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'trJ isconcerned about the He said he wondered if this. idea of trying to maintain two, could be accomplished" if having expressed the Rocky Wilson and opinion that it will be all this i Tarborojut emphasis on old area can do to support facility properly. The airport authority Bandy told the "I chairman said two projects i would give serious ooh- are planned that will complete sideration to what is best tor 1 the Mount-Wilson the majority of the people We i Airport a four-inch think a consolidation of effortj on the runway at from Rocky-. Mount, Nash a cost of $295,000 and a County.r'.Wilson-and parallel taxiway at ar cost of Edgecombe County can result $543,000. Half this money in more loadings and more conre from federal fun- BY WILLIAMS Telegram News Editor The chairman of the Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport Authority told the Rocky Mount City Council last night that this area cannot afford to properly maintain two airports, and advised that the old Rocky Mount Municipal Airport facility be phased, out of operation.

Ray Bandy of RxckyUtount, veteran figure in the development of aviation growth -here, told council, members 'at a dinner meeting that continued "emphasis upon development, of the new Rocky, Mount-. Wilson Airport is the only way the City Council can do is best for the majority of" the people in terms of aviation. Bandy's presentation was the reverse side of the argu- ment the council heard weeks- ago when members of the Rocky Mount 'Downtown, 'Airport Commission called for operation of both airports and asked. the council to consider immediate appropriation of' I $53,000 to upgrade the old airport on U.S. 301 north.

The council was fold at that time i that both airports are new regional facility on N.C, 7 west of the city for commercial airline traffic and the old airport for private and industrial aircraft us Last night Bandy is- such -tiling 1 anywhere in an area this. size as a commercial airport and private airport. I am not i. should be closed down tomorrow, but 1 do advise that plans be made phase it out in a manner that would be to everybody's satisfaction." Josh L. Home, a member of the Rocky Mount-Wilson Airport Authority and a long-time leader in, the development of both the old and new airports, had planned to join Bandy in meeting with the -council absent due to illness.

Bandy said "I speak for myself and Mr. the five local government units sponsoring, he 1 regional Bandy said. And it was pointed out that unless this airport Bandy said that if "the local i money could be secured and Piedmont issues a com-j mitment for pure-jet service, the two projects could be com--; pleted within the next The City of Rocky Mount's share of that cost would be $10,000. The four inch overlay-on, existing runway will be to handle Pied-mount's 96-passenger .737 Jet is provided the airport win not gain new flights, and may lose flights, as Piedmontv phases out? Us YS41 prop-jet and goes more to he heavier -i 737 jet. Bandy said that with con-" i struction of the parallel tax-? iway along the runway "We have an airport with every conceivable safety He noted that with.

saving mat the old airport Home." It' stated that at. flights at the new, airport." ding and the remainder from See AIRPORT Page 3-A 1. wy nee THE WEATHER Telegram '-r MOUNT, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 4, 1972 VOL.

LXI NO. 262 pages i 1 Kegimes SE6tFL' (AP) South and North Korea announced to their surprised citizens today they have agreed in high-level secret meetings to setjnachinery to work Jor unification of the longdivided Simultaneous atmouncements iff Seout, the South. Korean cap-JtaljndiJPyongyang, capital rnmiifiiinist" North Korea, said a Seek Unity ii l. itr I 1 1 II A mini wmmmBMwmummMmMSx i 4 mm Credentials Battle re ecjd i ngTo Court new accord providesfor a telephone hotline' between the two allies to a committee vote cities to prevent accidental ym and -for- a joint political committee to open exchanges in "many fields and to promote, ZZZZS I "r-1 1 1 unification of North and South Increasing cloudiness with showers likely tonight aid W4 nesday. SUNDAY 70e WEEKLY PardtroopsY irig Capital City SAIGON (AP) South Viet namese paratroopers drove to Buuuiwesiern cage of Quana Tn City today in a Ughtoina aZ sault against North Vietnamese nuops manning defensive strdngpoints, military sources said.

Several -hundred U.S..adTWs made the attacks killing at least 20 North Vietl namese-and-recapturlng 12 "arV jr pieces lost in earlier fighting. At nightfall. thA Smith Vietnamese were' reported oc-cupying positions about half a mue irom tne center of the which North ieummese captured May 1. Government spokesmen fax Saigon claimed the recapture of two district headquarters: Mai Llnh, 1.2 miles of Quang Tri, and Hai Lang, six miles southeast of the capital. It was the Erst recaptnrevof any of the 14 district towns lost to the North Vietnamese in" their, three-month-old offensive.

The marines on the eastern flank of the Saigon drive to recapture. Quang Tri were report, ed wjlhin four miles of the city, and marine officers said flwir men could be in Quang Tri tomorrow if ordered to go. However there were signs of stiffening North Vietnamese resistance around the town. Field commanders reported encountering the first bunkers of what was believed to be a heavy line of "The enemy anoears to be Keocciipy througlt-peaceful-mem-without outside interference: 7 The two governments also agreed to refrain from' armed provocations -and- frop; slander'y ing -or 'defaming eacn otner.ana to avoid accidental' military debate, D-cmTwwiiMn tti hot.v 7 The agreements were reached at meetings in Pyongyang, May 2-5 and Seoul, May Wallace is wheeled by security agents back to his Holy Cross Hospital room in Silver spring Monday after a four-hour outing at his physician'shomein nearby Md. (AP Wirephoto) 29-Jqne 1.

It was the first such contact reported between North and NAACP, OPPONENTS Jack E. left, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Boston chapter, sought to bar whites from the NAACP national presidency. NAACP national president Kivee Kaplan, right from Boston, said Monday the proposal was a "racist Wirephoto) -i i South Korea since heiore tine Foreigners Invited Myster Unsolved I ri i ack Episode '10c DAILY in guy en inai wno was graduatedvwith honors from the University of Washington last month. In them "be. said he was going back to Vietnam to "take part in the resistance against the U.S.

The letters, were signed Thai-Binh," which' in Vietnamese means "peace to the South Vietnamese people." They were mailed from Hawaii, where Binh boarded the 747 for Saigon on Saturday. Binh attempts to divert the plane to Hanoi was foiled when the pilot tricked him into think ing he was landing at Da Nang, landed in Sjigon and then jumped Binh and him. v--r The pilot, Capt. Gene Vaugh of Scottsdale, said the mystery passenger had checked his pistol with nim when he boarded- theplaneiiwiea Vaughn went back to talk wi.h Birh after they landed, he re turned the pistol and asked, the man. to accompany him.

The man shot Binh after he had been strangled. Sunday he was thankful Binh SeeHI i 1 i rt I i MtMti-iStHtt 'V. 1950-53 Korean War that took 2 million "lives including .54,246 Americans, fighting for the The three-year conflict ended in an armistice -July 28, 1953, and the two Koreas are still officially at war -T Firsts friendly contact 7 between thes two -nation's bgan last September -when Red Cross officials, of South and North "Korea openeoTtalks-to arrange communications between di-. vided families, involving an esi timated 10 million persons. The governments agreed to cooperate in, bringing these talks to an early and successful conclusion.

-iiafe depriving them of seats as convention The Illinois vote gave McGovern at least 41" supporters among those seated in place of the Daley contingent. Meiiovern forces- first sought a compromise 4n the Illinois dispute, but after the California upset, they stoocT firmly against Daley. McGovern's Forces Avert New Setback WASHINGTON (AP) Sen George McGovern's forces on the Democratic Credentials Committee have averted anoth er California-like reversal by a one-vote margin. By a -73-70 vote with members apstauung'the com mittee agreed Monday, to com promise on enlarging the Rhode Island delegation, by; adding seven state officeholders Only one morfe vote against the McGovern compromise would have meant its defeat, since abstainers are counted as present and a motion requires an affirmative votcfrom a ma jority of all present. The votes for the compromise came not only from the sena tor aiues dui irom a smauer- ing of uncommitted delegates and from 'some pledged to Sen.

Hubert H. 1 Still on Credentials agenda, following resolution of the Rhode Island and -Texas cases, are challenges from Ok lahoma, Maryland, Louisiona, Connecticut, New Jersey and Vermont. The committee was to continue its sessions today. A young McGovern delegate, said she was outraged at the oontaBuationof attempts to take from McGovern votes he had won at the primary ballot box. rTm tired of people -telling me that McGovern is a sore loser," she said.

There's a big difference betweenosing a fair fightwrbeing-shaftedrrrT- sections ROCKY rmnsS lAlabama Gov. George broadcast from' the Western White House. iieutwi text Nixon expressed hope that "millions- upon millions of vis ifors" would help celebrate the U.S. bicentennial. Nixon said he would send for mal invitations to foreign- gov ernments a wel come to the people of those nations to visit the United States, as laws' and circumstances permit, during the bicentennial era and especially during the' year 1976.r Noting that America has been peopled by immigrants from many lands, the President said it is time to say to the world's nations "You helped toTnake us -what we are.

Come and see what wonders your countrymen have worked in this new country oups. Come and let us say thstnk you. 'Come and om in our celebration of "past. Come-and share our dreaimsof a hritf'itoi-CiititnA He struck" much the same theme in a formal holiday mes sage that "said in part: Today's Telegram Classif -7B Horoscope J4B Comjcs Local IB Crossword Editorials Ent'm't 4B Obituaries 2A 6A Sports 2-SBJ 5B Women 7-8AI I TEMCGRAM phones All 't 1- Wan Ads-44W068 that killed Lloyd Brown, 52, of Middlesex on N.C. 581 in Nash County.

State trooper Clyde S. rerryr28, died in a high soeed chase when he lost control: of his car near Columbus. At least four pedestrians have dfed. They were Howard Rowe 42, of killed while, w'alking on U.S.30lnear his home; Johnny Lee James, 22, was the' victim ofa hit -and) run driver on U.S. 64 hear bis horn in Bethel; Richard Quihn of.

Yahceyville, walked into the path of a car on N.C. 86 Aee tuul rage 3-A America pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every every village," said an American adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Ur- SAIGON (APX The identity of the passenger who pumped five bullets into the young Viet namese hijacker, of a Pan American jumbo jet at the Sai gon airport remained a mys tery today. Conflicting reports spoke of a small, slim young man; a leather-faced older man in a checked shirt; a sky marshal; a retired policeman'; and a new employe of a Saigon civilian contractor. Spokesmen for Pan American World Airways said they had no information on the passen ger.

The U.S. Embassy claimed it had no knowledge of the man's identity, and federal Electric the. contracting company named in iysome reports, dis claimed knowledge of any em ploye's involvement. South-Vietnamese- police-were silent. They arrested the father TTI 1 1 1 1 I II Nil 1 I I 1 Tir er in Saigon, and there were unconfirmed reports that the young man's mother and sister also were.

taken into custody. km WASHINGTON Par- allel efforts to upset the Cali fornia and Illinois decisions of the Democratic Credentials Committee moved toward a federal appeals court today. Attorneys fighting the committee decisions said they would appeal U.S. Dist. Court Judge George L.

Hart's ruling Monday that the judiciary should not get involved 1 AnticiDatinB the-- appeals, Hart told the lawyers that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had agreed "to hear arguments despite the holiday. wan. oecisiwa came iu wtiss cases: The move by George McGovern's camp to overturn the Credentials committee -voie stripping hinTo! more than 150 California delegates. Attempts by-Chicago Mayor.

Richard J. Daley and nis Reporter Needs Haircut, Shave, Declares Truman KANSAS CITY (AP) Harry S. Truman ventured out of his hospital room and told a nurse, accompanying him on a str61I along the corridors tnat a newsman needed shave, anda haircut. The walk at the Research Medical Center Monday night capped Truman'sVfirst full day at the hospital, where he was admitted Sunday for tests de scribed by his personal physi- riart at routine. City Times reporterjwas at the nurses station and heard a voice' say something relating to "a shave and ahaircut." But-J ler, the only man in the hall kers and a turned to see the- former president- jihhm ing along- with a -nurse and three chuckh'ng Secret Service agents.

Truman "appeared moments later on the return trip. (CompM ty aw rum Amm Aitnccy al jMmkiMl AbMrt 4 4k -Xi. Barometric reading Trend at 18 a. m. 30.15 Jising.

Relative humidity 67 pet. Wind NE 1 Temperature Summary Highest yesterday 92 deg. Lowest this morning 70 deg. Precipitation Summary Total for 24 hours ending at 7 aJn. Sunset today 8:31 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tomorrow 1:07 aM-New Moon July At this New there win be aa eebpse of the sun that will be total over a Bar row band extending from Siberia across northern Alaska and Canadaandjoat into the North Atlantic ocean. WRECKAGE OF TUG IS LOCATED CAPE LOOKOUT, (AP) Divers say they have located the wreckage of the tug Marjorie McAllister more than 2: years after the craft sank off the North Carolina coast with her crew of six. CELEBRATIONS IN FIVE TOWNS DURHAM (AP) Congressman Nick Galifiahakis -andrfamily-will-use-anairplano today-to participa in July 4th celebrations in CONVERTED FERRY IS DEDICATED ---L MOREHEAD-CITY CAP) A converted ferry boat that the state's Division of Commercial and.Sports Fisheries will U6e in rebuilding state's oyster industry was dedicated In Washington, an antiwaroVaughn-rsaid-in -Hong -Kong To-Visit SAN Calif. broadcast 'tovitation 4ef world today to visit the United States on jts 200th -birthday in 1976. "Let America' be known throughout the world as the 'land of- the open said -in a -live holiday radio Briefs five Tar Heel towns.

COMPROMISE Howard Fuller, director The truck Went off the road as it passed over a rural highway, and burst into flames when it hit the 'lower road this morning. A. Waterbury, Conm man, Durwood 37, died when his car ran off the road on VS. 301 in Halifax County. i Julia K.

Bridges, Wood- lawn. died in a wreck on N.C. 268 near Pilot Mountain. rend a Arnold, 9, of York, 5.C. died a wreck on N.C.

181 near Morganton. 1 Police blamed a broken ac celerator linkage for the wreck group released letters' it said I wet FUND DRIVE CALLED GREENSBORO (AP) of Malcom Liberation University in Greensboro, savs continued efforts to obtain a $75,000 church grant '-A I would "compromise" the school's political beliefs.1- 7 TRAGEDY FOR THSfEE SWIMMERS I RALEIGH (AP) The extended. July Fourthholi-v day weekend has ended in' tragedy for at' least three of the thousands of swimmers who trekked to North Carolina's rivers, lakes and beaches. bana, Ohio. U.S.

jets knocked out two 130mm artillery nieces and fiv trucks on the western flank of tne advance. Behind the front lines, officers -said government troops had finished mopping up small groups North Vietnamese soldiers who had been "over-looked" in the rapid Soirf Viet- namess advance. Hundreds of refugees from areas liberated by the South Vietnamese made their way See WAR Page -A REYKJAVIK, "Iceland (AP) Hours after Bobby Fischer ended his holdout and gave the world chess championship new life, Russian Boris Spassky put the match in doubt again today. Spassky the world's champion, lodged a formal protest objecting that Fischer, the American challenger, violated the rules of the match" by failing appear for its scheduled start on Sunday. Spassky told Max Eswe, president of the World Chess Federation, that his decision to allow a postponement in Fis- cher's favor was unacceptable.

Then Spassky and his aides, who were expected to draw lets for tonight's match, -staged a glum-faced Spassky was asked if there was a chance for a gass day. He' said, "It is if known." -1 Speaking to the Russian I much more srtlu: t. whether he rci sian "3 tJ the wl.c!a "CertaliZy. Chess Tilt Highway Carnage For Year Climbs As Holiday Death Count Reaches 23 Kit 1 I By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -The North Carolina Highway Patrol says 23 persons have died in Tar Heel traffic aeci- dents thus far in the 102-hour July Fourth weekend. M.even-tual toU of35 dead has been predicted by midnight tonight.

The deaths raised the car-V nage for the year, to 892 killed, an increase of 58 over the count at this time last year. The latest i TMm J' was truck driver Bruce L. fit Anniston. Policek say he felt asleep at the wheel on Interstate 85 near Salisbury. grandmaster Boris Spassky for the world championship.

Greetifig Fischer, at right, is Gunter Thorarfinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation. (AP Wirephoto). ARRIVES FOR MATCH American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, center, arrives in "Reykijavik Icdahd, -lO -hours. before vhis deadline to meet Soviet V'. 1.

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