Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - April 7, 1975, Billings, Montana Hardin murder mysterious HARDIN Big Horn County law of- ficers were looking Sunday for an assailant who killed a Hardin man late Saturday and apparently escaped with a day's receipts from a supermarket Authorities said the body of Monte Dyckman was found Saturday night by a member of the sheriff's department The victim was in his car about 10 of Hardin near the Toluca exit on Interstate 90 A sheriff's deputy said the vehicle was parked with its headlights on and Dyckman was inside His hands had been lied behind his back and he had been shot twice in the head Officials Dyckman was last seen alive after 10 pirn Saturday when he left the Hardin Safeway Store where he was employed to make a bank deposit Police and sheriff's officers reportedly checked a local bank Saturday night to see if the deposit had been made and the records of the Safeway being checked day to see if any money was missing Big Horn County Sheriff Robert Brown said Sunday there had been some progress made in unraveling the mystery of death but he said he would have no specific comments until he con- ferred with the Big Horn County attorney who was out of town However Brown said no arrests had been made 340 Billings Montana Monday Morning April Handgun control for cities only is urged WASHINGTON Attorney General Edward H Levi Sunday suggested ban on the possession of handguns except those kept inside homes and businesses each city where violent street crime reaches a high level Levi offering his idea simply for discussion rather than as a formal proposal indicated it would provide gun control in cities where it is needed and wanted while making an for to controls in rural areas He made his proposal in a keynote address prepared for a three-day Law Enforcement Executives Narcotics Conference Levi said that while he heads the Justice Department he wants to spur discussion of possible crime solutions one by and he chose handguns as his first topic because they are the focus of fear in violence ridden urban centers As an alternative to the idea of nationwide gun registration Levi proposed an outright ban on sale or transport of handguns and ammunition in areas where crime reaches a specified rate Index Two sections Classified Comics Deaths weather 8 Entertainment 15 Family Storm warning Winter storm warning and north with snow and freezing rain through Tuesday Highs 20 to 35 lows 5 to 20 More weather on Page 8 Those people who already had handguns for protection inside their homes or businesses would be allowed to keep them cording to Levi's proposal But they could not take them onto the street without obtaining a specific short-term permit One possible formula for imposing this ban Levi said would be based on the Census Bureau's list of Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas cities of or more population suburbs The ban would be triggered in each area where violent rose 20 per cent above average or if it rose 10 per cent in areas where it already was 5 per cent above the national average If this had been the law in 1972 he said the federal handgun ban would have been triggered in 62 metropolitan areas including New York City Washington Chicago Baltimore San Francisco and Los Angeles Levi noted that existing federal regulations and controls enacted in scattered states have not removed the fear caused by the estimated 40 million handguns now in the United States number growing by 2.5 million eacht year In crowded urban areas the handgun has become a medium of he said noting that a handgun is used in one of every four aggravated assaults and one of every three robberies Because it is easy to with those who want handguns to protect Levi said he proposed a civil punishment for a first who violates the proposed handgun ban Levi said a second offense could carry a short prison term and a third offense would draw a stiff criminal penalty Any illegal gunrunning also would carry a stiff penalty he said Some babies sick By CARL INGRAM United Press International Volunteer doctors provided intensive treatment Sunday for nearly 50 seriously ill homeless Vietnamese babies flown out of the South Vietnam war zone in biggest such mercy mission ever Two Air Force planes touched down on U.S soil carrying 132 more children to a new life in American homes Physicians announced late in day that it appeared most of the 47 hospitalized infants would recover We don't expect any Dr Alex Stalcup said in San Francisco There are four or five considered still critical but none on the edge dying The ill children arrived Saturday night in San co and were greeted by President Ford and his wife Two Air Force CHI ers landed at Travis Air Force Base about 75 miles of San Francisco The first carried 81 children and the second 51 A third plane was expected to land at Vancouver B.C Air Force Lt Col Martin Joye a doctor said at Travis that the children were ped but in good condition The GUIs are not the most convenient airplanes to sport children he said Gemmell a woman representing the World Vision International adopting agency told reporters We left about to children there I and there are more streaming I in to Saigon every day I Dr of Mt Zion Hospital in San Francisco said the children in critical condition were suffering from pneumonia infection and The others in the hospital he added were making rapid recovery and would probably be healthy enough to he turned over to I their adopted parents with two I days I Seventy-five children arrived I in Chicago for placement in their Midwest homes Many prospective parents were ling One couple was Hep Eliot Glassheim North Dakota and his wife Pat They waited for Vo United International President Ford smiles at a Vietnamese baby in San Francisco Van Dung They didn't see him The plane took off ly the lad failed to be taken off the plane and got an ed ride to New York City The with dia- pers baby food and a toy duck told to wait in Chicago and the boy would be flown back as soon as possible And for a girl there was no one to welcome her Someone forgot to Larry Waterloo Iowa that his Amy was on the plane Volunteers became the ians for Amy while made the hurried trip to be united with his new daughter In New York City a plane carrying 65 children landed at Kennedy Airport old twin boys caught the hearts of the crowd as they were carried to their new parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Twyford New York City Twyford a policeman said he had been waiting for two years for the adoption In another development Turn to Babies on P 8 Natural gas supply plentiful By OSCAR CHAFFEE Gazette State Editor Despite shortages real or imagined of natural gas in many sections of the United States have little cause for alarm Spokesmen for Utilities Co which serves Billings and virtually all of eastern Montana say flatly that residential and commercial supplies are assured for the future William Hi Coldiron executive vice president of the Montana Power Co which supplies gas to Montana as far east as bus and several Carbon County towns is less optimistic but says gas supplies are assured for residential and small commercial customers until the Industrial customers face a possible shortage before then John F Stewart of Bismarck vice president for marketing for MDU says his company is not presently accepting new industrial customers or increasing commitments to existing industrial customers because it would not be possible to deliver the vast amounts of gas some prospective industrial users are asking Stewart says MDU has ample supplies of gas and ample new supplies are in sight including production from the Rapelje area west of Billings The company has gained as much in reserves in the last five years as i has used in that period he said Unlike Montana Power which is supplied from Canadian fields and faces the prospect of having those supplies cut off MDU gets Its gas from Montana and Wyoming fields Naked chicks are big eaters STORKS Conn UPI There are a lot of nude chicks around Ralph Somes place but the guys don't seem to pay any attention That's because the chicks arc of the poultry rather than ple variety Without tail and wing feathers the chickens are like tightrope walkers without balancing bars says Somes a University of Connecticut poultry researcher His featherless freaks are produced through artificial in- semination They are born almost jaybird naked without even feather follicles Naked chickens were discovered in 1953 by Ursula Abbott a University of California scientist Since then they have bred for genetic research at the California and Connecticut universities Somes doesn't see any commercial potential for the featherless chickens for a number of reasons If the temperature drops for the chicks die So they have to be raised in a environment It would seem that the lack of feathers would eliminate chicken plucking and save labor on production lines But Somes said they would have to be plucked anyway because they are not completely devoid of feathers They are 99 per cent he said More importantly he believes it costs more per pound to feed and raise them After studying them for six years he found the naked birds eat twice as much as their feathered friends And the chickens claw and peck in their jam-packed henhouses Without the padded protection feathers provide survival is rough University of Maryland researcher Max Rubin has had better results with the naked birds He fed both types of chickens a test diet and after slaughter the naked birds weighed 5 per cent to 6 per cent more than the feathered birds Rubin said the protein in the feed went directly Into the ble muscle tissue of the naked birds of Into the as he says It does ordinarily Coldiron said Montana Power 80 and 86 per cent of its annual supply of gas from Canada and that if this gas is shut off parts of Montana will suffer shortages He said the company does not have adequate supplies in sight from Montana fields MDU customers benefit from an interconnected distribution system miles in length A new supply of gas anywhere along the system therefore is available throughout the system Stewart says Both companies say that residential and commercial users have first claim to gas supplies and that if shortages should cur industrial users are the first to be limited or cut off MDU 99 per cent of the homes in its service area use gas for heating Montana Power places the percentage of homes served at more than 95 per cent However Montana Power says that an Turn to Gas supply on P 8 Economists see drop in inflation WASHINGTON UPI Patches of blue joined the economic lexicon in March At every opportunity Treasury Secretary William E Simon said he saw patches of blue in the grey skies of recession Other economists agreed They accepted the administration prognosis that the recession would bottom out this summer and said the administration was being too pessimistic in forecasting a drop in the rate of inflation to 6 or 7 per cent Private forecasters said inflation could fall to 5 per by historic standards but less than half last year's double digit rale Unemployment always late to improve in a recovery con- to increase and some forecasters said it could hit 10 per cent before beginning a descent The economy's evolution is measured in a series of economic statistics reported by the government The current batch reflect Simon's patches of blue on the inflation front but only grey is to be seen in those measuring growth jobs and output Here is a summary of the latest Unemployment soared to 8.7 per cent in March a jump of 0.5 per cent with nearly 8 million Americans jobless It was the third consecutive month the unemployment rale has been above 8 per cent In January and February it was 8.2 per cent The Consumer Price Index VPI rose 0.6 per cent in February same increase as January food prices registering a gain of only 0.1 percent the smallest in seven Turn to Economists on P 8 Communist rockets based within 8 miles of Saigon SAIGON Cong gunners firing from as close as eight miles outside the center of Saigon hit the suburbs early Monday in the first shelling of the Saigon area in the Com- current offensive Far to the northeast South Vietnamese troops striking back the coastal city of Nha Trang Sunday Other government military units and police began boarding refugee ships and killing suspected Communist agents on the spot an American witness said The South Vietnamese military command said he Com- Mt Nha Be six miles southeast of the center of Saigon with recoilless rifle and mortar fire which has a maximum range of about two miles Spokesmen said six persons were wounded in the two-hour at- tack which involved about 60 rounds of artillery At the same time four U.S helicopter carriers capable of evacuating all Americans from South Vietnam in two waves stood by off the Vietnamese coast southeast of the capital The four huge ships normally carry a total of ready U.S Marines Today's shelling of Nha Be site of South Vietnam's largest oil storage facility was the first attack on the capital area since the beginning of the current North Vietnamese and Viet Cong drive March 10 It was also the first major shelling barrage anywhere in the U.S carriers are lying off the Vietnam coast in case they're needed to evacuate Americans Saigon area since December 1973 when Communist gunners destroyed much of the Nha Be tank farm All recent shellings of the capital and its suburbs have been minor or 15 rounds of rocket at the most Saigon command spokesman Lt Col Le Trung Hien said government artillery hit suspected Communist gun sites shortly after the attacks began at p.m EDT Sunday The shelling barrage continued for more than an hour and a half before the Communists pulled back Damage if any by the government artillery was unknown Hien said The spokesman said four South Vietnamese soldiers a policeman and a civilian were wounded by the Communist shellfire and two fuel pipelines were ruptured Initial reports indicated the fuel pipelines were not important to the overall Nha Be supply line Hien said Near Saigon heavy fighting was reported Sunday near Binh Phuoc district capital 26 miles south of the capital spokesmen said Hien said 18 Communists and three government soldiers were killed in the fighting and another six South Vietnamese forces were wounded Witnesses Sunday said the helicopter carriers Guadalcanal Guam Tripoli and Inchon were to 2 miles offshore of the port of Vung Tau 40 miles southeast of Saigon Among refugees starvation and thirst are becoming an ing problem military sources said At least 80 persons died for lack of food aboard an American charter ship and a Vietnamese intelligence source said thousands of others were starving in Binh Tuy of Saigon South Vietnamese forces return to Nha Trang 188 miles northeast of Saigon was the first major move by the government to take back territory lost to the Communists three week Cargo planes softened up North areas around Nha Trang by dropping daisy cutter bombs which ex- just above ground level An American witness said South Vietnamese troops and police were carrying out what the military called discriminate elimination of suspected Communist agents aboard evacuation ships unloading thousands of refugees on Phu Quoc Island 60 miles off the southwest coast in the Gulf of Thailand Those who did not pass muster were shot on the spot by government rangers marines sailors and militiamen conducting the screenings The Vietnamese are not taking people off the ships as fast as refugee workers would the American said They are con- ducting very very thorough security screenings on every son Military sources also said 52 children were among at least 80 persons who starved to death aboard a U.S charter ship bound for Phu Quoc They said government marines commandeered the vessel killed the captain and took the ship into Vung Tau Americans fought a what? BELLEVILLE 111 AP A mother whose son was killed by an enemy sniper A woman with a young son waiting for word of a husband who disappeared south of Hue five years ago A mayor who exhorted his townsmen to do their duty and watched the best march off to the war in Vietnam They all want to For what? All in Mrs Bee 63 said Sunday This was Just useless Her son Terry a Marine died aboard a helicopter heading for Da Nang on Sept 16 1968 thought he was doing the right thing He said that was where he belonged I mean well we weren't the only ones who lost someone very dear But for what? For Mrs Bernard 28 learned on Sept that her husband a fighter pilot was shot down and missing in action 30 miles south of Hue Two weeks later she bore his only child a son Bernard Jr He's never seen his dad And as the fall of nam begins to seem likely Mrs grows more certain he never will It's hard really to give up all hope that some word will filler she said Bui I don't know The certainly looks bleak I can't remember anytime when I had less hope She says she has searched her for something lo justify her loss I just can't come up with any kind of a reason that would make it seem even a little she said And she's angry angry at politicians who she says were just using MIAs for their own game their own they could declare peace wilh honor Mayor Charles Nichols said the people in Belleville a mid- western industrial city of are aboul war They talk loo much about he said not thai don't care or anything They feel H's k They feel as he does he says We should have pursued it vigorously and probably not wasted as many men and as much money as we did over there I feel like a whole lot of it was in vain Darwin Lloyd 50 a state Veterans of Foreign Wars officer says The veterans are in the standing that we should port Vietnam If we do not go back and support hem we've done all Ibis for nothing They gave their most those that he said For what? What did they give their lives It loots like it was in vain We were I would say still said Mrs It's something you don't forget Terry gave up his life For Allen Dopping 32 a Vietnam veteran said All these lives and that was lost over there was for nothing
