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Weather Partly Cloudy And Cold Tonight And Saturday. Roundup On Page 6B. THE DAILY TIME s-NEWS Family Mara TbiB 23,000 Reaching More Tka Hjm Alamaiice County Bomes Whfc Readen 82nd YEAR-No. 132 PRICE II CENTS ASSOCIATED PKtU UP) TELIPHOTO SBKVKB NIWSPAMR NORTH AMERICAN NEWSAPER AUIANCI BURLINGTON, N.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26,1969 AP AND KINO PEATURB SBRVICE WOMEN'S NEWS SEKVK1 UPI STOCK SBRVK ASSOCIATED APTBRNOON DAILIES 36 PAGES 4 SECTIONS 22 Inches In Mountain Area For Much Of The State, A White Christmas By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Many youngsters got their wish for a white Christmas when the season's first ice and snow storm hit the western half of North Carolina and northwestern South Carolina Thursday. But for most adults the storm was more of a headache than a wished-for Christmas gift, as it caused widespread damage to electrical and telephone lines and hazardous driving conditions.

A spokesman for Duke Power Co. said electrical lines were down in a wide area from Spartanburg, S.C., north to Salisbury, N.C. Electrical power was knocked out in several areas in Charlotte and a Duke spokesman said every available man was called in to repair lines around the city. The company spokesman said about 150 men were working late Thursday night in Charlotte. The Duke spokesman said most of the electrical failures were caused by trees and tree limbs that ice and snow caused to fall against power lines.

In some cases, the weight of freezing rain collecting on wires, caused them to snap. The freezing rain and sleet fell mainly in the central and southern Piedmont while the mountains and northwest Piedmont of North Carolina were covered with snow. The State Highway Patrol said at 3 a.m. today Asheville had about 12 inches of snow and that as much as 22 inches of snow had been reported north of the mountain city. The patrol said few traffic accidents had been reported in uiat area because of the depth of the snow, but that a rash of weather-connected accidents had been reported in most sections of the mountains.

Icy roads contributed to at least one traffic fatality in the state Thursday, the patrol said. Late Thursday night. West Jefferson had about 18 inches of snow and it was still falling. The snow and freezing rain began in most spots Thursday afternoon. The rain did not stick to the highways in most places, but quickly froze when it hit trees, utility lines and vehicles, coating them with a sheet of ice.

Precipitation i throughout the night and the Weather Bureau said snow flurries were expected to continue this morning in the mountains, north and central sections of the Piedmont and the northern coastal plain. Travelers warnings were continued today for all areas where snow flurries were expected today. Light freezing rain over northwestern South Carolina caused hazardous driving conditions Thursday night, officials said. Travelers warnings were in effect Thursday night for the Palmetto state area affected by the ice and snow, but they were discontinued today. When the Weather Bureau issued a heavy snow warning for the mountains and northern Piedmont areas of the Tar Heel state Thursday, it said accumulations of four or more inches of snow were expected.

A weather pincers brought the mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the Carolinas. The bureau said a low pressure area over the Gulf Coast moved northeastward and spread snow into the mountain areas and Piedmont. Meanwhile, another low formed off the South Carolina coast Christmas afternoon and spread rain and sleet over the coastal plain and Piedmont areas. One of the victims of the storm caused power failures was the Weather Bureau at the Raleigh-Durham Airport. It lost power for a time late Thursday night but resumed operations after a brief period by using an emergency generating system.

Traditional Christmas Observed Across IL S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Americans celebrated Christmas Thursday with traditional trees and turkeys with trimmings, in churches with carols and candlelight services and in family gatherings across the land. In Washington President Nixon and his family received a brief White House visit by former First Lady Mamie Eisen- World Events Mark Holiday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The wo-ld turned away from Christmas celebrations today as the decade drew to a close. Shoppers flocked to the stores again, to change gifts or to take advantage of postholiday sales. U.S.

and South Vietnamese forces resumed combat operations Christmas night after their 24-hour cease-fire, but no major fighting was reported. The three-day Viet Cong cease-fire does not expire until Saturday, but the South Vietnamese government refused to extend its truce. The U.S. Army said almost every GI had a hot turkey dinner. Thousands laughed and cheered as comedian Bob Hope and his group entertained them.

Terence Cardinal Copke, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, said Mass at noon at the Army headquarters at Long Binh, near Saigon, and called the military man a hero who is "making sacrifices for freedom." One hour after the end of the allied cease-fire, Pope Paul VI called for the extension of holiday truces so that they would See WORLD on Page ft-A Amusements 4B Bridge 3A Business 7B Checking Up 7A Classified 6-7D Comics 2D Doctor IDA Editorials 4A Jeane Dixon. 5A Obituaries IOC Sports 2-3B TV-Radio 4B Weather 6B Women's News 4-9C hower before they began their dinner Thursday. Mrs. Eisenhower dined with her sister, Mrs. G.

Gordon Moore. In New York, the Salvation Army served 1,000 turkey dinners to destitute men and women. Later, 200 derelicts from the Bowery--an old skid row inhabited by an estimated 6.000 al- cholics--attended a Salvation Army Christmas party featuring performances by children. The Bowery men sat along the walls while children of the Salvation Army staff sang, played and recited poems. "These are the loneliest guys in the world," said Capt.

Don Edeen of the Salvation Army. "They like to have kids around. So we brought them children for Christmas." In Los Angeles, about 300 persons, mostly Mexicans and Mexican-Americans who are supporting a strike and boycott of California grapes, went to St Basil's Roman Catholic church to seek the support of James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, who was celebrating midnight Mass. Five persons were arrested after the demonstrators pounded on the church door. Police said four were charged with conspiring to start a riot and a fifth was charged with assaulting a policeman.

Several persons reported minor injuries. In Jackson, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph B. Brunini asked Church leaders to join in a fight against racial hatred coming in the wake of recent federal school desegregation orders. Speaking during his midnight Mass sermon on Christmas Brunini said. "I think the timei Storm Drives Up East Coast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The East's first major crippling storm of the winter swept up the cioast today with lashing winds and more than a foot of snow in some locations.

Traffic was snarled in the major metropolitan areas. The same storm system battered the Southeast Thursday with tornadoes, driving rain and snow. One twister ripped into Kaplan, a city of 10,000, leaving one dead and eight injured. A Weather Bureau spokesman said the snow today would turn to rain from New York City south along the coast while the storm center pushed north through New England. In the New York metropolitan area, Kennedy and Newark Airports said operations were continuing.

LaGuradia Airport suspended operations until noon. Rain began falling early today in downtown Washingto. D. after 4.3 inches of snow had accumulated. Roanoke, had 15 inches of snow and Charlottesville, 13 inches with snow still falling in both cities.

Weathermen said the snow extended from Georgia up the coast through New England and as far west as the Great Lakes. And The Snow Came Perot Refused Vietnam Entry By LEWIS M. SIMONS VIENTIANE. Laos (API North Vietnam refused today to admit H. Ross Perot and his two planeloads of Christmas gifts for American prisoners of war.

The Texas billionaire then; The 39 vea old computer proposecr magnate said he was disap- ChTSmas-diiners'in his "but we are not giving to Hanoi to be fed to North i A policeman walks a lonely beat in Manhattan's West 33rd Street last night as a snow begins to give New York a White Christmas appear- ance with several inches of snow. North Carolina also felt the storm, with snow and sleet over much ot the state. (UPI Telephotol See TRADITIONAL on Page 8-A INegro Unrest Second ence the Hanoi regime is now considering this proposal. --To fly the medical supplies, personal packages, mail and! iclothing to Moscow aboard his! chartered airliners for relay to the prisoners by Soviet postal channels. Hanoi had told him to! mail the packages via but Perot said only by flying! them in his planes could he beat! the Dec.

31 deadline North Viet-i nam has put on accepting Vietnamese Scene Still Very Quiet SAIGON (AP) No major Taxes Top State Stories By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mises taxes on gasoline and and Hodges is injured. Here are the top North Caro- soft drinks. lina news stories of 1969 as se- Christmas parcels. -To inspect prisoner of wai fi hu rf vfet camps in South Vietnam then fa ft lfed forces travel to Hanoi, and to offer fi-1 their 24 n(mr christmas nanc.al and other help to North The threeHiav cea se-fire SuEiS-raS held prisoner in South Vietnam Vietnamese forces 5. Negro unrest spreads to the He said this would prove to nsmnfi cwlbat operat i ons 2 Negro unrest continues at high schools, causing some to noi "that we are strictly human- elected by members of The As- manv colleges: One student is close while tempers cool.

itraian in our outlook--that we sociated press: killed during a gunbattle at 6 Three school districts are are interested in helping all 1. The General Assembly, aft- A State University in Greens- order ed to desegregate without prisoners, not just Americans. namese With altacks vio)at er a grass roots campaign by boro: students take over build- de av in a -jjing that Pero me an ur a ing the truce and said 100 of the i i 14 ii 11-11 tf oc- i nr i i i enemy were killed and 11 were captured. Allied casualties were 12 south Vietnamese, troops killed. 25 South Vietnamese and three Americans wounded and two government soldiers missing, the commands reported.

U.S. B52s went back into ac- See VIETNAMESE on Page 8-A The allied commands charged the Viet Cong and North Viet- The Top Stories Of Decade Gov. Bob Scott, levies the first)ings at Duke University, the could affect many district-, with TM in ules 1h 'TM; arv i state tax on cigarettes and also'iiniversity of North Carolina desegregation plans still affaires of tne nn and Belmont Abbey. in the courts na TM esc Embassy, 3. A fourth of North Caro- 7 The winter weather: Snow wer lina's counties vote to add a fal i a foot to feet deep in to our penny to the three per cent the mountains and Piedmont: newsmen, sales lax.

subsequent freezing paralyzes 6 TM 4. Fire hits the home of Sandhills, knocking out elec- se mer Gov. Luther Hodges at 'he Chapel Hill Mrs. Hodges dies See TAXES on Page 8-A ment and I IMS retuseo Virtname govein Never Wanted The Job Twister Hits Louisiana While much of the Kast by a snow Kaplan. La.

was hit by a Chnetmas Dav tnrnado thai cut a path a block i and a mile WSPAPERfl fi long. There was one death, but houses were detfroyed TPI Telephoto! By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "Politics, tragedies, additional taxation and Negro unrest. i These were the Uvp stories of ISWfts in North CaroUna. The duail life of the Republican chairman, airplane crashe? at Bolivia and ItendersoTmHe. the Speaker Ban Law TVy wore Mjbjert- of the slortrs during the decade FoDovnnc i a liM of the th? frd of rarh by member newspapers and hrcwwka 1 siatiws rf the Perhaps it 'i rfra'i 5-oinr of 1hc headlines of 6Ctf a a Airline? piarie my.tipriou.' 1 near IV- kiiiine aii 34 ptryr.5 atxa mrudinc insured See THE on Page 8-A LBJ: Could Have Been Re-Elected NFW YORK APi Lymtor, Johnson says he had no doubt thai he cmuld have been re-elert- fd if he ran for president in that he fell his inability t' Ihf cfwntry wmild i) 1 a prevent him ad- the office to his isfartior In 3 I'RS-TV i i i 1h Crorkiio last STP- no: in run acsm in and wife, Bird.

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