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TWO- -BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W.VA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER A DYNAMITE BOMB FOUND Members of the New York City bomb squad work on a dynamite bomb found in a concrete tree planter outside the General Motors Building at 59th Street and Madison Avenue Tuesday. The device was removed before it could explode. (AP Wirephoto) FBI Director-Designate Recuperating MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) FBI Director designate Frank M. Johnson Jr.

remained at home Tuesday under doctor's orders to rest before returning to Washington for confirmation hearings. Johnson. 58, had spent five days in the nation's capital preparing for the sessions, but flew home Monday after complaining of exhaustion and stomach pains. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, scheduled to begin Tuesday, were postponed, probably until the end of the year. 1 Siamese Twin Dies During Surgery PHILADELPHIA (AP) Siamese twins, one dependent on the other for the common heart they shared, were separated at Children's Hospital here Tuesday.

As expected, one girl died during surgery and her 28 day old sister was in serious condition. "If she lives longer than a day it will be a first," said Dr. C. Everett Koop, head of the team of 19 doctors and nurses who performed the seven hour operation. "No twin such as this has ever survived more than 14 hours." The twins, born Sept.

15 in Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, N.J., were not identified at the request of their parents. The sisters were joined from below the collar bone to the navel. Thoracopagous twins, as this condition is called, comprise about 40 per cent of all conjoined babies, Koop said. However, he added that the twins separated Tuesday were extremely rare because they shared the lone heart. Bush Favors Normalizing Peking Relations HONG KONG (AP) George Bush, former chief of the U.S.

liaison mission in China, said Tuesday he favored normalization of relations with Peking, but that the United States could not abandon the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan. "Both China and the United States must find a common ground to improve their relations." he said in an interview after a 17-day trip to the mainland. Bush's views paralleled official policy of the Carter Administration as set down by U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance.

Tito's Wife Reportedly Well BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (AP) Although President Tito's wife has not been making her customary trips with Tito, she is well and staying at the presidential residence, a Yugoslav government spokesman said Tuesday. Mirko Kalezic, asked to comment on rumors that she was ill, said: "I can tell you that the wife of the president is not ill and that she is staying in the residence of the president in Belgrade." Tito in past years was always accompanied by his wife on trips abroad. However, on his long trip to the Soviet Union, North Korea and China in August she was not with him. Tito was to leave Tuesday lor a visit to France and Portugal without his wife.

North Yemen President Killed NICOSIA. Cyprus (AP) Unidentified assassins killed President Ibrahim al Hamdi of North Yemen and his brother, Col. Abdullah Mohammed al Hamdi, North Yemen's government run Sana'a radio reported. The radio said a three man presidential council was formed to rule the Middle Eastern country after the assassinations Tuesday. The radio, monitored in Nicosia, described the dead 34 year old leader as "the Salt Spending Estimates Up (Continued From Page 1) tabled so possible amending of the ordinance to restrict parking only after 3 p.m.

could be considered. Two ordinances were passed to repeal others. These repealed the 15-minute parking zone on First Avenue and Second Street and an ordinance prohibiting parking in front of Park Junior High School. John Harbison, owner of property at 624 Whitestick appeared at the request of council concerning that property. City Atty.

E.M. Payne HI said Harbison had received notices since July 1974 concerning insufficient wiring and plumbing, a faulty foundation and general disrepair of the property. Harbison said he has done the required work, and would meet with building inspectors to show what has been done at that address this summer and fall. Administrative Assistant Chester Clyburn showed council slides of eight houses which have been condemned for several years, and asked for guidance in getting the houses demolished. Payne said Clyburn should provide as much help as he can to locate the current owners of the properties, so that permission may be obtained to tear the Landfill May Go To The State 2 Americans, Belgian Win Nobel Prizes (Continued From Page 1) vices office in Charleston said it appears the language in the bill appears to be broad enough for such a transaction to occur.

One section of the bill, which the spokesman interpreted as meaning the state could assume a county's solid Rockefeller Is Worth $19 Million (Continued From Page II Charleston. In a letter to the bank president. Rockefeller said he did not want to be informed of investment transactions and that those governing the trust were to make no investments which could conflict with the best interests of West Virginia. Included in the documents Rockefeller released Tuesday was a listing of the stocks when he placed them in the blind trust. Major holdings included 15,000 shares of General Electric 14,100 shares of Exxon 13.500 shares of ArcherDaniels-Midland and 10,000 shares each of 'Crum Foster and New England Electric System.

Other investments included 530,000 in debentures in L'Enfant Plaza Properties million in U.S. Treasury bills and $700,000 in cash. He said the second- trust fund, established by his grandfather, is managed by Fidelity Union Trust Co. of Newark, N.J.. and being held for him and his descendents.

Major holdings included 25,000 shares of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 10.000 shares of Travelers and 8.300 shares of General Electric Co. Major bond holdings included 200,000 shares of New York State Power Authority, valued at $188,000: 50.000 shares of Hennepin County, general obligations, valued at 599,000. and 100,000 shares of Bergen, N.J.. County Sewer Authority revenue bonds valued at 585,980.

property holdings Rockefeller estimated the value of his farm in Pocahontas County at his Charleston estate at $520,678 and land held in Sardinia for investment pur- at $80.710. A closer look at his 1976 income tax return shows he paid state and local taxes totaling S61.324 and real estate taxes of $15,244. and that political contributions he chose to deduct that year totaled only $200. Appalachian To Ask Refund Stay (Continued From Page I) the rates it is allowed by the PSC are insufficient to attract capital. McClung said the utility is concerned that loss of the money will hamper construction of a new power plant at New Haven, in Mason County.

"This obviously is going to make it extremely difficult to finance the construction of that plant." McClung said. "When we first announced the New Haven plant in 1974, the estimated cost of construction was $430 million. Now it's 5600 million. That money has got to come from somewhere." The only larger refund ever ordered by the PSC came earlier this year when Monongahela.Power Co. was instructed to return $47 million to its customers.

waste disposal project, said the authority initiate, acquire, construct, maintain, repair and operate solid waste disposal projects or cause the same to be operated pursuant to a lease, sublease or agreement with any person or governmental agency." Senator Neeley said although it is possible the state may take over the operations of a county's landfill, that was not the intent of the bill. "The bill has three main purposes. The first is the creation of a solid waste disposal authority that can lend expertise to cities and counties in their operations of solid waste disposal programs." Neeley said. The second purpose, he said, is to assist municipalities or counties in recycling efforts, and the third is to help through financing. Neeley said the bill was introduced because some counties are having problems in controlling collection and disposal of solid waste.

Uncontrolled or inadequately controlled collection and disposal, he said, is a public nuisance and danger to people. It also causes a decrease in the value of property, causes pollution and results in the squandering of valuable nonrenewable and npnreplenishable resources contained In solid waste. Neeley said the legislature, in passing the bill, realized governmental agencies do not have the financial and other resources needed to provide for the proper collection and disposal of solid waste. He said it was decided it should be the responsibility of the state to assist efforts of governmental agencies in providing proper collection, disposal and recycling of solid waste. The Southern West Virginia Regional Health Council official.

Flanagan, said he believes the primary intent of the bill is to provide assistance to governmental agencies and to provide more uniformity in the collection and disposal of solid waste. "There is not any intent, in my interpretation, that the state will take over the operations of county landfills," Flanagan said. "I don't believe that is the intent of the bill. It has not been indicated to this agency that is the intent." Roop. however, is hoping that is the intent.

"I think the county could save several hundred thousand dollars a year if we could give or. lease our landfill to the state." Roop said. If the state would take over the Raleigh County Sanitary Landfill operations. Roop said, it might allow the commission to use. the money that has been going to the landfill operation for the county's greenbox system.

Roop said the greenbox system is in danger of being phased out because it is becoming so expensive to maintain. "I think that we could keep the green boxes if we could relinquish control of the landfill and let the state meet the operating expenses there," he said. Roop said the county commission will attempt to determine whether the new state law will allow the state to take over the landfill operation here. "It might be a big break for us if they will." he said. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) A 78- year old American known as the father of modern magnetism" and his former student at Harvard shared the Nobel prize for physics Tuesday with a Briton.

A Russia'nborn Belgian was awarded the prize for chemistry. The Swedish Academy gave 1977 Nobel awards to John H. Van Vleck, 78, of Harvard Philip W. Anderson. 55, o( Princeton University and Bell Laboratories.

Sir Nevill F. Mott 72 of England's Cavendish Laboratory, and Ilya Prigogine, 60. of the Free University of Brussels. The physicists, who will divide a 5145.000 prize, were cited for research on the electronic structure of magnetic and "disordered" systems work already-applied to development of the laser, new industrial uses of glass and copper spirals for birth control devices. Prigogine won the 5145,000 chemistry prize for expanding thermodynamic theory which deals with transforming heat into energy to explain how order can exist within seemingly disordered environmental systems.

An academy member said trie Belgian's research could have a bearing on the development of solar energy. The academy continued a trend of awarding the physics prize to two or more researchers and the chemistry prize to an individual. Last year's chemistry winner was William S. Lipscomb of Harvard Univeristy. Announcement of the physics prize was delayed by a threehour debate over which of three groups of candidates on a secret list would get it.

Van Vleck and Anderson were the 43rd and 44th Americans to win the physics prize, shared last year by Burton Richter and Samuel Ting when Americans swept all five Nobels given. Van Vleck. who is Hollis Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard, said in Cambridge that the award was a "complete surprise. So often prizes go to younger men. Anybody couldn't help feeling that it is a culmination when you're 78 years old." Van Vleck began the work that led to the prize in 1927.

only a year after the theory of quantum mechanics was stated. This theory, he said, enabled him to determine "why certain materials are magnetic and why they have the properties they do." The academy said Van Vleck was the first to point out the importance of electron correlation the interaction between the motions of the electrons. As Van Vleck's student at Harvard in the 1940s, it said, Anderson developed this concept to explain how magnetic "moments" can occur in metals like copper and in pure form are not magnetic. Anderson, a consulting director at Bell Labs and a Princeton professor, said at his home in New Vernon, N.J.. that it was a privilege to share the Nobel with two "already great historical fig'ures." Steel Imports McBride Expects Positive Action WASHINGTON (AP) Steelworkers President Lloyd McBride said Tuesday he detects a changing attitude at the White House which leads him to expect positive action will come out of Thursday's meeting on steel imports.

told a news conference he hopes the administration will make overtures to Japan and European countries to restrict dumping of un- derpriced steel in the United States, a practice he said causes dramatic unemployment. Up to now, he said, the administration's attitude has leaned more toward free trade, but McBride says the U.S. steel industry cannot compete with imports from countries which subsidize their industries. McBride spoke to reporters after presiding over a two-hour rally of steel workers, joined by members of the Pen- nslyvania congressional delegation, state legislators and country officials. Most of the steelworkefs at the rally also are from Pennsylvania.

Joseph Odorcich. steelworkers vice president, told the gathering that President Carter and Congress should know "steelworkers have long memories and Strolling Kodiak Bear Finally Recaptured Relatives Visited PINEVILLE (HNS) Mrs. Martha Moore had as weekend guests her sister, Mrs. R. D.

Baker, Mrs. Mary Edith Lawing and Don Lowing of Bradshaw and her brother and sister in law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Payne of Logan. Mr.

and Mrs. Pete Morgan have returned home after spending the past week with their son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rider, and family, in Roanoke, Va. HTALEAH, Fla.

(AP) Hungry and tired alter two days of freedom, a docile 500-pound Kodiak bear named Chow- was recaptured Tuesday afternoon with the help of some meat and chicken, a lasso and a tranquilizer. "We've had two days of hell here," said Officer Victor Valladares of Hialeah Gardens, a Miami suburb. The bear escaped from his pen Sunday while its owner, a movie producer, was out of town. Valladares was one of the first to reach the bear after he was spotted in heavy underbrush by two civilian members of a search party. "He appeared quite tired and very hungry," he said.

Valladares, Police Chief Tom Mateos and the two civilians talked to the 7- foot-tall animal until its trainer, game wardens other members of the search party mustered for the capture. "He didn't growl and he liked the chicken and meat," the officer explained. "We made a lasso out of some rope and teased him out of the underbrush with some more chicken. We got the rope around his neck and he started to take off. but we secured the rope," he added.

The beast was then shot with a tranquilizer and was under its effect in 15 minutes. Earlier in the day. as searchers scoured the heavy brush on the fringes of the Everglades for Chow, the bear was chased from a ranch by a cow. "I thought I was seeing things," said Debbie Lao, 16, a farm worker who saw the chase. "I saw the horses running over to the gate, and I thought maybe it was a bobcat.

So I went over and it was a big bear, just standing'there. When the horses saw it they ran away. But one cow kept going and the bear ran. "So the cow chased him and then the horses came along too." Bear, cow and horses plunged into the woods until the tangled undergrowth forced the farm animals to turn back. "I thought the neighbors were just batty when they said the woods were full of ding-alings," said wildlife officer Bob Douglas.

we're not going to forget if we're left in the lurch." Carter announced last week administration officials, rpresentatives of the steel industry and steel labor unions and members of Congress would meet at the. White House on Thursday to discuss steel industry problems. The President is eexpected to join in the discussion near the end of the day, McBride said. The Pennsylvania congressional delegation met with Carter on Tuesday morning on steel and other problems and those steelworkers' meeting were not as optimistic as McBride was later. Sen.

Richard S. Schweicker, a Republican, said, "They're going to have to change their attitude." Sen. John H. Heinz III. also a Republican, said Carter and the White House "know about as much about steel problems and prices and imports as I 'know about peanuts." McBride and several of the speakers repeatedly stressed that the U.S.

steel industry cannot survive in the face of government-subsidized imports. BECKLEY POST-HERALD Published By Berkley Newspapers Inc. 339-343 Prince St. Beckley. W.

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structures down, or so that the owners may be sued for the demolition of the structures. Council also accepted bids on a van and on cruisers for the police department. Bids were turned over to Councilman Charles Jackson, chairman of the finance committee. Council gave permission to Parks and Recreation Director Kermit Rowe to obtain chain-link fencing for Harry Lewin Park on Eisenhower Drive. City Recorder Treasurer Eve Breck, who spoke for Rowe because he could not at tend the meeting, said the owner of an adjacent business had paved onto the city's right of way at the park, and customers and employes were parking their cars on the newly laid asphalt.

She said this access to the park, and that the Postal Service has threatened to quit delivering mail to the park superintendent, who lives on the grounds. Fire Chief Lipscomb told council the heating system in No. 1 fire station basement needs to be improved. He asked permission to give the job to the company which gave the lowest estimate on the work. Council accepted Lipscomb's recommendation.

Low estimate, Lipscomb said, $1,095. '500 REWARD For information leading to the arrest and conviction of person or persons damaging the facilities, property, loss of water, removing meters from our customers, opening fire hydrants, or any other malicious, or illegal acts. If you see anyone around any of our lines, valves, tanks or property with a vehicle other than our ALL WHITE TRUCKS, Then call the police immediately! BECKLEY WATER COMPANY DAY PHONE 252-8373 119 SOUTH HEBER ST. NIGHT 763-26BT.

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