Harrisonburg Daily News Record (Newspaper) - February 9, 1974, Harrisonburg, Virginia Weather In Brief Mostly Cloudy VALLEY OF VIRGINIAN Sections 16 Pages Vol. 77, No. no & service February 9, 1974 For Business or News 433-2702 Ten Cents Forced Off Road Truck driver Michael Keemm ran into some difficulties Friday while hauling a load of produce from Ky. to W.Va. A car forced him off the causing his rig to overturn near the interstate 64 exit at W.Va. State troopers are the incident and its connection to the British Miners Vote To Go On With Strike LONDON - Militant coal mine leaders rejected Prime Minister Edward Heath's appeal to postpone their strike until after the Feb. 28 general election and voted 20-6 to walk out at midnight The decision Friday ran against the personal wishes of union president Joe who thought the strike should be postponed until after the and raised the threat of power blackouts and mass unemployment during the election Heath's Conservatives hope to win votes with the campaign runs the elected government or militant trade Heath has told Tory followers he intends to campaign for the moderate The prune minister wants to identify the opposition Labor party as supporters of extremists in the union But former Prime Minister Harold the Labor opposition refused to fight the election on Tory Wilson announced a platform of to work with promising to settle the pay dispute and unite the The Labor platform blamed Heath for a 50 per cent increase in prices since 1970, Astronauts Back Safely On Earth ABOARD USS NEW ORLEANS 3's astronauts overcame a leaky rocket system problem Friday and returned safely to splashing down in the Pacific Ocean to successfully complete an 84-day history's longest space to be glad to be was the report from astronauts Gerald P. William R. Pogue and Dr. Edward G. Gibson minutes after their Apollo command ship landed on choppy seas 176 miles southwest of San and within 3V^ miles of the prime recovery the USS New One of two rocket thruster systems to control the spacecraft developed a leak less than two hours before forcing the astronauts to come in with only one thruster system Mission worried that fumes from the leaking rocket could harm the warned them to wear oxygen masks if they detected fishy or acid the smell of the propellants used in the Splashdown came at 17 a.m. 84 1 hour and 16 minutes after the Skylab 3 mission It was the end of an era of manned space exploration and the first splashdown of an American space crew in almost a decade that was not carried live on national In President Nixon hailed the astronauts and said they had completed of the scientifically most productive endeavors in human promised higher pensions and other welfare and a to raise The Conservative platform is to be published Public opinion polls are inconclusive as to which party is ikely to win the There is no that the strike by Britain's 280,000 miners is a key Britain depends on coal for 70 per cent of its electricity supplies and coal stocks are already down a third from an overtime ban by Heath's government put the nation on a three-day week Jan. 1 to save The government has warned that power blackouts of up to nine hours a day may be but for the moment no such cuts are Valley Deaths Beverly William 23, of Miss Annie E. 84, of New Mrs. Mary Olivia 87, of Rt. 4, Details on page 8 Truckers Reject Settlement By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Groups of angry truckers rejected on Friday a deal worked out with government officials and said they would continue their protest shutdown until their demand for lower fuel prices was met. Some increase in truck traffic was noted on the ninth day of the but violence continued and drivers meeting in truck stops and elsewhere accused negotiators of in are prepared to continue as long as it declared Tommy who said 300 of his fellow drivers met in Atlanta and voted unanimously to reject the agreement struck Thursday in As in where Governor William G. Milliken ordered the National Guard placed on alert to head off any possible highway violence during the A New York steel plant announced the layoff of 1,500 workers because of the difficulty in getting and Westinghouse Corp. said it was furloughing 1,700 employes at four plants in Ohio and one in Meat suppliers and retailers contacted Friday said they doubted shoppers would have difficulty this weekend finding meat in but they predicted shortages if the strike In the state agricultural S. Mason said the supply be critical by next week all over the Virginia's meat supply is trucked from the West and And the Agriculture Department said in Washington that total meat production this week was 19 per cent below the previous a reflection of problems are having in shipping As mediators tried to persuade the dissidents to take to the more violence was reported and U.S. Attorney General William B. Saxbe said the Justice Department is investigating possible anti- trust violations in connection with the One participant in the talks that produced a tentative agreement between truckers and the Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. got a chilly reception Friday when he attempted to sell the package to drivers gathered at a truck stop in Pa. About 125 drivers listened as a former truck described the agreement as the best possible under the circumstances and taken a giant step Driver Edward Cherkoski did a wonderful job for but we can't accept this It's all right for a three-year-old but we're grown men with families Why can't the government cut taxes on We want a rollback and we want it Before arrival at the truck representing about 600 and groups in and Columbia County voted to reject the President Nixon's chief labor W. J. Usery and Leonard one of the negotiators for the predicted drivers would accept the agreement reached early Thursday But the pattern of voting by groups and statements from leaders of the protest indicated that no wholesale return to the road was in the has been no said Mike editor of a trucking magazine and a strike shutdown The agreement was rejected at meetings held Thursday and Friday at locations in and North and South The settlement reached In Washington Included a government promise of all the diesel fuel the drivers an Immediate surcharge on freight rates to make up for recent fuel price hikes and the promise of future increases In freight have met their basic said Usery in He said truck traffic was up by a fifth An increase In the number of trucks on the road was reported also by officials In Georgia and But for the most the shutdown and Its effects A Bethlehem Steel Corp. plant outside announced It was laying off 1,500 employes temporarily because of the New Jersey To Ration By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New Jersey Introduced a limited gasoline rationing plan becoming the seventh state in the country to do so. Governor Brendan T. Byrne said the plan would start Monday and would be The only other state to make such a plan mandatory is The New Jersey like the six will be an geared to a system of alternating fuel sales days based on even-numbered license All the seven and a growing number of local have introduced the plans on their own without direct federal The Federal Energy Office said this week that it cannot order rationing on a regional basis and recommended that states with severe shortages adopt plans on their Federal energy chief William E. Simon said at the time that he thought problems with gasoline supply were of a confined to or seven Virginia appeared headed in the same Governor Mills Godwin announced Friday that he has directed the state secretary to develop an plan to be used on a voluntary basis wherever needed In the In West Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. said Friday he had received federal assurance that additional gasoline supplies would be made available In five hard-hit northern and asked 29 closed service stations In the Morgantown section of the region to Moore said he will order National Guardsmen to open the closed stations if Legislative Battles Begin RICHMOND - A series of verbal skirmishes Friday on the floor of the Virginia Senate stirred the General Assembly out of four weeks of legislative lethargy and offered some clues to the major battles yet to The bickering came over such issues as legislative election of district no-fault automobile insurance and assembly confirmation of gubernatorial These first two In led to another brief tiff over whether the floor fights themselves weren't a violation of parliamentary procedure and entirely out of While the Senate was embroiled in House members were holding a perfunctory floor session devoid of difference and getting ready to brave the snow for a weekend at The legislative day that left the assembly with just four weeks In which to complete its work also saw these - Introduction of two bills embodying slightly different approaches to a unified solution of Virginia's transportation - A warning to joint welfare committees that requiring welfare recipients to work would bring to the - Two similar proposals to require the wearing of seat belts in motor - An effort to implement former Governor LInwood Holton's proposal for an umbrella Department of Environmental A resolution to put the state on record as favoring efforts to guard against The first sign of unrest came In the Senate when Senator Howard P. offered a to restore the procedure whereby circuit court judges appoint district He explained in a floor speech that he thought the assembly had erred last year when It altered this traditional method and decided to elect all of the judges This has led to in several Anderson and should not be allowed to He criticized the current system which brings judges to Richmond and them accountable to a group of lawyer members of the General who practice in their Senator William F. chairman of the Senate committee which screens prospective called Anderson's and said the assembly should give the new system a chance before trying to change it. AP Gibson returns to WANTED Fields to 828-3120 Notice Closed Sunday only until Biff S. Main St. Several other senators expressed themselves at length on both sides of the issue before debate was broken off. Next on his feet was Senator Willard J. who explained the mechanics of a no-fault automobile insurance he was Backed by trial its major difference from other no-fault bills Is that it preserves the right of a motorist to sue to recover additional After Moody sat a couple of other senators arose to express their sentiments on Senator Hunter B. the Senate could bite his tongue no He forcefully reminded his colleagues that the Senate floor was not the place to political He said he deplored what seemed to be the growing custom of Introducing bills and accompanying them with a And here he debating bills even before they get to the clerk's Andrews urged his fellow senators to reserve their speeches for the TV cameras and not be windy By this time In an argumentive the Senate then proceeded to hassle over confirmation of Sumpter T. president and chief lobbyist for the Virginia Retail Merchants as a member of the Virginia Community College A number of senators said paid lobbyists had no right serving on state boards but others held to the view that It was perfectly all right as long as the individual abstained from voting on what could be conflict of Interest After about 20 minutes of Priddy was confirmed 24-10. Two transportation bills introduced in the House would take only slightly different approaches to the concept of a unified agency to handle the varying transportation needs of the One would establish a State Department of Transportation and give it control over mass and urban transit and airports and It would not include ports or railroads as former Governor Linwood Holton had Under the other aviation would be included only if the State Corporation Commission agreed to relinquish its existing authority over the Division of The reference to forced work for welfare recipients leading to was made al a public hearing on a package of welfare reform Mrs. Yvonne Perry of a member of the Virginia Welfare said that those participating SPAGHETTI DINNER Blessed Sacrament 12:30-5 Sun. Feb. 10, adults child In the Work Incentive Program are already working for less than the minimum wage right alongside people making more Several other strongly supported bills aimed at either denying welfare payments to those refusing to work or making welfare recipients engage in public work The entire package of bills has to be studied in committee further before any final action can be The new to align a variety of regulatory boards under a super environmental agency is a somewhat weakened version of that recommended by the operators Acting under emergency powers he received last Moore had ordered an odd-even sales system in the five counties Oregon implemented Its plan In and a mandatory plan took effect In much of Hawaii last Voluntary plans are to go into effect Monday In New York and Maryland officials had planned to Implement the system there on but it has been delayed at least until Tuesday for a public As states and local communities acted on their attempts to pass emergency legislation remained stalled in Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said Friday the Senate has scheduled a vote on the legislation for Feb. 19. In New Byrne acted under powers he received in emergency legislation he signed Byrne said he has been told by federal authorities his state will get an emergency gasoline allocation this Today's Index 8 Church News 7 15 6 4 Jeane 15 20 Local 9 12 10 8 2 WINTER'S PATTERN - A woman pedestrian's umbrella contrasts sharply with the gray day and the looming columns of Rockingham AP courthouse during Friday's Five inches were measured in most areas of the
