Gazette (Newspaper) - July 24, 1978, Cedar Rapids, Iowa TODAY I Professional prisoner Cedar Rapids A new business announces plans to open a downtown Cedar Rapids store in early Page 4A. Heroism demonstrated by a Cedar Rapids youth will earn him a national Boy Scout Page 5A. Loss of his job has prompted a Marion man to file a million lawsuit against his former Page 5A. Advice Get but do it Page 4A. On the farm Although the explosion in farmland prices has cooled somewhat in recent Agriculture Department officials cite evidence that the boom isn't over Page 8A. Iowa farmers should brace for a potential threat to trip year's corn warns an extension Page 8A. Opinion For a true picture of organized labor's contributions to American it is necessary to look beyond the picket writes a guest Page 6A. behavior patterns seem to be reversed in the U.S. Senate a Gazette editorial Page 6A. unreasonable and conduct by government lawyers costs taxpayers Page 6A. In sports U.S. Women's Open Golf champion Hollis Stacy says she's neither a Chris Evert nor a Jack Page The attention of the nation's baseball fans Will be focused on Pete Rose Page 3B. Entertainment The new provides meat for those who savor escapist Page 11A. Iowa Two Linn County legislators lead a list of speeding Page 9A. A western Iowa man would give I got in the to get rid of the record that earned him a spot in the Guinness Page 10A. self-service gasoline There's no relief in sight for your cramped Page 9A. Financial An Ohio newspaper makes some serious accusations against a leading American tire Page 6B. Nation Even though the garbage has been picked up in some things are still in a mess in those American cities plagued by municipal worker Page 7B. CHICAGO - Patricia Hearst says she feels she is becoming a and wishes her jailers wouldn't telling me this is such a nice Like I'm lucky to be feel like saying to no better than the SLA Liberation Army terrorists who kidnapped Miss Hearst said in the first two parts of a four-part copyright interview with columnist Bob Greene in the Chicago Tribune Sunday and I'm their I'm not here because I'm their said Miss who after losing all appeals was sent in May to the Federal Correctional Institution in to finish a seven-year term for joining the SLA in an armed bank The 24-year-old newspaper heiress works from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily as a helping prepare dinner for the 300 women I I write I read 'The ASSOCIATED PRESS UPI NEW YORK TIMES VOLUME 96, NUMBER 196 - that was pretty Usually I'm tired at and I just say a prayer and fall asleep at 9 There's a count at 9 o'clock to make sure nobody's There's a count at 9 at and 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Sometimes they come in and shine a flashlight in your I hear that they kick the bed sometimes tb wake you but that hasn't happened to me. have a We get along very Miss Hearst hasn't asked me about my which I am happy Some of the women come up to me and you get a I really want you to tell me about everything that happened to I try to be I don't want to be rude to but I'm not going to discuss what happened to me with just can't get interested in this I'll do my because everyone has a job in I'll cook because everyone has to I do what the rules call for without going out of my way or I'm not rude to but I'm not afraid of don't watch TV I like I put on and listen to whatever tm lucky my roommate likes it. If you don't like it's just a bunch of noise to allowed to call nly friends or family It looks like a pay but it You're not have money in There are only a few so you can't stay on very long. have visitors three times a Some of them are the same people who were my friends A lot of the people I'm friends with now are people I met when I was out on Through my sisters or other friends of Has the rift with her family been healed - the rift caused by the of the Liberation Army tapes reciting ugly insults about the Please turn to page 3A Patricia Hearst Weather Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with lows tonight Highs Tuesday near 90. Index Advice Comics Competition Consumer Crossword Deaths Editorial Family Farm Finance Horoscope Late News 3,5A Legals 7B 7A 5B 6B 6B 5B 3A 6A 11A 8A 6B 10B Local Marion Movies People Record Review Sports State Television 4-5A 7A 11A 7B 2A 11A 1-4B 9-1 OA 10A U.S. 2A,7B Wants 7-13B Weather 2A World 2A Today's Chuckle When a credit company adds a service it's referring to the not the copyright CEDAR RAPIDS CEDAR IOWA FINAL EDITION 20 CENTS JULY 24, 1978 EASTERN IOWA'S LEADING DAILY Dollar falls below 200-yen AP photo A fireman hoses down the smoldering remains of a burned out prison laundry Sunday at the Correctional Officials in Georgia believe a riot Saturday at the Illinois prison may have set off a similar riot Sunday at the Georgia State Prison riot in Georgia kills 3; link to Ga. - Prison authorities said today an inmate uprising that left two prisoners and a guard dead at the Georgia State Prison Sunday may have been prompted by a riot at an Illinois Investigators were still trying to determine exactly what triggered the uprising in which officials said a group of black inmates took four guards killing one and seriously wounding In two white inmates were found dead after the uprising was quelled by a prison riot The which occurred about 24 hours after three guards were killed and three others were injured in the 111., was the fourth outbreak of violence at the Georgia prison since Corrections officials said the other three were but that it was too early to say if that was the cause of Sunday's although all the victims were pretty much the feeling of the administration that this was an incident that occurred stemming out of the Illinois said corrections spokeswoman Sara The prison was reported quiet today with inmates being allowed out of cells and dormitories only in small groups for The uprising began about 4:10 p.m. Sunday as inmates were being taken to Officials said several black inmates grabbed four guards as hostages and set fire to bedding materials in two dormitory An hour a squad broke through barricades that the inmates had set They found one white identified as Dan stabbed to Another Preston 32, also was hospitalized in serious condition with least 10 stab The other two guards - one black and one white - were not The riot squad also found the bodies of two white who were not immediately identified pending notification of their One was found in a hallway and the second in the back of a Prison authorities confiscated numerous homemade knives which were found hidden in inmate belongings following the Mrs. Passmore said the two buildings in which the violence occurred contain four dormitories Six of the dormitories house black inmates and the other two white U.S. District Judge Anthony Alaimo issued an order earlier this month requiring the to segregate living quarters for 60 days in an effort to cool racial Alaimo also ordered the state to reduce the 2,895-man population of the prison by 600 TOKYO - The dollar today plunged below the of 200 yen for the first time since World War reflecting fears that OPEC nations may abandon the dollar as the basis for oil New York experts also attributed the drop to an overall decline in the dollar since last week's economic summit in West and the widespread belief that Western leaders failed to advance solutions to the world's monetary The dollar dropped to a new postwar low of 199.00 yen shortly before closing the day at 199.10 on the Tokyo foreign exchange Market sources said the Bank of Japan bought up million in unwanted dollars - about half of it in the first 25 minutes of trading - in a vain effort to prop up the American Trading was extremely heavy with turnover totaling the largest volume since a record billion changed hands on August 27, 1971, the last day the yen was traded at the fixed rate of 360 to the The 200-yen level is primarily a psychological barrier - the difference between and said one New York financial 200-yen level was sort of benchmark of how bad things would one monetary analyst for an American multi-national corporation no one really can say what it really The dollar's slide to less than 200 yen has meant a 35-percent increase in the price of Japanese goods sold in the United States since 1971. Prices of Japanese cars sold in United States have been raised six times within the past The dollar also fell at a drastic rate in European money markets hitting a series of record and gold soared to its highest prices in more than 3yz Traders in Zurich sold dollars for Carter warns his staff to obey nation's drug laws WASHINGTON - President Carter Monday warned White House staffers to obey the nation's drug laws or employment The presidential com to senior White House staffers by Carter's top Hamilton will be passed on to lower level assistants as press secretary Jody Powell told Carter's admonition followed last week's resignation of drug adviser Peter who left the senior White House staff after ing he wrote a falsified sedative prescription for a female assistant in his The powerful drug - Quaalude - is widely Bourne subsequently told reporters he knew of eight others on the White House staff who smoked marijuana and some who had used a much stronger But Powell said no investigation is under way at the White House to flush out marijuana know of no way to conduct an Please turn to page 3A Fancy pad Gazette photo bv Christine Olberg Last week's storm knocked this robin's nest and babies to the ground at the Robert Scott 2218 42nd St. So the Scotts recovered the nest and little placed it and the babies in this plastic container and hung it back in the Mama robin and all is 1.7745 Swiss francs and reported the U.S. currency was falling even farther from that record Another low was recorded in Amsterdam - 2.2048 guilders - and in Paris the dollar traded at 4.4025 French its lowest since October 1975. Gold jumped in Zurich to In London it traded at Both prices were the highest rates for the metal since December 1974. Cashiers at American Express offices and other firms in Europe said there were long lines of American tourists waiting to convert their dollars to other currencies today before the exchange rate deteriorates Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda's chief Shintaro attributed the decline of the dollar to the expectation that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will drop the dollar as the basis for oil Abe said the dollar's fall will be prompted mainly by the recommendation by the OPEC nations to replace the dollar with a of major international currencies such as the yen and the German A senior official at the Bank of Tokyo indicated the U.S. dollar may continue to drop on the Tokyo money market unless the Japanese government conducts a sweeping package of economic measures to slice Japan's trade Fukuda has repeatedly indicated that Japan will import some billion worth of aircraft and enriched uranium from Western Europe and the United States to correct the trade Please turn to page 3A 2nd tragedy averted for C.R. family An 11-year old Cedar Rapids girl was listed in good condition today at Mercy where she was taken Sunday after narrowly escaping drowning at the North Towne apartment complex swimming pool in northeast Cedar Robin daughter of Robert 196 Cherry Hill Road was taken to the hospital by an area ambulance at about 5:20 p.m. She reportedly suffered a seizure and was under the water for about two minutes before being pulled out by Jim a resident of the according to complex rental agent Kathy Robin was unconscious when pulled from the but was revived by the time fire department rescue workers Foster Foster said he dived underwater to retrieve the girl when a woman who was watching her swim noticed that she had not Except for the fortunate Sunday's incident was similar to one three years ago in which Robin's then 13, lost her In June 1975, Angela suffered an apparent seizure while playing in the Cherry Hill Park wading She was pulled from the pool after two small children saw her floating in the Cedar Rapids Fire Department rescue workers provided emergency but Angela Burwinkel died the next day at a Cedar Rapids i 74
