Color Country Spectrum (Newspaper) - February 15, 1977, Saint George, Utah Color Country Spectrum Tuesday February The printed voice of Utah's booming Volume 13 Number 257 Local forecast Cedar Sunny and mild through light northerly winds except locally 10 to 15 in low tonight high St Sunny and mild through Wednesday with light northerly winds low tonight 37 high 73 Budget job report analyzes choices WASHINGTON UPI It costs an average of to give an unemployed person a public service job for a year It costs to to provide that person with job training for a year depending on the type of training And it costs an average of to pay him or her unemployment compensation for a year Which is the best bargain for the That question was posed Monday in a report by the Congressional Budget Office which analyzes policy choices for Congress but makes no recommendations CBO suggested this is a choice Congress should begin making soon because un- skilled Americans are going to have an even harder time finding jobs during the next four years than they do now More jobs will require education The fact that an increasing percentage of women wanl to work makes the competition tougher General economic stimulus such as President Carter's tax rebate can be used to reduce unemployment only so far CBO says and it tends to bypass the uneducated the unskilled and the victims of discrimination The report makes clear that the choice between approaches is more than a question of money On a dollar basis unemployment compensation is the cheapest It also is the closest to being a dead end And it is only one of the costs society pays for ployment some others are welfare and increased crime As for public service jobs in local governments the report Since little training is involved it is doubtful that participants gain any lasting increases in annual earnings A new law is supposed to prevent a local government from merely shifting someone who would have been working anyway from the local to the federal payroll To determine is shortages real Natural gas report expected WASHINGTON The Interior Department expects its first report Wednesday on whether producers have deliberately held natural gas off the market to increase shortages and jack up prices The report focus on four gas fields off the Gulf Coast Interior officials refuse to identify them but say production from them has dropped sharply enough in the past year to raise suspicions of possible deliberate withholding A team of six investigators representing Secretary Cecil Andrus the U.S Geological Survey the Federal Power Commission and the Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee spent much of last week inspecting the fields Their findings and other information are now being put together in a report We're going to wait and see what this report shows one administration official said day We don't know there has been anv withholding there Based on what the team found a decision will be made whether to expand the investigation The Federal Administration reported Monday the high unemployment caused the natural gas crisis a week or two ago is now easing In a report to White House energy chief James FEA said Commerce Department figures show 586.500 people out of work across the nation compared to i 2 million at the peak of the crisis Better weather and emergency gas shipments made the difference officials said The report said unemployment problems are most severe in Alabama Georgia Indiana Kentucky New York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia But only in Alabama it said does the problem appear to be increasing Another FEA report Monday said L S fuel consumption already at record levels is still increasing It said average demand for petroleum products led by sharp hikes n the demand for heating oil hit a high of 20.8 barrels a day during the four weeks ending Feb 4 In New England the agency said in us report to heating oil being burned so fast stocks may fall below the critical level of about 10 million barrels by the end of the week if conditions remain unchanged Forecasts for the next 10 days call for to drop below normal across most of the northeastern part of the nation the FEA said but New England and the Northern Lakes region may have near normal weather O'Leary said mandatory measures may be needed to cut home energy use by almost one- third One plan under consideration he said is to make utility companies insulate houses and bili their customers for the work In Hurricane President President Jose Lopez Portillo sips his toast given to President Carter who smiles at the right at a State Dinner President and Mrs Carter gave at the White Crime up Cedar reports an increase in cases handled House in honor of the Mexican First Family UPi wire photo and so does Amy's cat Misty Malarky Yin Yang a cat belonging to Amy Carter peeks out from behind the doors where were waiting to take of the State Dinner UPI wire photo Subdivision hearing set special meeting of the city planning commission to make a determination and recommendation on the proposed River View Estate subdivision will be held Wednesday at 5 p.m according to J V Giasson chairman The commission along with Steve Creamer of Creamer and Noble engineers will make an on-site inspection of the area and prepare a report for the meeting of the Hurricane Mayor and city council The subdivision has been under consideration for several months It is located at the northeast corner of the city and overlooking the gorge of the Virgin River Delay in giving approval Has been centered on extension of the culinary water system extension of the sewer system and possible traffic and drainage problems which may develop CEDAR Cedar City Police Department's annual report for shows there was an increase over 1975 in the number of cases handled and investigated by the department Although statistics showed an increase in the number of juvenile arrests adult arrests show ed a decrease There were cases handled and in- in 1975 and 427 cases in 1976 A total of 88 juveniles were arrested on various charges in 1975 while 131 were arrested in 1976 Adult arrests in 1975 totaled 202 decreasing to 148 in 1976 In specific categories of crime the records show that thefts increased while burglaries decreased slightly There were no homicides in 1975 and one in 1976 In 1975 there 34 reported burglaries but in 1976 there were 33 Thefts in 1975 were reported 178 times while in 1976 there were 195 such reports Alcohol arrests in 1976 driving under the influence of alcohol public intoxication and illegal possession showed marked increases over 1975 Juvenile alcohol-related arrests stayed at an even rate except for a slight increase in public intoxication offenses Total adult alcohol arrests were 98 for 1975 and 134 for 1976 Juvenile alcohol offenses totaled 15 during 1975 and 19 in 1976 On hand narcotics arrests showed an increase among adults 36 in 1976 and 19 in 1975 Juvenile narcotics arrests went from 2 in 1975 to three in 1976 Armed robbery arrests rose from one to three in the one-year Other assorted crime reports break down as 1975 53 1976 auto seven 1975 10 unattended one 1975 one 1976 bomb two 1975 two sex one 1975 one disorderly conduct seven 1975 one 1976 assault and two 1976 four 1976 forgery and bad 12.1976 seven none 1975 one one 1975 one 1976 County okays transient aid By CINDY GILDEA Spectrum Staff Writer A contract was approved Monday by the Washington County Commission concerning assistance for single adult transients Chuck Sullivan from Family Life Services presented the contract to the commission the request for aid in running the project throughout the rest of the year Sullivan said that under the new program all transients would be funneled through the Family Life Services during office hours and through the police department after hours The Salvation Army and Reverend White will also send transients that come to them to Family Life Services Sullivan said he felt this process would eliminate burdens on store owners and alleviate the possibility of playing agency against agency The transients will be requested to fill out a form and have an interview before any aid is given The interviewer will determine if the transient has any aid of his own such as friends and relatives and will be screened according to Sullivan After the paperwork is completed the in- dividual will be given an authorization form for goods and services Sullivan listed as an example a form authorizing a loaf of bread bologna and a quart of milk He said that the orders forms will be very specific and will not allow tobacco or to be purchased Similar forms will be given for the individual to buy gas Grey Larkin Joe Hutchings and Evan Whitehead agreed that this is the best possible program to alleviate transient problems They said that work programs cost more to staff than are worth In other county special motion was passed by the commission to apply to Governor Matheson to have Washington declared a drought area Farmers will be able to receive grain feed help for drought relief if the application is Commissioners discussed the fact that Ellen Bentley is retiring from the TV office and the county will be accepting for someone to take her place -A bid for the roofing job on the Courthouse was accepted by the commission Ace Plumbing Company will do the work for bids from three different companies were turned in for the trucks for the road department were all so close that the specifications will be more closeK examined and a decision should be reached next week Lundberg and Gary Esphn requested the county give the city two pieces of land to be developed parking areas to encourage The land in question is at the corner of Tabernacle and Bluff Road and the small road that cuts in front of the Roadside Market The legal aspects of such an action w ill be looked into before anything is decided In Panama Curtain rises on canal talks PANAMA CITY Panama UPI Panama's negotiating team flew to Contadora Island today raising the curtain to a new round of tough bargaining with Americans on the future of the Panama Canal Road project delayed because of vandalism resulting in damage up to several thousand dollars occurred to Utah State Highway ment heavy equipment here last night A Caterpillar earth mover and a loader parked at the crest of the west hill had electrical systems torn out gasoline and oil lines cut fan belts cut sand and gravel scooped into the fuel and lubrication tanks and all the windows smashed according to Glen Humphries Deputy Washington County Sherrif The equipment had been in use in a stretch of highway between the west Hurricane bridge and the Virgin River bridge in widening and resurfacing project The work will be delayed several weeks Humphries indicated because of the destruction to the equipment The U.S 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 bui hard bargaining is expected during the talks Panamanian leader Omar said Monday he would demand that the United States abandon the vital waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the year will be no compromise 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 issued at the close The current negotiations are expected to last about 10 days The Panamanian team Minister of Labor Adolfo Dr Romulo Escobar a Torrijos advisor veteran diplomat Diogenes de la Rosa and Edwin Fabregas director of the of Hydraulic Resources and Sol Linowitz President Carter's special representative at the talks said Monday the United States is anxious to reach an agreement on a new treaty but said it must the availability of the canal for world commerce at all times and it must protect the of the canal Gunman kills five self NEW ROCHELLE UPI Fred Cowan raised the automatic rifle and shouted to his Get out of here Go home and tell my mother not to come In the next few frantic seconds bullets spewed from the gun's barrel Four men fell dead to the floor A police car screeched to a halt outside Shouted warnings another burst of gunfire and now a patrolman was dead Five persons three of them policemen were wounded Nearly seven hours later Cowan a twice Army veteran who idolized Adolf Hitler who had swastikas tattooed on his arms collected Nazi souvenirs and often said he hated blacks and Jews put a pistol to his head and ended his own life Cowan 32 returned to work from a suspension Monday morning vowing to get the man who had him suspended When he got to the Neptune Worldwide Moving Co in the York City suburb of New Rochelle shortly before 8 he was dressed in an Army field jacket and sported a German military helmet He carried the automatic rifle the pistol a bandolier of ammunition and what police described as a couple of explosive devices that looked like hand grenades Police Officer Ray Cuter of Rye is wheeled into the emergency room of the Memorial Hospital after being shot In the leg by sniper Fred Cowan UPI wire photo
