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41 32 PAGES MjTiLimilVii a rmcrlnv Rocky 11 Mount Lively 51 37 ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA summit talk is resumed today ii i 1 1 LJ II: II L' GENEVA (AP) President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev resumed their highly personal diplomacy today at a second round of summit talks described as "very lively" and focusing on "all the problems of concern to the Soviet and American people." Reagan was quoted by his spokesman as saying, "Our differences are serious but so is our commitment to improving understanding." While keeping secret whether they have made headway in reducing tensions, Gorbachev said one question being discussed was whether he PUB. ISSN NO. 0738 Reaean aUn would hold a news con ference, adding that the schedule for Thursday still was being worked out. Answering questions as they posed for pictures, Gorbachev oaid the meeting "is going on in a very careful, responsible way with all the problems of concern to the Soviet and American people and other countries. This is a responsible discussion." Asked if they had discussed human rights, Gorbachev replied, "We had a very lively discussion of everything." He said the meetings were being held in a "frank, businesslike and I think responsible way." Reagan, asked his assessment of the talks, replied, "Fine." The two leaders, both wearing overcoats and scarfs in the freezing morning air, shook hands and exchanged small talk as Reagan arrived at the Soviet mission and was escorted inside by Gorbachev.

Under a U.S. agenda announced by White House spokesman Larry Speakes before the two leaders imposed a news blackout, this morning's talks were to focus on the regional conflicts that Reagan insisted should be discussed and the afternoon session on bilateral issues and the status of human rights in the Soviet Union. The Soviets view these issues as sideshows to the main topic of arms control and their attempt to block Reagan's plans for a "Star Wars" system of defense against missile attack. The formal talks were to conclude this afternoon and Reagan was to report to NATO allies in Brussels on Thursday and then hop the Atlantic in time to address a nighttime meeting of both houses of Congress. New trial awarded ANNOUNCES Roy "Coop" Cooper III yesterday officially announced he will seek the N.C.

House seat now PRICE 25' held by Allen Barbee. Cooper, at podium, was joined by his wife Georgeanne, left, and others at an an of Rocky Mount and Nashville, made the announcement before about 300 supporters at the Carleton House. In announcing his candidacy, Cooper stressed his commitment toward ensuring quality education for the children of Nash County and North Carolina by emphasizing the need to attract and retain quality teachers statewide. "Having been educated in the Nash County schools and my mother being a teacher in the Nash County schools, I know of the problems facing our local school systems," he said. Cooper called for the reduction of class size as well as the development of curricula that is responsive to the changing times while providing children with a "quality, basic education." "I will meet these problems head on, and if need be, I'm willing to take these problems straight to the North would visit the United States.

Reagan said he would welcome such a visit but that "it hasn't been agreed to." The two leaders conferred at the Soviet mission, and again met without aides for more than an hour, accompanied only by interpreters. The session had been scheduled to last 15 minutes. The -Soviets, meanwhile, made preparations for Gorbachev to hold a news conference Thursday at the Soviet mission after the summit. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes declined to say whether charges, which stemmed from a December 1984 incident at his cousin's mobile home. The court ruled that testimony by the victim's mother, Lillian Kerns, who is the defendant's aunt, should not have been admitted because she is a minister.

Ms. Kerns testified that Jackson confessed to her in jail after they rayed together, and the court said er statements violated "clergy-communicant privilege." "It is impossible to determine to what extent the defendant confided in Kerns as a relative and to what extent as a minister," the court ruling said. "However, she was acting at least in part in her professional capacity." In another ruling, the appeals court upheld the conviction of a woman who masqueraded as a Salvation Army worker and took food from a disaster relief center after tornadoes hit eastern North Carolina. Roy Cooper makes it official: he will challenge Rep. Barbee Farmers issue warning to remain unchanged in likely through I'hurtday.

Low in Mi. Detail, page 3. nouncement party Carleton House. (Contributed photo) Carolina resolution." Legislature for Cooper also pledged his support for the state's farmers. "I'm running because I know what agriculture means to Nash County and to North Carolina.

My family roots run deep into the Nash County soil," he said, mentioning that his grandfather began farming in the area over 100 years ago. The Nashville native said he would like to see the return of a "citizen legislature" to the state. "Our legislature is moving dangerously close to a professional legislature without professional pay," he said. "As a result of great time restraints, the private citizens who work for a living can hardly afford to become members of the legislature except in extraordinary circumstances." Cooper said that if elected, he will work to protect North Carolina's See COOPER Page 6 after "the discovery of a low white blood cell'count during a routine examination." "He was feeling quite well" when a problem was discovered, Woodruff said Tuesday. Woodruff said the one big vote East may miss before Congress recesses Friday for its Thanksgiving break is a vote on the farm bill.

East announced Sept. 17 he would not run for re-election because of his; medical problems. About two weeks later, the urinary problem flared up again, sending him to a hospital near his home in Greenville. In an interview last month; East said poor health made it difficult for him to cultivate a political identity distinct from Sen. Jesse Helms.

Had he been able to seek a second term, he said, the differences between him and Helms would have become more pronounced. tages to women. Story and additional photo on page 17. (Telegram photo by Ron Sowers) at the i i vim; Sen. East hospitalized Milk prices RALEIGH AP) The state Milk Commission has voted to leave unchanged the price that North Carolina farmers are paid for milk, although the farmers warned they could not pay their bills unless the premium were raised.

"Faced with this recent price reduction that the dairy farmers have, I found this reduction has reduced my income to a level that I can no longer service my indebtedness and provide a living for my family, a modest living," said Roy Ramsey of Fairview. "The dairy farmer has carried the entire burden of price reductions in the marketplace, with no corresponding benefit to the consumer," Ramsey told the commissioners Tuesday in a hearing before the vote, "opefully, this commission will take 'some action to restore dairy farmers' income to a survival level." RALEIGH (AP) The state Court of Appeals has awarded a Moore County man a new trial on burglary and rape charges because a woman who testified that he confessed to her is a minister, and she thereby violated "clergy-communicant privilege." The appeals court on Tuesday awarded Lacy Keyser Jackson of Moore County a new trial on the fr FOCUS Budget booster TAKING ADVANTAGE of coupons and rebates can bring big savings to you when counting your budget dollars. Today's edition of The Telegram offers values worth approximately $101 in coupons and rebates. Pleads guilty CHARLOTTE AP) Francis Acker has pleaded guilty to three counts of felony death by vehicle in an accident last December that killed three family members on a Christmas shopping trip. Arrested PARKTON (AP) Richard Hall has been arrested in connection with weekend vandalism at the school which caused an undetermined amount of damage.

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Please let us know if you don't get your paper by then. I Vj WASHINGTON AP) An aide to Sen. John East says there has been no determination if the North "Caro arolina Republican's low white gjwg. id cell count, for which he was hospitalised, is related to the hypothyrofthsfl that put him in the hospital earlier Cms- year. "He's simply going" into, the hospital to discover the origin of the problem and what can be done to correct it," said press secretary Jerry Woodruff.

"We don't know how long that will take." This is the fourth time this year East, who has been confined to a wheelchair since contracting polio in his mid-20s, has been hospitalized. He had surgery to remove a urinary tract blockage, then received mon-thlong treatment of a thyroid disorder in April and May. A one-paragraph statement said East entered Georgetown University Hospital late Monday evening 1 By KEN MURCHISON Stafr Writer Roy A. "Coop" Cooper III officially announced Tuesday that he is a candidate for the North Carolina House of Representatives in next May's Democratic Cooper is seeking to represent the 72nd District, a seat currently held by Allen C. Barbee, who is in his 12th term in the House.

Cooper, a Rocky Mount resident and partner in the law firm of Fields, Cooper, Henderson Cooper position with out-of-state producers who are paid less. But Phelps said he believed an increase of 45 cents was within an "acceptable range." "For what we've got invested in dairy equipment, cows, machinery and real estate, we're not making any money," said Gay Nelson of Asheville. "If you can give us some relief, I'm sure it would be appreciated by everyone. The processors don't want to see us go broke. They need milk." 'I think it very critical for the dairy industry that we get some relief of some kind," Nelson said.

Linda Clapp, a Chatham County dairy farmer and member of the United Farmers Organization, urged the commission to increase the price farmers are paid by processors. She also recommended that the commission restrict milk imported from other states, which amounted to 865,000 pounds in the first six months of this year. "It will not and has not resulted in lower milk prices to the consumer andeems to benefit the milk broker much more than the milk producer," she said. "If this situation is allowed to continue, the floodgates will open and North Carolina's dairy farmers will drown in cheap t3 A new technique Dr. Richard Fritz, a radiologist at Nash Day Hospital, points out cancer in breast X-rays following a viewing of the hospital's new Murder charged filed But the commission voted after the hearing to keep prices where they are, said Milk Commission Executive Secretary Grady Cooper.

"One of the major reasons they left it at $14.65 (per 100 pounds) is that is the price at which dealers in other states that ship milk into North Carolina are paying their dealers," Cooper said. The commission indicated it wanted to continue talking about the price of milk at its next meeting. In September, the commission ordered a temporary cut in the price paid to farmers from $15.67 per hundred pounds to $14.65. Bill Phelps of the North Carolina Farm Bureau recommended Tuesday a price increase of no less than 45 cents per hundred pounds. Commission member Chris Shields voiced concern that increasing the price paid to producers in the state would hurt their competitive was determined that Jones been in the closet for at least two days and that she had several head injuries, Ellis said.

Any one of the injuries could have been a fatal injury, he said. It is suspected that the killer used a swingblade, which is a tool used in cutting weeds, to strike Jones, causing her death, Ellis said. A swingblade with blood stains was found in the closet, he said. Wooten, who was at the home when deputies first found Jones, is in tne Ldgecombe County Jail without Ithond way, then bounced onto the paved portion of the runway, skidded sideways briefly and took off again. The aircraft then struck several small trees before the left wing struck a large white pine about 20 feet above the ground.

The plane then spun around, flipped upside down and crashed into the river several hundred feet below the runway. Bryson City police officer O'Dell Chastain and Chief Deputy Bill Burnette, who were among the first rescuers on the scene, jumped into the waist-deep water and waded to the aircraft. There was no sign of life inside the airplane, Chastain said. He said it took about 30 minutes to free the bodies from the wreckage. John Curtis Wooten, 36, of Route 1, Box 167, Pinetops, has been charged with first-degree murder in a bizarre killing of his 61-year-old girlfriend, Martha Jones, of the same Jones' body was found in a closet at her home Monday afternoon, when her son, Rufus Jones, opened the closet, Sheriff Phil Ellis said this morning.

The son had thought his mother was out of town, Ellis said. Ellis said the son left his mother in the closet and called deputies. Deputies found a visible iniury to LjU the woman's forehead. Ellis said there was blood on her face. Wooten's first court appearance is Following an autopsy Tuesday it scheduled for Wednesday, Ellis said.

Three die in air crash BRYSON CITY (AP) Three people died when their small plane nit several trees at a mountain air-port and'flipped into the Tuckaseegee River several hundred feet below Swain County officials said. Sheriff's dispatcher Harold Jenkins said CD. Burns, 26, of Bryson City, Faith Gehweiler, 52, of Waynesville, who was the pilot, and Jean Shannon Stone, 51, of Sylva died instantly Tuesday when their four-seat Cessna 182 landed upside down in the river. Several witnesses told police officers and Swain County deputies the aircraft was landing in high winds at Sossamon Field. They said thej)lane landed on a grassy stretch of run mammogram equipment.

The hospital has installed a Siemens Mammographic Unit that offers many advan-.