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The Register: Donviile. March 6. 1975 Marine Sergeant Protests Amnesty, Refuses To Report NORFOLK, Va. (AP)--A Ma- rine sergeant whose close friend was killed in Vietnam surrendered to military author- ities Wednesday after refusing to report to a new assignment as a protest of President Ford's 1 amnesty program. Sgt.

Charles Leon DeLoach said he will face jail to prove ithat amnesty is a "slap in the to those who fought in Asia. He said because of the am- nesty program "it's hard to say we fought to keep men free." DeLoach, 20, of Richmond, refused to report to the 1st Ma- rine Brigade in Hawaii. His orders made it clear the Marines wanted him declared a deserter if he wasn't en route to his new duty station by last "Sunday. He wasn't. The orders were issued after DeLoach was apprehended over the weekend, already overdue in Hawaii.

He was given extra time to report, but did not. in Southeast Asia and when Instead, he surrendered to those who ran away have am- the Shore Patrol Wednesday be- nesty." neath the stony stare of Gen. "The president amnesty m- Douglas MacArthur's statue volves giving these here. "What can they do to me, cut my hair and send me to Asia?" he asked. "I've already got short hair and I've been there." DeLoach joined the Marines too late to experience combat in Vietnam.

The closest he came was a logistic support group in Thailand. He said the war in Vietnam may not have been right but neither is amnesty. DeLoach said a close friend who once saved him from drowning went to the steamy jungles of Vietnam and was killed. "It seems to show that those who died, they died for he said. "You can't say they died for their country when there is no peace ternate type of civilian, pacifist service" DeLoach said.

"But what about the disabled veter- an who isn't fit for any service at all? Think of the families of the dead." "They'll have to go hard on me to keep others from doing what I've done," DeLoach said of his protest. "I've got to live with my- self," he said. "I can do it bet- ter now. And the country has heard from too many left wing- ers. It's time we listened to somebody else.

I'll speak." "Think of the next war," he said. "Why should someone go and get waxed? The same guys who ran before will run again, but a whole lot of those who fought will run with them. They'll remember Vietnam." Area Deaths And Funerals Mrs. Amy Cobbs Mrs. Linthicum ohn Funeral Today Dies Last Night PROTESTS AMNESTY.

Marine Sgt. Charles Leon DeLoach, overdue from his duty station in Hawaii, turns himself in to Shore Patrol personnel beneath the stony stare of a statue of On. Douglas MacArthur in Norfolk. He is protesting the President's amnesty program. (AP Wirephoto) Measure Has Tentative Approval Senate To Shake Up Milk Unit RALEIGH (AP)--A bill to di- lute the power of the governor over the state Milk Commission won the tentative approval of the North Carolina Senate Wednesday.

By a vote of 42-5. the Senate endorsed the measure and held it for further action Thursday. The bill would terminate the terms of the present seven- member milk commission, all of whom were appointed by the governor and replace it with an eight-member commission on which the governor would ap- point only two. The lieutenant governor. House speaker and commission- er of agriculture would each name two members of the new commission.

The Senate approved the bill after a debate during which it defeated 39-7 an amendment bv Sen. Lawrence Davis. D-For- syth. It would have delayed the effective date of the bill until Jan. 1.

1977. when a new gover- nor will be taking office. The amendment was opposed bv two members of the study com- mission which recommended the reorganization measure. Sens. Bobby L.

Barker. D- Wake; and Vernon White. D- Pitt. Barker, chairman of the study group and sponsor of the bill, said the measure was to "remove the milk commission from the political arena from which it was subjected last fall." He said the study group Hunger In N. C.

Student Legislators To Tackle Problem WhenBody Convenes March 19 InRaleigh By BRUCE TINDALL CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Hunger in far-away places like and Bangladesh is dramatic and well-known. But hunger is widespread in North Carolina too: North Carolinians out of 10) are below the poverty line but do not receive any food assistance. --One quarter of the state's popluation and half its school children are malnourished, according to the state govem- ment's nutrition survey. --While only one county in South'Carolina and none in West Virginia are designated "hunger counties" by the U.S.

government, North Carolina has 30. To help end what they call the "hunger crisis" in the state, a group of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hiil is suggesting how to help North Carolina's hungry citizens. The proposals suggest simple changes in the food stamp'and school iunch programs and in local health departments which could enable thousands of needy Tar Heels to eat better, ac- cording to UNC junior Joel Harbinson of Taylorsville, chairman of the group. A legislative bill containing the suggestions will be in- troducted in the N.C. Student Legislature (NCSL) by the UNC delegation when NCSL con- venes in Raleigh March 19.

After the student legislature acts on the bill, Harbinson said, members of his group plan to lobby for passage of the bill if it is introduced in the state legislature. NCSL, founded in 1937, is made up of delegates from colleges across the state who meet once a year to debate bills which could come up in the state legislature. Gov. James Holshouser and Lt. Gov.

Jim Hunt are both former members of NCSL. UNC students' proposals are: --To let the state relieve the counties of having to pay part of the administrative costs of the food stamp program: --To have the state hire full- time, paid "outreach specialists" in each" county to find and sign up people eligible for food stamps; --To require all school districts in the state to par- ticipate in the federal school lunch program; and --To have local health departments hire professional nutritionists. The first proposal, Harbinson said, is needed because many counties do not have enough workers to administer the food stamp program. Under current rules, the federal government pays half the administrative costs, the state pays a quarter and the county pays a quarter. Under the students' proposal.

'Starvation' To Be Held By N. College Students CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-- "Human suffering is not a political issue. It is a human one," said Doris Hudson of Charlotte, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Solving the hunger problem is 20th century man's greatest and most immediate challenge," she said. "Unfortunately scenes of starving families and malnourished children are even more real than they seem, probably more prevalent than any of us choose to believe and certainly only a symbol of the greater problems that caused the swollen belly." Miss Hudson, chairman of the UNC YM-YWCA starvation committee, has made it her personal responsibility to know about the hunger problem and inform others.

She became aware of the problem last fall when Dave Burgess, chief of- ficer of UNICEF, spoke on campus. As a result of the conern of Miss Hudson and others, a committee was established through the YM-YWCA to study the hunger problem in North Carolina, the United States and in foreign countries and to combat people's lack of knowledge about it. Sponi-oring a "starvathon" is the committee's answer to the challenge. Miss Hudson said. It's a one-week program with pur roses: to educate to the causes of hunger ar.u to raise $10,000." Thirty per cent the money will go towards alleviating hunger in the state, through the United Church Women, said Nancy Reeves, president of the YM-YWCA.

The other 70 per cent will be given to UNICEF to prevent blindness in children suffering from malnutrition in Bangladesh, she said. Dr. Creighton Lacey, a psychiatrist from Duke, will speak about the psychological effects of hunger Thursday about 4 p.m., prior to breaking the fast. A special service for the breaking of the fast will be held at the Wesley foundation following his talk. Maria Young, secretary of YM-YWCA, said a special communion meal of rice cooked in chicken broih and tea will be served for those who fasted.

Miss Hudson said other events throughout the week will include a speech by William Sloan Coffin, chaplain at Yale; a panel discussion on hunger in N.C.; and a scientific panel focusing on economics and the "limited world" problem. Dave Burgess will be on campus all week to talk with classes and to aid in breaking the fast. Mary Rose King, the producer of the Public a a i i documentary on world hunger and UNC graduate, will speak Tuesday. Collection booths will be set up Thursday to reach the $10,000 goal. "Essentially, I think the money in N.C.

will go to hungry families more than just children," Miss Reeves said. "The United Church Women have 30 units across the state. SVe propose that they take the money we give them to buy seeds and fertilizer and to lease public lands." Each woman will work with a poor family by helping and advising them in farming the land. Miss Reeves said she hopes the YM-YWCA will be able to give the students an "avenue of action" here and on campuses across the state after they become aware of the hunger problem. Miss Hudson said, "It is our hope that our fellow students will join with us in an effort to meet the challenge and alleviate human suffering." the county would be freed from the responsibility of paying administrative and; Harbinson predicted, county commissioners would be "less heistant to hire a sufficient number of food stamp workers." This would benefit food stamp applicants and recipients, he said, because lines at food stamp offices would be shorter, and more offices could be established in each county, making it easier to sign up for and buy food stamps.

The group's second proposal, to have the state- hire "outreach" specialists, in all counties, is important if the slate wants to inform all eligible people about food stamps, ITarbinson said. Of the nearly one million North Carolinians eligible for food stamps, only 44 per cent are receiving them, he said. Many people have applied for food stamps in recent months, lie said, but most of them are victims of temporary lay-offs, not the "hard-core poor" who need food stamps most. Harbinson called past outreach and publicity efforts "lackluster" and said they failed because they relied on unpaid, part-time' volunteer workers. The third proposal, requiring school districts in the state to participate in the federal school lunch programs, would affect only two districts in the state.

The other 147 districts already participate, Harbinson said. The nutritionists specified in felt "a new composition of the milk commission is needed and needed now." The Senate also defeated 39-9 an amendment by Sen. Bobby Lee Cimbs. D-Catawba. which would have placed a nilk retai- ler on the new milk commis- sion.

As written, the bill provides for two milk commission mem- bers to be producers, two to be processors and four to be con- sumers. Combs' amendment would have replaced one of the consumer representatives with a milk retailer. Kincaid said he approved the idea of one commission mem- ber being a retailer, but he ob- jected to him replacing a public representative. He indicated he wquld work out another amend- ment to add a retailer to the commission. --A bill by Sen.

Russell Kir- by, D-Wilson. to amend the North Carolina Constitution to require that all judges be li- censed attorneys. --A bill by Rep. Mark Short. D-Guilford to provide that in prosecutions for rape, the ca- pacity of a boy between 12 and 14 to commit rape "is a aues- tion of fact to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt." Short said the courts now hold that a vouth under 14 is incapable of committing rape.

--A bill by Sen. Fred Alexan- der. D-Mecklenburg. to require election registrars to take reg- istrations in the public high schools. --A bill by Rep.

Patricia Hunt. D-Orange. to reduce the franchise tax on power com- panies from 6 to 4 per cent. Funeral for Mrs. Amy Skipper Cobbs will be held at 2:30 p.m.

today in Kentuck Baptist Church by the Rev. B. W. Williams. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Cobbs. 55 of Danville Rt. 3 died Monday in Memorial Hospital. She was born in Pittsylvania County Aug.

25,1919. a daughter of the late John H. Skipper and Alice Flippen. She was a member of Kentuck Baptist Church. She is survived by "her husband, Woodrow Cobbs of the home: seven sons.

John D. Cobbs. Jesse J. Cobbs. Woodrow Cobbs Thomas B.

Cobbs and Bernard Cobbs of Danville, Rufus Cobbs of Keeling and McArthur Cobbs of Ringgold; a daughter. Mrs. Alice C. Sydnor.of Blairs: a brother. Henry B.

Skipper of Danville: a sister. Mrs. Martha Gunner of Blairs: and 15 grandchildren. Sidney Brown Rites Tomorrow Funeral services for Sidney Brown will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Beavers Funeral Home chapel by the Rev.

J. P. Griffith. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. The Pittsylvania County native died Tuesday morning in Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.

He is survived by a son, Matthew Brown of Bowie. a daughter, Willie Harrison of Danville: a sister. Mrs. Mattie Lee of and three grandchildren. The body is at the home.

The family is at the home of his daughter at 232 Grant St. CHATHAM--Mrs. Luzena Bradner Linthicum. 86. of Lynchburg, a former Chatham Rt.

2 resident, died last night in the Medical Care Center in Lynchburg. She was born in Pittsylvania County, a daughter of the late Albert and Beatrice Semons Bradner. She was the widow of James Kelly Linthicum. who died Jan. 16, 1965, and was a member of Greenpond Baptist Church.

She is survived by two daughters. Mrs. T. W. Davidson of Philadelphia, and Mrs.

William B. Cobb of Incline Village, four sons. J.E. Linthicum of Lunchburg. C.

W. Linthicum of Gretna. I von E. Linthicum of Martinsville and Lacv E. Linthicum of Funeral for John W.

Lewis will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Christ Temple Holiness Church by Elder W. R. Adams. Burial will be in Cemetery.

Mrs. Lewis, 61. died Sunday evening in Memorial Hospital. The resident of 749 was bom in Danville AprjJ, tl. 1913.

a son of the late wijliam Lewis and Ada Davis. He had been a cook.at,'the Hotel Danville for 35 He is survived by Mrs. Lena Lewis of the Koipe: six sons, Joe Wesley Lewis of Orlando. Larry Lewis of Germany, and Freddie. Robert Larry and Harry Lewis of Danville: four Miss Barbara Lewis and L.

Bagby of Norwalk. Sacramento. two and Mrs. Vickie Slade brothers. Jake Bradner of Gloria Thompson of three brothers.

Robert and Waverly Lewis of Danville and Carlton of Washington. D.C.: ariJ; 16 Newport News and Luther Bradner of Farmville: nine grandchildren and 11 great- grandchildren. Funeral will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Greenpond Baptist Church by the Rev. Hamlin Cathey.

Burial will be in Roselawn Burial Park in Martinsville. Her family will receive friends at Scott Funeral Home 7-9 p.m. today. At other times the family will be at the home of her son C.W. Linthicum at Gretna.

J. G. Gravely Dies In City JaU (Continued from Page 1-B) powered several guards and made off with a deputy's uni- form and pistol was the sec- ond major jailbreak here in 35 days. Three of the escapees were recaptured not long after the iailbreak but three others re- mained at 'large Wednesday afternoon. Mayor Davis only last month had voiced concern over secur- ity problems at the jail.

He said Wednesday that members of Council "had hoped to some con'-: fidence security line after last month's problems." Davis said he had been au- thorized to speak for the entire council last -'month when he said "all of' is have a great deal of concern about the internal security of the jail. The city has the resopnsib'ility for pro- viding the physical facility." Drive (Continued from Page 1-B) A I I George Gravely died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in Dan- ville. He was born in Henry County but had resided in Pittsylvania County for 60 years. He was a son of the late Thomas Gravely and Mollie Gravely. He is survived by his wife.

Mrs. Erie Walker Gravely 2nd his stepmother. Mrs. Margaret Gravely, both of the residence: three daughters. Mrs.

Lillie Pritchett of Danville. Mrs. Marie Alstin of Chicago. 111. and Mrs.

Carolyn Thaxton of Los Angeles. two sons. Joe Henry Gravely and Junior Gus Gravely, both of Chatham: three stepdaughters. Mrs. Rubena Dillard and Mrs.

Lizzie Dillard, both of Martinsville and Mrs. Rosa Bowes of Buf- falo. N.Y.: one stepson. Peyton Walker Jr. of Martinsville: -threesisters.

Mrs. H. Stone and Mrs. Ruby Stone, and Mrs. Janie Gravely, all of Mar- tinsville.

and two brothers. George and Thomas Gravely, both of Martinsville. Funeral services 'will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. from the Union Hall Baptist Church in Chatham. The body is at Hairston Funeral Home.

301 Fayette in Martinsville where the family will receive friends Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. grandchildren. The a i will receive friends 7-8 p.m. today at.jCun- ningham and Hughes Funeral Home. Mrs.

Dies At Age 68 I --RU Greenhow Parker Winaker. 68. died Tuesday night en route to a Richmond hospital. ir Mrs. Winaker.

a former teacher at Danville's G.eorge Washington High School, married Danville F. Winaker, who. lives the family's Whitestone residence. She was born in Franklin County, and moved to Danville after her schooling. She is survived two children.

Mrs. Gay McQuiston of Chantilly and Frederick Winaker Jr. 'of and five grandchildren. Funeral services will held' at 4 p.m. today at the graveside in the Christ Church cemetery in Irvington.

Teddy Ferguson Funeral Sunday Funeral for Teddy Ferguson will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Kentuck Baptist Church by "the Rev. B. W. Williams.

Burial will be in the churclucemetery. The 70-yearroId Blairs'; Rt. 1 resident died Monday in Stone's Nursing Home. He was born Dec. 12.

1904 in Pittsylvania County. the' late Mose Ferguson and Parrie Lee Hood. He was a lifelong farmer and a member of Kentuck Baptist Church. His 'wife was the late Dreamer Pritchett Ferguson. He is survived by nine nieces and two nephews, most of Danville and Blairs.

We'll be re-schooled by the doctors at the hospital for another 100 hours." Without the new radio equipment to go along with the telemetry machines, the crew is unable to communicate much beyond the city limits. The present radio devices are unable to reach that far. said Anderson. The Family Of The Late ELLEN MARIE ADAMS PRITCHETT would like to express their deep appreciation to the friends and neighbors for their many of kindness. Signed: Mother, Daughter Sorts WE ACCEPT FOOD COUPONS AIRPORT SUPER MARKET 1355 South Boston Road Dial 793-8355 Located Across From The Airport On Rt.

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(AP- Charleston County Police Chief Paul F. Hartline was arrested by the FBI Wednesday a charge he extorted money from local bars. FBI Special Agent James J. Dunn Jr. of Columbia, who heads the bureau in South Carolina, went to Charleston for the late morning arrest.

He said Hartline was taken into custody at his North Charleston house. the fourth proposal, would work with local health departments and carry out nutrition education, especially for food stamp recipients and expectant mothers, to whom nutrition is critical. The first proposal would cost about $5.3 million a year, the group reported, but increased participation in the food stamp program could pay for al! or most of that, because of in- creased sales tax revenues. The outreach specialists would cost around $1.5 million, and the nutritionists about $2 million annually. The increased costs of the school lunch program would be paid by the federal government.

The total cost to the state, Harbinson estimated, would be around S9 million annually, part of which would be recovered through tax revenues. Urging legislative adoption of his group's proposals, Har- binson concluded: "It is a disgrace to all the citizens of North Carolina that the state ranks 46th in participation of the poor in the food stamp program." He said the students' proposals would be "major steps in alleviating the hunger crisis in North Carolina." CRISCO I SHORTENING 89 3-Lb. Con DOMINO SUGAR 5-Lb. Bag LIMIT 1 ORDER HOT DOG SAUCE MTtROCNT AJAX IfrOs. LIMITS 00 HTMPARK Yellow, White CAKE MIXES Lemon, Devil's Food SAV-ttMA SWEET PEAS MIXED VEGETABLES PINTO BEANS MTOt PARK WMOU KIRNtL OA GOLDEN CORN Ttxin PINE CLEANER DAIRY JACK BUTTERMILK BISCUITS.

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