Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 1

Slayer Sen! To Job JJ Pi VtJume 77-No. 67 Good Morning The News fcekley, W. Friday Morning, March 19, 1976 January 1977 Completion Date 12'County Regional Newt Service (RNS) 2 Sections--15 Cents In 8 Ralei Cen Set To Add 100 Beds TM i IT 11 A Gusty Winds Partly cloudy today through Saturday with a chance of shoiveri late Safarrfoy. Highs today in (he lou SOs, lows tonight arotiwf SO, highs Saturday the low 70s. Winds out of the south at 15to2S miles per hour and gusty today.

Probability of precipitation is 20 per cent (hrouoh tonight. (Details On Page 15) Controls May Lift WASHINGTON AP) Federal Administration said Thursday it would propose to Congress, probably before a price controls be removed from gasoline and home healing oils. It Die expected plan is not opposed by either the House or the Senate, price controls could come off gasoline just as the summer driving season begins the peak demand time a i prices a a increased. It also would clear the way lor price increases on home hoalins oil next a as the winter a i season increases demand. Sunday Session Dropped CHARLESTON.

W.Va. (At 1 The state House of Delegates will not be meeting Sunday afternoon after all The House, like the Senate, will resume the extended special session at 6 p.m Mav three days after the i a election. House passed a resolution to recess i May early Wednesday i the a a embroiled in debate over a mine safetv mil. so the delegates recessed until Sunday, the constitutional limit, rather than wail around. After midnight, the Senate agreed to the May resolution.

(AP) Dummy pills brongkt pain relit! for a large prcemage of cancer patirnti, pnr- a a very sufficleni persons, a Mayo Clinic demonstrated there can a psy- cholof ical element in pain relief in cancer, as has been shown in other in experiments using inactive or dummy pills. Tires Are Recalled AKRON. Ohio (AP) Firelone Tire i Rubber Co. has recalled 7,900 bias- belted tires and 200 sleel-belled radial tires because of possible manufacluring flaws, the firm said Thursday A said the biasbeUert "tires were K7B-M and F78-15 Champion Sup-R-Belts, the former with i a 5 A 6 a VBI.50DA066 and the latter A 0 5 6 a VBVTDDA066. The radials involved BR70-13 500s i i a 4 5 5 VDYRFNS465, 8 4 7 5 a VDYRFX8485.

The flows the wrong fabric in some of the bias-belleds and undervulcanization in some of Ihe steel- belteds could produce rapid air loss on continued use after siriewaJI cracks or separations appear, Firestone said. Miner Stays In Jail CHARLESTON, VV.Va. (AP) U.S Dislricl Court Judge K. K. Hall Thursday denied five motions aimed at gaining the release of dissident miner Bruce Miller frgm jail.

Hall ordered Miller to serve the 174 days remaining in a sto- month contempt sentence handed him last September. Hall had suspended lhe term last September a Miller promised nol to engage in activities in which miners would be encouraged to strike. Ford Cautious A 1'residrnt Kord he would nn consider i a victories In a i a a I i i a a i Ronald Reagan. A North Carolina vie wry Tuesday "would be very In an Inlcrvlcx vith WSOC-TV aired Thursday Rltkt, four days beftre state's presMknlial irlmnry. Pay Hikes Endorsed WAsillNGTON (AP) The House I i i on a approved a bill intended to greatly federal payments lo counties with large federal land holdings.

The new formula Is calculated, say its backers, lo roughly double the $100 million paid oul last year lo counties, mostly in Ihe 11 western stales. The legislation is intended lo compensate the counties which are prohibited by law from' a i such fciieral preserves as national (crests, parks, and the range administered by the Bureau of Land Management. By HKTH SWATZYNA Staff Writer Permission has been obtained (or the addition of for 100 more beds at Raleigh General IloZal according to a i i a Ed Slainback. pe mining Ihe i of a and The? specialists to the Berkley area In letter mailed Tuesday, the Wpst Virginia Comprehensive Heallh Planning Agency gave er mission for the additional space a i a of finals had met with the agency March 10 to discuss reasons for the additional bed space. Stainbacksaid New bed space will be located behind the new ir- or to fa Bearding to pluns by architects Wright.

Gresham and Smith of Nashville Tern In ad ililion. plans show that Ihe front of the building will be brought flush with the canopy to accommodate increased kitchen and i i area, an expanded business office and a larger lobby, Stainhack said Architectural plans are being completed, and it has not yet been decided how many of the new rooms i be private and how a will be i i a Construction will begin immediately. Stainback said' and it is estimated that construction will be finished by bed space to said. High hospital occupancy was Com rohrens "'e Health Planning rc son for hecis Stainback r(H enll expansion of the Morton Likely Successor Bangkok the ri'sidencc WASHINGTON (AP) A formal inquiry was launched Thursday into the waiver a a i a regulations for flights lo a Colorado ski resort partly nwncd by Howard H. "Bo" Callaway.

President Ford's a a i manager. Meanwhile. While House sources said Callaway is almost certain lo be replaced permanently by Rogers i a a a former Republican national chainiiau. former secretary ot the interior and of commerce. "It's all a question of timing." said one While House source who asked not to lo named.

The charier flight inquiry was announced by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which granted the waivers starting in 1969 lo landing site's near the. ski resort. "The board has no infor- woman protestor in front of i a i i i a i i Callaway Departing 1 I I Trt i TI a i News published an article a i a a a a a a one or more meetings between CAR officials and his lirulher in law in speed up the charter (light i a a a a i Richard M. Nixon campaign i i a a a i a a resigned as secretary of Ihe Army lo head Ford's re election camoaign. The President, voicing full confidence in Callaway's integrity, suspended him from thai job last Salurdav at Callaway's request, he said alter reports were published a i a a a pressured the Agriculture Department, while in Ihe cabinet, lo grant favors to (he ski resort.

A While House spokesman said Thursday the question of replacing Caliaway on a permanent basis "is'under study, bul nothing has been worked mil yet." He said several days might pass a a a iimmci'inent. Jury Hears Wrapup Prosecution Says Patty Is A Lying Bank Robber Handle Pnme Minister Kukrit Pramoj Proprieties in the gFant of (luring demonstrations over a labor dispute involving a waiver or exemptions." a group of women who took over a garment factnrv lhe A statement said. and locked their bosses out. The protest followed a the board is un- French Hit Washington For Domestic Meddling A I A PAIUS A Premier i a blasted what he termed "uncalled for" American interveiKion in Trench internal affairs Thursday while U.S. Am- bassadnr Kenneth Hush met with Socialist leader Francois Mitlcrand.

reportedly for the i i in 18 months. Millcnmil attacked what he said were i Ford's "particularly un- warranled Trench domestic politics WARNINGS FROM Ford. Secretary of Slate Henry A. Kissinger and A i a diplomats that Communist participation in a French left-wing coalition government would be viewed i i a i Washington have led to an a a politicians. The Embassy in Home, uneasy over possible a i i a i Comm i i a I a i a repeated a similar a i lo Italian officials Thursday.

llolli I a i a a French Communist parlies say thev are pursuing their own independent brands of Marxism Leninism and are publicly nimmilted i iicliK-rinj; power through parliamentary me.ins. IV I I.K i Slates is upset over Ihe prospect of Communists sharing power in NATO allies France and Italy, the Kremlin is also making a a irritation is over the Western parlies' pursuit of "national" communism. Talking lo correspondents shortly before i a and four of his lop aides went lo lunch at Rush's embassy residence. Chirac said he found it "shocking" that the Socialist leaders should repeated i vitations from President Valcry Oisrnrd d'Estaing Iful accept one from Rush "only ,1 few days afler Ihe uncalled for intervention by the American nulhorilics in the internal affairs of our country." KMEROING FROM his 2 i Rush. Mitlerrand brushed aside Chime's complaint, declaring.

"Mr. Chirac is not Ihe depository nf Ihe honor oi France." Hill Milterrand said he. too, "found an opportunity (o pnint out and condemn" Ford's a i a warranted remarks on the internal political silualmn in France." The Communist alliance seornl significant advances in depart mental (regional) council elections Sunday, polling more than Senate Fails WASHINGTON (AP) A wrangling Senate admitted defeat Thursday in efforts to pass legislation restructuring the Federal Election i i before March 22 deadline set by the Supreme Court. .11 (ier cent nf the total vote and seizing com ml of 15 nf Ibf 62 regional councils previously held by government coalilion parties. KAKUF.R THIS month.

Hush canceled an official visit In Marseille. France's second largest cily. after Marseille's Socialist mayor publicly thai an American diplomat' had exp a i cniKTTn over Ihe Socialist parly's alliance ivilh Ihe Communists. a i a A i a scheduled in 1978. A recent public opinion poll indicated that if Ihe elections wen- held now.

Ihe Socialist -Communist alliance would obtain 3-t per cent of the popular vote and sweep away the current conservative majority in Ihe a i a Assembly. SAN (AP I i i i a a prosecutor portrayed her Thursday as i a who should be convicted of bank robbery while the lawyer defending the young heiress implored her jury to vinv her a i i a i in lhe crime as a matter of survival. F. Lee iiailey, in a surprisingly brief closing argument for lhe defense in Ihe eight week trial, tok! the jury: "This is not a case about bank robbery It is a case about dying or i i That is all a Patricia Campbell Hearst thought about." A I I A statement, the one he said could win or lose the case, followed an often dramatic presentation by Ally. James L.

Browning Jr. The prosecutor urged the panel to reject Miss "entire testimony a i a pronounce her lhe willing revolutionary she proclaimed herself to be while in the company of Ihe Symbioni'fe Liberation Army. She was. lirnwniug said, the "rehel in search of a a i Miivernment psychiatrists Dismissing her slory as "incredible." he said she look part in Ihe robbery with "nerve" and without coercion. In a final response before court was recessed.

Browning lold jurors: I a i i a Hearst was kidnaped. I'm sorry anyone was kidnaped bnl con you assume that she was a kirinup victim for the- next la mnnlhs? "IION'T HE misled by (he a defense has raised Judge this case on Ihe merits. i case on lhe evidence." Tlie scene iras set for i a i i a presentation of the case to the jury on Friday six months lo Ihe day after Miss Hearst. Ihe fugitive heiress wasarresied in a San Francisco apartment. a i a a throughout the trial, told the panel that Miss Hearst was forced to lake pan in Ihe April 13, 1974, bank robbery in a desperate bid to survive among her terrorist captors "a bunch of crazv usv- chopaths." a he said, is (he "overview" the jury should lake in considering "the fine line of she was acting voluntarily." Reds Are Near Power In Italy A Premier Alrio i i a a plagued by economic crisis and Com- iiiuiiisi i a a i appeared Thursday to be edging inward an accommodation with the powerful Communist party a repeated Washington's imsitinn to a rale in government here.

1 In fast moving political developments, the Christian Democrats, dominant but declining, opened a crucial party congress expected lo determine the role of Ihe Communists. Italy's second largest party, in the immediate future. Al the congress. Ihe Chris- I i a a acknowledged the growing in recent regional elections and spoke of the need lo check out (he moral conduct of politicians in the wake of the Lockheed payoff scandal. a meanwhile, reiterated the Ford administration's opposition to Communist part i i a i i I a i a government, saying it would "call for a reassessment" of A i a i military and other relations with this NATO country.

An embassy spokesman queried a Moro consulted publicly with Comm i a i Berlinguer said his comment signaled no change in the U.S. position and merely a i a by President A i i Margaret and her hushnnd a A Armstrong has a been ruled nut a I i children, but a legal separation is likely. Buckingham Palace sources said Thur- sda.v. "Discussions have been going on with lawyers." a a a i i presumably means details of the separation are being worked out between attorneys for the 45-year-old sister nf Queen Elizabeth a 4 6 a Snowrton a nc.irlv 16 years of marriage THEIR TWO children are David Viscount Linlcy. and Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, 11.

Another possible factor in choosing separation is the position of Ihe Church of England, which firmly opposes divorce ll nian guerrillas of the pro-Syrian Saiqa group take up a position with Iheir Mar the TM ec ws rifle in Beirut's main banking district as I i a oil 1 1 1 againsl (1 vorc(! mcreased ghtlng left wlng Moslem and i a hen. down ago from divorced Group Separation Likely For Royal Couple Not Banking On Peace Capt. Peter Townsend. But one a observer df a a a i a i Hiirkmghnm Palace and the Church used "thumbscrew i a Margaret call off that uninn. palace sources have suggested that Lord Snowdon wanted a i a Queen Miuabcth was reluctant lo agree lo any such move She a head of the Church of England and as such is automatically on the side of ihosb who oppose divorce.

Princess was at her Kensington home Thursday, saying nothing. Lord on to Australia to attemt an exhibit of his photographs, also declined comment on his personal affairs. OPEN Tonight til 8 p.m. GRAY LUMBER CO..