Big Spring Herald (Newspaper) - May 21, 1973, Big Spring, Texas BIG SPRING HERALD Price Vol 45 No 301 Big Spring Texas Monday May 21 1973 14 Pages 1 Section Price JAIL SUSPECT Fort Worth Policeman Gunned Down FORT WORTH AP A city patrolman suffered a fatal gunshot wound Sunday night when he surprised a robber at a westside grocery Policeman W V Welch 29 died early today after surgery at John Peter Smith Hospital for a chest wound Officers arrested a man without resistance about 5 am after they traced a car seen at the grocery where the robber fled without any loot Authorities said the man taken into custody at a residence on the citys west side had a gunshot wound in the back Welch a department veteran who lived in Watauga and his partner fired at the bandit during the 11 pm incident police said Police said the robber also fired at a woman clerk in the grocery but beer cans on a counter deflected the bullet Officers said they believed the incident was related to a 35 grocery robbery earlier in the city Sunday night School Money Rejected AUSTIN AP A Senate committee today rejected a million school financ ing in favor of a million one proposed by Gov Dolph Briscoe The 63 vote against the House measure spoils hopes of a quick solution to the states school funding dilemma Sen A M Aikin Jr sponsor of the House measure said he would not vote for the governors on the Senate floor He said he did join the unanimous vote to report the governors version out of committee after his plan was killed solely because of procedural matters necessary to keep a financing alive in both chambers I want to be perfectly clear that Im only voting for a vehicle to get this Ml said Aikin Weather Rips West Texas By The Press Severe weather that menaced the Texas Panhandle late Sunday began moving out of the area early today and the National Weather Service predicted the turbulence would move through North Central Texas A tornado was reported 40 miles northeast of Amarillo or just to the northeast of Borger Sunday night while strong thunderstorms extended over the country A dozen Panhandle counties went on tornado watch Sunday night and wider slices of the state went under severe thunderstorm watches Just after midnight the Wichita Falls weather bureau issued a tornado warning for Jack County Three hours later a similar warning was issued by the San Angelo bureau for Tom Green County Both notices were cancelled later in the morning Astronauts Face Tight I uie AP WIREPHOTO MITCHELL HEADS FOR ARRAIGNMENT Former US Atty Gen John Mitchell leaves his New York apartment to day for arraignment in federal court on charges of perjury and obstructing a federal investigation of a New Jersey fin ancier Mitchell Stans Plead Innocent Webbs Gasoline Prices Going Up The fuel crisis is finally affecting Webb AFB Army and Air Force Exchange Service has announced that gasoline prices at all exchange service stations must be raised to cover rising costs of fuel Brig Gen C W Hospelhorn com mander said that shifts in other prices to attempt to keep gasoline prices down has not been able to hold the line The result to ones wallet is that prices from now on will be two cents less per gallon than prices charged by local major dealers Another two cents will be discounted for each gallon on gas Previously BX service stations could charge four cents less per gallon for regular and five cents less for premium or low or unleaded gas Even with officials of say that only half the increase they must absorb will be compensated for Small Cars Catch Vandals Apparently a local vandal or group of vandals has a thing about small cars Over the weekend three small cars were turned over on their side and damaged by vandals according to local police Robert Bradberry 606 Birdwell said his vehicle was turned over for the second time within a few weeks He reported the incident at am Monday T J Musgrove 1312 Stadium reported at 8 am this morning that small car had been turned over on its side and damaged at his residence On Sunday morning at am a Mrs Byerley at 1501 Tucson reported that her small car had been turned over on its side and damaged Purvis Williams at 707 Cherry had an even worse problem Somebody put sugar in the gas tank of his vehicle NEW YORK AP Former Atty Gen John N Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H Stans pleaded in nocent today to charges of per jury conspiracy and obstruct ing a federal investigation of financier Robert L Vesco Mitchell Stans Vesco and former New Jersey Republican leader Barry D Sears were named in a federal indictment May 10 that grew out of a se cret contribution from Vesco to President Nixons re election campaign CONSPIRACY Sears who with Vesco was charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice also pleaded innocent today before US District Court Judge John M Cannella Vesco left the country more than two months ago and subsequently ignored a The indictment alleged that Mitchell and Stans while lead ers of President Nixons re election campaign interfered with an investigation of Investors Overseas Services by the Securities and Exchange Commission LOOTING MILLIONS Mitchell was US attorney general and Stans was com merce secretary under Nixon They and Sears have claimed innocence in the case The SEC probe resulted in the filing of a civil complaint on Nov 27 in which Vesco 20 other persons and a score of corporations were accused of looting million from IDS mutual funds Allegations in the indictment that the SEC case against Ves co was altered at the request of Stans led to the resignation last Wednesday of G Bradford Cook as SEC chairman CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Faced with a tight schedule to meet a Friday launch date the Skylab 1 astronauts today rehearsed the critical first two days of their mission It is dur ing those two days that they will try to save their damaged space station A space official said it would be nip and tuck and a deci sion on whether to launch Fri day wont be made until Thurs day COOL IT In simulators and in confer ences at the Johnson Space Center at Houston Tex the three astronauts worked on procedures for freeing a Skylab solar panel and for erecting a gold and white sunshade to cool down the laboratory which has been orbiting for a week A tentative flight plan calls for an astronaut on the first day in space to lean out the hatch of the Apollo ferry ship and attempt to dislodge at least one of two so lar panels that might be jammed On the second day after docking with the orbiting labo the three astronauts would try to deploy a giant shade to cool down the sun baked craft and protect it from solar heal The favored method is to push an device through an opening from inside the workshop If this is not pos sible a space walk deployment of a separate shield will be at tempted If the shade can be erected the space agency believes there is a good chance astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Dr Joseph Kerwin and Paul J Weitz can carry out a full 28day mis sion But medical scientific and earth resources ex will have to be cur tailed BUSY BUSY Activity today now that most work on the sun shades is com triggers four days of fastmoving events aimed at launching he astronauts at 9 am EOT Friday on mans first space salvage operation The schedule is awfully tight one official said Theres a lot to do and theres a possibility we might have to postpone another five days But were hoping for Friday Conrad Kerwin and are to fly to Cape Kennedy Tuesday night and two sun shields and associated hard ware are to be delivered here Wednesday After evaluation a decision will be made Thursday on whether to proceed with the launching or to again delay it During the weekend mission control purged the 85ton labo of its at believed to have been polluted with potentially deadly gases discharged by hot foam plastic insulation in the cabin In case some pockets of toxic gas remain the astronauts will cany gas masks and sniffing devices like those used by min ers If gas is detected addition al purges will be necessary Average temperatures inside the overheated workshop the main section of the station climbed from 105 to 115 degrees Sunday SWIMMING After working today in simu lators at Johnson Space Center Houston the astronauts fly to Alabamas Marshall Center to rehearse the two space walk deployments in a giant water tank which contains fullscale models of the Skylab and the Apollo ferry ship By swimming through the exercises the astronauts will experience sensations similar to working in space weight lessness Backup Skylab astro have worked for several days in the tank Skylabs problems occurred 63 seconds after launching last Monday when a protective heat shield ripped away for a still unknown reason The mishap exposed the workshop to the searing rays of the sun and also prevented two of six solar panels from extending cutting the crafts power in hrif IN RIPLEY Perpetual Motion Machine RIPLEY Okla AP Lo cal inventor John Webbs an last week that he might have solved the riddle of Die perpetual motion machine has set in motion a dizzying turn of events Webb said he has had over 20 offers to market the invention and added that by noon Sunday he found himself potentially and a Cadillac if everything works out Webb said he has signed a contract with ShirRen Enter prises Inc of Moore Okla giving them agents rights and flO days in which to find a buy er for the invention NEW CADILLAC However Frank president of the firm which has agreed to help market and pat ent the invention on Webbs be half said the agreement doesnt call for any remunera tion to Wobb unless the in vention is actually sold We will act in his behalf in securing a buyer and working out patent rights on the ma chine but John will slay in the drivers seat Renfrow said He added that Webb had con their services for a pe riod of 90 days Webb said the agreement en titles the marketing firm only to the opportunity to try to sell his invention He retains all rights to set the terms of the agreement and to reject any or all offers presented to him DESTROYED MODEL The Cadillac I brought up kind of jokingly but they gave me what 1 wanted Webb said When it is sold Im going out CIA APPROACHED FBI TO KILL PROBE It Is The Presidents Wish f The INSIDE News WASHINGTON AP A Senate committee was told today that former White House chief of staff H R Haldeman told CIA officials it is the Presidents wish that the CIA approach the FBI to discourage an investigation related to the Watergate case Richard Helms former CIA director confirmed to the Sen ate Foreign Relations Com that the statement was made in a memo by his deputy director Lt Gen Vernon Wal ters following a meeting be tween Walters and acting FBI Director L Patrick Gray OPEN HEARING The memo was first disclosed at an open hearing by Sen Stuart Symington DMo con a meeting on June 23 1972 at the White House in Walters Helms Hal Plane Back In Caracas Amusements 3 10 Crossword Puzzle 7 Dear Abby 3 Editorials 8 Gorens 13 Jean Jumble despite the governments stock 2 ransom il 79 Want Ads 1213 Weather Map 2 Womens News Possible Showers Partly cloudy slight chance of thundershowers tonight increasing chance on Tuesday Not so warm Tuesday Expected high today in mid 90s low to night in mid 60s and high on Tuesday mid 80s Chance of showers on Tuesday 40 per cent CARACAS Venezuela AP A hijacked Venezuelan air liner returned safely to Caracas Sunday night with 25 passen gers and five crewmen aboard refus prison ers Three armed men and a 3 woman took over the twinen gine Convair Friday evening on a domestic flight to the capital They threatened to blow up the plane and all aboard unless the government freed the 79 per sons the hijackers said were political prisoners But when the government refused even to negotiate the hijackers settled for a flight to Havana The quartet said they belong to the leftist underground or Punto Cero Point Zero Apparently they sought political asylum in Cuba but the Castro regime did not an what it would do with them deman and John D Ehrlich man Symington said that in the memo furnished only last Sat to the Senate Armed Services Committee Walters reported that Haldeman turned to Walters and said It is the Presidents wish that you go to see Mr Gray DOES NOT RECALL Helms said he was in the room but does not recall on his own whether Haldeman used the Presidents authority ically Helms did say however that when instructions are from the White House chief of staff it is assumed that it had adequate authority behind it Helms testified that he did not at the time know about any money that might have been laundered through Mexico He said he did not understand to this day why Haldeman selected Walters rather than Helms himself to make the ap proach to Gray to inform the FBI that pursuit of its investi gation of the Mexican angle of the Watergate affair might jeopardize CIA covert oper ations in Mexico Helms said he himself felt no concern about such a point and tried to modify the approach to Concert Benefits Fund For Singers The Broadway Musical Revue Concert will be held at 8 pm tonight in the high school auditorium put on by the Meistersinger Choir Admission price is and all funds will be used to help send the Meistersingers to Europe this summer The choir states that This will be top entertainment and we urge everyone to come and at the same time help the choir in their drive Those who will have feature roles in tonights production include Randy Taylor Dick Conley Joel Dyer Robby Lloyd Carrie Wheeler and Melanie Hayworth Gray in a subsequent conversa tion with Walters Helms said he told Walters it would be proper to inform the new FBI director of an oper ating arrangement between the CIA and the FBI that when any investigations overlapped the other agency should be notified Helms said that his sole con cern at the lime was that the CIA should be kept out of the Watergate affair entirely Helms said lie does not know if his reluctance lo have the CIA involved in Watergate played a role in his abrupt de parture as CIA chief and get the most expensive Caddy I can find The inventor has stipulated lhat any agreement made must leave him rights to 51 per cent of all royalties derived from the machine Webb said the breakthrough on developing the machine ac tually took place about two years ago but he only recently worked out the technical prob lems of how to control arid har ness his invention I destroyed the first model I made two weeks before I got my invention patented Webb explained I only had it oper ating for three hours but it could work three or years I wrote General Motors about my work eight or nine ago and got a reply ii recting me lo offer it to their suggestion box Webb re called IT WILL WORK Webb said he doesnt expect anyone to pay him for his theo ry until he demonstrates it is workable but he confidently contends it would take him less than five minutes to convince any engineer his perpetual mo tion idea is feasible It will work just as sure as a rock you drop will fall to the ground he said He said the major problem to overcome now is that the ma chine only operates at one speed but thinks a varied gear could probably overcome this shortcoming Photo by Danny FISH SIMPLY WERENT BITING These three boys could have stopped by a butcher shop on their way home from a fishing trip at Cosden Lake recently because no fish were in sight Their spotty luck in reeling in the denisons of the deep in no way muffled the fun they said they had As a matter of fact a few little ones did tease their lines they added From the left they are Darrell Martin Bradley Martin and Jimmy Marquez
