Wellsville Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - August 24, 1976, Wellsville, New York Convicts at Attica vow to continue strike UPI A general strike by inmates at the Attica Facility continued today with the majority of them remaining in their cells and vowing to continue their survival action until their demands were A spokesman at the maximum security facility said about 335 in mates went to mess hall for breakfast and then returned to their The peaceful strike began Monday with about 90 per cent of the prisons inmates taking The pressing for changes in parole and sentencing remained in their cells sleeping and typing and refused to work or attend We do intend to sit down and talk to Inmate leaders to assess how long this thing will a spokesman for the Department of Correctional Ser vices The protest was in harsh contrast to the violent 1971 uprising in which 43 persons were killed at the prison in the nations bloodiest jail While most of the protesters remained in their Corrections Commissioner Benjamin Ward met with about a dozen members of the Inmate Liaison Committee for several hours The which began in the ended Monday Ward said he and the prisoners discussed the inmates list of nine But he said the talks were not Negotiation implies a giveand take There are no gives and no takes Ward Ward and Associate Corrections Commissioner Mark Corrigan said the majority of the inmates demands were issues that required legislative One of those demands called for a fiveyear maximum which Ward said was the most important demand on the part of the inmate They the inmates realize this is going to take Certainly in August I have difficulty in dealing with legislative reform because theres no legislature in ses he Ward said the only alternative was for a special session that he was not in a position to The legislature is not scheduled to return to Albany until The inmates had sent Hugh Carey a list of nine which he received last Ward said he and the inmates discussed that in We divided it into the things that will require legislative action and those that he The demands are something that the legislature will have to The prisoners wrote Carey that their strike would last indefinitely and they called on inmates at other state prisons to support their The corrections spokesman said no incidents were reported at other state Corrigan took reporters and photographers on a tour of the prison Monday and most areas were The only area that was busy ap to be the prison where inmate representatives were allowed to buy foodstuffs for other Reporters observed the inmates stocking up on cigarettes and The prison was very with no shouting or er Serving Allegany and Poffer Counties 1976 Tbr H M All Yeai New Tuesday August 24 1976 10 Korean issues easing Korea UPI North Korea and the Command today agreed to hold a meeting of the Korean Armistice Commission Wed to discuss the slayings of two American officers by North Korean guards in the Demilitarized The decision followed a call Monday by President Ford for such a meeting to seek assurances from North Korea of the safety of American troops in the Panmunjom Ford is vacationing in It also followed a softening of the position on a North Korean note of regret over the deaths of the The State which had first described the note as because it did not admit responsibility for the later eased its stand and called the message a positive At the same the aircraft carrier USS Midway conducted operations off the east coast of including flights by about 75 attack and fighter aircraft which it The American troops in South Korea also have been placed on In a broadcast monitored Monday in North Korea called Ford a boss of war for mobilizing the In a separate the North Korean Central News Agency said the North Korean army stands ready to annihilate the im if they ignite a new The South Korean which had joined the United States in calling the note from North Korean President Kim IlSung had no official comment of the shift in the South Korean radio stations quoted Foreign Ministry of as saying The new position should be taken in the concept of a step in a series of They said Foreign Minister Park Tongjin and Ambassador Richard Sneider met for 30 minutes this morning and the two governments were cooperating fully and But DongA South Koreas largest nationally circulated said in an editorial today Is the backing down again that if the States and South Korea prefer appeasement to firm action in con with the it would en courage greater North Korean militan Four murders could be tied to drug case UPI Police searched today for the lone gunman who was seen running from a rundown East Side apartment where four were brutally murdered Sunday in what authorities said might have been a lesson for drug Erie County Sheriff Michael Amico revealed that at least one of the Marie of suburban had been a drug informant for another area police He said another of the persons slam in the second floor apartment above a shop may have been involved in a weekend drug roundup under another We were told that the top drug dealer in the area had made the remark that he was going to import some killers to kill some of the informants and send a message to other informants that this was going to happen to said It was to throw a real scare into those working for He was saying Dont dare to think of betraying because this is what is destined for the sheriff School issue still stormy Progress noted in desegregation hopeful Jimmy Carter makes his way through the audience after he finished speaking Monday to a nearly all black group in the Watts section of Los UPI Carter will clear all draft evaders United Press International President Ford apparently has appointed his Republican vice presidential running Robert as a oneman truth and sent him after his Democratic Jimmy Carter Carter spoke today before an American Legion convention in Seattle and restated his position in favor of a military that is strong but not wasteful he has said between billion and billion could be cut from the billion Pentagon budget request now pending before Congress Carter also told the Legionnaires as he would grant a blanket pardon for draft evaders to end the hatred and of the Vietnam Dole follows Carter Wednesday with his own speech to the Carter will be in Des Wednesday to deliver what is billed as a major agricultural policy speech Wednesday morning at the Iowa State The Kansas senator plans to follow Carter again in the Hawkeye Meeting with reporters Monday in Dole said I might be attacking Carters Wed like to keep him Carter worked his way up the West Coast He met with 50 Hollywood stars at a morning party arranged by actor Warren Among those attending were Carroll Louise Sidney Faye Diana Neil Lee Grant and George Displaying some of the most intense emotion of his campaign so Carter told the bejeweled audience Public servants have a special responsibility to bypass the big including you and people like you and make a concerted effort to understand people who are speak a foreign who are not well who are who are who have some monumental With the Carter campaign off and Ford is still in the planning stages at his Colo retreat He is meeting with campaign aides between rounds of golf and parties Aides said the President planned to spend a few days each week The President is not a man to stay in the Oval said Back in another former Georgia governor announced his candidacy for seeking the nomination of the conservative group that meets this week in Chicago Lester who won fame as a appeared in a tiny hotel room wearing a red He quoted a publication of the right wing Liberty Lobby that linked Carter with rock musicians and producers people dealing in drugs and he WASHINGTON UPI In the vast majority of school desegregation works but only when community leaders and elected officials at all levels of government act the Commission on Civil Rights said It as it did in Boston and when local officials do not exercise enough leadership sometimes politically difficult with such an emotional issue as On this report makes it clear that substantial progress is being made in the desegregation of our concluded the The commission also said that while some school districts have ex a significant decline in white evidence does not support the widely held belief that urban school desegregation causes massive white the commission criticized President Ford and members of it seek to curb the power of the courts in the school in Such efforts undermine the desegregation process and jeopardize the rights of minority the commission these attempts contribute to the position of some individuals that desegregation can be The commission said it takes issue with Fords proposed School Desegregation and Assistance Act which seeks both to narrow the definition of illegal segregation and to restrict the scope of remedies available to the The Commission Fulfilling the Letter and Spirit of the Law Desegregation of the Nations Public Schools was based on 10 months of hearings and open meetings in eight including volatile Boston and plus case studies of 29 other school districts and a survey of school Perhaps the most important ingredient in successful school desegregation is both at the community level and in the the commission It also said that while many school districts have put desegregation plans into numerous others remain Figures from the most recent show that 4 of every 10 black students and 3 of every 10 Hispanic heritage students attend schools with a 90 per cent minority Recommendations Leaders at all including the must accept the fact that desegregation the nations schools is a constitutional The federal government must strengthen and expand programs designed to ease the desegregation particularly through in creasing money for Title IV of the Civil Rights Act providing technical assist ance for desegregating school There must be vigorous en forcement of which contribute to the desegregation with both the President and Congress making a concerted effort to facilitating metropolitan residential A major investment of time and money needs to be made to deal with the misconceptions relative to particularly misconception concerned with what is constitutionally required by law and the role of white Union pickin target firm DETROIT UPI The United Auto workers today select the strike target auto which must come up with an settle ment or face a possible shutdown next Labor observers predicted the UAW would choose between General Motors and the giants of an auto industry that provides million jobs in this A strike against either could have a crippling blow on the national The decision was not expected until late The three UAW vice who head bargaining teams at Ford and were expected to ask the International Executive Board to allow them to get the basic industry contract for auto wor Once the target is bargainers will have until to work out details of that Hijacking ended Would limit WASHINGTON UPI The National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer for the time being at oppose routine Xray screening of women under 50 at their breast cancer detection centers in 27 NCI and ACS officials took this stand in interim guidelines sent Monday to directors of the jointly sponsored which have screened women since the program began in Program coordinator Richard Costlow said the guidelines should help the centers decide when to use Xray mammography until NCI chief Frank Rauscher receives two reports on the subject and makes a final decision within the next several Rauscher ordered teams to work on effects of Xray screening after a staff scientist said the risks of mam causing cancer in younger women might be greater than the benefits of spotting early signs of the disease in that age Scientists generally agree the benefits of mammography outweigh any risks for women over the age group where twothirds of all breast cancer cases said the letter mailed to clinics CAIRO UPI Six Egyptian army commandos disguised as airline mechanics used the Chinese art of Kung Fu to overpower three Palestinian hijackers and free 86 hostages unharmed at Luxor a government source said Premier Mamdouh Salem blamed Mondays hijacking on Libyan leader and the newspaper Al vowed that wont escape from the hands of President Anwar All three hijackers were one in the commando Salem said He said all were although one carried a Kuwaiti and another a Jor danian passport The third had Palestinian travel documents Salem described all three as members of a Libyan saboteur group and said they were promised if they brought the plane to The hijackers commandeered the Boeing 737 carrying 92 other passengers and a sixman crew as it flew from Cairo to a winter resort 450 miles to the south They held a knife to the pilots throat and demanded he fly to but when he persuaded them the plane was short on fuel they agreed to land at Luxor There they threatened to blow up the plane unless it was refueled and demanded the release of five Arab prisoners held in Egypt While government officials negotiated with the hijackers from the airport control an army officer crept under the plane and let the air out of its tires The officials persuaded the hijackers to release a dozen women and then told the Palestinians the plane had mechanical problems The com disguised as airline boarded the aircraft to examine it They left to pick up the necessary spare Salem returning several times until they won the hijackers confidence Then they using the martial art of Kung Ku to overpower the hijackers in a official sources said They also were armed with iron tools they had been carrying in their mechanics kits Weather Clear and cool with patchy valley fog Low in the mid Sunshine with some cloudiness by High in the mid mostly easterly 5 to 15 mph today and variable The chance of rain is near zero today and tonight and 10 per cent The high occurred at 3 and the low at 6 There was no and the barometer at read and Temperatures were 76 3 84 6 78 9 65 58 3 57 6 9 and Should they as has been the case in the past three negotiating the target com pany could be struck while its com continue to build The other two companies will not begin hard bargaining again until the pattern is But they will be expected to match the basic agreement and provide what the union calls frosting on the cake in the way of added fringe Selection of the strike target is the biggest guessing game in the Motor City every three The UAW claims no decision is made until the IEB If anybody they arent one industry executive And those who are talking dont Key UAW demands after five weeks of contract talks were improvements in the annual 3 per cent wage unproved funding of a special layoff and additional paid days off each year in addition to 15 paid holidays and an average 15 days of vacation each Company bargainers have called the demands massive and The union will enter the final stage of auto contract talks with a million war enough to pay strike benefits to GM members for two 16 to 17 weeks at Ford and 22 weeks at The union has already said it would not select financially troubled American Car dealers code sought CINCINNATI i UPI Ohio Attorney General William Brown has proposed that a uniform code be adopted nationwide to combat dishonest car Speaking Monday to the Midwest Regional Conference of the National Association of Attorneys he said the problem of dealers rolling back odometers has reached epidemic proportions in Ohio because there arent enough laws to control 1 am proposing that all states adopt a law which not only prohibits odometer rollbacks but requires that the odometer record of any automobile become a permanent part of the title history of that Brown If you sell a used the odometer reading of that car should be per recorded on that he
