Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

Wilmington News Journal One Hundred Thirty ifth Year No 55 Wilmington Ohio Wednesday December 18 1974 16 Pages Price 15 Possible Justify steel hikes ord says profiteering Capitol glow of the Capitol in was lighted Sen Sam Ervin IC Residential natural gas curbs seen weather Jobs bill pushed before solons adjourn the passing show by IC Clinton massive ease said a merely came from the Pisgah National orest in North Carolina (AP Wirephoto) SOUTHWEST Partly cloudy this evening followed by increasing cloudiness later tonight and light snow Thursday Snow possibly becoming mixed with rain in the afternoon Highs in the mid to upper 30s disregard the action by Goldie and gave the book to the court bailiff "i Patrolman Paul Dischner was the first witness Wednesday morning and told of being close friends with Dale Powell for the past two years Dischner told the prosecution that he was called at about 11:30 at his home on April 23 by Dale Powell who asked him to come over for a minute Dischner said he was home for lunch at the time and when he finished he drove across the street from his home to Dischner said he was driving cruiser 109 and that he parked it in the driveway of home He said the subject of murder came up and he said Powell told him he was supposed to keep an appointment with Randy Goldie at at 11 pm and that a lot of people knew he was to have a meeting Dischner said Powell told 'him it look good if he (Powell) had a 12 gauge shotgun in his house and that he wanted to put it in the cruiser I agreed Dischner said I asked him if he kept his appointment at 11 and he said not that Dischner said he pulled the cruiser in the garage and Powell put the gun inside cruiser 109 Dischner said that he and Powell and other members of the police department had discussed that they were sure Goldie was dealing in drugs He said Powell had arrested Goldie twice once when he (Dischner) was with him and another time Powell requested Dischner as a backup to the arrest The arrests were for reckless operation and for speeding Dischner said Dischner said on one arrest Goldie a little and that he acted like $60 bond was nothing Dischner said Goldie told Powell in effect Dale played his cards right he could have that kind of Dischner was asked if he thought Powell was a good policeman say 7 Dale Powell was one of the best policeman I ever Dischner replied On cross examination Dischner said Powell had been elected Patrolman Of WASHINGTON (AP) Thousands of recession jobs for the unemployed and a foreign aid bill renewing funds for Turkey appear headed for the approval Jan 1 for Pan Am pilots Sugar prices in New York where the highest in the nation are being cut by as much as 20 per cent Retailers in other parts of the country say they plan to follow suit mainly because their prices were lower to begin with A former Port William and Ohio State University basketball player Don Devoe will be on channel 6 at 8 pm tonight as the head coach of Virginia Tech His team plays OSU be using misleading figures to cover up huge increases in profits further slump in the housing industry was signaled by a deepening decline in the number of new building permits and a falloff in new housing starts to the lowest level in eight years ederal Energy Administration obtained pledges from 15 oil companies for price rollbacks totaling about $77 million for alleged overcharging The EA also wiped off the books some $375 million in claimed costs that otherwise could have been passed to The murder trial of a city policeman recessed at 1 testimony from seven witnesses the last one an investigator from the Bureau of Criminal Identification William Mark from BCI testified Tuesday morning and was called back today in the trial of Dale A Powell 26 237 Burdel Dr Powell faces a charge of aggravated murder in the April 22 shotgun slaying of Randall Goldie 22 Martinsville as he sat in his car at the side of Scottie Restaurant Mark was asked by the prosecution about his conversation with Dale Powell at the Bureau of Criminal Investigation on April 23 Mark said he talked to Powell for about an hour and that during the early part of their conversation Mark indicated to Powell that he (Powell) might be a suspect Mark said that indicated to me that if he were to tell me the truth I would put a noose around his Special assistant to Prosecutor Ronald Carey James asked Mark if he had been asking Dale Powell to tell the truth Mark said Mark also said he had explained to Powell that there were many degrees of homicide and that in some instances the case does not go to a jury trial Upon cross examination by attorney Charles Kirk Mark said Powell indicated to him that he had no confidence in the treatment he would receive from the police department in the city of Wilmington Mark added that Powell felt the same way toward him too Ricky Goldie Dudley Rd Blanchester brother of the slain man was called to the stand and identified a picture of Randall Goldie taken at the morgue on April 23 Upon leaving the stand fticky Goldie turned to Judge Howard Barns put what appeared to be a payihent book on the bench and said made one car research program on non nuclear ener gy Coal oil shale and solar energy development are the goals of the bill Senate blocked efforts to impose additional taxes on oil companies The move for higher taxes who directs the Ohio Energy Commission that residential gas confirmation is scheduled for final House approval late Thursday and he is to be sworn in as vice president hour later in the Senate chamber The Senate has approved live television coverage Of the swearing in the first Senate television coverage ever Congress previously had cut off all US military aid to Turkey as of Dec 10 because of occupation of Cyprus The new foreign aid bill would operations to survive at 35 per said an executive for ederal Glass Co in Columbus which has already furloughed some employes and shut down one gas fired boiler furnance to accomodate the cut new cut is certainly unexpected and is definitely going to change Some of the burden must go to residentioners Sweet said homeowners would rather be a little chilly and the head of the household he said Alternative sources were also in demand and some in short supply A manager for Standard Oil Co of Ohio cautioned that "if the requests start coming in a flood we may be forced to begin allocating Earlier this month SOHIO with inventories 10 per cent greater than a year ago warned that it may not have adequate supplies of natural gas for its refineries to turn crude oil into usable products late this week Turkey until eb 5 House and Senate conferees agreed on The only other major business facing legislation authorizing $51 billion for up Congress is confirmation of Nelson A to 330 000 public service jobs in local' Rockefeller as vice president government and ior jobless benefits to millions of people who are not now eligible A companion bill would extend unemployment benefits for 52 weeks President ord asked Congress to appropriate $4 billion of the new aid right away for 110000 public service jobs and extended unemployment com pensation benefits A House committee approved? that appropriation Tuesdays night Richard Jackson Columbus service' director director of transportation He previously worked with Rhodes in the old Highways Department Donald Cook former Ohio' liquor director highway safety director S3 agreed to the compromise after Kissinger told them he believes progress on Cyprus can be made by the cutoff date A continuing resolution will be put through Congress to fund foreign aid on a stop gap basis until next eb 28 by which time the new Congress should approve an appropriation for it In other congressional developments: The Senate passed and sent to President ord a bill committing the United States to a $20 billion 10 year 1 I Also appearing on the stand during iiivza iiijtite vi auuiiiiaii xiiaiiy Jones who identified a shotgun introduced by the prosecution as one taken to BCI along with 1 1 other city police shotguns for examination Thomas Mickleson a technician in the crime lab at BCI and who identified himself as an expert on identification of firearms and tool marks testified that in his opinion the shotgun introduced as evidence by the prosecution was thp one which fired the shells found at the murder scene He said identifying marks were similar on test shells that were fired and on the shells found at the scene He did say a scratch found on the firing pin of the shotgun left an impression on the test shells that were not present on the shells found "at the scene Police Sergeants Robert Vanscoy and Harty Jones testified that they took the shotguns to BCI for examination Police detective Sergeant William Hidy testified he removed two shotguns from Cruiser 109 and tagged them to be sent to BCI Hidy also testified he turned over the shotgun shells from the murder scene to agent Bill Mark of BCI COLUMBUS Ohio energy chief David Sweet predicted Tuesday that homeowners may experience some chill this winter in order to keep the head of the household working Sweet Emergency suggested curtailments may sqon' be necessary to save jobs 1 His statement was made following the announcement of more cutbacks in natural gas allocations to large volume industrial customers by Columbia Gas of Ohio Inc The company notified 540 customers that their natural gas supply will be reduced another 20 per cent to 55 per cent below the 1971 level Already layoffs have resulted from consequences of the 35 per cent gas cutback in effect through the end of this month been trying to adapt our WASHINGTON (AP) President ord has demanded that the largest steel producer justify an 8 per cent price increase that shows signs of spreading through the industry and may ripple across other segments of the troubled economy Under the order the Council on Wage and Price Stability demanded an immediate explanation Tuesday of the price increase being put into effect today by the United States Steel Co Within 24 hours of the industry i priceboosting announcement Steel Corp the 13th largest producer said it also was hiking customers in price increases The price prices up to 8 per cent rollbacks will benefit some consumers As ord set the price battle in motion through lower prices but the actual i reasury secretary William Simon upped the estimate for unemployment next year and warned that the recession will deepen into the spring of next year Simon told the Senate Budget Committee that unemployment now 65 per cent will rise to about 75 per cent next year before it turns around Previously he said it would reach 7 per cent but indicated then he be surprised if it went higher He also cautioned against government spending to recessionary pressures Simon government spending spree would touch off more inflation which he said is the prime cause of recession criticism of US price increases recalled President John battle with the industry in 1962 Kennedy publicly denounced US questioned WASHINGTON (AP) The food chains appear to be using misleading figures to cover up huge increases in profits congressional economic experts say The staff of the Joint Economic Committee said of benefits will depend on factors such as products designated for price cutbacks and geographic areas where rollbacks must be applied Pilots of financially troubled Pan American World Airlines agreed to take an 11 per cent pay cut starting eb 1 to help the ailing carrier The agreement will more than wipe out the scheduled 9 per cent pay raise that goes into effect quarterly profitability in 1973 with 1974 raises serious questions including possible The staff memo to the committee stresses the preliminary nature of its conclusions and urges rigorous fundamental questioning The committee concludes hearings on food pricing practices Thursday with testimony from three food chain executives ood chains in explaining a 15 per cent increase in grocery prices for the second straight year have pointed to profits in terms of a percentage of sales On Tuesday WS Mitchell president of the industry leading Safeway Stores Inc said the major food chains received net profits this year of about 09 per cent of sales up from last controls affected 07 per cent That still is below the for the or 1 1 per cent of sales that is traditional for the supermarkets on that index he noted He said profits for the first 36 weeks of 1974 amount to 14 per cent of sales which is also its 1964 1974 average net profit But the staff memo prepared for the committee use duringiqueStioning'at hearings concludes' that of return on equity is the more valid indicator of retail food chain And the staff memo said the food explanation of their profits to be intentionally misleading and designed to cover up the recent explosion in the profitability of these In case Mitchell agreed under questioning by Sen William Proxmire Wis vice chairman and principal instigator of the investigation the return to investors this year has risen substantially Sen Hubert Humphrey Minn also said that profits rose from 134 per cent of equity for all of 1973 to 145 per cent in the first quarter of this year to 172 per cent in the second and 196 per cent in the third Historically the staff memo said such rates not been inadequately and profit for the food industry super markets included have followed the trends of all Industries increases and they subsequently withdrew them 1 US Steel said Monday it was increasing prices an average of 8 per cent on two thirds of its products The increases primarily will affect the construction rail and oil industries A company spokesman argued the increases were necessary because profits were held down by price controls in re cent years US profits of $4634 million in the first nine months of 1974 were higher than in any 12 month period in the history of Pueblo Colo which makes steel for the mining petroleum and transportation industries has reported earnings of $226 million for the first nine months of this year more than four times its profits for the full year of 1973 The Council on Wage and Price Stability has no authority to order a price rollback Its chief weapon is focusing public attention on pricing situations action on the steel increase and jobless forecast came against the background of a mixed dose of other national economic news moved closer to quick passage of legislation creating thousands of public service jobs and expanding unemployment benefits An agreement worked out by Senate and House conferees would authorize up to 330000 jobs while a companion bill would provide full 52 weeks of benefits for the jobless President ord is expected to go along with the legislation Congressional economic experts said the food chains appear to Tll fk 1 12 a uv vii nun i i ir i in i ii ivhv iiuiii amh i inrin i rvi MV11 UU11K 11V 141 15 Washington shows the sign of the times pressed the button to light the tree which snomy aner me capitoi Christmas 1 ree Rhodes firms up choices for Cabinet COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) There were still no official confirmations but word leaking out of Gov elect James A offices Tuesday indicated his cabinet selections were being firmed up James A Duerk 44 his press secretary and chief campaign aide is reportedly in line to become director of the Economic and Community Development Department in the new administration Duerk a native of Defiance who now lives in Marysville has been a longtime Ohio Republican Party public relations director Other reported choices: Ned Williams of Toledo Environmental Protection Agency Director Gordon Peltier former commerce director back to his old spot although he' wanted to be adjutant general and was in line for that job until Rhodes insisted he return to commerce Helen Evans 69 of Marysville director of industrial relations' She was a deputy director during Rhodes previous two terms to Walker who recommended her Senate Clerk Harry Jump 60 of Willard a former state senator insurance director Howard Collier 42 interim director of Office of Budget Management Collier former finance director has said he agreed to serve renew the assistance until eb 5 Aid then would be cut off until there is on negotiations toward a Cyprus settlement if such progress has not already been made by then House opponents of Turkish aid sponsored by Sen William Roth uei would have levied an additional $400 million on foreign business con ducted by the oil firms The measure failed by a 67 25 vote Congressional conferees on a $3 billion military appropriation bill deleted more than one year funds tor expanding the US station on the British owned island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean Opponents argued the $181 million expansion would have provoked a new arms race with Russia in the area SSfiS Paim food chains hide Thp Ypnrhv hie fallnw iAfnrs noon today followingMweek of he murder CCiaCa irrv An 18 year old waitress at restaurant testified in Clinton County Common Pleas Court Tuesday that it was her call to Goldie that set up what she said was to be a "drug but ended in the shotgun slaying of Goldie as he sat in his car near the restaurant Judy Benlehr testifying for the prosecution in the afternoon told James special assistant to Prosecutor Ronald Carey that she set up a meeting for 11 pm on the west side of with Goldie She also said under cross examination by defense attorney CharlesC 4 A 41 Jh 1 A i UldL dllv LUlkA JU1U1C ilv 11UU IWU Judge Bams instructed the jury 5 to people who wanted to buy two grams of cocaine She said she asked him it he Steel and seven other companies for Hau ii avii aiiU Mv aaiu ji wuuiu nave iv be tonight because he was leaving for She said she first talked to Goldie at 5:30 in the evening and said she told him she would call him later Miss Benlehr told the court that she later talked to the defendant Dale Powell at Powell she said picked as the place for the meeting and told her to tell Goldie to come at 11 pm and to come alone and when he arrived to park by the redwood fence and turn his lights off O'grady asked the witness what Powell said he was going to do "Bust she said agreed to asked wanted him Miss Benlehr testified she had known Dale Powell for a period of about two years and that she had known Randy Goldie for about three months Miss Benlehr told the court she had talked to Powell before April 22 about Randy Goldie She said they talked about what Randy was doing about the illegal sale of narcotics She said that Dale Powell asked her once I would do if Randy ended up dead instead of in jail? I said I Under cross examination by Kirk she was asked really consider it a She told the court that she gave Powell a bag of what was supposed to be marijuana she bought from Doug Parsons at the It was later brought out in the testimony of discharged policeman Ursel Webb that Powell brought the bag to police headquarters on the evening of April 22 to run a test on it and Webb said it was Powell Webb told the court explained to him his plan to Goldie weoo saia roweii told him he had gotten information that Goldie had a (Continued on Page 2) A $27 billion foreign aid bill appears headed for clear sailing as a result of a compromise worked out by Secretary of State Henrv A Kissinoer and influential Happy Independence Day! Workmen of Congress as it pushes for adjournment House members to renew military aid for began turning on some ot the city new traffic lights Tuesday afternoon The new system was tentatively scheduled to be by July but material shortages delayed the completion target date Other lights in the system will be i turned on in a testing program as hooked up A a a 'YW BM I 311 I IP.