National report CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) The prosecutor moved to drop charges against 11; Bell Telephone Co. executives in an alleged political slush fund- case yesterday, saying his case -would not firmi now admits and acknowledges because the, standillegal political payments. Later, in an interview, Dist. Atty.
Peter Gilchrist said he is still invesNo ligating, charges and have that yet charges been brought against against Southern Bell. might, be a A spokesman the company. for the state attorney general's office said it is illegal for a corporation to make political contributions, but that law comes under a two-year statute of limitations. Bell The grand jury which indicted the 11 on Aug. 7 on charges of falsifying records had been investigating allegations that company officials diEverted $142,000 in company funds through bogus expense vouchers in order to make political contributions from January 1972 through June 1973..
Gilchrist moved to dismiss in Mecklenburg County Superior Court, new company statement from Southern Bell President L.E. Rast in Atlanta. He said Rast's statement. says "Southern Bell acknowledges and accepts responsibility" for its North Carolina, employes' actions. Gilchrist said the charges would not stand because the -law which the 11 were to be tried requires intent to defraud the company.
a January 1975 statement, Bell had said the alleged activities not in accordance with company policy. The court action took place as the trial of F. Bryan' Houck, 43, of Gastonia," the first executive facing charges, was to have begun. Houck's dictment was dismissed and Gilchrist began proceedings to drop the others. Houck, an administrative assistant, is Bell's chief state lobbyist.
charges dropped Pair robs jewelry boutique NEW YORK (AP) Two men wearing wigs and false beards robbed a jewelry boutique in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel yesterday of what police called a substantial" amount of cash and jewels, Police at first said $150,000 in jewels and $50,000 in cash were taken," but later said the figures were not accurate and be more. They took the good stuff." Police said the whole operation at the small Cartier-franchised lobby store was "very smooth, very knowledgeable." An assistant manager of the hotel said it was "very nicely done, very genteel. The police account, confirmed by an employe who asked. not to beidentified, said one. of the two men entered the store, took out a gun and: announced a stick-up.
He took a man who worked in the store into a back room and handcuffed him to a shelf. He took another employe, a woman, back to the store proper. Man booked for murder charge HOMER, La. (AP) A man arrested earlier for anti-Catholic vandalism in this heavily Protestant area was booked on a murder charge yesterday in the shooting death of a Catholic priest, the sheriff said. Sheriff James Oakes of Claiborne Parish in North Louisiana said little was known about the arrested man, identified as John B.
Abercrombie, 26, of nearby Athens. "It's my. understanding that he moved here from out-of state four or five months ago," Oakes said. "'We haven't been able to find out which state. He made no Oakes had speculated before Abercrombie's arrest that a single antiCatholic psychopath was responsible for the vandalism and the fatal" shooting of the Rev.
Theodore M. Lelieveld. Hospital admits first patient NEW YORK (AP.) Its opening long delayed in a controversy, between the city and state, the multi-million-dollar North Central Bronx Hospital admitted its first patient yesterday: He was John Plata, a 43-year-old upholsterer from the Morrisania section, who faces intestinal surgery. The state Health Department had refused since Sept: 7 to issue an operating "certificate, saying the city's- quasi-public- Health: and Hospitals Corp. did not have enough money to run the facility.
But city sources said the state wanted several hospitals closed to save money in return for granting the certificate. In the meantime, the hospital's staff was at work and upwards of $10 million of taxpayers' money while offering only a few basic outpatient services. Strike reflected in sales DETROIT (AP) A Ford-estimated loss of 30,000 car sales during a strike at Ford Motor Co. sent the industry sales rate falling. 5 per cent below year ago levels for the middle 10 days of October.
But for the year as a whole, reports issued yesterday show the industry has sold 6,943,225 cars 26 per cent more than in 1975. Chrysler meanwhile, reported a new third-quarter profit' mark" of. $76.2 million, breaking a 26-year-old record of $66 million set in General Motors and Ford release their third-quarter results later this week. 1- A Ford analyst said the firm has lost some 70,000 car sales since the walkout by the United Auto Workers began at midnight Sept. 14.
But he said many of the lost sales can be made up later in the year. Missing persons toll rises LULING, La. (AP) The number of persons missing from last week's ferry-tanker collision in the Mississippi River rose from 75 to 100 on Monday, and Gov. Edwin Edwards asked for a panel of marine law experts to look into the disaster. The new list was compiled by St.
Charles Parish Sheriff John St. Amant, who said he was including the names of 44 persons still missing and believed to have been aboard the ferry. Divers have recovered 58 bodies two of them unidentified and believed to be among the 44 listed as missing and 33 vehicles. Eighteen persons survived. Two airplanes eras OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two airplanes one a military jet and the other a private plane crashed within minutes of each other here yesterday.
Three persons were killed. Authorities said a Marine Corp RF4 reconnaissance plane from California crashed in flames near Tinker AEB, killing both crewmen aboard. Minutes later, a single-engine private plane crashed on the opposite side of the city, killing one of its two Names of the victims were not immediately available. A Tinker spokesman said the Marine jet. based at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California, crashed in an open field shortly after tak-' ing off from Tinker.
The private plane crashed in a field near Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport at the southwest edge of the city. Fire Department officials said one man was killed in that crash, and a second man was taken to an Oklahoma City hospital. His condition was not known. Witnesses said the private plane apparently struck a high power electrical line. but no bodies Screams PROVINCETOWN, Mass.
(Al) Fishermen told yesterday of hearing screams for help after the 65-foot fishing boat Patricia Marie disappeared from radar screens Sunday night while the boats were returning to port here during a storm. Fishermen in other boats said they found nothing in the black waters where the Patricia Marie's lights were last seen. Earlier yesterday, the body of the boat's skipper. William W. King.
45, of Provincetown, was recovered about three miles off Nauset Beach. EL 4 Former Florida Senator Edward Gurney Charge arrives at Federal Courthouse in Orlando where he is on trial for perjury, U.S. Dis-4 dismissed trict Judge George C. Young threw out half of the charge because of insufficient evidence. AP Wirephoto Ur A 4.
Electoral college could cause disaster WASHINGTON (AP) At just about this time every four years the presidential race usually tightens up enough to remind us that chaos. or worse is lurking out there in, something called the electoral college. That is because the candidate? who carries the right combination of states and wins in the electoral college becomes president, even if the other guy gets more popular votes. If nobody gets a majority of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives elects the president and it can choose anyone it pleases. It's all because when you vote in.
a presidential election you never vote for a presidential candidate. You vote for people who are running for membership in the electoral college. lege The actual election of a president is left up to the electors, those. people you really voted for on the presidential ballot. Each state gets a number.
of elec-: tors equal to its congressional: delegation, one for each of. its: two senators and one for each House member. This ranges from three a small state like Delaware to 45 California: Every presidential candidate who has qualified for the state's ballot is represented by his own slate of elec-: tors. Their actual choice is generally left up to the party or the candidate. On Nov.
2 the voters in each state elect one of those slates." Then, "on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December that's Dec. 13 this year the winning slate in each state meets at the state capital and casts its votes for president and vice For your information on Candidate to speak Virginia Dill -McCarty, Democrat candidate for. Indiana attorney-general, will speak at noon tomorrow at" the Moose Lodge. 1921 Spencer Marion: She will address members of the Marion Area Board of Realtors. In Two students from Marion have been named to the Management Honor.
Society at General Motors Institute, Flint, Mich, Honored were. Christy. J. Buck and Lisa L. Stewart, both seniors who are sponsored by Fisher Body in Marion, The honor society is for students who show special promise of leadership.
and managerial potential with the corporation: Three sentenced Three men have. been sentenced to' the Indiana Department of. Corrections by' Grant County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wright. Eddie T. White was sentenced to one to 10 years after pleading guilty to White was credited, with 110 days served in the Grant County Jail and with 74 days of good time served.
All defendants sentenced. are ent titled by law to be credited with days already. spent in jail, Wright said. In addition, they are entitled to credit for one day of good time served for every 12 days spent in jail, he said. White was charged Junc 29.
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open the certificates from each state and the -votes will be counted by tellers. If one of the candidates. gets a majority of the electoral votes, Rockefeller will declare him the president and he will be inau-: gurated on Jan. 20. But; if no one gets the majority of electoral votes, no matter how many popular votes he got, the election is turned.
over to. the House of Representatives, A Since the House, has a big Democratic it probably would elect a Democrat as president. But it could pick any nativeborn. American citizen who has reached the age of 35 and has lived in this country at least 14 years. Rather than risk the public wrath, it probably would pick the Democratic nominee.
The House hasn't 'decided an election in' a long time, but it very near-; ly happened in 1968. when George C. running -as- the AmericanParty nominee, carried several i states and almost denied an electoral college majority to Richard Nixon, who had beaten Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey and Wallace i in the popular vote. He pleaded not guilty to both on July 6.
He changed his plea to guilty when the charge was reduced to theft Sept. 20. Dale Frederick Cox, 26, received a suspended sentence. rof one to 10 years after pleading guilty to theft of property. Cox was charged with theft by possession on Aug.
3 and pleaded not guilty on Aug. 9. changed his plea Sept. 20 when the charge was reduced to theft: His sentence is suspended on the condition that. he is returned to' the A department of corrections to serve the remainder, of a sentence from a previous conviction in Wayne County.
Michael E. Ice, 20. Alexandria, was sentenced to. one to five after pleading guilty to entering to commit a Ice was credited with 69 days served in the Grant County Jail and 46 days of good time served. Ice was arrested in' July for first and second degree burglary.
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