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Weather Warm, Humid Tonight And Showers Sunday. See Roundup Page 7-A THE DAILY TIME -NEWS Times-News Family More Than 23,000 Reaching More Than 21,000 Alamance County Homes With 85,000 81st YEAR- No. 304 PRICE 10 CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS UPI TELEPHOTO SERVICE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE BURLINGTON, N. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1969 AP AND PIATUM SBRVICI WOMAN'S M1WI 1BRVICI UM STOCK SIRVICI ASSOCIATION AFTtHNOON DAILIES PAGES Full Compliance Not Lifted HEW Says New School Policy Is Not Weaker WASHINGTON (AP) An official in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare says a letter will be sent to southern school districts telling them a new policy announced this week does not mean a weakening of desegregation requirements.

Leon Panetta, director of the department's Office 'of Civil Rights, said Friday the 1969-70 target dates for full compliance have not been lifted and school districts will not be allowed to renegotiate desegregation plans. He said persons who interpreted the new policy as relaxing deadlines or weakening enforcement were wrong. HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Atty. Gen. John N.

Mitchell said Thursday the administration was dropping "arbitrary deadlines" and would allow school districts additional time if they have "bonafide educational and administrative" reasons for delay. This brought an outcry from civil rights leaders and liberal congressmen and the National Education Association reacted quickly by approving a resolution calling on the administration to reinstate the previous rigid desegregation deadlines. Panetta said Finch already has approved portions of a clarifying letter to be sent to school districts telling them: --Desegregation guidelines generally requiring all districts to abolish segregation by the 1969-70 school year, or risk loss of federal funds, are still in effect. --Districts already desegregated or which already have submitted plans to carry out full desegregation this fall, or by September, 1970, in some cases, will be required to follow through on them. --Some 440 districts without acceptable desegregation plans will be required to end segregation this fall, or in 1970.

in a few cases. But Finch and Mitchell said Thursday exceptions could be allowed where school offi- cials could justify a further Panetta said the reasons to be used in allowing delays are the same followed under the Johnson administration, such as lack of physical facilities and teachers to handle desegregation. He said the major changeful policy will be use of more desegregation lawsuits and a reduction in reliance on tbe cutoff I of federal funds to force com! p'liance. Reaction fo the Finch-Mitchell statement was generally anger on the part of strong civil rights advocates, cautious praise from some southern congressmen and confusion among school officials. Fireworks Display Over'Washington Members of the White House staff and their families watch from the, mansion's grounds as fireworks burst in the annual Independence Day celebration in Washington last night.

In the center is the Jefferson Memorial, while at left is the Washington Monument. (UPI Telephoto). Eight Dead, 300 Injured Ohio Storm Casualties Mount CLEVELAND, Ohio (ap) Speeding eastward with winds The U.S. Coast Guard said today that perhaps as many as 200 persons were still unaccounted for in the wake of howling thunderstorms that swept into northern Ohio from Lake Erie Friday night, killing at least nine persons and injuring more than 300. The Coast Guard said, however, that no drownmgs had been reported, that communication was poor, and that "it a matter of time" any survivors of storm-related boating mishaps were found.

Forty Coast Guard boats and 12 planes were combing Lake Erie for persons from the 200 small boats the Coast Guard es timated capsized during the storms. The Coast Guard said it hoped to have later in the day a com plete list of all those unaccount ed for. The storm smashed into the Toledo area at 8:15 p.m. Friday cutting off half the city's power and producing a tornado which damaged some 10 homes in the city's Point Place area. Klansmen Are In Outbreak Jailed SWAN QUARTER, N.C.

(AP) Seventeen Ku Klux Klansmen were jailed Friday night after a brief exchange of gunfire with a group of Negroes in Hyde County. Lt. L. F. Lance of the North Carolina Highway Patrol said gunfire was exchanged during a KKK rally in a building near the small community of Middletown in the coastal county.

He said 13 had been charged with engaging in a riot, three with inciting others to riot, and one with resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. said charges were being prepared against the Klansmen. Lance said one Negro girl was injured slightly during the exchange of shots. The unidentified girl was treated at a hospital in Belhaven and released. One Klansman was hurt while being arrested by state troopers, Lance said.

"Both sides now claim that the other started shooting first," Lance said, "and our investigation is continuing." Lance said about 75 to 80 persons were at the KKK rally, and an estimated 125 Negroes began milling around the site. He said the state troopers were called in when a Negro man reported he was fired at as he drove past the rally site. Hyde County was the scene of racial violence over school desegregation plans last year. clocked at 60 and 100 miles an hour, the storms produced other funnel clouds in Hancock, Huron, Cuyahoga, Geauga, and Lake counties. Extensive damage to trees and power lines was reported all along the storm paths which extended more than 50 miles into the state from Lake Erie.

A Toledo man was killed by a falling tree at Cedar Point amusement park near Sandusky. At least thee other persons were killed in the Cleveland area by trees, and two Cleveland men were electrocuted by downed power lines. National Guard troops were ordered into Ottawa County and the Cleveland suburb of Lake-; wood to help clean up damage. Gov James A. Rhodes said he would tour the northern part of the state today to assess the damage.

Several hundred persons were stranded temporarily on an island in the Cedar Point amusement park near Sandusky by high waters An estimated 200 persons escaped serious injury when a tent collapsed on them during a Gras" at Harbor, east of Cleveland. "I've never seen anything come up so fast and throw down so much water in so little time," said Robert Cullins of Dresden, Ohio, who was with his family at the Cedar Point amusement park when the storms hit. "It was real funny at first, but then the storm came up all at once and everyone went into a panic." said Carol Harwell of Mansfield, one of the persons trapped on a small island in the park by rising waters. "It just rained and she said. "People were just run ning everywhere and there were lost children.

Water was up to your knees in places." "You saw it sweeping across the lake from the west, a rea" bad storm," said Clevelander Robert Coalman, who was in his 16-foot boat awaiting a fireworks display at Cleveland's Edgewater Park. "We headed for shore fast and ran right through the barrier the city had just put up to protect swimmers. Twenty boats must have hit it at the same time." Rep. Rivers Says Troops In Vietnam Without Hope Under Present Policies Italian Leadership Threatened Supporter Of U. S.

Kenya Leader Slain DAYTONA A Fla. (AP)--R p. Mendel Rivers, D- S.C., claimed Friday "that bunch of children in the Pentagon" had left American servicemen fighting without hope of victory in Vietnam. "Wheelbarrows and footbridges were their targets while shining steel mills and munitions factories were untouched," he said in a speech before the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. "At least in World War I and World War II it was on to Berlin and on to Tokyo," he said.

"And in Vietnam it's on to the DMZ and, Goddamn it, don't you go an inch beyond!" Rivers said victory could be obtained in Vietnam "if the American Eagle were unshackled." "Our American servicemen are fighting in Vietnam without hope of victory, fighting without trope with a bunch of children in the Pentagon calling the shot, telegraphing the punches," said. did not clarify whetl er he was referring to the generals or civilians in the Pentagon. Some SDO persons heard Rivers speak and a few cheered him on with shouts of, "Tell it like it is!" Among the listeners was former Gov. George Wallace of Alabama. Rivers, chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, said he had nothing but contempt for persons who "desecrate our flag and minimize our effort in Vietnam." He added, "I'm like George Wallace if they laid down in front of my car.

this would be the last act of their mortal lives." The white-haired Congressman also defended the military-industrial complex and said it is the reason why this nation's space effort is ahead of Russia's. "Where in the name of god would we be without the industrial complex?" he asked. Rivers blasted Senate doves, singling out J. William Fulbright and George McGovern, S.D. "The Fulbright-crats, the Mc- Govern-crats and the other kind of 'crats, it is their stock in trade to downgrade patriotism and to downgrade the American fighting man," he said.

"Now you wonder why I mention some of these people. Well, they mention me. And I hope it gets back to their miserable ears by the morning." The Medal of Honor winners were guests at the Firecracker 400 stock car race here. By PATRICK E. O'KEEFE Associated Press Writer ROME (AP) --Italy's anti- Communist Socialists broke rom the party ranks and formed their own party today Their action threatened Premier Mariano Rumor's coalition government and confronted Ita ly with its second major politi cal crisis in seven months.

As the new party was being set up under three breakaway Socialists who quit the Rumor Cabinet, Foreign Minister Pietro Nenni talked with the premier, Presdent Giuseppe Sara- gat, and top Socialist leaders to decide whether he also should quit the government. Nenni, president of Socialist party since World War II, re signed the party post but mained in the Cabinet after failed to heal a rift between party's moderate and left wing over relations with Italy's Com munist party. Rumor and his Christia Democrats formed a coalitio government with Nenni's So cialists and other factions la NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Tom Mboya, Kenya's 38-year- dead, old minister of economic planning and development, was assassinated in a crowded city center in Nairobi at lunch time today. Mboya was shot twice or three times by a lone assassin as he left a pharmacy in Government Road. He fell to the ground after being shot in the hours later, confirmed Mboya is Mboya was born Aug.

15, 1930, one of 12 children of Roman Mboya was a leading archi- Catholic parents. His lather tect of Kenya's independence, worked as an overseer on a si- attending the London confer- sal plantation on an island in ence that worked out the de- Lake Vicloiia. tails. Independence came on 1 At the age ol 23 he elect- Dec. 12, 1963.

ed secretaiy of the Kenya Fed- As leader of Kenya's six mil-'eration of Labor and later was lion blacks, Mboya was thejnamed a member of the Kern a youngest member of the 50-man Legislatuic. chest--apparently killed instantly. The assassin was described as a young African, who fled in a delegation sent to London He had disassociated himself from the Mau Mau uprising, an Mbova was a socialist hv inclination, an United Slates admirer of the professed car. antiwhite rebellion that spread'democraf. He uas a firm terror through Kenya in in nonviolence.

1950s, although he a i a iramed in Police immediately sealed off the area, questioning witnesses. with the reasons behind it. i a of fo Pamela December in an alliance tha the two parties have maintaine since 1963. The departure of th Socialists leaves Rumor withou a parliamentary majority. The crisis comes at a time student unrest across Italy strikes that have crippled publi services and an abrupt rise i the cost of living.

The fall of the Rumor govern ment probably would lead new parliamentary election, and a search for a new an more viable coalition. The Com munists would probably gair strength but would have littl hope of recapturing the place in the government that they lost in 1947. The Socialist split climaxed'a two-month power struggle with in the party between Nenni and Deputy Premier Francesco de Martino. Symbol Against Protesters Amusements 6-7A Bridge 7-A Classified 8-9B Comics 6-B Doctor 5-B Editorials 4-A Home Plan 7-B Jeane Dixon 7-A Obituaries 8B Sports 2-4B TV-Radio 6-7A Weather 7-A Women's News 8-12A Flags Continue To Fly EDNA, Tex. (AP)-Fourth of July flag displays are over, but in this small Texas Gulf Coast City the flags wave every day.

Citizens say the flags will stay up until an honorable peace comes to Vietnam. The flags--usually about 130 of them--fly as a protest against "Draft card burning, protest marches and anti-war demonstrations," Tinker. says A. D. Tinker was mayor of Edna in December 1966 when he visited a student who was enrolled at the University of California Law School Berkeley.

"I saw those protests about laving Navy and Army recruiters on campus. When I came lome I decided to do something about it." Tinker 'pushed a resolution through the Edna City Council The resolution says in part, wishing to show our support of the government of the United States of America we do decree that the flag of the United States of America be displayed along our streets until an honorable peace has been secured in Vietnam." So for the past 2 years, the American flag has flown on Edna's main streets, in front of private homes and around the courthouse. "We have flag poles on every other parking meter," Tinker said. Every morning, janitors, shopkeepers and homeowners march out and raise the flag. "We've worn out one flag but we bought another one.

We're still flying them," said Stwele Simons, who runs Faires Drug Store on Main Street. There are poles for 150 flags Tinker said, "but sometimes someone forgets to put theirs out. It usually averages about 130 flags." "Since we've started this campaign" Tinker said, "I've received hundreds of letters from people from all walks of life supporting our efforts. Thirty-nine boys wrote from hospitals in Vietnam saying they wanted to become a member of our American Legion post here. So we took them in." And now, Edna has a flag program in reverse.

Tinker said towns people have started sending Texas flags to units in Vietnam which wrote and asked or them. The Kenya News Agency, Top Nixon Aide Pushes For ABM Mboya led the campaign of Kenya'-; elder independence tc the chant a Waller Odcdc By ERIC WAHA Associated Press Writer VIENNA (AP) President Nixon's national security adviser, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, says Congress could approve the administration's antiballistic missile plan without "kicking off a remendous arms race" with Soviet Union. In an interview broadcast by the Austrian television network riday night, Kissinger noted that "the Soviet Union has close 70 ABMs today.

We will not deploy our first missile until 973,, late in 1973. "Now I cannot be persuaded hat we are kicking off a tremendous arms race if we are ieginning to do something that he Soviet Union has already done and that will not match the Soviet total until 1974." Nixon's proposal to develop he Safeguard ABM defense sys- em for possible deployment in he 1970s is expected to be voted in Congress next week. The ABM, Kissinger said, Kissinger said. "In the interval, there can be all sorts of rangements, and we have built! into the system--into our pro-; posal--a systematic review, a yearly review" of the ABM program. rimarily designed for jossible contingencies.

'IS three One ould be called the hina prob- em' which really means any ew nuclear country; secondly, ccidental or irrational attack; nd thirdly, protection against a onceivable first strike by a rowing Soviet missile capacity gainst our land-based mis- iles." He added that the long-await- Strategic Arms Limitation alks between the United States nd the Soviet Union, set to begin in early August, 'ould not deal with "that part ABM that is relevant to Communist China or other third "If the Soviet Union wants to rotect itself against Commu- ist China," Kissinger said, "we ill not argue with them about tat" He indicated, however, that if talks led to a U.S.-Soviet jreement limiting deployment ABM's, the Safeguard sched- could be modified. 'It will not be until the end of 74 that we have 70 ABMs," meaningless." Negotiator Hits U. S. On Intent By'MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) Hanoi's chiefj delegate at the Vietnam peace talks returned to Paris todaj after a month of consultations in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow and accused the United States of not really working to negotiate peace. Ambassador Xuan Thuy was welcomed back by Soviet, Chinese and East European dip- omats and by Mrs.

Nguyen Thi 3inh, Foreign Minister of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government. On his way back to Paris. Thuy conferred with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in Peking and Soviet Premier. Alexei Ko- sygin in Moscow. In an arrival statement he said he was returning to the talks "with goodwill and a seri-, ous attitude." Asked whether he thought the U.S.

delegation also had such an attitude, he replied: "In my view there is not any serious effort on their part "For example, President Nixon's eight points are completely different the 10 points of the PRG. The withdrawal of 25,000 American troops is aimed only at soothing public opinion which is demanding an end to American involvement. "By comparison with the total number of U.S. troops in South i a men--the withdrawal of 25,000 of them is'ichors in. th Tplcpholo 1 Anxiety Anxiety is reflected in the face of 12-year-old Mary Harris ot Greensboro, as she is about to loose, her sack during an Independence Dav celeb'-ation fhere vesterday It lunrxi out that she on'4 i Mr- i icv ITI EWSPAPERl.