Portsmouth Times (Newspaper) - March 2, 1970, Portsmouth, Ohio Rainy Daze Ohio Valley clout rain or showers mild Temperature report 11 1 Edition Covering Southern Ohio And Northern Kentucky For 117 Years A Dependable Portsmouth Institution VOLUME 118 PORTSMOUTH OHIO MONDAY MARCH 2 Two PAGES Section 1 Copy Single Weekly Copy by Carrier By DON KENDALL AP arm Writer WASHINGTON AP Retail coffee prices arc expected to soar this year and may cut even deeper into American of Hie country's favorite brew government and industry experts say Average prices already have climbed to the highest levels in a dozen years and the ceiling is not in sight The Bureau oE bor Statistics said retail coffee prices last month averaged 82.5 cents a pound up more than two cents from December A year earlier the BLS ago was 76.2 cents And for all of the average price was 76.5 cents only of a than in But a killing frost last July in Brazil the world's chief er severely damaged trees which produce coffee beans The Agriculture Department says newly planted trees will not be ready for production until about 1975 Meantime the ex- perts say world coffee supplies will be tight No one is predicting that prices will climb to the per pound housewives paid in gust 1354 but one official guessed the average could be near per pound by next ter if current conditions persist An industry official the Pan American Coffee Bureau called the recent price increases a psychological scare resulting from the freeze last year in Brazil The coffee trade says retail prices generally have declined since the 1958 average of cents a pound The low mark was 67.4 cents in 1962 when the International Coffee Agreement was put forth to help with and iron out price Meantime according to Pan American Coffee Bureau veys American per capita coffee drinking is shrinking In 1962 officials said cans over 10 years of age drank an average of cups a day Last year Americans averaged only 2.68 cups of coffee per day only of a cup more than the all-time low of 2.38 cups in period of high prices One reason says a trade spokesman is that Americans are using less coffee per cup This began during the high price era of 20 years ago when housewives hotels and rants perked less coffee longer to make more brew for more people They got to liking it that the official said We re- commend making 40 to 45 cups from a pound of coffee Now they're making 70 to 75 they're just drinking more wa- ter Also he said surveys indicate young people are not turning to coffee as rapidly as did their parents They're on a soft drink kick the spokesman said Mary Petry WILLIAM SPROAT MARY PETRY Police Seek Clues In Double Murder By ROBERT BASS Times Staff Writer Around-the-clock Portsmouth police work within the last week culminated Sunday in the arrest of four boys and ance of approximately 35 recent burglaries and 20 vandalism complaints The juveniles arrested by police Sunday referred to Scioto County juvenile ties Jackie Eldridge 17 of 1513 High St Paul David Carson 15 of 1918 19th St Frank Green 16 of 1231 Grandview Ave and Jeffrey A Staten 17 of 1401 Spring St Police said the arrests of Hie youths on delinquency charges are expected to clear up proximately 35 burglaries within the last three months in the city and Scioto County and be tween 15 and 20 complaints of windshield and window breakage in the city The burglaries include those at the home of Miss Lucy E Graham Timmonds Ave early last Tuesday morning and at the residence of the late A D Troxel at 1511 Timmonds Ave Friday Jan 23 Only three of the four juve niles are believed to have been involved in the burglary at the Graham 1805 Timmonds Ave report that a woman was be to have taken part in this burglary now is thought to be false police said The fact that one of the three the fact that Miss Graham's head had been covered during of the period of the early burglary led to the sumption a woman was n this break-in police said Some of the loot stolen in several in the long cries of burglaries was ered by police Sunday night Diligent police work on the case was given its original im- petus last Tuesday night with he search of the home of Mrs Helen Carson 43 of 1918 19th St Police search of the Carson residence was authorized by a search warrant obtained by Deputy Louis Hood of the Scioto County sheriff's By MACK Times Staff Writer You just trust in God That is how Mrs Paul Petry Scioto Trail said she finds the strength to stand up un- der the sorrow of losing a daughter to a killer in bus Her daughter Mary 20 and Mary's boyfriend William Sproat 23 were found dered Saturday in near Ohio State Uni- Columbus police said today have no leads in the case We expect the results of the autopsy this afternoon but we have no concrete De- James Carr said The bodies of the young ple were found about 1 p.m Saturday by Thomas McGuigan roommate Police saic a preliminary autopsy shows the two were killed be tween 7 and 10 p.m Friday Miss Petry had been and beaten Police believe she was sexually assaulted wrists were bound to his ankles behind his back with coat ers wound so tightly police be- ieve pliers may have been used to tighten them He had jeen stabbed about 20 times A butcher knife and a ing ball found in the room are to be the murder pons Miss MIAMI AP Ship radio re- indicated a Cuban had escorted into an shakedown cruise had been completed and that he would call her again in about 10 days oils today boat Cuban wafers an Mrs Carlson lives with the craft it had couple's two children in East on the high seas Orleans Mass A spokesman in Washington The Cape Cod the firm that chartered Jan three-month search for sunken Spanish gold in the Caribbean With Carlson when he sailed or for ests said at least five persons vere aboard The U.S Coast Guard in Mi- mi refused to comment Marine broadcasts monitored n Miami said Cuban seamen warded the red white ind blue Sunday and two Cuban crewmen before beginning escort of the American boat into Cuban waters just off La Isabela on the island's northern coast As the and the rol boat traveled the 140 miles j Tom the point of the reported boarding to La Isabela the U.S Guard cutter Steadfast last January was William Crockett 27 a photographer and fisherman Crockett a bachelor is a native of mond Va and has been living in Chatham Mass Two other members of the crew were identified as Pat Fitzsimmons and Joe Campbell Their were not known A British vessel identified as the described in Lloyd's Registry of Ships as a training ship registered in London was watched off shore The cutter the was remained outside Cuba's mile limit boarded It remained with the INDICATED Gov James A Rhodes center und Martin Essex slate super- intendent of public instruction were principle speakers at the dedication of the new Minford High School Sunday Dr William Rogers Minford superintendent is congratulated by the state officials at the ceremony Times photo by Billy Graham nent None of the loot recovered Junday night was found in the residence of Mrs Carson who was arrested by police Friday on three charges of receiving and concealing stolen property The four juveniles were ar- rested Sunday by Lt William Huels chief of the police de- detectives division and Police Sgl Jackson mann The Eldridge boy was arrest cd in the block of Vinton Ave the Carson boy at the police station the Green youth near Gallia St and Mabert Rd and the Staten youth at Grand- view and Robinson Avcs Important roles in the of the case were Petry a junior at Mt St Joseph's College in nati had gone to Columbus with a friend Friday afternoon She often used the OSU library in her studies Mrs Petry said Mary had visited with her parent's last weekend Miss was majoring in youths talked like a Gov lames Rhodes By DeLUCE Associated Press Writer HANOI AP Nguyen Duy Trinh deputy premier and for- eign minister of North Vietnam says any cease-fire agreement in South Vietnam must provide for unconditional withdrawal of all American troops and the right of the South Vietnamese to settle their problems among themselves That means recognition of the independence and ty of South Trinh said in an interview Before making an ment he said the question is how to assurer progress at the and how parties are to consider substantive questions The conference has been marking time several months now i I VY U civ French and was described conference in Paris Stanley Thorn acting chairman of the modern languages de- at ML St Joseph's probably the best student in the department Mary was valedictorian ni Notre Dame High School in She studied at Catholic University of the West in An- gers France as a recipient of the Xavier University Memorial Scholarship She re- turned from France in January the new Minford High School Sunday with a challenge to the people of the area to con- moving forward This job is Rhodes told several hundred people who n I the program in the high school gymnasium Let's look for the next one and get it done You can do anything you want to the governor said as he enthusiastically ed a theme of more jobs and better education Young people do not want welfare they want an tion and a job If we don't give them what they want they go somewhere else he said Rhodes was greeted warmly by the crowd when he said ford has everything it needs to grow and attract industry You have one of the most beautiful school buildings in the twin sister st LOS ANGELES vial with authorization and without a j spoonful of Mary and her Martha are the the five Petry children tha is a student at College o St Teresa in Winona Minn One brother David is lain of St Joseph's Academy in Columbus Another brother James is studying for the priesthood at the North can College in Rome Italy Sister Phyllis Petry 2a Mary's oldest sister is a containing about a moon dust is missing the first NASA assigned 50 displays of priceless last November to will proceed with the let's do something he said Martin Essex stale tendent of public instruction Nixon in a speech state You will soon have on Nov 3 made if clear he tionai and technical training is engaged in two processes hero and you have a fine and Victimization j port Everything is here now but he Viet ion plan regardless of what happens at the ence If is to be used as a basis of tions negotiations cannot bly make progress The United States is withdrawing its by in order fo calm clown lic opinion against the war in the United States The can hope is to build strength of the puppet South Vietnamese boat and the Cuban vessel until Only four of the persons the Steadfast arrived radio re- aboard the ports said were identified immediately i Early morning Havana radio broadcasts monitored in Miami made no mention of the dent The Steadfast was dispatched i to the Atlantic between and the Bahamas early Sunday afternoon when the commanded by Capt Sten son of East Orleans Mass re- ported by radio that the Cuban craft was approaching it The vessel was 15 miles offshore he radio report said Moments before the Senate this week in the iC's transmitter went silent the I wake of unexpected action in captain They're the House boosting chances tor ering their ori us President Nixon's own welfare The Steadfast a i proposal so spoke at the program and heavy-duty cutter armed with hearings before Sen nn A e Tj looe Aired WASHINGTON AP eral Democratic sponsored fare and plans get called it a proud day I am inspired by ments such as this made in my native section of the Essex said He praised the forts of the school board and the community for working gether to build the million school Rhodes took his audience on a journey through the life of a Abraham Lincoln He said if Lincoln were alive today he would be pampered by a society that would give him a welfare check pay him not to raise crops subsidize his splitting and provide him with the necessities of life Tile governor said the welfare is the worst piece of lation ever devised by man We need to replace it with job ing education and jobs We need to look to the lure Sell this part of Ohio to the nation and bring the indus try and jobs here that you need j to keep the young j Rhodes said Rhodes came to Minford from Chillicothe where he three-inch cannon and several George Committee machine gims reportedly Human Needs operating under instructions not focus on to attempt an interception of the plans two vessels savs Hrc Bended io put a The under charter and to a Washington firm known for every Sub Mar sailed from Fort in he fo have an Friday after having re- {e pairs made to its electronic equipment dief Among witnesses to be tested to on the during the cruise nutrition gap is Rev The Cubans loP aide ed it near Cav Lobos an island I of he channel n Martin Luther Kins Jr land national director of tion Breadbasket York Cily Mayor John V r is fo testify in the old Bahama of Cuba Carlson's wife Jocelyn whom the boat was named said she spoke to her husband day reported he told a Kentucky Turn to SCHOOL Page 12 Schools tn Lewis County are fo be open for classes Tuesday j while classes County Wednesday The superintendents has promoted his own human security plan as a measure for fighting poverty including as a key ment a guaranteed monthly payment of at least for ery American child The Nixon proposal which emerged last week from the House Ways and Means Com- after languishing since August calls among other things for a family I income of at least a year McGovern's hearings are seen by some Capitol observers as an the challenge re- I f tl s contentions that 1 s welfare ideas never of- army and to use Vietnamese to fight against Vietnamese to the sample Dr George I of the institute for Sunday I analysis to determine its age bia loss in lunar samples Officials disclosed tha the vial containing 2.3 Much of its value has been Sams of material from lunar Wea her 1 said Wii we gomg lry work on it some more It's sible we would have found something very important He estimated the sample's age at 3.7 billion years the of the institute of Geo- f physics at the University of j Lawrence said ne Dr at Los Angeles who Iard p director ranged the display But I hope t nor it It was so hard for mom and dad because we are spread American bellicose circles The United States ment hones if it prolongs the war Vietnamese people will LOS ANGELES AP crowd at about liam defense attorney j more difficulties said Sunday There were no incidents in the Chicago riot trial has jng the rally sponsored by The called on young people to Conspiracy a California peacefully raising money for the courthouse in the nation to of the five defendants con- political oppression Association adopted a resolution ending the walkout in a ins this morning and presented resolution to Sid Mearle before Greenup teachers voted tn turn Wednesday Clifford Turn to SLAYINGS Page 12 we will have to accept terms But this can't during the trial that charges of crossing state on demonstrators were incite rioting during the rook No 50 brought to earth by Apollo 11 disappeared the night before during a charity affair for scientific research that in- cluded a dinner I'm going to call it a said Steven Lawrence business store it was a joke and we'll get it hack Several persons from the in- were with the display he said but there was no guard as such arranged for the exhibit at Wilshire where the department was held to raise money for two eye foundations for curtailed by federal cuts research spending Police and the FBI said they j NASA officials said the dust were investigating could have little monetary value In Houston the National a thief because there is no nautics and Space market for it lion said t had not It's something you can t put On the contrary the that the war drags on for the release on bail Saturday National the difficulties that will be encountered States bv the United why we sav the on defendants and contempt charges was a people's the attorney said The seven would still be in Cook County jail if people ion The appeals will cost to said Hayden free on on his five-year sentence saic he and his fellow defendants were for the new generation We stood spoke at a meeting in Greenup this morning risked the ers I return to work Tuesday and iold them a ifs ideas never ot- alternatives McGovem said his plan would ist some billion the first year compared with the of lion Buf Payments for children to be accomplished through the elimination of sonal tax exemptions would all among families Tuesday to he stoppage The teachers informed they would return said Tho plan calls also for n guaranteed job for every and d formally able-bodied citizen of working ami for an incendiary policy is doomed to I fail hadn't gone into the streets for Trinh snid if the United States hem The people united behind agreed fo withdraw its bail question and and the court all power the independence and The U.S 7th Circuit Court of j he said This ty of South Vitnam a Appeals overturned a ruling by j motto of the new generation could be reached the trinl judge Julius J He described Judge Hoffman notify The idea he most incendiary idea the the agreement providing for free democratic general elections and a broad provisional coalition ment set up through among political circles of South Vietnam who stand man who denied bail on Nixon and California grounds the defendants were i Gov Ronald Reagan as men and their peals were frivolous b y Tom Hayden 29 one of the de saurs on the verge of tion Reagan has directed the state attorney general to investigate the board of at the teachers have their Tuesday been on ince Fe i dispute with the Jh age improvements in the Social Security system and a down Public Assistance welfare income for those Jhc Program covers as well as families without a orc since Feb 23 because a wage dispute with the K lucky legislation Most districts in the state were shut down IlC The teachers through the Kentucky Education are demanding a 6 per cent crease in base pay fringe fits a professional negotiation contract and a rollback in the j Around Portsmouth fid j f independence and and Leonard whether crossed state whatever their glass 3B his fellow defense to incite to not when county tax limitation The legislature has approved Death the exhibit and that about 50 a dollar value samples had been displayed said cal Tho Republic of South crowd About planes has clear iis policy you wanted immediately I of peace and I have a suggestion a raise over the next two Editorial an demonstrations broke Horoscope cold drizzly Jin the University of California A meeting of the KEA Markets from a platform in at Santa Barbara community is bo held in Sports of a Unitarian church in Isla Vista after a speech at tonight and both Television and Police estimated the lawyer made last week I counties are to be represented iNew to in 17 17 -in ifi in
