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Police considering charges against pilot
of plane that crashed into stadium
BALTIMORE (UPI) - Police
are considering charges against
the pilot of a light plane that
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A single engine plane piloted by Donald Kroner of
Baltimore sits in the stands after crashing into the upper
level of Baltimore Memorial Stadium minutes after the
■ Baker evaluating chances to win post
. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
Republican Sen. Howard Baker
of Tennessee will be making a
series of telephone calls to his
• GOP colleagues during the next
few days in an effort to
evaluate his chances of captur
ing the Senate Minority Lea
der’s post.
A Baker spokesman Sunday
said the senator was studying
. Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater’s
withdrawal as a candidate and
endorsement of Sen. Robert
Rep. Young doesn’t
see any conflict
ATLANTA (UPI) - U.N.
• Ambassador-designate Andrew
Young says the children of a
South African black dissident
have lived with his family for
’ nearly two years but he doesn’t
“talk politics” with them or
their father.
• Young said Saturday night
that he didn’t think his
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crashed into Memorial Stadium
Sunday only minutes after most
of the 60,020 fans at Pittsburgh-
Griffin of Michigan. Griffin was
the only other man in the race.
Goldwater said he withdrew
because he did not have the
support needed to win “without
bending arms and breaking
words.”
There are 38 Republican
senators and it will take 20
votes to succeed retiring Sen.
Hugh Scott of Pennsylvannia in
balloting set for Jan. 4. Baker
lost to Scott by two votes in
association with Robert Sobuk
we, leader of the outlawed Pan
Africanist Congress in South
Africa, would affect his objec
tivity at the U.N.
Young said he didn’t know if
President-elect Jimmy Carter
was aware, before naming him
to the U.N. post, that the son
and daughter of Sobukwe have
lived at his Atlanta home.
Baltimore pro football game
had left the stands.
The pilot of the single engine
Colts and Steelers completed their AFC playoff game
yesterday. Kroner was taken to the hospital with cuts and
there were no serious injuries. (UPI)
1975.
“Sen. Baker has never
declared himself as a can
didate,” a Baker spokesman
Santa invited
to locate
in Oregon
SALEM, Ore. (UPI) - If
Santa Claus wants a change of
scenery after all these years at
the North Pole, Oregon will be
glad to have him.
Gov. Bob Straub sent a letter
to Santa Claus during the
weekend inviting him to relo
cate his toy factory to Oregon.
In the letter, Straub said he
has worked diligently during
the past two years “to attract
environmentally sound indus
tries to our state.
“With this objective in mind,
I want to cordially invite you to
move your North Pole opera
tion to Oregon.”
There is a string attached to
the invitation, however.
Piper Cherokee, Don Kroner,
33, and two policemen were
injured.
said. “He’s still counting the
votes. He doesn’t feel either he
or Griffin have the 20 votes
needed to win the race.”
The Baker aide said the
Tennessee lawmaker was con
tinuing to assess the race but
will not run “unless he thinks
he’s got a shot at it."
“He’ll do some telephoning
this week to see what effect
Goldwater getting out has
had,” the spokesman said.
He added Griffin had actively
been campaigning for the job
since before the election but
Cigarette
bootlegging
big problem
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
U.S. Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations
has rejected one proposal to
combat interstate cigarette
bootlegging and has made its
own recommendation for end
ing the problem.
Rep. L.H. Fountain, D-N.C.,
chairman of the agency, Friday
recommended bootlegging be
made a federal offense. The
commission rejected a proposal
that would have fought the
problem by raising federal
taxes.
Supporters of the proposed
tax increase argued a uniform
tax rate would halt the
profitable shipment of ciga
rettes from low-tax to high-tax
states, where they are sold on
the black market.
But Fountain suggested
stronger interstate cooperation
could help solve the problem
before such drastic measures
as tax increases were adopted.
The tax evasion costs high-tax
states about $390 million in
revenue annually.
Because of its low two-cents
per pack tax, North Carolina is
a prime source of cigarettes
smuggled into Northeastern
states and sold at much lower
prices than are normally
available.
Under the proposed tax
increase, the present federal
tax of eight cents per pack
would have been raised to 20
cents. To get the proposed
rebate of 12 cents per pack
from the federal government, a
state could not have a tax
higher than three cents.
The proposal would have
effectively raised the price of a
pack of cigarettes in North
Carolina by 12 cents. In New
York City, where combined
federal, state and local taxes
are 31 cents per pack, the
proposal would have lowered
taxes to not more than 23 cents
per pack.
Most spectators had left the
stadium early because of
Pittsburgh’s lopsided 40-14 win.
Police spokesman Dennis Hill
said authorities were studying
possible charges against Kro
ner. “He will be taken into
police custody if he gets out of
the hospital,” Hill said.
“Fortunately, most of (the
fans) had gone before this
occurred and there were a lot
of police in the stadium anyway
because of the large crowd,” he
said.
Witnesses said the plane
entered the open end of the
horseshoe-shaped stadium
about 10 minutes after the
game ended and made a pass
as if to land. Then, apparently
seeing he was in trouble, the
pilot tried to pull up but the
plane landed nose down in the
upper deck of the closed end of
the facility.
“If it had been a close game,’
there would have been people up
there and they would have
been falling out of the
stadium,” said Maryland Gov.
Marvin Mandel, who attended
the game. “You can pass all
kinds of laws about flying over
the stadium, but there’s no way
you can stop a nut.”
Baltimore Colts officials said
the plane had been buzzing the
stadium for the past few days
and the FAA was notified. An
FAA spokesman said attempts
were made to radio the pilot
during the game, but he did not
answer.
Kroner and Officer David
Williams were reported in fair
condition in a hospital today.
Officer Joseph Socco was
treated and released for pains
in his side.
Baker did not begin considering
a race until after President
elect Jimmy Carter defeated
President Ford.
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President Gerald Ford, (c), smiles as he talks with his daughter Susan, (r), during arrival
here late yesterday. Mrs. Betty Ford is pictured left. The first family traveled to Vail
Colorado for a two week skiing vacation. A lack of snow in Colorado has made poor skiing
conditions. (UPI)
President Ford begins final
vacation from White House
VAIL, Colo. (UPI) - A
laughing President Ford opened
his final Christmas vacation
from the White House by trying
to bring snow to this barren
skiing resort.
Villagers cheered Ford,
spending his ninth consecutive
family yuletide in the Rocky
Mountain resort, but also called
in an Indian tribe to perform a
snow dance to cure the white
blight.
“We know that between the
Indians and myself they’ll be
some snow very soon,” Ford
told some 2,000 cheering villag
ers on arriving for his two-week
vacation late Sunday.
En route to Vail, Air Force
One stopped in Michigan where
— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 20,1976
the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, the President’s
alma mater, awarded first lady
Betty Ford an honorary doctor
of laws degree.
Mrs. Ford told the university
commencement audience she
and her husband are looking
forward to the years after
leaving the White House Jan.
20. “The best is yet to be,” she
smiled.
The President, given his
honorary doctorate by the
university two years earlier,
rose from his platform chair
and hugged and kissed his wife.
Later, before boarding his
plane for Colorado, the Presi
dent threw an arm around his
wife and joked, “I’ve got to
show her some deference now;
she’s Dr. Ford."
The President’s tongue and
foot both slipped on arrival in
the mountain town for his
annual Christmas skiing holi
day.
First, addressing the crowd
after lighting the Vail Christ
mas tree, the President said,
“Betty, like Jack, Susan and
Steven and my daughter-in-law,
Vail, are delighted to be
here...” Ford joined in the
crowd’s laughter; his daughter
in-law, his son Michael’s wife,
is named Gayle, not Vail.
Moments later, answering the
pleas of townspeople, the
President began shaking their
hands.