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The Evening EMMAM Partly Cloudy Partly cloudy through Friday with chance of thunderstorms. High today in 90s. Low tonight 70s; high Friday in 90s. V0l.7l-M.t HPAca USPS 111-460 ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1981 PRICE 25 XCIUQ n' Draft mne Cuirt Robbery Suspect Arrested Justices Approve Draft Act WASHINGTON (AP) Women can be excluded from military draft registration and 1 1 --v aw 7 'mm.

killed hi the accident The driver of the truck, of Vanceboro, sustained minor injuries. (AP Laserphoto) FATAL ACCIDENT Rescue workers remove driver from this car after it collided with a log truck in Greenville Wednesday. Two girls in the car, both of Greenville, were DILEMMA Albert Daniels comforts his should receive medical treatment to prolong wife Jennifer after Judge Ralph Ferguson her life. The parents had opposed such ruled in Dade Circuit Court in Miami Wed- treatment (APLaserphoto) nesday that their deformed infant daughter Tobacco Import Quotas Asked By Industry Heads Final Vote Slated Today On Hunt's Gas Tax Hike Leonardo Maurice Moore, 18, of 721V4 Gay St, was 8 arrested yesterday and charged by city police of- ficers and agents of the State Bureau of investigation with ft Hie June in oanK roDDery of Peoples Bank and Trust Si main office. Capt Robert Earl Davis of detective division said uuay uiai muore was up yesterday about noon and the charge lodged at 3 p.m.

He said a "process of gi elimination" led to the Starrest Moore was taken to Fayetteville yesterday to appear before a United States magistrate and then g' to wane U)unty jail, wnere She was turned over to the ii ft: Federal Bureau of Id- vesugauun. Lt. Horace Winstead said the "majority" of the money taken in the robbery was recovered. He would not say how much had been taken from the bank. On June 18, shortly after noon, a man approached a drive-in window at the bank's main office on Franklin Street and told the teller to fill a bag up with money.

The teller put money in the bag, gave it to him and the suspect fled. Inquiry Widens ATLANTA (AP) Suburban authorities say they are investigating the free-lance photographer charged in one of the Atlanta slayings to determine if he should be a suspect in IS other cases. The man, 23-year-old Wayne B. Williams, was ordered held 6" death of Nathaniel cater, 27, tne oldest and most recent victim in the string of 28 slayings of young blacks dating back to July 1979. A special police task force under the direction of Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown has been investigating all 28 killings, but authorities in each jurisdiction where bodies have been found have been working independently on the cases in their areas.

Bob Wilson, district attorney for DeKalb and Rockdale counties, said Williams has been under scrutiny in nection with the five Del cases and one from Rockdale County. tobaccos have brought to American producers. "Domestic flue-cured prices over the years have consistently exceeded imported flue-cured prices by a factor of more two to one," said Hoke WASHINGTON ZAP) An Agriculture Department official urged the United States International Trade Commission to impose quotas on imports of flue-cured tobacco because of the damage foreign The package would raise an estimated $113 million for the highway program next year, but the Hunt administration is still pushing more tax measures aimed at providing additional revenue for the Department of Transportation. One of tnose proposals, an increase in the tax on alcoholic beverages, was scheduled for floor action in the House today after winning approval in the Finance Committee. The bill would raise the tax on liquor by S4.S percent and raise the tax on beer by 20 percent.

The alcohol taxes would raise an estimated $21.2 million for the state next year. The money would go into the state's general tax fund, but it would enable based on other provisions of the gasoline-tax bill a transfer of an equal amount to the highway program. Also, the alcohol tax measure would raise an estimated $10.1 million for local govenments -operating alcohol beverage control systems by increasing the local governments' tax as well. PCB Sentence 'Harshest Ever' Leggett Leading off the hearing, held in response to complaints by Sen. Jesse Helms, were two congressmen from North Carolina and one from Wisconsin.

Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina, who was to be the first witness, was delayed. Later, in a prepared statement, Hunt said that the gross income in his state from tobacco exceeded $1 billion, which he said was more than Kansas farmers received for wheat, Arkansas farmers received for broilers, Texas farmers got for cotton and California farmers for eggs.

Each state leads the nation in those commodities. Charges May Hurt Bradshaw GREENSBORO State Transportation Secretary Tom Bradshaw says accusations of inefficiency and laxity in dealing with bid-rigging may hurt him in bids for a congressional seat after he retires from his present post Bradshaw told a meeting of the Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce Wednesday that Execution Total Now 43 In Iran RALEIGH (AP) VS. Environmental Protection Agency officials say the sentence given Robert E. "Buck" Ward this week for aiding in the dumping of PCB-laced oil along North Carolina highways was the harshest ever to be handed down in an environmental pollution case. But William R.

Rainey, head of the Environmental Protection Section of the state Attorney General's Office, said the case was handled strictly because it was extraordinary "in both the degree and the blatancy, if you will, of the action." Ward, of Raleigh, was sentenced to a 30-month prison term in S. District Court Monday the first prison term any military draft, the cnromp four nilprl fuPreme Lourt today, By a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled that the Military Selective service Act is constitutional. Today's decision overturned a lower court's ruling that the act is an unconstitutional form of sexual discrimination against men. The nation's highest court said Congress can require young men to register for possible military service and reauire them to serve even though young women face no such obligation obligations. Notine that Congress enjoys the greatest deference from the courts in matters of national defense, Justice William H.

Rehnquist wrote for the court: "Men and women, because of the combat restrictions on women, are simply not similarly situated for the purposes of a draft or registration for a draft" Rehnquist added that "the exemption of women from registration is not only sufficiently but closely related to Congress' purpose in authorizing registration. "The fact that Congress and the executive have decided that women should not serve in combat fully justifies Congress in not authorizing their registration," he said, "since the purpose of registration is to develop a pool of potential combat troops." Rehnquist was joined by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices Potter Stewart, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell and John Paul Stevens.

Justices William J. Brennan, Byron R. White and Thurgood Marshall dissented. that tlw 1A4fl law hai that the 1949 law harbored unconstitutional sex discrimination. The ruling struck down the entire act, which includes provisions for induction as well as registration.

The original lawsuit challenging the draft dates back to 1971, when three young Pennsylvania men sued as a protest to the Vietnam war. The suit had gone virtually unnoticed in the federal courts for years but came to the fore when draft registration resumed. The three men were able to keep their case alive by virtue of one portion of the art making men previously deferred from the draft eligible for conscription until age 35. of Investigation, (he FBI and several other state and federal agencies into allegations that Green accepted free paving from William Crowell, president of Crowell Constructors Inc. of Fayetteville.

The investigations revealed that Crowell did pave the parking lot of Green's Bright Leaf Warehouse in Clarkton, In Bladen County southeast of Fayetteville, in the summer of 1977, Riley said. Green then paid Crowell Constructors with a $4,774.19. check for the work, said Riley. "Mr. Green has stated that William W.

Crowell thereafter came to bis home and without 3 4 KArnxcouxTT RALEIGH (AP) Only a formality final House and Senate votes duplicating their actions of Wednesday stood in the way today of a 3-cents a gallon jump in North Carolina's tax on gasoline. Both the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a conference committee's final version of Gov. Jim Hunt's gasoline-tax bill Wednesday, and final votes were scheduled today. When approved, the bill will raise North Carolina's tax on motor fuels to 12Vii cents a gallon, effective July 1. The votes 70-42 in the House and 30-14 in the Senate followed the pattern of earlier margins given to differing versions of the bill in the two chambers and came with little debate.

A final shot by opponents, however, came from Republican Sen. Cary Allred, R-Alamance, who said he was "dismayed" that the Legislature would approve the tax increase in the face of what he said was strong public opposition. "This may be the one that breaks the donkey's back," he told the Democratic majority that approved the tax. prior notice presented him a gift in cash of approximately the amount paid for the paving," Riley said In the statement "Nothing discovered in the course of investigation indicates that Mr. Green had reason to anticipate that William W.

Crowell would give him the gift," Riley continued. "There is no evidence of Mr. Green having made any promises in exchange for the gifts, either before or since its receipt" The SBI has been investigating allegations that Green took the paving work from Crowell in exchange for a promise to bring more paving work to Bladen County, where Crowell owns the only asphalt plant Former Crowell executive Wilbur Dees made the allegations. He said he told the SBI that he beard Crowell say Green promised "to try to bring eat same asphalt work in Bladen County." Green was a member of the state Board ef Transportation soul he was elected heutenant ta 1978. $4,000 'Gift' To Green Is Okay Here's The News Area RALEIGH (AP) -The Wake County district attorney says Lt Gov.

Jimmy Green has admitted accepting a cash gift from a paving contractor who paved the parking lot of one of Green's tobacco warehouses in 1977. But Randolph Riley said Wednesday that Green apparently broke no laws. "And therefore no criminal charges are appropriate," he said in a Joint statement with Lee Greer, district attorney in the area Including Green's borne and warehouse. Riley's statement ends what he termed an exhaustive in- vestigation by the State Bureau given under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act His fine of $200,000 was the largest ever imp used in an environmental crime. EPA officials were pleased with the outcome, and said they hoped the severity of the punishment would deter others from committing similar pollution crimes.

Also convicted of conspiring to dispose of the toxic chemical on state roadsides were Robert J. Burns and his sons, Randall and Timothy, of Jamestown, N.V. Bums was sentenced to 18 months in prison and five years probation by US. District Judge W. Earl Britt, while his sons each were sentenced to five years probation.

Inside at to Legato Use Uol New Principals ROCKY MOUNTS two Junior high schools and Rocky Mount Senior High School will all have new principals next year. Story and pictures, page U. Loan Problems CONSTANTLY growing, and as yet unpaid, interest charge on Jobs For Progress, Inc's $1 million kwn from five Rocky Mount area banks are causing problems. Story, page 11. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -Iran's revolutionary regime has executed five more supporters of fugitive ex-President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and says it will hold the election to pick his successor on July 24.

Tehran Radio said four more followers of the outlawed Bahai sect also died before firing squads Wednesday, bringing the total number of executions announced this week to 43. Thirty-four of these were linked to Bani-Sadr, seven were Bahais accused of spying and collecting funds for Israel, one was a journalist convicted of corruption and the other was described as a collaborator with SAVAK, the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's secret police. Most of the Bani-Sadr people put to death were reported to be leftists accused of fomenting street clashes between foes and supporters of the president Bani-Sadr, dismissed on Rival Tax LOS ANGELES (AP) -President Reagan, facing a near-certain setback in pushing his version of budget cuts through the House, says a rival plan backed by House Democrats would "sabotage our attempts to cut federal spending." Frustrated in his desire for a single yes-or-no vote in the House on a Republican-backed package of budget amendments. Reagan accused Democrats Wednesday of resorting to a "parliamentary gimmick to thwart the will of the Representatives ef the airline industry told the board at bearings last month that the airlines are sot for er against smoking, bat beheve the issue caa best be settle in the marketplace aad aot wernment reflations. tatWees Argirsposloa.

tawyer for the Air Transport Asnciacioa, said a ban an pnofang as aarrsft would tmm snsny prablema and westd "rest Is paaaearers fieestg bats the tsvatanec'' ta hght as. FedersIreattoearrenQy reqojre tnst aatran SKSsoe am annSTng aectws and mat Monday by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the Iranian parliament voted him unfit for office the day before, was reported still at large. An order for his arrest was issued Sunday, and he has been rumored to be in Egypt, Turkey, western Iran or in hiding in Tehran. His successor as president apparently will be Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai, the high school teacher picked by the fundamentalist clerics of the Islamic Republican Party to head the government when they broke with the Westernized, leftist Bani-Sadr a year ago. Reliable sources in Tehran reported by telephone" that Rajai would be the IRP candidate.

This insures his election since the party controls the government, the parliament, the election machinery and the revolutionary guards, and has the full backing of Khomeini, the supreme leader of revolutionary regime. Plan Hit Rhetoric aside, however, administration officials said privately they doubted they could muster enough support to reverse the decision Wednesday of the House Rules Committee against a single vote on the GOP plan. Republicans planned to challenge the committee's action on the House floor today. Despite the long odds against winning, the administration fought up to the last minute for one vote on Reagan's plan, which calls for $5.2 billion more in budget cute than the $37.8" billion package supported by House Democrats. passengers be given seats in that section if they request them.

A common problem, industry officials satd, results when a aiai iiiKS.iin passenger arrive late and boards a pane after all the seats is the aoMmukmg section arc filled, requiring the airline to expand the section and poasibrr tea a smoker ts awn ta another seat Richard F. Fahy Jr. of AmencsB Aarknes said flight attendants have bees brssght Is tears" and smokers save exchanged iows with sea-smekers as same Bight. Sports Citizen Celebrates Her 100th Birthday be might also consider running for lieutenant governor, "if I'm not regarded as he king of the Md-riggers." He. said the Congressional -Club ads linking him and Gov.

Jim Hunt to the tad-rigging scandal may have had some success in turning the heads of voters, even though the allegations were not true. Investigations into bid-rigging began about the same time Gov. Jim Hunt and his appointees began lobbying for a higher gasoline tax to pay for highway construction and repair. The Congressional Club said that Hunt and Bradshaw were at least partly responsible for rampant violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act The bid-rigging scandal has resulted in convictions for several highway pavers for arrangements in which companies agreed to refrain from competing with each other on state construction projects. Pageant Lists Prelim Winners RALEIGH (AP) Miss Waka County, 21 -year-old Etna Caroiya Green of Garnenwon a pretoninary competition avthe ririmsuit di risen Wedneffcy sight the Miss North Caroiina Pageant ia Raleigh.

la the taknt competition. Miss Burlington, Sharon Lynett Fogtemas, 22, was a preliminary winner. She per formed "Owvre Ton Coeur" (Open Thy Heart) by Biset ft mere mights ef preliminary eompeutios are scheduled before tot finals en Saturday sift is Hanerial Asdttorisnv Tne Baals wiB be One cssttstsst has wits-draws from the Bsgeast ktus Pender County, Lmda Jess Wilson, was fared leave doe Is a stochedi sarvs si her lag, Borg Still Favored BJORN BORG had little trouble disposing of Mel Pnrcefl at the Swedish star remained the favorite far bis sixth Wimbledon title ma rew. Story, page Post 53 Loses WAYNE COUTOY tapped Rocky Mount is Americas Legion pUy tut oight with the key hit bemg a twsrsa triple ths seventh for the visitors. Story, page 11 New Smoking Debate Looms Today marks the lOKh birthday of Matfie Elizabeth Brown CorteS of Rocky Hoa.

Bora as Wilaoa County, Mrs. Corbett has tved ta Rocky Momtmoatofbtrtife. She is the daughter of the late Clarence L. Brows and Geergama Catherine Braiwta Brows Wilson Cosnty and was married to tht tote Andrew Jacksas Corbett of Greene Cosnty. Mrs.

Corbett the mother of torn children, Taekna Aleent WiEisma, -Grace EUxabets Fridges, Otis Corbett and Emma Grey Corbett, aB ef The eldest ehud fe her fsmlr, ta. Corbett was tweesay aaarsd at htrthday ssrtr gives by her giaueVJaali vs sad granddaughter to-4aw, Mr. serf kts. wtwi iBurri wuoaens. Mrs.

Barbara Parker, Mrs. IKrrHXUTPmgt WASHINGTON (AP) After months of debate, the federal government ia tacklinf the toochy subject whethet smokers sboald be allowed ta Dfht ape airplanes. Toe Uvu Aeronsstscs Basra ta far tram eager ts )an late the ccMOonai fray and si a- psctad ts reject any extreme yttiaa, sacs as baesang aB amokmg or farting restrict, as altogether. rat beard, wtscs to csnstder lbs tosse today, probably wvB tost refine Kb current regstotions. wises ries fariavrs.

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