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If BflUHWff IffWWC Fl urnes Metro High near 40 Details on 2B 14 1 ST YEAR Published by Gannett in Rochester, N. Thursday Morning, November 29, 1973 15 CENTS Killings Hauntingly Similar Stocks Rally In 22.05 Gain Three girls are believed victims of same attacker PENFIELD RD. WALWORTH I COAT I BODY I FOUND FOUND HERE HERE I EDDY RD 1 -y RARNES RD A reward funds were set up to aid in the investigation of the first two slayings. Billboards that included the dead girls' pictures urged people to be "secret witnesses" and said "no clue is too small." Police received hundreds of calls and letters, but the leads went nowhere. News articles about Carmen became less frequent as hopes for solving her slaying faded.

When Wanda's body was found, Carmen's case was reviewed. Again police said they found no concrete leads. Now the third slaying has Please turn page By BOB MINZESHEIMER Staff Writer Two years ago it was Carmen, then Wanda last April and yesterday Michelle. Like a grade-B movie repeating itself, the murders are gruesome and mysteriously similar. But reality haunts the dramatic touches: three Rochester girls, none older than 11, are dead.

The two earlier slayings of Carmen Colon, 10, and Wanda Walkowicz, 11, are unsolved despite widespread publicity, rewards offered for information and intensive police searches. The stock market rebounded with a gain of 22.05 points in the Dow Jones industrial average yesterday, though most brokers predicted the turnaround won't last. Yesterday's closing gain came in a late-afternoon rally. Earlier yesterday the Dow moved up 13 points, but that increase had evaporated by noon. Eastman Kodak, which had dropped 20 points since the slump began a month ago, gained 434 yesterday to close at 120.

Xerox, which had plunged 19 points, rose 4 to 1328. Details on page 10D. All three were reported to have been raped and strangled. Their bodies were found at the side of roads about 10 miles from their homes. And oddly, each had the same initials in her first and last name CC, WW and MM.

Special telephone lines and Map shows where Michelle and her coat were found. Your News At A Glance Victim Strangled; Found Near Road Local City investigators find Model Cities corporation authorized loan to failed business (IB). Chairman of Model Cities board blames mismanagement on city administration (IB). After Michelle Maenza, 11, was found dead yesterday, police suggested the same person may be responsible for all three siayings. All three girls were said to walking alone in the late afternoon within a few blocks of their homes when they disappeared.

The uncertainty has been fueled by fears the economy will slide into a recession next year, with the jobless rate going to 8 per cent. Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton tried to allay the fears at a news conference yesterday, saying the stock market "in its normal, oversensitive way is overreacting." Morton said that if the nation cooperates in the fuel conservation by the government measures announced by World A hideous crime, an editorial (10A). By GERALD GOLDBERG and JOHN McGINNIS Staff Writers Rochester police last night said they had no leads in the rape-slaying of 11-year-old Michelle Maenza, whose body was found yesterday in a ditch off a rural road in the Town of Macedon, Wayne County.

Michelle's fully-clothed body was found about 10:30 a.m. in a ditch along Eddy Road, about 70 yards east of Mill Road and about three-tenths of a mile west of Walworth-Palmyra Road. She died of strangulation by belt or some kind of rope, Monroe County Medical Examiner John F. Edland said last night. She was raped before New premier of Greece warns opponents that they will be "pushed without hesitation" (5A).

Three Arab hijackers release 11 hostages and surrender to police (5A). J. Paul Getty III reported held by kidnapers in Munich (5A). Capt. Andrew Sparacino, left, other police officials inspect Eddy Road area and body (circle).

National Fuel Shortage Impact Cloudy Energy crisis aboard Skylab declared minor, will have little effect on mission (3A). White House proposes emergency medical radio network i9A). White House lawyer reveals there are conversationless spots on some of subpoenaed tapes (12A). cent, and heating-space needs of industry 10 per cent. Only if the consumer bears the heaviest burden of the shortage can a recession be avoided, the economists concluded.

A decline in economic production is possible if industry is cut back any more, they say. Based on the studies, the economy will make a "soft from its high rate of growth earlier this year, slowing to an annual rate of Please turn to 3A State An anti-corruption unit in Albany Police Department recommended by state commission (6A). Syracuse University students lose court bid to keep university from collecting rent for temporary housing (8A). WASHINGTON (AP) A high-level government assessment of the fuel shortage's economic impact concludes that a recession can be avoided next year with proper fuel-allocation policies. Nixon Administration economists see the unemployment rate going up from its present 4.5 per cent but falling short of the 6 per cent rate forecast widely by private economists.

"There are some difficult days ahead on unemployment," said one government economist who worked on the government study. He refused to give a precise estimate but said the jobless rate would be under 6 per cent. The 1974 picture on inflation is cloudier. The economic slow-down expected next year will help moderate some price increases but fuel prices will probably advance sharply, the government economists believe. With the stock market in a tailspin, the administration will try to calm some of the uncertainty at a news conference today scheduled by Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

1 This Daring Duo Couldn't Do It People the government, "we will minimize the impact on jobs." There are no plans to step up unemployment pay because of the crisis, he said. After the Arab oil-producing nations cut off oil exports to the United States, the economic team began trying to assess the impact on the economy. As 3 result, the economists figured that gasoline production end consumption will have to be cut back 30 per cent, home-heating oil 15 per The White House has estimated that daylight saving time could lower demands for electricity and heating by as much as 3 per cent, especially in Northern states. In his news conference, Morton announced two steps his department has taken to increase the nation's fuel supplies over the long run: The leasing of six tracts masks, parked ran to the They got time, crashed each other to confusion to see what alarm. The two feet and ran They were Why was Merv Griffin on Channel 13 instead of the Afterschool Special? (1C).

Fashion designers in Paris are looking backward to get their styles (1C). NEW YORK (AP) Two would-be bank robbers, who literally fell over each other in their eagerness to get on with the job, lost both their balance and their nerve yesterday afternoon and got away with nothing. As bank officials tell the story, the abortive holdup took place at 1:40 p.m. at the Chemical Bank on Northern Boulevard in Flushing. The two bandits, both carrying shotguns and dressed for the occasion in stocking their car behind the bank and door.

to the door at exactly the same into each other, and nearly sent the ground. They caused so much that the bank employes looked up was happening and sounded an bumbling robbers struggled to their back to their car in panic. last seen speeding away. Sports she was killed, he said. Although it was difficult to' pinpoint the time of death, Edland said changes in the body indicated death could have occurred Monday, the day she was reported missing.

The body had marks around the neck, an arm and face. Michelle's killer is suspected by police of also having killed two other young girls. Carmen Colon, 10, of 746 Brown St. was found strangled in November 1971, and Wanda Walkowicz, 11, of 132 Avenue was also found strangled last April. Both girls had been sexually molested.

"The man who killed Wanda Walkowicz is responsible for this (Michelle's) murder," said Detective Lt. Anthony Fantigrossi, head of the physical crimes unit. "There's a strong possibility that he's also responsible for killing Carmen Colon." In addition to being raped and strangled, all of the bodies were found at the side of a road. Also, all of the girls disappeared sometime in the afternoon. Carmen was found in a ditch along Stearns Road in Riga and Wanda was found near the Irondequoit Bay Bridge in Webster.

Michelle had been reported missing Monday after leaving School 33 at 500 Webster Ave. She was last seen by classmates between 3:20 and 3:30 p.m. near Webster Avenue and Ackerman Street. Her body was found by Eugene VanDeWalle, fire chief of the Walworth Volunteer Fire Department. He was going to the home of Richard Stalker of 476 Eddy Road to take him to see a new fire truck.

He notified authorities on a two-way radio in his truck. The body was lying partially on its side and front, as though someone had rolled it down the side of the road, Fantigrossi said. Michelle's three quarter-Please turn page Israel an ultimatum to clear out of Jerusalem and all other occupied Arab land and restore Palestinian rights or face a new war. Israel already has made it known the future of Jerusalem is not negotiable. Arab political sources said the heads of state also decided to establish a "fighting fund" in case war again U.S.

to Sign Oil Men for Fuel Duty Energy crisis expected to affect travel of teams and individuals in sports (ID). Lancers general manager John Petrossi says coach Sal DaRosa has been rehired for the 1974 soccer season (ID). Phil Johnson named coach of Kansas City-Omaha Kings of National Basketball Association (ID) MICHELLE MAENZA missing since Monday Chili Man Slain; Put in Car By CHUCK FREADIIOFF Staff Writer The body of a Rochester area construction worker was found in the trunk of his car late yesterday afternoon, apparently the victim of a gangland slaying. Vincent "Jimmy" Massaro, 45, of 93 Meadowbrook Farms North, Chili, was found in the trunk of a 1972 Ford, parked in front of 203 Atkinson St. He had been shot in the head five times, police said.

"We have a gangland slaying on our hands, there's no question of that," said Detective Lt. Anthony Fantigrossi, heal of the physical crimes unit of the Rochester Police Department. The Monroe County Medical Examiner's office said an autopsy is scheduled today. Massaro was an equipment operator and a reputed "strong arm" for the Bar-Mon Construction 400 Western Drive. Massaro was last seen Friday night, Fantigrossi said.

About 5:30 p.m. Massaro received a call and while talking said, "I'll straighten that son-of-a-bitch out," then hung up and told Rosie Rotondi, who lives at the same address, he would be back in an hour. Miss Rotondi reported him missing Sunday. Police were called to 203 Atkinson St. yesterday about 4 p.m.

by a woman complaining of an abandoned auto, authorities said. Fantigrossi said the car was first seen parked at thai Financial Rochester Telephone will probaby increase it rates within 2V2 years. (10D) Gold soars a record $9 an ounce in London. (10D) moved closer yesterday toward final congressional approval of year-round daylight saving time. Its passage of a two-year bill, which cleared the House Tuesday on a 311-88 vote, is expected later 'his week.

Unlike the House bill, which exempted Hawaii, the Senate version would give the President discretionary authority to exempt any state or region. Arabs to Wire Service ALGIERS Arab leaders, continuing to use their oil resources as a political weapon, decided yesterday to classify their oil customers into nations that are friendly, neutral or hostile to the Arabs and to supply or deny them energy according to which list they go on. A resolution at the summit meetine of 16 headof state. of federal lands, two each in Colorado. Wyoming and Utah, for commercial develooment of oil from shale, a type of rock.

Asked the Justice Department to take the final legal steps in preparation for issuing federal permits to build the long-delayed trans-Alaska oil pipeline. He said the pipeline permits Please turn to 4A the United States and the Netherlands, was extended yesterday to include South Africa, Portugal and Rhodesia. The Arab nations also decided to break diplomatic relations with those three African countries. The moptins? also cirj Wire Services WASHINGTON Interior Secretary C. B.

Morton said yesterday petroleum executives will be called to government service in December as the administration prepares to exercise wide-ranging control over the nation's fuel distribution. Morton said he still hopes direct gasoline rationing can be avoided, but he said the expertise of the industry executives is needed "in petroleum distribution planning" for the next six months. Morton said about 250 executives will be recruited to become "special government employes" early in December. Their company will pay them. The House Commerce Committee yesterday completed its hearings on legislation to 1 give President Nixon emergency powers to impose rationing, speed limits and shorter work-davs to save the nation's fuel and keep the energy shortage from creating an economic recession.

The Senate jjneanwhile 1 List Who's Naughty, Nice Oil will be supplied based on rating Bccney HC Buchwald 11C Comics 11C Crossword 11C Deaths 4C Editorials 10A Financial MOD HELP! IB Jumble 11C Landers 11C Snorts 1-7D Theaters 3C TV 2C Want Ads 4-10C which ended yesterday, said production cutbacks would be set at a point where producer countries would lose no more than a quarter of their income. At the same time, the oil embargo against countries that support Israel, oych as "You'll never believe this but there's a cigar-shaped obirj." 4 NEWS SECTIONS.

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