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T5AILY 'ftEWS; "MONDAY; JANTjARYSCmr 9 to She hinm courts from 1926 to -1942 when he quit the sheriff department to join the merchant marine. He swore his background did not make him prosecution-minded. Mrs. Jean K. Roseland, a trim secretary for Trans World Airlines, usually wears small white gloves in court.

Her husband is a junior high school math teacher and they have a son, 19, and daughters 17 and 15. She said: "I think I could be fair," explaining that although; she has teenage children the youth of the girl defendants would "make no difference." Anlee Sisto, a school district electronic technician married with two sons, 22 and 23, said he thought Manson "may be an intelligent bad man who has gone wrong." Although he had "tentatively" thought the defendants were guilty he swore he was impartial. He said: "I have friends with long hair. I have friends that have different ideas." Nixon's statement influenced him "not one William M. Zamora, unmarried, a highway engineer technician for the state, was in Europe at the height of some of the publicity about the case and knew little about it.

He has grown a luxuriant mustache beard and sideburns since the trial started, changing his entire appearance. A Former New Yorker Marie M. Mesmer, formerly from New York State, owns rental properties, was a former newspaper drama critic and once was an "exhibiting artist throughout the country." She said she didn't read much about the murders, but when she was asked if she knew about Manson, answered: "It's like saying, do you know President Nixon? It's in the headlines." John M. Baer, a water and power department employe, said he assumed that the state would not have indicted the defendants without "some reasonable suspicion." He-thought the defendants' unorthodox life style "leads to difficulties both for themselves and for other people." But he swore he could be impartial. Mrs.

Evelyn J. Hines, a dictaphone operator, said she didn't approve of long hair on men, including Manson, but it wouldn't prejudice her. She is married to a power engineer, and childless. Larry D. Sheely, a telephone maintenance employe, was the alternate who replaced a juror excused for illness.

He is married, with two sons, 3 and 4, and also grew a beard while on the jury. When he was asked about the Nixon headline charging that Manson was guilty, he cracked: "It should sell newspapers." By THEO WILSON Staff Correspondent of The News Los Angeles, Jan. 24 It has been an unreal life for the Tate-LaBianca murder trial urors these past six months a group of strangers locked in together away from their homes, jobs and friends, eating together, traveling together seeing movies together, always under guard. Now they are in deliberation and their lives have become more insulated. They are in recess today at the Ambassador Hotel, tile second Sunday they have-not been allowed to visit with husbands and wives, as they could before deliberations started.

As soon as they got the case Jan. 15, a Friday, the weekend conjugal visits were banned. Clergymen Come to Hotel They cannot go out to churches of their choice, accompanied by bailiffs, as they did before. Instead, clergymen have come to the hotel to conduct Sunday service's. The five women and seven men sitting in judgment on Charles Manson, Susan Atkins," Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie Van Houten now have become a center of interest.

Besides their names and occupations, what do we actually know about these jurors From the questions they answered during the month-long jury selection last year, we know they promised the prosecutors they had the "courage" to bring in death verdicts if necessary. None of them is opposed to capital punishment. We know they promised the defense attorneys that they could presume the defendants innocent, no matter what they had learned in advance about the murders. They promised also to remember that the defendants had no "burden" to prove innocence and could be acquitted even if they put on no defense. We know they swore they could find a defendant guilty of murder even Manson, it was shown he had not actually committed any killing.

We also know they swore they would not let the defendants' hippie-like style affect their verdicts, nor would they be swayed by the fact that three of the defendants are young girls. The foreman, Herman C. Tubiek, is a mortician Jury of seven men and five women listening to testimony during trial. who assured defense counsel that gruesome murder pictures would not influence him against their clients. Juror No.

1 is Mrs. Thelma S. McKenzie, a clerical supervisor for the county department of social services, who has intrigued the press with her collection of wigs. She is childless, married to an aircraft mechanic who was unemployed when she was selected. She comes from Tennessee, served as a juror before, and took copious notes.

Mrs. Shirley B. Evans, No. 2, a secretary for' the Los Angeles City school system, is married and has a 22-year-old son at college. All she heard about the murders, she said, was "that it was bad, pretty William T.

McBride, No. 3, a chemical reactor operator who served in the Air Force three years, is a bachelor and at 25 the youngest juror. He lives with his parents and said he didn't watch much TV news at night because he visited his fiance, who didn't have a set. The engagement has been broken since the trial started. No.

4, Alva K. Dawson, will be 74 next month, the oldest juror. He suffers from glaucoma, and was taken by a bailiff for medical checkups during the trial. He is a former bailiff who worked in county Connecticut Rushes Oil Cleanup Mi fas life Ui mi Sonne MoiosioDg) By OWEN MORITZ Modified rent controls wouid be slapped on the city's middle-income housing developments, under legislation that goes to the City Council today. Rents for middle-income families have been rising sharply, according to officials.

Councilman Mario Merola (D- fp Bronx), chairman of the Council Finance Committee, said he would propose a ceiling of 10i on any rent increase filed for middle-income developments, most of which were built under the state's Mitchell-Lama law. The ceiling vould cover a two-year period. Merola, who will provide the specifics of his plan at City Hall today, said: "We must do something. The middle-income tenants 3 re being clobbered by rent hikes." Modified rent controls on middle-income housing would bring to three the number of the city's major housing sectors with rent ceilings. pected to pass would affect 115,000 tenants in city developments.

But passage, Merola reasons, would spur similar action by state lawmakers to extend the ceiling to state-operated housing. Jane Jacobs of the Mitchell-Lama Tenants Association reports that six Bronx developments alone have been socked with proposed increases of 25 ro to 47. Already approved by the city 8re a 30 rent hike for Schuyler Branford House and 25 for Nathan Hale Gardens, both the Bronx. middle class are the backbone of this city," Merola said. "But they are being murdered-They pay the taxes and now they Airview from NEWS plane by George Mattson; Al DeBello.

pilot Oil spillage at Morgan Point, near New Haven, shows up as light areas in photo taken with infrared film. Cleanup of spillage from tanker Esso Gettysburg, which hit a rock ledge, were in full gear yesterday. 7 Flee Fed Ml Bea3slme2s Seven men jumped to freedom from bedsheet ropes in an escape yesterday from the Federal House of Detention, 427 West after cutting through a ventilator shaft with tin shears and hacking through three cell bars to a makeshift window. How Some Are Regulated Rent control regulates more than 1.3 million apartments, built before 1947 and housing about 3.5 million people. A rent stabilization law covers about 1 million tenants in 375,000 post-1947 are being hit with astronomical rent hikes.

They are the accountants, the lawyers, the taxi drivers and we can't afford to chase them out of the city with skyrocketing rents." apartments and allows rent in creases of To to 12c at lease re 1AIRPEX 1 newal times. Only the 580,000 tenants in 172 developments operated by the New York City Housing Auth ority are without a rent control mechanism. But the authority charter and other devices keep rents low. UN HEALTHFUL feiPWJ" UNSATISFACTORY- ACCEPTABLE GOOD- I FvlMr.rirM A- Testtfiay. A The escape, according to Warden Louis Gengler, took place as the inmates were released from their cells for breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

The men were still at large as of late last night. Last Man Caught According to the warden, the men moved to a third-floor cell and cut their way into a ventilator shaft. Then they cut through three bars and with the bedsheets lowered themselves to the roof of an abandoned warehouse on Bank St. The escape was discovered immediately by a guard who noticed identified as David S. Jacobanis, 60, of Bloomf ield, N.

reportedly a onetime member of bank robber Willie Sutton's gang; Alfredo Picardo, 40, charged with a customs violation; Paul Padilla, 25; Guillermo Hernandez, 30, of Buenos Aires; Miguel Valencia, 34; Jean. D. Rodriguez, 43, and Enio Varella, 43, both of Asuncion, Paraguay. All but Jacobanis, charged with a New Jersey bank robbery, and Picardo were being held narcotics charges. There are about 225,000 resi an inmate, the warden said, who was to be the eighth man out, in the cell from which the escape took place.

About the same time, someone from outside the prison telephoned information on the dangling rope. Fugitives Listed All seven were being held on federal offenses and, accordingly, the FBI was called in. The men were dressed in prison garb of khaki shirts and trousers. The seven who escaped were dents in 70 middle-income devel opments here, with roughly half of them regulated by the city's Housing and Development Ad ministration and partially regulated by the state housing i-; i I TODAY: Pollution levels are expected to improve from onheafthful to nnsatii factory. Dept.

of Air Resources Merola legislation it is ex.

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