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Good Morning! Today It Monday, November 22, 1976 NEWS HERALD A Florida Freedom Newspaper "It Is as Impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time." Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. No. 7 No. 205 The World's Most Beautiful Beaches Panama City, Florida Two Sections 24 Pages Price 15 Cents Joyous Shouts Greet Syrians BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Massive Syrian armored forces swept Into SIdon and Tripoli Sunday to complete their occupation of Lebanon on the eve of Its Independence day. They were greeted by shouts of joy and wild shooting Into the air.

"it's great," shouted a bearded Lebanese civilian riding down Tripoli's main avenue on a Syrian lank. "It's over. It's been bang, bang and death for almost two years." Tripoli children, whose city 60 miles north of Beirut has been besieged by Christians since summer, clambered over the Syrian tanks and trucks In a carnival atmosphere. Thousands of rounds of ammunition popped Into the air In a traditional Lebanese display. President Ellas Sarkls said later In an speech broadcast nationwide that Syria's "fraternal Intervention" will end when "we have recovered our strength, ability, security and the will to live together as a Efforts Being Made To Salvage New Yoric BURN VICTIM TRANSFERRED Inez Murray, 29, a victim from an explosion early Sunday at American Chicle Chewing Gum Factory in Queens, N.Y., is wheeled away from helicopter to the Crozer Chester Medical Center at Chester, Pa.

She is one of 55 persons injured and one of five air lifted to the Chester burn center. (AP LASERPHOTO) Explosion Blasts Gum Plant, Some Fall Through FourFloors NEWYORK(AP)-An explosion and fire ripped through four floors of the Chiclet gum factory Sunday, Injuring 55 workers and throwing some of them Into the street four floors below. Several victims were covered with hot gum and many were sent for treatment to burn centers In three slates. An Army Reserve helicopter took five victims to the Crozler-Chester burn unit In Philadelphia. Other victims were taken by ambulance to hospital in New Jersey and in the metropolitan New 'i'ork area.

Some of those injured in the early morning blast and fire suffered burns over 90 per cent of their bodies. One was in grave condition In the Intensive care unit of a hospital here. "It was really horrible. I saw men with their clothing and skin burned off," said Chris Bogglo, 19, a process helper in the block- wide, six-story building. "The blast threw me clean across the room." Teddy Orzechowska of Brooklyn suffered burns over 30 per cent of his body.

"I was In the middle of the flames. 1 didn't know where to run," he said. Most of the damage was In the fourth floor of the American cle Co. factory In the Queens section of the city. Casement windows reinforced with wire were blown out of several floors and a loaded cabinet weighing about two tons fell onto a car below, crushing it.

Witnesses said workers were hurled Into the street by the force of the blast which sent chunks of concrete and shards of glass flying. A strong smell of spearmint could be detected In the blast area. Firemen got hot chlckle the gum derived from tropical trees over their boots while battling the blaze. The blast occurred at 2:42 a.m. The flash fire that followed It was extinguished by 3:17 a.m.

The cause of the explosion was not Immediately determined by fire marshals and bomb squad detectives who searched the debris. James R. Mahoney, plant manager, said there were about 150 persons working In the 46 year-old brick building at the time of the blast. About 800 work there during the day, he said. Helen Muslal, a Polish Immigrant, suffered bruises and was trapped when the ceiling fell In on her.

"1 was working at the machinery and suddenly everything came falling down. I fell onto the conveyor. Everyone ran out and left me under a whole load of debris. I couldn't see anything at all," she said. It look her 13 minutes to get free.

"As soon as I freed myself, 1 ran out," she said. "The people up there had a lot of guts." said police officer Ed Coulter. NEW YORK (AP) Mayor Abraham D. Beame conferred with representatives of President Ford and President-elect Carter on Sunday In an effort to help New York City avoid possible bankruptcy. A court ruling that a key $1.6 billion segment of the city's recovery program was unconstitutional touched off an urgent series of new rescue moves on the city, state and federal level.

The mayor was just back from Jerusalem, where he left a one- word prayer, lucked In a chink of the Walling Wall the ancient site where Jews go to pray and to slip pieces of paper bearing their prayers between the stone blocks of the temple wall. Beame admitted there was no solution In sight yet to his city's fiscal troubles, but he ruled out new taxes or furtherlarge scale cuts In services. "We're going to have to develop a plan," he said as he met at Grade Mansion with Orln Kramer, Carter's finder here. The mayor said Kramer was going to fly to Washington to see Carter after his briefing In New York. Carter is scheduled to meet Monday with President Ford, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns and Treasury Secretary William Simon.

Beame said that he talked to Carter by telephone Saturday night and that the presidentelect told him he felt the situation was so critical he would "by all means" bring It up during his talks with Simon. The mayor added that Simon had also called to reassure him that a planned $70 million in Gilmore Death Airing May Be Moved Ahead Nuclear Cloud Moves To Sea By The Associated Press The leading edge of an immense mass of airborne radioactive debris from a Chinese nuclear explosion passed out to sea off the Bast Coast on Sunday with no immediate reports of fallout reaching the ground. The radiation, carried along by high altitude winds, had broken Into three distinct clouds before reaching the Atlantic Coast, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The EPA In Washington said one cloud passed over the nation's capital before Its front edge reached the Atlantic. A second cloud was over North Carolina, and the third was spread over the Southeast as far south as Louisiana, the EPA's regional office In Atlanta said.

Initial tests In the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest and Southeast indicated no Increases In ground radltlon as the nuclear material passed over those areas. No health warnings were Issued. However, state and federal officials added that no final determination of radiation Increases would be possible until Monday. "We haven't any evidence of any fallout yet," said Rowene Danbom, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Health Department. The department was planning sophisticated gammascan tests Monday to verify Its Initial findings.

The radioactive dust and debris was flung into the upper atmosphere by a Chinese nuclear test last Wednesday. Unlike the United Slates and Russia, the Chinese do not conduct their nuclear tests underground. The radiation swept across the Pacific, over portions of western Canada and Into the United States on Saturday. Traveling at 30,000 feet, the radioactive dust and debris advanced from the Pacific Northwest on a front that stretched from Montana to New Mexico and during the day Sunday reached from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Except for New England, New York and a handful of other states, all or part of every slate was directly under the nuclear cloud at some point.

The EPA said radioactive material stretched back from the advancing front for several hundred miles. Environmental officials had said there was little health danger from the nuclear cloud unless rain or snow brought significant amounts of radioactive materials to earth. This happened at the end of September when radiation for the last Chinese nuclear test passed over the country. Heavy, rains brought radioactive materials to earth In Pennsylvania, New Jersey, South Carolina and New York State. The worst contamination noted then was In Pennsylvania, where health officials Issued a warning to wash farm produce and noted elevated radiation counts In milk.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Board of Pardons hearing on Gary Mark Gllmore's request for execution may be moved up a few days If the slate attorney general finds that the convicted killer could be freed on a technicality, a board member said Sunday. Meanwhile, the 35-year-old Inmate continued the three-day hunger strike he started when he could not talk by telephone with his girlfriend, Nicole Barrett. Mrs. Barrett, a 20-year-old. divorcee with two children, was admitted to the Utah State Hospital in Prove on Friday after doctors said she remained depressed and suicidal.

Gilmore and Mrs. Barrett overdosed on drugs Tuesday In what authorities called a suicide pact. Pardons Board member Thomas R. Harrison said the board Is waiting for an attorney general's opinion on whether a Judge Holding Hearing Today A special hearing will convene this morning at 10 a.m. in Port St.

Joe to determine the validity of the grand jury meeting there to Investigate charges made against State Rep. Billy Joe Rlsh and George Tapper, a former senator. Judge B.J. Driver, of Pinellas County, will head the special Inquiry which was necessitated when Gulf County Judge David L. Taunton accussed the present grand jury of being improperly selected and composed In such a way as to elicit bias.

Taunton made the allegations relating to the grand jury Thursday as the panel was going Into Its second day of hearing witnesses. The grand jury probe of Tapper and Itlsh was also initiated by Taunton when on Oct. 26 he appeared before the Gulf County Commission and alleged that Rlsh, acting as county attorney and state representative, used his influence to help Tapper reap a $1 million windfall profit in various land dealings. Utah law requiring a man be executed within 60 days after sentencing could result In Gllmore's release. He said advancing the hearing was only "a poslblUty." Utah County Attorney Noall T.

Wootton. the prosecutor in Gllmore's murder trial, said In a letter to the Pardons Board that Gilmore could be freed If he is not executed before Dec. 7, one day after the board is scheduled to meet. Deputy Atty. Gen.

Robert B. Hansen, who will become the attorney general In January, has said he agrees with Woot- lon's argument. He expressed similar concerns to the Utah Supreme Court in earlier phases of the Gilmore case. Microwave Could Damage Humans By BARTON REPPERT Associated Press Writer A newly declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report says extensive Soviet research Into microwaves might lead to methods of causing disoriented human behavior, nerve disorders or even heart attacks.

"Soviet scientists are fully aware of the biological effects of low-level microwave radiation which might have offensive weapons application," says the report, based on an analysis of experiments conducted in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. According to the study, this research work suggests "the potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications." Microwave beams are the electronic basis of radar and are widely used for relaying long-distance telephone calls. Other common sources of microwaves include television transmitters. A copy of the study was provided by the agency to The Associated Press in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The Pentagon agency refused to release some portions of the study, saying they remain classified on national security grounds.

The report made no direct mention of tlie Soviet microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where despite strong American protests the radiation continues, though at reduced levels. THERE'S MORE Abby Business Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorial Horoscope Society Sports TV Log Word Sleuth 8A 12B 8-11B lOA 8B 3A 4A 4A 6-8-9A 1-7B 6B 4A federal loans would be forthcoming In December despite the court decision. Ford, meanwhile, spent the weekend 30 miles north of New York City at Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller's Pocan- tlco Hills estate.

There was no Indication at the mayor's home that any direct approach had been made to either of these two men. Up to now, the view most widely accepted among State Department officials in Washington has been that the Soviets appear to be using the microwave beams to foil sophisticated U.S. electronic intelligence-gathering equipment at the embassy. The State Department issued an administrative notice on Nov. 12 declaring Moscow "an unhealthful post," but no link was officially drawn between this move and the radiation situation.

The Soviets have denied beaming any radiation at the embassy, contending that the microwaves are simply part of the normal background radiation found in any major city. The Pentagon agency's report, distributed within the government last March, said that one biological effect which could offer antipersonnel uses is the phenomenon known as "microwave hearing." At A Glance Car Kills Pedesfrian A 72-year-old man was killed Sunday night when he apparently stepped Into the path on an oncoming car on U.S. 231 near the Flower of Chong Restaurant In Youngstown. The man. whose Identity was not released pending next of kin, was said to be staying at the Youngstown Motel which Is directly across the street from the restaurant.

Troopers Jerry Clenny and Robert Pennington of the Florida Highway Patrol said the elderly man was struck by a 1975 model auto driven by a Panama City resident auto sustained a broken windshield In the accident. Light Freeze Forecast A light freeze is forecast for this area tonight. The weather bureau has forecast a low reading In the upper 20s for this area tonight, with a high today In the low 50s. Sunny and cold is the Tuesday forecast. Temperatures ranged from 37 to 64 here Sunday, with a trace of rain.

Patty At Home SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Patricia Hearst spent her first weekend at home in seclusion at her family's Nob Hill apartment. The 22-year-old convicted bank robber, who was freed on $1.5 million ball Friday, visited with friends and relatives who stopped by. "It's nice to be home," she told San Francisco Examiner reporter Larry Kramer In an interview published Sunday. Miss Hearst's father, Randolph Hearst, Is president of the Examiner. Boston Trooper Killed BOSTON (AP) A state trooper once honored for pulling a woman from a burning car was killed Sunday when a tractor trailer struck his cruiser, trapping him Inside the burning vehicle.

Edward A. Mahoney, an 18 year veteran of the force, had stopped his car to write a traffic ticket. Fire Guts Prison NEW ORLEANS (AP) A weekend fire gutted the psychiatric building of a minimum security prison In a New Orleans residential area, causing heavy damage but no injuries. Guards evacuated 44 Inmates as flames late Saturday spread through the World War Il-vintage structure. Firemen cut prison fences to string hoses to the sprawling one-story wood-frame building, and guards stood at each hole while police with shotguns watched nearby.

nation and share the same destiny." His remarks for Monday's 33rd anniversary of Lebanese independence from France held forth promise of political reforms, but without specific pledges, and pleaded tor cooperation In rebuilding this shattered nation. "1 also look to the youth, especially the combatants, and tell them the homeland awaits them in other fields now," said Sarkls, a Christian. More than 3,000 civilians also gathered to meet the Syrian occupation columns in Sldon, 25 miles south of Beirut. They greeted them with jubilation In the main Sldon square, where three Syrian tanks were destroyed In a bloody battle last June. Air Show Ends Tell More than 35,000 spectators enjoyed a spectacular air show at Tyndall Air Force Base Sunday signalling the end of the highly successful William Tell competition that began Nov.

4, The air show featured the largest display of different types of aircraft ever displayed at Tyndall. The open house began at 10 a.m. with the display and the air show activities began at noon. The United States Air Force Thunderblrds were featured, and the Air Force Academy Skydivers also put on a spectacular exhibition. Two men jumped from a helicopter into the sky over the flight line.

The U.S. Marine Carrier jet fighter was seen in an exhibition, and the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team from Fort Bragg, N.C., al.so was featured. The famous NORAD band will be seen In free concerts, the first tonight at the Port St. Joe High School auditorium at 7:.30.

Eastern time and the second Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Panama City auditorium. Herman Dean, the dean of organized school bands in the Panhandle area, will be honored during the concerts. In addition to being honored as a guest conductor tonight at Port St. Joe.

Dean is being honored through a proclamation issued by the Port St. Joe mayor proclaiming Dean's work in this area. Although there Is no charge for the concerts, to Insure seating tickets are available at Port St. Joe High School, all Bay County junior and senior high schools, the Panama City auditorium and Gulf Coast Community College. The Panama City concert is sponsored by the Bay County bands and Chamber of Commerce and the St.

Joe concert by Port St. Joe High School. Both programs will be hosted by officials of the Air Force Defense Weapons Center at Tyndall. TOP FIGHTER TEAM LEADERS AWARDED The leaders of the best fighter interceptor teams in the William Tell competition held at Tyndall AFB over the past 15 days are shown here receiving the prestigious Richard I Bong Trophy from four-star general Daniel James commander and chief of the North American Air Defense Command and the Aerospace Defense Command. From the left, Lt.

Col. Jimmy V. Adams, of the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing Team from Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C, winner of the F-4 "Phantom Lt. Col. Marty Bergan, Oregon Air National Guard 142nd FIG, Portland, winner of the F-101 "Voodoo" category; Lt.

Col. Buck Juedeman, Montana Air National Guard's 120th Fighter Interceptor Group FIG, winner in the F-106 Delta Dart category, and on the far right. Gen. James..