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2 The Transcript, Monday. November 2071 976' WorldNationalState Thieves get $500, kill four worker she was and made her an assistant manager," she continued. "She was interested in moving up in the chain's corporate structure," she added, and then lashed out at the person or persons responsible for the four deaths: "I hope that when they get caught they put them away where they can't hurt anyone else. They had no right to ruin four young lives." State police and Speedway police are investigating the case. The FBI entered the investigation Sunday before the bodies were discovered, but later turned it back over to local authorities.

"We're comparing notes right now," said Detective Sgt. Leon Griffith of the state police. "We really don't know much about the crime except that we have four bodies." store in Miss Friedt's white Vega, which was discovered abandoned about a mile away in a residential neighborhood near police headquarters at 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Police said they found two empty currency bags next to the open safe, but manager Robert Gilyeat said a check of cash register tapes showed no more than $500 was taken.

Gilyeat said the workers were "reliable," an observation echoed by Mrs. Friedt about her daughter. "She always wore a smile," said Mrs. Friedt. "Everyone who knew her always talked about how she smiled.

"She fought hard to get her promotion. She always talked about young boys she trained who received promotions ahead of her. Then, the management- realized what a good INDIANAPOLIS (AP) "For $500 they took four lives from a group of' kids who were trying hard to be good, decent human said the mother of one of four restaurant workers found dead the. day after they disappeared in a robbery. Caroline Friedt's 20-year-old-daughter, Jane who was assistant manager of the Speedway Burger Chef and three teen-age coworkers were found dead Sunday in, woods south of Indianapolis.

Police said they have no leads or suspects in the case and none of tire families of the employees was contacted about the disappearance. State police Trooper Chuck Hibbert said the bodies were discovered by a private citizen on the man's-prqperty in Johnson County, Appleby trial closes SPRINGFIELD, Mass. AP) Lawyers in the sensational assault trial of Kenneth Appleby planned to make final arguments in the case today as the Hampden Superior Court jury awaited its instructions from Judge Raymond Cross. The trial has been marked by explicit and sometimes lurid descriptions of Appleby's homosexual, sadistic relationship with his accuser, 30-year-old Steven Cromer. The 27-year-old Appleby is charged with three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors have said other charges against him, including kidnapping and rape, will be tried later. Appleby, who ran a pawn shop in Springfield before his arrrest in June, has testified Cromer asked to be whipped and beaten because he enjoyed pain. Appleby said after a while he began to enjoy inflicting it. But Cromer has testified he lived with Appleby and submitted to repeated beatings only because he was afraid to leave. He said Appleby had threatened his life and that of his mother.

The two men differed in their accounts of events leading up to Cromer's hospitalization for a knee injury. Cromer said Appleby hit him with a baseball bat; Appleby said Cromer fell down a flight of stairs at his mother's house. Appleby's case attracted national attention at the time of his arrest when police looking for missing New York City homosexuals dug up the back yard of the West Springfield shack where he had lived with Cromer, Appleby had fashioned what police termed "a torture chamber" in the hut for sado-masochistic sex. Rate of world population growth drops Couple fqund dead WASHINGTON (AP) The world's population growth rate, exploding since Adam and Eve, declined in the last decade and experts now predict the population will stabilize earlier than they expected. This is the first time in history that the growth rate declined, experts say.

A new Census Bureau report on world population, released Sunday, shows the growth rate declined from 2.0 percent in 1966 to 1.9 in 1976. At the same time, the world's estimated population increased from 3.5 billion in 1967 to 4.3 billion in 1977, the report says. A zero population growth rate will 4' WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) Detectives attempted today to 'unravel the mysterious double slaying of a young couple shot repeatedly from close range as they sat in a beat-up pickup truck at a highway rest area. The bodies of Theresa A.

Marcoux, 18, and Mark L. Harnish, 20, both from East Longmeadow, were found Sunday morning. They had been dragged from the truck and dumped behind a concrete retaining wall at the rest area along U.S. 5, next to the Connecticut River, according to police Capt. Richard E.

Kulig. The two apparently had been living out of the pickup truck recently. Both held jobs in their hometown, Miss Marcoux working at a hardware store and Harnish as ah auto repair mechanic. Neither had finished high school: Police said they could establish no probable motive for the killings, as GOP presidential hopefuls swamp N.H. encouraging, the population is still increasing at an alarming rate.

"There is the same kind of joy in this as in hearing that a 90-foot tidal wave rolling onto a crowded beach had dropped to 85 feet," he said. "It still means disaster unless there is a faster decline than now exists." Experts say the birth rates in less i developed countries have been declining since 1950, but the death rates have been declining faster. The net result was an increase in population. But since the late 1960s, the birth rates have been declining faster than the death rates, so the growth rates have dropped. said.

Reagan, the man apparently most on the mind of his potential opponents, said in a telephone interview Friday "I don't think (Thomson's defeats) has any effect on any of us who might be in the New Hampshire primary." he said. But a senior Reagan advisor privately said "Thomson's loss was the best thing he has ever done for Reagan's campaign." There was almost unanimous agreement among Reagan's staff that Thomson was too unmanagable to be linked with Reagan. "He wasn't a team player," the advisor said. "It was a question of risking Thomson's blunders or ignoring him and thus forcing him in Crane's or Dole's camp. And no one wanted Thomson as an enemy." Reagan disputes that statement.

"No one on my team has said that to me and they get an argument from me if they did," he said. Former Texas Gov. John Connally has often tested the political waters and appears to be drowning in waves of other candidates who appear to be more serious about running. But the field is not closed. Now that the elections are over Tennessee Sen.

Howard. Baker and Illinois Gov. James Thompson and several others are expected to unfurl their political banners. declined in specific areas throughout history, particularly during wartime or in a natural disaster or disease epidemic. But experts say the new figures show the growth rate has declined in almost all areas of the world.

"We do not expect a reversal," Baum said. A spokesman for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, Tarzie Vittachi, said of the new data: "This is the first time since Adam that there has been an overall across-the-board decline." But Rodney Shaw, president of the Population Institute in Washington, said that while the new figures are District of Columbia. Even though he was at loggerheads with Thomson, Dole has been a frequent visitor who has succeeded in gleaning some tentative support, only to watch it dwindle as people question the seriousness of his candidacy. "Although Thomson and I had a disagreement, it didn't make it anymore difficult for me to move around New Hampshire," Dole said Thursday. "His defeat evens things up for all the candidates." Former CIA Director George Bush, whose three visits to the state have generated surprisingly large and enthusiastic support, said the Thomson-Reagan team would have been a "formidable obstacle." Bush, who entered the state carrying the stigma of being Gerald Ford's stalking horse has convinced his supporters that he will run regardless of what Ford does.

Many people believe Ford will do nothing until the crowded field generates a draft at the convention. Political observers cannot explain why Bush, who expounds a con-servative philosophy almost echoing Crane, Reagan and Dole, is drawing open and eager support of many moderates and liberals. Bush says he never anticipated or sought Thomson's support. "Governor Thomson's involvement in the campaign would have made things more difficult not only for me, but for any Reagan opponent," Bush Local news accounts said the four had been shot, although police would not confirm that. The bodies were taken to the county hospital for autopsies.

Police identified the other three victims as Ruth Shelton, 17, and Daniel Davis and Mark Flemmonds, both 16. The four had been missing since a robbery early Saturday as they were cleaning up. The restaurant had closed at 11 p.m. Friday. Police said an off-duty employee informed them the restaurant was deserted at 1 a.m.

Saturday and the back door had been left open, although the workers weren't scheduled to leave until 2 a.m. Authorities speculated the robbers forced the four workers to leave the be reached between the years 2020 and 2025, experts say, instead of a decade later, as had been anticipated. Samuel Baum, the bureau's top expert on international demography, said the changes are small but very significant. "These things change slowly," he said in an interview. "Until the last 10 years, the growth rate had been going steadily up, and it had been predicted to continue going up through the 1970s and 1980s.

"This is the beginning of a trend, and it's happening a decade earlier than expected." Population growth rates have collection of lists of contributors, workers, town coordinators, special interest groups and voters that exist in the state today," said Craig Shirley, Humphrey's press secretary. "It would give any presidential campaign a six month headstart." Some of the candidates wistfully agree. "Humphrey's lists would be like finding a goldmine," Dole told The Associated Press. "They'd be a tremendous boost that would save months of work," said Jack Stewart, Crane's field representative. Humphrey has remained silent on who, if anyone, he'll support, but a senior staff member said "The batting order reads Crane, Reagan and Dole." But some candidates believe the value of Humphrey's lists may be easily overshadowed by perhaps mostly psychological, evolving from Thomson's displacement from the statehouse.

The arch-conservative governor's support for Reagan was no secret and that support, as twin-edged as some Reagan-insiders felt it was, was perceived to be a major advantage for Reagan. The repercussions from the Reagan-Thomson duo was felt most severely by Philip Crane. Although the Illinois conservative is a frequent visitor to the state and the only announced candidate in the race, his workers say his Crane's momentum in New Hampshire was "almost stymied by the Thomson-Reagan love affair." "The state's Republicans were hesitant to commit to Phil (Crane) because Thomson was fully behind Reagan, "The state's Republicans were hesitant to commit to Phil (Crane) because Thomson was fully behind Reagan," Stewart said. "Thomson's defeat will diminish that opposition and I'm seeing that already." Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, whose early testing of the presidential pond was warmly welcomed by Thomson saw the governor's kindred spirit turn chilly in August when Dole voted to allow representation for the "We will not support a plan which unfairly places the burden of controlling inflation on the backs of the workers." Fitzsimmons reacted strongly to the threat of sanctions against industries and unions that do not cooperate with voluntary controls.

One possible sanction against the Teamsters would be deregulation of the trucking industry, which now has its rates set by the Interstate Commerce Commission. At the conference, Fitzsimmons angrily disputed a White House estimate that deregulation of truck freight rates could save consumers up to $2,000 per family annually. The Teamsters' freight contract expires in March, and its renege iation is being watched as an early indicator of big labor's willingness to cooperate with Carter's wage guidelines. "They are trying to make us the first cow through the gate," said Fitzsimmons. CONCORD, N.H.

(AP) The political dust from the November elections has yet to settle, but New Hampshire is bracing for an invasion by a record number of Republican presidential hopefuls jockeying for a lead in the 1980 White House marathon. Most aspirants for the Oval Office are still evaluating the ramifications of Gov. "Meldrim Thomson's unforeseen defeat but they agree, for different reasons, that the nation's earliest primary will be easier to handle without the controversial governor. Within hours of Thomson's loss. Sens.

Howard Baker, Robert Dole and Orrin Hatch and Reps, Philip Crane and Jack Kemp had eagerly accepted invitations to a victory party for another New Hampshire politician, Gordon Humphrey, the thunderclap wjnner of a U.S. Senate seat. Hours after the New Hampshire election results became final, Sens. Howard Baker, Robert Dole and Orrin Hatch and Reps. Philip Crane and Jack Kemp eagerly accepted invitations to a victory party for another New Hampshire politician, Gordon Humphrey, the surprising winner of a U.S.

Senate seat. "Ronald Reagan, Gerald rord, George Bush and a few others are frantically trying to rearrange their schedules to include a visit to a Humphrey aide said last week. "It looks like the Humphrey dinner has almost become an obligatory appearance for anyone who wants to win the New Hampshire primary," said GOP Party Chairman Gerald Carmen. "I have the feeling that like it or not, the night of December 1st has become the official start of the 1980 Republican presidential race." It's not surprising that notable Republicans gather to pay homage to the political neophyte, a 37-year-old airline pilot, who stunned prognosticators by vanquishing 16-year veteran Sen. Thomas Mclntyre.

But a greater inducement to travel to New Hampshire may be 45 pounds of paper locked in a steel cabinet in Humphrey's office. "We've compiled the freshest robbery appeared an unlikely motivation. The couple's assailant fired with a large-caliber handgun through the pickup truck windows, then pulled the bloodied victims from the cab where they may have been sleeping. Both victims were found fully clothed by a police officer making a routine check of the rest area at 9 :30 a.m. There was no indication of sexual assault.

Authorities said they believed the slayings occurred sometime after 1 a.m. Sunday. A local official in East Longmeadow an industrial andTesidential suburb of Springfield described Harnish as tall and thin. "He was quiet, peculiar. He seemed to be only interested in cars and motorcycles." Another East Longmeadow resident said, "He just let the world go by." Trouble in paradise BOSTON (AP) Nantucket Island, a summer wonderland but not so active in the winter, has applied for a $72,000 federal grant to curb alleged alcohol abuse among teenagers.

The three-year request was included in a list of applications announced last week by the state Planning Office. The $24,000 sought for the coming fiscal year would cover operations of the new teen center, built partly with other federal funds, according to William Klein, Nantucket planner. Klein said a state survey indicated that, while some other communities have a drug problem, in Nantucket it is alcohol abuse. Arthur L. Desrocher, former state representative from the island, hotly disputed that conclusion.

"Alcohol among young persons on Nantucket is no more acute than in other communities," the ex-legislator said. Citing accomplishments of the Boys and Girls, Clubs, Desrocher said there are many other purposes to which the funds could be better directed. Klein said he was not free to discuss details of the survey by the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. He said there are 450 students in grades 7 through 12, the youngsters who would be serviced through the desired grant. He said the teen center has a different function than the clubs.

He emphasized that life on Nantucket in the winter is different than it is for off islanders. The 45-square mile island, a favorite summer resort, is about 14 miles from the mainland, Cape Cod. Access is by ferry or plane. "It is incredibly quiet for kids in the winter," Klein said. "There are no movies, no mall, no McDonalds." He listed a variety of activities that the grant would support, including the production by the teenagers of a one-hour documentary film of what if is like to grow up on the island.

In addition to being a social center, the first he said the older teenagers have had, it would handle referrals where professional help is indicated and would become involved in off-island trips. "You can get cabin fever," he noted. The listing of grant applications by the state agency is an invitation for comments by interested parties. Its description of the Nantucket request for funds from the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare, stated as its purpose: "To address the problem of alcohol abuse among young persons on the island by establishing a comprehensive set of services through the teen center." Bennington youth shot BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) Bennington police say they have no leads on the shooting death of a Bennington youth this weekend.

Police say they believe Charles Lowm, 19, was gunned down during a robbery late Friday at the gas station where he worked as a part-time attendant. His body was found in the gas station early The Bennington County State's Attorney's office is awaiting the results of an autopsy of the body. Police say the victim was shot at close range with a small caliber weapon. An undisclosed amount of money was taken from the station and the cash register was found open. British leader on trial MINEHEAD, England (AP) Court proceedings start today against the former leader of Britain's Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, accused of plotting to kill a former male model who claims they were lovers.

Three local magistrates will determine if the prosecution's case against Thorpe and three other men is strong enough for them to be committed to trial before a jury. The committal hearing is expected to last two or three weeks. Thorpe, 49, is charged with conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, 37, and with inciting a close friend, David Holmes, 48, to kill Scott. The maximum punishment on each charge is 10 years in prison. 1 Holmes, a wealthy banker and financial consultant who was deputy treasurer of the small, middle-of-the-road Liberal Party; night-club owner George Deakin, 35, and John Le Mesurier, 45, part owner of a carpet warehouse, are charged with conspiring with Thorpe.

All four have been free on bail of $10,000 each since they were charged on Aug. 4. They do not have to plead guilty or innocent or give evidence during this hearing, but their attorneys are expected to cross-examine the prosecution witnesses. The proceedings are being held in Mineheadra sleepy town of 8,000 people in southwest England, because the alleged conspiracy was hatched in the neighborhood. Thorpe was leader of the Liberals from J967 until May 10, 1976, when he was pressured into resigning after the first allegations of the Scott scandal began to emerge.

Teamsters may follow Carter's inflation plan and how to bite back! A Free Clinic Sponsored by First Agricultural Bank i One of the big bites taken out of American businesses is the escalating incidence of the "rip: off." From shoplifting to forgeries; fraudulent checks to counterfeit money. On November 28, First Agricultural Bank will help retailers and. other interested parties to bite back by learning how they can identify, handle and prevent many kinds of fraud. Special agents and representatives from the American Express Company, the Massachusetts State Police Crime Prevention Bureau and the Berkshire County Fraudulent Check Association will speak and answer questions. In addition, a revealing film entitled "Battle of Wits" will be shown.

Bite back by joining us for coffee, donuts and knowledge on November 28 from 7:45 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. In the Ball Room of the Berkshire Hilton Inn, South Street on the Berkshire Common, Pitt-sfield. Call for reservations. First Agricultural Bank, 499-3000.

Extension 222. BOSTON (AP) Teamsters Union President Frank E. Fitzsimmons says he may go along with President Carter's voluntary wage and price controls if the president excludes fringe benefits from the 7 percent wage ceiling. Fitzsimmons was in Boston Saturday for a meeting with 1,300 union stewards from New England. At a news conference before the meeting, he said Carter's guidelines allow flexibility on the price side, but are too rigid on the wage side.

"We will advise our people to correct the inflationary spiral," the head of the 2 million member trade union said. "But there must be for pension and welfare costs, and we may then consider cooperating." He said the increasing costs of health and pension plans make Carter's 7 percent wage and benefit cap unrealistic. Those costs would leave little if any room for wage increases under the 7 percent maximum, he said. First Agricultural Bank Member F.D.I.C.-.