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Sports Page Cl The Fre FRESNO CALIFORNIA Monday April 1 1 1 977 SOUTH VALLEY 15 $84 Million Income Cut For Westlands By LANNY LARSON Bee Staff Writer Westlands Water District Manager-Chief Counsel Ralph Brody says a survey of district farmers indicates the drought will cause losses in production this year that will cut gross farm income 884 million And to produce on 23 per cent less acreage than last year will mean a 191 per cent increase in the use of underground water because of the cutback in the big surface supply through the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project Brady says The survey represents responses Survey: 23 Less Acreage 191 More Underground Water Needed from farmers of 282500 acres more than half the 547000 irrigable acres in the 572000-acre Westlands The farmers planted 97 per cent of the acreage last year but are planning to cut that to 74 per cent this year to make better use of whatever water is available The district already knows it will get no more than 25 per cent of its contracted allocation from the US Bureau of Reclamation and Brody contends only enough to meet 19 per cent of the production needs Although the surface supply through the federal project was supposed to supplement underground pumping some farmers over the years have been able to abandon their wells because they had ample water for their crops That's all changed this year There is a waiting list for well drillers and power transformers to get the water out of the ground To get the 191 per cent increase over last year's underground water usage in Westlands the 107 operators responding have laid out 877 milium for new and rehabilitated wells in addition to mine than $7 million for tailwater return systems sprinkler and drip irrigation systems and other water management facilities the survey respondents invested in the past few years Brody says farm dollars are believed to turn over at least six times going through the economy That means the estimated 84 million decline in gross revenue could mean a 1ms exceeding a half-billion dollars to the local state and national economy Brody uid the survey revealed 28 per cent of the employes about 1200 persons won't be working this year which will take about IS million in wages out of the economy More than 84 million in equipment orders were canceled by the respondents Brody said and 8750000 worth of leases for equipment AnUnctartlingPoct We're not likely to hear any criticism from the government about the wage settlement for the steel industry That word came yesterday from a government economist who said the pact appears to be about what was expected Page C7 The Bee's Security Garnet Winning numbers on Page B3 Ex-Leader Of Yemen Wife Slain Easter With Traditional Trimmings Trudeau In Dfsnvyland Pierre Trudeau was in Disneyland yesterday but Margaret wasn't And the Canadian prime minister wasn't saying much on the domestic problem For the latest on the Trudeaus see People Page A2 Penny Raven's bonnet may not have many frills but it manages to subtly evoke thoughts of a traditional Easter Sunday Mrs Raven and others in the neighborhood participated in another tradition of the holiday an Easter egg hunt for children at the William Meux home at 3707 Huntington Blvd It was just one of many celebrations of Easter made the more brilliant in Fresno by bright sunshine and 72-degree temperatures Additional views of Easter in Rome and Fresno on A14 and Dl Bee Photo by JMephA Frisina Jr LONDON (AP) A gunman killed a former Yemeni prime minister his wife and chauffeur near Hyde Park Sunday firing a pistol through the windshield and door of their parted car The victims were identified as A1 Qadi Abdullah Ali Al-Hajri 65-year-old deputy chief of the North Yemen Supreme Court his wife Fatimah 40 and driver Abdullah Ali A1 Ham-mami Police used the spelling A1 Hejri have no motive but we are treating it as a killing where a politician is said Jim Nevill chief of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad Police said the official and his wife were in London on a private visit and had been staying at the Royal Lancaster Hotel facing Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park The shootings occurred shortly after 11 am when Hyde park was crowded with Easter tourists Police said that after the former prime minister and his wife entered their ear a man Middle Eastern ap- French Fly War Equipment To Zaire No 1 In Israel Shimon Peres left is now the top man in the Israeli Labor Party He's shown with Foreign Minister Yigal Allon his number two man after the vote in Tel Aviv which gave the leadership post to Peres Page A1 4 Rearance" wearing a dark coat and aggy trousers walked across the street and opened fire with an described the Kinshasa government as a of armed subversive activities on its territory coming from abroad" The French action was the first direct European assistance to Mobutu's regime since France sent spare parts for Zaire's French-built Mirage fighters last month Neto sent notes to Moroccan King Hauan II Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Organisation of African Unity protesting the arrival of the first contingent of Moroccan troops Saturday night But Mobutu recalled the Angolan leader had See Zaire Back Page discuss possible Egyptian military assistance AZAP reported Egyptian troops and a second 1500 man Moroccan contingent might arrive in the next few days A French government spokesman in Paris said 10 Transall twin-engined military transports and a DCS military plane have begun flying Moroccan war materiel to Zaire The planes were flown by French Air Force crews from a base south of Paris to Morocco on Saturday the spokesman said He said the mission should be completed within two days A French communique said the action was taken at the request of Zaire and Morocco and By United Press International French military planes are rushing Moroccan war equipment to Zaire to help government soldiers and an expeditionary force of 1500 Moroccan troops turn back a rebel invasion from Angola the French government announced Sunday In the Zairean capital of Kinshasa President Mobutu Sese Seko rejected as "completely void of logic" Angolan President AgMtinho warning against outside intervention in the fighting the national news agency AZAP said Mobutu also received an Egyptian mission to Article Ires Haley Journalism'' says "Roots" author Alex Haley It took him nine years to write his novel and he thinks the London Sunday Times reporter who challenged his book took about nine days to write his article He's in London to see the reporter Page B8 Billy's Remark Cont'd Certainly he resents it Carter Gilmore a black Oakland politician said yesterday of a racial remark made by President Carter's brother Billy And he's going to hold a news conference today about it Billy however says he was only kidding and he "ain't apologizing" Page A4 Weather- automatic i They reported the killer escaped into a subway station The murdered official father of 10 children was an outspoken rightist who frequently expressed opposition to uniting North Yemen with Marxist South Yemen When he was removed from power and briefly forced into See Yemen Back Page Record High Refunds Due Taxpayers By JAMES HILDRETH WASHINGTON (UPI) The IRS saya Americans are getting record high income tax refunds this year an average 8448 so far and more are checking off a buck or two for presidential campaign funds than did last year But taxpayers also are making a lot more mistakes in filling out their 1976 returns especially the so-called short form 1040A Of the 83 million returns expected to be filed by Saturday's deadline nearly 47 million had been processed as of April 1 Internal Revenue Service spokesmen Mid Of the 47 million taxpayers who have been through the mill 397 million got refunds The average amount returned has been 844758 compared with 841726 at the same time last year After all returns were counted last year the average refund was 842641 the highest ever up to that time IRS statistics also show that as of April 1 112 million returns authorized either 81 or 82 of their income tax to be used for the 1980 presidential campaign The money authorized totaled 8172 million By comparison taxpayers had checked off only 8163 million at the same point last year even though it as a presidential election year and on the Democratic side quite a number of candidates were on the hustings clamoring for funds The IRS released figures showing the number of mistakes made by See Tax Refunds Back Page 11:56:1 3 April 10 -A Dream Ends An Era Begins By CHARLES WRIGHT Bee Staff Writer Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley finally have a public television station KMTF Channel 18 officially went on the air shortly before noon Sunday bringing to reality the dream of many persons in the last quarter century Ernest A Poore county superintendent of education and Harriet Jowett an administrative consultant for the county Department of Education ceremoniously threw the switches that transferred the Channel 18 test pattern to full programming The clock in the control room at 733 St read 11:56:13 am when programming began A recorded announcement noted the fact that KMTF is on the air followed by the National Anthem performed by the US Air Force band Station Manager Colin Dougherty welcomed the valley to public broadcasting in a brief meuage taped earlier at KJEO Channel 47 you are seeing right now is the culmination of many years of planning hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions and the dreams of many central valley residents" Dougherty said 18 is public television It belongs to you Your desire for public TV has brought us to this point The future also depends upon He noted the station still is growing and adding new programs to those already lined up for the premier week this growing period KMTF may not be all things to all people" he said need and we want to hear from you in regard to what you see on Channel 18" He ended the opening statement by inviting viewers spend foe rest of this premier day the rest of the week and the rest of your lives watch-See Channel 18 Back Page Far through Tues-day with warmer days 1 ll i '1! northwesterly winds 5-15 miles per hour with gusts to 25 mph on the West Side High today 76 low tonight 49 Sunday's high was 72 Details on Page A2 Index' Amusements Theaters B5 Bridge A9 Briefly Told D2 Classified D3 To D1 1 Comics B4 Contemporary Life Section Editorials A1 2 Financial C7 Obituaries 6 Sports iC Section Television-Radio B7 Valley News Section Vital Statistics D3 Ernie Poore and Harriet Jowett push the KMTF buttons Bee Photo.