The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 1

1 Temperatures. 24-hour high, 89, (31.1C), Low, 70 (21.1C) degrees. THE ROBESONIAN Call 739-4322 Have your Kobcsonian delivered at home VOL. CVHI No. 106 PUBLISHED W6EKOAVS AND SUNDAV IN ROBESON COUNTY LUMBERTON, N.C., SUNDAY, JUNE 19,1977 ESTABLISHED 1870 COUNTRY GOD AND TRUTH FIFTY-TWO PAGES Price 20 Cents Many Rennert Residents Have Second Thoughts As Town Incorporation Sparks Pro-Con Controversy By HARRY GREYARD Robesonian Staff Writer RENNERT The quiet little crossroads of Rennert was a community a few weeks ago.

Today, Rennert is not so quiet, and it is not just a- community; it is a town with what could be termed a split personality. If some townspeople have their wish, Rennert will return to its old status of a non-corporated community. That, however, may take an act of the legislature, the same legislature that only recently agreed to incorporate the community. Since the legislature acted, there have been charges of fraud and misrepresentation and most of the fallout has landed in the lap of Rep. Horace Locklear who sponsored the bill for incorporation.

Attempts by The Robesonian to reach Rep. Locklear late Saturday afternoon were unsuccessful. One member of the group who wishes to see the incorporation voided has said that residents who initiated incorporation proceedings lied to Locklear. Reportedly the representative was told that the Rennert Jaycees supported the incorporation move, but no such organization exists. Some Rennert residents allegedly were led to believe that no addtional taxes would be levied.

State law, however, requires a tax rate for all incorporated towns. In addition, Rep. Locklear aparently was told that most of the area residents supported the move. Four weeks ago, The Robesonian was shown a petition which indicated that the majority opposed the measure. Of the 59 signatures on the petition, 52 disapproved of the incorporation while the other seven supported it.

This petition was sent to Rep. Locklear, and since that time he had reportedly received another petition which reverses the results of the previous petition. Charges have been made that the same names appear on both petitions. In all the controversy over whether to be a town or just simply a community, one resident has sought aid from an attorney and others have reportedly asked the attorney general's office to look into the matter. Rennert's problems have shown that its still all right to call a town a community, but calling a community a town might meet with disagreement.

Human Rights Measures Put Before OAS By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer ST. GEORGES, Grenada (AP) The United States and three other countries introduced a strong human rights resolution Saturday at the general assembly of the Organization of American States. It calls for a strengthening of the inter- American human rights commission and an end to "torture, summary execution and prolonged detention." The resolution, cosponsored by Venezuela, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, also urges OAS members to provide the commission with documents on alleged human rights violations and to permit it to carry out investigations in all member countries. During his 48-hour stay here, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called for a strengthening of the human rights commission.

He said making human rights the dominant issue of the OAS (See'D'on Page 2) Giant Radio Telescope Is Now Being Assent bled By SUE MAJOR HOLMES Associated Press Writer MAGDALENA, N.M. (AP) -A complex of railroad tracks is being assembled here to hold the 27, 210-ton movable antennas that will make up the world's largest radio telescope. The telescope, capable of receiving radio wave radiation from space, is under construction for the National Astronomy Observatory and is expected to be completed by 1980 at a cost of $78 million. Observatory astronomers say the antennas will be ACTION LINE answers questions from readers, with information from local sources. It is concerned with the problems of individuals relating to public agencies and ser vices, and with questions of general interest.

Write Action I inp The Robesonian. Lumber-ton. N.C.. or dial 738-8SM Is it true bulk curing barns burn less often than conventional tobacco Farm agent Clarence Stockton says he has no specific data on loss of bulk barns to fire but these "are less likely" to burn. He said the reason few of them have burned is that the curing system, unlike in the conventional barn, is not located under the tobacco.

The heating source is located outside the barn and the heat is pushed inside. Bulk barns account for about 30 to 40 per cent of the volume of tobacco now cured. These barns hold about twice what Weather conventionaf bams do: six acres to three acres or less for the old-fashioned structures. Who invented tbs wire The wire recorder, an instrument using a long coil of metal wire to electromagnetically store information such as sound, was patented in 1898 by the Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen. you get me ticket information for the Grand Old (See'G'on Page 2) mounted on transporter cars and placed on the tracks, each of whose three arms extends for about 13 miles in the Plains of San Agustin 90 miles southwest of Albuquerque.

Seven antennas are operational now and another is expected to be in operation later this month. Together, the antennas will provide a receiving surface equal to a single 425-foot diameter radio telescope. The 328-foot radio telescope of the Max Planck Institute of Bonn, West Germany, is thought to be the world's largest fully stee- rable unit now in operation. Astronomers and scientists have known since the 1930s that radio waves are emitted by many stars, planets and other bodies in space, including our own solar system's sun, earth's moon and the Milky Way, Astronomers say radio tele- (See'F'on Page 2) APPLAUSE FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev, right, accepts applause Thursday after the Supreme Soviet (parliament) voted to make him the president of the Soviet Union, replacing Nikolai Podgorny, who reportedly asked to be relieved. Brezhnev will continue as general secretary of the party in addition to his new post.

(AP Wirephoto) Flaps, Speed Brake Tests Deemed Good In Space Shuttle Checkouts INDEX ClonUIcd. 1-3C Editorial. 4B Entertainment. 10-llB Local Front SB Obituaries. 2A Inroads.

9B Sat 2C Spocu 1-3B Women's News. 4-7 A By ROGER GILLOTT Associated Press Writer EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Two astronauts tested flaps and the speed brake on the piggyback Space Shuttle "Enterprise" Saturday in the first manned airborne test of the space program's latest craft. "Those speed brake tests looked good, and all the other tests look good so far," Johnson Space Center in Houston radioed to the craft halfway through the 54-minute flight above the desert. "Okie doke," flight commander Fred W.

Haise Jr. called back. Haise, a civilian, flew in the shuttle with Air Force Lt. Col. Gordon Fullerton.

The shuttle, the size of a jetliner, was carried to 15,000 feet attached atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, which had its own crew four. The flight, originally scheduled for 42 minutes, lasted longer because the Houston control center had trouble receiving some data from the shuttle and ordered several tests rerun. Haise was the first to leave the craft at 9:50 a.m. PDT, about 50 minutes after the shuttle and its partner jumbo jet touched down. Fullerton, the pilot, followed a few moments later.

The two astronauts were lowered 40 feet from the shuttle hatchway by an Air Force firetruck "cherry picker." The astronauts chatted a few minutes with space agency officials and then were driven away in a van to be debriefed. The piggyback testing is designed to simulate the shuttle's eventual takeoff. The shuttle will go into space on a rocket in the 1980s, then will detach and fly by itself with crew and supplies to build space stations. It will be able to land again on earth to be reused as many as 100 times. The shuttle and its jet partner flew at 209 miles an hour during most of the flight over the 98-mile racetrack- shaped oval at the Dryden Flight Research Center here.

The two astronauts conducted "flutter tests" of the flaps and the speed brake at the rear of the tail. The brake will slow the craft as it enters the earth's atmosphere from space. The tests were designed to show how much structural flutter developed during the flight at relatively low altitudes and slow speeds. Haise told Houston, which controLled the flight, that he felt "a really pronounced tug" when he manipulated the rudder. A NASA spokesman said the tug is normal.

The shuttle's first test with astronauts aboard had been scheduled for Friday, but it was postponed because of problems with one of the four computers and with restraint clips on the entry hatch. Malfunctions have repeatedly delayed the manned tests which orignally were to begin May 26. Haise, 43, was aboard the Apollo 13 moon-landing mission in April 1970 when an oxygen tank exploded. He and astronauts James A. Lovell and John Swigert brought the craft back to earth three days later.

Fullerton, 40, has never been in space. He was one of seven astronauts who signed up with NASA in 1969 when the Pentagon canceled plans for a military space station called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory- Partly cloudy skies are forecast today through Monday with a chance of mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms. The highs on both days will be in the lower 90s; and the lows tonight will be in the lower 70s: Winds will be strong and gusty near thunderstorms, and mostly southwesterly from 10 to 15 m.p.h. today. Rainfall probability is 40 per cent today and 20 per cent tonight.

Sunrise and sunset: today, 6:02, a.m. and 8:33 p.m.; Monday, 6:02 a.m. and 8:33 p.m. Carter Urges Equity In Tax Cuts For All Married Working Couples By ANN BLACKMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter says the government ought to give married working couples the same tax benefits available to unmarried working people who live together. He also says the government should remove from welfare programs the economic encouragement for fathers to desert their families.

The President, in a philosophical Fathers Day interview with The Associated Press, discussed the problems of the American family in 1977 and what the government might do to help. Away from his imposing antique desk in the Oval Office, he relaxed across the room In a salmon-colored wing chair. He talked of the problems his own success has created for those close to him--the aides who spend so much time at the White House that he's had to order them to see their families. The President, dressed in blue pinstripes, sat with his legs crossed, as casually as he might in his favorite blue jeans. The interview was scheduled to last 10 minutes but the President stretched it to a half-hour.

Carter, husband for almost 31 years, father of four, spoke of his own family life as a child; his joy at being a grandfather; of his support for working mothers, including his wife, Rosalynn. Sending her on a diplomatic mission to Latin America "proved to be one of the better things I've ever done," he said. Then he talked of his hopes for the American family. In almost every program that his administration puts forward, he said, "the Integrity of the family ought to be a factor." Then, pausing almost wistfully, he added, "I would be inclined to put it as a much greater factor, perhaps, than some others." Even the tax laws discriminate against the most traditional family value: marriage. Federal income taxes total less for two working single people who live together than for a married working couple.

Congress has voted this year to reduce the difference, but it still exists. "And I would like to eliminate the disparity altogether," Carter said. The new standard deductions effective this year can total more for two single working people living together than for a married working couple filing jointly. Under the old law, the unmarried couple could have a $2,000 advantage when each took the standard deduction. Married persons filing separate tax returns cannot get the same benefits available to unmarried persons.

The welfare laws, he said, "quite.often benefit handsomely the divided family. If the husband works full-time at the minimum wage, he makes a certain income for his wife and children. But if he leaves home or pretends to leave home and continues to work, and his family draws welfare payments, their standard of living can be greatly enhanced." This, Carter said, "is a divisive force that the government artifically imposes on the family system." But what will he do if he finds it expensive to (See'C'on Page 2) S. Moluccans Stage Riots In Dutch Town CULEMBORG, The Netherlands (AP) About 100 young South Moluccans smashed shop windows on streets leading to the Moluccan district in this central Dutch town early- Saturday and then set up barricades around the quarter, police said. A government spokesman said police fired warning shots after gunfire was heard coming from inside the barricades.

Authorities said one Moluc- can was arrested after he allegedly tried to attack a police officer with a piece of wood. Police said the Moluceans were dispersed without casualties. Municipal workers later re- (See'B'on Page 2).