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vBEGISTER AM) POST-HERAID, BECKLEY, W. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1972 Opponents Reassured Moore Says Code Bars Park Mining By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS! precludes ch activity. Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr.

hasj An aide to Moore said Friday written several residents who (the governor has written sev- are concerned about a possible era! citizens, citing a section of attempt to strip mine in Harri- the West Virginia Code which son County's Waiters the director of the Memorial State Park, assuringiDepartment of Natural Rethem that West Virginia law sources 4 'to maintain in their natural condition lands which are acquired for and designated as state parks." Further, the aide said the law precludes the issuing of permits for not "only the exploitation of Pilot Strike Idles Major Jet Service MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Northwest Airlines began what is normally one of its busiest holiday weekends on Fri" day with only two round-trip flights because of a pilots' strike. Northwest, the nation's seventh largest air carrier with operations from Boston to Hong Kong, was struck by the 1,600 pilots at 2 a.m. Friday after contract negotiations which had been going on for 16 months broke down over what a union spokesman said benefit issues. were fringe The two flights--between Minneapolis and Chicago--were made by nonunion supervisor pilots, the company said.

Pilots' spokesman Robert Re- zanka said about 100 crews were away from home when the strike was called. Flights were halted around the world: at Missoula, Billings and Boze- man, Bismarck and Grand Forks, Madison, i Winnipeg, Chicago, Seattle, New York and Miami. "The pilots have to pay their own expenses and cannot return to their homes for at least 48 hours after the strike was called," Rezanka said. but "the harvesting of timber for any commercial purposes." Moore pointed out in the letter that the Bridgeport firm of RN White Co. has only made a preliminary application to strip a 140-acre area of the park.

"As chief executive of this state," Moore said in the letter, "it is my intention to see that the letter of he law as codified shall be strictly allowed. And you need have no fear that such a permit application, if and when formally filed, will be speedily denied for the reason written so clearly in our existing law." Secretary of State John D. Rockefeller 17 Friday uregd Moore to take executive action to forestall any attempt at stripping in the park. Rockefeller, the Democratic candidate running for governor against Moore in November, said he had joined 6,000 West Virginians in signing petitions asking the state to refuse the application. A group calling itself Concerned Citizens for Harrison County planned to come to Charleston Saturday, bearing the petitions to be presented to Moore.

BORIS SPASSKY BOBBY FISCHER $4 Million Estimated As State's Flood Bill REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Organizers of the world chess championship reported considerable progress Friday night in their negotiations with Bobby Fischer's lawyer over a last minute demand for more money by the American challenger. However, after an hour and a half session with Andrew Davis, attorney, officials of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation said they tiad been given no assurances Fischer would appear for the beginning of the match Sunday with Russia's Boris A spokesman for the federation said he got the impression. Davis was seeking a compromise in the dispute over the new financial conditions posed by Fischer. Davis, Fischer's confidant as well as legal adviser, arrived here Friday on a flight from New York which was to have CHARLESTON, W. Va.

(AP)--Disaster relief work in the Buffalo Creek area this year may eventually cost the state 34 million, according to figures given a newspaper this week by an aide to Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reported in its Friday editions that gubernatorial ad ministrative assistant Norman Yost said the Department of Finance and Administration had i totaling 5443,294.11 on the Office of Emergency Planning account. Yost added that an estimated $3.2 million bill from the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers is still to be submitted to the state, the newspaper rsaid. Yost said the amount spent thus far included more which was "in 'transit' 1 and had not cleared the account, and nearly $34,000 that had been issued since June 12, Records in the state auditor's (Continued From Page 1) Of the 59 challenged Illinois 12 are black, 8 are and 6 are women. attorney Wayne W. who presented ihe challengers' case said the manner in which the Daley delegation was put together flagrantly violated the guidelines. Gandhi, Bhutto Meet SIMLA, India (AP) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met pri- septn on National Guard-related activities, the Herald-Dispatch said.

The West Virginia Legislature appropriated SI million for relief work two days after the Feb. 26 flood disaster that claimed at least 118 lives, left seven persons missing and presumed dead, and rendered thousands homeless. Lawmakers added S1.2 million to the initial appropriation during the special session in April. The entire S2.2 million went into the governors emergency account, the newspaper said, with auditor's records showing vately Friday night with President Zulfikar AliTshutto of Pakistan for the first time to discuss a draft peace settlement. The draft came after Pakistan and India exchanged proposals Thursday, the second day of the Simla peace talks.

Engineers. as of Thursday $1.45 million remaining in the fund. The newspaper said Yost did not indicate whether the state would bear full responsibility for the expected $3.2 million relief work bill from the Corps of BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Protestant militants built barricades reinforced with hijacked trucks, buses and cars Friday night, creating at least 20 "no go" areas in the capital in defiance of British troops the Irish Republican Army. Confrontation between Catholic and Protestant extremists threatend to wreck the precarious peace that has prevailed since the IRA laid down Its arms at midnight Monday, Police reported road blocks also had been erected in Ban-i gor, Ballymena and Liisburn. In Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second largest city, Protestants in the Waterside enclave strung out flags and painted the curbstones red, white and blue.

The Protestant militants challenged the British troops to interfere with their operation. "We will fight the British if necessary to stay British," one declared. During the mass theft of scores of vehicles in Belfast, nine buses were driven away from a city center depot in one swoop. Chess Championship Runs Into Quarrel Over Money Daley carried the 29-year-old chess genius to the site of bis 24- game match. Fischer had reserved space on the plane and checked Mis luggage on before he changed his mind.

He suddenly called for his bags from the aircraft and disappeared from New York's Kennedy airport after holding up the flight for more than two hours. Clean Up Union, Miller Cautions (Continued From Page 1) laboratory. "Every labor union in the) United States is watching the 'rebel miners' in this election," Miller said, calling. for all miners to go out and work for the reform movement "It is your duty and your obligation, to work for the disabled and widows," he added. Miller is- running for the presidency.

Trbovich, candidate for vice president, challenged statements that Miners Democracy was trying to "bust" tie union, saying "If you don't sweep the (W-A. Boyles and me (George) Titlers and the Hitlers out the door come September, this union is going, down the drain." Boyle is president of the UMW and Titier is vice president. Calling for a vigorous safety bureau within the Trbovich deplored present mine conditions and accused the present Boyle administration of aiding coal 'operators in "blackballing" miners who protested hazardous conditions underground. Trbovich called for sweeping reforms in the National Bank of Washington, 700,,000 shares of which are owned by the UMW. "The president of the bank gets $140,000 a year, but let some coal miners try and get some out'" he said, adding that "We are going to move the bank out of Washington and into the union districts and communities of America.

If we don't get them we're going out of the banking business the first of the year." Michigan Man Is Charged As Hijacker's Accomplice DETROIT AP The man who initially told the FBI he had unwittingly driven skyjacker suspect Martin McNally from Peru, to Detroit after an American Airlines 727 jet was hijacked last week has been charged with aiding and abetting in the crime, the FBI said Friday. Walter John Petlikowsky, 31, of Ecorse, has been charged "with direct participation with McNally in a plan to hijack American Airlines Flight 115 at St." Louis," Neil Welch, special agent in charge of the Detroit FBI, said Friday. McNally, 31, of Wyandotte, is being held in lieu of 5100,000 bond on a charge of air piracy in the plot to hijack the plane for $502,000 ransom last week. The money and a machine gun allegedly used in the hijack were recovered in a field near Peru. Petlikowsky, an unemployed housepainter, was to be brought before a U.S.

magistrate. The government is asking $100,000 bond. In announcing Petlikowsky's arrest, the FBI gave its fullest account yet what it believes happened before and after the hijacking and of the events leading up to the two arrests. Petlikowsky and McNally together developed the plan to hijack a plane and made "a number" of trips to St. Louis to plan the crime, Welch said.

He said St. Louis was chosen rath- er than Detroit he said because the men thought security was looser there and because they feared recognition here. The FBI account continued: Petlikowsky drove McNally to St. Louis June 22, where McNally carrying the machine gun in an attache case. After he commandeered the plane on the ground, FBI agents came 2 Inspectors Added Closer Club Check Slated CHARLESTON, W.

Va. (AP) J--in an attempt to accompany i tougher state laws that take ef- Sfect Saturday, Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner J. Barber has added two i more inspectors to his staff which has responsibility for po- licing private clubs. Barber says the additions bring the staff to 10, and he adds that he is carefully reviewing license renewal applications and not renewing li! censes for establishments with I what he said were bad reputa- tions. The new private club laws, formulated during the regular session of the legislature, I streamline, previous statutes.

Four licensing categories were reduced to two and a special club bottle tax at the liquor stores was eliminated as well as the requirement that empty liquor bottles in the club be broken. The new laws double the amount of compliance bonds and prohibit discrimination in all but fraternal clubs. Barber said recent meetings across the state indicated club owners were receiving the new laws well, and added that nearly 700 club licenses have been applied for, with the possibility that the number of licenses issued in the new fiscal year aboard dressed as mechanics but "it wasn't possible for them to stop the hijacking," Welch said. When the plane took off, the pilot, unknown to the hijacker, circled St. a couple oi times; Welch said McNally had made extensive airspeed-timed i a caluclations with equipment found in a search oJ 5 his house.

Logan Countians Request Bailey Dam Be Hastened LOGAN, W. Va. (AP)-A Logan Comity citizens group has formulated a resolution urging rapid completion of the nearby R.D. Bailey Dam, which is intended to control flooding along the Guyandotte River. Citizens for Environmental Quality issued the resolution, rently in legal operation.

Barber said some clubs are having difficulty obtaining bond either because of their owners' unsavory reputations or previous suspension of licenses. He noted that some clubs in the Wheeling and Charleston areas had been denied licenses because they were either nuisances or because illegal activities were being conducted at the establishments. Barber said his team of inspectors will be closely checking membership lists, will be making sure clubs close within one half hour after the last call for liquor, and will watchdog li- would exceed the number cur- quor sales to those under 18. Blue Cross (Continued From Page 1) hibit to HEW the proper need. Commission officials will seek to prove their need in the proposed upcoming meeting.

The hearing Thursday was called to review operational practices and activities of Blue Cross, which had asked for a 34 per cent rate increase for 206,000 subscribers in 18 southern West Virginia counties. A Blue Cross attorney! charged the hearing was illegal! after the commission refused to consider withdrawal of the subpoena, and advised his clients to leave. They did. After the Blue Cross departure, the questioning was set to resume August 1. Insurance Commissioner Samuel Weese criticised the firm's attitude toward state laws, and said there are "serious questions" which Blue Cross has consistently refused to answer.

Weese said these points must be cleared before the commission could approve a rate increase. Weese said one of the questions is whether Blue Cross is holding hospitals accountable for continually rising service costs. He said Blue Cross should demand the hospitals to explain fee increases but said the company won't comment on whether or not it follows this practice. urging that dredging and channeling of the river and its tributaries be undertaken to cui down effects of flooding unti the dam is completed. The completion of the dam, located at Justice in Mingo County, has been set back several times, most recently to 1976.

"After nine years the RJD Bailey Dam is only 37 per cent completed," the resolution said The citizens group main tained that serious flooding has hit the county annually since 1957, causing more than $28( million in damage. Capital Comment Tom Winner Off $1,381 In Campaign Report By CHARLES RYAN Post-Herald Ctampondeat CHARLESTON It certainly must be embarrassing secretary of a candidate Tom Winner to find out that tie made a $1,381 discrepancy in Ms list of contributions and expenditures for primary electon, but that's all it should be. arles- toa a i a i report a a a i failed to list campaign ex- ditures, dates of contributions and, in certain cases, tie failed to indicate to whom I assume he's busy planning: received with shock and dismay the decor of the office, the! in West Virginia. Sprsuse and Car-j Taylor was a young man with rigan and the entire future of tremendous ability. He was admired and respected in every area and would have been an attractive statewide candidate if the human race.

THE DEATH of Charleston attorney Frank Taylor Jr. he had run for political office. expenditures were made or the Chances Improved By RICK SCOTT Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, Va. (AP)--Former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford said Friday a decision, by the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention brightens purpose.

WERNER'S FILING before primary expenses, the Daily Mail said, and his final tablua- tion following the primary don't agree. Winner listed bis before- the-primary expenditures as $31,368. After the primary, he listed the expenditures for the same period as $32,749, a discrepancy of $1,381. The Daily Mail says ominously that "There is a cloud over more than $31,000," Hardly. There is simply faulty reporting by Winner and he immediately straighten.

as he says he intends his chances of winning the party's nomination as a com- eluding Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn. Sanford said he was "surprised" at McGovern's reaction to the credentials committee riding. He said he thought tfe ruling was "kind of an affirmi- tion of the new politics" not tfie should it out to do. THE MOVEMENTS of Supreme Court a i a Richard Neely are being tracked again, folks! There's Richard now, rounding a corner at the statehouse and skidding to a stop before the Supreme Court offices! He leaps from his sedan and races to the steps.

That's sort of the picture one gets when talking with Richard Neely about his wanderings around the Supreme Court these davs. Richard confirmed this week a report earlier in this column that he was being cranky about the furnishings at the Supreme Court of Appeals. AT THE SAME time, he revealed that he also, has approached Supreme Court Candidates John Carrigan and James Sprouse about holdnig down campaign spending. Neely said he visited Judge Carrigan while making his inspection tour of the court offices. He talked, he said, with Carrigan about i i i billboard and radio and television spending.

He also conversed, he informed us, about the quality of campaign speeches. Neely says he sees no reason why. he and Carrigan and Sprouse should make the billboard companies and the broadcast companies rich in their campaign. He says Sprouse agrees to that in principal and that Carrigan seemed to. NEELY COMPLAINS that the walls are so bare at the Supreme Court that he may refuse to bring his American primitive art collection to Charleston.

(Neely has to get elected before he does all that but that seems to have escaped him). "I'm not going to hang those things on bare walls with wire running from the ceiling to the picture!" he gushed. Neely pointed out mat John D. Rockefeller IV has a superb collection of Oriental art. "Do ya think Jay'll display his collection if he's elected, Richard?" Oh, I should hou so, I should hope so.

Better than letting it remain in the attic!" With that Richard was off. Principal, Coach Indicted On Student Sex Charges A W. Va. (AP)--A former principal of Washington Junior High School and an assistant coach have been indicted by the Kanawha County grand jury on misdemeanor charges of cruelty to children. Indicted were former principal Gerald Lee Reynolds and assistant coach Timothy C.

Stockert. Stockert is under suspension pending the outcome of the charges lodged against him, while Reynolds resigned. State police have charged the two men with sexually abusing several male students. In other indictments, a murder charge was lodged against Charles Hager, 17, of St. Albans; Walter Ross, 28, of Huntington; and Clarence Scites, 17, of Hurricane.

They were indicted in connection with the beating death last March of Burvil Hodges, 57, of St. Albans. CAFETERIA DOWNTOWN promise candidate. "I there's a chance now that it will called it. more than two ballots to pick a presidential candidate," Sanford told a news conference here where he was seeking delegate support in his dark horse bid.

"And, the more ballots it takes, the better my chances are for getting the Sanford, president of Duke University new, said he still doesn't expect to win the nomination but that his chances are improved by the credentials committee's decision Thursday. The credentials group voted to strip Sen. George McGovern, of 151 of the delegates he previously had claimed as a result of winning the California primary. That action seriously hurt the frontmnner's chances of winning the nomination on the first ballot. The credentials committee allotted the delegates to other candidates who won votes in the California primary, in- The backroom deal was in goodi me McGovern Commission last when it decided to exempt California from the rules" rit designed to make tbe convention more democratic, Sanford said.

"I felt the credentials committee ruling was a fair determination to make," he addedl Sanford McGovern said would credentials committee ruling by saying, "That 5 all right, we'll win anyway." Sanford met during the afternoon with members of West Virginia's 36-member delegation to the convention. Though only four of the delegates remain uncommitted, Sanford hoped to convince some of ihe delegates to vote for bim in the event the nominating process goes more than one ballot None of West Virginia's delegates are legally bound to vote for any candidate but most have expressed a preference. Sanford spoke at a civic club luncheon here before the news conference. Wallace Will Attend Convention In Miami SPRING, Md. (AP) Gov.

George Wallace plans to leave rthe-hospital next day--in time to fulfill his pledge to attend the Democratic convention. He will fly first to Montgomery, the Alabama state capital, to address well-wishers at the municipal airport. Then he'll continue to Miami where he will be host at a reception for convention delegates the following day. The Alabama governor's plans were announced Friday by Billy Joe Camp, press secretary. The waystop in Montgomery, expected to last about an hour, has a legal purpose also.

State law confers the duties of chief executive on the lieutenant governor if the governor is out of Alabama more than 20 days, Wallace has been in Holy Cross Hospital in this District of Columbia suburb since May IS, when he was struck by four or five bullets fired at point blank range by an assailant at a Laurel, Md. shopping center. It was the day before the Maryland and Michigan primaries--two of six won by Wallace in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Doctors removed all except one of the bullets and took out that one from its place near the spinal cord June 18. Since the second operation, doctors say, Wallace has made a-good recovery; six pounds and is undergoing daily physical therapy aimed at restoring use of his crippled legs.

Wallace will fly from here in an Air Force ambulance plane offered by President Nixon in a personal visit last month. Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley, 35, assumed duties and salary of the governor on June 5, sayicg "as far as I'm Gov. George C.

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