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The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 6

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6 KOKOMO (Ind.) TRIBUNE Sunday, July 16, 1978 Cincinnati police killer sought California minister has self nailed to cross CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati police are searching for two suspects in the shooting death of police officer Charles Burdsall, who was killed Saturday while responding to a call on a robbery investigation. Burdsall, 29, a five-year police veteran, died at 4:30 a.m. during surgery at Cincinnati General Hospital. 2 cyclists killed in traffic By The Associated Press Indiana Traffic Deaths 562 July 16 Last Year 567 The son of Mishawaka High School basketball coach Marvin C. Wood was one of two motorcyclists killed In separate traffic accidents Saturday.

Police said Douglas A. Wood, 27, South Bend, died after his motorcycle collided with a semi-trailer in South Bend. Don Ncwsome, 28, Indianapolis was killed when his motorcylc crossed over the center lince on an Indianapolis street and collided with an oncoming vehicle. In another weekend accident, Craig M. Rawlins, 24, died after his car was hit by a truck driven by a man who was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless homicide.

A Marion County deputy sheriff said Rawlins was driving southbound on an Indianapolis street when a truck driven by Donald J. Mchl, 36, Indianapolis, crossed the cter line, hit Rawlins' vehicle and crushed its top. Authorities said James J. Powell, 32, Montezuma, was killed in a one- car accident two miles east of Montezuma on Ind. 36 in Parke County.

Police said three others were critically injured in the accident. They said Powell's car failed to.make a curve, ran off the road and overturned. Leon Brown, 60, Martlnsville died in a two-car accident near his home Saturday. However, his death was not being counted as a traffic fatality until an autopsy Is performed. Authorities said they suspect he may have David Mellon, 19, a civilian riding with Burdsall and the son of a Clncin- ati police officer, was treated and released for gunshot wounds to the back.

Mellon, participating In the Cincinnati Police Division's Civilian Observation program, retrieved Burdsall's gun after being shot and fired six rounds at the fleeing auto, police said. Authorities also said an elderly man walked Into a district headquarters Saturday afternoon and handed over an envelope containing what was alleged to be the license number of the suspects' auto. However, the man quickly disappeared and police were unable to connect the license number to the shooting. Cincinnati Police Lt. Col.

John McLaughlin said Burdsall was shot shortly at 12:14 a.m. in the city's Clifton section after pursuing the two persons from a food store. National police broadcast and teletype bulletins have been issued for two black males, both in their early 20s. One of the suspects is described as approximately 6-foot-l. 180-190 pounds.

McLaughlin said the suspect was wearing a yellow tank top shirt and possibly glasses and a dunsel cap, which Is similar to a ski cap with a tassel. The other man is described as G-foot-2, 200 pounds, wearing white pants and a white shirt with multi-colored pinstripes, McLaughlin said. One of the suspects may be wounded. The suspect's automobile Is metallic green and possibly Is a 1966 Chevrolet. The automobile may also have bullet holes in the driver's side and should bear Ohio license plates, McLaughlin said.

Burdsall and Mellon arrived at the food store after receiving a call that two suspicious persons were mulling around outside. Off-duty police officer David Hamler, a customer in the store, alerted a clerk to call police. When Burdsall and Mellon responded, the suspects apparently became frightened and fled in their car, McLaughlin said. Burdsall pursued the automobile by cruiser, stopping the suspects one block later. As Burdsall and Mellon approached the car, the suspects opened fire, hitting Burdsall three times and grazing Mellon, McLaughlin said.

'Improper ingredients 9 used in cooling tower concrete BOUND BROOK, N.J. (AP) Concrete containing "improper ingredients" was used to construct part of a West Virginia cooling tower that collapsed last April, according to the company that was building the tower. Fifty-one workers died in the accident. John. E.

Schork, chief executive officer of Research-Cottrell said the company had no control over the process used to mix the concrete. The workers were killed when the scaffolding on which they were stand- Ing ripped out of the concrete about 170 feet off the ground. Construction of the tower, being built for the Monon- Russian boycott asked WASHINGTON (AP) The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith Is calling on "the people and governments of the free world" to impose a trade, tourism and Olympics quarantine on the Soviet Union because of the sentences dissidents Anatoly md Alexander Ginz- haransky Vas sentenced to 13 had a heart attack before his vehicle treason; Ginzburg en for fin, Windfall. Five passengers in the Coffin car were also injured. Steven SAVE Time Steps Money Use the Want Ads.

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Crown Point Cemetery) 452-9702 452-1485 gahcla Power Co. in Willow Island, W.Va., has been halted since the April 27 accident. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Research-Cottrell $105,100 In June for 10 safety violations, including failure to test the strength of the concrete in the cooling tower's 22nd ring. OSHA did not assign blame for the accident.

Schork said Friday that the fault lies with Criss Concrete of Parkersburg, W.Va., which supplied the con- HUD to improve housing WASHINGTON (AP) As protesting Indians marched toward Washington, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Harris said HUD "has not met its goal of providing decent, safe and sanitary housing for native Americans." The secretary, speaking at the conclusion of a two-day conference on Indian housing between HUD officials and Indian representatives from more than 20 states, pledged increased HUD efforts to improve housing and community development programs for Indians. crete, and Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories of Pittsburgh, which was hired to test It. Tests by Research-Cottrell revealed that the concrete used for the 22nd ring contained "improper ingredients" and "quantities of admixtures" that would "seriously slow down the curing process normally expected," he said. A spokesman for the Pittsburgh company said its president, M.Y. Ruyan, denied the allegations made by ResearchCottrcll.

Executives at Criss Concrete did not respond to inquiries about the allegations. A Research-Cottrell spokesman said Schork's statement would be Included In legal papers to be filed in a West Virginia court in which several law suits have been filed against the company. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Preaching a message of Christian love, a Baptist minister had himself nailed to a cross for 10 minutes Saturday in an Oakland park as about 50 friends and his young son watched in a subdued mood. The Rev.

Willie Dicks, 37, winced when 3-Inch nails were driven into his hands and feet strong voice befoi friends to take him down. Supported by towels around his arms and a friend who held him around the waist, Dicks said he had himself nailed to the cross to help emphasize his message that Jesus Christ "is an alternative to crime." At one point, he said to the crowd, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine." Dicks, a minister In suburban San Carlos, cried out only when the nails were pulled from his hands and feet. The 10-foot wooden cross was propped against a tree. Looking haggard after his ordeal, Dicks walked on his own to his pickup truck with his wife, Carole, and 1-year-old son and drove to a nearby hospital for a checkup. He told spectators prior to the nailing that a doctor had given him a shot as a precaution against lockjaw and he washed his hands and the nails in disinfectant.

"If you wonder why I'm taking all these precautions," he said, "well, I'm not going up there to die. I'm going to come down in one piece." Chinese journal reappears TOKYO (AP) monthly magazine Women in China, which began publication in 1949 but was banned in 1967 by radicals led by Mao Tse-tung's wife Chiang Ching, reappeared Saturday In Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported. An agency dispatch received here said Madame Sun Yat-sen, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, urged the journal to "infuse women with enthusiasm for the four modernizations (science, industry, agriculture and military) to build socialism." Indiana Extended Forecast By The Associated Press A chance of late afternoon and night time thunderstroms Tuesday through Thursday. Lows in the 60s. Highs in the 80s to low 90s.

The nails were driven Into the fleshy part of the hands between the third and fourth fingers near the top of the palm and In the feet between the first and second toes. He cautioned a friend not to "miss the nail and hit my hand. I don't want no broken bones." There was little blood. His speech from the cross was repetitive and rambling, expcssing concern that society's quest for material possessions leads to crime. He also said he was "disgusted that our senior citizens cannot walk the streets." Dicks was wearing only dark swim trunks.

"I'm not wearing a crown of thorns, because I'm not the king," he said, referring to the thorns worn by Christ when he was crucified 2,000 years ago. Ex-police chief considered for NY prison head NEW YORK (AP) Richard D. Hongisto, former San Francisco sheriff and ex-police chief of Cleveland, Is under consideration to head the New York State prison system, a spokesman for Gov. Hugh Carey said Saturday. Hongisto, 40, was in Albany on Thursday to discuss the job with Robert Morgado, secretary to Carey, according to press aide Howard Clark.

The state is seeking a new correctional services commissioner to succeed Benjamin Ward, who resigned to head the New York City Housing Authority police. The appointment requires legislative approval. Hongistn was Cleveland police chief for three months before he was fired March 24 by Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich. Hongisto had charged the mayor with pressuring him to commit "unethical acts" while in office.

Kucinich said the police chief did not document his misconduct charges and fired him. Hongisto's unorthodox approach to his job as a sheriff in San Francisco got him national attention in the early 1970s. He said his own jail was "disgusting as hell" and offered to rent "rooms" at the jail for $10 a night to expose conditions. He also wore a peace symbol on his badge and allowed his officers to wear long hair and beards. was sentenced to eight year "anti-Soviet agitation." B'nal B'rith President David berg called the sentences an "in- son, state police said.

lncrcdib i brutal example Investigators said Thomas Kishline Sovjet does tfl J( £. wK I ro a be cente ne and moved into the path of an oncoming truck, police said. The driver of the truck was slightly A Nappance woman was also killed Friday in.a car-truck crash on U.S. 6, police said. Officials said Renee Weiss, 23, died wnen her car veered across the ccnterline and collided with the semi-trailer truck three miles cast of Nappance.

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