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Friday, Oct. 17, 1975 i Reno Evening Gazette outhern Pacific strike disrupts western travel r- iv; 1 A if I.tw-J -of -V Ml :4 way for several days "but broke down completely Thursday afternoon." Train service was disrupted for about 9,000 San Francisco Peninsula commuters today in the wake of the strike. Rush-hour traffic was slower than usual on freeways into San Francisco as many stranded commuters were forced to take their cars and others rode extra buses put into service by a transit company. Amtrak spokesman Art Lloyd said a westbound New Orleans-Los Angeles train had to stop in Yuma, on Thursday night but was expected to get through to Los Angeles today. Lloyd said a westbound Chicago-San Nearly 200 Southern Pacific employes in the Reno-Sparks area have been affected by a railway clerks iSrike in six Western States.

A total of 8,000 railway clerks ivalked off the job at 8 p.m. Thursday in a dispute over work rules with Southern Pacific. Four Amtrak passenger trains, carrying a total of 720 passengers, were stranded or delayed en route to their destinations Thursday night when engine crews refused to cross picket lines. Picketing reportedly was widespread throughout the system. Three locations in Sparks and the freight office in Reno were all being picketed at midmorning.

"We tried to get to a federal judge (in San Francisco) by 8 a.m. today. We're hopeful (of a settlement) by noon," a spokesman in Reno said. Pickets in Reno started their vigil at 10 p.m. Thursday and had stopped work by all other departments, affecting Southern Pacific's entire work force in the area.

'it's a railway clerk's union strike," said the Reno spokesman. "But it affected train crews, who couldn't come do their jobs. It worked right down the channels. We had to close down the system." Trains in and out of the area have been halted. Andy Anderson, SP public relations director, said the clerks walked off their jobs Thursday night after talks broke down over reassignment of work positions.

He said the railroad probably would seek a court injunction today to order the striking workers back to work. "It's an illegal strike," declared Anderson, "and if they don't return to work, our only recourse will be to go to court." He said the walkout was prohibited under a three-year contract signed last July. However, Ron Stewart, San Francisco representative for the International Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, said the strike was fully sanctioned. Anderson said about 30,000 Southern Pacific employes in Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah were affected by the strike. Rail operations elsewhere fall under a separate contract, he said.

Anderson said talks had been under Francisco train was halted in Ogden Utah, and a northbound train on the same route stopped in Oakland. All quiet at rail yards SP operations throughout the West. Commuter trains A southbound Seattle-Los Angeles train that had been delayed in Klamath Falls, left for Oakland late Thursday, and Lloyd said it would tie up there if necessary. A northbound train on the same route stopped in Oakland, he said. Amtrak was attempting to arrange bus transportation or room accommodations for its passengers.

This was the scene today at Southern Pacific's Third and Townsend Street station in San Francisco as empty tracks contradicted a work sign. The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks struck the line, idling which normally carry up to passengers rjeiween San Francisco and San Jose stayed in the yards. (UPI photo) Harrises plead innocent to 11 criminal counts New York money crisis vVi be tried within 60 days, the judge began proceeding toward setting a trial date in December. Both Harrises seemed more relaxed than in other court appearances. Emily, 28, wore a black print blouse and pants.

Bill, 30, carried a legal-size folder from which he withdrew a note pad and jotted notes during the court session. Leonard Weinglass, attorney for Emily Harris, had asked for a one-week adjournment so the defense could take an oral deposition from Bell and conduct its own investigation into his background. The oral deposition was sought to see if Bell had made any private or public statements on the SLA or similar organizations and whether there were instances in his background that would result in his prejudice or bias. Weinglass said Bell had served in the U.S. Justice Department, as a prosecutor for the U.S.

attorney's office and was active in Republican party politics. The attorney also raised the question of how many times Bell had been challenged by defense attorneys in the past and the jurist replied that in all probability he had been challenged more than any judge in the county. He suggested the reason was that he was known for not being lenient in By LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES (AP) Terrorist couple William and Emily Harris pleaded not guilty today to 11 counts of kidnaping, assault and robbery in a crime spree involving heiress-turned-fugitive Patty Hearst. The two self-avowed members of the Symbionese Liberation Army stood and pronounced "not guilty" separately in firm voices after losing a bid to have the judge disqualify himself for bias. Trial was set to begin Nov.

24. It was not immediately known whether Miss Hearst, charged with the Harrises, would be tried with her comrades. She currently is jailed in Northern California, awaiting results of psychiatric tests on whether she is competent to stand trial. Superior Court Judge Homer Bell, refusing defense suggestions that he leave the case, said that he would not be prejudiced by any stories he has read about the case because he hasn't read many. "I probably know less about this case than anybody in the County of Los Angeles," he said.

"I get upset by the news sometimes and turn it off and turn on some dramatic show I have too many problems of my own to concern myself with these problems Citing the guarantee that the defendants Continued from Page 1 President Ford, meanwhile, called a meeting at the White House with his Treasury secretary, budget director and the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to discuss the crisis. Ford has expressed strong opposition to any federal aid to rescue the city, and a iVhite House spokesman said his position had not changed. "This does not imply a change in policy in any way," the spokesman said. On bond markets, analysts said activity was quiet and relatively calm, with most hivestors apparently awaiting the outcome of the day's events. Bonds issued by the Municipal Assistance Corp.

Big MAC) the agency set up to try to Jtave off default, were trading a half point to a point lower. On the stock market, the crisis pushed Some New York City bank stocks broadly iower in heavy trading, while most others ere off fractionally. Gov. Hugh Carey's press secretary said Jianks and the Federal Reserve System were being asked to stay open an extra hour, until 4 p.m., to give city and state officials more time to try to work out a solution. There was no immediate answer to Ihe request.

Prospective default raised the danger of Immediate, major disruptions of the city's life massive furloughs of city employes, payless paydays, unpaid welfare benefits, school closings and perhaps even a loss of some police and fire protection. Some financial anaylysts have warned that default could undermine the stability of the nation's entire financial system and threaten the economic recovery. Others, including the top economic policymakers of the Ford administration, have disputed that view. Sources close to the talks with the teachers' union said Shanker wanted assurances that the city would back off from such planned economy measures as teacher layoffs and wage freezes, but that he was rebuffed by Gov. Carey.

Finally, just before 1 a.m. the pension fund board of trustees voted formally not to make the investment, although pledging to meet later in the day to reconsider the action. Asked at that time if a reversal was possible, Reuben Mitchell, a union member of the board, said "I don't really think it's likely, but there is a possibility." A grim-faced Felix Rohatyn, who heads MAC and has been involved in the city's fiscal crisis all year, declared that "if this stands, the likelihood is very great that we will default." The immediate loss from a default would be only to holders of the city's debt, ranging from banks to small private investors. But within a week the city would face payrolls and welfare payments for which it would have little or no cash. Rohatyn said that in that event, the city might furlough nonessential employes in order to conserve its resources for such critical functions as police and fire protection.

Asked if teachers would be among the "nonessential" workers furloughed, Rohatyn said "they would be first in line." oSlayings Continued from Page 1) "I felt that on the satanic cults, that sort of thing should be stopped," he said. "A lot of the killings I done I know was wrong. Maybe by writing the story, could help a lot of people, younger people, so they wouldn't follow the same path as I did." Creech has given officials and newsmen a lengthy account of his life, including his claimed killings. Creech testified he was captured while on his way to Colorado to fulfill a murder contract on Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo.

He said he attended a meeting in Salt Lake City in July 1973 in which Hart and Govs. John Love of Colorado find John J. Gilligan of Ohio were involved with deals with a drug syndicate. Law enforcement officers have discounted the story. Hart, Gilligan and Love called the story preposterous, outrageous and ravings.

Creech contradicted his own testimony several times during the day, mixing dates and places. He confessed to one killing he is charged with in Oregon, but denied the other. He said he killed William J. Dean, 22, Astoria, in Creech's sexton quarters at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Portland Aug.

14, 1974. But he denied shooting Sandra Jane Ramsamoog, 19, at a Salem, grocery store Aug. 17, 1974, saying he was there but did not pull the trigger. Troops in Azores oSmoke (Continued from Paee 1 (Continued from Page 1 placed on alert Brezhnev mystery solved; fie was home with a 'chill' OTTOKERNER Kerner seeking pardon WASHINGTON (AP) -Former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner, convicted years ago in a race track bribery case, has asked President Ford for a pardon, the Justice Department said today.

Kerner also asked for an exemption from a ruling requiring that a convicted felon wait five years from the date he is released from prison before a pardon request can be considered. Department spokesman Dean St. Daniel originally had said that no request for an exemption has been filed and that the pardon request was rejected on procedural grounds. Later, he reversed himself and said the exemption application was on file with the department. The requests were filed by Kerner's attorney, Thomas E.

Patton. If Atty. Gen. Edward H. Levi approves the waiver, formal consideration of the pardon petition can begin.

Kerner, 67, was released from the federal prison in Lexington, March 6, 1975, on parole after his doctor diagnosed an illness as lung cancer. By DAVID MASON MOSCOW (AP) Leonid I. Brezhnev canceled his meeting on Wednesday with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing because he was home with a chill, the Soviet Communist party chief said today. "I've not been to the office for two days. I Brezhnev told Giscard as the French president arrived for their second meeting pfGiscard's visit.

By STEPHENS BROENING LISBON, Portugal AP) Troops in the Azores were put on al.ert today and a navy frigate stood offshore following clashes between loyalist soldiers and civilian separatists who want independence from Portugal, officials said. The incidents began Thursday night in Ponta Delgado, on the principal island of Sao Miguel, when separatists from the Azores Liberation Front ran up the flag of independence. Unarmed soldiers who tried to lower the banner were stopped by separatists until armed troops from the artillery garrison in the city forced their way to the flagstaff and hauled the flag down. Civilians rioted in front of the army headquarters afterwards and burned the car of the garrison commander. Soldiers were posted on guard in front of the barracks.

The Azores consist of nine main islands mi'es west of Lisbon in the Atlantic. One of the islands Terceira, houses a big U.S. military base. As violence erupted there, the independent Lisbon weekly Jornal reported that senior military authorities fear a coup by radical leftists within the next three weeks to bring pro-Communist Gen. Vasco Goncalves back to power.

The paper said its sources expect the move to be made with Communist party backing before Angola becomes independent on Nov. 11 so that power in the rich African territory could be transferred to a nationalist movement backed by the Soviet Union. Senior government officials have been telling foreign newsmen the same thing in the past few days. He also claimed he killed Riogley Stewart McKenzie, 22, near Baggs, Wyo. Police said they found the body on Creech's information.

In Sacramento, police said Creech's fingerprints were found in the dwelling of murder victim Vivian Grant Robinson, 50, killed in June 1974. Creech said his first murder was drowning a friend at New Miami, Ohio, when he was 17. Three French newsmen who were allowed to interview Brezhnev briefly iefore the meeting started said he looked Two people were injured in the blaze which gutted the 52-year-old structure. The state fire marshal later said the fire was accidental. The hotel, opened in 1923 by early Nevada millionaire George Wingfield, was operated by Gus Knezevich from 1934 to 1972 when he sold out to Winnemucca realtor Bob Larson.

Security National Bank bought the property about two months ago, according to N.E. Spottiswoode of the bank. He said a bank representative has gone to Winnemucca to assess the damage. Ten-times better view TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -Astronomers say they have perfected an instrument that boosts the viewing range of a telescope ten-fold and allows study of stellar bodies 100 times fainter than those now visible.

The instrument, a two-dimensional photon-counting television detector, will allow more exact study of quasars, pulsing bodies at the edge of the universe, says Gordon Gilbert, a University of Arizona astronomer. "It began on the first day of your visa, he told Giscard. "It was worse the second day. "You helped me in agreeing to postpone the talks until today. It is good that we are continuing them today." The French president turned to the newsmen and made a gesture which was taken to mean that the mystery surrounding the cancellation of the session Wednesday had been cleared up.

One of the French newsmen who had seen Brezhnev at the beginning of the talks Tuesday said the Soviet leader was visibly not feeling well Friday. He said Brezhnev's face was "puffed up and he didn't look good. He coughed once or twice. Giscard indicated earlier that nothing had gone amiss at the meeting on Tuesday. And before his arrival at the Kremlin, Brezhnev told the French newsmen, "We have invited Mr.

Giscard d'Estaing here to improve our relations. If it was to quarrel, it would not have been worth his coming here. One could have stayed in Paris and the other in Moscow. There must not be quarrels." Jired and appeared to be suffering irom a 2 -cold. I The cancellation of the meeting Wed- PsHav withnnt pvnlannHnn arnnuoH peculation that Brezhnev was ill, was by some position that Giscard had I 'taken in their first meeting Tuesday or was RfNOEVtNINGGAZfTTf A member of Spidel Newspapers Inc member of Associated Press Second Gens Postage paid at Reno, Nevada.

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Making a cranking gesture with one hand, Brezhnev saidie thought his chill was due lo "the window of the car." Chemistry, physics awards Five scientists share Nobel prizes J--- -lilt' mKZl since Cornforth has been deaf boyhood, one professor added. f7 campaign '717208 -s i 1 happy, and very happy to be sharing the prize with Professor Prelog," he said. He took the afternoon off to be "entertained by colleagues." Prelog, reached in Zurich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, said he was "so overwhelmed I simply cannot find the right words to express my feelings." Mottelson was unavailable for comment because he was on a trip to China. He was born in Chicago, 111., but became a Danish citizen in 1973 because most of his career as a physicist has taken place in Denmark. Cornforth received his half of the $143,000 chemistry prize for "his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions," the academy said.

Prelog was cited "for his research into the sterochemistry of organic molecules and reactions." The two scientists, who have worked independently of each other, were awarded the prize for work in the complex field of stereo-chemistry. Swedish professors said the field embraces geometry in three dimensions and is concerned with the delicate mechanism of important reactions in biological systems. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Five scientists, including an American, won the 1975 Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics on Friday for pioneer discoveries in their fields. The Swedish Academy of Science said the chemistry award is shared by John Warcup Cornforth, 58, a research professor at Sussex University in Brighton, England, and Yugoslavian-born Vladimir Preog, 69, of Zurich. The physics award went to James Rainwater, 57, of Columbia University, and two Danes Aage Bohr, 53, whose father Niels Bohr also won a physics Nobel prize for his nuclear research, and the younger Bohr's collaborator, Benjamin Mottelson, 49.

The chemistry awards were given for advances in understanding the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in molecules and the functional results of the arrangement. In physics, the awards also concerned atoms, this time regarding movement of tiny particles within the atomic nucleus and how that movement affects the structure of the nucleus. Cornforth said he was "working at the bench" at Sussex University in Brighton when the "total surprise" announcement came. "I am very In Copenhagen, Bohr told newsmen of the physics prize: "I consider this a collective award and in a wider sense this is actually an international achievement thanks to cooperation and processes of development over a long time. Actually I feel that my father's institute has been given this prize and I fully share my gratitude and delight with the rest of my working comrades." In New York, Rainwater said that getting the award gave him "sort of a sense of unreality.

It was something that I had done in 1949 and that seemed sufficiently far ago that I didn't think anything would come of it." The Swedish Academy of Science awarded the three nuclear scientists equal shares of the $143,000 prize, citing them for "the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection." Rainwater, 57, is the fifth American to win a 1975 Nobel prize. United Way of Northern Nevada Honored scientists United Way FOH ALL GF US Rainwater of Columbia University. They won the award for their research and contributions in nuclear physics. (UPI filephoto) Danish scientists Aage Bohr, left, and Ben Mottelson, were named winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics today along 'with American professor James i.