Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - March 1, 1973, Zanesville, Ohio County Revises Federal Funds Plan By ROBERT WOLF TR Staff Reporter County commissioners have had a change of heart in how they intend to spend some of the county's federal revenue sharing funds it was learned Wednesday About three weeks ago the commissioners said they would spend some of the funds this year to make needed repairs to roads and bridges but now according to Commissioner President Joe Grimm the county intends to move slowly He said significant sums from these funds will not be available for any county projects until next January 1 We have decided that we don't want to commit ourselves right now to any Grimm said in revealing that a number of community organizations have requested the revenue sharing funds be allocated to keep their programs alive President Nixon recently ordered a cutoff in funds for some of the programs The county is in a sound financial position right now and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize that Grimm added Furthermore some funds should always be kept in reserve in the event of some local catastrophe It would be unwise for us to spend this money too quickly The county can expect about from the federal government in 1973 in the form of revenue sharing payments The commissioners indicated the revenue sharing funds received in 1972 would be used as a on the planned county jail office building complex cording to Grimm some of the 1973 funds might also be used for that purpose Grimm emphasized however that the county intends to conduct its normal yearly way and bridge using the regularly allocated highway funds According to Grimm once we receive a list of roads and bridges which need repair from County Engineer Loren Camp we will advertise for bids and then sign contracts up to the point of available funding The cost of resurfacing roads has gone up about a mile in the last four years and with a current cost of a mile there is only so much that we will be able to do T h e commissioners em- however that one project they are pushing for and are hoping to have com- before the Zane Trace Commemoration in mid June is a facelifting of the lift span on the Many obstacles have been put in our path but we are determined to do everything we can to get the job Grimm said Funding for improving roads and bridges now comes from three main the auto license tax a portion of the regular car license fee and a portion of the state gasoline tax which is allocated to counties under a complicated formula using the number of registered motor vehicles in each county as its base Be venue sharing funds received in 1972 were invested in federal treasury bills and the commissioners indicated that 1973 funds would be similarly invested at least for the time being Grimm noted that many of the community organizations requesting funds from the county are loaded down with administrators and employes and added that much of the money received by these organizations never gets to those for whom it is intended Today's Chuckle I believe In acupuncture needles to say Paul quoted by Earl Wilson PAGES A Your Good Morning Newspaper ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 MARCH 1 19 73 Weather FORECAST Increasing cloudiness and wanner with highs in the low 50s Chance of showers Friday Details on Page TEN CENTS Communists To Resume Release Of U.S POWs PARIS UPI The North Vietnamese agreed Wednesday to resume the release of American prisoners of war possibly this only after- the United States ordered operations and troop withdrawals halted in Vietnam The Communists action to clear the way toward settling the most serious diplomatic crisis since the Jan 27 Vietnam cease-fire U.S officials said they would continue to boycott international conference on Vietnam however until the Communists produced the list of the next POW release group The North Vietnamese deci- sion was reached after a private meeting here between Hanoi's foreign minister en Duy Trinh and Secretary of State William P Rogers Trinh assured Rogers that all can prisoners would be released by the deadline set by the Paris agreement according to U S spokesman Robert J McCloskey The crisis began Tuesday when North Vietnam announced it would not release any more POWs until certain conditions were met including improved working conditions for the Communist parties meeting in South Vietnam and strict adherence to the peace accords Tuesday had been the uled release date for the next batch of U.S prisoners The U S responded by halting troop withdrawals from South Vietnam postponing operations off Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam and refusing to in the Paris tions A source close to the North Vietnamese Paris delegation told UPI that Rogers to take into consideration the Communist position McCloskey read a White House announcement at the Paris conference With regard to the next phase which under the proto- cols this week Foreign Minister Trinh said the matter would be discussed at once with the Joint Military Commission in order to work out the detailed White House spokesman Ronald ler said We have every expectation that the agreement will be kept Brezhnev May Visit America Park Pollution With temperatures in the 40s and a bright sun all day yesterday many people were ont enjoying the weather The Times Recorder visited Putnam Hill Park and was greeted by this scene close to the shelter house Beer bottles beverage cans food boxes and general junk was scattered about the entire park Including the area around the overlook where most visitors stop to view the Soldier Shot BELFAST UPI A er's bullet killed a British soldier Wednesday as he handed candy bars to members of his lollipop patrol that guards Catholic children to and from school Troops ly swept the area and rioting broke Resolutions Die WASHINGTON UPI The House Armed Services tee voted unanimously day to kill resolutions introduced by men demanding a full Defense Department accounting for the heavy December air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong Search Ends BERLIN UPI The long search for Adolf Hitler's former deputy Martin Bormann has ended with identification of Ms skeleton found buried in the rubble of World War H West German justice authorities said Wednesday Israel Condemned UNITED NATIONS UPI The International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO day condemned by an almost unanimous vote Israel's ing of a Libyan civil aircraft last week and ordered a complete investigation into the incident Inside Index 10 B B A A B B National A Sports B B Women's A WASHINGTON UPI The Agriculture Department ed Wednesday that the typical American family's yearly food increased at the highest rate on record in January due to soaring farm prices that since then the farm prices have jumped yet again to record levels In its report on the January retail price picture the ment said the cost of an average family's food basket for the year increased last month by 2.7 per cent or the sharpest rise since the government began keeping monthly records in 1947 And after attributing to Democrats Economic WASHINGTON UPI Speaking for all congressional Democrats Sen William roire Wednesday charged dent Naxon with fueling inflation permitting excessive unemployment and allowing a further devaluation of the dollar in world trade The Wisconsin senator vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee was chosen by Democrats on Capitol Hill to reply to Nixon's radio address to the nation last week The networks provided equal time We vigorously protest the grave economic mistakes of the President that would do little about unemployment and are pushing us into an inflation that will cost your pocketbook said Proxmire Our answer is to cut inflationary military and for- eign aid spending and channel some but not all of these funds burgeoning prices for raw agriculture products exempt from government controls the department followed up with a report that the cost of those products rose 3 per cent to a new record high in the month ended Feb 15 still more retail boosts Pacing the increased prices for raw farm products now 22 per cent above iast year's level were beef cattle up to per hundredweight and hogs up to Both were record highs although they were partially offset by lower farm prices ior wheat eggs and corn Protest Mistakes into programs that will not only make for a more humane America but a stronger try and one in which housing will be built the unskilled labor trained and the food produced to hold down the prices you pay WASHINGTON UPI et Communist Party leader Leonid I Brezhnev would like to accept President Nixon's invitation to visit the United States this year and is considering the possibility of coming in June diplomatic sources said Wednesday But sources said that much would depend on whether Congress will grant the Soviet Union the most favored nation trading treatment vided for in the trade agreement of October 1972 The White House would neither confirm nor deny the report saying that no date for the Brezhnev visit has been set A Soviet Embassy spokesman said he had no firm information on the visit but expected it to take place this year The report of Brezhnev's visit surfaced at a trade conference at the Shoreham Hotel which has been organized by the National Association of Soviet diplomats attending the conference gave the sion that the timing of the visit is one of the subjects which Soviet F Dobrynin is currently ing in Moscow with Brezhnev and the other Soviet leaders Dobrynin had been expected to address the conference Wednesday but in his absence Yuli Vorontsov Dobrynin's No 2 man at the Soviet Embassy filled in Federal officers exchanged gunfire Wednesday with militant In- dians who seized the settlement of Wounded Knee on the Reservation in South Dakota taking hostages as they did so They took over the tiny Roman Catholic Church on the at right shown In 1971 file photo In foreground is a marker for the site of the Wounded Knee massacre in which the U.S Cavalry killed 200 Sioux in 1890 PINE RIDGE UPI Militant Indians holding at least 10 persons hostage in the historic settlement of Wounded Knee exchanged gunfire with federal officers Wednesday and fired on cars and planes that dared within rifle range Federal FBI agents and Bureau of Indian Affairs police using two ar- mored personnel carriers rounded the Oglala Sioux hamlet near where the Indians forefathers fought their last tragic battle with the U.S Cavalry 83 years ago A trading post and a church at the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation settlement were occupied Tuesday night by from 200 to 300 members of the American Indian Movement The embattled Indians relayed demands to Washington that the Senate Foreign tions Committee hold hearings oh treaties made with the Indians that the Senate start a full-scale investigation of government treatment of the Indians and that another inquiry be launched into all Sioux reservations in South Dakota They vowed they would stay in Wounded Knee until they got answers from the federal but pledged no harm by Indians would come to the hostages Federal authorities refused to reveal any plans they might have to rout the militants and free the hostages Joseph H Trimbach FBI special agent in charge of the Dakotas and Minnesota said We know of 10 Carter Camp an AM man said We have 10 or 12 East Coast Sale Rocked By Earthquake 2 Angus cows with Charolais calves at side 674 always seems to be a market for good livestock and this small ad brought a buyer for the cows and calves advertised The ad was celed and the livestock sold at small cost to the advertiser When you have cows cats canaries or candles them fast with a Want Ad For best results try our low 10 day plan 3 lines for 10 days for Cancel when you get results and pay for the days used Ph Ask for Classified McBride Is Named United Way Director Underworld Figure Convicted MIAMI UPI A federal court jury convicted Meyer Lansky of contempt day giving the Justice ment a victory in the opening round of its prosecution of the wizened little man accused of being the top money manipulator Lansky 70 watched without emotion as the jury of eight women and four men delivered its verdict The contempt charge grew out of failure to answer the subpoena of a grand jury investigating gambling here in 1971 After the judge the jurors and most of the spectators had left the courtroom Lansky walked over to give a firm handshake to prosecutor gald McMillan head of the Jus tic e Departments anti- crime strike force here attorney moved immediately for acquittal and was given two weeks by federal Judge James Lawrence King to prepare his motion PHILADELPHIA UPI A rare earthquake rumbling like muffled artillery fire prised and frightened sleepy residents early Wednesday along the nation's heavily populated northeast corridor from Trenton to timore The tremor which reached a maximum reading of 4.0 on the open-end Richter scale shook houses trees and windows routed persons from bed and sent animals scurrying for cover But there were no injuries and only minor age The only the in the area in 245 years and the first since Dec 10 more than telephone calls to local police switchboards Dr Shelton Alexander head of the Geophysics Department at Pennsylvania State ty where the earthquake had a 3.5 seismograph reading said there was no way the quake could be related to a more intense earthquake that struck the sparsely inhabited group of Soviet Union Kurile Islands in the northern Pacific earlier Wednesday Barry J McBride 28 was named Wednesday as the new executive director of Muskingum County United Way Ralph United Way president announced McBride who has served as executive director of Muskingum Alcoholism Center since Aug 2 1972 will assume his new post March 15 Ke replaces E DeLucia who resigned Jan If to take a position as United Fund campaign director in Des Moines Iowa McBride a Cambridge native graduated from Ohio University with an AB degree in English and speech and has doac graduate work at OU and Ohio State University in organizational communication He served as head football coach and occupational work experience coordinator at Meadowbrook High School near Byesville before joining the alcoholism center In his new position McBride will serve as administrator and will coordinate the annual campaign budget allocation and operational activities of United Way and its 19 member agencies BARRY J McBRIDE He will also coordinate the cooperative services programing of member cies and will assist in development of improved services through member agency programs McBride and his wife Candy currently reside at Seneca Lake and will relocate in the ZanesviEe area soon Governors Confused By Budget WASHINGTON UPI The White House failed to clear up fears and confusion among Democratic governors about President Nixon's budget re- forms Wednesday and left some Republican governors fall of questions too The state executives met with John D- Ehrlichman and other senior presidential advisers for 2 JA hours at the White House on the current uproar over federal aid and then were bused to the Capitol for a luncheon session with leaders of both parties A report of both meetings was given by Gov Marvin Handel Maryland Democrat and chairman of the National Governors Conference Dale Bumpers of Arkansas man of the Democratic nors caucus and Linwood Holton of Virginia chairman of the Republican Governors sociation We were assured think we were assured there will be no less money in fiscal 1974 starting July 1 than la fiscal Mandel said
