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i ui.HnHHwnuMMHaiMwtirt4 ry, ram VOLUME 80, NO. 255 TEN PAGES FIFTEEN CENTS THE IOLA Rock roll fans mourn their king t- REGISTER IOLA, KANSAS 66749 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1977 i i I i Bennett favors revising the state's tax lid law graphs. One of the cars carried Vester Presley, an uncle who was chief of security, and his wife. Vester Presley said Elvis former wife, Priscilla, whom he divorced in fl973, arrived at the mansion at about 3 a m. She is taking it hard.

She is in a total state of shock, he said. Stewart said the switchboard at the funeral home received calls from all 50 states and from as far away as Guam and Johannesburg, South Africa. Everybody wanted to know where to send flowers, Stewart said. Vester Presley said the decision to open the casket to public view was made by the singers father, Vernon Presley. Kansas still paying for some abortions TOPEKA.

Kan (AP) Gov. Robert F. Bennett said today his administration is seeking more information about federal reductions in payments for abortions before deciding whether to limit state participation in programs to pay for the medical procedure for welfare clients. Bennett emphasized that Kansas has not trimmed abortion payments as of yet, contrary to one erroneous report. We are checking into it, Bennett said.

It is confusing on the federal level MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Fans of yesterday and today, old and young, teenyboppers and their middle-aged mothers, gathered today on Elvis Presleys doorstep, not to scream and cheer but to mourn. Their king is dead. Elvis Aron Presley, the Mississippi truck driver whose hipgrinding performance style helped launch the sexual revolution as he became Americas greatest king of rock roll, died Tuesday afternoon of a heart ailment. He was 42.

A crowd of more than 200 mourners had gathered by midmorning outside the gates of Graceland mansion, where Presley's body was to be on public view from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CDT today in a special solid seamless copper and steel casket. Jim Stewart, night supervisor at the Memphis Funeral Home where the body was taken after Presley died, said the casket was similar to the one the singer chose for his mother when she died in 1958. We dont even keep this casket in stock.

They are very expensive, Stewart said, adding it had been flown in from Oklahoma City late Tuesday night. Outside the mansion, a special police security detail was assigned to direct traffic and keep watch over the crowd, which ranged from young children and teenagers to people in their 40s and 50s. At one point during the night, the gates opened, several cars came out, and the crowd swarmed around taking pictures and trying to get auto TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Robert F.

Bennett said today his position is the legislature ought to keep the states property tax lid law, but revise it so local units of government can exempt themselves from its provisions to pay for any of their costs of operation, subject to votes of the people. The governor reiterated his longstanding opposition to the constrictions the lid places on local units of government, but said he still considers it politically impractical to expect the legislature to repeal it. Bennett said he likely will recommend again to the 1978 session Long-time owner sells Midwest Auto Stores House committee cool to treaty that the seven-year-old tax lid law be reworked, and provisions added so local units of government could adjust it to meet their needs, subject to public approval if they vote themselves out from under the lid. The original tax lid law limited local units of government to annual 5 per cent increases in their budgets. It has since had so many exemptions attached to it that some consider it no longer effective.

The exceptions voted over the years prompted Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider last week to issue a legal opinion declaring the tax lid law virtually worthless because it does not apply operations and defense. Expressing fears that the treaty might allow the waterway to fall into irresponsible hands, committee members said that Panamanian President Omar Torrijos has consistently violated existing treaties with the United States. Chairman John M.

Murphy, said he has received 10,000 letters opposing the canal treaty in the last three months and literally a handful supporting it. While some antitreaty correspondence may be passed off as an organized letter writing campaign, the depth of feeling of the American people on this issue cannot be dismissed, Murphy said. Carter evidently has decided to press for Senate ratification of the treaty after the August recess. The President also faces stiff resistance in the House, where opponents charge the treaty would be a giveaway of U.S. property, and risks letting the canal fall into communist hands.

Murphys committee exercises control over budget authorization and appropriations for operating the canal. Committee sources said some objections to the treaty were based on fears that it would increase sharply the amount of money the United States pays Panama annually. Some committee members reportedly also fear that the pact would give Panama too large a voice in running the canal before the year 2000, when the waterway is to come under Panamanian control. Opponents also object to turning over the Canal Zone, with its numerous U.S. -built facilities, to Panama.

They disagree with the Carter administration's position that the United States enjoys property rights, but not ownership, in the 10-mile-wide zone. 1952 from Springfield, Missouri. "It has really been the great people that have been the customers, Duncan added, that have made these years successful and interesting. He said that he was undecided as to what he would do now that he had left the store, but he added he would be "very hard to find the next few months. "I hope to catch up on some fishing and other things that require very little energy, he said Sigg said he doesnt anticipate any immediate changes in the store.

Sigg was born and raised in Iola. He spent several years in the Navy before returning to work as assistant manager of the store. The store specializes in custom exhaust systems which Sigg said were unique to southeast Kansas. He added that he is proudest of the Radio Shack franchise section of the store which includes radio and CB equipment. The change of ownership became effective this week.

Sigg said he had added one employe and now has a total of five. 1 guess the store is really in a never-ending slow process of change, Sigg said. "We are always improving or trying to improve. have a say on it, Bennett said. On other subjects, Bennett said: He supports Sen.

Mike Johnstons proposal that the state pay the parents of Sherri Janssen, 5-year-old Parsons girl, killed by a state hospital patient last year. Bennett said he also supports payments to the parents of two state park rangerettes murdered while on duty. Bennett said his philosophy is that in such cases the state should do what justice dictates, and forget legal concepts. He doesnt know enough about the laetrile controversy to comment whether it should be legal in Kansas for cancer treatment. But he said his general philosophy has been, If there is adequate warning, then people ought to be able to take any poison they want.

He believes use value appraisal on state agricultural land, which the 1978 legislature may implement, will be helpful in bringing about more uniform real property assessment throughout the state. is promised where a prisoner has not tried to escape, he said. And none has been built to my knowledge from which no one could escape. What we can do, however, is assure that no escapes are the result of negligence on the part of personnel. Bennett said his talks with prison chiefs convinced him that with the exception of two cases, no employes or officials were culpable in a series of 10 escapes which have plague the institution since July 4.

Bennett said there was nothing significant in the fact that Corrections Director Robert Raines was not at last Friday's meeting to discuss the rash of escapes. athlete dies hospital the past six years he had been employed by Cessna Aircraft. He was a member of the Epworth Methodist Church in Wichita. Survivors include a step-son, Russell Booth, Melbourne, Florida; a step-daughter, Marilyn Van Valkenburg, Oakland, California; three brothers, Ray Baker, Wichita, Edgar Baker, Mission Viegjo, California, and Hilton Baker, Ponca City, Oklahoma; two sisters, Mrs. Irene Erickson, Hammond, Indiana, and Mrs.

Aleene Wood, Pittsburg; 10 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Waugh-Yokum Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Lone Elm Cemetery. choice being too weak to control the old Hoover hands still holding powerful FBI jobs.

Kelley is retiring Jan. 1. His announcement last winter that he would step down followed criticism by Carter during his campaign for the presidency. Appointed a federal judge in Alabama in 1955, Johnson has handed numerous victories to civil rights activists pressing suits before his court. His judicial record has earned him bitter enemies in his home state, chief among them Gov.

George C. Wallace, his one-time law school classmate. uniformly to all units of government statewide. I think it is something we all thought probably was the case, Bennett said of Schneiders opinion. I recommended last session, and I felt very strongly, that the lid ought to be Bennett told his news conference.

The last legislature did not see fit to make these adjustments. As a result, the attorney generals opinion was expected. Bennett said the key is to keep the lid intact, but provide that local units of government can try to exempt themselves from its budgetary limitations, if their local voters will go along with it. Without the option of voting themselves out from under the lid, Bennett said, his opinion remains that the lid would obviously be disastrous on local units. Our recommendations would make it uniform, let local units adjust to meet their needs, and let the people All-out effort TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) Gov. Robert F. Bennett said today he intended to do whatever was necessary, including going to the legislature for more money, to stop a string of escapes at the Kansas State Penitentiary which have embarrassed corrections officials and caused concern in many communities. Bennett, who called before him last Friday top corrections officials and the heads of every state penal institution, said he was confident steps he ordered would stem the escapes. But he told reporters no prison is escape-proof.

An institution has not been built Noted IHS in Wichita Alva Ike Baker, 60, Wichita, a standout athlete during his high school career at Iola High School, died yesterday, August 16, at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Wichita. Baker was the co-holder of the 100-yard dash record at IHS at 10 seconds flat. He set the mark in 1936 and it has remained unbroken for 41 years, the oldest track record on the books at the local high school. Mike Irwin tied the record a year ago.

Mr. Baker was born December 20, 1916, in Iola and attended schools here. He served in the Army during World War II and was married to Bernice Bynum Booth September 20, 1947. He had been an employe of Boeing Aircraft for 20 years and for Carter's allegedly ignoring beatings of black activists in the South. That charge came while J.

Edgar Hoover, the director, was carrying out a secret campaign to discredit the movement's chief leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Johnsons record seems to show a quality Bell particularly sought in an FBI director. The attorney general had said he wanted someone strong enough to control "the dominant personalities in the bureaus hierarchy. While Kelley was respected for his sincerity and good intentions, he was often criticized by congressmen and others who deal with the bureau for WASHINGTON (AP) Members of a House committee assailed the Carter administrations proposed Panama Canal treaty today, calling it a potential giveaway that is opposed by a majority of the United States.

But treaty negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz argued that the agreement will guarantee the uninterrupted efficient operation and security of the canal until the year 2000. During that time, Bunker told the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries committee, Panama will have a chance to develop the expertise to take over the canals Temperature High yesterday 88 Low last night 67 High a year ago today 90 Low a year ago today 69 Precipitation 24 hours ending8a.m. .11 This month to date 5.04 Normal for this month 3.58 Total this year to date 31.42 Excess since Jan. 1 7.44 AREA FORECAST Mostly cloudy through Thursday. A chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday.

High Thursday in upper 70s to low 80s. Low tonight low to mid 60s. Winds northeasterly 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 per cent tonight and Thursday. Kansas extended outlook Friday through Sunday: Seasonally warm through the period with a chance of thundershowers by Sunday.

Lows mostly in the 60s. Highs mid 80s to low 90s. After almost 33 years in the auto parts business Dean Duncan has decided to quit and is turning over his Midwest Auto Store to Mike Sigg. assistant manager for the past two years. After 33 years its time to let the younger generation take over," Duncan said.

Duncan started in the business when he was 14 years old. In 1952 he opened Midwest Auto Stores at 1 N. Jefferson. Thirteen years later he expanded and moved across the street to 1 S. Jefferson where he remained until 1970.

In 1970 Duncan moved the store to its present location at 207 S. Jefferson. From 1965 to 1970 we were pretty much just automotive, lawn and gardening supplies," Duncan said Then two years ago we added the electronics end and television. Sigg, the new owner, added that actually five stores operate out of the mam building. We provide automobile and television service, Sigg said, and we have the electronic, auto parts and tire parts of the store.

Duncan noted that he thought some of the finest people around were in Iola and that had made his work enjoyable. Duncan moved to Iola in Change hands Mike new Jefferson. 33 To head FBI Alabama judge pointed search committee, the sources said. By choosing Johnson, a Republican, Carter and Bell may have a candidate who can sail through the Senate hearings with little, if any opposition. But Sen James O.

Eastland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee that will first consider Johnsons nomination, would not comment Tuesday night. I know the whole score, Eastland said, and I dont leak stories. I have no comment. Johnsons nomination is certain to please civil rights groups who assailed the bureau in the 1960s for WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter plans to nominate Frank Johnson, a deep South judge with a strong civil rights record, as the next director of the FBI, knowledgeable administration sources say. The White House was expected to announce today that Carter will send Johnsons name to the Senate, which must confirm his selection.

The choice ends a seven-month search for a director to take charge of the bureau and its 8, 000 agents. Carter and Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell chose the 58-year-old federal district judge to succeed Clarence M. Kelley after rejecting four candidates recommended by a presidentially-ap Sigg (left) took over this week as the owner of Midwest Auto Stores, 207 S.

Dean Duncan leaves the store after years in the auto parts business. He opened this store in 1952. (Register Photo) V'.