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Show Founded Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret 128th YEAR NO. 13 88 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1977 15 CENTS ah lawmakers seek drought compromose By Dexter C. Ellis and Joe Costanzo legislative writers Democratic and Republican factions groped for a compromise on drought relief today which would allow the Legislature to conclude its special session business in the alloted three days. The Democratic majority in the Senate muscled through Gov. Scott Mathesons emergency spending program Tuesday. However, several key features of the almost $10 million remedy for the drought, prison overcrowding, and the state office space crunch ran into adamant opposition from Republicans who control the House. Much of this opposition centered upon the Governors proposal to allocate $4 million to e water development relatively programs to aid droughtstriken ranchers and Deseret-New- s long-rang- municipalities. Republicans have taken a position that the drought is becoming a life and death matter for ranchers, and that more direct and more immediate assistance is needed to stave off disaster. A compromise being discussed between the governor and supporters and Republican leaders would allocate $3 million for direct aid to farmers and ranchers. This would consist of direct loans and grants, and subsidized interest on private loans. Under the compromise, $1.5 million would go to the revolving fund for municipal water projects, and $1 million into the agricultural water revolving fund. The governor would give $1.5 million to replenish his exhausted contingency fund, which has generally been used for emergency aid to watershort cities. This amounts to about $1 million more than METRO In another development, the governor consented to ind introduction of a resolution designed to help Salt Lake County in its double taxation dilemma. The county fears that its tax base will be nibbled away by annexations and incorporations, and earlier had requested the Legislature to impose a moratorium on such actions. The Governor declined to place that matter on the agenda, on the grounds it was too controversial for a limited special session. the $5 million placed in trust earlier this year for later allocation to drought. The extra $1 million would come from the $1.6 million, which the governor estimated would be in surplus after all of his proposed spending has been appropriated. While off the floor efforts to reach a compromise continued, the Senate and House bills, and passed several sent them to the Governor. These included HB1, which would require that a reserve fund be set up by life insurance companies to protect policy holders from raids upon domestic companies by out of state interests. Also passed and sent to the governor was HB2, appropriating $700,000 from prepaid sales taxes for construction of a state road to serve a new copper processing facility in Tooele County. The resolution, which reportedly has bipartisan support, would request tiie governor to task force to conduct a appoint a crash study of the countys problems, and report to the Legislature at the budget session nyxt January. It does not, however, contain a moratorium, but there were reports that perhaps the resolution would be amended to memorialize cities to refrain from annexation activities during the interim. While factions appeared ready to compromise on drought relief, it appeared that House Republicans will refuse to accept the governors proposal to purchase for $2.3 million the Ajax Press Building near the Fairgrounds in Salt Lake City. The governor explained .in his message Tuesday that the space is needed to alleviate crowding in state e offices until a long study of the states building needs can be completed. long-rang- See LEGISLATURE on A-- 6 Vacate abortion order Page report 1 THE ECONOMIC INDICATOR INDEX declined for the first time in four months, possibly indicating some slowing in the rate of economic growth in months ahead, the Commerce Department said today. The index, designed to forecast the direction of the economy, dropped 0.2 percent. The in May decline surprised many financial experts because it was not caused by unusual events like bad weather or strikes. The department said the shrinking money supply was the primary reason for the dip. THE CONSUMER MOVEMENT, including Ralph Nader and a score of other activists, have announced a '.'nickel drive" which will be a massive effort to persuade Congress to create a consumer protection agency. The elaborate drive, perhaps the final effort to rescue the legislation, involves grass root lobbying in the hometowns and districts of at least 78 House members thought to be wavering on the issue. THE STATE DEPARTMENT has reacted to outcries from Israel and now says it never intended to suggest an immediate Israeli withdrawal from captured Arab lands as the way to win a Middle East peace accord. A policy statement issued Monday did not constitute a change in the U.S. stance, a department spokesman said. Any Israeli withdrawal is only "the ultimate objective of a true peace, without saying what the timetable is, he added. THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE of the House tentatively approved President Carter's price cone trol program for new natural gas. By a margin the panel adopted the recommended program, an action that In effect reversed the gas deregulation plan approved by a Commerce subcommittee several weeks ago. However, further tests on the issue still could come in committee as well as at others points as the plan works its way through Congress. Justices rule out death for rapists one-vot- THE CONGRESS has voted to prohibit the withholding of funds from school districts which are uncooperative in using busing as a desegregation d tool. The provision, identical to what the House has already passed, is attached to a n appropriations bill for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. The Senate resumed action on the bill today with a final vote expected after consideration of a controversial amendment limiting the federal government's roie in paying for abortions. Senate-approve- $60.7-billio- MARIJUANA SMOKERS will face fines rather than iail terms the first two times they are caught under a measure passed today by the New York Assembly and sent to Gov. Hugh Carev. Months of political maneuvering and three hours of emotional debate preceded the midnight roll call. New York, with Carey's promised signature, thus becomes the ninth state to decriminalize possession of pot. THE U.S. DOLLAR plunged to its lowest value against the Japanese yen in more than three and one-hayears, indicating possible higher prices for American tourists and buyers of Japanese-mad- e n level for. products. The dollar fell below the the first time In three years and seven months, closing at 268.90 yen on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market. The Supreme Court WASHINGTON (UPI) ended its 1976-7-7 term today with a decision ruling out, as cruel and unusual punishment, the death sentence for non-fatrapes. In an opinion by Justice Byron White, the court said, We have concluded that a sentence of death is grossly disproportionate and excessive punishment for the crime of rape and is therefore forbidden by the 8th Amendment as cruel and unusual punishment. Only Georgia has been including rape of adult women in its capital punishment statute, but a decision the other way would have left states free to al lf 270-ye- do so. White said no matter how ugly the tances, death is too harsh a punishment for a crime which renders life not nearly so happy as it was, but . . not beyond repair." The court also vacated an order by U.S. District Judge John Dooling of New York, blocking Congress ban on federal funding of abortions except where needed to save a womans life. Dooling was directed to reconsider his order in light of recent high court rulings allowing states full leeway in deciding whether to fund voluntary abortions for Medicaid patients. However, the justines refused to stay Doolings order, so the federal money will continse to flow. The court cleared up its docket for the term and adjourned until Oct. 3. The term ended with the four justices appointed, by Richard Nixon in full control of the voting, as they have been for some time. The court continued to wrestle with race questions, obscenity, religion and details of criminal justice. Issues dealing with women's rights, children and family matters became increasingly prominent. The rape cases today produced a variety of views, since Justices William Brennan andThurgood Marshall do not believe in capital punishment for any crime. Justice Lewis Powells position was not so rigid as that of the majority. He would have left the way open for death in a crime involving extreme brutality with serious or lasting injury. In other last-daactions the court: Told lower courts to reconsider school desegregation cases in Omaha and Milwaukee in light of earlier rulings this term. Appointed District Judge Walter Hoffman, who served on the federal bench in Norfolk, Va., for many years, as a special master to recommend the seaward boundaries of Massachusetts and Rhode See COURT on 7 y A-- EUROPEAN LEADERS opened a two-dasummit meeting in London that is expected to focus on economic problems at home, including widespread unemployment and such International issues as Third World demands and the Middle East. The heads of state and their foreign ministers of the nine member nations talked informally at No. 10 Downing Street before formally convening their conference at the Lancaster House. y . Astros Joe Henry Engle and Richard Truly descend from the space shuttle "Enterprise" Tuesday after a successful seccr d manned flight. A generator malfunction, however, has caused NASA postpone the third mission scheduled for Friday. The dive over problem popped up during a 6,000-fothe Mojave Desert, but it is not expected to change the schedule of the first free flight around July 27. House refuses to trim raises WASHINGTON (AP) The House refused today to roll back a $12,900 pay raise members of Congress received this year and corresponding pay raises received by more than 20,000 other officials and employes. The House defeated an amendment to the legislative appropriation bill that would have cut out funds for the raise. Thus it reaffirmed with a recorded vote the increase that went into effect in March without such a vote. Opponents of the pay raise argued that the method by which it was put into effect was shabby, and that Congress should not protect itself against an inflation it helped cause. But supporters said the increase, the second in eight years, did not even keep pace with the rising cost of living or the level of business salaries. House Speaker Thomas P. Tip ONeill was applauded when he argued that the House had adopted, to accompany the pay raise, an ethics code whose heart and soul was full financial disclosure and a limitation of 15 percent on outside earned income. The March pay raise went into effect automatically without the need for a vote. It raised the salaries of congressmen and senators from $44,600 to $57,500 and included pay increases for the vice president, Cabinet members, other high officials and top civil servants and federal judges. The judges would continue to receive the pay increase no mutter how the House votes. defies pope Archbishop - Rebel ECONE, Switzerland (UPI) Archbishop Marcel Lefcbvre today defied Pove Paul VI and ordained 14 new traditionalist priests in a ceremony that could lead to the first split in the Roman Catholic church in more than a century. We don't want to belong to a church which is full of thieves, wolves and mercenaries and which makes friends with our enemies, the old Lefcbvre told 4,000 followers, most of them elderly, gathered in a field near this Alpine village. Speaking in a grave, trembling voice, the crimson-cla- d archbishop declared, We refuse to collaborate in the destruction of the church. The conservative former bishop of Dakar, Senegal and Tulles, France has vehemently opposed reforms within the church, especially the ban on saying mass in Latin, and called Pope Paul a "heretic and tool of communism. 1850 when The pope, who today marked his 14th year as spriitual leader of the worlds 511 million Roman Catholics, Tuesday called Lefebvrcs stand pernicious and obstinate" and warned the ordinations would cause an irreparable break" with the Vatican. Lefcbvre, who wras suspended from his priestly duties last year by the pope, has acknowledged the ordination ceremony would amount to self- excommunication. There was no immediate reaction from the Vatican to the ordinations. But church officials said earlier it would cause a schism within the church, the first open split with the Vatican since 1870 when a German group calling itself the Old Catholics broke away in disagreement over the dogma of papal infallibility. The ceremony began at 9 a m. (4 See CATHOLIC on 9 A-- ot OPEC votes n to cancel 5 pet. boost STOCK MARKET TODAY NEW YORK (UPI) Stock prices were lower this afternoon in fairly VIENNA, Austria (API A majority of members in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have decided to cancel plans for a 5 percent increase in the price of crude oil July 1, the announced today. OPEC secretary-genera- l oil cartel has been split over The prices since last December when 11 members called 15 percent price hike for 1977. The e for a other two members, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, opted for a 5 percent increase for the whole year. The 10 percent increase imposed Jan. by the cartel majority raised the price of their crude oil to $12.70 a barrel. The second stage of the increase was to have gone into effect July 1. Ali M. Jaidah, the secretary-genera- l, said in a brief statement that the decision to cancel the increase was made in the interest of unity and solidarity of OPEC. "The following countries of the organization Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait. have resolved to Nigeria, Qatar and Venezuela forgo the application of the additional 5 percent increase in the price of oil as of July 1, 1977, the statement said. The other two members are Libya and Iraq. Hamid Zaheri, the OPEC information department chief who phoned the statement to news agencies, said "I have nothing to add to it." He specifically declined to say why Libya and Iraq did not go along with the decision of the other nine, and what action the remaining two OPEC Saudi Arabia and the United Arab members would take. Emirates There was speculation that Libya and Iraq would go ahead with the additional 5 percent increase July two-stag- 1 1. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained 4 new priests. 1 A LEBANESE HIJACKER was overpowered by Qatar troops led by the crown prince today after taking over a Gulf Air jetliner by displaying a pistol and two hand grenades. The youth diverted the London-to-Omajet and demanded a ransom of half a million Qatari rials ($125,000) and a guarantee of safe passage to an undisclosed destination. The plane contained 60 passengers and eight crew members. Prices charged by Saudi Arabia and the UAR are still 5 percent lower than those charged by the other members, and there was speculation the two countries would now bring their prices in line with the majority. That was the contpromise advocated during a recent Mideast tour by Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez. The announcement that the second increase was being abandoned came as Perez began an official visit to W ashington. " The decision to end the UAR the and Arabia Saudi which under price system, charged different prices for oil than the other OPEC members, has been widely rumored for weeks. two-tiered- active trading following an initial selloff triggered by a 0.2 percent dip in the Commerce Department's leading economic indicators for May. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, down more than five points at the outset, was off 4.32 points to 911.30 shortly before 1:15 p.m. EDT. In the two sessions prior to this one, the Dow had lost 14.08 points, including 8.48 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange common stock index was off 0.19 to 54.75 and the average price of a common share was down 1 cents. Declines led advances, 730 to 463, among the 1,719 issues crossing the tape. 1 (Complete New York, American lists on .) FI -- 5 Sports C23 Cl 23 Today E6, 7 Theater What's Doing C22 TV -- UTAH WEATHER Si" J Zones Valley. Fair and cooler through Thursday. Zero chance of rain. Lows in the 50s with highs in the 80s. ' 1, 2, 10 (Cache Wasatch Front, northwestern deserts) Cooling trend throuqh Thursday and continued fair. Lows 49 in Logan, 53 in Provo. 54 in Salt Lake and Ogden. Highs 80 84. Zones 3, 4 (Delta, Milford, Cedar City. Sevier Fair Thursday Valley) and cooler. Lows 53 in Milford. 55 in Delta, 50 in Richfield and 56 in Cedar City. Highs near 88. Zone 5 (Utah's Dixie) Fair and hot. St, George low 68. high 101 Zones 6, 8 (Uintah Basin, t Mostly Carbon County) fair and cooler Lows 54 in 57 in Price. Highs Vernal, 86 88 Utah, Powell Canvonlands, Lake and (Southeast National weather map, area summary on Zone 7, 9 Flaming Fair through Gorge) Thursday. Lows near 40 at Bryce and the gorge, 60s at Moab, Canvonlands and the lake Highs near 100 at Moab, lake and Canyon lands. 90s elsewhere, ex cent 80 at Bryce. |