Weirton Daily Times (Newspaper) - November 20, 1971, Weirton, West Virginia Times The Acknowledged Leader in Hancock County in Advertising and Circulation Its 44 130 16 PAGES WEST NOVEMBER At Newsstands 10 cents Per Copy Home Delivery 60 cents Per Week CHAMBER HITS COAL PACT Senate Tax Plan Trip Discussed Kosygin Confer On Trade A RAPTUROUS MOMENT FOR Mamie Eisenhower responds with a smile to a dou ble kiss from Bob Hope LEFT and Arnold Palmer after accepting a check for from Palmer on behalf of the Bob Hope Desert Golf Classic for the Eisenhower Medical The Medical in Palm named for the late President Dwight will be dedicated Hope and Palmer were personal friends of the late Meany Given Salary Hike Of MIAMI BEACH AFLCIO in a direct challenge to President Nixons pay board and its percent annual wage increase has approved a percent annual salary increase for President George Without discussion and without the nearly delegates to the convention ap proved a constitutional amend ment increasing the salary of the federations president from to and boosting the pay of Land Kirk land from up to We didnt even consider the Pay Board said Communications Workers Pres ident Joseph head of the constitutional amendment com that proposed the salary the first for the Turn To Meany Page 2 MOSCOW Com merce Secretary Maurice Stans conferred more than three hours today with Soviet Premier Alexei discussing trade and the coming trip of President Nixon to Stans session with the Soviet leader was unusually and Dies At 64 Stern the colorful radio and television sportscaster with an endless string of anecdotes about the games he died Friday He was Stern died in of a heart Stern graduated from Penn sylvania Military College in 1930 with ambitions of becoming a movie but he had to settle for an a week ushers He then felt he would like to broadcast football and in 1935 he went to to announce the games at Cen tenary one game between Centenary and the University of Texas at Stern was in volved in an automobile crash that was to cost him a he later called this my big John the president of NBC who had fired me from a job the year came to see me at the Stern recalled In the hall he met my nurse carrying my untouched breakfast She evidently told him that she hoped he would say something to cheer me up because I wasnt He took the tray in his own hands and came into my I can still see him standing there at the foot of my He said to Young how are you going to broadcast football games for us if you dont eat Stern remained with NBC for 17 years before moving to ABC in In recent years he had worked for the Mutual Broad casting Stern was the broadcaster at the first television sporting event a baseball game between Princeton University and Colum bia University in Funeral services be its length attested to the im portance the Soviets attach to trade with the United We had a very thorough and serious discussion on a wide range of economic and com Stans said in a prepared statement after the A number of proposals were he They form the basis for discussions that will follow with the ministry of foreign trade and other Stans said he delivered a letter of greeting from Nixon and that Kosygin expressed great pleasure at the Presidents interest in unproved economic Stans statement did not describe contents of the pres but the Soviet news in a report on Turn To Stans Page 2 Newell Company Denied Permit NEWELL The Water Resources Division of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources denied a permit to the Homer Laughlin China to dump wastes into the Ohio The permit was denied in Charleston on the basis that the application indicated it would not meet standards for purity of its discharges into the Glenn said the company will im mediately begin studies of methods of cleaning its wastes before release into the water Hall said that although the claylike wastes emitted by the plant are not state law requires that the discharge contains no visible Weather Mostly cludy with chance of Highs in the low and middle 40s Chance of showers changing to snow flurries tonight and Lows tonight mid and upper Highs Sunday upper Chance of 30 percent today and 40 percent tonight and Monday through Wednesday Chance of snow flurries north portion Monday and rain or snow over the state Colder Monday with gradual moderation Tuesday and Wednesday Proposal Made To Finance Races For Presidency WASHINGTON UPI The Senate has agreed to vote Monday on a plan to finance presidential election campaigns through tax dollars vote which Democrats believe could determine the outcome of next years race for the White After 12 hours of the outnumbered Republicans agreed late Friday night to permit the issue to come to a But a condition for the vote was made by the Republicans who asked that consideration be given to a proposal by Charles that taxpayers be able to designate which party would receive the You can sell it to the Indians you cant sell it to Pastore shouted fiery John when they first offered the deal at the end of a long days Russell bolted from his ran Pastore and in an animated conversation convinced him to take the Republican Throughout the the Republicans had stalled a vote by forcing votes on amendment after amendment to the Pastore All but one were Democratic presidential hope fuls quit the campaign trail to be here to block the Republican Henry Jackson of who earlier in the day had announced his candidacy for the Democratic scrubbed plans to fly to which which has a primary he feels he must do well in to stay in the At issue in Mondays vote is a plan to provide million to each major party for the presidential if the candidate agrees to accept no private campaign contributions and wage his campaign solely with that Taxpayers would be given a chance to check a box on their tax returns earmarking of their taxes to a fund which would be split among the Democrats are confident that enough taxpayers would exercise that right to provide the million for the major parties and million for George Wallace if he Fourth party candidates would be proportionately reimbursed Turn To Senate Page 2 PENTAGON CIVIL RIGHTS Donald Miller a black shipbuilding relaxes in his Bergen home Friday after Secretary of Defense Laird named him the Pentagons new civil rights A retired army Miller will take over the job It involves han dling racial problems in the military Mishap On Overhead Bridge 3 Weir Seniors Injured In Crash Three Weir High School students were one of them in a accident Friday afternoon on the Main Street overhead six other persons were injured in a total of seven traffic accidents Terrance of 150 Owings received a head in jury and is listed in guarded condition in the intensive car unit at the Weirton General His two Robert Wharton of 101 Paul and Charles of 164 Culler both 17 years old were treated at the Weirton hospital for apparent minor injuries and were Police said Robert was driving his car south on the Main Street overhead bridge when the vehicle Not Happy New Contract Opposed By Some Coal Miners By United Press International The sighs of relief by union and management officials were clearly audible when the Presi dents Pay Board voted Friday to approve the first year of the new United Mine Workers Contract with Bituminous Coal Operators But rankandfile members of the in some areas of West Virginia were still not very happy with the contract despite the boards In Monongah Local 4019 of District 31 held a meeting after the boards decision was made public and voted to demand that the entire leadership of officers including union President Tony We feel the new contract is not a good one and the needs and wishes of miners at large have been ignored in the contract said local union official Howard The Monongah local is in the midst of the northern fields of West an area populated by dissident Arch who was at the Republican Governors Conference at French had an opposite reaction he said he was very much encouraged over the boards The individuals that work in the coal mining industry and their families now can begin to receive a number of benefits to which they have been entitled a considerable number of Moore Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd of West Virginia had asked the board to approve the and Randolph said Friday the decision gives haz duty coal miners pay and health and welfare benefits at with workers in copper and can Probably summing up labors position best was President James Leeber of District 29 who said of the board ruling Were just jubilant about Company Pleased Also pleased was Consolidation Coal which said it hoped the approval would bring to an end what has been a long and costly strike not only for the miners but for the state of West the industry and the country Consolidation said it hopes production will return to normal soon to possibly head off a threatened nationwide shortage of The new contract was termed probably the best in this nations industrial Idle about miners in District 31 stayed off the job in northern mines A spokesman for the district said he felt they would begin returning to the mines early next week after learning of the boards approval of the In District 17 President Joe Ellis called the board good Im hoping this will help out in our he Our problem is that the miners who were advocating no work didnt and still dont understand the contract we Reaction by coal miners came from John Jurley of Matewan and Ted Miller of Hurley We really are not getting anything new than what we already adding that sick benefits in the new contract are not said he thinks miners generally will be At the beginning of it I would have preferred sick pay or benefits instead of began sliding on the wet pave The car went into a hitting a northbound car driven by Thomas of 109 Lincoln Nelson was admitted to the Weirton hospital for face His condition was described as good by a hospital Police noted the roadway was wet when the accident occurred at The three senior students had just completed their morning classes at the high school campus and were on their way to the Weir Junior High School for the af vocational classes when the accident No arrest was The Wharton car was demolished and damage was heavy to the Nelson 3 Others Hurt Three other including a service station were injured in at accident at the Phillips Service Station on Cove Road yesterday Charlotte of 528 County was admitted to the Weirton hospital for scalp She is reported in good Treated and discharged were John of 212 Scenery and Melvin of 3737 Orchard According to the Coleman car hit a slick spot on Cove Road and spun out of hitting the gas pumps at the service station and the ser vice The Coleman car then struck a car owned by Rogers An of 528 Cove in knocking it against an iron The Anderson car was parked near the gas An derson and his 15month old Roger Anderson were not Chain Reaction Mishap Three more persons received apparent minor injuries in a chain reaction accident yesterday morning on Freedom All said they would see their family They were Violet of 104 Barnhart and her Susan Lawrence of War also said he would see his family doctor for injuries Gagliadi Turn To 3 Weir Page 2 Pay Board Approves Pay Hike Increase Is Nearly 3 Times Higher Than Boards Yardstick WASHINGTON UPI The Chamber of Commerce has branded as obviously in a Pay Board decision allowing soft coal miners pay boosts nearly three times higher than the boards yardstick of percent The 15member pay with its five public members objecting ruled Friday soft coal miners could have a pay increase of at least 1518 percent negotiated earlier this The board decided the raise was not unreasonably tent with guide Labor leaders hailed the but the Chamber of Commerce The Pay Boards approval of the soft coal agreement puts the future of the program in serious said Arch the business organizations executive vice The increase in pay and benefits is substantially in excess of any acceptable guideline and obviously infla Coercion Charged Booth accused unions of using arrogant threats df coercion to get their is difficult to conceive how the vast majority of the American people can be expected to show the restraint necessary to make the program Booth The Congressional Joint Economic Committee called a hearing today to quiz Pay Board Chairman George William the committee said Boldt would be questioned about the boards position on retroactive pay raises and board decisions allowing wage settlements that exceed the percent guideline by enormous Proxmire said the committee also would look into AFLCIO President George charge that the board is a stacked deck against The Pay Board issued a definition Friday of severe inequities that would permit an exception on its ban on retroactive payment of wage boosts denied during the 90day wageprice freeze that ended Labor members opposed this contending it was a divisive The board voted 9 to 5 with Chairman Boldt abstaining to permit a severe inequity exemption to its retroactivity ban in cases of who were denied a new or improved fringe benefit during the such as an extra week of vacation earned because of length of increases for persons earning less than an This was a minor gain for organized The Cost of Living Council had ruled earlier that exemptions for workers would apply to those earning less than the federal minimum wage of an who are covered by Turn To Pay Page 2 Owings Addition Hit By Vandalism Chief Andrew Olenick reported today that acts of vandalism have been committed in the area of Figueroa Street of Owings Ad Vandals also have destroyed approximately 150 feet of cyclone fencing placed around the property of the Harris Hills Chief Olenick requested the aid of the residents of the area tc notify the police department when vandals are seen in the This destruction of property has caused the developer several thousand dollars in damage in recent Chief Olenick warned that all violators will be prosecuted to extent of the
