El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - January 17, 1977, El Paso, Texas El Paso Home Vol No 14 The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers El Paso Texas Monday January 17 1977 ftodu 15 cents in El Paso only After appeals fail Gilmore shot to death POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN Utah UPI A Utah State Prison firing squad killed Gary Gilmore with four shots through the chest shortly after sunrise today in the United States first execution in a decade Lets do it Gilmore told Warden Sam Smith after the rifle team lined up behind a gray canvas 25 feet away from the chair in which he was strapped The execution took place minutes after three federal judges in Denver and the US Supreme Court lifted the last legal barrier to the killers death A BLACK corduroy hood was placed over the slayers head and the firing squad pumped a volley of 3030 slugs at a round white target pinned to his chest at am 18 minutes after dawn The warden gave the signal and then I heard three noises in rapid succession said agent Larry Schiller who was invited by Gilmore to witness the shooting Gary moved His head turned slightly to the left but he stayed erect Red blood then emerged from the black and onto his white slacks The bullets tore through the con mans body through the leather cushion and back of the captains chair through P inch sheet of plywood and into a pile of sandbags THE DEADLY ended a 2A month saga in which Gilmore finally won his wish to die with dignity like a man He was executed for the slaying last summer of motel manager Bennie 26 during a holdup in Provo Utah He had also admitted a similar slaying the previous night during a gas station robbery The firing squad consisted of a leader who gave the signal to fire and five riflemen four shooting live rounds and one a gun loaded with a blank Gilmore was executed after a long night of legal maneuvering that ended only minutes before dawn when the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver lifted a stay of execution granted seven hours earlier by US District Judge Willis W Ritter AT THE SAME time US Supreme Court Justices Byron R White and Thurgood Marsha rejected a last minute request by the American Civil Liberties Union filed before the 10th Circuit acted Ritter ordered the execution Gary Gilmore stopped the third stay in the Gilmore case after hearing arguments by ACLU attorneys that taxpayers funds were being illegally spent because Utahs death penalty law was unconstitutional The judge and US Marshal Roy Butters personally drove to the prison to deliver the stay of execution order to Smith after the judge announced his ruling at am But state attorneys immediately went to Chief Judge David Lewis of the 10th Circuit who lives in Salt Lake City LEWIS CALLED an emergency session of the court in Denver and flew across the Rockies with Utah Attorney General Robert Hansen four of his assistants and an ACLU attorney in tow When the circuit court overturned Ritter Attorney General Hansen called Warden Smith and Gilmore was driven by van from the prisons maximum security unit to a storage building formerly used as a cannery Schiller who had bought the rights to story for said he and three other witnesses invited to the shooting were told at seven minutes to eight that the condemned man was being moved to the execution site He said they previously had been told that Fourth District Judge Robert Bullock had changed his execution order from sunrise to any Continued on Pue A2 Artists drawing depicts execution of Gary In last budget Ford proposes tax cuts Look By ROBERT DIETSCH SUIf WASHINGTON In his last budget President Ford today urged Congress to hold the line on domestic spending but appropriate more funds for defense hike Social Security taxes and in a surprise cut income taxes not only this year but again in 1980 1981 and 1982 All told those four tax reductions would total billion Ford said the cuts are needed to offset the rise in effective tax rates that would wise occur as inflation and real growth move taxpayers into higher tax brackets THE FORD BUDGET for fiscal 1973 that begins Oct 1 is certain to be revised by Jimmy Carter who sue Navy launch is rammed 20 sailors are killed BARCELONA Spain UPI A Spanish freighter sliced into a US Navy launch carrying more than 100 sailors and marines back to their ships from shore leave today The US Consulate said 20 Americans were dead and others were feared missing Frogmen searched the harbor for more bodies As the launch sped toward the helicopter carrier Guam and the amphibious dock ship Trenton the Spanish freighter entered the harbor SURVIVORS SAID the returning crewmen were huddled in the boxlike open launch and saw the freighter only seconds before it sliced into their vessel Many of the American sailors and marines were wearing heavy coats that made it difficult to swim the several hundred yards to shore Forty men were hospitalized with injuries or to recover from the effects of nearly drowning The spokesman said there were 95 survivors He said names of the dead would not be released until relatives were told LOUIS deSTEFANO 21 a Navy electrician of Middletown NY was one of the survivors All you could see was a bow and a pair of anchors suddenly staring us into the face he said It hit us square midships and we went down like a rock But the spokesman said it was believed the capsized boat carried nearly its capacity of 120 passengers The crewmen involved were crewmen of the Amphibious transport dock Trenton and the helicopter carrier Guam and were part of a US 6th Fleet force visiting Barcelona Ford at noon Thursday Carter will propose his own tax cuts and its already assumed the Democratic Congress will ignore Fords tax ideas and approve Carters The incoming president also is expected to ask higher spending on things like public jobs and public works programs which Ford would trim Carter also will make some sm all dent in defense spending Nonetheless Fords imprint and proposals are likely to hold for scores of federal programs The Carter team already concedes it wont have the time to suggest as many revisions in the complex budget as it might like its revisions are due on Capitol Hill March 15 THUS CARTERS full imprint on a In low turnout federal budget isnt expected until a year from now Under law the budget must go to Congress within two weeks after it convenes thus the full obligation to submit the new budget fell on Ford not Carter Although Ford asked the Democratic Congress to hold the line on most domestic programs and although the budget proposed no new initiatives the President projected a deficit of billion But he contended under his proposals and economic projections the deficit would fall to billion in fiscal 1979 and then show surpluses in the following year Ford would use those surpluses to Continued on Page A3 EP Weather Service Forecast Fair warmer days Details on Page Tough task Dr Arleigh Templeton faces a lough task in defending the UT El Paso budget Legislature Page B2 Moving in UT E Paso basketball fans today are saying What a way to go after the Miners defeated Arizona 6059 in the final game at Memorial Gym The Miners move into the new Special Events Center for their next home game Feb 3 Sports World Page 1C Espionage Voters seek closer ties without salary increase A college student ac of trying to sel secrets on rocket construction to the Soviet Union is arrested in California Page A8 Withdraws Embattled CIA Ted withdrew his name from this morning shortly before he wu to face questioning on his selection Story an El Paso voters seeking better representation from their aldermen are still unwilling to pay higher to run the city government according to results of the City Charter election Saturday Amendment 3 which called for election of aldermen from single member districts passed easily despite opposition from the City Council and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce Although only 17995 turned out to decide on the eight charter amend ments the fraction got its message across to the city government more direct representation no salary hike for aldermen and a police chief coming from within the department I THINK that 18000 of the citys Cutting your taxes may reduce hassles By RAY DE CRANE Congress set out iast year to sim the income tax law and to streamline the tax form Sounds familiar doesnt it The results were about the same perhaps worse than the last time the tax law was simplified After months of hearings and debates a massive document the Tax Reform Act of 1976 was produced There are those who insist it might be more appropriately called The Attorneys and Tax Accountants Relief Act of 1976 Though the was passed in September and signed by the President in October some of its provisions were made retroactive to Jan This had the effect in at it Ute first of a series by Ray De Crate Income tax expert to generally Ja the tax law atd fe may be in hit Cut year Own Taxes may fee for tax at Tke at least one situation the sick pay exclusion of wiping out some tax savings opportunities many people thought they had earned nine months earlier Other tax changes become effective Jan l this year and still more changes will begin next Jan 1 So much confusion has been generated by the new law that when Internal Revenue Commissioner Donald C Alexander released the new tax forms he did with an apology You will probably find that the computations on the IOWA Form are more difficult he confessed Thats on the Form the one we used to call the quickie Short Form If that has become com plicated imagine what has happened to Form 1040 the tag form The series beginning with this in stallment will help readers through the tax m aze this year No one has been spared in the new law There are changes affecting average workers investors retirees even the sick and the disabled For some the news is good meaning their taxes will be tower Others will be penalized with the loss of valuable they had counted on In following installments all the new tax law changes that affect the average individual will be explained in simple language In addition all the oW standby with some valuable tips on how you can get more of them legally will be explained It is recommended that you clip and save the complete series as a helpful guide when you sit down to do your own tax return Even more information together with samples and step instructions for a variety of tax forms is available in the book Cut Your Own Taxes and Save people have drastically changed the form of our citys government and I am very disappointed in some of the results of the election Mayor Don Henderson said Amendments passing were No I to increase council size from four to six members No 3 aldermen separate districts No 4 to limit aldermen and mayor to four con terms No 5 to increase the size of the City Civil Service Commission from five to seven members and No 6 which removed personnel hired under state or federal grants from Civil Service Amendments failing were No 2 the salary increase for mayor and aldermen No 7 which would have removed the office of chief of police from civil service and No 8 which would have permanently established a city office of management and budget A breakdown of the issues and the votes cast are Amendment No 1 11596 to increase the size of city council 6114 against No 2 council salary increase 7899 for and 9895 against No 3 single member districts 10636 for 7074 against No 4 consecutive terms limit 13957 for 3812 against No 5 increase civil service commission members 11442 for 6223 against No 6 city em ployes federal grant civil service proposal for 106446876 against No 7 removing police chief from civil service 5890 for 11862 against and No 8 office 8624 for and 9005 against Mayor Henderson said he was puzzled with the low voter turnout and said he believed the city Charter issues were well presented to the voters especially by the print media the City Council and those who With its housekeeping chores out of tile way the Texas Legislature begins tough budget hearings some of which concern budget surplus Page B7 record cold holds a stranglehold on the nations midlands knocking out power and heat bringing industry to a halt and threatening frostbite to anyone venturing into its environs Page B4 World travels Walter Mondale begins a world journey week providing a clue to the mystery of future foreign policy Page A6 The Sun today for the consecutive day The Sun failed to shine only two days last year The Sun has failed to shine only 24 davs of the past 5466 Uln 171977 The Record SylvU Porter BJ 7476700 7476100 7476900
