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1 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER AfaMaH CanaaatraiMas FINAL EDITION PRICK 1 5c THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1976 Thursday City Linked To luge Pot Haul Your Day Increasing cloudiness today with a high in the mid-70s. Showers and thundershowers likely tonight and Friday with a low tonight in the mid-50s and a high Friday In the upper 70s. Weather map, details Page B-2. A carnival of crafts will open today at Northgate Mall, Colerain Ave. and Springdale Rd.

Hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m. today through Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Smile I Ml- ILJ 7i v- Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, talking about commercial music, said "I'm not sure Stephen Foster is any happier now that he's He was poor when he died, you know." By JOHN ERARDI and DENNIS CUSK'K Enquirer Reporters Cincinnati is believed to be the headquarters of a massive, international marijuana-smuggling operation uncovered Wednesday by authorities of the federal government and two Gulf Coast states. Officers arrested six people, including a Milford, Ohio, man and seized 15 tons of marijuana after watching a shrimp boat unload at an old Gulf of Mexico port along the East Pearl River in Mississippi.

The Milford man was identified as Dennis M. Leighton, 31, 895 Ohio 28. He was arrested at a hotel in Waveland, a few hours after the marijuana was confiscated. Most of the shipment was intended for Cincinnati, via tractor-trailer truck, said Jim Bland, regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New Orleans. He said the shipment would have been broken down into smaller quantities in Cincinnati for redistribution.

At $200 per pound, the shipment was worth $6 million.) A FEDERAL grand Jury will seek indictments against several Cincin-natians who were alleged "coconspirators and financiers," said Kenneth Mlley, Bland's assistant The marijuana seizure was the largest ever in Mississippi or Louisiana, Bland said. In the last six months, federal authorities have seized 125,000 Metro pounds in the Gulf Coast between Mobile, and New Orleans, a distance of 175 miles, Miley said. In recent days, residents of Waveland and Bay St Louis, noticed "out of town people, they were high rollers," staying at two motels in the area, Miley said. "It was very foggy," at 2 a.m. Wednesday, when the shrimp boat sailed into port, Miley said.

Authorities watched as the 80-foot boat was unloaded by conveyor belt onto a truck, he added. Three people were arrested at the boat following gunfire. No one was wounded. The truck sped away and was followed to a farmhouse south of Picayune, Miss. "They had highly sophisticated radio montitoring equipment there," Miley said, adding that he guessed the "high rollers" were listening to police broadcasts and fled when they sensed upprehension.

Bland called the Cincinnati-based operation a "relatively short-termed" one, citing the purchase of the shrimp boat and farm house within the last month. THE SHRIMP boat is worth and the farmhouse $40,000, authorities said. Miley said 10 different police agencies were Involved in the seizure, including narcotics bureaus of Mississippi and Louisiansa, Mississippi Highway Patrol and Hancock County (Mississippi) sheriff's department The marijuana, from Colombia, South America, was "good grade, very salable," Bland said. The others arrested were Michael M. Ogden, 28, Smyrna, Mike Tlemer, 27, Bradenton, Fla; Jack Peter Zatz, 36, North Lauderdale, Barrie Matheson, 29, Detroit, and William P.

Allen, 28, Boca Raton. Fla. All six were charged with possession of marijuana with Intent to distribute and were held on $100,000 bail at Hancock County Jail, Bay St. Louis, for arraignment today. They face state and federal charges, authorities said.

Enqutrer (Tom Hubbard) Photo Defense lawyers file motions to suppress evidence given by suspended Police Chief Carl Goodin and two former vice control officers to the special Hamilton County grand jury. Page C-l. A car containing more than $200,000 in Jewels is stolen from Clifton residence. Page C-2. Packages Take Over GREYHOUND EMPLOYEE Bill Warren Is surrounded strike Greyhound has allotted somes buses to handle by parcels as he loads a Greyhound bus pressed into package overflow to relieve the delivery backlog.

Ne- delivery service in Cincinnati because of the 12-day-old gotiators in Arlington Heights, are currently unable United Parcel Service strike that has idled UPS trucks to reach settlement In the strike, occurring May 1 when in 13 Midwestern states, Including the the drivers' old contract expired. Nation Loophole Found In Emission Test Antenna is tipoff to thieves in thriving citizen band radio burglary wave. Page A -8. Four Vermont newspapers and a television station join to fight a proposed gag order to restrict publicity in the case of a Walden man charged with murder. Page B-l.

World Roddy said anyone wishing to stop on their own may do so. He added, he has not seen many autos from Hamilton County take the highway patrol test Several Cincinnati police officers, members of the clerk of courts ofrice, and other officials, said they feel most people are not aware of the state test nor the validity of the red, white and blue state vehicle sticker. If a violation is found, Roddy said, a citation may be issued or warning given depending on the severity of the violation. The state only gives a visual emissions test during the highway patrol examination. In fact, there is no state violation for excessive smoke emission from motor vehicles, said Frank Kief of the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts office, where violation tags are paid.

Even If a motorist receives a ticket from a Cincinnati or Norwood police officer for having an expired or no safety lane seal, the driver can have the highway patrol test the car. The patrol test Is free. In Cincinnati and Norwood there is a seven-day period from the time a driver receives a ticket for an expired or no safety seal to the time As France begins to build its first major railway line in more than 70 years, the train Is about to make a startling comeback in Europe at more than Page A-4. A Dutch association of heart patients plans to begin airlifts to Texas where it says members will undergo open heart surgery at a package cost of $10,000 a person. Page A-15.

Motorist Dies In Crash A 69-year-old Amelia man died as his car struck an auto and a telephone pole Wednesday night, police said. Dead at the scene of a 10 p.m. auto accident at 902 Bank West End, was Roger C. Alsop, 1796 Concord Rd. Police said witnesses told them the man appeared to suffer a heart attack before the car went out of control.

By WALT SCHAEFER Enquirer Reporter Clncinnatians can put their cars through a valid state auto test without complying with federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations in effect county-wide. An Ohio State Highway Patrol -Motor Vehicle Inspection Seal is valid and honored by all Hamilton County police agencies including Norwood and Cincinnati where safety lanes give EPA emissions tests. SPOKESMEN FOR both Norwood and Cincinnati police said that citations for having an expired or no safety lane seal are not given to autos bearing the valid state seal. The test is given by state mobile Inspection units that are stationed on different state highways. To find where a unit is stationed on a specific day, one must call the nearest post of the highway patrol.

Hamilton County has no highway patrol post, but posts are located in both Butler and Clermont Counties. A mobile testing team was stationed on Ohio 73 east of Oxford Wednesday. State Patrolman Glen Roddy and two civilian inspectors stopped cars on a random basis for checks. the car must be tested. If the car Is tested by the state patrol, and proof is presented at the traffic violations window at the clerk of courts office, the ticket will be cancelled, Kief said.

ANY AUTO can still be cited by police in Cincinnati, Norwood and any other community where city traffic law includes a violation for emission of unnecessary smoke. However, a driver may pay the fine for an auto emission offense or have the car tested (either by the highway patrol or Cincinnati or Norwood) and present proof of passing the test within seven days and the ticket will be cancelled, said Kief. If the car bears a valid safety sticker be it state or city the policeman will not cite for a safety seal violation, said both Cincinnati and Norwood police. David Kee, chief of the EPA Air Enforcement Branch, Chicago, said cars in Hamilton County, bearing state seals but without proof of emission control testing, are still violating regulations. But without the police ticketing cars with state seals, Kee agreed, it is hard to catch violators unless they are caught by EPA inspectors.

The city does have EPA inspection cars. Sports Drought Threatens Crops In W. Europe Willie Stargell's double Ignites a four-run Pittsburgh rally In the fifth Inning and the Pirates hold on to defeat the Reds, 6-3. PageD-1. Kock-A-Bye When baby outgrows his baby bed, dont keep it around the house to collect dust.

Do what J. Brown did said goodbye to the crib and said hello to extra cash by selling through The Enquirer Classified. You can, too! Call 421-6300 today! LUXEMBOURG (AP) A cold, dry spring is threatening to reduce crops in Western Europe while Britain Is suffering what officials call the worst drought In 249 years. Officials at the Belgian weather bureau in Brussels say it has been People Today It's not enough to choose natural childbirth. There are so many different types and methods you have to know which one, specifically.

Is right for you. But how do you know? PageE-1. Business Dry Forecast: Corn Late, Wheat Short Renovation Planned At Allis-Chalmers The stock market wavers in the aftermath of the previous session's two unsuccessful runs at the 1976 high and closes mostly lower. Page B-3. the driest April there since 1893.

Rainfall is down to 15 to 30 of normal less than half an inch, compared to the 21 Inches or so which usually falls in April. THE WEATHER bureau said figures are similar in Holland, West Germany and northern France, although southern France apparently has escaped the drought Although crop estimates are not available this early in the season, the lack of rain has caused serious damage to fruit trees and potato plants, according to some reports. Wheat and sugar beet yields could ulso fall below average, officials said. Potatoes have been hit by drought and night frosts in the Netherlands, one of the big producers. In Britain, the situation is even worse.

It would take a prolonged monsoon to overcome effects of the worst drought since 1727 in about half the country, the weather office in London says. SOME RESERVOIRS in Anglia in the east, Wessex and Wales in the west and southern Yorkshire in the north are nearly dry and a great many reservoirs half or two-thirds empty, despite thunderstorms and heavy showers last weekend. "We have had about half an inch of rain at the most, and that does not go far to make up a deficit of 16 inches," said one expert. "The ground is so dry and thirsty it soaks up any rain immediately." Allis-Chalmers is embarking upon an $8 million renovation program for its small and medium motor division plant In Norwood. The program, which will start this year and continue into 1979, involves tooling, machinery and other equipment, building renovation, test facility upgrading and related power source re-arrangement.

Allis-Chalmers presently has 1050 employees. Additional employment will be involved, but the company has not yet determined the number. AN IMPORTANT feature of the project, according to James W. Donnelly, general manager of the motor and generators divisions, is new product development. Motors up to 2500 hp presently are manufactured at the Norwood plant, and upon completion of the projects motors up to 10,000 hp will be made.

Involved in the program are some 425,000 square feet of manufacturing and test space. General improvements throughout the plant are based on creation of machining centers for specific motor components, an arrangement that is expected to create more efficient production. Pump manufacturing at the Norwood plant is being transferred to other facilities in Cincinnati. Some of the smaller motors are being transferred to an Allis-Chalmers plant In Little Rock, Ark. Thus, the removal of production from the Norwood plant at 4620 Forest Ave.

will permit Introduction of new products, Donnelly said. in the bag. It's really not going to hurt" Tobacco plants in Northern Kentucky Just aren't growing like they should, said Boone County agent Joe Claxon. He hesitated to call the situation critical but said the plants will have serious trouble if rain doesn't fall soon. "A good, long soaker, one that you can sleep by, Is what we're looking for," Claxon said.

The National Weather 8ervice forecast for May doesn't mention "drought." Quite the contrary, it predicts heavy rains for almost all states east of the Rocky Mountains. 'However, "we haven't seen that forecast proven so far," one local weather man conceded. "An update will be available in a couple of days." Corn will be late, hay and wheat will be short and cattle will be hungry as a result of the spring rain shortage, Tri-State agricultural extension agents said Wednesday. March and April had more than four inches below normal rainfall. May Is already 1.15 inches behind normal, the National Weather Service says.

"We're getting to the place where It's beginning to hurt," said Robert Sutton, Clermont County agent. Wheat and hay crops and consequently pasture for cattle have been stunted by the lack of moisture, he said. But corn, with its later growing season, may produce a normal crop. "Right now it's not a question of yield. It's Just a question of getting it out of the ground," Sutton said.

"It's going to lay in the field like it would Entertainment Drummer Buddy Miles knows where Jimmy stands. "He's for music," said the musician once served breakfast by Carter in Georgia. Page E-21. In Our Opinion OnPageA-6: President Ford has presented a significant blueprint for dealing with the drug problem. Editorial.

Senate Approves $413.3 Billion Budget For 1977 INDEX Seven Sections Action E-2 Horse Sense E-8 Bridge E-7 Jumble E-7 Business. B-3-8 People Today E-1 Classilied 8 Races DM0 Columnists. A-7 Religion E-U Comics E-tO Riesel. A-16 Crossword E-8 Society. E-3 Dear Abby E-2 Sports D-1-10 Deaths C-5 TV-Radio E-9 Editorials A4 Van Dellen E-2 E-20-21 E-2 Gallup E-14 Weather B-2 Graham E-14 Weikel C-l Heartline E-2 Word Game.

E-8 Horoscope Local and Area News Pages C-t-3 congressional budget gives Mr. Ford $100.8 billion only $300 million less than he sought. That figure assumes the Pentagon will carry out several economy moves, including a cap on pay raises. The largest share, $139.3 billion, of the $413.3 billion is earmarked for income security, which includes So-cial Security, food stamps and unemployment compensation. Health programs would get $37.9 billion.

A total of 140.4 billion would be spent for Interest on government debts and $23 billion for education, job-creation programs and such so-cial services as day care for WASHINGTON (AP) A government spending ceiling for 1977 was approved by the Senate on Wednesday with a stern warning to President Ford that Congress' roll in budget-making must not be violated. The total, a compromise between the House and Senate, Is $17.5 billion more than Mr. Ford asked. It envisions a deficit of $50.8 billion, compared with the deficit projected by the Ford administration. THE BUDGET assumes that the $17 billion in tax cuts enacted last Congress has exclusive control over spending.

"I EMPHASIZE this point in hopes of avoiding a long summer of futile confrontation between Congress and the White House," Moss said. "It will be most unfortunate if the President, using vetoes and impoundments, tries to reshape this (budget) to match his original proposal Moss repeated Democratic contentions that the congressional budget will create one million more jobs In 1977 than would Mr. Ford's budget. He noted that Congress is rejecting the President's call for year will be continued through all of 1977. A vote of 65 to 20 sent the budget resolution to the House for final action.

Following approval in the House, the spending ceiling will become a target to guide the lawmakers as they consider expenditures for federal programs for 1977. When the new fiscal year starts on October 1, the totals, after being revised, will become binding limits on Congress. Sen. Frank E. Moss (D-Utah), who managed the bill on the Senate floor, told his colleagues the congressional budget Is for all practical purposes the federal budget since higher Social Security and unemployment compensation taxes and is advocating higher spending to rejuvenate the economy.

"If the President wants political confrontation Instead of a sound fiscal policy, these differences can become a battlefield and the public will be the loser," Moss said. Sens. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and James McClure (R-Iduho) opposed the budget resolution on grounds the Democratic majority let political considerations Influence Job-creation programs. FOR NATIONAL defense, the 3.