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Vo. ft J-HOPli MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AtsocJated ii entitled to the use for of all the local news printed in well ai ol! AP newi dispatcher LONG-TIME MEMBER Mideast Oil Situation Sticky Long Time Observers of the Middle East conflict began speculating publicly from the beginning on how long the Arab oil producers would refrain from using their valuable resource as a political tool. The Saudi Arabians their country is third only to Canada and Venezuela as a source of U.S. oil imports have made their move. Actually, though, the Middle East oil situation has been developing toward a confrontation much longer than the beginning of the latest war.

Whether by coincidence or Arab design, oil has been becoming increasingly more expensive for the U.S. and American investments in Arabian oil companies more precarious'for a long time. Frequent price hikes, higher taxes, and numerous incidences of expropriated properties may have been growing recognition in the Arab countries that they controlled a large part of a resource which was becoming more vital daily to much of the rest of the world. They may have been preparing for renewed hostilities by building a war chest through increased oil revenue's. Whatever the meaning of the steps which brought about the current state of canceled oil contracts, reduced exports, and increased warnings, the situation between oil users and producers may never be the same again.

Meat Prices Fancier But Names Plainer A policy of plain labeling, urged on meat retailers by the National Livestock and Meat Board, is aimed at reducing the names of cuts of beef, pork, and lamb from an estimated 1,000 to about 315, and at translating the fancier monickers to plain, descriptive terms. It would be a boon, especially to the more mobile part of the population which finds a New York strip in Kansas City is a Kansas City steak in New York. One obvious part of the problem Is localisms. The uniform labelers won't try to break too much with tradition. A porterhouse, a T-bone, and a club Bteak are all variations on a theme, and their differences are understood from coast to coast.

Filet mignon is fancy French for a tenderloin patty, but the term is understood. But what's the matter with clear, plain terms like chuck, round rump, and rib? All meat label jargon isn't meant to be deceptive, but much of it is. It will cost just as much called by its plain, comprehensive names, but the customer will have a chance to know what she is buying for all that money. Soviets, Japanese May Forget Flyspecks World War II ended on Aug. 14, 1945, five days after the Soviet Union declared war on the Empire of Japan, but peace terms between Japan and the Soviets still have not been signed.

When two nations can't come to terms in 28 years, there must be something really vital keeping them apart. The biggest problem the negotiators face, as acknowledged by Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka as he ended a visit to Moscow, is a matter of four flyspccks. These specks tiny dots on the largest maps are four islands of the Kurile chain and, although the Japanese and the Russians obviously cherish them, it is hard for a bystander to understand what all the fuss is about. There may be a drop of oil lying about in the area. Apparently there is a fairly valuable fishery.

Most of the contention in the past has involved seizure of Japanese fishing boats and detention of Japanese fishermen by the Soviets. It may be that someone sees some special strategic value to these particular tiny and remote patches of real estate, but it's hard to see how they differ in this respect from dozens of other islands in the areas controlled by either power. If there is an attraction for tourists, It must be marginal. It's unlikely that the area will generate a flood of either tourist yen or tourist rubles. The Soviets and Japanese have important mutual interests, though.

For example, the Soviets need Japanese capital for development of natural resources including timber, oil, and gas and the Japanese in turn have a critical need for the very resources in which the Russians might be of help. The point is that Japan and the USSR have much more important concerns than those islands and if they can't settle the question, they might forget it. Top (y The Morning Kohoutek's Comet Watch Intense By EMILE J. HODEL We wrote here a while back about the new Comet Kohoutek which is expected to grace our sky spectacularly in the period after Christmas this year. We had that interesting information from the Buhl Planetarium at Pittsburgh.

Now we have heard more on the matter from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is planning for a massive examination of the comet when it gets close to the sun and us. The most extensive array of electronic eyes ever assembled by NASA for the study of a comet will be focused on Comet Kohoutek this winter. As of last weekend the comet was some 400 million kilometers (250 million miles) from the sun. It is literally expected to be more spectacular than the noted Halley's Comet which last appeared in 1910 and was then rated as being as bright as a full moon. Comets orbit the sun at varying distances and, therefore, with a great variation in the times of their ellipit- cal orbits.

Some take a few years to make one revolution while others may take thousands of years. To take advantage of the unusual opportunity represented by Comet Kohoutek, NASA scientists plan to study the comet in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light; with optical telescopes, radio telescopes, and radar. They will observe it from the ground, from high-flying aircraft, with instruments aboard unmanned satellites, and with sounding rockets and telescopes and cameras on Skylab IV. These extensive observations are expected to yield new clues to old mysteries. Aside from the orbits, no one knows with certainty whence comets come, of what they are composed, or when and how they were formed.

Dr. Stephen P. Maran will head NASA's Operation Kohoutek. It is being managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. Doctor Maran says, "We would like to know more about cometary origin.

Are they remnants of the formation of the solar system, or are they interstellar matter captured by our sun?" Probably the most important objective of the Kohoutek study is to find out whether there is such a thing as a solid comet nucleus. Currently, most astronomers accept the "dirty snowball" theory of Dr. Fred L. Whipple, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He holds that comets have a solid nucleus comprised of ice, methane, ammonia, and dust particles.

As a comet nears the sun, its surface heats. The gases vaporize and their molecules are broken up by solar radiation into less complex molecules. These "daughter" molecules and dust particles expand into the comet's head or coma and provide material for its tail. Comet Kohoutek is believed to have a nucleus of 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 19 miles), while the comet's head may have a diameter of 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) or more. Comet tails can stretch tens of millions of miles.

The longest yet measured extended out to more than 297 million kilometers (186 million miles) from the Great Comet of 1843. The tail of Halley's Comet in 1910 reached out 144 million kilometers million miles), or approximately the distance from the earth to the sun. The tail of Kohoutek may eventually stretch out across one-sixth of the nights ky just after sunset around New Year's Day, extending 80 to 160 million kilometers (50 to 100 million miles). Approaching the sun, the tail will be behind the comet, but leaving our sun the tail will precede Kohoutek. This effect is caused by the solar wind and by solar ultraviolet rays, which push matter away from the comet's head, away from the sun.

-O- It should be a most interesting sight even if it is found to be less spectacular than estimated! And top of the morning to you! My Answer By BILLY GRAHAM I am only 16, but I'm looking for an answer to life. Sometimes I think I don't believe in God, or that He is jus! fate or something. Then, I find myself praying to Him. So, I must need Him. You've got to have the greatest faith in the world.

How did you do it? M. T. The Bible teaches that "faith" is a gift of God. It is not something that we acquire through hard work or earnest seeking. John wrote that "We love Him because He first loved us." (1 John 4:19.) God is obviously at work in your life to i you to spiritual enlightenment.

That means, a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Your generation has been called "the seeking generation" with good reason. Having been disillusioned by the empty goals of a materialistic society, you reach out for reality. Millions have found that reality at the foot of a cross kneeling in repentance and faith. Flush Jack Anderson-IRS Auditing Democratic Chairman By JACK ANDERSON and LES WfflTTEN WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service, which has made life miserable for Democratic National Cahirman Larry O'Brien with its audits of his taxes, has now moved against his successor, hardworking Robert Strauss.

Strauss, a wealthy, outspoken Texan who is now rallying the Democrats for a fight against the Republicans in the 1974 and 1976 elections, became the subject of an IRS examination about a month ago. Though sure his taxes are in order, Strauss told his accountants to co-operate with the tax agents. We have learned they are studying the Strauss returns fcr 1970, 1971, and 1972. The IRS office in Dallas is handling the examination, but Democratic friends of Strauss feel it was approved, if not instigated, in Washington. Coming as it does at the same time that the IRS is probing 1968 standard-bearer Hubert Humphrey's finances, these Democrats remain unconvinced that the Strauss probe is non political.

a $100,000 cash "contribution" for Nixon from billionaire Howard Hughes. THEY POINT to testimony in the Watergate case that the White House repeatedly tried to use the IRS as a political weapon. Now that the administration can safely cite ex- Vice President Spiro Agnew as evidence of nonpartisanship in the IRS, the Democrats are fearful they will once again become fair game. Humphrey's trouble with the tax men, for example, has come over testimony by a Howard Hughes emissary that he delivered $50,000 in cash to Humphrey in 1968, but the Minnesota Senator has told us it is his returns for 1970, 1971 and 1972 in which the IRS seeems most interested. Meanwhile, the White House has said President Nixon is "confident" that bis crony, C.

G. "Bebe" Rebozo "acted in the proper fashion" in accepting James Reston Firing (C) 1973 New York Times News Service The one thing you have to say for Richard Nixon is that he knows when he is licked. A thing he always sadi he never do promise- with Moscow, co i Peking, accepts i i financing, or' be unfaithful to his promises he has done. He has done it again by releasing the Watergate tapes, which he said he would never release. IT WAS A CLEVER move.

He has retreated from one mess to another, but he has gained time. It will take weeks to get the tapes down on paper and turned to Ruckelshaus to fire Cox, and Haig not only told him this was an order from "the commander in but appealed to him on patriotic grounds to carry out the order. Ruckelshaus, according to his associates, replied a patriotism was not the same as obedience, that in his mind it was sometimes the oppostite, and that he would not comply. So he was fired. Meanwhile, Richardson appealed to the President's aides and lawyers to consider what the reaction would be in Congress and in the country if they fired Cox for carrying out the independent prosecution he was promised by the President and the attorney general.

FT IS INTERESTING and significant that during those critical five days to get a new team to take over Richardson was negotiating the prosecution at the Justice with the White House staff, and Department. Meanwhile, he has gotten rid of Archibald Cox, the "independent" prosecutor, which was probably his objective, and tie has postponed though he has not avoided a critical battle with both the courts and the Congress. The President was in terrible trouble before he switched and agreed to let the tapes go to the courts. He judged Archibald Cox well enough. He gave Cox a dishonorable order he knew wouldn't accept, and he was right.

So Cox, for the moment, is going home. THE PRESIDENT misjudged Attorney General Richardson and deputy attorney general Ruckelshaus, though. He appealed to Richardson to concentrate on the Middle East crisis, and stay on even if Cox disappeared. He even had Richardson's old friend Henry Kissinger appeal to Richardson to stress the foreign crisis and avoid a resignation, but Richardson didn't agree. The White House didn't even give Richardson time to respond to the President's order to fire Special Prosecutor Cox.

Gen. Alexander Hnig called Richardson at 7 p.m. Saturday and told him the President was sending him a message, which seemed to call for an answer from Richardson, but while the attorney general was trying to draft a reply, the White House put out its announcement that Cox was fired. warning them not to fire Cox or force his own resignation, the President never discussed the problem personally with his own attorney general until the very end when it was clear that the President was determined to get rid of Cox. It was a typical desperate Nixon play, but this time it didn't work.

Public reaction went against the President. More important, the old Republican establishment, led by the leaders of the bar, were denouncing the dismissal of Cox and the resignation of Richardson, and the indications were that Judge Sirica was going to hold the President in contempt of court. Nixon now has time to try to sort things out, but he has affronted his own most loyal supporters and even his own cabinet, and has raised the most serious questions about his moral authority to govern over the next three years. STRAUSS, WHILE no more happy than any other American to have the IRS in his files, has taken the view that the administration is innocent of political hatchetwork unless proved different. "It is a fact that the IRS has been working with my accountant concerning the last few years," Strauss told us.

"So far as I know the inquiry is routine. My accountant says the tax returns are in good order. There is no reason to suspect political motives at this time." At the IRS, a spokesman refused even to acknowledge the porbe of Strauss' returns, much less to comment on whether it was instigated or approved by Washington. A BATTLE OVER the hairy, fast-breeding tussock moth is raging within the government, with the Environmental Protection Agency squared off against the Forest Service. The nasty insects have been chewing the needles off fir trees throughout the leaving forests subject to fires.

Only DDT, it seems, stops the gnawers; the Sierra Club opposes DDT spraying because it kills wild life, fish, and birds along with bugs. Andrew Tully-Voters Less Certain About Political Types WASHINGTON It must be more than a touch bewildering to be Sen. Teddy Kennedy and former Texas Gov. John Connally these days. I either of those men, I would be tempted to forsake big time politics and a ing easy like constructing a a motion machine.

Two developments a couple of days apart seem calculated to create confusion in the Kennedy and Connally minds and cause to ponder the twistings and turnings of political fortunes. KENNEDY LEADS all the early polls as the No. 1 contender for the 1976 Democratic presidential nominee. Yet the latest Harris survey reports that by a margin of 43 to 41 per cent a plurality of those interviewed say "I do not fully trust his integrity." Here in Washington, White House domestic adviser Melvin Laird told a group of reporters that Connally gave up his best chance for a presidential nomination when he turned Republican. Apparently they feel that the Kennedy name and charisma, plus Teddy's good looks, personality, and style" compensate for any lack of trust in his rectitude.

AT THE SAME time, we have Melvin Laird saying admiringly that John Cbnnally "made a great sacrifice to become a Republican," and "should be welcomed" into the party, but also telling Connally in effect that he mustn't expect the GOP to nominate him for the White House. Admittedly, the wheels-within- wheels complexities of presidential politics are enough to drive most sane men up the wall. Moreover, a lot of other possibly including Laird would like to get that 1976 nomination, but Connally can be forgiven for wondering what prompted Laird to count him out of the running before the horses are out of the gate. RICHARD NIXON is a secretive man, but it is no secret that he admires John Connally and at least up to the moment Laird spoke his little piece counted the Texan as a leading candidate to succeed him, if not THE leading candidate. Yet Laird is one of four or five men in the White House who can claim inside knowledge of Nixon's political thinking.

Laird can say he was speaking only for himself, but that's like Henry Kissinger insisting that his statements on the Israeli-Arab war are news to the President. No. Unquestionably Nixon was privy to Laird's views and did not consider it in his personal interest to disapprove the public airing of those views. JOHN CONNALLY has been put on notice by the White House that he is no more than one of the pack in the race for the GOP nomination. Why else would Laird speak of Connally's "great personal sacrifice to become a As for Kennedy, he may be yet another victim of Watergate.

One of me major issues in 1976 will be morality in government, and obviously many voters are still confused by the Chappaquiddick incident in their search for Mr. Clean. For instance, while those questioned by interviewers disagreed by 49 to 34 per cent that Chappaquiddick showed Kennedy "does not deserve the presidency," they also disagreed by 43 to 6 per cent mat Kennedy "could give the country the kind of inspired leadership we need." THE TEMPTATION is to dismiss that particular poll as preposterous, but I suggest it makes a certain rude sense. Events of the past few years have had their effect on the voter. Chappaquiddick plus Watergate has made him more uncertain than usual about "popular" political men.

That is Kennedy's problem and it is Connally's problem, too. Connally has no Chappaquiddick on his back and he was not involved in Watergate, but he suffers from his status as a brand new Republican and, like Mel Laird, workers in the GOP salt mines may not be persuaded to band the party's biggest prize to a candidate whose loyalty is of such recent vintage. Yesterday And Early Settler's Granddaughter Dies By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Chapter after chapter of local history came to mind when there came the call to officiate in the Beckley funeral service of Mrs. Edith Hutchinson Davis (Jan. 8,1876 Oct.

Ws laid the almost 98- year-old woman to rest in the i i Mt. a ery, across road from the of which she was long a member. The church was organized in 1882, when Mrs. Davis was a little six-year-old girl. Interred there in that rather populous city of the dead are scores of the pioneers of this area.

where the Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike crossed New River in the vicinity of the Lilly Bridge of our day. There at the 23-Mile Tree another turnpike branched off to Logan and Guyandotte. Cole's blacksmith shop was located across the road from his house about where the City Hall used to stand before the present municipal capital was erected a few years ago farther south on South Kanawha Street. name. Those three families settled on the waters of Sand Lick Creek.

These were followed by Joshua Galloway, brother-in-law of James Ellison H. Daniel Shumate also came here about the same time. His wife was a sister of James Ellison H. It was out in the Trap Hill section that Joshua Galloway and Daniel Shumate built homes and reared families. AFTER THE CIVIL War was CHARLES HUTCHINSON had fc a son named Adoniram Judson over, James Cole moved to the Hutchinson who was a Raleigh Crab Orchard settlement of our school teacher for many THE ANCESTRAL lineage of Mrs.

Davis extends far back into the annals of Beckley. She was the granddaughter of James Cole, the village blacksmith here in what today is Beckley. The mother of Mrs. Davis was the former Miss Ann Cole. James Cole hailed from across the Alleghanies in Floyd County, Va.

In 1842 he migrated here and has been regarded as about the first settler within the confines of today's city. His cabin stood in the shade of what was long known as the "23-Mile Tree." That tree stood on the site of the Memorial Building on South Kanawha Street. It was called the 23-Mile Tree because it stood 23 miles from time. The father of Mrs. Davis was the late George W.

Hutchinson of the pioneer family by that name. The first of the Hutchinson line to settle in what is now Raleigh County was Charles Hutchinson. He came here in 1829 from Monroe County. In 1848, Charles Hutchinson moved to Crab Orchard where he and his family resided until 1856, then they moved to between Lester and Maple Meadow in the Surveyor Creek country. There were 14 children in the Charles Hutchinson family.

WHEN THAT I ST Hutchinson Ch a 1 Hutchinson settled in present Raleigh County in 1829, some of his relatives moved here with him. One of them was his father-in-law, James Ellison II, and family. A brother-in-law of Charles Hutchinson came with his family. Fieldon Phipps was his THE WHITE HOUSE then the small society by Brickman HAvfeN'r years. He served one term, as county superintendent schools.

In turn the teacher, A. J. Hutchinson, had a son who was long an attorney here in Beckley. He was the late John Quincy Hutchinson (Sept 19, 1879 Jan. 31, 1961), a member of the first law class to graduate at West i i i a University.

That year was 1907. This Beckley lawyer was tho son of A. J. Hutchinson (18361912). The father of Mrs.

Edith Hutchinson Davis was George Washington Cole (June 21, 1848- June 30, 1933). Her mother, the former Miss Julia Cole, was born March 29, 1847 and died on July 8, 1906. VERY PROMINENT parts were played in the early administration of this county by the Raleigh County Hutchinson family and their kin. Fieldon Phipps, brother-in-law Charles Hutchinson, was the only member of the Fayette County Court from present time Raleigh County, which was formed in 1850 from Fayette County. Daniel Shumate, related to Charles Hutchinson by marriage, was once clerk of the County Court of Raleigh County.

William T. "Uncle Shumate, another relative, was sheriff of Raleigh County. It fell to him to hang William I. Martin on Oct. 3, 1890.

That scaffold stood on Valley Drive opposite the Assembly of God church. J. A. Hutchinson was Raleigh county surveyor tome.