Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - October 23, 1977, Winona, Minnesota Sunday's Weather satellites In space a Delta rockel mo f had weeks ago P Hoy Chapin after lid a lhal a Mta Chapin steps down at AMC I toy D Chapin chief executive officer of American Motors announced lhat ho was relinquishing hut post immediately lie will however continue as chairman of the board a position held since Jan 9 1967 lie will be succeeded as chief executive officer by Gerald Mayers The smallest of the four major American automakers AMC has been hobbled for many months by declining sales No monument The Beatles may have put Liverpool England on map by dominating pop music tor more lhan a decade but the City Council's General Services Committee has voted against erecting a monument to the four Liverpool natives In my opinion they're not worthy of a place in our said city councillor Hoy Stoddard 59 explaining his negative vote Discredit rap Lucey wife of former Wisconsin Gov Patrick J Lucey is complaining lhal the staff of acting Gov Martin seems preoccupied with attempts to discredit the Lucey administration She cited a recent case in which an inventory report showed items of antique furniture and ware were missing from governor's mansion after Lucey left office 24 killed in helicopter crash The bodies of American servicemen were pulled from the wreckage of a Marine helicopter in lie dense jungle of Mindoro Island in the Philippines Saturday Officials said 14 injured servicemen including one Navy medical corpsman hurt in rescue operation were being treated at U.S military hospitals on Luzon the Philippines main island The of the victims have not been released Berkowitz it for trial A New York state Supreme Court justice has ruled hat David K Berkowitz is fit to stand trial as he alleged Son of Sam killer Justice John 11 Slarkey said in New York he based his decision which cannot be appealed on both the preponderance of evidence and his belief thai was not insane beyond a reasonable doubt Child ban Saying that not every class or person is protected against discrimination a municipal court judge in Culver City Calif has ruled a couple with a child cannot stav in an apartment building that is off limits to children At the time they rented the the couple was childless had a son in September 1975 and was old to move because the housing complex had a rule forbidding children The inside Youth Course by Newspaper Daily The Business...........7b David Berkowitz signed Legislation under which sin legislators and other elected officials will get salary es of II percent has been signed into law by acting Gov Martin J The increases of 5 and a1 percent in the next two years had been hotly debated in he legislature with cans declaring he Democratic majority would have lo answer to voters in the 1971 elections Cloudy The skies will be roosNy jusi a cnance of Temperatures should bo In JOs and Mv The extended forecast pretzels cloudy skies and le chin go in temperatures page Carter tours secret SAC post film ITT AIR FORCE BASK Neb API President Carter inspector cavernous secret command poet Saturday where Air Force officers missile's ami pianos Out carry the nuclear and atomic bombs he wants to ban In ho command post Carter saw he chairs where Strategic Air Command officers would to rage war and he displays they would watch to monitor U.S planes and their targets And lie spoke over Die red telephone system addressing U.S bomber and missile crews who would gel heir orders the system in the event of a nuclear war Seeing center and weaponry it controls gave the President a first-hand look at the atomic armament he is trying to limit with a new strategic arms accord Carter planned to discuss water in Denver critics of his Irrigation and reclamation policies and lo Iry to win support from Western governors for the proposed Panama Canal treaty The pact is under attack in the Senate from foreign conservatives The President's itinerary on the second day of a whirlwind cross-country lour In Mend his policies In the court of public opinion him to a Los Angeles raising dinner for the Democratic Nation Committee on Saturday night Tickets were a plate Carter got a mostly enthusiastic welcome on his which began in Detroit on Kriday wilh a public forum on urban poverty but here were pockets of protest mainly against Die neutron bomb Carter has not decided whelher to include it in the American arsenal The President returns lo Washington Ills tour of SAC headquarters was his third inspection of American military since he took office Earlier hi's year he flew on an airborne command post designed or use during nuclear war and later rode on a submarine He was accompanied on his SAC headquarters lour at Air Base on plains ot Nebraska by his national security adviser Cm George Drown chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Air Force Secretary John C Stetson Carter reviewed he procedure SAC commanders use in subterranean complex At word from the they would send orders lo missiles wilh nuclear warheads and circling the globe with atomic bombs In their hollies SAC controls across lie United Slates many of hem in the upper Midwest Carter's arms limitation la Iks with Soviet Union could determine whelher these missiles lucked away in underground silos would be replaced wilh mobile MX missiles a multi-billion dollar The commanders who man laden computer panels command post would have taken charge of Bl bombers had Carter nol hailed heir production Carter lold a Democratic dinner in Des Moines Iowa lale Friday lhal he will proceed ward his goal reducing nuclear weapons in this world to I can ell you in a few weeks my prediction is that we will have a SALT agreement tat will he pride of our Carter said But he told reporters later is no firm agreement yet Winona Sunday News year of publication Winona Minnesota October 70 Pages 4 Sections 40 No halt in power line work WHEATON Minn API -A Traverse County deputy sheriff said Saturday several people were watching survey at work on a high-voltage power line north of Wheaton but he said farmers did not appear lo tic blocking Hie work Mrs Dale Toboll had said early Saturday the survey crews were oil her property some 12 miles north of Wheaton and that farmers set up gates and parked tractors in the way of power company equipment Bui Deputy Don said he saw only one tractor and survey crews to be going about heir work interruption tic said a few farmers appeared lo be watching he work but there was no The crews were starting lo pour cement said he visited he site of he work for about two hours Saturday ning We're nol out it but The controversial line is being built by United Power Association Elk River and Cooperative Power Association Edina to run from Underwood to Wright County west of Minneapolis The cooperatives have won a state Supreme Court that they have a legal righl lo build the line But farmers contend it will harm and the en- Gov Rudy met Friday with clergymen at Lowry Minn to encourage them to help avoid a confrontation between survey crews and landowners The Wayne Mousing a Lutheran pastor from Starbuck said a protest by farmers would make power companies think twice about the health and environmental effects of future lines As long as farmers don't get violent 1 don't think they'll destroy anything They'll just help their said New York mediator Joseph will be in within the next couple of days lo try to get power line companies and farmers lo agree to a proposed science court hat would evaluate health impacts of line Panama to vote on pact today PANAMA CITY Panama AP A sometimes bitter referendum campaign on proposed Panama Canal treaties drew lo a close Saturday and ment officials said they are confident Panamanian voters will approve the new with the Sta Ies An estimated 800.000 Panamanians are eligible lo go to polls lo decide he fate of he treaties cither a yellow ballot for yes or a white ballol no Open on issues have been rare since Brig Gen Omar Torrijos seized power nine years ago and the referendum campaign infected Panamanians wilh a kind of election fever The slogans Treaty or Treaty are painted on walls trees and poles everywhere in capital city Thousands of treaty advocates and opponents rallied in downtown streets Friday night lo cap six-week A was avoided when national guard escorting a march of 2.000 treaty supporters formed a blockade across a downtown to keep the marchers from coming into contact with an crowd of in a plaza about four blocks away A aide said the Panamanian leader was lired of campaigning and had gone o his country home outside Panama Cily The proposed canal provides for U.S surrender of control of the waterway to Panama by the year 2000 More room A bird's eye view of a new grain in McPherson Kan dispells the ance from ground level that this concrete pillar is rising by itself The storage he 100 feet tall when completed AP Just folks President Jimmy Carter chats with Woodrow Wilson Dlehl and family members during his visit lo their farm home near Iowa From loft are Mrs Carter Diehl granddaughter Wendy son Ted granddaughter Christy and Ted's wife Ann AP Carter is up before dawn AP Carter making his first visit to farm bell since lasl year's election was before dawn Saturday to hear complaints of Iowa farmers about depressed agricultural prices After spending Kriday night at a spacious frame farm home here Carter began farmers and their wives Importers were admitted for only a brief period but that was long to ascertain he farm folk weren't too happy Tlie President drew more applause in his first appearance with foreign policy statements Mian with his defense of ad- ministration farm policies Carter's it a Democratic fund-raising dinner in nearby DCS Moines Friday night responded enthusiastically as lie President predicted a news arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union in a few weeks and said he foresaw no Iher spread of nuclear weapons The audience was equally responsive as Carter voiced a new allack on lie oil and gas industry particularly for some of its television commercials lhat he said propagate myths For most part however the diners sat quietly as Carter spoke of administration efforts to promote a stable healthy farm economy In agricultural slate where there is widespread discontent over depressed farm prices Carter spent Friday night here al farm of Woodrow Diehl and his wife Mary Diehl an organizer of Farmers for Carter in Iowa last year entertained Lyndon U Johnson on same farm In In his DCS Moines speech Carter predicted lhal in a few we will haven SALT agreement will be a pride of our country and following that we will proceed lo my ultimate of reducing nuclear weapons throughout world to zero Although the President has been publicly optimistic about the fur a new arms agreement he had not forecast before so quick a resolution of issue Older there has long been a feeling that nothing could he done lo halt spread of nuclear armaments However he cited international efforts to meet nuclear power needs without spawning weapons development Taxes apt to go up In 78 Ctrl i WASHINGTON Payroll taxes for most workers and all employers are likely to up year in an by Congress lo rescue the financially troubled Social Security The Senate Finance Committee is on verge of approving a lhal by 1987 would mean of a year above current levels for a worker earning For a person earning the payroll lax u 011 Id rise by a yea r Under approved by the com- Friday the maximum lax an employer pays for each worker could rise lie House plans o begin debate next week on a plan thai would mean more in taxes per year for worker by 1937 and more for employe Unlike Senate version the keens employer's lax al same level as In worker's Under either taxes on Americans would increase at a rate than those paid by low- wage earners Democratic leaders in houses have made passage of Social Security legislation a priority before Congress adjourns for the year Even if Congress lakes no action Social Security axes on all covered workers and employers will go up next year because of existing law Rut experts say the increased money will nol be enough lo keep pension solvent or more than six or seven years added lo the lax increases scheduled under current law backers say the plan approved Friday by he Senate committee would raise Social Security taxes enough to keep solvent for 75 years Social Security is in trouble because the declining birth rale and high ployment in fewer workers to he while inflation has forced benefit increases beyond what w as anticipated The plan accepted by the Senate com- would end he tradition of em- and employes paying equal amounts into he pension Protests vs S.A mount JOHANNESBURG South Africa AP Justice Minister James T says he is concerned about foreign the suppression of black organizations in South Africa but 1 have no doubt I have done the righl thing mounted Friday against the new government on bladis Police 130 blacks and Indians anda school was burned action Wednesday banning 18 Mack organizations shutting down wo black newspapers and detaining 50 black leaders also brought a storm of protest from abroad and the recall of he American and Dutch ambassadors for consultations U.S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personally Ambassador William Bowdler o return lo Washington lo report on Ibe situation in South Africa The black caucus had asked for permanent recall and a lowering of the U.S representation in South to level Kruger in an interview Friday in Pretoria with the American television network ABC defended his action saying he was trying lo slop unrest in my country In an interview with The New York Times Kruger said President Carter was partly to blame for the situation in South Africa because Carter's Ihou pressures on behalf of Soutli African blacks had encouraged black groups to believe the Americans arc backing us lo he hill whether we do it peacefully or by violence I he bears a lot of responsibility particularly lhat this thing had lo come now because once get the idea hat a large country like America is backing you up obviously it's an incentive o people who want virtually the same hing by violence Carter is calling for by peace The U.S Security Council has scheduled a debate on South Africa Monday More lhan 50 black students were arrested Friday disturbances in the segregated township of south of Johannesburg Johannesburg's Indian township 97 Indians were arrested at an open-air mceling A black school at Queenstown 420 miles south of here was burned A former executive of Christian Institute said the government is to wipe out the black consciousness movement before the release of an autopsy report on black leader Steve Biko regarded as Ibe movement's founder
