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The Register: Donviile, Tuescloy, Jon. 4, 1972 13 American Treasurer Hunters Find Boat Stolen By Ecudoreans (AP) Thirteen Americans who put up $40,003 arid a $100,000 boat to hunt for Drake's fabled treasure off Ecuador say three Ecu- adorean American treasure hunters made off with the boat after captain tossed in a Panamanian jail. "I think we may have been a bit gullible," said Ray Gutman of Miami, an accountant who helped fund the venture. Gutman, 34, and 32-year-old Edwai-d Rylicki of Chicago told authorities here that several months ago they ap- by Donald Schaefer, Gene Roberts and James Judge, three Americans who are now citizens of Ecuador. They had a lease from the proached about a treasure buntiEciiadorean government to hunt for the La Playa lease was what convinced us it was worth it," Gutman said.

The La Playa treasure is a gold and silver horde supposedly dumped overboard by English freebooter Sir Francis Drake pvernment Says About Five Per Cent Of Families i. Welfare Last April Were Ineligible To Be There WASHINGTON government said (AP) The Monday that abgut five per cent of all welfare families reviewed last April were ineligible for pay- mejits, largely through errors and local agencies. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said benefits should not have been paid to 4.9 per cent of aged, blind and disabled recipients and 5.6 per cent of those receiving; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). QUALITY SHIRTS ft- uo 3-Hour Service Hangers or Folded DRIVE-IN CLEANERS! 1 EVERY ITEM thru Friday' FURN. 530 MONROE ST.

The review covered welfare part of a new HEW quality con- recipients in 34 states. The report, released at a news conference, emphasized that-fewer than one per cent of all recipients had been prosecuted for fraud. "Most of the errors were identified as honest mistakes by state and local welfare agencies or. by those who re. ceiyed the payments," an HEW official said.

"More than half were agency The principal reasons for ineligibility, the government said, were failure by recipients to report changes in family size or income, -and agency errors such as inadequate determination of eligibility, failure to follow up and misinterpretation of policy. The preliminary survey also showed overpayments and underpayments in 24.3 per cent of AFDC cases and 17.8 per cent of adult welfare cases. AFDC overpayments per family averaged $44.92 and underpayments $18.32 a month; adult overpayments averaged $22.43 and underpayments $14.23. The survey, undertaken as I TUESDAY'S fc. LUNCHEON SPECIAL! SALISBURY STEAK 2 Vegetables ANY ITEM WILL BE' 65 PREPARED FOR TAKE-OUT CAFETERIA TBallou Pork Shopping 792-4456 THE BORN LOSER Lunch 11:15, to 2:00 Dinner 4:45 to 8:00 trol program, has limited application in national projections because 16 states including California are riot represented and others such as New York, Ohio and.

Pennsylvania reported on only a small sampling. Officials said there was no attempt to make a state-by-state breakdown of the figures. Richard P. Nathan, HEW deputy undersecretary for welfare reform planning, said how- ever that the preliminary fig-eligibility a.ad making pay- ures point to the need for an ments to a new, uniform and overhaul of the present welfare system. "The results of this survey make it all the more urgent that Congress enact the administration's welfare reform legislation," he said.

"Enactment of HR 1 would take a heavy administrative burden off the backs of states and localities, by transferring responsibility for determining automated national system. ''At present, over 80 per cent of state and local" welfare agencies are not automated and, as a result, agencies are nundated with paper work Mistakes, delays and abuses are inevitable under these con ditions," Nathan said. Belgrade Highest Bidder For World Chess Match NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. Chess Federation disclosed Monday that bids opened in Amsterdam for the site oof the Bris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world championship chess match next June showed Belgrade the highest bidder. The Yugoslavian city's $152,000 offer of prize money for the match was reported by E.B.

Edmondson, of the U.S. federation. Fischer has said he- would prefer a match in the United States or Canada but the site was expected to go to the highest bidder. The Chicago convention bureau offered minimum set for the did Bled, Yugoslavia. Other bids reported by Ed- nionson, who said they were unprecedented, included $120,300 by Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; $125,000 by Iceland; and 000.by Argentina.

The total amount of the successful bid will be given to the players, with the winner receiving 62.5 per cent and the loser 37.5 per cent. Chess Federation headquarters in Amsterdam and that copies of all bids will be sent to Spassky and Fischer. They have until mid-January to inform Dr. Max Euwe World Federation president, their order of preference. Euwe will compare the preferential i- ii the site, will be lists and announce then each player allowed one veto of the announced site.

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Gutman said he, Rylieki and 1 other investors put up $40,030 cash; bought a 52-foot yacht Texas, outfitted it with XX) worth of gear and sent it off Ecuador. "Eight of the investors went own in November, but they de- ded to give up after a month," "utman said. "We had a new of underwater metal detec- or, but the "three Ecuadoreans aid they didn't think there was ny treasure and they wanted to se and money to go into the lobster business." Rylicki said the investors were shocked when it became pparent they were out to swindle us." Neil Barton and Holland Roth- Crulse Members Can Spend Two Days In China NEW YORK (AP) Som 1,200 passengers, including 3(K Americans, booked on the S.S France's 91-day world, cruis sailing Wednesday can spem two days in Communist China a French Line spokesman sai here Monday. The special excursion to ton, the result of an agreemen between officials of the line an the Agency of Internationa Tourism of the People's Repub lie of China, will be the firs time in more than two decade that the country has opened its doors to American tourists, said. The cruise, with fares rang ing from $5,000 to $99,000 start from LeHavre, France, and i scheduled to arrive here Mon day for U.S.

passengers. UPHOLSTERING Marvin Davis Dial 792-0248 Day or Night FREE ESTIMATES rock of Chicago sailed the boat to Panama after the other treasure Hunters flew back to their lomes, Rylieki said, and then. Rothrock flew oa to Chicago to find a crew for the Barton telephoned Chicago Saturday to say the three Ecua- doreans apparently had followed tlim to Panama, Rylicki said. When Barton failed to call again Sunday, Rylicki said, he called Panama and learned that Barton was being held in jail and the Ecuadoreans had sailed the boat away. The charges againtst Barton were not released.

"We've contacted U.S. officials in Panama and Ecuador" Gutman said, "but it will probably be three or four days before we get anything straightened out." Rylicki said, "Those Ecua- doreans had no right to claim hat boat. Everything was in order. They've got a U.S. boat and a U.S.

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