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Would you believe 'Gums' rather than 'Jaws'? ft Scuba diver survives attack by 18 -foot shark LOS ANGELES (AP) The young diver who says he survived a shark attack says glad it was more like than The shark of clamped, but it chomp on me, it kind of mouthed said Robert Rebstock, who estimated the fish was up to 18 feet long. grabbed me, lifted me up in the air and spit me Rebstock, 23, of San Marino, a student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, suffered lacerations and puncture wounds, authorities said. In a telephone interview Thursday from the bed of his apartment in Isla Vista, Rebstock told of the diving trip up the coast from Santa Barbara he took with his 15-year-old brother, Scott, and two roommates. Roommate Jeff Harris. 22, said the group was going diving and was warned by a commercial diver that a large white shark, the species that ate its way through an East Coast beach resort in the book and motion picture had circled him and nipped at a fin.

Harris said the four the warning seriously" and moved about a mile away before deciding to stop in an area about 400 or 500 feet off Pt. Conception in about 20 feet of water. Harris said Rebstock was the first one to get into his diving equipment and flop over the side of the small outboard motorboat. was in the water a couple of minutes when it (the shark) came up in a rush with Rob in its mouth, straight up out of the water maybe three feet or so. Then it just dropped him and we grabbed him out of the water and took Morris said.

feet went right down his Rebstock said. just glad to be Asked what he did when he felt the attack, he answered, just Tom Hesselden, the fourth member of the group and owner of the boat used on the trip, said he believed the creature was a white shark, but Harris said he was not so sure. Officials rejected thoughts that the story of the attack Wednesday was staged. And Santa Barbara County St. Dennis Higgins said, have no reason to doubt it, he was obviously attacked by something.

not a FBIDA ixon vening elegraph Dial 284-2222 125th Yoor Numbor 72 Serving the Heart of the Rock River Valley for More Than a Century DIXON. ILLINOIS, July 25. 1975 22 PAGES PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Ford offers energy compromise BIG Tonya Barr of Greensboro, N.C., puts the finishing touches on her king-size bubble during a contest at a Greensboro playground. (AP Wirephoto) WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford offered Congress an energy compromise today that his chief energy adviser said to us to meet all the objections against the plan previously rejected. Administration experts said they expected his proposal would result in a six-cent-a-gallon increase in petroleum prices, including gasoline, by 1978.

Ford proposed to gradually phase out price controls over a 39-month period and an $11.50 per barrel price ceiling on all domestically produced oil. Ford said that, although this represents a rollback on all current uncontrolled oil prices, the $11.50 ceiling would gradually be increased by five cents per month over the length of the program which runs through Nov. 30, 1978. Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. told re- porters the administration new decontrol plan to us to meet all the objections against the proposal rejected by Congress last week.

Ford had vetoed the congressional energy plan. House Speaker Carl Albert said President compromise energy plan will be acted on quickly by the House and that it have a Ford called his plan critical first step in reversing our growing dependence on foreign He said it should be combined with a windfall profits taxes on oil companies and rebates of energy taxes to the American people. But he did not spell out details of such a program in a statement concerning the compromise he was sending to Congress today. Zarb said the cost of all oil would rise to about $13.45 a barrel at the end of the 39- Disaster plea by Railsback Union pickets hamper Canton tornado recovery By T. LEE HUGHES Associated Press Writer CANTON, 111.

(AP) U.S. Rep. Tom Railsback said today he has asked President Ford to declare tornado-ravaged Canton a disaster area, as union continued to hamper recovery efforts. want to assure city officials and residents of Canton that my office and 1 are doing everything we can to see that the city is returned to said Railsback, a Republican from Rock Island. Meanwhile, union pickets remained up at the local office of the Central Illinois Public Service hampering efforts to restore power to the city, said a utility spokesman in Springfield.

bad, real bad, two-thirds of the customers still do not have said the spokesman, Jay Paul Wade. The pickets are members of Local 702 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers, whose 875 members have been on strike against CIPS since midnight July 6. After the tornado raged through Canton Wednesday night about 45 union members in Canton refused to return to work to repair storm damage and maintained picket lines, Wade said. The union workers temporarily returned to work Thursday morning, restoring electrical service to the hospital, two nursing homes and the water works, then the picket lines went up again. nonunion people are trying their best but tired, doing what Wade said.

Wade said union and utility negotiators met in Springfield early today in an effort to end the strike. doing our level best to try to settle this said Wade. think that both sides have come to the conclusion that this thing has got to be settled. hopeful. I think the union and the company are hopeful we can reach some agreement before the Erie Jones, state Civil Defense director, indicated Thursday that he doubted Canton could qualify as a federal disaster area, which would make it eligible for special disaster assistance.

He said while there was extensive damage to the private sector, damage to public buildings was limited. assessment is that there probably is not enough damage to qualify for even a request for a federal disaster Jones said. Damage from the tornado was placed at more than $5 million. Two elderly residents of a mobile home court were killed when the twister struck, and scores of other residents were injured. National Guard troops were called in Thursday to help keep order and assist with cleanup TON ADO Rubble of destroyed buildings litters the downtown area of anton, after a tornado struck the west-central Illinois community.

Three residents were reported killed and many Injured. AP photo) Victim's sister asked her to leave CANTON, III. (AP) Just moments before a killer tornado hit Canton Wednesday night, the telephone rang in Dorothy mobile trail er home. you come down here It looks like really going to have a Jennie Clarkson said to her sister Mrs. Clarkson lived in a trailer at the other end of the mobile home court from where Mrs.

McCann stayed for three years. But Mrs McCann declined, saying wind outside was Just too The tornado struck at 6:03 overturning Mrs trailer and leaving her and another woman dead Mrs. trailer damaged by the twister OparHudson, another of Mrs, seven sisters, was among the relatives who sorted through the dead belongings, salvaging what they could. we can think to do now is to gather her things and clean them up, what she would want us to she said The tornado left standing only eight of the 18 mobile homes in the court. Several had been lifted from their foundations, one tossed more than a hundred yards, and two officials said marks left on young trees in the yard indicate the tornado may have spun the homes like helicopter blades.

Lonnie French, 20, a son-in- law of the owner of the trailer court, said he and his wife left their trailer and retreated to a laundromat several yards away when they heard the toiHado warning on a local radio station. was no lightning It was Just drizzling, and 1 thought it would pass over. But all of a sudden, you Iwar anything but he said A tiny window in the laun dromat snapped shut, he said, and for 15 minutes the ram fell harder, the wind continued and the sound of glass popping and wood crackling could be heard Another resident of the trailer court struggled to the door of the laundromat, where he collapsed, French said The man was taken to a hos pital But French said the man told him he had driven his pickup truck into the courtyard before the tornado hit, dpen the (hior and as month period. On windfall he said the details of that will be worked out with the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees. He said there is question but legislation of that variety can be written and Zarb said that the $2 a barrel import tariff wi imported oil would remain in effect.

He said that the President wants Congress to face the now and Ford is prepared to veto a three- month extension of the price control act if Congress does not agree to this compromise. When asked if this was final offer, Secretary Ron Nessen said, certainly Albert spoke with reporters after a White House meeting at. which the plan, worked out after several days of negotiation between the administration and key congressmen, was dis- cussed in detail. Albert said it had not yet been determined whether to try to write it into the pending energy bill, scheduled to be taken up again by the House Monday, or to follqw the procedure under which a presidential proposal of this kind takes effect unless either house of grus disapproves it within five days. nation desperately needs cooperation, not confrontation on the critical energy Ford said in urging Ckmgress to accept his compromise, that we can get on with the solution of this most pressing Administration experts said the new compromise plan would increase the average price of petroleum products, including gasoline, by about five to six cents a gallon by 1978.

His original plan would have raised prices by about seven cents a gallon by 1977, the White House had estimated. The administration explained in a fact sheet that Ford wants Congress to enact his original proposals for a windfall profits tax with appropriate plowback provisions to encourage producers to seek new sources of oil. He also urged extension of the allocation act, with some modifications, to cover the now proposed 39-month decontrol period. Congress rejected original proposal for a 30-month decontrol plan affecting so- called oil, which accounts for some 60 per cent of the oil produced in this country and comes from wells that were in operation in 1972. Ford maintained that if Congress goes along with the decontrol compromise, the windfall profits tax and rebates, the plan will not hinder economic recovery or raise prices during 1975.

will not allow unfair gains or produce undue he said. Along with the compromise program. Ford suggested that Congress simultaneously enact a simple three-month extension of the oil price control law, which is scheduled to expire Aug. 31, when Congress would be in summer recess. The additional time would permit Congress to adopt a new price control measure without fear of letting controls lapse.

Albert said Thursday night that difficult to assess what Congress wants in an energy bill but got to settle on something or going to have full of oil prices at the end of next month. Congressional energy specialists have worked much of the week with Ford administration officials to seek a compromise to the energy stalemate. Hathaway resigns President asks Turks cabinet position not to close bases the tornado threw his mobile home on top of pickup said he couldn get the cab door open, -o he crawled out the window I rench ml Shortly after the tornadu hit looters appeared. i dents of the court aid Another woman said she found a young woman who claimed to be a volunteer work er helping herself to McCann belongings yelled at her. Hey what do you think you re doing' and she sassed back I a volun teer.

You tell me to the woman said She added the young woman displayed a yellow badge sim ilar to those being passed out throughout the day Thursday to virtually anyone wishing to give their name and promise to help WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Interior Stanley K. Hathaway resigned Friday reasons of personal The resignation was accepted my deepest by President Ford, who told the ailing Hathaway want you to know that I fully understand and sympathize with the health cimsiderations that have prompted your Hathaway has been under medical and psychiatric care in Bethesda Naval Medical Center, suffering from what his staff as fatigue and moderate depression. Doctors also reported that Rochelle youth dies in accident ROCHELLE A Rochelle youth was killed and two others were injured in a car-semi trailer tractor accident north of Rochelle on S. 51 Dead is Jerrold McEwin, 23, Rt. 3.

Injured and reported in critical condition in the intensive care unit at St. Hospital i.s William Rlenhart, 22, 632 Rochelle. Another passenger in the car, William Algozino, 16, Rt 4, Rochelle, was treated and released at ('ommunity Hospital According to ugle Deputy reports and a deputy who witnessed the accident, the McEwin auto was traveling in the southbound lane of I 51 and crossed the center line The ear then struck the left side of the cab of the semi by Edmond Laterreur, 33 Baldwin Park, alif who attempted to swerve his truck to avoid the accident The accident is under investigation by the Ogle (bounty Deput Funeral arrangements for McEwin arc pending in Fairfield Council to meet Monday morning There will be a special meet mg of the Dixon Pity morning at 7'30 in t-ity Hall The is expected to take action on the appointment of a new city attorney to replace Tomas who has rrsiigned effective Aug I with prospective candidates for the job were conducted at an executive ses Sion Thursday evening in the office of William I. Nay they discovered he was suffering from a mild case of diabetes. He entered the hospital July 15.

TTie resignation was announced at the White House with issuance of an exchange of letters between Hathaway and the President. In his three-paragraph letter, Hathaway said: is with deepest regret that, for reasons of personal health, I must ask you to accept my A former two-term governor of Wyoming, Hathaway had been the subject of considerable criticism while his nomination was being considered by the Senate. He has been in office just over a month. WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford asked Turkey today not to close down U.S. bases in light of the refusal to resume arms shipments.

Immediately after the vote the President a telegram to Ankara and this morning Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger called Prime Minister Suleiman Demirel urging The Turks have threatened to begin closing down the bases, many of which provide surveillance of the Soviet Union, if the weapons ship ments were not restonxl. The text of telegram to Turkey was not made public. At a news conference on thi.s and other matters, KifAinger called the House vote tragic and an unfortunate decision for both 1'urkey and Greece and for prospects of a settlement on Cyprus Despite a high-powered administration campaign the House refused by a 223 to 206 v(ke on Thursday to resume some arms deliveries. Aid was suspended Feb.

5 on the grounds American weapons had been used by Turkey in last invasion of Cyprus. Farmer's Market here Saturday The Market will make its debut in Dixon Saturday. It will be located at the parking lot across from the City Hall and Fire Station. Fresh fruits and vegetables will be sold by area producers from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Vince Dehi, of the Dixon Garden Club, wiii be Market Master. Star takes a tumble Actor Rod Steiger, playing the role of the late comedian W. C. Fields in the film, C. Fields and tumbles down a staircase in a scene he insisted on doing himself.

Steiger refused the use of a stuntman for the scene saying audiences would detect it if he didn't do it himself. VVirepholo).