Airliner Crashes, Film Crew Killed Democrats Re-Elect Cummings
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I MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1974 - VOL, XOTI, No. 139 Manchester—A City of Village Charm TWENTY.FOUR PAGES - TWO SECTIONS PRICE, fiiTEEN CENTS __ __ _ Two Directors Plan Airliner Crashes, To Boycott Meeting . NEVADA • R«no Film Crew Killed By SOL R. COHEN saction. The directors censured him BISHOP,Calif. (U P I)-A The crew had beeq in the publicly and, on a proposal by Mrs. through the smoldering bodies chartered airliner carrying Mammoth Lakes area, filming Ferguson, agreed to conduct the perfor and airplane litter, across the Republican Directors Hillery Gallagher a film crew from the ABC- the third of a series “Primal mance review. snow-patched slope, “but we and Carl Zinsser are boycotting tonight’s TV series “Primal Man” Man: Struggle for Survival.” At its Feb. 12 meeting, the board voted couldn’t find any survivors so executive session of the Manchester Smn crashed into a mountain The series dramatizes the we shoved off.” unanimously to conduct the review on Board of Directors — called expressly for Franciftco evolution of human beings from March 12, tonight. However, it didn’t ridge in a remote area of a The accident occurred in reviewing the administrative perfor national forest Wednesday animal ancestorsjnto primitive ^>qar, night weather. specify whether the meeting would be men. mance of Town Manager Robert Weiss. night and exploded in a ball ’TeHms from the Forest Ser The boycott, they say in a joint state open or closed. ’That decision was made Tuesday night. CALIF. of fire, killing all 35 aboard. Mike Antonio, pilot for the vice, the^ Sierra Madre Search ment, “is because we feel we’re represen 5 Gallagher and Zinsser said today, The U.S. Forest Service said Western Helicopter Co., flew to and Rescue Team and the Inyo tatives of the public, we’re doing the County Sheriff’s Department “Neither of us has anything to say to Nfr. a helicopter that landed at the the scene with Dr. Dave public’s business, and there’s no reason it planned to reach the wreckage Weiss which cannot be said in public. His site minutes after the crash Sheldon of Bishop. should be excluded from the meeting.” in the morning by helicopter. A actions in his oRicial capacity are a reported no~survivors. The board voted 7 to 2 Tuesday night to ‘"The plane smacked hard command post set up to handle matter of public record and we are only meet in executive session and to close it to Among theoead were six ac into the ridge and spread the accident said the region had concerned with his performance as a tors, including Janos Prohaska, wreckage for 300 feet,” Antonio the public and press, with the proceedings been sealed off, but there was public official. who once played a comic bear said. ‘"There wasn’t much left and findings to be released later.The two no way ground crews could “Sec. 3-7 of the town charter, which character on the old Andy negative votes were cast by Gallagher and of the plane. I could see a tail reach the crash site in the dark. deals with meetings, provides there should Zinsser. A chartered airliner carrying a film crew from the ABC- Williams television series, and section, an engine, not much Roads from the valley were be a regular meeting at least once a Vivian Ferguson, the third Republican TV series “Primal Man” crashed into a mountain ridge in Dennis Azzarella, the “Primal else. All of it was burning. “The sealed off, the command post month. We’ve already held that meeting. Man” series director, Wolper bodies were pretty badly director, said she had been asked by a remote area of a national forest late Wednesday and said, and a high-alt'itude road It states also the board may hold other Productions said. burned too.” He said he and the members of her party and the public to exploded in a ball of fire, killing all 36 aboard. (UPI photo) along ridgetops was blocked by consider pressing for a public session. She meetings as it may determine, provided The twin engine Convair, doctor spent 30 minutes hunting snow. ___ said she considered both alternatives and all meetings of the board shall be open to chartered from Sierra' Pacific the public. decided to vote for the closed session. Airlines, slammed into the “ Based on this charter provision, either snow-spotted Poleta Ridge of The review stems from the procedure Four Plead Innocent this is not a regular board meeting or, if it the White Mountains in Inyo Ford Says Arabs the town followed in early January in is, it should be open to the public.” National Forest not more than acquiring a llfr-acre Laurel Lake parcel In Ellsberg Burglary (Public Act 499 of the state statutes, five minutes after taking pff from Wells C. Dennison and Robert C. which supercede the town charter, from Bishop, the Forest Ser To Lift Boycott Dennison. The acquisition had been ap Rothblatt, told reporters that provides for public meetings by all agen WASHINGTON (UPI) - vice said. ’ proved for sanitary landfill use in a 1973 Three members of the he might subpoena President cies of the state or any of its political sub The plane blossomed in ROBERT F. BUCKHORN referendum. Watergate burglary team Nixon and Secretary of State no question about it” — that a divisions (municipalities etc.), except that flames that were clearly visible pleaded innocent today to con Henry A. Kissinger as WASHINGTON (U P I)-V ice definite decision had been The question of procedure arose when it “such meetings shall be closed to the from Bishop, more than eight witnesses at his client’s trial. President Gerald R. Ford said taken. From Libya, which was learned payment of the approved public when in executive session when so spiracy charges growing out of miles away. the 1971 bfeak-in of the office of G. (iordon Liddy, 43, from today the Arab oil producers resisted a total lifting of the 3449,400 was made to the Dennisons at voted by a rriajority of the members of The crash occurred at about Poughkeepsie, N.Y., a lawyer have agreed to lift their em embargo, the government news least a week before the deed was signed such body present and voting.” Daniel Ellsberg’s psyciatrist. the 7,000-foot level in a roadless A fourth man indicted in the for President Nixon’s re- bargo against the United agency said a final decision and transfer was consummated. It states also that the minutes of the region of sagebrush-covered case, Felipe de Diego, 45, of election organization at the States. He said formal an would not be made until Sunday Weiss told the directors at their January executive session “shall be available for ridges and deep valleys about 75 Miami, also pleaded innocent time of the Watergate break-in, nouncement would come in a in Vienna. inspection at all reasonable times.” miles southeast of Yosemite meeting he takes full blame for the tran and his lawyer, Henry B. was among the three who day or two. Ford said on the CBS-TV National Park, said Forest Ser pleaded innocent to the Oil m inisters of the key Morning News program that he A vice spokesman Ed Waldapfel. burglary of the office of Dr. producing states met in Tripoli, had talked with Secretary of David L. Wolper, president of Lewis Fielding, psychiatrist for Ubya, Wednesday to discuss lift State Henry A. Kissinger before Wolper Productions, confirmed the Pentagon Papers figure. ing the embargo at the par going on television and said: Parallel Parking Again Protested in Los Angeles that the plane Also pleading innocent were ticular urging of Egptian Presi “It’s my understanding that the was carrying 31 members of a two of the five men wh,o were dent Anwar Sadat. Arab oil embargo has been lifted. By DOUG BEVINS Committee, whose chairman — and change the parking of parallel parking will occur film crew from his studio on a arrested inside the Democratic diplomatic sources said today The official announcement will William Sleith — didn’t agree arrangement. next week. flight to Burbank, in the Los Downtown Manchester national headquarters offices the ministers agreed to remove come at some later date, a day with the opposition to parallel Angeles region. The Federal , businessmen today renewed The control system was com Renewing his attack on on the morning of June 17,1972 the embargo for a two-month or two from now.” parking. parallel parking this morning, Aviation Administration said their objections to parallel pleted last fall and new parking — Bernard L. Barker, 56, and trial period. 'There had been reports prior Downtown Main St. now has Weinberg said the switch solves the airliner carried a crew of parking just four days before lines were painted, but down Eugenio Martinez, 56, both of Ford said “I’m told there is to ttte Tripoli meeting that oil the state transportation depart angle parking, but only because nothing and the present angle four. ministers already had agreed to businessmen last November town interests convinced State Miami. ment has planned to install the Transportation Commissioner parking isn’t unsafe or un- drop the embargo, but would successfully argued for a delay Liddy was convicted early system on Main St. Joseph Bums that the parking (See Page Twelve) not announce it from the Libyan Robert Weinberg of Economy in the switch to parallel last year after the original capital out of deference to parking. switch would hurt downtown Aide Not Freed Electric Supply Co.