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Good Morning! Eckerd Gains Frey Backing Story, A2 if $142 Billion Tax Cuts-Approved by Senate Story, A3 It's Dog Days For Mary's Show Story, A5 One of the Fugitive Bowles Brothers Apprehended Bob Cummings, agent in charge of the Florida Department of Criminal Law Enforcement (FDCLE) regional office in Tampa, said news of Bowles' capture was stalled in hopes his brother would show up at the motel over the weekend. Bryant Bowles is from Tampa. Cummings said two agents arrested Bowles Thursday morning at the Tampa Regal Motel, capping a two-month was credited with informing the Tampa office of Bowles' whereabouts. "After I told them where he was, they put him under surveillance," Buchanan said. "They arrested him before I could get to Tampa, though." The brothers were convicted in a January 1977 marijuana smuggling trial in La Belle.

They were each sentenced to five years in prison for hauling more than 650 pounds of pot into Hendry County near Clewiston. Texas in 1962 and on lifetime parole, escaped from Avon Park in February. While on a work detail off prison grounds, he drove away in a state truck. John Bowles' escape was made possible when he convinced Supt. G.

Sidney Fortner to let him make a shopping trip to Tampa with another prisoner and a guard to buy produce for a prison banquet. He fled his guard at the Produce Ex- change Co. of Tampa, which is owned by his brother-in-law, Charlie P. Grezzaffi. Turn to BOWLES, All an investigation into the escapes and reasons why the two were assigned to the minimum security prison.

Prepared by Chief Prison Investigator Carl Kirkland, the report is expected to recommend action be taken against some guards at the prison and classifications ficers at the Lake Butler Reception and Medical Center, were the decision was made to send the brothers to Avon Park. John Bowles, 54, from Buckhead Ridge and Tampa, is in custody in the Hillsborough County Jail. His brother, 57, still is at large. By KEN McKINNON Post staff Writer Convicted drug smuggler John Thomas Bowles, who escaped from prison while shopping for groceries, was apprehended last week in a Tampa motel. State agents squelched news of the capture in hopes Bowles' fugitive brother, Bryant, also would be arrested The Bowles brothers made separate escapes from Avon Park Correctional Institute, and his apprehension came just a day before state prison inspectors completed Sebring FDCLE agent Buck Buchanan Bryant Bowles, convicted for murder in Awards le Falna Beacii rost ID) Pyle Kennedy Pulitzer 34 Pages 15 Cents West Palm Beach, Florida, Tuesday Morning, October 10, 1978 Vol.

LXX NO. 173 'We're really going this time not just to blah-blah. We're going to sit down and perhaps in a few weeks time announce to the world that at last after 30 years Egypt and Israel are going to sign a peace treaty. This is a phenomenal feeling. Ezer Weizman 'J lVl Jolts Syrian Official ideast Peace Hopes I MJ iH 1 AV ik ''f)i A) p- Tow Away Zone Dan DeGraw (left) and neighbor Bob Bott inspect the damage to the home of Charles and Shirley Dickens, 4260 Collin Drive, West Palm Beach after a car driven by a 16-year-old girl missed the turn off Forest Road and plowed across the front lawn and through the dining room wall.

Carol DeGraw, Mrs. DicTkens' sister, was in a hallway when the car knocked the dining room table into the kitchen, damaging the refrigerator, stove and other furniture. Pott Wlro Strvicn Hard-line Syria yesterday flatly rejected the Camp David accords as "null and void" under international law and blamed Israel for the new crisis in Lebanon. The tough statement by Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Nasser Kaddam followed only by hours an optimistic view of the chances for Middle East peace as a result of the Camp David talks by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Syria, which agreed three days ago to a ceasefire in Lebanon at the urging of the United States and the Soviet Union, blamed Israel for starting the latest outbreak of fighting in Beirut.

He said the Israelis had precipitated the latest outbreak of fighting in Lebanon by supporting "certain outlawed elements" Lebanese Christian militiamen who were fighting Syrian peacekeeping forces in the country. Kaddam said Israel has "tried to exploit" the situation in Lebanon to spread its domination in the Middle East. He left no doubt about its firm opposition to the Israeli-Egyptian peace effort. The Camp David agreements amounted to "rewarding the aggressor (Israel) for his aggression," Kaddam said. The Camp David agreements are "devoid of any basis under international law" and therefore are "null and void," Kaddam said.

Kaddam's address to the 33rd regular session of the U.N. General Assembly came hours after Dayan told the same body that, as a result of Camp David, "the road to peace (in the Middle East) lies open." Kaddam said the Geneva peace conference was the proper forum for negotiating a peace agreement and that recent developments such as Camp David "violate the principles of the U.N. Charter." Earlier yesterday, Israeli, Egyptian and U.S. officials expressed optimism over the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks scheduled to start Thursday in Washington. A White House official said Prsident Carter, who played a key role in the Camp David accords, personally would open the negotiations.

"We're really going this time not just to Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman said at Ben Gurion Airport. "We're going to sit down and perhaps in a few weeks time announce to the world that at last after 30 years Egypt and Israel are going to sign a peace treaty. "This is a phenomenal feeling." In Lebanon, fierce sniper fire peppered the main civilian escape route from Christian East Beirut yesterday, but a tenuous ceasefire between Syrian troops and Christian militiamen held for the second day. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis flew to Saudi Arabia from Damascus to seek urgent Saudi help in making the truce permanent. Egypt's negotiators, led by Defense Minister Lt.

Gen. Kamal Hassan Ali, called on President Anwar Sadat at a presidential rest house near the Giza pyramids for "a final briefing" and pored over maps of the Sinai Desert. The eight-man team leaves for Washington today. Acting Foreign Minister Butros Ghali said the treaty with the Jewish state "will be concise and will have several annexes and exchanges of letters attached to it." He added Sadat directed the delegation to "concentrate on (Egyptian) sovereignty and land" in Sinai. Though clearly hopeful, Weizman said yesterday, "Two or three weeks may not be enough.

I'm not that optimistic that it will go that fast, but I do hope that by the end of the calendar year we will have a peace treaty." One reason it may take time to work out final details was, Weizman said, because "both sides are very experienced in wars but it's the first time both delegations are dealing with a peace treaty." Yet both Israel and Egypt showed concern with actions of the "rejectionist" Arab states Israel with fighting in Lebanon and Egypt with diplomatic maneuvers by Iraq. Staff Photo by Grog Andorion Free Repairs Consumers Must Complain for Warranty Work "These are secrets to the average consumer," said Ditlow. The secrecy surrounding the warranties "costs unwary automobile owners millions of dollars in repair costs," Ditlow said. Auto manufacturers dispute this. General Motors spokesman Don Postma said owners could get rebates if they paid to repair the transmission-radiator problem and can prove that it was the same one covered by the special warranty.

Proof would be a receipt for the work Turn to DEFECTS, All warranty established later for the transmission and radiator was for 50,000 miles. The Center for Auto Safety, a Washington consumer group formerly associated with Ralph Nader, estimates that there are about 300 "secret warranties" maintained by automakers to cover their worst factory defects but never communicated to owners of the cars. The estimate is projected from examples filed with the Department of Transportation, said Clarence Ditlow, the group's executive director. By JEFFREY MILLS Tho Associated Prtss WASHINGTON Wilmer Goodloe kept going back to the Saginaw, car dealer to complain about problems with his Buick's transmission and radiator. After 11 return trips to the place where he bought the car, a thoroughly angry Goodloe got rid of the car.

"The radiator ran hot on me time after time. And sometimes the transmission wouldn't go into high gear," he recalled. Although General Motors did not tell him, Goodloe's car was one of 3.3 million 1973 through 1975 GM cars whose transmissions and radiators were covered by a special warranty. The giant automaker instructed dealers in 1975 to repair the transmission-radiator problem without charge to owners who complained but did not tell the owners like Goodloe who too late did find out about the warranty that free repairs were available. The warranty that owners were told about when they bought the cars was good for 12,000 miles, but the special Surviving Scandals: It's a Way of Life Inside Today Dolphins Win The Miami Dolphins not only beat the Cincinnati Bengals 21-0 last night, they saw the return of quarterback Bob Griese after a five-game absence due to a knee injury.

Story, B3 CTPW Third in a Series By JEFF SCHNEPPER Spocial to Tht Post The reputation of the Internal Revenue Service has had to withstand several major shocks in the last 30 years. The first scandal, during President Truman's administration, stemmed from allegations that the IRS was fixing tax cases for the rich and politically favored. A widespread investigation followed amidst cries of corruption. Joseph Nunan, IRS commissioner at the time, was charged with accepting bribes and was later convicted and sentenced to jail. An assistant attorney general, T.

Lamar Caudle, was indicted for his participation in an attempted coverup, as were several others. After a subsequent reorganization in the 1950s, the IRS was believed to be honest, and remained relatively free of criticism for many years. But in March 1975, another scandal made headlines. An informant told several Miami newspapers about an IRS undercover spy opera-Turn to IRS, All Cloudy ljj Index Amusements Business B12 Classified Ads B14-21 Comics A8 Editorials A10 Letters A10 Listening Post All Obituaries B14 Poster A5-9 Sports B3-8 Stocks B9-U TV Listings A9 Tho Associated Pross York last year, have dedicated the Series to coach Jim (Junior) Gilliam, who died Sunday night. Stories, B3 FOR OPENERS Baseball's 75th World Series gets under way tonight with Tommy John of the Los Angeles Dodgers facing Ed Figueroa of the New York Yankees.

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