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Weafher The Evening ELEMAM Generally fair through Saturday, with highs in 80s. VOL -NO. Ill 14 MSB PRICE 20 ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1980 H. USPS 111-40 For Third Time In 24 Hours )fc -I stitiuuMAwaW-' "V-.

t- Security Increased For Hunt RALEIGH (AP) Security precaution for Gov. Jim Hunt nave been modified in the wake of a confrontation by two members of the Communist Workers Party this week, but aides say the governor's news conferences will remain open to the public. Max Bryan, assistant director of the State Bureau of Investigation, confirmed Thursday that "some modifications" have been made in the security provided Hunt but refused to say what they were. "I'd say the atmosphere is a little tense right now," Bryan said. The SBI agent said the two officers assigned to Hunt's news conference Wednesday responded appropriately and "in accordance with the governor's wishes" when the two CWP members interrupted the session.

The communists eventually were escorted from the room at Hunt's command, but only after they had shouted at Hunt "He likes to deal with people personally. He knows what the risks are. He makes his choice on how to look at it," Bryan said of Hunt. "I know it may look like the man was defenseless, which in fact he was not. He just doesn't want the (security) people on top of him." CWP members Nelson N.

Johnson and Dale Sampson accused Hunt of being a "murderer" and of involvement in the Nov. 3 shootings that left five CWP members and sympathizers dead at a "Death to the Klan" rally in Hunt press secretary Gary Pearce said Thursday no new SBI agents had been assigned to the governor and that he knew of no other changes made in SBI security. But he added, "They wouldn't necessarily tell me if they were doing anything different" Several Hunt aides expressed concern that no uniformed officer of the State Capitol Police was present during the confrontation. KEEPING COOL Dan Morales of Dallas is shown riding his bike on a Dallas street Thursday. The umbrella is mounted on his bike to protect him from the sua.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has had 32 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures. (APLaserphoto) Iran Bars Airliner At Airport KUWAIT (AP) A hijacked Kuwaiti jetliner with about 40 people aboard landed here today for the third time in 24 hours, Kuwait Radio said, after It turned back from Tehran when Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr closed the city's airport. The aircraft flew to Kuwait after trying to land in the Iranian capital on a flight from Abadan, the oil refining city in southwestern Iran. It had spent some seven hours on the ground in Abadan before heading to -Tehran, the Iran state radio reported. The Iranian news agency Pars said Bani-Sadr ordered the airport closed.

The Arab hijackers were reported to have threatened to blow up the plane unless they get $750,000 they claim a Kuwaiti merchant owes them. Fatma Faqih, a Kuwaiti journalist among 37 women and children released by the hijackers in Kuwait Thursday night wrote in her newspaper Al-Anbaa that the hijackers said they would free the passengers and crew still held by them then blow up the aircraft if their demands are not met Miss Faqih and the other released passengers said the hijackers were armed with pistols and grenades. Iran's official Pars news agency said there were four hijackers aboard the plane and that they identified themselves as Palestinians. Abadan Radio said two passengers were released in the oil refining city and taken to a hospital after feeling sick. This left the hijackers, 35 passengers and four crew aboard the plane, parked at the airport in Abadan, where temperatures at this time of year soar to well over 100 degrees.

Whichard Named To Appeals Court throughout the night resulted in fires that gutted the facility. Swat teams finally controlled the inmates and restored order to the prison. AP Laserphoto I RIOT ENDS Prisoners are marched onto baseball field next to the Idaho State Penitentiary near Boise Thursday. Riots Prison Officials Preserving Evidence To Use Against Rampaging Inmates RALEIGH (AP) Gov. Jim Hunt today appointed Democratic state Sen.

Willis Whichard of Durham to the state Court of Appeals, effective Aug. 31. Whichard, a five-term legislator and ally of the governor, will replace Judge Frank M. Parker. He will retire at the end of August after 13 years on the state's second-highest court.

Brent Hackney, deputy press secretary to Hunt announced the appointment today. Parker's term expires Dec. 31, 1982, but Whichard's appointment will run only through the end of 1980. To fill out the remainder of Parker's term, Whichard must face election to the seat in the November general election. Appeals court judges normally are elected statewide for eight-year terms, but the governor may make an appointment lasting until the next general election when a vacancy occurs.

Hackney said the appointment also means that Democrats must find a new candidate for Whichard's state Senate seat. Whichard had been unopposed as a candidate for re-election until the bench appointment was made. $2.7 million, but said it could cost $1 million a month to house some inmates at other institutions while the prison is being repaired. Crowl said Idaho officials Penitentiary that claimed 33 lives, that prosecution could be hindered if crime scenes were destroyed as officials regained control of an institution. "We hope to get some prosecution thus time," Crowl said.

With several buildings still smoldering, the state National Guard supplied 20-man tents to house about 300 inmates on the prison's athletic field. Gov. John Evans told a news conference Thursday that early estimates pegged damages at learned earlier this year, after not at the New Mexico State Onion Keeps Out Of Hobby Dispute White Hquse Cooperation Pledged In Carter Probe BOISE, Idaho (AP) -Drawing on lessons learned from another prison riot, Idaho State Penitentiary officials say they preserved evidence and videotaped destructive acts to help prosecute inmates who caused an estimated $2.7 million in damages during a 20-hour prison riot Heavily armed police restored order early Thursday at the 500-inmate prison eight miles south of here after officers rescued a prison guard held hostage by inmates. No deaths were reported in the rampage, but state Corrections Director C.W. "Bill" Crowl said 18 inmates were injured and four cell blocks severely damaged.

Crowl said the most serious injuries were the broken arm and bead injuries that one inmate received. He said most of the injured were treated and released at a Boise hospital. Two inmates were still missing late Thursday, but Crowl said it would not be known whether they had escaped until after a foot-by-foot search of the prison was made. Fund Probe Is Opened locally," Sala said. "The allegations are that Hobby is not able to perform his functions because of allegations in the newspapers.

We at the national level are not in a position to judge that." Hobby was not available for comment Earlier this year, Raymond B. Stepp of Asheville, a member of the state organization's executive board, drafted a request that AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland remove Hobby from office. RALEIGH (AP) The national AFLCIO has refused to intervene in an effort by some members of the state organization to oust Wilbur Hobby as president of the North Carolina labor group. James Sala of Atlanta, regional AFL-CIO director, said in a telephone interview Thursday that state members could remove Hobby from office under their own constitution. "We simply feel that if (the allegations) are true, they have procedures to handle it focusing their attention GTI's Department of Criminal Justice, which operates out of the downtown Greensboro campus.

An SBI spokesman said he wasn't sure how much money or how many people might be involved. He and a spokesman for the Greensboro Police Department which also is involved in the probe, said they inspect indictments by no later than September. GREENSBORO (AP) The State Bureau of Investigation and the state auditor's office are investigating the possible misappropriation of state funds at Guilford Technical Institute. The investigation has been confirmed by Ray Lane, GTI vice president for business affairs. Lane said he knew about the investigation, but said it has not involved GTI's business office.

Investigators reportedly are would "respond fully in accordance with mutually acceptable procedures consistent with the responsibilities and time constraints of his office Gerald Ford, who appeared before a House Judiciary' subcommittee in 1974 to discuss his pardon of former President Richard Nixon, is the only president to testify publicly before a congressional committee. Presidential counsel Uod Cutler told the Public Broadcasting System that it had not been decided whether Carter, if asked, would testify before the special Senate committee, answer written questions or convene a meeting at the White House lake other presidential aides, Cutler took pains to discourage any comparison with Watergate, saying he was "confident nothing remotely resembling the obrjruttion justice of the Watergate pen id could have happened committee is under orders to produce a report a month to the day before the Nov. 4 election. Sen. Birch Bayh, chairman of the special panel, vowed to "pursue the truth wherever it may lead and let the chips fall where they may." "We plan to investigate.

that (Billy) Carter may have done while representing a foreign nation that may have had impact on the policy of this country," Bayh said "We plan to investigate the propriety or lack thereof and what the governmental response has been to that undertaking He called on White House aides and Billy Carter to testify voluntarily, rather than der subpoena. Bayh said he hoped it "would not be necessary" to call the president as a witness, but Powell would not rule out the possibility of testimony by Carter or his wife, Rosalynn. Powell said the president WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter is promising full White House cooperation, perhaps even his own testimony if necessary, in the special Senate investigation of his brother Billy's Libyan connections. Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said Thursday that Carter did not expect to invoke executive privilege for either himself or his aides to keep them from testifying or providing information. He will instruct his staff to cooperate fully, Powell said.

The Senate Judiciary Committee was meeting today to discuss details of the probe by a nine-member panel five Democrats and four Republicans into the Billy Carter-Libyan ties and whether the White House influenced a Justice Department investigation of the president's younger brother. Hearings are expected to start next week, and the Here's The News Trawling Ban Is Ordered In Sea Turtle Protection Area Tax Assessments GROWTH in industrial tax assessments in Edgecombe County has had an effect on the county tax rate. See story on page 9. Annexation Issue CITY COUNCIL U1 consider Monday whether to annex the Arbor Lane area where sewage conditions could cause health problems if the residents dent tie in to city sewer services. See story on page 9.

proposed after Schwartz told the commission that sea turtles are often caught in trawls and drown before they are released by fishermen. Schwartz reported 41 such deaths caused by trawling last year. He also told the commission that the federal government may intervene with its own trawling ban unless the state acts to protect sea-turtle, an endangered species protected by federal law. Under federal law, a person convicted of possessing or selling the turtles can be fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. Connell Purvis, director of Marine Fisheries, said a proclamation declaring the area closed to trawling probably would not be issued until next year because the commission's action comes near the end of the turtle nesting season this year.

ELIZABETH CITY AP) The state Marine Fisheries Commission has declared a ban on trawling off the Onslow County coast during the summer months and plans to establish a sea-turtle sanctuary. The commission said it took the action to protect the turtles, which are an endangered species. In a meeting Wednesday, the commission approved a compromise plan that would prohibit trawling within three-quarters of a mile of the shore, except for two areas locoated just off Bear Island and Brown's Inlet The ban will be in effect from June 1 to Sept 1, according to the commission. The sanctuary was proposed originally by Dr. Frank Schwartz of the University of North Carolina's Institute of Marine Science in Morehead City.

The ban was Sports Chattanooga Riots Flare Following Klan Acquittals Bishops Advance WESLEY AN is still in the Summer League toumame1 the Rocky Mount Pines are awaiting rJbrnro. The Bishops advanced by beating rmphn while the Pines lost two to Winston-Salem as benches cleared after a bean ball incident Detail on page 18. Her Last Chance NADU COMANECI, whose spill from the bars kept her from one gold medal, has her last shot at the gold tonight in individual gymnastics competition. Details art en page la. What's Inside Park area where the ambush occurred.

But there were reports of scattered sniper fir in other areas and reports of at least two fiirbombings. Mayor Charles "Pat" Ros saw bis curfew order prouaUy would contini through tonight. It was the latest eruption of noierr that began in Chattanooga's streets Taesday mght- Trouble began a few hours after aa att-wtatc jury acq tatted two ICansnien and cocmcted a third an reduced charges sa the April a shotgun woandings of fnr black CHATTANOOGA, Tena (AP) Tactical police teams shot out streetlights and cordoned off a predominantly black noosing project after eight officers received minor gunshot wounds is the worst of three nights of vtoimr In this raoaXty tens city. The snooting occur red about now after a dnsk-to-dawn evrfew took effect Thursday, dosing all retail ht-r'ifrsM ia this southeast Tniiiatii aty of 179,00. The cwfew was imposed after two nights of hrtbombings, lootings and rock-tivowvig that followed a fury's acaatul of two Ka Eha Idansmen in the shooting of four black women.

Early today at least 19 people had been arrested for curfew violations and jailed, police said. Four of the arrests were mad in the area of the shooting AH eight police officers were bit si on burst as pouc attempted to get pcopte off the tracts. A ninth officer cat las hand wait trying to rearoe comrades who war ta th hn of fir. Th streets wtrt generally mpty Thursday Hght th city's heavily iadastriaL predominantly black Alton H-M rasaflyLh Ufals 7 I 9 H-U Caaiks Edstartab I I D-latU saai ate mattoa Sewale saarl to isrtigato Bflty Carter On tt Ldn iAPLatraani DBCVS3 CARTES TkSTL Sea. Matorlty Leader ttiberl Byri.

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