The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 1

Ross Carr Named To All-America Team Stay on Page 1C Chance of Rain High 50s Low 30s Detail 6A WeatheHine 2654331 42 Pages WICHITA KANSAS 67201 THURSDAY MARCH 8 1979 Price 15 Cents Ends in Sad Lyric for Billy Confronts Drinking Georgia Cracker Number Crumbling Carter's former sister-in-law are pawing through the mound of mail piled on her desk in Billy's office a nondescript greea-and-white trailer parked on a red dirt lot just a few hundred feet from the train station that served as Jimmy campaign headquarters Out back there are a rusted 1951 Studebaker and a defunct late-model Fiat Depending on yeur point of view and politics headquarters are either refreshingly unpretentious for a man making $300000 a year or an El Cheapo Production think I've gotten more press in the last two weeks than anyone else in the world" he tells me with a mixture of awe disgust and pride week we were gettin' 1100 1200 letters a day and about 300 Mailgrams and telegrams And I guarantee that percent of were (Sec SAME 7A Col 1) He's chain-smoking and rolling a handful of vials of carbocaine around in his left hand like Captain Queeg with his ball bearings With his other hand he's pushing an old gold filling around his desk a memento of the morning's agony Between times he's sipping something out of a cup he fetched from his dirty Mack Cadillac Eldorado TOOK THIS stuff along just in case the dentist have he explains preferring the carbocaine and a prescription for it wouldn't want you to think I'm a drug addict on top of everything else I just cant take So Billy's hurting and today's batch of mail helping any He and Frances Iribeck his secretary for the last five years and Rosalynn during the last six weeks have built to a framed crescendo" Rice said pressure on Billy increased daily and Billy gave in to Capt Joseph Punch head of the alcohol unit at the medical facility and one of the nation's top medical authorities on alcoholism said in a prepared statement that Carter been admitted as a voluntary patient" and will be under rehabilitation treatment Punch a psychiatrist and neurologist uses the and method of rehabilitation in which a patient is persuaded to admit a drinking problem and is told what steps to take to overcome it By MICHAEL PUTNEY Knight-Ridder News Service No not from the reams of criticism leveled at him lately for relieving himself on the runway in Atlanta or talking too freely to Penthouse mags-zine or hanging out with visiting Libyans or drinking too much Billy Beer He's smarting from all that Nope right now he's really hurting As in pain He's just back from three hours ot heavy-duty drilling at his dentist's down in Americus for two molars that broke off at the gumline the day before His perpetually ruddy face is blotched and his red-rimmed eyes are cross-hatched behind his thick black-framed glasses LONG BEACH Calif (UPI) -Billy Carter the president's beer-guzzling brother was paying 1242 a day Wednesday for alcoholism treatment at the Navy hospital that treated former first lady Betty Ford and Sen Herman Talmadge of Georgia Carter 41 was flown to die Navy's Alcoholic Treatment Center Tuesday from a Georgia hospital where he had been treated for bronchitis Tandy Rice booking agent and president of Top Billing Inc said Carter would remain at the Navy hospital for five to eight weeks He said Carter would pay for the treatment tempo stress and strain of Billy's life as evidenced by the events Optimistic Carter Heads For Mideast By TERENCE SMITH NY Times News Service On the Inside Ronald 1980 presidential campaign is officially launched with the formation of an exploratory committee PAGE 4A UPI Photo NASA scientist Brad Smith shows projection illustrating ring surrounding Jupiter Like Saturn and Uranus Reagan The Ayatollah Khomeini calls some of the new Iranian ministers weak because they are reluctant in establishing an Islamic Republic PAGE 2A The government drops the trial against an ITT official PAGE 4A WASHINGTON President Carter described by aides as optimistic but still uncertain about his prospects of resolving the differences between Israel and Egypt set off Wednesday evening on a personal peace-making mission to the Middle East At a departure ceremony on the south lawn of the White House shortly after pm Carter said he was leaving with tempered by about the difficulties of concluding a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt after 30 years of war and hostility is the hope for peace more fervent more alive than in the Middle East" the president said is the path towards its realization more difficult and nowhere might the price of failure be more terrible" CARTER SAID HE was confident that Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt my determination to see these negotiations bear The president spoke shortly after noon with his national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski who is in Cairo with an advance negotiating team Brzezinski is said to have reported progress in his conversations (See HOPEFUL (A Col 4) Planet Jupiter Wears a Ring Muriel and Harry Strissel have between them 106 years of service to the Salvation Army PAGE IB spotted during a single long-shot look Sunday for a possible ring around Jupiter in the planet's equatorial plane were very he said at a news conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory control center the edge of the ring fell within our field of The lens on Voyager's telescopic camera was left open 112 seconds and thanks to a slight nodding motion of Voyager the resulting picture produced six edge-on images of the ring Each appeared as a bright line across a dark background SMITH SAID IT was not known how far the ring extended in toward Jupiter The discovery was an unexpected scientific bonus in the robot spacecraft's journey of exploration It already has returned more than 16500 pictures of Jupiter and five of its moons and the probe is now headed toward a November 1900 rendezvous with Saturn and its spectacular ring system JUPITER'S RING has been invisible from Earth because of its thinness and its transparency when viewed from any angle except straight on Dr Bradford A Smith of the University of Arizona and head of the scientists analyzing Voyager's pictures said the ring was PASADENA Calif (UPI) Voyager 1 has discovered a flat ring of rocky space debris several miles thick orbiting the planet Jupiter scientists reported Wednesday The startling find makes Jupiter the third planet in the solar system known to be encircled by chunks of ice or rock Saturn's spectacular rings were discovered in 1(10 and rings were seen around Uranus two years ago The outer edge of Jupiter's ring begins 34000 miles from the top of the planet's turbulent clouds The width of the ring is unknown but extends at least 5400 miles in toward Jupiter More Concrete Streets iw Rice Firing Cited 3 of 4 Blacks Resign CREEOC Positions Most Kansas Potholes Live East of US 81 By REG FONTENOT Staff Writer Three of the four black members of the city's Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission resigned walked out of Wednesday's meeting saying they did not like the way former CREEX)C head Jesse Rice had been fired In a joint resignation letter commissioners Alyce Martin Evora Belcher and William Jones said they that we cannot give further of our time and efforts to an organization which has perpetuated and aided and abbetted' discriminatory practices The commission's only remaining Mack member George Boyd did not attend Wednesday's meeting and could not be reached for comment After receiving the letter of resignation CREEOC Chairwoman Kathy Pearch's only comment was was very sorry to get bigger or the repairs better for Loveland figures the cost to be $50 to $100 per pothole can't move a vehicle from here to a mile away for less than six he said Loveland has about 12 crews each day out repairing potholes They begin with the major arteries then move to other heavily traveled streets Then they wait for residents to phone in complaints about holes in their neighborhood streets In addition to repairing potholes on concrete pavements and to a lesser extent on asphalt and oil-mat streets some resurfacing win have to be done Among streets Loveland mentioned as scheduled for resurfacing were McLean Boulevard Orme Street east of Edgemoor and Zoo Boulevard north of central RICE WAS fired Feb 9 when City Manager Gene Denton accused him of for walking out of a Feb 7 CREEOC meeting Rice also took a city-owned tape recorder and tapes from the meeting and dismissed a secretary who was taking minutes Denton never called me to talk about what happened at that Martin said he had an investigation then he had to talk to somebody but he didn't talk to any of the Mack members (of CREEOC)" Belcher said she thinks the commission have had an opportunity to talk Rice's firing and a recommendation" JONES WHO did not attend the Feb 7 meeting said he was about not being about Rice walking out of the meeting The CREEOC board had no part in Rice's dismissal according to Pearch When asked how a joint decision to resign was reached Martin said die and the other members felt they no longer could serve people (other board members) are racists themselves it's a stacked board "she said are four Macks five whites and one Chkano They outvote us on everything" JONES SAID he thought it wu to serve because there's discrimination right on the board" (See THREE 1AM 1) By DAVE GOODWIN Staff Writer If bone-jarring rides over potholes set your teeth on edge and make you shake your fist be calm It could be worse you look at the big picture there are probably fewer that said Ron Shuberg assistant engineer-maintenance Kansas Department of Transportation Most of them are confined to the area east of US II which runs north and south through Wichita Salma Concordia and Belleville That is be- cause the concrete streets are there especially around Kansas City and Wichita And concrete pavement suffers the worst says Shuberg suppose if we are going to talk about the little ones and the big ones there are 10000 to 20000 (potholes) out said Bob Loveland street maintenance supervisor for Wichita LOVELAND SAID he figures hell need $3 million to repair them and other problems caused by winter He hopes that Wichita will get $450000 from the governor's pothole fund to help out But that would take a special act of the state Legislature since last year's $5 million pothole fund was a one-shot deal The New York Transportation Department estimated it costs 1845 including materials labor and wear and tear on equipment to fix the average pothole But Kansas pctholes must be Staff Photo by Anthony Reed JESSE ANDERSON REPAIRS POTHOLES Job has some danger from passing cars Lowly Simple 9 Pothole a Complex Creature When water turns to ice it gains about 4 percent in volume Most other substances contract when they turn Iran liquid to solid because their molecules are placed closer together The fact that ice has more volume than liquid water is important to life on earth Among other things it provides the protective covering of ice over take surface that helps fish weather the winter (See MIGHTY (A CoL SI tell you are the results of some basic attributes of ordinary matter Can science which has placed men on the moon transplanted human organs and computerized giant industries conquer the pothole? To understand the answer it is first necessary to understand the science of potholery WE START WITH WATER which has the highly unusual attribute of expamhrg when it freezes By EDWARD EDELSON New York Daily News NEW YORK The present rash of Cat tires misaligned wheels and dented rims can be explained by the polar nature of the water molecule mid the expansion coefficient of petrochemicals and concrete The automobile problems are caused by potholes And potholes as any physical scientist can.