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One Day Care Center Closes; Others Endangered top of the news CLEAR AND WARM. Generally clear skies and warm temperatures should prevail in Tucson over the weekend. Today's high should be in the upper 90s and the overnight low in the mid-60s. Yesterday's temperature extremes were 97 and 64. Thunderstorms slackened in the Great Plains yesterday, while rains fell in parts of Montana and Idaho.

A light haze hung over the lower Mississippi Valley. The Pacific Northwest remained cloudy and cool. Rains developed in the southern Rockies and New England. It was sunny in the far West. National temperature extremes were 103 at Casa Grande and 30 at Baker, Ore.

Details on Page 4A. 325 families. The centers provide hot lunches, physicals, an education program; a high staff-to-child ratio and an emphasis on parent involvement. According to Irma Fisher, state Dept. of Economic Security (DES) social services consultant, the new eligibility requirement is threefold: Families must have gross incomes that fall below 75 per cent $870 a month of the median state income for a family of four.

Parents have to be working or training for a vocation. Non-working parents must have a doctor's statement certifying that they need day care because ill health prevents them from caring for the children. Those who qualify can select any TACC or private day care center for their child. The state will pay $5.50 a day for the services. The most current DES figures show that there were 1,901 DES-financed children in day care centers and homes in Pima County in April.

guidelines because there is no sliding scale. She said, "We have many, many families who are the working poor. They are over the gross median income figure so they are now ineligible. They would have to pay $27.50 a week for one child, and they can't afford it. But if there were a sliding scale, they could pay a lesser amount for day care." She said she knows families who have had to pull children out of qualified day care.

"God only knows where they are now," she said. "Philosophically, this is cutting off the children of non-working mothers. Maybe she's got smaller children at home and can't work. Maybe her husband won't let her. Or maybe she just doesn't have the skills.

But some of these children are the ones who need good day care the most. We've been able to feed a lot of enrichment into children over the years," said Mrs. Rothman. By JANE KAY The Arizona Daily Star When the children left Grace Temple Day Care Center yesterday, the staff didn't call out their usual, "See you Monday." Nobody will be at the center on Monday. The six-year-old day care center is the first of several Tucson Assn.

of Child Care (TACC) centers expected to close their doors after the demise of Model Cities funds this week. "The kids kept asking me, 'You mean we're not going to be able to come to school I didn't know what to tell them. We just found out about this yesterday," said Grace Temple staff member Hester Charles. Fifteen day care centers in the old Model Cities area taking in the South Park neighborhood north through the inner city to Old Pascua Village are suffering from an inauspicious combination of circumstances. At the same time as the Model Cities subsidy has run out, the attendance has fallen off because of new eligibility requirements.

The larger centers could have gone it alone without the Model Cities money, but the lower attendance means less state dollars, so the centers cannot make their expenses. The next center in danger is in Old Pascua Village, and others that particularly feel the financial pinch are El Rio, Holy Cross, West Temple and Prince Chapel, said Martha Roth-man. She is director of the TACC umbrella agency, which started operating day care centers in 1970 with Model Cities, United Way and federal funds. "Our plan is to find other agencies that can take over the centers," Mrs. Rothman said.

"We have put too much work into them to let them go down the drain." At peak attendance, the 15 centers had a family caseload of 500. Now they are down to said, "We can't afford to keep the centers open with small attendance when DES pays us only $5.50 a day." Because TACC provides services in addition to custodial care, the daily expense for each child is $7.50 to $8. With the $1 a day from the Dept. of Education for nutritional services and the Model Cities money, the centers were staying in business. But the end of Model Cities money is forcing the small centers to close.

About the Pascua day care center, Mrs. Rothman said, "We'li keep it open a few more days and see how it goes. We know there are children out there who need the services, but their parents probably don't know there is free day care available." Asked if DES was publicizing its new eligibility guidelines, which now include poor families outside the Model Cities area, Mrs. Fisher said, "I don't know what the public information officer has done. I know he was going to get out recruitment material." global Mrs.

Rothman has objected to the new Concerning' the closing of the centers, she PERON ACCUSED. Deposed Argentine President Isabel Peron has been accused of allowing fiscal mismanagement during her regime that had "no precedent in the annals of the handling of public finance." Page 15A. SYRIANS GAIN SUPPORT. The commander of Lebanon's largest- air base throws his support to Syrian forces as they prepare for a showdown with Lebanese leftist and Palestinian forces. Page 14A.

SAINTS' CALENDAR. St. Valentine, St. Nicholas and many other saints may soon be elbowed off the official Church of England calendar to make room for such "Christian heroes" as Florence Nightingale. Page 18A.

FINAL Edition mm FINAL Edition 15 CENTS 52 PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1976 VOL. 135 NO. 157 W4 jrHAt'tg rders national House Speaker E3 Hays CLIMBERS RESCUED. An Alaskan helicopter pilot braves the ratified atmosphere of Mt. McKinley to rescue two injured women climbers.

Spokesmen say a helicopter rescue at such high altitude has never succeeded before. Page 11A. SPARED JAIL. A federal judge rules that former Montana Gov. Tim M.

Babcock will not have to serve a four-month jail term for hiding the identity of the donor of $54,000 to former President Nixon's 1972 campaign. And in Baltimore, Dale Anderson who succeeded SDiro i 1 forthcoming novel about alleged sexual relations with congressmen and senators. However, Miss Ray's New York lawyer-promotor, Seymour Feig, claimed that neither he nor his client had possession of the "dynamite" tapes and that the ghost-writer, Yvonne Donleavy, "denies having them." The New York publishing source said that John A. S. Cushman, the literary agent for Miss Ray and Miss Donleavy, advised Miss Donleavy to tape interviews with Miss Ray about her experiences so that Miss Donleavy could write the manuscript for the book.

The source said it was "standard practice for (Continued on Page 12A, Col. 6) blonde, says Hays put her on the committee staff to be his mistress. The 65-year-old Ohip Democrat admits having had a personal relationship with Miss Ray, but says she was hired to do committee work. He already has quit as chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee until the House, the Justice Dept. and a grand jury finish investigating the scandal.

Meanwhile', a publishing source said Miss Ray was instructed by her New York literary agent more than one year ago to tape-record recollections of her congressional trysts. The raw tapes were then transcribed, the source said, and the autobiographical material was used by a ghost-writer for Miss Ray's A Ji T. Agnew as Baltimore 1 County executive, is freed Compiled From Wire Services WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Carl Albert ordered a special task force yesterday to look into the "propriety and appearance of propriety" in the use of House funds partly because of the payroll-sex scandal involving Rep. Wayne Hays. Albert said he also ordered the task force to look into other "attacks that have been made on the use of House funds." Shortly before he spoke, the Justice Dept.

entered a lawsuit against Rep. William Clay, to recover allegedly improper travel expenses. Albert said he thinks Hays will step down as chairman of the House Administration Committee until investigations of the sex scandal are over. Elizabeth Ray, a 33-year-old I jrV I I after serving 13'2 months of ImA ImI his five-year federal prison Babcock term on political corruption charges. The former official will remain on probation for the remainder of the five years.

Page 10A. NIXON LOVE LETTERS. An Alabama woman claims to have copies of love letters from then-President Richard Nixon to an unidentified woman. She says the copies were spirited out of the White House even before the originals were mailed. Page 9A.

Guerrillas Mow Down 6 Mexican Policemen anzona i I I -4 PHOENIX POLICE. In protest of the 6.5 per cent wage increase tentatively approved by the city council, Phoenix police are escalating their work slowdown. Page 5A. Unemployed Rate Drops WASHINGTON (AP) Unemployment resumed its downward course in May, dropping to 7.3 per cent, while inflation slowed at the wholesale level, the Labor Dept. said yesterday.

In separate reports on jobs and prices, Labor Dept. officials said the number of Americans at work rose by 300,000 last month to a record 87.7 million. The number of unemployed declined by 180,000 to 6.9 million. Wholesale prices rose three-tenths of a per cent, down sharply from April's eight-tenths of a per cent increase, largely because of a slowdown in price rises for farm products. The jobless rate hit a recession peak of 8.9 local Tight-Lipped John H.

Adamson, right, surrendered to Phoenix police yesterday with his lawyer, Stephen H. Scott, in connection with a 1975 misdemeanor. Called a key to the car bombing that injured reporter Don Bolles, Adamson refused to answer questions about the attack. (AP Wirephoto) Blast Victim Improves HOSPITAL RATE HIKE. Pima County General Hospital will ask a state review board for permission to raise rates by 34.8 per cent.

It is the first rate increase request made by the hospital in nearly five years. Page IB. index Key Bolles Witness three officers who suffered only cuts and bruises in the attack, said, "They dropped us like flies as we were lined up for the roll call." Efrain Rendon, an assistant district attorney, reported two of the victims died soon after they were taken to a hospital. "The wounded are in serious condition and cannot be questioned," he said. "We have several witnesses, and they are being questioned.

They won't be available for some hours." A witness told reporters, "It took place so quickly, it was all over in a couple of minutes." He said pedestrians screamed and fell to the ground as the guerrillas opened fire. No civilian casualties were reported. The attack occurred at 8:10 a.m., police said, and the raiders escaped by driving into the morning rush traffic. There were reports they headed toward the Teotihuacan pyramids, an archeological site north of the capital. Roadblocks were erected on highways leading out of the city, and helicopters patrolled possible escape routes.

No arrests were reported. The September 23rd Communist League is the most active of a half dozen left-wing underground groups operating in Mexico. It takes its name from a guerrilla assault in 1966 on an army barracks in the state of Chihuahua. Officials estimate it has an active membership of 40 to 60 persons, including a dozen women. MEXICO CITY (AP) Communist guer- rillas armed with submachine guns cut down a line of policemen standing roll call at a police station yesterday and then surged into the building.

Authorities said six officers were killed and four were wounded in the assault. The killer band, including several women, launched the raid in four automobiles. The guerrillas scattered leaflets identifying themselves as members of the September 23rd Communist League, the same group that kidnaped the 16-year-old daughter of the Belgian ambassador and freed her last Saturday after five days for a $408,000 ransom. Last month, Communist League guerrillas killed seven policeman at a suburban restaurant and also gunned down two customs guards. District Police Chief Rafael Xiqui said the terrorist squad opened fire on 10 policemen lined up for a routine morning roll call outside the precinct station in the Mexico City district of Ciudad Azteca.

Three policemen fell dead, and two others were fatally wounded, Xiqui reported. The guerrillas then invaded the headquarters, killing a noncommissioned officer who had fled into the bathroom and pumping bullets into a tax-collection office adjoining the station. "They stopped to pick up the guns from the dead and wounded policemen and fled," the chief added. Official sources said the police were taken by surprise and did not shoot back. Policeman Francisco Ruiz Rojas, one of Movies 5B Public Records 15A Sports 1-5D Tucson Today 8A TV-Radio 7B Want Ads 2-17C Bridge UA Church 2-3A Comics 6-7B Comment 16-17A Financial 6-7D Horoscope 12A ilent About Case per cent last May before beginning a decline that brought it to 7.5 per cent in March, a figure held steady in April.

Since the recession-low in March 1975, the number of Americans at work has increased by 3.6 million, the Labor Dept. said. However, the 7.3 per cent jobless rate remains high by historical standards. The relatively modest increase in wholesale prices is likely to dampen fears at least temporarily that inflation will get much worse. Trends in wholesale prices usually show up in retail prices charged to consumers.

The fears of a new outburst of inflation were raised after the eight-tenths of a per cent rise in wholesale prices in April, the biggest jump in six months. The increase was due mostly to a 4.2 per cent rise in farm prices, which slowed to six-tenths in May. By ALEX DREHSLER The Arizona Daily Star Phoenix Loses In 3 Overtimes BOSTON (AP) The Boston Celtics outlasted the Phoenix Suns 128 to 126 here last night in three overtime periods to take a 3-to-2 lead in their National Basketball Assn. championship series. Jo Jo White and Glenn McDonald scored six points in the third overtime to spark the Celtics.

White, with 33 points, was the game's top scorer. The best-of-seven series moves to Phoenix tomorrow for Game 6. A victory by the Celtics would give them their 13th NBA title since 1957. Details on Page ID. midtown hotel, where a bomb exploded underneath Bolles' compact car.

Detectives have identified Adamson as an associate of convicted extortionist and land-fraud figure Ned Warren Sr. Warren denied last night that Adamson has ever worked for him or any company owned or controlled by him. United Bank official James Simmons of Phoenix was given police protection yesterday. Simmons, head of the Phoenix 40 Crime Task Force, testified against Warren during his extortion trial in Seattle in 1975. Simmons earlier told police that he didn't need protection because he felt Warren was not involved in the bombing.

Simmons is United Bank's chairman of the board of directors. Lozier described the bomb placed under (Continued on Page 8A, Col. 5) PHOENIX Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles showed the first signs of recovering yesterday from a bomb blast which tore off his right leg, as a key witness surrendered to police but refused to be questioned about the attack. John Adamson, 32, accompanied by his attorney, refused to give officers any statement, said police Capt. Don Lozier.

Adamson was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on a 1975 misdemeanor charge of defrauding an innkeeper. He was released after posting a $100 bond. "We don't have sufficient probable cause to bring charges against him," said Lozier. "However," Adamson's attorney said, "the lines of communication are not closed." The injured reporter, 47, named Adamson as the man he was to meet Wednesday at a I 'I Judge Backs CIA Budget Secrecy VMr) mm? He said the CIA budget was exempt from disclosure because it was properly classified as secret. Smith relied on testimony from Colby, who argued that disclosure of the budget would give other nations strong clues about U.S.

intelligence capabilities. Colby had testified that similar disclosures in other countries have been "very valuable to us and caused us to change our previous estimates by considerable margins." The judge also noted that "Congress on several occasions has rejected amendments requiring publication of intelligences' budgets, citing similar national security Former CIA Director William E. Colby has said Marchetti's figure is incorrect. Last year, Rep. Robert Giaimo, disclosed that the CIA's budget was contained within the $2 billion listed in the Air Force budget under an item called "other procurements." But there was no indication what percentage of the money was the CIA budget.

Halperin filed his suit under the Freedom of Information Act, which requires many government records to be disclosed to the public. Judge Smith concluded, "The unauthorized disclosure of such information could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national security and to the capacity of the CIA to conduct effective intelligence-gathering operations." WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge ruled yesterday that the CIA may continue to keep its budget a secret. "The court concludes that the 'secret' classification applied to the CIA budget and expenditure files is proper, both procedurally and substantively," said U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. The decision came in a suit filed by Morton H.

Halperin, who sought CIA records on its budget authority for the current fiscal year and its actual expenditures for the 1974 fiscal year. Victor Marchetti, a disaffected former agent who was involved in preparation of the CIA budget in the late 1960s, has estimated the agency's annual spending at $750 million. jiaii! win i. Run For Their Lives The two men at left trying to land on a mountain highway northeast Guatemala race for cover from the truck as a rescue plane crashes be- City. No one was killed.

The photograph was published thj cause of severe crosswinds. The plane was bringing aid to vie- June issue Nationa Geographic Maga zme and released by tims of the Guatemalan earthquake early this year, and was the National Geographic Society yesterday. (Via AP Wirephoto).