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fflWniMEL Td 873 3341 VOL 73 NO 13 WATERVILLE WINSLOWMAINE WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 1976 24 20 CENTS 7 ord And Carter till Sweep In Illinois 0 To Elect Successor Stubborn Tar Tanker ire Quelled By GLENN TURNER ACCORDING TO" Assistant crews as to the type of ex pounds of Thayer Village Apartments Tuesday morning (Sentinel Photo by Dick Maxwell) rrpnrc i In fha nl ay tinguishing techniques avail able he can lead a winning Demo cratic ticket in November Wallace in what is becoming a refrain claimed that he felt good about running second which is where Carter left him in lorida a week ago They meet again In North Carolina next Tuesday ord in a telephone speech to a Republican dinner More on ILLINOIS Page 2 cessor centered on 63 year old oreign Secretary James Cal laghan and bookmakers were giving him 5 4 odds to get the job Although Britain's new leader may wish to seek a fresh mandate from the voters Wilson's resignation announce ment does not necessarily mean a general election is im minent five year term was not to expire until October 1979 1 Opposition Conservative lead er Margaret Thatcher 50 who would be prime minister if her party won immediately called for a general election later this year so 40 million vot ers could say yes or no to Wil socialist policies The London Evening Stand ard called the resignation a and said it fail to cause a con siderable in econom ically ailing Britain The White House reacted by More on WILSON Page 2 THE USE WATER or chemical foam from the airport' crash truck were both ruled out Subsequently crews using ansul dry powder Engine suuuuuueu mr ueip siioruy after their arrival and Engine 2 and 3 assisted the effort According to Central ire Station reccds 200 pounds of ansul powder was dumped into the blazing tank followed by 150 ninrii4a UDiiwIa kaxJam yvuiiuo V4 UApxu pUYVUVX from the airport crash unit That amount of chemical failed to control the blaze and the fire fighters resorted to all the additional they could muster A i the crewmen Ci hausted25 20 pound ansul extinguishers one 10 poubd extinguisher and another five pound extinguisher A 100 pound tank of carbon dioxide gas was More on IRE Page 2 Eire Chief Lucien LaCroix 4 crews were dispatched to the scene at 8:08 am to tend what they thought was a fire in a tar pot When they arrived at the scene the crewmen discovered a larce truck trailer unit with a 3500 gallon tahk of tar ablaze the flames shooting up through three port holes located on its top were afraid it would blow LaCroix said The threat of explosion limited the 17385 or 8 per cent In the Republican primary 20 per cent of the precincts had been tallied giving: ord 60731 or 60 per cent Reagan 40170 or 39 per cent Perenial Illinois candidate Lar Daly had the other 1 per cent Delegates to the Republican a nd Democratic National conventions were elected separately and there the count was slow In early returns ord led for 36 delegates Reagan for 14 uncommitted candidates for 10 a Among Democrats Carter led for 50'delegates Sen Adlai Stevenson III a favorite son by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley led for? 33 with four Wallace By WALTER MEARS supporters and eight un CHICAGO (AP) President committed delegate candidates ord won the Illinois presi leading dential primary election Tues All told Democrats were set day night and called It tling 169 national convention rear over Republican votes Republicans 96 challenger Ronald Reagan The vote was by congressional Jimmy Carter out districts and some had yet to distanced the Democatic field tally their first ballots sweeping to a victory that Carter said he had expected enhanced his credentials as a to win the preference test and ironi runncr said his first triumph in a big ord won big edging industrial state was evidence Reagan oy narrow margins in their first two contested primar les All told Illinois made it primaries in a row for the President: and left the former California governor to fight for his campaign life when North Carolina votes next week Carter rolled past Alabama Gov George Wallace and two other Democratic contestants in the presidential preference vote did not expect to win nearly this the former Georgia governor said in New York With 16 per cent of the By JAMES PEIPERT Associated Press WriterLONDON CAP) HaroldWilson announced to a stunned nation Tuesday that he will re sign after serving a total of' eight years as prime minister 11272 precincts counted the Democratic returns read Carter 102757 or 48 per cent Wallace 57464 or 27 per cent Sargent Shriver 37494 or 17 per cent ormer Sen red Harris and 13 years as Labor party leader Tne scrappy pipe put fing politician who turned last Thursday cited age as reason and said he would step down as soon the Laborites in the House of Commons can elect a successor Wilson was longest serving peacetime prime minis ter in this century The 317 Laljpr will vote next week and the result will be announced March 25 parliamentary party chairman Cledwyn Hughes said He said if a second ballot is needed the result will be announced March 30 and if a'third is necessary the result will be declared April 5 Speculation on? sue (Sentinel Staff) or more than three hours Waterville ire Department crews fought to curtail a stub born blaze inside a 3500 gallon tank of burning tdrabthe Thay er Village Apartments Monday morning The effort ultimately involved Ythe use of several hundred pounds of dry chemical three fire trucks the truck and the Rescue unit Three Hour Battle Waterville ire Department crews expended several hun dred pounds of dry chemicals and carbon dioxide sweating out a three hour battle with a fire in a tar tanker at the Stunned Parliament itears Wilson Tell It "vV 'I to 2 Kvh I Hearst Takes Stand Denies Judge Patty Was A Terrorist Rebel Restrains By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer "SAN RANCISCO (AP) Randolph A Hearst took the witness stand Tuesday to de fend his daughter Patricia de scribing her as but not a rebel ready for con version to terrorism Hearst also accused a prose cution psychiatrist of urging him to become involved in rather than go forward with his bank robbery trial But the main point of testimony was that the 2f year old defendant was (not the rebel described in prose cution testimony the day before by Dr Harry Kozol was a very bright girl said Hearst president of the San rancisco Examiner Good Morning Weather Today Variable cloudiness flurries air Thursday (ull report on Page 16) Sentinel Index Amusement 10 Jumble 4 Classified 20 22 Living 4 Comics 23 Obituaries 2 Crossword 23 Sports 8 10 Dear Abby 4 Sportsmen Editorials 18 Say 19 inancial 22 Television 19 Heloise 4 Horoscope 23 Chuckle Weatherman to friend: morning was strong willed I think She was fun to be with" Asked by defense attorney Lee Bailey if he recognized Ko zel's descriptions of his daugh ter as angry and bitter a rebel in search of a cause Hearst said firmly i Hearst also told of his meet ing with Dr Joel ort who tes tified that he' advised against a public trial for Miss Hearst but denied he was seeking to the case as charged by Bailey (ort) suggested he use the word but plea' bargaining was what it amount ed Hearst said Under cross examination Hearst said he did not believe Dr ort was attempting to fix the case in his conversations with the Hearsts but was ask ing them to consider the option of pica bargaining i More on PATTY Page 2 Strikers At orster By CHRISTOPHER CORBET (Sentinel Correspondent) ARMINGTON A 24 hour temporary restraining order was issued by Justice Harold Rubin in ranklin County Superior Court here Tuesday morning against striking work Old Man Winter Zonks ers at orster Manufacturing Co in Wilton About three hours later State Police arrested two women a Tlf' Tl "'I 1 strikers at the Dryden Ware Central Maine But Good ny trucks leaving the site By GLENN TURNER ditions None reportedly in According to Capt Ronald A (Sentinel Writer) volved any serious injury Hiltz of armington Maine With the official day of spring only four days away a major winter storm lashed into Central Maine? and New England Tuesday leaving in its wake heavy snow high winds and flood warnings on the coast The National Weather Bureau 1 Tuesday night was predicting total snow fall for the area from 8 to 14 inches heavier snow was expected in the western mountain regions of the state and winds in the Gulf of Maine were expected to peak" at miles an hour 7 The snow ds expected to end today with temperature highs in the teens i and 20s Northwest winds are expected to whip through the area with gusts of 20 to 40 mph Maine State Police in 'Augustacalled driving conditions tremely There were reports of scattered minor accidents throughout the Waterville Police reported a total of 16 accidents involving 32 cars by 8:30 pm all related to the hazardous driving coo The Waterville Communications Center said three emergency ambulance calls two involving possible heart attack victims were completed without: in cident The Waterville Public Works Department had nine trucks on the road Tuesday1 night clearing major arteries supplemented by three graders? and a large front end loader A spokesman at public works said crews were geared to plow throughout the night The severe Storm succeeded in giving the region a white St 7 Patrick Day The weather service warned that considerable beach erosion was anticipated as tides two to three feet above normal com bined with the high winds The tide was seasonably high as a result full moon Snow began falling in south ern Maine by early afternoon and was piling up in drifts just a few hours later The storm created traffic More on STORM 2 State Police Division Com mander the pair Rose A Phil lips 21 of Wilton and Sally Purington 21 of Dryden were charged with unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct Both women were released later Tuesday afternoon on a bond of personal recognizance by order of 12th District Court Judge John Benoit Jr a ranklin County Jail spokesman laid The temporary order was sought until a hearing on a pre liminary injunction could be scheduled Parties involved in the dispute are slated to meet with Judge Rubin at 9:30 am today here A previously sought injunction was denied March 8 i The Workers members of Local 405 United Paper Workers International Union have been on strike here since eb 20 Traffic in and out of the warehouse complex where salvage operations are taking place moved freely Tuesday af ternoon Hiltz said Company vehicles had pre More on ORSTER Page 2 9 i I 'Wf' kiR 1 L'Z I EsSlQaBnmllr' i fe i 'V I V' Saving The Seals Al Johnston an American Airline's pilot from San rancisco throws himself on top of a baby seal and tells a Norwegian sealer in Norwegian that the sealer will have to kill him first before he can kill the baby seal The sealer backed off Johnston and other Cana dian and American members of the Green peace oundation are on an ice floe 70 miles off Newfoundland trying to prevent the seal killing that began Monday (UPI Photo) A.