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Wednesday, March 23, 1977
News Digest
From our wire services
Election law changes likely
WASHINGTON - Democratic congressional领袖 say they will try to enact President Jimmy Carter's proposals for election law changes before the 1978 election.
Sen. Alan Cranson, D-Calif., assistant senator majority leader, said yesterday he thought the proposal for public financing of congressional campaigns and for new legislative initiatives was a good move.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., said he now believed his proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate the Electoral College and provide for direct election of senators from districts in the state.
Consultants hire consultant
WASHINGTON—The Labor Department, which is in the business of helping other employers and unions with their labor problems, has hired an outside labor consultant at $40 an hour to straighten out the department's stormy relations with its own employees.
Ry Murshall, Secretary of labor, said yesterday he had "engaged" a firm to represent the department in contract talks with Local 12 of the American Labor Association.
The local, which represents the department's 5,000 employees in Washington, has without a contract for more than a year, largely because of a dispute over
"I'm concerned that we ought to be a model ourselves for collective bargaining." Marshall said.
Hiaher milk prices possible
WASHINGTON—President Carter's decision to raise dairy price supports could boost the retail price of milk by 69 cents a gallon and butter by 18 cents a pound.
Dairy-state congressmen said the increase was the single largest one in the history of the dairy-support program and the first time in a decade it would be so significant.
Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, who announced the price support increases yesterday, described the consumer cost increases as modest.
Unless the government hikes price supports to dairy farmers, Bergland said, milk production could decline so much that consumers would face substantially lower prices.
Blizzard damage estimated
TOPEKA- Damage from a March 13 blizzard that struck most of western Kansas was estimated yesterday at $1 million in an application for federal debt relief.
The application to President Carter asked that six northwest Kansas counties be designated disaster areas.
The six counties are Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace.
Bennett said the region was generally a low-to-middle income area and less than 2 per cent of the blizzard loss was covered by insurance.
About $1.14 million in damage was estimated for rural electric cooperatives in the region.
Califano hires HEW chef
WASHINGTON—Atlough President Carter is campaigning to eliminate government killers, HHEWS Secretary Joseph Califano Jr. has put a chef on the public menu.
A spokesman for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare acknowledged yesterday that Wiley Barries is being paid $17,768 a year in his new job. The department said it had "received some support" from the organization.
Barnes "does much more than cook for the secretary," the department spokesman said. "He manages the secretary's mess, handles the accounting and
Califano's predecessor, David Mathews, would have a kitchen assistant go up to a cafeteria and bring lunch to Mathews' office.
Supreme Court requires open death sentence facts
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court used a Florida death penalty case yesterday to warn all states with capital punishment laws that convicted murderers facing possible execution must be informed of the facts used in determining their sentence.
In a 7-1 decision, the court set aside the death sentence of convicted murderer Daniel Wilbur Gardner of Homosassa, Fla. it ruled that Gardner's due process rights were violated when the sentencing judge overturned his conviction and defended attorneys some "confidential" information included in a report the judge studied before imposing the death sentence.
The majority opinion also noted, "It is of vital importance to the defendant and to the community that any decision to impose the penalty should be made on reason rather than caress or emotion."
The majority opinion also dismissed arguments by Florida officials that trial judges can be trusted to exercise discretion in a responsible manner even though they may base their decisions on secret information.
The Supreme Court's decision didn't disturb Gardner's conviction for the 1973 beating death of his wife, Bertha Mau, but it did raise questions about the handling down of a new sentence.
tivity and Vietnam had agreed to return all such Americans.
The other is the "24th man"—an unidentified airman.
But the 24th man had died in the crush of his B52 bomber during the Christmas raids on Hanoi in 1972 and the agreement did not apply to him.
in Bangkok when the Saigon regime began to fall.
Hanoi to return airman's body for identification
The mystery of the 24th man's identity will be solved when the body is shipped to a military laboratory in Hawaii for positive identification. More than a dozen missing American B52 crewmen could be the "24th man."
He was known by U.S. officials as the "24th man" for the past four years because he was the one American left behind in Hanoi's Van Dien Cemetery in March 1974 when the bodies of 23 others in the cemetery were returned.
Hanol officials returned the remains of the other 23 because they had died in cap-
Some day soon his body will be dug up from a Vietnamese grave. And one more piece will fall into place in the puzzle of the missing 400 American unaccounted for in Vietnam.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The "24th man" is coming home.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP)—For eight painful years, Cledis Guffey has been asking doctors to make his arm quit bleeding so he can go back to work.
In January 1969, he camelped on a step in his home and bruised his left forearm.
"A big knot came up on it immediately, and I was afraid it might be broken," she said.
But after 17 unsuccessful operations, he said he had almost given up hope for an end to the bleeding under the skin that causes swellin and throbbing pain.
Tennessee man endures years of internal bleeding
"It gets pretty depressing sometimes," said Guffey, a 44-year-old contractor. "I begged them at one point just to take the car off the street and hang it and I don't like to sit around one bit.
Guffey formed his own construction company with $600. Working as his own carpenter, he built it over 17 years into doing about $250,000 business annually.
One is Tucker Gougleman, 61, a former CIA operative who was living in retirement
The presidential commission on MIAs revealed yesterday that in addition to the bodies of 12 Americans already turned over to President Obama, Hamoni promised to send back two more.
"But the doctors said to keep the arm—maybe medical science can do something else."
"We went to the hospital and had it X-
Guffey said he gave up his business in 1974 because he couldn't work or supervise regularly and the company was losing money.
Doctors considered removing the vein in his arm, Guffey said, but decided that each tiny capillary in his forearm was oozing that there was little they could to stop it.
rayed and they said it hadn't been broken.
And we thought we'd been pretty lucky."
"When it starts stinging, I know it's bleeding inside." Guiley said. "My arm feels like an enormous bolt, breathing day and night." He said he would shoulder, yellow, blue and blue messy.
The swelling has returned periodically since then despite extensive testing and a series of operations at Bradley Memorial Hospital, the University of Michigan Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital and Vanderbilt University Hospital.
As a last resort, his wife wrote a letter asking for a cure and sent copies last month to the hospital.
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