Clovis News-Journal (Newspaper) - March 3, 1977, Clovis, New Mexico A Freedom Laughter is one of the best things that God has given and with hearty laughter neither malice nor indecency can Baldwin Newspaper Your Watchful I Newspaper Sewing Epstein New Mexico and West Texas Traffic Toll Ry The Associated Tress 1077 Traffic Toll to Date 57 Traffic Toll to Date Pfi VOLUME 289 AP Leased Wires J E NEW MARCH 1977 mists S 24 Pages Today DAILY OR SUNDAY H Supreme Court Upholds Conviction Of Melton SANTA FE APi The New Mexico Supreme Court af firmed the convictions of Stan ley lleon Melton of Clovis on a series of charges stemming from the death of Sarah hut ruled he cannot be executed for the The court held the death sen imposed on Melton for conviction of murder was unconstitutional a homi cide committed during the commission of another and said the proper sentence was life Meltons case will be sent back to Curry County District Court for imposition of the life sentence was charged with first degree aggravated sodomy and kidnaping following in connection with the death of Mrs She was kidnaped while working as a convenience store clerk in Clovis in the early morning hours of Her nude body was found later in the parking lot of Clovis Me Counties Eligible For Aid WASHINGTON AP President Carter designated five northern New Mexico conties as emergency drought qualifying them for special federal Hep Harold I N said today Livestock producers and farmers in San Quay and Union counties will be eligible for emergency aid under the n spokesman for Runnels said a telephone interview I He said Carter issued the declaration at the request of Livestock producers will be eligible for reimbursement from the Federal Disaster Ad ministration for a portion of their feed costs through April Kunnels said He said the assistance is de signed to keep them from losing foundation herds because of high feed costs and lack of grazing material said those wishing to apply for the assistance should contact their local Agricultural and Conservation Service offices monal Hospital Melton pleaded insanity as a defense to the charges during a five day trial in Carlsbad One of the points raised on appeal by Melton was that the trial court erred in refusing to give the jury his requested in struction concerning expert but the court said the instructions given were In reversing the death sen the court cited its decision in the case of State versus Michael was sentenced to death after he was convicted for the murder of Albuquerque cab driver Jose Vargas Hut the state Supreme Court ruled in the summer of that New Mexicos mandatory death sen tence law was The state ruling followed a Supreme court decision declaring similar death penalty laws in other states In addition to the death sen Melton was sentenced to a life term on conviction of the kidnap charge and 1050 years See MELTON on 2 TOKYO AP Four Japa nese extremists wielding a sa murai a rifle and a pis tol invaded the headquarters of Japans largest and most pow federation to seized hostages and de the postwar structure of officials The raiders initially seized as many as 12 men and women hostages in the downtown head quarters of a feder aton of 896 business and indus trial officials said They released all but two hostages by days One employe said the band fired three rifle shots before entering the seventh floor office of the managing di but there no reports of Later in the day a doctor and nurse were seen entering the The managing Tel suya was one of the hos tages released unharmed Helicopters hovered overhead and hundreds of of riot police surrounded the building while officers tried to negotiate with the four In officials said the men barricaded themselves In a seventh floor office and de clared Well die The Japanese business and establishment of money politics have been supporting for io years this postwar Never let Japan the group was quoted entering the building the men distributed pamphlets Identifying themselves us members of the Youth League to Crush the Y and I They said in a rambling state ment that their aim was to do the struc which Is postwar and han by the Allied nations aimed at weakening the Japa nese people as much as pos Yalta and were sites of major Allied conferences to ward the end of World War II that included a decision to bring the Soviet Union Into the war against Japan and helped determine Japans postwar Barboa Against Work INS 01 COMICS 1 12 17 20 HOSPITAL 2 2 SOCIETY 10 II J NOSS Denies Purchase Affiliation Of Bank Announced NEWS AT A GLANCE Crash Kills Cadets Italy AP An Italian air force transport plane carrying naval cadets and six crewmen crashed today in the mountains north of this central Italian killing all the Defense Ministry The plane was taking the teenaged all in their first year at the Leghorn Naval on their initial training night when it crashed against shortly after take off from San Giusto Foreign Aid Viewed Ova Noss of Clovis has unequivocally rejected a statement by Norman Scott that his March search for the legendary Peak treasure at White Sands Missle Range Is to be done on her Its an insult to human in Noss The Idea of him leading me into the The blind cant find president of Unlimited of Pompano was quoted earlier as saying he represents five of the six groups of claimants to the Ue the Shriver the Joe Newman group and the Yancy group as well as The of Scotts search on the While Sands Missle Mange is apparently the treasure trove Noss says her Milton Doc Noss discovered in and to which she hos been attempting to gain access for a number of See NOSS on Page 2 WASHINGTON AP With new backing from the Senate for its chorus of official concern about human rights violations the Carter administration is reviewing all unilateral foreign aid to see if more countries should be cut off for violating human Police Patrol Streets Mexico AP The police patrolled downtown streets in this southern Mexico town Thur sday after a confrontation with university students left 17 students and two policemen wounded by Newsmen at the scene said the police opened fire with automatic weapons in order to halt a student but policemen say that the demonstrators opened fire and that the police were not Weather Ideas Requested WASHINGTON AP The Carter administration is inviting an estimated Americans to provide ideas for a national energy White House Press Secretary Jody Powell announced Wednesday letters are being mailed to private citizens whose names were taken at random from Census Bureau Another letters are going to members oi labor businessmen state and local officials and members of public interest he Eastern plains Partly cloudy with little temperature change through Friday winds shifting tp northerly and diminishing Clovis low tonight mid high Friday near Portales mid 20s and near low 20s and upper mid 20s and mid 20s and mid Carlsbad mid 20s and mid Hobbs mid 20s and low A check of tem from Southern Union Gas Company showed the following 8 10 2 A trio of Clovis John Alford and Don have the MeFarland Hank In one of the oldest banks in New Mexico and perhaps the last family owned bunk in In The transaction is effective April according to Alford will serve as president of the bank and will be a member of the board of which will also In clude Fowler and Fowler said current president McFarlund and MeFarland will also hold positions on the board of We feel it is important to keep them Involved in official positions with the bank us long as they wish to be with Fowler They are good people and will con to make Logan their McFarlands father established the bunk in Logun in about while New Mexico was still a The bank was chartered in Fowler The which will continue to be known as the McFarlund serves See PURCHASE on 2 Lurry Associated Tress Writer SANTA FK AP It was the first encounter for Jane a school teacher from Las with the New Mexico All she could say afterwards Its much more relaxed than 1 thought it would Legislature Studying Liquor lly HILL Associated Tress Writer SANTA FK AIM The New Mexico Legislature will have several alternatives to choose from if it decides this year to change the stales liquor licens ing The House Public Affairs Committee heard five hours of testimony Wednesday on a number of proposed but delayed a decision until a special meeting early Saturday One heard by the com comes from the office of Jerry It would make 201 additional liquor li censes available In the stale by reducing the present quota ra tio of one license for each people to one license for Another proposal would abol the quota turn over ownership of licenses to the state and establish a fund for the state to pay for the Two other bills would create special beer and wine licenses for use by restaurants and es a public facility license for Issuance to tourist oriented Among the witnesses Wed were several retail liquor who opposed generally all of the bills and particularly the ones to abolish the quota Hut David IV Mora San sponsor of three of the bills proposing changes In the licensing expressed strong opposition to con of the quota which he called archaic and a Salman is sponsor of a that would reduce the lation quota from persons per license to Hut he made It clear he does not en endorse this ap Salman expressed stronger support for his which would abolish the quota and which would create u special public See LIQUOR on Page 2 Theyre Theyre people can be talked of the New Mexico Might t Work Committee was a witness be fore the Senate Public Affairs Committee Wednesday for a controversial that would outlaw forced union She wasnt she when the committee D asked at the outset if she would mind giving her telephone number to the all male She I had asked people about him and watched him on she said Hut she was taken aback I AND FRIEND State of the Senate Public Affairs Com which currently is conducting hearing on a Introduced by Bob Wood of is shown talking with an unidentified man in office In the state capital News Journal Photo Sign Dispute Heard The City Commission heard an unhappy property owner argue Ilia he felt the city was harassing him about a sign on his property at 1120 during UK midweek study session Wednesday Kloy Marln appeared before the commission to discuss the fact he had received citations concerning Hie sign he there arc numerous other Instances of signing violation In I am not here to create Post Abandoned AP Jerry Apodacas choice to head the Democratic party in New Dan ap didnt make much of an impression on his successor in a similar post in Apodaca has said he wants director of the New Mexi co Department of Hospitals and to succeed gordo Mayor Mike Glover as Democratic party chairman in Now The central com names the partys state Croy was elected to a two year term as chairman of the County Demo cratic party in Hut in without resigning the lie went to Washing to teers for Lloyd Hentsen during the Texas senators illfated shot at the Lubbock Democrats say Croy abandoned the then blocked a move to appoint a Croy resigned the position in October after creating what his Madison called quite a bit of Croy says he worked for the Democratic party in Lubbock County while in problems for anyone Marin but pointed out that he had received a citation concerning the sign In had moved the sign from the public to his own but had received another lie tuild Commissioner Pat Sandoval had apparently complained about the which had been In Its original location since I think it Is harassment and 1 dont ap Marln Sandoval said he had received a complaint about the City Building Inspector Sorgen explained that the first citation was Issued because the sign was on the public right of a violation of the sign and the second citation was issued because the although on was in violation of the It was explained thai there Is no provision for a variance from the sign ordinance but u I variance can be grunted for provisions of the zoning or commission suggested to Marin that he apply to the zoning board for a variance to allow the sign to remain on his which SM en 2 when in the midst of reading her prepared statement she looked up and saw Barboa had been replaced at the Senate rostrum bv John Co the Navajo In dian Im the chairman At times during her testi mony and that of succeeding witnesses for Might to Work more than half the nine mem bers of the committee were out of the Sen Donald IV questioned her at length It every thing He wondered about leaching conditions Las Cruces and how things are up in where her brother Weve got Thomp son told returning after about 10 told The members of the committee are keeping you here because youre the prettiest one to main argument that union members should have the freedom to protest bad representation by withholding dues was generally The strategic question Is If com will conclude the hear ings which opened Wednesday with testimony of the The Might to Work was Bent first to the committee over tho protest of the proponent senators on a floor That was two weeks opened the Initial hearing Wednesday with the unusual for a chair that hes against the and nobodys going to change his He said workers who gel the benefits of union contracts but dont pay union dues are para This should be called the Might to Leech or the Might to Scab lie When Pinto asked If he could take a little time to ask soino questions of the Hob Harbon said You have the same leges as anybody In the au You may take all day If you We have 15 or 10 The hearing was scheduled to resume when the committee meets again Police Grab 2 Suspects Two young men woro arrested by Clovis police after the authorities responded to u silent alarm call at PlayA 1904 Sheldon at about Officers Lylo Steve Freeman and Farley responded to the alarm and found a square hole cut in the west side of the police Investigation of the scone revealed two suspects inside the A coke machine and cash drawer had been broken Into police said and a bug of money containing In currency was Police arrested Alun Scott W and Jimmy Joe 1015 Hoth were charged with aggravated a third degree Trapped Miner Gets Tobacco so feet to curring lii this ml 8 4 46 7 Wednesdays 2 7 high ut 36 33 29 23 was 46 Todays low at was 23 AP Warm a Jug of hot broth and chewing tobacco were pushed through a tun nel today to a coal miner en tombed since Tuesday when an underground flash flood wrecked a coal tapped a message of life through a 60 foot wall of solid coal day nearly 32 hours after he and other miners were trapped by water and debris about a mile from the mines Seven men are still Two men were killed and their bodies and who were injured when the water swept through the in the heart of Penn anthracite coal min ing 40 miles northeast of The water apparently broke through a wall from an sweeping mine timbers and other debris through the in very good spirits and very good said Leon vice president of the Kocher Coal the mines The supplies were placed in two canisters and pushed through a hole bored into the coal during the then begun drilling u series of other increas ing their size little by little with The idea was to get it big enough without causing another for Adley to squirm Its u very tedious job and must be done by said Workers were using small timbers to shore up the escape tunnel us they pene deeper Into the seam of anthracite Weve got 50 feet to mine foreman Sam Klinger said ul Its impossible for me to tell you how long Its going to Adley was Hes got some mining equip ment with him and hes started to dig from his said Lyle u Kocher security They told him not but be wanted Walter the states top mining said the mine hud been inspected by the state lust U has u very good safety he 1 know of no fatality ever oc curring In this mine before the current Kocher begun mining the tunnel In The shaft had been abandoned since when the Heading Anthracite shut down operations speaking through a separate communications tube fed through the hole suid he was and that ha was suid that ut most the other trapped miners could not be more than 250 feet from in the lust or work in that section of the
