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iZ 1 A replica of "Spirit of St Louis" was framed against Rincons yesterday on anniversary of Lindbergh's 1927 visit. Story on Paso JB. FINAL 101ST YEAR 1 High school football Sabino 9, Salpointe 7 Rincon 47, Tucson 12 Amphi 27, Canyon del Oro 0 Sahuaro 18, Cholla 0 Flowing Wells 14, Coconino 7 San Manuel 25, Ajo 0 Safford 17, Wilkox 12 Buckeye 13, Bisbee 6 Sahuarita 44, Benson 12 15 CENTS 60 PAGES VOL 136 NO. 260 TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1977 if- top of the news weather st all CLOUDY, NO RAIN. The forecast calls for variable, mostly high cloudiness with breezy afternoons through tomorrow.

It should be cooler but no rain is predicted. A high in the upper 80s and a low in the mid-60s are expected. Yesterday's high and low were 92 and 69. Details on Page 4A. Callas as she rehearsed for "Medea" in 1959 An upper chamber committee voted to make your employer pay most of the cost of increased Social Security taxes, though you'd have to pay more starting in 1979.

If you're In the service, the Senate wants to forbid you to join a labor union- Senators voted yesterday on measures that will affect almost everyone in the work force or the military. If you're pregnant and working, the Senate wants to require your boss to include benefits for you in your -disability plan. local Famed prima donna Maria Callas is dead TOWING CONTRACTS. Seventeen auto towing operators in the Tucson area are challenging in court Dept. of Public Safety contracts with two other wreckers.

The plaintiffs want to go back to the rotation system. Page7B. Pregnancy aid extended anzona since an American tour in 1974, but had continued as a recording artist while living quietly in Paris. "I have just seen her on her bed. She is the image of La Traviata as she played the role in 1956 at La Scala in Milan.

Her face doesn't have a wrinkle," Glotz said. At Milan's La Scala Opera House, where Callas first gained renown, Superintendent Carlo Maria Badini said: "Callas enters by right into the legend of opera." Career highlights on Page 8A. PARIS (AP) Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her. lyric soprano, her fiery temperament and her romance with Aristotle Onassis, died yesterday at her Paris home. She was 53.

Her longtime artistic director, Michael Glotz, said she had suffered a heart attack in her apartment on the fashionable Avenue Georges Mandei and was dead when doctors arrived. Acclaimed as one of the foremost opera singers of the 20th century, Callas had not appeared on stage ALIEN TORTURE TRIAL. A 26-year-old Mexican testifies that he was tied "like a calf," stripped, threatened with castration and burning with a "red hot" poker and then shot at by three Douglas ranchers last year. Page4A. nancy-related medical expense that could be covered by such plans.

Eagleton said he feared that even though the bill does not spell out that abortions would have to be covered in such plans, "I fear that the bill's language could be construed to mean that all employers would be forced to pay out disability benefits for abortions." The Senate action drew praise from Karen Mulhauser, leader of the National Abortion Rights Action League. She said in a statement, "The Senate has voted to protect the health and employment status of women across the nation by not excluding abortions as part of the pregnancy disability The bill would overturn the effects of a December 1978 (Continued oa Page WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted yesterday to require employers to include pregnancy benefits in any workers' disability plans they offer. The legislation, if enacted by the House, would overcome the effects of a controversial Supreme Court ruling. The bill is backed by many women's groups. The Senate vote was 75 to 11.

A similar measure is currently awaiting floor action in the House. Employers who offer disability benefits also would have to cover pregnancies and pregnancy-related disabilities under the proposed amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Before approving the bill, the Senate, on a 44-to-41 vote, rejected an amendment by Sen. Thomas Eagleton, that would have prohibited abortions from being considered a preg national YANKEES RALLY. New York comes from behind to defeat Detroit 5-4 and maintain its 2fc game lead in the American League East pennant race.

Second-place Baltimore downs Boston 6-1 as the Red Sox fall into third place, 3' games behind the Yankees. Page IF. Four children shot to death in Ozarks Social Security altered Budget Director Bert aw LANCE ON LINE. Lance runs into tough questioning from a Senate committee over whether he delayed an FBI inquiry into his past and whether bank overdrafts constituted an unfair advantage in his gubernatorial campaign. But he gains an ally in Sen.

Thomas Eagle-ton, Page IA. WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Finance Committee, looking for a politically acceptable answer to the Social Security tax dilemma, voted yesterday to dump most of the burden on employers. But workers would pay higher taxes starting in 1979. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, principal author of the plan, said it would put the pension system on a sound financial footing for the next 75 years.

The committee also voted to double to $6,000 a year the amount a retired person may earn without losing Social Security benefits. Similar action has been taken by a House ways and means subcommittee. And to correct an earlier error, the panel approved a formula to ensure that future pensioners don't get a double increase in benefits because of inflation. The committee's proposed solution to the Social Security problem has some elements of the plan proposed by President Carter. But it rejects Carter's notion of pouring some income-tax revenues into Social Security.

Here is the net effect of the tax changes voted by the Senate committee (the figures take into account tax increases already scheduled under current law): By 1965, the maximum annual tax on an employee would (Continued an Page 12A, CoL 1) CLIMAX SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) Four children were shot to death at their isolated home in the Ozarks section of Missouri while their parents were away. Police took two men into custody yesterday for questioning. The parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George Swift, were away at a bingo game Thursday night when the shootings occurred in the wooded, resort country near the Lake of the Ozarks. The Missouri Water Patrol said yesterday that the two men were apprehended without resistance at a bridge over the Niangua River Branch of the lake, near the children's home. The patrol said physical descriptions of the men and their boat had been provided by the sheriff's office. "I don't know what we're dealing with," Deputy Sheriff Joe Vaughn had said earlier. Military unions banned index Bridge IB 4C-12D Comics 8B Comment It-11A Financial I-7F Horoscope 9E Lifestyle 1-JE Movies WE Names, 7B Public Records SB Religion ME Sports 1-5F Tucson JE TV-Radio IB "I don't have a motive.

I don't know why those people are dead." The murdered Swift children were identified as Steve, 14; Greg, 12; Tonya, and Stacey, 15 months. School officials said the family had moved into an isolated small, pink house along a Camden County road last March. John Beard en, Camden ton schools superintendent, described the boys as "just good, quiet boys involved in the usual school activities" and said school records did not show where the family had come from. County Coroner R. R.

Porter said the parents were at a bingo game in nearby Sunrise Beach when the killings occurred about 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The bodies were found by a neighbor who had stopped at the home to deliver a message because the family had no telephone. Two bodies were on the living room floor and a third was in a bed. The fourth body was about 10 feet from the house.

Porter said three of the children were shot in the head and the fourth was shot in the base of the neck with a small-caliber weapon. Vaughn said all the bodies were fully clothed and that the children had not been tied up. He said there were no signs of forcible entry. WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate yesterday passed a bill to prohibit labor unions in the U.S. military services.

the measure was sent to the House by a 72-to-3 roll call vote. It would impose criminal penalties, a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, on any member of the armed forces or reserves, including the National Guard, joining a union seeking to negotiate with the government on terms and conditions of military service. Officers and civilian employes of the military would be prohibited from bargaining with a labor union. Solicitation of union membership also would be banned. Sen.

John C. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a chief sponsor of the bill along with Sen. Strom Thurmond, called it "preventive." Although the membership of the American Federation of Government Employes recently voted overwhelmingly against an effort to organize the military, tennis said that the threat remains. "It is distinct possibility unless the Congress acts to express a strong national sentiment against it," Stennis said. As passed, the bill would withdraw the existing right to join unions of civilian technicians who work for military reserve and National Guard units of which they are also required to be members.

Stennis said there are about VtjKO such who now belong to unions. An amendment by Sen. James Abouretk, to exempt dual-status civilian technicians was defeated 43-34. Abourezk challenged a unionization ban fcr crvffian technicians as a violation of First Amendment rights under the Constitution. He said the whole bill is subject to constitutional questions, but it was "especially reprehensible not to allow civilian technicians to have representation." District One enrollment drops to seven-year low By UNDA ROACH MONROE The Arizaaa Dairy Star This year's enrollment in Tucson School after a desegregation lawsuit against the District One will not reach 60,000, the first district is resolved, she said.

A decision on the suit is expected late this year. time in seven years the district has dropped Halfway houses could relieve prisoner crowding ww poBv awc rmnpi; are less restricted than the federal prisoners in terms of supervision, and that factor onry created animosity among the federal prisoners," be said. He also pointed out that attmsagh the daily cost of a halfway may be cheaper than the state prison, money bat been alocated for the prison and cannot be paid oat for other services without legisiatrve approval One state official said the aae of private halfway bouses is stul possible if Muecke Fellow board member Raul Grijalva who in 1974 helped lead a fight against the last board decision to close two schools disagrees that closures are inevitable. "Declining enrollment is inevitably an issue, but it's not one that's inevitably resolved by closure," Grijalva said. He said he would like to see the board look at alternatives and present them all to the community for consideration.

Hafley agreed that public opinion should be sought before a decision is made but added, "That does not indicate that all of us will be happy with it" Supt. Wilbur Lewis said be prefers to save his predictions until he sees an ongoing management study's figures on projected enrollment to the district The study is expected to be completed in mid-November. Enrollment at District schools is expected to increase slightly into October, when the year's peak usually is reached. But Ralph Rods, the assistant superintendent (Call i i Page 2A, Cat, I) below that level, according to figures compiled yesterday. The decline renewed debate over whether' to dose some schools.

Figures supplied by district officials and school principals, phis a first-day enrollment figure for one elementary school, put enrollment in the district at about 58,400. That is some 2,000 students fewer than last year's peak enrollment, 60,408 in October, and 5,000 under the record district enrollment of 63,488, reached in 1973-74. The decline since then has prompted the board president to predict that some schools will have to be closed, but other officials are more cautious in their forecasts. "If the decline continues, it seems that we certainly will have to close some schools," Helen Hafley said yesterday. "When they fall into a decline, schools have to be closed because they're too expensive to operate," the board president said.

The board has not discussed the matter formally, and any decision would wait until has 34 beds, only 10 assigned to federal prisoners. The Salvation Army is housing eight federal prisoners in a faculty with 27 beds. The state's three halfway houses, including one Tucson, are an fuD. Prisoners transferred to halfway houses usually have to 120 days of their prison sentences remaining Johnson ant Pierce contend that state use of their facilities not only would reduce overcrowding at Florence, but also help inmates adjust from prisoo to normal life. In addition, they said it would be cheaper for the state to use their facilities.

The two centers cost about $17 a day per prisoner, compared to more than $22 a day spent to keep an inmate in the state prisoo Bryfogei, however, says the state has By BOB SVEJCARA The Arixoaa Dairy Star While the Arizona State Prison at Florence suffers from overcrowding, two Tucson halfway nouses for short-term prisoners have operated at less than one-third capacity since July. Directors of the Tucson Prerelease Center and the Salvation Army prerelease facility said they offered the use of their centers to the state Dept. of Corrections in May but were refused. A. J.

Johnson, director of the Tucson Prerelease Center, and Edward Pierce of the Salvation Army said they were told by corrections officials that the state's own halfway houses could take care of prisoner needs. Now, the state faces a federal court order to reduce the prison inmate population at Florence to 2,125 and keep it at no more than that level for at least 30 days. U.S. District Judge Carl Muecke also ordered the state to draw up a plan by Oct 3 for long-term solutions to overcrowding. The state says it cannot afford to send prisoners to the two private Tucson halfway houses.

But Roy Bryfogei, Southern Arizona chief parole officer, yesterday estimated Funds inttndod for Tucson prison may bo cSverted. Pscw4C that the state could be forced to relocate as many as 125 "short-timer" inmates sentenced in Pima County. Instead of looking at the private Tucson halfway houses as one solution to handing that problem, Bryfogei said, the Corrections Dept may put prisoners temporarily in a Tucson motel or even send prisoners back to their families without a transition period. The Tucson Prereieaic Center presently orders further reductions at Hat state pria Other poasjbiHttfa i to other state and federal where they face private hallways because of facOy created mixing federal and Tucson i.