The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 1

FRESNO THE REPUBLICAN FRESNO CALIFORNIA Tuesday July 15 1975 Vol106Nd 19056 Founded 1922 15c FINAL EDITION US Soviets Orbit For Space Linkup 1 i Historic Mission Starts With Flawless Blastoffs But for the first time a live telecast displayed the Soviet countdown and launch opening to world View the launching of a Soviet spacecraft In the past films of Soviet launches were released only after success was assured Western reporters however were barred from the remote desert launch site The telecast including two hours of prelaunch coverage was viewed by thousands of Russians gathered around TV sets in their homes and in stores It was also shown to millions of viewers in the United States and some 20 countries- throughout Europe Kubasov left and Alexei Leonov before blastoff APWirephoto Cosmonauts Valery Kidnap Suspect Slain Hostage Rescued On The Way Up Carrier rocket with spaceship Soyuz takes off from Soviet launch center near Baikonur for Joint space linkup with the American Apollo UPI Telephoto Robbery reported a man had been looking at guns for two hours Police arrived and questioned the man who was identified as Zengler and made out an interrogation card but he was not arrested Sunday night the Clovis Sports- -man Center at 233 Shaw Ave was burglarized and at least one handgun taken Within 25 minutes the Short Stop store at Shaw and Minnewawa Avenues the Stop 'N Go Market at Shaw and Winery Avenues and the 7-11 Food Store at Shaw and Maple were robbed by an armed bandit matching description One market had an automatic camera which took pictures of the holdup Monday evening the CHP said An Accusation $21 1577 Goal Work Starts On Fund Campaign McClstchy News Service LOS BANOS The suspect in a burglary and three armed robberies in Clovis and Fresno Sunday was shot to death Monday night on Pacheco Pass after he had allegedly kidnaped a 15-year-old youth from a Los Banos fruit stand The dead man was identified as Robert Zengler 26 whose license listed his address as Sun City Ariz The kidnaped youth Steve Warren of Pasadena suffered minor cuts when California Highway Patrol officers shot through Zengler's auto windows The affair started Sunday when an employe of Herb Sporting Center at 1316 Blackstone A Challenge And SPACE CENTER Houston (API American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts orbited the earth today preparing for a rendexvous that will link mankind's two spacefaring nations in a new era of cooperation first international manned space mission began with flawless launches from spaceports half a world apart Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov aboard a Soyuz spacecraft were put into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in a stark desert in central Russia The liftoff came within milliseconds of the scheduled launch time of 5:20 am PDT Seven and one-half hours later Apollo astronauts' Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton rocketed away from earth from the Cape Canaveral Fla launch complex The Americans will guide their spacecraft through a series of rocket firings in a classic celestial chase toward rendezvous on Thursday with the Soviet craft Only two small problems blemished an otherwise perfect beginning of the Soyuz flight As the spacecraft soared upward the Soviet control center reported a overload" referring to a greater than expected acceleration force The cosmonauts replied that are Later the cosmonauts said one of four TV cameras aboard the spaceship was not functioning The spacemen began trouble shooting for the problem which blocked planned telecast showing the cosmonauts as they soared into orbit share of matching funds must be provided Representatives from the county schools of Fresno Tulare Kings and Madera counties met Monday to be gin drafting plans for organizing the management and a fund raising campaign Ernest Poore Fresno County superintendent of education said the FCC has approved the station license and a construction permit for the transmitter site at Bear Mountain Based on population Poore said Fresno County's share of the matching funds will be about $122000 about $19000 Tulare about $57000 and Madera share about $12000 Poore said once the local share is raised the county will receive 80 per cent of the federal grant to begin construction of the television station cannot receive one cent of That could mean a 15-cent-per-gallon increase in oil prices according to estimates of the Senate Interior Committee Asihe basis of his energy program Ford seeks to remove controls from oil and natural-gas prices He is sending Ms oil-decontrol program to Congress this week The Ford administration estimates the plan for phasing out oil controls over 30 months would cost an extra seven cents for gasoline raise the cost of living by nearly 1 per cent and boost the average energy bill by $200 a year The Interior Committee says the action would cost the average four-member family $600 a year Consumer advocate Ralph Nader estimates $900 Administration officials say this is the price the nation must pay to in Monday was Felipe Martinez Garcia 44 of 432 Ninth SL Orange Cove He was booked into Fresno County jail on four counts of murder Two tips received by The Bee's Secret Witness program named Garcia as the assailant and the information was passed on to the detectives who subsequently arrested Garcia By CHARLES WRIGHT Bee Staff Writer Channel 18 the San Joaquin full-color educational television station is off and running and all the talk of programming and fund raising is no longer idle planning The work now begins to raise the $211577 needed to put the station on the air and to find people to fill the slots in the complex chart of advisory and management organization The figure is up from the $84000 originally projected to put the station on the air mostly because of delays caused by special interest groups filing protests with the Federal Communications Commission The Fresno County Department of Education has a $430583 grant from the US Department of Health Education and Welfare but before any of it is made available the local Kissinger Defends Detente Almost forgotten in the excitement of the Joint mission was the fact that Russia has another two-man crew in space They are the cosmonauts of Soyuz 18 who today quietly spent their 52nd day aboard the orbiting Salyut 4 space station The Soyuz 18 and 19 crews are expected to communicate during the Apollo-Soyuz mission Because of their late liftoff the astronauts were still in bed and did not watch the Russian launch on television They awakened at 10:10 am and watched a videotape replay of the launch as they ate the traditional launch day breakfast of steak and eggs They immediately dispatched a message to the Soviet control center which was relayed to the cosmonauts It read: on a great Soon after Soyuz shot into orbit Soviet party leader Leonid 1 See Space Page A4 For ETV Station federal money until we have our share in the pot either in cash or in he said Poore said if each county raises only $1 a pupil it would provide the local share The county cannot seek bids on the equipment until it has the money to cover the costs he added In addition to the four counties which are members of the cooperative project Poore said Stanislaus and Kern counties have indicated they may Join if Channel 18 provides a broadcast-qhality signal in their areas Poore said the station could be on the air in 12 to 14 months if there are no further delays seems like I have been on this for 200 years so I am going to celebrate the bicentennial with Channel 18" he commented crease its supplies of domestically produced oil and to conserve energy plan announced Monday would phase out petroleum price controls over the next 30 months a move the President called a compromise between continued controls and immediate decontrol The price of oil is controlled under a system About 40 per cent of the oil consumed in the United States is sold at $525 a barrel The remainder is sold at uncontrolled world prices currently about $1250 a barrel This system would be eliminated by the Ford proposal under which the cost of a barrel of oil would rise to an estimated price of $1350 when all controls were removed in January 1978 After Ford revealed the plan the Federal Energy Administration conducted a briefing for reporters Also taken into custody about 2 this morning was Pasquala Tedana 43 of Reedley wife She was also booked on four counts of murder Detectives also arrested son' Lorenzo 22 of Dinuba for investigation of murder and being an accessory to murder the Soviet Union saw themselves almost mortal 15 years ago joint manned mission in space is symbolic of the distance We have he said On a campaign-style swing through the Midwest to build support at home f-( Today Zengler stopped at the Go Jolly Fruit Stand on Highway 152 west of Los Banos The CHP said he kidnaped Warren at gunpoint and the incident was witnessed by Warren's brother-in-law Larry Puma who runs the stand Puma notified the Los Banos detachment of the Highway Patrol and accompanied one CHP officer in pursuit of the fleeing vehicle In the meantime another CHP car was sent from Hollister and the two patrolmen stopped Zengler just over Pacheco Pass in Santa Clara County The officers said Zengler was holding a 38-caliber pistol at the head and they ordered him several times to drop iL When he refused they shot through the windows kiiling the suspect instantly for the Ford foreign policy Kissinger said Monday night In Milwaukee that World countries are undermining the United In a speech to the University of See Kissinger Blast Page A4 Index Amusements Theaters D8 Bridge C4 Classified D9 To D17 Comics A13 Contemporary Life A10 To A 12 Editorials A14 Financial D6 D7 News In Brief 4 D17 Sports D2 To D5 Sylvia Porter D7 Television-Radio D18 Vital Statistics D17 Weather D17 Your Horoscope A13 Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudiness with chance of light sprinklers or showers today northwesterly winds 10-20 miles per hour with stronger gusts on the West Side cooler today Fresno temperatures: 88 58 this morning's low 60 high 96 Details on Page D17 Senate Votes To Extend Price Control Over US-Produced Oil if FHA loan plan scored A7 if Floods sweep Northeast G6 if David Thompson becomes sport' richest rookie D2 MINNEPOLIS Minn (AP) -Calling the Apollo-Soyuz space flight a symbol of progress in US-Soviet relations Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger today defended detente as a to regulate a competitive relationship" and challenged its critics to come up with a better alternative In an apparent reference to recent warnings by exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Kissinger took note of voices" reminding the United States the nature of the Soviet system and of our duty to defend freedom" is no about this he said But in a speech prepared for the Upper Midwest Council of Minneapolis Kissinger said critics of detente must answer these questions: is the alternative that they propose? What precise policies do they want us to change? Are they prepared for a prolonged situation of dramatically increased international danger? Do they wish to return to the constant crises and high arms budgets of the cold war? detente encourage-repression or is it detente that has generated the ferment and the demands for openness that we are now witnessing? Can we ask our people to support confrontation unless they know that every reasonable alternative has been Kissinger cited space flight as an area in which the United States and Two detectives have been investigating the case since Mrs Jessie Maldonado 22 David Rodriguez 18 Danny Maldonado 5 and Phillip Garcia 16 were found shot to death in their- tiny apartment at 101 Eleventh St an Orange Cove hous-See Two Suspects Page A4 A By JAMES GERSTENZANG WASHINGTON (API The Senate today passed and sent to the House a bill that would extend the authority to control the price of oil produced in the United States The bill approved 62 to 29 is being pushed by opponents of President energy program It would extend the Petroleum Allocation Act now scheduled to expire Aug 31 until March 31 1976 Ford has threatened to veto the extension unless Congress permits him to implement a proposal to out the price controls on domestic oil over the next 2Vk years Such a veto unless overturned by Congress would bring an immediate end to the price controls when the current act expires Aug 31 Chuckle New types of lures are introduced every season and the fishermen continue to bite Y- Comedian Flip Wilson Joins President birthday celebration Story on Page A4 UPI Telephoto Two Are Held In Killing Of Orange Cove Family By LARRY CARROLL Bee Staff Writer Fresno County Sheriffs detectives have arrested three suspects for investigation of the April 7 coldblooded murder in which four members of an Orange Cove family were slain Arrested at his home at 4:30 Sweepstakes winners on Page D1 8.