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THE ROBESONIAN VOL. CHI NO. 84 PUBLISHED 5 WEEKDAYS AND SUNDAY IN ROBESON COUNTY LUMBERTON, N.C., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 ESTABLISHED 1170 COUNTRY GOO ANDTRUTH TWELVE PAGES--Price 10 Cents 1 South Viet Paratroopers Push Into Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) --The Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City, and seized control of two- thirds of the northern provincial capital. But field reports and senior U.S. military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon.

Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front he had no information to indicate a thrust into the northern half of the city. A senior military source said there were no South Vietnamese units of any significant size in the city. He left open the possibility that reconnaissance teams might be operating there. Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city but were meeting tough resistance. A huge American air and naval armada covered the advancing South Vietnamese.

South Vietnamese marines were closing in on the city from the east. One task force was reported to have advanced half a mile to the eastern outskirts and was a little more than a mile east of the Citadel, at the Final Approval Given Budget For St. Pauls ST. PAULS Final approval was given by the town council here Thursday for the 1972-73 budget, with the figure remaining the same as the first reading. The budget totals $286,297.62, supported by a tax rate of $1.25 per $100 valuation.

This is a reduction of 10 cents from last year's rate of $1.35. All town personnel were rehired, and an across-the-board raise of five per cent was granted. Herbert Hollingsworth, who took over as police chief last month, gave a report of his first month in office. The council also approved employment of a new officer, Cary Lee Rithamel, to report at the chief's pleasure. The town officials also recommended to the county board of commissioners that Gurney S.

Kinlaw be appointed to the county industrial and agricultural commission, to represent the St. Pauls area. center of the city. A second marine task force made a helicopter landing 2Vz miles southeast of the city. Lt.

Col. Do Viet, a spokesman for the Saigon command, said that elements of a South Vietnamese paratroop battalion backed by tanks had pushed into the northern part of Quang Tri a few hours before dawn. "They are right next to the Citadel," he said. Viet reported that resistance appeared to be light; although the forwardmost troops of the battalion were shelled by 107mm rockets and long-range 130mm guns. "We control at least two- thirds of the city," Viet told newsmen.

Heavier fighting was reported on the southern and eastern fringes of the city. Viet reported 58 North Vietnamese killed and eight tanks destroyed on the outskirts. Paratroopers on the southern side battled heavy counter- a a Thursday night from North Vietnamese forces making a stand in a line of old French villas. Scores of U.S. Navy jets from 7th Fleet carriers off the coast scrambled into the night skies to attack the North Vietnamese, their tanks, artillery and automatic weapons.

It was the first stiff resistance the South Vietnamese paratroopers have encountered since they began tightening (See SOUTH VIET Page 2) Robesonian Skyjacker Surrenders A TO Hostage Delivery Agent Killed In Wreck By JOE BIGHAM Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army. FBI agent-in- charge Robert Gebhardt said military cards were found on Goodell, including one from Ft. Riley, Kan.

The entire $450,000 was recovered, the agent said. The hiacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money, obtained from PSA along with one parachute, "would be given to two organizations involved in the Mideast crisis," a Federal Aviation Administration official said. The note continued: "Recent actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation have caused consternation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt action." Some ALPA members last month took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to demand better security measures. It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agente stormed aboard a (See SKYJACKER Page 2) A 48-year old veteran agent for The Robesonian died late Thursday afternoon when the car she was driving while delivering her paper route was struck in the side by another vehicle two miles east of Red Springs on NC 211.

She was Mrs. Berlin L. Burkhead. Both cars were heading east. Mrs.

Burkhead had just put two young boys out at their home nearby and had a short distance to turn into a driveway when struck in the side by a car driven by Stedford Collins of Route 1 Shannon who was reportedly taking his son to the hospital. Trooper R. H. Newton indicated that he would probably bring a charge of manslaughter. Mrs.

Burkhead had been an agent for The Robesonian for ten U.S. Loses First Move Chess Draw To Soviets By STEPHENS BROEN1NG Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. The confusion of the past Weather Partly cloudy skies are forecast for this- afternoon, clearing tonight, and becoming mostly sunny on Saturday. Mild days but unseasonably cool temperatures are expected tonight.

Winds will be light east and northeast through tonight. Rainfall probability is 10 per cent today, near zero tonight and Saturday. The high temperature reading during the past 24-hour period was 71 degrees, and the low was 58. The reading at noon today was 75 degrees. The level of Lumber River was measured at 8.62 feet this morning at the Moore Bridge checkpoint.

Rainfall was recorded at 0.02 inch in Lumberton. COASTAL FORECAST Tides at Lock wood's Folly: Saturday high 5:19 a.m. and 5:57 p.m., low 11:26 a.m. and Sunday high 6:19 a.m. and 6:56 p.m., low 12:22 a.m.

and 12:22 p.m. week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked in the beginning: "Fischer come?" Near the end it was: "Spassky go?" "I'm very pessimistic," Dr. Max Euwe said at 10 a.m. At noon: "It's a very delicate situation." At 7 p.m., the president of the International Chess Federation sighed: "There's hope." That was Tuesday. It could have been any day in the garbled prelude to what chess lovers say is the match of the century Spassky of the U.S.S.R.

vs. Fischer of the U.S.A. Spassky arrived early to wait for Bobby. Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didn't show. Later he demanded an apology or he wouldn't play.

At one news conference, one of Fischer's lawyers said he'd come to say he had nothing to say. Yefim Geller, Spassky's second, fielded questions with: "Kak Gavarit po Angliski," or as you say in English, "No comment." Then there's the "Eavesdropper," a man approaching middle age with a shock of graying hair combed in careful disarray onto his forehead. He takes voluminous notes, (See U.S. LOSES Page 2) years, delivering to a rural route in the Red Springs area. Her husband, Jim Burkhead, manager of Lumberton Municipal Airport, has a service record at least twice that long.

The funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in Chestnut Street United Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. James H. Bailey and the Rev. Allen C.

Lee. Burial will be in Gardens of Faith. Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Barbara of the home; her brother, Lee R. Ivey of Lumberton and Dock Ivey of Raeford; her sister, Mrs. Ruth Ratz of Chicago and Mrs.

George Freeman of Washingtori, N.C. WORKMEN PREPARE to hang a picture of former President John F. Kennedy on the wall of the Miami Beach convention hall along with other leaders of the Democratic Party. The party begins its national convention in the hall on July 10 (AP Wirephoto) Bomb Explodes Near Irish NASA Eyes Catholic School McGovern's First-Ballot Sun Energy For Power WASHINGTON (AP) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched Thursday a survey of the feasibility of using large satellites to convert the sun's energy into a boundless supply of electric power for relay to the earth. NASA awarded a six- month study contract to A.

D. Little, Cambridge, and three associated industry teams to explore technical problems of a satellite solar power station. The concept hinges on the use of large spacecraft in synchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles above the earth, where they would remain stationary over an assigned geographic area. Each satellite station would convert solar energy to electric power and then transmit it by microwave beam to its particular receiving stations on the earth for ground distribution and use. The firms associated in the project are Grumman Aerospace Bethpage, N.Y.; Textron, Spectrolab Helio- tek Division, Sylmar, and Raytheon Corp.

Equipment Division Laboratories, Lexington, Mass. BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A exploded between a ftbmari Catholic church and its school in Belfast early today. It was the first' major explosion in Northern Ireland since the Irish Republican Army declared a truce 10 days ago, but police were reluctant to speculate who was responsible. The bomb gouged a crater 10 feet wide and two feet deep, sent four persons to a hospital to be treated for shock, and did extensive but superficial damage to the church, school and (SeeBOMBLage2) 60 Pesticides List For Use Control RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina Pesticide Board has approved a list of more than 60 chemical pesticides whose use will be restricted in the state. The list was approved Thursday after months of negotiations between farmers, the chemical industry and conservationists.

Chemicals on the list include DDT, Dieldrin, Endrin, Aldrin, Parathion, Mirex and Vapona. But the board delayed action on adding several more controversial chemicals -such as Landane, lead arsinate, chloradane and toxaphene to the list pending further study. 1 Hopes Rest With Court WASHINGTON (AP) The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen. George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court. The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGovern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended implementation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing justices to determine if there was sufficient support for a special session. Should Burger call the court into emergency session, the justices might be expected to hold a hearing and announce a decision before the Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach Monday night. On the other a Burger could refuse the appeal, thus letting the Appeals Court decision stand. Or he could delay implementation of the Appeals Court order until the Supreme Court convenes its fall term, well after the convention ends.

In that case, McGovern might be expected to ask the convention to overrule the Credentials Committee and return the 151 California votes to him. Forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley also have asked the court for a special term to attack another section of the same lower-court decision, which upheld the committee's authority to reject 59 Illinois delegates, including Daley. In asking for Supreme Court action, the party maintained that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia "has provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis which can only be settled by this court." "Reversal of the below is necessary to ensure that hereafter the federal courts will stay out of the American political process rather than seize its center stage," the petition read.

The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates after deciding that the 271 he won in the state's winner-lake-all primary should be apportioned among all the candidates according to their share of the vote. The appeals court held that changing the rules after the i a was over violated McGovern's right to due process. The ousted Illinois delegates said the committee decision and the court ruling that supported it disenfranchised the Democratic voters who elected delegates only to see them replaced by challengers. The party is opposing the Illinois suit on grounds it "does not involve an unprecedented judicial intrusion into the internal decision-making processes of a national politicl party." U.S.-Swiss Pact Hits Opposition By HANS NEUERBOURG Associated Press Writer BERN, Switzerland (AP) -The proposed U.S.-Swiss treaty that the Nixon administration considers a vital weapon against organized crime has run into stiff new opposition from influential Swiss banking and industrial circles. It is now certain to be delayed until next year, and speculation is growing that it may never take effect.

After four years of negotiations, officials of the two governments agreed last December on the draft of a complex "judicial assistance treaty," more than 100 pages long, that would help U.S. investigators collect evidence in Switzerland and track down funds deposited by American suspects in secrecy-protected Swiss bank accounts. Key clauses that prompted i i i were amended, and there was confidence on both sides that the treaty could be signed early this summer. American sources concede (See Page 2) Converse Says It Must Know Decision Today Officials of the B.F. Goodrich and Converse Rubber companies huddled today for the third straight day trying to unravel the possible antitrust complications growing out of the proposed leasing of the BFG plant in Lumberton to Converse.

"It looks like they might be reaching an agreement," Scott Shepherd, Lumberton Chamber of Commerce official said today. "At least, it looks more hopeful than at any other time," Shepherd, who has been in close contact with Earl Gunn, BFG Footwear president since the problem arose, said. John Hawley, executive director of the Lumberton of said his talk with Converse's Manager of Manufacutring, John O'Neil, was more hopeful than at any other time. The Justice Department is scheduled to go back to Federal District Court in Boston next Wednesday to have the temporary restraining order blocking the transaction made permanent. If the Justice Department succeeds in convincing the government officials that no antitrust problems are involved, the trip Wednesday will be a friendly one, with the two com(See CONVERSE Page 2) Whig Party Will Run Fillmore For President By DAVID GOELLER Associated Press Writer BALTIMORE (AP) The Whigs have nominated Millard Fillmore as their 1972 presidential candidate.

No. 2 spot on the ticket was won by Robert E. Lee Moxley, who happened to be oassing by. Education Board Names Three New School Principals For Robeson System By ED WILCOX Robesonian Staff Writer Three new principals were elected in last night's regularly scheduled meeting of. the Robeson County School Board.

James A Jones was elected principal of the Prospect High School. County School Superintendent Young Allen said that Jones has served in the school as teacher, assistant principal, and principal. Allen went on to say that Jones served as assistant principal for seven years. The board elected Donald A. Bonner as principal of the Rowland Southside Middle School.

INDEX Boyd 6 Classified 11 Comics 10 Editorial 6 Entertainment 7 Obituaries 2 Sports 8-9 Television 7 Women's News 4-5 DONALD A. BONNER ROBERT JENNINGS JAMES A. JONES Allen told the board members that Bonner has served for two years as assistant principal at the school. Robert Jennings was elected principal of the Littlefield High School. According to Allen, Jennings has served as guidance coun- sellor at the school, has taught at Robeson Tech, and finished out the past year in the position of principal at the Littlefield school.

GARBAGE SERVICE The board also discussed the problem of garbage service for the schools in the upcoming school year. J. C. Humphrey, the business manager for the county's schools said that garbage service would cost from $14,000 to $15,000 regardless of what route is taken in providing for the service. At a previous meeting the board discussed whether it would be less expensive to set up their own garbage disposal service or to set up the service under a franchise such as the County now has.

In further discussion of garbage disposal, the board discussed the proposal by one garbage service company that those living near schools be allowed to use the schools' garbage containers. Superintendent Allen said that public response to the proposal had been in favor of the schools only using the containers and not the people in the community. The board took action to deny use of school property for disposal of a community's garbage. The board voted to work with their attorney and set up bidding and a contract for the garbage disposal service. The contract will include all schools outside municipalities, according to Allen.

SCHOOL CONDITIONS Allen reported to the board that he had received a letter from J.L. Pierce, Director of School (Sec EDUCATION Page 2) "The Constitution doesn't say the candidate has to be alive," Jeffrey Amdur said after 15 delegates acclaimed Fillmore the standardbearer of the Resurrected Whig Party at an outdoor convention in a park Thursday night. The Resurrected Whigs are an offshoot of the Students' Committee for the Glorification of Millard Fillmore, a Whig who served in the White House from 1850 to 1853 after the death of President Zachary Taylor. Amdur, cochairman of the committee, says the selection of Fillmore was a long-overdue restoration to party favor for the man who was dumped by the Whigs in 1852. Party leaders say they know little about Moxley, 70, the Baltimore man chosen for the No.

2 spot. "He happened to be passing by and we asked him if he wanted to be vice president," said Amdur. Moxley won out on the first ballot over P.T. Barnum, Chester A. Arthur, W.C.

Fields and others. What does the Resurrected Whig Party stand for? "Motherhood, the flag, apple pie and Millard Fillmore," said James A. Seidel, a Frostburgi (Md.) State College student who discussed the convention. Discussing the party's platform, Seidel said one of the planks calls for an immediate freeze on wages and prices, followed by federal action to roll them back to 1853 levels. Another urges the cutting off, (See WHIG Page2).