded Industry in the state for april May and june totalled $142,,000. The Commerce and Industry division of the department of conservation and development said investments in new and expanded Industry for the first six months of the year totalled $248,032,000. Quot this indicates a decided upturn for the second Quarter a the division said in a report to the Board a but it should be noted that the period january March has traditionally been a Little slower than the remaining quarters of the the new and expanded industries for the april May june period the division said will provide employment for 6,83 persons and a payroll totalling $31,-�44,000. The report was one of several presented to the c4d Board at its Tiree Day meeting in nags head. A banquet and an address by gov. Bob Scott Are to be tonight committee reports will be presented to the Board at saturdays closing session the Commerce and Industry division said Many communities across the state Are in the process of organizing an Indus trial development team. Asheville Raleigh. Wades Bobo Burgaw Roanoke rapids Elizabeth City Weldon Laurin Burg and Marion a Are among the communities which have Quot achieved a Good degree of expertise with the development team concept a the division said. A it a the division also said a file on Industrial advertising indicates North Carolina is not getting the prospects it should from the states advertising Effort. It added methods to improve Prospect leads will be implemented. An and will be run in a National publication extolling North Carolina for its 1.30u Miles of navigable Waterways it gave As an example. Hurricane Ella grows stronger College night i draws 500 More than 500 people attended the annual College night program held at the Chocowinity High school thursday night. Junior and senior students from eight senior High schools in the area participated. College planning conferences were scheduled for Washington High school and Mattam skeet High school As Well As for those attending Beaufort county schools in Aurora Bath Belhaven Chocowinity and Pantego More than adults registered including parents school Counselor and other interested school personnel and citizens. Institutions of higher education represented at the event included two and four year colleges and universities from eight major state supported campuses and 30 new Orleans a Hurricane Ella picking up Speed and intensity headed toward the Texas Mexico Border today the weather Bureau said. A the rapid Forward Speed of Hurricane Elpa and its present course will bring the Center to the coast near or a Little South of Brownsville Early this afternoon Quot the weather Bureau said. The Bureau also expected Hurricane winds and tides up to eight feet on the Northern mexican coast. At 7 a.m., the weather Bureau estimated the Center of the Hurricane with winds up to 85 Miles an hour to be near latitude 24.2 North and Longitude 94.3 West or about 235 Miles East Southeast of Brownsville. A the Hurricane was moving toward the West Northwest about 20 Miles an hour and was expected to continue along the same course and Speed but with a possible increase in size and strength. Hurricane warnings were in effect in the Brownsville port Isabel area of Texas while Gale warnings and a Hurricane watch were in effect North of Brownsville to port Arkansas. A Hurricane watch was in effect else by Frank Cormier associated press writer Washington a it West Dent Nixon in a document widely viewed As his indirect entry into the 1970 election Campaign suggested today the democratic controlled Congress has pigeonholed vital legislation for political purposes. In a lengthy message to the Senate and House Nixon generally was restrained in his language. But in ticking off 59 of his proposals that await final action he made his message Clear a time now slips away. The Congress is coming to a close. Its work is not done. The issues 1 have asked to be considered have not been considered and yet matters press we cannot wait for politics. We must seek a record of achievement All can Nixon released his catalogue of Quot most wanted Quot legislation a Day after posing unannounced for Campaign photos with re publican candidates and giving a personal sendoff to vice president Spiro t. Agnew. Agnew is undertaking an arduous Campaign swing of the sort Nixon As vice president often carried out while the late president Dwight d. Eisenhower was said to be taking the non political highroad a Nixon sought to place responsibility for present National ills of the democrats who inhabited the White House from 1961 until he took office on january 20. 1969. He said Quot too Many promises of the 1960s have not been kept the nation is now paying the Price for this. A in the name of the Urban crisis for example the 1960s saw the Federal government increasingly caught in issues of municipal housekeeping that Are most appropriately the business of a City Council. But simultaneously the great fiscal Power of the Federal government was never brought to play a through Revenue sharing to provide local governments with sufficient resources to enable them to solve their own problems in their own hardening Back to his own statements that the nation faces Reform or revolution Nixon complained Congress not Only has failed to act on sharing Federal revenues with state and local governments but is dragging its feet on other vital legislation. He mentioned family assistance manpower training social Security changes of Federal Grants electoral Reform new provisions for governing the nations capital a series of ant crime proposals the administrations education proposals assistance for Urban transportation consumer Protection and environmental Protection measures. One of Nixon a key Domestic policy aides briefing reporters on the message but refusing to be quoted by name was asked but George Esper associated press writer Saigon apr for the fifth Day the jul air Force today flew heavy raids against North vietnamese forces intensifying their attacks on a South vietnamese base near the laotian Border three Waves of big b52 bombers dropped nearly 300 tons of bombs i bunkers base Camps and storage and staging areas within seven Miles of fire base of Reilly. Other b52s hammered North vietnamese Supply depots and transshipment Points on the i laotian Side of the Borden smaller . Fighter bombers also kept up attacks closer to of Reilly trying to hit mortars rockets and recoil i Ess Cannon that this week have pumped about 500 rounds of shells into the base and South vietnamese patrols operating around it. Military spokesmen said the fighter bombers had flown More than 100 missions since monday around the base and that this was about 20 per cent of the air Force s entire operation in Vietnam during that period. South vietnamese military Headquarters said its forces with the help of american bombers had killed 530 North vietnamese in operations around of Reilly since july 1. A spokesman said the South tured 157 enemy rifles 33 heavy weapons such As mortars and 300 mortar rounds and rocket grenades. The spokesman said 57 South vietnamese had Bee skilled and 92 wounded in the operations o Reilly is one of a Cluster of firebase in the Northwestern part of the country blocking an enemy Advance from the Jun led mountains near the laotian Border into the populous coastal lowlands around Hue and Quang tri City about 25 Miles to the East. Ifrid reports reaching Saigon today said that on thursday North vietnamese troops mounted their second ground assault this week against a South vietnamese infantry Bat Tal Ion less than two Miles Southeast of of Reilly. Picketing Union pickets remained at the Gates of the Hamilton Beach Plant Here today but the scene was quiet sheriff Jack Harris said this mor in Jordan 5 Attonis guerrillas announce new i urn l own demands for coexistence by the associated press the Arab guerrillas announced new demands today declaring they were essential for peaceful coexistence Between the commandos and King Hussein s jordanian regime the demands were presented after the guerrillas announced a new peace agreement with the government and the fighting in Amman subsided the guerrillas demanded Quot formation of a National authority representing the Wres of the people to run the country and purge anti guerrilla ele ments from the the state and police a the announcement came Over the guerrilla radio based in Baghdad. Iraq. It Speaks for the Dver All Guerr Riua leadership the Central committee of the Palestine resistance movement the broadcast did not explain whether the Quot National authority the commandos demanded meant the formation of a new government the Central committee Atoo called for this a a authority to withdraw Jordan s armed forces from the cities and Rede ploy them along the cease fire line with Israel. Guerrillas claim that the King has pulled Moat of the from the front into positions around Amman and other jordanian towns since his government accepted a u it sponsored Middle East cease fire aug. 7. Today a broadcast said the new demands were essential for the survival of the latest guerrilla cease fire agreement the guerrillas said both Side had agreed Quot to remove the causes of clashes that had been going on in Amman for three Days this seemed to indicate a government capitulation to the guerrillas since it is the guerrillas who have bar sett my conditions under which the fighting might end a even this was no Assurance that the agreement would last a similar pact was announced tuesday but it broke Down and the fighting to mimed before the Day . \ soon after animal radio broadcast the news of the latest agree Feneht. Tal gradually began to come alive again thousands of per sons who had spent the previous 1 s. R mid cast Page if. N o f Ood rankers Bel shortage interest Kate a expected will stay High see College Page 10v Tsee Hurricane Page 10 see message neither spokesmen for the company or Union could be contacted regarding the status of contract negotiations. K the communications workers of America called a strike at the Hamilton Beach Plant at Midnight wednesday conflicting claims followed on the number of hourly workers involved. Sheriff deputies continued to keep a close Eye on the situation. To Bridge Gap Nixon sends emissaries to Campus by Harry f. Rosenthal associated press writer Washington a on a Spring Day this year shortly after . Troops moved into Cambodia a Young Man was stopped As he tried to enter the Campus of the University of Washington at Seattle. A policeman doing his duty to keep unauthorized people off the Campus during that nervous time demanded the Many a identification. He had none from the colleges but he had one that gave him entry into the White House. A that cuts no ice Here Quot said the policeman. But after some checking Cheater e. Finn a member of the White House Quot kiddie corps Quot was allowed in. The minor incident served to illustrate a Mission performed without fanfare by eight White House staffers on 27 College campuses across the nation in those troubled weeks their Mission was to find out for president Nixon what really was going on and if possible to Tell the administrations Side. It was carrying one step further an administration objective to dispel the notion that the president is too isolated to get the mood of Young people. During the presidential Campaign in 1968, Nixon had said a far too few of us really listen to what Young people Are saying. We defend their right to speak up and to dissent we smile self righteously at our own tolerance and then we pay no attention to their his Campaign people set up Quot listening posts Quot at various places Small recording stations that invited the Public to express views Quot we considered carrying it Over to the White House Quot says Herb Klein Nixon a director of communications. Quot but we discovered the Cost Over a period of years would be quite expend smarting Over criticism that protests went unheard in earlier demonstrations the White House arranged during the May 9 peace gathering in washing ton for administration officials to meet with Young people in Small groups soon afterwards the staff assistants aged 23 to 29 made their tour of campuses. Like finns their visits were largely unannounced and All were informal a conducted in student unions cafeterias dormitories and on lawns. Wasny to an attempt to sell a program a says a 26-year-old staffer. A the students found out that the White House assistants who went out were really tight Young people who were interested in talking to them. And the people who went out found the students were not a band of wild isee Nixon Page 10> Hgt Don Kendall a farm writer Washington apr a High level agriculture department official has predicted no nationwide food shortage will Resur from the widespread Corn blight a the idea is fantastic a the official mid a there is no Chance of a food shortage in this country because of the the official made the statement thursday. The agriculture Depa tent will release late today its closely guarded monthly report on crop production which is expected to shed the most de on the 197q Corn situation. The com crop has been dam 4 aged severely by dry weather in key growing areas but it is a fungus disease called Southern Leaf blight that has sent Grain markets into a frenzy and fanned rumours the nation May face a food shortage. No one knows for sure How much damage has been done to the nations most important crop Worth $5 billion Quot a year simply As Grain. But today s report should help the monthly crop report is one of the most carefully guarded secrets routinely distributed in Washington. It is prepared behind locked doors and then delivered under armed escort to a room Wheritt a Given signal it is released to the news Media. The Security measures Are taken to prevent leaks which might affect markets or give an advantage to speculators no farm commodity approaches com for its Impact on the life style demanded by today s americans. It sets the Pace for All feed grains used in producing livestock poultry and Dairy products. Should this years crop be de instated a by the blight As much As first suggested by scientists and trainmen meeting in Athens a. On aug 14�? some thought up to half the crop might be lost the country could be in serious More recent estimates by private traders and others Point to a blight damage of less than 10 per cent nationally. Dry weather has reduced expected yields considerably already. In july the department expected a record Large crop of More than 4.8 billion bushels. By if Ark y Feinberg of business writer new York a a juicers across the country Are express ing scepticism about the possibility of a substantial drop in in Terest rates in the near fun Tiff it Survey of Large and Small Banks shows them to be at Odds with Secretary of Commerce Maurice stans who predicted a Sharp drop in interest fatal it think we will see a 6 per cent interest rate and perhaps not far off a stans Sard in a radio interview last weft a a Bank officials citing the High Cost of Money overhead and continued High demand for Loans say they do not expect the prime rate the interest charged to Large customers to decline sharply. The effect of a drop in the prime rate now at al per cent would be to make it easier for Large corporate borrowers to get Loans. This would have the effect of stimulating the Economy and cutting unemployment through the creation of new jobs economists say. Quot it May look Good politically but Bow can you lend Money at 6 per cent when you re buying it at 8�?T�?T&Quot said George Scott chair Man of the first National thu Bank a credit policy committee the group that sets the new York Bank s prime rate the big new York tranks Are a big Factor in any movement tri to a Tate i tan say they have no plans at the moment for a Cut. Many Bankers surveyed said that they usually follow the trend set by the Large new York Banks a Cincinnati Banks move As do the major Banks in other cities such As Chicago and new said an official of the first National Bank Cincinnati a Large to Quot i think there la be pressure during the election Campaign to drop the prime rate but t done to a see How we can fight inflation without leaving it where it is Quot said Richard Wilde president of the american National Bank of Salt Lake City in Washington Tiea awhile the chairman of the House banking committee has called for an immediate reduction in the prune rate to 6 per cent a Trade Deal by 1iif ass h i t it press Mode rate palestinian leaders and the jordanian government triad Ulm us a a move More than 280 his stages of fam hijacked plane in the jordanian Lesert where i dust storm blew up but hijackers holding the passengers. Crewmen and three air a liners walked told of the efforts to move the passengers one guerrilla said a then Why the hell have we in waiting Here at these Days a dwelt you nobody is going to More from Here until our demands Are the came after four Western governments and Israel rejected a guerrilla attempt to Trade israeli Passen Gem tor a it to tie id by Israel they demanded that All hostages he freed a the leftist Arab government Iraq and Syria further isolated the peking oriented guerrillas by coming out in favor of the release of All planes and passenger a,.f.�?T Une Uve t to. To. Irude of guerrillas at hrs it a reflected the views of Fate leadership of the popular front for Ihor let Seranton pipes Tine. Which claims or Isle re five ill jacking plots i Jinx week the Palestine liberation of st in Erk Mem Rottee the Overall command of the Arab guerrilla movement had announced the hostages would us moved to Amman for humanitarian reasons and would re Mam there until Mieir Fate was decided andr Rae hat the International red Cross representative w he Lee. Lump al Fegatill ing Lor Tbs hostages Rel wave sad and of them would be brought to the jordanian capital in Geneva Marcel Naville a president of the International red Cross committee said he understood an agreement for the release of the passengers and crewmen had been reached Quot with the palestinians. He said the committee also protested Quot the absolutely inhuman conditions opposed to the rights of Man and the Geneva and Hague conventions Quot in which the hostages Are being held Bill in Amman an official of the popular front refused to disclose the organization s group has frequent flouted orders from the hindi Lla a Cumms fold. A a a a a a Beirut spokesman declared Quot the passengers won t be moved anywhere until the popular front decides to move them Quot visit City a group of Georgetown s. C. Officials and property owners pondering the possibility of a waterfront redevelopment project in City of 11,000. Flew Here thus any to View the results of a federally supported waterfront project Here. The group also toured other Urban renewal projects and Public housing developments Here and conferred with Washington redevelopment and City officials. In the forefront of the photograph Are Washington redevelopment commission chairman Dave Milligan Georgetown mayor o. M. Higgens and William i. Cochran Washington redevelopment cos Mission director. Quot staff photo by Lite held

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