Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - August 7, 1973, Zanesville, Ohio te PORTSMOUTH Ohio A Scioto County Grand jury Monday returned indictments against Wayne Lester an inmate of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility and guard Ronald Pratt in connection with the July 24 shooting deaths of two guards at the prison Raney already serving a tence on a murder conviction from Montgomery Indicted In Ohio Prison Deaths County was indicted on a degree murder count in tion with the death of guard Arthur Sprouse Pratt 29 Portsmouth was in- on a count of conveying weapons into a penal institution and assisting in an attempt to escape Sprouse was killed by a single bullet from a 25 caliber revolver officials said was gled into the prison The jury also issued a cial recommendation that its members were shocked and appalled with the security con- ditions at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility and ed that Gov John J Gilligan take immediate and ate action to insure the safety of the personnel inmates and the citizens of Scioto County and to protect the property of the state of Ohio The jury was called at t h e request of Scioto County Everett Burton after two guards were fatally shot at the new prison a Lucasville Prison officials said Raney was released from his cell ter asking to clean it then took three guards hostage and shot Sprouse in the head A second guard Gary Under- wood 24 was fatally shot 90 minutes later while guards tried to subdue Raney A state Highway Patrol revealed Underwood was hit by gunfire from er guard Raney and Pratt were to be arraigned Thursday morning before Scioto County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Canter Raney was returned to the Southern Ohio Correctional Pratt is in jail here ing a sentence on an sault and charge ming from a fight in a local tavern in February The grand jury heard from 13 witnesses including Highway Patrol investigators corrections officers inmates and a local citizen At the conclusion of its report the jury issued the following The grand jury of S c i o I o County is shocked and appalled with the security conditions ex- isting at the Southern Ohio Cor- Facility Lucasville Ohio including the ease with which weapons narcotics end other contraband flow into the facility It is the recommendation of this grand jury that Everett Burton prosecuting attorney of Sciolo County Ohio cause a copy of this report to be for- warded immediately to the John J Gilligan ernor of the Stale of Ohio request that immediate and appropriate action be taken through the facilities at the disposal to insure the safely of the personnel inmates the citizens of Scioto County Ohio and to protect the erty of the State of Ohio Today's Chuckle One nice thing about children is that they don't tell boring stories about clever things their parents said The Times Recorde 16 PAGES Your Good Morning ZANESVILLE OHIO 43701 TUESDAY AUGUST 7 1973 r U.S Bombs Smash Cambodian Village Today's Weather FORECAST Sunny and warm with highs in the tipper 80s Fair night with lows in the upper CDs De- tails on Page TEN CENTS PHNOM PENH UPI American warplanes mistaken- ly dumped tons of bombs on the Cambodian town of Luong Monday blasting much of the Mekong Paver port into rubble and killing or wounding dreds in the worst accidental air strike of the Indochina war Cambodian Air Force officers estimated total dead and wounded in the thunderous pre- dawn bombing which caught most of the town's residents in bed at between 300 and 700 civilians and soldiers One officer who took part in rescue operations said it was too early to accurately break down casualties but he the toll might ly run as high as 100 dead and 600 wounded The tragedy took place 10 days before the scheduled end to US bombing raids in Cambodia and amid court attempts to halt the operations immediately I was asleep when the noise New Court Ruling Sought In Bombing WASHINGTON UPI Their case dramatized by an errant U.S bombing run that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians lawyers for a New York congresswoman returned to the Supreme Court Monday in another effort to win an im- mediate halt of the bombing in Cambodia Attorneys representing Rep Elizabeth Holtzman and four Air Force officers filed a motion asking Justice Thurgood Marshall to refer the matter to the entire court instead of deciding it himself They also asked him to lift a stay he imposed on an order obtained from Justice William 0 las There was no immediate indication what action the court would take if any The court is in the middle of a summer recess The Congress recently passed a measure ordering a halt in the Cambodian bombing Aug 15 and President Nixon has promised to abide by that deadline Holtzman said Marshall the Supreme Court's own rules Saturday when he issued the stay six hours after Douglas ordered a halt to the bombing said he consulted with the other tices before he stayed Douglas order Under these only a quorum of the Supreme Court and not a single justice can overturn another justice's ing which grants to an applicant the relief she said A Supreme Court quorum is six justices Douglas issued his order from his vacation retreat in ton state when Rep lawyers took the case to him They asked him to overturn Marshall's original order last week which upheld a U.S Court of Appeals stay of the anti- bombing order The original injunction was issued July 25 by District Court Judge Orrin Judd in Brooklyn The appeals court scheduled a hearing for Wednesday after Marshall acted Saturday of the planes woke said Poch Thong 35 lying on a cut alongside her husband and three children in a Phnom Penh hospital I didn't see the planes I didn't know what happened There were conflicting re- ports about the number and type of U.S aircraft involved in the bombing One of the victims said four Fill took part in the mistaken air strike but the Pentagon claimed one big bomber dropped part of its payload short of the intended target The wounded told newsmen the air strike flattened town hall hospital army base navy outpost and scores of houses A Cambodian Air Force officer who helped evacuate the victims said he counted at least 50 dead sprawled around the battered ferry town and another 50 buried in the rubble Other rescue workers calculated the wounded at from 300 to 600 More than 200 of the wounded civilians and soldiers were taken by helicopters and boats to nine hospitals in Phnom Penh 32 miles northwest of the destroyed town The river boats packed with bandaged women and children crying for help were still arriving in the capital Monday night a half-day after the bombing The rising costs of raising beef cattle have caused Sherwood manager of Rocky Run Farm in McLean Va near Washington D C to tarry a shotgun as a defense against possible poachers as he tends a Black Angus herd Meat Confusion Reigns Here By A JANE GOOKINS And ROBERT WOLF TR Staff Reporters Local meat retailers are closing their doors to play golf wholesalers say they don't even have hamburger meat to sell while at the same time local livestock sales Monday were higher than usual as confusion reigns in the beef industry According to Gibson president of Gibson Packing Company of Maysville Pike our supply of meat is drying up fast and we only have two days of hamburger left We just can't afford to pay the prices asking for beef We can't afford to lose 10 to 15 cents a he argues Prices at Monday's auction at the Livestock Sales Company on Lee street were higher for fat cattle then they had been last week but Hal Everett auctioneer at the sales said 50 more head were sold today than usual All our customers aie getting the full amount of beef they Everett says Among the customers is Gibson Packing Company and berger Brothel's Meat of Willow street However as in the case of t h e Gibson Company a spokesman for Brothels say beef is becoming very scarce and I don't know how we will manage after this According to the company spokesman ning next week oar store will be closed Monday and Tuesday The prices are just too high on the live market However our wholesale will remain open weekdays A spokesman for Carl berger Inc of Dietz lane a third major area packer lamented we can't afford to buy meat or kill them because we can't afford to sell at the ceiling price imposed by tie Cost of Living Council However neither Everett Gibson nor any of the company spokesmen were willing or able to speculate for the record as to who is buying all the meat locally or how the purchasers can afford to buy beef at the inflated prices and still sell it at a profit un- der current price ceiling regulations Pat Luby vice-president of Oscar Meyer Company raised the possibility Friday in the course of a Times Recorder interview that farmers and others might decide to sell Page Sect Gray Warned President News Digest WASHINGTON UPI L Patrick Gray ni testified Monday that he alerted dent Nixon three weeks after Watergate of possibly illegal conduct of White House aides But the former acting FBI chief added his efforts to expand the FBI probe into political originally were blocked by superiors In the strongest direct timony against the President since John W Dean IH left the witness chair Gray also told the Senate Watergate tee he believed that two Nixon aides were acting for when they ordered him to destroy related files just 11 days after the June 17 1972 bugging arrests Gray said that in a tion on July he gave the President a warning that was adequate to put him on notice that his aides and John D Ehrlichman were involved in improper and possibly illegal activities When Nixon did not ask him to elaborate he said fre thought maybe he was being an alarmist Nonetheless Gray said Attorney General Henry E Petersen then in charge of the Watergate case in the Justice Department once ed a suggestion that the FBI expand its investigation into called political dirty allegedly conducted by Donald H Segretti and others on behalf of President Nixon's re-election campaign scope of this tion was determined by the Department of Justice Gray said I think I can say that without fear of contradiction because is documentary evidence before this committee of my efforts in October to include political activity within the scope of this investigation There is also documentary evidence before this committee of my attempts again in December to include political activity within the scope of this investigation He said Petersen in October did not feel there was sufficient factual evidence on which to go into that but the investigation finally did get underway in December Petersen was expected to testify before the committee later in the week Mars Probe Launched By MOSCOW UPI The Soviet Union said Monday another unmanned Mans craft launched Sunday joining two others that began the journey toward the red planet last month Western space experts said information released by the Soviets suggested Mars the tray attempt a soft landing on upon arrival next March Th agency said Mars 6 differs somewhat in from the two previous spaceships 11 also said Mats 6 VL ill use equipment of Mars in out part of its scientific exploration Western said this suggested Mars 4 and -5 maj be rat into orbit around the planet and serve as communications links to earth for Mars 6 Mars 4 was launched July 21 and Mars 5 July 25 They are scheduled Mars next February Million Spent For Nixon Security WASHINGTON UPI agencies acting under presidential orders disclosed Monday that -59.9 million had been spent over the past four years to protect President Nixon and his family at facilities outside Washington Gerald L Warren deputy White House press secretary said the information was being released by the ices Administration the Defense Department and the Secret on Nixon's orders to dispel the notion that the expenditures had the value of the Presidents property at taxpayer expense He also said Nixon had invited representatives of House and Senate committees investigating the expenditures to visit his properties at Key Biscayne Fla and San te Calif and see for themselves the work that has been According to the figures tne armed forces spent million primarily for communications at the President's favorite vacation the Secret Service spent less than for security devices at the homes of the President's daughters and the GSA spent million to office space and outlays Of this amount the military expects to be able to recover in reusable equipment the Secret Service expects lo recover all of its approximately outlay arid the GSA bad no estimate of what was recoverable Arthur F Sampson the head justified the ly spent on the grounds around the California home as necessary for He said was spent on exterior and alarm for walls fences and screening for landscaping to meet tive needs and to restore landscaping torn up by the installation of underground devices and for design and inspection work Visit Planned TOKYO UPI Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka will visit Moscow in October for talks Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I nev the government said Monday Coin men I COLUMBUS UPI State Rehabilitation and Corrections Director Bennett Cooper day night refused to comment on the Scioto County grand jury returning two indictments in the 24 shootings at the Southern Ohio Correctional Due UPI The administration will appeal all federal court rulings against the withholding of appropriated health funds and will refuse to spend the money until the appeals are exhaled Welfare Secretary Caspar W er said Monday Guards s The tral Labor Federation CUT ordered its activists Monday to truard public works bus and buses in the torn strikes have crippled ground transportation for 10 davs Strong Man Batista Dies MARBELLA Spam UPI Fulgencio Batista strong man of Cuba directly and indirectly for two decades before Fidel Castro overthrew him in 1959 died a peaceful death day in a golf resort on the Costa del Sol his family said Ruben Batista one of his five surviving sons said the ex- dictator 72 died in his bed at 3 10 p m EOT Sunday of an apparent heart and will be buried in Madrid Tuesday It was a peaceful Ruben said of the man who to some was the epitome of the Lalin American right-wing tary strongman and to others a benevolent despot Papa complained about ing ill after a late Sunday dinner It appears he died suddenly and without feeling any pain Ruben said Batista will be buried in a family m Madrid and not be brought back to Cuba until our country is free Ruben said Batista fled Cuba New Year's Eve of with most of bis government and spent Ktmc lime in the neighboring can Republic before leaving for to take up a life of exile Terrorists Face Trial ATHENS UPI Greece indicating it finally may be cracking down on Arab said Monday it would prosecute two Arabs claiming to be members of the fanatical Black September band who attacked a crowded transit lounge at the Athens airport Sunday with bombs and bullets killing three persons and wounding 55 others Only last month an Arab who had held hostages in an Athens hotel after attempting to break into a downtown El Al Israel Airlines office was allowed free passage to Kuwait A Greek foreign ministry communique said Greek tice will take its course These detestable actions in the names of the Palestinian struggle taking place on the soil of another Country make their perpetrators penal law and provoke the just indignation of the Greek people and the abhorrence of the international the communique said In Jerusalem Israeli Trans- port Minister Shimon Peres said the lenient approach of Greek authorities to the last terrorist attack in Athens contributed to Sunday's events Their lenient approach when the terrorists attacked the El Al station in Athens obviously did not prevent this barbaric second attack Peres said in an interview broadcast bv the national radio Police in Athens said that a representative of several tinian guerrilla organizations there Monday to investigate the incident but had yet to authorities Three of the four grenades thrown by the guerrillas ed while the other was recovered intact the police spokesman said Two Americans and one Austrian died in Sunday's attack The Americans were Albeit 55 of Union and Mrs Jeanie Salanti of Highland Park The was Wolfgang -31 a Vienna lawyer Ten other Americans were ed Rented Quickly 6 RMS BATH Nixon Prefers Dresses Ph Tins investment property was soon rented and is again ing for the owner Put your rental units to work for jou by of the want ads For best results start with the low 10 day plan lines for 10 days ffif WW Cancel when you got results and pay only for the days Pfi for WASHINGTON UPI President Nixon a gentleman of the old school teased a newspaper woman Monday about wearing slacks to the House and made it clear he prefers dresses on women After a in the office the President slood up from his and in a to are vm wearing Do jou them Kvory lime I see carls in slacks it Astronauts Complete Walk HOUSTON UPI The astronauts unfurled a sun shade over America's space station in the longest eier Monday as ground engineers plumbing problems and gave the big orbiting lab a new lease on life The found no signs of a cooling leak outside the ship The engineers said the problem was not as serious as first believed and Skylab be fit for manned flight the rest of the Like repairmen on power poles rookie astronauts Owen K Gamott and Jack K Lousma ran up a silver and white shade flagpole style to protect Skylab from the scaring sun 2 commander Alan L Bean fourth man to walk the moon stayed in the airlock monitoring vital systems Gamott and Lousma put in nearly a full day's work outside the station doubling the record of hours 23 minutes by 1 crew June Bean said they A ere outside 6 hours 31 minutes The walk at p.m EDT and the pilots bart inside by p m when Skylab resumed radio contact wilh mission control after an orbit out of touch with tracking stations which tasks they had com- Lousma replied got it all done Working under a half-moon at times Gamott and aKo reloaded Km m the of mounted on the station and fd two units that failed on fern ship docked to the of Garnott 42 and Lousma 37 erected the shade taking much longer than planned They were outside during four orbits 270 miles above earth traveling at miles per hour me of China Miss Thomas somewhat told the President that women were moving toward Western dress Tin is not said in an uncomplimentary w a y but slates can do something for Kim people and some it can't He hastened to add but I think you do welL Turn around Anon General L FBI Clarence Kelley and other law nfn rials smiling Miss Thomas a the She was wearing white a navy blue jersey shirt long while beads and blue leather shoes with a mm Inside Index otd Edit orals Finant al Ohio Report Pages Women's B 7 B 2 A 4 5 B 2 A 5 B S A
