The Capital Journal from Salem, Oregon • 1

I 4 i 'if wl life ijers Iwngmen gi which Connie could roll her wheelchair without bumping. Somebody from the club needed to measure the McDonald porch and space for desk and bookcase. Homer Denniston got this privilege from a short list of inmates now allowed outside with staff supervision. The club collected $250, enough for the walnut-stained birch materials and some left over for a hobby for Connie. Six inmates with cabinet making skills did the work in the penitentiary maintenance shop while five guards donated their leisure time to Connie sat at the front of the room to the right of the club president, Gerald Rapue, who said, "You don't know what red tape is until you try something like this in a penitentiary.

"But we'll try to do more projects like this." Rapue handed Connie, now beaming, a big card signed by all members. He said that Supt. Hoyt Cupp personally would accompany Dennis-ton to install the ramp Sunday "You'll iind the ramp so strong that you can drive a truck on it," Rapue said. By ALFRED C. JONES Capita Journal Writer When the fourth iron gate clanged shut with that "clunk" sound of finality, Connie McDonald found herself rolling in her wheelchair into a large roomful of blue-clad inmates.

The 14-year-okl Portland girl had a look of "what's a nice girl like me doing fn a place like then smiled at greeters from the Lifers Club of the Oregon State Penitentiary. This was the Connie McDonald who had to have open heart surgery when onlv a week old: who had a second such operation when and whose third bout with surgery left her paralyzed from the waist down. That's a lot for anyone to bear, so when a Lifers Club member, Mike Taggart, saw her picture in a Portland newspaper he wrote to the southeast Portland family to ask if the club could do something for Connie. The McDonalds did have a problem a need for a ramp to the door. To this the Lifers Club's 113 members added a bookcase and a desk to I 7 'A 3 87th Year No.

14 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 16, 1975 Ga Mjpjpe I i if (Capital Journal photo) insider with Lifers Club Amazing Grace Peck, an institution among Oregon has a special feel for those who institutionalized. As she celebrates her she vows more help. Her tory 11. Heating up legislative session is less than a but already things are heating up. about the lawmakers and legislative are orrPages 7, 11 and 14 today.

Rationing too? isn't necessarily buying President taxpayer rebate plan, and it gas rationing over Ford's objections. Stories on Page 8. win itself came under the heading of interstate commerce and, as such, was subject to Federal Power Commission jurisdiction. "It's an important first step," Hill said this morning. The decision confirms his firm's beliefs, and permits officials to proceed -on the notion that they can bring gas into Oregon, he added.

There is a catch, however, said Hill. The decision can still be appealed to the commission and, eventually, to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hill expects the competition, the states of California and New York and Pacific Lighting to ap" peal, particularly because they have nothing to lose. iticians at Sen.

Bob Packwood, said he would "reserve final judgment" on the President's proposals until they come before the Senate Finance Committee, of which he is a member. He called the package "a good beginning." Rep. Les AuCoin, Democratic freshman in the House, -said he sees "bitter irony" in curtailing Social Security benefits while including benefits for upper-income persons'' in the tax rebate. Democratic Rep. Robert Duncan urged rationing rather than new fuel taxes and predicted that Congress would weight tax cuts more toward low-income families.

"He called for cooperation and I think he'll get it," Duncan said. "What did he do for housing?" Rep. James Weaver, asked. "Nothing that I could see." Big mess hy fake' SMITHLAND, Ky. (AP) Radio station WKYX of Paducah has a bill for $2,334.50, all because a telephone call in which the disc jockey on duty was told Livingston County schools would be closed because of weather.

The caller on Sunday identified herself as the secretary to Schools. Supt. H.B. Alderdice. She said schools would be closed Monday, and the station employe made several announcements of the report.

But Alderdice told the county Board of Education Monday the caller wasn't his secretary and the schools weren't supposed to be closed. He said 667 pupils stayed home. He billed the station $3.50 for each absent pupil, the amount the county pot pla An outsider becomes an Inside Today Grace Abby 15 Capital Life 18-23 Comics .13 Court Records X18 1 4 4-S Markets 17 Movies Obituaries 10 Regional News 12 Sports 25-27 Television 13 must in state soil LEBANON (AP) A spokesman for the Oregon Thermal and Energy Council says Pacific Power and Light Co. must apply for a change in a state soil rule, rather than simply a waiver of the rule, if it wants to build a nuclear plant at its site five miles northeast of here. And, "applying for a rule change could be a substantial undertaking," Kelly Woods, council coordinator, said Wednesday.

The rule in question states that no more than one-thirifr of a site may be farmable land. About half Refunding begins The first of this year's state income tax refunds went into the mails toda, $1,425,882 worth of them. There have been 22,600 returns filed so far. Of these, are for homeowner and renter relief, and the st are regular income tax returns. re: legislators, are 77th birthday, is on Page The 1973 week old, Stories proposals Congress Ford's may pass 28 Pages 15 Cents a FOiindi The question of appeal has caused some hesitancy among officials of the two oil companies, Phillips and Marathon, which have contracted for the sale, Hill said.

The two firm's, don't want to prejudice their interests elsewhere in the U.S. by decisions Stemming from an adverse appeal. Construction of Northwest Natural's regassif ication depot at Newport depends on the outcome of the ap-: peal, said Hill. A final go-ahead could take a couple years, depending on the extent of the litigation. The outcome of the issue has implications for Project Independence, former President Nixon's plan to make U.S.

energy self-sufficient. Presently, two plans are being considered for shipment of Prudhoe Bay gas: by cryogenic tanker or across Canada by pipeline. The latter. plan hinges on usually cordial relations between the two countries, and refutes the energy independence notion, Hill believes. Additionally, relations are beginning to break down between the two.

As an example, gas officials in British Columbia are again raising the price of their gas, Hill said, maybe as high as $1.93 a thousand cubic feet. The previous price was 32 cents. "That's worse than the Arabs are treating us," he said. A further hitch to hopes of getting more gas flowing soon into U.S. pipelines is the Jones Act, which requires that trade between U.S.

ports must be carried by U.S. -built ships with American crews. This presents a lesser problem, said Hill, because no U.S.-built cryogenic (low temperature) ships presently exist: The firm might ask for a temporary waiver to use a ship, while awaiting completion of its own U.S.-built tanker. Hill also said his executives cur-, rently are negotiating with Canadian officials to use their regassification 'plant at Sumas, along the U.S.Canadian border. is created pHiouie call school system receives in state aid for each dudiI present.

'Bus drivers began their runs and halfway through someone would tell them that school was called off. Then the bus drivers would turn around and head back home and on the way find out that there really was school Everyone was really confused." WKYX General Manager Gary Morris told theixiard in a letter that uie iiniuiKt; was maae Dy an employe who did not know the station's procedure lor verifying calls of school closings. He promised it wouldn't happen again. Asked Wednesday if WKYX had indicated whether the bill would be paid, Alderdice -said, "I dbn't know. They still have it.

They didn't say anything about (paying) it." lovers have usually preferred Ravel's for example." He said the company Rested eight different heart recordings on 500 couples before, settling on a final 30-minute recording, which later was shortened to 20 minutes because the couples complained, about getting "overtired." Syntonic Research has already released two recordings with what it calls environmental backgrounds for lovers, "Ocean and Birds" and "Gentle Rain in a Pine Forest." Baby dies as mother hides' it VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) -Camille J. Purdin, 23, pleading guilty Wednesday to a charge of man slaughter, said she hid her newborn baby because she was afraid her husband would leave her. Mrs. Purdin, who also has twin girls 31 months old and a son 18-months-old, told Judge Robert D.

McMullen the baby, born Dec. 16, died during an attempt to hide him from her husband. She said she had told her husband, Michael, she had a "false pregnancy" and was. getting medical treatment for the condition. She said Purdin had told her he would leave her if she became pregnant a third time.

Purdin told McMullen he made the remark but had not meant it. Mrs. Purdin said the baby was born at home and she wrapped him in towels and hid him in a shoe box in a closet. Purdin found his wife on the bed bleeding and, took her to a hospital. The baby was found dead during a search of the couple's apartment.

McMullen deferred sentencing pending an investigation; Four annulments is healthy order REDDING (AP) Sheila Leather-wood, 24, filed Wednesday for the annulment of marriages to four husbands. Her attorney, Archer Pugh, told Shasta County Superior Court that Miss Leatherwood thought someone else would be taking care of the' divorces each time, and she never about them until now. The petition said she was married Jan. 12, 1969, to Raymond W. Bray-man in Klamath Falls, July 12, 1973, to John Sanders in Red Bluff Dec.

27, 1973 to Jimmy Lynn Mooney in Corning, and Oct. 21, 1974, to Albert Lincoln Allen in Reno. Pugh didn't explain why she suddenly became concerned. Sweet fickles Showers tonight. Showers and partial clearing Friday.

Low 35-40, high Friday, 50's. Precipitation chance 50 per cent tonight, 30 per cent Friday. (Details Page 18) Sunset today sunrise tomorrow 7:46. Maximum yesterday 53; minimum today 44. Total 24-hour precipitation Jtl; for "month 2S3; normal XS8.

Seasonal precipitation 19.C2; normal 22.K; report by National Weather Service. Bail was set at $100,000, so Wilson stayed in was moved from Washington County to nearby Clackamas County. But Tuesday, Dist. Atty. Ray Robi-nett said there was never any physical evidence linking Wilson to the killings, and no motive.

Wilson says he never heard of the victims until he was arrested for their murder. A metal detection test to determine' whether Wilson had fired a gun recently was made soon after his arrest. Robinett said the results were negative. Two lie detector test results were examined by five experts, all of whom concluded Wilson was telling the truth. Ballistics tests ruled out several guns Wilson owns as being the murder weapon.

Robinett said Wilson's inability to account for his time on the night of the murders, was a strong factor in his arrest and detention. "We thought we hada good case, Not the strongest case we ever had, PORTLAND A Federal Power Commission law judge has ruled that his agency has no jurisdiction over shipboard transportation of natural gas from Alaska to the West Coast. The decision could have significant effects in removing roadblocks before Northwest Natural Gas plans to ship liquefied natural gas from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, to Newport. The judge said the ommissiori re-; tains its jurisdiction over interstate, pipeline transport of the gas, howev-1 er. 4 Francis Hill, Northwest Natural Gas Co.

president, said it is the first case of its kind in which a long term contract of natural gas from Alaska to Oregon wasyplved. The question was whether tne gas transportation on not By The Associated Press Oregon's congressional delegation reacted to President' Ford's State of the Union address Wednesday With something less than jv Most of the lawmakers endorsed the President's tax cut proposal but criticized his suggested $2 per barrel imported oil tax, his ceiling on Social Security benefits and his omission of any plan to stimulate the housing industry. ii; Ford's proposed moratorium on federal spending drew fire, with national health insurance, public works projects, and, housing mentioned most often." "It's not the dynamic, comprehensive program it will take to turn this country around," said Rep. AljUll-man, who will be chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. ij 1 Ullman predicted quick congressional action on the "tax cut.

He -also said Congress will probably pass a national health insurance package which is likely to get Ford's signature, despite the President's call for no new spending. Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. at- 1 tacked Ford's failure to mention military budget cut as a way to offset the tax cut. "I cannot accept a federal tax rebate unless it is coupled with reductions in military he said.

"I was also disappointed he' didn't have any proposals to directly stimulate the housing industry and housing market." "People are still eating pet food on Social Security benefits," Hatfield added. "What is a 5 per cent ceiling going to do for those people?" looks but a "good one," he said. Wilson said he was not mistreated in jail. I "But that doesn't mean I liked it there," he said. i "They had no evidence against me, and the only circumstantial evidence they had faded away." Wilson recalled being in an argument and fight with another youth the night of the killings.

i "And I had gotten the idea he'd gotten a friend to help him out and they were looking for me. "So I just 'dished out in a field instead of coming home. I just went to sleep. No witnesses. "I'd have been out of school now if it weren't for that jailr" he said, adding that he requires only two and one-halt credits to graduate.

"We're going to move out of this country," his grandmother said. "Our reception here hasn't been good at all, even before, all of this. "Joe is a good boy. He's my boy and we're going to move away and forget all of this business. qjree thrilled seek change regulation Golden Valley site near here is farmable, according to energy council standards.

Many persons, including members of the press, were under the impression that only a waiver would be required, Woods said. He said the utility may have to put on a very convincing argument for a rule change to accomodate the Golden Valley site. "If in truth the Golden Valley site is marginal, farming land the council may be influenced to amend its rule," he said. "We were under the impression that the waiver route was available," said Edward Prince, nuclear information officer for "We have to go along with whatever the rule is. We haven't decided whether to apply for a rule change or amendment.

"We were also under the impression that the site wasn't prime farm land when we bought it in the late '60s," Prince added. that. After all, I've been in jail charged with murder. Two murders." He was arrested less than 12 hours after Peter Zito 18, Beaverton, and Donald Bartron, 16, Aloha, were found shot to death in the parking lot of a Beaverton area recreation center. 'Note don't hear this GRANTS PASS, Ore.

(UPI) TLe; intercom system at Grants Pass V'y 'v. Scl fai'ed in some classrocms ttlsj WltJ a repairman ea rente $tu-j dants-snd teachers in. the where the system was still function-? in 3 were startled to hear this an from the school 'I Your attention WK1 tasch-j ers ia rooms where this message is est being heard please notify the' cuua. cilice imstewately. Youth.

retuiFiis to get fanny The ultimate sound is heartbeats for lovers ALOHA, Ore. (AP) Students at Aloha High School gave Joseph Amir Wilson, 18, some funny looks this when he returned to school. Earlier Wilson was cleared of the murders of two of his but not before he spent three months in jail awaiting trial. Charges against Wilson were dropped at the prosecution's request on the day the trial was to have started. Wilson returned to the home of his grandmother, Qra Wilson.

He has lived with her since infancy when his father was killed by bandits in Iran. "The first thing he did was to go over to Aloha High School and see if he was still enrolled. And he wanted to get a copy of a yearbook," she said. Wilson, a B-average student who normally would have graduated this month, had been dropped by the school "Some people seemed a little shy," he said. "I guess I can understand EMERYVILLE, Calif.

(AP) -Syntonic Research, which claims the slow, rhythmic beating of a woman's heart is "the perfect background sound for lovemaking," says.it plans to release a new long-playing record next week. The name of the record: "The Ultimate Heartbeat." "A lot of study went into this thing," a spokesman for the Eric-Mainland a local distributor, said Wednesday. "Researchers began three years ago by checking out what.