Weirton Daily Times (Newspaper) - June 29, 1973, Weirton, West Virginia The Weirton Times The Acknowledged Leader in Hancock County in Advertising and Its Community 46 19 16 PAGES WEST JUNE ir Single 7ftt Weekly 13 Copy By Carrier CITY INCREASE Industrial Bonds Widow Blames Military SPECIAL BIRTHDAY accompanied by Mayor Claudette Millar of stops to extend special birthday greetings to town resident Louise Howell celebrated her 100th Weicker Makes Charge Watergate Committee Seeks ranee Of WASHINGTON UPI The Democratic chairman and the Republican vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee appear to be laying the ground work for asking President Nixon to appear before them and submit to questioning about the Watergate The White House says he wont do Sam and Howard made the point during Thurs days session that only the President can answer the serious charges that have been made against him before their com Ervin wants Nixons response to documents indicating he ap proved an illegal plan for domestic intelligence Baker wants to know whether Nixon disclosed to John Dean HI two months before the 1972 election that he knew a Watergate coverup was in Dean says Nixon No President in modern times has testified before a committee of The White House said again Thursday that such an even without a would be con making the chief executive subservient to Other Presidents Appeared But Joseph D has disclosed that the committee staff is looking into the question and its legal Montoya said its research shows that Presidents Jefferson and Lin coln appeared before congres committees while in Ervin said a written statement from Nixon would be inadequate since you cant a Baker said only Nixon can give his account of what was said in a meeting attended by the his Haldeman and his on a terribly important moment in Through four days of tes Skylab Knowledge Will Aid Nature HOUSTON UPI The worlds balance of nature is out of but the knowledge gained from Skylab may help man put it back in according to space centers program The benefits of Skylab as of today are nothing more than the technology that has been Kenneth Kleink program director at the Johnson Space said Thursday in a news But man will benefit from now on from that We had another unparalleled success in He said by applying the data obtained by Skylab space pioneers Charles Pete Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz in their recordbreaking 28day We can better manage the resources and ecology of the We can all realize the ecological balance in the world is in jeopardy and anything that helps is Kleinknecht said it was significant the nation had flown its first space station and learned its easier for man to work in space than Many morp things worked better than I thought they he We found its a lot easier to work in space than we The chief astronaut Royce said veteran space flier Conrad had the least problem readapting to and he had also gotten more inflight exercise than his fellow Hawkins said hes recom mending two other Skylab crews scheduled to man the giant or biting ship for 56 days each this year get more exercise on their He said one interesting finding was that the astronauts didnt become dizzy in space while performing head movements as they sat in a whirling They became dizzy before the flight on the ground when the chair was rotating only half as fast and they made the same The Skylab mission astronaut Robert said the officials are extremely pleased with the first still being from the space stations Earth resources and Another Richard Wil director of Earth resources said the complex instruments used to take closeup pictures of the globe all operated He said at least one use investigators think they can make of one of the in is in predicting the wave heights and wind velocity of tropical Dean has insisted that in that conversation Nixon revealed he knew what was going on and congratulated Dean for keeping the scandal from reaching the White a Republican member of the Lowell Weicker of Connec accused the administration of trying to discredit the com and silence his own out spoken Weicker Accuses Colson Weicker named no one now employed in the White but he accused Charles former special of seeking as recently as last month to plant rumors with a newspaperman that he had mishandled campaign funds in his 1970 election Weicker declined to elaborate on the charge before reporters but he produced a tran script of a telephone conversation March 28 between former White House domestic adviser John Ehrlichman and Richard then attorney in which Ehrlichman urged Kleindienst to take a swing at Weicker at a news The existence of the transcript revealed that Ehrlichman tape r e c o r d e d conversations even with his allies in the ad The transcript was produced by Ehrlichman in response to a by the Lets put it this he his voice rising and his arms whether its or or any other there are going to be no more no no no working through the press to go ahead and destroy the credibility of Time to Stop Reacting If the executive branch of government wants to meet the standards the American people set for it in their the time has come to stop reacting and stop playing this type of a Weather Partly cloudy and a little cooler today with highs in the mid to upper Mostly clear and cool tonight with lows in the mid to up per Partly cloudy and mild Satur day with highs in the upper 70s to around Probability of rain 20 percent today and 10 percent tonight and Air pollution index 119 un Winds from the south at 57 miles per Claims Charges Caused Husbands Suicide DENVER UPI The widow of Marine Abel Larry a former POW who apparently killed himself blames the military for his She says she will take legal action against the colonel who accused her husband of col with his North Viet Sandra pregnant with her second said Thursday she believed the filed against Kava and seven other sent her husband over the He went to Vietnam and the North Vietnamese kept him alive for five Then he came back to America and his own people killed she looking exhausted at a hastily arranged news conference at the home of her The former prisoners death followed by several weeks the suicide of another Air Force Edward Allan who took an overdose of barbiturates in after being in a North Viet camp for eight Kavanaugh said she hoped the government would now drop the charges against the other seven brought earlier this month by Theodore who was a officer in their Hanoi prison She and her stepfather were sitting in the living room of his home Wednesday when they heard a She ran into the next room and found her husband lying on the a single bullet through his temple and a caliber pistol lying underneath his Coroners officials said they thought it was a suicide but Adams County District Attorney Guy Marks said Kavanaugh could have been killed trying fix a jammed blame Guy and the Pentagon for his said who has a five yearold daughter and is ex a second child in Without their insistent pursuing of these fictitious my husband would be here I do not intend to let this end with his I plan to start legal action against Guy and others in the military for causing the death of my Head Is Missing CHICAGO UPI Melvin president of the nations largest independent wholesale drug was missing under mysterious circumstances today and believed Louis Melvins father and chairman of the Louis Zahn Drug said Thursday We have received a couple of phone but we dont know where we I have nothing more to Zahn disappeared Wednesday night after he left the firms warehouse in suburban Melrose Park about As he left he told a guard to call his and tell her Ill be home in 25 He never got A witness told police Thursday he saw Zahn arguing with another man in Franklin Park a few minutes after Zahn left The who police declined to said he saw Zahn get of his car and meet another got out of a second Two men remained in the second the witness hours after Zahns someone tele phoned his father and said Weve got your Go to Chicago and and you will find instructions under the Zahn drove to the but found no City Council Thursday nigh unanimously passed which authorize Mayor Michael to enter into lease agreements and construction fund agreements to issue in industrial revenue The bonds will provide funds for Weirton Steel Division to install pollution control and abatement Agreements will be signed with National Steel Bankers Trust of New York State and First National City a national banking asso The massive environmental control program at Weirton Steel Division is to be completed in 1975 and is being undertaken to meet the requirements of the West Vir ginia Air and Water Quality Federal Air Quality Act Amendments of 1970 and Federal Water Pollution Control Act of Martin legal advisor to Weirton said the pollution control program has the approval of the West Virginia Air Pollution Control Commission and the West Virginia Department of Natural and that the funding program has the approval of the state attorney Weirton city treasurer and the West Vir ginia State Tax Fahey thanked the city administration for their cooper ation in arranging the bond noting it will assure cleaner air and The program will be carried out at no obligation or cost to the he Mayor Michael Andochick and Fahey noted that Weirton is the first city in West Virginia to issue industrial revenue pollution control although several county courts have done The bonds will be held by New York and Pittsburgh banks and will be retired over 10 years by National The bonds will be guaranteed completely as to principal and interest by Na tional The program the bonds will fi nance will include facilities to control air pollution at the boiler house and sintering instal lation of a plant to reclaim and recycle used acid from pickling recycling of process water at the blast renovation and modification of the ammonia still and barometric condenser at the coke plant and provision for continuous removal of solids from the Strip Steel outfall The program is designed to resolve a pending suit by the Jus tice Department against Weirton Steel Division regarding water Pay Plan Effective On July 1 Refugee Center SAIGON UPI Communist forces shelled a refugee camp two miles west of Kontum one hour after President Nguyen Van Thieu visited the Central Highlands the Saigon command said Fighting picked up near Kon 260 miles north of despite the local South mese government commanders ultimatum to the Communists to pull back by today or face a The Saigon command said 37 Communist troops and nine government infantrymen were Wage Plan Attacked killed and 27 people wounded Thursday in the fighting and Thirtyone artillery including seven rounds of accurate 130mm guns from the Soviet plowed into Ngok Long refugee settlement two miles southwest of Kontum at Thursday and into Tan Dien village four miles southwest at the command said It said 19 civilians were in A year ago shells hit Kontum Thieu had visited the refugee camp one hour before the shells started coming He had several similar close calls during visits to the front in last years Com munist Thieu is touring north and central South Vietnam this week on what a spokesman described Thursday as a routine in Pay Package To Cost An Added pay raises of approximately 14 percent for the Police Department and ap proximately 10 percent for all other city departments were passed on first reading by Weirton City Council at Thursday nights special the last for fiscal year City Manager Kent is response to a question from a member of the Fire said the Police Department salaries were raised more because of the demands of the job and difficulty in recruiting Raises were not listed for city department whose pay increases will be announced within the next month on the basis of responsibility and job according to Salaries yet to be announced are those of the city chief of fire director of public water depart ment finance officer and building All raises will go into effect July according to although a formal second reading of the ordinance is scheduled for Councils July 9 regular Pay adjustments for next year amount to Bristol emphasized that this years revisions are concentrated mostly in the pay area and con tain no major fringe benefits Here are the salary and wage revisions Administrative Management new executive secretary to city to administrative secre to city to to payroll to to city to police to police court to city to housing to to to new maintenance to per hour janitress to per Police Salaries to lieu Turn To City Page 2 Union War Critics Trying David mr To Squeeze Attorney David counsel for the Weirton Muni cipal Employes said this morning that the City Councils passage of the pay package is a complete breakdown of good faith bargaining and a blatant refusal to recognize the Robertson said the delivered a wage hike package to City Manager Bristol Thursday The exact the package were not but union members want more than the approximate 10 percent wage hike passed Thursday Robertson said the union has requested City Council to meet before the union contract expires at 12 noon June to amend the wage If no meeting of City Council is held and no settlement agree ment can be obtained by the unions negotiating then a general rank and file meeting will be scheduled for sometime before Saturday to determine the next course of The is comprised of 83 employes of the citys sanitary park board and garage City Manager Bristol said this morning that it is not possible to schedule a City Council meeting before noon because all councilmen could not be avail able for the meeting on such short He said there are no plans at present for a Council meeting before the next regularly scheduled session July WASHINGTON UPI Con gressional war critics are trying to force the following dilemma on President Nixon Either he stops the bombing of Cambodia or they will halt the operation of much of the federal At the same there were moves toward a possible com promise by which the bombing would continue until 15 and then the White House would halt On Wednesday the President vetoed a billion supplemental appropriations passed by both houses of Congress because it contained language cutting off funds for the Antiwar House members were unable to muster the twothirds vote needed to override the On Thursday six separate congressional committees met on the and strong provisions were tacked on to three separate two that must be enacted by the weekend to keep the federal government func One of these is the socalled continuing resolution which allows the judicial and legislative branches of the government to continue meeting its payrolls and expenses after the fiscal year ends at midnight Saturday The Senate Appropriations Committee added an provision to this usually routine measure Thur Another is the debt ceiling which must be enacted midnight Saturday to preserve the governments present bor rowing and also includes billion in Social Security benefit increases for 30 million elderly House and Senate conferees Thursday added a provision to The third is a State Department authorization A presidential veto of the continuing resolution would paralyze the but there was no assurance Congress could make such a veto administration of and key doves in Congress made overtures toward a negotiated In the center of the compromise effort was Melvin the new White House domestic former defense secretary and a popular of the in conversations with House reportedly accepted for the first time a fixed date for termination of the bombing of George and Jamie D both said the 15 cutoff date was acceptable to The House Appropriations Committee Thursday the same supplemental which Nixon vetoed time with an amendment which would allow the bombing to continue
