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Search For Peking Man Closes Tie With Chinese CHICAGO, ILL. (AP) A Chicago investment banker who returned Wednesday from a trip to China said he made a close tie with the Chinese by pledging (support and a $5,000 reward in a hunt for the prehistoric Peking man, missing since Pearl Dei Moines Req'sar 4 Jun. 72, Levee Break Floods Island In California RIO VISTA, CALIF. (AP) Water gushing from a broken levee virtually swamped a small recreation and farm island in the lush Sacramento Delta Wednesday, causing at least $10 million damage. Res- cucrs evacuated some 1,500 per- sons and hunted for possible victims.

The floodwaters crept to the edge of Isleton, population 1,397, the largest community on inundated Andrus Island, and city leaders pondered whether to evacuate the town. Crews from the Army Corps of Engineers and volunteers worked against time to com I i f- 4 "'U-A" lvJ GETS APOLOGY FROM FARMER By Denise Caringer Municipal Judge Luther T. Glanton, said Wednesday he has received a letter of apology from an Ogden hog farmer who was threatened with contempt of court charges after sending a vulgarity-filled letter to the clerk of municipal court here. Daryl J. Morain had sent the letter, along with payment of a $2-parking fine, to protest a ticket he received here June 6.

At that time, Glanton sent a letter to Morain Warning him he would be arrested on contempt of court charges if Morain did not send a letter of apology. In his letter of apology this week, Morain said, "I still don't agree with having parking meters charging customers to come to town to do business but I'm sorry about the letter I wrote." "Common knowledge should dictate to you that a city with the population the size of Des Moines must have parking meters and other parking restrictions," Glanton told Morain in a letter Tuesday. "If not, a few people would hog the meters and no one else would find parking places to do business in this city," he wrote. dent would work to pay 10 per cent of the cost about $500. The Chinese only wanted to to be sure the U.S.

government was not involved, and we assured them that it was interested but that the exchange is a Greek Heritage Foundation-Harvard Club scholarship program," he said. "Our interest in the Peking man formed rapport and a close relationship. The foundation will help find the Peking man, and is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to its discovery." Janus said he was told that the Nationalist government boxed the remains of the Peking man and gave it to an American to take from the country the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. "One of the mysteries is that nobody knows the name of the American," slid Janus. "The Chinese think the Peking man is in the United States, lost In the bureaucratic jungle.

I think this is more their hope than fact. "Among theories are that the American's ship was sunk by the Japanese, or that he buried the Peking man somewhere in China and later was killed," Janus said. WIREPHOTO (AP) Flood After California Levee Break plete construction of a mile- and-a-half levee around the per-; imiter of Isleton. Col. James C.

Donovan of the Army Engineers said the "chief test" of the new levee will bej whether it can contain an expected seven-foot tide. Sewage Plant Bulldozer operators and sandbag crews were trying to shore up the town's sewage plant. Mayor M. J. "Butch" Frans-coni said the ability to save the nlant would be a major factor in his decision on whether to! pvarnatp Tslptnn The levee gave way without warning about 1 a.m.

at the Spindrift Marina on the San Joaquin River side of Andrus past the break. The 300-foot break caused a wide area to be flooded and sent hundreds of residents and tourists fleeing from the low area east of San Francisco. A helicopter hovers over flooded Andrus Island, foreground, Wednesday after a levee, right center, broke inundating the area near Rio Vista, Calif. A ship, background, moves up the San Joaquin River Harbor Day, 1941. 'Our relationship with the Chinese was spurred tremendously by our interest in the Peking man," Christopher Janus, 61, said in an interview.

"The subject seemed to catch fire with them, and we pursued it. "Anybody bringing back the Peking man would be a hero to the Chinese. They consider it one of their most priceless cultural collections," Janus added. The top of a skull, a tooth, and bones of a prehistoric man were found in caves outside Peking in 1927-1929 by Davidson Black, a Canadian anatomist, and at that time were believed to be the oldest evidence in tracing the origin of man. Later, other scientists found more bones of this tribal man who lived about a million years ago.

Janus said his five-man group waited nine months before obtaining permission for a 16-day visit to China, starting May 31. The group represented the Greek Heritage Foundation, which Janus heads, and the Harvard Club of Chicago. The foundation sponsors cultural symposiums and scholarship exchange programs. Janus said visits were made to universities at Canton, Hangshow, Shanghai and Peking, and that Chinese educators and foreign ministry repre-sentatives "gave encour-a for a program of 24 students, 12 from each country, for one year." "The only question is timing," said Janus. "Each stu AMA OKs Unit to Guide Intern, Resident Training SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

(AP) After six years of study, the American Medical Association (AMA) Wednesday approved sweeping changes in graduate medical education' that will have a "major impact in the next decade on the training of doctors." Island. Hundreds of residents 11000 operations wr me state and vacationers in night clothes Department of Water Re-fled the oncoming water in the sources, said the break appar- Grant to Kirkwood For Amana Study WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, has been awarded a $4,450 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, Senator Jack Miller Ia.) announced Wednesday. The grant will support a project to explore the historical growth and development of the Amana Colonies. SiklnD'S Iowa Attorneys Select Officers New officers for the Iowa Municipal Attorneys Association were elected in Dos Moines Wednesday.

They are: William R. Dew of Ottumwa, president; Robert Stone of Marion, vice- president; and Jack R. Hall of Des Moines, secretary-treasurer. And when Because in si fi darkness. The Sacramento County sheriff's office reported 10 minor injuries and no deaths.

No missing persons were reported. Many persons fled on foot, by boat or in hastily loaded cars and trucks from the low-lying island. Others were snatched to safety by Coast Guard and Air Force rescue helicopters during the night. The Red Cross set up a rescue center at Rio Vista High School about five miles across the Sacramento River from Isleton. Two hundred men, women and children were camped in the cafeteria and gymnasium there.

Late Wednesday, Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency in the Andrus and Brannan islands area and ordered state agencies to use emergency funds to help rebuild the broken levee. "These state funds will enable the use of forestry crews, conservation camps and other state personnel to work in the flooded area" Reagan said. The levee broke at a construction site where the Bran-nan-Andrus Levee District was attempting to raise and reinforce the levee and widen a road. George Rabb, construction engineer for the district, said the construction itself may not CHESS FLIGHT MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AP) -World chess champion Boris Spassky flew Wednesday to Reykjavik, Iceland, to stake his title in a 24-game match with American Bobby Fischer, starting July 2.

at the Jfe? the reason: Be Sure.fi A (X Under the measure for the first time, a member of the public, a representative of the federal government, and two people designated by the Amer ican Hospital Association will have a say in how interns and new doctors training to be specialists will be educated. Medical education experts expect the changes to result in better doctors, from the family pediatrician to the medical center brain surgeon. "This will undoubtedly be one of the most profoundly important new developments in the history of medicine in this country," a high-level AMA official said in a background briefing prior to Wednesday's vote. "It will have a major impact in the next decade on the training of doctors." The setting of standards for interns and residents doctors studying to be specialists long has been jealously guarded by the medical profession. Only the AMA medical college offi cials and representatives of medical specialty societies have had a voice in the past setting graduate medical standards and accrediting education programs.

But the measure approved Wednesday on the recommen- rain-soaked western and south western portions of the state, crediting early evacuation moves with saving lives. Agnes also dumped up to eight inches of rain in North Carolina, causing widespread flooding and damage. Dozens of families were evacuated. The flood waters closed numerous roads, broke one small dam and threatened two others, washed away several mobile homes and a cabin and caused the derailment of a freight train engine. More than a score of families were evacuated from their homes in the Detroit, suburb of Dearborn Heights after a sudden downpour touched off a flash flood.

Police said no injuries were reported but approximately 1,500 basements were flooded. America goes golfing, chances are 7 Crown is waiting America more people drink and enjoy 7 Crown than leading Scotch and Canadian combined. And they do it for a very good the taste. It's uniquely and consistently smooth. Hundreds Flee Flash Floods InN.

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Blames Work But William Horn, chief of ently was caused by the levee- strengthening operation. One of the last farmhouses evacuated was that of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davidson. "I've lived in the delta all my life," Mrs.

Davidson said, "and it's been one tragedy after another." Ten years ago, she said, her son, then 18, was drowned when his car went off a levee road. Only last September, she said, her husband was driving across the nearby Antioch bridge when it was struck by an Italian freighter, trapping him on the bridge in his truck for 22 hours. Council Bluifs Picketing Ends COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA. (AP) Work resumed Wednesday at a 210-unit apartment building for the elderly. A picket line set up June 1 by Local 1140 of the Laborer's Union had stopped work at the project, Regal Towers.

Louis Woloshin, project manager for the builder, Dell Associates of Wjnnetka, 111., said an agreement was reached Tuesday between representatives of the firm and the local to end the picketing. He said, however, negotiations are continuing into what the company says is a wage disagreement. the area, appeared to be the 1 i --t naraesi nu. Water was 10 feet deep in Wellsville beside the Genesee River, which was filled with debris that included telephone and power-line poles and trees of all sizes. The village was cut off from all motor traffic, as was Hornell.

Nearly all of Allegany County was without power. Gas mains broke, as did water mains. State Police said house trailers and automobiles by the dozens floated down creeks. Water in Stores Up to six feet of water poured through retail stores, troopers said. "Whole sections of hill sides have been washed out," Ingalls said.

"No one can go anywhere. You start going in one direction and find that roads are washed out. You turn around and there's another washout." At Almond, a hamlet near Hornell, it was feared a dam might give way. The community was evacuated. A section of the Southern Tier Expressway, under construction near Almond, also disappeared.

Hundreds also fled their homes in Virginia as Agnes poured up to eight inches of new rain into already swollen streams, sending some rivers on their worst rampages in more than a half century. Credit Evacuation Authorities said they had no reports of casualties in the W23, i Taste the best of America. Say Seagram's and dation of the association's trustees creates an 18-mem-ber committee that will supervise such education. ine DuiK or tne nation interns and residents are trained in hospitals, and the American Hospital Association will have two seats on the committee. The general public and the fed eral government will have one each.

The measure was adopted after a determined attack by opponents who warned that medicine was giving up a precious right. "Something that has already existed successfully for 54 years should not be given away so easily," warned Dr. John R. Schenken of Omaha, ar guing that control of graduate medical education shouldn't be shared. Plans ationalized Health Care Study SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF (AP) Dr.

Carl A. Hoffman said Wednesday his first mis sion as new president of the American Medical Association (AMA) will be a month-long study of the nationalized health systems of the Soviet Union, Britain and Sweden. In, his inaugural address, Hoffman, of Huntington, said negotiations are in progress for a later visit to China. Moitman said debate over U.S. medical care has involved a "comparison of the American private practice sys tem versus the Russian, British and Swedish systems.

IFYOU WANT REALLY LOW'TAR' AND REALLY FULL FLAVOR, THEN LUCKY TEN IS REALLY FORYOU. ONLY 10 10 0 8 ffj. mcnime; av. pet c.gsfEUt Dy IC WELLSV1LLE, N.Y. (AP) -Flash floods struck a wide area of southwestern- New York Wednesday, forcing hundreds from their homes, wrecking business places and trailer courts and taking out roads and bridges over a wide area.

Five feet of water over roads In some villages were reported. Stale Warned The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the entire state and said conditions could worsen as the remnants of Hurricane Agnes centered at late afternoon over eastern North Carolina and re-p 1 strengthening moved northward. At least four persons were reported missing, all in central Steuben and Allegany counties. 'it's absolute, complete destruction," said State Police Sgt. Elton B.

Ingalls. A man tentatively identified as Lawrence Ide, 36, of Almond and his daughter, Amy, 5, were reported missing near their home. Troopers said witnesses reported they were in a boat when they disappeared. Near Bath, troopers said an automobile carrying four persons 'across a bridge was washed into a rain-swollen creek. Construction workers if i i I J-v vf Tiiiiimh in Si itr hm ii i mm I ORIGINAL! ADULT 1 I00K STORE I HARD CORE I ALL STAG MOVIES 1 $8 Black-White $17 Color I 6mm-2GO Ft.

I 'fgTI bom! it BirgJK Bundles" I coior tciiM'H MQV1 ARCADE! I Kile 131 rescued two of the occupants, but failed to reach the other two. Allegheny Rising The floods struck this village, the city of Hornell and smaller communities such as Scio, Almond, Bath, Andover, Alfred and dozens of others. In Pittsburgh, the National Weather Service said the swollen Allegheny River was rising and posed a flood threat to Olean, south of here. Wellsville and the SEAGRAM DISTILLERS K.Y.C. BLENBt!) WHISKEY.

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