The Iron Mountain News July 22, 1974 (Quinnesec Explosion)

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The Iron Mountain News

The weather 4: Pair t with low near 84. Mosily sunny Tuesday. Hah about 15. (U. 5. Wi ice)

FIFTY-FOURTH

YEAR,

NO.

36

IRON

MOUNTAIN- KINGSFORD,

MICHIGAN,

MONDAY,

JULY

at noon

today--at- the-"GulF- O: Com pany’s chemical plant between Quinnesec and Norway, off highway US2 According to quthorities, the first explasion occurred shortly before 12:30 p.m. Two more blasts rocked the area after the first explosion. large cloud of black smoke from the resulting fire attracted a crowd of onlookers on heavily tr vel $2.

‘The Victim Of the ‘explosion was

identh

fal Hospital, Norway was Scott Sparapanl, 13, of NiaKara, authorities sald, By RON KRAMER Of The News Staff At least one person was dead and another was reported in-

Diekinson Co ficers, Michigan

Cyprus

Watergate play PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A play based on the Watergate transcripts has drawn only a one-third capacity house here and the author thinks President Nixon may be right in saying the issue is a big one in Washington, not Middle America.

“He may ‘have gauged the country pretty well when he said this.” said Thomas Sharkey, 39, whose play: “The Nixon Tapes," was performed here Sunday “Will It Play In Peoria!” said the sign on the marquee. a phrase used by former presidential aide John Ehrlichman to- assess the mood of Middle sonar nk_paople are absolutely fed up with Watergate”" hit Mrs, Joann Otlenbuch, a Peoria Republican who attended the play. “vou know the

By The Assoctated Press Secretary-Genera Waldheim. told. tha United Nations Counei! today — that is still going on™ in after the deadline for a cease-fire that had been accep! id ft and Turkey Said Turkish es had bombarded the Ni. after the tr Geadiing and that 2 British soldier was wounded by a bom that ait a U.N. installation, “one high U.N. official said the raid occurred about an hour

sheriff's of: State Police

‘and

were reports of other windows

fight con

old

cliche,

‘we

don't

want

to

hear

any

more

about

Dickiason~

three persons who — walked away

from

sions

representing

gaps

found

in

the

tapes.

Its

cne-time Peoria showing was preceded by a mock presidential motorcade through the downtown

Space

area,

the Jail 6m his own accord se tween 2 and'3 Kraljev and

from

the

jail

while

the

prisoner, Douglas Tron Mountain,

a.m. today. Malone were

taken into custody at about 9:20 am. today in the Lake Elwood area of Florence County by Florence County Sheriff

away

Kraljev

with

the

caped,

and

heing held at

while

on

Trustie

status. No details were released on

how

Kraljey

third

and

Malone

es-

pending — consultation prosecutor's

office.

Miller, who ix secving a sene tence om ac en Breau

returned.

to

County

ti igan

from

Malone

Malone

the

scheduled

were

to ba

rolsased. today after serving sentence on a charge while awaiting appearance in Dis. trict Court on a worthless

lige Goin.

im Phree hore

before

ba

reek

shooting. i the day Greece. and Turke y rane their forces observe the

on Un ene

sponsored

cease-fire.

London

Foreign

And

were injured, one seriously, in

cident

at about

2:10

Fumee Creek, eee

a, m.

Sund:

. furton: jay on US-2 at Dickina car drivea

east of ee

son County by Mant A. pjorknan, 1B, of 236 Lyman St, Kingsford, was westbound when it left. th it

N coats

three bats Bafoce. tie. ceasefe ‘was to begin, wlensen, wha later cape iured by" the ‘Turks along with two other corte spondents, were bombing Greek Cypriot positions as both sides fought to improve their Positions. uth of Kyrenia, Greek Cypriot artillery shells burst along the top of mountains wi Turkish troops had dug La,

reveals

OTS model

ee

price boost DETROIT

(AP) — Ford Moconfirmed @x+

pricing plans is Staplisi Gadieation of how high cat. prices are likely to 1975-model ear

e increase “would raise the

cos ot Ford vehicles betweea and_$300, aver: about

ee,

County

pital aa Teenie A passenger Paul Nordin, 17, of Route 1,

in the car, Aurora,

was

taken to St. Vincent Hospital ‘in Green Bay

where he was listed in fa! condition today in the intensive care back ine Suries Investigation of the crash is continue

ing. (iron Mountain News photo by Ron Kramer:

but the firm did not say ly how it would disIncreases among ila

tAibute ae

many models.

A *pord official cited na costs in — ing te osed incr

ABERNATHY

AND

ALI

JOIN

GREGORY—Rev,

Ralph

Ab-

emathy, left, and Muhamad All flank former comedian Dick Gregbry, as Gregory jogged through Detroit Iast week on is running from that Iaminea now United States, The Abernathy and Ali in downtown De-

Counsel attack impeachment ca

_FUMEE_ CREEK ACCIDENT

and 10 miles a beavy fightin

Ford

his-way—to the nation’s capital. Gregory Chicago to W hingion to warn the nation sweeping Africa will eventually reac! the young runner leading them is unidentified. i Gregory for a jog around a block troit. (AP Wirephoto)

fe

.

Margis Mor.

be re-

Turkish

in

te med wah Biltsin ie Coseva

Universe

home of the 1973 Miss Universe,

massive

etary:

Fitz” Fitzgerald who had both been in politics.”

In the Philippines,

that

announces

In the copyright interview with the Boston Su day Herald Advertiser, Mrs. Kennedy also sald she found Watergate “so confusing.”

was conducted

Nicosia received just the 10 a.m. deadline

both

The mother of the late President John F. Kenne-

The pageant

ported

through

wor Nations-

dy said, “My son had the help of his father and grandfather former Boston Mayor John F. “Honey

great. benefit. The 20-year-old Miss Munoz was crowned Sunday before a worldwide television audience estimated in the millions.

from fore

went

did not say w hal time the reinforcements had arrived. ndAssociated Press corre: ent Holger Jensen reported from the northern port of Ky+ renia, 45 miles from Turkey

Cys

84

MANILLA, The Philippines (AP) — The new-Mil Universe, Amparea Munoz of Spain, says she will -have-to_stop her movie career, But ks a year as an international basnty. queen will be

unless this stopped, the Turlush Air Force would bomb th areas bea n Associated Press dispatch

on the beaches of northesn It_rey ried that poratrooper. jeast 30 he! tawops from landing vessels.

Cyprus today

the-dead-

HYANNISPORT, Mass. (AP) — Rose Kennedy, who ccelebrates her 84th birthday today, says President Nixon “did well to reach the White House without advantages.”

Miss

a Turkish Cy aroa of Paphos in the western part of the island and in Lefka in the north The Genera} Staff said that priois in the

being blown out of other build ings” tr In: Quinnes e window ef the IGA grocery store was shale tered along with. windows ip some homes, Nitrogen and explosives arer reportedly stored at the plant, according {0 informed soure Donald Petschke, owner of the Dog "N Suds Drive In at Quine nesec, said the first explosion rocked his building and. shook the windows It was very joud,"” Petschke noied.

y was reported flys

For imbedding in the space window, the astronauts pre the dean of tho-cathedral, the Very Rev.-Francis-B- Sayre, a small-maon_roc Fighteen feet high and nearly. 10 feet wide, the snectacular abstract design depicts man's quest for Knowledge in the vastness of the universe.

Kennedy

reinforcements had bean landed

staff in Cypriots

troops, ~ and t ing. in hours later the armed forces’ gener ta ar. 5 pan — 10 am EDT —deadlir monitors in Beirut,

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Apollo 11 astronauts had just dedicated a new “‘space window” in the Washington Cathedral when a crowd of several kunrod people suddenly surged around them merica the Beautiful.” Neil a Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin and Michael Collins joined in. The eyes of all three glistened. ‘The ceremony Sunday climaxert a weekend of events in Washington commemorating the fifth an+ niversary of man’s first landing on the moon. Arm: strong ard Aldrin stepped onto the lunar Sea of Tranquility July 20, 1969, while Collins circled over-

Mrs.

cover al Greek

but it was believed to be in southern Cyprus. There was no confirmation of the bombing and it was not known whether the reported nm cident occurred after the (ruce ha

15 CENTS

line

prot radio broadcast orders for Florence the riots to stop

Wisconsia. was

settlement Turkish

dea

was not given in the broadcast,

lone, 19, of Kingsford escaped

without

window

the — Dickinson

County Jail tate Sunday night. Cheriff Girard d Allan Kraljev, 27, and Olevio Ma-

walked

The play is a 34-hour version of the Watergate transcripts, Including 18% and 19-minute intermis-

County — Sheriff Girard said war be- sought against

to discuss a new Cyprus peace

that a hotel was bombed by the Turks and 21 {or touristy filled, ‘Phe location of the hotel

back in custody

70.

inues

afler the truce was to starter In another development, the Greek Cypriot radio claimed

Three prisoners Ferdinand rants will

PRICE

and Norway police were at the Scene” keeping spectators away. from the Quinnesec and East’ Kingsford fire fighting units alsow thispa the scene atong with © Michigan ConPde Gas Co, and chigan Power Co, @ blast knocked windows out in Quinnesee and Norway

despite U.N.

waceend tapleioe at the Gulf plant near Qvinnesee. {Iron Mountain News photo by Ron Kramer)

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1974

fJured in an explosion

at the Golf chemical plant Quinnesec

tain — Maxtmans. mintman this

(At Fileaton Plant)

dead in explosion

One BULLETIN

near

22,

Temperatures Tron Mount yesterday, 73. Morning 54; noon

WASININGTON- CAPI=Spectal Counsel John Doar's case for impeachment was altacked be fore the House Judi Committes is based on inferences, hot evidence Som Garrison, na med as GOP 5) an in place of Minority Counsel Albert Jenner, was reported by commities members to have said. Doar'a case would be insufficient for conviction of President Nixon in a Senate Wia Committee members quoted Garrison as saying athe committee should place itself in the position of “a prudent prosecutor” and not start a case it "twin in the ae m also was reported ' ged’ the” commitics. to consequences of imin the nation rather than Nixon's complicity in any crime, He was said to have fold the members they — sho their decision on “whether pUBLC Interest. will be served or disserved by the removal of tha President ftom office."” Garrison's charge that the a caso for impeachment based

on

Committee

inference

was

ch

members

said

Ni

members.

on’s refusal ta supply evidence

Kunpwied

by

he

Real. 1974-model been in tine

makers ixsued frequent retail sticker

Ford

enminittes

accounted for any gaps in the case

rison was said to compare Nixon's reliance on executive privilege to reject the subpoenas \ the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-

the Filth Amends indication 4,

of

n execu inference that Nixon is -withholding dam privilege

lead

to

an

hers reported that Garri4 Doar has built his case y piling “adverse inference on adverse. inference,” Garrison's emergence _as

spokesman for the Republican members vouched off news re-

that Albert Jenner had dismissed a8 minority counsel, but Republican memhers said no formal change has heon made. Rep. Robert McClory, R-II, led the move to designate Garrison a8 chiet GOP. spokest was done informal Iy and did rot involve any ec tual, change titles or assign: mr “thi nk what

he aid. ” said

‘lory of Jenner,“

sepa

rated himself from the Republi

gana,”

“although “he company re fully committed to. ing restraint, part of these costs must be offset,” Ford Die vision gales manager WJ. Oben wrote the d Thi r cent increasa would bring the retail cost of an average Pinto to more than $3,000; 4 $4,500 Torino to $4,860 and an $8,000 Thunderbird to $8,640. ‘Ther Pinto would cost $3,024 compared to the current averIn May, 1973, the

increases.

raised prices six times

on 1974-model cars, increasing the f the average Ford vehicle to $522.mmore than the

vehicle cost at IWra-medel year — an Top auto executives at each

of the recently

Big they

Three jicated intend to continue

the pattern ofpétlodie bricg in creases ine flallonsry spiral Soatinuees

One charge against Ehrlichman

set aside

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S, District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell Monday set aside one of the charges for which former presidential assistant John D. Ehrlichman was convicted in he Ellsberg break-in trial Jaly

Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy and lying to a feder4] grand jury and also of tying to FBI agents what he remembered seeing in his files about the break-in at the olfice salde the conviction Involving

oping the trial and outside the hearing of the jury, Gesell had_indicated his objection to he use at jury statues a3 applied to interviews with FBI agents,


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