Indiana Gazette (Newspaper) - October 29, 1980, Indiana, Pennsylvania Indiana County Area Newspaper That Serves Every Member of the Family TEDDY People who have a liking for simple things would be entranced by her husband says the haus frau next door Vol 102 Four Sections 1980 Indiana Printing and Publishing Company All Rights Reserved Indiana Pennsylvania Wednesday October 29 1980 LATE SBS Fortyfour Pages Twenty Cents Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan fares hit position as President Jimmy Carter listens far left during Tuesday nights nationally televised debate while the President shows a range os Reagan listens far Experts Rate Reagan Tops Forensically WASHINGTON AP The debate may have left undecided voters still unable to make up their minds even though Ronald Reagan scored A nar row forensic victory according to a panel of debate experts Seven of the leading speech authorities marking the same scorecards used to judge scholastic competition gave Reagan 161 points to 160 for Carter in the Tuesday night debate Of eight questions I had four for Reagan and four for said Barbara OConnor a speech profes sor at California State This was one of the closest debates in political terms which Ive ever said Dr James Ungef director of forensics at Georgetown University in Washington If you wanted to call it anything I would call it a dead If there was a disappointment people were watch ing this debate to make up their said Unger who was chairman of the panel I suspect this debate may make it more difficult rather than less difficult for them to make up their Professor Melissa Wade Director of Forensics at Emory University in Atlanta favored Carter by two points on her ballot but said the performance did noth ing to help her decide how to vote next Tuesday I havent made up my mind and tonight didnt make it any Mrs Wade said Three judges favored Reagans debating perform ance while two gave Carter higher scores and two oth ers called it a draw The cumulative scores for the two candidates totaled 321 points out of a possible 420 indi cating both debaters did extremely well in the eyes of the experts The overall scorecard reflected the judges conclu sion that neither man made a major mistake and that both gave the kind of performance that had been ex A former actor who is used to the cameras Reagan received 30 points in the presentation category the highest score either candidate achieved Carter got 27 a high score except in comparison to Reagans pol ished delivery Reagan also outscored Carter 2825 in refutation an other category which favors someone at home under the spotlights Illegal Operations Deaths Dont Halt Mine Work WOODBINE Ky AP Jeff Crawford watched in check the allegedly unlicensed coal mine where his uncle and two other men died and he vowed to return in the narrow shaft his father runs also apparently illegally 500 yards away Crawford 19 and his fa ther Kenneth Crawford are or bootleg They work without permits in a narrow seam of highgrade Blue Gem coal at an abandoned strip mine in rural Whitley County Its better than drawing welfare and food said the younger Crawford Sunny On Thursday The skies will be clear to night but those clear skies mean cold temperatures the lows will dip into the upper 20s Chief Tom my Hawk says theres a near zero chance of precipitation tonight and to morrow with Thursday being mostly sunny and highs in the upper 40s The extended outlook calls for continued cold with a chance of light showers or snow flurries Friday then not quite so cold with fair skies over the weekend who entered the mines at age 12 Three men died in Kenneth Crawfords mine Monday night apparently when blast ing material detonated pre maturely officials said The explosion occurred six days after the state ordered a halt to work in the mine officials said They just went from work ing days to working nights said state inspector Dewey Middleton of the miners Kenneth T Howard deep mine inspector for the federal Mine Safety and Health Ad ministration said there may be twice as many illegal mines those operating with out state permits in his 10 county district as the 50 li censed deep mines Among the requirements for a license is an inspection of the mine for safety Howard said inspectors have little power to control the wildcat mines The mines seem to prolifer ate in times of high unemploy ment among miners as has been the case for the past year And most wildcat mines the inspectors said are opera tions in which no records are kept Theyre going to make a living for their families legal or said Howard of the wildcat miners attitude There are at least three See Page I Column 1 Who Won The Great Debate Both Candidates Claim Victory CLEVELAND AP Pres ident Carter and Ronald Reagan emerged upbeat from their dramatic debate and charged into the final six days of the 1980 presidential cam concentrating on the prizes Each claimed the edge from his perform ance in their headon confron tation Reagan was heading for Texas and Carter for vania two of the major states still judged a tossup in most surveys With most public opinion polls saying the presidential race is too close to call Tues day nights debate was viewed as a potentially decisive event and each candidate played what he believed were his strongest cards An AP poll said most of those who watched the debate leaned toward Reagan even before the debate and that each candidate gained about 6 percentage points after the debate mostly from the ranks of the undecided Carter lashed out at his Re publican challenger as dan gerous and belligerent on foreign policy He described Reagans positions on domes tic issues ridiculous and Reagan in quieter but biting language of his own blamed Carter for inflation and unemployment and said he couldnt describe his differ ences with the president on the uses of American military power because I dont know what Mr Carters policies Repeatedly Reagan said his positions on issues were being distorted by the presi dent After the 90minute debate the two men shook hands briefly and then joined their wives and supporters in pre midnight rallies Carter said he felt very but he cautioned sup porters that weve got er week to go Next Tuesday the decision will be not in the hands of debate judges or the League of Women Voters or the press The decision will be in the hands of millions of Americans like At a similar rally a few blocks away Reagan said I seemed to do all right Ive ex myself and I cant find any wounds It gave me an opportunity to raise some issues about the failures of this We had the offensive Reagan was on the defen said Gerald the advertising chief for the Carter campaign It was a re versal of the usual relation ship between incumbent and challenger The debate played to tens of millions of television viewers predebate estimates ranged from 60 million to 85 million and many others who tuned into radio broad casts The candidates answer ed questions from four jour and had the opportuni ty for rebuttal and buttal The moderator was com Howard K Smith who played the same part in the first televised presidential debate between Richard Nix on and John F Kennedy in 1960 The forum was spon sored by the League of Wom en Voters Moments after the debate began Reagan moved to deal with the war and peace issue that has dogged his campaign I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace and that use of force is always and only a last resort when everything else has said Reagan Voter concern that Reagan might get the nation involved in a war played a role in prompting the Republican nominee to change his posi tion and agree to a debate with Carter Before that shift Reagan had insisted that independent presidential candidate John B Anderson have a role in any debate format Anderson was out in the cold Tuesday night participating only on the fringe of the main event The Illinois congress man watched the Cleveland debate from a stage in Wash ington and responded to the See Page 6 Column 7 Suspected Also In Johnstown Deaths Police Arrest Man Wanted In Jordan Other Black Shootings Across Nation TAMPA Fla AP Joseph Paul Frank lin a reputed Nazi and Ku Klux Klan sym wanted for questioning in racially linked sniper attacks in five cities was jailed here today after an arrest that capped a two month nationwide manhunt officials said The arrest in Lakeland came three days be fore a visit there by President Carter and after federal officials allegedly linked Frank lin to a 1976 letter accusing Carter of selling out to according to authorities FBI spokesman Otis Cox said Franklin was also wanted for questioning in the May 29 wounding in Fort Wayne of National Urban League President Vernon Jordan Other officials have said they have all but ruled Franklin out as a suspect in that case The 30yearold drifter described by friends relatives and police as having a deep seated hatred for blacks was arrested Tues day outside a Lakeland blood bank where he sold blood officials said The Mobile native was arrested on a warrant issued Oct 4 in Salt Lake City charg ing him with violating the civil rights of two black men there by killing them Franklin was to appear before a mag istrate today A police source in Salt Lake City said Franklins arrest was a major concern be cause of a letter sent Carter during his first campaign for the presidency Jack Warner a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washing ton said the letter was signed James Clayton Vaughn allegedly a Franklin alias Police also want to question Franklin about the deaths of a white woman and a black man in Johnstown the deaths of two black youths in Cincinnati and the deaths of a black man and a white woman in Oklahoma City officials said Franklin was discussed at a meet ing Oct 1617 in Cincinnati where officers from 14 law enforcement agencies exchanged information about unsolved sniper incidents Salt Lake City Police Chief Bud Willoughby said he was told Franklin had dyed his blond hair black had tried to remove tattoos and denied his identity when arrested A finger print check confirmed his identity the chief said Willoughby said Franklin was arrested by local and federal authorities after police See Page 6 Column 1 Secret Debate Resumes Today Irans Parliament Jo Vote On Release Terms For Hostages In Public Session By The Associated Press Irans Parliament today re its secret debate on the fate of the 52 hostages and sources in Tehran said the members would vote in public session Thursday on proposed terms for the prisoners re lease But Parliament deputy Hussein Hashemian reached by telephone from Beirut said We may have an open ses sion or a closed session it is not for The deputy said he believed the debate would continue probably four to five maybe six The Tehran sources said the Majlis or Parliament had scheduled a public meeting af ter a stormy debate behind closed doors today They said the report of the special committee set up SATURN MOONS The Voyager 1 spacecraft still 12 million miles from Saturn already is revealing mysteries of the golden planet including two new moons and details of the shimmering rings See story on page 14 Peter Flaherty attacks his Republican opponent and Arlen Specter picks up an important union en Separate stories on page 31 OTHER FEATURES weeks ago to propose condi tions would be read and debat ed and a vote would be taken Hashemian however said new conditions for the release had been agreed upon but that some issues remained to be solved The condition of the shahs wealth he said We are debating on the Ayatollah Kho meini laid down in general terms Irans demands in Sep tember They included the re turn of the fortune which the Iranian government claims the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi invested abroad the release of Iranian assets frozen by President Carter after the hostages were taken abandonment of all legal claims against Iran by American firms and pri vate persons and a pledge from the government of noninterference in Iranian af fairs Khomeini previously also demanded an apology from the United States for its past actions in Iran but Carter re rejected that and the ayatollah omitted it from his last set of conditions Asked if new conditions had been added the deputy said yes but we will make them public Asked if the decision would wait until after the presi elections Nov 4 the first anniversary of the seizure of the Embassy in Tehran Hashemian said we do not consider the American elections as a factor in re solving the hostages crisis Area Home Gutted Fire Leaves Eight Homeless Business Dear Lottery Womens REES Pearl Louise Fitzgerald Port Char lotte Fla SIPOS Elizabeth Sebok 82 592 E Church Homer City formerly of Puritan SLANOC George 66 Heil wood See photo on Page 6 A northeastern Indiana County family of eight is homeless today following a fire that gutted their mobile home located along Route 286 west of Tuesday night This was one of two fire calls reported in the district during the past 24 hours The summary The Jo seph Bartlebaugh family was left homeless when fire gutted their mobile home west of at Tuesday A neighbor spotted the fire and contacted Indiana County Control 911 and firemen from Glen Campbell and Burnside were dispatched to the scene Glen Campbell Fire Chief Allen Smith said Joseph Bart lebaugh and his wife Joyce were not at home and their six children were with a baby sitter The children and their ages are as follows Joey 15 Jack ie 14 Jennie ten Jill eight Janet six and Jerry age four The will be staying with Deborah Bartle baugh in Arcadia ly Indiana County Chapter American Red Cross is pro viding emergency help for the family It is understood Mr Bartlebaugh is unemployed at the present There was no in surance on the structure or contents Chief Smith said firemen were on the scene for about two hours BOLIVAR Firemen from Bolivar were dispatched to the Dean Robinson residence along Route 259 one mile south of Bolivar at Tuesday by Indiana County Control 911 Fire Chief Ed Speidel said an overheated flue was the reason for the call He said firemen extinguished the fire and cleaned the flue before leaving There was no dam age Mining Walkout Ended ROBINSON A walkout by an estimated 770 min ers members of United Mine Workers of America ended their job seniority bidding protest walkout against the Florence Min ing Co Tuesday Miners started to return to work on the shift today ending a walk out that started Oct 9 at the Black Lick Portal and spread to the Robinson Portal and finally all of the Florence mining opera tions The question on job bid ding was to be submitted to arbitration at 11 today in District II headquarters at Ebensburg No immediate ruling was anticipated Bell Takes Rate Hike To PUC Judge HARRISBURG i AP i Say ing it needs the money to make up for the current high cost of capital Bell of Penn sylvania has taken a bid for a million rate hike to an ad ministrative judge The hearing on Bells re quest for increased annual op funds began Tuesday before Administrative Law Judge Morris Mindlin The proceedings were scheduled to take at least 25 days after which Mindlin is to issue a report for the full Pub lic Utility Commission to con sider The PUC regulates tele phone service in the state
