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Makers Terrorists Kill Embassy Aide In Iran TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Terrorists ambushed a U.S. Embassy car today and shot and killed an Iranian who worked in the embassy's visa section, an American spokesman said. It was the second terrorist killing directed against the embassy in six weeks. U.S. Ambassador Richard Helms said it was "a senseless killing and another deeply tragic example of barbarity of modern terrorism.

Nothing is solved by, cold-blooded A spokesman said the terrorists cut off embassy car with their own car on a crowded residential street about two blocks from the embassy. He said that two men jumped out and that one dressed in a police uniform fired, killing Hassan Hossnan, 25, an employe in the visa section for 18 months. He sard a young woman also was seen in the terrorists' car but she did not participate in the shooting. The driver of the embassy car and another passenger were unharmed, the spokesman said. On May 21, using almost identical tactics ambushed and killed Air Col.

Paul R. Shaffer 45 of Dayton, Ohio, and Air Force Col. Jack H. Turner, 45, of Carbondale. 111., as they were on their way to work in Tehran.

Shocking News BLOOMFIELD, Iowa AP) -Cable TV subscribers trying to find out weather conditions were out of luck Wednesday morning. Centerville Cablevision officials said vandals broke into the stu'dios overnight and placed pictures of. nude men and women over the weather dials! Automated equipment pans the dials, allowing subscribers to tune to a special channel to get the weather. Some area residents said the word was passed quickly by telephone, resulting in unusually high ratings for the weather channel. Canadian Talks OTTAWA (AP) President Suharto of Indonesia has begun three days of talks with Canadian business and political leaders.

He was greeted with a 2i-gun salute when he arrived Wednesday, and later had dinner with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. This Issue Index Amusements 25, 31 Classified 32-35 Comics 24 Crossword 16 Dear Abby 10 Editorials 6 Horoscope Legal Notices 35 Local News 19-20 Obituaries 2 Sports 27-29 TV Log 25 Weather 2 Women 9-11 Weafher Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Lows tonight in the, mid-GOs and highs Friday around (Details on page 2.) UTTtE IEAEY. THE SAPPfcST SOUP THE BABY UY Today Is Thursday, July 3, 1975 VOL. PETERSBURG, COLONIAL HEIGHTS, HOPEWELL, VIRGINIA PRICE 15 CENTS Security Forces Search For Missing Colonel Lebanon (AP) -Security forces searched Beirut for a kidnaped American Army today as government reported another cease- fir in the week-long street fighting that took at-least 277 lives.

A security officer said all Palestine guerrilla'' organizations denied any knowledge of Col. Ernest R. Morgan, a member of the U.S. military aid mission in Turkey who was seized at the height of the fighting. Sunday afternoon.

Morgan, 43, of Petersburg, was stopping for the night in'Beirut on his way back from a meeting of the Central Treaty Organization in Pakistan. The manager of his hotel said he'in- sisted on driving to the airport to "buy some magazines." "We warned him not to go, but he became quite angry and said no one could tell him what I to do," the. manager said. i Morgan's taxi driver reported that a group of armed men dragged the colonel out of the car at a roadblock near a Palestinian refugee camp. Although Morgan was not in uniform, another source said the men told the driver he was "an American general" who had come supply the right- wing Christian Phalange party, whose private army warring with leftwing Palestinian guerrillas and the Lebanese faction supporting them.

The pro-Palestine'newspaper Al Moharrer claimed that Morgan was "circulating suspi- Today's Chuckle ciously" in a Fiat automobile without identification papers. It said he "was taken to an unknown destination and his fate is not'knowh yet." But American sources said the colonel was in a Mercedes taxi and was carrying his passport. Morgan's mother, Evelyn B. Jotinson, said in Petersburg that since being told of her son's abduction, "I have, been filled with sorrow and shed tears, but I am a very strong person and I am not going off the deep end. I am deeply religious." Mrs.

Johnson has been a nurse's aide at a Petersburg hospital for 20 years. The street fighting ended in most of Beirut early Wednesday after the formation of a new government and the announcement of a nease-fire by Premier Rashid Karami and Palestine guerrilla chief Yasir Arafat. But shooting and ex plosions continued Wednesday night in the eastern suburbs of Chiyah and Ein Rummaneh, where the fighting started on June 24. Three persons were reported killed and six wounded during the night. The government announced that a cease-fire went into effect in the two suburbs at 9 a.m.

following an agreement by the Phalangists, left-wing Moslems and Palestine guerrilla leaders. Karami in a television appearance Wednesday night ac- Israel of complicity in a plan to undermine Lebanon's economy "through planting explosives at our economic and industrial establishments" during the street fighting. Earlier government announcements: blamed the bomb blasts on' Morgan: 'Outstanding Achiever' By BEN WOOD Progress-Index Staff Writer PETERSBURG A picture of Col. Ernest R. Morgan hangs in the hall of fame at the Virginia State College Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTO building although he is not a graduate of the school.

The picture is there, a ROTC spokesman said, because a former member of the unit--a full colonel at age 43--is an outstanding achiever. Morgan, a Petersburg native, was captured Sunday by armed Palestinian guerillas in Beirut, Lebanon. The "possible abduction" of Col. Morgan, who is attached to the U. S.

military aid mission in Ankara, Turkey, was reported by the Sale Department. But his mother, Mrs. Evelyn Johnson of 804 S. Jones received Tuesday a telegram from the Army which said Col. Morgan had been abducted.

The telegram, signed 'by Adjutant Gen. Verne L. Bowers, reads, "Your son, Col. Ernest R. Morgan was abducted by Palestinian nationals near the Beirut airport on June 29.

He was in transit from Pakistan to Ankara, Turkey, and arrived in Beirut during the morning. "He was scheduled to depart Beirut on June 30, left his hotel by taxi shortly before p.m. on the 29th for an unknown destination and was abducted en route." A Lebanese source said Col. Morgan was abducted by several 4rmed men at a traffic circle on the road to Beirut's airport Sunday night. The men, who called Col.

Morgan "an American driver unharmed, thi released the taxi 3 source said. U.S. Embassy officials in Ankara said he was in Beirut with aldelegation of Iranian, Turkish and British officers returning from a meeting of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTp) in Pakistan. Mrs. Johnson, a 20-year employe of Petersburg General Hospital, said she had a premonition that something bad was going to happen to her son when she learned he was being stationed in Turkey.

"I had a deep feeling inside of me this time when he said. "1 pray to Almighty God that my son will be safe; that no harm will come to him. That's my prayers, Mrs. Johnson said. "That's all I have is my prayers." Col.

Morgan is a 19(48 graduate of Peabody High School and attended VSC until 1952, when he joined the Army, his mother said. He was commission'ed a second lieutenant in 1952, she said, i 'Col. Morgan later earned a degree from the University of Maryland, Mrs. Johnson added. The Peabody graduate has three children by a previous marriage who reside Mn Ettrick.

Ernest R. Morgan'll, the oldest, is expected to graduate from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. next year.

Deborah Morgan is a junior at the School of Professional Nursing at Petersburg General Hospital. Michel R. Morgan, the youngest child, is a student at John Tyler Community College. All three are graduates of Matoaca High School. Col.

Morgan's ex-wife, Mrs. Lillian Bell, also resides in Ettrick. Miss Morgan said she and her older brother, who is in summer training, were planning to visit their father in Turkey next month. Mrs. Johnson said her son remarried about three years ago.

His wife Margaret' and adopted son. Baron, live in Ankara. Mrs. Johnson said she received a telephone call from Mrs. Morgan early Wednesday morning asking how she was.

Col. Morgan was in Petersburg last August, after leaving his assignment at the War College, Carlisle, his mother said. She said he had to report in Ankara for his two-year assignment by Sept. 3. He also has been stationed in Vietnam, Germany, France, Korea and at the Pentagon.

The colonel's mother, who said she was separated from her husband when her three sons were young, said "He's been in the Army 20 years and he knows what it is like. "God's will will be done," she added. Col. Morgan also has two brothers-- COL. MORGAN Sherman Morgan, an insurance agent, and Harry Morgan, an employe of Brown Williamson Tobacco live in Petersburg.

Attributed To Statistical Quirk Unemployment Rate Down In June 'Jf i WASHINGTON (AP) The government reported today that the nation's unemployment rate dropped to 8.6 per cent.in June, but officials said that because of a statistical quirk it was too'early to say whether the reported that wholesale prices tics, jsaid the nation wouldn't hold heads and married men in June decreased by one-tenth know whether there was a real had doubled over the past year, ployment of one per cent, largely because improvement of unemployment the Labor Department said, of a decline'in prices of foodand "until we see the July figures." The decline in wholesale Sen. William Proxmire, D- prices, after adjustment for Virtually all of the decline in sharp signaled real fa f.y.--. grim A computer "can- the belief was" widespread that they were the The rate was 9.2 per cent in work of Moslem leftists fi- May. nanced by Libya and Iraq. The Labor Department also work faster than a human becausef.yit doesn't have to answer the phone.

looking for'work in June than really sought jobs. Julius Shiskin, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statis- Rpllin'On A River Stewart Murray is 'rolling 1 inside an innertube on a pond near Crawfordsville, in a somewhat unorthodox way. (AP Wirephoto) Jobless Rate Up In State RICHMOND (AP)--Unemployment in Virginia rose to 7.7 per cent in June, but the increase was not as large as anticipated, Gov. Mills Godwin said today. Godwin told a news conference that the June jobless rate, with 169,500 of the labor force out of work, is the second highest monthly rate recorded in the state in the post-war period.

The number of adults back at work actually increased, Godwin said. He attributed the unemployment increase to the number of students looking for jobs. The 7.7 per cent in June compared with 7.3 per cent in May. The highest rate recorded by the state so far was 7.8 per cent in March. The governor said he found the slight increase encouraging and an indication of better times ahead.

"The encouraging thing is that the increase came mostly from students getting out of school," Godwin said. The number of adult workers i i compensation declined from 73,000 in May to 61,000 in June. New claims for unemployment insurance fell to 3,800 per week in June, the lowest level since last September. "The economy picture is strengthening in Virginia," Godwin said. the sizeable decline in unem- between May and June had been anticipated "as a result of a limitation in the seasonal adjustment procedure." It said that because of the adjustment procedure, it is difficult to interpret changes in unemployment among groups which typically experience sizeable labor force inflows in June.

It said the seasonal adjustments, which are designed to smooth over cyclical changes in employment patterns during the year, assumes that the Unemployment for married May, while seasonally adjusted of young seekers who meri was 5.7 per cent in June, unemployment was 7.9 million, down from 5.8 per cent in May. down from 3.5 million in May. The jobless rate for both house- The Labor Department said i Wis.J chairman of the Senate the June was at- Banking Committee, has said tributed to a statistical qu.irk..that ibecause of the-statistical that showed more' young people quirk a decline from 9.2 per i. cent'in May to. 8.6 per cent in Junef would mean an unchanged situation.

lit the June unemployment figures appeared to show some improvement in the jobless rate for heads of households, which seasonal factors, reverted to the trend established with a four-month decline from December-through March. Wholesale prices had registered a two-month increase after that, with May's rise amounting to four-tenths of one per cent. The June drop came despite increases in the price of fuel. Total employment in the was) down to 6.1 per cent from economy in June was listed at May's total of 6.3 per cent. 84.4 million, unchanged from enter the labor market between May and June is proportional to the level of unemployment.

However, the department said that when the unemployment rate is as high as it. has been in 1975, the figures automatically adjust for more entries into the labor force than actually are there. The resulfin June, it said, was the seasonally adjusted decline of 640,000 in the unemployment rate. In economic developments Wednesday: --President Ford signed a housing bill that supporters say spur construction of 300,000 houses in the coming year. --Getty Oil Standard Oil Co.

of Ohio (Sohio) and British Petroleum Corp. raised gasoline prices three cents per gallon. Beame, Union Reach Accord; Sanitationmen Due Back On Job The Associated Press New York Mayor Abraham D. Beame and the head of the sanitationmen's union announced agreement today to end a three-day wildcat walkout and have the sanitationmen return to work at noon to begin removing 50.QOO tons of garbage that piled up in the city streets. The agreement came after the! city declared a "partial" health hazard, obtained a court order against the walkout and faced growing problems that climaxed Wednesday night with hundreds of trash fires in crowded sections of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

The mayor's announcement safd the men would return to work pending final action in Albany on the city's request for additional taxing powers that could restore some of the 19,000 city jobs cut because of the budget crisis. John DeLury, head of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's As- Thousands Expected To Flock To Roads By The Associated Press Virginians by the thousands planned today to begin forgetting for a while the anxieties, of the workaday world and celebrate a relative worry-free July 4 -marking the nation's 199th birthday. Unencumbered by the gasoline shortage that threw a wet towel on the observance last year, motorists are expected to begin flocking to the highways this evening. The official July 4 holiday traffic period begins at 6 p.m. The State Department of Highways and Transportation said it expects heavy traffic this weekend, as thousands head for the beaches and parks for a weekend of frolicking and forgetting.

Lost in the euphoria of a weekend whose starting point was Thursday night rather than Friday was the preoccupation of 1974's revelers with the problem of finding enough gas to get there and get home. Because of federal legislation, most holidays are observed on Monday and threeday weekends begin with the close of- business on Friday. But the congressional edicts apparently couldn't avoid the inevitable occasions where holidays would fall on Fridays, allowing the desired long weekend to begin earlier and end earlier. The highway 'department's safety service patrol will cover 260 miles of interstate highway to help troubled motorists. The pickup trucks, which carry gasoline, water, -air and other emergency equipment, will operate from 4:30 p.m.

today until midnight Friday and from 8 a.m. Sunday to midnight Sunday. The i patrol will cover Interstate 95 A i to Prince George County; Interstate 64 between Richmond and Norfolk; Interstate 66 from Interstate 495 to Gainesville, and Interstate 81 from Dixie Caverns to Cloverdale. But Virginians choose to stay at home Friday will be able to find Independence. Day celebrations where they live or nearby.

And, the usual July 4 regimen of political speeches will be observed as always. Some July 4 celebrations will last for several days. The Scottsville Festival will run Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Among the many events scheduled are a parade, pig roast, log chopping championship, skydiving championship and a regatta. A number 'of state officials and politicians will be hitting the stump to talk with people.

Atty. Gen. Andrew P. Miller will speak at noon Friday at Scottsville: Sen. Harry F.

Byrd, will speak at a 10 a.m. celebration at Halifax, when South Boston and Halifax County will be recognized as "aj bicentennial community. Rep. W. jC.

"Dan" Daniel, D- of the 5th. District, will present bicentennial flags' to local officials. Colonial Heights' -Kiwanis Club will hold its fifth July 1 4 celebration, beginning at 11 a.m. with a parade. Nearby at Ft.

liee, there'll be a concert by the 392nd Army Band at 7 p.m. in Williams Stadium, followed by fireworks. More than members of the Virginia Army Rational Guard will march in a parade Friday at Ft. Pickett to honor Maj. Gen.

Samuel R. Gay former assistant commander of the 28th Infantry Division. Gay retired this spring. The Northumberland County Republican party jwill sponsor pie-eating and bean-counting contests, as well as other games. sociation, said his union would post $1.6 million to cover any losses the city might sustain by returning all his men to work and then not getting enough money to pay for all of them.

The announcement said "there is still a probability of layoffs" and added that union and city officials would look to the federal government for additional funding. DeLury said "all" of the 10,600 striking sani- tationmen would return to work. A tentative agreement was reached in Albany Wednesday night on a new tax power package and final language was being worked out today. In response to the budget-induced layoffs, city firemen began their own job action Wednesday, increasing sick calls and instituting a slowdown. City policemen, however, voted against any formal job action in response to the layoffs.

In-Pennsylvania, state officials obtained court orders against some of the more than 46,000 striking state employes. And in Northern California, three court clerks were jailed and thousands of other workers threatened with dismissal as the first public employes strike in Santa Clara County history entered its third day. The walkout by the 10,600 sanitationmen in New York did not have official union sanction, but city officials called it the "best organized wildcat strike" they had ever seen. Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association officials claim they have been urging their members to end their wildcat strike. Union chief John DeLury has said of the workers, "I can't control them." About- 28,000 tons of garbage daily is collected in New York City.

Sanitation Commissioner Robert Groh said almost 13,000 tons is picked up by private carters and the rest by city workers. By Groh's estimates, the walkout, which is in its third day today, would have left nearly 50,000 tons of uncollected. About 1,650 firemen were among 19,000 city employes dismissed Wednesday. Fire officials reported that firefighters still on the payrolls began a combined slowdown and "sick- out." Within 24 hours 359 firemen reported in sick, they said. The Uniformed Firefighters Association futilely tried in a a a State Supreme Court to have the firings rescinded, saying the firemen's contract with the city barred layoffs.

Justice George Starke rejected that claim. SCC Is Asked To Cut Vepco Rate Request RICHMOND (AP)--A con-, sumer spokesman urged the State Corporation Commission today to trim the $135 million permanent rate increase request of the Virginia Electric Power Co. by at least $76 million. John T. Schell, an attorney for the Virginia Consumer Congress, said that "we're here to lower rates." As' the second day of the marathon rate hearing began, he said the consumer congress would produce witnesses who would demonstrate that Vepco needed neither the $97.7 million emergency surcharge it received last October nor the additional $37.9 million it is now asking.

In fact, Schell said, the facts will show that the utility should refund to its customers at least $38 million. Describing the case as a panding construction program for new generating facilities. He said the choice facing both the commission and the utility is one of either increasing supply or controlling demand. "We think that increasing supply regardless of cost is the wrong answer," Schell said. As the hearing got under way Wednesday, the theme centered on the law of supply and demand as it applies to electricity and the realities of energy conservation.

Several witnesses, including Atty. Gen. Aiidrew P. Miller, suggested the key issue before the commission was not whether Vepco should be granted all of the permanent rate increase, but how much it should refund to electric consumers. Attorney "John "Riley, representing Vepco, had warned that if the company failed to get sufficient revenue to continue "landmark, precedent-setting" its ongoing program of capital proceeding, Schell noted that expansion, Virginia could, ex- the spiraling price of electricity is dislocating the way of life of countless thousands of Virginians.

He laid the blame for this on perience brownouts or blackouts iri the years ahead. "These are not threats, these are facts," he said. But Miller, in setting the tone what he said was Vepco's mis- or the hearings, said the cur" management of its load fore- ren rate case represented the casting and its constantly ex- 0.