Portsmouth Herald (Newspaper) - August 14, 1971, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Day's Almanac tide 19.2 p.m. High Ude The Portsmouth Herald Today num. Tomorrow low 53. VOL. NO. 272 AUGUST THE HERALD JIM 14 PAGES Cotton Admits Political Motivation Banner Demands Probe of Charges A simple demand that a paper reporter either up or shut in substantiation of his articles on the career of the University of New new president is rooming rapidly into one of most controversial incidents in recent Granite State Tite fast developing story went through the following phases in rapid-fire succession 1. Sen. Norris Cotton an- that he thought Dr. Thomas N. the UNH have a chance lo do his Cotton in April was in the forefront of the at- tacks on the Bonner 2. Gov. Walter Peterson urged a newspaper reporter wrote the articles on Bonner agree to submit the whole affair to an Investigation by Sigma Delta Chi for a determination as to whether the reporter was right in Hie matters it presented in a Manchester 3. Dr. Bonner himself directed a letter to the reporter also urging that he agree to the Investigation by the national Journalism Sen. apparently of meeting with urged he get a fair chance as president of the University of New WALTER PETERSON shire although lie once called his selection a in the Bonner acknowledged earlier he had met with the state's ior senator Wednesday but de- to comment on the ing because Cotlon was the Cotton said Uie philosophies of the two men differ but is president of the University of New and 1 am ing that he should have a fair DR. THOMAS N. BONNER chance to show what he can Cotton commented a day er Bonner threatened to sue a newspaper Warren for his reporting of the educator's alleged background in and Pease ed legal action against Bonner unless a public apology was When Bonner was named in Cotton called his ment less than a stab SEN. in the back for me and some of my Cotton said he this point with ing that the April statement had political Then Gov. Peterson wheeled up his guns asking that the paper accept Dr. Thomas net's proposal lo have a al journalism society in- the newspaper's re- ports on his background at tlie University of new president of University of New he would resign if an im- partial Investigation by Sigma Delta Chi concluded that re- porter Warren Pease's stories Bonner said if Hie study concluded lie would sue The reporter de- manded a public apology and threatened legal action on his jwn part. Peterson sent a telegram to Union Leader publisher William urging him to accept feel it most urgent that this matter be settled promptly because the of both the charges in the story and the challenge by Dr. affect Ihe future of our slate Peterson Pease began a series comments from persons in Cincinnati who activities at Ihe University of Cincinnati which he served as Hie Union Leader previously has criticized Ihe appointment tan te Pitt Case Closed At Kent 16 Indicted In Case on Bidding Mass. Three former Somerville ors along with 16 other ants were released Friday on personal recognizance after arraignment in Middlesex Superior Court on of conspiracy to violate public ding The stemmed from a Middlesex County grand jury probe into business affairs of the City of Nine of the defendants stood mute to the charges while the remainder pleaded innocent be- fore Superior Court Judge ry Jr. The judge at the end of the 40-minule proceeding said a confidential message to him from the grand jury had been delivered to Superior Court Chief Justice Walter H. He added that Judge McLaughlin had written to the grand jury and it Will be turned over to the panel grand Jury is expected to report on a few final matters which have been full in- by Middlesex Dis- Attorney John Each of the 19 defendants were given days to file rial Those arraigned included for- mer mayors Lawrence F. 7 James F. 17 and John F. 13 three pleaded Former Commissioner of Public Works Anthony Rosselli who offered no plea was ar- on 17 City tor Robert J. pleaded innocent to 31 The judge entered innocent pleas for those who stood FDA Seizes Food For Catfish Germans Celebrate At Wall BERLIN Communist East Germany paraded Friday the paramilitary battle groups that built the wall dividing lin 10 years The Western Allies protested the H was a repetition of the John N. Mitchell shut Hie door Friday ou pleas for a eral grand jury probe into the four Kent Suite Uni- versity students in a incident involving Ohio al The parents of the dents said in a released ment in their behalf shock of of Hie deci- sion is nearly as great as Ihc shock came to us when our children were killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970." Four were killed nine ers were wounded during a campus in endorsed the finding of a presidential commission lial shootings were unwarranted and in- But he review persuades me that is no credible evidence of a between National to shoot students on Ihe campus and that is no likelihood of successful cutions of individual is my judgment that ther action by Ihe Department of Justice would not be Mitchell cited what he de- scribed as a massive and in- federal investigation into the slayings and said the facts presented him the conclusion reached by the President's Commission that the rifle fire in the words of the mwa Tense Quiet Shuts Down On Ireland Northern Ireland Quiet re- to Northern Ireland Friday after a week of warfare and a British general claimed the gal Irish Army has been de- Tins claim was immediately challenged by an IRA who told a news conference which led the fighting against British has enough weapons apd ammunition to continue the Marslon the British chief of staff in Northern newsmen the IRA had 50 casualties since including 20 to 30 Delayed Action The state Executive Council has delayed action on a posal lo acquire a lion computer tor ment of Centralized The proposal was delayed due Ihe absence of Re- publican James Hayes of The was nest Acquisition of became controversial when former gubernatorial candidate Meldrim Thomson of contended Ihc state was going to purchase the computer during a tight budget period even though It has other computers Further investigation by a federal grand he not reasonably be ex- lo produce any new dence which would contribute rade five years ago when the further to making a Prim mi Arson Suspected This which destroyed two piers several coulder U be of front last is one tt M in Uw area Ote past Lack Money to Fight Communists controlling East Berlin for the first time ly proclaimed Ihe wall a Taking the salute of the meted and workers from factories around East Germany was Erich the man who Walter as party leader in Standing his was the Soviet envoy to East Berlin and the chief Russian negotiator in the Berlin talks that re- sume in isolated West Berlin on Missing were the aging Stalinist who had the wall built Aug. 13, 1961, with Red army and Pre- Arson on Rise in Maine By DAVE Maine Arson Is on the rise in for in- but the capability handling the problem is the two officials re- sponsible for investigating the crimes said Agreeing in separate inter- views that there is a need in this primarily rural state for a full-time professional arson squad were Charles F. director of the insurance fire prevention divl and Richard S. Cohen Dollar Rallies in Europe After Hitting Record Low LONDON The U.S. dollar rallied late Friday as European government banks in- their readiness to de- fend the American currency against Before the rally set in after more than a week of selling pressure by the dollar had reached record lows in several financial notably Zurich The government banks of West France and most other West European countries have been buying up millions of dollars to add to already swollen coffers for more than a This support buying but didn't the steady de- cline in the value of the dollar in relation to European WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration announced today it has seized nearly dozen eggs and 000 pounds of catfish feed be- cause of contamination with a The announcement was made on the heels of report that it had begun seizing the products of a canned goods Bon which had ready initialed the process of recalling The FDA said the seized eggs and catfish feed were tainted with a substance called which have betn implicated causing birth defects and liver damage in lest The FDA emphasized that it does not consider the eggs and catfish feed lo be a but conducted the seizure only because the PCB content violated the federal tolerance of parts per The eggs and the feed are used for calfish growing industry in tho South and Southwest The agency said the PCB el in the of them seized in a up to 1.9 parts per The catfish feed PCB contamination went as high u 3 parti per and The French government took mier Willi Stoph who was re- sponsible for internal security when the wall went There was no explanation why Stoph was For his Ulbricht has not special measures to ward off the inflow of unwanted dollars early on in the crisis and Ihe dollar's rate with the franc re- in a i n e d almost unchanged throughout the week since last took but they weren't The Swiss f Please tarn Page chief of the attorney general's criminal Both said the chief problem now in checking out suspicious fires is the lack of both power and In 1966, staff of in- handled 147 investiga tons of The caseload increased annually til it reached a record 342 in 1970. far this about 278 blazes of questionable gin have been reported to in- During the past year there have been more than 60 questionable fires in the Port land area way this thing is set-up it isn't working at said Rogan referring to a 1969 ute giving the attorney general concurrent jurisdiction wilh the insurance commissioner over incendiary The Cohen been in public view since the party congress in when te was reported ill. In Robert 1. president of Kent State said the school and accept the de- The parents of the four dents as well as congressional and civil rights spokesmen bad KENT tm To Question Vinny Gen. Warren Rudman and U. S. Atty. David Brock announced Friday they have arranged to question Vincent Teresa about his testimony linking organized crime with persons Irving or doing business in New Brock said he and Rudman Astronauts Had Some 111 Effects SPACE Houston Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin suffered brief spelts of ir- regular heart rhythm while they were on the ably as a result of extreme the chief doctor of the said Irwin also suffered from spells of dizziness in space and all three Apollo 15 crewmen have from failed to fully effects of Assassination Site Open Aubrey leeks a sixth floor window of the Texas School De- Building in Dallas where Lee allegedly fired the fatal shots at the fate President John F. writer tke announced he It opening the U u did nothing except permit slate to train some of their de- in arson He noted even though Regan's office had the responsibility for arson prior to 1969, the attorney general and still em- powered to step-in whenever a has been 'The statute was changed without any provisions for more money or added All we have now is the same amount of people doing an added the assistant at- torney general Because of the state's revenue budgetary Regan's office has faced a reduction in inspector ARSON tin to Page Isle Hit by Fires PRESQUE Maine A smoke-filled fire Friday destroyed two potato houses and a building supply warehouse on Dyer Street the Valley railroad There were no reports of in Firemen from Caribou and surrounding towns assisted the Presque Isle Department in The Berlin commandants of he Western Allies engaged with the Russians in talks on the future of the United Britain and a sharp protest against the Communist stration across the wall in East The Western Allies hold the four-power status of the entire city to be still in while the Russians back the East German claim of East Berlin as their Under four-power the former German cap- is supposed to be kept free of German military forces pending a peace The Communists nevertheless station thousands of. border would question the Boston un- figure next week when he arrives in Boston to testify before a federal grand The statement by Brock and Rudman said that a. portion of Teresa's recent testimony be- fore a congressional criminal investigation committee lessness as fast as Dr. Charles A. chief of the space center's medical of- told a news Berry said the arhythmic heart beati and Irwin's ness were concealed from newsmen earlier because tests still were being conducted and complete information was not The doctor said that until Irwin was still suffering from effects of space he caused some The astronaut also reported that his bed on Ilis figures were higher than earlier official counts that put Uie death toll for and soldiers at In for tile But the lower total did not include IRA casualties dragged away by comrades be- fore could be More than 930 other IliA terrorists have been jailed in the army up that began Monday and touched off the worst riots m this troubled province in half i j Tickell said catch was up to our highest ex- Joe who identified as a chief of staff of IRA provisional told newsmen at a secretly ar- ranged meeting the IRA was not He appeared briefly to a schoolroom of the Catholic area guarded by heavily armed IRA fact that I am sifting here is evidence of the total failure of Cahill The IRA wants to unite this largely Protestant British ince with the predominantly Catholic Irish Republic to give Catholics a majority in all Cahill admitted the IRA could not defeat the British open warfare because the Brit- ish regulars have greater fire I promise thai ban will con- he When a British army patrol was spotted Hearing Cahill is not a gin and tonic affair for obvious and left As the street fighting quieted a three-cornered battle Jack prime the Irish repi h at guards along the and si a tion soldiers in East take concerned persons having New Hampshire The statement said both legal officers are prepared to every law enforcement re- source available to us in suing any information which Teresa or anyone else might give us concerning suspected organized crime activity in New Brock declined to say when the meeting with Teresa would earth at first felt like was tilted about 30 when he lay These symptoms have now Berry said Irwin and Alfred M. the third have yet to return to the physical The physician is no medical danger so far as the crew is doctor described the beat irregularities as The leart auricular and which lasted only about 10 heart beats on both moon Berry said because of the tigue often the Unwilling Victims Youngsters In party of 82 Protestant from violence In Northern Ireland Ihe at Liverpool yesterday after disembarking from the steamer Ulster Tie tut U for u Dublin internment had northern provincial ment was bankrupt and London should assume direct ft the Brian the Ireland de- M In British officials ruled out the Irish call for a summit bringing Lynch and Faulkner together with British Minister Edward Heath to cuss the Northern Heath's government is mined to make internment at IRA terrorists work before dis- cussing a longer-term political And The Rev. Ian militant Protestant flew to London to press Britain for a tougher stand in the said the major lem now was the refugee families who left their homes in the North after being burned out or being threatened by shooting or Bank Guard Wounded In Robbery BOSTON A bank guard was shot and critically Friday when four men hold up and robbed a branch of the Harbor National Bank in Boston's South End district Wounded when one of the robbers fired two shots was er 28, who had just gone o the He was aien to Boston City Hospital or emergency suf gery and his name was placed on the danger It was not known ly how much money the bers The president of the bank is Robert A. a nephew of Mrs. Rose and a first cousin of Sen. Edward M. The robbers were described as wearing They Uie four tellers and several customers at point during the Ross was shot in the right shoulder and chest as the four left the Witnesses outside saii the four separated and drove away in two
