Show mft&k Wf wiiNw jjtunj&tew’tgMB Tv i mrmtrn vjfru m fctfuwftT'b w“ a i: i £ Covering Bridgerland - Northern Utah And Southern Idaho VOL 68 NO 39 LOGAN UTAH TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15 1977 FIFTEEN CENTS ' Pentagon notes sharp nse WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Pentagon announced today the cost of major weapons programs escalated by an estimated $1146 billion In the dosing months of last It was the largest increase since 1870 but the Pentagon attributed it mainly to quantity increases ordered by the Ford administration The biggest increase was $75 billion in the F16 lightweight fighter program which the Pentagon said will go up to an estimated total of $1383 Ullion throughthe 1980s The K18 increase is due mainly to a previously disclosed plan to more than double the number of planes bought from 650 to 1388 Some programs which showed large cost increases in the three months ending Dec 31 such as the building of nuclear attack submarines are under consideration for slowdown or budget cuts by Defense Secretary Harold ETown The submarine program escalated upward by an estimated $424 million during the period to a total of $1005 Ullion Funds for two more of the submarines are proposed in the outgoing Ford budget now under revision by file Garter administration The Pentagon said Out $330 million of file total was due to engineolng changes in the program but noted that the Builders General Dynamics filed a $5439 M b million claim for cost increases last December Other large increases included $46 billion in the program for Navy frigates which the Pentagon said was because of a planned increase from SO to 74 ships $25 Ullion in die Trident missile submarine primarily because of a proposed 11 to 13 ships and $14 billion for the trouMe-o- f F14 fighter program because a planned ise from 403 to 521 planes The Pentagon also listed an estimated increase of $850 millionto a total of $183 billion in the Roland missile a controversial West German weapon which the United States is buying A $104 million contract was given to Hughes Air craft Go to “Americanise” the missile during the tenure as Pentagon engineering chief Malcolm Currie who recently resigned ana rejoined Hughes his former employer as a vice president Costs of adapting the missile have more than doubled and the Pentagon said file latest increases were “due to primarily to a change in estimating methodology for the production program" Today’s projected increases were uie largest since file quarter ending June 30 1070 when they topped the $20 Ullion mark Pentagon officials said mat while 36 programs were involved in 1970 a total of 45 were now involved teams on - A Capas By PANAMA CITY Panama (UPI) — Panama’s four-ma- n negotiating team flew to Oontadora Island today raising the curtain to a new round of dosed-dotough bargaining with Americans on the future of file Panama Canal The UA team led by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has been waiting on the island a flight from Panama City Both sides have expressed hopes a new treaty may be signed by April or May but hard bargaining U expected wring the lftday talks TKInamanlanlsartof Omar Torrijos said Monday he would demand that file United Bates abandon the vital waterway that Connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the year 2JM0 “There will be no compromise” Torrijos said “Dignity cannot be negotiated” The agenda for the talks was open and no working schedule was announced The talks traditionally are conducted in tight secrecy sometimes with a Joint communique issued at the dose The current negotiations are expected to last about 10 days The Panamanian team included: Minister of Labor Adolfo Ahumada Dr Romnlo Escobar a Torrijos advisor veteraadiDlomat Dionnes de Is Ross: snd or 51-mi-le '"i f - Edwin Fabregas - director of - The Institute of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity Sol Linowitz President Carter’s representative at the talks said Monday file States is anxious to reach an early agreeme new treaty— but said it must “assure the availability of the canal for world commerce at all times and it must protect the security of the canal” Monday night the - UA Embassy officially protested Panama’s threehour detention Friday of an American opponent of the negotiations William Drummond president of file Canal Zone’s Police Union was detained fay National Guardsman J — and Saturday — as he prepared to Friday ' a plane briefly vr-for Washington Drummond was questioned about bombings in the when his own car was blown the detentions possibly were timed to demonstrate Torrijos’ hard-lin- e approach to the v i talks Torrijos said Monday his demand for an end to US presence in the canal zone by the year 2000 was ‘‘unchangeable’’ Washington already has agreed to transfer operation of the canal to Panama by then but wants to keep a military presence beyond that date The COPENHAGEN Denmark (UPI) Danes who are among the heaviest taxed people in the world voted today to choose their third national government in four It also was tax day It was not immediately dear what effect the tax filing deadline would have on file country’s 3 million eligible voters but sane analysts felt the right-wi- n Progress party — advocating lower taxes and less government spending — could benefit Opinion polls indicated however Premier Anker Joergensen’s Social Democratic government may widen its power base -The opinion polls indicated the liberals the- - eeeead Ucgest party Jed by former premier Poul Hartling were in serious trouble and could lose 13 seats down to 29 Joergensen was expected to gain at least seven seats giving the Social Democrats 60 in the 179eeat Parliament which includes two representatives each from Greenland and the Faroe Islands Joergensen has led a minority government for the past two years and has called mi the electorate to give him a clearer J minority - ? PARIS (UPI) mandate The Progress Party was expected to pick up at least one seat for a total of 24 The average tax on gross salary in Denmark is 37 per cent In addition Danes pay a 15 per cent sales tax on all items Winding food The Organization for: Economic Cooperation and Development made of the world’s major industrialized nations said recently that in 1974 Danes paid a higher percentage of their gross national product in taxes than any other member Bate - ' D-Sa-lt Association Gov Scott Gov Calvin Rampton and Attorney General Robert Hansen all urged passage of Taylor's bill to clear up raised in the recent Gary Gilmore file slayer of a gas station at tendant soul a motel clerk in Utah County refbaed to appeal his death sentence He was riiot by a firing squad Jan 17 two-ye- ar 1 - Park-fairgroun-ds 18-bi- U Park-fairgroun- ds workmen’s compensation benefits - i rms Five brokerage have filed objections to a to which 1st District Judge VeNoy Christofferaen ruled the five firms and three to them fay in an investments the i 5 -- i ruled late last month foe investments of USU money in certain made by firmer USU investments officer Donald Catron were illegal investments the firms receiving commissions and fees from those investments are legally liable to return those fees and commissions Four of foe right brokerage firms have how filed in 1st District Court a motion to set - aside the memorandum decision and one of them has also Bled a motion to have the decision recalled A fifth brokerage firm has filed a motion for an order to vacate or amend foe ruling All the motions are legal maneuvers made in an attempt to void Christoffersen’s memorandum decision ' The motions by the brokerage firms all defendants in lawsuits brought against them by USU also seek to void Christoffersen’s decision that the suits should not be dismissed ' " - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter gave a warm White House farewell to visiting Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo today as they completed two days of talks on hemispheric relations and common problems “I look forward to you coming ' lit hand they walked together from the Oval Office to a waiting Umwiriwa on the south lawn They seemed to be talking to Spanish as they approached foe car As he reached foe vehicle Lopes turned to Carter and said “muchas gradas por todo” (thank you for everything) They shook hands and aon Carter find Lopez’ 22year-ol- d Jose Ramon In english “come back to The Oval Office meeting was to be followed by a Joint statement in which r ' both Mexico and the United States reaffirmed intentions to seek new ways of solving common problems state visit is the first Lopez’ four-da- y by a foreign head of state since Carter became President last month The leaders are making an open attempt to improve relations which cooled be tween file North American neighbors under previous administrations iui both count' “It was not any accident that those we wanted to cone first of all were our dose friends from Mexico” Carter told Lopez during a White House dinner Monday Wight “This is a good change” Carter added “And now with a common border we see renewed opportunities to bind ourselves ever closer together to face the future with confidence with hope with the feeling of friendship and i ’1' i' -- i in the near future before anything can be done with foe Daines property Commission Chairman Ted Karren said the county backed off foe Daines property park idea because tt would have cost $15 million to develop it fully as planned “We felt there was no way we could meet that in the foreseeable future" he said The county tried to divert the BOR funds to Willow Park but regulations wouldn’t permit it he noted Elliott conformed that BOR rules would not permit a transfer and he also informed commissioners that any income derived from the property riwuid he put into a fund' for the property’s future recreational under a development (the property was separate BOR grant) commissioners indicated that rental income from the property had been going to the general fund but that they would place it in a trust fond now instead Karren hinted at one point that he’d prefer to give altogether something which Emott up foe out would be very difficult to do In order to use foe property for anything other: than recreation or to sdl it EUtott udd the county would ha veto get approval from the U A Secretary of Interior and would also have to purchase compensating recreational property in foe same area “You’d run into a lot of hassles" Commissioner Robert Chambers disagreed with Karren saying he can see a future use and a need for the Daines property “R might become the only open ' space left in that area" he said He added that the Cache County Planning Commission also feels strongly that the property should be held for recreation - s' Carter Portillo end mutual interest talks S'v s use of Dailies property Faced with a nearing deadline before they must use or lose a $75000 recreation grant the Cache County Commission this morning set a public hearing for members understood foe bill” He March 8 to let views on whether foe grant should be extension requested said he would try to recall it for another relinquished or a The grant is from the UA Bureau of Outdoor vote ' Recreation ( BOR) and is earmarked fa development An aide to the governor said Matheson of the “Daines property” located off U A 91 was disappointed at the House’s action and of North Logan and Hyde Park near the border would reconsider it hoped It consists of 97 acres and initial plans were to make The House also shot down a bill that would have prohibited the construction of it an equestrian park The county was to match file future high rue buildings on Capitol Hill — BOR grant and spend $150000 for the property’s 1 development a measure aimed at preserving the view of phase Since then however foe county has decided to the capitol The Senate killed a bill giving foe health develop its equestrian park at foe existing Willow complex and to improve those board the power to license and regulate file facilities rather than to also eventually build a new commerical use of microwave ovens and other devices using radiation and defeated fairgrounds on the Daines property Ross Elliott BOR representative for Utah exanother measure that would have boosted plained that foe county has until June 30 to use foe retirement benefits for peace no real money If it does not intend to develop file Daines Senators complained property immediately it should either withdraw the need for the first measure They down file retirement foil pending a review grant application and lose the BOR funds get a deadline extension or amend the grant and develop of the state’s entire retirement system sent to the House Senate pertiaps only a part of foe property for now The passed and Commissioners told Elliott they have no plans to three equal rights measures— part of an package aimed at eliminating sex develop the property this year because all recreation discrimination in state law money is concentrated on the Willow One bill makes men and women equally development They also indicated there is a commitment to develop a Smithfield Canyon park their children women eligible for becoming1 the first msn executed in file United Bates in a Opponenta of the death penalty asked both the state and UA Suprane Courts to stop Gilmore’s execution on grounds Utah’s law has no mandatory sppesl Both courts refused to hear the argument on grounds Gilmore had not appealed and others had no right to do it for him But neither court ever ruled on the of file state law jfoTmmon Utah’s Death Row including Hi-F- i killer Dale Pierre hsve also raised file mandatory review issue in their appeals which have yet to be heard by the Bate Supreme Court Hansen made a personal plea to House to adopt the mandatory re provision saying it would make it easier to wend the state law against constitutional attppk But the representatives were not convinced foe change was necessary and rejected It with almost no debate ‘The law already gives a man the right to appeal” said Rep T Quinton Cannon “If he admits his guilt and aays he doesn’t want an appeal then why build in this cumbersome proceedure?” Taylor later said “I don't think the ' ji J ” writer ‘death’ biU : sets - -E- Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky said Monday he hopes to confer with President Carter soon on the pliit of Soviet political prisoners early 1974 Denmark’s ployment has climbed by 100000 to — 81 per cent of the work force — and the government had to resort to foreign loans to a $21 billion trade deficit But the Social Democrats were able to trim inflation from the 1975 level of 22 per cent to 13 per cent in 1976 Joergensen - has tried to attack the economic ills by increasing various limiting wage increases to six per cent year over the next two years and f rents To get his program through parliament he had to depend on four other parties for support which he usually got after much bargaining But in January the parties and Joergenaen balked at die rent f called the election yv Human rights xiled r - j By Bob Findlay The Utah SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) House ignoring advice from the governor and foe State Bar Association has killed a bill designed to eliminate constitutional questiona about foe state’s desfo penalty ? law The representatives voted nearly 2-- 1 Monday against a measure which would have required mandatory review of all death sentences by the Utah Supreme Court The vote was M41 Lake inPfw Ram Taylor troduced the bill in an effort to make Utah’s Isw conform to recent UA Supreme Court decisions holding that capital punishment statutes should provide some type of mandatory review to ensure that death is not imposed “capriciously" or “for dls-- y Electionax davrfoirDahes issue r national government in four years Today also is tan day in Denmark The nation has 15 million eligible voters palling station today to vote in a national election that will decide the Dan’ third a rest home in Copenhagen Denmark are wheeled to a OLD PEOPLE FROM Franklin County’s budget’s approved but Mly after commissioners got the word on how some residents fed 4 about it About Cache 2 Jack Anderson I Editorials 12 16 6 Horoscope 11 11 Obituaries People 4 5 6 Dr Lamb t 'y ' ' ' ' Dam proposals to be reviewed Inside today Classified Ads Comics (Continuedonpage2) 11 Utah 3 Weather 4 Dick West 9 The chance of significant precipitation in Utah and surrounding points remained flight today as foe Pacific storm track continued to range to foe north The forecast was for continued unseasonably fair and warm weather through 4 Wednesday HYRUM — The fawihiuty of placing a Hsm on either the Blacksmith Fork River or the south fork of the Little Bear River will be discussed in a meeting to be held Wednesday 7 pjn in the Hyrum dvic Center Norm Stauffer water resources enginiwr for foe Utah Division of Water Resources will present a report on the dam proposals and their potential benefit to the south end of Cache County Stauffer told The Herald Journal he prepared his repot for the Technical Advisory Committee of toe Bear River Association of Governments (BRAG) which in turn is acting on requests from the Blacksmith Fork Soil Conservation District and foe Bear River Resource Conservation and Develop- ment Committee (RC&D) Asked if a dam appears economically feasible Stauffer said that under federal financing at 7 percent Interest it would not be But if the project could get grants and state financing at 2 to 3 percent interest the project is “easily feasible" be said It would also become more feasible Stauffer if more of the water were to go to industrial culinary use rather than purely for irrigation i 1 : |