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a. 2 Home-Owned Daily Serving the Fastest Growing Area on the Snake River two Pages Volume 70 Number 184 Single Copy 15 Cents I i r' (Ill Jt LCtl I Tr '-f 1. i i Burley, Idaho, Thursday. December 12, 1974 the spring of 1976 was not anticipated by (SIP Photo) coaches a day to make the run profitable, would just break even and one would a losing proposition. Councilman Les Morgan asked about a stop at Minidoka Burley-Rupert patrons.

Jensen doubted that the Amtrak would stop at both Shoshone and Minidoka. He said the committee projects most of the patronage from vacationers and others traveling longer distances. Jensen said the committee will make a market survey to ascertain the potential southern Idaho. If the experimental service is instituted through Idaho and it justified by the Amtrak minimum standards and requirements the service would likely be retained permanently, WMilMWITi nil iiiiHI 111 I I I ili 1 1 4 CHAIRMAN DWIGHT JENSEN (left), Ellis Mathis and Burley Mayor Chuck Shadduck presided at the AMTRAK hearing held in Burley Wednesday night. Service before AMTRAK plans for Idaho told at 1 Burley hearing Economy WASHINGTON (AP) Faced with a deepening recession and rising unemployment, President Ford has directed his economic advisers to prepare new programs to combat the nation's economic problems.

Ford said in a speech Wednesday night he expects to have the programs ready for the new Congress when it convenes Jan. 14. His advisers will be working through the Christmas holidays to prepare it, he said. Treasury Department sources said the options the President will consider include tax cuts, mandatory fuel allocations, financial aid to troubled industries and additional help for the nation's unemployed. Ford planned to discuss auto industry problems today with automobile executives and leaders of the United Auto Workers.

The wholesale price index being released today is expected to show a further easing in the inflationary pressures in the nonfood area, although the rate will still exceed what the administration wants. Ford's speech offered few clues about his proposals to the next Congress, but it was clear he has abandoned or changed much of the economic program that he that "inflation will move steadily down from the intolerable double-digit level." The 1.2 per cent rise in wholesale prices last month, on a seasonally adjusted basis, compared with October's increase of 2.5 per cent and a rise of one-tenth of one per cent in September. Unadjusted, prices rose one per cent last month. Trends in wholesale prices usally show up at the consumer level eventually, offering hope that the rise in retail prices may soon tail off. Detailing its wholesale price report, the Labor Department said prices for farm products rose 1.3 per cent in November while processed foods and feeds increased 3.5 per cent.

In October farm products climbed 4.8 per cent and processed foods and feeds 5.5 per cent. Sugar and confectionary goods accounted for most of the 3.5 per cent increase in prices of consumer foods, those goods ready for sale on supermarket shelves. Sugar and confectionary prices jumped 33.1 per cent last month and were 191.9 per cent higher than a year ago. fm 1 1 Twenty li i fr ill v4 the committee members convenina here said Jensen, even though it was losing money at the start. Jensen told his listeners that there are 'many projected services, one from Butte and Montana points through Idaho Falls, Pocatello and on to Ogden and Salt Lake to connect with a Los Angeles "destination.

There is no Salt Lake-Los Angeles train now even though the Southwest has Amtrak service out of LA through Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver and the Midwest. Jensen said it would be feasible and necessary to have bus feeder service to the various stops between Ogden, Pocatello, Boise and Ontario, Oregon. 23.3 per cent in the past 12 months, the biggest year-to-year increase since 1947. But the rate of increase has slowed in recent months, indicating that the tiatlon's' inflation rate may soon begin to subside. President Ford in his economic speech vyeanesaay nignt said price pressures were beginning to ease and predicted Law building gets official start Friday Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Cassia County Law Enforcement Building have been scheduled for Friday CDec.

13) at 10 a.m. On hand for the groundbreaking activities will be city officials, the county commissioners, the architect John Wood, and officials from the firm that will build the structure Nielson and Co. of Twin Falls. Nielson and Co. Won the contract with a bid of $772,995.

The structure will house both the Burley City Police and the county sheriff's department as well as provide "required jail facilities which include separate detention facilities for women, juveniles and male adults. Construction on the facility is to start in the near future with the contractor allowing in his bid a 360 calendar day completion. Nielson and Co. is also constructing the new Mountain View Elementary School in Burley, the Minidoka County Judicial Building and was the only bidder on a proposed expansion plan at the Minidoka County Hospital this week. November wholesale costs slow, may be sign of slowing inflation A dozen Amtrak fans met at the Burley City council chambers Wednesday evening to hear the tentative proposal of the Idaho Advisory committee for bringing Amtrak service to Idaho.

D-wight Jensen, Boise newsman, heads the committee and presided at the Burley meeting with Ellis Mathis, former highway engineer, and Mayor Charles Shadduck, also a committee member. Before an audience of senior citizens for the most part, Jensen explained that the earliest possible service would not come until' 1976. Jensen said the cost of Amtrak when it comes at today's costs would be about cents per mile. It would require about seven hours to reach Salt Jimmy Carter readies hat for 76 run WASHINGTON (AP) Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia set forth a platform for his presidential candidacy today and called for "new leadership and new ideas" to bridge the gulf between the American people and their government.

Carter outlined a broad agenda of governmental reforms in a speech at the National Press Club here. He planned to announce his candidacy formally later today at a rally in Atlanta. In an interview before his two. ap-. pearances, Carter, who is considered a distinct longshot for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he thought his chances "excellent" and declared, "I'm in the race to stay." He joins Rep.

Morris K. Udall of Arizona as an active candidate in a Democratic presidential field expected to swell considerably before the iirst primary New Hampshire in March 1976. 4 i In his speech, Carter said "political leaders have been isolated from the people and "have made decisions from an ivory tower. "Now is the time for this chasm between people and government to be bridged, and for American citizens to join in shaping our nation's future." He urged these specific steps: Open all meetings of regulatory agencies, executive departments and congressional committees to the public "except in a few rare cases." Prohibit all gifts to public officials. Disclosure of all business involvements of major government officials.

Personnel of regulatory agencies should be barred for four years from joining the industry they regulate. Public financing of congressional campaigns. 1 Tighter controls on lobbyists. Appearance by Cabinet members before the full House and Senate Lake City but the fare would be about half the eost of air service and about the same price as the present bus fare. The bus would provide faster service to Salt Lake City on account of the Interstate routing into Utah'.

The need to bring a thru-train from Seattle, Portland, Boise, Ogden and Salt Lake via Pocatello was expressed by Jensen who said it would be necessary to have a diner on the train under ICC regulations. The present plan is for passenger service for three days a week which could be increased to seven days if the patronage Warranted such. Jensen said it would require three cT) mmm I 'M I Ht'i rm 1( Tax cut, oil bill is killed WASHINGTON (AP) A multibillion-dollar tax bill, ending, the petroleum depletion allowance and hiking oil industry taxes while cutting taxes for millions of average Americans, was killed today by the House Rules Committee. The committee, which serves as the traffic cop for the movement of bills to the House, voted 9 to 4 to refuse to consider the massive measure which the House Ways and Means Committee had recommended after many months of work. insist on a price rise immediately after Dec.

31, when present prices are subject to revision. But he said the oil exporters eventually will need more revenue to offset the increase in the cost of their imports due to inflation. The leading "price dove," Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, said "a certain reduction of prices is not excluded." But other sources doubted the meeting would vote any cuts. The hearing was to discuss AEC waste-management programs and a draft environmental report on the storage of commercial waste, primarily from eastern power plants, The three proposed sites are the Hanford Reservation near Richland, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the Nevada Test Site near Las Vegas, Nev. Representatives from Nevada and Washington State were to testify later in the day.

Jack R. Petitti, vice chairman of the Clark County Commission in Nevada, said he would present a resolution supporting the Nevada test site as the two be for of is as announced Oct. 8 after the economic summit. "We will meet the ehanainj; priorities of present and future realities," Ford told the Business Council, a group of about 100 of the notion's top corporate executives. Ford said he would support increased spending over what he has proposed previously to help the nation's jobless with extended unemployment benefits and public service jobs.

The Senate is planning to vote sewn on a $4 billion emergency public service jobs bill to create about jobs in the next year. The House is scheduled to take up an emergency unemployment compensation bill to extend benefits an additional 13 weeks for jobless workers. Another change in the Ford program is the recognition that the present Congress will not approve his proposed 5 per cent income surtax proposal, a presidential spokesman said Wednesday. Ford said in his speech that he didn't care whether his antiinflation WIN program stood for Work is Needed instead of the original designation of Whip Inflation Now. But the President said his administration is not going to abandon the fight against inflation, which he said is important to solving problems of recession and unemployment.

He said anti-inflation pressure is building and predicted "inflation will move steadily down from the intolerable double-digit level." Ford said the nation is not in an economic crisis in the sense that it "demands immediate and drastic ac tion." GOOD lOC-lOS MO SbME "tuf ttow fipst m2B (rJ a mue -THE BAD lUOOS IS 1UE mu ASWfJLAMP The weather Increasing clouds, some snow, wind. Highs 30-40. Lows 15-25. was no immediate comment from the Israeli command. But an informed Israeli source in Tel Aviv said: "The target area in the Beirut raid is a PLO training installation.

We have every reason to believe 1 hat tt was where the planning for the cinema raid was carried out. It is a center for spinal operations of a very delicate and sensitive nature." At least four Israeli jets flew over the Lebanese capital dropping Ixm'ns on several camps short, after 3 p.m. a.m. EST. Smoke rose over the camps as air raid sirens wailed throughout Beirut The jets dipped low over the city as they made at least two bombing passes.

Witnesses said the major camps of Sabra and Shatilla and the smaller Tal Zaalar camp near the Beirut airport look hits. Residents at another camp. Hour.) el Barajneh, said they were not hit but that guerrillas fired antiaircraft rockets at the attacking jets. The proguerrilla newspaper Al Moharrer quoted Yasir Arafat, head oi the Palestine Liberation Organization, as claiming responsibility for the Tel Aviv movie attack Wednesday night. "This is a retaliation in kind for the Beirut operation," he was quoted as saying, referring to rocket attacks Tuesday on three PLO offices in Beirut.

waste Idahoans perceive the interim waste storage site at the (INEL) to be a potential threat to the vast Snake Plain aquifier," Andrus said A three-man AEC panel heard the testimony. Two environmentalists, in prepared statements, listed what they said were 16 deficiencies in the environmental draft. Richard Cotton, of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club, said, "After studying this environmental statement, we can only conclude that (the AEC) has not in any way fulfilled its obligations under (the National Environmental IS oMn 6 i -a Israeli warpanes attack suspected training site WASHINGTON (AP) Wholesale prices last month rose 1.2 per cent, less 1 than half the October increase, the gov- ernment reported today. There were indications the pace of inflation subsiding. Although the November increase was' nign Dy normal standards, tne Labor department said price increases over the month were less widespread than in preceding And, while agriculture prices continued to increase sharply at the wholesale level, prices of industrial commodities regarded by economists a truer measure of inflation rose at the slowest rate in 13 months.

Wholesale prices of industrial goods, rose nine-tenths of a per cent last month, slightly less than in September and October and the smallest rise since October 1973 when they rose eighttenths of a percent. Over -all wholesale prices have risen depletion in House The bill's chief features would have raised petroleum industry taxes on production at home and abroad, cut taxes for millions of average Americans in low-income and middle-income brackets, boosted the investment tax credit for public utilities, and closed assorted major loopholes while hiking taxes on foreign-source income of multinational firms. Furthermore, it would have made a series of other changes in tax laws ranging from new benefits for investors with capital losses to revisions. in the tax treatment of political organizations. The bill went to its death without even a hearing by the Rules Committee on the merits of the legislation.

The panel simply decided it was time to virtually close shop for the remaining days of this congressional session on all matters except those involving a stripmining control bill, the vice presidential nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller and emergency measures. The series of tax increases and reductions for various corporations and individuals would have resulted in a gain of $600 million for the Treasury this year. The Ways and Means Committee argued that the legislation is necessary to redistribute tax burdens while providing a more rational taxing of the oil industry. Possible new sugar controls will wait on the new Congress No immediate price hike is expected from oil summit VIENNA, Austria (AP) The oil- Amouzegar said the Shah of 'Iran, exporting countries are not expected to OPEC's leading "price hawk." does not raise prices at their two-day meeting that opened in Vienna today.

But Iran's oil minister says there will have to be an increase eventually to keep pace with "We must uphold the purchasing power of our oil," Jamshid Amouzegar of Iran told newsmen Wednesday night as oil ministers gathered for the session of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. By The Associated Press Israeli jets bombed a suspected Palestinian commando training site on the southern edge of Beirut today less than 24 hours after a terrorist set off grenades in a Tel Aviv movie theater, killing himself, an Israeli woman and a British engineer and wounding 58 others. Beirut airport was closed to all incoming and outgoing flights. Casualties in the air raids were not known, and there parently means the program operated under a federal Sugar Act will be allowed to expire Dec. 31.

The House voted last June not to grant the extension sought by the administration. The extension measure sent to the House by the Agriculture Committee lost crucial industry support when a number of amendments strengthening federal protection of sugar workers were added. Several weeks ago, however, Rep. Bob Bergland, and other committee members began quietly to investigate the possibility of securing at least a short extension before Congress adjourns. the INEL before even considering the processing of some commercial waste for shipment off -site or to the permanent geological depository site." Andrus referred to AEC plans to eventually move nuclear waste to permanent underground areas, but such areas have yet to be developed.

Andrus said waste in Idaho is currently stored directly over the Snake River aquifer, an underground channel of water which feeds the river 150 miles downstream in the Thousand Springs area. the Atomic Energy Commission must recognize that the majority of rg)s AEG to remove jalbove-g roy nd WASHINGTON (AP) The House Agriculture Committee decided Wednesday to wait until the new Congress convenes to make any attempt to revive a 40-year-old program of federal sugar controls. Under the program, the government controlled foreign imports, the size of the domestic crop, set tariffs and subsidized domesticgrowers. Consumer groups complained that the program kept sugar prices artifically high by controlling supply. The Agriculture Committee's decision, reached informally without a vote, ap proposed storage Dr.

Frank K. Pittman, director, of management and transportation for the AEC, said the' characteristics of the locations are outlined in a draft environmental statement to show there are at least three areas hi the country where analysis shows the environment can accept commercial radioactive waste without unacceptable impact. Pittman said today's hearing was to aid in preparation for a final environmental impact statement required by law. Andrus said, "Idahoans want the AEC to first remove the waste it has buried at primary storage location. Petitti said the endorsement was for economic reasons and pointed to a state study which he said estimated $100 million for site development over a 25-30-year period.

Despite Andrus'. position and opposition from environmentalists, city officials in Idaho Falls have passed a similar resolution supporting Idaho as the site, previous hearing on disposal of commercial nuclear waste was held Nov. 12 in Germantown, Md. AEC officials said Salt Lake City was chosen for this hearing because it is central to the three SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus today opposed the idea of temporary storing nuclear waste and said the Atomic Energy Commission should immediately begin removing atomic waste now stored in Idaho for transport to a permanent site elsewhere.

Andrus' remarks were telecopied here for an AEC hearing on proposals to temporarily move radioactive debris from commercial atomic operations to one or more proposed sites in the West. The Idaho Democratic governor, scheduled to be lead-off witness at the hearings, was fogbound at the Boise airport..