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weightlessness might have caused the deaths possibly because the cosmonauts' circulatory systems could not readjust A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington however doubted this theory and said it was more likely that a space capsule malfunction caused asphyxiation Pr ol ged journeys into space aboard scientific sta tions like Salyut and the SkYlab scheduled to orbit the earth in 1973 might be ruled out TEMPORARILY are highlights of Wednesday's developments pertaining to the Pentagon papers and disclosures from newly released section of the Vietnam war study: Supreme Court in a 6- 3 decision upheld the right of the New York Times and Washington Post to resume publication of stories based on the Pentagon papers and the two papers were resuming Duke Power Gets Rate-Hike Okay award Duke Power less than 71 per cent the company will have to refund the difference with interest the Supreme Cout's action district judges lifted restraining orders against The Boston Globe and the St Louis Post-Dispatch Cascading Stream By ALLAN SLOAN Observer Staff Writer Duke Power Co got permission from a sharply divided Utilities Commission Wednesday to "temporarily" raise electric rates in North Carolina by 71 per cent In a 4-1 decision the commission said that it would allow Duke Power to put the increase equal to $114 a month for the average residential customer into effect immediately under bond This means that should the commission scheduled to hear the case in October ultimately In a similar ruling the commission allowed Carolina Power Sc Light Co to raise rates "temporarily" by 563 per cent To the average residential customer that means a $1550 monthly bill instead of the present $1467 beauty This particular ribbon of water is the well-known Skyuka Fa11 high in the mountains above the town of Tiyon in the southwest area of the state (Photo by Frank Miler) Western North Carolina is alive with dashing water and many hundreds of spills and waterfalls dot the mountain areas Regardless of the volume of water in each they all have an individual touch of woodlawn and water Mike Gravel D-Alaska released a major portion of the sutdy saying there is no justification for keeping it from the American public Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called on Senate Democrats to determine whether Gravel violated chamber rules in releasing parts of the Pentagon study Downstairs in the press of fire a staff member hung onto an open telephone waiting for the clerk who sits be sitte the long bench to give her the word that the decision was being read The court room was silent as Chief Jus tire Warren Burger began to read calmly and quietly But in the press office there was pandemonium as copies of the ruling were grabbed by reporters rushing to typewriters and telephones The fact that the decision did not go deeply into reasons for lifting the publication ban and that it was written "per curiam" (by the court rather than an individual justice) indicated the deep division over how absolute are the guarantees of a free press Four members of the court Justices Hugo Black William Douglas William ti Brennan Jr and Thurgood Marshall said the government has no right to "prior restraint" the prevention of publication regardless of nal ional security considerations Two others Justices Potter Stewart and Byron White suggested the could be occasions on which the government may prevent publication The three most conservative members Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Ilarry Blackmum and John Ifarlan saw no reason publication should not be prevented at least until lower courts have tried the case and decided whether the published material would endanger national interests The most liberal view having Only four adherents thil not have enough votes to prevail They were joined therefore by Stewart and White in what was essentially a compromise decision In the opinion written by Vote Now Law 18-Yearl id Structural failure as the cause would inhibit the Soviet manned program for many months as that of the United States was delayed after Jan 27 1967 when an electrical spark ignited the pure oxygen in an Apollo spacecraft the ground at Cape Kennedy killing American astronauts Virgil I Grissom Edward White and Roger Chaffee The word was flashed to the Soviet cosmonauts Tu esd a night to return to earth Tass said and the procedure went normally The crew of the Soyuz 11 spaceship reported to earth that the unlinking operation with the space laboratory Salyut passed without a hitch and all the systems were functioning normally" Tass said that Soyuz lEs braking engine was fired at 1:35 am Aloscow time (6:55 pm EDT Tuesday) "At the end of the operation of the braking engine communication with the crew ceased According to the program after aerodynamic action and before landing the soft-landing engivs were fired The flight of the descending apparatus ended in a Nixon To Meet With Steel Execs Union NCOhio Ratify Amendment Pentagon Papers di-closed early high-level talks about using nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war if Red Chinese forces joined the fighting Commissioner John McDevitt dissented and Commissioner Hugh Wells went along with the decision hut filed a strong st ate-merit of protest McDevitt said that the commission was backing off from its stand in February when it gave Duke Power only about 60 per cent of the rate increase it was then seeking McDevitt said that he felt the temporary" increase without full to the fundamental rights of the opponents of the increase and it abuses the entire rate -m ak in process which has as its cornerstone a full and fair investigation and hearing for all concerned" Wells wrote "It is to be hoped that utility management can so plan their affairs and conduct their businesses that neither this commission nor the public will be burdened in the future with interim 'emergency' rate proceedings" Duke Power and CPU had contended that they needed the money desperately to pay rising costs The increase will war study said that the night before President Lyndon Johnson announced cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam in his successful 1968 bid to get peace talks started the State Department notified war allies that tile move probably would fail members passed the measure 8-9 aft er minut es of debat The legislators were eager to beat Oklahoma Which had planned to vote on the amendment today Alabama also ratified the amendment Wednesday In Non Carolina the ratification meant that the age of adulthood was lowered from 21 to 18 amendment last April with a 3tt-7 vote Wednesday Suppiirters of the bill led by Sen Zeb Alley tif Haywood and Sen Charlie Deane Jr of Itichmond had hoped that North Carolina NV Id be the 3l1th state to ratify the amendment "This is a historic clay for North Carolina- Alley said after the bill was approved "We had to get this bill through today If we had waited we would have probably been the 39th state and it Avouldn't have made any From Observer Wire and Staff Reports The voting age for all elections was lowered to 18 Wednesday night when the Ohio legislature ratified the 26th amendment to the US Constitution making it part of the law of the land Earlier Wednes a the North Carolina legislature became the 37th state to ratify the amendment enabling Ohio to meet in an evening session so it could claim the honor of being No 30 the constitutionally required number for ratification United Press International WASHINGTON President Nixon has summoned management and labor negotiators from the steel industry to the White House next Tuesday apparently in an effort to "jawbone" against an inflationary wage increase Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said it was the first time the President had met simultaneously with both management and labor representatives engaged in nationwide contract negotiations Ziegler said the President would discuss with the management and labor representatives "general economic developments and trends in the world markets for steel" See COSMONAUTS I9A CI Christian Science AIonnor reported that although the State Department had no evidence of a link between Ho Chi Minh and Moscow it refused eight direct appeals for aid from Ho shortly after the end of World War I IToday's Chuckle A lot of fellows nowadays have a BA MA MD or PhD Unfortunately they don't have a JOB No proclamation is needed to incorporate lite atnentiment to the Constitution the US Supreme Court has held Alley poinied out that the bill would give 3000011 North Carolinians between the ages The Ohio House with 99 See VOTING Pg 2 Col 4 See COURT Pg 41 C1 See AVERAGE Pg 2A Col 7 Pentagon Papers aiSclosed that former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as early as November 1961 raised with President John Kennedy the possibility of attacking North Vietnam A bill to lower the age of majority or adulthood to 18 was passed by the NC legislature earlier and provided that it would go into effect xvhenever the US Constitutional amendment lowered the voting age to 13 or an NC amendment lowering the voting age to 13 was passed by the voters this fall Sen Zeb Alley Haywood sponsor of the law that lowered the age to IR said Wednesday that as a today persons aged 18 to 21 can "go to a bank and huy a car can sue don't have to have guardians can sign installment contracts and can get credit cards" Coast NC July 4 Fun New Chapel Hill Law Wilk 'flower Ladies' The By DALE WHITE Observer Staff Writer For more places to go and things to see and do over the holiday turn to today's Weekend Page on 12C antgreak" said Dianne Wolf son who sells leather goods from the sidewalk WILMINGTON AIRLIE GARDENS') 41 i 1 WRIGHT5- VILLE tt BEACH A1RLIE GARDEtN 7 Holiday Pleasure lie said that a parent is no longcr bound to support a child beyond 18 USA NORTH CAROLINA CITA PEI HILL The towns widely known "Flower Ladies" are being pushed off the public sidewalks and into an alley The craft vendors are asking thr ou posters circulated Wednesday for supporters to join them on the street with flowers food and such valueless items as bottlecaps and baseball cards which are to be given away ORTON PLANTATION GARDENS 1ARDLNS 61 71 7-0C 12 21D 6-71 12D 20A 61 A new law that goes into effect today bars the displaying and selling of goods on the OLD BRUNSWICK TOWN' SOUTH PORT CAROLINA BEACH FORT F13HER ----7- to li '--rt) I CAROLINA OLD BRUNSWICK TOWN SOUTHPORT 1 0 DEAN FORT FISHER 3 7i4) i irt 1C)EAN Ann Landers Bombeck Bridge Lesson Business Classified Comics Death Notices Editorials Horoscope Obituaries Sports Spotlight TV Timetable Theaters Viewpoint Women The ordinance does not prohibit the giving away of items The intent of the demonstration is to underscore the vendor's contention that the law will not clear them from the streets SOUTHPORT For Carolinians looking for entertainment on the coast Southport Is one place to spend the three-day Fourth of Jtog weekend And if lying on the beach beneath a tanning sun is more your idea of a holiday the nearby beaches offer miles of white sand Southport will open a festival with art shows and antique displays at 9 am Saturday A Army parachute team the Golden Knights will perform landing at Fort Johnston in downtown Southport A new Miss Fourth of July will be chosen too Children's field events at 'Taylor Field at 4 pm Sunday will be followed by a donkey baseball game Alley said he plans to introduce an omnibus bill that will change all the statutes that refer to 21 yvars old as a qualification tor adulthood to 18 It could not be determined immediately what effect lowering the age of adulthood would have on stale liquor laws if any although the Ilouse approved a bill Wednesday that rewrote the AIX laws to specify 21 as the minimum a-e for buying I iquor Lowering the voting age to 18 Will make North Carolinians 1'8 t() 21 able to hold certain offices restricted to "qualified volet as a seat in the House of Representatives The NC Senate followed House approval of the federal rt The donkey game will pit the Southport Jaycees against the Coast Guard All the players except the batters will be mounted on donkeys The Charlotte Scottish Band will entertain visitors Sunday night on the waterfront A parade on July 5 will feature bands and floats It starts at 11 am Later in the day a boat race called "The Frying Pan Classic" will end the day's activities In nearby Wilmington Greenfield Park just off Caro lina Beach Road will be the site of a fishing rodeo an art show and a tennis exhibition from 2-5 pm Monday Besides Southport and 'Wilmington other places of inter rill))) --OCEAN ME SEAN 5UNS ET BEACH ME SEAN The law was rimar ily aimed at the lo -h air youths who hawk 1 a goods heads pipes and other colts on the curbsides They too will he harmed from sell-On the sidewnlks Whie the "Flower Ladies" have demurely retreated to an alley a Chapel Hill hanker offered them the street vendors are promising a demonstration today to protest the new law LIMMINPIMEMMMMMPONNEMONIONNIPINESIMEIMINIONMIMMOOMMIIMINIMMOIMEIMIIIIMOliNMMJ One poster read "The law says that street people are too ugly to sell on the streets" 1-9D 12C 10C 10D 21A 1-111e Police however removed the posters that were stuck on Elver 'filen there are all those beaches including Wrightsville Ocean Isle Carolina and Sunset with others stretching north and south est ate the battleship USS North Carolina the gardens at Air lie Gardens and Orton Plantation the ruins of Old Brunswick Town and Fort Fisher across the Cape Fear "It (the law) is definitely See LAW Pg 2A Col 6 MMWOUIPPMMOVIPM at --irAftnor901PProvivrommo.