Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 3-15-1976 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1976). Winona Daily News. 1428. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1428 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Monday's By DON MCLEOD haring action hit Revenue-s said. "W<M &1fowt'Pfap 'ttqti..P increased public and related private sector unem- the mayors'conference, WASHINGTON (AF) — President Ford today accused ployment, or the imposition of more taxes. "President Ford, by vetoing some 46 pieces of the DemocratiwwijtroUed Congress of threatening the "Maybe thte is what some partisans want. But I . legislation, has created such a climate in Washington majority of the Congress and v nation's cities with disaster by failing . to approve an .: don't:'' V between the Democratic Costlier grain 50-50 chance V extension of the revenue-sharing program. Ford's attack on Congress followed criticism from the Republican administration that Ihe revenue-sharing American grain going to the Soviet . Speaking to si meeting of seme 2,000 municipal of- some municipal leaders who blamed both the White program is beingheld hostage. ' Cleveland, Ohio, Mayor Ralph Perk Union this year will cost US.. ' - said after returning from Germany ficials, Ford also abided Congress for being slow in V House and Congress for failing to extend revenue- "It is ironic that the Democratic Congress, in order to taxpayers about $80 million ih that Cleveland has a 50-50 chance of providing supplemental money for an existing public sharing. deal with a Republican administration, is prepared to subsidies for shop operators and - getting the plant which he hopes jobs program while defending his veto of the ^-billion In a news conference Sunday opening the aiintual cut off the nose of the cities to get even with a Republican workers: the subsidies wiU exceed : • public works bill which Congress unsuccessfully tried to legislative conference of the U.S. Conference of Mayors administration." ' Volkswagen will build in this ¦ those paid for carrying the grain country. The Volkswagen board of / override. -V' and the National League of Cities, Mayor Moon Landrieu sold to the Soviet Union in Ford said revenue-sharing must be renewed this year of New Orleans said the stalemate was leaving the cities The general revenue-sharing program, heart of for- 1972. The supervisors: is to decide Aprij 23 ' mer President Richard M. Nixon' " higher costs are due to a govern- but "Congress did not share my sense of urgency. It is ''on the brink of chaos." ' s "New Federalism, whether to build outside Germany. ; has pumped more than $30 billion into state and' local ment program that assures U.S. He sSiid any becoming Increasinglyapparent that the Congressfalls Landrieu applauded Ford for proposing an extensien . site selection would "failed to governments since enactment in 1972. vessels against loss if freight rates come after that.'f . to understand the importance of this program to the of revenue-sharing but said even Ford has dip below operating costs and people of thecities , and counties and states (tf our nation. realize the impact that inflation is having on our general However, the program expires Dec. 31, unless ' revenue-sharing funds. because of the terms 6f the , "Failure to renew this program would weaken the Congress can come upof with an extension. Ford proposed U.S. S6viet maritime agreement. •¦¦ fiscal stability of our cities. You know that expiration of "At the same time, we must also point out that other a 5^-year extension almost $40 billion, a slight In- this program, or a' reduction in the payments you now actions by the President jeopardize the re-enactment of crease in funding but one which city officials say is ¦ ¦ receive, would mean cutbacks in essential services, this vital program," Landrieu, a Democrat and bead of inadequate. ¦ " ' ' : ' ' "' .. ¦ . '¦ ' ' . v Choreographer dies V 4 Busby Berkeley, the choreographer Who produced^ \ | some of Hollywood's most imaginative and extra:| vagant motion picture musicals, died Sunday at¦ his . Palm Springs, Calif., home. He was 80. ": .: ' . ' Ambassador hiirt in crash United Nations Ambassador': Jacob A; Wank, 60, of the Soviet Union is in satisfactory condition in a Glen Cove, N.Y., hospital with a fractured rib after a CoMp leaders car crash that killed one person and critically: injured another. Also hurt was Malik's wife, Valentina,,-50, Who is in the hospital's intensive care unit with abrasions and possible Internal injuries. Officials said an auto started to make a threaten to left turn but Collided with the ambassador's oncoming car or- a road near the recreationaiestate the Soviet Union maintains in the community. / " ¦:¦:¦¦ . ¦: ¦¦ ' ' • . ' . : . • . > shell palace Pianist gets bust-ed BEIRUT, .Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese ' Pianist Arthur Rubenstein bur- army coup leaders threatened today to lesquesa pose of a bust of himself at shell the presidential palace If Christian f its unveiling recently at New York's President Suleiman Franjieh did not Carnegie Hall. Rubenstein made his resign,' ' . ' American debut there 70 years ago Army sources said a column with tanks and tonight he will give what maybe and light artillery was moving on the his last concert there. The Polish . palace, , located on the outskirtsof Beirut, born virtuoso says his eyesight has where Franjieh was being defended by failed to the point where¦ he can no about f 2,000 loyalists and ' Christian V'longef see the keyboard ' . militiamen. Moslem and Christian gunmen fought ' " ' ' - 'V- - . *¦ ' .''. -, njortar . and rocket duels In Beirut and Onassis anniversary Fonda in hospital northern Lebanon as the country lurched toward a resumption of the 11-month Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was y Actor Henry Fonda reportedly has .. ¦ civil expected on the Greek Island of been scheduled for surgery Tuesday ¦ War. -. f. ya . Scorpios today for a memorial to remove a turiior in his lung ' Leaders of both the Christian and Moslem factions went to Damascus service on the first anniversary of . believed to be nonmalignant. Cedars to ask Aristotle Onassis's death. Mrs. 'of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, Syrian President Hafez Assad to try to Onassis will be accompanied byV confirmed : Sunday night that the avoid a showdown between Franjieh and the Moslem commander of the Beirut Christina Onassis, Onassis' daugh- 70-year-old Fonda is expected to garrison ter. : remain hospitalized about 10 days. who led a military coup last Thursday and demanded Franjieh's resignatiba f . Tank 'battle' seen In one of many ultimatumsserved on the A. forthcoming competition between a IJ.S. tank and West Germany's Leopard, president; Col. Raouf Abdul Samad said, New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu Is besieged from both sides as he II to become America's tank of the future may prove to be a sham battle "If the president fails to resign by 2 p.m. (7 chats with fellow mayors during'a reception for the National League of because U.S. officials already lean toward the local product. The Pentagon has a.m: CST) we shall begin shelling the Cities and the U.S. Conference of. Mayors In Washing .on Sunday. From promised to give the German tank a fair shot at the prize — a planned US. presidential palace." Witnesses said there , Tex,; Landrieu; Odnald -purchase of 3,312 new tanks foriiearly $4 billion.;But key U.S. officials are was some military; activity but rib artillery Mayors meet left are Mayors Cliff Overcash, Ft. Worth inclined toward U.S. tank.A. entries even before the competition begins'late this fire as the hour passed, Canney, Cedar Rapids, Iowa A and John Poelker, St. Louis, Mb-'- (AP - ' :' ¦' f 'AP./ : . :.y. year. y...,..,y/A ^.^.A- : . ;. ' ' V v ' f / Samad is tlK conimahdef off the Mt, Photofax) f Xebanon district with headquarters in Typical two-year-olds Hammana, 12 miles east of the palace, One Clara and Alta Rodriguez, the of his aides said the ultimatum to Franjieh Siamese twins separated f in an ¦was made in cooperation with thearmy's operation inv Philadelphia in 1974, high command. potpfobed two-year-olds who Assassination • today are typical' It appeared that the coup leaders were WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI and Republican presidential nomination, to be bite, yell and scream,, says Dr. information emanated from northern reluctant tir move forcefully against Secret Service are investigating a made at the Kansas City convention which California." ¦ ¦ ' Louise Schaufer, their surgeon. Franjieh because they could not be certain reported - terrorist plot to assassinate gets under way on Aug. 16. Clara swaggers a bit when she walks how many, of their"officers and men would President Ford and former California The Chicago Tribunesaid in a story from The Tribune said the remark referred to because her pelvis hasn't grown follow them. Many of the army's officers Gov. Ronald Reagan at the Republican San Francisco that Justice Department attempts against Ford 's life in together yet and Alta mpst wear a are Maronite Christians, as is Franjieh, National Convention in Kansas City in sources said the plot involved a com- Sacramento and San Francisco, Lynette corset to brace hSr posture. August, a Secret Service spokesman said mando-style assassination team of persons "Squeaky" Fromme, a.follower of Charles Amid the political turmoil and con- Ma nson, was sentenced to life in prison for tinuing fragmentation of government and today. from the SanyFrancisco Bay area. The Asked about an account of the plot in a newspaper said it was informed that the trying to kill Ford in Sacramento Sara ¦ • military: authority, the civil warfare Jane Moore has been sentenced to life in The inside box: ^ J~~~~^*> between leftist Moslem and rightwihg Chicago newspaper, Secret Service plot was discovered while it still was In its J .