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2 THE NEWS, Port Arthur, Texas Friday, November 11,1977 --Spotlight- Gulf fined 3229,500 in slush fund case WASHINGTON (UPI) The Treasury Department said today it has fined Gulf Oil Corp. $229,500 in connection with a $10.3 million slush fund operation used for illegal contributions to the political campaigns of Richard Nixon and influential members of Congress. The fine was imposed for violation of bank secrecy Jaws, the department said. "The amount equals 90 percent of the total of the unreported currency believed to have been brought into the United States i i Treasury Undersecretary Bette Anderson said. Under federal court order, Gulf Oil earlier reported that William Viglia, comptroller of Gulf's subsidiary Bahamas Exploration, personally carried or mailed checks and cash worth more than $6 million into the country between 1960 and 1973.

"The Treasury Department has assessed a civil penalty of $229,500 against the Gulf Oil Corp for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act," Mrs. Anderson said. Misdemeanor charge filed in Sullivan death SUGAR HILL, H. (UP!) A young man has been charged with shooting a human mistaken for game in the death of William C. Sullivan, the former No.

3 man of the FBI Local fish and game officer Richard DuFour said Robert Daniels 22, of nearby Lisbon, was formally charged Thursday and faces trial Nov. 18 in Littleton District Court The offense is a misdemeanor. Officers on the scene said Sullivan was shot through the neck as he stood in a clear field by a hunter standing 243 feet away, using a high-powered rifle with a telescopic sight. DuFour said it appeared Sullivan was shot about 6:10 or 6.15 a m. Deer hunting is allowed to begin half an hour before sunrise, which on Wednesday was at 6:31 a.m.

Daniels is the son of a state police trooper. Feds OK exploration for oil off east coast WASHINGTON (UPI) The Interior Department has approved plans by six oil and gas companies to drill the first exploratory wells in a area off the mid- Atlantic coast. The department approved permits Thursday for Exxon, Texaco, Houston Oil and Minerals, Mobil, Shell and Gulf Oil companies. The iatter three companies received two leases apiece. The nine proposed wells would be the first drilled off the Atlantic coast in the Baltimore Canyon area designed specifically to strike possible accumulations of oil and gas.

the department said. There have been four test weils drilled previously, but they were not intended to strike oil or gas deposits. Kidnapped editor freed by abductors BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (UPI) The Associated Press day- editor in Argentina, Oscar Serrat. kidnapped on his way to work Thursday, was freed "by his abductors early today, the AP editor of Argentina said.

Serrat. -15. was seized Thursday morning as he ieft his home in suburban Buenos Aires and was kept handcuffed and blindfolded during his captivity. AP editor tt ilham sa'id. Nicholson said the kidnappers Serrat to a house and questioned hsm at length.

The nature of the interrogation was not immediately disclosed. Rock-throwing rioters battle Korean police SEOIL. South Korea i I More than cnanting. rock- tnrow-ng students battled South Korean not police, who hurled tear for more than three hours today in an anti-government demonstration Ai the heignt of the violence, some 3(-0 police carrying piasnr shield chased the youths from one mil to another and fired more inan tear gas bombs At JCVM student? were sten into a pobu- an i Jh(- a gj.crr.mt.it aemrnM'-atjon by the bruverdU students a month" The scrK-o! closed for two las: of a campus deraonslraiion Today's demonstration started peaceful!) as students, were eating Jjnch at a campus dining room. a rr.

pus sou rces sa i Fading memories of life and death Jesse Valma, left and Wendel Angle swap Veterans Day stories Two stable after Texaco accident By JEFF MEYER Of The News Staff Two men were in stable condition at St. Mary Hospital Friday morning in the wake of an industrial accident at Port Arthur's Texaco refinery Listed in stable condition were Glenn Anderson, of Vidor and Malcolm Marx. of St. Peters. Florida The accident occurred at a hydro- cracking unit, with propane and hydrogen sulfide gas overcoming the men, according to Anderson Anderson and Malcolm were treated at medical facilities at Texaco before be- ing transferred at 3:25 m.

Thursday to the hospital by Levingston Ambulance Service. "It appeared to be propane and H2S. I don't know if it was a ruptured pipe or what, but got to a nozzle and turned it on the gas to eliminate the chance of a fire and took off running," Anderson said from his hospital room Friday morning. He explained that he made it across a road before he was overcome by fumes and blacked out. Anderson, a supervisor at the refinery, said he expects to be released from the hospital sometime Friday The accident happened in the middle of a wall-to-wall safety inspection at the refinery by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration The surprise safety inspection began Tuesday and stemmed from an Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Local 4-23 complaint.

The special squad of OSHA inspectors had no comment on the industrial accident but observers said the five-man team was looking into the accident Company officials had no comment on the accident Land option stirs objection By JEFF MEYER Of The News Staff The men talked of wars. Sitting around a table at the Veterans of Foreign Wars' building on Sixth Street Friday morning, three men reminisced about international military confrontations, about patriotism and about life and death. It could not have been a more appropriate day. Not that veterans are not known to discuss such things, but because today is Veterans Day only in Texas. In 1964.

Congress changed the national observance day to the fourth Monday of October Local Post 797 and other VFW posts around the country pushed the politicians to change the date back and in 1975 Congress obliged, making it Nov. 11. beginning in 1978. However, Gov. Doiph Briscoe has issued a proclamation making Nov.

11, 1977, the official state holiday, honor of those it was first proclaimed for the men who served in World War I. The armistice was signed on Nov. 11, 1918, effective at the eleventh hour, at 11 a.m. None of the three at the Port Arthur post Friday morning had served in that war, but several of the post's 600 members have. The quiet, dark room in the VFW building, somehow resembled a barrack's recreational room at least those scattered throughout the Pacific during the Vietnam War.

The men drank Cokes, about all you could buy in most wars. That soft drink has a way of getting around. They were all ex-Navy men. Wendel R. Angle, 65, had served "in the Navy Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II.

Joseph "Ski" Bogucki, 50, had been a Seaman 2nd Class on a PT boat in the Pacific during World War II and Jesse V. Valma, 52, was in that war and the Korean War as a chief hospitalman. Puffing on a cigarette. Angle expressed his bitterness about the apparent loss of patriotism he sees everyday. "Patriotism is waning.

People get complacent. That's why men join the VFW to relate patriotism and keep it alive. I guess men also join because it's a chance to experience the comradery that's only known to those that have served together in a war," Angle said, cupping his cigarette Asked if women can join the orgamza- tion. Angle explained that the past policy page 1 family one Assistant City Planning Director Gary Rapp said retail and light commercial areas are located along major thoroughfares in the city and there is a large i a i one i i southwest of Gilham' Circle and other scattered areas of the city. Included in the light commercial districts is the site off Gulfway and Trinity, to which objections have been voiced.

At a public hearing regarding zoning changes needed for the site off Gulfway and Trinity, neighbors said they did not want the project there Monday, city council received a petition signed by 200 people who said they objected to the zoning amendment for the following reasons: "It wiil disrupt the orderly pattern of growth in the city; it will result in the lowering of value of homes of property in residential areas near those zones which were formerly light commercial; and it wil! increase traffic, noise, litter and pollution" in affected areas Sadler said Friday he had changed his mind about placing the amendment on the agenda for action after an article on the subject appeared in The NewsThurs- day. "After we talked about some things last night we decided it should be on the regular agenda. "The city manager and I made the said. Police Abandoned car leads to search for man Port Arthur police were searching Pleasure Island Thursday for a missing N'ederland man whose abandoned car was found there during the morning. The search was touched off by the fact that when his family reported him missing to N'ederland police, they said they were afraid he might harm himself.

No leads had turned up by midmorning. Burglar hits church, steals air conditioner A church burglar ransacked a meeting room and stole a S500 air- i i in a a i discovered Thursday. beat Police said chairs were thrown on the floor of a meeting room in BelAir Baptist Church. 4839 39th. Police probe robbery at DJ's Food Store Port Arthur police are investigating a Thursday night armed robbery in which the gunman ran from a grocery store pursued by a teen-age employee and a customer.

The robbery was reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. Thursday at DJ's Food Store. 7019th St. After the robber ran from the store with the cash, he was chased by an unidentified customer and a 14-year-old bag boy. police said.

Store owner Jerry Davis told police he didn't know how much was taken but he thought it was a small amount. Slay states intentions for representative seat has been no, but that it may change in; the next few years. "Women are interested in joining VFW but we have a national policy biding their membership. We'd like IS see them join. We'd also like to see more young people.

We don't have many at all! from the Vietnam War, "Angle said. The men then turned a themselves, swapping war stones. Valma. about the USS Hornet, when it went down in the Pacific in the Battle the Coral Sea. He was on it and saved himself with a timely leap into the sea.

Angle, about flying a dive bomber at the Battle of Lady Gulf to cut the Japanese fleet in half near the Philippine Islands. Responding to questions atout the authenticity of the MASH television' series, Valma laughed. "It's a great show. But war is not comedy," he said, recalling his duty in- the Korean War as an aviation medical I technician. The men then turned to each other once again and the conversation seemed to melt away in the dark room--sort like a memory.

Stadium i From page V) but one who had no meaningful input to a- large number of taxpayers," said: Freeman. He said the proposed renam-; ing would parallel a request to rename? the Vidor Public Library in honor of- Martin Luther King. Freeman said the stadium "doesn't; belong to any one group" and that iti- drew its present "neutral" name for that? reason. Amos Evans, representing the Port-' Arthur branch of the NAACP. said the? organization had received many callsj about the name change.

He called for the; board to "reverse its decision" loj rename the stadium in honor of Board president Lafitte pointed however, that no decision had been; made. Another black educator, Ronald? Spooner, reminded the board that the; stadium name was changed ten years' ago with the "notion of being fair "to all- members of the community." However. Bucjky Ketcherside said the; "white people took it on chin and black people got what they wanted" in! the 1967 decision 1 But another alumni group spokesman, Dr. Paul Colletti. said, "I agree there have been injustices in the past.

But I'm begging you now to put this aside. It's time, we buried the hatche? and put aside our hatreds of each Speaking of the proposed memorial to athletes, he said. "What better way to memorialize a young man with great courage like As the black-white issue cropped up several times during the hour-long forum, Steve Verret voiced his concern. "I hope you don't let this turn into the turmoil our city is experiencing in letting this become a racial issue," Verret told the board Board president Lafitte. who had called for the forum, said the board will vote at the regular meeting next He said the purpose of the forum had been to allow each board member to hear the input and take it under con-' sideration He said the board had 2 responsibility to "represent the total community BYWILLARDHALL Of The News Staff BEAUMONT Former State Hep.

Chester Slay of Beaumont threw his hat into the ring Thursday for the District 7B state representative seat currency held by state Rep. Pike Powers At a press conference held at Beaumont's Holiday Inn. Slay introduced some of his proposed solutions to what he believes are issues affecting the aa-a and the state For example, he said if elected he would propose a Slu state tax on the saic of Playboy magazine to help stem spread of porngraph what he feds is "one of the great moral disasters of our time." But that issue alone isn't the only one Slay believes there is He sajs education and property tax reform are also crucial issues to (onsidereri in the S6tn session of the legislature S'ay. a former stale representative ho pave up his seat run unsuccessfully against State Sen Parker, is first announced candidate in the race for Powers" seat, which Powers announced recenth he is vacating ior a position in uti the law firm of Fulbr.chi and Jav orski of Houston Sla that he be.im-s then problem in the stale in eoucation. J.u! he did not believe monev was necessanh the answer Citing wfia" he sdid was a consistent decline school Scholastic Aptitude TtM xbres.

said he wouJri promote stricter classroom discipline deanng with the problem He said ho would sponsor laws that v.ouid see guards placed in schools. would not suspend state funds for children booted out of school for discipline reasons, and would sponsor iegai protection for teachers charged with brutality in exercising corporal punishment fie sa'-d also since schools were finding it ha: jcr and harder to pass construction bond issues, he would propose the building by the state cf additional school buildings the school districts would iirr.ply lease from state. May d-3ded he did n-t expect a student backlash to his stand on classroom slating that he believes students want order in Lakeview panel starts wrapping up business declared" tha. something should be Jo give buyers of new homes a break He therefore proposed that up lo a itiree-year moratorium on taxes be new hime buyers pointed out ins' he was a co- MgT'er 01 state Rep pro- reform bill, vias defr.ved in 3as' sesMon oi the legislature He said te did not think Ihe issue as dead, and stiJJ Ihe conerp: 01 lax reform is a sound ore The 31 year-old Slay is president of Wetting and Marine Works and is a member of North End Baptist Church He and hjf wife Karen, have one age four CHESTER SLAY Senators view canalV strategic impact PANAMA CITY. Panama J.P1, senators wined, dined and cajoieri by Panamanian Presider! Omar TOITJOS are studying the strategic significance oi the Panama CanaJ with the diief of the Southern Command The senators, led by Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

fly today across the Canal Zone to hear the opinions of military including LJ Gen Dennis McA The Lakeview city council began closing up shop Thursday night, but with several questions about what happens when the town becomes part of Port Arthur Dec. 1. The counciltabled an ordinance adopting the Texas Municipal Retirement System because the document, prepared with the help of Port Arthur personnel director Dave Brinson. had an effective date of Dec. l.

Since that is the target date to finalize the merger approved Tuesday by Port Arthur voters, Lakeview Mayor Julian Coghill said he believed the effective date to join the retirement system should be Nov. 30. Lakeview city employees can carry their years of service with them when they join Port Arthur if Lakeview joins the retirement system before the effective date of the merger. Coghill said it might be interpreted thai Lakeview is no longer a separate governmental entity or: Dec. 1.

Harold Shavers, municipal judge and volunteer fireman, had a double- barreled quesuon for the council what will happen to the municipal judge's position and wha 1 wiH happen to the volunteer fire department after the merger? "I don't know. Judge." Coghill replied. 'Since we won't have a dispatcher, the volunteer firemen won'l have any way of knowing whether there's a not. And since ail cases will be tried by the Port Arthur municipal judge. 1 see nothing left for vour job." "In the packet.

Port Arthur said the Lakeview fire department would continue to exist," Shavers said. "In fact, they said they encouraged us to continue to exist. How would our firemen know there is a fire if there is no dispatcher in Lakeview?" Coghill said he would take the questions up with Port Arthur officials, and he said a special meeting would probably be called to adopt the retirement system. Another question for Port Arthur officials is the posting of a security guard at the comb-nation town hall-fire station Coghill said the night dispatcher had doubled as a security guard, and now- thai there will be no dispatcher Port Arthur will have to make other arrangements. In other action, the council presented a certificate of outstanding service to Mrs Louis Cabellero and decided not to pay next year's dues to the Texas Municipal League or renew insurance of a oalrol car.

Although the patrol car insurance expired Thursday, a 30lay grace pertfd would keep covered during the interim penod The council decided lo ask Port Arthur lo pay the $362 in TML dues, since The LaKeview officials would sttjl need Ihe publications and services of the league in Iheir role as advisor, winc.l Mrs. CabeHero was honored ior translating city ejection matcnal into Spanish under a requirement of the federal voting rights act..