Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - August 7, 1973, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING The average man Is 42 around the chest 42 around the waist around the golf course a nuisance around the house THE WEATHER Central Pa Fair and mild Mostly sunny and warm Wednesday Lows tonight in fills day in mid to upper lOUt Year No 284 LEBANON TUESDAY EVENING AUGUST 7 1973 nutter ttii ft under flit Act el March 3 Wf 28 CENTS Cite Second Fatal Bom rror Agnew Under Probe On Charges WASHINGTON UPI Vice President Spiro T Agnew is under investigation in a case involving allegations of bribery extortion and tax fraud in his home state of Maryland He acknowledged he was un der investigation for possible violations of the criminal statutes but said he was in nocent Agnew was formally notified last week by the Justice Department that he was being investigated by the Attor neys office in Baltimore the Wall Street Journal the Wash ington Post and The New York Times reported in their editions today The Journal said the allega tions against Agnew included bribery extortion and tax fraud The vice president who had been relatively untouched by the Watergate scandal rocking the Nixon administration pro claimed his innocence I have been informed that I am under investigation for possible violations of the criminal Agnew said in a statement issued by his of fice Monday night I will make no further com ment until the investigation has been completed other than to say that I am innocent of any wrongdoing that I have complete confidence in the criminal justice system of the United States and that I am equally confident my ce will be The Wall Street Journal reported the allegations against Agnew stem from the award of state contracts while Agnew was governor of Maryland during 1967 and 1968 and of federal contracts in Maryland since he became vice president in 1969 The newspaper said the federal contracts were let by the General Services Adminis tration the federal agency in charge of construct ing buildings Agnew the Journal said had sought a White House audience after receiving the Justice Department notice presumably to inform President Nixon The Post said the infor mation was developed by an investigation centered on alleged kickbacks to Baltimore County political figures from contractors mostly located in the Baltimore The Washington newspaper said two other prominent Maryland Republicans were under investigation with Agnew It identified them as longstanding friends of Agnew who had helped him with fund raising for his campaigns Annapolis banker J Walter Jones and Baltimore invest ment banker I H Bud Ham merman The letter to Agnew the 4 Nixons Homes Costly WASHINGTON UPI In a move to dispel the impression that President Nixon has per sonally profited by govern ment expenditures on his homes officials have issued the fullest accounting yet of such normally secret outlays They said almost million had been spent over the last four and a half at Nixons homes in Clemente and Key Biscayne all was for protection and legitimate sup port of the President An expenditure of on the grounds of Nixons six acre California estate which aroused a public outcry when disclosed earlier was justified as necessary for the installation of hidden security devices and landscaping to repair the damage and provide clear fields of vision and protective screening The installation of a heating system in the California home was authorized because the Secret Service found the gas heaters in the 43yearold villa unsafe the report said At the same time presiden tial spokesman Gerald L Warren said Nixon had ordered an independent auditing firm I Blast Village In Cambodia PHNOM PENH UPI American warplanes in their second fatal bombing error in two days today hit a village little more than four miles from Luong the Mekong River town destroyed Monday by Cambodian military sources said The Embassy issued revised figures late today saying that 137 persons includ ing 56 soldiers were killed in the Luong bombing and another 268 persons including 118 soldiers were wounded The Cambodians put the casualty toll higher The second bombing error came at the village of Koh Tachou about miles north of Luong and was carried out by Fill fighter bombers The ans said four persons were killed and 25 wounded and that 17 houses were destroyed Embassy firmed the second bombing in cident but said only 12 persons were injured in addition to the four killed The flurry of American bom bing errors came a little more than a week before all American bombing in Cam bodia is due to halt August 15 Military sources said today at least 400 persons were killed or wounded in Mondays bom bing at Luong a strategic Mekong River navy town 32 miles southeast of Phnom Penh That bombing was the worst such accident in the history of American involve ment in Indochina Military sources said that early today American war planes struck government posi tions on an island northwest of Banan on the Mekong River and only four miles from Luong Lawyers Cite Harm In Releasing Nixons Tapes WASHINGTON UPI President Nixons lawyers con tended in federal court today that the presidency would suf fer severe and irreparable damage if he yielded to sub poenas demanding access to tape recordings of his conversations on Watergate The character of that office will be fundamentally altered and the total structure of government as it is upon a separation of powers will be impaired by release of the saii in legal papers filed with District Judge John J Sirica The White House was re to a order obtained by the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox from Sirica after Nixon refused July 26 to comply with subpoenas for the tapes by both Cox and the Senate Watergate committee The Senate committee had been expected to file its own suit today but delayed action pending the White House response to Cox Sirica set Aug 22 as the date for oral arguments by the Nixon and Cox lawyers in that case In the in terim Cox was given until Aug 13 to respond to todays papers and the White House will be allowed until Aug 22 to reply to the Cox brief Continued on 5 AGNEW INVESTIGATED The U S Attor neys office in Baltimore bas formally notified Vice President Spiro T Agnew that he is under investigation for bribery extortion and tax fraud the Wall Street Journal reported Monday The newspaper said the probe isnt related to the Watergate Agnew here is speaking to a meeting of the National Association of At General in St Louis Mo UPI Wirephoto Call LCB Head As Probe Witness HARRISBURG UPI Li Control Board Chairman Gene F Roscioli faces today a House Committee in charges that LCB was a plum for politicians seeking special favors The Liquor Control Commit tee subpoenaed Roscioli and a number of other witnesses Monday including the man whose charges prompted the probe ousted LCB legal coun sel Alexander Jaffurs The committee also planned to investigate removal of several Jaffurs files from the LCB office building last weekend despite a State Police guard Sub poenas were presented to Deputy State Police Commis Roy Wellendorf two troopers assigned to guard du ty an investigator from the At torney Generals office and Charles Zaimes who works for the committee and witnessed the incident Roscioli also was told to de liver 49 files to the committee that could prove or shatter Jaf furs accusations against the LCB which he counseled for more than two years Jaf furs made the charges last month after he was fired by At torney General Israel Packel His statements opened a Pan doras box of counter claims and denials that the committee is pursuing Included in the files are Justice Department re port on Daniel Pennick an in on Page 4 1st Cycle Lesson A Disaster Virginia Wolfs first motor cycle lesson Monday might well have been described as a disaster It sent her to Good Samari tan Hospital where she was reported in satisfactory condition today She suffered a fractured pelvis Patrolman Roberto Cruz Irizarry gave this version of the incident About Monday the 46yearold Mrs Wolfe was showing her newly acquired motorcycle to her husband Roy in the garage at the rear of their 607 Maple St home In addition to receiving the motorcycle earlier in the day she had also received her first lesson Thrown To Ground Wolfe said his wife started the cycle and then by accident the clutch slipped from her hand and the cycle took off It went outside and struck a flag pole and she was thrown to the ground Mrs Wolfe was taken to the hospital in the First Aid and Safety Patrol ambulance Damage to the cycle was estimated at Free Liquor Delivered To Shapp Man Is Returned To Co Jail It was back to jail for George Roy Light on Monday Lights bail of was ordered revoked following a hearing before Judge L E Meyer as the result of a drink ing spree in which Light took two county jail prisoners last Wednesday afternoon Light was on bail pending the disposition of an appeal he filed from a county court convic tion on a voluntary ter charge Court was told that Light and prisoners Eugene V Messner 23 and Barry Bahm 25 visited a number of area bars The drinking expedition began when Light picked up Messner and Bahm after they finished work at a Myerstown plant where they were em ployed under the outmate program Light was furnishing transportation for the pair Released July 23 Light was released from jail on bail July 23 following his sentence of two years to four years and 11 months in con with an Oct 2 1972 shooting at his Annville RD 3 home One man died and another was wounded At the time of the shooting Light was returning from a tavern with beer to continue a drinking party with his two victims Renewal Will Be Topic Here Convey VA Hospital Land To S Lebanon A quit claim deed conveying 36 acres of VA Hospital land to the Township of South Leb anon has been placed on record here The consideration is The tract is being conveyed to the township for recreational purposes by the federal gov Northeast Region Bureau of Outdoor Recrea tion The tract is north of the proposed Route 422 bypass and it adjoins a acre tract previously donated by the Federal Government A township spokesman said plans are now being drawn up for the use of the newly acquired tract The recreation area it adjoins includes a play ground and tennis courts Other Sales Eight recent county property sales have been re corded in deeds filed here They are Premises in South Lebanon Township from Enck Real Estate Lebanon to Dale R and Cynthia A Wagner South Lebanon Town ship for Premises at the southwest corner of West Oak and Mark Street Palmyra from Ralph P and Carol A Meyer to Sher man D and Brenda M Mohn shine all of Palmyra for Premises at 104 Mifflin Lebanon from Dale R and Cynthia Ann Wagner to Robert Moll Jr and wife Karen all of Lebanon for Premises in West Cornwall Township from Chester J and June H Radnor Camp Hill to Richard C and Lois M Guise Dauphin for Premises in Bethel Town ship from Robert F and Marian A McKinney North Cornwall Township to them selves and Lois E Hartman Lebanon for Premises in North Lebanon Township from N K Martin Sons to Richard L and Susan W Kline all of North Lebanon Township for A lot in North Londonderry Continued on 7 They said initial reports showed four persons killed and another 12 injured The kinds of planes involved today were not immediately known but the sources said an immediate investigation was launched Meanwhile Cambodian and American officials tried to pin down exact casualties in the Luong tragedy in which either a bomber or an Fill jet was drop ped its deadly payload over the sleeping river town before dawn and Cambodian officials were trying to determine the circumstances that led to the American bombing error at Weak Luong a strategic navy town 32 miles southeast of Phnom Penh Much of the town was blasted into rubble Officials said it was the worst such disaster of the Indochina war and it came with only 10 days to go before bombing raids over Cambodia are halted Col David Opfer air attache at the American em bassy estimated that 25 to 65 persons died at Luong But other sources said the figure would go much More than 200 woun ded persons arrived in Phnom Penh by helicopter within hours after the bombing in cident which was caused by either a bomber or an Fill jet that dropped at least 30 bombs on Luong The town o Luong was Opfer said Why and how I do not know Luong was bombed Elsewhere insurgent pre sure in northern sections of the country intensified Government military sour ces said the town of Tang Kouk 72 miles north of the capital was evacuated and government soldiers defending the town were trying to battle their way through rebel lines to the city of 12 miles south Radio contact with the defen ders at Tank Kouk were lost the sources said and it self was reported under guerrilla attack warplanes including and Fills again struck targets around Phnom Penh the 153rd consecutive day since the intensified air offensive began Field reports said the raids hit south and northwest of the capital and the concussions of explosives rumbled through the city all through the night Kleindienst Warned Aide Against Hindering Probe HARRISBURG UPI A Liquor Control Board LCB employe told state police last year he delivered gift liquor to the governors mansion at least two times The testimony was included in the files of former LCB Counsel Alex Jaffurs taken from his office last week by Board Chairman Gene Roscioli Roscioli who first denied he took the documents made them available to newsmen Monday He denied they were tampered to 26 and said he would turn them over to the House Liquor Control Commit tee Today In The NEWS Amusements 17 Building 22 23 Editorial 4 2 2 1921 Todays The committee which is in the LCB aed the records over the week end Jaffurs apparently used testimony given to state police as the basis of his charge last December that politicians were getting free liquor from supplies The files also contained affi davits from LCB secretaries who said they were called by an aide to LCB member Ed ward Winner the boards lone Republican and told to switch cases to Henry Sklar Jaffurs told the House com last week that he thought cases were juggled so Sklar could hear them and wanted him fired The files also contained a let ter from House Speaker Her bert Fineman to then Attorney General J Shane Creamer asking that Sk lar be kept on despite Jaf furs recommendations Sklar even tually was fired The testimony to a state po lice investigator about the gift liquor came from two LCB em ployes One of them Roy Schreffer said he delivered cases of liquor to the gover nors mansion in 1971 Schreffer told state police workers at the mansion told him it was for a party for Sen Edmund Muskie He said he made another delivery in 1972 Schreffer an automotive specialist with the LCB said he made his deliveries at Win ners orders He said he made at least 20 deliveries to the state Senate in the past 10 years Schreffer said he picked up the liquor at the states ware house here or from salesman in the alley of the LCB office building The other testimony came from Lewis Kishbaugh the LCB secretary who told a state police investigator he made deliveries of Winners orders He said he tried to make a delivery at the governors mansion in 1971 but was tur ned away and told no liquor was wanted FANCY FRUIT BASKETS DOT FIDLERS RENT A TOOL Air Jh Rentals 2731112 Mi Aetna Orchards Ml Aetna Sweet Milts North of Myerstown On Route 501 Daily I lo TIN 5 Now Open at DU DROP IN Restaurant At Under New Management Hertz I Employment of a real estate specialist for the Southside Urban Renewal Program will be discussed in a meeting Wednesday of the Lebanon County Redevelopment and Housing Authority in the Mu Building Other items on the agenda include status reports on that project as well as on the Neigh Development Program railroad project and temporary hous ing Officials will also discuss budget proposals for the N DP program A grant of has been approved for continuance of that pro gram in the Northside area In line with this program con sideration will be given to renewing the con tract with the city for engineering work in the project A resolution will also be in for dedication of the completed Guilford Street playground site to the city Contracts will also be re with the solicitors WASHINGTON UPI For mer Attorney General Richard G Kleindienst testified today he warned White House aide John D Ehrlichman last sum he could be charged with obstructing justice for in with the grand jury investigation of the Watergate affair said he threat ened to go to President Nixon if Ehrlichman persisted in trying to give direct orders to Assistant Attorney General Henry E the career man at Uie Justice Department who is in charge of its criminal division and remains in overall charge of the Watergate inves Petersen is to be the next witness before the Senate Watergate Committee probably Wednesday The com then will recess until af ter Labor Day In an executive session today the senators decided to delay filing a suit seeking to force Nixon to release tape recordings of his conversations on Watergate The committee decided to await the outcome of todays court skirmish between special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and White House lawyers before making its own move Kleindienst told the senators that through sought to prevent the quest by prosecutors of Maurice H SUins who raised million on Nixons behalf as chairman of the Finance Committee to Reelect the President Kleindienst said Ehrlichman told him reaction to the demand was to tell Ehrlichman to go you know I stid John youve pot to be out of your Klein dienst testified He said if had chosen to air request at a news conference or make it public some other way Ehrlichman could be charged with obstructing justice For reasons not yet revealed view won at least a partial victory Stans was required to answer questions posed by the at office hut he was ex from having to appear before the grand jury When that special treatment for SUns was described by Ehrlichman in his testimony Committee Chairman Sam J Ervin complained bitterly He said no citizen should be exempt from the reach of a grand jury investi gating criminal activity Ervin said a written deposi tion read to the grand jury means that the ordinary citi zens who make up such a jury cannot pose their own ques tions Kleindienst said he told Ehrlichman never to try to deal directly with Petersen again But only when he threatened to carry the issue to Nixon did Ehrlichman stop arguing Kleindienst said From the start Kleindienst said he sought to ward off special treatment for the Watergate defendants He said he considered their crime heinous since it interfered with the opposition political party and went to the very heart of our political He said he and Petersen urged John W Dean III to con vey that message to Nixon said he learned of the June breakin at Democratic headquarters the day after from G Gordon Lid dy later convicted as the operations
