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Motorcycle gang shoots rivals on Florida road Idaho Free Press The News-Tribune, Saturday, 1, 1972--5 DURHAM, N.C. (UPI) -A local motorcycle gang called the "Storm Troopers" ambushed and killed two members of a Florida gang and six other persons Friday night in gunbattle on busy Interstate Highway 85, authorities said. Two of the wounded were motorists caught in the gunfire. The dead and live of injured persons were member of the Florida-based "Pagans." One Storm Trooper also was In- jured. ''It sounded like machine guns," said Rush Paula Roebuck, of Miami, a member of the Pagans caught in a van riddled with dozens of bullet holes.

Miss Roebuck said the Pagans never got to use their guns. But Sheriff Marvin Davis disputed the statement. "It was set up by the Storm Troopers," Davis daid. "They started it. Not too much of the shooting was done by the Pagans.

It was both an ambush and a Shootout." Miss Roebuck said she and five other Pagans were in a van traveling north to Washington, B.C., when a fellow member, riding a motorcycle, pulled up and shouted: "The Storm troopers are coming, they've got guns." She said they spotted a Storm Trooper driving behind them Chess match ready for Sunday opening REYKJAVIK (UPI) If Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spas- sky in the championship match starting here Sunday, he will become the second American to rule as world champion. A victory for Spassky, the ruling world champion from the Soviet Union of the game has lasted since 1927 when Alexander Aljechin took the title away from the legendary Jose Raoul Capablanca of Cuba. F.A. Philidor, a French composer of many talents, became knowr. as the world's best chess player in the middle of the 18th century.

But the world title was not introduced until 1851 when Adolf Anderssen, a 30-year-old German professor, won the first major international tournament in London and was given the title. He lost it seven years later to America'sfirstandonlyworld champion, Paul Morphy, who at 21 won eight games and lost three in his battle with Anderssen. While he was still recognized as world champion he stopped playing anddisappearedfromthe chess scene. He died at the age of 47. After Murphy came suchplay- ers asWilhelmSteinitzofCzech- oslovakia--the first universally recognized world champion-Emanuel Lasker ofGermanyand Capablanca, the Cuban who learned to play when he was four years old and became in the eyes of many experts the world's greatest ever chess player.

He finally lost his title to Aljechin. Aljechin, a Russian living in exile in Paris, ruled as champion from 1927 to his death in Portugal in 1946 with the exception of two years from 1935 when Alax Euwe, a Dutch teacher, held the title. He took it from the Russian but lost it again to him in the return match. After Aljechin's death the World Chess Federation (FIDE) organized a title tournament involving the world's srx leading players. Reuben Fine of the United Stateshadbeennominated to play but could not participate.

Michail Botvinnik won the tournament and the title and became the first in an unbroken string of Russian champions, which included VassilySmyslov, Michael Tal, Tigran Petrosian and Spassky. ana tried to turn into an exit. But the exit was blocked by a pick-up truck with at least three Storm Troopers Inside. "They jumped out and opened fire," she s.iid. She said she passed out, then regained consciousness and saw her friends 'Vere lying all around It was just terrible." Durham County police arrested three suspects in a pickup truck a half hour Jater and a fourth suspect was" arrested by the Durham County sheriff's Department One of the suspects, William Gordon Lamb of Durham, was described by Sheriff Marvin Davis as "a known member of the Storm Troopers." Davis said officers found a .45 caliber semi-automatic carbine, a .30 caliber Ml carbine, a sawed-off shotgun and a single shot muzzle loading Pistol in the pickup, in addition to a pistol Lamb was carrying.

The van was riddled with about 40 bullet holes, including about 10 on the driver's side of the windshield. The driver was not killed, however. The victims were Identified by fellow Pagan members as Lance Albert Burger, 32, and Donald Thomas Scruggs, both of Florida. Among the injured were Henry Smith, 37, of Durham and Johnny Burwell, 63, of Franklinton, both- motorists on I 85. Both were admitted to nearby hospitals for gunshop wounds.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has awarded a $466,600, grant to the University of Minnesota for the first year of a proposed two-year study of solar energy as a new source of power. Shown is a diagram of how the "solar farms" will gather energy. (UPI Photo) Youths Execution witness remembers it well FBI AGENTS guide handcuffed John Petlikowsky, an unemployed house painter, to arraignment in Detroit Friday on charges of aiding and abetting armed air piracy. He is allegedly involved with Martin" McNally, the Navy veteran who hijacked a plane and bailed out near Peru, tod. McNally was caught in Detroit last week.

(UPI Photo) Ombudsman idea will aid nursing homes in valley head for festival GRANBY, Colo. (UPI) Youths streaming to Granby for what has been billed as a religious "gathering of (he tribes" lost their final court battle Friday but won the war when officials decided to let them hike 1G miles to the mountain site in peace. An estimated 3,000 youths began the hike only moments after District Judge Don Lorenz refused to grant a temporary restraining order to reopen the access road and keep the state and county from enforcing public health regulations adopted specifically to head off the festival. The American Civil Liberties Union had sought the order on behalf of the festival sponsors, the Oregon based Rainbow Family of Living Light. But officials, even before learning of the decision, decided to let the youths walk up to the camp because the situation in the staging areas in the small town of Granby had become "intolerable." The officials still did not permit motor vehicle traffic on the road, however, counting on the arduous trek to discourage some of the youths from attending the gathering.

"Five thousand is a lot different than 144,000," GrandCounty Attorney Richard Doucette said. Festival organizers had predicted the high figure would arrive over the July 4 weekend although only perhaps a thousand have been camped throughout the week. A physician who volunteered his vacation time to look after the youths, Dr. Kcnnelli Osgood, said health conditions were acceptable at the site. DENVER (UPI)-Luis Jose Monge, 48, died strapped to the metal chair in Colorado's gas a blindfolded and clutching a rosary, June 2,1967.

The Monge execution was the United States' last before (lie Supreme Court outlawed death penalties Thursday as cruel and unusual punishment. Monge, condemned to die because he bludgeoned to death his wife and son, stabbed a daughter, to death and strangled another son, resisted all efforts to save him from the gas chamber. He dismissed his attorneys and said lie wanted to be hanged at high noon. Newswriter Robert E. Cox of the San Diego, Union, covered the Monge execution as a reporter for United Press International.

He said it "took only minutes, but to me it seemed like hours." "I remember he was pale when he sat down in the gas chamber chair," Cox said in a telephone interview. "A couple of guards strapped him into the chair. He was blindfolded then. He was dressed in a pair of shorts and canvas shoes." A hush settled, Cox said, PS the convicts, including the fur on death row who had waved goodbye to Monge minutes before waited to hear the trap doors open below the chair and drop the cyanide pellets. "All of a sudden, there was Famed sailor claimed okay LONDON (UPI) Sir Francis Chichester's son boarded Ms father's sailboat off the coast of France today and described the 71 year old yatchtsman as "spritely and cheerful." Giles Chichester, 25, boarded the ketch Gypsy Moth in time for breakfast with his adventurer father after being airlifted to the British frigate HMS Salisbury, patrolling the Atlantic off France.

The frigate was dispatched to the area amid reports Chichester was ailing. The plan was to put Giles aboard the Gipsy Moth to persuade Ms father to return to Plymouth on the frigate, leaving a volunteer team of navy yachtsmen to sail the ketch home. A Navy surgeon was to examine Chichester, who has dropped out of the Observer transatlantic single-handed race because of illness. Chichester, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1967 for his single- handed voyage around the world, race against do tor's orders. He had been suffering from a blood diseasi that affects bone marrow produces anemia.

He sailed Juae 17. this resounding bang when the trap doors dropped and the pills went into the acid. fumes rose. There was groaning (from Monge). He seemed to struggle quite a bit when the gas started, They said he was completely dead in a short time, but the struggle continued.

"I turned away. I couldn't watch. I sat there and saw this sumped body." Cox went down to the warden's office and filed his story. Then he and a television newsman went to a bar outside the prison. "I had two double shots of whiskey," he I finished, i was as sober as was before 1 had them." Former Warden Wayne K.

Patterson, who pulled the lever dropping the cyanide below the 12-year-old chair, said later he regarded the execution as revenge "to satisfy a disinterested public." He said when he pulled the lever he thought of Monge's victims. "I was setting aside my moral convictions and carrying out my job," said Patterson, who retired earlier this year. "But that doesn't mean I didn't mind doing it." ISEARS JEWELERS ''Htm site ACCUTRON BULOVA SEIKO Open: 10-9 Daily, Sun. 4M-S4S3 At Karcher Mall across from HAS COOLERS ON A By Carrie Ewing BOISE A listening ear soon will be inclined toward patients in 15 Treasure Valley nursing homes. Federal funding of for the first year to initiate an ombudsman demonstration project for Treasure Valley nursing homes was announced recently.

Webster defines an ombudsman as "a government official, as in Sweden or New Zealand, appointed to receive or investigate complaints made by individuals against abuses or capricious acts of public officials." The program detail calls for the ombudsman to be an assistant to the state attorney general (a member of his staff), but Ms office will be located in the Idaho Office on Aging. Author of (lie program is Paul Kitzhaber, research specialist for Idaho's Office on Aging. "I had some help from other individuals, 1 he stated. Kitzhsber said Thursday, though the role of the ombudsman will be to expose infractions aganst patients, his "power will depend mainly upon cooperation and Assisting Hie ombudsman will be a regional coordinator who will be traveling around to nursing homes receiving the complaints. The remainder of the salaried staff will consist of a secretary and a part-time accountant.

Volunteers living in towns where Hie nursing homes are situated will be essential to make the program effective. They actually will bo the individuals giving the listening ear. "When they have received the complaints from the patients," Kitzhabor explained, "they will convey the word to the ombudsman. He will take appropriate steps to correct the trouble by seeking cooperation from the operator of the home. "If this does not avail, he may have to resort to exposure of Iho offender.

If this fails, legal steps may be the last resort." Working with the staff and volunteers will be an advisory group consisting of various specfaiinferestorganiza- various agencies dealing with problems of the ageing, Kitz. haber said. "We expect to have the program under way by the first of August," he added. "In be training the staff involved here. We will be conducting a publicity drive during the trainingperiod.

The publicity will be for the purpose of making people aware of the ombudsmanproject. "Nursing homes, staffs, patients, relatives, healthper- somiel, social services personnel--anyone involvedinnurs- ing home care in Treasure Valley will need to become aware of the program." The Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Washington D.C., requested contract proposals from 12 states for a nursing home ombudsman project, Kitzhaber related. Idaho was one of the twelve. Only five were accepted, Idaho being one of them. As written and accepted the project lias been endorsed by Doctor John Marks, director of the Idaho Department of Public Assistance; Guy Shambaugh, district director of social security; Doctor Orvill Merrcll, dlrectorofDivision of Adult Health Services, Idaho Department of Health.

Other Included Attorney General Tony Park, who, in a letter, said he would cooperate fully with the plan; Dwayne R. Iligor, executive director of the Idaho Nursing Home As- s.iclaticr,; and Governor Cecil Andruo. Idaho's four Congressional members also added their approval. Kitzhaber said some complaints of mistreatment of nursing home patients had come in recent months through the Department of Public Assistance. "Some of these are in a very gray area of legality," he said, "We hope with the new project to eliminate the causo for such complaints." The project is for two years.

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