Alton Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 23, 1976, Alton, Illinois TELEGRAPH Serving dreane and Calhoun 141 94 2 New Hampshire outcome too close to call AP With the outcome still considered too close to call Republicans or voting begins shortly after midnight tonight in New Hampshires presidential Most of the rivals in the crowded Democratic race were ready to make their pitches Former Georgia Jimmy Carter and Arizona Morris generally believed to be the Democratic scheduled tours at factories and So did In dlana Birch Bayh and former Oklahoma Fred Former candidate Sargent Is In On the Republican Ronald who has mounted a stiff challenge to President concluded a campaign Sunday that covered nearly miles by bus caravan in 19 days since As Reagans plane left Manchester airport in a steady his state campaign Hugh said if Reagan goes out of here with j anything better than 40 per hell go all the Gregg predicted Reagan would get something better than 40 per cent on Tuesday but declined tb say he would Ford campaign strategists have said anything over half will be considered a victory for the In Ford said things looked good for him in New Reagan did not make any predictions during his final day of campaign ing in bul fingernail chewing The candidates of both parties have been reluc tant to make victory with understated expectations allowing them to claim all the greater victory when the New Hampshire results are Henry Jackson of Washington won four Puerto Rican delegates to the National Democratic Two uncommitted delegates also were the only candidate to campaign in Puerto had been expected to take a majority of the 17 seats up for but five of the eight caucuses were suspend ed after broke out over a dispute involv ing allegiance to the Democratic In Mississippi congressional district caucuses Alabama George Wallace gained nine Carter four and Shriver Party said Wallace would pick up two more delegates and Carter and one each when the last five delegates are selected at the state convention next Democrats and Republicans will hold precinct caucuses In Minnesota Tuesday with party officials predicting a close battle between Ford and Reagan and a victory for Hubert Humphrey has said he Is not a candidate but would accept a convention New Hampshire Is the first direct electoral test of the As voters in Not ch will be the first to cast their ballots shortly after Neither Wallace nor Jackson is on the non binding presidential but Jackson is running a slate of The Democratic campaigning has been marked by an absence of stark differences among the five major and Har ris are all considered to be while Carter is regarded as a though conservative on some The result has been a large field of still undecided Democratic voters as many as 50 per according to some campaign Gregg has said there probably are 20 per cent undecided in the Republican and Harris answered questions for an hour Sunday on the pro gram Issues and Answers and found few areas of Carter did differ with his rivals on whether to provide government jobs for the unemployed and said he was the only contender willing to ace Wallace headon in the where the Alaba mian is The major thrust in solving the Carter should be left to the private with government providing federal aid and incentives to Industry to avoid His four opponents all have advocated a govern ment job Harris declared that a job ought to be as automatic as unemployment com The contestants said they were convinced the partys nominee would emerge from the primaries and not from a brokered Udall said he does not believe Wallace will be able to dictate terms at the convention in New York City next July and said if Wallace were the partys nominee then Im going to do what he did In 1968 and simply go off and do my politics someplace Richard chief said later that simply was reiterating his past statements that he would not support a Democratic ticket If Wallace were on It and did not mean by the remark that he would seek the presidency on a Wallace bolted the Democrats in 1968 and ran as a third party All of the contenders have shunned the ner On Sundays Carter smiled when described as the likely Shriver term ed organization the best in New Hamp and Udall said he would not play hot potato Harris said he hoped to finish among the top three he t have In a solo appearance on the program Face the Nation from Bayh I think we have got to be in the top I think we No 12foot channel plan but new lock would fee perfect STETSON Telegraph Outdoor Writer The Corps of Engineers in insists that it has no plans to palm off a 12foot But it docs not deny that proposed new Lock and Dam 26 would be a perfect springboard into deeper Assistant Secretary of the Interior Nathaniel Reed told Sierra Club members Saturday Reed said that the corps proposal and acts like the first step toward deeper channelizing of the entire upper The corps doesnt deny that the project smells and acts this but the corps be surprised and hurt when the environmentalists and the railroads point this Reed Some progress is being made in the controversy over the proposed con struction of a new lock and dam at who is assistant secretary for wildlife and told the Great Lakes and Ozark Sierra Club chapters at Here Marquette Reed said that currently the corps board for rivers and harbors is studying a proposal thai would repair or just replace the existing The corps itself has constantly semi denied its opponents principal charge that the new locks and dam would be for a 12foot navigation as opposed to nine foot Reed told his audience of CONSERVATIONISTS WERE ALL SMILES Saturday night at the Sierra Club banquet at Pere Marquette State Assistant Secretary of the Nathaniel was the Larry is president of the Palisades Group of the Sierra In the middle is Hugh refuge manager of the Mark Twain Wildlife Area in Calhoun Telegraph photo by Robert Foes of new Alton dam mesmerised by hoax of 12foot channel Morris Assistant City Editor LOUIS Objectors to the con struction of Alton Lock and Dam 26 are mesmerized with the 12foot channel Major General John chairman of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors said Morris said he had found deep concern in for over a possible 12foot channel at public hearings held on the proposed new dam at The oxer the 12foot channel was so he that Objectors even come to grips with the effects of the channel the present depth of the Mississippi River navigation Morris spoke Sunday at a meeting of the Water Resources Congress in the Chase He gave a status report On Lock und The Wisconsin Morris gave the Board of Engineers a clear look at the environmental and concerns involved in the controversial Alton The board has scheduled a press con ference at l Tuesday In the office of the Louis District Corps of Engineers to announce the boards decision on the new The board is an independent board established by Congress to review the engineering and economic aspects of corps Morris told the Resources Congress contrary the popular belief that the board routinely approves corps 54 per cent of the projects in the last 70 years or so have been vetoed by the The board decides is the best solution to the economic and en problems Involved in corps The board is composed oj four major one brigadier general and wo backed by a staff of 20 What happened to the pot to upgrade foreign needs to generate vote Tuesday in artd warmer Eight in the New Hampshire primary race over 250 people in Pere Marquette State Park But the environmentalists argue that the plan is paving the way for giving the entire upper Mississippi the full 12foot at a cost of several billion dollars of taxpayers hard earned Reed He drew a parallel Ladies and gen when you notice a camels nose poking under your tent you are wise to conclude that out there is a whole rear end and and probably a camel driver as He said that one easy way for the corps to regain its credibility in the issue of the 12fqotchannel controversy would be to scale the Lock and Dam 26 proposal down to accommodate present Reed also lashed out at the proposed Dam project in seems to been hatched solely for the purposes of promoting and making Reed told Sierra He said that flood control can be by any number of means that stop short of strangling a adding that quality and supply are miniscule elements of the projects supposed Turning a canoe stream into a for waterskiers doesnt make it doesnt jibe with the tendencies we see all around Reed i Young the middle and even laged people for that matter are turning more and more to unmechanized outdoor experiences that test a persons basic skills and self Reed He said that push button recreation is backpacking and canoeing stores are springing up on college campuses and suburban malls Reed said that he was seeing no similar growth In The federal official said that hundreds of colleges have clubs devoted to snow but Id be hard pressed to think of one that has a water skiing H ARRIS D Key ruling expands trial BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO judge in the Patricia Hearst bank robbery trial ruled today that the young heiress must testify about a year in the underground during which the prosecution said she may have been involved In other SAN FRANCISCO AP With her lengthy testimony Hearing an Patricia Hearst learns today whether she will be questioned about plans she helped draw up for bank robberies other than the one for which she is on District Court Judge Oliver Carter says he will rule today on whether Miss may be questioned about 17 documents found in her last fugitive She is now on trial for a San Francisco bank robbery two months after she was Authorities say the notebooks and drawings could link her to planned bank heists in the Sacramento area fill ing out part of the year on the run she has kept hidden from the 1 Security benefit issue goes to court WASHINGTON AP The Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether the government may require or husbands of retired to prove they were dependent upon their wives in order to collect Social Security The justices will hear arguments on rul ings by federal courts in and that the requirement is unconstitutional sex The which appealed the argued that it is reasonable to impose such a requirement on men although it is not imposed on Despite the changing role of women in the work it is still more probable than not that a married woman will government lawyers told the high In less than one out of every eight families in which the wife worked does she earn more than half thei family in The government also argued that strik ing down the requirement would cost ap proximately million in widowers benefits alone each placing a severe burden on the Social Security trust funds already strained In other the court to hear the formula for selecting delegates to the Republican National Convention discriminates against large to review a lower court order upholding a city plan restricting i Bl Uv r M M 1 B7 Morris In the case of Lock and Dam it is a unique and complex Morris He for one It is a not a new structure and that not only are the executive and legislative branches of the federal government but the judiciary is in the person of a lawsuit against the The project also is fraught with national and Intermodal transportation Morris plus the fact that the slates are the energy problem is affected and the Department of Transportation has been called Coupled with these he that of timing getting the problems out of the way so the project can The board felt a deep sense of responsibility on this Morris and made ho simple 12 was particularly he added because of the related Issues such as the 12foot lie sill the effects of Increased navigation traffic on the environment and the economic The Morris of the engineering firms to help it evaluate the The board sought out consultants and laboratories even outside the Untied States to help check the data by the Louis district engineer and gathered at numerous public hearings on tlie We have greatest Morris Regardless of the final the board members w of their own Judgments on We feel we got the answer that satisfies our own KENNEDY ROMANCE The National Enquirer has reported that President John carried on a romance with Mary while he was in the White The Enquirer quoted James a friend of both Kennedy and Meyer and a former executive of the Washington The Enquirer also quoted Meyers sister as saying that James a CIA burned a diary of the AP Wirephoto housing construction in the San Francisco suburb of stand a lower court ruling dismissing a fairness doctrine complaint against an NBC program on private pen sion to hear a challenge to state law granting landlords authority to sear ch tenants rooms and seize property without a warrant or hearing if the tenants are behind in their stand a lower court ruling that Polish jokes broadcast on television do not require networks to offer Polish free air time to to rule on whether a business in one state must collect sales tax on its sales to residents of a second Walkington suspended for taking gasoline Telegraph Staff Writer A 13yearveteran of the Alton Police Department was suspended without pay for 20 days on 10 for taking 15 gallons of gas from sewage treatment plant Public report of the suspension of Stanley 3414 was withheld by Police Chief Rudy who said it was not his policy to release such information unless Sowders said Walkington was working as a security guard at the sewage treatment plant in his off After 15 to 20 gallons of gas was reported missing from city Walkington admitted taking the gas for private Sowders Patrolman Walkington said he con Continued on Page 1 New investigator of to be named Telegraph Capital Bureau SPRINGFIELD Attorney General William Scott will announce within the week an appointment to head up an investigation of Secretary of State Hewletts ties with following the death Sunday of Charles who had been named to probe the a spokesman forScott said who served on the state Supreme Court and was chief Justice In 1957 and died In his Rockford home Sunday reportedly following a heart attack or Davis was appointed deputy attorney general by Scott earlier this month to investigate Hewletts a year payments from Sun Steel of Chicago from to which Hewlett refuged to discuss in who is challenging Dan Walker for the Democratic nomination for governor in the March 16 resigned his advisory post with Sun Steel effective Attorney generals spokesman Donald Ramsell said Monday that Scott would announce a replacement for Davis yet this Ramsell added that it will be difficult to find somebody with Daviss uiv demanding and He said that the which will be bolstered with one or two will focus on both the questions of law and the facts of the had begun inquiry into the cose after a vacation earlier Ramsell Ronald Democrat running for the attorney general charged last week that the state was Jagging in its in and that the public has a right o know why Mike Hewlett received from Sun before the who receives a year in his secretary of state was a vice president for Sun Steel of Chicago before his election as state auditor In He denied recent newspaper reports that his office attempted to influence legislation in the General Assembly that would have been beneficial to Sun Steel and its My advice is pretty good and so is my said recently in explaining his association with the j f
