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Weather The Daily Telegram (Weather Details on Page 11) VOL. 159 NO. 74 Good Evening Lenawee County ADRIAN. MICHIGAN FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1975 (26 Pogos) They Say: "I'M fesve a 9tetmnt. ftrt MM Ml a revolutionary fomialst perspective Many." Pataricia Hoarst, quoted fa Jail transcript.

PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS News In Brief i Further Aid Cuts OPEC Seeks Increase Ahead VIENNA, Austria (AP) Iran says nine of the 13 OPEC members meeting in Vienna are seeking a "moderate" increase of 10 to 20 per cent in the price of crude oil, leaving Saudi Arabia virtually alone in trying to hold the rise to 5 per cent. Iranian Oil Minister Jamshid Amouzegar said one or two other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are demanding "pie-inthe-sky" increases of 25 per cent when the current ninemonth price freeze expires Sept. 30. Negotiations were continuing today, the third day of the OPEC meeting, and some delegation sources thought a compromise might be reached tonight. Unanimity is required for any decision by the group.

Ford To Hold Down Prices WASHINGTON (AP) Congress and President Ford appear ready to hold down oil prices for another 50 days while seeking an elusive agreement on long-term energy policy. The Senate is voting today on whether to extend through Nov. 15 the oil price controls that expired Sept. 1. That extension is part of a compromise proposed Thursday by Ford and quickly accepted by the Senate Democratic caucus.

Following Senate approval, the plan now goes to the House. Since the price controls expired Sept. 1, U.S. oil companies have not rushed to raise their prices because of the expectation that Congress and the administration would agree to extend them retroactively. The next step is for Congress to get back to the problem it has been unable to solve since January: how to form an energy program that Ford will accept.

Citizens Can Correct Data WASHINGTON Starting Saturday, U.S. citizens will be able to find out what information about them the government has stored away and be able to correct that data if it is erroneous. The new Privacy Act of 1974 also requires government agencies to disclose the names of their record systems to help citizens find out if their names are listed. It also allows a citizen to find out who has been looking at any particular government file. Some 79 agencies already have announced the names of more than 8,000 record systems, including lists of persons whose names have come to the attention of the Justice Department's general crimes section in connection with potential or actual cases, payrolls of government agencies, time records of employes of the Alaska Railroad and lists of persons who have applied for parking space on government property.

Agent Examines Gun SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A gun collector says an undercover federal firearms agent unwittingly examined the gun Sara Jane Moore bought and, a day later, shot at President Ford. "The man handled several guns in my attache case," collector Mark Fernwood said Thursday. "I'm almost certain he handled the one she shot at the President. I know he saw it." Law enforcement sources said Mrs. Moore drove the unidentified agent to Ferawood's Danville home Sunday after she had given police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) information about possible federal gun control law violations.

"On Sunday, about 12 noon, she and a man named Chuck came over in her car," Fernwood recalled Thursday. "They came out to look at guns. She wanted to pay me for a pistol she bought two weeks ago and wrote me out a check. He expressed an interest in buying some guns and I showed him my collection." Former Inspector Testifies WASHINGTON (AP) When Clarence P. Baker Jr.

was a licensed grain inspector in the port of New Orleans, he watched his colleagues accept television sets, air-conditioners and cash to help grain companies cheat on the quality of their grain shipments. Agriculture Department supervisors knew about it. but had their own way of dealing with the corruption, he told two Senate subcommittees. "If they thought we were doing something that wasn't up to the standards, they would turn their heads or make themselves scarce," hesaid Thursday. "That was before Mr.

Ryan took over." Delivery Date Moves Up WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has agreed to move up the delivery date for shipment of a new jet fighter- bomber to Israel and to provide the Jewish state with an electronic early warning defense system, diplomatic sources say. In addition, the sources say Israel will be receiving next month the first of 100 Lance missile batteries, a surface-to surface weapon system with a 70-mile range. Under an agreement reached last month, the United States agreed to give Israel 25 of the F15 fighter-bombers starting in 1978. However, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres was here last week and got the delivery date advanced to next vear. The F15, a highly sophisticated plane that costs about $8 million, is expected to be the backbone of the Israeli air force.

U.S. officials also agreed during Peres' visit to begin shipments of the Lance system in early October. Delivery of the Lance, which carries a percopy cost of $180,000, was held up by the United States until Israel reached agreement with Egypt on a new Sinai Peninsula withdrawal agreement. On The Inside Local labor unions join forces in a different kind of organized support of the United Fund campaign. Photo on page 11.

It's apple cider time in Michigan, and the official guide to 59 cider mills throughout the state is on page 3. The Tecumseh High School Girl's Basketball team defeated last year's class A state champion, Detroit Dominican, 46-41 Thursday night. Story on page f. speaking of three lawyers all plead their case against Telegram sports staff members in this week's prediction page of the outcome of high school. case week's prediction page college and pro games.

See page 8. LANSING, Mich. (AP) Colleges, universities and state departments face further budget cuts by the end of the year because the economy is not keeping pace with spending, Gov. William Milliken said today. Milliken said "some" layoffs probably will result from budget cutbacks.

Where specific cuts wUl be made will be left to individual schools and departments to decide. Milliken said. "Colleges and universities and all departments will have further reductions necessitated by the circumstances. I do not yet know what the ending surplus will be but by late October I expect to be in a position to recommend to the legislature further reductions," Milliken said at a news conference. "There will be some" layoffs, Milliken predicted, but he put the responsibility for eliminating jobs on university and state officials, rather than on the executive office.

"It is essentially a matter that individual managers and administrators will have to deal with," he said. Once he orders overall cuts, local budget writers will have to use their flexibility to see pare their areas, Milliken said. Milliken also said he sanctions splitting October's state school aid payments into two parts even though the attorney general has ruled such a practice is illegal. "I think under the circumstances it may be the only thing to do to avoid serious problems," Milliken said. Gerald Miller, director of the Department of Management and Budget, said Thursday there are no firm figures on state revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30.

But Miller said they were "a little worse than expected" and "things are not picking up at all." State Treasurer Allison Green has ordered the $200 million October payment to be split in two parts, half to be paid next month and half in November. The reason is to avoid running a massive deficit in the two funds which provide the school aid money. Who fa Patty? Since Capture She Becomes More Puzzling Just A Little Smile Due N. EWong, 7, hardly knows how to react to Tim Doody, a clown with the Ringling Bros, and 33arnum Bailey Circus performing Thursday in Denver. Young Due was among 18 Vietnamese refugee children who saw their first American circus as guests of the circus.

AP Wirephoto) No. I In Prestige, No. 75 In Wages SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Patty Hearst, an enigma in her absence, has become a more perplexing mystery since her capture. Urged by a judge to speak out in court, she declines. Her attorneys speak for her in the third person, calling her fragile and half-mad.

Patty's only direct statements since her arrest come through controversial government eavesdropping. They indicate that her revolutionary alter-ego, "Tania," lives. "I'll issue a statement," she says in the jail transcript released Thursday. "But I would just as soon give it myself in person, and it'll be a revolutionary feminist perspective totally." Two days after that conversation with a girlhood friend, Patty Hearst initialed every page of a sworn statement telling of terror and torture at the hands of the Symbjonese Liberation Army, repudiating the SLA members she once claimed as comrades. The first weeks after her Feb.

4, 1974, kidnaping so traumatized her that she has Police Plan Campaign LANSING, Mich. (AP) Readers of Michigan newspapers may sooi i be confronted by an advertisei nent showing a State Police oificer with the caption: "No. 1 iin prestige, No. 75 in wages, sinking in morale." i The ad would go on to compare a State Pol ice detective's salary of a year to the $23,000 salary of- a comparable officer in Detnj.it or similarly higher in other major cities. The ad is slated as part of a campaign by the Michigan State Police Troopers Association to rally public support for higher pay for State Police officers.

The State Police were ranked first in public respect in a state survey, and the association says they rank 75th in the state in wages. The ad would urge support of a legislative resolution to permit collective bargaining for troopers a move that would require amending the con- By Farm Bureau Welfare Reforms Are Sought The Lenawee County Planning Commission agreed at its meeting last night to have its budget cut for Story on page 11. Women's JU 5 Classified 12-1S Horoscope 17 TV GoMe IS Spwta Editorial 4 County ........2,11,18 Comks 17 Bob Proctor 4 State Brfofa 3 BY STEVE PHENIC1E Daily Telegram County Editor The Lenawee County Farm Bureau went on record last night as favoring educational financing and welfare reforms. Also approved at the 36th annual meeting in Adrian College's Ritchie Hall was a resolution asking that farmers and other adjacent property owners be given the first chance to buy abandoned railroad lines. The welfare reform resolution calls for requiring photo identification cards, eliminating the practice of mailing checks, and making it mandatory for county Departments of Social Services to contact recipients who have been absent from the state for more than 30 days.

The resolution was approved, 119-22, despite opposition from State Rep. John Mowat, R-Adrian, who is a member of Farm Bureau and was present at the meeting. Mowat said that eliminating the mailing of welfare checks will cost more than it will save and won't reduce fraud significantly. The educational financing resolution notes that because of continued voter rejection of school millages, educational financing reform is needed. It calls property taxes as a method of school financing "obsolete." The vote on this resolution was 128 yes, 15 no.

The resolution on railroads notes that the Conrail System being considered by Congress would eliminate many railroads serving agriculture. Therefore, it asks that the state help subsidize or finance to upgrade tracks, if needed, on lines not in the Conrail plan which may have a potential to once again become profitable lines. The resolution goes on to ask that farmers or other present property owners be given the first chance to buy land of the abandoned railroads. The vote on this resolution was 117 yes, 23 no. In a voice vote passed without debate, the Farm Bureau voted to support its national president in his efforts to remove the "anti-farm embargo" placed on American grain sales to the Soviet Union by the Ford Atininistration.

Other resolutions approved: that agriculture have representation roi the commission that makes the final recommendations agriculturally r-elated non- point sources erf pollution, under Public Act 208. what a person receives from Social Security should not be deducted from insurance death benefits. that bee; cattle confinement structure is qualify for investment credii; in Internal Revenue Service regulations. any i novement to treat agriculture as a public utility. that farmers be allowed to compete on world markets on a in-subsidized basis.

Iftat at least one-half of the Bureau County Policy Development Committee be recommended as state annuid meeting delegates. Average Gas Prices Drop By The Associated Press The average of regular gasoline dropped of a cent in the past we sk on major tourist routes in tb state, the Automobile Club of Michigan reported. The weekly survey of 300 major-brand stations showed regular gasoline ai reraged 62.1 per cent per gallon down one- half of a cent ovsr the past three weeks. The average cost of unleaded fuel was also down one-tenth of a over the past week. In the Detroit ai-ea, regular was down two-tenths of a cent to an average S0.9 a gallon.

No-lead fuel at the 100 metropolitan ari outlets averaged 61.8 a ants, down four-tenths from hist week. Regular gasoli ne at independent stations in the Detroit area was ui (changed at an average 56.8 cents per gallon. j' that husband and wife not be permitted to serve on the Farm Bureau State Board of Directors during the same term. that the State Farm Bureau bylaws be amended to place a limit on the term of directors to the Michigan Farm Bureau Board of not more than four consecutive two-year terms, with an eligibility for re-election after one year has elapsed. A resolution introduced from the floor without backing of the Policy Development Committee concerning reduced electricity rates for senior citizens was defeated, 21 yes to 110 no- Several persons, including County Commissioners Melvin Rodesiler and Martin Halley and County Road Commissioner Wayland Hart, spoke against this resolution.

Halley said. "It embarrasses me to think that young people are carrying me to the extent they are now." Another resolution introduced from the floor calling for reduced telephone rates for senior citizens died for lack of a second. Elected to the board of directors were: Robert Fisher, Blissfield, Deerfield and Riga Townships; H. Fred Long, Clinton, Tecumseh, and Raisin Townships; Robert Bush, Macon and Ridgeway Townships; and Willis Thompson, director at large. No director was elected from Rollin and Woodstock Townships to fill a vacancy.

Delegates approved to the state annual meeting were Mr. and Mrs. David Heimerdinger, Gary Service, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gould, Mr.

and Mrs. William Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Fred Long, Mr.

and Mrs, George Routson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Munk, and Lowell Eisenmann. Alternates are Mr. and Mrs.

Roger Wolf, Mrs. Gary Service, and Mrs. Lowell Eisenmann. Selected as Farm Bureau Queen was Kim Bruce of Britton. Named "Feeder of the Year" was Karl Kimerer.

stitution by a vote of the Deopte. The association warns that unless pay is upgraded, law enforcement may suffer. "There is a tragedy taking place which is slowly eroding the fabric of Michigan's finest law enforcement agency," said Assocation President Gerald Zkckuski. "And we believe the citizens of Michigan deserve to know how bad the situation really is." "Morale is terrible because of the pay. and that affects other things," said Doil Brown, executive secretary of the MSPTA, which represents 1,350 of the 1,850 police troopers.

"They can't recruit good employes. "I think we're sitting on a powder keg. If the Civil Service Commission doesn't give the guys some hope, there's going to be trouble," Brownsaid. "I don't think there is any sentiment for a strike, but if the commission doesn't give them hope, you don't know what is going to happen." The Civil Service Commission is beginning the procedure to determine pay levels for the state's 56,000 classified employes which will take effect next July 1. The decision will be made in December.

Last year the commission granted no raise at all, although it did permit a cost- of-living adjustment to be built into the pay schedule. In past years, the commission has granted a percentage increase for all state workers. But Brown says that's not sufficient. "It's a cop-put by the commission to give a flat percentage," he said. "Then they don't have to deal with problem areas and political decisions." Brown says the troopers want a 22 per cent pay increase, or approval to engage in collective bargaining.

He said the advertisements will begin in the Lansing State Journal, in an effort to reach the legislature and state government in general. But they may be expanded to other papers, he said. "The problem is that we've been trying to convince the Civil Service Commission that the State Polie are faffing tremendously behind local police," Brown said, "and the commission has not bought the argument. "The appeal directly to the citizens is our last, temporary answer to a more militant position," Zielinski warned. "If employes don't get some relief soon, MSPTA will have already lost control over individual employes." Consumers Power Seeks Controls Delay LANSING, Mich.

(AP) Consumers Power Co. wants the state Air Pollution Control Commission to grant a five- year delay in requiring the utility to install a pollution- control device at an Ottawa County Consumers claims the $22 million cost will cut its budget for new plant construction without significantly improving air quality. It also claims equipment additions planned for the next five years will eliminate the need for a larger precipitator, which more efficiently catches large particles. Request for the postponement was made in a letter this week. Ralph Purdy, deputy director for environmental protection for the Department of Natural Resources, said it apparently is the first time a firm requested a delay not because of the control standard but for economic reasons.

A commission ruling in Consumers favor would set a precedent for other utilities to cite similar economic problems, Purdy said. The commission also would have to recognize Consumers' argument that though the plant's emissions violate commission standards, air quality in the area does not, Purdy said. The commission always has applied the most restrictive standards to is determine if a company violating its rules, he said. Under a September 1973 agreement with the commission, Consumers was to install two precipitators at its J. H.

Campbell plant in Port Sheldon Township. It is installing the first at a cost of $12 million, but is asking the delay on the second. "Strictly speaking. Consumers Power can afford this expenditure." said the letter from D. H.

Brandt, director of environmental quality control. "However, it must be recognized that the commitment of $22 million for this reduce the sum of money available for much needed electric system additions and improvements." Since January 1974, Consumers has postponed construction of four power units and cancelled one planned nuclear plant, the letter said. Purdy said the commission might approve the request if the utility can prove equipment it plans to install by I960 will, hi fact, reduce emissions so that they fall within the commission's standards. Consumers also would have to face a tougher battle of gaining approval from the fedSral Environmental Protection Agency if the commission approved the request, he said. A public hearing on the request is scheduled for early November, Purdy said.

lost all memory of the succeeding 17 months, the attorneys said. "She was in a constant case of fear and terror, and expected at any minute to be murdered by her captors," the document relates. Oddly, the sworn affidavit never quoted Patty in the first person. Throughout the document, the attorneys refer to "she." An affidavit, considered to be a defendant's sworn testimony, usually is written in the personal It leaves many questions unanswered. But so does the elliptical jaH transcript.

Released in choppy excerpts, the transcript is punctuated to indicate that portions have been deleted or were indecipherable on tape. For instance, talking about her parents and her changed political views, Patty is quoted in the transcript as saying, "Then that, like, they should like disregard ail those last I don't mean disregard 'em I mean it's like that was a stage kind of thing, you know." What is missing from that statement and others? U.S. Atty. James L. Browning who provided the transcript to U.S.

District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter, wasn't available for comment when it was released by the judge. Patty's attorneys did not return calls requesting their comments. The tape, however, provides Patty's first recorded words since her last famous message from the underground June 7, 1974. The language in both is peppered with profanity.

Asked by her friend, Miss Tobin, how she felt about being captured, Miss Hearst replies: "I was so pissed off. God damn it." Miss Hearst is being held without bail pending a ruling on her mental competence to be cross-examined about the facts of her sworn affidavit. Her attorneys used the document to argue that she is not a flight risk and should be released on bail. They said that all that Miss Hearst wants is to go home to stay with her parents, Randolph A. and Catherine Hearst.

In the jail tape, Miss Hearst says; "I don't want to have the bail thing where I am a prisoner in my parents' home, which is possible." Welfare Offices To Close LANSING, Mich. (AP) The state Department of Social Services is closing down its nine district headquarters on Dec. 31 and cutting 315 jobs, eliminating what lawmakers considered an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy. Officials say services to the one million people receiving some $700 million in aid annually will not be affected. The cutback is in line with a legislative order designed to save $1.5 million a year.

"I don't see any changes with normal routine processing," said Ernie Davis, administrative aide to the department's deputy director. The only slowdown will fall upon people thrown out of work in large numbers by strikes or emergencies or upon applicants with unusual eligibility circumstances, Davis said Thursday. The budget cut, ordered by the legislature last month, eliminated 210 jobs in the department. But because of seniority rights, most of the regional office employes who are willing to move should be able to take over less experienced workers' jobs, Davis said. The remaining 105 welfare employes will be absorbed by Wayne County, which is where they worked, Davis said.

John Dempsey, social services director, said the losses would hurt the morale of the department's 12,600 employes. "I think the obvious consequence will be to reduce the capacity of this department to perform effectively," Dempsey said. Lottery SOUTHFffiLD, Mich. (AP) The winning numben in Thursday's regular weekly Bureau of the State Lottery Super Drawing are: and 352..