Beckley Post Herald Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - July 18, 1976, Beckley, West Virginia f M Wirephoto Is now a fact for two new Samples of the new service may be Jn the weather map on Page and In pictures on pages 37 and INSIDE TODAY 267 3847 Creative Living gn Funerals Ecology Watch Editorials TV 24 28 6 SECTIONS COMBINED SUNDAY 96 PAGES Goren on Bridge Puzzles Ring Register 25 Sports VOL 23 SUNDAY JULY 1976 30 CENTS Library Dedication Scheduled For Today The new Raleigh County Public Library will be formally dedicated at 2 today by Gover nor Arch Moore with a reception and lours of the building Admiring the structures facade in the picture on the left is Dean Pollard of 815 South Kanawha Street and his two children age and age Taking advantage of the pit in the childrens section of the library in the photo on the right is from left Tony son of and Walter 1000 Hartley age 6 Tonys Carol and Patrick son of and Ron 1034 Woodlawn age Related story on Page 25 West Virgin News r Utility Tax Millions For Distribution UPI An additional million is this year from public utility company taxes for distribution to coun schools boards and state Auditor John Gates disclosed The increase in valuation was the ex pansion of utility company Gates Utility tax revenue will generate according to Water and electric led by Ap Power will pay nearly half the utility according to The tax tab for water and electric companies is and Appalachians is according to gas and pipeline companies will pay million in telephone and telegraph 43 million and railroads The biggest single taxpayer behind Ap is Chesapeake Potomac Telephone with a of Gates Byrd Around At Groundbreaking UPI Whipping out his fiddle to play with a senior citizens Robert par in groundbreaking ceremonies at op borders of Wood County Addressing a luncheon crowd following groundbreaking for a terminal building at Wood County Airport near Byrd pointed to West potential in lumber and Lauding the aspects of the new Park along the Ritchie County Byrd Nothing is more important today than putting people back to providing men and women with meaningful jobs that enrich their lives and contribute lasting benefits to their Visit 7 UPI The political fires in West Virginia will be fanned further next month when Ronald Reagan visits the Mountain State for the second time in three months in his quest for the Republican presidential The former governor of California will speak at the West Virginia Republican Convention in Charleston according to his state cam state Judith Herndon of The venture Is part of Reagans effort to win to his side more delegates to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City next Its Rough loing AP A Boone Coun ty man who wants to run for Congress as an independent is finding the going more difficult than he ever Larry Harless wants a panel of three federal judges to determine whether state laws which make it difficult for an independent to run are At a hearing Harless said his rights were violated by the restrictions placed on a can not affiliated with a political The defendant in the Secretary of State James had asked that the suit be Under state an independent candidate wanting to run on the November ballot must sub mit a petition containing signatures of one per cent of the voter turnout in that race jn the last For the 3rd Congressional District Harless needed signatures filed with McCartney before the May 11 Those who sign an independents petition are also penalized they cannot vote in the primary election for any Harless argued that voters forfeit their rights to vote for other offices by signing such No Traffic Solutions In By CHUCK GODDARD Register Reporter Until all the major highway construction planned in Raleigh County is completed and that could be after the turn of the according to State Department of Highways calculations Mayor John sees little Buckleys intensified have to ii Saturday as he In his Cadillac McCulloch had agreed 10 drive through Saturday mornings traffic to discuss congested trouble A ten mile circuit from City Hall to the Northernmost municipal limits and then up Harper Road to the Ramada Inn was decided At McCulloch headed north on South Kanawha Five minutes we were at the second stop light at the Skelton shopping center near the citys northernmost This has got to be a Ive never made this run this McCulloch As he turned his car around at the shopping McCulloch shook his head in wonder I drive this road to go to Oak Hill five or six times a week and Ive never made it this Heading back McCulloch pointed out the Max Reagan Gain Sweeps well Hill Connector road which is currently under Eventually that will go on to Harper Road where persons coming into town from Eccles on Route 3 will be able to turn off and get to the shopping center without coming through Several years according to the New 11 2vXu OA I f 11 L 1 1 Heading Sprague McCulloch This is part of the hourglass which should be We should have lanes from Sophia all the way to Corridor L near The mayor has urged the SDH to purchase the right of way for eventual widening of the road to four The SDH has inform ed McCulloch that the State cannot purchase land without a specific project in McCulloch contends the immediate purchase is necessary before skyrocketing prices make the purchase cost of the needed land are planning after the McCulloch Here at the intersection of Prince and Valley Drive they say we will have cars a day by Weve already got vehicles a day at this intersection The drive from the Skelton Shopping Center took nine A traffic flow publish ed by the State in indicated that the driving time was within five As we turned up Harper McCulloch said that a contract has been let by the state for the resurfacing of that main When they start that well really be in for traffic McCulloch He took the SDH to task again in the vicinity of Raleigh General Hospital where the city has installed warning lights and signs to show that the area is heavily When we put those signs up you would have thought wed committed a capital The SDH was hopping McCulloch The city pays for the power con by the flashing The driving time from the intersection of Harper Road and Valley Drive was four minutes 15 Its almost nice to travel on the city streets McCulloch Ive never seen a Saturday this empty in the Near the Holiday Inn on Harper McCulloch pointed out a sharp rise in the That will be we asked the SDH what they were going to do before we had to relocate some sewer and water We got no Now well have to move the See Mayor Page 2 3 Suspects Sought Weapons Aboard United Press International The final 55 delegates to next months Republican National Convention were selected Saturday with President Ford sweeping all 35 Connecticut delegates and Ronald Reagan winning the 20 chosen in 35 votes boosted Fords total in the UPI delegate count to only 32 short of the needed for the Reagans total climbed to There are 99 mitted and a third of them can deter Uganda Threatens Invasion Kenya UPI Uganda Saturday threatened to invade Kenya and said its warplanes were capable of reaching the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa where American and British warships regularly A Uganda military spokesman also accused Nairobi of hiring British and Israeli mercenaries to patrol the border between the East African It is not difficult to destroy material from the the spokesman said in the latest of a series of almost daily attacks on It would not be difficult for Ugandan air craft to reach Mombasa and return to base without See Uganda Page 2 mine the Connecticut GOP Chairman Frederick who phoned Ford with the said the President told him he figured he could win the nomination by picking up about 14 uncommitted He feels within the next four or five days he can svin enough uncommitted delegates to have the nomination wrapped said Although he had far more ground to Reagan insisted he would do well at the GOP conven tion starting 16 in Kansas I believe we are going to have enough to take it on the first Reagan said as he departed the Utah state Reagan backers com that Ford forces pushed through rule changes at the Connecticut state convention assuring the Presidents In the Reagan camp was in HONOLULU UPI Two leaders of pacifist groups Saturday released pictures they said showed nuclear weapons being loaded aboard Army helicopters for transport from central Oahu to Pearl Harbors West Loch The pictures were published in Honolulu Star Bulletin and showed con being loaded into Chinook helicopters at the Naval ammunition depot in One picture showed containers being removed from a truck which had the sign ex plosives on the Another photograph showed a Chinook helicopter flying over traf The pictures were taken Wednesday by James head of Catholic Action and Ian head of the field of fice of the American Friends Service Com There were three See Nuclear Page 2 Bus Driver Led Children To Safety Lester Is Still Alive UPI The lone survivor of a mass stranding of about 100 spinner dolphins was reported in grave condition at Sea World I would give it a very grave prognosis at this said Deke a But hes lived a lot longer than any of his Twentyfour other dolphins died in the mass beaching of mammals at Gulf of Mexico beaches in Sarasota County last Residents said they returned about 75 stranded dolphins to deep The dolphin named Lester by members of the Sea World was one of two that were found but alive following the The second a female named died UPI Police broadcast an alert for three suspects Saturday in the kidnaping of 26 children and their bus driver who escaped un harmed from the un prison where they were held more than 16 As authorities appeared to have a lead in the case that may have no parallel in the annals of Edmud Brown offered a reward for the kidnapers who took the children Thursday With hugs and laughter and the children ranging in age from 5 to 15 years and their 55 year old school bus driver came home early Saturday after being im prisoned in a rock The hero in the strange crime was Frank the who with his bare hands and the help of older children pried open the entrance to their prison Friday night near Liver 100 miles north of the kidnap Saying kidnaping is par reprehensible when it involves small Brown offered the reward and said The persons responsi ble for this crime must not go State empowers the governor to offer rewards up to In an police asked for informa tion on a Jerry who was not otherwise They also sought an unidentified 36 year old man with black curly hair and a tatoo on his right forearm and a 27 1 FRANK RAY year old man with brown hair and a mole on the side of his zone com mander of the California Highway Patrol in said the name of McCune came into the case after one of the kidnapers men Jerry and a small girl kidnap victim Jerry McCune Majors said the reaction of the kid to the girls ques tion prompted the search for the otherwise uniden but he refused to elaborate or say if the girl knew who her kidnaper Search headquarters was set up Saturday at the Santa Rita Rehabilitation a county near the quarry where the victims had been en We are getting an awful lot of said Deputy Sheriff Jack chief of the criminal division of Alameda In addition to the three police also sought a light colored van with two Citizens Band radio anten nas and another of medium green or blue color with the side windows painted Ray had given police the license number of one of two vans that had taken the kidnap victims away after the school bus was hi jacked and hidden in a dry creek The motive for the crime remained a Ray said the kidnapers had not talked much and had offered no clue to what they wanted from the bizarre One of the kidnap vic Jeff has his own idea about the reasons the three masked men had seized him and his companions on their way home from a summer school swimming I thought they just had the urge to do See Children Page 2
