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lefttfafare Dttt Little: BECKLEY POST-HERALD Volume 75-No. 272 Good Morning The News THE UNITED STATES and Algeria on Tuesday announced resumption of diplomatic relations. The Algerian government severed diplomatic ties with the United States in 1967 as the result of American support for Israel during the Middle East war that public hearing will be held in Charleston on Thursday on proposals to upgrade the pay and leave system for an estimated 5,000 state workers covered by civil Ford gave Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky a rain-delayed welcome to the White House on Tuesday, lauding Austria for helping to build a better and more peaceful World. THE PENTAGON has doubled the number of officers assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in violation of a law passed by Congress, Rep. Les Aspin, said Tuesday.

"The law is clear," Aspin said. "Only 406 officers can assigned to the Joint Chiefs staff, but actually 801 are working The Pentagon had no immediate storm packing winds of nearly 70 miles per hour battered Nome, Alaska onTuesday, causing extensive flooding in low-lying areas and forcing the evacuation of about 100 passenger ferry with hundreds of passengers aboard capsized and sank in a river 12 miles from Dacca with heavy loss of life. The accident occurred when the ferry was believed to have been carrying at least 300 passengers. Some survivors said more than 200 persons traveling inside the boat were trapped, but a fireman -who was on deck put the figure at more than 100. EMPLOYES OF A San Antonio, Tex.

bus terminal watched in horror as a Miami, Fla. man fatally slashed his throat and stabbed himself repeatedly in the chest. -Fred Thomas, 31, was dead on arrival at a hospital after the incident in the cafeteria of the Greyhound bus warrant was issued Tuesday in London for the arrest of the Earl of Lucan, missing since the bludgeon murder of his children's nanny and the beating of his estranged wife last week. Sandra Rivett, the 29-year-old nanny to the couple's three children, was found dead in sack. She had been beaten to death and the body trussed up with a appointment of Paul R.

Peterson as director of the Federal Trade Commission's regional; office in Clev.eJ,and was announced Cfiaifffian Lewis A. Engman. The Cleveland office, serves Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Michigan. THE UNITED STATES, Japan and most other industrial nations were reported Tuesday to have expressed reservations about a proposal by oilproducing nations for a fund to help needy nations produce food. Only the Netherlands, a co-sponsor of the plan presented to the World Food Conference in Rome, remained committed to the proposal by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Flowers, a 19-year- old Monmouth (N.

College student, suffocated early Tuesday when a sandy "grave" he was forced to dig in the rain- swept beachfront at Long Beach, N. J. as part of a fraternity initiation prank collapsed as he was lying in it He was reported to have been the first black allowed to pledge a chapter of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. Seven members of the fraternity were charged with A. Packard, 71, who was associated with the New Yorker magazine for 45 years, had died al his home in New York City.

Nixon's Pressure Up LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Former President Richard M. Nixon may still go home from the hospital late this week, but his doctor said Tuesday he was concerned about Nixon's experiencing dramatic increases in blood pressure. The increases, noticed in recent days, occur not only when Nixon is engaged in "stressful physical Dr. John C.

Lungren, but also when "he is physically quiet or concentrating and engaging in problem solving." Lungren said that while'Nixon was talking with an unidentified visitor Monday afternoon his blood pressure went up to an abnormally high 180 over 95. Nixon's normal blood pressure is about 120 over'70 or 80, Lungren said. Blacklist Still Used 1974 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON-The Army is still making use of the attorney general's so- called list of subversive organizations to blacklist military personnel even though the list was officially abolished five months ago at presidential direction, jthe Pentagon confirmed Tuesday. The, Army's continuing use of the once controversial, now defunct, list came to light in its attempts to discharge Steven Wattenmaker, a leader of the Young Socialist Alliance, from the reserves on the grounds he belonged to a subversive organization: Selassie Transferred ADDIS ABABA; Ethiopia (AP) -Emperor Haile Selassie has been transferred from the Fourth army headquarters where he had been detained since being depqsed Sept. 12 to the grand palace in the center of Addis Ababa, reliable sources He now is housed in a luxury suite with his daughter after being moved Monday night.

Beckley, W. Wednesday Morning, November 13,1974 TV A Faces Emergency 12-County Regional Ntwt Serwce (RNS) 2 Sections--15 Cents GUY FARMER Bid To Lift Cuba Curbs Is Rejected QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -H i i i ministers Tuesday rejected the lifting of 10-year-old economic and political sanctions against Cuba. The United States said no clear satisfaction exists that Fidel Castro's regime has stopped exporting revolution. The measure failed after i i a meetings under auspices of the Organization of America States. The foreign ministers came to Quito at the request of Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela, who declared that Cuba no longer presents the threat of revolution to the Americas that it did in 1964 when the OAS first invoked the sanctions.

But intense negotiations failed to-win the needed votes to approve the end of the Cuban quarantine, despite rounds of private- meetings that lasted into the early hourS'Of Tuesday, the last day of the conference. The final vote was 12-3 with six abstentions two votes short of the neccessary two-thirds 14. votes needed to-pass the resolution- Supporters of an end to the sanctions immediately issued a declaration saying that the i was "an a procedure," that a minority had thwarted the interest of the majority and that failure to end the blockade "seriously compromises" the authority of the OAS: The United States abstained along with Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua and Haiti. Mine Output Up By The Associated Press The U.S.'Bureau of Mines reports that 513,375,000 tons of coal were mined in the United States this year through the week ending Oct. 26, a 5.5 per i a 486,585,000 tons mined-during the same period-in 1973.

Mine Pact Is Elusive WASHINGTON (AP) i a i i a a elusive settlement of the day- old coal miners' strike Tuesday as railroad and steel workers faced layoffs and the nation's biggest electrical a emergency cutbacks. Officials of both the United Workers and the coal operators reported they continued to narrow differences a ne.w contract, but avoided predictions of when they might come to terms. However, i indicated they were intensifying their efforts. During a dinner break, United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller said that while the negotiating situation had not improved "all that much," there was now a "feeling of urgency" on the for a settlement. With his union now on strike, he said "every day down is very important." Guy Farmer, the chief industry negotiator, said both "sides had finished discussing the issues and were now "at the point where we can start settling issues.

It may be getting down to the beginning of the end." Later, UMW Secretary- Treasurer Harry Patrick said he told "the mine operators during the negotiations that both sides can either "stop playing cagey and get down to business" or the talks could drag on for six to eight weeks. Patrick said the operators were expected to present a newly revised contract offer a move which could help a a a agreement. Miller has vowed that his 120,000 striking members "will riot be bludgeoned" into an unacceptable contract no matter how great the public pressure for ending the In Detroit, the United Auto Workers' executive board pledged the union's "full-support" to the miners though auto workers face potentially more layoffs result of the coal strike. The strike is likely to last two to three weeks, assuming a settlement is reached-this week and is approved by the rankand-file miners. The ratification is expected to take about 10 days.

Scattered picketing and a report of a minor shooting in Virginia marked the first day of the strike which has closed mines in 25 states arid choked off 70 per cent of the nation's coal supply. Some union mines in the West continued to operate. The Tennessee Authority, with only a 42-day coal supply, urged governors in its seven-state power service area to take emergency to reduce electrical use "to avoid or postpone cutoffs which could result from a prolonged coal strike." The strike took its first toll in. employment as the Penn Railroad laid off 1,500 workers, and the Norfolk up to 350. The Ghessie System, another major coal hauler, Said it would lay off workers later this week.

Most steelmakers continued operating normally, but U.S. Steel said it is banking jiine of its blast furnaces immediately and eight more by Friday, resulting in layoffs of 13,700 employes by week's end. Board Chairman Edgar Speer said the reduction would cut raw steel production by 25 per cent. Steel companies say they have a two-to-three week supply of coal available but would have to begin curtailing production this (See MINE, Page 10) White House Concedes Slump Recession It's Official Recycled Hand "hangs-onto-a -large-hand-at-a- different kind of playground in Berlin. The hand "and other constructions are used theater props and sets which some -BerliB-attists-thought were too expensive to throw away, so they had them carried to a children playground, much to the delight of the boys and girls.

(AP Photo) 5 Shots Fired Into Bus Texts Violence Continues A a (AP) For the second straight day, snipers fired at i a Kanawha County, marking a new wave of violence in the bitter Kanawha County anti- textbook crusade. Bus driver James Jacobs was oh his way to pickup students Tuesday morning when someone fired three shots into the side of his bus. No students were aboard and Jacobs was not.injured. The attack came on the first day of classes Kanawha County students since the board of education's decision Friday, to return the controversial 'English books to the classroom. Opponents charge they are unpatriotic and anti-Christian.

"It makes you a little worried it makes you think," said Jacobs, visibly -shaken after the incident. He noted that had one of three slugs penetrated the cab he may have been killed. Two buses were hit by gunfire. Monday evening, but the drivers were not injured. Earlier that same day, a firebomb destroyed the car of a rural" family who had ignored threats directing them not to send their children.to, school.

Elsewhere in the county Tuesday, Kanawha County sheriff'-3 deputies boarded school buses at dawn and drove them in an armed caravan out of the mountainous Sissonville area north of Charleston and to a central less succeptible -to blockades. Classes canceled at the Cedar Grove Community School after about 50 anti- textbook pickets gathered at U. N. Appearance Today Arafat Security Intense 'NEW A Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat's top lieutenant arrived in New York on Tuesday night, preceding his chieftain here amidst the tightest security net in the city's history. An American Jewish group already had marked Arafat for death, and one of its members was arrested in connection with 4he threat.

Farouk Al-Kaddumi, second to Arafat in command of the Palestine Liberation Organization, arrived at Kennedy airport in early evening. A 20-car motorcade, with eight shotgun-toting police a a a i bulletproof vests, battled rush-hour traffic for more than an hour-to bring Al- Kaddumi from Kennedy airport to the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Meanwhile, Arafat left Cairo in a special plane during the day, en route to the opening of the United Nations a i a Wednesday. His travel plans to New Yor were not disclosed because of the security-precautions. the building.

Two women were arrested by state police following a an elementary school on Cabin Creek, the rolling heartland of the nine- Court Bars Statue Sale A a (AP) A preliminary in-, junction has been issued against two Raleigh County men to prevent them from producing, advertising or selling a carving referred to as the "Coal Miner." 1 The order was issued by District Court Judge K. K. Hall in a case brought by Steve Henry Turkovich, the artist who made the original statue, at the request of the a a of to. a i unemployed, disabled miners in Raleigh County. Turkovich alleged that the defendants, Jack Bolen of McAlpcn and J.

Ray Vandal of Beckley, had violated copyright laws by producing and selling replicas of the statue. Turkovich sued the men for $100,000, claiming he lost 000 because of the alleged violations from 1965. Bolen testified that the model from which he began producing statues was not copyrighted. Vandal cairns he a a a i Turkovich, but later cancelled it after learning his competitors were not paying a similar fee. Judge Hall said he issued the order because it is in the public interest to protect an artist's work.

week crusade. Troopers said one of the women was to get her child into the school while the other woman was attempting to keep him out. a i a 200 i i a a waving protesters showed up at a a a Courthouse Monday after- for violating the compulsory school attendance law. The Rev. Marvin Horan, a fundamentalist peacher and a leader in the dispute, had called for 1,000 mothers voluntarily to be arrested for i i i school boycott by keeping their children at home.

No (See TEXTS, Page 10) WASHINGTON-The United States now appears to be moving into a recession, i press secretary, Ron Nessen, said Tuesday. Nessen's statement, made, at a regular White House news brifing, marked the first time that Ford had conceded that the year-long decline of the nation's economy had reached the proportions of a recession. Although some administration officials have been saying obliquely for some time that the nation is slipping into a recession, Ford and his spokesmen have up to now consistently rejected the use of the word to describe the state of the economy. Tuesday, Nessen said that i by the 1 a economic statistics, some not yet made public; "It would appear that this month we are moving into a recession." Questioners at the briefing asked if it were only a coincidence that the President was i a the economy was in recession one week after the congressional elections. During the campaign some commentators said that the administration was refusing to concede the magnitude of the country's economic difficulties because of the political implications of such a concession.

it was "figures just coming political, considerations--that led the i to a a economy was moving into a recession. He said he had not seen, the new economic indicators himself but had talked to the lading administration i i i a including William E. Simon, the secretary of the treasury; A a a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and William Seidman, assistant to: the President for economic KL I I I Cloudy and cold today with-a- chance of snow flurries today and tonight. Highs today in the mid 30s, lows tonight in the upper 20s. Milder Thursday with a chance of rain, highs in the mid 40s.

Surface winds 5 to 15 miles per hour through tonight. Probability of precipitation is 50 per cent today, 40 tonight and Thursday. (Details On Page 9) Mayor Asks Data On Rating Teams Beckley Mayor John H. McCulloch announced Tuesday he will request a full disclosure of 'the- state high school football rating system from the West Virginia State Board of Education. Woodrow Wilson High Schol of Beckley completed its 1974 football season Friday with 10 wins and no losses, but was not named to play in the state high school football championship playoffs.

McCulloch made the an- i a i i meeting. Other questions he said he intended to ask the state Board of Education include: Where the West Virginia Secondary School A i i i i i whose rating system deter- i the a in the a i i a i by whom to the commission are made; how long commission terms extend; the source of the commission's finaa- cing, a how the team ratings (A, AA, and AAA) are' determined, and at what time of the year they are determined. (See MAYOR, Page 10) South Africa Is Denied Privileges By Assembly YASIR ARAFAT Field Arrested A a (AP.) U.S. Atty. John Field III was cited Monday on charges of iriterferring with an officer after he allegedly tried to prevent authorities from towing his car from a no parking zone.

i i about 8 p.m. when police dis- coverd Field's car in a restricted parking area on Capitol Street. Field was taken to the Kanawha County jail where he posted $32 bond and was immediately released. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The U.N.

General Assembly voted. Tuesday night to exclude South Africa from further participation in this year's assembly session. Algerian Foreign- Minister Bouteflika, this a i assembly, ruled that South Africa no longer is entitled to its seat. Then, on a vote demanded i a assembly members voted 9122 with 19 abstentions to up- i i Americans protested that the i i a Charter. The Algerian diplomat said he based his ruling on a Sept.

30 vote denying the South Africa delegation General Assembly credentials. But Bouteflika said his ruling would "leave open the status of South Africa as a i Nations." This was because on Oct. 30, the United States, Britain and France vetoed a move 'in the Security Council to expel the South Africans mainly a i i minority government's racial policies!.