Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - August 20, 1973, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania THE Lock 146 20 Pages Offices in Lock Haven and Jersey August 1973 Possible conspiracy to kill Nixon NEW AP President Nixons motor cade through New Orleans was cancelled today on advice of the Secret which said it had uncovered a possible conspiracy to assassinate the President during his visit to the city New Orleans police were asked by the Secret Service to arrest a former policeman who was described as armed and extremely Police declined to say whether the former identified as Edward alias was wanted in connection with the Presidents The call to pick up Gaudet went put shortly after it was reported that New Orleans Police Clarence sos car and a policemans uniform had been Gaudet was arrested on 1970 when Nixon drove through the French quarter in a He was charged with attempting to desecrate a flag by burning it and throwing it on the Presidents He had been off the police force nearly three years at the time of that On July he was allowed to re sign after being involved in an incident during which a firearm was discharged during a car was taken about 2 from the drive way of his suburban It was recovered about 7 near Lake across the In Secret Service spokesman Jack Warner said Over the past week we have received information over a possible conspiracy to assassinate the President dur ing his visit to New Orleans this Warner said information on the alleged conspiracy came from police Warner noted that the motorcade had been cancelled but said the President apparently has accepted the risk of continuing his travel Warner said that neither the new route the President would take into New Orleans nor the mode of transporta tion would be He said the Secret Service would have an additional statement only if there are Asked if security had been increased because of the new Warner indicated that it The Se cret Service takes certain precautions based on its intel please turn to page 10 Would impeach over Nixon tapes WASHINGTON AP If President Nixon flouts a court order to release White House Congress must seriously consider says George But Elliot Richardson says Nixon has made a very strong case for not turning over the tapes to the Watergate special Archibald The two statements were made during television interviews a Gallup Poll com missioned by The New York Times showed that 56 per cent of those who watched the Presidents latest speech on the subject believe he should turn the tapes over to the courts and the Senate Watergate interviewed on CBSs Face the said the tape dispute may go all the way to the Supreme When that process is if the Supreme Court holds the President of the United States must turn over the tapes and other evidence in his possession bearing on this and he then there is no recourse except for the Congress to give serious consideration to McGovern He said the Nixon administration should go beyond the mere legal requirements and to open up and give us the Richardson said on ABCs Issues and I believe that the constitutional basis on which the Presidents brief rests in the light of the few cases bearing on a strong Richardson said later that the issue is a very closely balanced Richardson declined to discuss details of the investigation into alleged political corruption in Maryland which has been said to involve Vice President Spiro Cox is trying to get tape recordings of nine meetings involving the President in which Watergate was The existence of the tapes was disclosed at the Senate Watergate The committee also has subpoenaed some of the tapes and and the District Court has been asked to rule also in that The Gallup Poll commissioned by The New York Times was conducted by telephone Thursday night from a national sample of 810 Experts say the margin of error can be as much as 4 percentage points either way in a sample of that the Times The poll also indicated that 44 per cent of the people who watched Nixons televised Watergate speech Wednesday felt it was not The Times said that only 27 per cent found the talk completely or quite a lot con In another Time magazine is reporting that convicted Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt is resentful that prime conspirators are free while he is in serving a provisional 35year sentence at the federal prison in was quoted in an interview as being upset that higher ranking men who planned the including Jeb Stuart remain a journalist who says she was sent to spy on McGovern told a New York radio station that she doubted that her information was much Lucianne Cummings Goldberg had earlier told The Washington Star please turn to page 10 Kennedy enters not guilty plea AP Joseph Kennedy III pleaded innocent as he went on trial today on a charge of negligent driving stemming from an au accident that left one girl partially Kennedys Edward and his were among spectators in the small crowded Seven persons were hurt 13 when a Toyota vehicle driven by the son of the late Robert Kennedy flipped over on a winding road was charged with operating a motor vehicle negligently so that the lives and safety of the public might have been Kennedy will be arraigned and tried before Judge George Anastos in Nantucket District Robert the town said the maximum penalty was two years in jail and a But he said that in similar people found guilty were usually let off with a I wish this had happened somewhere Mooney said We dont need this kind of Were trying to treat it as a routine But nothing is routine with that name in The accident left Pamela partially paralyzed with a fractured spine and broken Miss Kelly was described in fair condition Sunday at Cape Cod Hospital in But doctors said it was still too soon to determine whether the girl would be able to walk Kennedys Wayne said Im going to treat it like any other accident case that Mooney and I and we try about 30 a The defendant is a nephew of Edward The Kennedy family has a summer home in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod about 20 miles north of Nantucket in EXPRESS CHANCE OF SHOWERS or thun this tonight and High temperature both days in upper low middle Shower probability 50 per cent today and 40 per cent Wind through tonight light and vari Ann 19 Daily Jersey Letters to 15 Stargazer Younger Body hunt is renewed HOUSTON AP Authorities plan to use heavy machinery today to dig over a beach area where two couples told officers they saw men with long bundles wrapped in One couple said two men on the Galveston County beach resembled Dean and Elmer Wayne central figures in the largest confirmed mass slaying in The bodies of 27 boys and young men have been unearthed since the case broke 8 when Henley told police he killed Corll in Corll allegedly was the leader of a homosexual procurement A grand jury indicted Henley in three of the He has told police he took part in nine Another David was indicted in one slaying but has said he did not kill On officers using rods and sticks probed a 200yard area of the East Beach without Houston Porter said the two couples had notified him earlier that day of the incidents at the and Abernathy of Houston told Porter they drove to the beach last February or March and saw two men carrying a wrapped bundle over a sand Porter said the second who asked not to be was looking for a camp site in They told Porter they drove to where a white van please turn to page 10 REWARDED FOR FLOOD SERVICE Alton left heli copter and 5 Philip crew were awarded the Pennsylvania Meritorious Award on Sunday morning at the Hilltop Armory in The men are members of the Pennsylvania Army National Company New Cumber and received the award for out standing service performed in the Lock Haven area during the 1972 Presenting the award is Donald commander of the 728th Main tenance Robert battalion operations is at The helicopter crewmen were in the area over the weekend to participate in an airlift exercise between the armory and State Col National Guard Photo Mill Hall fire truck fire destroys barn at Lamar LAMAR Mill Hall Fire Companys 1969 pumper truck was demolished in a accident at about 8 Sunday while on its way to a barn fire Three firemen were injured when the truck broke through a wooden bridge and overturned in a small The barn owned by was a total The three injured firemen are Harold Brungard 121 Jay Mill the truck who was treated at Lock Haven Hospital for a shoulder injury and then Fireman Robert Sterrett Mill who was treated at the hospital for a leg injury and then and Fireman Thomas 117 Chestnut Mill who was ad mitted to the hospital with multiple leg and shoulder lie was listed in satisfactory condition to According to state the fire truck turned off Route 64 onto an unnamed farm lane near Sunoco The truck approached a bridge over a small run known locally as the state police The truck broke through the wooden bridge and overturned into the water six feet The three injured firemen were rushed to the hospital in an A wrecker from the Army National Guards 728th Maintenance Battalion was called in to remove the fire truck from the In the other fire fighting units from Lamar Walker and Mill Hall went to the barn apparently by way of the Jacksonville police the fire was out of control when firemen arrived and the barn burned Police said at least one piece of fire apparatus had crossed the bridge before the Mill Hall truck tried to Firemen said it is believed that lightning struck the barn and started the fire at Firemen were on the scene until The amount of grain and livestock lost in the fire was not determined and no dollar estimate was made of the Laotian coup fails Laos AP Laotian government troops in less than 10 hours crushed an attempt by a rightwing exiled general to overthrow Premier Souvanna and torpedo the pending agreement with the Communist Pathet Lao to set up a coalition The rebel Thao a former commander of the Laotian air was reported killed when a bomber he had commandeered crash landed after being hit by ground It was Thao Mas second unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Prince Souvanna who is classed as a The general had been an exile in Thailand since his first attempted in The 42yearold general and a small force of supporters crossed the Mekong River by boat shortly after midnight and seized the Vientiane airport about t They commandeered some of the that are the Lao tian air forces chief weapon and strafed and bombed the Chee Mai No army base four miles down the Mekong from But the rebels got no support from other military Loyal troops moved through the streets of Vientiane and surrounded the residence of Prince Souvanna Army forces moved out of the city to the and by noon the premier was on the air to an that the attempted coup had been Sources said casualties appeared to be Life in Vientiane continued at its usual relaxed and by early afternoon the airport reopened to commercial Thao Mas plane was reported hit as he was attacking the army Sources said he crashed several hundred yards from the One source estimated the size of his rebel force at less than 100 i It was not immediately clear how the please turn to page 10 Prime rate soaring NEW YORK AP First National Bank of Chicago announced today that effective Tuesday it was raising its prime rate to 9V2 per the highest in The move was not unexpected since lending money remains in short Other banks were expected to follow suit credit analysts Some analysts have predicted the rate may hit 10 per or higher before beginning to level The prime rate is the minimum lending rate banks charge their largest and most creditworthy corporate cus While it is not directly tied to rates on small business and consumer an increase in the prime rate frequently is an indication of higher interest rates generally and a tightening money 3 inches of rain send Pine Creek on rampage MONTOURSVILLE Three inches of rain at Cedar Run in just a few hours Saturday with an additional two inches at Wellsboro was enough to send Pine Creek on a with some residents of lowlying areas reportedly There was an unconfirmed report of a camper vehicle being swept away by Pine Creek torrents after the cloud bursts in Tioga County that occasioned a flash flood Weathermen explained that a heavy rain system developed in northwestern Pennsylvania and western New and moved along the New York Pennsylvania unloading heavy amounts of rain in Tioga County and Bradford Counby before churning into southeastern New Unofficial reports indicated a seven foot rise in Pine Creek in the Waterville That stream ran almost bankfull all day and was still running high this Rainfall figures were Cedar and both mainly in the Pine Creek Sabinsville near the New York State line had but rainfall there fed primarily the Cowanesque Coudersport had English 53 of an and Sinne mahoning Eagles Mere had inches with hail Sunday The river rose to eight feet at Wil cresting about noon Normal there this time of the year is from 1 to 2 The outlook for Monday and Tuesday was for warm and humid conditions with another scattering of showers and thunderstorms through Weather observers said that although the temperature Sunday afternoon was only 69 degrees at 1 the humidity was an astounding 87 per a rarity for that time of the
