The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

THE IOLA REGISTER VOLUME 79, NO. 220 IOLA, KANSAS 66749 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1976 TEN PAGES FIFTEEN CENTS Override predicted on jobs bill veto measure, he would vote to override because unemployment remained too high. The nations jobless rate rose slightly from 7.3 per cent in May to 7.5 per cent in June. The bill would authorize $2 billion through Sept. 30, 1977, for public works projects run by state and local governments, $1.25 billion for grants to maintain essential state and local services during times of high unemployment.

In addition, $700 million would be provided for construction of public-owned waste water treatment plants. The veto was the 52nd since Ford became President in August 1974. He vetoed two others within the past four days. a program Ford vetoed in February. The House voted to override that veto but the Senate vote fell three short of the required two-thirds.

House Democratic Whip John McFall of California said he is confident the House will again vote to override. Majority Leader Thomas ONeill Jr. said when the bill was passed, We are going to make this bill law, either with the Presidents signature or over his veto. The override attempt is expected soon after Congress returns July 19 after the Democratic national convention. Griffin, who worked hard to sustain the earlier veto, told the Senate that if Ford disapproved the scaled-down Expenses at Bowlus may top future income WASHINGTON (AP) President Fords veto of a job-creating public works bill is expected to draw heavy opposition from congressional Democrats and at least one key Republican, the Senate GOP whip.

Democratic leaders piedicted the veto will be overridden. Senate GOP Whip Robert Griffin, a leader last winter in the successful campaign to sustain Fords veto of a bigger public works bill, cited a 9.7 per cent jobless rate in his home state of Michigan and 13.4 per cent in Detroit in declaring his support for the bill. House and Senate leaders say they believe Congress will override Fords veto Tuesday of the bill, designed to create or preserve 400,000 jobs. Rejecting bipartisan pleas to sign it, Ford said: This bill will not create lasting jobs but instead will create more inflation. The veto and rising unemployment have set up the jobs situation as a campaign issue.

Ford and several Democrats traded salvos Tuesday. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Robert F. Bennett said today he agrees with President Fords veto of a $3.9 billion public works bill.

Its a jab in the arm at election time that may be followed by withdrawal symptoms as soon as the election is over, Bennett told his news conference. Ford said Congress clearly established the direction they would have our nation go toward more federal spending, higher taxes, larger deficits, more people on the federal payroll and higher inflation. Sen. Hubert Humphrey, predicted Congress will override this shameless veto. He said Fords move was bad economic policy, callous social policy and an apparent attempt to woo conservative delegates to the Republican National Convention.

The bill is a scaled-down version of Star shells bursting in the night sky over the quarry (above) concluded the dedication of Wilderness Park, an important project of the Allen County Bicentennial Committee. Tribute Below, Judge Spencer Gard gave the dedication remarks to a crowd of several hundred while The Neosho Valley Buckaroos began the activities with country music. (Register photos) County park dedicated amid music, fireworks Spencer A. Gard dedicated Allen Countys Wilderness Park in delayed ceremonies last night with stern 'admonitions to county citizens. Noting that trash, beer cans and picnic leavings have littered the park from the beginning, the former district judge said that it was up to Allen County to decide whether the park was to be a badge of irresponsibility a dumpground without benefit of landfill or a place of beauty that can be enjoyed.

Gard praised the county commissioners and others who had the vision to create the park but noted that it was still more wilderness than park. Not enough money had been made available for planting, construction and clearing, he implied, noting that the Osage Orange and poison ivy which abound were vegetable trash Oil pipeline in Alaska may be delayed by errors cepted the resignation of Tom Lilley, instrumental music for the district. Lilley, who has been here one year, told the board he has accepted a job in Lawrence where his wife is working on her masters degree at the University of Kansas. In other business, the board: Raised the cost of hot lunches 10 cents. The cost to elementary students will be 50 cents with secondary students paying 55 cents.

The raise was a cost pass-through so that funds wouldnt have to be transferred from the general fund. Approved goals and objectives of the high school guidance program presented by T. D. Wheat. Was told mobile classroom units for storage and art courses are still being sought for the Gas Elementary School.

Approved a $24,000 budetary figure for the districts participation in the building trades program with districts 256 (Moran-Elsmore) and 258 (Humboldt). Mike Hofer and Larry Barnett, both Humboldt carpenters, will instruct students in the program. Construction of a house on the old Garfield school site is being considered by the district 257 board. Re-elected Denise Apt president and Don Martin vice president of the board. Purchased a mower from Alco Implement for okayed $1,585 worth of sidewalk and driveway construction at the junior high.

Decided to auction used furniture sometime in August. A date will be announced later. Doctor opens office here Dr. Tell B. Copening will move to Iola from Great Bend to open a practice in Family Medicine in the Iola Medical Arts building on the grounds of Allen County Hospital.

Dr. Copening has been in practice in Great Bend for the past two years. He is a 1969 graduate of the University of Kansas school of medicine and completed a three-year residency at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita in family practice. Family practice is a new medical specialty established to meet the increasing need for primary care physicians skilled in treating and diagnosing a broad range of illnesses and injuries. A native of Iola, Dr.

Copening is a graduate of Iola High School and Iola Junior College. He, his wife Vicki, and their two daughters, Ladecia, 7, and Kristen, 4, will live on Carpenter Street in the house formerly occupied by the Jim Williams family. Appointments for Dr. Copening are now being accepted at the Medical Arts building. Dr.

Tell Copening District 257 board of education members were told last night that projected income from the Bowlus Trust for operation of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center for the upcoming year has been set at $58,502 while expense projections total $72,675. Don Martin, vice president of the board, noted that board members intend to examine the expenses closely and try to keep them in line with the income. As a precautionary measure, the board did authorize last night a transfer to $15,000 from the general fund budget to the Bowlus find, but, Martin said, we hope we wont need it. The expenses may not be quite as far out of line in regard to income as they appear, Martin added, since, in effect, the district is in some cases paying itself rent on some classroom space in the a bookkeeping procedure which is deceiving. In other, action concerning the Bowlus Center staff, the board ac- that needed eliminating just as the man-made debris needed removing.

Gard gave credit to the individuals and organization who had donated time and materials to construct the picnic areas, cleared brush, spread rock, fought weeds and designed and cast the dedication plaque at the park entrance. The foundation for a useful, attractive park the first one to be owned by all of the people of Allen County with the exception of the courthouse park had been laid, he said. It is up to us now to decide what history will say about this effort to bring beauty and enjoyment to the people. History is nothing but a record of what people say and do, he said. After Gards remarks over a thousand people viewed a fireworks display over the county quarry just north of the park.

A total of 65 three- and four-inch shells were shot into the sky by members of the Iola Jaycees and paid for by area merchants. The Iola Municipal Band prefaced Gards speech with patriotic selections including The Star-Spangled Banner, Semper Fidelis, and America, The Beautiful. They were joined by the Iola Music Club Ensemble, which sang selections from The Sound of Music. Close to 500 people attended the dedication. Little said.

Since Idas entry to the program in 1903, the fund has never been used. The accumulated value of the fund totals $65,230.87. The fund can only be drawn from by a fireman after his sick leave is gone, Little explained, and only if the injury was a direct result of the firemans duties. When this thing was set up in 1895, Little said, there wasnt sick leave or workmen's compensation, so it was a good thing then. Now, he said, the law is outdated.

We could use that money better in other ways. directed Transportation Secretary William Coleman and Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe to give him a preliminary report on the problem today. A team headed by Deputy Transportation Secretary John Barn-urn was ordered to head for Alaska. Nessen said the team will start its fact-finding trip early next week. He said Ford wants the team to find out whether the welding problem will delay completion of the giant pipeline, currently scheduled to start carrying about 1.2 million barrels of oil a day by mid-1977.

He said Ford also wants to know if WASHINGTON (AP) A high-level federal fact-finding team is being sent to Alaska to investigate a welding problem that threatens to delay completion of the oil pipeline under construction there. President Ford ordered the study after reports that an auditing firm hired by the Interior Department found pipeline records so confused that it could not figure out which of 31,000 welds have been properly rayed, as required, and which have not. White House spokesman Ron Nessen said Tuesday that Ford the problem threatens any additional cost or environmental impact. The specter of serious delays arose from the apparent collapse of Interior Department efforts to narrow down the welding problem. Late last year, Interior Department officials say, the Bechtel major contractor for Alyeska Pipe Line Service a consortium of seven oil companies building the line, reported discrepancies in the records kept by a subcontractor responsible for raying each weld joining the 60-to 80-foot segments of pipe.

The Interior Departments own stipulations in allowing construction of the 800-mile pipeline across its vast Alaska lands require an x-ray check of each weld before the department can approve the line. Alyeska estimated that at least 3,000 of the 31,000 welds already completed were questionable flawed or, more frequently, lacking valid proof that they were safe. Interior Undersecretary Kent Frizzell said there were indications some x-rays were improperly used to represent a number of different welds that actually had not beenX rayed properly. Interior officials hired the Arthur Andersen auditing firm to check Alyeska records to find which welds were not adequately rayed. Public meeting set on Wolf Creek plant Iola firemen to get over $5,000 for fund for Energy Alternatives at the hearings in Kansas City before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Board.

Weaver is a member of the Kansas Legislature. His concern is about the Neosho River water supply and whether there will be an adequate supply for everyone. Any and all citizens having an interest in these two areas of concern are encouraged to attend the July 13 meeting in Iola. Marita Setter, chairperson for the Allen County CRD, said this meeting is open to everyone interested in knowing more about water and atomic energy. It is not our intent to take a position in this issue but to provide a forum for airing information, she said.

The Allen County Community Resource and Development Committee of the Allen County Extension Council will sponsor a public meeting on the proposed Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant and the Neosho River Water Supply. The meeting will be held July 13 at 8 p.m., in the assembly room of the Allen County Courthouse. It is being held in response to a request made by a group in Coffey County that additional public information is needed in the areas of atomic energy and a continued water supply for cities and rural areas that use the Neosho River for their water needs. William Ward, attorney and Fred Weaver, State Representative from Baxter Springs, will be the speakers appearing on the program. Ward is one of the attorneys who represented Mid-America Coalition Idas share of the Firemens Relief tax fund for 1976 will come to $5,605.89, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell said today.

Bell said the money for the fund comes from two per cent tax on all fire insurance premiums paid by Iolans, and is used for relief payments to firemen injured or physically disabled while on duty. Iola Fire Chief Tince Little called the fund good, but archaic. I think the idea is a good thing, he said. But Id rather use the money to buy new equipment. The fund can only be used by the Iola fire department as a kind of backup workmens compensation, 200 years ago today John Adams wrote his wife Abigail that he hoped measures would be taken to encourage inoculation against the scourge of smallpox.

Abigail had already arranged to be inoculated..