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SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY FRIDAY, APRIL. 25, 1975 Richard Ragland Record surplus recorded dies; rites set in foreign trade balance Richard R. Ragland, 620 N. 36th a civic and Boy Scout leader here, died at 4:55 a.m. today at Western Baptist Hospital, following an illness of several months.

Mr. Ragland, a former appliance store manager here, had been district manager for Capital Consolidated Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind. for the past 16 years. He was one of the most active members of the Paducah Lions Club, having served in many capacities.

He was the club's president in 1956 and was named governor of the 43-K District, in 1959, which includes a 36-county Western Kentucky area. Mr. Ragland had been active in the Boy Scout program. With the exception of the time spent in military service, he had been associated with scouting since he joined the organization as a boy. He received a 45-year pin from the Boy Scouts in 1974.

A native of Paducah, he was the son of the late L. B. and Mrs. Rose Rolfing Ragland. He was a graduate of Augusta Tilghman High School, Paducah Junior College and attended the University of Kentucky.

Mr. Ragland a veteran of World War II, serving a radar technician with the U.S. 9th Air Force in the European Theatre. He was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, American Legion and a former member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Commerce. Mr.

Ragland is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Over- -RICHARD R. RAGLAND street Ragland; a daughter, Victoria Jane; a son, Robert Richard Ragland of Paducah; a sister, Mrs. J. M.

Lapachinskie; a brother, E. H. Ragland, both of Paducah, and three nephews. Funeral services are scheduled Sunday at 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church with Rev.

Perry C. Burton and the Rev. Tim Taylor officiating. Burial will be in Maplelawn Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Dudley, Earl Seay, Warren Eaton, Charles Wahl, Dalton Woodall, W.

L. Rutter and Robert Keneipp. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Paducah Lions Club. Friends may call at Roth Funeral Home after 6 p.m. today.

Trial dates set in 55 cases (Continued From Page 1) Eugene Wallace, charged with nonsupport of his minor children. Heath was given a three-month county jail sentence, George was given a 10-year sentence and Wallace was given an 18-month sentence. Motions for probation for all three will pend until May 28. Murder trials set include that of Earl Collins, charged in the March 8, 1974, shooting death of Herman Julius Autrey, con May Frank Wiley, charged with the March 30 shooting death of Wilson Gunn, on May 12; Samuel T. Jones, charged with the Dec.

22 death of Ted Herring, on May 14, and a second indictment charging Jones with the murder of Helen Broyles, also May 14. The drug cases and trial dates Roy Fondaw, charged with trafficking barbituates, on May 19; Mark Andrews, charged with trafficking marijuama and amphetamines, May Billy Eichols, charged with trafficking marijuana and amphetamines, May Ricky Wayne Fennell, trafficking amphetamines, May Andrew Hollis, trafficking in MDA (a horse tranquilizer), May Randell Lewis Neihoff, trafficking in MDA, May 20; Roger Kilgore, three cases set for trial, (1) Transferring marijuana, (2) possession of a nonnarcotic Schedule I controlled substance and (3) transferring marijuana, all set on May Lisa Fuller, charged with unlawful possession of a Schedule I narcotic controlled substance, June Glenn Austin, charged with setting his rented house afire, will be tried on May 12, and Ronnie Williams, charged in connection with a fire at Paducah Tilghman High School, will be tried May 8. Other cases set for trial: Phyllis Jean White Chestnut, charged with two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, May Bennie R. Cissell, Marie Dixon Cissell and Kenneth Larry Tracy, all charged in the same indictment third degree burglary, May Mae L. Coleman, charged with nine counts of theft by deception, May Gladys Crittenden, charged with seven counts of uttering a worthless check, May James Poston, third degree burglary, May 12; Bob E.

Miller, theft (misdemeanor), May Baron Aubert Robertson, third degree burglary, May 13; Clarence Leonard Rule, malicious shooting with intent to kill, May 19; Phyllis Jean White Chestnut, two counts of uttering a worthless check, May Kenneth Nall, also known as Kenneth Knoll, malicious stabbing with intent to kill, May Jimmy Dale Woodford, first degree robbery, June Donald Farmer, third degree burglary, May 15; V. J. Henry, six counts of uttering a worthless check and one count of theft by deception, use Roger Kilgore and James Michael Hogan, named in the same Senate, House to meet on special home loan bill WASHINGTON (AP) Oil imports dropped last month to even lower level than during the Arab oil embargo, giving the United States a record surplus in its balance of foreign trade, the government reported today. The Commerce Department said the surplus amounted to $1.4 billion in March, the second monthly surplus in a row. February's surplus was $91 million.

The figures left the nation with a $2 billion surplus so far this year. Commerce said the major factor in the improvement was a $571 million drop in the value of oil imported into the country. The oil imports amounted 1 to 118.7 million barrels. That compared to 161.3 million barrels a year ago when the Arab oil embargo had its most severe impact. Commerce said the value of the nation's exports slipped in March by eight-tenths of 1 per cent.

But imports dropped even more sharply, by per cent. Exports of motor vehicles were up by $65 million. Chemical, tobacco, fertilizer and computer exports also increased. But exports of civilian and military aircraft dropped by $123.8 million. Exports of wheat, corn, animal feeds, cotton and metal working machinery also dropped.

The export slippage was more than ottset by lower imports of petroleum, non-ferrous metals, sugar, newsprint and other items. Imports of motor vehicles, iron ore and non-electrical machinery climbed. The government began keeping track of its trade accounts on a different basis this year, using the actual prices which company subsidiaries charge their parent firms rather than the actual value of goods. Thus, the current figures are not comparable with past years. But Commerce said that, computed on the old basis, the trade surplus would have been $1.3 billion, surpassing February's $879 million record.

FDA to allow production of non-returnable able bottles WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration is granting the nation's corporate giants permission to produce billions of throw-away plastic pop and beer bottles that it concedes will foul the landscape, consume precious energy and possibly boost consumer prices. In an unusual move, however, the agency is openly inviting a lawsuit to block the approval and clarify a gray area in the law. The legal question is whether the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act amends by implication the 1906 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The industry has not responded yet to the FDA's draft environmental impact statement, in which the issues of environmental harm, energy use and cost were raised. Previously the industry stressed the safety of the plastic containers, the only issue raised by the food and drug law.

FDA general counsel Peter B. Hutt urged that plastic bottles be prohibited, but FDA Commissioner Alexander M. Schmidt concluded he could withdraw earlier approval only if the bottles were unsafe or unhealthy, which they aren't. His decision had the effect of ruling that the 1969 environmental act did not amend the 1906 law. The 1969 law ordered agencies to consider environmental impact in making decisions.

The 1906 law gave the FDA authority only in situations involving safety and health. The FDA initially approved plastic bottles but in September 1973 decided the decision required an environmental im- Miss Davis raps society (Continued From Page 1) volved in the Attica uprising when he was governor of New York. But, she also condemned the pardoning of former President Nixon for his role in the Watergate conspiracy. She was critical of laws allowing the government to be headed by a vice president (Rockefeller) who had not been elected, and a president (Ford) who was appointed by a president (Nixon) who was "deposed by the American people for his criminal acts." Saying over 50 per cent of the American people are affected by unemployment, Miss Davis proposed: "'There's probably no one in this room who doesn't have an interest in the struggle against racism, poverty and injustice." "I know Nelson Rockefeller has not done an honest day's work in his life," she said, adding "'There's something wrong when one family has all of that wealth." Miss Davis also condemned the U.S. prison system and related some of her own experiences and people she met during her 16-month stay in jail while awaiting trial.

She said she knows first-hand about "dungeons infested with rats and roaches," and what it's like to "spit a roach out of your mouth" while drinking coffee. She said many prisons are occupied by political prisoners- because they dared to speak out for what is right." Rep. Clapp and the crowd of demonstrators had left the grounds in front of the auditorium by 10 p.m. Several hundred young people watched the protesters for a short time before Miss Davis appeared on stage but no 1 incidents were reported. By LAWRENCE L.

KNUTSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A Senate-House conference will -resolve differing versions of a bill aimed at insuring that hundreds of thousands of jobless workers don't lose their homes along with their salaries. The Senate voted Thursday to provide loans to unemployed homeowners of up to $300 a month for as long as three years. The provision was similar to one passed earlier by the House to provide loans up to $250 a month over a two-year span. The conference is to begin meeting in the next few days on the bills. The Senate's antiforeclosure provision was added to a bill designed to help families buy homes by subsidizing mortgage rates at 6 per cent.

Backers of the antiforeclo- Reds to delay attack (Continued From Page 1) Asserting that administration sources acknowledge 500 Americans are enough to provide essential services for the United States in Saigon, Clark said: "I do not understand why the number of Americans cannot be brought down." "I am not ready to subscribe to the hostage theory yet," he said. The senator expressed hope that the Senate would not act today under emergency procedures to pass a compromise $327 million evacuationhumanitarian aid bill giving the President authority to use U.S. troops to evacuate Americans and some endangered South Vietnamese. Clark said he preferred to retain leverage to get the number of Americans remaining in South Vietnam down to a total that will make hostilities much less likely. U.S.

officials have been said to be trying to increase the evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese to about 000 a day in a race against time. A total of 1,100 Americans has been said by the military to be small enough to permit a quick one helicopter evacuation in an emergency. The use of U.S. troops in evacuating Americans and some Vietnamese is authorized in legislation undergoing refinements in Congress. A House Senate conference committee was expected to complete work today on a bill empowering the President to use troops, if necessary, and authorizing $327 million for humanitarian aid and evacuation.

That compromise legislation was tentatively agreed to Thursday by the conferees after differing bills were passed by the House and Senate. The final version being worked out could go to the Senate later today and on Monday to the House, which was not in session today. In approving the use of troops to rescue Americans, the compromise bill also permits the troops to help evacuate Vietnamese if the troops' numbers and deployment would not have to be changed to help them. With an estimated 14 divisions of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops near Saigon, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday the Communist-led forces might begin attacking the city "any minute." Maj. Gen.

Wynant Sidle, the spokesman, said U.S. officials had no idea why the Communist-led troops have not taken advantage of their 2-1 numerical superiority over the South Vietnamese. U.S. intelligence sources say North Vietnamese forces also are in a position to deny American transport planes the use of Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport whenever they choose. "As soon as the field comes under attack, they'll probably have to stop" the evacuations there, one general said.

Such a development would confront President Ford with the decision of whether to send in U.S. helicopters and Marines to carry out further evacuations, possibly from the American Embassy grounds in downtown Saigon. Meanwhile, the U.S. official overseeing the evacuation said the Vietnamese evacuees include a number of persons active in the controversial "Phoenix Program." sure provision said it would help as many as 300,000 1 families who now face losing their homes because of their inability to meet mortgage payments. Supporters also said the mortgage subsidy provisions would fight the recession by creating some 400,000 new housing starts and up to 800,000 new jobs.

However, Sen. John G. Tower, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, warned that if Congress adopts a measure like the bill passed by the Senate, President Ford surely will veto it. Tower said he doubted whether Congress would override such a veto, but Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire, D- said he was certain it would. Some senators, pointing to the depressed housing industry and its 18 per cent national jobless rate, asked Tower to urge Ford to sign the measure into law.

But Tower denounced it as government interference in the private sector. Sen. Harrison A. Williams, DN.J., said high interest rates have been in large measure responsible for the depression in the housing industry which has in turn caused the recession to deepen. Williams said the interestsubsidy section of the bill would provide 6 per cent mortgage loans to middle-income home buyers.

The rate would increase over the next three years until it reached the market rate. The Department of Housing and Urban Development would make up the difference between the amount paid by the homebuyers and the current market rate. As an alternative, the home buyers could choose to receive a $1,000 sum to help with the down payment. pact statement, raising the possibility that approval might be revoked. This month it published a draft impact statement and said it would go ahead with approval.

In a Federal Register notice April 14, FDA said, "Although adverse environmental impacts relating to destruction of scenic beauty, depletion of energy resources, increase in litter and trash, and similar matters are not condoned by the commissioner, he has no legal authority to prevent them." But it also invited any citizen to "obtain judicial review" by filing a suit. "This has to be settled either by additional legislation or the court," Schmidt said in an interview Thursday. Although the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress did not intend the environmental law to repeal by implication any other federal statute, no court has ruled on whether it amends other laws. By 1980, according to the FDA's draft environmental impact statement, the soft drink industry alone will need about 100 billion bottles and cans annually, roughly 400 for every American. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola have test-marketed the plastic throw-aways, which are lighter and cheaper to transport, and reduce the need for large inventories of bottles, sorting, cleaning, inspection, and handing and storage of returnables.

The FDA said plastic bottles can be expected to speed the trend away from returnable bottles, which it said are superior to other containers. Refillable bottles cost one fourth as much to produce as one-way bottles and conserve raw materials, but plastic bottles are not likely to be refillable in the foreseeable future, the FDA said. Tornadoes kill 5 in 2 states (Continued From Page 1) Warren County seat. A flash flood watch was issued this morning for the entire state as the National Weather Service warned that "moderate to heavy thunderstorms are developing over many areas of Kentucky and these heavy rains falling on nearly saturated ground will result in rapid runoff and possibly some flash flooding." Louisville received 1.93 inches of rain in a three-hour period Thursday, causing streets and viaducts to be flooded with as much as four feet of water. Police said basements in 300 or more homes were flooded and a small bridge was washed away by rain-swollen waters of Lower Mill Creek in southwestern Jefferson County.

Hardest hit by the violent spring storms was the southwest Missouri community of Neosho. Two tornadoes churned through the town Thursday night, killing four persons and injuring dozens more. The twisters also destroyed several houses, about 30 mobile homes, and either partially or totally destroyed two apartment complexes with more than 100 units. Authorities said it would be late this afternoon before an accurate assessment could be made of the destruction. The devastation was confined to the south side of Neosho and a small community a few miles west.

Tornadoes also hit several West Tennessee communities early today. A child was killed when a mobile home was overturned in Tipton County, and several persons were injured in Crockett County. A twister also struck a rural Vietnam (Continued From Page 1) The blackout on news from Cambodia moved into a second week with no word on the condition of 600 foreigners and others who took refuge in the French embassy before the Khmer Rouge took over April 17. A broadcast from Phnom Penh said the nation was in the second day of a three-day celebration of "independence day" and vowed "to change the way of life of our people and build Cambodia back to a position of In Laos, a spokesman for the coalition government said it ordered Communist Pathet Lao and rightist troops to withdraw from areas north of Vientiane where they were reported fighting last week. Candidates oppose gun law indictment on different counts of knowingly receiving stolen property, May Fonda Klein, 23 counts of uttering worthless checks, May 14; Bruce Lane, third degree burglary, May Larry Montplaisir and Randall Burgess, theft by unlawful taking and two counts of third degree burglary; George Pennebaker, receiving stolen property, May 13; Mickey Beasley and Deborah Beasley, altering a check, May 15; Janice Kay Mullins, embezzlement, June Tommy McKendree, assault and battery (two counts), June Givonnia Goodman, storehouse breaking, June Jack Felts, rape of a female over 12 years of age, June John Ross, conversion, June Ralph Jones and Sylvester Jones, two counts of uttering a forged check and one count of aiding and abetting uttering a forged check, June Warren R.

Priddy, office breaking, May 13; Joe Kevil appeal of a lower court conviction of tampering with a witness, May Glennie Holmes, appealing a lower court conviction of driving while intoxicated. Arraignments continued until Wednesday include David George Mocquot, charged with third degree burglary; Catherine Anderson, third degree assault; David Anderson, first degree wanton endangerment; Jerry Neal Miller, six counts of theft by deception, two counts of theft by unlawful taking and one count of uttering a worthless check; A. L. Peck, two counts of uttering a worthless check and a second indictment. charging him with failure to pay materialman.

Cases continued until the next term include a charge of theft against David Sweatt and two appeal cases of J. T. Williams, who has been convicted in County Court of eluding police and driving too fast for road conditions and in City Court of driving while intoxicated. Financier fined for promoting illegal gifts financier, has been fined $10,000 for promoting illegal campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1970.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Schnacke ordered the maximum possible fine Thursday. Smith was convicted March 20 on two misdemeanor counts of causing the gifts to the re election campaign of Sen. George Murphy, to be made through a corporation. An attorney for Smith said the conviction would be appealed.

Smith faces trial on 25 felony counts charging misapplication of $27.5 million in funds of the United States National Bank, which was declared insolvent in SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP)-C. Arnholt Smith, the 76-year-old (Continued From Page 1) any great demand for gun control outside of the urban areas and I think the sportsmen have enough friends in Frankfort to block any state laws." The incumbent also said he does not favor money from fish and bunting licenses being put into the state's general fund. At the present time, the money is given to the wildlife commission and used for law enforcement, game management, conservation education, fisheries and other such projects. Total income during the last fiscal year was just over $6 million.

"After finding out what game management and the wildlife commission have done for Kentucky I am convinced that our system (of financing and governing fish and wildlife) probably is as good or better than any state in the country," Morgan said. Morgan also said that "Julian Carroll will be your next governor" and "he's a crappie fisherman just like you and I and I don't believe he's going to do anything to change the system." Kelley said he always has been interested in fish and wildlife and that hunting has been valuable to many person's lives. The candidate said that during the late 1920s and 1930s "the opportunity of hunting small game possibly prevented me from going to bed hungry, not just one night but possibly many Kelley also said that money from hunting and fishing licenses should be kept in the commissions' treasury and not put into the general fund. "I think additional money should be taken from the general fund and given to the commission to keep streams clear and preserve the wildlife we have in the country today," Kelley said. Kressenberg was not able to attend the meeting because of a business obligation in Washington, D.

but his son, Mark Kressenberg, read a prepared speech. "I firmly believe that every American, and as far as that goes, every person in the world, should have the right to defend his home," Kressenberg said. "I feel that without some protection in my home, my family and I are at the mercy of anyone who tries to break and enter our home." Kressenberg said that although he is not a hunter because of a health problem, he has no intention of using his gun for any other purpose than to protect his home. "I will never be for legislation that will prevent a man from protecting his family and his Kressenberg said. He also said he is tired of "dogooders" telling him what is best for his family the dogooders have not done anything to prevent crimes in the streets." Kressenberg said that if gun controls are passed, the only people who will have guns are those "who are guilty of the crimes that are now happening every day." Kressenberg also said he is not in favor of putting fish and wildlife money into the general fund.

If that happens, he said, "we'll never, know what the money goes for" and "never know how much money we have." Harris said that sportsmen and other individuals need to communicate with their elected government officials "to let us know what your thinking is on a subject if you don't contact us, then we have to use our own judgment and sometimes that doesn't agree with your feelings." northeastern Oklahoma community, not far from Neosho, Thursday night. Several mobile homes and houses were damaged at Mound Valley, but there were no confirmed injuries. Some cattle were reported killed and injured. Farther east, severe thunderstorms rocked St. Louis with winds up to 75 miles per hour.

Monette, was drenched by nearly 3 inches of rain. Large hail pounded scattered areas across the storm belt. Rains in excess of an inch were common from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania. Light rains ranged north to the northern Plains and east to the Atlantic. Heavy snow in higher elevations of the Pacific Northwest prompted travel advisories in western Oregon.

Wallace will seek presidency MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Gov. George C. Wallace confirmed today that he plans to run for president in 1976. He declined to say when the formal announcement will be made, although other sources said it probably will be early in June.

"As of now I intend to run," Wallace told The Associated Press. His national campaign director, Charles Snider, said the governor has told friends he will seek the Democratic nomination. Wallace was a candidate in 1972 before he was wounded in an assassination attempt at Laurel, and left paralyzed in both legs. At a news conference Thursday, the 55-year-old governor refused to confirm that he would definitely run again. When he was asked today if he hadn't already made his decision, he replied "you can say that.

As of now I intend to run." Man proposes transportation by rickshaws NEW YORK (AP) Bored with buses; sick of Cabs leave you cold? Then try a rickshaw, says Louis B. Marino of Fanwood, N.J, who has petitioned the city to run a rickshaw-pedicab service in Chinatown. Morris Tarshis, director of, the Bureau of Franchises who is reviewing the proposal, said: "I would not want to see a rickshaw pulled by a human body. But it is a novel idea and might be good for Harris agreed with Morgan that there is no foreseeable danger in the state passing gun control legislation, "but when it comes to the federal government, we're traveling on dangerous ground." He urged the sportsman to "move to the national level and tell congressmen and senators how you feel." Harris also praised the operation of the fish and wildlife commission. "It is good and it's different from the way government is run because it has the autonomy to do what it thinks should be done because it has nine board members who are and free of political pressures," Harris said.

"Taking the fish and hunting license funds away from the commission is the most absurd thing that you can think of," Harris said. "The department of fish and wildlife is the only department in state government that is self-supporting and, if it can support itself, it ought to govern its own funds." He also said that putting the funds in the general fund would "put it in control of the politicians." Boatwright said he is "not for anyone telling me what kind of gun I can own and when I can use it. I am not for any type of gun control or federal regulation, there are too many gun regulations already and we don't need any more." "I'm against putting the money (for licenses) into the general fund because when it comes time to get the money back, it might not be Boatwright said. "I would be opposed to anything that would take money away from the Department of Fish and Wildlife Boatwright, noting that he is a duck hunter, said he favors conservation which will prevent wildlife from becoming extinct. "I'm a conservationist, I have to be as a farmer, but many of these so-called conservation groups don't really know what they are talking about when it comes to conservation." The candidates are scheduled to speak tonight on other topics at a rally at the McCracken County Courthouse, which is being sponsored by the Democratic women.

Mrs. Frederick rites planned FULTON, April 25 Services for Mrs. Drusilla: Frederick, a native of Graves County who died in Port Charlotte, Monday, will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel. The Rev.

Charles McKenzie: will officiate and burial will be in Clark's Cemetery. Mrs. Frederick, 60, wife of Everette Frederick, made her home in Harbour Heights, Fla. Besides her husband, surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Betty Jean Cuchette of Royal Oak, Mrs.

Joan Godfrey of Alma, and Mrs. Maxine Manley of Grosse Pointe, seven grandchildren; four brothers, Bob and George Elliott of Fulton, Woodrow Elliott of Detroit, and W. T. Elliott of Nashville, and four sisters, Mrs. Novecene Thorpe of Roseville, Mrs.

Arvella Abbott of Lansing, Mrs. Elizabeth Council of Benton, and Mrs. Gladys Disque of Fort Wayne, Ind. Pallbearers will be Jerry Elliott, Larry Elliott, Terry Thorpe. Daniel Council, Gary Johns and Craig Godfrey.

Friends may call at the funeral home..