The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 1

jHTION Monday, February 28, 1977 'ants r. in of- education V-3'JO 3. FORECASTS (for to'vi: Metropolitan: Mild, sunnv periods. NSW: Mild to warm. SENE winds.

Max lumps: City 24, Liverpool 25. Weather, sun. moon, tides and fire warnings page 9. No 43,431 Telephone 2 0944 First published 1831 18 PAGES TV Guide 12c le piming mh COLUMN Pop group's fans waited in vain A PHOTOGRAPHER Payroll tax cuts as employer incentive Wran puts $100m colleague slept on when his car's horn' sounded at 4 am and blared away for a full 10 minutes. When he finally awoke, he found the car door wide open anil $2,000 north of cameras, a briefcase contain-ill his nay cheque and passport, and other valuables, piled up on I lie front scut.

'HE cliscocred thai the would-be lhicf been about to depart with the looi when rainwater I short-circuited ihe horn ritilitcninii him i off. Talk about million-lo-one shois. set plan to more jobs OVERHEARD in a nth. urban barber simp. Barber, laying iIchii his clippers, to middle-uxetl customer: "That makes yon look 10 years yonnncr." Customer: "Well, cut it aiain." By IAN FRYKBERG, State Political Correspondent The NSW Government is prepared to give payroll tax concessions of $100 million to industry in a major drive to ease the State's unemployment.

ON an Obcron farm. Inside today li mil n. rig .11 Vii.iii.i, mmmTfW- They're here. Abba at Sydney Airport last night. From left: Anna and Bjorn, Frida and Benny.

By our Showscene Reporter Column 8 saw a sipht recently that in years past would have made a sheep man blush three black ewes in a stud flock. Today, a black sheep in the fami-Iv is good business. With thousands of women pedalling an.i threading their way towards home-spun socks and jumpers, dark wool is in big demand. In Sydney shops last week 500-gram bags of while wool ready to spin were selling for SI. 95.

while the same quantity ot black wool cost S5. Airport vigil for Abba Amin changes US deadline ABBA a pop phenomenon. Page 7 THE BIRTH Cf CONTROL DEBATE More readers' letters on the argument set off by Dr James Wright's Herald articles. Page 9 of people were there, but the crowd had swelled by the time Abba's Qantas jet touched down at 8.50 pm 25 minutes early. The group are making their first Australian concert tour.

In 10 days they will give 11 concerts to about 140,000 people. Their Sydney concerts will be on Thursday and Friday at the Showground. Abba are one of the biggest record sellers ever in Auslra-lia. Two of their albums. Arrival and The Best of Abba, have each sold more than a million copies here.

The group flew from Sweden to London on Friday. They left London on Saturday, passing through Perth on the way to Sydney. PAGE 7: A cool look at Abba. AND finally, while we're still smiling (some 500 poems later), an end lo the Jubilee verse contest. But first, two quick typical samples FROM Irene Price, of Fig Tree: Let's give three cheers for good Queen Whose Silver Anniversary it is.

We hope she reigns for years to come. She's proved a better queen than some. MRS E. Passmorc, of Castlccrag: Dedication Celebration: Our summation. Jubilation.

It is likely that the scheme will involve giving payroll tax rebates to employers who take on extra workers. But NSW wants the Federal Government to share the cost of the concessions probably on a 50-50 basis. This week the Premier. Mr Wran, will seek a meeting with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, to discuss the scheme. Immediate aid In the meantime, the Slate Government will ofTcr immediate payroll tax concessions to selected industries in country towns.

The 5 per cent payroll tax is collected by the Federal Government and handed over to the States. NSW gets more than S500 million from this revenue source. The payroll tax concession scheme was announced on Friday along with a review of power, transport, communication, gas, freight and port charges. Officials of the Premier's Department and the NSW Treasury worked on details of the scheme during the weekend. When Mr Street released the latest unemployment figures which show NSW has 150,000 unemployed he said there was a case for assistance to NSW.

If he agrees to the meeting with Mr Wran, representatives of NSW employer groups and unions ill take part. The national director of the Metal Trades Industry Association, Mr R. G. Fry. welcoming the proposal, said such a scheme would be of major benefit to employers and would help to relieve unemployment.

Payroll tax hindered companies taking on extra workers, and Mr Wran was to be commended if he could help the many companies fighting for their survival by lifting at least part of "this discriminatory tax on employers." The executive director of the Retail Traders' Association of NSW. Mr P. Lawrence, said: "This type of initiative goes to the heart of the cmplm-ment problem, and that is incentive. To give anv sort of rebate on payroll tax can only encourage employers to take on more workers." The unemployment problem looms as the single most important factor in the Wran Government's survival. Until now the Government has adopted a stand that it is not responsible for the unemployment crisis, but the payroll tax initiative is indicative of the Government gearing up for a campaign to defray the electoral effects of having the country's worst and fastest-rising rate of unemployment.

The NSW Opposition will probably make the unemployment crisis the major prong of its attack on the Government in the coming months. It gave notice of this last week when the Leader of the State Opposition. Sir Eric Willis, moved an urgency motion on the Government's handling of the NSW economy. Sir Eric said last night that the idea of payroll tax concessions was commendable, but he could not see them costing SI 00 million if they were given only for newly employed people. Excitement turned to disappointment for about 1,000 Abba fans who had hoped to welcome the Swedish pop group at Sydney Airport last night.

The fans, mostly children with their parents, did not get a glimpse of their idols. They stood outside a Customs hall door, only feet from Abba but unable to see them. A crew making a film of Abba's tour excited the children by encouraging them to chant "We want Abba" as they filmed. The group spent about a minute in the Customs area posing for press and television cameramen. Dressed in while.

Anna and Bjorn walked in hand in hand, followed by Benny and Frida. in while tops and coloured jeans. They were whisked out of a back entrance into a waiting limousine and taken to their City hotel. Commonwealth police had doubled normal airport security and brought in NSW police in anticipation of a crowd of several thousand. One police officer said he believed radio and television announcements warning that Abba would not be seen by the public had kept the numbers down.

The first fan to arrive at the airport was 13-year-old Janellc Poole, of Winston Hills, who waited more than 14 hours. By 7.30 pm only a handful Tomorrow lar statement earlier from Uganda, the State Department is continuing to keep a close watch on the situation. An American naval force, headed by the nuclear aircraft-carrier Enterprise, is believed to be still in the Indian Ocean after leaving Mombasa, Kenya. President Carter's spokesman, Mr Jody Powell, denied yesterday that the task force had been ordered to stand by off the East African coast or that marines were ready to invade Uganda, but said Mr Carter would do what he thought necessary to save American lives anywhere. Washington had earlier expressed strong concern about President Amin's action over the Americans, which followed President Carter's statement on Wednesday that "horrible murders" had apparently taken place in Uganda.

Diplomatic sources in Nairobi. Kenya, said the West German Embassy in Kampala had advised Americans in the capital to stay home as much as possible to minimise the risk of anyone ovcr-zca-lously interpreting President Amin's summons. Reporters at Kenya's border with Uganda were told today that no great number of Ugandan refugees had crossed the frontier. (AAP-Reuter) PAGE5: Cubans in Uganda; former prisoner tells of massacre. PAGE 6: Editorial.

LONDON, Sunday. President Idi Amin has put back the date of his meeting with all American citizens living in Uganda from tomorrow to Wednesday, Radio Uganda rc-jwrtcd today. The change was made at the request of the American community, the broadcast, monitored here, said. Many of the estimated 240 Americans in Uganda arc missionaries, some living in remote roadless areas more than 800 km from Kampala, the capit. l.

The site of the meeting has been changed from the international conference centre in Kampala to the international airport at Entebbe. Uganda Radio did not explain the changes beyond saying "only the airport can hold 3.000 people." The United States has received new independent assurances about the Americans in Uganda. A State Department spokesman said in Washington that the West German Government, which looks after American interests in Uganda, had told the United States it was taking "all steps to protect the Americans in Uganda and that they arc in no immediate danger." Bonn has represented American interests in Uganda since Washington closed its embassy in Kampala four years ago because of what it called a pattern of violence and violations of human rights. Despite this assurance and a simi Ft The Wonder of Life The second colour chart in a series on Man, his body and the scientists who discovered how it works. cnmpuTERS A weekly feature on the computer Industry.

THE prize of three books Phone 2 0944 to have the Herald delivered: It's eesier. by iir John Bclieman goes to A. Shapiro, of Vauclusc. who admits that "In befuddled stale 1 churn out this monstrosity; the Laureate I imitate, in nondescript pomposity." Here is the winning stanza: The British Crown rests firmly on her noble brow, serene. The world around in chaos reels, unshaken is the Queen.

A steadfast Rock in stormy seas, impregnable the Throne, Its roots deep in the People's hearts is their own. Fans wait patiently but in vain. (Another picture, 2) Streaker complains Chappcll took his bat lo the man after he interrupted play in the second Test at Eden Park. The man will appear in court tomorrow. Aust close to win, Page 11.

Referenda row A major row has broken out In the West Australian Liberal Party's State Council over what stand It will take on the four referendum questions in May. (Report, Page 2). Sequel to farmhouse killings Police find woman missing 6 days AUCKLAND, Sunday. The streaker who clashed with the Australian cricket captain. Greg Chappcll.

yesterday has laid a complaint of assault against him. ALSO IN SPORT: On other pages LATE NEWS The officer in charge at Gympie police station said Mrs Lamb was in a Faintest star seen is photographed very weak and delicate Referenda: Events in Tasmania, Western Australia pose threat to Federal Govt's plan. Page 2 Law reform: Seminar on condition. About 50 police from Gympie and surrounding districts and 40 police cadets from Brisbane searched more than Look! The winler altogether look. Page 10 Section 2 Turf: Trainer Tom Srjith decides to go jewel hunting wilh his lop coll.

Blazing Saddles. Page 11 Athletics: A youne man ho has lived in his brother's shadow establishes his own identity. Page 11 Riieby League: A pressure kick earns St George a win over Cronulla-Sulh-crland. Page 1 1 8,000 hectares of scrub and swamp country Noosa River, about 25 kilometres from Wolvi. She asked for directions to Double Island Point.

Police said she was badly scratched from bushes and was suffering from exposure. Police said Mrs Lamb had not eaten properly for six days. She was taken to Gympie Hospital where she was admitted in a serious condition. Police were keeping a guard on her bed at the hospital and it is expected that she will be interviewed as soon as she has recovered. Police early yesterday found a 35-year-old woman they had been seeking for six days in bush around the VVolvi, south Queensland, farmhouse where four people were killed last week.

The woman. Mrs Irene Lamb, had fled from the farmhouse after the killings. Three of the dead were her children. Two policemen dressed in old clothes as fishermen found Mrs Lamb when she approached them in thick scrub on the west bank of the around the Wolvi farm house on foot before Mrs I i i 1 .:) 1" wi tlti Si--- -i r.iv.j hit Lamb was found. Three days of heavy rain during the six-day search made it impossible for the four police dogs to pick up a scent, and the thick bush made Racing to get a new look The AJC committee has decided to remove restricted-class races from Saturday programs from August.

The switch to open-class competition only will follow the pattern set in Melbourne, whose racing is the best and strongest in Australia. Bert Lillyc's report, Page 11. Man found dead in plastic bag MELBOURNE. Homicide squad detectives arc investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a plastic bag on a beach near Flinders, 80 km south of Melbourne, early yesterday. Ho was John Hope, 42, a yachtsman, who was last seen jogging along the beach on Friday.

His hands and feet were tied with rope and stockings and Ihr bag was tied from the inside. Police said last night that they had not ruled out murder, but it was also possible that Mr Hope had tied himself up to teach himself how to survive if he fell overboard and got into difficulties. Mr Hope was married, with three young children. aerial spotting difficult. By a Staff Reporter Australian and British astronomers have photographed the faintest star sighted.

The star, known as a pulsar because of the pulsing radio signal it emits 1 1 times a second, is 1,600 light years from earth. The photographs are regarded as a major advance in astronomy. They were taken last month at the Anglo-Australian Observatory at Siding Spring, 400 kilometres north-west of Sydney. It is.only the second time a pulsar has been optically detected. The sighting has enabled scientists to prove that many stars become pulsars or neutron stars when they collapse.

Pulsars are remarkable objects. Scientists estimate that a matchbox full of their material would weigh a million tonnes. They are formed by super-novae the collapse of a star when both an explosion and an implosion occur. The explosion sends about 90 per cent of the star into space as gas clouds and the implosion forms a dense nugget of matter, a pulsar. The star photographed at Siding Spring is known as Vela pulsar, after the constellation in which it was found.

It was first discovered in 1968 by radio astronomers at the University of Sydney, and scientists have been trying ever since to "sight" the signals. The scanning of Vela pulsar took place on January 24 and 26. using a coniniitcr-cnntrollcd 381cm optical telescope. The team of astronomers, led by two CSIRO radio astronomers, Dr Richard Manchester alid Dr Miller Goss, will scan the pulsar again next month. victimless crime biased in favour of reform, says Churchman.

Page 2 Migrants: Teaching of English to adults in a crisis, says Teachers' Federation. Page 3 Mining dispute: Wran and union representatives to confer on sand-mining leases dispute. Page 4 Rhodesia: Black nationalists renew plea for referendum to choose leader. Page 4 Uganda: Cuban team to study President Amin's military needs. Page 5 Wage Indexation: A readers' forum.

Scliline Henry's hash Russell Baker. Editorials, bmeric. Pane 6 Medicine: Taking Ihe tiphl lo rheumatic diseases Shann Mcllraith. How Abba put it all togclher Lindsay Scotl. Records Roger Covell.

Music Fred Blanks. Page 7 Many of the police Crossword 1" F.sams 1" Finance 8 Law notices look! 10 Mails Motoring Radio 10 Shipping Sport 1 1-13 Television lift-out between 10 and II Weather 9 searched for 24 hours day. Pclcr Lamb. 37. appeared in Gympie Magis trate Court last I uesclav charced with the murders of Thomas Lamb.

17, his sisters. Laurcllc, 12. and Brcnda. 3, and a New Zealand woman. Toni Olivia Ashbv, 27, also known as Toni Olivia Printed and mibfiihed by John fair fax Som Limited Jonei Street, Broadway.

PoataVaddms, Box 506, G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Registered for polling a ntwfpipcr Cta Cory 'Recommended and mm mum prlc onty. Intenlaw by air Jitf. Lavctti. Mrs Lamb a family Tonl Olivia Ashby also album photograph.

known as Ton! Lavcltl He was remanded until tomorrow..