Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - October 7, 1975, Zanesville, Ohio Today's Chuckle Don't worry about confused teenagers They'll grow up and become confused adults 280 18 Pages The Times Recorder Your Good Morning Newspaper Zanesville Ohio 43701 Tuesday October 7 1975 Today's Weather FORECAST Mostly sunny and mild today Highs around TO and low about 48 degrees Details on Page 15 Cents Ford Proposes Tax A Time Refused To Ford WASHINGTON UPI The White House Monday said it disagreed with the decision of two major television networks not to broadcast President Ford's address from the Oval Office Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting System refused to carry the President's speech on grounds that he is an avowed candidate for the presidency and they would have been required to offer equal time to the other candidates The American Broadcasting company broadcasted the speech We disagree with the CBS and NBC the White House said in a statement issued before the 8 p m EDT broadcast However it is of course the right of the works to make such decisions We felt that the President's message was important to every American and that is why the time was requested As CBS and NBC know the FCC exempts from so-called equal time regulations spot coverage of bona fide news events There is no question in our view that speech was such an event We are pleased that ABC and PBS Public Service Broadcasting and Mutual NPR National Public Radio and ABC Radio UPI Audio and AP radio are bringing the President's speech to the American people live CBS News refused President Ford's request for air time at 8 p.m because it said Ford is an avowed candidate for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination and the network would have to give equal time to other candidates At this time there is only other avowed GOP candidate J Jacob Gordon of Worcester Mass Richard C Wald said NBC also declined to carry the president's address live Captive Is Freed GALLIPOLIS Ohio UPI An alert West Virginia youth detected a police broadcast from inside the trunk of his car Monday and signaled an Ohio Highway Patrol officer who had stopped his alleged naper on a traffic violation A state policeman had halted the car and charged Charles R Ritz 26 Charleston with drunken driving when a routine police call came across the lawman's mobile radio extender Inside the trunk John therford 18 a son familiar with such calls let out a thunderous kick Moments later the kidnap victim was set free and police here had Ritz and a companion Harriet Lilly 38 Castro Valley Calif in custody They ly threatened to dump ford in a California desert Rutherford told lawmen that Ritz shoved a gun at him Sunday evening in a carwash in St Albans Missouri Sues H 1 JL KANSAS CITY Mo UPI The state Monday filed a civil damage suit against striking firemen in a move to discourage other public employes from striking The state asked the Jackson County Circuit Court for in actual damages for the first four days of the strike and extra actual damages of a day as long as it continues The suit also seeks punitive damages of a day Attorney General John C Danforth said the state would do everything it could to collect the money We're prepared to go all the way with this We intend to Danforth said The state's meter is on and will continue to be on as long as the strike is The strike is clearly a violation of state statutes of Danforth said He said the suit was filed as a deterrent because if other public employes in Missouri struck The cost to the state could be devastating A federal mediator has been sent in to try to set up negotiations and end a deadlock over Mayor Charles B Wheeler Jr s refusal to negotiate with firefighter union officials Usery Jr national director of the Federal tion and Conciliation Service in Washington sent telegrams to Wheeler and the president of the local firefighters union urging them to attend a day meeting with the mediator It is imperative that Kissinger Trip To China Oct 19 WASHINGTON UPI Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger flies to China Oct 19 on his eighth visit to the People's Republic to arrange the details for President Ford's trip later this year the State Department announced day As on previous occasions Kissinger will review bilateral questions between the United States and China These include trade and cultural educational and scientific grams which involve exchange visits Also on his agenda is ex- to be a review of world problems with particular reference to Korea and Indo- china Officials believe he will be particularly interested in the Chinese government's view of a reported new Soviet bid for restoration of normal relations between Peking Moscow An ideological feud between the two countries has divided them for almost 20 years and led to border conflicts The official New China News Agency disclosed the Soviet overture in a dispatch tored in Tokyo at the weekend According to the agency it was contained in a Soviet message of congratulations to the People's Republic on its anniversary The Soviet message was dated Sept 30 and was sent by the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union the agency said It assured China that the Soviet Union was a reliable friend and ally The Soviet it said guided by Leninist principles of foreign policy stands for the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China and re-establishment of ship and cooperation between two countries which would be in the basic interest of the Chinese and Soviet peoples The agency dispatch gave no indication of Peking's response to the Soviet message Kissinger will spend five days in Peking from Oct 19 through Oct 23 Both coming and going to China he will stop in Tokyo for discussions with Japanese government officials for discussions on bilateral questions and to brief them fully on the details of his talks with the Chinese Officials believe that this will not be lost on the who were taken by surprise by Kissinger's visit to China to arrange for President Nixon's first China trip mative action be initiated immediately to bring this dispute to a prompt Usery said It is in- cumbent upon the parties to exert their best to meet their public obligations in this matter Wheeler has accused the firemen of breaking local and state laws which prohibit strikes by public employes He also claimed the firemen who struck for equal pay with police officers are responsible for some of the more than 200 fires reported in the city since the strike began last Friday Sunday Wheeler fired 59 of the firemen saying they would be offered appeal hearings when work is resumed He has refused to negotiate with the firemen until they return to work I know a hoodlum when I see Wheeler said I don't want them as city employes I don't plan to be blackmailed by arsonists I want to negotiate All the firemen have to do is obey the law The union flatly denies allegations firemen were in- in arson and said it would welcome a grand jury investigation into the cause the city's outbreak of fires Consumer Must Help DETROIT UPI The chief executive of Texaco said Monday Americans will have to pay a gallon for gasoline but he's not sure how far that prospect is in the Calling for an end to federal controls on oil prices Maurice F Granville said the American consumer is going to have to bear part of the cost for the search for new petroleum sources I'd like to be able to tell the consumers how much it will cost them but I can't forecast the pump Granville told a news conference before an address to the Economic Club of Detroit But if you ask me if I think it will reach a dollar a gallon I'd say yes In his address he urged the federal government to let the oil industry the capital needed to reverse the nation's growing dependence on foreign energy supplies By United Press International Egypt showed off its new position of strength Monday in a military parade that in- cluded Western arms and equipment bought to diversify its arsenal The display ing the second anniversary of the October 1973 Middle East war included Mirage jets from France Commando helicopters from Britain and jeeps from the United States It placed em- phasis on air power with more than 100 aircraft of different in formations over Nasr Victory City on the eastern fringe of Cairo The 16 American jeeps bought about three months ago each carried a soldier ing a missile It was the first time the weapon which Egypt claims destroyed dozens of Israeli planes in the 1973 war had been shown to the Egyptian public With President Anwar Sadat at his side in a field marshal's uniform War Minister Gen Senate Veteran To Retire PROVIDENCE UPI Sen John 0 Pastore said Monday he will retire in January 1977 ending a colorful and distinguished career in Washington spanning 26 years and six presidents Pastore 68 made the an- on the of his inauguration as governor of Rhode Island He said he has no regrets about the decison made one year ago after consultation with his wife Elena whom he calls and their three grown children I'm coming he said By the end of my term I will have served in public life for 42 years I think the time has in my life when I deserve retirement I hope that I done my job and that I have done it the powerful Democrat and chairman of the Empress Coat Lifted NEW YORK UPI Em- press Nagako of Japan and her husband Emperor Hirohito had lunch Monday with Mayor Abraham Beame under the Dog Found Fast Lost gentle white German Shepherd 2 yrs old Named Ajax Norwood Blvd Call Reward The person who placed this ad called shortly after the ad appeared to have it canceled The advertiser stated the dog had been found If you lose some item or if you find an article use the Classified ads to get the desired results Try our three-line rate for the price of Cancel when your ad gets results and pay for the number of days the ad appears in The Times Recorder All cancellations made only during office Call Classified Advertising Ph THE TIMES RECORDER watchful eyes of police and Secret Service men But despite the tight security someone walked off with her elegant beige coat It was embarrassing but Empress Nagako remained unperturbed Following the lunch speeches and toasts when the Imperial couple was ready to its official the garment could not be located Where is the Where is the a dozen city officials shouted racing up and down the mansion's stairs including Mrs Angie Bidde Duke wife of the New York City's official greeter It must be upstairs no a dozen voices guessed in the confusion But the coat was no where to be found and the Empress left without it which was no particular hardship since the weather was balmy and sant Joint Committee on Atomic Energy said I enjoy perfect health I have many productive years ahead of me and I would like to enjoy these productive years here in the state of Rhode Island at home with my family and do the many things the average citizen has the opportunity to he said He was the first American elected to the Senate I have every intention of serving out my term There will be no resignation At the end of my term I will have served in public life for 42 years I have worked all my life I have given that was within the bouncy and energetic senator said Mohamed praised the diversification program begun last May when the Soviet Union refused to replace weapons lost in the 1973 war We have been engaged in diversifying armament sources and manufacturing weapons so we can always maintain a position of said Later in a television inter- view said the Israeli early warning system in Sinai would not totally prevent a surprise attack like the one Egypt launched two years ago We surprised the enemy on Oct 6 despite the presence of that said I would like to assure you that this will not cause us any problem and wall not hamper any future operations at all Israeli newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as saying a ship carrying Israeli cargo would pass through the Suez Canal within the next few days Index Comics Classified Deaths Editorials Financial Sports Pages Television Women's Page 7 B B 7 A 4 A 8 B B 8 A 5 A The American Flag is raised at the Supreme Court building in Washington as the high tribunal opened its term Monday facing Supreme tough issues discrimination in race housing and sex WASHINGTON UPI The Supreme Court formally opened its fall term Monday by agreeing to decide whether a law ing political campaign tions violates the Constitution The justices also accepted for review a challenge to 1974 abortion law giving the court a chance to expand or moderate its mark 1973 decision sharply limiting a state's right to curb abortions Justice William 0 Douglas was wheeled to the bench when the Court opened its new term He seemed alert as he emerged from behind the curtains in his large black chair to his place on the right of Chief Justice Warren E Burger Douglas suffered a stroke last Dec 31 and had not been back to the Court since then except for a few days last spring Four hours of arguments on whether the 1974 Election Reform Act violates the will be heard Nov 10 sure sign that the court is anxious to decide the case before presidential campaigns are too far along The U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld most of the law saying these democratic processes should at least be given a chance to prove themselves The campaign financing law which provides federal monies to finance presidential passed Congress in the wake of widespread election irregularities disclosed by the Senate's investigation of the Watergate burglary and the political climate that ed it The complex Missouri tion law was upheld by a judge federal court in all but one respect The law by Planned Parenthood and two doctors requires a single woman's written consent to an the consent ot the husband if she is married or the consent of parents if the woman is under 18 It also when a fetus becomes restricts parental rights if a live birth occurs even if premature and prohibits saline induction tions after the first three months of pregnancy The lower court upheld all of these provisions Among the 24 other cases accepted for high court decision were A second case to be heard this term challenging an em- refusal to women who take time off from work because of pregnancy Whether parents of mate children can be barred from teaching public schools The second case in a year involving the rights of mate children to collect Social Security benefits on a father's death Whether an impoverished federal prisoner has an right to a free script of his trial A review of job tests used by the District of Columbia police which a lower court found were discriminatory A challenge to federal law protecting wild horses and burros from slaughter The court refused to New Jersey's appeal of a ruling by its own supreme court striking down restrictive zoning ordinances that block construction of low-income suburban housing Bailey Heads Defense Judge Urges Hearst To Give Cooperation JL SAN FRANCISCO UPI Federal Judge Oliver J Carter Monday ordered Patricia Hearst to cooperate with three court-appointed psychiatrists The judge told the newspaper heiress to ate as fully as she is now able in the psychiatrists tion of her mental condition which will determine her ability to stand trial on a federal bank robbery charge Miss Hearst's lawyers told the court last week that she was not fully cooperating with them and seemed on the edge of a nervous breakdown They said her attitude toward her parents and attorneys vacillated and she seemed to have no idea of the gravity of her situation sitting silent for several minutes while lawyers tried to question her Carter issued the order after postponing indefinitely a ing on Miss Hearst's mental state and her eligibility for bail He said the session would be rescheduled when the had completed their report and he had turned it over to prosecution and defense attorneys The judge also ruled that Miss Hearst's statements to the psychiatrists cannot be used against her m court and that the doctors findings will be kept secret Carter also decreed that the psychiatric findings be filed under seal and that no part of their contents be released to the public until further order of this court The only exception will be release of copies to at- on both sides Lawyer F Lee took complete charge of Miss Hearst's defense Second Gun In LOS ANGELES UPI The second gun theory in the Robert F Kennedy tion was knocked down Monday by a panel of seven independent experts who reported that ballistics evidence did not bear out such a suspicion The findings of the forensic read in a packed county courtroom seemingly ended once and for all the arguments that Sirhan B Sirhan did not act alone in the 1988 slaying of the senator attorney said after- wards the finding was a tremendous blow to the tiny Palestinian but a tremendous triumph for Superior Court Judge Robert A Wenke read a final joint return of the experts who had refired the gun wrested from Sirhan after the shooting in the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968 They had examined the bullets taken from Kennedy's body compared to bullets removed from bystanders who had been wounded in the volley of gunfire As spectators waited lessly Wenke dispelled the suspense by saying the experts had found no reason to believe that anyone other than Sirhan involved in the murder The experts attached to their reports lengthy worksheets detailing what tests they had performed on the Sirhan gun and the bullets and clothing which Kennedy wore that night but the bottom line lay in their unanimous answer to the question of whether someone other than Sirhan might have been firing a second gun The case was reopened by the Los Angeles Superior Court on the basis of motions filed by CBS and by Paul Schrade a former United Auto Workers Union executive who was standing beside Kennedy in the the hotel and was wounded The shooting was witnessed by a score of persons and Sirhan was convicted of murder in 1969 and sentenced to death His punishment was since reduced to life im- prisonment and he is held in San Quentin Prison Godfrey Issac an attorney representing Sirhan at the hearing said was a tremendous blow to Sirhan but it was also a tremendous triumph on behalf of the courts It should effectively con- clude any argument as to one or two guns Joining in the motion to reopen the case were CBS Schrade Sirhan the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors the District ney's office and the Attorney General's office The conclusiveness of the experts findings seemed to end once and for all the theories about a conspiracy in death Schrade said he wanted to examine all of the documents before making a statement but if the rest of the documents reach the same conclusion then I'm going to be tremendously relieved Schrade however said he was concerned about the ex- findings that there was no way to tie in the bullets examined to gun because of damage and ration sion Plan Requires Lower Budget President Ford asked Congress Monday night to extend and broaden this year's tax tions to give the average middle-class American family a further tax cut of over next year But the President insisted that accompanying such a tax cut must be sharp reductions in federal spending If he gets the tax cut without spending the ceiling Treasury Secretary William E Simon said Ford will veto the tax reduction One of the changes Ford proposed would increase the personal exemption to for taxpayers and their dependents The exemption now is and had been until Overall Ford said the tax cut he was proposing would reduce taxes by billion when compared to what was paid last year Simon said the reduction would amount to Sll billion billion for individuals and billion for business Of Tax Cut Plan WASHINGTON UPI For most American the chief impact of President Ford's tax proposals would be to prevent an increase after Jan l 1976 of the taxes withheld from paychecks The tax cut passed in March which took effect last May 1 was a temporary one-year reduction designed to stimulate the economy and curtail the most severe recession in 35 years But it would have expired at the start of 1976 meaning withholding would rise sharply and spendable income would drop at a time when rising food prices the removal of controls on domestic oil prices and the decision of foreign oil producers to raise prices all meant greater demands on consumers Some economists said these factors threatened to thwart or abort recovery Most taxpayers would get a tax cut under Ford's proposal It would not be as large as the tax cut of 1975 and Ford proposed no rebate This year's law provided a rebate of 1974 taxes of between and Ford proposed to eliminate the low income allowance a form of minimum standard deduction which tended to benefit the poor He also wanted to drop this year's tax credit of for each taxpayer and each dependent A tax credit is subtracted from taxes owed If Ford had asked Congress for a simple extension of this year's tax cut and nothing more it would have meant withholding would rise after Jan 1 That is because the 1975 tax cut was compressed in seven months and the 1976 cut be spread over the year Ford coupled his proposal with an insistence that Con- gress adopt a spending ceiling for fiscal 1977 which starts Oct 1 1976 Ford said his proposals would help stabilize the economy Simon said it would help sustain the current economic advance which is well under way He brushed aside the suggestion that the tax cuts were designed to prevent economic fallbacks in a election year In a radio and television address which two of the three commercial television to carry live Ford said he wanted not only to give Americans more able income but to curtail the alarming growth in ment outlays which he said would drive the federal budget in the fiscal vear which starts Oct 1 1976 to billion Ford said he would insist Congress cut billion from that total as his condition for accepting a tax cut But Congress may not give him such an easy choice It could pass the fax cut before taking up a spending ceiling forcing him to act on the tax cut without knowing whether the spending cuts will follow Rep Al Ullman chairman of the House Ways and Means Com- called Ford's proposal to tie tax cuts and spending limits together a mirage There is no way we can enact a tax based on a spending Ullman said He's offering something that really is a mirage because he has not proposed any specific cuts There is no way you can cut a budget by billion without severe dislocations in the economy Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott Pa welcomed Ford's tax cut proposals as good news but said Congress must exercise discipline for them to materialize Specifically these were Ford's proposals as they would affect Increase the personal exemption from to for the taxpayer and each dependent However this re- places a per taxpayer credit passed in March and in effect only for this year Replace the standard deduction now 16 per cent of total income for those who do not itemize their deductions with a flat reduction of for single persons and for married couples The deduction is now more than that for single persons and for couples Reduce tax rates for those with taxable income of or less but increase rates for the wealthier Taxable income is the amount subject to taxation after all deductions and exemptions are taken According to the Treasury the effect would be that most taxpayers would pay less taxes on 1976 earnings than they will be required to pay on this year's earnings In dollars the amount of the reduction would be larger for wealthy taxpayers than those who are poorer But on a percentage basis the change benefits those at the bottom most We must recognize that cutting taxes is only half the Ford said News Digest Challenge Of Boycott Urged WASHINGTON UPI The American Jewish Congress challenged Attorney General Edward H Levi Monday to stop the Arab boycott against Israel from working in the United States Tax Revenue Release Due COLUMBUS UPI Gov James A Rhodes announced day the state is releasing a second installment of 8 million in 1975 license revenues for distribution to Ohio's 88 counties for use in local street and road improvement projects Ohio Observes 4-H Week COLUMBUS UPI Gov James A Rhodes has proclaimed this week Ohio 4-H Week in conjunction with National 4-H Week Teachers May Resume Strike TROTWOOD Ohio UPD The 161 members of the Teachers Association have voted to go back on unless the Trotwood Board of Education resolves contract salary differences Argentine Security Force Forms BUENOS AIRES Argentina UPI Acting President Halo Luder Monday created an internal security council composed of the leaders of the Argentine armed forces and his cabinet to lead an all-out drive against leftist rebels Antitrust Action Filed SAN FRANCISCO UPI The federal government accused the Bank of America and the Prudential Insurance Co of violating antitrust laws by interlocking directorates
