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The Staunton Leader STAUNTON, 24401, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22, 1978 ft VOL. 131. NO. 123 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Congress and the President Fight looms over egsatVe veto Carter offers tax-cut compromise If The administration source, who also asked to remain unnamed, said that Carter remains firm in his opposition to a cut in capital gains taxes on profits from the sale of such items as homes and stocks. "That's the sticking point in all of this the capital gains tax," said a committee source Wednesday night.

He said the administration is gambling that the offer to leave the reform package out of the bill may sway enough Democratic votes in the committee. situations in which Congress insists that "each decision or regulation under a program" be delayed for a specified period, during which time "a majority of both houses, or either house, or even a single committee is authorized to veto the action." Attorney General Griffin Bell told reporters at the White House that if Congress had exercised a legislative veto last month over the $4.8 billion jet warplane sale to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel, Carter "would not be bound, in our view" to accept the rejection as legally binding. said Carter was not abandoning the effort and would seek changes in the tax code later. As part of the agreement with the Democratic congressional leaders, the administration received assurances that there would be separate floor votes on some of the "reform" proposals, congressional sources said. These sources, who asked not to be identified, saw Carter as apparently trying to trade off the reform proposals for a chance to get the tax cut bill out of the House Ways and Means Committee.

n. Expo directors nix van fest built into laws affecting the operation and financing of the executive branch. It enables Congress to reject presidential proposals without giving him an opportunity to override the lawmakers. Congress, on the other hand through constitutional authority can override a presidential veto on a two-thirds vote by both houses. The first law containing legislative veto authority was enacted in the early 1930s.

The power now is an element of some 300 provisions in about 200 laws. The president's message cited fttf Set, -1 i WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter is squaring off for a possible constitutional fight with Congress over its jealously guarded legislative veto authority a power that presidents since Herbert Hoover have found distasteful. In a special message to Congress, Carter said Wednesday he believes such vetoes are unconstitutional. And he served notice that generally he will no longer feel legally bound by legislative vetoes "over the execution of programs." The legislative veto is a device China talks human rights By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer HONG KONG (AP) China's new leadership is reviving legal institutions and talking favorably of "human rights" in what one American legal expert says is a campaign to convince millions of Chinese that speaking out won't mean arrest and torture as before.

Professor Jerome A. Cohen, associate dean of the Harvard Law School, said the campaign's ultimate aim is to get all China's people to participate in making the country a modern power by the year 2000. Cohen, director of Harvard's East Asian legal studies department, just returned from China, where he met officials of the new institute of law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and saw a criminal trial in Shanghai. In an interview with The Associated Press, he said China's leaders realize that to get the enthusiastic participation of the masses, they must develop a legal system "with some kind of minimum security and order so that people will have confidence that they will not be subjected to arbitrary deprivations or sanctions by the state." Modern China's 29-year history has witnessed vast pendulum swings with periods of relative freedom followed by periods of severe repression. Cohen said the country's intellectuals, scientists, educators and professionals desperately needed now in China's modernization plans were the hardest hit by these "pendulum swings" and are most wary about speaking out again.

"People aren't taking part in the current movement to speak out," he said. "They're just waiting because previously, people who did speak out regretted it later. "They feel a deep resentment against the state and how it acted to them and their families. They feel they're really being asked to build an unjust society that they may be arrested, dragged away at any time, held indefinitely, not know the charges against them, be subjected to torture," he added. "They feel they can't put forth any ideas, make any innovations, articulate any genuine criticism without a month or a year later suffering severe consequences for what they were asked to do." rv mJLjmyim WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter, trying to pry some form of tax-cut legislation from a congressional committee, is offering a compromise which, for the time being, scuttles his campaign pledge for tax reform.

Administration sources said the Carter plan, presented to House Democratic leaders on Wednesday, calls for a "no frills" $15 billion to $20 billion tax reduction for next year. Although the compromise is a retreat from Carter's earlier demands for tax reform legislation, the administration source in public. "There are about 30 different items at a station that are free," said Steve Burns, owner of Buffalo Gap Ser-vicenter at Swoope. "If we're going to make a profit, it's going to have to be at the full-service pumps." Bums said he thinks "there isn't going to be anything free anymore," because service station owners can't afford it. Many dealers across the state are rankled by motorists who fill up with gasoline at a self-service station, then drive to a full-service station to put air in their tires, use the restroom or get a free check under the hood, Heizer explained.

"I've just heard so many of them complain of these noncustomers who have been coming in and want freebies," he said. Bums said he would probably install VV U. 11. 4 v.r.'jr- 1 'J A 5 4 II?" 'Cr Although he voted to keep the van fest out next year, Chapman said of the critics: "We are presently listening to a minority rather than a majority." Lyle Kindig said he was on the grounds during the recent van fest and, based on what he saw, "the risk we took was too great to have them back any time in the near future." Kindig explained that conditions existed in which "that crowd could have taken apart any building on this place." He added: "The good vanners won't be back anyway because they don't agree with the way some of the others acted." William Cole, Expo manager, said he will need the board's guidance on booking events such as concerts which attract large crowds. Cole reported that Expo's profit on the van fest, though figures aren't final, was $2,638.

In other business, the board voted to extend Cole's contract for 30 days. Mrs. NeU Wright of Rt. 1, Weyers Cave, was elected to fill the unexpired term of John Long on the board. No one was nominated to fill the unexpired term of William von Seldeneck who resigned.

Ieon Harris, chairman of Expo 78, the annual fair, reported a profit of $1,300 on sales of advertising in the fair catalogue. The catalogues are available for distribution. The fair will be held July 17-22. Clem said that 100,000 discount coupons, each good for 15 cents off the cost of rides on the midway during the fair, have been distributed to merchants and may be obtained by shoppers. Bob Francis, co-superintendent of the sheep showing during Expo 78, said that prizes of $60 and $40 will be awarded to 4-H and-or FFA groups that get the highest and second highest number of points in sheeo show contests.

The (See EXPO, Page 2) News inside-v Can You Cope? How well do you cope in the consumer marketplace? Today's article in the 'Can You Cope' series helps you find out. Read it and take the test on page 6. Film opens "The Redeemer Son of Satan," the film shot in the Staunton area two summers ago, opened Wednesday night at the Visulite Theatre. Staunton turns out to be the real "star." See story on page 13. (Two sections) Abby Page 5 Business Page 23 City, County, State Page 13 Classifieds Pages 20-22 Comics Page 18 Editorials Page 4 Farm Page 19 Obituaries Page 3 Sports Pages 14-18 Theatres Page 18 Women's News Pages 9-11 Youth Page 7 Weather Clear and cooler tonight with lows in the 50s.

Sunny and pleasant Friday with highs near 80. See complete weather information on page 5. By MIKE DIXON Leader Staff Writer FISHERSVILLE Directors of Augusta Expo voted Wednesday night not to allow a van fest to be held at Ex-poland next year. The vote followed a recommendation by Larry J. Wills, outgoing president, in the wake of public criticism of the Memorial Day weekend van fest here.

Wills said he hoped the board of directors' action would head off a sterner move by the Augusta County Board of Supervisors to ban all "large gatherings" in the county. The Expo board's action applies only to next year. Carl Wonderley, incoming president, concurred with Wills, stating: "At the moment, we don't have any choice but to ban the van fest for next year." The recent van fest here attracted an estimated vans with occupants, many of them representing van clubs in Eastern and Midwestern states. Criticism of the event by outsiders was aimed at alleged moral misconduct by a minority of the vanners. The situation was aggravated, according to witnesses, by the presence of area residents.

Some of them reportedly crossed adjacent private property to reach the Expo grounds. The only "no" vote Wednesday night was cast by Edward P. Berlin Jr. who said that Expo should not "lock the doors" against future van fests or similar events. "We've had a little over-reaction from the Board of Supervisors," he said.

Wills, although recommending against having a van fest next year, said that all the reaction he has received from area merchants has been favorable. He said that no merchant has complained to him of any misconduct by vanners in local stores. The merchants say that the van fests benefit the area and thus help to fulfill Expo's intended purpose, added Wills. A contrasting reaction was offered by John Clem IV who said that merchants in downtown Staunton told him that the van fest did Expo more harm than good. Kelly Chapman said that if the supervisors "shut the door completely by law, it hurts everybody." He added that he is not opposed to van fests as such, but that they must be better controlled than was the recent one here.

such a device if he had the opportunity, but other service station owners in the area have balked at such a decision. James H. Creger, owner of Creger's Servicenter on Churchville Avenue, said he's in favor of the coin-operated machine but probably won't install one because "this town is too small for it to go over well." He, too, says he's become disturbed about services that cost him money to operate but from which he "realizes nothing." Eldon Almarode, manager of Almarode's Automotive Center in Stuarts Draft, said he's concerned about the vandalism such a move might touch off. "We have enough problems with cut hoses now," he said. "If they (the customer) had to pay for it, I know we'd (See FREE AIR, Page 2) Summer fun in the pool Jay Austin's mouth forms an '0' of surprise as his nesday afternoon.

Shortly afterward, a summer mother, Mrs. Gail Austin of Manchester Townhouse thunderstorm forced swimmers to seek shelter, but Apartments, lifts him high in the air as they enjoy Jay was already headed for his nap. swimming at the complex swimming pool Wed- (Photoby Patrick Kelly) No frills streaker flies friendly skies Is fine fime of free air af gas sfafions ending? seats in the widebody jet, whooping and waving a champagne bottle. The woman's traveling companion, a young man, "just crawled under the seat," said a passenger. "He didn't even go after her or anything." The chief stewardess grabbed a blanket and went after the streaker, but the blonde eluded capture.

Passengers applauded as the chase wound up and down the aisles. After 15 minutes, the stewardess and blanket won out and the young woman was taken back to a seat, where crew members helped dress her. The pilot, Capt. Ed Mitchell, came out and tried to restore decorum. The blonde slept peacefully the rest of the way to Los Angeles.

The rest of the passengers? "I never saw so many grins in my life," said one woman. "For the rest of the flight we just sat there and smiled." MIAMI (AP) National Airlines Flight 51 was high above the plains of Texas when a vision, of sorts, appeared in the aisle. Passengers gasped. Flight attendants stared. Before them was a young woman.

Blonde, lovely, very happy and nude. "She had a beautiful body," said a woman passenger who declined to give her name. "She perched on top of Row 27, guzzling champagne, and the passengers started laughing and clapping. She said she had just inherited $5 million and that's why she was doing it." The DC-10 was midway on its trip from Miami to Los Angeles last Thursday night when the woman, described as among other things about 25, streaked down the aisle of the "no frills" tourist section from first-class. Passengers told the Miami News the woman climbed over six rows of By MEREDITH BARK LEY Leader Staff Writer Many Staunton area service stations don't seem anxious to start charging for tire air even though they say self-service pumps and stations have cut deeply into their profit margin.

The Associated Press reports an Indiana firm making a coin-timer unit that charges 25 cents for four minutes of air is "very interested" in marketing the product in Virginia. James Heizer, executive secretary of the Virginia Gasoline Retailers Association, says the idea may sell. "Our dealers may be very receptive to this. They're having to practically give away gas, and there's no free lunch, you know," Heizer said Wednesday. Local merchants are well aware of the "freebies" they hand out daily to the.