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3 new films Pago 23 Neighbors lose battle for sunlight Page 7 1st gold medal for U.S. Page 59 Stocks fl Pi down rammer K7i vty Ai ryJ Juc vii- A-i ajt ii IT' 8.79 Page 66 Final edition Complete stocks 115th Year No. 214 Friday, February 15, 1980 Two men held in deaths of Today Southland floods wmmmmmmmwwmf mm A steep wholesale price rise Fed raises discount rate to 13 Business, Page 66 Topic A it AS MANY as 35 to 45 teen-age girls may have been killed by two Southern California men in a four-month rampage of rape, torture and killing, the Los Angeles County sheriff said. Page 1. f.t nli CityState Ml? i6 4 I i LAW PROFESSOR Ira Heyman has been appointed chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley campus.

Heyman, 49, succeeds Chancellor All)ert Bowker June 30. Page 1. RESIDENTS OF the upper Haight-Ashbury have won their fight against The City. They objected to The City searching their homes for building code violations without reasonable evidence that violations would be found Page 4. AN EX CONVICT has been charged with murdering an Oakland legal secretary, who had planned to testify against fcim after she had accused him of rape.

Page 4. A RETIRED confectioner, faced with the loss of sunlight because of a building to be erected near his beloved Mission District garden, krns what it's like to fight City Hall. Page 7. IF nurrh.iifrl ons in thfl last few rt.i tho j- -ifr, 4 hitchhikers LOS ANGELES (AP) As many as 35 to 45 teen-age girls may have been killed by two Southern California men in a four-month rampage of rape, torture and killing, Sheriff Peter Pitchess said today. Five charges of murder apiece will be sought against Roy Lewis Norris, 32, of Redondo Beach and Lawrence Sigmond Bittaker, 39, who was living in a Burbank motel, in the killings of five girls, Pitchess said He said evidence had been found linking the two with 30 to 40 other girls who have been reported missing.

Norris and Bittaker have been in custody since being arrested Nov. 20 on rape-kidnap charges. Those charges were dropped, but they then were charged with using Mace on a Manhattan Beach woman in a Sept 30 assault Sheriff's spokesman Gary Nitch-man said the five girls known to be dead, aged 13 to 18, disappeared between June and October 1979. All but one were last seen hitchhiking, and all had been tortured and strangled Pitchess said the girls had been subjected to "sadistic and barbaric abuse." He said many photographs uncovered In searches of the suspects' property while the men were in custody may link them with other murders. "One of the suspects Norris is Pitchess said, adding that "more than 500 photographs' of teenage girls taken in southwestern Los Angeles County and Burbank appeared to have been the men's "targets." Pitchess said a quick check of missing persons' records showed at least 30 to 40 of the photographed girls had been reported missing by friends or relatives.

The other 470 photographed girls were not immediately identifiable, he said. Asked if he presumed the 30 to 40 missing girls had been murdered Pitchess said only: "I sincerely hope not, but we just don't know for sure at thistime." He said, however, that the department is acting on the assumption that they may be dead. Police Chief Daryl Gates backed up the sheriff's statements about the case. District attorney's office spokesman Al Albergate said it probably would be several weeks before any charges were Med "because the investigation is not complete." According to documents filed in South Bay Municipal Court in Torrance, Norris allegedly acknowledged participating in the slaying of Lucinda See Back Page, Col. 1 price rise is no surprise.

But perhaps you didnt know that area prices are 3 cents above the national average. Page 9. A Fl'RIOl Pacifk' storm with high winds, rain, hail and lightning lashed Into Southern California, paralyzing traffic and triggering mudslides and flash floods. Page 22. Nation DESPITE A welcome drop in food costs, whok'sale prices surged 16 percent in January, the biggest monthly jump suice November 1974.

Page 1. THE ENERGY Department announced the largest settlement so far in its 29-month investigation of oil company price violations. Page 3. FBI AGENTS have given up their search for skyjacker D.B. Cooper's stash of cash along the Columbia River, leaving the treasure hunt to "tourists and scavengers." Page 41.

World IRANIAN FOREIGN Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said the American hostages in Tehran would not be released until all parties concerned approve the findings of a proposed commission to investigate the shah's regime. Page 2. LEFTIST MILITANTS have taken nearly 400 people hostage in a series of apparently coordinated raids, and the Salvadoran government promised to free 23 jailed Wtists to wx Sfr- -S WASHINGTON AP) Despite a welcome drop in food costs, wholesale prices increased 1.6 percent in January, the biggest monthly jump since November 1974, the Labor Department reported today. The Increase was propelled by sharply higher gasoline and home heating oil prices, which wiped out a 05 percent decline in food prices, the department said Changes in wholesale (producer! prices often show up within weeks at retail outlets. January's jump nearly doubled December's revised 0.9 percent increase.

During all of last year, wholesale prices rose an average of 1 percent a month, for an annual rate of ia3 percent. The Producer Price Index measures the prices of items at three levels: finished goods, processed and ready for sale to retailers: intermediate goods, which are semi-finished; and crude materials, which have yet to be processed and Include such items as livestock, grain, raw cotton or steel scrap. Before seasonal adjustments, the entire Producer Price Index for finished goods rose to 2321 in January. This means that hat cost $1 In 1967 sold for $232 last month. The Labor Department reported that prices of consumer durables ready for retail went up 32 percent in January, following increases of 1.6 percent In December and 1 percent in November.

Much of this acceleration was caused by a 54.8 percent increase in household flatware, and a 22.5 percent jump in precious metal jewelry, a reflection of the recent gold and silver rush worldwide. Despite a drop in auto sales, wholesale car prices rose 2 percent last month, compared with December's 0.6 percent increase, the department said. Gasoline prices rose 5.7 percent last month, 2.5 percent more than in December, home heating oil prices rose 2 percent, following a 0.1 percent rise in December. Wholesale prices for tobacco, cosmetics, soaps, detergents, textile house furnishings, tires and bicycles also advanced above December's Inflation rate, the department said the decline in finished food products was attributed primarily to price reductions in beef, veal, pork, eggs and fresh fruit Prices for fresh and dry vegetables, roasted coffee and processed poultry also fell. However, dairy and bakery products ready for sale to retailers rose in January as did prices for fish and milled rice, the department said.

The prices of capital equipment used to help manufacture other goods and a factor in the cost of industrial production rose 1.6 percent last month, about twice as much as in each of the previous four months, the See Back Page, Col. 5 United Press International CALL IT LAKE ANGELES: WATER TWO FEET DEEP SLOSHES AGAINST A PARKED CAR was MacArthur Park area after back-to-back cloudbursts; story Page 22 Wet weekend forecast iry io queu spinning political violence, rage s. SOVIET MILITARY control in and around the Afghan capital of Kabul reportedly is crumbling In the face of stepped-up Moslem rebel resistance. Page 19. Storm snarls Bay Bridge Sports By Nancy Doolcy Lightning flashed through Bay Area skies early today as a loud thunderstorm brought heavy rain and a National Weather Servfce prediction of a wet weekend.

The storm produced a massive traffic jam on the Bay Bridge, with a 20-minute backup reported at 10 a.m., long after the rush hour usually ends. A bridge dispatcher said there were no accidents, only "heavy rain, heavy traffic." In San Francisco, the Fourth Street Bridge also was closed to traffic this morning due to high tides. Roy Noland. a 14-year veteran bridge tender, said he never had seen tides so high. The bridge See Back Page, Col.

1 Law prof is UC Berkeley chancellor SPEEDSKATER ERIC Heiden brought the United States its first gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Page 59. The sweetest victory, however may have been the U.S. hockey team's domination of a Czech squad. Page 62.

SORRY, OAKLAND Raiders fans. It appears a move to Los Angeles is inevitable. Page 59. WHILE MARTINA Navratilova was winning, Billie Jean King was feeling the sting of defeat In the Avon Classic tennis tourney at the Oakland Coliseum Arena Page 59. Business THE DISCOUNT rate has been raised to a record 13 percent by the Federal Reserve Board in a new attempt to combat inflation.

The move likely will cause an increase in Interest rates. Page 66. A FOOTBALL star sometimes has a difficult time persuading businessmen that his company really can help the management. Fran Tarkenton explains how he became a success off the field. Page 66.

OTHER NATIONS are challenging the k'ad of the United States in establishing manufacturing facilities in space, a government agency warns. Page 66. By Annie Nakao Education Writer Law professor Ira M. Heyman was appointed chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley campus today by the UC Board of Regents. Heyman, 49, will succeed Chancellor Albert Bowker, who will step down June 30 after nine years as head of the Berkeley campus.

"Mike Heyman has impressive academic ment "an excellent choice. The challenges of the next decade will require someone with Heyman's strengths," he said "He's been an extremely effective vicechancellor and no doubt, he'll be as effective as a chancellor." Kadish said Heyman's greatest strength is an "ability to relate to people of all kinds." The regents ere meeting in Los Angeles See Back Page, Col. 1 and administrative leadership experience at Berkeley, is a dedicated teacher and scholar and has an extensive record of public and professional service," said UC President David S. Saxon, who recommended Heyman for the post. Additional favorable reaction came from Dr.

Sanford Kadish, dean of Boalt Hall, the campus law school, where Heyman began his academic career. Kadish called the appoint A hard look Immigrant shopkeepers live with nightly fear Opinion i THE EXAMINER'S VIEW: President Carter had better think carefully about the future effects of any US. concessions to Iranian terrorism. Editorials, Page 38. Weather BAY AREA: Periods of rain through tomorrow.

Highs in the 50s; lows in the upper 40s to low 50s. Small craft advisory for southeast winds 15-35 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent tonight and tomorrow. Details, Page 22. Index WARNING These premises protected by automatic suneillance cameras 24 hours a (lav Ox By Peter H.

King The Haghshenas family mom, pop and son have a small, cluttered store on one of San Francisco's busier streets, out by the ocean. They sell Ice cream and candy and stuffed toy animals. Business isnt bad; not good, but not bad The father, Akbar Haghshenas, works all day, overseeing the few hired hands. He hasn't been able to find anyone to work nights lately, so the whole family stays at the store until 10 p.m. closing.

The son, the only member of the immigrant family who speaks good English, is there to work behind the counter, taking care of what is usually only a small dribble of customers. Mom and pop are there to scare away the robbers. Even with his parents there as human scarecrows, nights are bad for the son, a thin. 2yearld City College student named Gamiar. They are bad because he is afraid that when the sun goes down and the other businesses close up and the hoods start to cruise the street, trouble once again will walk through the door.

It is a new fear. Until recently, he worked the shift alone or with one of the young girls his father used to be able to hire for $3.10 an hour. Then last month, In the span of tw weeks, men came into the store, ordered scoops of ice cream, pulled out guns and took all the money. The first time, the robbers bound Gamiar's hands with a belt after first trying to force him and one of the young girl workers into the freezer. "1 was so scared" he says.

"I had never seen a gun before." He was less suprised the second time, and as the robbers peeled away in their car, he pulled his father's new -See Page 11, CoL 1 ..44 Death 21 Editorial. Arts, Films Calendar City ..38 70 ....44 Shipping Comics 36 72 .72 Want Ads Crosswords..