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IHUHViMWtJflUBUlLf.TlM Frigid blast hits Rockies Itv THK ASSOCIATE t'KKSS Arctic cold gripped the north- I'rti Hockics today as an autumn storm packing heavy snow spilled across the Great Plains. Temperatures plunged to the mid teens and lower in Montana, where up to a foot of snow fell Wednesday night and Thursday. Heavy snow warnings were posted for the mountains and northeastern Colorado, where 4 to (i inches were expected. A wave warning also was in effect for parts of the state. The storm diminished over Montana and Wyoming, where 10 (o 12 inches were common Thursday.

The snow extended into the Plains as far east as Minnesota and southeastern Nebraska. Two inches of new storm whitened Dickinson, N.D., and an inch dusted Denver. Temperatures slid into the 30s at Dodge City, after reaching a high of 83 Thursday. Light rain sprinkled areas from Iowa to Michigan and parts of Maine. Snow flurries whirled over northwestern Pennsylvania.

Temperatures before dawn ranged from 14 at Butte, to 78 at Key West, Fla. Some other reports: Anchorage 18 clear, Atlanta 48 clear, Boston 52 clear, Buffalo 43 Chicago 45 partly cloudy, Cincinnati 47 clear, Cleveland 45 showers, Dallas 66 clear, Denver 30 light snow, Detroit 44 light snow, Honolulu 76 clear, Indianapolis 45 clear, Kansas City 50 clear, Angeles 62 partly cloudy, Louisville 52 I'lear, Miami 75 clear, Min- ncapolis-St. Paul 39 partly cloudy, Nashville 58 clear, New York 51 clear, Philadelphia 48 clear, Phoenix 55 clear, Pittsburgh 43 partly cloudy, St. Louis 56 clear, San Francisco 52 clear, Seattle 38 partly cloudy, Washington 49 clear. Mciendon okays sole of theaters DALLAS (AP) Showtime has again reached an agreement in principle with entertainment entrepreneur Gordon McLeondon, to purchase his chain of Dallas theaters for $22 million.

McLendon said their announcement of the purchase Wednesday nullifies a tentative agreement made earlier. THOUGH THUV might be accused of carrying togetherness too far, Dale Vinson of Albany, and his dog Amos aren't Wearing matching casts just for effect. Amos was accidentally shot In the right foreleg shortly after Dale broke his right arm playing football. Expert says most important find BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (AP) The recovery of 16th century artifacts from a sunken Spanish galleon off the Texas coast was the most important archaeological find ever of the Spanish era of Texas history, a former Smithsonian Institute official says.

Mendell Peterson of Alexandria, testified Thursday in a civil suit here over ownership of almost $300,000 worth of artifacts removed from the galleon by Platoro Ltd, a Gary, salvage firm. Peterson said he appraised the artifacts' Value at $294,618.50. He said he examined them not long after they were recovered again earlier this year at the University of Texas at Austin where they are being cared for pending disposition of a suit. Platoro claims ownership of the entire treasure saying it is a simple salvage case and not covered by Texas law. The items were removed in 1967 before passage of the Texas Antiquities Law.

Larry York, an assistant state attorney general claims Platoro is due nothing and the state should have the entire treasure. If they cannot be awarded the entire treasure, Platoro wants 50 per cent of it plus $139,302.74 spent in recovering it. Peterson said the ship from which the artifacts were recovered according to historical records, was one of six or eight ships which sank off the Texas coast about 1553 after they had left Vera Cruz, Mexico, bound for Spain. Peterson said the ship was equipped with the oldest battery of artillery he had ever seen, A navigational astrolabe, dated 1545, is the oldest one of its type in existence, Peterson said. "I think they belong in a museum," he added.

Platoro lawyer John Stiles of Oary testified Thursday that Platoro believed they signed a valid contract with then-Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler calling for a 50-50 split of the treasure and allowing Platoro to continue salvage operations for one year. They had earlier been halted by a state court injunction which Stiles said Sadler promised to have dropped. Stiles testified that in December of 1968 he mailed Sadler a contract signed by Platoro officials and was later told by Sadler that Sadler had signed it. Sadler later denied ever signing the contract. Telling York "Mr.

Sadler told me any number of times it had been signed," Stiles said he never saw the contract again. Its happening to us, too. Everywhere you turn these days, the costs of just about everything are rising. It's happening to Texas Power Light Conipany, too. In 1963, pin-type insulators for electric distribution lines cost just 30C each.

Today, the same insulator costs 77C. The prices of hardware, materials and equipment of all kinds needed to produce and supply electric power have gone up drastically in the past ten and they're continuing to rise. The costs of constructing generating the interest rates on money borrowed to finance them. the fuels required to operate them are much greater than just a few years ago. You want adequate and reliable electric service and considers it has a responsibility to provide that service.

However, to do this, rising costs must be passed on in the form of increased rates to users. 115 counties added to food tamp prograi AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Food stamps spread statewide Thursday as the final group of 115 counties were added to the program administered by the State Welfare Department. Before the statewide program was started, only 28 of Texas' 254 counties had food stamps. Others relied on commodity programs.

State Welfare Commissioner Raymond Vowell said almost 250,000 Texas households are being served by the program, and he expects the number to increase to 300,000 by January. The food stamp allotment for a family of four will go up from $116 to $142 a month in January. In most localities, the U.S. Post Office issues the stamps to i-ligible persons, which may be used to obtain food. For example, a family of four with a monthly net income of less than $387 is eligible for the stamps.

Jury blasts handling of murder cose HOUSTON (AP)-f he gfahd jury which investigated the murder nf 27 teen-agers here ended its term with a report police and the district attorney's office had hot followed up the possible involvement of others in the slay- ihgs. The investigation by the police and district attorney's office "lacked professional thoroughness and professional coordination," the jurors said Thursday. They said the Houston police abandoned the investigation about Sept. 1, leaving Unexplored "the possible involvement of others and related criminal activities." Harris County Dist. Carol Vance said the grand jury report stressed a few negative aspects while ignoring the accomplishments in a difficult and complicated case.

He called the grand jurors "a conscientious bunch but difficult to corn- municate with." Capt. L.D. Morrison, who headed the Investigation in the Houston police division, was not available for comment. He said as recently as Oct. 18 that police were still working on the case.

The report by the jurors criticized the assigning of only a single prosecutor in the district attorney's office to the case, adding that not until Sept, 24 was he given an investigator. Vance said on the contrary ihat this was the first time his office had ever assigned one prosecutor to work full time on a single investigation, "There appeared to us to be a lack of inquiry into a number of important details," the report said. "Much of the problem in following up the wealth of leads was the lack of knowledge of wdat the district attorney's office had or had not investigated." Vance said his office has never stopped following leads. "We'll continue to investigate and run down any leads at all, even if they turn out to be wild goose chases, as many of them have." The grand jurors returned 10 indictments in the six against Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, and four against David Owen Rrooks, 18. Female company tops officer candidate class My WILLIAM I'ASfcY Associated' Press Writer NEWPORT, R.I.

(AP) The first coed officer candidate class in U.S. Naval history graduates today, and the top company is all female. The class of 43 women and 124 men, who have been training together since June, are to receive commissions as ensigns at the Newport NdVy Base's Officer Training Center. All previous classes have trained in segregated programs for men and women. "As far as the Navy's concerned, it's a highwater mark, a milestone," said flapt.

Howard N. Kay, who is com' madding officer at the training center. The women's ability was demonstrated at awards ceremonies Thursday. A female company won honors for best over-all achievement among the class's 12 companies. The award was based on physical fitness and academic and military training marks, Kay said.

Haserve officer and enlisted basic training programs will soon graduate wiimon, too, Kay said. There are no plans to mix sexes at the Navy Academy at Annapolis, he said. Women candidates performed all the types of physical exercises required of men, he said. But the number and length of the exercises was less for women and scoring was adjusted to lake sex into consideration. The integrated training resulted in more important first assignments for tin 1 women graduates, including overseas duty.

Lt, Cmdr. June Blank said women Usually had been assigned io administrative jobs on domestic bases in their first tour. "1 don't feel any different from any other Navy officer," said Ens. Tracee Kotulak. She has been assigned to an antisubmarine warfare base in Kef- lavik, Iceland.

"The women are no longer an auxiliary group. They're much more a part of the Navy now," said Ens. Travis MrCann. UFE AS IT ONCE WAS When yesterday was today By HAL BOYLK NEW YORK (AP) Memory is like the miraculous pitcher in Greek mythology. No matter how much milk was poured from the pitcher, it immediately filled up again.

"My mind is completely empty today," people say. But their memory never is. It never runs out of things to recall. Your own memory is pretty good if you can look back and remember Motormen on streetcars used to stamp impatiently on a clanging floor bell to warn those newfangled automobiles to get out of the way. There was enough material in the petticoats worn by a woman to make a fair-sized tent.

When every house had an attic, a housewife on a rainy day could climb the stairs to one, sit among the musty heirlooms of her family's past, and have a good satisfying cry all to herself. Stray dogs that run in packs were more of a public nuisance than gangs of juvenile delinquents. Adventerous Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to ride in an automobile in 1902 and, in 1910, the first ever to ride in an airplane. In 1957, off Newport, H.I., Dwight D. Eisenhower- became the first president to submerge in an atomic-powered submarine, the Seawolf.

Before peanut butter became so popular, a Midwest child's ideal afternoon snack was a piece of bread spread with chunks of butter and gobs of molasses or, if an epicure, a piece of bread covered with butter and mustard, then sprinkled with sugar. Somehow, the kids who ate those things managed to grow up. Hardly anyone ever used the word environment, and only a few college professors knew what the word ecology meant. And children in a large family had their little wars and truces without ever realizing they were engaging anything so awesome-sounding as sibling rivalry. Only boys went in for summer freckles and tans.

Girls avoided the sun and washed their faces with milk to keep down their freckles. In summer as well as winter, a lady's complexion was supposed to be as pale as a uhost or a snowbank. A nickel cup of coffee tasted just as bad as a 15-or 20-cent one does today. Those were the days remember? Charitable widow found dead MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Marion Razete, a 67-year-old widow who was an epileptic and feared living alone, opened her house to human strays of all ages and races.

Thursday she was found dead in her North Miami house. She had been beaten and strangled. Her body was discovered by a young Vietnam veteran she invited home after he tried to panhandle a quarter from her. Police said they are seeking two long-haired young drifters who accepted Mrs. Razete's hospitality a few days ago.

"We expected it. We warned 'ier," said one neighbor as police combed the dead woman's Mouse and yard, "She took those people in for company, I guess. We could see what class of people they were." Friends told police Mrs. Ra- zete's husband, Vincent, died two years ago. Fearing she would be victimized, he had left lier a trust fund which was administered by a lawyer.

Mrs. Razete had taught music after her husband's death and played piano at local concerts. But she was afraid to live nlone because she suffered epileptic seizures and so she took in homeless men and women, friends said. Police said Mrs. Razete's sheltering of the homeless had caused problems in the past.

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