The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 1

1 iyjGid reecoptyredl coH1 Bundy was taken to the court-f Judge George Lohr morning to be advised of his or- -dered at By MARY BOLAND Sentinel staff writer ASPEN Accused murderer Theodore Bundy still appeared to be exhausted from his 131 hours at large when he was taken to court this morning to be advised of his rights in connection with the charges of escape, burglary and joyriding stemming from his flight Bundy was totally exhausted and by his own word unable to think anymore when he was picked up by Pitkin County sheriffs deputies at 2 a.m. today. -Bundy reportedly complained of getting only 10 hours sleep since his escape. He apparently had spent the entire six days within 10 miles of Aspen, walking over the top of Aspen Mountain, hiding in an unused cabin near, Castle Creek, and then taking a car. The capture was accomplished In an almost anticlimactic manner by officers Maureen Higgins and Gene Flatt, who were check- agflBssftsai is, limits.

i ii Driving erratically Higgins and Flatt were actually looking for another individual in connection with a report of an attempted rape in Aspen- Sunday when they saw a car approaching them headed into Aspen. The driver of the approaching car acted In a strange manner, slumping down in his seat and veering wide around the sheriffs car to the point of going off the road. Suspecting a drunken driver, Higgins and Flatt signaled the car to pull over and the driver did so without attempting to flee or offering any other resistance. The two sheriffs deputies immediately recognized the exhausted driver as Theodore Bundy despite the fact he had on glasses, a fishing hat and a bandage on his nose. They forced him to get out of the car and lie spread eagle on the grounduntil other officers arrived.

where Lohr had previously that Bundy be housed due to the substandard facilities at the Pitkin County jail Convicted of kidnaping Bundy, who has been convicted on kidnaping in Utah, Is charged with first-degree murder in the January 1973 slaying of Caryn Campbell of Dearborn, whose nude and frozen body was found a month after she disappeared while vacationing this Rocky Mountain ski resort The By ALICE WRIGHT Sentinel staff writer Officials yt Price Industries Corp. of Salt Lake City will be vited to confer with the Downtown Development Authority concerning a contract to construct a major shopping center on the lower end of Main Street If for any reason, the discussion, fails to reach a satisfactory conclusion, the same invitation will be extended to the Arlen Shopping Centers of Chattanooga, Tenn. fl fry ha nd- Juritfioa In- Meeting this morning, the seven-man authority board chose the potential developers from among six who sent representatives to make preliminary presen-' tatlons June 2. Top officers on hand Price Industries was represented by its two top officials, President John Price and Vice President Steve Pruitt -Arlen was represented by Vice President Ralph Rinck. At this point the authority is ready to discuss details of the proposed contract, members decided, although recognizing that neither firm has gone farther yet than feasibility studies.

The pos- Bundy captured Theodore Bundy, center, is escorted from the Pitkin County, Courthouse today after a hearing to advise him of his rights on charges of escape, burglary and auto theft. Bundy, who escaped from the courthouse last Tuesday, was recaptured about 2 a.m. today when he was stopped at the outskirts of As- pen for driving erratically. He offered no resistance. r' APLaserphoto 1 i -recapture i oi Tennessee be to arrive at some agreement on what each contracting party has in mind, and whether any major differences in concept need to be resolved, Lacy said.

However, Price and others have openly discussed design ideas such as an ice-sakting rink, where youngsters can be entertained while their parents shop. Other ideas for the basic mall plan call for making shopping a family pleasure instead of a chore. More beautification The mall would be enclosed, with air conditioning for extra-hot days and heat for the cold ones, and would Include trees and plants In the public areas. Lacy was directed to schedule the conference within the next week or 10 days. Authority members dicussed the relative merits of each presentation, and finally ranked Price first on the basis of his firms proximity to Grand Junction, its familiarity with the West, its sible cost of new construction sense of urgency, its policy of con could range between $8 million tinued management, preliminary con- One polnt is imperative authority members say the general de- rights.

Three deputies remained in the courtroom, four were positioned outside, while Lohr told Bundy he would be charged with felony escape, first-degreed burglary, felony theft and misdemeanor theft in with his escape. Arraignment was set for Thursday on those charges. Daily Grand Junction, Colo But DDA director Joe M. Lacy explained that its too early to dls- CUg8 dollar figures or designs. The object of the next session will doned off to all outsiders.

The girls were reported to be 8, 9 and 10 years old. Identification was withheld until their relatives were notified. (l GGOi Todays choice of a prime prospect to develop Downtown Grand Junction's expanded shopping mall marks the fourth step toward a 17-year-old goal the addition of at least one major, non-local retail outlet to the Foresight Park. The Foresight concept dates back to 1SG0 primarily a move to rejuvenate the citys core area, enhance property values, provide adequate free pat king and promote beautification hich would be competitive with any suburban development of which there weie none at the time. Operation Foresignt was financed wholly by local funds, with the merchants paying most of tve tab through a front- Stolen Sunday The car Bundy was driving had been stolen from an Aspen home on Cemetery Lane Sunday.

Bundy told the Pitkin County deputies he had started to drive out of town several times but was unable to decide whether he could clear the roadblocks he presumed to be up. When Higgins and Flatt caught him, he had started to drive out over Independence Pass, which is closed for roadwork. but had changed his mind and driven back to town. Dogs had tracked Bundy to the Northeast edge of Aspen after he escaped Tuesday, but then lost his scent It was learned Saturday that he had veered around to the Castle Creek area and broken Shes the prettiest dog in the world. Sandy and Little Red are 14-month-old sisters.

Five miles away The location of Rays recapture was only five miles from the Brushy Mountain State Prison where he and the six others escaped over a wall with a makeshift pipe ladder on Friday evening. The sixth fugitive, Donald Ray Caylor, 24, was spotted this morning by a patrolman walking along a street in Oak Ridge, 20 miles east of the prison. Officers said Caylor had no identification on him and the patrolman brought him to police headquarters where. FBI agents and prison guards identified him. Caylors return to the prison left only Douglas Shelton, '32, still free.

(See related story and picture, Page 3) far as Mesa into Plateau Creek. Collins said there is no way the water users can recover the water that was lost down the creek, and apparently no way anyone could have diverted the added creek flow onto fields. The canal was flowing at only two-thirds capacity due to the drouth and lack of water. Sheriffs deputies were advised of the incident and were investigating it today. Collins said the monetary loss was minimal a chain and padlock, and a check-board on Plateau Creek that was swept away but loss of the water to water-shy irrigators was incalculable.

scaped lt Tuesday by jumping from the second-floor window of a law library at the back of the same courtroom in which he appeared today. An armed deputy stood In the law li-, brary during todays proceedings. Bundy was unshaven and limped slightly as he walked into the courtroom today. The sheriff I department said a doctor would examine a knee Bundy apparently Injured in his escape leap. Monday, Juno 13, 1977 aign must be related to the.

Downtown Shopping Theres no wish to move everybody to the lower end of Main Street and bandon the area thats already developed, from Third to Seventh. Another point Is equally Important: Authority members want to know in general what the developers have in mind about parking which must be at no charge to the customer. Once theres agreement on these and related matters, the contract can be signed, and the developer can proceed with signing up major tenants and designing the new shopping center, centered at Second and Main. Offers major stores Mentioned in connection with the Price development were such prospects as ZCMI of Salt Lake City, Denver Dry Goods, May Company and Joslins, of Denver. There will be no discounters, authority members said.

At least two major department stores will be -located in the new shopping area. Two other details are yet unsettled: No money has yet arrived from the Four Corners Commission concerning the $30,000 planning grant which has been awarded. Chairman Guy Stephens said the check is promised by Thursday, at latest The tax Increment financing bill (SB 569) has not yet been signed by the Gov. Richard Lamm, who has until June 20 to sign or veto. I dont see how he can veto it when hes already given us $30,000 to go ahead, Stephens said, referring to the Four Corners Commission, of which the is a member.

The inane-ng bill allows the authority to sell bonds, thus raising money to buy the land. a I LJU u7 CC footage assessment. The city pic ker) up about 2f) per rent of the cost. The Downtown Development Authority, authorized by a Feb. 8, 1977, vote of property owners and lessees affected by the plan, evolved from the superb-lock concept which was first advanced about five years ago.

Since its inception in the early 70s, the superblock concept has been modified a number of times in response to various pressures, involving, among others, finances and the energy shortage primarily. The entire plan was mothballed about three years ago, and revived last August by a committee of downtown businessmen in its current form. with that portion of the bill was inadvertent, but he reimbursed the county anyway, saying he would firove they owed it bacx to him ater. Presented in secret What led the commissioners finally to demand a grand jury after sporadically investigating Tuckers office on their own over a period of several months was new information presented to them in secret and which was never officially revealed to the public or press. However, The Sentinel learned the commissioners were alleging Tucker had allowed the county to pay somewhat less than $200 in medical expense for the same young woman who had figured in the earlier allegations.

into a cabin some five miles south-west of town, where he obtained versaon ndicate. food, some clothing and a rifle. Bundy no longer had the rifle when he was captured and told the Pitkin officers he had abandoned the rifle because he realized he might be killed if he were found armed. While Bundy had spent considerable time in the hills around Aspen, he had made no concerted effort to hike out via the wilderness because, he said, he was com' and 312 million, Three killed LOCUST GROVE, Girl Scouts Girl Scouts tit camp BRUSHY MOUNTAIN, Tenn. (AP) James Earl Ray was tracked down early today by a brace of, bloodhounds named Sandy and Little Red, ending a desperate 54V4-hour flight for freedom from life in prison.

At the end of a three-hour, three-mile run through a wooded creek valley and up thickly covered mountain slopes, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was found hiding in a pile of leaves. A few hours after Ray was seized, police arrested another of the six inmates who had fled with him leaving only one fugitive at large. The 49-year-old Ray, driven and exhausted, covered with mud and sand, offered no resistance to his captors. His first words, according to prison guard Sammy Joe Chapman, Sandys handler and the first officer on the scene, were: I feel good.

Chapman, 33, patted Sandy after returning with Ray and said: Opened headgate causes water loss- COLLBRAN Thousands of gallons of precious irrigation water were lost down Plateau Creek Sunday, after someone opened a headgate at the Southside Canal just below Vega Reservoir. Everett Collins, manager of the Collbran Water Conservancy Dis-. trict, said he had no immediate estimate on how much water was lost, or bow long the headgate was open before he discovered it early this morning. One of the ter users, Donald Kenney, said he noted the canal was nearly dry when irrigating about 2 a.m. today.

Someone had cut a padlock and chain off the headgate controls and raised the bypass gate to its full height, Collins said. The result was to channel the Vega Reservoir water that was supposed to go down the Southside Canal as Okla. (AP) -Three were found beaten to death in their sleeping bags today at a summer camp attended by about 100 girls from northeastern Oklahoma, the state. Highway Patrol said. Initial details from the scene were sketchy, and police gave no indication whether there was any suspect in the case.

Officials said the girls were housed four each in platform tents at Camp Scott in hilly, wooded country about two miles south of this community about 43 miles east of Tulsa. It was not disclosed whether the slain girls were all in one tent or in separate tents. State police said the deaths were caused by beating, but they' gave no Immediate Indication of the weapon used or the condition of the bodies. They also declined to say who found the bodies. Rob Pyron, press secretary to Gov.

David Boren, said the Okla-homa State Bureau of Investigation was ordered to assist-in the investigation at the request of Maves County officers. Ginny Young, public relations director at the Magic Empire Girl Scout Council in Tulsa, said by late morning the rest of the campers were loaded aboard buses and were headed back toward council headquarters. They had arrived in camp on Sunday. The 610-acre campsite was cor grand jurys function. We dont find people guilty or not guilty," said the former U.S.

attorney. The only purpose is to investigate and determine probable cause. Charges about Tuckers handling of office funds which date all the way to last Novembers political campaign eventually fed the Garfield County Commissioners to request the grand jury investigation. The request was granted April 21 by Chief District Judge George Lohr. The county commissioners said they were given information which led them to allege Tucker had used county money for personal affairs.

Surfaced In campaign The first allegations of that sort pletely unfamiliar with the area and didnt know which way to go. The Pitkin sheriffs department said that District Judge George who had previously disallowed any restraints on Bundy in the courtroom, this morning ordered that Bundy may be brought to the court in handcuffs and that leg irons may be substituted for -the handcuffs in the courtroom. In Judge Lohr. ruled that the sheriff's deputies may be in the courtroom with weapons' while Bundy is there, a depature from the judges usual ruling against weapon Inth? courtroom. The Pitkin sheriffs department said they had not yet been informed, however, by Judge Lohr when or whether they should return the prisoner to the Garfield County jail in Glenwood Springs Inside today- Page 1 ....8 Obituaries ...............13 Of interest 13 Sports 9410 Stocks 8 Weather .13 Living Today .5 serve with impartiality.

Benches filled Cooper asked the individuals, who nearly filled the rows of pewlike benches in the Garfield District Courtroom, whether they had ever had any contact personal or otherwise with the controversial DA. Prospective jurors were asked if they had ever worked for Tucker in the district attorneys office and whether they had ever worked for another law enforcement agency in the Ninth Judicial District, thereby possibly having contact with Tucker. Nearly a dozen prospective jurors indicated they knew or had worked in connection with the district attorneys office. Role explained Cooper al explained the Grand jury selection begins in Garfield probe surfaced during the 1978 campaign when a local attorney, Cah-rles Stoddard, publically accused Tucker of making campaign calls on his office telephone. Tucker said the calls were justified un- der state law but later reimbursed the county for them.

Stoddard charged Tuckers office phone bill also included $287 worth of calls he made to a young woman while she was living in California. Tucker said the calls were related to drug investigation and has refused to reimburse the county. Later, it was learned Pitkin County had paid $103 of a bill incurred when Tucker took the same young woman to a DA's convention in Hawaii in 1973. Tucker said his presenting Pitkin County By LLOYD LEVY -Sentinel staff writer GLENWOOD SPRINGS Special Prosecutor Paul Cooper of Denver began selection this morning of the 13-member grand jury which will probe allegations of misappropriation of public funds against Ninth Judicial Dist Atty. Frank Tucker.

Tucker, who also is in the midst of a round of investigations in connection with the recapture today of accused killer Theodore Bundy, was out of town on personal business. Meanwhile, 72 of the 75 Garfield County residents called for the pool of prospective grand jurors answered a series of routine questions from Cooper meant to determine whether they can Retired justice Tom C. Clark dies at age 77 WASHINGTON (AP) Retired Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark died today in New York, the Supreme Court announced. Clark, 77, was in New York to serve as a judge at an appellate court hearing.

A Supreme Court spokesman said Clark died in his sleep at the New York City home of his son, former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark. Ramsey Clark was not at home when his father died. He was reported in Europe..