Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - October 12, 1974, Zanesville, Ohio Zanesville 7 Marietta 6 Beallsville 36 Rosecrans 27 New Lexington 7 Sheridan 0 Morgan 41 Maysville 6 West Muskingum 35 Crooksville Today's Chuckle Overweight is something that sort of snacks up on you Kirk Kirkpatrick The Times Recorder Year Vol 285 16 Pages Your Good Morning Newspaper Zanesville Ohio 43701 Saturday October 12 1974 Today's Weather Mostly cloudy and mild with showers and thundershowers likely this and tonight High near 70 and low in the 40s Cooler Sunday with a chance of showers Details on Page 15 Cents Aid Ban Suspension Rejected Congressional R Delayed In Stalemate WASHINGTON UPI Congressional plans to recess Friday so members could start election campaigning fell apart in a confrontation with dent Ford over aid to Turkey and the session is expected to continue at least through Thursday The stalemate came after the House voted 187 to 181 against Ford's request to suspend for 60 days the ban on military aid to Turkey Ford said in advance of the vote he would veto a funding resolution carrying the aid ban if the suspension measure failed That veto is expected to come Tuesday with a vote in Congress later in day on whether to sustain or override Ford Congress had planned to quit Friday until Nov 12 so bers would have three weeks to campaign for the Nov 5 elections but it now is expected to continue working at least until Thursday The funding that Ford has pledged to veto is critical to keep agencies such as the departments of Labor Health Education and Welfare and Agriculture in operation until they get their regular 1975 appropriations Authority to fund those agencies expired Sent 30 but they can usually carry on for two weeks before they have to stop paying employes and halt programs under their tion House Republican Leader John Rhodes and Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott both predicted a vote to sustain the veto and House Democratic Leader Thomas P O'Neill expressed doubt that it could be overridden Both the Senate and House must cast a two- thirds vote to override Rhodes suggested that as long as Congress has to stay for the yeto issue the additional enable the Con- gress to pass those parts of the President's economic programs which the nation desperately needs The House and Senate met into the evening hours every night this week and the House held an unusual Friday session in an effort to clear the legislative agenda and adjourn until after the Nov 5 elections If members revolted and went home in sufficient bers to prevent quorums in either House Congress would be forced to adjourn and Ford would be in a position of having to order them back to act on his veto Measures that the leadership wanted to clean uo before Argued WASHINGTON UPI Treasury Secretary William E Simon told Congress Friday that President Ford's proposed tax incentives to business would result in increased in- output and help inflation Simon testifying before Con- gress Joint Economic tee disputed a senator's charge that President Ford has em- braced the old Herbert Hoover trickle down theory of economics Sen William Proxmire D- Wis said the five-year impact of Ford's tax proposals would be to impose billion in higher taxes on individuals Business Council Sees Inflation Dip HOT SPRINGS Va UPI Saying inflation appears to have passed its peak and should decline the Business Council Friday fore- cast good progress next year in solving nation's economic woes despite prospects for higher unemployment and lower rate profits But the council which serves as an informal bridge between government and the captains of industry cautioned that its optimistic new predictions could be thwarted by a coal strike or another oil shortage The council's forecast on inflation was similar to one made Thursday by Alan span President Ford's chief economist who said the present 12 per cent rate should drop 2 or 3 percentage points by springtime The council went even further predicting tion rates would fall to between 6 and 7 per cent by late 1975 and average 8.5 per cent for the full year Gerstenberg the former chairman of the board of General Motors presented the council's economic forecast compiled by economists throughout U.S industry Our consultants are ing a relatively flat economic performance through the first half of Gerstenberg said Assuming no interruptions in available oil and gas they forsee no serious recession On the contrary they do see in- that the rate of in- has passed its peak Looking ahead to the second half of 1975 he said industry experts reported a solid consensus that the nation will begin to see tangible in pulling out of its economic difficulties Gerstenberg said that a sufficient petroleum supply and an uninterrupted coal supply were vitally necessary to this economic outlook A coal strike he said could devastate our nation's tive capacity in a matter of only a few weeks Asked later by reporters whether he was being too pessimistic on this point Gerstenberg I don't think so while cutting business taxes by billion That was the old Herbert Hoover trickle down theory help the rich guy and ly the poor guy will Proxmire said The exchange was but it was another indication of strengthening op- position in Congress to the anti- inflationary program Ford laid out Tuesday In other economic Arnold Miller of the United Mine Workers said a nationwide coal strike will occur Nov 12 unless the in- dustry meets the union's demands for greater safety and health measures for miners He hinted the UMW might ignore an cooling off period as provided by law Hot Springs Va R C Gerstenberg former chairman of General Motors told the Business Council that a coal strike could devastate our nation's productive capacity in a matter of only a few weeks New York the nation's second largest bank First National City joined others in lowering its prime lending rate to 11 per cent from 11 per cent Kussell B Long DLa chairman of the Senate Finance Committee told sion interviewers Ford made a mistake proposing a tax increase before an election A lot of these fellows who are having close races on their hands will be committing themselves against that surtax especially for the part between and Long said congressmen from dairy states called on Ford in the White House to seek government aid for dairymen who they said face bankruptcy under present government policies Among other things they wanted a promise that dairy import quotas would not be increased for the next 12 months Kissinger Shakes Off Accidental Shooting News Digest Inflation Cooling Seen NEW UPI Inflation in the United States will cool down rapidly next year to an annual rate of 5 or 6 per cent from the estimated current 12 per cent First National City Bank predicted Friday Protestants Elected LONDON UPI The Protestant dominated United Ulster Unionist party election in Northern Ireland Thursday and appeared likely to win 11 out of the 12 parliamentary seats in the province Schools To Reopen DESTREHAN La UPI City schools closed this week because of racial disturbances which claimed hfe of a old boy will begin reopening Monday St Charles Parish school authorities said Friday Spanish Crisis Feared MADRID UPI Political moderates warned Friday that Spain gripped by political tension and labor unrest may be preaching a major crisis Celeste Endorsed CINCINNATI UPI The Cincinnati Post Friday endorsed Rep Richard Celeste for election to the post of lieutenant governor next month Rockefeller Confident WASHINGTON UPI Nelson A Rockefeller Friday ex- pressed confidence his vice presidential nomination will survive disclosures of gifts he has given to aides and that his brother financed a book derogatory to his 1970 gubernatorial opponent AMMAN Jordan UPI Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger unperturbed by a minor shooting accident aboard his plane arrived Friday from Syria on the third lap of his one- week mission to get Middle East peace talks going Kissinger's U.S Air Force jet arrived in the Jordanian capital at p.m p.m EDT about behind schedule because of long talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad King Hussein of Jordan had a buffet supper waiting for Kissinger After preliminary talks the king and Kissinger were scheduled to meet again in the port city of Aqaba 150 miles south of Amman and within sight of the Israeli border Jordanian Premier Zeid Rifai a one-time pupil of Kissinger's at Harvard headed a group of government ters and American embassy officials who welcomed Kissinger at Amman airport In a brief airport statement before leaving Damascus inger said he and the Syrian leaders reviewed our bilateral relations which are fast im- proving and we reviewed the furture of peace in the Middle East We had very constructive he said I will return to Damascus Monday for a few hours Kissinger's talks with the Syrian President were ex- to be the toughest of his seven-day visit to seven countries Assad has been pressing for an early tion of the Geneva peace conference with Soviet In Cairo American officials said Kissinger was proposing separate American talks with the Arab countries directly involved plus Israel President Anwar Sadat both Kissinger and the Egyptians kept quiet on what they Holiday Observance Set Zanesville and Muskingum County will join the nation Monday in observing Columbus Day the first three-day holiday since Labor Day County state and offices along with the city's financial institutions will be closed for the day but city hall will be open the city's street and water departments will be closed City parochial and county schools will be open but the Zanesville Post Office will be closed for the day and no mail deliveries will be made Window service will be t provided from 8 to 10 and 3 to 5 p.m at the main office on Mclntire avenue South Fifth street station and the South Zanesville branch Normal lock box service will be maintained at all offices Special delivery service will be provided and regular daily collections will be made discussed A high American official said Kissinger felt that to disclose details of his talks at this stage could jeopardize his visits to Jordan Israel Saudi Arabia Algeria and Morocco The shooting accident as the presidential jet was taxiing for takeoff from Cairo en route to Damascus at Zoning Vote Is Assured A ruling Friday by the Ohio Supreme Court apparently assures a city-wide vote Nov 5 on a controversial zoning change issue The justices rejected a complaint which had asked the court to uphold a section of the city charter requiring referendum petitions to list a committee If the court had upheld the complaint it could have ordered the Muskingum County Board of Elections to remove the zoning question from the ballot The complaint was filed last Friday just three days after Common Pleas Court Judge J Lincoln Knapp ordered the issue placed on the ballot Knapp ruled the referendum petitions were in substantial compliance with legal requirements The petitions had been rejected by the city because the referendum committee was composed of three members instead of the five required by city charter The high court ruled that since Craig of 1424 Stanton avenue who filed the com- plaint was not party to the original action in Common Pleas Court and did not appeal the board of elections would be acting properly in placing the issue on the ballot By ruling that way the court apparently skirted the issue of whether the petitions violated city charter The petitions requested repeal of a city ordinance granting a zoning change on property at Mclntire and Adair avenues and old Newark road City Council passed the July 22 approving the zoning change from family residential to business Keith Scott has an option to purchase the property for an auto ship adjournment included a com- promise to outlaw auto safety devices that prevent starting a car until a seat belt is attached a clean water and a privacy act that would tighten restrictions on access to government held on citizens Energy Measure Signed WASHINGTON UPI President Ford signed a Friday abolishing the Atomic Energy Commission and pulling most of the ment's energy efforts into a single new agency Energy Research and Development Administration I think it's a tremendous step said Ford as he signed the Energy tion Act of 1974 with 11 blue ballpoint pens and passed them to congressmen and officials in the White House Cabinet Room The eliminates the AEC created in 1946 to take over atomic research started during World War II although the bulk of the agency's functions will pass to one of six departments in ERDA headed by an assistant administrator for clear energy development The major reorganization created a three-part tion to coordinate energy research and development forts In addition to ERDA this organization includes a member Nuclear Regulatory Commission charged with ensing and safeguarding clear reactors and radioactive materials and an Energy Resources Council headed by Interior Secretary Rogers Morton Morton appeared under the new structure to be rapidly emerging as the nation's top energy official ERDA will function in lel with the Federal Energy Administration headed by John Sawhill which was not affected by the Ford said the energy gram would proceed as fast as effectively and as as possible under Morton who also heads the National Energy Board a policy making group set up by the President this week Chairman Dixy Lee Ray of the Atomic Energy sion handed one of the ceremonial pens mused: Is this the pen that helped abolish my Later she expressed a certain sadness in seeing an agency go out of adding that the AEC has done its job very well Ray said she is not a career public official but if the President has a job he'd like me to do I'm ready to serve There are four other AEC commissioners besides Ray Betty Leaves President Ford assists First Lady Betty Ford down the stairs as she leaves Bethesda Naval Hospital Friday She underwent breast cancer surgery at the hospital two weeks ago today WASHINGTON UPI A beaming Betty Ford came home to the White House with a kiss for her husband and a thank you for Friday two weeks after she entered the hospital for breast cancer surgery Looking a little weak but tanned and spirited she stepped from the helicopter which brought her from ban Bethesda Naval Hospital with the President embraced her daughter Susan 17 and said Thank you all to a crowd of White House staff members on the South Lawn bearing signs reading It was lonely without and We love you William Fouty Mrs Ford's physician said her recovery from removal of her right breast was excellent A medical bulletin said all the stitches had been removed and Mrs Ford has excellent use of her right arm As if emphasizing the geon's report Mrs Ford emerged from a side entrance of the hospital waving with her right hand to a crowd of patients and hospital personnel as she held her husband's arm with her left I want to thank you all very the First Lady told on the hospital Ford took the helicopter to Bethesda in midafternoOn to bring his wife home exactly two weeks after she had entered the hospital for examination of a nodule in her right breast Cites Risk To Health Nixon Challenges Subpoena WASHINGTON UPI Saying that travel could pose a serious risk to Richard M Nixon's health a lawyer for the former President asked Friday that the subpoena for his testimony in the Watergate cover-up trial be quashed U.S District Judge John J Sirica ordered the Nixon request which had been filed eight days ago to be unsealed after the cover-up trial jury had been selected and sequestered Nixon's motion contained a affidavit from Dr John C Lungren who said it is impossible to predict at this time how long Nixon will have to undergo treatment in- a prohibition against auto or air travel to deal with blood clots caused by the for- mer President's phlebitis In my professional ment the failure of Mr Nixon to observe this prescribed therapy would pose a serious risk to his said Lungren who told the court he has been Nixon's physician since 1952 Sirica also unsealed motions by Haldeman and John D Ehrlichman seeking to delay the trial on grounds that Nixon is an indispensable witness whose testimony will be highly exculpatory for the defense The judge denied man's motion Sept 2 the day after it was filed but Watergate Jurors Seated WASHINGTON UPI Twelve District of Columbia citizens black and female took on the high and noble duty of jurors to decide the fate of five former Richard Nixon aides accused in the Watergate cover-up Together with six alternates they were whisked by federal marshals to begin a guarded sequestered existence with no one but each other Jor company during the celebrated trial that could last four to five months Opening arguments will be heard Monday with the first witnesses to be called Tuesday Your service as a juror is one of the most im- portant duties you will ever be called upon to U.S District Judge John J Sirica said before the jurors were Series To Begin Today escorted home to pick up their belongings Please do not take this responsibility lightly ber the high and noble duty you undertake in this case With the jury sequestered Sirica unsealed motions filed by Nixon's lawyers last week asking that subpoenas for his appearance as a witness be quashed Included was a sworn affidavit from his physician Dr John C Lungren saying that travel would pose a serious risk to his health Sirica asked for replies to be filed by next Wednesday after which he will schedule oral arguments Final selection of the 18 jurors and alternates for the cover-up case came on the ninth day of the trial It took just two hours for prosecution and defense lawyers to Dick them from the 45 persons who had survived rigorous secret preliminary screening The twelve jurors include nine women and three men Eight of them or two-thirds are black slightly whiter jury than might be expected in Washington where the tion is three-fourths black All six alternates are black wornen The jurors range in age from 27 to 68 with 10 of them 40 or older Their jobs ranged from hotel doorman to loan specialist with the Department of Agriculture one is unemployed and two are retired The five defendants Attorney General John N Mitchell House Haldeman and John D Ehrlichman and former Nixon campaign aides Robert C Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson were solemn as they stood facing the jury box while the jury was is still pending Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski immediately filed a memo in opposition to any delay contending it is still premature to conclude that Mr Nixon will be unable to attend the trial Haldeman and Ehrlichman who were Nixon's two top aides said the former dent has sole and personal knowledge of key facts in the case Jaworski's memo saying it was premature to conclude Nixon could not attend the trial stood in sharp contrast to opinion that a court appearance would risk Nixon's health statement also The limitations on Mr Nixon's physical activity will involve first the avoidance of prolonged periods of sitting standing or walking which could result in increased venous congestion in the leg which might produce further clotting and second the avoidance of any possible trauma which given the an- therapy he will be receiving could lead to hemorrhaging somewhere in the body With respect to travel Mr Nixon's condition precludes extended trips by automobile airplane or other means which require prolonged sitting which expose him to the risk of a trauma likely to lead to hemorrhaging or which make it impracticable properly to monitor his condition LOS ANGELES UPI The Oakland A's their team's baseball brilliance owed as usual by its sy begin the attempt Saturday to win the World Series for the third successive year The A's send Ken Holtzman who also started and won the Series openers the last two years against Andy Messersmith of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first game scheduled for 1 p.m PDT Only the New York Yankees powerhouse teams of the late 30s and early 50s ever won as many as three World Series in a row Oakland thinks its team is good enough to be placed in that company and complains it hasn't its proper tion Index Bad Air Warning Issued Crossword Classified Church News Deaths Editorials Financial Sports Pages Women's Page 7 2 2 4 6 B B B A A B A A A A By United Press International the Ohio Environmental Agency said late Friday afternoon it had placed four counties in southeastern Ohio under an air pollution warning after the air quality index is registered the amount of pollution in the air 300 in those counties Jefferson Belmont Monroe and Columbiana counties lier in the day had been under an air Under an alert industries are asked to cut back on emissions and persons with respiratory ments are asked to remain indoors The minimum index alert level is 200 The minimum index warning level is 300 OMEGA Joining Doubted By ROBERT f R Staff Reporter Officials of Jefferson County and the city of Steubenville now say neither government unit expects to join the con- Ohio Governments Association OMEGA in the foreseeable future Without the participation of those two government entities and Zanesville and Muskingum OMEGA cannot be officially certified by the state because it would not meet the requirement of representing at least 75 per cent of the population of district nine Zanesville City Council and Muskingum County com- missioners have so far refused to approve participation in OMEGA The four government units together represent about 30 per cent of the district's population The OMEGA is the proposed regional planning and development organization for state district nine According to Charles Klasic president of Jefferson County commissioners it is very likely that we will not vote to participate until all the major cities in the county decide to join So far neither Toronto or Steubenville has voted to join thus no decision should be expected from us in the foreseeable future Klasic told The Times Recorder Sept 6 he expected the commissioners would pass a resolution expressing their intention to join OMEGA within the next two months However Klasic said that this statement was made after Junction had voted to join OMEGA and when it appeared that Toronto and Steubenville would do the same Now this does not seem nearly as certain as it did then Hindeman Steubenville City councilman and chairman of a planning commission reviewing the question of joining OMEGA said he is fairly confident that Steubenville City Council has no intention of joining OMEGA at the present My feeling is that there simply are not enough ad- vantages for us to join OMEGA in light of our membership on the Brooke Hancock Jefferson regional commission Of course despite my not to join OMEGA city council could decide to join anyway However I seriously doubt this will happen at least for the immediate he reported Both Jefferson County and Steubenville are members of the BHJ commission which is made up of two West Virginia counties and one in Ohio The area covered by the com- mission is considered a single metropolitan area and planning has traditionally been done jointly for the three counties on an interstate basis Officials say they are reluctant to join OMEGA and thus perhaps be forced to give up a traditional relationship with the two West Virginia counties One county official privately told the TR Friday that everyone is just plain tired of all these planning agencies springing up all the time There must be a saturation point when someone has tc say we just don't want any more agencies Zanesville City Council will take up the question of the city's participation in OMEGA Monday evening Council previously tabled the measures Continued on Page
