Color Country Spectrum (Newspaper) - July 5, 1977, Saint George, Utah KVin Color Country Spectrum Vol 14 No 188 The printed voice of Utah's booming Tuesday July 5 1977 J Local forecast Cedar Partly cloudy with a chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorms becoming mostly sunny Wednesday gusty southerly winds to per hour today with locally stronger St Partly cloudy today with a chance of or evening becoming mostly sunny gusty southerly winds to 25 miles per hour with locally stronger gusts today highs near 100 Six lose lives on Utah's highways By United Press International At least six persons lost their lives on Utah highways over the three-day Fourth of July holiday matching the traffic death toll for independence Day weekend The Utah Highway Patrol the victims Boren 3 Pleasant Kenneth Dimick 48 Salt Lake City Garth Braithwaite 52 Brigham City 2 Paula Ann King 26 Montclair Audra Ann King 5 Montclair James Newman 50 Oakland The Boren girl daughter of Mr and Mrs Lynn Boren of Grove was waiting to cross a Magna street Saturday with her grandfather Vern Boren when she into the path of a vehicle driven by Barbara Darling Magna She was dead on arrival at Valley West Hospital Dimick apparently suffered a seizure Saturday while driving along 17th South Street in Salt Lake City and died when his car slammed into a tree Braithwaite was fatally injured when his motorcycle ran off a road south of Brigham City He died at a local hospital about an hour after the accident The Wayne King family was driving north on Interstate 15 south of Meadow Saturday when their ear ran oui of gas King began walking to a service station leaving his wife and daughter in the car alongside the freeway A slammed into the vehicle killing both occupants Celebration still the same Bicentennial fades United Press International The Bicentennial year faded into the nation's third century Monday but the trappings of its celebration were the parades picnics speeches sunburned bodies food fireworks and a rising death toll on holiday highways Philadelphians cheered an elaborate parade celebrating historic firsts for their city among them the founding of the nation's first art museum in 1805 Ben Franklin's of electricity in 1752 and the first American balloon flight on Jan In San Francisco hordes flocked to Golden Gate Park for a band concert then to Park for a fireworks display and in York City thousands turned out to watch a fleet of sailing ships as they cruised into the harbor under the thunder of a cannon salute to the states White duck pants and bermuda shorts blended with bluejeans in the nation's largest as throngs dined on exotic foods along Manhattan's great ethnic way ogled at an Air Force jet plane of precision flying above the Statue of Liberty or paused to watch magicians jugglers and ventriloquists performing in jammed streets There was even a weight lifter who pressed trusting passersby over his head It wasn't the sophisticated fare of which New Yorkers generally boast but no one seemed to mind What's asked Peggy Patterson of Brooklyn Heights as she listened to a top-hatted brass band playing Sousa marches We're just having fun They were having fun in Bartow Fla too at the birthday party of Charlie Smith by the Social Security Ad- ministration as the nation's oldest citizen Smith who says he was born in Liberia in 1842 and sold into slavery at a New Orleans slave Holiday toll climbs United Press International As the Fourth of Holiday weekend ended a new spurt of traffic accidents boosted the highway death toll to levels projected earlier by the National Safety Council A UPI count showed at least persons had been killed on the nation's roads during the long weeked between 6 p.m Friday through midnight Monday The overall breakdown of 505 Brownings 105 618 California had Bl fatalities the highest of any state Texas reported slightly more than half that number 31 Ohio recorded 28 auto Pennsylvania had 23 and Michigan had 25 South Carolina 22 and Illinois 21 The total number of those killed during the weekend was not expected to be known until late today as reports of accidents which curred during the closing hours of the holiday period trickled in from rural areas The National Safety Council had warned between 500 and 600 traffic fatalities could be expected in the holiday weekend A Las Vegas woman who was distracted by her cat was killed when she drove into a median divider in Michigan Monday Three members of her family also were injured Michigan state police said Sharon Busseri was driving on U.S 131 in Kalamazoo County when the accident occurred Her husband Frank 44 a member of the singing group Four son Frank 111 13 and daughter Rose Marie 14 were treated for minor in- juries at an area hospital Five persons were killed and another critically injured near Lancaster Pa in a Sunday State police said a car driven by John R Ross Jr Strasburg Pa went out of control on a curve and hit an oncoming car driven by John 20 Lancaster Army seizes power in coup RAWALPINDI Pakistan UPI The chief of staff seized power in a coup jailed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and other political leaders and dissolved parliament but promised to hold elections in October to hand power back to the people Gen Mohammed Zia 53 the strict Moslem disciplinarian who heads the army imposed martial law and said he will be its chief administrator Haq said the coup was carried out at his order to pull Pakistan out of its political impasse Four months of political violence have killed more than 300 persons and left the nation the third largest democracy in chaos In a speech broadcast by the national radio Haq said leaders of the government and opposition had put under preventive detention except Begum Ali Khan wife of the leader of the outlawed national Awami party The four-star general said Pakistani President Fazle Elahi Chaudhury agreed to remain in office and work with a ary council The constitution has not been abandoned Haq said but parts of it have been suspended and superseded by martial law He warned of severe punishment for anyone resisting martial law authorities The United States and Britain both said they would continue diplomatic relations with the Haq regime but spokesmen for both countries declined to comment in detail on the takeover Former State Senator Dixie gives the annual Cedar are left to right Scott Turner former president of the City Fourth of July address Seated with him on the stand Lions Club Antone Hunter president and Gerald Howes Traditions of the past At Cedar celebration By LORAINE Spectrum Staff Writer CEDAR clouds in the sky kept July 4 cooler than in previous years Cedar City's Fourth of July celebration was in the of the past There were concessions a parade fireworks and patriotic speeches The Lady Miniature Parade started off promptly at with miniature floats drill teams and decorated bikes and trikes The theme was In the Good Old Summertime and there were numerous floats decorated around that central idea The winning float Puppets in the Park was entered by Stevens Company The sponsors were awarded first place prize of In second was Let's Go Fly a Kite a Northeast Furniture entry For this entry the sponsors received In third place a award was Summer Time Camp submitted by Christensen's Activities at the park sponsored by the Lions followed the parade There were fish ponds bottle throws bean bag throws sponge tosses dart tosses dunking pond and plenty of food In the afternoon there were foot races and barrel races Flag ceremonies by the National Guard preceded the patriotic program Featured speaker of the dav was Dixie Leavitt former senator to the legislature Leavitt compared the United States beginning in government with the present-day government He told the throng in the park that the country was settled different groups for different Puritans and with different goals A lot of opinions and philosophies developed in the individual colonies during the 150 years preceding the Declaration of In- dependence he said they all had in common was that they did not like taxation without representation he said During the time that the Articles of Confederation were being drawn up he said there were lots of areas of disagreement When the army was fighting the British the Continental Congress tried to assess the colonies for its support Many of the colonies would not respond or if they did they were siow in so doing he said The original Articles of Confederation left things to the sovereign colonies Colonies continued to go on as if they were individual countries They set up tariffs against their fellow colonies he said In 1783 however the colonies were asked to send delegates to a convention in Philadelphia on the second Monday of May 1887 That's where the miracle of Philadelphia took place said Leavitt There were merchants shippers farmers each with his own self-interest Compromise took place he said Compromise is not an ugly dirty word Government could not take place without compromise It is a necessity if government is going to serve all of the people Leavitt said Leavitt said the very basic unit of government is the home As long as we depend on our Father in Heaven it isn't the industrial base that makes us the that's important he said said he has been interested in seeing the interest in studying different forms of county government for Iron County He said that while he does not yet know whether a change is needed it's healthy to have this opportunity to examine it he said Progress is change Change is not necessarily progress he said Leavitt urged all to become involved We need to have the desire to do things if we are not happy but we should work within the system he said H said he was against having the government do everything for the citizen The individual should be responsible for himself first then the family then church and then the government Somewhere along the line this has gotten reversed Leavitt said For senator Leavitt said he wanted to take the to express his appreciation for the continued support he feit from people in his home area He said he hoped he would be able to serve in any capacity in the future where he could be truly ving auction in 1854 munched a slice of his red white and blue birthday cake and washed it down with The cake is good and so am 1 he said The nation's highways were as jammed as its streets beaches and parks and the result was tragedy so familiar now as to have become merely a statistical readout to those not touched by it As the holiday drew to a close the traffic death toll was nearing the 500 mark with most Fourth of July celebrants still facing the long drive home The National Safety Council had predicted death over the weekend for to 600 travelers In assistant archivist Albert Meisel's mind was on the nation's Tricentennial in 2076 and he oversaw the sealing of a time capsule full of Bicentennial mementos for that occasion Demonstrators storm Klan COLUMBUS Ohio UPI A July Fourth Ku Klux Klan antibusing rally on the steps of the state Capitol was stormed by anti-Klan demonstrators who smashed the loudspeaker system and roughed up the imperial wizard of the Ohio KKK state troopers who were standing ready moved in on the melee which featured white-robed smen swinging flagpoles to protect their leader In all four persons suffered minor injuries including news cameraman Jerry Coleman of who was knocked briefly unconscious Four of the anti-Klan demonstrators were arrested The demonstrators made up about 25 blacks and a handful of whites chanted Ku Klux Klan scum of the land taunting slate Wizard Dal Reuch and a white-robed Klan minister during the opening invocation of the rally called to protest busing plans in several Ohio cities At one point two white men moved up the steps and grabbed Reuch punching him in the neck and stripping him of his ceremonial purple robes Nearby Klansmen grabbed flagpoles to push the anti-Klan demonstrators away and eventually members of both sides were swinging away at each other with the poles until the troopers moved in and cleared the area The anti-Klan demonstrators were part of a group of about 300 persons calling itself the Coalition Against the Klan which met about a block away from the State House and marched on the capitol just before the rally began Those arrested were identified as Annette Beauchamp 17 of BrendE Hutchison 18 of Columbus both charged with disrupting a lawful George Preston 29 of Cincinnati charged with inciting to violence and Wilford Allison 21 of Youngstown charged with disrupting a lawful assembly petty theft and assaulting to incite violence After the confrontation Reusch vowed to return to Columbus in the fall when the first phase of busing for desegregation purposes is to begin He said another rally will be held and we're going to stop this nonsense He said I'm ready to fight I'm ready to drive the right off of this land The he said is the groups who favor busing And there are a lot of communists in- I like competition but I don't like it carried to this ex- treme Meanwhile a truck mechanic is being held in Plains Ga on charges of ramming his sports car through the crowd of 250 spectators and reporters at a Ku Klux Klan rally Saturday in President Carter's hometown Water issue divides parties WASHINGTON Most congressional issues are decided along either partisan Democrat vs Republican or ideological liberal vs conservative lines But occasionally there are votes outside the traditional molds They cut across politics or ideology and pit friend against friend against colleague partner against partner Debate on them is heavy and emotional One of those issues was before the Senate last week the to finance controversial water projects which President Carter wanted to kill Sen James Abourezk says he never had a tougher assignment in my political life than to offer an amendment to eliminate funding for the irrigation project in South Dakota Abourezk said he was unhappy that his stand put him at odds with his senior colleague Sen George McGovern D- I rather take a beating than oppose an friend and political ally on this issue Abourezk said He recounted McGovern's childhood on a farm and his deep sincere commitment to irrigation projects such as the one proposed for the unit But Abourezk said he had no choice but to try to eliminate the money because a board elected by the farmers and townspeople in the area affected by the project had passed a resolution urging Congress to cut the funds and halt development McGovern told the Senate he knew Abourezk was speaking from conviction and said it is not comfortable for either one of us to be on opposite sides of any issue that affects cur state idea came in a dream NEW YORK UPI A young Panamanian enraged because he was mistreated in this country and had no one to talk to hijacked a bus then shot and killed two persons and wounded four others Monday before surrendering to police Luis Robinson 26 a U.S Navy enlisted man later told police the idea for his hour spree of terror came to him in a dream authorities said Police said Robinson would be formally charged today with murder kidnaping and possession of a dangerous weapon Robinson hijacked the bus shortly after it left a terminal in New York City police said and diverted it to Kennedy Airport where he demanded million and a plane to fly him to safety He killed the bus driver and a woman passenger and wounded four other passengers police said but finally surrendered at p.m hours after the ordeal began and released a dozen hostages a police ar- mored personnel carrier jammed the bus against a fence in a corner of the airport Police sources said Robinson told authorities the idea for the hijacking came to him in a dream He had to do this He earlier com- to his hostages that he had been mistreated in this country Robinson told officers he had problems with the Navy and with the men on his ship the police sources said He said the other men picked on him He also told police he put white people on the side of the bus where he thought police would be because I thought they'd police be less likely to shoot their own kind Shortly after 5 today Robinson while being Jed from a to a police van which took him to the Queens House of tion was asked by reporters why he did it I don't Robinson said They say you did it because you were set said one newsman That was one of the Robinson replied What are the another newsman pressed No one to talk to the bearded Robinson said Do you have any he was asked For the people that died he replied Does that mean you didn't mean to kiJl said Robinson Robinson had led police on a bizarre chase across the Kennedy Airport grounds before he finally was arrested The bus which he drove after killing the driver crisscrossed runways and taxiways at the sprawling facility while Robinson fired his handgun at suing police cars may be admitted WASHINGTON UP The White House is considering admitting an additional 15.000 Indochina refugees into the United States on an emergency basis a move backed by the State Department Deputy presidential press aide Rex Granum said Monday the State Department had recommended lifting of normal immigration procedures for the refugees who now are in Thailand and other sections of Southeast Asia
