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Member of the Associated Press 5 Zoning Panel OKs Youth Foster Center A I I Sitka Alaska Wednesday, 1977 The long struggle to bring a short-term foster care center to Sitka got a shot in the arm Tuesday night when the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a Marine Street residence to house the center. Despite a petition by nearby those needing custodial or psychiatric care. Probation officer Linda Zaug estimated she would refer one to three children per month to the center, usually for only a few days at a time, while she conferred with their parents to smooth the way for them to go residents complaining that the home or while she found other proposed site is too small, the accomodations for them, its commission threw its support behind Youth Advocates, a nonprofit corporation seeking to use the three-bedroom house at 417 Marine Street as a shelter for young persons who otherwise might have to stay in jail while of property argued that the small house would not offer enough living space for five children and a pair of foster parents, and would force the children back into the streets, but afraid the center would lower and counselors iron out family problems or minor infractions of thejr property YouTh Advocates President support behind the project. Rodger Robison said the center The Sitka Assembly is would house up to five young scheduled to vote on the proposal persons at a time for a maximun at its meeting next Tuesday, of 60 days each. He said it would Youth Advocates is accepting serve as a home for "disturbed or applications for foster parents to troubled" children, but not for live in the house.

2nd Body Is Found In Area of Air Crash YAKUTAT, Alaska, (APJ -The body of a second woman has been found northeast of this Gulf of Alaska community that last week was the hub of a search for survivors of a plane crash. Alaska State Troopers said searchers, found the body early Monday oh a beach on Krutoi Island. That speck of land in Yakutat Bay is within two miles of Knight Island, where Ihe body of Barbara Crites, 29, iff! Portland, was found early Vjlst week. Ms. Crites was a passenger on the twin-engine Cessna 410 tliat disappeared over Yakutat on Aug.

27 with seven Oregon and Colorado residents aboard. The plane vanished after the pilot reported that he had lost an engine south of Yakulat. The second body was transported to Juneaii for positive idenliDcation, a trooper spokesman said Tuesday. Coast Guard spokesman Dave Cipra in Juneau said search and rescue officials were in contact with troopers about the latest discovery. He said there had been no discussion of reopening the search for survivors of the crash, believed to have occurred at sea.

But be said the search could resume if the coroner determines from the condition of the body "that it was a surviveable crash." "If she survived the crash, then there's a possibility that others survived it, too," he "And then, we.wo.uld look into the possibility of reopening the search." Andrus Wants to Set Aside 92 Million Acres in State WASHINGTON (AP) Inte- -Wild and scenic rior Secretary Cecil Andrus will million acres, recommend preserving 92.8 million acres of land in Alaska rivers, 2 preserves would block future development in Alaska by preventing oil and gas drilling, mining and lumbering In major Carter to Back Plan For Canadian Pipeline GOVERNOR LISTENS Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond listens to discussion on at the Western States Governors Conference last week in Anchorage. Hammond said today that recommendations of the' Governor's Management and Efficiency. Review saved the state $50 million last fiscal year. Wirephoto) ident Carter is ready to recommend to Congress a pipeline route across Canada for transporting Alaska natural gas to the lower 48 states, rejecting a dustry sources said today.

The President will announce his decision on Thursday after meeting with Canadian Prime Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the sources said. highway. One branch would bring the gas to the Pacific Northwest, another to the upper Midwest. U.S. and Canadian negotiators announced a tentative decision to build such a pipeline last Friday in Ottawa.

Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger Kidnapers Demand Release of 14 Prisoners Suspect Is Arraigned In Hiker Deaths The names of the 14 jailed extremists were not given, lawyers say about 45 persons are serving jail terms or being held in investigative custody By EUGEN VIET1NGHOFF Associated Press Writer COLOGNE, West Germany (AP) Terrorists holding industrialist Harms Martin Schleyer have demanded release of for terrorism in West Germany. 14 jailed extremists, $650,000 in Niemoeller spent time in Nazi ransom money and a flight to concentration camps for take the freed prisoners to a preaching resistance to Adolf country of their choice, West Hitler. Since the war, he has German security sources said became a 1 prominent member today. of the Committee for Freedom, A government announcement Disarmament and Cooperation BARROW (AP) A 19-year- read on a television news pro- a group which has been criti- old Eskimo was arraigned gram Tuesday indicated the cized for its Communist affilia- Tuesday on charges of first-de- kidnapers were also demanding tions.

gree murder in the shotgun a "public hv the demands were made by a group calling itself the "Commando Hausner" in a letter received Tuesday evening by the Federal Criminal Office in Wiesbaden. The sources said the kidnapers warned that their the demand for the release of demands must be met by this prisoners, afternoon. Hausner is the name of a German terrorist who died in a 1975 attack on the West Ger- Plane Lost With 13 Aboard Hear Anchorage mm mm AI VII A nrM FROM SOUTH KOREA: statement" by the slayings of two California back- government, packers who died in a tent According pitched on the Arctic coast. The federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe annnounced, meanwhile, that authorities have freed two persons taken Carter May Ask Return of Businessman to the security sources, the terrorists demanded tliat 85-year-old Ger- into custody in connection with Barrow Magistrate Charlotte man theologian Pastor D. Mar- the attack Monday in which WASHINGTON (A?) -Pres- ment from Congress Sovalik, tin and an unnamed Schleyer's chauffeur and three ident Carter may personally A ty Gen public of Korea" and the United Nations official accom- bodyguards were killed and the ask South Korea's president to TMP regime the ner," was being held in lieu of me flignt But lt was industrialist was abducted, return fugitive businessman day a i the wumg clear whether the kidnapers Those suspects never Tongsun Park to the United unsealed a 36-count teiony be on the plane identified.

States to face trial The security sources said the spiracy to buy friendly treat- Brower said Tommy described by police as a ner," was being held in $50,000 bond on both counts. The bodies of Gregory Underwood, 28, of San Francisco, and Donna L. Hendcrshot, 32, of San Rafael, were found on the beach that borders. North America's northernmost' community Aug. 29.

Police say the victims, who had been touring in Alaska for a month, apparently died Aug. 23 at their campsite near 'the' "shooting station," a popular duck hunt- UMy vu from prjson mg today on parole after serving 52'A Police earlier ruled'out' rob- months, more time than anyone bery as a motive, but said Sola- else convicted in the case, yik allegedly killed the backpackers to steal "a small.item." dicbnent that charges in- Park G. Gordon Liddy Is Released After 52 Months Behind Bars DANBURY Conn. CAP) tained the household in Oxon University of Maryland. take official action and make decisions favorable to the Republic of Korea" and the Park indictment said.

Former Rep. Richard T. Henna, was named an unindicted co-conspirator and was described as Park's side- kick and chief adviser on who should receive the bribes. cial details of the alleged South Korean scheme to lavish money and other gifts on certain members of Congress in exchange for their efforts to promote South Korean interests. Bell said he wants Carter to often is a person who has coop era ted with the prosecution.

However, Benjamin R. Civiletti, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said Hanna was not cooperating in the investigation. --National forests, 1.6 million acres. for national parks, wildlife ref- Sources who have seen Andrus' of the state, uges, wild rivers and national proposal said the breakdown was opponents arg7ed th9 sotai forests, sources said Wednes- accurate. opv.o5w.nnm.., large: day.

The proposal, scheduled to be ald the preserves wo; block Andrus' proposal, which has presented to Congress on Sept.16, future development Alaska not been made public, is ex- epresents the biggest land by preventing oil and gas drill- pected to trigger a major envi- dispute ot this decade between in B' mBning and lumbering ronmental battle in Congress developers and ma i or Portions of the state, this fall. Its recommendations It a rted with then-interior Environmentalists seek prefer Alaska lands: secretary Rogers Morton servatlon of an even greater -National parks, 42.6 million recomme nded 83.2 million acres area recommended by the acres. be preserved. Interior Department. --National wildlife refuges, One major difference be- game ranges and wildlife pre- Opponents argued this amount tween Andrus and the environ- serves, 46.6 million acres.

was too large. They said the mentalists is in Southeast Alaska, where conservation organizations sought 5 million acres of "instant wilderness," to be created by preserving five areas within the 18 million- acre Tongass National Forest. Andrus rejected that proposal, but called for 1.6 million WASHINGTON (AP) Pres- has said for some time that the acres to be added to the Tong- administralion prefers the ass and Chugach national for- mainland Canadian route if it esls. can be shown to be more eco- In addition, 'Andrus 1 proposal nomlcal to consumers. calls for 800,000 acres of Admi- The expected decision is a rally Island to be declared a proposal for an "all-American victory for the Northwest Pipe- wilderness preserve, a classl- route," congressional and In- line the principal spon- fication that would permit con- sor of the Canadian route.

A tlnued sport hunting. Envlron- Texas firm, El Paso Gas, had mentalists wanted the entire 1 proposed the rival "all-Ameri- million-acre island preserved, can plan." Andrus' proposal is being re- Under this scheme, gas would viewed by the Office of Man- be moved along a new gas agement and Budget, and could The $10 billion pipeline would pipeline paralleling the existing be altered before being sent to bring natural gas from Prudhoe trans-Alaska oil pipeline, then Congress. Bay in Alaska to Fairbanks, liquefied in Southern Alaska In addition, some 6 million then cut across Canada roughly and shipped tankers to the acres of the lands in Andrus' along the route of the' Alcan U.S. West Coast. proposal could be claimed by An aide to Sen.

Ted Stevens, Alaska natives, a move which R-Alaska, a key backer of the would shrink the total acreage. all-American route, said today The lands under dispute are that there still has been no for- so-called. D-2 lands. The term mal word from the White derives from a section of the House on the President's deci- Alaska Native Claims Act of sion. "We are still hopefuV the 1971, which, among.

aide said, requires the govern- However, other congressional mment to designate how feder- sources said that the adminis- al lands and waters in Alaska tration had decided against the are to be used. all-Alaskan route. Morton's 1973 proposal called A spokesman for Northwest for national parks, 32.2 million Pipeline Corp. said the firm, acres; wildlife refuges, 31.6 which was predicting last week million; national forests, 18.8 that it would get the adminis- million, and wild rivers, 800,000 tration's nod during Trudeau's acres, visit to Washington this week, man Embassy in Stockholm. late Tuesday and would reach said It would be a great sur- The government announce- the federal government "only prise if Carter announced any ment Tuesday night indicated by late evening, and the dead- other route, that the kidnapers' statement line for the public statement Under a 1976 law dealing with would be made public.

But you desire therefore cannot be the pipeline, Congress has 60 there was no confirmation of met." days after the President makes his recommendation to either Chief Fe'deral Prosecutor disapprove it or let it stand. The announcement, read at Kurt Rebmann has said the Hearings" already have been the start of an evening news kidnaping appeared to be the scheduled by the Senate Energy program, said the kidnapers' work of of the Committee on the decision for ransom letter reached police "Haag-Mayer gang." later in the month. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Military and civilian aircraft were expected to join in the search today for a commercial twin-engine plane missing on a. flight from Iliamna to Anchorage with 13 persons aboard. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said a full-scale search was being mounted by the Air Force and An unindicted co-conspirator the Civilian Air Patrol following the disappearance of a DeHavilland twin Otter owned, by Alaska Aeronautical Industries.

The last word from the plane was half an hour after takeoff from Iliamna, 160 miles south- They refused to identify that item. Angoon Victim Rescued A helicopter based at Coast Guard Air Station, Sitka, today evacuated Kenneth Frank, 22, near Washington, on her salary as an elementary school teacher and raised five teen-agers. "He's in good spirits, very strong, just the same as Liddy, who had been prisoner wavs said Mrs. 25106-145A, walked out of the The one-time counsel to for- Maroulis, Liddy looked forward to getting home and spending time with his family. Reporters got a glimpse of al- Liddy on Tuesday when he was driven in shackles from Danat e- bury by federal marshals to More Hat in Ring Two former directors of the west of Anchorage at the base Korean Central Intelligence of the Alaska Peninsula, added the spokesman.

He said initial reports of signals from an emergency locator beacon about 65 miles west Kun amiige te Tangnin Park would cooper- today. Everson is the fourth candidate to file for the two lonoio Tongsun Park, a rice dealer assembly seats to be filled in the i i Federal er President Richard Nixon's VVilliamsport7 where" he and Washington social figure, is Oct 4 election. Correctional Institution at 9:36 re committee has swore at a ore-release pauper's "now a fugitive from American Others nominated for office in Agency, Kirn Hyung-wcok and Lee Hu-rak, also were named unindicted co-conspirators and were accused of handling the Korean end of the scheme. n. Everson has filed for Throughout the period of the to the Sitka City and alleged conspiracy Park acted plane.

The signals were traced BoTough 'Assembly Scipal as In agent'of the South Ko- to a a whether Clerk Myrtle Flynn reported violated of Anchorage had turned out to. to the i irtriv a al 18 mon1hs for his refusal to He a PP eared thinner than A rnm Wfl Mr Ku I' under i i to a when he entered prison on Jan. Park disappeared from Wash- mamtamed the household on her Wa 30, 1973 A beard he had grown ington when the congressional presj prison bee shaved, but dent Carter ordered the sen- he still had his moustache. His te to BXl of eight years, making Liddy back salary as an elementary schoo acler whlle ra rjrOWn UrOWH the law when ter as a foreign agent, the plained, grand jury charged. Ironically, the money for the rt A rein alleged bribes came, not from OITrxQ Korea, but from U.S.

rice Thursday 5:08 a.m. Low Tide 5:10 p.m. HighTide 11:08 p.m. Courtesy of ALASKA FEDERAL LOAN 9 She burned in a boat fire. Frank was rushed to Mt.

Edgecumbe Hospital, where he is reported to be in a serious condition with 35 per cent of his try, Neither Bell nor Civiletti would predict whether other indictments would be sought against Hanna, the 28 other present and former House and Senate members who were list- as assisting or receiving 1.4 6.9 3.9 S.2 photographers into the prison to greet her His oldest daughter, Sandy, was 13 years plans were, old when the aborted burglary at the Democratic National We're just looking forward Committee headquarters in But at his hearing in Williamsport, he said in a firm voice that he had a number of job scandal began developing. He arrived in Seoul about a week ago after spending the past ANCHORAGE (AP) Two year in London. persons drowned in Kwethluk TDnesun Park whose George- during Labor Day weekend, towSTKs were the taft: of Alaska State Troopers said money from others yet the Washington social set, was the pivotal figure in a con- to bribe members of bodies of Madroana Fish- "We're in the season and Forecast Mostly cloudy toaay witn a slight chance for showers. High today to be near 59 with a bodv covered with second degree to having him home," said his Washington took place in 1972. offers both within and outside A CrVm if i i ol iirlnn nt (Virt tVi Tnilrvl QioifK; burns.

wife, Frances, who has main- She is now 18, a student at Ihe the United States. purpose, of inducing them Harry Arrelexie, 21, we'll have to see what the har- 0 tonight near 50. of were recovered from the vest will bring," Bell said. took for more cloudy weather he Kwethluk River on Monday, a "The investigation is contin- tomorrow with temperatures In to spokesman said. uing." the 50's..

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