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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 10,1974
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Ford says Nixon
bending over backwards
DETROIT (UPI) - President
Nixon is “bending over back
wards” to cooperate with the
House Judiciary Committee
investigating impeachment pro
ceedings against him, Vice
President Gerald R. Ford said
Tuesday night.
But, Ford told 300 young
Republicans here, “on the basis
of the evidence I have seen and
I have heard, I am convinced
he is innocent of any of the
charges made against him.”
Ford, a Michigan congress
man, was personally well
received by the rally but he
won only polite applause for his
defense of the President.
Nixon was flying into Sagi
naw, 95 miles north of here, at
mid-morning for a campaign
appearance in the Eighth
Congressional District.
The vice president wound up
back to back campaign appear
ances in the Detroit suburbs of
Troy and Southfield today with
a breakfast session for U.S.
Rep. William Broomfield of
Royal Oak. Gov. William G.
Milliken and U.S. Rep. Robert
Huber of Troy, with whom Ford
appeared Tuesday night, also
were at the breakfast table.
At a news conference Ford
referred to the letter sent by
White House Attorney James D.
St. Clair to the House Judiciary
Committee informing it that the
White House would wait until
after the Easter recess before
answering demands for Water-
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“The White House will
complete a review of the
refined request during the
Easter recess and will then
respond affirmatively to all
requests for tapes and other
material which it considers
relevant. Armed with this
material, the committee “will
then be able to complete its
investigations,” he said.
Ford said Nixon “has shown
a great deal of cooperation ...
he is responding with the
evidence, and if the committee
is not then satisfied, there can
be a review.”
“President Nixon is bending
over backwards to be helpful,”
he said.
Ford told the Huber
rally that “none of the evidence
with which I am familiar in
any way undercuts the Presi
dent.”
In a ringing defense of Nixon,
Ford declared no president had
done more “to achieve and
maintain peace."
He added, “I can assure you
the President is in the best of
health, mentally and physically
and will continue with the
mandate for which he was
elected in 1972.”
KP duty
LONDON (UPI) - The
education committee of the
London borough of Waltham
Forest is considering making
boys who assault teachers do
the washing up after school
lunch as punishment.
Committee member Charles
Paley, who proposed the idea,
said, “there is no corporal
punishment and it is worse than
useless giving these children
100 lines to do —because they
just won’t get done.
“The proposal I am putting
forward will make them look
small and ridiculous, like
naughty little boys,” Paley
said.
TROY, Mich. — Vice President Gerald Ford speaks at a
news conference after coming to the Detroit area to
campaign for congressmen up for re-election. Listening to
Ford’s talk is Congressman Robert Huber, who has
announced as a candidate for re-election. (UPI)
Judge orders firm
to reveal contributions
ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI) -
U.S. District Court Judge Miles
Lord, saying he was sick at
heart, Tuesday ordered Re
serve Mining Co. to reveal all
its political contributions made
since 1969.
The order was issued after a
document was read to Lord
that indicated Reserve, Armco
Steel Co., and Republic Steel—
the two companies that own
Reserve—had plans for political
moves to fight pollution charges
against Reserve Mining. The
documents came from the files
of Armco Steel.
After hearing Byron E.
Starns, deputy Minnesota attor
ney general, read the state
ment, Lord called a recess
saying he was “sick.”
Shortly thereafter, the judge
returned to the courtroom and
said:
“When I said I was ill it was
in my heart and not my
stomach.”
Ix>rd said his order included
all campaign contributions—
even those pertaining to local
school board elections.
Starns said the hand-written
documents that Lord heard
were short and sketchy. The
writer was unknown.
“Essentially it seems to be
some type of a strategy
meeting," Starns said.
One of the comments was:
“Take steps politically.
Voices come back to Gov,”
apparently referring to Gov.
Wendell Anderson.
Another was “Stein won’t
take on Gov. Turn over to
Mitchell.” Starns said the
reference to Mitchell apparent
ly meant then Attorney General
John Mitchell.
Starns said the name Stein
was a reference to Murray
Stein, who chaired the Lake
Superior Enforcement Con
ference.
It was during that conference
that state and federal authori
ties first tried to halt Reserve’s
discharge of taconite waste into
Lake Superior.
The notes on the agenda,
taken from a Reserve meeting
in Chicago on Feb. 23, 1971,
also indicated an effort was
being made to block Grant
Merritt from being appointed
head of the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency because Merritt
opposed the discharge of ore
waste by Reserve.
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Dockside
blast
kills man
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
An oil tanker exploded at
dockside Tuesday night, killing
at least one crewman, after
pumping off most of its 200,000
barrels of oil. Five other
crewmen were missing in the
Delaware River.
Thirteen crewmen and a man
believed to be a guard were
injured. Several of them were
picked out of the river by Coast
Guardsmen.
The tanker was believed to be
the Elias, of Greek registry and
chartered by the Atlantic-
Richfield Oil Co. (ARCO). It
settled to the bottom of the
river and at midnight still was
burning.
Substantial damage was re
ported done to the ARCO
building nearby.
The Coast Guard said the
explosion occurred on the
dockside, not on the tanker, and
happened while the oil from
Venezuela was being unloaded.
The dead crewman was not
identified.
One Woman Injured
Os the 13 crewmen injured,
three, including a woman, were
in intensive care at St. Agnes
Hospital. Three others with
lesser injuries were admitted
and six others were treated and
released from St. Agnes.
Another crewman was treated
and released at Methodist
Hospital. A 14th injured person,
a 55-year-old male believed to
be a guard at the pier, was in
satisfactory condition at the
Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
The tanker carried a crew of
32, the Coast Guard said.
Fourteen crewmen were on
shore leave and were accounted
for.
The 65-foot Coast Guard
cutter Cleat which was fighting
the blaze caught fire, but only
minor damage to the sterm.
Sky Turned Red
In addition to the cutter, the
Coast Guard had four 40-foot
utility boats and two 65-foot
tugboats at the scene. A Coast
Guard helicopter was being
flown from Brooklyn to help
search the river for the
missing.
The explosion occurred at
9:50 p.m. and was reported by
area civilians who said “it
turned the sky red,” police
said. The explosion was seen on
both the Philadelphia and New
Jersey sides of the river.
The 31,000-ton tanker tied up
Monday at the Fort Mifflin
Marine Depot and Oil Com
pany.
Another tanker, fully loaded
with crude oil, was tied up at
the dock but was towed safely
away.
The fire was about one mile
south of the Philadelphia Naval
Yard. Philadelphia Internation
al Airport is nearby and was
used as a shortcut by police,
fire and rescue vehicles to
reach the explosion.
Committees check
on delay of prison
ATLANTA (UPI) - Two Sen
ate committees will conduct a
two- day inquiry next week into
an apparent delay in construc
tion of the new state prison for
women.
Sen. Joe Kennedy, D-Claxton,
chairman of the Penal and Cor
rectional AffairsCommittee,and
Sen. Culver Kidd, D-Milledge
ille, chairman of the Commit
tee on Economy, Reorganization
and Efficiency in Government,
said Tuesday they will hold the
inquiry next Thursday and Fri
day.
The General Assembly author
ized construction of the prison
five years ago, but it is only
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Australia
faces
elections
CANBERRA (UPI) - Aus
tralia’s 16-month-old Labor
government failed today to win
Senate approval of essential
money legislation and Prime
Minister Gough Whitlam said
he would dissolve Parliament
and call new elections next
month.
Whitlam announced the disso
lution of both upper and lower
houses of Parliament in the
House of Representatives to
night after the Senate refused
to vote on two fiscal appropria
tion bills the government
needed to govern until June.
Whitlam said the governor
general, Sir Paul Hasluck, had
agreed to the double dissolu
tion.
The Senate did not vote to
reject the money bills but voted
31-26 against a motion by
Attorney General Senator Lio
nel Murphy that the questions
be put to the House.
Murphy told the Senate that
if the motion wasn’t carried the
government would interpret
this as a failure to approve the
bills and would seek a double
dissolution.
The Senate’s rejection of a
money supply bill is unprece
dented since the House of
Representatives and Senate
were established by federation
in 1901.
The Labor government has 67
seats in the 125-man lower
House of Representatives—a
majority of nine—but in the
Senate has only 26 of the 60
seats.
The opposition parties decid
ed to vote against the money
bills and force an election
becuse of what was called the
“political immorality" of the
government in appointing last
week former opposition Senator
Vincent Gair to the post of
Australian ambassador to Ire
land.
about 20 per cent complete. It
is being constructed near Mil
ledgeville.
The two committees will visit
the present prison to discuss the
situation with Warden Laverne
Ford. Members then will come
to Atlanta on Friday to meet
with Dr. Allen Ault, offender
rehabilitationcommissioner.
“Our main concern will be
the construction delay,” Ken
nedy said, “but other prison
problems will be discussed. ’ ’
“We’d like some answers as to
why the new women’s prison has
not been completed,” said Kidd,
who added early release and
outside work prison programs
also probably will be discussed.
“We’ve got to find some al
ternatives to fulltime incarcera
tion,” he said.
The legislature appropriated
$273,000 for initial financing of
the new $3 million facility in
1970. Former prison chief Ellis
MacDougall halted construction
when he took office three years
ago, complaining the project
was being handled wrong.
Presently, the women’s pri
son, part of Central State Hospi
tal at Milledgeville, houses 280
inmates, 30 more than is pre
ferred by prison officials.
About people
Frank Sinatra
opens national tour
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (UPI) -
Frank Sinatra opened a three
day stand Tuesday night at
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
with many of the fans those
who remembered his early
appearances of the 19405.
Sinatra is on a nationwide
tour, which began Monday at
Carnegie Hall in New York, to
benefit the Variety Clubs
International which benefits
underprivileged children.
Where the Camegie perfor
mance was attended by the
usual benefit audience, Tues
day’s crowd was middle-aged
residents of Long Island, the
ones who as teen-agers 30 years
ago danced in the aisles while
Sinatra sang at the Paramount
Theater on Times Square.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI)
— Mayor Richard G. Lugar of
Indianapolis said Tuesday
President Nixon is welcome to
campaign for his bid for a U.S.
Senate seat. He also welcomed
torney General John Mitchell is accompanied by a legal
aide as he leaves the federal courthouse in New York
where he stands trial for alleged presidential campaign
fund violations. Mitchell was indicted again this month
on charges stemming from the Watergate cover-up.
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Vice President Gerald Ford.
“In the event the President
or vice president want to come
to campaign, I would welcome
them,” Lugar told a news
conference.
Lugar said he had not invited
Nixon or Ford. “I am not the
nominee of my party yet, nor
am I managing the statewide
campaign,” he said.
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Gentry
Bobbie sued
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - A
New York talent agency sued
Bobbie Gentry Tuesday, saying
she had not paid the agency the
10 per cent due on some of her
singing fees.
Attorneys for International
Famous agency filed suit in
Superior Court for $23,650 in
allegedly unpaid fees and
$41,000 in damages. They
charged Miss Gentry with
taking engagements in Van
couver, British Columbia, Syd
ney, Australia and Las Vegas,
Nev., without turning over the
agents’ cut.