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a-4- SIlcTG! lu. rb. 10. 19S1 Ex-Wells Fargo official appears to be cooperating in theft probe i i a vl thi jfiUniir'-ni-r mmmm mttniuimmmmimmmm tmmittotowmMmiimimvuir am Sunday nig' in identical tape-recorded messages left at a television station and a radio station here, and Monday morning Sam Glass, president of Tiffany Promotions, with which MAPS was to promote a now-canceled fight card at Madison Square Garden in New York Feb. 23, said he had received a call from Smith.

Glass said in the call Smith had promised to emerge from hiding within four days. In the tape-recordings left at the broadcasting stations Sunday night, a male voice identified as Smith's said he had been "waiting the past few days for word as to the whereabouts and condition of Ben Lewis, a fine man," and added, "I am convinced that Ben Lewis is dead or being detained against his will." Smith urged news reporters to interview Gene Kawakami, the manager of the Wells Fargo branch on Wilshire Boulevard Nw York Timet Hew Service LOS ANGELES L. Benjamin Lewis, who resigned abruptly last month as operations officer of the Wells Fargo National Bank branch in Beverly Hills, appears to be cooperating with federal agents investigating the theft of at least $21.3 million from the bank. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, asked Monday if Lewis had turned himself in to the authorities, strongly implied he had but refused to discuss the matter further. "We can't comment on an ongoing case," said John Jackson, an agent here said.

Lewis, 47, is a director of Muhammed AH Professional Sports known as MAPS, one of the nation's most important boxing promotion organizations, and is a close friend of its chairman, Harold J. Smith. Lewis and Smith, a flamboyant 37-year-old boxing promoter noted for posting generous purses to fighters at money-losing matches and for a way of life that included expensive homes, planes, cars and a yacht, dropped out of sight two weeks ago. Shortly after their disappearance. Wells Fargo filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging Lewis and Smith and their ives; MAPS Inc.

and other corporations they controlled, and Sammie Marshall, the MAPS president, had illegally withdrawn $21.3 million by "an internal manipulation of funds." Smith was reported to have been seen with several boxing figures at a Los Angeles hotel late last week, and, without disclosing his location, he has made several telephone calls to reporters and friends in the last few days. In most of the calls. Smith has contended he and Lewis were "pigeons" in a much larger fraud involving many Wells Fargo executives and the theft of more than $200 million. He made the allegations anew AP wlrphoto Murder weapon? Co-prosecutor Deputy District Attorney Ramsey Randolph exhibits to the jury a coathanger the state claims Lawrence Bittaker used to kill one victim. Bittaker is on trial in Torrance for kidnapping, rape and murder in the deaths of five girls.

GET A FISTFUL OF MONEY FROM THE EQUITY Hiem court rules city subdivision violates agricultural preserve law Rescuers seek boy missing in storm Associated Press A two-day downpour that dumped up to 3Vz inches of rain on Southern California subsided Monday, but rescuers still had not found a 9-year-old weekend hiker lost on storm-swept Mount Palomar. The break in the weather aided rescuers in their search for young James Beveridge of Spring Valley, lost since Saturday on Mount Palomar. The boy's brothers said he was wearing tennis shoes and a warm down jacket when he was separated from them. The boy's stepfather, San Diego police Sgt. Larry Beveridge, was among those participating Monday in the search for the child.

If YOUR HOME NO CREDIT CHECK NO EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION USE THE EQUITY IN YOUR RESIDENTIAL, VACANT LAND OR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR MORE INFORM A TION CALL: and interfere with agricultural activities." The tribunal said it was construing the cancellation provisions narrowly and believed they were included because lawmakers "foresaw extraordinary situations in which the ordinary nonrenewal and expiration procedures would pose insurmountable obstacles to the accomplishment of pressing public needs." It said a city must make findings of extraordinary and un SAN FRANCISCO (AP) In its first ruling on compliance with an act designed to preserve agricultural land, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday Hayward failed to comply when it authorized a subdivision development. The city had approved a plan to build 153 homes on a 93-acre tract. The Sierra Club and others objected, saying the acreage was part of 600 acres covered in a previous agreement under the 1965 California Conservation Act. The Alameda County Superior Court upheld the city, but the high court, in a 4-2 decision by Justice Stanley Mosk, disagreed. The Williamson Act, as it is known, authorizes local govern ments to create agricultural preserves and enter into contracts with owners restricting use of the land.

Cancellation of such contracts is permitted upon request of the owner under some conditions and when deferred taxes are paid. But the cancellation must not be inconsistent with the purpose of the law and must be in the public interest. The high court noted the law was the Legislature's response to the "rapid and virtually irreversible loss of agricultural land to residential and other developed uses, and the disorderly patterns of suburban development that mar remote residential enclaves GUARDIAN EQUITY 671 No. St. Suite 6 San Bernardino, Ca.

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Box C-10009 Central San Diego, CA 939fi0. The zip code is actually for Soledad, site of a state medium-security prison where inmate Michael Mclntyre's prison address is C-10009. CTF-C-A, No. 109. Mclntyre, 23, is serving a seven-year term for armed robbery and rape.

His court-appointed attorney, Richard Grossbe'rg, said: "I don't think he's a millionaire." Mclntyre was concvicted of raping a woman who answered a newspaper ad offering stereophonic speakers for sale, Deputy District Attorney Hugh McManus said. A postal inspector said classified ads are screened in all newspapers but that it was legal for people placing them to "be anybody they want to be." order to get the discount, you must purchase a round trip ticket. 2. You must tly both directions at night. The fare is higher if you want to tly during the day.

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studies quake preparedness on 10th anniversary of big one The drill was conducted in a gray concrete bunker in suburban Monterey Park that serves as the communications nerve center for the Sheriff's Department. The scenario facing the sheriff and other state, county and local officials began with: "Ground shakes violently for 45 seconds with an 8.3 magnitude earthquake." The drill was carefully scripted over six months to present as realistic a challenge as possible, said sheriff's Sgt. Joe Oblek, who helped devise the daylong test. In fact, just such a superquake has occurred. The southern leg of the infamous San Andreas Fault, which splits most of California into two shaky blocks, produced a near-twin of the simulated quake in 1857, when the county was scarcely populated.

Scientists say the fault ill almost certainly repeat that tragic act someday and the county is now crammed with 7.4 million people. Five miles west in the downtown state building. Gov. Brown said the $4.25 million was just the beginning. "The question about a catastrophic earthquake in California is not if, but when," Brown told a news conference.

"A catastrophic earthquake is a certainty. It will kill thousands of people and we're not ready for it." He signed an executive order formallv crafting a rnliforrn Earthquake Task Force to actively prepare for the coming disaster. LOS ANGELES (AP) Hundreds "died" on paper Monday in a mock superquake designed to test county emergency plans on the 10th anniversary of the devastating San Fernando earthquake. Concurrently, Gov. Edmund Brown Jr.

announced a $4.25 million plan Monday to upgrade California's preparedness. The mock disaster began at 6 01 a.m., the same minute the 1971 quake that killed 64 people had begun, but instead of 1971's Richter scale reading of 6.5, this quake measured a massive 8.3 Thousands were injured but only in theory in Monday's drill and there were downed freeways, broken gas lines, fires explosions and landslides scattered throughout much of Los Angeles County. Some airlines will tly you to New York for $149. But that discount fare can tie you up in a lot of complicated strings. Besides, you can't always plan a business or personal trip ahead.

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