Suffolk News-Herald from Suffolk, Virginia (2024)

August 11, 1975

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Suffolk News-Heraldi

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Monday, August 11, 1975

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Weather Partly cloudy tonight Mostly sunny on Tuesday Highs today and Tuesday in upper 80s VOL LIII NO 191 uffolk Ne Heralft Written and Edited to Merit Your Confidence SUOLK VIRGINIA MONDAY AUGUST 11 1975 Now You Know Ice cream cones were patented in 1903 10c Daily 25c Sunday light To Mars: $1 a Mile CAPE CANAVERAL la (UPI It costs $1 a mile to fly to Mars one way for robots only 'So when the first of two Viking spaceships leaves lorida scheduled for 4:59 pm EDT today for a year long search for life on the red planet the meter will start spinning It will stop at about 505 million miles after a round about trip to the planet 230 million miles away A second Viking leaving 10 days later will follow the same routeThe tab for American taxpayers will be $1 billion Is this trip says Dr Gerald Sbffen project scientist for the Viking mission which has been seven years in the making we find any form of life it will cause an explosion about thoughts about our selves our importance in the cosmos and accelerate all space programs including eventual manned landings on Soffen said real honest to God discovery of life on Mars would be more important than anything NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has ever dreamed of Robert Kraemer director of planetary programs said Viking is and away the most ambitious unmanned mission ever attempted by He admits also the most expensive Is it worth it? going to have to wait a year to answer he said answer that counts is in the minds of the American taxpayer and people around the The lead Viking with an American flag and the em blem of the bicen tennial celebration em blazoned on its side is programmed to touch down at a place called Chryse (Greek for gold) on July 4 1976 the 200th birt hday If all goes well the two Vikings borne aloft by Titan Centaur rockets will send landers to the surface of Mars with the help of parachutes and retrorockets These miniature automated laboratories will scoop up and test soil transmit pictures and relay information about the atmosphere and weather unding or Jail Program The Virginia Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) has approved funding to continue treatment and rehabilitation programs in the Suffolk City Jail A total of $31112 is to be used in the project with $1556 of that coming from local funds The Suffolk funding was one of many the CCJ acted on last week as it approved more than $1032500 in requests from localities and state agencies Also among the requests approved was one for $111111 for the Southhampton Correctional drug counseling training program Slightly Hurt A 17 year old Suffolk girl sustained minor injuries in an automobile accident at the intersection of Constance Road and Main Street Saturday Carol I Hanco*ck of 112 North Street was treated at Louise Obici Hospital for an injured neck and released Police said in a report the girl was stopped for a red light on Constance Road about 5:20 pm when a car driven by Milton Wright of 2513A Godwin Boulevard struck it in the rear Police reportedly charged Wright with following too close United Way Approves Budget of $130380 Agencies Allocations Portugese Mob of Burns Communist Headquarters A Blooming Reward New Religious Rioting Two Charged With Road Racing Threatens Cease ire Meacham Joan Little Defense Calling Rape Experts anti Nixon May Discuss Watergate In TV Segment After Election 1976 its In Hoffa Disappearance Parts of Corn Belt Just ish Blood Parched by Drought with per chase on Saturday would speak out in candor I cannot even give you a ballpark figure on the financial According to rost he was acting on behalf of an in ternational consortium of broadcasting organizations Communist rioting spread to more than 40 towns in the last three week and brought appeals from moderate of ficers to the leftist extremists to modify their stand Those appeals were rejected by the ruling leftist elements Police said the crowd in Braga charged against the building after the Com munists who were sup posed to have been disarmed by troops during the night again opened fire on the demonstrators They said three persons including one soldier were injured Tough left wing marines originally dispersed the crowds before dawn today by firing teargas from their armored cars and shooting volleys into the air with their automatic weapons With the situation apparently calm the marines withdrew to Porto 30 miles to the south west leaving security to local troops Police said casualties in flicted by the marines brought to 26 the number of persons wounded during the night The marines shot a policeman in the lung burned a woman with a teargas grenade and hit five persons with gunfire including But he refused to name the broadcasters or the net works "I have a number of verbal agreements with broad he said say who until they are American Red Cross American Social Health Old Dominion Area Boy Scouts Home Society of Virginia GirlScouts Patrick Henry Hospital Auxiliary Salvation Army Travelers Aid Assn of America Tri County Assn for Retarded Children United Drug Abuse Council USO YMCA Contingencies Expenses and other articles taken The missing items had been given to the Handshaws on their anniversary the day before Bradshaw 31 of 352 lake Meade Dr was charged with hit and run resulting in property damage Saturday night Beulah Branch of 235 Holladay St said she discovered the fender of her damage after she heard a noise outside just after midnight Several minutes later a witness directed police to car 23 channel band radios were stolen from autos overnight Saturday William Wyatt of 533 Third Ave and Jack Harry of 1101 Iake Point Lane both said the radios were taken from cars parked in front of their homes RALEIGH NC (UPI) A defense attorney for Joan Little said he planned to begin calling experts on rape as witnesses today to support his argument that the black woman killed her white jailer while trying to fend off a sexual attack Defense attorney Marvin Miller also was expected to disclose whether he planned to call Miss Little herself to testify The prosecution claims Miss Little 21 lured jailer Clarence Alligood 62 to her cell on the promise of sexual favors and then killed him as part of an escape plan Superior Court Judge Hamilton Hobgood said last week he would wait until the defense attempts to introduce Joshua Pretlow Jr and Walter elton Jr Residential boroughs: Suffolk Mrs David Holland Whaleyville Mrs Richard Harrell Cypress Mrs Incaster Holy Neck Mrs BELAST Northern Ireland (UPI) The worst Northern Ireland religious rioting in four years has wrecked a Roman Catholic neighborhood killed two President HJ (Jack) Pettit HI announced the appointment of Thomas Hofler to head the Drive Campaign during the month of October Hofler until just recently assistant cashier of the American National Bank lias just announced his new association with Earl Speer and Company Peanut Brokers He will be assisted in the drive by James Russell president of Supreme Petroleum Inc and Douglas Kincaid assistant vice president of United Virginia Bank Seaboard National Hofler announced that all Division Chairmen have been selected and also noted a change in the residential solicitation in that instead of one chairman for the Suffolk Borough and one for all the boroughs in the former City Directors are as Industrial Robinson Com children and threatened the six month old cease fire Jeering Protestant and Catholic mobs battled with rocks bottles and bullets along the in Two area young men have been charged with racing on a public highway failure to heed a police red light and siren and reckless driving following a drag racing in cident and police Pitchkettle Rd night Patrolman DL reported he saw a Torino and a Javelin drag racing on Pitchkettle between the Rt 58 overpass and Craig Drive Both cars fled when he ap proached but he caught the Javelin Thomas Wendell Johnson 19 was arrested and released on bond Sunday at 11:30 pm of ficers arrested in connection with the incident Danny Ray Strickland 22 near his home on Rt 1 Windsor More than $150 in coins and Boyd Quate Sleepy Hole Mrs Anne Berard Chuckatuck Mrs Willard Brown A list of each division and workers will be published in the near future testimony from the experts on rape before deciding whether to allow jurors to hear their testimony If Miss Little were to take the stand the prosecution could introduce rebuttal witnesses to testify against her character She has had several run ins with the law and her name was associated with a prostitution ring although no proof was ever offered Miller said defense at torneys must consider the effects and ramifications of her pending appeal on the breaking and conviction if she is allowed to take the stand which opens her to cross examination The trial was entering fifth week today The Board of Directors of the Suffolk United Way Inc has accepted the Budget recommended goal of raising $130380 in support of its 12 participating agencies and administrative expenses for the 1976 drive This record figure represents an increase of approximately six and a half per cent over last budget of $122034 caused mostly by increased costs in the operation of the agencies and the administration of Nansemond that this year each borough will have its chairman Division follows: Randolph mercial James Blair Retail Douglas Kincaid Government Richard Longerbeam and Thomas Savage Professional other items was taken from a pick up truck belonging to Wilfred Maxwell Grimes 52 of 2841 Holiday Point Dr overnight Saturday Police report the truck and the glove compartment both locked were broken into Grimes said missing were $31 in coins two rolls of Bicentennial half dollars $11 in silver half dollars a number of wrenches valued at $30 a timing light valued at $70 some wire and a carton of cigarettes Suffolk police also report the following offenses: home of Jesse Handshaw 46 at 1132 Manning Rd was broken into between noon and 5 pm Sunday A side door was kicked in two bedrooms ransacked and silver items election The wave of divided Belfast Sunday climaxing three days of violence across the province British troops patrolling the 20 foot high barrier dividing the Protestant Shankhill Road section and the Catholic alls Road district were caught between the rival crowds Police said a 4 year old Catholic girl was killed in a crossfire between British troops and Catholic snipers Authorities said a sniper gunned down a 15 year old Catholic boy fleeing a British patrol Catholic housewives said Protestant gangs advanced anti Communist vote in last behind British patrols and tossed Molotov co*cktails at homes in the alls Road area Women clutching children fled the blazing houses Security officials described the fighting as the worst in Northern Ireland since 1971 when the British government imposed internment without trial for suspected ex tremists Catholics had demon strated across the province since riday to mark the fourth anniversary of the British edict Most of the protests turnec into violent confrontations with soldiers BEVERLY HILLS Calif (UPI) ormer President Richard Nixon may talk about Watergate in a holds 90 minute television segment English television $30900 10028000 74812300 150019000 100 23000300 '1000'3000 10432 sonality David rost but the broadcasts won't be aired until after the presidential election rost a former talk show host told reporters at a news conference Sunday Nixon signed a 15 page contract that specifies the former president will talk about Watergate former President has neither requested nor has he received any editorial con trol" rost said in terms of the content or The Suffolk Beautification Commission received a blooming reward last week from one of their yucca plants at the intersection of Main and Cedar streets The yuccas were installed in early spring of 1974 but local gardeners found them too tempting to resist and quickly stole four of the plants The four plants were replaced and remain intact for the public to enjoy LISBON (UPI) An angry mob of thousands of anti Communists broke through police and army lines in the northern Portuguese city of Braga today and hurled flam ing bottles of gasoline at the Communist headquarters until the building was engulfed in flames Police said the mobs splat tered the building with Molotov co*cktails and 'blocked fire trucks coming into the area until the building was burning out of control They said the fate of the Communists inside the building was unknown did not come out the front a police spokesman said do not know what happened to A Socialist in Braga said he understood the Communists were able to escape from a back door in the headquar ters and have fled from the area He blamed the angry outburst on the government decision to bring in leftist marines during the weekend to protect the Communists It was the worst anti Communist violence in weeks in protest against the leftist three man ruling military efforts to impose a Soviet style Peoples Republic on Portugal despite the heavy Mfr a By PATRICK HARDEN DETROIT (UPI) What had looked like the most promising lead of the investigation into the disappearance of former Teamsters boss James Hoffa has turned out to be nothing but dried fish blood It left agents today concen trating on tips pouring in from throughout the country An BI analysis of blood stains found in a car believed involved in the case showed the blood was not human but came from a frozen fish carried in the vehicle the day Hoffa disappeared sources close to the investigation said Elimination of that lead a setback in the 12 day old search for Hoffa was thought likely to prompt US Attorney Ralph Guy Jr to launch a federal grand jury probe into whereabouts Guy previously received the go ahead from Justice Department officials to place the Hoffa case before a federal grand jury already seated in Detroit The BI scheduled its first news briefing in the case for today Hoffa 62 year old former president of the 22 million member Teamsters Union was fighting to regain his former post when he disappeared July 30 He was last seen in the parking lot of the Machus Red ox a suburban restaurant where Hoffa was to meet with reputed Mafia leader Anthony Giacalone and two other men The restaurant is halfway between Lake Orion home and Detroit Charles O'Brien foster son and a key figure in the in vestigation told the BI he borrowed a car from son Joe to deliver frozen salmon to the wife of Detroit Teamsters offical Robert Holmes the morning Hoffa disappeared BI agents seized young 1975 car Saturday after they learned of bloodstains in the front seat But both and Giacalone told the BI the stains were dried fish blood and called the action harassment BI agents have kept O'Brien under surveillance at his West Memphis Ark editing of the programs the use of footage or by way of prior knowledge of any of the questions subject including Watergate has been rost said Nixon agreed to more than 20 taping sessions The tapings at his San Clemente Calif home later this year will run as four 90 minute segments and will be aired internationally after the 1976 elections "The amount of money involved is rost said relying on Mr word that he By United Press Inter national A relentless sun beat down on parched crops in parts of the com belt today and even magic end the dry spell that has left a projected record com crop to wither in the heat But residents of Kentucky had the opposite problem as heavy rains touched off scat tered flooding and left at least one person a 3 year old boy dead Hot dry weather enveloped most of the nation Sunday The risk of rangeland fire rose to the danger point from South Dakota to Oklahoma Com belt fanners who were hoping for soaking rains to end a drought to save dwindling crops had little to be optimistic about Com yields expected to be a record just a little more than a month ago had dwindled by 50 to 60 per cent in some drought seared areas of Iowa and Missouri and dry weather also cut into crop production in portions of Kansas and South Dakota.

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