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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1978 WEEKEND CAR Starts Page 31 40 PAGES 15 CENTS TELEPHONE 2 0944 No. 43.993 FIRST PUBUSHED 1831 con $7(09(0) Packer offer to televise Gower's 100 stops England's collapse From BRIAN MOSSOP. PERTH. The brilliant England batsman David Gower, 21, hit his second Test century yesterday to guide his team out of trouble in the second Test against Australia. A crowd of 7,883 saw the fair-haired left-hander score an unbeaten 101 in 213 minutes while the opener Geoff Boycott plodded his way to 63 not out in an unfinished partnership worth 149.

At the end of the first day. ') ogee The interior of the bunker. Police fear two children may be held in similar bunkers. Police fear 2 girls are trapped in hidden bunker PERTH. -A large force of West Australian police was last night searching for two young girts they fear may be sealed in a Vietcong-type bunker in thick bush on the outskirts of perth.

By JACK TAYLOR Mr Kerry Packer, chairman of Channel 9 and promoter of World Series Cricket, has offered $700,000 to tie up exclusive television rights to coverage of Rugby League for his station. His company, Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd, has offered $44,000 to each of the 12 clubs in the Rugby League. As part of a package, an additional $144,000 would be shared by the clubs involved in the semi-finals, preliminary final and grand final. A total of $28,000 is offered to the NSW Rugby Football League. The offer is certain to cause a major controversy within the league clubs, which begin a weekend conference today to discuss, among other things, revenue from commercial television.

Police inspect the bunker in which a woman was Perth. held on the outskirts of Appeal to clubs was confident that he would win' Pan Am to undercut Qantas one-way fare By DAVID ROBERTSON, American Airways have been Transport Reporter Canberrf, "Mon-e day by the Department of Trans Pan American World Herald man shares Aust-Japan award An Australian journalist living in Japan and a Japanese writer living in Sydney share the Australia-Japan Foundation's journalism award for 1978. John Slee, The Sydney Morning Herald's correspondent in Tokyo, is one of the winners. The other is Haruko Morita, a columnist for The National Times. They will divide the cash prize of $2,500 awarded annually by the foundation for "articles published in the Australian Press contributing towards understanding between the two peoples." Mr Slee won his share of the award for a selection of his articles from Tokyo, where he has represented the Herald since 1976.

Miss Morita, who has lived in Australia for 14 years, was honoured for an article which, the judges said, "gave perceptive, and original insights into Japanese life and society today." The awards were made at ceremony in Canberra yesterday by the chairman of the Australia-Japan Foundation, Mr Russell again. He said: "Mr Packer is being either irresponsible ordeliberately provocative. He is seeking to divide the Rugby League clubs with the obvious intent of controlling the game. 'Secondary importance' "It is of secondary importance to us that we gain television rights. It is more important that' the League controls its own destiny rather than let it be unsurped by Mr Packer.

"Nevertheless, I have no doubt that we will retain the right to telecast Rugby League. Our offer is at least as large as Packer's in financial terms and we also have certain qualitative edges in the standard of coverage that we give and will continue to give." Mr Sturzaker added: "ATN Seven will continue to co-operate with the League in telecasting the game in 1979. "Despite what is happening in cricket at the moment, Rugby League cannot be allowed to become an offering to the ego of Mr Packer." Meanwhile, Ansett and TAA Federal Government yes- vesterday made their interstate terday for a one-way fare standby fares permanent follow-of only $225 between Syd- ing a highly successful three- 000 SOME vandals do have a heart. Telecom received this week $165 and an anonymous note saying: "The amount is a conscience payment for my act in the vandalism and removal of a public telephone. Forgive me." Telecom says it is the largest conscience payment has ever received.

The previous largest was $40 in October, 1975. WE NOTE that those art experts who determined which paintings should be hung at the NSW Art Gallery for the Archibald and Wynne prizes yesterday saw fit to include a Sam Fullbrook painting in each of the two competitions. His rejected portrait of Sir John Kerr was not, of course, one of them. DOES Peter Nixon need any more evidence of the demand for a reduction of air fares on overseas routes? We can tell him that Qantas received 200 phone calls on Thursday night and 1,000 yesterday from people wanting to book t6 America at the new off-peak return fare of $450. Qantas had to assign eight more staff members to the telephones to cope with the flood.

However, Qantas could do nothing but take callers' names and addresses, and promise to write to them when the fare details were known. Qantas had not been "officiallynotified" of any details. THE new fare means that from February 1 you will be able to fly in the right season to San Francisco and back for $2.40 more than the full economy return fare to Perth. A CROWS NEST locksmith has the ideal gift suggestion for the man who has everything "something to put it im He is, of course, referring to safes. A FEDERAL Government department that sent a questionnaire to companies included the question: "How many employees do you have broken down by sex." According to the executive magazine Management Report, a South Melbourne firm replied: "Very few.

Liquor is more of a problem here." THE Hare Krishna sect is trying-a new twist in fund-raising among the pre-Christmas city crowds. There were six Krishna devotees in Market Street yesterday and five in George Street One dressed as Zorro and another as Batman leapt about handing out books about their religion. Other members, while taking surveys of taste in music, stopped people carrying the books and said "That book is by my master. It cost $9. What about a donation?" ItiMSffcfr I Arts 10 Comics, Crosswords 24 iRnance -21-22 Juries 24 Lottery (1429) 36 Mails 24 Radio 24 Shipping 24 Sport 37-38, 40 Television 24 Weather 24 READERS LETTERS: Dole payments (Mr Harry Sebel); worKing women (tva Cox and others of Community Child Care); Mrs Lorna Bartlett (National Council of Women of NSW, Mrs Jane Nauta); cute (Mr Geoff Lenoard, Mrs Patricia Jones).

The Good Weekend: The Yan kee tycoon and his Pacific do main tne story ot a takeover of an island. Death in the Sun the, facts about skin cancer Th Arts, and book reviews. FORT DENISON. High 10.14 am (1.7 metres); 10.46 pm (1.2 metres). Low 3.47 am (0.3 metres); 4.42 pm (0.2 metres).

SUN: Rises 5.38, sets 8.03. MOON: Rises 9.U pm, sett 7.01 am. Turn behind the Financial news for Personal notices: PI 4 Classified index: PI 4 ADVERTISING: 20944 Oo QC2-) England had recovered from 2-3 and 3-41 to be 3-190. And while Gower took the limelight with his graceful stroke play. Boycott's emergence from the pressures that have beset him throughout the tour and some fine Australian bowling impressed the crowd.

Details in Sport, back page of Section 2. Today's Herald A printers' strike has reduced the size of today's Herald. We regret the omis sion of a number of news items, features and advertisements. Classified em ployment adverti sements have been held over until Monday's is sue. Clients whose adver tisements are omitted will be telephoned by the Herald for new in sertion instructions.

Personal notices (births, engagements, deaths, etc) have been moved today from their usual position. They begin on Page 14. Report of strike: Page Z. Short stays on the ABC The Vice-Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Com mission, Mr Laurie Short, has been reappointed for another three-year term. Mr Short is the Federal Secre tary of the Federated Ironwor kers Association.

The Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Mr Staley, who announced the appointment, also said Mr Neil Hutchison had been reappointed as a member of the Special Broadcasting Service lor a second term ol one year. rrriYxn tiV.ii 1 'J UkJLilD 1,311 peoplt hid bean killed on NSW roads this year up to last night. The total for the whole of 1977 was 1.268. TODAY'S HEATHER Metropolitan: Showers decreasing. Max Temps: City and Liver- pool: 22.

NSW: Showers on coast decreasing. Dry warm inland. Details, Page 24 LATE NEWS held up by strike The departure of the Premier, Mr Wran on a 27-day tour of the United Slates, Britain and France delayed for more an hour last night be-. "Cause of a strike by air-' port ground start at Syd-' jiev Aii-port His Qantas flight to San Francisco left shortly after rl-ad'-ttubMihe John Falffa. and Sons Ltd, ot Jonts StrMt, roadway.

Coital aMreitt lax SOt. CPO. MMIno at a JuJ. Nation" Cattgory I. Rommnda and maximum arlca only, interstate a Jr en'ra.

1Q.711 pm nvtcna ot Lord Snowdon weds The girls were abducted by' their father, an Army officer and Vietnam veteran, late on Thursday night. Police late last night named the missing girls as Samantha Al-tham, 6, and her sister Cherand, aged 4. The abduction became known when the girls' mother, Mrs Elizabeth Joan Altham, who is separated from her husband, escaped from a specially prepared bunker and staggered into a local police station early yesterday morning. Her husband, who has not yet been named, had bricked her and himself inside a cunningly-concealed bunker off a track east of the Murdoch University. She escaped after he swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills and became unconscious.

The man was still in a coma in the Royal Perth Hospital's intensive care unit last night. But the whereabouts of the two girls, both blonde-haired, is' not yet known. Forced out of home The mother is in hospital suffering from shock, lacerations and bruises. Earlier the woman told police that she and her children had been forced out of their home at Applecross, a Perth suburb, and into her husband's car. She had heard both the girls scream after they were taken from her husband's car, which was later found abandoned in the grounds of the university.

Her husband tied her to a tree before taking the childrenaway. About 20 minutes later he returned on foot, untied her from the tree and forced her into a tunnel dug into the sand. The tunnel was about three metres long, a metre deep and less than a metre wide. The side was supported with poles and sheets of iron which held back the sand. The roof was covered in iron and hidden under sand.

Holes as decoys The only entry was through a hole about 45cm by 30cm. Police found three similar holes in the vicinity that appeared to be decoys. They also found what appeared to be a booby trap at the entrance to the hole in which the couple were, but bomb disposal men later declared it safe. Police said that when the man got into the tunnel he used bricks to seal up the entrance. A small piece of tin was pulled down over the entry hole.

I The search co-ordinator, Detective-Sergeant Frank Zanetti, Said "If those children are down a similar bunker you can see what we are up against. "We are searching every cen-tremetre of this land looking for anything under which the kids may be hidden. "One of those holes could easily be disguised by bushes." While more than 100 police on foot and horseback comb the bush, others are questioning householders in the area and people at shopping centres. tfiflia ATN has had exclusive commercial television rights for the Jast four years, and it is understood that negotiations are all but completed for a renewal of Channel Seven's contract. The Packer offer direct to the clubs is an apparent attempt to short-circuit the League.

However, Channel Seven is confident that it will retain the rights. The nine-man executive of the League is vested with the authority to decide which television station should get exclusive rights. The 42-member NSW Rugby Football League, on which the clubs have 24 representatives, reaffirmed the executive's power in this regard at its September meeting. However, it is known that there has been growing dissatisfaction within the clubs about their share of proceeds from television. Parramatta, involved in 14 televised matches last season, received a total of $2,100, or $150 per game.

Only $150 per game "How can anybody compare that with the $44,000 being offered by Packer for next season," a club official said last night. The offer to the clubs went out yesterday, more than two months after Publishing and Broadcasting wrote to the president of the League, Mr Kevin Humphreys, with an offer for exclusive rights of $25,000 per match, or $700,000 to the-League. In the letter to the ciuos yesterday, the company pointed out that the only response, it had received from Mr Humphreys was "that the matter will be discussed in December and that we will be advised in due course." Yesterday's letter to the clubs enclosed a copy of the letter to the League dated October is, ana saia: For the rights and in re soect of the matches referred to in the October 10 letter and as an' alternative Dronosition, we are now offering a payment of $44,000 to your club and to each of the other eleven clubs and a further payment of $22,000 to the League, this offer based on the assumption that there are twenty-two first grade premiership matches in the season. $144,000 for finals "In addition we will provide a further $144,000 to be shared amongst those clubs to play in the four semi-final matches, the preliminary final match and the grand final match together with a further $6,000 direct to the Rugby League. "If the proposal is acceptable to you we will need to finalise the agreement in a more detailed form." At Channel Seven last night, Mr John Sturzaker, the program development manager and the man who out-negotiated Channel Nine for rights to coverage of Rugby League four years ago, LONDON, Friday Lord Snowdon married again today, five months after his divorce from Princess Margaret.

His bride was Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, a 37-year-old television research assistant. As plain Mr Anthony Armstrong-Jones, he married Princess Margaret in I960 at Westminster Abbey. But the marriage became strained and Lord Snowdon announced nearly three years ago that he and the Princess were separating. Their two children, Viscount Linley, 17, and Lady Sarah Arm- au Vlig-juiica, it, uiu NUl miciiu the remarriage of their who is now 48, at Kensineton Registry Office in London. They spent the day with their mother, who retains their custody.

port to decide a firm fares pack age. mo trial Since the fares were in troduced on September 1, more than 47,000 passengers have used them. According to Airline surveys, more than 42 per cent were new customers. The fares offer a 30 per cent discount on economy fares. The stand-by fares will operate throughout the Christmas-New Year holiday period, but airline spokesmen warn that as these periods are traditionally very busy, stand-by passengers may experience long delays.

The tares are now available on the Melbourne-Sydney and Mel-bourne-Launceston-Hobart routes, and the Sydney-Brisbane, iMelbourne-Adelaide and Adelaide-Perth routes. There was a strong public response to the announcement on-Thursday of the cheaper Pacific fares from February. Qantas booking offices were swamped by more than 1000 telephone calls from people trying to book for the cheaper fares. The names of inquirers were taken and they were told they would be contacted when final approval was received. A Qantas spokesman said the national carrier had not yet been given formal approval by the Department of Transport.

But a spokesman for the Federal Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, said this appeared to be due to a communications breakdown. "The Qantas fares proposals have definitely been approved by ian travelling scholarship in-1960. To find out more about the reticent artist, perhaps it is worth studying how he sees himself in the self-portrait that won The Archibald Prize. The portrait, Art, Life and the other thing, is a series of three paintings, the first featuring a lion crying out in apparent anguish. This picture has a syringe attached to the top left-hand corner, cigarette butts stuck on a bottom corner and shows the lion with nails and tacks in its feet.

The middle picture, much larger than the other two, features a portrait of a man, whose head is painted from several angles, as if turning. the Australian Government It is a goer," he said. The Qantas spokesman said the fares package had been accepted by the US Civil Aeronautics Board. The cheaper fares will have no child concessions. They must be booked and paid for 45 days in advance and are for point-to-point travel only.

Qantas expects a large increase in traffic, so much so that it plans to increase the number of flights to America. At present it provides seven flights a week. A spokesman for Pan Am said the airline was seeking approval of Australian authorities to operate the $450 low-season return fares from February 1 to March 19. Pan Am understood that the. Department of Transport wanted to consult with all three affected airlines the US airline, Continental, is the third to discuss fare concepts and ideas.

It was likely that the final fare package would be an amalgam of all the proposals put so far, using the Qantas $450 low fare as a base fare. He said Pan Am would accept interim bookings pending fare approval by the Federal Government, and would backdate bookings to the end of the bilateral discussions. The one-way $225 fare would require only a 21 -day advance booking. The approved Qantas fare of $450 return is for the low which out of Australia is from February 1 to March 19, and. from mid-September to early November.

The $670 fare shoulder season is from March 20 to the end of April and July and January. The $896 fare peak-season is May and June, August and the 10 days around Christmas. At the end of an exaggerated arm is a drawing of a previous and controversial Archibald Prize winner, Joshua Smith' painted by William Dobell. The third picture is of a pleasant-faced smiling man, and is a photograph of the artist himself. His Wynne Prize winner is a landscape entitled Summer at Carcoar, the Sulman picture is an exaggerated nude, seen largely from the back and the backside IS large.

The pictures will be on exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW until January 29, 1979. The trustees of the gallery judged the Archibald and Wynne Prizes, The Sulman was judged by Mr Peter Laverty. Page 3: Archibald Prize portrait, Nancy Borlase's review. 8 MM ney and the West Coast of the United States. The American carrier, which claims it will match any fare by any airline, also applied for the jsame $450 low-season return fare as Qantas.

The one-way fare of $225 undercuts the Qantas one-way fare by $125. Officials of -Qantas, Conti nental Airlines and Pan Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, a bru nette. visited Australia in 1975 with Lord Snowdon, who is a professional photographer. They worked together on a docu mentary for the BBC and rumours of their romance began after that trip. Mrs Lindsay-Hogg's marriage to film producer Michael Lind say-Hogg ended in divorce in 1971 after five years.

There were no children. She grew up in a village in County Wicklow in the Irish Republic, where her parents had a dress-designing Dusiness. Ldrd Snowdon said in a statement: "We both look forward to a life of quiet happiness like any other family and intendto carry on our respective careers. (AAP-Reuter) Picture, Page 2 Brett Whiteley York, Whiteley's work fetches from $2,000 to $30,000, his Sydney agent, Mr Gibson, says. Born in Sydney, Whiteley 4 I 11' 41.

a-l i uuieu ai juuan Asnton acnooi the late 1950s and won an Ital I Brett Whiteley takes an art hat trick Madigan. John Slee The journalism award is administered and judged by the National Press Club, and this year attracted entries totalling more than 80 articles, covering politics, economics, culture, defence, and trade. In a message sent from Tokyo, and read at the award-giv-ingyesterday, Mr Slee said: "The satisfaction I have had in writing about Japan has come very little from simple reporting on economic matters, however important these matters have been as news. "My real satisfaction has come from the attempt to write about the Japanese people the way they feel and think." Mr Slee said it was this sort of which advances us all along that difficult road called understanding." This is the third major journalism award to a Herald staff member within a month. Kenneth (Rick) Stevens has been named Australian Press Photographer of the Year and Lenore Nicklin has won the Graham.

Perkin award for Australia's Journalist of the Year. Envoy appointed CANBERRA. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, an-pounced the appointment yesterday of Mr Edwin Ride as Australia's High Commissioner to Tanzania. He will succeed Mr Frederick Truelove, who has been High Commissioner in Dar Es Salaam since August, 1975. QQ By CATHERINE HARPER The Sydney artist Brett White-ley took a hat-trick yesterday by winning the coveted Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.

But the publicity-shy artist was not keen to talk about his success. A member of his family said she arrived home to find a note saying he had gone bush with some friends. It is the first time that one artist has cornered all three awards in one year. Thirty-nine-year-old Whiteley has previously won all three competitions, but at different times. He won the Archibald and Sulman Prizes in 1976 and the Wynne Prize in 1977.

Represented in Australian State galleries, the Tate Gallery in London and the museums ot modern art in Paris and New 5EEfiEl) GEga HQ Amusements: 15-1.