Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - November 25, 1977, Winona, Minnesota Friday's at Accidents claim 146 lives 146 lives and highways y has estimated could die that al 6 P m and ends day auto travel claimed a record number of lives m 1968 when 764 persons died The toll last year Gregory senator arrested Dick Gregory his wife Lillian and a Massachusetts state senator have been arrested for demonstrating within 500 feet oT the South African embassy in Washington The Gregorys and stale Sen William Owens were arrested Thursday and were offered their release on recognizance However Officer C E Reed of the of Columbia police department said insisted on remaining in jail until heir arraignment today Dick Gregory Plane crash A military plane ing 30 French sailors and four crewmen plunged into a wooded hillside in southern France early today apparently killing ah aboard Firemen who groped through a heavy fog to reach the area said had found only broken bodies and no survivors Coffee buy Saying he is deeply distressed Rep Don Pease ed U.S coffee firms are ing their purchases of coffee from Idi Amin's Uganda He released U.S Customs Service which showed pounds of Ugandan coffee was brought into the U.S the six months Informants get million The federal government paid more than million to informants who helped the Internal Revenue track down income lax cheaters during the past three years According to the IRS the collected in the three-year period from taxpayers who would have avoided payment if it were not for the informants Social Security boss retiring James B at age 55 is retiring as commissioner of Social Security after a government career in which he through the ranks from a clerk earning Si a year to his current post When he leaves in he will begin drawing a government pension of about and for the first lime in his life will begin paying taxes inlo the Social Security system He is taking a top financial job at the Corporation for Public casting that will pay annually lam os Card well The inside Cold Saturday clear to partly b temperatures may drop 10 coldest ol year to O possibly as as eight emended forecast a warming trend bul possibly wow weather ill l the more lla Will Rogers says Today is my wife's and my wedding anniversary It kind of sneaked up on me I of course being just an ordinary husband didn't know il was coming Why is it that wives want to keep those things secret and then when you don't notice il they tell you afterwards and make you Guerrillas brand offer deceit SALISBURY Rhodesia API The black nationalist guerrilla movement branded as deceit today Prime Minister Ian Smith's offer to steer Rhodesia to black majority in one-man elections They vowed to continue y war a gainst his regime At United Nations America's Ambassador Andrew Young compared Smith's offer to failed proposals for elections in wartime Vietman lhal excluded Viet Cong guerrillas Moderate black nationalists inside Rhodesia gave qualified support A spokesman or one moderate black leader Ndabaningi Sithole called il a decisive move which paves the way for black and white Rhodesians to sil down together and work out a blueprint lor Zimbabwe which will being peace and pros peritytoour land Zimbabwe is the African name for Farmers converging on Plains PLAINS Ga farmers demanding higher produce prices ordered m army of tractors escorted by dusting airplanes toward President drier's hometown today fora rally The president was more than 650 miles away Hut a shopkeeper is also a stole senator and Carter's cousin announced plans to watch and have them Thousands of farmers spent Thanksgiving night al meeting points near this southwestern Georgia hamlet preparing to drive into for the rally The farmers want Congress to sot a floor price on agricultural products that would ensure lhal they will get lack their production costs and al least a small profit they sell heir harvest Congress takes action on the farmers demands farmers across tlic country have rowed io go on strike ling Dec H As the farmers prepared their demonstration Carter was at he presidential retreat in Camp David Md His mother Miss Lillian was home in Plains bul it was not known whether she nr the president's brother Billy planned to watch the I Stale Sen Hugh Carter the president's cousin suid he had not been invited W Ihc rally bul he planned Io he in his antique store on Plains main street a good vantage point for watching almost a in the tiny downtown area I know is they will be he said I'm sure they arc welcome here and we're glad to have them Directors of the Georgia Agriculture Aviation Association voted unanimously late last week to hold a of 25 to W crop-dusting planes during the rally to show heir support for the farmers cause Tom Kersey Ga farmer who helped organize the farm protest movement in Ihc Southeast had said he expected I he rally tic said least 1.000 tractors stayed overnight in Americus on Thursday 450 in in Albany 1.000 to Smith- field 500 in Vienna and several hundred in Cordele Rhodesia heads a faction of the African National Council This is no proposal for a settlement young said If anything his sort of thing would intensify the fighting We've seen what happened to South Vietnam whenever tried to hold elections without the participation of the Viet Cong In Britain and France there was cautious support for Smith's offer In Lusaka Zambia a spokesman for Zimbabwe African Peoples Union said Smith's offer had no of truth Smith is trying to deceive and cheat the Zimbabwe masses into accepting him and his to stay in power for a longer period There is no substance of truth in whatever he has said George the guerrilla said Smith's offer was merely an attempt lo buy time for and lhat Prime Minister's offer did not the guerrillas demand for com- plete independence from white rule in The only guarantee of independence of Zimbabwe is intensification of armed he said Smith did not mention a dale for tions Jeremiah Chirau leader of the moderate black Zimbabwe Peoples Organisation said Smith's acceptance of majority rule could mean Ihc end of guerrilla fighting He appealed to black nationalist guerrillas lo come home peacefully calling them misguided young men who think that the path of violence can lead to anything con- The independent Rhodesia Herald reflecting white middle-of-the-road thinking called Smith's surprise support for universal adult suffrage a dramatic slarl lobring peace Claiming the peace plan has ailed Smith told a news con- ference Thursday he believed an agreement between his white government and moderate black leaden would end Rhodesia's bloody guerrilla war It is time we got on in Rhodesia and came Io some finalities so lhal we can bring to an end the kind of madness which exists where Rhodesians are killing Rhodesians at a pretty fair pace Smith said Chirau uho leaves Saturday fora trip to the United Stales and Britain to international support tor his organization old a group of while farmers in the town of about a miles south of Salisbury lhat whiles would not enjoy privileged status Winona Daly News Snow fun A snowbank downtown was all these three Winona lads needed to make a playground morning They Aaron left and Brian Hamernik right sons of Mr and Mrs Hamernik and Willard son of Mr and Mrs Willard Schewe Daily News photo by Jim Galewski chief photographer Shopping season is here Thf The Associated Press After savoring the mixed blessings of turkey family reunions holiday traffic and indigestion the nation awoke today to a shopping season wilh stores full of gifts and elbowing crowds lull of Christmas cheer and grim determination Looking hack al history a group of Indians said Thanksgiving was a day for mourning not gratefulness And on Thursday black comedian Dick ended Thanksgiving in jail after South African racial policies outside he White House and the South African embassy farmers upset about prices readied a parade on President Carter's hometown Plains Ga Bul Carter himself spent a peaceful day at presidential retreat at Camp Md eating turkey gravy candied sweet potatoes Thai kids losing citizenship BANGKOK Thailand AP About 4.000 children of parents are in the process of losing their Thai citizenship through a decree designed to safeguard Thailand's national security The children were abandoned by fathers or are simply the product of casual unions during Ihc Indochinese war yean when United States kept upwards of 50.000 military personnel in Thailand Interior Ministry officials say a 1972 decree aimed at preventing children of Vietnamese refugees from obtaining Thai citizenship now is being applied to the as are known here The decree Thai suspicion lens of thousands of Vietnamese who fled to Thailand in after the French war in Vietnam Successive Thai governments have said some of Vietnamese were Communist or at least easy targets for conversion to Com m Thailand has been Hooded by refugees who escaped their homeland afler the Communist takeover in 1975 and the Thai is con- stantly tightening restrictions them Loss of Thai nationality will deprive children of the right to volt or participate in the Thai government whai they up Officials say they ita may have trouble getting government and could face travel restrictions Robert M Ham head of the Pearl S Buck Foundation in Thailand an in- child relief Mid the children might a process be eligible for VS green beans waldorf salad rolls and butter cranberries and pumpkin pie with whipped cream Vice President F Mondale slaying in Washington Mid he let his wife sleep while he fixed his family's turkey himself giving his Navy stewards the day off In his Thanksgiving proclamation Carter recalled the first such national message in 1777 and said Americans can look to the future with hope and con- because we have tamed a continent established institutions dedicated to protecting our liberties and secured a place of leadership among nations But we have never lost sight ot the principles upon which our nation was founded Fanciful Thanksgiving parades by arch- rival department stores were held in New Vork by Macy's and in Philadelphia bv Meanwhile in Plymouth Mass some 20 Maybe tax system isn't a disgrace nn WALTER WASHINGTON Maybe the income tax system isn't such a disgrace after all The crowds used to cheer when Jimmy Carter vowed a complete overhaul ol tax code Il is a disgrace to human he'd say and they would cheer some more But attacking the tax laws and rewriting them are vastly different undertakings All my life I have heard promises about UK reform nut il never quite Carter said in accepting the Democratic presidential nomination with your help we are finally going to make it happen And you can depend on il But not now and nol soon The prospect now is lhal Carter recommend that Congress enact lax reductions in he SIS billion to billion dollar range in 1978 but that he won't major overhaul until later His package apparently will include some minor changes administration can call a in- reform ef fi When he was campaigning Carter said it would take him al least 3 year in office to pul a detailed comprehensive lax reform plan He said he wasn't going to try Io do it one piece at a time because lhat way interest groups could concentrate their forces to block action on their lax preferences Through most of lite campaign season he avoided specifics saying only that he wanted Io overhaul simplify and reform the whole tax code and would do il in such a way as Io decrease laxes on the average man Selling his administration's agenda Carter had said lhal he would come up with lax dations early this fall The draftsmen have been at work for months expected lobe ready for Carler sometime nest week and for Congress after il reconvenes in mid-January As timetable slipped he proposals have become less and Secretary of Ihc Treasury W Michael now legislation sent to the Congress will be relatively simple Campaigning Carter was firm and specific on one fen lure of his tax he always said he would seek to end the tax preference for capital gains He Mid all income should bo treated alike so that profits on sale of stock real or other assets would be taxed at same rate as income All indications are lhat president nol be recommending that change al least nol now present law there's a tax break for gains on sale of assets held for at least nine months The period increases to 12 months effective Jaa 1 Fifty per cent of such capital gains from income laxes Or the taxpayer can elect to pay a ordinary rale on an alternative which is to advantage of some people brackets So that campaign promise to overhaul the whole lax code will have to wail probably until 1979 Price of bread may near 75 record WASHINGTON AP The retail price of bread has edged up this year and may average close Io the record of 36 a loaf set in 1975 when farmers were gelling more than twice as much for wheal wed lo make it According Io Agriculture Department figures the average price of a one pound loaf of white bread through the first nine months of this year was about 35.5 cents Experts say lhat some further increases ex petted The figures show thai a loaf of bread sold in stores nationally in tember at an avenge price ol 35.7 cents from 35.3 cents last January For all of ItM the avenge bread price was 35.3 cents a loaf On the heels of snaring wheat prices and other cosU bread rose loa record average of 36 cents a loaf in 1975 from aboul 34.5 cents in 1974 Bul wheal prices al have tumbled sharply since They rose to a record average al farm of a bushel in early 1974 when large exports drained U.S wheat reserves to a low Since then however huge harvests have the stockpile to its highest level since 1963 Last month the department reported thai on Oct 15 farm price of wheal was a bushel The most recent analysis on where the consumer bread dollar goes is for tember when a one-pound loaf averaged Translated inlo the larm value of used to make the flour that goes into bread September loaf included 26 cents worth of wheal Counting other farm products such as shortening and milk products the total value of farm products in each loaf Middleman charges for flour milling baking merchandizing and other costs of getting bread lo con- sumers make up remainder of the bread price Using the September figures against annual bread prices and the farmer's of what consumers pay for a loaf tt In 1974 with bread costing slightly less than cents a loaf the arm value ol wheat used lo make it was almost 5.5 cents Counting the other ingredients the value of all farm products was more than cents a loaf record average price of cents a loaf included 4.5 cents worth ot wheal valued at the farm Counting other arm ingredients the share was 6.8 cents Thus using figures September breakdown the farm value of wheat has declined 2.9 cents in each loaf more lhan 50 percent since 1974 Indians held a vigil Russell Peters president of Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council whin is feuding with Mashpee Mass over land rights For Indians Thanksgiving is now a day of fasting and m ing With his wife Lillian and Massachusetts state Sen William Owens Gregory was arrested and accused of demonstrating within 500 feet of the South African em- bassy The three refused release without bail and said they would wait in jail until arraignment today Plains Ga thousands of ers on and escorted by ing airplanes prepared a rally today to voice their demand that Congress set a floor price on agricultural products lo eiK sure that they will get back production costs and a small profil Otherwise ers say will go on strike starting Dec 14 By early more than 140 had died on the highways Percy asks for ban on protein sale WASHINGTON AP Sea Charles Percy the Food and Drug Administration lo the sale of liquid protein bul agency says il may face lengthy legal problems if il Iries to do so A spokesman for Percy said the senator's staff has been lold by FDA lhat agency plans to propose a regulation on Monday declaring he diet aids unsafe and ordering them off the marker The FDA has nol confirmed such plans But an agency said the FOA has nol ruled out a ban on product sometime in Ibe future The legal battle would revolve around the question of whether liquid protein the fast diet food which officials say may be linked to al least 10 deaths is actually a food a drag or food additive If il is a food as claimed by some of its supporters the Food and Drug Administration would have little authority over it except to assure it is accurately labeled and free of contamination If il would be found a food additive or a drug agency would be allowed to require lo prove lhat the product is safe and effective in the medical problem for which is intended Recently the FDA ordered lhal protein sold over counter under many different brand names include i warning label lhal its use might dangerous Thai requirements is expected to go inlo effect within two months officials aid
