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18 July 3.1974 £tir fcakrrminMLalifurman Only women who live and work on government-owned San Clemente Island off Southern California step" off plane for weekend visit to San Diego. They are Betty Galloway, left, and Oenise Souba. (AP Wlrephofo) With 100 men 2 women work on Navy island SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. (API More than 100 men. both civilian and military, run around on this island 21 miles by five miles in size.

But the only women who live and work here are Denise Souba and Betty Galloway, civil service employes of the Naval Undersea Center. San Clemente is a federally- owned island 57 miles from the Southern California mainland. On it. the Navy tests newly developed equipment and weapons and engineering research is carried on Since their assignment last March as the only women ever sent to the island as permanent employes. Miss Souba and Mrs.

Galloway have lived in the bachelor officers' quarters. A permanent dorm is under construction which someday will allow as many as 10 women to live together. "It's ejcitfng with all the tests and the bombings." says Mrs. Galloway, who works in the transportation office dispatching drivers and ing bus service to the airfield, used for fleet carrier landing practice. Miss Souba is secretary to the public works director and handles repair calls and work requests.

The attractive ladies hop a plane back to San Diego each Friday and return on Monday morning with the mainland mail. A commercial airline flies three limes a week. Since March, they've taken up abalone fishing, pistol shooting and even have explored the island's natural caves formed by lava and inhabited by a bald eagle. Of course, there are the ma! attractions of a military base such as movies, bowling and clubs. The assignment at first left her "a little leery." said Mrs.

Galloway. And Denise Souba. a long-haired honey blonde in her first job since junior college, says. "The men were very surprised to see us. but they've recovered and now consider us to be part of one big family." Executive sues for $161 million SAN JOSE (API A 5161- million suit alleging malicious prosecution was filed against IBM by an executive once accused of stealing computer trade secrets.

Philip J. Kronzer, 39. vice president of Manufacturing Co. in Campbell, filed the U.S. District Court suit here Monday.

It claimed that IBM falsely told law authorities that be was using "secret, confidential documents of IBM" in the manufacturing of computer carriage assemblies. Kronzer was indicted last July 29 on two counts of conspiracy, one count of trade secret theft and one count of receiving stolen property. A judge dismissed the charges "with prejudice" April 9 at the request of the district attorney's office. Two others no longer charged in the case nave filed suits totaling 17 million against IBM. Ten persons originally were indicted.

Since 1969, Kronzer has been manufacturing carriage assemblies for a computer disc drive compatible with an IBM disc drive placed on the market in 1965. Disc packs and drives are devices that feed and extract data from central computers. Kronzer's suit claims that IBM misled the law authorities by telling them that the IBM disc drive and its components were trade secrets. "IBM concealed and withheld from the district attorney its knowledge of numerous federal court decisions that held that after products reached the market they are subject to regulation solely by federal law and that state laws involving so-called unfair competition and trade secrets have no validity." the suit argued. It also contended Kronzer would not have been indicted "but for the misrepresentations and concealments perpetrated on the district attorney and the San Jose Police Department." Noting that IBM controls 76 per cent of the computer business, the suit alleged that the firm "instigated" the prosecution to drive Control Data Corp.

of Minneapolis out of business. At the time of the indictment, Kronzer was the only producer and sole supplier of a complete carriage assembly to Control Data, the suit said. "If IBM could put Control Data Corp. out of business, it would have a monopoly, or close to a monopoly," the suit said. Mental health fund veto disaster, Dun lap says SACRAMENTO fl'PI) Assemblyman John Dunlap.

D-Napa, today called Gov Ronald Reagan's action on the budget "a disaster" for community health programs in California. Reagan deleted $17.4 million from the local mental health services portion of the 1974-75 budget. "For six months, the administration had been making promises to county mental health directors that their programs would receive the necessary state support," said Dunlap. "But in late May. it became apparent that the administration was 'playing games' when local officials were informed of substantial short falls in the projected allocation of funds," be said.

Dunlap said the governor's veto will not go unchallenged by the legislature. Judge ends secrecy in Taxes mass murder trial Bv K. MACK SISK SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (LTD Jury selection in the trial of accused mass murderer Elmer Wayne Henley moved back before the public Tuesday, but some sources suggested one day of privacy brought the possibility of a mistrial uncomfortably close.

District Judge Preston Dial ordered reporters and spectators, including Henley's mother. Mary, out of the courtroom for the first day of jury selection Monday, fuesday, facing legal action from five news organizations and pressure from defense attorneys, be reopened the trial. "It seemed to be the appropriate thing at the time." Dial said of his closing the hearing. He provided no explanation for his change of mind. Defense attorney Will Gray of Houston said Monday's closed-door which eight prospective jurors were his 18- year-old client's constitutional rights.

"Up to this point we were denied a public trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." Gray said. Attorneys and jurists in Texas, none of whom would allow their names to be used, said they knew of no precedent in Bexar County (San Antonio), where the trial was moved because of heavy publicity in the Houston area. Henley is charged with six of the 27 murders of young men during a sex and torture spree which lasted three years. He has admitted killing electrician Dean Arnold Corll.

the leader of the ring, which gave police their first clue. Investigation during the following week last summer turned up the 27 graves at three Southeast and East Texas sites. David Owen Brooks is also charged in some of the murders, but has not been gives a trial date. Eleven of the 32 prospective jurors needed were selected through Tuesday. When the final panel is chosen, each side will have 10 strike-offs.

leaving the jury of 12 persons. Gray early Tuesday moved for a mistrial on the tional grounds. Dial denied that motion. The Houston attorney, appointed by the court to defend Henley, then moved that the entire 305 person jury panel be quashed because it was empaneled in secret. Dial denied that motion.

Gray then moved that the eight prospective jurors selected Monday "be excused for reasons they were selected in secrecy." That motion, was denied by the judge. United Press International. Associated Pess. the San Antonio Light, the San Antonio press News and KENS-TV Monday said they would seek an order from the Texas Supreme Court to force Dial to open the trial. However, that was made unnecessary' Dial's action before the trial opened Tuesday.

CHARLES D. FRITCH. HIS ASSOCIATICV GEORGE M. WEYAND. D.

F. CASTEEN. D. DEtiMS H. WETTERhOLM.

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