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Telegraph Colorado Springs, Colo. February II, 1976 Forget Being Buried in Los Angeles Earthquake THE NEW NEIGHBORS LOS ANGELES (AP) Frank Carbonara, now 73, has had five years to forget the early morning earthquake that buried him alive for two days. But he says there are so many reminders. nervous every he says. sleep at night, lake a going by and shakes everything, and awake for the rest of the Sixty-four persons died five years ago today in the strongest quake ever to hit the Los Angeles area.

Of the dead, 45 were at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Sylmar, where Carbonara worked. Next to Sylmar, which was the epicenter of the quake, is an earthen dam and the Van Norman Reservoir. The 80,000 people living in the potential flood path were evacuated as a' precaution, and engineers drained off the reservoir after cracks were found in the dam. Many people regained their courage and went home, only to be frightened off by several sharp aftershocks in the following days. Some of them left Southern California forever.

Others shrugged. More than 24,000 homes throughout the Los Angeles area were damaged. More than 40 square miles of populated territory were tom up. The mountains moved three feet upward and another three southward. Miles of eight-lane freeway pavement crinkled up like waste paper.

The quake caused an estimated $600 million in damages, $15 million of it to bridges and roads alone. Carbonara, now retired, was working in the kitchen of the Veterans Hospital the temblor struck. Two women in the same room were killed, but Carbonara ducked under a sink as the roof and walls tumbled about him. During the two days of darkness and stillness, he often told himself, through Then there was light, noise and a bulldozer that nearly toppled the last suspended slab of concrete onto him as it plowed through the debris seeking survivors. Carbonara said in an interview that he has been in almost constant pain since his ordeal.

still under a he said. had two broken ribs and there is still a pain in my chest. had four The operations were for heart attacks, he said. American Factory Workers Enjoy Purchasing Power WASHINGTON (AP) jdown 5.5 per cent from four in the various countries for American factory workers and 50 minutes, on a 13- food items in 1975 tmue to enjoy better food average, from 1974. ivvere included in the report.

chasing power than their coun- erparts in 13 foreign countries, but the gap closed a bit last These averages mean the was no analysis or com eign workers had to put in 'parison with 1974. more than twice as much time One department spokesman year, according to figures pub -1 as American workers to pay for i who was asked about the fig- lished today by the Agriculture the same food. Brought down to ures said that doubt sirloin steak, the figuresflation rates were higher in the last and cans had to work longer to about 26 minutes on the speculated that wages probably rose higher than fL prTes average other countries de- i pound of sirloin, while a Japa-; other countries. The rpnnrf c.iH ihof IT wagc-eamer worked sixi Food prices rose everywhere HnlfrtJ I hours and 25 minutes. In Ar- in 1975, including an average dustrial workers on Jie average gentina, however, a worker 12-month U.S.

gain of 8 5 per 16 minutes spent 11 minutes to earn cent, according to the USDA n- -f enough to enough to buy sirloin. That was down sharply from 1975 un of 14.5 per Lnt in in 1975, up 47.8 per cent com- average hourly earnings for'each of the two previous years. every year the he said. come around asking questions, opening it up all over again. I just cannot take it any About 350 of the hospital workers held a reunion over the weekend.

They held a memorial prayer brunch Sunday for those who died in the hospital. Most of fellow workers at the hospital which no longer exists have scattered. Some had not seen each other since the quake. But his ex-boss, Allen Jackman, still lives in neighboring Pacoima. He retired as food services supervisor at the VA hospital in West Los Angeles two years ago.

His wife, Florence, also a kitchen supervisor, retired in 1971, shortly after the quake. wanted to send her to Jackman said, I was supposed to stay here. Some went all the way to Florida. A lot of people went to There were 519 ployes at the hospital, he said. Maria McCk)mb, the dietician and the head of food services, was transferred to San Diego.

She said she still gets the shakes when she thinks about that day five years ago. listened to the radio, and they kept mentioning Olive View (another Sylmar hospital), so I w'ent to work thinking take care of those patients from Olive She had parked her car in the lot and walked half way to the entrance before a coworker convinced her the Sylmar hospital would treat patients again. lost some good friends in the reflected Jackman. was a pretty close wo-king unit like a 'family. You always find that.

Stewart was killed. George Crane, Ph.d., M.D. Bureaucrats Pay Defense Charge? WEU.ITS NOT EXACTLY A HOME IMPROVEAttNT lOAMlM JUST TOKEEP THE HOME 1ME WAV IT 14; Cop Had To Shoot Depressed Friend ATLANTA For stepmother and sister called minutes, the cop and the boy police. He was in his room held their fire they talked with a gun, they said, across a pool table. Then the; Zimmer found the boy lying Zimmer had talked to 16- year-old John Matthew Burnett before.

gone to juvenile detention to talk with him, been to his house. just Zimmer said Monday, a week after he killed Matt Burnett in the young bedroom. with him. The boy asked to get his coat, then stepped from the closet with a rifle, Zimmer said. The patrolman drew his pistol.

They talked across the pool table, Zimmer said, Burnett talking wild and making it clear he was willing to kill the had some problems, but cop. He said he had nothing to he was a good boy. He had a live for. lot to Zimmer said. Zimmer summoned help in had a pretty good friendship, I code on a shoulder radio, but thought.

when reinforcements arrived. Young Burnett also had a lot he told them to stay outside the, pared with one hour and 32 workers in friend of mine in of time on his hands, and he room. minutes in 1974. dustries in the United States i the A supervisor. He.wouid get depressed, the patrol-, He wasn't getting through to: united was a veteran of the Pearl Har-iman said.

he was mixed Matt, Zimmer said. "What how- Samplings made in 13 foreign land the other countries. The countries showed that factory average hourly wages, workers there averaged four ever, were not published hours and 34 minutes to buy the Only the figures showing how amount of food. That was I long wage-eamers had to work ny, Brazil, Belgium, Argentina, Australia, Denmark, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands and Japan. bor attack, a survivor of the up with some friends Arizona.

He was trapped in a stairway in a ward building. The stairs collapsed on and pop drink beer and been drinking and popping that night last week when said mean anything to him. I knew in my mind what he was going to Matt drew a bead. Zimmer fired four times. vingsbijtheTrueKloa CHOOSE FROM THE LARGEST SELECTIONS OF SOFA.SLEEPERS IN SOnTHERW rni QUEEN SIZE SOFA-SLEEPERS WITH LOVESEATS! QUEEN SIZE EARLY AMERICAN LIVING ROOM SET BEAUTIFUL SOFA BY DAY "QUEEN SIZE" BED AT NIGHT BOTH SOFA AND LOVESEAT Tom Felix is a grocer with But retail merchants and factories are now oppressed by braintrus- ter bureaucrats.

bill would free employers from such tyranny! CASE G-601: Tom Felix is the grocer in the village near which we have our summer farm home, he asked when I stopped at the meat counter, you see the article by your Congressman son in certainly should win the approval of store and factory owners, so take my copy home and also let Mrs. Crane see what Philip Alas, Uncle Sam has been growing anemic because of the bureaucratic parasites who have been sapping his former virile spirit. As a psychologist, therefore, I bluntly urge a de-lousing of Uncle Sam, which means a radical reduction in the rule by bureaucratic edicts instead of by-laws passed by our elected Congress! Philip Crane is very much opposed to the sabotage of stores and factories by nuisance snooping by bureaucrats. A few weeks ago, I mentioned the demand in the Hoosier State of a special $2 license from restaurant operators (and grocers) if they sell eggs in the shell! Imagine such petty harassment! Similar nuisance regulations imposed NOT BY CONGRESS but by braintruster bureaucrats in Washington and our state capitals, are imitating the Lilliputian strategy in by tying down our American productive and merchandising giant! So article in urged that retail merchants and factory owners be given a chance to defend their innocence without having to pay huge sums for defense costs. In brief.

Philip introduced a bill in our U.S. Congress which would force the bureaucrats to pay all the defense costs whenever they prosecute a merchant or manufacturer and he is proved innocent! At present, even if a merchant knows he is innocent, he figures it may bankrupt his little store to pay the costly courtroom defense charges, so thousands of merchants toss in the sponge and pay their fines. bill is therefore long overdue as a form of superb insurance for our employers out in the private segment of our economy. But I would urge that we go even further in defending the as well as the big factories that are the backbone of our defense in peace and especially in war. For the famous Fifth Amendment clearly states that NO American shall be forced to convict himself, as by use of his tongue.

Regardless of whether he knows he is innocent or guilty, he is NOT to be coerced into aiding in his own conviction! Well, neither should an employer be compelled to hand over his money to the government bureaucratic prosecutors, regardless of whether he is guilty or innocent. Yet at present, his taxes arc used to finance the government lawyers who are then trying to convict him! that just as much an invasion of tbe Hftb Amendment as to make him admit his guilt via u.se of his tongoe? So why not force our bureaucrats to pay ALL the costs whenever they sue an American business firm? This would slow down to a pace their attacks on merchants and factories, as well as on us individual citizens. Send for my booklet to Save Our enclosing a long stamped, return envelope, plus 25c. (Write Dr. Crane, Hopkins Building, Mellott, Indiana, 47958, enclosing a long stamped, addres.sed envelope and 25c to cover typing and printing costs when vou send for one of his booklets.) early AMERICAN STYLE Queen S.ie Sola Sleeper and match- "T- Bal- rr.

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We have given food to everyone. but many try to get a double that happens, we have to suspend Some people complain that they receive very little, others that they receive nothing. There is a shortage of transportation. distribution in this town 55 miles north of Guatemala City consisted of one pound of soybean flour for every family, a type of food the people of the region are not familiar with. Police Seek Two People In Robbery HOUSTON (AP) felice sought a man and woman today in the armed robbery of a southwest Houston jewelry store.

They escaped with an estimated $250,000 in jewelry. Police said the two, armed with revolvers, entered Host Jewelers about midafternoon Monday. Detective Andrew Belovsky said the bandits cleaned out a showcase filled with watches and took watches and rings from another showcase in the 15-minute holdup. The two women employes in the store at the Urne said no shots were fired. The robbers fled in an automobile, police said.

members claim he received them drunk when they arrived. Mayor Elias accuses the committee of discriminating against the Indian population. give them work that is fit only for beasts and give them almost no he said. Alvarado accused the mayor of turning the people against the committee we killed dogs and incinerated dead He said the decomposition of bodies in a shallow mass grave at the cemetery opened the grave. The bodies had to be incinerated and the ashes were buried, he dogs were eating them, and we had to kill them, too, to prevent he added.

dogs were our only defense against people from neighboring villages who came at night to steal the little corn we have the mayor said. The relief committee estimates that 2,902 of the 3,400 people perished in the quake. Elias says an exaggeration and that not more than 1,000 died. Schoolteacher Eduardo Castellanos estimates that quake left only 30 able-bodied men and four able- bodied women. More than 1,000 were Among the injured who died were his father and sister.

The government has been flying in food and medicine by helicopter since Friday, and that has attracted many people from neighboring villages. A Roman Catholic relief worker. Father Cesar Jerez, says his organization has asked for military help because there are indications of a mutiny in the making. Many people who came from neighboring villages, some as far away as 18 miles, have received nothing for the second Consecutive.