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JAN. 3. 1 975 24 PAGES 20 CENTS longley sworn in as governor News briefs From the Wire Services Asks new budget philosophy By John S. Day NEWS State House Bureau AUGUSTA James Bernard Longley, the insurance salesman who upset both political parties to become Maines first Independent governor in this century, was sworn into office Thursday as the states 67th chief executive. In a break with tradition, the inauguration ceremony was moved from the State House to Augustas spacious Civic Center, where it was aired over state wide public, television.

Longley, true to his campaign pledges to cut state spending, called upon members of the new state legislature to declare a one-year moratorium" on new state programs Other stories, pictures on inauguration, Pages 8, 9 unless funds can be taken from existing appropriations fpr lower priority projects. But at the same time Longley declared my budget Will include more for the elderly because of dollars we will save in other areas, adding that the needs of the elderly in Maine are (his)top priority (Contd. on Page 8, Col. 4) .,,41 A t'W A4iuv'Ti-''-y i "A a James B. Longley was sworn governor Thursday evening at the Center by Senate President Joseph Blast injures 24 in India NEW DELHI, India A bomb hidden in the speakers platform exploded Thursday during the inauguration of a new railroad, injuring.

Indias railway minister, two congressmen, a police official and 20 bystanders. The government radio said the device went off just as the minister of railroads, L. N. Mishra, was leaving the stage after delivering the inaugural speech for a new 32-mile rail line in eastern Bihar State. Mishra and his younger brother, Jagannath, who is the Bihar irrigation minister, escaped with splinter injuries, according to the report.

It added that among those seriously injured were two members of Parliament who belong to the ruling Congress party and R. N. Prassad, the second ranking police officer in feihar. 5 Sakharov claims harassment MOSCOW Nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, Russias foremost said Thursday he has never felt so threatened as he does now and predicted a harder line by Soviet authorities.

Sakharov cited threats against him and members of his family and accused Soviet authorities of waging a campaign of harassment against him. Heart surgeon hopeful CAPE TOWN, South Africa Dr. Christian Barnard said Thursday he hopes to have his second double heart transplant patient out of bed within 48 hours, three or four days after the New Years eve operation. The surgeon told newsmen the unidentified 47 year old man could be out of bed Friday or Saturday. Aides for fax cut Swearing in Longley Town, left.

Looking on areLongleys wife, Helen and his 16-year-old daughter, Nancy. (NEWS Photo by Jack Loftus) in as Maine Augusta Civic Sewall, R-Old Bill seeksend to (C) 1975 New York Times WASHINGTON President Fords economic advisers have reached virtual unanimous agreement on the need for a tax cut to combat the recession and the President may endorse such a measure publicly in the near future, administration officials reported Thursday. These officials said there was still some debate about the proper size jf the tax cut. They also cautioned that the President jiad reached no final decision. But they stressed that just about all of Fords key advisers oneeonomic policy, including Secretary of the Treasury William E.

Simon, were agreed on the need -for a tax reduction this year to stimulate the nations slumping economy. Until recently, Simon had been the champion of restrictive fiscal policies to dampen inflation. The differences over the size of the tax cut, while broad, are reconcilable, according to one high official. Generally, he said, the proposals for a tax cut fall in the range of $10 billion to $20 billion. There also is apparent a consensus that the size of the tax cut must be linked to the level of federal spending in the budger for the fiscal year beginning next July.

Thus, the advisers who believe that only mild stimulation of the economy is required and that the danger of renewed inflation must be guarded against are maintaining that the tax cut and federal spending together should aggregate no more than $350 billion in fiscal 1976. -I aJC-jA 'A Jt'- council together with other bills in a reform package, Curtis That package also included bills to establish single member house districts and to reduce the size of the house. From my conversations this year, I think there is going to be substantial support for abolishment, and I havent heard much opposition, Curtis said. I think we will be able to abolish the council this year, providing the people go along with it. Abolishing the council requires a constitutional amendment, which needs a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature and a confirming vote by the people in a referendum election.

Charles Jacobs, a new executive councilor, was elected by the legislature by promising to work for the council's abolishment. He said he is sure this will be the councils last year. It poses an unnecessary and excessive restraint on the governor's powers, said Jacobs, who used to be a special assistant to Gov. Curtis. Its cumbersome, inefficient, and unrepresentative." Jacobs said the confirmation power now held by the council should be held instead by the legislature- The Senate also referred to committee a bill abolishing the Land Use Regulation Commission.

The senators passed a joint order that the House speaker be authorized to permit radio, sound television film qnd live television in theHouse when it is in session or during joint conventions of the legislature. Nine bills pertaining to state election laws were sent to committee, including one that would Jurors often differed done away because it with, he said, is not directly responsible to the electorate. Council members are chosen by the majority party in the legislature. Its a strange setup, Curtis said. Its elected by the majority party in the legislature, but its really part of the executive branch of government.

Gqv. Kenneth M. Curtis got along fairly well with the council in recent years, Curtis said, but it wasnt always so. During his first years things were a little more partisan and a little more difficult, he said. The members of the council have often been persons who have been defeated in elections.

The council often works against the governor, and ties his hands, Curtis said. Curtis said the governors, office and the legislature could take over most of the councils responsibilities. He said his bill provides for how the', responsibilities would be broken up. The confirming power of major appointments would go to the state senate, he said. The transfer of funds could go to the budget office.

Curtis bill was defeated during the last session because it was lumped attorney general and secretary of state by the Senate AUGUSTA (UPI) The Maine Senate Thursday referred a raft of bills to appropriate committees for study. The Senate referred to the Committee on State Government bills that would provide for the appointment of the state AUGUSTA, Maine (UPlK Maines creaky old id Executive Council, one of only three left in the country, could be nearing the end of the road, the sponsor of a bill to abolish the council said Thursday. Sen. Theodore S. Curtis R-Orono, said he has filed bills to abolish the council during the past three legislative sessions, but he said this time it stands a good chance of passage because of the Democratic majority in the legislature.

The council should be Oil-price increase opposed BONN, Germany (AP) Saudi Arabias oil minister has expresed opposition to any increase in oil prices this year. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani told the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche: We would prefer to lower oil prices and freeze them for a longer period. Continuing inflation could call for small, successive price hikes in 1976, he added. The last price increase of 3.9 per cent was agreed upon at the December meeting of the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and went into effect Jan. 1.

Yamani said he did not agree that OPEC, should reduce production and hike prices. Then we would definitely ruin your economies, he said of industrial nations. You would then have a depression and the danger of a power takeover by the left. We want to prevent that. Stroller dangers listed WASHINGTON One of the nations largest makers of baby strollers warned Thursday that as many as half a million of its vehicles may have faulty handles which could break loose.

Peterson Baby Products North Hollywood, said it is offering a free repair kit to stroller owners to correct the defect. The company said plastic connectors which join the handle to the stroller frame can break, allowing the stroller to run free. The company said, there have been some cases where this happened and children received minor injuries. Navy loses F-14 fighter WASHINGTON The Navy announced Thursday the loss of its first operational F-14 fighter plane in a crash off the Philippines. The Navy said the planes two pilots were rescued uninjured after the $17.8 million plane went down in the South China Sea, 60 miles from shore during what was called a routine training flight, AFL-CIO board summoned WASHINGTON The general board of AFL-CIO Thursday was summoned to meet here Jan.

23 to consider ways to put America back to work through massive immediate government action. President George Meany and Secretary Treasurer Lane Kirkland said in a joint statement that the board will hear from workers in all sectors of the economy and consider how to deal with the economic disaster threatening America, and adopt an AFL-CIO program of action designed to stabilize the economy and put America back to work." Campaign Reform law challenged WASHINGTON Sen. James L. Buckley, and former Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy, filed suit Thursday in federal court challenging as unconstitutional certain portions of the day old 1974 Campaign Reform Act. They were joined in the suit by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The new law took effect at midnight Wednesday and sets up the most sweeping political campaign reforms in the nations history. 7 1 injured as trains collide NEW YORK, A Penn Central commuter train failed to heed a signal and crashed into a second commuter train Thursday, injuring 171 persons, authorities said. At least 12 serious injuries were reported.

refers bills for study Westinghouses Girard. "On almost every count there was difference of opinion, Hoffar said. I think it, was a very good team. Everyone was given ample opportunity to say everything on his mind. We stayed on each point enough to make everyone feel he wasn't forced, you know, pressured into doing the wrong thing.

Dock Reid, a 60-year-old hotel doorman, told there was no substantial disagreement between the jurors once they had gone back over the evidence. By the time we reviewed the evidence and talked about it and what was said on the stand, 1 dont know if you could say that we had any disagreement, he said. We pretty much reached the same conclusion. But he refused to describe how the votes (Contd. on Page 2, Col.

3) black 1 that his colleagues nine women and two men discussed each count thoroughly and in an unhurried way until reaching agreement Wednesday. The jury convicted four of President Richard M. Nixon's most trusted aides John N. Mitchell, his attorney general; H.R. Bob Haldeman and John D.

Ehrlichmari, his top two White House aides; and Robert C. Mardian, an assistant attorney general on all counts against them in the Watergate cover-up. It acquitted Kenneth W. Parkinson, who had done Watergate legal work for Nixons re-election committee, of the two counts against him. fivery epunt was discussed completely.

On no count was there a unanimous decision (at the outset). There was quite a discussion on every defendant and every count, Hoffar told Only one of the 51 requests was denied. The -Wise as set Water Co. requested a rate increase, but the PUC turned it down because of of $3 WASHINGTON (UPI) -John A. Hoffar, foreman of the Watergate conspiracy jury, said Thursday the panel disagreed at the outset on nearly every count involving every defendant.

Hoffar, 57, a retired Park Service policeman and the jurys only white man, told Westinghouse Broadcasting shorten -candidates campaigning time by more than two months. The bill would change the date of the primary election from" early June to the first Wednesday after Labor Day. A bill to provide a uniform filing deadline for candidates and one to require the closing of voter registration 32 days before an election were among those also referred to the election committee. (Contd. on Page 2, Col.

1) in rate increase requests. Of that figure, $44.6 million worth of increases are still pending. The commission has approved $6.6 million in increases. excise tax problems with the application. The PUC said, however, the company could file the request again at a later date.

The big requests came from the Central Maine Power the New England Telephone Co. and the Bangor Hydroelectric Co. The phone company-was granted a $3.9 million rate increase in June, but then came back and asked for an additional $21 million in October. A few weeks later they asked tl.at $6 million of that amount be (Contd. on Page 2, Col.

1) governor and amend the constitution to provide for single member districts for the House of Representatives. Village Water Co. to a $21 million request from the New England Telephone Co. In addition, the phone company also filed a $6 Haskell raps $44.6 million in rate hikes requested in 1974 million interim increase request, which it claims it needs right away. Since May of 1973, a year and a half ago, the PUC has received $51.2 million proposed oil On the inside Amusements 24 Antiques 5 Classified Ads 17-21 Comics 23 Deaths and Funerals 17 Editorial 10 Feature Page 11 Financial Page 6, 7 Radio-TV 22 Sports 14-16 Womens Page 4, 5 Weather 2 Full Area, State News 12, 13 Weekly lottery number Drawn Thursday 567 759 1 Holiday Plus lottery number Drawn Thursday 1 149 AUGUSTA, Maine (UPI) Various public utilities in Maine requested a staggering $44.6 million in rate increases during 1974, it was learned Thursday.

If granted, the increases would cost each Maine resident about $45 per year. The requests came from water companies, electric companies, and telephone companies doing business in Maine. In total, 51 rate increase requests were received during 1974, ranging from $4,000 requested by the North Bangor Hydro $50 a year. They wouldn like it, and we dont either. Haskell explained that Bangor Hydro imports a million barrels of oil a year.

He said that he planned to speak to Sen. Edmund S. Muskie about the proposals An eight cents a gallon tax on gasoline and heating oils, a companion proposal to the $3 excise tax, would heating bills in Maine between $100 and $150 a year, it has been estimated. Robert N. Haskell, president of the Bangor Hydro -Electric Company, said Thursday that the proposed $3 a barrel excise tax on imported oil being considered by the administration, would cost each of the utilitys customers an extra $50 annually.

"The proposal, Haskell said, is just as if each of, the Bangor Hydros 60,000 customers were to hand i.