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2--Raleigh Register, Beckiey, W. Thursday Miernoon. Oct. 24, 1974 'Nation Heads For A Deep Recession' And Ambulance Service Cut (Continued From Page 1) MFHP. These vehicles are longer in operation.

provide the insurance and month on the emergency maintenance. ambulance service, three of the ambulances and County Court President operate them," Ms. Brooks -James said today "I was The county wouldn said. "But, the cost of runn- surprised when I heard that even want to. have those ing ambulances has more Raleigh Ambulance would than doubled since I started in business in 1971." "Every time I have gone vehicles back.

one has over 100,000 on the odometer," Walter James no a By RICHARD HUGHES UPI Business Writer The nation is headed for a deep recession this year and President Ford should take steps to halt it, an unofficial economic adviser to Ford and a top auto executive said Wednesday hi separate Hgrvty J. Dton system for crude oil that would limit the prof its of the Uar A companies. i a i for Harvey -The exchange value of Ja es a 7 8 -of will be conducted by tne emergency calls. Right off said in March. However, in to the county court to ask for hand I can't tell you why Burial will be in Rose Lawn the an answer all they say is there has been a delay.

It's i a Princeton. "Washington has told everyone not to buy and the recession is here now in the auto industry. This 'don't buy' philosophy is hurting us," Chrysler Chairman the U. S. dollar was at a six- month low in Brussels and a five-month low in Zurich.

Foreigh bankers said the weakness of the dollar was a prospects for the American will be Memorial Dean died at eC -ETonomists at Morgan Beckiey a major nos lta after a lon ll Guaranty Trust, New York bank, said this A retired miner, he was a missioners authorized $2,000 they JH 'take the matter not that we don't to do to put the three ambulances under The something. don't want He'died Wednesday morn- "back in usable people of Raleigh County Mullens hospital "Two months ago there are tne ones who are suffer- was a meeting with the ing from the county court's commissioners, represen- inability or unwillingness to Williams Funeral ta action." Ms. Brooks an attorney for Rose stated. Quesenberry-Funeral Raleigh Ambulance Ser- and myself. Ms.

vice will continue to answer six'grandchildren -and two proposed a three according to the owner of agreement to purchase ereat grandchildren. vehicles be dis- the firm. "We've answered three new ambulances at Friends may call from 5 tributed among the three over 3j0 oo emergency calls $6,405.50 each (50 per cent i thp fTiiirt ing in a after a long illness. Born July 9. 1899, at ton he was a son of the Nathaniel and Martha and include one son.

E. N. (Pete) of i to hurt nobody." On Sept. 5, James told Joe Richards of the Governor's i a a A ministration, (GSHSA) that a plan of operation for Raleigh County Emergency Ambulance Service with an year "seems likely to be the born in West Virginia at industry reported its worst new car sales period in 10 years. a a a i i of i i a economist who help Ford organize the economic summit conferences, said in a newspaper interview the economy would hit the bot- of a a recession" in mid-1975 but rebound quickly.

In other bleak signs for the economy: The a i come actually will show a decline." Frances Garrett Dean. He was a member of the Mrs. Ardeth Hilderbrand, vehicles insured expected us to provrde Brooks said, "I just can't af- a i a pay the to subsidize this kind of i and the service any longer." contends she --Chrysler said it may Baptist church and an Army while visiting in Miami, Fla. ma i i veteran of World War I. 'Death was attributed to an 75, Fairmont, died Tuesday "If the loses in excess of $2,000 per however.

county funds and 50 per cent state funds) would be.sub- mitted to the "GHSA. No action has yet been taken oh i i close a major assembly plant in Detroit affecting 100 workers and RCA said it un will lay off 400 workers at a Survivors include his wife, daughters, Marion, 6 a 0 i a There mildly en- i a couraging note for con- Clarence Charleston, sumers. The Agriculture seven, Wdl Department said beef prices pcre). Hayoies, could decline this fall, but at Mrs. Henry (Maude) Enms.

the a i officials Mrs En- Death was attributed to an apparent heart attack. She is survived by a son, Gerald Hilderbrand of Oak, Hill. The is a't Funeral iHome. in Fairmont. Elliott M.

Ingram Funeral services will'be held Friday at 2 m. in the Melton Mortuary Chapel for Elliott M. Ingram, 52, of. Mrs. and Sla or with the Rev.

L. J. Combs in charge. Burial a i reported new car sales for predicted higher prices for nw, Mrs. ana the first 20 days in October 0 and all all were down 21.8 per cent vegetables except potatoes of a and Mrs i be i from a year ago.

and dry beans. Lester. (Inez) Jones and Cemetery. -Prices on the New York According to a survey by Mrs Lena Leham, both of Ingram, a miner, was Stock Exchange suffered the Unites States League of Fprt Lauderdale, a 9 a at his home their worst decline in nine Savings Associations, prices s.epgrandchildren; and 17 Wednesday evening Ac- in the a of goods and-services most step-great-grandchildren cording to the funeral home, needed bv people have Friends may call at the he died sometime Sunday increased the most in the funeral home from 5 p. to night of natural causes.

past seven years while those 9 day least needed have increased i i the least. Okey Hendncks The four items which rose i a i for. over company profits now the most in prices since 1967 Herndon, will Anna Mae warran reaching record were dried beans, up 318.1 be conducted at 11 a.m. Fri- Ingram. per cent; potatoes, up 178 day at Foglesong, government reports of low orders for durable goods and higher consumer prices.

--A renewed confrontation i i nations and oil companies a a A i i of Raleigh County, he w.as born at Grandview, 18,1921, the son of the late James Ar- He had lived at Slab Fork Organization of Petroleum percent-'sugar, up per and Neely Funeral Home, the past 12 years where Exporting Countries said it cen and rice, up 144 per Mullens, with the Rev. Lon- he was employed in the coal was drafting a new pricing cent, the study showed. nie Blankenship in charge. Raleigh Ambulance Service today announced that it would no longer respond to police, rescue squad, or West Virginia Turnpike emergency calls. Ms.

Raroona Brooks, owner of the firm, hands driver George Hunter an order to respond onlv to calls at coal mines or to the families of coal miners. "After all, the miners are the ones who have nelpea me most," Ms. Brooks said. mines. He was a member of the Slab Fork Local of the United Mine, Workers of America and a veteran of (Continued From Page 1) World War II.

His wife; Pauline, preced- a a control, ac- coyer up scandal. the Watergate ilio i A i i i ed him in death on Dec. 25, cording to previous tes- Schools Peaceful 1971. Surviving him are his daughter, Mrs. Ann Mae Basham, Midway; a son, a a a sister.

Mrs. Dorothy Hicks, Beckiey; a a A a a grandchild. Friends at the- funeral home from 5 m. 9 p. m.

today. John H. Jefferson John Howard Jefferson of Washington, D. formerly i i i Washington Tuesday. He was the nephew of Mrs.

a Baker'of Beckiey. The body, is at the Manor a a Home i Washington, D. C. timony. Dean testified Wednesday that another, former Colson, a th-e a a a a i i House." According to Dean, tne idea was first Colson-, who-was originally possibility that charged-in- the Watergate Nix be as a a pleaded guilty to lesser In other developments "--Dean took more than $15,000 -in leftover campaign funds from the White House just before he was fired 18 months ago, and the money is still in a bank awaiting determination of who rightfully owns --Judge: John Sirica "court witness" so neither the prosecution nor the charge in a related case and defense have to vouch his credibility on the A black woman, standing on one of the many signs painted in Boston's Hyde Park area, talks to one of the mounted policemen patrolling the school area.

Schools opened peacefully today follow- ThoitlQS A. ing the beating of a black man Wednesday in South Boston. (UPI Photo) was dropped Watergate for Dean said he found out "very recently" that Colson tried to get Mitchell to accept the blame before March 21, 1973, when other aides had the same idea. "Mr. Colson had determined that Mr.

Mitchell was the man to blame for this, a i forward, they would have credibility on stand. A "court witness" i a i a i broader cross-examination powers to the prosecution and the defense, who both have subpoenaed Nixon as a witness--Under questioning from Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, Dean said that some White House tapes he has heard don't square with Final rites for Thomas A. Spa'dy, 55, of. Tolleytown, the big fish they wanted," of i a a a i on me etings he had with Nixon Kissinger (Continued From Page 1) visit to Moscow comes at a i i a i ion a 1 a 11 a ks against Soviet-American detente.

A senior official traveling with Kissinger said the secretary is a i review the- state of U. Soviet a i in an attempt to determine the future course of detente. i i a a i Washington and Moscow are both interested in improving relations, but seem uncertain about the next steps. "The officials said the Soviet Union apparently wants to size up Ford to see how solidly his administration backs the detente policy promoted 'by former President Richard M. Nixon.

A major focu.s of the talks is to be the search for guidelines at the new round of strategic arms limitation talks opened in Geneva Sept. 18V U. S- i i a said! Kissinger is planning to; offer a variety of ideas for; limiting multiple nuclear' controlling the size of strategic forces and easing the race to i i i The senior U. S. official said there is a good chance of a a i a Brezhnev summit unless unexpected snags develop.

So vjet newsmen, speaking privately, 'said is energetically seeking a Tvov; 23-24 summit in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok: They said the port is already being readied for the encounter. Kissinger's trip began on a sour note, however, when the Soviets unexplainably barred an American correspondent from covering the visit. The secretary expressed 'regret" at the Soviet refusal to grant an entry- visa to Strobe Talbott, 28, a diplomatic correspondent for Time magazine. e.xa i a i a Hostage County Commissioners Agree To Air Condition Courtroom a i Com- Senior Citizens Program, i i a i intermediate a circuit a i spend nearly courtrooms, they were ad- a a i a i $100.000 in revenue sharing vised that such a plan would workers with the program, funds air-condition i a i i a circuit courtroom, in the feasible. amount, county courthouse.

Window air conditioning i i a i i i i Jarnes and i Scott courtroom have been the awarded the job to Meadows target of repeated corn- Construction, Inc. which a i because of i submitted a bid of $97,679 for noise, job. I other court business a It was the only bid sub- this i i mitted on the the commissioners agreed to court said, despite the fact hire Ruth Hall Martin as an that the job was advertised, i and relief Alterations involved in in- switchboard operator in the stalling the central air con- courthouse. She will be paid ditioning include lowering $350 th-e the ceiling, commissioners i said. They added that other ment and Training Act, a details would be available federally-funded program from architect and super- administered the visor Donald Stark.

He could Governor's Manpower of- not be reached this morning, fice. The unit will serve only The court also took under the circuit courtroom. Com- advisement a request from missioners said that follow- Margaret Hill, director of ing an earlier discussion of the Raleigh County Com- negotiating installing one unit which munity Action Association's man as the scandal began un- 2 p.m. in the Lower Church of God at Lester by the Rev. S.

D. Wolford. Burial will follow in the Tolleytown Cemetery. Spady 'died in a local i a a 10:55 a after a long illness. He was born in Savannah, Aug.

2,1919, a son of the late. Thomas A. and Mary E. Thompson Spady. Survivors include his wife, a Christopher, at home; one daughter, -Mrs.

Lou Ann Sawyers Sophia; one a Dorothy Heffler and one Mitchell's lawyer, William G. Hundley, during his sixth day on.the witness stand in the Watergate cover-up trial. Dean, the prosecution's star witness, is on the stand again today for more cross- examination by lawyers for the five former Nixon aides and associates. They are charged with conspiring to Judge Sirica indicated the jury should hear the disputed tapes and decide who was telling the truth Dean or the White House but prosecution sources sav it now appears unlikely the tapes will be played in the near future although they may come up later in they trial. Nixon Returns (Continued From Page 1) hustled her off into a nearby Alitalia office.

Fred Massie, both of, a i i She said- grandchildren, two sisters, door and informed the'air- port he wanted only two con- i i i i i I a because she By STEWART SLAVIN used onlyif the disease had 'LONG BEACH; Calif, become more'serious. A' flare-up of. ailment, which keeps Mrs. Betty Bland of Florida; Richard Nixon's 7 phlebitis. Nixon off the witness stand and Mrs.

Marion Stelly of condition has filled his the. Watergate', cove nip leg i i a i i a proved too strong for a at blockages i the the drugs Nixon was taking North Carolina. i a Melton Mortuary between 5 former president limping at home in San 'reportedly lacks proper a a i i assurances he will be allowed to go freely to Mexico." p.m. and 9 p.m. today.

The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to the funeral. Pallbearers will be Geary Reaction (Continued From Page 1) answer emergency calls on the West Virginia Turnpike (approximately 10 miles distance from the Sophia firm) Flannaghan said "If we have the equipment, we'll do the job." Quesenberry, apparently disturbed by the number of calls which his i receives from municipal agencies, said, "I a matter with the Beckiey Police Department: There was a certified Emergency i a i i a course given 'at the Raleigh General Hospital last week. one representative from the city police depart 1 ment or the rescue "squad was there! to you what a Quesenberry said." on a Saturday: night about two weeks 2 p.m. the police called us back to a hospital. His doc- Lungren.said tor warns surgery may be The mam danger facing needed Nixon is that the phlebitis i physician Dr a disorder of veins in his left and asked us to come and Johi unexpectly leg will cause blood clots, a a a a i Ruble, Gary Ward, Dwafus ordered Nixon Vehospitaliz- If the clots come adrift in his Permelia, Ricky Bryson, ed Wednesday night.

He bloodstream, they can lodge Authorities said they were Fred Massie, Guy Dunbar, revealed the -implementing in vessels feeding vital heart with the gun- hari she had injured her ankle. I told the that AfteraUU FCC Urged To Relax Cable TV Rules Robert Heffler and Steve of tests, previously called muscles and lung tissue. Sawyers. dangerous'which were to be at and Nixon appeared at Long an'd a her up Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center shortly after 6 p.m. PDT Wednesday, ap- Quesenberry and themselves," said.

Both Quesenberry parently to the surprise of Flannaghan said some ac- commercial advertisers; tne hospital staff, which said tion on the part of the county he was not expected. Nixon dustry. "They protect enormously --predicted that wSthout the powerful and vested com- FCC restrictions pay cable a released the mercial television interests would "siphon" the best hospital Oct. 4, after 11 days against competition. They a and the con- stand as a roadblock in the sumers hurt the most would path of the infant cable be the whose only recreation is free TV.

a medium.which holds some promise of providing new treatment. WHY HOBBIES GROW By ED ROGERS "There is a magic about Hollywood Film Council WASHINGTON (UPI) movies that gives them long representing 29 Hollywood Film stars and executives life and continuous attrac- craft unions and spokesmen urged the Federal Com- i to the i he for the Screen Actors Guild i a i Commission testified. "Nothing is deader joined movie executives in today to relax its rules for- than yesterday's news and urging the FCC to allow bidding pay cable television last week's sporting events freer exposure of movies on from using movies more but i are a i cable television. than two years old. tomorrow and forever." Spokesmen for conven- President Jack Valenti of The only exception in the tional television, led by the choices and diversity for the charges siphoning, it is a the Motion Picture Associa- FCC a i is a a i a A i a i of viewing public." -J tion of America testified at movies more than 10 years Broadcasters, argued at the an FCC hearing the rules old may be used on pay opening of the three-day Present FCC rules pre "deny the American public cable circuits during one hearing Wednesday that the vent cable from using any deny it," Valenti said.

week of each month. movie rule is necessary to feature movie over two' Actress Susan Clark said prevent pay cable from years old and allows infre- Ralph Baruch, president pay cable is personally im- i i the quent use of movies up to 10 of Viacom International, a portant to her because it programs from broadcast years old. Cable may cover cable firm, said the real sons of all ages, enables her fans to see her television. They said billions sports events only if conven- is not the A rttho flc work "the way I knew it, not i a are tional TV does not. "siphoning" threat but the potentially at stake.

The National Association a a i a i a i today a a a i NEW (UPI) a a a a Rockefeller left Sloan- i i a Hospital today a week after surgery removal of her cancerous; left breast. Mrs. Rockefeller, accompanied by her husband, Nelson smiled and waved her left arm; above her head as she left: the hospital. "I feel she said. BELFAST (UPI) bomb blast blew out the; front of a furniture store on busy Shankill Road in the Protestant section of Belfast today, injuring three teenage girls.

Police said the bomb- was pushed through a mail slot'! in the door of the shop. The; explosion hurled rubble and glass splinters into the. street. The girls were hospitalized for cuts and shock. LOS ANGELES (UPI) Former gangster Mickey Cohen says he has joined Randolph and Catherine Hearst in efforts to locate their fugitive -daughter, Patricia, who allegedly the Symbionese Liberation Army, the terrorist group that abducted her.

Miss Hearst has been missing since May 16, when she fled the Los Angeles area with' two SLA members. after a police Shootout and fire that killed, six of their comrades. AS (UPI) A federal judge a a.p oin special prosecutors tolpur- sue the embezzlement indictment of milk lobbyist Jake Jacobsen despite the attorney's previous plea bargaining with the Justice: Department which wants i i a a i former Treasury Secretary John B. Connelly. DURHAM, (UPD -The well-financed.

but-unU announced 1976 presidential campaign of Sen, -Lloyd Bentsen DTexas. has a i i political iou's to be cashed in later. The a i term s.e a or a p.a i Wednesday with every major Democrat running for wide office in New-' and, dedicated new. hospital wing Bentsen. a middle-of-the- road Democrat, said he had; not decided to enter New Hampshire's first in a i pri-mary ia March, 1976, still 17 months away.

BUENOS AIRES (UPI) Leftist guerrillas escalated their bitter underground; war a a i i i followers of the late President Juan Peron today, killing an a doctor, a conservative politician andi his Lt. Col. Florencio Gardoni was- shot at point blank; range by two men Wednesday nighs as he left San. miguel Hospital. 18 miles west of Buenos- Re- died within hours the! operating room.

'SAIGON (UPD Four; i i including the information- minister. a cousin of Presi'-' dent Nguyen Van Thieu, resigned today in the wake of growing public criticism, Saigon radio announced; The brief announcement" said Thieu accepted resignations but asked them- to jemairi as caretakers un-T The ministers are 'information; Nhan, finance; Nguz'en Due Cuong, arid Ton That Trinh, agriculture. TRENTON. (UPI) Mrs. Paula Grossman, music teacher who un- derwent a sexchange opera- tion three years ago, has fil- ed suit in federal court ask- ing for reinstatement to her teaching position.

Mrs. Grossman, 55, of a i i el was junior high school teacher in the school district or 14 years, but was suspended after undergoing thexOpera- I tion in April, 1971. The suit, filed Wednesday; asks for reinstatement; back pay, court or other government agency is necessary emergency ambulance service in the county up to adequate standards; the right to see movies at a time, at a place and at a price of its choice." Valenti said the rules are protecting powerful com- merical television interests i i a putting a roadblock in the path of the new pay cable industry. as it is sliced for the insertion of commercials or cut to I -T- falseT even'demagogic issue Reasons for the growth of because economic good the hobby industry sense and marketing logic A i a i shorter work week which results in more leisure time; a greater'interest in hobby products for fun among per- Another reason: hobbies are a diversion away from machine-made products And toward a a rules are designed solely to representing "free" televi- thousands of movies to keep products, especially in the A A. A A IM.

A A 4- A Jt 1 M. fit an arbitrary time slot." for the protect the broadcast in- sion--the cost is borne by of cable TV. (Continued From Page 1) duets, in which the father was the conductor and the son the solist. Oistrakh was a stocky and five feet six inches, tall. He and his wife lived in a six-room apartment in He his leisure time playing chess and tennis.

He used a i a i a i from the Soviet state collection. Published By Beckiey Corp. 34lPrince Beckiey, W. Va. (25801) Telephone-- All Departments 253-3321 Second Class Postage paid a't'- Beckiey and Hinton, W.

Va. i The RaJeigh Register subscription price by mail, as of October 1, 1974 follows: Daily and Sunday, one year, plus.W. Va. saJes lax of $1.53 for a total $52.53. Daily and Sunday, six months.

$26.00, plus W. Va. sales tax of for a total of $26.78. Daily and Sunday, three $13.30. plus W.

Va. sales tax of $0.41,. or a total of a i service is only'V whore there is no established service. Sales tax must be paid on all" p.ipers mailed to West addrcMes, but should not included on mailed to other utes..

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