Berkshire Eagle (Newspaper) - December 9, 1972, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Summer leftover I H The Eagle 24 Pages 10 cents 0 cent delivered Pittsfield Mass Saturday Dec 9 1972 Vol 81 No 181 142 found dead in jet wreckage Rep Collins among victims Deserted on the shore of Bowl Tough feet Tioo pairs Late for supper Joel as justice head but remains critical CAMP DAVID Md AP President Nixon rounded out iiis Cabinet Friday b3 keeping Richard as attorney general then re a major shakeup in the upper levels of the Justice and Interior departments Five aides leaving A spokesman at this moun presidential retreat said that five key Justice Depart ment aides are Atty Gen Ralph E Erickson Law Enforcement Assistance Administrator Jerris Leonard and Asst Gen David Norman Rogers C Cramton and Leo M At the Interior Department said White House press secre tary Ronald L Ziegler Louis R Bruce is being removed as Indian Affairs commissioner and Harrison Loesch is leaving as assistant secretary for public land management Yale man chosen In still another major change Ziegler announced that Nixon is nominating Yale Jaw Prof Rob ert Henry Bork who helped mold the bus ing strategy to succeed retir ing Solicitor Gen Erwin N Richard Griswold Ziegler also said Nixon has selected Chicago attorney Jew el be deputy solic general She will be one of the blacks as well as one of the ing women in the second Nixon administration KANSAS CITY AP Hos pital officials reported improve ment late Friday in the condi tion of Harry S Trumans heart but there still was con cern about the critically ill for mer president The statement came a little more than two hours after a Research Hospital and Medical Center bulletin to newsmen had quoted Dr Wallace Graham Trumans doctor as saying the cardiac situation is ex precarious Terminology debased Margaret Truman Daniel the former presidents daughter told an evening news confer ence was perhaps a bad choice of words Earlier she had indicated to reporters she sharp issue with that statement In Its pm EST report the hospital said Truman shows improvement from car diac irregularities but there is concern His temperature is 99 de grees the statement added His pulse is 124 His condition is stiH critical Asked for her view of her fa thers medical pi ogress over the last 24 hours Mrs Daniel said I think he has come up a little a lot a little Hes 88 years old frail and he is ill Cautions optimism She said no one could foresee future developments with lute accuracy but at the mo ment nothing drastic is antici pated She indicated she and her mother did not plan to return to the hospital Friday night after leaving Mrs Daniel who has taken on the roie of family spokes man since her arrival here late Wednesday night indicated she would meet reporters again Saturday Truman entered the hospital Tuesday night fighting lung congestion Doctors have since confirmed the former president also has heart bronchia and kidney problems Mrs Daniel indicated at mid afternoon that her father had been awake and said in her evening news conference he slept for a time and then awak ened again In reports earlier Friday hospital spokesmen said medi cal authorities were expressing great concern about weakness in Trumans heart following a restless night Stress apparent His heart is showing signs of considerable irritability and stress There is cardiac stabil ity but accompanied by ex treme weakness a statement had reported At midafternoon a spokesman said Trumans heart condition was so precarious that the next release would be made an hour earlier than originally scheduled Weekend weather Rain ending around noon with temperatures near 40 Rain again tonight and Sunday with a low tonight in the 30s High tomorrow in upper 30s i CHICAGO AP A United 5 Air Lines jet with 61 persons H aboard crashed while approach 5 ing Midway Airport Friday g Most of the planes passengers g were killed when the airliner H plowed through homes in a 1 Southwest side residential dis The Cook County morgue re ported 42 bodies were received 5 there One of the victims fied was Rep George W Col s lins who was returning from Washington to organize a childrens Christmas party Stewardesses survive Holy Cross Hospital reported 16 persons including the planes three stewardesses were admitted with injuries H One of the survivors Marvin Anderson 43 of suburban South Holland said The last words the pilot said to us were We are at feet and every thing is going well and then a few seconds later I knew some thing was wrong because he be gan to rev the engines Curtis deputy fire marshal said his men found most of the 55 passengers dead in the debris of a Boeing 737 which plunged into several houses a half mile from the air port control tower at Aur ora reported there were no ir regularities in the commu between Midway tower and the jet which had a capacity of 94 persons The planes final destination was Omaha The National Transportation Safety Board in Washington im mediately dispatched an in team to Chicago Several NTSB officials were in Chicago conducting hearings into the Oct 30 commuter train crash which claimed 45 lives The plummeting airliner sheared through utility lines and a area was blacked out Telephone service was knocked out A power company spokesman said 5000 homes were affected The victims were taken to several hospitals on the South Side in the southern suburbs A temporary morgue was set up in an elementary school A clock in one of the smashed houses was stopped at pm EST The plane was due to land at city reach accord More feared dead Volkamer said his men car ried about 30 bodies from the wreckage He said another 10 or 15 persons could be buried in the debris of the plane and the houses Four hours after lie crash there still were no reports that any occupants of the houses were injured or killed A United spokesman said the plane Flight 553 which de parted Washington at EST and was due at Midway at pm CST was approaching the airport with a ceil ing and one mile visibility Sleet and snow were falling at the time Communications normal Witnesses said the plane scraped the roofs of two bun and sheared through six houses setting them aflame The fuselage of the airliner split but the nose remained in tacU The tail section was slicking out of one house The Federal Aviation Admin By RICHARD K WEIL Mayor Butler said last night that the city of Pittsfield and developer George H reached agreements Friday that will end a long deadlock and clear the way for a North Street renewal project Butter and their law yers met for hours in the offices of Boston Robert T Capeless And Butler said they finally agreed on leases for a garage to be built by the city and air rights over the garage to be used by On his return from Boston Butler reported All the areas in question were straightened out to the satisfaction of both parties To make final draft Butler said that Atty Martin Saiman of New York one of lawyers would have the final draft of the leases written within 30 days with all the clauses in the right places The leases must be ratified by the City Council but the mayor was confident they would be Ill get hold of Council dent John Fraser next week and spell it out to him Butler said The mayor said he wanted to get together with the entire Apollo 17 astronauts find lunar craft ready and waiting SPACE CENTER Houston AP Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene A Cernan and Harri son H Schmitt boarded their lunar craft Challenger Friday and found it ready to land in a moon valley on Monday It looks clean Everything is fine looking Schmitt reported after the two had checked the News index 58 Calendar 20 91820 Editorial Pages 14 15 Entertainment 12 Foreign 2 Hospital List H Local II 13 24 Name In The News 13 National 3 Obituaries 11 Social 10 Snorts Ifi 17 TV Radio 23 craft for more than an hour The inspection came as Cer nan Schmitt and Ronald E Evans were hurtling through space right on target The true course was set by a brief rock et from command ship Americas engine earlier in the day To their firing also shot them into a mass of ice work of plumbing Inspection Visit Leaving Evans alone in the command vehicle and Schmitt in late afternoon re moved hatches and slipped through a tunnel connecting the two ships They carried with them film magazines tools and other items theyll USD on the lunar surface They also checked the moon machines electrical communications and other sys tems and found nothing amiss The astronauts conducted the flawless engine firing earlier Friday when they were 147000 miles from earth The ond burst steered them off a collision course with the moon and onto a path that will take them to an orbit within 70 miles of the lunar surface Sunday earlier had dumped waste water and urine overboard and it froze into tiny in the frigid space en With the sun reflect ing off their icy surfaces they resembled flickering fireflies as they floated in front of the spaceship Mistrial called in Ellsberg case LOS ANGELES AP The judge in the Pentagon Papers trial said Friday he plans to de clare a mistrial dismiss the jury which has wailed four months to try the case and choose a new panel US Dist Court Judge Matt Byrne said he would postpone his official ruling until Monday because defendant Daniel Ells berg was not present WRECKAGE of a United Air Lines jcl crashed Friday afternoon into aSouth Chicago residential neigh spews smoke into the air as plane ami homes burn Although as many as 40 lo 45 of planes were killed there wire no immediate reports of injury to anyone on the ground Council to explain the agree ments sometime next week Butler said that when Saiman returns the final draft of the lease he will also have a pro posed timetable for signing con tracts planning the garage ad for bids and ground breaking Building plan plans to build depart ment stores office and other shopping and recreational facilities on the land that fronts on North Street between the West Street corner and England Brothers All these buildings would be over a million parking ga rage built by the city The garage scheme was de vised so that tlie developer could take advantage of lowin terest rates available to the city After the city builds the garage it will lease it back to the developer who will pay the full construction and interest costs over a period Butler said that under the final agreements reached yes the city isnt liable for anything He added Nut man has abandoned his insist ence that he be allowed an es cape clause if the garage is not finished by a certain date Mediator Ally Capeless a former Pitts field mayor was brought into the as a mediator this fall in an attempt to break the deadlock Several meetings among the parties were conducted in his offices With Capeless yesterday were Saiman and Atly Wil liam Simons from Pittsfield who also represents the developer and Butler City Solicitor Samu el Landa Asst Solicitor Arnold Hose and James J Smith board chairman of the Associa tion of 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