Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - October 1, 1974, Zanesville, Ohio Surgeons Expect Betty's Prolonged WASHINGTON UPI Betty Ford's doctors reported Monday they found slight traces of cancer cells in the First Lady's lymph tissue but said there was no evidence the disease had spread to other parts of her body ine surgeons said they remain optimistic for Mrs Ford's prolonged survival They said microscopic traces of cancer cells were detected in only two of the 30 lymph nodes removed during Mrs operation Specialists attending a tional Cancer Institute ence on breast cancer said statistics show that for women with one to three positive lymph nodes there is a five-year survival rate of 62 per cent and a survival rate of 38 per cent Mrs Ford underwent surgery to remove her breast Saturday at the Bethesda Navy Medical Center Muscles underlying the breast and lymph glands ex- tending back under her arm also were removed and the lymph tissue was examined by cancer institute pathologists Dr William Fouty the hospital's chief surgeon who performed the operation and Dr William Lukash the White House physician issued a medical bulletin late Monday based on final studies of the lymph tissue removed during the three-hour operation called a radical mastectomy Examination of the tissue in the area removed at surgery showed microscopic involvement of cancer in only two out of 30 nodes the medical bulletin said There was no ment in local blood vessels Considering that only two of the lymph nodes were ved the report said and there is no clinical evidence of cancer spread other areas her doctors remain optimistic Analysis of the lymph tissue is important because if cancer cells get into the lymph system they can be carried throughout the body and additional cancers may develop Doctors said the pathological examination showed no ment of cancer in local blood vessels another route through which cancer can spread through the body Special diagnostic studies will now be performed to determine whether Mrs Ford must undergo X-ray therapy hormonal or chemotherapy to ensure maximum treatment of this cancer and decrease the chances of additional cancer developing doctors said A spokesman at Bethesda said Mrs Ford 56 spent Monday quietly up in bed walking a bit and eating food instead oi being fed in- that she had no visitors The President canceled plans for a morning visit to the hospital because of a tight working schedule after being told that his wife's condition was very but was expected to go there later in the day Today's Chuckle Sign on a This Place Protected by Poverty Nothing Here Worth The Times Recorder Today's Weather FORECAST and continued cool with highs in the Partly cloudy tonight with lows near Details on Page Year Vol 274 18 Pages Your Good Morning Newspaper Ohio 43701 Tuesday October 1 1974 1 AD Ford Pledges Effort Inflation WASHINGTON UPI President Ford said Monday inflation has gone far beyond levels that the world can tolerate and pledged the United States to help solve problem through cooperation in trade monetary policy and other means Addressing the opening sion of a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the President We want solutions which serve broad interests rather than narrow self-serving ones We want more cooperation not more isolation We want trade not protectionism We want price stability not inflation We want growth not stagnation We want a better life for selves and our children Ford turned his attention to global economic problems just two days after completion of the domestic summit meeting aimed at seeking solutions to the nation's own ills including burgeoning inflation and ployment At the White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the President was very pleased with the summit and that he will be spending a good deal of time on economic matters in the days ahead as his economic advisers sort out alternative proposals presented at the conference Summing up the world situation the President said in his prepared The problems that confront us today are serious and complex worldwide in- at a rate far in excess of what we ckn tolerate un- paralleled disruption in the supply of the world's commodities and severe hindrances to the growth and the progress of nations including in particular some of the poorest among us We in America view these problems soberly and without rose-tinted glasses But we believe that the same spirit of international cooperation which brought forth the Bretton Woods agreements a generation ago can resolve the difficulties we face today The Bretton Woods pact reached at a conference in New Hampshire in 1944 included creation of the World Bank and President To Appear Pardon Answers Due Soviets Watch NATO Exercise A Soviet intelligence gathering ship foreground approaches the British assault ship HMS Fearless during the NATO exercise Northern Merge in the North Sea The picture was taken from the British command carrier HMS Hermes Some 180 ships 750 aircraft and men are taking part in the exercise and the Soviets have continued a close surveillance throughout Illness Too Dangerous For Travel Nixon Testimony Ruled Out 4 Nixon was marked LONG BEACH Calif UPT Former President Nixon's illness is dangerous enough that he will not be able to travel for prolonged periods for at least a month and possibly three months ruling out his early testimony in the Watergate cover-up trial his doctor said Monday At a specially called news conference at Long Beach Memorial Hospital which Nixon entered a week ago Dr John C Lungren said he ex- final reports on Nixon's diagnoses by Wednesday Lungren said Nixon might be released from the hospital by the end of the week but would require an extensive period of convalescence for his phlebitis Butz Sees More Food Price Hikes WASHINGTON UPI spite a recent drop in the average price of raw farm products Agriculture Secretary Earl L Butz predicted Monday that supermarket shoppers can expect to see food prices rise another 8 to 10 per cent by the end of next year The anticipated retail in- crease a result of a grain shortage born in the spring rains that delayed planting or washed out crops and in the summer drought that did even more damage would come on tcp of the 12 per cent food price hike already registered this year But the retail prices showed Kissinger To Visit Mideast NEW YORK UPI tary of State Henry A Kissinger announced Monday he will visit the Middle East Oct on a promoting mission while re- porting some progress in seeking a solution for the Cyprus conflict Ambassador Robert 0 An- derson Kissinger's spokesman announced the whirlwind Middle East tour simultaneously with the State Department in Washington The purpose is to continue consultations on the future course of negotiations looking towards a just and lasting peace in the Middle East Anderson also reported that Kissinger after breakfasting for two hours with Turkish Foreign Minister Turan Gunes feels progress is being made in clarifying positions with regard to a peaceful solution in Cyprus U.S officials said that inger does not currently plan to combine his forts in the Middle East with those on Cyprus by stopping in Nicosia during his four-day trip to Cairo Damascus Amman and Jerusalem no apparent relationship to what the farmer is getting Butz prediction came shortly before the Agriculture ment released figures showing that lower prices for livestock and key grains allowed the average raw farm product price to fall 2 per cent in the month ending Sept 15 Agriculture experts while believe the food price outlook for the next 18 months could be even bleaker than Butz predicted because of last week's premature frost in the midwest which will reduce both the quality and the quantity of this year's crops Butz said price hikes that can be forecast now will be gradual with perhaps 2 or 3 per cent more this year and the remainder coming in 1975 Retail food prices have already increased 12 per cent during the first nine months of this year amount of in- crease originally forecast for the entire year Butz in- he believes the worst may be over The big increases are behind us and I think it is extremely fortunate that they are behind he said We may get an 8 to 10 percent in- crease in the next 18 months Most of that will be the result of inflation Butz was interviewed on the CBS Morning News The agriculture chief blamed the sharp food price increases so far this year on weather conditions in the Midwest Straw Sells Straw for sale per bale The advertiser who placed this ad canceled it after selling the straw If you have straw or other item you want to sell just place a Classified ad in The Times Recorder Try our 3 line ad for 10 days for Cancel when you get results during office hours and pay for the number of days the ad appears Call The Times Recorder at ask for Classified and blood clot condition We will avoid protracted periods of sitting of riding of standing of riding in a car airplane bus you have said Lungren in describing Nixon's limitations The doctor was asked how long a period of such tions would continue I can't tell Lungren said It's certainly going to be in my estimation at least a month maybe longer Maybe three months In all honesty I don't know Lungren did say that Nixon's condition was such that he would recommend that Nixon not even give a written deposition in the Watergate coverup case scheduled to begin Tuesday in Washington for at least two or three weeks Further tests will be ed this week to determine the course of future treatment he said Lungren said there was no indication at the present time that there was any need for surgery but that therapy by would con- A medical bulletin issued earlier in the day said that Nixon was showing marked physical and that he was able to get out of bed only for portions of the day to sit in a reclining chair with his left leg elevated A newsman asked Lungren what has contributed to such exhaustion Twenty-seven years without Lungren said Five and one-half years in the job in the world An illness that he has had at least since June and the longest hospital stay he has ever had Lungren said the immediate acute danger probably has passed The doctor was asked about Nixon's spirits I think they're excellent a little not going to use that the doctor said with a laugh He's a little stirred up Another newsman asked him whether Nixon's fall from the presidency had contributed to his illness whether he had been hurt by it I don't think that he would be human if he wasn't hurt and I think he is a very human Lungren said But that wasn't the ciple reason WASHINGTON UPI President Ford told a House subcommittee Monday he would appear in person within the next 10 days to answer its questions about why he issued a full pardon to former President Nixon In a surprise move Ford sent Rep William L Hungate a letter shortly before 8 p.m EDT telling him I expect to appear personally to respond to the questions raised in two resolutions of inquiry con- the pardon If Ford appears person before the subcommittee he would become only the third sitting President in U.S history to appear before a congressional panel according to White House researchers It would be my desire to arrange this hearing before your subcommittee at mutually convenient time within 10 Ford said in his letter Ford had been given until the end of the day Monday to reply to 14 questions posed by two members of Congress asking the background his Sept 8 unconditional pardon The don freed Nixon from any prosecution for crimes he may have committed while dent The pardon angered Con- gress and Reps Bella Abzug and John Conyers D- Mich introduced resolutions of inquiry demanding an tion Hungate said in reply to Ford's offer I am impressed Ford's desire to set the record straight sonally It is consistent with the frankness and openness he displayed as a congressman I trust his appearance will make a positive step toward putting the final chapter of the Watergate affair on the public record so we may at last close this book Hungate had asked Ford in a letter two weeks ago to explain the reasons behind his pardon Ford answered that he or his counsel had already answered those questions in news con- the transcripts of which Ford sent Congress That response angered the subcommittee members again and they decided to demand again answers to their tions and to insist that Ford send his counsel Philip chen or someone equally knowledgeable about the don decision to testify before the panel Tuesday Hungate head of the House Judiciary Criminal Justice sub- committee gave Ford until last Thursday evening to respond but the White House requested an extension Hungate granted a 24-hour extension but Ford became preoccupied with his wife's pending operation for breast cancer and said he would not be able to meet the new deadline He asked for a Monday evening deadline and got it the IMF in an attempt to stabilize world monetary and other financial policies Ford said Treasury Secretary William E Simon will during the current con- ference speak in greater detail on how we view these problems and how think they can be solved You will help to decide how it can best be Ford said of the aims he spelled out The United States is prepared to join with your governments and play a constructive leadership role During the two-day economic summit which ended Saturday the assembled experts agreed that both inflation and ployment are getting farther and farther out of hand reached no consensus on what can be done about them Ford closed the session in a speech urging ordinary Americans to help both by economizing themselves and by offering suggestions to him personally A White House source said Sunday that administration economists are discussing in- creasing gasoline taxes by a dime a gallon to help fight inflation The idea drew stiff opposition Monday from ing members of the House Ways and Means Com- and from other bers of Congress White House Studies Gasoline Tax Jump News Digest Senate Votes To Halt Turkish Military Aid WASHINGTON UPI The Senate Monday voted to cut off military aid to Turkey but killed an attempt to ban all U.S aid to the world's oil ex- porting countries The Senate approved an amendment by Sen Thomas F Eagleton that would prohibit aid to any country using U.S weapons in violation of laws governing their use The Senate was reacting to Turkey's invasion of Cyprus Earlier the Senate killed an amendment by Sen Frank Church to deny any aid to the oil exporting tries in retaliation for huge oil price increases set by the Organization of Petroleum Ex- porting Countries The Church amendment was killed The Eagleton amendment to the pending continuing tion on foreign aid won over- whelming approval despite arguments by Democratic er Mike Mansfield that the Senate should not interfere with Cyprus negotiations being un- by Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger Mansfield said that passage of the resolution will undermine the efforts Kissinger amendment would deny military aid to any country but it was clearly aimed solely at Turkey The secretary has been Eagleton said that the letter and the spirit of American law require an immediate cutoff of military assistance to Turkey which more than two months ago violated its bilateral arms agreement with the United States by using American weapons to intervene in prus He said Recipient nations must understand that American weapons cannot be used to wage war with American allies GM Plant Idled LORDSTOWN Ohio UPI A General Motors Corp spokesman said a strike at a supplier plant forced the shutdown of the van assembly plant at the giant GM complex here Monday Dead Sea Oil Sought TEL AVIV UPI An American gas drilling company is conducting preliminary tests in a search for oil below the Dead Sea a newspaper report said Monday Amnesty Response Lags WASHINGTON UPI Only some 70 men out of an estimated eligible military deserters have surrendered under President Ford's program of limited amnesty Pentagon figures showed Monday Army Officer Accused NEW YORK UPI An Army officer assigned to the Selective Service headquarters in New York was indicted Monday for allegedly accepting in bribes to help 400 men avoid the draft or get out of the service during the period from 1968 to 1972 Rumsfeld Vows Access WASHINGTON UPI Donald Rumsfeld assumed his new duties as White House chief of staff Monday by promising that all of President Ford's senior advisers will have access to the Oval Office Former Official Slain BUENOS AIRES UPI Gen Carlos Prats a former minister in the government of deposed President Salvador Allende in neighboring Chile and his wife were killed Monday in a and bomb attack as they returned to their apartment police said WASHINGTON UPI Influential congressmen Monday discouraged any talk of a gas tax increase but the White House insisted it was still an option being considered to fight inflation Congressional observers gave the plan almost no chance of passage if President Ford should recommend it partly because of solid op- position in the Ways and Means Committee which must originate any tax legislation Surely there's some better way to do that conserve Speaker Carl Albert said of the proposal At the White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen said that even though Ford was opposed to such a gas tax he has an open mind on how inflation and it is one of many options that his advisers have The Ways and Means Committee now con- a tax revision resoundingly de- a similar proposal last week which would have placed a large excise tax or automobiles which got low gas mileage Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills previously has expressed opposition to gas tax increases Rep Al Ullman member on the committee said Monday a gas tax increase might stand a chance if it was part of an overall energy proposal that was hard hitting and comprehensive and made but just 10 cents to raise revenue doesn't make sense Rep Herman Schneebeli ranking committee Republican said he was strongly opposed to any gas tax increase Besides he said I don't think they're the administration too serious about this It's just a trial balloon Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield also said he was opposed to the proposal as did Sens Walter Mondale and Edmund Muskie Two House members Reps Peter Peyser and John Brademas a letter asking their colleagues to declare to Ford that increasing the gas tax would push the already strained working man and working woman past the financial breaking point The American Automobile Association added its voice to the chorus against the proposal saying that 78 per cent of Americans reach their jobs by private transportation and they could not cut consumption at any price Area Welfare Office Snags Castro Wants U.S Ties HAVANA After three hectic and contradictory days in Cuba two American senators flew home Monday saying they believe Prime Minister Fidel Castro wants to normalize relations with the United States broken in 1961 Sens Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell flew fay charter plane to Homestead AFB Florida and then to Andrevs AFB in Washington After the Senators returned to Washington Javits he hold a news conference Tuesday to discuss the trip Twenty-four hours after tro's harshest speech against the United States in months the senators dined Sunday night t with the Cuban leader in a completely different mood Pel described their three hours of talks as frank warm and friendly Refusing to go into details Javits said for both of We believe Premier Castro is interested in working toward better relations one could say normalizing relations That is our im- pression They said they were not carrying any messages from Castro to Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger but would report their impressions back to the Senate foreign relations committee and to Kissinger if he wanted to hear them They also said they aired American grievances against Cuba frankly in their talks with Castro and other Cuban ders Aside froom Castro's bitter attack on the United States Saturday night the senators said they also heard some equally frank grievances in their private talks On the other side of the coin to Castro's speech was the cordial reception they received as the first American members of Congress to visit Cuba since Pell was here as a senator-elect in 1960 Castro's government also allowed 29 American newsmen largest number in years come in to cover the visit Several were remaining on a few more days By ROBERT WOLF TR Staff Reporter and Lima will be the last district welfare offices opened in Ohio state officials revealed Monday According to Paul Coleman assistant director of Ohio Welfare Department We have found people to run eight of our 12 district offices and have two very strong for two other offices As of this time we do not have anyone for offices in and Lima and I cannot honestly predict how long it may take before we get qualified people to run them Obviously until we get qualified people for these positions we will not begin to seriously consider opening either of rhess he added Coleman indicated that one of the major problems in getting someone to serve as regional welfare director m is the fact that the salary level for the position is just not as high as it is in other state districts and as a result we are finding it difficult to get people with the qualifications we desire He explained that salary level is based on the welfare case loads in each district and the case load level in district nine including and Muskingum County is among the lowest in the state However the state welfare department has found people to run offices in districts seven and eight which are also comparatively low case load areas Coleman said many persons have applied for the district welfare position here but no one yet has met our qualifications including those people who currently reside within the boundaries of district nine and who have applied However he indicated there is one individual not from the or Lima areas in whom we are particularly in- However for this person to accept either position the individual would have to relocate from a different part of the state We are not at all certain that this person will be willing to relocate at the salary level we are offering The Times Recorder reported May 25 that had been chosen as the site for a district office of the state welfare department because it was considered accessible to all sections of district nine and because it provides quick cess to welfare headquarters in Columbus Welfare officials said in May they expected the office to be fully operational by earh fall The announcement of the district welfare office came as part of an effort by the state welfare ment to comply with Gov John Gilligan's April 30 1973 executive order establishing 11 state service districts The welfare department's 12 vice districts district 10 was subdivided because of the large population in the Akron area will replace the department's former district operation County welfare departments will not be directly affected by the districting decisions Counties in district nine are Muskingum Guernsey Belmont Coshocton Harrison Jefferson Tuscarawas Holmes and Carroll Index Crossword Classified Deaths Editorials Financial Jeane Dixon Sports Pages Television Women's Pages 7 B B 2 A 4 A 2 B 7 B A 7 A A Quake Rocks North Ohio CLEVELAND UPI An earthquake during the weekend in three Ohio counties was measured at between 2 and 2.5 on the Richter Scale by equipment at John Carroll University said the head of the school's seismological observatory Persons about 100 miles from here in Seneca Wood and Hancock counties felt a small earth tremor late Saturday night said Edward T Walter Walter said shock is felt at 2 on the scale but damage does not occur until a 4.5 or 5 reading is registered The equipment measured the tremor for 30 seconds Walter said A small shock such as this is not uncommon in this area but this is not a significant seismological Walter said There might be such a shock once every two or three years
