Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 14

I Officer May Face Court-Martial For Unbuttoned Coat 14-A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abilene Texas Wed Moni-Feb 271980 Defeat Pushes Kennedy Campaign Near Collapse KATHIE PEARSON needs help the field to two candidates and he claimed that had been accomplished it's boiling down to a two-man with Reagan he said Baker thought otherwise saying "I believe that now we're into our secood set of frontrunners and there will be another one Anderson said he was elated to be fourth saying can keep going as long I have clean laundry" Crane said he quitting but acknowledged he might later He said he would consider endorsing Reagan if Reagan continues to do wen Kennedy's election-night appearance was no concession it was a rally In Manchester with his family at his side Kennedy told supporters we got almost 40 percent of the vote Four years ago Jimmy Carter got 23 percent of the vote and he claimed victory and we're claiming victory Then he said he wanted to be serious declaring that issues like inflation and high interest rates wiU be forceful dominant powerful issues in the state of Illinois the state of New York the state of where primaries are set for later In the season continue this campaign and we bring it right back to Massachusetts and on to the Democratic he said Reagan's New Hampshire sweep was statewide In previous Republican competition Bush beat Reagan narrowly in Iowa then won in Puerto Rico where Reagan was not on the ballot Bush's campaign manager James Baker said Bush lost strength in the uproar over a Saturday night debate with Reagan who had invited four other GOP candidates to the confrontation When the others were denied debate seats they chorused denunciations of Bush In the Democratic race Kennedy lacked votes where he needed them most in cities like Manchester Carter beat him there by about 2100 votes The president won narrowly in north-country Berlin a city with a big French-speaking Roman Catholie community Tom Southwick spokesman said the challenger fared better than he did in public opinion polls which showed Carter margins id up to 25 points Southwick described that as a shift" in direction But Carter defeated Kennedy by a far wider margin than in their first New England matchup in Maine caucuses where Carter's edge was 34 percentage points Kennedy made the New Hampshire campaign almost a full-time February occupation while Carter left the campaigning to his wife Rosalyn and to Mondale Continued from Pg 1A i ftale it'i a signal for the world of the reaffirmation of the unity the people have behind this president" triumph was magnified by the fact that it came next door to Kennedy's own Massachusetts It was the third defeat Carter had dealt Kennedy who has yet to win a presidential campaign contest And it left Kennedy at the brink of political collapse with no place to go but home to the Massachusetts primary one week away While New Hampshire held its keynote primary Minnesota held precinct caucuses beginning the process of selecting 75 Democratic national convention delegates and 34 Republican delegates Carter wu headed for an easy win in a Democratic straw vote ia the first and it sure la the said Reagan of his victory be back in the general election because we are going to go all the Bush who came to New Hampshire as the leader off two earlier victories was the big loser but said one night's disappointment would not block hia campaign adding "I am absolutely convinced I'm going to win this nomination" The former United Nations ambassador said hia initial target was to narrow The Air Force will investigate a captain who said Tuesday she has been charged with having her topcoat unbuttoned The officer Capt Rina Kelley 34 told the Reporter-News she expects to be court-martialed The captain with seven years in the Air Force said she was notified of four charges against her last Thursday at the base headquarters building at Dy ess She said the charges are: Three counts of having her topcoat unbuttoned One count of making an unlawful statement to a superior officer An investigation ia underway to determine if there will be a court-martial she said A prepared statement by the Air Force said investigation as prescribed by Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Milt tary Justice will be conducted into the entire situation by a qualified legal officer from another station We feel that it is inappropriate to comment any further at this time until the investigation ia completed" The statement was made by Lt CoL Don Neal Dyess public affairs officer The purpose of an Article 32 investigation according to a base official is to determine how to dispose of the charges The topcoat allegation was made by Lt CoL Dennis McGrath deputy base commander and the three incidents allegedly occurred on Jan 24 Jan 25 and Jan 28 said Capt Kelley whole thing ia uid Capt Kelley "You see pilots with jackets unbuttoned and hats off" The alleged unlawful statement to the superior officer involved Capt Helen Capron whom Capt Kelley identified as director of administration for the 96th Combat Support Group was coming in and taking off my eoat" said Capt Kelley when she said that Capt Capron wanted to talk with She said she felt her promotion from first lieutenant to captain was being held up because she wu a woman got my way up there but they sent me she said noting that both Grand Forks and Dyess are SAC bases Capt Kelley said she refused to accept an the reference to administrative punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice A native of Chicago she said she was in the Air Force from 1971-73 got out and then returned in 1975 She said she Reagan Aides Gone RINA KELLY under investigation is divorced and has a daughter 6 who stays with her parents in San Diego Calif The captain said she taught school for four years before entering the Air Force She uid she studied music and French and holds a bachelor's degree from Mundelein College and a from Loyola University both in Chicago She said she also studied at Loyola University in Rome- Asked why she left teaching she uid wanted to get into administration and felt there would be a more equal opportunity in the Air Force" At present she is assigned to the 96th Civil Engineering Squadron of which she said she ia a former executive officer At present she said she is working in the housing services office her about the cut being unbuttoned She uid she told the other captain that she could not talk because she would be late to work Sbe called the superior officer charge saying that Capt Capron is not a superior officer but of equal rank not the Air Force SAC (Strategic Air Command)" uid Capt Kelley referring to problems in her Air Force ureer She uid problems arose at Grand Forks Air Force Base ND when she wrote two legislators Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and Rep Van Deerlin of California the stations' real estate buildings machinery and towers At the same time former US Rep Barbara Jordan D-Ttx who had initially made a bid to buy three of the atations has asked the FCC not to approve a sale to Prima and Permian Midland Telecasting Inc has also asked the FCC not to approve the sale to the minority-owned investors claiming the wiling price is too high Two Other Continued from Pg 1A campaigning" and to reduce campaign expenditures One campaign source who insisted on anonymity said Reagan decided to Inring Casey aboard some time ago and Sears was so angered that he threatened to resign rather than share power Reagan promptly accepted the source said Asked why the action was announced on election day well before Reagan's landslide margin over former UN Ambassador George Bush wu apparent the source said: we win the governor felt we would look ungrateful If we lost we would look desperate" Casey told a news conference Tuesday night that the decision was made few days and reflected Reagu's desire change the direction of the campaign" Asked to elaborate Casey said only that he intended to place greater emphasis on volunteers and surrogates not saying that John Sears was doing anything he said "I'm not here to assess Separate sources have said for some time that national campaign chairman Sen Paul Lault R-Nev was disenchanted with Sears' day-to-day direction of the Reagan effort These sources have said that many of Reagan's key supporters across the country had complained that Sears was keeping the candidate too closeted confident of his Fund Set Up for Girl In Coma By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ Staff Writer She probably won't make it her doctors say But the treatment Kathie Pearson 11 daughter of Edna Pearson of 2833 Hickory has received will leave behind huge bills for her unemployed ami uninsured mother A fund for Kathie who is in a coma at Hendrick Medical Center has been established by friends of the family who know her (Mrs Pear-soh) are trying to make sure that she and her children have food and clotbing-the immediate needs right said Sue Ingram of Rt 1 Box 153 a friend of the family Kathie has suffered from hydrocephalus since birth a condition more commonly known as water on the brain The fluid can cause the brain to hemorrhage if pressure is not released About a week ago two tubes that drained the fluid from her brain into Katbie's abdomen failed to work causing her brain to hemorrhage and resulting in cardiac and respiratory arrest said neurologist Dr John O'Loughlin who has assisted in the case Dr Ruben Brochner is her surgeon Her Illness was originally diagnosed as a virus two weeks ago Mrs Ingram said Kathie is in intensive care at Hendrick Medical deeply comatose and on a respirator" O'Loughlin said not expected to At birth Kathie had two temporary tubes called shunts implanted in her When sbe became ill surgeons replaced the temporary tubes with permanent ahunta The permanent shunts could not be installed until Kathie turned 11 O'Loughlin said UNICEF the United Nations Children's Fund has announced the purchase of an additional 10000 blankets and 250 large family tents to protect Afghan refugee mothers and children who fled from their own country to Pakistan 91955 Barbara Jordan Asks FCC Not to Approve campaign's limited funds campaign requires a sharp reduction in expenses and a restructuring of our organisation to intensify the people-to-people type of campaigning I have been doing here in New Hampshire" Reagan said in a written statement Tuesday Casey has my complete confidence and full authority to carry out this said Reagan Casey was chairman of the SEC during the Ford administration and ia a long-time Republican activist from New York City Sears who got his political atari managing Richard Nixon's primary election effort in 1968 had been the unchallenged boss of the Reagan strategy councils It was Sears who in 1978 engineered the surprise pre-convention selection of Pennsylvania Sen Richard Schweiker to run for vice president if Reagan became the nominee Reagan lost tbe primary to Ford by just 1300 votes in 1976 after a sparse campaign schedule which had him out of the state two days before the election But Reagan campaigned to the wire this time around telling reporters cart ier Tuesday that don't think any one primary is fatal but I'd sure like to win this one" Asked who the heavy turnout would benefit Reagan replied: good for the country I hope it's good for me" Counties blare with five units according to Mike Haley a Clyde fireman A series of fires north of the Missouri and Pacific tracks burned from the county line east to about a half mile west of FM 603 It broke out at 4:40 pm and was under contol by 5:45 pm Haley said Tbe largest fire was four acres and 90 percent of that fire waa in Callahan County Graaa rangeland and fence posts were damaged There were no injuries or buildings damaged Haley said original role as the front-runner rather than sending him to the political fences But Reagan worked those fences hard in New Hampshire trying to put to rest any criticism that he was an aloof and reluctant campaigner Some Reagan backers had complained that the former governor's laid-back handling of the Iowa caucuses along with his refusal to debate fellow GOP candidates there was the doing of Sears and helped Bush pull off his dramatic upset there Reagan debated twice in New Hampshire Rep Carol Campbell a member of Reagan's national steering committee said in Washington that going to be a restructuring of the organisation We in Congress and on the steering committee will continue to play our roles except we will play them more directly with Gov Campbell confirmed there had been internal confrontations within the campaign over strategies ever since the Iowa showing Still the news that Reagan had jettisoned the man who helped him come wtihin a whisker of upsetting incumbent Gerald Ford in 1378 came as a surprise to many Peter Hannaford a longtime Resgin aide who now replaces Lake announced the shakeup Hannaford said Sears' ouster was the result of disagreements on tbe use of the Charles Dunnington fire department dispatcher said The fire was located behind McCoys Building and Supply Center 1201 Highway 80 Other grass fires broke out from there to the county line about a mile east of Elmdale Road All the fires were put out at 6:45 pm and little damage and no injuries occurred units sort of rotated between those two points" Dunnington said Clyde fought the Callahan County Firing I from Pg IA las bank And tbe time eould closure would be a very anti-community aort of thing to do" said Froyd is little doubt they could get their money out of the properties but the stations would have to re-apply for licenses that might take up to a year to He uid the bank would only be wiling Grass Fire Burns Across 2 Sears SAVE 3 HERE'S A FREE OFFER THAT WiU (DOCK YOU OmmiRKEt Easy Living interior paint 1099 Flat fininti or ceiling paint Keg $1399 51 499 Semi gloss or Qa 51499 high gloiis I 1 Sears Best interior latex paint is washable' colorfast stain resistant spot resistant and one-coat 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