The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - October 7, 1976, Zanesville, Ohio The Times Recorder Today's Chuckle Jets still haven't conic up with anything that goes faster than a 112th Year Vol. 281 Your Newspaper Ohio 43701 October 7, 1976 FORECAST Showers and cool through High today around 60 and low in 50s. on Page 4-D) 28 Pages 20 Cents Farmers Oppose 4 Issues By JOHN RAY TR Staff Reporter Ohio Farm Bureau an organization which claims to represent almost farm and associated families in 86 of Ohio's 88 has come out strongly against the four issues which will appear as proposed amendments to Ohio Constitution on the November ballot At a called news conference yesterday C William executive vice president of Farm Bureau said of the four issues will hurt all Ohioans and cut short the expansion of badly needed generating electric rates will cut into profits of farmers who are trying to produce food and fiber at the lowest cost to he mers will have nowhere at all to pass the increased They are victims of market prices over which they have no control and since their products are can't hold them off the market until prices im- a reference to the 1974 energy Swank have already weathered one crisis in getting petroleum products to harvest and taking their crops to market fuel to run tractors and grain petrochemicals for fertilizers and Why are we trying to manufacture another energy this time in Swank said Issue 4, dubbed the issue because it ostensibly would provide lower rates for low volume gas and electricity would instead offer savings for relatively increasing costs for the vast middle class of farmers and consumers recent study completed by Ohio State University dis- closed that such a rate in raise costs an ad- 23 per he addition to pushing the cost of producing food it would be an administrative 5 if set up a consumer group to lobby the Ohio General Assembly and the Public Utilities Commission of This would merely duplicate the created by legislation last 6 would regulate nuclear power development within In my opinion it Comments Carter Meet For A Second Round DR. GLENN OLDS GAIL MULLiN Kent University Probes Allegation Ohio Campus and state officials are in- allegations that Kent State University business professors may have been in- by student favors and that a private corporation may have misused KSU ident Glenn A. Olds KSU Business College Dean Gail Mullm has denied any of the wrongdoing alleged in charges brought by Finance Professor Allen Twark and In two days of meetings with students and others since the investigation was made public Olds or Mullins have said Professional dards Committee of the Kent State Faculty Senate has been asked to review the that Kent State funds were misused in con- with economic forecasts produced by Kent Econometrics Associates Inc. have been turned over to the state course waivers to the Puerto Rican businessman whose degree award was Adres was recognized as a problem after- wards and steps were taken to prevent special assistant under the Ohio attorney Stephen of will look into the charges con- a doctoral degree though not as an pendent The attorney general's office said role will be that of a lawyer with a Kent and that the attorney general's office would have no over any Included in the probes were allegations that there may have been favoritism or an effort to buy a degree in the award of a doctoral degree to Bermudez last Olds confirmed Monday that 12 other professors raised re- lated questions by letter in 1973 and 1974. SAN FRANCISCO Touring the site where he was to debate President Ford on Wednesday a smiling Jimmy Carter said he was much more relaxed than he had been before the first con- with his think I've got it straight in my own mind the fact that Mr. Ford and I are We're both running for President for the first He's the nominee of his party I'm the nominee of We're in an equal de- Carter told reporters after inspecting the Palace of Fine where the event was to take The Democratic presidential nominee spent the rest of the day relaxing at the plush side home of Walter a San Francisco financier and prominent Democratic ty fund who spent most of Monday night in a small suite in the Sheraton Palace told reporters he thought the covering foreign policy and would have a on the tion unless one of the debaters made a serious think the constant contact with people in the campaign and the present fixed opinions people now have are the two most important he Carter has conceded he was nervous during the first part of the Sept. 23 debate in delphia and as a didn't do a satisfactory job at the SAN FRANCISCO An President just hours away from his second debate with Jimmy Wednesday likened Zarl racial slur to Jimmy primary campaign re- mark about Ford also told reporters he could not help but believe that issuance of a General ing Office report critical of his handling of the 1975 Mayaguez incident was example of partisan Talking to reporters as he left the debate site at the Palace of Fine where he checked out technical Ford said he considered comments about ethnic purity to be racial Carter said in April that the should not use force to change the ethnic purity of a remark some critics took to be a sign he would not enforce fair housing Carter apologized for the remark shortly after he made it and insisted he would defend anyone's right to move into any neighborhood he Ford said he thought that he took the appropriate action in reprimanding Butz and ing his resignation as Secretary of As tor the GAO Ford said he thought the American people would believe a dent who had to make rather than the authors of the would severely hamper development of nuclear power in Ohio and could ruin the state's economy by wiping out jobs and industries which make jobs by depriving them of the energy they need to 7 would reduce the number of signatures and number of counties required for initiative and referendum Its passage would completely bypass our representative government by making it possible for special interest in high population areas to dictate through the constitution anything they wish done Swank said he thinks passage of Issue 7 would create of and load ballots with dozens of many of which would be trivial and many of which should be handled by Ohio Farm Bureau is linked with 50 other state farm bureaus and Puerto It claims to represent the views of farmers and rural people at the national It claims to having been instrumental in securing elimination of the personal property tax on farm machinery and in having farm land appraised at agricultural values and in securing lower license fees for farm trucks and lower rates for workmen's compensation in- 300 DOMINICAN AIRLINER PLUNGES INTO Sf A PANAMA A Cuban Airlines passenger plane with persons reported aboard crashed into the Caribbean Sea site indicated 10 minutes after take off from Wednesday on a flight to Jamaica and 73 Persons Die Blast Precedes Crash Of Plane Takes Thailand Pact Acceptance Urged DETROIT Top of the United Auto ers were being asked day to accept a tentative year agreement between the union and Ford Motor Co. The International Ex- made up of 26 officers and regional and union's National Ford Council must approve the offer before it goes to the 99 Ford bargaining units around the country for a ratification The executive board was to meet Wednesday Details of the accord will not be made public until the board and the council approve it. some of the 000 UAW Ford who also must prove the agreement reached SS Up For Some WASHINGTON An estimated 19 million American workers earning more than will have to pay higher Social Security taxes next the government announced The Social Security tration said the wage base upon which the taxes are levied will increase next Jan. 1 to from the taxable wage base this That means that workers earning next year will pay Social Security taxes ing or more than anyone earning paid this The agency also said that the amount of outside earnings a Social Security retiree can draw next year without ing his or her benefit will in- crease to compared with this year's limit of A retiree earning more than next year will lose one dollar in Social Security fits for every two dollars in out- side but the full Social Security payment will be made in any month in which outside wages did not exceed An estimated 19 million ers will earn more than next year and 16 million of those workers arc expected to earn or The Social Security tration said the increase in the taxable wage which is mandatory by law to keep pace with the average increase in will produce an tional billion in taxes next late predicted easy passage and an end to a wide strike now in its 23rd Sources said a key element in the pact is a provision for 13 more paid days off spread over the three Ford workers now have 33 holiday and tion days each The sources said the additional provisions are tied to attendance requirements a worker must be on the job the day before and after a uled extra day off to get paid for it. The sources said the Flood Kills 70 Colombia The Otun River burst a dike early Wednesday and swept through a poor tion on the edge of this central Colombian Police said the raging waters killed at least 70 persons and injured 26, most of them in their The part of the city's aqueduct burst shortly after midnight during a heavy Seventeen houses were buried by tons of water and and 13 were officials More than 500 persons were left Authorities launched rescue efforts By 58 bodies had been The governor of Risaralda Gonzalo said many bodies were still buried in the Authorities planned a mass burial agreement also includes general wage increases averaging about 3 per cent a an additional first-year increase of about 20 cents an continuation of a living protection special cash supplements for retirees and improvements in fringe Auto workers now make about an hour plus about an hour in fringe Thailand A military man known for his tough stance against nism seized power in Thailand on Wednesday after savage tles between leftist and rightist students that left at least 22 persons dead and about 180 by police Unconfirmed reports put the death toll at 35 or Defense Minister Sangad who was armed forces chief until six days took power from Prime ter Seni Pramoj and declared martial The 60-year--old who is considered said he did not want Thailand to become a prey to Two of the victims were hanged and their bodies and others were set afire in the fighting at Thammasat The violence grew out of leftist protests against the return home last month of former dictator Thanom who was ousted by student protests three years Thanom was not believed to have played an active role in the coup He and Sangad were on poor terms when Barbados A Cuban passenger jet plunged into the sea near this Caribbean holiday island Wednesday while trying to re- turn to Barbados after an ex- plosion on Rescue said none of the 73 persons aboard Barbados Coast Guard launches and Bridgetown port tugs that sped to the crash site 11 miles along with an armada of volunteer pleasure found only wreckage and were badly mangled bodies bobbing in the and pieces of the smashed one witness said The crash occurred shortly after the DCS of the Cuban national took off on a flight to maica and The flight originated at with a stop at Trinidad was 30 miles out of about miles southeast of when the pilot reported an explosion in said Carol a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in At- Ga. attempted to re- turn to Barbados and ditched in water 11 miles southwest of Barbados about 2-30 p m Officials at Seawell Inter- national Airport said the craft had developed engine trouble and was attempting to return to Barbados for repairs when it crashed Air Canada said the plane was a DCS leased by Cubana from Air Canada There was no breakdown of the number of passengers and crew aboard the Cubana officials had no im mediate comment on the crash and would not provide a senger list Witnesses said the plane dived steeply into the sea and there were signs of The fleet of small vessels headed out to sea within utes of the crash including speedboats and pleasure launches from hotels along the west coast of the the Coast Guard launches and government-owned The small craft began ing bodies back to Bridgetown harbor about 2'- hours after the crash One government-owned tug arrived with 10 bodies aboard and another docked shortly afterward with 36 Before it became apparent that no-one had peals were broadcast in bados for blood donors and Red Cross volunteers were moned lo the Bridgetown bor Airport officials and the FAA spokeswoman put the number of passengers and crew at 73. On Fund Lack Community Taxes Fail Many Schools SANGAD nom was in Leftist student opposition also led to the withdrawal last spring of all remaining can servicemen in a close ally of the United States during the Vietnam By the city was calm with no overt opposition to the can sleep well You don't have to live in fear Sangad told the tion in an evening television Police said most of the con- firmed dead were More than students were Ohio The Ohio Education insisting that school dis- are getting their fair share of income tax said Wednesday that low local tax effort is often the cause of school money are broke because they haven't matched state in- come with local tax said John chief lobbyist for in answer to a tion about districts facing downs in the next two Hall's defense of state ing is directly related the ly biyearly campaigns lo pass tax levies in Dressed Hall said six of seven dis- recently audited and en closing dates because of projected deficits have had their state money more than doubled m recent Five of them get more than half of their money from the he seven of them have tax rates significantly below the average for their type of dis- Hall Hall said the analysis was not complete in but claimed the huge Lucas County district and Cincinnati also had a low local tax effort At the same the veteran lobbyist said dollar increases for schools have outstripped income tax revenue since the tax was enacted in 1972 The total budget for secondary and higher Teamsters Due Incentive Plan Debated Ohio A dues increase will be repaid to the members of Teamsters Local 413, union trustee Louis Edwards said Edwards said the increase was engineered by former local president Vito who was sentenced last month to six years in prison for rigging a mail ballot election that re- in the dues The dues increase ranges from to a ing on a local member's Edwards Title Formally Adopted Ohio The Ohio State Highway Patrol has officially abolished the term and adopted the term because of- an expected influx of women of- Maj. patrol personnel said 98 women applied for admission for the recruit class beginning Oct. 13. The number who will be has not been he The patrol for years has used the two terms School Recycles Buildings Ohio The House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings Wednesday on Gov. James A. industrial tax in- legislation but made it clear it won't be ready for a vote until at least next Chairman George D. called for explanations of the package and began hearing then put off further de- liberations until next Rhodes prevailed upon cratic legislative leaders at an unusual session in his office Sunday to start hearings on the He said the need for it is gent because of industries ing or threatening to leave Ohio because the state's industrial its tax are not competitive with other Before committee are bills that provide for a 50 per cent reduction in tangible personal property taxes for up to eight years for qualifying industries for creating new permit exemptions from one to 10 years ol 50 per cent tangible and real property taxes when valuations are increased by additions or ex- and extending tax investment credits for the purchase of new machinery and including appeared at the meeting with They were not overly enthusiastic about the legislation because it contains Shuey Draws Prison Murder Plot Suspect Is Sentences On Charges Wittenberg University hopes to save money by recycling campus including one listed on the National Registry of historic The university says by the university expects to avoid costlier new con- A Massachusetts consulting firm recommended renovating a former chemistry building into an art department and at a cost of Man Serves Sentence For Wrong Robbery Thomas 0. 31, of Soil Erosion convicted last month by a Muskingum County Common Pleas jury on charges of aggravated carrying a concealed possession of a firearm while under disability and fleeing to avoid was sentenced yesterday by Judge J. Lincoln Knapp to Ohio Penitentiary in Shuey as sentenced to terms of six months to five years on two counts and one to 10 on third with the terms to be served He was sentenced to an ad- term of six months to five years on the fleeing to be served con- with the He was credited with the 10 months he has been in county Shuey was indicted by the grand jury for alleged incident which curred Aug. 10, 1973 outside a Dillon Falls grocery Shuey allegedly pointed a loaded pistol at city police Thomas following a confrontation shortly before in the The alleged weapon was a revolver loaded with a gauge shotgun Shuey failed to appear for trial in 1975, for- feiting He was arrested 11 months later in Florida and returned here after Gov. James Rhodes issued an extradition warrant for He was represented by Atty. Robert Handelman of Columbus while the state was represented by Prosecutor Richard E. Bridwell and Assistant Prosecutor David Dayton Receives Jobs Aid Harold E. Harlan 26, of Route 7 pleaded guilty day in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court to at- tempting to commit aggravated murder and was sentenced to four to 25 years in Mansfield He was indicted by a county grand jury on a charge of at- tempting to murder Gary 24, of 7739 Ridgeview lane Aug. 26 by beating him and then allegedly drenching him with gasoline with the intention of setting him on Browning told authorities he escaped before gasoline could be Timothy C. 20, of 2294 Creedmore drive was sentenced to prison last month in connection with the same DAYTON The City of Dayton has been awarded a federal grant to ate jobs and help redevelop its inner one of 10 cities to re- such grants from the U.S. Housing and Urban Commerce and Labor de- submitted more modest plans than the other They will receive annual grants of John Deere Talks Stall 111. The contract dispute between the striking United Auto Workers and Deere the nation's largest manufacturer of farm continued No negotiating sessions were A spokesman for Pat UAW vice president and chief union issued a statement Wednesday saying details about the negotiations announced Tuesday night were and were re- leased my knowledge or The earlier to said ment had been reached on eral economic including shorter work guaranteed supplemental unemployment vision care and sion MIAMI A man who spent 18 years in prison for bery has finally convinced that his alibi was he said he was busy robbing a store 300 miles away at the State Atty. Richard Gerstein said he has recommended the dismissal of a life sentence im- posed on Leroy 42, for the robbery of a Miami drug Circuit Judge Gee liams heard arguments on the case but reserved personally convinced that it was a case of mistaken identity and the conviction must be set Gerstein who received the heavy sentence because of a lengthy arrest record dating back to 1952, has been protesting his Miami conviction since 1958, when he was found nesses at the Jury trial had placed him at the scene of the Poss claimed he and two er men were breaking into a supermarket near Daytona at the time the Miami robbery was taking This past February attorney Rex Ryland got involved in the Poss case after he heard about it from another inmate at the Raiford State decided to He found out that Poss had acquired an davit in 1961 from a fellow oner who swore that not had robbed the Miami Poss also had an affidavit from Nicholas who swore that he was with Poss near Daytona Beach on that day in 1958. Ryland had lie detector tests given to Poss and the inmate who claimed to have com- mitted the Miami Both men major parts of a four-part bond issue package proposed by the governor but defeated by voters in November 1975 by margins up to 6-1. they agreed to request to start They left in limbo a ther request from him to bring the legislature into session later this month to enact the bills into Tablack said Wednesday he will call for hearings next week on both Tuesday and surpassing an Oct. 12 deadline suggested by Rhodes for a decision on whether Democrats will call the special The Republican governor has indicated strongly in the rent seen by some designed to influence the Nov. 2 he will call the special session himself if Democrats fail to act. He may do so under Senate Majority Leader ver left considerable doubts as to the fate of the Rhodes Apartment Rents Fast Eppley Avc 1st llr 3 rms 8, bam no pets Sec flop mo 453 The lady who placed this ad called the afternoon of the first day to state the apartment had been The lady was pleased with the fast results If you have a vacancy in your house or just call The Times Recorder Classified Ads to help you fill the vacancy Try our three-line 10-day Cancel when you get results and pay only for the number of days the ad starts or cancellations must be made only during office Call The Times Recorder Ph. 452-4561 Ask For Classified Ads education has increased billion since 1971, Hall while anticipated funds from the income tax for the present two-year fiscal period is 63 billion emphasized that neither the income tax nor lottery proceeds were ever earmarked for educational In addition to the six districts certified for closings before the end of the year Federal Hocking Local North Union Local Union Scioto Seneca East Local and Col. Crawford All but Federal Hocking have tax levies on the Nov. 2 Hall excluded Bucyrus from the list of districts which have had their state money and Bucyrus and Col. Crawford from those getting more than half their money from the state Index 1-4 5 7 6 4 1-3 2 6-8 D B A A B B A C Classified Comics Deaths Editorials Financial Sports Pages Television Women's Pages Bridge Hearing Oct. 27 A public hearing on a proposed new Muskingum River bridge and connecting road from it to Maysville avenue will be held at 7 p.m Oct. 27, at South Zanesville Elementary Officials of Ohio ment of Transportation will also be available at the school at 3 p m. the same day to explain design right-of-way construction schedules and the relocation assistance Maps and drawings and the final environmental statement as approved by Federal way Administration will be according to Paul R design and planning engineer for ODOT District 3 out of The bridge would be con- with Maysville avenue by a new Road 719, which would extend from intersection of Pine street and cross the bridge and join Ohio 60 north of Dietz The bride would also serve Ohio 555 which is now being relocated and reconstructed from Five Mile Bridge to Zanesville city
