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Peninsula Weather Fair through Sunday, with coastal fog extending inland night and morning. Cooler inland. Low 55. Highs 63-70 coastal, 70-79 inland. REFLATE SAN MATED TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER THE ADVANCE-STAR Vol.

75, No. 214 7 Sections 96 Pages SAN MATEO CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1975 Stock, Bond Summaries (SeePages 11, 28, 29) 1 348-4321 15c PER PER MONTH Incident Spurs Call for Controls Ford Retains Faith WASHINGTON (UPI) Gerald Ford, who stared up the muzzle of a loaded .45 for one horrifying moment Friday, says he'll go right on cam- paigning'among the people despite that brush with death. The President flew back to Washington Friday evening from Sacramento, where his accused attacker -r Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromrae, a former disciple of mass murderer Charles Manson was jailed on charges of attempted murder with bail set atjnjnillion. Ford was so relaxed after the incident that he napped on the flight. Puffing his pipe and wearing a white sport shirt open at the neck, he chatted and laughed with Secret Service agents on Air Force One.

The President told his wife Betty and son Jack that his two-day trip to Seattle, Portland and Sacramento had been "great" except for the pistol incident, which he said should be regarded as "one individual's efforts to undercut the warmth we felt in California." Ford made it clear he will not knuckle under to fear. "In no way will this prevent me or preclude me from contacting the American people as I travel from one state to another," he told reporters three hours after the incident in Sacramento. There, as the President shook hands with a crowd near the state capitol building Friday morning. Miss Fromme raised a heavy Colt .45 automatic pistol at two-foot range. Witnesses saw Ford pale and recoil, ducking down as Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf lunged at the five-foot redhead, seized her gun and spun her to the ground.

The weapon never fired and police say there were at least two reasons for that. One was the speed and agility of Buendorf, who may have jammed his hand between the hammer and the firing pin. The other was that Miss Fromme perhaps from carelessness, perhaps from ignorance -had failed to cock the gun properly. Police found four bullets in the maga- (Af Imerphoto) WELCOME HOME President Ford kisses First Lady Betty Ford outside the White House Friday night. zine, but none in the firing chamber.

Ford recalled later: "I saw a hand coming up from behind several others in the front row, and obviously there was a gun in that hand. "I was very thankful to the Secret Service for doing a superb job." Ford delivered his speech prepared in advance to the California legislature on the menace of crime in the streets. Back in Washington, Betty Ford said assassination a are "something you just have to live with." Ford is one of the least security-conscious presidents in recent times, He seldom passes a crowd without plunging in for handshakes, and he is likely to do the same Friday and Saturday when he is scheduled to appear i the St. Louis, and Dallas, areas. The following week he has another California visit scheduled.

The attempted assassination is likely to start a new congressional debate on gun control, but it is already clear that there will still be opposition to controls. Three congressmen -Reps. Peter Rodino, D- N.J.; John M. Murphy, N.Y., and John Conyers D-Mich. were quick to call for gun controls after the incident.

Rodino, who as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee would handle gun control legislation, said the threat to Ford had shown there was "a desperate need" for new laws. "We cannot afford to a i any longer," he said. "Perhaps the opponents of gun control legislation will soon become tired of losing their nation's most cherished leaders to an assassin's bullet," Murphy said. Conyers, who heads a House i that is studying gun control, said the incident "reinforces the need for it." Rep. Robert E.

Bau- man, an opponent of gun control legislation, said he has not changed his mind despite what happened in Sacramento. "There is not neces- a i a correlation between gun control and the actions of fanatics," Bauman said afterward. Sen. Howard Baker, R- said: "It reminds all of us in politics that this is a high risk job." Betty Ford probably expressed the views of most public officials' wives when she said, "It's something you learn to live with." Sen, Edward M. Kennedy, whose two fell to assassins' bullets, said (See Page 10, Column 1) Mass Arrests In Louisville Busing Riot LOUISVILLE, Ky.

(DPI) Police, backed by 800 Kentucky National Guardsmen ordered on duty a few hours earlier, made wholesale arrests this morning of anti-busing demonstrators arriving to assemble for a march outlawed by Mayor Harvey Sloans in this riot- torn city. Ironically, police loaded the handcuffed demonstrators onto yellow school buses to be taken to a booking and arraignment center. "They're arresting them as soon as they arrive in their cars at the area where they were supposed to assemble for a march," said a a i newsman at the scene. Preliminary reports indicated that at least 50 persons were arrested, added to the 192 taken into custody Friday night and early today in disorders that raged for nearly six hours near three suburban schools. At least 50 persons were injured in that violence, including 15 policemen--5 of them hospitalized.

The total arrested in connection with antibusing disturbances was raised to nearly 300 since the nation's largest new racial school busing plan went into effect Thursday under an order July 30 by U.S. District Judge James F. Gordon. The mayor announced at 5:30 a.m. a ban on demonstrations and parade permits in the city "until further notice." Earlier, Concerned Parents, the largest anti- busing group here, voluntarily called off plans for a mass march scheduled in downtown Louisville this morning.

"We can not and will not allow this disruption and disorder to continue," Sloane said in a prepared statement. "This violence has resulted in senseless injury to innocent persons, the burning and destruction of buildings, school buses and other property, and the disruption of peace and order throughout the community for responsible citizens. Jefferson County Judge Todd Hollenbach, the county's chief executive officer, said this morning that 120 Guardsmen from two local units would be used initially in assisting police and some 375 state troopers. He said one guardsman and two policemen would be assigned to each of 33 vehicles for patrol duty with additional guardsmen on stand-by alert. Hollenbach said the city's ban against demonstrations would not extend to the suburban area under his jurisdiction, adding that county police would not interfere with peaceful gatherings.

All of the overnight violence was concentratedjn the suburban (See'Page 10, Col. 1) Heavy Toll Expected in Turkey Quake ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A strong earthquake hit a wide area of eastern Turkey at noon today and officials here said heavy property damage and casualties were feared. Officials from Turkey's Bureau of said they had no immediate specific information from the earthquake area but early reports of extensive property damage indicated there could also be considerable loss of life. The earthquake registered 6.8 on the Richter Scale and was felt in 14 eastern and southeastern provinces. Officials said it hit hardest in the eastern town of Elazig and the southeastern Province of Diyarbakir.

Elazig's provincial Gov. Fahrettin Turan said the town of Palu in his province seemed to have suffered the worst damage. The semiofficial Anatolia News Agency reported from Diyarbakir that four persons were killed in the nearby town of Lice and more deaths were feared there and in towns of Hani and Kulp. Communications were down between the provincial capitals and. small towns in Elazig and Diyarbakir, the agency said.

The Richter Scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus, a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. Farm Workers Cast First Votes 'There She Is. Tonight ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) "My daddy started humming the Miss America tune when I was 3, and we've been i it ever since," says Miss Montana, Diana Lynn Pacini. The 20-year-old pianist from Great Falls, who hopes to become her state's first Miss America, won the talent trophy at the pageant's third and final preliminary show Friday nieht. The swimsuit honors went to Miss California, Janet Jay Carr, a 21-year-old brunette with a low estimation of her own figure, which on paper reads 36-24-36. "My figure's not good enough for a two-piece suit in competition," she admitted. "I say, "Thank God for one-piece On the previous nights Miss Ohio, Susan Kay Banks; and Miss Massachusetts, Cynthia Carpenter, were the talent winners, while Miss Rhode Island, Debra Jean Cusick; and Miss Arkansas, Paula Denise Roach, were the swimsuit titlists.

Goncalves Out in Portugal LISBON, Portugal (AP) Pro-Communist Gen. Vasco Goncalves has been forced from power after a bitter six-week campaign by political and military moderates that edged Portugal close to civil war. The move opened the way for formation of a broader-based government. A communique issued by President Francisco da Costa Gomes Friday night after a stormy meeting of officers at a military base in Tancos, 80 miles north of here, said Goncalves was expelled from the Revolutionary Council, the group of officers that represents the. highest authority in Portugal.

In an apparent face-saving gesture, the communique said Goncalves voluntarily relinquished his appointment as chief of staff of the armed forces, announced by Costa Gomes a week after he said a a i replaced as premier. No reason was given for Goncalves' dismissal. The communique merely said the council had been "reconstituted" and listed the new members. The move represented a victory for moderate officers (AP LowrphoTo) REMOVE GONCALVES FROM POWER Portuguese President Francisco da Costa Gomes, right, and Premier-designate Vice Adm. Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, left, walk to an emergency armed forces congress Friday in Tancos.

and political leaders who had cleared for Goncalves' suc- tried to roll back widespread cessor as premier, Vice Communist influence in For- Adm. Jose Pinheiro de Azev- tugal. edo, to form a cabinet with The way apparently was the possible participation of the nation's two largest parties the Socialists and Centrist Popular Democrats. They pulled out of the coalition cabinet in July to protest Goncalves' increasingly leftist leadership, touching off weeks of anti-Communist riots in the north. The two parties, which won about two-thirds of the vote in last spring's constitutional assembly elections, had rejected any role in a new government unless Goncalves was completely removed from power.

Before the communique was issued, top leaders of the regime were seen in an angry snouting match. Newsmen saw Costa Gomes and other officers beside an open window in a mess hall, shouting, gestyuring and tugging at each other lapels. Their words could not be heard. Goncalves, who symbolized the Communist attempt to set up a Soviet style dictatorship in this North Atlantic Treaty Organization member state, fought a stubborn rearguard action against his anti-Communist fellow officers. At one time, he warned them that 5,000 armed Communist civilians would take CASTROVILLE, Calif.

(UPI) Fifteen farm workers walked into a tiny shed on an artichoke ranch Friday night and made labor history by casting secret ballots in California's first state-super- farm union representation election. The ballots immediately were sealed by a representative of the Agriculture Labor Relations Board. However, there was little doubt about the outcome. When the election was over the voters shook hands with observers from Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers Union and several chanted victory slogans. Chavez had long contended field hands would join his union rather than the rival Teamsters Union if growers allow free elections.

The election at the Molera Agricultural Group ranch just outside the "artichoke capital of the world" was the first of hundreds to be held throughout the state in the next few weeks. There were 14 others, scheduled for today, several in the lush "salad bowl" of Central California. The results will decide union representlllation for about 20,000 workers at nearly 200 farms. The elections are being conducted by the new agricultural labor board which was created when Gov. G.

Brown Jr. pushed a farm labor bill through the legislature this year in an effort to end the violence, property damage and bitterness in California's annual multi-billion dollar agriculture industry. The Teamsters had asked that 13 packing shed employes who work for a firm associated with the Molera ranch be allowed to vote in Friday's election. The 13 were brought to the ranch prior to the balloting and waited until state representative H. Thomas Caldwell Jr.

decided they would not be allowed to vote. Caldwell sealed the lot box and it was taken to Salinas where it will stay under lock and key until a court allows the ballots to be counted. The Teamsters were on the Castroville ballot but the unions were not contesting each other in the Kern County elections. The Teamsters were the only union on the ballot at the Dalton Richardson ranch and the UFW was uncontested at the M. Caratan ranch.

In all elections workers are given a choice of no union. Spokesmen for both unions admitted they were picking and choosing ranches where (See Page 10, Column 1) Gen. Vasco Goncalvw to the streets to keep him in power. But the Communists and their allies who polled 18 per cent in the April elections showed no inclination to do so. They failed to react Aug.

2 when Goncalves was ousted as premier and they greeted his removal from the Revolutionary Council with equal indifference. News Index COUNTY-WIDE Bicentennial workshop planned. 'Page 23. Classified 11-22 Sports 25-27 Comics 32 Stocks 11, 28,29 Editorial 30 TV, Weekend Features 31 Theaters 8,9 Weather 5 Obituaries 11.

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