Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 30, 1976, Yuma, Arizona HISTORIC Campaign Spending Limits Killed WASHINGTON API A divided Supreme Court today ruled that candidates for President or Congress may spend amounts of money in their political campaigns It upheld federal subsidies to presidential candidates ordered changes in the new Federal Election Com- mission and left intact the legal limits on what private citizens may give to federal candidates In its historic opinion the court also struck down limits on what federal candidates themselves may spend from their own or their family's money But the court ruled that federal candidates must continue to disclose what they spend in their election campaigns and where they get the money The decision was hailed as a victory by John Gardner president of Common Cause the citizen group that fought to defend the year-old federal election law against sweeping challenges There was no immediate reaction from Sen James Buckley who was among the chief attackers of the law Initial reactions from candidates indicated the ruling would have only a slight effect on campaign strategies It would allow better financed candidates such as Republican challenger Ronald Reagan or Democrat Sen Henry M Jackson to mount big ad- campaigns in the Feb 14 New Hampshire primary if they wish The law had limited spending in New Hampshire to about per candidate Jackson however said he would abide by the old spending ceiling even though it is no longer ding But the ruling means most candidates will continue to have difficulty raising money Private citizens may give no more than to any single campaign Political committees may give no more than per campaign Federal subsidies to the presidential candidates will continue with the Treasury matching up to the first of each private donation to presidential candidates Because of this difficulty in raising money it appears unlikely that more than a few of the present candidates would be able to raise enough money to spend beyond the old limits As to the spending limits the court said in its unsigned opinion that they impose direct and substantial restraints on the quantity of political speech The court said the requirements for public identification of con- and other cing disclosures would serve the government's interest in informing the electorate and avoiding political corruption aw 01 CAMPAIGN SPENDING This is the cover of the Supreme Court's opinion issued in Washington today that struck down campaign spending limits but upheld presidential campaign subsidies and other major provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act The Supreme Court building is in the background AP Wirephoto College Has Room For Making Love SAN FRANCISCO API The judge and attorneys in Patricia Hearst's trial for bank robbery planned to look today for ways to speed up the selection of a jury Five more potential jurors were chosen Thursday bringing the total to nine but 27 more are needed to com- plete the panel of 36 that U.S District Court Judge Oliver J Carter wants before at- begin exercising peremptory challenges F Lee Bailey the chief defense counsel told reporters each of the persons excused from jury duty had been instructed by Carter not to talk with the media until after the panel is sequestered and the trial has begun Earlier in the day Bailey angrily criticized newspaper accounts of a hallway in- with one excused juror They can't speak to you on the way he said They probably will be held in contempt if they dp it again and the newsmen too U.S Atty James L Browning Jr said while that he and Bailey would meet with Carter before today's session to sec if there is any way of expediting the process Today's session behind closed doors was scheduled to begin a half-hour earlier than the first three days Jury selection which began Tuesday apparently has been slowed by intensive individual questioning of prospective jurors We will study the possibility of consolidating and eliminating some areas Browning told reporters who have camped in the corridor outside the courtroom since jury selection was made secret Wednesday Browning and Bailey both predicted a jury would not be empaneled before next week Bailey's partner Albert Johnson denied the defense was attempting to muzzle the press but said the judge had advised jurors that if they were harassed by members of the press or anyone else he would deal with it summarily SUN Issue Year SENTINEL Issue Year Yuma Arizona Fri Jan 30 1976 Hippie Types Sought In Murder Colleges To Stay Free of Tuition STONY BROOK AP In the basement of a dormitory at the State University of New York there is a room for playing games a room for cracking books and a room for making rafts There is also a room for making love On a water bed It works out very says Rob Gross a junior from Pelham who helped install it People sign up in advance so there's no confusion There's only one key to the room He says there is now a two week wait longer for weekend nights among the dormitory's 200 residents for a turn at the room There is no charge and the students bring their own linen Checkout time is 24 hours after the 9 p.m occupancy time Gross says the dormitory legislature voted last tember to use about of its in student activity fees for a particular activity He bought a second-hand water bed patched together a wooden frame filled the bed with water and posted up sheets It's no strain no the engineering major says Everybody likes it Nobody abuses it Gross says his dorm a coeducational one with no visiting restrictions wasn't the first to promote such rooms The water bed is housed behind a brown door in a room with carpet and a big window with curtains There is an overhead light but the remains of candles attest to morn romantic sources of illumination Gross says that a variety of students not just the same ones seem to use the water bed including him Selective Service To Close Due to budgetary limitations the Selective Service System has closed its Yuma office According to Jones state director A deepening standby posture for the Selective Service System calls for the closure of all local board offices in Arizona as well as throughout the entire nation Yuma County's local board at 2450 4th Ave will be permanently closed Feb 9 As a result of congressional action year-old males will no longer be required to register PHOENIX IAP State Community College Board officials told legislators today that community college education would remain under a new funding formula the board is devising The formula would cut state funding of community colleges by to million next year Arnold Jeffers chairman of the board told the Senate Appropriations Committee Tom Saad business manager for the board said the funding plan entails a different method of counting students and would probably mean cutting back on some of the marginal programs at the community colleges Jeffers said the Com- munity College Board probably will give final approval to the funding changes at the next board meeting Feb 13 The plan would have to be approved by the Arizona legislature The House Appropriations Committee earlier this month told the board it must con- sider drastic changes in financing including tuition charges to resident students to meet rising student enrollment Jeffers said that under the present funding system the state probably would pay at least million to the community colleges in- a million budget request and million to million in a supplemental request Saad said the board may develop policies aimed at cutting back on course of- ferings criticized by legislators as not being serious courses such as ceramics But he said many of the program changes will be made at the local level Jeffers said the great rise in the number of community college students was due largely to the Vietnam veterans returning to civilian life High unemployment in Arizona in another factor motivating more people to attend college he added Yuma County sheriff's deputies are on the lookout for two hippies in connection with the Wednesday murder of Clyde Maurice McCain 55 of San Diego Lt Dale Freeman reports the two men ages of were last seen with McCain Tuesday evening at the Stardust Coffee Shop This information was recently learned from John Romeo a business associate of Cain According to Freeman Romeo and another business associate saw McCain eating dinner with the two men between 5 and 6 p.m Tuesday Romeo and the other man joined McCain's group and drank some coffee When McCain had finished dinner they all left the Stardust at the same time Romeo saw McCain and his hippie companions get into McCain's 1966 Buick and drive across the street to the Shell gas station They filled up drove away and that was the last time Romeo saw him alive One of the hippies companying McCain was described as a white male 23 years old with sandy hair and stocky build The other white male was thought to be years old with dark wavy hair Romeo said he was dark complexioned and wore glasses There's no doubt McCain picked the hippies up as Freeman said Romeo said he saw McCain leave San Diego and he was definitely alone He must have picked up the other two somewhere along the way Romeo and McCain had planned to meet in Phoenix at the Southwestern Auto Auction McCain was an automobile transporter and was driving his Buick to the auction show McCain's body was found by a lemon picker about Wednesday morning some 30 feet south of In- 8 near Wellton Deputies originally believed he had been shot in the head by a hitchhiker who drove off in the Buick An aerial search between Wellton and Gila Bend failed to spot the car Early evidence indicated that McCain was shot inside the car while it was moving and his body dumped along the highway Freeman said a trail of blood was found on the interstate west of where the body was discovered Measurements indicate the body had been tossed out 271 feet from the shooting point McCain's car is described as white with California license plates CLYDE M McCAIN Sheriff's deputies have been circulating McCain's picture throughout the Yuma area Anyone who saw him or his car is asked to call deputies at Deputies believe the motive for the murder is robbery Freeman said McCain had a large amount of cash and more than in cashiers checks on him McCain's body was taken to Yuma Mortuary Services will be at the El Camino Mortuary in San Diego 3 Men Held in Slaying Of Professor Backwards Illegals Caught With Hot Items Two male teenagers from San Luis Son were taken into custody yesterday by the U.S Border Patrol when they were discovered carrying a shotgun and two bundles of clothes reported stolen in Yuma According to Yuma County Sheriff's Deputy R J Butler the gun and clothing were among items reported stolen from John County and Avenue IE had come home at about 5 p.m and found a back window had been broken and unknown sons had entered his house The burglars reportedly took a shotgun two cameras in cash and a wide assortment of turquoise silver and gold jewelry Total loss was estimated at about The thieves fled from the house by the back door Deputies found blood in that area and on an air con- vent near the broken window Shortly after p.m the sheriff's office received a call from the Border Patrol inquiring if the department had a gun and clothing theft reported Border agents said they had two youths found with clothing and a rifle bundled up in two blankets The teens had been picked up when Patrol Agent Christopher Oberly spotted three persons walking south of County 23rd at Avenue F carrying bundles Upon investigation the gun and clothing were discovered and one youth started running across the international boundary into Mexico The other two boys were arrested and are in custody at the county jail Inside the Sun Churches Comics 14 Crossword 14 Editorial Markets 2 Movies 13 Parker News 22 Somerton News 6 Sports TV Que Pass Weather 22 Women 7 ATLANTA AP Three young Atlanta men were charged today with murder and robbery in the slaying of James E Edmondson the Professor Backwards familiar to many television viewers Police identified the three as Roy Anthony Brown 20 Michael Gantt 22 and Willie Bell 17 All three lived within a mile of the northwest Atlanta area where Edmondson's body was found Thursday detective Douglas Young said Atlanta police charged the three with murder and robbery Police in College Park the suburb where Edmondson lived with a housekeeper said additional charges were pending We'll issue warrants today charging all three with kidnaping and two of them with rape Bell and said Sgt Marvin Parrott According to police reports three men appeared at Edmondson's modest suburban home Wednesday night and asked to use the telephone Before the three fled about 9 Thursday in the en- Cadillac housekeeper was raped police said Edmondson's body was found about 1 p.m on an isolated road on Atlanta's northwest side by city workers Police said he had been shot in the head at close range and that his wallet was missing Edmondson 65 was once featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not for his knack of which he parlayed into a year career in vaudeville and nightclubs and on television His agent Monk Arnold said he appeared on Sullivan's popular variety show 24 times more than any other performer He was also a frequent guest on the Tonight Show BULLETIN CHICAGO AP A fire killed 10 persons and injured 33 in a northside nursing home today Officials said there were about 100 persons in the four-story building when the blaze ignited A social worker at the Nursing and Rest Home said 83 elderly patients were counted in the morning census Judge Decrees Death For Mass Murderer WE THANK Christina Martinez sits in the midst of the big Thank signed by the students of School to the sponsors of the Freedom Train The students signed the long roll of paper to show appreciation for their tickets to the train given by the sponsors Christina a first grader represented the students NORTH PLATTE Neb AP Mass murderer Erwin Charles Simants demonstrated exceptional depravity by raping a year-old girl before and after The Weather High yesterday 79 Low this morning 42 Temperature at U today 63 High today upper 70s Low tonight low 40s High Saturday mid 70s Relative humidity at il 69 Average low this date 44 Forecast for and Sunny warm this afternoon Saturday Mostly clear cool tonight Sunset Sunrise killing her says the judge who sentenced Simants to die in the electric chair Lincoln County Dist Judge Hugh Stuart's com- ment came Thursday as he ordered Simants electrocuted the morning of April 21 Simants attorneys have asked for a new trial and as in all such cases in Nebraska the death sentence must be reviewed by the state's Supreme Court Simants was convicted Jan 17 by a jury of seven women and five men on six counts of first degree murder while committing or at- tempting sexual assault He confessed to the murders of six members of the Henry Kellie family three of them children last Oct 18 The confession came about 12 hours after he shot them one by one at blank range In sentencing Simants Stuart noted that testimony showed that the defendant had sexually assaulted year-old Florence Kellie her grandmother Audrey Marie Kellie 57 and had molested Deanne Lynn Kellie 7 after murdering them The defense had tried to show that Simants was in- sane or drunk at the time of the crime
