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Nixon School Funds Cutoff
Shocks Many In S. Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (UPI) —
Many officials were “shocked”
Wednesday by the Nixon ad
ministration’s cutoff of federal
aid funds to five Southern
school districts not complying
with federal desegregation
laws.
“I hate to tell you what I
think of it. I don't think it
would be printable,” said State
Sen. Edgar A. Brown, presi
dent pro-tem of the South Caro
lina Senate.
Two South Carolina school
districts — Abbeville and Barn
well _ were among the dis
tricts listed Wednesday in the
announcement by Robert H.
Finch, secretary of the Health,
Education and Welfare Depart
ment, in Washington. The other
districts were Williamston.
N.C., Water Valley, Miss., and
Batesville, Miss.
Alternatives Exhausted
Finch said that “all of the
alternatives have been exhaust
ed” to gain compliance with
the 1964 Civil Rights Act and
“the law must in the end be
enforced.” He said he was
sending negotiation teams to
the affected districts to help de
velop "workable and effective
alternatives within the law,”
and hoped the funds could be
restored retroactively as soon
as possible.
Pinch said the decision to cut
off the funds to the five school
districts was made before he
assumed office.
Speaker Sol Blatt of the South
Carolina House, along with
Brown from Barnwell County,
said his county has "lived faith
fully under the freedom of
choice plan... (which) gives
every child regardless of race,
color or religion the opportunity
to attend the school of his
choice.
“I am shocked at the stand
taken by the President because
of his commitment to the free
dom of choice plan,” said Blatt.
"Ho received many votes in
my county because of ft.”
South Carolina voted for
Richard M. Nixon in the presl-
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I 1315 GREENVIEW DRIVE: Brick, 3 BR, 2 baths, LR, DR,
j kit., double carport, storage room, playhouse, quiet street,
I large wooded lot $17,400
I 610 W. TAYLOR: Prime commercial location; 80 feet of
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patio, corner lot. A great buy at $23,200
I 546 S. HILL: This fine home has been renovated as is the
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I for $39,500
I FAYETTEVILLE ROAD: Nice frame house on tremendous
I lot; 5 rooms and bath, garage and tool sheds6,oo6
I ELIZABETH LANE: Located on paved street Just off Reho-
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I of town; construction nearly complete on 2 brick homes sea-
I taring 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, living room, modem kitchen,
I family room with sliding glass doors to patio, heated utility
■ room, open front porch with columns, central heat, carport.
I Landscaping on these wooded lots will include shrubbery.
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I 3 FIRST STREET: Onl]AA| |*l for this 3 BR house with
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I good road frontage, 7 rooms and bathsl2,soo.
I 1111 PARKVIEW DRIVE: Now well under construction; only
I $650 down plus prepaid items; we pay all closing costs;
I brick; 3 BR, 2 full baths, LR, DR, built-in kitchen, carport,
I storage room, selling for actual appraised valuation of
$15,800
I 1113 PARKVIEW DRIVE: Now well under construction; only
>1 $650 down plus prepaid items; we pay all closing costs;
I brick; 3 BR, 2 full baths, LR, DR, built-in kitchen, carport,
I storage room, selling for actual appraised valuation of
■ $16,050.
Thursday, Jan. 30, 1969
2
dential election.
Brown said that Sen. Strom
Thurmond, R-S. C., Nixon’s
Southern campaign strategist,
had given the "impression”
that Nixon would not enforce
the cutoff legislation enacted
under the Johnson administra
tion. Thurmond’s office in
Washington denied the senator
had made any such statement.
"Secretary Finch told me that
the rules set by the previous
Pueblo Out Os Reach,
Navy Probers Told
By JACK V. FOX
CORONADO, Calif. (UPI)—
The skipper of the USS Pueblo’s
sister intelligence ship, the
Banner, was testifying and
Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher’s
civilian attorney asked him:
"After what has happened, do
you sometimes feel that there
but for the grace of God, go I,
when I see Pete Bucher?”
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Clark, who
took the Banner successfully on
many missions off the Chinese
Communist, North Korean and
Russian coasts before the
Pueblo was captured, would not
answer the question.
Clark’s testimony Wednesday
concluded another dramatic day
in which the commander of
naval forces operating from
Japan admitted there were
neither Navy ships or planes or
Air Force crart in a position to
come to the aid of the Pueblo in
time when it was attacked off
the coast of North Korea.
The hearing today goes into
closed session with Lt. Stephen
Harris, an intelligence officer
aboard the Pueblo who had a
virtually autonomous command,
as one of the scheduled
witnesses. After today’s session
the hearing will be recessed
until Monday because Bucher
was said to be exhausted and
administration required the
funds to be terminated today,”
Thurmond said Wednesday
night. And he said he was
“encouraged” that Finch was
taking the “extraordinary step”
of holding the funds in escrow
until the issue in each district
could be solved.
In Williamston, N.C., school
Supt. Gene Rogers said the
cutoff involves 4,000 elementary
and secondary school children
the court itself snowed under in
paperwork.
Rear Adm. Frank L. Johnson
said his staff contacted the sth
Air Force and was told it would
be two hours more before
planes could reach the scene.
The aircraft carrier Enterprise
was 600 miles away and her
planes out of range. The treaty
with Japan forbade sending
land-based planes.
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“MUTINEERS"—These are the two Cleveland priests—Rev.
Frs. Robert Begin (left) and Bernard Meyer—who drew a
charge of creating a nuisance in St. John's cathedral by
staging an unauthorized mass and publicly criticizing Bishop
Clarence G. Issenmann for not keeping up with church re
form. Father Begin is a nephew of Bishop Floyd L. Begin.
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closing costsOULUsl6,3oo
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ACREAGE I
SPALDING COUNTY: 362 acre horse and cattle ranch, 9
miles of fencing; 5 large pastures, 5 smaller ones; modern
brick house with 3 BRS., 2 baths, stable with 16 sheds, tack
room, lighted riding ring, 2358’ paved road frontage, over
1 mile dirt road frontage; located on High Falls road; quick
access to Griffin or 1-75. Very attractive terms.
SPALDING COUNTY: Pirkle road; between Fayetteville
Highway and Cheatham Rd. 45.4 acres; mostly wooded;
good stream; 807 feet of road frontage $15,600
LAMAR COUNTY: 45 acres on paved road Just off new
Griffin • Barnesville four lane; mostly open land with small
acreage in planted pines plus hardwood forest with clear
stream and excellent lake site; financing available to reli- M
able purchaser $16,500
PIKE COUNTY: 187 acres. Permanent pasture, cattle farm,
fenced and cross fenced, large frame farm house, pecan
grove, 5 acre stocked lake.
PIKE COUNTY: 73 acres; all under fence, approx. 1000 ft.
paved road frontage, 5 acre lake site, tenant house. $226 per
acre.
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COUNTRY LOTS I
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mendous lots for sale. Average size is 2 acres per lot, pro
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$5,060.
COMMERCIAL LOTS I
Corner of 12th * Newton Streets. 54 x 168.
Intersection of 4 Lane Highway (341 By-Pass) and U. S. 41.
200 x 214.
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in 16 schools.
“We just haven't gotten to
gether on a (desegregation)
plan yet. I’m sure something
can be worked out. I hope so
anyway," he said. “We’ll just
have to operate without these
(federal) funds.”
Brown also was hopeful.
“I’m not excited over it be
cause I’m satisfied it is a situa
tion that can be straightened
out," he said.
Clark said he felt the Pueblo
should never have been armed
with two .50 caliber machine
guns which were completely
inadequate.
Johnson said a decision
whether to send planes or
warships to aid the Pueblo was
in any event a "highly sensitive
political decision” which could
be made at no lower level than
the commander-in-chief for the
Pacific.
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RADIO “PROGRAMS” OLDER THAN EARTH—It’s Ohio State’s
radiotelescope at Delaware, Ohio, which is receiving radio
signals that originated In space before the Earth was
formed. Technician Edward Telga is examining a space
map being produced from the signals, which are evaluated
and correlated by an IBM computer. In recent years the
number of radio emission objects known in space has in
creased from around 200 to some 10,000. Dr. John Kraus,
observatory director, said “most of the signals were created
by high velocity electron clouds moving in magnetic fields
or whole galaxies in space,” millions of light years away.
Nixon May Visit
Leaders In NATO
By EUGENE V. RISHER
WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi
ident Nixon, continuing to
concentrate on U.S. foreign
policy, will go abroad soon,
probably to confer initially with
NATO countries. He also has
made it clear that Secretary of
State William P. Rogers will be
his chief foreign affairs adviser.
N i x o n’s communications
director Herbert G. Klein, told
a group of newsmen Wednes
day: "I would expect, depend
ing on world events, that he
would go abroad in the next few
months."
Klein said he thought Nixon
would want to meet with heads
of countries involved in the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion (NATO) before considering
any trip to Russia.
Several weeks before his
inauguration, Nixon told news
men at his transition headquar
ters in New York that "you can
expect that during the first six
months, we will be traveling
quite a bit. I want to get to
know the leaders of other
nations and I want them to get
to know me.”
White House Press Secretary
Ronald Ziegler said no travel
plans had been set, although he
confirmed there has been
discussion among White House
staff members on working
foreign travel into Nixon’s
schedule.
Nixon personally squelched
reports that the secretary of
state's traditional role as his
chief foreign policy adviser
might be usurped by Harvard
Professor Henry A. Kissinger,
the White House special assi
stant for national security
affairs.
IB i
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PRESIDENT NIXON strikes a
familiar pose as he tells re
porters in Washington that
he’ll present “a major legis
lative program” to Congress.
SMOKY GREETING
WASHINGTON (UPD—Pat
Nixon was about to greet the
National Homemaker of the
Year in the Green Room of the
White House Wednesday when
smoke billowing from a fire
place forced the ceremony into
another room. A spokesman
blamed damp logs.
"I consider the secretary of
state to be my chief foreign
policy adviser,” Nixon told
between 700 and 800 officers of
the State Department during a
visit to the department’s
headquarters in Washington’s
Foggy Bottom area.
"I have been reading some
dope stories about the. rivalry
that may develop between
departments In the government
and particularly between the
Department of State and the
White House staff members
concerned with foreign policy,”
Nixon said.
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Paper Company
Will Plant
‘Super Tree’
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (UPI) —
A new strain of pine trees, one
of the South’s major revenue
producers, is to be planted in
3.8 million acres in nine south
ern states, the International Pa
per Co. says.
The company said the refor
estation program is the largest
ever attempted by a private
firm. In announcing the plan
Wednesday, the company called
its strain of the loblolly pine a
“super tree.”
The company said it would
establish controlled “pine plan
tations” with trees to be har
vested by mechanical pulpwood
cutters.
The new strain of pine is to
grow faster and have superior
disease and drought resistant
properties as well as contain
more cellulose characteristics to
yield more fiber per cord for
papermaking.
If the program succeeds, the
company said, it could change
the pulpwood industry’s 40-to
-50-year cycle from planting to
harvesting. The new strain of
pine tree can be harvested
within 25 years of planting, the
company said.
This conceivably could dou
ble the amount of pulpwood
that can be grown on an aver
age acre of southern pine for
est land, the firm said.
It said 55 million of the new
trees will be planted this year
on 90,000 acres. Another 77 mil
lion trees are to be planted
next year, with annual plant
ings continuing as timber is
harvested.
Development of the new tree
was made at the firm’s plant
here with the aid of National
Science Foundation and Nation
al Institute of Health grants.
The planting is to take place
on acreage owned by the com
pany in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
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GOODELL TO BIAFRA
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Sen.
Charles E. Goodell, R-N.Y., may
go to Biafra next week to help
with the delivery of food and
other emergency supplies sent
to the embattled nation. Goodell
said he felt “morally commit
ted" to see that the supplies
collected are properly delivered.
He said the trip would be at his
own expense.
MAY BE SETTLED
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
Senate’s ancient hassle over
whether it should restrict the
filibuster may be settled with a
constitutional amendment. De
mocratic Leader Mike Mans
field said he is considering such
a move, and there were
indications some backers of the
filibuster might not oppose him
ADD WORDS
WASHINGTON (UPI)—
Forty-two House members have
added their support to legisla
tion which would add the words
. . and may cause death from
cancer and other diseases” to
the printed warning on cigarette
packages. The present w’arning
reads only “Warning: Cigarette
smoking may be hazardous to
your health.”
Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Texas.
The firm has pulp or paper
mills at Bastrop and Springhill,
La., Mobile, Ala., Camden and
Pine Bouff, Ark, Moss Point,
Natchez and Vicksburg, Miss.,
Georgetown, S. C., and Panama
City, Fla.