Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - March 8, 1977, Midland, Texas HOME EDITION THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLAR Box Dally Sunday TUESDAY MARCH 24 4 SECTIONS House Republicans trying to junk rebate for tax cut By JIM LUTHER WASHINGTON AP Out numbered House Republicans are hoping to pick up enough Democratic votes to junk President Carters pro posed rebate and give Americans a permanent tax cut in Several Democrats share tne OOPs distaste for the but there is no indication that enough will switch votes to kill the rebate and hand Carter a major A similar Republican effort was defeated last 258 to The vote on the Republican proposal is expected to be the last preliminary question before the House was to decide late today on a tax cut aimed at stimulating the House approval of the tax cut package would send the measure to the where the Finance Political clout only hope to put Webb in budget By ROBERT WASHINGTON AP The proposed Pentagon budget for the iii funds for full operation of just six of the eight Air Force Air Training Command That means that the Air Force will have to close down two of its pilot training bases unless the funding to operate eight is restored by And that is bad news for citizens of Big and where Webb and Craig Air Force bases are They are the two prime candidates for a The best chance for keeping either base open is through political and the maneuvering has already Alabama George in Washington for a national gover nors met with President Carter last week to ask his help in keeping Craig The Texas congressional delegation has gone to work on the Webb The final decision on which of the eight bases to close will be made by the Secretary of the Air and the Carter administration has not appointed anyone to that Pen tagon spokesmen say Secretary of Defense Harold Brown may also participate in the aliu designated by the Air Force as the bases to close because of several according to the final en impact statement on the closing Webbs chief liabilities are its two rather than and its high degree of urban en by the town of Big Big Spring in statements filed with the Air maintain that the studies neglect Webbs low overhead cost per pilot They claim that criteria measured by the study were concocted to justify the original decision to close the No one disputes that the loss of the Webb payroll would devastate the economy of Big Spring and surrounding Howard The Air Force estimated that onethird of county residents income comes directly or indirectly from the The closing would cause a net loss of between and people from the region and would boost unem ployment to nearly 13 per the A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that the Air Force could still decide to close only one base or to i ii 1C a supplemental appropriation from but that wouldnt be that If Congress took it upon itself to put funds for eight active bases in the the Air Force would have no choice but to keep them all the spokesman Committee scheduled hearings on the plan The rebates for an estimated 200 million Americans are the key element of Carters taxcut Carter also wants to raise the standard which would mean a permanent tax cut averaging for 45 million couples or in Some 88 per cent of the tax cut would go to families or persons with incomes under hut the 31 per cent of taxpayers who itemize deductions would get no As a substitute for the Carter the House Republican Con ference wants to cut tax rates per across the regar of whether persons itemize or use the standard Under the GOP 67 per cent of the money would go to those with incomes under 11 per cent would go to persons earning more than a in n I n v for a single person earning a year a cut for a family of four earning and a cut for a family earning Why a permanent tax cut instead of the rebate Give somebody and hell spend Continued on Page 2A Romanian soldiers help 35yearold Floarea from the rubble of the Bucharest restaurant where she was entombed for three days after the building where she worked as a waitress collapsed during Fridays Rescuers press through rubble Romania AP As rescue teams press their increasingly futile search for survivors amid the the official toll in the ear that battered the Balkans last weekend has risen to dead and the official Romanian news reported 810 confirmed dead in the Romanian 224 elsewhere in the and Officials in neighboring Bulgaria reported 50 deaths in the quake last Friday night and 120 while one death and 100 injured were reported in Western diplomats estimate that the dead in Bucharest could total by the time the work teams finish digging through the ruins of 32 apartment buildings and other structures that were food and other relief supplies from the United Yugoslavia and East Germany arrived by plane Denmark and West Germany announced they were planning The International Red Cross appealed for funds and The American and Danish Red Cross and Israels David Adorn announced large donations of money or reported 195 businesses destroyed and production halted at many other factories by damage to water and electrical The oil center of devastated by Allied bombing in World War was reported especially hard Drilling rigs and other equipment were reported In as rescue workers carefully picked at the police kept crowds Police telephone White House to appease Cleveland gunman Shelley center of Warrensville a suburb of is surrounded by unidentified Warrensville Heights policemen early Tuesday after she was released unharmed by a gunman who held her hostage for 10 CLEVELAND AP Police telephoned the White House today in an effort to get President Carter to speak with a black gunman who held a white policeman saying he wants to free his people from sion and wants whites to leave the earth within a The Cory an ex Marine and former auto worker now attending a community had demanded to speak with Carter about his Warrensville Heights Police Chief Craig Merchant said his office had contacted the Secret Service about possibly arranging a conversation between Moore and There was no immediate word from the White was tired but even joking with his Leo in a room at the Cleveland suburbs City Moore was armed with his own pistol and seized gun after taking him captive Monday after We just hope he remains as calm as he has been so the chief Merchant said that Moore express ed dissatisfaction today with what he saw as the news medias apparent disregard of his vow to curse the white world if all whites werent off earth within seven Moore was watching news reports on a television set police provided ear ly today in exchange for Moores other Shelley Moore said he didnt swap the girl for the TV but rather simply decided to let her Merchant Miss Kiggans was taken hostage at gunpoint when Moore pulled a hidden weapon from under a overcoat draped on one arm as he waited in a traffic line in the City Moore also fired twice at that and Keglovic was captured when he responded to the police Police headquarters are in the same and officers quickly sur rounded the office in which Moore held Keglovic and Miss Police said he triggered another shot later when they sent food to the hostages with Moores though Moore disdained the food as possibly having been poisoned or No one was Museums back room houses more treasure WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm through Low tonight High Wednesday Complete details on Page INDEX Backers of Department of Energy see success by April Page Michigan tops APs final regular season cage San Francisco drops to third Hogs finish Page Bridge Oil and s Miners continue probing TOWER A Working with sensitive television and sound equipment and the thin hope for a miracle rescuers today prepared to electronically search the spot in a mine where they believe five miners have been trapped since last Federal officials conceded it would take a miracle to find the miners alive but said rescue would continue day and Im not giving up any hope till I get my hands on the last one of said Sam foreman at the Kocher Coal Anything is A drill broke through Big Lick Mountain and into the mine shortly before midnight said Robert coal company He said the drilling operation had been on target and rescuers had bored to where the missing miners are thought to We hit the and it is open down he Rissinger said it would take several hours to pull the drill bit back to top of the clearing the 432foot passageway for the electronic The miners were trapped with five others in the mine at midday last Tuesday when a torrent of water broke through the Porter Califano changes HEW WASHINGTON AP HEW Secretary Joseph Califano announced a major reorganization of his department today designed to streamline operations and reduce opportunities for fraud and abuse in government payments to Califano said the restructuring of the Department of and Welfare outs all cash welfare and retirement programs under the Social Security Administration and establishes a new agency to run Medicare and The announcement was seen as a move to pave the way for meeting two of President Carters key campaign welfare reform and national ALPINE dusty and dimly lit room hoards a mother lode of history now lying in Its a gold vein that begs for for The narrow room holds the wasting away surplus of what was not fitted into the order of things in the ad joining showplace the gallery of The Museum of the Big But the creeping ravages of time are due for a timely a And museum director Ken Perry is carefully cataloging and meticulously preserving those thousands of ar heretofore wasting away in what could be called the museums Were trying to preserve the cultural heritage of Southwestern particularly that of the Big Bend Perry Thats quite obvious in the museums And its becoming more and more obvious in the back where Perry is setting about to put the museums surplus stock into good who sometimes wears white gloves and a smock when hes han dling these surplus gems called ar gladly takes a visitor into the He opens a firearms and pulls out of percussion cap Mexican army Perry suspects that it ended up with some Indian It was treated very he ROUSTIN ABOUT with Perry wont be exactly restoring the He wants the firearm to retain its Restoration would be sort of a coverup and would deny letting the guns history Perry shows off other weapons in the They range from the old flintlocks to the Now this is the gun that slaughtered the buffalo the Old the museum director The Old Reliable is a rifle designed to withstand the intense heat of prolonged Perry tells how thrilled he was to have found two chips of wood from the stock of a how many people would get excited about finding a little piece of wood like that he He was very much We were so excited we jumped up and Perry said of the find in the dimly lit The we who jumped around were Perry Continued on P age
