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CITY NEWS BRIEF Simon kept silent on IRS probing Trip pet meeting The I i Alaska Trappers Association meets tonight al at the Tan ana a Sportsmen Association clubhouse behind the Switzerland. Those bringing traps or trapping supplies for the auction should bring them in prior lo meeting time. Church anniversary The University Presbyterian Church will celebrate its 25th anniversary this month. In recognition of the event, a special television program is set for tonight at 8 on Channel Quarterback Club There will a Quarterback Club meeting Friday althe Fairbanks Inn at noon. AARF meets Regular meeting of the Fairbanks Chapter American Association of Retired Persons will be held tonight 1:30 at the Ptarmigan Roost in Alaskaland.

State and Regional AARP a i may be present. Officer Cain ban of Fairbanks Police Department will give a program on how lo protect residences from Iheits.etc, No host No-host dinner meeting for all of Fairbanks Chapter American Association of Retired Persons will be Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Ptarmigan Roost in Alaskaland. Mr. Dewey, Mr.

Tumbleton and Mrs. Flab will be guests. Kid round-up A special kindergarten round-up will be held for those children who were unable to attend (he session at their school. This round-up will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

at the ACCA Speech and He axing Center, 10 20 Barnetlc St. For further information call 456-4884. meeting The families and friends of EnepVt Children's Center areinvitedlo attend the annual meeting of the membership Friday at 7 in the Home EC Lounge. Kelson Building, University of Alaska. A new board will be elected and other i a de cisions made.

Call 479-6844 for more information. Library committee meets The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Study Committee fora New Library Facility wID hold a public hearing tonight at 8 at the borough library, 901 First Ave. All interested citizens are invited lo attend, and express their opinions on a new library. Kappenman calls Kappie Kappenman from Seattle will be the guest caller for Santa's Swirfuers Square Dance Club, Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Etelson Area Grange in North Pole.

All dancers are invited. Refreshments will be served. For more information cali 488-6432 or 479-2593. Building needs name Deadline for naming the new 4-H building on the fairgrounds is Monday. Call 462-1 M8 with youi name choice.

WASHINGTON A Treasury Secretary William E. Simon was aware of the investigation by the Internal Revenue Service into a 1100,000 a billionaire Howard Hughes to "Bebe" President Nixon's friend, and may have discussed it with the White House, sources said today. Rebozo has described the money as a campaign contribution. Simon, who was deputy secretary at the i declined to comment on a Alexander M. Haig Nixon's chief of staff, about the probe a year ago.

"1 don't comment on leaks from supposed executive sessions of the Senate Select Committee," Simon said. "It is always Treasury policy not Grand Jury indicts Zebra suspects SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) A grand jury indicted four men today on murder charges in the Zebra street slayings that have claimed 13 lives and injured seven others in the last six months. The indictments named three men already in custody in the Zebra case and a fourth man now serving a prison term in another case. Those iji i Manuel Moore, 29.

J.C. Simon, 29, and Larry C. Green, 22, all of whom pleaded innocent earlier to murder charges. Indicted with them was Jessie Cooks, identified as a state prison inmate. Superior Court Clayton Horn set bail for each at $300,000.

The county grand jury indicted Moore and Simon on two counts each of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Moore was charged with two additional counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Green and Cooks were indicted on one count each of murder, two counts of kid- naping, two counts of robbery and one of assault with a deadly weapon. to comment publicly on any IRS added. Sources on the Senate Watergate Committee said Halg at a closed session Wednesday said that Simon had told him of the investigation.

i a i presidential aide Leonard Garment, expressing concern the investigation could prove a a i President. The sources reported Haig said the President had no visible reaction when told that Simon had advised that the IRS was probing the $100,000 payment. Haig said that at all the White House discussions of the subject, the money was never mentioned in the context of being a campaign contribution, it was learned. The sources said then- Treasury Secretary George Shultz and then-Atty. Gen.

Elliot L. Richardson were contacted by the White House in other phases of the Hughes- Rebozo probe. Halg told the committee, according to the sources, that he received a telephone call from Simon sometime after May 22,1973, warning that the Hughes a embarrass the President. Haig reportedly said that at his suggestion, Simon passed on the information based on Rebozo's IRS "sensitive- case" file to Garment, then White House counsel. The next day, the sources quoted Halg as saying, several top White House aides Including Garment and Haig a President should be told.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Thursday, May June 28 trial date for Charles Steel The second of two men charged with solicitation for prostitution under Fairbanks city statutes was arraigned In Fairbanks District Court Wednesday morning. Charles Steel appeared with his attorney John Rosie before Judge Arthur Rob son and was released on hi ow recogn izan ce. Steel and another man, James Osborn, had been charged after allegedly propositioning a woman on two separate incidents. Osborn appeared in court earlier this week for arraignment and a trial date of June 19 was set. He was also released on his own recognizance.

A a a for Steel was quashed after his appearance Wednesday before Robson. The two men were charged in response to a ruling by District Court Judge Mary Alice Miller that laws governing prostitution were unfairly enforced against women. In her ruling Miller said the Imr was nondiscrimlnatory on itsfice but was not enforced I nondiscriminatory manner. a i that ruling the Fairbanks Police Department recruited a woman to work undercover to catch men trying to purchase the sex services a woman, In the past city police have used undercover officers to arrest women and the reverse tactic resulted in the arrest of the two men. Steel is scheduled for trial'in District Court on June 28 before i i i i a Judge Roger DuBrock.

Tile charges against both men were filed on May 1. PHYSICAL FlTNESS-Youngstere at Harriett School have been performing various feats as outlined in the National Presidential Physical Fitness Test At left, Laurel Grand holds Lori Nichols' feet as Lori sees how many situps she can do. At right, Lyle Lohner performs an agility test. (Staffphotos) gan eyes oil rights pact MORE BRIEFS Ait guild Ait guild members willmeetat 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Clippie Creek Hesoit in Ester for field sketching and painting.

Stan Young will provide transportation if necessary. Call 4E6-6810 tor information. Fans needed The Alaskaumd Civic Center is planning several film festivals this summer. A committee of interested movie tansis needed to run projectors, sell publicity andselect films. Also, people are needed to run pop or popcorn concessions to earn money for their club or group.

Please call 452-9337 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A i volunteers will get this program off to a healthy successful start. A A a a (AP)--The state is continuing to negotiate with industry over purchase rights to Alaska's royalty oil at Two treated aftei Two Fairbanks area men were treated and released from Fairbanks Memorial Hospital after the vehicle in which they were riding rolled over at about 2 p.m. Wednesday at about Six Mile on the Richardson Highway.

The two are Ralph Stephen Firestone, 16, and James Mayo Firestone, 19, both of 12 Mile Richardson Highway. According to a report from Alaska State Troopers, Ralph Firestone was driving a 1972 Toyota toward Fairbanks when the vehicle hit the divider in the road and the vehicle rolled over. Both men sustained minor head i i The vehicle was destroyed in the accident. Prudhoe Bay, and Gov William A. Egan says he a a "sometime this summer." Egan said in an Interview Wednesday that he had received many overtures from oil companies seeking access to the estimated 250,000 barrels of royalty crude oil that will be available daily when the trans-Alaska pipeline reaches full production.

The key to any purchase agreement, the governor said, would be a company's plans for construction of a refinery to process the royalty oil within Alaska. MAIN SCHOOL FINE ARTS FINALE-Main Junior High School will present its Fine Arts its four musical organizations at 7:30 this evening in the Main School gymnasium. The Mainsingers, directed by Mrs. Susan Johnson, and the Main School Orchestra, under the direction of Mrs, Anne Lackey, will also be performing at this evening's concert. Pictured is the Main School Stage Band.

GUERRILLA ATTACK IN ISRAEL Cleaning up for concert Bureau of Land Management employes turned out in force last Saturday to clean up the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds, the site for the upcoming Burl Ives-Randy Sparks and the Back Porch Majority concerts. Over 100 bags of litter were removed alongwilh eight truck loads of larger debris, includinga kitchens! nk! The clean-up effort was In to the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce's clean-up program and in preparation for i Environmental Concert activities to be held Saturday, May 18 at 1 A Bureau of a Management spokesman said that over 3,000 tickets to the outdoor concert have been distributed to people involved in the clean-up program. Tickets for the event may still be obtained by those persons who take bags of litter to the city landfill or to the landfill at 41 Mile Richardson Highway. Tickets will be exchanged for each large bag of litter brought to the land Till are as. The concert group Is brought to Fairbanks under the auspices of the U.S.

Department of the I i protection and the improved appearance of our environment. The borough, the city of Fairbanks and North Pole mayors have proclaimed May 18 as Johnny Horizon Day. Declining to disclose details of the negotiations, Egan said a final pact might Include more than one firm and more than one refinery. He added that among the companies that have approached him, only one held any leases at Prudhoe Bay. The state owns 12.5 per cent of the reserves at Prudhoe Bay.

Highly conservative i a a recoverable reserves there at 9.6 billion barrels, giving the state 1.2 billion barrels. "It could be that some decision should be made this summer," Egan said of the private talks with industry. A construction timetable of three to four years for the pipeline follows closely the time needed to erect a refinery. "A refinery, for example, would not only provide enough for Alaska" a a i problems of companies now operating here, he said, but "the volume would be such that as Alaska grows, more and more of it (royalty oil) would be profitable to market in Alaska." The governor said he en- visions one or more refineries as providing a base for manufacturing such products as fertilizer or plastics. Tesoro-Alaskan Petroleum Corp.

now buys all of the state's In-kind royalty crude from Cook Inlet production, or about 20,000 barrels a day for processing at its Kenai refinery. The administration has been far less interested in disposing of the state's one- eighth royalty share of natural gas at Prudhoe Bay, shunning repeated public offers from El Paso Natural Gas Co. El Paso, proposing a pipeline through Alaska rather than across Canada to the midwest and eastern states, announced last week that it has halted additional i environmental studies of the route. Saying he was "sort of surprised" by the announcement, Egan said he did not believe that the state's reluctance lo commit its royalty gas had any bearing onElPaso'smove. "The slate has taken the strong position that the line Alaska," he said.

Nixon refuses to consider resignation WASHINGTON A President Nixon says he has given long thought to the possibility of resignation but has decided he will not quit the nation's highest office "under any circumstances." His strongest vow to date not to resign came in an interview with conservative i a i a i i in today's Washington Star- News. Nixon told Kilpatrick he would not surrender his office even temporarily to Vice President Gerald R. Ford under the 25th Amendment. I Representatives votes impeachment, Nixon said he would accept the verdict "with good grace" and then defend himself to the very end before the Senate. Nixon's release of edited a i i a Watergate conversations two weeks ago led to demands -including some from leaders of his own party that he consider resigning.

House i i a Committee began hearing evidence on Nixon's possible impeachment last Thursday. The committee eventually will submit its recommendations to the full House, which then would decide by majority vote. BLM CLEANS UP--Members of the Bureau of Land Management joined the areawide clean-up campaign which will end Saturday, May 18 with the Burl Ives concert. Tickets to the concert are still available for the price of a sack of refuse. Bill Robertson at the BLM office has information.

The Johnny Horizon section of the Department of the Interior was a sponsor in the program. PAUL HARVEY Harvey column begins today: I'aul Harvey, one ot America's great columnists, will join roster of the Daily News-Miller's columnists and his initial column appears on to day's editorial page. Harvey is the author of three best-selling books, has been honored by many important national organizations and'. has received honorary doctorates from seven leading educational institutions. Harvey is best known as a news analyst whose honest and clear thinking are focused on a wide range of a intents, including politics, philosophy, his lory, economics, literature and art.

"Remember These Thirigs," Harvey's first book, was widely acclaimed for its forceful 'and i comments on the American scene. "Autumn of Liberty," which was hailed as a triumphant statement of basic Americanism. Freeman magazine called it "a timely, personal, important book." Paul Harvey's third book, "The Rest of the Story," is a collection of extraordinary, truestories told in his inimitablestyle. They show "his feeling for the drama and adventure of life, always so a i i his syndicated column." He has received Awards of Merit from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and from the A i a Legion for his "militant Americanism" and the Freedom Foundation Gold Medal three consecutive years. (Continued from page 1) girls hostage since dawn and threatened to blow them to pieces unless the Israeli government freed 23 imprisoned guerrillas.

"All the children were kUled by the terrorists," a military source said. "It was all over in a second. The Arabs started shooting the kids Immediately Israeli i building." The three gunmen died with their victims. "I fell to the floor and my rie nds lay on top of me," said Yosef as he sat weeping in the Maalot clinic. "There was gunfire all over.

I jumped out a window. But my friends were killed." As the boy talked, Premier Golda Meir's haggard face appeared on a television screen in the corner and the 76-year-old grandmother promised that "the government-any Israeli government--will do whatever it can to cut off the hands that intend to harm a child or an adult, In a city or in a village." I a a a i retaliatory strike across the border which has followed every major attack by BEAR KILLINGS. (Continued from page J) was working on a moose survey. Griffin apparently landed his plane and talked with the three hunters and then relumed to Fairbanks and reporteda possible- violation of pine laws. Cogger said an inspection of the cubs by a biologist revealed that i had their "milk to Uie fact that the cubs were bom only this spring.

A cub, under the law, is a bear that Is still dependant on Its mother for Its livelihood. According to Cogger, the three hunters discussed the three cubs and concluded they were old enough to be taken. A black bear cub usually remains with Its mother for at least one year and possibly two. Cogger said only one of the three airmen had an Alaska hunting license. 'Die other two had military permits only.

The exact crime with which the three have been charged is taking a sow bear accompanied by cubs. They are expected to be arraigned in Fairbanks District before Judge Arthur Robson Friday morning. guerrillas from neighboring Lebanon, five miles north of Maalot. But this time the guerrilla organization that claimed responslbllty for the a a a Democratic Front, said the attack was planned In a a i a capital. The people of Maalot were more concerned about their lack of protection.

Youths jostled the police and troops In the dark streets and told them the raiders should have been caught before they invaded the village about 3 a.m. Wednesday. Occasional fist fights erupted. After the storming of the schoolhouse, furious villagers tried to hit Defense Minister Moahe Dayan, and soldiers had to link hands to protect him. The mayor demanded that army veterans In the village be armed.

The National Council of Schools requested guards for all frontier schools. It was about 3:30 a.m. when the three guerrillas pounded on the door of a Maalot home, said they were police looking for terrorists, then killed the couple who lived there and one of their children. A baby was found safe under a bed where Its mother--seven a apporently had pushed It. A few minutes later the gunmen said a cheery "Good morning, are there any children inside?" to the janitor at the village school.

Then they shot him and charged into the building. Sleeping inside were more than 100 teen-agers from a religious school at the nearby town of Safad. They were touring Biblical sites in northern Galilee; several teachers were with them. About 2 children, one of their teachers and their bus driver escaped by jumping from second-story windows. Then the guerrillas sent another of the adults out with the list of prisoners whose freedom they demanded.

They said if the government did not comply by 6 p.m., they would blow up the building and all those Inside. Mrs. Melr was awakened at 6 a.m. with the news. Her cabinet met at 9 and stayed In emergency session all day.

Blood plasma and fleets of ambulances were dispatched to Maalot. Hospitals In the district were cleared for action. At 11:44 the terrorists said they wanted to negotiate with French Ambassador Jean Herly, but the diplomat needed a code signal by radio from agents of the guerrillas In Paris before they would talk to him. Carter enters guilty plea Fairbanks City Councilman Ernie Carter has pleaded guilty to one charge of operating a molor vehicle while intoxicated (OMVI) in a court appearance Wednesday afternoon. Carter was charged with OMVI on Dec.

17,1973. He entered the plea before Fairbanks District Court Judge Arthur Robson. Robson fined Carter $300 with $150 suspended and ordered Carter to attend classes on alcoholism. Carter was represented by a i a a i Stepovich. The case has been slow in coming before the court because of scheduling problems with attorneys.

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