Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - October 4, 1977, Blytheville, Arkansas the Yugoslavia The East-West assess the effects of the 1975 Helsinki Agreements and the United States is reported planning to press countries for further easing of restrictions on 5 India - Indira Gandhi was brought to court on corruption charges today after a night in policy hut R. nnd no Police used tear gas and clubs on demonstrators for and against the 59-year-old former prime minister outside the Gas fumes drifted into the packed courtroom as competing chants of Indira and live Indira drowned out some of the 5 Algeria The Algerian government held five Japanese Red Army their million ransom and six comrades today while their last freed waited to complete their journey interrupted by the hijacking of a Japanese airliner six days the Colo. ( Twenty years ago today the Soviet Union hurled a 185-pound aluminum ball into and first satellite orbited the stayed there three months before being pulled back into the there are 4,472 objects in space large enough to be detected and North American Air Defense Command estimates that figure could climb to more than 19,000 by the start of the next The command keeps tabs on what amounts to a man-made traffic jam circling in Sputnik 1 was more than 10,000 space rocket motors and debris been detected and catalogued by observers at the command's underground Space Defense Center in Cheyenne west of Colorado in the count are the 4,472 objects still out there and another 5,906 that have or disintegrated after coming back into the at the air defense command's headquarters estimate the number of objects in space that they can detect and track will reach 15,661 by Oct. 4, 1997. objects now in space are Of the total there only 971 are payloads many of them no longer is a need to keep track of as many objects as scientists because of the however of Iowa An international conference on the other side of the world has special meaning to an lowan who escaped from Soviet by fishing boat 33 yeai s ago and now is trying to get relatives John 62, who fled Latvia in 1944, has tried repeatedly since 1975 to bring lima 43, and her daughter 17, from to Soviet officials have His efforts will receive international attention as the 35-nation conference on European security and cooperation opens today in Congress has taken a step backward in its attempt to decide when tax money should be used to pay for House and Senate conferees failure Monday after three months of trying to reach a compromise on the abortion So the dispute is being sent back to the full House and Senate in hopes one or both houses will 2 to - President Carter is bringing to the United Nations an appeal for checking the arms race and halting the spread of nuclear In advance of Carter's flight here from Washington today and an appearance before the U.N. General an aide said the President wanted to break new ground in the boost international efforts to resolve potential conflicts through peaceful 5 on The Senate is nearing a vote today on a compromise plan to deregulate natural gas prices after the end of the most intensive filibuster in 13 The Senate calls for deregulation of gas prices in 1987. A vote on the measure was possible 9 ...in Info Clamp ROCK David Pryor has been urged to issue an executive order exempting the state from federal regulations that prohibit public dissemination of nonconviction criminal Housing SMITH fort are has that 14 mentally retarded adults cannot live in a building here because it does not meet rules govering institutional Player of running back Danny Howe has been named The Associated Press High School Player of ARK. 72315 83-NO. 122 10 CENTS 20 PAGES OCTOBER 4,1977 2 rom as 11 LARRY call for a medic in Blytheville next year may bring a fireman dressed in his bunkei suitor a personnel from the Blytheville Police and Fire Departments are currently enrolled in a 14-week, 81-hour Emergency Medical Technician course being taught at City Hall by Bruce a member of the EMT team from Chief Robbie Cox said the department became interested in the EMT training several months ago with the encouragement of director of Cotton Boll that Action Line question about special emergency training for policemen and firemen got the ball Cox Action Line questioner asked Aug. 6 whether or not Blytheville police and firemen are trained to give emergency medical At that time the answer was said Nelson called and told him that Cotton Boll would offer its EMT course at no except for course to both firemen and Cotton Boll charges for the but all the city had to pay for was the Cox is instructing the firemen in the fire department lounge on Monday and Wednesday nights and the police department on Tuesday and Thursday in the course is a requirement for 20 hours of actual experience in an emergency training can be either at Osceola Hayti or any hospital in the Baker Baker conducted orientation for a class of firemen and a couple of He informed them that a general information test would be given Wednesday night to how much digging I will have to do on pertinent information about emergency presented a film depicting contrasting emergency medical One involved an inferior ambulance service which was unable Patrolman James Sell and Fireman Ricky Brothers study material for Emergency Medical Technician course being taught at City Hall by Bruce a member of the Hospital EMT News Photo by sufficient attention to victims who died before reaching a second film spotlighted a EMT team which gets the injured to a hospital in time for matter will cover procedures for handling care for electrical and radiation exposure and cardiopulmonary resuscitation Baker examination by officials from the state Health will conclude the 14-week Baker Passage of the test will mean certification by the state as basic he plan to completee the course by early Baker and Fire Chief Billy Bratton expressed strong support for the EMT consider the EMT course time well spent and will prove valuable when the need arises to implement the Cox are going to be 4 Held in we could really put this training to good Bratton noted that this is the first at least in the that policemen and firemen have participated in an EMT is gaining in its support but there are not many cities which have policemen and firemen trained as Baker would give the city's two emergency units more skills to apply in times of Baker police are questioning a 19-year-old Blytheville man following the early morning stabbing today of 33, of was stabbed in the chest about 12:30 a.m. with a small knife at a home on South 16th police was admitted to Hospital where he is listed in satisfactory police Being man is being sought as the robbery suspect in a theft which occurred at 4:47 a.m. Tuesday at the Chamberlain Standard Station located at the junction of Interstate 55 and Highway 84 in according to Pemiscot County sheriff's was deputies suspect is described as being 5 feet 10, and at the time of the holdup was wearing a green Army field Witnesses said the robber was armed with a steel deputies Police and Pemiscot County sheriff's deputies are investigating the deputies Up Hurts Spencer of Portageville and Maybelle Spencer of Gideon were taken to Pemiscot Memorial Medical Center at Hayti yesterday for treatment of moderate injuries due to a traffic mishap which occurred at 2:45 p.m. according to Missouri State accident happened at the junction of Routes P and three miles south of Portageville when William L. Treat of driving east collided with a car driven south by police Meet County Quorum Court will meet in special session at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Blytheville Circuit according to Randy administrative assistant to Judge A.A. insurance affecting municipalities after Jan. 1 will be discussed along with an ordinance appropriating per diem allowance for deputy county clerk and Economic Development Administration grant for bridge Thurman Gets County Economic Opportunity Commission will receive a grant from the Community Services Cong. Alexander has will be used to make repairs on 50 making them more energy Alexander West Junior High School was broken into early yesterday morning and three football jerseys according to Blytheville burglary was discovered by Blytheville Patrolman Ray Yates who later recovered the jersey abandoned near the police Cotton cotton prices advanced slightly during the week reports Paul W. officer in charge of Cotton Classing Office located in Demand remained weak and supply offering were A few bales entered the CCC loan program but most farmers are holding their cotton for higher paid to farmers for mixed lots of grades 41 and staples 34 and 35, miking in the base range ranged to 50.50 cents per Grades 51 and 42 brought about to 2 cents per pound mills were paying per ton for basis grade 100. Ginyard prices ranged from ginning for the seed plus 2.4 cents per lint pound to about per ton an classing office graded about samples during the week bringing the season's total to about samples This compares with 107 samples classes through the same date last quality of the week's showed grade 41 accounting for 45 per followed by grade 42 making up 34 Staple 35 accounted for 80 per cent of the The mike readings averaged higher as 36 per cent miked 5.0 and The remaining 64 percent fell in the 3.5-4.9 base The average fiber strength for the season is pounds per square was al a standstill as heavy rains were received over the King to Evangelist Win TOM GILLEM Press Ohio Ruth Carter the President's and her husband were house guests of porno king Larry Flynt over the The three visited Children's Hospital in were hoping to be able to keep a relatively low but I guess the world's best known pornographer and the President's sister can't be n said few people know and very few know And it's hard for them to visualize an association between the two of said Flynt after Mrs. Stapleton left Columbus for a Los Angeles said he visited the hospital because he plans to give the nonprofit facility some Mrs. Stapleton said she went to learn of research to prevent traumatic experiences among premature babies together by a local televisen crew that interviewed them met with Mrs. for several hours last month at her home in The visit was arranged after she read an article on child abuse in the publisher Stapleton and her a Fayetteville arrived in Columbus Saturday and were guests of Flynt and his a crusader against child said their mutual interests lie with helping Although he acknowledged they have many he said Mrs. Stapleton is not the type of person to hold those differences against loves everybody as well as her own he not a judgmental She feels very few things are Lottery publisher of Both declined to be ban Bexley through Monday Visitation Aide ROCK - The top aide to Judge Roger Jim was subpoenaed Monday by Atty. Lee Munson to answer questions about an account he 5 Tenn. of Elvis Presley will be permitted to walk through a garden it Graceland to visit the gravesites of the singer and his beginning in the singer's said Monday the gates of the estate will be opened from morning to in about four or five allow the public to view the gravesites during certain hours of the day after I can get them prepared and ready for Presley visiting which have not been no one will be allowed on the grounds except the he and security guards will be at the gravesites around the copper coffins of the singer and Gladys Smith Presley were moved in two white hearses without disruption from the mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery Sunday of my reasons for them from the cemetery was that the fans were not able to get inside the mausoleum and it was disturbing the other Presley think the public should be allowed to view the gravesites and it's just like I made the decision to allow the public and fans to view the body before he was TIM PETTIT Associated Press Pa. and who quit their jobs and sold their car and other valuables to buy lottery have one and chance of becoming lottery dream of winning the Pennsylvania Millionaire Lottery dimmed when none of their 1,203 tickets was picked from a barrel containing 40,000 finalist drawing will be held using 40,000 tickets drawn at random from 87 previous The Drakes could have from zero to 1,203 tickets in that accomplished what we set out to says 30, a real estate broker who plans to resume selling wanted to improve my wife's improve our and spend more time smiling Drake told reporters he's considering buying a computer to beat the odds in the next lottery game that begins Oct. 25. officials were skeptical about Drake's idea to use a Conrad deputy executive director of the stale Bureau of just you think with all this national his real estate business will be
