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Cities win new right to restrict parking "The same goal is served by assuring convenient parking to residents who leave their cars at home during the day." The high court said a community may regulate the flow of traffic into residential areas to improve the quality of life by cutting down on noise, congestion and litter. "The Constitution does not outlaw these social and environmental objectives," the opinion said, "nor does it presume distinctions between residents and nonresidents of a local neighborhood to be invidious. "The Equal Protection Clause requires only that the distinction drawn by an ordinance like Arlington's rationally promote the regulation's objectives." Among localities which have adopted ordinances similar to Arlington's are the District of Columbia, Atlanta, Baltimore, San Francisco, Boston and Cambridge, Richmond and Charlottesville, and Wilmington, Del. Some of these laws have been overturned in lower courts, while others have been sustained. as a member of Congress from a damage suit by a couple whose personal papers were copied during his subcommittee's investigation of civil disorders in the 1960s.

Agreed to rule whether an "integrated chicken producer" a company involved in all phases of producing broilers for market is a "farmer" and thus immune from antitrust law. Ordered a panel of federal judges to reconsider their rejection of a Massachusetts law which puts qualified veterans ahead of all others on the public employment roster. Virginia's supreme court had held that a property owner has no special right to use public streets in front of his home, and that creating two classes of parkers violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution. But the U.S. Supreme Court opinion said: "To reduce air pollution and other environmental effects of automobile commuting, a community reasonably may restrict on-street parking available to commuters, thus encouraging reliance on car pools and mass transit.

TT-ii-nr -t fnY1 rtf 'iiirii'ry--i(riitiiiiniriiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii irr- -m-- TfuMiinumt Mir it fflj IB WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court ruled today that localities may bar commuter parking on their streets, and impose other traffic restrictions to preserve the quality of life, without running afoul of the Constitution. The justices handed down an unsigned opinion upholding an ordinance in the District of Columbia suburb of Arlington, which forbids commuters from parking on certain streets while letting residents of the area park there free. The opinion overruled the Virginia Supreme Court, which voted unanimously to overturn the Arlington statute. The justices, who will hear arguments Wednesday in the closely watched Allan Bakke "reverse discrimination" case from California, also handed down a handful of orders today. In one, they refused to let the Polish American Congress participate in oral arguments on the Bakke case.

In others, they: Agreed to decide whether Sen. John McClellan, is immune 2 AMERICANS, BRITON Spirit of Spirit Week at Delta mecoming queen will be crowned at a dance beginning at 9:30 p.m. The candidates are (from left) Jill Madill, LuAnn Evans, Sue Astrop, Robyn Shideler and Beth Bess. Evening Press Photo by Jerry Burney. It's Delta High School Spirit Week, which will climax Saturday night with the selection of one of these five seniors as homecoming queen.

Activities Saturday include a parade in downtown Mun-cie at 10 a.m. and a pep rally and bonfire prior to the Eagles' football game with Wes-Del. The ho (r1 CITY EDITION I Oct. 11, 1977 THE MUNCIE VMM I I .1 Solar heat research "ffhrre the Spirit of the Lord Germans thwart Czech hijackers Muncie, Ind. h.

There Liberty" II Cor. 3:17 115c interrogation. In the past refugees who hijacked aircraft to escape from Czechoslovakia were not sent back but were tried in German courts in line with German determination to stamp out terrorism and hijacking. The West German government repeatedly has advocated an international anti-terrorist agreemment under which hijackers either would be returned to their own country or tried in the country they land in. The hijackers seized the aircraft on a flight from Karlovy Vary, the former Carlsbad, to Prague, police said.

By the time Czechoslovak air controllers realized it was off course it already was in West German air space, Prague aviation sources said. The plane flew toward Munich then veered toward Frankfurt where it landed without permission. In a radio contact with the Frankfurt tower the hijackers demanded the plane be refueled so it could fly on to Munich, where they wanted to surrender. But they were told this was impossible because of technical problems and they were persuaded to leave the plane in Frankfurt, Mueller said. Council finally okays welfare's $500,000 plea By GREG GOLDSMITH County Welfare Director' Glen Howard finally got his $500,000 for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) today when the County Council approved his appropriation request on a split vote.

Twice before, councilmen have rejected Howard's requests for the -money, contending that the money was not available. Howard said he needs the money to make AFDC payments In November and December. This time Howard coupled the $500,000 request with reductions of $326,267 in his budget. This means that the net request was for $173,733. Howard was accompanied by Don Wissman of the state Welfare Department, who presented figures indicating that the appropriation could be made because the federal government will reimburse the County for 83 per cent of the AFDC money spent.

Council approved the appropriations after stipulating that the money will come from the welfare fund only. Council President Carl Gresh and Councilman Chalmers King voted against the request, but were overruled 5-2. The council also stipulated that the request be approved by the State Tax Board, which will review the, appropriation. Council Attorney Thomas Cannon Jr. said he had talked with a representative of the board and was told the appropriation was legal as long as the money is or will be available in the welfare fund.

The federal reimbursements will lower the cost to the county welfare fund to $78,510. Howard told the councilmen that the money will be available. Everyone GLENS FALLS, N.Y. -Lorenzo Amato samples a piece of the world's largest pizza pie while a hungry crowd awaits the chef's pronouncement. Amato baked the pie and sold slices of WIN IN PHYSICS question of the origin of life cannot be solved.

This theory, however, makes us believe that life's origin was not coincidental and that it may be possible to trace it." A spokesman at the University of Texas said Prirogine, born in Moscow, has been on the University Where's that bright blue October sky? Barometer 30.00 Rainfall (24 hrs. to noon). .09 Rel. humidity 6 a.m U00 Rel. humidity noon 72 Wind direction Wind velocity 7 Visibility 7 miles Sunrise 6:48 a.m.

Sunset 6:08 p.m. Noon Maximum, 62; Mexican prison GUADALAJARA, Mexico (UPI) Rioting prisoners demanded better medical attention and food today and circulated a communique saying they lynched 14 feHow inmates "for an infinity of abuses against the prison population." Hundreds of army troops and police surrounded the Jalisco State Oblatos Penitentiary in an attempt to put down rioting in which inmates battled with knives and iron pipes. More than 20 other prisoners were injured. 'Where is CAMBRIDGE CITY, IND. (UPI) The face of a goldenhaired college coed and the words "Where is Ann?" will soon confront Indiana motorists as part of a massive campaign aimed at finding Ann Louise Harmeier, who disappeared a month ago.

Miss Harmeier, 20, a junior at Indiana University i at Bloomington, was driving back to school Sept. 12 when her car overheated on Indiana 37 near Martinsville, authorities said. The car was found abandoned along the route the next day by STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) Two Americans and a Briton shared the 1977 Nobel Physics prize today for solid state research that, among other benefits, could make solar heating cheaper. The chemistry prize was given to a Belgian professor who directs a thermodynamics center at the University of The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences awarded the $145,000 physics prize jointly to Dr. Philip W.

Anderson, 54, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J.; Prof. John H. van Vleck, 78, of Harvard University, and Sir Nevill F. Mott, 72, of Cambridge University, England. In the second award of the day, the academy awarded the 1977 Nobel Chemistry prize to Prof.

Ilya Prigogine of the Free Universsity of Brussels in Belgium, Prigogine, 60, is also director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Texas. In announcing the award, also worth $145,000, the academy cited Prigogine "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures. It said "the great contribution of Prigogine to thermodynamic theory is his successful extension of it to systems which are far from thermodynamic equilibrium." Academy member Prof. Bo G. Malmstrom said Prigogine's work contributed to the understanding of how living beings use energy.

"With Prof. Prigogine's theory we can understand why we exist," Malmstrom said. "Of course the tion." The commissioners listened to Rev. Richard Howard and Aamir Muslim Shabazz of the Affirmative Action Coalition, who asked the commissioners to meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday with a representa-ive of the Labor Department to set tie differences concerning use of CETA funds for several local projects.

Shabazz, who attended a previous meeting of the commissioners and expressed anger to the point of calling commissioners racists, was completely opposite in his approach today. The commissioners agreed to meet Wednesday at the Multi-Service Center, 1400 S. Madison, to hear arguments of the Affirmative Action Coalition in the presence of a Labor Department representative, who will act as a technical adviser. Nobelized of Brussels staff since 1947 and on the Texas staff since Sept. 1, 1967, commuting between the two.

He currently is in Brussels. In announcing the physics award, the Swedish academy said: "The three prize winners are Continued on Page 2 Cool and windy tonight with 20 per cent chance of rain possibly mixed with snow; lows in the mid -30s. Twenty per cent chance of rain Wednesday; highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s. Winds west to northwesterly 75 to 25 mph and gusty tonight. Temperatures recorded in Muncie during 24 hours preced ing noon today Noon yestdy 58 Midnight.

2 a.m. 4 a.m.. 6 a.m. 8 a.m.. 10 a.m 52 52 51 50 46 42 2 p.m.

4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 p.m. 60 62 56 55 55 today, 41 Minimum, 41 rioters lynch 14 "The 14 victims were coordinators of the administration of the prison and they committed an infinity of abuses against the rest of our comrades," the communique said.

"We want to make clear that the dead were lynched by the entire population, because we could no longer stand their abuses and arbitrary behavior." The communique also demanded jobs, better food and adequate medical attention for prisoners. billboards coming state police and she has not been seen since. Extensive searches of the area, including the densely wooded Morgan-Monroe state forest, have turned up no sign of the coed. The billboards and new posters will have a recent photograph of the blonde coed She was described as 5-foot-5 105 pounds with brown eyes. When she disappeared, sht was wearing blue jeans and i red T-shirt with "Indiana" inscribed on it.

(More on Page 11) stage at the Spectrum here for an encore. A spokesman for the group said the firecracker went off "about a foot" from Tyler's face. He said neither injury appeared to be serious. The injuries forced the Boston-based group to cancel its concert Monday night and to postpone Indefinitely its appearance Wednesday night In Cleveland. Bridge Column .12 Sports 9-10-11 Theaters 8 TV Schedule 8 Lifestyle 5-6 Want Ads 14-17 I Oct.

11, 1977V Vol. 73, No. 181 1 County accepts low bid for ambulances FRANKFURT, West Germany (UPI) Two Czechoslovak airline employees hijacked one of their company's airliners today and forced it at gunpoint to fly to West Germany where they asked for political asylum. West German police took the hijackers a man and a woman into custody and legal authorities said it was certain they will be tried in line with the West German govermment's determination to stamp out terrorism. Police said the 29-year-old man and his 21-year-old woman friend, both ground employees of the state-run Czech Airline, flew as passengers on a domestic flight and forced the Soviet-made Yak40 to cross the border into Germany and land at the Frankfurt International Airfield.

In Prague, airport authorities said the man, an air traffic control inspector, was wanted on a charge of stealing a large sum of and a camera from his pregnant mistress. "They have asked for political asylum," Frankfurt Police Chief Knut Mueller told reporters after they were turned over to police for for pizza? the monster to raise money for charity. The pie's vital statistics will be submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for documentation. UPI. Ziegler, that holes presently dotting the routes of the two projects will be filled in and all traffic barricades will be removed.

"If we have to waste material to get it ready for winter, we'll do so," Ziegler said. "Sections of the streets that are excavated when construction work is forced down will be filled, probably with asphalt," he said. "Then next spring we'll excavate the fill-in work and re-do those areas to the original proj By GENE BEARD The Delaware County Commissioners today approved the low bid submitted by an Anderson firm for five ambulances. Care-A-Van was the low bidder at $104,720 for the five vehicles advertised by the commissioners. The total does not include communications equipment expected to cost an additional $20,000.

A bid from an Ohio firm was disallowed because of the firm's failure to submit the required certified check. A member of the Emergency Medical Service Commission expressed thanks to the commissioners for bringing the matter to a conclusion. Leonard Thomas, commissioners' president, said, "We feel these ambulances will be something that the county can live with." And he added, "We didn't want to be too hasty about the situa ect specifications." Ziegler said it has always been his understanding that the "stop-gap" work would be done, if the project could not be completed as planned. He noted that many people had expressed concern that they would have to live with ripped-up streets through the winter. He added, however, that he still hopes the work can be completed as originally planned before cold weather brings the construction to a halt.

Aerosmith 2 Kurt by firecracker Cify pledges driveable streets by winter PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Two members of the rock group Aerosmith today were recovering from injuries caused by 'a firecracker thrown at them by a spectator during a concert. Lead singer Steven Tyler suffered a bruised cornea of the left eye and guitarist Joe Perry sustained a cut left hand Sunday night when the firecracker was thrown as the group returned on Inside Abigail Van Comics Ziegler admitted that the stop-gap plans would result In an Increase in the overall cost of the project, but said such an increase would not be "significant." Should the stop-gap construction be used, the engineer said, drivers would probably find streets rough, and without the lane markers painted. "There might not be nice lines painted on them," he said, "but we're not going to leave them torn up." By JOHN CARLSON The city's downtown traffic loop and Madison will be. open for normal traffic this winter, even if it involves doing "stopgap" construction work that will have to be redone next spring, City Engineer Lamar Ziegler said today. "The streets may not be pretty and there may be some bumps," Ziegler said, "but they will all be serviceable and open to traffic before construction shuts down for the winter." That means, according to Buren.

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