Daily Times (Newspaper) - December 1, 1977, Primos, Pennsylvania 2 DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES PRIMOS PA Thursday December l 1977 Prisoners murdered beaten Gangs close prison FLORENCE Ariz AP Cell doors have been shut and visitors have been barred at the Arizona State Prison where a has followed the murder of one inmate and the stabbings of two others The situation was quiet early today a prison official said Waymond Small 32 a prisoner sentenced to a life term for the hammer death of an elderly Phoenix woman was beaten with a hammer and stabbed day afternoon in a prison license plate factory where about GO other inmates were working said Warden Harold Cardwell Small died while being carried to the prison hospital becoming the seventh man killed in attacks by fellow inmates this year the warden said Cardwell said no suspect had been locked up but he said he believed the slaying to be a gang hit in connection with recent violence involving white supremacist and Mexican gangs inside the prison Gov Wesley Bolin fired state Corrections Department Director John Moran on Tuesday but when asked if the violence was related to Moran's dismissal an aide to Bolin said Prison hatreds existed long before Moran was discharged THE GOVERNOR said Tuesday that Moran was fired partly for recent statements he made to the media criticizing legislators David Verdugo 24 was stabbed twice in the chest in a prison workshop early Wednesday Late Tuesday Walter Lee Souders 20 was stabbed in the left side as he worked in the prison kitchen Both were listed in fair condition in a Phoenix hospital Wednesday We have an explosive tion down there right said William Reilly ad- ministrative assistant who was named the interim replacement for Moran We're getting too much publicity down here and the prisoners are trying to keep the publicity said Cardwell who ordered the to re- main in effect for an indefinite period Meanwhile Texas Gov Dolph Briscoe agreed to lend an un- identified official from the Texas Department of Corrections to run Arizona's prison system while a permanent director is being sought Bolin said when he fired Moran that he would seek a replacement in Texas because that state's prison system is the finest in the nation The prison here is under a federal court order to reduce the inmate population to by year's end The prison held at the end of October Built in 1908 the prison was originally designed for men President's nephew a convicted robber SOLEDAD Calif AP Pre- sident Carter's nephew serving a sentence for two robberies last year has thought about his uncle's election victory and wondered what I was doing back in prison for robbing bars Convicted robber William Carter Spann 30 wrote a letter to the San Rafael Journal after the paper requested that readers share their tions of Christmases past His letter appeared Wednesday on the paper's front page A guitar he got for Christmas years ago was broken tally and Spann fondly recalls how his grandmother Miz offered to have it fixed Spann wrote from his cell at Soledad One of the most remembered Christmases I've had is the one I got a guitar from Santa I'd wanted it for months and I was overjoyed to finally have it But Spann wrote he cried when his mother Carter's sister Gloria tripped over the guitar and broke it After they got me calmed Spann wrote we left for Christmas breakfast at my grandmother's house Once she heard what had the letter said she promised to have the guitar re- paired for me my special Christmas present from her The relief I felt was what made that the most remembered and happiest Christmas I've ever known SPANN ALSO recalled his un- cle's presidential victory and once again I was wondering what I was doing back in prison for robbing bars Spann was previously im- prisoned at Chino also for bery Of all things a nephew of the president of the United States could do wrong robbery definitely shouldn't be one of those Spann wrote Spann said he heard that the Salvation Army was planning to hand out bags of peanuts to the Soledad inmates this Christmas Referring to the Carter family's peanut business in Plains Ga Spann You can imagine what that reminded me of Spann wished the newspaper readers Merry Christmas from a guy who's had one Showers Stationary Occluded Figures show low temperatures area Data frarn NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOAA U.S Dept of occasional rain DELAWARE COUNTY Occasional rain today with high in the mid to upper 50s low tonight in the mid to upper 30s Partly cloudy tonight with of rain 20 per cent tonight and Friday Winds today southerly at 5 to 15 mph westerly tonight at 10 to 15 mph Fair Saturday chance of rain Sunday and Monday Highs all three days in the mid to upper 40s overnight lows mostly in the 30s NEW CASTLE COUNTY Occasional rain today with high in the mid to upper 50s low tonight in the mid to upper 30s Partly cloudy tonight with of rain 20 per cent tonight and Friday TODAY'S TIDES Off Chester Tidewater Terminal Pier highs at and p.m lows at and p.m AIR QUALITY Satisfactory in Chester Philadelphia and Wilmington with satisfactory forecast for all three cities Suspended particles were the highest pollutants in Chester and Philadelphia with carbon monoxide the highest pollutant in Wilmington PRECIPITATION As registered at International Airport 1.20 in the past 24 hours total for the month of November 7.76 norm for that month 3.39 total for the year to date 44.23 norm for the year 36.61 OTHER WEATHER FACTS High in the past 24 hours 43 low this morning at 12 42 average yesterday 39 norm for the date 40 Temperatures a year ago high 33 low 14 Sunrise at sunset at Sadat foes gather TRIPOLI Libya AP Arab foes of President Anwar Sadat gathered in Libya's capital today for the first of the conferences spawned by the Egyptian dent's visit to Israel Still to come are another parley called by Iraq in Baghdad next week and an meeting in Cairo about Dec 13 Welcome heroes of stead- fastness to the land of read banners strung on an airport wall to greet the Arab and Palestinian re- to the Tripoli meeting beginning this afternoon Syria Algeria Iraq South Yemen and the Palestine tion Organization were sending representatives to the conference billed by Libya as a rally to condemn Sadat's campaign The PLO council said it would present a plan to counter what it called Sadat's high treason to the Arab nation and the nian cause in seeking tion with Israel One of the first arrivals was Dr George Habash whose Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a main force in the Palestinian rejection front of radical guerrilla groups that have split with the PLO Habash told reporters Sadat's peace overture to Israel was a crime a terrible step against the rights of our Palestinian ple Both the Tripoli and Baghdad meetings were certain to generate a flood of and speeches and ments i Drive-In tree When builders began work on this refreshment stand at Carnation Wash years ago they built around a tree instead of cutting it down Owners say that the tree is a help it provides shade during the summer Dockworkers returning PHILADELPHIA AP Philadelphia Camden and Wilmington locals of the tional tion have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract Acceptance of the pact by dockworkers ended a selective strike against con- cargo operations in East Coast and Gulf Coast ports Lotteries PITTSBURGH AP Nov 30 number in the Pennsylvania daily lottery was l- STATE COLLEGE Pa AP Wednesday's Nov 30 numbers drawn in the Pennsylvania Big 50 lottery 3 Six-eight Three STATE COLLEGE Pa AP Wednesday's Nov 30 numbers drawn in the Pennsylvania Baker's Dozen lottery were Six Five Three Six Five Three Nine locals voting Tuesday night and Wednesday accepted the new pact by a vote of The ports of Camden and Wilmington do not have facilities for loading and unloading con- but the port of Philadelphia has two such terminals There were no container ships in port here however when the selective strike began on Oct l and what was believed to be the first container ship to arrive since was being unloaded without incident Wednesday night A total of four container ships were scheduled to be unloaded Thursday at Philadelphia's two container facilities Lucien Blackwell president of one Philadelphia ILA local said union members in this region were happy with the pact which boosts wages 30 per cent over the contract period and includes job security and guaranteed income provisions for workers idled by automation Abortion ties up Congress WASHINGTON AP Almost a quarter of a million federal employees aren't sure they'll get their pre-Christmas paychecks as Congress continues to grapple with an abortion issue that has tied up money for two of the government's largest agencies A resolution under which the employees had been paid expired at midnight It was passed early in November to insure that payrolls were met while the de- bate continued on when the federal government should pay for poor women's abortions Unless the abortion ment is settled or a new interim measure is passed by Dec 8 approximately employees of the departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare plus 10 smaller agencies won't get their paychecks covering the first half of December on time The checks are due to go out Dec 13 THE ABORTION issue is lied to the billion appropriation for the two departments because HEW oversees Medicaid and other programs through which the government last year about million for abortions The latest round in the dispute which began four months ago came Tuesday when the House rejected a Senate proposal The House has maintained that the government should pay for poor women's abortions only when a woman's life is en- dangered because of a pre- The Senate insists that the health of both the woman and the fetus should be taken into account and that rape and incest victims should be eligible Another measure to meet payrolls and operating expenses probably will not come before the House until Tuesday WHILE THE agencies are curtailing operating expenses and such items as overtime ments are still being made for welfare unemployment and other types of assistance Speaker Thomas P O'Neill blamed the Senate for the delay in compromising on the con- measure There has to be some give on the part of the he told reporters There hasn't been any give in the Senate Senate liberals maintain however that they have given more than enough ground to reach a compromise on the tion issue and that the House has not shown equal good faith DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES Published daily by Central States Publishing Inc 500 Mildred Ave Pa 19018 News Department Display advertising Want ads Circulation Entered as second class mailer at the Heights Post Office under the Act of March 1879 Subscription rates by NOBODY BWB OUR PRICES] coats dresses sportswear accessories shoes lingerie costume jewelry children's linens millinery compare It's simulated diamonds a Now through Sunday save on fabulous fakes fhe ones 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