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News In Brief Of World WASHINGTON (AP, Alter mv. more week of hearing only the bits and pieces of impeachment evidence that leak from closed sessions of the House i i a Committee, American people finally may Ket a clearer view of whether there is a case against President Nixon. The committee ic- niains in closed session this week to continue questioning witnesses who include John W. Dean HI, the former White House counsel turned presidential accuser, and Herbert W. Kalmbach, once Nixon's personal attorney and political fund-raiser.

But the week of July 15, the doors of the impeachment inquiry are scheduled to swing open for a public debate on whether there are grounds for the impeachment of President Nixon. Dead At 76 D. K. "Coach" Shroyer, 7(i, of 014 S. Kanawha SI.

at. 1:15 a.m. Ford Motorcade short illness. Shroyer helped establish Beckley ed for 42 years in various positions at the school, including president. He was the school's director of public- relations at the time of his death.

Shroyer was born'Keb. 1898 in Buckhannon, the son of the WASHINGTON (AP) Some slight improvement in the condition of former Chief Justice Earl Warren was reported by his physician, a Georgetown University Hospital spokesman said. Warren, S3, was hospitalized Tuesday with congestive heart failure and coronary insufficiency. IfUe David and Shroyer. Minnie Poole Sniper Report In Error (C) N.

Y. Times News Service.in the suburban town of Irving, would have been cut off. A spokesman for the was also searched, but I DALLAS- The of just outside Dallas. The car was immediately. 'service, William A.

Hawthorne, no evidence of a bullet or ft window in a police car that the fifth in line behind the; "Within one minute, that a search of the was uncovered, jwas escorting Vice President bullet-proof limousine five law enforcement iaround Texas Route 114 a "The area was thoroughly 'Gerald R. 1-ord Saturday set Ford. 'people on scene of the field turned up r.o evidence of a searched, but nothing was off reports ttiat he had been; vVithin seconds, scores the trajectory and that an said Capt. John fired upon by a sniper, but oca policemen, men from a nad to originate," i the broken window bylDriscoll, commander of the reports were later discounted iTexas Department of Public i s(nirce "They ballistic experts showed that i Dallas i Intelligence by officials, 'Safely and secret service agents jsmothered the area, as far not been struck by a bullet. which assisted in pro- Kord was on his way from jconverged on the scene.

question any The police car, belonging to i i security for Ford. State Department of Public i "There was no place for a shot i come from." Hawthonic secret service lie was an all-around athlete Me Dallas-Fort Worth regional JHelicopters appeared overhead etlm aWrl 'at Buckhannon High School and jairport to downtown Dallas to land police dogs were used. i later at West Virginia Wesleyan the New World Trade No evidence of a sniper or! BelieVeS Wotlld Surrender TopCS College He graduated in vhe same complex ja bullet was found. There were! A At; 'iw i i 8 ent saicl that shattering Wesleyan In 192 jof building President Kennedy injuries. I pSf of the wind was orally at i 1 1 'esiuent I-ord saided would abide a decision.

He began coaching at was bound tor when he was; The Jr motorcade, never, Saturday he assumes President of the Supreme Court" i by the service to heat Buckhannon and under his assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. popping, proceeded to the: Nixon would obey a Supreme; told a news conference here. i expansion." The temperature at direction the 1920 basketball The incident today, which 'dedication on schedule and Ford Court ordeVlo" turn team won the state high school resulted in a fist-size hole i a delivered his speech. House tapes to the Watergate sation does not go out and sav 1 thc driver a a championship.

The next year the door windpw on the driver A secret seivice source said, prosecutor. i publicly what he is going to a nor lhc thcr occu team also won state si( of the po jj ce car occurre the escape of any possible; "I think it is assumed anv; do," the vice president said yiunship and advanced to the 1 Basketball (See "Ford" Page 2) D. K. SHROYER Nixon May Visit Japan Next Month By RICHARD LERNER KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI) President Nixon may visit Japan next month to follow up on his trips to- the Mideast and the Soviet Union despite his ailing leg and the congressional per cent of scientists with doc-j impeachment proceedings, toral degrees.

White House insiders said Saturday. MUNICH (NYTNS) As hej No definite date has been set, NEW YORK (NYTNS) Manpower statistics recently published in Moscow show that Jews play an even more significant role among senior Soviet science personnel than had been recognized. While making up 1 per cent of the population, Jews account for 14 VOL. 95--NO. 12 toured Western Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger was preparing for a major debate when he returns home 'on the meaning of security in the nuclear age and the advantages and risks of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States. As details of the summit meeting between President Nixon and Leonid I. Brezhnev began to emerge, the administration's surmise that the Soviet Union and the U. have arrived at a period of crucial decision becomes clearer. WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Foreign Relations Subcommittee plans hearings, 'this and a White House spokesman would say only that "his (the President's) travel is not yet set, but he does plan to go to Japan in 1974." Nixon, who has been resting up after his intensive summit talks in Moscow, stayed out of public view Saturday.

Aides said he mixed limited work with relaxation and swimming --on orders from doctors who are trying to reduce the swelling caused by a permanent blood clot in Nixon's left leg. The i personal cnysician, Maj. Gen. Walter Ikach said Nixon risked his life bv traveling to the Mideast with the blooa clot, since it week on the Turkish go (See Treside nt Nixon" Page 2) ment's controversial decision to: let its farmers again grow' poppies for opium which would end up illegally on American streets. MUNICH (UPI) Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger flew from Italy to Germany Saturday on his briefing tour of Western allies and U.S. officials said he had secured the support of Pope Paul VI for President Nixon's Moscow summit talks. ROME (UPI) The Council of Ministers Saturday approved a new package of austerity measures which will impose new taxes, raise others, and hike the price of gasoline for the fourth time in a year. OTTAWA, Canada (AP) Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his chief opponent, Robert Stanfield, wind up a lackluster campaign Sunday and then face voter's on Monday in an election rated as a toss-up. Political experts are reasonably certain only that Canada once again will have a minority government.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -Relations between Cyprus and Greece worsened Saturday with the publication of a letter from President Makarios to Greek President Phaedon Gizikis, charging members of the Greek junta with plotting Makarios' assassination and overthrow. The letter also demanded the recall of 600 Greek army officers from the conscript Cyprus national guard, and accused them of being the mainstay of the extreme right-wing EOKA- terrorist movement. TOKYO (AP) Premier Cnoti En-lai is in a Peking hos pital recuperating from an undisclosed illness, Sen. Henry M. said Saturday night after returning from a six-day visit to China.

Jackson, who spoke with the 76- ycnr-old Chinese leader for 30 minutes Friday morning, said Iheir conversation confirmed reports that Chou had been sick, although he is now recovering and his mind is still sharp SAN ANTONIO, Tex. I With selection of jury expected to be completed quickly, the IOIIR awaited, detailed recounting of the dCfilhs 27 young men during a three-year spree of sexual lorturc should begin Monday in Diagnosis Of Phlebitis Hit BOSTON (UPI) Specialists in phlebitis, the ailment that plagued President Nixon on his trip to the Middle East and Moscow, "are expressing grave concern about the way the President's case was diagnosed and treated," the Boston Globe said Saturday. Nixon's personal physician, in the National! Championships in Chicago. This marked the first time that one school had won bf.ck-to-back championships in West Virginia. In 1924 Shroyer accepted a coaching position at Western Maryland University, and under hi? two-year direction the school compiled a 26-6 record.

He coached at Franklin Marshall College in Philadelphia from 1926-28 and won the conference basketball title there in 1927.. Returning to West Virginia, Shroyer coached at New State College (later West Virginia Tech) for five years. While he was coach the Golden Bears never lost a home basketball game. An unsuccessful campaign for governor on the Republican ticket cost him his coaching job in 1932. He and a friend were traveling to Florida to buy part interest in a circus when they were approached by Beckley Mayor Grover Hedrick andj (C) 1974 Washington Star-News asked to help start a com-j WASHINGTON President Nixon's strongest supporters in the House are warning him that it would be "suicidal" to defy the Supreme Court if it should rule against him in tapes case.

"There's only one thing the President has to fear (in the House impeachment case)" Rep. Joe D. Waggonner D-; said, "and that is a contempt citation from the Supreme Court. His position- would be really jeopardized." BECRLEY POST-HERALD Haleiah, 6 Sections -COMBINED SUNDAY EDITION- 90 Pages "BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, (25301) SUNDAY MORNING SINGLE COPY 25c 'Suicidal' To Defy Court, Nixon Told munity college in Beckley. The first daises were held (See K.

Shroyer" in Obituary Column Page 2) FBI 'Stakeout 1 Made Following Armory Robbery COMPTON, Calif. (UPI) The FBI and police staked outj a house in San Pedro near here early Saturday in a continuing investigation of the theft of an srsenal of weapons stolen from a National Guard Armory: No information was giy.e.ft, about the Twhifcfi lasted for. several hours, but officers indicated it wa'srappar-l 1S the Supreme Court ently a follow up to one of; Monday, a the 'House many leads phoned by Judiciary Committee begins Rhodes of Jo-in J. Arizona agrees. House members are unusually quiet on the subject of im- peacnment these days, he -flpjtefd, quiet.

It's like A waiting- citizens. The location of the stakeout, in the San Pedro harbor area of Los Angeles, was not disclosed. was called off at midmorning The weapons cache, stolen during the July 4th holiday, included nearly 100 rifles, 7 machineguns, 8 grenade launch- Air Force Maj. Gen. Walter 156 smoke and gas Tkach, disclosed Thursday that grenades, a .45 caliber auto- 'fnatic pistol, 75 gas masks and than 4,300 rounds of (See "Stakeout" Page 2) the President risked his life in oing through with his journeys after a potentially fatal blood clot was discovered in his ailing left leg in Salzburg, Austria Tkach said if the clot had broken loose and lodged in President's Jungs or brain, i "could have killed him." Quoting unnamed doctors, the Globe said the President's case "was not diagnosed with the most sophisticated methods available." "This -leaves open the pos(See "Phlebitis" Page 2) more Inside Today Classified 4 Deaths, Funerals 2, 3 Ecology Watch 18 Editorials Goren On Bridge 2,1 Puzzles 4, 12.

Sports 23-31 Women perhaps Committee the final week of gathering i a testimony, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the contest over release of White House tapes. Members of including Rhodes, seem to share a general expectation that the court will rule against the Col Pavel Topovich and Lt. Col. rior to-the. launching from a Soviet base Asia, July 4.

Popivich is the mission commander. Moscow Radio said the Soviet spacecraft docked successfully' with the Salyut-J space station sent into orbit June 25. (Tass photo via UPI) All Goes Well Ehrlichman Trial CIA Keeps Coming Up By WESLEY G. PIPPERT WASHINGTON (UPI) The hint that the CIA is directly involved in domestic espionage keeps coming up at the trial of John D. Ehrlichman and members of the White House "plumbers" for conspiracy in the 1974 Ellsberg break-in.

Each time it comes up, testimony has been presented to knock it down, along with the notion that the CIA has been involved in making psychological profiles and spying on Americans at home. The CIA is forbidden by law" rom domestic activities. Butj ormer White House Special Counsel Charles W. Colson, who Holiday Toll Climbs 4.5 Each Hour to prison Monday forj obstruction of justice in the 1 Ellsberg case, and Sen. Howard H.

Baker vice chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, have hinted recently the role of the CIA at United Press International home 'is much vaster than I The Fourth of July holiday many peopie think. weekend traffic death toll i a President (climbed- at the rate of 4.5 Nixon's top domestic adviser; 1 deaths an hour Saturday, well G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent employed by the plum- ibers; Bernard L. Barker and below the fatality rate of the past two midsummer holidays. The National Safety Council Cosmonauts At Home In Orbit Eugenia Martinez, former CIA projected prior to the holiday operatives at the Bay of Pigs, period that between 450 and 550 into the third week of their conspiracy trial Monday.

Ehr- persons might be killed in traffic accidents between 6 p.in- President, upholding a broacj grant of investigatory power for the Watergate prosecutor. If so, would be faced! lichman is expected to testify local time Wednesday and this week in his defense. i midnight Sunday. It was the They are charged with i lowest July 4 holiday estimate Ground controllers said Soviet cosmonauts made them-jcosmbnauts, Col. Pavel selves at home in earth orbitivich and iSalyut space laboratory.

Weather of surrendering the tapes or! risking defiance of the court. "He was to comply with the Supreme Court ruling," Rhodes said of Nixon. Waggoner, leader of the! southern conservatives whose! votes are essential to the Nixonp defense, said the President in S- Becoming partly cloudv iolating the citizens rights of 24 years and the council said J. Fielding, a Beverly reduced speeds on highways Jills, psychiatrist, whose made it possible. i I A i u- AI' i i office was burglarized during! Bv contrast, 760 deaths were with the uncomfortable 3 three-roomed Artyukhm 44 have; a Dav vee kend 1971 in reported -already adapted perfectly weightlessness and their 20-ton (See "Ehrlichman Page! Salyut-3 oribiting laboratory i 2 functioning without a hitch.

They entered the laboratory I from their Soyuz-14 spacecraft Morning Showers in traffic accidents the four W2 Jul 4 (See "Holiday" Page 2) Ihc trial Uculcy. of Elmer Wayne should obey the Supreme Court without reservation. He feels that Nixon would be wrong to Ttoda even a qualified court lave been hints White House that BECKLEY AND Fridav. Chance of showers this morn-j The Tass newg agency SUJd Salyut consists of a double this afternoon. Mostly clear ULC.I..UU...

uu.uv a a cone i i sunny Monday. rooms. Although the craft WVU Built Airplane May Cut Length Of Runways the W. trailing edge," he explained. (UPI) An experimental air "High pressure air from the lane i and tested at esti compressor of a jet engine is OIlI a A American Skvlab on which i i i vprs rv rnl re blown nvpr this round a I line of precipitation: 30 per i vuginia umveisitv coma ic ounvn over tnis jouna a i nng three astroiwilts spent a record duce the need for building cost- edge cent today, 20 per cent tonight; Nixon would obey only (See "Suicidal" Page 2) iand Monday.

Winds variable, 10 'jmiles per hour or less today. 1 (Details on Page 2) 84 days in space. Tass said it is i big enough for room. There Popovich increases the lift ca- runways at airportsjpabilities of the wing to several conventional have road about a sewer system, that is to Shady Spring i i i and how big an area i it a i The a sewer system will cover a wide area 'Hh' And 'Hers' Titles Romance, Youth Hold Swav At Wimbledon LONDON (UPI) $40,800 in prix.e money tennis sweethearts Jimmy Con-'and said i a grin, a i a the Cool Ridge area. A i i i i a i a i system i be soon and a i residents i be i i of the meet ing, according to a of the SS i vSer- vice i i (I: a day docs (lie a Fair i i a The a i i be held Aug.

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each customer's, account varies "and we need to set. down and a a look at. the a the spokesman said. The a your could alsu be checked. nors and Chris Evert Saturday "it will soon won "his" and "her's" Wimble-'should be more." don singles titles.

separate Appalachia and other moun-j times that of a tainous regions. flap configuration. This high A reigned by John L. Loth; lift permits the aircraft to fly rest, eat ana do gymnastic i and Je rome Fanucci of the at very low speeds and therefore Department of Aerosoace Knsi- Vei 7 short a i or i Tass said the laboratory also neer ng at WVU, the'short take-! distances are required." a proper floor and ceiling off a i an( (STOD air-! We believe that this aircraft and added this has helped the pi ane utilizes a unique wing do-! is the first ever designed and sign that allows flying at i using this principle," Dr. low speeds.

Famicci said. "The novel tea lure ot our plane is its wing," Dr. Loth explained Saturdav. "Preliminary indicated that it provides! ed ai eed .1 i rtr hour cosmonauts adapt to weight lessness because "they know which is top and which is bottom." Tass said the cosmonauts are testing Saiyut's engineering but there i systems and its energy supply. from solar panels During recent test flights, the researchers said, pilots were iahle to slow down to an incicat- of about 30 miles times the lift of con-! hour vhile This a 0 0 1 3 contro1 neai level i i i i uv, i i i i i i I I I i v-, ti 1 1 With the top men earning i.rthat lock on the sun regardless nimv ys are ired a and ood visibl1 Jimm Bcllville, a 21-year-old of a year a i became the! the lady champion half as' (See "Cosmomiats" 2) for large aircraft using this de-! youngest men's champion since much in prix.e money, not i A i i 1C i a '-n'rcraft Lew Hoad in 1956 when he! mention endorsements and 9 0 2 a i leading edge and sharp: defeated veteran Ken Rosewallllike, the couple could Attending the Saturday per-! tra 'ng edge produce the least in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 millionaires before they are 30.

a of "Hatfields and i dra 8 lor i ceti Chris, 19, of 1't. At Saturday's post-victory McCovs" at 1 i i 111 otn said its hfting won her i Friday by i news conference, Chris accom-j Amnh'ithenter in is limited during defeating Olga Morox.ova of the panied Jimmy to face the Soviet Union. world's press. They held hands A i i jn The pair, who play love he answered on and off the field, became Chris blushed a questions, lot, but Park were 902 people from 20 states and Canada. It! new STOL wing is con.

was the largest turnout of vertible in flight," lie said season. officially engaged after only worry was the brings the wins in the South African! though! of having to lead a to 5,252. season championships earlier this out to get the and plan to marry in November traditional Wimbledon ball un- whcn there is a break in the dei way. crowded tennis schedule. "We are not very good at "We will announce the a a i arc we?" he said.

States represented include West Virginia, A 1 a a a California, Florida, (1 Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken- 'ucky, Maryland, Michigan, "During cruise it looks like conventional wing, but during landing we extend a retractable flap with a large rounded shortly, but it definitely will bci Chris squeezed his hand and Mississippi, New Jersey, New in November," Connors said. whispered "don't worry, we York, North Carolina, Ohio, Saturday's wins netted the vviii be okay." Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Ten-j ncssce and Virginia. DON'T FORGET! Spraguc Reunion Sunday, August 4 I to 4 p.m. New River Park Ti Downtown Beckley Merchants WillJBe Open Every Monday Nite PM 9 SHOP DOWNTOWN BUCKLEY.

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