The Parsons Sun from Parsons, Kansas • 1

107 YEARS OF SERVICE NO 4 24 PAGES ii mmu wm? myt Japanese Goods Upheld By LYLE DENN1STON (C) 1978 Washington Star WASHINGTON The Supreme Court today saved America consumers from a sudden rise in prices on TV sets radios and hi-fi sets made in Japan In an unanimous ruling the court upheld the Treasury view that it should not impose a special import fee on those Japanese products US manufacturers of television and radio products had urged the Treasury to charge between 5 and 20 percent more on the Japanese goods The added fees should be levied the US companies argued to offset a kind of subsidy that Japan gives on television and radio products it sends abroad The Supreme Court however accepted the view that what Japan does is not a true subsidy on the exported items A forgiveness of sales and A I A fA i rv 'I V4 T'tl "4 sudden rise in prices in this country The theory that the Treasury has long followed on the issue before the court today also is followed under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade the basic treaty governing trading relations between the US and many other countries The Treasury Department has followed its theory since 1898 Under that theory no import fee will be applied in this country on foreign-made goods when the items have been excused from sales or excise taxes by the foreign government An import fee will be charged here however if the foreign country gives a direct subsidy to the manufacturer at home by waiving direct taxes such as taxes on the income of the manufacturer This distinction was challenged beginning in 1970 when Zenith Radio Corp asked the Treasury to impose an import duty on the Japanese items competing with Zenith's products here excise taxes on exported goods is not a subsidy to a kind that requires the Treasury to impose an offsetting import fee the court declared in the opinion written by Justice Thurgood Marshall Following from the classical economic views of Adam Smith and Ricardo the court agreed with the notion that the Japanese goods are spared from import fees here as a means of avoiding double taxation on them American buyers of goods made in Japan have to pay sales or excise taxes imposed in this country the court noted If they had to pay an import fee as well that would be the equivalent of paying double taxes according to the court ruling may have an impact beyond home broadcasting equipment made in Japan The US steel industry had joined in the test case before the court to complain about tax forgiveness by European countries on steel sent to the US As a result of the new decision foreign-made steel apparently will also avoid a Warrant Needed Court Decides AMATEUR NIGHT Acey Welch of Chanute sings a country-western tune during an Amateur Night contest in Erie Tuesday night The contest marked the opening of a week-long celebration of the 105th annual Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion At bottom left Alissa Clines 6-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Chuck Clines of Erie applauds a contestant At right Tom Byrd of Cherryvale awaits his turn Story on page 16 (Sun Photos by Marianne Maurin) py J' r- X' 'O 'S'l 1 4 if 3 i Radio Station Here Granted FM Permit Music Opens Erie's Reunion The Community Broadcasting Co of Parsons received notice today that the Federal Communications Commission had approved its application for an FM radio broadcasting license The company is the owner and operator of KLKC a standard 250-watt AM radio station that broadcasts during daylight hours The 600-watt FM station will be known as KLKC-FM and will broadcast on 935 megahertz Richard Combs KLKC general manager and one of the owners said it was hoped the FM broadcasts could begin by Oct 1 It will broadcast at least from 6 am to 11 pm daily with a minimum of 17 hours on the air Combs said Programming will begin with the same music as on the AM station he explained although a different music format will be ceveloped later Additional staff also will be hired for a general expansion of service including area sports coverage Stereo music will be broadcast The FM transmitter will be located north of US160 highway 17 miles east of the city at the site of the present AM transmitter Studio and offices will be maintained at 109'j Central The application was submitted on July 22 1977 The FM application followed other developments with KLKC that included the erec'ion of a new transmitter building and installation of a new AM transmitter Combs said that new audio equipment also would be installed Stockholders in the company are Combs Carol Combs and Eugene Joslin They have owned it since February 1954 The AM station has been on the air since Oct 26 1948 Earl Butler and Don Gould associated in a Parsons automotive dealership announced in May 1977 that they would apply for an FM station license Butler said today that plans for their station had been dropped i Sr I jg tmM for $80 billion a large in- crease in such spending the House appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations cut the figure by $11 billion Even with that cut however opponents note that the spending would be $(14 million above the 1978 level The measure had been scheduled to come up on the House floor today but leaders pushed its consideration over until next week after taking the unusual strategic step of cancelling House business Tuesday because of the death of second-term Rep Clifford Allen D-Tenn Stewart Pharmacy well that no one can account for A spokesman confessing to puzzlement said the company was shipping wire "as fast as we can produce There is some talk around here that a federal program of encouraging farmers to market less wheat this year ami to bale the excess for feed may have contributed to the shortage but Agriculture Department officials say they are not sure such is the case Whatever the reason the hay grows ripe in the fields and unless it is harvested soon there will be soe hungry animals by the time the (C) 1978 Washington Star WASHINGTON Police do not gain added authority to search a private home merely because it was the scene of a murder the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today The officers must follow the usual rule that they must have a search warrant issued by a court when they want to make a detailed inspection of the murder scene the court declared The decision overturned a ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court last year that created a new exception to the search warrant rule when the crime involved was a murder It makes no difference the justices said today what kind of a crime has been committed when the area officers are searching is a private home the warrantless search of a homicide scene is reasonable why not the warrantless search of the scene of a rape robbery or a burglary?" the court asked It ruled that policemen in Tucson Anz had acted unconstitutionally when they spent four days searching a apartment after a 14 Killed In Greek Earthquake SALONIKA Greece (AP) Police say 14 persons were killed and about 150 injured in a powerful earthquake that devastated large areas of Salonika second largest city and sent most of the 600000 residents fleeing to the countryside The quake which registered 65 on the Richter scale struck the capital of northern Greece at 11:03 pm Tuesday after a month of lesser tremors Bulgaria and Yugoslavia like Greece in the Balkan earthquake belt also were shaken but reported no casualties People jumped from balconies Persons trapped beneath the ruins cried for help damage and disruption is quite said Gov Costas Pylannos with most of the city being new it has resisted remarkably well Many of the buildings had been cracked by the earlier shocks Police said 11 persons were killed when two old apartment buildings fearsome Oklahoma winter comes But this is springtime and for now the country is green and warm It is flat country where you can see for miles through the sweet clear air where the sunrises are pink explosions and the sunsets seem to linger forever in narrowing crimson ribbons that push apart the indigo of earth and sky as if determined never to let them meet To the west where the water stops lies the arid land that the last generation of farmers fled when the soil turned to dust To the south policeman had been killed there during a shootout Without obtaining a warrant from a court the officers looked in detail in every drawer every cupboard every closet and every room As the court noted today item in the apartment was closely examined an inventoried and two to three hundred objects were While noting that officers do have the authority to make a search without a warrant when there is an emergency the court remarked: four-day search that included oipening dresser drawers and ripping up carpets can hardly be rationalized in terms of the legitimate concerns that justify an emergency search" While the court was unanimous on that point it voted 8 to 1 in settling another issue in the Arizona test case The court ruled that statements made by the murder suspect while he was in the intensive care unit of a hospital not long after the shootout could not be used in his new trial Although Arizona courts had said that the statements from his hospital bed had been voluntary the Supreme Court disagreed today The suspects was "weakened by pain and shock isolated from family friends and legal counsel and barely conscious and his will was simply It involved Rufus Junior Mincey an Air Force machinist He was shot and wounded during a shootout at his apartment in Tucson on Oct 28 1974 The shootout occurred when officers came to investigate for possible narcotics violations One of the officers died as a result of wounds received during the exchange of gunfire and Mincey was seriously wounded himself Besides being convicted of murder and assault Mincey was also found guilty of narcotics violations The Weather SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARSONS AREA Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms An isolated thunderstorm may be severe tonight Lows tonight mid 60s Highs Thursday low to mid 80s Chances of rain 50 percent tonight 40 percent Thursday Weather map page 4 there are mountains rocky and forbidding But here close by the Kansas Missouri and Arkansas borders there is more water than anyone needs a gift of rivers so deep and so old that Viking sailors navigated them here from the Mississippi a millenium ago leaving behind some runestones as proof they had come This part of Oklahoma with its waving wheat and elephant-eye-high corn belongs not to the Southwest but to the heartland To an outsider Claremore and the Continued on page 4 Aid Faces Trouble I i i i 4 My H- I Foreign By RON SARRO (C) 1978 Washington Star WASHINGTON The foreign aid bill in the House is in the greatest trouble since such programs began The measure is in such jeopardy" as one Democratic professional put it that there is a chance the House may opt to kill the pending bill and at least temporarily leave President foreign policy slowly twisting in the wind Carter is fighting back emphasizing the importance of his foreign policy programs at a dinner Tuesday night for about 80 members of Congress Earlier he issued a White House warning to legislators about the ini- Boling By JOHN CREWDSON (C) 1978 New York Times CIAREMORE Okla -Early this spring just as the last icy puddles were giving way to the first promise of greenery George Moore climbed into his pickup truck and started dow the long dirt road from his farm to collect his first consignment of baling wire Soon he knew the grass would begin to sprout in the rich dark soil and soon after that it would be time for mowing and baling his hay time to begin stacking it away against the day when the lush support for the program "When they send up heavy hitters like that to Capitol Hill to lobby for a bill you know the bill is in said a key Democrat The bill as approved by the appropriations committee would provide $73 billion in 1979 spending for US economic and military aid and US participation in multinational assistance programs providing US money to help more than 100 foreign countries with food economic development military programs and the Peace Corps Although the Carter administration asked Congress plications of cutting the bill or attempting to limit how he cun spend foreign aid money The president also has sent his guns" to Capitol Hill to try to reason with congressmen about the importance of the program hich started out as economic aid and grew into a military assistance program after the Korean War Ixist week Vice President Mondale Secretary of State Cyrus Vance treasury Secretary Michael Blumen-thal and John Giiligan administrator of the Agency for International Development met with Democratic liberals and junior congressmen to try to rally Wire grazing lands that are splashed across this Green Country would be again hidden by a blanket of snow Although he is concerned these long days only with getting his hay into the big metal barn behind his house Moore deserves to be pleased with his foresightedness Some of the other farmers around here were not so prudent and now less than a month after the haying season began they are growing worried There is they have discovered in recent days no more wire to be found Moore Ph 421-1150 Adv Shortage Hits Farms collapsed FOR YOUR INFORMATION By JIM DAVIS The Associated Press reports that in Iran a 19-year-old boy was sent to jail for publicly stealing a kiss from an 18-year-old girl Oh come on Make the boy return the kiss and let him out of jail DO YOU remember what Vernon Moore told us about baby redbirds leaving their nests? He said he read that they depart their birthplace 10 days after hatching sit peeping in a new location and their parents come and feed them He checked that out at his home 2830 Dirr where two redbirds hatched out in a nest by the front door On Tuesday precisely 10 days after hatching the birds in shaky flight left their native residence flew one way one Moore said "They didn't go far I could hear them If human hatchlings left home so predictably parents could lay more accurate plans THE WALL STREET JOURNAL reports that more and more landlords are refusing to permit waterbeds on their property because they fear damage from leaks If the landlords want to be consistent they also should bar tenants who might leak AS NOTED here earlier Vera Kimble of 917 17th came upon a book in which a Parsons man was commemorated He was Sgt Bill Haynes killed in a World War II Army Air Corps training accident Mrs Kimble found the book at the old Mercy Hospital where mother Mrs Jake Haynes died Mrs-Kimball wanted to pass the book along to a member of the family Mrs Maye Goodrich of 114 27th provided Mrs Kimble an address that will make that possible The address is that of Tyler Haynes Peoria 111 brother of Bill Haynes OVERNIGHT California's Proposition 13 became famous around the world Someone probably will make a movie out of it The sequel of course would be Proposition 14 OVER IN Moscow Muhammad Ali hugged and kissed Brezhnev unfair Only Howard Cosell deserves that who has devoted nearly half of the 2300 acres he plows to hay may be the only one for miles around with enough to see him through to September Over at Feed Store down at place everywhere in fact the story is the same: The wire is gone and no one knows Tiow many weeks or even months will pass before there is more Out in Pueblo Colo the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co a major supplier is also out of baling wire Its inventory has been depleted by a record demand not just in Oklahoma but in Kansas and Texas as.