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1 Lee faces sales tax battle: Page 20 THE Daily Mail. HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, OCTOBER 1, 1977. CIO, Longshoremen's called Association, AFL- president of one of two New Orleans. sea Friday for a walkoul against ILA locals with a total of about 4,000 handling only containerized cargo, ex- members. "We called a meeting to "The trapped in empting perishable and' military' tell them what progress we ritade, bit.

President strike cargo, and not affecting conventional they didn't -like what we intended to hours before freighters or passenger ships. do, so they voled to strike all the local contracts Longshoremen de not handle tankers. ships." tracts were in New Orleans the nation's Goods shipped in. van-sized con- JI that had largest port after New York dock tainers include certain. food, clothing, strike.

workers voted Friday night la extend Alcoholle beverages 'and some The strike's their strike to bulk and other cargo automobiles. Containerized because of cargo ships. makes up about two-thirds of the the IL.A and "I am disappointed that they didn't business moving through a major dependent -with the general port. Longshoremen's go alongWarehousemen's membership," said Wilfred Must large containerships put out to Coast. Price 15t Longshoremen strike could cut supplies 074 2am 5 (AP FREED Polce.

officers escort one ot six plane then look PRISONERS prisoners past lines. of newimen off for Dacca with the prisoners and $6 jelliner at to a Japan Air Lines special million demanded by hijschars for International 141 passengers held Tokyo Airport this morning. The. hostage on' a' Japanese jetliner 'since Wednesday. Hijackers threaten American By CHUTKNOW Associated Press Writer.

DACCA, Bangladesh (API Hijackers of 'a Japanese airliner tried to maneuver the jet into possible lake off position today amu threalened lo execule ad hostage unless their dermaris for six freed Inside the Mail Today Earlier age for driver's license proposed: Back Page Church workers move 1oward unionization: Page 3,. Carter now considers 148th YEAR VOL. 232 TOM CRANE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Supplies of! some non perishable consumer goods are expected to' begin dwindling If a strike. by. 50,000 Allantic and- Gulf: coast longshoremen stretches into next week.

longshoremen, who have. demanded. job security and protection of benefit funds, walked off their Jobs. Friday night when a expired at midnight. The leadership.

of the International, Long strike could affect state jobs BALTIMORE (AP) -Porl administration officials say a long strike by Baltimore dock work-: ers could affect as many as .150,000 jobs throughout Mary. land, but a shorl strike: would be hardly felt. "A prolonged strike could have an. impact co the chemical: Industry in the stale, on manufacturing plants," sald Joseph Stanton, state port administralor. "Consumer goods that are 'imported fir department stores would be lovolved.

Si would food products." Stantda said about 4,000 the: jobs affected would. be those invulved in loading and. unloading the ships. The rest would be in industrles which rely on the port for raw mate-. rials or.

lor. access fo world inarkels. The Internalional Lungsboremen's Association called walkout Friday midnight by 50,000 dock workers from Maine to Texas. Dock workers were told lo refuse to service container, ships, which carry cargo in trailer-sized boxes. Donald Klein, a IPA' spokesman said about half of the 5 million tons of generat cargo which flows through the Port of Ballimore each year moves in containerships: By comparison bulk cargos, such as ore, grain, oil acid coal, account for 30 million tons annually, he Page 2 quotas on Imported steel: wlih four shoplift.

ing convictions' gets months: City Page of Reuben Darby on Sept. 2, hie diamprisible on from a scuttle him and Charles who, Darby claimed hired. to collect outstanding Action Line. 14 Amusements 6 Church News. 3: Classified 21-27.

Comice 7. Family Section Legal Notices 22 SHOWER 6 Showers and thunderslorms day and Sunday morning with some heavy rain possible. Showers ending and turning cooler Sunday Lows lonight in the low to mid 60s and highs Sunday In the 703. night to avoid being port by the strike. was announced by ILA Thomas W.

Gleason six three-year master and expired. The last conthe first since World War been reached without a impact could increase a job threat that has allied 60,000 members of the InInternalional aid Union on the West Last month; the two unions signed a mutual aid agreement under which the 1LWU promised to respect ILA pickel lines set up at Pacific piers servicing vessels of confalnership compantes struck by the ILA. The strike could be short if Southern shipping associations agree to share the burden of financing income guarantees for longshoremen. mostly. in the North, made jobless by containerization, So far, Southern associations have made no' such guarantees.

The problem of gelling the Northern ports together on a "job security" plan acceplable to Gleason has eluded Jarnes J. Dickinan, president of the Council of North Atlantic Shipping Associations, which represents ports from Maine through Virginia. Such a plan details of which were 1101 inade puhlie was submitled to Southern port shippers Friday at 3 meeting in New Orleans: Dickinan and Wayne L. Horvitz, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, stood by Friday night for results of that effort. The Southern employers expressed interest in the plan, but avoided an immediate answer.

Carter considers new income tax proposals WASHINGTON (AP! President Carter is considering new proposals that could affert the taxes you pay beginning with your 1978 incame. The suggestions are in a confidential Treasury Department mcino that deals with wilhholding rates, personal exemplions and tax credits. It was learned Friday that the memo lines a comprehensive program lo cut tax rates in three stages between 1979 and 1981 From the current 14 per cent minimum and 70 per cont maxi to amu 50 per cent respectively. Couples with a laxable income of $30,023 or more and single persons earning more than would ultimately pay Ito 50 per cent rate. But if Congress doesn't approve the overall pian by mid when the economy may need a lax cut, the Treasury Deparlment of.

ficials suggest an alternative. Quick help could come from a separale bill culling withholding taxes for wages and salaries in 1978 rather than in 1979, as outin. the comprehensive plan, the lined ofbeials said. One recent draft of the revision package calted For reducing the las liability For a family of four, carning $15,000 to $20,020 a year, by some $300 fn $1,360 a year. The memo calls for raising the maximum income on which no taxes are paid from FOO to $9,300 a year for a family of four.

Such a family would begin paying a 12 per cent lux on money earned above the $9,500 level, but a complete scale has not been worked out. The taxes paid by people carning, from $20.. 000 In $30,000 a year would be reduced from 13.9 per cent of their income lo 12.4 per cont, 11 savings of about $375. The gradual phase- in would Include the President's plan to ceplace the present $750. a-dependent personal exemption and 535-nerperson credit with a general lax credit of $230 a person.

The plan would sei the credit at 5210 in 1919. S230 in 1930 and 5250 1931. The memo proposes abolishing deductions for sales taxes. personal properly laxes, gas. olane taxes and miscellaneous state and local taxes.

But slate and local income and real eslate laxes would still be deductable. Trie current provision that brings on a las increase when two persons marry would be changed under the plan. The spouse with the lower income could take a special deduction of 10 per cent of the first 85.000 in carnings, a writeoff uf $600. Deductions for business meals would be held to 50 per cent of the cost, while deductions for other business entertainment such as tickets to sports events, would Ix dropped. Banks and savings and kians institulinns would be required to wilhhold taxes on the inforest they pay depositors to prevent laxpayers escaping laxation on interest.

House bill aids victims of crimes prisoners and. $6 million were met, officials here The hijacked Japan Air Lines DCa and a sister craft that New the six orisoners and ransom money in from Tokyo later inched toward each other darkness on a runway al Dacca The commandeered plane had. been moving toward a possible take off position, but a consoy of automobiles and tire enginis Hocked the runway, The hijackers refused demands that they free all 141 hostages in exchange for the cash and their released "comrades." The ulfrateftist Japanese Red Ariny terrorists said they would free 58 hostages bol wanted to keep 83 others to ensure sale passage to another destination. Obituaries 21 Opinion Page School Pages 1 12-13 Sports 16-18 Sjock Page 11 A LITTLE LEARY NO BIG BASEBALL FAN AM I BUT MANY A NIGHT T'V6 STOLEN HOME Rhodesian prime minister visits black-ruled state "1 connol give you more than 15 minutes tinie, a hijacker at one point told Bangladesh negotiators by radio from the jetliner. But that deadline pasself without reporled incident.

SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP) confirmed carlier diptomalic Rhodesian Prime Minister Tan Smith met secretly in black-ruled Zambia last Sunday with President Kenneth Kaunda to discuss ibe latest U.S.British plan to bring blackmajority government to Rhodesia, the Salishury government announced loday. The government statement Volcanic lava threatens Hawaiian Island homes By JEFFREY MILLS Associated Press Wriler WASHINGTON (AP) The federal government will help compensate rictims of muggings, rapes and' other violent crimes if a bill passed by House wins the support of the Senate and President Carler. The bill, voled by the House 192 to 173 Friday, is similar to Jegislation approved in two previous Senate sesions that would pay up lo 25 per cent of the cost of state programs from the federal treasury. Twents slates, which account for about two-thirds of the violent crimes nationwide, now compensate victims. More states are expected 10 enact such programs if the bill becomes law.

House conservatives succceded in paring down the maximum compensation for a Victim from $50.000 la $25,000 and the federal share of each state's efforl from 50 per cent to 25 per cent. reports of the Smith-Kaunda meeting. 1t was the first officially acknowledged visit by Smith to one al 1he five black ruled soulhern African states that hare been providing support and shelter for black Rhodesian: guerrillas in their war to cost the Smith's white-minorily regime. Reuben Darby, missing seven years, now legally dead By RON STATON Associaled Press Writer KALAPANA, Hawaii (AP) A river of red hot lava fro11 Kilauea volcano loward this cracuated coastal village, and threatened to destroy a Catholic church and 18 ct the community's 50 homes. Dr.

Jack Lorkwood. a Scienlist at the Hawallan Volcano Observatory al the scene, said the 1.000-fool-wide, -inchdeep stream of lava was' pected to begio pissing through the village and into the sea sometime today. Scientists said the historic 'Star of the Sea Catholic Church car. She said when Darby disappeared she was left with no property, no stocks or bonds, and no money in her checking or savings accounts. Mrs.

Darby told the judge that although she had contemplated hiring a delective to search for her husband, "there just wasn't any money" to do that. The only other person to testify at the tearing was Reuben U. Darby II1, 37, one of the couple's three children. Darby sald he had searched for his tather in Alaska, in Nogales, Mexico, and "many cities in without success. sald he spent several days In Valdiz, Alaska after 2 Baltimore atlorney told him he and the elder Darby had discussed "a scheme to buy land to block the approach to the Alaskan pipeline." From there, Darby sald ho and the homes in the lava's path were doomed, but it appeared the village's other buildings soull be spared.

Some residents who returned briefly' Friday to feed their animals, and water their trees got a close-up view of the stream. green trees literally are exploding." sax one resident watching From the strom-story porch of his home as the flow moved down the forested hills. Scientists orignially expected the lava to reach Kalapana Friday afterwon, but its Dow was slowed by a series of gullies, traveled to Nogales, verause re remembered his father had talked about a Mexican fruit importer who was interested in getting a "slew of cabooses" from him, and because he thought might be another good place for him to hide. The younger Darby said despite his efforts la locate his father under his real name and several aliases be "found out virtually nothing" about his whereabouts. Darby, who would be 60 now was born-in Baltimore.

the son of an insurance broker. He moved to Washington County and seltled in the big Pool area in 1917. A gun collector and Civil War buff. Darby was involved in a number of enlerprises incloding two Civil War muscoms, a woods product company and a railroad car renovation company all of which folded and county Civil Defense officials said. Nine miles away.

high on the slopes of Kilauea volcano. starts of molten lava continued 10 spout up to 200 feet in Ito air. The temperature of the lava has been at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The eruption. in an area known as the east rift zone.

began 18 days ago and has :0.7 tinued sporadically. The lates acticily resumed Monday. Evacnation nf Kalapana's 30 familles began Thursday. Man. of Inem have left their tomes in the past 10 escape eruptions lidal waves and carliquakes By TERRY TALBERT and ELLEN UZELAC Reuben Upton Darby It, the man who crealed a name locally because of bis assorted business ventures and disappearance seven years ago, was declared legally dead Friday.

Following a 15-minute hearing in Washington County Circuit Court, Judge Irvine H. Rutledge ruled "the courl finals that the evidence is sufficient 10 declare Reuben Upton Darby IT declared dead." in a yel unsigned wrilton fulledge said he arrived at the ruling testimony offered Darby's wife Soba and son Reuben U. Darby Ill. He wrole that testimony showed. a thorough Investigation conducted by Darby's son thal led him from Alaska to Mexico and points in between uncovered no evidence as to his father's whereabouts.

In addition, he said testimony showed Darby had received 'threats to his lile shortly before he disappeared and that at one point he was exposed to a "specific peril of Pulledge referred to an incident that occurred cight years ago when Charles Wolf Ballimore, assaulted. Darby in on alleged attempt to persuade him to pay off a cerlain creditor. The opinion and declaration of death order are expected to be filed in court Monday. The hearing was initiated 'Seba Darby, 60, of Big Pool. AcSnyder cording to her allorney lavorable (icorge a entitles her to Social Security benefits she wouldn't receive otherwise.

The ruling also opens the door for Darby's beneficiaries reported to number p5 to collect what some insurance in-, vestigalors say may lop million from policics Darby wrote out to them as a way of clearing debis. Several investigators came to Hagerstown over the summer months looking for traces of Darby's whereabouts in hopes that they could defeat a declaration of deall hearing so their companies wouldn't have to honor the noticins. No inrestigators appeared in court Friday. Airs. Darby, who married the missing man on a summer day 30 years ago, was the first to lestily al the alternoon hearing.

She said without her permis'sion her husband had "frequentTv" signed her name 10 notes as he borroired money to keep his Noundering business ventures in operation She said shortly before her busband vanished they had ro, ceived telephone Ihreals that her life was in danger and "they would burn our bouse down." She testified the threals ended on the dale of Darby's appearance. Sirs. Darby said the last time she saw her husband alive was the night of Sept. 24, 1970. The following eycning she said she was attending a meeting at the American Legion when slate police loll her Darby's office hart been broken into.and he was missing.

Under questioning by Snyder and the judge, Mrs. Darby said she didn't know the lotal debts her husband bad accumulated during their years logothor, She did say, however, that she was currently. paying $250 a moolh to the IRS for 1967 taxes her husband owed the government. A postmistress in Big Pool for the past 21 years, Mrs. Darby said her only assets are her annual salary of $17,000 and her left hira swimming in debls.

Sher his last venture. lie Pleasure Rail Company. fell through in 1970: Darby was lett with nothing but debts he'd built up over the years. No vanished sr -stericusly a Tow months latel. All that remains mm of Dar.

by is a bus of his personal effects housed al the Maryland State Police barrack here which were found at the scene of his disappearance and supcosef abduction. Musty with age. effects that were scattered about Darby's car include a 1069 National Erquirer article on Darby. a black ack white checkered raincoat, his broken glasses and two money wrappers found in the bushes near the scene. Somne Darby was the naped.

Others feet he arranged his own kidnaping act 10 avold persistent. creditors and history of debls..