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10 THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, Jan. 4, 1972 Belfast Blast Injures 62 Persons oust the British and unite pre fect like a kind of shrap "No Matter What dominantly Protestant Ulster nel, ponce sam. Police Recapture Hospital Escapees RALEIGH AP) a 1 i about 3:45 a.m. when they and Fuguay-Varina police and spoUed him on Main slrcet with the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republic to the south. Two of those arrested were BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Terrorists blew up a boer truck In the heart of Belfast Monday, injuring 62 persons with flying glass.

"There were girls running everywhere, some of them cov They drove the truck into the city center already scarred by a guerrilla bomb campaign over Christmas and left it to The Label Says EVERYTHING seized when troops hunting IRA go off without any prior warn ing to people on the street, po lice added. ered with blood." an eyewitness gunmen dodged flying furniture and broken glass to smash their way into a Catholic club where 75 men had barricaded said. DRY CLEANS BETTER" A crowded department store was rocked by the blast, a The beer truck exploded in a narrow street packed with themselves. The British troops fired rub Even though many new fabrics are completely washable, blinding flash lit up the street shoppers hunting January bar ana restaurant diners were they are also completely Dry Cleanable and certainly an npnc wvmiiij, uvunua ItlUllUdJ tYifiri recaptured five persons who es- caped from the Dorothea Dix About ree hows later, State Hospital Sunday night. Raleigh police arrested Johnny Police at nearby Fuguay-Ray Hicks, 13, of Davidson Varina caught Richard Lun-i County, and Danny Dorsey, 19, ford, 35, of Wilkes County, i0f Gaston County.

Then in the afternoon, Wake ber bullets as they stprmed the St. Mary's Club in a Catholic part of the Northern Ireland showered with broken glass as gains. Many were office girls on their lunch break. was less than 100 yards from the expert is best qualified to handle your expensive clothing windows blew in on them. So why take a chance? At MINICO CLEANERS we Gunmen in a speeding car city nail.

The injured, suffering from I have three generations of experience and integrity Why settle for less? later shot one British soldier in the arm and another in the leg deputies with bloodhounds ran cuts and shock, were rushed to while the troops patrolled the Catholic Springfield Road area down James M. Hicks, is, brother of Johnny Hicks, and Donnie Ray Flood, 17, of Stanly capital's dockland. Man Is Killed When Home Burns MORRIS VILLE, N.C. (AP) -Daniel Lee Parker died Sunday night in a fire which swept the bedroom of his home at Rt. 1 four hospitals.

The victims ranged from a two-year-old boy to a woman of 62. of Belfast. Neither soldier was seriously hurt. Head C. E.

Wilson Dies At 85 County. 'It was like a hail of class MINICO CLEANERS LAUNDERERS Herman G. and John A. Nichols, Representing the Third Generation of Cleanert Laundereri in Asheville bullets," one man said. The Hicks brothers were in The army arrested 13 persons the hospital for observation aft Two young gunmen hijacked er aeing charged wi'h murder MoTisville.

throughout the strife-torn province in a 24-hour period, as troops pressed their war against the outlawed Irish Re the truck in the Roman Catholic Falls Road district and buried 10 pounds of explosives in the slaying of Aloin K. been "He was apparently smoking 81 Broadway Dial 253-3636 in bed and the fire spread from ris, 72, at his home between Lexington and Thomasvillc last TAKES ISSUE Sen. George McGovern, took issue Monday with President Nixon at a Washington news conference where he charged the chief executive with "delaying a serious attempt to end the war until his reelection campaign." McGovern seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. He also accused the President of deceiving the American people in a televised statement Sunday night. (AP Wirephoto) BRONXVILLE, N.Y.

(AP) -Charles Edward Wilson, who deep under beer bottle crates publican Army IRA. there, said Ray Scott, chief of in order to get a greater ef The guerrillas are fighting to tvco ftAm Ihn nnuprfv nf Mow JnO.iin, the Apex Fire Department. Hospital authorities said Luns- ford and Dorsey were not considered capable of standing trial. Thcv said Lunsford is charned with breaking and en- tering and Dorsey is charged "Out With the Old-In With the New11 Savings for You in 72 Floor Samples witn robbery while Flood is a regular hospital mental patient and not under any criminal chprge. The five fled the hospital Sun York City's Hell's Kitchen to the presidency of the General Electric Co.

and to kev government posts during World War II and the Korean War, died Monday at Lawrence Hospital. He was 85. Starting as a $3-a-week errand boy with a formal education that ended at the eighth grade, Wilson became GE's chief executive officer in He was regarded as a production genius. President Franklin D. Roosevelt named him executive vice president of the War Production Board a few months after the United States entered World Warr II.

and he was credited with stepping up aircraft Stale Puts Freeze On New Hiring day niaht by prying a metal RALEIGH (AP) A freeze griil from a windsw. Police swarmed into the Lake Wheeler Road area on the southern edge of Raleigh around 6:30 a.m. after receiving a call from Mrs. Alice Rouse, She said she and her husband had heard nbout the escapes and called police when a Discontinued Models 0 Very Slightly Damaged Mdse. on filling vacancies for many state lobs was announced Mon day night by Dr.

wunam u. Turner, secretary of tiie state Department of Administration, teen-age youth knocked on her issunmsimnaam In a memorandum to heads Roosevelt praised Wilson's' door and asked for a book of 3 WAYS TO PAY AT GOODYEAR Customer Qcdit of state agencies, Turner di- "expert knowledge of mass pro rcccd that they were not to hire workers to fill vacancies that have existed for 6J days or kmger. He noted that the freeze does not apply to law enforcement agencies, correctional in matches. The officers caught 'wo of the fusitives while the other two fled. Baker Takes Office Oath In Raleigh 4 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU 62 Broadway 990 Patton Biltmore Forest Hendersonville stitutions, state hospitals, the duction methods" and said it was "reflected in our successes on many battle fronts." In 1944, Wilson left the government position after a series of disputes with other WPB officials.

He went back to GE and brought about a 385 per cent increase in production. In 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Wilson chairman of the Office of Defense Mobilization and gave him final a i over production, wages, prices, transportation and defense buying for the ony ng lor Probation Department or institutions of higher education. Turner told the state officials the freeze was ordered under the state government Reorgani zalion Act which directs the RALEIGH (AP) Dr. Lenox governor to have the adminis- D.

Baker, nationally-known or- setup of state agencies hhnnsdic sureeon at Duke Hos- examined with a view to pro emergency created by tne ko-i moting economy and efficien roan secretary of North Carolina's cy." As he stepped into the post, I General Electric DRYER All Fabric Dryer, Permanent Pross Cycle, Hi-Speed He said the freeze "is the General Electric WASHER Permanent Press Cycle Filter-Flo, Family Silt FLOOR MODEL ne.v Department of Hjman Re he announced that "nobody- -I first step toward such exam said nobody ould be sources. Baker, 68, was administered ination, and will result in some saving in salaries through de the oath by federal District lays in placing employes on the Judse John D. Larki'is Jr. at a payroll ceremony held in Raleigh's fed eral building. "Many of the new employes who will be required under allowed to profiteer from emergency defense production and escape prosecution.

Fifteen months later, he resigned in a disagreement with Truman over a steel workers' wage increase that the President supported. Wilson told Truman that his "sense of jus FLOOR MODEL Those attending included Gov Bob Scott and former each department's reorganiza lion plan can probably be ob s17272 Govs. Luther Hodges, Terry tained from within the ranks of Sanford and Dan K. Moore. U.S Sen.

B. Everett Jordan, tice had been violated by the 272 state government without adding to existing positions," Turner continued. "Existing va government's stand in the steel1 N.C, also was on hand case. Ii a brief speech, Baker said cancies will be transferred to This time he did not return to he would not tolerate obstruct GE but joined the W.R. Grace I ion to his efforts to develop co- operation and mutual assist Steamship Co.

as director and consultant. He became board ance between the 32 agencies thai compose the new depart General Electric FREEZER Holds 406 Lbs. Frozen ment under state government reorganization Baker said the two main re provide salaries for anticipated now employes with the old positions being abolished." Belgrade Heads Chess Match Bidding List NEW YORK (AP) -The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed Monday that bids opened in Amsterdam for the site of the Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world championship chess General Electric RANGE 30" Hi-Speed, Removable Door, Pushbutton Controls FLOOR MODEL sponsibilities of the new department include one "to the tax-paytrs who deserve economy of Food. 11.6 Cu.

Ft. i fJPp FLOOR MODEL their resources." He said the match next June showed Belgrade the highest bidder. chairman in 1955. From 1956 to 1S'38 he was president of the People to People Foudation, an organization founded at the request of President Dwight D. Eisenhower to promote international understanding.

Until his death, Wilson maintained an office in Manhattan and was active in civic and philanthropic causes. Holiday Toll Reaches 419 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The death toll in traffic accidents totaled 449 during the New Year's holiday weekend. The National Safety Council had estimated a week ago that between 400 and 500 persons might be killed in traffic accidents during the period which began at 6 p.m. Thursday and ended at midnight Sundav. Over the Christmas holiday The Yugoslavian city's second responsibility is "to those who cannot support and car; for themselves." The three main agencies which make up the new department are the state Board of Health, the Department of Mental Haalth and the Department of Social Services.

3aker is a former president of the state Board nf Health and at the time of his appointment to the new post by Scott he Was chief orthopedic sur 000 offer of prize money for the match was reported by E.B. Edmondson, of the U.S. feder ation. Fischer has said he would prefer a match in the United States or Canada but the site geon at Duke hospital and a was expected to go to the high-professor of orthopedif surgery (st bidder. in tne Duke Medical School, General Electric DISHWASHER 3 Wash Cycles, Easy-Rolling Portable, Built-in Food Dispenser FLOOR MODEL General Electric STEREO Solid State, 4 Speod Changer, Two 8" Speakers FLOOR MODEL Some Mail Is Slow PARIS, Tex.

(AP) A bank weekend, an identical 78-hour nere didn't hear from one of traffic death toll period, the its borrowers at the appointed was 614 The Chicago convention bureau offered $100,000 the minimum set for the bidding as did Bled, Yugoslavia. Other bids repotred by Edmonson, who said they were unprecedented, indued by Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; $125,000 by Iceland; and by Argentina. The total amount of the successful bid will be given to the players, with the winner receiving 62.5 per cent and the loser 37.5 per cent. Edmondson said a total of 15 bids were opened at the World Chess Federation headquarters ADVERTISEMENT Eat! s18272 lime in June, 1970, and mentioned it to him. He vowed he'd mailed the $40 payment.

Recently mail exonerated him. The bank got a letter dated June 21, 1970, and enclosed was a $40 check dated the same day. It apparently had been mailed a year and four months earlier by the man who lived 12 blocks from the bank. Long-holding1 FASTEETH' Powder. It takes the worry Cz out of wearing dentures.

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Euwe will compare the preferential lists and announce the site, then each player will be allowed one veto of the announced site. Other bids received before the Dec. 31 closing were from West Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Canada, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Greece, France and Colombia. 20" Diagonal Measure, Automatic Color Purifier, Automatic Flnt Tuning FLOOR MODEL Defrosting, Freezer Holds 91 Lbs. Slightly Damaged REAL ESTATE COURSE Presented by N.

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