Courier News, The (Newspaper) - June 29, 1977, Blytheville, Arkansas Senior Citizens Funds OK'd Given a hearty endowment by County Judge A A Snug Banks the Mississippi County Quorum Court last night o prevent County Senior program from being canceled Meyer director at the program presented her request for tbe from the county noting that UK original Title XX appropriation of had been reduced to thereby cutting the county's original share of the program from Title XX monies are provided by the federal department of Health Education and Welfare and channeled through the on Aging Meyer observed A controversy arose when justice Bob Holthouse of Osceola chairman of the court's Social Services Com- argued that more senior citizens souM be fed by the program at the risk of cutting out other services Banks retorted by asking Holthouse If he wanted to see the money go back to the slate and federal agencies These people senior citizens have worked all of their lives and should be en- titled to this Banks commented Meyer explained that the Economic Opportunity Com- mission had not fulfilled its part of the program bringing about the cutback in funding She said the Office on Aging's contribution as well as HEW's would be lost to the county and probably be funded for some other county if the quorum court did not By LARKY Writer prove its share Holthouse said he believed it would be better to provide meals to more of the county's senior at the consequence of eliminating some of he other service Meyer pointed today that she found county records which revealed that there are senior senior citizens 60 or older living in the county Meyer had pointed the reduction in funds would cut the number of people fed to per day on a five-day a week basis Originally 366 people were being fed she observed Meyer countered suggestion to feed more people by stating that I feed what the centers will accommodate She said cutting out one site will reduce the operating ex- penses by She added lhat Bob Holthouse of Osceola chairman of the Mississippi County Quorum Court's Social Services Committee scrutinizes a request by the Mississippi County Senior Citizens program The quorum court okayed the request thus keeping the countywide program active Courier News Photo by Binz Decision on Expected Thursday By JIM ADAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP ident Carter told a Senate group today he will announce by Thursday a decision on wim duction of the Bi bomber which has won fresh House backing Sen Jennings Randolph D- told reporters afler breakfast session hat he ex- Carler to shy away from giving tbe Air Force all bombers it wants bul still expects much more than has been discussed Randolph acknowledged lhat Carter gave no hint of his deci- sion at he meeting However the senator claimed some ex- in reading voice in- and glints in a er's eye Other participants said only lhat Carter promised an early announcement without lipping his hand Most including Randolph said Carter indicated he had not made a final decision Bul Sen Joseph R Biden said the President told the group he already has made up his mind White House spokesman Rex Granum said Carter is likely io hold a news conference Thurs- day morning but no firm an- has been made Aides say the President could settle on anything from halting production of the plane to ducing all 240 hombers he Air at an estimated cost of 524.8 billion During his campaign for the While House Carter of Bl which he called wasteful The House rejected an effort Tuesday to chop all billion in Bl production money out of a defense voting 243 o 178 la keep bomber alive The SI 4 billion in House would put five Bl bombers into production Congress and former President Gerald R Ford approved duction planes last year Rep George H Mahon D- Tex chairman of he House Appropriations Committee pre- lo the House lhat decision will be to keep Bl in partly lo keep pressure on Soviets to negotiate a new treaty to re- duce such weapons House Speaker Thomas P O'Neill also said he favors keeping the Bl in duclion partly because be sees it as a bargaining chip in strategic arms with the Russians But Rep Joseph Addabbo D- who sponsored the amendment lo cut out the BI that the plane immediately would be obsolete because it could not survive against weapons the Soviets can produce in the 1980s Addabbo called the Bl the most expensive white elephant ever proposed The Bl at a cost of more lhan million per plane would be the mosl expensive combat plane in history In other action on the the House cul million off the CIA's million contingency fund in order to limit the spy agency's ability lo finance without congressional approval secret operations like those conducted in Laos and Angola The billion defense includes billion for nel and retirement billion for operations and nance billion for ment of hardware and lion for research and ment Mostly Cloudy Considerable cloudiness today becoming partly cloudy and Thursday Chance of thundershowers and early tonight ROUNDUP Page 8 Hazardous Driving Law Passed Blytheville City Council passed an ordinance last night giving Blytheville police en- forcement powers lo stop motorists from driving in a hazardous manner The ordinance clearly defines what constitutes hazardous driving and sets forth penalties for the violation of the statute Discussion of he ordinance began at Monday's Fire and Police Committee meeting in which Police Chief Robbie Cox observed that some kind of ordinance is needed Co control the flary of hazardous driving in city Section I of the ordinance reads as Hazardous driving Is defined as the operation of a motor vehicle upon trie streets ways alleys public parking lots private parking lots or private property within the city limits of Blytheville in such a manner as to indicate a disregard for persons properly traffic controls and conditions then present Tke ordinance cited as examples of hazardous Starting or stopping a vehicle in such a manner lhal the tires of the motor vehicle traction and the vehicle from side to side swerves or deviates from iEs normal direct course or direction of Failure to maintain proper control of a vehicle at all time when same is moving Application of power or accelerating a vehicle un- necessarily so as to cause the wheels lo spin on the surface it is operating producing noise and-or skidding or sliding Starting slopping slowing or turning a vehicle un- necessarily or so quickly in such a manner as to produce the squealing skidding or sliding of wheels or tires Operating a motor vehicle on a or high way by cutting in or out of other vehicular traffic moving in the same direction erratically changing lanes and passing other vehicles Operating a vehicle in violation of wo or more other traffic ordinances of laws at the same time Penally for violation of ordinance ranges from a low of to a maximum of Cox said since the emergency clause the makes it effective immediately the BPD will COUNCIL transportation costs will he increased somewhat for center at either Wilson or Joiner Holthouse said he believed that it would be doing harm by promising lo feed a given number of people Meyer said of the is to provide a complete socialization program senior citizens She observed hat it would nol be enough simply to feed people and leave them alone According to Title VII was contacted through HEW's program wilh the counly not required lo fund any monies Meyer said The program runs from July I through June 30 Title 111 contracted and from the counly and Title XX wilh from the county will provide the other services to senior Meyer ob- served Those include the Home chore services telephone reassurance home visits referral Information and follow-up shopping assistance transportation and escort recreation field trips medical transportation to Little Rock and Memphis Meyer said the program seeks lo provide units of service in the fiscal year She explained thai a would be providing one service to one individual such as the meali and other services dered Holthouse said it would be belter o provide more home meals to senior citizens JPs 1 30 Elevator Purchase and installation of elevators at the Mississippi County courthouses at Blytheville and Osceola will run proximately according to an architectural report given last night to the Public Works Committee oJ the County Quorum Court John Warner resident architect for the firm of Cromwell Neyland Truemper Levy and Gatchell Inc said a study revealed thai the elevator at Blytheville will cost about 1100 000 while the one at Osceola would run about to 000 to completely install The quorum court passed an ordinance last week giving the go-ahead to apply for a Economic Development Ad- ministration EDA grant to renovate the two county Warner noted hat about would be left for other renovate work County Judge A A Snug Banks said the No 2 priority behind the elevators would be the renovation of the bathrooms Other renovation work would include lowering of ceilings replacement of windows and some painting The committee included Jim Gardner of Ben Butler of Osceola and Bobby White of Manila Zero Plus Dialing Zero-plus dialing will be introduced in Blytheville Saturday enabling telephone users to dial long distance calls that now placed by operators according to Ed Cassady western Bell manager Zero-Plus dialing calls will Include collect credit card and billing calls he said To place a call the customer first dials zero then the area code if different from 501 and the distant number Cassady When customers make calls requiring operator aid we think they'll like Zero-Plus Cassady said Most of the 48 telephone employes affected when western Bell closes i ts switchboard here July 2 have taken other jobs with the company Cassady informed The company announced the closing of the operating office here last year in connection with the Zero-Plus dialing he said Beginning July 2 operators at electronic switchboards in Little Rock will provide assistance and emergency aid to callers he said BFD Fire Mayor Tom A Little told the Blytheville City Council last night that he was seeking recovery of aboul 000 in losses suffered by the Blytheville Fire Department during the June 17 fire at the Shell bulk point off West Highway 18 Little said the city does not carry insurance for fire equips ment but that he would seek reimbursement from the insurance carrier of either the Arkansas Transport Company or the Shell oil plant Fire Chief Billy Bratton noted last night the BFD lost some feet of hose a deluge spray other nozzles and incurred damage lo one pumper Total damages were estimated at about Bration said DB MEWS 72315 VOL 83 NO 42 10 CENTS 34 PAGES WEDNESDAY JUNE Death Penalty Ruled Out in Rape Cases WASHINGTON AF The Supreme Court ruled today that states may not impose the death penalty for crime of rape The court said the death alty is a disproportionate ishment for rape It is difficult lo accept the notion and we do not that the rape with or without ing circumstances should be punished more heavily than deliberate killer as long as the rapist does not himself take life of his the court said in an opinion by Justice Byron R White The court's action decided by a vote struck down the death sentence a Georgia courl imposed on Ehrlich Anthony Coker convicted for 1974 rape of a Ga housewife who three weeks news before had given birth lo her first child Although Georgia's law con- cerned rape of adull en court decision's wording indicated lhat states may not impose the death penally even for tbe rape of children Joining White's opinion were Justices Potter Stewart Harry A Blackmun and John Paul Stevens William J Brennan Jr and Thurgood Marshall who oppose the penalty under any circum- stance lor any crime filed con- curring opinions Justice Lewis F Powell Jr voled to strike down Coker's sentence bul said he did not tbe death penalty for rape was truel and unusual ment in all circumstances Although rape invariably is a reprehensible crime is no indication thai offense was commuted wilh ex- brutality or hat sustained serious or ing Powell said Chief Justice Warren E ger and Justice William H dissented saying that the death penalty tor rape can be a justified punishment The court's decision dealt only with he crime of rape bul it may have a profound impact on history of capital ment in the United States Had the court ruled that stales may impose the death penalty for crimes in which the life of the was not taken it could have opened the door for future that capital may be valid for crimes surh as treason age kidnaping hijacking and RAPE Page 8 recap Excluded Blytheville Alderman Williams for in executive session to discuss t taxi cab application Mayor Tom A Little background asked the nature of the session request Williams later rescinded his request The application was denied Newa by Biat An official of Associated Electric slated yesterday at Springfield Mo ha Power Company was denied a bid to contract for from II at New Madrid plant because we needed all electricity we could gel Page 8 MANHUNT NEW YORK AP New York City police have stepped up their manhunt for Son of the killer On Tuesday 10 were added to he force of 50 of- working fulltime to catch the killer who has called himself Son of Sam The New York Daily News offered a reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer In II months 11 persons nave been shot in Queens and the Bronx by the killer the first on July the latest last Sunday morning Four women and one man died One woman remains paralyzed Page 7 CIGARETTE SMUGGLING WASHINGTON AP filing cigarette smuggling as organized crime's latest and perhaps most profitable enterprise a government advisory commission says such bootlegging should be made a federal crime In a report released Tuesday the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations concluded lhat organized crime is making so much money on cigarette smuggling that it is using the money to bankroll other illegal activities Page 2 TAPES WASHINGTON t AP The Supreme Court decision upholding the government's seizure of Richard M White House papers is not causing any immediate consternation in the Carter administration Presidential counsel Robert said Jimmy Carter already has indicated he wants the public to have access o the records of his ad- ministration to whatever extent possible Page 11 WORK RELEASE Mississippi County Quorum Courl last night approved lease agreement between the counly and the slate of Corrections lo expand the work release program at the Detention Center Page 8 PLASTICS PROBE WASHINGTON AP The government is taking a closer look at two plastics frequently used in the household items in the wake of Sunday's prison fire in Tennessee that claimed 42 lives Specifically tbe National Fire Prevention and Control to leam what happens when polyurethane and polyvinyl chloride burn nr Merrill Bicky of fire prevention ad- ministration said Monday that the two plastics are used extensively in upholstered furniture carpet padding and the interiors of automobiles and airplanes Page 11 DECISION ON WASHINGTON AP President Carter is rearing a decision on whether lo approve duction of Bl bomber would be the most expensive combat plane ever lo enter U.S defense arsenal The President who termed the Bi wasteful during his last year has been reconsidering his position He is due to announce his decision it a news conference on Thursday ORDAINED ECONE Switzerland AP Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained u priests and 18 subdeacons today in defiance of Pope Paul VI who had threatened to excommunicate the French prelate if he performed ceremony The archbishop who rejects celebration of the mass in vernacular languages and other reforms dered by the Pope also pledged a crusade against virus of ecclesiastical liberalism Page 7
