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Hegteter 2 Sections Since 1880 Beckley's Oldest Institution 16 Pages Vo 97--No. 184 Monday Afternoon, January 17, 1977 Beckley, West Virginia (25801) 15 Cents Low Temperature In Beckley 1,800 Without Natural Gas i i r.t-«^*-;/Mi cunorxrionr TC I rfeO "55 i-so (5 -to 5 ---10 By JOHN ANDERSON Register Reporter Eighteen below zero temperatures accompanied by brisk winds ushered in a week which promises to be a demanding one for West Virginia gas companies and their customers Schools and businesses were closed around the state and about 1,800 Cabot Gas Corp. customers are without natural ga essential" Beckley businesses were asked to remain closed today by Columbia Gas Co. in an attempt to maintain pipeline pressures. Columbia Gas spokesman Melvin Tolle said most retail stores will be affected.

Tolle said Columbia had experienced no shortages or low pipeline pressures as of this morning. A spot check by The Register, however, showed that most Beckley businesses appeared to be ignoring Columbia plea Super clothing store manager Harry Cloxton said downtown merchants are in communication with one another and a decision concerning possible closings would be made this morning. A spokesman for Murphy Mart at the Raleigh Mall defended stores remaining open so that electric space heaters could be sold to those without gas. All Raleigh Mall stores are heated electrically. Appalachian Power Co.

had asked all electrically heated stores to close Sunday evening, but no such request had been made today. Line and station supervisor Kyle Ellison said demand is heavy today but that APCO is in good shape," despite reports that a new peak demand of 4,329.000 kilowatts was reached at 10 a.m. today. Cabot Gas Corp. district manager Bob Weaver, rough voiced and weary from working the past 24 hours non-stop said gas supplies dwindled to nothing for an estimated 1,000 Oak Hill homes and 800 Fayetteville homes at 6: 30 this mor- National Weather Service said the mercury dipped to 18 degrees below zero at 7:30 a.m.

and hovered around 17 below all morning. The temperature equalled an all time record for Beckley set when the weather station was established here in 1963. A low of 21 degrees below zero was reported at Flat Top. The frigid temperature, coupled with 12 mile per hour brought the wind chill factor down to 65 degrees below zero. High temperatures today were not expected to exceed zero to five degrees above.

Weaver said Cabot Corp. has asked Fayette and Summers county schools to remain closed again today, and two Raleigh County industries, Beaver Block at Cranberry and Beckley Magnetite at Raleigh were asked to shut down boilers and' heating systems. With cold temperatures predicted until mid week, (See "Weather" Page 2) Rockefeller Sworn In As 29th VV.Va. Governor JAY ROCKEFELLER "CHARLESTON (UPI) Surrounded by his famous relatives, the great grandson of New York oil magnate John D. Rockefeller put his hand on a Bible today and repeated the oath of office to become West Virginia's 29th governor.

Among the entourage expected on this blustery Inauguration Day at the snow covered state Capitol for the swearing in of Jay Rockefeller were his Vice President Rockefeller, and father in law, Sen. Charles Percy. 111. When the oath was administered, the eight year administration of Republican Arch Alfred Moore the longest in modern history and possibly the most productive, came to an end. A handshake between John D.

Rockefeller IV and Chief Justice Fred Caplan of the state Supreme Court made the change official. But the 53 year old Moore, a firebrand who ranks among the stronger and more persuasive governors in West Virginia's 113 year history, hardly will be forgotten by his constituency. Moore was the first governor to serve two consecutive four year terms and made a powerful Stay Overturned; Gilmore Executed -SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Gary Gilmore was shot to death shortly after sunrise today in the first execution in the United States in a decade. A prison official announced. "The order of the Fourth Judicial District has been carried out." Gilmore was shot about 8:05 a.m., MST approximately 16 minutes after sunrise.

The state rushed to carry out the 36 year old condemned slayer's death wish after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver lifted a last minute stay of execution just minutes before dawn. Gilmore's quest for death had apparently been thwarted seven hours earlier when U.S. District Judge Willis Ritter stayed his execution in a desperation suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. But a three judge appellate court panel convened at 6:30 a in Denver, 400 miles away across the Rockies, and lifted the stay eight minutes before the time set for the execution S.

Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Thurgood Marshall turned down a final appeal minutes later. Inaugural Festivities Attract Diverse Crowd bid for a third term. His battle to run again ended only days before the primary election when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Moore's case. He was indicted for extortion while in office, but was cleared of the charge.

Even in his parting shots. Moore bristled with his own strength, refusing to the last hour to allow the Rockefellers access to the executive mansion, despite a legal mandate that he vacate the house he has lived in for the last eight years. SuccessfuLia Jus-jeeeond bid-for the governor's mansion, Rockefeller must now prove himself. He has taken two of Moore's favorite projects and made them his own. Where the Republican chief executive was frustrated in his attempt to remove the state's regressive sales tax on food.

Rockefeller is expected to succeed. In the field of roads. Moore built interstates. -Rockefeller has promised to restore the long neglected backroads of West Virginia, along which many of the state's people live. Weather It's sunny, but it's cold.

Temperatures for the next! two days will read this: a high today of 0 to 51 above, a low tonight of 5 to 10 below, a high Tuesday of 5 to 10 above. In addition, it likely will snow tonight and Tuesday with an 80 per; a precipitation. index Bridge 11 Classified 12-15 Comics 11 Creative Living 5 Editorials 4 Funerals 16 People 9 Puzzles 11 Ring Register 9 Sports 6-7 Television 3 GARY I Inaugural weekend. Thousands went to Charleston Saturday and Sunday to take in activities prior to today's inauguration of Jay Rockefeller as governor. They watched eight performances at the new Science and Culture Center, including a session in the Great Hall with West Virginia Horns, shown above.

Shown below are the parents of Rockefeller, John D. Ill and Blanchette. They live in New York City.CCNS Photos. They Came From All Over By ADRIAN GW1N Clay Communications News Service CHARLESTON From the north, south, east and west they came to see Jay Rockefeller from Wheeling and Princeton, from Pineville and Huntington, and neither snow nor zero weather could keep them at home. "If I'd known the weather was going to be like this I'd have stayed home! said a woman checking in at a midtown motel here.

Her companion, bundled to the ears in scarf and woolen hat, fur coat and snow boots, said. You couldn't have kept her at home with chains! She has a ticket to the inaugural ball!" Outside, the thermometers proclaimed 2 degrees above zero, and there was a wind blowing. That was Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Streets were deserted, or near- lv so it seemed at first glance. But the cars came and went, a steady stream of traffic centered around the city's inns and hotels.

The inauguration of the state's 29th governor brought to the capitol city a cross section of the voters who elected Jay Rockefeller by the greatest margin the state has ever seen. The series of events marking the inaugural weekend the various cultural and entertainment programs at the Cultural Center drew some. Even the Democrats who wouldn't have voted for Arch Moore for money exclaimed in delight when they saw the wonders of the Cultural Center, and admired the Arch Moore bust in its place of prominence on the Great Hall balcony there. Mr. and Mrs.

Linkfield of Huntington Paul and Thula to Charleston Sunday afternoon. "It was such a pretty one of them said. They arrived at the Cultural Center for the beginning of the ballet program by Beckley Dance Theatre at 2 p.m., but missed the ballet. There were plenty of tickets, but the Huntington couple was so absorbed in seeing the Cultural Center they skipped the ballet to inspect the seventh wonder of the Capitol Complex. It wasn't their first time in Charleston, but it was their first at the new Center.

Yes, they drove from Huntington, and yes, they'll drive back Monday for the inauguration. "We wouldn't miss it for anything!" they said. Like many another "average citizen" they voted for Rockefeller and want to see him inaugurated. And like thousands of other average citizens, they do not have tickets to anything. But they wilt be on hand for the festivities.

In downtown Charleston, Claude Randolph, manager of Holiday Inn No. 1. said that facility has been booked for Sunday and Monday nights for a month. "We were booked at least three weeks ago, probably a month ago, and that seems to be just about the story at the other inns and hoteli," he said. "Yes," he said, "they're coming and going, they're not letting the cold and the snow keep (See.