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Mm fee December 24. 1i76 Pccpb Today's briefing digest ol worn The Tribune's local, national, and foreign Reuters. New York Tines. Knight HsnnnnnsannaMakaaw.eaFI Motropowten Bilandic gaining votes Midwest Thompson talks finances GOVERNOR-ELECT James Ttoap-son says he hopes to increase cash reserves and put Illinois in a more attractive financial position in the coming year. He did not elaborate, but his budget 'director-designate, Robert Mandeville, earlier had told The Tribune that be predicts a revenue increase of about per cent Page It ROCK ISLAND.

IIL-J. Neal Nielsoa. 43, of Mexico, Mo-, has been named city manager of Rock Island, it was announced Thursday. He will assume his duties in February, replacing the retiring city manager, Ray Botch. Nielsoa haf been administrative officer under Missouri Gov.

Christopher "Kit" Bond, who wu defeated in the November election. INDIANOLA, la. Michelle Palmer, the 12-year-old girl whose case prompted the International Organization of Rainbow for Girls to drop its whites-only rule, says there would have been no controversy in the first place if things had been left up to the girls who voted to have her Join their ter here. As it wss, all 136 of Iowa's Rainbow chapters severed ties with the national group before the rules were changed. CLEVELAND A twin-engine plane crashed in the suburb of North Royal-ton Thursday night, killing Vincent Block, of Rockford, 111.

Police said the ptyot. about 50, was alone and crashed when both engines failed. They said Block owned Vincent's Flight Service in Rockford and apparently was carrying cargo. Handing out toys beside the saint of Christmas, Princess jGraCJ of Monaco presents gifts to the children of Monte Carlo in Jf? royal palace. Among those receiving her largesse is eded by "obe Mcvea and jew Nation Ar WilllUlH JoseDh Califano talks to reporters after selection as HEW.

Carter ronnds out his Cabinet' PLAINS. Ga. Prwident-elecfr Carter named Joseph A. Califano Jr. to bead the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Thursday, rounding out his Cabinet with what observers con-( sider mostly "establishment insiders." Califano, 45, was an adviser to former Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

Carter also named Theodore Sorensen, a former Kennedy aide, to head the CIA. James Schleaingervwas named assistant to the President for energy. -fj: Page 1 ATLANTA Cyras Vance and I two others among President-elect Carter's Cabinet-level appointees are members of private social clubs that bar members on the basis of sex or race, the' Atlanta Journal reported Thursday. Vance, Carter's choice for secretary of state, is a member of the board of directors of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. The other, appointees named are Harold Brown, secretary of defense-designate, and Charles W.

Duncan chosen' to be deputy defense secretary. Pages ATLANTA Police have confirmed that a rapist is terrorizing Grady Hospital's Rape Crisis Center. The man has- assaulted one of the center's staff members twice and has sent Grady Hospital a list of his intended victims, all workers at the Rape Crisis Center. The first attack occurred at the center Nov. 20 and was followed by a second attack outside the girl's home Dec.

11. IB- WASHINGTON FBI agents Thursday found boxes of secret documents in the home of a former employe of the Central Intelligence Agency who had been arrested on charges of trying to sell classified information to the Soviet Union. The FBI said the documents were found in the $100,000 home of Edwin Moore, who was arrested Wednesday. Paget NEW YORK A new, battery-operat- ed, pocket calculator-sized device costing $49 can predict with near-perfect accuracy the days when a woman can become pregnant, its developers say. If it lives up to expectations, the device could virtually eliminate the need for commonly-used methods of birth control such as the pill or intrauterine device IUD.

The 'device measures changes in body temperature and voltage. MIAMI A passenger, angry because all the restrooms on a Delta Air Lines Boeing 727 were occupied, yelled "I gotta go!" wielded a knife, and threatened to "take over" the plane, police reported The traveler, identified as William Edward White, 44, apparently didn't try to enter the jet's cockpit and surrendered without resistance when met by police when the plane landed at Miami International Airport. Page 3 V. 111 A HI ate imri Mm Press, united Wra. New York New, and Star.

II World Spain fights protestors MADRID Tamaali ef pretaters marched through downtown Madrid battling police Thursday night during pro-CommunM demonstrations against the Jailing of Communist leader. Santiago Carrillo sad seven of his aides. Police fired rubber bullets and used smoke grenades to disperse the crowds. Carrillo, 62, entered the country 10 months ago from aa exile that began after the 1836-1939 Civil War and faces charges of illegal entry into Spata and being head of an -Uegal or' janiiation. Paget TOKYO-Takee Fnkada.

71. aa eea- nomics expert and veteran politician, was elected Japan's prime minister on Friday. The vote naming the conservative leader of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party 7 P) was taken in the Diet parlia: He succeeds Takeo Miki, who resigned in the wake of his party's embarrassing defeat in recent national elections. Page JERUSALEM Saying uy be can provide the unifying spirit the nation needs, Abba Eban, former Israeli foreign challenged Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for leadership of the ruling Labor Party. In a TV Interview, the scholarly Eban warned that unless the Labor Party revamps its leadership, it is bound to' lose the next general election, expected in mid-May.

NEW DELHI Prime Mlaiwer Indira Gandhi Thursday lashed out at India's pro-Moscbw Communists, her political allies since 1969, for attacking her son, Sanjay, 90, as a reactionary. The attack on Sanjay, she said, "is definitely an attack on me," because "he San-Jay Is not going to be the prime minister or the president or anything like -this." PRAGUE Tfce coffin and Jewels of Bohemian King Premysl Ota-kar II, killed in battle in the 13th Century, have been found by archeologists working in Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral. A erown wu on the king's head, and a sceptre and gold apple were in his crossed hands. He was killed at the battle of the Moravian Fields in 1278.

CONSUEGRA, Spain This charming town, with its crumbling castle ruins and nine white windmills, was the only place in Spain that voted "no" to the proposal of King Juan Carlos to hold free elections next year for a new, TrtbttMMw two-chamber parliament. However, the townspeople, convinced that they had voted "yes" along with the rest of Spain, but that their ballots purposely were miscounted, rioted until the vote count wu annulled. Page 6 BEIRUT An antitank grenade-ex- ploded Thursday outside the offices of the-independent newspaper An Nahar, killing the man who carried it and a Syrian soldier, and wounding three other persons. The blast Recurred as par-liament was convened for its first post-Civil War session. Prime Minister Saltan Hess asked the legislators for special powers to rule the country by decree for the next six months.

tJi' Wilkin International. ALD. MICHAEL BKaaJlc UtfcL Mayor Daley's long-time friend and neAjbbor, appears to nave the votes to become interim mayor on Tuesday, when the council is scheduled to select aa acting mayor. Several aldermen and Democratic, leaders said Bilaadie made a deal with Aldermen Edward Vrdolyak 10th and Edward Burke 14th that win give him 3 to I votes more than the 25 be needs to win the post Page 1 ALTHOUGH AM. WDsoe Frest 34th declared himself acting Chicago mayor Thursday, City Hall leaders promptly disputed his claim and said he may even no longer be the city council's president pro tem.

Black city officials and community leaders lobbied throughout the day in City Hall alder-manic offices trying to get votes for Frost in Tuesday's council election of one of its members ai acting mayor. Ks-rV Page 1 -V- STATE Richard M. Daley, the son of Jhe late mayor, Thursday won unanimous approval from 11th Ward Democratic precinct captains to succeed his father as ward committeeman. Circuit Court Clerk Morgan Fin-ley, who was also considered a possible successor for the post, nominated the 34-year-old legislator. Page 3 THE HOUSE of Kahn, a North Michigan Avenue jewelry stare, wu robbed of an estimated $35,000 worth of diamond rings by two well-dressed gunmen, who handcuffed the jeweler, an aide, and a customer to a safe before fleeing.

1 Page DONALD 8. FREY, a disbarred Evanston attorney who was found guilty of forgery last month, has been sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. Criminal Court Judge Robert J. Collins also denied Prey's request to remain home for the holidays. A jury decided that Frey had bilked a Chicago widow out of $10,000 after her husband was killed, by forging her name on -an insurance check and depositing it in his personal bank account.

Page 1 THE MUSHROOMING race track messenger betting services in the city are facing a new roadblock with eight of them shut by police raids Wednesday. Ten persons were arrested on charges of transmitting gambling information by phone. Nine of the 10 were also charged with being keepers of bets and gambling houses. Police charge that the eight. were not opera -ing as messenger services which are supposed to take all bets to the track for placing.

Page 7 Trlbvnt Pint Silhr Gaoi A construction worker's breath stands out against the skyline Thursday as the wind chill factor hit 33 below zero. EIGHT PERSONS, Including four, policemen, were injured during a South Side apartment building fire. In another blaze, a fire captain rescued a 13-month-old girl from a burning building. j' -i-Pa8e' THE COOK COUNTY grand jury Investigating conditions in the county jail expects to finish its work next month, according to James Piper, an assistant state's attorney. The grand jury is checking reports of corruption by jail officials, brutality by guards, and lax conditions that permit some prisoners to mistreat others.

A FEDERAL JUDGE has been, asked to order the counting of 4,800 absentee ballots in Cook County that were not counted in the Nov. 2 election. Failure to count the votes violates the constitutional rights of 4,800 voters, it is charged in a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Friday: Partly sunoyi high in the low 30s. Friday night: Increasing cloudiness; low, 30 to 25.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy; chance of snow in the low 30s. Business STOCK PRICES wavered Thursday la ore-holiday trading. The Dow Jones industrial average closed with a gain of 1.08 points to 985.62. The Dow started the day with a gain, went into negative ground as a result of profit-talcing and then recovered again at the close. 0.2, p.

BIG FOUR car sales rose sharply in the middle 10 days of December, prompting Chrysler Corp. to revise its 1977 model year sales forecast upward to at least million units. In the 1976 'Calendar year sales of 8.3 million units are 21.3 per cent ahead of the 6.9 million a year ago. 2, p. INTERNATIONAL borrowing this year rose to a' record $78 billion, according to Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.

estimates. The Jump from the $61 million, borrowed through private mar kets in 1975, Came despite forecasts that borrowing would decline. While developing and industrialized countries increased their borrowing on world' markets, Communist nations borrowing was unchanged, the New York bank said. SALES OF NEW Eurobond Issues soared T4 per cent to a new high of about $13.5 billion this year, tome observers doubt the impressive performance will be repeated in 1977 if interest rates should rise. Eurobonds are securities issued by companies based in the United States and other nations that are sold in the'European market.

Sec. 2, p. I 1 THE INDUSTRIALIZED nations will escape recession in 1977, but inflation will ease only slightly and unemployment will go up, the Organization for "Economic Cooperation and Development said. Sec' 2, p. Sport stock 1555s market I Average at a I i-M glance r-.

t4- the show wu "the wblppmg fcf for aU the critics," whdj em-plained of ns glorified greed and commercialism, Hall said never reclly bctbered him and he's leaf- Giveaway mogul Monty Halt, makes his last "deal" on Tjy. ing because he's" tired and Jusf wants to lie on a beach for a while. "In 3.S00 shows, never once have we had to edit a show bK, cause of a reaction from ftcoi- testant physically or orally," mil said at a quiet backstage party for, cast and crew. "The person haa never hurled an expletive wherr they've lost a car and got a pig; or anything like that. That's the love cf it.

The beautiful part about, the show is that the people lu.w always been so darned decent aiuC so warm. And underneath; those crazy costumes, there is i sal slice of America." "Once, many years ago, in theater off Broadway, I tried to-give the best performance of my; life in a little play about the second coming of Christ. The! New York critics were unanimously brutal in their reaction," Dav CaiVadlne, says in an open letter published as a full page ad. in the" New York Times. "The play closed in one night, and I more less resolved never to give of ray- self so freely again." But says, he's found a way; to be himself and be popular as Woody Guthrie in the new movie4 "Bound for Glory." This week he; was named best actor of 1976 by the National Board of Review Motion Pictures for the "Maybe the critics are getting hip-per.

Maybe I'm getting better the ad says. "I just want to than. everyone for the second chance to get out there with my real, Now, perhaps, I can finally get eft. with the work I was cut out This will be my 19th year in show business, and though there were; some sunny seasons, most of has been empty and cold. Mi exist up here on this silly stiver, screen only to serve you, the audi ence.

And more or less thumb nose at the moguls and satyrs whs-prey on you and me; an almost -impossible position to maintain be- cause of the old where-your-breaq'' is-buttered story, but I try." Oliver Cromwell I i i- iM tat mm- Albert and princess stepnanie. U.S. Atty. Samael K. Skmaer broke the thumb of one of his top female assistants recently! while making a pass at her a pan with a football.

Skinner, known to enjoy tossing the pigskin around once in a while, was doing so in the hall-. way near his 15th floor federal building office when Assistant U.S. Atty. liana D. Rovner.

happened by. She fid she felt left out because Sam was just playing with the boys, so she asked him to ton the ball to her. He did, it caught her thumb, and she ended up with a hairline fracture and a splint. If Skinner harbors a secret wish to become a bruiser for the Bears, it would be no wonder. As a Republican appointee to a federal Job with a Democratic President about to take office.

Skinner's future is far from assured. After his assistants roasted him at an office Christmas party the other day, Skinner got up to speak. "Welcome to the last he began. Every four years since the inauguration of Dwtght Elsenhower, Joseph Fink and bis son Harry Fink of the National Bird Control-Corp. have flown off to Washington to prevent the city's native birds from raining on the Presidents' parade.

They kept the crit-tors away, with tLeir own secret formate, "Roost-No-More," sprayed on the capital's trees. But no more. The cost-conscious Career corps has told the Finks their services won't be needed for the January inauguration of Jimmy Carter and Walter. Mondale. "We're eliminating the general stands along the parade route except for limited stands for the diplomats and political officials, so we don't need to bother with the birds," inaugural cochairman Bar-nyl Tirana told Women's Wear Daily.

Says Fink: "I didn't vote for 'Jimmy Carter, and I don't think my son did. But I can tell you one thing: People sitting in those stands are going to have to bring umbrellas with them." We reported not long ago that erstwhile radical Jerry Rubin was planning to start a newspaper in Los Angeles because he knew what readers there really wanted. But no newspaper ever appeared, and the would-be publishing magnate has departed LA for New York City. Rubin says he left because LA natives are "too much into their own thing," while New Yorkers are "electrifying." A friend told New West magazine, however, "If you want to know the truth, I don't think Jerry could raise the money for the paper." It's all over. After nearly 3,800 shows, $35 million in prizes, 20,000 kisses from contestants, and untold millions of screams, yelps, and Instances of on-the-air assinih- ity, TV's "Let's Make a Deal" is ending its run.

Emcee Monty Hall, the crass Santa Claus, taped his last show in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel this week, giving away two cars worth $12,000 in the "Big Deal" but no booby prizes like live pigs or old socks, as had been the custom. Though Almanac On this date: Dec. 24, 1524, Vasco da Garaa, the Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route to India, died. la Edinburgh Castle in Scot-'land surrendered to the forces of Oliver Cromwell la lsoi, American frontiersman Kit Carson was born. Ia 1814, the United States and signed the Treaty of Ghent-in Belgium, ending the War of 1812.

Ia 1885, a secret order called the Ku Klux Klan was organized in Pulaski, NORMAL, IU. Illinois State University announced the hiring of Walter A. "Wally" Moore as the school's new foot-b a 1 1 coach i Wednesday. Twenty-two hours later, athletic directon Warren Schmakel announced Moore's resignation for "extreme personal reasons." Sec. 2, p.

1 CHARLIE FINLEY, owner of the Oakland A's, testified Thursday in his against baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn that he offered huge raises and multi-year contracts to Joe Rudi, Rollie Fingers, and other stars who played out their option with his club. See. 2, p. 1 THE BULLS outlasted the Atlanta Hawks 101-95 for then seventh victory in a row at the Stadium with 7-2 Artls Gil-; more and stringy Mickey Johnson taking the Bulls by the, horns in the fourth quarter. Sec.

2, p. THOUGH MARQUETTE has lost, both games since he announced he'll retire at the end of the season, Coach Al McGuire it confWent his team will improve. "Let's not have the funeral yet," be warns. (See.2.p.r -THE HAWKS and their kios played beat to Santa Claus In the Stadium while Clare Reay, wife of ex-coach Billy, said: "I think it finally bit him." See. 2, p.

1 i'ih1 Ia 1U, President Franklin Roosevelt announced that Gen! DwicfS EiiMuouwer wvuw commaiw luutu lurccs ine Cuming mvaSKO JLf, In 1988, the American Apollo 8. astronauU sent back to rij'. Christmu Eve prayer for peace ah they orbited the t-v. In 1975, Pope Paul VI ended the 1978 Roman Catholic Holy Yea iST ealing the Holy Door of St. Peter's BaaiUca in Rome.

Bulls' Norm Van Lier (2) and John Laskowskl wrestling with Atlanta's John Brown for loose ball in first period of Bulls' 101-95 win in Stadium Thursday..