News, The (Newspaper) - November 20, 1974, Port Arthur, Texas NEWS Port Arthur Texas Wednesday November 20 1974 Police Beat Robbery try thwarted Bold action on the part of a food store manager thwarted a robbery attempt at Troy's Drive Inn Grocery 1948 Savannah Tuesday night C V Binagia the manager told police a black man entered his store about 9 p m placed a can of malt liquor on the counter and asked for a pack of cigarettes He escaped with an undetermined amount of money from the cash register police ded The clerk said the bandit was extremely calm throughout the robbery and walked out of the store and down 9th Ave He was believed to have escaped by walking oast on 7th Street Carpet stereo are taken Port Arthur police Wednesday were in- two thefts reported Tuesday A total of 65 yards of carpet were discovered missing from Merle Norman Cosmetics 2951 St Tuesday morning The carpeting had been stored in the rear of the building and employes said they did not know when it was taken The carpet was valued at In another incident 1289 worth of stereo equipment was reported taken from the residence of Mrs Ethel Swafford 1226 Atlanta Riding due in tank death Inquest in the death of Walter C Gardner whose body was found inside a tank at the Texaco refinery Tuesday was continuing Wednesday with ruling expected later in the day Gardner 45 of 4207 Jean Ave was discovered about and was pronounced dead at the company medical center Justice of the Peace J D Weldon holding the inquest ordered an autopsy and had not completed a ruling Wednesday morning Funeral services for Gardner are set for 2 p.m Thursday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park under direction of Funeral Home 2 draw probated terms Groves men received three-year probated sentences Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges against them Judge Harold Clayton of the District Court assessed the punishments for Rodney Owen McMillan 25 and Paul Jarod McMillan 19 following their pleas of guilty to charges of possession of prohibited weapons According to reports the incident April 4 involved a short barrel shotgun found in the vicinity of Taylors Bayou Bridge on Texas 73 Pigeon drop is reported retired Beaumont man fell victim to the pigeon drop scheme here Tuesday morning and was reportedly swindled out of in downtown Beaumont Jessie Miles told Beaumont police he was going to the bank downtown to deposit in cash he had been saving from his pension when he was approached by a man who asked him about a place to stay A second man then walked up and was also asked about a place to stay and shown the money Miles said The second man said he knew a place to get a room and offered to him there Miles said the two men in- he go with them and offered him to go along A third man then approached the group and since he was apparently acquainted with the first man he was asked to also ride along Miles reported All four then left in the car and the third man persuaded Miles to give him his to prove they trusted each other and put him out of the car on Main and Bowie Streets to wait for them to return Miles said investigate Okla reactor Probe of woman's death asked Lease pact terminated A lease agreement between the Port of Port Arthur and Quality Fish Co Inc was terminated Wednesday morning by unanimous vote of the commissioners According to Port Attorney Tom Featherston the fish company will be allowed to stay on port property at 101 Houston Ave until July 1 1975 The rental fee however will be raised from the current a month to a month beginning Feb 1 for as long as the tenant remains The Wednesday vote came after meetings between Featherston and the fish company lawyer concerning the deterioration of of the old seawall in the fish company area A fish company employe said Wednesday that a new location for the company has not been selected WASHINGTON The Atomic Energy Commission has revealed it would in- allegations that an Oklahoma plutonium factory had been falsifying the in- records of fuel rods to be used in an experimental reactor The New York Times News Service said Tuesday In a related development the Justice Dept said it was considering a request that it start a separate investigation into the death of Karen Gay Silkwood of Edmond Okla the woman who made the allegations about the Oklahoma factory of the McGee Nuclear Corp Miss Silkwood had lived in Oklahoma City area for about seven years She was a 1964 graduate of Nederland Tex High School and bad lived most of her life in Nederland near Port Arthur The dead woman was buried Sunday near Kilgore Tex after services in Nederland Survivors include her parents Mr and Mrs M Silkwood of Nederland and two sisters Mrs Newman and Linda Silkwood both of Nederland A spokesman for the AEC said two men would begin Thursday its investigation into the charges of Miss Silkwood and several of her colleagues about the operations of the factory near Crescent Okla The Justice Dept said the an investigation of her death by federal authorities had been referred to the labor section of the Criminal Division to mine whether the department had jurisdiction Die AEC also Mid a second team of investigators would continue its probe into Miss exposure to a high level of plutonium radiation a week before her death Miss Silkwood a laboratory technician died in an automobile crash last Wednesday night south of Crescent The Washington representative of her union Anthony Mazzocchi of the Oil Chemical Atomic Workers Union said Monday in telegrams to the Justice Dept and the AEC that he had evidence that Miss Silkwood's death might not have been an accident The Times reported A spokesman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tuesday in a telephone interview that his agency had no information to contradict the initial theory that Miss Silkwood had died after falling asleep at the wheel at her 1973 Honda auto The spokesman U L P Kenneth Van Hoy said he understood Miss Silkwood had been exhausted by a recent drive to and from Los Alamos But Miss Silkwood according to a former McGee employe who had accompanied her actually was flown to and from Los Alamos by the Atomic Energy Commission The commission had taken her to its facilities in New Mexico for medical tests in connection with her exposure to plutonium radiation The News reported inspection reports Earlier Tuesday Dean A McGee chairman and chief executive officer sent a lengthy telegram to U.S Atty Gen William Saxbe denouncing the charges as wholly un- In his telegram to Saxbe McGree gave an account of the plutonium contamination of Miss Silkwood Following the discovery on Nov 7 that she was con- the telegram said the woman was given a battery of tests and medical attention he said Fire days later she was determined to be free of contamination and was proved to return to work he Mid She died Nov U in the crash The message said in- determined the crash was an accident and her death was a result of injuries she received in it with no indication of contamination present in her remains union said it was highly probable that Miss Silkwood had crashed after her car had been hit from the rear by another vehicle Pipkin said he had based his conclusions on the com- bination of smog fresh skid marks at the scene of the crash and a dent in the rear bumper of her car Miss Silkwood and several other employes who have asked not to be identified charged that the Oklahoma Nuclear Factory falsified Officer dog visit school Intermediate students at Washington Elementary have ended a practical science unit with a visit from police officer Phillip Galloway and his German shepherd Tanya Trained by her owner Tanya is the only attack dog available to the department in this area Tanya stayed within the students boundaries guided only by hand signals from her master Galloway cited the need for silent commands in situations Tanya aba jumped through a dummy window after climbed a ladder to reach her master and staged an attack on an derailment blocks Sun entrance hard telling each apart Md UPI Now that all of the Rohrer quintuplets are home from the their parents say one of the biggest problems is telling them apart I dont really know how to tell who's their mother Karen Rohrer said Tuesday as Michelle Belinda and Jennifer joined Russell and Sandra at the family's home here Maybe we should tattoo the babies her husband Charles 33 a bakery worker suggested jokingly The three girls who were too small to leave University Hospital in Baltimore when the first two quints went home Nov 13 made the trip here Tuesday in the arms of their parents and grandparents Mrs Rohrer who took fertility drugs prior to tion said things were coming along pretty good She said her parents and her husband's parents who live nearby would care for their new grandchildren The Roarers will be getting one special service not often found in modern medicine house calls from hospital pediatrician Ronald beriet who has super vised the care of the quints since their rebirth Oct 8 Reform bills seem attainable Editor's Following is the third in a series of daily dispatches this week examining major legislative issues ing action next year and how the new Congress is likely to deal with them By DON PHILLIPS WASHINGTON Uf i A more Congress national unrest over the economy and Rep Wilbur Mills political problems back in Arkansas might be the catalysts next year for closing some big loopholes in U.S tax law Although real tax reform probably will remain as illusive as ever in the new Congress a number of tax advantages are likely to be sacrificed to an unhappy torate Also the wealthy could find themselves paving more taxes and the poor less Some reformers goals which escaped Congress seem more easily attainable in the convening in January These include a true minimum lax on the wealthy ending many tax shelters halting abuses of gift and estate taxes and an equitable tax system for business And if oil companies escape a tax crackdown in the dosing days of this Congress they might as well say goodby to the oil depletion allowance and other tax advantages in the next one Liberals seeking to gam strength on the traditionally con- House Ways and Means Committee which originates all tax legislation got a boost in the November elections Because of retirements and defeats four conservative Republicans and two liberal Democrats on the committee probably will be replaced by four liberal Democrats and two conservative Republicans Reformers already have forced creation of at least four Ways and Means subcommittees next year which could weaken Chairman Mills firm influence over committee making Much of Mills power in the past has stemmed from his use of the fun committee without delegating any authority to subcommittees In past years Mills could have kept the situation under control and molded the committee to his liking But his personal power has been undercut by his abortive presidential bid in 1972 allegations of questionable campaign contributions ad month absence last year because of an ailing back and finally the celebrated Tidal Basin incident in October by the first serious challenger of his career Political observers believe mat if Mills wants to return to Congress from Arkansas in 1976 he must be able to take a tax reform home with him Pushing Mills from behind will be the Boose Democratic membership which ordered him to allow strengthening amendments to the tightening oil industry taxes Mills outmaneuvered the Democratic caucus by including the oil tax proposals in a separate tax revision bat next year's caucus will be more liberal and more determined You're liable to see the liberalization of Wilbur Mills next said one Ways and Means liberal Three cars of a Kansas City Southern freight train derailed about Wednesday at the Hwy 347 entrance to the Sun Oil Co No injuries resulted in the accident however two tank cars were heavily damaged while a third was slightly damaged The 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