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ijl City Final Cooler Details on A-2 15 Cents San Bernardino, California Serving The Inland Empire Viets ST 'Jf''vw'' en op 01 i jt riday Ffrs fie season talks North Vietnam captured enough American-made military equipment to field an entire army, air force and navy. Page A-2. to begin the talks on Oct. 28 five days before the U.S. election and Washington turned down a Hanoi proposal for a Nov.

5 opening date, officials said. Agreement on the Nov. 12 opening was reached last eek. Court OKs new, higher gas prices WASHINGTON (API A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that natural gas producers can collect under new. higher price ceilings a long as they make provisions to refund money if the ceilings are later ruled out.

The decision could mean increased costs of $15 to $18 a year on the average residential gas hill. The Federal Energy Admintstra-tion. meanwhile, reported that the nation in general should have enough fuel to make up for expected natural gas shortages this winter, provided the weather and the economy are normal. But the agency said North Carolina may run into fuel shortages even in a normal winter, and unusually cold weather could result in shortages of energy in that state and eight others: Georgia, Maryland. South Carolina.

Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky. West Virginia and Arizona. The federal appeals court scheduled further hearings on the natural gas price ceilings for Thursday, according to the Federal Power Commission, which established the ceilings, and the Energy Action Committee, a citizen consumer group challenging the new rates in court The cost increase would hit some families and industries harder than others, depending how much gas they use and how much of it is (Continued on A-2, column 5 Seven-year-old Danny Lewis of Creemore, helps shovel the family car from under more than 20 inches of snow that blanketed portions of Canada in the season's first heavy snowfall. Patty Hearst transferred WASHINGTON VP) The United States and Vietnam will open preliminary talks Friday in Parts on the possibility of beginning normal relations. American officials said Tuesday.

The talks will be the first between the two countries since the Paris peace agreement was signed almost four years ago. In a related development. Vietnamese officials said an application by Hanoi for admisson to the United Nations will come up in the U.N. Security Council on Friday and a vote is expected Monday. The Ford administration has said it will veto the Vietnamese application if there is no substantial progress toward obtaining an accounting of the 800 Americans listed as missing in action in Vietnam President-elect Jimmy Carter has expressed support for this position but said that the Ford administration's inability to obtain an MIA accounting is one of its most embarrassing failures.

The Paris talks are aimed at finding out whether there is any basis for substantive negotiations on normalizing relations. Officials said it is doubtful that any significant progress toward this goal can be made before the Carter administration takes office 10 weeks from now. The chief Vietnamese objective in the talks is securing U.S. war reconstruction aid. The United State promised such assistance in the 1973 Paris agreement but the Ford administration has said that Vietnam disqualified itself from receiving U.S.

aid because of its invasion and conquest of South Vietnam 18 months ago. The American delegation at the talks will be headed by the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Pans. Samuel R. Gammon.

The Vietnamese are expected to be represented by a diplomat of similar rank. The locale of the talks was not disclosed Of the first meeting, a U.S. official said. "We're going to lie hardnosed but not belligerent It's not going to he a friendly meeting." The two countries have been exchanging note on the possibility of opening talks since last April, and have been haggling over a day for the past month Vietnam rejected a US proposal Officials said she threw tantrums, refused to work New York Times News Service SAN FRANCISCO Patricia Hearst was transferred suddenly Tuesday morning from the campus-like surroundings of the Federal Correctional Institution at Pleasanton, 60 miles southeast of here, to the 12-story high- rise Metropolitan Correction Center in San Diego. Prison officials refused to explain the transfer to the San Diego center which houses 500 prisoners, most of whom are unsentenced or serving short terms.

Sources in the prison at Pleasanton reported, however, that Hearst had been throwing a number of emotional tantrums. These sources said she would go into her room and beat her fists against the wall until the knuckles were scraped and red. Last week she had refused to work at her assigned job and when told she would be put into isolation Intricate escape plot foiled by too much talk Doctors attack amphetamines AP wiraphoto transferred to San Diego Asked why Hearst had refused to work, one inmate source said that "she just didn't like the rules of this place; the limits on the amount of clothing and the amount of books you can have This person said that Hearst had asked to be transferred to Terminal Island Prison in Ump Beach mor? than a week ago because such limits do not exist there. The institution at Pleasanton. however, is regarded by many of its inmates as one of the best of the federal facilities.

The campus-like $5 5 million institution, which opened in July 1971 houses 250 young men and women mostly between the ages of 1H and 2t. Hearst is 22. The country's first such correctional facility, Pleasanton was designed to provide maximum educational, vocational and rehabilitational opportunities for young offenders. Hearst first came to the facility in May. She stayed there briefly on her way to the San Diego Metropolitan Center for psychiatric examination, which had hern ordered by her trial judge before he specified her sentence.

An inmate who befriended Hearst described her as "bitter and resent ful." which might explain why she finally refused to work She said that she had never done anything wrong and should not have been in jail. "She would he cool one night, then go off to her room and throw a tantrum." said another. She was very stubborn." the inmate said, adding: "After a week in the unit she said she was not afraid of going out alone. Up until then she never went out on the grounds alone dn i moi. morning Weather UR AM) COOLER The weather outlook is for fair davs with cooler temperatures Highs 7 to 82.

A-2. Opinion THE JOBLESS Columnist Jac Anderson says U.S. diplomats critical of Henry Kissinger soon find themselves among the unemployed. 12 World STREAM OF PHOTFSTS Resolutions against South Africa and its supporters pour out of the N. General Assembly A-2.

State RIDS FOR LAM) Mobile Oil Co. bids for purchase of the Irvine Co. land holdings in Orange County Afl. SAN QUENTIN (AD Using stolen shovels, a makeshift telephone warning system and clean clothes to wear after each day's work, a group of convicts tunneled close to freedom before they were discovered and captured Tuesday. San Quentin state prison spokesman Bill Merkle said three prisoners, all with prior escape attempts on their records, surrendered quietly after a guard happened to hear their voices behind a metal door in a sub-basement room filled with dirt.

Three other convicts in the north cellblock. which also houses Death Row, were placed in maximum vacuuming, washing windows and cleaning the shower rooms. According to inmates in her dormitory unit, who asked that their names not be used. Hearst first refused to work a week ago. She was written up in a discipline report, they said, and the prison officials had planned to put her in an isolation unit Friday but decided to wait until Saturday, when she was to see her lawyer, Albert Johnson.

After meeting with Johnson, she reportedly said that she would return to work. On Monday she began working again, the sources said. However. Johnson met with her again Monday night, and early Tuesday morning she was only a guard's random check of the basement area that turned up the scheme. After the three diggers gave themselves up, officials said, guards found a sophisticated tunnel complete with wooden walls, electric lights, fan and a communications system fashioned from radio and telephone parts.

Inmates on the cellblock would use the network to alert the tunnelers to impending security checks, Merkle said. Officials said it appeared the plotters had stolen the shovels while assigned to maintenance work, and had brought clean clothes to change into after each shift of digging Merkle estimated they had been laboring at the project for three weeks to a month. "There were several working on it and taking turns, that's our assumption." he said "There had to be more involved." The three inmates apprehended near the tunnel were identified as Norman Lucas, 2ti serving a life sentence fur kidnap. Richard Lee. 27, serving five years to life for assault with intent to commit mur der, and Ijwrence Saffels.

211. serving five years to life for armed robbery. Officials said Lucas was one of three inmates who took hostages in the Santa Clara County Jail during the 1972 trial of black militant Angela Davis. Earlier this year, he tried to escape by putting a dummy in his San Quentin bunk but was found hiding in the furniture shop. Lee once tried to escape from a Colorado prison, San Quentin officials said, and Saffels did manage to escape for one day from another California prison last spring.

Merkle declined to identify the other three inmates involved in the plot. The Marin County district attorney's office will be asked whether charges should be filed, he said. Merkle added there was no indication that the convicts had help wait ing on the outside. as punishment, she said that was what she wanted, these sources said. Last week during a tour of the Pleasanton facility where Hearst was assigned after she was sentenced in September to a seven-year prison term for armed bank robbery, Jim Meko, the institution's chief case manager, said that "the concept here is volunteerism, but if someone decides to sit around'' they are going to be transferred out.

There are a lot of people who want to get into this place." Hearst had been assigned to the job of unit orderly, which involved keeping her dormitory unit clean and included mopping the floor. security for their parts in the escape attempt, and Merkle said as many as a dozen may have been involved. Prison officials said the inmates had already tunneled their way 10 feet down and H7 feet outward and beyond the prison wall. "It looks like they were headed for (San Francisco! bay," said Merkle. "If they had made it to the bay.

(about feet awayi they would have been beyond the security perimeters. All they would have had to do would be tippy toe around and they would have been gone, especially at night Calling the plot "real Jimmy Cagney stuff." Merkle said it was be made in descending orders of priority, with first priority given those persons who bought the device for their own use. Second would be to persons who bought the devices for themselves and also for resale to others, third priority would he those persons who purchased the devices solely for resale, and fourth priority would be the Wilsons' creditors in San Bernardino. Preston said the Wilsons had told him they would be able to repay the money. The device, called the Accelatron.

consisted of two pieces of formica held together by aluminum stri with a lead-in wire connected to a plate between the pieces of formica. The devices were marketed in three sizes for $250, $.350 and $450. Users were directed to put it under their beds at night. Promotional literature for the device implied that it emitted negative ions, which wore described as (Continued on A 2. column Claimed cancer treatment Two plead guilty in Accelatron case WASHINGTON iAPi Five physicians recommended on Tuesday that the government ban the use of amphetamines and similar drugs as weight loss aids on grounds they are unsafe and ineffective.

Three of the five told a Senate panel that abuse of amphetamines generally known as uppers or pep pills is so widespread that the drug should be prohibited altogether, even though they are used to Nation URGE PAY HIKE Civil Service Commission chief wants pay raise for top federal employes to prevent them from leaving the government. A3 RADIATION RISK Federal survey finds mammography mac hines 11 breast ancer centers exposed women to excessive radiation A NO COMMENT IRS officials won't comment on reported billion tax break for over a 10-year period A4. Sports BIG BLOW TO SBHS San Bernardino High School was forced to forfeit its six wins this season after it was learned that star defensive hack Terry) Flinches was ineligible. D-l. index Ann Landers 2 HELP: B-8 Liviuc I 10 Mutual Funds Clrfssifieil CuillllS County Kiliiorial lll.itli I I I 1 Health Hcartlinc n-7 12 A A 12 1 3 12 nut A A 2 C5 (tliituarirs Sports Stardacr State News TV Theater Vital Kenirds HV7 1)17 D-8 AH7 l'M 1)7 treat overactive children and narcolepsy.

The doctors ited research indicating amphetamines also may he responsible for birth defects. Dr. James Nora, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical Center, compared questions about amphetamines with those raised about birth control pills. "The point is." he said, "the world needs 'the pill' or some agent that can perform its function equally well. I am unable to identify a similar need for amphetamines and related drugs Dr.

Lester Grinspoon. associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical Sc hool added "There is no question that there is far more harmfulnoss from the use of amphetamines than benefits." Dr. Thaddeus Prout, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hop kins University and chief of medic ine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, agreed that ampheta mines and their cousins should be banned for weight loss but said all-out efforts lo control the drugs should be made before they are removed from the market. The physicians testified before the Senate small business subcommittee on monopoly, whose chairman. Sen.

Gaylord Nelson. advocates an outright ban on amphetamines. Two doctors. Allen S. Goldman and Sumner J.

Yasse, both of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the drugs should be banned for treatment of obesity, Yasse said under questioning they should be banned for all uses, if necessary. Yasse headed a committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics which recommended in 1W73 that the drug be prohibited as a weight reduction treatment. Other doctors, researchers and representatives of drug nianufactur (Continued on A-2. column 4 By ALAN ASHBY Sun-Tlegram Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Two Colton residents pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling devices illegally represented as effective against cancer. The pleas were entered by John Gilbert Wilson, 37, and his mother, Imola Faye Wilson, 58.

both of 329 E. Colton. as they were about to go to trial before Superior Court Judge Roy E. Chapman. Chapman scheduled sentencing for Jan.

7. Wilson pleaded guilty to two counts of offering a device and his mother to one, said Deputy Dist. Atty. James A. Preston.

The Wilsons were guaranteed they would not be sent to state prison or county jail providing they make restitution of up to $72,000, Preston said, but no other promises were made. The Wilsons had been charged in 15 counts with illegally selling the devices and with illegal practices in their business operation. The remaining counts will be dismissed. Preston said the restitution was to.