Trooper Arrested

The Dayk Almanac

The Portsmouth Herald

Saturday, March 20,1976 (EST). "Sunset 5:55 P.M. Sunrise 5:46 A.M High Tide 10.4' Today 2:40 P.M. ,.High Tide Sun. I0.9'3:IOA.M.

VOL. XC, NO. 146

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1976

Weather Forecast Today — Sunny. Tomorrow — Sunny, warm. Today's Temperature — Day 40,

Night :w.

rweek one P*r *1.1U 91 in.P* 2Oe copy dtlivared.

16 PAGES

Hearst jurors ponder

The marching poles Something which developers in Portsmouth might not be too pleased with, but with no recourse of action are available, the Public Service Co.'s utility poles

areas, the cost would be exhorbitant, and there's no real room to move them. (Staff Photo).

which zigzag across the land within the city limits. A hindrance to possible industrial development in

High tension lines bar building -r - O ~

By I10ULY YOUNG Staff,Writer ',

. •. -

Two hundred and fourteen acres of land that zigzags across the City of Portsmouth in a 300foot wide easement damages tracts of land that could be used for possible industrial development. Cutting squarely through the middle of some of these large portions of land, the right of way is~owned by Public Service Co. of^New Hampshire. At the moment, two large utility poles top the horizon, but if *nd,-"when the Seabrook

'; .-:', .-£ '/-,-•' - . ' - • , - ,

nuclear power plant is given the -Okay, another, hundred feet'of land is available at the right'bf:way to add another' pole, which to some looks like 'a gigantic football field goalpost. The unwieldly snake: begins its trek into the city .at the Greenland border, working its way across two large portions of land in a sandwich fashion, up through the 1-95 area of Portsmouth, following it up'to the Newington border and back down through the city itself. According to Economic Director Raymond Richardson,

"It divides" and hampers considerably 'the developmentrof the five essentially remaining areas suitable fof potential development." ' He-cited one case where a "substantial" firm was interested in relocating in Portsmouth, but the land they wanted was intersected by the massive power lines and they decidedagainst it. Richardson said they felt it would have caused a disturbance to what they manufactured. More importantly, however, is the fact that corporate

•

•

headquarters, such as Wheelatbrator-Frye in Hampton, aren't 'enthusiastic-about relocating in an area where these objects loom over their heads like giant Gohaths marching across the countryside. To move the poles, however, would be "extremely expensive" to do, Richardson said, costing "hundreds of thousands of dollars." He explained in one example where 12 acres of available land is diminished to just one and a half acres of buildable acreage, with the rest constrained by the

'

<~2

easement and a bog area. It could be used only lor parking spaces or a similar type use. "It hurts us on corporate headquarters," he said, explaining that most don't like to build "underneath power lines" of this size. "T The monstrous poles crisscross the Portsmouth Traffic Circle area like a giant spider's web, weaving their way across the country-side, their giant arms outstretched and firmly in HIGH Please Turn to Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The question of Patricia Hearst's guilt or innocence on bank robbery charges was placed in the hands of her jurors Friday after the defendant's mother, overcome by emotion, rushed from the hushed courtroom in tears. Randolph Hearst said later that his wife, Catherine, saw this first day of decision at the celebrated trial as "the end of the line" for her accused daughter. Jurors, who had heard the testimony from 67 witnesses, were asked to decide whether Miss Hearst was a determined terrorist or a terrified victim when she sprinted into the Hibernia Bank here April 15, 1974, and helped rob it of $10,690, brandishing a sawed-off carbine. But they were instructed specifically that the heiress* frequently mentioned Feb. 4, 1974. kidnaping by the Symbionese Liberation Army "Is not alone enough to absolve her from the criminal acts" with which she is cTiarged. U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter, taking no note of Mrs. Hearst's quiet departure during his instructions, gave the crucial order at 10:47" a.m. — "To the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you may retire to the jury room for your deliberations." With Miss Hearst watching impassively, the seven women and five men were escorted to their deliberation room. "We will await the verdict of the jury," said Carter. He told the packed courtroom: "... No one in this world, not even the jurors in that jury room, can tell when they will arrive at a verdict." After deliberating for about an hour and a half in the morning, the panel took a break for , lunch at a private courthouse dining room shortly after noon. Carter had told them to allow an hour and a half for their luncheons and to pace themselves - as the deliberations-went on. The 22-year-old Miss Hearst, wearing a new knitted dress, turned her chair to face the judge during instructions and sipped nervously at a glass of water. She did not notice her mother's exit about 27 minutes before the judge committed her fate to jurors. "Where's Mama?" she asked her father at the session's end. He told her Mrs. Hearst had gone home.

On the scene Federal officials from the Dept. of Transportation viewed the B&M Railroad yard in Portsmouth Friday with Mayor Bruce Graves, right, checking on the transportation of LP gas. With the Mayor are. on the left, Quentin Banks, chief

of the Compliance Branch of the Office of Hazardous Materials Operation. Materials Transportation Bureau: and Francis H. Hayes, safety htspector-ha/ardous materials, from Boston. (Staff Photo)

Federal officials inspect rail yard There are tank cars loaded with LP gas in the railroad yard off McDonough Street while trains are being made up, but none of the full ones are supposedly there more than 12 hours. That was one of the conclusions of federal officials who toured the ray yard yesterday with Portsmouth Mayor Bruce Graves, and inspected •the log of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Mayor Graves told The Herald, "The fact is loaded cars are in the McDonough Street yard on a regular basis because that's where the trains are made up before going to Rockingham Junction." However, he was told by Quentin H. Banks, of the Office of Safety of the Federal Railroad Administration,'that Banks looked at the logs and determined no loaded cars stay in the yard more than 12 hours. The mayor said one important aspect of the safety angle is the signs on the cars which show ' at a glance whether they are loaded or not. He said people in the McDonough Street area, who are understandably concerned, can use the signs to "monitor for themselves" whether the cars are loaded. When a car is loaded the sign is supposed to say in large red letters "Dangerous", with a "Handle Carefully" and "Keep Lights and Fires Away." When empty, there are the words "Empty" and a smaller "Dangerous" in black.

The mayor said the signs are supposed to be in view on four places on a car. Some violations were found, and the federal official from the federal Transportation Department, Banks, said he would "tighten up on signs," according to Graves. Mayor Graves said also they found that cars on some sidings are "only 100 feet from the nearest residence" rather than 300 as maintained previously by rail officials. The mayor said he had no wish to cause any unnecessary alarm or panic, but people in the area and in the city have a right to be concerned, and to "know what's empty and what's loaded." He said it is B&M's "responsibility to flip the sign and show^what's empty." _ It appears that the present ordinance passed • by the City Council banning empty cars won't be enforceable because the Department of Transportation won't approve it. However, Mayor Graves believes an enforceable ordinance on length of stay of full cars, at least, can be passed. However, some possibilities other than an ordinance may be forthcoming. The City Council has scheduled a work session and discussion March 29 with officials of the B&M and the Sea-3 company in Newington which manufactures LP gas, to see what kind of agreements might be worked out.

Aid vital

Mrs. Hearst, who had testified without tears as the last witness in her daughter's defense Wednesday, came to court with her face red and puffy from crying. Her husband said, "She He indicated that the lack of CAIRO , Egypt (AP) - Egypt records anyway, it is no\v exhad a sleepless niglit, but will These are just a few effects of protect the criminal," he said. ments that "in cases of intensify its efforts to obtain action-ready equipment meant ByKALLAMPRON pressly forbidden. nothing in particular set her off. His department has been emergencies where time is of Employers can no longer a new and controversial law U.S. and Western European Egypt could not engage in war "It's just, you know, sort of arms following the termination at the present. instructed to comply with the ' the essence, and life or limb is in Police can confirm or deny an require prospective employes to that went into effect Tuesday.

Egypt seeks U.S. arms

New criminal law runs into police criticism reveal their • criminal backgrounds. (Police cannot discuss a suspect's prior record over two way radios, and the State Police must constsuct a high security, limited-access central depository jor all criminal history information.

Trooper arrested by* . «* €bl. Doyon

Section 524 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 became national law Tuesday. The law carries -a $10,000 fine for individuals who don't comply, and suspension of federal funds to criminal justice agencies that don't meet its requirements. The law's purpose is "to assure that criminal history records information wherever it appears, is collected, stored and disseminated in a manner to insure the completeness, integrity, accuracy' and security of such information and to protect individual privacy." Criminal history records include information on an individual's criminal activities, other than traffic offenses and finger prints, compiled by the police, the courts or other law enforcement agencies. Accesss to this information is restricted almost exclusively to law enforcement agencies, certain/ state and federal agencies, statistical research -organization and the individual the information is compiled on.

law since the beginning of March. Even "before last Tuesday they refused to release criminal record information to a state police representative over the phone. "We have no idea who is on the other end of the line," he said. He requires his staff-to answer such inquiries by calling the individual back at the official number to confirm his identity. The law forbids the transmission of such information over police radios unless it is coded. However the state has advised local police depart-

jeopardy, uncoded radio voice transmissions are authorized." City Marshal Stanton G. Remick does not believe the law protects the criminal, but keeps "unauthorized people from our files " "It seems like another step toward a centralized police department," he said. "Something that none of us want." Employers, newsmen and security agencies have been affected by this law. Although most local chiefs have said they didn't allow unauthorized investigation into criminal

individual's involvement in criminal activity only if it is in reply to a specific'question and if the information is contained in a chronological police blotter. Police blotters are required by law and are available for public inspection. However they contain only the individual police department's involvement in a case and do not report court findings. The law does allow enforcement agencies to disclose the results of pending inNEW LAW Please Turn to Page 3

the end of the line, and she was of a 15-year friendship treaty upset." with the Soviet Union, Jurors appeared to notice sources said today. Mrs. Hearst's hasty departure diplomatic The sources said the Egyptian from the front row of the high command considers such courtroom, which was locked aid vital to maintain pressure throughout the instructions. on Israel for additional con"I'm afraid I chickened out," cessions toward a Midest peace, Mrs. Hearst told a reporter as cessions toward a Mideast she left the federal building. "I peace. didn't do too well." President Anwar Sadat renounced "the treaty with Moscow Sunday and said many Page 6 Soviet-supplied Church page combat planes PageS were grounded for Pease Report lack of spare Page 5 parts. Ramblings Page 2 Weather

One analyst said, "At best they might be able to hold the line in the Sinai if there were full-scale hostilities and Israeli attention was concentrated elsewhere." France and England, already replacing some of Egypt's old Russian aircraft and armor, are expected to help establish an Arab weapons industry here that will be financed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil states. Sadat also is counting on the United States to provide early warning radar systems and other sophisticated electronic gear. Despite opposition from Israel and its supporters in Washington, the Ford administration wants to sell Egypt six C130 cargo planes in a move that could set a precedent for more significant weapons deals. War Minister Gen. CONCORD," N.H. (AP) - Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gov. Meldrim Thomson said Friday he will use $800 from his office discretionary fund to pay for a pamphlet that has come under criticism from gubernatorial candidate Gerald Zeiller. Thomson said in a statement that he will ask the Department CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The of Resources and Economic Development to take over fight to oust Bernard Corson publication of the pamphlet from his job as head of the New entitled "New Hampshire, the Hampshire Fish and Game Department has been delayed Economy State." • Zeiller had contended the temporarily while the state brochure, which includes a Supreme Court considers legal picture of Thomson and a for- questions involved in the word by the governor, was dispute. Following a hearing m MS designed to boost the governor chambers Friday, Merrimack politically. Zeiller is challenging County Superior Court Judge Thomson for the Republican William Batchelder enjoined the state Fish and Game gubernatorial nomination. In his prepared statement, Commission from taking any Thomson for the first time steps regarding Corson's job explained the financing of the until the legal questions are pamphlet. In the past, the settled by the high court. Batchelder also told the goveror's spokesman had said no state funds had been used on commission not to interfer in the day-to-day operations of the thepamphlet Thomson said he can un- department. Gov. Meldrim Thomson and derstand Zeiller's criticism because the pamphlet shows two of his appointees to the new siding this week on the house. The collection shouM be open what good financial condition commission have criticized the state is in under his ad- Corson, saying he has for tourists by the end of June. (Staff Photo) mismanaged the department ministration.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A state •- trooper was -arrested Friday "in connection with a Feb. 20 bank robbery in West Stewartstown. "Col. Paul A. Doyon, head of the -state police, said he personally ' arrested Trooper' William G. Simpson at Simpson's lawyer's off ice, in Manchester. ' 1 , -Simpson, 34, of Pittsburg, had been on the force for 13 years. Reaction to this new law by '• He is the second man arrested area police chiefs isn't in connection with the $38,000 .favorable. Most resent the armed robbery at the Framers federal government imposing and Traders National Bank. on local agencies and "Uoyon . said Simpson was - standards feel the law fs protecting suspended from the force some, criminal. reclRly for disciplinary theLee Chief Brian Burke .reasons unrelated; to the rob- said, Police "1 dislike the U.S, government telling local Z-THe was indicted by ,a federal ' agencies what to do as well as wand jury this week following dangle the, political .of ^investigation by .the' FBI, "federal hinds in front of plum us." <slate police and, the U.s Hampshire could lose all Attorney's office, a»d charged orNew part of the federal funding "wffli aiding.in/ihe robbery. Bail /received from the Law •wassetat$15,000. <• Assistance ^Eiehard N. Hogg, of Exeter, Enforcement Administration (LEAA) if the -was arrested in Ft Lauderdale, regulations of the law aren't 'HK, Feb. 25 in connection with met. -therobbery. . . . According to Roger Crowley, -^Simpson had been assigned to .director of, the Governor's roata-ol duty in the Cotebrook Commission on Crime and ma, which includes West Juvenile Delinquency, the state Jpvartstown. ; t—The lone gunman who robbed. receives about $2.5 million in LEAA hinds. He said Tffigbank escaped in the car of a yearly :iink employe. The money, car that amount will decrease about I a gun were later recovered. 15 per cent in 1916. . Peter Lowd Newmarket Police Chief Paul /on said arresting Simwas "the 'toughest Gahan said the law is "too big a The Peter Lowd House at Strawbery Banke is undergoing resto^ . ^ e n t i've had to perform step" for him. "I am violently ration to house the Patch Tool Collection. Here, Harvey Garland, in my career as a policeman. -• opposed to it if it can be used to left, and Norman Clark, the Banke's restoration carpenter, put up

On the ittsitlr

Thomson explains brochure

Gamasy has taken personal control of the arms diversification program. He left Friday for a week-long armsshopping visit to France. Gamasy also visited Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia last week. Diplomatic sources said he apparently obtained a pledge from Yugoslavia to provide spare parts for its Sovietmanufactured MIG21 jet fighters until they can be replaced with Western aircraft Press reports said Frenchmade Gazelle helicopters made ' their first appearance with the Egyptian air force Thursday when Gamasy attended a graduation ceremony for pilots and navigators. The reports quoted Gamasy as saying that in cooperation with other Arab states "we can overcome all the difficulties in the way of equipping the armed forces." In addition to the Gazelles, Egypt has asked France for" 22 Mirage Fl interceptors and 22 Mirage FIE attack aircraft.

Ouster of Corson delayed by court

House

and should be removed. Corson filed suit in superior court seeking an injunction to prevent the commission from dismissing him. He contended only the Executive Council—not the commission—had the authority to fire him. Corson also sought to have Thomson barred from any Executive Council hearing on the matter.

However, Judge BatcnekJor accepted a motion by Thomson's lawyers that the governor's name be dropped from the list of defendents in Corson's suit. They argued successfully that the governor should not be a defendent because he is not a member of the commission. Corson has been with the department for 28 years, directed it for the last seven years and is due to retire next year.

NE WSPAPER!