Post-Herald (Newspaper) - October 1, 1975, Beckley, West Virginia BECKLEY Beckley W Va Wednesday Morning October 2 others Aren't Gun Carrier Seized Gunman Holds Up Store Agent Asked To Kill Page 8 Volume 235 Regional News Service RNS 3 Cents By MICHAEL KIRKLAND Staff Writer A lone gunman robbed the in Cranberry Heights of at noon Tuesday and four hours later two others were foiled in an armed robbery attempt at Stepp Dry Cleaners in Beckley by the of A young man with a beard and long hair entered the Cranberry Heights store at about and bought several items according to assistant manager Verna Dillon returning a half an hour later saying he had forgotten to buy a package of cigarettes Mrs Dillon said she was alone in the store and was handing the man the cigarettes when he raised his shirt front to reveal a pistol stuck into his belt When he told her he was robbing the store Mrs Dillon said Are you she recalled later At that point several customers entered cording to Mrs Dillon The man whispered for her to keep her mouth shut she said or I'll have to shoot my way out of here The man waited for the customers to leave then collected the cash from the register a one-dollar check and in food stamps and left according to police State police Trooper Haynes who along with Trooper is the said the gunman apparently fled on foot through a ed area behind the store State police city police Raleigh County constables and sheriff's deputies in- a search Tuesday afternoon and night but no suspects were arrested A sheriff's deputy said his department had dispatched nine patrol cars and 12 men for the manhunt Police described the suspect as being white See GUNMAN Page 8 I I I A A Further Travels CHICAGO AP dent Ford flew into this Midwest metropolis amid strengthened security day night and pledged to continue what he termed prudent and practical Vacillating Tearful Gives Her ers Trouble Patty SAN FRANCISCO AP Patricia Hearst underwent four hours of intensive physical and neurological testing Tuesday and her lawyers revealed for the first time that the heiress is not cooperating fully in her defense The tests included one designed to reveal in the central vous system At the same time U.S District Court Judge Oliver J Carter also received an assurance from U.S Atty James L Browning Jr that Patty's jail conversations with her attorneys parents and sisters will not be taped Her attorneys earlier had expressed outrage when ex- from a taped sation between Patty and a friend were made public in a court document The newest addition to the Hearst defense team Boston attorney F Lee Bailey was introduced to Carter at a brief in- chambers hearing then held a news conference at Girl 11 In Custody Man Arrested For Kidnaping A Chicago man was jailed on kidnaping and auto larceny charges Tuesday night and an girl found in his company was taken into custory by the Raleigh County Sheriff's Department DR DANIEL HALE Dr Hale Dies Rite Thursday PRINCETON RNS Dr Daniel Hale 63 a Princeton physician died Monday night while attending a committee meeting of the state Soil Conservation District tat Falls Park He had practiced medicine in Princeton since 1939 and had been a member of the staff of the old Princeton Memorial Hospital and the present Princeton Community hospital He served with the Army in the Pacific during World War II retiring with the rank of captain A native of Princeton he is survived by two sisters Mrs Thomas Helen McFarland of Princeton with whom he lived and Mrs Lester Dorothy of Chesterton Ind and two brothers Ralph of See SERVICE Page 8 Sheriff's Deputy Darel Green and Constable Arthur Marcum arrested Arthur Philley 24 in an allegedly stolen car on W Va 3 in Eccles shortly before 8 p m A small girl Roberta Bates missing from her Chicago home since Sept 16 also was found in the car the of- said Philley had been living in the Eccles area for a week and a half officers said Every area police agency including FBI agents stationed in had orders to apprehend him Sgt Adolph Beecher of the Chicago police department's juvenile sion said no kidnaping warrant had been issued following the girl's dis- appearance because of a lack of information Although the child's parents did not give sion to Philley to take the child he was a close friend of the family Beecher said and there was some doubt as to whether the girl came willingly with Philley to West Virginia The officer said the car allegedly was stolen from a See MAN Page 8 which he said that ob- the state of mind of the defendant will be a big issue in the trial Bailey said he had met with Patty but did not ques- tion her about what she did during the time she was a fugitive Asked if she wanted him for an attorney he She said that He also said Patty's trial would not begin until 1976 In court papers defense lawyers Terence Hallinan and John Knutson said ty is vacillating in her at- toward her parents and and im- patient with discussions of her legal case She breaks into tears if asked about her adventures with the S y m b i o n e s e Liberation Army and refuses to discuss her un- life the at- said in a statement filed with Carter In the document labeled a preliminary statement of our concept of Patty Hearst's mental and emotional the attorneys also said they believe Miss Hearst may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown Her lawyers said in their statement that during jailhouse discussions Miss Hearst appeared dis- organized flat and listless in her account and vacillating in her attitude toward her parents and lawyers involved in the case Store Robbed ALLOY A small store here was robbed at gunpoint around 9 p.m Tuesday and an undetermined amount of cash taken state police reported Fayette County deputies who first answered the call did not disclose the name of the store State police said a man wearing white gloves and a Halloween mask robbed the store He fled with a second man in a light colored car headed east on U.S 60 police Jail Visitors Catherine and Randolph Hearst parents of Patricia Hearst chat as they walk to the San Mateo County jail in City Calif to see their daughter AP Photo forts to communicate with the American people despite Iwo recent attempts on his life He said he had traveled into 38 states since ing the presidency and declared Before the end of the year 1 hope to visit the remainder 1 intend to keep my com- open not in any foolhardy spirit but by every prudent and practical means he said in com- ments at a Republican fund-raising dinner here An aide said Ford actually has visited 39 states and plans to visit three more in t It e next w e e k West Virginia New Jersey and Tennessee See PRESIDENT Page 8 Ford Elkins Visit Is On WASHINGTON AP President Ford will act as honorary grand marshal of the Mountain State Forest Festival Parade this day in Elkins the White House confirmed Tuesday The trip had been an- several weeks ago by Rep Hurley 0 Staggers But recent assassination attempts on Hie president had placed in doubt whether Ford would the parade which is expected to attract persons to this community of 8.000 The While House said more details of the trip would be announced later in the week 13 Pet In Medicare Costs Slated WASHINGTON AP The government announced Tuesday that out-of-pocket hospitalization costs for the nation's 24.1 million Medicare beneficiaries will go up 13 per cent next Jan 1 Each aged and disabled person on Medicare will have to pay the first of his or her hospital next year up from the present Social Security Com- m i o n e r James B Cardwell said the increase is necessary to keep pace with hospital costs which have been increasing 50 per cent faster than the over-all cost of living The is equivalent to the average cost of one day of hospitalization said The average hospital stay under Medicare now is about lays at a cost of The agency also ed comparable increases in Medicare deductible charges for extended hospital care beyond 60 days and for care in skilled nursing homes beyond 20 days Beginning next year beneficiaries will have to pay daily com- pared with the present for hospitalization from the through the day For extended nursing home care after release from the hospital the beneficiary will be charged compared with the pre- sent SI 1.50 for the 21st through the 100th day After the first charge of Medicare will pay all the bills for the first 60 davs in a hospital and the first 20 days in a skilled nursing home Medicare also provides a lifetime reserve of 60 ex- tra hospital days that a beneficiary can use when he needs more than 90 days to recover from an illness The daily out-of-pocket charge for that benefit will increase to from the pre- sent Thu monthly charge for Medicare beneficiaries who choose the optional medical coverage for doctors bills has been frozen at since July 1974 because of a quirk in the law The ad- ministration has asked Congress repeatedly to remove that freeze so that the charge can keep pace with medical costs 3 Pet In Month Farmers Prices Jump WASHINGTON AP Prices farmers receive for raw agricultural products the first step up the con- sumer food ladder jumped three per cent from Aug 15 to Sept 15 the Agriculture Department said Tuesday The department's Crop Reporting Board said that higher prices for milk beef cattle hogs eggs and wheat contributed most to the increase Lower prices were reported for potatoes corn and soybeans Prices over-all averaged 7 per cent above Sept 15 of last year Prices farmers pay for what they buy rose 1 per cent the month and were 8 per cent above a year earlier The USDA farm price index had held steady from July 15 to Aug 15 after ing for four months J Dawson Ahalt USDA staff economist said that the recent upturn in cattle prices does not necessarily mean another round of ing beef costs at retail counters I would not conclude that cattle prices in general will hold this high through the Ahalt told a reporter We've got too many still on farms and ranches to move to market Ahalt interviewed in an- of the livestock price increase said he was sticking to earlier prediction that retail food Spain Premier Raps West MADRID Spain AP Premier Carlos Arias Navarro bitterly attacked Western nations Tuesday night for hypocritical and intolerable interference in Spanish affairs and ed to Spaniards to remain cool in the crisis The premier spoke on nationwide television amid growing tension in Spain and continuing protests abroad over the government's execution last weekend of five guerrillas 1 convicted of killing police Arias Navarro urged Spaniards to show Gen Francisco Franco the i year-old head of state your testimony of un- forgetting gratitude and respect for his work The premier's rallying cry came on the eve of demonstrations called across the nation to show support for Franco Scores of young Spaniards took to Madrid streets in cars and on motorbikes honking horns and tossing handbills exhorting people to gather before the National Palace on Wednesday to show our indignation at foreign protests Earlier in the day another policeman died of wounds inflicted by terrorists bringing to 19 the number of officers killed in political violence since January 1974 The victim was one of two policemen wounded Monday in a 000 robbery at a government office in Barcelona blamed on Basque separatist guerrillas prices would move up 9 per cent on the average for all of 1975 against increases of 14.5 per cent in each of the past two years Viet Refugees To Sail Home WASHINGTON AP With President Ford's approval Vietnamese refugees will be loaded aboard a Vietnamese ship in Guam's harbor and sail for home to an uncertain fate Describing the situation as a human Julia V Taft director of the U.S interagency task force on Indochinese refugees said Tuesday many had fled in panic or under duress and now wanted to be reunited with their families At the same time she dis- closed that about refugees waiting in Thailand Singapore Malaysia Taiwan Hong Kong and South Korea would be admitted to U.S camps and processed for settlement here As a result Mrs Taft said the ceiling for refugees mally set by the tion and Congress probably will be exceeded Car Salesman Bobby Wiggins at 9 the youngest licensed car salesman in California imitates the flamboyant style of some television car salesmen as he gets customers on his father's lot in Lancaster His dad got him the license as sort of a of the state bureaucracy Bobby working weekends and after school has been instrumental in two sales AP Photo Good Morning The News In Brief Showers Threaten Chance of showers of possibly thundershowers today tonight and Thursday Highs today near 70 lows tonight in the low 40s and highs day in the low 60s Winds out of the southwest today at 5 to 15 miles an hour Probability of precipitation is -10 per cent today and 50 tonight Details On Page 13 Gladys Moves Closer MIAMI Hurricane Gladys packing strengthened winds up to 110 miles an hour and massive storms charged toward the eastern coast on Tuesday but forecasters said it was too early to predict whether any coastal areas might bo endangered Early Tuesday night Gladys was located about 600 miles east of Miami at latitude north and longitude 70.2 west It was moving toward the northwest at about 15 China Has Birthday TOKYO AP The People's Republic of China celebrates its an- Wednesday more fully accepted worldwide than ever before boasting of full employment rising in- come and increased purchasing power for its 800 million people Every major world power except the United States maintains an embassy in Peking Hirohito In Virginia WILLIAMSBURG VA AP Japan's Emperor Hirohito who has known the United States both as a hitter wartime enemy and now as a close Pacific ally arrived here Tuesday on a two- week state visit On an overcast day and with strict security precautions the emperor by his wife Empress arrived at nearby Patrick Henry International Airport for a two-day rest stop at this historic city His itinerary includes six jor U.S cities and several smaller ones Aerosols Defended NEW YORK AP industry contended Tuesday that new evidence casts serious doubts on charges hat aerosol sprays can deplete the ozone layer and tually increase the incidence of skin cancer The industry said the evidence suggests the theoretical impact on ozone the protective layer in the stratosphere that reduces the ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer was substantially overstated and any effects there may be tial Family Ransomed ANN ARBOR Mich AP A top General Motors Corp manager his wife and three sons were released unharmed Tuesday after a reported ransom was paid to their abductors police said Three armed men invaded the home of William Schulenberg in an affluent Ann Arbor neighborhood Monday night and held the family captive for more than 13 hours state police Capt Walter Anderson said Sharks Eat Crash Dead BEIRUT Lebanon AP A jetliner with 60 persons aboard plunged into the Mediterranean within sight of Beirut on Tuesday Vo survivors were reported and a witness said small sharks were tearing into the bodies Witnesses said the plane crashed into the sea with a loud explosion and a burst of flame U S Vetoes Vietnams UNITED NATIONS AP The States vetoed membership for North and South Vietnam for the cond time Tuesday in retaliation for the exclusion of South Korea from the world organization The Security Council voted Tor admission Arrested LOUISVILLE Ky AP Six sons were arrested five of them juveniles after 200 to 300 students ed out of a Jefferson County high school Tuesday and held an antibusing march Louisville Police officer Carl Yates said most of the arrests occurred when the students left the school and marched down Taylor Boulevard He said most of them were made when students rode on top of cars and otherwise endangered themselves
