Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 1

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103RD YEAR NO. 216 NEA Fttur Servle DPI TtKphoto Following Surgery For Blood Clot rtcntii awn Axs pit I fT 66 Condition Is 1 I '1, 'f f. -A Julie and Tricia by telephone Monday night. Lungren was an observer at the surgery. Lungren described the operation, saying that a metal clip was placed on the affected vein in the left groin area.

"This will cut off any clots of irny magnitude The clots of their own nature will eventually dissolve or you will develop new circulatory problems," he said. But he stressed that he anticipated no new problems for Nixon and said he would describe the operation as a success. Hospital "spokesman Norman R.Nager said more tests, will be conducted on Nixon to insure there are 110 complications. (See NIXON, Page 2-A) not completely cocluding the vein," Hickman said. He said the clip was permanent.

He said the operation was uneventful and that the former president was "recovering in the normal manner." The operation began at 5:30 a.m. PST. None of Nixon's family was present at the hospital, but officials said his wife, Pat, was expected at the hospital later in the day. Hickman said Nixon will probably be hospitalized for "another week," then recovery would Jake four to six weeks at home. i He said he did not anticipate any further surgery.

Dr. John C. Lungren, Nixon's personal physician, said he had consulted with Nixon's wife, Pat, and daughters LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Former President Richard M. Nixon's surgeon said today that "Mr.

Nixon is doing well" following an operation to stop a blood clot in his left leg from traveling any further toward his heart or lungs. Dr. Eldon Hickman, who performed the hour long operations, said Nixon's condition was "stable." He said Nixon returned to his room on the top of Memorial Hospital Medical Center of Long Beach for recovery Nixon's personal physician had said the operation was required because the clots in Nixon's leg posed a threat to his life. "With the threat the clot could become a pulmonary embolus, we placed a mild clip partially occluding but (uro RICHARD NIXON Had Urgent Surgery i i Pit One Killed In Tornado Near Baytown Storms Pound Texas Coast By The Associated Press Tornadoes too numerous for accurate count killed one person, injured half a dozen others and imlicted extensive damage late Monday near the southeast corner of Texas. The rash of twisters hit hardest from the Houston area into sons, Benoit.

huddled in a bath tub for "some 20 seconds" while the tornado ripped away their roof. Although authorities often tell people in the path of a tornado a bathroom is one of the safer rooms in a threatened house, Benoit said that "I really don't (See STORMS, Page 2-A) home was whirled five miles across the countryside. Ronnie Benoit saw the black storm whirling across Galveston Bay toward his house in Baytown. He said, "It's a sight you won't forget. I was about to eat supper.

We just picked up and went to a bathroom." With his wife and two small I 1, i President Welcomes Suggestions WASHINGTON (U I) -President Ford said today he will be "open to suggestions" for new and tougher anti-inflation and energy conservation measures including a ceiling on oil imports-if economic conditions worsen in the months ahead. Maintaining his partisan preelection campaign stance, Ford also labeled Democrats as "spenders" and said he was reviewing a "shopping list" of more than 100 options that could prune between $5.4 billion and $7.5 billion from the federal budget in the current 1975 fiscal year. Kord told an impromptu news conferonce that he was confident his 31-point economic program announced earlier this month would dampen the rising cost of living and also prevent the already stagnant economy (See PRESIDENT, Page 2-A) the heavily industrialized "Golden Triangle" embracing Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange, snaking down from black thunderstorms which threatened that section far into the night. One tornado struck at the south end of the Baytown Tunnel between Baytown and La Porte, route of the only major Ihoroughfare from that vicinity into Houston, just to the west. This was the one which killed Theo Hines, 60, of Houston and left six injured, some seriously.

At least five homes in Bay-town suffered damage, state police reported, and the writhing winds wrecked guard shacks at opposite ends of the tunnel. A tank truck owned by the Texas Highway Department East Texans Will Plead With Ford Severe Weather Spreads 5 beef and to purchase only U. S. beef for feeding U. S.

military BY WILL HUNDLEY MINEOLA Six Texas cattle-' forces. men iwo ui urem uwi rolled over 400 yards south iexas Will luite men yugiii- m-uun uu nunc per cent beef into the school lunch program and the welfare food distribution program. (See EAST, Page 2-A) of the tunnel. Still other funnel clouds slashed into two neighborhoods on the north side of Beaumont and one of the twisters slashed into Lumberton, a bit farther north, to wreck three mobile homes. Debris from one such STAFF PHOTO By Charles Able STONE FACE A giant stone face peers down on travelers heading west on Loop 281, just west of Judson Rd.

The face, carved in a white rock boulder inside a hill of clay, was carved last Saturday by Lynn Brown, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Brown. Lynn and his father operate a dirt contracting company here, and sculpture of this type is a hobby of Lynn's. Using only an axe, he carved this particular face in less than a day, working from a bucket on a front-end loader.

Absentee Vote Total 275 Here Jodatf, 4 i Gandhi To Visit U.S. Bv SUZANNE THOMAS "Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as though they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth." Frederick William I aber Kari Plaschke, daughter of Absentee voters really are absentee. Gregg County Clerk Buck Birdsong reported a total of only 275 ballots cast through the close of business last Friday, prior to the long Veterans Day weekend. Tuesday morning, there had been "around 30" ballots cast, he added.

'This was said to be a small number, leading political observers to think the general election on Nov. 5 may not see a big turnout. Citizens may vote absentee during business hours for the rest of this week, in the Grand Jury Room of Gregg County Courthouse. Closing time for absentee voting is 5 p.m. Friday.

tation to pay an official visit to the United States and that President Ford will visit India in 1975. The communique focused heavily on deteriorating world wide economic conditions which both sides called a "serious situation." Both India and the United States expressed the hope that the World Food Conference in Rome, where Kissinger is (See GANDHI, Page 2-A) NEW DELHI (UPI) The United States and India agreed today to work together "to prevent further deterioration of the world economic structure" and to prevent nuclear energy from being diverted into new nuclear weapons. A joint U.S. Indian communique, released on the eve of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's departure for Bangladesh, also announced that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has accepted an invi I 1 V' fx straight to President Gerald Ford in the White House Oval Office Wednesday afternoon.

They are among 20 cattlemen from throughout the U. S. who will confer with the President on faltering beef-on-the-hoof prices and other factors they say are killing the beef industry. "Billy Joe Davis and I are going up tomorrow morning," Horace McQueen said after a meeting of 400 cattlemen here Monday night. Davis is owner of the Wood County Livestock Auction and McQueen is a cow-calf producer between Troup and Wright City in Smith County.

"At this meeting, as well as the first one, three weeks ago we not only had commercial cow-calf operators but livestock operators, bankers and other livestock-interest representatives," McQueen said. The first East T'as Cattlemen's Association meeting Oct. 7 here came when cattlemen many of them angry said they had had enough of selling cows and calves for barely more than 20 cents a pound on the hoof when the average retail price for dressed beef is $1.43 a pound. They had five proposals for Washington officials then and McQueen said they would be given to Ford Wednesday with a sixth added. They are: A complete embargo on beef imports into the U.

S. This is because in 1974, McQueen CROWLEY, (UPI) tornado killed one man, injured up to 50 persons and damaged homes in a 30 block area early tolay as severe weather spread over Louisiana. Other tornadoes which injured 20 persons were reported in a me 0 and Vernon parishes and in Kenner, a suburb of New Orleans. The National Weather Service also said coastal tides were three feet above normal at the Louisiana-Texas border. "This thing dropped on us and caused quite a bit of damage," Acadia Parish Sheriff Elton Arceneaux said of the tornado that hit Crowley about 1 a.m.

He said one man had been killed while staying overnight in a new home he was building in Maxie. La. The victim's name was being withheld until his wife was notified in Crowley. Dr. Robert McManus, Acadia Parish coroner, said between 40 and 50 persons had gone to area hospitals for treatment of injuries but only one seemed to be in serious condition.

"As- soon as it gets daylight we'll get out and start combing the rubble to see if anybody's trapped," he said. He said the tornado skipped across the town and caused the worst damage in a 20 to 30 block area of the northeast section. Tree limbs and other debris hampered emergency crews as they moved about other areas of the town. McManus said all electricity (See SEVERE, Page 2-A) Mr. and Mrs.

It. W. nastme, has pledged Chi Omega social srwnritv at Stephen F. Austin State University. High Court Will Review 'Death' Case Brad Thomas, son of Dale Thomas of Route 4, Box 64, has been selected to be a member of Tomo Dachi men's social club at Lubbock Christian College.

A 1974 graduate of White Oak High School, Thomas Is a freshman accounting major. Syndicated crafts columnist (Se? TODAY, Page 2-A) Convicts Holding Hostages Record Alimony Due MIAMI (UPI) George B. Storer millionaire founder of Storer Broadcasting has been ordered to pay a record $2,261 million in tax free alimony to this third wife, Dorothy. The alimony ruling made by-Circuit Judge Alan Schwartz Sept. 16, but not revealed until is being appealed by the 74-year-old Storer.

MORRIS SOSLAND Services Set Wednesday For Sosland THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Four armed convicts holding 16 persons hostage in Seat Belt Interlock Abolished he Scheveningcn penitentiary beef sold in America will be gave no indication of surren Where To Find: unipuneu uwi. A restriction on grain exports until such time as U. S. needs can be determined. At the present time, McQueen said, feedlot operators are going out of business because the high feed prices are breaking the livestock feeding industry.

"It seems that someone in Sawhill Out WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford announced today a major shake-up in the federal energy hierarchy, removing John Sawhill as energy administrator and replacing him with former Asst. Commerce Secretary Andrew E. Gibson. Tire Company Layoff CUMBERLAND, Md. (UFI) The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.

said today production will be halted at its Tyler, plant and curtailed at three other factories for "at least 15 working days" dur- ing November and December due to lagging automobile sales and the need to reduce Inventories. der today despite an appeal to give up by another prisoner they hoped would join them. One of the convicts, Palestinian hijacker Adnan Ahmad Nuri. made the first threat against the lives of the hostages Monday. But later he and his accomplices an Algerian and two Dutchmen released the last of the four children who were in the chapel when the convicts took it over during a mass Saturday night.

Morris Sosland, 86, a retired Longview jeweler, died at a Longview nursing home Monday after a short Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rader Funeral Home. Burial wiU be at Memory Park. Mr. Sosland and his wife, Etta, founded Sosland's Jewelers in Longview after they came here from Kansas City, Mo.

in 1931 and he managed the firm until his retirement in 1954. r. He came to Kansas City from Vilma, Russia in the 180s with (See SERVICES, Page 2-A) WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford has signed a bill eliminating the federal requirement for a mandatory seat belt interlock system in cars, but says he still wants motorists to buckle up. The unpopular interlock system had required motorists to buckle their seat belts before starting their cars. Although he siped the bill repealing the re-(See SEAT, Page 2-A) 7-A 5-9-B SB 4-A 10-B 4-A 4 4 2-B 1-2-B 2-B 4 J-7-A Abby Classified Comics Editorials Horoscope Longview Skies Markets Movies Solunar Tables Sports' TV Schedules Weather May Women's News WASHINGTON (APf The Supreme Court today agreed to review the first death sentence case it has received since it ruled in 1972 that capital punishment as then carried out was unconstitutional.

The court said it will hear arguments later this term on the appeal of a North Carolina man condemned to die for murder. Depending upon how broadly the court rules, its decision could affect only a limited number of North Carolina cases or the validity of the death penalty itself. The court ruled 5 to 4 on June 29, 1972, that the decision whether to sentence an individ-ual to death could not be left up to a jury. Since then, more than half the states have passed laws designed to get around the court's objections. More than 100 prisoners are now under death sentences in state penitentiaries and awaiting execution.

North Carolina enacted such a law April 8, but the man who is appealing is among more than 40 condemned to die in the state under a judicial interpretation of a previous law. North Carolina originally required the death penalty for first degree murder, rape, first (See HIGH, Page 2-A) Washington," he said, "is more interested in giving grain away to other nations when it's needed at home." Asking the Pentagon to increase' the purchase of U. S. Jaworski Denies 6TV Charges Texas Teachers To Seek Pay Hike HOUSTON (UPI) Former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski says charges he has discussed the Watergate coverup case on television panel shows are without foundation. -u; Defense attorneys in the coverup trial said in Washington Monday they wanted Jaworski "to keep his mouth shut" about the case.

"I have not discussed the case," Jaworski said after returning to-his Houston home from Washington. "It is clear that these charges are without foundation." (See JAWORSKI, Page 2-A) AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) -Teachers will lobby lawmakers for pay raises averaging more than $2,000 each I when the Texas Legislature convenes in officials indicated today. The Legislative Committee of the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) voted Monday to ask the legislature to raise teacher salaries to at least $500 above the national average beginning with the 1975-76 -school yeaf. The national average last year was $10,673 but TSTA officials estimate the figure will rise to $11,761 in 1975-76.

Texas' average teache pay last year was $8,967 $1,706 below the national average then and $2,794 below the anticipated national average for 1975-76. Officials aren't sure how much average salaries In Texas went up this year with a 10 per (See TEXAS, Page 2-A).