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University of Oregon Library. KCI "tfLast Year It Was 6 Per Cent Crime Budget Defeated while only 22 had a decline in 1970, he said. The most significant change in the three months, said Kleindienst, occurred in the six cities with more than a million population. In the first quarter of this year, the number of serious crimes in those cities rose 6 per cent, one half of the 1971 increase of 12 per cent. The report divides serious crime into two categories violent, which includes murder, forcible rape, robbery and ag- gravated assault, and property, which includes burglary, larceny $50 and over and auto theft Violent crime, which makes up about 13 per cent of the total index offenses in the crime 2 per cent in the first quarter of 1972, compared to a 13 per cent increase during the same WASHINGTON (AP) Serious crime in the nation during the first three -months of this year rose only 1 per cent, the lowest increase in 11 years, the -Justice Department announced today.

The rate of increase was 6 per cent a year ago, and 13 per cent in 1970. Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst, in releasing the figures from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for the months -JanuaryJhrough March, also said, that 1 80 of the cities reported reductions in serious crime in the first three months of 1972.

In 1971, 59 cities showed a decrease, The nationwide crime statistics are compiled by voluntary reports from 6,068 local, county and state law enforcement agencies. Corvallis Gazette-1 By Robert Fink Of The Gazette-Times Corvallis residents broke their lone sllenceon the city's fiscal problems" Tuesday, voicing a strong "no" against increased property taxes to pay for city services. Voters turned down a proposed $389,481 tax increase 2,337 to 1,169. Although only 18 per cent of the registered voters in Corvallis took part, it was one of the largest turnouts for a special election. Corvallis Mayor Cecil Barker said today budget reductions, including closure of.

the swimming pool, would be carried out as indicated before the election. "I feel compelled to follow the vote of the people which rejected these services," Barker said. However, he said the determination of the exact cuts and when they would take place will be left to City Manager C. Dean Smith. "We're asking him to operate the city within the means available," Barker said.

Smith is in Washington state this week taking part in a personnel management seminar. In addition to closure of the swimming pool, other reductions expected include reduced hours at the library, elimination CORVALLIS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. of the small animal zoo in Avery Park, elimination of the city's street tree program, a reduction in street cleaning and maintenance, elimination of a "substandard housing-program- and numerous others. Barker termed the reduction of city services "unfortunate" but said he thought residents were voicing their objection to using the property tax to finance city government. The city's budget review committee held numerous hearings on the proposed budget, drawing little public comment.

No one spoke at a hearing on the budget before the city council Monday night. Barker said he will be conferring with Terence Elder, chairman of the budget committee, to discuss further deliberations by that body. The budget committee voted to meet following the budget election to consider development of a long-range plan for financing the city's operations. Barker said residents of Corvallis and city officials gained through Tuesday's election. "This gave them an opportunity to see the true costs of providing these services," he said, "and it gave us the opportunity to alert the people to the distribution of their tax dollar." Even with defeat of the tax increase Tuesady, the city will levy a property tax of $1,130,790 this year.

This levy is expected to reduce the city's tax rate per $1,000 of assessed property value from $4.62 to $4.52. Approval of the tax increase would VOL. 65, NO. 63 'I fc. ft mi have upped the tax rate to an estimated On lhe Inside $1,000 Tuesday total voter turnout of .3,506 The Philomath School Board last night was topped in recent special elections cut its (tax levy by $70,000.

Page only by toe 4,263 taking part in the March systems development charge The Corvallis School Board welcomes vote and on a joint city-Thomas Wogaman, new superln- -county government building in 1967. tendent for District 509J, who 111 1961 S.586 voters turned down a replaces Clarence Kron. Page 21 0011(1 iue for the swimming pool and Russian Boris Spassky seems to be Tuesday's special results: beaded for a win over American Yes No Bobby Fischer in their first chess City hall 270 644 match Page 2 Garfield School 349 811 Harding School 550 882 Three persons are killed in violence in Total 1,169 2,337 Northern Ireland. Page 10 The Paris peace talks are scheduled to resume Thursday. Page 10 AnnLanders 23 -VafacC Ponders Third-Party Try Corvallis Living 7 Crossword Puzzle .....23 MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) George Editorials ..4 C. Wallace's campaign manager said Entertainment 22 today the chance that the Alabama Happenings 22 governor will make another third-party Health Column presidential race "seems to be getting Horoscope .....32 strange and stronger every minute." Sports Charles S. Snider told newsmen a final Today's Market .........16 decision will be made soon after the Tv Schedule 26 Democratic National Convention. Weather 2 Meanwhile, he said the Alabama What Comliis i Cooks governor's name will be put up for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight as planned. cible rape up 17 per cent versus 2 per cent last year, robbery down 2 per cent, while in the first quarter of 1971 it was up 17 per cent.

Aggravated assaults rose 5 per cent compared to a 7 per cent increase in the first three months of 1971. Suburban police agencies reported a 4 per cent Increase in serious crime which was slightly lower than the 5 per cent last year and substantially lower than the 18 per cent rise in Crime in rural areas increased 8 per cent in the first quarter, compared to a 8 -per cent increase in 1971 and a 19 per cent increase in 1970. imes SINCE 1862 Crime Is Up In Portland PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) While serious crime increased just one per cent nationally in the first quarter of 1972, serious crime was up in the Portland, metropolitan area. Twelve murders were reported, compared to five for the same period a year ago.

There were 421 robberies, compared with 409, 278 aggravated assaults, compared with 208 and 33 forcible rapes, compared with 31. Men Outside McGovern HotelNabbed MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Two men were taken into custody today by Secret Service agents and the FBI outside Sen. George McGovern's hotel. Two pistols were taken from their car.

Both men were black and wore jeans. They were taken into custody shortly after McGovern concluded a meeting on the 17th floor in the penthouse suite of the Doral BeachwHotel with six Democratic governors. The men apparently arrived in a small sports car with Michigan license plates. The weapons were taken from their vehicle when authorities searched it, a man who identified himself as an FBI agent said. Their names were not immediately available.

j. Inside the car were several scraps of note paper and printed literature dealing with black nationalism. At least one of the two men was found inside the hotel. It was not immediately clear whether the second man was first seized inside or outside of the building. 70 from Ohio.

Jackson said he would keep at it, but added: "It's an uphill fight." McGovern's assured first-ballot strength is past the 1,509 votes needed to win. Some labor leaders who had supported Humphrey, including President I. W. Abel of the United Steelworkers Union, threw their support to. Sen.

Henry M. Jackson of Washington. Besides McGovern, Wallace and Jackson, supporters announced nominating speeches would be made for former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy; Reps.

D. Mills and Shirley Chisholm and former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford. The party also decided that, starting with 1976, a woman will preside over every other national convention. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, a black California i-state legislator and congressional hopeful, is vice chairman of this year's Askew, who delivered the convention's keynote speech, was interrupted with a loud roar when he said that funds needed to meet the nation's medical needs were being used for "a war that should have ended" a long time ago.

His speech also was filled with praise for what he called the party's open processes and criticism of in President Nixon's Republican administration. McGovern's forces had given dramatic demonstration early Tuesday in the California credentials fight that they had control of the convention. Later in the morning, Humphrey became the first of his major rivals to drop from the race. Tears brimming in his eyes, Humphrey abandoned a 12-year quest for the White House, saying his name would not be presented when presidential nominations are made tonight. Several hours later, Muskie, the onetime front-runner whose fall in the Jong primary campaign paralleled McGovern's rise, dropped out, too.

period in 1971. In the categories that make up violent crime, murder was up 2 per cent compared to 1971's rise of 11 per cent; for JULY 12, 1972 10 CENTS I Vvv it 'f 1 Tuesday In a relaxed atmosphere after Monday night's sharp credentials battles, Wallace provided a dramatic highlight with an appeal for far-ranging tax reform and a denunciation of "the senseless asinine busing of little school children." But Wallace's appeals were doomed to failure as the convention worked to approve a platform, tailored largely to the liberal views of McGovern. Wallace, with a few hundred delegates, vowed to stay in the race. Sun. Henry M.

Jackson of Washington claimed a minimum of 450 delegates, in- eluding about 85 from Pennsylvania and for a diversity of ideas, giving the students a broader outlook and a broader range of possible solutions. What are some of the problems of minorities? Perhaps the" major one is that minorities feel the media aren't giving enough or sometimes any coverage to events of importance to them, especially on the national scale. Part of the problem, they said, is that there are few ininority newsmen. Anglo newsmen usually aren't enough aware of minority programs or leaders to report on them. And part of the problem is prejudice on the part of the television station or newspaper management, the students said.

The course has aroused an interest in journalism for many of the students, and according to the guest speakers, that's the most effective way of changing the media via infiltration by employment. Hardhat Against Bright Light Don Perry, a construction worker and Democratic delegate Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The session was in its from Brockton, sleeps in the shade of his hardhat a few eleventh hour when the photo was made. It was adjourned at 6: minutes before adjournment of the convention's longest session 22 a.m., setting a U.S. political record of sorts.

(AP) McGovern MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen. George McGovern, assured of the platform he sought and a first-ballot victory tonight in the Democratic presidential balloting, considered a list of potential running mates today. Aides said he still plans to ask a reluctant Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy to join the ticket. Weary delegates had barely 12 hours off after the longest convention session in the history of either party before tonight's climactic meeting at which McGovern was scheduled to be the first candidate placed into nomination and, when the balloting took place, the, party's nominee. -afc. delegates voted to add a proposal to grant Indians first priority in allocation of federal surplus lands and strengthen the provision supporting a U.S. military commitment in Europe and the Mediterranean to deter Soviet pressure against Israel.

By voice vote, the convention shouted down eight proposals, ranging from endorsement of capital punishment and public-school prayers to a constitutional amendment barring busing, despite a plea by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace. As the convention deliberated through a second marathon night session in getting stories about their special activities and concerns published or broadcast. And each of their experiences has been different, so each sees a different way of solving the problems.

One non-minority student explained the situation as sometimes being frustrating. Because of their diverse experiences, each minority group sees things, a little differently. The blacks have one side, the Chicanos another and the Indians still another. Even though each side is legitimate, sometimes they fail to see the other groups' side, too, she said. Sometimes during especially frustrating sessions, some of the students will walk out.

But no one has stayed away mad. Later in 'the afternoon they'll return, anxious to hear more ideas. That's the beauty of the class, according to the students. The diversity of the class members themselves accounts Minorities Find Media Frustrating Connecticut and Florida Gov. Reubin Askew.

The Democratic National Convention, meanwhile, stayed in session until 6:22 a.m. EDT in the longest continuous session in history of either party before shouting its approval of a platform that mirrors McGovern's views in calling for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina and supporting busing to eliminate segregation and to improve educational quality. Lengthy, roll-call votes beat back proposals to establish a $6,500 guaranteed income for a family of four and to introduce an abortion plank. The Everett Parker, head of the Office of Communication for the United Church of Christ, both told of discrimination in their areas and of what they're doing to combat it Ancil Payne, president of Seattle's KING Broadcasting will speak later -n4he session.

Albert Kramer, director of the Citizens Communications Center, Washington, who has been in the forefront providing ethnic minorities access to broadcast media, is also scheduled to speak. During the afternoons, the students learned broadcasting techniques how to plan, direct and produce television programs and even produced and aired two programs over the campus tv station. But some of the most enlightening sessions were discussions among the students themselves. There are three different ethnic minority groups enrolled and each has experienced problems in gaining access to the media Kennedy was clearly McGoverns top choice despite repeated statements he is unavailable. A close personal friend of Kennedy, Sen.

John V. Tunney of California, told reporters after talking with him by phone that he thinks it highly unlikely Kennedy would accept. He added he expects Kennedy to fly here from Hyannis Port, Thursday to appear at the convention with the nominee. McGovern's aides said that others under consideration include: United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock; Sens. Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri and Abraham A. Ribicoff of Dorn, journalism professor; Fred Cervantes, assistant professor of political science, and Gary Tiedeman, assistant professor of sociology. But the real learning comes from a combination of prominent speakers who are "in the business" and from the students learning broadcasting techniques and actually producing their own tv programs. There are 14 students in the class, including six blacks, one Chicano, one Indian, two Upward Bound high school students and four Anglos. During the first four weeks, a number of professionals spoke to the students on the minority situation in journalism and ways to gain better news coverage.

Many of the professionals were minorities. Most of the others worked in programs to help minorities or were in management positions that decided minority hiring and programing policy. Mel Goode, ABC's first black television correspondent, and the Rev. By Connie Whitaker Of The Gazette-Times Sometimes it's frustrating. It makes them think, search their minds, examine their feelings, look back on past experiences and plan future actions.

But as one student said, itH probably end up one of the most valuable courses she's ever taken at Oregon State University. "It" is "Mass Media Utilization by Ethnic Minorities," an eightireek pilot workshop to train minority students in how to gain access to the media. Developed by Richard Weinman, OSU associate professor of speech communication, it is funded by an $11,670 IMPACT program grant from the Educational Coordinating Council. A team of OSU professors directs the course daily from 9 ajn. to noon and from 2 pjn.

to 5 pjn. In addition to Weinman, staff members include Harold.