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Sunny Clear coo! nights with mild sunny days through Wednesday High 78 low 55 (Map and details Page 2A) Monday's Temperatures 6 a 67 12 noon 6 pm 81 8 a 68 2 80 8 75 10 am 72 4 pm 81 10 pm 70 4 Please Call Us With a story or picture idea 374-7215 8 am to midnight To place a classified ad 377-7474 8 am to 5 pm To subscribe or for home delivery assistance 374-7322 6:30 am to 7:30 pm Foremost Newspaper Of The Carolinas The Charlotte Observer 1976 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1976 91st Year No 110 30 Pages Price 15 Cents News Of Man War Death The Vietnamese released a statement with the list saying the Hanoi government the feelings of Amercan families who have relatives who disappeared in The feeling Mrs Waters has is bitterness a little resentful they gave this information out for political she said in a telephone interview know they had (the list) all Maj Waters a Mocksville (in Davie County 15 miles northeast of Statesville) native and former Observer carrier boy was a 1960 graduate of the Air Force Academy He was a 29-year-old captain who had been flying bombing missions over Vietnam a little more than a month when the F105 he was flying was shot down over Hanoi Dec 13 1966 The pilots of the two other Thailand-based jus flying with him saw Waters eject and saw his parachute open leading his family to hope he had been taken prisoner his mother said A' report in a Bulgarian newspaper and a broadcast over French radio about his plane being shot down gave the family further hope he had been captured his mother said wife and two children returned Vietnam and other communist governments in Southeast Asia will not allow American search teams to look for the remains The United States has refused to normalize its relations with the unified Vietnamese state or to let it into the United Nations pending a satisfactory accounting In its statement released with the list the Vietnamese said is to be hoped that the government of the United States will also demonstrate its goodwill through concrete acts toward settlement of the postwar problems between the two countries "The government of Vietnam has declared repeatedly that it is prepared in order to normalize relations between the two countries to enter into discussions with the government of the United States for the settlement of the problems arising from the Paris agreements particularly for the realization of the American commitment to contribute toward the healing of the wounds of war and the reconstruction of Vietnam as well as the search for information on Americans who have disappeared in from Okinawa to her home in California and for the next few years waited for word but nothing came During that time he was promoted to major? Once in response to a letter the family sent to the Swedish Embassy they got a telegram saying the North Vietnamese government knew nothing of Waters In 1974 after the POWs had been released Waters was declared legally dead by the US government The family held a memorial service then and his widow since has remarried that long a time we felt in all probability he was his mother said But are still left with the speculation about what Mrs Waters wonders if her son was dead when he ejected from the fighter bomber was he injured and did he die later in a Vietnamese hospital or did he die in prison? The Vietnamese have offered no explanations The Pentagon lists 795 Americans as still missing in action 527 of them in Vietnam itself It lists 1710 others as killed in action without recovery of their bodies Most of the missing are fliers and it generally is presumed they are dead Observer Wire and Staff Reports MOCKSVILLE is just an Virginia Waters said Monday after learning her son was 1 of 12 American airmen the Vietnamese have listed as being killed during the Vietnam war An Air Force official called Mrs Waters Monday morning to tell her a list the Vietnamese released earlier in the day in Paris included the name of her son Maj Samuel Edwin Waters Jr who had been missing since 1P66 The Vietnamese said releasing the list of men for whom they had made no previous accounting was a goodwill gesture But it was an anticlimax for Mrs Waters Her son had been declared legally dead in 1974 by the US government had accepted that as being she said Waters was the only man on the list who had been declared dead The United States listed one as a prisoner and the other 10 as missing All had been shot down between 1965 and 1968 There was speculation the Vietnamese move was an attempt to rally public opinion against an American veto of application for membership in the United Nations UP I Photo Maj Samuel Waters Jr missing since 1966 Flees et Jet Asks Asylum Observtr Wire Reports HAKODATE Japan A Soviet pilot brought his supersonic MIG25 fighter to a screeching landing at this northern Japanese city Monday and asked for political asylum in the United States police said Japanese authorities declined to identify the pilot of the delicate international situation He reportedly is a lieuenant and witnesses at the airport said he was about feet tall and appeared to be in his mid-20s The pilot reportedly told police he wanted to fly to the United States but had to land in Japan after running short of fuel In Washington a State Department spokesman said no decision had been made about asylum for the pilot are in touch with the government of he said matter is under con Observer Photo bv JOHN DAUGHTRY Jimmy Carter (back to camera) And Bob Dole Meet At Darlington Raceway at Dole's left is Sen! Strom Thurmond R-SC Race Fans Roar For Carter Nod sideration To Dole to be in Darlington Dole got some boos along with cheers but Carter drew roars of approval from the crowd in the stands Carter spoke for about two minutes mentioning he had entertained many race drivers and pit crews at the Georgia mansion and promising I'm elected president going to invite them to the White House where they Later SC Democratic Party Chairman Don Fowler claimed welcome at Darlington equalled the greeting given there to George Wallace in 1968 Fowler and other Democrats had good reason to glow Even Republican leaders like SC GOP national committeeman Ray Harris who turned out to greet Dole concede that in South Carolina Carter is probably 15 to 20 percentage points ahead of the Republican ticket of President Ford and Dole A professional poll commissioned last month by Ed Young the Republican nominee for Congress in Victories South 6th District (Marlboro Darlington Dillon Marion Florence Horry Williamsburg Georgeburn and Lee counties of which the Florence-Darlington area is the heart) showed Carter with 65 per cent of the vote against 35 per cent for Ford That kind of strength has state and local Democrats in South Carolina flocking around Carter enlisting his popularity in their own races That was obvious Monday when ailures Police were questioning the pilot to determine whether he took off from his base in eastern Siberia intending to defect or decided to defect after blundering into an emergency landing in Japan Officials in Moscow declined to comment but the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo asked to see the aviator The Japanese Foreign Ministry did not respond to the request Police said the jet fighter overshot the runway by 800 feet and stopped in a grassy area puncturing its nose landing gear and damaging ground antennae When the jet fighter stopped police said the pilot fired two gunshots to keep airport workers away before he surrendered No casualties were reported police said Witnesses said the pilot demanded that the plane which flies three times the speed of sound be covered with canvas because is a top secret of the Soviet air The MIG25 known as Foxhat in the West is the Soviet most advanced plane It has a normal combat range of 700 miles The MIG was spotted over the Japan Sea by radar a spokesman for the Japanese defense forces said and was warned in a Russian-language radio message not to enter Japanese air space Japanese interceptors took off but the Soviet pilot flew under Japanese radar and dodged them Hakodate is about 450 miles north of Tokyo on Hokkaido Japan's northernmost main island The eastern coast of the Soviet Union is about 400 miles from Hakodate By HENRY EICIIEL Observer Columbia Bureau DARLINGTON SC Jimmy Carter who says stock-car race drivers are his personal heroes got a rousing reception Monday from more than 30000 sun-baked race fans at the Southern 500 The Georgia Democrat stopped in South Carolina for 3'2 hours on the official opening day of his campaign for president Bob Dole the Republican vice-presidential nominee was at the race too but the cheers that greeted him were subdued and polite compared to the excited reaction to Carter As Carter walked through the Darlington Raceway infield surrounded by a crush of newsmen and security agents people shouted and waved to him from the tops of cars and pressed against a fence to get close to him One excited woman kissed his hand A few minutes earlier at the start of the race Carter drew three huge cheers from the crowd as he rode around the track perched on a cream-colored Cadillac convertible The crowd barely seemed to notice Dole riding in another convertible five cars back immediately ahead of the pace car that led a roaring pack of racers Both candidates spoke briefly to the crowd saying they were glad virtually all of the state Democratic hierarchy turned out to bask in Carter's presence at a $l000-per-couple brunch in Florence The proceeds will go to Democratic congressman Ken Holland of the 5th District (Cherokee York Union Chester Lancaster Fairfield Kershaw Chesterfield and' Sumter counties) and John Jenrette of the 6th District Dole was guest of honor at a free reception where he shot barbs at the Democrats for calling themselves the Party" but charging $1 000 for a reception visit Monday was his second trip to the Carolinas in four days and his message to a partisan crowd of about 200 at the Florence SC airport was the same as in Charlotte and Spartanburg SC last week "We're not writing off the South" he said going to make it a Dole went on to hit at what the Republicans think are weak points in the South been a lot of talk about the conservatism of Jimmy Carter" See FANS Page 4A Col 1 David Pearson won the Southern 500 stock car race at the Darlington Raceway Monday Stories and pictures begin on Sports Page 7A Jimmv Carter The Use Of Power Last of 3 Parts By AARON EPSTEIN and PHIL GAILEY Obstrvtr Washington Bureau ATLANTA Jimmy four years as governor of Georgia were a time of change in the state as Carter pleaded cajoled and shoved the legislative and executive branches in new directions He carved some significant permanent changes that are particularly worth examining now that he is promising to bring similar changes to the nation From 1971 to early 1975 Carter reshaped the state executive branch built a solid environmental protec- government the achievement he prizes most have deteriorated And although he held taxes down he never pushed on the state level for tax reforms he is advocating as a presidential candidate Here is how the Carter record reads: Reorganization For most of his first two years as governor Carter labored with a crew of professional planners to bring order to bureaucracy It was something 20 other states See Page 4A Col 4 tion record steered Georgians away from some traditional patterns of racial discrimination and stressed prison rehabilitation and social services There also were shortcomings and some failures His consumer protection and land-use measures fizzled Parts of the Carter-designed reorganization of Ex-Lobbyist Says He Gave $2000 To Dole By NICHOLAS IIORROCK Th Nw York Tlm WASHINGTON Claude Wild Jr a former Gulf Oil Corp lobbyist said Monday that in 1970 he gave $2000 in cash to Sen Bob Dole the Republican vice-presidential nominee to distribute among Republican candidates Larry Speakes spokesman said the senator would stand by an earlier statement that he "received no money from Gulf Oil Corp or Mr Wild in any shape form or fashion" Dole said he had discussed the Gulf Oil allegations Sunday night with President Ford's counsel Philip Buclien Dole also said he expected to meet with the president later this week but there was no indication the Gulf matter would be taken up at the meeting with Ford In a telephone interview Monday Wild said that in 1970 he prepared a check cashed it and gave Dole ($2000 to pass to Republican candidates around the country Wild said he has a letter from one frian who received this money thanking him for sending it to him by way of Dole Wild declined to reveal the name saying he hud lost the election and should not be drawn into the issue Wild said he drew the $2000 from Gulf's "good government which was a lawful manner of making contributions to political campaigns from money donated by Gulf executives (Wild was in charge of a Gulf Oil political fund f-om 1960 until 1974 and dispensed about $4 million in See EX-LOBBYIST Page 12A Col 1 I On The Inside Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis shown at left In a 1954 picture before their breakup as a comedy team embraced in their first national stage appearance in more than 20 years Sunday night at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas when Martin came onstage to make a donation during the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon In Charlotte the telethon (seen on WSOC-TV Channel 9) received pledges totalling $96699 Nationwide a record $2123813 was pledged 4 A.