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Show Page4 Wednesday, October 5, 1977 INTERNATIONAL Jerusalem The Israeli government Sunday sharply criticized the United States for issuing a joint Soviet-American declaration regarding the Geneva peace talks. Speaking for Prime Minister Menahem Begin, Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich said the joint communique was unacceptable and that it marked a step toward outside imposition of a Middle East solution, which Israel has long rejected. He characterized the declaration as leaning toward a separate Palestinian state and said it tended to favor the Palestine Liberation Organization. "The statement of the Soviet Union and the United States is not acceptable, the. finance minister said. "We can go to Geneva but without the PLO. If the PLO is in the representation we cannot take part in this Geneva conference." Dacca More than 100 persons were reported killed in an abortive coup attempt by dissident Bangladesh troops Sunday. Unofficial accounts said the short-lived revolt broke out before dawn in an army camp and then spread to the airport where rebel soldiers stormed stor-med the control tower where Air Vice Marshal Abdul Ghafir Mahmud had been negotiating with the hijackers of a Japan Air Lines DC-8. Another group of dissidents seized the Dacca radio station for a brief period but President Ziaur Rahman went on the air a few hours later to announce that the revolt had been crushed. The shootout at the airport only briefly held negotiations with the five Japanese Red Army hijackers. After holding the plane for more than five days at the Dacca airport, the hijackers took off for Kuwait Sunday where the jetliner refueled and then headed in the direction of Damascus. More than 25 hostages were still aboard. Buenos Aires Argentine destroyers fired on two Bulgarian fishing vessels and captured two Soviet boats without firing a shot Saturday when the ships were caught within Argentina's 200-mile 200-mile territorial limit. One of the Bulgarian ships was hit by canon fire and an Argentine newspaper reported one Bulgarian sailor dead and several others wounded. woun-ded. Navy officials said three Argentine sailors drowned when a boarding craft overturned. London A bottle of rare wine Was purchased for $14,440 Thursday at Christie's auction galleries. The 1806 Chateau Lafite claret was bought in its original bottle for an unnamed "influential and wealthy customer" by a Washington wine store owner. Tom Ligare Mount Air Mall M A 4 - . "Count on me foreconomical protection and prompt, personal service! r STAtl FARM INSURANCI Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. State Farm Insurance Companies Home OHiies Bloommgton, Illinois I New Oreleans The Republicans' Rules Review Committee rejected on Saturday the idea of changing the party's name as means of improving im-proving its public image. "It is a massive burden we bear," said John East of North Carolina, referrring to the name Republican. "The principal obstruction we have going against us is this label." But a suggestion that a year-long study into the proposed name change be conducted was not acted ac-ted upon. Washington President Carter will be sending to Congress a bill that would authorize more than $1 billion for public broadcasting over a five-year period and also would make drastic changes in the system, the New York Times has reported. The proposed federal contribution would exceed ex-ceed in five years the total government support given public broadcasting over the last ten years. Washington President Carter went on national television Thursday and criticized the Senate for diluting his energy program. "The American people are expecting the Congress to pass a national energy plan," Carter said during his news conference. And as the Senate continued its impasse over deregulation of natural gas prices, Carter reiterated his opposition op-position to the removal of price controls and said "no interest group or organization can be satisfied with every part of our plan." Atarlynn's 1 V WOMEN'S APPAREL CASUAL WEAR Mt Air Mall 649-9079 ALL NEW FALL FASHIONS ARRIVING WEEKLY New Corduroy Pants Flannel Finish Gauchos Tues-Wed-Thurs 10-5 FrilO-7 Sat 114 S STILL OUT THERE Cairo President Anwar Sadat pointed to the Soviet Union Wednesday as the cause of most of Egypt's recent problems, including religious strife, and declared a 10-year "grace" period on further payments of more than $4 billion in military debt owed to Moscow. Sadat mentioned many of his country's economic, religious, social and political dilemmas dilem-mas during a two-hour speech and traced most of them to "a plot inspired from abroad." He left little doubt that he meant the Soviet Union. London Salty, a homing pigeon, lost his way during a race from northern France to England and ended up in Canada. He took off on a routine 500-mile race back to his home in Wigan, northern nor-thern England, 12 weeks ago and after two weeks he landed exhausted on the deck of a Canadian trawler off the Newfoundland coast. He was returned to England Friday by a DC10 airliner. "I think I'll have to retire him from racing," said Bill Bennett, Salty's 70-year-old owner. NATIONAL Washington The Commerce Department announced an-nounced Thursday that its index of leading & economic indicators rose 0.8 per cent in August. It was the largest increase since March and it ended three months of sluggishness that had some analysts predicting a prolonged slowdown. Although economists cautioned that a sir.gie month's statistics are not always reliable, they said the August figures suggested the slowdown may be ending and the recovery may be about to resume a more vigorous pace. St. Petersburg, Fla. Few things are certain in life but it's a sure bet that Ron Wilson, 24, will not be taking Betty Hamilton, 29, to the drive-in movie any time soon. Turned down by Miss Hamilton when he asked for a date, Wilson, a forklift operator, picked up her car from the bottom with the lift prongs, raised it above a metal dumpster and let it fall, according to police officials. ,t Wilson was charged with criminal mischief,' aggravated assault and improper exhibition of a weapon. Damage to the car was estimated at $1,000. 4 To Alpine Slide Leads Flans Reprinted From The National Enterprise Since opening the $350,000 Alpine Slide in Park City last month, partners John Prince, Prin-ce, Jack Seeeney and Wally Wright have collected close to $240,000 in ticket sales. And merchants in the ski resort town have welcomed with open arms the more than 120,000 people who have swarmed the hillsides for a daring ride down the concrete con-crete chute. Jan Peterson, manager of Park City's Wolfe's, says he applaudes any future plans Prince, Sweeney and Wright may have. His sporting goods store, in close proximity to the slide, has increased its business 300 per cent since August. "We're still only doing 15 per cent of our winter business, but we've added four employees this summer to accommodate the additional ad-ditional patrons from the' slide," he said. The slide has affected all the restaurants and retail shops in Park City as well, he claims. What's more, the developers are "just scratching scrat-ching the surface of summer recreational potential." You'll get no argument there from developer John Prince. Indeed, he said, Expanded Jin flli A ffL3 Thursday was 'Park City Day' at the Alpine Slide with locals riding for free. "Lagoon has had the corner on the recreation market long enough. We expect to add a skateboard park, water slide and miniature golf course to the area next year. We want to expand the recreational choices at Park City so folks aren't limited to the slide." Miner's Delight, an ice cream parlor located across town from the slide, has watched business increase 15 per cent, owner Randall Thompson says. "The increase in-crease was more apparent when the slide first opened," he added, "since children have returned to school and the weather has cooled off." Frances Smith, manager of the Caboose Restaurant, said the mood in Park City has changed to "buy, buy, buy," since the slide opened. "Weekends are especially busy," she said, "since people are waiting for the lines at the slide to slack off." Her employes enjoyed an added day to their offseason off-season work -week, she said. The slide itself brought 38 full-time jobs to the resort town, Prince said. He is currently negotiating for the construction of a slide next summer in the Lake Tahoe region. As well, Prince says construction of other recreation sites in Park City should begin in the spring. Fire Strikes Ranch Home By Monte Scoville , A fire, burning for more than an hour in a home owned by Wayne Matthews in Holiday Ranch last Wednesday Wed-nesday night, caused several thousands of dollars damage. Apparently starting star-ting in basement electrical wiring at 11:05 p.m., the fire soon ignited clothing, plastic -drain pipes and other stored material next to the north wall, along the ceiling and seared the upper beams. Three occupants, who had retired to bed for the evening, sand three brown poodles managed to escape before smoke filled the home. Park City volunteer firemen, along with engines and trucks, arrived within five minutes of receiving a call for help from Mrs. Miller. She was trapped in her bedroom with the door locked when the fire broke out and was forced to stick her head out the window to breathe, she reported. She had to be carried out to safety by one of the firemen through dense clouds of smoke and fumes. Quick reaction by the men living in the, residence, with the aid of a garden hose, kept the fire from engulfing the home, enabling the blaze to be contained in the basement and extinguished within two hours. ; s City Manager Wayne Matthews Mat-thews said, "If the fire had burned three more minutes, without discovery, the whole place would have gone up." Special thanks with deep gratitude was extended to the Park City telephone operator, the Volunteer Fire Dept., the ambulance crew and the police department for responding in time and saving the home and the occupants. Two Homes Hit By Vandal Two apparently related incidents of vandalism were reported to the Park City Police Dept. last week. Floyd Hamilton, 1141 Woodside Ave., said someone threw a rock through one of his windows at 8:20 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1. Florence Cottis, 946 Norfolk Nor-folk Ave., told police she heard glass break against the side of her home at 8:25 p.m. the same night. Upon investigation she found a soda pop bottle broken on her porch. It struck the house close to a window, she said. ' Subscribe Now To The Newspaper i km i ii THE ftt TDGR Park Citj, Utah Photography Studio Also Dealing in: Film Sales, Photo Finishing. Western Art. 523 Main Street (located across from City Hall) 649-9431 |