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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1977 TAX GUIDE: step by step (M 11, 12 TELEPHONE No. 43,531 12 CENTS 22 PAGES FIRST PUBLISHED 1831 LATE EDITION THIS WEEKEND coin Carter PM over 1 Pages mora of special features tomorrow and every Saturday In the Herald's new enlarged Weekend Magazine Section. nards meg Supermen of League What makes them run? Tim Dare goes to a training session on the eve of the World Series 1 111 111 Pilots halt all Ansett services From our Melbourne Correspondent More than 700 Ansett Transport Industries pilots began a sudden 24-hour strike at midnight last night. The strike apparently over a demand for a 10 per cent pay rise stopped all interstate flights by Ansett and its subsidiary airlines Airlines of NSW, Airlines of South Australia, and MacRobcrtson Miller Airline Services of Western Australia. Pilots will meet at 10.30 am today in the capitals of mainland States and at Cairns to discuss the length of the stoppage.

TAA and Ansett provided extra flights to major capital cities last TAA said it would operate normally today. The airline is expected to be able to carry about a quarter of Ansett's passengers today. The Australian Federation of Air Pilots said in a brief statement that the stoppage followed a breakdown in negotiations over renewal of a pilots' agreement. The union's federal president, Captain R. T.

Holt, alleged "deliberate provocation" to make the pilots look bad. He refused last night to clarify his remark. His statement made no reference to the reported claim for a 10 per cent increase on annual salaries which range from $12,500 to S39.000. '''jpji: Final. -HMfJ5 Victim of the Gringo Trail A special report New 'Not ogres' of radio from South America on an Australian girt who vanished without trace.

kinar More good reading, and book reviews. Lenore Nicklin meets the man who toppled Laws and Rogers from the top. watches as her husband and From PETER BOWERS, who is travelling with the Prime Minister WASHINGTON, Thursday. President Carter ack- by Ferd nowledged Australia's new diplomatic "The public should be aware that the people now on strike are the very same people who sit quietly in the front end of the aircraft ycar-in, year-out creating the aviation record which the travelling public enjoys. They do not become ogres overnight because there is an industrial dispute," the statement said.

An Ansett Transport Industries spokesman in Melbourne described the statement as "nonsensical" last night. "Ansett has agreed to meet the pilots on all their claims with regard to increased allowances and improved conditions, but in addition to the recent wage-indexation increase, the pilots want a 10 per cent salary rise and they are aware the company is powerless to act on wages matters," he said. TAA pilots had already renewed a two-year agreement similar to the one rejected by the striking pilots. Ansett's 708 pilots were paid an average of between $20,000 and $21,000 a year which meant they were claiming a rise of $2,000 a year, or about $40 a week, the company spokesman said. The company plans to resume operations at 6 am tomorrow.

East-West Airlines will operate as usual. A spokesman for the NSW Public Transport Commission said there were still seats on the express trains to Melbourne today. Interstate coach operators said they had some seats to main centres. ential major uranium supplier when he welcomed the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, yesterday. rejected owner Mr Ferd Calvin failed Plus: music horse to run Mr Calvin He claimed denied natural Appeal Calvin The racehorse yesterday in disqualification In the Equity he rejected was no evidence of Count Mayo, at Randwick his attempt to have his 12-month by the AJC declared void.

Court Mr Justice Rath said Mr Calvin's contention that there that he had not allowed a on its merits. was disqualified over the running of which he is a part-owner, on March 13, 1976. President Carter respond to Mr Fraser during the welcoming ceremony. was a general feeling around the world that there was no way to stop the rapid commitment of additional nations to nucicar explosions. "But now, because of the strong leadership that has been exerted by Australia, and Canada, and in which we have now joined, 1 believe we have a righting chance to prevent further deterioration in the control of atomic explosions.

"So for these reasons, and many more, we are very grateful that Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has come here." At the third try Mr Carter had got Mr Frascr's name right. Earlier he had referred stewards and committee. Keport in detail, Page 8. nnnru COLUMN 8 commiserates wilh the pupils of Chats-wood High School, now spending two days off trying to rid themselves of head lice. What surprises us is that 100 senior students signed a petition recently suggesting that a day be added to the Queen's birthday holiday weekend to give pupils a chance to beat the lice.

Infection was then con-lined to the juniors. The idea was vetoed and the outbreak spread. BRITAIN'S pop world is bracing itself this month for the release of the latest offbeat record featuring singing and snoring whales. Entitled Deep Voice, it begins with the rousing sounds of whales charging a boat, and ends with a 12-minute chorus by the sleeping mammals. Proceeds from sales will go to the Whale Fund in New York.

CURRENT affairs at close quarters" was how Column 8 described a ferry load of children cruising past the Glebe Island anti-uranium demonstration on Tuesday. How right we were. The ferry was actually chartered by Elizabeth Griffiths, 27. a self-taught teacher who conducts a service. Lessons Afloat, on the harbour.

Since 1975, she has guided about 200 school groups on educational trips around the port. YESTERDAY, Column 8 joined 53 youngsters from North Parramatta Primary for a lesson on industries and cargo movement. For many children the sprawling harboursidc homes were new sights: they drew "ohs" and "ahs" galore. Wide-eyed Craig Cameron, 10, was taking his first boat ride. Not far from Glebe Island, a police launch drifted by, its occupants giving us a thorough going over.

We learnt later that our cruise had caused a mild flap. The police thought we were a group of demonstrators about to storm the uranium ship, ACT 6. Sorry about that. TH1LVES are gelling brazen. A 14-year-old boy who was watching television in hix Castle Cove home one afternoon dozed of).

When he awoke, the set was gone, along with a portable colour TV and 5W. NRMA Insurance, which is hand-ling the claim, says the total haul topped $1,700. THOUSANDS of school child ren will sponsor their favourite animal under Taronga Zoo's new scheme. So far at least 12 schools have made firm plans and classes are setting about organising fund-raising activities. Paris: OECD delegates in talks on trade agreement, rage 5 Arts Births, Deaths, etc 13 Churches 13 Comics, Crossword 18 Finance 9, 10 Gardening 8 Law Notices 18 Look! 8 Lotteries (2884, 7086) 15 Mails 17 Radio 17 Shipping 18 Sport 18-20 Television 18 Weather 18 3 A lW.

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About 100 passengers, mostly Australians, lost belongings when the cruise ship Fairsky was holed near Jakarta last night. Water flooded the forward section of the lowest cabin deck after the Fairsky hit a submerged wreck soon after leaving port for Surabaya. None of the 813 passengers or 306 crew was injured. There was no panic and the Fairsky returned under its ow steam. The passengers were ferried ashore this morning and taken to Jakarta hotels.

The ship's owner, the Sitmar Line, has abandoned the cruise. Passengers arc expected to be flown home either tonight or tomorrow. One passenger, Mrs Jill Plumb, of Darwin, said, "The people whose cabins were Hooded were left with only the clothes they stood in. "One man came up with only a sheet around him. He had been asleep when the crew came to get him, and the water was already flooding in through the corridor." Today's weather Metropolitan: Cool, cloudy, early rain.

Max temps: City and Liverpool 16. NSW: Rain in the north and south-cast. Isolated thunderstorms. NE to southerly winds. Details, Page 18 Late news Cricket AUST COMBINED UNTVERsrrres AUSTRALIA 1st Inninc I Davis not out 42 Hughe and Wingfield Dighy 24 Hookes not out 0 Three wickets for S') Wimbledon MEN'S SINGLES Third ound: Martin (US) bent Vilas (Arg) 6-t 6-4 6-2.

WOMEN'S SINGLES Second round: Miss lausoree (Yupo) best Miss TumtarMAnst---6-3: Miss D- BoshoftSA) beat Misj 6-2 Mr P-Tej IKT (Aosf) bent MisfCHrtcrUS)-3 6-2. Vj welcome AAP-AP Saltllltt Picturt SM urges prison for doctors MELBOURNE. A magistrate said yesterday that he was embarrassed that other magistrates had not imprisoned doctors found guilty of fraud. Mr W. J.

S. Maloney, SM, was speaking in the City Court when he sentenced a married couple to three months jail for attempted fraud. The couple had pleaded guilty to 14 counts of having tried to obtain a total of S3 1,304 through false claims on the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. Mr Maloney said doctors had appeared recently in courts on charges involving impositions on the Government for much greater amounts. He granted bail to Kevin William Kccchcr.

28, and Rosalind Thcrcse Kecchcr, 23. of Maribyrnong. pending an appeal. Christmas mail to cost less Christmas cards posted in standard-sized envelopes in November and December for delivery within Australia will again cost the cheaper rate of 15c. The chairman of the Australian Postal Commission.

Mr J. Kennedy, said yesterday that the announcement was being made now to help planning by businesses and community organisations. Tour diary WASHINGTON, Thursday. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, had breakfast talks today with US Congressmen, and lunch with economic leaders. In (he afternoon he will fly to New York where he will be host at a dinner for leading US businessmen.

Japan, saying the scientific committee's data was inadequate. Japan argued that the North Pacific sperm quotas be deferred to a special meeting of the scientific committee later this year. But the US delegates insisted that the quota be set before then. A vote taken on a package deal accepting the scientific committee's quotas with a special meeting later was carried 10 votes to four. Australia voted in favour of' the recommendation.

A Canadian resolution urging member nations not to import whale products from non-commission whaling nations will be debated today. This move is designed to stop Japan cheers at the White House muscle as a pot to him as John Faser. (His full name is John Malcolm Fraser). At the end of Mr Frascr's earlier speech the President had said: "Thank you very much, John." At a press conference later, Mr Fraser said agreement for closer consultation on South Pacific and South-East Asian issues, of critical concern to Australia, was a new element in the US-Australian relationship. Mr Fraser revealed that "one or two European groups" had offered to join in a joint project to set up a uranium enrichment plant in Australia.

Mr Carter and Mr Fraser appear to have hit it off at their first meeting. But their broad agreement on most issues could not hide the yawning gap on a critical phase of the plutonium question. Mr Fraser stressed after the talks that Australia was reserving its position on the whole reprocessing question. Australia will be in no hurry to commit itself on reprocessing because the question is critical to Japan's nucicar power program. President Carter said the two leaders had also discussed his call for demilitarisation of the kidian Ocean, on which Soviet-American negotiations arc about to begin in Moscow.

America's first hope was to prevent any further build-up, and perhaps later bring about a reduction. Other issues understood to have been discussed included the proposed withdrawal of American troops from Korea, and the entry of a second US airline into the Pacific market. Australian Government officials said the airline issue had not been resolved, and official talks would continue. (AAP) THE WHALE SLAUGHTER male sperm whales and a quota of only 763 female sperms in 1978. This year's quota was 7,200 male and female sperms.

Japan fought strongly against the recommendation in the technical committee of the commission yesterday. The Japanese commissioner, Dr K. Yonezawa, said Japan could not accept the restrictions. The Soviet Union supported Mr Fraser had been expected to restate his bucking for the US initiative to stop nuclear proliferation Instead, it was the President who praised Australia's strict safeguards. Mr Carter, harassed by a rebellious Congress threatening to torpedo his non-proliferation program, said Australia's rules had set an example for the United States and other nations.

Earlier, the President's energy adviser. Dr James Schlcsingcr, urged Australia to join the Western world's seven most advanced nuclear nations in assessing the entire future of the nuclear power industry. President Carter gave a full ceremonial White House welcome to Mr Fraser, during which the required commitment to the ANZUS treaty was stated in one sentence. Endorsing the new uranium bond between Australia and the United States, Mr Carter declared: "Under the leadership of Prime Minister Fraser Australia has laid down the strictest possible regulations to protect the world from the further proliferation of atomic explosives. "They are setting an example for us and other nations to emulate.

"And our own nation's commitments to non-proliferation will certainly be strengthened and enhanced by the fine example that has been set by Prime Minister Fraser and his Government "This is a morning that brings honour to our country, a chance to have this great leader visit us." Mr Carter's non-proliferation program depends on major uranium suppliers, principally Australia and Canada, guaranteeing sufficient supplies of uranium so that countries using nuclear power to generate electricity will not have to gear up to the re-processing cycle, which produces pluto- nium, ingredient ot nucicar bombs. But the US Congress, in defiance of President Carter, is pressing on with the Clinch River breeder reactor which will demonstrate whether the plutonium-fuelling process is a commercial proposition ior generating electricity. Mr Fraser, responaing to the welcome, said the possi bility of nucicar proliferation demanded greater attention. Alter two and a nait nours of talks, including a working lunch, the two leaders reappeared briefly at the steps of the White House to speak to reporters. Mr Carter, again saluting Australia's non-proliferation safeguards, said: "The most important new concept that binds us together is the corn icle commitment to control-ng the proliferation of nuclear explosives, of weapons.

"We discussed at lunch the in his suit that he had been justice and fairness by the AJC boosts riages, air suspension for a smooth ride, fluorescent lighting, power-operated doors and anti-glare heat- absorbent windows. A suggestion by the company that all carriages be air-conditioned is under evaluation by the Transport Commission. Mr Wran said the new locomotives were vital to the transportation of coal in the State during the next decade. The first of the 30 diescl-clectric locomotives worth a total of $21,934,433, will be delivered within 11 months and subsequent engines will be, delivered at a rate of two per month until the contract is completed. The 442-Class dicscl-clcctrics deliver 1650 kW (2000 hp) power.

They will be used for hauling freight and coal and on some passenger runs to country centres. The 10 electric locomotives, costing $9,347,140, will be used on the runs to Gos-ford, Lithgow, Sutherland and Campbelltown. These will gradually replace the 20-ycar-old 46-class locomotives, one of which was pulling the carriages involved in the Granville disaster. They will be delivered at the rate of one a month, the first due, off the assembly line in 14 months. The completion of the double-deck rail carriages will bring to 300 the number of double-decked carriages produced during Labor's first term.

Mr Wran said the completion of the contract would mean that 50 per cent of metropolitan rolling stock would be double-decked. The latest contracts represented only a start in an overall program. WASHINGTON, Thursday. The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said yesterday he had received assurances from President Carter that the American Central In-tclligcncc Agency had not interfered in Australian politics. He declined to give any details of the assurances.

Earlier, Mr Carter told reporters he had reconfirmed to Mr Fraser that none of the CIA's Australian activities were unknown to the Australian Government. In reply to a question, he said he had given a personal assurance that the CIA would not engage in political activities in Australia. and 40 locomotives. Third man hit by train A man, aged about 80, was in Canterbury Hospital after being struck by a goods train in Campsie last night. Early today he was reported to be in a satistactory con dition.

This was the third such ac cident in Sydney in less than 48 hours. Earlier yesterday at West Ryde, Mr T. H. Beggs, 51, a Water Board employee, had his leg almost severed when struck by a carriage. He was taken to the Prince of Wales Hospital for microsurgery.

On Wednesday, Mr Christo pher Gardcm, 21, of Caring- bah, died after he was struck by one train and then by another as he called for help. importing whale products and from encouraging whaling in non-commission nations. Statistics from the Japan Marine Importers' Association show that Japan imported 1,492 tonnes of whale meat from Peru last year and almost equal amounts from the Somali Republic, Spain, and South Korea, the main non-commission whaling nations. The commission's technical committee criticised the US yesterday for allowing near extinction of the bowhead whale by Eskimos in Alaskan waters. The committee resolved that Eskimo traditional rights should be set aside and the bowheads fully protected.

Children plead in poems. Page 2. The Soviet view. Page 7 The Premier, Mr Wran, said in Newcastle last night that the rail carriages contract had been won by the Newcastle-based firm A. Goninan and Company Ltd, a subsidiary of Howard Smith Industries Pty Ltd.

The company would produce 80 double-deck motor carriages, worth $357,414 each, and 70 trailer carriages worth 5192,480 each by February, 1980. The second part of the contract has gone to Commonwealth Engineering Pty Limited, at Granville. Under the $31,281,573 con-tract the company will deliver 30 dicscl-clectric and 10 electric locomotives to the Public Transport Commission by June, 1979. Would honour undertaking Mr i Wran said the $44,078,583 rail carriages con tract would not only generate employment but would honour the Government's undertaking to update NSW's railway rolling stock. He said letting the contract to Goninans the company's tender was the lowest was of immense significance to Newcastle, one of the State's worst unemployment regions.

It would enable Goninans to employ 200 more workers from early next year. Mr Wran said: "Through sub-contracts flowing from the rolling stock order, a further 100 jobs will be provided in the Newcastle area itself and further 150 outside the region. Features of the new car riages include a puhiic address system in all car Top whalers fight quota cuts From JOSEPH GLASCOTT, Environment Writer CANBERRA. Japan and the Soviet Union fought back yesterday against possible loss of their whale-hunting grounds in the North Pacific. The two biggest whaling nations won agreement to a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission scientific committee and, if necessary, a full commission meeting later this year in London.

The issue came before yesterday's session of the 1WC conference in Canberra. The scientific committee had recommended no killing of fact that six months ago there 9. "'4.