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(Hp fnanlgomrra AbDfrtiflrr ALABAMA JOURNAL 2A SUNDAY. JULY 13, 1980 "WSS-OW 11 I JkJLU.l. L.JIL.I. jmun- tv-iv-i n. itiinf mayoral change analysis wHf, 'n ii-' "rr Jf ir Soldiers arrested in Iran By The Associated Press More than 350 soldiers including several high-ranking army officials have been arrested for plotting to overthrow Iran's revolutionary government, and more arrests are expected, a leading Tehran newspaper reported Saturday.

The revolutionary prosecutor of Iran's armed forces was quoted as identifying "top heads" of the alleged Intrigue, smashed last week, as the ex-commander of the nation's air force and the ex-chlef of the rural police. The government said Thursday it had crushed the conspiracy, reportedly based In the western Iranian city of Hamadan, and that several of the plotters had been killed or arrested. But the plot, the third reported since the revolutionary government assumed power nearly 18 months ago, was believed to have been the prime topic Saturday at a 3-hour meeting in Tehran between Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and several of the nation's top military leaders. Tehran's dally Jembouri Eslaml, official organ of the clergy-led Islamic Republican Party, which controls the Iranian Parliament, blamed the United States, Israel and Soviet Union for the reported conspiracy. A member of the nation's powerful Revolutionary Council was quoted as saying: "The plotters wanted to release the American hostages, then to take some high officials as hostages and bomb important places such as the residence of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini," The council member, Mohamad Javad Bahonar, was reported to have added: "The plotters with the help of America, Israel, Iraq and Egypt wanted to establish a regime and put (Shahpour) Bakhtlar on top." Bakhtlar, who lives In exile In Paris, was the final prime minister to serve under deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi before his forced exile in January 1979.

Tehran Radio said the plot included the shipment to Egypt of U.S. Phantom Jets, Iraqi preparations to use "all Its fire-power along the Iranian border," and verbal attacks by most Gulf Arab By FRANK BLANCHARD Advertiser Staff Writer In historic Selma, where change has been the watchword for the past decade and a half, voters made it clear last week they did not want the change of mayor that was forced upon them last year when Joe T. Smith-erman stepped down. Smitherman, 50, left office in midterm, reconsidered, and entered the race this year for the post he held for 15 years. He won election to a fifth term without a runoff by a 56 percent majority.

The voters made it clear they did not want incumbent Mayor Carl Morgan to continue the job that he, as then-city council president, assumed when Smitherman entered private business last August. They also did not want Republican National Committeewoman Jean Sullivan directing city government. Many observers predicted that Ms. Sullivan would make it into a runoff against Smitherman. The veteran mayor knew what the voters apparently did want and he gave it to them: an earful of the populist politicking that won him the city's top elected post for four consecutive terms beginning in 1964.

Smitherman weathered the civil rights turbulence of the 1960s and went on to bring millions of federal dollars to Selma for community development and restoration. That was the record he boasted to the voters. And he did so successfully amid charges of corruption in his former administration and a state-federal investigation of those allegations. A Dallas County grand Jury reported on results of a three-month state investigation Into Smitherman 's past administration six days before the election. The report made some recommendations mildly critical of the old ways, but indicted no present or past public officials.

"I've made some mistakes in the past; I guess I've been forgiven for them," Smitherman said on election night Tuesday. The grand jury report and the unfavorable publicity surrounding the investigations probably did more to bolster Smitherman's support than to discredit him among his followers. Smitherman, diverting attention away from the substance of the investigations, claimed the newspapers reporting about the probes were out to get him. The tactic was largely successful and the charges were brushed aside: "That's just Joe." In the end, it was Smitherman with 4,626 of the votes; Ms. Sullivan Morgan Donald Mott 82; and Solomon Rhodes 59.

These figures are based on unofficial returns. Smitherman said his success was uncertain with a voter turnout of less than 50 percent of those registered. Many black voters traditional Smitherman backers were expected to stay home from the polls because no black candidates were on the ballot for mayor or city council president, the two elections held Tuesday. But Smitherman still won, and handily. As expected, he dominated the black precincts his largest margin was in the predominantly black Ward 5 where, at one box, he outpolled his nearest opponent by about 8 to 1.

But he also locked up predominantly white wards, though not as decisively. Morgan's campaign centering on changes he made in city government since Smitherman stepped down was lost on the voters, though many of those changes were praised in the grand jury report. Ms. Sullivan promoted herself as a new alternative to the old city politics of Smitherman and Morgan. But the voters wanted a return to the good old days of Smitherman.

Observers from other camps say Smitherman won't last the full four years of his fifth term. They contend he will bail out mid-stream, re-enacting last year's retirement from politics. Smitherman said he'll stick it out: "If I didn't want to, I wouldn't have run. It was one of the hardest campaigns," he said. Advcrttter-Journal photo by David Crow Allen Young was all smiles after he piloted his soap box car to victory in the senior division races Saturday.

Young was one of dozens of competitors in the -All-American Soap Box Derby sponsored by the Montgomery Optimists Club. Racers rolled their sleek, non-motorized vehicles down Montgomery Street. Happy winner continued from page IA Poll. Woman said killed by arson BIRMINGHAM (AP) A Birmingham woman died Saturday from severe burns she sustained Friday night when her home was set on fire by an arsonist, authorities said. Birmingham Fire Marshall Bill Everett said 28-year-old Freta Price died after receiving third-degree burns over 90 percent of her body.

Everett said a flammable liquid was used to set the fire in three locations in and around the house. He said authorities were searching for a suspect whose description was provided by Ms. Price before she died. No letup on heat Montgomery data 24 hours, ending at 12 p.m. Saturday Maximum temperature 100.

Minimum temperature 78. Total precipitation 0. Sunrise 5 47 a.m. Sunset 7:55 p.m. Across the U.S.

f7 0 4 of Sunday 90100 LO PR 68 .01 nomination and his vice presidential choice were arriving by the planeload. Since they don't really have anything to decide, the agenda was long on parties, receptions and political celebrations. A 200-member Reagan campaign staff was deployed to make everything run as smoothly as possible. The objective: a display of Republican harmony and unity behind the ticket of the conservative Reagan. Reagan, in Los Angeles, unveiled a four-phase plan to speed economic recovery and help the automobile industry cope with its current slump, which has sent unemployment soaring in Detroit and across Michigan.

He advocated a moratorium on new Industry regulations, stepped up depreciation tax breaks, an end to credit controls and repeal of federal gasoline allocation rules. Last week, President- Carter stopped in Detroit to outline a program of aid for the auto Industry and workers idled by the slump. Southern Republican chairmen held a news conference Saturday to declare that Reagan will sweep the South in the Nov. 4 election, carrying a dozen states that went for Georgia-born President Carter four years ago. Bill Harris of Birmingham, who heads the Southern Republican State Chairmen's Association, said "regional pride for Jimmy Carter" has evaporated in the face of disillusion and disappointment.

Reagan arrives on Monday, and his lieutenants are lining up a mob-scene welcoming rally at the Detroit Plaza Hotel. an election Carter won by only 3 percentage points. The AP-NBC poll was based on telephone Interviews with 1,949 adults. The margin of error was 3 percent, meaning that the results should be within that range of national attitudes. The poll showed that most people think Reagan takes strong, consistent stands, and is a man who can get things done.

They don't have that opinion of Carter. Fifty-two percent said Reagan has shown he is the kind of a person who can get things done, 38 percent disagreed. But only 29 percent said Carter had shown that ability, and 64 percent said he had not. Asked whether Reagan takes strong stands on issues and sticks to them, 56 percent said he does, 30 percent said no. Thirty-five percent said they agreed that Carter is strong and consistent on issues, 57 percent said he isn't.

But the polls of July do not necessarily foretell the standings of autumn, when the votes are cast. The trend in past campaigns has been for the ratings gap to narrow as the conventions make their choices. Thus in 1976, when the Democrats convened first, Carter came away from his nomination rated the choice of 62 percent of the voters In a Gallup poll, with Ford far back at 29 percent. After Ford's Republican nomination, that margin narrowed to 10 percentage points. And on election day, it was 3.

After five days of preliminary proceedings that produced a Reagan-line campaign platform, the delegates who will ratify it along with Reagan's STATION HI Albuquerque ......100 Asheville 93 Atlanta 103 Bullalo 73 Charleston 85 Chicago 84 Cincinnati .82 Cleveland 75 Columbus 81 Dallas Fort Worth 106 Denver 82 Des Moines 91 Duluth 88 Indianapolis 86 Jacksonville 101 Kansas City 96 Las Vegas 106 Little Rock 106 Los Angeles 85 Louisville 99 Memphis 108 Q0 NAIIONAI WtAIHIH vi, i (S InliOnuiy 0ludv runna rs Hourly Temperatures 4 pm. 8 p.m. IVZ Milwaukee 74 7 p.m.. 96 92 New Orleans 99 New York .....84 7 i 7 I am 12 8 a 85 10 a 88 11 am 81 12 noon 84 1 p.m 88 1 p.m 88 I 88 8 10 as Oklahoma City 105 12 mid 83 PJ'elphia ,...85 Phoenn 102 River Bulletin Pittsburgh 82 Portland. Maine 71 Richmond 96 St.

Louis 103 San Diego 75 San Francisco 61 Spokane ,.77 ...83 Slatloa Slatloa al 7 a Chg. Hot, dry weather seen continuing "Exercise early in the morning or late in the evening to avoid the heat," advise health experts. But it will have to be extremely early in the morning or very late, according to Alabama's current weather pattern. By 11 a.m., the thermometer will be reading over 90 degrees, dropping below 90 again only after 9 p.m., according to a spokesman for the National Weather Service. There is no relief in sight to the hot, dry days and warm nights expected In Alabama for the next several days.

High temperatures should reach 100 with overnight lows in the midto upper 70s, the spokesman said. For northwest Florida, the forecast calls for mostly fair warm nights and sunny hot days. with lows Sunday night in the upper 70s and highs Sunday and Monday near 100. 222 Montgomery 36 Selma 45 continued from page 1A Budget 18 5 131 801 343 14 6 176 Demopolls ...48 Miller's Ferry(U) 80 Miller's Ferry (LI 66 Claiborne 40 Tombigbec 43 Across Alabama Highest temperature Saturday, lowest Friday night, precipitation for the 24 hours ending 7 p.m. Saturday STATION HJ LO PR Huntsville- ting federal taxes.

Ten percent were not sure. Even if their taxes were cut, most people say they would spend the money, not save It. day and Wednesday, Americans came down solidly in favor of balancing the budget over cutting taxes. Fifty-seven percent said they would choose balancing the federal budget, while 33 percent picked cut Lake Elevations Lake Martin: 486 Lake Jordan: 251 Lake Mitchell: 311 1 Gantt Lake: 34 28 Lake Eutaula: 187 8 Decatur .....100 Muscle Shoals 103 Annlstofl ,...,102 Birmingham 104 105 Dothan 103 100 75 78 89 76 75 80 77 Judge orders Cubans deported By The Associated Press A Nebraska church was playing Christmas music and attendance was up markedly at caves in a Kentucky national park as the deadly heat wave in the nation's heartlaqd ended its third week Saturday. An unofficial count by The Associated Press showed that as of Saturday at least 382 people in 15 states have died from heat-related causes.

The heat wave was in its 21st day in some areas Saturday. The death count includes 88 victims in Texas, 83 in Arkansas, 67 in Missouri, 33 in Oklahoma, 27 in Tennessee, 20 in Mississippi, 19 in Kansas, 15 in Illinois, 11 In Georgia, seven in Alabama, five in Louisiana, three in Kentucky, two in Indiana and one each in Nebraska and South Carolina. In Norfolk, the First United Methodist Church has its carillon playing Christmas carols. "We thought we'd try to cool the air with winter said the Rev. Loyd Bliss on Saturday.

The carillon peals out "Jingle Bells" and other frosty favorites four times dally. The program of Christmas music began Thursday afternoon, when temperatures reached 101, and church officials say the winter holiday favorites will continue as long as the heat wave. In Kentucky, Robert Deskins, superintendent of Mammoth Cave National Park, said tourist visits to the park's caves where the air temperature is 54 degrees have Increased by about 30 percent compared with last summer. He said he didn't know If the heat was the reason for the increase. In Lexington, the Citizens Union National Bank and Trust Co.

found itself with a vault full of "hot money" last week. The bank's air conditioning was broken until late Thursday, and to make matters worse, the building's windows don't open. Heat death toll rises By The Associated Press Two elderly people were dead on arrival at a Montgomery hospital on Saturday, raising Alabama's heat-related deaths to at least seven in a 13-day siege of triple-digit temperatures. Authorities at Baptist Medical Center said Foster Carson, 90, and Ella Gilchrist, 99, died of heat strokes. In northwest Alabama, Colbert County deputy coroner Rex Pinkard said an autopsy on a woman's body found last Wednesday at her trailer home In Tuscumbia showed she died of heat exposure.

She was Edna Goins, 63. Earlier heat-related deaths were reported in Mobile, Prichard, Birmingham and Columbiana. Temperatures climbed to 103 at Birmingham by mid-afternoon on Saturday, The Weather Service said there was little or no chance for relief from the hot, dry weather at least through the middle of next week. Alabama has recorded temperatures of 90 or above, averaging more than 95 degrees, since June 30. It's all blamed on a massve high pressure system that spans the southern United States.

In Bessemer, just west of Birmingham, Mayor Ed Porter urged residents to conserve water. He said water tanks In Bessemer and nearby communities would be dry by Wednesday if consumption continued at current rates. the United States In the Freedom Flotilla earlier In the summer. Bobek Issued exclude and deport orders for the 18 on June 24, giving them 10 days to appeal to the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Board of Immigration Appeals. "They have indicated they don't want to appeal," he said.

Government officials said earlier that the 18 had confessed to serious crimes In Cuba, including rape, murder, arson and child molestation. TALLADEGA (AP) An Immigration judge has ordered 18 of the nearly 400 Cuban refugees housed at a central Alabama federal prison camp sent back to Cuba. Judge Eml! Bobek, who held exclusion hearings for the Cubans, said Saturday that whether the 18 would be deported depended on whether Cuba would take them back. He said the island nation's government so far has indicated it would not take back the refugees, who came to Zone forecasts Former state AG dies Agricultural weather The Alabama agricultural weather forecast as provided by Um National Weather Service: ijmes 2. 1: no significant rainfall through Sunday night Near 10 hour sunshine Sunday and about 12 hourf Monday Eicellenl drying conditions Sunday and Monday with lowest relative humidity near 40 percent both daya Light dew Sunday night drying off by 8 a Outlook for Tuesday through Thursday continued not and dry Highs near 100 Lows in the 70s.

Zones I. 4. 6 6. 7. 9.

6. 13. 14. 16: 38-hour rainfall, none of consequence Near 13 hours sunshine on Sunday and Monday with excellent drying conditions both days Lowest relative humidity near 36 percent each day Light dew Sunday night drying off by 9 Outlook for Tuesday through Thursday- continued hot and dry. Highs near 108.

Lows the 70s Zones 10. Ii, II. IS 38-hour rainfall 1-4 inch locally heavy Is one Inch a few spots Near 13 hours sunshine Sunday and Monday with excellent drying conditions both days. Lowest relative humidity near 35 percent each day Light dew Sunday night drying off by 6 a Outlook for Tuesday through Thursday: continued hot and dry. Highs near 100 Lows In the 70s.

Zones 4, 6. 6. 7, 8. 1 Fair warm nights, sunny hot days through Mon- day Lows Sunday night mid 70s Highs Sunday and Monday near 102 Wind mostly west 6 to 12 mpk tun-. day Zones t.

8: Fair warm nighta. 9 partly cloudy hot days through Monday. Widely scattered thunderstorms Sundsy Low Sunday night mid 70s -High Sunday and Monday around 100 Wind mostly west 6 to 12 mph Sunday Probability of rain 20 percent' Sunday. Zones 13. 14.

16 Fair warm nights, sunny not daya through day. Low Monday night upper 70s Highs Sunday and Monday near 100 Wind mostly west 6 to 13 mph Sunday Zones 10. 11. II. II Mostly fair warm nights and sunny hot days through Monday Lows Sunday night upper 70s Highs Sunday and Monday near 100 Wind mostly west 6 to 12 mph Sunday.

William N. McQueen, who served as Alabama's attorney general on three occasions but was never elected to that office, died Saturday at his home In Montgomery. McQueen retired in March 1976 after spending 37 years In state government. The Tuscaloosa native became an assistant attorney general in 1939 and held that post until October 1942. When Attorney General Thomas S.

Lawson assumed a seat on the state Supreme Court, McQueen was appointed by Gov. Frank Dixon to fill Lawson's unexpired term, which was to expire the following January. Robert B. Ha wood had been elected attorney general, but re-malnedon active military duty for three years, prompting Dixon's successor, Gov. Chauncey Sparks, to appoint McQueen acting attorney general.

Harwood returned from the Army In 1946, but was named to the state Court of Appeals. McQueen received a third appointment as acting attorney general and remained In that position untfl January 1947, McQueen was legal adviser to Gov. Gordon Persons, then returned to the attorney general's office and remained an assistant attorney general until his retirement. See Death Notices. 4.