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Show idi:x U!:vn!i:!i PROVO-SAL- 17 Amusements Comics Editorial Obituaries 24 & 4 14-1-5 Society Sports Stocks T LAKE-OGDE- Increasing clouds Saturday. Highs Saturday abort SO, lows tonight high 20s to low 30s. of measurable Probability 10 precipitation per cent tonight and 20 Saturday. S4 26 PROVO, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1075 103RD YEAR, NO. 109 PER MONTH $3.00 - PRICE 15 CENTS Asia Vital to America, Ford Tells Indonesia SM H.1H.H.IIHM HjUiUiajflM House Tax Bill, Without Cost Cap, May Face Veto because the House refused to attach a $395 Dillion spending ceiling for fiscal year 1977. The Senate is expected to make some adjustments, holding over until next year the loophole closing provisions to raise $1.3 billion in new revenues while agreeing to a limited extension of the 1975 tax reductions. Strategists planning Senate The WASHINGTON (UPI) House has passed a bill to extend antirecession tax relief and raise new revenues through reforms even though President Frrd called from Peking 10 say that if it reaches the White House without a spending cap he will veto it. The bill passed Thursday on vote. It triggered the a 257-16- 8 presidential veto threat revisions hope to produce a bill the President cannot refuse. About $13 bilion in individual tax reductions and about $2.5 billion in business tax relief on the books for 1975 will expire Jan. 1 if there is no new legislation. leader House Republican John Rhodes said that in a call, Ford reaffirmed his intention n to veto the House bill if there was no agreement to put a lid on spending in 1977 to partly offset the revenues lost by granting tax relief. November, it, p fjf ' ' October, '" ZZJSkMb y . - SSOmW s$S& i$L ' completed, lost its foundation and supports because of the ronstant pounding of flood debris. (UPI Telephoto) County Fair Budget Northwest Storm Of $50,000 Eyed; Status Under Study study is underway to determine if the Utah County Fair should be incorporated as a non - profit organization, according to officials of the new fair board. Board members have set a tentative budget of $50,000 for the event, which will be held in August, 1976. All expenditures and finances of the fair will be handled through the Utah County Auditor's office, and Rick Jackmah, deputy county attorney, has been appointed for the legal representative fair. week Utah County commissioners signed a contract with the Broken Diamond Rodeo Association of California to provide stock for the rodeo planned as a main feature of the fair. At a recent meeting of the board, a motion was passed to ask each community to hold a talent find, then have a county wide competition at the fair. Kent Prestwich, board chairman, pointed out it will become a responsibility of the special events chairman to categorize what will be held, and to coordinate the events with Fay Loveless, chairman of the music committee. The board also voted to A Ist prepare a fair book as a promotion piece, and to hold a design contest for the cover, with the winner receiving $100. County commissioner Verl D. Stone will be the commission on the fair representative board. Board members have voted not to bring in a top name entertainer for the fair next year, but to rely on local entertainment. Hb Warnick will prepare a calendar of the various events. The various committee chairmen are to submit the events to him for the calendar, with justification for time and place Tentatively scheduled for next year at the Spanish Fork High School will be the Queen Contest, Thursday, Aug. 19, and the Talent Contest, Friday, Aug. 20. Saturday is open at present. The fair will be held in Spanish Fork, with events centered primarily around the Utah Junior Livestock Show are and the old Spanish Fork Junior High School and grounds. Ralph provided an economic sign particularly when coupled with the news Thursday that wholesale prices had remained unchanged in November. The number of jobless persons fell by 300,iyX) to 7.7 million in November. This was the biggest percentage decline in unemployment since it dropped from its recession peak of 9.2 per cent in May to 8.6 per cent in June. Adult males, teenagers and e benefited workers most from the decline. Despite the drop in joblessness, the total number of declined employed persons slightly to 85.3 million in November. Julius Shiskin, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, discounted recent fluctuations in unemployment. He told a congressional committee the November figures essentially show little change from the past few months. full-tim- " ONE END of a bridge over Raging River about 20 miles east of Seattle plunged into flooding stream. The bridge, 50 per cent sharpest encouraging ' - ii um - if- the decline in six months, the Labor Department said today. The decline, which neutralized a 0.3 per cent increase in Home, county (Continued on Page 3) Weakens the employment situation in November shows substantial improvement over the levels of last spring when recovery got underway," he said, "employment has been essentially flat for a month or two. and unemployment has fluctuated within a narrow range for the past six months." few areas, including stretches Although jobs were up of the Chehalis River in slightly in the transportation Washington's Grays Harbor equipment industry, a steady County, but cooler weather and increase in manufacturing emglimpses of the sun gave ployment of the past few lowland dwellers hope that the months came to a halt in The latest Pacific storm moved out of coastal Pacific Northwest areas into the intermountain West and weakened today. More than 2,000 refugees, including Indians driven from their reservation, waited for floodwaters to subside. Waters were still rising in a "While flood-stricke- n worst was over. November. Provo City Commission Thursday morning deleted a sewer improvement project from part of the citywide special improvement district at the request of property owners in the area. Commissioners also delayed to action on a proposal consolidate tho purchase of stationery and accepted a bid for 300 new water meters. Residents along 3900 North objected to sewer installation 3 Scenic Areas Closed Due to Snow on Roads The Utah Department of Transportation has closed three scenic roads in Utah and Wasatch counties due to the accumulated snow on them. The roads do not carry sufficient traffic to warrant winter maintenance and are closed each winter until the spring thaw, say highway officials. About 18 miles of Utah Highway 80, which connects American Fork Canyon with Provo Canyon in Utah County, are closed from Mutual Dell to Aspen Grove. Utah Highway 220, an unpaved road in Wasatch County, is closed for about eight miles from its junction with Utah Highway 113 in Midway to Wasatch Mountain State Park. Also closed is unpaved Utah Highway 224 in Wasatch County, beginning at Wasatch Mountain State Park via Pine Creek to Guardsman Pass to the Salt l.ake Wasatch County Line, a distance of about 7'a miles. Signs have been posted to notify travelers of the closures. negotiator, are all smiles as they tell reporters that negotiators for the -- Rail Craft Workers Get Retroactive Wage Raise WASHINGTON (UPI) -Srailroad shop craft workers soon will enjoy a 15 per cent retroactive pay raise and improved work rules as the result of a bargaining session that took them to the brink of a nationwide rail strike. The tentative contract agreement was reached Thursday after nearly four days of ome 70,000 negotiations conducted in a Washington hotel by federal mediator W.J. Usery. The talks round of ended a year-lonrailroad bargaining with 13 unions. Using exhaustion as a mediation tool, Usery had spent most of his time since Monday shuttling between union and management hotel rooms with contract proposals. g Occasionally he brought the two sides to a common table spread with a doodle-marre- d pink cloth and strewn high with newspapers, cigarette butts and dirty coffee cups. The talks began under the pressure of a 6 a.m. EST Thursday strike deadline. But the threat eased Wednesday night as differences over work rules began to melt, and negotiations continued beyond the deadline. The agreement finally was reached Thursday, when Usery announced he had averted a walkout that would have shut down the nation's railroads. The negotiators, who appeared wearier than Usery, were department must unions proposal to their membership for ratification. 10 per cent raise pay people. After the banquet of retroactive to Dec. 31, 1974 -of duckling and when their old contract expired galantine William Dempsey, chairman and a 5 per cent hike tournedos of beef washed down of the railroad's negotiating with French champagne and retroactive to Oct. 1. In 1976, team, said the pact followed the wines out of chrystal goblets, 7 cent will a receive they per Suharto said the aftermath of pattern established in earlier hike in two steps. rail other with negotiations The contract provides a cost Vietnam has brought "deep unions and would provide an regarding the of living escalator and what concern overall 40.7 per cent wage of disturbances possibility a union officials believe is increase. threatening the security and stricter limitation on subconstability of the ... region." Although ratification will tracting of work to two-hoThe talk Ford firms. take about 30 days, the shop scheduled with Suharto Friday night were expected to deal largely with Indonesian requests to double the $50 million it now gets in military aid, and with oil Indonesia supplies 11 per cent of U.S. oil imports. Ford, wife Betty and daughter Susan arrived in a tropical children who had been among AMSTERDAM (UPI) -Te- rrorists rainshower that constrasted their captives. of a score holding starkly with Peking's freezing had been The gunmen hostages in the Indonesian temperatures. consulate forced captives at holding 26 persons, including 11 Sheltered by pastel parasols gunpoint today to stand on a children. They released three against the drizzle, residents of balcony blindfolded and with children shortly after 4 p.m. the world's sixth largest counan electric cable around their when they allowed a mediator the Fords an to enter the dark brick try gave necks. But thev freed five enthusiastic welcome. Thoubuilding. Another two children sands of school children waved were freed when he came out of red and white Indonesian flags the consulate 45 minutes later. and the Stars and Stripes. Another terrorist band held U.S. officials said dozens of hostages aboard a hijacked train at Beilen, where communiques would be issued force of troops and after both the Jakarta a and Ford's police appeared ready to attack discussions talks in the held Saturday to free the captives since Tuesday morning. The Philippines, in contrast to the gunmen allowed police to carry Peking summit. But on the r off the bodies of three hostages flight from China, they had killed and dumped out they reiterated their belief the of the train. Peking talks bore fruit and did not need an inconsequential Both groups of terrorists closing communique. were South Moluccans, seeking After one day in Manila, Ford Indonesia from independence where on of their former Spice Islands fiies to Hawaii 34th anniversary of once a part of the Sunday homeland he will deliver Pearl Harbor Dutch Empire a memorial address from the Dutch Premier Joop Den Uyl sunken battleship Arizona, the told a ne"ws conference this p last stop on his would his government evening not budge on its rejection of the Ford's visit was a show of gunmen's demands, which inwho cluded the immediate release support for Suharto of some 25 South Moluccans came to power by crushing a held in Dutch jails for offenses at a communist coup in 1965 connected with their campaign tinx-- when communist power in for independence. Southeast Asia is growing at a He said since the gunmen had rate causing consternation to U S officials. (Continued on Page 3) non-unio- n 2 Terrorist Bands Still Hold Hostages 1,000-ma- n eight-hou- 24.000-miletri- special improvement district, charging the adjacent property owners over a period of several years. Tom Gourley. from the city's told commissioners the city could save money perhaps several if thousand dollars were stationery' purchased through his department from one supplier. City departments would then receive a discount because of volume buying through bids. Two local businesses dropped their prices considerably when asked to bid on the city's stationery. However, both businesses Standard Office Supply and Utah Office Supply were considerably higher than a bid (Continued on Page 3) left, and James Yost, chief union the four shop representing craft unions. Only three of the The improvements would have been paid for under a office, CHIEF FEDERAL Mediator W. J. Usery, employe because of "poor timing." They said they would prefer to wait until spring. Commissioners said the cost would be higher in the spring because equipment is near the site now and the contractor would charge more for moving it in again later. purchasing - PresiJAKARTA (UPI) Ford assured ' Indonesia that Friday ' despite the embarrassment of : Vietnam America "is a . Pacific nation" and has no intention of pulling out of Southeast Asia. "No area of the world is more important to us than Asia," Ford declared in a banquet toast exactly the sort of reassurance host President Suharto of Indonesia wanted to allay his growing fears about the continued ascendency of communism in Southeast Asia. "We remain firmly committed to peace and security in Southeast Asia and throughout railroads and 70,000 shopcraft employes Ford said, still glowing Asia, reached tentative settlement on a new over four days of "very, very contract, averting a nationwide rail constructive" talks in Peking strike. (UPI Telephoto) and the rousing welcome by 100.000 Indonesians at the start his visit hers. Suharto showed clearly in his toast to Ford his deep concern that the communism that now rules Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam might someday reach down to his gigantic curving of 135 million archipelago a submit the craft employes can anticipate f pleased. "We do not believe we will have any problem with the ratification," said James Yost, head of the AFL-CTrailway Provo Commission Deletes Improvement District Job President, Suharto In Talks dent 220-20- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The rate nation's unemployment fell 0.3 per cent to 8.3 per cent in .gjg JpBMK ' 1 A Republican attempt to recommit the bill to the Ways and Means Committee with instructions to report it back with a spending ceiiing was defeated (Continued on Page 3) America's Jobless Rate Drops . W IT,,,,,., Senate Votes Cut-Of- f Of Filibuster WASHINGTON i UPI Senate voted today to cut off a filibuster so it could pass President Ford's bill to avert bankruptcy in New York City by allocating loans of up to $2 3 billion over the next 30 months. -The The bill's Resolution Submitted Condemning Air Raids supporters expected to send the bill to the White House by the end of the day. Seventy senators, 10 more than the required 60, voted to impose cloture. Twenty-sevevoted against the ending debate. The vote to impose cloture on the bill limiting each senator to a maximum of one hour of showed that there oratorywas enough support to pass the measure. But opponents, led bv Sen James B Allen, . said they would continue the fight next week when an appropriation bill conies up to provide the money for the loans UNITED NATIONS If. condemning n a iL'PIi-T- he "nonaligned" members of the Security Council submitted a resolution today strongly Israel's "premeditated air attacks" on in Lebanon and refugee camps warning of more vigorous AN INDONESIAN who hari hidden on second floor of Indonesian Consulate at A m I e 1! ,t ni in ,i k i' s action if they are repeated Israel announced that it was boycotting a 12 30 p m Council session postponed from 10 !!0 because it refuses to sit a m down with representatives of Liberation Palestine Organization participating in a jump to pavement alter armed raiders the hurst into consulate and seized hostages. il PI Telephoto) session of the the first time. Cameroon, 15 nation txniv for Guyana. Iraq. Mauritania and Tanzania submitted a resolution deploring Israel's "defiance" of U.N resolutions and expressing grief about the loss of life in "indiscriminate" Israeli raids on Palestinian refugee camps in which more than 100 persons died The draft resolution declares that the Council "Strongly condemns the government of Israel for its premeditated air attacks against Lebanon in violation of its obligations under the U.N. Charter and of Security Council resolutions (Continued on Page3) |