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SALINAS CALIFORNIAN WEATHER Fair tonight and tomorrow. High yesterday 59; This morn ing's low 46. (Complete Forecast on Page 22.) A Speidel Newspaper SAUNAS, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 28, 1973 102nd Year No. 75 60 Pages IS Cents Watergate Bugging A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of the Family Judge dives Dm muon fifty IrDumift for Tesftimray If I cratic national headquarters in the Watergate building. At the same time Sirica announced that he had canceled a scheduled meeting Thursday with McCordn who had offered to give the judge information about perjury allegedly committed during the trial, others involved in the case and political pressure exerted on the Watergate Seven to get them to plead guilty and keep silent.

Sirica said he saw no need to go forward with the meeting because McCord would be appearing before the grand jury and already had agreed to give his story to the special Senate committee. Following Siricas decision to grant him immunity, Hunt went back behind closed doors to testify before the grand jury. Hunts lawyer did not object when federal prosecutors asked the judge to act. A similar effort began Monday to elicit information from G. Gordon Liddy, the former Nixon campaign official alleged to have been the mastermind in the Watergate incident.

His lawyer objected, and arguments will be heard Friday. McCord, former security chief for President Nixons re-election campaign, had said he wanted no more interviews with committee lawyers but instead wanted to speak to the full seven-member committee, Senate sources reported. The sources said McCords reason for this request was that parts of interviews he had held Friday and Saturday with Samuel Dash, the committees chief counsel, and Fred Thompson, its Republican counsel, had leaked to the press. Sen. Howard H.

Baker committee vice-chairman, said the members voted to invite McCord and his attorney, Bernard Fenterwald, to appear at the session set for 1:30 p.m. EST today. Baker said the testimony would be fully subject to the penalties of perjury. He said WASHINGTON (UPI) The Watergate trial judge granted E. Howard Hunt total immunity from further prosecution today in an apparent bid to persuade the convicted conspirator to tell a federal grand jury all he knows about the bugging affair.

U.S. District Judge John Sirica took the action at the governments request after Hunt, a former White House consultant who pleaded guilty in the case, invoked the 5th Amendment every time he was asked a question during appearances today and Tuesday before the grand jury. As a result of Siricas move, Hunt must talk or risk being found in contempt of court, but nothing he says before the grand jury can be used against him later. The action came shortly before the scheduled appearance of another Watergate defendant, James W. McCord before the special Senate committee investigating the June 17 breaw-in and bugging at Demo questions would range over a wide spectrum and that the session would be a full and thorough interview in preparation for later hearings in open session.

These have been scheduled for May. The committee undoubtedly will want to question McCord under oath about his charges during the earlier committee interviews that White House Counsel John W. Dean III and former Nixon campaign official Jeb Stuart Magruder had prior knowledge of the June 17 bugging of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate. These charges have been categorically denied by the White House on behalf of Dean and by Magruder. Committee Chairman Sam J.

Ervin will not be present for the session. He was flying to North Carolina for the funeral of a brother who died Tuesday. McCord was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and elec-BUGGING Page 2, Col. 7 I Brando's Salinas Stand-in Sacheen Littlefeather formerly Marie Cruz of Salinas extends her hand to actors Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore while refusing the Best Actor Oscar for Marlon Brando at last night's Academy Awards ceremony. (UPi photo) Bramdo Steals Show At Academy Awards Johansen and McCarley Enter Race for Council Ex-Salinas Girl Speaks For Brando Salinas citizens who sat glued to their TV sets during last nights Academy Award presentations may have recognized Miss Sacheen Littlefeather as Marie Cruz of Salinas.

Miss Littlefeather (or Miss Cruz) spoke before a national television audience on behalf of actor Marlon Brando in rejecting an Oscar award as Best Actor for Brandos performance in The Godfather. One Salinas resident who recognized Miss Cruz clad in Indian clothes and feathered head- See Photo, Page 2 band was Mrs. Walter Silacci, who said, I think she handled herself beautifully last night. Miss Cruz was a close friend of the Silacci family until she left Salinas for a modeling career in the San Francisco Bay area. Miss Cruz told Academy members last night that Brando re-SACHEEN Page 2, Col.

4 Fred C. Johansen and James McCarley are the latest contenders in what appears to be shaping up as an eight candidate race in the June 5 Salinas City Council election. Nominating papers for Johansen, a retired banker and 1965 Salinas Chamber of Commerce man of the year, were taken out yesterday by William Clow. McCarley, a real estate man and unsuccessful council contender two years ago, took out papers on his own behalf. Both have until the noon deadline tomorrow to return papers which make them official contenders against incumbents Ernie Paauwe and Mayor Jack Barnes.

The mayor filed his papers early today, joining a list which now includes Paauwe, Warren Purcell, John Vondra-cek and Roger Floyd. Still on the list of potential candidates are Billy Jackson, a bakery produce salesman, and Robert Wherritt, chief engineer for Spiegl Foods. Definitely off the list this morning is Bertram Rudolph, president of the Monterey County Taxpayers Association, who called to announce that his final decision in an off again, on again candidacy is that he will not run. He accompanied that with an endorsement of Vondracek and Jackson as two excellent candidates and factors in his decision. Rudolph did temper that with a description of the two as among some fine choices for the two seats up for grabs.

Although he will not be a candidate, Rudolph said lie is concerned for Salinas in terms of overly aggressive capital improvement program, taxation and fees schedules of every sort and other problems. Salinas is a good city despite its government, not because of it, Rudolph said. Its time to stop running Salinas like a used car lot, an obvious dig at car dealer Barnes. establishment of a peace that would be Raquel Welch, who followed with the announcement of the winner of the best actress award, remarked I hope the Related Story, Page 29 winner doesnt have a cause. The top female honor went to Liza Minnelli for her portrayal of a live-it-up American singer in prewar Nazi Berlin in Cabaret.

She jumped up and kissed her fiance, Desi Arnaz son of the bandleader and Lucille Ball. Thank you for giving me this award, she said. Youve made me very happy. Miss Minnelli fulfilled a lifelong dream by her mother, the late Judy Garland, who was given a special Academy Award as a child actress for her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz but never HOLLYWOOD (UPI) The Godfather triumphed as the best picture of 1972 and Cabaret won eight Oscars but it was an absent Marlon Brando who stole the Academy Awards spotlight Tuesday night by refusing to accept his Oscar in a pro-Indian political protest. Brando startled 3,000 celebrities and a national television audience by sending to the Awards ceremony in his stead an Indian woman, Sacheen Littlefeather, in fringed leather and beaded mocassins.

She announced that he would not accept the Oscar for best actor voted him for his portrayal of The Godfather and told reporters he was en route to Wounded Knee, S.D. to join the Indians encircled by federal agents there. She delivered a statement by Brando saying he was going there to help forestall, in whatever way I can, the won an adult Oscar, although she was nominated. Cabaret unexpectedly far outdistanced the favored Godfather which won three statuettes in the Oscar sweep-stakes. Joel Grey won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as a decadent master of ceremonies in the cabaret, Bob Fosse won for directing it and the movie garnered awards for best film editing, sound, art direction, set decoration, scoring and cinematography.

It was quite a week for Fosse, who won a Tony award Sunday for his Broadway hit musical play, Pippin. Clint Eastwood prefaced his announcement that The Godf-ther one of the most explosive boxoffice sucesses in best picture trophy by saying: movie history had won the I hope I dont have to present AWARDS Page 2, Col. 5 G.M. May Build 'California Car Headlines Inside Eviction Lawsuit May Test Farm Strike Issues 5 Weather Blights Monterey Countys Building Boom 13 Salinas Board of Education Candidates Statements 19 Amusements 34 Classified 35-39 Comics 28 Editorial 4 Financial 14 Sports Sylvia Porter 14 Town Country Life 6-7 TV Log 28 Weather 22 Starkman said, and hopefully they will respond favorably to it. GM has declared it is impossible for the auto industry to meet the smog emission standards of the federal Clean Air Act for 1975.

However, Starkman said, Californias own emission standards for 1975 are attainable. He said the California standards make sense from the standpoint of health, aesthetics, cost to the consumer and benefits in improved air SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A General Motors executive said today the company may build special, less smog-producing cars for California because of the states special situation. But he said GMs 1973 models are clean enough for the rest of the nation, and strict federal anti-smog standards scheduled to take effect in 1975 should be relaxed. Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and other sunny population centers in the Golden State are a special situation, said E. S.

Starkman, vice president in charge of GMs Environmental Activities staff. We believe it makes a lot of sense to build cars for California which have emission control systems that will continue to reduce photochemical smog, and cars for the rest of the nation which have control systems about the same as we are building right now on 1973 models, Starkman told a group of San Francisco Bay Area civic leaders. General Motors has proposed the double-standard smog rating to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Starkman said GMs 1973 cars produce 80 per cent less hydrocarbons, 70 per cent less carbon monoxide and 40 per cent less oxides of nitrogen than 1960 cars. The result is real progress toward taking the automobile out of the air pollution problem, he said. For most of the United States, he said, there is little doubt in our minds at least that it is unnecessary to make substantial further reductions in order to achieve acceptable air quality.

States Ag Chief Defends Price of Beef cattle prices (and) meat prices are right where they should be. Its finally giving the producer and the processor a profit, where for many years there was little, if any, profit at all. The director of the State Food and Agriculture Department said the boycott might briefly reduce meat consumption and have the temporary affect of lowering prices, but when the boycott ends people will go back to buying and prices will go back up. He predicted, however, that meat prices will level out now because it has been a good year for cattle feed and calf production. 'I've been in the cattle business all my life, he said, so I know what happens.

Meantime, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to support the weeklong meat boycott. Assemblyman John V. Briggs, R-Fullerton, chairman of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, introduced a resolution calling for a legislative investigation of escalating beef costs. There has been a suggestion that some of the wealthy California speculators are deliberately holding thousands of cattle off the market in an attempt to drive beef prices even higher, he said. Anyone with any reasonable intelligence should figure out, Reagan told his weekly news conference, that the answer is not that easy, for somebody to parade around a market with a sign boycotting meat.

The governor, who owns a small herd of breeding bulls, said if housewives find meat prices are too high they will buy other-food instead and the laws of supply and demand will take over. Reagan said acts of God such as a rough winter are partly to blame for rising beef prices and Im not in favor of boycotting Him. Christensen said "I believe weeks proposed housewives beef boycott, but added: I am encouraging families to have more meatless days to reduce consumption, increase the market supply and bring down prices. That will get the message across. Kehoe said his family now is having two meatless days a week.

If everyone did that, he said, wed soon begin to treat the problem and let the market place adjust to supply and demand. The two state officials talked with UPI about rising meat costs one day after Gov. Ronald Reagan urged California housewives to ignore the boycott. He Said he intends to. SACRAMENTO (UPI) The Reagan administrations farm director, a lifelong cattle rancher, said today meat prices are right where they should be and a nationwide boycott will have no lasting affect on the cost of a steak.

C. Brunei Christensen, who runs 3,000 head of cattle in Modoc County, also said: I dont like the idea of eating horse. Ive rode them all my life and have been too friendly with them, I guess, to eat one. Horse meat, as a substitute for beef, has been a big seller this week in Portland, Ore. Meantime, John T.

Kehoe, state director of consumer affairs, said he opposes next HAPPY JOEL GREY holds Oscar. i pi Photo).