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Show bounded 1850 when Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret 128th YEAR NO. Ill 72 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WASHINGTON (AD Inflation hold to a moderate rate last month as consumer three-tenth- s of prices rose by only percent, the same as in August, the Consumer prices rise only 1 government reported today. If averaged over the entire year, the September increase would mean a 3 6 percent annual rate of inflation, a sharp improvement over the 10 percent annual rate recorded at the beginning of the year. The increases in August and September were the smallest month'- hikes since la- -t November. Some government economists predicted that the slowing of inflation during the summer will persist through the autumn as declining farm prices continue to exert a moderating effect on retail food prices Wholesale farm prices have been falling since April. The decline first began showing up at the retail level in July when consumer prices rose of 1 percent, following monthly gams averag 0. 3 pet . four-tenth- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 15 CENTS s of 1 percent Prices have increased at an annual rate of 4 2 percent over the last three months, compart'd with an 8 1 percent rate in the second quarter of the year and a 10 percent pace during the first three months The improved inflation picture has been satisfying to the Carter administration which has been criticized for its economic policies because high unemployment persists and the rate of economic growth slowed over the summer. ing seven-tenth- s Food prices rose only of percent last month, following an increase of three-tenth- s of 1 percent increase m August. Prices actually declined for pork, poultry, fresh fruits, eggs, coffee and dairy products, helping to offset increases for fresh vegetables and beef Non food prices also continued to mod erate last month, rising by only two tenths of 1 percent, about the same as the three - 'n 1 one-tent- h 4 sx , Tv ',v" ' V .CJ V-- x '.. -- v?T-'vl .; ,- - . - ! " I s 1977 METRO Copyright Deseret News Page report 1 previous months The cost of services rose s of percent, the same as in five-tenth- 1 August. The Labor Popart ment said the consumer price index stood at Its 0 in September, meaning that a market basket of goods and services selling for $liki m the base period now costs $184 The index also showed that consumer prices m September wen ti ti percent 1 17 ASSISTANT AGRICULTURE SECRETARY Richard Meyer has resigned after refusing to stop lobbying against a federal law affecting land he owns, officials said today. Meyer and his family hold some 2,000 acres in the Imperial Valley around his hometown of Brawlev, Calif. At dispute is a 1902 law that limits access to teoeral water for irrigation purposes to small farms of less than 160 aues. Meyer decided to quit after several talks with Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland about a possible conflict of interest. THE ANGLO-FRENCCONCORDE SST took off from New York's Kennedy Airport this morning on its second test flight so quietly that it did not even reqlster on noise monitors The plane thus passed Its first tests to see whether it could meet the airport's noise limits. higher than that of a year ago Despite the improvement in the pace of inflation, the government said the price rise last month and fewer weekly work s hours combined to chip of percent from the purchasing (towel of the average worker s pay four-tenth- take-hom- e Compared with that of a year ago, real spendable earnings were up 3 7 peri cut, largely liecause of the in the federal tax deduction that reduced with holding taxes m June inci-ea.s- e faster-than-soun- d PRIME MINISTER JOHN VORSTER says he is more interested In the security of South Africa than in the views of the United States toward his government's latest crackdown on those opposed to apartheid. The White House said it was deeply disturbed" by Police Minister Jimmy Kruger's decision Wednesday to shut down South Africa's largest black newspaper, detain 70 black leaders and disband 188 black consciousness and religous organizations. Meanwhile, Ambassador William Bowdler was asked to return to Washington for consultations today. Hostages v'.s. VI 4 u S 4 vX, fc v? J t 's I I '- 44 V ' 4 w vk A y r-- ' , 4 t-v Vs Ur- I Mi f ' J , M SwrV. -- TTN " s vC x t & j x i v ? , f vf $ nUi 4tI 4 t P (Ml J J, i , - ' id ,k W A sj I V '$& It,? J V ATLANTA (UPD Sky jacker Thomas Michael Hannan, frustrated by his failure to force the release of his jailed homosexual lover, released his hostages and put a shotgun blast in his chest because he saw death as the only alternative to a long prison term, his lawyer said today. I dont think he was necessarily unstable, said J. Roger Thompson, a in the negotiations that led to the release of the hostages. Thompson was in the hijacked jetliner try ing to talk the Hane key-figur- j ' A Avijfe SOVIET-BLODIPLOMATS promised more sharp replies today to U.S. arguments that the West has the right to criticize human rights violations by communist countries. U.S. delegate Arthur Goldberg and Soviet delegate Yuli Vorontsov engaged Thursday in the sharpest debate so far at the Belgrade conference, calied to review the 1975 Helsinki accords. hijacker kills self Yi 1- - nan into surrendering V 3 Vk.'s ' Vs s Police search two Amsterdamers who set ablaze a West German flag to protest deaths of terrorists. Terrorist hunt stepped up A bomb BONN, West Germany (UPD planted by a terrorist exploded a courthouse in Hannover as West believed today at German hunt for police stepped up a nationwide the terrorists who kidnaped and murdered industrialist Hanns-Marti- n Schleyer. No injuries were reported. Police said the bomb apparently was planted on a window sill of the building by sympathizers of the leftiist terrorists. The blast followed a terrorist threat to carry out 100,000 bombings to destroy the capitalistic German economy. The Stuttgart district attorneys office said experts found explosives hidden in the wall of an unoccupied cell at the Stuttgarts Stammheim prison where Andreas Baader and two other members of his gang committed suicide Tuesday. They also found headphones, cables and Thursday night when Hannan walked to the rear of the plane, sat down, pressed a sawed-of- f shotgun to his chest and pulled the trigger. Richard Hannan, the hijackers brother, began crying when an FBI agent and a reporter were discussing the case today. Please dont talk about it, he pleaded. He (Mike) was the kindest person I never thought he would harm anybody and I never thought he would take his own life. Richard also said his brother was not a homosexual, but said the man he was trying to free, known George David Stewart, 29, was a homosexual. Hannan hijacked a Frontier Airlines jet at Grand Island, Neb., Thursday morning, freed the women and children aboard during a refueling stop at Kansas City, Mo., and then forced the pilot to fly him to Atlanta. There he demanded $3 million, two parachutes, and the release of Stewart, who was being held for a bank robbery he and Hannan allegedly committed last month. Hannan was free on ... Bomb rips German court a radio connector in the cell of a fourth terrorist, Irmgard Moeller, who unsuccessfully tried to kill herself Tuesday, a spokesman said. Moeller refused to answer any question Friday on how she obtained the equipment, or how two of her colleagues managed to obtain and hide handguns at the maximum security prison. The West German government said today it is treating very seriously an a threat by the terrorists against Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to avenge the death of their fellow guerrillas. The terrorists have also threatened to arrange the suicide of Bonns ambassador to Italy. In a communique on their murder of the kidnaped industrialist, the guerrillas called the death of three of the hijackers of a Lufthansa jetliner and of three imprisoned German terrorists a massacre. They said they never would forget Schmidt's bloody hands. This is a concrete threat which we take very seriously, government spokesman Boelling told reporters. Schmidt and other political, business and civic leaders were beiing closly guarded in fear that the terrorists, who vowed the fight has just begun, might try to strike again. The country was prepared for new terrorist attacks. Thousands of police searched for the killers of Schleyer and other terrorists. In Mulhouse, France, where Schlleyer's body was found in a parked car, French police officials said today an autopsy suggested Schleyer was probably killed outdoors because pine needles and blades of grass were found on the gray trousers See TERROR on 8 A-- bond. Authorities stalled for time in Atlanta, and the stalemate dragged on for 10 hours. You're playing games with me, Hannan told authorities over a radio hookup before taking his life. If you are playing games with me, I have nothing to lose. My life is over. But even then, Hannan was surrendering by inches. First he had freed the women and children aboard the flight at the fueling stop; when he got to Atlanta he set free the only other two women aboard, the stewardesses, then he let the male passengers go. After the last passengers alighted in Atlanta on the dimly-li- t runway where the drama was played out. Hannan let Thompson come aboard while continuing to hold the pilot and t. Wage boost Rock singer, awaits killed in signature WASHINGTON (UPI) Compromise legislation to provide Americas lowest paid workers the biggest minimum wage boost in history has cleared Congress and awaits President Carter's signature. The House Thursday gave final increase m approval to the minimum wage spread over three jears. An estimated 5 million workers will be affected by the increase. The current $2.30 an hour minimum wage would climb to $2.65 on Jan. I. 1978, and increase annually to $2.90, then $3.10 and finally $3.35 on Jan. 1, $1.05-an-ho- 1981 The compromise bill, approved by the Senate House on a Wednesday, 236-18- 7 vote. passed the The House rejected a move by Rep. to send the Jake Pickle, compromise back to a conference with the Senate because it failed to maintain the House provision exempting small busifirms with up to $500,000-a-yea- r ness from coverage of the act. Republican lawmakers backed Pickles effort. The current small business exemption is $250,000 and the bill would raise, that in steps to $362,500 by Jan. 1. 1981. About 3 million persons now get the minimum wage but Labor Department officials estimated that 5 million workers would eventually come under the coverage 5 others plane crash A chartered GILLSBURG, Miss. (UPD e plane carrying the popular Lynyrd Skynyrd rock band crashed in a piney woods area in southwest Mississippi Thursday-night- . killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and five other persons. The remaining 20 persons aboard the plane were injured, five of them critically. Besides Van Zant, leader of the group, the dead included three persons traveling with the band Steve Gaines, his sister, Cassie Gaines, and Dean Kilpatrick. The pilot, Walter John Grey, also were McCrearey , and t, twin-engin- killed. Survivors included guitarists Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, drummer Artimus Pyle, bassist Leon Wilkeson and keyboard player Billy Powell. Rossington, Powell and Wilkeson were in critical condition while Pyle and Collins were listed as stable. Convair 240. The plane, a propeller-driveran out of gasoline and plowed nose first into a thickly wooded area only 200 yards from an open field which the pilot apparently was trying to reach. It is really a miracle that anybody walked out, an FAA investigator said. n The plane was en route from Greenville, Baton Rouge, La , for a concert Friday night when it went down two miles northeast of line Gillsburg near the Louisiana-MississipThe Jacksonville, Fla based band performed Wednesday night in Greenville. A spokesman for Sir Productions, which handles the group, said all occupants of the S C., to plane except the crew were connected with Lynyrd Skynyrd or its members. Rescue teams, working with flashlights, sloshed through a knee-dee- p creek to reach the scene of the crash and hauled the injured out on stretchers to ambulances waiting a half mile away. Most of the injured were taken to Southwest Medical Center in McComb, about 10 miles away. 1977 former U S. magistrate, Thompson, a argued with Hannan for about 30 minutes. Thompson said Hannan paced back and forth in the plane's aisle, a sawed-of- f shotgun cradled in his arms, and never let me get within 10 feet of him. Im not certain I can recall verbatim what he said, something to the effect that he only saw two a substantial term in prison or to take alternatives his life, Thompson said. Finally, Hannan decided to end the drama. He was in the back of the plane sitting down in one of the seats. said James Dunn, head of the FBI Atlanta office. There was no scuffle at all. He just sat down and pulled the trigger. Hannan, of Grand Island, shot himself in the See HOSTAGES on A U.S. MARINE CORPS HELICOPTER with 39 persons aboard crashed today during an amphibious landing exercise on the island of Mindoro, about 100 miles south of Manila. At least 13 Marines were killed, 14 injured and 11 were listed as missing. A Marine spokesman at the Pentagon said the CH-5- 3 helicopter was listed as being capable of carrying 35 troops or a total load of 14,000 pounds. He said the aircraft could accommodate more than 35 troops, depending on the equipment the men carried. "SON OF SAM" SUSPECT David Berkowitz, charged with killing six persons and wounding seven others during a vear-lon- g reign of terror in Now York, Interrupted a hearing for the second time to plead with a judge to send him to tail forever. "Your honor, you remember what I said, 'lock the door and throw away the key,' I mean that," he said. Also at the hearing, phychiafrist-autho- r David Abrahamson testified that Berkowitz is mentally competent to stand trial and assist in his own defense. PRESIDENT CARTER IS LAUNCHING a sentimental and serious lourney Info six states today, taking his problems to the people and doing a little politicking along the way. In Detroit today, Carter plans to sit down with a dozen poor people to discuss the ravaging effects of poverty in an unusual presidential roundtable. He also plans to answer questions from an audience made up predominantly of the poor. He will visit Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, California and Minnesota. WHILE TREATY NEGOTIATORS say U.S. public opinion appears to be turning in favor of the Panama Canal treaty, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance predicts the pact will be approved in a national plebiscite in Panama Sunday. Meanwhile, Panamanian leader Gen. Omar Torriios, ing for the new treaty on a national broadcast, said Thursday the United States would be "obligated" to defend Panama if it is "attacked by a superior force." DIEHARD SUPPORTERS OF THE B1 supersonic bomber say they may make a fresh try next 4 week following a narrow defeat in the House Thursday. At issue is Carter's decision last summer to suspend production of the bomber and emphasize pilotless cruise missiles in the American nuclear arsenal. 204-19- STOCK MARKET TODAY NEW YORK (UPI) A rise in the prime rate prospects of further hikes in short-terrates big traders pay and a White House iab at the Federal Reserve Board left stocks lower Friday afternoon in moderate trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, which rose 2.60 points Thursday, was off 4.68 points to 810.12 shortly before 3 p.m. EDT. The closely watched average is down nearly 200 points so far this year. Declines outnumbered advances, 756 to 524, among the 1,778 issues crossing the tape. The 498 unchanqed issues reflected some investor uncertainty. (Complete New York, American lists on m D-6- A-- 8 UTAH WEATHER Panel OKs energy bill - WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Finance Committee gave final approval today to an energy bill stripped of virtually every tax proposed by President Carter. The measure instead would rely on $40 billion in tax breaks to encourage and increased fuel producenergy-conservatio- tion. The vote sent the measure to the Senate for debate starting next Tuesday. Whatever bill the Senate passes will have to be compromised in a conference committee with the version approved by the House, which included most of Carter's recommendations. 13-- 5 full The $40 billion, eight year price tag of the Finance Committee bill is 25 percent above the figure estimated by the panel's staff when the measure was tentatively approv ed a week ago On a 3 vote, the committee an effort to eliminate a tax credit about $3 billion designed to incentives for production of Partly cloudy becoming fair j night and Saturday. Chance of showers 20 pet. Warmer days. Lows near 40 with highs mid to upper 60s. to-j- r- - 12-- rejected totaling provide oil and natural gas from such sources as shale rock and ocean brine. The biggest item in the hill would allow the federal government to pay half the cost of new boilers and other equipment aimed at converting industries and businesses from oil and gas to coal. Like the House bill, the Senate version includes a tax credit of up to $400 for home owners and apartment dwellers to offset the cost of insulation, storm windows and other weathenzation devices Son Russell B Long. D La , the chairman of the finance committee, is trying to get the bill into conference committee with as few restrictions from the Senate as possible. Zones 1, 2, 10 (Cache Valiev, Wasatch Front, northwestern deserts) Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday. Locally gusty winds Lows Highs 67 to 70 Zones 3, 4, I (Delta, Miltord, Cedar City, Sevier Valiev, Carbon Countv) Partly cloudy tonight with chance o a shower Lows 33 in Richfield. 35 in Delta, 34 in Milford and 37 in Cedar City. Highs 69 71. Zone 5 (Utah's Dixie) Partly cloudy becoming fair Saturday St George low 46 high Zone 4 (Uintah Basin) Fair. Lows 40 in Price, 35 in Vernal. Highs 69 70. Zones 7, (Southeast Utah, Canyonlands. Lake Powell' Partly cloudy with slight chance snowers. becoming gen ecallv fair Saturday Lows tonight of 34 in Munticello, elsewhere Highs 35 to 70 to 80. National weather map, area summary on E 2. 5 |