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JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 18,1974 48 Pages 15c Ousted Cypriot leader persists raps 'abominable iunta' (Bv the Associoted Press) JL Strike situation Driver's dilemma Ross Smith, an employe with the Al Scheppers Motor appears grim as he waits to be rescued Wednesday after- noon from a truck in contact with a live fallen power line at the 100 block of Harrison Street. Missouri Power and Light Co. workmen freed the 36-year-old Taos resident, who suffered minor burns on one hand. (News and Tribune staff photo) (By the Associoted Press) Strike involving prison guards in Rhode Island and 4,000 state employes in Ohio were settled on Wednesday, but almost a quarter of a million other Americans were off their jobs because of labor disputes. The settlements came when leaders of the largest of four groups of state employes on strike in Ohio agreed reluc- tantly to accept an offer of a wage increase and the union representing the Rhode Island prison guards promised there would be no more walkouts.

The remaining strikes inter- fered with everything from transit to hospitals. The issue in most cases was money: em- ployes demanded wage boosts of 10 per cent and up, claiming they needed the increases to catch up with inflation and make up for limited raises granted when wage and price controls were in effect. Pickets were posted at two airlines; buses sat idle in ga- rages in the San Francisco area and copper miners weren't working in Arizona. In addition, there were hundreds of a strikes by municipal employes and workers in private industry. Leaders of local chapters of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes--representing 4,000 of the 7,500 state workers on See STRIKE, page 11 South Pacific cruise awaits Joplin 'sailor 9 JOPLIN, Mo.

A sailing sloop cradled on a trailer in the backyard rises half as high as Joseph Farnsworth's two-story house, and as he works slowly at fitting her out he dreams of sailing the South Pacific three summers from now. For nearly all of his 55 years, Joe Farnsworth has lived in this southwest Missouri city of boisterous old time lead mining fame; and offhand you could hardly find a place with a more land-locked image. But Farnsworth's 35-foot sloop will be his four- th boat, and he has sailed all over the world. "As a small boy, I read everything about sailing that I could get my hands on," Farnswor- th says. "I dreamed of sailing to the Galapagos, Tahiti and the Marquesas.

I've been to them all. I figure I'm lucky." Farnsworth bought his new sloop at Hunting- ton, on New York's Long Island, but what he bought was only hull, diesel engine, completed deck and cockpit. With trailer, it was a nine-ton load that he tugged almost halfway across the country. Now of afternoons and other spare time, he is installing cabinets, berths, a galley and the other accoutrements. By two summers from now, he hopes to have her launched in Grand Lake, in nearby Okla- homa, where he already has a 25-foot cabin sloop and has done most of his sailing since 1955.

Mrs. Farnsworth and their 15-year-old daughter, Margo, lend a hand. "I had to make certain the boat was level before anything else could be done," he says. "Once that was accomplished, I cut holes for hat- ches and installed those so there would be ven- tilation below. "Usually, I put pieces together in the backyard and then take them into the boat.

Because there are so many curves, I usually end up fitting things together with my picket knife." There also is the problem of the 40-foot mast. Although he was born in St. Louis, it was in Joplin that Farnsworth grew up and had his dreams of sailing to far places. His father was a florist, and so was Joe. Then he was partner in a piano store, and for seven years he has operated his own small loan company.

He still does, of mornings, and he expects to continue operating it for several more years between vacations at sea. Farnsworth has chartered boats and sailed them or signed on as a crewman for cruises in the Atlantic, Pacific, the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico and in the Great Lakes country. When he was in the Army Signal Corps in World War II, he had a crack at Puget Sound while stationed at Seattle. i i a i a i 1955 and launched it on Grand Lake. It was a 16-footer, and in two years he traded it for a 21- foot sloop.

The present boat on which he and his wife and daughter will sail the lake was acquired in 1968. On his most recent ocean cruise, he and his wife flew to Hawaii for a week's vacation and he flew on to Tahiti to become a crewman on a 63-foot motor sailer. For six weeks, he and other crewmen who had paid for the privilege, helped a scientist from the University of Hawaii chart the ocean floor around the Austral Seamount Island and the Marquesas. (By the Associated Press) A i Makarios charged Wednesday that the "abominable junta" in Greece engineered his ouster president of Cyprus and vowed that Cypriots will resist until the Athens military government is overthrown. Addressing cheering Greek demonstrators from his third- floor hotel window in London, Makarios said: "I hope the day will soon come when the people of Greece will them- selves get rid of the hated dic- tatorship oppressing them." The estimated 3,000 demon- strators responded: "Resist- ance! Resistance!" The Makarios government Rodino watches schedule WASHINGTON (AP)--The House Judiciary Committee is holding to a schedule for its impeachment inquiry that could produce a final vote in committee between July 26 and July 30.

Chairman Peter Rodino, D- N.J., is aiming at the earlier date, which is a week from this Friday, but other mem-. bers say the later one is more likely. The schedule after that calls for 100 hours of debate and voting on the House floor, star- ting around Aug. 12. House action is due to be completed by Aug.

23. The Judiciary Committee heard its last scheduled wit- ness Wednesday. Today and Friday the committee will meet behind closed doors for briefing ses- sions. At least six articles of i a a a i President Nixon are reported to be ready for presentation then. Committee deliberations on articles of impeachment pre- pared by the staff will begin next Tuesday, Rodino said.

These sessions will be open to the press and public. House rules prohibit television-cov- erage of committee meetings. However, Rodino said Wed- nesday he will ask the House to vote to change the rule so the impeachment debate can be televised. There will be no television of the action on the House floor. If the committee recom- mends impeachment and the House votes for it, the Senate would be notified officially and would arrange for the trial.

Presidential attorneys prob- ably would ask considerable time to prepare their case, up to two months. Senate Demo- crats have talked in terms of two weeks to one month for preparation. Once the trial starts, prob- ably not before later Septem- ber, it could take at least two months. was toppled Monday by a rebellion of the Cyprus national guard, the Mediterranean island nation's army, which is led by Greek officers. Turkish Prime Minister Bu- lent Ecevit also arrived in London Wednesday for urgent consultations with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and i i leaders.

Makarios said he had no plans to meet Ecevit. Ecevit also blamed the Greek government for the coup against Makarios, but said he was "after a peaceful solution." Britain and Turkey are coguarantors with Greece of treaties establishing the inde- pendence of Cyprus, a British crown colony until 14 years ago. The agreements preclude either union of the island with Greece or its partition. Reports from Turkey said Ecevit had ordered 90,000 troops to the Mediterranean shore close to Cyprus before leaving for London. Shortly before, the Turkish premier had received U.S.

Ambassador William Macom- ber. Official sources later reported the envoy brought a message from U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger advising Turkey to maintain "patience and restraint." The sources also said the message assured Turkey that the United States did not intend to recognize the new government of Cyprus. Turkey's troop movements and stationing of warships in the area emphasized that country's concern for the independence of Cyprus and the protection of its Turkish minority.

The island nation has about 490,000 Greeks and 115,000 Turks. The military officers who overthrew Makarios are be- lieved committed to Enosis, or union with Greece, which Tur- key firmly opposes. On Cyprus, the national guard, or army, continued its takeover of the island. Reliable sources said the rebels were building defenses against any attack from the Turkish mainland, 44 miles away. The Athens newspaper Estia reported, without, naming its source, that about 300 persons were killed in the takeoverinthe past two days.

Makarios, who the rebels first said had been killed, con- ferred for 55 minutes with Wil- son, while outside a crowd of sympathizers waved his pic- ture and Makarios." The archbishop said on arrival at Lyneham airport near London that the coup a a i him had been organized by the Greek military regime in Athens. Events precede festival SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) --Three young men were in jail on charges of selling drugs, three others had served brief terms for disorderly conduct and there were some other minor incidents as the crowd started building up for a Ozark Music Festival this weekend. An estimated 500 young people had moved into the campgrounds at the Missouri State Fair by Wednesday. Promoters of the festival have been counting on up to 50,000 admissions from the time it starts Friday after- noon for a run through Saturday and Sunday.

Many Sedalia residents have been uneasy since they learned belatedly that state officials had rented the fairgrounds for $40,000. It is within the city limits on the southwest edge of town. Wolfman Jack, 35-year-old disc jockey who has spent half his life toward becoming a folk hero with his ribaldry as TV host and record maker, will be presiding when the first of 22 music groups start their performing. The promoters, some Kansas City businessmen, are making much of the point that the festival's music will not be continuous and there also will be carnival rides, elaborate exhibits of electronic music-making equip- ment, handicrafts and folk art. The music groups range from hard rock guitarists to blue grass.

The Missouri Highway Patrol acknowledged it had used undercover agents who infiltrated the early arrivals to pull off a drug bust Monday night. A dozen patrolmen, four men from the sheriff's office and three Sedalia policemen hit three sections of the west camp at the fairgrounds. They were on their way out when they intercepted a newly arrived van, stopped it and were surrounded by a crowd of 40 to 50 campers who started out hurling insults and worked their way up to rocks and bottles. Two windows were smashed on one patrol car, three others had dents and scratches from the missiles, the highway patrol reported. William Dean Cox, 21, Monticello, was arrested and charged with one sale of opium.

Gary Lee Holcomb, 25, Macon, was charged with two sales of LSD, and See EVENTS, page 11 Fuel tax revenue up this year JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Increased fuel con- sumption for vacations was seen Wednesday as the major reason for the continuing mon- thly upswing in fuel tax revenues during the first six months of this year after reve- nues plummeted to 17.1 per cent less in January than a year earlier. Although tax collections for June dropped off sharply from May, mainly due to the emer- allocations received by Missouri in May, the cumulative motor fuel taxes for the first six months of the year were only 7.5 per cent lower than for the first six months of 1973. "We expect it will continue to make some improvement, but we don't know how much it will i 1 a i Lyle McLaughlin, assistant chief highway engineer, who acknowledged that the rate will probably level off at a point below 1973 levels because of the continuing energy crunch. Total fuel taxed in June was 227.1 million gallons com- pared with 145.6 million a year earlier.

The six-month total for this year was 1.2 billion with net revenue amounting to $86.5 million. No Independence obstructions seen JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Gov. Christopher S. Bond said Wednesday he is satisfied that Central Missouri State University in Warrens- burg will not obstruct the Uni- versity of Missouri's planning for courses to be offered at the Independence Residence Cen- ter.

Bond, in a letter June 17 to Byron Constance, president of the Central Missouri State (CMSU) regents, said he was told CMSU was expanding its continuing education courses Good morning Complaints or information requests totaling 773 have been processed during his first year as state ombudsman, Lt. Gov. William C. Phelps says. Story, page 1 Editorials page 4 News about women page 5 Business, professions page 8 Sports pages 13-14 Military notes page 17 Classified ads pages 22-23 in Jackson County in light of the transfer of the Indepen- dence center from CMSU to i i i i a a i (UMKC).

Independence will be oper- ated as a satellite campus to UMKC. "Action to relocate any por- tion of these programs (for- merly offered by CMSU at Independence) is an obstruc- tion to planning by UMKC to i a a necessary that students may continue their studies without being adversely affected," Bond's first letter to Constan- ce said. Constance replied that CMSU did not intend to com- i enrollment and said con- tinuing education courses in Jackson County were limited to upper division and graduate courses. Lower division cour- ses were taught only at the Independence center, he said. Constance said CMSU had no intention of switching upper division and graduate See NO, page 11 Casteel loan probed EknCattMl F.

McHwiry By LESLIE JOHNSON Of the News Tribune staff W4, Niws Tribtint inc. A $10,000 loan to Ben Casteel, Western District Cole County Court judge, is being investigated by Prosecuting Attorney James McHenry, the News Tribune learned Wed- nesday. McHenry confirmed that he had received information about the loan and that an investigation is in process. In an interview with the News Tribune, Casteel Wed- nesday denied that the loan consituted a payoff for his vote Feb. 4, which turned down a belt zoning proposal he had previously supported.

"There was no connection at all" Casteel said. Casteel said he does not know the identity of all of the co-signers of the $10,000 business loan he received March 4 from the Exchange National Bank. Casteel said one of the co-signers was "a partner of the late Jim Dawson." He declined to reveal the name of Dawson's partner. Casteel also said he was unaware of any political implications in the loan's guarantee, which followed by a month his reversal of opinion on the extra territorial belt zoning issue. Casteel said he had been negotiating the loan "for quite a while" with Dawson, a Jef- ferson City businessman killed in an airplane crash Feb.

22 near Memorial Air- port. "When my wife and I went to sign the loan, there was no one else there except the bank 'officer," he said. Frank Railton, chairman of the board of Exchange National Bank, declined Wed- nesday to disclose the name of any co-signer without the per- mission of Casteel. Upon request of the News Tribune, Casteel called, the office of bank President Don Campbell, who was in con- ference and was not available. Casteel then indicated that he would not want to release the names of any co-signers without their permission.

"I'm sure they would want to think about it first," he said. Casteel said late Wednesday morning he had to go out of town to work on some con- struction projects Wednesday, but would "try to get back to" the News Tribune concerning the co-signers. "Who signed it besides Jim's partner, I couldn't tell you, "Casteel said. Casteel also said there was no clause in the loan agreement which made any other party automatically liable for the loan, except nor- mal default clauses. "I've got to pay the whole thing off.

And if I die, my wife will have to take care of the matter. There is no stipulation that someone else assume payments," he said. Casteel is owner of the Mid-Missouri Supply Com- pany, a building materials supply firm..