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Rockefeller listens to little girl
DENVER (UPI) — Governors, labor leaders, business
executives, politicians and just plain folks came to tell
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller their problems, but
none had quite the impact of 8-year-old Francie
O’Donnell.
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Another memorial plaque in the fight against cancer has been placed in the lobby of the
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Mrs. Joe Akin and Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr. The plaque was placed in memory of the late Joe
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CANON CITY, Colo. (UPI) -
J. David Sanders first told
police he was forced at
gunpoint to drive a young
couple to the house where their
bodies were found in what first
was thought to be a murder
suicide.
Now police think Sanders
himself may have been the
killer.
Tuesday, Sanders was arrest
ed for investigation of kidnap
and murder. Fremont County
officials said there was “proba-
Francie’s problem was simple. Her family is poor and
on welfare. She skipped school Tuesday to tell Rockefeller
about it.
The Denver girl was one of 500 persons attending the
first of six town meetings Rockefeller is conducting
ble cause” to suspect him in
the deaths of Thomas A. Kyer,
22, and Kathy Santisteven, 17.
Sanders, 21, was held under
$25,000 bail.
District Attorney J. Stump
Witcher would not say what
information led to Sanders’
being held as a suspect, but
said “there was probable cause
to consider him a suspect and
he is being held for investiga
tion in accordance with the
rules of criminal procedure.”
Miss Santisteven reportedly
was kidnaped from a suburban
Colorado Springs street comer
early Monday as she and other
students, including her younger
sister, waited for a school bus.
Sanders told police he was
forced to drive Kyer and Miss
Santisteven 50 miles from
Security, Colo., to a home in
Canon City. He was placed in
protective custody after report
ing the incident.
MONASTEREVIN, Ireland
(UPl)—“Come down with
your hands up,” the policeman
shouted through a bullhorn to
the kidnapers of Dutch busi
nessman Tiede Herrema.
The defiant Irish Republican
Army renegades, barricaded in
an upstairs bedroom of a two
story apartment building, re
sponded with a hail of bullets
and curses.
“If you come any closer I’ll
kill him,” one of the kidnapers
shouted.
Two hundred police and
soldiers surrounded the hideout
today. Army marksmen
crouched behind cars, trees and
doors.
“It’s going to be a long
vigil,” one policeman said.
Detectives tracked the kid
napers to Monasterevin, 46
miles from Dublin, Tuesday
and undercover police slipped
into the small, market village
at dawn.
Police surrounded the comer
building and then rushed in
through the front door. The
officers backed off when the
kidnapers opened fire.
Truckloads of troops from the
nearby Curragh barracks then
raced to the village, deploying
two armored cars, machine
guns and marksmen around the
building.
Police identified the kidnap
ers of Herrema, manager of a
Dutch-owned factory in Ireland,
as two renegade members of
the IRA — Eddie Gallagher and
Marion Coyle.
Detectives said Gallagher
was the kidnaper who shouted
at police. They said he
defiantly tossed a handful of
chess pieces down the stairs of
the building as police ap
proached.
“Gallagher is a ruthless
man,” one detective said. “We
believe this is his way of saying
the next move is up to us.”
The kidnapers seized the 52-
year-old businessman Oct. 3 in
the city of Limerick, 60 miles
away, touching off one of the
most intensive manhunts in
Irish history.
The abductors threatened to
“execute” Herrema unless Ire
land freed three IRA prisoners.
The government called the
demands blackmail and turned
them down.
IRA sources said Gallagher
would “stop at nothing” to gain
the release of one of the
prisoners — English heiress
Bridget Rose Dugdale —
reputed to be his wife.
Herrema, in one of his taped
messages, warned “there will
be a fight" if the police comer
Gallagher. “They say they will
not give the Irish government
the satisfaction of getting me
back alive,” he said.
around the country to get public opinion on domestic
policy
“Us poor people are so poor, we’re just completely
poor,” said Francie in a halting voice as she stood on a
chair in front of a microphone. “We need money for food,
for help and care. We need money for clothes.
“We need money for a house — houses are too much,”
said the little girl with brown hair and a bright red dress.
“Our house is 90 bucks. We have to pay it to the landlord
and one sink is completely broken.
“The landlord is not very nice to us.”
Rockefeller replied, “I don’t see how anybody could be
mean to you.”
“That’s true, but she is,” the little girl replied.
Later she told reporters she came to the meeting with
her father, Rory O’Donnell, an unemployed industrial
engineer who is on welfare.
“My mother’s dead. She died from cancer in April,” she
said.
Rockefeller was joined at the session by Health,
Education and Welfare Secretary David Mathews, Labor
Secretary John Dunlop, energy administrator Frank
Zarb, and James Cannon, executive director of the White
House Domestic Council.
Rockefeller said he would take one idea to President
Ford personally. That was the proposal of Larry Oches,
the mayor of Colorado Springs, whose city has an office of
“red tape cutter,” a person whose fulltime job is to help
citizens cut through the bureaucracy they find in dealing
with city government.
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Treasury to close seven branches
ATLANTA (UPI) — Hie Treasury Department plans to
close seven Georgia branch offices of its Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms division in keeping with a Ford Adminis
tration plan for focusing the policing of firearms in big
cities.
Special Agent Robert T. Lane said Tuesday the ATF
offices in Albany and Swainsboro will close in December,
and that those in Athens, Camilla, Newnan, Dublin and
Valdosta will shut down “after the first of the year.”
Lane declined to say how many agents would be trans
ferred by the move. He said the closings comply with an
administration plan to tighten gun controls by shifting
ATF agents from small cities to major cities with high
crime rates.
Lane said the remaining Atlanta-based agents “will ex
tend their coverage to those areas where the offices are
closed.”
Lane said Atlanta is not one of the 11 cities which will
receive additional agents in the reassignments.
Suit hearing scheduled
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) —A hearing is scheduled Nov. 20
in Richmond County Superior Court on a suit by city and
county officials seeking $240,000 in back taxes from
Georgia Power Co.
Hie County Commission and the Augusta-Richmond
County Board of Education, which had been threatening
to sue the huge power company for two months, filed suit
Tuesday.
The suit also seeks 9 per cent interest on the allegedly
delinquent taxes.
Hearing held in Williams case
ATLANTA (UPI) — A city policeman said Tuesday that
he let state Rep. Hosea Williams go after chasing and
catching the legislator because he believed Williams’
denial that he was driving a car in violation of a court
order.
Patrolman C. R. Ables made the statement to a police
disciplinary board hearing a charge of neglect of duty and
of refusing to discuss the incident with superiors. The
board will recommend whether or not Ables should be
punished on the charges.
Ables was accused in an incident Aug. 31 in which he
chased Williams on foot, stopped him, placed him in a
patrol car, an then asked whether Williams had been
driving. Ables quoted Williams as saying, “no.”
School principal elected
AMERICUS, Ga. (UPI) — Lewis Lowe, an elementary
school principal, Tuesday became the first black elected
to the Americus City Council when he defeated incumbent
Councilman Bill Gruhn, 1,329 votes to 1,040.
Veteran Councilman Pat R. Bynum also lost, getting 924
votes to 1,179 for dentist Dr. Thomas R. Wylie. Another
incumbent, K. L. Carpenter, won over challenger Adolf
Cobes 1,210 to 842.
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Francie O’Donnell of Denver testified before the opening
session of the forum on Domestic Policy. The forum is
conducted by Vice President Rockefeller. (UPI)
Police win round
for moonlighting
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI) -
Six Mountain View policeman
have temporarily blocked ef
forts to keep them from
moonlighting at a business firm
which sells packaged beer.
Clayton County Superior
Court Judge Marvin Miller
forebade the city from enforc
ing an ordinance which prohib
its such employment until the
case can be aired at an Oct. 28
hearing.
Mayor Ray King said he
didn’t object to the moonlight
ing but said he decided to
enforce the ordinance when he
was criticized for work done by
his heating and air-conditioning
firm at a night club.
“It’s the principle of the
thing,” King said in explaining
why he told Police Chief
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