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Show DESERET VOL. 334 NO. 116 76 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1 Founded 1850 when Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret FRIDAY, MAY 5 CENTS 1 4, 1 976 METRO Missouri Demos endorse Carter United Press International Jimmy Carter claims to have reached the hallway mark in his bid for the 1,505 delegates needed to make him the Democratic presidential nominee. Sen. Thomas Eagleton and other Missouri Democratic leaders who had pledged to keep the state's andelegation uncommitted nounced Thursday they were endorsing Carter. That adds about 50 to 60 delegates to my total, said Carter, campaigning for Tuesdays So we're now Michigan primary. approaching, Id say, 775 delegates which is over the halfway mark to the nomination." The latest UPI tally rot counting the Missouri development shows 596 delegates to the July national convention pledged and two mo'-leaning to the former Georgia governor. Ronald Reagan is playing for the Democratic crossover vote in Michigans key presidential primary', saydig that America's problems cross party lines and so should the voters. It could be an important factor in his challenge in President Ford's home state, where Jimmy Carter and Morris Udall are wooing those next same voters as they squae-of- f Tuesday in the Democratic primary. Reagan, who already had won 18 Oklahoma delegates in district convention votes, appeared to be headed for a sweep of the 36- e member Oklahoma delegation. The state Republican Executive Com- mittee today voted to nominate a slate of 18 Reagan supporters to the national convention. The final decision comes at the state convention Saturday, but the nomination is expected to be ap- prov'd Ford today began a swing through Tennessee and Kentucky with his first stop in Johnson City, Tenn. Then he heads for Michigan where he begins his whistle-sto- p train tour through the state on Saturday. He appealed to voters to let him finish the most important job that I've begun restoration of faith and trust in the presidency. He also appealed for crossover votes m Tennessees May 23 primary. I think weve made it clear w e want all voters. Republicans, Independents and Democrats," said Ford, who earlier made a simiar appeal to Michigan Democrates and Independents. PresiCarter met with AFL-CJdent George Meanv for the first time today - a meeting that could be the key to winning enthusiastic support from organized labor. AFL-CIclerks applauded his arrival. Carter came away with the "belief that he would have labor support if he wins the 1976 presidential nomination. But Carter quickly added. "I did not ask Mr. Meany for hs support, nor did he give it to me." Crossover Democrats, who pledge no alVgiancc to their party, could play a major rob in the political destruction of President Ford And there are strong indications (li.it Micse political mavericks may try to do just that in Tuesday primary No one anticipates Republicans crossing over next week But there may be swarms nt lining up w ith Reagan to try and beat Ford. California armed ui'h Gov. Jerry Brown, Baltimore Sun noil showing hint virtually even with Carter in next Tuesday's Maryland primary, announced his candidacy for the May 25 Oregon as a write-iprimary. a n Senator claims WASHINGTON (AP) The CIA and FBI lied to the Warren Commission about the assassination of President Kennedy, a Senate intelligence committee member said today. The senator also suggested we pursue some hot leads to answer for certain who killed Kennedy. of the assassination, investigation the CIAs as he has before noting failure to inform the Warren Commission of its schemes against Cuba's Fidel Castro and the FBIs destruction of a note by Lee Harvey Oswald, whom the commission named as Kennedy's sole assassin. a Sen. Richard Schweikcr, of the panel's subcommittee investigating the assassination, said there is no question in my mind that the two intelligence agencies lied to the commission which conducted the government's first, massive probe of Kennedy's death. Schweiker said he has found no new evidence about who killed Kennedy but declared: If we pursue some hot leads, we may well answer that question. Schweikcr refused to elaborate on what he meant by hot leads. Schweikcr made his statements on the CBS-TMorning News. He said the subcommittee has turned up significant new material about defects and deficiencies in the Former Texas Gov. John Connally, who was wounded in the sniper fire that killed Kennedy, said Thursday in Atlantic Ga.. he does not know of any new evidence" to justify reopening the against Cuba. The warning was contained in an article in the newspaper, Pravda, signed "Commentator, indicating that it came from a top Kremlin official. n camCharging that an unbridled of late in the United is waged being paign States." the article said, the Soviet Union, a lo.val friend and ally of the freedom island cannot remain indifferent to threats and pressure on the fraternal Socialist republic. It described as absurd" allegations that the use of Cuban troops in Angola represented expansionism or interference in the internal affairs of otiier stales. Communist party anti-Cuba- ... The article said the hostile campaign of threats was aimed at preventing relaxation of tensions in Latin America. Western diplomats described the Frav da piece as tough." Analysts said the article could be aimed at dispelling doubts about the Soviet Union's attitudes toward support for liberation groups and newly independent nations in Africa, or it could be laying the ground for new initiatives in Latin America. The U.S. government strongly criticized the importation of an estimated li.Ootl Cuban tioons to battle for .Angola during the control of the African nation. With the help of the Cubans and Soviet military supplies, the Marxist group, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, won the battle against Western-supporteliberation movements. d More Howard Hughes continued to appear wills today, but Nevada officials said it was no joke and persons producing such documents may be charged with forgery. Complaints of forgery, fraud or perjury could land the authors oi the purported wilis in prison for one to 10 years, said George Holt, Clark County district attorney. 'Ihc number of Mills has grown to nt least six. Most are regarded us crude fakes. mysteriously delivered to the Salt Lake City headquarters of The Church of A Jesus will Christ ' ptveto Theyre crashproof made of wrought The White House gates are being iron and somewhat flimsy that are of solid steel ones replaced by old The gates, supposed to be crashproof. installed in 1818, have been run through of Latter-da- y Saints April 27 has the most support as possibly authentic. (Related story on The Sail Lake County Attor B-I- several times. The new gates of black steel are similar, but not identical, in design to the old ones. There are 10 gates, each flanked by white stone pillars which are being rebuilt at a cost of $550,000. Long hot summer Idaho first, for budget battle Church says In order to keep a (UPI) g commitment to deliver a commencement address at Boise State University, Sen. Frank Church is passing up desperately needed exposure on national television. Producers of CBS' Face the Nation approached Church to do a live telecast cither from Washington, D.C., or New York this coining Sunday, Church aides said, and he had to turn them down. Several weeks ago, Church agreed to give the commencement address at Boise State the same day. How do you scrag a commencement address at Boise State? Press Secretary-DoL. Watkins asked. Watkins said CBS approached Church after his one percentage point victory over g Jimmy Carter in the Nebraska Democrat primary Tuesday. Until then, he said, the national news media more or less ignored the Idaho senator as a presidential candidate. "This is an opportunity that did not crop tip prior to his Nebraska win, Watkins said. Asked why Church would agree to make a commencement address in Idaho just a eek prior to the regional primary, Watkins said. Well, hes still an Idaho boy and he felt that on Sunday a couple hours lor the commencement was something he should do." BOISE front-runnin- WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford and Congress apparently will spend the summer at each other's throats in what could bo an historic confrontation over the federal budget. Acting under a new budget procedure, Congress has for the first time approved its OMn federal budget. In the past. Congress has worked on a budget submitted by the president. Under the new procedures. Congress has approved its own spending ceiling of $113.3 billion for fiscal 1977. But Ford said Thursday he is determined that it will lie bis budget of $395.8 billion that will regulate government spending and not the congressional budget. The Congress should be on notice that it is my intention to hold federal spending to the lower limit I proposed, '' Ford announced alter the House gave Congress budget ceiling final approval Thursday. "I will not be a willing partner to the risk of another round of double-dig- it inflation. Sen. Frank Moss, had warned when the Senate approved its spending ceiling Wednesday that if Ford tries to cut the congressional budget figure by veto it would mean a long summer of futile confrontation between Congress and the White House." Democratic leaders say Congress' higher spending is the way to keep the forgers face prosecution Will ney said he has received a written statement from a man claiming that he and a friend were with Melvin Dummar, 31, Willard, when they (licked up Hughes in the Nevada desert in 1968. According to the statement, (he lour jointly ttivto the will because Hughes thought he was dying. This latest claim raises to four the number of persons who have said they wen with Dummar when he picked up a skinny old man in the desert tiiio gave him a rule into Las Vegas. Dummar was named in the Sail Lake will to receive of the Hughes estate and said tiis 1968 encounter with Hughes must be (lie reason. THE RHODESIAN GOVERNMENT has canceled all army reserve call-u- p exemptions in a new emergency move to mobilize against a black guerrilla campaign. And the nation's defense minister charged today that Cuban troops are planning another "adventure" in Africa. He said, however, if they tried fo attack Rhodesia, "We will beat the life out of them." A SATELLITE IS CIRCLING the globe in an elliptical orbit today, awaiting a signal that will pork it in a permanent orbit high above the Pacific Ocean. The satellite is the first link in an American T elephone and T elegraph Co. space communications network. It was lofted into temporary orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral bv an Atlas Centaur rocket. A-- The Soviet Union warned MOSCOW (UPI) today it will not "remain indifferent" to what it called an American campaign of threats and pressure" full-scal- ANOTHER AUTOMAKER has taken action to alleviate the effects of the United Rubber Workers strike, and a news blackout has been ordered in talks between United Parcel Service and striking Teamsters. General Motors announced Thursday its assembly plants will begin shipping cats without spate tires. Ford and Chrysler took the same action last week. investigation Connally said he had learned nothing in the nearly 13 years since Kennedys death to contradict the findings of the Warren Commission. Schweiker and Sen. Gary Hart, are the only members of the subcommittee, which investigated the of performance or the intelligence agencies during the initial probe of the assasination. Hart has said he has seen no evidence to discredit the Warren Commission's See INTELLIGENCE, 7 U.S. on Cuba LEBANESE WARFARE erupted oqoin todjv and a raging battle between Palestinian militiamen and pro Syrian guerrillas in the northern port of e war over Tripoli threatens to become a Syrian intervention in the embattled nation. The fighting between the two main guerrilla groups became so intense that the Palestinian leadership issjed orders to Palestine Liberation Army buffer forces to withdraw from the city. AMERICA'S GROCERY BILL is expected to iump as much as eight percent to nearly $200 billion in 1976, up from last year's $184.6 billion, a food industry spokesman savs. Industry Surveys said in its most recent edition the spending increase will be the result of people eating one to two percent more, prices rising three to five percent and consumers having 10 percent more disposable income. to Warren panel - Soviets warn Today in the News SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS will increase 6.4 percent in July for 32.6 million retired persons and other recipients of the program. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary David Mathews says the hikes will cost taxpayers $5.3 billion in fiscal year 1977. The increases are required by law to reflect the cost of living. Benefit increases will take effect for June and will be reflected in the checks received by retirees on July 3, he said. FBI, CIA lied member . In the meantime, a Nashville. Tenn. man who represents some Hughes cousins, said he received an anonymous phone call in which a man said the Salt Lake will was a prank by five forgers. W. A. Jones, operator of an heir finding service, offered to play tapes ol the call for FBI olfieials, but failed to keep an appointment with the federal agents. Salt Lake County Alty. Paul Van Dam said the statement received by him has Itcen turned oxer to Clark County olfieials in Nevada. h get We have no legal basis to into the tiling,' he exp- lained. John W. Christensen, an investigator in Van Dam's ol i'ice, said he was approached by a man who identified himself as Jeffery Hayes of Salt Lake City. Hayes said he and a friend were driving through the desert and met three blacks at a truck stop. The blacks said they had beaten a man further down the road, Hayes said. Hayes said be and his companion found the man, who claimed lo be Hughes and though) lie was dying They then picked lip Dummar, who was hitchhiking, according to the story given to Christensen. Because Hughes thought he was dying, the four collaborated in the writing of a will, which Hughes kept w hen he was dropped in Las Vegas, Hayes See WILL on A-- PRESIDENT FORD CALLED ON ISRAEL to take risks for peace bv relinquishing occupied territory in return for "basically intangible political measures" from the Arabs. Ford, in a maior policy address and pledging U.S, support, said, "It is only in willingness to dare to exchange the tangible for the intangible that hostility can be ended and Peace attained." IF FRESH PRODUCE HAS BEEN WAXED to improve its appearance, shoppers should be told about it, a consumer group said today. The Center for Science In the Public Interest urged the Food and to require labeling for all Drug Administration waxed fruits and vegetables. The group said 35 to 10 percent of all apples are waxed; 50 percent of all tomatoes; and 75 percent of all cucumbers. Other fruits include cantaloupes, oranges, peaches, lemons, pears, prunes, grapefruits and plums, the group said. often-waxe- nation's economic recovery going, largely by creating an extra one million jobs and continuing Congress' $17 billion tax cut through 1977. rather than granting a $28 million tax cut Ford proposed. Democrats, including House Budget Committee Chairman Brock Adams, contend it is Congress' tax cut and extra money lor federally aided jobs that have started economic recovery, not Ford's efforts to cut federal spending. The President is taking credit for a recovery he tried to thwart, from a stagflation he induced,'' Adams charged. The congressional budget ceiling envisions a $5u 8 billion billion. deficit compared to Ford's The essential differences in Ford's and Congress' budget approaches to economic recovery rest on taxes and jobs. Congress' $17 billion tax cut is focused on low- - and middle-incomAmericans and assumes they will spend the money and stimulate the economy. Congress also wants to spend some $6 billion to create a million new leilerally aided jobs. e d A $106 BILLION DEFENSE BUDGET which includes funds for the B1 bomber, the Trident submarine and new tactical aircraft has passed a House subcommittee. The funding for the year beginning Oct. is an increase of $15 billion over last year. 1 CONGRESS IS TRYING AGAIN to pass legislation designed to generate a quarter-millio- n jobs bv allocating $2.5 billion for public works projects. The bill passed the House Thursday, 339-5and sponsors predict an easy victory in the Senate. President Ford vetoed a similar bill earlier this year, and despite little lobbying effort against the bill, a White House spokeswoman said "i wouldn't place any bets on its being signed." STOCK MARKET TODAY NEW YORK (UPI) Inflation and higher interest rate fears drove prices lower along a broad front today in moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a 4.57 poinl loser Thursday, was off 7.55 points to 993.55 shortly before 1:15 p.m. EDT. The blue-chiaverage was in danger of failing tor the seventh time this year to sustain a drive thorugh the ,000 level. (Complete New York, American lists on p 1 Congress' economists say that will cut unemployment to 6 percent hv the end of 1977. compared to 7 percent under Ford's budget proposal Rains drench quake victims Scores of survivors left UDINE, Italy (AP) homeless by last week's disastrous earthquake in northern Italy were forced out of their tent cities today by torrential rains and the threat of landslides. The Italian government rushed hundreds of railway cars and trailers to the devastated Friuli Province to house those being evacuated from the tents. The estimated 100,000 homeless were rocked by yet another tremor, the 66th since the major quake last Thursday. New landslides caused by rain crashed down on both sides of the Tapliamento River, once again isolating four villages. Some of the slides stopped just a lew yards short of tent cities. Powerful winds and torrents of rain turning to buffetted the area snow in some mountain areas overnight and authorities tried to speed up deliveries of cots and blankets to the refugees. Today was calm and sunny. f UTAH WEATHER A cold front is pushing it;, wov into the area bringing gusty, southerly winds and showers. Lows tonight mostly 40s with highs Saturday mostly Zones Volley, 1. 2, 70s. (Cache 10 Wasatch Front, Partlnorthwest deserts) y cloudy and cooler tonight with showers likely. Highs lows mid-80s- . 42 48. Zones 3, 4 (Delta, Milford, Cedar City Sevier Fair with gusty Valley) winds tonight. Highs Lows 4? in Richfield, 45s elsewhere. 7 one 5 (Utah's Divio) high near Fair but windy wth George St 9S Saturday. Low tonight &. Zones 6, 8 (Uintah Basin, Carbon County) Chance of showers tonight but clearing Saturday. Lows around 45 with highs in the uooer 70s. Zones 7. 9 (Southeast Utah, Canvoniands. Lake PoweM) Windy and cooler tonight and SaturlO-Lows with highs day. climbing into the 60s Saturday. National weather map, area summary on B-- |