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i 101ST YEAR FINAL top of the news weather VOL 135 NO. 311 TUCSON, ARIZONA, MONDAY, NOVEKR 7, 1977 15 CENTS 30 PAGES MOSTLY SUNNY. The forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of showers in the morning, bat it should be mostly sunny by afternoon: The high is expected to be near 10 with the overnight tow in the mid 40s. Yes. terdays high and tow were 00 and 48.

Details on Pas4A. local mm BACK TO SCHOOL. Twenty-year-old Tucsonan Jay McGray is going back to school. But Instead of getting an education, McGratb will be trying to get a Professional Golf Association tour card IS (QJ 2) at the fall qualifying school in later this week. Page IB.

anzona i COCHISE FARM STRIKE. "I'm a nut I tike to watch those little seeds come out of 'the ground," said Jim Breckenridge, a farmer in McNeaL But the price of farming keeps going up, and prices paid for farm products aren't keeping pace, leading Breckenridge and many like him in Cochise County to consider Joining a national farm strike. Page IB. Prosecutor says case still opsn By BOB LOWE The Artasa Dally Star PHOENIX Max Dunlap and James Robison were convicted yesterday of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the bombing death of Phoenix Investigative reporter Don Bolles. But the case is still open, investigators say.

The chief prosecutor in the case, Assistant Attorney General William Schafer III, said prosecutors and Investigators would continue studying the Bolles murder for evidence against others. "It's an open file, and we will continue working on it," he said. The chief investigator In the Bolles murder, Phoenix police Detective Jon Sellers, said, "We have more information as a national i- ii in la-gftj WORKING PARENTS. Children whose parents both work and who consequently spend part of each day with baby sitters can grow up Just as well adjusted as children whose mothers stay home all day, a psychologist says, because working mothers "really want to spend quality time with their children." Page SA. UPCHURCH AND HART HAVE FUN.

Rich Upcburch sets a club record in returning five punts for 167 yards, including one for an 87-yard touchdown, as Denver mauls the Pittsburgh Stealers Page 2B. URBAN POLICY. Recommendations for re-evaluating federal programs for aid to urban areas are drafted by a Cabinet-level panel, with emphasis on creating Jobs for the poor and giving cities strong incentives to cooperate better on land use, transportation and other center-city concerns. Pag "MR. NEW YEAR'S EVE." Guy Lorn-bardo's longtime image as "Mr.

New Year's Eve," and the fact that Ms band-leading career continued for more than 40 years after he ceased to be an innovative taste-maker in popular music, obscure the fact that be brought a fresh and distinctive approach to popular dance music in the late 1920s. Page MA. Debris lies scattered over a large area after dam burst brought a 30-foot wall of water hi Qs. mm burnt mfles 'fromldaa, back lb- Frwo Win Servicer TOCCOA. Ga.

At least 37 persons, most of them students and their families asleep at a small Bible college, died early yesterday when an earthen dam burst and sent a 30-foot wall of water smashing global through the campus. PRELATE FREED. Israel frees Greek Catholic Archbishop Hilarkra Capudji from prison and deports him to Italy after a plea by Pope Paul VI on behalf of the convicted weapons smuggler. The prelate, who served three years of a 12-year sentence for running weapons to Palestinian guerrillas, is greeted in Rome by papal and Palestinian The breakup of the dam at about 1:30 a.m. sent tons, of water over 186-foot-high Toccoa Falls onto the lower campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College, where some 250 people lived in dormitories, houses and mobile homes at the foot of the falls.

gram to nL2 teaf? Toccoa and surrounding Stephens County be formally declared a major disaster area because of damage to private and public property and expected expenses of cleaning up and The breakup of the dam came after two days of torrential rains. The skies in north-em Georgia were partly cloudy yesterday, and at times a bright sun shone down on the devastated campus. But Busbee said the forecast last night for the Toccoa area and most of north Georgia was for more rain, and be said that "every dam in north Georgia is being tared tonight by the federal Soil Conservation Service." Toccoa Falls Bible College is a 450tu-dent, non-denominational facility operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Nyack, N.Y. It trains ministers and mission-' aries. The school was closed for a week.

lower floors of several of its dormito- riei suffered extensive water damage, though most of the residents escaped. "We are not in a position to carry on," Kenn Opperman, the college's president announced, terming the disaster "an act beyond our comprehension." "The worst thing is that we had all been praying real hard recently for a revival of our said Dan Secord, a 25-year-old junior. "Now this. Can you believe that creek was once just a little bubbling brook?" College officials said the dam was built about 35 years ago to provide the school with water, electricity and recreation. They reported that maintenance men had visited the dam three days ago to check on repairs to a road that crossed it However; they insisted that the repairs had nothing to do with the dam's structural integrity.

Asked when the dam was last inspected (See 17 DIE, Page OA) acre Keiley Barnes Lake. Waterlogged mattresses, battered window frames and dozens of uprooted trees littered the banks of the swollen Bill Stacy, 19. who lived with Us parents in a trailer, said, "I heard a bunch of people screaming and hollering. There was this terrible screeching noise the trailers were all over the place some floating, some just came apart." Rosalynn Carter, who was informed of the disaster when she and the president attended church services in Washington, flew by government jet and helicopter to Toccoa. "It's indescribable; it's a terrible tragedy," Carter said after touring the campus.

i "Jimmy wanted me to come here and express his concern and to teD them the federal government will do all it can to cooperate," she said. Gov. George Bus bee said he sent a tit- Thw tlve key figures in the Bolles murder trial and what has happened to them. Page IB. result of the trial, and that gives us more avenues to pursue other conspirators." Sellers said, however, that be expected no immediate arrests.

The verdicts ended six days of occasionally heated deliberations by the jury and climaxed a 10-week trial for the two men, arrested early mis year in the June 2, 1976 bombing of Bolles. "We the jury do find the defendant James Robison guilty of murder," the clerk said as he read the first of four counts against the defendants. The verdict against Dunlap, a Phoenix contractor, brought a collective gasp from his wife and six of his children who occupied a bench in the courtroom. "This isn't justice," sobbed Dunlap's' eldest daughter, Pam, as Us wife, Barbara, wrapped her arms around her; "We were railroaded," cried another daughter. Superior Court Judge Howard Thompson said over the wailing of the Dunlap family that the two defendants would be sentenced Dec 6.

A presentence hearing was set for Dec. 5. i Both men face a possible death penalty for their roles in the murder. Robison, SS, a Chandler plumber, and Dunlap, 48, were arrested Jan. IS after John Adamson confessed to placing the bomb that killed Bolles and implicated Robison as the man who helped build and detonate the bomb and Dunalp as the man who paid for the slaying.

Throughout the trial, both men main-tained their innocence and painted Adamson as a liar, who was implicating them to save Us own life and to protect those who were responsible for Bolles' death. Adamson, a former tow truck operator -and dog breeder, admitted planting the bomb under Bolles' car. He confessed to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in jail rather than to death In exchange for testifying against others. Both defendants listened to the verdicts with little emotion. Dunlap asked to speak with his family, but a deputy replied, "No, not now." As Robison's guilty verdicts were read, the stocky plumber merely glanced up at the jury with a frown of surprise and then moved his gaze to the judge.

"That's the be said to an attorney. Dunlap, too, showed little surprise and, as the Individual jurors were polled, watched Us children. Immediately after the reading of the verdicts, Robison's David Derkk-. son, said he would ask for a new trial "based on error committed during the tri- (See DUNLAP, Page 2A)' officials. Page 7A.

Surviving students at the college prayed i AEROMEXICO STRIKE. Mexico's larg- at an emotional service later yesterday est airline, the government-owned Aero- while law enforcement officers and civil mexico, cancels all flights after ground- defense workers searched the debris for workers strike for higher wages. Page 2A. bodies in the small northeast Georgia town. Authorities said two persons still were missing last night More than 40 had been comment Kenny Carroll of Washington, one of the EDITORIALS.

Gov. Wes Bolm's request few to escape from the basement of a men's for the resignation of Department of Eco- dormitory, said: "The Lord woke me up an Domic Security Director John Huerta is too instant before the water came in. much cronyism by a caretaker governor reached over from my bed and was University Of Arizona President John trying to shut the door, but the water forced P. Schaefer may have learned some lessons fror open," Carroll added. "When I got in diplomacy with the Legislature.

Page out of bed, the water was already a foot HA. Ugh. we ran up the stairs and by the time we got there the whole basement was filled Sequestered for 72 days Jury siloirrt on deliberations index 'Bridge 15B up. It Just happened in Ave or six seconds." Dave Hinkle, a student from Syracuse, N.Y., said a wave 30 feet high and 40 feet Maviei 11A wile Pured into the secondetory windows MBeeardi of the men's dormitory. The four-story ia building was extensively damaged, and i eight or nine permanent faculty houses in Tnesss) Today IA the area were destroyed.

TV-Radto 1SB Bodies were found as far away as two MB H-13A 1U Lifestyle between then and yesterday afternoon, none of the jurors contacted by the Arizona Daily Star would talk about. "We had some things to work out," said Manuel Sauceda. "I can't really disclose anything. All I can say is that the whole thing took five and a half days," said jury foreman Larry Trimmer. "What we did is strictly the jury's business," said Bruce Truby.

They kept regular working hours while they deliberated, breaking up by 5:30 p.m. to accommodate an elderly diabetic juror who needed a regular diet and sleep. But yesterday they (See JURORS, Page 2A) By BOB LOWE i The Arisen DaBy Star PHOENIX For a state-record 72 days, they built model ships, pieced together jigsaw puzzles, pedaled a stationary bicycle for exercise and, above all, waited. In between the secretive meals out and the projects to keep themselves busy, the Jurors in the trial of the Don Bolles murder case listened to an astounding number of witnesses. But after the testimony, which began July 11, the hard part was still to come.

It began Tuesday when the eight men and four women' retired to a small jury room in the modern courthouse to dissect the case, witness by witness and exhibit by exhibit Then, on Friday, the first ballot was taken and as one juror recalled, the vote was "pretty divided." What took place Polls muddy waters on mail cut issue The study group's recommendation was based on a poll it commissioned by the A. C. Nielsen organization. Nielsen asked a random sampling of Americans if they would be willing be forgo the sixth day of deliveries if would help hold down postal rates. Some 70 percent answered yes.

The poo and the recommendation based on it were immediately attacked in Congress and by postal unions which maintained the move would throw some 20,000 persons outofwork. Faced with the cuuUoveisy. the Postal Service decided to pay for more surveys before reaching a decision. i 1'" I I WASHINGTON (AP) The Postal Service is facing conflicting results from a series of national polls designed to show if the pubbc wants to continue receiving mail on Saturday. So far, thrse puUte opinion surveys have been taken and each shows mat about 80 percent of those polled say they could do without Saturday delivery.

But two of the three poOs indicated many Americans Osapprove of the proposed termination of service. Less than half of those questioned the two poOs said they support such a service cutback. "We are sail studying the results and we have not made up our minds one way or the other," Deputy Postmaster General WiQiam Botger said an Interview. Boiser repeated the Postal Service posi-tka mat it is wCing to provide any tervlce the puttie wants and is wEJng to Ending Saturday dehvery would save the mafl agency an ertmated $412 mCton per The debate over Saturday delivery was tricered by a report issued April by the Commission oa Postal Service, a study group created by Congress to make recommendations about the nation's matt service. One reccwMadation was to cut back deliveries from the present six days per week to five days.

Two additional surveys, by Decision Making Inc. and Opinion Research were commissioned. Each one came out with almost identical results on the question asKeo oy raetseo. But on the question of if they approved opening Saturday delivery, Dedskm Making toe reported 45 percent of the respondents said yes, and Opinion Research Corp. reported 4t percent The disapproval figures were 35 and 37 percent, respectively, with Ibe rest undecided.

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