Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

8 I Wilmington News Journal One Hundred Thirty Seventh Year No 102 Wilmington Ohio' riday ebruary 13 1976 16 Pages Price 15 Cents Traffic improvement Extra track to cost 176 million Con Rai may cost more Baker said the costs of moving The addition to 2000 miles of track Red backed Bur oak 'more than 500 years old Red Chinese power struggle weather radical leftists led by Mao's wife himself President's Dollar Day Sale today Saturday Monday i took over the operation of the farm Also located on the Big Oak arm is the old Hornbeam School Mrs Jones has the original deed for the tract of land where the one room school still stands The school board purchased theland in 1861 The building was vacated buy The purchase officially died at midnight Wednesday when the time limit given the carriers to make the in the she continues The son Phillip is the fourth generation to live on the farm The original house was built in 1868 by Mrs must be subsidized by local federal funds or abandoned will increase the need for government funding of ConRail from $185 billion to $2026 billion USRA said Congress already has passed and President ord has signed a bill authorizing a government investment 49 0 cloudy as it awaits Mother Nature to clothe her in her spring finery The tree stands on the Great Oak arm owned by Curtis and Virginia Jones which is two miles sotfth of US 22 and SR 3 west Clinton County Bicentennial Medallion IB Even with the imperfections caused when lightning struck the top of this stately bur oak tree the largest recorded in Ohio the gigantic tree is still magnificent in its state of undress of Sabina The tree measures 20 feet in circumference is 88 feet tall and has a corwn spread of 105 inches An idea as t6 the size of the tree can be obtained by comparing the Jones who are silhouetted beneath the tree the 2 000 miles of track it planned to sell to the Chessie System and Southern Railway will instead be included in ConRail That stretches ConRail routes to The Henderson's had a son and a daughter Ernest and Jessie Jessie later married UB Morgan and they made their home with widowed mother on the Great Oak arm The had three children John William now of Cincinnati Alice who is deceased and Virginia Jones in 1927 at the time of the school After Mrs death the Jones consolidation at Sabina WASHINGTON (AP) The failure more than 17000 miles and adds new of two railroad companies to purchase rehabilitation and maintenance costs to 2000 miles ot track may force the taxpayers to supply another $176 million in funding for the government backed ConRail system The US Rail Association the agency overseeing the reorganization of seven ailing cent of American companies it surveyed reported pressures to make payoffs to foreign government officials customers and others The Conference Board an independent nonprofit business research' organization said its study was made of 73 top level executives of representative business firms' as the most requested payments are kickbacks and other payoffs to customers and bribes to government officials to overcome red the report said It the practice is most widespread in Latin America and the Middle East with the BY ROSE COOPER Staff Writer The largest recorded bur oak tree in the state of Ohio is located Clinton County The champion tree stands in a comer of the barnyard near the entrance gate at the Great Oak arm 1927 Hornbeam Rd Sabina The farm located about two miles south of US 22 and SR 3 west of Sabina is owned by Curtis and Virginia farm has been in my family for nearly 150 says Mrs Jones $12 million A former lawyer for Lockheed in Zurich Hubert Weisbrod said he would spread of 105 feet cooperate fully with a Dutch In May 1960 the tree was listed in government investigation into an alleged payment of $1 million to Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands Weisbrod said he made payments for Lockheed into Swiss bank accounts upon orders of the company but that he know how the money was used TOKYO (AP) Acting Chinese minister of security and No 11 in the Premier Hua Kuo fene two chief rivals irst Vice Premier Teng Hsiao ping and Second Vice Premier Chang Chun chiao are expected to be given commanding positions in the Cohimunist party and withdrawn from government administration the Peking correspondent of the Kyodo news agency reported today The Japanese news report said Hua was named acting premier by the 16 member party politburo but the 149 member party central committee had not met yet to confirm or reject the appointment Hua appears to have the inside track for the premiership but it seems likely that both Teng and Chang will make a fight for it unless the prospect of party seniority satisfies them the report said There has been rid indication when the central committee will meet China watchers were stunned last means But ideology comes first to weekend bv word from the Chinese capital that Teng considered heir Chiang Ching and possibly encouraged apparent to the late Premier Chou En by the 82 year old party chairman lai had been passed over and Hua the and its president MT Stamper have declined to turn over information subpoenaed for the probe of possible company payoffs The firm asked a US District Court in Seattle for an order to protect its records The company said it fears the information might be released by the SEC to third parties Boeing said the information is proprietary and must be protected from needless disclosure Judge Thomas A lannery ordered Boeing to appear on eb 20 to show cause why it has not complied with the SEC subpoena Lockheed and one other major aerospace company Northrop Corp" already have admitted to making millions of dollars in payments to foreign officials and not revealing the payments in their financial statements million contingency fund USRA noted the new price tag would mean only about $74 million would be left in the contingency fund to handle emergencies USRA President James Hagen said the association was reviewing the margin of safety required for ConRail and would announce later if it needs more money USRA planned to sell most of the lines now owned by the Erie Lackawanna and Reading railroads to the Chessie for routes through 1 Pennsylvania and into New York state It planned to sell the Penn Central lines on the Delmarva peninsula the land area that Contains Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia to Southern Although the new ConRail system will require more money initially it has a better chance of making a profit quickly said Hagen He said USRA projections indicate the new system will lose $359 million in 1976 but will make a profit of $151 million in 1979 Hagan said USRA still hopes to have ConRail operating by April 1 but admitted the last minute would require additional work to meet that date Although both major sale attempts fell through 65 minor purchases of properties owned by seven ailing carriers were made by solvent private carriers in the Northeast and Midwest The seven ailing railroads to be included in ConRail are the Penn Central the Erie Lackawanna the Reading the Central of New Jersey the Lehigh Valley the Lehigh and Hudson River and the Ann Arbor Pickard Wilmington area weather observer for the Cincinnati River District covers a 24 hour period ending 1 am today Character of day is for today Maximum Minimum party hierarchy had become acting premier Speculation that a power struggle was under way was heightened today by telephone reports from Peking residents that dozens of posters have appeared on the walls of Peking University indirectly attacking the 71 wthr information from Kent year old Teng Such poster campaigns were one of the chief propagandas weapons of the radicals during the 1966 69 Great Cultural Revolution in which Teng was a casualty and they often reflect the thinking of Chairman Mao Tse tung posters attacked and resurrected a well known Teng quotation do not care whether a cat is black or white the important thing is whether she catches observation meant that Chinese problems have to be tackled with realism the end justifying the Precipitation I Character of Day SOUTHWEST Partly cloudy tonight Lows in the low 30s Sunny Saturday Highs in the upper 40s and low 50s Chance of precipitation 20 per cent tonight and 10 percent Saturday Ohio Extended Outlook (Sunday through Tuesday) A chance of showers and above normal temperatures Sunday through Tuesday Highs in the 50s and low 60s Lows in the 30s the ouasieovernment cornoration But inclusion of the track also arrangements expired reouces me amount oi competition ConRail will face in the Northeast and 360 miles of which are unprofitable and iwiuwest regions wnere it win operate i and thereby increases the traffic engineer Ted Baker an engineer specializing i2in traffic assistanceinGreeneand Montgomery Counties told 65 residents members of city council and' city and county officials at Wilmington High School that his recommendation a combination of two of the alternate plans would cost between $160000 and $180000 Baker had been employed by city council last fall to study the traffic problems in the eastern part of the city specifically the Rombach Ave area from John St to include the shopping center Plan A submitted by Baker provides three lanes of traffic from the shopping center west to just past the Burger Chef entrance Right turns only would be permitted at both the west and east entrances to the shopping center with a traffic light at the main' entrance to the center opposite A traffic light would also be installed at the Super Valu entrance on Rombach Avg Plan only change from plan A is basically that the three lanes will begin at the shopping east entrance and would end at the west entrance and pick up again at Oak St and extend to just past Burger Chef Plan would eliminate the traffic light at the Super Valu entrance which is in Plan A and the back entrance in the Super Valu lot would be used to profit USRA said The last minute switch in route structure occurred because the Chessie and Southern were unable to work out labor agreements with employes of the rail lines they were to of $185 billion and establishing a $250 Three alternate 'plans to relieve connect with ife Ave traitic congestion and cut down the number of accidents in the Rombach utilities in the area were not figured in Ave area were presented at a town the costs He said his traffic surveys in meeting Thursday night by a Dayton the area were made a week before Christmas on a riday when travel in the area was heavy He said that 662 financially ailing Northeastern chances of making a on nomoacnAve eacn nour aunng mis railroads announced Thursday that period He cautioned those present that are only intermim solutions and really needed is a ultimate bypass plan around the area which would include five lanes of Mayor Robert Moyer who called the meeting said idea is not to reach a solution tonight but to get resident Cooper Snyder owner of Hardware in the shopping center said center business is being strangled by the traffic He said he had expanded his store because he heard council was going to on the traffic problem at the shopping Councilman John Hosier said acted in good faith in previous councils (referring to the deferred state improvement in the area) and why in this situation now This is the first positive action now We are taking the ball and moving with Councilman Walter Peelle asked Baker what the time table would be for completing the project Baker answered that it would take approximately one year Moyer said council now has the real question does the money come 1 Sponsor campout at Indian Lake the Ohio orestry publication Big Mrs Jones said the tree is thought to be more than 500 years old we came to this conclusion was through an article in the Saturday Evening Post The article told about a bur oak tree in Indiana that was nearly the size of our tree and the experts there said the tree was more than 500 years According to Mrs Jones the huge tree has been struck by lightning threetimes that she knows about first two times the bark was only skinned a little bit but the last time the top was COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) The Ohio she says tree is still uegartmeni oi Natural nesources is magnificent and is beautiful and shady sponsoring its utn annual winter campout eb 20 22 at Indian Lake Dillon and Pike Lake state parks The campouts will include hikes sledding ice skating and other indoor grandparents William and and outdoor activities the department Mary Ruth Douglas Henderson who said were married on August 20 1838 Angolans make gains By The Associated Press Soviet supported Angolan and Cuban forces have completed their conquest of the strategic Benguela Railroad across central Angola and pushed their advance to within 30 miles of the southern border of the southwest African country reports from Luanda' said today Leaders of the Western backed National Union (UNITA) repeated a call lor guerrilla war against the victorious Popular Movement (MPLA)' The Soviet news agency Tass reported from Luanda the MPLA capital that the town of Luso in east central Angola fell to the MPLA after heavy fighting and that considerable amounts of equipment and armaments were seized Tass said the capture of Luso gave the MPLA full control of the 1000 mile railroad that spans Angola from the ports of Benguela and Lobito to the Zaire border The report said the railroad is being repaired Luanda Radio said the retreat of UNITA forces in the south turned into a Jane Bergerol' of the London inancial Times reported that another MPLA broadcast said UNITA and South African troops had retreated from the town of 30 miles north of the border with South West Africa The town which Miss Bergerol said the South Africans captured last Aug 27 was the southernmost advance reported for the combined Cuban and MPLA forces sweeping through UNITA territory Corporate payoff probeexpanding to include Boeing WASHINGTON (AP) Even as the ar East and Africa far waves from an international bribery The SEC said in documents filed in scandal involving Lockheed Aircraft US District Court here that Boeing spread across the: globe the government has disclosed it is investigating whether the Boeing Co engaged in similar activities The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it has received information that Boeing have made illegal payments to certain foreign government officials in connection with foreign operations" A spokesman for Boeing said in Seattle that the company denies any wrongdoing either in this country or abroad Lockheed's board of directors scheduled a meeting today in Los Angeles for discussion of disclosures of international payoffs by the firm There were reports that two top company executives would resign Meanwhile a business research to the SEC and the public group said Thursday that about 75 per oreign payments are not in themselves illegal this country but failure to mention them in financial statements is unlawful the SEC says Domestic political contributions by corporations are illegal The Japanese oreign Ministry said in Tokyo it wants the US government to provide the names of Japanese for as long as I can remember it officials who allegedly received' has been known as The Great Oak seen insiae party apparatus Lockheed payoffs The payoffs in Japan alone are said to total about The gigantic tree measures 20 feet in circumterence three teet from the ground stands 88 feet tall and has a plans presented at town meeting If 'Y'Tw A 7 'V I A 'X Lil I I 9.