The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - November 15, 1975, Zanesville, Ohio Ford Invokes Privilege On One Issue Resolutions Cite Kissinger's A C Lf T fl WASHINGTON The House Intelligence Committee passed three contempt of Congress resolutions against Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger Friday for his refusal to give it secret intelligence President Ford in- executive privilege to protect have tried to cooperate with that Ford told a news conference in where he was ing a Republican fund-raising in this it subpoenaed does not involve my I think it is he to make such documents public and to pressure Kissinger to do so. Trying to head off the un- precedented contempt of Congress Ford invoked executive privilege to protect both Kissinger and the documents in at least one of the three contempt areas raising prospects of another legal battle over the boundaries of executive The State Department said no secretary of state has ever been cited for contempt of Kissinger said he merely followed Ford's orders not to obey the subpoenas and said the contempt action could make the United States look like a nation tearing itself profoundly regret the committee saw fit to cite in contempt a secretary of he serious questions all over the world of what this country is doing to itself and what the necessity is to torment ourselves month after He told reporters the enas involved secret made by previous secretaries of state and previous and President directed me not to turn over those on grounds al committees had no right to The contempt resolutions now go to the House Rules Committee if approved to the full House approval would send the matter to the Justice Department for including a possible grand jury investigation But Ford could complicate and possibly derail the ings with his executive lege Committee chairman Otis said the panel had exhausted all other means of getting the materials from Kissinger and time was ning out on its mandate to in- intelligence policies and The panel approved three contempt resolutions presented by Rep. Ronald V. D- Calif. Each accuses Kissinger of disobedience for as secretary ol to produce documents disclosing state department recommendations for covert intelligence The vote was 10 to 2. as the President's national security to furnish all National Security Council documents assessing Soviet adherence to strategic arms limitation agreements The vote was 10 to 1 as national security a request for records of all decisions on covert intelligence activities made by various supervisory White House committees since Jan The vote was 10 to 2 Pike disclosed just before the voting the White House notified him Ford was invoking executive ledge against the on this last issue and had in- Kissinger re- decline with the for records ol the decisions on espionage operations Pike attacked concept that the President can deny to under the doctrine of executive dations made to previous Presidents ad He said such action the doctrine of executive privilege to where it diminishes Congress to a hardly visible The Senate Intelligence Com- took timony behind closed doors from Rear Adm Bobby R. the director of naval intelligence The Senate committee has been trying to determine what the FBI and naval intelligence have done to combat the espionage of Soviet agents in the United including alleged penetration of Today's Chuckle It's a shame that when success turns a man's head it doesn't wring his neck just a The Times Recorder 319 18 Pages Your Newspaper Ohio 43701 November 15, 1975 Today's Weather Partly with high in the 40s and low around 30 degrees on Page 2-A) 15 Cents Optimist Club Honors 2 Youths The Optimist Club Friday honored two youths as part of the observance of Youth Appreciation Both youths were presented savings bonds in recognition of their From left are Steve chairman for the Craig Lenhart of 3570 Sunset a senior at Maysville High Linda Curtis of 3430 Boggs a senior at Zanesville High and Don club Miss Curtis is a daughter of Ronald and Nancy Curtis and is active in Future Teachers of Girl Scouts and Each One Lenhart is a son of Larry and Roberta Lenhart Sr. He is active in the Methodist is an Eagle Scout who also holds the God and Country Award and was foreman in his school's metal Solicitor General Bork Near Top On Court List WASHINGTON U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. a widely respected legal is high on the administration's list of dates to succeed retired Justice William O. it was learned Bork is known nationally as the Justice Department official who fired Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and his William resigned rather than do so. As solicitor Bork is third in line of succession at the Justice Department and has charge of all its work in the appellate He argues personally many of the government's most important Supreme Court President Ford would surely bring back some of the terness of Watergate should he name Bork's attitudes on the bench would be likely to parallel or even go beyond those of Justice William H. in the matter of whether the court should take an active role in solving the nation's social although the youngest justice at 51 and the most recent is considered the most rigid Legal sources said Bork was high on the administration's list of which also is reported to include some In President Ford told a news conference he expects to nominate a ment within three weeks from a list of possibilities being drawn up by Attorney General Edward want the best person to fill that vacancy I can possibly said The American Bar Committee on the al which is working on the administration's list of scheduled a ing in Washington at 10 a.m. EST The chairman of the 12-member attorney Warren Christopher of Los is expected to make a statement at the end of the The committee talks to as many people as possible who are in a position to assess the NYC Gets No Promises WASHINGTON Gov. Hugh L. Carey laid his program to save New York City from default before the ad- economic found an en- but left without a promise of the federal Carey and his delegation of New York officials sat at one side of a long table at the Treasury and administration officialdom sat at the other during the two-hour con- But President Ford was politicking in the South and Treasury Secretary William E. Simon was in for a Without them no decision could be made on whether to provide the federal loan guarantees which Carey said were essential for the plan to Both planned to fly to Paris for an economic summit meeting Friday ing a decision would be poned until their return The administration sought additional which Carey said he would furnish over the Carey later told New York congressmen that his rescue program required a loan guarantee of only That is half the amount he originally sought and less than the billion provided in a House or the billion in a Senate Blue Rock Area Man Charged In Shooting A 19-year-old Morgan County man was injured and a Blue Rock Route 1 man faced with two charges of attempted murder yesterday as the result of a shooting late Thursday night at the Claude Hampton home on Muskingum County Road about four miles south of Duncan Sheriff's Detective Gerry Billy BiHy said Merlyn Ray 36. of Blue Rock Route 1 burst into the Hampton residence about 10 p m day waving a 22-caiiber is my Billy quoted Hampton as saying she was not there and with that Wickham allegedly pointed his revolver at Russell 18, of Route 1 and pulled the When the weapon failed to he then pointed it at Charles Eugene 19, of MaUa Route 1 and pressed She The pon with the bullet creasing Payne's right arm just above the Billy deputy said Payne left the home and ran to a bor's house where he notified the sheriffs department of the shooting The radio operator im- mediately informed Deputy Sheriff David Swank and Special Deputy Harold who were cruising in the area By the time Wickham fled through a back door the deputies arrived on the After a brief chase into a nearby wooded they caught the suspect Billy said Wickham is to be arraigned at 9 a m Monday in East County Court on the two charges The relationship between Ihe two if had yet 10 be determined last night The House scheduled a vote Tuesday on the with many of the city's supporters predicting the momentum of events would lead to approval of a limited loan An exception was Rep. Charles B. who said a from Ford was still we don't get a signal from the you bet we're in Rangel Ford told a news conference in Atlanta that he has not changed his mind about New If the city raises reduces renegotiates pension plans with labor and extends maturity deadlines on its bond obligations we have to take another the President have given no nor have we said Deputy Treasury Secretary Stephen S. 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Milton cording to a sworn statement filed in U.S. District Court The record also said the payments included each spring and fall many to Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott of vania a personal matter or for some office matters in connection with political contribution The record is a sworn statement of Thomas D. a Pittsburgh lawyer whose firm is retained by Wright said he got the information from August through 1973 from former Gulf vice president Claude Wild Jr. Speaking for the White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford had accepted any contribution from The Wright deposition was taken for a Securities and Exchange Commission case against Wild in connection with Gulf's alleged million corporate slush fund which was used about equally for ments to U.S. politicians and foreign government officials since 1960. Corporate tions to politicians are Wright made similar ments before a federal grand jury in Washington which is hearing criminal evidence in- Gulf that is beine President Testifies Calif. President Ford said in un- precedented videotape timony played Friday at the trial of Lynette Fromme that he had of hearing a from a caliber pistol the Manson cultist thrust at It was the first time that an incumbent President's spoken testimony was reproduced in a criminal trial by videotape The tape was made Nov. in saw a hand come through the first row and in that hand was a Ford said of the Sept. 5 alleged tion attempt The hand was two feet he About 150 persons jammed the courtroom to witness the 19- color the first defense chose his words carefully as he an- swered 36 questions from Miss defense U S Attorney Dwayne Keyes did not cross examine the Ford said he could not see if Miss finger was on the trigger or whether she made any motion to cock the weapon or pull the After the videotape was the trial recessed until News Digest Senate To Reconsider Issue WASHINGTON The Senate voted to retain the nation's only antiballistic missile site Friday and then had second thoughts finally to reconsider the whole issue on For GSA WASHINGTON Florida drugstore millionaire Jack Eckerd won Senate confirmation Friday to head the General Services the government's building and services agency Soviets Join Angolan Cause Angola Hundreds of Soviet including fighter pilots and tank have joined Cubans help Marxist Angolan forces defend this capital from attack by rival nationalist East European diplomatic sources said Friday Israel Leaves Oil Field U.N. Demilitarized Sinai Desert Israel Friday pulled out its last soldiers from this dusty town on the Gulf of Suez and turned the Ras Sudar oil field and a slice of desert around it to the United Nations for transfer to Egyptian House Opposes Land Turnover WASHINGTON heeding the protests of voted 341 to 10 Thursday to reverse a decision by Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton to turn over three western wildlife ranges to the U.S. Bureau of Land Brooke Unsure On Prospect BOSTON Sen. Edward W. said Friday he was grateful President Ford would consider him as a but he was he would want the 2 Arrested In Michigan For Kidnap 1NKSTER, Mich Authorities arrested two men Friday in connection with the kidnaping five days ago of the son of a General Motors Corp who paid a ransom to gain his son's sale state and local police identified the men as Clinton 19, of Ann Mich. and E 22, of Mich Both men were arrested in Ann Arbor about two hours apart The FBI said Williams had large of ransom money when he was arrested The Iwo face both extortion and kidnap charges Authorities said more arrests were expected Police said they recovered a amount of the ransom than you could sluH into your pockets Authorities did not discuss details of the but said il involved a of hard police work when the defense was to make its opening The President said he down at the pistol the height of between my knee and my waist I simply saw the hand with the gun in it and the gun covered most of the instantaneously with my seeing the the Secret Service agent grabbed her hand and the I couldn't judge how long a time it might have been pointed at Under questioning by defense attorney John E. the President have no recollection of it clicking or not Virga you hear any noise from the gun at any time that you can that I can Ford Australia Caught In Protest Australia Nearly ers went on strike in Australia's second largest city shutting down port auto plants and factories to protest the firing of Labor party Prime Minister Gough Whitlam persons demonstrated in three some fighting with police and opposition party One senior police official said the demonstrations were the largest since the Vietnam war protests of the late 1960s. All police leaves were In about demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful testers to attack a conservative political club and storm stock exchange The crowd was turned back by police after brief but no arrests were Crowds at a rally in Brisbane punched and spat on about 20 Liberal party In 10.000 persons turned out for a rally in support of Whitlam was fired Tuesday by Sir John Kerr because of his inability to gel a budget through Whether Miss a slavish disciple of mass derer Charles actually attempted to fire the pistol and her intent are key issues in the presented by the Watergate special the record In a Scott said funds received by me from any person were given with assurance that they represented the contributions of individuals or of employe groups and that no corporate funds were so received to my contributions were either committed to my own campaign or distributed to further the campaigns of Wright said Ford received in 1972, Jackson in 1972, Bentsen in 1970 when he was elected to the and Shapp an mined amount about the time of his first gubernatorial Wright also said was contributed to the 1968 campaign of Sen. Hubert H. and to the late Lyndon B. Johnson shortly after he was elected vice president in 1960. Wright said Gulf did not contribute to the 1972 tial campaigns of Humphrey or George D- and Edmund D- Wright also cleared up earlier reports about a contribution in 1972 to Sen. Howard Wright said the money came from a legal Gulf fund collected from But Wright said through faulty the legal contribution was not entered But Wright offered no mation on an alleged illegal contribution of to Baker's 1966 campaign Meat Grading Changes ST. LOUIS A judge federal appeals panel Friday ruled the Agriculture Department can proceed with new meat grading standards which consumer groups had argued would result in cans paying higher prices for inferior The panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dis- solved an injunction issued May 29 by a federal judge in that delayed the new USDA standards on the grounds the department had failed to show their inflationary The appeals court said in its 27-page ruling that U S. District Court Judge Robert V. Denney exceeded his authority in issuing the injunction that barred Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz from putting the new standards into The appellate court said Denney did not have the authority to interfere with an order issued by the executive branch of infer a private right of action here creates a serious risk that a series cf protracted lawsuits brought by persons with little at stake would paralyze the rulemaking tions of federal administrative the decision In John deputy assistant tary of said his department was studying the He said it is to on what specific moves the department would make and but reaffirmed the department's belief that revisions in the standards were The new regulations were sought by who said it costs too much for them to feed animals what was required under the old dards to have the beef graded But consumer groups con- tend some beef currently graded will be upgraded to under the new making the meat cost more despite the fact there will be no increase in production In Belmont County Fatal Shooting Probed Bethesda area woman was charged Friday with negligent homicide in connection with the shooting death early Friday morning of Frank R. 40, of Mrs. Rosemary 32, is to face charges filed against her bv Belmont County Prosecutor John J. She was released Friday on according to Belmont County sheriff's Lucas apparently died in- stantly after being hit in the face with a blast from a gauge shotgun at about a.m. Friday in a barn on the property of Mrs. officials According to the sheriff's Mrs. Campbell said she was awakened early Friday morning at her home on Ohio 26, south of when she heard her dog barking She because she had been troubled recently by she loaded a shotgun and went across the road to the where she observed the top half of the double doors She told authorities she rested the gun on the bottom door while reaching to turn on a At that she said a hand grabbed at her gun and she pulled causing the gun to hearing no further she turned on the light and found Lucas lying on the Mrs. Campbell notified the sheriffs which in turn called the St. emergency Lucas was dead when the squad arrived Mrs. Campbell's husband was at work on the night shift of a coal mine and her two sons were the only other occupants of the house at the time of the shooting Mrs. Campbell's case is expected to go before Belmont County grand jury next Lucas was born Feb 12.1935, at a son of Delbert Lucas and the late Edna Travis Also surviving are five Mrs. Violet Perkins and Mrs. Kaye both of Mrs. Vava Martin and Mrs. Genevieve both of Mrs. Vandalia Oxley of four Dallas of Lawrence and both of Joseph of Piedmont Route 1. Friends may call at Kemp Funeral Home here 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. where services will be held at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Bethesda Methodist Index Classified Comics Deaths Editorials Financial Sports Pages Television Women's Page 3-5 7 7 4 6 8-9 10 6 B B A A B A A A County Officials Guide Tour Of Projects Members of Southeastern Ohio Regional Association of County and Engineers vert of County commissioners and comity engineer in an headquartered at Holiday the Veteran's new jail and National Zane are here in front of the nrw jail complex on Fourth street to the The four men shown on thf right are the are to County Engineer and Dw Scott Patton and Joe Grimm 28 Soviet Climbers Die On Mountain MOSCOW i UPI i eight Soviet mountain climbers froze to death during a sudden blizzard in the Caucasus mountain chain and officials responsible for the disaster will face the newspaper KuHura said the newspaper accused el officials in the region of gross negligence and stronger in the group of abandoning the hikers to save their own It quoted one of the a woman doctor who developed blindness as saying that stringer members of her party had stolen supplies from others and abandoned them with thai they would probably freeze to death Sovetskaya Kultura said 51 from various cities had set out in September to follow a well-known and easy hiking trail through the main sus
