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Show Founded 1850 when Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret VOL. 384 NO. 109 15 CENTS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 68 PAGES THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976 METRO I Ford studies strategy, quick win is unlikely WASHINGTON (AP) - Key political advisers to President Ford are growing increasingly pessimistic about his chances of arriving at the GOP National Convention with enough votes tor a first-ballvictory, and some are concerned he could lose his own states primary. After Ronald Reagan's dramatic resurgence. Sen. Robert Dole, said Wednesday he didnt think either Ford or Reagan would reach the convention with the 1.1.10 votes needed lor nomination And at a news conference on Wednesday. Ford acknowledged he is reviewing his campaign strategy, and he backed away from his earlier predictions of a first-ballvictory, saying only, "1 think well go to Kansas City and win." Alter four straight primary wms Texas on Saturday and Indiana, Georgia, and Alabama on Tuesday Reagan has 360 committed delegate votes tc 292 committed to Ford. There are 329 uncommitted Republican delegates. There are 1,278 delegates yet to be chosen. It will take 1,130 votes for nomination at the convention in Kansas City this August. Reagan said today he now believes it victory at possible to win a first-ballthe Republican National Convention. Reagan told a crowd of supporters at the Shreveport, La., airport, he has exceeded his own projections. "If the Democratic nominee is to be Jimmy Carter, I will tell you now that I offer the best opportunity for victory tor what we believe in, Reagan said. Dole, chairman, a former GOP national said he thinks Reagan is Today in the News FIVE MILLIONAIRES were among the more Ilian 3,000 Americans who earned $50,000 or more in 1974 and paid no federal income fax, the Internal Revenue Service says. The number of millionaires however, was down from seven In 1973. There were 224 individuals with adjusted gross incomes of 5200,000 or more who paid no taxes. On the other ahead in Nebraska, which votes next Tuesday In nonprimary states, he said he expects Reagan to do well in Wyoming and sweep Oklahoma. Even Michigan, Fords home state, is now regarded as questionable. Michigan law permits crossover votirig . here members of one party can vote the other partys primary. In Texas and Indiana, two other crossover states. Reagan defeated Ford with the aid of Democratic votes, many apparently lrom former George Wallace supporters. hand, persons n w in Sen. Howard II. Baker Jr., said if neither Ford nor Reagan gets the nomination on the first or second ballot, "you can look for the aw fullest bloodletting youve seen at a Republican convention in years and years and decades and decades " AP Suddenly, in a reversal ol nearly all campaign picdrctioiis. Democratic presidential candidates are talking party unity Jimmy Carter, way out front in the Democratic race, is calling for unity in talks with party leaders. He has talked by telephone this week with Sen Hubert Humphrey, New York Gov. Hugh Carey and New York Mayor Abe Beame. Two of Carter's remaining opponent Morris tdall and George Wallace. said they would support Carter if he's nominated. It was the first such declaration irom Wallace, who earlier termed the former Georgia governor McGovern." "a warmed-ove- r Idall, still struggling to keep his chances alive, told a Washington news conference Wednesday there will be "no blood on the floor" once the nomination is decided. "Were not going to screw it up the way we did m 68 and 72," I'dall said. "Were going to win one for a change. A Humphrey aide said the Minnesota senator, who decided last week against entering the Democratic race, wall refrain from endorsing anyone as long as theres more than one active candidate tor the nomination. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. met with congressional leaders tda;' in Washington and won praise from House Speaker Carl Albert, who said afterward "I like him very much. He's the only one who has a chance to stop - Carter." JERSEY JUDGE has declared zn ing ordinances ip 11 municipalities invalid and ordered the communities to develop housing plans for low-anmoderate-incomfamilies. The decision follows a ruling on April 20 bv the U S. Supreme Court that courts can order officials found guilty of racial bias to create housing for the poor in city suburbs. A NEW Brown, who has been campaigning in Maryland for the May is primary, dropped into Washington briefly to talk with party leaders, meet with the editorial board of The Washington Post and appear on a television show .Among those attending a session with Brow n m the House Caucus Room were Humphrey, Alliert and Son. Harrison Williams, Brown met privately afterward with Albert and Rep. Phillip Burton, D Calif. "I realize coming late to the race is an uphill battle," Brown told the group in the caucus room. d e A P photo California Gov. Ed Brown stumps in Maryland. prodded Panthers to violence, report says FBI - WASHINGTON The FBI provoked and encouraged bloody gang warfare between the Black Panthers and riv al groups in hopes of neutralizing the organizations or killing off the leadership, a Senate intelligence staff report said today. At least four gang-styl- e killings in Cahtorma in 196U were linked to FBI provocation, and the bureau targeted the premises ot a Chicago Black Panther apartment for a local police raid m which two died in a gun battle the same year, the report said. The supplemental report, prepared by the slaii of tne Senate Intelligence Committee, was titled "The FBI's Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party. It catalogued FBI tactics ranging from anonymous hate letters and scurrilous prop Sen. Church says By I tester C. Ellis Deseret News political editor Social Security is not bankrupt its still sound and it's walking This assurance was offered todav by a long-sho- t Sen Frank Church. candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. "A need does exist lor some additional financing," said Church, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on ging "But this is the result of unprecedented economic happenings which have nothing to do with the fundamental .soundness of Social Security concepts. Church addressed the Governor s Conference on Aging in the Salt Palace Ibis morning in between a round ol politicking m Nebraska and Utah in behalf of his presidential candidacy. He told reporters he hopes to get his "late" strategy The lull is over, prices shoot up ilPIi - WASHINGTON Wholesale prices leaped 0 8 percent in pril, propelled by the biggest increase in farm and food prices in a year, the Lulxir Department reported today. The increase, reflecting a nearly doubledigit annual rate of 9 6 percent, brought an lull in the abrupt end to a wholesale market. It was the biggest monthly jump since last October. The April wholesale increases soon will be passed along to consumers and, combined with an upcoming round of metal price hikes, threaten to weaken President Ford's campaign promise that his economic policies can defuse inflation. Led by livestock, eggs and green coffee, arm prices rose a hefty 4.2 percent after declining sharply the previous three months. Processed food and feed prices rose 1 9 percent the biggest rise since November, 1974 gear with a the Nebraska in m or a good showing m Democratic primary election Tuesday. But, he acknowledged that his hopes re.-- t partially on other Democrats, such as Hubert Humphrey, Morris Udall and Fred Harris, rallying to his cause. His scenario calls for victories m piimanes ot "late impression" to allow him to go into the Democratic conv on more or less equal terms with other hopefuls Church, who chaired the recent Senate Intelligence Committee which piobed alleged illegal activities of the CIA and FBI. told the aging conference that he hoped to lay to rest those "scare" stones that Social Security system is going broke. "Nothing could be further from the truth." he said "There is $44 billion in the Social Security trust funds to See SEN. CIILRCH oil A t. w five-mon- th en-tio- n I Dirks seeks governorship MayJor Dirks OGDEN Stephen Dirks. Ogden City Mayor, announced today he will be a candidate tor Utah governor in November's election on Ihe Democratic Party tu hot "There are issues 1 want to discuss." he said in explaining why he was becoming a candidate One. he said, was the taxation system in I tali which includes the reliance of local government on the property tax which sometimes penalizes home owners for making improvements to their proierty. The second issue is the decision making at flic state level which affects the local level without being fully explored, Dirks said. Dirks became Ogden Mayor in 1973 and was relected last year, running unopposed iinnv4iTiPtl Hn U u'HN 1 mother and father. Mr and Mrs Herbert L. Dirks are residents of Ogden. 1'he mayor is employed by the Bank ot I tah in Ogden. Dirks was a mathematics major at Weber State College. He served in the U. S. Army as a legal clerk and received the Army Commendation Medal. lie has served as Bicentennial Committee vice chairman of the U.S Confereme of Mayors, advisory board member of Central Community Schools, a board chairman. Ogden Redevelopment Agency; and as a director ot Mu Golden Spike Empire Inc. Dirks becomes the fourth Democrat seeking to repliue outgoing Gov. Calvin L. Kampton. The other three are John Preston THE THIRD SESSION of the U.N. Law of the Sea conference is headed for an inconclusive finish Friday with agreement still lacking on the key issue economic zone. A bloc of nonaligned of a nations proposed that the conference resume next January, but the United States urged a summer meeting ISRAEL EMBARKED on its 29th year of statehood today with a firm pledge to prevent the current unrest on the West Bank and in Gaza from undermining its position in future Middle East negotiations. At the United Nations, Israel accused Egypt of using the Security Council as a battlefield or its rivalry with Syria for the role of champion of Palestinian rights. 200-mi- aganda to fingering black leaders tor killing by one side or the other. Information on the FBI "marking" the Chicago apartment where two Black panther leaders were killed during a raid apparently was not forwarded at the time to the Chic ago District Attorney investigating the FBI's role in the operation Then director J. Edgar Hoover decided in September ltbgs, the report said, that the Black Panther Party constituted "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." By the following year the party was "the primary focus" tor 237 of 2,f actions against "black nationalists " The report said the FBI used anonymous notes and informants to sow dissension between rival black See FBI on i Frank Church hopes to be equal to other candidates by July. bankrupt, A standards for A TOUGH AGREEMENT by British Trade Union leaders to limit workers' pay raises to 4.5 percent buoyed confidence In the pound. The agreement reached after a bargaining session at No. 10 Downing Street will allow a weekly pay increase of between $5 and $8 and is considered the cornerstone of the government's drive to cut Britains 21 percent inflation rate in half. H-- f SS not VETOED BILL to finance day-car- e centers plan to let tempers cool and then seek a compromise to keep the facilities from closing down. President Ford in said the bill would announcing the veto his 48th deny states flexibility in setting up and enforcing center standards. their own day-car- e SUPPORTERS OF new federal .J Combined I'PI. AP 11 SAN FRANCISCO'S DRIVERS have voted conditionally to return to work if two anti-labpropositions are removed from the June ballot. In other labor disputes, negotiators for New York City's apartment workers and owners of 1,300 apartments agreed to resume talks today, but the city's municipal hospital workers voted overwhelmingly to go on strike May 24 to prr.est budget cuts. No progress was reported in the United Rubber Workers talks- Democrats call for unity IPI. to $13,000 category paid percent of their income, 512,000 WEST VIRGINIA JURORS in the extortion trial of Gov. Arch Moore sav they acquitted him because Ihe government did not present a strong enough case. "We didn't hear or see any actual proof of guilt," Edrie E. Ballard, a Danville piano teacher, said. Meanwhile, Moore said he never lost confidence that an innocent verdict would be returned. Old foes, new chums Combined the THE SENATE IS SENDING President Ford an overwhelming endorsement of detente, a term he himsolf has stopped using. But the 86 to 7 vote by which the resolution was passed Wednesday was put toqether only bv loading down the measure with a lot of qualifiers. Some senators called It a declaration of timidity that leaves the impression the United States is ready to yield on questions of vital national security. o K, in $1,387 taxes, or about Double effort IT WAS ALL VERY UNWARLIKE. There were pretty girls and soft drinks and grimy gunmen kissing and hugging across the front lines. For the firrt time in days, old Kurdish women wearing long vzhite veils shuffled through the smokirg ruins mood broke trading bits of gossip. The holiday-lik- e out Wednesday as an American-engineereceasefire between Lebanon's warring factions finally took hold. Only occasional sniper fire punctuated the new in Beirut today. d STOCK MARKET TODAY urged in NEW YORK (UPI) Waiting for the Federal Reserve Board's money supply 2.44 report, investors stayed on the sidelines today and prices edged slightly higher in slow trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Ihe Dow Jones Industrial Average, a loser Wednesday, was ahead 938.90 2.44 points to 988.90 shortly before 3 p.m. EDT. Of the 1,790 issues crossing the tape, 708 advanced, 585 declined and 497 remained unchanged. r The turnover amounted to about 13,320,000 shades, compared with 12,180,000 traded during the same period Wednesday, (Complete New York, American lists on St arthritis fight 7.24-poin- national commission it ID recommendi d the government double its research efforts to develop improved methods to treat and prevent arthritis, the disabling disease tlu.t affects millions ol Americans WASHINGTON today five-hou- In a report to Congress, the commission tilso called for creation of a network of federally funded arthritis centers and community programs to make the latest developments in care available to more people Tile commission, established by the National Act last year, said there are less than 1,000 physicians with specialized training to treat more than 22 million Amei leans afflicted by the painfully crippling joint disease. rthritis A summary ol the report said there are serious deficiencies m the knowledge of what causes the many forms ot arthritis and as a result, scientists have been unable to develop eitective ways to treat and prevent arthritis "Even wuh such deficiencies, mu h is now about the treatment of some forms of the disease but this knowledge is not widely available." the summary said "Current arthritis programs of federal, state, local every kind and at even lew cl and private are inadequate to meet the needs " UTAH WEATHER The air aloft is cool, moist and unstable. Showers this afternoon and tonight, decreasing Friday in the north. Lows 35 to 45. Highs mostly mid 60s. known The rthntis Plan recommended by the commission, formally known as the "National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases," calls tor expenditures of 897 million m the next fiscal year to di al with artritis This is triple the current amount living spent by llm National Institutes ot Health for the disease. er The commission also asked for a tin extension of the National Arthritis Act to be million to underwrite supported by an additional the cost of arthritis progiam.s through Mini. The research portion of the plan would cost 867 million or muchly double nil lent leseareh expondi .1 v Zones 1, 2. 10 (Cache Valley, WaxaKh Front, northwest deserts) Showers and a tew thundershow ers tonight, decreasing on Friday Lows mid 40s, ex cent 38 in Logan. Flighs near 63 Zones 3, 4 (Delta, Milford, Cedar City, Sevn r Valley) Showery through Friday. Windy at times. Highs upner 50s. Lows upper 30s Zone 5 fellah's Dixie) Showers and a tew thundershowers tonight and Fri day lows about 45. Highs near 74 Zones 6, 8 ! Uinta Basin, Carbon County) Showers. decreasing Friday. Highs mid 60s 42 Lows 35 to Zones 7, 9 (Southeast Utah, Canyonlands, Lake Powell) Shower activity through Friday. Hiahs 70 to Lows in the 4Cs. Light winds at the lake, with gusls near thundershowers.' 80 Natinnalwe.ither man area nnmv.v nn , |