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Playground Daily News from Fort Walton Beach, Florida • Page 2

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Pago2A-PLAYGKOUND DAILY NEWS, Sunday Morning June 1,1975 War in Korea 'Not Expected' Despite Buildups TOKYO I -The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific told Japan's topdefcnse official Saturday he does not expect a direct North Korean attack on South Korea, despite claims by both Koreas that the other side is preparing for war. U.S. Adm. Noel Gay ler, commander in chief of U.S.

forces in the Pacific, gave the assurances to Michita Sakata, director general of Japan's Self Defense Agency, Japanese government sources said. "America's obligation in regard to the defense of northeast Asia remains unchanged," Japanese sources I 4k quilled Gayler as telling Asks U.S. to Leave N. Korea Buys Ad, NEW YORK I North Korea bought a full-page advertisement in Saturday's New York Times to reprint remarks of its president, Kim 11 Sung, that Korea will be peacefully reunified if the United Slates withdraws from South Korea. The advertisement quoted North Korean President Kim II Sung's speech before the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China last April 18, the day after the Communists conquered Cambodia and two weeks before the Communist victory in South Vietnam.

Parts of the speech already have reached Western sources and Kim has repeated certain phrases during his current trip abroad, which has taken him to Romania and Algeria. According to the advertisement which cost approximately $12,000, Kim said the future of North and South Korea rests with "the attitude of the United States, which actually holds all power in South Korea." He warned that if the rulers of South Korea "continue to suppress at the point of the bayonet the people's discontent and wrath that is underlying South Korean society, it will result in a greater revolutionary explosion." Tax Rolls In Walton Due Soon By CATHY BLUM Walton County taxpayers' eight month respite from taxes may, just may be coming to an end soon. The county lax rolls arc nearly complete, Tax Assessor Hubert Atkinson said Friday. "We've got all Hie millagcs certified except Frceport's and we liopc lo have them all ready tor final certification by Hie 15th of June," lie said. The tax collector may be able lo slarl collecting taxes by late June, and the taxpayers will have 30 days to pay to still gel a 4 per cent discount, he said.

In the meantime, the county's school system is going deeper and deeper into the red. School finance officer Carter Youell told the Daily News Friday his office plans to borrow another $160,000 from two DeFuniak Banks Monday and another JMO.OOO by June 11. Youell said the system will be $1.12 million in debt by the time the lax rolls are ready for the collector's hands. The schools do have an anticipated million earmarked for their budget, he said. The loans from the DeFuniak hanks are at an interest rate of per cent.

Atkinson said earlier this spring Hint the problems started last year when the 100 per cenl market value appraisals were mandated by the Revenue Department. He said Ihe delay is a reassessment backlash from last year. The county's have been computed, however, and are 7.386 for the schools. 3.82 for the county commission. .564 for South Walton Mosquito Control District, 4.150 for DeFufiak Springs and an anticipated .1 mills for Frccport.

Alkinsun said the revenues from the county's taxes should start trickling into the county coffers in early Julv. Sakata, whose post corresponds to that of the U.S. secretary of defense. "We can consider thai in the wnke of Viet nam, tension in the Korean Peninsula will be heightened, but that a direct military atlack will not develop there." Kim II Sung, president of Communist North Korea, said in a interview with the Algerian newspaper El Moudjahid, published Friday, thai the United States has "introduced large quantities of nuclear weapons" into South Korea and war could break out "at any moment." "The U.S. imperialists biivc not given up their wild ambition lo invade the whole of Korea by keeping South Korea in their grip and using it as a Kim said in Ihe interview, broadcast Saturday by North Korea's KCNA news agency PIRATES Bowlegs and his infamous crew sailed up the Santa Rosa Sound Saturday on their way to attack the city of Fort Walton Beach in the Chamber of Commerce's annual Billy Bowlegs Festival.

(Photo By Cathy Blum) Marvin Garrelt, 34 years a reporter The Fort Worth Press, holds the last edition the paper will publish. The afternoon paper has published since 1921. Only three competing PM papers are left In the U.S.--Philadelphla, Baltimore and San Antonio. (UPI Plioto) 2 AF Pilots Killed In Crash at Tyndall PANAMA CITY, Fla. (UPI) Two Air Force pilots, including one who hnrl jusl completed a pilot training course Ihe previous day, were killed Friday when Iheir T-33 aircraft missed the runway while attempting to land at Tymlall Air Korce Hasc and crashed into a wooded area.

The victims were identified us (he pilot, Second U. Frank 1'effcr, 2-1, of Anaheim, and Second Lt. Michael Wesley, of St. Charles, who had graduated from pilot training at the base Thursday. Witnesses said Ihe plane dipped into some trees shorl of Ihe runway and apparently burst into flames.

Wreckage was scattered throughout a wooded area adjacent to the base. It was the first fatal crash at Tyndall since October, 1972, when one pilot died in the crash of an F-10G. Eglin Sets School Physicals Eglin AFB Regional Hospilal will give school physical examinations for all authorized dependent children. The physicals will be given lo all age groups and will include preschool college, athletic and driver education requirements. The physicals will be given from 1 lo 3 p.m.

in building 273. Bldg. 273 is in the old hospital area near Fifth and Streets on the main base. The schedule is: Ciiildren with last initials A through I--June 3, June 9. Children with lasl initials through R--June 4, June 10.

Children with last initials through Z--June 5, June 11. One day make-up for all families--June 12. Special arrangements will not be made to reschedule the exams at any other lime during the year, according to hospital officials. No appointment is required but dependent children must he accompanied by aii adult when reporting to the examination area. A valid identification card must be presented at the hospilal facility for the exam.

Parents are asked lo pick lip the exam forms prior to the above dates and fill in the top portion of the forms. Shot records should also be brought along with the form. Any further information can be obtained by calling 882-2951 or 885-3242. Muskie Says He Won't Run TILTON, N.H. (UPI) Sen.

Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, said Saturday he has no plans lo run in New Hampshire's March 1976 presidential primary. "I am committed to serving my people in Maine," said Muskie, whose senale lerm expires in 1976. Muskie's commencement address to a small boarding school concentrated on national issues. "We cannot avoid the burden of being the world's greatest power." Two announced Democralic contenders, Rep. Morris Udail, and former Georgia Gov.

Jimmy Carter, have already set campaign headquarters in New Hampshire. Bill Passed Allowing For OIA Abolishment By JIM WELSH A long-standing bill allowing the abolishment of the Okaloosa Island Authority was voted through by the Florida Senate Friday, fulfilling requests by both Okaloosa County commissioners and a county grand jury. The bill came as a surprise to political observers, who bad expected a tax-relief measure sponsored by Rep. Jere Tolton to pass, leaving the abolishment bill in suspension for another stage. Commissioners requested the abolishment measure last year, but the bill died before reaching the decision stage.

Tolton's bill, which would credit lease assessments paid by island residents against property taxes collected by the county, last week relegated the abolishment measure to a "back-up bill" State Sen. Tom Tobiassen (R-Pensacola) told reporters late Thursday that he expected the Tolton tax bill to pass the senate since it was being pushed by Senate PresidenlDempsey Barron. Tne bill was approved by the House 98-12 on Wednesday. County Commission Chairman Hayward Hayes expressed approval of the passage of the abolishment bill, saying that the senate's actions conform with previous requests made by both commissioners and the grand jury. Hayes added that commissioners will study the bill this week and determine what course of action to take.

"There are lots of things we're going to have to look at," Hayes said. "This doesn't mean that anyone is going to lose his job until we look at it. At this point, we're not that familiar witltheir operation." Doctors' Strike Spreads By Unileci Press International The doctors' strike over malpractice insurance spread out into New York and Texas Saturday while in California an expected return of physicians was thrown into turmoil. For the first time in 30 years, the California Medical Associa lion convened an emergency meeting to discuss its position. A plan to provide a temporary insurance "pool" had been expected to get the first big wave of boycotting anesthesiologists back into the operating rooms Monday in eight California counties.

Hospitals had expected to resume normal surgery, but late Friday State Insurance Commissioner Wesley Kinder declined to activate the pool arrangement for at least a week. He said he postponed action because of complaints raised by doctors. Hospitals were into turmoil a.s awaited guidance fron. meeting in Los Angeles of th slate association's 400-member House of delegates. In New York, thousands of doctors planned to protest beginning Monday by refusing alt surgery but emergency or by turning away new patients.

However, an insurance program sponsored by the New York State Medical Society offered new rales only 10 to 20 per cent higher than current premiums --much less than the 100 per cent boosts requested by other private insurers. In Austin, Fort Worth and San Antonio, anesthesiologists voted to refuse all surgery but life-or-death cases, effective Monday. The Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists was polling its members to determine whether they will lake a similar position. In each stale, the doctors called on their legislatures to drastically rewrite the They want timils on the; amounts of malpractice judgments for injured limits on fees of plaintiff's lawyers, statutes of limitations' on when suits could be filed and new kinds of arbilration sys-. terns for handling claims.

'Cane Season Starts POT--Walauga County, N.C., Sheriff Ward Carroll thought he had seen marijuana grown in about every container until he and his deputies found these six stalks planted in a shoe cut to fit the situation. (UPI Photo) MIAMI (UPI) Sunday marks the official beginning of the 1975 hurricane season, and one scientist lias urged coastal residents lo be especially wary this year. University of California meteorologist Dr. Jerome Namias, attending the American Meteorological Association's annual meeting, said Friday that conditions along the U.S. Atlantic coast this year are similar to those which prevailed during the 1950s.

"I'm not predicting there will be more hurricanes this year, but I see conditions along the East Coast today that are similar to those which attracted many storms in the 1950s," Namias said. "I am merely pointing out that the conditions to attract and prolong hurricanes are present again." He said that cold winters in the 1960s and early 1970s helped push hurricanes into the Gulf of Mexico and its coastal areas. But the last three winters have been milder than usual, making an attractive lure for hur- ricanes, which feed on warm water. Paul Hebert, forecaster at the Miami Hurricane Center, said Namias was referring to the coast from Georgia northward, where the coastal waters, chilled by the Labrador current, which runs southward just west of the Gulf Stream, are usually colder than those elsewhere in similar latitudes of the Atlantic. "If the sea temperature is warm, there is a better chance that hurricanes will maintain their strength," he said.

During the 1974 season there were fewer tropical storms and fewerhurricanes than the modern average, Ilebert said. The Hurricane; Center counted a total of; seven tropical storms last; year, and four of Becky, Carmen, Fifi and; Gertrude, became fledged hurricanes. In a average year, the center- clocks nine tropical storms, of which five become hurricanes. This year's first tropica storm will be namet "Amy." Successive storms will be named "Blanche Caroline, Doris, Eloise Faye, Gladys, Halliejngrid Julia, Kitty, Lilly, Mabel Niki, Opal, Peggy, Ruby Sheila, Tilda, Vicky and Winnie," as names are needed. It is considered verj unlikely the list beyond Mabel.

get Compulsory Integration: It Gets a Bad Mark Daily News Raises Newsrack Price Beginning today your Playground Daily is going to cost a little more--if you buy it a news- land. Newsland prices will be raised to 15 cents daily and 25 cents on Sundays. Home delivery rates will remain $3 a month forclailyand Sunday papers. The rate increase is the first hike in ncwsland prices in five years. WASHINGTON I The author of an influential IMG study on the impact of segregated schooling declared Saturday that courl-ordered school integration is a failure outside the South and that public schools are becoming more segregated.

Professor James S. Colcman, author of ihe controversial "Coleman Report" nearly 10 years ago, says a new study lie is preparing shows that "white flight" to the suburbs to avoid court-ordered school integration in the nation's 20 largest cities results in "a general resegrega- lion in all regions of the country, now that desegregation activities in Hie South are pretty well complete." "In the large dlies. what I call induced integration, usiiiillv brought iilvuii as a result of court aclion, seems to besi'i interview published in Ibis week's edition of the National Observer. Coleman, who surveyed 12,000 school districts, said even metropolitan-wide court ordered integration would not work because whiles, tearful of disorder, would place their children in private schools. Coleman blamed while racial prejudice, tack of discipline by inner city black students plus overreaching of jitdiciid power for increasing school segregation.

"In large cities where the system often seems oul of control, there's a much greater feeling of inability to have any impact on the schools, a feeling that schools cannot maintain order, and a feeling lhal the schools cannot pro- led the child," Coleman said. Inother words, a large portion of the white flight has to do with the unrespansiveness of large school systems, with the whole question of order and discipline in the schools, and with an undifferentiated sense of fear of disorder." Coleman's 1966 study is still cited frequently by the courls when they hand down desegregation orders. Col- cman concluded in that report that black and white stu- denls alike would benefit from integrated schooling. The University of Chicago sociologist said his original findings were not wrong, but that the benefits could come only if the white middleclass, presumably valuing discipline and education, wasa majority in the classroom. Court ordered busing has defeated this goal, Coleman said.

most important result of this research is that the desegregation aclions of the courts in larger cities has been such as to speed that process by which central cities become black and whites flee to Ihe suburbs." He culled the courls "Ihe worst o( all possible instruments for carrying out a very sensit ive activity like integ- iiR schools." A baby girl was the i WI Ml Indlantown Gap, refugee tamp. Named by the do- tor, she Is Jennifer lynn Hoang and she weighed In at 6 pounds, 6tt ounces. She is held by her mother, Iron (UPI Photo) Dung Kim..

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