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if "Without or with offense to -friends or foes we sketch your world exactly as it aoes--Bvroii 3 3 6 PAGES INFECTIONS ABILENE TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 27 1980 20 CENTS Reagan Swamps Bush in 2-1 Victory Carter Defeats Kennedy CONCORD NH (AP) President Carter defeated Sen Edward Kennedy in New Hampshire's presidential primary election Tuesday night but the defiant Democratic challenger conceded nothing Ronald Reagan won a Republican landslide over George Bush and reclaimed command of the race for the GOP nomination Kennedy in what amounted to a celebration of defeat told cheering supporters that his campaign issues will take hold in the big industrial states where the campaign has yet to be waged The Republican primary produced a virtual withdrawal by Sen Bob Dole of Kansas who ran dead last and Mid he would enter no more primaries because "it's not going anywhere" With 99 percent of the ballots counted Carter was gaining half the vote and led Kennedy by a comfortable 12 percentage points Robert Strauss chairman of the Carter campaign said time we win Reagan Fires Top Aide MANCHESTER NH (AP) A Joyful RodiUI Reagan celebrated his return to the front of the Republican presidential pack Tuesday night Just hours after firing his campaign manager and losing two other key aides Reagan whipped former UN Ambassador George Bush by more than a 2-to-1 margin after a furious campaign in New Hampshire which contrasted sharply with the pace that marked his organisation in losing efforts earlier is the way I want to continue campaigning meeting the people of this country as I was able to meet you" he told a victory celebration in a Manchester hotel His wife Nancy at his side Reagan said suppose you suspect that very happy Wen we The wide margin of victory was the second surprise of the day Earlier while the votes were still locked in the ballot boxes Reagan named former Securities and Exchange Chairman William Casey to replace John Sears the longtime professional strategist whose credits include the direction of dramatic bid for the GOP nomination in 1978 Two other top campaign aides field coordinator Charles Black and press spokesman Jim Lake resigned in apparent protest of the ouster of Sears A 10:10 CBS news broadcast however' uid Reagan fired all three of his top aides Reagan Mid he acted to put more emphasis on people-to-people type of See TWO OTHER Back page this section Shakeup reported Republican candidate Ronald Reagan sits with Nancy his shakeup of his campaign The announcement came as polls wife Tuesday night in Reagan's Manchester NH cam- were still open in the New Hampshire primary (AP Laser-paign headquarters as a news program announces that three photo) top national staffers were ousted by Reagan in a major See DEFEAT PUSHES Back page this section The New Hampshire Vote Delegates Final Tally KTXS Other Stations May Face Foreclosure CONCORD NH (AP) Here are the final returns in the New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday with all 299 preincts CONCORD NH (AP) Here are the final delegate allocations in the New Hamsphire presidential primary With all of the 299 pre-cints reporting: Democratic The investors in Permian Basin Television are a group of Mexican-American businessmen and lawyers from Albuquerque NM Froyd said Grayson's selling price is dearly below market value estimated at $187 million the FCC in effect is letting Grayson sell rather than be Investigated for possibly violating its regulations we want to make sure they are selling the television stations below what they could normally Froyd said Froyd predicted however that an appropriate price may be reached months" He said that if the FCC approved a sale before April 1 it is unlikely the Dal- Reporter-News Bureau WASHINGTON The Texas creditor for four television stations owned by Grayson Enterprises including KTXS in Abilene this week told the Federal Communications Commission it will foreclose oa the properties April 1 if authorities do not approve a pending sale Paul Froyd an attorney for the FCC said the Mercantile National Bank in Dallas wants to recoup $35 million in debts Grayson owes on KTXS KLBK in Lubbock KMOM in Monahans and KWAB in Big Spring Grayson meanwhile has applied to the FCC to sell the stations to two minority-owned companies Prim Inc and Permian Basin for a price that last week was revised down to $141 million from $15 million Grayson wants to sell KTXS and KLBK to Prima and KWAB and KMOM to Permian Basin The so-called "distress is necessary because in July 1977 the FCC cited Grayson stations for alleged violations of FCC regulations including fraudulent billing and airing policies However federal law allows a station under investigation to opt to sell the property "substantially below market to a group of investors the majority of whom are black financiers law was made to encourage black participation in the television industry" Mid Froyd The owners of Prima Inc are Dr John Robert Lee an assistant director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin Larry Reed an assistant basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin and Wayne Embrey a former professional basketball player with the New York Knicks Carter 10 Kennedy 9 Brown 0 Kay 0 LaRouche 0 Republican Reagan 15 Bush 5 Baker 2 Anderson 0 Connally 0 Crane 0 Dole 0 Ford 0 Indicates write-in votes See BARBARA JORDAN Back page this section JOHN SEARS Bred campaign manager Inside Today Storm Strands Hundreds Across Midwest Virginias Deadline for entering this week's contest is 1 pm today SUCK II Fund Formed For Sick Youth A fund has been established for the family of a comatose girl who isn't expected to live Pg 14A of last week's deluge which left 36 people dead and a half-billion dollars in damage But it will be days before the two states are back to normal and the scope of the losses is known Phoenix Aria remained a divided city with only two of the ten bridges open acrou the Salt River The New Mexico National Guard wu airlifting food and livestock to some 6000 families stranded by 10 days of snows and floods mi the Navajo reservation near Window Rock Arts In the suburban community of Solans Beach Calif near San Diego 6000 homes and businesses have been without telephones since floods cut underwater cables last Thursday refuge in National Guard armories in three towns along Interstate 65 in Jasper County not going to let them out" 1st Sgt Eugene Percy said at the armory in Remington on Monday night are Mattered everywhere It would be almost a catastrophe to let them go tonight" Snow fell Tuesday from the upper Ohio Valley to the southern Appalachians as well as acrou portions of the mid-Atlantic statu and western New York Gale warnings covered much of the New England coast snd gusts of 40 mph were recorded in the Carolines Meanwhile residents of California and Arizona had another day of sunshine while digging out of the mud and muck By The Associated Preu A blinding snowstorm that stranded hundreds of school children and motorists across the Midwest surprised the Virginias on Tuesday with almost a foot of snow that put an end to shirtsleeve weather At least six persons were killed in Indiana the storm bUtied that state with winds of 50 mph and snow up to I inches deep by Tuesday The dead included a 17-year-old youth who was riding makeshift sled towed by an automobile and three men who suffered heart attacks while shoveling snow About 600 pupils were forced to spend the night in two schools in Wabash County Ind because buses were unable to reach them About 400 motorists took Complete Weather Pg 3A JODIE STUTZ in Xerox Kandal The Bottom Falls Out Of Her Job Cpngressional Committee OKs Tax MOLINE 111 (AP) Jodi Stuts says she had no idea that when she put her bare bottom on the Xerox machine she was putting her Job on the line "I can't belive I got fired over she said Tuesday Just believe It" Miss Stutz a 2l-year-old secretary said that one night after work last month at Deere A Co she decided to christen the new copy machine on the floor by sneaking into the Xerox room and making a picture of her bottom lot of people were taking pictures See NO BUTTS Back page this section energy sources through government grants and loan guarantees and improve the transportation system The other 25 percent or $57 billion would reimburse lower-income Americans for some of their soaring fuel costs Aid to the poor wss the last issue resolved during the two-month conference As a compromise between Senate and House positions the panel agreed that after 1981 the money will be channeled half through existing welfare programs snd half through a new program of grants similar to one that that is in effect temporarily this winter dustry about 78 percent of the $1 -trillion The bill would give Carter more than three-quarters of the tax that he asked While it does not earmark the money the way the president proposed neither does it lock out his energy program The conferees proposed to spend the $2273 billion this way: 60 percent or $136 billion would be earmarked for income-tax reductions This earmarking process is not binding any tax cut would have to be voted by Congress in subsequent legislation 15 percent or $34 billion would finance development of unconventional com e-tax reductions for individuals and corporations early as next fall Although President Carter opposes any tax-cut action now for fear it would worsen inflation spokesmen for his administration hailed the bill as one of the greatest domestic achievements during the president's term The measure intends to auure that the oil industry does not profit unduly from his plan to reduce US reliance on Imported energy Attached to the bill is a major new tax break aimed at encouraging savings In 1961 and 1982 It would allow a couple to avoid federal income taxes on the first $400 ($200 for Individuals) earned each year from interest or dividends A majority of the 26 conferees from the two houses signed the compromise tax bill A final vote by the House and Senate would send the Mil to Carter for his signature by mid-March Carter recommended the tax after deciding to phase out federal price controls on US crude oil in an effort to spur greater domestic production snd cut Imports Decontrol will cost consumers an estimated $1 trillion more in the 1960s The compromise version of the tax would when combined with existing state and local taxes take back from the oil in WASHINGTON (AP) A Senate-House conference committee gave final approval Tuesday to a $2273 billion tax on the oil industry after agreeing on a formula for helping mll-lions of Americans cope with rising fuel costa The bill earmarks nearly $57 billion in the 1960s to help an estimated II million families near or below the poverty line But the conferees Junked a provision aimed at helping "working poor" families whose incomes were up to $22000 a year The long-awaited tax measure could open the door for across-the-board in-.