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I THE PALLADIUM -ITEM Vol. 147, No. 242 Richmond, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1977 Carter pledges help in curbing arms race By Frank Cormier UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) President Carter said Tuesday the United States and the Soviet Union are "within sight of a significant agreement" to limit strategic weapons.

In his text for an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Carter also looked beyond a new SALT accord and declared the United States is "willing now" to reduce its arsenal of nuclear arms "by 10 per cent, by 20 per cent, even by 50 per cent," if the Soviets will do the same. While emphasizing arms control efforts, Carter also discussed the search for a Middle East peace. "We do not intend to impose from the outside a settlement on the nations of the Middle East," he said. But he added that "the fundamental rights and interests" of Israel and her Arab neighbors must be accepted, and concluded: Israel, this must mean borders that are recognized and secure. The commitment of the United States to Israel's security is unquestionable.

the Arabs, the legitimate rights of the Palestinians must be recognized. How these rights are to be defined and implemented is, of course, for the interested parties to decide in negotiations, and not for us to dictate." Bill Murray and a friend strike Waiting poses whle they wait for a tow car failed them just outside a The foot protruding through the for tow Legislation to overhaul to test wills of unions, WASHINGTON (UPI) Legisla- debate on the bill Tuesday, with both tion to overhaul federal labor law, sides predicting they would prevail. drafted by the AFL-CIO and en- A filibuster was expected when the dorsed by President Carter, is gener- Senate takes up the measure someating the most tenacious test of wills time next year. between labor and business on Capitol Hill in many years. The House was scheduled to begin The bill -No.

1 item on labor's legislative agenda this year -would crack down on employers who per- Senate nears vote on gas de deregulation WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate, its filibuster on natural gas prices at an end, is nearing a vote on a compromise deregulation plan that the Carter administration is accepting reluctantly. After weeks of firmly rejecting all pricing schemes calling for lifting federal controls, White House pose energy at advisers least in say the they Senate- not deregulation beginning in 1987. A vote was possible Tuesday on the newest compromise proposal, sponsored by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.

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Heloise. Jim Murray. 10 Sports TV Listings. Weather. In 2 Sections 16 Pages Strike at ends CONNERSVILLE Members of United Auto Workers Local turned to work Tuesday morning at Design and Manufacturing here after a two-week strike that had idled 1,800 workers.

Workers voted Monday to return to work after negotiators Saturday on wording of the job security section of the contract. Although the actual contract still has one year to run, several economic" sections had been reopened Regenstrief, board chairman. He said the agreement included a security," which has been the main A union spokesman declined to tlement or the vote. Harmeier case into its fourth By Richard Holden Indiana State Police moved into their fourth week of investigation into the disappearance of an Indiana University coed, Ann Harmeier of Cambridge City, with little more results than they were able to report Sept. 12 the day she disappeared.

Sgt. Donald E. Gastineau, leader of the state police investigation team in the Harmeier case, said in Bloomington Tuesday, "We're still looking for some direction to go." In the past three weeks, police Connersville answers CONNERSVILLE A charge by the president of Local 2205, International Association of Professional Firefighters, that Connersville's administration has $60,000 in "misappropriated" funds was refuted by a city councilman Tuesday. Wayne Rowland, the association president, said Tuesday morning that an auditor for the firemens' group, brought here Monday from Washington, D.C., has found $60,000 in "misappropriated funds in some areas that could be utilized" to meet firemen's wage demands. Everett McCauley, a city councilman and a member of the city's bargaining unit, said, "If we misappropriated funds, the State Board of Accounts would be down our throats.

They watch pretty carefully. They're tough -they won't put up with any shenanigans or misappropriations or anything of that sort." Rowland said the auditor is to complete his work by about 4 p.m. Tuesday. The firemen have rejected an offer of a $500 raise, with a city stipulation that the force be reduced by three members. Rowland said the main issue is a lack of shift differential -which the police department here has -for the fire department.

Rowland explained Tuesday morning how the fire department shift differential could work, since the department has no -cut shifts. He said the firemen work 24 hours straight, then take 48 hours off. His suggestion is that firemen, who arrive for work at 8 a.m., be paid regular wages for the first eight -until 4 p.m. -all of which are during daylight and normal wakefulness. During the second eight hoursfrom 4 p.m.

to midnight -the firemen should be paid a $5 bonus because, Rowland said, some of that time is during darkness, when firefighting becomes more hazardous. During the third eight hoursfrom midnight to eight -the firemen are asleep, and he said Carter, who will spend two days in New York pursuing both public and private diplomacy, was meeting separately later in the day with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and the foreign minister of Israel, Moshe Dayan. The President, whose two meetings last month with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko gave fresh impetus to arms control negotiations, said on that subject: Agreement within sight "In strategic arms limitation talks, we and the Soviets are within sight of a significant agreement in limiting the total numbers of weapons and in restricting certain categories of weapons of special concern to each of us." Carter did not elaborate. However, the United States is concerned about the very large missiles in the Soviet arsenal while Moscow has expressed concern about deployment of cruise missiles by the United States. Carter also said: "The United States is willing to go as far as possible, consistent with our security interests, in limiting and reducing our nuclear weapons.

On a reciprocal basis we are willing now to reduce them by 10 per cent, by 20 per cent, even by 50 per cent." 1 relaxed at left belongs to a sleeping friend, while after their Murray takes up residence in the trunk. (AP Denver, Colo. Laserphoto) open door federal labor law business leaders sistently violate labor law. Many also mal record this year. Business inview it as an organizing tool to re- tends to use the same strategy on verse the recent decline in union this legislation that successfully demembership.

feated or weakened several other Both labor and management have key labor bills earlier. mounted ambitious lobbying campaigns reminiscent of earlier congressional battles over labor bills: Taft-Hartley in the 1940s and Landrum-Griffin in the 1950s. The AFL-CIO has spent $800,000 lobbying for the bill, and nearly 400 corporations have banded together to fight it under a loosely knit coalition known as the "National Action Committee. Labor enters the fight with a dis- for negotiation, according to SN. "more detailed explanation of job strike issue.

comment Tuesday morning on the setmoves week have said they have tracked down hundreds of leads, most of them called in by people claiming they have seen a girl matching Miss Harmeier's description. But none have developed. Among resent pursuits, police are looking into any connection between Miss Harmeier's disappearance and members of the Unification Church (Moonies), who were seen soliciting funds in the Morgantown area about eight miles from where her car was found on Indiana 37. official charge "coming out of a dead sleep to hit the trucks" and fighting fires during darkness is even more hazardous. McCauley said the four fire stations in the city respond to about two calls per week per station.

The police, on the other hand, are out every night, he said. He said thirdshift policemen are on the streets five nights a week from about 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. McCauley said, "We're giving equitable pay for required responsibility." McCauley also said the firemen have 48-hour period between shifts, and they "brag about making more in their other jobs than they do with the fire department." McCauley, discussing the city's funds, said, "We know the tax rate is going to be cut. The State Tax Board looked at the budget, and we think the cut might be 14 cents (per $100 of assessed valuation)." McCauley said that would amount to a loss of about $6,500 for the city.

Meanwhile, Rowland said, a meeting between fire representatives and city officials is being sought by city council on Saturday. Indira Gandhi released after going to court NEW DELHI, India (AP) Indira Gandhi was brought to court on corruption charges Tuesday after a night in police custody, but Magistrate R. Dayal said there were "no reasonable grounds" for her detention and freed her. The government said collection of evidence against Mrs. Gandhi would continue and she would be brought to trial.

But it gave no indication when the trial might take place, and her sudden arrest and swift release were likely to prove a sizable boost to her attempt at a political comeback. City announces steps to close massage parlor; ordinance going to council Oct. 17 By Fred S. Lord and Tom Cool Steps by the city to close the Caesar's Palace massage parlor on Chester Boulevard were announced Tuesday morning by City Attorney Ed Anderson. And in related action, a call for "war being declared" against massage parlors and adult bookstores was made by Councilmen James Carter and Marion Williams Monday night.

Anderson said he has instructed City Planner Robert Goodwin to revoke the certificate of occupancy and the zoning clearance issued by the planning office to the business prior to its opening. Anderson said the massage parlor also is being instructed to cease all operations within five days. If they don't, he said, the city will go to court to seek "injunctive relief." The city attorney explained he is basing his decision on an apparent flaw in the city zoning ordinance, which includes in the C-2 tion "physical and health services. including. masseurs." Anderson said it is his opinion that the city can only zone places, not 20c 151 reCorp.

agreed "non- About 250 amendments were offered, half of them by the leading opponents- -Republican Reps. John Erlenborn, and John Ashbrook, Ohio. "They are trying to make this into a circus," a labor official said. Erlenborn and Ashbrook vowed to fight a House rule prohibiting them from offering amendments chosen from their own anti-union bill, known as the "Employe Rights Act." $2.03 ceiling rising to $3.36 by the end of 1986, with price controls lapsing on Jan. 1, 1987.

The finale to a 13-day legislative deadlock came Monday after Senate leaders enlisted the help of Vice President Walter F. Mondale, who used sharp parliamentary tactics against filibuster leaders. The two leaders, Democratic Sens. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and James Abourezk of South Dakota, called off their filibuster as Jackson was announcing his new compromise proposal to the Senate. Accuse Carter Abourezk and Metzenbaum accused the Carter White House of deserting them in a lonely fight.

Throughout the impasse, the White House remained publicly silent about the successful maneuvers of Abourezk and Metzenbaum in preventing conclusive votes on deregulation. While the two senators carried a militant anti-gas industry banner, White House supporters sought a middle ground which would retain controls, but at a price high enough to attract the few votes needed to win. Two test votes had demonstrated that a deregulation plan sponsored by Sens. Lloyd Bentsen, Texas, and James Pearson, would have passed if allowed to come to a vote. But on Monday, the unspoken alliance between the filibuster leaders and the White House came to a halt.

persons, and the zoning clearance which permitted the business to open was improperly issued. The statements by councilmen came after Mayor Clifford Dickman said he is against any such facilities and that an ordinance is going to council Oct. 17 on the control of such businesses in Richmond. After hearing the mayor's appeal to rid the city of such businesses, Carter said in part: "We should declare war on them. We are declaring war on them tonight.

We will not condone it if it is within our legal power to rid the city of them. "We should act at once. We do not want them. We should do all we can to get rid of them." feel the same way." said Williams, "but I feel it should be known the area in question was zoned C-2 business long before the massage parlor located there recently. "Such a business there is why 1 have long sought an update in our zoning ordinance." said Williams.

Both agreed a strong ordinance is needed to safeguard against such businesses. "We do not want Richmond to have a reputation that it is an easy and open town," said a councilman. Although no mention by name was made, it was apparent their remarks focused on the opening of Caesar's Palace, 2500 Chester Boulevard. Also in mind, said the councilmen after the meeting, is the possibility of a similar business in the 1000 block of East Main Street and an adult book store at Eleventh and East Main streets. The mayor's earlier statement prompting the remarks said: "In recent weeks have received numerous complaints concerning certain so-called 'business that are new to our community.

"I wish to make the following statement as to the position of the administration: "In no way does this administration condone any action that works to destroy the moral fiber of this community. "The chief of police has been in contact with me from the beginning of the first evidence that an immoral business was about to evolve in our city. He has been gathering pertinent information from other cities where so-called massage parlors exist. "The city attorney is searching all avenues for legal means to eradicate and prevent such businesses. The solution to this problem is not simple.

"Society has struggled with moral law since man's beginning. Moral erosion has been occurring steadily. One only needs to watch television to ascertain the trend. The sale and distribution of pornographic materials continue after numerous laws have been written to eliminate such literature. "As long a as people patronize these so-called businesses, the struggle for eradication will be long and arduous.

"With continued support from our citizens and such groups as the isterial association, the city tration aided by local law enforcement agencies will do everything possible to maintain a decent and moral climate in our community. "An ordinance will be submitted to Common Council at its Oct. 11 ing concerning the control of such unwanted businesses in our city. The passage of a strong ordinance. strong judicial support and strong citizen support will help our city to grow morally.".