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HARVARD NERVE CENTER SEIZED (See Story Column 8) INDEX Births, Deaths 37 Classified 37-48 Comics 29 Editorial. Feature 32-33 Peninsula News 35-36 Sports Section 25-28 Stocks, Business 30-31 TV, Radio, Foster 20 Theaters 18-19 World of Women 11-14 tfhe SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER A HOME OWNED NEWSPAPER WEATHER Fair tonight, with increasing cloudiness tomorrow. Low tonight, 35: high tomorrow, 65, Light Vol. 69, No. 291 4 Sections 48 PAGES SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1969 342-7711 lOc PER COPY $2.50 PER MONTH Sharp Drop In Jobless Biggest Decline Jn Ten Years WASHINGTON (UPI) -The greatest decline in unemployment in ten years was recorded in November, the government reported today.

Although the Nixon Administration has been warning that higher unemployment may be exoected as- part of the fight against inflation, the jobless dropped in November by one-half of one per cent to 3.4 per cent of the labor force. The Labor Department said the decline, from a 3.9 per cent rate in October, was the! greatest for a single month! since a similar 0.5 per cent decline between November and Syrians Free 2 Israeli Held After Hijack ELAINE LOUISE DAVIS "Quiet, Honor Student" Sighting Of Missing Bay Girl Told QUINCY (AP)-A hitchhiker has told authorities here he has seen 17-year-old Elaine peccmoer19o9, when the ratei report ed kidnaped Monday from -i 0 1 fell from 5.8 per cent cent. decline in the last 20 years was a 1.5 per cent decline from October to November. 1949. Labor Department officials declined to assess the possible impact of the November jobs figures on the anti-inflation campaign.

In actual figures, the department said, unemployment fell 360,000 in November to a total of 2.7 million. Most of the decline was among teen-agers, young men between 20 and 24. and adult women who found jobs or stopped looking for work. 5 3 a Creek ties a told depu- about East he was picked up p.m. Thursday in Quincy by a man about 19 or 20, driving a green sedan, who asked where he could find a gas station.

Constan said when he got in the car. he saw a young blonde- haired girl crying. He said he asked her what was wrong but got no answer. They stopoed at a filling sta- ATHENS (UPI)-Two Israeli men held by Syria for 99 days after their Trans World Airlines plane a hijacked to Damascus and a i a destroyed Arab guerrillas, were freed today and flew to Athens aboard the repaired airliner. The men were Dr.

Scholomo Samueloff of Jerusalem, a Hebrew University School specialist, and Salah Moualem, a Tel Aviv travel agent. They were a-board a TWA flight with 111 other persons when two Arab guerrillas, one an attractive girl, hijacked the. plane to Damascus last Aug. 29 after it had flown over Lydda airport in Israel. Israeli planes land the pisto! tried to make the plane but the pilot radioed hijackers were holding a to his -head.

TWA. Vice President Richard W. Wilson, who flew with them, told newsmen the Israelis "locked well and -were happy to be going home." Jury Hears Account Of Fatal Beating Carlos Lopez was scheduld to take the witness stand in his murder trial today to pkce the blame on his co-defendant, Clarence Galindo, for the June 20 beating of an elderly Pacifica couple. A preview of the Lopez testimony was given to the Superior Court jury of eight men and four women yesterday by Pacifica Police Capt. Albert Tebaldi, who read excerpts of statement obtained from the defendant following his arrest at the home of Christian and May Pedersen in Pacifica.

Stayed in Toolshed Lopez. 25, told Tebaldi a.nd Special Counsel Named Probe Coverup In 'Massacre' WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of the Army Stanley R. today reached outside the Army and appointed a special counsel to help in a probe of a DossiWe cover-up in the original 'ield investigation of the alleged My Lai massacre. A Pentagon spokesman said Resor wanted a civilian counsel available to Lt. Gen.

William R. Peers, head of the investigating soard. to help assure "objectivity and impartialimmmm Resor chose Robert Mac- Crate, partner in the New York firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. The 48-year-old MacCrate in turn selected Jerome K. Walsh partner in the New York law firm of Walsh and Frisch, as his associate special counsel Resor's move was announced as the Peers board prepared to take testimony from 1st Lt.

Wil- "My had a reasonably he said. were not allowed to approach tihe men. who were met at the airport by Israeli diplomats, "The Israeli government does not want them to meet the tion in Quincy, Constan said, i press before briefing them," an airport official said. No details were immediately available here on how the release was arranged. Other passengers, including and when he went in back to wake the owner the car sped off "like wildfire." Constan said The jobless rate among rfrivcr had told him he had men fell from 2.4 per cent to.

52.00 and was headed for, 0 0 2.2 per cent while the over-all i Reno. about 60 miles east. I four Israeli women and the rate for full-time workers: In Walnut Creek, Police Chief' good treat-j other men escaped from San Francisco County Jail near San Bruno June 17. He described how he and Galindo made their way west and were nearly cap- lured by Pacifica police in the Vallemar area on June 19. That night they stayed in a toolshed in -back of the Pedersen home at 165 Winona Avenue.

Galindo was cold, sick and hungry, Lopez told the officers, and early the next morning armed i with heavy shears and ssid he was going (Please See Page 10, Column 5) Raymond C. Davis said Miss Davis probably was kidnaped. Foundations Keep Status WASHINGTON (UPI) Thei crew were released within two days after the hijack. Syria rejected requests from the "We are fairly certain she United States, Italy and other left involuntarily, probably up- governments for the release of der duress," the chief said Thursday in discussing the disappearance of Elaine L. Davis from her home.

The girl, a straight-A student at Pleasant Hill High technicians who repaired was last seen at 10:30 p.m. Mo da wnen her mother left Senate-ejected todavbv a 69-18 i vote a "death sentence" propos- lo drive to nearby Concord to al which would have stripped ck hcl husband at a gas- foundations of their tax-exempt oll statlon he manage Mr Mre status after 40 years. When and James men until today. The two Arab commandos blew -up the cockpit of the plane after it landed in Damascus. TWA sent in a team of at a cost of $3 million, an airline said today.

He said (Please See Page 10, Column 1) into the house. Lopez said tried to talk Galindo out After a shouting debate, sena- Davis returned to their tors voted to delete a provision I minutes later the girl had in' the tax reform bill to allow existing foundations 40 years to give away their assets or pav taxes on their income at the (Please See Page 10. Column 7) vanished, leaving behind her eyeglasses and a purse containing SI Another daughter. Heidi. 3.

was sleeping soundly in a bed- JONES-MINTOFORDSAtES CAR RENTAL SPECIAL! 5 PER DAY 30 WEEK 5 100 MONTH plus mileage 1-CallRnedDalley, 344-1111 IONES-MINTO ffod "THE FLEET STORE" 101 California Drive BURUNGAME 344-1111 OPEN EVES. AND SUNDAY Water Plans Rejected room. Mrs. Davis said the family telephone had been disconnected because she had received anonymous and obscene telephone calls before the girl disappeared. The mother described the missing girl as 4-feet-ll and weighing 100 pounds.

She also said her daughter was shy. studious and didn't drink or smoke (Please See Page 10, Column 5) LOS ANGELES (AP) Gov. Reagan's water chief revealed today six proposed alternative projecls to the controversial high dam at Dos Rios on the Middle Fork of the Eel River which had been rejected by Reagan. are designed to avoid the flooding of Round Valley, Reagan's chief objection to the project as earlier proposed by the (Please See Page 10, Column 3) Rabin Unshaken By Row At Stanford A roving group of 50-100 per- 50-100. The start of the ambas- sons, campus, picketed Stanford University's a Office Thursday afternoon, then shouted outside a speech by Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin at Tresidder Memorial Union.

About 90 picketed in front of the placement office, with about as many more onlookers. The Tresidder group fluctuated from sador's talk was delayed about 15 minutes while a false fire alarm sounded and doors were closed on the chanting demonstrators. Six Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies came to Tresidder toward the end of his talk. The ambassador, completed his- answered questions and left without further incident while the police remained in the rear of the room, behind (Please See Page 37, Column I) going into the house. Failing that, however, -he decided to split with Galindo and go his own way.

Then, Lopez told the officers, he heard a woman scream something like, "Hey. hey." "I got scared and I started running," Lopez said, "and I didn't know -what to do so 1 said 109 vilians in My Lai hamlet on March 16, 1968. The eight-man board, made up mostly of military officers, is questioning witnesses in secret at the Army Operations Center, two levels below ground in the Pentagon. Blacks Occupy Building Worker Hiring Pol lev Issue GIRLS bring food to demonstrators who seized Harvard's University Hall today. Black youths occupied the' university nerve' center to enforce a variety of demands.

This hall was the scene of turmoil last spring. (AP Wirephoto) Woman Says She'll Name Tate Slayers LOS ANGELES (AP) A young woman, whose attorney pledges she will tell who killed Sharon Tate and six others, testifies before a grand- jury today. De puty "oist. CAMBRIDGE, a (UPI) Fifty to 100 blacks occupied the Harvard Univ i Administration Building today. Officials ordered the dissidents to leave 'the building or face criminal prosecution and Cambridge police were alerted but not called to the building.

The blacks, a i stepped up hiring of minority workers by Harvard, seized University Hall and locked inside. The takeover occurred about 8:20 a.m. -before most em- ployes had reported for work. Two hours later, Harvard officials entered the hall to talk to the demonstrators. The takeover was the second involving three-story Universi'y Hall.

The occupation last sprir.z resulted in- a bloody clash between -police and studen's and touched off a strike at the nation's oldest university. The 'blacks placed sleel bars record some songs when Mekh- across the doors to several er lived in t'he Taie home in entrances to the building today fashionable Bel Air before Miss and pulled the knobs off other Prosecutors are seeking to in- iriict the bearded leader of her to hell with it and I ran inside I special counsel, Resor said he i I annrnvpH a renuest hv The mission of the Peers hip ic cian for conspiracy board is to determine why there to C0 mniit murder was a fa'ldown in the original: Attorncy Richard Cab-allero investigation in April 1968 of re-: saic! Thursday that Susan ports of atrocities at My Lai. According to the Army, that field investigation concluded the reports of unnecessary killings of civilians were groundless. The findings never went beyond division level, the Army has said, and the matter was reopened a year later only when a former soldier wrote letters to high government officials report- irs eyewitness accounts of mass killings. In the announcement of a new and I stopped him.

Hitting Couple ''When you he was hitting them?" "Yeah, and I told the 'coy, I said, please, we di'dn't want to come here in the first place anc hurt you. you know. "Was he hitting both of them or just one of them?" "Both of them. I guess, because she was still bleeding on her head." the man a a bloody?" "Yeah, he -was laying there. (Please See Page 10, Column 4) Giants Trade 3 For Hurler MIAMI BEACH (UPI) The San Francisco Giants today obtained relief pitcher Frank Re- Derger from the San Diego Padres in exchange for infielder Bob Ethwidge, catcher Bob Barton and pitcher.Ron -Herbel.

Reberger, 25, appeared in 67 games for the Padres last season and compiled a 1-2 record with -a 3.58 earned run average, was selected by the -Pad-res Tom the Chicago Cubs' roster the expansion draft. Etheridge. a 26-year-old third jaseman, played in 56 games the Giants last season and jatted .260 with one homer and 10 runs batted in. He is a right- handed hitter. Barton, 28.

appeared in just 49 and hit only .170 with no lomers and only one run batted He was -the Giants' third(Please See Page IB, Column 4) had approved a request by Denise Atkins. 21. will waive rights against and "tell the-grand jury exactly what happened" in a gamble that her voluntary testimony might save -her from the gas chamber. Miss Atkins, charged with murder in a separate case, accompanied of the clan as they killed Miss Tate. ish film ac- Taie and her husband moved in, the attorneys said.

Aaron Stovitx, said Thursdav he would ask the grand jury to indict Manson on a charge of conspira cy to commit murder, and would seek murder and conspiracy indictments at least five o-iher persons. It was the first word Manson. held for trial in Independence, on charges of possessing stolen property and driving a stolen vehicle, 'would be a target for prosecution the slayings. Shot or stabbed with' Miss Tate, 6. at her -rented $200,000 Romari Polans.ki.

and the others I-ast summer, Caballero said. ie said she was temporarily insane, under the clan leader's wood hair stylist Jay Sebring. 35, coffee heiress Abigail Fol- Peers for such a lawyer ''not as-i'-hypnotic spell" at -the time and sociated with -the nothing to do with the MacCrate served as counsel murders Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of N'ew York from 1959 to 1962.

A former naval officer in World War II, MacCrate is a graduate (Please See Page 10, Column 1) Mrs. Cranston Has Mild Stroke WASHINGTON (AP) The wife of Senator Alan Cranston. D-CaliL. suffered a mild stroke today, the senator's office an nounced. The announcement said Mrs.

Geneva Cranston was taken to Doctors Hospital, where she was reported to be doing-well. jail cell conversations led to arrests in the Tate case. But The Los Angeles Times, to which Caballero made his statements, said prosecutors were expected to seek her indictment anyway. Also among the 18 scheduled witnesses was producer Terry jM-elcher, 27-year-old son of singer-actress Doris Day. Melcher has declined comment.

Miss Atkins' 'attorneys said Melcher was visited by Charles M. Manson. 35. known as the leader of a quasi-religious clan of hippie types who knew Manson as "God" and "Satan." Manson was unsuccessful in seeking Meicher's help io Ethics Committee On Judges Named WASHINGTON (AP) Chief Justice Warren E. Burger today appointed 10 federal judges to oversee the off-bench activities of all federal judges.

Three of the 10 judges, working together as a review committee, are to receive reports every three months of any payments of more than S100 any federal judge acquires for oat- of-court activity. A second, seven-man committee will function as an advisory panel. This group will pass judgment on teaching, lecturing, writing, work with charitable organizations and service on boards of colleges, churches and other nonprofit institutions. announcement, made at the Supreme Court, said this committee will give its opinions "upon request." Presumably this means unless the seven review judges are asked what they think about an off(Please See Page 10, Column 3) Frokowsky, 37, and Steven Parent, 18. a friend of the caretak- doors.

Employes arriving for work were -turned away. Black pickets with walkie talkies were posted around Harvard Yard (campus). Dean Ernast N. May, speaking into a bullhorn outside the building, said, "Students participating in this demonstration are forcibly interfering -with the freedom of movement of university officers and employes and are obstructing the normal processes and activities essential to the functions of this office and this university." Following the takeover, the blacks issued a statement setting down five demands, including: er. A wealthy market executive, Leno LaBianca.

44. and his wife Rosemary, 33, were stabbed to death at their Hollywood home the next day. Miss Atkins' lawyers said she t0 told them that members of Man- I atme 1. son's group, -who dressed in black for the occasion, commi.t- ted the Tate slayings, then killed -the LaBiancas to prove (Please See Page 10, Column 6) Warsaw Pact Eases Stand (Earlier Story on Page 9) MOSCOW (UPI) The Warsaw Pact nations haw abandoned their demands for.formal recognition of East Germany as prerequisite for improved relations with West Germany, diplomatic sources said today. The diplomatic sources attached that interpretation to the final communique issued by the Soviet Bloc Summit Conference which ended yesterday.

The communique said all states should establish diplomatic rela- with East Germany in the interest of peace. (West Germany apparently iook the optimistic viewpoint. A statement issued in Bonn said "the communique conveys the impression that these states have agreed to open a new- phase of objective negotiation; (Please See Page 10, Column 2) --A mini-mu-m of 20 per cent of all skilled, semiskilled and general work force be black. --The university and its contractors inform the new Urban League and the United Community Construction Workers (UCCW) of its hiring policies. --The university hire a compliance officer chosen by the UCCW to monitor the hiring and workers and (Please See Page 10, Column 3) A NEW 1970 Plus Tax and License Plus Deposit of $45.21 DAVE RASMUSSEN VOLKSWAGEN I2SN.

Sin Mateo S.M. 342-5301.

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