Weirton Daily Times (Newspaper) - June 1, 1977, Weirton, West Virginia The Weirton Daily Times The Acknowledged Leader in Hancock County in Advertising and Circulation NEWS 7480610 24 PAGES JUNE WANT ADS 7480606 Dedicati Its Community ItSi nn Weekly Copy By Carrier Firemen Lodge Protest By JOE STERLING Times Staff Writer NEW CUMBERLAND Representatives from volunteer Hancock County firefighting units came to the federal revenue sharing budget revision hearing held during the Hancock County meeting and protested what I hey considered an unfair allocation in revenue sharing funding for the next fiscal beginning July But while Bob presi dent and spokesman of the United Hancock Firefighters called the allocation for firefighting an increase of an in commissioners were unanimously under the im pression that three months ago this increase had been agreed upon by both funds for each of I he nine volunteer fire depart ments came from county Last each department received from county funds for each of the nine volunteer fire depart ments came from county Last each department received from county Commissioners said this year the had originally been advised to place of federal revenue sharing earmarked for county including fire in their general county But when general budget was reviewed by the stale tax the Fire Rumors Abound upn Authorities say there are scores of rumors about what started the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire last Saturday and they arent discounting any they said its likely to be some time next week before they have a firm idea of how the nations deadliest fire in 33 years actually Both Julian Carroll and state Fire Marshal Warren Southworth have agreed a report on the fire which killed 158 persons will be ready by the end of next They said it would pinpoint the cause and lay blame if there is Southworth said about 100 have been compiled by office and officials arent eliminating any single factor in their Among the rumors are reports of a defective basement electrica venerator and a tablecloth cigarette The death toll was revised downward from 160 Tuesday by Campbell County Coroner Fred Stine who discovered that two numbers had been as signed to bodies and there were no said 19 victims remained FBI agents armed with fingerprinting ink and dental charts were still at Sixtythree persons remained hospitalized their con ditions ranging from fair critical Southworth refused to on what touched off the saying it would only add to the He said he wants to hear eyewitness The have done some public specula Walter an 18yearold busboy who became a hero by giving the first warning of the fire onstage in the nightclubs Cabaret said the blaze may have started in tablecloths containing the contents of dumped ashtrays Commission was told lhat the federal revenue sharing funds could not be placed in the general The had to allocate monies to volunteer fire departments from their federal revenue sharing not froni county funds as they had But despite this the commissioners unanimously believed that they had an agreement with the association that the departments would be receiving each in an increase of Duncan claimed that the association had asked for in funds per in crease in and maintained that an agreement for a increase wasnt Commission president Edward Nogay said a misun occurred which can be when the com mission reviews county finances Thursday at He asked the firemen to come to the Nogay added that he un the present pinch the firemen are He was referring to rising costs and crackdown by state police of bingo a source of revenue for volunteer fire He also that the Commission is experiencing its own cost The accepted a motion approving attendance of Hancock County Commissioners at a rally in Charleston June 1 sponsored by volunteer groups throughout the state protesting the crackdown on bingo According to a letter from the United Hancock County Fire fighters the consisting of a motorcade and a Malin president of the West Virginia Asso Representatives from the Nurses Consultation and Service Patricia Murphy and Kitty said the proposed budget for uncovered health part of the allocation to senior citizens ir the federal revenue sharing should be increased because not all of the people whc need uncovered health services are Commissioners said that a member of the Uncovered Martich Completing International Term By ANN KOON Times Staff Writer When I was looking for a way to gel involved and make I decided the Weir High Key Club had the best of com Danny Key Club International The son of and George 3300 West Danny is nearing the end of his term as president of a group of more than Key He has traveled and spoken ex throughout the United States and Canada during the past year and will preside at the International Key Club convention to be held in Kansas July In Danny was elected president on July He ran against boys from Texas and Bob son of and Dean 259 Scenery and a Key Clubber from New were Danys cam With a limit of and the unanimous endorsement of the West Virginia Danny and his friends worked during tlw convention for his Danny had to speak to 30 district caucuses and appear before the key Club house of delegates where he and the Florida candidate were nominated for the final I won by a larger majority than I by over 100 There were more than 900 delegates Danny Dannys financed by Key Club International dues and his have taken him to Chicago Wahsington Valley Forge Ohio Colorado Springs Oklahoma Mem Boston and to name a In several these cities he holds honorary citizenship and keys to the His duties as president include running the Inter national Board of 16 mem which governs the and heading the executive Danny feels has been endorsed by Health Services should be appointed as a member of the Hancock County Senior Citizens which distributes the but said lhat opening up uncovered health services to all may not be economically feasible for the Commissioners approved the revised revenue sharing budget for 1977 to Total expenditures consist of William grant ad for Ihe KPV Acres Walerline was to seek release of funds from Ihe federal com grant program block for the After the funds are bids will be let for which the county hopes will begin in six weeks to a The following public applications were approved for Elizabeth 206 Arena Weirton William 3551 Elm Weirton i urn to Firemen page 2 PLAN FUND DRIVE fund drive to benefit three Roman Catholic churches LR are Sacred Heart of Mary James Joseph the Worker and Harold Paul and LR Joseph Sacred Heart of Mary Parish Council president John Joseph Parish Council president and John Paul Parish Council Catholic Churches Set Fund Drive WORLD LEADER Key Clul International President Danny son of George 31100 West looks through one of several photo albums he and his mother have compiled on his many his main job lies in com I receive and answer about 15 to 20 letters a plus send out 150 copies of a newsletter every two months and a board bulletin once a he Wherever he public speaking is on the agenda for Danny and even some television and radio ap I speak on the potential of service Key Club offers when the group works together and about the positive aspect of the youth commented We do work for summer retarded restoring houses for building facilities for the land hearing and seeing screenings and for Danny According to the International each club has its own service projects and Started in Key Club was founded by Kiwanis as a travels this past Danny was elected International president in on July and will retire his position this July In Kansas He is a member of Weir High Key Times Photo by Ann vocational guidance organization to replace high school has clubs in the United Danny met President Ford and his Senators McGovern and Humphery during his With a Danny noted that he had met several Miss Teenage America Title We hope to secure President Carter to speak at our convention this have a 5050 chance to get he Im proud to be a West Virginian and at the Inter national Convention the West Virginia group is the closest knit Danny Everywhere I go people ask i about mines in West Virginia but when I was in New guy who introduced me had done some When in Turn to Martich page 2 Announcement was made yesterday by Roman Catholic churches of plans for a combined fund In a simultaneous statement by pastors of the churches in Heart of Joseph the and Paul plans were announced for each parish to conduct a but centrally co ordinated threeyear pledge Approximately Catholic families throughout the city would be canvassed during the Basic goals of the named the Weirton Catholic Community Develop ment are aimed at enab ling each parish to make capital essential repairs and significant reductions in parish The establishment of ad Rockefeller Now Saying Tax Increase A Possibility Change Benefits Wives WASHINGTON UPI As di the Federal Reserve millions of married The Federal which is will be notified that persons will be their credit histories with sloges and oil companies may be carried in Ihe names of both spouses This will assure that married women will have adequate credit histories when they arc said Ann e consumer affairs specialist Gas Firm Projects Curtailment Levels Natural ges curtailment levels for 43 large industrial customers of Columbia Gas of West Virginia for the 197778 winter period beginning 1 will be lower that last It was announced Keith Felton Columbias Weirton area said notification is being sent to 43 Court Tn Zoning Case WASHINGTON A 63 yearold grandmother who went all the way to the Supreme Court to stop a local zoning law from breaking up her family is just thrilled at finally winning her Inez Moore keeps house in East for her two sons and two For she was fined 925 and sentenced lo five days in jail under a zoning ordinance that limits the number and kind of relatives who may live together in a house lengthy tne Supreme Court on a vote of 5 to 4 Tuesday struck down the municipal It wrong ly makes a crime ot a grand mothers choice to live with her large volume industrial gas users throughout the state that curtailment levels anticipated on 1 Fifteen percent of industrial loads lhal use gas for processing or as feedstock and 100 percent of 1 industrial loads that have installed alternate fuel capability and 2 industrial boiler loads over million cubic feet per Curtailment levels set on 1976 were 50 percent of in loads that use gas for processing or as feedstock and 100 percent for the industrial loads for thf monin winter period November j through March is lower thani lasl year because of an im supply picture projected by Columbias pipeline and the results of conservation efforts by all our Felton He noted that Columbia Gas of West Virginia will attempt to secure additional volumes of gai on an emergency basis for winter period if customers in they wish to purchase such Columbia again reminded customers that the gas supply situation is under constant review and that curtailment a subject to chance if there are significant weather customer or available gas supply one of the nations three bank wrote the credit history guidelines that will apply to all financial institutions and businesses under provisions of equal credit opportunity laws enacted in 1975 and Miss ueary said credit backgrounds for married women have been difficult to establish because charge ac counts traditionally have been kept only in the names of Over the next four bills sent out by banks and retailers will contain a state ment for the creditor asking permission to establish credit backgrounds on existing ac counts in the names of both husbands and Millions and millions of accounts will be by this Miss Geary Those benefiting particularly are women who subsequently become divorced or They now frequently have problems a credit rating since their previous credit transactions were in the husbands name or wilh only a preceding her husbands name The Federal Reserve will be responsible for state banks lhal are members of the Federal Reserve Only a few months after he cul Wesl Virginia Jay Rockefeller was talking of raising Thai clearly is a Rockefeller Ihal lawmakers consider at the years extra legislative session would bingo in the wake of a police raids on bingo During his Tuesday news er declined lo be pinned lo Im still looking inlo said of the bingo That remains a Lawmakers turned down his bid lo scrap the 3 per cenl sales lax on food The bingo dispute arose afler police made Several church Dutch Delay Answer The Netherlands UPI Dulch who have delayed answering a request for by Moluccan gunmen holding 60 cordoned off a press center today to protect reporters from reprisals by Moluccan There have been a spokesman said afler troops erected a 8foothigh chain link fence and placed an armed guard around Ihe press The Moluccans a guard They did not specify Moluccan terrorists hold 56 persons aboard a hijacked train and four leachers al the school where they kidnaped more than 100 children last The children were released after illness swept the The last six children hospital after their release were allowed to go home from the The terrorists Tuesday re quested mediators lo deal with their demands volunteer groups complained I hey were hard pul to raise Rockefeller defined Wesl Vir goal as but in this years between Ihe United Mine Workers union and Bituminous Coal Operators On Ihe governor ex the Williamson Chamber of Williamson restau ranl owner Jerry House Speaker Donald Kopp Irvin Lenore an member Ivan and Ron made by Senate President William pressed dismay with the weren I legislatures so far available Tuesday give him million for repairs Charles Dunbar High and Maurice Kinsolving were named lo Ihe slate at the three Rockefeller said he planned an announcement soon on whether he will reappoint or replace three members of the Civil Service Commission Within two he said a SSft He also is looking for a suc cessor to Jack D who resigned to lake a lucrative post in the Rockefeller administration And Rockefeller said he wanted an average taxpayer lo serve on the Public Service Commission A 12member was sel up lo probe the causes of the spring floods in southern counties Named by Rockefeller lo serve were Lacy Wright D McDowell Mingo Counly Com missioner Gerald Chafin Mul lens Mayor Paul Glowers Danny Camden of laeger Frank DiMartino week Youth Science Ihe governor programs and educational needs will be considered in Ihe program as Final sanction for the drive was obtained lasl week when formal approval of the program was granted by Bishop Joseph Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling Bishof Hodges will serve as honorary chairman for the The announcement of drive follows three ol preliminary and unanimous decision involving the combined of the parish councils ol thr three churches As preliminary plans call for each parish lo conduct d separate canvass of individual parish members All monies collected during the canvass period by Ihe individual churches will remain withir each parish No outside fundraising company is involved in the local drive Overall direction for the program will be provided by a campaign and the ef forts of each parish will be supervised by a parish co ordinator Dates for the parish canvass and the name of the campaign director and the individual parish will announced next week President Meets With Consumer Advocates member WASHINGTON UPI Re freshed from a vacation on an island off President Carter invited some 200 consumer advocates for a pep rally to spur in his proposal for a consumer prolection The meeting described as a briefing for of every group lhat has backed Ihe measure in the also was designed to rumors growing on Capitol Hill lhat Carter is not really in of in the agency News In Brief BROOKE GRADUATION Brooke High School graduated In com ceremonies held Tuesday evening W Judion president of Board of presented diplomat to the graduating Charlei Brian Arthurs ana Lynn Zah were the Staff Weather Clear Tonight Northern Panhandle skies will be mostly clear tonight wilh lows 50 to mid There will be and cooler weather Thursday with a chance of showers and highs in tne upper 60s to low Probability of is 10 percent and 40 The air index reading is 76 conditions Winds are 46 miles per hour out of the Friday through It will be fair Friday and Saturday and a chance of showers on highs will in Ihe upper 60s lo lower 70s on warming to the upper 70s to lower 80s Saturday and Morning lows will be in the low 40s lo low 50s on warming to the low 50s to low 60s by Street Closing Noted South Street Power House Road from Front Street to Weir Avenue will be closed for several weeks for major construction Repairs began according to an announcement from the office of Mayor Michael Andochick Negotiations Continuing FOLLANSBEE Contract negotiations are continuing between Koppers Company management and union management officials said The Chemical and Atomin Workers with the organic envision at Koppers expired Monday Koppers officials said the plant is still working and negotiations are Jury Selection Begins WASHINGTON UPI Abdul and 11 Hanafi Muslim received a quick taste Tuesday of what to expect from Superior Court Judge Nicholas their No fooling Stern The trial moves into the jury selection phase with 650 potential jurors being asked to fill out questionnaires to be funneled inlo a Report On Pill Released WASHINGTON UPI There is no clear evidence birth control pills cause a George Washington University Medical Center research team reported after a comprehensive review of oral con The strongest evidence deals with noncancerous The researchers said in the May issue of Population Reports that pill users seem less likely to develop benign breast tumors and more likely to develop benign liver Hurricane Season Begins MIAMI UPI The 1977 hurricane season begins officially today with the National Hurricane starting 24hour operations to track storms in ihe Gulf of Caribbean and Atlantic The season runs through with most storms born in Uie midsummer months when Ihe tropics get warm enough to fuel Carter and members of his Cabinet were scheduled lo address the group The lo creale an agency passed bolh House and Senate lasl year bul died under Gerald Fords velo The new version was approved by a House committee a few weeks ago by a single vole On his way back from St Simons Carter spent about five hours in his home town of visiting his family and embracing old friends and neighbors he Wearing gray slacks and a blue knit Carter strolled down Main Street lo be mobbed by tourists and Ihe press as he dropped inlo each kissed and hugged the salesladies and greeted Carter appeared to be proving Ihe point lhal he remains very much a parl of slill a farmer al he told I miss Ihe farming Sitting on Ihe platform of old depot wilh his legs Carter chatted wilh reporters aboul his nostalgia for his He spoke of Ihe the the closeness and the sharing of a common The was benl on ignoring the of Plains into a and more on remembering how il Goals Blasted WASHINGTON UPI Carlers energy proposals have a lol of talk about sacrifice and the moral equivalent of but there is little of lhal in Ihe plan according to the of the Budget CBO Director Alice Rivlin released an analysis of the Carler plan Tuesday and told many of the goals seem and Ihe expectations on the high side of She was scheduled to discuss the plan with a House energy Her long report was the backup detail of a summary she reported in congressional testimony several weeks Carters main objective is to cul American dependence qm foreign oil by million barrels a day by below what it would be without his But her office the plan at to million she Carler projects having 44 per cent of new industry burning but the budget office said be nearer 33
