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Walla Walla Union -Bulletin Friday, October 15,1976
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m WASHINGTON (AP) - Jimmy Carter may decide to ask for his own televised news conference after watching President Ford assail him for "slandering" the nation by criticizing Ford's foreign and defense policies. Carter and his staff were considering today whether to demand equal television time to respond to Ford's accusation, delivered Thursday night in a televised news conference held in Washington.
cleared him of allegations of mishandling campaign funds during his days as a Michigan congressman. Then, asked to explain again his misstatement about Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, Ford launched into a scathing criticism of Carter. In it, he made note of the Democrat's statement that the United States has lost respect in the international community because of Ford policies.
Ford opened his news conference by saying he was pleased that the Watergate special prosecutor has
"I don't approve of any candidate for office slandering the good name of the United States. It discourages cm-
allies and it encourages our adversaries," Ford said. Carter had changed his schedule in New York in order to remain at a Queens restaurant to watch Ford on television. He quickly responded to Ford's attack, saying:
Federal Communications Commission for equal time to reply was justified. As he entered the hotel ballroom for his speech after watching the Ford news conference, Carter was asked if he'd seek equal time. He replied, "I don't know. I came out pretty good "My criticism of this admin- tonight." istration can't be translated into criticism of the whole country." In his address, he called for a freeze After the news conference, Jody on nuclear weapons with a gradual Powell, Carter's press secretary, said move toward a reduction in the the Carter camp was studying a tran- atomic arsenals of both the United script of Ford's comments to deter- States and the Soviet Union. mine whether a request to the He called Ford's news conference
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"Our position on those two matters has been well publicized," said Powell. "It's hard for me to understand how President Ford could be unaware of them." Democrat Walter Mondale says it
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Gerald Ford family finances involve lots of checks and a number of bank accounts, and the President says he once had to move money back and forth between accounts to pay for a family vacation. During his Thursday night news conference, Ford gave a nationally broadcast lesson in his household finances as he talked of a special political account, the cost of his golfing outings and how to live on $5 a week in cash. Ford repeatedly emphasized that several investigations have found no improprieties in his personal finances. He also said he has never overdrawn his checking accounts. "I think a few people in this country have written checks and then waited until the end of the month and then mailed the checks — maybe you haven't done it, but I suspect a few people have," he said. Ford said that was exactly what he did with a $1,167 check on his personal account that was to repay a political bank account.
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A check from the political account, dated Nov. 30, 1972, had paid for the Ford family ski vacation to Vail, Colo., for Christmas 1972. Ford wrote a check on his personal bank account, dated Dec. 16, 1972, to repay the political account. But Ford said he didn't mail the check until later when he knew his pay check had been deposited in his personal account. : 'It is a perfectly legitmate thing
and there has never been an overdraft in my account," he said. Thus, Ford in effect borrowed the money from the political bank account and repaid it with a personal bank account check dated within 16 days. Ford indicated that he wrote out the repayment check but didn't have it cashed right away. Instead, he waited until his next paycheck from Congress had been deposited in his personal account. "I think a few people in this country have written checks and then waited until the end of the month and then mailed the checks," Ford observed. It was not immediately clear why Ford dated the check Dec. 16 when his account didn't have the funds to cover it at the time. Later, Ford firmly rejected a reporter's characterization of this process as check kiting, the term for creating a false bank balance by manipulating deposit accounts. Ford also claimed that he repaid the Gerald R. Ford Fifth District Account at a Grand Rapids, Mich., bank for $871.44 paid for clothes for himself and Mrs. Ford for the 1972 Republican National Convention. However, an Internal Revenue Service audit and Ford's own presentations to the Senate committee that approved his nomination to be vice president found that Ford did not repay that amount. White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen said later that Ford meant to refer only to the cost of plane tickets that were paid for the same way.
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the wrath Forecast for Walla Walla Valley: Clear and cool tonight with areas of frost; low temperatures in the upper 20s and 30s; sonny Saturday; high temperatures 60 to 85; winds light and variable and chance of rain near zero. Extended outlook Sunday through Tuesday: Continued dry with a warming trend; highs in the 60s and low 70s; lows in the 30s and low 40s. (Weather report page 9)
Meanwhile, Powell accused Ford of misrepresenting Carter's positions on taxes and federal spending.
Ford says budget 'above board'; he lives on $5 a week
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won't be a dull show when he and Republican Bob Dole debate in Houston's Alley Theater, beginning at 6:30 p.m. PDT. But Dole keeps saying he might go to a high school football game instead. Ford and Carter have debated twice, and will do so again in Willliamsburg, Va., on Oct. 22. Ford's harshest criticism of Carter on Thursday night came in response to a question referring to the President's statement during the second debate that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." (Related story-, page 15)
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Washington's big-game hunters take to the woods at dawn Saturday for the opening of the 1976 deer season. Several thousand hunters from Southeastern Wshington will join more than 250,000 across the state in the annual fall outdoors experience, The-general buck deer season opens Saturday and runs through Oct. 29. There is a two-day lag, then the biggame hunting "biggie," the elk season, opens Nov. 1. Nimrods on the other side of the state line have been hunting deer this fall since Oct. 2. The season ended Wednesday in eastern Oregon but continues until Nov. 7 in western Oregon. Rocky Mountain elk hunting in eastern Oregon opens Oct. 30. Deer hunting should be better than in recent years in Southeastern Washington. A mild winter and carryover of animals from last year should contribute to a good success ratio, biologists say. . Some colder weather is due, and hunters should be prepared for freezing temperatures at night both in the valley and at higher mountain elevations, the National Weather Service reports. It should be sunny and dry Saturday at all elevations with temperatures in the 60s during the daytime hours, a spokesman said. While many deer hunters will try their favorite places in the mountain elevations, that might not be as good as the lower valleys, some hunting experts say. Competition from elk in the upper country is cutting deer populations, they say. For the first time in many years, there will be no either-sex hunts for deer in Southeastern Washington.
"a remarkable demonstration," adding: "Apparently he thought he'd have a debate without my being there. I don't know how I did in the first two debates, but I think I did pretty well in the press conference."
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On Sunday morning, Poplar Street becomes a one-way street for eastbound traffic. The city hopes that the new one-way signs will help Walla Walla motorists change their driving
patterns. Above Stan Williams, a city street-department employe, puts up a sign on Poplar Street and Fifth Avenue. The signs are covered up now, but on Sunday morning, it's one-way driving.
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Cancer Society is about to mobilize nearly two million volunteers in a five-year, all-out campaign against cigarette smoking. The tobacco industry says the society should stick to research, and not engage in propaganda. Among the campaign's main targets: —To get 25 per cent of America's 50 million adult smokers to quit. That's 125 million people. —To induce 50 per cent of 9 million teen-age smokers to quit, or not take it up. That means 4.5 million teenagers. —To induce the government to quit giving $60 million a year in subsidies of various kinds to tobacco growers and the tobacco industry. —To seek reduction of tar and nicotine content of cigarettes by at least 50 per cent The program, named "Target 5,'' calls for mobilizing most or all of the society's two million volunteer workers and raising $1 million in the first year, said Allan K. Jonas of Los Angeles, chairman of the society's
National Task Force on Tobacco and Cancer. A spokesman for the tobacco industry accused the society of engaging in propaganda "instead of the basic science research needed to prove whether its beliefs about smoking are right or wrong." At a news conference Thursday during the society's annual meeting. Jonas listed goals and ways to achieve them. He said the program would begin if approved Saturday by the board of directors. He said the task force has declared that cigarette smoking "is responsible for nearly 70,000 cancer deaths a year, practically one in even" five deaths from this disease." Jonas said a primary goal would be to try to prevent young people from taking up smoking. Another goal would be the holding of a series of meetings in cities to get public opinions on smoking, and seeking "a mandate to go to the Congress with" to halt subsidies and to require reduction of tar and nicotine.
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Washington State Penitentiary Supt B.J. Rhay. retiring in January after 25 years, says he's got one last message for the legislature. "And that message is twofold: Staff and industries." ' 'We need staff to man this dinosaur and industries to keep the people in here working." Even the 40 new correctional officers requested in the proposed 197779 budget will leave the penitentiary undermanned by comparison to the state's other correctional facilities, according to Rhay. With 388 employes and 1,603 inmates, the staff-to-convict ratio at the prison is about one to four, Rhay says. At the state corrections center at Shelton, it's one to two; at the Monroe Reformatory, it's less than one to three; and at the women's treatment center at Purdy, the ratio is one to one, Rhay says.
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"If I had the kinds of staffing that Shelton or Monroe has, do you think we'd have these kinds of problems?" he asks, referring to the penitentiary's high overtime costs, skyrocketing guard turnover and leported security problems. "I don't think it's unrealistic to insist upon, at the very minimum, a three-to-one ratio," he says. "This has got to be die message staffwise. Some time, somewhere along the line, the other institutions got to someone and convinced them this was the way to go. I just think the same guidelines should apply to us too." Rhay says setting staff allocations for the prison isn't done by making comparisons to the other state institutions. "We arrive at what we ask for based on a post audit and justification of additional positions. They (adult corrections officials in Olympia) have to honcho this through the legislature,
and they set the ground rules for additional staff requests." Just as desperately needed, is work for the inmates, Rhay says. Of the i,350 prisoners inside the maximum custody walls, about 700 are not assigned jobs, he says. That has been the case since the early 1970s, when the prison's cannery, clothing and sock factories were closed after state officials labeled them "not meaningful work," he says. "That started the loafers walking the breezeways, with nothing to do but walk the breezeways. And compounded the problem of managing the inside." Rhay says private industry is welcome to set up shop inside the wans, paying inmates a scale wage. But he admits that managing convicts is probably outside the experience of most industries. "That's one of the most terrifying things to them. Our public relations.
haven't been the greatest" he says. "So far, there have been no takers on that" Over the summer, Rhay has made an attempt to remedy the situation himself with a cleanup program inside the walls. Gardens have been planted, a fish pond with fountain is b*ing built by the inmates, and broken windows — in most cases shattered by the convicts themselves — are being replaced. Even the prison'?; notorious motorcycle club has io:,ied in. Its members are repairing seats in the auditorium. "They (the bikers) have cleaned up their own shop. They haven't cleaned up themselves yet," Rhay says. But the cleanup program will be finished later this fall and the inmate will be out of work again, he says. Even a rocfc pile "would be better than what we've got now," Rhay says. "It would be more meaningful than what we've got now."
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