Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - August 5, 1974, Middlesboro, Kentucky The Home Daily of the 111 IK U VOL 63 MIDDLESBORO KENTUCKY MONDAY AUGUST 5 1974 10 CENTS City Tri-State NEWS Nation World First Time in Two THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS was scheduled to nave heard arguments this morning over Sen Marlow Cook's right to be on the ballot in November as the Republican nominee for the U.S Senate Cook won the May 28 primary with 87 per cent of the his candidacy is being challenged based on a technicality AT LEAST SIX PERSONS died in weekend traffic across Tennessee APPROXIMATELY 200 BAPTIST LEADERS from 25 countries are scheduled to convene today on the campus of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville for the executive meeting of the Baptist World Alliance The committee's 83 official delegates are scheduled to discuss the possible financing of the alliances regional offices throughout the world TWELVE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE Railroad boxcars were destroyed or heavily damaged Sunday in a fire at the N's South Louisville Yards Railroad officials had not fixed a financial estimate of loss by late Sunday night Police said several persons were rushed to hospitals for during the blaze but only one was kept overnight for observation Spokesmen for the line said the cause of the blaze was being investigated OFFICIALS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS Workers of America in Tennessee worked early today to make sure the pickets had received word that a threatened nationwide strike against the Bell system had been averted We're trying to head them the pickets off at the said a spokesman for union Local 10806 in Memphis shortly after a tentative settlement was announced in Washington The settlement came less than two hours before the walkout was to begin at EDT today MORE THAN 30 WITNESSES have been subpoenaed for the criminal fraud trial of former Ford administration campaign aide Creech scheduled to begin today in Franklin Circuit Court before Judge Henry Meigs Creech was indicted in 1973 by the Franklin County Grand Jury on charges of making false claims to the state government through his firm All American Movers Inc of Frankfort The claims stemmed from the moving of office equipment from various state offices into the new Capitol Plaza Office tower in Frankfort SEN HOWARD BAKER said Saturday only a handful of senators have made up their minds on President Nixon's impeachment and added there probably will be a Senate trial on the issue Here to attend a unity meeting with other top Republicans Baker said he will work to see that Nixon is not set up in the Senate trial NATION BOB PLESO WAS KILLED SUNDAY night trying to set a new world record for motorcycle jumping at a race track His motorcycle crashed on the hood of the car Hospital officials said Pleso 22 Ocala Fla died of multiple tures he received when he flew off the motorcycle after it hit the car IN A LETTER SEVERAL WEEKS before he died retired Chief Justice Earl Warren warned against over reaction to Watergate by attempts to change the Constitution I have never known anything bad happening to our nation through adherence to the Constitution as it now Warren wrote We are only in great national trouble when people violate or circumvent the Constitution Warren had been scheduled to address a June 6 retirement banquet honoring Chancellor Dean D McHenry of the University of California at Santa Cruz WORLD PORTUGAL IS EXPECTED TO GRANT independence lo Guinea this week more than five centuries after Lisbon's mariners first set foot on the African territory Western diplomatic sources said Portugal also would take initial steps to give up Angola and Mozambique its major territories in a dramatic end to more than a dozen years of guerrilla warfare GREEK AND TURKISH NEGOTIATORS made a new attempt today lo set cease-fire lines in Cyprus but charges of mass expulsions atrocities and abductions marred the faltering peace talks Greece ordered a high alert in response to reported Turkish troop movements along their joint border Athens sent warships into the Aegean Sea following Turkish naval maneuvers near two Greek islands No clashes were reported JOHN McNAMARA 42 WON and the title of Ireland Live Frog Swallowing Champion Sunday He gulped five live frogs in 65 seconds Watched by spectators in the County Offaly village of McNamara beat five other competitors Th e frogs were swallowed with mouthfuls of champagne A GIRL WHO couldn't swim drowned Sunday in a vain attempt to save her playmate after he was pushed off a floating pier by another boy HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER JOHN J Rhodes of Arizonia has postponed a news conference planned for today at which he was expected to announce his position on impeachment His press Jay Smith said Rhodes was ill Sunday with a high fever and would hold the news conference later in the week What's Going On August 5 Hell County Humane Society officers meeting 7 p.m National Bank Branch August 5 RoHo meeting Penthouse Restaurant 7 p.m Ky August 0 Meeting 8 p.m lower Lee County lo obtain Ideas of Health Committee and to hear other resources people Other problems to be considered In- community health care Meeting nt Thomas Walker School open Invited Miners Cross Picket Line HARLAN Ky UPI For the first time in two weeks miners crossed a picket line at the Mine near hero today to crank up operations at the facility About 100 working miners drove through a picket line con- sisting of 20 men and amid catcalls There was no violence reported although an observer said the striking miners kicked some of the cars The observer said the pickets apparently were from the rival Southern Labor Union and not the United Mine Workers Union Over the weekend Houston Elmore UMW organizing director here told about 125 miners at a meeting in Evarts that the pickets would be withdrawn for the protection of the men Elmore said the union attorneys would study federal and circuit court injunctions against the pickets and a determination would be made later this week whether to continue the picketing Last week U S District Judge Mac Swinford signed a consent agreement between the UMW and the National Labor Relations Board and issued the injunction limiting UMW pickets at the Eastover Mining mine to six On Friday Circuit Judge Edward G Hill issued a second injunction ordering 36 persons some of whom arc members of the SLU from picketing the Mine In both hearings UMW attorneys argued that they were obeying the federal court action limiting their pickets to six The hard part comes in as to whether the Southern Labor Union men could be considered a part of our said Elmore miners at the Mine had refused to cross the estimated picket line thrown up at a bridge leading to the mine The UMW has been on strike against and Bailey's Creek Mines for more than a year but only recently stepped up the labor action to include the facility 1 am asking all Brookside people to stay off the Mine for now Members of the international you will be expected to obey this order to the cautioned Elmore Both injunctions will remain in effect until Aug 27 when the National Labor Relations Board holds unfair labor practice hearings on UMW action in London Ky The charges were filed two months ago by Eastover a subsidiary of Duke Power Co Charlotte and the Southern Labor Union of The UMW wants the NLRB to authorize an election among the miners represented by the Southern Labor Union to choose between the UMW and the SLU The UMW claims that the SLU contract with miners expires in November The Tennessee independent union claims the contract has been extended until May 1975 Held Hostages Ten Days Weather SUNNY Fair Monday and Tuesday with cool and mild dayn Lows in the ranging to mid during the daytime Only slight chance of per- with showers becoming more likely by Friday Mild Wednesday becoming very warm and humid Thursday and Friday Highs ranging from he low lo upper 80s Two Hours Before Deadline Phone Company Averts Strike nyCH FLINNER WASHINGTON UPI rowly averting a nationwide telephone strike today the Hell System representing some workers ly agreed lale Sunday on a new contract to raise wages and benefits nearly 36 per cent over the next three years Man Hospitalized Following Strange Sequence of Events A young college age man appeared at the home of Orby Herrington of Cumberland Gap last night He announced that he loved the Lord and then allegedly commenced to beat up on Herrington his wife and his grandmother cording to Claiborne County Deputy Sheriff Billy Petty and neighbors of the Herringtons Neighbors hearing screams from Herrington's house called the Claiborne County Sheriff's office and then went to investigate The young man had fled before the neighbors or the Deputy Sheriff arrived The neighbors took Herrington to the Middlesboro Appalachian Regional Hospital where he was treated for a dislocated leg and released Meanwhile the Kentucky State Police picked up a young man on foot at the top of Cumberland Mountain and took him to the Appalachian Regional Hospital emergency room for treatment of a possible concussion No charges were filed against the man identified as Steve Chandler Pineville However in the emergency room identified Chandler as the same person who allegedly assaulted his family Herrington's wife then obtained a warrant charging assault and battery from the County Sheriff's office against the man In the meantime Claiborne County deputies and Bell County Deputy Doug Campbell found Chandler's car a 1973 Vega on the street below the Iron Furnace in Cumberland Gap The sheriff's office then issued warrants for Steve Chandler and called Bell County and Middlesboro authorities to notify them However no charges have yet been formally filed against Chandler who is still at the hospital Middlesboro Police Captain Theodore Russell said a fugitive warrant would be served on Chandler when he was released from the hospital and he would be extradited to Tennessee The cost of the package was estimated by a union leader at more billion Union and company officials announced the subject to ratification of ers following negotiation of some two hours before a midnight strike deadline that had been overwhelmingly approved by union members The unions immediately set a new deadline of midnight Aug 1 for settling local issues with individual Bell System nies across the nation Sunday's national agreement with American Telephone Telegraph Co will not be submitted to members for ratification until local issues are resolved These sometimes While a nationwide strike of the Bell system was averted about members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked out today against Western Electric Co an ATT subsidiary which manufactures telephone ment An pledged that only Western Electric installations would be picketed We're out from Vancouver Wash to Kearney said negotiator Paul Menger He said with Western Electric which had been conducted separately but lel with those with ATT were continuing Some other members working for ATT remained on the job These workers largely operators and installers are covered by the agreement reached Sunday night between ATTand tors for the Communications Workers of America the and a coalition of about two dozen independent unions Glenn E Walls president of CWA and Rex Reed top negotiator announced the agreement on the new three-year ATT had attempted to reach in negotiations with all its unions Watts said benefits for the Bell System workers alone would total billion over the life of the contract The total package will mean an increase in wages and fringe benefits of per cent over the life of the Watts said but he declined to Continued on Page 2 If Nixon Impeached Could End Up Broke Convicts Two Hostages Die In Final Attempt at Escape By JAMES L OVERTON Prison officials said Sunday they never intended to let Fred Gomez Carrasco and two fellow inmates get out of the Texas alive We could never in good conscience turn this kind of violence loose on the ty of said state Corrections Director telle No hostage taken through any gate of any prison can be considered anything but dead Carrasco and one of his confederates died in a volley of gunfire Saturday night after they emerged from their library fortress armored in a made of boards and library books Two hostages also were killed and a third was wounded Handcuffed to the outlaws inside the makeshift shield were Julia Standley 43 a librarian a teacher the Rev Joseph O'Brien the Catholic chaplain and Novella Pollard 46 an assistant principal The other eight hostages formed a human shield around the blackboard Halfway down the ramp leading to the prison courtyard 13 state and federal officers unleashed streams of water from hoses that knocked down the human shield The officers yelled at co who was wearing a bandolero of bullets strapped across his chest to give up The seven were on their way to an armored car 50 feet away in which Carrasco had hoped to make his escape At p.m 35 to 40 shots were fired The gunfire from within the shield was apparently in response to the officers cry to Estelle said in a statement He did not say whether any officers did any of the shooting the shots severed the fire hoses but not before Carrasco lost control of the blackboards and let them slide down the ramp leaving him his accomplices and the tages completely exposed For 10 minutes it was quiet Then more shots rang out Mrs Standley and Mrs Beseda fell fatally wounded and three other hostages Rev O'Brien and two convicts were wounded Then Carrasco fell dead a jagged wound in his neck and bullet wounds in his head Rudolfo Dominguez 27 slumped mortally wounded four feet away from the dead body of his hero J W Beeler the local justice of the peace who was charged nn 2 By NICHOLAS DANILOFF WASHINGTON UPI If Richard M Nixon Is impeached and removed from office he will be destroyed politically humiliated before his country- men and worse yet could even end up broke If the House in all likelihood goes ahead and votes lo impeach him the Congress might require him to assume personally the legal expenses of a Senate trial Attorney al William B Saxbe has ruled that Nixon personally would have to bear the cost of his defense in the Senate trial Until now Nixon's defense has been paid for with federal funds Special counsel James D St Clair is on the White House payroll for a year and he is assisted by lawyers from the White House legal staff the Justice ment and other departments of the bureaucracy The costs are impossible to tabulate at present because some of the lawyers are doing other work in their own departments at the same time but estimates range all the way from Nixon stands to lose prestige status power and his place in history if the Senate votes to convict But removed from office he also would lose a salary expense allowance lifetime pension of a year or more his lifetime right to Continued on Page 2 Announces Modification Tenn Flake Corporation from Morristown Tennessee has announced plans to close for a period of approximately six weeks it's subsidiary plant located here according lo company of- This temporary shutdown will the commencement of a program directed toward increasing the production capabilities and toward meeting pollution control requirements It is contemplated that the initial effort will be followed by steps to modernize the Middlesboro facility and install pollution control devices The company's productive capability at its Morristown facility is however not ex- to be affected by the temporary shutdown at Middlesboro the officials said Cook Ford Exchange Jibes During Fancy Farm Picnic By RICHARD D WALKER FANCY FARM Ky UPI One of the most bitter senate races in the 1974 election got underway over the weekend in tiny western Kentucky town as Sen Marlow Cook Ky nnd Democratic Gov Wendell H Ford squared off an old-fashioned picnic The Kentucky senate race is viewed by many observers as a of how the voters will react lo Watergate in- and the economy Cook regarded as a moderate conservative served as master of ceremonies at President Nixon's 1973 but hns since been critical of the president's conduct as revealed in the White House transcripts Ford a lending figure in the moderate faction of the National party hones he can combine a strong stale with voter linn over Walergale lo enable him lo unseat the GOP in- cumbent His campaign thus far has been unusually bitter even by Kentucky standards Cook has accused Ford of his own Watergate in stale government by sing favors and contracts to political cronies Ford in turn says Cook is a part of a national ad- ministration which has brought nation to a point of crisis the like of which Die nation has not scon since the Civil War Cook a senator since 1969 acknowledges he is un- hut says he hopes to forge his own personal organization in strongly Democratic border slate and win an upset re-election Beneath the charges and however is an intangible factor which is puzzling observers and party stalwarts of both camps as to ils effect on the Kentucky race The issue is increasing likelihood that President Nixon will be impeached and tried by senate Ihus diverting Cook from campaign trail while he is required lo sil in judgement of the man he campaigned for in 1968 and 1972 Cook concedes his campaign would be seriously affected if he is thrust into the role of a juror in the case against Mr Nixon The senator says he has no choice however because on 2 Home Federal The Home Federal Savings and building on 20th and Cumberland the building to undergo a face lift In the Downtown downtown The brick hns been sandblasted lo lake on the of newness
