The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 12

The Bee: Danville Va riday October 3 1969 1 Vote Down New unds or Sheridan Tank WASHINGTON (AP) The turning aside efforts to jchop $2 billion worth of other 'Weapons has voted lull the trouble plagued Shcri dan tank The proposal to end the $1 bil lion Sheridan program as soon as the current contract is com Jileted was shouted through the Tlouse Thursday with little de "bate and no vote count s' The proposal was backed by 'Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers SC whose concluded the ammunition is danger ous and the tank itself was notorth'the time and cost of de velopment But efforts by military spend critics to cut money from the Safeguard antimissile sys Xtefti' C5A supercargo planethips: helicopters and missile "programs were easily defeated pne by one The critics tried to cut the projects from a $2135 billion a thorization for procurement of military hardware Changes Give labor Party lOewLook BRIGHTON England (AP) jThe Labor party conventiontnds today with a vote on PrimeMinister Harold for a re election platformVnion delegates representing Ttiiie third of the membership are Expected to oppose it? After the vote Wilson returns London to complete a Cabinet ijahakeup shifting members to dthep jobs and reorganizing "'some ministries The Cabinet changes and theJi'00O word policy document are Resigned to give the ruling La party a new purposeful look for the next national elections £which Wilson must call by the Spring of 1971 when his five yeartern ends The British system allows him choose the time and many ex pect election to be held Mometi me next year Unless some last minute com promise emerges on the policydocument several big unionsRepresenting at least one third the 6 million paid tJnembers are expected to voteagainst it They object to a pas Jsag that would let the govern ment freeze certain wages But this division does not jjmeatf the big unions automati cally would vote for the opposi Conservative party or ab istain from voting Despite thedisagreement many members ijcel Labor is the only effectiveworking class party in thecoun 1200 delegates did not Ceem to agree on some other is the most notable being on which Britain wouldcenter the Common Market However in an obvious effort40 please both supporters and Opponents of Common Marketnembership the delegates ap proved two policy statementsThursday One urges Wilson to insist inCommon Market negotiations onprotection of the of Payments cost of living nation 41 health and social security System and power of independ ent decision in economic foreign The other notes that the eco nomic climate has improved djnce Britain's unsuccessful bid fto enter two years ago andpromises that the British people and Parliament will be consult ed before a final decision on en 4ry Wilson said Thursday night he didn't think the principle of Jfritish entry was at issue only terms College Girls Going MIAMI (AP) Some Miami college girls have provided rea eon for rejoicing among braless going blouseless as well coeds on the Miami Dade Junior North Campus claim the new style helps them beat the lorida heat Going means wearing tight fitting scarves tied at the neck and waist with bn exposed back and nothing underneath The male students on campus have perked but some school administrators and facul ty members feel such casual boss' should be reserved for the sand and surf stopped a couple of the girls in the halls and suggested that the apparel is more suita ble for the said Taylor dean of students Richard Janaro associate professor of humanities said he thought miniskirts were a pleas ant addition to the classroom but the scarves were a little too much be distracted by wonder ing holding them he said )The girls say their main wor ry'Jt Buking sure the guy be hind them in class practic ing his'deftnes's at undoing the well tied knot 5 committee already had cut $576 million from the Sheridan program leaving only $152 million for completion of the present contract It had urged the Army to cor rect the par ticularly the danger of ammuni tion explosions inside the tank it asks authority to buy any more But the amendment shouted through Thursday would termi nate the program entirely when the contract runs out program has been a dis mal failure been a terribie said Rep Delbert Latta Ohio who made the proposal a hazard to the people inside that he continued in an interview caseless ammunition can explode from bounding around They told me this morning that land mines can set if As final as the House lan guage is the decision could be reversed in future authorization bills if the problems were solved A Senate bill authorizes the full $728 million requested for the Sheridan although Senate opponents have indicated they may try to block appropriation of the money if it is authorized Cuts attempted by spending critics but defeated by the House Thursday would have trimmed: $345 million for deploy ment of the Safeguard antibati listic missile system leaving tact $400 million for research and development $1 billion above the adminis request for ships add ed by Rivers to modernize the naval force million for purchase of 23 additional C5A cargo planes million for production of six carrier based 14 Navy fighters a plane still in the de velopment stage $86 million for 170 Cobra helicopters? $77 million for the Short Range Attack Missile which has suffered development problems NUMBER 13 (Continued rom Page One) Outside oes Scheduled enough Tied tobacco is supposed to be sheeted for sale in the same manner as untied Auction bid averages per hundred pounds on a limited number of representative grades yesterday and changes from previous day follow Leaf: fair lemon $76 fair orange $77 up $1 low orange S74 low orange red $76 up $1 fair variegated $71 up $1 low variegated $7 Lugs: fair lemon $77 low lemon $75 fair orange $76 low orange $74 down $1 Primings: fair lemon $74 fair orange $71 down $2: low orange $69 Nondescript best (priming side) $64 up $1 According to ths drl Stato Mar ket News Service report sales on the 20 Old Belt markets yesterday were as follows Markets Virginia: Pounds Average Brookneal 251707 37066 Chase City 251 366 At Clarksville 24949S 170kl DANVILLE 1 tt Sil 73JB Kenbridge 2514et ru70Jl Lawrenceville 246377 491 Martinsville Vqwl7ri169'43 Petersburg 224 071 6943 South Boston 1 v'72 JO South HUI Totals 745 Markets: 1 Hr i North Carolina: Pounds AVerafc Burlington 230151 $6349 Greensboro 231724 7090 Madison 252929 7245 Mebane 244643 6117 Mt Airy 237 52t 6916 Reidsville 243516 6906 Roxboro 260205 7222 Stoneville 229356 6739 Winston Salem 1 033500 no7122 Yadkinville 63636 (6512 1 I Totals 3074 914 47029 Grand Total 6312276 BTOJtk "(USDA NOTATION: The above figures are preliminary and subject to re Sion They do not necessarily 'reflect price levels by grades) VShV Generally steady prices were reported on the Eastern North Carolina Belt yesterday A total of 872021 pounds were sold on tne belt Wednesday for an average of $7092 per hundred down 94 cents from Tuesday The average Wednesday was the lowest of the season North Carolina Middle Belt prices declined yesterday Gross sales Wednesday amounted to 3757602 pounds and the average per hundred was $7101 42 cents lower than Tuesday also the lowest daily average On the South Carilina Bordex Borth Carolina Belt only air mont had auctions yesterday air And Warm WeatherOver North Carolina By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS air warm weather is ex pected to prevail over most of North Carolina tonight and Sat urday in the wake of the heavy rains that drenched the state Thursday Siler City reported 411 inches of rain and Laurel Springs had exactly four inches of precipita tion Laurinburg had 385 inches Rocky Mount recorded 307 inches and several localities in the state had around two inches of rainfall The Weather Bureau said that in addition to the heavy rains a line of thunderstorms formed over the coastal plain about mid afternoon Thursday which spawned a few small tornadoes One tornado did considerable damage in the Lake Gaston area from Vaughn to Eatons erry Others were reportec near Williamston and Nashville but no deaths or injuries were reported in the storms Mild temperatures prevailed over the state Thursday with most high readings being around 80 degrees During the night skies became clear over western and central counties but considerable cloudiness lin gered along the coast Lows in the 60s were common over most of the state during the night rain was a side effect of the tropical depression which moved north west of the Appalachians during the day This morning this weak low center was over Pennsylvania Another tropical depression Jenny was moving toward the Atlantic Ocean and small craft warnings were in effect from Palm Beach' la to the North Carolina coast Jenny was over land this In Southern By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Southern Conference football teams are batting 500 thus far against nonconference opposi tion and if still doing that well after this I games it will be an occasion for dizzy celebration Of the six games scheduled Saturday afternoon and night only one The visit to East Carolina is between SC rivals The others are out side tests and in nearly all the SC club is the underdog Unbeaten Davidson is the clos est thing to a favorite The Wild cats 2 0 and fresh from a rio tous 77 14 conquest of urman travel to Texas to take on Trini ty 1 1 of the Southland Confer ence Expected to come in second best are SC champ ions now 1 1 who entertain win less but rugged Virginia Te'ch 0 2 William and Mary 0 14 which is host to Virginia1 Jl 1' urman 1 1 which to throw off the shock of 'the Da vidson rout in a meeting with Carson Newman 1 1 and VMI 0 2 which plays at unbeat en 18th ranked' West Virginia 3 0 The Citadel unbeaten after two nonleague starts will be fa vored to climb into a tie 'for first place in the' SC standings by handing wirtless East Caro lina its third straight setback but Bulldog coach Red'Parket is wary i Carolina is'i tSMX dy to go Parker hard to understand How that team has scored only once while running all over the place against the two teams it has faced We have a big defensive job to Pirates however fig ure to have a sizable defensive job of their own in stopping the offense featur ing versatile Tony Passander and the No 2 rusher Tom Sanchez who is averaging six yards a carry Spiders will be meeting Virginia Tech a bitter state rival before be lieved to be the biggest crowd ever to see a Spider game in Richmond City Stadium an anticipated throng of 27000 be yond a sellout The chances are les sened because it will be an an gry Tech team they are meet ing one mad at itself and the world after dropping two close games to Alabama and Wake orest chance to beat Car son Newman a small college toughie depends to a large ex tent on how well the Paladins have recovered from that colos sal loss to Davidson a week ago we get better at de fending against passes go ing to ask the commissioner for permission to use butterfly says urman coach Bob King VMI appears to have the dim mest of opportunities to waylay West Virginia although the Key dets held the Mountaineers to a narrow 14 7 victory a year ago This is another year and while WVU a former SC member has steamed past three foes scoring 113 points VMI has yielded 75 points in its two set backs while scoring none WVU scout Jim Render how ever has some good news for the Keydets Render watched them in last loss to Rich mond and concluded they put it all together they could be MISSING MAN OUND LENOIR (AP) Rob ert Debner 78 missing for six days made his way through wooded Caldwell County country side to a faxmhouse Thursday An intensive search plannee this weekend for the man was canceled Searchers had been out in force last weekend and during the week looking for Debner who lives near Lenoir Despite rain and chilly weath er Debner appeared to be in good condition morning and her highest winds were estimated to be 30 to 35 mph! The Weather Bureau said Jenny would probably re gain storm intensity after mov ing off shore today IM Nations Okay 'Paper Gold' Program ormosa Issue Dry Season Rain Splashes In Canada Red Offensive Over Eastern Peking Talks Seen In Laos Seaboard of Gendreau Photo de on God has listened uou enoiiQii tK Now be 1964 7 9 The US find of Mass Meeting Set On Passage Of Rights Law BLUEBIRD TO TRY Placed in museum in Ickworth England following a crash in 1966 the late Donald Camp famous turbine racer Bluebird is undergoing repairs for another possible attempt on the world land speed record for wheel driven cars Californian Robert Summers holds the record of 409 miles an hour The an ropical Storm Hits lorida With Soft Punch CREWMEN IDENTIIED ROWLAND C(AP) The Air orce Thursday identified the four crewmen killed in the collision of an 105 Thunder chief jet fighter in a collision with an 4D Phantom II fight er the day before The Thunderchief was being flown by Capt Thomas Carl son 28 and Sgt William Moore 21 both of Wichita Kan The plane based at McConnell Air orce Base Kan was par ticipating in a firepower demon stration in war games at Bragg when the crash occurred near Rowlapd in Robeson Coun ty Killed in the Phantom were Capt John Mize and Capt William Jarman Jr both of Goldsboro The plane was based at Seymour Johnson AB near Goldsboro INDUSTRIAL PARK SET ROCKINGHAM Reigel Paper Corp plans a 1 500 acre industrial park is planned in the Hamlet Rock ingham area of Richmond Coun ty The president of Riegel Wil liam Scharffenberger said Thursday the New York based firm chose the area because of its great potential for develop ment Riegel has approximately 2 000 employes in plants in North Carolina MIAMI (AP) Tropical Storm Jenny breezed into southwest coastal areas Thursday night with a mojst but soft punch and then swept inland across the peninsula toward the Atlantic Jenny lost its punch quickly after hitting land early today it was downgraded to a tropical depression but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said it would begin growing again after entering the Atlantic along upper east coast Accompanied by squalls and winds gusts of 30 miles an hour and higher Jenny curved into Central lorida after coming ashore over Charlotte Harbor north of ort Myers late Thursday Weather observers said the highest on land winds reported were 48 mph at Naples Brief heavy rains pelted the costal sections near the storm But total rainfall early today was three inches or less Tides were affected only slightly The extent of damage if any to newly planted crops in the rort Myers area could not determined KILLED IN ACTION WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Department has nounced that two more service men from North Carolina have been killed in action in the Viet nam war They were Army Pfc James Campbell of Raeford and Marine Cpl Larry Wrenn of ayetteville PROPRIETOR ACCUSED GREENSBORO (AP) Justice Department asked District Court Thursday to Howard Glenn owner rozen Custard in Bur lington in contempt for alleged ly failing to abide by a deseg regation order It said he had not posted a sign saying be served persons of all races and colors on an equal basis A court order eb 6 forbade Glenn from discriminating aft er a civil suit was filed against him in January under the Civil Rights Act Nevertheless paper gold will be as good as the genuine arti cle simply because the nations agree that it is which is the only reason gold is accepted Of the $95 billion to be dis tributed in paper first three years $35 billion will come to life next Jan 1 Plans are for $3 billion to be distribut ed on the first days of 1971 and 1972 The managing director Pierre Paul Schweitzer pro posed last month that the SDRs be distributed in proportion to or required to the fund Since the United States and other industrial countries have the largest quotas because they have the strongest and most productive economies they will receive most of the SDRs They also have the largest voice in deciding whether SDRs will be distributed and met in Paris last July to work out the details of the plan One banker figured that the 11 biggest nations in the fund By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS continuingly eager quest for more business and in dustry received an $11 million boost Thursday from two of the nation's largest industrial firms In Petersburg Brown Wil liamson Tobacco Co unveiled tentative plans for a two year $6 million expansion of its Pe tersburg branch which alrea dy employs more than 3000 per sons In Newport News Bendix Corp confirmed earlier reports it will construct a $5 million plant in Newport News for its automobitve electronics division now located in Towson Md The Brown Williamson ex pansion at Petersburg will entail construction of two new build ings and two major additions to existing buildings Work tenta tively is set to begin next month The company gave no estimate of the number of additional workers it will hire main plant is in Louis ville but the Petersburg plant already produces about as many cigarettes as are produced in Louisville 'Hie Petersburg branch has been in operation 32 years Construction on the big new Bendix plant in Newport News is expected to begin within two months a company spokesman said Thursday The plant will employ approximately 1200 men and women Confirmation of the Bendix plans made it two big industrial within a few weeks for the Virginia Peninsula Ear lier the Anheuser Busch beer making firm had announced it would locate a multi million dol lar plant in the Williamsburg area Gov Mills Godwin Jr' in a statement welcoming Bendix to Virginia said the state's ac qusition of new industry has been this year UNITED NATIONS New York (AP) Talks to establish diplomatic relations between Canada and Red China are stalled over the issue of how to handle claim to or mosa diplomatic sources said today Canadian and Communist Chinese diplomats have held four meetings in Stockholm on desire to recognize Pe king The first session was held May 19: the others June 7 July 10 and Sept 20 Informants said Canada had agreed to break relations with Chiang Kai Nationalist Chinese regime on ormosa and support Communist claim to membership in the United Nations if the talks suc ceed But the Canadians have re fused to endorse publicly Pe claim to the to conquer and or mosa a well placed foreign ob server of the Stockholm talks said He reported Canada would not challenge such an act but was unwilling to support it publ icly highly placed diplo mat said Peking had asked only that Canada acknowledge that ormosa is part of China Cana da replied that it did not ask other countries to define its boundaries and should not be asked to define theirs the diplo in at said Otie informant said tefusal to give in to de mand was simply a matter of principle Others suggested that it was motivated partly by the fact that the United Staes is commited by treaty to defend ormosa from Communist Chi na and has its 7th leet in the strait between the two coun tries They said Canada would find herself in an awkward position with her US neighbor should she say something that might encourage Communist China to risk war with the United States' Charge Liu Chi tsai was the Chinese representative at the first two meetings in Stockholm where both Ottawa and Peking have embassies and Ambassador Wang Tung represented China at the third and fourth Ambassador Arthur Andrew represented Canada at the first three meetings and Ambassa dor Margaret Meagher was Ot representative at the fourth One informant said the atmos phere had improved by the fourth meeting but that no pro gress was made The agreement to hold the talks was reached in two proce dural meetings held in Stock holm on initiative in ebruary and March Black Elected Officials Hold State Conference WASHINGTON (AP) The International Monetary und to day launches its a new good as gold money based on faith and cooperation between nations Balloting among the 74 coun tries tht have' agreed so far to take part in the sweeping new program of Special Drawing Rights opened Thursday morn ing as the fund and the World Bank neared the end of their five day annual meeting here Although votes were not an nounced only South po sition appeared in doubt As the largest gold producing country it has a special interest not only in the continued use of gold but also in its expansion Paper gold or SDRs will be international money backed by nothing more than the fact that nations will accept it in pay ment for world trade just as they do now It will exist only on the books and will change hands only on ledger sheets would over three years receive almost two thirds of the total: Because of the heavy way th major countries are favored several finance most frequently Emilio Colombo of It aly suggested that some way be found to use the new man made money to help underde veloped countries The idea was rejected twice by the major nations The rea son given was that the new money should at first be used only to increase world reserves or the pool of gold and currency nations now use to finance their trade when they import more than they export and have bal ance of payments deficits International finance analysts point out that world reserves are growing more slowly than world trade a situation which could eventually lead to a trade slowdown for no other reason than a money shortage This should not happen they reason if nations can agree to take something else as they agree to take gold as payment PETERSBURG (AP) Vir ginia Negroes holding elective office converged on Virginia State Collebe today to discuss their common problems and to seek ways for the black man to become more involved in public life The occasion was the first statewide Conference of Black Elected Officials whose chair man will be Calvin Miller interim head of Virginia political education department Miller said it is hoped the two day conference will assist the black elected officials and the Negro voters of Virginia make the necessary political in puts into the final liberation struggle of black Objectives of the conference Miller said are: To afford black elected of ficials an opportunity to know each other to define and discuss their common problems To serve as a fact finding format and to present and intro duce black elected officials to black college leadership a desire for continued involve The Virginia State professor said the conference may decide to set up a service center for black elective officials at the college to aid Negroes holding public office COLUMBIA (AP) Members of minority groups in South Car olina will hold a mass meeting in Columbia Oct 12 to push for a state civil rights law The announcement was made Thursday by a spokesman for a coalition of seven civil rights organizations The coalition said at a news conference that a human rights commission should be formed within state government in con junction with passage of a state civil rights law Representatives of the organ izations charged that racial un rest in South Carolina is the re sult of sanctioned pol icies of racial discrimination color conscious justice and in stitutional denial of meaningful black involvement in decisions affecting the destiny of those The group's prepared state ment said the state should take steps to the rights of every The organizations said a civil rights act should contain: employment opportu nity provisions opening all public accomodations and prohibiting the barring of a person because of race creed color or national of a fair? hous ing provision to eliminate crimination in housing educational qpportu nities of the literacy re quirements as a prerequisite to voter registration tjhe organizations represented at the news conference were the Council on Human Relations Aiherican Civil Liberties Union the Education and Defense Und for Equality 'the South Carolina Community Relations Program the South Carolina Voter Education Project the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the state con ference of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement Colored People By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain splashed over the East ern Seaboard and parts of tht West today and freezing cold stung the Northern Rockies and dusted upper elevations with snow Tropical storm Jenny was downgraded to a depression aft er breezing inland over lori southwestern coast Thurs day night orecasters expected Jenny to grow again after enter ing the Atlantic along the upper east coast Rainfall from the storm gen erally was 3 inches or less Or lando and Vero Beach both were soaked by more than 1V4 inches before daybreak Tides were affected only slightly and highest on land winds were 48 miles an hour at Naples Overnight rains also fell along most of the northern half of the East Coast from the Middle At lantic States through New Eng land Cold rain chilled the upper Plains in advance of a front which dropped the mercury to 30 or lower in sections of Ne vada and Wyoming Snow was scattered through higher moun tains Some other early morning re ports: Boston 59 rain New York City 68 rain Philadelphia 71 cloudy Washington 73 cloudy Atlanta 57 clear Miami 80 clear? Detroit 55 clear Chicago 62 clear Minneapolis St Paul 54 clear St Louis 64 clear Kansas City 70 clear Dallas 76 clear Denver 54 partly cloudy Phoe nix 74 clear Los Angeles 64 clear San rancisco 57 clear Seattle 52 partly cloudy An chorage 51 cloudy Honolulu 78 partly cloudy Bendix Tobacco Company Boost Industry Quest TOKYO (AP) Laotian Pre mier Souvanna Phouma predict ed today 40000 North Viet namese regulars will soon launch a dry season offensive in his country He said the assault had been delayed by the with the help of Laotian of large caches of North Viet namese arms by Laotian gov ernment troops Souvanna spoke here before boarding an afternoon flight for New York The prince who leads nominally neutral government challenged US Senate Majority Leader Mike recent report that US troops are in creasingly involved in Laos and the recommendation that aid be slashed Speaking to the oreign Cor respondents Cub of Japan Sou vanna sajd is not a sin gle US soldier in He charged that under standing of Laos was limited by pie fact he spent only one hour in the country including a 40 minute talk with Souvanna on his last visit Souvanna said aid reduces the gap between rich and poor na tions gap which produces wars? He said he had always op posed! American military inter vention in Laos because this could lead to the duction to Souvanna reiterated that the only foreign troops in Laos wer North Vietnamese The only Americans were military at taches of the US Embassy han dling the military aid program he said The prince explained that Laos scrapped Soviet to us to fight the United when the Russians failed to replenish ammunition and parts Laos turned to US arms instead he said within the Geneva agreement provi sions governing Laos asked for arms not to at tack our neighbors but to de fend ourselves against the in he said Souvanna said he had ap proacnea me soviet union several occasions to insist that it js cochairman of the Geneva conference enforce its provi sions The Kremlin replied he said shall see" after a Vietnam settlement Souvanna protested this tend ency to link Laos and Vietnam saying each was governed by separate Geneva agreements but he expressed hope that an eventual Vietnam conference will resolve the whole question of the former states of rench Indochina More than a few things are troubling our cities our world our souls Sometimes we raise our hands heavenward and say oh when are you going to change it all And it all" is just what He expects us to do! Listen: your neighbor as If that were put to really to practice ghettos would not exist wars would cease hunger would end inhumanity would be stricken from the dictionary A perfect world Will we ever see it? One thing certain we even begin to see it if we start doing what God has asked of us for heaven only knows how long Published as a public sendee in cooperation with The Advertising Council Religion In American Life and The international Newspaper Advertising Executives The Douglas fir accounts for two thirds of the lumber from the Northwest how about liMng to i I A I.