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Show INDEX Amusements Classified Comics WEATHER Partly 42-47 u Editorial Farm tonight, 6 Mu“ Society Sports times PROVO UTAH, WEDNESDAY JCTOBER26, 1977 $4.00 PER MONTH ocial Security Tax ill Debate Begins UPI) — Withheavy y sides, the House Social Security disability program from running out of money in 1979, and “send an une- For example, a worker earning $15,000 will have $877.50 deducted from further to $1,035 by 1987 On Water (It wou Whether 6 million federal, and BOISE (UPI Sen. Frank Church said today protection of state water usurpation should state local government workers and not be taken for granted Church, speaking at the National Wa.ci Hesotirces Associatio. conven- tion aid usurpation “can never be takenfor granted and ‘requires unre- and state, county and city governments lenting vigilance lobbied against this. State and local The senator was criticalof a study by the federal Water Resources Council which alleged problems with the fact that water rights in the West are governed by state water law employes lobbied for it Whether the tax base should be The taxes would rise more steeply raised less and the rate moreto put less of the burden on higher-income wor- for high-income workers than for low because the wage “‘base’’ on which kers How much retirees should be al- “‘T find it alarming the Federal Water Resources Council should list state lowed to earn in wages before some of deducted —Whether On MassTransit Issue Tomorrow An open hearing on the proposed The public has been invited to the elsewhere,” Church said Church noted with approval that Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus former governor of Idaho, has madeit clear he will oppose any attemptto infringe upon state or private rights. “Yet,” Church said, “from the start there have always been those who would have wished to tear the cloth, who have advocated that the federal governmentassert its authority under the supremacyclause of the Constitution. NEWYORK(UPI) — Thechildrenof the Sacred Heart School in Trenton. N.J., had planned their trip to the Statue of Liberty for six months. Provoand the city council of Orem. This autonomous board,acting on input from the citizens and recommendations of the commission and council, would determine the type of mass transit system which would best serve the two communities and howto finance it The board's revenue raising capabilities will be limited to the Sales tax, or a propertytax increase voted on by the electorate in both cities. But soon after the 95 youngsters got ANEXPLOSIONin an oilrig at Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve near Taft,Calif. killed three men and touched off a blaze that firemen could not douse. Flames ex- off the ferry Tuesday, Puerto Rican nationalists took over the national monument and ordered them back to the boat The Rey. Leonard Toomey, who took the students on the day trip from more excited by the incident than by the statue. I'm sure they ll never forget today,”’ he said “Perhaps they learn more this way US. Park Police arrested the 30 un- armed Puerto Ricans nine hours after theytook overthe staiue to demand the release of four imprisoned terrorists The national monument was not damaged in the takeover. where he was making a two-daytour. This lasi flight of the shuttle-orbiter prototype made its first concrete landing today, braking quickly after a one-minute 55-second drop from 17,000 feet to end its flight testing at this verifyits ability to brake within 5,000 feet series of vibration tests. After that, it will be outfitted for space flight and is to be amongthe early shuttles sent into Hugh Groves, a spokesman for the US. Park Police, said authorities decided to move in on the protesters shortly before 6:30 p.m. after they refused ‘“‘seven or eight offers of amnesty After several hours we reached the After the demonstrators quieted down, Groves said, they “cooperated to their fullest. They were ladies and Groves said ing his preparations An underground explosion at the rig for arraignment today in federal court he demonstrators said they represented the Supporters of the nants on Capitol Hill kept a watchful eye on House and Senate conferees Its successor, designated only “'102' by its builder, Rockwell International, will be the first shuttle craft to be bill rocketed into space for orbital flights in Representatives in 1954 and wounded We hope and expect to have a national energy plan before this March 1979. the goals the President has established again, are to be the space transports of Ricans who shot up the U.S. House of five congressmen and a fifth who took part in an assassination attempt against Trumanat Blair Housein 1960. They were sentenced to life prison terms, but President Carter recently commuted the sentences of one of the gunmen One fireman at the scene, This would not create another federal bureaucra said Chairman Thomas Ashley, D-Ohio. of the House p Ad Hoc pares Committee It would be in place and ready to the conferees. m would use the n of cut-rate loans to encourage i solar energy calls for the Gover age Association t andle loans at a low help people in: ittee is putting ing Houseand Se: versions of an energy conservationbill Conferees found out once again Tues: keep it from spreading The heat from thefire toppled therig during the early evening hours ow hard it is to write energy that affects the automobile. Negotiators ‘could not find a ready compromise on whether to outlaw The well that exploded was one of owned by the government. The Cheveron Oil Company also operates wells at Elk Hills, but she said altogether the w and no penalty for prepayment Carter wants appropriate incentives for energy production and meaningful conservation which “do not break the budget making process,”” Powell said (UPI gas-guzzling cars. Congress has three choices. P: ergy conservation bill oe re the Bonn Probe Confirms Terrorist Suicides any 1980 rood getting fewer than 16 Mercury Hits High Reading Of 77 Degrees SALTLAKECITY throughout Provo. Of Solar Energy in U.S. erupted andefforts to extinguish were failing A spo in said firefighters v pouring ,allons of water a minute on theflames through thenight just t in the area Mr. Gunn extended an openinvitation to the public to attend these debates. Hesaid that circulars promoting the debate of the candidates have been distributed by the neighborhood chairmen WASHINGTON (UPI) — A HouseSenate conference committee on energy today approved a $100 million that no one else can. was called in hours after the explosion and fire several place. Loans to Encourage Use 27, and Bobby Fuqua, 38. All three worked for Hydrolic Workover Ser years experience when the explo- Provo City Commission candidates Israel C. Heaton and Anagene iL Meecham, will appear tonight in first of two User debates one sponsored by Provo Jaycees. The two candidates will verbally square off at 7:30 in the commission chambers at city center, according to Jaycee President David Gunn. He stated that next Wednesday, Nov. 2, the candidates for mayor, James E. Ferguson, and Russell D. cae, will debate at the same time same Conferees Favor Cut Rate The victims were identified as George VanHoosen, 34, Mark Morvant is said to beableto putoutoil well who He said he understood the victims were ‘setting a plug” sion occurred Flames billowed 50 to 150 feet in the night at the federal Metropolitan Cor- Tectional Center in lower Manhattan whose rig was destroyed described the rig as about 60 feet high. said it toppled when the guideline cables supporting the rig melted alr. Louisiana Adair. who wit The demonstrators were held over- Puerto Rican Independence Movement which is fair to the consumers and does the future. They are to carry people not enrich the oi! companies,’ press and equipment into orbit and back again before he makes an attemptto put out the fire.” she said. “He has been out there for several hours now andis mak vices Inc., and lived in nearby Bakersfield. The Kern County Coroner's of fice said they had moved recently from and the New York Committee to Free the Five, a reference to four Puerto secretary Jody Powell said. She said Adair arrived from Texas shortly after midnight ‘We don't know how long it will be If convicted of the charge, each could get a year in jail and a $500 fine space Theshuttle craft, the first spaceships Powell said basket atop the rig Tuesday afternoon criminal trespass on federal property Here Tonight none of the privately operated wells were in the area There was no official word on what reserve early today and immediately caused the explosion andfire. began preparing to try to douse a There was one report that the blast runaway oil fire in which three men occurred when the drillers hit a pocket died of natural gas, but Mrs. Powell insisted Mr. Adair is here and he is con- that “they don’t know’ what caused sulting with supportive units at the fire the explosion andfire. She declined to scene,” Elk Hills spokeswoman Anita give the name of the subcontractor Groves said no weapons were found The demonstrators — men and women in their mid-20s, were booked To Debate — Famed oil among members of the group and the energy package as Carter's lieute- Congress goes home which will meet designed to be used over and over TAFT, Calif (UPI) owned by the Department of Energy on the reserve killed three workers in a on Liberty Island on charges of 2 Candidates (UPI Telephoto) well firefighter Red Adair arrived at gentlemen besides the window broken bythe officers, no other damage had been done. Taft the government-owned Elk Hills oil conclusion they would not come out.” hesaid. He said 35 park officers broke one glass window at the base of the statue and “confronted the chanting group.” tended abovethe 150-foot rig. The Red Adair team of oil fire troubleshooters wascalled to the site, which is 10 miles north of California Oil Fire Fatal to 3 Trenton, said the youngsters “‘were The Enterprise is to be modified for a hammeringout thefinalversion of the agency which decided it was more socally desirable to use the water And Arrested Energy Ideas Strategy talks were arranged at the White House with Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., and a group of congressmen on federal govenment purchase rights to waterandreallocate them to the most socially desirable or economically productive use through voluntary sale or eminent domain procedures. This proposal...would enable federal condemnationof existing water rights on the whim of some federal From Statue Carter Briefs Leaders on that ‘will be fair te the consumer and alarming that a solution suggests the Group Routed meeting and questions about the two proposals will be answered from the floor If the mass transit district is created as a result of the Nov. 8, election, a board of directors would be named by the city commission of desert air base The 75-ton orbiter was blown from the 747 as it had been in ‘car previous free flight tests, but this time it made its steepest and fastest descent, up to 26 degrees and at about 320 miles per hour. Sepayation came at 8:52 am. PDT and the Enterprise swept in for its landing two-minutes and one-second later. The spacecraft bounced three times before it settled on the runway and cameto a halt Fewer instrument tests were performed by astronauts Fred Haise and WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Gordon Fullerton on this flight Carter summoned additional members Basically, it was to make sure the stubof Congress to the White House todayto byglider could land on concrete, and to uot enrich the oil companies. council, ‘tends to institutionalize’ water rights, making it more difficult to carry out ‘regional programs such as interbasin transfers’ ,"’ Churchsaid. Church said he finds it even more should (Continued on Page2) To a Bouncy Landing hear ‘is pitch for an energy program Security 65 to 68 by stages between the years Shuttle-Orbiter Dives EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) — The space shuttle Enterprise dropped from the backofits jumbo jet mothership todayin its last free flight, falling at a rate of more than 11,000 feet per minute to a landing on a concrete runway and a royal welcome Prince Charles of Great Britain was waiting near the landing site when the Enterprise camein like a dive bomber. Heflew byhelicopter from Los Angeles Social have standby authority to borrow from general revenues if its reserves fall below a certain level —Whetherto adopt a Republican substitute which would raise taxes more slowly but would change the age for receiving full retirement benefits from Public Meeting mass transit for Provo and Orem will be conducted Thursdayat11:30 a.m. in the Provo City Commission chambers. In attendance, beside the Provo City Commission, will be Harley Gillman, a member of the City Council, and Carl Johnson representing the Mountainland Association of Governments (MAG). Under discussion will be two items on the ballot in the coming Noy.8, municipalelection. Thefirst proposition calls for the establishmentof a mass transitdistrict serving Provo and Orem,and the second would fund the district by a quarter cent increase in the sales tax. administration of water rights as a Problem which, in the words of the their Social Security benefits are 11:30 in Provo PRICE 20 CENTS Rights employes of non-profit organization should be brought under mandatory Social Security coverage in 1982. Federal workers, the administration than they will rise anyway under existing law in north portion Protect $31,200 anyway under existing law Other issues to be debated The bill would raise Social Security taxes over the next decade even more mitteesaid polls show Americans rang- ing fromthe elderlyto college students are concerned about the future soundness of Social Security now to $39,600 in 1987. quivocal message’’ to the country the program will be kept sound. his paychecks. This automatically will rise by stages to $967.50 in 1987 under existing law. The bill would raise it The House Democratic Policy Com- fair Urges Solon taxes arepaid would rise fr m$16.3 Backed by the administration, it cal. led on members to hausted in the early 1980s. the retirement fund from being ex- times way near 70. For Utah general. ly, the forecast is cloudy at 105TH|YEZAR NO NO.75 SkHINGTON at otherwise tonight mid-40s; highs Thurs 15-17 7-12 began debating a bill te finance Social Security into the next century with higher payroll taxes for employers auc employes Democratic leaders said the legislation ‘‘must” be passed to keep the cloudy through Thursday for the Provo to Ogden area; lows BONN, West Germany (UPI) An official German report said today an investigation shows ‘unequivocally that Andreas Baader and two members of his terrorist band committed suicide and were not murdered in prison as some of their supporters charge. The In dian Summer sun and a high pressure It said a fourth member of the band. rmgard Moeller, survived a suicide system over the central Intermountain Region pushed the mercury to a record pact probably agreed on after failure of high reading of 77 Tuesday at the Salt Lake International Airport hostages on a hijacked Lufthansa air: The National Weather Service said the 77 brokethe old recordfor the day by two degrees. The previous high fox an Oct. 3 had been 75 back in 1931 a terrorist plot to exchange them for 8 liner An investigation shows un equivocally that the deaths were suicides,” said the report of the Justice Mints state of themse! Baden Wuerttemberg The report said theexact time of the suicides still has not been determined f herself Gudrun Ensslin and Ms Moeller stabbed but survived after a heart yperation but was probably after German com Ms Moeller 4 mandos stormed the hijackedjetliner through her lawyer. at Mogadishu airfield in Somalia at 2.05 suicide pact existed am. Oct. 18 Jan Carl Raspe probably heard a statement issued has denied any wn fo sign of drugging cial report said it is not kn weapons were smuggled essed thebelief de nse n in before th r the Sept. kid ialist’ Hanns-Martin $ to the gallon And the energy tax bill the House passed has a tax on cars based on their gas mileage The Senate is debating the tax bill this week A $40 billion program of x breaks prepared by the mittee survived its and She charged gas was a newscast on a transistor radio he had Senate in the concealed in his cell in Stuttgart’s heim Prison and informed the rs of the plot's omnmunications wereinflicted. She suggestedthe three had a similar experience The prosecutor $ office in St 2 medical examina Baad and Raspe will be buried Th prison radio system oe the renee ee Miss Moeller and the three dead The report sai Baader and Raspe members of the Red ArmyFaction had the same gravein Stuttgart or d the wires of the sure then would go to the which is from the White : House and both bra nches of Cong) aren Seo. Howard Me n, D-Obi (Continned ee Paget) , ne |