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MMLY CwHIM NHRir JtfNMN CUfi Mi iMMm MfMf 1971 The morning report Hospital admissions St. Mary's R5.v Cassidy, Boonville; RXvJnohd Homey er, Owen- sjalhtv-Mrs. Ann Humphreys. Brad Howard. Linn; Kalaf.

Mela; Albert Route Charles California; Alan AQnjgfraser. 2001 St. Marys Miss Susanne Marsh. g.Sbuthwest Mrs. olyh Phillips, California Reinkemeyer, Meta; iiiJSwit Reinkemeyef, Meta; fricia' Sayers, 901 Mrs.

Angela i a Route Mrs lKiThompson. 4922 Brook Mrs, Judy Bailey. adway; James Blanc Miller St. fitC Clara Heinkenmeyer, BalkenbUsh; West- Mrs; Connie. Hayne.

i Mrs; Hiawatha Reed. Rollins Mrs. Madeline EfeyTeT Argyie; Scblty Balken- bush. tyestphalia; Jam'es Bauer. Freeburg; Jeffrey Bke'r.

Cenlertown; Randall Chatler, Mrs. Mabel Enloe. Phil Farris. New Leanna Bioom- field Fred Jell. Bland Miss Elizabeth Linenburg, 2112 Oak- view David Owens; Holts Mrs.

Frances Ppanf er. Kansas St. Prentice, Rolla; Mrs. Charles E. Still 'Mrs.

Louise. Adams; 1308 Richard Adrian, Eugene John Blackwell. Hay ft Point; Robert Buelick, Sjinr'fse Beach; Mrs. Emma Bunseimeyer, Gerald; Mrs. Carlisle, Jonesburg; Mrs'.

Delphine Carroll, Owen- sville; Mrs. Bonne Clenin, Bobby CSIatksburg; Mrs. Lily Collier, Mrs. Elsie Colvin, Route Mrs. Judith Comer, 43 Georgia Glen Cook, 6i 9 Ifeyfioril Mrs.

Emily Bushman, California; Mrs. lia Vola Dooley, 1422 Debra SI. Vicki Dreher, Capitol View Village; Mrs. Juanita Hayes, Rhineland; Mrs. Bren- dja Haynes, Holts Summit; Jjrs.

A i i Rosebud; DoraHickey, Dixon; Jfohn Hill, Tuscumbia; Mrs. Ifell Horseman, Eldon. I Mrs. Lorraine Kautsch. Loh- rnan Virginia Lauth, Calvin Linhardl, Rosebud; Ira Moss, Pawlak, California Perskins, 112a Jfigh Miss Denise Plassmeyer, St.

Elizabeth; a Hcuroley; Mrs. Eleanora Reed, holts Summit; Mrs. Laura James Scott 112 Johnson Mrs. Lilliatr Smith, Fulton; Miss Lessi'Stude, Wright City; Alan Pmitt. Russellville; Mrs.

JMulah Walker, Holts Summit; Sary Webster, Camdenton; Centertown. Miss Angela Gretlein. Route James Nelson. Route Mrs. Kalhy Volkart.

Russellville; Leonard Giles. Fisk; Mrs. Grace Stockton, 1512 Vail of Fears Tony Miles. i A a HcGonigal, Cedar City; Mrs. Pierce.

Lake a Clarksburg; Lawrence Heck- 0ian. Westphalia; Norman Camdenton; Terry Iqnklns, 206 W. Dunklin Clarksburg. Memorial I Charles Flaugher, Eldon; Mrs. Goldie Piercey, Eldon; Sumpter, Jamestown; James Kuper, Bonnots Mill; Mrs.

Johanna Allen, Eldon; Mrs. Green, hartsburg; Miss, Nancy George, Olean; fljliss Filzsimmons, 1227a" E. High Mrs. Lelia Sjcr.ivper. Eldon.

Walter Kuhlman, California; Snaveley. Route Potts, St. James; Elme'r Turner, Tebbetts; Joe Epple. 4318 Rainbow Rudolph Strobel, Russellville; Sirs. Mamie Luker, 615 E.

Gapitol Cecil Russell, California. Circuit court Lou, Eva Hunt, petitioner vs. liowell V. Hunt, respondent. DJs.solution of marriage, custody of children Joseph, Njantha and Nora Hunt to petitioner.

Surgery underway a i A a 12-year-old California boy suf- fering from aplastic anemia, was un'dergoing surgery at 1 30 Monday at Seattle, Wash. Anderson is receiving a bone marrow transplant from his Bother Chris, 16. wjay in California to pay for the ojjeration, which is expected to cost between $20,000 and jBayJd, Chris and their rnjxffer, Mrs. Paul Anderson, Seattle last week. The surgery is taking place at Pfffvfatence Hospital there.

Police reports Horence Schneider, 1303 W. Main reported Saturday ari outside mirror oh his car was broken while the car was parked at his residence. The damage is listed at $2. 50; Barbara S. Daledpvich, 121 Boitori reported Sunday the theft of an undetermined of personal checks from her residence.

Wobdrow Bealmer, 1910 Hayselton reported Sun- day state license plate No. 2634 was lost or stolen from a state Department of Ariculture car while the car was parked at his residence or elsewhere in the city area. Mrs. Dorothy Hlgedic, 608 reported Sunday hit-and-nin damage to her car while it was parked in the 1800 block of Missouri Boulevard. i i a 221 Fredericks reported Sunday, an attempted break-in at -her residence.

The damage to a window and door is listed Guy Clark, 102 Lafayette reported Sunday the theft of a boy's red bicycle from the front porch of his residence. "Erwin Gadd. aii employe of Missouri Division of Health, 2511 Industrial reported Monday he found two glass windows, worth $150 each, and two doors; valued, at $100 each; broken the building. a Scrivener. 1 101 Missouri reported Mon- day her billfold was either lost or stolen from her van.

andshe found the two rear tires cut. Gladys HagneK Route 3. reported Monday she found UK door of her car dented and the radio antenna broken while it was parked at 409 Broadway Traffic bureau Bald Hill Road; fined S10 for speeding 37 mph in a 30 rnph zone. Joyce B.Turner, 29, of 1413 Elizabeth fined. S5 for failure to display a.city license.

W. J. Linnebrink 62. of 1411 Stadium fined S10 for speeding 40 mph in a 30 mph zone. Larry D.

Rademan, 32. Route fined S10 for speeding 38 mph in a 30 mph zone. Norma L. Miller, 49, of 2403 Hillsdale fined $20 for speeding 42 mph in. a 30 mph zone.

William R. Undergraff, Tip- ton; fined $5 for excessive overtime parking. Carl F. Sitze, 34. Holts Sum- mit; fined $10 for speeding 38 mph in a 30 mph zone.

Mark A. Kaps. 17. of 4808 Sharon fined $10 for speeding 38 mph in a 30 mph zone. Louietta S.

Brandon, 21, of 127 W. fined $10 for speeding 38mpn in a 30 mph zone. Ray Tebout. 1017a Buena Vista fined S5 for excessive overtime parking. Ronald H.

Meyer, 29, Mela; fined $10 for speeding 40 mph in a 30 mph zone. Jarnes L. Helmig. 33, of 2214 Tannerbridge fined $10 for speeding 40 mph in a 30 mph zone. Joan Sturgis 1413a Elizabeth fined $5 for failure to display a city license.

Magistrate court Luann C. Hinton, 19. 'Chester- field; $15. and $17.60 costs, for speeding 70 mph in a 55 mph zone. Diane Elziabeth Davis.

20, Florissant; fined $35. and $17.60 costs, for speeding 78 mph in a 55 mph zone. Steven Ray Loethen, of 301 N. Ridgeway fined $10 and $17.60 costs, for speeding 65 mph in a 55 mph zone. Michael Joseph Cullen, 20, Flippen.

fined $30. and $17.60 costs, for speeding 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. Nancy Kim Roy, 23. of 124 Westmore fined $30, and S17.60 costs, for speeding 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. Oscar Clarence Pope 55, Bridgeton; fined S15, and S17.60 costs, for speeding 69 mph in a 55 mph zone.

Gary Franklin Bush, 31. Han- nibal; fined $13, and $17.60 costs, for speeding 68 mph in a 55 mph zone. Walter Timonty Murphy, 40, St. Louis; fined $15, and $17.60 costs, for 69 mph in a 55 mph zone. Joseph Henry Klitzing, 21, Florissant; fined $20, and S17.60 costs, for speeding 71 mph in a 55 mph zone.

David Richard Farley, 23, Russellville; fined S15, and S17.60 costs, for speeding 70 mph in a 55 mph zone. Donald Lee Stamper, 40, Columbia; fined $20, and $17.60 costs, for speeding 71 mph in a 55 mpn zone. Carey Joseph Buening, 19, O'Fallon; fined $15, and $17.60 costs, for speeding 69 rnph in a 55 mph zone. Robert Herbert Kliethermes, 22, Freeburg; fined $10, and $17.60 costs, for failure to stop at a stop sign. Police cburt Robert J.

Holing, 18. Holts Summit; fined $20 for speeding 55 mph in a 30 mph zone. Virgin Barbour, "68, Latharn; fined $25for failure to yield the right of way. Lerpy J. McGill, 20, McGirk; fineci $10 for speeding 38 mph in' a 30 mph zone.

Ernest A. Frank, 56, of 206 Dawson fined $25 for failure to yield the right of way. Gregory D. Detwiler, 18, of 917 W. fined $10 for careless and imprudent driving.

Kemna. 17, of 2012 Redwood fined $25 for following too closely. Larry D. Albert, 28. Cairo, forfeited $25 bond on a a careless and imprudent driving.

R. Harvey. 41. E. St.

Louis, I I I fined $20 for speedirig 75 mph. in a 55 mph zone. EstillM. Williams. 62, Of 422c High fined $100 for careless and i driving.

Marriage licenses Roderick Edward Stewart. and Ruby LaVerne Childs, Jefferson City, Ronald M. Egger and Mrs. Kathleen Gagliardi, both of Jefferson report The thermometer High yesterday 89; Low yesterday 61; High past 57 years 108 in 1918; Low past 57 Precipitation News Tribune Weather Bureau Reading 0 for past 24 hours ending at midnight; heaviest rain same dale in 57 years .62 in 1931. Tolal lo dale this monlh Normal this mon- th lo dale This year lodale 22.68; Normal 24.27.

TheSon Sunsel loday 8:15: Sunrise Lake and River Stages Jefferson City 12.8. down .1 Hei'mann 10.6. down .1 Lake of the Ozarks 58.0. no change Council From page 1 In other business, the council approved an increase in laxi cab rales. The rates will be increased from 70 cents to 80 cents for the first quarter mile and from 50 cents lo 60 cents for each additional one-sixth mile.

The council also approved two bills which authorize con- tracts with the Mid-Missouri Council of Governmenls for cily planning services. One contract aulhorizes a one-year conlracl for short range planning services at a cost of $8,000. The conlracl could be terminaled on 30 days nolice. second a authorizes a one-year contract for long-range planning ser- vices at a cost of $9.000. The cily would pay $3,000 of Ihe cosl while Ihe Slate Office of Administralion would pa the remaining $6,000.

In other business, the council approved a resolution from the Housing Authority, which will amend its land acquisition plan so thai the entire parcel of land on which the Masonic Lodge is currently located could be acquired for parking purposes. The lodge is located in the 300 block of East High Street. The council also gave its' approval for Ihe condemnalion of property al 403 Mulberry Si. The property, which is owned by Ernest Wolf, is in the area proposed for Ihe construction of the new slale laboratory" building. Fourth Ward Councilman Vincent Borgmeyer also introduced a bill which will require closer checks on the practice of voiding city parking tickels.

Borgmeyer said several weeks ago lhat he planned to introduce such a measure after il came lo his allention lhal several lickels may have been voided wilhoul anyone offering a valid reason for voiding the tickets. Accident claims second victim CALIFORNIA, Mo. (AP) A "one-car accident near this central Missouri community Sunday has claimed a second life. Kenneth A. Robb, 19, of Cali- fornia, died Monday at the University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia.

The highway patrol said he was driving a car that left Mis- souri 87 six miles south of U.S. 50 and overturned. A passenger in the car, Patti Jane Basnett'of rural Russell- ville, was killed in the ac- cident. Deaths Rites Wednesday for Mrs. Weidinger Mrs.

i Theresa Weidinger, of Vienna, died Monday at a Columbia hospital after a four-month illness. i i daughter of Henry and Mary. Stratman Wansing, was born Nov. 15.1926in'Vienna. On May 30, 1919, she was married to Leonard Weidinger who sur- vives.

Also surviving are: Four sons, Mark Weidinger, Cape Girardeau, Joe Weidinger, i a a a i i a a Weidinger, both of Vienna; one brother, Lawrence Wansing, Vienna; five sisters, Mrs. Margaret Wulff, Columbia, a a i a Overland, Mrs. Katherine Bar- St. Ann, Mrs. Martha Jordan, Crestwood, and Theresa Elbert, Woodson Terrace.

Mrs. Weidinger was past president of the Married a i Sodality of the Visitation Catholic Church, Vienna. Rosaries will be recited at 8 p.m! both today and Tuesday at i i a a i Funeral Home, Vienna. The Rev. James Mohan will officiate at services at 10:30 a.m.

Wendesday at the Visitation Catholic Church. Burial, will be in the church cemetery. Eldon man dies at local hospital Samuel Grady Hord, 84. of died Sunday at Memorial Hospital. Mr.

Hord was born June 20. 1891, at Tebbetts. son of John and Dora Ewens Hord. On Aug. 17, 1924, he was married to Nellie Taylor, who survives at the home.

Mr. Hord moved to Eldon in 1922 and managed a grocery store. He later managed Allis-Chalmers and Inter- national Harvester dealerships in Eldon before his retirement. He was a member of First Baptist Church at Eldon and lona No. 381.

A.F. A.M.k Eldon. Services are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Don Wai might and the Rev.

M. A. Younger officiating. Burial will be in the Ml. Pleasant Cemetery near Eldon.

i i Funeral Home, is in charge" of arrangements. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Heail Fund or to First Baptist Church. A. J. Hohm dies at Fulton hospital A.

J. "Tony" Hohm. 81. of 1111 Park died Sunday at a Fulton hospital. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the- American Legion and Modern Woodman.

Mr. Hohm was bom at St. Thomas, Feb. 10, 1891. son of Jacob and Mary Schell Hohm.

He was married Oct. 4. 1927 to. Regina Klimas, who died April 9.1964. Services will be held at 10 a a a Immaculate Conceptio Church with the Rev.

Richard Cronin officiating Burial will be in Resurrection Cemeterv. Mr. Berkley dies in Searcy, Ark. Carme E. Berkley, 59, died Sunday in Searcy, where he was living after retiring from General Motors St.

Louis. Mr. Berkley was born Sept. 9, 1915. in of William and Blanche Weaver Berkley.

On Feb. 19, 1935, he was married to Iris Stark. Survivors include: One son. Jemas Berkley, Searcy, one daughter. Mrs.

Thelma; Heckley, Des Moines, Iowa; one sister, Mrs. Aaron Wear, a and six grand- children. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Kidwell-Gar- 'ber Funeral Home, Versaille. with the Rev.

R. C. Reichert officiating. Burial will be in the Ver- sailles Cemetery. Former local teacher dies Miss Carrol Gardner Green, 78, of El Cajon, died July 31 after a long illness.

She had taught in Jefferson City public schools ror about 17 years. Miss Green was born at Westside, Iowa, July 2, 1897, the daughter of Burtis and Annie Gardner Green. Miss Grean had resided in the San Diego, area the last three years. Services were held in San Diego Saturday. Miss Green was buried in Cypress View Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.

Beef creditors eye plan Patti Jane Basnett Rites today for Miss Basnett Jane Basnett. 17. of Russellville, died Sunday after- noon after an automobile accident about six miles south of California on Mo. 87. Misjs Basnetl would have been la senior at Russellville High School this fall.

She was bom Feb. 13, 1958, daughter. of Lemuel G. and Sarah E. Magruder Basnett.

who survive. Miss Basnelt was a member of Memorial Baptist Church. Russellville. and a member of the Real Life Singers of thai church. Other survivors include: Roye'e Basnelt, Jerry Basneil and Timothy Basnetl.

all of the home; two' sisters. Karen Basnetl. Elslon, and Tina Basnett. of the home; malernal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Lemuel Mtigruder. Carrolllon: paternal grandmother, Mrs. Bertha, Basnelt, 518 Broadway and great-grand- Mrs. Esther Basnelt. Russellville.

Services i be today at 2 p.m. at Memorial Baptisl Church. Russellville. with the Rev. Lewis T.

Curtis officiating. Burial will be in 'Hawthorn Memorial Gardens. Funeral arrangements are by Freeman Mortuary. Travel funds boosted WASHINGTON A A measure allowing Senate aides S35 a clay while on official busi- ness in their bosses' home stales slipped into law unobser- ved lasl monlh. Now Rep.

Aspin, a asked the a Accounting Office, to monitor the cost of the provision. The GAO is an arm of the House and Senate. The House, which in Febru- ary rejected a similar Senale move, does not give its staff members such allowances. The Senate allow- ance for food, lodging and other expenses or actual costs was part of the i a i a appropriations bill President Ford signed July 25. The provision was added by Ihe Senate Approprialions Committee to the original Housepassed legislation.

The full Senate approved after Ihe. panel reported il would "not" require the need for additional funds." Four convicts held for trial Four Missouri State Peniten- liary inmates were charged with second degree murder and bound over for trial in Cir- cuit Court, following their preliminary trial in the Cole County Magistrate Court Mon- day. The four men, James LaFrance, Major Lang Samuel Cook and James Dun- can, were accused with the stabbing death of a fellow inmate, Dewitt Patterson. Prosecuting attorney James McHenry charged the inmates of stabbing and beating Palter- son with a broken golf club and other weapons in the upper yard of the Main penitentiary on July 3. OMAHA, Neb.

(AP)--Federal Bankruptcy Judge David Crawford held his office open an extra 90 minutes Monday to-allow attorneys for bankrupt American Beef Packers, Inc. (ABP) and its subsidiary, Beefland Inter- national of Council Bluffs, Iowa, to file a consolidated, amended plan to pay off their estimated 8,000 creditors. ABP filed for limited bankruptcy under Chapter 11 in January, and the firm's first plan of arrangement was rejected by the court appointed creditors committee. Sin- ce then, negotiations on a new plan and a big loan from the firm's largest creditor, General Electric Credit Corp. (GECC), have continued.

The negotiations on the "bail out" loan will continue, according to ABP attorney Douglas Reno. The new plan provides for "substantially larger payments to ABP's unsecured creditors than provided in the first plan," according to the petition filed late Mon- day. The new plan calls for three classes of creditors: Class Livestock feeders and feed sellers owed less Class II, Livestock feeders and' feed sellers owed more than $5,000. Class III, All other creditors with claims arising from other than the sale and delivery of feed and stock to ABP. The original plan called for four classes of creditors.

Under the new plan, Class I creditors Would receive 80 per cent of their claim against ABP, with each elaim being paid as proven and allowed. Class II creditors would be paid 100 per cent of the "claim as with The initial payment to Class II creditors would be 55 per cent of the claim would be paid as the claim is allowed, With 45 per cent being paid on a deferred basis with seven per cent interest. However, the deferred payments will come from ear- after operating expenses and principal-reducing payments are made to ABP's largest creditor, Electric Credit Corp! Any Class II creditor may elect to reduce his claim to $5,000 and be treated as a Class I creditor, arid any Class I creditor may be treated as a Class II creditor if he wishes. Class III creditors would be paid 50 per cent of the'ir claims, "as filed, approved and allowed. These paymen- ts would be made not later than March 31,1976, except in the case of disputed claims, and would be superior to deferred payments to Class II creditors.

To become effective the plan must be accepted by Crawford and by creditors holding at least 95 per cent of the amount of claims against ABP. The latter is "necessary to induce GECC" to loan ABP a reported $30 million dollars, according to the plan. The plan also provides "special treatment for certain i who claim other unsecured interests." Upon the acceptance of the plan, ABP will deposit $4 million to be applied to the payment of priority claims. The money to pay the claims will come from the sales of ABP assets, such as its ultramodern plant in Dumas, Roberts Dairy of Omaha, and its big feedlot at Minatare, all of which have already been sold. Other miscellaneous assets may also be sold as approved by ABP stockholders.

Robert Guinan, the chief attorney for the creditors committee said the plan is "generally acceptable," but added that the acceptance is conditioned on the verification of several reports: In the Omaha World-Herald reported Monday that it had learned a federal grand jury would be convened Tuesday to investigate ABP's bankruptcy filing and other matters. However, U.S. District Atty. Daniel Wherry declined comment. "That would be speculation on their World-Herald's) part," said Wherry in a telephone inter- view.

At least one federal grand jury has already completed its investigation of different charges against ABP, resulting in one indictment. Hostages trade readied KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Japan agreed to terrorist demands and made arrangements Tuesday to free. Red Army fanatics from its jails. They will be flown here to save the lives of U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins, the Swedish charge d'affaires and others held by guerrillas in a 12-story building.

Prime Minister Takeo Miki of Japan, in Washington for an official visit, canceled his planned activities to concentrate on the crisis in Malaysia. He was reported in constant touch with Tokyo. The terrorists slormedlhe building about 10:45 a.m. Monday 11:45 p.m. EDT Sunday took over the U.S.

and Swedish embassies on the ninth floor, wounded a watchman and two policemen, and threatened to blow everything up unless seven comrades were flown here from Japan. One deadline set by the terrorists passed without incident, however. U.S. officials said there were between lour and six terrorists and more than 15 hostages, including 42-year-old Stebbins, a Now Mexico native; and the Swedish diplomat, 48-year-old Fredqk Bergenstraahle; and his 29-year-old secretary, Ulla Odqvist. But spokesmen for about 150 heavily armed Kuala Lumpur police ringing the building said there might as many as 50 hostages.

Stebbins said in a brief telephone conversation with U.S. Embassy officials that he was not being harmed by the terrorists and that he and the other hostages, including Australians, Malaysians, a Japanese and a Singaporean, were "sitting around just waiting." The structure, called the American International Assurance Building, houses several foreign missions. a a i a i a i i i Manickavasagam conferred twice with the terrorists by telephone from the sixth floor of the building and police sent food up to both the terrorists and the hostages. The terrorists said in a three-page, typewritten document titled "Declaration and Communique" drop- ped from the ninthfloor window lhat in addition to freedom for their comrades, they wanted a helicopter to lake them to the roof of the building, and a Japan Air Lines plane, to fly them loan unnamed destination. FBI presses Hoffa hunt From page 1 the day Hoffa disappeared, but officials said Monday there was no basis for the report.

Sullivan said he learned from James P. Hoffa that similar threats against Hoffa had been made by an Ohio Teamsters official. Sullivan also said he has the names of other East Coast Teamsters officials who have told him.of similar threats against Hoffa by Provenzano. He declined lo divulge the names, but said he was preparing a list to turn over to Department of Justice official Sullivan said Provenzano and the Ohio unionist were angry with Hoffa because they felt their legal troubles could be tied to their close relationship with Hoffa, who was always in and out of trouble. Sullivan was one of 13 dissident Teamsters who petilioned Ihe federal courts to put the Teamsters union under federal monitoring in a 1957 effort to sweep corrp- tion from the union.

A source close to Hoffa said last weekend thai Proven- zano nursed a grudge ever since he served lime with Hof- fa at Lewisburg, federal prison because Hoffa refused to amend the union's pension plan to include Provenzano. Provenzano was convicted for extortion; Hoffa for mail fraud and jury tampering. Meanwhile, Hoffa's son said his family is offering an unspecified reward for tips on Hoffa's whereabouts in an effort to loosen lips of persons who might "have seen seen my father get into a car." The FBI would not discuss reports that Hoffa might have been kidnaped or killed because he was a threat to crime figures or union men whose questionable activities he knew. Sources close to the investigation told The Associated Press that was one of several theories under scrutiny by the FBI. The FBI set up shop at the Hoffa home, bringing in a mobile communications unit and interviewing family members for several hours.

With the FBI searching for a I i to Hoffa's dis- appearance, sources confirmed Hoffa appeared before a U.S. grand jury this summer and pleaded the Fifth Amendment. A source said Hoffa refused to answer questions concerning his placement of questionable characters on the union payroll when he was president of the International Teamsters union from 1957 to 1971. U.S.' attorneys also have been investigating the Team- sters' pension fund. Authorities say many crime figures have ready access to the $1.34 billion assets of the Team- sters Union Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas pension fund.

The Detroit News reported that federal sources believe Hoffa might have been the victim of his own campaign to regain union power a campaign that could have threat- ened union leaders and crime figures. The source told the News that some feared Hoffa was willing to expose union entanglements with organized crime as part of his drive to unseat Teamsters President Frank E. Fitzsimmons. But U.S. Atty.

Ralph Guy told AP he had no evidence of that from his investigations of the Teamsters. Federal officials believe Hoffa's disappearance was the work of professionals, the source told AP, and are not optimistic that a body will be discovered if Hoffa was killed. Higher release denied if From pagel Asked if the same concerns about "trumped-up excuses" that were directed at the wheat firms applied lo the giant feed grain companies, since corn pricey have more of an effect on retail food prices, Thurman Gaskill, of Corinth, Iowa, would say only that he "hoped they would nol raise Iheir prices in Ihe wake of heavy exports. U.S. grain corporalions have recenlly sold slightly more corn to Ihe Soviels than wheat Corn is Ihe major ingredienl in Ihe normal feeds of cal- lle, hogs, chickens and lurkeys.

The prices of Ihe meals Ihey produce usually are a conlrolling factor in retail food price swings, at least as far as supermarket price-selling can be relaled to farm prices. Superdome seats 'dizzying 1 NEW ORLEANS (AP) Watching the opening of the $163 million Louisiana Superdome from seats a dizzying 17 stories up was like watching Mardi Gras from a ferris wheel. "Somebody's gonna get killed," said a panting spectator who had toiled up the 30 degree grade lo the top tier of seals. "It feels like you're falling on your face." "Just hand me an oxygen mask and let me sit here for awhile," a woman with him said. "Man, ain't it something," said another man frtm a nearby seat.

"Exciting space," observed a young architect in the jargon of his profession. Dixieland musicians down on the floor gave way to the New Orleans Summer Pops Orchestra, which in turn stepped aside for Adler Ledoux's Cajun fid- dlers. The Southern University band wound up the six-hour free show Sunday. All of it blared from gianl speakers suspended from Ihe sladium's roof 270 feel up. The musicians appeard anlsized from Ihe lop seals, bul i 22-by-26-foot television screens mag- nified them in clcse-up color.

Haute couture rubbed elbows with tank tops and cutoffs, youlh with the elderly, roaming the miles of ramps, lining up al Ihe portable beer slands under the 13-acre roof. "It's a typical Mardi Gras crowd," said John Pechon director of security for the Dome. He estimated that people were inside the arena at the peak of the day's action. Much of the big stadium was locked away from public view: the plush private suites, convention meeting rooms, office spaces. Much of it an esti- mated SI million worth was still unfinished: escalators and elevalors didn'l work, ceiling tiles hadn't been inslalled, and waler founiains were dry.

The crowd didn'l seem lo mind. Cars backed up a half mile waiting to get into the parking garages as others tried lo get out, but Ihere were no angry shouts and little horn tooting. The Dome was four years in planning and an equal number of years in construction. It has been the sub- ject of political controversy and two dozen lawsuits, and its financial dealings have been investigated by federal, state and local authorities. Its cost ballooned from the initial bid price of $93 million to the The entire Louisiana territory was purchased for $15 million in 1803, but nobody in the Mardi Gras atmosphere inside the Dome cared to make the com- parison..