Kingsport News (Newspaper) - January 28, 1971, Kingsport, Tennessee V I YOUTH OUTFLANKS COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN WASHINGTON UPI two old-line j committee chairmen and spurred by its younger members the House Democratic leadership Wednesday decided io enlarge two key committees and engineered we appointment of four liberal members to the vacant The Democratic Committee on Committees which assigns congressmen to the various House panels voted enlarge the Appropriations Committee from 51 to 55 giving Democrats three new seals and Republicans one But the imal decision wil be Up to all House Democrats As Economy Recovers Prices Go WASHINGTON UPI -One set of government figures suggested Wednesday the nation's economy may be on the way to recovery but in contrast a second set indicated Americans may lace another jump In consumer prices The good came from the Commerce Department which reported its Composite Index of leading business indicators increased by 1.4 per cent In December reflecting not only the end of the automobile workers strike but a pickup in economic activity Harold C Passer assistant commerce secretary for economic policy said the December index strongly suggests that the economy will continue to expand hi the months ahead The bad news came from the Labor Department which reported that a sharp rise in farm produce prices in January caused the largest monthly gain In U.S wholesale prices In a 0.0 per cent from December Generally any increase in wholesale prices touches oft similar increases in consumer prices beginning almost immediately for sume commodities The wholesale price index stood at 2.2 per cent above last the smallest year-to-year increase since 1963 It pushed the overall index to 118.5 which means goods which cost wholesale in the period now cost 511.35 Paul W McCracken chief White House economist said he was reassured by the pattern of tlie wholesale price index or industrial commodities He noted the industrial index increased at 3.7 per cent yearly average during the first half of 1970 a 3.2 per cent average fiom July to January and a 2 per cent average during the period This doesn't mean our problems are solved but that's the kind of trend 1 like to McCracken said The Commerce Department's list of business indicators Is a statistical analysis of eight business categories which usually point the way for changes in the economy The rise of 1.4 per cent In the index for December said Passer was mainly attributable to substantial gains in new orders for durable goods housing permits and common slock prices The average work week and unemployment claims also ho The other three figures and orders for plant and equipment prices for industrial raw materials and the cost ratio in manufacturing VOLUME XXXIV No 19 KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37600 THURSDAY JAN 28 1971 5 SECTIONS 40 PAGES 10 CENTS WASHINGTON UPI Nixon administration plans to scrap the Appalachian Regional Commission nation's first program Congress approves the President's revenue sharing proposal a commission official said Wednesday Gov Arch A Moore of West Virginia a cochairman said he was told of the administration's plans by Sen Jennings Randolph Moore said Randolph obtained his information from a top White House aide Moore told a news conference that the administration intended to keep the commission in business through fiscal 1972 June 30 1972 with million which will be sought in the budget that gnes to Congress Friday But Moore said that Randolph intended a resolution to keep the commission for four more years The present authorization for the commission will expire June SO The commission began operation five years ago It now includes the rural areas of Alabama Georgia Kentucky Maryland Mississippi New York Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia The commission has spent more than billion for its programs since its inception including funds budgeted for the current fiscal year E L Bud Stewart Jr a cochairman of the Ozarks Regional Development mission one of five smaller regional commissions said lie understood tlie administration also planned to phase them out if revenue sharing is approved in order to revenue sharing as proposed In the amounts necessary the commissions as well as other grant-in-aid agencies will probably be merged into the revenue sharing Stewart said But don't want to think these projects will end They will be continued funded under revenue sharing In addition to the Ozarks the smaller commissions include the Four Corners parts of Arizona New He To co Utah and England Upper Great Lakes and the Coastal Plains But all together their annual budgets total only about of the Appalachian Com- spending level Moore said he was optimistic about congressional approval of the extension despite the administration's plan We feel very very good about its Congress said Moore He noted that through the revenue sharing program the Appalachian states would continue to get federal money But he warned that a lack of a regional program could be disastrous Ran Away His Death The Miami jail cell where Cloyce Bradley was strangled MIAMI Bradley Cook was the runaway son of a South Carolina preacher He was barely 17 blond cleancut very polite and adrift with only a few dollars in this city of expensive hotels and beaches Cloyce and his father had argued about some of the bad company Cloyce had been keeping lately So Cloyce packed a bag during the night boarded a bus in Piedmont and headed southward nearly three weeks ago His money didn't last long in this winter meeca He got hungry and homesick Then it turned cold and Clyce had no place to sleep On Jan 17 he came across a car belonging to Mrs Josephine She had left the keys in the ignition climbed behind the wheel cranked the engine and decided to head for home Instead he wound up in a jail cell where lie met his death He got halfway up the Florida coast before a policeman spotted the stolen car in Titusville and arrested Cloyce He was returned to Dade County last Friday and brought More On Page Col 1 Is Blue Cross Responsible For Health WASHINGTON UPI Three Health administrators testified Wednesday that Blue Cross by encouraging expensive and often unnecessary hospitalization is chiefly responsible for the nation's skyrocketing care costs One Michigan doctor said Blue Cross is so wasteful of its subscribers money that taking its advice about efficient health care would be tantamount to accepting the recommendations of the Mafia in the reorganization of the Justice Department There were three witnesses at the second day of Senate hearings into the effect of Blue Cross on soaring hospital bills and each of them said the relationship between Blue Cross and most of the nation's hospitals works to boost not trim patient bills They said that Blue Cross plans force subscribers to seek hospital treatment in More On Page Col 1 FORMER AGENT SUES J EDGAR NEW YORK suit was filed Wednesday against FBI Director J gar Hoover on behalf of a former agent who claims he was suspended transferred to Montana and effectively forced to resign for writing a confidential letter somewhat critical of the FBI and fe director The Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed the suit in Manhattan Federal Court in the name of John F Shaw a seven-year agent who last fall wrote the letter to a college professor More On Page B-A 1 Arctic Storm Across New York By United Press International A vicious winter storm rampaged across Upstate New York and southern Canada Wednesday It stranded thousands of travelers in motels and makeshift shelters shut down a stretch of the New York Thruway and left Rochester virtually snowbound The wild arctic blast driving eastward from the Great Lakes after lashing the eastern Midwest raged at blizzard intensity U.S 99 Becomes Long BAKERSFIELD Calif UPI than 70 cars and trucks piled up in blinding fog Wednesday on U.S 99 California's major north-south highway killing six persons Sixteen others were injured and the highway north of Bakersfield turned info a junkyard strewn with jackknifed trucks and smashed cars In an unrelated accident at Livingston Calif three persons were killed when a car slammed into a light pole The crash was also on U S 99 but about 148 miles More On Page Col 1 in Ontario and New York and sideswiped northern New England Blizzard warnings were up for Vermont northern New Hampshire and northern Maine The storm immobilized much of western and northern New York and southern Ontario Thousands of persons took refuge in motels and service centers alongside blocked highways The mayor of London Ont declared a state of emergency when winds up to 75 miles an hour whipped 15 inches of snow into drifts that halted all vehicles except snowmobiles and tractors Many bus and train runs were canceled An estimated children spent Tuesday night in London school gymnasiums Smaller groups holed up in temporary shelters from Michigan to New York Ontario Premier John car forced off the road by a More On Page Col 1 Does Conflict Rule Apply To By JOAN ROESGEN Staff That recurring question of conflict of interest in Kingsport city government this time directed at Boots Duke who is vice-president of Holston Glass Holston Glass is currently subcontractor on two municipal the new fire hall headquarters on Island Drive Cassel Brothers is general contractor and the Bays Mountain Nature Center Steadman Brothers is general Both Duke and city manager Charles Marsh have told the that in their opinion this doesn't represent conflict of interest since oily deals with general contractors whose negotiations in turn with subcontractors are a private business matter Nonetheless county magistrate Tommy Hulse of Kingsport said Wednesday he will ask state attorney general David Pack for a legal interpretation of the city charier Duke said he himself had explored the question in depth before accepting the initial board appointment in and had been assured by both private attorneys and city attorney Weber that by their interpretation this type of business is not to be construed as conflict of interest But added Duke I'll be happy to resign if the state's advice is to the contrary I wouldn't fight it through I never would have accepted the appointment had I felt or been advised that it was in conflict Tlie charter stales in No member of the board of mayor and aldermen nor any officer or employee of the city shall be connected with or have an interest direct or indirect in any contract with the city says the crux of the matter as he sees it fe the word indirect He wants the attorney general to determine piis applies to subcontracting in Duke's case or to general contracting as Harry case Sleadman is general contractor for the Bays Mountain Nature Center and also a member of the Bays Mountain Park Commission a post he was appointed to by Mayor Fred Gillette In case according to city manager Marsh the charter doesn't specify appointed officials so we feel there's no question there In Duke's case Marsh said the word indirect is interpreted to mean doing business with another city agency besides the Board of Mayor and Aldermen for example isn't allowed to do work for the Board of Education and the company has had to give up all its contracting for school glass replacement According to Duke Holston Glass has lost more than annually on city business it's not allowed to do because of his position as alderman The company's dealings with the general contractors is on a bid basis he says and we only get those jobs where we're the lowest bidder on the items specified Holston has lost several other city subcontracting jobs Duke points out because other companies offered lower bids on the projects such as Civic Auditorium More On Pogo 4 WHITE Manson Defense Plans LOS ANGELES UPI Charles Manson and Susan Atkins will testify in their own defense and tlie parents of all three girls will fake the stand during the penally phase of the Sharon Tate murder trial Defense Lawyer Paul J Fitzgerald said Manson was eager to tell the jury about liis lifestyle and philosophies He contends his Family is the product of a sick society and I'm no more guilty of these crimes than all of you are of the Vietnam War Fitzgerald said of Manson's also would testify that the cult leader is not racially prejudiced Wiretap Appeal Set DETROIT UPI The government said Wednesday it would appeal a federal ruling that it must get court approval before wiretapping domestic groups it suspects of threatening national security The Supreme Court will almost certainly get the issue eventually Told of the government's decision to appeal personally authorized by Attorney General John N Mitchell U.S District Judge Damon J Keith delayed until Feb 9 the start of the rial of three white radicals It had been scheduled to begin Thursday Capitol Architect Named WASHINGTON UPI President Nixon Wednesday named George Malcolm White of Cleveland to be architect of the Capitol the first practicing architect to hold the job since 1865 White 50 vice president of the American Institute of Architects will succeed George Stewart an engineer and who died May 24 after stirring up controversy over Capitol Hill construction and his proposal to move the West Front of the Capitol forward by eight feet White's appointment to the a year job is not subject to confirmation by Congress He will be responsible for supervising construction building maintenance and operating restaurants ill the Capitol congressional office buildings and the Library of Congress Southern Compromise UPI Southerners sent aloft a possible compromise to the traditional Senate battle over whether to make it easier to stop a filibuster Wednesday Reformers promptly shot it down Meeting privately the Southern lawmakers discussed accepting a limited weakening of the filibuster rules one which would make it easier to choke off debate and force a vote on appropriations bills and agreements reconciling differences between House and Senate passed Sen Allen J Ellender new Senate dean and leader of the Dixie bloc said they talked about accepting an agreement which would reduce the margin required for cutting off the filibuster from two-thirds to on money bills and compromises A Cocktail LAS Nev UPI Mel Mazon 36 invaded a traditionally female field of endeavor Wednesday He to work alongside a host of cocktail waitresses at the Four Queens Hotel in Downtown Las Vegas It's hard work was his comment after a few hours on the job Female coworkers said they felt no toward Mazon As one cocktail waitress put it all that matters is that the person can do the job From Germs To Research WASHINGTON UPI President Nixon announced that the biological warfare facilities at Pine Bluff Ark would be converted into a national center for research the effects of chemicals on man The White House announcement said the Pine Bluff Arsenal would be used to complete destruction of biological warfare weapons ordered last year by President Nixon and then turned over to the Food and Drug Administration for use as a National Center for Research Hie transition is expected to take approximately a year Milwaukee Blue Flu Ends MILWAUKEE Wis UPI Policemen reluctantly headed back to their beats Wednesday with a court order replacing a contract and the threat of disciplinary action hanging over them because of a four-day blue flu walkout Things are returning to a spokesman for the police department said Circuit Court Judge Ernst J Watts signed a temporary injunction early Wednesday ordering the members of the Professional Policemen's Protective Association to return to their jobs Soviets Attack U.S Newsmen UPI Soviet men attacked an American newsman and a Russian news source he arranged to meet on a main boulevard in Moscow early Wednesday and the U.S Embassy filed an official protest with the Soviet Foreign Office The newsman said he presumed the assailants were Soviet secret police agents It was the third formal protest made by the U.S Embassy in the past three weeks against harassment of Americans in Moscow A U.S spokesman said Thompson R Bouchanan political officer at the embassy delivered an oral protest at the Foreign Office over the incident in which James II of the Associated Press was punched and shoved BOOTS DUKE in Variable cloudiness and cold today with a chance oi light snow flurries not quite so cold tonight High today 30 low IS Probability of measurable snowfall today is 20 per cent Yesterday's high 21 low 12 Precipitation none total for the month 2.30 inches For Initial timi ind cm
