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SPOKANE, WASH. Column One Highlights of the news from the inside pages of today's Spokesman-Review: WITH 2,429 absentee votes. counted, there was no change in the sweep scored by City Council challengers. In the only race in doubt, incumbent John H. "Jack" Winston picked up some ground on James E.

Chase, but not enough to make a recount mandatory. (Page 6) INTERNATIONAL Airport intends to close down its main runway next summer for $1.8 million repair job. (Page 11) GEORGE C. WALLACE BILLING HIMSELF "the people's choice," Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace officially announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday. (Page 52) IT WAS a big day for the stock market Wednesday with prices climbing in heavy trading. The widely watched Dow Jones industrial average advanced more than 13 points. (Page 44) IN FIVE YEARS brownouts will start because of utility cutbacks in new electric plants, a New York securities analyst forecast. (Page 18) SOVIET authorities have rejected Andrei Sakharov's request for permission to go to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Page 47) DONALD RUMSFELD DONALD Rumsfeld assured the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday that as of defense he would "totally dedisecretary, cated to a strong defense posture." But he left open the possibility he would leave the Pentagon post if offered the Republican vice presidential nomination. ON THE INSIDE In Today's Comics 51 Crossword 14 Editorials 4 Inland Empire 10 Markets 44,45 Movies 5 Spokesman-Review Pictures 58 Radio-TV 2 Records 52 Sports 48-51 Star Gazer 5 Weather. 2 Women 29-43 News Service Symbols (AP)-Associated Press (NYT) York Times (WP) Washington Post (WS) Star (LAT) Angeles Times SPOKANE I ALLAMERICA CITY Douglas retires from court WASHINGTON -William 0. Douglas retired from the Supreme Court Wednesday because failing health, ending a record 36 years on the high court as one of the nation's most adamant and controversial defenders of the libertarian view of the Constitution. His retirement was announced at 5 p.m., several hours after he had sat in the court's marble-columned courtroom listening to part of the day's oral arguments.

Statements of praise came immediately from President Ford, justices of the court and others. The retirement also produced immediate speculation on whom Ford would appoint as a successor and on the impact of the retirement on the decisions of the court. The President was reported by high administration sources to be considering the appointment of a woman, the first in the court's history. It was widely expected as well that he would select someone of far more conservative philosophy than Douglas. The 77-year-old justice notified Ford of his retirement in a letter, saying: It was my hope, when I returned to Washington in September, that I would be able to continue to participate in the work of the Sup- (Also see stories, page 2) Compiled from 5-R wire services reme Court." "I have learned, however, after these last two months, that it would be inadvisable for me to attempt to carry on the duties required of a member of the court.

I have been bothered with incessant and demanding pain which depletes my energy to the extent that I have been unable shoulder my full share of the Ford, who in 1970, as a representative, led the last of three abortive efforts to impeach Douglas, replied by letter: "Your distinguished years of service are unequaled in all the history of the court." The President said he had read the justice's letter with "profound personal sympathy," and expressed "on behalf of all our countrymen this nation's great gratitude for your more than 36 years as a member of the Supreme Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, often at odds with Douglas ideologiissued a statement that the justice's long service on the court "sets a record that may never be equaled." The retirement, he said, "brings to a close a career unique in the of the Associate Justice Potter Stewart said: "William O. Douglas stands uniquely alone in the history of our court Impasse ending Oil pricing plan O.K'd WASHINGTON (WP) House-Senate conferees Wedprice nesday formula approved that a would revised droll back the price of gasoline by three-and-a-half cents a gallon immediately and then permit it to rise slowly. Two changes made in the price control formula Wednesday are expected to break the year-long deadlock between President Ford and Congress on oil price controls and cause him to sign the Omnibus Energy Conservation Bill which contains it. Last week, the conferees had adopted a formula rolling back oil prices which the Administration strongly indicated would provoke a veto.

The formula was an over-all price ceiling on domestic crude oil of $7.55 per 42-gallon barrel, with a possible increase of 10 per cent a year depending on the rate of inflation during 40-month period, after which price cona, trols would end. Wednesday afternoon, by a unanimous House vote and a 17-to-2 Senate vote, the conferees agreed to raise the average ceiling by 11 cents to $7.66 and add a provision under which two million barrels a day of Alaskan oil may be exempted from the com posite ceiling in 1977 when it will start flowing, south from Prudhoe Bay if the President and Congress agree higher prices are needed to cover high Alaskan costs. The new formula gives no special help to small stripper wells pumping less than 10 barrels a day and which the earlier formula guaranteed a price of $11 a barrel. But Rep. Paul Rogers, D- said Federal al Energy Administrator Frank G.

Zarb had told him he would recom- and our country. As one of his junior justice for his kindness during Dougcolleagues, I have long admired his las' illness despite their strong differintellect, his independence, his ener- ences in judicial philosophy. gy, and his vision. I salute him now as Friends of Douglas confirmed that a man of extraordinary the unabated pain, accentuated by the Douglas has been in poor health need to spend long hours on the bench since he suffered a stroke last New and in conference away from needed Year's Eve. He missed several physical therapy, had overcome months of last year's court term as a Douglas's renowned stamina and the result.

He returned to the court this determination he displayed during his fall, apparently determined to stay on battle to stay on the bench. the bench, but he missed many of the According to close friends the juscourt sessions and was hospitalized tice, considered a by friend twice. and foe alike, was unimpaired menThere was no immediate word from tally but was constantly frustrated by the White House about a successor or the slowness of his recovery and by even about a field of potential candi- his inability to devote, sustained dates, although several names of amounts of time to work. legal luminaries and friends of Presi- The justice was the judicial, Wedhis, dent Ford were mentioned as pos- nesday morning in what one intimate sibilities. friend described as "his farewell" There has been talk recently that a appearance.

woman might be named, and Carla A. Authoritative sources said Douglas Hills, Secretary of Housing and had no contact with administration Urban Development, has been among officials before making his decision. those prominently mentioned. They added that despite continuing Others speculated about Wed- bitterness over Ford's effort in 1970 nesday night in legal circles were when he was a congressman to imAttorney General Edward H. Levi peach Douglas, the justice's only conand Solicitor General Robert H.

Bork. sideration in resigning was his health. Tributes to Douglas from public of- The much-discussed possibility that ficials and his associates in the law Douglas would hang on past the 1976 poured in from across the country. elections to frustrate Ford and imLeading the praise was Burger who, prove prospects for a liberal replaceaccording to Douglas's friends, ment simply did not enter the picture, earned the deep gratitude of the ailing the sources said. Ransom is paid; boy freed mend the President accept the price formula conferees approved Wednesday.

The effect would be to roll back the price of gasoline by three-and-a-half cents per gallon immediately and let it move up slowly to present levels by late 1977 and to three- cents above present levels by the end of 1978. This means there would be no increase in the present price of gasoline until after the 1976 elections. The present price control law will expire Saturday. There is no chance the conference report on the Energy Bill can be approved by both Houses and signed by the President by then. But the nation got along for nearly a month without a price control law in September without any price increase.

Mrs. Douglas comments Mrs. William O. Douglas, wife of the Supreme Court associate justice, talks about her husband's resignation as she chats with newsmen at their Washington home Wednesday evening. (AP) DEATHS, PINK PAINT CITED SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) witness in the Lynette Fromme trial said Wednesday that Miss Fromme ordered him to kill the president of Kaiser Industries and his wife, paint their bodies pink a and stuff an aerosol spray can in the man's mouth. Edward, man Vandervort, from York, a who testified with the jury absent, said he had told the FBI that Miss Fromme also said something to him about killing President Ford. Vandervort said he corresponded with Miss Fromme talked to her by telephone but had never met her in person. Miss Fromme, 27, a follower of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, is on trial charged with attempting to kill President Ford when he visited Sacramento on Sept. 5.

U.S. District Judge Thomas MacBride was to rule whether Vandervort would be allowed to testify about a phone call he allegedly received from Miss Fromme: Vandervort said the June 21 call confirmed a letter he got from Miss Fromme in Sacramento telling him to kill Kaiser President William Roesch and his wife. "Do not threaten him first. Kill him. Destroy him, get him and the wife however you can, said the letter, read in court by U.S.

Atty. Dwayne Keyes. The letter also told Vandervort to use gloves, paint the bodies pink and leave an aerosol can in Roesch's mouth. He said he was told Roesch was living in Bridgeville, Pa. Kaiser officials said he lives in Oakland where the firm is headquartered.

Kaiser manufactures products with aerosol sprays and the company color is pink, officials said. Vandervort said earlier he had gotten a letter from Miss Fromme telling him to make threatening phone calls to corporate executives saying if they didn't stop polluting the environment, Manson will send for your heart. Remember Sharon Tate." Firemen battle burning jetliner Firemen fight flames after a DC10 jumbo jetliner caught fire and engine. All 139 persons aboard slid down evacuation chutes exploded during an aborted takeoff at Kennedy Airport Wednes- safety. At least four aboard suffered minor injuries, and day.

The airline blamed the smashup on birds ingested into one policemen assisting in the evacuation also were hurt. (AP) BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) The abducted son of a General Motors executive was reported safe early Thursday after his father paid a $150,000 ransom, bringing a tense, behind-the-scenes drama to a close. Bloomfield Hills Township police said 13-year-old Timothy Stempel, son of C. Stempel, walked into the Wayne County Medical Center shortly after 11 p.m.

Wednesday. They said he was exhausted but otherwise in good shape. Lt. Don Zimmerman of the Bloomfield Township Police Department said Stempel paid the ransom at about 8:24 p.m. Wednesday and the ransom was picked up at 9:12.

Police had urged news media not to publicize the kidnaping for fear of endangering the boy's life. It was only upon his release that the story became public. Zimmerman said police had not had a chance to question the youth. now it's a matter of reuniting the family and possibly giving them a good night's sleep," he said, adding his agency and two others would go "headlong" into the investigation. Timothy was first reported missing at 5:30 p.m.

Monday when he went out to play with his skateboard in the family's affluent, partially wooded neighborhood in this Detroit suburb. Earlier Wednesday, an attempt to pay the ransom failed, police said. Stempel, director of engineering, at Division, the was Chevrolet under close surveillance as he followed "complicated and critical arrangements" to make the payoff, police said. Justice William Douglas Douglas as he appeared two weeks ago. To return to Idaho Bowles admits two murders By TOM BURNETT nan staff writer Convicted murderer Carl Cletus Bowles, 34, will be returned by Friday to the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise after pleading guilty in Spokane County Superior Court Wednesday to the June 15, 1974, murders of a Eugene, couple.

Judge William J. Grantwho had been scheduled to preside over Bowles' murder beginning Mondaysentenced the defendant to two life prison terms for the first-degree murders of Earl C. Hunter, 63, and his wife, Viola 61. The Hunters' partially decomposed bodies were found July 11, 1974, in a wooded area near Rockford, southeast of Spokane. Both had been shot twice with a revolver.

Judge Grant ordered the two life terms to run consecutively but concurrently with prison terms meted out to Bowles earlier in both Idaho and Oregon. Should Bowles be paroled from three 25-year consecutive prison terms for kidnaping in Idaho, he would be returned to Washington to satisfy the life terms. Should Bowles be paroled from Washington, he would be taken to the Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, to complete a life term for the murder of a deputy sheriff. Bowles decided to change Oct. 21 innocent pleas to this Spokane County murder charges because he wished to leave solitary confinement in the County-City Jail and be returned to the Idaho penitentiary, defense attorney Fred M.

Schuchart said. After the defendant, handcuffed and under tight security, pleaded guilty to the two murder counts in Spokane, Judge Grant asked Bowles to comment. "It's all been said before," Bowles said. In defense of Bowles, Schuchart said "there should be three other individuals here today with Mr. Bowles.

"The three persons on the Board of Parole from the Oregon State Penitentiary, also should be here," he said. The board had turned down a request by Bowles for parole from the life term he was serving in the Oregon institution for the July 7, 1965, murder of a Lane County de- CARL BOWLES Pleads guilty puty sheriff, Carlton Smith. "There be two other people who should have been here the Hunters," Judge Grant said. "To blame the parole board for what happened does not impress me. This indicates an endeavor to pass off your responsibility onto someone else," the judge said.

"Excuse me," Bowles said "I'm a product of the system. I'm not trying to blame anyone else. I'll take the responsibility for what's been Bowles said. (Continued on page 6) Large Tunnel The 540-foot-long tunnel which passes through San Francisco's Yerba Buena Island is said to be largest in diameter of any road tunnel, measuring 76 feet in width and 58 feet in height. When you measure success, it's results that count.

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