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Giving their Let's all sing 'New York BOB GREENE (2) Advice Page 18 Movies 10 Basinets Page 20 Sport Page IS Classified 22 TV Pag ..13 Comici Page 12 Obituaries 21 Editorial Page 14 The Record 21 all for beer THE BACK PAGE WEATHER Fair Friday nieht with a low near 35. High Saturday in the low 60s. (DETAILS: Page 21.) Wreckage found, ending sad 38 year mystery "One of his relatives was looking for the man's pack when they went into this ravine. You couldn't find the place unless you walked right on top of it. There were helicopters flying over the area for days and saw nothing." The plane was mostly disintegrated in the canyon, "nothing bigger than two desks if you put them together." But searchers probed through the pieces.

They found remnants of a gold watch, a piece that was believed to be human bone, possibly part of a skull or hip, a belt buckle, a pencil with "U.S. Navy" printed on it, yellowed pieces of American Express travelers checks, four machine guns and a leather name tag from a flight suit a scrap of information that proved valuable. On the tag was printed "Pelzer." Iowa City, a friend who said that she may be a distant relative of the family. Pelzer lost another son who was killed in Germany later in the war. They were his only children.

"They didn't know what happened to his other son (Parker)," said Sabina Pelzer. "They thought he went down in the sea." Whether there are any close relatives of the Navy pilot is not known. Officials at the University of Iowa said Pelzer's wife, Mildred, who was a well-known artist, had remarried. It isn't known if she is alive. The finding of the World War II bomber was an accident.

Sheriff Sgt. Dennis Boatner said deputies were searching the rugged area for an 84-year-old man who had been missing and was later found. The Army plane is found shortly later. But Pelzer's aircraft, in one of those strange twists of events, vanishes among the rocks in a thick growth of trees. And there it rests for eternity.

Or so it had seemed. Last Friday, more than 38 later, remnants of the bomber were found. Authorities now are attempting to piece together the events. What appears to be emerging is a poignant story of an Iowa family brutally struck, by the war, and left with a mystery that only now appears solved. Pelzer, records indicate, was the son of a prominent University of Iowa history professor, Louis Pelzer, who died June 26, 1946, a man devastated by the war.

"He was broken-hearted and so grief-stricken," said Sabina Pelzer of LOMS MUM mlmio nun on a 40-acre tract near Iowa City which they called "Ye Olde Stone; Studio." It was a place to share warm moments with friends, a retreat from; the war. All the arts will share the retreat the Pelzers announced. Only war an professors' salaries "are not fit topics, for discussion." There were no dog tags found at the scene, said Boatner. The search for the identity of the pilot then was moved to Lemoore Naval Air Station near Fresno, where public affairs officer Dennis McGrath confirmed that the pilot was L.P. Pelzer born in Iowa City March 21, 1919, who had been alone in the aircraft.

"We don't know where he was going. We are now in the process of looking for the next of kin," he said. The search has also sought the help of the Iowa Department of Veteran Affairs, the state archives and the University of Iowa. A man described as outgoing, Professor Pelzer took the grief of the death of his two sons to his grave. He and his wife built a stone cabin JoM ess rcxss Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, November 6, 1981 Two Sections Cvpvr10itr 199tf Dw MoIms Rvfltattr A Tribune Cwnptfty (USPS IS4-M0) -rate soars to 8s 6-yeair Sniglhi n.Bnk"C I junni mm mm it 1 By Frank Santiago CtovrtaM, mi, Dm Motnn RMlttw nd Tribune CwnpMV It begins in a violent storm in the nigged mountains of northern California, a World War II Navy bomber flying out of San Pedro.

At the controls is Lome Parker Pelzer, 24, a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy, and the aircraft's only occupant, born in Iowa City, March 21,1919. Deadly, unpredictable, known to dump inches of snow in a matter of minutes, the mountain weather takes the young pilot into its deadly grasp. Pelzer's machine pounds into the trees and rocks in a ravine in the Chatterdown Creek area near Redding, Calif. The weather is so violent that a U.S. Army plane only a few miles away also goes down, killing five aboard.

Price 25 Cents New U.S. policy on rights Would treat friends and foes the same WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The State Department, in a major foreign policy shift, says the Reagan administration must speak out against human rights violations by any country. "Otherwise," a memorandum says, "we would be simply coddling friends and criticizing The change has been approved by Secretary of State Alexander Halg, and officials say it probably will be endorsed by the White House as well, even though it resembles the Carter administration's policy that the Reagan administration sought to discredit. "If a nation, friendly or not, abridges freedom," the memo declares, "we should acknowledge it, stating that we regret and oppose it.

"Human rights is not something we tack on to our foreign policy but is its very purpose: The defense and promotion of freedom in the world. Despite the costs of such a human rights policy, it is essential." The Reagan administration has played down human rights as a foreign-policy issue, saying that private persuasion, instead of public pressure, should be used on friendly countries. A week after President Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter, Haig said international terrorism "will take the place of human rights in our concern because it is the ultimate abuse of human rights." Two months later, Haig said, "We should distinguish between the so-called totalitarian and authoritarian regimes." Patricia an assistant secretary of state for human rights in the Carter administration, applauds the apparent Reagan policy shift. "It's just a complete reversal But nobody is going to mock them for changing," she said Thursday. "I think they will get nothing but praise for that." The memo outlining the shift was prepared by Deputy Secretary of State William Clark and Richard Kennedy, undersecretary for management Disclosed Thursday by the New York Times and confirmed by official sources, it suggests an aggressive approach but acknowledges risks: "A human rights policy means trouble, for it means hard choices, which may adversely affect certain Rights Piease turn to Page Eight Taylor appeals his conviction WATERLOO, IA.

(AP) The attorney for James "T-Bone" Taylor has filed a motion for an appeal claiming there were "procedural and law errors" in his murder trial. Taylor, 29, was found guilty last month of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths last July of two Waterloo police officers. His lawyer, Alvin Davidson, an assistant Black Hawk County public defender, said he'll ask the state public defender's office to handle the appear: i Taylor is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 19. Conviction of first-degree murder in Iowa carries a mandatory life sentence.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The nation's unemployment rate soared to 8 percent of the labor force last month, the highest rate in six years, surpassing the recession peak of 1980, the Labor Department reported today. More than 8.5 million Americans were out of work in October, the largest number of people without jobs since 1939. Department analysts noted, however, that the 8.5 million figure must be weighed against a labor force that has expanded sharply in the last four decades. The Reagan administration, which had been predicting unemployment would peak at 8 percent, said in the wake of today's report that "the rate could move somewhat higher over the next few months before declining as the economy strengthens in 1982." The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the jobless rate jumped half a percentage point from 7.5 percent to 8 percent from September to October.

And it said the unemployment rate among blacks reached 16.7 percent, the second consecutive record monthly high. Although the jobless rate reached 8 percent over-all, it was still far below the 9 percent high registered in May 1975. Reagan administration officials and private economists have said that Morey Rnntsen stands in front of his He sees By John Lancaster Behind the handsome Victorian facade of a shop in West Des Moines, two rooms are stocked to their very high ceilings with a vast and baffling array of kitchen gadgets aimed at the gourmet cook. This is Kitchen Tools, located on the corner of Elm and Fifth streets in the heart of the West Des Moines business district, otherwise known as Valley Junction. Surrounded by antique stores and specialty shops catering to every frivolous need, this epicure's paradise is well within its element.

Appropriately, its owner is Morey Knutsen. He has devoted most of his working life he is 34 to transforming the West Des Moines business district into a commercial neighborhood that, as he puts it, offers an alternative to the "shopping center atmosphere." As a prime mover in the Valley Junction Action Committee, which Knutsen describes as a "core-group" of businessmen united in their aim to upgrade the area, he has stirred Man writes police: Stop me before I rob: unemployment will worsen as the. economy suffers from its second; recession in as many years. "The October statistics reflect substantial deterioration in the labor; market," Janet L. Norwood, commis- sioner of labor statistics, said in" testimony prepared for delivery" today to the congressional Joint Economic Committee.

"The negative signals from so many important in-" dicators provide clear evidence of a substantial weakening in the employment situation." Norwood said, "the number of, persons working parttime because, their hours were cut or because they, were unable to obtain fulltime work-reached a record 5 million in-October." At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said th" administration plans no "quick-fix. measures" to try to bring the unem ployment rate down but will rely on, the president's economic program, already in effect. "The rise in unemployment is av natural short-term consequence of unwinding the deeply rooted inflation that is imbedded in the Speakes said. administration will not adopt any quick-fix measures Jobless Please turn to Page Nine Court and was being held in lieu of $5,000 bond. He will be arraigned Dec.

23 in District Court. An official of the Veterans Ad; ministration Hospital in Knoxville said O'Neill had been a patient since July 1, when he transferred there; from a mental health facility a Cherokee. Sadat plots told: Cookies, frogmen CAIRO, EGYPT (AP) Alleged assassins of President Anwar Sadat prepared several plots to kill him and his aides, including the use of butane gas, poisoned cookies and armed frogmen, the authoritative Al-Ahram newspaper said today. The newspaper said results of government interrogations of 65 accused plotters in the Oct. 6 assassination showed that leaders of five terrorist" groups decided to kill Sadat after be ordered police to jail large numbers of Moslem fundamentalist dissidents last September.

One plan to kill Sadat centered on blowing up truckloads of butane gas. Another was to reach him in his Nile River delta residence by infiltrating it with frogman assassins. Another plan was to seize arms from security forces by offering them cookies laced with strong sedatives, the paper said. The five groups, the paper said, finally agreed to kill Sadat while he'i watched a Cairo military parade. TRIBUNE PHOTO BY GEORGE i.

CEOLLA in past boulevard that, on any weekday afternoon, draws flocks of well-dressed suburban housewives, many driving expensive foreign cars. "Ten years ago it just wasn't a good area," said West Des Moines Mayor George Mills. "Then Knutsen and a few others came along and things really began to improve." But Knutsen's greatest efforts have yet to be felt. While many handsome Victorian buildings have survived relatively intact from the days when Fifth Street was the main street of a bustling railroad junction 80 years ago, still others have been torn down or done over with galvanized exteriors and phony brick fronts. A grimy machine shop serves as a reminder that Valley Junction has not long been a fashionable shopping district.

In an effort to preserve the best of Valley Junction and prevent the kinds of changes that he fears could spoil its charm, Knutsen introduced the idea of an architectural preser- Knutsen Please turn to Page Four waves Theology Center, 1016 Forest Ave. Two years later, a $110,000 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grant enabled the station to hire a full-time staff to determine and meet Federal Communications Commission licensing requirements, research radio station standards and apply for funds to purchase equipment and related duties. In addition to CETA funds, the station received $5,105 from the United Presbyterian headquarters. But internal conflicts in 1979 caused the board members to temporarily disband the station and return the unused portion of the CETA grant to the Central Iowa Regional Association of Local Governments (CIRALG). Then, according to Cheatom, the station went "underground" but the process to get the station on the air continued on a less-structured basis.

A former station employee who wished to remain unidentified said problems stemmed from unskilled KUCB Pleose turn to Page Five Valley Junction sign. a future new interest in Valley Junction through arts and music festivals and cooperative advertising ventures. He also has prodded the City of West Des Moines to spruce up sidewalks with park benches and trees. With his beard and walrus mustache, Knutsen looks a little like an 1890s riverboat captain. "What we have here," he said recently Close-up from behind a stack of catalogs on his desk in his spacious but cluttered office, "is one of the last old Main Streets in Iowa." He sells his dream for restoring Valley Junction to its former glory with the hyperbole of a used-car salesman: "In another two years you won't even recognize this place." Things already have changed dramatically along Fifth Street.

What once was a lackluster strip of bars, struggling small businesses and vacant buildings is now a pleasant CHARLES KNOX leader of the local branch of the Black Panther Party, Cheatom was battling for human rights as a leader of a welfare rights organization. Knox is vice-president of the board of directors of the Center for the Study and Application of Black Economic Development, of which KUCB is a subsidiary; Cheatom is president Cheatom is referred to in a KUCB publication as the station's "founder," Knox said, because "she was the one that pulled it all together. She is the one that bugged me to help her get it off the ground." In 1976, the first headquarters of the station opened in the Black JOEANNA CHEATOM KUCB keeps riding By Tom Alex A "troubled" man felt such remorse over robberies he had committed in Des Moines that he wrote a letter to police asking for help, authorities said Friday. He asked that police come and get him before he robbed again, authorities said. Police obliged him.

Detective Jerry Jones interviewed the suspect, John F. O'Neill, 38, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Knoxville and arrested him Thursday. O'Neill, whose address is listed as Clarion, was charged with second-degree robbery in connection with Monday's holdup of the United Federal Savings and Loan office at Fourth and Locust streets. No one was injured in the holdup, in which $30 was taken from a teller. Police were given a description of the suspect immediately after the robbery and made a wide sweep of the downtown area looking for him.

Although they didn't know it at the time, police did pick him up. Authorities found O'Neill sleeping in the downtown area and took him to a detoxification center. But they didn't know it was the man who was a suspect in the UFS robbery. Although O'Neill has been charged only with Monday's holdup, officials say be is also a suspect in an earlier robbery at the same UFS office in which $40 was taken. O'Neill pleaded innocent to the robbery charge in District Associate By Roxanne Evans After five years of meetings, studies and difficult odds, the Urban Community Broadcasting fledgling station, KUCB-FM, is surviving.

Seeds for the station were sown in 1976 when a Human Rights Commission task force determined that the city's media was deficient in meeting the needs of minority cultures. A' group that varied from 10 to 20 persons began laying the groundwork for the black educational station. Over the past five years, battles with government officials and private citizens as well as internal conflicts have kept the station in a state of uncertainty. Although a large number of individuals helped make the station a reality, two who have been closely tied to the station since its conception are Charles Knox and Joeanna Cheatom. Knox, 36, and Cheatom, 57, have been allies since the 1960s when both were visible in Des Moines civil rights struggles.

In 1969, while Knox was battling racism in Des Moines as i.