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2 EXPENSIVE STAMPS Howard Eraser displays part of the collection of letters and postage UPlFtNMO stamps he bought for "more than $10 million." Stamps trace U.S. history NEW YORK (UPI) A London dealer has paid more than $10 million for about 3,500 antique postal items in the stamp collection of a retired Wall Street financier. The sale was described Tuesday as a record-breaker. Some letters in the collection signed by Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln did not cost anything to mail. The chief executives used their free mailing privileges.

"A great deal of taste, a great deal of knowledge and a great deal of money" went into putting together the collection, said Howard Eraser, chairman of Stanley Gibbons International, which bought the collection from Marc Haas. "By gentleman's agreement," Eraser said, the exact purchase price for the "tremendous slice of American history" wasn't revealed, but it was hinted that the price was "in excess of $10 million." As a gathering of invited guests at the posh 21 Club quaffed Bloody Marys and munched on salmon, Eraser showed slides of the presidential letters, missives sent through Civil War battle lines under flags of truce and Pony Express and Wells Fargo "covers" from the early days of overland travel. One letter bore a 10-cent stamp sliced in half to mail two letters. Postmasters adopted the practice during stamp shortages and Haas happened to find two letters carrying both halves of a single stamp. Just don't go near the water SYDNEY (UPI) Brooke Shields left for Fiji Wednesday much recovered from her four-day bout with Russian flu and bronchitis, which felled her while on what was to have been a brief tour of Australia to promote a new movie.

As it turned out, she had to spend a full five days in Sydney at one point her temperature hit 101 F. and she still had a cough when she flew with her mother, Terri, for Fiji, where she is filming "Blue Lagoon" on location at Turtle Island. But her physician. Dr. Arnold Fisher, says Brooke, 14, was told not to film any swimming or underwater scenes for at least a week.

Scratch one ad campaign LOS ANGELES (UPI) Good timing is important for motorcyclists, as the Motorcycle Industry Council may ruefully reflect these days while Erik Estrada, star of TV's "CHiPS," recovers at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles from a broken breastbone, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and collapsed lungs. Estrada, who plays a motorcycle officer, was hurt in a cycle crash last week while filming what was called a "routine, slow-speed scene." And the council is stuck with a full-page ad, arranged months ago, in at least one national magazine this month, featuring a smiling celebrity urging other bikers to follow his example: "On screen and off, I ride respectfully, quietly and safely," notes the celebrity Erik Estrada. Erik Estrada Roll in' on past Bay City HOLLYWOOD (UPI) The Bay City Rollers, the Scottish rock band that adopted a Michigan city, is abandoning its American connection. The Rollers, popular with the bubble-gum set, were looking for an American-sounding name when they organized. Taking a map of the United States, one of them covered his eyes and stuck a pin in it, hitting Bay City, Mich.

As the Bay City Rollers they became rich and famous, and even appeared in Bay City, to a welcome fit for conquering heroes. But the band has changed its name to just plain no-home-town "The Rollers," Arista Records said in Hollywood this week, to symbolize "major changes in its song writing and style of musical performance." UMMttto THE BATTLE'S OVER "Bingo," a seven-year-old elephant at a Lansing, zoo, is dead. Despite the 24-hour attention of handlers, including Nancy Berger, "Bingo" never recovered from surgery in June to remove a rock from her throat. Personality glimpses Jill Wine Volner, the blonde Watergate prosecution lawyer who became general counsel for the Army, is stepping down from that post Sept. 30 Charles Vance, son-in-law to former President Gerald Ford, says in Rancho Mirage, he is quitting the Secret Service and opening a private security firm with two other former agents George C.

Scott and Telly Savalas were honored in New York Tuesday night with a Memorial Bust of John F. Kennedy by the All-American Collegiate Golf Foundation, which cited their love and support of the sport NBC network Vice President Hank Rieger has been named director of communications for the 1984 summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles Kansas adopts 'sister province SHANGHAI, China (UPI) Gov. John Carlin accepted a verbal offer Wednesday to establish a sister state relationship between Kansas and China's central Henan province, a rich agricultural area. The offer was made to Carlin by the China Council for Promotion of International trade just before the Kansas governor and his state delegation left Peking. The agreement will be sealed once Carlin sends written confirmation, which is expected shortly after he returns home, a delegation spokesman said.

Additional agreements were made at the last minute to invite a Henan province delegation to Kansas next year and for cultural and educational exchanges, which probably will be used to forge close economic ties, the delegation spokesman said. Henan Province is China's leading producer of wheat, tobacco and sesame. Its name means "south of the Yellow River," which is where most of the province is located. Carlin and his 20-member delegation arrived in Shanghai by air from Peking, where they had met with top Chinese officials to discuss possible sales TheC? Nation Pentagon security officer accused of espionage WASHINGTON (UPI) The FBI is charging that a 24-year-old Pentagon security officer sold top secret documents last week for $700 to a federal informant and an undercover agent but schemed to sell more secrets for $120,000. Lee Eugene Madsen, Navy yeoman 3rd class, allegedly was so bold in his activities that last Friday he escorted an undercover FBI agent to a room at the Pentagon and tucked a secret report in his trousers before leaving the building.

FBI agents arrested Madsen late Tuesday, less than two hours after he was named in a sealed, eight-count grand jury indictment returned in Alexandria, Va. He was held Wednesday on $250,000 bond pending arraignment. ft -h Firefighters concentrate on NW corner of blaze BOISE, Idaho (UPI) Fire crews concentrated their efforts Wednesday on the northwestern corner of the Mortar Creek fire to prevent flames from roaring into a heavy timber area. The crews hoped to establish a fire line there, which would give them a measure of control over the 3-week-old blaze in Idaho's picturesque but rugged Primitive Area. Forest Service officials said they hoped to declare the stubborn blaze contained by Sunday.

Crews from Arizona and Nejv Mexico were withdrawn from other areas of the fire Tuesday after they were able to establish lines on the rest of the fire with the help of two days of cooler temperatures and rain. ir -tr if Many bolts missing from ill-fated roof? ROSEMONT, 111. (UPI) Federal investigators are checking reports that more than 100 bolts were missing from beams in the partially completed stadium roof that collapsed on Monday, killing five workers and injuring 15. A safety investigator for the AFL- CIO, who wished to be unidentified, said a union safety committee found more than 100 bolts missing from 20- foot-long support members that held together the much larger horizontal trusses of the wooden roof. -h Miller fires latest salvo in beer wars WASHINGTON (UPI) Miller Brewing Co.

has told the government it doesn't think Anheuser-Busch should be allowed to call its beers "natural" when they are made with things like tannic acid and chemically treated beech wood chips. Chrysler sales slump DETROIT (UPI) Chrysler Corp. has reported early August car sales down 38.1 percent from the same period last year, by far the largest drop in another gloomy sales report from the Big Three auto companies. Combined sales of U.S. -built cars by Chrysler, General Motors Corp.

and the Ford Motor Co. for the Aug. 1-10 period were down 19.3 percent from 1978, the companies said Tuesday. Feet weren't exactly a treat PEKING (UPI) A meat-and-potatoes dairy fanner from central Kansas considers the proper location of webbed feet at the end of ducks' legs in a barnyard, not on his dinner plate. But Gov.

John Carlin displayed some panache in handling the feet, one part of a traditional Peking duck feast in which the entire bird is consumed. "I had a little trouble because it was hard for me to totally dismiss from my mind the thought of a duck walking around a barnyard," said Carlin. "But most of it was very good." And the duck's feet? "Not bad," he said. "Not bad." Carlin, who previously claimed an affinity for Chinese-style cooking, said his trip to China has provided him with too much of a good thing. "I could use a break right now.

I like Chinese food, and we've had some excellent food here. But when you talk about it three times a day and day after day it gets to the point where you'd appreciate something a little more in the standard we have in Kansas." There's also the case of too many courses, and dishes whose contents are not easily recognizable to Western eyes. "One of things we've learned here is you don't want to ask too many questions. You just want to enjoy the food and worry about the details later." of industrial and agricultural products from the Sunflower state. The afternoon was spent sightseeing at a city park and the famous area called the Bund along the Huangpu River where foreign capitalists of another era once lived.

With an estimated 12 million people, Shanghai is China's largest city. Carlin's group will stay in Shanghai four days, leaving for Canton on Saturday and then departing China via Can- it on on Monday. The flight took the Kansans to a city that was under foreign rule before the 1949 Communist revolution and also was the main center of China's foreign trade in that era. Far more than Peking, it has remained a city with an international outlook and a reputation for comfortable hotels, good restaurants and efficient services. Carlin said Wednesday that given time, Kansas will develop contacts and trading opportunities in China on a large scale.

"I think that given time China will be a very good trading partner. One of the benefits of this trip is that we have an appreciation of the overall picture, a better understanding of why we must be patient in a step-by-step laying of the groundwork for the future." Carlin noted that China has almost a quarter of the world's population and tremendous natural resources. "When you consider they have vast opportunities for improving their standard of living, you can't help but project a great potential for the future of our trade relations," the governor said. Voice of BTK heard on 'enhanced' tape? WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) A previously undisclosed tape recording of the voice of a man police believe is the "BTK Strangler" was broadcast Tuesday in a copyright story by KAKE Radio and Television.

The recording was of a telephone call received by a police dispatcher on Dec. 9,1977. The BTK Strangler, who claims to have killed seven persons since 1974, has told police in several communications his initials stand for his method of killing, "Bind, Torture, Kill." On the tape an unidentified man told the dispatcher, "You will find a homicide at 843 South Pershing, a Nancy Fox." When the dispatcher asked for a repeat a telephone operator broke in with the address, and the man said, "that's correct." Police rushed to the apartment and found Ms. Fox, 25, bound and gagged, strangled to death. Other officers traced'the call to a pay telephone at Central and St.

Francis streets. But it was not until Feb. 10, 1978, that police discovered the death of Ms. Fox was the sixth kilUng claimed by BTK. It was on that date that KAKE- TV received a letter from BTK asking why his strangUngs were not getting national media coverage.

Police had withheld the tape for 18 months because they thought quality was too poor to allow any recognition. But several weeks ago police accepted an offer by KAKE to have the recording electronically enhanced by Professor Mark Weiss of Queens College at Flushing, N.Y., an electronics expert who gained attention with his work on the Watergate tape gap and the John F. Kennedy assassination recording. Police Chief. Richard LaMunyon said the quality of the enhanced tape was sufficient to warrant seeking public help.

The chief asked anyone who knew the voice to call the major case squad at 2684156. BTK claims to have killed four members of the Joseph Otero family on Jan 15, 1974; Shirley Vian, 26, on March 3, 1977; Ms. Fox and an seventh victim he challenged police to identify. Wichita fire fatal WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) Two persons injured in a fire that was burning out of control Wednesday at a downtown area apartment have died, said authorities at a local hospital.

The young man and woman who died in the fire at the Severdale apartment have not been identified, said officials at St. Francis Hospital. Another five or six persons some of whom were hurt when they jumped from the second and third floors of the building required hospitalization. Vince Roberts, a resident of the 3- story brick building, said he was asleep when the fire broke out about 10:31 a.m. "I heard somebody hollering fire.

I smelled smoke. I looked out to see flames gutting out of the window." Saw them jump Roberts, who lives on the first floor of the building, said he observed three persons jumping from the third floor of the structure. Connie Tidwell, another resident, said she noticed smoke in the building when she went inside to clean an apartment. "Three people on the third floor started hollering. These three evidently were in bed.

Before the firemen got to them they jumped." WOODSTOCK (Continued from Page 1) rock during Woodstock, and Jimi Hendrix, best remembered from the festival for his unique version of the "Star Spangled Banner," died of accidental drug overdoses little more than a year later. Other performers at Woodstock, and their fate: The Band on top until bowing out gracefully with its 1977 "Last Waltz" concert in San Francisco. Richie Havens now 38, had his biggest hit in 1971 with "Here Comes the Sun." It's been downhill since. Paul Butterfield his band produced no major hits, but did produce two solo stars, Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield. The Grateful Dead never had many hit singles, but albums continued to sell well through the '70s; one original member, Ron "Pig Pen" McKeman, died of a liver ailment in 1973 at 26.

Country Joe and The Fish went the way of the Vietnam war, but reformed last year to issue an album. Blood, Sweat and Tears had major hits through 1970, but David Clayton-Thomas, now 38, left the next year; he reformed the group in 1974 and had a hit with "Got to Get You Into My Life" in 1975. Canned Heat still records with new faces, but never regained the success or sound it had before bassist Wilson, 27, died of a drug overdose 13 months after Woodstock. Creedence Clearwater Revival a string of hits until it broke up in 1971; founder John Fogerty, now 34, launched a solo career that included at least three albums, with another tentatively planned. Joe now 35, had his biggest success in the year following the festival when he released three hit singles.

John Sebastian his career went downhill in the '70s until he bounced back in 1976 with the theme song for the "Welcome Back, Kotter" TV show. Arlo Guthrie had a hit, "City of New Orleans," in 1972 and continued to make albums through the decade, the latest a couple of months ago. Alvin Lee and Ten Years After successful through the early '70s; Lee, now 34, reformed the group as Ten Years Later in the past year and released an album. now 31 or 32, depending on your source, had her biggest hits in the two years after Woodstock; has had some chart success since, but not much. flaw Shankar toured in the United States for a few years, but even George Harrison couldn't make sitar musiic a major force in western pop.

Tim Hardin, Sireetwater, Bert Sommer, the Incredible String Band, Quarry and the not headliners at Woodstock and virtually unheard from after the festival. Missing Salina woman is found at Belleville Vicky Bussart, 24, missing from her Salina home for a week, has been found walking along a highway in Belleville. Belleville authorities said she is in apparent good health. Police began the search after Mrs. Bernadine Berry, 901 W.

Elm, reported Ms. Bussart hadn't returned home from visiting the Tri-Rivers Fair carnival last week. She has been living with the Berry family. Assistant Police Chief Darrell Wilson said it isn't known how Ms. Bussart got to Belleville or with whom she has been staying.

(Continued from Page 1) his assets in his current position. I respectfully urge that if Mr. Young is to remain in a high government position, that it be in a less sensitive post." Observers said the telegram from Byrd, a powerful member of the nation's legislature, might signal the beginning of the end for Young. Rep. George Hansen, R-Idaho, said he will offer an impeachment resolution when Congress returns from its August recess if Carter does not fire Young.

Accusing Young of "thoughtless meddling" and of being an "incompetent loudmouth," Hansen said in a statement Young "has intruded into an area where he not only lacks authority, but experience, expertise and even common sense." The House of Representatives was asked July 13, 1978, to impeach Young for saying there were hundreds of political prisoners in U.S. jails. That motion failed. The State Department briefed reporters on the latest Young controversy Tuesday. Reston said the U.S.

government hastened to reassure Israel, which formally protested Young's meeting with the PLO official, as soon as it came to light. Young's decision to meet with Terzi "does not change our policy regarding the PLO," Reston said in his prepared statement. The July 26 meeting took place at the New York residence of Kuwait's U.N. ambassador, Yaccouv Bishara. On Monday, reacting to press reports on the meeting, Reston dismissed it as "pure happenstance" and said Young had not been aware Terzi would be at Bishara's home when he went there with his son.

Tuesday, Reston said Young knew Terzi "would probably be there." Young and Terzi discussed the U.S.- supported postponement of Security Council consideration of a Kuwait resolution endorsing creation of a Palestinian state. The United States has threatened to veto it as it stands. India warns it may build nuclear weapons NEW DELHI, India (UPI) Fulfilling Washington's fears, India warned Wednesday it will begin producing nuclear weapons if neighboring Pakistan enters the atomic arms race. I Prime Minister Charan Singh: charged in an Independence Day. speech that Pakistan was trying to build nuclear weapons that he said could only be aimed at India.

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