Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 282, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 August 1979 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, August 4,1979

People in the news Won't have Nixon to kick around NEW YORK (AP) Residents of an exclusive building who did not want former President Richard Nixon to move in have gotten their wish. Nixon, amid the dissent and dismay of at least half the people in the resident-owned building, has withdrawn his application to purchase the $750,-000 nine-room duplex apartment. Nixon had planned to move into the building with his wife, Pat, in the fall. Residents of the 16-story building received a letter Thursday from the building management, saying the current owner of the apartment would try to sell it to someone else. Jane Maynard, one of the residents, had taken a poll earlier in the week and said that half of the 34 residents were opposed to Nixon’s moving into the building because of potential problems with security. “I have no ax to grind politically or morally, but he is very controversial,” she said. “There is an enormous number of people who hate him, and I think it would change the ambiance of the building if he lived here. There would be news people and curiousity seekers around, potential bomb scares and a great number of Secret Service men around.” VAN NUYS, Calif. (AP) Actor Dan Haggarty, star of television’s "Grizzly Adams,” has been fined S6OO and ordered to do 100 hours of community service after pleading no contest to charges of reckless driving and assault on a police officer. Haggarty, 35, was stopped in his Ferrari last Nov. 8 for speeding on the San Diego Freeway in Sherman Oaks, police said. Officers said they noticed a vial containing a white powder in the car, but when they reached for it, Haggarty threw it into the brush along the road and then scuffled with them until he was handcuffed. Both arresting officers were treated for minor cuts and bruises. The vial was never found. Haggarty, who pleaded no contest to the misdemeanors, also was placed on two years probation Friday by Municipal Judge Burton Katz. • Everyone’s heard all those virtuous tales about Abraham Lincoln’s honesty, so it’s positively refreshing to learn, from a Lincoln buff and fellow lawmaker from Lincoln’s old district in Illinois, Rep. Paul Findley, that “Honest Abe” may not always have been as loftily straightforward as we’ve been led to believe. Findley’s study of Lincoln’s congressional career has resulted in a Crown book, “Abe Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress,” that divulges that while a U.S. representative, Lincoln may have padded his mileage allowance between Washington and Springfield, 111. The mileage allowance was fixed at 40 cents a mile, said Findley, and “for both sessions Lincoln received a mileage allowance of $2,601, almost as much as his grand total per diem. That meant he received $1,300.50 for each round trip and therefore was reimbursed for 3,252 miles each time. The round-trip mileage from Springfield now recognized by the Clerk of the House is 1,800 miles.” Findley theorizes that a Committee on Mileage in the House at the time leaned over backward to give fellow members the best mileage deal possible, and Lincoln unhesitatingly took ad- • vantage of it. • JERUSALEM (AP) Begin has been released from Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital in time to celebrate his 66th birthday today. Looking thin but in good spirits, Begin left the hospital unaided on Friday after 15 days of treatment for a minor stroke. He told reporters he was eager to resume work in about a week. Doctors say blockage of a small artery in Begin’s brain caused the dizziness and vision problems that led to his hospitalization. An impairment of his peripheral vision could be permanent, they said. Before leaving the hospital, Begin was given a surprise birthday party.

In search of The silver container Earhart supposedly buried

HONOLULU (AP) - A woman believed to be aviator Amelia Earhart buried a silver container after she crash-landed on a Pacific atoll 42 years ago, says an investigator who recently interviewed natives on the Marshall Islands. “Our witnesses told us that Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, buried a silver container, just prior to being captured by the Japanese,” said Vincent Loomis, an Orlando, Fla., businessman who has been investigating her disappearance. “I haven’t the slightest idea what it may have contained,” said Loomis, but he still is convinced Miss Earhart was not on a spy mission when she disappeared July 2,1937, on a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island, one of the last legs of an around-the-world flight. Loomis, who returned from the Marshalls this week, hopes natives who claim to have seen the crash can lead him to the buried container on another trip early next month. He also hopes to recover Miss Earhart’s plane, which he believes is still located on another Marshall atoll. Loomis was on duty with the Air Force in 1952 when he discovered an airplane covered by jungle growth on a tiny atoll. He discounted the discovery until 15 years later when

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DAN HAGGARTY: He's guilty MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Gov. Fob James has learned two things about his new home: it has a burglar alarm system, and the police get there pronto when it goes off. James found that out Wednesday night twice, in fact. He tripped the alarm both times while wandering through the house. Not only the police, but Mayor Emory Folmar and two sheriff’s office cars showed up the first time. The governor and his family are living in a remodeled twostory dwelling instead of the executive mansion two blocks down the street. Mrs. James wanted it that way because there’s more privacy. • Although quite a few members of Congress jog for health and sport, most probably get their main exercise by walking. Rep. Peter Peyser, suspecting that to be true, made an experiment. Every working day for four weeks, from 7:30 a m. until the House adjourned each evening, the Westchester Democrat wore a pedometer, and now the results are in. He said Thursday that, assuming his fellow members of Congress walk about the same amount during a working day as he does, each walks 13 miles a week. Since Congress usually is ip session 40 weeks a year, that’s 520 miles of walking on the job for each member of Congress. • NEW YORK (AP) Columnist Earl Wilson has taken a leave of absence from his “It Happened Last Night” gossip column, which he originated 37 years ago. The column, syndicated to numerous newspapers around the country, was last seen a month ago. A spokesman for Field Syndicates of Irvine, Calif., said Wilson hadn’t written a column recently because he was on vacation, which he extended because of illness. The spokesman said he didn’t have any details. According to a friend, doctors advised the 72-year-old columnist and radio commentator “to take a rest because he has virtually not taken a vacation for about 35 years.” ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Radio station KROC didn’t get the mileage it expected out of its SI,OOO promotional contest. The station planned to run a six-week contest in which listeners would hear clues and hunt for a medallion. But Robbie Conant, 11, who never listens to the radio, accidentally discovered the medallion just two days into the contest. The boy was playing under a footbridge in Rochester when he spotted a shiny object the medallion. He took it home and showed it to his mother, who listens to the station • NEW YORK (AP) Tennis star Arthur Ashe “possibly did suffer a heart attack” before his admission to New York Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman says. She said Friday that Ashe, 36, had not experienced any pain in two days of observation and was in good condition in the intensive care unit. Ashe admitted himself to the hospital Tuesday night after experiencing some discomfort and chest pain.

he read a book about Miss Earhart’s disappearance. For the past 10 years, Loomis and his wife have researched the story of the disappearance, and they have made several trips recently to the Marshall Islands. “The pieces to the puzzle are falling in place,” he said. “We are getting very close to solving the Earhart mystery.” On an earlier trip, Loomis interviewed Biliman Amran, a businessman on Majuro, who was a medical corpsman with the Japanese navy in July 1937. Amran told of going aboard a cargo boat to treat an injured Caucasian man. He also saw a Caucasian woman, and Loomis said Amran’s description of her “fits Amelia from head to toe.” The Marshallese who witnessed the burial of the container gave similar descriptions of the couple and the boat that picked them up, Loomis said. All this convinces Loomis that Miss Earhart and Noonan landed safely on an atoll and were taken prisoner, and did not crash at sea as many authorities believe. Loomis said there are rumors in the Marshall Islands that Noonan was beheaded and Miss Earhart was fatally poisoned, but he has been unable to verify those reports.

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