Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - October 1, 1975, Winona, Minnesota Wednesday's Chapter ends for Park Plaza Today marks the end of a chapter in the history of the 85 year old Park Plaza Hotel as owner Michael Geheren moves out leaving the future of the city's largest hotel uncertain closed the hotel today rather than meet OSHA Some help for consumers Consumers got a bit of a break at the grocery store during September an Associated Press shows But higher prices for coffee butter eggs and pork wiped out most of the savings on beef and sugar The AP survey conducted every month showed overall prices up in six cities and down in much of a break Changes at West Point After months of study the Army says that about all it needs to prepare West Point for its first women cadets is to change the bathrooms around The Army had trouble trying to adapt the tight fitting gray uniform for women but turned that over to outside designers The first women are expected to enter next summer Ali's right wins again Muhammad All delivering a sledge hammer right and a series of one two punches to the head of challenger Joe Frazier claimed a 14th round technical knockout victory and defended his world heavyweight boxing championship in Manila Tuesday night Although another fight is already in the makings for Ali many observers feel Frazier will now 3b Muhammad Ali Nursing home owners indicted A Kandiyohi County grand jury Tuesday indicted the owners of the Willmar Nursing Home on three counts two of theft and one of making false claims The indictment accused the owners of submitting false state claims with intent to Ib A facelift for the Acropolis The Acropolis the year old shrine to the glory of ancient Greece is getting help from home and abroad in a major face lifting effort described as the world's greatest marble restoration operation It will cost more than million and involves experts from all over the secret guest list The names of Wisconsin legislators seeking to take taxpayer financed trips to Philadelphia began to surface Tuesday despite efforts to keep them secret Officials said they wanted to conceal the names for fear it would trigger an avalanche of requests from other assembly The inside Television Daily Colder It'll get cold again tonight the weatherman says with a chance of scattered frost Thursday should see some warming and the weekend 50 far looks pleasant weather details page Va Will Rogers says I see where six members of the Greek cabinet were convicted for negligence I hope that will be a lesson to our notes won't need to pull rabbit from hat to defend Miss Hearst SAN FRANCISCO AP They tell me I am going to have to pull a rabbit out of a hat to defend Patricia Hearst against federal bank robbery charges says attorney F Lee Bailey But the flamboyant Boston attorney who has defended such clients as Dr Sam Shepard and Capt Ernest Medina said Tuesday That's not my impression I've never seen anyone pull a rabbit out of a hat to win a case I don't know-how to pull a rabbit out of a hat Bailey said it won't be an in- surmountable task to obtain a fair trial for Miss Hearst and that defending her will not be an impossible job He said he did not yet know what the hasis of Miss Hearst's defense will be but obviously the state of mind of the defendant will be a big issue in the Bailey said he wanted to determine whether the newspaper heiress is competent to cooperate In her own This involves her ability to com- Two other members of the defense team Terence Hallinan and John Knutson said in court papers Tuesday that Miss Hearst was vacillating In her attitude toward her parents and lawyers and was impatient during discussions of her legal case She would sometimes sit for several minutes staring straight ahead ignoring questions that were put to they said in a document labeled a statement of our concept of Patty Heirst s mental and emotional condition The attorneys said Miss Hearst who underwent four hours of testing by appointed psychiatrist Dr Donald Lunde at Stanford University on Tuesday may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown and seemed to have no idea of the gravity of her position Bailey said he and U.S Ally James L Browning had agreed not to try to set a trial date yet and that the results of Miss Hearst's psychiatric tests will influence when her trial will begin But Bailey he said he could not put a case together this year and he predicted that the trial would not start before 1976 Bailey met with newsmen after at- tending a conference with U.S District Court Judge Oliver J Carter and Browning on ground rules for the psychiatric testing of Miss Hearst Bailey said he wanted doctors to have full access toner Carter appointed three psychiatrists and a psychologist to examine Miss Hearst to see if she is mentally competent to be on an affidavit which she signed The Affidavit said Miss Hearst was brainwashed and tortured by her Liberation Army captors and was forced to participate in the robbery of a San Francisco bank on April IS 1974 But In a conversation with a girlhood friend before the affidavit was submitted Miss Hearst described herself as a revolutionary feminist Excerpts of the tape were made public when they were placed in court records Officials disagree on Moore WASHINGTON AP The Secret Service and San Francisco police officials apparently disagree on whether the police warned federal agents that Sara Jane Moore might be a threat to President Ford At the same time a Secret Service of- says Mrs Moore made five telephone calls to law enforcement agencies on the day she allegedly shot at President Ford in San Francisco last week She called the San Francisco field office of the Secret Service three times and the FBI and San Francisco police once each according to Assistant Secret Service Director James T Burke Each time she called the Secret Service Mrs Moore asked for the agents who had interviewed her the night before and each time she was told they were not in the off ice Burke said The agents she tried to reach were Gary Yauger and Martin Haskell who along with San Francisco Police Inspector Jack O'Shea are scheduled to testify today at a hearing of the Senate subcommittee on Treasury Postal Service and general government appropriations headed by Sen Joseph M Montoya The panel is investigating the Secret Service following two attempts on Ford's life within 17 days Yauger and Haskell interviewed Mrs Moore on Sunday night Sept 21 and the next day she allegedly fired a pistol as Ford left the St Francis Hotel While Interviewing Mrs Moore one of the agents spoke by telephone with O'Shea who bad been Mrs Moore's contact on the San Francisco Police Department According to Burke a Secret Service agent asked O'Shea Do I have a The comment he says he got back was No you have no Burke told the committee Burke said O'Shea described Mrs an informer for the department with no history of violence and wasn't a problem but you guys probably ought to talk to her anyway Asked by Montoya if contacts between Mrs Moore and the agents the sought might have helped prevent the attack she was charged with hours later Burke said I hope so If they had a change in her attitude they would have taken some action He said Yauger and Haskell weighed O'Shea's evaluation and the information they received about Mrs Moore's work for other law enforcement bodies when they decided not a threat to Ford These are influencing Burke said This was not someone off the street She dealt with people in enforcement Daly News year of publication Winona Minnesota October 26 Pages 2 Sections 2 Inserts Senate nears key vote on natural gas WASHINGTON AP The Senate is nearing a vote that could determine whether Americans will have adequate natural gas and how many more billions of dollars they will have to pay for it The Senate arranged a vote this on an amendment by Sen Paul J Fannin that would remove federal controls from the price of virtually all U.S natural gas immediately The proposal is expected to fail but it could indicate how many senators are willing lo let prices climb The dispute over the government's role in pricing is the latest policy battle between Congress and President Ford There is wide agreement that natural gas which heats 55 per cent of U S homes will cost more in the future and on the need to avert any gas shortage this mainly in 14 Eastern states Senate Democrats want to solve that problem before tackling the complex issue of long-range pricing of natural gas But Republicans and senators fearing Congress won't want to act once the emergency is averted are trying to force the long-range question onto any emergency Republicans have a second proposal that would phase out price controls over a period of years The Democrats are standing by with their own long-range solutions which instead of removing price controls would extend them to gas that now is free of controls There are indications that one or two votes could determine whether the Democrats or Republicans will prevail on the long-range question The two sides also disagree on how to handle the threatened shortage of gas this winter Again price is the problem The Democrats led by Sen Ernest F Hollings want to allow pipelines through next June 30 to buy gas directly from the producing Louisiana Texas and for about per unit That is almost 150 per cent above the current price Sen James B Pearson in a solution endorsed by Ford would allow such purchases but without any price coiling at all The Federal Power Commission says either approach would allow the diversion of enough gas to reduce the expected shortage to the manageable levels of 1974 Precautions Chicago police use a metal detector on a crowd Tuesday before President Ford arrived for a speech A woman identified as Carmen Teresa Pulido was arrested in for possession of a handgun AP Terrorists kill 3 in MADRID Spain AP Terrorists shot and killed three policemen and gravely injured a fourth in Madrid today a few hours before more than Spaniards roared their support for Generalissimo Francisco Franco waving to them from the balcony of the National Palace The four coordinated attacks by one or two gunmen on isolated policemen on guard duty signaled bloody defiance of Western Europe's only remaining dictator on the anniversary of Franco's rebellion against democracy at the start of civil war The shots were fired within 15 minutes of each other and four days to the hour after Franco's firing squads executed five terrorists and set off a torrent of foreign protests The attacks occurred on three sides of Madrid in Ilie northern eastern and southern parts of the Spanish capital But there was none in the western part where the National Palace is located One policeman on duty outside a bank in east Madrid was killed instantly Two others died from their wounds later in the morning All the gunmen escaped The government declared a holiday for all factories schools shops and offices Youths in cars and on motorbikes toured the capital and other large cities Tuesday night to whip up enthusiasm Premier Carlos Arias Navarro appealed to the Spanish people to stand fast behind their leader in defiance of the widespread foreign condemnation of the execution of five terrorists last weekend He accused Mexico and other Western nations that condemned the executions of hypocritical and intolerable interference Government officials were stunned and angered by the continuing vehemence of international reaction to the executions even though some of them admitted the military trials of the terrorists had been concluded entirely too hastily These officials said this blunder would not be repeated in the coming trials of 15 Basque and dozens of Maoists charged with terrorism The protests abroad continued but on a lesser scale Amnesty the private organization which works to improve the lot of political prisoners charged that at least 250 Basques had been tortured systematically during May June and July Washington lawyer Thomas Jones who led an Amnesty investigation mission to Spain said the information came from interviews with 45 persons who were tortured lawyers whose clients were tortured and from witnesses to the tures President Ford pledges continued prudent contact with people In season It's October and everybody knows October is pumpkin season not to mention goblin and ghoul season although that comes later in the month The happy pumpkin lover Is Jennifer of Cudahy WIs AP 111 AP President Ford pledging to continue two-way contact with the people by every prudent and tical says he expects to visit by the end of the year the 11 states he has not seen as President Actually Ford told a Republican raising dinner in nearby Chicago Tuesday night that he still had 12 states to go before visiting all 50 However aides later said his speechwriters made a mistake and that he has already visited 39 of states Now in the midst of a two-day Mid- western swing marked by stringent security precautions Ford invited small-town mayors from Illinois Michigan Indiana and Wisconsin to meet with him here this morning before he flies to his native Omaha Neb for a White conference on domestic policy at which the President promised to respond to questions from the floor In his Chicago speech he I can only say that two-way com- with my friends and fellow Americans is for me an essential part of doing my job properly I intend to keep my communications open not in any foolhardy spirit but by every prudent and practical means Following incidents 17 days apart in California in which pulled guns on Ford and one fired in Ins direction new security measures were introduced in Chicago Police with hand-held metal detectors mingled in crowds near the Conrad Hilton Hotel where Ford spoke and a veteran Chicago policeman said security was the tightest since the Democratic convention in 1968 the most policemen ever for a presidential visit About 12 minutes before arrived at the Conrad Hilton police arrested Carmen Teresa Pulido who was allegedly carrying a pistol near the hotel's rear door She was charged witli carrying a concealed weapon and failure to register the gun or carry a state registration card White House officials said the incident had nothing to do with Ford's trip Mrs Pulido works at a currency exchange near the hotel The President himself curtailed his zest for hand shaking limiting his face-to-face contacts to people who had already passed through security cordons Ford told his GOP audience that he has been traveling to all parts of the country to let people know what this ad- ministration is trying to do and also learn what our fellow Americans want us to do Stating that he already had gone to 38 slates as President although he meant 39 he said Before the end of the year I hope and expect to visit the remainder of our states The President will subtract two states from his visiting list next Saturday when he serves as grand marshal for a forest festival in Elkins and addresses a GOP fund-raising dinner in Newark N J
