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2A NAPLES DAILY NEWS Apr. 19, 1976 People in the News Stockbroker Fears Underworld 2 Osmonds Hurt MARIE OSMOND hurt in car crash. NEPHI, Utah (UPI) Singer Marie Osmond, 16, and her mother, Olive, suffered minor injuries when their car rammed the back of a tractor trailer during the weekend Miss Osmond was treated at a hospital for cuts and an eye injury before being released. Her mother was admitted to the hospital for a chest injury, but her condition was listed as good. The accident occurred as the Osmond family was returning from an outing.

Miss Osmond and her singing brothers live in Orem, Utah. Barker Sees Film MIAMI (UPI) Convicted Watergate burglar Bernard Barker went to the movie last week to see "All the the film based on the break-in he helped carry out Barker, now a city sanitation inspector, said he was impressed with the actor who portrayed him. "That guy looked so much like me that I looked around to see if anybody recognized me," he said. Mrs. Sadat Speaks on Sex vocate of rights in a male-dominated Arab world, says unlike Betty Ford she could never condone sex before marriage for her teen-aged daughter.

Asked the same question put recently to Mrs. Ford what her reaction would be if her teen-aged daughter announced she was having an affair Mrs. Jehan Sadat said: "My daughter come and tell me that at all. I put her in this position from the Mrs. Sadat, interviewed on the CBS television program "60 Minutes," said Sunday her daughter, also named Jehan, was already engaged and allowed to go on dates with her fiance, "but not more than JEHAN SADAT speaks out on morals.

NEW YORK (UPI) first lady, considered an outspoken ad- Gustaf Visits Chicago CHICAGO (UH) King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, recovering from a sore throat, attended Easter services Sunday in the heart of a Swedish community on the north side. Some 400 persons lined the street to watch the king walk to the Ebenezer Lutheran Church. Later, the king visited the office of a Swedish newspaper, Svenska Amerikanaren Tribumen, and the Swedish Memorabilia Museum, which opened for the first time Sunday. Gorshin Not Imitating LOS ANGELES (UPI) Actor Frank Gorshin, known principally as an impressionist, really imitating anybody when he injured himself skiing. The 40-year-old entertainer pulled some leg ligaments and damaged a cartilage in his left knee on a ski run at Park City, Utah, Friday.

He underwent surgery at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles Saturday and was reported in good condition and in good spirits. the last time do an impression of (Olympic skier) Jean-CIaude he said. FRANK GORSHIN no imitation. 'Chorus Line' Wins 9 Tonys NEW YORK (UPI) "A Chorus the story of what makes a dancer dance, won nine Tony Awards Sunday night, including best musical of the year. Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" won the 1976 award for best play.

The top award for best actor in a play went to John Wood for Travesties, performed by Royal Shakespeare Company and closed after a relatively short run Irene Worth won the Tony for best actress for her performance in "Sweet Bird of Youth." Richard Burton won a special Back to medallion for his starring role in by playwright Peter Shaffer. Donna McKechme of Chorus Line" won the award for best actress in a musical and George Rose won the award for his role in the revival of Fair Produced by Joseph Papp, Chorus also won Tonys for best book, score, director in a musical, graphy, featured actor and actress in a musical, and lighting. Ellis Rabb was named best director for "The Royal The best actor award had been a close race between Wood and George C. Scott for "Death of a Salesman." Other nominations were Moses Gunn Poison and Donald Sinden Miss Worth was the favorite over Rosemary Harris Royal for best actress; dramatic performances usually have an edge over comedies. Others nominated were Tovah Feldshuh and Lynn Redgrave Also nominated for best play were Breeze of by Leslie Lee, by Jules Feiffer, "Lamppost by Louis LaRusso II, and by Tom Stoppard.

CLEARWATER. Fla. (UPI) Missing stockbroker Estel Blevins, sought in connection with a scheme to collect a $250,000 life insurance policy, claims he pretended to be dead to avoid underworld figures he fears more than the law. Blevins, who indicated he planned to remain a fugitive, asked the Clearwater Sun to "make some sort of effort to protect my wife and family from the pressure of these people." The Sun received an undated special delivery letter from Blevins Saturday, postmarked Fort Mill, S.C. On that same day, the Chicago Tribune reported receiving a phone call from the Clearwater stockbroker.

In the letter, Blevins said, done wrong and I know it, but answering to the law is not nearly as frightening to me as what will happen if I am found by the people I know. "Please contact my wife and assist her. told her I would go to the police for help and more concerned for me than for herself. "I know what to say or ask, but would you please make some sort of effort to protect my wife and family from the pressure of these Mrs Blevins, hospitalized for traffic injuries complicated by a virus infection, identified the handwriting in the letter as that of her 32-year-old husband. She wept when she read the contents but declined comment.

Blevins, a broker for Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, left Clearwater March 22 and has not been seen since he vanished from Palmer House hotel. The Tribune said Blevins told its reporters in two telephone conversations he had posed as his brother-in-lawand identified the body of a former Navy diver as his own to avoid facing a Tampa underworld figure The Tribune said Blevins claimed he had gone to Chicago with $25,000 of his own money and an equal sum belonging to the gangster whom he identified only as Man" to buy $350,000 worth of negotiable stolen securities But Blevins said the two sellers took the $50,000 and refused to turn over securities. got scared then of the people in the Tribune quoted him as saying. took me two days to think up something to do and then I came up with the body idea Blevins, posing as his brother-in-law, reportedly identified the body of Joseph Tallarico, an apparent drowning victim, as his own. But a fingerprint check revealed identity and a toxicological report showed he had died of a combination of alcohol and morphine The Tribune said Blevins denied killingTallarico.

The Chicago newspaper said Blevins disclosed he had received $1,000 in Atlanta Friday night and intended to remain a fugitive. ESTEL BLEVINS feared reprisal. Strikers Make Gesture To Reopen Bargaining SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) from a senior Civil service craft workers, in a the Opera House and a peace gesture in their 20-day company providing buses for strike, have removed pickets the public elementary Rubber Workers Ready To Strike UPI SNOWMAN While the temperatures into the in New York City over the weekend, there was still snow enough on the ground in northern Maine and nearby Canada for these youngsters to make an Easter snowman. Nancy Demerchant and Kevin Taylor, both 8, designed their own Easter hat for Frosty, who is probably making his last appearance for the season in Perth Andover, New Brunswick. Troop Morale Is Key To Armed Forces WASHINGTON (UPI) It takes "courageous, motivated, prepared and willing" people to decide battles, says a Pentagon study which proposes steps to boost morale of U.S.

troops. The Defense Manpower Commission prepared the study at the request of Congress two years ago. Published Sunday, it suggests some deterioration of U.S. troop morale partly because top military leaders tend to view service men and women as impersonal statistics. "People have always decided the 500-page study said.

is no substitute for people who are courageous, motivated, prepared and overwhelming lesson of this report is that human considerations now have become primary in planning for the defense. It is for that reason that we believe without hesitation that defense manpower is the keystone of our national defense. The commission noted gaps" in the chain of military leadership, with middle grade noncommissioned officers generally in short supply and too few women officers and officers from minority races. The commission also said: total force policy is far from a and reserve forces probably are far from ready to back up combat troops in case of war. "The all volunteer force is working The services are learning to manage it, but have much yet to If it is to survive, compensation must be competitive with civilian work.

The retirement system is expensive, and a new system should be set up based on 30 years of service, less for combat duty, before retirement. A serviceman would not be in the military as a career until he serves 10 years; thereafter he would be eligible for retirement pay. The Selective Service System, and annual registration, should not be dismantled. COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) The United Rubber Workers union says it is prepared to strike the Big Four of the tire industry and institute a worldwide boycott against the Firestone Tire Rubber Co. if agreement on a new contract is not reached by midnight Tuesday.

URW President Pete Bommarito was given the authority to strike either one of the Big Four tire makers, or the entire group, by the 15- member advisory committee at a weekend meeting. The committee and about 45 other union officials met for three hours and decided to impose the boycott against Firestone. The master contract being negotiated with Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, Goodyear Tire Rubber and Uniroyal covers about 70,000 workers at 47 plants across the nation. have given me full authority to implement economic action against Bommaritosaid.

trate on one company in an implementation of a worldwide Bommarito said Firestone was selected for the boycott because the firm is a good position to make a Bommarito said such a boycott would be very effective. you have 15 or 16 million union members, you can ask all those union members and the general public to simply not buy Firestone he said. The executive board endorsed the boycott, Bommarito said, and added the International Federation of Chemical and General Workers Union of Europe would meet in Geneva, Switzerland, April 26 and would probably endorse the boycott. Bommarito said the union and the big four tire companies were still from He said negotiations would continue in four cities. The union will step up its negotiations with Firestone in Cleveland, with the other talks scheduled to be held in New York with Uniroyal; Cincinnati with Goodyear; and B.F.

Goodrich here. 'Petty' Tickets Total 13,525 DEAL, N.J. (UPI) Mrs. Janet Silverman of Deal, N.J., who owes New York City $13,525 in 313 unpaid parking tickets, says the money is a petty little are a lot of thieves, dope addicts and murderers walking around the street. This is such a petty little thing compared to the Monmouth County woman said.

The New York City Parking Violations Bureau said she led a list of the 10 most wanted in New Jersey. school children. Union leaders said Sunday that the action was taken to show in an effort to reopen bargaining under the direction of a federal mediator. There was no reaction from city officials who had demanded that all strikers return to work before a resumption of talks. In fact, the Board of Supervisors the governing council had set 12:01 a.m.

today for a deadline for the strikers to return to work, pending the outcome of further negotiations. Some 1,700 carpenters, electricians, plumbers, glaziers, machinists, gardeners and sheetmetal workers walked off the job because the new city budget included cuts in their pay-fringe benefit package. Some 14,000 other city ployes refused to honor picket lines and remained on the job. However, Municipal Railway, bus and streetcar drivers refused to cross picket lines. And during the weekend a rank-and-file meeting of the 2,000 Muni workers ended with their decision to continue to stay off the job least for three more days.

The vote came at a stormy meeting at which speakers favoring a return to work were shouted from the podium. The pickets at Laguna Honda Hospital, the Opera House and San Francisco Bus Co. were removed during the weekend so that children could get to their schools after the Eastern vacation. A Sunday parade by 2,000 firemen from here and neighboring cities to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake was canceled because of the strike. It will be held next month.

WEATHER FORECAST Mostly fair through Tuesday. Highs in mid 80s and lows tonight near 60. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing at night. High Sa- turday was 85, low 54. high was 86, low 56.

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Broken cloudiness appears through cloud band extending from eastern Texas the northern and central Rockies and along through the Mississippi valley into the wes- the Pacific Northwest coast, tern Great Ukes and westward through the upi mmLi il am FLORIDA PENINSULA Fair to partly southern peninsula. Highs mostly lower to cloudy. A few showers scattered over the mid 80s. state. Lows mostly lower 60s north to near 70 UPI niinpnraiT 1 HI jH Incessant rains touched off fatal flash flooding in Texas Sunday and a record heat wave made Easter in the East seem more like the Fourth of July.

A man trying to save his two infants from a flash flood which swept his car off a bridge near the south central Texas community of Goliad put the children in an ice chest Sunday, then watched helplessly as the chest was swept away in the muddy water and overturned. The children were listed as missing. Thunderstorms spawned at least three tornadoes near Victoria, Tex. There were no reports of injuries or major damage. Eight inches of rain piled up in Houston in six hours and flash flood warnings were posted for much of eastern Texas.

Heavy rains also soaked much of Iowa and Missouri. Easterners who hoped for a warm, sunny Easter got more than they bargained for. At 9 p.m. EST Easter Sunday, the National Weather Service confirmed what perspiring New Yorkers in wilted Easter finery knew only too well. the weather service proclaimed.

York City was the hottest place in the nation today 96 Easter Sunday was the hottest April day ever in New York. But thousands of New Yorkers ignored the blistering heat to to stroll along Fifth Avenue in the annual Easter parade. NATIONAL WfATHfft SiftVICf FOBf AST lo 7 am 1ST 3000 3a00 UPI WlATMfl fOTOC AST RAIN jJSNQW ES3 Alt SHOWItS now UPI Wire photo WEATHER For Period Ending 7 AM EST Rockies while rain covers many portions of Tuesday. During Monday night, scattered the mid and lower Great Plains. Mostly fair showers are in store for parts of the northern weather is in store elsewhere.

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