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Show i. Panel Votes to Increase I ? ) i Bv Jeffrey Mills Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Postal Rate Commission has voted tentatively to raise the cost of mailing a letter from 13 cents to IS cents, an authoritative commission source said Friday. The decision is expected to to made public by May 13, and the higher rates could take effect before the end of May - The action would throw out President Carler's suggestion for a ''citizens' rate" at a lower rate than that charged to businesses First-Clas- mailing rate at the present 13 cents while increasing first class rates to hi cents for businesses and other mstitu Last July, Carter recommended ere ation of a separate citizens rate, saying he felt the American people should be spared a postal rate increase this year tions The C S Postal Service endorsed the idea and passed it on to the postal commission, which has been consider ing it since then The president recommended that the postal commission retain the citizens' voted The source said the rate commission 3 to set the first class letter rate 1 Postal Rates to 15 s cents for all mailers The oiih nominee on the commission. Simeon Wright, was the dissenter, the source saui The commission is independent of the Postal Sort lee, hut in previous eases it has approved the imortant parts ot the sei v lee's i ate eipiest s It the tentative vote becomes tinal, the governors of the Postal Service at 15 Carter would have these options under the Put into etfeet the rates voted hv the commission, as it has always done in the past option since the Postal Service says it needs the money that higher rates would tiring in Pul the rates into effect under protest w lute asking the commission to the rate Reject the wink commission and ask it to ret misidcr specific isiiiits Reject the decision, and retain the current milling rates, an unlikclv - Put the rates into effect under protest, while appealing them to a ledei al appeals couil While the 3 vote was tentative, the See Page 2, Column 3 law - of - , reconsider 1 Solons Agree on Natural Gas Pricing By Steven Rattner New York Times Writer WASHINGTON Leaders of the House and Senate energy conference reached agreement Friday on natural gas pricing, an issue Congress has tried repeatedly to resolve for more than two decades. The agreement, which still lacks formal approval by the conference, came just one year and one day after President Carter formally unveiled his national energy plan and represents a crucial step in the presidents efforts to win approval for his program. It appeared to bring to an end five months of impasses and bickering among the conferees. Not only is natural gas pricing a key component of Carters program, but a failure to reach an agreement on the issue would have almost certainly doomed the presidents request for energy taxes, the other critical component of the program The accord, put together during a marathon session that lasted into Fridays early hours, provides for the expanded regulation of natural gas at higher prices, to be followed by the deregulation of new supplies in 1985. In other words, it would extend regulation to the only segment of the market not now regulated sales of gas within a state. We have with all our differences toon able to merge those differences into a hill for the first time in 30 years " said Henry M Jackson. , chairman of the Senate group "This is economic ramifications, particularly a compromise which moves natural gas on the v alue of the dollar policy off dead center." Energy Secretary James R which still lacks The agreement, Schlesinger, who played a key role in formal approval by the conference, negotiating the accord, termed the came just one year and one day after event a splendid legislative moment" President Carter formally unveiled his and said that the president would National Energy Plan and represents a "absolutely" support it. crucial step in the presidents efforts to "I am pleased and gratified that win aunroval for his program. members of the energy conference The failure of the administration to have reached tentative agreement on achieve passage of its plan is thought to natural gas legislation, the president have damaged the president's political said late Friday, "This agreement standing, which in turn has had represents a long overdue step toward the creation of a truly national market for natural gas as well as a crucial breakthrough toward enactment of the nation's first and long delayed national energy plan. However, even if the gas compromise is adopted smoothly by the conference, an equally important part of the energy taxes president's proposal must still to considered by the conference, and its fate is uncertain. Moreover, natural gas, taxes, and the three other components already agreed See Page 2, Column 1 U.S. Airliner to Pick Up Those on Downed Jet State Department By William Kronholm Associated Press Writer An American civilian airliner will fly to the Soviet Union Saturday to pick up passengers of a South Korean plane forced down in Russia by Soviet jet fighters, airline WASHINGTON officials said Friday night. Two passengers were killed and two others were seriously injured Thursday on a when the plane crash-landefrozen lake after toing fired upon by Soviet fighters, Zbigniew Brzezinski, director of the National Security Council, said earlier Friday. d spokesman Thomas Reston said 11 others suffered less serious injuries. It was not known if the casualties resulted from the Soviet shooting or the nighttime crash landing. No Americans Aboard One of the dead was identified as a Japanese citizen, Y. Sugano, 45. The identities and nationalities of the other casualties were not known. No Americans were aboard the plane. The Russians said Friday the surviving passengers and crew would be released. The Soviet news agency Tass said arrangements were being made for "their dispatch from the U.S.S.R.s territory. Pan American World Airways and Korean Air Lines announced Friday night that a Pan Am jetliner would fly to Murmansk in the Soviet Union Saturday to pick up the passengers of the downed plane. Taken to Finland Spokesmen for the two airlines said the passengers would be taken to Helsinki, Finland, where they would be transferred to a South Korean airliner for a flight to Tokyo and Seoul. Arrangements for the Pan Am flight were approved by the United States and the Soviet Union, the spokesmen said. Murmansk is about 300 miles north of the jetliners landing site. Charles K. Cho, vice president of Korean Air Lines, said in Seoul that release of the downed jetliner would he negotiated after the crew and passengers were released. The downed plane, Flight 902 from Paris to Seoul with a refueling stop in Anchorage, was flying a trans-pola- r route when it went off course. Reston said the cause of the deviation was unknown, but that the plane turned south over the Arctic Ocean and crossed the Barents Sea toward Russia. Enters Soviet Airspace Tass said the plane entered Soviet airspace near Murmansk, which is near the Finnish border and on the Barents coast. "Fighter planes of the Soviet antiaircraft defenses intercepted .the violator, Tass said. "In nighttime conditions, using (maneuvers) of the planes and onboard lights, they repeatedly issued orders to the intruder to follow them in order to land at some nearby airfield. "The plane, however, did not respond to these orders and landed on a lake," Tass said. Tribune Staff Photo bv Van E. Porter Dignitaries approach the stage at Brigham Young University at 103rd commencement ceremony. Strong Character Vital to Life Graduates Hear at BYU Rites By Tom McCarthey Tribune Staff Writer "I would pray that you have the character which is of such vital importance to young people leaving school and university to enter upon your life work; for it is by character that you will be judged by your friends, your employers, and society as a whole, Brigham Young University graduates were told here Friday. Joseph Rosenblatt, noted Salt Lake City businessman, told the 2,422 graduates that degrees earned at the private school impose obligations as well as benefits. Besides the 2,422 students qualifying for undergraduate and graduate degrees in April, 1,061 students who completed graduation requirements in December received diplomas Friday. Japanese sources said the Boeing 707 Learned Ideals attempted to evade the Soviet fighters, "You are a BYU graduate, and we See Page 2, Column are entitled to say that you are intelligent and responsible, that you are men and women of character who have learned ideals as well as the true facts of life you have been educated in an If you should die in an elevator, be environment of reasonable and wholedown by Soviet fighters. Two sure to push the up button before you some discipline with a firm devotion to were killed and 13 injured. go. basic principles and the religion of the founders of this university, Mr. Rosenblatt told students, faculty and friends gathered in the Marriott Center for the 103rd commencement exercises. As one of four men awarded honorary-doctoradegrees Friday morning, Mr. Rosenblatt was asked to give the commencement address, an honor he had to turn down last year because of surgery. emergency open-hear- t years, Vance broke away from the Gromyko over official refusal to transHonorary Doctorates SALT agenda to protest Soviet attempts mit UP1 and AP pictures of the Dallin H. Oaks confetred a President to censor photographs of the incident. incident, in which Soviet police roughed doctor of public service degree upon But while Vance was complaining to up the woman and her daughter and Mr. Rosenblatt and a doctor of blacked out parts of a CBS satellite humanities degree upon George S television transmission covering the noted Utah hanker. Dean A --a same incident, the Russians officially Eecles, Allen Lester brushed off the episode as a "deliberate presented Robert H provocation by U.S. newsmen." That stony reply, however predictable, was transmitted not to Vance, but l to embassy officials by the officer at the Soviet Foreign Ministry to whom the formal protest was delivered In a FLORENCE, Italy (AP) In keeping with the current effort by meticulously timed strike, art thieves hoth sides, but most markedly by the Big Vav through a skylight, climbed down Americans, to avoid any hint of the broke In tin Sky a rope ladder into the world famous public acrimony that marred last Pitti Palace museum and made off with year's Vance visit here, nothing was the Rutons masterpiece "The Three to said alxiul the attitude Gromyko's Malt INt't'tHt'poinlt'rs Graces" and nine other Flemish works McClellan incident or, indeed about early Friday. On anything else. Museum officials estimated the value of the stolen paintings at more than $1 The talks Friday on strategic arms million Director Marco Chiarini called again were described as useful and Golfers. Haven: the loss mimense "They weie part of businesslike. the collection since the Medicis," he Si. Gt'oroe But in the absence of any detail to said measure what actual progress may Police stud the thieves struck behave occurred, there was no way even tween inspection tours by guards in the to guess at what was being Palatine wing of the Pitti, the stone- w Ktk PROVO 1 Todays Chuckle Map shows Kem, U.S.S.R. near where Korean jet was forced Vance, Soviets Continue Arms Talks, With Difficult Issues Still on Agenda By Oswald Johnston Los Angeles Times Writer Secretary of State Cyrus Vance continued his talks Friday with Soviet officials in an atmosphere of almost contrived cordiality, hut U.S. officials said some of the most difficult issues still remain to be discussed Vance has toon assured a session Saturday, the last day of the talks, with President toonid I. Brezhnev, and at that meeting he intends for the first time to raise the question of Soviet-Cubapenetration into Africa. In talks ranging more than four hours Friday, with Vance and Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko the main participants, the discussion of "agenda No 1," strategic arms, was virtually completed, but no details were made available. talks Friday The did, however, for the first time range beyond the SALT issue, which With sides agree should be settled irrespective of other political disagreements In part, because his hand was forced Thursday by the brief demonstration in front of the U.S Embassy of Irina McClellan, wife of a U S professor who Kmicl't 'ivvi(in for four MOSCOW R n Vance-Gromyk- - o mid-leve- Daines with a doctor of science degree. Christian Alexander Schreiner was presented a doctor of music degree by Dean Lael J. Woodbury. Dr. Schreiner served as Tabernacle organist for 53 years and was once called by Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy one of the three greatest Christian musicians in or- the world. The Nuremberg-born 9 ganist received the loudest applause of the day. Dr. Daines was lauded for his pioneer work in air pollution injury to plants. He was instrumental in the discovery of and Captan "Phaltan," which are among the most the fungicides effective organic fungicides. An early morning snowstorm can-Se- e Page 2, Column 4 Lunch Program Schools Face Junk Foods Ban WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department intends to ban the sale of popular snack foods from schools until children have finished their final meal of the day in cafeterias. Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-- 2 l Coming Sunday In The (Tribune Graduates were told to cultivate character, not security as they enter upon their life work. Assistant Secretary Carol Tucker Foreman said Friday a proposed government regulation would mean that "no candy, soda water, frozen desserts or chewing gum could to sold at schools participating in the national school lunch program until after the last lunch period." Ms Foreman presented the proposal to the Newspaper Fooo editors and Writers Assn, meeting m San Jose, Calif One of the objectives is to get more children to eat lunches in cafeterias instead of filling up on what Ms. Foreman has called junk foods of little nutritional value The ban also would to intended to reduce "plate waste" among children who do not finish their meal jiortions, she said Department is in nutrition programs, charge including federal subsidies to help states pay for schixil lunch and breakfast operations The department's Food and Nutrition s Service said that more than of the nations schools take part in the iuneh program Recent figures for this school year show that of the nations Sec Page 2, Column 2 The Agriculture of AND MORE Section. . . . Sears S;ilurdavs Konra! Salt Lake City and vicinity Partly cloudy and cool some northwest winds Weather details on Page ; C-- child four-fifth- Thieves Steal Rubens Painting - Fliilit - - rulers of Florof the arts who more than 500 museum Anti burglar equipment was toing installed in the Palatine, "but it was not a yet in operation, unfortunately." police officer said "They were timely and informed, lie said of the thieves. The other stolen paintings were foui works by Cornelius van Poelenburg. two by Paul Bril, two by Gaspare Yanvitelli and one by Pier Molyn the FUler Yanvitelli was a Fleming whose real name was Gasper van Wittel. All the works had toon part of the Medici Medicis. ence and acquired paintings .n,. Renaissance great patrons many of the housed in the The biggest loss was the Rubens work, a 23- - hy painting on wood picturing the three sister goddesses of Greek mythology embracing in the nude. The paint mg had been insured for $330,000 when it was shipped to Antwerp. Relgmm, last year for an exhibition of Rutons works on the 400th anniversary of his birth. "Its value, of course, is much higher," said Luciano Rerti. superintendent of fine arts in this museum city. was one of the most sensational of a w ave of art thefts that has plagued Italy for years, many in unguarded It fph 'U-P irz4 r Vxvv; |
