PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Maochester, Conn., Thurs., Aug. 23, 1973 Kansas Wheat Farmers Riding Prosperity Wave CLA^IC LEAGUE BOWLERS MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1973 - VOL. XCH, No. 276 WELUNGTON, Kan. (A P )- REGISTER NOW AT WILLI BOWL Manchester—A City o f Village Charm Farmers all over Sumner A record Kansas wheat crop Merle Frame, Agricultural cent increase in acreage TWENTY .FOUR PAGES - TWO SECTIONS PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS County are buying expensive and all-time high wheat prices Stabilization and Conservation because of the lifting of the 6, North iriiNliam, nione 423^»^ equipment, paying off loans and Me. have combined to bring un­ Service agent, said he es- government allotment building cash reserves for the expected prosperity to wheat timates another 10 to 15 per limitations. bad wheat year they know will farmers. come somewhere down the line. MEN'S SCRATCH Sumner County, one of the As John Trower put it, the largest producers of hard 540 max point wheat has allowed us to “kind sy tto m ad d ed winter wheat in the nation, Agnew Successor of get caught up.” Trower u s ^ harvested 15.56 million bushels payments for half his 1973 crop Mon. 9:00 P.M. Riquier Vending Scr. 3 this year for a record average to pay off loans on land and is OrganizatkNiM starting Saptambar i m 'i,5or yield of 40 bushels per acre. holding the rest until next year. $1000 Mbi. After years of selling their meeting Auguet Elevator operators estimated 530 max point wheat for around |1.50 a bushel,' 29, et 7:30 p.m. et that a fourth of the wheat sy ste m ad d ed Faces or less, the county’s farmers harvested here remains to be Ow Will Bowling . are realizing triple that sold as farmers wait, hoping for vOniCfBIICS nOOIIIf ■>Wed. 9:00 P.M. Superior Music Scr. 3 amount. At one point earlier StarUna Saptambar 5th BAL’HMORE (AP) - Dale even higher wheat prices. for men’s scratch. •1,000* The 56-year-old Anderson this month, wheat prices passed tities and individuals in Hubert Sawyer, vice presi­ '$500 Min. Anderson, a Democrat who said he was innocent of ac­ Frank Kaufman. One of Beall’s the $5 a bushel mark. 555 m ax. point Baltimore County is con­ dent of the First National Bank, V0LK8WAQEN OF WILLIMANTIC CLASSIC succeeded Vice President Spiro cusations that he extorted 348,- chief' assistants, Barnet One small farmer, Elmer system added T. Agnew as chief executive of tinuing.” said many farmers had sold 270 from eight firms doing Skolnik, said the jurors would Headley, said he had paid ail his Pri..7:00 P.M. Men's Classic Scr. 3 Baltimore County, has been He did not elaborate. be summoned back to work at’ Just enough wheat to pay bank business with the county. Anderson heard the news bills after harvest for the first notes and were gambling the starting Saptambar 7th charged with extortion and Gov. Marvin Mandel, a an unspecified date. time in 23 years, and still has a bribery in a kickback scheme about the indictment on a radio rest on the wheat market. Democrat who followed Agnew This might not be until after third of his wheat left unsold. involving architects and in his office in nearby Towson, Labor Day, possibly on Sept. 6, Sawyer said a tremendous into the state house in An­ the county seat. Others report they made more Weekend Special engineers. when an out-of-state federal amount of wheat had been sold WOMEN’S SCRATCH _______ napolis, said he wouldn’t com- “I don’t want to talk to money on the first half of their CASH & CARRY The indictment by a federal district judge, Walter E. Hoff­ on contract for Jan. 1,1974, and rnent until Anderson “has had anybody,” he told newsmen as crop this year than they did all grand Jury Thursday was the his day in court.” man of Norfolk, Va., returns last year. then “there’s going to be a ton FrI. 9:15 F.M. Miner MotorsScr. 3 ****** * 6 0 0 “ first in a far-reaching investiga­ he left the building with his from a European vacation. He of money in this area compared The boss of the sprawling wife. Marguerite Daisies ^ 1 tion of political corruption in Baltimore city-suburb and one was named to supervise the to last year.” " B a n e h J l— — ——yU-J2tiL^.P.5I.IllS!lKL'iyysL5.QSVJ^_ Maryland. The grand Jury, em­ Last week at a news con­ Agnew phase of the probe after “I feel they’re in a heck of a of the most powerful ference, after rumors cir­ [NAME___________________ _______ PHONE panelled in December, is Democrats in Maryland, Ander­ the nine judges in Maryland good position right now,” Paul Buettner Floirik, Inc. expected to begin probing soon culated that he was to be in­ withdrew because of their close An yw ad anMlnir dNfper? Sawyer said. son was the sole defendant in dicted, Anderson flatly denied 1122 BURNSIDE AVE., EAST HARTFmD lADDRESS______ allegations of similar illegal personal connections with the " Check Mrt the b ir f iin m the Sumner County had^ 387,000 the 39-count indictment. A any illegal activities involving ReriN ChnifitA hget TEL. 528-9586 ■ LEA G U E_____ _ payments to Agnew. former aide was named co­ Vice President. acres seeded in wheat this year, .DAY .T IM E Agnew has branded as cash collected from firms doing Meanwhile, Atty. Gen. Elliot OPEN SUNDAY MORNINGS conspirator and four other men a 10 per cent increase over 1972. “damned lies” reports that he design and architectural work L. Richardson said Thursday he — two of them long-time Agnew on bridges, buildings and received such kickbacks. associates — were cited as par­ is enlarging his investigation of And an hour after Anderson’s sanitation projects for the coun­ alleged leaks from the Justice ticipants in the conspiracy that ty. indictment was announced allegedly began in November Department of information He acknowledged then that about the Agnew matter. Agnew responded he found the 1966. At the time Agnew was charges “totally at variance many such contractors had In a letter to Agnew, Richard­ the county’s chief elected of­ made campaign contributions, with my impressions of him and ficial. son said he has asked Glen E. everJ^lng I know about him.” and that William E. Fornoff, Pommerening, acting assistant "Despite our political U.S. Attorney George Beall, his chief administrative officer, attorney general for ad­ Senior Citizens Pass 5,000 Member Mark differences, in all my who heads the probe, said had picked up such payments ministration, “to undertake a How Much Do You Need for associations with Mr. Ander- “further indictments can be when he worked for Anderson systematic inquiry using any Mrs. Gloria Benson, program director at the Senior of 501 Porter St. The Center, located at 63 Linden St., Mn, both official and private, expected.” and had passed the money to and all departmental resources him. Fornoff was named as the Citizena Center, at right, presents the 5,000 and 5,001 gold provides recreational activities for Manchester’s senior he has exhibited unusual candor He added that “the investiga­ as he sees fit.” membershiFcards to Mr. and Mrs. W. Stanley McCormick co-conspirator in the indict­ Richardson said he also has citizens. (Herald photo by Ofiara) and integrity,” the vice presi­ tion of Mr. Anderson, other ment. dent added. public officials and business en­ asked the director of the FBI to The panel was dismissed cooperate by making available after it presented the indict­ FBI personnel to assist in the ment to U.S. District Judge inquiry as needed. r ' Economists Defend I I News Capsules I Cool Weather Home Improvements? I. Anti-Inflation Programs Hearing Set strike since 1966. 'That one was Aids Forest ended in less than 10 days by ' ^ .. ' '" V ' f'f TAOS, N.M. (AP) - Edwin back-to-work legislation, and WASHINGTON (itf) - Ad­ phenomenon and our position is income is rising faster than '.'T. ministration econdmisU say with the recipient’s Just M. Gaudet, in Jail on a federal there were demands today for relatively favorable,” said John prices. deserts, whereas price in­ most Americans are better off T. Dunlop, director of the Cost charge of threatening the Presi­ firm government action. But Firefighters Stein said real disposable in­ creases tend to be regarded as dent, haq been charged by the Labor Minister John Munro t financially than they thipk they of Living Copcil, come-r Income after taxes and are, despite inflation. extortions which make a person state with intent to kill three gave no indication' of what he Dunlop and Stein were taking inflation into account- worse off than he ought to be.” ;-/'Ii(Wtasiy Stieln, chairman of emphasizing points that the ad­ police officers. might do. By The Associated Press has incrieased 5 per cent in , the Stein did note that the rate of Taos Magistrate Nofbert The 11 Canadian railways’ Council of ministration has been trying to past year. Firefighters in parts of the West welcomed predictions increase of real incomes has Martinez said the state charges 56,000 non-operating workers Bcfbnwmlc Advisers, said make for months. They are: But Americans still think of a cooling trend today. But conditions remained hot near ’Thursday the housewife may slowed this year and that stem from an alleged exchange have been staging 48-hour —Inflation is much worse in they’re worse off, said Stein, average real weekly take-home Reno, Nev., where new fires were reported Thursday have “an exaggerated idea of most other maJor industrial of gunfire during the three-day strikes in succession across the and this has the administration ' pay of non-farm workers has search for Gaudet in the country since July 26 to press night.