Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 71, No. 178, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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Thursday, September 4, 1980 USPs 423720
Vol. 71 • No. 178
AFL-CIO sets up fund for Polish workers
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - About
15,000 miners at three coal pits in Upper
Silesia remained on strike today in local
disputes after accepting a basic pact on
unions and wages with Polish govern-
ment negotiators, local sources said.
This communist country announced
that the Soviet Union had granted it
further financial credit so that it can buy
from the West badly needed raw
materials for industry and would impose
price controls to check the rising cost of
living.
In Washington, the AFL-CIO today
established a special assistance fund to
help Polish workers enlarge their newly
won independent union movement.
Reportedly, the Carter administration
objected to such action, saying the Soviet
Union might view the fund as in-
terference from the West.
Earlier today, the official news agency
PAP said coal miners throughout Silesia
were back at work following the set-
tlement Wednesday granting them the
right to form an independent trade union
and allowing other job concessions
But the sources said the holdouts in
Bytom, a city of about 100,000, were
remaining off the job to underline their
demand for changes in management.
Mining Minister Wlodzimierz Lejczak
was holding talks with the workers
commission that replaced the local strike
committee, the sources said.
The government tackled the economic
roots of the crisis it hoped was ending
today with an announcement that the
State Price Committee would fix prices
for meat and 46 other basic foods, 55
consumer items, rents and public
transport fares. Heretofore, prices have
been set individually by the major en-
terprises and service industries.
The announcement gave no indication
what levels of prices would be set or bow
the panel would go about determining
them. The biggest unanswered question
appeared to be whether the government
would revive the subsidies which had
kept the price of meat down and which it
cancelled on July 1 in an attempt to
improve its grave financial position.
The hike in meat prices that followed
touched off strikes that built up to the
communist regime's crisis worst crisis in
10 years and forced the Communist
Party to promise social and political
reforms never before conceded in a
Soviet Bloc country These included the
right to organize free, independent trade
unions, the right to strike and a
relaxation of censorship.
Full operations were scheduled to
resume today.
In a related development, Deputy
Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski said
Poland faces “very difficult problems"
in obtaining raw materials for industry
and “the Soviet Union has given us an
additional financial credit for purchases
of raw materials in the West "
Former Yippie leader
surrenders to authorities
NEW YORK (AP) - Abbie Hoffman,
the former Yippie leader and anti-war
activist who had disappeared more than
six years ago when he jumped bail on a
cocaine charge, surrendered at the
Manhattan district attorney’s office
today, a spokeswoman said.
He eluded about 40 reporters waiting
for him in front of the New York State
Office Building, where the state special
narcotics prosecutor has his office, by
going in a side entrance.
Hoffman had been living for several
years under the name Barry Freed as a
free-lance writer and ecology activist on
a tiny island in the St Lawrence river.
His surrender was announced by Mary
de Bourbon, spokeswoman for Manhttan
District Attorney Robert M. Morgen-
thau.
Prior to the surrender, an associate
had said Hoffman would be at his
publisher’s office for a news conference
at 12:30 p.m., less than four hours later.
Without a special deal, normal
processing of a bail jumper takes 24 to 36
hours, with steps that include processing
through central booking, fingerprinting
and photographing, checking the print
record through the centralized computer
in Albany, and drafting and filing a ball-
jump charge before the suspect appears
before a judge for possible setting of bail.
In an interview broadcast on ABC-TV
Wednesday, Hoffman had told Barbara
Walters: “I wasn’t going to run any
more.”
His lawyer Gerald Lefcourt, had said,
“He will be coming out soon because be
feels now is a good time. When people
learn his story, they will be impressed.”
Hoffman went underground in 1974
after skipping 850,000 bail on a charge of
trying to sell cocaine to an undercover
officer. At the time, a conviction could
have meant 15 years to life im-
prisonment.
Reports had been circulating that
Hoffman, whose autobiography, “Soon to
be a Major Motion Picture," was
published Monday, would surface this
week if he could make a deal avoiding a
long prison term for selling cocaine.
Two previous attempts at negotiating a
surrender failed, officials said.
Hoffman, 43, sporting a full black
beard and short curly hair, told Miss
Walters in an interview Tuesday he
“really didn’t have any identity" during
his life as a fugitive.
1City--
Briefs
REDCORNS ON TV - The Raymond
Redcoms’ Indian Food restaurant. Ha-
Pah-Shu-Tse, will be featured during
the Good Morning America program
on Monday, Sept. 8. The feature, which
is on Channel 8 locally, will be
broadcast between 6:30 and 7 a.m.
Monday.
GOSPEL SINGING - The Second Annual
Kitty Fish Gospel Singing will be at 6
p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Osage
County fairgrounds.
Pre-school puppetry'
Sunshine Pre schoolers began fall semester classes Wednesday morning at the
First Christian Church. Apparently, the trauma of entering a classroom was over-
come by some puppetry courtesy of instructor Linda Jones. For more on the pre-
school, see the story on page 3 of today's J-C. (J-C Photo)
leagan attacks
rter s Mideast stance
By LEE BYRD
Associated Press Writer
Ronald Reagan says the Mideast is
"approaching a flashpoint" because of
weak and confused leadership by Jimmy
Carter — a charge leveled only hours
after the President’s announcement that
Israel and Egypt will resume their
stalled peace talks under his mantle
in an address Wednesday night to
B’nai B’rith, the Jewish service
organization, the Republican
presidential nominee said Carter has
sacrificed America's reputation as a
trustworthy ally and that his conduct of
foreign policy “has been marked by
inconsistency and incompetence.”
Reagan headed to Florida and
Louisiana today in the wake of his now-
famous Labor Day gaffe over the Ku
Klux Klan, a remark which drew severe
criticism throughout the South.
The Republican nominee stuck word-
for-word with his prepared text Wed-
nesday night, even to the point of
ignoring the disclosure by Carter that
another three-way summit is in the
works with Egypt and Israel.
But when a reporter asked him about it
outside a Washington hotel, Reagan
declared: “I think it’s great."
Nonetheless, Reagan charged in his
address that the president merely
“stands by and watches” while Israel is
isolated by international terrorism and
U.N. resolutions designed to undercut its
position. Carter gets his chance to reply
in a speech to B’nai B’rith tonight.
Reagan said that the Soviet Union has
made new inroads in the Mideast, and
“because of the weak and confused
leadership of Jimmy Carter, we are
approaching a flashpoint in this tragic
process.”
Carter said that his Mideast
negotiator, Sol Linowitz, had informed
him after his arrival in Cairo from Tel
Aviv that Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin had agreed to resume
bi-lateral talks within weeks and “they
both approved a reconvening of the
summit conference later this year at an
appropriate time that will be convenient
for all of us."
Administration officials said the new
summit would occur after the Nov. 4
election.
The president spent the day Wed-
nesday courting ethnic and black voters
in Philadelphia, after collecting the
endorsements of the million-member
American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees and the 250.000
member United Transportation Union.
Today, the president was virtually
certain to be handed the biggest labor
prize of all — the formal nod of the 13.6-
million-member AFL-CIO.
Reagan told the B’nai B’rith that
ambiguities in the 1978 Camp David
peace accords were responsible for
bringing negotiations to a dangerous
impasse.
Egypt broke off the talks a month ago
after Israel declared that Jerusalem will
remain its permanent capital.
“Now it (Jerusalem) exists as a shared
trust," said Reagan "The holy places of
all faiths are protected and open to
all...each is under the care and control of
representatives of the respective faiths.”
Reagan said that as a United States
ally, Israel must remain strong
“The interests of all the world are
served by peace and stability in the
Middle East,” he said. “To weaken
Israel is to destabilize the Middle East
and risk the peace of the world.”
Billy put under surveillance
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice
Department put Billy Carter under
physical surveillance and once con-
sidered criminal prosecution for his
failure to register as a Libyan foreign
agent, but decided the evidence did not
Gas, water
rates raised
in Wynona
The water and gas rates in Wynona
were increased by the Wynona City
council during its regular meeting
Tuesday evening.
The minimum water rate was in-
creased from $4 to 88. This rate also
covers the sewer usage, city dump and
street lights. A permanent surcharge of
82.50 will be added to the gas bills.
New ordinances regarding the
Volunteer Fire Department and Police
Department were passed.
The Rev. Gerald Bradshaw gave the
invocation. Mayor Kennith Howell
presided over the meeting. Members
present were Heath, Keeth, Martin,
Myers and Orr. Martha Mersch, city
clerk, was also present.
warrant that, the head of the agency’s
criminal division said today.
Assistant Attorney General Philip B.
Heymann told Senate investigators he
made the decision to file a civil suit
against the president’s brother instead of
criminal action “without any pressure or
interference from anyone — not the
president or anyone else in the White
House, not the attorney general, and not
the deputy attorney general.”
Heymann disclosed to a special Senate
investigating subcommittee that the
Justice Department had the FBI put
Billy Carter under surveillance last June
11 in Washington to see if he would try to
More than 90 percent signed up
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 90
percent of eligible young men have
registered in the nation’s draft
registration program launched last
month, Selective Service Director
Bernard Rostker said today.
Men born in 1960 and 1961 had been
scheduled to sign up during the two week
period in August and Rostker said that 93
percent had done so.
Anti-draft organizations have
speculated that there would be a large
number of youths who would not register.
contact Libyan officials.
“We thought maybe Billy Carter’s
purpose was to make a cash pickup
(from Libyan officials),” Heymann
explained. “So we asked the FBI to
kindly tail Billy Carter that day.”
“The surveillance detected no
evidence of secret contacts or payments
by the Libyans," Heymann said.
It was on June 11 that Billy Carter told
Justice Department officials he had
received $220,000 from the Libyan
government earlier.
Attorney General Benjamin R.
Civiletti had already turned over in-
telligence information showing that
Of 3,880,000 eligible men, he said,
registration cards had been received for
3,593,187 as of Aug. 22.
Rostker noted that in the last four
years of draft registration only 77 per-
cent of young men had registered on
time. But, he said, that figure climbed to
over 99 percent with late registration.
He refused however to characterize
this year’s program as either a success
or failure.
"We have received just under 3.6
million registrations and we were ex-
Carter had received money from Libya,
Heymann said.
The department had considered
criminal action against the president’s
brother at that time, Heymann said,
because the intelligence information
indicated that he was getting regular
payments from the Libyan government
— “that he was in fact on the payroll of
the Libyan government”
But Heymann said the investigation
concluded that Billy got only the 8220,000
and that there was no evidence he had
tried to influence U.S. policy.
Heymann said he could not discuss that
information any further.
pecting 3.88 million,” he said, adding “I
am not unhappy with it”
He indicated that late registrations are
expected to raise these figures con-
siderably.
Asked if Selective Service planned to
prosecute young men who had not
registered, Rostker said that decision
could not be made for 90 days but that
prosecutions are possible after that time.
Failure to register is a felony carrying
a penalty of up to 5 years in prison and a
Kiwanis bike rodeo
set for Saturday
Pawhuska's first through sixth graders
will have an opportunity to win a bicycle
during the Pawhuska Kiwarus Club’s
annual bicycle rodeo Saturday morning
Kiwanis Club members said there will
be two bicycles given away. A new bike
will be awarded to one rodeo participant
from the first through third grades and
the second bike will be awarded to a
rodeo rider in the fourth through sixth
grade group. The bicycles may be seen in
the display window of Western Auto.
Bob Burch of the Oklahoma Highway
Patrol will be on hand to help with the
fine.
During the next two weeks Selective
Service will begin sending confirmation
letters to men who have registered Any
who do not receive such letters were
asked to write to Selective Service.
“We have accomplished this at quite a
reasonable cost and have substantially
increased our nation’s security,”
Rostker said. He noted that the
registration program has cost about 82
for each young man registered
safety check of the bicycles. Burch spoke
to the city’s first through sixth graders on
bicycle safety Wednesday.
The rodeo participants will also have a
chance to win special trophies as they are
tested on their skill and safety
knowledge. Trophies will be presented to
the first, second and third place winners
in each of the two age categories.
The rodeo, which will be in the parking
lot of the elementary school, will begin at
9 a.m. Saturday. All first through sixth
graders are invited to take part.
r draft
Men who were not able to register
during the initial period can still do so
and Rostker said late registrations are
being encouraged. Persons who were in
prison, hospitalized, or prevented from
registering for other reasons have 30
extra days to register.
The next formal registration period,
for men born in 1962, will take place the
week of Jan. 5, 1981. After that date,
young men will be required to register
within 30 days of their 18th birthday.
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