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The Jackson Sun, Thursday, May 1 6, 1 974 KlindinSt Construction Idled By Strike Beautnit plants, but the -Sun Convicted For Silence spots rr production of rayon, nylon and polyester was reportedly at a near standstill. The operating engineers, who man heavy equipment, are the latest of the construction trades to strike in the Memphis area. Members voted Tuesday night to reject an offer that would have increased existing $7.27 hourly wages by $1.70 over a two-year Steamfitters, who have been getting $8.67 per hour, have been offered an increase of $1 per hour, but are demanding a $2.05 increase. Plumbers, now drawing $8.72 per hour, have also been offered a $1 increase, but are seeking $1.75. The plumbers' negotiations have been idle since April 29.

Mathis Gets Life Sentence mm from the union that they return to their jobs, were scheduled to meet with company officials today. In setting up picket lines Wednesday, the operating engineers joined about 300 plumbers, about 600 painters and about 450 steamf itters who have been striking since May 1 for higher pay. Meanwhile, a second group of 2,070 United Rubber Worker members are on strike at five Acme Boot Co. plants in Clarks-ville, Ashland City, Springfield, Waverly and Cookeville. Negotiations in the dispute were scheduled today in Nashville.

The Acme employes rejected wage and benefit offers in a three-year contract and went on the picket line Monday. At Elizabethton, some 2,500 employes of Beautnit Industries have been off the job since Saturday after turning down a company offer of an 86-cent per hour wage increase over a three-year period. Supervisory personnel are at work at the two The work stoppage by the IUOE is in addition to strikes across the state by plumbers, painters, steam-fitters and industrial workers. There is a possibility of a work stoppage by sheet metal workers, a contractor said this morning. Striking workers at the hospital were orderly and no difficulty is anticipated, one official said.

One of the stoppages, a walkout by about 600 members of the United Rubber Workers at Firestone Tire Rubber Co. in Memphis, is listed by the union as a wildcat strike. The plant employes, who are tire assemblers, halted work Friday to show sympathy for 52 other union members who were given two-week suspensions in a dispute over piecework pay for the production of tractor tires. A Firestone spokesman said the strike has kept about 1,600 other employes from working because production lines have been shut down. The strikers, who have rejected pleas AP Wirephoto President Nixon's chief of staff, Alexander Haig, left, fielded newsmen's questions after testifying before the Senate Watergate committee in closed session Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

With him is White House counsel J. Fred Buzhardt. WASHINGTON (AP) Former Atty. Gen. Richard G.

Kleindienst pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor charge that he refused to answer questions about the ITT case when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kleindienst succeeded President Nixon's original attorney general, John N. Mitchell, when Mitchell left the post on March 1, 1972 to take charge of the President's re-election committee. Kleindienst resigned April 30, 1973, the same day White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic adviser John D.

Ehrlichman resigned and White House counsel John W. Dean HI was fired. After saying that there was no evidence of any other wrongdoing by Kleindienst at his confirmation hearing, Jaworski added that the agreement would not bar Klein-dienst's prosecution "for any other serious offenses about which evidence may develop." The information filed with the court charged that a material part of the Senate Judiciary Committee's inquiry was the manner in which the Department of Justice had processed antitrust matters involving "mergers made and contemplated" by ITT. The dealings between ITT and the Justice Department occurred while Kleindienst was acting attorney general. Kleindienst was a witness at the hearings on March 2, March 3, March 7, March 8 and April 27.

The special prosecutor's office charged that Kleindienst refused to answer some questions "thereby withholding from said committee the fact that he had received an order" from President Nixon relating to the filing of a statement before the Supreme Court. St. Clair: Open Impeachment Hearings cumsiances. Compiled From A Reports $34,350 FOR BAKER: Sen. Howard Baker has reported that he earned $34,350 for speeches and television appearances last year.

The report, filed with the secretary of the Senate, showed that all the money came after he was appointed to the Senate Watergate investigating committee. The senator collected for 20 speeches ad two television appearances, with speech fees ranging from $1,000 to $2,100, according to the report. He also was reimbursed for travel expenses. The appearances were outside of Tennessee. Baker doesn't charge for speeches in his home state.

Sen. William E. Brock reported that he earned at least $7,750 in outside speaking and writing fees during 1973. OWN DEFENSE: A 72-year-old Charlotte, woman who presented much of her own defense was acquitted of murder and voluntary manslaughter Wednesday and won a mistrial on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Kate Corbin, of the Tennessee City community, had been charged in the rifle slaying of James Stewart, 42, a neighbor, last May 26.

She testified in Dickson County Circuit Court she shot Stewart in self-defense when he approached her small wooden mobile home. She said she feared him because he previously had threatened her. She refused to retain a lawyer but allowed Dickson attorney Allan Kerns to present the closing argument in her case. No new trial date on the involuntary manslaugher charge was set. She is free on $1,000 bond.

NO BATHS FOR AWHILE.Chancery Court Judge Charles Rond of Memphis issued a temporary injunction Wednesday that closes the Gaisha Bath House until a hearing is held on June 19. Rond's ruling was in response to a motion by the city, attorney's office, which argued that the bath house was a public nuisance under state law. Asst. City Atty. Arthur Shea, in seeking the injunction, filed statements by four vice squad officers who said sex was offered for sale at the bath house.

Attorney Wayne Liss, representing bath house owners Vincent Garaci and Clara Moore, argued that no acts of prostitution had been proved and that nuisance statues do not cover "sexual conduct and live exhibitions." Liss offered statements from 14 employes and customers of the establishment to support his case. HEPATITIS: Two women patients at Central State Psychiatric Hospital have contracted hepatitis and have been isolated, officials said Wednesday. William Brockman, acting administrator at the hospital, said the women probably contracted the disease outside the facility but added he did not know where. Six other women housed in a cottage with them, he said, have undergone blood tests for the disease and the results were negative. FETUS DEATH NOT MURDER: Memphis Police have ruled that the slaying of an unborn infant late Tuesday cannot be classed as a homicide because the child never drew breath.

Officers said Mrs. Karen Smith, 16, who was six-month's pregnant, lost her baby when she was shot twice by a holdup man. Mrs. Smith was in the intensive care section of a hospital Wednesday night and police said they were attempted to develop a lead in the case. BANKRUPTCY: A suburban Atlanta finance company which sold an estimated $11 million in bonds to congregations in Georgia Tennessee and Alabama has filed for bankruptcy.

Church Financing Inc. of Chamblee filed for bankruptcy in fedaral court after an investigation by state securities officials, who threatened to force the company into receivership. Church Financing has participated in the distribution of more than $11.5 million worth of bonds for about 100 churches and other religious organizations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reported. Mathis did not take the stand in his own defense.

H. Morris Denton, court appointed attorney for Jimmy Tosh, was denied a motion for a new trial by Judge Reviere. Defense attorneys for Mathis will have 30 days in which to file for a new trial. Both men will be eligible for parole after serving 30 full calendar years of their life sentences. Search Wasn't In Renewal Area The Jackson Housing Authority was recommended to seek HUD approval of 50 public housing units in the southeast Jackson "Sunshine" neighborhood, not in the city's urban renewal district as reported in Wednesday's Sun.

In the same story, the low contract bid to demolish the old South Jackson Elementary School building was misquoted at $241,300. The correct bid, submitted by contractor Judd Brooks is $7,442. tions President Nixon had refused to supply voluntarily and also a number of daily diaries, the record of presidential appointments. Plans to consider a subpoena of 62 conversations about the ITT antitrust case and political contributions from the dairy industry were changed when Rodino decided to ask White House lawyer James D. St.

Clair to make certain the material would not be turned over voluntarily. Rodino said he made the request because "it was unclear whether or not there was an absolute refusal on the part of the White House to supply the material." Rodino indicated he would not wait long for a reply from the White House. He said he would seek the subpoena next week if the material was not forthcoming. enhanced considerably." Committee members also heard relevant portions of the tape of a June 30, 1972, meeting involving the President, Haldeman and former Atty. Gen John N.

Mitchell. The next day, Mitchell resigned as head of the President's re-election committee. None of the committee members interviewed after the session said they heard any ethnic or religious epithets on the tapes. Published reports, vehemently denied by the White House, had said the recordings included such epithets. Members also said the quality of the Sept.

15, tape was excellent, but that the June 30 tape was less clear. Earlier in the day, the committee voted overwhelmingly to subpoena tapes of 11 Watergate conversa mind that failure to include the material was deliberate." Rep. Edward Mezvinsky, D-Iowa, said the tape gave "a much clearer picture much more focused on the problem." The strongest reactions came from Reps. Robert Drinan, and Jerome R. Waldie, both counted among" the strongest advocates of impeachment on the committee.

Drinan described the tape as "much more damaging than the White House transcripts When you hear how they have been planning and plotting your worst suspicions are aroused." Waldie said, "Those concerned with shabbiness on the part of the President from the edited transcripts would have their concern The committee's impeachment staff played two White House tapes for members during a four-hour closed session Wednesday. Another full day of hearing Watergate evidence in closed session was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EDT today. One of the tapes played Wednesday was that of a Sept. 15, 1972, conversation President Nixon had with former White House aide H.

R. Haldeman and John W. Dean III, then White House counsel. Asked to compare the tape with the White House transcript, Chairman Peter W. Rodino said, "I believe there are differences.

But the differences are such that I am not clear in my own THK NASHVILLE BANNER, Tuesday, May 7, 197 1 1 Sadler Serious About Campaign Gubernatorial Prospect 'Doesn't Need The Money9 By I. 9 Bracey I i Capitol Hill Photo By Kim Sadler MORE THAN one person has asked "just how serious is Harry Sadler" about getting in the long line of candidates desiring to be governor of Tennessee? Dead serious. THE PROSPECT of making a bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination is anything but a laughing matter to the 53-year-old Chevrolet salesman. Sadler has received more than 400 responses to the full-page advertisement that ran in the state's eight largest newspapers last week. The University of Tennessee law school graduate, who said he expects to officially announce within the next two weeks, took an unorthodox political step in the ads, which cost him $10,000.

Most candidates filter their platforms out plank-by-plank, attempting to get maximum publicity mileage. The Nashville native, however, put it all on the line in the ad listing 20 corrective measures he would employ if elected. "I don't need to make any money and I don't need a job all I want to do is' to serve the people," Sadler said. THE PROSPECTIVE candidate has never held or sought an elected office, but has gained knowledge of government through close connections with the state's governors over the past 20 years. Sadler said this connection with government has made him realize that only the special interest groups really are served by elected officials under the present setup.

"Bankers to snake handlers all have lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Everyone but the middle class citizen has a representative. "If elected, I will be the lobbyist for those who have been overlooked for so long." Sadler is declining to take donations in excess of $10. "The governor's office has been bought for too many years. "You let a company contribute HARRY SADLER An unorthodox political step to listen to any political hot air, jokes or partisan politics.

They want to purchase athletic equipment. He went on to say, "If we need something for the physical education program we will use athletic funds. However, this year the phys. ed. program had a tumbling show, so they are providing some of their own money." Q.

Who is the present leader of the KKK? Is there a Klan in Jackson? No Name. A. United Klans of America's (UKA) national leader is Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Ben Bridgewater of Brownsville is the UKA Grand Dragon for Tennessee.

Bridgewater declined to say whether there is a Klan in Jackson, citing the secret nature of the organization, but he did say, "Everywhere you go there are Klansmen on the streets." For further information you may write to Bridgewater in care of the United Klans of America State Office, 421 Lafayette Brownsville, Tennessee 38012. Q. Which states do not have state income taxes? No Name. A. Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming do not levy a state income tax.

$25,000 to a candidate, and I can assure you that it will cost the taxpayers more than $1 million over the next four years." Some of the more unusual Sadler suggestions which he outlined in a 1970 letter to Governor-elect Winf ield Dunn include the cancellation of all state insurance. He said Tennessee would have to lose a state building a day to justify the premiums being footed by the taxpayers. SADLER, WHOSE automobile dealership is on Gallatin Road, also said the state budget could be cut by 10 per cent ($200 million) without any loss of services. He said the additional half cent sales tax placed on the books four years ago should be removed to benefit Tennessee's middle class citizens "in a financial straight jacket." "I suggested to Gov. Dunn that the sales tax be removed from prescription drugs and he replied that would only amount to a savings of $8 to $10 million." Sadler said that would amount to a savings of $5 to $10 a month to most citizens.

"That's a lot of money to poor people on fixed incomes." He said a lot of money-saving echniques would have probably already been implemented had not "a lot of the people who are gouging state government" been placed on the governor's commission which took a look at the situation in 1971. "We had so many special interest people on that commission," said Sadler, who also was a member, "that we couldn't get anything done." Sadler, who also called for the sale of the state jet, said his office would be open to the public. "There won't be any more of this going through a county political hack to see or get something from the governor's office." SADLER SAID he has not and will not seek the help of the usual county politicians that candidates always contend for. "I want the other candidates to have those people. I don't need them." Sadler said his campaign will be handled by volunteers.

"We hope to have thousands of free workers, whose only ambition is a voice in state government." He said the Democratic candidate, to be elected, "must recognize the needs of these people." "The people who really elect this state's governor not the ones who attend politieal rallies don't want know the answers to their everyday problems primarily inflation." Sadler said he wanted to be elected for one four year term and make Tennessee government into a model that other states would look to. "I know the graft and the kickbacks that have gone on for so long, and I would like an opportunity to change that." Sadler, planning at least two more statewide advertisements, said his biggest problem is getting "my mes- sage" across to the people. "IF I LOSE but get that message across then I will be satisfied and I can just go back to selling Chevro- lets." Some may be laughing about Sadler's chances. He's not. And nei- ther is the Nashville cab driver who recently noted he favored Sadler I "because he sounds like George Wallace." feedback I would like to say that it is not true that.

the mayor and commissioners generally send cards to people they know we don't know the mayor from Adam, but my husband received a card from him while in the hospital. I resent this waste of the taxpayers' money. I know there are schools in the city that could use these funds. I would like to know why the cost of postage was not mentioned? For the Mayor's 5,000 cards alone this would run $500. It looks to me like they are doing a little campaigning at the expense of the taxpayersAfter reading that article I felt ill myself.

Maybe the mayor and commissioners will send me cards? M.C. and Several Other Readers. This is a reprint of a column by Bracey Campbell, Chief Political Writer for THE NASHVILLE BANNER, on May 7, 1974 ff HU fUf a vi nut I UHUIWI i.