Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 272, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 July 1979 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 24, 1979

Khomeini bans music broadcasts NEW YORK (AP) Ayatol lah Ruhollah Khomeini is not the first to suppress music that fell out of tune with political thought Even Plato shared the Iranian religious leader’s concern that music dulls the spirit. "Like opium, music also stupefies persons listening to it and makes their brains inactive and frivolous." the Shiite Moslem leader said Monday, ordering a ban on music broadcasts on Iran’s radio and television stations, according to the official PARS news agency. "Music is something that everybody is attracted to naturally. but it takes them out of reality to a futile and lowly livelihood." Khomeini said Iran’s national radio and television plans to stop broadcasting music this week at the beginning of Ramadan, the Moslem holy month In ancient Greece. Plato was prepared to permit the lyre and the harp in the city, and a shepherd’s pipe in the country, but he said: “When a man allows music to play on him and to pour into his soul ... and his whole life is passed in warbling and the delight of song ... he begins to melt and waste, until he has wasted away his spirit and cut out the sinews of his soul; and he becomes a feeble warrior.” Khomeini’s was the most sweeping attack on music since China tried to root out Western music in the Cultural Revolution of the 19605. Western music reflected "the nasty, rotten life and decadent sentiments of the bourgeoisie,” the radicals said. But the music is back speakers in a Peking park recently were blaring such light music as “The Skater’s Waltz” and young Chinese walk around singing “Do Re Mi” from "The Sound of Music.” Hitler banned “depraved art.” including jazz, swing and modern classicists such as Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith. Banner-Graphic "It Waves For AH" (USPS 142-020) Consolidatipn of The Daily Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Daily Graphic Established 1883 Telephone 653-5151 Published twice each day except Sundays and Holidays by LuMar Newspapers. Inc. at 100 North Jackson St.. Greencastle. Indiana. •16135 Entered in the Post Office at Greenpastle. Indiana, as 2nc* class mail matter under Act of March 7.1878. Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier $.85 Per Month, by motor route $3.70 Mail Subscription Rates R.R in Rest of Rest of Putnam Co Indiana U S A •3 Months l 8 75 9.50 ‘1145 6 Months ‘17.50 ‘19.00 *22.90. 1 Year ‘34 00 *37.00 *45.75 Mail subscriptions payable in advance . . not accepted in towns and where motor route service is available. Member of the Associated Press 1 The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the jse for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper.

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Transit authorities puzzled Mystery surrounding theft one for movie fans

By PETER KiHSS c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK The weekend theft of $600,000 in $lO bills from a guarded safe, protected further by a combination requiring two men to open the safe, was disclosed Monday by the New York City Transit Authority. The money was in 60 bricks of 1,000 bills each, an estimated weight of 120 pounds. The safe was in a second-floor money room that was supposed to have been guarded by two or three transit police officers at all times at the authority headquarters in Brooklyn. To enter the money room, one must get a key from a separate safe, the authority said. Left in the same safe, according to the authority, was $510,000 in bricks of $5 bills and $19,000 in $1 bills, as well as two bags with about $48,000 in denominations of S2O, SSO and SIOO. The room had another safe with $616,000 in $1 bills and vaults containing $3 million to $4 million in 50-cent tokens and coins. During the weekend about $1 million more in Satur-

Junta wants friendly relations with U. S.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Nicaragua’s new government told the United States it hopes friendly relations will continue, called for the extradition of Anastasio Somoza and his family and close associates and confiscated the Somoza family’s wealth in the country. In a bid for formal recognition, the five-member junta that took over the government Friday notified the American Embassy Monday that it was now in power and hoped to have friendly relations with the U.S. government. U.S. Charge d’Affaires Thomas O’Donnell said the embassy would reply in a day or two after consultations with Washington. He indicated earlier that the reply would be positive. The United States put Somoza’s father in power and was

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day and Sunday receipts was reported taken into the room and locked up. It was a story to attract the keenest devotees of movie thrillers. Who could get past guards stationed at each door? How then enter the locked money room, leaving no trace? How’ work out the two-part combination to swing open the giant safe? Why only the $lO bill haul? And how then get the bulky loot out of the guarded premises and emerge from the building? Sanford D. Garelik, chief of the authority’s police, said there was no sign of forced entry. In a news conference, Sylvester J. Dobosz, assistant director of revenue for the authority, agreed to suggestions that the theft was “probably an inside job.” Dobosz, who has been with the transit system 31 years, said it was the largest theft in the authority’s history. The same two men who opened the safe at 9:37 a m. Monday and reported the loss had locked it last Friday at 6:05 p m . In what was called a usual practice, the money had been

the family’s chief ally for more than 40 years but finally recognized the inevitability of the rebel victory and helped to convince Somoza he was finished. After his resignation last Tuesday, Somoza fled to the palatial estate he owns in Miami Beach. He is now yachting in the Caribbean The junta in one of three decrees issued Monday called for the extradition of Somoza, all members of his family and close associates who left Nicaragua after December 1977. It was not known when the decree might be followed up by formal extradition requests to the United States and other foreign governments. A second decree ordered the confiscation of all the Somoza family holdings, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

placed in the safe an hour too late for deposit in a bank. It had been counted and proved as that day’s subway receipts. Ronald C. Kane, director of public affairs, identified the two men who had locked up the cash as John Kenny, a principal cashier, who has been with the system for 40 years, and Benjamin Williams, a senior principal cashier with 15 years on t he job. On Saturday. Kane said, the building underwent a longscheduled turnoff of its electricity for maintehance checkups from 1:25 to 2:20 p.m. During that time, he said, the revenue room’s regular twoman police guard was augmented by an extra officer, and all three operated with walkietalkies unaffected by the building blackout. Two other cashiers were brought in during the test, Kane said, and when it was finished, the police officers reset electronic alarms on the doors and the revenue aides reset security alarms.

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Air, sea search Navy joins international rescue

WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is throwing the 7th Fleet into an international effort to save thousands of Vietnamese boat people adrift off the coastlines of Southeast Asia. The expanded air and sea search by the U. . Navy comes as other nations bolster the attempt to save the refugees, jammed in boats tossing in the South China Sea. Long-range patrol planes “are flying daily missions in the South China Sea to locate and seek help for refugees in distress,” Lt. Commander Gordon Peterson said Monday night. And Navy ships “are being ordered to alter their routes, as feasible, into the areas where the refugees are likely to be located and to spend the maximum time in those areas while still meeting operational requirements,” he said. The latest U S. commitment is part of the international push to save the thousands of persons leaving Vietnam without a place to go. Those who arrive in Malaysia sometimes are towed back out to sea, often in leaky boats, and many drown. Efforts to save the refugees continue on many fronts. In Geneva, Switzerland, the United States and other participants at the recent international conference on Indochinese refugees pledged to resettle 260,000 of the estimated 400,000 refugees now in Southeast Asian nations. They also promised $l9O million to the relief effort. And in Singapore, an Italian navy task force took on fuel Mon-

Carter makes appeal for party help

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter, moving to mend fences with a Congress confounded by recent upheavals in his administration, appealed to his party’s congressional leaders today for help in preserving legislation he considers “absolutely essential” to his energy program. Faced with the possible loss of tax revenues needed to finance his $142 billion energy blueprint, the president met with Democratic leaders at a White House breakfast and made his case for the legislation. House Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana said the meeting, also attended by White

House chief of staff Hamilton Jordan, focused on House arid Senate timetables for action on energy legislation. Brademas quoted Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, as promising Congress would send Carter by Oct. 1 an energy bill he would be “proud to sign.” Later, Carter planned to meet with many of the people he appointed to high-level jobs in Cabinet departments and independent agencies. On Monday, he assured about 300 White House staff members that if they are competent, hard working and loyal, they have nothing to fear from the con-

Plant shutdown saves energy but displeasesEPA

SKAGWAY, Alaska (AP) - Townsfolk find it ironic that while President Carter is calling for conservation, the federal government wants to fine their councilmen SIO,OOO a day for closing a sewage plant to save energy. On July 1, the council voted to shut down the $3.5 million secondary sewage treatment plant, saying it was gobbling up so tnuch diesel fuel-generated power that the town treasury would go bankrupt. Besides, they reasoned, Skagway has only 250 hookups, and the tides that visit every 12 hours naturally flush any pollution in Taiya Inlet out into the Pacific Ocean. And they argued that many major cities still have only primary treatment, which eliminates solid waste by filtering or settling. In secondary treatment, air is forced into the wa«ter to supply oxygen to bacteria

day for a mission in search of the boat people. In Malaysia, the West German Embassy said two West German commercial ships picked up 371 Vietnamese refugees. A French hospital ship which already has rescued several hundred refugees is in Singapore preparing for another merqy mission. In another development Monday, it was reported that the United States plans to send a delegation to Vietnam within weeks to assist in the resettlement of the refugees The exodus of refugees from Vietnam is estimated to be about 60,000 people a month. In Washington, President Carter has promised to resettle 168,000 Indochinese refugees a year. But in Indochina, temporary camps hold more than 300,000 men, women and children;, and their numbers are growing. The Pentagon’s latest instructions to the 7th Fleet broaden the Navy’s role in helping the refugees. Officials said four additional ships are being assigned to the South China Sea, “where they will be available foi* providing assistance and transport to refugees.” “It is anticipated that the ships would be utilized to transport refugees to processing centers in Southeast Asia,” the Navy’s Peterson said. •;

troversial “report cards” being filled out by their bosses. Turning his attention to energy, Carter was asking top Capitol Hill Democrats for help in warding off amendments that could significantly cut revenues from the “windfall profits” tax he envisions as the primary source of financing for his massive energy program. White House press secretary Jody Powell said Monday the president feels the “legislation is absolutely essential.” Powell said the measure’s full tax revenues are necessary if the goals Carter outlined July 15 are to be met. He said Carter is concerned about proposed amendments that would:

that break down the remaining impurities. Much of Skagway itself gateway to the gold-mad stampeders in 1898 forms the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park. There are no industrial polluters, and the town has only 858 people. The sewage system, which collects waste from homes as well as rainfall on the streets, has performed so thoroughly that 450,000 gallons a day have gone through the secondary treatment plant at a cost of about $4,000 a month. And most of it is the rain that is measured in feet by the residents“We don’t want to pollute the area,” says Mayor Robert Messegee, who has appealed to Carter for help. “It’s not like there is toilet paper floating around at the outlet of the pipe or anything like that. Our raw sewage is cleaner than what is being processed out of the sew-

—Exempt independent producers from the tax, a move White House officials said would cost $35.8 billion in the first 10 years of the tax. / —Exempt newly discovered oil, paring another $25.2 billion in revenue from the proposed levy, officials said. The officials said a total of about $55 billion would be lost if Congress passed both amendments. If left as is the tax is expected to reap $142 billion in its first decade! The bill to create an excise tax on oil industry profits has already been approved in the House and is now before the Senate Finance Committee,

Columns Of Black smoke billow from a crippled oil supertanker, the Atlantic Empress, Friday some 28 miles off the coast of Tobago in the Caribbean. The tanker, carrying 70.8 million gallons of highly flammable naphtha, collided in rain and fog Thursday night with the Aegean Capitan, a 210,257-ton tanker carrying light crude oil. (AP Wirephoto).

er plant in Seattle." The Environmental Protec : tion Agency has filed suit in federal court in Anchorage, charging the council with violation of the 1972 Clean Water Act. If convicted, the council members could be subject to SIO,OOO---day fines for each day the secondary sewage plant is idle. The mayor wrote the president after Carter’s energy speech, saying the plant requires 46.500 gallons of diesel fuel to operate. City officials say they may countersue. As for Councilman Oscar Selmer. he says he would go to jail for contempt before he reopens the plant or pays a civil fine. All they have to do is come up and get me." says the 60-year-old retired railroad worker. "I’ll get free room and board, as long as they bring me a little shot of whiskev once in awhile."