Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - June 10, 1977, Blytheville, Arkansas See Carter Leaning toward Limited FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Two critics of the Bi bomber project emerged from a meeting today witli President Carter to say feel he is definitely leaning toward at least limited production of the costly Robert told reporters that Carter made a cryptic reference to information that he had not which Drinan said he interpreted as an indication the President is preparing to make a case in behalf of the Ronald agreed that Carter seemed likely to support at least part of the Air Force request for a billion fleet of 244 Sen. John told don't think there's any way to tell which way he is a campaign year critic of the reiterated to the congressional delegation that inclination is to announce my decision before the end of this this I will probably pretty much go into seclusion and study what the information is and make a he also reported that at a Cabinet Room session with more than a and House critics of the disclosed that Secretary of Defense Harold Brown favors the Dellums said he did not hear such a the start of the Carter said he had received much information from Brown about the Bl and also had heard from congressional backers of the George said he told Carter President's credibility is at stake in the point I stressed was that the nation's first line of defense is the credibility of its institutions and the credibility of its McGovern He noted that almost one year ago Carter told the Democratic National Convention's Platform Committee that the Bl was an exotic and costly plane that would add nothing to Page 7 ARK. 72315 10CENTS 28 PAGES 10,1977 3 the Image Seen As in Need of 4 Candidate Tom A. Little News Photo by LARRY A. who is seeking to regain the Blytheville mayoral post he lost in 1974, says he finds it difficult to comprehend that city government could have changed that much in two and one-half who served as Blytheville mayor from 1967 until his says residents should begin all of the good things we have to offer in and stop the kind of bad image we've gotten the past few is opposed in the Tuesday special election by Pat Emmanuel Don Walker and Alderman former mayor says he is ready to up my sleeves and get to work solving these said the types of difficulties encountered by the city since he left office not any different than they always candidate charges that form of state or even federal will ever have enough money to do all of the things they would like when he began contemplating another bid for the mayoral Little form of government county or even federal will ever have enough money to do all the things they would like few months I would have said to stepping back into Little receiving some strong encouragement by several close I decided to become a candidate contends that during his eight years in the city was able to the problems we faced and stay ahead of most of a general pledge he made at a recent Little said he vows to a close relationship with all city employes the kind I enjoyed when I was in office said he believes there is a of talent in which has not been used to the fullest need to be encouraged to use their Little are at a point now where our future looks cited the forthcoming construction of Mississippi County Community College's solar plant as being a for all the world to come candidate observed that the new MCCC facility to be built in two should us in a position to attract a few small industries that could be affiliated with the called industrial development the way Blytheville can He pledged to work with the Chamber of Commerce and its Industrial Development Page 7 10 Barbeque free public barbecue will be Saturday at 3 p.m. in Williams Park in Blytheville as part of the Rev. Emmanuel mayoral according to his campaign said featured speakers will be Cotton Plant Mayor Emmett Hayti Heights Mayor David Lee County health official Oily Tennessee State Senator Ford and U.S. Congressman from Harold is invited to come and enjoy the food and speak with our McDonald I Horns Reception mayoral candidate Williams is holding a public reception Saturday night from 6 until 9 at Ramada Inn in according to a campaign said the event is being held to allow persons to meet him and his Refreshments will be Hits 2 Herculaneum men were injured last night on eight miles south of Steele when a tractor-trailer rig crashed into the rear of their pick-up according to Missouri state Logan and Ronnie Stewart were taken to Hospital in Blytheville and treated for minor injuries and troopers drivers of the tractor-trailer Jasper Taylor of was not troopers trucks were traveling north when the tractor-trailer hit the rear of the other truck sending it across the median strip where it troopers The larger truck jack-knifed in the they charges were troopers County Duo Dyer County men were fined yesterday for their part in what Pemiscot County sheriff's deputies termed a last deputies E. Tatum of was fined in Magistrates Court in Caruthersville on traffic charges of careless and imprudent driving and improper parking on a deputies Davis of Dyersburg was charged with disorderly conduct and malicious mischief and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined and costs for the two charges in Dyer County General Sessions Dyer County deputies told deputies Tuesday that Tatum had jumped from the Mississippi River bridge at A search by Pemiscot and Dyer deputies ensued and Tatum was discovered walking from the bushes at the search deputies later told Dyer County deputies that the incident was a suicide hoax to gain sympathy from Tatum's wife following a marital County Sheriff Tommy Cribbs said that Tatum will also be charged in Dyer Page 7 and and hot fair and warm Partly cloudy and continued hot High today lower 90s, low tonight near 70, high Saturday mid 90s. Fire Ky. The most recent inspection at the Beverly Hills Supper where at least 161 persons died in a Memorial Day weekend showed no fire safety But officials can't explain a four-year gap in the inspection State Police Commissioner Kenneth Brandenburgh said he would conclude his investigation at the club near Southgate today and issue a statement dealing with the 4 WASHINGTON - Despite President Carter's promises to place women and minorities in high-level positions throughout the 76 per cent of the top 265 jobs in the Carter administration are filled by white A spokeswoman for the National Women's Political Caucus says Carter has not lived up to 5 DEADLOCK The Netherlands Mediators apparently failed to budge the South terrorists holding 55 hostages in northern Holland for 19 The Dutch the situation was Premier Joop den Uyl and his cabinet met for five hours Thursday night after mediators Josina Soumokil and Hassan Tan paid their second visit to the besieged train where 51 hostages are 3 THREATS Kenya Idi Amin is threatening to execute another British resident of continuing his war of nerves against the British Radio Uganda said the who was not had been arrested for spying and be executed by a firing if found guilty by a military 2 Colombia wearing the same dress it looks nice on Carter exclaimed as she shook hands with President Alfonso Olga Mrs. Carter made the comment at a Thursday night given by Colombia's First Cecilia Caballero de at the presidential Mrs. Carter was in Bogota on the stop Latin-American and Caribbean 5 PROBE WASHINGTON investigators say they would welcome the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle allegations that Korean agents used gifts and money to buy influence in President Carter's aides quickly dismissed the idea of such an Tax Gets Clip Job In House Means JIM LUTHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Much of President Carter's energy tax package is in a shambles following a flurry of House Ways and Means Committee votes that handed the administration a major influential committee voted Thursday to throW out Carter's plans for a standby gasoline a tax on cars that get poor mileage and a of rebates for people who buy cars that get good the administration is looking for some of the decisions to be and still is holding out hope for a stiff tax on crude will probably our position when we get to the said Laurence Carter's assistant treasury secretary for tax after watching the committee administer the first three defeats on to come is consideration of what some in the Carter administration view as the most important part of the President's tax a new tax on crude oil designed to make energy more expensive and thus force This would result in an estimated 7.6-cent hike in the cost of a gallon of the committee does is subject to reconsideration committee itself as well as by the House and the Bui for the the President's plan is listing Thursday's the 27-10, Carter's proposed 50-cent per gallon standby tax on The tax would have been imposed in a year increments only if gasoline conservation goals were not met. 31-5, the plan to pay buyers of cars up to as a reward for energy 24-13, Carter's plan to place a tax of up to on cars that get poor gasoline By the same the panel substituted its own a watered-down version that would delay the tax until 1979 and then apply it only to the most wasteful Page 7 Lobbies to Keep Documents LAWRENCE L. Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Gulf Oil Corp. is trying to persuade House investigators to keep secret a nine-inch stack of documents allegedly proving the firm was at the center of an international cartel conspiring to boost company which builds nuclear power plants says that price-fixing activities of the alleged drive the cost of uranium from or a pound in 1972 to a A House subcommittee a hearing today on Gulf's request that the documents be kept is being joined in its request by the government of which told the State Department that several documents are confidential records of the Canadian Department of Mines and claims the papers are protected by the Official Secrets month Gulf lost a fight in U.S. District Court here to keep the documents out of the hands of the investigations the House Commerce documents were then in the possession of the Electric a manufacturer of nuclear power The firm has accused the alleged cartel of engineering a increase in the price of which prevented it from meeting delivery contracts at agreed a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge George Hart last May 5, Westinghouse attorney William Jentes said the documents are the minutes of these conspiratorial of the producers to fix the world price of he was prevented from quoting from the Jentes described them in some said that in February 1972 major worldwide uranium producers met in Paris remedy this situation of and low said the deal was made final at a meeting in South in June 1972, when the producers set a floor price for uranium which they I might steadily gave these other details of the alleged arrived at an elaborate allocation of the uranium market on a worldwide they agreed to eliminate the competition of those that were not in the cartel and that included arrived at an elaborate procedure to conceal their and they set up an extremely elaborate machinery including a secretariat which kept elaborate minutes of what went and furthered asserted that were also little individual conspiracies in each of the producing and said that most of the documents involve meetings in Canada of the Canadian is resisting attempts to make the documents public on grounds of
