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Paid Circulation Today 30,373 (Yesterday 30,311) And Still Growing! THE GASTONIA GAZETTE "THE PIEDMONT'S GROWING NEWSPAPER" 1969 The Gosfonia Gazette GASTONIA, N.C., SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1969 Single Copy lOc Daily, 20c Sunday COOL Fair art! cool lonigtit with low around 50, Partly cloudy ant! cool Sunday with chance of showers in mountains. More Weather Data Page IB 2 PAGES President Orders Team Of Observers To Report On Strike In Charleston U. S. Would Explore Points Of Peace Plan WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has told North Vietnam and National Liberation Front representatives it would like lo talk ahont the 10- point proposal made in Paris by Ihe Viet Cong for settlement of the Vietnam war, High U.S. officials making this known said the preliminary American response did not go beyond Secretary of State Wit- liam P.

Rogers' statement lale Friday. "It 1 contains some clearly unacceptable proposals, but there are elements in it which may fer a possibility for exploration," Rogers said in the first Nixon administration response lo the Viet Cong proposal. Ha emphasized lhat the position taken by the Communist side Thursday in Paris will re- quire careful study and clarification. In the view of high authorities here, the proposal docs contain new features which give a promise of some forward movement in the peace negotiations. Rogers, who leaves for Saigon on Mon'hy, declared he would consult closely with Vietnamese leaders, including President Nguyen Van Thicu, to determine if the Viet Cong program represents a serious response to earner U.S.

and South Vietnam peace proposals. South Vietnam already has rejected parts of the NFL program which would set up a coalition "peace" government pending general elections throughout the country. The Rogers statement declared: "We believe that the right of self-determination for tho people of South Vietnam must bo respected unconditionally. This is (bo core of the issue in Vietnam." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge conferred M'ilh Nguyen Xuan Phong ot the South Vietnamese delegation Friday in Paris about the Viet Cong plan.

It is presumed they discussed the South Vietnamese attack on part of the proposal. The South Vietnamese government said it would be willing to discuss several other points in the NFL program such as prisoner cA'cbaiigps, re-establishment of the demilitarized zone and respect for the 1962 agreement on Laos. Rogers in his statement did not specify what parts of the NLF program were "clearly unacceptable." Arm-Twisting On ABM? GOP Senators Say No WASHINGTON (AP) Five new Republican senators say they have felt no slronfiarm pressure despite their opposition lo President Nixon's antimissile program. The senators, considered rViost" susceptible to the kind of leverage the White House can use in such cases, interpret the relatively mild administration pressure on them as a sign the President is still confident of Senate approval. House passage of the $7.8 billion ABM proposal is considered certain, but in the Senate a close battle is being waged.

A recent Associated Press survey shows 47 sen ators opposed to ABM, 43 in favor and 10 undecided, -The new GOP senators, in addition to opposing a Republican President's major proposal, are going against congressional custom that rookies are seen but not heard. One of the five is Charles Goodcll of New York, an appointee who may need strong party support in a tough election campaign next year. "No one has come to me and raised irrelevant issues," Good- cll said of the ABM controversy. "I suppose 1 would call it pressure if someone brought up a dam in New York or a contract. But none that has happened," The other four Republicans, all freshmen, are Charles Ma- ihias of Maryland, Marlow Cook of Kentucky, Richard S.

Schwciker Pennsylvania and William B. Saxbe of Ohio. The five don't go into detail about ersuas Ion exerted on them so far but one incident emerged when the Pentagon said Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird tried to temper Goodell's criticism before a news conference. The Pentagon said Lafrd tele- phoned Coodell while the senator was waiting for a flight to CoJumbus, Ohio, where he held a news conference at Air Force Museum.

In a statement endorsed by the other four, and other anti-ABM Good-" Schooner Goes Down In Rough Sea CHARLESTON, S. C. 'i'he 66-year-old schooner Santa Maria sank in heavy seas off Charleston Friday, injuring one of (he three aboard. He was Yaroslov Eowbush, who suffered pelvic injuries when he was caught between the schooner and a Coast Guard cutter which had sought to aid the 75-foot Santa Maria. Dow- bush, who was on his first seas voyage, and another crewmen, John Haffert, work at the Ave Maria Institute, a religions organization in Washington, N.

Y. Haffert owned the schooner. He and'the third man aboard, Joseph Keiley of Ft. Lauderdale were not hospitalized. Haffert gave this account: Dowbusy had been seasick since the trio left Ft.

Lauder- dalo Monday, and they decided lo stop at Charleston. Hifih winds and rough seas pushed the schooner into the breakers, and they were unable to use the ship's engine to maneuver. The Coast Guard cutter Capo Morgan was called to aid the vessel just off Bull's Island. The tow was too fast. "Waves came over tho boat and the pumps couldn't take care of the water, so ivc cut -the tow line." ell compared the missile system to the XB70, a "dinosaur" bomber which was declared obsolete before experiments were ended.

Laird tried without apparent success to convince Gdodell the Safeguard and XB70 were not similar. Other administration, "lobbyists" include Vice President Spiro T. Agncw, Sen. Strom who rides herd on southern senators, Sen. Henry M.

Jackson, who shepherds Democratic votes, and Bryce Harlow, Nixon's assistant for congressional affairs, who keeps in touch with ABM opponents. "Of course, I've talked to the I've talked to Bryce Harlow," said Saxbc. "Tbcy've explained their position and they know mine. But it's certainly not arm twisting." Schweiker also used the "arm twisting" phrase popularized when former President Lyndon B. Johnson called in old political lOUs on behalf of his favorite programs.

"I thought there would he a lot more arm twisting than there is now; there's no real arm twisting at this point," Schweiker said. Cook explains his outspoken opposition this way: "I've never been a traditionalist. I'm not here to offend anybody. I have no objection to the seniority system. "But all of us' ran pretty much on a platform that something had to he done to establish peace in this country." Saxbe said he feels an urgency to end the Vietnam war and "Uirn around our country." "I feel (he urgency," Saxbe said.

"Old members of the Senate don't seem to. It's pretty much business as usual." HOST OF MEMORIES Mass March Set Sunday CHARLESTON, S. C. (AP) President Nixon will have observers in Charleston, who will repoi't to him developments in the seven-week strike Negro nurses aides, orderlies and food service workers against two hospitals. The strike has becoms a national civil rights and labor issue.

The President advised con- and by the man who succeeded gressmen Friday that he lias directed Ally. Gen. John W. Mitchell to send Justice Department officials (o Charleston. Twenty congressmen had urged Nixon on April (o send a representative to Charleston so that those "who feel they have no stake in our sociely know that the President stands with them." But tho President Dr.

Bncll Tnbfcs over the campus ot Cf(y College of where he announced Friday Hint he is' effective Monday, as president of the strife-ravaged He 195J. (Ap Wil-cpliolo). las been head of iJio school slnco 45 Young People Learn Routine Of Prison Life By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A week oE tumult mid shmiting on the college scene has ended MORE VIOLENCE Rreivslcr Jr. Yale University president, Is pictured answering a question at Vale alumni meeting. He said campus violence will increase unless (lie in Vietnam is ended, the draft is equalized, and race relations improved.

(AP Wircpholo). Activist Students Stir Up Ire Of Legislators RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina legislators are reacting to disturbances on university campuses wilh finger and a bevy of proposals aimed at activist students. Most of the bills and resolutions aro resting in committees. But Ihe mood of the General Assembly has been clearly displayed in floor debates on bills indirectly concerned with disorders. This week, the Senate chopped up and then killed a bill to add students to the boards of trus- Lerjs of state-supported colleges and universities.

The Senate was almost evenly divided In most votes on the bill and tho pr.oposcd amendments. Supporters said it would give the students some of (ho responsibility ihey arc restless for, and keep lines of communication open. But opponents argued that it would be a mistake an appeasement of campus disorders. Even some of the supporters of the bill joined in the 2fl-IG vote for an amendment stating that the frludcnts must have clean shaves antl "normal businessmen's haircuts" the day of the trustee meetings. "I'm sick and tired of these hippies who are running around our campuses in sandals and long hair and beards," said Sen.

Edward Griffin, Franklin. "It would be a disgrace, in my opinion, lo put one of these guys on the board of trustees." Griffin was the sponsor of another bill aimed at activist students which has passed the Senate and LS awaiting action by a House committee. Tho bill, would give the Veterans Commission authority to revoke scholarships of children ot veterans who participate In campus riols or disorders. Another bill.is aimed at revoking grants or scholarships of students at stale schools convicted of trespass, seizure or riot. The measure is pending in the House Higher Education Committee.

The same committee also has a bill providing for expulsion of students involved in disrupting the routine of slate moro than two-thirds of the tncmters of (hat apply all stale campuses from grade, schools lo universities. Another bill would make riot and inciting to riot a felony and prevent persons convicted of. such acts from attending or working for stale miivcrsi- stitulions, and a bill (o restrict wuinnii; iur univorw- iday the type of persons allowed lo tics (or a ear afler conviction. on a quieter note with scholars and politicians discussing the campus crisis and a New Hampshire judge dealing jail terms to 45 Dartmouth sit-ins, The shock of Dr. Bucll C.

Gallagher's resignation as president of City College of New York and a steady day-long rain combined to end two days of violence and arson' at the 000-s(udent school At Howard University, where police wrested control from sit- ins by firing tear gas; rockets into Ihe buildings, the'student activists-told a news conference there was no change in (heir In WoodviHe, N.H., 45 young people, most of tV.cm Dartrr.r.utM students, were prison routine today at the Graf ton County jail while lawyers prepared appeals to (he state Supreme Court. Judge Martin Loughliri sentenced the group including five girls to serve 30-day jail terms and pay $100 fines each for criminal contempt in the seizure of Uie college administration building last Tuesday, The demonstration let! by the Students for a Democratic Society was to demand Ihc immediate expulsion of ROTC programs from the campus. They u'cre removed from (he building by slate police early Wednesday. Judge Ixwghlin's sentence They Won't Salute The Flag SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Three leaching aides are refusing to salute the flag because (hey believe that "justice all" does nqt exist in this country, school officials were told was twice the 15-day term rec- omm end by County Altv, George Papadcnias the stiffest mass sentence yet meted out in the current wave of student, uprisings across the nation. One advocate of the get-tough approach, to campus disorders testified before the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee Friday.

Longshoreman- philosopher Eric Iloffcr said the campus crisis called for strong- willed administrators. "You need chancellors of universities and mayors of cities who will get up in (he morning and spit on their hands and say 'Who am I going to kill said. "These are (he people who will save you." Hoffer, a member of the- National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, said the demands of campus militants cannot he satisfied: "They have tasted blood and acquired a taste for academic flesli. They want to kill it." Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian, told a Housa education subcommittee that American universities will not recover from tlic damage they have suffered as teaching institutions (or decades. And he said the colleges will have to lake ''strong means" to overthrow what he called student despotism if they arc to recover at all, Seymour Martin Upset of May Queen Named David? EDINBORO.

Pa. (AP) The students 1 choice for May (Jueen at Edinboro State College is named David. David, a shaggy-haired senior whose last name is Merririan speak on state campuses. The speaker of tho 1963 Speaker Ban Law which was declared empower administrators to bar from the campus extremists, radicals, persons who advocate violence or (he formation of subversive groups, and persons of "bad character. 1 Both houses have received bills to prohibit the possession or use of deadly weapons by students on campuses.

The This week, the House received a bili (o make it a misdemeanor for students who have been expelled or suspended for disorders to enter the campus. On Friday, the Senate sot a bill aimed at discouraging campus radicals from disrupting a school's norm.il operations by making them liable to civil suits by other students. The three intern teachers, whose names are undisclosed, merely stand at attention during Ihe ceremonies at Bret Harlc School. Two other aides arc honoring the regulations, The three arc members a Teacher Corps project who work in Ihe school 114 ilays neck. They spend an equal amount time in community and attend classes tit San Francisco State College the remainder of tho week, I 1 Ask Andy Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Focus Horoscopo Movies Sports TV Woman's Index 4B 3A i 67B 4B 3A 2A I 2A 3A 23B 5B 5A but who is known as "Primo," was a write-in candidate in the school's annual fraternity-sorority event Friday.

He won by a landslide over six female candidates. "It was a protest against the control the Greek fraternities and sororities thought they had on said Jack O'Brien, program director ot the campus radio station. "The kids wanted to show them the independents have moro control." Although Mcrridan got 65 per cent of 2,500 votes cast, he was later ruled ineligible, and the runnerup, Elaine Vochkovich, a 19-year-old freshman from Pittsburgh was crowned queen at a dance Friday night, And Primo? He was unavailable for comment. Friends.said he was out celebrating tho victory. her assassinated husband as president of the Southern Chris- tia.n Leadership Conference, the Rev.

Ralph David Abernathy. Abernathy has been among tha hundreds strikers and sympathizers who have been arrested on charges of violating a state court injunction limiting picketing at the hospitals. He is free on $500 bond. There have replied Diat lie questioned been almost daily marches in "whether the presence of presidential represent ativo would aid in a (air resolution of the controversy under the circumstances." Tha 400 workers who Bar Association at Myrtle Beach, McNair reiterated Ms stand lhat public policy prevents the stale from rccogniz- jng a union as a bargaining at8 Harvard told the subcommittee that the campus ciisis was a political phenomenon, not an educational one. He said such things as increasing awareness of social conditions in the world had brought a "crisis of authority." Charleston in behalf of the strikers, ami for tho last 10 days the cily has been under a dusk-to- clawn curfew which followed vandalism outbreaks o( Abernathy addressed a strike, striking the South Carolina Med- sympathy meeting in Greenville ical College Hospital and (he today.

Charleston County Hospital are Gov. Hobert McNair said Fri- asking union recognition and a ay Ulo st riko is a test "of our pay raise of an unspecified who le governmental system as amount above their $1.30 to vre nave known it an hour. The hospitals, which jj na aro still operating, say that as Addressing the South Carolina governmental agencies they can't bargain with a union. At least six of the congressmen said they would participate in a mass march in Charleston Sunday in behalf of tile strikers. Tlie Mothers' Day March was employes originally lo have been spon- Earlier'in tho day, (he govcr- sored in Washington by Negro mct 45 mitul cs at his civil rights organizations, but office in Columbia with five un- shifted lo Charleston.

representatives in hopes oE Tho congressmen ure Kcps. reaching some agreement, -Edward'I, Kocii, A Hard However Elliott K. Lowenstcin," diaries' for ot organization for the D'rug C. Diggs John and Hospital Workers Union Conyers William AFLrCfO, said the meeting was F. Hyan, and Ogden R.

not very fruitful and a settle- He id, ment did not appear Imminent. Tiie march will be led by McNair tha slate bar Mrs. Martin Luther King convention that the strike "in a sense is not simply a test of will or a test of strength. "It is a test really of our whole governmental system as we have now in South Carolina "We have always held the position in our state lhat the people of South Carolina, through their elected representatives, NEW YOnK (AP) The dis- slloL1 determine how (he tax- coverer of America might well a rs money is spent. Existence Of Saints In Doubt named Fasqitale CoJumbus Rocco Columbus if tlic Vatican liati realigned its roster of saints in the 15th century instead of Hie 20th.

Every Roman Catholic child must he given a saint's name at baptism, according to Church rules, the Columbus family voulci have had (o choose some name other than Christopher. For Christopher, Barbara, Alexis, Anastasia and a whole lita- TIRED John W. Snydcr, acting chancellor of Indiana University's campus, appeared tired after a meeting lu the BallanlEnc Hall faculty lounge, niack students blocked exits from (he room for a while during a meeting discussing (ul- lion increases, preventing ad- iiiinislralors, -including Snyder, from leaving. (AP Wircpholo). have been a Genoese explorer am 1IOW prepared (o 'cate that authority and lurn it over to the collective bargaining process." McNair said he is airare that "inconsistencies and inequities" exist in the pay scales of slato employes.

However, he added, many nf these inequities will bo remedied by a pay equalization program scheduled to begin July 1. At that lime, he said, "South Carolina will make effective the minimum wage of $1.45 an hour ny of almost 60 names were a full seven months before the stricken Friday from Ihe Ho- federal mandatory data of Feb man Catholic calendar of an- 1. "The following year we will nual feastdays in honor of indi- go to a minimum of $1,60." virtual saints. Besides McNair and Godoff, Pope Paul VI issued a decree also attending Friday's meeting selling up a new calendar cffec- were Mary Moullric, president live Jan. 1.

Tlic Vatican ex- of the Drug and Hospital Work- plained why some sainls were 's Local liraB in Charleston; for any doubt Isaiah Bennett, director of (he about their sanctity but doubt Slatc Hospital Workers Union; that they ever existed at all. William Richer of New York, The Vatican, obviously aware Jiac lo George Meany, head of Ihe furore in many qnarlers a Inc AFL-CIO; Alvin Heaps, few years ago when the popular sccretary-lreasurcr of femcle saint Philomcna was "clail. Wholesale anil Do- r.lrickcn from Ihe lists, acknowl- Store Workers union, edged (hot the JWVMI action 1 1 ln Young, president of the South Carolina Labor Council. Contracts For Model Cities WASHINGTON (AP) Scat- tic, Atlanla and Waco. have been awarded Ihe first crmtracls-all told, about $15 million-in Model Cities program.

Secretary George Ilomney of Ihe Department of Housing and Urban Development made Ibe announcement Friday. The program lias a potential of some ISO cities in 45 slates and Puerto Rico. Atlanta's project includes people in six neighborhoods, an area with a 15 per cent unemployment rate. The cily's initial conlract is for $7,17 million. The Seattle conlract is $5.2 million and is to lie applied in a 2.25 square mile center cily In Waco.

Ihe million contract covers a plan for 15,000 people u'hosc unemployment av- of the crago is three limes the city more Ilian 2.500 declared sainls. rate. ivonld pose "an extremely dcli- cale problem" for many Calho- lics. No one will have lo change his name, and no church named for one of the devaluated saints will have lo chisel new letters in stone above rededicated porlals. But the impact on Ihe personal pride and spiritual psychology of many a miin or woman who ticars the name a saint now declared fictional could something else again.

"Saint" is a title given to persons recognized by tile Catholic Chureh as being in heaven and worthy of honor. Popular devotion often spread a cult of holiness around a name in the early centuries, when sainthood by acelamalion was fairly common. Lalcr the making ot sainls became a Church-regulated undertaking lhat came only afler long investigation of personal virtues and was done in lavish ceremonies at the Vatican. When a specific day each year is designated a saint's feast day, it means that Masses throughout the world that day include a special remembrance of lhat particular saint. Some authoritative works of.