Page 8-Martinsville Bulletin, Thursday, 'Aug. 3, 1972 .5 MAJOR DISASTER AVERTED An estimated 30,000 spectators watched in horror as Lt. Cmdr. seen (upper left) in his seat as he ejected from the plane seconds Donald Bently, flight leader of the famed "Blue Angels" Navy before it crashed into a navy truck. He was treated at a hospital for Demonstration Team narrowly averted a major disaster recently minor injuries and released.
No one else was injured. (UPI when his Phantom jet crash landed at the edge of the runway Wirephoto) during the "Aviation Day 1972" show in Kinston, N.C. Bently can be 17 LEAVES EDUCATION POST 1 Norfolk Man Goes on Board RICHMOND (AP)--The governor's office announced today Gov. Linwood Holton has accepted the resignation of Thomas C. Boushall from the State Board of Education and appointed Norfolk school board chairman Vincent J.
Thomas to fill the unexpired term. Boushall, Richmond banker. in submitting his resignation. noted that when he accepted the appointment in January 1969 he had "agreed to serve for a minimum of one year and at most for two years." He said he had now served years. dedicated public service." Board Chairman Preston C.
Caruthers of Arlington acknowledged that one of the nine board members has resigned and that a new member would be appointed. All Caruthers would say was that, "I feel very bad about the person retiring and I feel elated about the new appointment." Gov. Linwood Holton is expected to announce Thomas' appointment and Boushall's resignation Monday. and Norfolk Mavor Roy B. Martin reportedly has already received a letter from Holton confirming pied for 12 years.
Thomas and Boushall have both been identified through the years with school desegregation controversies. Boushall. now 79. was a member of the state board in the mid and late 1950s. during the early days of the era of massive resistance against de.
segregation of the public schools. When Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. took office in 1958 he did not reappoint Boushall to' the board.
Observers believed that Boushall had been purged from the board because he did Holton in accepting Bou- that Thomas will be named. not go along with closing down shall's resignation said he "ex- Thomas. 49. would leave the the schools rather than mix mplifies the finest traditions of school board post he has occu- blacks and whites in the classByrd Supports SALT A Agreement WASHINGTON (AP)- Sen. Harry F.
Byrd more stable world, but we cannot be sure this today, endorsed the Strategic Arms will be the result. We can hope that the SALT Limitation Talks agreements signed by agreements herald world peace, but hoping for President Nixon in Moscow. peace is hardly new. Byrd said in a prepared statement that the The agreements. Byrd said.
will not result in a nation's military convinced him the decrease in military spending. In fact, he said, limitations will not weaken this country's "In some areas there will be increases in the security. Byrd also said the SALT agreements defense budget." will act as "brakes to Russia's program of He said the basic issue is whether the increasing its strategic power." agreements "are consistent with national securBut the Virginia Senator cautioned that the United States must maintain its military He said Defense Department officials convinstrength. ced him that under the limitations this country Byrd said after hearing testimony before the will be able to modernize its military and mainSenate Armed Services Committee that he tain its strategic strength. reached two conclusions: "I am not persuaded by arguments that being "One, that these agreements are not as strong militarily has brought about U.
S. significant as some commentators and officials involvement in conflict," he said. "I am perwould have us believe; and, two, they will not suaded that the opposite is true and the U.S. result in reduced military efforts to keep major conflict from happening He said they would be "truly significant if we over the past quarter has been succould be sure that they would lead the way to a cessful in direct proportion to that strength. Court Cases Threatened ed On Pollution Compliance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The regulations regis- In response to the board's reRICHMOND.
Va. (AP)-The tration with the board of all. quest for pollution data. Army U. S.
Army is going to wind up sources of air pollution in the post commanders cited a May in court unless post command- state. including smoke stacks. 19 directive from the Pentagon. ers in Virginia comply with by industry. business.
state. lo- It directed the commanders not state pollution control regu- cal agencies. to "make application for state lations. says Virginia Atty. Gen.
The Army commanders have or local permits relating to air Andrew P. Miller. refused to submit lists of poten- emissions." The commanders Miller's office Wednesday sources of pollution, the have obeyed the directive. made public copies of. letters board said.
and Miller wrote while at the same time offering Miller sent to Secretary of the that legal action would be the to cooperate with the state. Army Robert F. Froehlke and result if the post commanders board. to William D). Ruckelshaus.
ad- don't comply. Miller's letter to Ruckelshaus ministrator of the federal Envi- The letters cited provisions of said he was by ronmental Protection Agency. the federal Clean Air Act and EPA's conclusion that federal 7 Miller said Army officials at President Nixon's Feb. 4. 1970 installations and facilities have posts in Virginia have refused order as requiring compliance no obligation to comply with the to comply with State Air Pollu- by the Army with the registration requirements of tion Control Board regulations.
regulations. Virginia and other states. Freak Mishap Kills French Visitor RICHMOND (AP) A Gondy, 43, of Besancon, France, Dr. and Mrs. Gondy were in French surgeon was killed and was killed when the oak limb this country escorting a group his wife injured Wednesday struck the car.
Mrs. Blanche of exchange students. They when a tree limb blown loose Gondy, 38, was injured, but was were staying with friends in during a severe thunderstorm reported in satisfactory. con- Bowie, Md. The Gondy's, alone crashed down on their car.
on a dition in a Richmond hospital. in the car, were returning to Virginia road. The accident occurred about 4. Bowie from a visit to p.m." west Wednesday on Virginia 5, Williamsburg when the State police said Dr. Bernard miles of Williamsburg: accident happened.
Democrats Losing 2 More Big Guns BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two more Virginia I Democrats have announced that they cannot support' "their party's presidential nominee, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota. Sidney S. Kellam of Virginia Beach, for many years one of the king makers in Virginia politics, announced Wednesday he could not support McGovern. But the former member of the Democratic National Committee emphasized he did not plan to leave the Democratic party, nor did he say he would support there-election of President Nixon, as many other state Democratic leaders are doing.
Del. Charles W. Gunn Jr. of Lexington went that extra step Wednesday and said he saw no alternative other than to endorse and work for the re-election of President Nixon. Gunn.
a member of the House since 1964, said. "Morally I have no alternative in the election except to vigorously support the re-election of President Richard Nixon." Gunn, a conservative leaning Democrat. said McGovern's fiscal philosophy would "cause great and irreparable damage to the salvation of our great nation." Ile added that McGovern is mistaken in the belief that "weakening our defense systems" might make the communists "respect us and support joint movement to world peace." Kellam, whose state wide political muscle has been on the wane in recent years. said. "I do not intend to leave the Democratic party and I shall support the other candidates." Speaking at a Virginia Beach news conference, Kellam said.
1 While I cannot be very active, I would be willing to help where I can to rebuild the Democratic party where people of all walks of life can participate and have their views heard and Kellam, whose power was felt across the state in the old Byrd busing. Thomas' primary concern in recent times has been the white flight to the suburbs because of the busing orders. He recently said he hoped that many of the white families who fled the city over the past two years would return to the city and the public schools soon. He was among a group of 1 100 Norfolk businessmen--he is in the fuel business -who petitioned the Norfolk City Council in 1959 to seek a prompt reopening of all public schools, a d- 0. oppose a fund-withholding plan to keep all grades above the sixth closed.
In 1969 he was named the state's outstanding school board member by the Virginia Education Association. lie managed the Virginia campaign of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 Organization, remains a political power, in Tidewater pohtics. when Johnson carried the state- the last Democratic presidential 0 nominee to do so. The defection of Kelgam from the national presidential ticket.
which he had always supported in the past. brought forth comments of shock and disappointment from some newly elected party leaders. State party chairman Joseph T. Fitzpatrick of Norfolk said he was shocked that Kellam would not support the Democratic nominee. W.
Pat Jennings. former 9th District congressman and now clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. said he was "very sorry to Kellam's decision. Jennings.
considered a moderate. just last week was named seat for by the state central committee to fill a newly created third Virginia on the Democratic National Committee. In Harrisonburg Wednesday night. the Democratic nominee for the 7th District congressional seat attacked Republican Rep. J.
Kenneth Robinson's record on environmental issues. Murat Williams told the Harrisonburg Democratic Committee that. "Sometimes I don't know whether our congressman (Robinson) really understands the seriousness of these issues or the intensity our concern. We may already be too late to restore our natural heritage." Williams said. "My opponent has made his position very clear.
Ile states that we aren't going to have to engineer our out of ecological crises situations if we are to preserve the At the same time he persists in voting against any measures that would make preservation and conservation a realistic rooms. HE was replaced by William J. Story then school superintendent of South Norfolk. and a dedicated massive resister. Story later ran for governor as the Virginia Conservative party's nominee.
Boushall was reappointed to the board in 1969 by Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. Thomas' tenure on the Nor- folk School Board stretches back 12 years. and he has been chairman of the board for eight of those years.
He has led the board through more than a decade of desegregation suits. the most recent litigation leading to the federal court-ordered mass crosstown Utilities' Tax Bills Go Up RICHMOND (AP)-The State Corporation Com-: mission said today that the assessed value of public: service corporations jumped more than $101 million this year to more than $1.3: billion. The SCC assesses the public service companies' property for the localities. Lee B. Younger.
director of the commission's public: utilities taxation division, said the jump in assessed value means the localities will collect about $5 million more in property taxes from the utilities in 1972 than in the previous year. Last year the total local taxes collected on all utilities in Virginia was about $51 million. This year it is estimated to be about $56.3 million. Virginia Electric Power taxable; property value grew by million during the; year to a total of $448.7 million. Chesapeake Potomac Telephone had an increase of million to $391.5 million.
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