Post-Herald And Register (Newspaper) - August 11, 1973, Beckley, West Virginia Combined WEEKEND Edition Volume BECKLEY AP and UPI Beckley W Va Saturday August 11 1973 West Greatest SHOPPING CENTERI 3 Centi Buffalo Steaks On Sale Intercepted By Israel SAN FRANCISCO AP With beef in short supply two West Coast grocery chains are rounding up buffalo roasts steaks and patties to help fill their shelves About 20 Cala Food Stores in the San Francisco Bay area and 20 Fred Meyer stores in Oregon and Washington are turning to the shaggy hulking beast of the plains as a partial substitute for beef Both Cala and Meyer have Bold buffalo before but only as a novelty or gourmet item Consumer reaction was over- good Woody chanan the buyer for Meyer said Only a few say they don't like the taste Grocers say many shoppers can't tell the difference be- tween beef and buffalo and some even prefer the slightly redder and more costly buffalo meat Cala bought 150 buffalo from a Wyoming grower The mals are being slaughtered in South Dakota and will go on sale in a few Cala stores day A number of ranches in the area grow buffalo for com- use Buffalo is not subject to the beef price freeze which runs through Sept 12 Some buffalo cuts sell for less than beef but most cuts always have sold for 15 to 20 per cent more than beef because buffalo herds are scarce Some 100 head of buffalo from Woodland Calif are ing fast in the Fred Meyer stores They've already ordered another 200 head Buffalo burger and chuck roast sell for a pound at Meyer while comparable beef cuts there are at the ceiling price of a pound But round steak the buffalo cut sells for vs a pound for beef round Arab Airliner Freed By United Press International Israeli warplanes forced an Arab airliner to land at a military in the Jewish state Friday night but released the plane and its 81 occupants after a puzzling two-hour check of the passengers and crew An Israeli spokesman refused to say why the warplanes Inflation Fighter AP ident Nixon signed a landmark farm Friday saying it should spur full production help fight inflation protect farmers against risks and mately benefit taxpayers and consumers While complaining about some provisions of the massive four-year farm and food stamp Nixon said it represents a realistic compromise between his administration and Con- on several key issues The President said this law passed last week should help in our battle against inflation b y encouraging American farmers to produce at full Some Rollbacks Slated Gas And Oil Will Remain Under Rigid Price Curbs WASHINGTON AP line heating oil and other products will remain under rigid price controls for an indefinite period the Nixon administration announced day It said the current price freeze will be extended an tional week for the petroleum industry until Aug 19 and will be followed by a system of price ceilings which are only slightly less rigid than the freeze The administration's price freeze on other products except beef is scheduled to be lifted at midnight Sunday to be followed by the new Phase 4 program Director John T Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council said Dam Bids Asked WASHINGTON AP Ad- vance notification of bids was sent out Friday for construction Oi the dam and spillway at the Bailey Reservoir in Wyoming County Sens Jennings Randolph and Robert C Byrd both an- The contract for the project slated for June 1976 completion is expected to exceed lion The bidding date is Aug 31 with bid openings Oct 30 the petroleum ceilings will re- sult in some rollbacks in line and heating oil prices be- low freeze levels He didn't ex- such rollbacks to be spread The most visible evidence to the consumer of the new con- will be red white and blue stickers on service station line pumps They will display the lawful price and octane ing for the gasoline in that pump Other economic developments from Washington Nixon signed restoring FHA ity until Oct 1 to insure gage loans on single and multi- family dwellings The interest ceiling was raised cent O Department of Labor reported the average cost of living for a retired couple in- creased from 3 to 4 per cent during 1972 for those in the low- er and intermediate levels signed the farm saying it should help in our battle against inflation by en- the American farmer See GAS AND Page 8 Subpoenas To Get Agnew Data Filed WASHINGTON AP The U.S attorney's office in more issued two subpoenas day on Maryland state offices in an attempt to get Spiro T Agnew's campaign records ing back as far as 1962 The subpoenas were served on the Maryland Hall of Records and the State Board of Election Laws Going back as far as 1962 in the records would include Agnew's terms as 3 Mine Local Leaders Face Court In Strike An injunction against United Mine Workers Local 6109 dering the miners employed by Winding Gulf Division of Westmoreland Coal Co at East Gulf to return to work has been issued by Federal Court Judge Norman Knapp The union officers were dered to appear in federal court in Charleston next Friday They Rural Health Grant Bared LEXINGTON Ky API Appalachian Regional tals Inc has been awarded a grant to further op its rural health care in Virginia and West Virginia ARH President T P 1 likens said the money from the Foundation New York would be paid in installments over a four-year period Initially funds will be used to expand a child en re gram in the area program is designed to provide care to expectant mothers follow-up infant care nnd child development services to detect nnd n ty of handicaps are Charles Lindsey president Fred Hammon vice president and Nathan Payne chairman of the mine committee The in- junction was issued Tuesday The 200 East Gulf miners have been out since the walkout began with the 3 p.m shift Monday The walkout stemmed from an argument over an employe who had been employed under shot fire wages but had been operating a cutting machine which pays more per day according to a union official The union official said they talked the third shift into working Monday night However on Tuesday morning the men refused to work and after a special 10 Tuesday the miners voted to return to work When the employe over which the con- arose reported Tuesday afternoon he was reportedly fired by a mine foreman This resulted in another walkout and the union official reported that additional controversy arose when two other employes were ed A union spokesman said the company reported that tonnage dropped from to than day since the more County executive nor and both vice presidential campaigns A check with state officials however showed that records only go back as far as 1966 the year Agnew ran successfully for governor Deputy State Atty Gen ry Lord confirmed that two subpoenas were issued by the U.S attorney's office but de- to say what that ments sought Other officials confirmed that they were for the Agnew campaign records An attorney for the vice ident said Friday that no deci- sion has yet been made on what if any of Agnew's sonal papers would be turned over to the office of the U.S attorney which is investigating political corruption Judah Best said in an inter- view that Agnew's lawyers had told U.S Atty George in Baltimore that they would be in touch with him sometime next week presumably with a deci- sion on request that new turn over all his financial and tax records dating back to Jan 1 1967 Beall since last January has been conducting an tion of political corruption in Baltimore County and the State of Maryland He informed new 10 Jays ago that he was included in the probe of sible violation of criminal laws covering extortion bribery and conspiracy The Weather able cloudiness with a chance of showers today highs near W Partly cloudy and cooler tonight lows near 60 Mostly sunny highs in the low 80s ability of precipitation is per cent today 20 tonight nnd day On Papc II The cost to taxpayers of government payments to ers will be reduced and in some cases eliminated during periods of strong demand and high prices such as we are now ex- The new law creates a tem of price guarantees called target prices of a bushel for wheat a bushel for corn and 38 cents a pound for cotton This target is pegged below present market prices and thus will not inhibit our efforts to stabilize food prices for Nixon said Federal payments would be made only if available market prices fall below the target price in the legislation ments would make up the ference between the market price and the target The target stay con- stant for 1974 and 1975 but would be adjusted in 1976 and 1977 by a formula reflecting farm costs and crop yields The President said this new system means that our ers can expand production ing the current period of wide food and fiber shortages wilhout fear of a serious drop in farm income The also gives the culture secretary new powers over food prices drops the 000 per crop annual payment ceiling to per farmer abolishes a so-called bread tax and increases minimum price supports for two years The Nixon administration had not requested the food price power provision Asked at a briefing Friday whether he would exercise it Agriculture Secretary Earl L Butz in- he would not fly in the face of the President on an item such as this Under the when the certifies a supply of meat poultry or fruit will be too low and there is no other way to boost plies the President would have to make appropriate ments in the maximum prices charged under controls This section ana others go into effect immediately though most of the bill's sions will not be felt until the 1974 crop season Nixon noted in his written statement that the new makes several changes in the food stamp program including expanded coverage and higher benefits and restores food stamp eligibility to some recipients of the new mental income benefits under Social intercepted the Middle East Airlines Caravelle over Lebanon but guerrilla sources indicated it might have been an unsuccessful attempt to capture four Palestinian com- mando leaders The Arab sources said four leaders of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine including leader George Habash were supposed to be aboard the seized airliner but changed their minds at the last moment The sources said the four guerrilla cancelled their reservations after a four-hour delay in the flight from Beirut to Bagdad Iraq The delay made them smell something fishy and they decided not to board the one guerrilla source said Military sources in Tel Aviv and airport sources in Beirut said guerrilla leaders were aboard the plane but they were permitted to take off with the rest of the 74 passengers and seven crew members The airplane to Beirut after being freed and passengers comments to back up the theory the Israelis were looking for guerrilla chiefs They were certainly looking for some specific people who were not with Miss Suzy Boulos an Iraqi in her said We were really scared the Israelis came into the plane and told us to get out one by one Mahmoud Jawad another Iraqi passenger said about 40 Israeli soldiers armed with walked into the plane as soon as the doors opened and ordered all engers to lift their hands behind their heads A number of women col- lapsed and he said So did some children It was all very frightening He said however the Israelis let everyone go after checking our papers and failing to find the men they wanted Laird Denies Raid Record Fake Okeh C 1973 New York Times News Service CHICAGO Former Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird said Friday that he had authorized a separate ing procedure for the Nixon administration's secret bombing raids in Cambodia in 1969 but insisted he had not sanctioned the falsification of any Air Force Navy or Defense Department records At a news conference at the Drake Hotel here Laird was asked about a highly classified Pentagon memorandum made public in Washington on Thurs- day that discussed a method of hiding from the press clandestine bombing operations in Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 Laird now the President's counsellor for domestic affairs said several times at the news briefing that it was 1969 when he last saw the memorandum initialed in his own handwriting and dated Nov 20 1969 He rebuffed attempts to have parts of it read to him from the morning The eyes only dum released at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing investigating the falsification of reports was written by Gen G Wheeler who was then man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who is now retired It provided for a force of to strike targets in Cambodia while other attacked normally assigned targets in South Vietnam and Laos Strikes on these the document said will provide a resemblance to normal operations thereby providing a credible story for replies to press inquiries The procedure outlined in the memorandum called for the Cambodian raids to be officially Sec LAIRD Page 8 Finance Unit Returns Gulf Goodyear Funds WASHINGTON UPI of the Gulf Oil Carp and Goodyear Tire Rubber Co made illegal corporate butions to President Nixon's re- election campaign and have received refunds it was dis- closed Friday In separate disclosures Gulf Oil was acknowledged to have donated of corporate funds to the campaign and Goodyear to have donated A Gulf spokesman said his company's contribution was made under pressure from Nixon fundraisers but Goodyear chairman Russell said his company was not pressured into making a contribution and had expected nothing in return The two firms were the third and fourth to acknowledge making illegal contributions to the Finance Committee to Re- elect the President which was headed by former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans year said Stans was not told its contribution was from rate funds Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox has urged firms or individuals who made illegal contributions to report them voluntarily Their cooperation will be considered in deciding what charges will be brought against them Cox has said Body Hunt Resumes Monday 23rd Sex Victim Recovered HOUSTON AP Police unearthed the bodies Friday of two more victims of a torture ring that preyed on young men and buys then called off their search because of rising tides The toll of deaths linked to the ring stood at by the time the search at a beach east of here was There were indications it might go beyond IS ing the case the nation's instance of mass murder Jefferson Sheriff Pick CuI be r t s o n and County Sheriff Louis Otter said their men win return to the beach area High Island morning with dicing chinery to resume their search for more graves said Elmer Wayne Henley P and David Brooks IS who police say have ted participation in the Fighting Subsides PHNOM AP Fighting died down on all fronts around Phnom Penh day The Cambodian said the gents had suffered heavy from U.S bombings and needed time to regroup The U.S mr strikes which continued against rebel tions are to end in ings told officers there were three more graves to be found near High Island Officers halted the digging after finding one body in a shallow grave and another corpse some 50 to 75 yards away Henley has been charged with three counts of murder in St Augustine County and 000 bond was set Police in Houston said charges against the two were being pre- pared Lawyer Charles said meanwhile that he would de- fend a long-haired ior high school dropout Melder said he would claim Henley See CORPSE Page Good Morning The News In Brief VICE PRESIDENT Spiro T Agnew relaxed with his pal Frank Sinatra on Friday at the singer's plush home in Palm Springs Calif A spokesman at Sinatra's house would not say what the two were doing Agnew and atra often play golf together however and it was likely a round or two were on the agenda President Nixon worked with his chief writer and Watergate yer Friday as the White House announced he would make his promised response to revelations of the Senate Watergate committee next week A gunman killed a young Roman Catholic Friday night firing a final bullett into the victim's head as he lay wounded on a Belfast street Police said the victim was slain while walking with his wife and mother down a street near the Catholic area after visiting a patient in Musgrave Park Hospital SINATRA THE SOVIET UNION announced Friday its launching of a fourth unmanned spacecraft to Mars in a series Western experts say may result in a dual landing next March The Generation Gap Togetherness Peace Love Blues and Bluegrass music festival ended its odyssey from Virginia to West Virginia and finally back to Virginia Friday night without a being struck The Fluvanna County sheriff's office said the event was canceled because promoter Otis Woody failed to acquire a permit the necessary 21 days in advance See early story on Page State Auditor John M Gates has implemented p new system designed to save the state million annually and speed up the payment of state bills and the transfer of state funds Gates said the new program involves the use of an transmittal form FORMER SECRETARY of the Interior Stewart Udall said Friday America needs new leadership if it is to solve the energy crisis The real tragedy of the current situation is that the President doesn't believe we're in trouble the Kennedy and Johnson Administration cabinet member said Angela Davis left East Berlin on Friday for an undisclosed destination She had been guest of honor at the 10th World Youth Festival the official news agency ADN reported The board of directors of the Fla Boys Ranch turned down an offer by Fabian to sing in a benefit concert for homeless boys because it just wouldn't fit our image Fabian posed for September's issue of Playgirl magazine nude SKYLAB'S ASTRONAUTS Friday photographed a truly spectacular violent solar eruption of gaseous material larger than the mass of the earth Alan L Bean Owen K and Jack R Lousma taking life easy on their first day off from 14 days of orbital research viewed the rare solar event through their powerful telescopes The U.S dollar ended the week worth more foreign currency in some cases substantially more than when the began It rose again Friday on European money markets while gold prices fell Leaders of a pharmacists strike against Rite Aid drug stores in West Virginia said Friday a weekend negotiating meeting been set with company officials Byrd Hits Air Rules WASHINGTON UPH Sen Robert C Byrd said Friday unless the government rolls back some ot its clean air standards the United States will experience national paralysis a Democrat from coal-producing West Virginia called for softening of bureaucratic dogmatism and a relaxation of existing environmental rules He addressed subject in a speech for the annual meeting in St of stockholders of fne Peabody Co the county's coal producer The was made available by his Washington
