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The Friday
Denton Record-Chronicle
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DENTON TEXAS, FRIDAY, AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7,1979
77TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 109
32 Pages in 4 Sections
Hostages could get death sentence
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Gunman
Pearl Habor remembered
Petitions
murders
shah’s kin
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Drop in jobless rate offsets gloomy forecasts
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Fair through Saturday
Index
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support
Scofield
Three area high schools
face state football playoffs
Crumpled and toppling, the battleship USS Arizorfa belches smoke
after the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in this
TEHRAN, Iran CAP) — Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini’s regime an-
nounced today that within 48 hours it
will make a statement on a spy trial
date for some of the 50 American
hostages at the U.S. Embassy and
that death sentences are possible
DENTON AND VICINITY
— Fair through Saturday,
with cooler temperatures
Saturday. Low tonight mid
30s; high Saturday near 60.
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specific date for the planned release,
or say how many hostages might be
‘ freed. But he said there were two
• types of hostages those who did not
The Labor Department said most of
the decline in unemployment in
November occurred among women
a nd blacks, the same two groups most
affected by a rise in unemployment
during October.
Bregger said the recent fluctuations
in the overall jobless rate stem from
changes among the part-time work
force, while unemployment among
full-time workers has remained
steady since the summer.
Overall, the department said em-
ployment in November totaled 97 6
million-out of a labor force of 103.7
million
The department said most of the
employment gains during November
creases twice a year instead of
annually during periods of high
inflation
The council stopped short of en-
dorsing a specific plan to split Social
Security credits evenly between
husbands and wives, but called some
type of earnings sharing "the most
promising approach" to improving
benefits for women.
A narrow majority of the 13-
Americans contradicted the foreign
minister "We will release nobody,
nobody at all" unless the deposed
shah is returned to Iran, and “we have
made no decision on the visits," the
spokesman said in a telephone in-
terview.
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A hearing on a motion asking that
the grand jury which indicted District
Judge Bob Scofield for misdemeanor
official misconduct be reassembled
has been postponed until Monday
The hearing had been scheduled for
1:30 p.m. today, but was reset for 3
p.m. Monday after visiting Judge
Tom Cave of Fort Worth notified the
court he could not be present because
of a jury trial in his 213th District
Court.
65, effective after the turn of the
century.
The panel recommended lib-
eralization of Social Security’s
disability program and, in a rebuff
to the administration, voted against
most of the minor benefit reductions
President Carter unsuccessfully
sought to get through Congress
earlier this year. A narrow majority
called for doubling the 3255 burial
occurred among adult women and
white workers A large portion of the
new jobs were among white-collar
sales workers
During the past 12 months, em-
ployment has increased by 1.9 million,
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no business taking them hostage and
they have no business putting them on
trial.
“Our position is that all the hostages
should be released We welcome the
> news that visits to the hostages may
be arranged and we hope they can be
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Winds diminishing tonight.
WEATHER REPORT
Low this morning
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High last year
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gents’ fight for "freedom and their
rights.”
The announcement on a trial date
declaration was made by Foreign
Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who
also said those Americans not
suspected of spying will be released
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AP Laserphoto
picture of the scene on Dec. 7,1941. Dentonites recall the shock today,
on the 38th anniversary of the battle, on Page 5A.
benefit Carter wanted killed.
Councils are created by law every
four years to advise Congress on
Social Security, and past councils
have pointed the way for many
changes in the system. The idea is
for the councils to provide con-
tinuing oversight of the system in an
effort to make it fairer and more
responsive to the changing needs of
the people it benefits and to insure
that it remains financially solvent
Congress can reject any and all of
the recommendations.
“work in espionage and those who are
guilty of espionage.”
Of the latter group, he said, “I don’t
think those people are going to benefit
from diplomatic immunity.”
Ghotbzadeh also announced that
arrangements were being made for,a---
all the hostaes to-be visitedmorder to
show the world that allegations the
captives have been mistreated are
untrue. Some of the hostages have hot
See IRAN, Page 2A
One year ago
Grapevine
One year ago
RAINFALL
Last 24 hours
Total for month
Normal for month
Total or year
LAKE LEVELS
Lewisville
The government also struggled to “as. soonas-possible," and that ar-_______State. Department spokesman arranged soon "____
low-wage earners and high-wage . member panel said "serious con-
earners. sideration" should be given to t
—Calculating cost-of-living in- raising the normal retirement age of
weeks The Americans were seized 34
days ago.
Asked if he thought the hostages
would be sentenced to death, Ghotb-
zadeh said: "I hope we don’t reach
that extent. But on the face of the
earth anything is possible."
put down a rebellion in the northwest
by the nation's biggest ethnic
minority, the Turks, whose spiritual
leader said he supported the insur-
who have and have not been litigants .
in his 158th District Court.
See PETITION'S, Page 2A
duties were re-assigned to Miller and
Carter.
Miller and university attorney Jim
Neill had an interagency contract
with Texas Speaker of the House Billy
Clayton to spend 25 percent of their
time investigating state agencies for 9
Clayton .
Neill said earlier this fall that,
although the contract was not
reflected in the 1979-80 university
budget, it was supposed to be renewed.
chooses," Brown said, and that it is
traditional for a new university
president to bring in his own ad-
ministration.
Miller was one of the two remaining
vice presidents after three were fired
this summer by Carter, the acting
president. »
Vice President for Academic
Affairs Miles Anderson was returned
WASHINGTON (AP)
Academic Affairs Howard Smith has
assumed Anderson's job temporarily,
and is one of the vice presidents who
has submitted his resignation to
Vandiver
Roy Busby, formerly vice president
for university relations, returned to
the journalism department after his
job was eliminated. The job of Jane
Gentry Smith, former vice president
for student affairs, also was
eliminated. Busby's and Smith’s
rangements were being made for all
the captives to be visited ■
However.’ a spokesman for the
student militants holding the
nation's unemployment rate dropped
from ' 6 percent to 5.8 percent in
November, a clear sign that the
economy remains healthier than most
forecasters have expected, the
government reported today
The Labor Department said total
. employment rose by 350,000 jobs
during the month, while the number of
jobless persons in the labor market
fell by 140,000 to just over 6 million.
During the past five months, the
jobless rate has moved like a yo-yo,
rising from 5.7 percent in July to 6
percent in August, back down to 5.8
percent in September, up to 6 percent
again in October and back to .5.8
percent.
The pattern has been a welcome
surprise to the Carter administration,
which had predicted that unem-
ployment would rise well above 6
percent because of an expected reces-
sion that some economists believe
already has begun.
Carter also equid not be reached for
comment His secretary said he was
“swamped" today
Chairman of the Board of Regents
Winfree L. Brown said the regents had
"instructed Carter to obtain the
resignations" of the vice presidents
and Brown had assured Vandiver that
the new president had the
resignations if he wanted them
Status of vice
PARIS IAP) — A nephew of the
deposed Shah of Iran was shot and
killed today as he left his mother's
home in Paris' fashionable 16th
district, police said.
Sources said the man was shot twice
in the head with a pistol as he left the
house. His mother is a twin sister of
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Police said the victim, one of two
sons of Princess Ashraf, was shot by a
motorcyclist at about 1 p.m.
Princess Ashraf is not now in Paris,41
the sources said. The victim, whose
. name was not immediately available,
was identified only by his relationship
to Princess Ashraf. In New York, a
spokeswoman for the shah confirmed
the shooting, but did not know which
of the two sons was the victim.
According to early reports, a wit-
ness to the shooting said The victim
was walking in the Rue deNta Villa
Dupont when a man wearing a
motorcycle helmet approached him
and fired a shot point-blahnk into his
neck
The victim dropped to the ground,
the gunman fired a second shot to the
head and then walked briskly away
without running, the witness said.
After Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahalyi fled Iran ahead of the
revolutionary forces of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini last January, a
price was put on his head. Members of
the family also were threatened.
By CAROLYN BARNES
Staff Writer
Petitions supporting the conduct of
District Judge Bob Scofield are being
circulated throughout the Denton and
Lewisville areas by a “broad spec-
trum" of citizens, according to the
attorney who prepared the
statements.
Attorney Bill Wood said Thursday
that "several hundred” signatures
have been garnered on the petitions,-
which he said he prepared last week
at the request of a group of citizens.
Wood said the petitions are being
circulated by both persons who have 4
and have not voted for Scofield and
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Vandiver does hate "the authority to teaching in the physics department,
to bring the people he wants if he so Associate Vice President for
By JANIE LEIGH FRANK This morning's edition of the North
Staff W riter - — Texas Daily quotes Miller as saying
North Texas State University he has not offered his resignation and
President Frank E. Vandiver has that he was not asked for it either He
accepted the resignation of Vice is also quoted as saying Vandiver will
President for Administrative Affairs nothave the authority, to come in and
Hermas Miller set up his own administration' until
But Miller apparently is saying he Aug 1, when Vandiver becomes full-
never offered his resignation to time president.
Vandiver or to acting president John Miller's secretary said Miller had
Carter, who is also vice president for nothing to say to the Record-Chronicle .
fiscal affairs. this morning. ____
Walter Ramsay told reporters in There have been persistent, but
Washington that scheduling trials for - unconfirmned reports that about eight
the hostages was "absolutely hostages have been under intensive
outrageous. They (the Iranians) had interrogation during the past two
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
elderly would have to pay income
tax on half their Social Security
retirement benefits and Social
Security payroll deductions would
be cut under changes recommended
to Congress today by a government
panel.
The Advisory Council on Social
Security also called for:
—Using general tax revenue to
pay, for Medicare
—Rejiggering the benefit formula
to provide bigger checks for both
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president Miller at NT unclear
but most of that growth occurred
during the first few months of that
period. Adult women accounted for
three-fourths of the year-long growth.
The government gave the following
breakdowns of seasonally adjusted
unemployment rates for different
population groups:
• —Adult men: 4.3 percent in
November, unchanged from October.
—Adult women: 5.5 percerf, down _ -
from 5.8 percent.
—Teen-agers: 15.9 percent, down
from 16.6 percent.
—Whites: 5.2 percent, unchanged.
—Non-whites: 10.8 percent, down
from 11.7 percent.
-Full-time workers: 5.4 percent, ,
down from 5.5 percent.
—Part-time workers: 8.2 percent,
down from 9 percent.
— White-collar workers: 3.1 percent,
down from 3.5 percent.
—Blue-collar workers: 7.5 percent,
up from 7.3 percent.
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