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Chance of rain is zero. Details, Page 2B. tuunu 5 Sections 46 Pages 20 Cents City Edition Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 19, 1978 A Gannett Newspaper 90ih Year No. 99 CalL Rebels in Zaire kill Europeans, paratroops say 364-HELP! HELP! It the feature Ihil lolvei nnh. lemi.

antwen ouMilom and the Ink dm. It appears daily In the Capital Journal am satumay and Sunday la the Statesman journal, tan HtLPl 21 noun a day at HELP! answer! Questions onlv Ihrourti thh column. ft i I 1 0 ik Sv. Y'vVi If KINSHASA, Zaire (UPI) French paratroops dropped into the Zaire mining center of Kolwezi today and discovered the bodies of at least 44 Europeans executed by rebels, the official news agency AZAP said. The agency said the Foreign Legion troops were encountering heavy resistance as they attempted to clear the town of rebel pockets in their bid to rescue an estimated 3,000 whites.

Zaire Foreign Minister Umba Di Lu-tete said the rebel troops had been ordered to massacre the whites they were holding hostage. One radio report said the rebels were ordered to behead them. AZAP said many of the Europeans ap- I 'm a. Mail rates to go up on May 29 i Of t. peared to have been shot earlier Friday, shortly before the paratroopers arrived.

US. Air Force transport planes began landing in Zaire soon afterwards on a support mission. U.S. officials said a U.S. C-141 jet, the first of four carrying fuel for a Belgian airborne task force of 1,800 troops, landed at Kamina, a town about 130 miles north of embattled Kolwezi in Zaire's Shaba province.

A total of 18 U.S. planes are involved in the airlift, some carrying Belgian ammunition to the Zairean capital of Kinshasa. Still others are flying 120 French Foreign Legion paratroops with machine gun-equipped jeeps from the Mediterranean island of Corsica to an undisclosed location near the fighting. The U.S. logistical airlift planes arrived shortly after France and Belgium announced that hundreds of Foreign Legion paratroops were dropped today in the heart of Kolwezi to rescue foreign residents from rebels who Zaire charged were threatening a massacre of their white hostages.

The official Zaire news agency AZAP said the French paratroopers were meeting with fierce resistance from the rebels. It said the French destroyed an armored car and took four prisoners who said that up to Friday morning a Cuban motorized company had been in Kolwezi. The French government announced that paratroopers of the 2nd Foreign Legion Regiment jumped into the heart of Kolwezi as Zaire air force Mirage jet fighters suppressed rebel ground fire. Rebels backed by Reds: U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department, despite an explicit Cuban de- nial, charged today that the rebels who invaded Zaire were trained by Cubans and armed with Soviet weapons.

The department has said previously it had no direct evidence of recent Cuban involvement and had not said anything about Soviet weapons. However, State Department spokesman Thomas Reston said today: "It is now our understanding that the insurr-gents have been trained recently by Cubans in Angola and are using Soviet weapons. I won't go into how we found out." This was denied by the head of the Cuban mission in Washington, Ramon Sanchez-Parodi, who said today that Cuban President Fidel Castro's position is that there is no Cuban involvement, direct or indirect, with the Katangans who invaded Zaire. i 'i i I'd like to know about identification. Every time I go into a store and want to write a check, they always want something besides a driver's license.

I don't have any charge cards. What else can I use? My checks have never bounced. I'd like an answer to that. C.S., Salem. A good piece of identification to carry, according to an officer of a local bank and a spokesman in the Banking Division, state Department of Commerce, is a wallet-size birth certificate.

Another valuable piece of identification for check-cashing purposes is a bank courtesy card. Not all banks make those available to their customers. Other pieces of identification are Oregon Liquor Control Commission identification cards, non-drivers' identification from the Motor Vehicles Division, military identification, and employees' identification cards. "Any kind of card with a description and a picture" is good, said the bank officer. Call for HELP 1 344337 I bought about $10 worth of plants at a store in North Salem recently.

I asked if I could write out a check and the clerk said it would be fine. A few minutes later the assistant manager came with the security guard and said I was this person from Albany that writes out bad checks. Our names, first and last, are the same but our licenses are different. I showed all my Identification but he wouldn't even attempt to look at them. I admit I lost my cool and we had a few words.

He finally said he would call the police and check me out and maybe have me arrested. He did and he came back and I asked tor my check back. I just cannot believe this was handled the way it was. I understand about bad checks, but he could have called before embarrassing me and humiliating me in front of customers. I was approached a year ago about the same situation in another store, but it was handled very tactfully, and it went along fine.

I would appreciate some advice on what to do next time I am attacked like this. P.S, Salem. An officer in a local bank said the store's personnel are "leaving themselves wide open for a libel and slander suit by behaving in such a manner." In the event this happens again, you should ask for the person's name and employee number and the names of his immediate supervisor and that of the store manager. In the case of a chain store, you should also get the name of the regional or chain manager. Write a letter of complaint to these people, he said.

Call for HELP I S3443S7 1 i i -i WASHINGTON (UPI) The Postal Service gave final approval today to increase postal rates beginning May 29, boosting the cost for most first class letters from 13 to 15 cents. The Postal Servics's board of governors, on a 4-2 vote, approved the recommendation of the Postal Rate Commission which rejected President Carter's request for a special "citizens' rate" of 13 cents for personal mail while increasing First class business mail to 16 cents. The board then approved the entire new rate structure by a 5-1 vote. Board chairman Michael Wright said he was "extremely concerned" over a 35 percent increase in rates for parcel post, and said the postal service would begin drawing up a new rate structure for further consideration later this year. Wright and other board members had sought a lesser increase to make parcel post service more competitive.

A subcommittee of the board approved the new rates Thursday night. The subcommittee objected to increases in parcel post rates on the grounds that they "would damage the postal service's ability to compete in the package handling market." The rate commission had estimated that its recommended rate increases would increase postal revenues by $1.9 billion. In anticipation of an increase to the 15-cent rate, the Postal Service began mass production last week of 15-cent stamps bearing the picture of former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Capital Journal phoM by Gerry Levin Flying for governor Some candidates lace up jogging shoes and wear for Guv" hot air balloon, cleared by the local air flight sweatsuits that bear their name as they "run" for office, control tower, sailed over Capitol Mall this morning in an Supporters of Emily Ashworth, Democrat candidate for effort to round up votes for the upcoming primary elec- governor, decided it would be more fun to fly. An "Emily tion this Tuesday.

Rights vote puts Eugene on spot Miss your paper? We hope not. But if your Capital Journal has not arrived by 5:30 p.m., please consult the box at the bottom of page 2A for service. Drought over but less water" is being used SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Califor-nians who lived through a brutal two-year drought apparently learned a hard lesson from the lengthy dry spell -waste not, want not. The state Department of Water Resources says the state's 22 million residents, even with reservoirs overflowing and the drought officially over, are using 20 percent less water than they did in pre-drought days. "Needless to say, it's pretty encouraging," said Don Engdahl of the department's conservation education division.

"There is plenty of evidence Califomians are using less water than before the drought. As near as we can tell, consumption In urban areas is down 20 percent from pre-drought days." The state hired Field Research Corp, which publishes the respected California Poll, to make a statewide survey in late March of water conservation attitudes. About 1,000 people were questioned. Sixty percent said they now considered water conservation a matter of great importance, although Engdahl said supplies are "very, very good." Statewide, 78 percent of those surveyed said they supported water conservation more now because of its energy-saving potential. Using one day as an example, May 8, Marin County just north of San Fran-dsco used 21.5 million gallons of water, compared to 32i million gallons on the same day the year before the drought Network TV crews, newspaper reporters and national news magazine writers hare descended on Eugene to report on the city's homosexual rights vole set for Tuesday.

bate, Keller said. "They'd rather get in there and tear apart an issue themselves." Then why doesn't the mayor take part in the local debate? "If the mayor came out one way or another (he) would really offend a lot of people," Keller said. Larry Dean, 33, campaign coordinator of VOICE (Volunteers Organized in Continuing Enactments), the group fighting for repeal of the ordinance, said he is not bothered by the national attention. A San Francisco newspaper reporter waited outside his door. Across the street from his campaign headquarters in Gilbert shopping center this week's People magazine was on sale with a full page spread on VOICE and the Eugene election.

"I knew when I got into this -1 thought it might blow up pretty big," Dean, a former clerk for Southern Pacific Railroad, said. Ellen Bevington, 28, one of six co-coordinators of Eugene Citizens for Human Rights, the group leading the fight to keep the homosexual rights ordinance, said that the national news media sometimes sensationalizes the gay issue. "Sometimes the media comes in here and has a hidden agenda they know what they want to show," Bevington said. One example, she said, was that CBS news reporters wanted to interview someone who would lose his or her job if the voters repealed the rights amendment. "That's a lot to ask," she said.

Tuesday's election will be of national significance if the gay rights amendment is not repealed, according to Bevington. Why? It would be the first time that a civil rights measure anywhere was passed by popular vote, Bevington said. "Think about that," she added. By MARTIN ROSENBERG Capital Journal Reporter EUGENE -It might be the hottest election in the state. Homosexual rights are up for a vote of the people in Oregon's second largest city Tuesday and the outcome will be reported around the nation.

Eugene voters will vote on a measure that would repeal a homosexual rights amendment to the city's human rights ordinance. The amendment was passed by the City Council last fall. Supporters of the amendment say it is needed to bar discrimination against homosexuals in employment and housing. They raised $32,000 for the campaign, according to one leader. Those advocating the repeal of the amendment say homosexuals are not discriminated against and it is wrong to sanction the homosexual lifestyle by ordinance.

Those pushing repeal said they raised $17,000 for their campaign. Voters in Wichita, St. Paul, and Dade County, in the past year voted to repeal homosexual rights ordinances. Betsy Merck, Eugene city human rights coordinator, said that the national attention given to the votes in those cities encourages other communities to attempt to repeal whatever gay rights protections are on the books in their locality. Discussion of "sexual orientation excites people," Merck said.

"They want to hear what that lifestyle is like and then they want to crush it," she said. Network television news crews, newspaper reporters and national news magazine writers have descended on the city in recent days. Mayor Gus Keller, who has refused to reveal his position on the repeal effort and who did not vote on the amendment last fall when it was before the City Council, said he wished people outside the city limits would ignore Eugene's vote on gay rights. "Eugene is probably not appreciative of national media coming in and overplaying" the gay rights de- Inside Today HA Abby 3C Births LARRY DEAN ELLEN BEVINGTON 9A Bridge 3B BurgessMarkets. 10-11 A Capita) Life Classified Ads J-18C ISA Comics SC Court Records 15A Crossword 4-5A Editorials But Dean said that if the amendment is not stricken from Eugene's laws, his right to disapprove of the gay lifestyle is restricted.

"You don't give one group a right without taking away from someone else," he said. Merck, of the Human Rights Commission, which supports the amendment, said the question of human rights has no place on a ballot. "I don't think people should be able to deny human rights which happens when we let it be put to a vote," she said. Related story, Page 8A 9A Entertainment 15A In The Stars Obituaries Public Notices Sports 3C SC 1-4D 15A Televisi.