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VOL. 178 NO. 44 CANANDAIGUA, N.V. MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1974 SINGLE COPY 15c 345 Die Grand Jury Says In Worst White House Was In On Crash Heath Hangs On To Post U)NDON (UPI) Prime Minister Edward Heath, clinging to power despite a stinging rebuff from voters in' Thurs- day'sgeneral with his cabinet today to discuss a possible deal with the small Liberal party that would keep him in office. The Liberal party's 14 members of Parliament and a number of Liberal peers from the House of Lords met also to decide whether to accept a deal with Heath.

If the Liberals reject it, political informants said Heath will resign by tonighl or Tuesday at latest and advise Queen Elizabeth to summon Labor party leader Harold Wilson to form a new government. Wilson already has said he is ready to do so. Amid the deepening political and industrial crisis Buckingham Palace announced the queen has canceled her return to Australia, previously scheduled for Wednesday. The announcement said it will be decided later whether she will go ahead wilh a scheduled state visit lo Indonesia. The queen returned Friday immediately after the general election.

Under Britain's unwritten constitution she must be on hand lo accept the resignation of an outgoing prime minister and appoint his successor-usually on the "advice" of the outgoinggovernment chief. Wilson, wailing in the wings, summoned a meeting of his would-be cabinet ministers this afternoon to be prepared to take over if Heath quits and the queen summons him to form a new government. Heath called the national elections last Thursday in an effort to win a mandate to settle a crippling coal miners' strike that has dwindled energy supplies and plunged Britain into its worst economic crisis since World War II. The election resulted in a five-seat Labor party edge, but both the Laborites and Conservatives failed to win a majority inthe635-memberParliament. White House Protection WASHINGTON (UPI) --The Secret Service, alarmed by the possibility of aircraft trying to, hit Ihe White House, has bolstered its armament with-a shoulder launched antiaircraft missile syslem, according to the current issue of Aviation Week magazine.

The magazine said the new missile, called the "Redeye," is designed to be fired from the shoulder by foot soldiers. The missile has a 'heat seeking guidance system which trails the hot exhaust of an aircraft. The Secret Service had no comment. The Weather Variable cloudiness, showery and occasionally windy tonight and tomorrow with heavy rain likely at times during a few thunderstorms. High today and tomorrow within a few degrees of 60 with overnight low about SO.

Mostly southwest and south gusllng between 20 and 39 mph at times. Probability of precipitation Is 80 per cent today, near 100 per cent tonight and 80 per cent tomorrow. The Canandaigua Weather Station reports a 24-hour high of 63; low, 48. The temperature at 8 a.m. was 50.

There was no precipitation. This date last year the temperature was, high, 52; low, 34. At 8 a.m. it was 42. LAKELEVEL March 3,1974 687.79 687.10 IT'S SPRING--The weather may be bad news for winter sports enthusiasts, but for others, unseasonably high temperatures and even rain are preferable to shoveling snow or driving on hazardous highways.

Some ski areas were still optimistically reporting "spring" conditions, but for ice skaters, there's no doubt about conditions--as can be seen at the North Pearl Street rink in Canandaigua. (Messenger photo) Welfi are New Rent Ceilings New statewide standards fixing ceilings on rental payments for welfare recipients will go into effect April 1. Under the new system, local welfare commissioners will continue to run the program, but they will not be able to- exceed the state limits in granting rental allowances. Limitations range widely according to the area. For example, figures for Ontario County show that the rental allowance for a family of four without heal will be $130 a month.

With heat, the allowed rent for the same family would be $170. In neighboring Monroe County, the without-heat rental allowance is $156 while the with-heat allowance is 5184 for a family of four. In Seneca County, the allowance is $96 without heat and $136 with. In New York City the allowance is $164 without heat and $190 with. Policy Change The new shelter policy replaces widely divergent local rental procedures currently in effect.

At present, local departments set standards of maximum rental payments and file these schedules with the state, but did make exceptions upward from these standards. In addition, local formulas used for fixing maximum rental payments vary from district to district, with some based on family size and others on number of rooms, availability of heal and utilities. Under the new policy, all maximum rental allowances are determined on the basis of family size. Exceptions above the ceilings are also prohibited. A breakdown of the Ontario County ceilings show the following for the without-heat allowance: one two or five or The with-heat monthly rental allowances for Ontario County are put at: one two 1 7 0 i 1 7 4 eight or Federal Compliance New York State Social Services Commissioner Abe Lavine said the rent structure will bring Ihe state into compliance with federal laws.

Federal officials have complained thai the state's welfare rent payments were not uniform in value to the recipients. The new policy will not affect the aged, blind and disabled beneficiaries of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which is a federal program administered by the Social Mistrial Motion Denied By H.D. QUIGG NEW YORK (UPI) A federal judge today denied a. motion for a mistrial in the' case of former Nixon cabinet officers John N. Mitchell and Maurice H.

Stans, accused of obstruction of justice. Defense attorneysfor Mitchell, former attorney general, and Stans, former commerce secretary, had sought a mislri- Securily A i i a i al on the basis of the opening Under SSI, beneficiaries receive a single grant covering all needs. Mrs. Meir Postpones Resignation JERUSALEM (UPI) -Prime Minister Golda Meir today delayed plans to announce her resignation formally and political sources said she may either be reconsidering her decision to step down or searching for a suitable re-, placement. Mrs.

Meir had planned to tell President Ephraim Katzir at that she was giving up her unsuccessful efforts to form a minority governmenl. The meeting was at first postponed to 5 p.m., then to 7 p.m. as she continued talks with party colleagues pleading with her to remain in office. "The postponement has led lo specultion that she may be reconsidering her decision," a political source said. "She's meeting with various people at the moment." Mrs.

Meir announced her decision to step down Sunday night at a meeting of her Labor party. 'Hie decision by the 75-year- old grandmother put the Jewish state on the brink of new elections, political sources said, and opened the possibility of a new coalition including right- wing factions opposed to Israel's postwar negotiations with the arabs. Sources in the National Religious party (NRP), which has refused to rejoin Mrs. Meir's government in a dispute over religious law, said the postponement could mean she is frying to find a new candidate to replace her as prime minister. -Sing' For Supper? WASHINGTON I -Pearl Bailey will be the featured entertainer at a While House dinner Thursday nighl in honor of the nation's 50 governors and their svives, it was announced today.

to the jury by prosecution. Thai was near Ihe end of the opening statement of Assistant U.S. Attorney James W. Rayhill Friday when, Stans's. lawyer contended, Rayhill asked the trial jury to equate itself with the grand jury that had indicted the two on charges of lying oath, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.

Veteran observers doubted that Federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi would call a mistrial. But then he had been stern in ordering a halt to the trial Friday afternoon, had 'given the government until 7 p.m. Friday "to provide an excuse" statement, and had given the defense only 24 hours to reply to the "excuse." The two former cabinet members are accused of using their political influence to try to sidetrack a major federal investigation of Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier, in exchange for his secret $200,000 contribution to the Nixon 1972 campaign.

Mitchell now faces a maximum of 30 years in prison and $40,000 in fines if convicted in Washington, in addition to the 50 years both he and Stans could get in the New York case. The New York jury of eighl men and four women was isolated from news of the Watergate indictmenl. It will be sequestered for the Irial dura- lion. Unsettling To Children NEW YORK (UPI) The Watergate scandal is causing harm to America's children, according to Dr. Lee Salk, director of Pediatric Psychology at Ihe New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center.

Salk said in a magazine article that many parents have written him claiming that their children are reacting unfavorably to the whole Watergate situation. This happens, he said, "because children are taught to respect the President, who has allegedly done things that do not represent the kind of standards parents are trying lo teach their children. By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS (UPI) A preliminary report on the crash of a Turkish Airlines DClO jetliner said loday a bomb explosion could have brought down the widebodied aircraft which nose- dived to earth from 13,000 feet Sunday, killing 345 persons in aviation's worst disaster. Orly Airport sources said specialists had prepared a report for Airport Director Gilbert Dreyfus who is leading the inquiry. "The report states that the possibility of an explosion is supported by an important number of them," the sources said.

Turkish airline sources in Istanbul said the airline had informationthalthreeJapanese and two Arabs aboard the crashed plane were guerrillas. They said the five had planned to sabotage a British Airways flight from Paris to London but were transferred to the Turkish plane because of a strike by British engineers in London and that their bombs exploded in Hight. The airline sources said there also was a possibilly Ihe reported guerrillas were linked wilh Ihe seizure later in Ihe day of a British Airways jel after takeoff from Beirut. Arab commandos blew up the aircraft in Amsterdam after letting 102 persons on board flee the plane. Most of the victims in the Turkish Airlines crash were believed to be Britons, including a police amateur rugby team, although no passenger list was available.

The number of Americans aboard also was not known but the U.S. Embassy in London said the victims included its cultural attache, Dr. Wayne Wilcpx, his wife and two of their children. JapaneseEmbassy sources said 49 Japanese were aboard. The Turks said there were 15 Turkish nationals on the plane.

Turkish President Bulenl Ecevit told newsmen in Istanbul: "At present I cannot say whether the plane was sabo- taoged or not but we are reviewing every possibility. The question of whelher Ihe plane was sabotaged or not will be cleared following technical examinations which I presume will last a couple of weeks." Orly field sources said the passenger search before takeoff was normal and that the plane was searched for explosives none was found. Hand baggage was searched bul not the suitcases of the 2IB persons who joined the flight in Paris. In Ankara, Turkish Communications Minister Ferda Gulley said he could not rule out sabotage. Mitchell's Wife Unburdens Self NEW YORK (UPI) Former Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha believes he deliberately tried to drive her "up the wall" after he was indicted last year on an influence-peddling charge, People magazine said Sunday.

For the last six months, Mrs. Mitchell has lived alone in her Fifth Avenue apartment. Her husband is living in a midtown hotel, the new weekly publication said. "He wouldn't go oul. He ale at his desk.

He let his hair grow and wouldn't shave. He wanted me to-'cut his hair," Mrs. Mitchell lold People. "John didn't want to see anyone. He wouldn'l give me my phone calls.

He'd say I was out. And if 1 answered he'd listen. He was drinking and taking tranquilizers." By CLAY F. RICHARDS WASHINGTON (UPI) The Watergate grand jury has charged that within hours of the June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic national headquarters, the cover-up was under way at the highest levels of President Nixon's White House staff. The 50-page indictment issued Friday says that in the weeks and months that followed, the persons closest to Nixon destroyed evidence, paid $557,500 in "hush money" to the Walergate burglars to buy their silence and thwarted efforts by the FBI, the Justice Department and later the courts find out the truth.

President Nixon has said that during this time he was ordering these same close aides to cooperate openly with the investigators because the "truth had to come out." But even on the dates Nixon said he gave the orders, the indictment claims the cover-up conspiracy going ahead. An indictment, it should be noted, is only an allegation. It is not proof or even evidence. Among those indicted on conspiracy and other charges were former atlorney general and Nixon campaign director John N. Mitchell; and former close Nixon aides H.H.

"Bob" Haldeman and JohnD. Ehrlichman. Obtain Release The grand jury charged that within hours of the break-in, then campaign chief John N. Mitchell met with Robert C. Mardian, an aide who also was indicted for conspiracy.

It said Mitchell told Mardian lo seek the assistance of then Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst in obtaining the release of one or more of those arrested in the burglary. Kleindienst, who was not indicted, has testified he resisted such atlempls. The day after the burglary, the indictment said, Gordon Strachan, Haldeman's assistant who also was charged with conspiracy, destroyed documents relating to the incident on orders from his boss. Two days after the burglary, the grand jurors said, Ehrlicn- man met with White House Counsel John W.

Dean III, and Ehrlichman "directed" Dean to tell conspirators G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to leave the country. On the same day, Charles W. Colson, a presidential special counsel who also was indicted for conspiracy, met with Ehrlichman and Dean at Ihe White House, Ihe indictment charged.

It said Ehrlichman directed Dean to take possession of the contents of Hunt's safe. Also on that day, Mitchell and Mardian met and Mitchell "suggested" that documents from the file of Jeb Stuart Magruder, the deputy campaign manager, be destroyed, the indictment said. Previous testimony indicated Magruder had the "Gemstone files" which contained documents obtained in Watergate burglaries. The indictmenl said the -first talk of "commitments" for the benefit of the burglars came on June 20, three days after the break-in, at a meeting Mardian atlended with Liddy and presidential adviser Fred C. LaRue.

Four days later, the indictmenl said, Mardian and Mitchell suggested to Dean that the CIA provide "covert funds" for the burglars' assistance. Step by step over the next few months, the alleged cover- H.R. HALDEMAN up was traced by the indictment, including the involvement of another defendant, Kennelh W. Parkinson, a lawyer for Ihe Nixon re-election committee, who allegedly made Ihe payments to Ihe Watergate burglars. The crucial parl of the indictment centers on a meeting Nixon had with Haldeman and Dean at the White House March 21,1973.

This is the date Nixon said he first learned Ihe details of the cover-up, ordered a complete investigation, and told his aides to cooperate fully with the FBI and the Justice Department. Haldeman told the Senate Watergale commilteeDean told Nixon at that meeting it would take $1 million to support the expenses of the Watergate burglars. "The President said 'there is no problem in raising a million dollars, we can do that, but it would be wrong'," Haldeman testified. The grand jury, underlining the crucial phrase "but it would be wrong," charged Haldeman with lying about that phrase. Nixon, in a news conference last Aug.

22, said: "Mr. Haldeman has testified and his statement is accurate I said 'John, it's Dean insisted the President never added the phrase "but it would be wrong." The grand JOHN EHRLICHMAN jurors did not have to depend solely on Dean's testimony. They have heard the While House tape of (he March 21 meeting. At the news conference, Nixon said a demand by Hunt for $120,000 in cash was discussed and rejected as "blackmail." He then said he told the others at the March 21 meeting: "We've got to get this story out. And therefore I direct you (Dean) and I direct Haldeman and I direct Ehrlichman and I direct Mitchell to get together tomorrow and then meet with me as to how we get this story out." The March 21 meeting, while not naming the President, was mentioned in one of the 45 "overt acts" that constituted the alleged criminal conspiracy.

The indiclment said that following. the meeting, Haldeman telephoned Mitchell, and later the same day, Mitchell authorized LaRue to make a payment of $75,000 to. Hunt. That night, arrangements allegedly were made for delivery $75,000 to Hunt's lawyer, William O.Bittman. The day, March 22, 1972, Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean met with Mitchell at the White House and Mitchell "assuredEhrlichman thai Hunt was not a 'problem 1 any longer," the indictment said.

Fuel Break For Airlines By ROBERT F. BUCKHORN WASHINGTON (UPI) Citing "skyrocketing costs" of jet fuel for U.S. overseas airlines, energy chief William E. Simon proposed today a plan to equalize the price paid for fuel by domestic and foreign carriers. Under the present system, U.S.

lines such as Pan American and Trans World must buy sharply higher priced imported jet fuel. In a proposed rule to be published Tuesday, Simon would place the U.S. overseas airlines under the allocation program used for domestic airlines. The U.S. overseas airlines purchase imported "bonded fuel," which formerly was cheaper than domestic jet fuel.

But the energy crisis has more than doubled the price of bonded fuel. Simon said that "skyrocketing costs to the international airlines" had made the problem "serious enough to consider broadening the current allocation program." Domestic airlines, which get 95 per cent of the amount of jet fuel they used in comparable About Ontario County Jail a ZitoExtortion Trial Convulses Judge And Spectators BUFFALO A government key wilness in an exlorlion trial Friday broke everyone up including the judge, with his stories about serving time in the Ontario County Jail. Joseph T. Zito 45, of Batavia, was undergoing cross-ex am inalion by one of Ihe lawyers defending 13 alleged organized crime figures, when he provoked hysterical laughter. Zitb testified that while he was serving a year in the county jail, he was able to get liquor, make calls to see thai his bookmaking operation was doing well, attend a wedding in Batavia and enjoy a conjugal visit with his wife in the sheriff's office.

During his 1969-70 jail lerm, Ihe sheriff was Ray 0. Morrow of Geneva. Gourmet Dining Zito also said he was a trusty at the jail, working on the garbage trucks and in the kitchen, where, he said, he would sometimes fix himself a chicken cacciatore dinner wilh food he'd bought outside. At one point in Zito's tcslimony, U.S. District Court Judge John T.

Curtin had his face covered and his head on the bench as he attempted to stop laughing, while defendants, lawyers and spectators shrieked. The 13 men, five from the Rochester area, are accused of conspiracy and extortion in a violent plan to take over the vending machine business in Binghamton. Zilo, who served 10 months in the county jail from April, 1969, to January, 1970, said that the jail guard on the garbage detail let him stop off at a liquor store to buy some anisette for his coffee and "it was no problem" smuggling it inside in a garbage pail. He said his own barber came to the jail regularly. Staff Unaware The bookmaking, he said, was without the jail staff's knowledge.

As court closed on this note Friday, Curtin, still laughing, told lawyer Robert M. Murphy, "This is certainly interesting, but it has litlle to do wilh his credibilily." Murphy, who represenls one of Ihe defendants from Broome Counly, had been cross- examining Zilo for three days. He will continue tomorrow. Former Sheriff Morrow commented on Zilo's testimony, "I think it's wonderful. The guy's got a lerrific imagination." Reelection Bid Lost Morrow, a Republican, was succeeded in Ihe sheriff's posl in January, 1972, by Sheriff Edward M.

Guinan. Reportedly considering an attempt to recapture the sheriff's post in November, Morrow declined to comment further on Zito's testimony. He said he expects he will be called to testify now that Zito's connection with the county jail has enlered Ihe trial record. Morrow has previously denied that Zito had unusual privileges while in jail. Dist.

Atty. Willard Best said it would be his responsibility to investigate if any criminal conduct was allowed in the jail. Judgment Questions So far, he said, that question has not been raised. From what he has read in newspapers about the case, he said, "acis of judgment," not criminal activities are involved. When asked about current jail conditions, Sheriff Guinan stated, "A trusty is not allowed out without supervision." He said Ihe jail operates under state laws governing jail regulations and requirements.

Testimony in the Buffalo trial has also in- eluded a controversy over alleged missing visitation records at the county jail. Reportedly, Zito's visitation records prior to Oct. 31, 1969, are missing. Guinan has previously staled lhal when he took office some records, including some of Zito's, were not on file at the jail. Morrow saw that when he left office he cleaned out his desk of his "personal papers," took them home, sorted them and returned the rest to the jail.

Asked if Zito had been given special privileges while an inmate at the jail. Morrow said, "Yes, he had the privileges of a trusty." Morrow said thai Zito had been permitled to atlend a funeral "under guard," that is customary in the case of a close relalive, and lhal Zilo, again under guard, was allowed lo attend his daughter's wedding. 1972 periods, opposed sharing their allocation with the overseas carriers. Simon's proposal would place "bonded jet fuel under the same FEO allocation and price control as other jet fuels, thereby equalizing distribution and prices." Pan American argued that failure to include overseas airlines in the original allocation program was discriminatory and threatened to sue the FEO. Administration energy policy and President Nixon's planned veto of the emergency energy bill came under atlack from Sens.

Henry Jackson, D- and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. Jackson told a national housing conference that Nixon's veto, which he plans formally on Tuesday, would outrage the public. Kennedy said at the same conference that administration policies on energy and other matters had been disastrous for middle and low-income Americans. Other energy-relateddevelopments: --Several thousand southern West Virginia coal miners have been conducting a walkout in protest against lack of gasoline, and those who attended a meeting Sunday vowed to stay away from work in spite of an emergency 650,000 gallon weekend shipment of gasoline into the area.

--Prospects for an end to the Arab oil boycott brightened with announcement that Egypt was seeking to organize a meeting next Sunday of oil ministers in Tripoli, amid reports President Anwar Sadat would recommend at least a partial lifting of the embargo as a geslure for U.S. peacemaking efforts in the Mideast. Docking Bows Out Of Politics TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) -Gov. Roberl B.

Docking, 43, announced his relirement from public office during a weekend banquel, speaking before more than 1,700 Kansas Democrats who had hoped he would challenge incumbent Sen. Roberl Dole, for Ihe Senate in November..