Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - March 16, 1974, Middlesboro, Kentucky VOL 62 City Tri-State NEWS Nation World THE FINAL DAY OF THE week of the 1974 Kentucky senate session Friday saw passage of 28 bills two defeats and one recommittal to committee No were passed including the half-dozen bills which no go to the governor having passed the house earlier this session by wide margins Defeated were bills concerning returnable bottles and the price of beer NASHVILLE POLICE JOE Casey says drug trafficking is Nashville's biggest crime problem I think the biggest problem in the community is said Case announcing Thursday the formation of a squad to crack down on illegal drug traffic Casey said many in Music City have No one can work and support a drug habit like that at the same he said U.S SEN WILLIAM L Scott says the way to end the fuel shortage is to let petroleum prices rise The fuel shortage is real Scott said Friday but the forces of the free market could correct it if left to themselves The answer to the energy crisis is more energy not Scott said at a news conference in his Richmond office THE KENTUCKY HOUSE OF representative Friday passed a to allow some local school districts to raise their school tax levy The would allow those school districts with a school property tax rate under 50 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation to raise their levy by five cents a year to a maximum increase of 20 cents or until they reached the level KENTUCKY MOVED A STEP toward becoming the last state in the nation with an automobile title law Friday when the state house of representatives passed such a measure The which will not go into effect until 1977 passed after lengthy debate as to its need at this time Opponents said the measure should over the interim since it would not go into effect until after the next legislature anyway IN NASHVILLE which might lead to a new trial for the convicted assassin of Dr Martin Luther King was transferred to federal court at Memphis Friday because most of the witnesses are from that area Judge L Clure Morion said all further proceedings in the case in- James Earl Ray's charges that he was coerced into pleading guilty would be heard in Memphis because most of the witnesses are from Shelby WEATHER CLOUDY Mostly cloudy and cooler today with a chance of light rain Possibly mixed with light snow Daytime temperatures mostly in the 40s Clearing and colder tonight with lows of 22 to 32 NATION FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING champion Jack Dempsey was in fair condition today at Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York where he was admitted after com- plaining of head pains The Dempsey who held the crown from 1919 to 1926 was admitted Tuesday A hospital spokesman said he suffered from tension which may be a result of problems restaurant he operates on New York's Broadway VICE PRESIDENT GERALD FORD said Friday the House Committee staff looking into impeachment had gone beyond the scope of its responsibility and urged com- members to make their own judgements Ford visiting The Citadel to receive an honorary degree said in his view of the staff of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the possible impeachment of President Nixon is exerting too much influence on the committee members WORLD FIRST LADY PAT NIXON was heading back to the United States on her birthday today after momentarily stealing the at the inauguration of Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel NEWLY INAUGURATED VENEZUELAN President Carlos Andres Perez faces an outbreak of guerrilla violence reminiscent of the when he battled terrorists as the country's interior minister Leftist guerrillas claimed responsibilily Friday for a million warehouse blaze one of the worst fires in Caracas history as well as a bank robbery A number of bombs were planted in the capital but none went off I What's Going On March 16 Open meeting and covered dish dinner Junior Order and wives Lodge State officer special 7 p.m March 16 Open meeting and covered dish dinner Junior Order and wives I 0 0 F Lodge Slate officer special guest March 16 Movies in the Park 11 will feature Toy Train and A Matter of Time March 16 Dance at Pine Mountain Moose Lodge featuring Mike Mills and the Branch Boys 9 p.m to l Members and guests March 16 Middlesboro Country Club live dinner music dinner served 7 to 11 p.m March 17 Potluck dinner and for Middlesboro Theatre Middlesboro Country Club p.m public ns well ns MLT members invited March 17 Middlesboro Appalachian Regional Hospital Auxiliary general meeling ECF Classroom 3 p.m March 18 Saddle Club Quarter Horse Movie Kentucky Utilities 7 p.m March 10 1964 Middlesboro High School class reunion meeting p.m Middlesboro Federal Savings and Loan Community Room March 25 Cumberland Chapter 170 DAR Rose Hill Va p.m The Home Daily of the MIDDLESBORO KENTUCKY SATURDAY MARCH 16 1974 10 CENTS Arabian Oil Minister Says Lower Oil Price Sought April 1 Marching for St Judes These Middlesboro High School students will be among the approximately 50 students who will visit homes in Sunday afternoon to collect donations for St Judes Children Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee First to be visited was Mrs Herbert Jones of bur y Avenue From left the students are Tim Matthews Steve Emmett and Mike Tamer St Judes Hospital is the hospital hat entertainer Danny Thomas has dedicated so much time effort and money to help support By KERRY VIENNA UPI Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani said today he would ask fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC to reduce crude oil prices after April 1 Asked by newsmen if he would seek a price reduction at today's meeting of OPEC oil ministers Yamani replied yes to elaborate He then entered the opening session of a meeting of the world's leading oil ministers assembled to fix petroleum price tags Venezuela's Mines Minister Valentin Hernandez said in an interview his country would resist price reductions economic sion is expected to recommend another price boost despite a 300 per cent increase in the last five months The OPEC bloc includes producers of 85 per cent of the world's oil Arab nations and four non-Arab producers The Organization ol Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries OAPEC is expected to an- at a meeting Sunday that it will lift the oil boycott imposed against the United States during the October Middle East war to pressure it away from what they see as a policy Oil Minister Interviewed Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Yamani inter- viewed upon his arrival Friday said The embargo will be lifted Asked about the conditions for ending the boycott he responded These will be discussed Sunday Yamani was quoted by the Egyptian per Al today as saying that the United States supports total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights The 12 members of OPEC decided in Geneva on Jan 9 to freeze crude oil prices until April 1 Iranian Finance ter said then that if the industrialized nations of the West failed to take steps to curb inflation and oil company profits the ers would again increase the price of crude oil Conditions Not Met These conditions have not been an OPEC official said Saudi Arabia was the only OPEC member opposed to increased prices again Continued on Page 8 of- White House Claims Tax Deduction Valid Mountain Delegation Obtains Severance Tax Funds for Home By FRANKFORT Ky UPI The mountain delegation has turned persistence into victory in their efforts to return part of the coal severance tax to coal producing counties Gov Wendell Ford presented an amendment that would return part of the coal tax to the 40 coal producing counties for industrial development The amendment is a refinement of an amendment Howard Hearing Postponed The Board of Zoning Ad- justment for the city of Mid- met yesterday to hear a case in- complaints that had been registered by persons living in the vicinity of Howard and Howard Trucking In- in the section of the city The board which consists four members had one member William Smith absent and decided therefore that it could the case According to a motion by the attorney representing the Howard interest Joe Nagle the city ordinance relating to the case states that a judgement to stop the operation of a business have four concurring votes of the Zoning Board Without Emith being present the board therefore could not hold the hearing Board chairman Bruce Lowe Continued on Page 8 the stubborn mountain men a coalition of 20 Eastern Kentucky State were able to get tacked onto a The delegation had originally tried to put the amendment onto the governor's budget last week during a stormy session but were repulsed by some administration political twisting which taste in some of their mouths However the mountain delegation met during a recess in Thursday's session and agreed to support Ford's amendment which was added to a senate Friday funding the legislative board of ethics The house Democratic majority also caucused and agreed to support the ment Ford's amendment would base the appropriation to the counties upon the difference between the estimated coal tax and the actual amount collected in each fiscal year Would Take Raise in Salary Middlesboro Police Judge William Burch in commenting yesterday on a raise in salary discussed at previous meetings of the city council stated Dial he had never asked for a raise He stated that several members of the council had discussed the matter with him in the past but he had not brought the subject up However he added that if he were offered a rise I would sure lake it The mountain amendment would have sent one-half of the excess above the million and million estimated coal next two years back to the counties after all budgel needs had been met The governor's amendment would also allocate the money to the counties on the basis of their contributions to the severance tax instead of the tonnage of coal produced as in the original mountain ment The amendment will also establish an advisory com- will include members of the mountain delegation to advise in the expenditure of the money with the local fiscal courts recommending projects Ford said he supported the concept of the mountain Continued on 8 By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON UPI White House claims that a document which would prove the validity of President Nixon's lax deduction for the gift of his vice presidential papers is lost according to congressional sources The sources said Friday the White House reported it has been unable to find the original deed of the gift to the National Archives The deed would be needed to establish the gift was made as the White House claims before when a new law declared such charitable donations tible President Nixon says he may wind up owing several hundred thousand dollars in back taxes because of the debatable technical point over whether the paperwork on the gift was completed in time If it was completed in time as I understand it I get the he said Friday If it was not completed in time I pay the tax and the government gets to keep the papers Continued on Page 8 Revised Energy To Replace One Vetoed MLT Holds Potluck Tryouts Sun A combination pot luck dinner and for the Middlesboro Little Theatre will be held Sunday at the Middlesboro Country Club The dinner will start at p.m following The first play to be by Kelley Clore and Juanita Smith will be Low and Behold MLT members have been urged to attend and bring a covered dish Others interested in becoming MLT members are also invited WASHINGTON UPI Henry M Jackson and Rep Harley O Slaggers said Friday they would introduce a revised version of the emergency energy next week President Nixon who original March 6 meanwhile told a Chicago luncheon that crisis was not contrived by the oil companies and the way to end shortages was not to demagogue about it but do something about it Jackson and Staggers i t- ed compromise had been reached on key provisions of including ing the controversial oil price rollback opposed by dent They said other questions still had to be settled before is introduced Tuesday but it was learned the measure will contain authority to impose rationing In other energy Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani said the Arab oil embargo against United Stales will be probably but oil ex- porting nations said crude oil prices would continue to rise King Hussein said the world energy and of Irue peace in the Middle East will happen only if Israel from occupied Arab lands Ambassador Cadieux said his nation's crude oil exports lo the United States will decline over the rest of the decade unless Canada is able to find and develop new energy resources Jackson also accused the major oil companies of using a loophole in petroleum tions to double the price of crude oil The loophole said Jackson consisted of setting up new wells at established oil fields to get around price regulation Continued on Page 8 Location Change For BPW Meeting The meeting place of session of the District XI Business and Professional Woman's Clubs has been changed a spokesman for the organization announced Originally scheduled for 7 p.m tonight in the meeting room of the Middlesboro Federal Savings and Loan Association building the meeting has been switched to Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate Tenn Nixon Says Resignation Would be Easy Cop Out By HELEN THOMAS UPI While House Reporter WASHINGTON UPI President Nixon lold a friendly gathering of business lives Friday that resignation would be an easy cop out thai would dency He branded gale charges against him totally false In his appearance before HID Executive Club of Chicago Nixon also warned European leaders Dial day of the one-way is and vowed lhal he will nol stand for Europe uniting against States while still relying on United States for military support Nixon fielded 14 questions in nationally televised long session and repeated several times lo an applauding audience that he has no intention of quilling While House The appearance was one of a series Nixon has undertaken to bolster his sagging and lo trust in his They'll Meet in Nashville He flics to Nashville Tenn late this afternoon where he will meet Mrs Nixon for a of her He also will dedicate new home of Grand Old Opry The Lady will arrive from South America where she has been on a day lour During his session with business leaders of whom heavily to his the dent he may refuse lo give House Judiciary Committee any further dence for its impeachment inquiry declaring he would nol grant investigators a fishing license to paw through confidential White House files he lo follow the in defining an impeachable of- fense and urged the panel to inquiry promptly there may be evidence that he owes more on his federal income taxes because paperwork on his of his vice Continued on Page 8 UMJ FaKt N It's Clear Whom They When Mona linker and Kim showed up for a In I heir English class at High School they little which side were on The question before was Should President Nixon Arguing affirmative were Theresa Howling Mike Vaughn participated ns secretary The debate was held In Miss lrnn class
