Color Country Spectrum (Newspaper) - July 8, 1976, Saint George, Utah Local forecast Cedar Fair but with some afternoon cloudiness dunce of an afternoon or evening gusty tune overnight tow high Friday 35 Color Country Spectrum St. Fair though with some afternoon low 72; high IBt The printed voice of Utah's booming 13 Number 99 July Police decoys testify in Howe's pretrial hearing SALT LAKE CITY Two police decoys Wednesday that Congressman Allan Howe brought up the subject of sex after pulling up next to their parked car in Salt Lake red light district last month Margaret and Kathleen the attractive blonde special officers who masquerade as prostitutes far the vice took the stand at a hearing on the misdemeanor charge of soliciting sex for hire against Howe said Howe stopped his car about two feet from their parked auto and spent 10 to minutes talking through the open windows to Miss eventually offering to pay for sexual favors Miss said she asked Howe what he was doing and he told fora little fun didn't say he H aa looking for a Or looking for some asked tor Philip referring to How e's story that he was lured to the area by an invitation to a political gathering said the soft-spoken special who testified she is paid 32 an hour in her part-time job on the ice squad Defense attorney Dean Mitchell put the two x oung women on the stand during a hearing on his motion to dismiss the solicitation charge on grounds of police entrapment The start of Howe's was delayed for a week until Judge Raymond Uno because of a flurry of dismissal motions filed bv Mitchell Uno asked both prosecution and defense to file legal memoranda on the entrapment question pnor to another hearing Monday on publicity and the comments to newsmen Mitchell's questions challenged the curacy of Miss report of the the attire at the their and their handling of a case involving a policeman arrested for soliciting But he zeroed m on who brought up the question of one of the two elements necessary for an arrest for sex for hire The other is proposal of a specific sexual first injected Mitchell asked Mrs Taylor She much are von willing to He usually spend about Miss agreed she brought up the topic and continued asking Howe about until he offered a specific amount Under Palmer asked Miss Did you ever mention a specific act to one Howe you ever suggest an amount of Was an amount Yes Bv Howe He said he usually spent Mrs Taylor gave almost identical testimony under then said Howe had asked her partner about the physical differences between the two decoys and suggested they both join him at their place The women testified they asked the congressman to follow them in his car He was pulled over a few blocks away by vice squad officers said Howe seated beside took notes during the testimony and his wife Mariene sat elv beside him on A chair in the jury section of tne courtroom Mitchell said he put the decoys on the stand to set legal groundwork on the entrapment but did not best during his The women were the only witnesses during a hearing devoted to arguments on various motions seeking dismissal of the charges The judge scheduled a hearing next the original for more arguments on the and on a defense request for dismissal on grounds of prejudicial publicity Uno rescheduled the for a week later on July 19 The judge told the lawy ers he w as concerned about comments made bv prosecutors after Howe's saying they seemed attack the credibility of a witness in this particular Uno asked them to provide him with copies of local television and radio coverage of the incident pnor to Monday's hearing w ho refused to drop out of his race for re-election with the v ow he w ould be cleared in a court defended his lawyer s efforts to free him on a legal technicality a legal proceeding it's s necessary to go through those legal steps that are available to defendants under the Constitution and that is what my attorney is doing said Howe are hoping the court will make the proper in the case and that is all w e are hoing for That's what we were indicating in the beginning a freshman congressman from Utah's Second of June 12 in Salt Lake City district and accused of offering for sexual f ors to two special police officers masquerading as The congressman pleaded innocent to the misdemeanor charge and contended that he had been by some unnamed political enemies Howe sat beside attorney Dean Mitchell at the defense table Mariene behind him the first row of the folding chairs that made up the section About three dozen newsmen Howe witnesses and onlookers sat through the proceedings bno took under advisement conflicting motions by Mitchell and prosecutor Philip Palmer on the defense's attempt to take depositions from the decoys other police officers and top city officials Palmer haa advised them not to on grounds depositions are not permitted in criminal cases a position challenged bv the bombastic Mitchell After the defense attorney asked that the complaint Howe be corrected so the congressman's first name was spelled the two lawyers dueled over a prosecution motion to amend the complaint and a defense motion to have it thrown out because it didn't give specifics OP Howe's alleged crime Uno allowed the change which corrected the address at which Howe allegedly tried to hire the and told Mitchell his reading of law indicated Howe couldn't challenge the complaint after he had entered an innocent plea to it But the judge gave the attorney until to come up with additional arguments The misconduct motion centered around comments made by City Attorney Roger Cutler dnd Palmer to following Howe s arrest Culler was quoted in one article mg he could guarantee Howe was 5et by police an affidavit TUed with the city said he had actually during a background discussion on the program that he guarantee that police program was not aet up exclusively for Mr benefit Palmer who apologized for comment on defense judge the remarks even if quoted were not for dismissal of the charges 9000 dead In quake slide Indonesia More than persons w ere killed in landslides triggered bv a massiv e earthquake that struck the Indonesian pro t mce of Inan Java Mew laM month the Indonesian government today Minister of Social Welfare H M President Suharto on relief efforts death toll from the June 26 earthquake could go higher Mint a said official counts as of Sunday put the death toll at about two-thirds of the population in the alley He said the which registered 7 1 on the apparently struck a wider area of than reported by missionary and gov rescue teams Inan Gov Sutran said Wednesday the death figure at said the local administration was now attempting to persuade thousands of mountain tribesmen to resettle in safer areas There were no official details of the disaster Ministry officials said extremely difficult unpredictable weather and the destruction of landing strips greatly hampered the gathering of information West New Guinea is located just below the equator about 1.000 miles southeast of the Philippines Missionary pilots last w eek reported seeing landslides over an area approximately 30 miles long and 20 miles wide on the slopes of the snow mountain range Six villages were reported destroyed Missionaries have worked in the area longer than in must other districts of Inan Java to education and basic technology to the tribesmen No official estimates of material damage were but according to unofficial most crops in the fertile were destroy ed t A young girt watches from a hilltop as the U.S. Frigate Constellation returns to her berth m Baltimore's Inner Harbor after spending the July 4th weekend at Fort Viking landing postponed again Calif Scientists scared off bv prospects of a rough landing have postponed the proposed iking I touchdown on Mars for the second time officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Wednesday night that the planned as part of the nation's July 4 celebration and then rescheduled for July 17. will not occur before July 20 They also scheduled an orbital trim maneuver late today 5 p m so Viking could take pictures of a proposed new landing site about 200 miles west of the first alternate choice on the Planitia or aiea of Mars Scientists rejected the primary landing site when photographs beamed back to earth by the orbiting spacecraft showed it was gouged with canyons and channels The which do not reveal objects smaller than a football suggested that the alternate site was more possibly a waste of sand Strikes slow nation's industry Chrysler Corp today began putting vv on short shifts because a at a key engine Officials of C and Chat Tenn threatened to fire striking sanitation workers Garbage piled up in the streets of Raleigh and Chat and in Philadelphia where municipal w orkers kept a slowdown going in a labor dispute 40.000 nonmedical employes at 34 hospitals reduced to more 000 patients The health commissioner Calif charged with arson is taken to arraignment by Cedar Police Chief Doug Owenby Is charged with arson In connection with the Tuesday that destroyed a Union Pacific CEDAR CITY A California was arrested and charged with a second degree aggravated in connection with the warehouse fire in Cedar City Tuesday night Gregory 24, from California was arraigned yesterday morning before of Judge Haldow E He is being held in the Cedar jail on bail Owenby turned himself in to the Cedar City Police late Tuesday Indications are Owenby allegedly started the fire by lighting around the warehouse which engulfed the building It took the CedarCity Fire Department and a Forest Service bomber Diane with fire about three hours to get the fire under Owenby had been arrested Monday and held on California charges of embezzlement California refused to extradite and he was released Tuesday morning A Union Pacific Wes told the fire completely destroyed the south hah of the warehouse We're not quite sure what the damages will amount It will take about a day to determine this Several businesses had supplies stored in the warehouse Ray of West Insulation told the Spectrum he lost approximately worth of insulation to the fire Bruce Cornelius of Ace Hardware stated he lost approximately worth 01 insulation in the blaze Willard Thompson had approximately worth of supplies stored m the warehouse but suffered no loss City officials and the Fire Department estimate the total damage at proximately A barn on outside water usage was imposed during the fire by the city The reason for this was because the water levels were quite low due to heavy summer usage and the water line break last The ban was continued through Thursday of noon Wednesday ihe tanks were only about 50 percent full We would like to get the tanks clear before allowing people to resume their Cedar Oty Manager Mike Embley investigation into the blaze by the Fire Police Sheriff and te Fire Marshall who arrived here Wednesday morning from Salt Lake ts almost complete declared a health emergency Rubber workers remained off their jobs in a prolonged major strike against major Chrysler began notifying 18.000 vv orkers that they will go on short shifts because of a of 4 400 workers at a plant in Mich that is the sole supplier of the au manufacturer's two largest engines The plants are sucking the pipeline dry a Chrysler spokesman said if the strike does end this week those plants Detroit and Warren Mich and Windsor wiU be cut back until the engine supply is built up Raleigh officials began implementing a contingency trash collection plan and said strikers would be fired if they refused to return to w ork by Chattanooga Mayor Pal said if city's garbage collectors don't re- turn to their jobs the oty will fill them with other people Philadelphia municipal workers ing trash in a contract dispute with the city were told by union to end a work slowdown started July 1 but to continue to refuse ov The overtime refusal still could prevent full garbage since timers must work one hour of scheduled overtime each oav to provide complete service Many city residents an- gered ov er a backlog in pickups dumped refuse m the street Wednesday blocking several intersections and forcing buses to take detours In 195 of the city s 216 sanitation workers walked out Wednesday to press demands for higher pav Manager L P Zachary tened today to fire all men not back on the job by violent confrontation was narrowly avoided Wednesday when the city attempted to use workers to a garbage truck across a picket line Police were called in to cool down the situation Police planned to get the trucks back on the road today with nons workers and a police guard Some United Auto Workers angered over unresolved health and safety walked out of Chrysler's engine plant at Mich Wednesday in a dispute that could hamper big car Chrysler officials termed the and said it would take a daj or two to determine the full effects In a related 400 members at Chrysler's Vemor tool and die plant m Detroit walked off their jobs over what were termed longstanding grievances No talks in that dispute were immediately set Teamsters Union Local 299. the springboard to power for missing former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa was the target of picketing Wednesday bj about 150 of its clerical workers Evelyn shop steward for Local 10 of the Office and Professional Employes International said members voted unanimously last week to reject the contract offer we work for the sters and we type their con- whv can't we have as good or almost as good a contract as the Miss Rosenthal said The United Rubber W orkers Union presented a united front to strikebound Goodyear Goodrich and reject mg the latest industry contract offer and refusing to bargain on the local union level in their 79-day Firestone workers unanimously rejected the pact Tuesday The Goodyear and Goodrich units added their rejections There was hope a that would shut down almost all of California's fruit canning industry could be avoided The w orkers had been slated to go out at 6 a m W but union spokesmen agreed to continue negotiations with an agreement by representativ es of 28 canning companies and 13 Teamsters locals to give 24hour notice before a or lockout Gibson construction okayed ST GEORGE Approval was given for the construction of a Gibson's Discount Center at 900 East Tabernacle by the Planning Commission here Tuesday while a request for a permit granting construction of a convalescent hospital was table until a later meeting In granting the conditional use the Commission approved construction of the first phase of the new shopping The first phase will contain square feet of and include a grocery in addition to the Gibson's phis construction of several smaller shops The request for a conditional use permit for the con- struction of a 100-bed convalescent hospital was as the Commission requested additional information con- the type of and other general building information The Commission agreed to set a special meeting to review the request with the owners of the project The Commission granted conditional use permits for the construction of a real estate a western and the of the Red Bluff Motel The new real estate of fie will be constructed on the corner of 800 East Tabernacle Final approval was given on the proposed Sunset Village Subdivision no 2 The plat was sent to the City Council for final A proposal to locate a home for the Washington County Retarded Citizens was approved by the Commission The home will be located in a present vacant facility located at approximately 200 South and East Approval was given to Jerry Keyss for a variance of 10 feet in setback for a professional building at 409 East The Commission members agreed to table a request for a variance in setback requirements made by Everett for his new development on Circle located north of Diagonal between 100 West and Mam Street The members agreed to an on-site inspection and gather more information pnor to conducting any further discussions Nixon disbarred NEW YORK Former President Richard Nixon today was disbarred from the New York State Bar by the Appellate division of the State Supreme Court for his actions during the Watergate bugging and coverup In an opinion handed down by Justice Xavier C the court concluded Nixon concealed and encouraged others to conceal evidence relating to unlawful activities
