Delaware County Daily Times (Newspaper) - November 16, 1973, Chester, Indiana i breakfast says questions ignored NIXON Nixon to fight scanda WASHINGTON UP I From breakfast through dinner President Nixon made clear to all who would listen that he won't resign and he is about to come out fighting on Watergate Rep Paul N McCloskey Calif no admirer of the President said that was the message the Nixon conveyed at breakfast with 78 GOP con- gressmen Thursday Rep Richardson Preyer Related article on Page 2 said it was the impression Nixon gave to 40 Democratic congressmen in a three-hour White House dinner In between were bers of the National Association of Realtors who cheered when Nixon told them he had not violated any trust and I was elected to do a job and I'm not going to walk away until I get that job done He was meeting with another group of House Republicans today and planned a series of appearances Florida Georgia and Tennessee in the next few days As the President continued his week-long series of private meetings with legislators on Watergate the House of Re- Thursday voted to 51 to give its Judiciary Committee million above its budget to continue its study of possible impeachment of the President There was some carping about the meetings with lators Sen Charles McC Mathias called the one he attended a sort of meeting after we've been doing business for five years I Mathias said historically it ranks with the meeting of King John and the barons of Runnymede when they were trying to tell him how to reform the ment That meeting led to the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 which put the king under the law On Saturday at an Associated Press managing editors convention at Disney World in Orlando Fla Nixon will submit to questions before cameras it WASHINGTON U.S Hep Lawrence G Williams District of Springfield refused to have breakfast today with President Nixon I'm going to have to skip breakfast with the Williams Thursday afternoon Our Thanksgiving recess starts tomorrow Williams added I've talked with some of the men who have gone over to the Whjte House and they're asking quest But Ware describes his White House briefing as President just answering Traditionally an invitation to the White House is considered a command performance Williams is thought to be the only congressman thus far lo refuse the invitation to the breakfasts and dinners at which the President reportedly is answering any and all questions related to Watergate and his personal finances One of those who did go Thursday was Delaware County's other congressman U.S Rep John H Ware 3rd of Oxford He had his briefing Thursday morning at the White House ami called it excellent He said the President should do with the American public on TV In fact I suggested to Gen Alexander Haig whom I was sitting next to that the sooner the Ware said Well I think my words were as soon as is the very convenient Ware said that President conducted a fine question session Thursday morning If he told us any 1 think it would be about the stupidest thing he could do and I don't think he's that Ware said I believe him Ware added that he thinks the President might have opened up like this a little earlier But I'm sure the question of executive privilege loomed in his he explained Overall however Ware's position does not seemed to have changed I don't think they the House Judiciary Committee should slop ho investigation into Ware said but they don't drag it out and I hope they don't make it a partisan issue He added My position is that anyone is innocent until proved guilty that's the American system WILLIAMS Inside your Daily Times A Nike missile silc near Anchorage Alaska was bathed in moonshine at sundown recently The Army installation is perched atop die Chugach Mountains overlooking Anchorage Temperature to dive after shattering record After a high of 76 degrees Thursday the temperature took a dive today and headed toward the low 30s Thursday's high at p.m broke a record for he date of 73 reached in 1926 according to the National Weather Service at Philadelphia International Airport It's already l decorations Page 10 Amusements Bridge Classified Ads Comics Crossword Notices Editorials planning Fair Fair and cooler low Sunny Saturday high 50 Details on Page 14 Daily except Sunday E 8th St Pa 19016 Want Ads TR All Departments TR Home per 200 at Nether Providence meeting Intersection plan s By WRIGHT Daily Times Correspondent NETHER PROVIDENCE More than 200 persons jammed the township building Thursday night to hear he proposal improve the intersection of Routes 252 and 320 Frank Vibbert design liaison engineer in the office of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation presented a plan would provide H complex series of roads islands and medial strips at the Intersections The main objection was lo the proposal to travel on Harvey Road Under this proposal vehicles Harvey Road only by making a turn off Providence Road and not off Chester Road is I hey can now left turns off Chester Komt would also be prohibited Vehicles could leave Harvey Road only by right turns at the intersection Currently left hand exits from Harvey Road may made lo either Providence Road or Chester Road This proposal brought objections from of the audience who live on adjacent Waterford Way and Medbury and Roads They felt traffic will increase on thoso roads and endanger the children After presented he plan by scaled drawings of the proposed Intersection about 10 persons spoke of whom wore against the entire plan The other liked the proposal bul many also wanted variations of it G o o r jj f Conn 80 Kond 380 residents of adjacent area who bad signed petitions against the plan with left turns eliminated on Harvey Road M a n y p e r s o n s w e r e concerned how the Garden City Fire Co trucks would cross the medial strip to gel to the Sprout Estates development It was pointed out he low trucks would In- able to cross the Township Secretary Charles Waters and Commissioners Edward John and Eugene Monaco all said they have spent hours talking to residents and going over plans They wild they hwd no plan to offer and fell this one wilh for bus stops nnd Harvey Road traffic should he adopted The Ims been under for four years If approved work could begin In 1071 Delaware County 981 h Cl HOME DELIVERY n CENTS FRIDAY NOVEMBER FIFTEEN CENTS 24 killed as blaze sweeps apartments LOS ANGELES AP Fire flashed through an apartment building early today trapping some sleeping residents and forcing others to toss their children to rescuers and then leap for their lives Fire Chief mond Hill said 24 persons died nine of them children An undetermined number of persons were missing and at 32 persons were what they said was the worst fire in the city's history An undetermined number of the injured were reported in critical condition in hospitals Hours after the fire was ex- some of the ing's estimated 200 residents remained unaccounted for officials said Sleeping residents of the unit brick building in the city's Wilshire section were overwhelmed by the spiraling fire that broke out shortly before midnight PST officials said They the fire licked up open stairwells to the upper floors of the U-shaped Stratford Apartments which has wings of three and four stories up and the place was all said Clarence Glover 66 a resident of the building which is situated in a poorer section of the city I went down the fire escape I could bear everyone screaming Fire Capt Walt Wilmington said by the time the first three fire companies arrived the fire had spread to all floors And by the time our firemen got their hose lines up the flames had shot through the he said He said more than 50 persons were rescued from the flaming building by firemen residents down ladders and fire escapes Others had already leaped from the structure officials said Deputy Fire Chief Brunetti said he arrived al the fire scene within minutes of the first alarm and found the central lobby was fully engulfed in flames Several hours after the fire was extinguished rescuers continued to search through one collapsed section for missing persons among the building's estimated 200 residents Ambulances rushed an undetermined number of persons to hospitals and some of them were reported in critical condition Hill said many of the bodies were found on the top floors of the building bodies were lined on a sidewalk outside This is the largest loss of life in in Los Angeles said He said the worst previous fire occurred in a hotel 1.970 He said it killed 19 persons and injured 30 Cause of the fire was not determined but an immediate arson investigation was begun Early reports of an explosion in the lobby were discounted by investigators Traffic control plans ok'd PHILADELPHIA UPI Traffic control regulations I ha I will hopefully clear up Philadelphia's streets air and energy problems by were announced Thursday by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency The plans released by EPA regional administrator Daniel Snyder called for exclusive bus and lanes which a re s i g n c d to e a s automobile congestion reduce air pollution and conserve energy in the Philadelphia area The regulations were ally issued as the federal Clean Air Art of 1970 to significantly reduce harmful carbon monoxide a n cl hydrocarbon emissions They call for reducing carbon monoxide emissions by more than tons and bons by more than Skylab off on holiday CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Three rookie American astronauts rocketed away from earth today for a planned holiday cruise aboard the Skylab space station Marine Lt Col Gerald P Carr 41 Air Force Lt Col William R Pogue and solar physicist Dr Edward G Gibson 37 soared toward space atop n Saturn thai thundered off its launch pedestal at KST During the marathon flight which will Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year's the spacemen are to conduct extensive studies of the sun earth and man They'll lake an unprecedented look al the great comet now streaking in deep tons Every single measure we are promulgating will make a distinct contribution to the solution of this nation's energy Snyder said Most measures are carefully designed cither to encourage people to use mass transit or to discourage them from using cars He noted that the EPA was pressing fnr the establishment of exclusive bus and car poo I lanes on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and such major arteris as Roosevelt Blvd and Market Chestnut and Walnut Sts Such lanes to be sot aside no later than January 1976 would be established on major highways connecting the city with Bucks Chester Delaware and Montgomery counties Missing from the EPA plan an original proposal lo permit only certain a decal to enter the central Philadelphia business district on certain days We have concluded that it is just not feasible to establish and enforce direct restraints on vehicular Snyder said He acknowledged that the bulk of the reductions needed to attain EPA standards will come from emission control systems on new ears The proposed EPA traffic control regulations pollution inspection and maintenance program by May 1 1975 of pollution control devices on all cars by May 31 1976 Carpool computer matching system by Jan 1 1075 illegal parking fines in center city by Jan 1 1976 approval of new ter city parking lots miles of bike paths bus lanes on Benjamin Franklin Bridge by Aug 1 bus lanes on Roosevelt Blvd by Dec 1974 lanes on center city streets by Jan 1 1976 lanes on Girard Erie Allegheny Woodland Oregon Spring Garden and Columbia Aves by Jan 1 1975 lanes between center city and King of Prussia Chester Paoli Media West Chester and Tacony transit plans by Feb 1 1974 new rail cars and 900 new buses for area leave I heir in Canaveral Flu today lo the launch pad From left arc Ll Col Carr Dr science pilot and Ll Col William pilot
