Hobbs Daily News-Sun (Newspaper) - June 24, 1977, Hobbs, New Mexico Lea County Forecast likely through partly cloudy tmt Saturday with a slight Hobbs Daily un The tofte MISS YOUR Call i P.M dally before VOL NUMBER 117 HOBBS NEW MEXICO FRIDAY JUNE 24 1977 DAILY NEWSSTAND 15 CENTS State Officials Get Girl Scouts Murder Manhunt Underway LOCUST GROVE Okla AP A posse fanned out over the countryside today in the search for the man suspected of killing three Girl Scouts at a summer The searchers who ed stale police sharpshooters off-duty policemen from and 150 civilian volunteers zeroed in on a mile area around Skunk Mountain just three miles from the camp where the three girls were sex- molested and dragged from their tent June 13 Watch those Mayes County Sheriff Glen Pete Weaver told the posse when it gathered at 6 to resume the search through hilly lands and dense underbrush He will damn sure climb a tree and let you walk under him For more than a week men and dogs had tried without cess to pick up the trail of the person who killed the scouts On Thursday authorities an- they had a suspect a convicted rapist who is still at large after fleeing from the county jail four years ago About Uie same time the three murder charges were filed against the fugitive Gene Leroy Hart a farmer reported seeing a man carrying two guns run out of a cave and into a field Weaver said the weapons could have been a shotgun and a rifle taken from a farmhouse a few days ago Later Thursday the chers caught two glimpses of a running man but their hounds lost the track Authorities said the man could have been Hart who used to live in Locust Grove and knows the rugged area well The searchers were aided by Continued on Page 5 BOWS TO PRESSURE National Cancer Institute To Give Patients Laetrile WASHINGTON AP The National Cancer Institute bowing to public pressure will test the controversial substance Laetrile on cancer patients who have exhausted all other hope Dr Guy R Newell the acting director of cancer institute said Thursday the fact that the experiments will be conducted does not change our opinion that Laetrile is not effective in the treatment of cancer Proponents say Laetrile is a cancer remedy Its opponents say it has no medicinal value We have reconsidered our position because of a lot of factors and one of them is societal Newell told a House government operations subcommittee conducting hearings into the government's war against cancer Newell also said the tests are being undertaken because PARKING LOT PROGRESS Thomason Con- lot and additional nearby space will provide the struction Co workers prepare the surface for mall with 240 parking places With 16 of paving to provide parking space for Zearl Young the 19 stores already leased an opening is an- Investment's downtown This sometime in July Photo by Kathy Cassles House Panel Argues Over Energy Plans WASHINGTON AP The House Ways and Means Committee moving into the showdown stage of its action on President Carter's energy plans is arguing anew over how soon and how much to tax new cars that get poor gas mileage The committee was driving today toward the end of a third week of voting on its version of the tax features in Carter's energy plan Under scheduled for debate today and backed by and by Rep chairman of the panel new cars with the poorest gas mileage would be penalized in 1980 the first year of the program By 1985 the worst of the so-called guzzlers would be taxed In initial action June 9 the panel rejected Carter's mended rebates for buyers of cars and proved a diluted version of the President's proposed tax which would be paid by persons buying that fail to reach government established efficiency levels Carter called for This tax to start with 1978 model cars It would have amounted to as much as for cars getting the worst mileage But the committee decided to delay the Continued On Page si Hobbs Man Charged in Abduction of Texas Woman Special to The Hobbs insurance salesman and former bonding company representative is in county jail here in lieu of bond of on a charge of false imprisonment in connection with the alleged abduction of an Odessa woman Carlsbad Magistrate Linneweh set bond for Luis Enriquez after be was arrested by Eddy County sheriffs and State Police personnel who bad been alerted by the Lea County Sheriffs Department According to sheriff's records in Lovington Nancy Craig 21 left alone in a car at Halfway Bar between Hobbs and Carlsbad called to oilfield in a vehicle parked nearby and told them she was being kidnapped The oilfield crew radioed its answering service which notified the sheriff's ment The crew furnished a full description of the car the license number and the reporting that the vehicle left Halfway Bar beaded west A spokesman for the district attorney's office in Carlsbad said Ms Craig allegedly was taken by force from her Odessa apartment Thursday morning He said several witnesses in Odessa reported the incident to police in that city According to the official report here the car in which Enriquez and Ms Craig were riding was stopped about 10 miles east of Carlsbad Judge Linneweh said he understood Odessa officers placed a hold order on Enriquez but had not yet filed a Lea sheriffs personnel said that at one time Enriquez was local representative for a bending company in Carlsbad but had not recently dealt in bonds for those under Lea County charges of the number of states that Continued on Page 5 ILS Senators Due Here for Four major New Mexico political figures will be in Hobbs Aug 19 for a fish fry and fund-raising event to be sponsored by Lea County Republican Central Com- Sen Pete Domenici Sen Harrison Schmitt Joe Skeen candidate for governor and State Republican Chairman Garrey Carruthers will attend according to Lea Chairman April who said Uie proceeds will go to the building fund for the new Republican headquarters in Hobbs Committee members in charge of arrangements appointed at last night's meeting of the com- are Chairman Sue Ann McCreary Ron Spinar Barbara Grant and Clifford Cone of Lovington Jim Britton and Judy Britton of Hobbs Report on the remodeling and of the headquarters building at 509 East Broadway was made Sealing and insulation must be completed before interior work can be begun and in the meantime the headquarters will have an office at 616 North Grimes County Secretary Donna Henderson Cycle Victim Critical Monte G Marrow 17 son of Tatum City Clerk Deanne Gruben was in very critical condition this morning at Llano Estacado Medical Center where he was taken after a truck and motorcycle accident last night in Hobbs according to police reports Russ G Massey 18 of Tatum driver of the 1975 Honda was listed in fair condition this morning Marrow a passenger on the Revenue Service Claims Spiro Agnew Owes WASHINGTON AP Spiro T Agnew who resigned as vice president in 1973 because of income tax evasion failed to report almost in income when he filed his federal tax return the next year the Internal Revenue Service The IKS says Agnew owes and Ihen pleaded no contest to a in U.S Tax Court disputing the in back taxes and charge of tax evasion on IKS contentions ties on the unreported 1973 in- Oct 10 was notified of the The IRS says Agnew should come But Agnew's lawyer says his client is being harassed on at least one of the items being questioned Agnew who resigned as vice president of the United States new IRS case on April 15 the day the three-year statute of limitations ran out Agnew's lawyer Myron J Mintz filed a petition Thursday have reported as income for home improvements by the General Services Ad- ministration for sonal use of government air- Continued On Page head injuries according to officials Driver of the 1969 Inter- national truck involved in the accident Bernard L Watkins 27 411 East Midwest was not injured Police said the truck was eastbound on Main stopped for the stop sign at Linam and entered the intersection Witnesses told police the motorcycle appeared to be exceeding the speed limit and entered the intersection striking the right rear of the truck Both motorcycle riders were thrown from the vehicle which suffered heavy damage Massey was cited with careless driving police said Panel Approves Study ALBUQUERQUE AP The Senate Appropriations Committee is approving Sen Pete request for million during fiscal 1978 to study the Aquifer Domenici said Thursday the underground water supplies most of the ground water for eastern New Mexico the Texas Panhandle Kansas Nebraska and parts of Colorado He said the aquifer has declined in recent years causing relocation of people and farmlands Among New Mexico counties affected by the declining water table are Lea Roosevelt Curry Quay Harding and eastern Chaves Israel Syria Leaders Develop Stalemate Over West Bank Land TEL AVIV Israel AP Prime Minister Menahem Begin says his new Israeli government will not give up all of the West Bank a Palestinian state there But Syrian President Hafez Assad says the Arabs will not give up an inch of Arab occupied by Israel Assad's statement was Some Flooding Reported was made recently to Egyptian reporters and carried by the Middle East News Agency today in the wake of Begin's speech Thursday Begin the leader of the rightist Likud party told the World Zionist Congress in Tel Aviv that returning all lands would put every city and home in Israel in Arab ar- tillery sights Assad said time and world opinion was on the Arabs side and they would wage 100 wars against Israel if necessary Time is on our side and the future is Assad said Pages Chileans Starving at Offices of Asking of Persons GENEVA Switzerland AP Eight Chileans began a ger strike at the Geneva headquarters of the International Red Cross as similar vigils ended at United Nations offices in Santiago and Washington The Geneva demonstrators are demanding a gation into the whereabouts of persons they claim have disappeared since a military junta took over the Chilean government four years ago The 26 Chilean demonstrators in Santiago the Chilean capital demanded information about 901 relatives they said were missing The five American demonstrators in the U.S capital said they were expressing support for the group in tiago The five men and three women who began a sit-in at the Red Cross building Thursday said they would fast there until a delegation was named to go to Santiago A Red Cross spokesman said they were in the wrong place since organization has nothing to do with human rights We handle Red Cross Convention But he said the Red Cross would not try to throw them out A spokesman at headquarters in Geneva said his knew nothing about the sit-in The Santiago demonstrators ended a hunger strike at the suburban office of the Economic Commission for in America Thursday after Chilean representatives at headquarters in New York told Secretary-General Kurt heim their government would give information on the missing relatives A spokesman said the Chilean government pledged the demonstrators would not be punished The Chilean junta announced last November it had freed all but 20 of the political prisoners taken after the overthrow of the late President Salvador Marxist government in September 1973 The 20 were exchanged for prisoners held by foreign Communist governments and were exiled However the worldwide human rights organization nesty International charged last March that political prisoners had disappeared since the coup and no explanation for them had been given Railroad Sets City Signals Railroad signal lights to control street traffic have been installed at the New Mexico Railway crossing at West Broadway in Hobbs The warning system is one of four that are being installed in at a cost of about meet of which to being paid by the federal government with the doing the installation works A railway spokesman in- that H looks like all of the lights will be installed and ready for operation near the end of July federal grant for the project was available to the city because of the major hazard pmed by the crossings according to Hobbs City Engineer Ken Martin In October of 1974 Hobbs enacted a speed limit on trains going through Hobbs This limit which specified a limit at all crossings was passed by the city after repeated refusals by the railway to install protective signals The crossing Unit in effect slowed the train to is miles through the city Other crossings to be protected by new warnings we at North GrimeT After Downpour Over Lea Lea County is greening under more rain which last night poured down 2.3 inches on Roads between Lovington and Tatum were flooded by about p.m by the downpour which began about p.m and lasted until near mid- night Official rainfall for Hobbs was 1.6 of an inch according to New Mexico Electric Service Co although gauges at Green Meadow Lake showed a 2 inch fall Last night's low was 63 degrees after a high of 85 yesterday Total rainfall for the year in Hobbs is now 7.79 Eunice received 2 inches of rain in a storm which hit there about 1 according to Gas Co of New Mexico An inch of rain was reported in Tatum The high there yesterday was 84 degrees followed by a low of 60 last night Only Jal was left put of the rain bounty last night The high temperature there yesterday was 90 degrees followed by a low of 63 last night The forecast is for thundershowers likely through this evening and partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow with a light chance for thundershowers Low for tonight is expected to be in the upper 50s and the high tomorrow in the upper 80s erms For Taking In Funds SANTA FE AP District Court Judge Edwin L Felter former state environmental officials John R Wright and Lewis 0 Gray to maximum prison terms in a em- case As he sentenced the men Thursday Felter said Public officials must be held to higher standards than those in private life Felter sentenced Wright for- mer director of the water ty control section of the Improvement cy to a term for fraud and a for conspiracy to commit fraud Felter ordered thai the be served con- is one after the other The judge sentenced Gray to a for conspiracy At court appearances in late May Wright had pleaded no contest to the fraud and con- charges and had been found guilty by Felter Gray had pleaded guilty to the con- charge The two men were accused of obtaining in state waste water construction funds in April 1974 through creation of a fictitious sewer system construction organization the Greater Mesilla Valley tation District Albuquerque attorney Steve Durkovich representing Wright made a plea Thursday to Felter for a suspended tence Santa Fe attorney John Jasper representing Gray also asked for a suspended sentence and a fine for his client in lieu of a prison term Wright made a lengthy and emotional personal statement to the court in which he re- counted his own background He told the court that he stole the money from the state out of frustration at being passed over for promotion as director of the Environmental Im- provement Agency Gray made no statement to the court But his attorney Jasper told Felter that Gray's motivation was he became involved and stayed involved out of ship and loyalty to John Wright Immediately following the sentencing Wright and Gray were turned over to the custody of the Santa Fe County sheriff and a short time later were led handcuffed from the thouse for transportation to the state prison south of the city A plea bargain with the state obligates Wright and Gray to full restitution of the plus any accrued interest they made on the money white it was in their possession Records show the money earned about in interest during a period it was invested in of deposit in a Las Cruces bank Much of the money later was deposited in a Juarez Mexico bank and a portion of it lost when the Mexican peso was de- valued Asst Atty Gen Dennis On Page Nine Pulsating Began Craze 30 Years Ago Today TACOMA AP There were of them shiny pointing objects Hying over the Cascade Mountains as fast as miles per how Kenneth Arnold was the first person to report seeing flying saucers 38 years ago today The Arnold now 62 makes rare appearance tonight to give the keynote address to three-day international conference on unidentified flying objects Arnold a Botae businessman was flying Us plane from to OB June 24 when he saw the objects over Mt moving in a strange weaving motion They seemed to be alive in the center to have the ability to change their density I know that sounds saM Arnold No I have never claimed to have seen any little men in them Others have not me I didn't want to exploit anyone Md I didn't want to be exploited Soon after Arnold's report UFOs became a crate The flying saucer term was coined seemed to be seeing them Arnold uyt he has seen UFOs six times since the tint sighting the the New Age Foundation a UFO group in the plans lectures a salmon bake and a near the Mt Rainier Recent Gallop pods show 51 per cent of Americans in UFOs A Gallup survey found 15 million Americans who claimed to have seen them The Air Force In to Project Brae which investigated thousands of UFO sightings concluded that some UFO reports were hard to explain although national security threat WM toad Now semiretired in Meridian Idaho Arnold thinks he UFO grounded In human experience Arnold wid a model he made of what be saw paralleled what described the Bible He said he saw drawings in the British Museum almost Identical to what he saw Arnold said he once took movies of two flying under his Hght plane at top level Mir Mt lateen His description his content The craft flew erratically Uke on rough cruising both flit and They were circular Kite ta the center and at rent
