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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1979
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CHICAGO — First lady Rosalynn Carter is listed as a potential
defense witness by lawyers for mass murder suspect John Wayne
Gacy, who is charged with the sex slayings of 33 boys and young men.
The entry, “Mrs. James Carter, White House, Washington, D.C.,”
appears on a list of more than 150 potential witnesses filed with Cook
County Circuit Court.
The 33 murder charges against Gacy, 37, a building contractor, is
the largest number ever filed against an individual in U. S. history. His
trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 7.
Carter posed for photographs with Gacy on May 6, 1978, while she
was in Chicago to observe Polish Constitution Day. In the photograph,
Gacy, a Democratic precinct captain, wore an “S” pin, apparently
issued by the Secret Service to identify those cleared to join Carter on
the reviewing stand.
Gacy allegedly lured young men to his northwest suburban home
with the promise of drugs, liquor or jobs in his construction firm. He
then allegedly had sex with his victims and strangled them, authorities
said.
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DETROIT — General Motors
Corp. has announced indefinite
layoffs for 11,000 workers and deep
production cutbacks at 26 domestic
plants — including the Arlington,
Texas plant — amid reports of the
latest sag in domestic car sales.
Tom Clipstine, a spokesman for
the Arlington assembly division
plant, said Tuesday that 2,000 work
ers would be laid off there next
month.
U.S. sales in November dipped
21.3 percent from one year earlier
and were buoyed only slightly by
strong performances from the two
smallest domestic automakers, it was
announced Tuesday.
Clipstine said second shift opera
tions at the Arlington plant would be
suspended indefinitely when the
plant reopens after its Christmas
holiday shutdown, affecting approxi
mately 2,000 plant production em
ployees. He said another 2,000 em
ployees would continue to work on
the plant’s first shift.
“The negative economic impact of
this adjustment,” Clipstine said,
“will be substantially reduced by a
supplemental unemployment be
nefit plan which will result in laid-off
employees’ continuing to receive
approximately 95 percent of their
regular take home pay while on tem
porary layoff.”
For the first time, auto executives
have said the long slump affecting
car sales is caused partly by world
tensions.
In response, GM announced car
and truck production cuts for early
next year that will place 11,000
workers on indefinite layoff.
More than 100,000 U.S. auto
workers already have been idled in
definitely, while thousands more
have been idled for varying periods
while plants close down to trim bulg
ing car and truck inventories.
The GM cuts, which are effective
Jan. 2, will affect Arlington and six
other of the company’s 26 U.S.
assembly plants — Baltimore; St.
Louis, Mo.; Van Nuys, Calif., and
two plants in Michigan.
Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler
Corp. also have curtailed production
severely. Ford only has four of 15
domestic assembly plants in opera
tion this week — but those cutbacks
but they are the worst since
are temporary.
Thus far, neither the layoffs nor
sales declines have equalled the dis
astrous levels of the 1974-75 reces
sion -
then.
On a daily selling basis, Novem
ber sales were the third lowest for
that month in this decade.
“There has been little change in
market conditions in the past two
months,” said Gordon B. MacKen-
zie, Ford Motor Co.’s vice president
for sales operations.
“Interest rates appear to be past
their peak and domestic cars have
increased their market share, yet
many potential buyers apparently
are deferring vehicle purchases be
cause of temporary economic and
world conditions.”
In a speech in Brazil, GM Presi
dent Elliott M. Estes attributed the
sales decline to energy uncertainties
and worries about events in Iran.
The five U.S. automakers said
they sold 211,862 cars in the fini
days of November, down24.6|Ki
cent from 280,998 in the same per,,
of 1978. GM sales for the pen,
were off 24.4 percent, Foiil
down 27.6 percent and Chrjsl;
Corp. deliveries declined by 31
percent.
Car sales for November fell
606,038 from 769,855 a year
GM was off 21.8 percent, Ford
percent and Chrysler off 32.6
cent for the month.
American Motors Corp. Nod
her sales were up 36.7 percent^
year-ago levels while Volkswagen
America said its sales of U.S.-
Rabbits were up 147.6 percent
last November’s factory startup
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HOLLYWOOD — Australian sculptor Brett-
Livingston Strong paid $100 for a worthless boulder,
spent months with hammers and chisels carving it
into an image of John Wayne, then sold the 10-ton
slab for $1 million.
“Where else in the world can you get a rock for
$100 and sell it for a million?” he said as the giant
artwork was placed on display Tuesday in the heart of
Hollywood.
Last February, the blond-haired, blue-eyed
sculptor spied the huge boulder protruding danger
ously from a crumbling, rain-soaked bluff high above
Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
Frustrated homeowners at the base of the bluff
finally convinced the state the rock could tumble
down the cliff at any moment and it should be re
moved. It cost taxpayers $92,648 to have the chunk
of sandstone yanked from the mountainside.
When the rock tumbled onto the highway, the
26-year-old Strong claimed a 12-ton chip off the old
rock and had it hauled away.
The steady clunk of chisels and the dull thuds of
mallots persisted for 70 days before Strong trans
formed the famous Malibu Rock into a 7-foot grat
artwork that was sold this week to an Arizona man(oi
$1 million.
"When Brett paid $100 for the rock they said le
was crazy, but now people look at me after payingll
million for it and sav I’m crazy,” said the buyer,Ton
Murphy, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who describe
himself as “an enterpreneur and art collector.”
Murphy said the rock will be on display forayeai
before it begins a world tour.
Strong, from Gold Coast, an Australian reson
town near Brisbane, originally envisioned carvk
the face of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.ori
the stone looming high over beachfront homes.
“But I decided I needed a man of great strengtl
and character to do it justice,” Strong said, "ichose
John Wayne because he was a real rock himself.To
me, his face represents strength toward life. '
Strong said he carved Wayne’s face “to honorhm
because he is a greatly admired personality "fw
represents strength and courage.”
A small bronze plaque attached to the stone says
simply: “To the beauty and advancement of man
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