Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 259, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 July 1979 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 9,1979
Candid disCUSSionSlCampDavid meetings termed 'very productive'
WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter is moving from a broad-brush review of the domestic problems that have dogged his administration to a close-up look at the nation’s energy pinch and an economy seemingly sliding into recession. Congressmen from both parties were flying today to Camp David for another of the secretive meetings reminiscent of the isolation that surrounded last year’s Mideast summit on the Maryland mountaintop. As the president entered his seventh day of seclusion, press secretary Jody Powell said Carter’s discussions with a wide range of Americans from members of his Cabinet to governors, university presidents and top labor leaders had been "free-wheeling, remarkably candid and... very productive.” Powell said the senators and representatives meeting with i. arter today were assembled by the congressional leadership.
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Federal representatives gather for death watch
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Skylab death watch began in earnest today as the huge station neared the end of its long space journey and headed for a flaming plunge back to Earth, probably on Wednesday. Representatives of several federal agencies gathered in a situation room here to keep track of Skylab’s final hours and to take emergency action in case pieces of the laboratory cause death, injury or damage. The situation center is in a wihdowless room on the sixth flcfor of the National Aeronaut-
Death of a fugitive One of FBl's Ten Most Wanted killed by agents
PALL MALL. Tenn. (AP) Painter, preacher and fugitive Billy Dean Anderson was considered a notorious mountain man when his life on the run ended with two shotgun blasts. On the FBl’s 10 Most Wanted list since 1975, a year after his jail break, Anderson, 44, was killed late Saturday in a field near his mother’s home when he raised a rifle toward agents who had staked out the area. “He was one of the finest and most unique persons I’ve ever
Bogus obituary doesn't fool police looking for Freeley
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - Heaven can wait for A. Robert Freeley, and so apparently can the police. An obituary published Friday in the Bergen County newspaper, The Record, reported Freeley had died in Ohio. But the police, who would like to talk to him, suspect Freeley is alive and hoping the obituary was accepted as proof that
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ics and Space Administration’s headquarters. Down the hall, NASA has set up a newsroom so the media can alert the world when Skylab comes tumbling in. The North American Air Defense Command, which is tracking the 77.5-ton station, predicted Sunday the spacecraft will fall out of orbit in a 30hour period between 7:28 p.m. EDT Tuesday and 1:28 a.m. Thursday. The midpoint is 10:28 a m. Wednesday. If re-entry occurred then, most of Skylab
known when he was preaching at the Wolf River Methodist Church,” said Buster Stockton, former Fentress County sheriff. However, Stockton said, Anderson had changed after spending several years away. “When he came back from Indiana, he began drinking and running around with a tough crowd or at least they thought they were tough,” Stockton said. “Looking back, I still can’t figure out what happened to the boy to make him
authorities had hounded him to his grave. Freeley, who spent 15 of his 48 years in eight prisons, is wanted by police in two states on embezzlement charges and by the FBI in connection with the interstate shipment of stolen goods. He worked for more than a year in the mid-1970s as a news clerk at The Record, where his
Other sessions were likely to continue, Powell said, through Wednesday with prominent political leaders, energy experts and others. A tentative schedule for Tuesday was being set up, with people from outside government being invited to discuss the economy, Powell said, adding that meetings were also planned with “a group of people whose interest is in religion and ethics.” Meanwhile, Carter was to be given a series of options to end long gasoline lines, promote fuel conservation and cut reliance on imported oil. Those options, the work of an interagency task force, are intended to serve as a basis for far-reaching presidential decisions. Powell and other participants in the meetings have been extremely cautious about revealing any details of the discussions.
probably would fall in the Atlantic Ocean. But the midpoint has jumped around each day. On Saadiafd ostmfhe staon wilburn up from atmospheric friction, but NASA estimates about 500 pieces weighing between 1 pound and 2V 2 tons will reach the Earth, NORAD has been making daily predictions on the fall. Starting Tuesday, it will update them every few hours, and these and the course of Skylab will be marked on large charts lining the walls of the situation room.
turn into the man he was.” Anderson was wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, assault with attempt to commit murder, attempted burglary, bank robbery, use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony and being an habitual criminal. In 1962, Anderson was wounded after shooting a state trooper. He was sentenced to 10 years but was out of prison by 1967, when he was charged with wounding former Fentress
duties included preparing obituaries for publication, the newspaper said Sunday. His own obituary, telephoned to the newspaper by a man claiming to represent a Youngstown, Ohio, funeral home, said Freeley would be buried in Paramus at George Washington Memorial Park. But park officials said Saturday no such burial was scheduled.
Production increase double import shortage
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Saudi Arabia has increased its production of crude oil a million barrels a day more than double the shortage in U.S. imports for the three summer months, the Middle East Economic Survey reported today. It could not be learned immediately how much of the increase would go to the United States, but the authoritative oil journal said it will be marketed through Exxon, Texaco, Socal and Mobil, the four American oil companies that are participants with the Saudi govern-
Deeper in debt: Inflation makes credit purchases attractive
By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer Americans are sinking deeper in debt as inflation and the availability of credit make it more attractive than ever to “buy now and pay later.” The Federal Reserve System said that outstanding consumer debt not counting mortgages rose to almost S2BB billion at the end of May, an increase of
County Sheriff Irvin Jones. Anderson was charged in 1973 with wounding a deputy sheriff who was shot while investigating an attempted burglary at a nightclub. While jailed in adjoining Morgan County on that charge, Anderson escaped in 1974. The FBI said he was indicted in Indianapolis in 1976 for a 1973 bank robbery in Morre, Ind. The FBI described Anderson as “a notorious mountain man.”
News of Freeley’s death also was a surprise to Record reporters Ted Rohrlich and R. Clinton Taplin, who learned that the Maurice Funeral Home in Niles, Ohio, cited in the obit, does not exist. Nor does St. Anne’s Hospital, cited as Freeley’s place of death. And a check of all Youngstown funeral homes and hospitals failed to turn up a trace of Freeley.
Carter flew to Camp David on Tuesday. Without any advance public signals, he decided Wednesday to cancel a major speech on energy planned for the next day. On Thursday he began consulting with senior advisers and, by Friday, the talks had blossomed into a domestic summit conference that has darkened the White House offices of Carter’s key aides as they confer with the president in the Maryland woods. Talks Sunday afternoon with a group that included representatives of environmental interests, the oil industry and academia dealt with world energy supplies and prices, strategies for reducing oil imports, and the management of the shortterm energy problems, Powell reported. Among those at that session were Energy Secretary James Schlesinger; domestic affairs adviser Stuart Eizenstat; gov-
ment in the Arabian-American Oil Co. Nor was it known how soon the increase might mean more gasoline at American pumps. But it could ease the threat of a shortage in heating fuel next winter. The Saudi state radio announced a week ago that production was being increased temporarily because the government needed extra money for its $142-billion development program. But the announcement did not say how large the increase would be or how long it would last.
18 percent from the total a year earlier. During May, the amount of credit outstanding grew by more $3.7 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis. Consumers borrowed a record S2B billion and paid off a record $24.3 billion in oustanding debt. Some creditors say delinquency rates are rising, but they note that the rates are
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Saudi Arabia increased its production a million barrels a day, to 9.5 million, for the first three months of the year to ease the shortage caused by the Iranian revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After Iranian production resumed at a reduced level, the Saudi government cut production back to 8.5 million barrels a day for the past three months although officials said the output was somewhat higher. The Middle East Economic Survey said it learned reliably that an increase of a million
still below the peaks of the 1975 recession. Timothy J. Connor of Interbank, which oversees Master Charge, said that cardholders had $10.6 billion in oustanding balances at the end of 1978; 4 percent of the money was 30 days or more past due. A year earlier, there was $7.5 billion outstanding and the delinquency rate was 3.3 percent.
coming fair, to be held July 29 to August 4. They are (from left) Mike Brown, Michelle Brown, Diana Ward and Debbie Martin, members of the Putnam County 4-H rabbit club. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bruce Talbott).
ernors Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Hugh Gallen of New. Hampshire and Robert Graham of Florida; and two university * presidents, Jerry Weisner of the Massachusetts Institute of * Technology and John Sawhill of New York University. Until 12:30 a m. Sunday, and then again over breakfast, Car-; ter conferred with another diverse group that included the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Clark Clifford, an adviser to seven presidents,' and Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFLCIO. Following his meeting, Schlesinger said it would probably take Carter several weeks to put together the energy speech he canceled last week. “The main point is that enough time is going to be taken in order that the president feels comfortable with the decisions that he recommends,” the energy secretary said in an interview broadcast today on NBC’s “Today” show.
barrels a day took effect on July 1 and would continue through September. It said production for the fourth quarter is undecided, but sources reported “the situation will be reviewed in the light of market and price conditions when the time comes.” The New York Times in a survey of the oil shortage Sunday said the United States this year needs to import 8.6 million barrels a day of crude oil and refined products to meet demand, but total oil imports have averaged less than 8.2 million barrels a day.
“It’s been fairly constant,” said Connor. He said the record was delinquency rate was 5.5 percent at the end of the first quarter of 1975. Cynthia Chaddick of Visa said that at the end of 1978 the delinquency rate was about 3.7 percent, one percentage point higher than it was a year earlier. “This is not a new high for us,” she said, adding that a 5
It said the gap in the noncommunist world between available supplies and demand is between one million and two million barrels a day. Japan and Italy were recently reported trying to buy oil directly from the Saudi government The Times said oil industry sources reported the American companies were not importing more crude oil because the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will not sell them more. Many of the members of the oil cartel are limiting production to conserve their chief natural resource.
percent delinquency rate was recorded at the end of 1974. Ms. Chaddick said part of the increase is due to the fact that banks are now offering more than one card. The number of borrowers and the amount they are borrowing has increased sharply as more people use both Visa and Master Charge cards. Kennedy photos forgeries? BALTIMORE (AP) - A photo technician hired by the House Select Committee on As sassinations contends four of the autopsy photographs of John F. Kennedy are forgeries, the Baltimore Sun said today. Robert F. Groden, a photo-op-tics technician, said he uncovered evidence of forgery through “visual inspection” and X-rays of the photographs of the slain president. In a report the newspaper said it obtained, Groden said his evidence “raises grave doubts about the authenticity” of the materials relied upon by the House committee. The photographs he referred to are two black-and-white snapshots of the back of Kennedy’s head and the same photos in color. Groden’s statement, which is to be included in the final version of the House committee’s report to be released later this month, suggests the possibility of an exit wound in the back of Kennedy’s head. That theory is supported by sworn statements from 10 doctors and nurses who treated or handled Kennedy upon his arrival at Parkland Hospital in Dallas immediately after he was shot Nov. 22, 1963, the newspaper said. The Warren Commission and other investigations concluded that the only shots that hit Kennedy came from the rear.
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