Beckley Post Herald and Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - October 19, 1974, Beckley, West Virginia Combined WEEKEND Edition Volume 251 AP and Saturday October Newt West SHOPPING CENTER 2 15 Cents Good Morning IRS Wants The News Rockefeller To Cigarette Controls Interest President SENATE MAJORITY WHIP Robert will be the guest this Sun day on Face The than half the nations citizens 51 per believe the economy is heading toward a 1930sstyle and nearly 70 per cent believe the economic situa tion will worsen in the next six according to the latest Gallup in Canada showed that mari juana smoking impairs the driving ability of most it was reported The study was made at the University of British BYRD WASHINGTON Vice Presidentdesignate Nelson Rockefeller dis closed Friday night he will have to an additional in federal income and gift taxes as a result of Inter nal Revenue Service would also be subject to interest Rockefeller summarized the audit results in letters to the two com considering his vice presidential The disclosure seemed like ly to increase controversy over the WhiteHouse spokesmen said President Ford would have comment on Rockefellers a n The figures disclosed by Rockefeller on Friday night showed that the audits re quire him to pay an additional in federal income taxes and an additional 000 in federal gift largely because the IRS dis allowed some deductions the former New York governor took for office and investment expenses and for charitable A Rockefeller spokesman said later there were no IRS penalties but that 6 per cent interest would be added to the additional When former President Richard Nixon had his federal income tax returns audited by the IRS earlier this he was found to be owing in taxes and approximately in When Rockefeller testified before the Senate Rules Com last month he gave no indication in his prepared remarks that his income tax returns were subject to further A Rockefeller spokesman said Friday night t h e additional I a x See Page 12 WASHINGTON UPI President has asked the National Cancer Advisory Board Friday to scientifically justify its proposal to regulate the tar and nicotine content of Ford asked board chairman Jonathan to give him an assess ment by 1 of the scien basis for its proposal to regulate tar and nicotine The Boards proposed which Ford dis would presumably I a n fro m the market cigarettes which are deemed to produce an excessive amount of tar and Recent statistics show Americans again are smok ing about as many cigarettes a year as they did when when the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was first asserted by the surgeon general 10 years Ford requested the board to review the existing scien evidence on an urgent basis and provide me with an assessment of the extent to which there exists a scientific basis for responsible regula tion of a heavy and habitual pipe did not commit himself in his letter to Rhoads to acting on the proposal for regulating It is critically important that our judgments be soundly based so that we may proceed with the greatest amount of Ford MICHELLE LYNN one of the 11dayold Rohrer wets given too much milk too soon and has been returned to intravenous feeding at a Baltimore Donald director of the hospital said the dietary change for Michelle was only a not set Carmen whipped Hong Kong with 70mileperhour winds bringing schools and transporta tion to a halt and temporarily disrupting the colonys space satellite com Ford on Friday ordered federal departments and agencies to limit their energy consumption to levels 15 per cent below the amounts used in the fiscal year claiming it would save the equivalent of about 15 million barrels of STATE POLICE late Friday were rounding up 26 persons named in 41 in returned by a special Wetzel County grand jury investigating drug related criminal activity Chiles military government announced Friday that the International Red Cross has told it the Soviet Union may be willing to study a plan under which Chile would release some of its political prisoners if Cuba and the Soviet Union did Retail prices jumped per cent last month to reach Julys inflation level and trigger ed Housing Gets Help As Ford Signs WASHINGTON AP President Ford gave the housing industry what he called a shot in the arm The shot was a fresh dose of federal money billion now and up to billion more if the industry fails to shake the lethargy which has affected it for two The will allow about new buyers of homes to save about a month in cheaper In signing a authorizing the the President nailed down the first compo nent in the economic program he proposed last Proposals which will have to await return from next months elections include a service i sent rale for Ford told government and in dustry officials at a brief signing ceremony in the White House Cabinet Although the law wont restore the industry to perfect it will provider shot in the arm for the housing in Ford The provides Treasury backing for the Government National Mortgage or Ginnie to buy billion worth of mortgages which would have to be provided to homebuyers at below the going Thats enough money to cover home Mine Union Unit Moved To State WASHINGTON AP The United Mine Workers Safety Division office will move from Washington to as of 1 THE PHILIPPINES announced Friday it hiked sugar prices 51 per and one Manila supermarket sold out its sugar supply in less than 30 At the same sugar prices reached a record a ton in trading on the London Ter minal One dealer said prices could go even higher when the Common Market and possibly the United States start buying oh the free Motor is con a 5 per cent cutback of white collar employes that could involve some workers and may alter some car and truck programs in a the Detroit News said Francisco da Costa Gomes of Portugal met with President Ford on i Mobile Home Burns A Lanark valued at by David burned to the ground Friday according to Queen of the Beaver Volunteer Fire Queen said Kempler told firemen he believed the blaze was caused by a faulty baseboard A department fire truck was involved in an Eisenhower Drive collision on its way to the according to Beckley A traffic report said the fire driven by Michael Wayne of was using its flashing lights and siren when passing a truck driven by Jame s Alfred of Mount Hope The coll sion occurred when Tate attempted to make a left the report Queen said the did not affect ef forts to quench the fire blame the departments main pumper had already arrived at the fire before the oc Police estimated about in damage was done to the 1971 model fire engine and Tales 1973 model truck sustained in Singers Girl Dead UPI A distraught dumped a pan of scalding grits on popular young soul singer Al Green Friday while he was getting out of the bathtub and then apparently shot herself to police Although police were continuing to investigate the fatal shooting of 29yearold Mary inspector Jones It looks like Jones said authorities found a three page suicide addressed to in the vic tims Car Crushes 2 POINT AP A Mason County girl was crush to death Friday when her father ac Backed over her in the family State the victimas Cathy Jo Crump daughter of and the Slaughters area Authorities said the child had been play ing in the when the accident bc When You Say Smite Jill nine months from seems to be engulfed by a large western type hat during a visit to the State Fair of Texas in Jill is the daughter of and AP Photo Appalachian Power Told To Refund Overcharges AP The Public Service Commission ordered Ap Power Friday to refund to its customers PSC alleges it overcharged under the fuel adjustment clause on months The refund is to be made on Novembers The average residential customer in the Charleston area should get a credit of to on the November the PSC Appalachian was also directed in Fridays order to lower its fuel adjustment clause Fridays order was in addi tion to an earlier allegation that Appalachian had overcharged customers million by passing on the market price of coal to Egypt Seek State Of Palestine customers without taking into the lower cost of coal from its own The question of the million will not be settled un til the PSC rules on a pending Appalachian rate Elizabeth PSC said the action meant the PSC in denied Appalachians request to reconsider an earlier order that it cease immediately its present method of pricing Because the utility chose not to comply i m built up in she c c t e employ for industry to its productive capacity arid a 5 per cent income The home building industry was starting new homes at an annual rate of million units two years but is sputtering along at only a pace Interest rates for homebuyers have backed off only slightly in recent weeks from record in unemployment rate of per cent compares with a per centrate We cannot tolerate a building program at the pre Crash Kills 5 UPI A Canadian Air Force Chinook helicopter crashed into a mountainside and burned just south of this coal mining town in eastern Penn sylvania killing all five persons The chopper had taken off off from the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation near where it was stationed for repair There are no mine fatalities in Vice President They all take place in t h e The new location will help the international safety division keep on top of daytoday mine safety We hope it will help save The to office space at Crosswind Commercial Park at will involve the divisions nine office An additional 36 inspectors stationed in field offices around the coal fields will not be The intersec tion of 50 and Interstate will put the office drive of 60 per cent of the the union The union described the move as meaning the office may be moved again when the UMW head quarters is moved from Washington to an as yet un determined site in the Soviet Lets Sailor Emigrate To WASHINGTON UPI Henry D said Friday Simas a Soviet sailor who tried to jump to freedom on a Coast Guard cutter in is on his way to the United The State Department this summer declared Kudirka a citizen because of his mother was born in Kudirka had been living in his home in Lithuania since being released recently from a Soviet Both Kudirka and his mother have been to leave the Soviet Tape Shows Nixon Asked Hush Money By The Associated Press The Soviet Union and Egypt agreed Friday to support the creation of a Palestinian state as a requirement for Middle East They called for seating the Palestine Libera tion Organization at the Geneva talks as a full par The PLO is set up independent Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza both occupied by Israel 1967 Middle East The headed by Yasir is the umbrella struc ture of major Palestinian guerrilla It was in to take part in the General debate next month on the Palestinian In a statement issued after a visit to Moscow by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail the official Soviet news agency Tass said The USSR and Egypt have come to understanding that full and ultimate political settlement which must be ac within the framework of the Geneva conference with the es of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East is possible only on condi tion of securing the legitimate rights of the Arab people of including its right to creation of its national The sides declare for independent participation of representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization on equal terms with its other participants at the Geneva peace conference on the Middle for the resumption of which at the earliest date they will Mine Kills 5 SAIGON UPI Com munist saboteurs set off a Claymore mine Sin a village school 34 miles northwest of Saigon killing five children and two the Saigon command The Weather VICINITY Sunny but cool highs in the mid Clear lows in the mid Partly cloudy and not as cool Sun highs in the Winds from the north today at 5 to 10 niles per Probability of is 10 per cent to and Details On Page 8 Were Undergoing Stagnation WASHINGTON UPI The White House prefers stagflation to recession as term for the current state the a spokesman said any the figures are with product down and the prices of goods and White House press secretary Ron to dent Fords news conference denial 9 that the country is in a recession with the statement ther following day by Arthur chairman of the Federal that a recession 4 you call what in a1 or whether you dont call it a recession a semantic I dont think theres any ques tion everyone that the economy is said it would be call the current condition stagflation a term coined by economists to describe a growth is stag nant but prices are prices are expected to fall when the economy On Albert chairman of the Presidents Council on and Price said in congressional testimony that he can be halted without price rollback A WASHINGTON AP The Watergate trial heard White House tapes on including one in which Presi de n t Nixon tells youve got no choice but to meet a Watergate con demands for for Christs get Nixon was heard say ing on the tape played in The presidential order was heard on the tape of a March conversation Nixon with his White House John Dean and Sec Page 12 Leap For Life clings to a fireman on a ladder as she dangles New Nam San South Korea early morning fire that killed at least 15 and in than 30 other The woman jumped irom the ninth floor and caught ofthe ladder which not reach that V Prime Rate Falls NEW YORK UPI Two major banks Friday lowered the prime lending rate for top business borrowers to 11 from 11 tt per while others went from 11 per cent to 11 V4 per First National City Bank and Chemical both ma jor New York made the move to 11 M per Continental Illinois Bank Crocker San and Manufacturers Los went down point to 11 OPEN This Afternoon til 5 GRAY LUMBER OX Frigidaire
