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Show TTStTm CS TT7S Founded 1850 when Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret' JLJ'JEj 127th YEAR NO. 223 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 94 PAGES 1 5 CENTS MARCH 2, 1977 WEDNESDAY, METRO ? President WASHINGTON (AP) Carter is launching what ho hopes will become a massive exchange program f to send Americans on trips abroad and bring foreigners to the United something a little above and beyond government, kind of nice lav. iai tyc of peoples urged by Carter with other foreign countries, large and small powerful and weak, very fner.d " ty and not so Inendly . strengthened the it at said that outset, Caiter might take ".some fairlv affluent people to go " so they can pay their own faies and help finance the tiip of a foreign c x hangc v lsitor to the United States a state ment The White Hon ,e saying the friendship r orce would he financed bv those vtio travel m me exchange programs, and forecasting that average prices for lfMlav tups w ould be m the $ 500 to $ 100 range There is to be a full time staff based m Atlanta, but most of the u,ork is to lie done by volunteers Carter md volunteer governors or wives could sign up with Mrs Cartel; "We're genng to try maybe a few trips this first year but eventually we'd like to have it be kind of a massive exchange of people going back and forth from (he United States of America and the other countries around the world, Carter said See CUTTER on change trips "We're going to trv to do this on a Carter said in a nationwide basis speech toast to the nation's governors at a black-ti- e dinner TiihmLiV Iiluhl The gc.emors got a modeutelv hard sell from the President f ir the exchange project "I think this is the kind of thine ill O Its called the Friendship Fort e wants the Carter exchange trips to begin on ttie Fourth of July, and envisions as many as 000 a year by the end of 1960 The project would be privately financed, and Carter said it would be kept apart from the government The idea stems from an exchange program Carter and his wife engineered when he was governor of Georgia It began m 1073, with an exchange of visits by 200 Georgians and 200 i Brazilians from the sister state of Pernambuco. Mrs Carter made that trip. Carter said all the visitors, from uotu Ciuuti iCo, stayed in private homes There were three later ex y hm o thats 2 beyond government, kind of nice, that pel haps you can help us with," Carter told the governors "Perhaps your own state, Inis first year, would like to take just one a cjjj) (Jo airplane, and weve asked the State Department to give us advice, and we would like to have maybe a couple hundred folks from, say, Idaho, go to, pei haps Morocco, and let 20 Moroc cans come back, Carter said There won't be any public funds involved at the state cr federal level and we're going to try to join in and raise enough money m pi ivate places to Imam. c these trip.,. 5iud, adding ' I want to see the ties of our own country ' j i i A-- 6 about-fac- e on SS tax 4 1-- fV vwk j? v i - 1, JV 5 ?'& 1 iW, f5 ? v , . J '. k-- XMJSXW. - ... ftTh. r r fr r 3 jq. 4- V ; f V - r r - s y".At K I r f X J jttf- " .ytustjsZi K iMlUlftftUi lllrt &A UH1 PHtO Coast Guard alert for illegal fishing U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas, foreground, approaches Russian fishing trawler 85 miles south of Martha's Vineyard. American officials boarded Tuesday to check if the Soviet crew was heeding the new 200-mil-e fishing restrictions. Several other vessels were checked with no major viola tions reported. Soviets, meanwhile, imposed their own limits and ordered 8 Japanese fishing vessels to leave waters off the coast of Siberia. keeping with those of other state employes was removed through a suction by Sen. Miles Ferry', R Ccrinnc. Two bills designed to give proOther bills given final approval and secutors heavier weapons to use tu the House were SB158, sent it against pornography breezed through harder for consumers to sue making manufacthe Senate today and were sent to the turers for product defects, and SB193, House for its consideration allowing cities and counties to issue tax A total of only five votes were east fiee botido for the puipoxe of making loans to homeowners to fix up their against both SB189 and SB190. The Senate also completed action on deteriorating properties. a number of other bills including SB54, Monday afternoon, senators voted which authorizes counties to share final approval of a watered down sunshuie or open meeting bill and federal m lieu funds vith cities or other approved "redlining" legislation depolitical subdivisions. A bill raising the pay of top elected signed to prevent mortgage lenders state officials by from $5,000 to $11,000 a from discriminating against certain year was voted preliminary approval neighborhoods. In addition, the Senate completed and placed on the third reading on HB192 which, if signed by the work calendar. , governor, will freeze the assessed The measure, SB175, sponsored by valuation of 'ounties which have alSen. Robert Bowen, Fork, ready undergone reevaluation until the raises the governors salary from second round of reevaluation is com$35,000 to $40,000. the attorney generals pleted. Then, the state intends to jump from $25,000 to $30,000, and the lieutenall county property values upward at ant governor, auditor and treasurer once from $22,000 to $28,000 Final approval was aW. given to SB172 to allow the State Retirement A clause in the bill giving the mrreases in Board to set up a system of self- executives By Dexter C. Ellis Deseret News political editor $500-nullio- n year Social Security edict Senate okays porno bills, only 5 dissenting votes Top court gives widowers a break insurance tfor state employe health WASHINGTON (UPI) The coverage. The sunshine bill was sent back to Supreme Court today ruled th.it the House for consideration of Senate widowerF are victims of sex amendments. The redlining bill also discrimination when they are went to the House as did SB 172, the considered for Social Secunty measure pensions, an edict that could directly affect at least 220,000 The pornography legislation, represof a in another series legislative persons enting efforts to curb obscene films and other The 4 court decision resuch materials, appears headed for jected v hat it labeled the old easy passage in both the Senate and notion that a woman is depenHouse. dent on her husband for The principal sponsor. Sen. A. Dean support. said SB 189 contains a Officials at the Department Jeffs, number of amendments to the current of Health, Education and Welpornography statute, providing pro- fare said that at least 220,000 secutors with broader authority and widowers could receive benefits heavier penalties in 1977 under the ruling. The other bill, SB190, was introThy also said the decision, duced as a substitute for the original which may involve husband-- , as SB190 which would have set up a board welt, would increase the overall to review all films coming into the state cost of the program by $447 for commercial ue. million Sen Jeffs said this was considered Under the law , a man applyunworkable. ing for such benefits on the The substitute contains state registbasis of bis wifes earnings ration requirements for film dis-Se- e must show that he was receivSENATE on A-- 6 ing at least half his support - from his wife when she died A woman in a similar situation need not present any proof In an opinion for four members of the court, Justice William Brennan said this is the same kind of distinction the court ruled against m two earlier opinions. It held that the government must pay sur- 5-- vivors' insurance to widowers with dnldien on the same basiu as to widows and that it must provide dependency benefits to servicewomen on the same basis as to serv icemen Brennan said allowing the efforts of insured female workers to produce less protection for their spouses than is pro duccd by efforts of male workers is constitutionally forbidden at leant when supported by no more suDstantial justification old than THE U.S. TUNA FLEET was sailing into Pacific Coast ports with flags at half-matoday, abandon ing the sea in protest against federal porpoise-savin- g regulations. The fishermen contend the complicated and increasingly strict regulations have made fishing by Americans economically Impossible. Meanwhile, the Justice Department urged a review by the appeals court on tne order. st 1 he action taken ny ue Finance Committee on Tuesday was in the direction of higher Social Secunty taxes, effective next January, along with some increase in benefits. Long said the administration did not ask the panel to reverse its decision to luke benefits. The panel, writing a report Tuesday on its fiscal 1978 spending and tax plans, agreed the budget should recognize the possibility of the tax increase and the likelihood of a boost in benehts. The committee endorsed phasing out the earnings test, which costs a recipient $1 in benefits for each $2 of income above $3,000 a year. The panel recommended $500 million to finance a start in the phaseout and other benefit increases. The panel estimated the already scheduled July 1 cost-o- f living increase in Social Security benefits wlll be a 5 percent. President Ford asked Congress in 197G to raise Social Security taxes The idea was rejected on both sides of Capitol Hill as unwise in an election WASHINGTON (AP) At the urging of the Carter administration, the Senate Finance Committee abruptly reversed itself today and voted against raising Social Security taxes this year. We have no business assuming we are going to raise Social Security taxes if the administration is advocating against it, Sen Russe'i b. Long, chairman of the Finance Committee, told his colleagues. He asked the committee to rescind action taken Tuesday that indicated support for higher payroll taxes. The committee agreed unanimously. Long said Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and welfare, had called earlier today expressing coneem that higher Social Security taxes would thwart the economic-stimulu- s purposes of the income tax cut proposed by Carter and apparently supported by a majority of Congress. There is growing concern that the Social Security system will go bankrupt within a few' years unless it can resume collecting in taxes more than it pays out in benefits. RECRUITING is faiiina to pfCrdoce is becoming increasingly to maintain, acccord!"3 to a ci if( icu! I and cost!, congressional study. The study found the Armv and Marine Corps already falling short in recruiting. Meanv'hile, President Carter does not foresee a of the military draft, but if it should come about, he favors an end to all deferments Carter left the messane on a visit to the Pentagon, where he also dfei.ded his pardon of Vietnam War draft resisterc. MILITARY tic all volunteer fotce that MEDICAL INVESTIGATORS are making tests to try to isolate any lingering agents that could have caused the deaths of two employes at the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta within 48 hours Both victims, a warehouseman and a custodian, were struck with similar symptdms, but CDC doctors say they are not sure the deaths are relaxed. Boin men woi ked in o building h,ch houses laboratories where virus diseases such as influenza, smallpox and measles are studied REP. HENRY GONZALES has submitted his resignation as chairman of the House Committee on Assassinations, saying he couid nut work with chief counsel Richard A. Sprague whom he called an "unconscionable scoundrel." The committee was established to investigate the killing of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. !t has been virtually paralyzed in recent weeks by the squabble between Gonzalez and Sprague that stemmed from the reluctance of House members to okay a $6.5 million-a-yea- r budget Sprague requested. Senators Xr Page report 1 ' notions as to assumptions THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT was dealt a severe setback Tuesday with its defeat by the legis ature in North Carolina, considered a key state by ERA backers. Despite lobbying bv the White House, the senate killed the proposed ERA leaders had viewed North amendment Carolina as a crucial state in the campaign to obtain ratification by the required 38 states befoie the March 1979 deadline. It has been approved by 35 states thus far. iast-minu- te 26-2- 4 UGANDA'S IDI AMIN claimed today that 2,600 American, British and Israeli mercenaries were marching through Kenya to invade Uganda and said the U.S. had sent warplanes and warships to help them. The statement over Radio Uganda camo as tensions with the U.S. appeared to be easing following several days of turmoil. It raised new tears for the safety of the estimated 240 Americans still living in Uganda. MEXICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, angered by an abrupt Increase In natural gas prices, seized distribution plants in Durango Tuesday and began a mass giveaway of gas tanks to the city's poor. They said Ihey will stay until the gas companies agree to lower prices. The students, from a number of technical schoo's in the city of 200,000 in northwestern Mexico, met no resistance from workers at the plants, authorities said. INDIAN GOVERNMENT WORKERS by the te"S of thousands booed and leered Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at a campaign rally in New Delhi Tuesday only two weeks before national elections. Some walked out in the middle of her speech. Indian observers said it was the first time a prime minister was treated with such irreverence at a rally. Gandhi foes, meanwhile, got cheers from a crowd three times the size lust hours later. Moral Choices The sixth in the series. Moral Choices in Contemporary Society, another In the Courses by Newspaper program written for the University of California, San Diego, by some of Ihe nation's foremost scholars, can be found today on STOCK MARKET TODAY 7 he stock market E W YOR K ( U P I ) lost its buying punch today, and prices drifted airr.'essly in sluggish trading of New York Stock Exchange issues. N The Dow Jones Industrial Average, up and down throughout the morning, was ahead 0 17 to 944 90 shortly before 3 p m. EST The blue-chiaverage had 944.90 gained Mju points rhe previous two sessions, including 8.31 Tuesday Advances led declines, 696 to 569, among the 1,799 issues crossing the tape (Complete New York, American lists on B 2. and UTAH WEATHER jjT,. Second miner found dead Rescuers found a IG wER CITY, Pa. (AP) second body today as they dug through splintered timber and mud in an effort to reach miners trapped in a flooded mine shaft. A federal official said it was 'very unlikely that the eight still missing had survived. Three other miners were seriously injured Tuesday when a flash flood raced through a section of the Koeher Coal Co mine in the heart of the state's anthracite region, some 40 miles northeast of Harrisburg. The men were trapped in pitch darkness 400 fet beneath the top of Kepplers Mountain. Recovery crews heard no answers to their shouts. An official identified the second victim as Philip Sabutuio, 50, of Ilegens Oh no' Oh no' cried his widow, when told her husband was dead. Other women crowded i f 1 Keocueis were wiihh sevcial hundred feet from where the trapped men were behoved to be in the nule-len- g mine shaft, 400 feet below the mountain's peak Pennsylvania miners wait to learn fate of comrades. ptKMO . t jKrvte' 'ik ''" . Cr 7 ' i.4 W (SASS : a n 3., -& 4 yitsh , svr. 'f MT1 t e.W v v . 1 J' Ji 4 wiVl y r JP Tsw? - Vv-- nX i. - ' vv" k Rich-iftld- V ' 'V.vik - Zones 1, 2, 10 (Cache Valley, Wasatch Tront, northwestern deserts) Occasional snow with partial clearing attunes Lows 16 in Logan, 20 in rovo, 22 m Ogden ana 23 in Sail Lake. High:, Zones 3, 4 (Delta, Milford, Cedar City, Sevier Occasional snow Valley) with winds tonight and , Thursday. Lows 13 in 16 in Milto-- d and 17 in Delta, 16 in Cedar City. 35-3- ST f 4t - . .I. y fe fiV vW ..vs- wwr.rr If there are peopie in there alive then we don't want to shoot somebody up," he said. V Occasional snow showers and gusty northerly winds decreasing tonight and Tnursday Lows lower 20s with highs 35 to 40 4 Am about her and al-- o started weeping. Rescuers had planned to use dynamite this morning to blow up debris which was damnung five feet of water separating them from the men. However, James Shcbcr, an official with the state Department of Environmental Resources, sad the explosives would be used only as a last resort. UPI .,,, A'v. aws('3 'Vr , ,v ''t'S r r u ' Highs 36 37. Zone S ( Ur dll s Dixie) -- Gusty northerly winds with chance of showers tonight. St George low jO, hign si. Zones 6, 8 ('Jintah Basin, Carbon Couni y snow tonight and early Thursday. Lows 17 m inter-n.itti.- National wratlier map Vernal and Hghs round 25 37 in Price Zones 7, 9 (Southeast Utah Canyonl tnds. Lake WmUy with Powell) snows tonight and Thurs Lows i5 to 25, highs 45 day in Mi ab 40s, elsewhere Windy and cold at the lake area summary on D-- t |