Steubenville Herald Star (Newspaper) - August 15, 1973, Steubenville, Ohio STEUBENVILLE 60 of PHONE 2825311 AUGUST 38 PAGES NIXON TO GIVE SCANDAL STAND FAIR A cross between the Normandy invasion and a mass family reunion was the as the 102nd Jef ferson County Fair started to assemble in Smithfield yester 4H members scrambling venders moving into their alloted carney people setting up the and above all everyone enjoying every second of the The 1973 fair will probably be one of the best in the 102 year even though it will be the last on the present next year the fair will be housed in the Friendship Park TOP When the work is take a Derek Siragusano of Richmond lays in the hay and talks with Carol Ramsey of Richmond and Knapp of Steubenville as Libby the cow just The three are 4H exhibitors in the junior BOTTOM Hes so soft said Anna Lisa as she petted one of the many horses housed in the Anna Lisa is the daughter of and Victor Jasper of Photos by Matz Biff Car Ail A I n All Asking Price Poll Shows Nixon as Loser Today WASHINGTON AiP With Phase 4 less than three days the nations Big Four automakers and top three steel producers have announced plans to increase prices in 30 Joining the rush to seek price Increases were two area steel National and Wheeling Steel sauT today it had filed the required crease data with the federal government on hikes it before President Nixons price filing a la to raise prices on carbon steel On the company prices would rise an average of per cent on approximately three of every four tons of At the same the price of wheat soared above a bushel for the first in the nations A f General Motors put the gov on notice Tuesday it to increase prices an ay wage of per vehicle while Ford Motor sought a hike per The Increase would be on wt and American Mo tors earlier had asked for slightly in 4 the price ef fect for 30 During that of eil can the proposed in creases if it finds them prohibit Also fifing for price increases the top Am iteel producers Bethlehem Steel Their re were echoed by Jones it Jin iteel w hikes sought by the peet industry from Jl per cent and would cover products widely used in the manufacture of biles and home In dustry spokesmen said the im pact of the higher prices prob ably wouldnt be felt by consumers until next On the commodity wheat sold in Minneapolis Tues day at per bushel for Sep tember It was the first time that wheat has traded over Agriculture officials said the skyrocketing price of wheat was not directly linked to the Nixon administrations Phase 4 economic asserting the price reflected the tight supply and large Eggs Lower Some solace was provided to shoppers when the wholesale price of eggs fell from 3 cents to 5 cents per dozen in New York The drop came after prices surged to more than a dozen on some gro cery Chicken prices also Wholesale broilers sold for 59 cents a pound in down 14 cents from the record high of 73 cents a pound last The price of milk appeared to be continuing its upward following the announcement by Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz that the government is in creasing its subsidy for milk producers by 32 cents per hun This is expected to result in almost a 4centper gallon increase to Weather Clearing tonight lows in the low to mid 60s mostly sunny and mild Thursday highs in the 70s to low The North Ohio Valley Air Authority issued an index read ing of considered Winds are from 13 per at Ji to day at Steubenville filtration 72 Tuesday 80 Tuesday iow NEW YORK AP A na poll conducted for NBC News estimates that George McGovern would defeat President Nixon by 51 per cent to 49 per cent if last years presidential election were held In the 1972 Nixon Gold Price LONDON AP The price of gold dropped sharply again today and the recovery of the dollar appeared to run out of steam at the opening of Eu ropean markets But lat er in the morning both moved The currency opened a captured 61 per cent of the pop ular Results of the opinion taken by Oliver Quayle were broadcast Tuesday during a special NBC Reports pro gram on the impact of Water Dollar Slips pfennig down in Frankfurt at then rose to The dollar dropped half a centime in to Swiss then pulled back to by but this was still down from Tues days Soldier Examined For Nixon Charges WASHINGTON AP Grant Schulke has been placed in a psychiatric ward by the Air Force apparently after he said he wanted to file court martial charges against Presi dent Nixon in the Watergate An Air Force spokesman said Schulke was and he agreed to undergo 72 hours of psychiatric examination at Fitzsimmons General a 43yearold career Air Force noncommissioned of told a reporter in a tele phone interview Tuesday that he had discussed with a legal officer at Lowry Air Force his desire to file charges against Nixon alleging obstruction of justice and with holding of Wheeling Symphony to Make Tour AP A 10city tour by the Charleston and Wheeling symphony orchestras was an today by the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council The tours will take place during September and are the opening events for a series of arts programs which will take place in the 10 com during The Charleston concerts will feature John baritone soloist while the Wheeling Symphony will feature Earls Summers The schedule includes Wheeling 23 16 21 28 and Deadlocked Over Israel Move UNITED AP Security Council was deadlocked today over Egyptian and Soviet de mands for sanctions against Is rael for forcing down an Arab airliner last All council members in the United Is raels chief were ready to support a resolution con demning the Israeli But the United States was believed to veto anything President To Present Defense In Broadcast WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Nixon takes his defense in the Watergate case to the American people tonight with a television address about the scandal that has marred his The chief executive worked at his Camp David retreat to day on the final version of the 9 EOT speech and on a more detailed written state ment to be released at the same Carried Live The address from the Oval Office will be carried live by all national radio and television The speech and statement comprise Nixons first com prehensive response since May 22 to the stream of allegations flowing from what ranks as one of the greatest political scan dals in the nations Confronted by opinion polls showing confidence in his administration and him per at all time the President will seek in the tele vision address to rally public support for his second term for eign and domestic White House who contend the American people are ready to turn the corner on said tonights re sponse will be followed in the days ahead by other public speeches and news On Monday The first will come on Mon day in New where the President is to address the Vet erans of Foreign Wars national Next will come a news conference in where Nixon is to spend the last two weeks of the While most of his aides de to discuss specifics of tonights they indicated the President would deny ad vance knowledge of the bugging of Democratic National Head quarters and of the subsequent while candidly con ceding he should have paid more to allegations that White House and reelection committee officials were in Blame Dean The President reportedly was ready to place a large share of the blame on fired White counsel John Dean Until the early months of this Nixon sought to cope with ths spreading allegations of scan dal by citing an investigation he said Dean conducted show ing no White House in who said he never made the investigation Nixon was a principal in the televised Senate Water gate committee In addition to the bugging and Nixon is reported ready to respond to other spin off as the bur glary of Pentagon papers de fendant Daniel psy But aides indicated the bulk of the televised address will be devoted to an effort to rekindle public confidence in the Presi dent and his Prosecutors Get Files On Agnew WASHINGTON AP Say Ing I have nothing to Vice President Spiro Agnew has offered federal prosecutors access to his personal records In a probe of kickbacks and po corruption in Agnew carefully made a dis tinction between his personal papers and the official records of the vice apparent ly to avoid comparisons be tween his decision anA Presi dent Nixons refusal to turn over White House documents to prosecutors in the Watergate You understand by making these records available not acknowledge that you or any grand jury have any right to records of the vice Agnew said in a letter Tuesday to George Beall in No do I acknowledge the propriety of any grand jury in of possible wrongdoing on the part of the vice president so long as he oc cupies that are difficult constitutional questions which need not at this moment be Agnew also said he would be happy to meet with the prose to answer any His while they would be made available for in were not to be re moved from his he Richardson Gets Kent Probe Facts WASHINGTON AP A congressional committee that has been investigating the 1970 Kent State campus has turned over its evidence to tht Justice in what may be the only film in existence of the actual Also among the ac cording to a committee source but disputed by a department is information that sev eral Kent State students can identify the National man who fired the first The fusillade of bullets that followed left four students dead and nine others The case was recently reopened by Elliot Investigators for the House Judiciary subcommittee headed by Don Tuesday submitted to the de records of interviews with some 48 sev eral films and other evidence stemming from their months long But in an interview Tuesday Stan jey Pottinger who is heading the new said that of the committees evidence will be It would be very unfortunate to convey the impression that some new hard evidence has occurred by virtue of sending to us old state in formation or insignificant infor And most of what we have is just he A committee spokesman had earlier conceded that most of the evidence turned over by the committee had previously been available investigators Jets Signal Halt To Bombing PHNOM Cambodia AP Two Air Force glinting silver in the bright roared low over Phnom Penh at to day to signal the end of the American bombing of Cam The two on their way back to their bases in were followed by an forward air control plane blowing a trail of blue and white smoke as a last gesture of farewell to nine years of American air attacks in In Halt In Effect The did a slow barrel halt M in effect 15 minutes before the deadline set by the Con Crowds in the streets paused briefly to watch the but the bustle of the Cambodian capital quickly returned to nor mal The people un perturbed by the historic mo ment and the increased pros that their city would fall to the estimated Commu insurgents of the Khmer Rouge around Northwest of Phnom Penh at the village of Kap Eng Taung Hak watched one of the last American air strikes against an insurgent position a mile As the planes flew he shrugged and said Finis Last Group Bombs The last group of three dropped their 48 tons of bombs just before The last American bombs dropped on Cambodia were credited to John of Ports flying an A7 fight He said he dropped his load at in a wooded area 40 miles northeast of Phnom The Pentagon indicated than 200 strikes the daily average in recent were flown the last 24 hours of the air American pilots at bases in Thailand telephoned their wives back home but held no special The Pentagon said earlier that most combat crews and planes would remain in Southeast Asia for a and the White House said again that the Nixon adminis tration would do everything within the law to support the government of Pen tagon sources said recon naissance and cargo flights in Cambodia would Without Power Caused By Sabotage Sabotage by strikers was blamed by Ohio Power officials for power outage in the Wintersville Richmond the second such incident in four Approximately customers were without power from shortly before midnight last night until about when the power restoration was Affected by the outage were the Route 22 area from Win to Broadacre and the Route 43 area from Wintersville to a point midway between Richmond and East Transformer Drained Clayton Ohio Power division said the outage resulted from sabotage at the Two Ridges Road sub station located behind Woody Acres Subdivision at the north corporation line of The Wright consisted of opening a drain valve on a causing it to burn when oil used to cool Amusements Ann Landers Bridge Comics Crossword Puzzle Deaths Editorial Page Horoscope Sports Television Womens Pages 31 13 27 37 37 I 8 16 24 31 and insulate the transformer drained Whoever performed sabotage apparently has illegal possession of a key for the Ohio Power systems leading company officials to believe that the perpetrator is a striking Wright He explained that the trans former stands on the ground but is There was no forced entry to the Two Ridges Road he Second Incident Last Saturday night power was out from Route 43 in Wintersville to a point about halfway between Two Ridges Road and The outage lasted from an hour and a half to two hours and a It was Wright by someone throwing conducting objects over power causing them to About customers were affected by that Wright noted that Ohio Power has a standing offer of a reward for providing information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for sabotage to company The Jefferson County office was notified at yesterday that someone in a northbound car on Route 7 fired a shot into the Ohio Edison Companys Sammis Plant at A truck driver was walking to the plant from the south said the projectile apparently hit a utility shed in the south part of the St And Beaver Valley Ou craft departments have candle making a new ship ment of Lenox film kits and id
