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THI SUN A-3 500 teenaged girls marked for murder? iContinued from All Pb. 16, mo I Lucinda L. Schaefer Additional storms an unrelated assault charge, although Pitchess warned: "We will bring charges immediately (in the five killings) if they try to make bail." Norris, who was released last June from the state mental hospital in Ataseadero where he was being treated after a rape conviction, was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail. Bittaker, paroled in November 1978 on a conviction of assault ith a deadly weapon, was being held without bail for parole violation. "One of the suspects Norris is cooperating," Pitchess said, adding authorities had discussed a plea bargain with him.

"We have reached no agreement (on the plea bargain), but I think Mr. Norris sees the advisability of cooperating." Norris led investigators on a search of the San Gabriel Mountains above San Dimas last Saturday, showing them the sites here' the bodies of two of the victims Jaqueline Leah Lamp, 13, and Jackie Doris Gilliam, 15 were dumped. Investigators found skulls, ribs and jawbones of the two Redondo Beach girls, who were last seen hitchhiking on Sept. 2. An ice pick was still embedded in the ear of Miss Gilliam's skull.

The sheriff's department said other known victims were: Lucin-da Schaefer, 16, of Torrance, who disappeared on her way home from church June 24; Andrea Joy Hall, 18, last seen in Redondo Beach on July and Shirley Linett Ledford, 16, of Sunland, last seen Oct. 31. Miss Ledford's nude and battered body, with hands and feet bound, was found dumped in an ivy bed in a residential neighborhood in suburban Tujunga on Nov. 1. (Continued from A-l) from the West End Sheriff's Substation.

In Rancho Cucamonga, there were two inches of water on the floors of two buildings at Alta Loma Junior High School. Two Alta Loma Junior High School students reportedly rescued another student ho was knocked off his bicycle and swept more than a half-mile down Beryl Street, which was under two feet water. The boy, David Triekpe, 13, of Rancho Cucamonga, was washed away while trying to retrieve his bike, which was swept into the street by the current. Triekpe was carried into an eight-foot deep basin north of 19th Street, where Nat DeVries, 14, and Brian Neufield, 14, found him clinging to a wall. The two pulled Triekpe out, said Sheriff's deputy Shirley L.

Ledford lJJwwwV- Lawrence S. Bittaker, A coroner's report said her breasts and face had been mutilated with locking pliers, her hands and arms had been slashed, and she had been strangled with a coat hanger. The bodies of Miss Hall and Miss Schaefer have never been recovered, but a tape recording 1 X. I Jacqueline L. Lamp noon sheriff's deputies went houset to house warning the residents that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) had or-; dered a gate across the road closed, and locked at 7:30 p.m.

Caltrans objects to the residents! using the access road to get out of; their otherwise isolated area, saying it creates a traffic hazard that is dangerous both to the resi-' dents and freeway travelers. Devore Road residents Bill Flesher and Wanda Miller both' said they had no idea if the gate would be opened today. In Loma Linda, county flood con-! trol crews working with the en-; dorsement of Loma Linda city officials ripped-out a portion of Van-Leuven Street where it dips into the San Timoteo creekbed. Storm runoff had clogged the' half-dozen drains beneath the' street and flood control director Dino DiPietro said he feared if the stream left its course the community might face a repeat of the major flooding it experienced during 1969 and 1978. The street removal ripped out.

water pipes and phone DiPietro said, but may have saved numerous homes from flooding. Caltrans said Highways 138 and 173 in the San Bernardino Moun-; tains were closed due to flooding; and mudslides. Chains were re-j quired from Snow Valley to Big: Bear. In the Victor Valley, Darrel Long of the Victor Valley County Water District said the current series of storms pelting the desert have; brought the heaviest rainfall re- corded in that area since 1944. An afternoon thunderstorm; pelted downtow San Bernardino -w ith hail the size of marbles, but shortly afterward the skies cleared momentarily.

A faint rainbow-stretched across the foothills i before the clouds rolled back in. National Weather Service forecasters said the rain is expected to continue through the weekend and possibly until next Tuesday or Wednesday. One forecaster said there is a chance that the storms will hit farther north in the state next week, however. KVIK.LTBI.K 'f I I --XX Andrea J. Hall Willi Paschal.

The boy's bike was lost. A pickup truck and a car had previously been swept into the same basin. The Alta Loma School District five schools were closed for the day, as were Alta Loma High School and Chaff ey College. Ontario High School was closed because of a power failure. About 9,000 Southern California Edison customers in Rancho Cucamonga, south Ontario and Chino were ithout power for varying lengths of time Friday, mostly because of lightning strikes.

Jim Hastey, Southern California Edison operations manager, said lightning knocked out two circuits in Fontana about 9:30 a.m., leaving 500 to 600 people without power for one to two hours. Six transformers also were damaged during the lightning storm, he said. Parts of Kaiser Hospital's outpatient clinic in Fontana were flooded about 3 p.m. Friday when storm drains clogged. Firefighters quickly built sandbag barriers, but carpeting in hallways and the cardiology department was soaked, said spokesman Alan Mann.

During a morning thunderstorm lightning struck the flagpole at Cajon High School in San Bernardino, blackening the top several feet of it, said vice principal Ed Jones. No one was injured, but the school's power was knocked out briefly. San Bernardino's Hampshire Avenue, which was hit by severe mudslides during January's storms, has come through the latest storms with no apparent problems. Fire and police officials maintained their command post at Mitchell School, but said their are no problems with the Harrison flood control basin, which overflowed ith mud on Jan. 9, 14 and 28.

Some 33 houses were damaged in the mudslides. At Cajon Creek in Devore, a camper truck was swept off the road hen the driver tried to negotiate the floodwaters flowing over Devore Road. Commie Clay Holmes, 76, and his grandson, Bobby Chacon, 11, both of Fontana, were rescued by a San Bernardino County Sheriff's helicopter crew after the camper lodged against the same sandbar that trapped another car that as swept away the day before. Deputy Mike Cordua said Holmes told him he wanted to take his grandson fishing and had driven through Cajon Creek during floods before. The truck was swept off the road about 7:30 a.m.

and the two were rescued about 8:45 a.m. Flooding from Cajon and Lytle creeks continued to cut off some 150 persons living on Devore Road Friday. During the day the residents were able to leave the area through an emergency access road to Interstate 15, but Friday after mnt x. fsf mm I xXXt Xi XJrXB Mill '1- fxx 1 jS Jackie D. Gilliam Roy L.

Norris found in Bittaker's van allegedly has the voice of a girl screaming and begging for mercy as she is raped and tortured. Miss Ledford's mother has identified the voice as her daughter's, and authorities said the male voices are Bittaker's and Monica and West Los Angeles cars ere carried 50 feet or more as the floodwaters worked their way to the sea. "In 34 years in Santa Monica, this was the worst I've ever seen it." said Santa Monica Police Lt. Robert Thomas. "Many cars were abandoned in the middle of the street.

I saw small cars floating." The new storm had dropped 1.51 inches of rain by midmorning. "and we expect another 1 to 2 inches or so," Weather Service spokesman Al Dascomb said. The rains that began Wednesday raised the total rainfall since last July 1 to more than 13 inches in Los Angeles, surpassing the normal total of about 10 inches of rainfall by this time of year and the dozen inches posted last year by this date. "This rain is breaking over 100 years of records," Dascomb said. "It's our third straight wet year." The Friday rainfall was heaviest in western and nor thern portions of the Los Angeles area The rain early Thursday had hit hardest in areas southeast of downtown Los Angeles, with the busy Santa Ana Freeway closed much of the day because of 2 to 3 feet of water.

That freeway was open Friday despite the added rains. Among those hit by scattered power outages during the storm was Queen of Angels Hospital near 00tWiMMl f-ij -W'tf- of i (Continued from A smashed against each other by the torrent. In Pasadena Glen, county flood control crews burrowed into the rushing water, trying to channel it iway from homes. Gas company workers unearthed pipes and tried to shut off a pervasive leak. The gas lines were rvptured hen ater-propelled boulders tore through the street.

Flooding closed the busy Hollywood Freeway in both directions during the morning rush hour. Four of the five lanes of the westbound Ventura Freeway, also a heavily traveled commuter artery north of Los Angeles, were closed because of mud. Mudslides also closed the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. All those roads reopened by noon. The county Fire Department provided sandbags for the next onslaught.

"The catch basins in the foothills are full of debris and the water is flowing across the top," said sheriff's Sgt. Terry Carlton. Altadena's catch basins had been clear Wednesday a good thing, flood control officials said, or damage would have been devastating. "When this storm hit, we were in pretty good shape," said acting county Flood District Director Howard llaile, "but now we are racing against time, ith our L.A.. Sheriff's Wash Friday streets deputy Mike Cordua helps 1 1-year-old Bobby Chacon from camper trapped in Cajon morning.

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field crews running like the dickens." High winds broke windows, along the coast in exclusive Marina del Rey, and hailstones accumulated on the ground in some areas. At least four radio stations were knocked off the air by a power outage in a transmitter atop Flint Peak, north of Glendale. Even on gentler slopes in Santa Arizona reels under fourth 100 -year flood PHOENIX. Ariz. (API Two people were killed Friday and hundreds were stranded or evacuated as Arizona suffered its fourth 100-year flood in 23 months.

Officials said Friday night they ere concerned about pressure on Stewart Mountain Dam, about 20 miles northeast of Phoenix, and the effect of water releases on bridges over the normally dry Salt River, which splits the metropoli tan Phoenix area. Earlier Friday, Gov. Bruce Babbitt declared a state of emergency for Maricopa, Gila and Yavapai counties, permitting the release of $100,000 In state funds to help battle the flooding. LIGHT UP YOU DtWMG ROOM WITH SWGtft fnri(H VOW Own wiffl lfi tmw y. uvut tU DaulV 0imliC C(Vtnw vt cHux dmgn Voo' row rM wrmn ana wtcy wiff umitutv uh toeOmm ftromn way ttmtn iitr'ad witrt I ALL 8 PIECES 598 OR $30 A MO F-ktt f-lNMNDNG POH fO DAYS WITH INS' ANT CMCDIT APPUOVA.

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