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INS IDE- Editorial 4 For Women 5 Sports 12-14 Classified 18-20 Entertainment 21 Legal Notices 20 VOl. 108--NUMBER 274 LOCAL FORECAST-Fair and warmer tonight through Thursday. Low last night 26. Lows toniglit in Uic mid 40s with liis'is Thursday in Uic upper today 6:27 Sunrise Thursday 6:24. Weather map on page 3.

The Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1976 PAGES-TEN CENTS irmly After Illinois Leak Probe Seen As Costly Undertaking WASHINGTON (AP) If (lie! House Ethics Committee would settle for satirist Mark Russell's word on who leaked the leak that Daniel Schorr leaked, it could save the taxpayers $350,000 or more. Thai's Ihe amount being begged by Chairman J. Flynt, to launch a hunt he says may go to "remote Congress Said Not Consulted WASHINGTON CAP) --De- spile pledge by Secretary ot Stale Henry A. Kissinger to consult with Congress on major foreign pnlicy decisions, key senators were not told of a plan Bill Clinton To Run For State Office LITTLE ROCK (AP) Former congressional candidate Bill Clinton of Fayetteville an nounccd as expected that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for at tqrney general. -Clinton.

29, ran in 1974 in the 3rd Congressional District a won Democratic nom nation, but lost in the genera election to Rep. John Pan Hammcrschniirit, the Republi can incumbent from Harrison. Clinton made his announce ment for attorney general in the rotunda of the state CapHo with about 75 reporters, friend and attorney general staf members looking on. lip said that ir elected would work for mandatory pris on terms for some crimes, islation to compensate the victims of crimes, and the creation of an ombudsman position in the attorney general's office. He said he would continue Atty.

Gen. Jim G-jy Tucker's (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) penalize Soviet Union for idi tig ac me int crvention in ngula. Senate --Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, asked if any- ne in tbo Senate was told of ie decision lo postpone talks vilh I fie Soviets on en ergy, lousing and commercial coop eralion, responded, "Not that I tnow of." "Maybe he doesn't consider it najor," he said of Kissinger's ailure to give the Senate prior notice of the suspensions. He added that "threats or the implication of threats won't get us far" in achieving foreign lolicy objectives. lie said talks with the been sus million jiended before and "I don't whether ilace the importance on it iome others do." Other senators, including ford Case, ranking Rc- lublican on the Senate Foreign Relations and Hu- jcrt II.

Humphrey, also received no prior notice of Lhe suspension, it was learned. NO MENTION The announcement the talks were being susp ended was made by Slate Department spokesman Robert L. J'unseth on Tuesday. Jt followed a morning-long appearance by Kissinger before the foreign relations panel during which he made no mention of (he suspensions. However, in.

an apparent ref- parts of the country world" to find the one man or woman who handed Schorr secret congressional report the CIA. Russell, on Hie other hand, insists that CBS correspondent Schorr was a beneficiary of the "Leak Fairy," a of governmental gremlin who hides out in remote parts of Xerox machines. And it is clear that some members of Congress are as skeptical about thai answer i they are about the approach en visioned by Flynt, who look In funding plea before a House ad ministration panel Tuesday, DAVIS APPALED "I'm appalled by a figure of $350,000 above what the com mittee is already allowed" for routine operations, said Rep. Mendel .1. Davis, administration committee member.

"We hope," drawled Flynt, "that this cun he done for a fraction of what we are asking." But he added that "some have suggested we could spend don't know is going Lo take MAYOR DALEY JUBILANT he waves to supporters in the Regular Democratic Party headquarters in Chicago Tuesday night erence to the introduction oi 12,000 Soviet-supported Cuban troops into Angola, Kissinger stated the United States cannot accept exploitation of crises to advance Soviet interests. "Tolerance of local conflicts tempts world holocaust," Kissinger said. "We have no guarantee that some local crisis wi" CCONTJNUED ON PAGE TWO) DllllMIIIIIIlSiniimitnilMlllllllllllllillllllllllllllDlilSlllltllllM WS BRIEFS Vandalism Told SPRINGDALE Brenda Holman of the Jlidway Trailer Park told police Tuesday that someone had broken the windshield and bent the roof of her air with a blunt object. She said Ibe vandalism occurred while the car was parked at the-Springdale Bowling Alley. In a similar incident, Wormcringer of 206 St.

'told police the of his car had j.r Cameron i-indshicld been broken while parked al his residence. He said the car's unlcnna broken. Lights Broken SPRIN'ODALE Two light fixtures in (lie driveway of the Roderirjue residence a Overo Circle were brokei sometime Tuesday, police sai( today. They said the fixtures were valued at $100. Shut Down Set UTTLE ROCK AP Ar kansas Power Light Co.

wi! shut down Unit One of Ar kansas Nuclear One Steam Electric Station near Russell ville Friday. API- said the unit Theft Reported SPIUNGDALE Curtains nd draperies valued al $635 'ere stolen during Ihe past one day or from now until next Jan. 3." Similarly, he said, "The first question of the first witness could conclude this investigation. But we anticipate that 300 Lo 400 persons could be called upon to answer questions or appear as witnesses." Asked if the probe could finish by July 31, or before the national political conventions, Flynt replied: "We would hope so." Flynt's panel has been ordered by the full House to make "findings and recommendations" agout the publication of the CIA report by Ihe Village Voice, a New York weekly newspaper. Schorr, based Washington, has acknowledged that the paper gol the report from him, though he has declined to name his own source.

CBS News has suspended him, pending the outcome of the probe. Rep. Jolm L. Burton, of Ihe administration com- miUcc demanded to know why Klynt's request includes $120,000 in travel and per diem funds for investigators, since "everything that happened, happened in Washington and New York." REMOTE AREAS "We have hcen informed," said Flynl, "that (here is infor- mafion to be gathered on this matter people far Strong Opposition To New Vote Bill Likely WASHINGTON; (AP) The, Democratic majority is pushing through the Senate a Federal Election Commission hill that is bitterly opposed by Republicans and is likely to face a presidential velo. When debate resumes today, the Senate is scheduled to vote on shut down 50 lhal official could inspect samples of reac tor meUil ptaccd in the rcacio vessel for testing.

The ttccisio Eo make Uie inspection cam after the reactor's manufac Hirer advised the company of situation which caused the cleg radation of tubes in nuclca sleam supply facihlie at two otner in sK ilia ions, nillllilliiliil'lIIIIIDIllillliMliillQIillJM vcek from a vacant house wned by Jim Trammel of 201 nne Laura Sprlngdale olicc said today. They said the house is located 1303 White Road. The police eport stated Ihat Trammel had eceived a telephone call from is realtor Tuesday informing mucn im that a sliding glass door .1 the house had been opened md that a kitchen window had 5een broken. Governor Files LITTLE ROCK (AP) Lt. 'iov.

Joe Purceh, 52, of Renlon, HI attorney, filed today as Democrat for election to a second lerm. Pttrcell was a two-term attorney general before running in .970 unsuccessfully for Ihe Democratic nomination for governor. He is a former city at- at Benton and Bcnlon Municipal Judge. Bond Interest WASHINGTON (AP) Pros- dent Ford on Tuesday signed legislation which guarantees 4 per cent interest for all persons who hold Series savings bonds for til leasl two months. Until ow pure ha scrs ol Series bonds had to hole them for at least a year to re ceive 4 per cent interest.

The bil moved from Washington, They may be in remote parts of the country or Hie world." "The world?" asked Burton. "Absolutely," said Flynt. That apparently struck Rep. a Thompson, chairman of the panel, as a bit a proposal by Sen. Robert Pack wood, to require unions and corporations to disclose what they spend advocating the election or defeat of any candidate, Packwood said neither unions nor corporations are now re quired to disclose the cost of campaigns urging members stockholders or employes to vole a certain way.

However, Sen. I Toward Can non, chairman of Ihi Senate Rules Committee, sail he understood the bill prohibits such expenditures. KEY TEST A key test on Tuesday cami when Republican Whip Rober P. Griffin of Michigan offered substitute amendment sitnpl; to make all commission mem bers presidential appointees. Both the Republican an Democratic-supported i make that change in respons to a Supreme Court ruling lha it is unconstitutional to bay some members of the commi sion appointed by Congress.

Griffin's amendment was yOU go tO he snapped, "try (inaudible) Cafe, I recommend duck and the Chateau La file '50." Jeatod 47 to 4G, opening the wa for debate on the Rules Con mi lee bill. That measure, written by II panel's Democratic majoril would alter, a commission ri ing that allows corporations set up committees to solic campaign funds. A similar was approved by a House co: mittce hut not reach tl floor until next week. The Democrats seek to lini ch solicitations to stock- ildcrs and supervisory cm- oyc-s, cutting off such com- littecs from obtaining contri- utions from rank and file orkcrs. Republicans oppose iis, noting that unions are I lowed to solicit members for ontrihutions.

Republican congressiona have predicted Ton ON PAGE TWO) Fayetteville To Get Check FaycltevHle is to receive heck for $9.940 as a parlia cttlcmcnt in an anti-trust cas oined by the city in 1971. The city's check, alorrg wit hecks to six other cities, wa ailed by the Stale A ttornc eneral's Office, Other cilic eceiving checks i mounts arc: Camdcn, $763 ilkin-s, $288; Flippin, S3 logers, $3,612 and Springthl $449, The city joined the lawsui originally filed by the Metr nolitan Government ot Kas ville and Davidson County Tc nesscc on Dec. 6, 197J. The si charged that, among olh nings, six manufacturers cast iron pipe entered into conspiracy to fix prices, cale sales and sales markc id to control supposedly seer competitive bids in the sale cast iron pipe and fittings. The claims were filed Federal District Court at mingham.

Ala. FuyeUcvillc, has, lo da received a total of $33,236 a result of the litigation. Daley Regains lost Clout In Chicago CHICAGO (AP) President Kord and Jimmy Carter emerged from Illinois with victory today, as winners and losers alike turned lo North Carolina, next week's stop on the trail of the Republican a Democratic presidential nominations. Ford fash ioned a unaw ay victory over Ronald Reagan, liis i th wi in as any primary outings over the conservative GOP challenger. Carter, firmly established as Democratic front-runner, an added bonus in a sur- orising haul of delegates from Tuesday's primary.

The former Georgia governor trounced George C. Wallace. Sargent Sbriver and Fred Harris and Shriver suspended active campaigning. Neither Sen. Henry M.

Jackson of Washington, wlio defeated Carter in Massachusetts, nor U.S. Rep. Morris K. Udall was on the Illinois ballot. Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss said Carter's victory in the Northern, idustrial stale showed "that a utberner can be viewed as tior.al caniii'iale." DAU3Y I There was another winner: iicago Mayor Richard J.

Daf, trying to restore his politi- il clout in the race closest In me. Daley's candidate for aver nor, Secretary of Stale ichacl J. Howhtt. won the cmocratic nomination over imbent Daniel Walker, long- in Daley foe. With' 93 per cent of the vote the preferential primary 01 beauty contest" counted.

Fore ad or 50 per cent of the ole lo 295,188 or 40 per cent Reagan. Perennial Illinois andidale Lars Daly got lh thcr I per cctit of the vote. Among Democrats, with 9 or cent of the vote counted ie tally was: Carter 592,813 48 per cent Wallace 339.554 2 8 per cen Shriver 107.394 16 per cent Harris 92,774 8 per cent The race measures popu arity, but ncls the winner lelcgatcs. The big surprise, in scparat for delegates, was th ilock of GO lhal Carter was win ning with 64 per cent of tti ole counted. His supporter had said that getting just 2 vould be a "-massive achieve icnt." Daley was winning committed to Sen.

Adliii E. SI vcnson III, who is not a cfind date. Wallace had three deli gales. Among (Tie Republicans, wit 6G per cent of the votes coun ed. Ford had 64 delegates.

Ro gan 14 mid 14 were uncon mitted. ACHIEVED GOAL Reagan, in California as votes came in. said he ha achieved his goal and aga stressed that his strength 13 in Western and Southern stat still to be counted. He prcpan for a campaign trip to Nor Carolina today. Wallace said he was "glad he second in Illinois." The Al bama governor, fro the waist down because of assassination attempt in 19' said tbc question of his heal was hurting him, although repeated that, he's in shape.

'1 shall continue my ca asjpaign," Wallace said in an I CONTLNUKD ON PAGE TWO) Kiss The Stone A woman holds on to a and is in turn held by a gniilc as slic I) en (Is far had: to kiss (he Blarney Stone nt old Blarney Castle in Ireland. Geologist William Newman ot the Interior Department's Geolo- gical Survey headquarters in Virginia says the stone Is just a piece ol limestone Irom the carboniferous ugc -but legend says the Blimiey Stone 19 much mure thini just a stone. CAP Rumsfeld Rebukes Two fop Pentagon Officials WASHINGTON A Pentagon officials were re- ked by Defense SecrelaTy onald Rumsfeld ospitality from for accepting a major dense contractor, although some Ivisers to Rumsfeld repprl- Jly had urged thai one official fired as a warning to others. Space Mining Dr. Malcolm R.

Currie, the Pentagon's research chief, was handed a "severe reprimand" Tuesday night and ordered to for fc it four we eks sal ary because he and his daughter spent last Labor Day weekend at a Bahamas residence leased Said Possible ay Rockwell International Corp. the company's CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ut in space beyond Mars, the raiting scraps oE rock caller steroids may be a rich source raw material for the rc- ourcc-poor earth of Uie future, ctcntists say. Two Massachusetts Institute Technology researchers have onckiried a study that says it both technically and ccononv cally possible lo mine the asle- oids for iron and nickel. They have worked out a science fiction-like scenario of colonies of miners digging on the aslerodis arid shipping home Hie metal with rocket-powered Thomas B.

McCord. director of MIT's astrophysical observatory, and Michael J. Gaffey, a staff scientist at MIT, outlined their study Tuesday at the Lu- ncr Science Conference in Houston. INCENTIVES SEEN "We have concluded Ihal there exist significant cconom ic, environmental ami political incentives fo rUie utilization of extraterrestrial resources and lhal no insurmountable technical problems exist to prevent such utilization," they said in a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) and (Lew plane, Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf received a letter ot admonition, a less harsh rebuke, for going goose shooting 14 monUis ago at a Chesapeake Day lodge owned by Rockwell.

tenth biggest defense contractor and. builder of the Bl bomber. The Pentagon said Middendorf did not find out until Ivvn weeks ago that the place had any connection with Rockwell. SEPARATE LETTERS Rumsfeld told Currie and Midtlcndori in separate letters. Ihat "I understand that there is no evidence of any improper influence" on Uiem as a result of Rockwell's hospitality.

However, the defense secretary said bolli officials had overstepped, the- Defense Department's standards of conduct regulations and warned them against any similar actions in the future. In separate statements. Cur- ric acknowledged "bad judgment," and Middemiorf said lie regretted "that my failure to more fully investigate an invitation resulted in the oppear- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO As British Prime Minister Five Seek Wilson's Post Plentiful change was part of signed by Ford increasing the government's temporary debt limit by S32 billion to $627 billion through June 3(1. LONDON AP) Foreign Secretary James CaUaghan and four other cabinet ministers announced (heir candidacies today lo succeed Harold Wilson as prime minister and Labor party leader, In addition Eo Callaghan. lho clear favorite, tliosc throwing their hats in the ring were Energy Secretary Tony Bonn, Employment Secretary Michael Foot, Home Secretary Hoy Jenkins, anct Environment lary Anthony Crostand.

CaHahon, a quiet moderate nicknamed "Sunny Jim," ap- pears to have the support of iolh the left ant) right wings of the Labor party and seems most likely lo succeed Ihc CO- ycar-olcl Wilson, who announced Tuesday he was stepping down because of age. nrion nowspa pers have tipped the 63-year-old Callaghan as a first choice or compromise candidate among the 317 Labor legislators in the House of Commons who will begin voting next week for a successor lo Wilson. Several powerful lead ers also indicated their suppnrl for Callaghan. However, his age could work against him, political insiders said. Both Bonn, 50, and Foot, f2.

are on the left wing of the Labor party and political pundits did not consider either of them likely choices, claiming that (heir outspoken advocacy of radical leftist policies have made them unpopular with many of Britain's 40 million voters. Jenkins, 55, is considered one of the more intellectual members of the cabinet and stands on the parly's right wing. He has widespread appcal among party moderates who form Uic largest hloc among Laborite legislators. But lie could expect stiff opiwsition from Ihc left" Crosland, 57, a moderate considered a dark horse, said "I expect lo draw m' support from (hose who are looking for the common ground which united both left ami right in my party." Although Wilson after announcing his retirement re jcclcd- Conservative party lead or Margaret Thatcher's dct- rnand for clctction of a new Par lament, political speculated that his may decide lo seek a observer? successor a a of his cAvn from the 40 million voters later this year if he can score some quick success in improving Ihe economy. Labor, has a one-seal majority in the fi.ln-mcmber House Common's, but the future ol three of (tie Labor seats is in some doubt.

The Times of London said this uncertainly could make an cinclion within months necessary "lo resolve an En- decisive situation." One scat Labor doesn't have to worry about it Wilson's. Although ho is retiring from the government and the parly leadership, he will continue to represent the northwest industrial district of Huyton. Ho has held the seat for 26 years. By The Associated Press Sunshine should be plentiful Arkansas today and Thursday. The- National Weather Service says the slate should get 10 hours of sunshine each day.

The sunshine will produce warmer temperatures. No precipitation is forecast through Thursday, No rainfall was reported in the state during (he 24-hour period ended at 6 a.m. In fact, no rain is expected in the state until at least Saturday. The extended outlook Friday through Sunday calls for a chance of rain during (he weekend. Warmer temperatures arc expected Friday with cooler readings during Ihc weekend.

Lows should he in the Ms Friday and Saturday and in tho Sunday. Highs should be in Uie upper 70s lo near 80 Friday, to the upper 60s and low 70s on the weekend. Winds decreased Tuesday night over the state and this allowed rapid cooling. Temperatures were chilly over Uie state this morning, ranging from the upper 20i Lo mid 30s..

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