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THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE COMPLETE WIRE SERVICES OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Vol. 176. WEEKLY 15c SINGLE COPY FINAL EDITION Terre Haute, Monday, November 24,1975 Carey Presses State Solons i Package Aimed To Get Ford OK At an Impasse ALBANY. (AP) Gov Hugh Carey pressed the state legislature for action on $206 million in increased New York City taxes, but a deadlock continued on the package aimed at securing President support for federal aid to help the city avert default. Carey, a Democrat, prepared to issue a statement today taking personal for the tax willing to put my head on the line, said Carey.

them say these are Carey Carey made his comments to reporters after the collapse of tax negotiations in the legislature Saturday night, and ex- Fromme At Crucial Trial Point SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Lynette Fromme, entering the most, crucial week of her trial, is expected to tell a judge whether she will end her courtroom boycott and testify in her own defense against charges of attempting to kill President Ford. Her decision to be announced today before District Court Judge Thomas J. MacBride could send the case to the jury before Thanksgiving or signal the start of a new phase in her so-far brief defense. Miss attorney, apparently urging her to take the witness stand, says that unless she testifies he will immediately rest his case.

she takes the stand, I. will have several more attorney John Virga said. she does not testify, I will The defense presentation so far has been extremely brief. major piece of evidence was the videotaped testimony of President Ford, who said he remember whether he heard a click as Miss Fromme pointed a gun at him from two feet away on Sept. 5 in a park outside the state Capitol.

Secret Service agents who wrestled the tiny red-haired defendant to the ground that day said the 45-caliber semi-automatic pistol, carried in a holster strapped to her leg, was not ready for firing It had four cartridges in the magazine but none in the firing chamber The key. question of the trial is whether Miss Fromme misloaded the gun by accident or whether she knew the gun was not ready to fire pressed anger at game of political acceptance of responsibility for the taxes represented a switch from last week when he was blaming the Ford administration for the new taxes. The move was seal as an attempt to sway Republican legislators who are reluctant to vote the tax increases because they could be considered as levies designed to impress a Republican president. While the legislature resumed debate today on the tax package, the city planned a noon rally in Times Square to demonstrate public support for federal assistance. Carey, Mayor Abraham D.

Beame and show business and sports celebrities were to lead the rally Two further threats surfaced Sunday to the delicately balanced plans to shore up the finances. Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N warned that Ford might not approve federal aid for the city unless the legislature also took action to balance the own budget. However, Carey and Republican legislative leaders have indicated they want no part of tackling the state budget problems until New York difficulties are resolved. Some major New York City banks also were reported Sunday to have registered objections based on the state fiscal situation.

The proposed New York City tax increases are part of a larger package being put together to sustain the city for the next three years The banks were reported unwilling to participate in their part of the plan extension of the city debt they now hold unless the legislature enacts new state taxes to balance the state budget. The legislature, meeting in special session to deal, with the interrelated fiscal problems of the city and the state, appeared Saturday to be moving toward approval of a compromise package of new or increased New York City taxes on income, estates, banks, cigarettes and various services. But the deal was wrecked by an unusual coalition of black and Puerto Rican Democrats and Republican legislative leaders. The Black and Puerto Rican Caucus refused to vote for the taxes unless it was promised there would be no cuts in welfare aid and that a minority-group member would be added to the Emergency Financial Control Bpard, the state body now running New York budget affairs. The Republicans objected that the taxes imposed by the state would violate the principle of rule.

CLUB CLLAN-UP PROJECT Members of the Central City Community Development Club worked in Gilbert Park, 1431 Wabash Saturday morning on a clean-up project. Pictured are, left to right, Frances McEwan, co-leader of the club; Clinton McEwan; Nancy Wing; Mike McEwan; Bill McEwan, and Mike Reyher, director of recreation for the Terre Haute Park and Recreation Department. House of Photography Photo. Battle Resumes In Lebanon War BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP) Moslem and Chnstian militiamen battled in much of Beirut today with mortars, rockets and heavy machine guns in a large-scale renewal of civil war Police reported more than 80 persons killed and 150 wounded since a three- week-old cease-fire collapsed in a new explosion of fighting over the weekend Security forces huddled on the floor of the main police station on Square, once the commercial center of U.S.'s Only Successful Skyjacker Needs 1 More Year to Be Free PORTLAND, Ore (UPI) For four years, the man they call has remained at large as the nation first and only successful parachuting skyjacker If he can escape capture just one more year be a free man.

If, of course, he is alive. Thanksgiving begins the final year countdown for Cooper, who used highway flares as a bomb threat to extort $200,000 from Northwest Airlines Five years is the statute of limitation on the hijacking charge Cooper, the phantom figure who vanished after parachuting from a Northwest Airlines 727 with his loot on Thanksgiving Eve. 1971 Whether he survived the jump or his Encephalitis Cases 'Tip of an Iceberg' INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The 304 confirmed or probable cases of encephalitis in Indiana last summer are the tip of an says a University of Notre Dame entomologist. Dr George Craig Jr says for every case reported, there are 50 to 100 not reported. State health officials called it the worst outbreak ever in Indiana.

Dr Richard Telle, state epidemiologist, called it an epidemic with the peak from Aug. 31 through Sept 11 The disease, affecting the brain and the central nervous system, is carried by mosquitoes and has no known cure Physicians can only treat symptoms. Officials said the per capita incidence of St Louis strain of encephalitis in Indiana, 06 per 1.000 population, was the highest of any state. The hardest-hit areas were Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Gary, Evansville and Columbus. is one of the few states that have an orgamzed mosquito abatement program, said Dr Robert Taylor of the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Dr Russell E. Siverly, Ball State University entomologist, said at present only county sanitarians can legally control mosquitoes and most are not trained to do so. A bill has been introduced for the 1976 legislature to beef up the effort to eradicate diseasebearing mosquitoes. Dr. Darryl Sanders of Purdue Univer-v sity said the main thrust of the abatement program would be to tackle the large mosquito populations in the spring anp early summer Included are better drainage programs to eliminate breeding areas and reducing body is at the bottom of a deep lake, hung in a tree or his remains scattered by animals are some of the questions left unanswered by the investigation.

a very much active said a s.emor FBI agent who has spent many hours on the case have run down literally thousands of leads, and eliminated hundreds of people as suspects personal guess is that there is just a 50 per cent chance that he is still alive The sheer lack of distinguishing characteristics about Cooper and his ability to move unobtrusively before the hijacking has deadended the efforts to determine how he arrived at Portland International Airport that wet. squally night He paid cash for his flight from Portland to Seattle, gave his name as for the flight roster and spent 50 minutes in an airport waiting area before boarding Not one fellow passenger remembered him. Shortly after takeoff. Cooper handed a note to a stewardesses that said, have a bomb in my The FBI agent said the stewardess described what she thought was the bomb as wires attached in Cooper's attache case to eight sticks of dynamite, the same red color as her uniform is not color-coded this way She was describing highway the agent said. The agent said there was doubt that Cooper was an experienced parachutist When he jumped he took the two worst possible choices of the four parachutes given him at Seattle-Tacoma Airport where he obtained the $200.000 in $20 bills the Middle East, while gunmen from both Moslem and Chnstian street gangs peppered the area with machine-gun fire.

are raining on the station from every one policeman reported. Heavy firing also was reported in six suburbs. Premier Rashid Karami called an emergency meeting of his reconciliation committee on which all major factions are represented But the meeting broke up in disagreement within an hour Interior Minister Camille Chamoun. one of the leading Christians, and Kamal Junblatt. a prominent leader of the leftist Moslems, even come to the session.

Karami on Saturday night announced another cease-fire, the 13th in the months of street warfare But there was fighting Sunday in all parts of the city except one seaside residential area and the fashionable Hamra shopping district. Fighting was reported in two other cities Sunday A police radio call said 500 Moslem militiamen were attacking the town hall in the Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek. 40 miles northeast of Beirut. Fighting was also reported in the northern city of Tripoli but there was no immediate word on casualties in either city By National Weather Service Cam Noon SC a.m 33 3 p.m. River Stage: t.3 atatioaary.

Precipitation: None FORECAST TERRE HAUTE AND VICINITY Light aaev teaight, becoming Intermittent Tuesday Lowa tonight mid to upper 19 Steady or slowly falling temperatures Tuesday with afternoon readings in the apper tts. INDIANA Light saow tonight, becoming intermittent Tuesday Lows tonight in the mid to apper tts. Steady or slowly falling temperatures Tuesday afternoon with highs in the upper tts. ILLINOIS Occasional snow, wiady and much colder tonight. Low tt to ZS.

Tuesday saow eadiag, wiady and much colder High ia the lower or middle tts. EXTENDED OUTLOOK Clear and cold Wednesday Partly cloudy and a little warmer Thursday aad Friday with a chaace at rala Friday. Lows Wednesday ia the mid teens to mld-tts, warmiag to the mid-Ztt to laW'Sts hy Friday Highs Wednesday mid-3ts te mld-tts, warmiag to the mid-4tstelew-Cts hy Friday Dtrt-dast coaat: tt micrograms of dirt per meter of air. tAverage dally coaat ia wasttl. inrise Sunset cabl( Weyls Captured In Nebraska Over Weekend By CAROLYN TOOPS Tribune Staff Writer Two young men who escaped from the Vigo County Jail early Friday morning were captured late Saturday night near York, Neb Scheduled for Monday hearings in Lincoln are Scott Weyls.

18. and Joe Cunningham. 16 Weyls has reporte.dly waived extradition and is expected to be returned to Indiana soon He was in the Vigo County Jail awaiting a December jury trial on first degree murder charge in the Aug 28 shooting death of Michael D. Wilkey. 17 Weyls was being detained at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln The other youth believed to be Cunningham, was being held Sunday at the County Jail in Aurora.

Neb Reports indicate that he answered the description of Cunningham but refused to reveal his identity to Nebraska authorities Cunningham had been arrested in California two weeks ago and returned to Vigo County, where he was charged with deceptive issuance and delivery of checks. He had been transferred from the Vigo County Juvenile Center to the county jail A minor traffic violation at approximately 11 30 p.m Saturday at 1410 and U.S. 81 at York led to the arrest of the pair by Nebraska State Police When they were stopped for running a red light, at the intersection, a routine check of the Indiana license plate revealed that the vehicle was stolen The two were without incident, according to Nebraska State Police The Vigo County office issued warrants for jail escape on the pair Friday morning Weyls and Cunningham fled the jail between 1 and 4 a Friday, according to authorities, who said they were mformed of the escape about 4am by a caller in the Mount Pleasant area who reported that Weyls had come to his home to borrow money Sheriff Ted Melvin said that the prisoners escaped by using a hacksaw blade to cut the bars of Weyl cell in the hospital unit whose cell was near the hospital ward, apparently picked the lock with a sharp instrument, Melvin said The hacksaw blade was smuggled in by an accomplice during visiting hours, the Vigo County sheriff speculated New visiting hours may be implemented soon, with the visiting days possibly cut back to one day )i week What effect the jail escape will have on the date of tnal in Vigo Circuit Court is. not yet knowp Juvenile jurisdiction was waived following an Oct. 14 hearing Weyls has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of temporary uisanity He was arrested Sept 6 near his home and charged with the shooting death of Wilkey on Aug.

28 at the 500 Platolene Station at Ind 46 and 1-70 The grand jury returned an indictment of first degree murder against Weyls on Sept 8 Ceremony Conducted At Hospital Ground was broken Monday at noon by Union Hospital and city officials to mark the beginning of construction on a new family practice residency center for the hospital Construction is to start immediately on the $300.000 center which is to be completed by June, 1976, in time to be used in the new family practice residency program at Union Hospital The family practice residency for Union Hospital was approved in August and is to be under way by the summer of 1976 Family practice residencies are relatively new nationwide The program reaches beyond the teaching of the resident to care for the illnesses of patients, as does the general practitioner, to teaching the resident methods of patient education, preventative health maintenance and the screening and use of paramedical personnel The groundbreaking ceremony Monday marked the beginning of the construction of the center in which the family practice residents will receive most of their training The building will be located one-half block south of Union Hospital on Center St It will house 12 examining rooms, two minor surgical rooms, a laboratory and an department A separate area is to be used for patient education, a library, resident work area and a lunch room Union Hospital officials said their goals in initiating the family practice residency are to provide more primary-care physicians, new techniques in comprehensive health care and a progressive teaching-learning environment within the Terre Haute medical community Zarb Flies 1st Class a mi TT To Talk of Fuel Woes WASHINGTON (AP) Bypassing commercial airlines. Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb flew on Air Force or chartered planes that burned 19 000 gallons of fuel this year on speechmaking trips aimed at encouraging energy conservation, a senator said today An FEA spokesman confirmed Zarb had made the trips but disagreed with the conclusions of Sen William Proxmire. who called Zarb a wastrel of energy, fuel and taxpayers monev Proxmire said that on at least half the 13 chartered flights Zarb flew a plush, four-engine Air Force jet which burned enough fuel an hour to supply the average American driver with enough gasoline to drive for an entire year In response, the FEA said that on eight occasions, Zarb flew a six-passenger four-engine Air Force JetStar because commercial flights would not have allowed him to meet his schedule And on four of the trips mentioned by Proxmire. Zarb chartered a small twm-engme Piper because there was no other way to fly into four small towns, the FEA spokesman added. Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, released a list of the 13 charters arranged by Zarb during the first 10 months of the year, along with the cost of the flight and the estimated fuel usage Seven of the trips were mainly for speeches to urge local business or civic groups to conserve fuel.

In several cases, Proxmire said, Zarb could have taken a commercial flight at a far lower cost ar at little or no loss of time. According to FEA records, JMi Zarb first scheduled event in Littl Rock was set for 5 30 in This cost Mr Zarb's chartered round-trip fligh was more than 20 times greater thar th round-trip commercial coach Proxmire said But the FEA spokesman, said Zarl could not take advantage of the 12 5i pm commercial flight because Zart testified until mid-afternoon before a House committee and had to fly back tc Washington late that night to fulfill a schedule of commitments the following morning. The Country Parson A XT getting so that in an election, my sympathies are with winner.