El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, El Paso, Texas El Paso Home Midday Vol No 234 The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers El Paso Texas Friday September 30 1977 stocks 15 cents in El Paso only Man slain in holdup Police arrest 3 as citys bar bandits By FRANK AHLGREN Jr Two men shot and killed a customer and critically wounded another at the Sun City Lounge early this morning ran outside into the muzzles of police guns A suspected accomplice was arrest ed later The dead man was identified as Tom Moffitt in his twenties of 12249 ODonnell The wounded man in cal condition at William Beaumont Army Medical Center is William Re ginald Whitley 43 of 10436 Centaur Those arrested all soldiers at to the Third Cavalry at Ft Bliss are suspected of five similar holdups in bars Two persons vere shot in one of the robberies The suspects were identified as Cleborn Thomas Hovis 21 Gary Mit chell Milam 21 and Garry Lee Rogers 21 The first two are being held under a total bond set by Peace Justice Walter McGhee charged with murder attempted murder and robbery Rogers who was arrested later at his apartment is charged with a previous robbery ami held under bond Police Inspector Joe Messer said pi have been staking out various bars around town since the rash of holdups began Sept 10 The officers were watching the Sun City Lounge at 5030 Fairbanks at midnight when they saw two men park a car go around a corner to the front of the bar put on stocking masks and go in Messer said The officers immediately radioed for help but go inside They were following orders if they nad gone inside where there were some 20 to 25 customers and shooting had started there would have been bodies Continued on Page A4 Tax cut proposal goes to Carter By EDWARD COWAN New York Times News Service WASHINGTON In a lengthy con memorandum to President Carter the Treasury has outlined a strategy possibly in a quick tax cut next year for achieving the broad tax revisions 22 more come home from Hanoi HANOI Vietnam UPI A US military honor guard today loaded the remains of 22 Ameri cans who died in the Vietnam War aboard an Air Force CHI jet transport for their trip home Following the simple ny and talks between the US and Vietnamese officials in 90 degree heat Frank A Sieverts the State Departments deputy coordinator for POWs and MIAs said progress had been made in accounting for 2500 Americans still missing in Indo china The 22 bodies each in a small box with a folded US flag placed on top were carried into the and placed on a table in the rear of the craft Identification of the remains will be certified by the tary Central Identification Lab oratory in Honolulu before the names will be released and reductions considered vital to Carters goals of high employment and a balanced federal budget by 1981 The administration now believes that the possibility of a rise in unem ployment in the second half of 1978 may make it necessary for Congress to cut withholding taxes on wages and salaries before completing action on President Carters broadgauge pro gram of tax reduction and reform A confidential Treasury dum to the President that also reflects the thinking of the Council of Econom ic Advisers says it would be better if Congress dealt with the program in a single BUT THAT COULD take into the autumn and the already apparent risk of a sag in the econ omy requires planning now for a cut in withholding before the rest of the package goes to the White House as a second according to the memo randum This concern was outlined by the Treasury earlier this month in an overview of proposals calculated to cut taxes for individuals with incomes of up to a year and raise taxes above that income level The Treasury document discloses that in the administration view the re duction is vital to achieving Carters 1981 goals of high employment and a balanced federal budget Corporate tax rates also would be reduced Altogether the revenue re duction would be billion based on 1976 income including billion for individuals and billion for busi ness THESE FIGURES reflect a set of nine Treasury tax reform option Continued on Page A3 Photo by UPI Atlas Centaur rocket explodes shortly after takeoff last night Blast forces launch suspension CAPE CANAVERAL Fia UPI An Atlas Centaur rocket carrying a million communications satel lite toward orbit exploded four miles from the launching pad and just a minute after blastoff last night It was the second rocket explosion in two weeks and space agency suspended all launches for a complete investigation The explosion of the rocket that was carrying a highcapacity Intelsat communications satellite appeared to duplicate the destruction of a Delta rocket that was lifting a European Space Agency com mica tions satellite into orbit just 15 days ago The National Aeronautics and Space Administration which already had suspended launches with Delta rockets announced late last night a suspension of Punches with Atlas Centaur pending a full investigation The Delta and Atlas Centaur rockets are the only two boosters in use by NASA although the Air Force uses a Titan for military weapons sys tems Air Force search teams began sweeping the Atlantic to recover pieces of the rocket and payload for use by the investigators I the two explosions were unrelated said George Page tor of expendable vehicles at the Ken Space Center And we cant rue out sabotage but we dont sus it The Intelsat which can 6000 telephone calls and two color television channels was to orbit above the Indian Ocean as part of a global network of 10 com satellites operated by a consortium known as the Communications Satellite Corp Council approves 6 million for The city will be spending mil lion for land by the Civic Center for the planned city hall City Council yesterday voted to pay the amount to Joe K Foster a local real estate broker for 121472 square feet of land The parcel is located north of the Civic Center at the corner of Franklin and Santa Fe streets Foster who holds an option to buy the tract from First of Denver Mortgage Investments will hold an option on a portion of the land for one year to arrange financing of a hotel A 2 PER CENT INCREASE in natu ral gas rates million annual in crease in salaries for nonuniform city employes and a salary raise for Sun City Area Transit SCAT em ployes were among the other decisions reached yesterday After council granted Southern Union Gas Co SUG a 2 per cent rate increase SUG officials told the they would be returning for another increase as soon as we can put the data together The 2 per cent increase in rates will bring SUG about in addition al revenue and SUG had asked for a million increase originally Only Mayor Pro Tern Dan Ponder voted against the 2 per cent in crease IT WAS PONDER who blasted Tele prompter Cabie TV when district El Paso Weather Service Forecast Fair warm Details on Page Hijackers Japanese Red Army terrorists freed four more hostages but Japan says it can not meet the las execution deadline for 142 remaining persons Meantime a lone armed hijacker seized a French jetliner wounded a stewardess and forced the plane to return to Paris Page B8 Shavers covers up under barrage AH holds on to crown Muhammad Ali had a tough go of it but retains his heavyweight boxing championship Page Dl Youre to blame too Public appetite is also to blame for television vio lence a House subcommittee says in draft re port El The sun shone today for ths consecutive day The sun has failed to shine only two days of last year The sun has failed to shine only 25 of the past 5821 days Stpl 30 Inside The Abby B3 Classified Crossword B3 El Editorial Markets PM People Records Sports B2 A2 El DW SUr Gazer Fft Sylvia Porter B3 Town Talk 81 TV Accent Women Telephones News Wont Ads 7476700 7476800 7474900 manager asked council to change the franchise to permit lower rates to some classes of customers Ponder accused Teleprompter of asking developers for per lot for installing underground TV cable lines for connections Patrick Bresnan district manager said he was taken aback by the al legation and a complaint that not all sections of the city may obtain cable connections Bresnan said television cable con are available for 97 per cent of El Paso and claimed Teleprompter had never made a profit in El Paso LAST YEAR WAS the first year we broke even in operations not counting interest paid on invest ments Bresnan said I think Cable vision has done a pretty good job as far as Im con cerned Alderman Richard Najera said Besnan asked council to allow Tele prompter to exempt those over 62 years of age from the installation charge of and deposit of or Continued on Page A3 City ha site blub arec is north of Civic Center loses busing round By MANNY First and second grade students will not be exempt mandatory busing within the El Paso Independent School District according to an order issued yesterday by US District Court Judge William S Ses sions Sessions order is in response to a dese plan submitted by on July 15 That plan is the result of a Dec 23 1976 order by Sessions that submit a desegregation plan to create ethnic bal ance within its school district The desegregation order itself stems from a suit filed in 1970 by Mr and Mrs David Alvarado and several other parents against charging the school district practiced discrimination against their children and other students The issue involving first and second graders busing was hard fought by School officials charged that busing of students in these two lower grades would ad affect the development of the children 7 retard their educational achievement and would dize their personal safety Sessions ruled however he did not find justification for noninclusion of first and second grade students in the desegregation plan Sessions had exempted ten students from busing in a May 9 order Several of proposals were approved by Ses sions most of which involve the redrawing of attendance zones for various schools He noted that he assumes will take whatever action is necessary to comply with his orders Another touchy issue with both students and was the involvement of senior and junior students in the plan Sessions ruled that students who will be beginning their junior year in the fall of the 197879 school year would not be exempt from any reassignment plan Students involved in a busing transportation plan from Austin to Burges High School who are entering their se year may be exempted if they wish
