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Show INDEX Amusements Comics > Editorial Generatly fair through tonight for the Provo to Ogden area increasing cloudiness 24 Obituaries Society 4 19-20 Sports 6-11 Stocks yee WEATHER —<— 14-15 2 Satur: day; lows tonight will be 35 to 40; highs Saturday will be near 70; chanceof precipita- 36 lion 10 per cent tonight and Saturday "105TH YEAR, NO. 59 $4.00 PER MONTH — PRICE 20 CENTS PROVO, UTAH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1977 Minimum Wage Action Senate and House Adopt LaborBills WASHINGTON (UPI) JAMES E, MANGUM Candidate for Mayor Candidate for Councilman H. EARL FARNWORTH Candidate for Councilman Citizens Party Citizens Party Citizens Party THOMAS PATTEN minimum wage by1981 Neither issue was settled finally by the votes Thursday. But AFL-CIO of- ficials were overjoyed bytheir ability to reverse labor's record of defeats in legislative battles against big business A final vote was expected today on the Senate's minimum wage proposal which would raise the current $2.30 wagefloor by$1.10 over the next four years providing a more generous raise than a similar bill passed earlier bythe House The House plan for $3.05 by 1980 was 42 HARLEY M. GILLMAN Candidate for Mayor People’s Party WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unemployment declinedslightly to 6.9 per cent in September with somegains for blacks, but it reflected no progress in total joblessness in six months. the Labor Department reported today Mangum, Gillman Vie for Mayor 8 in the race for the mayor's seat. Twice-mayor and incumbent James E. Mangum and four-term city councilmanHarley M. Gillman were chosen Thursday night by Orem'spolitical parties to be mayoral candidates, Mr. Mangumforthe Citizens Party and Mr. Gillman for the People’s Party. City Okays Running for two council seats in the People’s Party will be Mrs. Fred V. (Travis) Jackman and Gareth W. Seastrand For the council race, the Citizens Party nominated H. Earl Farnworth and Thomas Patten, who beat incumbent Merrill Gappmayer at Thursday's convention The other council seat available this Extension By JACK EMMERSON Carter Will They were identified as David K Gardner, A'fred S, Michelsen, TroyA. Mott and Richard D. Bradford. Mr Wignall congratulated the four for their extra effort in the preparation and endeavor on their part in a recent zoning violation incident which ultimately was decided in the Fourth District Court. “I want to congratulate each and everyone of these men for the fine job they did. Their dedication is to be commended,” he said The commission received and opened bids on the extension of 2230 N. It was described as part of the collector road system which will eventually link University Parkway with 900 East. Low bid was submitted by Clegg Construction Company of Provo at $343.276.37. The engineer's estimate was $408,294 There were only two other pre qualified bidders, both con- Continue siderably higher. Thorn Construction Company bidin at $395,121.32 and Sum Energy Fight Springville bid $370,181.20 Commissioner Wignall recom WASHINGTON (UPI) resident Carter said today his battles with sion and Sons Construction company of mended that the low bid be accepted after review by the engineer's office and the purchasing department, and approved by the Utah Department of Canal andother issues ‘are not a sign Transportation of failure” by his administration City Engineer Jack Zirbes indicated I don’t intend to fail,” he told the (Continued on Page2) Democratic National Committee And Congress over energy, the Panama with his proposed energy program in tatters on Capitol Hill, he promised to go back to Congress againnext year for any needed energylegislation Carter conceded “the matter is in doubt" on whether the Senate will ap prove the Canal treaties, but he ap: pealed for support Jobs Picture Hie was elected mayor in 1965 and Better Than served for two years before resigning for health reasons. He was elected again four years ago. Hehasservedin various LDS Church positions, including bishop and high councilman, and he presently serves as president of the Orem Utah West SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Central Stake. Unemploymentin Utah continueda two He andhis wife have nine children. yeardecline last month and the number of jobs went up. Harley M. Gillman The Department of Employment Mr. Gillman, a native of Orem and graduate of Pleasant Grove High Security said Thursday the seasonally School, is a fruit farmer and a dis- adjusted unemployment rate for patcher for Geneva Steel. He has September was 5.2 percent, the lowest sincethe 5.1 percent of November 1969. worked at Geneva for 30 years. Active in the LDS Church, Mr. Gil Thenumberof jobs increased3.7 perIman has been a bishop, high coun- cent from the same month last year cilman, bishop's counselor and worked with 531,300 people working in inall of the auxiliaries. Civically, Mr September. The month is traditionally Gillman serves as chairman of the the peak employment periodbecauseof UVATS Policy Committee, is a agricultural harvesting and the rush to member of Orem Planning Commis: complete construction projects before sion SCERA Board and Utah State winter Returning vacationers also add County-City Streets and Roads Com to the work force mittee The number of people unemployed in U.S. Norm He said that if elected mayor, his September 23,900 dropped main concern is theindebtednessof the seasonally by more than 28 percent city “I plan to economizefor awhile from August and was neerly 10 percent and see where we're going” beforein: below September of 1976 curring any more debts, he com (Continued FromPage |) law and helpunions in organizing campaigns particularly against staunchly anti-'nion employers like JP. Stevens and Co. Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J., floor leader for the bill, described it as a who nowreceive 50 per cent of the “tremendous victory for labor — minimum wage, would get 70 per cent producing “easily the most pro-lahor by 1981. The House had rejected any bill since the Wagner Act” more than 40 years ago. improvement Some 4.7 million workers would benefit from the Senate plan to raise the minimum wage to $2.65 next Jan. 1; $2.90 in 1979; $3.15 in 1980, and $3.40 in 1981 The labor bill approved 257-163 by Opponents agreed. “It's 97 per cent of what labor wanted,” said Rep. John Ashbrook, R-Ohio. A business coalition declared it “the most outrageous demonstration of unchecked union powereverwitnessed on Capitol Hill.” Picks Vice President MOSCOW(UPI) — The Soviet parliament unanimously adopted a new national constitution today and elected a former Detroit auto worker as Russia’s new vice president In a rapid-fire series of votes, the The Septemberlevel was 0.2 per cent below August. Unemployment has hovered around 7 per cent since April, refusing to go any lower than the postrecession lowof 6.9 per cent. This continued sluggishness in the year is Mr. Gillman’s. labor marketis likely to increase presHoldoverson the council, who are not sure on President Carter for some up for election for two years, are Lee change in the administration's ecoBamgartner, Glen Zimmerman and nomic policy. Joblessness was 7.3 per Wayne Watson. The mayor and council cent when he took office in January. positions are four-year terms The presentjobless rate compares to James E. Mangum a recession high of 9 per cent in 1975, Mayor Mangum wasbornin Helper, and a 1976 high of 8 per cent Carbon County, and raised in HunLast month’s modest 150,000 decline tington. He attended Carbon County in unemployment occurred among Junior College for two years and then workers recalled from layoff. Black graduated from BYUwith a degree in unemploymentfell to 13.1 per cent, elementary education. reversing an August rise to 14.5 per He taught five years in Emery cent that had created a public furor. County, then taught elementary school in Alpine District for 1% years. He moved to Orem in 1954. He taught English and history at Orem High School for 642 years, He started plumbing business in 1962 and today owns Mangum Plumbin penalize employers who violate labor Restaurant help and other workers who depend on tips also got a better deal in the Senate. Tipped workers, Nationally, the unemployment rate for last month was 7.1 percent 1,517-member Supreme Soviet approved the new constitution and echoed President Leonid Brezhnev's choice for vice president, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily i nev, who spoke twice during the session, declared that Oct. 7 will be a national holiday Constitution Day and parliament then voted to make the new constitution effective immediately. “From today the new constitution starts to live, work and operate,” Brezhney told the SupremeSoviet. “We madethis constitution not as a stage prop but as a main law whichshould be applied in the everyday life of the Soviet people. Communist party theoretician Mikhail Suslov nominated the 76-yearold Kuznetsovfor vice president, a post created by the new constitution, and Kuznetsov was quickly elected by acclamation Kuznetsov, a steel metallurgy expert whostudied at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh and worked at Ford Motor Co. in Detroit in the 1930s, has been a In Utah Of 2230 North Street Provo City Commissioners gave tentative approval to a $343,000 extension of 2230 N. during their Thursday commission meeting. Their action will link the street with University Parkway (See map Page 2) Commissioners also approved contracts on the low bid of an improvement project along 500 West. City Commissioner J. Earl Wignall, bn another matter, recognized the contributions of four city employees through the passage of a resolution of commendation for service above and beyond the normal requirements of duty off other conservative proposals, including a lower minimumfor teen. agers the House Thurday would severely Adopts Constitution; To 6.9% GARETH W. SEASTRAND Candidate for Councilman People’s Party TRAVIS JACKMAN Candidate for Councilman People’s Party rejected in the Senate and the bigger increase was adopted 76 to 14. Thevote indicated labor had the power to fend Russia’s Parliament Jobless Decline Orem City Parties Nominate; Two of the most popular public servants in Orem will faceeach other Nov. Organizea labor now hasitsfirst big victories on Capitol Hill this year with House passage of a bill to overhaul the labor law and Senate approval of a $3.40 FIRST DEPUTY Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, a former Detroit auto worker, elected by Soviet Parliament as Russia's new vice president. He was President Leonid Brezhney's choice for the post. (UPI Telephoto) deputy foreign minister for more than 22 years Just last Monday he was named an alternate member of the all-powerful Communist Party Politburo. Western diplomats said Koznetsoy's appointmentasvice president —known in Russia as vice chairman of the Presidium — will havelittle effect on whowill ultimately succeed Brezhnev Panama Official Prescribes Limits on Intervention by U.S. to Protect Waterway A the 50-mile canal after the year 2000, States gives up ad Panamanian negotiator of the new when the United canal (reaties says the United States ministration of the waterway PANAMACITY, Panama (UPI) will not have theunilateral right to in Lopez Guevarasaid the new treaties tervene militarily to protect the grant the United States the primary waterway’s neutrality after the year right to protect and defend the canal until Dec. 31. 1999 2000. A dispute over whether the canal treaties grant this right to the United WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States has been a major factor holding States and Panamawill hold new talks up US, Senate ratification Panamant an leader Omar Torrijos also must per suadehis voters to ratify the pact Dr. Carlos Lopez Guevara, atreaty negotiator, said Thursd ina nationwide television interview Panamawill maintain theneutrality of in an effort to agree on language to douse the controversy in both countries over the future US. rolein the canal’s defense and transit policies The release by Sen. Robert Dole, R Kan., of a secret State Department cable exposed the extent of disagree. ment over ambiguous language in the new Panama Canal treaties. The treaty revealed that Panama ForProvo North Fork strongly disputed the U.S. contention the so-called neutrality clause gives County Votes New CanyonService Area America the continued right to defend the canal by force after control of the waterway has been passed (o Panama in the year 2000 Misrepresentation will be presented to you,” he said in a hard-hitting speech, but “there is nc doubt in my By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Commission Chairman Karl R BALTIMORE (UPI) — Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel was sentenced Utah County commissioners voted Lyman told the overflow crowd of this morning to forma special service roperty owners in attendance at the earing that the commission had been nyon for water service andfire protec handed ‘voluminous papers of recomtion, but agreed to exclude four areas mendations and demands” only this morning, and had not had an opporwhich have protested the district In a unanimous vote, the commis- tunity to read through them sioners declared that they favored the Today's session marked the fourth today to four years in a federai special service district in a modified mindthat our country’s best interests will be served by these treaties Bulletin prison and strippedofhis office for his conviction of mail fraud and racketeering. Mandel, 57, was sentenced to four years for cach of 15 counts of mail fraud and to four years for a single racketeering count with all pentences to run concurrently district in the North Fork of Provo Ca- one of the public hearing, some of form, excluding Big Pine Canyon, John which havelasted several hours, At the R's Haven, Brickerhaven, and Stewart thirdsessionlast week, commissioners Cascade Plat B, lots one through 14 told the property owners they would At the same time, they asked the makea final determination today Mr. Lyman madereference to petitioners to furnish them with a legal degrees of coertion and threats description of the exact metes and bounds for the remaining lands within which had been made to themin phone calls and letters, andalso alledgedly to the district ‘Give us a periodof time to moreac: property owners of the North Fork, regarding establishment of thedistrict curately determine what the policies Heindicated that thesepressures had are,” he requested Mr. Lyman answered that there were had a bearing on the commission's determination to limit the size of the legal restrictions on how long the hear: ing could be continued, and reiterated district Asked byseveral people if additional that county commissioners had voted exclusions could be made, Mr, Lyman to exclude the four areas which reported that the property owners have specifically were opposed to the district had ample time to submit their objec: tions, and the commission had excluded Bryant Jacobs asked whatwill bethe those areas where a majority opposed control of the district, and Mr. Lyman thedistrict explained that state law provides for Rodney Despain asked for additional directors and advisory boards, but that tinie, stating that some information remained a legal question which would had been reported regarding thestate haveto be determined Arlin Kuhni objected that he had law dealing with administrative control (Continued on Page 2) of a district West Gets Warning BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) East Germany warned the West at the Belgrade Conferencetoday that nobody has the right to tell others how to run their own affairs The statement by East German delegate Ernst Krabatsch was taken by delegates as a direct reply to earlier at tacks by the United States and other Western countries on human rights violations in the Soviet bloc |