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12 The Kane Republican, Tuesday, April 6, 1976 King Meets President suit for bankruptcy. Billionaire Industrialist Mysterious Dies from Howard Hughes Stroke Monday 1 i If stock offering that brought him more than $140 million. The SummaCorp. was then set up as Hughes' umbrella for Hughes Airwest, his Nevada hotels and casinos and his vast real estate holdings. Meanwhile, Hughes had made the headlines again.

Writer Clifford Irving had sold the New York publishing company McGraw-Hill an "autobiography" of Howard R. Hughes for $750,000. Irving said Hughes had authorized the book and had collaborated on it. McGraw-Hill, convinced the book was real, paid Irving the money, part of which was to be passed on to Hughes. Instead it ended up in a Swiss bank, deposited by a "Helga R.

Hughes" who turned out to be Irving's wife, Edith. In an elaborately engineered telephone call to several reporters, a man claiming to be Hughes denied that he had authorized the book. McGraw-Hill sued the Irvings and won a court judgement for $766,000, including expenses. The Irvings were indicted in New York by state and federal grand juries on charges that included mail fraud, conspiracy, grand larceny and possession of forged documents. They pleaded guilty and were fined $10,000 apiece.

Clifford Irving was sentenced to 2Vt years in prison, while Edith Irving drew a 2-month sentence. After his parole in 1974, Irving filed BELONGS ON EVERY FRONT DOOR I Military type radar receiver. Not a battery powered toy. Works two to ten times farther than radar without the frequent false alarms of other detectors. Receives all X-Band radars.

Especially effective against the new moving radar. GIVE YOURSELF PARITY IN THE Desert Inn in Las Vegas and barricaded himself in the penthouse. After that, he moved to The Bahamas, then to Nicaragua where an earthquake forced him to flee his hotel, then on to London, back to The Bahamas and finally to Acapulco in February 1976. Hughes' business empire grew out of the Hughes Tool Co. In 1909, Hughes' father and a partner invented an oil drill bit which today is used in drilling operations in every oil-producing company outside the Communist bloc.

Hughes did not earn his initial fame as a businessman but as a pilot. He set aviation speed records in 1935 and again in 1938 when he circled the globe in 3 days, 19 hours. He started designing his own planes, giving birth to the Hughes Aircraft which in time manufactured helicopters, missiles, spacecraft and plane and rocket electronics. Hughes designed or helped design major components of the XF-11 experimental photographic plane, the P3S Lightning fighter, the Constellation airliner and the H-l monoplane. But it was his huge plywood airplane, nicknamed the "Spruce Goose," which was most often remembered.

The government had invested $18 million in the airplane, which was eight stories tall and designed to carry 750 soldiers across an ocean. Called before a Senate subcommittee in 1947, Hughes swore it would fly. It did, but just once and only for one mile. Some critics said its engines were too heavy, but the true reason was never known. The "Spruce Goose" is still locked up in a hangar beside the harbor in Long Beach, Calif.

Meanwhile, in addition to his aviation interests, Hughes was involved in the Hollywood scene. Starting in the 1930s, he had dated such stars as Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Yvonne de Carlo and Ida Lupino. He started financing and making movies, boosting Jane Russell to stardom in "The Outlaw." In 1947, he took over Trans World Airways. In 1970, he acquired Air West, a regional airline, and renamed it Hughes Airwest. In 1963, hit by a lawsuit challenging his '77 per cent ownership of TWA, Hughes refused to appear in public for questioning.

TWA hired ex-FBI agents to serve the papers, but even they were unable to find him. After 10 years of claims and counterclaims, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against TWA. Hughes, in the meantime, had sold his interest in the airline for more than $500 million. In 1972, he sold the oil tool division of Hughes Tool Co.

through a common (Sell aim Offer good on all Pintos in stock. irr- Hughes made the headlines again during the Senate Watergate hearths which preceded President Richard If. Nixon's resignation. Charles "Bebe" Reboso, Nixon's close friend, reportedly told the Watergate committee that Hughes gave him $100,000 for the Nixon-campaign. But Rebozo also reportedly said that he kept the money In safety deposit boxes for nearly three years and then returned it One of the last chapters in Hughes' strange career involved the Central Intelligence Agency, a Russian submarine and a gigantic ship named the Glomar Explorer.

The Glomar was ballyhooed by the Summa Corp. as a marine mining vessel which could pluck valual minerals from the ocean floor. Instead, it was used by the CIA in 1174 in an attempt to salvage the Soviet sub which had sunk six years earlier in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles off Hawaii. The Glomar 's giant steel claw started to raise the submarine, but the submerged vessel cracked in two. One-third of the sub was recovered, but the rest sank back to the ocean floor.

The part that was recovered reportedly contained the bodies of Russian crewmen, training logs and evidence of a capacity to fire nucjear-tipped missiles. 1 The Glomar is now anchored in Lonf Beach Harbor just 1,000 yards from tn iiangar nuusing nugnea opruce Goose." 1 TT KM The Mayan Indians were building a great empire and culture in Central America and in Mexico in 476. Positive visual indication. No annoying or inaudible squeal. Self contained.

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Reg. $109.95 NOW 00 rack and pinion steering front disc brakes solid state ignition' bucket seats color-keyed carpeting a big 13-inch tires HOUSTON (AP) In his death, Howard Robard Hughes was as much a mystery as he was in life. Hughes, billionaire industrialist and aviation pioneer, died of a stroke Monday on a private jet en route from a seaside Mexican resort to a hospital in Houston, where his parents are buried and where he was born 70 years ago. From the age of 19, when he inherited bis father's tool company, until his death, Hughes was an enigmatic figure. Even after Hughes' death, the staff in the beachfront Acapulco Princess Hotel could not say for certain that he had been there, though he was said to occupy the entire top floor.

The pilot who flew him on his final flight did not know he was to be their passenger until shortly before takeoff. And an unmarked ambulance met the plane. Hughes amassed an empire valued at more than $2 billion. His holdings over the years included hotels, gambling casinos, airlines, movie studios, spacecraft and electronics. As Hughes body lay under guard in Methodist Hospital, a board of directors continued to run Howard Hughes' far-flung financial empire "as in the past," said Arelo Seder berg, spokesman for Summa Corp.

Summa was the umbrella corporation that was wholly owned by Hughes. "It has been run by the board of directors and a three-person executive committee," Sederberg said. "It will continue to be run by that group. The company will continue to be a company." The committee is composed of S.W. Gay, executive vice president of Summa; Nadine Henley, Hughes' longtime secretary now a senior vice president of the firm; and Chester Davis, general counsel for Summa.

Sederburg said he did not know who would be named executors of Hughes' estate or if the elusive billionaire had even left a will. Sederberg disclosed that Hughes died of a stroke "a cerebral vascular accident." After a fling in Hollywood and a stint as an daredevil pilot during the 1930s and 1940s, Hughes became more and more retiring. He disappeared from public view in the 1950s, conducting his businesses from a series of sealed-off hotel suites. Methodist Hospital in Houston was told Monday morning at 9 a.m. that Hughes was flying there for treatment.

Two doctors, two nurses and four assistants came to Houston Intercontinental Airport in an unmarked ambulance to await Hughes. The pilots who flew the ailing Hughes from Acapulco to Houston were hired Sunday night in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Roger Sutton and Jeff Abrams said a Florida doctor chartered the Lear jet from an ambulance aviation service. They arrived in Acapulco early Monday morning, but only after sitting on the runway for five hours were they told that their passenger would be Howard Hughes. Hughes looked "like a tired, worn-out old person" when he was carried aboard the plane on a stretcher, Abrams said.

Sutton said Hughes had a thin beard, long greyish hair and looked "very wasted" and "very, very pale." At the Houston airport, authorities had been alerted that a private plane was coming in with a sick man aboard. But when the plane arrived about 2 p.m., Hughes was dead. The doctors accompanying Hughes said he died about half an hour before the plane landed in Houston. In Beverly Hills, Jean Peters, the actress who married Hughes in 1957, said: "I'm sorry; I'm saddened." Miss Peters, Hughes' second wife, divorced Hughes in 1971 after a childless marriage. His first marriage, to Houston socialite Ella Rice, ended in divorce when he was 23.

He dropped out of sight about 1947. Ten years later, after his secret marriage to Miss Peters, his seclusion was virtually complete. After moving around between a series of homes and hotel suites, he and Miss Peters moved into a mansion in Bel Air, in 1961. In 1966, Hughes moved into the Rita- Carlton Hotel in Boston and took over an entire floor. Four years later, on Thanksgiving Eve, he slipped into the years of devoted service have built our reputation JOIKIF.IIILL ItmClALHOISS 837-757 President Ford meets with King Gustaf of Sweden in the White House Weather (Official recordings on U.S.

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It was not determined immediately whether many students shunned classes. In a referendum last week among the university's 13,400 under-graduate students, about 3,100 voted for a one-day boycott of classes while 1,243 were against it. The university has an overall enrollment of 25,000, including graduate and students. Subscribe to the Republican Prescriptions Filled Russell Stover Candy Fine Cosmetics Gift Needs FREE DELIVERY DAILY TEMPLE PHARMACY 9 to 9 Dally 9-1 6-9 Sunday 837-6611 Admiral no-defrc 'ng Dual-Terr refrigeratrfree'er New Energy-Saver design cuts power usage by eliminating "anti-sweat" heating elements. Glide-out refrigerator shelves put everything within easy reach.

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New Veterans Continued from page 1 a Bicentennial flag and mailed it to Kane. This flag is now being flown at Kane Area Senior High School and is to be used by the Kane High Marching Band in its performances this year. In other business, Councilman Patrick Santilli informed the council that the borough has been offered the use of the Pennsylvania Railroad (P.R.R.) field on Wetmore Avenue as an additional ball park. The council voted to accept the offer and grade the field for use as a ball park. The offer to allow use of the field as a ball park was made by Wendell McMillen, Sheffield.

Upon the recommendation of the streets and sidewalks committee, the council voted to hire Rowland Proashas as street commissioner, with a probation period to last seven months. Mr. Proashas had been acting street commissioner. During its Monday meeting the council decided to replace 100 incandescent street lights with mercury vapor lights. The new lights will be located around the park on Birch Street, on Park Avenue Extension, on Summit Drive, along Route 321-Hacker Street and on intersections in the borough, radiating outward from the business district.

In a final piece of business, the council voted to exonerate tax collector Irene Hedstrom from collecting $2,445 in borough taxes due to deaths, duplication in the tax roles, people who have moved out of town and other reasons. HOSPITAL NOTES Admissions Ralph Me tea If, Kane Mrs. Violet Gadley, Marienville Mrs. Olga Sorensen, Mt. Jewett Mrs.

Daisy Boyd, Marienville Dismissals Randy Anderson, Kane AT AREA HOSPITALS Mrs. Pearl Foote, Mt. Jewett, discharged from Cole Memorial Hospital, Coudersport. ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs.

Ronald Royer of 224 Hacker Street here are the parents of a son born at the Kane Community Hospital on Monday, April 5 at 2:46 p.m. Mrs. Royer is the former Donna Ford. Baby clothes sure to please. We gift wrap.

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