Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - November 27, 1974, Middlesboro, Kentucky Weather to partly dOMdy today tomorrow with highs in the mid Fair aad cold tonight with lows In UK 20s A little warmer tomorrow with bight in the upper Ms VOL 62 The Home Daily of MIDDLESBORO KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 27 1974 riHu 10 CENTS Haile Selassie Faces Execution BEIRUT UPI Ethiopia's military rulers have sentenced deposed Emperor Haile sie to death and he may be executed at any moment the newspaper An Nahar reported Claiborne Man Held In Death The Claiborne County Sheriff's Office is holding a suspect in connection with the death of a Lone Mountain woman Monday The body of Hazel Whitehead in her early was discovered Monday evening in Lone Mountain A sheriff's office spokesman said the body of the woman was found under a burning car behind the front wheels The spokesman said the body was charred from the waist up Miss Whitehead was employed at Frank's Restaurant in Harrogate The Sheriff's office refused to divulge the name of the suspect who hasn't yet been formally charged in connection with the death The spokesman said the suspect probably will be charged later this week but it wasn't specified what the charge An autopsy is currently being performed on the woman's body and the exact cause of death hasn't yet been mined The Sheriff's office said its investigation into the case is continuing and that it didn't want to release any more in- formation for fear of in- with the in- today An Nahar quoted Western diplomatic sources in Beirut as saying the ousted emperor was taken from Addis Ababa to a town 35 miles from the capital in preparation for execution The report followed the weekend executions of 60 former Ethiopian officials for putting their own personalities above the general welfare of the state and grossly abusing authority The ruling Military Advisory Council also announced plans 140 former Ethiopian leaders being held on corruption charges The Beirut newspaper said Gen Aman Andom former leader of the council died in a Shootout Saturday objected to the of the deposed Rank and File to Vote Next Week Leaders Okay Contract a when he execution emperor The report said some European quarters were rently conducting urgent con- tacts with the Ethiopian military rulers to save the The newspaper said Arab and African especially those who could have influence on the ruling council also been trying to save Selassie's life The military rulers who came to power last February in a gradual coup arrested Selassie Sept 12 He has not been seen in public since The men executed over the weekend included Eskinder Desta Selassie's grandson and one-time deputy commander of the imperial navy Yellow Jacket Day in Bell Friday has been declared High School Yellow Jacket Day signed a Jacket Day Chamber Ball For High football fans wishing to leave the driving to someone else or who are interested In traveling with 42 other like-minded Mid- Com- merce has chartered if K According to director William the bus will leave from the city parking lot at The tickets will be each and sold on served basis may be by calling the chamber responsible for bis own prior to the The game begins at li Hanger Reid on the Eastern Kentucky University campus in Should the the will charter By CHARLES E FLINNER WASHINGTON UPI If striking coal miners approve a proposed contract finally okayed by their union leadership Tuesday they could be back at work next week with a 64 per cent increase in pay and benefits United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller said the miners will vote next Monday by secret ballot on the year pact and the results will be known within 24 hours far less time than the 10 days to two weeks previously thought necessary We're going to do everything we can to expedite the complicated ratification procedure Miller said The to vote on the contract proposal to end the in its isth day only reconsidered the president for labor We have Just delighted I told him the he said be hoped the package for That's the fattest labor settlement in this decade Angry With Bargaining Council He was also angry with the bargaining council for rejecting the revised pact twice earlier once just after the strike began and again earlier Tuesday I thought they were sincere But after today's vote I have to he said The bargaining council he said should accept its responsibility and allow the membership of this union to vote on their contract I believe that the membership of this union should have the right to express its will Ratification Lengthy Miller Introduced the lengthy ratification procedure as one of his reforms after he was elected president Coal negotiations began Sept 3 and a tentative agreement was settled upon Nov 13 the day after the old contract ex- But the council sent Miller back to the negotiations for adjustments Three days ago another tentative agreement with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association was worked out under of Usery and Treasury Secretary William E Simon The contract provides for substantial pay increases large pension Increases an extra holiday more vacation time and paid lick leave several safety features more jobs for union miners and extended health coverage particularly for widows the Misery Budget Billion S a surprising surplus in its balance of payments in trade surplus of Says three Sisters Brother Boy Keeps CHICAGO UPI For nearly five weeks Charles Horace kept a ing secret Police had attributed the deaths of the boy's three sisters and his brother to a fire that gutted their home But Charles knew they were wrong Finally the frightened boy told investigators that three intruders had burst into the home raped and murdered his sisters clubbed his brother unconscious left him to die and covered the slay ings by arson investigators Tuesday re- vised the cause of the four deaths from fire to murder boosting the number of ders in Chicago to a record 865 for the year with more than a month to go Charles went to a inquest into his sisters and brother's deaths Monday by his mother his minister and 35 members of the congregation of he Christ Miracle Church he told his story He testified that three young men broke into his home on the night of Oct 21 while his mother was visiting relatives Tenn Can't Regulate TV A NASHVILLE Tenn State energy director Caroll Kroeger told a group of financial executives Tuesday night that the relationship between the state and the Tennessee Valley Authority puts Tennessee in a unique position of being without regulatory powers over the giant federal agency Except for a small area around Kingsport the TVA supplies all of tennessee with power and it is a federal agency answerable only to Congress and the Kroeger said I have a colleague in Kentucky who is even more blunt he says the Continued on Page 2 He said they raped his sisters Caroline 17 14 and Ca thy 11 He said the intruders killed one girl by stabbing her in the neck and strangled the others Charles said he and a year-old foster who had hidden in a managed to escape He said their brother Maurice was beaten unconscious and fatally burned when the intruders poured gasoline upstairs and stairs and set the house afire Police reopened their gation and on the basis of the U.S dollar fell further on most world money markets The price of gold increased soft drink industry told a Washington hearing the wholesale price for a case of soda pop could jump from the present to as high as if the wholesale prices of sugar June ti per pound as accented a proposed settlement Federal Director Tin ajn interview with Henry Ford that one administration official said would throw billion was the first since the out of the billion figure in April and only the second since the end of the predicted Knoxville Term the Tennessee Valley Authority prepared to cut back by 30 per cent the amount of electricity delivered to local electric systems industries and ment installations if its coal reserves fall to three million tons ments the Commerce boy's story 17 Robert Keating said 24 both of murder ment reported the United Statesir were charged enough to rape and arson A Claims issued for arrest of a third toll suspect r i Investigators said Chark was told he would be killed he told what weeks elapsed before te chest found in a talked to his minister the lot on city's South Francis Thomas The previous Chicago record any one year was 864 recorded in 1973 By this date in 1073 police had counted 784 murders would there more layoffs in auto industry Farmer protests in Kentucky In other economic against prices and no question we are collusion to keep heading for a he prices down continued yesterday even though National Bank of r i Cadillac all markets again reported record high averages The volume of slayings The minister mother at the boy and his until Horace built up enough courage to tell police for a 40 to gain said a of investor panic was responsible for its losses in the recent weeks Little Girl Pathetic Tale Mommy rie GREENFIELD Wis UPI A recently widowed mother of two children who wanted everyone to be in heaven with Dad for Thanksgiving shot and killed her son her mother and herself police said day The mother also seriously wounded her er who lay injured for two days before anyone knew the shootings had taken place The incident took place Sunday night but did not come to light until Tuesday when the surviving daughter told an aunt over the telephone Mommy shot everyone The girl Mary 9 was in serous condition in St Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee with wounds to the upper chest and abdomen She not to blame my mother for the shootings The dead were Mildred Jansen 41 her son David 5 and her mother Helen chala 70 Mrs Jansen's husband James 44 was crushed and killed by a truck Sept 28 at a Falls Wis firm where he was a dock foreman Author i ties said the girl was terrified in shock and too been thru hell the last Continued on Page 2 Ms Foust tcf Enter Race for Governor was weak from loss of blood one of survives and unable to seek help in the this all I own goto two days she lay wounded in them nothing to the I'm the hope Mary's ini his My children are small Daniels talked to the girl at the He'll receive them hospital She knew her wanted everyone to be in heaven with Dad for Sister Daniels said She said the girl told of debating whether to lie there and die until the telephone rang Tuesday Mrs Jansen's sister Irene Witkowski called the home shortly after 4 p.m and Mary told her that her mother had shot everyone Witkowski went to the home Mary managed to open the door and said 1 hurt Mrs Witkowski found the bodies of the mother and the boy in the bathroom and her mother's body in the hallway next to it Police called the shootings murder and suicide A caliber revolver was found on Mrs Jansen's abdomen Police said they found four suicide notes One of them Police John has per cent lowest brought suit County gained Circuit Court against General one New York analyst who Motors Inc and Quantrell said the rally had the potential Cadillac Inc of Lexington for in damages he claims resulted from an automobile on 25 Chapel School on U.S claims the steering on his new car purchased from Quantrell Cadillac became ineffective while driving causing the car to go out of control to wreck He claims General Motors and Quantrell Cadillac were responsible for this defect in his steering column is asking for of earning power for pain and suffering for the loss of his car and for medical ex- penses warehouses pounds were sold for at an average of per hundred pounds In Pennington Gap Shelburne's warehouse sold pounds for at an average of per pound Across Kentucky pounds sold for at an average of In spite of these prices though farmers continued their protests Nearly pounds of tobacco were burned in a Glasgow Ky warehouse yesterday to protest the alleged collusion of tobacco buyers A spokesman for the National Farmers Organization which sponsored the burning said buyers seem to have agreed on a pre- determined price of per hundredweight The Market News Service reported Continued on 2 By BOB WESTON LOUISVILLE Ky UPI State Auditor Mary Louise Foust Tuesday became the first candidate in the race for governor next year when she announced she would seek the Democratic nomination in the May primary Ms Foust 64 a Shelbyville native said she was en- in her bid for the state's top office by the results of the election in Connecticut in which that New England State elected a woman governor At a news conference in a Seelbach Hotel suite Ms Foust also noted that she was elected auditor in 1971 by of votes She said she regarded that as a strong in- dication of her vote getting appeal In a five page statement read at the news conference Ms Foust cited the need for more than a figure head in the governor's office We do not need to continue like practices relative to stale she said You need someone who can recognize these and remove mem A politically ambitious governor uses these inefficiencies to promote himself and rise up the ladder Continued on Page 2 Arjay Headstart King and Queen All or shy grin about being selected King and Queen of Center for this year are Hensley daughter at Mr and Mrs Wayne Hensley of Cary Ky and Darrell son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Sanders of Arjay The youngsters are two oJ the In a county-wide contest sponsored by the Community Action Agency
