Weirton Daily Times (Newspaper) - August 18, 1972, Weirton, West Virginia I I t t J The Weirton Daily Times The Acknowledged Leader in County in Advertising and Circulation Its Community 45 51 16 PAGES WEST VIRGINIA AUGUST At Newsstands 10 cents Per Copy Home Delivery 60 cents Per Week Nixon Shies Away From Party Fight No Hint Given PEOPLES BANK ADDITION A new area to offer better service and relieve traffic congestion has been completed by The Peoples 3425 Main Four new stations have been installed on a 60 x 165 lot between the bank parking lot and West Street and will open August Entry will be from West Street Shown at the new location are Robert Mentzer President of The Peoples Bank Gregory Baker of the maker of the and Russell Vice President and Secretary of the Four customers can be ac at one time through the use of pneumatic tubes connecting customer areas with the main control Peoples Bank Expansion Project Completed newest banking facilities will open at The Peoples Bank on Robert said Mayor Michael Andochick will cut a ribbon at officially opening four new stations located behind the bank parking lot and extending to West The cost of the expansion is about This new Mentzer will enable us to serve our customers better through faster service and longer It will also relieve a traffic problem on Main because our present window will be Customers will enter the new section from West The new facilities will be open from to 6 on Tuesdays and Fridays and from to 8 on Wednesdays and The bank will continue to be closed on Coupled with the banks regular hours of to Monday through Friday and In House Action Strong AntiBusing Measure Is Approved WASHINGTON House early today voted for strong new antibusing going one step futher than President Nixon proposed but just short of banning racial busing of any The would require a court to first try i of alternative methods of desegregating a school before it could order If busing is as a last students still could not be sent beyond the second nearest school to their The effect of the measure would be to eliminate crosstown busing to achieve school The passed on a 282 102 roll call vote after a 13hour went to the Senate where it faces its stiffest Nixon Proposal Nixon had proposed that a second nearest school provi sion apply only to grade school but it was widened to Security Jobs Open Applications are now being ac at the office of John administrative principal of Weir High for the positions of Persons interested in obtaining a position are to telephone the main office at 7487600 and give their name and telephone number to the Calls will be accepted from 8 to 4 Monday through Applicants will be contacted for Grossi said the individual applicants will be considered on the basis of their Law enforcement experience is desirable but not The per will be in charge of main security for students and faculty on the campus and will also serve as resource person nel on an instructional cover all students in an amend ment by Edith D which was approved on a 17888 Blick members of the defeated on repeated efforts to insert nullifying language on the busing bitterly at tacked the measure as an affront to The solution to this whole problem is for the House to in struct the Supreme Court to stop enforcing the 13th Amendment md return us to involuntary said William Maybe I am asking too much that this body be honest and said Parren The Green the key proposal nearly 30 amendments offered to the would also permit schools now under desegregation orders to get them reopened in court and make them comply with the new Court Orders Terminated The amendment also provided for immediate upon enactment of the into of old desegregation court orders brought against a unitary school That is described as one within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of color national Southerners who prepared that provision of the Green amend ment described it as more im portant than the reopening clause since most of their schools or dered integrated over the years now qualify as unitary systems arid can get immediate relief from those Nixon proposed that all court ordered busing end five years after enactment of the into law and all other court or dered desegregation not in busing end after 10 The House on a 211 174 an amendment by James that would have flatly banned court ordered busing under any con Battle Is Thieu Complete Between Series Of Secret Meetings The States SAIGON UPI Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger wrapped up two days of secret talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu today and left for Kissinger was in conference with Thieu four hours today and two hours aides These talks provided an op for a general review of all aspects of the situation in South Vietnam as well as of the talks which have taken place in Paris with representatives of the Democratic Republic of Viet an official statement It did little to lift the tight lid of secrecy which surrounded his which began with almost no warning Wednesday Kissinger was seen off at Saigons Tan Son Nhut air base by his South Vietnamese coun Nguyen Phu who is President foreign affairs and ambassador Ellsworth The more than meeting between Kissinger and Thieu Thursday and the long session today increased specu lation that the purpose of the presidential envoys visit was to bring some important new in formation to Kissinger has refused to dis the reason for his A White House spokesman earlier said the trip was for a general review of all aspects of the Vietnam including the negotiations in Government sources said Kissinger came to Saigon to assure Thieu of continued But opposition sources said first meeting with Thieu since July was intended to convince the president he is an obstacle to peace and persuade him to step Kissinger returns to Washing ton this weekend to brief President Nixon before the start of the Republican National convention next When he took office three and one half years ago Nixon vowed to end the 11year Vietnam Toll Stands At 514 to 8 on the new stations mean banking services will be available 51 Ms hours per The new area will be able to handle four customers at a They will be served from one booth by two who will be in both visual and voice contact with the Pneumatic tubes will connect the customer stations with the main Patricia Dick will be Manager of the Modern Equipment Called Visual Auto the equipment is the most modern yet developed for It is manufactured by of Ohio and is in use throughout the Ray Shaw of Weirton was the architect for the new in Trushel Construction was the Davis Electric did the electrical work and Greco Plumbing Heating installed the All are Weirton Founded in December the Peoples Bank of Weirton has occupied its present building since March of it was located in another nearby Main Street The banks assets have in creased steadily and are ap proximately million a veteran banking joined the Peoples Bank of Weirton in He has served in an executive capacity with banks in Grove Oil and A native of Mentzer was graduated from Muhlenberg College and the School of Banking at the University of Harris Chairman Harris is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Peoples Other officers are vice president and secretary and assistant William as sistant vice heads the Installment Loan The bank has 25 Directors are Clyde George Paul Mike George and Weather Considerable cloudiness and wawner today with highs in the Mostly cloudy and warm tonight with lows in the Cloudy and cooler with showers and thundershowers likely Highs in the Probability of precipitation 10 percent 20 percent tonight and 60 percent Extended outlook Sunday through Tuesday fair weather each day with near Gunfire Kills 2 More Persons In Ireland BELFAST man was found shot to death in a Belfast Protestant area today shortly after bomb explosions damaged several Roman Catholic homes and a Catholic Thursday sniper fire in the citys Catholic Lower Falls area killed British Army Michael The two latest killings brought to 514 the number of persons killed in Northern Ireland violence and lifted the death toll this year to Police said todays shooting has all the appearances of a gun fight at the doorway of the house on Island Street in East Belfast where the body was Neighbors heard shots from the house but were too terrified to notify the spokesman He said the man was cut down when he apparently an swered a knock at his The spokesman said a man who shared the victims house claimed to have slept through the The bombings in the Catholic areas followed pledges by Protestant vigilantes of revenge for the bombing of a Protestant owned pub and nearby houses In a Catholic section of Springfield Road two soldiers on patrol were critically injured when a bomb exploded in an empty the army The army said several homes in the Catholic Short Strand enclave were slightly damaged when a keg packed with 100 pounds of powder exploded in the Another bomb went off in a parked car outside the Catholic Hibernian Club in the downtown district and badly damaged the the army A spokesman said there were no injuries in either Earlier men clad in combat clothing and armed with pickaxe handles prowled the Protestant Road area where a 200pound bomp Thurs day demolished the Standard ripped roofs off several nearby houses and injured about 50 Firemen and rescue workers waded through streets flooded by a water main smashed in the blast to reach the The illegal Irish Republican Army IRA claimed responsibility for the It marked the first time Protestant vigilantes have taken to the streets since the army occupied IRA strongholds across the province The Ulster Defense Association a militant Protestant paramilitary organization that mounted the said in a statement We warn the bombers that if we catch they will be subjected to UDA A statement issued by the extremist Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army IRA said its men bombed the bar because it has been used by certain groups responsible for recent sectarian assassinations of The army said the bomb ex in a hijacked telephone repair truck parked outside the Army officers said they received an anonymous 15 minute warning before the blast but had difficulty clearing the area of curious We had to forcibly usher them from the immediate danger a British soldier People went on shopping and we had to drive them Some were reluctant to On The Job LONDON UPI Jumping the gun on the end of a nationwide port longshoremen in parts of Britain today began unloading iron animal feeds and other cargo for the first time in 21 A dockers strike involving longshoreman technically is still on and in its 22nd But longshoremen at three ports in South Wales and several in the north of England returned to work today ahead of the Sunday midnight time for the official end of the strike set earlier this At longshoremen swung ashore long stalks of bananas from one of the two strikebound ships in At Newport and Port Talbot iron ore was being Favored By Egypt Floor Fight Looms At Convention Over Control Issues MIAMI BEACH willing to antagonize either President Nixon has decided to stay out of a power struggle between large states and small states for control of the 1976 Republican National Vice President Spiro who would benefit most from keeping the balance of power in the party with the con servative states if he seeks the GOP presidential nomination four years also has decided not to Their joint decisions was revealed by a White House It means that the Republican convention will al most certainly have a floor fight over GOP liberals efforts to attract to the party more young people and While the controversy persist between reformers and allocating delegates to the 1976 the GOPs Platform Committee met in tight security to ratify a series of planks previously given White House Nixons Vietnam policy was one of the first planks Although most of the platform was expected to be given a rubber there was con agitation from servatives for language sup porting laws and an even stronger antibusing plank than proposed by the Conservatives Are Upset Conservatives were upset that the platform draft praised organized labor but failed to include the traditional language endorsing which labor And a subcommittee Thursday toughened the antibusing pro vision by proposing a con amendment to outlaw the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation should Nixons legislative seeking the same The House went beyond the GOP platform writers by ap proving early today a not only to ban crosstown busing of any students but to allow schools under court busing orders to get these orders changed to conform with new The Senate is unlikely to accept the House Womens rights groups ex to succeed in adding a pet project comprehensive child day care There also was considerable support for a plank to end the system in Congress and another to require strict laws on lobbying Turn To Nixon Page 2 GOP Splinter European Common Market Group in state ru A ti Nations Seek Peace Plan LONDON Middle East peace initiative led by the European Common Market countries is under active con diplomatic sources reported Egypt has put out feelers to European governments and apparently favors a European initiative to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly next The plan members of the expanded European including the Common Market countries and to join the new which would group key European and Mediter ranean nations outside super power Foreign ministers of the six Common Market Britain and the other three candidate Norway and Ireland are to meet next when the idea of a Middle East initiative will be seriously considered and the sources France reportedly is showing strong It is especially the French in whom Egypt is placing its also has been sounding London recently and AngloEgyptian relations have shown a marked Egyptian soundings were said to be though no specific cut and dried proposals have so far advanced for a new concrete peace plan of the The United States is standing aside at present from this proposed following its own Pending the presidential the Eu apparently might prefer to do their own peace These developments are linked to the latest remarks by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Egyptian National referring to impending moves by Western Europe among other possible international ef forts to break the Middle East Egypts latest soundings in Europe have also been for possible arms to replace and supplement Russian amid indications that the Soviets may block further arms deliveries altogether unless basic Russian demands are Those in the West favoring a major European initiative hold that it would provide a singular opportunity for the European Community to establish itself as a major political force outside the activities of the One of the declared aims of the enlarged Community is to align foreign policies in the UPI Disgruntled by the present Young Republican club leader George Spruce of Charleston announced Thursday formation of a splinter group to oppose the state Spruce was president of the Kanawha County YR chapter which was recently disaffiliated from the state YR organization on grounds of alleged failure to keep proper records and pay appropriate Spruce accused the state leadership Thursday of tactics of revenge and vindictiveness and said it offered no help to local His new Coalition of Young Republican Spruce will have a sole aim of rallying and organizing the vote of young people for Republican candidates in the general elec GOP state Chairman Thomas Potter immediately dis claimed any official status of the Spruce faction and called it a divisive
