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8 Las Vegas DAILY OPTIC Wednesday March 30, 1977 Cattle growers association ALBUQUERQUE (AP) The New Mexico Cattle Growers Association re-elected its officers and voted to support the Beef Research and Information Act during the final day of its 63rd annual convention. At the meeting in Albuquerque, the group said it endorsed the act, which was proposed by the U.S. Agricultural Department and will be voted upon later this spring by cattle producers. The act would set up a .3 per cent assessment of cattle growers' sales to be used for research and market development. The New Mexico group noted more than 80 other state and national livestock organizations have endorsed the proposal.

The decision came after the group heard the vice president of the American National Cattlemen's Association, Richard McDougal, speak in support of the act. He said the cattle industry has lost more than $35 billion since 1973, mainly through of the beef demand. He said the act provides for thorough research of an ongoing economic demand structure. The group re-elected Albert Mitchell of Albert as president and renamed E. Phil Harvey of Carrizozo, Von Cain of Mountainair, Mrs.

Jerry Clayton of Lovington and F.F. "Chano" Montoya of Plata as vice presidents. Harry F. Lee of San Mateo was re-elected secretary- treasurer. Executive secretary Jim Brown announced his resignation, effective May 1, after eight years in the position.

He said he is taking a job with an Albuquerque rural management firm. The association also chose Albuquerque as the site for its 1978 convention. Violent crimes down, other types increase WASHINGTON (AP) Violent crime declined in virtually every corner of the country last year, but a surge in thefts in some big cities prevented the over-all national Berime rate from FBI reports. Preliminary statistics for 1976 no change from the previous year in the number of crimes reported to state and local police. It marked the first time in five years that the crime rate did not increase.

The number of murders across the country dropped 10 per cent, and a decline in the murder rate was reported in every population category and in all geographic regions. The FBI issued the report today. Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell called the statistics "an encouraging sign for the criminal justice system and for the public." But he added, "We must our efforts in this struggle, because the incidence of crime still remains far too high." Though the over-all rate held steady and violent crimes declined, stealing rose 5 per cent nationally and by much higher percentages in some cities.

In Houston a startling 42 per cent increase in larceny and theft was reported. The FBI compiles the figures from data submitted by more than 9,000 law enforcement agencies. The statistics cover only the murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts and motor vehicle thefts reported to police. Other studies have indicated that many crimes never are reported to authorities. The FBI keeps no national statistical summary of such crimes as arson, fraud, embezzlement and other white-collar offenses.

The preliminary report includes actual crime figures for 166 cities with 100,000 or more residents and percentages for the nation and for various population and geographic regions. The final 1976 report due in the fall contains the raw figures for the nation and more detail about the nature of the crimes. Of the seven crimes measured, only the category of larceny and theft reflected an increase. It was up 5 per cent from the 1975 figures. The category includes shoplifting, purse- snatching, thefts of bicycles, and thefts of such items as CB radios and stero tape decks from automobiles.

Larceny increased the most 10 per cent i cities of one million or more. The increase hovered around 5 per cent in smaller cities. Larceny rose 12 per cent in the Northeast and from 1 to 3 per cent elsewhere. The rise in big-city larceny, and in some locations burglaries and vehicle thefts as well, left some cities with over-all increases in their crime rates. Extention for gold WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M.

(AP) The latest chapter in the continuing saga of the search for the legendary gold of Victorio Peak finds the expedition pinning its hopes on one excavation site. Members of Expeditions Unlimited, led by Norman Scott, are concentrating all efforts on Chimney Shaft, the spot Ova says is the path to the legendary pile of coins and bullion; Mrs. Noss was the first wife of Milton "Doc" Noss, who claimed to have discovered the cache of gold in 1937. Noss was shot to death in 1949 in a argument with a partner in the gold venture. Scott said the searchers will take up where they left off Tuesday digging fill dirt out of the shaft at the' rate of one-foot per hour.

Scott went looking for a jackhammer, or a similar piece of equipment, Tuesday to expedite digging. KLM plane was not cleared for take off SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) "Stand by. I will TMnt 'T la st lnstru ctions the Santa Cruz airport et that collided with a Pan American a Spanish A Dutch investigator admitted on Tuesday that the KLM plane had not been cleared for takeoff Sunday. But he claimed the American plane should not have been on the runway where it was hit, a claim Pan Am disputed Meanwhile, two survivors of the collision died during the night, raising the death toll action's worst disaster to 577. They included 323 Americans, W61 the Pan American lane according to One of the survivors, Isabelle Lord of Long Beach, died on a Air Force transport taking 53 of the 71 persons who escaped from the fiery to the United States.

The other, Col. Marvin Waters of Petaluma Calif. died at midnight in a Santa Cruz hospital th 52 rv flown to the United States were being taken to the U.S. Army Burn Center in San Antonio, for treatment One survivor, Dorothy Kelly of New Hampshire, a purser on the Pan American plane, was still hospitalized in Santa Cruz WaS arranging transportation home for The bodies of the dead were laid out in a hangar at the edge of the Santa Cruz runway where experts were working 18 hours a day identifying them ml teTunfil i shipmenthome official said the repatriation could The admission that the airport control tower had not authorized the Dutch plane to take off came from Franz van Rejsen, head of the Dutch Civil Aviation Authority's team investigating the collision. He said the taoed conversations between the tower and the two Boeing 747 jets showed the take off Ven prehminary clear ance but not final clearance to Economic indicators show upward trend CAP) The government reported today that its index designed to anticipate trends in the economy rebounded February from the harsh effects of the severe winter.

The Commerce Department said its composite index of leading indicators turned up by four-tenths of a per cent in February after plunging 1.2 per cent in January, the biggest drop since the 1S74-1975 recession. The performance of the index is in a i other economic statistics reported the month of February and supports the contention of a i i a i analysts that the economy will come back quickly from the crimp put in it by winter weather. Commerce said that of the 10 individual statistics available in time for computation in the leading i i a i four showed increases. The increase in the worh week for manufacturing workers to 40.4 hours from 39.6 hours the month before was the biggest upward influence on the total index. Also moving upward were the number of new orders received by manufacturers of products and their suppliers, the number of new buifding permits issued arid slower deliveries, in supplies.

The slower deliveries are taken as a signa! of increased demand and thus quickened economic activity. Of the five individual components pointing downward, a nine-tenths of a per cent drop in the size of the money supply after adjustment for inflation was the biggest downward Meanwhile, the U.S. Army, which permitted the search to begin March 19, agreed Monday to an extension of the deadline through 'sundown Friday. That gives searchers a total of 12 days, instead of the original 10, to find evidence that the gold exists. "Let's be frank.

If we stop the guy ten feet away, there'll always be a question," said Army information officer Maj. Kenneth Abel. But he also said another extension would not be granted. Abel said Scott indicated workers could break into the.overburden by the deadline and "provide a definite answer" to one of New Mexico's most persistent gold tales. Scott said that once the fill dirt is bailed but, "There's no question in our mind that we can conclusively decide whether the legend is fact or fiction" from information provided by Mrs.

Noss. Originally, Mrs. Noss refused to cooperate with Scott, but now is lending her help to the effort. She said that once the overburden is cleared, it would be "smooth sailing" through more than 2,000 feet of caves and crevices to the place where her former husband said he found the gold. The shaft now being excavated was sealed off by mistake in a dynamite explosion that Doc Noss said was set off.to widen the hole, but plugged it instead.

Corruption is cited as cause of heroin flow KLM plane: "Ready for takeoff." Tower: "Maintain position." Tower to Pan Am plane: "Have you left the runway? Pan Am: "No." Tower: "Do it, and advise when the runway is clear tel ff 5 al Said there was one final instruction on the tape before the KLM plane began its fatal takeoff run- Tower to KLM: "Stand by. I will call you for takeoff The Dutch pilot, Capt. Z.A. Vedhuizen van Zariten, was killed along with a A pilot CapL Victor Van Rejsen said the American plane was told to pull off the main runway onto a parallel at an exit called "C-3" and was beyond that point when it was rammed by the Dutch plane. But a spokesman for Pan Am, W.

H. Waltrip, said the American plane was ordered onto the third taxiway on its left, which the crew interrupted as being C-4 since the first taxiway was closed to traffic. William Haley, the chief U.S. crash investigator here and a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Dutch and American officials had made a request to the Spanish government to send the" cockpit voice recorders from the planes to Washington for Haley said he anticipated they would be despatched Thursday in the custody of a Spanish official. 6 S( ni rUZ news a er quoting sources it said heard the recording of 6 the planes 8 ave this cc of the final Help the local economy, I onop Las Yegas 9KLAHOMA CITY (AP)--A "river" of heroin is flowing into the United States as a result of corruption among U.S.

and Mexican officials coupled with disorganization in federal drug lawt enforcement agencies, according to Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla. After completing, a four-day trip along the U.S.-Mexican border, English told the Daily Oklahoman newspaper that drug policing there is ineffectual. "I thought the problem was bad before we went down there, but it's God awful," English told the paper. "It's worse than a sieve.

It's a river of heroin coming in every day." English was one of six members of the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control who visited points along the border Tijuana to Brownsville, Tex: "The Mexican government is thoroughly corrupt, so far as drugs are concerned," English declared. And the Oklahoma legislator said he suspects widespread corruption on, the U.S. side as well, claiming he was told by U.S. customs officials that their plans for interception of smugglers are frequently known ahead of time by the Mexicans. And English maintained he is convinced there is deep "infiltration" of U.S.

agencies by organized crime. English also said he was told that a cabinet-level Mexican official is deeply involved in drug smuggling. English remarked that feuding among U.S. agencies the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Customs and the U.S. Immigration and.

Naturalization Service has led to confusion and duplication of For example, he said, each agency has its own computer for storing information on suspected drug offenders, "but the computers are not coordinated they don't talk to each other any more than the people do." He said intense competition among agencies for tax dollars has led to petty jealousy, precluding cooperation on projects, English said he would seek legislation establishing a joint committee of all drug enforcement agencies to "sit down together and work as a team, rather than continue their bickering. About 200,000 pounds of opium' is produced in Mexico annually, enough to make 20 tons of heroin, English said. Last year, the U.S. government confiscated approximately 200 pound ol heroin, he said. influence.

Other individual components moving downward were lower wholesale prices key commodities, a smatler volume of orders for new factories and facilities, lower stock prices and a slower growth in assets held by. consumers and business. The layoff rate in manufacturing was unchanged at 1.3 per. cent. Two other components of were not available: in time co.mput- 'ation.

The over-all increase in the index was a relatively modest one, but the upturn was reinforced by rises in two companion indicators. The upward movement of all three in tandem is taken as a solid sign of a healthier economy in the months ahead. The index of coincident indicators, which tend to move in sequence with the economy as a whole, were up nine-tenths of a per cent last month after a 1 per cent drop in January. And the Jagging indicators, which move in the wake of general economic trends and signa! how strong the general trends are, were up nine-tenths of a per cent after a two-tenths of a per cent rise in January. The composite of leading indicators for Feburary stood at 127.5 per cent of its 1967 average, representing an increase of 4.5 per cent over the same month a year earlier.

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