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1 Iowa's most severely sentenced prisoner: some said six life sentences wasn't enough By TERRY HERSOM Ottumwa Courier Written for the Associated Press (First of three parts) Inmate No. 101,716 knows the confines of the Iowa State Penitentiary well. He has been here since Sept. 14, 1962. Barring the unexpected, he will never walk out of the prison alive.

ON A FILE card yellowed by time, a sentence of six lifetimes is a bold entry. None of some 600 other prisoner dossiers can top its severity. Six lifetimes for No. 101,716 was not enough, some said, when Judge L. R.

Carson dealt them out in a Sigourney courtroom nearly 1 12 years ago. The death penalty by hanging was still legal then in Iowa. Carson knew his ruling could not answer for the man's crime. There were six graves and only one prisoner. GAYNO GILBERT Smith, 1 now 36, makes no boasts about his distinctive sentence.

Fellow inmates do not ask him to relive 1962, the year he manufactured a holocaust. Rain fell intermittently on Saturday, May 26, 1961. Five young Turks set to negotiate Cyprus territory holdings By The Associated Press bilities for restarting the talks fact more than the Turks." Turkish Premier Bulent and that Britain is contacting Ecevit said there is an Ecevit said Wednesday Tur- all the parties involved. absolute need for separate key is ready to negotiate Ecevit told newsmen he is areas for the Greek and changes in the willing to meet with Greek ish Cypriots because of demarcation line carved out Premier Constantine ethnic, religious and cultural by its forces on Cyprus. Caramanlis "anywhere, differences.

But he said that "basically" anytime." present line, which slices "THERE IS NO concept of the off the top third of Cyprus, Ecevit said Turkey has would be maintained. made an open call to all a Cyprus nation on either side. No one can speak of a "I am more optimistic than parties Cypriots, Cypriot nation. If Greek they live before that Cyprus nego- Greece and Britain for but side side immediate separately by tiations can start again," he negotiations on a they will find the added. Cyprus settlement.

an agreement," he possibility of said. the final status is HE SAID HE and British settled chaos will reign on The Turkish Cypriot comAmbassador Sir Horace the' island," he said. "The munity on Cyprus numbers Philips met for 45 minutes in Greek Cypriots will suffer 120,000. The Greek Cypriots Ankara and discussed possi- from this at least as much, in number 520,000. Early enactment seen for pension reform plan WASHINGTON (AP) Early enactment seems assured for a bill designed to protect.

workers' pension rights. The House passed the compromise measure Tuesday with only two dissenting votes. In the Senate, where a vote was scheduled for late Wednesday, one of the sponsors, Harrison A. Williams said he knows of no opposition. Republicans predicted that President Ford will sign the measure promptly.

GAYNO SMITH, 36, knows the confines of the Iowa State Penitentiary well. He has been there since Sept. 14, 1962, serving a total of six life sentences after being convicted of slaying his uncle, aunt, three cousins and 1 step-mother. (AP Wirephoto). THE BILL would assure workers they will get benefits based on credits they have built up during their employment, even if they leave their employers before normal retirement time.

It contains safeguards against pension plans lacking the funds to pay off. The bill approved by the House 407 to 2 also provides enhanced tax breaks for more affluent self-employed persons, such as doctors and lawyers, who set up their own retirement plans. For the first time employes not covered by company plans would be allowed to set up taxfavored pension plans of their own. The bill would not require companies to establish pension plans, but would regulate those in existence and any set up in the future. WHILE SOME critics continued to term it inadequate, sponsors hailed the bill as a landmark achievement in protecting workers' rights.

A key provision relates to vesting, the right of an employe who has participated in a plan for a given number of years to take his right to future benefits with 1 him if he quits early or changes jobs. Employers would have options: full vesting after 10 years, 25 per cent vesting after 10 years increasing to 100 per cent after 15, or 50 per cent when age and years of service total 45 with the remaining half vesting in the next five years. The bill also sets down rules as to employer contributions, intended to see. that pension funds are adquate to meet their obligations. It sets up an insurance system, somewhat similar to the government insurance on bank deposits, to protect against total loss of pensions if companies or funds go broke.

OTHER PROVISIONS permit, on a voluntary basis, transfer of pension rights from one employer to another when an employe changes jobs, or give him the option of using his credits in a personal retirement plan. For self-employed persons who now may deduct 10 per cent of their earnings from taxable income up to $2,500 a year, if they invest the sums in a personal retirement plan, the limits would be raised to 15 per cent and $7,500 a year. Employes without company plans could invest up to $1,500 a year in personal retirement. Courier's world Buford Pusser Filming had been scheduled to start Sept. 20 near Jackson, Tenn.

Joe Don Baker played Pusser in "Walking Tall." Columbus Day WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford has designated Oct. 14 as the day to honor Christopher Columbus. In proclaiming the second Monday of October as Columbus Day, Ford said on Tuesday that "Americans of the 20th Century strive to follow the vision and unshakeable faith of Christopher Columbus by seeking to discover a 'New Daily record WATERLO0-Becoming cooler Wednesday night with low in the upper 50s and a a high Thursday in the upper 70s. Showers and thunderstorms possible Wednesday night decreasing by Thursday. Chances of rainfall 50 per cent Wednesday night decreasing to 10 per cent Thursday.

Winds from the northwest at 10-15 m.p.h. Wednesday night and Thursday. THE WEATHER EXTENDED FORECAST IOWA-Friday through Sunday: Lows Friday and Saturday nights upper 50s to low 60s, with highs low to mid 80s. Chance of showers mostly north Sunday, with lows low to mid 60s and highs mid 80s. WATERLOO TEMPERATURES a.m.

(official) 73 Year ago high .72 7 Year ago low ..55 Tuesday high (official) .89 Tuesday low (official) .70 Precipitation (official), none Sunset Wednesday, 8:03 p.m.; sunrise Thursday, 6:23 a.m.; sunset Thursday, 8:03 p.m. CEDAR RIVER STAGE Normal River Stage .38.96 Wednesday's River Stage .38.15 (Courtesy Iowa Public Service Co.) MISSISSIPPI RIVER STAGES DAVENPORT (AP) Mississippi River stages Wednesday (flood stages in brackets): LaCrosse (12) 5.0 rise .2 Lansing (18) 8.5 rise .4 Dam 9 (18) 12.4 rise .5 McGregor (18) 6.6 fall .2 Guttenberg (15) 3.9 fall .2 Dubuque (17) 7.1 fall .2 Davenport (15) 4.4 fall .3 Keokuk (16) 3.7 fall .4 GM to roll back prices DETROIT (AP) General Motors announced Wednesday that in response to a request by President Ford it will partially roll back a planned price increase for 1975 cars. GM said it would reduce the scheduled increase by an average $54 from the previously announced figure. THE AUTO maker's action had been predicted by the Detroit Free Press in a dispatch from its Washington bureau. LICENSED TO WED James Merwyn Staveley, 21, 2221 Walnut Cedar Falls, and Sally Kay Mussehl, 20, same address.

Gary Dennis Jacobsen, 19, Jesup, and Debra Kay Schares, 20, La Porte City, Anthony Peter Sulentic, 47, 127 Adams and Frances Eldora Frederick, 45, 619 Bertch Ave. Allen Raymond Wolf, 21. 1547 Wakonda and Deborah Ruth Mott, 19, 650 Maxwell St. Steven Arthur Buller, 20, McCool Junction, and Barbara Lee Smedley, 20, 4003 E. Shaulis Rd.

people, Smith among them, escaped a week's labor at' the Andrew McBeth farm near Martinsburg, driving 30 miles to a dance in Brighton. Andrew McBeth and his wife, Dora, relaxed at home. Perry Kellogg, the infant of their 17- year-old daughter, Donna Jean, was their only companion. By 11 p.m., the baby was alone. His grandparents had been murdered.

SMITH, DORA'S newphew and a young man the family had taken in, quickly, grabbed newspapers to cover blood he'd drawn with a combination shot dragged the two bodies to the garage and made his second trip to Brighton. Not long after re-entering1 the dance, the man ushered his cousins into his 1950 blue Lincoln. They drove to a Hedrick cafe, gobbled a midnight snack and listened to the jukebox. There were no lights at the farmhouse when the group arrived. The farm's fuse box was empty, its contents tossed into the night by the plotting cousin.

AMOS McBETH, 19, found his a dead parents and cried out to the others. Within minutes, Amos, his twin sister Anna and Donna Jean were fatally shot. Patsy, 14, ran into the rainy night, a bullet Martinsburg tragedy for days. wound in her shoulder. Wallerich censored the newsStumbling through ditches and papers, clipping out these stories, fields, she reached the nearest and handing the abridged edineighbor, a mile and a half tions to his prisoner.

away. Pasty sobbed as Emma Smith's common and succinct Northup opened her door surname was passed over by cautiously at 2 a.m. headline writers, and he became "Gayno did it," she cried. known as Gayno. Ten hours afterwards, Smith It was soon learned that his was seen driving his blue Lincoln stepmother had been missing Albia.

The Monroe County from her Hedrick home for sevSheriff, William F. Bagley, gave eral months and two weeks after chase, but to no avail. the McBeth murders, that mystery was resolved grimly. THREE HOURS later, the car was found abandoned in an Ap- JUANITA SMITH, 45, had been panoose County farm field. divorced from Gayno's father, Southeastern Iowans lived in Andrew G.

Smith, for a year fear of the man, still at large, as when her lime-covered body was news reports told of the slayings. lifted from a grave beneath the In Martinsburg, street lights bedroom window of a Hedrick were left burning, uncustomarily, house in which she had lived through the night. briefly with Gayno. Then, as dawn grew into a She had been dead several bright Wednesday, Pete Smith months, her death resulting from and Wendell Bridgeman, a blow on the head. farmers, uncovered the fugitive's trail.

Within an hour, Iowa High- THE PEACEFUL farming way Patrolmen Lowell Harris of area still resurrects the memoAlbia and Richard Smith of ries in barely audibile tones, Bloomfield walked into a barn some searching yet for the annear Lake Wapello and hand- swers; for a shred of logic. cuffed Smith. The present holds mindful realities. There are six graves and KE0KUK SHERIFF Bud only one prisoner, Gayno Smith. Wallerich was given custody of And Gayno Smith is alive.

the prisoner. The news media bannered the NEXT: Gayno Smith today. Senate fails to halt filibuster Consumer bill still blocked WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has voted for the third time against halting the monthlong filibuster blocking a final vote on a measure to create a federal consumer protection agency. The vote normally would I have meant almost certain death for the bill, but Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, said after Tuesday's action he would allow a fourth and final vote Sept. 18.

HE HAD SAID earlier that he would depart from usual practice and allow the extra vote if it appeared that supporters were gaining ground in the attempt to break off the filibuster being led by Sen. James B. Allen, and other conservatives. Cloture, which requires a two-thirds majority, failed by 10 votes in the first tally last month, by seven in a second vote earlier this month and by four in agency would be required to submit the latest count. information requests through other regSens.

Charles H. Percy, and ulatory agencies, which would be free to Abraham Ribicoff, who have disapprove them. Also deleted was a been quarterbacking the bill, said they of the remain- provision giving the agency subpoena were confident picking up ing votes they need. power for use in informal regulatory The vote Tuesday came after propo- proceedings. nents offered a compromise measure in In yy change, the compromise specian attempt to widen support for the bill.

fies that the agency's administrator The bill still would establish an Agency be removed from his four may for Consumer Advocacy, whose admin- term at the pleasure of the president. istrator would plead the interests of The original bill restricted his removal consumers federal regulatory to neglect of duty, malfeasance before or agencies. inefficiency. BUT IN THE bill's present form, the agency would not have all of the power In the six hours of debate that originally proposed for it. The original preceded the vote, opponents of the measure granted the agency direct legislation generally argued it would access to industry for information bear- create another federal bureaucracy to ing on product service, quality and harass business.

It also would be unable consumer fraud. to serve the conflicting interests of In the compromise, the advocate's consumers, they said. Alphabet bombs Oil companies will Continued from locker in a downtown bus station. The device was disarmed. After Kurbegovic's arrest, police aided by bomb-sniffing dogs searched his Hollywood apartment a and hauled away what they described as a large cache of chemicals and explosives.

They said the haul included numerous bottles of clear liquids, several cans of gunpowder, a large spool of electrical wire, a cassette tape recorder, a gas mask, and a number of books on how to make bombs. Police would not say what the clear liquid was, but they said all of the material found could be used in making a large quantity of powerful explosives. SULLIVAN said it was not known where the explosives were obtained. A police spokesman said plainclothes officers and FBI agents had been following Kurbegovic for more than 18 hours prior to his arrest at the restaurant, Carl's Jr. Witnesses at the restaurant described him as "mild looking." He was dressed casually.

Sullivan said the Immigration Service sifted the records of aliens living in the Los Angles area, while police searched their records for aliens with records of sex offenses. He said Kurbegovic was a an alien with such a record, although Sullivan declined to. give any details. Kurbegovic has been a resident. alien in the United States since 1967, Sullivan said.

SULLIVAN said the tape found Tuesday night when Kurbegovic was arrested "reiterated political philosophy" espoused earlier by Rasim EVERYONE Is WELCOME at PORKY'S RED CARPET CLUB 1409 Newell FIRE ALARMS TUESDAY, 3:10 p.m., to Rath Packing Sycamore and Elm streets, broken sprinkler, no fire. EMERGENCY CALLS TUESDAY, 1:39 p.m., to John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works medical department, Marvin Davis, 37, of Janesville, chest pains, taken to Schoitz Memorial Hospital. TUESDAY, 4:22 p.m., to W. Sixth Jefferson streets, Lynn Johnson, and, 16, of 1023 Jefferson sustained cut on arm and bump on head in bicycle accident, taken to Schoitz Memorial Hospital. WEDNESDAY, 5:08 a.m., to 1114 Western S.K.

Cornmesser, 75, chest pains, administered oxygen 15 minutes, taken to Schoitz Memorial Hospital, BIRTHS REPORTED St. Francis Hospital MCGRANE, Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 333 Polk boy. LAWRENCE.

Mr. and Mrs. William, Washburn, boy. MCCOMBER, Mr. and Mrs.

Rodney, 517 First Evansdale, MCCOMBS, Mr. and Mrs. Donald, 224 South girl. MARTIN, Mr. and Mrs.

Tyler, 707 Hanna boy. Schoitz Memorial Hospital AKERIGHT, Mr. and Mrs. Duane, 805 Easton girl. STUDEBAKER, Mr.

and Mrs. Rick, Brandon, boy. GRAY. Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel, Raymond, boy. MARRIAGES DISSOLVED GOODRICH, Robert 29, and Diane 26. Married March 13, 1967, in Waterloo. She gets custody of one child, $35 per week child support, household goods and furnishings, 1969 car, half proceeds of sale of property at 144 Summit Dr. HARTMAN, Joseph 28, and Mary Ann, 28.

Married Sept. 2, 1967, in Waterloo. She gets custody of one child, $75 per month child support. Cedar Falls FIRE ALARMS TUESDAY, 3:24 p.m. To 20th and Olive car fire, van owned by Porter's Camera Store, fire started by carburetor backfire, minor damage.

Rooff denies complaint on aiding church event refund overcharges WASHINGTON (AP) Ten oil companies have agreed to repay some $103.7 million in alleged overcharges to their customers, the Federal Energy Administration reported Wednesday. In addition, agency officials said on Tuesday that four other oil companies have been notified they are suspected of overcharges totaling some $90.7 million. THE OVERCHARGES stem from violations of the FEA's pricing regulations. Of the 10 companies, four were ordered to bar price increases and to roll back prices and take other steps until overcharges totaling $58.2 million are made up. The FEA identified the firms as Ashland, Charter, Conoco and Koch.

The other six companies, which the FEA refused to name, voluntarily agreed to roll back prices totaling $45.5 million without a formal order from the agency. These companies had been accused of illegally increasing diesel fuel prices and service station rents and incorrectly computing base prices, product costs and product-exchange agreements with firms in other parts of the country. AN FEA SPOKESMAN said that in many instances the violations were inadvertent because of the complexity of the pricing regulations. The victims of the overcharges ranged throughout the distribution chain from large terminal operators to consumers, and virtually all petroleum products were involved, the spokesman said. The actions were taken during the first six-month study of oil company operations, which ended June 30, by the agency's refinery audit review program.

Waterloo Mayor Leo Rooff said Wednesday there is no substance to a complaint that city tax money has been used to help promote a religious event. The mayor's report, corroborated by two city employes, came after the Iowa Civil Liberties Union chapter here notified Rooff that an Aug. 27 meeting has been called to discuss the complaint. The complaint charged that the mayor used city stationery, envelopes and postage to send invitations to a Sept. 6 luncheon tied to a Waterloo religious crusade.

ROOFF'S LETTER on city stationery was an invitation to attend the Mayor's Metropolitan Citizen Luncheon at which an evangelist is scheduled to speak. The evangelist, Dr. John Wesley White of the Northeast Iowa Crusade for Christ, is associated with the Billy Graham Crusade. Rooff confirmed that the letters were printed by the city. He said his involvement in the event came at the request of the Rev.

Wayne Hoffman of Westminster United Presbyterian Church, who asked him to host the luncheon and print the invitations. However, Rooff said that before the letters were printed, he instructed the printing department to make out a bill for the city's expenses and send the bill to him. page and did not contain a bomb threat. Without any elaboration, Police, Cmdr. Peter Hagan said investigators had also linked Kurbegovic to a firebombing last Nov.

9 at the home of former Police Commissioner Emmett C. McGaughey and to another attempted firebombing at the home in the last six months. Rasim demanded in one of his messages that McGaughey and George Milemore, former captain of the police commission's investigative unit, be arrested for murder in the 1970 mistake slayings by lice of two Mexican aliens. THE TWO were accidently killed a as officers raided an apartment looking for a murderer. Seven officers were later exonerated of wrongdoing.

Police said McGaughey and Milemore had nothing to do with the shooting. On Saturday night, a powerful explosion leveled a warehouse in a nearly deserted industrial district, injured five persons and caused damage estimated at $5 million to $8 million. The "alphabet bomber" claimed responsibility, but police said it was an accident, that a truckload of chemicals may have overheated in the sun and' starting a chemical reaction which culminated in the late night blast. HIGH METABOLISM Pygmies are noted as having the highest human basal metabolism rate in the world. WHO CAN? you can with Adult Education at Hawkeye Institute of Technology See the fall course listing in the TV Supplement August 23 ROOFF'S statement was confirmed by Pat Kohlmeyer, city printer, who said the city's total expenses had not been computed as of noon Wednesday.

She said the work involved 1,600 sheets of stationery, about 90 minutes of her time and three master carbons. The mayor's secretary, Lucille Knott, said Rooff had told her before the letters were printed that city money could not be used. The invitations were distributed by the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Chambers of Commerce, and no city postage was used, Rooff added. THE MAYOR said he would personally appear at the civil liberties hearing next week. Rooff said he had no quarrel with the civil liberties union, which he felt is "only doing its job" investigating the complaint.

But because of the controversy stirred by this incident, Rooff said he would be wary of any further work involving religious groups. "This is the last time I'll ever do anything for any church group in my official capacity as mayor," he said. Mauna Kea, with a sheer drop of 442 feet, is the highest waterfall in Hawaii. Buford Pusser, killed in crash SELMER, Tenn. (AP) Buford Pusser, the former sheriff of McNairy County whose exploits were made into the motion picture, Tall," was killed early Wednesday in an automobile accident, authorities said.

McNairy County Deputy Sheriff J.0. Dickey said was killed when his car ran off U.S. Highway 64 and 'struck an embankment. said Pusser was thrown clear of the car and instantly. Because of his attempts to clean up the county, Pusser was the target of killers seven times during his six-year as sheriff, which ended four years ago.

He was wounded several times and wife was killed in an ambush assassination attempt on his life. Pusser had just agreed to play himself in a sequel to "Walking Tall," which was to have been called "Buford." World' of peace and cooperation among all men." A long-standing congressional resolution requests the President to proclaim the holiday each year. What a haul MILAN, Italy (AP) Thieves chopped their way through a warehouse wall Tuesday night and stole away with 7,000 of whisky and 2,500 bottles of champagne, police said Wednesday. Police estimated the loot at $150,000. It's a record LARGEST PASSENGER LINER IN OPERATION TODAY: The longest (1,305.2 feet) and largest (66,348 gross tons) liner now, the "France," owned by the Compagnie made General her of- Transatlantique, ficial maiden voyage from on Feb.

3, 1962. She Lellavre, France, to New cost. $81,250,000 and has a service sea speed of 31 knots. (From the Guinness Book of World Records). Open soon, A new branch for Safe Secure people..