Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 284, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 August 1979 — Page 2

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Kirkland bidding for AFL-CIO leadership if Meany retires

By OWEN ULLMANN AP Labor Writer CHICAGO (AP) Lane Kirkland, the AFL-ClO’s No. 2 man for the past decade, says he’s a candidate for the labor federation's top job if 84-year-old president George Meany ever vacates the post. “I believe George Meany is mortal, although that remains to be proven,” Kirkland said with a smile Monday in announcing for the first time that he would run for president if Meany steps down because of health problems. But Kirkland, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer and Meany's heir apparent since 1969, left no impression that he expects the ailing federation president to end his 24-year reign when his current term expires in November. “If you’re talking about some* hypothetical future time, undated, when there might be a vacancy, if nominated, I will run; if elected, I will serve,” Kirkland, 57, told reporters in Chicago, where the AFL-ClO’s executive council is holding its

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LANE KIRKLAND He'd take the job. annual meeting. “I don’t know any first mate who is worth his salt and who respects his trade who would not like to be captain,” said Kirkland, a former officer in the Merchant Marines. “I’m no different.” Meany has been away from work for 3M> months because of a painful hip problem that has kept him from coming to the policy-making council’s meet-

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GEORGE MEANY Is he mortal? ing. His absence has triggered speculation that he will retire. Kirkland, regarded by most officials in the 14-million-mem-ber federation as a shoo-in for Meany’s job, said the federation president “is well on the road to recovery” and later this week may return to his Washington office for the first time since mid-April. As far as retirement, “what his plans are, he will declare in his own good time,” said Kirkland, who presided over the executive council meeting and held a news conference in Meany’s place. Kirkland says he and Meany have nearly identical views on most topics, and labor observers expect the AFL-CIO to continue in the same direction under Kirkland. However, the soft-spoken Kirkland lacks Meany’s fame and flare as a public personality, and some AFL-CIO officials question whether organized labor would lose some of its influence with Kirkland as its chief spokesman.

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Mexican spill hits beach Oil splashes onto Texas coast

PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) The world’s largest oil spill touched the United States early today, as crude oil from a runaway Mexican well washed ashore along a sparsely populated section of Texas’ southern coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said. A Coast Guard spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said the oil was observed on a 40-mile stretch of South Padre Island beach. The area is north of the heavily populated area of the resort island and south of Corpus

Strange behavior preceded jolts Did animals sense California earthquake?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Five minutes before one of the strongest earthquakes to hit Northern California this century began jostling the region, an elephant at a wild animal park in Redwood City almost tore her barn door from its hinges. Scientists studying Monday’s outburst by the normally docile beast and similar behavior among other animals say it could provide more evidence for a growing belief among Western seismologists that ani-

mals may some day help hu- The reactions of the animals mans predict the fearsome at the 65-acre Marine World Afquakes. rica U.S.A. in Redwood City The earthquake, which regis- south of here will be added to a tered 5.9 on the Richter scale as daily record of their behavior 'Some day you'll fight beside us'

Hot dogs and guns at Klan kids camp

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - In most ways, it looked like any other summer camp kids munching hot dogs and playing volleyball. But the guard at the gate was dressed in white robes and packed a pistol, and the kids took time from their games for rifle practice. A counselor at the camp told the youngsters they were being taught how to fire a rifle because, “Some day you’ll be Klansmen in robes and you’ll be fighting beside us.” The camp, somewhere north of Birmingham, is run by the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan. The 47-acre site is owned by Roger Handley, Alabama grand dragon of this particular Klan faction. Reporters who visited the camp Sunday, at the Klan’s invitation, were taken to it con-voy-style, over a roundabout route of country roads that made its exact location hard to pinpoint. Reporter Bob Bray of the

Israel warns PLO change threatens peace treaty

HAIFA, Israel (AP) warned that a pro-PLO change the United States is reported considering for the basic U N. Security Council resolution on the Arab-Israeli conflict could scuttle the Egyptian-Israeli

Christi. Another major concentration of oil from the runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico was sighted early today 50 miles due south of Aransas Pass, near Corpus Christi, Texas. The Coast Guard said this slick was 10 miles long and two miles wide. The gooey crude has been spilling into the gulf since the well blew out June 3. Discovery of the oil on Texas beaches and the concentration of oil south of Aransas Pass came less than 24 hours after the Coast Guard reported the oil had drifted into

it raced along the Calaveras Fault, did relatively little damage and injured only a handful of people. But it set off strange reactions in many animals. “It’s very interesting, very encouraging news,” said Dr. Jack Evernden, a U.S. Geological Survey research geophysicist studying the impact of earthquakes on animals. “With documentation like that, it makes it so much easier to believe. It gives more credibility to the whole thing.”

Birmingham News was among those who visited the camp. His story appeared in Monday’s editions. Bill Wilkinson of Denham Springs, La., imperial wizard of the faction, said in addition to

Kennedy tops Carter, Brown in new poll NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Edward Kennedy is the overwhelming presidential pick of independents and Democrats in a three-way race with Jimmy Carter and Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., according to an ABC-Harris poll. A Kennedy-Carter race showed both groups favoring the Massachusetts senator 63 to 32 percent, according to results released Monday. The survey of 967 voters, taken July 27 to 29, said the president edges Brown 51 to 42 percent among both groups in a two-way race, and 55 to 36 percent among Democrats only. In a three-way showdown, 52 percent of Democrats and independents chose Kennedy. Carter garnered 25 percent and Brown, 18 percent. Among Democrats only, Kennedy got 59 percent, Carter, 23, and Brown, 13. Democrats picked Kennedy over Brown, 69 to 25 percent. Independents alone chose the California governor over Carter, 49 to 46.

peace treaty. Israeli sources said the message the Cabinet sent to President Carter Sunday threatened Israel might back out of the treaty if language from the Camp David pact referring to the “legitimate rights” of the Palestinians was used to amend Resolution 242.

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U.S. waters and thick strips of oil washed ashore just south of the Mexican border. Carl Posey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had predicted Monday that the oil would reach South Texas beaches today. Meanwhile, Posey said tests were being made to determine if tar balls sighted some 50 miles from the coast are from the Mexican oil spill. If the tar balls are from the spill, Posey said, it could mean

being kept to determine, after the fact, whether animals do sense quakes. The quake began in late morning. Two waves lasting more than 15 seconds each jolted the state over a 350-mile wedge from a point north of here to Encino just north of Los Angeles, according to the California Institute of Technology.

Two aftershocks, registering 3.0 and 4.0 on the Richter scale, came shortly before and shortly after3:3op.m. PDT.

Towns near the epicenter, like Hollister 100 miles south of here, reported damage to buildings, glass and store merchan-

usual summer-camp activities, target practice and karate lessons, campers attend weekly classes on “what it means to be white. We want to make what the liberal media would call racists out of them.”

The sources said Interior Minister Yosef Burg told the Egyptians and Americans at the resumption of the Palestinian autonomy negotiations Monday that any change in the resolution “could well have an effect on these negotiations.’ Israeli spokesman Dan Pattir

they drifted north undetected below the Gulf surface. The Coast Guard has barricaded the Brazos Santiago Pass at the southern tip of Texas but the floating barriers will not stop oil traveling below the surface. NOAA scientist John Robinson said divers have found evidence of oil as deep as 40 feet below the surface. Divers will begin working this week beneath the surface of the Brazos Santiago Pass, which leads to ecologically-delicate waters, in an effort to keep oil

dise. One Santa Cruz County woman fell and broke her leg, and three people in Hollister were hospitalized for symptoms of heart attacks. In addition, Pacific Gas & Electric reported a few minor power outages, and Pacific Telephone said service was delayed for a time, mostly due to overloaded circuits.

At Marine World, spokeswoman Mary Jo O’Harran said there were reports Sunday night of unusual behavior by llamas, a baby cougar and a 5-week-old tiger.

Evernden said there has been a lot of skepticism about a link between quakes and animal be-

Tony Anderson, state director for the Klan’s Youth Corps program, said after Life magazine printed several pictures of camp activities in its August issue, it was decided that the camp should be opened to other media. So on Sunday, NBC News showed up. So did a crew from CBS’ “60 Minutes,” the American correspondent for the Danish national television network and a reporter from a New York newspaper. They waited for hours under a blistering sun to see youngsters heft a rifle and take two shots apiece at paper plates lined up in a ravine. “There are people, particularly communists, who would stoop to anything, even attacking kids,” Wilkinson said. Some of the youngsters told reporters that they joined the corps because of harassment and physical attacks from blacks in schools.

said there was no threat of an immediate breakdown in the talks in Haifa on proposals for Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But he said “Israel will not agree to or accept, under any circumstances, a change in 242.”

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from the inland waters. Officials say oil that washes onto the fine-grained South Texas beaches will be relatively easy to clean. Bird cleaning crews are standing by to launch a cleanup operation if birds in the area are doused by the runaway oil. Robison said there have been no previous spills where large quantities of oil moved beneath the surface, but the scientist added that no one has ever tried to battle a spill of this magnitude.

havior, especially because there has been little documentation of animal behavior before an earthquake.

“There’s been a lot of anecdotal things, people saying what their animals did after an earthquake but nothing has been recorded on a daily basis,” said Evernden. “This is essentially the beginning of this kind of research. It’s nice to get some good examples.”

He said similar research is now under way at UCLA and Stanford, trying to validate claims advanced by Chinese scientists, who use animals in their often-successful quake prediction program.

“Let’s face it,” Anderson told the group. “You’re Youth Corps. You stand together and you fight together....” Wilkinson said members of the youth group, which is open to 12-to 18-year-olds, are not Klan members. He added that he expected most would join the Klan when they are grown. Wilkinson said his Klan group, one of several in the nation, operates 12 such camps ir six states. Also, he said, plans are under way to construct a family recreation club for Klan members, with a lake and arti? ficial beach, roller rink, game room and bowling alley. “We want to interest the big cities in the Klan and we feel this will draw people who want segregated recreation facilities,” Wilkinson said. “We make no bones about it. We’re not an equal opportunity employer.”

The Carter administration has been reported trying to attract Palestinian support to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty with suggestions that Resolution 242 might be amended to call for a Palestinian homeland and recognition of the Palestinians’ “legitimate rights.”

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