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I lf Co Angeles State wed. jury 30. i98o-Pirt I 3 Building Industry's Loan Plan Advances Management, Union Leaders Establish Foundation to Invest Pension Funds ia" i in, jii un.f-jinn mn mr rmi 'ill Ijl In V-Cd mill ttm By HARRY BERNSTEIN Thma La bar wrHar ed, union and management trustees of five other large trust funds join the newly created foundation. The investments could spur sagging housing construction and provide more jobs for unionized construction workers, a spokesman said. Will Address Meeting The Southern California construction investment program also is expected to expand soon to other parts of the state.

Proposals for statewide expansion will be discussed at a convention in Los Angeles today of the AFL-CIO California Building and Construction Trades Council. Gov. Jerry Brown will address the convention to spell out his own proposals to encourage other construction unions to join the investment programs and to stimulate use of state and local retirement funds into what he has called "a productive, socially responsible way." Brown's proposals are not directly related to the new foundation. Prior to his convention speech. More Burros Corralled in Canyon Drive By KEITH LOVE Tinwi Staff Wrtttr GRAND CANYON, of the finest cowboys in Arizona rounded up burros Tuesday morning in the most spectacular corral in the West the Grand Canyon.

Far below Grand View Point on the canyon's South Rim, the cowboys hemmed in three burros against the soaring red cliffs near Cottonwood Creek. A helicopter dropped out of the sky and took the burros in a cargo net to a nearby corral, while reporters and photographers scrambled through the prickly pears and mesquite to record the action. The burros, which appeared to be familiar with the roundup routine, will be flown out of the canyon early this morning in the second burro airlift. Ten animals were flown out Sunday and have been taken to new homes in Colorado. Reporters were flown into the canyon Tuesday by the Fund for Animals, a national group that hopes to capture the estimated 350 burros that roam the Grand Canyon's 1,226,000 acres.

Jennies With Foals The National Park Service announced in May that the burros would be shot because their trails and grazing habits have damaged the canyon ecology. The burros' ancestors wandered away from prospectors and surveyors in the late 19th Century. They bred prolifically for decades, with the park service keeping the total down by shooting some of them. It was not clear how many burros would be flown out today. Fund for Animals President Cleveland Amo-ry said he understood the cowboys had 24 animals ready to go.

However, only 16 could be counted in the corral, most of them jennies (females) with foals at their sides. Dave Ericsson, a former world champion broncobuster who is leading the roundup, took one young burro down from the base of the cliffs by slinging it across the front of his saddle. When asked about the total, he squinted into the distance and said, "There's a few more up that way in another corral." Please Turn to Page 26, Col. 5 Treeway Killer Case Charged in strangled, but many of the slayings had "dual causes of death," according to Deputy Dist. Atty.

Aaron Sto-vitz, Prior reports on the murders revealed that one victim had a spike driven into his brain-One count of mayhem filed against Bonin alleges he mutilated a victim's penis and testes. Stovitz also revealed at a news conference after the filing of charges that there are "a couple of other suspects" in some of the 21 killings attributed to Bonin. BURROS' BIG DAY An adult is lifted out of the Grand Canyon in helicopter sling, while a baby burro gets ride with cowboy. Timet photo by Con Keyet Two Men By BILL FARR Tlmti Staff Writtr William George Bonin, a 33-year-old convicted sex offender, was accused Tuesday of murdering 21 of the so-called "Freeway Killer" victims, whose bodies were discarded over six Southland counties. Named by investigators as Bo-nin's accomplice in at least six of the killings was Vernon Robert Butts, 22, a laborer and amateur magician.

Both men live in Downey. The first announcement of a major break in the case came in late morning from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, which said that evidence had been developed linking Bonin and Butts to the multiple slayings of young hitchhikers. A little more than an hour later, the district attorney's office in Los Angeles formally charged Bonin, a Southern California construction industry and union leaders Tuesday established a foundation to start massive investments from pension fund reserves in building projects ranging from housing to shopping centers. Plans for the program were disclosed last March, but now the foundation has been set up to process loan applications, a spokesman said. Initial investment money will come from pension reserves estimated at more than $750 million in trusts set up for carpenters, painters, plumbers, electricians and sheet metal workers.

The available money is expected soon to almost double if, as expect- Luis Obispo on a sex perversion conviction. As authorities in Los Angeles were disclosing the charges against Bonin and Butts, investigators in Orange County were looking into the death of a young man found Monday night alongside remote Santiago Canyon Road in the foothills north of El Toro. The youth was described as being in his late teens or early 20s with no readily apparent marks of violence on his body. Orange County sheriffs Lt. Wyatt Hart said he was clad only in a pair of pants.

Meanwhile, Hart said investigators are preparing to ask the Orange County district attorney's office to file charges against Bonin in five of the 21 murders, and authorities in San Bernardino reportedly are also considering filing homicide counts on slayings committed in their jurisdiction. The murder counts filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office involve 14 victims "who were either killed, picked up, driven through or dropped off in Los Angeles County," said Sterling Norris, who will be co-prosecutor with Stovitz. Please Turn to Page 20, Col. 1 David Murillo John St. John, another press conference participant, would comment on what led detectives to link Bonin and Butts to the strii of slayings.

But Livesay said he investigation is continuing ana there is a possibility that the two men might be charged with even more of the murders. He said, however, that it was unlikely that the evidence linking either Bonin or Butts "would stretch back to 1972," when the first of 42 strikingly similar murders with homosexual overtones began. These homicides came to be known as the work of the "Freeway Strangler" later, the "Freeway Killer" because the victims' bodies were dumped along or near freeways in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura, Kern and San Bernardino counties. Detectives determined that Bonin could not have committed at least five of the murders occurring between March 31, 1976, and Oct. 11, 1978 because at the time he was in the California Men's Colony in San This article was prepared with the assistance of Times staff writers Decker, Janice Fuhrman, Gary Jarlson, Kristina Lindgren and Michael Seller.

All of the victims were young men and boys. The prosecutor said that there were indications that "some of the victims knew each other." Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. Curt Livesay, who presided over the press conference, would not allow any elaboration regarding "matters of evidence" on how the victims were killed, other suspects or the relationships between some victims. Neither Livesay nor Los Angeles Police Department investigator Mark D.

Shelton it A) I I I If ir 4Nft' I Cf PH Donald Hyden Marcus Grabs Brown will meet today with officers of a state Public Investment Task Force composed of bankers, investment experts and labor and business leaders to formulate their own proposals. One official of the new foundation estimated that when all building unions join, investment money could total at least $100 million a month. Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 State Initiates Actions Against 21 Termite Firms By CLAUDIA LUTHER Tinwt Staff Wrttar SACRAMENTO An undercover investigation conducted over three months has led to the filing of accusations against 21 termite inspection companies, the state Structural Pest Control Board reported Tuesday. The companies, 12 of which are in Southern California, face possible suspension or loss of their licenses for allegedly failing to discover, correctly identify and report structural pest problems.

"This (enforcement) program suggests, contrary to popular thinking, that termite inspectors consistently under-report pest control problems rather than report imaginary ones," said Rodney Stine, the board's executive officer. 2,000 Complaints Yearly The board regulates the pest control industry, which makes more than 1 million inspections a year at a cost of more than $500 million to consumers. About 2,000 complaints are reported each year, according to board President Neil Good. The board, in the first such program it has tried, used two undercover methods for discovering problems with termite companies. The first, used in Southern California, involved simply following up inspections done by companies to determine if they had been done properly.

This, Stine said, was "time-consuming and expensive." Please Turn to Page 26, Col. 1 RESTRAINED Garvey Fan Strikes Out Steve Garvey, the Dodger first baseman, won one today when a Superior Court judge issued a restraining order at Garvey's request that keeps an overly enthusiastic fan 100 yards away from the slugger and his wife. Polly Berger, "a dyed-in-the-wool Dodger fan," was told to keep her distance, and not harass, molest or annoy Garvey or his wife, Cyndy, the TV talk-show personality. And, for good measure, the Gar-veys were told to stay 100 yards from Berger and not bother her, though Judge Harry T. Shafer said he hadn't heard any evidence that the Garveys had been molesting the fan.

The court action grew out of a series of incidents. In one, Berger was accused of elbowing Cyndy Garvey in the ribs at an Ail-Star luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel. In another, the Garveys allegedly had security guards remove Berger when she visited the Dodgers' wives' seating area at the stadium. Apparently, both sides were satisfied with the court's decision. Berger's lawyer, Martin Radoff, asked for and got the star's truck driver, with 14 counts of murder, 11 counts of robbery, one count of sodomy and one of mayhem.

Additional murder counts are expected to be filed against him later in other counties. At the same time, Butts was charged with six of the same murders and three counts of robbery. Most of the murder victims were LISTING OF 21 VICTIMS The following is a list of the alleged victims of William G. Bonin and Vernon Butts: 1 Thomas Lundgren, 14, of Reseda, who disappeared there May 28, 1979. His body was found later that day in Malibu.

2 Mark D. Shelton, 17, of Westminster, vanished Aug. 4, 1979. His nude body was found one week later just off 1-15 in the Cajon Pass area. 3 Marcus Grabs, 17, described by authorities as a German transient, was last seen hitchhiking in Newport Beach Aug.

5, 1979. His body was found the next day in Agoura. 4 Donald Hyden, 15, of Hollywood was last seen there Aug. 27, 1979. His body was found later that day in a garbage dumpster along Liberty Canyon Road near the Ventura Freeway in Agoura.

5 David Murillo, 17, of La Mira-da disappeared there Sept. 9, 1979, and his body was found in Ventura three days later. 6 A John Doe, age estimated at between 17 and 20; body found along a frontage road off I-10, halfway between Banning and Palm Springs Sept. 27, 1979. 7 Another John Doe, age 19 to 25, found in Kern County Nov.

30, 1979. 8 Frank Dennis Fox, 18, of Long Beach. His nude body was dumped in Orange County along the Ortega Highway, five miles east of the San Diego Freeway, Dec. 2, 1979. 9 A John Doe, age 15 to 20, whose body was found along Highland Avenue in Rialto Dec.

13, 1979. Victim was described as a white male, 5-foot-7, 140 pounds with collar-length blonde hair. Body had a tattoo of a skull in a hat on right bi-cep and the letter tattooed on left hand. 10 Michael Francis McDonald, 16, was fully clothed when his body was found Jan. 3, 1980, on Euclid Avenue north of California 71 in western San Bernardino County.

Last seen alive two days earlier in Ontario. 11 Charles Miranda, 14, of Bell Gardens was found dead in Hollywood. Feb. 3, 1980. He had last been seen earlier that day in Los Angeles.

12 James Michael Macabe, 12, of Garden Grove, whose fully clothed body was found Feb. 6, 1980, in a Please Turn to Page 20, CoL 1 Hot Winds Fan Southland Fires By LORRAINE BENNETT and DOROTHY TOWNSEND Timts Staff Wrttars Hot winds, soaring temperatures and intermittent lightning strikes hampered firefighters on the lines of dozens of brush fires in Southland desert and mountain areas Tuesday. Some localized rainfall brought brief relief and aid to crews on the largest of the fires, which was burning out of control along the jagged peaks of the San Jacinto Mountains above Palm Springs. That blaze, which erupted Sunday and forced closure of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway on Monday and Tuesday, was considered 90 contained Tuesday night after it had consumed 7,900 acres. Full containment was expected by 6 p.m.

today. A lightning strike on the tramway Tuesday injured a maintenance employee working on a cable at the lower station. "We were on a catwalk, marking the cables to be shortened," Allan Johnson, 41. told a reporter shortly after being treated for minor injuries at Desert Hospital and released. "The lightning had to have hit the cable.

Even though it (the cable) was grounded, I picked up a Please Tarn to Page 20, Col. 1 2ND INFORMANT TIED TO FBI ROLE IN PRATT TRIAL By AUSTIN SCOTT TlitMt Staff Writtr A letter from the FBI, made public Tuesday, indicates that two informantsnot just one as the agency had claimed spied on defense strategy for the FBI during the murder trial of former Los Angeles Black Panther leader Elmer (Geronimo) Pratt in 1972. The information was revealed by the state attorney general's office just hours before a scheduled Court of Appeal hearing on Pratt's request to be either set free or granted a new trial. Pratt was convicted of fatally shooting Catherine Olsen, 27, on a Santa Monica tennis court in 1968. Instead of hearing arguments on Pratt's claim that the government's suppression of the informants and other evidence warrants at least a new trial, the Court of Appeal announced a decision interpreted by Pratt's attorneys as a blow to his hopes.

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