Beckley Post Herald and Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - July 25, 1970, Beckley, West Virginia Combined WEEKEND Volume 178 Good Morning The News DOPE PAUL VI hopes to go to Yugoslavia fa September the first visit by any Roman Catholic pontiff to a Communist Vatican sources said Prime Minister Edward Heath hag picked Anthony European affairs minister in bis as cellor of the in formed political sources said Barber will succeed Iain who died of a heart attack wave of arrests swept La Paz Friday as the Government sought to reduce political tension In the Some gunfire was heard in Hie early Those ar including Chavez former president of Bolivias Nationalist once the largest political were apparently being held in connection with a guerrilla upsurge in the interior and open warfare between rival university student groups in the AP and UPI POPE PAUL NUCLEAR WEAPONS pioneer Edward Teller asserted Friday that student If will weaken national defense and invite a foreign takeover m 20 testifying before the Presidents Commission on Campus based the grim forecast on grounds that indoctrinated young people will not take a government announced Friday evidence of another presumed Soviet underground nuclear second this the fourth this and the 41st since the limited test ban treaty of August Department of Defense reported Friday that Army 4 Harry Lauck of has died In Southeast Asia of nonhostile ARMY JACK described by a ranger as in good spirits and good was expected to finish his 130mile trek across stifling Death Valley shortly before noon a 34yearold Vietnam veteran who is walking with an American flag in memory of his slam planned to 35 miles shortly after dusk Friday He faced a gradual climb on the winding grapevine road from 500 feet to feet in temperatures ranging from 85 degrees hi the middle of the night to an expected 105110 degrees when he completes his trip near Scottys forest fires burned out of control Friday in Canadas Wood National home of the whooping but the nesting grounds of the rare birds were not in immediate parks spokesman Soviet Union signed a formal arms agreement with the new regime hi Libya that may open the way for future Mediterranean bases for the Communist diplomatic sources said THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT said Friday it will make a preliminary study of whether grocery store Hems should be date stamped to advise consumers if the food pro ducts are Transportation Department Friday issued a new safety stan dard to prevent the threat of death or injury to children from oar Douglas director of the National Highway Safety said the standard requires manufacturers to produce power windows which can be operated only with the ignition resignation of Charleston street commissioner McCoy was announced Friday by Mayor Elmer Dodson in the wake of a scandal concerning McCoys use of city employes on city time for the construction of his home on Elk River in Clay Kidnap Plot Thwarted Brazil UPI Police reported Friday the arrest of three suspected ter including an American on charges of plotting to kidnap Consul Doner The American Nancy Mangabeira Un is the daughter of an American fa ther and Brazilian mother and holds dual Brazilian police Saturday July 1970 Smith Weeps SHOPPING CENTER 8 Cents None The Worse For Wear The Tektite 2 look none the worse for wear at Great Bay in the Virgin Islands after spending two weeks 50 feet be neath the From left Alina Ann Sylvia Renate Margaret Ann All in the interests of scientific Marshal Call Dropped Senate Sets State Mine Union Inquiry CHARLESTON AP Harrison will bring his Senate Labor here from Washington next week to conduct hearings on the committees probe into the embattled United Mine ers an informed source taid The source said Jerrald subcommittee is al ready in the state talking with dissident miners and disabled miners who have sparked a two wildcat strike by some Williams Washington office would neither confirm nor deny the but sources said the hearings would be held Thursday and District Court Judge John Field of Charles ton has apparently vetoed the idea of sending federal marshals to keep the peace in the south ern West Virginia coalfields were scattered incidents of vio lence and intimidation have been reported this In a spokesman for the Justice Department said no formal requests for addition al marshals had been Hearings this week at Dis Court at Bluefield produced testimony by miners and NMW officials that miners were afraid to return to work for fear of all mines hi Ra Wyoming and Logan coun ties and mines in several other southern West Virginia counties continued to be closed by pick ets of the Disabled Miners of Southern West The group is picketing to gain re forms in the Welfare and Retirement Some 160 miners were idled this week at four mines at Osa and five employ ing about to remained closed Friday in Pike Appalachian Powers Offer On Hearing Agenda Today The offer of a settlement which was presented Monday by Appalachian Power may be considered at todays session of the Federal Power Com missions Blue Ridge power project FPC Examiner William Levy announced at the close of the Friday session in the Federal Building Levy said that since cross examination of witnesses was completed the remain der of the hearing will be un at todays including the offer by APC to operate the proposed million project without the releasing of large amounts of water to flush out the pollu tion in the Kanawha The proposal was tentatively offered by APC Monday and will have to be presented in writing to be binding Levy announced at the close of the Friday session that a conference will be held today with the lawyers followed by the remainder of the It is expected that if all par ties do agree to the settlement it would be a matter of months before the settlement is agreed to and adopted in the form of a Todays The Weather BECKLEY VICINITY Vari able warm and humid through Sunday with a chance of scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers today and Highs both days in the middle low tonight in the upper Probability of tation 30 per cent today and Sun 20 WEST VIRGINIA Partly warm and humid through Sunday with a chance of a few scattered afternoon or eve ning Lows to night 60s and low highs to day and Sunday in the 80s and low Details On Page 16 session will be open to the although no witnesses are expected to present John director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife of the Department of the testified that the operation of the proposed million Blue Ridge power project near will be the cause for the replacement of wading fishermen by boat Gottschalk The first man who gets down at Hinton with the first good marina facility and sells boats is going to have a good business for the first few years after the project goes into Its be cause the American public is going to do like they always They are going to accept the project and move in and take advantage of it and some one with enough money will buy a boat and the others will find a way to get a boat out there and take advantage of the river and enjoy West Virginia Continued On Page 8 Guerrillas Spurn Plan Kin Brawl Nasser Says Peace Chance Nil And 5 Die T AO By United Press International Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser said Friday he had absolutely no hope for peace despite his acceptance Thursday of proposals for new negotiations with Israel Arab guerrillas vowed to continue the Nasser also threatened a major confrontation between the Arab world and tht if Israel continued receiving arms and said he would seek Russian nuclear protection if Israel developed an atom In the Jordanian capital of Amman the central commit tee of ten major Palestinian guerrilla organizations rejected criticized him indirectly and said they would continue the fight against Spokesmen for the central committee said the group refused acceptance of the proposals for peace and absolutely rejects all propo sals for solutions of the Jordanian which had a major confrontation with the las in early prepared to announce within 24 hours acceptance of the American political sources in the capital at an open session of his Arab Socialist Union Con gress in said if Britain and the continue arming Israel even if she refused the plan they will both face severe from the Arab world will they continue giving Israel weapons In this there should be a major confrontation between the whole of the Arab world and America and Israeli Jets Attack TEL AVIV AP Israeli planes kept up their daily pounding of Egyptian military objectives in the Suez Canal area hitting fortifica tions and artillery positions dur ing the the military com mand Fiery Collision Kills 2 By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Two County both state road perished in the fiery crash of their truck and a Friday afternoon on Interstate 77 south of Ripley in Jackson State Police identified the victims as Okie of and Chester De of bodies were badly The driver was not although police said the two vehicles were completely Gas Shipment Protested WASHINGTON UPI Plans to ship by rail a number of carloads of nerve gas from Blue grass Army Ammunitions Depot in Ken tucky has prompted a protest from Ken to Defense Secretary Melvin Hechler said Friday he sent Laird a telegram contending that the shipment will almost certainly cross West Virginia and con a threat to the people in a wide LOS ANGELES family fight in a residential area culminated in gunfire and knifing Friday and five persons were killed and two children were Sheriffs deputies who re to a telephone call reporting a man was firing a gun in an alley in a complex of houses in the Firestone District said all involved were apparent ly A man identified as Cleve Van was believed to have killed himself after fatally wounding three women and a teenage The dead women were identified as Metcalfs 28 Maddic 22 Linda and Pearline Mary Ann was taken to Francis Hospital in nearby Lynwood for treatment of multiple knife A 10month old was shot in the hip and was also taken to Francis She was reported in satisfactory Bribery Trial Jury Is Hung CHARLESTON AP State Bernard Smith broke into tears Friday night after a Kanawha County Intermediate Court jury reported that it could not reach a verdict on his bribery Intermediate Court Judge George Wood declared a hung jury and a mistrial at after some 2 hours and 50 min utes deliberation by the 11 charged with bribery in the alleged violation of state purchasing had no com He kept his composure while the foreman told the court that the jury had not been able and would not be alble to reach a verdict in the After Wood had dismissed the Smith lost his composure and began to sob quietly for sev eral minutes as he left the room to join his who was in another room Smiths William ett of would only comment that tine action of the jury speaks for Kanawha County Prosecuting Patrick apparently stunned by the jurys sat quietly at the attorneys ta ble for several He de Wood had repeated his tions to the jury late Friday aft er the foreman reported that a verdict had not been The jury began its delibera tions at The Logan County Democrat is charged with bribery in the awarding of a state con tract to Business Systems Equipment in The Logan County Democrat served as welfare commissioner during the administrations of former Barren and Final arguments in the which opened were presented Friday by Kanawha County Prosecuting Pat Nixon Threatened UPI Secret Service agents have arrested a 53yearold weapons expert on charges of threaten ing to assassinate President who was enroute today to Salt Lake City and his wes tern White House in State Highway Patrol Head quarters in Sacramento Thurs day issued an bulletin for John Woolf at the request of the Secret Woolf was spotted at a serv ice station parking lot north of Stockton and police kept him under surveillance until feder al agents arrived to make the arrest Thursday rick his Rob ert and Smiths William Beckett of Beckett called the three wit nesses who testified for the state Commissioner Tru man Divi sion Director Curtis Wilson and Charleston businessman Raymond George the three monkeys and the terrible George and Wilson have been granted immunity by the who faces some 22 indict in the Smith trial without the benefit of im Testimony by these three men was tainted Beck ett adding that he wouldnt touch Gore with a ten foot The Huntington attorney eused Casey of hiding the three men behind his cloak of immu charging that Gore would never be at the prison docket of the Kanawha County court Mark my Beckett ten years from when 200 or 300 indictments have been brought back there will never be another trial in this he thieves will walk the streets they will follow the path of immunity out of the door and into the halt Curtis is still on tile streets Raymond who not only wears bis cloak of immuni ty but seems a little proud he walks the streets of Charles ton Beckett He asked Did it ever to anyone in Caseys office to use one and put the other in jail Becketts charges were vigo rously denied by during the final argument before the Mormon Guest War Critics Taunt Nixon SALT LAKE CITY President Nixon addressed a crowd of persons from the steps of the Mormon Church office building Friday night against a background of antiwar by about 200 The President was forced to raise his voice so that he could be heard against the noise of the demonstrators Power to the After a few the demonstrators quieted down as others in the crowd yelled shut and Nixon was able to comparing the Mormon pioneers who settled Utah with Americas astro Earlier in the day the President had flown to for a discussion of farm problems with five and later tonight he was scheduled to continue on to the western White House at San After being greeted by Joseph Fielding 94 year old President of the Mormon Nixon climbed up the steps of the office building in downtown Salt Lake City facing the said I have never seen a so big or so But as the chants from the demonstrators Nix ons and he tensed clasping Then he spoke louder to spirit of Utahs 124th Jay celebrating en trance Mormons into the Salt Lake Those Mormon pica eers had the that sees great problems responds with great said A Yank Base Struck By Jets A n derson Proposes A Debate CHARLESTON AP Wash ington columnist Jack Anderson said Friday he is prepared to meet Arch Moore in a television debate to support his claims that Moore is involved in a financial In a telephone interview with a Charleston television Anderson said he would be glad to put up my facts against his Moores Lets do it on television before the people of West Continued On Page SAIGON AP pounded North Viet positions around aban Fire Base Ripcord on a mountain in the far north Fri day and struck repeatedly at the summit to destroy anything of value left South Vietnamese infantry men sweeping five miles south west of Ripcord found a North Vietnamese base smashed by a raid Wednesday but it was apparent this had no effect on massive enemy fire that forced the Americans to abandon Rip cord South Vietnamese ters said the government troops counted the bodies of 53 North Vietnamese A spokes man said 102 huts used for shel ter and storage of war materiel had been destroyed by the ex plosives from the Looking for the South Vietnamese found only two light machine two rocket launchers and 21 assault rifles scattered indicat ing that few weapons were kept there or that other arms had been blown up in the A Viet Cons radio broadcast claimed a great victory at claiming Ameri cans had been killed there since July with 97 helicopters The Command said 61 Americans were 345 wounded and five helicopters were shot down in and around Ripcord since July The bombings apparently were intended to substitute for the loss of set up in April by the 101st Airborne Division to watch over North Vietnamese infiltration in the mountains and jungles north of Continued On Page 8 Married 75 Years William and wife pose for their July 24 wedding anniversary picture in the log cabin theyve lived in for 68 years at They have seven children and 66
