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Microfilm Center In P.O.Box 45436 Dallas, Tx 75235 THE CAMDEN NEWS Serving the South's ideal industrial area Vol. 55 No. 216 Paget CAMDEN, ARKANSAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1974 Press International PRICE Good Afternoon Happening TODAY Weight Watchers meet at 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. TODAY Post 45 of the American Legion will meet in the community room of the First National Bank at 7 p.m.

TODAY NALC Auxiliary will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Joe Ann McGaughey. TODAY VFW Post 4S54 will meet at the Post Home at 8 p.m. All members are urged to attend.

TODAY Chapter 568 of AARP will meet at Ft. Lookout Community Center. WEDNESDAY Old Southern Garden Club will meet at 12:30 p.m. for pot luck luncheon in the home of Mrs. J.

E. Campbell, 411 Brookridge Dr. WEDNESDAY Senior CUiien Bus Service will be in north Camden and Louann. Pick-up time is 12:30 p.m. in Louann 2:30 p.m.

in north Camden. Call 836-6314 for service. WEDNESDAY Open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at 8 p.m., 140 Washington St. THURSDAY Senior Citizens Bus Service will be in south Camden, Bearden, and on Hwy. 4.

Pick-up time is 8:45 a.m. in Bearden, 12:30 p.m. on Hwy. 4, and 2:30 p.m. in south Camden.

Call 836-6314 for service. THURSDAY The Cooperative Extension Service in the basement of the Ouachita County Courthouse will hold an open house from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Material on extension services will be available to interested persons. THURSDAY Harmony Grove PTSA will have their first meeting of the 1974-75 school year in the High School auditorium.

The faculty and teacher aides will be introduced. Baby sitting will be provided in the Home Ec Cottage. Vietnam Amnesty Plan Sidetracked By Pardon WASHINGTON (AP) Pardon for former President Richard M. Nixon has brought President Ford mounting criticism and has sidetracked a Vietnam amnesty plan he was to have announced today. Ford missed his own deadline for announcing terms of conditional amnesty for Vietnam-era deserters and draft evaders because he was focusing attention on Nixon's pardon, aides said.

Now, no time is set for amnesty decision affecting some 50,000 men. The President wants more time to consider the complex questions, said Deputy Press Secretary John W. Hushen. Several advocates of amnesty felt postponing his decision after the Nixon pardon might lead to a broader, less conditional program for the Vietnam group. But, Hushen emphasized that Ford has not changed his view that, unlike the free and pardon he gave Nixon, Vietnam offenders must be judged case-by-case, category- by-category.

Public reaction, meanwhile, was mounting in the first 48 hours after surprise pardon announcement on Sunday. The President got a chorus ot boos, amid applause, from a crowd of about 500 outside a Pittsburgh hotel where he made a speech Monday morning. There were chants of more cover and and demonstrators protesting the Nixon pardon held signs with such comments as: honeymoon is and not pardon The White House switchboard continued to be jammed with calls throughout Monday. The first 300 calls Sunday night ran 2 to 1 against decision, a White House spokesman reported. By Monday night, however, the telephone sentiment had switched to 50-50, spokesman said.

But, there was overwhelming criticism in telegrams and mailgrams that Western Union estimated would total some 75,000 messages by Monday night. They were running 7 to 1 against pardon. In home state, the House of Delegates of the California Bar voted 347 to 169 in favor of a resolution which said action the principle that all persons stand equal before the law and presents a substantial threat that the confidence of our citizens in the American system of justice will be Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski said of pardon: is a matter that was decided upon by the President on his authority under the Constitution. It was something I participate But, one of his chief aides, Philip A Lacovara, submitted his resignation because he said pardon of Nixon of the of the former legal status. Lacovara was the second resignation stemming from the pardon.

press secretary, Jerald F. ter Horst, who quit on Sunday as a matter of conscience and credibility, went back to work on Monday for the Detroit News, where he will now be a national columnist. United Fund Officials John Coons, industrial relations manager at Stromberg-Carlson presently is serving as president of the 1975 Camden Area United Fund Drive and Mrs. Joe Dooley Jr. is serving as chairwoman of the campaign which officially got underway Monday.

Coons is past vice-president of the Camden Jaycees and is a member of the Lions Club. Mrs. Dooley is past president of the Junior Auxiliary and is active in the Presbyterian Church, the Girl Scouts and the Boys Club Auxiliary. The goal of this drive is $67,750. Contests Underway In 13 States Today WASHINGTON (AP) A close contest over the Democratic nomination for governor in New York attracted the greatest national attention among primary elections in 13 states and District of Columbia today.

Candidates sought their designation to run for eight U.S. Senate seats and nine other governorships. But with most big name candidates either unopposed for tion or facing token opposition, there was little excitement over the largest schedule of elections in any one day so far during this mid-term election year. Residents of the capital were nominating a mayor for the first time in more than a century with Democratic nomination considered as good as election. Elections also were being held in Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and Wisconsin.

In New York, U.S. Rep. Hugh L. Carey, from Brooklyn, and Howard J. Samuels, the man who set up New York legalized operation for betting on horse races away from the track, sought the Democratic nomination for governor.

The winner of this close race is regarded as having the best chance of winning the governorship of any Democrat in the 16 years since Nelson A. Rockefeller first won the office. The Republican opponent in the Nov. 5 general election is kely to be incumbent Malcolm Wilson, who is expected to win the GOP nomination for his first campaign for the office. He was elevated from the lieutenant governorship when Rockefeller resigned last December.

All five incumbent senators seeking new terms are favored to win. They are Democrats Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Republicans Peter H. Dominick of Colorado, Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland, Jacob K. Javits of New York and Barry M.

Goldwater of Arizona. Senate primaries also pick nominees for the seats of retiring Sens. Norris Cotton, R- N.H., George D. Aiken, and Edward J. Gurney, R-Fla.

Ouachitalk Have you a question? The Ouachitalk column is here to answer it for you. Call 836-8192 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or write to the Ouachitalk Editor, P. 0.

Box 798, Camden, Ark. 71701. Who decides how the local high school football schedule is arranged and at what time of the year teams play each other? According to Vernon Hutchins, head football coach at Camden High School, coaches at the various local bchools decide the schedule themselves with the help of school principals. He edded, however, that district games have been set for several years and these games could be changed only by order of the coaches. Attempt To Seize Power In African Colony Fails Arkansas Papers Criticize Ford For Pardoning Nixon THURSDAY The qualifying round for the Ladies Golf Association Spencer Cup will be held.

Contact the tournament committee before Sept. 10 if you are unable to qualify on this date at 836-3135, 8365422, or 836-5495. Partly Cloudy The Arkansas forecast calls for partly cloudy to cloudy and continued warm tonight and Wednesday. Showers should be more isolated tonight and decreasing Wednesday. The high Wednesday should be from the low to mid with tonight's low near 70.

Monday's high was 85 with an overnight low of 69. The Ouachita River is at 22.6 feet and falling with no rainfall reported in the last 24 hours. By The Associated Press Several Arkansas newspapers criticized on Monday President Ford's decision to pardon former President Richard M. Nixon. But, the Arkansas Democrat said editorially Monday that Ford had made the right decision and that presidents have not been and never will be treated as other citizens.

would injure America, at home and abroad, to persecute an the Democrat editorial said. a double standard we can live The editorial said everyone must have realized that Ford eventually would pardon Nixon in connection with the Watergate scandal, so the decision to do so Sunday merely spared the nation further anguish. for a fuller explanation of his role in this sordid mess, we actually may hear more now than if he had not been the editorial said. has been subpoenaed to testify in other trials, and now he will not be able to escape by pleading self-tncrimination. Now he can be forced to testify and can be indicted for perjury if he The Conway Log Cabin Democrat said: sparing us another year or so of the ordeal of Watergate, Mr.

Ford has given us back our divided country, restored our lack of confidence in the administration in Washington and provided us a permanent and disturbing question about a judicial system which treats one man differently than another because of his station in life. Some The Paragould Daily Press asked where the line would be drawn if pardons were granted on the basis of high title or position. question now is whether a given law should or should not apply to this or another individual and, with that, equal justice has been the editorial said. action will not vindi- Fire Investigated An explosion and fire Monday evening destroyed a storage building leased by Celesco, in East Camden a company spokesman said today. Garry Kemp, industrial relations manager for the firm, said the storage building, located in an area near the testing range, held approximately 700 pounds of an illuminate composition which ignited.

The spokesman said the buildings were used specifically for the storage of chemical compounds. The buildings are isolated from the other plant facilities, he said. The alarm was received at about 9:13 p.m. Flames from the fire were visible from the Camden Main Fire Sation, according to firemen. Several units from the fire department and a number of volunteer firemen tesponded to the blaze.

The cause of the fire and explosion is under investigation by Celesco officials. cate the former president. It will only hang him higher on the limb of ridicule and The Pine Bluf Commercial said editorially, "The honeymoon is over, and, as far as concerned, so is the marriage. If Gerald Ford really believes this will put Watergate behind us, he is being unrealistic as well as unprincipled. He has only reopened the wound before it had a decent chance to The Commercial said there was no precedent in Roman law for pardoning a citizen before he was convicted.

republic of Washington and Marshall, of Jefferson and Hamilton, of Lincoln and Wilson, now has attained, under Gerald Ford, the moral and ethical sensitivity of Billy The Benton Courier criticized the pardon, saying pardon for Richard M. Nixon merely smell. It stinks. It reeks of cynicism of the lowest order in the highest places, and the stench is of cover-up and evasion oi the law that continues rather than abates. Ford did law, order and justice no favor with his favor to Nixon, and we suspect he will hear and feel the repercussions of his act for some time to come.

There was much lip service given by politicians, particularly by President Ford when he first took office, about restoring the public faith in government. He has chosen a poor way to demonstrate that we are a nation of laws and not of menY Apparent Suicide Reported A 29-year old Camden man apparaitly took his own life at a residence near here Monday night, according to Ouachita County Dept, reports. Deputy Sheriff Jack Pharr identified the man as Glenn Narron of Rt. 2, Camden. Pharr said that Department deputies responded to a disturbance call at the Ray Narron residence on Mt.

Holly Road about 10:30 p.m. When the deputies arrived on the scene about 10:45 p.m. Narron had apparently already shot himself, Pharr said. The deputy said that Narron had a wound to the head. Andy McKay, Ouachita County criminal investigator and deputy coroner, who also investigated the incident, had no comment, referring the matter to the Dept.

No further details were immediately available from the Dept. Funeral arrangements for Narron are incomplete at this time under the direction of Proctor Funeral Home. By The Associated Press Police stormed a white rebel stronghold at the radio station in Lourenco Marques, the capital of Mozambique, today and government spokesmen announced a three- day attempt to seize power in the Portuguese southeast African colony was over. The whereabouts of the rebel leaders was not immediately known. They had threatened to proclaim a in defiance of an agreement between Portugal and the black guerrilla movement.

Frelimo, to give Mozambique independence next June. The government spokesman said the radio station was the only center of resistance" and once it had been occupied the revolt quickly collapsed. The radio broadcast appeals to the white crowds in the streets to disperse and return to their homes. Earlier, the government said it had agreed to a 48-hour truce with the white rebels after meetings with two envoys from the Lisbon government. There was no indication how the "truce" was broken but government sources said the rebel movement "disintegrated" without violence.

President Antonio de Spinola signed documents in a ceremony in Lisbon today at the lem presidential palace formally recognizing the independence of Guinea Bissau, the first of African territories to achieve complete sovereignty. The ceremony, broadcast by Portuguese radio and television networks, brought to an end 530 years of Portuguese colonial rule in the swampy territory near the tip of the West African bulge. The Portuguese army fought a 12-year war against a well- organized guerrilla movement which overran two-thirds of the colony. Following secret negotiations in London and Algiers, an independence agreement was signed in Algiers on Aug. 26 granting Portuguese Guinea independence but providing for extensive economic, technical and cultural cooperation between Portugal and the new state.

The rebels took over the radio station, the airport and other installations in Lourenco Marques on Saturday in an attempt to keep guerrilla leader Samora Machel and his followers from taking power in the southeast African colony. Machel vowed that the rebellious settlers would be "quickly neutralized and by his forces and the Portuguese army. Machel, leader of the bique Liberation Front, or limo, told newsmen in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that the Portuguese government has assured him it will not give in to demands by the rebellious white settlers and some anti- Frelimo blacks who on Saturday seized the radio station, airport and other key points in Lourenco Marques, the capital of Mozambique. Machel said he did not believe the white governments in South Africa or Rhodesia would intervene to help the rebels. But he said Frelimo and the 60,000 Portuguese troops the guerrillas have fought to a standstill in Mozambique would fight side by side against any aggression from abroad.

The Portuguese government said it had ordered troop reinforcements from northern Mozambique to Lourenco Marques to put down the rebellion. but so far the army had made no move against the rebels in the capital. However, security forces broke up a mob of 2,000 whites on Monday in Beira, the territory's second largest city and chief port, on the central coast. A black policeman was killed, and four other police and a number of civilians were injured. Ford Defers Pay Hike; Draws Labor Protests WASHINGTON (AP) President deferral of a 5.5 per cent pay boost for federal employes has drawn a fusillade of protest from labor, and shapes up as a major test of his persuasive powers with Congress.

Ford has postponed the scheduled Oct. 1 raise until Jan. 1, thereby saving the federal payroll $700 million in the name of fighting inflation. Federal employes unions want Congress to restore the original date. Beyond that, such groups as the National Federation of Federal Employes, the American Federation of Government ployes and the National Treasury Employes Union are lobbying for a larger boost.

Most are united behind an AFL-CIO proposal of 8.4 per cent. Their reasoning centers on an inflation rate hovering around 12 per cent, plus government surveys showing increases in private industry wages of 6.3 to 7.1 per which are six months out of date. Under the Federal Pay Comparability Act, Ford's delay of the pay 1.4 million civilians and 2.2 million military be overturned by a simple majority in either the House or Senate. As president, Richard M. Nixon succeeded in postponing similar boosts for two successive years, but his third try in 1973 was overturned by the Senate.

"As far as federal employes are concerned, President Ford is a second-hand says Nathan Wolkomir, president of the 120.000-member National Federation of Federal es. "Ford had the opportunity to prove to the career service that he really cared but he blew it. He showed he really Vincent Connery, president of the Treasury Employes Union, vowed "a rather massive to Congress. The law allows 30 days for Congress to act, and Sept. 30 is the deadline.

Already the wheels are turning. Sen Ted Stevens, R- Alaska, has introduced a resolution to overturn the delay. Reactions To Pardon Continue By The Associated Press A National Committee to Impeach President Ford is being formed in California, two Ohio ministers have called for a special presidential election and an estimated 2,000 persons demonstrated in Wisconsin. The moves came as continuing reaction to President full pardon for former President Richard M. Nixon for federal crimes he may have committed while chief executive.

In North Dakota, a county judge freed two men he had sentenced to jail as an act of clemency response to the pardon given Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford. Judge Kirk Smith said in open court at Grand Forks that is the intention of this court to commute any unserved jail time and unpaid fines in the above cases and they are therefore set John L. Smith, 29, Manvel, N.D., was released with 50 days to go on a 75-day sentence for driving while under the influence of alcohol and failing to appear in court. He also escaped a $225 fine. Also set free was John M.

Kleinsasser, 20, of Grand Forks, who had three days to go on a 15-day sentence for a traffic violation. Judge Smith said he took the action as a personal response to the Ford pardon, in agreement or as an Ex-prisoner reaction lucky for us good old President Arthur Schaffer, a professor of constitutional law at Western State University and former assistant district attorney in San Francisco, and Larry Schwartz, history professor at San Diego City College, said on Monday they are forming the impeachment committee. Schaffer termed the pardon ultimate coverup, attempting to foreclose any investigation, indictment or trial of Mr. Schaffer and Schwartz both were active in the American Civil Liberties Union campaign for the impeachment of Nixon. They accused Ford of obstructing justice by pardoning Nixon and of destroying evidence through the agreement which gives Nixon ownership of the Watergate tapes and allows him to destroy them after five years.

In Cleveland, Ohio, the Revs. Richard A. Car ley and Paul E. Johnson termed the pardon skin graft over a cancer" and called for a special presidential election. "Ford thinks Watergate will go away, but we are far from said the Rev.

Mr. Carley, executive presbyter of the Presbytery of the Western Reserve of the United Presbyterian Church of the and the Rev. associate presbyter..