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They show little sympathy foTthe pi By GLENN LEIBOWlTZ StaHWHIw iWillfamX Hamilton and StofCVniftiohal. polling organ ization based in Washington, D.Cv Morethiatwa-thlrdi Of tbepetple questioned said they intended to keep their present cars longer than they had originally planned. -o industry. They think Americans are being qtfrent automobile prices and blame the prices Jor the Americans have several elear. explanations for Instead af buying a new car simply to have a new slump in car sales.

If the people surveyed; rwould be a good thing -new slumping auto salestly don't need new cars now and, automobile, 53 per cent of those questioned said they most feel cars are overpriced- would buy cars only if they reaDy needed them.The two even if they did. jLTper cent said they are ready to take that step this According toa national survey Press and by the Detroit Free main reasons for not buying car were the lack of need. In a random telephone survey in Long Beach Sunday by The 80 per cent of those questioned said they anticipate keeping their cars longer than they: originally planned. -V The' same 80per cent also laid they wwild feel cheated by the kind of car their money would buy today. Vr- The -Free Press -said that can" be projected to calendar-yeaf saks of about 8.5 million cars domestic and -J Host of the nonbuyers polled said they didn't need a new car at the moment, but more than a quarter said they were staying'out of the new-car market because' prices are too high.

are being cheated by current auto prices and blame the prices for the sales slump. The study of the buyers' attitudes toward the aut public may be ready to force a own standard get the right prices on new. cars they willingy buy smaller, cfirt than they have and more than a third said thats just what they plan to do. Those questioned are bothered by Increasing frustrations that go with operating their cars, but they acknowledge their dependence upon' them and many speak quite highly of the Cars they own. 'b The Free Press poll is reported to be the first major, study of attitudes toward the automobile not initiated by.

the automakers, Its study consisted of Jt.008 personal, interviews, 'conducted Marchlj5 to .31 in 200 The interviews, of persons 18 years and older, were done by revolution in the auto -The national survey, conducted by Knight-Ridders Detroit paper, found: to Back Pg. Col. 8)' -it 1', "zW weather U.S. starting total Anesthetists defend boycott Thai withdrawal Fair through todly. High today, near 65 with the low near 50.

Complete weather on Page C-9. 1 on Page A-12 3Poges LONG BEACH, MONDAY MAY 5 1975 Volume 34 No. 131 y-x ytr l'yt HE 5-1 161 Classified No. HE 2-5959 Home Defjyerecl Daily and Sunday $4.00 Per Month I' BANGKQK, Thailand (AP) The United States will cut its troop strength in Thailand by 28 per cent in the next two months in the first step toward total withdrawal by year's end from the last American military foothold in Southeast Asia, Thai and U.S. authorities said today.

The United States has 27,000 authorized troop spaces left, and these are bring cut to 19,500.:. The two governments did not say how big a cut would be made in the 350 U.S. military planes remaining from the armada that usej to bomb Cambodia and North and South Vietnam. The 27,000 U.S.. servicemen-in Thailand half the number there during the 1968-69 peak have been the object of increasing controversy in the past -two years asiAmerican involvement tothe region dwindled and the Thais started looking for ways to adjust to the new Asian realities.

The fall of; the South Vietnamese government prompted some left and. center Thai parliamentary ians last week to demand that the government drive out the Americans as soon as possible. of glider to death, boat onto rocks By MIKE JELF Gusty winds hit the Southland Sunday and caused the death of. a hang-glider pilot, played havoc with pleasure boats and spoiled the weekend recreation of thousands of beachgoers. Robert Bloomfield, 28, of Malibu died Reds free Miiih; mood in Saigon reported calm when a wind gust Mew his glider out of in the Santa control and into a ridge high Wegener and six companions aboard the boat stepped ashore uninjured, but said the vessel, with a value estimated at $10,000, was lost before a county, lifeguard boat reached it The lifeguards said strong winds and heavy seas came up suddenly, catching boaters off guard.

Long Beach marine 1 safety officers said they were swamped with calls to Assist boaters trying to return to port after gusty, onshore winds started blowing about 3 p.m. Gusts up to 40 miles per hour broke the masts -of several sailboats, they said, but no boats were lost along the Long Beach shore. A National Weather Service small-' craft warning was issued for the entire Southland boast, and offshore gluts up to -30 knots were expected this afternoon. Sunbathers who had braved cool areas. Winds as higi as 47 miles per hour breezes and partly cloudy, skies Sunday Were reported near Lancaster.

The warn- WIND GUSTS WERE partly, cloudy, Combined Newt Service Liberation HAIR-RAISING IN LONG BEACH -Staff Photo by QURT JOHNSON Monica Mountains, Ventura County coroners investigator? said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Yachtsman Styles Wegener of Palos Estates had his 30-foot cabin Hummer Mown onto the rocks at hort Point in Palos Verdes and smashed to pieces about Wegener, of 1233 Via Romero, told ous driving conditions in the mountains. By the winds were ex- the Coast Guard his boats engine failed. As another craft tried to pull the ci crippfed towW pected to have diminished in the Long Beach area and in the Southland moun- tains and deserts.

Clear skies ami a Long Beach Airport high temperature of 68 degrees were for today. boat to safety, Wegener said, the tow battle after battle after Peoples frofn South Vietnam sau former navy men were lfeing urged to bring in their warships from off the coast and. not run after the "All those who brought 'their ships back to the revolution were well treated by the Revolutionary Government in conformity with its policies already -promulgated, Hanoi said, quoting Viet Cong radio. Other broadcasts said the Revolutionary Government, which took over after Saigons surrender snapped, leaving his cruiser at the mercy of the wind. mgs cautioned motorists about Mowing dust and sand in the deserts and hazard- the the gusts delifeguards said.

Temperatures gave up veloped, The Viet Cong radio said Sunday that Duong Van Big Minh, who sun rendered Saigon to the Communists in the last act of his two-day presidency of South Vietnam, and 18 other former top government- officials are being released from custody. At the same time, hundreds of South. Vietnamese -ships have anchored at offshore islands flying -white flags after their crews surrendered to Saigon's new rulers, Radio Hanoi reported Sunday. It added that thousands of soldiers and sailors, including 1,503 officers, re; ported themselves to the Energy crisis now 6 worse than 73 (Turn to Back CM. 2) Zarb said everything is going the wrong way in Americas energy equation.

"Production in this, 'country is declining, and at the same time demand is rising, he said in an interview in the current issue of U.S. News and World Report. Imports WASHINGTON (UPI) -The U.S. energy crisis is worse today than.it was before; the 1973 embargo, and any, new cutoff of foreign oil might -bring gasoline rationing withfo 90 days, Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb said Sun; hard-pressed to find ways to conserve.

The first step would be immediate implementation of a state-by-state fuel-allocation plan with fairer distribution than we had the first time. "The most extreme step, if necessary, would be gasoline rationing. make up the difference. crisis, when you look at tiie facts, is worse than before the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74. We are now vulnerable to the extent that 38 per cent our supply comes from abroad and this soon will rise to 40 per cent In addition, Zarb said.

the United States is a price hostage to the oil-producing nations. U.S. payments for foreign oil have increased from $3 billion in 1970 to $25 billion this year, he said. The U.S. now Kas an emergency Man ready for immediate use in the event of a new oil embar go, Zarb said.

He said the major goal would be ta minimize unemployment that might result from embargo-caused fuel shortages, adding that industries and businesses generally continued their conservation efforts after the last embargo was lifted, and would be UCSB building seized by protesting students SANTA BARBARA (UPI) -About 50 students and community members took over the $14-million computer center at the University of California, Santa Barbara Sunday Last refugees head for Guam United Pkm International The last 60,000 refugees contact her American hus- night to protest the cutting of funds from the Mack ago alter a similar take-; over of the same building. A spokesman for the group said they had no comment on whether the-computer would be, dam-! aged. He said the prates-' tors have food and sleep-! ing bags and were ready to stay for a long time. Other demands include-the forced retirement of; Chancellor Vernon I -Cheadle; resignation of Affirmative Action Coordinator Raymond an alternative newspaper! on campus; the reorgan-1 ization of the controlling! body of the campus news--paper and the removal of! the editor of, the paper, who was charged with ist polices and using the-paper to sway the recent student body election. studies department.

The protestors, calling themselves Students for Collective Action, ent er-ed the computer center at 9:30 p.m. and told everyone in the building to get out, were taking over. There was no violence and the building was com- iletely closed a half hour Amorig their demands is a request that funds be reinstituted to the black band. He left Vietnam in 1974 and hasnt written. Her mother-in-law' in Virginia refused to accept her telephone call.

"I have lost my country, I have, killed my parents and now I have lost my husband, cried Truth Hong Mai, 29. She was put under sedation by a camp doctor. The Chicago Tribune, quoting sources in the U.S. Embassy- group, said Ambassador Graham Martin kept evacuation plans to himself, not even telling Washington. Up until the end, the' sources iaid; Martin was from South Vietnam steamed toward Guam Sunday on a flotilla of U-S.

Naval, merchant ahd Vietnamese ships. The trip will take about six About 10,000 persons were taken off the ships to ease overcrowding and were flown to Guam. In the United States, a stream of refugees arrived at the three relocation' centers set up to process them Camp Pendleton, Fort Chaffee, and Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. At Eglin, a Vietnamese woman became hysterical and wanted to commit suicide when -she couldn't studies department, wMch labUshed was efitat six years BUDDHIST PRIEST CONDUCTS SERVICE AT CAMP PENDLETON -APWIlwMt 'T-' i 1 i if r1 -Ui 1 W-ViUVfv-I Independent Pendleton rites for refugees (Tum to Back Pg. Col.

11 s. CONSERVATIVE state GOP group-Assails Ronald Reagan. Page Bellflower man pulls The arrival, of some 2,000 additional refugees Sunday swelled to more 'than 14,000 the- number who have been airlifted here. strewn with Buddhist religious, articles- and an in-; cense burner. Sanh, a Vietnamese who has been in the U.S.

for four, years, said Ms met-'. locations around the coun-. Assisted by Vietnamese translators. Father Evan Greco, chaplain of the 5th. Mariner, from: the -Gospel according to meishbor from blaze PROGRAM TO supplement income CAMP, PENDLETON (AP) CathMic and Buddhist priests led Vietnamese refugees in prayers lor peace and nor mality Sunday, as the homeless war victims attended their: first, religious States.

in hC'U i of elderly a red-tape nightmare. Page sage was one of peace, tedFOOJohatia which. Jmus: told' --Xam bodian refugeeslwho hiJ 'disciTes he' would rN thie RffiSesulVr had been expected Sabir- turn with a promiseihat "normality in their new PRESIDENT placing priority day did not not leave you or-r We. know.they coming down the tube" a Marine spokesman said, but we don't know: where are. now or when they'll arrive.

2 The priest gave a general absolution' and the Vietnamese then' came forward, for communion. In. another part of the a 58-year-old Bellflower man was saved from burning to deathr Sunday -by young1 who uw smoke pouring front bedroom windo wV smash-, ed through a window, and dragged -the victim to safety, witnesses said. burl Wharton 9438 ft Jefferson St was taken to the burn ward at County-USC Medical Center where he was listed in serious condition with third-degree burns on both legs. Witnesses told county firemen that the neighbor, Dennis Hudson, in.his 20s, of 9438 Jefferson, smashed his way into Wharton's bedroom, dragged the older man out on the lawn and then plunged back into the smoke-filled room with a garden hose and extinguish-ed the Maze.

County firemen said the Maze was confined to a -problem of jobs for ieen-agers to pre-- 'onho: are Catholic 50. per cent i -rageA-ii. i.4 EDISON REVIVES plap to triple i capacity at Huntington iBeach power: plantt Page B-l. are Buddhist and 5 per. cent of 'Other denominations.

Relations between the Refugees wearing green Murine field' jackets against -the morning cold sat on unpainted plywood benches set up in a grassy area of the crowded tent At times the priests to camp, refugees, of the Buddhist faith knelt on air 4-i- thenase has touationS werf-drowned handled 12refugeer-A mattreaaea-aa-they-were belaid, were character rn a a 1 a I Lf A AAI 1vj1 aahmaa Waa imj a a. Buddhists and Catholics, led in services by Tri Sanh, of the International Bud- dhist Meditation in Los Angeles. He stood in front of a makeshift altar out by the roar of trucks total of 2,204 arrived or the salty shouts of Ma- Saturday. There were lines who were continuing on the base Sunday to set up tents for a peak morning and 4,429 have al-load of 18,000 refugees. ready moved on ta.ojther r-x I Classified -fT Editorial 1 Financial A-8 C-16 C-8 B-2 ized by non-animosity, and lack of proselytizing because they share a common situation of "'-i inattresa'And it was out when they arrived.

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