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The SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Thursday, June 17, 19829 Video Game Wizard Breaks Pac-Man Records, Machines Kingman Man Interrogated For Role in Las Yegas Fire who asked not to be identified. The Arizona Republic first reported that Aldous was being questioned in the Hilton fire. fire intentionally. Jeffers said Wednesday he still believes Cline is guilty. We have no guarantees there is anything to it, said Metro police officer, Miner quoted Wayne Dow, a major in the Mohave County Sheriffs office and one of the men who carried out the arrest as saying Aldous was a prime suspect in the Hilton fire, among other things.

The Kingman Daily BY JANICE METZLER Sun Staff Reporter Dale Burton, 22, has broken two Pac-Man video machines and has a personal record of points with which he won the Pac-Man tournament Tuesday sponsored by the Gold Rush, 2544 N. Fourth St. Burton, 3708 E. Grandview Drive, has mastered the game by using the same pattern which has proved to be very successful, he said. He used to copy patterns out of books written on winning the Pac-Man game but became bored and decided to create his own patterns, he said.

The object of the game is to guide Pac-Man around a maze, eating little dots while avoiding being eaten or hit by four monsters. Players can score points by eating dots or attacking monsters after eating one of four energizers on the board. Mazes get progressively more difficult and monsters, faster as more points are scored. The pattern he used in this tournament allows for some error. He was down to two men at 2 million points, said Gold Rush attendant Donna Montague.

Burton has been playing Pac-Man for about a year and has mastered two other patterns. He averages 1 million points a game and usually quits because the game becomes monotonous and he gets bored, he said. I havent written a book or gotten rich off of it (game strategy). I figure Ill just keep it my own secret, Burton said. He can clear the board in 55 seconds, said Gold Rush technician Bruce Lynch.

Burtons championship game lasted four hours and broke a personal record. A game fin Albuquerque, N.M., from where he moved two weeks ago, lasted three hours and 47 minutes and ended when the screen turned upside down, the little man went off to the side and the monsters disappeared, Burton explained. The actual tournament began Monday but was extended to Tuesday because an attendant became ill and one of the contestants had to work. Burton was told of the tournament by Montague and started Tuesday against two competitors, Kurt Yang, 12, and Eugene Eswonia, 13. Eswonia, 2016 N.

Sixth finished with 1.8 million points and Yang, 3910 E. Coyote Lane, finished with 837,000 points. The Gold Rush sponsors tournaments every day during the summer on different video games, Montague said. US VEGAS, Nev. (AP) A Kingman man is being questioned in connection with the Feb.

10, 1981, fire at the Las Vegas Hilton that killed 8 people and injured more than 300 others, authorities confirmed Wednesday. Jonathan Aldous, 25, was arrested in Kingman Tuesday on unrelated drug charges. He was transferred to Las Vegas by Metro Police detectives and is being held on two charges of the sale of a controlled substance. He is not charged with any other crime. Ray Jeffers, the Clark County assistant district attorney who prosecuted the Hilton fire case, confirmed that the Arizona man was being questioned in connection with the Hilton fire.

Jeffers said his office learned last week that police had received a tip from an informant about Aldous. He said he had no idea where the police questioning might lead. I know they went over to pick up some guy who knows something, but I dont know what he knows, Jeffers said Wednesday. Philip Bruce Cline, a 24-year-old Hilton busboy, was convicted in January on eight counts of first-degree murder in connection with the blaze. He is currently serving eight life terms, imposed without the possibility of parole.

Cline told officers the fire started accidentally when he touched a marijuana cigarette to a drape in an eight-floor elevator lobby while having a homosexual interlude with a man he identified only as Joe. The mysterious Joe was never identified and Cline said he did not know his last name. Prosecutors Jeffers and Mel Harmon contended Cline was alone and set the FEATURING Bedding Plants Large Selection 98c 6-pack TREES SHRUBS Large selection of fruit and shade trees, hand picked for Flagstaff. MULCH, STEER MANURE BARK SPECIAL OF THE WEEK FertiLome Green up your lawn with FertiLome lawn food plus iron. Purchase a 20-lb.

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JUNE 17, 18 and 19, 1982 APANC ALL APPL1ANC GIFT DEPT. MAIN FLOOR Babbitts proposal, contained in a letter to the editor published today by The Arizona Republic, is the latest development in a recent controversy over the magazine and its administration. The governor has been criticized by some legislators and others for his appointment of Mark Sanders as publisher. i The magazines editor, Gary Avey, says Sanders has been moving Arizona Highways away from its original purpose of promoting Arizonas beauty for its tourism trade. -DEPARTMENT STORES SALE YOUR CHOICE $12" HAMILTON BEACH 791 12-cup Coffee Maker Reg.

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