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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - September 12, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather mostly Cloudy and mild tonight with Chance at showers in Jib 80s. Sunday partly Cloudy and warmer highs 80s Washington daily news if you do not got your poor. Dial 7 00 o clock and Verad to you is 88 and we be it to ten paces Focas a a Atli r Aiu y ii a of Foj a it i Tyum Vitt inn sunday after Boycott plans return by to talks in Paris Cut amp a May of by George Esper associated press writer Saigon api a vice presi Deni Nguyen Cao by supervisor of the South vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks said today he plans to return to the negotiations after a nearly Rrt nags head n c. A a proposal for a coastal zone authority to guide development at North Carolinas Shore area was expected to be endorsed today by the state Board of conserva Tion and development. The Resolution was on the program for the closing session of the boards quarterly meeting the state Parks committee was expected to recommend to the Board that the state Purchase 3,000 acres of the great dismal swamp and convert it into a state Park the swamp lies in northeastern North Carolina and extends into Virginia. Or. Bruce Petteway of Elizabeth City president of the College of the Albemarle told the committee Friday the swamp Quot needs both conservation and development before it is too he said the dismal a Wamp could potentially attract thousands of tourists. Col. Paul Denison of Wilmington District Engineer for the corps of engineers told the Board friday1 we must have planned development Quot in the coastal area much of North Carolina s destiny a said Lias in the relatively undeveloped Eastern area Denison predicted a migration of Industry and population from the Piedmont to the coast. He said intelligent planning Quot is needed to reduce the possibilities at opportunistic approaches to Short Range gains Quot we need to insure Quot he added a that the Long term interests of the people of North caroling Are served in the fantastically Rich area. The 1mb general Assembly called for a coastal zone study and cad department personnel have been studying the possibility of a coastal authority. Gov. Bob Scott told the Board Friday night that stale govern ment can and must return More Divi ends to the taxpayers. He cited As an a Cample his see , Page 10 of month Boycott in an unrelated development the command announced the first withdrawals of infantry units from the . 1st Marine division and said the initial redeployment would Cut american strength methodists slated to sell Bonds the first United methodist Church of Washington will soon place $225.000 Worth of Bonds on Sale the1 Dale for beginning of this Sale is october 1, according to w. F Veasey local methodist official in charge of the Sale. The Bonds will be in denominations of $100. $500. And $1.000 they will be dated october 1 in and or will or guerrillas claim 3 jets destroyed As warning guerrillas claim Hussein must yield his authority in Vietnam by men. Informed sources said the Entile 20,000-Inan division will be withdrawn from. Vietnam. By next May i As part of president Nixon s plans to Cut the authorized american troop strength to. 284,000 by next Spring. Current . Strength is just under 400,0�oq. A president Nguyen Van Thieu s office and other Independent sources left the impression that. By would not be carrying Back any new proposals to end the War in Vietnam. The official sources said that if there were any dramatic new Bonds interest from that Date if purchased on or prior to. October 10, says or Veasey the Bonds will carry an interest rate of seven percent payable Semi annually on her 1 and april 1 of each 1.400 year. They will mature in six. Years but they May be called by drawing Lota explains or. Veasey. These Bonds will be backed by the full Faith and credit of the oldest methodist Church in the Greenville District. The local Church has a membership in excess of 1.200 the present building fund contains approximately $85,000. The present Church property has an appraised value of $425,000 the new educational building which is now under construction and will be partially built from the Sale of these will bring a total a by the associated press a palestinian guerrillas warring on the one hand with Jordan and on the other with Israel say King Hussein must yield his Power Toa Quot National authority Quot if a new cease fire is to continue Between the commandos and cast continued thorny the Pelt ruling aug Jordan a initiatives to be. , Thieu raised value to about .$775.3 10. Likely would make such an an f the Bonds will be negotiable nou Cement in Saigon i and they May be sold or Tran governor invited at to Road meeting Woodcock vows to get better Deal by a. F. Mahan associated press writer Detroit apr vowing to get a better offer United Auto workers president Leonard Woodcock Jehiras to the bargaining table today after rejecting a new contract proposal from. General motors corp. The company said its offer would raise the annual wages of its average factory worker to More than $12,000 within three years. Woodcock said it did not contain enough either in wages or fringe benefits. The Law chief said he viewed the chances of avoiding a strike at general motors or Chrysler or both at Midnight monday As a very very dim at the apparently in anticipation of a possible strike at pm next week about 600 workers at. Gmys truck Plant in Ohsawa near Toronto walked off their jobs Friday night to protest Lack of Progress in the negotiations. They were joined by some workers at an adjoining stamping Plant and pm officials closed both plants. Earl r. Bramblett pm personnel vice president and its chief negotiator said a in the face of this proposal the calling see Auto Page 10> members of the East coast m Hway conference committee have asked North Ca Rolina governor Robert w. Scott to attend the Highway development conference scheduled for october 19, at Myrtle Beach. Committee members for North Carolina j. Livingston Stallings of new Bern and William ii. Page of Washington issued an Appeal for Scott to attend the conference to hear the a expressed Public concerns for the development of a coastal corridor Highway from Norfolk to. Savannah. The conference an idea of the mid East economic development commission Here is intended to bring together interested officials business and Industrial leaders along the coastal routes from Delaware to Florida to express their concern for the construction of a. Four Lane limited Access Highway in the coastal areas of North and South Carolina and Georgia. A spokesman for the mid East commission said that the Highway is essential to opening up the East for development. The one Day conference scheduled to be held at the convention Center in Myrtle Beach is expected to be attended by As Many As 1,500 persons. Testimony from officials and experts in the Fields of tourism recreation and Industrial development is to be presented supporting the need for Highway development. The a conference a a Wilt adjourn following the adoption of a Resolution Complete with a transcript of the testimony calling on the states and the on the battlefields of Indochina. Fighting continued on three fronts a enemy troops launched their third ground assault this week against South vietnamese infantrymen about a mile Southwest of embattled fire base of Reilly in the Northern Quarter of South Vietnam near Laos. Field reports said the attack was driven Back. The enemy lost eight men killed and South vietnamese losses were two killed and five wounded. A . Marine a4 bomber was shot Down 20 Miles South of the base and the Pilot was reported As missing. A South vietnamese backed by bombers and artillery claimed killing 73 North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in three clashes in the Mekong River Delta ranging from. 42 to 1.2 4 Miles Southwest of Saigon. Field reports said 33 South vietnamese soldiers were wounded but none killed. A North vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers Cut Highway 1 linking Cambodia with South Vietnam and launched mortar attacks on cambodian troops attempting to Clear out the area 30 Miles South of phenom penh. Sep conference Page 10 farm Day set Swan Quarter a the third annual farm Day will be staged by the mat tam skeet Jay Cees of Hyde county on october 3, it was announced today by Kenneth Jeffries. Chairman of publicity for the event. The farm Day will be held at the Mattam skeet school again this year. It will feature a diversified farm equipment display an arts and crafts Center a livestock show an amusement Center several games a refreshment stand. Barbecue supper and a dance. The event will Start with a ribbon cutting at 11 m in the morning and end with the dance in the evening. The Matta Musket Jaycees extend a cordial invitation to everyone to attend this big farm Day event. Out of committee pollution Bill strongest to Date the Central committee of the Palestine liberation Organiza Tion which generally Speaks for All 11 commando groups said in a broadcast Friday the author to would Quot run the country and purge anti guerrilla elements from the the state and it would represent Quot the forces of the people a said the broadcast from Baghdad. Iraq. When it takes Over the Broad us out armed forces from the nation s cities and redeploy them along the Cense fire line with Israel Jordan. Egypt and Israel agreed to a fire aug 7, and the guerrillas charge that Huss Efti ton brought most of the from the front into Amman and other towns to defend a a stat the guerrillas Hussein and the palestinians agreed to their third truce in a week thursday but the Bagh dad broadcast hinged Continua Tion of the pact on Hussein Sec Cep Tance of the new ruling set up. The Central . Stopped Short of demanding out right a new government however. Pianos valued at 25 million the guerrilla broadcast said both had agreed to Quot remove the causes of civil strife in Jordan observers read this As an indication that Hussein might have accepted some of the conditions of the Broad cast Israel meantime complained to observers in Jerusalem for the 13th time hat leg Pothas violated terms of the sponsored cease fire by fortifying its antiaircraft missile Sites along the sues canal. For the first time the israelis said the missiles involved Are soviet sam3 antiaircraft types. I see mid East. Page 10 sherred. The Church will act As Clearing House if resale is desired the Sale of Bonds is not limited to the membership of the first United methodist Church they can be purchased by anyone desiring them and indeed people who desire to make such an investment Are urged to do so regardless of their religious memberships. Persons interested in purchasing such seven percent Bonds May Contact or Veasey at the local Church office or at his home1 or they May Contact another methodist Layman Fred a. Arthur at the Bank of Washington mrs. Hilda b. Windley Dies Belhaven mrs. Hilda Bell Windley a Belhaven native employed by a Elm City nursing Home was killed in a Wilson county automobile Accident Friday afternoon. . Windley was in route to her place of employment at the time of Accident. She was dead upon arrival at Wilson memorial Hospital in Wilson mrs. Windley was born september 19, 1913, daughter of mrs. Inez Jarvis and the late James h. Of Neal. She was the widow of Hal widely and was a member of the Belhaven first Christian Church. Surviving Are one son Jimmy Windley of Belhaven and three Sisters mrs. Thelma Morris of Elizabeth City. . J. C. Davis of Columbia and mrs. Annie Laura stables of Virginia Beach a. Funeral services will be held monday morning at 11 of clock in the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home in Belhaven with the Rev Jimmy Webster officiating burial will follow to the Belhaven Community cemetery pallbearers will of Newsom Harrison de Marshall Ricks. Sta Cullifer sr., Jack Reddick. Polo Edwards and Carl Edwards by Jim Luther associated press writer Washington apr a Bill requiring automobile manufacturers to eliminate 90 per cent of exhaust pollution by 1976 has won unanimous approval of the Senate Public works committee. The clean air Bill toughest Ever considered by Congress was attacked by fort motor co. After fridays committee action. Herbert l. Misch Fords vice president for engineering and manufacturing said the Bill Quot is unrealistic in terms of current or anticipated technological development and poses a major threat not Only to the automotive Industry but to the american the Bil Misch added in a statement issued in Detroit a leaves us enormously dissatisfied and sen. Edmund s. Muskie a Maine author of the measure said unanimous approval by Public works a whose members Cut across the entire spectrum of Senate opinion a will make it easier to pass the Bill. A a the Bill is scheduled for Senate action sept. 21. However if passed by the Senate it would go to a conference with the House which has approved a Milder version. Muskie declined to forecast results of such a conference. While the major thrust of the Bil is in the area of automobile exhaust fumes it also would create machinery for setting air Quality standards for the nation which would have to be met within 5w years after passage. The Public works committee rewrote one major part of mus Kiev still. The committee set the Jan. 1, 1975, deadline As suggested by Muskie for car manufacturers to reduce pollution by 90 per cent but the committee added an escape clause giving the department of health education and welfare authority to provide a one year Extension even though court action could Block such a delay. Thus the absolute deadline for compliance would be Jan. 1, 1976. Manufacturers had contended they could not meet the 1975 deadline because of a tech nolo strike continues Lew m Dibble disaster chairman strikers at Hamilton Beach Are being told by the communications Union that there Are signs of encouragement in the negotiations for an initial contract but Wayne Gray Union official said this morning the scour gaming signs were Quot More an atmosphere Quot than Concrete gains neither Side in the labor dispute will comment More specifically on the negotiations Union demands it is believed. Include a 25 cent per hour wage increase along with a pension plan employee rights and the Basic Union demand for arbitration whether or not the company or the Union Are giving either Way on these Issaa cannot be determined the company is apparently avoiding comment to the news Media about the strike. The Union is sticking to its estimate that More than 700 people Are on strike a figure the company has previously denied the Union claims the strike is damaging the Plant s operation Wayne Gray said people had to be sent Home from work Friday because workers in parts production could not be were be out thereby halting Assembly lines again the company could not be. Contacted for comment. Several incidents involving pickets and employees trying to get into the Plant have been officially reported. Two pickets were arrested Friday and charged with littering the Highway with tacks and nails. Sheriff Jack Harris said today. The sheriff said and France Bonds for each were set at $150 and was posted in Cash by the Cwa those charged were William Bell of it. 3, Williams ton and Rosa Adams of Vanceboro appointed Ella hits Mexico Lewis m. Dibble of this City has been appointed disaster chairman for the Beaufort county chapter of the american red Cross it was announced today by Reid Mitchell jr., chapter president he succeeds f it buy Wilson local architect or Mitchell in appointing or Dibble said a the red Cross and the people of Beaufort county Are very fortunate in having a disaster chairman that is so Well qualified for this important assign men. I in our disaster by the associated press a pail of smoke rase1 Over the Jordan desert today and Arab guerrillas said they had blown up three hijacked planes after removing the passengers. They Cla Invar a hit a mime tax a 1 w f a Irest wus Fretzjr Tiv in Are step of their warning to Western governments to meet their Demanda. They had said previously the planes would be destroyed with the passengers aboard unites Britain. Switzerland and weal Germany released seven Arab commandos in their custody. The three jetliner a a Tram world airlines Boeing 707, a Swissair hit and a British overseas airways corp. Vc10�? Weie blown up at 3 i p m Jordan time a spokesman for the popular front for the liberation id Palestine said this was 9 15 am Edt he added that it was Quot the first step of our warning following the delay of the three Western governments to concede to our the planes were Worth a total of $25 million their destruction would raise to close to $5� million the aircraft losses since the front began its air piracy activities last sunday. At that time a pan american world airways 747, a jumbo Jet Worth $.24 million was blown up in Cairo after being hijacked there and releasing its passengers. A a witnesses reporting on the blast in Jordan said it was greeted by shouting and Shota fired in the air by the a her Tuai smoke from the or strip heavy and Black to the Clear Blue sky. Was visible 20 Miles away. A jordanian troops had pulled. Back 15 Mitre from the Airstrip which was sealed off after removal of the last passengers guerrilla sources stated Cate to loss tier Hijack pane my a by lag. Sen. Gaylord Nelson d-wis., called this claim ridiculous not tog four College students taking pact in the recent Cross country a clean car race a had equipped a 1970 car with adequate pollution control devices. Bulletin lob Angeles apr a Strong rotting earthquake and two smaller ones Shook Southern California this morning swaying tall buildings and Awakening residents. There were no immediate report of major damage. Mr., Dibble responded by saying that Beaufort county had been very kind to him and that be was Happy at the Opportunity to serve the people in this area. Or. Dibble was Horn. In Orangeburg s. C. And is a graduate of Clemson University where he majored in electrical engineering. Graduating in 1.949 he moved to Washington the same year and served the City As superintendent of the dec-., trial depart me of until 195l in 1951 in answer to his country Scall he left the City and served two years with the armed forces during the korean conflict. He returned to Washington in 1953 and again served the City As superintendent of the electrical department. He moved to Greenville in 1962 to become assistant to the director of the Utility commission. He returned to Washington again in 1965 and assumed his old duties in 1968 he opened his own office As a consultant Engineer under the name of a Lewis m. Dibble and or. Dibble is married to the former miss Louise Tomlinson and. They live on Oak drive Here. They Are members of the first United methodist Church and Are Active in All phases of the Church program. They have one step son Michael c. Bailey who at the present time to serving Mecklenburg county As a clinical psychologist two prisoners escape Tillery n. C. Apr a search today for one of two Long term prisoners who escaped Friday amid gunfire from a work detail at the Caledonia prison farm to Halifax county. By Gary Garrison associated press writer Brownsville Tex apr Hurricane Ella smashed into a thinly settled area of North Eastern Mexico today with winds Topping 125 Miles per hour and torrential Rains Quot communications failed and there was no immediate word of How residents fared to the fish tog Village of la Pesca where the storm thrust ashore from the Gulf of Mexico Between 6 and 7 la Pesca a Community of Small houses with thatched roofs and Many summer Cabins sits at the Mouth of the Rio Soto la Marina. The Little town of Soto la Marina. Is 22 Miles Inland. Weather Bureau observers who traced the Hurricane with radar predicted it would thrust 50 to 60 Miles Westward before beating itself to death against the Sierra Madre mountains up to 15 inches of rain was predicted today and tonight and heavy flooding was fort vast m the affected area. Tides went to eight feet As Ella crossed the coastline winds which had exceeded 125 . To squalls dropped to 115 . By 7 a.m., when the weather Bureau discontinued All warnings and the Hurricane watch on the Texas coast by 9 a m. Today the Hurricane s winds had diminished to 100 m p b. The weather Bureau said and it was heading at 5 to 8 . Toward the mountains where it was exp sect up at that hour it was near Soto la Marina 22 Miles Inland and about 135 Miles South Southwest of Brownsville. Hurricane Torce winds extended 50 . From the Center. A Tampico newsman. Victor Flores said the mexican reported the Only communication with la Pesca and Soto la Marina was by Means of an Amateur radio Hookup and they were unable to Rise anyone in either place throughout the night experts in the weather Bureau at Brownsville said a Ridge of High pressure proved the primary steering Force and ept Ella from swinging North and battering i Fis of the Texas coast. Instead the _ Hurricane main. A tint i Westward course and reached land in the same Gener a area where another one named Inez struck in 1966. A with Hurricane Force winds extending from the Hurricane s Center outward so Miles a dem dinner see Ella Page 10 slated sept. 30 Swan Quarter the annual Hyde democratic by dem dinner will be held on wednesday evening september 30. At 7 00 o clock at Cora bus restaurant in Fairfield according to Bill Smithwick chairman of the Hyde county democratic executive committee. Gene Simmons of Tarboro chairman of the n. C. State democratic executive committee will be the featured speaker or. Smithwick says that several other democratic dignitaries will be guests at this meeting. Or. Simmons will be introduced by Worth Moore the tickets for this annual dinner Are on Sale now for five do Ari each. purchased by calling or Smithwick or by contacting precinct chairmen in Hyde county three in Beaufort county or in the City of Washington May obtain tickets by calling mrs. Verona Cratch Beaufort county Churman. At 946-5198 Federal agents training for anti hijacking duties new York a two hours before president Nixon announced that anti Hijack guards today would begin policing flights of . Commercial airlines More than 100 Federal they formed lines outside of medical offices stripped to the Waist and went through overseas immunizations passport processing and picture taking. Next the agent a who will agents arrived at Kennedy in Wear civilian clothes and con tar National Airport to take a cram course on the subject toting Footlocker a suitcases and other gear the first of the new guard arrived Friday at two Crew training centers run by trans world airlines and pan american world airways. Most of them were to their twenties and thirties husky and members of the. Secret. Service or other branches of the Treasury department. Ceal pistols under their suit jackets toured a Boeing 707 and 747 and Learned about daily airline operating routines emergency evacuation procedures and the design of the two planes. Later Quot a sky marshals a of the Federal aviation administration who have been specially trained since 1961 to the use of firearms and judo lectured them on hand to hand combat techniques in lockups of an airline Cabin. The White House said that for Security reasons it would not divulge which flights would carry guards none of those involved would talk about the training. Nixon also said Friday be had directed the transportation department to expand the use of electronic surveillance equipment to 22 International airports and others to the country and wherever possible to foreign terminals of United states Flag Ahr lines. He urged the world Community to accept a treaty providing for see guards Page 10

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