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THE BANNERQRAPHIC, August 4,1966

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Steelworkers vow trouble if USX tries limited startup

PITTSBURGH (AP) Steelworkers in Indiana plotted strategy following reports that USX Corp. is planning to resume limited production at its Gary works, while their Pennsylvania brethren continued a blockade at a plant near Pittsburgh as a work stoppage against the giant steelmaker entered its fourth day. United Steelworkers officials, representing about 7,500 employees at Gary, USX’s largest plant, met Sunday to discuss plans should a steel casting machine be restarted Tuesday. Steelworkers on the picket line had vowed to conduct a peaceful work stoppage, but warned of a possible confrontation with the company if it attempted to produce and transport steel during the shutdown, which has affected 22,000 USW members in nine states. “If they try to start running it, I’m sure it’s going to be a pretty chaotic situation,” Henry Montemayor, treasurer of USW Local 1014, told The Associated Press. “Our members are very bitter and very angry. If they see smoke coming out of that mill, the union

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will not be responsible for... possible retaliations,” said Larry McWay, vice president of Local 1014. McWay said the local learned of the plan, which was also reported Sunday in The Times in nearby Hammond, from management employees favorable to the union. He said 40 non-union employees from other USX plants are to be brought in to operate the caster. George E. Kuebler, a spokesman for USX in Gary, said he was not aware of plans to restart any section of the mill. “As far as I know, we’re down,” he said. In Pennsylvania, about 30 pickets patrolled the 280-acre Clairton coke works and sat in front of its gates to shut in some 300 supervisory personnel who have been there since the stoppage over a wage and benefits dispute began at midnight Thursday, union officials said. “We’re just respecting the company’s wishes. They have a padlock on the gate so we’re going to respect the lockout, but for both sides,” said Charles Grese, president of USW Local 15. “Were not allowing them in or out. We’re saying if you want to come out, you’ll stay out,” he said. Union officials said the company stockpiled provisions and brought in beds for the managers in an-

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Congressman: Gadhafi ordered hostages killed

JOLIET, 111. (AP) - A congressman has accused Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi of buying three Western hostages from their Lebanese captors and having them killed. Gadhafi also wanted to buy and have killed four other hostages, including the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, but their captors members of the Moslem extremist Islamic

ticipation of the blockade. The company has no plans to seek a court injunction to stop the Clairton blockade, said USX spokesman David Higie. Officials at union locals in the Pittsburgh area said they will continue to allow management personnel move in and out of other plants for the time being. “We know who’s coming and going. We’ll let them continue as long as they do it in an orderly fashion,” said Don Conn, president of Local 2227, which represents Steelworkers at the Edgar Thomson plant in nearby Braddock. At USX’s South Works in Chicago, union members were permitting management to enter and leave the plant, but planned to prevent supplies or other material from reaching it, said Willie Ross, Local 65 president. A one-day blockade at USX’s Minntac taconite plant in Mountain Iron, Minn, was lifted by the union local Saturday. No disturbances were reported over the weekend at any of the plants, union and company officials said. The union began calling the dispute a lockout after USX, the nation’s largest steelmaker, rejected a last-minute proposal to extend talks under the old contract.

Jihad refused, said Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif. Dornan made the allegations Saturday in Joliet after attending a homecoming celebration for Jenco, who was freed July 26 after 19 months. “The State Department confirmed to me two days ago that Gadhafi had tried to buy Father Jenco and the other hostages with hard cash,” Dor-

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2,000 tons of Kentucky hay unloaded in North Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Kentucky farmers outstretched a helping hand to North Carolina with a gift of hay for hungry cattle, but officials say the 2,000-ton shipment sent by train will last only about two weeks. “This hay is just a drop in the bucket when you consider we may need 2 million tons before this crisis is through,” said U.S. Rep. Alex McMillan, R-N.C., who thanked Kentucky officials on behalf of North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin. “But it is important.” The hay left Kentucky via CSX Transportation cars Friday and arrived in Charlotte about 4 p.m. Sunday. About 20 Kentucky farmers wearing blue and white “KY Hay” caps jumped off the train and were greeted warmly by 20 North Carolina farmers. Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture David E. Boswell said some of the donated hay came from Kentucky farmers who also have suffered in the drought. “We hope if we ever get our ox in a ditch, the farmers of North Carolina will come and help us out.” Voyde White of Cherryville was the first farmer to receive hay from the 114-car “Hay-lo Special,” believed to be the largest hay train so far to bring aid to stricken farmers. He and family members loaded 25 bales onto a pick-up truck to take to their six beef cattle. “I think it’s wonderful hay,” White said. “It looks like real good quality

364 years later... 'The greatest shipwreck treasure ever' goes on display at the Children's Museum

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) the Children’s Museum’s special exhibit gallery, workers can’t help but gaze at the exhibit they’re rushing to ready for the 100,000 curiosity seekers expected to pass through during the next few weeks. Two Indianapolis police officers are guarding the exhibit an estimated $l3O million in gold, silver and other treasures from the deep. “The Search for Golden Treasure” opens Tuesday at the museum, where artifacts from two sunken 17th century Spanish ships found off the Florida coast will be on display through Sept. 1. For Indiana native Mel Fisher, the exhibit will culminate a 17-year search for what is being touted as “the greatest shipwreck treasure ever.” It will feature portions of the mother lode Fisher and his divers pulled from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita in July 1985. The ships were struck by a hurricane off Key West, Fla., while sailing back to Spain in 1622.

nan said. “The group holding the father turned him down. However, he (Gadhafi) was more successful with the other group that held Peter Kilburn of San Francisco. So he bought Kilburn and the two Englishmen for the sole purpose of murdering them.” The State Department had no immediate comment on Doman’s

George, a macaw. All total, there are 10 birds that Dorsey has taught to play basketball, ride bicycles and raise an American flag. The troupe performs five times daily, six days a week. (Opryland photo)

No takers for manure

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Circus elephant keeper Joseph Curran says his charges produce the most impressive fertilizer in the world, but his “Mammoth Manure Giveaway” had few takers. The elephant manure has produced tomatoes “so big I was afraid to eat ’em,” said Curran, 34, who travels with Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, feeding and cleaning up after 20 Asian elephants.

hay. We’ve been feeding them tomatoes, bread, cutoff corn anything we could find. This’ll save them for two weeks.’’ North Carolina beef and dairy farmers need about 1.5 million tons a hay to carry their livestock for one year, but this year’s record drought killed half of the 750,000 tons of hay produced by North Carolina farmers and 80 percent of their pastures. CSX Transportation donated the use of the railroad to help the farmers; members of the United Transportation Union donated their time; and Harris-Teeter Inc. donated warehouse room to store much of the hay. N.C. Army National Guard troops from Concord were to begin Monday trucking most of the hay to

Divers retrieved more than 57 tons of gold and silver, including 1,000 silver bars ranging in weight from 64 pounds to more than 100 pounds. But Fisher, raised in Gary and a graduate of Purdue University’s School of Engineering, didn’t get into the history books without some tragic sacrifices. His son, Dirk, daughter-in-law and a crew member died when their boat capsized the night of July 20,1975. “It was then that I almost stopped,” Fisher, president of Treasure Salvors Inc., told The Indianapolis Star by telephone from his office in Key West. “I didn’t know whether it was worth it to continue.” But 10 years to the day later, Fisher and his crew brought the first artifacts from the sunken ships. Fisher said Treasure Salvors will be liquidated at the end of the year, when the treasure will be divided among his stockholders. He said stockholders voted for the liquidation after they had consulted tax attorneys.

remarks. When asked how much Gadhafi had paid, Dornan said, “There’s a rumor that he paid a million dollars each, but like all rumors, it could be off.” Dornan stressed that Islamic Jihad, which freed Jenco and still holds three Americans, had nothing to do with the deaths of Kilburn and the Englishmen.

But his fertilizer giveaway attracted only a herd of flies Saturday at the Anaheim Convention Center. “We don’t get many people around here who want this stuff,” said Curran. “But I’ve actually seen people fight over it in other places we’ve been.” The organic matter, which should be left outside to compost for a few months, is a good fertilizer because it has high concentrations of calcium and nitrates, circus officials say.

30 counties around the state, said Capt. Jeff Triplette. Carroll Cunningham of Shelbyville, Ky., organized the shipment of 71,000 bales two weeks ago. “We saw on the news media how y’all were burned up down here, and your crops were deteriorating,” said Cunningham, a former farmer and currently a real estate agent. “Farmers in Kentucky have a big heart, and we wanted to make a good effort.” Farmers who less than 30 days worth of hay stored were eligible to get the free hay, and about 20 Mecklenburg and Gaston county farmers pulled their trucks up to a line of 30 cars that had been switched off from the rest of the load.

But for now, the expedition continues for Fisher and his crew. And items were still coming into the museum as workers hustled to finish the exhibit. “There was some guesswork involved in designing the exhibit,” said museum spokeswoman Margaret Maxwell. “We would get a shipment, then find out that some of the items were to be substituted.” A gold crucifix that made the final cut arrived at the museum two weeks ago. “Fortunately, we had some documentation on what we were getting, but we didn’t have many of the items until five days before the opening,” said Paul Richard, deputy director of museum programs and curator of the exhibit. “It usually takes a year to do something this size,” Richard said of the exhibit that was completed in two months. Museum officials said more than 6,000 tickets already have been sold for the month-long exhibit, expected to draw about 100,000 people.