2-A-Martinsville Bulletin, Friday, June 16, 1978 A Douglas La Chance, president of the Newspaper Deliverers' Union in New York, announced Thursday his union has refused to cross picket lines set up by striking members of The Newspaper Guild at the New York Dally News, (UP! Photo) NATION TODAY Southern Pines to Vote On Sale of Mixed Drinks SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (UPI) Southern Pines, known by many as a golfing resort, is apparently the first North Carolina community to decide to hold a referendum on whether to allow the sale of mixed drinks under the state's new local option bill. The Southern Pines Town Council voted Thursday to ask the, Moore County Board of Elections to hold a on whether mixed drinks should be sold in restaurants and clubs that receive more than half of their dollar sales from food. Angus Brewer, elections board chairman, said the board has not received Southern Pines' formal request, but said a date for the vote could be set within a day after the request North Carolina's legislature ended.a decade long debate Wednesday. by approving a local-option mixed drink Several other cities and counties are expected within a week to request referendums in theit areas." Shrimp Catch Lagging MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.
(UPI) State fisheries specialists are predicting the 1978 shrimp harvest in North Carolina will be only one-third as large as last year's possibly the poorest catch on record. State and industry officials say a poor harvest would hurt commercial fishermen and mean higher prices for shrimp. Researchers at the state Division of Marine Fisheries in Morehead City said Thursday studies show the total catch will be about 1.1 million pounds to 1.3 million pounds. Last year's. catch was 3.5 million pounds.
(The figures are for shrimp with the heads off.) Shrimp, the state's' most valuable seafood, have totaled almost 3.8 million pounds each year since 1967. "It looks bad," said Edward G. McCoy, director for the division. However, Howard N. Lee, secretary of natural and economic resources and community development, may.
take action to assist the industry. Peach Crop 'Looks Good' JACKSON SPRINGS, N.C (UPI) Though this year's. peach crop has been delayed by the wet, cool spring, it's nonetheless a good one, according to a North Carolina peach specialist. Clarence Black, superintendent of the North Carolina peach research station at Jackson Springs, says the crop "sure is Some peaches are already appearing in the 35 to 40 orchards scattered in Moore, Montgomery, Richmond and Anson counties, four of the state's major peach counties. Most of the peaches harvested now are being shipped to market but some are available to North Carolinians who like to visit the area each year to buy their fruit directly from the owners of their favorite orchards.
Drivers Honor Picket Lines Strike Closes Daily News NEW YORK (UPI) Striking reporters at the New York Daily News succeeded on the third day of their walkout in shutting. down the nation's newspaper, as drivers finally agreed to honor their picket lines. The drivers' decision came after two nights of violent confrontations marked by the burning of two delivery trucks two Thursday nights of morning. the strike, angry A For the first. pickets shouted obscenities and pelted delivery trucks with rocks and bottles.
There were 13 arrests. In the News! brightly. lit loading bays, hundreds of bales of undelivered papers were stacked. "We no longer are -going to attempt to publish tonight. "said Daily News: Editor and d.
Vice' President Michael J. O'Neill late Thursday. just wait and see what the situation is tomorrow, If there's any at all of publishing, we intend to try to do so." Negotiators for the News and the. Newspaper Guild, which represents 1,340 editorial and commercial; employees, resumed contract talks and met into the early. morning hours today.
At 7 a.m., it was learned that the Guild was preparing an offer for consideration by, management. The Guild also has been trying to Hew contracts at The York Times, and the New York Post. The Times, in a show of support for the News, terminat'ed its contract. with the Guild Thursday, and posted new rules severely curtailing. con- Common Clay Produced Life, Scientists Say MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
(UPI) In the beginning, the first life on Earth sprang from common clay, just as the Bible said, scientists at. Ames: Res search Center reported Thursday. There has been life on Earth for most of the planet's 4- billion-year existence and it began in common clay, they said. Dr. James Lawless, leader of a NASA research team, said the first indications of life forms organic molecules were scattered randomly in the primordial seas.
Scientists have known for some time that energy from lightning, heat and radiation formed the basic organic molecules from methane, ammonia and water in the Earth's primitive atmosphere. It has not been known, however, how these molecules were "gathered in sufficient quantity and organized. to produce living organisms. Clay, specifically metal clays, on the shores attracted them "like a sponge or a magnet," he said. processes occur very rapidly," he' said.
presence of organic molecules almost coincides with formation. of the Earth." That would put the beginnings of life forms back about three and a half billion years, he said. Clays are a degradation product and occur within about 100 years. The actual mechanism of; attraction occurs within about one hour in a laboratory, he said. "As a result, once clays available, the organic molecules are attracted." Moreover, he said, the same organic matter has been found in meteorite rocks which shows a "universality," of potential life.
The result of the simple organic molecules and the metal clays, he said, nucleotides, the material which makes DNA, the genetic code molecule. "The very long DNA nucleic. acid chain in every living cell. contains a blueprint of the entire organism," he said. One type of metal clay, containing zinc, was most effective in attracting the nucleotides of a both DNA and RNA, especially the most common building block in the living system, called AMP.
Further, with some slight modification becomes ATP which is the basic energy molecule. present in every life form. Lawless said the discovery was important because it validates earlier experiments with amino acids the blocks of protein and "lets us know we are on the right Referring to the term "common clay," Lawless said, "It's just like it is in the Bible." He said the next step would be to catalyze concentrated amino acids in the clays to form polypeptides, the basic. structural units of protein, and to see if the clays can link up nucleotides to form a DNA-like molecule. Dogs of War tract provisions now enjoyed by unless a settlement at the News Guild members.
is achieved 0 The Post earlier" had ter- Depending on the circumy minated its Guild contract. stances, (we may) suspend New York Times Guild terminates contract in show of support. The Times Thursday told the Guild it might cease publication and lock out -its editorial employees and craft unions resolved," said John Mortimer, senior vice president of industrial relations at the Times. He said the Times would take the action "to avoid being whipsawed by, the Guild, and in the to insure a settlement that is best interests of the industry and the employees who rely on it for a livelihood. 'The drivers' decision vat the News avoided an expected third night of angry confrontations, but riot police mainstained a guard outside the News garage.
shut it down!" one driver. shouted as the garage door opened at 10:15 p.m. Thursday and hundreds of union members a some wearing hand-lettered placards supporting the strike spilled "behind police barricades and joined the picket lines. A a Deliverers union President Douglas La. Chance, who had previously urged his members to: work, said, "For.
two days I've tried, to keep this going because I've seen many papers go out of operation. But this is people against people and a question of safety. We'll not have a union divided." Reporters and truck drivers, who had cursed each other the night before, embraced as loud cheers and applause filled the block. The News, using management personnel and automated machinery, "said it printed and distributed about one third its normal 1.9 million daily circulation during the first two days of the strike. publication and- cease paying Times employees, who are represented by unions, until the a Guild's dispute with the News is Robbins is chaplain of the 75year-old Polk County Jail the first in the jail's history.
Before he came, a group of area ministers served the jail, which holds more than 100 inmates and is one of the largest county facilities int the Robbins said he was called to serve Christ while in the Army and felt drawn to prison ministry while in seminary. "We have a dynamic program at the he said. My work is non-denominational and evangelical in content. And the attendance at the services is We are able to get driving and simple misdemeanors to felonies. In his two years at the facility, he has scheduled Bible study classes, religious services and one-on-one counseling and has helped set: up a high school 'equivalency program and other support programs for the men.
"The jail vis a rough environment. The men are having to face the fact that there are problems and they have been separated from the rest of society. They realize that this occurred because of something they did. And this is difficult qualms now." But Robbins said he works closely with the jail's guard staff for his own security. "They know where I am at all times: and let me know if there is ever a man who is a little unstable in his behavior," Robbins said.
'They make recommendations about who I should see and about who I shouldn't see and follow their recommendations. "It's. a crowded facility. Many of the men spend the bulk of their time locked up, so it is not like a standard prison environment." he said." Polk County Jail chaplain: Lanny Robbins (center), links study class- in a cellblock. Robbins said that "even' your hands in prayer with two inmates during an informal Bible guards are your brothers." (UPI Photo) A Captive Audience DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) The Rev.
more people involved in the program. for some to grasp," Robbins said. Lanny Robbins never worries about low And they all seem happy with the work." "I am not afraid. I go in their -cells, eat attendance at Sunday services. He has a Robbins' congregation" "includes" men with them, sleep with them and let them" captive congregation.
charged with anything from -drunk trust me. I only rarely get any twinges or KINSHASA, Zaire (UPI) Dogs that may have tasted human- flesh -from -rotting corpses left in the streets of Kolwezi were rounded up today to be shot the latest victims of the rebel invasion that claimed at least 800 human lives. The government ordered the More Battles Ahead 3-Inch Fish Blocks Dam Operation Carter Suffers Setback reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost." It viewed the value of these creatures as he: said, and it's not up to federal courts decide that a dam that cost millions of dollars to build was important. Beside the snail darter, there are 11 other cases on an Interior Department of federal projects. that might- harm endangered species, including a proposed dam in Maine versus a plant called the lousewort.
Thousands of other cases have been resolved without resorting to court action, but the Interior Department's list of potential consultation problems: also includes projects that might hurt whooping cranes, the bowhead whale and the red co*ckaded woodpecker. The Fish and Wildlife Service has asked the Air Force to make further studies on what the planned space shuttle. program could have on the pelican and. Arctic WASHINGTON President Carter has suffered a setback in the House in his efforts to kill several water projects, but another administration-backed proposal to help out New York City passed a big hurdle in the Senate. Senate Banking Committee- approved a bill -Thursday providing $1.5 billion in guarantees to allow New York to borrow a money to stave off bankruptcy, The House already has approved $2 billion in loan guarantees, the amount requested by the administration and city officials.
However, lobbyists for the bill were satisfied with Banking Committee approval of the principle of long-term guarantees and less concerned about the amount, because only $1 billion is definitely called for in the city's four financial plan: The other $1 billion army to shoot all dogs i in the mining town because many had eaten human- flesh during and after the Kolwezi massacre. The order, which cited the canines as a health hazard, apparently "also was based on. the belief that having tasted human flesh, the dogs, many of Public Works Committee last May unanimously passed a bill sponsored by Baker that would set up a seven member board to. review proposed federal projects in the future and possibly grant exemptions from the act if they meet stringent construction criteria. Zygmunt Plater, one of the lawyers who worked to stop the TVA dam, said he thinks the fish can win in Congress as well as in the court.
But, he said, "It's going to be a hell of a on Water Projects peregrine falcon. The agency also is concerned with the possible impact the proposed phosphate mining within the Osceola National Forest in Florida might have on the red co*ckaded woodpecker, the indigo snake and several other species. A House. subcommittee currently is holding- oversight hearings on the law, and is weighing several bills designed to save the TVA's Tellico Dam or other projects. The Senate Environment and was to be for contingencies.
Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire, D- said the measure may be delayed on the Senate floor by the filibuster over. labor law revision, and also possibly by a filibuster against the bill itself. a The administration's effort to cut back on spending for water resources projects backfired in the House Thursday, despite a threatened presidential veto: The congressmen went along with Carter's request to add 11 new projects, but rejected an amendment to delete eight others. Final passage of the $10.3 billion public works appropriations bill which contains the projects could come today. them starving, might attack humans.
The Thursday order appealed to all dog owners to surrender their animals to the army for immediate destruction. There also are many dogs in Kolwezi: that no longer have masters and are roaming the town in search The Zairean -Red Cross said more than 800 human bodies, both blacks and whites, had been buried since French and Belgian legionnaires recaptured the town after nine days of rebel rule. 7.75% Investors Certificate For Current Income $1,000 minimum deposit 8-year minimum maturity Interest can be distributed quarterly, annually or at maturity PIEDMONT TRUST BANK ME FEDE DE POSIT CORPORATION maturity FEDERAL LAW uniess AND three REGULATION months of prohibit the payment of a time the amount withdrawn is reduced the interest thereon is forfeited and interest on deposit prior to to the passbook rate. 18 of food. WASHINGTON (UPI) En vironmentalists who won a Supreme Court ruling in favor of a tiny fish called the snail darter still have many battles ahead before they can claim final victory.
The backlash in Congress already is shaping up. Senate Minority leader Howard Baker says Thursday's ruling will add impetus to a drive to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 before the end of this session of Congress. "I think the decision by the court today just underscores the necessity for legislative action. A the Tennessee Republican said. At issue is one part of the law that prohibits federal agencies from damaging the natural habitat of endangered The Supreme, ruling bars the Tennessee Valley Authority from operating a virtually completed $120 million' dollar dam in order to preserve, the snail darter, a three- inchlong fish discovered in: 1973 when the dam already.
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