Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - March 28, 1977, Midland, Texas HOME EDITION THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLAR DIAL Box TEXAS No Sunday MARCH 28 4 SECTIONS Death toll hits 562 in worst air crash The going is too rough for of Dallas and his bicycle as he tried to pedal through the floodwaters of a Dallas creek early Over four inches of rain caused heavy flooding in low sections of the AP SANTA CRUZ DE Canary Islands AP The Spanish air ministry said today the death toll from the fiery collision here of Pan American and KLM jumbo jets had climbed to 562 in worst aviation There were conflicting reports on the cause of Sundays One report quoted airport sources as saying a misunderstanding by the American Pan Am pilot may have been a But Spanish officials told a news conference the key point of the investigation was whether the KLM jet had permission to take Officials said 72 persons survived the collision of the two Boeing 747s on the All ths 4 persons die in Texas floods By The Associated Press The bodies of two 12yearold boys found today by officials in Fort Worth raised the death count to four as a result of flooding rains that swept through parts of Texas over the Police said the Eric Brewer and Robert were found in far east Fort Worth where rains measuring up to six inches in spots forced creeks and streams out of their Officials said the boys had been missing since Sunday Two other persons drowned in the Fort Ralph died as he tried to move his truck to higher ground out of the Grand Prairie trailer park where he Police said Verlander was swept under his James of Haltom City drowned when his horse fell into a gravel pit while he and two companions were moving cattle to higher Water rose four feet deep in some buildings at Six Flags Over Texas amusement park in causing park officials to close the park for a full day for the first time in the 17year Several hundred persons were forced to leave their homes for a time as the downpours continued into the night at many gradually moving on toward the Official observers described the flooding the worst in 20 years at some A Frisco Railway freight train of two locomotives and 15 cars left the rails at a bridge on the edge of Farmers just nor of Crewmen said no one was A tornado spun to the ground Sunday near in the Texas apparently causing no serious Another twister damaged mobile homes near Van in North Central Brezhnev attacks support of dissidents By KENNETH FREED MOSCOW AP Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev opened arms talks with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance today with a warning that American support of dissidents in Russia could undermine comments at the closed door opening session were reported by officials and the Soviet news agency Evidently aiming at President Carters public support of Soviet Brezhnev was quoted saying policy does not square with the principles of equality and noninterference in the internal affairs of each He said this could make a con development of relations between the two countries im Vances Hodding said the secretary did not respond to He Journey to Mexico boosts 67 route MARFA The task force had And the motley lot was armed to the hilt with cameras and American dollars soon to be transformed into Mexican The 29 mostly strangers to one had traveled from near and far like commandos on a raiding But it was quite evident they were The waiting to find out what would happen was waiting in the Marf a City Hall Community LATE NEWS WASHINGTON Majority Leader James Wright drew a political battle line over water projects saying the Carter administration and the en are on one side and congressmen concerned with progress on tiw WEATHER Generally and windy through Tuesday with high gusts Low High upper Complete details on Page INDEX Saudi Arabias stand on oil prices gives Page Al Dean Smith seek elusive NCAA title Page Oil and Womens ROUSTIN ABOUT with And forward sprang the congenial and effervescent George the graying but leader of the He meted out advice and told of the task at Lets not be guilty of being the ugly Jordan told the He asked for reasonably decent behavior and respect for the Spanish speaking neighbors across the the unugly Americans were via to the capital of the Mexican state of The bus would travel southward on which played a vital role in the to From the travelers would cross the Rio get their visas from the suspicious Mexican border officials at and would smoothly chug on down to the state capital on Mexico From the desert setting that is Chihuahua the 29 Americans would climb abroad the Chihuahua Al railroad The tracks would lead the curious and eager Anglos across the peaceful desert and over and through the spectacularly mountainous Sierra Madre country and into the coastal city of Los The leisurely sojourn would last a Continued on Page 2A Vance read a formal paper general bilateral and in relationships and calling for a full range of discussions during the next three days of officials said they had ex a human rights attack and the first session went about as statement was rein forced later in the day in a luncheon toast by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei He referred to statement of prin ciples agreed to by Brezhnev and Richard Nixon in which both sides agreed on the need for equality and noninterference in internal affairs of each Gromyko said the United States confirmed these principles when it signed the final declaration on European security and cooperation in Helsinki in If good relations between Washington and Moscow are to Gromyko went they must adhere to these It would be a serious mistake to think other he Once Vance made no direct reference to human rights in his answering After expressing his gratitude for the welcome he had the secretary spoke of the need to con the quest of reducing the threat of war and curbing the arms Before the meeting with Brezhnev he and Vance posed for photographers and exchanged the I bring you the warmest regards from President Vance I send him my heartfelt good Brezhnev Vance was accompanied by Paul the Carter administrations chief arms Un of State Philip William Highland of the National Security Council and Malcolm the ambassador to Brezhnev was flanked by Foreign Minister Andrei the Soviet ambassador to the United Anatoly Dobrynin Georgy Kor a deputy foreign minister and disarmament and Oleg Sokolov of the foreign American Vance told a news conference Sunday that the problems that have blocked conclusion of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement are something of the What Im looking forward to now is the What Irm looking for is a he It is possible to have a comprehensive agreement by It will mean that everybody will have to work very Winds in Midland which blew since 1 this morning in gusts of more than 50 mph were expected to diminish some this afternoon but to continue until after Conditions were expected to be generally fair through with cooler temperatures said a National Weather Service spokesman at the Midland Regional Air Ter Low tonight was expected to be in the with a high Tuesday in the upper Winds were expected to diminish somewhat this afternoon but continue from the southwest at 20 to 30 mph and gusty this Winds from the northwest should reach 20 to 30 mph diminishing after Many area cities this morning also reported windy Odessa was clear and the wind was blowing up a A new cold front promised to turn loose snow and severe cold in the New Mexico mountains during the night and send an increasing chill into parts of Texas by but no moisture was predicted in the Lone Star state for the next several Carter due to ask tax on bottles Washington Post WASHINGTON President Carter is expected to ask Congress for a tax on disposable bottles and cans as a way of discouraging the onetime use of containers and the waste of energy that goes into their The President is also expected to ask for a tax on virgin glass and metal that go into the manufacture of disposable and cans as a further means of discouraging their Along the same he is said to be considering a tax reduction for manufacturers who use recycled materials to make White House sources said these proposals would be included in President Carters environmental message to the scheduled to be delivered The message may be even though en aides worked Saturday and Sunday to get it ready in Aides say the taxes are almost sure to be in the Presidents while other proposals are still being At least three drafts of the message have been with the possibility that at least three more drafts will be written before a final draft reaches the Oval The President hasnt seen Cabinet officers havent seen it and even subCabinet officers havent seen one source on the White House Domestic Council said We hate to have the environmental message coming out close to the energy message due April but we may have no choice but to delay the environmental message until sometime next One reason for the delay is that proposals included in early drafts of the message have been either removed or rewritten to reflect more realistic Early drafts also have been broadened in the last two weeks to get more balance in the Besides taxing disposable con President Carter is likely in his environmental message to voice strong support for extending the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers over national survivors were aboard the American and 11 were listed in very serious or grave All 239 on the Dutch plane were The whole American plane was on fire and people were crying and screaming trying to get said James of Within just a few seconds the metal started to come The Spanish news agency Cifra quoted airport sources as saying the flight recorder from the American plane showed the airport control tower had ordered Pan American Victor Grubbs of Cen to move onto the main The sources said the plane apparently misunderstood the order and taxied onto another runway where the KLM plane was taking Cifra But Manuel de president of the Spanish national airline said the KLM plane had been ordered to taxi to the end of the main turn 18 degrees and prepare for The Pan Am plane was told to follow down the runway and turn off onto a De Prado said he did not know whether the KLM plane had per mission to take This is the key point of the said Tenerife Antonio Asked about a possible language a spokesman for the control tower said the controllers talk to air crews exclusively in In New a Pan American spokesman said the airline expected anything substantive concerning the cause of the collision to come from a government investigating team sent to the crash site and anything else we view with Cifra quoted who was hospitalized at the Santa Crux General as saying he was taxiing down the main runway at the time of the The crew saw nothing right up to the moment of Grubb The Dutch pilot died in the fiery along with the 238 other persons KLM Most of them were Investigators were en route to Tenerife from the United the Spanish mainland and the Netherlands to try to determine the cause of the The Em Continued on Page 2A James Naik and his wife Elsie were in the first class cabin of the Pan American Boeing 747 which collided Sunday with a KLM Boeing 747 in the Canary escaped serious injury but his wife is reported in serious This is an undated file AP Dual 747 explosion was like in a movie The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES I couldnt believe a man said front Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands as he waited for word on his seriously in jured Within five the whole plane was Jim and he prayed his wife Elsie were among the 34 survivors of a chartered Pan american jumbo jet that was demolished when it was struck by another Boeing 747 on the fog shrouded runway at Santa Several hours after the Naik told The Los Angeles Times by telephone from the Hospital Generate I think shes going to pull Naik himself escaped with only some scratches on his arms and hands when he was Coal slurry sent to panel AP Texas senators refused today to accept changes the House made in the coal slurry pipeline and the controversial issue was sent to a 10member conference The House finally approved the Senate which would give pipelines the right to condemn property for the coal slurry last Wednesday after seven hours of blown clear of the plane aiter the Naik is a comptroller for the Royal Cruise Line which chartered the doomed 747 from Pan American He was blown out of the plane by the first thus escaping serious but his wife took a blow in the head as the fuselage was crushed trapping her in her I was struggling to get her he but we got It was like in a The plane went up completely in Naik said he was In the firstclass compartment and that after the people started tumbling down from the lounge above on top of It was the flames that did the He said he tried to get back into the wreckage to rescue his but could not reach Then I saw a body falling out of he plane and it happen ed to be my At the he said she had a large cut near the eye and apparent head s Naik was on the trip with other Royal Cruise Line officials overseeing the which was to include a cruise aboard the Golden Od dysey to Sicily and The ship was waiting for the 378 passengers at Las where an earlier and unrelated terrorist bomb blast at the airport had forced tem diversion of the plane to Naik said many of the passengers aboard the tour charter plane were from Los Angeles and Southern while others were from San Jose and San He said 120 of the passengers were repeaters from previous cruises by the
