Morning Sentinel from Waterville, Maine (2024)

June 28, 1979

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Morning Sentineli

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Waterville, Maine

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Thursday, June 28, 1979

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16 MORNING SENTINEL Thursday June 28 1979 Obituaries And unerals TiflH SB MMBfllbk '1 DR THERON THOMPSON BELGRADE LAKES Dr Theron Barker Thompson associate professor emeritus of education at Western Maryland College Westminster Md died Wednesday morning at his summer home on Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes after a long illness He was born Jan 19 1909 in Somerville Mass son of Roscoe and Cara Barker Thompson Dr Thompson received his BCE degree from Northeastern University his Ed degree from Boston University and his from Calvin Coolidge College He was principal in Shapleigh and Brooks Maine and Greensboro Vt He was assistant superintendent of schools in Keene NH and superintendent of schools in Pittsfield and Walpole NH and North Brookfield and Mansfield Mass He served as president of the PTA in Westminster Md King Lion in North Brookfield Mass worthy master of Masons in Alstead NH deacon head usher and president of the Consistory of the United Church of Christ in Westminster Md He received the Silver Beaver Award in recognition of years of dedicated service as a Boy Scout troop leader and commissioner He had traveled extensively throughout the United States Canada Europe and Asia He is survived by his wife the former Esther Carr whom he married in Belgrade Lakes in 1937 three sons Ward Carr of Helsinki inland Paul Barker of Washington DC and Richard Ernest of Los Angeles Calif two daughters Miss Esther Pearne of New York City and Miss Bettina Jessie of Syracuse NY two brothers Sumner Thompson of Albuquerque NM and Roscoe Thompson Jr of Manchester Conn two sisters Mrs Priscilla Walters Scarborough and Mrs Charlotte Robinson of Turners alls Mass two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews uneral services will be held at the Sullivan Center Congregational Church in Sullivan NH Saturday at 2 pm There will be no local visiting hours LEIGH PHILLIPS SKOWHEGAN Leigh Phillips 63 died unexpectedly late Tuesday evening at his home in Skowhegan He was born in Skowhegan May 13 1916 son of Harold and Blanche (Seavey) Phillips He was a graduate of Skowhegan High School and attended Maine Central Institute Pittsfield He was self employed and had been in failing health for many years He is survived by one nephew John Phillips Jr of Skowhegan uneral services will be held riday at 9 am at the Edwards uneral Home 29 Pleasant St Skowhegan There will be no calling hours UNERAL CLAYTON BARNETT WINDSOR uneral services for Clayton Barnett were held at the Gray uneral Home Wednesday afternoon with the Rev Warner Howard of Coopers Mills officiating Bearers were Earl Landry James Smith Dana Leo Daniel and Robert Barnett Burial was in West Washington Cemetery where committal services were conducted by the Rev Mr Howard CARD THANKS Many thanks for the cards and visits from friends and relatives while I was a patient at the Redington airview Hospital Also my thanks and appreciation to Drs Nielson and Swett and the nurses and aides on the first floor for their wonderful care Their kindness will always be remembered Tilden Davis LYMAN TAPLEY ELLSWORTH Lyman Holbrook Tapley 61 of Douglas Highway formerly of airfield died Wednesday at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital after a long illness He was born April 22 1918 in Brooksville son of Olden and the late Annie Tapley He graduated in 1936 from Brooksville High School Before World War II he worked on oil tankers and in shipyards During the war he worked as a welder at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Hawaii ollowing the war he trained in ray technology at Saranac Lake NY and later became chief ray technician and an instructor in ray technology at the Sisters Hospital and then at Seton Hospital in Waterville or many years he and his family lived in airfield He and his wife the former Barbara erry of Bar Harbor retired to Ellsworth in 1972 Mrs Tapley died on April 28 of this year He was a former member of the American Society of ray Technicians and a member of the Waterville Masonic Lodge Besides his father of Brooksville he is survived by one son Lance Tapley of Augusta three grandsons Isaac Adam and Asa Tapley also of Augusta three sisters Mrs Delma Richards of Bar Harbor Mrs Myrtle McVay of Ellsworth and Mrs Joyce Gray of Brooksville one brother Murray Tapley of Blue Hill many nieces and nephews Burial services will be at Mount Rest Cemetery North Brooksville at 2 pm riday ALBERT STEWART PITTSIELD Albert Stewart 76 died Tuesday at a Lewiston hospital following a long illness He was born in Hodgdon July 23 1902 son of red and Margaret (Wilson) Stewart He had been employed for many years by the Pioneer Mill of Pittsfield and the Eastland Woolen Mill Corinna He attended the Church of God in Pittsfield He is survived by his wife the former Ruth Loud of Pittsfield two daughters Virginia Gniffke of Owatonna Minn and Phyllis Anderson of Reading Mass two sisters Natalie Adams of Presque Isle and Annie Smith of Houlton 18 grandchildren 14 great grandchildren several nieces and nephews uneral services will be held riday at 2 pm at the Donald Shorey uneral Chapel Pittsfield where friends may call today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 pm ROY CRAMER MADISON Roy Cramer 78 died Tuesday evening in a Skowhegan hospital after a long illness He was born April 4 1901 in Embden son of Charles and Mary (rost) Cramer He was educated in Embden and married reda LeHay on July 19 1937 in North anson He was retired from the Kennebec River Pulp and Paper Company Survivors besides his wife of Madison are three sons Wilfred and Joe Cramer both of Embden and Manley A Cramer of Madison three daughters Mrs Elzine Larsen of Salem Ore Mrs Janice Soule of Madison and Mrs ayelene Adams of Pittsburg Calif eight grandchildren several nieces nephews and cousins uneral services will be conducted riday at 2 pm at the Edwards uneral Home at 165 Main St where friends may call this evening from 7 to 9 UNERAL VIDAWISWELL CLINTON uneral services Vida Wiswell were held Wednesday at 2 pm at the Clinton Baptist Church with the Rev Kenneth Gould pastor officiating Bearers were Dwight York Scott Washburn Lendell Timothy Terry and Stephen Weymouth Burial was in Greenlawn Rest Cemetery Clinton UNERAL EDNAN PLUMMER PALERMO Graveside services for Mrs Edna Plummer were held Wednesday afternoon at Sand Hill Cemetery with the Rev Harold Nutter of Windsor officiating Honorary bearers were Lawrence Mahlon George and Clinton Glidden INMEMORIAM In Loving Memory Of PERCY STEWART On his birthday June 28 I do not need a special day To bring you to my mind Percy dear The days I don think of you Are very hard to find Sadly missed by Your loving wife Abbie MIDEAST Continued rom Page One) back before joining the fighting In Cairo an Egyptian government statement condemned the Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets saying they posed a grave danger to the Mideast peace process VIOLET COPE SKOWHEGAN Mrs Violet Cope 60 died at a local hospital Wednesday morning after a long illness Born in Embden Oct 2 1918 she was the daughter of Miner and Susan Mullen Tingley She attended Embden and North Anson schools and Anson Academy She was married to Angus Cope May 26 1952 at Skowhegan Mrs Cope had been a finisher tender at the Maine Spinning Co for 29 years and a shoe repairer for Norrwock Shoe Co for eight years when she retired in December 1978 because of ill health She is survived by her husband of Skowhegan a sister Mrs Dorothy York of Cornville and several nieces and nephews uneral services will be held at 10 am Saturday at the Edwards uneral Home where friends may call today from 7 to 9 pm and riday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm SUMMIT Continued rom Page One have no doubt that all the countries have the Same goal of reducing consumption and that a formula to bring all these issues under one common denominator can be said an administration official who did not want to be identified He described much of the criticism as little more than pre summit maneuvering by European leaders to win their countries the most favorable agreement possible The European plan for limiting oil imports would set a single European ceiling Administration officials said this is unfair because one nation could increase oil consumption substantially by buying oil from the North Sea which the plan would not count as imported oil Carter was understood to be incensed by a published interview with Giscard is essential for the future of our economies to conserve imported petroleum on the part of the United Giscard said in an interview with Newsweek magazine One administration official told reporters was surprised by it it is just plain wrong and it is not in accord with the The official said US oil consumption is down about one million barrels a day this year compared to what would have been used under more normal circ*mstances With increased demand this cutback has brought the long gasoline lines in American cities he indicated On the eve of the fifth economic summit the participants remained in doubt about the size of an expected increase in oil prices by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) The OPEC nations were meeting in Geneva and officials here said the oil cartel might be waiting to see what conservation steps the summit nations take before setting new prices GAS (Continued rom Page One) Philip Pimentel head of the Pine Tree Gasoline Retailers Association said if gasohol markets well in Maine other major oil companies might make it available At a meeting last week state officials discussed the possibility of fueling the fleet with gasohol About half of the automobiles which now use unleaded fuel could use gasohol said Nancy Cowan the energy renewable resource planner Gasohol may be particularity suited to Maine because it can be produced from waste wood and potatoes Cowan said not going to happen she said some sort of approval must come from Governor Brennan is still in Canada for the tail end of a conference with New England governors and Canadian premiers Contacted Wednesday in Canada Brennan said he was encouraged" by the response to his telegram OER director John Joseph joined Brennan Wednesday and is expected to return riday afternoon his office said PYRAMID (Continued rom Page One) prosecution a certainty and the insistence by those interviewed that the now excused of the scheme are just as guilty for their participation as those still awaiting a decision from Crook (Crook) has already taken a very big chunk out of lives As district attorney he had to put a stop to this and he's done that But it should end there his job is said one individual adding that district attorneys in other states have expressed their disapproval of the scheme but none have attempted to unravel the entire structure Contacted Wednesday Crook said that while his announcement last week was limited to those who have lost money in the game (collectively totalling about 896500) it was by no means an indication that other decisions not to prosecute won't be made in the near future AT THE SAME time however he reiterated his stand that no further promises for immunity from prosecution would be made until the probe is complete Prefacing his remarks with a statement that he was reluctant to discuss the matter in light of extensive publicity to this point Crook commented said right from the beginning that our goal was to stop the illegal activity and recover the money for the So far he said $17500 has been collected at the Waterville Communication Center understand that people are curious but to make a hurried decision might be to make the wrong the district attorney said principal thing right now is to ascertain as closely as we can the exact amount of money that every individual has made or lost and the information already collected is now being double checked for As for the charge of unfair treatment regarding those already excluded from prosecution Crook said that he was merely exercising "prosecutorial discretion" in determining who should be held most accountable for the proliferation in the Waterville area THIS WERE a burglary case neither the Waterville Police Department nor the district office would have any difficulty handling it But we recognize that people involved got into this thing for a variety of reasons and have to handle it on a case by case he said After checking with local detectives Crook said that he knows of no instance in which participants were called as late as 11 pm although some calls may have been made during earlier evening hours both due to both the schedules and to avoid ertibarrassing subjects at their place of employment not trying to roust people out of bed late at night to talk about the pyramid and we have not released a single name in an effort to save individuals from public embarrassment doing everything we can to try not to affect the reputations of individuals Crook asserted INALLY CROOK responded to charges of threats and intimidation during questioning sessions by maintaining that every legal requirement for such interviews has been met and that individuals who claim been badgered were not forced to meet with authorities but came forward on their own free will Pressed for an estimate of when the investigation might be completed Crook said that further announcements could be expected within the next week or two Upturn In Gasoline Output And Deliveries Reported By The Associated Press Odd even gasoline selling plans were announced Wednesday by officials in Pennsylvania and Delaware as reports showed an upturn in gasoline production and major oil companies announced increases in their shipments The Pennsylvania and Delaware actions brought to 11 the number of states that have adopted gasoline rationing to reduce panic buying and stretch short supplies The American Petroleum Institute reported Wednesday that refiners operated at 868 percent of capacity for the week ended June 22 up from 846 percent the previous week Gasoline production went up from 69 million barrels a day to 71 million marking the first time production had topped 7 million barrels a day since ebruary Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco) Gulf Oil Co and Standard Oil Company of Ohio Wednesday boosted their July gasoline shipments over levels Sohio planned boosts to 113 percent of last July's levels Gulf predicted 100 percent and Amoco said it would deliver 90 percent of last shipments The comparable figures for June were Sohio 98 percent Gulf 97 and Amoco 86 industry performance is a step in the right said Energy Secretary James Schlesinger an important indication however one performance is not determinative of a trend The department expects further improvement in refinery utilization and heating oil production in A threatened statewide service station strike in Pennsylvania was averted Wednesday after the special assistant on energy promised to look into problems of gasoline allocations to dealers Tom Anderson executive director of the Pennsylvania Service Station Dealers Association told reporters he was calling off a strike scheduled for noon Thursday The announcement was made after a 45 minute meeting with Jack Watson special assistant to President Carter Anderson said Watson promised to work closely with Energy Department officials to meet the demands for relaxed federal pricing and allocation regulations About 3000 gasoline dealers in New Jersey have vowed to begin a protest shutdown starting Sunday and lasting through July 4 Officials in New York New Jersey Connecticut Rhode Island and Maine said millions of gallons of gasoline intended for use next month would be released to dealers to avert shortages during the' July 4 holiday week Vice President Walter Mondale and Energy Department officials met in Washington with New York City Mayor Edward Koch and New York area congressmen to discuss New York pleas for more gasoline COURT (Continued rom Page One) Many legal scholars believe some laws are successful only so far as they can stimulate voluntary compliance thus affecting a much wider sphere than government agencies and the courts can monitor need not today define in detail the line of demarcation between permissible and impermissible affirmative action Justice William Brennan Jr wrote for the court suffices to hold that the challenged affirmative action plan falls on the permissible side of the he said At issue in case was the intent of Congress when it passed one portion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 called Title 7 Weber argued he was the victim of illegal "reverse because Title 7 protects whites as well as blacks from racial bias Brennan said however that argument the significance of the fact that the plan is an affirmative action plan voluntarily adopted by private parties to eliminate traditional patterns of racial He added would be ironic indeed if a law triggered by a concern over centuries of racial injustice and intended to improve the lot of those who had been excluded from the American dream for so long constituted the first legislative prohibition of all voluntary private race conscious efforts to abolish traditional patterns of racial segregation and Brennan was joined by Justices Potter Stewart Byron White Thurgood Marshall and Harry A Black mun Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice William Rehnquist dissented Justices John Paul Stevens and Lewis Powell Jr did not participate in the case The dissenters accused the court of rewriting the 1964 law under the guise of interpreting it examination of what the court proffers as the spirit of the act reveals it as the spirit animating the present majority not the 88th Rehnquist said if the spirit of the act eludes the cold words of the statute itself it rings out with unmistakable clarity in the words of the elected representatives who made the act law It is equality" he said Weber a 32 year old lab worker at Gramercy La plant sued in 1974 after being excluded from a craft training program The program accepted black and white employees on a one for one basis or every black chosen a white was chosen Had trainees been selected solely on a seniority basis no blacks would have been included in the Gramercy program In 1974 39 percent of the local workforce was black and 15 percent of Gramercy plant workers were black But less than 2 percent of the craft workers 5 of 273 were black Kaiser did not blame itself for the obvious racial disparity in skilled jobs It attributed the disparity to a lack of training opportunities for blacks in the building trades industry Leon Lynch vice president for human affairs of the Steelworkers union called the decision "a total and said other companies and unions now be able to adopt similar programs without having to worry about never seen the (congressional) delegation so upset excited and said Koch once a congressman Afterward Mondale made no commitment to the state but said federal officials would compare their figures with those provided by city and state leaders to assure that New York was getting its fair share BAKER Continued rom Page One) contention of Soviet oreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that amendments to the treaty not only would kill it but would end any chance for further negotiations Baker said would hope that if this treaty is amended or if it is rejected that within hours the United States and the Soviet Union would sit down and begin their negotiations once again I do not accept at face value the suggestion that amendments to this treaty would end the process" While Baker left open the possibility of supporting the treaty he made it clear that only substantial changes including a reduction in the Soviet force of heavy missiles would win his vote Baker said the Soviet force of 308 giant missiles far larger than any in the US arsenal gives the Soviet Union more firepower in terms of the size of their multiple warheads than in all the warheads on US missiles the Soviet Union were willing to eliminate its 308 heavy missilesI believe the Senate would be and I would be predisposed to consider a most generous reconciliation of the remaining points of inadequacy in the said Baker As the elected leader of the 41 Republicans in the Senate position on SALT II carries considerable weight OOD Continued rom Page One have only lobsters to sell them in Other restaurants surveyed cited produce as the primary concern at this point with meat following a close second it goes on for another week or so we'll definitely start running out of some said Alfred Operlerchner assistant manager at John Manor too bad because they (truckers) are penalizing all of us and already suffering enough with the gas shortage Mrs Goodhof noted Boston Market BOSTON (AP) Wholesale produce prices in the Boston market Wednesday: Eggs jb wt 87 brn 87 Ex 1g wt 75 brn 77 Large wt 73 brn 75 Med wt 60 brn 60 Pullets wt 41 brn 41 lour spring patent 1025 1035 Corn all rail No 2yellow 355 Oats all rail 40 lbs 199 Potatoes 50 lbs 350 400 Beef sds good choice 110 120 Lamb good choice 125 145 Veal Prime 190 210 Pltry choice evis fowl 41 46 ancy live fowl 11 15 Broilers 2 3 lbs 48 57 Pork loins 103 110 rozen Turkey hens 63 70 rozen Toms 14 22 57 63 rozen Toms 22 and up 59 95 rozen Beltsville Turkeys 3 9 lbs 72 78 News Briefs Turkey Seen Reassuring On 2s ANKARA Turkey (AP) Turkey has reassured the United States it still may allow American 2 spy planes to fly over Turkey to monitor Soviet compliance with the SALT II treaty diplomatic sources said Wednesday Over the weekend Gen Kenan Evren chief of the general staff gave US officials jitters when he declared that Turkey could not allow 2 flights within its airspace present circ*mstances" But a Turkish oreign Ministry spokesman asked if that meant Turkey had shut the door completely said: "Our position has not changed since the visit of the American delegation last Diplomatic sources said Turkish officials gave Americans the same message in meetings this week Trade Deficit Widens In May WASHINGTON (AP) Despite a sharp drop in petroleum imports the US international trade deficit widened to $248 billion in May the Commerce Department reported Wednesday Last deficit the largest since $31 billion was reported in January marked the 36th consecutive month in which the US trade balance has been in the red April's trade deficit was $215 billion Record imports of $1634 billion up 19 percent from April far outpaced exports which fell 01 percent in May to $1386 billion May deficit is above the trend for the said Courtenay Slater the Commerce chief economist Shah Assassination Try Denied MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican officials and the chief of staff Wednesday denied claims from Tehran that a suicide squad had made an assassination attempt against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi A top security official said the deposed Iranian emperor in perfect health with his in Cuernavaca so miles south of Mexico City The head of revolutionary court claimed that Iranian guerrillas attacked and slightly injured the shah earlier this week but jackal ran away this time" The Iranians have offered a bounty of $143000 to anyone who kills the shah Gray Wastes To Stay In Mass AUGUSTA Maine (AP) About 35000 gallons of hazardous chemicals suspected of polluting private wells in Gray will be incinerated in Massachusetts as planned officials said Wednesday Gardner Hunt a spokesman for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection said that Cannon Engineering assured him that the chemicals would be disposed of at its Bridgewater Mass plant despite earlier reports that the wastes might be sent back to Maine Hunt quoted Cannon officials as saying that the chemicals will be separated into chlorinated solvents by a subcontractor and there will be no delays in the disposal process Nader Asks 1 Day Consumer Boycott WASHINGTON (AP) Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called Wednesday for a one day nationwide consumer boycott this fall to protest the failure to halt galloping inflation a limit to which consumers can be Nader told a newly organized coalition calling itself the Consumers Opposed to Inflation in the Necessities (COIN) In a 100 page agenda the coalition comprised of some 70 consumer labor church and senior citizen groups claimed that inflation can be cut by 3 percent in the next 18 months by reimposing oil price controls placing a cap on hospital costs subsidizing consumer food bills and lowering mortgage rates Carter To Cut acation Short TOYKO (AP) President Carter worried about the appearance of taking a vacation while American citizens sit in long gasoline lines will skip his Hawaii rest next week and return directly to Washington DC officials said Thursday The president is due back in the capital on Sunday night and plans to meet with members of Congress and advisers early next week Originally Carter was scheduled to spend a few days in Hawaii returning to Washington early Thursday Current plans call for him to return directly from a state visit to South Korea which follows the two day economic summit in Tokyo BIW Contract Vote Sunday BATH Maine (AP) About 3800 unionized employees of the Bath Iron Works will vote Sunday at the Augusta Civic Center on a tentative contract agreement which has won the support of the union leadership If the pact is approved by members of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America which represents 75 percent of the shipyard's employees BIW would shut down completely next week for the first time in its modem history The company is offering raises of $212 an hour over the next three years as well as next week off with pay as a bonus The current three year pact expires Sunday US Probe Delays Maremont Job SACO Maine (AP) The Maremont $102 million machine gun contract with the Army is being held up because of a congressional investigation a company spokesman said Wednesday Berge Thomasian vice president and general manager of New England division said the delay is going to have any effect on us in the near The contract for 1530 2 machine guns would be an extension of a $40 million contract Maremont already has he said Some Question To CIA SOLOMONS Md (AP) The Calvert County coroner said Wednesday that he believes John Paisley the former Central Intelligence Agency official whose death has been listed as an apparent suicide by the state was the victim of foul play Dr George Weems the coroner said Paisley's body had a lesion stretching almost around the neck probably caused by a tight rope He said the mark a bullet hole behind Paisley's left ear and two scuba diving weight belts strapped on his waist were evidence Paisley was the victim of foul Play exan Has 1 Skylab Insurance LONDON (AP) A Texas firm has paid of London $250 to insure one of its employees for $1 million against death from the Skylab space station when it falls to Earth next month the insurer said Wednesday "His employers would get the moneybecause they took out the policy" said Derek Lee of PW Kininmont Ltd who claim to be the only British brokers offering Skylab insurance The cover is for death only and not injury a bit of Skylab hits you going to be Lee added Convertible Tops Boot Tops Seats Mooring Covers Waterville Auto Top Custom Upholsterers Coop note Strack Interiors Comm work tarps SnowmobOo seats ft coven Track tonneau Office ft bemo foraftwe Rte 137 China Rood Winslow 873 3852.

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