Daily Bedford Gazette (Newspaper) - June 27, 1973, Bedford, Pennsylvania EDFORD GAZETTE THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and with a chance of thun today and Highs Wednesday In the Wednesday night In the Showers and likely ESTABLISHED VOL 168 231 BEDFORD JUNE 1973 SINGLE COPY TEN CENTS POWs Charged With Aiding Enemy Four Proposals Up For Vote At Rivers Bend Rivers Bend Golf and Country shareholders will vote July on four in one to permit refinancing by a new group of The board of directors is recommending approval of proposal which calls for an effort to negotiate a first mortgage loan or bond issue for from individuals and or members and shareholders of the cor As the proposed mortgage would be for a longer term than the and would be used to pay off the current and accounts President Joe who announced he will not be a candidate for said the clubs Executive Committee would hear a report July 9 from the group handling the Second vice president Richard in charge of the will report then how much money is actually in the in a bulletin to says the recent attempt to purchase Rivers Bend was stopped by the board and stockholders who felt that the value and growth was too real to permit anyone to buy the The offer of was about one half of the local estimated Myers The designer and builder of the golf course stopped at Rivers Bend recently and without any pencil work estimated the present value to be Myers bulletin related that Most of the stockholders opposed selling the property and exhibited the feeling that Rivers Bend should remain the recreational facility it was in tended and should remain under local control and That it should remain the beautiful property that it is and that it should serve people as The boards third not recom mended but offered as an is that the golf course and clubhouse be President Stewart said Helen Mc Cahan was officially named club manager for the and that she has been approved by the Liquor Control She heads a group of ladies who have been running the club since Chef Rodney was There are no Stewart to hire a Proposal 1 would authorize an increase in common shares from 1500 to at a par value of making the total capital Each shareholder would be offered one extra share for and would be asked to accept shares in lieu of principal at the same would be asked to accept shares in payment of at per A fourth proposal reduces the board oi directors from its present nine to 15 to a maximum of who need not be Pennsylvania residents or shareholders in the Their terms would be shortened to two from Stewart said the with committees actually operating the obviously does not It needs Stewart stressed in a telephone the golf In his Stewart It is not simple to operate a with financial obligations the size of with a church board type Stewart leans to the view that a strong with a more experienced is He said a report on financial condition would be made to shareholders July It would show assets and total rather than a full operating The corporation stock is held by over 400 most of them in the Everett but some spread over a wide A total of 1453 shares are of the 1500 The initial at per raised just short of The first proposal would have the effect of reducing the value of all shares to It is understood the refinancing would be in by a similar to swap stock for at per The potential lenders in the refinancing effort have not been publicly named to Uut a group of members and directors ex pressed confidence they could raise the money two months when an offer to buy was made by and Paul Simkin of The Simkins first offered an outright and then made a more formal offer to buy enough shares to control the Their offer was coupled with promises to expand the and upgrade hose the club The directors turned the offer and decided to try to refinance their WASHINGTON UPI Two of the highest ranking prisoners of war released by North Vietnam have been accused of aiding the enemy and committing mutiny both of which could be punished by death and with five lesser offenses while in the Navy said The charges against Marine Edison Miller and Navy Walter both veteran fighter pilots who held antiwar views in were brought by Rear James who was deputy commander of all POWs held by the North Viet said he acted as senior prisoner of war in the naval service in charging Miller and He refused further comment since these matters are now within the judicial The Navy said Stockdale charged each man with seven violations of the Code of Military In addition to mutiny and aiding the the list of alleged violations included con soliciting other POWs to violate the failure to obey an and causing or attempting to cause insubordination and Additional details of the charges were not im mediately made but Defense Department sources said the accusations were very detailed and very If the solicitation charge accused Wilber and Miller of advising other POWs to mutiny or aid the it could also carry the death The other four charges carry maximum penalties ranging from two years to life imprisonment at hard labor and dishonorable of Columbia Cross in a statement left with the Philadelphia Naval Hospital asked the news media to respect my He outlined the procedural steps in a military inquiry and said he would have no further comment to make in regard to the alleged In April the 25year career officer acknowledged that during his four and onehalf years of captivity he made antiwar statements for the North Vietnamese without undergoing the highest ranking Marine held by the North said in a statement left at Camp Marine Base I realize this is a serious matter and it will be a difficult time for my family and I have nothing to hide and have a great deal of confidence in my country and its system of both civilian and a 24year returned from five years of captivity to his home in but left for an undisclosed location May two days before his wife filed for divorce on grounds of harassment and It was the first time POW officers freed by the Commu had been charged with prison camp Eight enlisted men were charged May 29 by Air Force Theodore Guy with divulging prison camp secrets to the North action defied the wishes of the only POW senior to Air Force John who had been commander of the so called 4th Allied POW after his urged all POWs to adopt a It took a month to make up his mind to file the He mailed the charges to Navy Secretary John Warner a week ago and they arrived at the Pentagon The Navy made them public after notifying Miller and The said the next legal step would be for military lawyers to decide whether to forward the charges to a grand Top Of Th Morning Topics In The News Today AROUND HERE ELSEWHERE Topic A Bedford hospital announced the addition of seven doctors to its including two eye three general prac and two Hospital Administrator James Vreeland said the doctors came to the area as the result of advertisements in medical this The Northern Appalachian Craft Festival at Tulip Time will blossom over Bedford May 17 to May 27 next year as the Heritage Commission begins what it hopes will be an annual event promoting the county much as the Fall Foliage Festival has Craftsmen from all over the country will be invited to participate in the with plans calling for the use of the entire downtown Bedford area for craftsmen to demonstrate and sell their The tulip was chosen as the official festival flower and the commission hopes large gardens and fields of tulips will be planted by county residents and that garden tours can be Other events are being worked on by the committees and all county organizations are invited to plan events and report them to the Festival Com so they can be added to the festival Craft both from this county and are being invited to register to participate by calling or stopping at the Heritage Shoppe on East Pitt Street or by writing to the Northern Ap Craft Box Robert chairman of the new recently appointed committees for the Wendy Cox is chairman of the crafts with Telma Gilmore and Laura Sollenberger as William Katheryn Sweet and Sue Triplett make up the flower com Marlene Benner will chair the publicity committee with members John Baughman and Wendy The budget com is composed of Jean Patty Shuster and Mary Wilfong also heads the tulip dance along with Jean Wendy Cox and Jim Jane Cayman and Paula Brown are the youth education committee and Barnhart will chair the special events and concession Additional members to all committees will be added by the chairman from both Heritage Commission members and county A car driven by Donald of came to rest against the side of Graystone Hotel Tuesday morning after being struck broadside at the intersection of Richard and Pitt Streets in Bedford by a car driven by Diana of Everett RD Borough police said Yoxtheimer was northbound on Richard and Miss Show was westbound on Pitt when the crash According to Yox theimer left the scene momentarily to chase his large dog which leaped from the car and ran north on Richard Total damage was set at Two Bedford youths were listed in fair condition at Bedford hospital following a motorcycle accident shortly after midnight Steven the suffered possible head Thomas sustained cuts and the cycle hit a fence post in a Total damage was set at in a fire that leveled a large cement block garage in Woodbury on The garage owned by Galen Whetstone was used to repair freight The fire was discovered by an employee who was welding a truck about 10 Damage to the garage was set at a camper parked outside also was There was no insurance on the according to who was not home at the Firemen from Martinsburg and Southern Cove were called to the The Continental Army of 1771 will step off this morning for the first of their march from the courthouse to The costumed teenagers will raise the flag at the fort at 10 and lower it at 4 as part of the summer tourist The parade will consist of a drummer and the flag A group of county residents was attacked by Indians in the center of Greensburg last the citizens of the Westmoreland County Seat made up for the welcome by spreading a luncheon feast for the almost 700 participants of the Appalachian Wagon who had spent a week on the trail from Bakersville in Somerset About 76 500 150 riders and a yoke of oxen trudged over Laurel Mountain and wound their way along dirt roads near Xavier outside the wagon train backed up miles of modern automobiles in order to cross Route Perils of the journey included a wagon a colt being killed by a a man getting kicked in the head by a horse and the normal discomforts of insect bites and saddle There were also good times with square gospel an Indian a frontier fashion a cake magic show and a talent show put on by the travelers who made the journey by along with friends and were John Nelson of Hopewell Glen Bedford RD 4 Jim Pleasant ville Kenneth Beans Arthur Grubb of Bedford Ronnie Shaffer and Ralph both of Bedford Township Robert Breezewood Russ Fisher town Gary Bedford Township John Alum Bank RD 1 Ralph Beans Cove Roy Imler of Sproul RD Harry New Paris RD and Jerry Hershberger was also the chief scout with nine other scouts under his command who stood guard around the circled wagons each The scouts apparently had to guard the chuck while the cooks hustled meals according to one day required 30 pounds of macaroni for a macaroni and cheese Wagonmaster John Cadzow of Latrobe had the travelers out of the sack by and on the road by 8 each president of the planned all year for the had Continued on page 12 Topic A Dean testified that Nixon did not tell the truth in his statements this spring about his lack of knowledge of the Watergate this Legislation cutting off funds for the bombing of Cambodia cleared the Senate and was sent to Nixon in a direct congressional challenge to administration policies in The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Clarence Kelley to be the first permanent FBI director since Hoovers Full Senate endorsement is peeled ex The Soviet Unions chief Vladimir denied Western reports of recent Soviet space and said there will be manned Soviet launches before the scheduled 1975 joint flight with American Fulbright said the entire foreign aid program should be revamped because of Nixons successful dealings with Peking and The AMA said it owns about million worth of stock in drug companies and it is invested in a million retirement fund portfolio for doctors and some of their The organization said no conflict of interest was involved in the stock An allergist said he has found a tentative link between artificial flavor and color additives used in processed foods and learning behavior problems in school A typical American family paid for its food at a record high annual rate of in percent more than in the Agriculture Department But the increase compared to percent in April and was the smallest since inflation began its latest big surge five months In a Roman Catholic lawmaker and his Protestant woman companion were stabbed to death and their bodies dumped in an abandoned A telephone caller told police they were killed by Protestant extremists in reprisal for the murder of a mentally retarded Protestant The lost its battle to ban all catching and killing of whales for commercial The Technical Committee of the In Whaling Com mission approved the American but it was voted down by the full com An estimated kidney patients will be eligible for Medicare payments begin ning Sunday under the first extension of the health in surance program to persons under age A man went berserk in Chicago and shot and killed four persons in southwest suburban Palos Those killed included a mother and her 12yearold and two persons believed to have been the girls The man was taken into custody by A Soviet pilot landed a small passenger plane in a tea field near Turkey and asked for asylum in Turkey because of Heavy pressures made by Soviet NEW YORK Jones closing stock averages 30 Indus up 20 up 15 Utils up 65 Stocks up Volume District Deaths I Obituaries on Page David Six Mile Dean Says Nixon Was Involved In CoverUp Seven Doctors Added To Hospital Medical Staff Memorial Hospitals board of directors announced the addition of seven doctors to its medical staff Hospital Ad ministrator James Vreeland said the seven consist of two eye three general and two He said the medical staff formerly con of nine general two one He had no com ment on how this addition would affect the doctor problem in the if the addition would mean the area is approaching a self supporting or the possibility of other doctors planning to come to the Vreeland did that the new doctors came to the area as a result of ad appearing in but refused to state if other methods were presently in use to attract more Those doctors added to the hospitals medical staff are Philip opthalmologist Larry op John in William general practitioner James associate of Shoenthal Earl associate of Shoenthal and Quintin a native of is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson University of Pennsylvania School of and served both an internship and residency at West Penn Hospital in Pitt Most Grana has been on the staff of the Braddock General Hospital and the Eye and Ear Hospital of He was a clinical assistant professor of opthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Grana and his family make their residence a farm in Friends Cove which maintained as a summer home prior here this Working with Grana will be Larry a native of Bedford Born in Alum Jones graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and their School of He served a rotating internship at Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital in Johnstown and as a medical officer in the Public Health Service before commencing a residency in opthalmology at McGuire Veterans Hospital in He has served as the Chief Resident at Jones and his family will reside in Meadowbrook Grana and Jones expect to open their office on the third floor of the Fort Bedford Motor Inn sometime during the first week of Their hospital privileges will include surgical and they are expected to do eye surgery weekly at Memorial Hospital of Bedford A lifelong resident of New William Shoenthal has joined the Medical Associates of Alum Bank and will operate out of their facilities admitting patients to Memorial Hospital of Bedford Shoenthal is a graduate of Juniata College and the University of Pittsburgh School of He served a rotating internship at Conemaugh Valley Memorial He resides with his and Henry in New James Barefoot and Earl Shope were granted courtesy staff privileges at the Bedford Hospital to cover for Shoenthal in his absences from the Barefoot was a member of the medical staff in the mid but left the area due to armed forces commitments in Viet John who is currently setting up his office at the Kort Bedford Motor has joined the Memorial Hospital of County medical staff with the specialty of Internal a native of is a graduate of Dickinson College and Jefferson Medical He served a rotating in at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the same After spending eight years as a naval medical of Whitmore served a fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Penn sylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and was also awarded a National Institute of Health at Philadelphia General Whitmore has been in private practice in both Palo Alto and San California and comes to Bedford from Barstow Community Hospital in Whit mores family will be joining him in Bedford in the near The third week in Quintin expects to open his practice in the of fices of John Hartle of is an Internist presently working as a medical house physician in the Grade Square Hospital in New York He is a native of the graduated from the University of Santo He has completed a rotating internship at the Memorial Hospital of and a residency of one year in Internal Medicine at the Jersey City Continued on page 12 WASHINGTON UPI John Dean III testified Tuesday that President Nixon did not tell the truth in his statements this spring about his lack of knowledge of the Watergate The charge was the moat serious yet in the former White House counsels two days of explosive testimony during televised Senate hearings implicating Nixon in both Watergate planning and his voice hoarse from his testimony Monday but still testified that he believes Nixon was briefed in advance on the Watergate bugging at Democratic national and that he is sure the President participated in a massive effort to hush up the Joseph D led Dean step by step through Nixons statements at news conferences and in written documents in April and Montoya read fron Nixons April 17 statement in which the President said I con demn any attempts to cover up this no matter who is Then Montoya Do you believe he was telling the truth Dean paused a then Montoya read from a news conference statement in which Nixon said that he had handled the Alger Hiss in and that the FBI probe then was like a Sunday School exercise compared to its efforts in the I certainly did not brief him or prepare anything for the briefing book that would have led him to make that Dean Once the indictments were handed down on it became the what I would have to call the PR technique public relations technique of the White House to say everybody in the White House is And this was repeated by Ziegler and in used by the Then Montoya read from Nixons statement on March 22 With regard to the specific allegations that have been I can and do state 1 I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate operation 2 I took no part nor was I aware any subsequent efforts that may have been made to cover up Watergate 3 at no lime did I authorize any offer of executive clemency for the Watergate nor did I know of any such offer 4 I did not know until the time of my own of any effort to provide the Watergate defendants with funds 5 At no time did I or did I authorize others to to implicate the CIA in the Watergate matter 6 It was not until the time of my own investigation that I learned of the breakin in the office of and I specifically authorized the furnishing of this in formation to Judge Matt Byrne 7 I neither authorized nor encouraged subordinates to engage in illegal or im proper campaign Montoya asked Dean about the correctness of this particular statement by the in Dean I think there are less than accurate statements in the I do not I have no firsthand knowledge that the President had prior the Watergate in regard to point I believe the President was aware of an effort to cover up the with regard to point lar as I the first time 1 had firsthand knowledge that he aware of this wus on when I met with him shortly after the It was on Dean hai that Nixon men ted him for hli handling of the Dean said he told N xon that all that he had done was to keep the case out of the White Dean replied to Montoya that White Chief of Staff took notes on their Hie Continued on page 12 V V
