Jobs bill enacted over veto
WASHINGTON (AP)
enacted a $3.95 billion public works
employment bill yesterday over
kOPresident Ford’s veto but failed to
override his veto of a $3.3 billion military
construction bill.
The House had voted to reject the veto
of the military .construction bill that
Ford said would interfere with his power
to close unneeded U.S. military bases,
j-r. But the Senate vote on over-riding was
51 to 42 or 11 short of the required two
thirds majority.
President Ford issued a statement
saying he was “keenly disappointed” by
the congressional action iii enacting the
public works bill.
Ford said Congress is not sufficiently
Concerned about “the risks of double
Viking's soil collector in trouble
*’J PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) The
digging arm on Viking 1 Mars robot
stopped working during a test yesterday,
creating a potentially serious problem.
The device is required to collect soil
samples for Viking’s life search.
Project director James Martin said
the preliminary indications are that
'Some sort of electrical problem in a
control assembly developed midway
through the test. If so, he said there is
another control unit that could be used.
The soil sampler was scheduled to
begin digging into the red Martian soil
next Wednesday. Martin said if the
problem is not diagnosed and resolved
quickly, the timetable may be changed.
The problem was reported after two
puzzling communications dif
ficulties were discovered aboard, the.
spacecraft. Earlier, the robot’s linar
squake detector was found jammed.
Martin told UPI that he was concerned
Che sampler arm, communications and
seismometer problems might be related,
perhaps, in the complex electronics
between the craft’s computers and
various control assemblies.
“My nose tells me there’s something
funny going on,” he said.
Martin said the three-legged robot
continued to radio pictures and scientific
data back to Earth, but the concern was,
that the communications difficulties
might, worsen eventually degrade the
craft’s ability to talk with Earth.
The soil sampler works like a backhoe.
It is mounted on the end of a 10-foot
Retractable arm designed to reach out
"Tmd collect soil samples to be fed into’
Viking’s three life detection instruments
and a chemical analysis device that will
give scientists their first word on the
chemistry of Mars dirt.
Martin said the unit was ordered to
perform 17 different functions during
•g, yesterday’s test.
Shock, revulsion crosses Ireland
Britain's ambassador murdered
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) The murder
of Britain’s ambassador to Ireland has
brought a wave of shock and revulsion
across the Emerald Isle despite age-old
hostility toward the British.
Long lines of people waited yesterday
outside the British embassy to pay their
to Christopher Ewart-piggs,
' killed by a land mine as his car left the
British embassy residence on Dublin’s
outskirts.
“The poor man didn’t even have time
to be unpopular,” said one old man in a
Dublin bar.
~s The 54-year-old envoy, a gangling
aristocratic Englishman who wore a
Bicentennial speaker
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Collegian
the
daily
digit inflation,” adding: “It would voting to override, 37 Democrats and 94
rather create $4 billion worth of tem- Republicans to sustain,
porary government-funded jobs than let Political charges and counter-charges
those same dollars go to work in the marked the House debate on the jobs bill
private sector to produce real, rewar- with emphasis on Ford’s two-year
ding, lasting jobs. ” record of 53 vetoes. This was the ninth
The House vote on the bpulic service veto to be overriden,
jobs bill was 310<to 96, or 39 more than ' The legislation authorizes $2 billion for
the required two-thirds. Only 15 grants to state and local government for
Democrats voted to sustain the veto, public works that can be started with in
while 57 Republicans joined 253 90 days. It also authorizes $1.25 billion in
Democrats in voting to over-ride. grants for state and local governments
The Senate voted 73 to 24 Wednesday - in high unemployment areas to maintain
to override, so the House action was essential services and avoid layoffs,
final. Supporters said the bill will create
Congress
To override the military construction
veto, the, House voted 270 to 131, two
more than the required two-thirds, with
228 Democrats and 42 Republicans
“We now believe that only 13 of these
17 commands were properly executed,”
he said in a special status report from
the Viking control center.
He said the sequence that was to be
performed called for the soil sampler
boom to move from its stowed position.
The boom was commanded to retract
and go through a sequence which would
put its collector head back on lander in
parked condition.
“On the 13th step, retracting the head
from a 4-inch extension to 2 inches, in
dications are in that process the boom
stopped and exercised what we call a no
go,’’Martin said.
He said a team of specialists was
quickly assembled to investigate the
problem.
Although it was nine degrees below
zero Fahrenheit when the test occured,
Martin said he did not believe the cold
was the problem.
Earlier, a picture returned by Viking
showed that a protective shroud was
jettisoned as planned from the sampler.
Scientists at first thought that meant the
device was operable.
One of the radio problems involved one
of two receivers aboard the robot
spacecraft. It was late in picking up calls
from Earth the first day and did not
respond at all the second day. Engineers
planned to run a series of tests today to
diagnose the problem.
. The second difficulty 'involved a
transmitter Viking uses to talk to its
orbiting mothercraft which in turn
relays the signals to Earth. The trans
mitter disobeyed orders from its com
puters and used a low instead of -high
power to communicate with the lander.
Martin said there was a 50-50 chance
that trouble was random and would
disappear on its own.
The seismometer trouble was caused
when locks failed to free the in
smoked-glass monocle over the eye he
lost in World War 11, had been in
Dublin only two weeks. The explosion
Wednesday, that also took the life of a
woman secretary, might have been
meant for a top British official from
Northern Ireland, Brian Cubbon, who
was also in the car and was critically
wounded, police say.
An Irish chauffeur was also seriously
wounded.
Ewart-Biggs was the first foreign
diplomat slain here since the Irish
Republic was created in 1922 after a
bloody guerrilla war ended four cen
turies of rule from London. Police have
200, 000 jobs while protecting another
90,000 state andlocal government jobs.
The bill also authorizes $7OO million for
waste water treatment works. Actual
strument’s delicate pendulum sensors
after landing Tuesday. Geophysicists
were counting on the instrument to
record tremors called “marsquakes” to
tell them about the makeup of the in
terior of the planet.
Martin said an attempt to correct the
seismometer problem will be made in a
few days.
A scientific controversy developed
yesterday. Dr. James Pollack said
earlier that analysis of Viking’s images
showed the sky over Mars was really
pink, and not blue as displayed in the
first color photograph taken by Viking 1
from- the Martian surface. He said a
slight ground calibration error was
responsible for an unnatural bluish tint
to the final picture.
Other scientists apparently disagreed.
“At the present time, we’re trying to
be equivocal,” said Dr. Thomas Mutch,
Man sought
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (UPI) A
young man who lives on his wealthy
family’s 100-acre estate was sought for
questioning yesterday, about the- kid
naping of 26 children and their bus
driver entombed in a quarry a week ago.
The man being sought is Fred Newhall
Woods, 25, described as a “loner” with a
love for automobiles that bordered on an
obsession.
Alameda County District Attorney
Lowell Jensen said no arrest warrants
have been issued in the abduction, which
began, near Chowchilla, Calif, a week
ago and ended when the victims dug
their way out of an underground prison
not officially blamed the killing on the
Irish Republican Army, but say
privately “it has all the trademarks” of
an IRA operation.
One government official said, “We
have no doubt it was the IRA.”
Thirteen suspected IRA members
were arrested in raids Wednesday night
and yesterday, but police say they have
drawn a blank so far in their search for
the killers..
The elderly Dubliner in the bar, who
claimed he fought with guerrillas for
independence and personally killed five
British soldiers ana policemen, said, “I
did that for a cause. The people that
killed this Englishman did it just to kill. l
They’re not Irishmen as far as I’m
concerned.”
The Irish Times newspaper said in a
somber editorial, “It was a terrible,
mindless crime, a source of personal
grief and pain for every honorable
citizen. It has brought deep humiliation
upon Ireland in the eyes of the world.”
Dublin’s Evening Herald said, “The
assassination was a foul and evil deed.
Our country, famed for its hospitality,
has been demeaned and shamed.”
The Irish tricolor flew, at half-mast
across the country. Political, church
and civic leaders condemned the assas
sination. Scores of official condolences
poured in from around the world, but it
was the man in the, street who best
reflected the outrage the killing
triggered.
“I had nothing against the man,” said
bus conductor Sean Ryan.“lt was a
terrible way to die. What did.it prove?
We all know the Irish Republican Army
can kill, but killing this man did nothing
to free Northern Ireland.”
The IRA is fighting to end British rule
in Northern Ireland and join it with the
Irish Republic.
“Killing a British diplomat, any
diplomat, is only going to make things
harder for everyone else,” said Gerry
Fagan, a 30-year-old hotel porter.
Weather
Perfect studying weather! Cloudy,
cool, and muggy with occasional rain and
maybe a passing thundershower today,
high near 75. Cloudy and foggy tonight,
low near 68. Partly cloudy, warm, and
humid tomorrow with just a chance of a
thundershower, high near 82. Sunny and
warm Sunday, high around 85.
funds for all the programs depend on
votes later on appropriations.
Declaring that “the House has clearly
shown it recognizes the need to relieve
unemployment,” Democratic Leader
Thomas P. O’Neill of Massachusetts
credited Democratic congressional
initiatives for the improvement up to
now in the economy.
“This bill is crucial to maintain the
momentum,” he said. -
Republican Leader John J. Rhodes of
Arizona said that “this bill is designed
mainly to attract votes in November.”
“It is a cruel hoax to ask people to put
faith in a program like this,” he said,
arguing that the jobs created, even if
they reached the 300,000 figure cited by
Democrats, would be only temporary.
chief of the Viking photographic ex
periment. “I would be unhappy if anyone
went away with the impression the sky is
strongly blue.”
Pollack indicated he still believed
Mars’ sky is pinkish. He did say,
however, there was no doubt Mars’ soil
is red.
In the first weather report radioed
back from the three-legged observatory,
Viking 1 found light ■ easterly winds
in the afternoon shifting to south
westerly after midnight with a
maximum temperature of 22- degrees
below zero Fahrenheit.
Dr. Seymour Hess of Florida State
University said the first Martian
weather report was based on data
gathered during Viking’s first day on the
planet. He said the winds were fluc
tuating and “that’s exactly what winds
are supposed to do in any sensible, at
mosphere.”
at a Livermore quarry, which is Fresno Bee newspapers reported the
operated by Woods’father. abductors may have been sons of
Authorities refused to describe Woods prominent families in the San Mateo
as a suspect, but said they wanted to talk County'area. ‘
to him. Thirty sheriff’s deputies The estate is owned by the family of
yesterday searched his family’s estate Fred Nickerson Woods, father of the
in the Portola Valley area south of San young man and operator of the quarry 45
Francisco. San Mateo County Sheriff miles east of San Francisco.
John McDonald said the hunt was for
such evidence as guns, nylon stocking
masks and vans used by the kidnapers.
McDonald said there would be a 10-day
gag order about what .was found. The
warrant issued for the search was sealed
on order of a magistrate.
The estate was the focal point in the
manhunt in the wealthy suburbs for
three men wanted in the kidnaping.
Deputies armed with the search warrant
sought clues after the Sacramento and
Institute requests radio license
By CHET WADE
Collegian Staff Writer
The Central Pennsylvania Christian
Institute in State College has applied to
the Federal Communications Com
mission for a non-commercial FM radio
license in hopes of having a station
broadcasting family-oriented program
ming by next summer.
Paul A. Jessen, vice president of the
institute and chaplin for the Lamb
Fellowship, a Penn State student
organization, said the station will con
centrate on broadcasting family
oriented stories and not on preaching
sermons over the airwaves. Jessen said,
“We are not hitting the bandwagon for
any one denomination or group. We’ll be
trans-denominational ... There won’t be
preaching on any one program.”
He said the theme of the programs
broadcast will be based on the principles
of Christian life, but the programs will
appeal to Christians and non-Christians
alike. Eighty-three per cent of the
programming will be produced locally,
depending heavily on volunteer talent to
keep the costs of operation down.
Uganda imposes gas rationing
NAIROBI Kenya (UPI) Uganda
yesterday imposed gasoline rationing
and banned. all private motoring,
reserving its last few days of petroleum
supplies for government vehicles,
doctors and schools.
Kenyan newspapers said the reported
mutiny in the Ugandan army spread to
more units and now involves more than
one fourth of President Idi Amin’s 12,000-
strong military.
There was no official confirmation of
the mutiny. But Uganda Radio reported
that six persons, including four
“ranking” officials, have been arrested
on charges of subversion and face a
firing squad if found guilty by a military
tribunal. It gav&no further details.
Uganda Radio' also announced that
effective immediately there would be
strict gasoline rationing throughout the
country. Private motoring was banned
completely and the country’s dwindling
reserves estimated at no more than a
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in Calif, kidnaping
Deputies found about 100 cars and
trucks lined up in rows in a clearing of
.the estate. One van was similar to the
one in which the children were sealed in .
the underground prison chamber.'
Steve Ortega, 22, who described
himself as an old friend of Woods, said
cars were the young man’s life. “All he
did was drive around those old
clunkers,” Ortega said.
In Sacramento, records showed that
Woods had registered to him two
Among the locally produced shows
planned are children’s bedtime stories,
homemaking hints, a program for
married couples and Bible broadcasting.
About 43 per cent of the programs will
be music oriented and nearly 10 per cent
of the air time will be devoted to news
and sports. Another feature planned is
broadcasts by famous religious leaders
such as Francis Shaeffer, Malcolm
Smith and Judson Corwald, comprising
part of the 17 per cent of the non-local
programming.
Plans include setting up a 5,000 watt
directional transmitter' near Storms
town, aimed at the State College-Bald
Eagle afea, Jessen said. A one-acre site
near Port Matilda for the antenna has
been donated by another one of the
directors of the institute, Edgar
H. Palpant, also of State College. At
present, plans are to have the station on
the air from 6 a.m. to midnight during
weekdays and from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. on
Saturdays and from noon to midnight on
Sundays.
Funds for the station are expected to
come from community donations. An
few days were allocated to govern
ment vehicles, buses, doctors and
schools.
Uganda’s oil reserves and those of
neighboring Rwanda have been
exhausted because Kenya has
demanded payment for supplies in
foreign currency. Tanker drivers,
fearful of reported atrocities by
Ugandan troops, have refused to enter
the country. .
With industry already paralyzed and
even the food distribution system
breaking down, Amin has appealed to
Arab nations for financial help and in
tervention on Uganda’s behalf to con
vince Kenya to resume delivery of
supplies.
Diplomatic sources in Nairobi said
Amin is facing his most serious crisis
since seizing power in January, 1971,
because of the deteriorating economic,
mil’tary and political situation.
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two Cadillacs, an International pick-up
truck ..and a Harley Davidson motor
cycle.
In Chowchilla, meanwhile, residents
feared a return of the kidnapers.
“I’m more apprehensive now than I
have been throughout this whole or
deal,” said Mrs. John Brown, whose two
children, Jeffrey, 10, and Jennifer, 9,
were among the victims.
“There is always someone with my
children and I have no intention of let
ting them go anywhere until those men
are caught,” said Mrs. Bob Reynolds.
The Alameda County district at
torney’s office said no arrest warrants
have been issued. It said three persons
named in the search warrant were
wanted solely for questioning.
operating budget of $24,000 per year was
estimated in the FCC application. The
$50,000 cost of construction for the
station and operating expenses for one
year have already been pledged or
secured.
Palpant and John L. Meacham of
Maryland, another director of the in
stitute, along with others, have made
major pledges to the project. The fourth
director of the institute is Melvin E.
Westerman of Pine Grove Mills.
Jessen said he did not believe there
would be any problems involved in
getting the license based on the principle
of church and state separation. He said
the FCC had granted a license to a
station in New Mexico that had a very
similar purpose.
Correction
Jane Pikovsky is the President of
Teamsters Local 8 and Kathy Comtois
was a spokesman for the Loop drivers.
Both names were incorrectly spelled in
a Collegian story on the unionization
Wednesday.
. The Nairobi Daily Nation newspaper,
in reports unconfirmed by other sources,
said a mutiny which began several days
ago has now spread to some 3,000
Ugandan troops who presented the
government with a five-point reform
plan to restructure both the army and
government.
The official radio in Kampala also said
Uganda demanded to know how acting
High Commissioner Ambassadoi
Eustace Gibbs “came to Uganda... and
why Uganda was not informed of his
presence.” The Ugandan foreign
ministry summoned him to explain
vesterday.
Gibbs was already in Kampala when
Amin expelled then acting high com
missioner James Horrocks, accusing
him of having prior knowledge of the
Israeli commando raid on Entebbe July
3. As senior British diplomat in Uganda,
Gibbs was named to succeed Horrocks.
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