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Show St y Salt Lake City, Vol. 296, No. 180 I'tah-Thurs- Morning-Ap- day 12, 1873 ril Price Ten Cents By Tom Robinson Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON Federal Judge William B. Jones Wednesday ordered the Nixon administration to halt the dismemberment of the Office of Economic The judge said the dismantling was "unauthorized by law, illegal and in excess of statutory authority," And that all of Phillips' ordeers concerning the end of OEO were null and void. Opportunity. Defines Budget Referring to Phillips citation of the as prompting his actions as OEO acung director, Jones said the budget is nothing more than a proposal - OEOs programs for people must be continued, Jones Ruled, until Congress changes that command. Actions already taken by OEO Director Howard Phillips to dismantle the agency are null and void, Jones said in his opinion. His ruling was a clear dissent from White House claims of broad authority to reduce or eliminate congressionally mandated programs. I'.S. Attorneys Quiet e e budget-messag- director, one-yea- r ex-- 1 Sweeping Much of U.S. of U.S. Car Industry Wins Delay On Clean Air Act Standards By Robert F. Buckhorn United Press International In the face of autoWASHINGTON mobile industry arguments of possible assembly line shutdowns, the government Wednesday granted the automakers a r delay in meeting the tough 1975 clean air standards. one-yea- But he Envmonmental Protection Agency (EPA) set higher interim standards, and ordered all cars sold in on-plagued California to be equipped with pollution control devices known as catalytic converters. polluti- Ruckelshaus said his serious reservations about Chrysler were so grave that "if Congress had provided me with sancof the nuclear deterrent of in President Richard C. Gerstenberg said: tions short down that major corporaeffect closing We are disappointed and dismayed by of good faith may have the decision. He said the interim stan- tion, my finding otherwise. been dards would be difficult to meet and Create Extreme Hardship' might require the industry to equip all cars with costly catalytic converters. The EPA administrator said shutting GM could appeal the government's deci- down Chrysler would create extreme sion in court. hardship for large numbers of innocent parts suppliers and ultiChrysler Corp. said EPAs interim employes, standards may be beyond our present mately the public at large. capability. Chrysler also His doubts were triggered, he said, by said it believes provisions of the clean a controversy that arose last month durair act go far beyond the need for pro- ing EPA hearings on the industrys tection of health and will require the r delay of tough request for a American public to pay a great deal for new federal antipollution standards. little if any additional benefit. EnA major catalyst supplier Earlier In the Day gelhard Mine Is & Chemical Corp. of told the EPA" that ChryRuckelshaus said he doubted that Newark, N.J. Chrysler tried to meet the 1975 clean air sler rejected its bid to supply catalysts standards, but agreed to give Chrysler because Englehard had informed the an extension to avoid widespread unem- EPA that it could manufacture catalysts capable of meeting the 1975 standard. ployment. The American Automobile Assn, said that in light of the deferment, EPA consider should seriously prohibiting kitchen-sinattachments to curb pollutechtion. AAA argued that the tack-onology of the catalytic converter would increase operating costs and maintenance and consume even more fuel than 1973 models which it said are straining natural resources and mo- fall short of the sharper cutback proposed in the 1975 standards. Despite the reprieve, General Motors one-yea- Disappointed, Dismayed' EPA administrator William D. Ruckelshaus is requiring two sets of The higher would interim standards. apply in California and the other would be effective for the rest of the nation. In effect. Both sets of standards would cut back on the 1973 levels of auto pollution, but Air Crash Victims . That the dismantling violated the Act, which requires a Reorganization reorgnization plan to be submitted to Congress before an agency is abolished. That orders concerning the termination of OEO were not properly published in the federal register and were therefore illegal. k Quiet Somerset Stricken, 'Mums Not Coming Back ; Bv Richard Eder New York Times Wnter - Six small . AXBRIDGE, ENGLAND boys were swinging on the iron school-- i yard fence in this bereaved Somerset village. : I'll tell you a secret, said Neil Hop kins, who is 10 and thin and wore a heavy sweater. He smiled persistently but looked very white. My mum was on the plane. Vance Harding broke in. My sister was lucky, he said. She sat in the part of the plane that didnt get all smashed to flinders. Neils mother. Brenda Hopkins, had shopping and organized the for the to Basel trip Axbridge Ladies' Guild Seventy members went and only 27 are definitely listed red-wo- one-da- ' sight-seein- y g Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A 2 ! Last night, Hopkins, a builder, recalled the start of what was to have been a holiday escape for dozens of mothers in this lovely, quiet, strawberry-growing part of the Somerset counone-da- y i I never like saying goodbye to my but this morning she wife," he said, came upstairs and said see you tonight See Page A 8, Column BONN Martin Bormann, Nazi futhe most sought-afte- r gitive since Hiller's Third Reich collapsed in flames, was dead officially pronounced AND MORE . . . Grand Central K mart Section tion Sec- Thursdays Forecast - Fair to Salt Lake City and vicinity partly cloudy with a chance of a few showers, continued mild Weather map on Pace D-l- ll Hearings Edmund S. Muskie, said his subcommittee on air and water pollution would hold three days of hearings starting Monday on the EPA action. But he said he was confident Ruckelshaus made the choice which, in his best judgment, would be most nearly consistent with the objectives of the clean air act. House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford, whose home state of Michigan is the nation's auto production center, said the EPA decision is in the best interests of the consumer since the converters are untested and highly expensive." tryside. By Joe Alex Moms Jr. Los Angeles Times Writer i Schedules Sen. as surviving Tuesday's plane crash in which more than 100 died. Mrs. Hopkin's name is not on the initial list of survivors. What remains of and those of dozens her family's hopes rest m the of families in the village fact that by Wednesday night three injured survivors had still not been identified. Bonn anil Inside The Tribune torists pocketbooks. Wednesday. The West German Superiur Court in Frankfurt, which for the past 12 years has been coordinating the search for Bormann, announced it was dosing the case and withdrawing the 100.000 mark ($.16,000) reward for his capture Joachim Chief Attorney Richter said the decision was based on new discoveries made durng excavations in 1 s Todays Chuckle Bragging may be in poor taste, but nobody expects a man who has caught a large fish to go home through the alley Doubts Linger On The announcement appeared unlikely to end speculation about Bormann. however Simon Wiesenthal. head of the Jewish documentation center in Vienna, said he still has his doubts about the case "I must accept the proof been ussembled which ha. In Southern Illinois where temper- atures skidded into the low 20s, apple and peach growers said there was extensive damage. To fight frost damage one grower burned a mound of old auto tires in his peach orchard, but the wind blew the thick, black smoke away, he said. In the aftermath of the spring snowstorms, farmers added up heavy livestock and poultry losses. They estimated that 120,000 young turkeys and several thousand cattle and calves died in Iowa. Associoted Press Wirephoto His Credits Good Now the quesPORTLAND, ORE tion is, how big a spree can one go on with 315 Standard Oil credit cards? Problem faced Gregg Chastain, but he says hell return 314 of them. The oil firm blamed its computer in Concord, Calif., for the Gov. John Love of Colorado asked for a disaster designation for five southeastern counties in his state. He said livestock losses exceed $10 million, with at least half the spring calf crop and 10 to 20 per cent of breeding stock wiped out. Gov. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri asked President Nixon to declare a major disaster for his state because of flooding along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries. He said damage was nearly $33 million. In Washington, D.C., the chief of the Army Corps of Engineers said 7.3 million acres in seven states have been flooded error. and estimated damages at $150 million. He said if the corps had not built floyd control projects along the Mississippi and its tributaries, 17 million acres would have been under water, with losses running to $2.5 billion. Many roads remained closed in southern Wisconsin. Cars stalled in drifting snow earlier this week remained abandoned and were hampering snow removal ment disagreeing with the delay. He said e 1.000 cars stranded in a immediate action is needed to correct work. Some stretch on a major Milwaukee the inflationary spiral unleashed by the oughfare gradually were being President's Phase 3. removed. Patman acknowledged that rolling In Arizona, storms cut off normal supprices back to their level on the day beroutes leading to many communities ply fore the voluntary Phase 3 program took of the Navajo Reservation. The National effect would cause problems. But he said the bill would permit the President to Guard began airlifting 120 tons of into mainly livestock feed grant hardship exemptions from the roll- supplies the area. back. And he rapid price rises, especialThe Mississippi River dropped more ly in food, since the administration ended Phase 2 controls demand action before than one foot at St. Louis and is not expected to reach its former high levels, Congress goes on recess, he said. although flood conditions may be proPatman spent most of the day defendlonged by melting snow in northern Mising the proposed price rollback from hosIllinois and Iow a. souri, bv tile Questions members of the House Rules Committe. Rep. Dave Martin, The lower Mississippi River was said it was unfair to require its crest from Greenville. Miss., reaching cattlemen who have paid high prices for to Vicksburg, Miss., producing stages 5 to feed to sell their animals at lower Janu- 9 feet over flood level at points ary prices. Martin said an attempt to roll back prices would lead to shortages. Demo Leaders Postpone Action on Price Rollback Washington Post Service WASHINGTON Fearing defeat in the House, Democratic leaders Wednesday postponed action until after the Easter recess on the wage-priccontrol bill with its proposed rollback of food prices, rents and interest rates to Jan. 10 levels. e Instead, majority leader Thomas P. said the leadership will ONeill, ask the House early next week to pass a resolution extending for 60 days the present law which expires April 30, the day the House returns from a recess. The decision was at least a temporary victory for the Nixon administration r extenwhich wants a straight sion of the law that empowers but does not require the President to impose wage and price controls. y one-yea- chairRep. Wright Patman, man of the House Banking and Currency Committee and chief sponsor of the controversial price rollback, issued a state- - with German thoroughness," Wiese lthal said, but I have my last doubts based on purely personal feelings." But Wiesenthal went on to praise the great earnestness with which he said the Frankfurt authorities had pursued the investigation. Bormann was the mightiest man in the Third Reich next to Hitler himself. He was in Hitlers Bunker, near the old Rcichs Chancellory, as the Red army swarmed over the area Attempt to Flee According to reports of survivors. Bormann divided up the small group of Nazi offi five-mil- e down--strea- Repeat , Dead! Officially Dead West Berlin in recent months. These included a skeleton, a skull and a dental bridge. The remains were studied latest criminal deusing the tection methods, Richter said, and he was absolutely certain that they were Some record low's were 12 at Madison, 26 at Chattanooga, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala.: 41 in New Orleans and 48 m West Palm Beach, Fla. Among the coldest spots were Pellston and Marquette in northern Michigan with readings of 7 above. administrator's responsibility to carry out the congressional objectives of a program does not give him the power to discontinue that program, especially in the face of a congressional mandate that it shall go on," Jones ruled. Judge Jones ruled in favor of the plaintiffs on three basic theories: 1974. d Wis.; An n I storm-wracke- flood-stricke- n Cites Earlier Ruling However, the judge cited earlier legislation by Congress that authorizes funding of the OEO programs through June 30, 1975. While Congress can decide not to appropriate any money to OEO after the current fiscal year ends June 30 of this year, the money already appropriated must be used to carry out the programs instead of dismantling them, the judge ruled. Theories of Ruling That Phillips actions were in violation of the Economic Opportunity Act, which authorized the funds through fiscal Press By Associated funnel of wintry air, making a Midwest sweep from the to the South, set scores of low spring temperature records Wednesday. Damage to sprouting fruit and vegetable crops was widespread and the spring landscape of blooming flowers and leafing trees wilted in many sections. A Phillips was named by President Nixon to supervise the dismantling of the antipoverty agency m January. At that time the President told Congress in a budget message that he was requesting no additional funding of OEO. In his defense during the suits, Phillips pointed to that message as the latest assessment of national needs and said that the only fiscally responsible course for him was to phase the program out of existence. the 1975 antipollution standards for cars, granted to nations automakers Wednesday. tension . Cold, Floods Government attorneys would not comment on the opinion Wednesday night or would on whether the government appeal. The suits m Jones court were brought by a Missouri rural redevelopment corporation and organizations representing OEO workers Environmental Protection Agencys William D. Ruckclshaus, explains to the Congress to act upon as it may please " defendant as the "Assuming, argues, that a fiscally responsible administrator must terminate programs under his supervision in the absence of either an appropriation or a budget request for could be termi. funds, any program nated by the executive by not requesting any funds in the budget to continue its operation. cials there on the night of May for a planned breakout. Accompanied only by Hitler's physician. Dr. Ludwig Stump-feggehe tried to use the confusion of that night to slip through Russian lines. 1 r, Bormann attempted to take over a German tank, but the tank commander turned him away, saying it was full of German wounded, according to the reports. He and Stumpfegger then tried to run behind another German tank, but it was hit and blown up. Hitler's chauffeur witnessed the action and said later he assumed Bormann was killed in the blast But Artur Axmann, the Hitler youth leader, later ran across the pair crouched in a shell crater. He said Bormann ripped off his insignia and tried to escape across the River Spree. He was spotted by Soviet soldiers and turned back, Axmann later said. The youth leader said he returned to the same spot later and saw Bormann and Stumpfegger dead Despite all this testimony-ovethe past z8 years, there has been continuing speculation that Bormann was alive See Page A-- Column f 4 Sees the Bodies 5 i , fA ) i& v -- Associated Press Wireohoto Martin Bormann Reward Offer Dead, Too |