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Monday, November 22, 1976

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an independent student newspaper

One of those daze...

By JOE KEMP
Sports Editor

“Hey, that was far out.”
—James Ramey
”Gawddamnfthat's great. We beat them.”
-C1a rence “Buckshot" Underwood

Barney and Underwood were walking around in a daze
following Kentucky’s 70 SHUTOUT of Tennessee
Saturday at Knoxville.

Just too much for them to comprehend. It was too
much for coach Fran Curci, too. He cried. ‘

In a season of big wins, this was the biggest.

As a result, UK meets North Carolina in the Peach
Bowl, Dec. 31 at Atlanta. The last time the Wildcats
appeared in a bowl, many of us hadn’t been born.

Kentucky had not beaten the Vols since 1964, and had
not shut them out since 1959.

“Before the game, we said we won the Penn State
game for the team, the Florida game for the coaches and
we’re gdng to win this game for the people of Kentucky,”
Curci said.

“We really did work ourselves in this position.”

The game’s only score came with 4:21 left in the first
quarter. Quarterback Derrick Ramsey spotted run-
ningbadr Greg Woods on the UT 45-yard line. Then
Woods sped down the right sideline and evaded Vols’
defensive bad: David Parsons enroute to the end zone.

Curci had decided to use the play just the day before.

“I told the team Friday, ‘I bet I know one play that’ll be
the one that will work against them.’ They rotate the

secondary. They didn't have another man to cover
Greg.”

Kentucky had three chances to score from the Ten-
nessee one late in the first half. It got nothing.

“I was over that one time, I know I was,” Ramsey said.

His claim is, of course, academic because of the UK
defense. Tennessee could manage only 166 yards total
offense. Fourteen possessions, 14 punts. It’s deepest
penetration was to the Wildcat 39.

“Our defense was HELL,” Woods said. “The defense
gave them nothing.”

Particularly effective was defensive back Mike
Siganos, who held all-league receiver Larry Seivers to
five catches for 52 yards. Siganos had not practiced this
week because of a stone bruise on his foot.

“I think Mike Siganos is one of the best defense backs
in our conference,” Curci said. “And he really helped our
kicking game with his returns. They would get the ball on
the m-y ardline and we would get it on the 40 or 45.”

Linebacker Jim Kovach also made life miserable for
the Big Orange.

“i didn’t expect a shutout in my wildest dreams," he
said. “It really surprised me that they didn’t throw more
than they did. They tried to establish their running game
early and when they couldn’t get it going, I thought
they‘d throw more.

“The major thing that turned our team around this
year was when coaches (Jon) Mirilovich and (Charlie)
Bailey said they would shave their heads if we won our
last three games."

Aw, c‘mon.

“Well, after Greg Nord shaved his head,” Kovach said,
trying to keep from laughing.

Peach quickly invites Cats;

UK allotted 10,000 tickets

By JOE KEMP

Sports Editor

The UK football team will be
celebrating New Year’s Eve in
Atlanta, because it earned a berth to
the Peach Bowl after it shut out
Tennessee 70 Saturday at Knox-
ville.

A.L. Kirkpatrick, chairman of the
bowls selection committee told
Athletic Director Cliff Hagan:

“On behalf of our selection
committee, I would like to formally
invite you to participate in the 1976
Peach Bowl."

Hagan and University President
Dr. Otis A. Singletary wasted little
time in accepting the bid.

So Kentucky, now 74, will meet

UK halfback Greg Woods eludes the
diving grasp of Tennessee defensive
back Thomas Rowsey and heads
upfield. Vol defensive back David
Parsons (30) eventually collared the
senior. Woods scored the winning
touchdown on a 62-yard pass play as
the (arts shut out UT 7-0.

the University of North Carolina,
which has a 9-2 record, at 2:30 pm.
Dec 31 in 60,000-seat Atlanta
Stadium. The Tar Heels have been in
the clasic before (1970), losing to
Arizona State 48~26.

About 10,000 tickets will be
distributed to the University, said
Kirkpatrick, and he added that UK
will earn between $175,000 and
$225,000, depending on the crowd
srze.

Attendance has been a source of
concern for Peach Bowl officials in
recent years. The 1975 game between
West Virginia and North Carolina
State drew 45,000 and the year
before about 40,000 showed up.

Peach Bowl officials said the fact
that UK fans are willing to flollow
their team to a bowl game was a key

factor in the selecting process.

It has been a generation since the
Wildcats last played in post season
competition. UK whipped Texas
Christian University 20-7 in the 1952
Cotton Bowl. Since then, three
Wildcat coaches~Blanton Collier,
Charlie Bradshaw and John Ray—
tried to lead Kentucky to the
Promised Land. Except for an oc-
casional upset, each failed.

Kentucky’s biggest (and only
other) post season win came in the
1951 Sugar Bowl. Kentucky stopped
Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma club 13-7,
breaking a long Sooner winning
streak.

Santa Clara handed UK a 21-13
defeat in the 1950 Orange Bowl.

Now, one quarter of a century
later, it‘s on to Atlanta.

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Kentucky Wildcat football coach Fran Curci is hoisted
onto the shoulders of freshman halfback Randy
Brooks (45). Art Still (97) and an unidentified state
trooper as freshman defensive back Ritchie Boyd

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rejoices in the background. Curci had just watched his
team whip Tennessee 7-0 and earn a trip to the Peach
Bowl. The players carried Curci off the field at the
request of a photographer (but not this one).

Law school one of few to attempt

enforcement of employment policy

By DICK GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

The UK law school is one of the
few regional universities that has
attempted to enforce an American

Bar Association (ABA) revised
standard limiting student em-
ployment hours.

And considering the heated
protests of University law school
students, it’s not hard to see why.
The rule, in effect only a week, has
been suspended here while ad-
ministrators take another look at it.

The ABA‘s Council on Legal
Education last summer changed the
number of outside employment
hours allowed a fulHime law
student from 20 to 15 hours.

When the memo informing law
school administrators of the change
was handed down, many virtually
ignored it. They made a game at-
tempt at enforcement but realized
big problems could result from strict
implementation.

UK law school administrators,
looking ahead to next year when the
school will be inspected by an ABA
accrediting team. dutifully tried to
enforce the rule. The action drew
wavesof dissent from the law school
student body.

A random telephone survey in-
dicates that law school officials at
regional universities feel the
regulation is sound in intent. They
agree that if law students work too
many hours at outside jobs, the
school is adversely affected.

But they also contend it would be
practically futile and sometimes
disadrous to rigidly enforce the

rule.

Kenneth Penegar, dean of the
Univeristy of Tennessee (UT) law
school. said he was notified of the
amendment, but does not enforce it.
“We couldn‘t even if we wanted to,"
he said.

“Ours is kind of a laissez-faire
approach."

First-year UT law students are
discouraged from working, but their
employment hours are not strictly
regulated. “My faculty and 1 don’t
feel we can lay down a rule and
expect students to adhere to it,"
Penegar said. “People have to be in
control of their own time."

There is a good deal of com-
munication between the faculty and
students concerning the subject,
according to Penegar. “We try to
remind the students that the future
rs at stake. not only theirs but their

clients.
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Right to death:

questionable at best

They say only death and taxes are sure things.
Taxes are still an unfortunate reality (unless
you're very rich), but death is becoming
questionable—at least for Utah convict Gary

Mark Gilmore.

Gilmore, convicted of one murder and accused
of another, has been in the news because he
wants to die rather than stay in prison, where
he‘s been for 18 years. Gilmore, 35, and his 21-
year old fiance both failed in suicide attempts

last Tuesday.

Ironically, the Utah prosecutor says Gilmore
could be set free if the state pardons board
doesn‘t act quickly onhis request for immediate
firing-squad execution. The prosector cited a
sta te la w mandating execution between 30 and 60
days after sentencing. That time would expire
Dec. 7. but the ruling is open to interpretation.

Gilmore's case and that of Karen Anne
Quinlan raise a divisive moral question: should
there be a right to die? It’s a question that may

be settled in the courts.

That was the case in New Jersey where the
state Supreme Court ruled that Quinlan’s
parents had the right turn off the life support
system which they thought was the only thing
keeping her alive in a comatose state. Karen
Quinlan is still alive though the system was

deactivated.

The Utah court basically has three options in _
lieu of the Supreme Court ruling that the death ‘
penalty does not constitute “cruel and unusual“ ~ ‘ ‘
punishment. The court can commute Gilmore’s
sentence to life imprisonment; refer the case
bad: to court for rescheduling or grant 1,
Gilmore‘s request for immediate execution.

If the court does grant Gilmore‘s request. the
decision could set off a wave of protest. The
Vatican newspaper, for instance, said that
Gimore has no “moral right” to request
execution. The Osservatore Romano editorial
said “there exists a right to live, but there exists
no right not to live.” And the NAACP said that
blacks in prison would be adversely affected if
he court granted Gilmore‘s request.

The Utah court faces a hard decision. Among
its considerations are whether Gilmore knows
what he’s proposing in requesting death, or
whether he is deranged as some Utah officials

believe. No matter what the determination, any

questions.

 

Beer barrel

Apathy may have reached
epidemic proportions on this
campus. but it has not stricken the
entire student body yet.

Tuesday night, driven by such
admirable motives as inter-
collegiate wortmanship, the sanc-
tity of tradition, and general
mischievousness, a small, carefully
chosen band of eight UK students.
most of whom posses quite im-
pressive hell-raising credentials,
paid a visit to Knoxville, Tenn,
which is affectionately known by its
inhabitants as Big Orange Country.

The puiptse of this expedition was
to being the Beer Barrel back to
UK. The Beer Barrel. for the
uninformed, is an old wooden barrel
(actually an old whiskey barrel)
which is painted in the school colors
of both UK and UT. and is
traditionally kept by the winners of
the UK-UT game each year.

There is also a tradition, which
although not officially encouraged
by the athletic departments of the
two schools, is generally respected
by everyone involved. The school
which does not have the barrel
should steal it, usually in the week
before the game.

In the interests of upholding the
tradition and for the glory of UK.
and since UK has not gained
possession of the barrel either by
winning it or by other methods in
many years. this group made the
journey to Knoxville. and after a
diligent all-night effort. managed to
find the barrel.

Jim Harralson

ruling will an impact on future “right-to—death”

The proper alternative for Gilmore might very
well begranting his request for death, but this
case shouldn’t become a precedent for future
appeals of a similar nature.

 

Letters

To make a long story short, an
early-morning attempt to confiscate
the barrel was thwarted by the alert
Tennesseeans. We feel that it is
important that the student body of
UK realize that we gave it the old
college try, and did not give up until
it was unanimously agreed that it
was impossible to proceed further.

We feel that this is the kind of
spirit that should be shown by UK
students in all endeavors.

We feel that it is appropriate to
close this letter with our first-hand
observa tions of UT, for the benefit of
those who have been unable to visit
our neighbors to the South. In
general, the people we met were
polite and hospitable and the cam-
pus police department was efficient,
courteous and good-natured. The
courtesy extended to out-of-state
visitors by the athletic director left
something to be desired, and nothing
sucks like a big orange.

Matt Simpson
A &S junior

Iranian struggle

An exhibition of posters and
photos which depict the struggle of
Iranian people against the regime of
the Shah and contrast the impover-
ished subsistence-level lives of
masses with the corrupt and parasi-
tic life of the ruling monarch and his
family wrll be held in Room 251 of
the Student Center. Monday. Nov. 22
from 10am. to? p.m.

Petitions to be signed to help the
case of 91 Iranian students impris-

oned in Houston who are still on a
hunger strike will be available.
Contributions to meet the legal
expenses of the case. like $180,000
bail set by the Immigration Depart-
ment, will be collected.

Some gifts donated by sympathi-
zers will be available for purchase.
Other Vietnams can be prevented if
the unity and understanding be-
tween people here and peoples of the
third world are developed.

Individuals who cherish democra-
cy and freedom must support the
Iranian student movement which
echoes the struggle of people in Iran
against tyranny and oppression.
US. government Immigration De-
partment and Houston police must
be made to realize that people stand
on the side of justice.

Iranian Student Association

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Concerning the recent article on
the cultivation and distribution of
Kentucky-grown marijuana: If
marijuana is legal, and the market
offers both Kentucky—grown
marijuana for $15 an oz. and
marijuana grown in the Southern-
most United States or US.
Protectorates in the Caribbean and
Pacific fora slightly higher price an
oz. (considering transportation
costs), which would be more com-
petitive‘?

Dough Gerstle
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lesson learned when police
disturb sleep and make threats

By SHERRY RAMEY

Ilive alone. I am a single female. I
am20.

I smile cheerfully, play the girl-
next-door and make dimples when—
ever I come in contact with police.
Usually. However, when it‘s 12:30
am. and there are four of them

 

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(armed) and one of me (unarmed),
and when they pound on my door.
disturb my sleep and make threats, I
begin to see the need to change
tactics.

Scenario: Thursday morning,

12:30 am. I am asleep. Am shaken
out of sleep by the sounds of four
men outside my door, pounding and
demanding that I open my door.

Needless to say, I am scared
shitless. I open the door, keeping the
latch on. Three plainclothesmcn and
one uniformed cop are standing
outside.

I: “What do you want?”

They: "Open the door. Police."

I: “So?"

They : “Open the door."

I: “All right, let me see some
ID.”

They: (flashing some bright, blur-
ry objects) “That‘s all the ID. you
need to see.“

Furious, I swing open the door.
They demand to know what the
trouble is (my thought exactly), and
whether there has been a fight.
“With whom‘?" Iask, since I am by
myself.

“Did I make a phone call?“

“No. I did not."

“Am I sure I am alone?"

“Would they like to look?"

No. They warn they had better not
get any more calls. (That threat
aimed at me. ) They leave.

lam scared, mad and stunned by

this exchange. What have I done to
be rousted out of bed, very rudely
questioned, laughed at (when I

asked for identification) and threat-
ened‘.’

Nothing.

A more fundamental question:'

Since when do I have to open my
door for anybody? (I have to admit
that opening it is better than having
it kicked in.) Along these same lines,
when I feel that I have been wronged
by police, don't I have the right to
redress? Shouldn‘t I have asked for
names and badge numbers so I could
file a complaint? Yes, but I was too
scared. ‘ - . -

Myth: The’police are our friends.

Thus sayeth Uncle Al and Captain

Wendy.

Fact: They are at the very least a
potential menace—they have guns
and apparently can enter your home
freely. If that's not a potential
threat, I would like to see one.

Fact: They know the law, know
what they can get away with and
have power all out of proportion with
their supposed function. (And in this
case, their mentalities.)

Fact: Know the law so you can
protect yourself against your friend-
ly neighborhood pigs.

 

Sherry Ramey is a junior in social
work.

Term paper practices
undermine basic ethics

By JOHN B. STEPHENSON

The Undergraduate Council has
asked me as chairperson to convey
to the University community its
strong concern about the operation
of commercial term paper enter-
prises on this campus.

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While the advertising and provi-
sion of such alleged “research
assistance“ may not be illegal. the
ethical aspects of such practices
are questionable, to say the least.
The selling, purchasing and adver-

tising of term papers for sale-

undermincs the ethic of scholarly
honesty and integrity which is
essential to the life and wellbeing of
our academic community.
Whenever such tacit encourage-
ments of dishonesty as these are
prominent. clearly the basic values

of trust, honesty, self-worth, work,
service and the search for truth and
wisdom which hold together our
learning community are endan-
gered.

Should moral suasion not be a
strong enough deterrent to the use of
such unethical services, the council
would like to remind students and
faculty of the provisions of the
Student Code and the Rules of the
University Senate regarding plagi-
arism and cheating, offenses which
can result in suspension or expul-
sion.

The council would prefer to be-
lieve, of course. that such rules and
procedures are unnecessary and will
never need to be resorted to.
Whether they are employed or not
depends on the sensitivity of us all to
the issues involved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

John B. Stephenson is dean of
l'ndergraduate Studies.

Social Security puts greatest burden on those it purports to help

By JIM H.\HR;\I.SON

In an earlier column. I asserted
that Social Security was one of many
ills created by the federal govern
mcnt. Today I‘ll try to tell you why.

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As it is explained by its own
literature. Social Security is a
compulsory government program
in which workers pay 3.85 per cent of
their annual wages under 315.300
and their employers pay a matching
sum. I'ndcr current law, if you work
for 10 years. you may retire at 62 or
older and receive Social Security
benefits based on your average
yearly earnings Should you die.
your spouse and children are gen-
erally eligible for benefits.

While the system may sound good.
it actually imposes the greatest
burden on those it purports to serve.
It does nothing to insure the security
of society. Put simply, it is a system
of unrelated taxes and welfare
payments. Consider the following:

Social Security imposes its
greatest burden on those with low
incomes. Demographically. we
know that low-income people start to
work earlier and die sooner than
high-income people. This means that
those with low incomes pay Social
Security for a greater number of
years.

In fact. depending on the gap of
years worked and the present value
ot’thetax. it is easily possible for low
income people to pay more than
high-income people. And since they
die sooner. lowuincome workers

rarely get to receive many benefits.
Even if they live to 65. they must
often keep working to support their
families because Social Security
benefits would be inadequate.

Then, to add insult to injury, we
take Social Security out of their
paychecks from ages 65 to 72.

Remember, only the first $15,300 is
taxes. People who make more than
that are better able to invest in
private pension plans, which will
provide them with a better retire-
ment.

vSocial Security builds no protec-
tion for workers. Despite the popular
govemment tcrm “contribution."
the worker is actually payinga tax.

The taxes paid by the worker do
not finance the benefits he expects to
receive; they finance current bene
fits. The only assurance the present-

 

day worker has that he will receive
benefits is the hope that future
generations will tax themselves to
provide him with benefits. Is that
security?

, The tax is great. While only 5.85
per cent is directly taken from a
worker‘s paycheck . at least part of
the employer's matching funds is a
tax on the worker, because the
cmploycr would pay those funds to
the worker if he did not have to pay
the matching funds.

The relationship of payments to
benefits is extremely loosc. If a
person works less than 10 years. he
receives no benefits. Two people
could pay precisely the same tax yct
rcccivc diffcrcnt benefits.

(‘onvcrsclyx two people could pay
wrdcly different taxes yet receive
the same benefits. If you work after

 

65. you may receive no benefits. ()r.
past 65, you could earn $1 million
from investments (they aren‘t
counted as “wages“) and still
receive your full Social Security
bcnefits.

Viewed realistically, Social Secur‘
ity is a welfare system through
which the government imposes a
regressive tax on working people to
finance a wil|y~nilly benefit pro
gram. It assures the prescnt~day
worker of nothing. except the pro-
bability that he can foist the same
system on the next generation.

Perhaps you regard the idea of
govcmmcnt‘s forcing people to pro
vidc for their retirement as a WlSt'
policy. But doesn't ll make more
sense to require people to subscribe
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privately provided pension program
which best suits his needs?

Many scholars have demonstrated
the feasibility of removing govern-
ment from the pension business
while still honoring our present
commitments. ‘

I know no sensible person who
favors a flat rate tax with a ceiling
level of income. nor do I know
anyone who favors a welfare system
whose payments are not based on a
person's current income. Yet. when
the two are linked and called Social
Sccurity. It becomes the largest
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Carter, black minister attend service
at formerly all-white Plains church

PLAINS, Ga IAPl—President-elect
Jimmy Carter and the Rev. Mr. Clennon
King attended services Sunday at the
Plaim Baptist Church one week after the
congregation voted to allow blacks to
worship and seek membership there.

The Rev. King, the black nondenomi-
national ministe; whose attempts to
integrate the church led to the church’s
racial policies being brought into the
open, said quietly, “Praise the Lord” as
heentered the church, and took a seat in
a front pew.

After the services, Carter approached
King and the minister from Albany, Ga.,
50 miles away, bowed to the president-
elect. Two witnesses and the Rev. King
said he kissed Carter’s hand.

Carter was to leave Plains Sunday
night for Washington, where he was to
meet Monday and Tuesday with Presi-
dent Ford, the secretaries of defense,
treasury, and health, education and
welfare, and with congressional leaders
of both Democratic and Republican
parties.

Carter was briefed on foreign affairs
Saturday by Secretary of State Henry A.

Throughout Sunday morning in the
white clapboard church there were brief
references to the racial controvesy
prompted by King’s attempts to attend
services there three weeks ago.

Carter led the Sunday School class in
the opening prayer. The basement
classroom was filled, but only about half
of the 50 to 60 persons there were Plains
residents.

During the section of the services
when new members are invited to join
the congregation, the pastor, the Rev.
Mr. Bruce Edwards, said that the Rev.
King had applied for membership and
that his application was being referred
to a “watch care” cemmittee.

When the congregation met a week
ago and decided to allow blacks to
worship and join the church, it set up a
committee to review membership ap-
plications. The church members must
vote by next Sunday for the members of
the committee and Edwards said later
that it would be several weeks until King
is notified of any action on his applica-

In addition to King and the black
Secret Service agent who accompanies
Carter, a black cab driver from nearby
Americus, Ga., Linda Simmons, at-
tended the service.

Before he entered the church, King
was asked by reporters whether he
would attend services if his application
was accepted.

“I would be just as regular as anyone
else because I think it would be a
tremendous honor for any American to
be a member of America‘s Vatican. This
will be the Vatican of America," he said.

More than 300 persons crowded the
yard outside the church and Carter,
observing the crush of visitors at the
start of the service, stood up and,
sending a murmur through the tourists,
suggested that everyone squeeze a bit in
the pews to make more room.

Carter was called upon for the
invocation in the church service as well
as in the men’s Bible class and said:
“Lord help us to bind our church
together in a close sense of com-
monality. Let the wounds that come on

Kissinger in Plains.

tion.

us be healed.“

Relatives mourn death of Scotia miners

OVEN FORK [APl—The
hills of Letcher County re-
sounded Sunday with the
moumful cries of grieving
widows who lost their hus-
bands—and relatives who lost
their fathers or brothers—to
the Scotia Coal Co. No. l mine
last March.

“Oh God, why did this have
to happen,” moaned Glenna
Sturgill as the body of her
husband, James Nathaniel

Sturgill, “was returned to the '

mother dust,” on a cold
hillside near the mine where
he died.

A few minutes earlier, at
Frank’s Creek Freewill Bap
tist Church at Eolia, the Rev.
Mr. Larry Crabtree observed
that “Brother James had no
idea when he went into that
mine that he would never see
this life again.”

But Sturgill, 48, “is in a
happy place where there are

no burdens or cares,” the
Rev. Crabtree said. “He has
gone on to that glad reunion.”

About 150 friends and rela-
tives packed the small church
where Sturgill learned to read
and write to pay their last
respects to a man who said
only a few hours before he
entered the fatal mine that
“I’m not afraid to die."

“Alive they flourish and
alive they fall, and the earth
that sustained them survived
them all,” read Sturgill’s
obituary, printed on small
cards passed out at the
church.

For Glenna Sturgill, her
son, Harvey, and daughter,
Wanda Vail, it had been a
long and painful eight-month
wait.

James Sturgill was one of
11 men killed in the second of
two methane gas explosions
at the No. 1 mine, deep inside

Howard Hughes desired
Watergate panel meeting

LAS VEGAS [AP]—
Billionaire Howard Hughes
wanted to meet with the
Senate Watergate Committee
in 1974, but his advisers
feared what he might say
because he was under seda-
tion, the Las Vegas Sun has
reported.

The copyright story said
Hughes’ wishes were
revealed in documents now in
the possession of former
Hughes aide John Meier.

Meier, in Canada as a
fugitive from American au-
thorities, claims to have got-
ten the memos from Mexican
authorities who supposedly

confiscated the documents
following Hughes’ death last
spring.

The Sun did not say in its
story Saturday who wrote the
memos.

It said the documents pur-
portedly show that the
Hughes’ organization was
tipped off about pending In-
ternal Revenue- Service in-
vestigations.

A memo apparently sent to
Hughes in January 1974 ad-
vised him that he was in no
condition, either physically or
mentally, to stand up to the
rigors of testifying before the
congressional committee.

Tina Turner arrested

LOS ANGELES lAP]-Pop
singer Tina Turner is to
appear Dec. 8 in Beverly Hills
Municipal Court after being
booked for investigation of
carrying a concealed weapon.

Sheriff‘s deputies said
Turner, who performs with

her husband Ike, was ar-
rested Saturday after an of-
ficer stopped her for a traffic
violation and spotted a
.38-caliber revolver in her
purse.

She was released after
being booked.

Big Black Mountain, last
March.

They had entered the mine
to investigate a similar ex-
plosion two days earlier that
took 15 lives.

After the second explosion,
the mine was sealed, because
officials said they considered
it too dangerous then to try to
recover the bodies. Since July
14, recovery crews have
inched their way to the area
where the 11 bodies laid.

Friday, they brough the
bodies out amid screams and
cries from family members

who stood anxiously at the
mine portal.

Eight funerals were held
Sunday in various
communities in the area.

The remaining three were
scheduled for Monday.

Earlier Sunday, J.B. Hol-
brook, another miner killed in
the second explosion March
11, was laid to rest on Myrl
Hill at Mayking as a cold. stiff
wind whipped around the
grieving family members and
some 30 representatives of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the American Legion.

Chiclet factory explosion

severely burns workers

NEW YORK [AP] —An
explosion and fire ripped
through four floors of the
Chiclet gum factory Sunday,
injuring 55 workers and
throwing some of them into
the street four floors below.

Several victims were cov-
ered with hot gum and many
were sent for treatment to
burn centers in three states.
An Army Reserve helicopter
took five victims to the Cro-
zier-Chester burn unit in
Philadelphia. Other victims
were taken by ambulance to
hospital in New Jersey and in

, the metropolitan New York

area.

Some of those injured in the
early morning blast and fire
suffered burns over 90 per
cent of their bodies. One was
in grave condition in the
intensive care unit of a hos-
pital here.

“It was really horrible. I
saw men with their clothing
and skin burned off,” said
Chris Boggio, 19, a process
helper in the block-wide, six-
story building. “The blast
threw me clean across the
room."

Teddy Orzechowska,