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Journal Monday, March 11, 1974 Besieged by the press Mrs. Catherine Hearst, mother of kidnaped Patricia Hearst, is surrounded by reporters at her Hillsborough, home as she declares, "I know that while Patty's a captive she'll have to mutter all the words that are dictated by her captors. But I just pray God will give her enough strength that she will remain free in her heart." (UPI Photo) fape message Patricia complains about her parents FRANCISCO (UPI) The family of kidnaped heiress Patricia Hearst, 20, say they want time to study the lat- eSt communication from the Sym- b'ionese Liberation Army before replying. The SLA broke a 16-day silence during the weekend with a new tape recording and a new demand. -The kidnapers said the food giveaway program set up by Miss Hearst's father, newspaper editor Randoph A.

Hearst, did not meet their demands and was a "iham." jThey also said before Miss Hearst can be; released, two SLA members in custody awaiting trial for murder must be gjven broadcast time on nationwide television to tell how they, have been treated during confinement. prosecutor of the two accused men said their lawyers "must make the first move" on demand. Alameda Gpunty District Attorney Lowell Jensen said Sunday night that the defense at-. torneys for Joseph Remiro, 29, and Russell Little, 26, "are calling the shots." However, he said, the court would make the final decision. The SLA, which abducted Miss Hearst frbm her Berkeley apartment on Feb.

4, made the television demand in a tape recording received Saturday night by San Francisco radio station KSAN-FM. "Indifferent" Hearst, 20, also said that her firmly has displayed an "indifference to the poor" for not providing more money for the food program. tapes were the first word received by the Hearst family in 16 days. There were several inaudible sections. these were clarified Sunday night when the SLA left a copy in a small San Francisco movie theater.

'Hearst, who has already given away more than $1 million worth of food in an The Salina Journal P.O. Box 779 Zip Code 67401 Published five days a week and Sundays except Memorial, Independence and Labor Days, at 333 S. 4th, Salina, Kansas, by-- Salina Journal, Inc. I Whitley Austin, Editor and President Second-class postage paid at Salina. Kansas.

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Weekdays between 7:30 pm. Sunday between 8:00 am and 12:30 pm. effort to win the release of his daughter, said, "We're glad to hear her voice, to know that Patty's alive. We'll have to study it (the tape) before we make any reply." Remiro and Little were accused of the Nov. 6 slaying of Oakland School Superintendent Marcus A.

Foster. They had been held in San Quentin Prison for security reasons. On Friday they were transferred to the Alameda County Jail. While in San Quentin, they sent out a letter in which they said they wanted to appear on television to outline a proposal which could lead to the release of Miss Hearst. They refused to disclose details of the plan.

the Sunday night tape cleared up a statement by Miss Hearst about Steven Weed, 26, her fiance. It said: "Steven, what do you have to say? Where are the men who really care about what happens to me? Make Dad let you talk. You can't be silent." Miss Hearst also said she had been "written off" by her family. "I don't believe you're doing everything you can, everything in your power," she said in criticizing her family on grounds the food program was inadequate. In one of the SLA's earlier demands the family was asked to provide $70 of food for "every needy Californian." To this she said, "I know that you could have done what-the SLA asked, I mean I know that we have enough money.

The critical moment here is how would you feel if you had been written off the way I've been so far." $20,000 frees kidnaped woman ATLANTA (UPI) The manager of a K-Mart discount department store paid a reported $20,000 ransom Sunday after three masked men kidnaped his wife and threatened her life. The abduction marked the fifth threat on a K-Mart manager's family in less than three months. Similar incidents have taken place in Detroit and Nashville, Tenn. Patricia Daniel was found locked in the trunk of her own car after her husband, William, manager of a K-Mart in suburban Decatur, took $20,000 from the store safe and handed it over to a masked gunman at a drop point on a lonely country road. 3 charged in kidnap plot LOS ANGELES (AP) Three persons, including a former follower of the Charles Manson family and a convicted skyjacker, have been charged in an alleged plot to kidnap a foreign consul general.

The FBI said it planned to file a 22- page affidavit with a U.S. magistrate detailing an attempt to kidnap a consul general from one of eight foreign nations to bargain for the release of a convicted airline hijacker and another jailed man. Jailed pending arraignment today on a federal warrant charging conspiracy to kidnap was Maria Theresa Alonzo, 22, a former follower of Manson. Manson was convicted in the cult killing of actress Sharon Tate. Also charged in the.

conspiracy case were Garrett Brock Trapnell, 36, the convicted skyjacker, already jailed; and Robert Bernard Hedberg 37, already jailed on charges of unlawful flight and assaulting a policeman. Oil-bought favors caused shortages? GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (UPI) Three former and one current official of the. Nixon administration influenced three major decisions in fa vor of the oil industry in return for political and financial support dating back to the 1968 presidential campaign, the newspaper Newsday reported Sunday. In a copyrighted story signed by Bob Wyrick and Brian Donovan, Newsday said the key decisions "led to fuel shortages that could have been avoided and sent fuel prices soaring-- well before the Arab embargo." "Those decisions were made while the President's re-election campaign fund-raisers were collecting contributions of about $5 million--some of them oil companies and their executives," the newspaper said.

According to ex-Vice Presi- Pistol-whipped bishop loses sight in one eye HOUSTON (UPI) A 63-year-old Roman Catholic bishop, pistol whipped as he prayed in the chapel of his home, has permanently lost the sight in his left eye, according to his doctor. Dr. Richard Ruiz said Sunday Bishop John L. Morkovski's left eyeball was ruptured by a blow, probably from the barrel of a pistol. The physician said it would be impossible to restore sight in the eye.

Bishop Morkovski, also suffered multiple cuts and' bruises on the face and scalp, will remain in St. Joseph's for several days. Ruiz said his condition is satisfactory. Bishop John Morkovski Two gunmen came to Morkovski's door Friday asking to use his telephone to report an accident. They pistol whipped the bishop, took his wallet and his car keys.

Tax credits may replace welfare pay WASHINGTON (UPI) The administration is considering doing away with direct welfare payments to the poor and substituting income tax credits, HEW Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said Monday. The proposed elimination of cash payments to needy persons for housing assistance and other welfare aid was made in a prepared speech by Weinberger to the Economic Club of Detroit. It was one of the first public discussions by an administration official of alternatives under consideration to achieve the welfare reform favored by President Nixon. "One of the proposals to replace the welfare system we are considering would use the concepts embodied in the income tax system to effect income supplementation to those generally most in need," Weinberger said.

"This could be done by crediting individuals and families, who do not have sufficient income to exceed the standard deduction and personal exemptions allowed to them in the tax system, with a cash supplement" based upon these unused exemptions and deductions." Weinberger, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said that use of the income tax system as an income redistribution mechanism was one of several alternatives being considered by the administration. All would include work requirements for beneficiaries, he said. Cites advantages Weinberger said the tax reform he favors has numerous advantages over the many separate welfare programs administered by the federal government. Those include food stamps, housing, aid to families with dependent children; and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). SSI is a fully federalized welfare system for needy aged, blind and disabled persons which took effect Jan.

1. "Principally, (tax reform) gets money to those who need it directly and quickly, just as a tax cut puts money into the'economy directly," Weinberger said. "Secondly, it does not dictate to people what priorities they should have in their personal budgets." "Hub" Ulrich dies at 53 Streakers display imagination By The United Press International Streakers displayed more individuality Sunday, making up in imagination what they lacked in numbers. Sporting events were the popular showcases for the nude runners. The most spectacular appearance was by a 5-foot-4 brunette wearing only shin- high boots at the Atco, N.J., dragway.

She jumped a fence onto the track, ran to the starting line about 50 yards away and walked to the timing tower. Then she dashed to a waiting car which sped away. male streaker, wearing only shoes, ran onto the track just after the end of the $170,000 feature race at the Santa Anita horse racing track in Arcadia, and sprinted about 25 yards down the turf to the roar of 52,797 spectators. He jumped a fence, was wrapped in a blanket by his friends and disappeared into the crowd. Two naked men, wearing tennis shoes and ski masks, staged an impromptu race before a shocked crowd at the.

Portland (Ore.) Meadows horse racing track. The two men raced through mud in a chilly drizzle and sloshed across I 'Now you're sure this will get the youth the finish line before escaping through an exit. At the Van Nuys, airport Sunday, a man clad only in a helmet, face mask and combat boots ran in front of 700 Air Force reservists, including about 30 nurses, during roll call. The streaker stopped long enough to salute the commanding officer and then fled into a hangar. About 25 students, including three coeds, at UCLA ran naked between dormitories for four hours early Sunday, celebrating UCLA's basketball victory over Southern California Saturday night.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Hubert J. "Hub" Ulrich, Kansas highway director, was dead on arrival at a Topeka hospital Sunday night, apparently victim of a heart attack. Ulrich, ,53, was a former star football player and assistant coach at the University of Kansas. He joined the highway department in 1969 as superintendent of the motor vehicle department, was promoted in 1972 to personnel director and on Jan.

1, 1973, became assistant highway director when Richard Peyton retired. Ulrich was born Dec. 12, 1920, at Jennings, and graduated from high school at Quinter, Kan- He captained the K.U. football team in 1941 and was an all-Big Six Conference end for the Jayhawks. Ulrich coached football at Columbus, High School and was assistant football coach at K.U.

from 1950 to 1954. Survivors include his widow, Marian; a son, Dr. Kent Ulrich, of the home, and two brothers, Robert Ulrich, Denver, and Donald Ulrich, Ramsey, N.J. State charges to be dropped? WASHINGTON (AP) District Atty. Joseph Busch of Los Angeles County agreed today to seek dismissal of California burglary and conspiracy charges that had been placed in the Ellsberg case against John D.

Ehrlichman, David R. Young and G. Gordon Liddy. The perjury charge leveled against Ehrlichman would remain. The announcement was made jointly by Busch and special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski.

Ehrlichman and Liddy were indicted by a federal grand jury last week on federal conspiracy charges in the case. Young was not indicted by the federal grand jury in Washington. Busch agreed to drop the state charges as a result of the federal indictments. Do you need another employe? Hundreds of readers are looking through the classified ads every day. Phone 823-6363 and an ad-taker will help you.

dent Spiro T. Agnew, in an Oct. 21, 1968, speech before the Petroleum Club in Midland, promised to halt a proposed duty-free trade zone for oil imports at Machiasport, Maine. "The free trade would have allowed Occidental Petroleum Corp. to build an offshore refinery at Machiasport and bring in cheap Libyan crude oil to supply fuel-pinched New England," News- day said.

knew the oil men in the audience were afraid that if the Machiasport plan was approved it would be the first step in letting in cheaper foreign oil and would eventually force down the price of domestic oil and hurt them in the pocketbook. So Agnew made a promise," the newspaper said. Former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans, according to Newsday, "made good on the Agnew promise" when he canceled "a scheduled meeting of the Foreign Trade Zones Board at which the Machiasport issue was to be decided." The other two decisons, Newsday said, were influenced by presidential assistant Peter Flaningan, a former Wall Street banker who is still one of Nixon's chief energy advisers, and former Attorney General John N. Mithcell.

The newspaper said Flaningan helped in having a Task Force on Quotas recommendation killed. The. task force wanted industry-supported -import quotas to be replaced with a system of tariffs. Mitchell, Newsday said, wrote an industry-requested letter assuring that the "Justice Department would not prosecute under antitrust laws if the companies formed a cartel to bargain jointly with the newly formed Organization of petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)." Criminal fraud suspected in President's tax return? NEW YORK A Newsweek magazine says President Nixon's 1969 income tax return is the subject, of a criminal fraud investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. Quoting unnamed sources, the magazine said that "in recent weeks, the IRS special intelligence agents, who only do criminal investigations, have interviewed Edward L.

Morgan, a one-time White House aide; Arthur Nixon's personal accountant, and Frank DeMarco, the President's former tax lawyer." "The key question is whether a fraudulent deed to Mr. Nixon's vice presidential papers was drawn up in the spring of 1970 to make-it appear he had actually given the papers to the archives one year earlier before congressional legislation outlawed deduc- 'One for you, one for Two for you. one two for tions for such Newsweek said. The President claimed a $576,000 deduction for donating the papers to the national archives. Jurors hear Vesco letter to brother of President NEW YORK (UPI) The prosecution in the Mitchell-Starts influence- peddling trial today read to the jury the memo addressed to President Nixon's brother and allegedly written by International financier Robert L.

Vesco. The memo quoted Vesco as saying it -would be in the best interests of the United States if a federal investigation of his financial affairs was dropped. It also said that Vesco's interests in such countries as Morocco, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Bahamas, were available to the United States for use clandestine basis." Not explained There was no explanation as to what Vesco meant, but the fugitive financier wrote that unless the investigation was stopped he would disclose his secret $200,000 cash. contribution to President Nixon's reelection campaign in 1972. The memo was contained in a red manila folder which was sent to former attorney general John N.

Mitchell's New York law office in November 1972. The folder contained a written notation "Hold for F. Donald Nixon" the president's older brother. There is no evidence he ever received it. Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are accused of attempting to influence a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of Vesco's financial interests in exchange for the contribution and of lying to a grand jury about it.

Vesco "was wild, wild" and being driven "up the wall" by the SEC efforts to subpoena him and his executives shortly before the 1972 presidential elections, a witness testified today. Harry L. Sears, the star government witness in the trial of John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans, testified that he conveyed Vesco's state of mind to Mitchell, telling him how frantic Vesco was in his desire to circumvent the subpoenas.

Mitchell, former attorney general in the Nixon administration, and Stans, former commerce secretary, are on trial in federal court on charges of obstructing justice, trying to impede an SEC investigation of Vesco in exchange for his secret 1972 cash contribution of $200,000 to the Nixon campaign --and of lying to the grand jury about it. Sears had testified previously that when subpoenas arrived for four Vesco executives on Oct. 20, 1972, Vesco had asked him to phone Mitchell in Washington for help. "To the White House" Sears said Mitchell replied "This time I'm going to go to the White House--I'm going to call John Dean." Dean at that time was counsel to President Nixon Elaborating on that testimony today, Sears said "I did not ask Mr. Mitchell, to stop the subpoenas or that I had been asked to tell him to stop them.

"I told him Bob was up the wall regarding the subpoenas. I said he was wild, wild." Sears said that Vesco was particularly worked up about the subpoena to him: personally and said "there's no way I'm going to. testify down there again." Sears had testified earlier that Vesco was sure the SEC staff was going to ask him about $200,000 contribution. "Mr. Vesco asked me in no uncertain terms to call Mr.

Mitchell and see if anything could be done about that subpoena." Pressed by assistant attorney John R. Wing as too whether Vesco had not asked that Mitchell stop the subpoena, Sears replied: "Mr. Vesco asked me to Mr. Mitchell and told me subpoena was to be--stopped is as good a word as any, but I don't recall using that word." When the four Vesco executives appeared at an SEC hearing late in October, they declined to answer on the grounds of their constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment. When he advised Mitchell of that, Sears said, Mitchell, who was then Nixon's reelection, chairman replied, "I'm sure relieved." Cheating oil firms fined KANSAS CITY, Kan.

(AP) Four oil companies and a company executive have been fined a total of $39,800 on charges of selling regular gasoline at premium prices. The defendants had pleaded guilty in federal court March 4 to the charges, but Judge Earl O'Connor deferred sentencing until today. Hudson Oil was fined Hudson Stations, Hudson Van Oil of Kansas City, Wind Stations, $1,200 and Jerry Stallings, marketing vice- president of the firms was fined $5,000. James A. Pusateri, assistant U.S.

attorney, said the companies involved are not connected with the Hudson Oil Co. of Delaware, The disposition of the criminal counts does not prohibit the filing of civil suits for the violations acknowledged today' or any other violation of the Economic Stabilization Act, Pusateri said. Robert H. Bingham, attorney for the companies and Stallings, said the firms had agreed to roll back prices and de- crease prices until the amount of the overcharge is returned to customers. Eban flies to US By United Press International Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban flew to Washington today for talks with Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger aimed at laying the groundwork for Go- Heights troop separation talks with Syria. Syrian President Hafez. Assad said, meanwhile, he might accept demilitarization on the Golan Heights..