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Dear Abby 5 Community Calendar Classified ads 13-15 Comics Obituaries 2 Editorials Today's Living Sports 10-H TV Scout 5 Weather, forecast 2 Got sfory or phofo idea? Call I 8 cm. to 5 p.mv Bus'mtss phont 223-1411 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 60th Year No. 280 GREENWOOD, S.C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1978 16 Pages 2 Sections 20' T17 I tr United crash is fatal to 10 hi I la tTiKiniK ilil, ilitot.lwt&iatfc( p-.

r-i 'M Shah seeks government BV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran The embattled shah of Iran has asked a leading opposition figure to form a new government of reconciliation, sources said today as violence against the monarch raged on. In one incident, troops firing into the air routed 10,000 protesters trying to parade out of a cemetery with a symbolic coffin. 1 5 If 4 -58? 1 I 1 I Ail 1 and senior flight attendant Joan Wheeler, 36, of Englewood, with United since 1964. "It was a miracle," said Richard Harrison, returning to Portland from Tulsa, Okla. "I didn't know people lived through plane crashes." Steven Heltzel, a passenger, said those aboard were alerted by the pilot that the plane had a problem with its landing gear.

He said flight attendants began instructing them on emergency landings, and the pilot said he hoped to touch down normally. "Next think I knew, 'boom boom' I didn't know if we were dead or alive after the crash," Heltzel said. JFK probe tests theory BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The House assassinations committee is calling its top experts back for a final public hearing on new evidence that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in a crossfire by conspiring gunmen. Committee members, some of them skeptical, called in acoustics experts today to explain why they are 95 percent certain that three shots were fired at Kennedy from behind and a fourth was fired from the grassy knoll to his front.

The committee also called back its top ballistics, medical and trajectory experts to find whether their exhaustive tests can support or discredit the evidence of at least two gunmen. "I'm always suspicious of these new tangled sciences," Rep. Richardson Preyer, has said of the new evidence. "The question of its credibility is certainly crucial." The acoustics experts say they are convinced that a recording of a motorcycle policeman's radio transmission demonstrates a fourth shot. They make their assertion because the waves produced by the recorded sound come very close 95 percent identical to matching the waves of an actual test shot fired in Dallas last August, committee sources say.

Further, the acoustics experts say calculation of the sequence of sound waves bouncing off surrounding buildings shows the alleged shot came from the grassy knoll and landed within 10 feet of Kennedy's limousine, according to the sources. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. Passengers ona United Airlines DC-8 were warned to "hunker over" and brace for a crash before the jetliner slashed through trees and flattened two unoccupied homes. At least 10 of the persons aboard died, authorities said. Some investigators theorized the pilot may have been circling to burn up excess fuel, thereby reducing the fire hazard in the event of a crash landing.

But, the theory goes, he cut it too close and the plane ran out of fuel before it got to the airport. When asked if there was any validity to that theory, Keith Phildius, Portland sales manager for UAL, replied: "None that I am aware of." The plane pulled down power lines for several blocks as it skimmed the trees and crashed into two homes, cutting off electrical service to about 7,000 customers for two hours. The fire official said downed power lines were "arcing and dancing in the street." There were no reports of injuries to persons on the ground. More bodies may still be found in the wreckage of Flight 173 from New York and Denver which carried 177 passengers and a crew of eight, a fire district spokesman said after the Thursday night crash. A spokesman for the Multnomah County sheriff's office said it had accounted for 171 persons -10 dead, 45 injured and 116 uninjured.

The fate of the 14 others was not known, but Deputy Bart Whalen said some passengers may have left the crash scene without notifying' authorities. "Mayday mayday. The engines are flaming out. We're going down. We're not going to make the airport," the pilot said in his last transmission to the tower.

The conversation was recorded by a ham radio operator. The alrlihei'hounced and skidded through va- cant lot, into a house and across a busy street, crushing a second house as it came to rest in a clump of fir trees three miles from the Portland International Airport runway. Forty-five people were taken to hospitals and five were reported in critical condition, the Multnomah County sheriff's, office said. The dead included three children and seven adults, authorities said. A United official said two crew members were among the victims: second officer Forrest Mendenhall, 41, of Parker, who had been with the airline since 1967, ine sources said that at a meeting Thursday night Shapour Bakhtiar, 63, a member of the National Front opposition group, had accepted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's mandate to form a new civilian government to replace the two-month-old military-led administration.

The sources, who asked not to be identified, said Bakhtiar was given three days to present his Cabinet. Bakhtiar, a lawyer and former deputy labor minister, had confirmed earlier that he was approached by the shah. The monarch turned to Bakhtiar after sources said former Interior Minister Gholem-Hossein Sadiql, 73, had given up his efforts to organize a civilian government. Palace sources said the shah continues to reject opposition demands that he abdicate and has decided to accept a reduced role as constitutional monarch once a civilian administration can be established. The monarch hopes a broad-based government and weakening of his powers may quell the current unrest.

As the crisis deepened day by day, Washington sources said the Carter administration was considering sending a Navy task force into the Persian Gulf off Iran to underscore Carter's warning against foreign intervention here a warning clearly aimed at the Soviet Union. Delegation forced to leave Taiwan BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI, Taiwan A much-harassed U.S. delegation trying to plot the course of relations with Taiwan after diplomatic ties end Jan. 1 left quickly for home today, and a U.S. source said the abrupt departure was for "security, security, security." During their stay, thousands of protesters hurled eggs, tomatoes and mud at the Americans, one Taiwanese set himself on ire and the anourxhoppedofl.

his ieft index finger and wrote "I love my country" in blood on a piece of white linen. After a windup, 35-minute session with Nationalist officials, the American delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher walked out of the Grand Hotel, got into limousines and went to the military airport for a U.S. Navy flight to Washington. They refused to speak to reporters, and despite press credentials for the departure issued earlier during the day, correspondents were stopped at the gate of the airport A few minutes later, U.S. Embassy officials issued a statement in Christopher's name.

$JJL If SUH pkolo by ClMdette Holllday Petey lives! Remember Our Gang and The Little Rascals? Remember the dog Petey? Well Rocky here seems to have inherited some smarts (as well as looks) from that original canny canine. Here he enjoys the slide with his pals Stephen Clifton (bottom), Tracy Whitmire and Ricky Landers at the Circus Day Care Center. Inside Prices rise at supermarket There's a death in the neighborhood the snowball is shot dead in an alley, and the grocer is arrested. The boy is dead, the grocer's life is ruined and something in the neighborhood, too, has died. It is one of those moments in which years of hidden tension crystalize, shattering an outward calm and people's lives.

The story is on page 3. In a quiet neighborhood in the Bronx, where Italians and Albanians have lived peacefully for years, a snowball smacks against a grocery wall. The grocer, who fled communist Albania, has been the target of taunts and vandalism by neighborhood youths for years. He leaves the store, an Italian teen-ager who had nothing to do with prices. The 1978 increases were spread throughout the store and it was difficult to avoid them by changing buying or eating habits.

The AP survey is based on a random list of 15 commonly purchased food and nonfood items, drawn up on March 1, 1973. The price of the items have been checked at one supermarket in each of 13 cities on or about the start of every month since then. One item, chocolate chip cookies, was dropped from the list late in 1977 because the manufacturer discontinued the package size used in the survey. The latest check showed that the marketbasket bill increased at the checklist store in eight cities during December, rising an average of 2.6 percent. The bill decreased in five cities, down an average of 1 percent.

On an overall basis, the marketbasket bill at the checklist store was an average of 1.2 percent higher at the end of the month than it was at the end of the previous month. During November, in contrast, the marketbasket bill increased by an overall average of only two-tenths of a percent the smallest monthly boost of the year. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This year is ending the same way it began, with price increases at the supermarket and the prospect of more increases ahead. An Associated Press marketbasket survey showed that prices for a selected list of grocery items rose by more than 1 percent during December. The marketbasket bill, at the end of the year was almost 9 percent higher than it was at the beginning.

This year's rate of increase was lower than last year's. But much of the 1977 rise was due to soaring coffee Coroner's juries urge action in four deaths Salvation Army runs short this Christmas Wright, 23, of Cokesbury Road was found dead in his mobile home about 1.5 miles from Greenwood High School on Dec. 13. He was killed by two small caliber gunshot wounds to the left side of his head. Coroner's juries recommended no further action in the deaths of Leland Kinard 25, of Newberry and Frank Keith Isbell, 20, of Ninety Six, who were killed when their cars collided head-on Dec.

1 on S.C. 34 about 2.5 miles east of Ninety Six. Coroner's juries determined that Isbell was driving too fast and was responsible for the accident. No further action was recommended in the Nov. 16 traffic death of Julia Ann Brooks, 26.

of Route 4 and the Dec. 23 traffic death of Calvin Keith Pickens, 21, of BY BO EMERSON Staff Writer Christmas season contributions to' the Salvation Army kettles dropped this year, and Capt. Leon White is wondering how the organization will pay bills for goods already purchased. "We appreciate the help that we got, but we're a little short," he said. Shoppers gave about 20 percent less this year at the kettles in the shopping centers around town, he said.

Donations at the kettles stationed at major shopping centers around town provide 25 percent of the Salvation Army's Christmas budget, Capt. White said. The Salvation Army gave food to some 225 families this Christmas, he said, and bringing the shut-ins packages of fruit and candy and personal gifts. The organization also started a new program this year of visiting inmates at the jails over Christmas, bringing baskets of fruit and candy he said. "Toy dealers and food dealers allow us to purchase their products and they bill us after the new year," Capt.

White said. The amount to be spent is gauged by reference to last year's budget, he said. This year the organization's efforts were increased, to touch more people in the Greenwood communityhe said. More families were given food and toys than last year, and more senior citizens were visited in the nursing homes, he said. White said the Salvation Army would have to depend on the donations that peo- pie send in after Christmas.

He reminds Greenwood citizens that the donations are tax deductible. 3 4 tjnnk A ili i ii i provided toys for twice that many children. They also visited nursing homes, BY LESLIE BROOKS Staff Writer A Greenwood County coroner's jury on Thursday recommended that Howard Moore be held for grand jury action in the Dec. 22 stabbing death of Timothy Gary. As a result of seven other inquests Thursday at the courthouse, coroner's juries also recommended grand jury action in three other local deaths.

Timothy Gary, 18, of 311 Sullivan St. was pronounced dead on arrival at Self Memorial Hospital Dec. 22 at 11 p.m., cor-' oner Odell T. Duvall said. Duvall said Howard Moore, 18.

of McKellar Court confessed to Gary's murder. He was arrested about 11 p.m. Dec. 22 and is being held in the Law Enforcement Center without bond. Gary was stabbed with a boning knife Greenwood Apartments.

A coroner's jury recommended that Sara Ruth Morton, 21, of 409 Fortune St. be bound over for grand jury action in the Dec. 17 death of her uncle, Elmund B. Warren, 46, of 342 Marion St. Ms.

Morton has been charged with reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter in Warren's death. Warren, a passenger in a car driven by Ms. Morton, was killed when the car ran head-on into an oak tree on Maxwell Avenue near Fortune Street. Duvall said at the time of the accident Ms. Morton was under the influence, with .26 percent alcohol in her bloodstream.

Coroner's juries recommended grand jury action for the person or persons responsible for the Sept. 24 death of Ralph Jack McElveen and the Dec. 11 death of Michael O. Wright. McElveen, 24, was killed in a hit-and-run accident as he rode a motorbike on S.C.

25 north of Blakedale. The South Carolina Highway Patrol is continuing its investigation into McEl-' Veen's death, Duvall said. .4 Minimum wage set to increase Chinquapin Road. Coroner juries determined that both victims were the drivers responsible for the accidents. Blasts rock center, mission BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Explosives shattered the glass facade of a Lincoln Center theater early today and damaged the Cuban Mission to the United Nations, police said.

A man telephoned The Associated Press to claim responsibility for Omega Seven, an anti-Castro group. The caller said anolher bomb would be set off at Lincoln Center tonight. There were no injuries in cither explosion. Hours before the explosion at Lincoln Avery Fisher Hall, about 2.000 persons attended a concert by Cuban tists. Tonight's performance by the Cubans was canceled after the blast, and Iho ijuililing was closed.

grounds it would be inflationary, a position long advanced by business groups that opposed the increases when they were approved by Congress. Labor Department officials and organized labor are certain to fight any attempt to delay the scheduled increases, contending that the nation's lowest-paid workers should not be sacrificed in the fight against inflation while wages continue to rise for other workers. minimum wage law protects workers at the low end of the wage scale by enabling them to share in productivity gains and maintain at least a minimum standard of living," Labor Secretary Ray Marshall said recently. Small businesses with annual gross sales of less than $275,000 do not have to pay the minimum wage. Otherwise, most 'Vmn i'.

an workers are covered. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON More than five million Americans who work for the federal minimum' wage should find a belated Christmas present in their paychecks next week a 25-cents-an-hour pay increase. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal minimum wage rises from $2.65 an hour to $2.90. For a 40-hour work-week, that means a pay raise from $106 to $116.

The increase was approved in 1977 by Congress, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to raise the wage floor in four annual steps beginning in 1978. Under the law, the minimum is scheduled to go to $3.10 an hour on Jan. 1, 1980 and to $3.35 an hour on Jan. 1, 1981. However, the Carter administration is thinking about asking Congress to the scheduled 1980 increase on Ashes to ashes in 1978 On March 7 a fiery blaze engulfed McCormick County's historic Belvue Hall, a fully restored 19th century mansion.

It was a tragic moment, but just one of the many things that happened this year in Greenwood, McCormick, Abbeville and Saluda counties. The Index-Journal staff has prepared several stories on the year's highlights. They appear on paee 9..