The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - November 19, 1974, Zanesville, Ohio Public Library Weighs Plans For New Building i 1 thai etr A inn rf By ROBERT WOLF TR Staff Reporter Clyde head librarian at John Mclntire Public has revealed that the library board is considering plans to establish a new main library structure in the city to meet the needs of the community for the next 25 Scoles said he is that plans will be formulated in the foreseeable board has reached the conclusion that we obviously are going to need a larger main facility in the future in order to keep up with the growth of this it is basically a question of when adequate land and funds can be made we are hopeful in this area as Scoles The head librarian explained that a new structure is needed that it can serve as an information center for the After there are so many services which we are going to have to be able to provide if we really intend to do our job for the people as it should be And in order for us to do this job we will unquestionably need larger main the areas in which we would like to improve is in providing an extensive children's providing an extensive audio-visual providing an ex- service into sections of the encouraging handicapped persons to use the library by providing them with easy access to the and providing an expanded adult book there are many other services we would also be interested Scoles Scoles was particularly enthusiastic over the possibility of creating some form of cultural center in the city which might include the art center and other cultural a cultural center would undoubtedly be a big boost to the city and would be exciting I must emphasize that I am opposed to having the library and art center in the exact same What I would like to see is separate structures which might be somehow It seems to me that if we shared the same facility we would each lose our identities and we would be in constant competition for he Scoles indicated that site near the downtown area for the new building would be preferable if such a site It is the general feeling that such a site would be easily accessible to from all parts of the county and could be reached using public Scoles conceded that he was not currently aware of any available sites near the downtown area which are available at a and asked that least some consideration be given the possibility of obtaining land in the urban renewal rather than having the topic automatically One of the factors which could complicate any decision by the library board to con- struct a new building for its main center is the fact that Zanesville Board of Education has title to on which the present library building on North Fifth street is members of the board are formally appointed by the board of A top school official said Monday that he no idea what position the board of education might take on a to move the Scoles emphasized any decision that is made to our present building should be recognized for the good job it has done for us up until it has serviced us as functions of libraries new develop we must do everything possible to meet these changing John Mclntire Library was built in 1907 and formally opened March 23. 1908.'It came into being after a 1902 state law empowered boards of tion to create and maintain libraries The old books were turned over to the board of education in 1904 on condition that the new library building bear its present Today's Chuckle You know you've put on too much weight when you try to loosen your and you can't find it. The Times Recorder 110th Year Vol. 322 18 Pages Your Newspaper Ohio 43701 November 19, 1974 Today's Weather FORECAST Cloudy and mild with highs near 60. Showers likely tonight with lows in the lower Cooler on Page 7-A) 15 Cents Passport Offer Made m Emb WASHINGTON President Ferdinand Marcos offered to meet a demand from a gunman holding the Philippine and another man hostage Monday and give the terrorist's son a passport to leave the a spokesman for a negotiating team Ambassador Eduardo Z. Ro- 64, a cousin of the i wife of Philippine President Ferdinand was held by gunman in his fourth floor office at the red brick building on Washington's embassy J.B. a spokesman for a group of Philippine negotiators who flew here from New York to talk with the identified as Napoleon a lawyer from Prince Georges said Marcos had made the offer on the condition that Lechoco free his Lechoco had a grievance that a son has had difficulty leaving the he Cruz said wife would enter the embassy and to him the assurance of the president that if he President Begins Visit kn A. President Ford arrived in Japan Monday under the tightest of security curtains and began his historic goodwill visit against a drop of violent leftist and a protest railroad Looking tired from his 20- Ford waved and smiled to a carefully selected group of Japanese and American welcomers at Haneda Airport as he strode to a helicopter for the short trip to the ornate official guest palace where he will Ford and Emperor the Japanese arranged to meet at EST Monday a.m. Tuesday Tokyo for the official Japanese welcome in the guest palace prior to Ford going to the Imperial Palace nearby in central But in recognition of his arrival a 21-gun salute boomed out over Tokyo Bay to greet the first American President ever to visit and the welcoming crowd of some Japanese families of government officials 150 Americans cheered and waved tiny Japanese flags as Ford stepped from his Ford and Secretary of State Chrysler Rules Out Complete Shutdown DETROIT Chrysler Corp. will cut cars from its production schedule but will not impose a company-wide shutdown in Chrysler chairman Lynn Townsend said Substantial layoffs of Chrysler workers would be necessary for a production cut of that Townsend said details had not been worked Chrysler already has idled Townsend ended speculation Chrysler would close its entire operation in a move that could have idled in the Detroit Townsend also said Chrysler would not close for the time being its aging Jefferson Avenue plant in as had been Following a meeting with Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young and officers of the United Auto Townsend said cars would have to be cut from Chrysler's fourth quarter production schedule because the company has a four-month supply of unsold The auto industry has laid off workers so far because of sagging sales and more discharges are expected not only from Chrysler but from other automakers as The wholesale auto layoffs and drastic backs in production are helping push the U.S. economy closer to the worst recession since World War II and affecting the jobs of thousands of persons other sectors of the In other economic plunged on the New-York Stock Exchange in early Analysts said in- were concerned about continued decline in industrial delayed settlement of the coal strike and the problems of the auto The Dow Jones industrial index of blue chiD stocks dropped 22.69 points to It was the biggest one-day drop since Jan. 10. Trade Commissioner Mayo J. Thompson told a congressional committee price fixing is commonplace in the U.S. economy and costs consumers at least billion in inflated gold hit record levels in reaching an ounce in 190.75 in Zurich and in The U.S. dollar fell to a new low in Zurich and slumped A U.S. banker said the hind the dollar's runback appears to be a flight away from the dollar and into the German People apparently consider the mark the most stable currency in starts in October of 1.124 million units were the lowest since 1970, when units were the Census Bureau said An economist for the National Association of Home Builders said ployment in the building now 12.2 per will rise to about 16 per cent by White House announced a new sugar import quota of 7 million tons and urged cans to cut in half their use of sugar for cooking and The President said there is the nation will run out of he may well experience higher prices than we would like until production catches up with Henry A. Kissinger walked a red carpet an official receiving line headed by U.S. Ambassador to Japan James D. Hodgson and nese Ambassador to the United States Takeshi Teh minutes before Ford's a band of students from an political group clashed violently with police at a park two miles from the Police arrested 176 of the raising to 188 the number of persons placed in custody in connection with Ford's Some 3.35 million workers from 59 unions called protest strikes for Tuesday against Ford's including a wide railroad Security visit described the most extensive since World War II least guards at Tokyo protest groups largely students any while unionists are opposed to visits by American nuclear submarines and other aspects of defense Violent tions over nuclear weapons policy prevented a planned visit by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960. releases his captives his son is going to be given a passport and be allowed to leave the This is the reason there has been no effort made to force any contacts on Cruz describing Lechoco as Cruz identified a second man being held at gunpoint as an economist working with the He said FBI agents told him the economist had not been although there was gunfire during the Police said Monday evening they could not confirm earlier reports from the Secret Service and homicide detectives the staff member had been shot in the head and seriously Authorities said they had no firm report on his An agent of the Executive Protection Service and a metropolitan police officer negotiated with Lechoco after the takeover began about 4 p.m. EST. Members of the Philippine team which flew in from New York were identified as Under- secretary of Foreign Affairs Hose Gen. Benjamin a brother of Mrs. and special assistant Felipe Cruz chief of mission also went into the embassy Monday and had not left as of p.m. EST. Cynthia a State Department there have been demands from the but she said details were being withheld for fear of en- dangering the She said she believed tions were She said she expected that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been informed of the development Douglas 2 a mere 29-pounder, enjoys a romp with his a pound Great Dane at a Chicago lakefront park during Who's Leading recent mild The old question about who is leading whom didn't seem to present any problem here New Tapes Implicate Nixon er it seemed was gonna what you really come if Hunt thinks tha President Richard M. Nixon aown Nixon what he's been Coal Strike Likely To Persist 2 Weeks Congressional Inaction Seen Lame Duck Session Starts WASHINGTON Con- gress relumed Monday from a election recess with leaders of both parties ing little if any major legislation would be passed in the lame duck President Ford greeted re- turning lawmakers with a list of measures he wants passed before the end of the But Speaker Carl Albert and Senate Leaders Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott predicted that only one major item of vice presidential nominee Nelson A. Rockefeller make it. Ford put special emphasis on finishing Ihe Rockefeller nation in the lengthy legislative list he sent Congress Ihe Democratic and Scott the GOP said Ihe Senate would act on but the House still remained and might put off a vote until next Ford also asked for action on his proposed 5 per cent tax surcharge on income over and Chairman Wilbur Mills of Uie House Ways and Means while not commenting on the said his pand will push for a House vote this year on a either phasing out or stopping immediately the oil depletion allowance and giving relief to low income Albert was hopeful that a trade reform could be completed in the another item also on Ford's but even that measure might be Any consideration of a national health insurance also will go by the boards but champions of measures such as aid to mass transit systems and help in cleaning up municipal water systems hoped they might be enacted before the 93rd Congress officially ends at noon on Jan. 3, 1975. The in the process of acting on a score of relatively minor formally re- six veto messages from Ford in the opening session and agreed to vote Wednesday on overriding such major vetoed measures as the Freedom of Information Act and Vocational Greyhound Idled Strike Halts Buses Ariz. Drivers and other Greyhound Bus Line employes Monday walked off the job throughout the continental United States in a strike to back up contract The terminal ers and maintenance and office staffs left buses and passengers stranded at terminals moments An official at bus terminal on North Fifth street reported Monday evening that Greyhound vice stopped locally Monday He said that four buses came Zanesville every day including after a noon contract extension deadline passed out a break in marathon door negotiations with a federal Depot switchboards were jammed with telephone calls and agents in San Francisco and other areas played a recording on the phone saying service was Stranded passengers were offered refunds or tickets on other bus James L. president of parent Greyhound Lines said the strike was both and un- Greyhound Bus Lines is a subsidiary of the Greyhound which has corporate headquarters company offered a fair and equitable rigan em- ployes have been receiving regular cost of living increases to help keep up with the in- rises in our We offered substantial improvements in both wages and benefits above and beyond the regular cost of living in- WASHINGTON Another two weeks of a nationwide coal strike certain Monday with contract ratification stalled while representatives attended the funeral of a slain colleague in Ala. Neither the United Mine Workers of America nor the Bituminous Coal Operators Association has completed the first step in ratification of the agreement announced by UMW President Arnold Miller and negotiator Guy Farmer last The union's leadership held a memorial service at UMW headquarters in Washington Saturday and Monday went to Bessemer for funeral services for bargaining council member Sam 52, who was shot during a robbery at his Washington motel The council was scheduled to meet here at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday to resume Miller also scheduled an 11 a.m. EST news conference Wednesday in to give a of the proposed The news conference was believed to be aimed at dampening criticism of the The strike week old Monday idled miners who produce 70 per cent of the nation's soft coal and brought layoff of railroad Steel coke plants and automobile makers have warned of employment Officials have predicted that after weeks the total of jobless because of the strike could reach In some utilities as well as schools and hospitals in some states will face fuel The union's bargaining cil presidents of 18 districts and the union's tive board tions on the pact last Thursday but broke off after a Friday session when Littlefield was A board meeting scheduled for Thursday was postponed until the union moved ahead with its own ratification The agreement would provide miners with sub- stantial pay a cost of living extensive pension safety more paid sick leave and additional time off. The council was expected to complete its review of the contract language If it is about 850 representatives of union locals will meet in Pittsburgh to hear details of the proposed new contract and then report back to their local It will take about three days of secret balloting to complete the ratification process would mean the strike would continue at least another two President Richard M. Nixon not only knew in the spring of 1973 that the Watergate burglars were being paid to keep quiet but suggested that E. Howard Hunt Jr. would for sure if promised a according to White House tapes played The never made public before even in transcript indicated Nixon's deep ment in the cover-up plot at a time when he was claiming to know nothing about it. at a March 22, 1973, meeting with H. R. Haldeman people are in it's only right for people to raise the money for I got to let them do that and that's all there is to it. I think we ought There's got to be not I don't mean to be Blackmailed by that goes too but we're taking care of these people that are in My they did this for we're sorry for We do it out of Nixon listened thoughtfully while Haldeman explained how money was slipped to the burglars er it seemed was gonna blow is that obstruction of justice Haldeman particularly when it's not to sip Nixon Earlier in the the jury heard the tape of a Jan. meeting between Nixon and his special Charles W. in which Nixon said it would be a matter arrange clemency for Hunt had pleaded guilty to the Watergate bugging and was to be sentenced March 23. According to a White House meeting On March 21 played to the jury earlier in the cover-up trial agreed that meeting Hunt's demands more than was damn well better get When they met the next Nixon and Haldeman obviously were worried that if Hunt were not taken care he might reveal his earlier role in the White glary at Daniel psychiatrist's what you really come wn Nixon you give him or at least give him another you know what I that's a lot of Let's face in in of or so if Colson is of a pardon by you out of his He knows we can't do thinks that's been Haldeman what promised shut up Nixon said Noting that the timing of a Hunt pardon could be a Nixon told seems to be you'd better find out from Colson what he did Nursing Homes Ask Delay COLUMBUS A representative of the nursing home industry Monday asked for a six-month extension of a legal deadline requiring sing homes to have sprinkler systems operating by Jan. 1. G.T. president of the Ohio Health Care made the request at a meeting in the statehouse with Rep. Norman A. chief sponsor of the law adopted in 1973. whose association represents 200 of Ohio's nursing said that homes have had difficulty complying with the law because of the cost of sprinkler systems and problems in getting low cost are not in any way asking for a relaxation of the Dalton told would like a short ex- tension of six months for those nursing homes which have made contracts for sprinkler systems by the Jan. 1 Also attending the meeting were representatives of the sprinkler the Ohio Department of the state fire marshal's office and other nursing home A representative of the fire marshal's office said that 52 per cent of the nursing homes in Ohio had taken no action to comply with Ihe sprinkler law despite the fact they had nearly two years to do so. News Digest Steel Pricing Probed WASHINGTON Chairman Lewis A. Engman of the Federal Trade Commission said Monday the FTC has been in- whether the steel industry's pricing practices violate antitrust Daley Ally Sentenced CHICAGO Chicago Alderman Thomas a powerful ally of Mayor Richard J. was sentenced Monday to five years in prison and fined plus court costs for his conviction on charges of conspiracy and mail fraud in a Jewish Demands Dropped WASHINGTON After a 90-minute session Monday with Defense Secretary James R. a group of Jewish leaders tentatively dropped demands that President Ford fire Gen. George S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of for his public remarks about American Man Denies Burglary CHICAGO Luigi the man authorities believe was the mastermind behind the record million Armored Express and two alleged accomplices Monday pleaded innocent to bank theft and allied Central State Backed COLUMBUS special study committee recommended Monday that Central State University should remain a mSe instead of being merged with nearby W right State and should be guaranteed state funding 40 per cent above the current High Court Chided CINCINNATI Feminist lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg complained Monday that recent cases before the Supreme Court lhal the court is reluctant to outdistance other in- of government in aid of a major social sex Urges Increased Resistance Arafat Fans Arab Car Index Comics Classified Deaths Editorials Financial Jeane Dixon National News Sports Pages Television Women's Pages 3 4 3 7 2 8-9 2 B B A A B B A A B A By United Press Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat called on Arabs Monday to step up their resistance campaign hi ries occupied by He also accused Israeli authorities of planning to use nuclear Rioting swept the Arab sector of Jerusalem Monday the worst outbreak since Israel seized East Jerusalem in the 3967 Middle East the Tel Aviv military command announced Israeli gunboats bombarded a suspected tinian guerrilla base in used to launch on an abortive Lebanon frogmen Israeli troops fanned out in cities of the occupied West Bank and seized ed Arab who were sentenced to prison in mary trials the same In the United Arab delegates agreed to draft a resolution giving a permanent U.N. voice to the Palestinian Liberation the umbrella Arab guerrilla diplomatic sources said Diplomatic sources said tion of the resolution would open the door for recognition of revolutionary movements in and Latin ca The noting and stepped up Arab diplomatic campaign came as tension on Golan Heights eased with diplomatic sources in Cairo predicting Syria would renew the U.N. peacekeeping mandate on the Israeli iears that Syria would refuse to renew ihe six-month which expires Nov. 30, was partially responsible for a limited mobilization of Israeli reserves over the sn a hastily called news conference in have issued an peal to the Palestinians in occupied Trans Jordan to ue to their resistance and their Zionists are preparing for what is come lo be a pre-emptive he is possible that the enemy is preparing to use nuclear weapons in the fifth Arafat flew to Algiers from a stopover in after addressing the General Assembly in New York Jast weeK In Israeli ponce said Arabs were arrested in noting and seven youths and three policemen were reported Israeli troops in West Bank hit by six days of Arab picked up 132 persons ior summary trial and sentenced 59 of them to jail terms of up to six Soldiers in Jerusalem's predominantly Christian Arab suburbs of Bethlehem and Beit Jallah fired their weapons into the air to disperse
