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Show Founded when Utah territory was known as the "State of Deseret' 128th YEAR NO. 119 44 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1977 15 CENTS METRO Copyright Deseret News Court to clarify obscenity rules WASHINGTON OJPD The Supreme Court announced today it will try to clear up confusion about its contemporary community standards guideline for determining whether films and publications are obscene. The justices accepted for argument a case from Los Angeles in which William Pinkus, convicted of violating federal law by mailing obscene material, claimed the trial judge erred in telling the jury to include even the views of children in determining community children, in deciding what "community standards to apply. Pinkus, doing business as Rosslyn News Co. and Kamera, was indicted on charges he mailed obscene illustrated brochures advertising sex films, books, magazines and playing cards; the magazine Bedplay; and an 8 mm film called No. 613." The material went to addresses in Nevada, New York, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Texas and New Jersey. The Supreme Court has decreed that one part of the test for obscenity is whether a book, film or picture as a whole appeals to the prurient interest of the average person, applying contemporary community standards. The trial judge, in charging the Pinkus jury, told it to consider the entire community, young and old, educated and uneducated, the religious and the irreligious, men women and children from all walks of life in determining community standards. The judge also told jurors to gauge whether the material, when considered in relation to standards." Obscenity has been one of the most difficult subjects the court has wrestled with over the years. And in 1973 the tribunal made matters even more difficult for lower courts by decreeing that a key test in the determination is whether a book, film or picture as a whole appeals to the prurient interest of the average person, applying contemporary com-- . munity standards. Pinkus charges that a federal judge erred when he instructed the jury to consider persons from all walks of life," including the intended and probable recipients, constituted an appeal to the prurient interest of the or the prurient interest of average person members of a deviant sexual group." ... Pinkus argued that the materials in question were aimed at adults and did not violate community standards. He said none of it was intended for children, and the attitudes of children should not have been considered in judging the material. The 9th U S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it would prefer" that children be excluded from the courts definition of community until the Supreme Court indicates whether they should be included. But that court said it was not a reversible error to include children in a charge that clearly indicated the "entire community" was to be considered. The circuit court rejected Pinkus claim that the materials appeal to deviants" should not have been brought up unless there was evidence to establish it was aimed at and disseminated to members of a "deviant Garter aims to balance U.S. jobs, trade foreign WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter is considering proposals to expand by 50 to 100 percent the government program to help companies, workers and communities hurt by foreign competition. Administration officials said Sunday the proposals would help American firms compete with imports, but also would try to soften the impact when foreign competition costs workers their jobs. The proposals would sharply increase the money available for communities hit by imports and shift the emphasis of the program away from simply making cash payments to laid-of- f workers. The suggestions, given to the president last week, include loans to companies seeking to modernize their facilities, higher retraining allowances for displaced workers st aides said. The proposals come as many workers face layoffs or shutdowns because of increasing foreign competition. Last Thursday a group of congressmen from steel-producin- g states asked Carter to impose import quotas, saying steel from Japan and West Germany is undercutting domestic production. Carter refused their request, but said laws against dumping products at below-coprices would be enforced. st American firms are moving abroad also. Zenith Radio Corp. has announced plans to eliminate more than half the jobs in its TV plant in Watsontown, Pa., moving the jobs to Taiwan and Mexico, where labor costs are lower. Pound soaring against dollar By was trading the pound at $1.8310 after reaching its highest level in a year and a half. It had closed Friday at $1.7772. Currency dealings were hecNot many of us will get lunch hours today, one dealer said but amounts actually traded were relatively small. tic Britain took the step to curb a flood of what dealers call hot money flowing into money the country in search of high interest rates and in anticipation of just such an exchange rate change. The inflow was indirectly helping keep British inflation high and swelling the Maria De Jesus Rodriguez Hernandez visits wih Dr. Michael Cortez, who made her surgery possible. Sight restored to Mexican girl Currency trading hectic LONDON (UPI) Britain freed the pound today to seek its own level and it immediately rose nearly 7 cents against the U.S. dollar before slowing slightly to a 3 percent upward revaluation. The move dragged down the dollar on most European money markets. and The Devil - money supply. Experts were uncertain over the effects on international a trade of the revaluation tiny move compared with the 45 percent devaluation of the Israeli pound announced about the same time. But it was expected to slow inflation slightly. Exports from Britain will cost foreigners more with the pound floated to its new level but it was too early to determine the overall effect. Imports which Britain buys abroad will cost less. On the personal level, foreigners coming to Britain will find their pounds costing 3 per cent more. But Britons will have slightly cheaper vacations overseas. The Treasury move took currency dealers by surprise by its timing, though some such move had been widely A PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Mexican girl blinded by disease 10 years ago has regained her sight, thanks to a fairly new suction instrument used by doctors at Wills Eye Hospital. Maria de Jesus Rodriquez who was flown to Philadelphia with funds raised by residents in her hometown of Guzman, told doctors she can see "light, shadows and movement for the first time since she contracted uveitis and lost her sight at the age of 9. The surgery performed on the woman last week was a success, said Dr. Jay Federman of Wills Retina Service, but it is not known how much sight she will regain. He said it would take months of care and special training If were lucky, we might be able to get her to the stage where she can walk through a room using her eyes without bumping into things, he said. The only thing preventing her seeing is the functional state of her own tissue. Her-ninde- z, I doubt the time will come when she can read print or anything like that, but for a person who has been blind, just to be able to see someone in front of that represents a whole them he new world to that person, said. Federman was the developer of the suction infusion tissue extractor, or SITE instrument, which was used in the surgery to suck the vitreous debris from the delicate retina surfaces. Federman said the disease contracted by Miss Rodriguez formed cataracts and clouded the colored part of her eye. The disease had caused the vitreous, which is the jelly part of the eye, to become opaque, completely white like a frosted window, he said. He said this condition was not discovered until Dr. Joseph Calhoun had removed cataracts from her left eye, the only one that had shown any signs of light perception. r Pinkus was sentenced to concurrent prison terms on each count and fined four-yea- $5,500. In another action today the court refused to review the contempt of court conviction of an Idaho newspaper reporter who refused to disclose the identity of a confidential source when ordered to do so in a civil suit The justices' action, although technically any precedent, represents at least for the time being a major expansion of a 1972 Supreme Court ruling on the limits of reporters' rights. The appeal turned down to day was filed by not carrying See COURT on Dobrynin and his wife, Irina, concluded their unofficial visit Sunday with a bus tour of this former Russian capital of North America. It was in Sitka that representatives of President Andrew Johnson and Czar Alexander formally concluded the $7.2 million dollar deal negotiated by Secretary of State William Seward. I know it was known as Sewards folly, Dobrynin joked. But Alexander was known as foolish in my own country long before he sold Alaska. Sometimes we feel its another proof how stupid czars were. He received seven A-- 7 WASHINGTON Senate (UPI) negotiators on energy conservation offered a compromise today to try to break a deadlock and decide what to do about cars that use excessive gasoline. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, outlined the compromise to the House-Senat- e conference committee. But the house immediately cut off the proposal, saying it was useless to discuss it until the Senate completed .action on the energy tax bill now being debated. The House conferees unanimously approved a motion to defer further action on the ban on gas guzzling cars pending Senate completion cf the tax bill, with the intention of bringing in the Senate tax conferees to join the meeting and settle the issues of the ban and the guzzler tax together. The conference then broke up .until Tuesday. The conservation bill that passed the Senate weeks ago had a provision to outlaw any 1980 model car getting fewer than 16 miles per gallon. The requirement would increase one mile per gallon yearly, until reaching 21 miles in 1985 models. The House had no similar provision, and the conferees deadlocked twice on the issue in previous days. Today Johnston offered this middle cars that met the standard ground would get a certificate of compliance from the head of the Environmental Protection Administration. Then, as a compromise to soften the blow, Johnston proposed that car companies that fall short could escape the penaty if they show a good faith effort to meet the standards, or if the companys failure to get a certificate threatened to put if out of business, hurt its competitive status or bring undue hardship or unemployment. and Reps. Garry Brown, both said they Thomas Ashlye, felt the conference should delay decision on the prohibition until it sees whether the Senate will pass a tax on the Until that is decided and taxation conferees join the conference, "there is no way to reconcile the tax, prohibition and the Brown said. Johnstons proposal did not have unanimous backing among Senate conferees, with Sen. Lowell Weicker, saying he wants to stick with our original proposition. The auto prohibition was the most sensitive issue in the energy conservation bill, which was the first to go before negotiators. There are four other bills still to be considered: industrial conversion to coal for fuel, reform of utility companies rates, pricing of natural gas, and energy taxes. By Monday, , conferees had spent parts of two weeks on the energy conservation bill, which had been considered the easiest of their tasks. r. gas-guzzl- gas-guzzl- a composite DUTCH POLICE CIRCULATED mustachioed drawing today of a black-hairesuspect wanted in the kidnapping of real estate Tycoon Maurits Caransa. The millionaire's family, meanwhile, said none of the many ransom demands members telephoned by purported Baader-Meinho- f to newspapers seems genuine. d WORKERS CLOSED ISRAEL'S largest port today in a 24 hour protest against the government's move from socialism toward capitalism. The harbor and all maior industries at Ashdod were closed In response to a call by the national labor federation, Histadrut, which has organized demonstrations outside the parliament building. El Al, the national airline, also was hit bv a strike, and 3,000 passengers were stranded at airport. THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT will hand the four men who hi lacked a Vietnamese airliner last week to Vietnam, Radio Hanoi reported today. There was no Immediate confirmation of the report. The broadcast was the first public comment on the hijacking bv the Vietnamese government. The plane's flight engineer was shot and killed and a stewardess stabbed and badly wounded in the hijacking. over A BOEING 747 JUMBO JET set a new record for its class Sunday bv flying around the world over both the North and South poles in 54 hours, 7 minutes and 12 seconds. The 26,706-mil- e flight marked the 50th World Airways. On of American Pan anniversary board were 169 passengers, who paid $3,333 in first class and $2,222 in tourist. The old record of 62 hours, 27 minutes and 35 seconds was set bv a TWA cargo iet in 1965. AN OAKLAND JUDGE will hear testimony this week on whether three wealthy young men should be given mandatory life sentences for the abduction and underground imprisonment of a busload of Chowchilla, Calif., school children. Bus driver Ed Rav was to be the lead off witness Tuesday in the trial. Several of the children, who were buried in a van for more than 16 hours before digging their way out, will also testify. The defendants, Frederick Newhall Woods, 25, James Schoenfield, non-iur- y 25, and his brother Richard, 22, have pleaded guilty to the kidnappings. JUDGE JOHN J. SIRICA, whose name became synonymous wli the unraveling of Watergate and the toppling of President Nixon, spent his last day as an active federal iudge today. Sirica, 73, becomes a senior iudge on Tuesday, able to choose the cases he wants to hear, and retaining his office, staff and salary. Sirica said his last day was spent on matters." ll THE UNITED STEELWORKERS and four maior can companies reached a tentative agreement today on a new contract for 30,000 workers in the United States and Canada. The contract proposal, whose terms were undisclosed, will be presented fo' dNcussion and a vote later today to presidents of 150 locals for ratification. found their SOME AMTRAK COMMUTERS regular trains canceled today as the national passenger rail service began making budget-dictatecutbacks, mostly in the Northeast. An Amtrak spokesman said Sunday four trains were being cut this week and others tentatively are scheduled for elimination on Nov. 6. He said the lines might yet be saved if Congress approves more money. d MOST FOOD, DRUGS or cosmetics packaged in aerosol spray cans and powered by fluorocarbon gas must have a label today warning that they may be harmful to the upper atmosphere. But consumers may not notice much difference. The industry already has largely switched from fluorocarbons to other gases. The warning, required by the Food and Drug Administration, comes after years of controversy over whether the gas can erode the ozone layer and allow more ultraviolet rays from the sun to filter through, increasing the chances of skin cancer. STOCK MARKET TODAY NEW YORK Uncertainty (UPI) about the economy's outlook triggered profit taking from the market's recent three-darally and drove prices lower today in moderate trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, which gained 4.07 points Friday and 21 points in the past three sessions, was off 3.90 points to 818.78 shortly before 1:15 p.m. EST. The closely watched average gained 14.38 points overall last week. Declines led advances, 606 to 585, among the 1,578 NYSE issues crossing the tape. The three-hou- r turnover amounted to about 9,610,000 shares, compared with 10,260,000 traded during the corresponding period Friday. (Complete New York, American lists on 818.78 y .) UTAH WEATHER Seward's folly? Myel, czar's Soviet AmbasSITKA, Alaska (AP) sador Anatoly Dobrynin, the highest ranking Russian to visit Alaska since Alexander II sold it to the United States in 1867, says a four-da- y tour of the state reminded him how stupid the czars were. Page report in Miss Jones, two box office successes, to be shown to the jury for comparison with the film "No 613" Pinkus was accused of mailing Conferees postpone guzzler proposal and aid to cities which have lost industry, administration Throat" 1977 1 group." The apiea!s court also said the trial judge did not err when he refused to allow films of Deep 1X5)0 million and two hundred thousand dollars, but within the next 15 years you got in gold more than a thousand times what you paid. But even after visiting booming Anchorage, the rich Prudhoe Bay oil field, the a pipeline terminal at Valdez and historic Sitka, Dobrynin said only a dreamer would wonder what history would have been if Russia had retained its North American empire. What is done is done, he said. After all, the Soviet Union is big enough. What do we need to feel sorry for that we sold Alaska? Our Alaska is Siberia. Its bigger than all of the United States, and its a very-riccountry, too. Dobrynin was warmly received in Sitka, town of about 7,500 people a moutain-ringelocated on the coast of Earanof Island, about 100 miles west of Juneau. trans-Alask- d Partly cloudy and a little warmer Tuesday. Lows tonight in the low 30s and upper 20s. Highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. 2 The veteran Soviet diplomat and his wife snapped photographs and collected postcards everywhere they went. and Atlantic-RichfielOfficials of Pepsi-Col- a Co., which sponsored the visit of the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., warned reporters and townspeople that political questions were out of bounds. Still, Dobrynin used the visit to get in a little gentle lobbying for one Soviet diplomatic cause most favored nation trading status with the United States. When I was here, I was thinking about the opportunity for our maritime provinces to trade with your Alaska area or Washington, Oregon or California," Dobrynin said. The only problem is we dont have most favored nation status with your country. Once we get it, there will be no problem" with such trade, he concluded. Zones (Cacne Front, northwestern deserts) warmer and Partly cloudy Highs Tuesday. Lows near 55. Zones 3, 4 (Delta, Milford, Cedar City, Sevier Fair tonight and Valley) Tuesday. Lows 25 in Richfield, 28 in Milford and Cedar City, 26 in Delta. Highs Zone 5 (Utah's Dixie) Fair and warmer Tuesday. St. George low 38, high 72. Zones 6, 8 (Uintah Basin, Fair and Carbon County) warmer Tuesday. Lows 25 in Vernal, 28 in Price. Highs near 55. Zones 7, 9 (Southeast 1, 2, 10 Valley, Wasatch d Anatoly Dobrynin says his Alaska visit reminds him of how stupid czars were. National weatir Utah, Canyonlands, Lak c Powell) Fair and day. Lows with highs warmer tonight and Tues . map, area summary on |