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Iiwrtte-Jtle Associated Press Leased Wire And Wirephoto Network VOL. 110, NO. 77 TELEPHONES 236-2551, 365-9114, 734-7756 DANVILLE, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1975 FOURTEEN PAGES SINGLE COPY 10c Part Owner Of Advocate-Messenger Kriener Bail Is $1,000,000 mmm Mrs. VanWinkle. Church 4 T-w Acting Principal Long Patty Hideout Over As Hearst Arrested mrottmimuju 1T'fl 11 11 Leadership School, an effort to involve black women in mission work.

The school was later integrated. She was active in establishing the School of Missions at Sue Bennett College, London, which was responsible for training women in mission work at the Conference level. From 1946 to 1950 she was president of the Women's Society of Christian Service, Kentucky Conference, and served as secretary of the student work for the Southeastern Jurisdiction. Later she was president of United Church Women of Kentucky, a nondenominational group which sought to serve the See MRS. Oh Page 5.

College, Boston, and did settlement house work in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1910 she came to Danville to start a nursey school at the invitation of the Rev. Dr. J.Q.A. McDowell, who was then pastor of the old Second Presbyterian Church.

Two years later she married John S. VanWinkle, member of a prominent local family. Active In Church She was an active member of Centenary United Methodist Church and had a long and active career in the women's work of the church extending over the Conference and Southeastern Jurisdiction of the church. She was one of the leaders in starting the Lincoln SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Her long and violent journey into the underground at an end, Patricia Hearst was reunited today with the parents she had renounced as pigs. Her father said she was ready to come home.

"She was happy she really wants to come home," Randolph A. Hearst said after he and his wife visited their daughter-aUa county jail in Redwood City where she is being held on bank robbery and other charges. "We told her we loved her and hugged her and kissed Mrs. Ruth W. VanWinkle, 92, died late Thursday afternoon after suffering a heart attack at her home on St.

Mildred's Court. She died soon after arrival at Ephraim McDowell Memorial Hospital about 5:30 p.m: She had been a resident of Danville 65- years and was prominent in the religious, civic and social life of the community and state. She was part owner of the Danville Advocate-Messenger Company, and for a number of years she served on the Board of Directors and as president of the company. Mrs. VanWinkle was born May 7, 1883, in Winsor, N.Y.

She was the daughter of John R. and Ellen Comstock Watson. She was a graduate of Wheelock Snydi er Answer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Rep. Gene Snyder says he's waiting for a reponse to a letter in which he urged President Ford to back recent anti-school-busing statements with action.

Until he receives an answer, Snyder said, he won't know whether it was worth it to meet Thursday with federal officials at the White House. Snyder said the meeting, with federal officials representing five executive agencies, produced agreement that school busing for desegregation Wa its Ford 's On Busing VISIT PATTY Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst, along with nephew, William Randolph Hearst III, leave San Francisco airport on their way to visit Patty Hearst in the San Mateo County jail in Redwood City, early today. Mrs.

Hearst holds a bouquet of flowers. (AP Wirephoto) Patty Gets Roses From Her Family Dwight Lewis Stricken Local Rexnord President Dies provided for students who wanted to attend a school other than their neighborhood school. he (the President) should decide on some other course that accomplishes the same thing, I could care less," Snyder said. In Jefferson County, meanwhile, school officials began examining a list of some 15,000 names to determine how many children are being kept out of Louisville-Jefferson County schools in violation of state truancy laws. School officials have said that while attendance in the schools has increased steadily since school opened under a busing order Sept 4, many children expected to enroll haven't done so.

Under state law, a child between the ages of seven and 16 is ruled truant if absent from school more than three days without an excuse. A pupil absent 16 days or more without excuse is ruled an habitual truant and his parents can be fined or prosecuted. In another development, Jefferson County Atty. J. Bruce Miller said dismissal of charges against persons arrested in anti-busing disorders Sept 5 and 6 was too lenient The Jefferson County attorney's remarks came after dismissal of counts against four of the first ten persons to be tried in connection with the protests.

The cases of 27 persons were heard in a Wednesday night session and charges against 18 were dismissed. The cases involved persons See SNYDER on Page 5. her," Catherine Hearst told newsmen at the jail. "We just said we loved each other." The most celebrated fugitive hunt in the nation's history came to a swift conclusion Thursday with the capture of Miss Hearst and three fellow radicals. It had been 19 months since she had seen the parents she reviled for their wealth.

Asked if he would put up the money to free his 21-year-old daughter, who is held on more than $1 million bail, Hearst replied, "I think so." Terrence Hallinan, attorney for the newspaper heiress who was kidnaped by members of the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb. 4, 1974, said he would seek reduction of the bail at a hearing today. An FBI official said, meanwhile, that the sudden and dramatic capture of the heiress-turned-terrorist came by accident when police went to a house here seeking someone else. Miss Hearst and her comrades were arrested without resistance, officers said. "Don't shoot, I'll go with you," San Francisco police officer Tim Casey quoted Miss Hearst as saying when he and another officer entered her hideout in a house in a middle-class residential section of the city.

"We said, 'Don't Patty said, 'AH and we placed her under arrest," Ca-4 sey said. 'Tasked her if she was glad it was over, and she just didn't say a word." At the San Mateo County Jail, 35" miles south of here, where Miss Hearst and William and Emily Harris were taken See LONG on Page 5. IN PRISON-This is a copy of the police department identification photo made after Patricia Hearst was confined in the San Mateo County jail. Miss Hearst appeared thin and pale, according to her mother who visited her. She had dyed her hair.

(AP Wirephoto) 11 Jk At a special meeting this morning, the Boyle County Board of Education approved Harlan Kriener, retired administrator, to substitute as principal of Boyle Elementary School and authorized advertising for bids for a one ton truck cab and chassis for the school maintenance department. The meeting was held at the administrative offices on the by-pass and was attended by all board members. Kriener, who retired in June as pupil personnel director for the county schools, is substituting for Principal Joseph Wesley, who is ill in St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington. Supt.

Roy R. Camic told the board that the latest reports indicate that Wesley is some better, but he is still seriously ill. Kriener is to receive the regular substitute teachers pay for the first 10 days and then will receive the the salary of a regular administrator. Supt. Camic informed the board that the motor of the truck used by Councel Belcher, who is in charge of maintenance for the schools, up" and that it will cost $500 to See KRIENER on Page 5.

United Way Has 1st Report Jim Thompson, chairman of the advance gifts committee, this morning made the first report of results in the 1975 United Way campaign. He reported a total of $13,000 which is 37 per cent of his committee's quota. The overall quota this year is $93,000. With all the committees getting organized and starting canvanses, plans have been made for regular reports on the progress of the drive starting Friday, Sept. 26, and being held on each of the three Fridays immediately thereafter at 11:30 o'clock at the American Greetings Company.

Final reports and tabulation are expected on Friday, Oct. 24. Will Hunt, campaign chairman and co-chairman Leo Hill, said this morning that arrangements for the drive are most satisfactory and that indications are that all conditions are favorable. They noted that several organizations and some churches are planning to make contributions and that there seems to be more wide-spread interest in the campaign at this time than has marked it in the past in a comparable period. -A.

Jack May position "an opportunity" to expand his interest in the judicial system in Kentucky. He already has been active in seminars for judges in the state, having attended some and served as an instructor in others. In his new position, he will be working primarily with county judges and also court personnel such as clerks, judges pro tern, trial commissioners, magistrates and police judges. The director of judicial training will work in cooperation with the Judicial Tax Plan Affects Wealthy WASHINGTON (AP) A proposal approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would make it virtually impossible for a wealthy taxpayer to escape federal taxation legally. The proposal, approved 25 to 8 Thursday, would expand the reach of the minimum tax.

It now produces about $180 million in revenue annually from about 30,000 persons. The panel's changes would produce $700 million from about 80,000 persons, the committee's tax experts predicted. The panel adopted the proposal as part of a wide-ranging tax revision bill being drafted for House action later this year. Existing Jaw provides for a minimum tax of 10 per cent on the total of certain kinds of "tax preference" items above a $30,000 exemption. Tax preference items include such things as the special tax treatment of capital gains.

Present law also allows deduction of any regular taxes that the individual may have paid. The committee-approved proposal would retain the current approach of imposing the minimum tax as a levy to be paid Dwight E. Lewis, 51, of 700 Tenikat president of Material Handling Division of Rexnord, Inc. died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 7 a.m. today at Ephraim McDowell Memorial Hospital.

The Material Handling Division has plants in Chico, Calif, and Ellwood City, Pa. besides the Danville headquarters. Mr. Lewis became president of the division in January, 1969 while in Ellwood City. He moved to Danville in July 1974.

He joined Rexnord in 1947 in Milwaukee, as a student trainee. In 1949, he became supervisor of tool design there and remained in that position until 1953. In 1954, he was named assistant supervisor of the Chain Division and remained until 1957. From 1957 until 1959 he was supervisor of the Chain Division. Mr.

Lewis became general supervisor of the Heavy Machinery Division in 1959. In 1961, tie was named factory manager of the division. He was promoted to division manager of the Chain and Transmission Division and and hugged and kissed her. We just said we love each Mrs. Hearst told reporters clustered around her at the San Mateo County jail in Redwood City, south of San Francisco.

Newspaper executive Randolph Hearst stood at his wife's side as they spoke briefly with reporters before returning to San Francisco. "She was happy," Hearst said. "She was ready to come home" The Hearsts, both smiling, said no one cried during the reunion they had been waiting for over 19 months. "Her sisters (Vicki and Anne) are up there talking with her now and we had a very happy discussion talking about family matters," Mrs. Hearst said.

When Patty's father arrived in San Francisco after his flight back from a New York business trip, he was asked what he would say to his daughter. "I'll tell her what every other parent would tell her that we love her and we'll do everything we can to help her," he told the crowd of reporters and television cameramen pressing in around him. Recalling how she heard the news, Mrs. Hearst said her first thought was "thank God" when her husband called her from New York. Then, Mrs.

Hearst said, "I started trembling." Although she worried about her reunion with Patty at first, Mrs. Hearst told Associated Press photographer Rick Browne on a flight from Los Angeles that she could "handle it" if Patty were upset. doesn't work. The 4th District Congressman was accompanied at the session by Rep. Louis R.

Guenthner R-Northeastern Jefferson County and James Milliman, a Louisville lawyer involved in antibusing litigation. "I don't think there is any question that everybody agreed that busing is not working for the purpose it was originally intended," Snyder said. He said the chief alternative to busing that he supports would be some sort of open-enrollment program with transportation Foundaries in 1963 and in 1966 he became general manager of the Matthews Conveyer Co. Ltd. in Ellwood City.

He was taken to the hospital by Danville-Boyle County Rescue Squad members Leonard Coffman and Hillard Preston. Mr. Lewis was active in Scouting and was on the executive board of the Blue LOCAL on Page 5. Dwight E. Lewis speeding and failure to appear in court.

TWO ALMOST identical accidents occurred on Main Street near Second St. Thursday. At 4:40 p.m., Noel Bradley of Burgin was leaving a parking space and collided with the car of Linda Farmer, Danville Rt. 2, which was traveling east on Main St. The left front of the Bradley car and right rear of the Farmer car were damaged.

Ptl. Billy Seay investigated. Deputy Sheriff Karl Luttrell was leaving a parking space on Main at 11:50 a.m. and Hubert Brown, Gravel Switch, was traveling west on Main whert their, cars collided The right, side of the Brown car and left front of the Luttrell car were damaged. Ptl.

Richard CookiiF" Resigns Judgeship May Named To Judicial Post SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Catherine and Randolph Hearst took their daughter Patty a bouquet of yellow roses when they visited her in jail today. They said she told them she wanted to come home. It was the first time the two had seen their 21-year-old daughter in 19 months. Earlier, Mrs. Hearst told a reporter firmly: "I don't believe she will give up 19 years of love.

She was only 19 when she was forced to look down the barrel of a gun." After the Hearst family's reunion with their daughter, a sheriff's deputy said Miss Hearst could keep the roses in her cell. "We told her we loved her Crime Victim Could Get Aid Under Bill FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP)-The victim of a crime could re: ceive up to $15,000 for injury or time lost from work under the provisions of a bill approved by a committee here. The Interim Judiciary Committee pre-filed the reparations act with the recommendation that it pass. The bill, patterned after a New York law, was drafted by the staff of the Kenton County Commonwealth's Attorney, John J.

O'Hara. A victim would receive compensation after an investigation by the state Board of Claims in the Department of Labor. To be eligible for consideration, a victim must report the crime to police within 48 hours and must have suffered an out of pocket loss of more than $100, or missed at least two continuous weeks of work or other means of support. ii 1 1 THURSDAY Highest reading 67 Lowest reading 58 Precipitation 12 of an inch Temperature 7 a.m. today 59 One year ago 7 a.m.

today 61 Herrington Lake level 728.7 Increasing cloudiness today with chance of showers and thundershowers, mostly in west and central portions this afternoon. High in the low 70s west to upper 70s east Cloudy with occasional showers and thundershowers tonight and Satur day. Low tonight in the upper in addition to an individuals rpcular income tax. But it would make these changes: Raise the 10 per cent rate to 14 per cent, Cut the $30,000 exemption to $20,000. Then even this would be reduced, "dollar, for dollar as the amount of the tax See TAX on Page 5.

fhr-' Daily i Tidb'ts A. Jack May, a Danville attorney for 23 years and the Danville police judge for 14 years, is leaving both posts to become director of judicial training, Department of Justice, Commonwealth of Kentucky beginning Oct. 1. May, who also is well known as an artist, turned in his resignation as police judge to Mayor Roy W. Arnold Thursday afternoon and also announced that he will be closing his law office in Danville Sept.

30, the same day that his judgeship resignation is effective. In his new position, May's office will be in the law enforcement building at the edge of the Eastern Kentucky University campus in Richmond and he will continue to reside in Danville. May will be responsible for formulating, planning and conducting training for judges throughout the state. The judicial training program was begun about 14 years ago as part of the Bureau of Training and -May's appointment as the new director of judicial training was made by Gov. Julian Carroll.

Qualifications of the Danville resident for the post include both legal and judicial training and experience. IN DANVILLE Police Court this morning seven persons appeared before Judge A. Jack May. Shell Cook, Hustonville Rt. 1, was fined $50 and costs after pleading guilty to a charge of theft by unlawful taking.

Randell E. Downs of Liberty was fined $25 and costs for reckless driving. He had a charge of leaving the scene of an accident amended to reckless driving due to the fact he had made arrangements for payment of the damage in the accident. Joseph R. Brussels 206 Highland was fined $250 for driving while intoxicated and $50 and costs on a merged charge of reckless driving and attempting to elude a police officer.

He was arrested at 2:25 a.m. today. Other charges handled in- i 1 A i HARRIS COUPLE IN CUSTODY Bill and Emily Harris, shown here in copies of police indentification pictures made today, are in custody following their capture in San Francisco Thursday. (AP Wirephoto) eluded -two- for--public-ln '50s to low 60s. High Saturday May saia: he considers toxication and one each for vestigated.

See MAY on Page 5. this the low 70s..

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