The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 1

Precarious Spot Has Nixon Th A I I'ruKs i KICY iilSCAYNK, Kin, (A)') ('resident Nixon ncarcd the i'liil loduy of ii wecltcnd of 'uelsinii-mukinglhal focused on Watergate mill his precarious personal position, pending ener- Ky conservation proposals ami Hit search far Middle Easl peace. While spokesmen said repeal- edly Hint Nixon "1ms absolutely no inlcntlon of resinning," one sourec acknowledged (hat Ihc small official party here concentrated much of its weekend thinking on Hie leadership crisis dial has prompted rash of public suggestions that the 1'rcsidcnt step down, Of immediate concern was the problem of countering public skepticism about White House claims Hint no recordings were made of key Nixon conversations last year for which tapes bad been subpoenaed, As demands that Nixon resign came from publications and politicians, including Republican Sen. Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, a presidential spokesman said Nixon did not intent to quit. Brooke, on AHC television's "Issues and Answers" program, was the first llcpubli- cnii senator to openly call for Nixon's resignation.

lie said lie "reluctantly came to the conclusion" that Nixon must resign because there was "no question ('resident Nixon has lost his effectiveness as a leader of this country, mainly because he has lost the confidence of Hie people of Ibis country." Meanwhile, in its first editorial in its no-year history, Time magazine said in this week's is- Icadcrsliip suc that Nixon has "irredeemably lost his ability to govern effectively" mid should resign. Across the nation, some newspapers editorialized for his resignation, while others continued to support Nixon. Among those calling for him to step down were 'Die New York Times, and the Detroit News, Denver Post and Atlanta Journal, three newspapers that bad supported Nixon in the past. With hearings on the phantom tapes due to resume Tuesday in Washington before U.S. District Court Judge John J.

Sirica, Nixon's two principal Ic- 72315 VOL79-NO. 144 10CENTS ICPAGES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1973 Kissinger On Way to Cairo IIIIIIIHIIIIIHIIIHtlHUimillHIimilHHNIIIIIIIIHIIHIInlHIHIHmMIIIIIIHIIIHIII ROUNDUP NOV. 5 IHMIM RICHARD M. NIXON gal advisers flew here late Saturday to discuss the situation. They were counsel Leonard Garment and special counsel .1.

Fred Buzhardl. Stephen Ii. Bull, Nixon's appointments secretary who lesti- I a New Mideast Fighting Looms By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The diplomatic maneuvering in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war shifted from Washington to the Middle East today in the wake of warnings from Israel, Egypt and Syria lhat new fighting threatened. Israeli Premier Golda Meir and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Kahmy flew home from their meetings in Ihc U.S. capital with President Nixon and Secretary of Stale Henry A.

Kissinger. Kissinger leaves today for Morocco, first stop on a Middle East lour that also will take him lo the Egyptian, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian capilals. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban flew In Romania, Ihe only member of the Soviet bloc that still has diplomatic relations wilh Israel. There was specula- lion lhat the Romanians were following up their offer to act as an intermediary between the Arabs and Israel. Syrian President Hafez Assad met separately with President Ilouari Boumedienne of Algeria, Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, the deputy premier and foreign minister of South Yemen and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuy.netsov.

No information on their discussions leaked out. The Arab oil countries met again in Kuwait and announced a new cut in production of oil for countries friendly lo Israel. They hedged by saying thai countries friendly to the Arab cause would not be affected, and it was not immediately clear what cuts would be levied against which countries. The Israeli military command reported thill Israeli and Egyptian troops exchanged small-arms fire for about an hour Sunday near Ismailia, in the central sector of Ihe Canal, and near Bur Tauficj, at the southern end of the canal. Otherwise the cease-fire lines were reported quiet.

A U.N. spokesman in Cairo said lhat Swedish U.N. troops at Ismailia reported a 35 min- ule exchange of fire "from both sides" Sunday and thai a Finnish patrol at El Shat, at Ihe southern end of the canal across from the town of Suez, came under fire and witnessed Israeli air activity. The spokesman would not say who fired on the patrol. However, Finnish sources in Cairo reported that Israeli artillery pinned Ihe U.

N. team down for 45 minutes and Israeli fighter- bombers strafed and rocketed (hem for 15 minutes more. The sources said the Finns look cover under Iheir Land Rover and were nol hurl. Bui Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Egypt "definitely can be expected to renew fighting" along the canal fronl. Egypt warned again Ihal it might resume Ihe war unless Israel complied with (he Security Council resolution calling for a return to the Oct.

22 lines. Syria declared lhat fighling will resume unless Israel withdraws from all occupied lerritorics and "restores the legitimate rights of Ihe Palestinian people." An Israeli communique said Israel and Egypt had agreed to exchange 44 wounded Israeli prisoners of war for more than 400 wounded Egyptians "but the Egyptians continue to delay the implementation of the agreement." It said only one wounded Israeli had been returned However, Egypt's lop military spokesman, Gen. Izzedin Mukhtar, lold a news conference in Cairo that Egypt handed over "a number" of wounded Israelis to the International Red Cross. He said Israel had failed to live up to the agreement. The U.S.

Air Force delivered 70 Finns from Helsinki to Cairo Sunday for Ihe U.N. peacekeeping force along the Suez Canal, and U.S. planes were scheduled lo take in 134 Irish soldiers today and Tuesday. Soviet planes were reported flying another 300 Finns to Cairo today or Tuesday, which would swell the force to ahoul 1,500 men. A lotat of 7,000 are ex- peeled.

Weekend Police were busy this weekend as burglars struck three Blytheville businesses, Detective LI. Mike Richardson reported. A burglary at Seymore Hardware and Auto Supply Warehouse, 220 E. Main in the rear, was discovered Saturday morning about 4:30 a. m.

by Patrolman P. T. Haney Richardson said. The burglars entered by breaking the hinge on a back door lock. Nothing was reported taken.

Two cameras, two radios and approximately 25 watches valued at about $300 were reported missing about 9 a. m. Saturday morning when the manager of Halsell's Used furniture and Pawn Shop, 113 Main, discovered a break- in. Richardson said entry was gained by breaking the hinges off the back door. He said thieves also look about seven dollars worth of food, change and miscellaneous items from Fred's Grocery, 304 Oak Street.

The owner, Fred Breckenridge, discovered the burglary about 7 a. m. Sunday. Car Wrecked An accident on McHaney Road, 40 feel east of Division, Friday afternoon caused about $600 damage to an unmarked police car and approximately $500 damage to another vehicle, Sgt. Graver Cox reported.

Detective Lawrence Haley, driver of the police car, and Detective Bobby Stabbs were Iravcling west on McHaney, answering an emergency call. Haley said the vehicle's blue lights siren were on. He stated Iraffic was backed up from Division to the railroad on McHaney and he was passing a line of cars when, according to witnesses, a 1973 model car driven by Billy Carl Holifield made a lefl turn from Division to McHaney at a high rateof speed and did not see the police car. Cox said the police car left 27 feet of skid marks before the impact. No charges were filed, according to the accident report.

One-Car Accident A one-ear accident at Scott and Laclede last night about 9 p.m. caused minor injuries to a passenger, Patrolman Joel Andrews reported. Peggy Nelson was driving east on Scott and attempted to turn north onto Laclede when she lost control of her 1967- model car on wet pavement and crossed Laclede, striking a fire plug on the east side of the street, Andrews stated. Vickie Davis, a passenger in the car, was treated and released at Chickasawba Hospital. ROUNDUP Pages lly ISAKKY SCIIWKII) Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger beaded today for Cairo and four other Arab capitals in a i i bid to break a diplomatic impasse with Israel. Kissinger took off amid Indications that Egypt and Syria are stiffly resisting Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's efforts to work out a prisoner exchange through the "good offices" of the United Stales, Mrs. Mcir Icfl for home late Sunday after Idling a group of Israeli correspondents at iilair House lhat negotiations with Egypl have nol begun, even indirectly through Ihe secretary of state. She said she had raised the prisoner issue with President Nixon, Kissinger and in "every single conversation" with U.S. officials while in Washington.

Kissinger stops first in Rabal, Morroco, and then Tunis, Tunisia, before reaching Cairo for conferences wilh President Anwar Sadat. In Morocco today, progovcrn- Arabs Announce New Oil Cutback lly HAUItY DUNPHY Associated Press Writer KUWAIT (AP) The Arab oil nalions announced new production cuts today in their oil offensive against supporters of Israel bul said "friendly countries" would not be affected. The 10member Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced production would be reduced this month by 25 per ccnl of Ihe September output and by five per ccnl of Ihe November oul- pul in December. Hut Ihc announcement afler a seven-hour meeting of Ihe na- lions' oil minislers said the 25 per cent reduction would include the oil already cut off by the againsl (he United Slates and Ihc Nelher- lands. Since cuts in Arab oil production have reached more than four million barrels a day, or 20 per cent of Ihe September produclion, it appeared thai the new November cut actually would come to only five per cent, or one million barrels a day.

The cuts "shall nol nffcct Ihe share of those friendly coun- Irics thai import oil from Arab countries," the statement said. "Their share will be based on the average of Iheir imports for Ihc first nine months of 1973." The statement did nol specify which countries were "friendly," but it was assumed this category included France and Spain, which have been openly sympathetic with (he Arab position against Israel. The standing of Britain is uncertain, and Ihe Arabs have accused West Germany of abetting U.S. supply shipments lo Israel. Japan, which imports 8G per cenl of ils oil from Ihe Middle East, is under growing pressure lo take a clear stand on the side of (he Arabs.

The new culs have no effecl on the oil silualion in Ihe United States since all 10 nations already have slopped all shipment of oil lo America. Five of Ihc nalions also have slopped shipping lo the Netherlands. Kuwait officials said a major question at Ihc meeting was how to ship oil lo friends and prevent their sharing it wilh enemies. AUAHSPiigct) menl newspapers praised Kissinger as a "pilgrim for peace" and "a man both of good will and imagination." These were the first favorable comments alxmt a U.S. government official in Moroccan papers since Ihe Middle East war broke out.

Morocco has sent some units to fight wilh Ihe Arabs. Kissinger's visil lo the Egyp- lian capital is particularly critical. At lhat poinl Mrs. Meir will be reporting lo the Israeli parliament on the results of her travels. The Egyptians may issue a parallel declaration that could reflecl Ihe stiff stance Ihey were understood to have taken in five talks held lasl week in SVashington by Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy with Nixon and Kissinger.

hater in the week the secre- lary of state goes on to Amman, Jordan, and Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, lo sec King Hussein and King Faisal. From Ihere he visits the Moslem counlries of Iran and Pakistan and then heads finally for China and a visil postponed last month partly because of the Middle East war. Kissinger has been a busy go- between, alternatively seeing Mrs. Meir and Fahmy. He also received Mohamed Zakaria Ismail, the deputy foreign minister of Syria, in the first significant contact in a year between Ihe two countries, which have no diplomatic relations.

At Ihe same time, Kissinger stayed in touch with Nixon at Key liiscayne, and talked with him by telephone for about 40 minutes Sunday morning. Kissinger also had a telephone conversation with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Speaking about the Soviets on national television Sunday, Sen. Henry M. Jackson, said the United States faces a Soviet threat in the Mediterranean greater now than during the military alerl of Oct.

25. Jackson said Ihc Soviet Union has 95 ships in Ihe Mediterranean to our 60 and, "For the first time in the long imperial history of Russia they have CAIRO Page 3 Fights Attacks on Father IJy ANN HI.ACKMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -Julie Nixon Eisenhower is angry and (ighling back. Aboul atlacks on her father's credibility speculation by some Ihal he ordered U.S. forces on world-wide alert to di- verl allenlion from Watergate troubles disbelief by some lhat Iwo of Ihe Watergate tapes don't exisl allegations about Nixon's friends questioning of family finances. These charges arc "great Icsts of character and perseverance.

Bui lie's not going lo let them get him down," Julie said. On Ihe day the alert was announced, Thursday, Oct. 23, she wrote in her appointment calendar, "Fight. Fight. Fight." "That was really the day I decided," Julie said.

"That angered me so much Looking back on it now, il looks ridiculous, but that's exactly how I fell. I'm not going to sit by anymore." And so Julie intensified her public defense of her father. In an hour-long interview in the family's private White House quarters, Julie insisted that her father will not resign, Ihal he has done nothing to warrant impeachment, lhat his health is excellent and that there's nothing irregular about the family's finances. Sitting on a soft, daffodil-yellow sofa in the Solarium that Ihe Nixons call their "California Room," 25-year-old Julie portrayed her father as a man more philosophical in recent weeks, thoughtful and gentle at home yet still angry and frustrated that While House credibility is being challenged. The President of the United States, she said, often sits at the piano alone at night, sometimes making up his own soft, melodic tunes, sometimes playing "Rustle of Springtime," his mother's favorite piece, to no one but himself.

"Sometimes, all alone at night, you'll hear this music in the hallway," Julie said. "I could somelimes hear the piano going, and I knew no one was in that darkened hall, and he'd play." He's affectionate, "not the big bug, but kind of put his arm around my should and pat me on the back, and you know, the 'wc're-gonna-make-it' kind of thing which is nice," Julie said. On national television and in other interviews, Julie's theme is that Richard Nixon has done nothing wrong, that he has nothing to hide. What about threats of impeachment? I don't worry about it because I know my father hasn't committed a high crime or a misdemeanor," she said. Does she speculate about how Ihe whole Watergate situation will end? "I think thai before my father dies that there will be a perspective on Watergate, his achievements will be recognized she said.

Missouri Cotton Activity picked up slightly on local Missouri colton markets lasl week according lo Hie U. S. Department of Agriculture's Hayti classing office. Demand strengthened and prices were steady to firm. Buyers were active in the markel seeking all qualities of cotlon not committed lo contracts.

Mosl farmers offered Ihe small volume of uncommitted collon freely and sold grade 31 staple 34 cotlon at prices of 03 to.G4 cents a pound. Grade 41 staple 34 brought from 61.00 lo 62 cents per pound and grade 51 staple 34 sold for 58 lo 60 cents per pound. Farmers continued to deliver Ihe majority of recent ginnings on previously made contracts. Ginyard prices for cottonseed were unchanged and ranged from $90 to $100 per Ion at the various gin locations. The harvest was delayed temporarily by inlermittenl showers during Ihe week, but farmers were able lo pick considerable amount of collon at most locations none the less.

The Hayli classing office classed 28,000 samples for farmers last week. Total classings for the season through Nov. 2 was 102,000. Quality of the samples classed improved slightly from the previous week. Grade 41 accounted for the highest percentage of classings al 63 per cent about unchanged from a week earlier.

Grade 31 was the next highest al 13 per cent against 11 per cent Ihe previous week. Staple length averaged slightly longer last week with 78 per ccnl stapling 34 compared wilh 85 per ccnl the week Ijeforc and 20 per cent with lenglhs of 35 up from 13 per cent a week earlier. Ninety-three per cenl of Ihc samples miked in (he base range of 3.5 lo 4.9 wilh only 5 per ccnl is Ihc 5.0 and higher range last week. Breaking strength was good and averaged 114,000 pounds per square inch on Ihe samples tested. Charlotte Says 'Real Sweet' By DOUG STONE Associated Tress Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn.

(AP) She would wave and get policemen lo stop Iheir cars, talk a litlle, and then somelimes have sex with them and "I'm nol ashamed about nothing," a blonde who figures in an investigation of police conduct said Sunday. Police Director W. Hubbard said hours of polygraph tests she underwent confirmed her allegations, "including some of the more serious ones." Charlotte Tyler, 19, of Paris, lold of sexual involvement with officers, mil only in Memphis bul also in Arkansas and Missouri. "They were all real swccl to inc. I don't waul lo say that they were on duty or off," she said.

Asked how many officers she'd been involved wilh in Memphis after her arrival Sept. she said, "1 do nol want to slate it. No offense." With shoulder-length hair and wearing a metallic gold jump suil with a cowboy bell around the waist, Mrs. Tyler lold reported, "I didn't want to get them (policemen) in trouble." Police sources have said that up to 200 officers on Ihe man force may be involved, but Huhbard said he believes it is more like 20. He said he plans lo issue a statement on the investigation Tuesday.

Ho said Mrs. Tyler may be telling what she believes lo be true, but is nol necessarily fact. "We know one individual said lo another, Tell her your name is Chief Bill Mrs. Tyler allowed reporters, minus cameras and recorders, into her police-acquired motel suite, where officers said they had been interrogating her for Ilirec days. She was flanked by a pricsl, Iwo matrons and investigators.

The matrons laler look her to her parent's home in Arkansas in an unmarked car. She said she is divorced and (he mother of a 2-year-old daughter being cared for by her parenls. Mrs. Tyler said police have nicknamed her "Charlie," (he name engraved on her leather hell. She said she had experience (raining horses and likes to wear Western gear.

She said a blue cowboy hat she was known lo wear "is somewhere in Memphis." "I know I'm nol the only one," she said when asked if there were oilier women in the cily having frequent dates wild different officers. She voluntarily flew to Memphis al cily expense from St. Charles and was secreted in the mold suit. Inspector II. H.

Lcatherwood, head of the Internal Affairs Bureau, said Mrs. Tyler gave names of officers and took lie detector lesls after saying she wanted to assist police in clearing up questions. Mrs. Tyler said she would like to get on a police department and work in the vice squad. POLICE 1'agc 9 Island 35 'Honky Tonk' Raided, Closed An armed hand of law enforcement officers from Ihc Tennessee Bureau of I i a i and Tennessee Slate Police descended on an Island 35 nighlspol early Sunday, arresting 21 persons in a predawn raid lasting several hours.

The officers used Mississippi County Jail as Hie base for the raiil witli sheriff's deputies and Arkansas Slate Police lending assistance. The raid culminated more a six of plmming, -Sheriff (ieorgo Ford said. Tennessee authorities called lln department's "largos! club raid of Ihe year." The 21 arrested AM nol Include II lecnani'd girls nnl buy, who were a to Mississippi County Jnll and held for, Iholr parenls. The others were jailed al Tiplon County Jail in Covinglon, Tenn. on a wide assortment of charges.

Island 35, officially Reverie, had been under close i by Tennessee and A a a a i i since early spring, wilh undercover agents frequenting the 14-mile- long, i i island i lo Ihc Arkansas mainland by a wooden bridge. Korly-six officers stormed the nightspot called Ihe "Island 35 honky-tonk" at 1:50 a. Inking 71 patrons by surprise. A i rock band was biMling out the finale of one session when police burst into lliu room, and the lender of tin- group later told nn officer, "1 was just about lo go into my fnmiius roll, hut pul mi end In Hint," Mississippi County sheriff's deputies and Arkansas Stale troopers wailed on Ihc Arkansas side of the narrow bridge as the raid was being carried Arkansas a i i have long been familiar with Ihe Island 35 situation, but lacked authority lo make arrests al (he club since il is in Tennessee. "From (he way il appMrs, I would assume Island 35 will wind up operation after this," Ford snld.

Confiscated were gallon of untaxcd whiskey, over a dozen pistols, several cartons of un- laxed dgnvells, and "several hundred dollars" taken from dice game, Ford said. Those charged at Ihe scene were; Horace Phelan Cash, 39, of Reverie, who, nn Fll! rcporl snys is the owner-operator of ihc club. The same man charged with the death of a Wilson woman Ibis summer, Cash two months ago was indicted in federal i i Court in Little Rock on charges of causing the i a transportation of a stolen motor vehicle, after being accused of involvi'iiu'iil in Ihe January Ibefl (if Iwo tractors world over $25,000 from i implcmi'iil company. lie WHS charged yesterday with operating a gaming house, contributing lo Ihc delinquency of minors and a i a cnnci'ah'd weapon. a a the charges Ihey face included, Robbie LIT Crafton of Osceola, i Richard Cornelius Crawford of Joiner, gaming; a of Osceola, a i i Donald Shinn of Osceola, gaming; Oliver Ray Hunt of Enrlc, gaming; Edward lluey Cobh of Joiner, gaming and fighling; Charles E.

a i of Luxora, gaming; Curtis Wall Long of i a i Marcell Rogers of Reverie, gaming and operating a gaming house; John Winfrcd Taylor of Reverie, selling untnxcd liquor, contributing lo the delinquency of minors and operating gaming house; Bobbie Lou Hennelt of Reverie, sale of unlaxed cigarettes and sale of untnxcd liquor; Roberl Krillis Mi-Cord Jr. of Osceola, a i Clarence llardin Myriek of 1'lythevillc, carrying a concealed weapon, and operating a gaming douse; Bert Smith of Reverie, gaming; Larry Dean Gilley of Tyronza, gaming, Bobby Gene Young of Osceola, a i Richard Francis Wilson of Joiner, gaming; and Fannie Mae Ritchcy of Osccola, con- tribuling to Ihe delinquency of minors. According lo an i description of the scene when Ihe raid began, police slammed through the club's tlirce doors i a a being poised for several minutes on Ihe outside. Preliminaries to the raid began al 10:30 p. m.

in Memphis, when Tennessee officers began gnllicring to leave for Arkansas in unmarked police They arrived nt the Inlerstnte 55 interchange al Luxora al 11:45 and 15 minutes lalcr were hidden behind (he county jail, while officers went over last minute details. The caravan left for Ihe island about 1:20 patrol cars. "Some resistance" was mcl upon arrival, Ford said, but It was quickly overcome. Mosl of Ihose offering resistance were- intoxicated, he said One Tennessee i a with chain saw quickly began destroying all gaming tables and olhcr devices being used nl the nightspot while participants, lined wall, shrieked. "It was quite night," Ford snld,.