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Show i u tfr ij v ii' it 1:1 kr Salt Lake City. I tah Vol. 222. No. 62 1 $ w & -- Aa.H I N n t l!A Price Twenlv 15. IBM) O A I fl h r? December Monday Morning & "1 l i e t enD .1 sri T? For y6th Lonere Dale Nelson Associated Press riter W AS! II Nil TON The 96th Congress, back Monday, is into session going trying to end the wrangling over a proposed $10, 000 raise for senators and representatives that is blocking its Bv W long-delaye- d adjournment and threatening to disrupt government op Associated Press Laserphoto Some 30,000 fans gather to pay tribute to John Lennon at a concert in his native city of Liverpool, England. The crowd observed a silence requested by widow Yoko Ono. te erations Senate Majority leader Rotvrt Byrd on tlie predicted "considei able 17 percent pay hike after the Senate and House failed to reach agreement m a marathon Saturday session and scheduled Monday meetings However, Rep Rolvert Michel of Illinois, who will be House Republican leader in the next Congress, said Sunday the pay raise was a dead issue and would not pass Michels Promise Why was it dead Michel was asked Issues and Answers on ABC News Because Im going to be a conferee and thats exactly whats going to happen," replied Michel, who will take Millions Pause in Tribute to Lennon By Mike Silverman Associated Press Writer In silence and in song, Beatles fans around the world paid final tribute to John Lennon on Sunday in parks, plazas and parking lots. Up to 100,000 gathered in New Yorks Central Park, while in Liverpool, England, where the group got its start, 100 were injured when fans stormed an outdoor stage during a concert. Hundreds of silent vigils were organized after Yoko Ono, widow of the musician, asked people to pray for Johns soul by observing 10 minutes of silence wherever you are at 2 p.m. EST. She asked for individual mourning, but many felt the need to congregate in shared homage to the man and the disbanded group whose innovative music and style seemed to symbolize the passion and the protest of the 1960s. Need a Focal Point Former Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison joined in the vigil privately at their homes in England, their spokesmen said. The fourth former Beatle, Ringo Starr, was believed to be in New York but that couldnt be confirmed. Starr traveled to New York to visit Miss Ono shortly after Lennons slaying. People just need a focal point for their sense of loss, said Bob Linden, of program director of KEZO-F- huddled in windy, weather in front of the Central Park bandstand for a silent vigil. Mayor Edward I. Koch, who had called for the gathering, was among those taking part. Up to 500,000 people had been expected at the vigil, which was preceded by a concert of Beatles music. Many in the crowd planned afterward to march the short distance to join about 1,000 people who stood outside the Dakota apartment house where Lennon lived and where he was shot to death Monday night. Mark David Chapman, a former hospital worker, has been charged with the murder and is being held on Rikers Island m the East River. A teen-age- r was shot in the chest and another youth apparently received a scalp wound when a argu ment in Central Park erupted in gunfire See Page 2, Column 5 drug-relate- d Park. Kind of Eerie It was kind of eerie, said Bill Cates, one of 2,000 who joined a memorial at Bostons Copley Square. All I heard was the flag flapping ... It was kind of sad. In Melbourne, Australia, several thousand people poured into the city square at 6 a m. Monday local time to simultaneous with 2 p.m. EST watch a giant video screen of a Beatles concert. The biggest gatherings were in New York and in Liverpool, but in dozens of U.S. cities, sizable crowds turned out to middle-age- d mourn couples, teenagers too young to remember the Beatles before they broke up, parents in their 30s with small children on their shoulders. National Gatherings More than 1,000 people took part at the Statehouse in Columbia, S C.; 1,200 at the Stathouse in Columbus, Ohio; 3.000 at the site of the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle; 1,000 on Cricket Hill along Chicagos lakefront; 600 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; 600 at Miamis Bicentennial Park; 200 at Salt Lake City's Memory Grove Park. In Toledo, Ohio, about 1,000 people crowded into the small parking lot behind Dominics, a southside restaurant whose owner, Greg Delelles, saidI loved the man and wanted to share my sorrow with people who felt the same way. Red Rocks Vigil About 4,500 people attended a vigil at Red Rocks, a natural red sandstone amphitheater in the Rocky Mountain foothills west of Denver. The Beatles had played a concert there in 1964. In Kenosha, Wis., 150 people gathered weather on a hill and stood in silently m the form of a peace symbol. DeIn Newport, Ore , borah Nichols organized a vigil at an old lighthouse facing the Pacific Ocean. In New York, between 50,000 and 100.000 people, many of them crying. IVmoeiatn in the m.ijoi-luidixidti.il GOP l.ixxinakcis x.ix (hex will push for tax cuts the .hath pcnallx a reduced minimum xx age t, r xmithful xx inkers and restrte thins on busing tin school desegreg.i turn Hkiim-trmimc- mnng the ecu ii onmental hills cited were i $1 6 billion "suerfuiid ' for cleaning up abandoned chemii at waste sites and a measure to protect .ilnnit Kin million acres of Alaska them otxeratuig wildci-.- , s I'om dexelopment The parliamentary mnneuxering oxer the hill Sat irda went like this indfall Tax The House passed the sending bill In the energy area, the Congiess with the raise, the Semite dropped the emu ted a windfall" tax on oil com raise, then the House dropped it. too, panx lexenucs and created a goxeni but also cut out special projects near men! funded Synthetic Fuels Corp and dear to the hearts of indtxidual llowcxer if elected President Carter's memliers proposals for a 10 cent a gallon "conserx ation fee" on gasoline and an Christmas Ornaments Board to give Energy Mobilization of final the Michels explanation sHtstx approval to pnoritx energy House tactic was Uus What were projects hoping to do is to get the Senate to hack In the transportation field, the kith down from all those Chnstmas tree Congress approved deregulation of the ornaments they at ached that added hundreds of millions of dollars and just trucking and railroad industries and provided $1 5 billion m loan guarantee's about billions to that bill for the financially ailing Chrysler Corp As the Congress stumbled toward It also created a new Cabinet agency, adjournment several weeks behind t tit Education IVpartment. which schedule, assessments of its work were wants to dismantle Reagan Demowith forth, already being put crats claiming it accomplished much and Republicans saying it did little but pave the way for a new era of GOB resurgence It will he remembered for the time of transition," Senate Republican leader Howard II BakerJr ofTennes see said "Not much else counts when you get very far down the pike " But Bakers Democratic counterpart, Byrd of West Virginia, said the 96th for lots of would be remembered and specifically mentioned things energy and environmental legislation A Good Job Speaker of the House Thomas P ONeill Jr , D Mass , said, "I think weve accomplished a lot, but only I history can make an assessment Py Douglas L. Parker think weve done a good job " Tribune Political Editor Baker and Byrd will change roles when Congress reconvenes Jan 5 Utah lawmakers Monday tackle the Baker becomes the first Republican question whether state government can majority leader of the Senate in a afford to return an estimated $32 quarter of a century, and Byrd will be million In a tax rebate to homeowners and renters starting next month minority leader Wlth Republican President elect Going into the special session of the Ronald Reagan coming into office, the Legislature, Gov Scott M. Matheson GOP in power in the Senate and the said the state need not and cannot do so without severely upsetting the hudget during the last half of the current fiscal year, ending June 30 legislative leaders said, in effect, they want to make sure So legislators Tribune Telephone already approved plan to state budgets in appropriation commitNumbers, Page A-- 2 tees during the first day of the Utah Page Page legislatures sjiecial session convening National Amusement Monday at 10 a m 5 Bit Obituaries Bridge An abbreviated, hut weighty, agenda B-Classified Regional set by the governor faces the legislaComics Sports ture, whose leaders said the session C-- 5 Star Gazer Editorials should last two or three days Also on B-- 2 Television Foreign the agenda are promised school aid cuts Washington lifestyle and clarification of the lieutenant AND MORE Mervyns governors duties section. Voters in November approved an executive reorganization constitutional m Monday amendment with many aspects to be Salt Lake City and vicinity Smoggy effective Jan 1 Without some special with night and morning valley fog; legislation beforehand, state officials little temperature change, light winds believed the current lieutenant goverWeather details on nors office would be left in limbo until the mechanism for new tandem election with the governor is implemented hx Rx rxl Lawmakers To Study Tax Rebate Spuria! Session To OjHii Today Inside The Tribune C-6- 4 C-- Related Story, B- -l Omaha, Neb., which sponsored a memorial that drew 2,000 to Rosenblatt Stadium. Radio stations in many countries observed 10 minutes of silence, while others played special programs of Beatles music. I think its great that all over the world, in unison, there was silence, said Paul Currier, one of 600 people who attended a vigil in Los Angeles Griffith in the Home Senate conference to iron out the inference-- . In'tween the Houe and the Senate oxer the pay issue which would also The pax increase cl raise the salaries of 34 iXXi top-leis attai bed to gov eminent employees an omnibus spending bill that must lie passed by midnight Monday or sex oral gox eminent agencies will lose their authority to spend the money that keeps part 6 D-l-- 8 A-1- 4 C-l-- 3 7 Fonrast Associated Press Lostrphoto Fans participating in tribute to slain musician John Lennon wave V sign while singing Electors Gather To Make It Official Today Tribune Wire Services WASHINGTON The United States officially elects its next president Monday, but no surprises are expected. The voting is by members of the Electoral College, who were chosen in the popular vote Nov. 4 and who unless something absolutely untoward will elect Ronald Reagan occurs president and George Bush vice president. Not Binding The electors are not legally required to follow the popular vote, but of the 16,000 persons who have served as electors in the nations history, only seven have deviated from it Earlier this year, there was much election concern a close three-wabetween Reagan, President Carter and independent John Anderson might make the electoral balloting usually crucial. only a formality For that reason the campaigns chose electors carefully for their loyalty. y 538 Members There are 538 members of the one for each Electoral College senator and representative and three from the District of Columbia and it takes a ma jonty, 270, to win. Results of the Nov. 4 election would give Republican Reagan 489 votes and outgoing Democrat President Carter 49. The voting takes place in state capitals and the District, and Vice President Walter Mondale, in his role as president of the Senate, opens the ballots and announces the winner on Jan. 6. Give Peace a Chance at New Yorks Central Park. About 100,000 people took part in vigil. B-- 8 Polands Farmers Threaten to Strike If Move for Independent Union Fails and Polish army criticism that it was chaos and anarchy spreading Associated Press Writer The boisterous farmers meeting Poland W'ARSAW, Delegates came amid church and union appeals claiming to represent 600,000 private for national unity as Poland began a Polish farmers Sunday threatened a xxeek of unprecedented commemora nationwide farm strike if a court fails to tions for victims of army and police register their independent union on suppression of 1970 food price riots in Dec 30 Gdansk The warning the first public Roman Catholic Rev Jozef statement of such a possibility was Dawidowski said he was complying the first new threat of labor unrest with Solidarity's request that he open a since the independent union Solidarity broadcast Mass with an appeal for appealed for calm after severe Soviet harmony By Roland Prinz pastoral letter read during the broadcast and from church pulpits across Poland warned of the historic dangers facing Poland which "must not risk losing her security and sovereignty through irresponsible acA tion Last week, the United States asserted that the Soviets had completed a troop buildup along Poland's borders and could intervene at any time The purported threat prompted the NATO See Page 2, Column 1 in 1984 The special sessions work to cope with predicted budgetary shortfall in the current fiscal year is only a prelude to the austerity that could be calk'd for in budgeting for next fiscal year when a new convenes in regular session Jan 12, economic research analysts said But the governor couldn't wait for the regular session if the tax rebate is to be repealed because the tax relief is set to become effective Jan 1 with income tax credits or refunds "We're hopeful of getting down to some floor action by Monday aftersaid Sen Fred W Finhnson, noon, R Salt City, the majority leader The lieutenant governor legislation See Page 2, Column I U.S . May Buck Neglect by Bronzing Susan By Mary Beth Franklin United Press International WASHINGTON The Treasurey Department, as staid and gray as any federal institution, has a colorful idea to pump up support for the Susan B make it bronze Anthony dollar coin The worst rap against the 1 month-ol- d coin is that it is too easily confused with the familiar, silvery quarter Officials think changing the Anthony dollars color could make it easier for the public to handle. Tough Work on Hill Treasury Undersecretary Congressional approval may be hard to come by Curt Pirns, staff director on the House banking subcommittee on consumer affairs, said Im not convinced the legislation has a chance of being passed until it is shown that there is a broad acceptance of the com Changing the cosmetics wont make it acceptable. But Ms Anderson said, We feel it would definitely work. After all, the only way taxpayers can reap the benefits of reduced minting costs is to make it successful Part of the problem, according to prospect for additional economies as Alan Goldman, deputy director of the more coins were used U S Mint, is Americans are not Used to But the Susan B " bombed after its attention to their money He paying July 1979 introduction Public reaction said high value coins are successful in quickly degenerated from curiosity to foreign countries total neglect. More than 800 million of the coins Ormans Manage were minted before production was "The Germans are no more intellighalted earlier this year More than half ent than we are, but they manage to tell are sitting m storage the difference between a and The key complaint is that the Susan a fixe mark coin that are the same B Anthony dollar coin, despite its size," Goldman said distinctive edge, is too much like a The current dollar coin is 75 percent piece Its predecessor, the i upper and 25 percent nickel cartwneel-sizEisenhower dollar, was Goldman said new technology, not f nticized as too big available when the Anthony was conceived, will allow the mint to produce a bronze-ton- e coin from an alloy of copper, aluminum and silicon. But even that has drawbacks GoldIf you put off until tomorrow vxhat you man said the new alloy probably will should do today, there'll probably be a tarnish to an unattractive mustard higher tax on it color. two-mar- k nt Bette An- derson recently confirmed that a pmp-oson the color change has been drafted, but the legislation is still within the Treasury Department She said it will be up to the Reagan administration to float the suggested mclud.ng a new back design changes featuring a simple "1" instead of a soaring eagle on Capitol Hills. Total Neglect The main reason for the new dollar coin was to save money A dollar bill costs about 2 cents to pnnt and wears out in about 18 months. A dollar coin, which costs about 3 cents to produce, lasts 10 times as long about 15 years Treasury officials predicted initial savings of $4 5 million a year, with the e Today f Chucklu k |