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Show H Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret Founded J 127th YEAR NO. 73 82 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 15 CENTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1976 METRO Didn't give $2, 000, lobbyist says NGTON (AP) Claude Wild Jr., Corp.s funner chief lobbyist, todav repudiated his cmm that he had given $2,000 uuif in 1970 to Sen. Bob Dole, the Republican vice presidential candidate I have beer, a error and have done a serious disservice to Sen Dole,1, Wild said in a statement eonx-quentl- received $2 ih)0 fiorn Wild m pro the year before ho became chairman of the Republican National Committee He said federal prosecutors had showed him a check stub for the $2,(XK), apparently drawn on a legal Gulf Good Government Committee fund Dole said that the name Dole or Dale was on the stub, with the indication that the money was to be passed on to someone else The Republican candidate said he had no recollection of suJi a (heck Rut he told reiwrters the transaction also involved a prominent political figure in W ashmgton NBC News reported today that the other name involved was that of Interior Secret aiy Thomas Kleppe, who m 1970 waged an unsuccessful campaign in Noith Dakota for the Senate A Dole spokesman dec lined to confirm tr deny the NBC report. Apology to Sen. Dole Oil rate Gulf funds in 1973 something which the but GOP nominee has repeatedly demed discussed only the 1970 matter Dole acknowledged to reporters last weekend that he had been visited by special prosecutors in February and had appeared before a federal grand jury March 8 to respond to allegations that he had received illegal corporate contributions from Gulf m 19.3 either directly or through the Senate minority leader Dole said he went before the grand jury voluntarily and denied the allegations The New York Times has said that Wild, currently unemployed after giving up a consultant s office here m April, told the same grand jury he had given between $5,000 and $6,000 to Dole v Dole immediately accepted Wild s apologv, calling the matter an unfortunate incident " At issue was Wilds claim to reporters earlier this week that he had given $2,000 to Dole m 1970 to pass on to other Republican senate candidates m that year Dole earlier had acknowledged that he had testified before a federal grand jury last March on the question of Gulf contributions, but that he had received no such funds from Wild either m 1970 or m 1973. Wilds statement did not speak about other allegations that Dole received illegal corpo-- m 1973 through an intermediary, William Kats. who is Dole s former administrative assistant In addition to denying ever receiving the funds, allegedly for help m his Senate reclettion effort, Dole says he believes Kats denial of having participated m any such transaction The former Gulf lobbyist said m his statement that he had made the clauns to reporters w ithout checking his records I feel confident I confused the $2,000 in cash with the $2 000 check made out to another individual," Wild said On Labor Day, Dole told reporters lie was mystified by the allegation that he had - Campaign r x - i 3 v 4 I ' v J Jh - b Lack of compassion shown by Carter on Kelley remarks. President Ford says X t '7 . J . L; ; .., 4 4 j ,-x?- be terminated The news conference came as Ford continued his campaign with an assortment of events designed to keep him in the news and play up the fact that he lives m the White stay-at-ho- Sec CAMPAIGN on the Democrats today urged WASHINGTON (UPI) the House and Senate to approve a $113 billion budget which they said will reduce the unemployment rate to 6 percent by the end of next year The House Budget Committee chairman. Brock Adams. , said the proposed budget for fiscal Oct 1 , would create a million which 1977, begins year moie jobs than the one proposed by President Fold without causing a new round of inflation The Senate Budget Committee claimed its vei sion would create 1 5 million new jobs Both the House and Senate arranged to begin debating the budget later m the day. House Democratic Leader Thomas P ONeill Jr told reporters the 7 9 peicenf unemployment rate reported last week offers whatever proof was needed of the bankruptcy of this administration's 3 4 4 I 1 ,1 - 4 4 EHRLICH- - U S. Circuit Court of g the convicted former White Hojse aide to re port to the federal prison camp at Safford, Ariz , for incarceration on Sept. 17 The ruling staved U S. District Judge Gerhard Gesseil's order until Sept 16 if Ehrlichman's appeal is filed with the Supreme Court Carter sheds jacket, rolls up sleeves while addressing crowd in a Brooklyn auditorium. Ehrlichman COLD REMEDIES are as good as the market today, according to the chairman of a scientific panel which spent three yoais studying the thousands of nonprescription cough and cold drugs. Grandma's advice for oed rest, plenty of liquids and chicken soup was as good as any if you have a cold or hayfever, according to Dr. Francis C. Lowell of Harvard .Medical School. GRANDMA'S Primaries Associated Press The voters in Floridas Panhandle have apparently decided that a reprimand by Congress isnt enough to make them unseat their long time congressman, Robert L F Sikes Sikes, whose colleagues voted the reprimand in July after allegations that he had U.ntfittcd financially from his congressional activities, won renomination 'Tuesday by a 1 margin In the. Democratic ptimary in his northwest Florida district over John Benton Jr , a political newcomer Sikes, 70, has no Republican opposition in November as he seeks his 19th term in the House Thue were four primaries m all on Tuesday, with the principal action m 3-- any Floridians ignore reprimand, victory give Sikes a 3-to- -1 Arizona and Florida John Rhodes, the House Republican leader, was renominated easily in in Arizona, and so was Rep Morris K. Udall, who spent last spring seeking the Democratic presidential nomination In another Arizona race, a battle of two conserv ativ e congressmen ended with Sam Steiger narrowly defeating John Onlan for the Republican nominator to c neaped Son Paul Fannin, a Republican who is not The three-waseeking renomination Democratic race was won by Dennis a former Pima County atDeConcim, torney y In a Florida contest to determine the nominee against Democratic Sen GOP Demos say budget wili cut unemployment rate to 6 pet. t . A-- 8 HAYS, D Ohio, who UNITED AUTOWORKERS and Ford negotiators are struggling through a quagmire of issues and contract demands in a race to reach a trend-settin- g before the Ford UAW contract expires Tuesday Participants on both sides say there is still time to reach agreement, but the UAW has already laid the groundwork for a national walkout by compiling final reurns of a strike authorization vote by its 56 Ford locals Appeals temporarily blocked an order reauir-in- question-and-answe- Ford also took exception to Carters remarks that both men had similar views on abortion. Carter has said he personally opposes abortion but that he would not support a constitutional aiiiemlmenl pioliibiting it. Ford told the news conference that he, too, opposes abortion and would back a constitutional amendment letting stales decide indiv idually whether to permit pregnancies to WAYNE VIKING 2 SCIENTISTS sav one of the first tentative discoveries of the spacecraft on Mars is that the skv over its Utcp 3 landing site appears darker than the bright orange sky over Viking l's Chryse Desert Meanwhile, the experts sav the radio blackout that silenced Viking 2's lander during its Mars descent may have been cause bv a blown fuse However, the problem has been solved and the lander has been restored to its correct attitude and communications are normal JOHN The President said Carter flipflopped by first saying he would have fired Kelley on the basis of information available to him, then declanng later that he did not know if he would retain Kelley should Carter be elected ui November. Kelley has said the work was done without his knowledge, and Ford Saturday said lie was satisfied with that explanation and Kelley would stay REP. MAN has received a reprieve on his surrender to begin a prison sentence as three lodges on In a backyard news conference at the White House, Ford said Carter showed lack of compassion because Carter would have dismissed Kelley for getting personal services from members of his staff as well as gifts 1973 FORMER resigned from Congress in disgrace over a sex scandai, is hack in the Barnesville, Ohio, hospital for the second time in three months as the result of a tret tic af' ident Authorities say Hays received only nunot miur.es when a pickup truck he was driving sit uck another truck near Wheeling, W Va Officials sav Hays likely will not be cited allhough he admitted the collision was his fault S Associated Press President Ford accused Democrat Jimmy Carter today of showing both mdecisiveness and lack of compassion in his comments about FBI Director Clarence M Kelley Said Ford "I think that was very appropriate, bearing in mind his flipflops He said that Carter "showed a lack of compassion" in failing to take into consideration that Kelleys wife was dying of cancer when w'ork was done at government expense on his apartment in Today in the News THE HUMPHREY-HAWKINjobs bill suppoi-ter- s are now pushing a watered down version of the measure because the original proposal has met some key opposition The sponsors arc trying o ge the Hpnse Fnuration and Labor Committee to approve the revised measure in hopes of getting it onto the floor and sent to the Senate and approved before Congress adioums for the year on Oct 2 The measure is a maior plank in the Democratic party platform - r Ford strolled to the session carry ing a folded copy of today's edition of the New York Times m one hand During the new s conference, he responded to a question by pointing to a headline that read "Carter Would Have Ousted Kelley, But Mon t Say He Will If Elected 1850 when economic policies Republicans contend the congi essional budget pioposals would not produce nearly the number of inflation, interrupt jobs claimed and could economic recovery and make unemployment worse m the long run Both sides appeared to be aiming their arguments moio to voters in the November presidential dictions than to trying to influence the budget As a piactical matter, the mam lines of the budget already have been cast, and Democrats clearlv have the votes to make it stick Under a new budget process fully in effect this year for the first time, Congress set 1977 budget targets in a resolution last May It outlined $413 3 billion in spending, some $19 billion more than President Ford proposed te Lawton Chiles, the winner was Dr John Grady, a John Birch Society member who had run pieviously on the American party ticket Sikes, who has been in Congress since chairman of the House subcommittee on military construction appreciat1911, is ions lie wa3 reprimanded for buying 2,500 aliuiis of slovk .11 Hie Fust Navy Bank, which he used his office lo help establish, and for failing to report to the House the bank stock and 1.000 shares of Fairchild Industry, a defense contractor His district, where he has been without oppospon in his last few races, is highly See PLIMXRIES on 8 A-- on THE SOVIET UNION has cr, hosed the Moslem and Palestinian leftists in Lebanon for the first time in a maior policy statement calling for a negotiated political solution to the Lebanese civil war.''The only wav to restore peaceful life is a political solution on the basis of a reasonable compromise," the Communist party newspaper Pravda said in an article THE SOVIET OFFICER ,.ho Red his country in a top secret MIG25 let fighter wili leave Japan for asylum in the U S Thursday, a Japanese government spokesman said today. Meanwhile, the U S Defense Department is reaping what military sources sav is an intelligence bonanza as Air Force experts take their first close up look ever at the advanced Soviet plane. The sources said American technical intelligence specialists have been all over the "Foxbat" since it was flown to Japan Monday. STOCK MARKET TODAY NEW YORK 300,000 pupils affected by strikes United Press International Two thousand union teachers went on strike in Jersey City, N J , today and new teacher strikes hit schools in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island Teacher strikes idled or cripschools m 10 stales and affected 300,000 pupils as the machinery of education struggled to start up after the Labor Day holiday Most of the strikes were in the eastern .half of the nation and Pennsylvania was hardest hit pled school - The Stock profit-takin- g Strikes m 25 Pennsylvania districts, including new ones todav in the Reading Altoona and Panther VaHcy (UPI) Market encountered pressures near the 1,000 level of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, then showed districts, idled about 120 (HK) children The state's total was expected to swell Thursday when a xtnke bv 1.200 Roman Catholic high school teachers wilt prevent the scheduled start of classes fui 52.01X1 students at 30 schools in the Philadelphia areludiocosc In addition to New Jersey Pennsylvania and Rhode Island states hit by teacher strikes were See SCHOOLS on A late strength as prices turned mixed in in active trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. The closely watched Dow average, up about 'wo pooints at 998 in the first hour, was o'f 2 57 points to 994 02 shortly before 3pm EOT It had been down more than four Of the 1,867 issues crossing the tape, 698 advanced, 66' declined and 508 remained unchanged (Complete New York, American lists on 3-- 4 ) 8 t Kissinger's African hopes: 1 ' 4 WASHINGTON it Kissinger invited himseif, says Tanzania's Nyerere. 4 sSfcUdnf (AP) Sec- retary of State Henry A Kissinger today reported to President Ford on the possibility of beginning a round of Afncm shuttle diplomacy in hopes of heading off a race war m southern Africa Kissinger reportedly feels his chances for success m Africa arc no better than 50 percent meetAsked after an hour-lon- g ing if Kissinger wotlld be going to Africa next week, Ford smiled and said, Well talk about it later, maybe Posmg for photographers, Ford and Kissinger stood by a globe of the world and put their fingeis on the continent of Africa Kissingers report also included details of his weekend talks in Switzerland with South African Prime Minister John Vorslei . Ford later told an impromptu news conference that the U S must make a major effort lotry to resolve the racial crisis in southern Africa He said, It is in our national interest and it is in the interest of world peace said Tuesday that Tanzanian Prcsulept Julius Nyer-ei- e has invited him to conic to Alnea as soon as possible Kissinger said he would hold off a final decision on going until he rccciv cs a rep rt from his top aide ou Afiicuii affa.is, William L Schaufele Jr Kis-smg- spokesman for Nvcrcrc insisted that Kissinger had invited A f himself lie asked to conic and we said ail rignt, come along, the spokesman said Schaufele, assistant secretary of state foi African affairs, aimed today m Dar cs Salaam, Tanzania lie is to report to Nvereie on Kissingers talks in Zurich and be briefed m turn on the outcome of a summit meeting by black African leaders. If, as expected, he relays a positive lepoit, Kissinger probably will leave Washington for Africa by next Monday Reporters traveling with Kissinger were told by a senior Amcikdii official that the secretary considered his chances for success m Africa at no more than 50 percent In Dar cs Salaam, conference 50-5- 0 soui ces said little attention was given to I S. diplomatic initia tives aimed at achieving black majonty mlc in Iihodi sia and South West Africa, also Known as Namibia In Hamburg Kissingcr told West German Chancelloi Helmut Svhmidt that piogiess had been made w ith Vorstcr in formulating an approach to the problem aieas of Rhodesia and Namibia The issue involved in Rhodesia is the transfer of power from the 270 (KK whites to the six million blacks The Namibia question centers on negotiating the independence of the territory from South Alnea, which took it from Germany in World War I UTAH WEATHER Ft' ard vamnor through Tliurs- day as a dry high has settled over the state. Highs in the upper 70s, '$ x lows m Zones 1, 10 2, 'he 'Os (Cache Valiev. Wasatch Fiont, northwestern deserts) Fair and warmer through Thursday Highs 78 in Salt Lake. Ogden, and Logan Lows tonight 47 48 Zones 3. 4 (Delta. Mil tord Cedar City, Sevier Valley) - Mostly fair and wanner Highs 78 in Delta. Milford, Cedar City and Richfield Lows 38 44 Zone S (Utah's Dixie) St Sunny and warmer George high 96 low 45 Zone 6, 8 (Uinta Basin, Fair ind Carbon County) wo n'cr hro. mh Thursday Highs near 78 lows 40 in Vernal and 44 in Price Zone 7 (Southeast Utah) Fair and warmer Highs 85 n Moab, 75 in Monticollo and 76 in Blandino Lows 50, 38 and 40, respectively National weather mao area summary on A J f |