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DAILY FACTS, Red lands, Calif, Tuesday, July 2 Patty Hearst may take stand against Harrises SETS SPEED Air Force SR-71 aircraft set two maior world speed records today during training missions from Beaie Air Force Base, Caiif. The sieeic "blaclc bird' jet reconnaissance aircraft captured marlts heid by ttie Russian MI6 25 Foxbat today in the fiight made over desert areas of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. (UPl Telephoto) In flights today Lockheed SR71 captures two major speed records BEALE AIR FORCE BASE (UPI) The Lockheed SR71, a.jet reconnaissance plane, captured two major speed records from the Russian MIG25 Foxbat today over a 621-mile closed course at 2,086 miles per hour. Air Force officials said the new marlc beats the world absolute speed record of 1,853 miles per hour set in 1967 by the Soviet fighter. It also beat the MIG25's world class record, flown with a payload, at 1,815 mph.

The SR71 carried a payload of 2,200 pounds. Two more SR71 flights were scheduled today in attempts to set another speed and an altitude record in horizontal flight at 15 miles up, a mark presently held by the YF12A, a prototype interceptor also designed and built by Lockheed. The SR71 was designed and built at Lockheed's Burbank, plant by an advanced development projects group. The plane was assigned to the Strategic Air Command's Ninth Strategic Reconnaissance Wing here. It was flown by Maj.

Adolphus H. Bledsoe, the pilot, and Maj. John T. Fuller. The flight was made over remote desert areas of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona and its speed was measured by radar.

The SR71 set a trans Atlantic record in 1974 by dashing from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56 seconds. The same plane a few days later added another mark with a 3 hour, 47 minute and 35 second flight from London to Los Angeles. Scheduled for House vote Sikes calls reprimand decision WASfflNGTON (UPI) The House Ethics Committee says Rep. Robert L.F. Sikes, "has violated standards of conduct applicable to all members of Congress," and should be reprimanded but not punished.

The panel's formal report on the Sikes case was published Monday and confirmed earlier UPI reports that it would recommend a reprimand on two of three complaints against him and was withholding a rebuke on the third only because it took place too long ago. It was the first time the committee has acted against any member of Congress since it was created in 1968 after the late Adam Clayton Powell was expelled from the House for misuse of committee funds. But one member chastised the committee for the July 1 "leak" of its findings to UPI and the Washington Star. The report is tentatively scheduled to come to the House floor Thursday, where it could be opened to amendment by a majority vote or simply voted up or down. Sikes declined comment pending a speech in the House, but in a CBS interview he called the findings unjustified and said his re-election chances have not been damaged by the action.

The committee acted after Common Cause, the citizens advocacy group, filed complaints claiming that Sikes: Failed to disclose stock holdings in Fairchild Industries, a major defense contractor, while he was chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee on military construction. Failed to disclose holding stock in a bank which he helped establish on the Pensacola Naval Air Station. Plan to harvest redwood acreage gets approval SACRAMENTO (UPI) A controversial plan to harvest 40 acres of redwood near Redwood National Park in Humboldt County was approved Monday by state Forester Larry Richey. Under Areata Redwood plan, a two-mile road will be built into the Dolason area near the park. The timber will be clear-cut during the two-year period it will take to ccxistruct the road.

Environmentalists contend logging in the area will damage the watershed, open the area to further logging and threaten the existence of the park. But Richey said, "No significant damage will occur in the area or the national park. The timber company has agreed to all mitigation measures of the Division of Forestry, the National Park Service and the state geologist." EB and FLO Failed to disclose an interest in a Florida land development project at a time he pushed legislation advantageous to the project. The committee recommended reprimand for the Fairchild and bank stock cases but said since the land case occurred in 1961 and 1962 it did not feel it had jurisdiction because it was not in existence at that time. The report said that "if such, activity had occurred within a relatively recent time frame and had just now become a matter of public knowledge, the recommendation of some form of punishment would be a matter for consideration by the committee." Common Cause said in a statement it was pleased the committee accused Sikes of "wrongdoing" but it still believed censure would be more appropriate than reprimand.

Reprimand carries no penalty other than being carried on the House official records. Rep. F. Edward Hebert, D- who with Rep. Olin Teague, cast tlie two "no" votes in the 10-2 committee vote adopting the report, filed dissenting views.

He said he was "definitely against" reprimanding Sikes because he "explained his position in these matters immediately upon learning that his compliance with the rules, as he understood them, was not correct. LOS ANGELES (UPD- Prosecutor Sam Mayerson dropped a bombshell at the trial of William and Emily Harris today with announcement that Patricia Hearst was ready to take the witness stand and testify against them at their kidnap- robbery-assault trial. Mayerson said he had been informed just this morning by Miss Hearst's attorney, Albert Johnson, that the 22-year-old heiress was prepared to "waive all rights and privileges" which might lead to self- incrimination since she faces the same charges. Mayerson had just about concluded the government case against the Harris couple, former SLA captors of Miss Hearst, in the charges stemming from a May, 1974, incident at a Los Angeles sporting goods store in which all three were involved. Miss Hearst's trial had been severed from that of the Harrises while she underwent psychiatric examination ordered by the judge at her San Francisco bank robbery trial and Mayerson had said previously that the prosecution did not intend to call Miss Hearst as a witness at the Harris trial.

Mayerson's statement caught the defense completely by surprise. FPC triples rates for natural gas WASHINGTON (UPI) The Federal Power Commission nearly tripled today the rates producers can charge for natural gas sold in interstate commerce. The commission, ruling after a two-year review of the current ceiling of 52 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, set a new ceiling of $1.42 for gas headed for interstate commerce after Jan. 1, 1975. It also set a $1.01 ceiling for gas dedicated from Jan.

1973, to Dec. 31, 1974. Gas which is already under sales contracts could not be increased in price unless its contracts allowed that. Some contracts have renewal clauses. Commissioner Don S.

Smith strongly disagreed with the 3-1 FPC decision, saying, "It is too high. The costs do not support the rate. The impact is excessive." Smith estimated the increases would total $1.3 billion in the first year of the new rates, which are effective immediately. Energy Action, an energy interest group, said it will ask a federal court Wednesday to postpone effective date of the rates, and then will return to court to challenge them as too high. The consumer will feel much less than the on-paper rate change.

Because it essentially deals with gas newly produced and sold interstate, it will come gradually into the rate scale. Also, the gas price "at the wellhead" at the point of production is but a fraction of a homeowners' average gas bill. The FPC majority said it took the action "to reverse the trend of diminishing dedications of new gas supplies to the interstate market." In addition to the new rate ceilings, the FPC will allow a four-cent yearly escalation to match inflation. The commission said 40 cents of the new price "reflects the tax reduction act of 1975," which cut down on some of the tax breaks of oil and gas firms. by Paul Sellers I GCn MY OWU BACK ON THE INTERNAL REVENUE YOU WHERE THE 'PO HOT WRITE IN THIS BOX, Did You Miss Your Vacation in '76? 4: How about spending 2 WEEKS in THE MEDITERRHNERN NoMi May 793-7551 Ltura Lreatura 298 EAST CITRUS AVENUE.

REDLANOS Mayerson asked for a recess of the trial until Thursday saying he wanted to go to San Diego to talk with MisS Hearst at the Federal Detention Center there about what she might be willing to testify to. Monday, Miss Hearst's trial on the Los Angeles charges was postponed until early next year after her lawyer argued that it should not be held at all. The trial of the Harris couple was recessed Monday for Miss Hearst's appearance in the same high-security courtroom with a wall of bullet-proof glass separating the court from the gallery. The U-count indictment naming the Harrises and Miss Hearst involved a shoplifiting incident at Mel's Sporting Goods store in which the front of the store was sprayed by machine gun fire from a van across the street. The Harris has said Miss Hearst fired the gun and endangered them as well as the store security guard who was trying to capture Harris.

Miss Hearst and the Harrises did not see each other in the courtroom Monday. The Harrises were battling to prevent introduction as evidence of a defiant tape recording they made with Miss Hearst a month after the sporting goods store incident and the killing of six members of the SLA by police in the Watts section of Los Angeles. Ford proclaims Leif Erikson Day Oct. 9 WASHINGTON (UPI) Leif Erikson finally won equal rights with Christopher Columbus, so far as celebrations are concerned. President Ford Monday proclaimed each Oct.

9 as Leif Erikson Day to honor the Norseman who in the words of the proclamation "touched our shores" centuries before the Italian explorer's Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria sighted what is now the Dominican Republic. Leif Erikson Day was authorized by a joint resolution of Congress. Ford ordered government buildings to hang out the flag on Leif Erikson Day and invited all Americans to honor the Norseman "by holding appropriate exercises and ceremonies in suitable places throughout our land." Cannery strike continues Overripe tomatoes finally arrive in Washington D.C. WASHINGTON (UPI) California farmers drove a sharpsmelling, 13-ton truckload of overripe tomatoes into Washington today to dramatize the impact of a strike by cannery workers. "This is what we're looking at every day," Fred Starrh said, holding up a dripping handful of the tomatoes at an open-air news conference on the Mall a few blocks from the Capitol.

"We feel Congress should enact legislation protecting agriculture from strikes at harvest time," he said. "This load of tomatoes demonstrates what we, as growers, face in our fields when harvest days are lost to a strike," he said. Starrh said 60,000 tons of tomatoes and "thousands" of tons of peaches and other crops already have been spoiled and lost because of the strike. He predicted consumers inevitably would face higher prices for canned tomatoes and fruits as a result. Starrh and other growers from are seeking a quick end to a cannery strike which has left thousands of tons of their fruits and vegetables spoiling in fields.

They brought the ful of produce across country to display here and to parade past the offices of the Teamsters Union and the National Canners Association. Starrh earlier had said growers planned to display their tomatoes at the White House and the Agriculture Department to underline pleas for an emergency "cooling off" period in the cannery strike. But he said they decided to drop plans for parking the tomato truck near the White House due to heightened concerns over security following the recent fatal shooting of an intruder on the White House grounds. He said they called off a plan to display the tomatoes in front of the Agriculture Department because Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz had tried to help both growers and consumers by stopping the strike. Starrh said the fault lies with "the inaction of the Teamsters Union and California canners (for) not settling this dispute in over 60 days of negotiations plus seven days of striking.

Spokesmen estimated the cost of trucking the tomatoes here at $5,000. They said the 13 tons, grown by Jack Thompson of Arvin, would have brought the producer $700 normally. A growers' representative says it will take California peach growers at least three years to recover from the Teamsters ynion strike against state canneries. "Monday was disaster day in California following a weekend of 100-plus temperatures," Ugo Cavaiani said. "We must now consider 80 per cent of the extra early varieties, which comprise one-fourth of the entire cling peach crop, as totally gone." Cavaiani said about one-fifth of the total California cling peach crop has been lost as a result of the strike called last week against 70 canneries employing 65,000 persons at the harvest peak.

Growers' losses are now so great, Cavaiani said, "that it will take us at least three years to recover and by then the cannery contract will expire again. So what's the use. Growers have passed the point Las Vegas 'fun train' abandoned CARSON CITY, Nev. (UPI) The State Economic Development Department said today the so-called weekly "Fun Train" hauling tourists from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is being abandoned because of lack of riders. The department said the short-lived venture lost $70,000 to $80,000 for Iron Horse a private Las Vegas firm which promoted and marketed the tour packages.

Department Director Robert Goodman said the state did not lose anything because of guarantees by Iron Horse. Goodman and Amtrak regional vice president Neal D. Owen said the weekly train will make its las't trip from Los Angeles Aug. 6. of no return." He said he wired negotiators currently meeting under federal auspices in Washington, D.C, asking them to "put the facts on the table and make the public aware of what is going on." Cavaiani also requested a Congressional investigation of the dispute, which centers on wages.

Department of Agriculture officials said Monday a three-man team they sent to California last weekend at President Ford's request to assess the impact of the strike had compiled a report on the situation. Details of the report were not disclosed. The agriculture department said the cost of the first week of the strike in estimated crop losses was $16.8 million, including $3.5 million worth of peaches, $7 million of tomatoes $6.3 million in apricots. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow troubie. Lyon During The Summer Vacation Travel Season! DON'T BUY AN UNKNOWN-BKHDn BUY BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT NATIONWIDE STRIKE SOME TIRE SIZES AND TYPES MAY bE IN LIMITED SUPPLY AT YOUR DEALER OR STORE YOU WILL BE RAIN CHECK WHICH WILL ENABLE YOl; TO GET THE ADVERTISED PRICE WHEN THE TIRES ARE AVALABLE YOUR CHOICE OF 10 SIZES A78-13 F78-14 B7B-13 G78-14 078-14 H78-14 078-14 G78-15 E78-14 H76-15 S-Rib rirftstone Deluxc ChaiRpioH' WIDE 78 SERIES 4-Ply Polyester Cerd Tire ONE LOW PRICE WHfTEWALLS ADD S3.00 25 Blackwalls Plus $1.74 to $2.80 F.E.T.

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