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i I THE COLUHBUS LEDGER Columbus Go Box 711 31902 Wednesday December 17 12 Sections 132 Poses inal Edition I IS cents Staff Photo by Joe Maher 1 cn I 1 Oil Price Increase Certain Charles Eason John Wells See Related Stories on 3 John Wells 1239 1216 Charles Eason 879 other Security Council members in unani Denver 534 Garland Nix 346 Bobby Chesser 257 Jack Garland 251 Ed Summers 84 Anderson razer Relatives BOTH BASICS ANO ENRICHMENT BASICS Percentages of Those With Opinions Chart Ann1 ronco Residents Stress in Survey Get Back to the Basics 1 Chance of Showers Thursday 4th of 6 Parts Robert Bear Arab oil producers Although the all day meet ing was not concerned with the pricing issue the Arab officials have been consult attack against the shah and the US Other Ira nian newspapers also carried accounts of comment that the shah one of the most violent regimes in the his tory of before he fled Iran in January The Iranian militants seized the em bassy and those inside it Nov 4 demand ing that the United States surrender 1 deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Iran for trial The Carter administration By Youssef Ibrahim NY Timet Newt Service A 5 3 One of Sandy daughters a junior high stu dent at a ort Benning junior high school reads well She learned by phonics the sounding out of written words But a younger daughter almost junior high age was taught by word recognition and struggles with her reading Because of this Mrs Gordon feels strongly that basic subjects such as reading must be stressed more in the schools Otherwise she said schools would let it slide "When they get the basics and they graduate they read because they taught phonics Kids that are graduating have problems Either the kids care or they getting the Mrs Gordon said She was one of a majority of about 600 area residents who said in a telephone survey conducted by The Co lumbus Ledger that the basics must be emphasized over other subjects Almost nine out of 10 respondents living in four local school districts believe that school children should get heavier doses of reading writing and arithmetic than getting now Support for basics was consistently high over 80 percent in all four school districts weeks and appeared to have reached a broad consensus on the need for a price boost They seemed to differ sharply however on just how much more money OPEC should charge for its oil above the current ceiling of $2350 set at last OPEC meeting in Geneva The conservative group led by Saudi Arabia Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates were understood to favor a small increase as well as the unification of oil prices which now fluctuate between a minimum of $18 charged by the Saudis and the OPEC price ceiling The differences are accounted for by the various sur charges imposed by each OPEC member on their oil far as the prices are concerned there should be no ambiguity We believe there should be a gradual in crease over the next year but we think it should be a small said Sheik Abde laziz Bin Khalifa al Thani oil minister whose views tend to reflect those of the conservative Arab wing in OPEC concern is that the increase in prices should not harm the Western econo mies or the economies of the third world There is a gen eral agreement on this Abdelaziz told re porters at the Hilton Hotel here where the conference is being held Sheik Ahmed Zakik Ya mani the Saudi oil minister whose country is largest producer and ex porter of oil refrained from making any comments on the issue except to say that he hoped the Caracas con ference succeeds in unifying oil prices simple assault and false im prisonment losing wars and not winning many he added his chiseled features showing obvious relief after he wept openly while de fending himself in court KUWAIT Arab oil min isters meeting here Tuesday to discuss technical coopera tion acknowledged that an other rise in the price of oil was a certainty by Christmas when the Organi zation of Petroleum Export ing Countries concludes its price fixing conference at Caracas Venezuela rise in the oil prices is beyond any said Oil Minister Ezzedin al Ma brouk of Libya who chaired Dec 18 runoff for Columbus Council Post 4 following light turn out in balloting Tuesday Here a rundown on results of that election or details see Pages and 2 By Ken Elkins UHur Writer increasing cloudiness and cool tonight with the low in the upper 30s Mostly cloudy and wanner Thursday with a 30 percent chance of showers The high Thursday will be near 70 (See Page A 2 for more about the weather) Mike Blackwell CARLISLE Pa (AP) County jury found him inno armer Robert Bear ac cent Tuesday of charges of quitted of abducting ms wife says he will continue his crusade against Re formed Mennonites who cast him out of the strict re ligious sect and made his family sever all ties with him "I would say a victory Bear 50 who was excom of sorts But still not municated seven years ago free my wife is not free nor for criticizing church lead are my children Bear said after a Cumberland See SHUNNED Page A 2 the basics I think they (students) can grasp anything else See A 3 Basics Preferred Over Enrichment a Views On Schools The geographic breakdown on favor of basics: ort Benning 100 percent Phenix City 924 percent Columbus 865 percent Russell County 925 percent Its backing was equally high among all age groups races educational levels and both sexes Those responding to the survey also said like to see high school students take a required number of basic subjects and then pass proficiency tests before graduating With suggestions for the schools like more at tention to teaching competency tests See BACK Page A 2 Shunned Man Acquitted To Continue Crusade Action Line Alabama News I I I a 6 8 12G 5 8 ll A 4C 12 7 4 6 5 lB 3 5 4 4 6 4 2 67A4 Stable riends Tara and Jerry Noblin recently found some animal friends at Mea dowbrook stables in Columbus As each of them holds a goat on a leash two horses look on seeming to want some attention too Of Hostages Get Briefing WASHINGTON (AP) The Carter administration is settling in for an indefinite standoff in its efforts to free 50 American hostages held in Tehran Iran Relatives as far away as California will be flown here at government expense for a briefing riday from Secre tary of State Cyrus 1 Vance a status said one US official who re quested anonymity not a question of pre senting good news or bad he said of the ses sion to which one member from each of the families has been invited Vance also plans to scuttle most of his trip to Europe next week if the deadlock is not broken He had planned stops in West Berlin Roma nia and Yugoslavia besides attending a NATO meeting in Brussels Belgium Meanwhile there were in dications that the deposed Shah of Iran may remain in definitely in a suite of apart ments at Lackland Air orce Base near San Anto nio Texas be convalescing for a Chris Godek a spokeswoman for the shah said Privately administration officials admit a lack of progress in efforts to find i Mohammad Reza Pahlavi a home in another country Some have begun to talk of his American stay as ended" i And with the takeover of the US Embassy in its 32nd day there was no sign of a break in the American nego tiations with Iran through I unspecified third parties 7 Captors Reject jUN Appeal or Hostages On the Schedule Gary Cason of 96th district is having another of his town meetings this one at Georgia meeting room 3610 Gentian Blvd at 7:30 to night Go and air your views I The Columbus Jaycees are sponsoring their first Christmas Decoration Contest an event they hope be comes an annual one Residents and businesspeople who want to take part can send $1 entry fee with name address and phone number to the Jaycees Box 2703 Columbus 31902 Entries will be judged Dec 12 through 19 and winners in residential and commercial competitions will receive awards Dec 20 Want more information? Call the Jaycees at 323 7224 between 9 am and 2 pm release of the captives The resolution contained no condemna tion of the Iranians Besides the appeal on behalf of the hostages it called on Iran and the United States to peacefully the remaining issues between and urged them to the utmost re See IRANIANS Page A 2 Wells and Eason To Go Into Runoff Neighbors John Wells and Charles Eason will be in On the Tube Eight enough tonight There are more Muppets than you can shake a stick at all being meeting of the joined by the Colorado Kid Jonn Denver But only two Muppets stay in the spotlight: Miss Piggy and the love of her life Kermit the rog Denver and Co bump Is off the tube ing on it for the past two tonight Its on Channel 9 at 8 At 9 on Channel 3catch the marvelous Jean Stapleton moved from Archie bunk to star in the title role of a drama about a Baltimore woman who ignored severe physical handicaps to be come a sandlot baseball coach Joining her will be Martin Bal isam new co star on in this true story of Mary Dobkin who Stanlptnn speni more than three decades in hospitals and went on to coach more than 50000 youngsters for almost 40 years Aunt 77 and still going strong and millions of viewers saw her toss out the first ball bpfore the sixth game of i'the 1979 World Series in Baltimore (See story Page 7) TEHRAN Iran (AP) The students holding 50 Americans hostage in the US Ambassy today rejected a Security Coun cil appeal for their immediate release but Tehran state radio took a more concilia tory tone saying the UN action the way open for The radio statement was seen as a hope ful sign in the month long crisis but the difference between the hard line of the em bassy militants and the approach of Ira nian officials again pointed to conflict on the Iranian side On Tuesday Ayatollah Ruhoilah Kho meini's regime made new and stronger threats against the captives Meanwhile the Navy carrier force south p( the has refused and 01 Tuesday joined the 14 Persian Gulf doubled in size other Security Council members in unani Washington reports said the US govern mous acj0ption of the resolution urging the JIICIIL piaillicu a apivO ui new uipivniuuv and economic steps to pressure Iran into freeing the hostages CBS News said the new moves short of military action would begin this week and intensify over the next two or three weeks largest afternoon newspaper Ettelaat splashed a banner headline across its front page citing Sen Edward Inside Story Check It Out Classified Comics Dear Abby Deaths Divorces Editorials ood Alert ood for Thought Georgia News Home Line House Call Jack Swift Modem Living People School Menus 66 Minute Gourmet Sports Stocks TV Movies Voice of the People Walsh Column WSJ IB III Illi mLiWWIRIgT HIM HIMWWIIIIS UM WKITOETIHirW WH II HIMRIWIE ann nj I I 1 i I I '1 Bit Il ft 10 10 30 40 50 60 N) 60 101 p's JH ft Jfer 1 i He 1 hl A' 1 i I it 'I Jj 32 ENRICHMfNT I I 1 is.