Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - February 6, 1976, Ogden, Utah Bird Extermination Campaign Proves Flop Ky UPI Initial surveys of the roost of blackbirds in Russellville today indicated that the spraying of to nd the area of the millions of birds was a failure Garner director of the office of the U.S Fish and Wildlife service said only a few dead birds were discovered around the roost this morning Ke said the unsuccessful spraying was due to the lack of rain needed to have the chemical work at peak f i c i e n c y Although in the Russellville area were in the 30s at the time of the spraying the rain forecast for Thursday night did not materialize The chemical has its maximum effect when the temperature is around 37 degrees and rain is falling strips the birds feathers of protective oils leaving them to die of exposure Kentucky Agriculture Com- missioner Tom Harris indicated another at- tempt would be made as soon as weather conditions were right However Friday night's forecast called for cold temperatures but no rain in the area WASHINGTON AP The nation's top tax official In- t e r n a 1 Revenue Service Commissioner Donald Alexander will go before a federal grand jury next week apparently to answer questions concerning his role in suspending an IRS probe of a tax dodge used by rich Americans Treasury Secretary William Simon announced Thursday that Alexander and other top IRS officials will go before a panel investigating allegations made against the commissioner and the vice Sources said the grand jury apparently is investigating the suspension iqf Project an IRS probe into the use of Bahamian banks as tax dodges and is involved with fact-finding now No specific charges are pending against any party said the sources WASHINGTON UPI Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott says my con- science is clear in the wake of reports that the Watergate special prosecutor has focused o n Gulf alleged semiannual payments to him between 1960 and 1972 Senate and Justice Department sources said the special prosecutor is gathering evidence about Scott to present to a federal grand jury that was seated In Washington last fall One conviction that of Rep James Jones has already resulted from the inquiry ROME AP Seven million Italian workers struck fpr half a day today as tional feuds within the Christian Democratic party cast doubts on designate Aldo Moro's efforts to form a new government committed to stiff austerity Unions called all industrial workers out om a four-hour strike to stress their demands for quick action to safeguard employment and create jobs through investments The smaller parties promised Thursday to back or not to challenge a minority Christian Democratic government removing a major obstacle to a solution to the country's ment crisis since World War II DJ I BOUT I and ISSAS Territory AP France is reinforcing its naval units in the Indian Ocean with two submarines and a support ship authoritative sources said today There was no indication whether would be stationed off the coast of Somalia as claimed by the Somali ambassador in Paris French and Somali troops fought a brief but bloody b o r d e r engagement on Wednesday and were reported deployed along the southeast border of this East African colony today as the two governments accused each other of stirring up trouble ATLANTA AP Out- breaks of influenza in three more states have been reported since last week but the national Center for Disease Control says there does not appear to be a nationwide flu outbreak The CDC said Thursday that an outbreak of Influenza A virus was reported among students at a university in Cook County 111 and two isolated cases were reported elsewhere in that state Other isolated cases were reported in Connecticut and Missouri the CDC said Last week the CDC reported flu outbreaks in Iowa Massachusetts Minnesota New Jersey New York and Oregon FORECAST PARTLY CLOUDY YEAR ASSOCIATED PRESS OGDEN UTAH UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL UPI TELEPHOTO FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 1976 TEMPERATURES High Saturday per Low tonight near 10 Highs Saturday ly in 30s Lows tonight ally 0 to 10 above DAILY SUNDAY Unemployment Rate Drops Biggest Decline in 16 Years AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY Coffins are carried up the hill to the town cemetery at San Pedro one of the hardest hit towns when an earthquake hit Guatemala Over 100 t 11 1 Ford's Campaign Certain to Benefit WASHINGTON nation's unemployment rate dropped from 8.3 per cent to 7.8 per cent in uary the largest monthly decline in the jobless rate in more than 16 years the government said today The Labor Department said total employment in January increased by the largest monthly job increase since early 1960 Total employment in the eco- in January was 86.2 million which close to the peak employment in July of 1974 The Labor Department figures are sure to win the Ford administration support for its economic policies in 1976 The gains in employment were widespread throughout the omy with only the teenage less rate failing to improve BREAKDOWN FIGURES The Labor Department gave the following unemployment AND OVERHEAD THAT'S A HOOP JEFFERSON Iowa AP If you want to apply for the basketball coaching job at Iowa State University consider the necessary qualifications listed in the fourth grade student newspaper at Jefferson Community 1 You have to know what a basketball looks like 2 You need your own whistle 3 You need your own basketball shoes 4 You need permission from your mother Patty Sees Film Of Bank Holdup SAN FRANCISCO AP After twice watching a two- minute film of herself toting a rifle at a bank robbery cia Hearst listened quietly as a witness recalled looking right down the barrel of her off carbine and falling to the floor in fear sons in the town were killed Places Quake Casualties At Dead Hurt GUATEMALA CITY mala AP The Dis- aster Relief Organization UNDRO estimated today that nearly persons died and were injured Wednesday's earthquake City The U.S Embassy said the survey confirmed the total de- struction eluding of several Joyabaj cities in- and The town of population was 98 per cent leveled in in Guatemala as the United States began a airlift of aid to the devastated country The emergency committee A spokesman in Geneva other towns leveled by the said the estimate much higher than that by officials in mala City came from UNDRO representatives in Guatemala who reported about 800 dead in Guatemala City and about in other areas of the country Guatemala's National gency Committee estimated the toll at to dead injured and homeless Sources close to the com- quake were Comalapa El Progreso and gosa and that many smaller towns and villages the same fate Up to Wednesday it did not look so bad because all we could see was Guatemala City Today it's an entirely different See page 2A column 6 men 5.8 per cent down from 6.6 per cent in De- cember women 7.5 per cent down from 8 per cent 7.1 per cent down From 7.6 per cent and other races 13.2 per cent down from 13.8 per cent per cent cent men 4.1 per cent down from 4.8 per cent workers 7.3 per cent down from 7.9 per cent WHITE COLLAR FIGURES said the casualty mates were conservative The committee said it had in- formation from 80 per cent of the area hit hardest by the IDS Church To Stricken SALT LAKE CITY Mormon Church announced today it was sending from financial aid and other assistance such Aid Guatemala Arnold and Stake Presidents Guillermo Rittscher Mario Lopez and Jorge Herminio Perez Under them emergency helj was in thp in and tents to Guatemala mca u-u me The Church of Jesus Christ of region Saints Mormon across 75 per cent of the said Lv of 6 million people manager of Field Services for f f Developing SURVEY TEAM CHECKS An American survey team from the Panama Canal Zone flew over the country in copters Thursday locating the worst damage in a region north and northwest of Guatemala 3 Spacemen Tour Arab Lands CAIRO AP The three U.S astronauts of the Soyuz mission arrived here today on the first leg of a tour of six Arab nations The astronauts Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton will present Egyptian scientists with the of experiments con- ducted during their nine-day trip last year The three are scheduled to leave Egypt Sunday for Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirate Qatar Bahrain and Algeria the church's Developing fare Services Department went to Guatemala to help assess the need for resources not available locally The church said it was also assessing damage injury and death among its bers in Guatemala Twenty church members are known to have died and others were in- jured but no deaths were re- ported among the church's 230 missionaries in the country PINNED BY BEAM One missionary Randall jured and to families of the de- ceased the church said Eight Mormon health See page 2A column 1 of households down from 5.7 5.1 per collar workers down from 4.8 4.7 per per cent cent collar workers 9.4 per cent down from 10.7 per cent 19.9 per cent up from 19.6 per cent in De- cember The Labor Department said total employment in January was 2.1 million above the sion low of last March when the unemployment rate was 8.5 per cent The peak ment rate during the recession was 8.9 per cent in May when the labor force had shrunk to a low level Ford administration mists had predicted a decline in unemployment in January but nothing near the decrease reported by the Labor ment TRAVEL PERILOUS Snow Ice Fall Paralyzes Midwest Area Moves East United Press international An ice and snow storm that all but paralyzed some Indiana and Ohio communities today turned its attack on Atlantic Seaboard states touching off a new round of commuter traffic highway accidents and tumbles Up to 10 inches of snow bogged parts of Pennsylvania Ice formed a half-inch thick in southern New Jersey Hundreds of schools closed in Ohio and for the second consecutive day The New York metropolitan area suffered its second snowstorm of the week National Guardsmen the streets of New Castle Ind stepping around sparking power lines and over huge trees felled by dening layers of ice It's nothing to hear a big crash and see a full-grown tree fall down in front of New Castle Police Sgt David land said KILLED BY POLE Colorado Rockies where more officer at Kennedy Airport said than 70 avalanches ripped down early today But they're going wooded mountain slopes day Police in both New York City and Columbus Ohio used one to describe early tions Abraham Beame said overnight snow removal efforts were effective and that all the city's expressways and parkways had been plowed at least once by They're inches out Near Dunreith Ind a utility lineman trying to restore power to homes killed Thursday night when an icy pole snapped hurling him from atop the pole to the ground Snow belted mountainous areas of the West for the third day in a row An avalanche warning was up in the southern morning driving But New York Mayor predicting a three police to have to revise that because there's already more than that In Connecticut the storm caused few headaches com- pared to Monday's surprise James Norton a recreational therapist testified Thursday that Miss Hearst was a peppery ado who was the first one in the bank the day of the bery Norton called to the stand by U.S Atty James L Browning Jr was scheduled to undergo cross-examination today and chief defense attorney F Lee Bailey said it would be 2ND WITNESS Norton was the second to testify Thursday that the newspaper heiress shouted obscenities when she and four Liberation Army members held up the Hibernia Bank here April 15 1974 two months after the tiny band of terrorists kidnaped her Norton said he was about to deposit a check when Miss Hearst burst through the front door of the bank and pointed a carbine at him Avoiding a profanity he said he heard Miss Hearst utter blizzard In fact a worker at the state transportation ment's storm control center said This was a nice storm Thursday freezing rain from the same storm built a sheet of ice from Oklahoma to the Ohio See page 2A column 1 Ford Takes Campaign To on Saturday Norton quoted Get on the her as ground or I'll CONCORD AP President Ford hopes to perk up his campaign for the Re- publican presidential nation with a weekend blitz through New Hampshire where some observers say he lags be- hind Ronald Reagan in both and momentum The visit which also will bring Mrs Ford and two of their four children to the state with the nation's first primary is aimed at giving the dent maximum exposure in a NAMES IN THE NEWS Nixons Accept Invitation to China Former dent Richard M Nixon and his wife Pat have been in- to visit China beginning Feb 21 and have accepted with the official news agency said day It said the visit will mark Isworth of Rockville Md was reported in critical the fourth anniversary of the after being pinned by a Nixons first visit to China in a building in Patzicia The historic visit to China other missionaries were made by President Richard scribed as not accounted of the United States of Thursday although they America Nixon and were believed working in the issuance of the joint isolated part of the The church said its cy assistance program was being coordinated at the scene by Mission President Robert B by China and the United States in 1972 have played a significant role in improving Sine U.S r e 1 a- said The Chinese side and for- mer President Nixon both con- sider that a revisit to China by him will be appropriate The government of the Republic of China has extended an invitation to him and Mrs Nixon to revisit China on February 21 1976 the fourth anniversary of their first visit They have accepted the invitation with pleasure Barbara Walters of NBC's show quoted sources in ton as saying China plans to send a plane to pick up Nixon in California Nixon wasn't immediately available for comment King County Superior Court Judge Morton Smith Thursday in Seattle de- nied a motion to dismiss tele- phone fraud charges against actor Robert Cummings Bellevue attorney Garry C Wilson who represented mings argued that the office elected to file the charge in District Court first hence the Superior Court has no jurisdiction Deputy Prosecutor Patrick Sainsbury maintained that where and when the charge has been filed has been ruled by the state Supreme Court to be a matter of procedure He said the court procedural matters as determined by the Supreme Court supersede the law Judge Smith agreed is accused of sessing an electronic device by which tele- phone calls may be made without paying for them He was here last fall for a role in a dinner theater tion f TIME Empress Farah of Iran flew back to Tehran today after a three-week cation in Europe Her special jetliner was followed by an Iranian army 707 carrying three tons of French rose marble for a hew ming pool for the imperial couple limited time Aides concede they will try to emphasize his incumbency Although Ford strategists in- sist the President's voter peal will stem from the job he's doing in they said the visit will be crucial in the tight race against Reagan in the Feb 24 primary here STRONG SHOWINGS The state's election in past years has been a barometer of candidates strengths and weaknesses Reagan hopes to combine strong showings in New Hampshire and Florida in March 9 to build momentum in his drive for the Republican nomination Ford's first and perhaps only hunt for New shire voters comes as national polls show Reagan gaining ground among and independents and amid uing reports that Ford's grass roots effort in Hampshire is sputtering Ford organizers have tried to counter Reagan's numerous trips into the state by bringing several surrogates here from both within and outside the ad- ministration But their impact observers note has been imal Although saying the is going quite one key worker admitted the other day the candidates absence has posed a problem I've never been involved in a cam for someone that isn't the worker said blow your dash head off your brains or something like that By then I was on my way to the floor He said he was the last one to fall to the floor because he initially thought it was a staged holdup for a television show His comment drew laughter from the spectators and U.S Dist Judge Oliver J Carter sternly reprimanded the for laughing MILITARY CARBINE Browning held up a barreled military carbine and asked if it was to the one used by Miss Hearst ton it was The highlight of the first day of testimony was the showing of a two-minute film of the bery pieced together by an FBI agent from 800 still photos en by the bank's two lance cameras In the eerie and jerky age Miss Hearst is seen ing to the center of the bank lobby and bouncing from foot to foot as the other four bandits moved in precision to other areas Twice she glanced over her shoulder at Donald Cinque DeFreeze the SLA leader who died along with five other SLA See page 2A column 4 INDEX 2 SECTIONS 36 Dear Bridge Church Page 88 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