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The weather Inside today Mostly sunny not quite so hot and less humid today. Highs around 90. Clear, Area n ew s___6-7 F am ily ..................3 cooler tonight with lows In 60s. Tuesday Classified___ 10-12 MACC news.........5 mostly sunny and hot with highs in mid Com ics................13 Obituaries...........14 90s. Chance of rain 10% today, near Dear Abby........13 S ports.............. 8-9 zero tonight, 10% Tuesday. National Editorial .............4 weather map on Page 9. f'tV.tV VOL. XOZI, No. 244 IMUCEi EIJ-TEEN CENTS Heat wave creates m host of problems liy I'liited Press International bean crops. and destroyed five homes. The fire Mandrell and Tom T. Hall. At least Fire fighters battled two major Utah fire fighters battled a blaze in seared more than 2,000 acres and 40 persons were treated for heat brush and grass fires in the West Sun­ the tinder-dry Ashley National Gov. Thomas Judge declared it a dis­ prostration and officials said 700 day but firemen in Ohio turned their Forest that gutted 1,400 acres of aster area, warning residents not to others were treated at a special hoses on thousands of country music sagebrush. But forest service of­ return to their homes until the medical tent. 'hoxsi^ fans who flocked to "a redneck ver­ ficials said Sunday night that high flames were brought under control. One observer dubbed the oudoor sion of Woodstock." winds had diminished and the fire A volunteer firemen from St. festival “a redneck version of Millions also crowded East Coast was expected to be contained today. Clairsville, Ohio, provided free Woodstock” beaches to escape the lingering heat The blaze killed three men Saturday. showers for many of the 25,000 coun­ wave and farm ers in drought- Some 300 firemen fought a major try music lovers who turned out in 90- Farmers and businessman at Daw­ stricken Georgia hired a rainmaker grass fire near Missoula, Mont., that degree heat to applaud such son, Ga. — about 20 miles from Presi­ to try to save dying peanut and soy­ forced the evacuation of 250 persons headliners as Johnny Cash, Barbara dent Carter’s hometown of Plains, Ga. — hired a rainmaker for $25,000 a month to seed clouds with silver iodide. Shortfall is $350,000 “ I think we re getting some moisture,” said Bobby Locke, a farmer-businessman. "It rained pretty hard in one area where we seeded today” O'#' Town tax collections On the East Coast, stifling heat sent residents swarming to beaches for relief. More than 2 million people crowded New York area beaches to total $15.5 million beat 97-degree temperatures. A citywide water alert remained in effect in New York because of By GREG PEARSON have to be made up in other areas if Herald Reporter dangerously low water pressure. the 1976-77 budget is going to end up that is frequently continued from one Final figures for the 1976-77 fiscal Police at Old Orchard Beach, with a surplus. year to the next. year show that the Town of Maine, said thousands of vacationing Controller Thomas S. Moore said Turek had predicted that the final Manchester collected $15,598,506.34 Canadians flocked to New England this morning, "We have exceeded collection figure would be $300,000- .beaches during the weekend from in taxes, a shortfall of almost $350,- revenues in other areas." He did not $320,000 less than the directors es­ their homes in Ontario and Quebec. 000. have an estimate on whether the timate. He said that the final figure The report from Collector of In Boston, fire officials installed budget would end with a surplus or a was higher because of some revenues Revenue James A. Turek includes all tamper-proof caps on 140 fire deficit. Some final revenue figures he had anticipated that did not come tax revenues collected during the hydrants to prevent attempts by city still have to be compiled before the in during 1976-77. fiscal year that ended June 30. residents to use the hydrants to cool final status of the 1976-i[7 budget is He blamed the shortfall on two fac­ off. The Board of Directors, while known, Moore said. preparing the 1976-77 budget, set a tors — the general economic climate The National Weather Service “We’ve been concerned right during the past fiscal year, which in­ tax collection figure of $15,947,477. extended its air stagnation advisory along,” Moore said of the tax short­ cluded several bankruptcies by local That estimate was based on collec­ for the District of Columbia, Virginia . r i / fall situation. He said, however, that businesses, and "unrealistic” es­ tion of about 98.8 per cent of current and Maryland for the third day. the town has fallen short of tax timates of tax collection by the mt taxes. Baltimore reported an afternoon revenue estimates for several years Board of Directors. The final collection figure for the temperature of 100 and it reached 94 but has had other revenues to prevent The directors had estimated $15,- year falls $348,970.66 short of the in the nation’s capital, the 20th day in a deficit. This is the largest tax- 665,477 in current-year collection. the last 22 in which temperatures board's estimate. Turek said that the collection shortfall he could recall. final figure represents collection of The town collected $15,411,428.17. reached at least 90 in the area. Budget Analyst Paula Yellman For prior-year collection, the board The National Weather Service said 97.8 per cent of estimates. said that an $87,000 surplus account Last year, the town collected $14,- estimated $210,000 in revenues, but temperatures also reachaFrrecord from 1976-77 that had been ap­ the town collected only $108,058.58. 96 at Rhode Island Sunday. At 578,937.48 in taxes. That figure propriated in the present year budget represented collection of 98.6 per The town did collect $79,019.59 in Russell, Kan., the afternoon reading will probably have to be used to interest charges, a figure slightly reached 102. cent of estimates Turek said. offset the tax collection deficit. The The shortfall in tax collection will higher than the board’s estimate of The lingering July heat wave that surplus account is an on-going one $72,000. has blistered most Americans also Beating the heat in Hebron took it out on chickens — premature­ Mike Capezzone of Guilford didn’t object to having cold water ly frying thousands in Maryland and poured on his head during activities at the Bluegrass Festival in Virginia. A spokesman for Perdue Carter prepares for talks Inc., near Salisbury, Md., said about Hebron Saturday. The temperatures soared into the 90’s so his 30,000 roasters had died in the friends decided to help him beat the heat. The festival was summer heat, cooped up in their Friday and Saturday at the Lions Club fairgrounds in Hebron. with new Israeli leader crowded barns. (Herald photo by Dunn) WASHINGTON (UPI) - President was set to conduct a foreign policy the talks with Begin, which begin Begin to request a delay Carter, on the eve of a crucial round briefing at the White House 'tonight Tuesday with of meetings with Israeli Prime a formal welcoming for high-level staff members and ceremony. Minister Menahem Begin, is trying their families, including the Presi­ to make certain the talks go “Obviously, we want things to go dent and First Lady Rosalynn smoothiy," a White House official smoothly, according to officials on Carter. of Vance Mideast tour both sides. said. "It is important to come out of Much of Carter’s efforts for a Mid­ this with a sense of ac­ WASHINGTON (UPI) - Israeli Secretary of State Cyrus Vance dle East peace settlement hinge on Begin, who led the conservative day Washington conference. complishment.” Prime Minister Menachem Begin Likud party to upset victory in recent Begin flew to New York Friday, Members of the Israeli delegation will urge Secretary of State Cyrus national elections, is now the key disclosing as he left Israel that he in Washington say the administration Vance to delay his planned Middle fig u re in C a r te r ’s e ffo rt to was "bearing concrete proposals for Mt. Etna erupting has made it clear through the ad­ East trip for a few weeks, until late orchestrate an Arab-Israeli peace the peace-making process.” vance ground work, that it is placing August, State Department sources settlement. He also is the unknown Israeli government sources said a special significance on the first said today. CATANIA, Sicily (UPI) - Lava side as it coursed slowly down to a quantity for Carter. Begin may ask for $2 to $2.5 billion in meeting between Carter and Begin. The sources said the timing of U.S. officials publicly challenged military and economic aid in fiscal from the erupting Mt. Etna reached level area known as the Valley of the If the new Israeli government is to 1.5 miles down the mountain’s Lion. Vance’s projected trip, originally some of Begin’s early policy 1979 — compared to the $1.75 billion it be convinced to go along with some scheduled for early in the month, will declarations on occupied Arab will get' in the 1978 fiscal year that treeless slopes today but experts said The lava has been accompanied by of the concessions sought by the it had yet to threaten the numerous thick clouds of acrid black smoke be one of the subjects for discussion territories, but in recent weeks the begins this Oct.

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