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is is is is is is is AMEN South Vietnamese Growing Confidence In Push By Associated Press Writer SAIGON TAPY A With growmg contidence, South Vietnam's battered armed forces are ricing back in hopes of reverhg. the flow of Hanoi's masInvasion. And while some Recess seems ultimately asthe outcome is likely to short what President Van. Thieu called "the battle. Some military and political believe the three months fighting since the North's started, althou the bloodiest of the war 10.

respecta, have proved nothing except once againthat military solution is impossible in Indochina? and the only way to a cease-fire and settlement is through negotiation. Gaining favor now among allied officials appears to be a view that the North Vietnamese, haying tried their utmost but failed to achieve any of their major objectives, will pull back to refit for yet another try. Some think this next attempt might come as early as next year, but many U.S. officers are so optimistic as to believe the Communist command has finished itself militarily for up to four years. Nevertheless, the South Vietnamese.

also are facing severe problems. The enemy push has again reshaped the borders of the country in the Saigon region, with the Communist command effectively controlling large areas. of South Vietnam that it will probably take years for the Saigon forces 'to recover by staying on the offensive, not a familiar role for ARVN troops. Many areas of the countryside, including 1,164 hamlets out of 15,000 and more than 595,000 people, about 3.0 per cent of the population, are under enemy control, with many more potentially lost, with a million persons counted as refugees. "It will take years to restore that situation even.

if the offensive a should end tomorrow," said one U.S. official. The success of the North Vietnamese. drive, to whatever degree It extends in the final analysis, also is likely to have an eroding effect. on the confidence of the people, which the Saigon government has tried hard to cultivate.

One thing working in the South Vietnamese government's favor in this respect, say cials. has been the failure of the Viet Cong to fulfill their role in the Hanoi plan. Communist documents in the hands of allied officials are the basis for this belief, telling how the Viet Cong did not mobilize their forces in strength but spread them too thinly and dissipated their effect, and also reporting that Viet Cong political agents and cadres moved too slowly in organizing the political, side of the ollensive among the people Many U.S. officials, co contend that the Viet Cong are not an I important force except in eertain areas, in particular the coastal provinces and some areas of the Mekong Delta, where they have always been strong. The idea that North Viet-1 nam's own forces are finished for a while stems in large part from what allied officers believe are their battle losses.

Although it is conceded that no one on the allied side really knows what enemy losses are, and so-called body counts have never proved reliable, some senior commanders believe Hanoi has lost as many as 000 men -mostly to air and ar tillery strikes. Although North Vietnam has never had a provable manpower problem during the war, most military men insist it is having one now. They say most of the Communist units which began the offensive at full strength have not been able to keep up their strength with replacements, especially in the face of B52 strikes and other mass barrages. There are reports of enemy units being unable to carry out their missions because of heavy manpower losses, but ordered to do so anyway. Allied officials also.

say evidence indicates the North Vietnamese soldiers now are much younger, sometimes 15 and 16, and have been thrown into many battle situations with almost no preparation and far less fighting skill than American and South Vietnamese sol diers have learned to expect from the army that is sometimes called the "world's finest light infantry." They point to examples of inexperience, poor planning and amateurish execution, such as the tactics used by North Vietnamese tanks, which have been destroyed in large numbers almost everywhere they have appeared. Many American officers believe the North Vietnamese erred in trying to use tanks, big artillery pieces, and other new and complicated weapons. While often effective and frightening to the South Vietnamese, they also proved 1 more of a burden because of the additional logistics, and supply, created. Gen. Abrams, the former U.S.

commander, has expressed the view that the North Vietnamese were a better fighting force in their old style than in conventional war, In addition to problems that allied officials believe the Cycle Club Members Have Their Own War DURHAM. N.C. (AP) "It sounded like machine fire." a member of a Florida motorcycle group, the Pagans, said of the shooting incident Durham: Friday which left near Pagans dead. Rush Paula Roebuck, 26, of Miami said four of the Pagans were in a. van truck and two others were on motorcycles, going to Pennsylvania on 1-85.

She a one of the motorcyclists to'd the occupants of the van tha' "the Storm Troopers are coming. They've got guns. Durham County Sheriff Marvin L. Davis said the Storm Troopers were a motorcycle club from Durham. Miss Roebuck said the to pull off at an gans.

exit ramp, but they blocked us two. pickup trucks. Then the shooting started and it didn't stop." -About 30 bullet holes were found in the van late- Friday after the shooting. In addition to the two dead- identified as Lance A. Burger, Donald T.

Scroggs, both 32, and of -Miami- four other persons were wounded, two of them bystanders. Four Storm Troopers were charged with murder. They are Will am G. Lamm, 31, David K. Winstead, Alton H.

Mason, 21, and William Douglas Johnson, 29, all of Durham. Johnson was! one of the wounded and was treated at a hospital before being jailed. No bond was allowed the Miss Roebuck, who was four. slightly wounded, was charged with damaging a car of a passerby who stopped and was released on $100 bond. Another Pagan, Salvatore Infantolino, was jailed under $5,000 bond, charged with assault with a deadly weapon with Intent attacked to kill.

Officers said he the passing motorist. Sheriff Davis said he under stood the shooting resulted from. dispute over stolen motorcycle. He said 2 rifles, a shotgun and pistols were found at the scene but he didn't know which group had which ones. N.

Zone Forecasts Triangle Area and Northeast edmont, Northern Coastal Southern Coastal Plain Plain, a ad Sandhills: Partly cloudy, humid through Tuesarm and 9 with a chance of afternoon evening thundershowers. th today and Tuesday mostly in 11 the low 90s. Low tonight southwesternly winds at 5 to 10 60s to low 70s. Mostly hour except gusty in es per today and undershowers ght. Precipitation probabil40 per cent today, tonight and Tuesday.

Northern Coastal Southern Coastal Area: Partly cloudy, warm and humid through Tuesday with a chance of afternoon and evening showurs or thundershowers. High today and Tuesday in the upper 80s and low 90s. Lows tonight in the low. Winds southwest to west 1 at 5. to 15 miles per hour today and tonight, Precipitation probability 40 per cent today, Holiday Has Wide Appeal COLUMBIA (AP)- -July Fourth celebrations, including a peach festival, a jazz concert, and a Hillbilly Day, are scheduled throughout -South Carolina, At Barkoot's Lake I Columbia, several wellknown groups and vocalists will entertain anyone who has an ear for heir kind of music.

The small mountain. community, Mountain Rest. in the northwestern part of the state is featuring country music, and old-time games such as greased chase as part of Hillbilly Day, Charles Towne Landing in Charleston will feature all-day entertainment from ars of the Arthur Smith show and three Revolutionary battle reenactments, and the ascension of two hot-air balloons. On the agenda for the Lexing: ton County Peach Festival a' Gilbert is golf tournament, peach fruit contest and sw suit pageant. Fort Jackson in Columbia plans a 50-gun salute to the nation, and Third District Congressman Bryan Dorn will deliver a speech at the Veterans Hospital.

He will later partici-pate in the peach fest val. The Myrtle Beach area is planning an America Day with a fireworks display. at Georgetown concluding the day a activities. Various other towns -such as McClellan ville and Blackville plan celebrations and p. cnics.

Guard At Prison Hurt By Inmates- MORGANTON, (APT guard. in a prison complex housing youthful offenders was in critical condition late Sunday after being attacked by several inmates. A spokesman for North lina Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem said Jack 25, of Morganton, had emergency surgery earlier Sunday. Dr. James C.

White Jr. of the Western Correctional Center Morganbeaten on the head with a met-! ton, said Ledford had. been mop bucket handle. The superintendent said he did not know what caused the incident. He sad about 25 mates were watching a late show on TV early Sunday at the time.

White said most of those present went to Ledford's aid. The superintendnet said an investigation is not complete but that the youths believed to have been involved had been placed in tighter security. The 16-story complex houses about 130 youths sent in from other institutions. Man Shot Twice, Then In Wreck; Now He's Dead RALEIGH (AP) Edward C. Baker.

60, was dead on rival at a Raleigh hospital urday night after he was and then was involved an auto wreck. Wake County Coroner M.W. Bennett said Baker could have died either from a wound from the injuries suffered the wreck. Raleigh Police said they charged Baker's estranged wife, Betty Godwin Baker, assault with a deadly with intent to kill. She was leased under $500 bond.

Police said that after he shot in the arm and chest er drove his automobile eight blocks before he collided head on with another car. Forrest Herman Shuford driver of the other car, and wife, Grace, were taken Hospital, Shufford was reported in satisfactory condition, Mrs. Shuford was listed serious condition. Derailment DANVILLE, Va. (AP) Southern Railway crews worked today to clear the main line between here and Lynchburg in the wake of the derailment of a large number of cars of a 140-car freight train.

Approximately 40 cars of the southbound freight overturned Sunday about six miles north of here near White Oak Mountain in Pittsbylvania County. No injuries were reported, Railway officials estimated it might take 24 to 48 hours to repair: damage to the track. About 35 cars on either side of those, that overturned remained upright but were off the tracks. Southbound passengers were being sent to Greensboro, N.C.. and northbound passengers to Lynchburg, railway officials said.

Nursing Homes RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina Nursing Home Association has changed its name. From now on it will be the North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association. The association's executive director, John Kerr of Durham, said the members voted for change because the new name is "more compatible with the numerous types of nursing care given to long term patients." Lockheed Aircraft Not Out Of Financial Hole (Editors' Note: A year ago the nation faced the possibility that its biggest defense contractor could go into bankruptey. Then Lockheed Aircraft Corp. received federal help.

following report by Donald M. Rothberg of The AP Special Assignment Team looks at Lockheed today.) By DONALD ROTHBERG. Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A healthy flow of Pentagon business. a huge federal loan guarantee and a helping hand from Britain so. far have failed to lift Lockheed Aircraft Corp, above financial storm clouds that threatened it with bankruptcy.

The nation's No. defense contractor, heavily in debt, has pegged its future to its big commercial jet, the Tristar L1011. But the airline business is in a slump and orders for the $18 million plane are below expectations. A. year ago, Lockheed was reeling from $484 million in losses on four government projects and from the bankruptcy of Rolls Royce British bu'lder of the engines for the Tristar.

Lockheed owed a consortium of 24 banks $400 million. Its net worth, according to a Pentagon study, $240 million. The banks. lend any more money: Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton appealed for government. help.

declaring that without. it the Tristar. program would: be scuttled. "If that happens, I know of absolutely no way to keep Lockheed out of bankruptcy," he said. The Nixon administration backed appeal and after a long and bitter fight, Congress voted -to pledge government credit for up to $250 million in new bank loans.

So Lockheed kept alive. The British government provided the money, to enable Rolls Royce to stay in business and offered airlines separate financing for 90 per cent of the of the engines with which cost Rolls still is having problems. Where is' Lockheed today? It used $100 million of the loan guarantee: to obtain extra the financing and now owes banks a total of $500 million. It delivered the first three-enTristars this spring to Eastern and Trans World Airgine lines. But since obtaining the loan backing during the airline slump, it has sold two more of the 272-passenger planes.

The Tristar's main petition is the McDonaldDouglas DC10, an Americanbuilt three engine jumbo, and a twin-engine European airbus. earlier, the the DC10 170 so has outsold Tristar to 104. Lockheed says it will start making money once it sells between 255-265 Tristars. A classified Pentagon study puts the figure at 370, an estimate Lockheed steadfastly denies, Planebuying decisions vitally important to the Tristar's future are due. probably this fall, from British European Airways and Japan's All Nipon Airways.

But Lockheed has not lost any interest in the defense business. The company is competing contracts on several defense projects including a design competition for a transport plane that could operate from short runways. Its Air Force contract for the world's biggest. transport. plane, the C5A.

nearly put Lockheed out of business. Former Defense Secretary David Packard summed up the C5A issue for a congressional committee: there is problem when a program on which the original target cost for 115 airplanes was $1,768 million ends up in a now projected cost of million for 81 When the C5A contract was rewritten, Lockheed was forced to take a $200 million loss and finish the work on a no-additional-loss, no profit basis. But not all the C5A work. is done under that no-profit contract. Pentagon figures obtained by The Associated Press show that from 1969 through 1972.

$109.3 million was spent for C5A. modifications, spares and component improvement. Lockheed was prime contractor. all that work. The projection for 1973-1977 is for expenditure of $278.8 million.

Pentagon officials say that these costs are part of the continuing maintenance of any weapons system and that only time will tell if they will be higher or lower than usual with the C5A. So far, says the Air Force, the plane has performed well with lower than normal maintenance. A check of Defense Department computer printouts listing nearly 3,000 transactions with Lockheed during the last two fiscal years disclosed the following: -Despite administration predictions before congressional committees that Lockheed would have to expect drop in its defense business in the mid1970s, the trend for the past two fiscal years appears to be in the opposite direction. -During the first nine months of the fiscal year ending. June 30, Lockheed received $1.418 million in business from the Pentagon.

That is less than $100 million below the total for all of the previous year and the last three months are often the busiest for awarding military contracts. -Less. than half the dollar value of Lockheed contracts was awarded on the basis of price competition, situation congressional testimony has shown is common in defense contracting. -A large chunk of the Lockheed contracts. listed as price competitive for the C5A far higher the bid that where the final, cost ended up won the job.

Associated Press Writer with a total of more than 40,000 rooms. During the winter season, rates at the name hotels like Fountainebleau, Doral and Americana start at $50 a night for a double room and go to $150 for a suite. The innkeepers seem to have no trouble filling the house during the season, but at the same time there's no boom in -hotel construction. The newest one. the Playboy Plaza, was completed eight years ago.

Here's Close Up Appraisal I Of Glittering Miami Beach By KEN GEPFERT Motel Row, there are 400 hotels MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Out of the sand rise 400 glittering giants of glass and concrete that soak up $600 million a year from sun-loving tourists who holiday in Miami Beach. "Motel Row" is a towering strip of neon and good times has made this resort island famous, But close by the nightclubs and "extravaganza revues" on Collins Avenue are the bingo parlors and shuffleboard courts i of South Beach where the old folks gather, The elderly comprise most of Miami Beach's 87,000 population. The average age is 65. Miami Beach Convention Hall, scene of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, is the hub of the city at Washington Avenue and 17th Street.

Oceanfront hotels lie to the east, swank homes to the west and poverty-level walkups to the south. On South Beach, the elderly are jammed into faded stucco hotels and apartments where rent is $75 to $150 a month. Drugstores and sundry shops are filled with low-cost trinkets to match the pocketbooks of their customers. There are dozens of cafeterias and low-budget diners. By contrast, the affluent own winter homes on the secluded Islands that dot Biscayne Bay between Miami Beach and Miami or live in massive, beachfront condominiums that honeycomb the skyline, rivaling the motels.

They shop in the exclusive Bal Harbour area where price tags for clothing can come in four and five figures. But while the old and the alfluent form the basis of the permanent populace, it's the tourists that make Miami Beach thrive. Tourism accounts, for 85 cents of every dollar in the Miami Beach economy, In (970, vacationing tourists spent nearly. $600 million. From South Beach through Rocky Mount, N.

C. Talegram Monday, July 3, 1973 Associated Press Writer SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Hallway through this election year, President Nixon has spent about two thirds of his time away from the White House, where his lease is up for grabs. During the first six months of 1972, Nixon spent all or part of 121 days away from Washington. There were 182 days during the half year, The chief executive, who flew here Saturday for stay of about two weeks.

has adopted Aspen Lodge at the Camp David, Navy-Marine base as his favorite retreat. Nixon spent all or part of 53 days there during the six months. Runner-up in presidential favor was the Nixon home at Key Biscayne, Fla. He spent all or part of 53 days there or at the Bahamian island of Grand Cay. commuting distance away by helicopter.

Grand Cay is owned by New York industrialist Robert Abplanalp and Nixon's closest neighbor Key Biscayne is banker -investor Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo, is his wife Pat, who arrived Sunday night from Chicago. Ironically, Nixon hag spent the least time at his oceanside mansion here, his voting residence in a state important to his bid for a second term. The President's current stay is his first since he was in California Tor six days in January. Nixon's travel record was further extended, of course, by history-making trips to Peking and Moscow the first ever made to those capitals by an Amer can president.

A third foreign journey took him across the border to Ottawa. Strangely, Nixon has done Little -year touring of the home front. criss-crossed all year by potential Democratic rivals. He went to New York for an antidrug conference; to Philadelphia for a cultural event: and to the Floresville, home of former Secretary of, the Treasury John B. Connally.

Nixon has insisted he will do no politicking entil after the Republican convention late next month. Two-Thirds Of Nixon's Time Spent Away From Capital By FRANK CORMIER Both men are w'th Nixon, as North Vietnamese ares having on the front lines, there is much confidence that the Nixon administration's mining and bombing of North Vietnam especially with the superaccurate "smart" bomb, will- succeed in I paralyzing warmaking and supply potential. There is also A widespread belief among Americans that, sooner or later, the troubles Hanoi is having will have political as well as military repercussions. Rev. Herring Of Winston Is Stricken CHARLOTTE (AP) Ralph A.

Herring, who served as pastor of the Winston Salem First Baptist Church from 1936 to, 1961, died in Presbyterian Hosbital at Charlotte Sunday. The minister who retired in 1969 as director of the Semi nary Extension Division of the Southern Baptist Convention had entered the hospital in late May for treatment of leukemia. Funeral plans for Incomplete. The service will: be held Frank Vogler and Sons Funeral Home in Winston-Salem. Herring, whose daughter Anne, was a former Miss North Carolina, served North Carolina, and Southern Baptists several capacities.

He was elected- president of the State 1945 Baptist and Convention second in 1943 and was vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1933. He bad remained active retirement, preaching and teaching and recently oleted an interim pastorate at the Chantilly Baptist Church Charlotte. native Herring was a Pender County and graduate of Campbell College, Wake. Forest Uni. versity the Southern Ban.

tist Louisville, Theological Seminary Ky. widow, Herring is survived by his three sons, Ralph A. Herring Jr. of Mooresville, Herring of La Jolla. and Jack Herring of Boulder.

Colo. a daughter, Mrs. Allen I McSurely of Arlington, brother. J. Alex Herring Greenville, S.C.: three sisters.

Mrs. G. K. Middleton Miss Mary Herring and Mrs. Susan Herring Jeffries.

of Raleigh, and 10 grandchildren. Legal Notices NOTICE TO CREDITORS NORTH CAROLINA NASH COUNTY Public notice is that the undersigned hereby given estate qualified as Executrix of the of T. R. Vaughan, deceased, of Nash County, North Carolina and this is to all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against said estate of said deceased to present them to the, undersigned itemized and verified, at 625 Glenn Avenue, Rocky Mount, N. C.

before the 12th day of December, 1972, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment, to the undersigned. This 12th day of June, 1972. Florine Haymon Vaughan Executrix of Estate of T. R.

Vaughan, Sr. Moore. Dietrick- Attorneys at Law P. O. Box 2546 Rocky Mount, North Carolina 6-12, 19, 26; 7-3 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE North Carolina will please make immediate payment.

This the 16th day of June, 1972. Garland Mosley Executor Route 1, Box 261 Rocky Mount, N. C. 6-19, 26; 7-3, 10 Nash County Public notice is here given that the undersigned has qualified as Executor of the Estate of Carl B. Mosley, late of Nash County, North Carolina, and this IS to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on or before the -19th day of December, 1972, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery AIl persons indebted to said estate NOTICE OF PRESENTATION OF BUDGET ESTIMATE As required by law, notice is hereby given that the Budget Estimate for the City of Rocky 1972-73, as prepared by the City Manager, has been presented to the undersigned and a copy of the same is on file for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

City Council of the City of Rocky Mount By: Georgia R. Langley City. Clerk In 1971, a total of 6,006 ships moved in and out of the St. (Lawrence Seaway. Jazz Festival Continues BY MARY CAMPBELL The evening ended with AP Music Writer as Carter arranged it NEW YORK (AP) Sunday, the.

second day of the Newport Jazz Festival in New York, had four small groups, two tradi. tional, two avant-garde, in Carnegie: Hall in afternoon, while a band marched at street fair in Harlem, two concerts by big bands in the evening and a dance for swingers, a la 1930s, at midnight. In the evening, "Swing Lives" was the happy theme at Carnegie Hall, for two a half hours. Half that time was taken by the -17-man Count Basie band and one would have to be tied down not. to move foot, hand or head to that music: Joe Williams, Basie for the last six years of the 1950s, reunited.

himself with the band for five numbers. A group, put together of musicians active in the Swing Era, played, led by Benny Carter. It's no surprise that they used tunes for series of solos, though they did swing when they played in unison. Their opening Rose" was 15 minutes of solos. Among the players here were Harry Edison, Benny Morton, Dickie Welis, Tyree Glenn, Jimmy Nottingham, Johnson, Milt Hinton, Jo Jones and Teddy Wilson.

Maxine Sullivan came on and sang five tunes with them, weaving a gentle swing thread, actually as firm as a steel cable. in 1939 and included Jones's only solo of the night, in which he just broke it up in business. A second evening concert, in Philharmonic Hali, exhibited the bands of Bobby Rosengarden, Billy Taylor and Thad Jones-Mel Lewis. Rosengarden, the drummer who leads the band on the Dick Cavett TV Show, dedicated his section of the concert to the late vibraphonist Gary McFarland. Billy Taylor, who leads the band on the David Frost TV Show, has 11.

men compared with Rosengarden's 17, and he is a generally light, lilting pianist instead of a drummer. That concert ended with truly great big band, the thad Jones-Mel Lewis group, 17 Musicians who earlier this year went on a State Departmentsponsored tour of Russia. The band at the afternoon street festival was the Southern University Marching Band. The afternoon Carnegie Hall concert had Budd Johnson, Mary Lou Williams, Cecil Taylor and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The Basie and Sy Oliver bands played at the midnight dance.

The festival, broken into by voung persons on the second of four days scheduled. last summer at Newport, R.I., is set. up for nine days this year in New York. Chess Match. Postponed Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassy world championship series until Tuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend.

The American champion was believed still in New York. Fischer's 24-game match with the Russian world's champion was to have begun Sunday, and the president of the world: federation, Dr. Max Euwe, announced if the American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. representatives in Iceland requested the postponement on the grounds that he was unable to play because of fatigue. But it was generally assumed that the request was part of Fischer's campaign to get more money out of the Icelanders.

Fischer and Spassy have Still At Large FAYETTEVILLE (AP) An escaped convict charged with murdering two Cumberland County women last month was still at large: Sunday, Cumberland Sheriff W. G. Clark said the warrants were issued against Roger Lee McQueen, 33, of Hayden, Ky. Clark said McQueen was accused of shooting Mr. Wilma: Norris, 30, and Linda Lingle, 20, at their Parkton home June 24.

Clark said McQueen escaped from a Missouri prison Feb. 23 after serving nearly nine years for murder. The sheriff said McQueen was also wanted by the FBI and he WAS believed to be accompanied by woman. Gambling Tip PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) Magistrate John Chapas fined three, men for gambling in the streets, then offered them tip: "Next time use ad alley.

Find a place where you have 90 directions to run. Police told Chapas they spotted about 15 men in a dice game on a main street of the South Side, but the game broke in quickly when they arrived. The three arrested were fined $10 plus $11 court costs each. agreed to split a $125,000 purse, with the winner taking fiveeights, and are also to each get 30 per cent of the sale of film and television rights. But Fischer is seeking an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts, and his representatives have been negotiating this point with sponsors of the match, the Icelandic Chess Federation.

GMC TRUCKS SUPERIOR OPEN ROAD MOTOR HOMES AIRSTREAM HOLIDAY SHASTA COLLEGE PARK SERVICE SALES, INC. -301-A. North American Party GREENSBORO (AP) The two North Carolina delegates to the American party national convention were told Saturday to press for resolutions OD four subjects. The delegates, gubernatorial candidate Arlis Pettyjohn of Boonville and Ben McLendop of Charlotte; were instructed to support capital punishment, oppose a U. arms limitation agreement unless other detense areas are built by this country, oppose forced busing of pupil and oppose any federal gun control except 00 imported weapons.

The resolutions were the work of the state party plat-! form and executive committees. The national convention be Aug. 3-5 at Louisville, Ky. More Housing SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) Units to house- 150 families at Ft.

Bragg, N.C., are planned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the corps district office at Savannah said Saturday. Bids are being invited on the construction. The corps also announced it has let a contract for commissary at the post to D.R. Allen and Son of Fayetteville, N.C, for $2.17 million.

And it said P. Builders of Decatur was awarded $1.10 million contract to convert the Ft. Bragg hospital, boiler plant tr control pollution. AUTO FINANCING ATLANTIC DISCOUNT 1401 5. CHURCH ST.

30 per cent tonight and Tues- day, Triad Area and Northern Piedmont, Southern Piedmont: Partly cloudy; warm- and humid through Tuesday with a chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers. High today and Tuesday 1 in the upper 80s and low 90s. Low tonight in the upper 60s to low 70s. Winds southwest to westerly 5 to 10 miles per hour except gusty in thundershowers today and tonight: Precipitation probability 40 per cent today, tonight and Tuesday. Eastern Slopes and Foothills, Northwest Mountains, Central Mountains, Southwest Mounrains: Variable cloudiness through Tuesday with showers and thundershowers likely durafternoons and evenings.

Continued warm. Highs today and Tuesday mostly in the 60s.17-3 Lows tonight in the 80s. Preciplitation probability 80. per cent. today, 40 per cent tonight, 60 per cent Tuesday.

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