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The Fresno Bee A14 Mon April 11 1977 News In Brief Warnke Forecasts New Arms Race If US Russ Fail To Reach Agreement The State Hearing On New Corona Trial SALINAS Calif (UPI) A hearing to determine if convicted mass murderer Juan Corona deserves a new trial because of charges his attorney was incompetent is scheduled to start today is Monterey County Superior Court The 43-year-old farm labor contractor was found guilty in 1972 of butchering 25 migrant farm workers and burying their bodies in Yuba City Cam orchards New eourt-appointed lawyers for Corona argue that Richard Hawk trial attorney was guided by potential personal gain rather than legal logic in refusing psychiatric teste for his client Dud1 Bomb Hits SF Garage SAN FRANNCISCO (AP) The FBI said a bomb was tossed Saturday into an underground garage beneath the Social Security Adminiatration offices It was reported only the detonator went off A menage delivered to some media offices including The Associated Press said the attempt waa the work of the terrorist new World Liberation Front in support of a ait-in by handicapped persons prepared to respond to any suggestion they may make I think in fact they will Warnke said that while Vance and Gromyko will meet in Geneva in May he hoped some form of discussion would begin before then He specifically mentioned negotiating working groups whose formation was agreed to in the Kremlin talks to deal with such subjects as civil defense and a further nuclear test ban are willing to begin talks immediately and in fact are anxious to do Warnke said would be responsive to any suggestion they may make" confirmed by the Senate was guardedly optimistic that agreement would be reached even if it required a summit meeting between Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev "We are prepared to deal at whatever level is necessary to reach an agreement we consider vital for the United States and the human he said Carter is both a practical man and a persuasive man and would be anxious to exercise his talents if that became Warnke denied that Secretary of State 'Cyrus mission to Moscow to present Carter's The Nation Assassination Panel's Acting Counsel PHILADELPHIA (AP) Lewis Jr who has worked for the House Committee on Assassinations since last December has been appointed acting chief counsel and staff director the committee chairman said Sunday Lewis a lawyer from Palmyra Pa replaces Richard A Sprague who resigned March 30 after a long-standing feud with former committee chairman Henry Gonzalez D-Tex Committee Chairman Louis Stokes D-Ohio said through i spokesman that Lewis will serve as counsel to the 12-member committee for about one month or until a permanent counsel ia named He said the committee is engaged now in a search for a permanent successor to Sprague limitation plan was unsuccessful despite some comments to the contrary Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko took the unusual step of holding a news conference to denounce the plan as a and shady think the mission Warnke aaid "I think we presented the American position I think anyone expected a positive response from the Soviet leadership We have come iw with new proposala It ia now up to them to respond believe the ball is in the court at the present time We are looking at the package and are happy the said 14 languages a special altar set Basilica members were scared but was no A television crew member called police who aiTived within minutes but were unable to prevent the shooting man never threatened anybody" Gunn said just told us he was oing to shoot Gunn said the man talking to us about having committed a crime and now he was paying for it but I am really not sure what he The minister added tried to Homeowners Two Held In Murder Of Four KODAK Tenn (AP) Two men have been arrested one after a high-speed auto chase in connection with a bank robbery that left four persons dead in what police called gangland style FBI agents said Sunday that George Brady 43 of Sevier County and Leroy Marshall 25 of Newport were charged with bank robbery and are being held in the Sevier County jail at Sevierville Police said four persons three bank employes and a customer were forced to lie on the floor of the Citizens National Bank branch in this east Tennessee town Saturday Then each was shot through the back of the head with what authorities believe was a 38-caliber pistol Authorities said they found such a pistol but they would not say where They did not say why Brady and Marshall were the suspects Oil Barge Blast Still Mystery PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Gulf Oil Corp says it eannot explain the explosion that spilled flaming oil apparently killed the barge captain and dumped flaming oil into the Schuylkill River The Captain James Farlow 56 of Princess Anne Md was missing and believed dead after the Saturday blast The other man on the barge Jeffrey King 22 of Trumbull Conn dived into the water and swam ashore He was treated for minor injurie at the Gulf Oil dispensary The barge owned by the Interstate and Ocean Transport Co was taking on home heating oil at the Gulf refinery in South Philadelphia when the accident occurred at about 2 pm Blessing The Pilgrims irssnfissv Vatican City to celebrate Easter happy Easter a NEW YORK (AP) American arms negotiator Paul Warnke said Sunday that failure to reach an arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union would mean a new arms race "I think those are the alternatives he replied when asked that question on the CBS-TV program "Face the Nation" Asked further if this meant the United States would have to spend more billions on new arms in such a situation he answered: "Unfortunately that is the situation if we come up with an effective arms Warnke whose nomination to the job by President Carter was narrowly Equipment lost' At Ft Hood By DREW VON BERGEN WASHINGTON (UPI) Nearly $15 million of Army equipment at Ft Hood Tex over 15 months recently and there are similar unexplained losses at other installations Rep Les Aspin D-Wis said Sunday Aspin a frequent critic of defense spending and operations asked the General Accounting Office to investigate the situation At Ft Hood where almost $1-5 million worth of equipment disappeared during a 15-month period ending last Dec 21 an officer told Aspin: can get pour car fixed by some of the best equipped mechanics in the world in the Ft Hood Said Aspin an operation as large as the Army there will always be some items missing and unaccounted for But $15 million worth of equipment that evaporates into thin air from a single base is completely unacceptable" Aspin said he has been shown 2315 "Reports of which detail missing equipment and those showed $1461403 worth of goods had disappeared from Ft Hood He said on an annual basis the losses represent 5 per cent of the supply budget for the current year But Aspin said investigations at FL Hood found no one responsible for the loss of 91 per cent of the supplies He said "knowledgeable told him in most cases where someone was found liable they were already AWOL Fisher Fresno Druggist Shot By A Bandit Pharmacist Raymond Fisher was shot last night during a holdup attempt at his Ray Fisher Pharmacy 4646 Blackstone Ave police reported assailant was described as an unshaven man in his early 30s wearing a too-large blue jumpsuit and a trench coat The weapon waa reported to be a 36-caliber revolver The incident was reported to police at 10:28 Witnesses said they saw a man leaving the area at high speed in a car driven by a woman Fisher was undergoing treatment in St Agnes Hospital A report on his condition was not immediately available Tax Refunds Continued from Page A1 taxpayera also has jumped dramatically The figures show a 134 per cent error rate on the 1040A as of March 19 and a 94 per cent rate on the long form 100 A year ago the combined error rate for both types was 88 per cent and in 1975 it waa 47 per cent Officials blame the 1976 Tax Reform Act which forced taxpayers using the short form to compute their tax mathematically for the first time Channel Halts Easter Telecast Man Shoots Dog Self i i Convert Query Irks Cleaver PORTLAND Ore (UPI) Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver says people believe Jesus Christ" either when he was asked if his religious conversion a matter of convenience "I bother to answer that Cleaver said Cleaver 41 is scheduled to go on trial May 9 in Oakland Calif on three counts of assault with intent to kill and three counts of assault on Oakland police officers The charges arose from a 1968 Black Panther shotout with Oakland police Face A Disappointment 79-year-old Roman Catholic leader after celebrating an Easter Mass at up in front of the giant SL Peter's APLaserphoto In Church talk to him but he said he had made up hia Adcock aaid the man kept talking about repaying a debt he owed and about the resurrection man who waa in the back of the church held up hia hand and told the man with the gun that love you Adcock said man answered 'I love you too but it ia too Then came the shootingincludes previous Renters utilities increased from $108 to $156 during the 1970-75 period a 44 per cent climb At the same time median income increased 25 per cent from $6300 to $7900 The report said the value of single family homes in 1975 was about twice the income of their owners although the ratio varied considerably according to income level Owners with incomes of less than $5000 annually lived in housing valued at an average of four times their income In the upper income group $25000 or more the value of homes was an average of leu than 15 times income the report said Renters the study cotinued paid about 23 per cent of their annual income for rent in 1975 The lower income renters spent an average of 35 per cent or more on rent whtie high income renters gave leu than 10 per cent of their earnings to landlords Home values and rents in 1975 were study said On Air BILOXI Miss (UPI) A retired Air Force major saying he had a debt to repay walked into a Baptist church in this Gulf Coast city during Easter Sunday services and shot himself and a dog The neatly dressed man identified by Biloxi police as Ford Dawson 53 of Gulfport also fired one shot into a door Dawson was taken to Howard Memorial Hospital for surgery Biloxi Police Chief Ed Ryan aaid the man was identified at the hospital by his wife Ryan said Dawson had a four-year history of One church member said the man brought the dog into the church himself He first chatted with then struggled with some churchgoers Then he shot the dog in the head put the pistol to his own temple and fired Thousands in the Gulf Coast area viewed the beginning of the incident live over television station WLOX which broadcasts the church services The station cut off coverage before the man ahot himself Church member Joe Adcock said heard a shot turned around and saw a man standing at the doorway struggling with a church member who greets those coming into the church then tried to make my way back to the struggle but by this time the man had freed himself and was moving toward the He said the man climbed into the pulpit and asked church members not to leave Most ducked behind pews or slipped out side doors The Rev Ray Gunn pastor of the church said he and the church TIGER MOVIE Richard Widmark narrates a documentary about the Bengal tiger that was filmed in Nepal and India The World Secretary Owen Begins Africa Tour LONDON (AP) Foreign Secretary David Owen left Sunday for a five-day tour of southern Africa aimed at reviving British-American efforts for a peaceful transfer of power to the black majority in Rhodesia have been in dose consultation with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and I be going if I think there was a chance of he said Before his departure Owen met for lVi hours with Joshua Nkomo one of four Rhodesian black leaders seeking majority rule in the breakaway British colony Easter Bomb Blast Kills Irish Lad BELFAST Northern Ireland (UPI) A bomb explosion Sunday killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded five other persons during an Irish Republican Army march commemorating the 1916 Easter uprising Police said the boy not immediately identified was one of about a dozen flag-waving children gathered with hundreds of adults at the rallying point for the march in the Roman Catholic Falls Road district Police said the bomb went off near a bakery and may have been concealed beneath a parked car which waa heavily damaged in the blast WASHINGTON (UPI) -Homeowners and renters alike are in for a major disappointment if they expect their annual incomes to keep pace with the skyrocketing cost of housing a government survey said Sunday The study released jointly by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development showed that the median value of single-family homes jumped nearly 73 per cent between 1970 and late 1975 At the beginning of the decade the value was $17100 As of October 1975 the value for the home was $29500 During the same period the study said median income for homeowners rose 40 per cent from $9700 to $13600 Housing costs have continued to climb rapidly since then Government figures released Friday showed that the median sales price of new single-family homes was $47500 For renters the situation was much the same the report said Median monthly rents including 1 8: TV Station Officially Christians Shell Palestinians KHIAM Lebanon (AP Christian militiamen in Marjayoun lobbed shells Sunday at Palestinian guerrillas poised outside the strategic town But the Palestinians held their fire saying they had orders to suspend their attack against the Israeli-backed Christians The lull in the fighting a few miles north of the Israeli border apparently was designed to give Syria time to ask the Christians to end their cooperation with Israel and leave control of the guerrillas to the Syrian-dominated Arab peacekeeping force Yemen: Ex Continued from Page A1 ing enjoying and supporting your television station Channel Zaire: Airlift By French Continued from Page A1 welcomed Soviet arms and Cuban troops last year to help crush rival factions in a civil war then would Neto now that he is in power not grant his neighbors the same right to have recourse to foreign assistance to safeguard their unity and integrity?" he asked in an interview with AZAP reasoning of the man imposed on the Angolans by the Soviets and Cubans is completely void of Zaire contends the rebels mutly former secessionists who fled to Angola in 1963 staged the invasion into the copper-rich southeastern province of Shaba (formerly Katanga) with Angolan Cuban and Soviet support The first program was featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir The program was selected becauu the premier day was Easter The opening programs were in full color but Dougherty noted much of the initial programming will be in black and white The station is not completely geared up for color broadcasting but Dougherty said he expects the station to be full color by mid-May One of the station's two video tape recorders has been converted to color and the second is scheduled to be converted within the next couple of weeks The station has' two color cameras but pedestals for them still are on order As the station went on the air a cheer went up from about 40 supporters gathered in the studio Champagne corks popped some with enough force to bounce off the soundproof lining of the 20-foot high ceiling in the studio The station still is in its period required by the Federal Communications Commission and will not be on the air until 3 pm each afternoon until the tests are completed probably late this week KMTF will broadcast education programs for the school districts from 9 am to 3 pm with Public Broadcasting Service and locally produced programs running from 3 pm until the station goes off the air Channel 18 broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 133 million watts slightly less than the 16 million watts of KM J-TV Channel 24 Both stations have transmitters located on Bear Mountain east of Fresno and coverage areas should be similar Dougherty said the station has received a number of calls from persons asking whether they need any special equipment to receive Channel 18 None is needed he said and the viewer need only turn the UHF dial to Channel 18 Leader Slain been supported by South Yemen the People's Democratic Republc of Yemen A number of persons convicted of subversion were executed under his government North Yemen is now ruled by a military regime that is trying to contend with conflicts between rival tribal and political groups Little progress has been made toward unity with Soviet-backdd South Yemen Continued from Page A1 exile in 1974 more than 25 people were killed in anti-leftist riots He was dismissed as prime minister of the Yemen Arab Republic in February 1974 by President Abdel Rahman al Irianl His two years in office were marked by several violent incidents They included the murder of a prominent member of the government and clashes between armed forces and rebels said to have i.