Portsmouth Times (Newspaper) - January 1, 1971, Portsmouth, Ohio Beginner Ohio Partly cloudy today with a high in the 30s turning fair tonight with lows in the 20s Cloudy and warmer Saturday with highs in the 40s For 118 Years A Dependable Portsmouth Institution VOLUME 119 No 244 PORTSMOUTH OHIO FRIDAY JANUARY 1 1971 Sections 28 PAGES Covering Ohio And Northern Kentucky Co Coy By JACK HALL Times Staff Writer Construction totaling millions of dollars is expected to give the Portsmouth area a new look 1971 Apartments for low-income families a prison and nearly everything in between is either under tion or planned The largest project in terms of dollars is the Southern Ohio Penitentiary near Lucasville The million structure fully will be finished by July The project was to be com- by the first of the year but has been delayed and some officials tion don't expect to be finished by July The penitentiary should prove a boon to the area in terms of jobs and new families About 500 jobs are to be able at the institution and state officials expect about 400 local people to be hired More than 100 families are ex to move into the area from Columbus providing a market for the housing industry There is a difference of ion among builders about the influx Some believe new hous- ing is needed while others con- tend there is housing now able At any rate the completion of the prison should be one of the biggest economic boosts of the year The prison was started in 1968 and hundreds of local construction workers have been employed there Other projects which will mean new jobs and new people in the area are Ramada Inn on ond St the lodge and boat ina in Shawnee State Forest an addition to Scioto Memorial Hospital New Boston Manor Apartments and Buttrick ments Private developers also plan to continue building new homes and apartments in Portsmouth Wheelersburg Minford and on the West Side The number of housing starts in 1970 were from past years but builders are hopeful of an upswing this year Paul Adams one of the ind builders says he looks for an increase in apartment con- struction and a further ing in private dwellings Adams said high interest rates and the inability to obtain a down payment on a house make it difficult for many people to finance a new home Charles Yeley another top builder said he looks for an in- crease in the hosing starts early this year Yeley said he constructed fewer houses last year than in previous years and blamed high Ed Plyes Sons Builders con- to construct new homes in the Wheelersburg area Ramada Inn on Second St across from the Municipal ing is to be opened in early spring C A Yeager Inc is prime contractor on the million project The motel is to have 92 rooms lounges and a restaurant Canter Inns Inc is financing the project through private and federal loans The first of the apartments for low-income families in the New Boston Manor project are to be opened soon A total of 130 units are to be available to families who will Turn to Page 12 Column 1 By CARL P LEUBSDORF Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP In the face of a New Year's Eve buster threat senators day night broke a deadlock over money for the supersonic trans- port the last remaining major f I 3 VK 10 The development came after Senate leaders first made and then dropped plans for a sion on New Year's Day In- stead both the House and the Senate arranged to meet on Sat- and presumably will wind up the session then Terms of the SST agreement not announced but Senate sources said Sen William mire had agreed to drop his threatened filibuster in return for a promise that the next Senate convening in ary will get a chance to vote separately ori the plane subsidy he opposes The dispute over the subsidy had blocked action on a lion money for the entire Department of Transportation The House earlier had ed a plan to permit continued spending by the department in- SST funds until March 30 Proponents of the supersonic transport insisted on keeping the subsidy as a part of the over-all Proxmire ed a separate vote since the Senate had voted earlier to vide no new subsidy funds With agreement for a arate vote in 1971 the Senate can pass Saturday the continued spending arrangement the House already has voted and put off the decision until next year Both sides agreed that if the Senate sticks to its decision against a renewed subsidy the SST program may be killed next March 30 Before quitting until dav the House sent a foreign aid money to the White House Senate House conferees a short time earlier broke a month deadlock over a related to authorize sales of tary items to friendly nations The conferees reached ment after meeting for the first time since July 9 The House mustered a bare to pass the authorization agreement and Bend it to the Senate Then it completed action on the foreign aid accepting a now less Senate restriction against spending of the military sales funds unless they were cally authorized The aid contains million for the sales program The agreement on the legislation provides million a year for two years with a credit ceiling of lion for the program under which excess U.S weapons are sent around the world Many of the Senate restrictions in the By JAY BRUSHART Times City Editor Acquisition of Detroit Steel Corp by Cyclops Corp of burgh and reorganization of Portsmouth Division plant as Steel was rated the top local news story of 1970 by Times editors and writers Twenty stories in- a number that ed over a period of weeks or months were considered in the poll to choose the 10 top stories of the year The Carolina Lumber Co fire ranked second groundbreaking for a new Route 52 link with the West Side rated third Notre Dame High School's sweep of state Class A football honors placed fourth and reversal of plans for the Portsmouth High High merger ed fifth place Rounding out the list were 6 the murders of Mary Petry a local college student and her boyfriend in Columbus sale of the tract to Scioto Hospital and Ohio Methodist Homes closing of Children's Home 9 City Council's tion of the controversial town mall plan and 10 bery of the Western Southern Insurance Co office and the speedy arrest of five suspects Other stories rating headlines during the year in- cluded shutdown of Greenup Lewis County Ky schools by a teacher's walkout closing of Mount Logan Sanatorium cancellation of the Easter rade by unseasonable snow the Trout Derby and preliminary 1970 census figures a decline in mouth and Scioto County lation Also River Days and the first fatality a reunion of former members of the Spartan football team appropriation of funds for an addition to Portsmouth Public Library a three-week cold wave with four days of sub- zero readings and enactment of Turn to Page 12 Column 7 Ton 10 Stories r 1 Cyclops Corp tion reorganization of De- troit Steel Corp 2 Carolina Lumber C o fire 3 Groundbreaking for new Route 52 link with West Side 4 Notre Dame High School's sweep of state Class A football honors 5 Reversal of Portsmouth High High ger plan 6 Murders of Mary Petry and boyfriend in Columbus 7 Sale of tract to Scioto Memorial pital and Ohio Methodist Homes 8 Closing of Hillcrest dren's Home 9 City Council's rejection o f controversial downtown mall plan 10 of Western Southern Insurance Co office and arrest of five suspects By STERLING F GREEN WASHINGTON AP The dollar year 1971 is shaping up like a replay of un- happy 1970 in several important aspects Tile economic crystal ball hows too much inflation to lease consumers too much un- to please labor too ew profits to suit industry too ittle real growth to suit the on administration or anybody else The rate of SKATERS took advantage of the winter weather to enjoy rapher Billy Graham found a group Thursday afternoon at on one of the area's many frozen surfaces Times dale Lake at New Boston where skating was reported good Snow which descended on the Portsmouth area late Thursday changed plans of many Highway Department em- ployes and street crews Instead of making the rounds of New Year's Eve parties or relaxing at home with their families dozens of the men were making the rounds of roads and streets with scrapers and salt trucks The light but sticky snow caused Rosemount Rd to be closed early in the night but no major closings were sary Crews were out early with salt and scrapers bitting the troublesome spots first and moving out as he snow ered all area roads City crews started on main with removal ment and moved out to hills slippery areas and then to er streets as they tried to keep travel safe for the tota the Senate in m were dropped or modified warnings which had Meanwhile both houses worked their way through a dwindling pile ot legislation cleaning up work on excise tax food stamp and other bills Chairman Wilbur Mills D- Ark of the House Ways and Means Committee showed no sign of dropping his objection to a conference to reconcile House an Senate versions of tion raising Social Security Mills has promised early on it and President on's welfare reform proposals next Senate Democratic leader Mansfield also repeated a pledge to push the welfare measure early in 1971 Turn to Page 16 Column 3 iv an life eiers guessing all day day were not necessary by Thursday afternoon The advent of snow produce a flurry of accidents in the area Thursday afternoon bu few injuries were reported Mary Noble 24 of bus and Dianne Noble 17 o 533 Sycamore St complained of injury after crash at p.m o Center St in Wheelersburg Patrolmen of the post of the Ohio Highway Pa trol said they were passenger in an auto driven by Randa Ross of 4327 Dale St whe the auto was struck in the rea by an auto driven by Bernar Turn to SNOW Page 10 By ROBERT BASS Times Staff Writer A concentrated effort to re- juit new members of Big rothers of Scioto County Inc is to begin Monday The drive for new volunteer Big Brothers is to coincide with he organization's observance f Big Brothers uled to open Sunday and con- through Jan 10 Results of the drive for participating in the Big Brothers program here are to reported at a meeting of the organization at 8 p.m day Jan 13 at the City YMCA 1236 Gallia St Abe Zuber president of the ocal Big Brothers group said the Big Brothers program here currently has 11 matches But right now we have a number of boys eagerly waiting tor their Big Brothers Only recruitment of more volunteers can each of young boys have the Big er he needs and Zuber said The 1971 Big Brothers Week is to be observed in more than 200 communities in the United States and Canada to stimulate Inside The Times Page recruitment of Big Brother The Big Brother program provides a unique child welfare service which combines the friendship of a volunteer a male fay a social worker to help a boy who lacks the guidance of a er said The important contribution of Big Brother work is the con- cept of therapeutic friendship between a responsible male adult and a boy who has no adequate masculine figure with whom to Zuber said Continued success of the One Boy program depends on the number of new volunteers we he said The Big Brothers of Scioto County Inc was organized about four years and currently has approximately 30 members A United Fund agency Big Brothers here complements but does not duplicate the work of group agencies Zuber said that men wishing to volunteer for Big Brother service are re- to contact him Besides Zuber the Big ers officers staff includes A groundbreaking ceremony WAVERLY Ohio A ville duck hunter narrowly caped drowning Thursday in a boating accident in the swift waters of the Scioto River north of Waverly Howard Gilliland 37 clung to a tree limb for almost an hour n the icy water until Pike Coun ty sheriff's deputies and two game wardens used ropes to pull him out of the water and up a 12-foot steep embankment The shortly before noon about miles above Omega where an ther duck hunter Thomas Bandy 33 of Clyde Rt 1 was drowne in a boating accident Wednesday His body was recovered Thurs day afternoon and moved to the Boyer Funeral Home in Around Portsmouth Comics Death Notices Editorial Page Horoscope Markets Sports Television and Women's News ville Ferguson Jr vice dent Sylvan Emnett er and Gloria Acox secretary 4 27 15 6 10 15 14 10 Morning Paper In order that its employes may spend New Year's Day holiday with their families The Times will be closed all day today This edition went to press Thursday night for delivery to subscribers early this morning Regular editions will be resumed Saturday signalling the start of tion of the lodge complex in Shawnee State Forest is to be held at p.m Wednesday The program will be held on the paved parking Hot on Route 125 at the entrance to Lamp Black Rd just west of Turkey Lake Gov James A Rhodes is to attend the ceremony Fred Morr director of the Department of Natural Resources and Mel hok deputy director also are to be present The program is being sored by the Portsmouth Area Chamber of Commerce The and tourism committee of the Chamber headed by ert Switalski has been working closely with the lodge ment A facsimile of the plaque that will be erected when the lodge is completed is to be displayed at the program Wednesday The plaque is being presented on be- half of the Greater Portsmouth Area by the Portsmouth ing House and the Retail chants Association Total cost of the lodge and cabin complex is more than million The lodge is to contain 50 rooms and 25 furnished ins are to be constructed by The project is to be completed by June 1 1972 erly Gilliland and a son Gerry 14 had been on the river for about three hours when their boat struck a log and capsized Gerry swam to shore but his fether was unable to swim in duction will arrive belatedly in the first quarter of the new year It is likely to be greeted with more jeers than jubilation for the current rise is mostly a matter of higher prices instead of higher output For the full year most ington economists believe gross national output may total around trillion give or ake a few billion dollars This would represent a gain of about billion or 6.5 per cent in cheapened dollars In terms of actual goods and services the so called real gain may be about 3 per cent compared with virtually no in- crease in 1970 It be bigger if President Nixon's revised game plan gets off to a fast start The plan is to push hard for economic ex- with the goal of ing reasonably full employment in the election year 1972 This implies moving a first-quarter into an in- rapid expansion by lem of trying to push on t you can make available for borrowing but you can't force people to borrow it ii they lack the confidence and in- to spend invest and ex- pand As for the other course ing out federal dollars to prims the spending pumps the is handicapped by 4 dismal budget situation Facing a possible billion deficit this fiscal year ona perhaps almost as big next yeai working under a spending ceiling to bool Turn to Page 16 Column I wise he fourth quarter and well into 972 It calls for easier credit and a rising money supply Simulate housing capital in- estment and consumer Deer Joins Crowd In Shopping Mart MENTOR Ohio AP A deer jumped through a window and joined shoppers at the May Co in the Great Lakes Mall in this Lake Erie city east of Cleveland Wednesday night his heavy clothing and grabbed a tree limb near the shore to keep afloat However the limb broke and he was swept river before managing to grab another branch Meanwhile Gerry ran to i nearby house where he the Pike County sheriff's depart ment Sheriff Roy E Ross and two game wardens Ralph Minte and Williams arrived on the scene and used ropes to pul Gilliland from the water He was taken to Pike Hospital and admitted for ob servation after being in the wa ter for almost an hour The area was not strange t the father and son as they hunted it for several ears Th family dog a labrado retriever was in the boat an is presumed to have drowned Bandy is survived by his pa rents Mr and Mrs Jacob P Bandy his wife Janice Sear Bandy two sons Mitchell an Tony at home three brothers Jake E Bandy of Waverly P 3 Sgt Kenneth Bandy in nam and Fred N Bandy of dusky and three sisters Mrs Everritt Marvel of Louisville and Mrs Robert Sears and Mrs Jerome Snyder both of Waverly Rt 3 Funeral services are io bn held Sunday at at the Boyer Funeral Home in ing The chief problem as seen by many officials is to find the and fiscal remedies to overcome the current economic In trying to expand credit the Federal Reserve Board is meeting the old COLUMBUS Ohio AP Four standing House tees will be reorganized into two and a new one on and natural resources will be created in the eral Assembly that convenes Monday The Education and the Committees will become the Health Education and Welfare Committee House Speaker Charles F Kurfess 4 Perrysburg said It will be headed by Rep Norman Murdock The Agriculture and vation Committee will be com- with the Commerce and Labor Committee to become the lie L'S Portsmouth police today in- a major theft at Jack Fish Sons Co 2332 Gallia St Police said Thursday thieves took 40 to 50 used radiators from cars worth two tery chargers valued at and some boards from a fence to enter the business Police also reported broke into two Levi Furniture Co trucks while parked at the of the The thieves off with a tube caddy and tubes worth a tube checker a toolbox and tools worth a voltmeter valued at and a watt meter police said Waverly with Rev Marion Con- kel officiating Burial is to be in Omega Cemetery Friends may call at the Agriculture Commerce and bor Committee Howard A Knight 13 Rising Sun will be the chairman Knight formerly headed the Commerce an bor Committee A standing subcommittee will be known as the Agribusiness Committee It will be headed by Rep Ralph Wilker roy former chairman of culture and Conservation The new committee ment and Natural Resources will ba chaired by Rep neth B Creasy ware Rep Lloyd George Kerns 16 Raymond was named man of the powerful Finance Appropriations Committee ing other assignments ed by Kurfess Thursday The chairman of that com- in the last legislature Rep Ralph Fisher P 24 was defeated at the Nov 3 election Tradition the chairmanship should go to Rep Robert E Netzley Laura vice-chairman Kurfess however broke with tradition to name Kerns Netzley was reappointed chairman of the Insurance and Financial Institutions Committee Rep Keith McNamara Columbus was reappointed chairman of the Reference Callas Seeks Divorce BRESCIA Italy Op- era singer Maria Callas who has been separated from Italian industrialist husband Committee It has the duty of Battista Meneghini for 11 years channeling bills to other com- r tail au neral home after 7 tonight has applied for A divorce for hearings A
