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INSiDI Editorial For Women Sports Entertainment Prizeword Answer- Comics Classified Legal Notices 4 I 9-il 12-13 13 14 15-17 17 I16TH YEAR NUMBER 132 Jlortfjtoest The Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1975 tfttteS IOCAI FORECAST- 1 Showers and thundershow.eri ending tonight and turning colder. Fair, windy and CO Saturday. Low last night 67. Lows ton! gilt In the low with highs Saturday -in middle 50s. Sunset today .6:301 sunrise Saturday 7:32.

Weather map on Z. PAGES-- TEN CENTS Congress Plans Revenue Sharing Review By KENNETH B. DALECKI TIMES Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Several weeks ago, the financially hard- pressed city fathers of New York City received a check r.o Uncle Sam for $230,732,528. At about tha same time, town officials in Stanley. N.D., opened a Treasury Department envelope containing another check this one for, $23.

New York City and Stanley, N.D.. are worlds apart in many ways, but they both received a slico of this year's $6.3 billion revenue sharing pie. a and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 is the ponderous name for a $30.2 billion program commonly called "revenue sharing." It is the prime legacy of the Nixon Administration's New Federalism effort an attempt to revive state and local government by giving them financial without cumbersome federal strings. To get their 'checks, budget officials in New York, Stanley, and 39,000 other units of government filled out two one- page forms a bureaucrat's nightmare in simplicity! On Dec. 31, 1976, the revenue sharing program will cease to exist unless Congress agrees to re-enact the law.

No one doubts that Congress will extend the program in some form. Even fiscal conservatives in the Ford Administration are calling for a new year, $40.1 billion revenue sharing act. But before revenue sharing hardens into a permanent fixture of American government, Congress is taking a hard look at how the program has worked during its first four years. The review will shape a legislation which directly affects every big city, small village and state government in America. Rep.

L.H. Fountain, a North Carolina Democrat who has followed revenue sharing from an academic concept in the 1960s to a legislative reality in the 1970s, has begun review hearings before his House Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources. So far, Fountain's panel has heard spokesmen for the Ford Administration and state and local government plead for reenactment of revenue sharing with minor changes this year so that local officials can include revenue sharing when they draft their 1077 budgets next year. But Fountain has bluntly warned that the review process and the press of other legislation will push re-enaclment well into 10V6. City and state officials have joined in support of the present revenue sharing formula to make certain that their disagreements do not kill the entire conservatives in Congress object to revenue sharing as "debt sharing" because the federal government has no surplus funds to share.

But Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and others note that the same argument could be made for all federal spending programs and that revenue sharing should not be singled out as special. Here are some major revenue sharing issues under review: --Are local governments using the funds wisely? A few glaring examples of alleged improper use of the funds are often cited by critics who contend many local officials show poor judgement in spending priorities. One notable example is a Texas city which used its share for a golf course. Defenders ot program contend local officials are University Given SEFOR Facilities The SEFOR experimental fast breeder nuclear reactor, built in 19C5 by an association of southern and midwcstern power companies, was donated to the University of Arkansas this morning, but UA President Charles Bishop, said the school would not be able to operate the reactor. In an 11 a.m.

news conference in Bishop's office today, Bishop and Dr. Cecil Cogburn, UA mechanical engineering professor, explained that the cost of operating the reactor would be unfeasible. Bishop said the 620-acre tract on which the reactor was built will provide the University with val- uable nature studies and agricultural land. The reactor' the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor was built and operated as an experiment to investigate the feasibility of liquid metal fast breeder reactors. The reactor was operated by Southwest Atomic Energy Associates from 1969 until 1972.

The reactor, which has been closed down since that time, is located on Hwy. 265 about five miles northwest of Devil's Den State Park, about 20 miles southwest of Fayetteville. The presentation was made by Floyd R. Smith of Beau- Fighting To Recover Franco Suffers Relapse MADRID, Spain (API Gen. Francisco Franco, Spain's ironfisted 82-year-old leader, is fighting back after two heart attacks and has improved slightly after suffering a relapse, his doctors said today.

The 11 physicians attending Western Europe's lost dictator said signs of heart failure noted 24 hours earlier had been reduced, and that "progress from his coronary illness continues its normal course." Premier Carlos Arias Navarro canceled a cabinet session today that had been expected to start the legal process to retire Franco and install Prince Juan Carlos dc Borbon as chief of state and Spain's first king in 44 years. Juan Carlos paid a 23-minute visit to Franco's palace just ahead of today's medical bulletin. 'A government source said Premier Arias' decision to cancel Ihe scheduled cabinet meeting indicated the ministers had agreed at a marathon session Thursday to he ready for the end of Franco's rule and a transition of power to Juan Carlos, Franco's designated heir. Earlier reports had said Arias would convene the cabi- net meeting in Franco's absence. Following the medical bulletin late Thursday, Juan Carlos and Arias rushed to their lead er's Pardo Palace 10 miles north of Madrid along with the president of the Cortes, the Spanish parliament, a a group of ministers.

Later, they went home to bed, and there was no death watch in evidence at the palace. Bars and restaurants in Madrid closed early, and a few groups of youths roamed the streets, chanting, "Franco. Franco. Franco." Meanwhile, a spokesman al the palace said Franco was "recovering," a report in line with the consistently optimistic tone taken by the generalissimo's personal staff throughout his illness. This indicated that he was not going to expedite his departure from the scene by abdicating.

The first step in the elevation of 37-year-old Juan Carlos would be for the cabinet to inform the 19-member Council of the Realm that Franco was no longer able to serve as head of state. The council by a majority vote would pass the information on to the Cortes, and the Cortes would have eight days to declare Juan Carlos king. (AP Wirephotoj RULERS OF SPAIN Franco, right, loiih Prince Juan Carlos who will soon become king, possibly within the next days Hosiery Firm Lays Off 78 Seventy-eight of the 312 employes of Bear Brand Hosiery Co. have been laid off, manager Al Brown said today. He said he hoped the layoffs would be temporary and that there were no plans to shut down operations completely.

Brown said buyers had quit purchasing hosiery because of the financial situation in New York. He said most large hosiery buyers are located in New York and that hosiery manufactures work so close to demand thai when buyers stop buying, manufacturers must close down. Brown said rumors that the plant was closing were probably inaugurated when the knitting operation was closed for two days. But. he said, the knitting operations will resume Sunday night and will continue to run 21 hours a day.

He said a full knitting schedule will not be maintained, but that most machines will be running. BAD SHAPE The 78 persons now out of work are expected to be all those who will he laid off, Brown said unless things get Worse. "The whole hosiery industry Is in bad shape," he said, "we're all operating close to budget and have been for two (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) NEWS BRIEFS Statue Stolen A metal statue of nn armored man which stood six feet in heighth was stolen sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday morning from the front porch of the John Goss residence of 2355 Berry Fayetteville police said today. Goss said the statue was valued at around $75. He said four large black hanging planters were also stolen from the front porch.

Senate Effort WASHINGTON (AP) An effort to retain the current eight month Daylight Saving Time schedule for two more years is under way in the Senate, just days before regular lime resumes on Sunday. DST is to expire Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Unless Congress passes the bill introduced Thursday, it will resume on the traditional six-month schedule next April. Eureka Police Issued Ruling EUREKA SPRINGS, A (AP) Eureka Springs police were told Thursday that certain police. information must be made available to a citizens group under the state Freedom of Information Act.

Circuit Court Judge William H. Enfield of Benlonville ruled that arrest records and blood alcohol lests reports should be open to inspection by the Eureka Springs Improvement As(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) mont. president of SAEA. and by representatives of the 17 companies involved in SAEA to President i in a ceremony i morning in Bishop's office. University offi cials said the facility would he used in educational research conducted by the University.

The companies also pledged $23,500 annually for five years to the University's educational and research programs. The reactor was constructed at a cost of about $32 million. Included in the donation to the University was some 620 acres of land at the site. Smith said that the chief executives of the 17 companies agreed unanimously that the SEFOR facilities should he donated to the University for "scientific and educational research programs." The fast oxide breeder reac- lor was designed, i and operated primarly to demon- i strate the safety, feasibility and economy of a liquid metal fast breeder nuclear reactor, particular scientific goal of the research was to determine the inherent shutdown capability of a plutonum oxide-uranium oxide mixed core. The research proved that the temperature a which the reactor would shut itself down was safe, and would not melt the core and allow leakage of fuel.

AHEAD OF SCHEDULE The program was announced in 1964, construction of the plant began in 1965, and experiments got under way in early 1969. They were completed ahead of schedule in 1972. The International Conference on Peaceful Uses of the Atom, held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1971. gave worldwide recognition to the fast breeder reactor research conducted at SEFOR, Glenn Seabqrg, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, described the research activities. Several European countries either have completed or have begun fast breeder nuclear power plants.

Smith said that the success of the SEFOR project "was not only a source of satisfaction and pride for the participating companies, but was also a tribute to the vision of those involved, who more than 11 years ago predicted the current fuel crisis and the urgent need for new energy sources." The SEFOR facility was intended to be one of the first steps in developing, the a breeder reactor as a more efficient way of using nuclear energy to produce electricity, Smith said. By creating most of its own fuel supply, while at the same time producing power, such a reactor could extend the present supply of uranium for a few hundred years, according to Dr. Cecil Cogburn. professor of mechanical engineering at (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) closest to the people and know their needs and wants best. Do the and elderly share in the program's benefits? Liberal critics contend these groups lack sufficient political clout to benefit from revenue sharing.

--Does the federal government have any control over the revenue sharing funds it disperses? Many local officials will concede, privately if not publicly, that there is virtually no way to separate revenue sharing money from locally raised revenue despite federal requirements separate accounting procedures. In effect, revenue sharing money melts into a local or slate iovernment's overall budget. --Are revenue sharing spent in accordance with federal civil rights laws? The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the League of Women Voters, the General Accounting Office and the National Science Foundation are among the groups which have studied this question and found civil right's enforcement lacking under revenue sharing. Civil rights provisions in the law including beefing up the Treasury Department's miniscule enforcement staff are bound to be strengthened under an extension of the act.

--Do citizens have enough say in how the funds are spent? The present act encourages citizen participation in revenue sharing spending decisions, but critics contend little has been accomplished in this area. --Is tlie distribution formula equitable? The Ford Administration thinks it is. But others argua that revenue sharing helps prop up small and inefficient units of government that would otherwise disappear. One proposed formula change would eliminate some 39,000 mid-Western townships from receiving benefits because.their' governing authority is limited to road maintenance. Another major modification being proposed would eliminate states, which now get one-third of all revenue sharing money, from the formula, under the argument that slates have sufficient taxing powers raise their own funds: Second In Two Days Turkish Ambassador Killed PARIS (AP)-Gunmen assassinated Turkey's ambassador to France today, the second Turkish envoy slain in Europe in 48 hours.

The ambassador's chauffeur also was killed. There was speculation that Greek, Greek Cypriot or Armenian terrorists might have been behind the attack, but no group immediately claimed respon- sbility. A high ranking police official in Vienna, where the Turkish ambassador was assassinated Wednesday, said today's killing in Paris appeared to confirm the theory than an international terror group was at work. Paris officials said Ambassador Ismail Erez, 56, was riding in his limousine on Quai Kennedy near the Turkish Embassy when the shots were fired. Police quoted witnesses as saying that two or three men opened fire on the Turkish envoy's car as it nearcd the Bir Bakeim Bridge over the Seine River.

They said the men then ran across a footbridge leading 16 the Rue Alboni on the right bank of the river and disappeared. The car, with 'bullet holes clearly visible, was left where it had stopped, angled across the roadway. The car was going down the ramp leading from the bridge to the qua! when the gunmen opened up. The chauffeur was killed instantly. The ambassador died while being taken to a hospital.

Police said that Erez was re; turning to the embassy, where he also has his living quarters, after reception when the gunmen fired on his Mercedes. The attack occurred al about 1:30 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Sprouting From Sidewalks Rural mail boxes don't usually sprout from city sidewalks, but on Ellis Avenue in south Fayefteville, where a city paving project is un- derway, they do. They may look odd, but postal regulations require that rural route carriers be able to reach the boxes from (heir cars, hence pedestrians will have to shars the sidewalk until the street is approved for foot carrier delivery. (TIMESphofo by Ken Good) In Congress Tax Cut Plan Moving WASHINGTON (AP) Taxpayers with annual income in the $10,000 to $30,000 range would get most of the added benefits next year under a tax- cut extension plan moving ahead in Congress. And most people would end up paying less taxes next year than this year, if the Ways and Means Committee's plan is eventually signed into law.

For example, a single person earning $15,000 and paying 559 this year would pay $2,315 next year, while a married couple with two children and taxes this year of $2,590 on their $20,000 income would pay $2.420 next year. The committee's package includes $12.7 billion in individual tax cuts compared to 1974 levels, or about $2.6 billion more than the tax cut in effect this year. President Ford's proposals call for $20.7 billion in personal cuts compared with 1974, plus a spending ceiling. He suffered a defeat Thursday when the panel voted against linking Lhc cuts to a ceiling. VOWS VETO Ford has vowed to veto any cut that is not accompanied by a spending ceiling.

But committee Chairman Al Ullman, D- told reporters, "I' just don't see how the President can veto it." Next week, the committee takes up business tax cuts. The goal is to get a bill to the full House for a vote next month. By 21 to 16, with all 12 of the panel's Republicans and four Democrats in dissent, including; former Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, committee approved the plan for 1976 individual lax cuts. On Oct.

6, Ford proposed sweeping ttway that temporary law and replacing it starting Jan. 1, 1976, with a permanent series' of tax cuts linked to a matching reduction in federal spending. He called for a $395- billion lid on such spending for the fiscal year beginning next Oct. 1. For 1976, Ford's total gcnearl fax cut package was $27.7 bil- lion $20.7 billion for individuals, $7 billion for business, ihe committee's is $15 billion $12.7 billion for individuals, the rest for 'business.

Both the committee's and Ford's tax-cut proposals would distribute the tax reduction roughly the same way among! (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Unregulated Natural Gas Prices Allowed WASHINGTON (AP) A Federal Power Commission ruling opens the door for industries strapped for natural gas to buy emergency supplies at unregulated prices far above the federal interstate price ceiling. Approval Thursday of a plan for a Virginia textile mill was the first test of a new FPC policy to allow gas-short industrial firms to buy unregulated natural jras which otherwise would not be sold at price-controlled levels. Intrastafe gas natural gas sold in the stale where it is produced is unregulated and has been selling at three times (he price of gas shipped across state lines, which is under FPC control at 52 cents per thousand cubic feet. The Dan River Mills of Danville, would have run out of natural gas in November due to its supplier's shortage. The FPC gave Dan River per mission to buy gas direct from a Texas company at three times Ihe interstate ceiling price and to have It shipped la the plant via normal interstate pipeline channels.

the plan, Dan RivSr Mills will pay $1.50 per thousand cubic feet, plus annual three-cent increases per thousand cubic feet. TO BUY DIRECT The decision may allow other firms threatened with natural g'as shortages to maintain operations by shopping for interstate supplies. Meanwhile, the FederSl Trade Commission said Thursday it will pursue its anti-triist action against the nation's eight major oil companies despite judge's recommendation that the action be dropped. The FTC suit alleges tha companies illegally raised consumer prices in an effort to boost profits. An administrative judge proposed that the suit: dropped, in favor of wide- scale probe of ths industry Named in the anti-trust suit are Exxon; Gulf; Shell; Mobil; Texaco; Atlantic Richfield; (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO).