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11ME VOL. 239, NO. 182 LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1974 Copyright, 1974, Th Courier-Journal ft Times 131 PAGES 33 CENTS Transition at Frankfort oath the takes 'Julian Carroll as Kentucky's 50th overnor Julian Carroll's jather nearly stole the show at his son's inauguration. This and another story, and more photos, Page 1. Charlann, and daughter Patrice, 18, and shook hands with sons Kenneth, 19, and Brad, 10.

Then, shielding his eyes with his hand from blinding lights of photographers' cameras, Carroll sat quietly and erectly while the Rev. Hillman Moore, pastor of West Paducah's Milburn Chapel Presbyterian Church, delivered a prayer for him. "Bless this Thy servant whom Thou hast called to serve in such a responsible position," prayed Moore. "Bless him with Thy presence and lead him with Thy spirit. May all his decisions be beneficial to all people and in accordance with Thy holy will." The new governor, who wore a gray and blue pin-striped suit, made no remarks at the ceremony.

But in a prepared statement, released by press secretary John Nichols, Carroll saluted Ford for his tireless service and dedication to Kentucky. "His (Ford's) dedication to this task 8 (' fi i 11 1 FI it" i Ik- is the example he leaves to those of us who shall succeed him," the statement said. "His dedication to the people of our Commonwealth has earned him esteem and trust which now carry htm to the U.S. Senate where he will continue to voice our hopes Carroll also said that the Fords' "gracious and dignified presence in Frankfort more than prepares them for the work upon which they are about to enter." "We know that they carry our best interests with them to Washington, as we carry theirs in our hearts. We pray God's grace upon them in the days that lie ahead," Carroll concluded.

After the inaugural ceremony, Carroll and Ford walked to the nearby governor's office where their respective families, staff members and newsmen watched Carroll and Secretary of State Thelma See CARROLL Back page, col. 4, this section By RICHARD WILSON Courier-Journal Staff Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. In a brief and simple ceremony in the rotunda of the state Capitol yesterday, 43-year-old Lt. Gov. Julian Carroll of Paducah became Kentucky's 50th governor.

Carroll was administered the oath of office at 10:06 a.m. by Chief Justice Earl Osborne of the Kentucky Court of Appeals at the base of the statue of the late Vice President and U.S. Sen. Alben Barkley, also of Paducah. A former five-term Democratic state representative, Carroll will serve out the remaining 11 months of Wendell Ford's unexpired gubernatorial term.

He is expected to seek a full four-year term as governor next year. Ford would have assumed Kentucky's junior seat in the U.S. Senate Jan. 3, but Republican Sen. Marlow Cook whom Ford defeated in the November election resigned the seat at midnight Friday to permit Ford to succeed him early and gain additional seniority.

Ford set up the orderly transition of gubernatorial power at 9:50 a.m. yesterday when he resigned as governor. Carroll's first official act as governor at 10:17 a.m. was to appoint Ford to Cook's vacated Senate seat. Carroll's hastily planned inaugural ceremony was attended by an estimated 300 persons, including Ford and four other former governors, Louie Nunn, Bert Combs, Lawrence Wetherby and A.

B. Chandler other political dignitaries and well-wishers. After taking his oath of office, Carroll walked the few steps to where his immediate family was sitting and kissed his wife, "Ford loses state political power base News analysis By ED RYAN Courier-Journal staff Writer When the general leaves, his army Usually disintegrates. Former Kentucky Gov. and Sen.

A. B. Chandler When you go from governor to senator, and I did that, it can be quite a comedown. Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie FRANKFORT, Ky.

At 10:17, a.m. yesterday, when Wendell Hampton Ford -became the junior United States senator from Kentucky, his power base as leader of the state Democratic Party began to melt away. literally turning their backs on Ford, who was sitting a few feet away. Ford, in an interview Friday evening, recognized-the realities of his situation: "I understand the political system very well My influence (on Kentucky politics) will be diluted, but I still have a lot of friends I made my contribution. I don't think a fellow ought to hang on and hang on and hang on.

''I'm going to turn loose (the party reins). I know some people who haven't wanted to turn loose. But it comes, and I realized before it happened and I know it's coming." Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine knows what it's like to leave a state capitol for Washington's Capitol Hill. "One day you are at the center of the decision making and the next day you are a freshman senator," said Muskie, who made the transition 16 years ago.

But Ford, one of a dozen new senators, will not, in his own words, "be going up there as a stranger." He befriended Muskie in the Maine senator's abortive presidential campaign of 1972. He knows Sen. Henry (Scoop) Jackson of Washington state. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota is a close See FORD Back page, col. 1, this section The power that he wielded for four years as lieutenant governor (under a Republican governor) and then three years as governor diminished as Julian Carroll, leader of the party's opposition faction, was sworn in as the new governor.

It was a perceptible thing in the state Capitol rotunda where hundreds of Democrats and a few Republicans gathered for the changing of the political guards. Television cameramen and photographers swarmed around Carroll while Staff Photo by Paul Schuhmann AT THE BASE of a statue of the late Alben Barkley, former U.S. senator and vice president, Lt. Gov. Julian Carroll, left, was sworn in yesterday as Kentucky's 50th governor by Chief Justice Earl Osborne of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in a ceremony in the rotunda of the state Capitol.

Elsewhere Retaliation threatened JRussia attacks bill on emigration, trade Nicaragua free rchels The Nicaraguan government has agreed to release 26 political prisoners and give them safe passage out of the country along with a band of guerrillas who took at least 30 hostages, including gov-erment officials. Page A 9. More judges wanted Chief Justice Warren E. Burger urged Congress to increase the number of federal judges, pay them more and improve appeals procedures Page A 3. Business-Real Estate Section Classified 10, Section jDeaths 6, 8 Lively Arts Section Opinion Page 2 'Outlook-Environment Section Sports Section Today's Living Section -w.

i hmJM fsil: Is ill vi fr i v--r'- a Vfi -it "n'-fri I-Tv--i))iWt''rr)iiiiii itiifmr 1 By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN New York Times News Service MOSCOW A Kremlin spokesman warned yesterday that the Soviet Union might re-examine its economic obligations toward the United States in retaliation against what the Russians view as discriminatory provisions of the trade reform bill recently enacted by Congress. Leonid M. Zamyatin, director general of the government's Tass press agency, charged that Congress had violated a 1972 trade agreement providing equal-trade status between the two countries by linking the extension of trade benefits to freer emigration from the Soviet Union. "In the present situation, the failure of one of the parties to honor its commitments cannot help but affect the commitments assumed by the other party under a scries of commercial and financial agreements," Zamyatin asserted.

The press official did not specify what actions the Soviet Union might take beyond reiterating its threat to look elsewhere in the West for trading partners. However, he appeared to be alluding to the trade package signed by the Soviet Union and the United States Oct. 18, Se RUSSIA Back page, col. 1, this section Sun, nay Ex-affent says New York by the National Weather Service iJ by the Furnished was key CIA spy target LOUISVIUE area Chance of rain this after-noon through tomorrow; high mid-40s, low mid-30s. KENTUCKY Chance of rain today through tomorrow; highs in 40s, lows in 30s.

INDIANA Cloudy and mild today; chance of light rain south and central and snow flurries north tomorrow; highs in upper 30s to mid-40s, lows in the low 30s north to mid-30s south. TENNESSEE Rain spreading eastward today, ending from west tomorrow; highs in 50s, lows in upper 30s northwest to mid-40s southeast. High yesterday, 40; low, 37. Year ago yesterday: High 48; low 29. Sun: Rises, 7:59 a.m.; sets, 5:31 p.m.

Moon: Rises, 5:21 p.m.; sets, 7:19 a.m. Weather map and details, Paga 5. Associated Press activity at Columbia University and elsewhere. The agents were tightly controlled by senior officials in the New York office of the Domestic Operations Division (DOD), a little-known domestic unit set up in 1964 by the CIA in more than a dozen cities across the nation, the former intelligence official said. The division's ostensible function then was legal: To coordinate with the American corporations supplying "cover" for CIA agents abroad and to aid in the Sec NEW YORK Back page, col.

1, this section By SEYMOUR M. HERSH New York Times News Service NEW YORK A former agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, in recounting the details of his undercover career, says that New York City became a prime CIA domestic spying target during the late 1960s because it was considered a "big training ground" for radical activities in the United States. The agent, who said he spent more than four years in the late 1960s and early 1970s spying on radical groups in New York, told the New York Times that more than 25 CIA agents were assigned to the city at the height of antiwar A presidential lift FRESIDENT FORD, left, accompanied by Secret Service agents and his ski instructor, rode a gondola up the slopes at Vail, yesterday after meetings on the economy. After the meetings, press secretary Ron Nessen said the President is planning to propose fundamental changes in economic policy in his State of the Union message scheduled for delivery to Congress Jan. 20.

(Story, Page A 2.) Some fyden miners9 widows struggling to survive Legni questions jrom the Hyden mine disaster are almost as tangled today as jour years ago. Page A 12; A jamily rebuilds after Hurricane Creek, Page 1, And still others, who said they found jobs in industry, have been laid off recently in the deepening recession and have moved their families back home. Others are working outside of deep mines or in strip-mining and still others are supplementing their widowed mother's government benefits and food stamps with a few dollars a w'eek from odd jobs. Although many of the survivors could not be located and some refused to be interviewed, 11 of the families contacted agreed that the scarcity of local jobs outside the mines and soaring prices on everything from baby's milk to school clothes have added new burdens to their already bare-boned budgets. "It's pressing me mighty bad just to See HYDEN By FRANK ASHLEY Courier-Journal Staff Writer it' 1974, Tht Courier-Journal Times Four years ago tomorrow near the mountain town of Hyden in Eastern Kentucky's Leslie County an underground mine explosion resulted in the death of 38 men.

The explosion, commonly referred to as the Hyden mine disaster, soon was followed by much charity for the survivors of the victims and many lawsuits on their behalf. For a time clothing, foodstuffs and money flowed into Hyden and Leslie County for distribution to the dead miners' families. Forecasts for better days ahead were common and many persons generally believed that a wealthy future was in store for those left behind. Such hasn't been the case. Last year he and his son were acquitted on charges of shooting into a dwelling.

Another charge of assault with a deadly weapon is pending against Collins in Clay Circuit Court, according to his attorney. During a recent telephone interview, Collins suddenly hung up, exclaiming, "Some men are outside right now shooting at the house." Earlier, in another attempted interview, Collins daughter had refused to let a reporter talk to her father on the phone unless she could approve the story before publication. In many cases, children of the deceased miners have quit school at early ages, married and now have families of their own. Some, their mothers say, have gone to industrial cities to find work in factories, swearing never to work in the mines. that they have received little aid since shortly after the disaster.

They told stories of low income from government benefits, of lingering community resentment over lawsuits filed in their names and of recurring family health problems. Many, some survivors say over half, of the widows of the 38 miners have started new lives with new husbands and, in some cases, have new mouths to feed. At least one surviving wife is now raising three families. She has two children by her husband who was killed in the mine, two by her present husband and one from her dead husband's previous marriage. Others of the surviving widows, vowing never to remarry, partly because of mountain gossip about those who have, are rearing their children alone.

Many have relocated in the past four years, but some continue to live in the same houses and in the same hollows they called home before the Hurricane Creek explosion ripped into their lives on Dec. 30, 1970. Still others, mostly the older widows, have watched their children grow to adulthood and move away. Most in that category are too old to find work and too young to draw Social Security benefits. Thus, they have been left with lonely-houses and memories and a $96 check every two weeks from state workman's compensation insurance.

The only miner to have survived the explosion, A. T. Collins, expected to be the government's chief witness against the mine operators, has had additional problems. He has been in and out of courts on other matters over the past four years. Families of men killed in the Hyden mine have not become the mountain rich folks some people predicted after multimillion-dollar lawsuits were filed in their behalf in Louisville and Lexington.

Instead, many are struggling to make ends meet on low, fixed incomes and food stamps as inflation continues to creep into the Eastern Kentucky hollows they refuse to leave while the lawsuits lay dormant in the courts. Several surviving families recently said in interviews with The Courier-Journal PAGE 12, col. 1, this section i.