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i WEATHER: Cloudy National Weather Service Forecasts for Eastern Nebraska Tonight: Chance snow. Saturday: Chance snow. Past 24 hours: High Low Next 24 hours: High Low Full Weather on Page 26 Ji i I AP-UPI-WIREPHOTO-TELEPHOTO 104TH Two Pages and Nebraska Stale Journal SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA EDITION LINCOLN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1971 TEN CENTS J97T Nebraska Economic Development Dept. Director James iMonroe feels that the state will have a good 1971 Story Oil Page 16 Happy New Jim! Compromise Plan on SST Clears Way to Adjournment CM The honor of being the first baby born in Lincoln in 1971 went to James Robert Juricek. He is the first child of Ronald and Mary Juricek of Greenwood.

James was born at Lincoln General Hospital at 4:55 a.m. He weighed in at 6 pounds and 11 ounces. The second birth of the new year was that of Dawn Marie Bostic, daughter of James and Sherry Bostic of 2011 So 13th. She made her debut at Lincoln General at 6:20 a.m. UabsoiCs Kcporls 1971 Looks Brighter Despite Steel Strike Threat, Inflation Copyright 1970, Babson's Reports Inc.

A year ago our forecast for 1970 cited the which plagued four of the past five decade-opening years. It was our prediction that 1970 would suffer a similar fate. F'or the better part of 1970, financial markets, industrial activity, inflation, the labor situation, world problems, unemployment and civil disorders created some unnerving moments. 1971 I.ooiiis BrighUT By and large, 1971 should be able to chalk up a better performance on nrany fronts. Part of this improvement will be due to the absence of a number of the perils which beset portions of 1970.

The protracted and United Auto strikes, for example, exacted a heavy toll from general business. Also, the stringency in credit during the early months of 1970 and the virtual disarray of the bond market which persisted even further into the year had a lot to do with retarding business in the last 12 months. With these factors either out of the way or less oppressive, it is logical to anticipate that the economy will Show improvement in 1971. Shift of Adiiiiiiislralioii Posture Failure of the Republican party to make real inroads at national, state and local levels during non-presidential election is likely to have a significant influence on conditions during the year ahead. Prior to the election, the Nixon administration was content to maintain a laissez-faire policy with respect to management-labor relations and it emphasized fiscal restraint in an effort to quell inflation.

Results of the election, pointed up the unmistakable importance of conditions over the other widely publicized issues. Therefore, the Reports staff expects the Nixon administration to take a more active role during 1971 in stimulating the economy and in enlisting labor and management help in the battle to control cost-push inflation. Sailing Not All (dear Lest readers of this forecast view 1971 with complacency, the staff of Reports sees a number of potential dangers which the nation and its economy must contend with. The real possibility of a labor tie-up in the steel industry poses a danger to industrial activity on a par with the disruption caused by the strike against General Motors. Moreover, inflation and an uncomfortably high level unemployment seem destined to be problems with which the Nixon and the monetary authorities may have to contend throughout 1971.

However, unless these potential pitfalls become extreme, healthier business should be the rule for 1971. liiflutioii Still Frohleiii A year ago, we labeled inflation Public Enemy No. 1 for 1970. This forecast, unfortunately, was all too apropos, as the upward canter of the indexes of consumer prices, wholesale commodity prices and labor costs in 1970 dramatically proved. It promises once again to be a top issue in 1971.

Despite indications the Nixon administration will adopt a harder line against the exorbitant escalation of wages and prices, the die has been cast for another upward twist in the wage-price spiral. The lush new labor pacts inked by auto firms, the signal gains won by the Teamsters, and automatic wage increments under terms of existing multi-year pacts in other industries provide lofty goals for negotiating teams working on new contracts during 1971. On the price front, the siiueeze on profits and the resolute uptrend in wage costs leave management no alternative but to raise prices. Tn addition to the cost-push factor, other forces also could fan the flames of inflation. For one thing, productivity has not yet improved significantly.

Another considerContinued: Page 5, Col. 1 Georgia IEin.s Caliioniia Muny Court Building Hit by Bomb Sweepstakes Rose K1 Monte, Calif. An exploding bomb at the municipal court building in this Los Angeles suburb Thursday night tore a heavy wooden door off its hinges, ripped out chunks of concrete and blew out a dozen windows. There were no injuries and police said they were without clues. The explosion occurred only 50 feet from the adjoining police station.

Police Lt. Harold Kelso said the bomb was placed at the rear downstairs doorway of the two-story couri, building. came out of Stockade Open Friday 5 pm, music by the J-Bees-Adv. with our guns drawn when we heard the Kelso said. nearly blew our eardrums Kelso said the court building was unoccupied at the time of the blast.

In addition to blowing out the door and windows, the blast tore concrete from the outside walls and inside, shattered lights and stopped clocks. No damage estimate was available immediately. Kelso said the ground floor contains courtrooms and the traffic and small claims dockets. He said the rear door is used as a entrance and to take prisoners into the courtrooms from the jail Pasadena, Calif. The State of Georgia won the sweepstakes prize Friday in the Tournament of Roses parade with a float depicting in flowers three southern belles swinging beneath two majestic trees.

The winning floats were announced just before the 82nd annual parade began under brilliant sunshine. Temperatures in the high 70s were anticipated before it finished. The flower-laden floats, bands and marching groups moved out behind scarlet-clad trumpeters just before 9 a.m. Many of the 1.5 million along the parade route in this sedate Los Angeles suburb had spent the night outside to get choice viewing positions. Separate Vote Eyed For March Washington An agreement to resolve the long fight over tl-e supersonic transport plane appears to have cleared the way for adjournment Saturday of the marathon 91st Congress and may lead to rejection of the SST subsidy by the new Congress.

Senate sources reported Sen. William Proxmire, had agreed to drop his fight against the appropriations bill for the Transportation the sole measure standing in the way of adjournment, after being assured of a separate vote on the SST by next March. Rep. Edward Boland, D- leader of the House conferees who have fought for the SST, said the agreement may well mean victory in long fight against the 1,800 m.p.'h. plane.

has lost the battle but he has won the Boland told a reporter. Sen. JohnO. Pastore, an SST opponent who backed the compromise plan, had predicted earlier the new House might well reject the SST next year pretty shaky he I think it will tumble by March Under the agreement hammered out in an hour-long session late Thursday in the office of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, the Senate would approve Saturday a resolution permitting the Transportation Dept, to keep spending at last level until March 30. A new appropriations bill for the remainder of the fiscal year would have to be approved then.

Proxmire reportedly was assured Senate conferees would not permit a repetition of the parliamentary situation in which Senate SST foes were faced with the possibility of defeating the entire transportation money bill after earlier winning by 11 votes their fight against the The $290 million for the SST is a part of the transportation bill. With the House already in adjournment until Saturday, Mansfield then dropped a plan to meet Friday and the Senate quit work until Saturday morning, just 25 hours before the noon Sunday expiration of the 91st Congress. As the first big snowfall struck Washington Thursday, the two houses disposed of all remaining major legislation except the transportation bill. Passed were: foreign aid money bill. extension of the foreign military sales program, stalled for months over the now concluded fight over restrictions on U.S.

activities in Cambodia. three-year extension of the food stamp program including a controversial new work requirement. two-year extension of automobile and telephone excise taxes and a speedup of estate tax collections, designed to produce $4 billion in additional revenue over a two-year period. bill revising machinery for adjusting the salary of federal workers, taking it out of the hands of Congress and providing in effect for semiautomatic increases each year. Nebraska Stars in Miami STAFF PHOTO VIA AP WIREPHOTO the Middle of the Nebraska float in Thursday Orange Bowl Parade, received the applause of the thousands of Husker faithful who traveled to Miami lor the Orange Bowl.

Slory on Page 6. More pictures on Pages 6 and 27 Body Found West of Lincoln Late Thursday Vigil Charged With 1st Dejiree Murder First degree murder charges were filed Friday morning against Antonio S. Vigil, 28, of 310 So. 11th, Apt. 4B, in connection with the death of his wife, Carol, 23.

County Judge Ralph Slocum ordered that Vigil be held without bail by the Lancaster County sheriff and set Jan. 19 as the preliminary hearing date. Vigil, dressed in faded jeans, 92nd Congress Fast Action On Benef its Bill Vowed Washington Key members have promised the House will have a chance within two months to raise Social Security benefits for 26 million persons and revise the welfare system. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D- of the Ways and Means Committee gave the assurance Thursday night as the last chance for action by the expiring Congress went down the drain.

assurance was seconded by the senior Republican member of the committee. Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin. Mills also hinted the Social Security increase may be larger than the voted by the House this year.

The Senate voted a increase. But the Senate bill, containing 400 pages of changes in the law, reached the House only Thursday and leaders ruled out any chance of reconciling differences during the last three days of session. The assurances of quick action by the next Congress came in an exchange between Mills and a committee member, Rep. Charles A. Vanik, D-Ohao, who said he obtained signatures of 100 House members on a petition urging Mills to accept key provisions of the Senate bill immediately.

yellow shirt and a black jacket, nervously chewed gum throughout the brief arraignment session. The nude, decapitated body of Mrs. Vigil was found late Thursday afternoon about 10 miles west of the Lincoln city limits in a gully almost half a mile north of West Van Dorn St. Police reported that Vigil was taken to the area Friday morning before his arraignment to help with the search for missing body parts. County Attorney Paul Douglas refused to confirm if parts other than the head of the body were still missing.

The maximum penalty in Nebraska for first degree murder is life imprisonment or death. Vigil was represented in his court appearance by T. Clement Gaughan, defense counsel appointed by the court Thursday. Vigil was specifically charged with and purposely killing Carol L. Vigil on or about Dec.

According to Douglas, autopsy reports indicated Mrs. Vigil died of i 1 stabwcunds, however, he refused to say what instrument was used to administer the stab wounds. Police and county sheriff officers had been conducting an extensive investigation since the discovery Tuesday of some bloody clothing and a car seat cover beneath a bridge over Burlington Northern railroad tracks southwest of Lincoln. Vigil had been in custody for questioning since late Wednesday when he arrived at the office and identified the blood-soaked clothing as that of his wife. Police reports showed that Vigil had reported his wife to be missing on Dec.

7. Douglas said the time of death was placed as late as Dec. 6 or early Dec. 7. Vigil accompanied police inspector Robert Sawdon to the gully Thursday, located at the intersection of several farm fields.

Dennis Borgman of Denton was hunting with Jim Ray of Lincoln when they came upon the body just before Sawdon and Vigil arrived at the scene. A friend of whom Borgman did not know, was also a member of the hunting party but was not on the scene when the body was found. Douglas arrived at the scene later with other law enforcement officers. The body apparently had been in the gully for some time, observers said. The bloodied items found beneath the railroad bridge by a youngster playing in the area Tuesday included blankets, an automobile seat cover, a pair of jeans, a shirt, two undergarments, a jacket and pair of shoes.

Douglas said the clothing has been linked to the body of Mrs. Vigil. The alleged murder occurred in Lancaster County, Douglas said, but he refused to say just where the incident occurred. The county attorney said he was sure that Gaughan, as defense attorney, would request psychiatric examination of the accused. Douglas said it was possible that the prosecution would also ask for psychiatric Vigil had been involved in May, 1970, in a child abandonment case stemming from the finding of two children, ages one and two, near a boiler room at Lancaster Manor, Continued: Page 6, Col.

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