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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, September 14,1979
GM, UAW negotiators face strike deadline
DETROIT tAP) Negotiators for the United Auto Workers Union and General Motors Corp. had made little progress in their efforts to reach a new contract despite an all-night bargaining session, a union spokesman said early today. The announcement was the first word on the status of the talks since UAW President Douglas Fraser announced that negotiations would continue around the clock. The current contract for 95,000 autoworkers expires at midnight. "It would be a shame if we let it get away from us," Fraser said before the marathon session began Thursday night.
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Jordan's alleged cocaine use again under scrutiny
By PHILIP TAUBMAN c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation has “expanded” its investigation of alleged cocaine use by Hamilton Jordan, the White House chief of staff, after receiving new accusations that Jordan used cocaine at parties in Los Angeles in October 1977, according to Justice Department officials. The new allegations were made last week, just as the bureau was wrapping up its inquiry into an earlier charge that Jordan had used cocaine at a New York discotheque. The officials said the bureau had turned up nothing to substantiate that allegation. The broadening of the inquiry, Justice Department sources said, makes it more likely that Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti will have to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the charges against Jordan. Jordan has flatly denied using illegal drugs at any time. Jody Powell, the White House press secretary, said Thursday of the new allegations, “Hamilton denies it. It’s completely untrue.” Acting under of the Ethics in Government Act, the FBI has been conducting a preliminary
Uncle John Beauticians help inmate celebrate 103rd birthday
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) John Davis, the oldest prison inmate in South Carolina and perhaps anywhere, cut the cake, praised the Lord and accepted a batch of kisses for his 103rd birthday. A group of beauticians, who have helped “Uncle John” celebrate his birthday for years, was on hand for the party Thursday at a minimum security center where the spry inmate has lived since the early 19705. The 30 young women, students at Columbia’s Waverly School of Beauty, filed past Davis, giving him small cash gifts and singing his special request: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” Several planted kisses on his bald head. “If you have faith in the man upstairs, then you’ll always be taken care of,” said Davis. He has been in prison for most of the past 57 years. He was sentenced to a life term in 1922 after he was convicted of burglary, an offense that at the time could have carried the death penalty. Davis said it was his concern for his appearance that landed him on the wrong side of the law. It began, he said, with a bad deal on a “tailor-made” suit he ordered from a dry goods merchant in Dillon. The suit
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"The differences between us look like they can be resolved with some intensive negotiations. We’re just going to stay at the bargaining table.” Looming on the other side of the deadline was an unprecedented selective strike against GM plants that make the company’s more-popular cars and trucks, parts warehouses that serve dealers and a locomotive plant that supplies three-quar-ters of the nation’s diesel locomotives. A settlement would set a pattern for negotiations with Ford Motor Co., the nation’s No. 2 automaker. The UAW has all but conceded that troubled Chrysler Corp.
investigation into allegations that Jordan used cocaine last year while visiting the Studio 54 discotheque. The charge was made by owners of the club, who are under indictment for tax evasion. Possession of cocaine, if a first offense, is a misdemeanor under federal law. The ethics act, passed last year, requires the Justice Department to conduct a preliminary investigation into any allegations against top gogernment officials that involve a federal violation more serious than a petty offense. The purpose of such an inquiry is to determine whether the case is unsubstantiated or should be pursued by a special prosecutor. The FBI was concluding its inquiry into the Studio 54 accusations when the new allegations were made last week, according to department officials. The inquiry, they said, had turned up nothing to support the charge that Jordan had used cocaine at the discotheque, and probably could have been closed without appoitment of a special prosecutor. However, the new charges have been treated by the Justice Department as new aspects of the original investigation and as a result, one senior official said, the in-
Phone calls lead to student
DESOTO, Texas (AP) - Three pre-dawn telephone calls led to the recovery of a missing 16-year-old college student who had been feared dead, the victim of an intellectual fanatasy game transferred to real life. “We agree this is the most bizarre case we’ve ever been involved with,” private investigator William Dear said Thursday, after he found James Dallas Egbert 111 and put him under a doctor’s care. Dear, hired by Egbert’s family, said the teen-ager’s disappearance was not related to the game “Dungeons and Dragons” but refused to say where the boy was found or what he
for the first time will be permitted to break the Big Three pattern with a lesser settlement. In all, 95,350 of GM’s 460,000 UAW workers and nearly half of the planned 1980 model car production would be idled in strikes at 13 of 26 assembly plants, 32 of 43 warehouses and the locomotive factory. The subject of discussion was the company’s economic package presented shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, covering pensions, the key issue, and wages and more paid time off. “We haven’t discussed the economics since Saturday,” Fraser said before the
vestigation has been “expanded.” Jordan has complained that the ethics law leaves him and other top government officials vulnerable to anyone who chooses to make an accusation against them, whether the charge is true or not. Powell said Thursday, “Where’s this damn thing going to end? Anytime someone makes a charge against Hamilton, the FBl’s got to investigate it; then it gets headlines, and Hamilton’s career is ruined.” v Bureau officials declined to identify the source of the new charges, and Homer Boynton, assistant director of the FBI, said that the bureau would not comment on the Jordan case. Officials at the Justice Department did provide an outline of the allegations, however. According to these officials, Jordan, Tim Kraft, then the presidential appointments secretary, Patrick Caddell, a public opinion pollster, and John Golden, a friend of Jordan, have been accused of attending a private party in Beverly Hills on Oct. 22, 1977, at which cocaine was used. These officials said Jordan was said to have been seen inhaling cocaine at the party, and the three others appeared to be using it.
didn’t fit to ms liking, he said. “Since I am hog-favored and ugly, I’m real particular about my dressing,” said Davis, who was attired for Thursday’s party in a dark three-piece suit, white shirt and tie. When he was refused a refund, Davis broke into several houses looking for the one belonging to the merchant. He ended up with “about $5 and a watch,” plus a life sentence at South Carolina’s Central Correctional Institution. Davis escaped from prison in 1928 and again in 1930, remaining free that time for 10 years. He has been a prisoner of sorts since, mostly by his own choice. He has come up for parole many times in recent years, but turned it down. Unlike the 100 other inmates awaiting release at the Walker Pre-Release Center north of downtown Columbia, Davis has no plans to go anywhere. “None of my family is alive,” he said. “I have no blood kin to take care of me.” Watkins is the only inmate in South Carolina with unrestricted security status, allowed to come and go as he pleases. Once, when prison guards did not show up at a downtown Columbia department store to pick him up on time, Davis phoned the Department of Corrections demanding to know how he was going to get home.
had been doing since he disappeared from Michigan State University on Aug. 15. Police found a note in the youth’s room saying he wished to be cremated “should my body be found,” but authorities had feared Egbert became trapped, perhaps in the maze of steam tunnels beneath the campus, while playing a reallife version of the game normally acted out on paper. In “Dungeons and Dragons,” which sometimes can take years to play, a “dungeon master” creates a prison on graph paper and players using special dice determine their ability to overcome obstacles in their
Leaves six dead, two missing
Residents clean upas Frederic moves north
By CHARLOTTE PORTER Associated Press Writer The once-brutal winds of the storm called Frederic pushed torrential rains today as remnants of the former hurricane moved north, leaving residents of three states to sweep up the splinters of their homes and businesses and to bury their dead. “For Sale Cheap,” read the sign on one flattened trailer in Mississippi. “Extras: sun roof and solar air. “ Frederic claimed only half the human toll of last week’s Atlantic Coast killer, Hurricane David, which claimed 16 lives in the United States and 1,100 in the Caribbean. But Florida Gov. Bob Graham said he feared the damage toll from the latest tropical devastation might surpass the $95 million racked up by David there. Towns from Florida to Mississippi sustained heavy damage in Frederic’s 130 mph winds and in the tornadoes that trailed the storm. Hundreds of homes were swept from their foun-
Vitamin A possible cancer preventative
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have developed some new forms of vitamin A that they say show preliminary promise in preventing some kinds of cancer without toxic side effects. The new synthetic vitamin A derivatives have not been tested in humans, but preliminary laboratory and animal work is “encouraging,” Dr. Nancy Acton, a National Institutes of Health researcher, said Thursday. The research hopes to find agents that can be used on a preventive basis for long periods of time by people who have
attempts to escape. “We crawled through tunnels after tunnels, we climbed through holes and crevices we didn’t even think existed,” said Dear, Dear said he was unable to develop any concrete leads to the sophomore computer science student’s whereabouts until he got three phone calls early Thursday. “I was able to talk to the boy. He was crying intermittently and a man in the background was telling him ‘Cool it, man, cool it.’ Then later this afternoon I was able to make arrangements to pick up the boy,” said Dear.
session in announcing that unspecified secondary issues had been cleared away. Though not formally declared, a news blackout was put into effect. “If we see you again, it will be to announce a settlement or a strike,” the union leader said. Pensions specifically, the protection of workers already retired against inflation were designated the top priority issue in union conventions this spring. Wages had hardly been mentioned before the marathon session. A UAW member at GM averages $9.05 an hour on straight time and receives fringe benefits the company says make its
Carter to inspect hurricane damage WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter is heading for the Gulf Coast to make a helicopter inspection of the damage wrought by Hurricane Frederic. Carter was flying first today to Mobile, Ala., one of the hardest hit cities, and boarding a helicopter there for a two-hour inspection flight along the devasted coast to Pensacola, Fla. White House officials said they were uncertain whether the president would make any landings along his route. The president acted quickly Thursday to designate 30 counties in Mississippi, Florida and Alabama as major disaster areas eligible for special federal recovery aid. Carter made an unannounced appearance Thursday at a White House meeting of volunteer organizations and disclosed he would make the trip. He said he wanted to “assess the efficacy of government programs in dealing with the hurricane.”
dations and businesses were ripped apart. At least six persons were killed. Two others in Florida were missing and believed dead. Early today, the remnants of
a high risk of developing cancer, she said. Ms. Acton told the national meeting of the American Chemical Society that some of the NIH-developed vitamin A derivatives have shown a protective effect against chemicallyinduced cancers in early rat tests. But unlike natural vitamin A and many synthetic forms, some of the new derivatives appear far less toxic and better tolerated with repeated use, she told a news briefing. “Our preliminary results with this class of compounds are encouraging because they
Carter hurt by economic woes
NEW YORK (AP) - In choosing President Carter’s handling of the nation’s economic woes as a criterion for whether he will seek the presidency, Sen. Edward Kennedy has focused his potential candidacy on the issue Americans perceive as Carter’s biggest failing. Right now the public doesn’t think much of Carter’s efforts to battle the twin demons of inflation and recession nor of his work in general. An Associated Press-NBC News poll this week found Americans giving Carter the lowest overall job rating in nearly three decades for an American president. Only 19 percent of those interviewed nationwide Monday
Bowen unlikely presidential candidate
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Otis R. Bowen says it is unlikely he will add his name to the 1980 Indiana Republican presidential primary ballot as a favorite son candidate. “I’m beginning to come to the conclusion it would create more chaos than the good it would do,” Bowen said Thursday at the taping of WTTV’s copyright interview program, “Report from the Statehouse.” After taking himself out of the race for the U.S. Senate several months ago, Bowen said he was considering a favorite son candidacy but only if party leaders decided it was needed to keep the GOP unified. Bowen, barred from seeking a third term as governor next year, said that after discussing
labor costs more than sls an hour. Of the $9.05, $1.37 has been added over the past three years by the automatic cost-ofliving formula, which with other negotiated increases in the 1976 contract has put active workers 5 percent to 6 percent ahead of inflation since 1976. The company earlier proposed continuation of the traditional 3 percent annual wage increases and the cost-of-living formula. Retired members have not kept up, although those who retired normally at 65 have done better, both sides agree, than those who retired early.
the storm, weakened to little more than a low pressure system, dumped as much as 7 inches of rain on western and central Kentucky and up to 6 inches on eastern Tennessee. Flash flood warnings were posted and some residents of Tennessee
show that compounds with antitumor properties need not be toxic,” Ms. Acton said. Past research has shown that natural and synthetic vitamin A can prevent or slow down cancers of the epithelial tissues those that line body organs. Almost 90 percent of the cancers which are fatal to man are in these tissues. The drugs have proved effective in preventing cancer of the lung, skin, bladder and breast in experimental animals. However, vitamin A accumulates in the liver and at high doses causes severe liver damage, Ms. Acton said in caution-
and Tuesday rated Carter’s work excellent or good. That is down seven points from the APNBC News July poll, which was his previous low. Forty-nine percent said his efforts were only fair and 30 percent said they were poor. Two percent of the 1,600 adults interviewed nationwide by telephone were not sure. The 19 percent mark is the lowest ever received by an American president since this rating question was first asked in the 19505. Carter’s historically low ratings have helped convince Kennedy that he should consider challenging Carter for the Democratic party’s nomination in 1980. Kennedy has said in re-
his potential candidacy with party officials, he has decided a wide-open, spirited presidential primary might be in the party’s best interests. The governor said if he ran, the delegates to the GOP National Convention in Detroit next summer would be faced with choosing among several good presidential candidates. He said the choice would have to be made then without the benefit of knowing how rank-and-file Republicans felt about the candidates, something a wide-open primary would provide. Asked which candidate he supported for the nomination, Bowen ticked off the names of all the announced and unan-
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were advised to keep watch for tornadoes. President Carter ordered disaster assistance for 30 counties along the central Gulf Coast, and planned to assess the dam age today. “It looks like this place has been shelled,” said Gulf Shores, Ala., firefighter Ed Curott. Assistant Fire Chief Wade Ward, whose own home was swept away, estimated 90 percent of the businesses and homes in that community were destroyed by the battering winds. “Looks like King Kong took a stroll through downtown,” one Citizens Band radio enthusiast reported of the damage in Mobile, which along with areas around Pascagoula, Miss., and Pensacola, Fla., suffered the brunt of the storm. Mobile authorities imposed a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. curfew Thursday when sporadic looting was reported. In the northern suburb of Prichard, Mayor A.J. Cooper advised policemen to
ing people against taking large amounts in hopes of preventing cancer. This eventually leads to toxicity throughout the body, resulting in such symptoms as extensive bone cracks, she added. Ms. Acton said researchers have developed about two dozen new vitamin A derivatives in a class of compounds called retinylidene-1,3-diketones and that several have shown enough promise for further evaluation. These compounds do not appear to accumulate in the liver and “as far as we can tell at the moment, there are no bad effects,” she said.
cent days that he is not ruling out such a challenge, adding that the president’s efforts to deal with the economy will be crucial to Kennedy’s own decision. “If there’s a perception that the president is successfully dealing with this issue, I think he’ll be successful,” Kennedy said earlier this week. But right now the perception is that Carter is failing in his efforts to deal with the economy. Only 10 percent of the public gave Carter an excellent or good rating for his work on the nation’s economic woes the lowest job rating ever for Carter in any area. Forty-seven percent said his work has been
nounced contenders for the GOP nomination. Party leaders had encouraged him to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Birch Bayh, but earlier this year, the governor said he would not be a candidate for that post. Bowen, a physician, has said he would like a job in medical administration after his term expires, but is keeping open the option of resuming his medical practice. On other matters, Bowen said: —He continues to support Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, who has been convicted of assaulting a Puerto Rican policeman. Bowen said he believes Knight’s
DOUGLAS A. FRASER To stay at table
fire two warning shots before shooting to kill looters. Officials declined to speculate on the extent of damage in that city, where century-old oaks toppled like bowling pins before the winds. One insurer estimated its homeowner claims alone would be S3O million to S6O million. With hot food nearly impossible to obtain, some service stations did a booming business in chips and warm beer. Thou; sands of people remained' in emergency shelters Thursday night, while others picked their way home to try to assess damage with flashlights and candles. “Power is the critical thing over here right now,” said John McMillan in a telephone interview from his home in Stockton, across the bay from Mobile. “It looks like it will be at least a week before we have electricity. We’re wrapped up with trees.” 1
The researcher noted that much more extensive testing; would have to be completed be-; fore it is known if any of the * derivatives can be used in hu- ; man cancer prevention. The primary concern of her research has been seeking a derivative that prevents breast cancer in women with a genetic predisposition to the disease. Ms. Acton played down a suggestion that the drugs might be used by workers dealing with cancerous substances in lieu of efforts to clean up the workplace.
poor and 40 percent called it as only fair. Three percent were not sure. The public perception of Carter’s failure to deal with inflation and recession has helped blunt the effects of his midsummer moves to reshuffle his administration and to present a more forceful image to the public. The AP-NBC News poll found that Carter is now in serious trouble with almost every segment of the population. And with a possible Kennedy challenge looming in 1980 the president is doing badly among politically crucial groups like Democrats, Southerners, small town and rural residents and hisr 1976 supporters.
version of the story and reiterated he would refuse to sign extradition papers that would return the coach to Puerto Rico to serve a six-month jail sentence. —Winning legislative approval of increased highway funding would be his No. 1 priority lor the 1980 legislative session. “If we again have a winter of freezing and thawing, people can again expect their roads will be bad,” Bowen said. —Utilities should act with compassion this winter in their policies on disconnecting serv, ice. But he said he is not convinced that an absolute ban on winter disconnections, imposed by the Public Service Commission or the legislature, is required.