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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, lf74, THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANNER-GRAPHIC 5A

Clodfelter wins In the C ourthouse last night was Putnam County first District Count} Council winner Gene Clodfelter. Clodfelter said he thought the Democratic victory was a sign of people wanting a change from the Republicans. {Banner-Graphic Photoi. Soviet defector turned U.S. citizen arrives

NEW YORK AP« - Simas Kudirka. who once vainly tried to defect to America from the Soviet Union, has returned as a United States cituen He said that after he gets some rest he'd like to see an .American prison and perhaps go sailing. It was almost four years ago that Kudirka. 44. a radio operator on a Russian fishing trawler. climbed aboard a Coast Guard cutter and asked for asylum, only to be dragged back aboard Uje trawler by the Russians On Tuesday he arrived in New York from Moscow with his wife, two children and mother A few hours later — and after getting his first trip through New York rush-hour traffic — he told The Associated Press he wants to rest and. weather permitting, to go sailing Asked what he would like to see in the United States. Kudirka said prisons." He said he would like to compare life in .American prisons with his experience in a Soviet prison At one point during his incarceration he was held incommunicado. unable to communicate with his family or friends At the time, sources

Prosecutor Pearcy soundly trounced

INDIANAPOLIS APiMarion County Prosecutor Noble R. Pearcy. who came under heavy fire from the Indianapolis Star for conduct of an investigation of alleged police corruption, was soundly defeated by his Democratic opponent in Tuesday's election Indianapolis attorney James F. Kelley piled up a victory margin of nearly 75.000 votes, according to unofficial returns Pearcy. who was seeking an unprecedented fourth term as prosecutor, conceded defeat about two hours after the polls closed He blamed the Star in part but said Watergate and the resignation of former Vice President Spia^ Agnew also were responsible The Star in a series of articles alleged widespiead corruption in the Indianapolis police agency A grand jury the newspaper charged was

“manipulated"' by the prosecutor's office indicted two Star reporters involved with the series on charges of conspiring to bribe a policemen. The reporters have not entered pleas yet. Marion County Democratic Chairman William F. Schreiber said Kelley's sweep was “the most lopsided Democratic victory in Marion County history." After Pearcy conceded. Kelley announced there “is corruption in the Indianapolis Police Department" and pledged to “seek out and destroy it wherever it exists— in the streets or in city hall." The Star and others had called for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of corruption. Part of Kelley's campaign advertising was a pie-’ to voters. “If they won't name a special prosecutor, let's elect one."

Farm family shot to death in Huntington County

WARREN, tad {AP‘—An elderly Huntington County farmer. his daughter and teervage grandson were found shot to death Tuesday night in the man's home four miles northwest of here Statepolice said Glenn Shaw. J3; his daughter. Mrs. Wilma Grover. 46. Hartford City , and her son. Jahn. 14. may have been robbery victims They said wallets of Shaw and Mrs Grover were missing Each had been shot with a small-caliber weapon Shaw's

body was found in the kitchen. Mrs. Grover s in the dinning room and the youth's in the living room. Shaw's son. Jacob. 56. discovered the slayings when he

Chrysler announces layoffs Auto makers ‘can’t even get the people into showrooms’ to look at new models

DETROIT (AP) - U S. auto makers, saying they can’t even get people into showrooms to look at new cars, have reported that domestic auto sales in October plummeted to a 10-year low for the month. Chrysler announced new layoffs. October sales were down 26.8 per cent from October of last year.

“The problem is consumer ?oncem and confusion about he economy,” said a dejected ndustry spokesman. “People vorried as hell about what's lappening tomorrow. We can't ?ven get them into the show•ooms just to look." With sales during the last 11 lays of the month down 35 per :ent from 1973, the four auto

:ompanies said October deliveries totaled just 627,521 units, :ompared with 857,070 the year before. It was the worst October performance since 1964, when sales were 566,000 units. General Motors reported a 32 per cent decline from October 1973, Ford was off 17.1 per cent. Chrysler dropped 16.6 per cent

and American Motors was down 52.5 per cent. Shortly after reporting its sales drop Tuesday, Chrysler said it is eliminating second shifts at four car assembly plants later this month and laying off 7,100 hourly workers indefinitely. Affected by the. shift cutbacks are the Jefferson Avenue

and Hamtramck assembly plants in Detroit; the Newark, Del., plant and the St. Louis facility. The company also said it is closing the Hamtramck plant for two weeks starting Nov. 11, temporarily idling 8,800 workers. • The firm already had laid off 7,750 workers indefinitely.

Chrysler, whose sales fell more than 27 per cent during Oct. 21-31, said it was cutting fourth-quarter auto production by 46,500 units. One Big Three spokesman said the gloomy economic outlook and consumer resistance to high car prices have driven off potential car buyers.

irom Communist countries said they feared he was dead or seriously ill “I do not want to rest too long." said Kudirka. He added that he got only an hour's sleep in the last 37. He said he is aaxious to get settled and enter his 8-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter in school. He also said he wanted to find a job and to get “things" settled. Kudirka said that in his first few hours in his new country he was most impressed by highways. Speaking through an interpreter, he said that he was amazed at the number of cars. Kudirka was declared a U.S. citizen by the State Department July 17 while he serving a 10-year prison sentence in the Ural Mountains for his attempted defection. The Soviets released him from prison Aug 23. and several weeks later paperwork started for an exit visa from Lithuania Two months earlier his mother received the same citizenship status based on proof that she was bom in Brooklyn. She was taken to Lithuania, now part of the Soviet Union, prior to World War II by her parents.

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