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Hampshire's Largest Newspaper NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,1977 VOL. 109 NO. 143 Continuing'trwNtwHimpifiiie Telegraph ElllblilUM Oclober 20. H32 PHONE 882-2741 52 PAGES 15 CENTS Carter Confronts Canal Pact Critics WASHINGTON (UPI) Bolstered by support from Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger, the Carter administration now confronts head-on the angry criticism from opponents of the new Panama Canal accord. Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Unowitz, who negotiated the were testifying today on details-of the accord in a hearing of the hostile House Merchant Marines and Fisheries Committee, a panel which has consistently opposed plans to transfer the waterway to Panama's control.

"The timing of the signing and the announcement appears 'to be a deliberate move to bypass the Congress during the August work break," said committee chairman John Murphy, Tuesday. "The committee is not prepared to watch the American canal in Panama go down the'drain or allow its constitutional rights to be violated," he said. The hearing was scheduled to start in open session, but to close if sensitive issues arise. Sources close to the negotiators said the envoys would begin by outlining details of the treaties which would transfer the 51-mile waterway and the Canal Zone to Panama by the year 2000. The envoys were expected to emphasize the United States will continue to have primary responsibility for defending the canal until 2000, and will retain an' indefinite right after that to intervene to maintain the canal's neutrality.

They also were expected to stress the treaties are in the highest U.S. national interest because they will insure that the waterway stays open and and will elicit Panamanian cooperation. CANAL CRITICS Page 12 Ala. Judge Choice For FBI Post WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter plans to nominate. Frank Johnson, a deep South judge with a strong civil rights record, as the next director of the FBI, knowledgeable administration sources say.

The White House was expected to announce today, that Carter will send tnside Wyman: 'Constitutional Page 2 Son of Sam lawyers plan defense around insanity. Page 3 Massachusetts Senate OKs coal mining bill. Page 10 When Hudson revaluation takes effect is an issue. Page 28 Green light for Milford police station renovations. Page 28 Hudson school bus routes.

Page 29 Re.d Sox stay on winning track. Page 36 Massachusetts faces loss of food stamp funds. Page 39 N.Y. poetess says Frost's N.H. home 'scary'.

Page 52 OTHER FEATURES Anderson 5 Classifieds 43-51 Comics Crossword Abby Editorial Financial Health Horoscope Jumble Kilpatrick Lockhard Obituaries Porter Regional Sampler 4 2 14 28-29 5 Spec. Interest 32 Sports Television Theaters Weather 36-38 40 40-41 2 Johnson's name to the Senate, which must confirm his selection. The choice ends a seven-month search for a director to take charge of the bureau and its 8,000 agents. Carter and Atty. Gen.

Griffin Bell chose the 58-year-old federal district judge to succeed Clarence M. Kelley after rejecting four candidates recommended by a presidentially-appointed search committee, the sources said. By choosing Johnson, a Republican, Carter and Bell may have a candidate who can sail through the Senate hearings with little, if any opposition. But Sen James 0. Eastland, D- chairman of the Judiciary Committee that will first consider Johnson's nomination, would not comment Tuesday night.

"I know the whole score," Eastland said, "and I don't leak stories. I have no comment." Johnson's nomination is certain to please civil rights groups who assailed the bureau in the 1960s for allegedly ignoring beatings of black activists in the South. FBI POST Page 12 FRANK M. JOHNSON JR. Principals Oppose End of School Unions CONCORD, N.H.

(UPI) Local costs and taxes will rise if school supervisory unions are eliminated under a conservative state budget proposal, according to spokesmen for the New Hampshire Association of School Principals. They said Tuesday the work the unions do still would have to be done, but would have to be handled by each district with duplication of effort and cost. "The proposed change would have a radical effect on education in our state, on local control of education through locally elected school boards, and on the local property taxpayer," said the association's executive director, Elenore Freedman. She made her remarks to the committee of 12 conservative senators working to pare the budget to $402 million in general fund state dollars over the next two years. "I urge you to give more than lip service to the phrase 'local Mrs.

Freedman said, urging no change be made without consulting local school districts. The supervisory unions provide administrative services to groups of local schools, reducing overhead costs. Their functions include handling payrolls, making purchases, filling out federal forms, negotiating teacher contracts and coordinating curricula between member schools. Mrs. Freedman said the administrative talent needed for such a job is quite different from those a principal needs to handle teachers and students daily.

Rep. William Boucher, R- Londonderry, said if the group wants to save state dollars it should eliminate the state share of super- vis ory union costs but allow the unions to continue. PRINCIPALS Page 12 Pelham Cyclist Killed DAVIDSON TRAVEL SERVICE EXPANSION CELEBRATION AUCUST15-20 NASHUA MALI PELHAM A Pelham man was killed last night at about 9:30 in a motorcycle accident on Route 128, Police Chief Ralph Boutwell said today. According to Boutwell, Benjamin W. Garland, 26, of Garland Lane, was operating his motorcycle on Mammoth Road when it failed to negotiate a curve.

The machine left the road, the chief said, and slammed head-on into a utility pole. Garland was taken to Nashua Memorial Hospital where he wai pronounced dead on arrival by Dr. Jonathan Shaw, Hillsborough County Medical Referee. Death was reportedly attributed to head injuries, Chief court Police were assisted at the scene by the fire department rescue squad. Residents in the area were without power for nearly an hour until service was restored.

Boutwell said Garland was not wearing a protective helmet at the time of the accident, but doubted it would have had any effect on the result of the craih. Ford Supports Canal Treaty Former President Gerald'Ford has come out the Joint Chiefs of Staff, linowitz met with the in support of President Carter's Panama Canal former President at the Richard Bass house in Treaty after a briefing by Ambassador Sol Vail, Colo, where Ford is vacationing, linowitz, left, and Gen. George Brown, head of (AP Laserphofo) Suit Against City Readied By Police Commission By JEANN1NE LEVESQUE The Aldermanic Finance Committee was informed- last night that lawyers for the Board of Police Commissioners are ready to file suit against the city for payment of legal fees the commission incurred in 197475. On the request of Acting Mayor Donald C. Davidson, Commissioner James I.

Chesterley agreed to postpone the court action pending the return of City Corporation Counsel H. Philip Howorth, who is on vacation this week. In other action, the panel set a committee public hearing Aug. 30 on a resolution to appropriate $7,500 for kitchen and dining facilities at Seniors' Place. Recommended for passage was a resolution authorizing Howorth to take legal action to insure the city gets its full share of state business profits tax revenues.

Police Commissioner Chesterley said the legal fees were incurred when the commission hired legal counsel to challenge cuts the administration made in the police department budget during the 1974 budget review. The finance committee on July 21, 1975, refused to pay the commission's legal bill Chesterley said the commission could not employ the city corporation counsel since he represented the mayor and Board of Aldermen in the court action, and so no other course was open but to hire counsel of its own. "We feel this expense was incurred' due course of city business," he -said. The finance committee's refusal to pay the commission's bill for action taken against the city, he said, "denies the department any redress." "We feel very strongly that a department should have counsel under such circumstances," he said. In the 1975 court case, however, the judge refused to award legal costs to the commission, Chesterley "That was on general grounds," he said.

"That had nothing to do with our suing for costs as such." The commissioner said he wanted the committee to be aware of the coming court action "rather than have the sheriff just show up with a writ." Davidson asked if the filing could be held up until Howorth's return to the city on Monday. "As soon as corporation counsel gets back, among many other things we have to discuss, I will have to discuss this with him," the acting mayor said. He was. assured the filing'would await Howorth's return. The resolution dealing with Seniors' Place would appropriate $7,500 in the 1978.

budget to equip kitchen and dining facilities at the gathering place. SUIT Pageir Thousands Mourn Elvis MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) Grief- stricken fans today maintained a vigil outside the gates of Graceland Mansion where Elvis Presley, the King of rock 'n' roll, lived as a virtual recluse and collapsed and died Tuesday of heart failure. Presley's body was found on a bathroom floor of the ornate ID-room mansion where he apparently collapsed and died after a vigorous game of racquet ball earlier in the day. His body was to be moved from a funeral home at 11:30 a.m.

to Graceland where his fans were to be permitted to view it from 3 pm to 5 p.m. Private family services will be held Thursday afternoon with burial at Forest Hills Cemetery where Presley's mother is buried. Police guarded the gates to the mansion and two officers patrolled the grounds in a golf cart. But police said there had not been any reports of fans trying to crash the gates or sneak onto the mansion grounds. Joe Esposito, his road manager, found Presley's body on the bathroom floor of Graceland at 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, but doctors later said the singer could have been dead since 9 a.m. Dr. Jerry Francisco, the Shelby County medical examiner, said an autopsy indicated Presley died of "cardiac arrythmia," which he described as a "severely irregular heartbeat." "The precise cause of death may never be discovered," said Francisco, who also performed the autopsy on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after the civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, Francisco said Presley suffered from high blood pressure and "some coronary artery disease," and the two diseases could have caused the cardiac arrythemia.

Both Francisco and Dr. George Nichopoulos, the singer's personal physician, said there were no traces of drugs other than the medicine Presley was taking for hypertension and a colon problem. Fans began flocking to Graceland soon after the announcement of Presley's death. Many maintained an allnight vigil. Ton! Ginzer, 36, Oklahoma City, and Fred Lalezarzadeh, 22, who were Today's Chuckle Fine place for bclif Ike laileit mu ti ike world his to go to tkc fellow who silt it (woe Md wUttto wltk electric bile.

driving back to Oklahoma from Florida, heard the news about 30 miles from Memphis and drove to the mansion. Toni said she was hysterical. "I was in bad, bad shape. To think I would never see him again." She described herself as a Presley "fanatic" who attended more than 100 of his concerts. Presley's former wife, Priscilla, according to a spokesman for the Presley family, was being flown hi on his private jet from her home in Los Angeles.

A i had examined the singer and found him fit less than a week ago, Presley had been hospitalized five times in recent years. He had also been fighting a weight problem since his 30's. Although doctors found no evidence of drug abuse during the autopsy Tuesday, a former bodyguard told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter just hours before Presley's death that his "drug habit is so severe that I'm convinced he is in danger of losing his life." Delbert West, who was. a Presley bodyguard for 16 years, said Presley needed drugs to get up, sleep, perform and even to go to the bathroom. Presley, who catapulted to fame and fabulous wealth in the 1950s with such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Heartbreak Hotel," had visited a dentist Monday night and returned to Graceland to play racquet ball with ELVIS PRESLEY members of his entourage until 6 a.m.

Tuesday. Esposito found him Tuesday afternoon, lying fully clothed on a bathroom floor. "He was lying on his face on the floor," said Nichopoulos. "The people in the house with him were asleep and were not aware that anything abnormal had transpired." PRESLEY 12 Related Stories On Page 7 Weather Clearing Tonight Sunny Thursday Full Report on Page 2 Acting Mayor, Aides Tackle Odor Problem Discussion of steps to resolve the odor problem in the Fairmount Street area was on the agenda of Acting Mayor Donald C. Davidson today.

He met with Morgan Hollis, assistant to the city corporation counsel, and Ward 4 Alderman Pauline Anderson to discuss actions Hollis wants to take to curb the odor nuisance emanating from the Granite State Tanning Co. Despite the installation last year of pollution control devices at the tannery, residents in that area of the city are complaining the odor problem persist), and especially noticeable at night. In other business, Donald R. Price, who retains the title of mayor's administrative assistant after clearing out of the mayor's- office yesterday, reported to Davidson at 9 a.m. today.

Davidson said he and Price had a talk and Davidson said he was "pleasantly surprised" but he did not divulge what was said. There is a need, Davidson said, for someone to coordinate efforts to possibly acquire some federal surplus property and the acting mayor said he may have Price check into thii program and act at coordinator..