Beckley Post Herald (Newspaper) - February 12, 1974, Beckley, West Virginia 18 Defiant Page 6 Volume 37 Militants Still Out BECKLEY Tuesday February Response To Conference 12Courity Regional News Service RNS 2 Cents Truck Activity Libya Nationalizes Oil Firms Almost Normal Good Morning The News GEORGES POMPIDOU of France returned to the Elysee Palace Monday and resumed his official duties after four days spent at his private apartment recovering from illness and absence from his office set off a wave of speculation that he might have to resign because of health He has limited ceremonial appearances during the past of refugees fled on Monday from burning Jolo town in the southern where air force planes bombed and strafed as government troops battled Moslem reliable military sources three wheeled vehicle that the maker says moves along at 25 miles an hour and can be driven up to 45 miles before recharging was unveiled in Detroit on president and executive officer of EVI said the 400pound which stands 35 inches is powered by a electric POMPIDOU THE FEDERAL ENERGY OFFICE is considering the redistribution of gasoline sup plies among the states to take into account population automobile registrations and state an energy official said Mon day The John said the new redistribution of supplies under the governments formula would be an after the energy office finishes its Agnew said a special judicial panel ignored national precedent in recommending that the former president be In a formal re quest for reduction of the recommended Agnews lawyers said that instead of was handed out in 70 of 81 cases involving lawyers income tax offenses report in the nation since The petition was filed with the state Court of which has the last say on the recom by three Circuit Court judges after a 18 hearing United Steelworkers of America opens simultaneous company level talks in Pittsburgh today with three of the nations biggest THE FOOD AND DRUG Administration announced Monday it is delaying plans to triple the amount of iron in bread and flour so the agency can hold a hearing on the controversial The baking industry has proposed the move in response to dietary studies showing some particularly dont get enough The increase has been opposed by doctors who fear the additional iron would harm people with certain new prime lending rate of 9Vi per cent spread through the bank ing industry Monday amid predictions that the key interest rate would fall to 9 per cent reported Monday record sales of billion in up per cent from the previous Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend and President John Riccardo predicted problems for the near All indications are that 1974 will be a difficult they to We anticipate a decline in United States THE FATHER OF NEWSPAPER heiress Patricia kidnapped one week said Monday he was frightened by the silence of lier captors but refused to believe she was Randolph Hearst said he has to believe his daughter is a captive of the Liberation which boasted that it abducted the pretty coed last Monday price of free gold jumped an ounce Monday and in Paris it soared above an ounce for the second time in less than a month amid reports that France may soon the gold it The dollar eased slightly on most European ex changes except Paris where it held Mexican official kidnapped two weeks ago was freed unharmed Monday and said a ransom was paid for his The Vincente Rueda was kidnaped 29 by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Lost In Mail LOS ANGELES AP A state judge said Monday he was speechless when he learned that a he issued on 4 for President Nixon to appear in his court had not yet found its way through the mail to Superior Court Judge Gordon who issued the unprecedented of a presi had his clerk contact the local post and a tracer was placed on the en which was sent 4 by registered In the White House said it had not yet received the which Nix oat attorneys have said he would not By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Despite pockets of resistance from militant the ma of independent truckers appeared Monday to have abandoned their protest shut down against higher fuel After 11 days that left two drivers scores injured and workers temporarily without a truck traffic was reported at levels in most states and vital produce was once more to Officials of the New England Produce Center and at several Midwest livestock markets re ported receipts close to our above Truck stops in a number of states be gan pumping diesel fuel for the first time in a automakers reported production had returned to nor mal and that in dustry workers either laid off or placed on short shifts be cause of the truckers strike were back at Fullscale slaughtering oper ations resumed at the Illini Beef plant at after a De liveries at National Stockyards near East Louis were more than double those of last Mon Several thousand other work ers also returned to their jobs A vacuum cleaner company in said it would recall em ployes on And in the state where the strike was believed strongest truck traffic was reported Monday at 80 per cent of pre strike Scattered incidents of vio lence and some drivers pledged to contin ue the protest now or in the fu despite an agreement reached last Thursday with of in Libya AP Lib yan strongman nationalized the Lib yan operations of three Ameri can companies Monday night in response to what he called Washingtons provoca tive conference of oil con suming A government decree issued by Revolutionary Command Council ordered total nationalization of the operations of California Asiatic Oil and the can Oil California Asiatic is a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Oil of and jointly op erates the American Overseas Petroleum with a Standard Oil official They account for of two pro according to sources in The Oil is a joint operation by Atlantic or Arco Grace Pet of New and foreign subsidiary of Exxon officials said in Los Libyan American produces See Page 6 13 Nations Huddle Nixon Prods Oil Seekers Clean Break A Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone crew started work Monday to replace this pole at North Kan and Berry streets which was left dangling in mid air Friday when it was struck by a A piece of the pole fell tin a parked Michael of 212 his vehicle under The parked owned by Emma Foster of 507 received in police Photo State Guard Still On Duty Despite Truck Strike Halt By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A National said Monday that requests for escorts had indicating that independent truckers in West Virginia have apparently decided to go along with the latest government offer to end there apparently were no immediate plans to the A state trooper at Morgan town said truck traffic ap to have reached nearly normal The Guard John said the Guard was still at the maximum strength of 520 men in five northern West Virginia coun He said the number of re quests for especially those for general freight had dropped off dramatical Artillery Duels Erupt Along The Golan Line By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Syrian artillery fire blasted Israeli military positions and settlements Monday along the 40mile Golan Heights cease fire killing two and wounding the Israel mili tary command It said Israeli forces returned the Blaze Victim Is Identified MOUNT HOPE RNS An elderly Fayette County in his died early Monday in a fire which destroyed his frame house on the Mount Hope Police identified the victim as Allen A spokesman for the Fayette County Sheriffs Department said the cause of the blaze had not been determined and the investigation is The call was received by the sheriffs department at The Mount Hope fire Depart ment was called to the Weathers body is at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home in The command claimed the dead included a civilian wom The Israeli authorities said the fighting lasted about three hours in nearly all sectors of the Syrian bulge captured by Israel in the October The Golan battle was an as Iraq and Iran were reported reinforcing border out posts because of a battle Sun day over disputed territory that caused more than 140 Official sources said that area near the Persian Gulf bout 100 miles east of Bag was quiet Iraq and Iran issued conflicting claims over who had started the border But he said the com to reduce the number of activated soldiers will have to be made by Arch Moore According to the will probably be phased out over a period of time if it is decided that they are no longer He said the major job of the Guard now is to keep the bulk distributors moving oil and gasoline to the retail As of most gasoline stations had attendants stand ing around looking out win dows in the Morgantown Killoran Morgantown and Fairmont were two of the cities hardest hit by the fuel Feder al energy officials dropped the area from the allotment pro gram to allow more gasoline to flow through the WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Nixon Monday night urged the leaders of 13 suming nations to avoid what he called isolation in the ener gy by asking business deals that are not in the inter est of all In a White House toast to more than 100 delegates to the Washington energy he said the United States will reject the idea of such because it might be good politics over the short term to make the best deal you but over the long term it is bad His remarks appeared di mainly at France which made a number of separate economic deals with oil produc ing nations to protect its source of In France has of nuclear power plants and other economic de velopment projects to Saudi Kuwait and other Arab Nixon did not France by name but he emphasized that such practices would drive oil prices drive the economies of the world down and drive all of us Nixon said the United States does not intend to throw its weight but said the objective is to build an era of permanent He said that he did not wish to fol low a generation plagued with wars with a new generation plagued by economic the Libyan gov to the Wash ington meeting by nationalizing the Libyan operations of three American oil Nixon singled out Foreign Minister Walter who is president of the council of ministers of the European to receive a toast from the distinguished guests in the White House State Dining He said all of the guests at the head table were foreign ministers but there was only one who also was a Nixon said that within the United States there is a grow ing sense of But he called this period a water shed of world history and a time when war in South East Asia has been concluded by the and moves have been made toward permanent peace in the Middle He said the world now faces an unprecedented challenge but that building and keeping peace will not be He said that because this is an era of negotiation and not confrontation it is necessary to realize it is essential to main tain the strength and security that brought us where we Nixon declared that the not only rejects isolationism in but rejects it in trade relations and in monetary af He said this country would play a responsible role world in world trade and matters and in the energy opening the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger em the need for inter national cooperation to solve the world energy Vote Slated Today On Paying Soldiers AP A giving Arch Moore to finance acti during the trucks energy crisis last week will be up for a final vote Tuesday in the Sen On a 2211 mostly along party Democrats decided Monday to advance the to passage stage with the right to amend In other action in the the Judiciary Committee re ported out bills Monday on con sumer credit and protection and on open Democrats still wanted Re publicans to furnish them bet ter financial figures on just how much the Guard operation was costing each Judiciary Chairman Mario said he could see no way in which the crisis was being affected if pas sage of the measure was held over one more Majority Leader Lafe said he was among a group of Mingo Coun ty businessmen who met with the governor early He said he was dismayed See GUARD Page 6 Nixon Plans Vacation In Florida the early WASHINGTON AP President Nixon is planning a midweek trip to Florida for a vacation at his Key Biscayne home and to make two public White House sources said The President is expected to dedicate the Cedars of Lebanon Health Care Center in Miami and to make another public ap on his way back to Washington during part of next Before he departs for the President is expected to undergo an annual medical ex which was postponed last Friday when his motorcade stalled in traffic jams caused by a Nixon returned nearly one month ago from an 18day year end stay at his San Motorists Are Adapting Gasoline Rationing Spreads County Offices Close offices located in the Raleigh County courthouse will be closed today in observance of Abraham Lincolns Levy Approved LEWISBURG RNS Greenbrier County voters went to the polls Monday and passed a fiveyear school levy by 61 per Sixty per cent was needed for Of the voted for the levy and against The levy will provide free textbooks and workbooks for each school five new school buses per school equipment and and funds for capital outlay which would supplement state money to be received from the Better School Amendment passed statewide in All 47 county precincts Think We Got Snow Accumulated snow near a home in almost covers a yard light and icicles up to eight feet long hang from the The area has long been known as the snow belt the cop per country where 187 inches of snow fell in This 59 inches AP Photo By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The form of gasoline rationing will go into effect on Wednesday in Milton S h a p p announced Monday Shapps announcement came as service stations in the na tions capital and four states started similar rationing plans Pennsylvania will be the eighth state to institute a form of joining New New Mary land and Shapp announced the pro gram on a televised He said the program would be similar to the system instituted in all the other states in which motorists with See Page 6 The Weather BECKLEY VICINITY Mostly sunny and warmer highs in the upper Partly cloudy and continued warm to night and Lows to night near highs Wednesday low Probability of tation is near 0 20 per cent tonight and Details On Page 8
