Cumberland News, The (Newspaper) - February 4, 1977, Cumberland, Maryland Weather High in mid 40s turning coldir and Saturday Low In Sixty pr cnl of and tomorrow The Petersburg High FSC Cagers Win Sue VOL Politically Independent UPI AP CUMBERLAND MARYLAND FRIDAY FEBRUARY 41977 dally except by Co Baltimore St Md 21502 Second paid at Cumberland Md 32 CENTS FPC Acts Quickly To Transfer Natural Gas CONGRESS EIGHTH Pollster Louis Harris tells the House Committee on Ad ministrative Review in Washington Thursday that Congress came in eighth among ten groups in a survey on ethical standards The public rated consumer groups the media the White House state and local governments and farm organizations higher In ethics than Congress Siberian Blizzard Hits Japan TOKYO UPI A Siberian blizzard slammed into Japan Thursday Friday killing 31 persons and in juring more than 100 others in freezing ice and snow which collapsed roofs of houses Police reported at least 31 killed and 126 injured by Friday killed by of their houses or buried under snow rooftops Another 12 died while sweeping snow from roof tops and one person froze to death when caught outside in the storm Police said the storm demolished or heavily damaged 90 houses and others were on the verge of collapse Success E Germans Pressure W Powers BERLIN AP Com munist East Germany in an unprecedented move is demanding more money for pulling allied military trains through its territory and wants with the Western powers directly a published report said Thursday East German locomotives pull US British and French trains through East Germany as they head back and forth some on a daily basis between Ger many and West Berlin An allied spokesman refused to comment on the report However reliable sources said the Western allies continue to view their rail access to West Berlin as a matter concerning Soviet rather than East German authorities The of the transit fees increase requested by East Germany could not be learned of the financial arrange ments for running the supply trains have been kept secret in past yeart Reports appearing Wednesday in West German newspapers said East German armed forces had been put on a special alert possibly Because of fear of dissident unrest or other disturbances in the Com munist state There has been no Ger man comment on the reports which also men a callup of military reservists in East Germany The supply trains which date back to the end of World War II are con a vital part of the access rights for the Western garrisons in Berlin When the Soviets imposed their blockade in an attempt to force the allies out their first move was to halt the trains FRB Chairman Burns Will Cooperate With Presidents Economic Programs EXECUTED Ethiopian military rebels reported Thursday they overthrew the ruling Central Committee and executed the Chief of State Brig Gen Bante and seven other military officers The statement said the execution took place after a gun battle at the headquarters of Provisional Military Ad ministrative Council which has ruled the country since deposing Emperor Halle Mary Tyler Moore Show Is Filming Final Episode LOS ANGELES AP Seven years ago CBS summoned press to the 21 Club in New York to unveil plans for Mary Tyler Moores new comedy series Critics yawned They loved Mary in The Dick Van Dyke Show but knew sht wouldnt last five minutes on her own The experts were proved wrong again and the show is only now coming to an end at Marys own choice with its last taping Friday after 168 shows But back in 1970 James L Brooks of the show with Allan Burns had a hard time explaining that Mary would be a single girl working on a television news show in Minneapolis The critics snickered and wisecracks began to fly CBS was less than half hearted in its enthusiasm The Mary Tyler Moore Show which September 1970 pioneered reality comedy and the use of clearly defined and motivated secondary characters It set a standard for excellence of writing few shows have approached But now its going off the air with colors flying at the end of this season by own choice The nal show will be filmed On Inside Pages Ann Landers 5 Bridge 4 Comics 14 Crossword 14 14 Deaths 10 Dr Johnson 9 Editorial Page 9 Markets 10 Racing 14 Sports 12 13 il 1519 Womens News 4 S Friday night and will be aired Saturday March 19 For the first time the set is closed and no one outside the MTM family will be permitted to see the final performance Mary said she felt it was too private a moment DAILY LOTTERY BALTIMORE AP The winning number drawn Thursday in Marylands Numbers Gams daily lottery was 530 Coup Fails 7 Executed ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia UPI The Marxist military regime crushed an attempted coup Thursday and executed its leaders including including chief of State Brig Benti and six members of the Ethiopia Radio The executions took place following a battle around the Grand Palace The radio announcement said all seven of the executed members of the ruling junta belonged to the secret Peoples Revolutionary Party The announcement said three other members of the ruling military group which has ruled the country since Emperor Haile Selassie was over thrown in September 1974 gunned down by the plotters themselves Lt Col Mengistu Haile Mariam strongman of the Marxist military regime overthrew Selassie known asthe Lion of Judah in a coup ending an empire dating to the reign of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba was reported safe Diplomatic sources said the abortive coup attempt had left Mengistu as un disputed military leader in Ethiopia The announcement said the executed persons had been plotting to eliminate progressive members of the ruling junta WASHINGTON AP Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns said Thursday he will cooperate with President Carter and Congress in encouraging faster economic growth and reduced unemployment this year However Burns told the House Banking Committee he doesnt think Carters economic program will make much difference to the economy which he contended should grow quite well it And he termed Carters plan to give a rebate to most Americans an inefficient way to stimulate the economy Burns 72 who was ap his position by former President Richard M Nixon said he has had the same close contacts with the Carter administration as he did with the ad ministration of former President Gerald R Ford He said the boards ARTHUR BURNS targets for 1977 are for an increase in the basic money supply of 45 lo 65 per cent Treasury Secretary W Michael told the com Wednesday that money growth in that range should help ensure the success of Carters economic program Burns said he agrees with Carters goals of a 6 per cent economic growth rate and a 65 per cent unemployment rate by the end of 1977 The jobless rale in December was 78 per cent While Burns approval isnt needed for Carters program the Federal Reserve Board can go a long way toward determining success or failure for the program through the kind of money and interest rate policies it follows Burns said he thinks it would be a mistake lo in crease Carters program especially the tax rebates to offset the adverse impact the severe winter has had on the incomes of many Americans He said there probably would be no lasting harm from the weather and said any special help should be targeted directly at those who need it Weikers Denies Any Attempt To Bribe Oscar Sislen Juror In Mandel Trial BALTIMORE Weikers testified Thursday that Oscar Sislen a juror at the trial of Gov Marvin Man del asked him to arrange a bribe for him to hold out for acquittal of the governor Weikers told a US District Court jury that he tried to discourage Sislen but then strung his distant relative along because I didnt want to let him down The testimony of Weikers accused of trying to fix the Mandel jury was in direct opposition to that of Sislen who testified Wednesday that Weikers approached him with the bribe offer Weikers 67 took the stand after prosecutors played for the jury a tape recording of a conversation Nov 30 between Sislen his wife Dorothy and Weikers in a car outside the furniture store where Weikers worked as a salesman The testified the conversation was held at the request of federal authorities under the pretense that Mrs Sislen was worried and needed reassurance from Weikers that her husband would run no risk if he look the money Weikers told the they were the only ones who knew of the alleged offer beyond someone he described once as the third party and once as the fourth party During the conversation Weikers said he could get the goods from the man within two days and assured Sislen that whatever decision he made would be okay During his testimony Weather Blitz By United Press International Highlights of the crisis Temperatures in nations eastern two thirds but new snows blow into blizzard battered Buffalo just as city starts to dig out Emergency law signed by President Carter Wednesday night speeds flow of natural gas to Northeast Federal Power Com mission Chairman Richard Dunham says it will probably keep homes warm but will not reopen factories Even though tem climb a little subzero due to return to upper Midwest by the weekend White House Press Secretary Jody Powell says Carter plans to order investigation to determine whether gas shortages are real or contrived Weikers said the third party was Mrs Sislen that there was no fourth party and that the approach he referred to on the tape Weikers testified that many of the things he said in the car were suggested by Sislen 57 Weikers said he played along because he did not want to juror in front of his wife In a statement made with the jury outside court chief prosecutor Barnet D Skolnik said federal officials were able to question Weikers only briefly after his arrest Nov 30 Mr Weikers was asked who had contacted him Skolnik said His answer began with the assertion he had been contacted by a stranger At that Skolnik added Weikers was advised by his lawyer Harold Glaser to remain silent The political corruption trial of Mandel and four codefendants ended in mistrial Dec 7 after six jurors heard a brief television newscast about the alleged attempt to buy Sislen and another alleged attempt early in the trial The defense concluded its case late in the day after 13 character witnesses had taken the stand lo uniformly describe the defendant as a man of high character who has always told them the truth GAS FOR EAST Gov Edmund G Brown Jr at a news conference In Sacramento Calif an Thursday that California will loan ap proximately 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas to weather stricken eastern and mid western stales Rebellion Is Crushed In Sudan KHARTOUM The Sudan UPI Troops loyal to President Jaafar smashed a rebellion by air force troops trying to seize the strategic Juba airport in southern Sudan the Sudanese news agency said Thursday One American died in the battle A British civilian pilot who escaped the fighting said Harold Bowman 30 a pilot for the African Inland Mission was shot and killed Wednesday in his car while to Juba airport A Swedish minister and an unidentified woman in the car were seriously wounded pilot Larry Roberts said in Nairobi Kenya The Sudanese news agency said eight soldiers who refused to cooperate with the conspirators were murdered in the batlle Mission officials in Nairobi said Bowman had been working on a refugee rehabilitation project in southern Sudan Sudanese news agency had reported the death of two foreigners working on development projects in the Juba area Pennsylvania Sweepstakes HARRISBURG UPI The winning numbers selected Thursday in the Pennsylvania weekly Multimillion Sweepstakes lottery were Win Place Show 11148 3967 New Secretary Of State Cyrus Vance Eyes Arms Cutback WASHINGTON AP Secretary of State Cyrus R Vance said Thursday he plans to take up with the Russians a cutback in conventional arms as well as lowering the limit that the two superpowers have agreed to place on their nuclear weapons arsenals In his first interview since assuming office Vance said he would aim for a general reduction in the traffic in arms when he goes to the Kremlin in late March One possible approach he said is to target areas such as southern Africa and the Middle East for pilot reduction projects In fact Vance said the Carter ad ministration might consider taking ourselves to demonstrate leadership in arms controls by reducing some sales unilaterally But he stressed that the subject must be explored in depth before any decisions are reached Without expecting a breakthrough Vance said he expects to discuss with Soviet officials in an initial and preliminary fashion completion of a treaty restricting the two sides strategic nuclear weapons including missiles and bombers In this regard he said the ad ministration hoped to lower the ceiling of 2400 strategic weapons reached by former President Gerald R Ford and Soviet Leader Leonid I Brezhnev in Vladivostok in November 1974 Negotiations have been at an impasse for more than a year In a striking departure from the linkage theory that guided his predecessor Henry A Kissinger Vance said that pressing the Russians in one area such as human rights did not necessarily influence Soviet attitudes in another such as strategic weapons negotiations An accord in any area would cer tainly improve the climate Vance said But I think there has been an over emphasis on linkage Vance was interviewed by reporters from The Associated Press and United Press International Vance said he had personally ap proved a statement inviting Cuba to discuss a continuation of the 1973 anti hijacking agreement set to expire in At the same time Vance said it would be constructive for the two countries which havent had normal diplomatic relations in 16 years to discuss the presence of an estimated 10000 to 15000 Cuban troops in Angola as well as the export of revolution from Havana to other countries Vance said he had no direct in dication from the government of Fidel Castro that it is prepared to enter talks He said the Carter administration has not come to any final conclusions on how to proceed On Panama he said some difficult issues remain to be negotiated in order to complete a treaty for future operation of the canal The administration he said intends to undertake a broad campaign to explain the issues to the American people and to Vance said he does not think opponents have enough votes to turn back the treaty On the Middle East which Vance will visit beginning Feb 14 he said it was up to the Arabs and Israelis to decide whether there should be a Palestinian state He emphasized as he and others in the administration have consistently that despite difficulties which eMist the situation is improved and that it is terribly important that progress be made toward an ArabIsraeli set On Cyprus he said newly named special negotiator Clark Clifford would consult with officials in Greece Turkey and the European Community in a search for a settlement between the islands Cypriot communities He said this would be coordinated with United Nations Kurt Waldheim Turning lo China the secretary of stale said ultimately the United Slates would have full and normal relations with Peking But in moving in that direction the administration must also consider the question of the security of peopled Taiwan CYRUS Fuel Starts Flowing In Pipelines WASHINGTON AP Acting quickly under the new emergency natural gas law the Federal Power Commission ordered the first transfer of gas from west to east Thursday to aid pipelines and their FPC Chairman Richard L Dunham told a news conference the gas already had started flowing He said it should lake only a few hours to start aiding eastern stales with severe gas shortages but only to a relatively small degree The diverted gas been intended for Oregon and Washington hut is now heading to the East he said Dunham said the com mission is looking for other additional gas supplies and has had an offer from the state of California and is working on possible gas injections from Mexico and Canada Diplomatic sources in Mexico City said Mexico will sell 40 million cubic feet of gas a clay to the United Slates beginning next week An FPC official said that although natural gas travels through pipelines at around 20 miles an hour the emergency sales and transfers of gas can provide almost immediate relief thousands of miles away without waiting for the emergency gas to move physically through the entire length of pipeline In some cases in fact the emergency gas may never travel the full distance but instead will be traded to serve more local needs freeing other gas supplies farther up the line This process is called displacement and can bring far away in a matter of hours or minutes Meanwhile there were these related developments House Press Secretary Jody Powell said administration officials are looking for ways to assess natural gas industry reports on profits and reserves to determine the extent of any national fuel shortage Government energy agencies now rely on in data to measure US natural gas resources Asked if Carter doubted those industry figures Powell replied You have to question not in a per sense a whole range of assumptions and facts when dealing with he energy shortage Frank Ikard president of the American Petroleum Institute later said the industry figures are as complete as possible and unbiased In the past checks by government agencies have confirmed the accuracy of industry estimates of petroleum reserves Ikard said The commissions Bureau of Natural Gas reported some pipelines again were on the brink of having to cut off gas for lop priority customers But it added that if conservation efforts con and the weather remains as forecast pipelines are expected to meet essential priority one requirements for the next two days That priority covers homes hospitals and keeps water pipes from panel of governors old Congress the harsh winter is forcing millions of people to choose between buying food and buying fuel The governors urged federal action to help the needy pay their soaring fuel bills A Library of Congress study has estimated extra fuel costs this winter could cost an average of per household Todays Chuckle One to another Im at the where I look forward lo a dull evening
