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The Hanford Sentinel from Hanford, California • 4

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a.m. Page 2 Tuesday, August 9, 1983 In Brief Nation Caught with pants down ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI) A would-be rapist, his pants around his ankles, was snagged trying to leap out his victim's window and was still dangling there when police arrived, authorities said. Willie L. Coleman, 20, was held without bond Monday on a charge, of attempted sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl.

The victim awoke Sunday to find a man undressing in her bedroom. He grabbed her throat, said he had a gun and told her he would kill her, said police investigator Mary Ann Waites. The victim said she also had a gun and was going to get it, which startled the attacker so badly he leaped through an open window, his pants still pulled down to the ankles. But he knocked aside a stick serving to prop the window open and it fell shut on his legs. The girl and her mother held the window shut until authorities arrived.

State Fire kills arsonists POMONA (UPI) A man who allegedly hired two teenagers to set fire to his vacant house will face murder and arson charges because the youths were killed trying to carry out the plan, investigators said Monday, Ala Elddin Rustorn, 29, allegedly wanted to collect from insurance on the home. He was arrested last Saturday and was held without bail in the city jail. The alleged arson attempt went awry last Thursday when a flammable liquid ignited a predawn explosion, killing the teenagers and demolishing the house. The explosion blew the roof off the house, which Rustom moved out of several months ago. Getty finds more oil LOS ANGELES (UPI) The Getty Oil Co.

has struck oil in test drilling off Southern California, becoming the seventh firm to stake a claim for the bountiful Santa Maria Basin offshore reserves. Getty spokesman Jack Leone said Monday that just-completed testing of the well yielded a flow of approximately 3,600 barrels per day. Additional tests will be required to determine the extent of reserves in the 3-square-mile tract and whether it would be profitable for Getty to commercially produce the crude oil. Waves pound Malibu MALIBU (UPI) Firefighters, resident volunteers and convict crews prepared today to shore up strips of Southern California coastline in anticipation of another bout with storm-driven high tides and surf. Weather forecasters said the pounding water that damaged many homes and smashed picture windows in a restaurant would be less fierce tonight with the high tide expected to reach 6.9 feet at 10:26 p.m.

Monday night's tide reached 7.2 feet and unleashed waves of up to 10 feet. Cable car vault unearthed SAN FRANCISCO (UP) The oldest existing piece of cable car engineering, a 106-year old vault to house machinery, was unearthed Monday beneath California Street by workmen rebuilding the cable car system. "For me, this is like archaeology," said William Sawyer, a historian and consultant to the renovation project, said. He studied the ruins of the 1877 line, sealed off ever since 1890 when the route was extended. GUNSMITHING DON'T CURT'S GUN SHOP 10885 14th.

Armona, CA BUY 584-5151 NEW. USED GUNS. RELOADING SUPPLIES SOLAR SCREENS Card of Thanks Until you've checked We wish to express our sincere thanks OUR PRICESI and appreciation to Con. Lic. No.

326046 neighbors for all the our many friends and love and kindness Free Estimates shown to Us in the loss of our beloved SCREEN husband and father. WORLD The William Norman 582-7040 family Janet Hair Expressions We would like to Invite all of our clients to our GRAND OPENING Saturday night, Aug. 13th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm Janet Montgomery Sarina Netto look Ann Marie Mendez that's worth Blanch Kaspanien a thousand Carol Woolwine words Gloria Padilla Emily Criollos Shirley Ike 217 N. Irwin Hanford 582-2729 The Hanford Sentinel 1 i UPI Wirephoto No help needed This eye-catching balancing act is all in a day's work for Raymond Baez of Hartford, Conn. A photographer spotted Baez as he nonchalantly wheeled his regular load of five- pound boxes along Allyn Street in downtown Hartford.

He was making a delivery around the corner. Guatemalan alan coup should help right By United Press International Military conservatives who seized power in a coup in Guatemala signaled gains for Central America's political right, promising staunch anticommunism. A Nicaraguan leader conceded his country has undertaken a major arms buildup. Assuming control of the Guatemalan government Monday after the coup was Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, 52, the defense minister and a member of the guard" of career officers who have dominated Guatemala for nearly 30 years.

Army troops using tanks and mortars shot their way into the presidential palace and overthrew the government of Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemala's second coup in 17 months. At least three people were killed. A U.S. embassy spokesman in Guatemala City said Mejia was "probably" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger during the weekend with his counterparts from El Salvador, Honduras and other rightist regimes in Central America.

The spokesman said he was certain Mejia had been invited to visit the task force, which was held off the Nicaraguan coast two extra days beyond its scheduled departure for the visit by the defense officials. Jets upset Libya NDJAMENA, Chad (UPI) Chad's government rushed fresh Zairian troops to the northern battlefront and shored up eastern defenses today amid reports of new Libyan bombing raids in support of rebel forces. In Tripoli, Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy ordered his air force Monday to shoot down any U.S. AWACS surveillance aircraft that interfere with Libyan operations. President Reagan, invoking the War Powers Act for only the third time since taking office, sent two Airborne Warning and Control System jets and eight supporting F-15 fighters to the Sudan Baseball Hats Painters Caps All Colors Sizes The T-SHIRT HOUSE Across From Poor Richards SCREENS SOLAR SCREENS HOME WINDOWS Replacement of fair prices Also Play Houses-Gazebos DILLEY'S GLASS SCREENS 716 Garner Phones 582-6216 582-1502 After com St.

Lic. 404385 DISTINCTIVE IMPORTS Leprechaun's Lair 11001 with met Invite you to share their Grande Celebration Faire commencing of 10.00 00 August thricent Nineteen hundred ond eighty three 118 North Douty Hanford, California Margaret Nance Rosalee Sullivan Telephone strike may be lengthy By United Press International With no prospects in sight today for settling the threeday-old nationwide telephone strike, callers put up with slow service, striking workers dug in for a long haul and there were scattered reports of violence and vandalism. Two New York City policemen were injured in a scuffle with pickets in Brooklyn Monday the first violence reported in the strike by 700,000 Bell System employees. In South Carolina, two telephone cables were cut with an ax, briefly knocking out service to more than 100 customers and switching boxes in Florence were vandalized. A phone company spokesman said it was not known if the incidents were strike-related.

"We don't expect a settlement within the next 24 hours," spokeswoman Edie Herman said Monday night. She said was in touch by telephone with representatives of the striking workers but there was no formal bargaining. Most calls made in the United States are direct-dialed and were going smoothly, but calls requiring operator assistance were being delayed. Recorded messages answered thousands of customers dialing directory assistance. Supervisors sat in as telephone operators responded to repair calls.

New installation of telephone equipment also was delayed. Communications Workers of America President Glenn Watts, head of the largest of three striking unions, joined a chanting picket line in Washington. "Unfortunately, I cannot report any progress is taking place," Watts said. Watts said wages, employment security, and retraining of Bell workers to meet fast-changing telecommunications technology are all involved in the contract dispute. Talks collapsed just before the old three-year agreement expired at midnight Saturday.

Saturday to track Libyan involvement in Chad's civil war. In Ndjamena, the capital, Chad's government displayed a Libyan pilot whose Soviet-built plane was shot down. The prisoner said Libyan jets were dropping napalm and fragmentation bombs on targets in northern Chad on Khadafy's orders. As the crisis worsened, Zairian troops were sent to the northern battlefront and Zaire promised to send 700 more soldiers to back up the 1,420 already in Chad. Government forces expecting a rebel assault in the eastern town of Abeche dug in deeper.

CYA to plant bugs in chapel SACRAMENTO (UPI) Despite protests that religious freedom would be violated, the California Youth Authority plans to use security listening devices in the chapel of the Stockton juvenile prison. CYA Director James Rowland said Monday that the devices would be used in the entry hall to the school's protestant chapel, but not the actual sanctuary area. "I feel the safety and security of the institution, the staff and the wards require that the equipment be used," said Rowland, Fresno County's chief probation officer until appointed by Gov. George Deukmejian to the youth authority in February. Rowland said the devices will be turned off at the request of the chaplain who may want to talk privately with a group of wards.

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The two men also asked that anyone with information about the women call the Swedish consulate in San Francisco. "We appeal to anyone who has information leading to the whereabouts of our daughters to contact the Redwood City Police Department," the two men said in a Gerald L. Righetti, D.D.S. Announces the opening of his office at 1330 Bailey Drive, Hanford, CA, located across from the Government Center on West Lacey Boulevard. For APPOINTMENTS 582-2893 reward joint statement Monday when they announced the reward.

Robert Prevot, the detective coordinating the investigation involving dozens of police and sheriff's departments from Redwood City to the Mexican border, said, "Hundreds of leads have been followed, but none panned out. This is our last hope." Marie Lilienberg, 23, and Maria Whalen, 25, have not been heard from since July 22 when they set out from a friend's home in Redwood City on the San Francisco Peninsula to hitchhike to Los Angeles. Levi's Bendovers Now $1800 Our New Regular Low Price ADDY BROOKS 308 St. Lemoore.

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