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Tuesday, May ALABAMA JOURNAL, Montgomery, AU. Around World Postal Complaints Are Heard WASHINGTON (AP) -Senators and congressmen testified today that citizens are unhappy about the nation's mail service, particularly the closing of some rural post offices that are unprofitable. Speaking at a congressional hearing devoted to citizen gripes about the financially pressed Postal Service, Rep. Joe Fisher, said, "My constituents are sending me a steady stream of com the same track between the port area called The Hook of Holland and Rotterdam. A railway spokesman said a second local train, running alongside, was also damaged when the express crashed against it Victoria Gives Birth To Boy GREENWICH, Conn.

(AP) "Mother and baby are doing fine" and the father is "hitting the ground on every third step." That's how Greenwich Hospital officials described a happy family scene Monday night after Victoria Fyodorova Pouy gave birth to her first child, an 1-pound boy. He was named Christopher. Mrs. Pouy, SO, love child of an American naval attache and a Russian actress, gave birth at 10:06 p.m., slightly more than an hour after she arrived in the delivery room, hospital officials said. She had been admitted to the hnsnilal about 1 m.

plaints that reflect a dis- Libertians OK'd; Communists Nixed By CLAUDE DUNCAN Secretary of State Agnes Baggett has certified another political party the Alabama Libertarian Party for general election ballot space. But Mrs. Baggett refused a bid by the Communist Partv to win acceptance here. The Libertarians, who have a national presidential ticket, have indicated they probably won't run many local candidates in November. In rejecting the Communists, Mrs.

Baggett said she does not know if the minimum 5.000 registered voters are among the 14.000 signatures on the Communist petitions. Also, state law prohibits Communists from running in Alabama. Actually, having missed the March I deadline, Communist organizers merely wanted to get their national candidates. Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner, i the November ballot as independents. Mike Welsh.

Alabama campaip coordinator for Hall and Tyner, charged that Alabama's election laws "make it very difficult for persons outside the Democratic and Republican parties to get on the ballot." He said a court challenge of Mrs. Baggett's action is being considered on the grounds that the "burden of proof" in certifying the petition lies with the state and not the candidates. Netherlands Train Wreck Kills 20 ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (AP) The Rhine Express and a Dutch commuter train collided head on near Rotterdam today, killing about 20 persons, many of them children on their way to school, a spokesman for the Dutch railroad system said. Police said most of the victims were in the front coach of the Dutch train. A number of other persons were injured and rescue workers said between four and eight persons were still trapped inside the tangled trains.

Officials could not explain why the two trains were on Frederick Pouy, the 37-year-old airline wW who satisfaction with the aaul married Victoria Fyodorova after a wiiriwind romance service." last year, was in the delivery room at the time of the birth. He and Mrs. Pouy's mother, Russian actress Zoya Fyodorova, visited with her after the birth. Complaints from rural America dominated the hearing of the House post office subcommittee. A nmminAnl icciiA vac tho Ford To Veto Military Foreign Aid Bill planned closing of some m- WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford will veto a $4 offlcw are in billion military foreign aid bill, his spokesmen said today.

Poslal must Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the veto factor5 other than would come later in the day or on Wednesday. A deputy toe said Rep. Don Fuqua. D-Fla. A letter of a rural post- press secretary saia me rTesioem prooaDiy uum the measure Wednesday.

The $4 billion would be for the 15-month period ending Sept. 30. Chairman Thomas E. Morgan of the House International Relations Committee said he has told the committee staff to start drafting a new bill. CM Declares Special Dividend DETROIT (AP) With a near record 1800-mUlion profit to report for the first quarter.

General Motors Corp. has decided to more than double its quarterly dividend to common stock shareholders. The nation's No. 1 auto maker on Monday declared a special dividend of 50 cents a share in addition to its regular 60-cent payout The GM Board of Directors said both dividends would be payable June 10 to shareholders of record May 13. The auto company's regular monthly payout bad been 60 cents a share since the first quarter of 1975, when it was reduced from 85 cents at the depth of the industry's worst slump since the Great Depression.

The 25-cent cut was the first lime since 1946 that GM decreased its yield. Tne tSOO-million profit in the first three months of 1976 made it the second best quarter for earnings in the history of the nation's largest auto manufacturer. Earnings equaled $2.71 per share in the compared with 159 million or just 20 cents per-share in the first three months of 1975. GM enjoyed its record profit of $817 million in the first quarter of 1973. Device Found After Bomb Warning FLORENCE, Ala.

(AP) Officials, warned by a telephone call that a bomb would explode today in the Lauderdale County Courthouse, found a blasting cap attached to a device. The device was found in a fifth floor restroom adjacent to the district attorney's office. Investigator Rick Thompson said the device apparently was not dangerous except for the blasting cap itself. The phone caller said a bomb was set to go off at 11 a.m., and the device was found 30 minutes before then. Executive Assassinated In Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Terrorists assassinated an Italian executive of the Fiat automobile company as he drove away from his suburban home today, company officials said.

The victim was identified as Pedro J. Rotta, 41. who came here from Rome at the age of 15. He was manager of the plant at Palomar, near here. Police said they had no immediate information, but officials of the Italian-owned company said that Rotta was machine gunned by terrorists believed to be left-wing guerrillas.

Fiat executives said Rotta was the fourth company official murdered in terrorist action since Oberdan Sallustro was killed as a kidnap victim in 1972 Holstein Cow Goes For $200,000 OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) A Pennsylvania dairy farmer paid $200,000 Monday for a Holstein cow at an auction at Hays Farms. An official said it was a record for a Holstein sold at auction. Romandale Reflection Cristy, eight years old and pregnant, was bought by Ray Edwards. 33.

of Indiana. who is in partnership with his father, a dentist. The cow was sold by Claude Picket, a 65-year-old dairy farmer from nearby Georgetown who last fall paid the previous record price of $157,000 for Hanover Hill Barb in Syracuse, N.Y. Picket said he bought Cristy in 1971 for $65,000. She was one of 59 cattle he sold Monday for a total of $643,250, setting a record average for Canada and the United States of $10,903.

master's wife, read at the session by Rep. William A. Steiger, said: "Small towns need an identity. They've taken away our schools and transportation. The REA (Railway Express Agency) just folded.

We feel like U.N. To Debate Egyptian Charges UNITED NATION'S, N.Y. AP) The UJ. Security Council begins debate this afternoon on Egyptian charges that Israel is waging a "violent terrorist campaign'' against the Arabs in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The council met behind closed doors this morning and agreed to convene a public meeting at 2:30 pjn.

CDT. Botfl Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to participate in tne debate. Egypt asked the council Monday for an urgent meeting and also requested that the Palestine Liberation Organization take part in the debate. Observers at headquarters considered the Egyptian request an attempt to make anti-Israeli propaganda on the Jewish nation's independence day, which begins at p.m. Israel time.

It was also interpreted as an Egyptian move to-challenge Syria's position as the chief Arab supporters of the Palestinians. Syrian President Hafez Assad's image with the Palestinians has been damaged by his efforts to curb their attacks on the Lebanese Christians, and the Egyptians appeared to be trying to move into the breach. The Israelis at U.N. headquarters had no immediate comment on the Egyptian charges, but it was understood that Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog would participate in the debate even if the PLO is present Although Israel bovcotted council debates in December and January because the Palestinians participated, Herzog reversed that position for the debate in March on Israeli actions in the West Bank territory. Tuscaloosa Seeks New Mix Plan TUSCALOOSA, Ala.

(AP)- The Justice Department says a 1970 plan for neighborhood schools in Tuscaloosa is discriminatory and has not been successful. Attorney Lawrence Newton made the statement Monday as the department went to federal court to seek a new desegregation plan for the city schools. "Black students are being denied equal education opportunities," Newton told U.S. District Court Judge Frank McFadden. The hearing was on a motion for supplemental relief, with the government seeking a transportation plan and reassignment of students and faculty members.

School Board attorney Sam Phelps said the board itself has acted to insure more integration. He said two schools were closed and consolidated with others in 1970, and the 1970 plan was working. Phelps said there was no workable alternative. Phelps added that the government proposal would mean reassignment of more than half the students and a large percentage of the teachers in the city system. The plan, he said, would cost the system $2.5 million the first year and $750,000 each year after that.

2 Counties Voting Wet-Dry Issues ANNISTON, Ala! AP) Wet-dry liquor issues were on the ballots today in Calhoun County and neighboring Cherokee County. In Calhoun, which voted wet and approved the sale of alcoholic beverages in state stores in 1961. the issue has been hotly debated for several weeks. Shortly after the county seat, Anniston. voted liquor by the drink in 1975, dry forces circulated a petition to bring the question before the entire county in an effort to dry up the county.

In Cherokee County, where the last referendum on the question was settled by a 400-vote margin in favor of remaining dry in 1971, the issue also has been heatedly contested. If Calhoun votes dry. Alcoholic Beverage Control stores will not open for business once election results are certified, according to ABC officials. But a petition already is being circulated in Anniston calling for a special election there if the vote is dry. Under a law passed in the Alabama Legislature in 1975, cities within a dry county have the option and can exercise it if 25 per cent of the voters call for a vote.

law, a sudden-death pri- i Commission, second-class citizens." mary is required in any and there were contested pa vhpro nn one pets a pares for two olaces on the Sixteen members ot maioritv. State Supreme Court and Congress asked to testify at the There was less likelihood for scores of lesser offices, about complaints of a Republican runoff. Ir all but three of the 3 Veteran Rep. Bob Jones opening session oi tne hearing. Another 16 are scheduled to make statements to the subcommittee on Wednesday.

contests, it was one rord- in the 5th District decided pledged candidate against against seeking renomina- one committed to Reagan, tjon to Congress, and his retirement brought 10 can- Fisher urged "a program of innovation and experimentation as a way out of the present shambles." Besides electing conven- didates into the race to lion delegates, the voters succeed him. The re-also picked party nominees maining three Democratic for some public offices. House members all had op- downtown, voters questioned said they voted for Carter delegates. Whites polled at the precinct said they were for Wallace. A spot check of other Carnegie voters said they cast ballots for Davis and Bowen.

At Cloverdale, an angry Republican voter said he was willing to forego local races to cast his vote for Reagan. "Reagan will suffer because of the way the primary is handled here," he predicted. Several people at Cloverdale said they were going to "talk to their legislators about the way the primary was handled" today. The polls opened at 8 a. Montgomery Perry Hill precinct voter Curtis Kirsch, 3100 Fernway Drive, said he voted for Wallace.

"He's the only candidate. I've been voting for him as long as he's been running. He's the only one." Voting was light at Hamner Hall Fire Station, a predominantly black precinct, and in the first '15 minutes after the poll opened only three peopfe appeared to cast vote Hamner Chief Poll Official Sabinia Saab said the turnout was "not unusual. Sometimes we don't get more than 100 voters all day." At Cleveland Avenue Six candidates, including position, but the GOP The Postal Service is ex-two incumbent commission- congressmen were unoppos- pected to lose a record $1.5 ers, were scrambling for ed and automatically bllion in the fiscal vear president of the Public renominated. ending next month.

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IF you are so good at Democrats will send 35 delegates to their convention in New York. Besides the 27 elected in the pri way to work, roll Utticiai Paul Wooley said he expected the turnout to reduce as the day wore on. He said he would be mary, eight will be hand- pleased if 25 per cent of picked by the State Demo- ine d.iuu voiers regis- cratic Executive Conurut-tered did vote. tee. At another pre- Some of the Democrats dominantly black pre- faced the possibility of a cinct, Carnegie Library run0ff election May 25.

By MILAN, Italy (AP) Kidnapers freed Raffaele Molinari, a 64-year-old iron dealer, Monday night after holding him for nearly two months, police reported. The police said Molinari's kidnapers accepted the modest ransom of $72,000 from his family after the government last month confiscated a larger sum the family put up. The government has been trying to reduce the number of kidnapings by blocking the payment of ransom. A retired film producer named Pietro Maleno Malenotti was kidnaped Monday in Tuscany. He was the 16th person abducted in Italy this year.

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