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Disabled tanks
DISABLED TANKS, captured by Israeli troops from Egypt and Syria during the 1973 war, w ill be shipped further behind Israeli
lines as part of their partial troop withdrawal from Suez. The Soviet-produced tanks, about 2,(MM) of them, will eventually be
repaired for use by Israel.
Ford writes
upside down
By RICHARD H. GROWALD
UPI Senior Editor
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Presidential assistant Terence
O’Donnell laid a copy of
Amendment to Emergency
Livestock Credit Act of 1974 in
the center of the Cabinet Room
table, set down a blue and
silver felt tip pen and stepped
aside for President Ford to do
his signature thing.
The President nodded to the
senators and congressmen as
sembled for the ceremonial
signing in the White House,
stepped sideways to squeeze his
way to the only chair at the
table, sat down, pick up the pen
and faced his dilemma.
It might have been easy for
George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, Harry S. Truman or
some other President. But
Gerald R. Ford is a southpaw
and must sign his name upside
down.
This was not the first time of
course. Ford is used to it. He
maneuvered the document,
tilting it to the left, arched his
left arm as a gentleman might
who is about to take his lady in
arm for a waltz and began
writing.
A rightrhanded person would
simply knock off the signature.
Ford carefully wrote G-E-R-A-
L-D R. F-O-R-D. There was no
squiggly flourish. It was all
simple, neat and clean and
accomplished upside down.
Obituaries
By United Press International
Sid Gordon
NEW YORK (UPI) — Sid
Gordon, who hit 202 homers and
had a .283 career batting
average with three National
League teams during the 1940’s
and 1950’s died Tuesday at the
age of 57.
A native of Brooklyn, who
played for the New York
Giants, Boston Braves and
Pittsburgh Pirates during a 13-
year career, Gordon was a
strong-armed, dangerous-hitt -
ing outfielder-third baseman,
who also figured in one of the
most celebrated trades of his
era.
He batted .299 with 30 homers
and 107 RBI for the Giants in
1948 and hit .304 with 27 homers
and 103 RBI for the Braves in
1950. He hit between 25 and 30
homers in each season from
1948 through 1950.
Gordon was traded by the
Giants to the Braves, Dec. 14,
1949, along with shortstop
Buddy Kerr and outfielder
Willard Marshall for shortstop
Alvin Dark, second baseman
Eddie Stanky and pitcher Sam
Webb. It was a trade asked by
Giant manager Leo Durocher to
give him “my kind of team”
and it paid off in two pennants
and a world championship for
New York.
Gordon went with the Braves
to Milwaukee in 1953 and then
to the Pirates in 1954. He
returned to the Giants briefly in
1955 before retiring.
Jess Richardson
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
Jess Richardson, a former All-
Pro defensive tackle for the
Philadelphia Eagles, died Tues
day at his home after a long
illness. He was 44.
Richardson attended Alaba
ma and helped the team to a
61-6 defeat of Syracuse in the
1953 Orange Bowl. He signed
with the Eagles that year and
played nine seasons before
“I still haven’t found away
for a lefthander to show he’s
doing it very gracefully,” said
Ford, rising from the table and
talking as much to his
southpaw fate as to the
applauding congressmen and
news cameras across the table.
Ford has had little trouble in
the past 10 months doing the
big things. And he has
mastered most small things of
being President —even the
telephone in the desk drawer.
In the Oval Office there is a
telephone atop his desk but for
reasons of state there is a
second telephone sitting in one
of the side drawers in the desk.
When it rings now Ford,
without looking, flips open the
drawer and plucks up the
phone.
It wasn’t always so.
The President has said the
first three times the phone rang
he could not understand why
his desk was making a ringing
noise.
His signature completed,
Ford rose from the Cabinet
Room table and turned to shake
the hand of Sen. Walter
Huddleston, D-Ky., who grinned
and said, “Mr. President, I’ve
got a lot of lefthanders in my
family —and even a few
Republicans.”
Ford laughed and said, “I
like lefthanders —but I like
Republicans even better.”
going to the Boston Patriots in
1962. He played three seasons
at Boston as a defensive tackle
and then became a defensive
line coach in 1965.
Richardson returned to Phila
delphia to become defensive
line coach for the Eagles in
1972.
According to Richardson’s
father, he had been suffering
from a kidney disease for a
year and required daily dialysis
treatment. His father said
Richardson was not employed
when he died, but was
“expecting things to material
ize with the World Football
League.”
Richardson is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Richardson, and his wife and
two daughters, who live in
Marblehead, Mass. Funeral
services are to be held here
Friday.
Clint Courtney
RICHMOND (UPI) — A
memorial service will be held
here Thursday night for Clint
Courtney, the fiery manager of
the Richmond Braves who died
this week in Rochester, N.Y.,
while on a road trip with his
baseball team.
The Braves’ scheduled Thurs
day night game against the
Memphis Blues has been
postponed in honor of Courtney
and will be played as part of a
Friday night doubleheader.
Braves General Manager
Roger Bottorff said the service
will be held at 7 p.m. at the
Joseph W. Bliley Funeral
Home.
Courtney, a former major
league catcher, died Monday of
a heart attack. He was 48.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday morning in Coushat
ta, La., where Courtney lived
and operated a cattle ranch
during the off season. He will
be buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery
in his home town of Hall
Summit, La.
Cerebral palsy
no harrier
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (UPI) — Larry Ek, 24, and Sherry
Hamilton, 22, of Fort Worth, Tex., both have cerebral
palsy —but thanks to surgery, it should mean no barrier to
their romance.
The palsy victims will have brain implant surgeries
later this year. And they say they are going ahead with
their plans to marry June 20, 1976.
An electronic stimulator will be implanted beside his
brain in September at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York
City.
Sherry will have similar surgery in August to free her
from the crippling of tightened muscles and drawn limbs
caused by cerebral palsy. The affliction results from
damage to brain cells during or after a difficult birth.
The surgery for Larry and Sherry is designed to
stimulate brain cells adjoining dead tissue into
performing the muscle control functions normally
handled by the destroyed tissue.
If it is successful, it will free them in part from their
handicaps, allowing them to lead more normal lives.
There is a risk involved, but both Larry and Sherry say
that will not change their plans for getting married.
“My feeling is we want to wait until after the surgery so
we can recuperate, and she wants to finish college,”
Larry said in an interview. “I can save money and get
going on my job.”
Larry operates a small Twin Falls printing business
using a special machine which allows him to type. Sherry
has one semester to go at Tarrant County Junior College
where she is studying journalism.
If the surgery is successful for one and not the other,
Larry said, “that wouldn’t change nothing.”
“They will come up with something different for me. If
it doesn’t work for me,” Sherry said. “It’s no big deal.”
They met last March when Larry went to New York for
a physical evaluation to clear the way for the implant.
“I’m the kind of guy who is bashful,” Larry said. “I
don’t go around and talk... I was down in the cafeteria and
I walked right by her and sat down a couple of tables away
... She got up and started walking out the door, and that
was the first time I saw her — do I have to tell you what I
thought?”
They met in the hall outside her room the next day.
It was two weeks after he returned to Twin Falls before
Larry knew Sherry had fallen in love with him. Three
weeks ago Larry flew to Texas and brought Sherry back to
Twin Falls.
She now wears a diamond engagement ring.
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Auto makers
propose
ad policy
DETROIT (UPI) - Four
auto companies that account
for 80 per cent of the cars sold
in the United States have
proposed a set of advertising
rules that could end misleading
or deceptive fuel economy
claims.
The proposal to the Federal
Trade Commission Tuesday
was made jointly by General
Motors, Ford, Chrysler and
Volkswagen. They asked the
FTC to adopt the new rules as
soon as possible so 1976-model
advertising that begins in two
months will be more informa
tive to car buyers.
While not formally joining the
filing, attorneys for Toyota and
Nissan (Datsun) indicated they
agree with the proposed guide
lines and will conform if
adopted by the FTC.
Key element in the industry
proposal is the use of both city
and highway mileage-per-gallon
test results the Environmental
Protection Agency obtains in its
emission certification tests.
Most fuel economy advertising
now contains just the higher
highway figure.
VW began the latest round in
the miles-per-gallon war with
its flaunting of the 38 mpg the
EPA says the minicar can get
on the highway. With gasoline
prices climbing and imports
gaining a record one of every
five sales this year, the
domestic makers countered
with fuel-stingy autos of their
own.
GM is now advertising a
Vega that can get 37 mpg on
the highway and Ford last
week began selling its three
MPG cars —Pinto, Bobcat and
Mustang II —with highway fuel
economy of 34 mpg.
New trial
in doubt
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) - A
federal judge said Tuesday that
a retrial for two men accused
of murdering pathologists War
ren and Rosina Matthews may
pose “serious constitutional
problems,” but stopped shojt of
saying that there should not be
another trial.
U.S. District Judge Charles
A. Moye Jr. ruled on the case
of George Emmett and James
Creamer after 17 days of
habeas corpus hearings for the
men. Both men were to be
freed within 120 days of their
May 7, 1971 conviction if not
retried within that time.
Moye said that apparent
“misconduct” by Cobb County
prosecutors and possible de
struction of the evidence may
mean a new trial could not
possibly be held.
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Idea backfired
CHICAGO (UPI) - The idea
was to make its “reliable”
informant appear wealthy. It
backfired, and it may cost the
government $1.75 million as a
result.
Government sources said
Tuesday the unidentified infor
mant, working on .a stolen
securities case, milked the
Justice Department and the
Continental Illinois National
Bank out of that much money.
Bank officials said the
government is liable for the
losses.
“The certificate of deposit
was issued at the request of the
U.S. government with their
commitment and hence it is our
expectation that the Continental
Lockheed
terminal
opened
ATLANTA UPI) —Lockheed
Air Terminal Inc. opened a new
$5 million facility Tuesday that
is expected to increase the
number of passengers traveling
through Hartsfield International
Airport here from 5,000 to
20,000 passengers a month.
Gene Lloyd, Lockheed’s gen
eral manager, said the new
terminal will have customs,
refueling, and cargo handling
services for charter airlines
without facilities in the airport.
Now only about 25 charter
flights use Hartsfield every
month because customs facili
ties have been limited, Lloyd
said. That number is expected
to increase to 100 charter
flights a month, most of which
will be en route to Europe. The
new facility will allow customs
officials to move people through
the terminal at the rate of 200
per hour.
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Bank will not suffer a loss as a
result of this incident,” the
bank said in a statement
Tuesday.
Sources said the bank issued
a certificate of deposit for $1.75
million to the informant in 1973
at the request of the Justice
Department’s strike force.
The certificate was obtained
to make the informant appear
wealthy so he could assist in an
investigation of interstate sale
of stolen securities, sources
said.
Instead, the sources said, the
informant used the money to
buy property.
Although the bank received no
money to back the certificate,
it was assured by a strike force
attorney the U.S. government
would “cover any liability
incurred,” officials said.
A government investigator
said the same informant had
earlier recovered some sl3
million in stolen securities for
the government and provided
information which led to the
conviction of about a dozen
persons.
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But once given the certificate
of deposit for the 1973 case, the
informant turned confidence
man.
Sources said he used the
certificate of deposit as collat
eral to purchase property
valued at $2 million in San
Diego, Calif.
Early this year, sources said,
he defaulted on the mortgage
payments and the savings and
loan company which issued the
mortgage sought to redeem the
certificate with Continental
Illinois.
Strike force officials, who
investigate organized crime,
refused comment. U.S. Attor
ney James Thompson said any
statement would have to come
from the Justice Department’s
civil division in Washington,
D.C. Thompson said he did not
authorize the issuance of the
certificate.
Strike force chief Peter F.
Vaira refused comment be
cause of the possibility of
lawsuits. He said the incident
occurred before he became
head of the strike force.