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Possible Showers Wednesday Showers Through Tonight; Weather Cloudy With Scattered Santa Details Page 2 122nd Year No. 208 Cruz Tuesday, September 5, 1978 Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 Nkomo Denies Guerrillas Murdered Crash Survivors SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP) Guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo said today that his men shot down the airliner that crashed in northwest Rhodesia two nights ago but he denied survivors' reports that they murdered 10 of the 18 survivors. Nkomo gave no details but told reporters in Lusaka, Zambia, his headquarters, that the Air Rhodesia plane was shot down shortly after it left Kariba, on the Zambian border, "because these planes flying to Kariba with civilians also carry troops and militry There had been speculation that the fourengine Viscount was hit by a ground-to-air missile after one of the survivors, Anthony Hill, 39, told reporters: "There was a tremendous explosion. Then flames startedshooting past the window on the starboard wing." Investigators were examining the wreckage at the crash site 35 miles southeast of Kariba, and a military communique said "a starboard engine appeared to have exploded, and the starboard external side of the plane was heavily Guerrillas of Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union operate in the area from bases in Zambia.

In June 1977, they fired a missile at a private plane near the border, missed it and Sadat Says Summit Is Big Challenge CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrived in the United States for the Mideast summit talks at Camp David today, saying that it was "a time for magnanimity. Sadat, welcomed at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington by Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, said he came "at a crucial crossroads.

The challenge is tremendous, but we have no choice but to accept the challenge." "No one has the right to block the road to peace. This is not the time for maneuvers or outworn ideas. It is a time for Sadat said in brief remarks before boarding a helicopter for the final leg of his trip to the presidential hideaway. Israeli Prime Minister Menachern Begin was due to arrive two hours later, to be greeted by a similar red-carpet welcome, and then to be ferried by helicopter to Camp David, where President Carter was waiting to begin the conference. About 200 Egyptians, waving flags and chanting.

"Long live Egypt" and "Long live Sadat" in Arabic, were waiting along the airport fence to greet their country's leader. Flanked by Mondale and Vance, he strolled along the fence, smiling and waving, before departing. Carter, meanwhile, prepared a quiet welcome for his visitors, pressing for compromise but admitting the dangers in disagreement and making no predictions. "We will do the best we can," Carter pledged, although he noted the summit issues are complex and the differences between Sadat and Begin are deep. Before leaving the White House Monday for Camp David, Carter said the summit comes at a time "when the political consequences of failure might be very severe and when the prospects for complete success are very Sadat sounded the same theme, saying before leaving for the summit, "Failure at Camp David means an endless conflict." Carter prayed at a Baptist Sunday school session Sunday: "Let every heart involved be cleansed of selfishness and personal pride.

Let us all turn to thee, God our father, for true guidance, wisdom, forgiveness of others in the search for common ground." Issues long debated and sometimes fought over include Israeli occupation of land seized during the 1967 Mideast war and the fate of 1.1 million Palestinians living on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. SEE BACK PAGE Southland Braces For Tropical al Storm By The Associated Press Southern Californians braced for heavy rains, high waves and high waters as Tropical Storm Norman, a weakened version of the former Hurricane Norman, headed inland today. At sunrise the storm center was about 250 miles south of Los Angeles and turning to the north northeast, the National Weather Service said. It was expected to come ashore near or south of Los Angeles late today. Norman's arrival was expected to be heralded by thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.

A flash flood watch was issued for the Southern California coastal range mountains, foothills and adjacent desert areas through tonight. The heaviest rainfall 3 to 6 inches are likely and up to 8 inches in a few locations is expected over the coastal ranges. For Los Angeles, Norman could bring the first signficant rainfall since .10 inch fell on April 30. However, authorities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties said early today that warm, humid air had settled in, and that storm clouds were gathering. But, as yet there was no rain.

"We're waiting. We're expecting it," said spokesmen for both counties. At the beaches, the danger was from pounding, heavy surf, which was expected to last until Wednesday. The Coast Guard warned area lifeguard stations that Norman could cause surf from 6 to 9 feet to pummel the shoreline, with occasional swells of 15 feet. Coastal residents were advised to take precautions.

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The 52 passengers included 42 white Rhodesians and South Africans, two white Scots and eight Asian Rhodesians who had been holidaying at the lake. Hill told reporters at a hospital in Kariba the plane broke in two. The front portion burst into flames, and the survivors, all in the last five rows of seats, wormed their way out of the tail section. SEE BACK PAGE Cloudy Days Mean Calm SC Weekend The last fling of summer was a quiet one in the Santa Cruz area, law enforcement officials reported this morning. Thousands of tourists didn't get as much sun as they had hoped, but didn't get into as much trouble as lawmen feared, either.

The Highway Patrol reported the usual string of long weekend fender benders, including a fatal single-vehicle crash on Old San Jose Road early Sunday morning. Carol Ann Weaver, 20, of Naples, was pronounced dead at the scene after the pickup truck in which she was riding went out of control on a turn and slammed into a power pole and two trees. Driver of the truck, Scott Clifton, 20, of 164 Coldbrook Lane, was treated for his injuries and released at Dominican Hospital. A Fremont fisherman, Larry Tibbets, suffered a possible crushed leg in a fishing boat accident Sunday night about 11 miles offshore of Davenport. The Coast Guard transported by boat Santa Cruz Firemen Ed Ekers and Jerry Buzzetta out to the boat where they administered first aid before transporting Tibbets to the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor to an awaiting ambulance.

He was taken to Community Hospital. Santa Cruz Police also reported a rash of minor accidents, mostly on streets leading in and out of the beach area. Officers also investigated the usual number of weekend assault cases, petty thefts and the like. It was not a good weekend for local residents, 28 of whom had their car windows smashed by vandals roaming the west, southeast and southwest sections of town Sunday night. Among the victims were Santa Cruz City Councilman Bert Muhly and District Attorney Phil Harry.

Detective Sgt. Chuck Gilbert said the 28 cases were carbon copies, with the rear auto windows smashed by hurled rocks and beer bottles. An Aptos man took the law into his own hands early Monday morning after vandals threw a beer bottle through his bedroom window on Los Altos Drive. Seeing what he believed to be the same pickup cruise by a short time later, Calvin Reiman is reported to have grabbed a shot gun and fired a blast at the truck tires. The shot missed the tires, sheriff's deputies said, and one of the pellets struck the driver, Jeff Kallmann, 18, of Aptos, who required surgery for the wound at Dominican Hospital.

Two juveniles with Kallmann were uninjured, said deputies, who are investigating the matter. Capitola Police Chief Bob Allen reported his officers had a busy weekend, but noted uncertain weather created shorter stays than normal for visitors to that city. Labor Day is not the big summer's end weekend anyway in Capitola for larger crowds expected this coming weekend for the annual Begonia Festival nautical parade. SEE BACK PAGE Penney Manager Robert Lyons Died Monday Robert G. (Bob) Lyons, 70, retired manager of the J.C.

Penney department store in Santa Cruz and long time civic leader, died Monday at a local hospital. Memorial services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, where Lyons served as an elder, a deacon and a trustee. Lyons came to Santa Cruz in 1956 to assume management of the Penney store. He retired in 1968 after achieving an outstanding record as store manager.

In his early retirement he perienced swimmers to avoid high swells. Lifeguards in San Diego County said they expected breakers of up to 12 feet when Norman storms in. At Imperial Beach on Monday the waves were already 8 feet high. Coronado City Lifeguards, who had to carry out 10 rescues, warned bathers to stay away from the south-facing northern end of the beach. There were 62 rescues at all San Diego beaches.

In Orange County, lifeguards at San Clemente said they pulled about 200 individuals from the surf, compared with about 25 rescues on an average weekend day. Newport Beach recorded waves up to 10 feet by late Monday afternoon. The riptides forced lifeguards to rescue a record number 586 persons, according to lifeguard Bret Bernard. Meanwhile, in the San Joaquin Valley, frustrated raisin growers are hoping for hot weather and wind to counteract a heavy rain that threatens to decimate their crop as it dries on the ground. But the arrival of Norman clouds the outlook.

Rain was likely again today with more showers possible through Wednesday. Highs in the 70s were predicted for Wednesday with tonight's lows in the 60s. Rains Monday flooded San Joaquin fields, threatening a repeat of the 1976 drying season when storms at the start and end of September wiped out almost half the crop. Inside Today's Sentinel Younger, Brown Open Election 6 Cabrillo Music Festival Finale Brings 13 Giants Can't Hold Lead, Drop Two 17 Ann 4 Mostly About 5 11 Opinion. 15 19 17-18 Classified 20-27 Tree 'n Sea 4 12 TV 11 Crossword 12 13 Vital 14.

12 2 (AP Laserphoto) Silent Symmetry A lone white gull creates silent symmetry on 29th street in Newport News, Va. against the spire of the First Baptist Church Labor Day Roundup Helicopter Plunges Into Church Festival By The Associated Press Death and fear were unwelcome visitors at Labor Day festivities in two states, as the nation marked the traditional end of summer with a long weekend of parades, picnics and hours at the beach. Seven people died and 19 others were injured in Derry, when a helicopter plunged into a concession stand at a church festival after swooping low to drop pingpong balls bearing prize numbers. The whirling helicopter blades left a scene of blood and severed bodies in the parking lot of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

All three occupants of the helicopter survived: pilot Pam Nelson; church janitor Leo Allison; and Allison's daughter, Mary Beth, 12. But on the ground, Mary Allison, the janitor's wife and Mary Beth's mother, was in the helicopter's path. She died later at a hospital. In Maine, crowded beaches along the southern shore were cleared of sun-worshippers after the Coast Guard and state police issued an alert for a 60-foot tidal wave. The crowds returned after the wave failed to materialize, but the report caused what a state police dispatcher called "mass panic in the streets." The Coast Guard issued the alert after the wave was reported by occupants of a private boat about 14 miles offshore.

An unofficial count by The Associated Press showed 536 persons were killed in traffic accidents during the holiday period that ended at midnight Monday. The National Safety Council had estimated 470 to 570 deaths would occur. Labor Day weather was generally seasonal across the nation, with scattered showers reported in the West. Hurricane Ella, packng winds of 140 mph, sped northward and was expected to strike Newfoundland today. Tropical Storm Flossie was born in the central Atlantic.

In some parts of the nation, demonstrators disrupted Labor Day festivities. In Michigan, members of the American Agriculture Movement used the once-a-year opening of a pedestrian walkway to dump 150 pounds of what they said was tainted meat into the strait connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. They were protesting imported beef, saying the jettisoned meat was contaminated because other countries have lower sanitary standards than the United States. "It doesn't hurt the fish any more than it does us," said Louis Saunders of Quincy, Mich. In Ohio, about 100 migrant workers, striking for better wages from tomato growers, picked Labor Day to begin a 100-mile march to the statehouse in Columbus.

The march came 12 days after the start of a two-county strike against tomato growers. In Hawaii, 65 demonstrators and nine reporters were arrested at Hilo airport where they had blocked flights for half an hour. The demonstrators were protesting alleged inequities against native Hawaiians, and the reporters had followed them as they tried to reach a runway for a sitdown protest. Police and National Guardsmen stopped the group after they broke down a gate. They were charged with trespassing and released.

The weekend also brought a record $29 million in pledges to the muscular dystrophy telethon hosted by entertainer Jerry Lewis. Near the end of the 21 hour telecast, Lewis responded emotionally to 27 letters he said had questioned whether he received any money for organizing the fund-raiser. "I receive nothing from the telethon," Lewis said. "Every dime is accounted for through the Freedom of Information Act." Many viewers did not see Lewis' closing statement because stations had cut away for commercials. served as manager of the Bay Tree Book Store at UCSC.

He served on the city of Santa Cruz Civil Service Commission and as a director of the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce, Friends of the Library at UCSC and the Salvation Army. He was a past president of the Santa Cruz Rotary Club as well as a Harris Fellow in Rotary International. He was a former officer in the Family Service Agency and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Lyons served as manager of Penney stores in Hollywood and Roseville before coming to Santa Cruz. He joined the Penney company in Salt Lake City and later served in stores in Ogden and San Bernardino.

He is survived by his wife, Agnes, of Santa Cruz; a sister, Mary Lyons of Topeka, a brother, Reed Lyons of Hopkins, two nieces and a nephew. The Rev. Kent Webber will officiate at the memorial services. Inurnment will be at 100F Mausoleum. Contributions to Rotary Interplast, in care of John Byrne, secretary, Santa Cruz Rotary, are preferred.

Aftershocks Continue To Shake Tahoe Area SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (AP) Aftershocks continued to rattle homes and casinos here today following a weekend which produced two strong shocks in a 17-hour period Sunday night and Monday afternoon. Dr. Bruce Bolt, director of the seismograph station at the Universiy of California at Berkeley, said the aftershocks were registering less than 3 on the Richter scale He said Sunday night's quake ment unless there were another hit 4.5 on the scale and quake higher than 5 on the Monday's stronger quake regis- Richter scale. tered 5.2. He said the epicenter of both quakes was few miles He said a quake would have north of Markleeville.

to reach 6 on the scale before Dr. Bolt said the quakes were there was a potential of serious not unusual for the area. He damage. said there had been at least one Another Berkeley scientist, quake a year since early Dr. Robert Uhrhammer, said 1950s and added that the Uni- the weekend quakes would not versity of California would not be expected to damage wellmove in any monitoring equip- designed structures..