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EXTENDED FORECAST: Partly cloudy and cooler Monday and Monday night. Fair and warmer Tuesday through Wednesday. he hildress I ndex (Celebrating Our 85 fh Year) Vol. 88 NO. 26 NEA, ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CHILDRESS TEXAS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1974 price CEWT4 12 NEWS IN CAPSULE Nev.

(AP) U.S. Atty. Gen. William Saxbe says the Justice Department would prosecute Patricia kidnapers despite the Hearst promise not to press charges if their daughter is released unharmed. at a news conference here if the Justice Department would prosecute the kidnapers, Saxbe replied, no citizen can grant immunity to any other citizen.

I grant the kidnapers immunity, the way the law works. The Justice Department would MURPHY'S KIDNAPPERS ARRESTED More Gas To Some States By WILLIAM O. BRYANT Associated Press Writer ATLANTA. Ga. (AP) A self employed subcoptractor and his wife have been arrested and charged with the kidnaping of newspaper editor Reg Murphy, the FBI said today.

Murphy was released unharmed Friday night. Police said the $700,000 ransom was recovered today at the home of the Lilburn, couple who were charged with Fla. (AP) White House aide John McLaughlin has compared AFL-CIO President George Meany to spoiled who tries to get his way through by a Catholic priest and deputy special Assistant to President Nixon, told a Miami news conference Friday that Mean acts like the willful baby that has been spoiled and who gets his way by tantrums. YORK (AP) The cut in the prime lending rate of many commercial banks from 9 to per cent on Friday means big business will pay less to borrow. analysts say it have a similar effect on the interest rates consumers pay on installment loans or mortgages.

impact will be says one banker. (AP) A public (Turn To NEWS Page 9) Must Release Patricia First By MIKE WATERS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) More gasoline has been promised for 26 states, but for many motorists attempting to buy fuel this weekend the only realities are less gas. more promises and a possible nationwide strike by independent station owners. Energy chief William E. Simon on Friday night made his second announcement of the week of additional allotments for certain states, ordering an additional 326 million gallons to 26 states and the District of Columbia.

Hut a national spot check Education Thorn in By LEE JONES Associated Press Writer AUSTIN. Tex. (AP) Education is the most contrrtversial subject before the Texas Constitutional Convention, says convention President Price Daniel Jr. But the fights been over how well children are taught. been over money.

Monday, the legislator delegates take up a proposed By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press Writer HILLSBOROUGH. Calif. (AP) The family of Patricia Hearst is waiting to see how' her terrorist kidnapers react to Ciiion llanesi Expecieil ID Pass 37,000 Bales Indications Saturday were that the cotton harvested in the three operating gins in the county would However, the actual harvest in the county will run much more since more county produced cotton is ginned outside the county than is brought in to be ginned. Total either in the yards or ginned reached 36.469 bales at Tell. West Texas and the Farmers Cooperative, a survey showed Saturday.

There is an estimated 1,000 bales still in ricks in the fields. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fair skies dominated Texas (Turn To COTTON Page 9) Pastoral Seminar Is Tuesday Jim Brittnacher will be speaking on the topic of Church and the during a special seminar on pastoral care in the arena of mental health and the community, slated for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Childress Outreach Center. ministers in the Childress area are cordially invited to attend this said Mary Stanford, local Outreach Center secretary. Brittnacher is coordinator of the Vernon Outreach Center.

learning that their latest demand be met unless she is released unharmed. Charles Gould, publisher of the Hearst owned San Francisco Examiner, said Friday that, if Miss Hearst were freed, the Hearst Corp. would meet demands for an additional $4 million to bolster a $2 million free food program for the needy set up at the insistence. Gould said $2 million of the new money would be paid upon her release and million will be contributed in January 1975. This January payment will be evidenced by a binding with the food program.

Miss Hearst, a 20 year old sophomore at the University of California at Berkeley, was abducted Feb. 4 by members of the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army. The food program, called People in Need, got under way P'riday with thousands of persons taking home bags of (Turn To MUST Page 9) Smith Services Will Be Held Here Today Funeral services for John Edward Smith 46. will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Newberry Funeral Chapel.

Rev. Marvin James, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will be in the Childress Cemetery. Mr. Smith died at 1 a.m., Saturday in the Childress General Hospital. He as a retired trucker and a veteran of World War II.

Survivors include his father, James R. Smith of Childress; daughters, Rhonda Smith of Childress and Mrs. Barbara Jean Harlon of Irving; one son, W'ayne Smith of Childress; one brother, J.W. Smith of Amarillo and three grandchildren. found motorists having a harder time getting gas in many areas as dealers exhausted their monthly allocations.

In Delaware, one of the states to receive an additional allotment. Gov. Sherman W. Tribbitt announced he would implement a mandatory rationing program after midnight Sunday to keep lines at gasoline stations down to a reasonable length. More gasoline also is headed for Maryland, another state plagued with long lines at service stations.

But just how much is not certain. A U.S. District Court judge in Is Big Con-Con State Higher Education Assistance Fund that would add a new burden to state tax sources. Already, the Finance Committee has prepared a statement recommending a delay in action until the committee has had time to review the proposal in detail. The fund would be appropraited in amounts equal to the income from the Permanent University Fund, which now totals about $31 million a year and is dedicated exclusively to the University of Texas and Texas Only the 22 schools outside the UT and systems could use the State Higher Education Assistance Fund.

Its uses would be limited to buying land, constructing or repairing buildings, buying equipment and library books and paying off construction bonds. A 10 per cent state property tax, based on county (Turn To Education Page 9) Gregory Rites Will Be Held In Childress Mrs. G. M. Gregory.

76-year- old former resident, died at 7:30 p.m.. Friday night in Winnie. Texas, according to information received here. The body will be returned to Childress for burial and funeral arrangements will be announced by the Newberry Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Charles and Chuck Baker, Odis Burrows, Billy Fields of Groom.

D. M. Baker of Vernon and Charles Davlin of Cleburne. Lillie Baker was born August 1.5. 1897.

in Sulphur Springs, Texas, and moved to Tell in 1907 from there. She married George M. Gregory December 10, 1916, in Tell. They later moved to Turkey where they lived about 25 years ago before moving to Winnie about five years ago. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the WSCS.

Survivors include her husband of the home, three daughters, Mrs. Helen Moon of Wichita Falls, Mrs. Louise Shanks of Fort Smith, and Mrs. Juanita Robinson of W'innie; two sons, Jim Gregory of Winnie and Bob of Jal, N.M.; three sisters, Mrs. Jewell Mitchell of Tucumcari, N.M., Mrs.

Irene Davlin of Irving and Mrs. Gladys Anglin of Groom; two brothers, L. L. Baker of Childress and Luther Baker of Abilene. Roscoe Cagle, Mrs.

Odis Burrows and Charles Baker are also relatives. The family will be at 1310 I Nw. Baltimore Friday ordered the Federal Energy Office to allocate an additional 16 million gallons of gasoline to the state. But the FEO won a stay in the order late Friday night from Temporary Court of Appeals. Simon said that the additional allotments would begin flowing to service stations quickly, in some cases immediately, and should alleviate long lines at gas stations.

Ten per cent increases in the February gasoline supplies were given to 24 states and the District. Two states were given 6 per cent increases. These increases are mandatory. Simon said. Oil companies must provide them by drawing from their own gasoline stocks.

Simon also said the energy office would work with all states to improve reporting systems and allow greater equalization of gasoline supplies in March. Eighteen states were given up to 5 per cent increases Tuesday, some of which had received a similar spurt earlier in the month. The announcement was spurred by threats of widespread shutdowns by dealers. In W'ashington, Charles Binsted. president of the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers an association of independent station owners warned that his 70.000 members would shut down their stations Monday unless they got a Friday afternoon meeting with government officials.

(Turn To GAS Page 9)1 Local Officials Hold Meeting With Bob Price the kidnaping. The two were arraigned today. U.S. Magistrate J. Roger Thompson set bond for William A.

H. Williams, 33, at $1 million. Bond for his wife, Betty 26. was set at $500,000. Thompson scheduled a preliminary hearing for March 4.

Three suitcases full of money were found at the home today, police said. heavy one man carry one officer said. Leo E. Conroy, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Atlanta, declined to say hether additional arrests were expected. Murphy, 40, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, said upon his release Friday night that his kidnapers included four men and a woman.

He said they identified themselves as members of the American Revolutionary Army, a previously unheard of, apparently right-wing extremist organization. W'illiams and his wife were charged with violating federal kidnaping statutes and the Hobbs Act, a federal statute making it a crime to extort money dealing in interstate business. Conroy said. Murphy communicated the news of the arrests to the Constitution himself. Sentence of D.

L. Canada Is Probated Lush Quarters After reading the FBI announcement, Murphy commented: know what a pleasure this gives Conroysaid Williams and his wife were scheduled to appear before a U.S. magistrate in Atlanta at 11 a.m. Murphy was freed after Constitution Managing Editor Jim Minter delivered the ransom money at the end of a lonely highway 30 miles north of Atlanta. The 40 year old newsman was Wednesday night by a man who said he was a colonel in the American Revolutionary Army.

(Turn To MURPHY Page 9) Four local officials were in Wichita Falls Friday for a special meeting with 13th District Congressman Bob Price. we did was discuss the various aspects of Federal programs, such as FHA and HUD, thats said City Manger Louis Sally. Attending the meeting w'ere Chester Sinclair, of Farmers Home Administration; Harper Knight, county judge; Gene Merrifield, manager of the Childress Chamber of Commerce; and Sally. The meeting was held in the science building of Midwestern University. D.

L. ('anada. 29. of Childress wa.s found guilty Thursday in 100th District Court in Childress of aggravated assault in connection with the June 24, 1973 shooting of Leonard Clifford Throne. 62.

of 710 S. Main. Canada was charged with aggravated assault with intent to commit murder aforethought. The jury deliberated about one hour before reaching the verdict, and assessed Canada a two-year probated sentence and a $500 fine. Throne was injured when a .22 calibre bullet entered his left eye and lodged in his jaw.

He was asleep in his bed in the upstairs of the house at the time. Reports had said that a man shot twice into the upper room of house, from the street, and then drove away. A description of the car was given investigating officers and while they were still at the Throne home, a car of that description drove up. Canada was in the car and there was also a rifle in the vehicle, believed to be the one used. Investigating officers had that Canada and members of the Throne family had had difficulty before the shooting.

Following the shooting. Throne was rushed to Wichita Falls General Hospital, treated for the wound and later released. Canada was arrested and had been confined in the Childress County jail the eight months prior to the trial, which began Wednesday. The punishment for aggravated assault is a fine of not less than $25 nor more than or imprisonment in jail not less than one month nor more than two years, or both fine and imprisonment. Members of the jury were Mrs Martha Robertson, C.

D. Davis. E. L. Moran, Nick Custer.

Tommy Harwell, Glenn Thomas. J. Johnson. Alma D. Parker, Idonia B.

Pierre. Mrs. John D. Browning, and Gus McDaniel. Defense attorneys were Richard Bird of Childress and Mike Bird of Quanah.

for Prisoners BY MICH A El EHRLE If long-since-gone, conservative great-great grandpa, who strongly believed in the public courthouse whipping post as a deterent to juvenile crime, could see what was taking place on the third floor of the Childress County Courthouse, he would probably turn over in his grave. Underway, but currently at a dead standstill because of a shortage of this and that, is a project to construct a detention When completed, it will contain a day a private area in which a potential and possibly future hardened criminal can loll, play cards, and read magazines and books, during his confinement, all in refrigerated air- conditioned comfort. And because of the intense racket made bv various New Head Is Named For Library Board Upon the resignation of Mrs. Dan Davis, effective February 21. Mrs.

Morris Higley was elected Chairman of the Library Board during the meeting Thursday in the Library. Mrs. Davis is moving within a month to Marlin. She has had long tenure as a Library Board Member and was one of those most responsible for the start and fruition of the Memorial Library Building Fund. Mrs Higley has also been a member of the board for many years.

In other business, plans for the new library building were considered and Mrs. Gene Smith was named chairman of the Decoration Committee. machines involved in construction, many County Courthouse employees probably hope that construction would quickly end, hopefully by summertime. Then, as prisoners are confined in their third-floor, air-conditioned lair, many courthouse employes throughout the rest of the building will be sweating it out in the hot summertime, in their un-airconditioned, stuffy, tiny offices. All of this $55,000 project is required by the federal government, with Childress County furnishing $17,500 and lincle Sam putting up the $37,500 balance.

The old jury dormitory in the ill-arranged structure, is what will hopefully soon be the juvenile detention center. A portion of the work included drilling holes through the solid concrete ceiling of the county office, directly below the juvenile detention center, in order to install sewer lines. In the main jail, eight- prisoner cells are being reduced to three-prisoner cells in order to meet federal and state regulations. Approximately two-thirds of the existing prisoner cells are being converted into one- prisoner cells. The day in which inmates may relax in (Turn To LUSH Page 9) More Announce For Elections OVER 200 PERSONS attended the sixth annual Girl Scout Father-Daughter Banquet held Friday night in Fair Park Auditorium.

Entertainment was in the form of each troop performing either a skit or singing songs. Brownie Troop above, did a skit involving pollution, centering around the theme of Hoot Troop 56 leaders are Gathel Bozeman and Judy Ehrle. Photographs of other Girl Scouts performing skits are featured elsewhere in Index. (Staff Photo) Ballots in the three upcoming local elections continue to grow longer as more persons announced that they will run for election. The latest to file for a place on the Board of Trustees of the Childress Independent School District is Oneal A.

Sharp, who filed for place three on the board, now held by W. L. (Dub) Eikman. Eikman has announced that he is seeking re-election. Other places open on the school board are Place One, now held by Dr.

Robert Jones, and Place Two, now' held by Claude Andrews, and both are seeking re-election. The deadline for filing for one of the three positions is midnight. Wednesday, March 6. The election will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

in Childress Junior High School. Absentee voting in the school election will begin Sunday, March 17 and will conclude Tuesday. April 2 in the office of Superintendent Jack Martin. Three persons have announced they are running for one of three places open on the City Council. Charles Carter and Lloyd Blackwell are running for place four, now held by Harold Cheek, who has indicated he will not seek re-election.

Gale Moran has announced for place four, now held by Palmer Massey, who is not seeking re-election. Also open on the Council is the position, now held by Glenn Buckley, who is seeking re-election. The deadline for filing for a place on the city council is 6 p.m. Saturday, March 2 in the office of the city manager. Wildcat Drilling Below 2,800 Feet The wildcat, being drilled at the southeast edge of Childress, is below 2,800 feet, it was learned Saturday.

The test is being drilled on land owned by Donald Black. It was announced that the test would be and no information would be released to the public while it is being drilled. Absentee balloting in the city council election will be held from March 13 to March 29 in the city managers office at City Hall. Balloting will be held from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

April 2 in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Also on the council ballot will be the issue of whether or not Childress residents want downtown parking meters to remain or be removed and the issue of whether or not to sell Childress and Baylor Lakes. Tommy Sims of Childress has announced that he is seeking the office of Chief of Police, now held by Alvis Maddox. Maddox has announced that he is another term as Chief. The latest to file for the Hospital Board election are Louis G.

Herring and Gene Merrifield. Bill Brown, who occupies one of the seats on the Board has not announced his intentions. Jean Havens and Fannie Hagan will not seek re-election to the Hospital Board. In order to run for the Hospital Board, a candidate must submit a form with the names of 15 qualified Childress County voters stating that they wish that a certain name will appear on the ballot as a candidate The Hospital Board election will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., April 6, in Childress Junior High School.

The deadline for filing is 5 pm. March 11. iitmmmiiimimMifiti BRIEPS HERE MONDAY Gene Hanks, district assistant for Congressman Bob Price, will be in Childress at the County Farm Bureau office from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Monday to answer any questions which citizens may have with the federal government.

TO HONOR WASHINGTON Members of Childress Masonic Lodge No. 695, will honor George Washington, the father of our country, in special ceremonies at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Lodge Hall. All Masons and families are invited to attend..