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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The government plans to reconstruct the bank robbery it says is symbolic of Patricia Hearst's conversion to terrorism the same holdup the defense portrays as her ultimate struggle for survival. Jim Smith, manager of the Hibernia Bank held up by the Symbionese Liberation Army April 15, 1974, was lined up as the trial's first witness today. Miss Hearst held a submachine gun during the robbery. A jury of seven women and five men was sworn in Wednesday and heard chief First witness is scheduled in Hearst case prosecutor James L. Browning Jr.

describe the 21- year-old newspaper heiress as a willing and profane bandit. Her chief defense counsel, F. Lee Bailey, in his opening statement, called the pale defendant "a prize pig" tortured by a convict self- taught in the rudiments of mind control and determined to have Miss Hearst branded an outlaw. From the time of her Feb. 4, 1974, abduction until the bank robbery two months later, Bailey said, Miss Hearst was taunted daily by the SLA, told her family had abandoned her, that the authorities wanted her dead and that she had nowhere to go.

She was mentally and sexually tortured, he said, and was ordered to participate forcefully in the bank holdup or the SLA would "blow her to bits" if she "messed up." She became convinced that cooperation with her captors was "her only means of survival" he said. So, she rushed into the bank with the others, was introduced as a revolutionary called "Tania" and helped the SLA speed off with $10,690. "Miss Hearst was a prisoner of war for 20 months" until her capture in San Francisco last Sept. 18, Bailey said. Bailey said SLA leader Donald "Cinque" DeFreeze studied mind control books while in prison and used the techniques he had learned on Miss Hearst.

Browning, in his opening argument, said he would offer testimony that Miss Hearst wielded her submachine gun with apparent sincerity and uttered obscenities as she ordered customers to the floor. The jury also will hear tape recordings of Miss Hearst before and after the holdup in which she said she had joined the SLA, taken the name of Tania and freely participated in the crime. Earlier Wednesday, the defense fought to have the tapes banned from the trial, but U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter denied the motion.

Browning also said he would introduce a document recovered the day Miss Hearst was arrested in which the defendant allegedly bragged about her role as "Tania" and willing participant in the bank heist. With some portions in her own handwriting, Browning said, Miss Hearst wrote that the robbery was staged "because we needed the money and we wanted to illustrate that Ta (sic) was alive and her deision was not a bunch of B.S." Miss Hearst, sitting opposite the jury on the second anniversary of her kid- naping, kept her head bowed during most of the opening statements. She whispered to Bailey several times while Hrowning was talking. Mostly, she stared at the surface of the defense table, hands clasped in Ian but she occasionally studied the jury when her attorney talked. When Bailey alluded to her mental and sexual abuse, she took a sip of water from a styrofoam cup and her right hand flinched slightly.

Bailey said he would present three psychiatric experts who would testify that sometime before the bank robbery Miss Hearst "broke" and her ability to reason was lost in terror. He said ihe young woman was "yanked" from her Berkeley apartment by the SLA and kept in a dark closet for six to nine weeks. The SLA decided to stage the bank robbery', he said, "for the purpose of making Patricia Hearst an outlaw so that they need not be so concerned about her escape if ever the opportunity should arise." He said the "continual carping" by theSM and the "horror" of watching five SLA members, including DeFreeze, die in a fiery shoolout with IXM Angeles police a month after the robbery reinforced her belief that she could never surrender. Thursday February 5,1976 Quake's death toll rises above 2,000 GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) Aid poured into Guatemala today as the estimated death toll from the devastating earthquake Wednesday rose to more than 2,000. "The 2,000 figure is conservative," said Col.

Manuel Angel Ponce, head of the Emergency Rescue Committee. "We think it may be higher. "We are still receiving reports from the interior of the country. Many areas are still without communication and we just do not know how serious the damage really is." Officials said at least 3,000 others were injured in Guatemala. The U.S.

Embassy reported no American casualties although it was the height of the tourist season and damage in Guatemala City was heavy. Relief officials appealed for plasma, antibiotics and other medical supplies. The government also asked for tents, food, portable electric generators and earthmoving equipment to open roads. The earthquake struck shortly after 3 a.m. Wed- Fisher in race for Legislature Brady Fisher of Paris, one of the last candidates to enter the race to represent the Lamar County area in the Legislature, has an active background in governmental service.

Fisher, 23, filed Monday for the Democratic Primary, He will face Gary Ballard, 32, Paris High School mathematics teacher; L. P. (Pete) Patterson, 41, Lamar County Precinct 3 commissioner; and Troy E. Kern, 65, of Cooper, Delta County dairyman and former county judge. Fisher, a law school student, is a lifetime Paris resident.

HIS governmental service includes working as an aide to Congressman Wright Patman in Washington for four summers. He also served as an intern assistant to the U.S. House-Senate Joint Economic Committee. Fisher worked for the Texas Senate as assistant sergeant-at-arms during two special sessions on state finances and during one on insurance. He also worked for one regular session.

He was assistant sergeant- at-arms for the Constitutional Revision Com- rmssionof 1974. Most recently, up until returning home last week to run for the Legislature, Fisher worked for the office of Gov. Dolph Briscoe. In that position, he served as a staff member for the Greater South Texas Cultural Basin Commission, coordinating economic development grants. "THE IDEA of serving the people of my home district," Fisher said in a prepared statement announcing his candidacy, "has always held a challenge for me, and, since high school days, I have worked to prepare myself for this opportunity.

I have spent considerable time working in government service both in Washington and in Austin to learn how effective legislators get things done." Fisher is the son of Mr. a nd Mrs. George Fisher of Paris. Mr. Fisher recently retired BRADY FISHER Legislature from his job as a postman, and Mrs.

Fisher recently retired from the Paris Social Security office. Fisher is a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Paris. AFTER graduating from Paris public schools, Fisher attended Paris Junior College, where he was valedictorian of his graduating class. While at junior college, Fisher also was awarded a debate scholarship and served as Ballard is in county race One of the last names to be filed with the Democratic chairman in Lamar County gave Commissioner Jimmie Sparks of Precinct 1 an opponent. A.

G. Ballard, Clardy rancher and farmer, is to face Sparks for Precinct 1. BALLARD announced his candidacy for commissioner of Precinct 1, Monday. Ballard is 60. In a written release, Ballard said, "I think I am qualified to be commissioner and if elected, (I) will conduct the duties of this, office with honesty and integrity." The candidate also told A.

G. BALLARD 1 candidate The News that he felt some of the county roads within the precinct have been neglected. If elected, he proposes to "do all I can to help improve the conditions of the roads." Ballard, a native of Lamar County, owns a ranch 14 miles southeast of Paris in the community of Clardy. He is a member of the Farm Bureau. A member of the Bethel Baptist Church in Clardy, Ballard teaches the men's adultSundav School class.

He and his wife, the former Doris Eudy of Cunningham, have four children, Norris Ballard and Kay Hancock, both of Clardy, Sue Gibbs of Detroit and Louellen Hanna of Bogata. nesday across 2,000 miles stretching from Mexico City south through the heart of Guatemala and into Honduras and El Salvador. The epicenter was located 30 miles southwest of Guatemala City between the villages of Siguinla and Iscuintla. Severe damage but no deaths were reported in Honduras near WTe Guatemalan border. There was less damage in El Salvador and very minor damage in some parts of southern Mexico.

Aid poured into Guatemala City through the international airport which remained open. Mexico sent a delegation of relief specialists and began an airlift of supplies. The presidents of' El Salvador and Honduras visited Guatemala City to coordinate aid from their countries. The Red Cross in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras sent convoys of trucks and ambulances with trained disaster teams and relief supplies. The American Red Cross sent a disaster specialist to assess what was needed.

Rainstorms move across dry Lamar Sudden rainstorms moved into Lamar County early today, quenching some of the dry grass which has made grass fires an everyday affair for the last month and Paris "officially recorded 0.29 inch of rain up until 8 a.m. Thursday, but gusts of rain still were falling at midmorning. That put the year's rainfall to date to 0.88 inch, still drastically behind the 5.65 of an inch recorded to date in 1975. In 1974, 3.42 inches had fallen through this date. The Paris rain was part of a front which pushed freezing rain, sleet and snow through parts of Texas early in the day.

Most of the precipitation had dissipated by dawn across the state but forecasters predicted scattered rainfall through Friday. The cold and freezing rain prompted travel advisories over the Panhandle and much of the rest of Northwest and North Central Texas around midnight. Some bridges and overpasses became glazed with ice as temperatures dipped be low freezing. Redistrict hearing set Pre-trial hearings on the suit to get Paris's city voting boundaries redistricted will be held Friday at 9 a.m. in Federal District Court in Paris.

Judge William Wayne Justice of Tyler will enter a pre-trial order which will establish the procedures for the forthcoming redistricting suit at this time, ac- cording to City Attorney T. K. Haynes. Judge Justice will decide at the pre-trial hearing which items of contention will or will not be heard during the redistricting suit, scheduled for hearing Feb. 12.

Allegations in the original redistricting suit, filed in February 1975, basically claim that the present system of City Council elections deprives racial minorities of equal representation. The present system of city elections calls for four ward representatives and three at large. The four ward members are required to live within their respective wards but are elected on a city-wide basis. The original suit named the Rev. A.

M. Seamon, Buford E. Blake, Walter F. Williams, Mrs. Annelt G.

Grant, Leon Williams and Charles E. Battle as the plaintiffs and then councilmen Dr. James Brunette, Joe King, O. L. Rainey, Doyle Whitaker, Sam M.

Stone, Brad Hutchison and W. M. Moore as the defendants in the case. JUST RIDIN' IN THE RAIN Willie Hartgrove, who rides his bike to and from work at Paris' Cherry Street Manor Nursing Home, hasn't been bothered by rain lately. But, the trip Thursday morning was a bit damp as much-needed rain fell in the area.

Paris had recorded .29 of an inch of rain until 8 a.m., with showers continuing at the time the measurement was taken. (Staff Photo by David Hathcox) Concorde OK due fight WASHINGTON (AP) Despite federal approval, the supersonic Concorde jet still must fly through the turbulence of court battles and attacks from Congress and local governments before carrying its first passengers to New York or Washington. The fast but noisy plane faces a particularly stiff battle in New York, where local and state officials may veto the decision by Transportation Secretary William T. Coleman allowing the Concorde to land at Kennedy International Airport, which is owned by the local Port Authority. The aircraft appears to have a better chance of eventually flying into Washington's Dulles International Airport, which is owned by the federal government.

In his decision Wednesday on the requests by British Airways and Air France to fly into the two airports, Coleman said they could operate there for a 16-month test period. The Concorde flies the Atlantic in about hours. compared with seven hours for conventional jets. The decision goes into effect March 4. Air France said it could begin one flight a day to Washington then, while British Airways said it hoped to begin service in early summer.

But the expected litigation delays could push back commercial service until next year. Coleman's decision was met with an immediate lawsuit and a barrage of criticism from some members of Congress, many of whom said they would seek to overturn the order through legislation because of the Concorde's noise on takeoff and landing and its alleged reduction of the protective layer of ozone around the earth. The next test for the French-British aircraft could come today when the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to take up a bill to fund airports. Sen. Lowell Weicker, R- said he would try to- tack on an amendment that would keep airport funds from going to any airport that allows the Concorde to land in scheduled service.

The House has already passed the airport funding bill with a similar amendment. In New York, local officials voiced strong objections to any Concorde operations at Kennedy. The New York and New Jersey Port Authority contends it has final say over whether the plane can land at Kennedy, an assertion that Coleman said earlier is subject to legal question. New York Gov. Hugh Carey, who in the past has opposed the Concorde, can veto any decision by the Port Authority.

A Carey spokesman said Wednesday that the governor's opposition remains unchanged. Five jailed in car theft ring break HUGO, Okla. men have been jailed here after after a three-week investigation in southeastern Oklahoma netted the recovery of nine late-model stolen luxury cars, a 1976 pickup truck and a boat. Officials said more arrests and the recovery of additional vehicles was expected before the investigation was complete. Choctaw County Sheriff James Buchanan said four men, including two Choctaw County residents, a Powderly, man and a Louisianan, were arrested and jailed Wednesday, white one Oklahoman was taken into custody in Me Curtain County.

Charges have not yet been filed. Buchanan said the car theft ring had apparently been operating for nearly six months in southeastern Oklahoma. Two undercover agents from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control reportedly purchased two cars stolen from the northeastern United States at a factory parking lot in Hugo Wednesday afternoon. Four men were taken into custody immediately. Buchanan said the cars, including Lincolns, Cadillacs and Chryslers, had an average list price of $11,000.

One of the undercover agents said he purchased one of the autos for $2,000. One of the cars had reportedly been stolen from Pennsylvania only Tuesday. Others were thought to have been stolen from New York and New Jersey. The late-model boat was valued at $12,000. Officials from the Oklahoma City Police Department auto theft bureau, the highway patrol, the Southwest Cattlemen's Association and McCurlain County sheriff's office also participated in the probe.

In The News The stretch run begins Friday night for four teams in District 15-2A basketball. See story on Page 7. State Senate Secretary Charles Schnabel will not testify before a holdover Travis County grand jury because he feels that jurys has shown by previous indictments it prejudiced against him, The Associated Press has learned. Story is on Page 5. Classified Page 9 Comics Page6 Deaths Page 10 Erma Bombeck Hospitals Page 10 Opinion Page 4 Sports Page? Women'snews Calendar FRIDAY 8 p.m.

Afro-American Club at Paris Junior College sponsors dance in the Ballroom of the Student Center. Weather LOCAL WEATHER U. S. Weather Bureau information for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, courtesy of Observer W.J.Thomas.

High temperature 72, low and overnight low 34. Temperature at 8 a.m. Thursday 35. Temperature range for this date last year 53-38. Record high for this date 78 in 1925, record low 8 in 1912.

Rainfall in the past 24 hours was 0.29 of an inch, bringing rainfall to this date at 0.88 of an inch. Rainfall to this date last year 5.66 inches. The sky was cloudy with light rain falling at 8 a.m. Thursday. PARIS AREA: Mostly cloudy with scattered light rain or rainshowers and a chance of thundenhowen in the east through Friday and ending in the northwest and north tonight.

Lows tonight 27 northwest to SO southeast. Highs Friday 45 west to SB southeast. THE OUTLOOK Paris area: Cobsiaermbie cloudiness and chance of rain Saturday and Sunday. Partly cloudy Monday. Cool Saturday.

A little wanner Sunday and Monday. Highest temperatures in 50s Saturday and the 80s Sunday and Monday. Lowwt temperatures mid 30s northwest to the mid 40s.