* The Daily Chowanian *
Volume 1 — Number 32
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, January 15, 1980
Associated Press
Other World Powers
Called On To Trim
Military Manpower
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW AP—Soviet spokes
men called on other world
powers today to follow the ex
ample of Premier Nikita Khru
shchev’s move to trim military
manpower. Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko singled out
the Western Big Three.
Gromyko and others address
ed the 1,300 deputies of the So
viet Parliament as it moved me
thodically toward unanimous a-
doption of Khrushchev’s propo
sal to lop 1,200,000 men from the
Soviet armed forces in the next
year or two and rely on rocket-
age weapons to take up the
slack.
Gromyko said he hoped the
action of Parliament in voting
the reduction will influence law
makers of the United States,
Britain and France to do like
wise. He suggested “some prac
tical action” in reply.
Justas Paleckis, head of the
Lithuanian Parliament’s Presi
dium, declared the Soviet move
should induce Parliament mem
bers of all nations to press for
similar decisions by their gov
ernments.
Attorney Killed in Crash With Half
Millon Dollar Policy Fear Planes
Caracas Violence
CARACAS Venezuela AP —
President Romulo Betancourt
today ordered hard labor in a
remote jungle penal colony for
nearly 200 rioters blamed for
widespread violence in Car
acas.
Betancourt hurried to the
capital from a tour of the in
terior after roving gangs ot
young men and others Monday
set fire to several business
houses and vehicles, looted food
shops and attacked police sta
tions and telephone company
installations.
Twenty-one persons were re
ported wounded in clashes with
the police before officials an
nounced the situation was un
der control.
Minor disturbances continued
in the suburbs Monday night.
The rioting was touched off
when police broke up a demon
stration by about 1,200 unem
ployed workers demanding
jobs. Presidential secretary Ra
mon Valazquez said others
moved in to carry out a well or-
ga>nized plan to create internal
problems.”
Ike Orders Overtime Work In
Development Of Space Rocket
WASHINGTON AP — Presi
dent Eisenhower has ordered
overtime work if necessary to
speed development of a super
space rocket. He also wants tc
know if more money is needed
for the job.
The President sent those in
structions Thursday to the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
He told T. Keith Glennan,
NASA chief, “It is essential to
press forward vigorously to in
crease our capability in high
thrust space vehicles.”
Eisenhower said NASA should
make a quick study of whether
more money should be spent to
speed up the super rocket boos
ter program.
He also authorized overtime
work on the Saturn super boos
ter project. Space scientists
hope this project will lead to a
rocket engine far more power
ful than anything the Soviets
are believed to have used so
far.
The Presiident’s irwtfructions
to NASA came a few hours after
he had sent two messages to
Icelandic Trawler
Missing In Atlantic
HALIFAX N. s. AP — A big
Icelandic trawler with 28 men a
board has been missing for nearly
48 hours in an Atlantic gale about
70 miles off the Newfoundland
north coast.
Search and rescue headquarters
of the Royal Canadian Air Force
said today it received a request
from the Icelandic Coast Guard
to set up a search for the 656-ton
trawler Uranus, unreported since
Sunday afternoon.
An alert to all ships in the area
was issued by marine radio sta
tions in Newfoundland today. Air
craft will go into the search when
weather improves.
Capitol Hill. He asked Congress
to concentrate responsibility for
the U.S. peaceful space program
in the civilian-run NASA. And
he formally informed Congress
of his r>lans to shift to NASA the
Arr’w’q roc^^t r^«!earch team
headed by Dr. Wernher von
Braun.
WESTPORT, Conn. AP — The
man who sold Julian Andrew
Frank a half-million dollar in
surance policy said today the
attorney always expressed fear
of airplane travel.
Edward F. Boyd Jr., insu
rance agent, said it was more
a case of Frank’s being talked
into carrying heavy insurance
than the other way around.
And Frank, he said, once told
him; “Look, I'm going to get
killed in an airplane.” He said
Frank feared travel by plane,
but that he had to fly often on
business.
Wheather Frank ex!pressed
this fear, Boyd said he would
assure the 32-year-old attorney
that “if you’re worried about
it. I'll insure you.”
He said Frank had inquired
about an insurance policy in the
neighborhood of $100,000. But
after several talks, Boyd said
he showed Frank “how to own
substantially more” insurance.
It resulted in the $500,000 policy
—which, however, contains a
two-year suicide clause.
The clause bars payment to
the beneficiary—the widow—if
the death is proven a suicide
that occurred within two years
of insurance of the policy. This
policy, he said, was issued to
Frank last Nov. 1.
As for Frank’s fear of air tra
vel, Boyd said t’le at'.» rney’f
wife-a pretty model, Janet Wag
ner—“Pooh-poohed all this busi
ness about being killed in a
plane.”
Frank’s wife, meanwhile, de
clined all calls from newsmen
at her home here. She continued
to refer queries to her attorney
in New York .City.
How Much Property Do You Own
WASHINGTON AP—You own
$1,472.39 worth of property you
may not ever have thought a-
bcut.
So does your next door neigh-
bout.
So does Nelson A. Rockefel
ler, for that matter.
All this figures, since the
people are the government of
the United States and the value
of all real and personal property
owned by the federal govern
ment was placed today at 264
billion dollars or more.
You figure your share by di
viding 179,300,000—the number
of people in the United States
as of Jan. 1-into the 264 billion.
The property total was shown
in an annual inventory report
issued by the House Govern
ment Operations Committee.
Chairman Wi’liam L. Dawson
D—111 concedes the listing is
far from complete.
Millions of acres of land ac
quired as much as 100 years ago
is valued at the price paid for
it then, for instance, instead of
reflecting present values. And
untold treasures in the Library
of Congress and the Smithson
ian Institute are not listed be
cause they were given to the
government.
But the 398-page report is stiU
an impressive listing of the na
tion’s wealth, its typewriters
prisons, its libraries and light
houses, and its 6 Vi billion dol
lars in cash.
The personal property of the
United States—its cash, invest
ments, military equipment, book
and statues—makes up the ma
jor share of the total, being
valued at 193 billion dollars.
The real property—military*
bases, the land and buildings in
hundreds of federal installations
throughout the country, and the
millions of acres in the public
domain—is valued at 71 billion
plus.
The Weather
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly
cloudy in the mountoins, mostly
cloudy elsewhere this afternoon,
with showers ending over central
portion this evening. Little change
in temperature in the mountains,
warmer elsewhere this afternoon,
with high temperatures in the 60s.
Fair and colder tonight, except
clearing coastal section. Low to-
night ranging from 80s in the
mountains to the 40s on the coast.
Saturday variable cloudiness in
the mountains, fair elsewhere and
colder.
Businessmen Visit
MEXICO CITY AP — A group
of Mexican businessman is leav
ing for West Germany tonight
to seek capital for development
of the Latin-American country’s
medium and small industry.
Swastikas Found
On Grave Markers
CLAXTON, Ga. AP—Lawyers
fighting a divorce suit filed by
R. J. Reynolds, have been given
permission to examine some of
the tobacco magnate’s financial
records.
Circuit Judge Henry Dur-
rence issued orders Thursday
that lawyers and auditors for
Reynolds’ third wife be admit-
NEW YORK AP — Nearly 100Reynolds’ office on Sa
headstones and grave markers in
a Jewish cemetery on Staten Is
land were found defaced today
with yellow-painted swastikas and
various words in German.
The smearing was found on
headstones over a 3-acre section
of the 35-acre Baron Hirsch Cem
etery at Graniteville. Some of
those defaced were at graves of
service men killed in World
War II.
The yellow swastikas were about
1% to 2 feet hi?h. Words painted
on the grave monuments included
he German terms for “Death” and
“Fatherland.” The term “Fuehrer”
also was found. In other cases
paint had been smeared over the
Star of David, Jewish religious
symbol, on the headstones.
pelo Island for 15 days start
ing Tuesday.
Durrence also told lawyers
for Mrs. Reynolds, the former
Muriel Marston of Toronto,
Canada, that they could have
two doctors examine the 53-
year-old millionaire.
Reynolds’ own physicians
said he is suffering with a lung
and heart disease aggravated,
by excessive smoking. His di
vorce suit, charging cruelty, is
due for Feb. 22 trial in Darien.
Opposing lawyers pictured'
Reynolds as seriously ill or as
feigning illness at his Sapelo
home to avoid appearing in
court.
The judge told Mrs. Reynolds’
lawyers, “I’m not going to let
you go to Sapelo if it is going
to cause the man to fall dead.”
Durrence added, however, that
they could examine Reynolds'
tax, brokerag? and gift records,
and deeds, limited mostly to
those from 1953 and 1959.
Crack In Big Ben
LONDON AP — For 100 years
London’s famed Big Ben has
chimed out the hours with a re
sounding “boi-oi-oing.”
Now two British metal rspair-
men have offered to mend a crack
in the 13V4-ton bell “as a patriotic
duty” without removing it from
atop its tower. RALEIGH AP—The Motor Ve-
Th”y claim th?f would make it hicles^ Department s tally of Jii^h
sound as it should—just a simple
Highway Tally
lyomg.
A spokesman for the Ministry
of Works said, “We shall consider
‘he offer, of course, but boi-oi-oin
•s a sound the world has got used
to. The crack does not affect the
safety of the bell.”
Earthquake Claims
Twenty-Six Lives
LIMA, Peru AP — Residents of
earthquake-shattered A r e q u i p a
wandered in near panic today
after two more violent tremors
Thursday.
Last reports said 26 bodies had
been recovered before another
wave of shocks tumbled more
homes and building and disrupted
communications.
way deaths and injuries for the
24 hours ending at 10 a.m. today;
Killed
Injured rural
Killed this year
Killed to date last year
Injured to Nov. 1, 1959
Injured to Nov. 1, 1958
0
18
26
42
20,129
17,253
10 Tanks Exploded
ROME, Ga. AP — “It was just
luck that someone wasn’t killed,”
Police Chief Smith Horton said
after 10 tanks of compressed hy
drogen exploded, shattering win
dows in homes two blocks away.
The tanks containing the hydro
gen were on a truck which start
ed under an underpass. Ten tanks
exploded and nine others devel
oped leaks when the tops of the
tanks struck the top of the
underpass.
Lives Saved By Liquid
Soaked Dynamite Fuse
RALEIGH AP — Liquid which
soaked the fuse of a lethal
homemade dynamite bomb has
been credited with saving the
lives of a Henderson cotton miU
wcrker and his family.
A host of State Bureau of In
vestigation agents, including
Director Walter Anderson, were
at Henderson today to begin an
intensive hunt for the person
who threw the explosive.
Both Anderson and Attq. Gen.
Malcolm Seawell said Monday
the bomb, which contained se
ven sticks of dynamite, was
powerful enough not only to de
stroy the home of Claude C.
Capell’s, but also to kill.
Police theorized it was thrown
from a passing car at Capell’s
house Saturday night. Capell,
his wife and two children were
asleep at the time. When found
Sunday morning, the fuse was
burned down to within an inch
of the charge.
“We have to take the position
it not only was an attempt to
damage property, but an at
tempt to kill,” Anderson said
at a news conference.
Seawell said he felt the bomb
was tied together several days
before it wac thrown. Liquid
from the dynamite had soaked
through the fuse to about an
inch above the cap. The fuse
burned to this soaked portion
and then was snuffed out.
Capell is an assistant foreman
at a Henderson Cotton Mill
vhich is baing struck by the
Textile Workers Union of Ame
rica. Although violence, which
marked the strike last winter
and spring has subsided, a dy
namite blast occurred Dec. 7
inflicting damage to a mill
bluilding.