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'47 While authorities seemed certain Hoffa's disappearance was t'P3''' engineered by enemies a police ''1 spokesman in suburban Bloomfield r' Hills where Hoffa's abandoned car was found said they had no leads to i his whereabbuts "I know- the police suspect foul play" said Brooks Patterson 1 prosecutor in Oakland County where the 62ear old Hoffa lives and where he vanished more than 24 hours 4 before his family notified authorities 4 Some union sources said they i feared Hoffa disappearance would intensify rivairiethat already have spilled over into beatings and bombings Other reports said the Holla family feared he was dead 4 tssf A' Hoffa's car was found abandoned in a shopping center lot outside a fashionable Bloomfield Township James Hoffa restaurant where Hoffa apparently AP Photo made a luncheon date Police were led to the car by an DETROIT (UPI) Investigation into the disappearance of former 4' Teamsters President James Hoffa led police today into a search for the 7r '''''''N' iSik' identity of a man he went to meet on Wednesday night Speculation he was kidnaped or slain swept the union he once ruled absolutely and Michigan governor said he was told Hoffa disappeared after planning to meet a reputed 4 Mafia leader While authorities seemed certain 'il: Ho a disappearance was engineered by enemies a police x14t4) 1: 01 spokesman in suburban abandoned Hills where Ho a a a was found said they had no leads to 5 3': ::1 A 1 'b The metal processing plant will be on the 50-acre site east with Interstate 80 to the left and the Sacramnto outlined above with a broken line The view is looking Deepvvater Channel to the right Firm Plan's In Two Stages $50 Million Highway Fund Pinch Plant Perils 4000 State Jobs Highway Fund Pinch Perils 4000 State Jobs anonymous telephone caller Gov William Milliken said Thursday night he understood Hoffa planned to meet Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone a reputed kingpin of the Mafia Milliken did not elaborate One 'of Hoffa's sons James Hoffa signed a missing persons report Thursday night and said his father was expected home at 4 pm Wednesday Asked who his father had planned to meet his son said "I'd rather not say" Witnesses said they saw Hoffa at 1:30 pm Wednesday standing alone outside the restaurant and apparently waiting for someone The disappearance came after several incidents the latest a bombing 22 days ago that destroyed a car owned by Richard Fitzsimmons son of present Teamsters International president Frank Fitzsimmons Hoffa and Fitzsimmons handpicked by Hoffa when he went to prison in the late 1960s for jury tampering and mail fraud are rivals Hoffa has launched a court battle that would enable him to challenge Fitzsimmons for president of the 22-million member International next year State police joined the investigation But an FBI spokesman said the agency had not intervened because it had no jurisdiction in the case There apparently were fewclues A Bloomfield Township officer said there was no sign of a struggle at Hoffa's car and that it contained only some dirt in the front seat and a pair of white gloves in the back seat The last time Hoffa met newsmen Ile told them he knew the identity of the man responsible for the bombing of Fitzsimmon's car and other incidents He refused to identify the man anonymous telephone caller Gov WI lam Milliken said Thursday night he understood Hoffa planned to meet Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone a reputed kingpin of the Mafia Milliken did not elaborate One of Hoffa's sons James Hoffa signed a missing persons report Thursday night and said hmis father was expected horn 4 Wednesday' Asked who his father had planned to meet his son said I rather not ay Witnesses said they saw Hoffa at 130 pm Wednesday standing alone Outside the: restaurant an 7 how many are expected And the Brown administration opposes the state gas tax addition contained in Senate Bill 100 by Senate See Back Page Ale Col 2 US Jobless-Rate Is Down Note IS uown 2 Quakes Shcelke North State Including City State tate Is Up By Doug Dempster Bee Sta If Writer The State Highway Commission spent all day yesterday trying to carve up a steadily diminishing carcass of highway funds and learned that without more money 4000 State Transportation Depart ment employes 25 per cent of the work force be jobless Layoffs Caltrans officials said could come in two stages some in January the rest in a "cleanup" move in May or June when the financing picture becomes clearer Officials wouldn't speculate how many in the cuts primarily engineers and right-of-way agents would get the ax in January However the department llas initiated efforts to encourage early retirements resignations and long leaves without pay to lessen the number forced off the payroll A placement office has been established in the basement of Caltrans' Sacramento headquarters to try to find other jobs in and out of state government There is pending legislation to add I cent each to the state gasoline tax (now 7 cents a gallon) and to the federal gasoline tax (new 4 cents) but Heinz Heckeroth assistant director for highways said even if approved some layoffs he couldn't estimate when the learer 'late how primarily By Walter Loewen Bee Staff Writer A three-phase $50 million metal processing plant to employ several hundred workers will be built on a 50- acre waterfront site at the Port of Sacramento it was disclosed yesterday The San Jose-based Levin Metals Corp yesterday filed an environmental impact report with the Yolo County Planning Department for the project in the Continental Port Industrial Park in West Sacramento The firm plans to buy a site with 2000 feet of frontage on the deep- water channel of the port according to Richard Levin president of the corporation Officials said the plant will be highly automated but probably will have several hundred employes when fully developed Levin said the first phase which will be in operation early next year will include a large shredder for the recycling of scrap metal and a docking facility for the shipment of the shredded material to mills on the East Coast and in the Far East Plans for the second phase include a pollution-free electric furnace mini steel mill for the recycling of the processed metal into ingots at the site Levin said I The national unemployment rate declined to 84 per cent in July but the California jobless rate rose slightly to 101 per cent officials reported today Ford Urges East-West Arms Cuts A total of 78 million workers in the country were Out of work last month a decline of nearly 400000 from the average for the previous three months tOROVILLEN 4P4E10101 21MYSVI7 SACRAMENTO VII PALERMO SAcRAMEKT Two rumbling earthquakes centered in Butte County rocked much of the north state this morning in eluding high buildings in Sacramento The first temblor occurred at 8:45 and the second at 9:27 The larger registered 52 on the Richter scale at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena The large quake was felt in the 11! story Park Executive building and the surrounding Capitol complex but state police reported no damage Employes in Treasurer Jess Unruh's office one of the only offices left in the old part of the Capitol which does not meet earthquake standards said therdid not feel the tremors The seismographic station at the University LA California Berkeley recorded the tremors centered between Biggs and Palermo five miles southwest of Oroville I r) Ilse Map Is In California 983400 persons were looking for work last month for the second highest unemployment rate in the state since 1950 when statistics were first recorded The first reading registered as only a slight tremor at 33 The second registered 5 and was described by a spokesman as moderately strong and quite capable of doing damage in urban areas Berkeley seismologists said See Back Page A16 Col 2 Sacramento Prices $2 4 -Today Eggs Sugar Butter Prices Rise 00 $11 VI 7 6 mME1 ma- Thib 4 3 $1 0 Happiness Is Bowling 300 Game" ti HELSINKI (UPI) President Ford today urged substantial cuts in East and West bloc military forces and challenged the Communist nations to honor their Helsinki summit pledge to respect human rights "The' people of all Europe and assure you the people of North America are thoroughly tired of) having their hopes raised and then shattered by empty words and unfulfilled pledges" Ford said in a 20-minute summit address "We had better say what we meai and mean what we say or we will have the anger of our citizens to answer" Ford's words seemed a coun terweight to the interpretation Soviet party chief Leonid I Brezhnev put upon the summit agreement and its vaguely worded pledges of respect for human rights in his address Thursday: 'Brezhnev said the document reinforced Soviet belief that no one should meddle in the internal affairs of another state Ford also warned that the world "faces an unprecedented danger in the spread of nuclear weapons technology" and must gct it under control Thisafternoon Ford and the other heads of state and government from Europe and Canada signed a 400- page "Final Act" that puts the seal on Europe's postwar frontiers and promises in vague terms greater See Back Page A16 Cal 1 fr r- ii' 1 v4: if (ti i ei' 1 t' '1 -4-' 'ir 1 -vf i tt 11 N100'1 a AP i l'' 0 JUHI JUt OM NOY DEC RAN Ill WA APRIL KLI Nancy lIaU a Highlands ugh School student wears a big smile for 300 reasons See story on Page Cl 13yJeff Raimundo Bee Staff Writer Egg butter and sugar prices were up in July to lead a 121 per cent increase in a 15-item sample market basket gathered at nine Sacramento stores But The Bee's monthly survey does show some good news: signs that the record increases in meat prices of the last four months have levelled off and have even declined ever so slightly After six months of declines the price of sugar inched up- ward to an average of $150 for a five-pound sack yesterday That is an 111 per cent jump over the $135 price at tne end of June The increases generally reflect higher wholesale prices announced recently by major refiners and probably will be repeated in coming months Last month's price was the lowest since September but was still far above the price in early 1974 per pound jump during Zuly At 92 cents it stands at its highest average price since The Bee began its survey' last September Roy Walker chief of the bureau of milk stabilization for the State Department of Food and Agriculture blames the rise in part on increased sales of ice cream Unusually high ice cream sales have created additional demand for milk fat he says Sugar producers have blamed' the rise on peak demand in hot summer months price manipulation by sugar producing countries primarily the Philippines and by large purchases on foreign markets by the Soviet Union Saudi Arabia and China Eggs were up an average of four cents a dozen for large grade A to 64 cents That is the highest price since March and compares with a low of 59 cents at the end of May Butter also took a four-cent 0 Brown predicts collapse of state court system A3 Doctors verifies 40-year pregnancy A3 0 New York City freezes wages A4 Tahoe deputies have own 'numbers game' A9 0 Was her purse stolen or is she trying to cover up her gambling losses AS' 0 Children in chemical straightjacket? MO 0 State halts pay to county antismog district I 0 Peripheral canal costs balloon' B3 Today's Chuckle Sign by a fire hydrant: Park Now Later See Back Page A16 Col 4 Farm Board Chief Raps Chavez's Administrative Failures FINAL DOW AVERAGE -501 82650 0 Worry over inflation a interest rates sent the stock market into a broad decline Page C6 Stock listings on Pages C6 7 Thursday's hiah 91 today's low 66 as an "honest union run by dedicated people" But Steinberg added in a telephone interview from his Coachella Valley office: "The administration of the union is too often conducted by angry young Chicanos and angry young Anglos who had a chip on their shoulder and felt the grower viias their enemy" During the last 10 years the UFW and Teamsters have battled oVer which union will represent the state's 240000 farmworkers in the $6 billion state agriculture industry During that time Chavez has been a strong spiritual leader for workers Steinberg said "Unfortunately Chavez' spiritual leadership was not matched by his administrative leadership" said Steinberg who has renewed his contract with the UFW three times Since1970 "Despite that I have stayed with him because I feel he has earned the right to stay in the business Second I feel the majority of my workers do favor him" Steinberg added In Chavez' favor Steinberg said he had a great deal to do with the doubling of farmworker wages in he last seven years Chavez also improved farmworker health conk ditions Steinberg added "Third he has been a catalyst on both federal and state government and farmers in more careful use of pesticides Fourth for the first time in history farmers sat across the negotiating table from their own workers" Often Steinberg said he found the UFW officials too rigid and too young "I have admiration for Cesar Chavez but feel he has delegated the administration of his union to young people some as young as 18 who lack experience and the willingness to conciliate grower-worker Bee Back PagliA16 Col? 1 By Susan Sward AP Writer Cesar Chavez is a dedicated spiritual leader but he has been less successful as a union administrator the chairman of California's agriculture board says Lionel Steinberg a grower appointed by Gov Edmund Brown Jr to chair the state Food and Agriculture Board said Thursday he had his first table grape contract with Chavez' United Farm Workers in 1970 Steinberg who has about 800 workers harvesting a 1150-acre' grape crop conylimented the 'VFW FAIRE In Today's Sacramento Bee Amusements A11-19 Arden Be Arts Be Automotive nt Boyd Be firkin Be Business C6-11 Classified 09-23 Comics D24 Editorials 1364 Medical Al Obituaries D23 un i ne io mi Scene B4-5 Sports CI-5 Television Cs Vitals n23 Weather details on Page 025 11'5.