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Mb mm mm star 102nd YEAR FINAL VOL. 137 NO. 340 TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1978 20 CENTS 68 PAGES 3 v. fe'N 21 of 22 saved at frigid Colo, air crash site 0 ii Ml w- -'f l- 1 i i- 4- 1 WALDEN, Colo. (AP) Searchers on snowmobiles rescued 21 persons yesterday, including an infant in his mother's arms, who survived the crash-landing of a twin-engine commuter plane on a mountainside and spent the night in a near-blizzard.

Authorities said one person died in the accident. The survivors were taken from the crash site 10,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies through a foot of fresh snow, some riding inside and others wrapped in down sleeping bags and strapped to the outside of the tractor-like, tracked snowmobiles. Only four survivors were able to walk unaided when they reached a rescue center in a remote log cabin. The others were carried in baskets and on plywood boards. Rocky Mountain Airways Flight 217 had left the ski-resort town of Steamboat Springs at 6:55 p.m.

Monday on a scheduled 45-minute flight over the Continental Divide to Denver. Fifteen minutes later, the pilot radioed that he was having trouble with ice and was heading back to Steamboat Springs. Vern Bell, 19, of Lakewood, one of the passengers, said the plane had been in the air about an hour, and that there was no warning before the crash. "All of a sudden we hit a little turbulence and ran right into the ground," said Bell. "I saw a flash of light persons have been killed and 50 wounded in the violence that began Friday, exclusive of the violence in Zanjan.

Diplomatic sources said the death toll is closer to 40. Opposition sources say the death toll is 3,000, but observers believe this figure to be wildly exaggerated. Well-placed sources who asked not to be identified said oil production had dipped to 3.2 million barrels, just above half Iran's normal daily output of 6 million. More than 70 tankers were reported waiting to be filled at the Kharg Island terminal in the Persian Gulf. The oil industry was just recovering An injured passenger with frostbitten feet is carried from the wreckage by Iranian police kill 10 rioting Moslems before we hit.

After we hit, I guess I was knocked out for just a little while. I was in a daze; didn't know who I was. I thought it was a nightmare." There was sceaming and moaning, he said. A few lights were on in the plane, but they soon went out. Those able to help wrapped the more seriously injured in blankets and coats.

The windshield of the plane had been smashed, Bell said. The pilot, Alan Klop-fenstein, and the co-pilot were delirious, he said. "We stayed awake most of the night," said Bell. "I couldn't sleep because of the pain." The dead woman was identified as Mary Kay Hardin of Steamboat Springs. Jackson County Coroner Jim Shawver said she apparently died of a skull fracture.

Bell, one of the first survivors to reach a hospital, was reported in fair condition with a possible broken nose and other injuries. It was about 6 a.m yesterday when the first rescue crew, following the signal from an emergency transmitter on a snowmobile, reached the crash site southwest of Walden. "It looked like scrambled eggs," said Leo Mack of Steamboat Springs, one of the (See 21 OF 22, Page 8 A) from last month's crippling lday strike when the new walkout began Monday. Iran's military prime minister, Gen. Gholam Reza Azhari, appointed by the shah Nov.

6, ruled out using the army to force the oil workers back to work, as was done to end last month's strike. The strike was called for by exiled Moslem religious leader Ayatullah Khomaini, symbol of the anti-shah movement who is now living in France. Khomaini, who opposes westernization of this traditionally Islamic society, has been joined by a rising middle class, students and leftists who oppose the shah's autocratic rule. tiations with the man who set a modern National League record by hitting in 44 consecutive games last season and had 3,164 hits in 16 seasons with the Reds. Rose played out his option to test the marketplace.

"We sat and listened to the offers," Rose said. "We never asked for any figures." "You know what it's like when they parade horses like Little Current and Graustark and Roberto in front of you?" asked Rose, shaking his head. But in the end, he decided on Philadelphia. "As they say at the auction Sold!" Rose said. What position will he play with the Phillies? "I don't know," he said.

"They know I don't want to pitch. Those guys get to play only once every four days." Aflatoxin-case rebuke asked PHOENIX (AP) Gov. Bruce Babbitt has been asked to reprimand two state health officials for failing to warn residents about aflatoxin-contaminated milk. Dr. Suzanne Dandoy, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, and John Gaunt, state dairy commissioner, did not deal adequately with the aflatoxin problem, according to a subcommittee of the Senate Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Committee.

The panel also recommended that Gaunt's job be eliminated, a state agriculture department be established and that state aflatoxin standards similar to federal guidelines be created. Babbitt said he already has reprimanded Gaunt, when he informed him of his "displeasure." But the governor said Dandoy should not be reprimanded for "using her professional judgment, even though there are plenty of people who disagree with her." if 0 AP photo medical personnel gious leaders were killed there Monday night, but the report could not be confirmed in Tehran. Troops and armored vehicles, on the alert for a new challenge from protesters here, patrolled the volatile bazaar area of Tehran yesterday. The bazaar was the site of three days of protests beginning last Friday night in defiance of a 9 p.m. curfew.

The capital was generally (calm, but demonstrators played tapes of gunfire and screams, and the military retaliated by selectively shutting off power. The government has said at least 14 AP photo paid player, sports new cap ity. Nor would she cash checks sent by people who read the reporter's story. For more than a month, she lay on the couch. "She was afraid that if she left that little room, she would die," said McDowell.

A nurse found West dead in her bed Saturday night at Hahnemann Hospital, where she had been taken with a heart ailment Nov. 22. "I visited her as often as I could," said McDowell. "When I arrived Saturday about 6 p.m., a nurse said she died just 10 minutes ago." McDowell wanted West to be buried next to her mother in a family plot just outside the city, so she contacted the mortuary that handled the funeral for West's mother. She said yesterday that the funeral home had agreed to absorb most of the cost for the graveside service.

Also-ran Philadelphia wins war of the Rose TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Police in northwest Iran shot and killed four Moslem fanatics in a crowd attacking them with double-edged battle swords, then killed six more during a riot at the funeral of the four, reliable sources reported. They said many persons were wounded. Meanwhile, a spreading strike by oil workers trying to oust Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi cut Iran's oil output almost in half. The new violence erupted Monday night in Zanjan, about 250 miles northwest of Tehran, when several hundred demonstra House panel to scan postal fuel-buying By JOHN S. LONG The Arizona Daily Star The House Postal and Civil Service Committee will hold hearings beginning next Wednesday on the fuel-purchasing practices of the U.S.

Postal Service. The hearings are the result of articles on the Postal Service's fuel-purchasing practices that originated this past October in The Arizona Daily Star. The hearings will be chaired by Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz.

"The articles sparked Rep. Udall's interest and, after looking into the matter, he decided to hold the hearings," said Jennifer Fain, a member of Udall's staff. The Star found that, both locally and nationwide, the Postal Service buys gasoline from service stations without requiring them to bid for the business. In addition, in areas where the service has its own (See HEARINGS, Page JA) By HAL BOCK The Associated Press Good Morning Top of the News Weather Cold, mountain snow. Partly cloudy skies with cold and windy conditions are expected through tomorrow.

There is a chance of snow in the mountains. The high will be in the lower 50s and the overnight near 25. Yesterday's high and low were 68 and 36. A winter storm continued to develop in the ROckies yesterday, bringing snow and gusty winds to Colorado, Wyoming and northern New Mexico. Yesterday's national temperature extremes were 87 at Miami and Hollywood, and 2 below zero at Kalispell, Mont.

Details on Page 4A. News Lieberman hired. The Tucson Unified School District board hires controversial contract negotiator Myron Lieberman as a consultant through June 30 despite the objections of teacher organization representatives. In response, a parent group says it will file petitions seeking recall of at least two board members. Page IB.

IB. Hunting the hunters. Animal Defense Council members say they may use aerial reconnaissance in an attempt to prevent the killing of a fourth bighorn sheep in the Santa Catalina Mountains this season. Page IB. Temple Of gold.

For a Midwest pastor who once peddled monkeys door to door in a slum, the riches that pour in during Jim Jones' stay in California are staggering. It becomes a problem merely to dispose of the wealth that piles up. The fourth part of the series, "The Suicide Cult," explores how Jones found a temple of gold. Page 5A. Weather Underground, fbi Director William H.

Webster says he will fire two FBI agents for their part in conducting allegedly illegal surveillance against the radical Weather Underground in the early 1970s, but will take no action against 59 others. Page 7A. Search rule eased. The u.s. supreme Court rules, 5-4, that an automobile passenger does not share the owner's legal right to challenge a police search of a car, even if the search turns up evidence of a crime by the passenger.

Page (A. Sports ASU All-American. Arizona State defensive end AI Harris joins three players from Penn State's top-ranked team on the Associated Press Ail-American college football team. Page IE. tors protesting the shah's westernizing reforms defied police orders to disperse.

Wearing white death shrouds to symbolize their willingness to die, the demonstrators charged police lines, brandishing swords and shouting Islamic and anti-shah slogans, and the police gunned them down, the sources said. They said six more persons were killed by police gunfire yesterday when the funeral procession for the four dead erupted into a riot. Exiled opponents of the shah in Europe said rebels had taken control of the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr after two reli Pete Rose, baseball's best 1920s. She was quite fashionable, and used to wear large imported hats. "She had her hair done at the Bellevue-Stratford (Hotel) and used to take a room there just for the occasion.

Ah, but that was long ago." West never worked, Unger said, and the money in a trust fund set up by her late father dwindled. Thirty years ago, she moved from an apartment to a single room and bath downtown. Late last summer, she fell and thereafter spent her days and nights on a couch, ill and half-blind. In October, the landlord told a neighbor, Josephine McDowell, a retired nurse, of the woman's plight. After a reporter wrote a story, social workers tried to help.

But West said she wouldn't file for Social Security or government assistance because she hadn't been brought up to accept what she called char cm rw A lady dies, alone and poor ORLANDO, Fla. Pete Rose ended one of baseball's most spirited free-agent auctions yesterday by agreeing to a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies that makes him the game's highest-paid player. Terms were not announced, but it was learned that Rose will get about $800,000 a year to join the Phillies, who hope he can end their frustration of three straight playoff failures. The fat contract actually is for less money than he had been offered by other teams, but the determining factors apparently were Rose's close friendship with See story, photo on Page IE. several Phillies and Philadelphia's willingness to add a fourth year to the offer he had at first rejected.

Only last Thursday, Rose had eliminated the Phillies and left four teams in the running Pittsburgh, Atlanta, St. Louis and Kansas City. But one by one, those teams were ruled out Monday, and Philadelphia resurfaced. Rose flew to the winter meetings with his agent, Cincinnati attorney Reuven Katz, to officially announce his decision and explain how he made up his mind. "It was a tough decision," he said.

"Up until Sunday morning, nobody knew where I was going. I didn't know myself." At that point, Bill Giles, executive vice president of the Phillies, called Rose, fulfilling a promise he had made to the 37-year-old superstar on Thursday. Rose said the Phillies' offer was the lowest of-the five finalists. "I didn't take the best offer, by he said. "But it wasn't bad.

You could stack it up, and a show dog couldn't jump over it." Ironically, Rose said he would have stayed in Cincinnati for much less than he will get from Philadelphia. "The Reds could have signed me in May to a non-guaranteed career contract for half what I got," he said. But Cincinnati balked at the numbers, and the decision proved fatal in the nego Of all her riches, only pride was left PHILADELPHIA (AP) Margaret West, an elderly spinster who raced dignity to death's door, will be buried today next to her mother, laid out in the finery she once was accustomed to. She died alone and broke Saturday her legacy old clothes and old-fashioned pride, instilled long ago before her money ran out and her health failed. I kept looking for a picture, an album, some letters, but there weren't any," Har vey Robin, her landlord, said Monday.

"It was as if she had destroyed her past." West" wno was about 90, was the daugh- ter of a Colorado copper mine owner. Her motner Grace, who died in 1960, was an actress- "She loved Shakespeare and poetry," said Mary Unger, a friend for half a cen- tury. "In fact, we met at night school in a Shakespeare and poetry course in the Lifestyle 1-2ID Movies 1C Names, Faces 2A Public Records Solomon, M.D. JC Sports 1-5E Tucson Today. 1C TV-Radio 4C Index Actualidades HA Bridge 5C IE4F Comics 2C Comment Crossword 2C Financial 17B Horoscope fC 1.