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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 4

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The Fresno Beei
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Fresno, California
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3rd suspect will waive extradition If elected Reagan put finances in a blind trust By DOUGLAS KNEELAND New York Times LOS ANGELES Ronald Rea-n If elected president intends to ve his substantial financial investments handled the way they have been since 1966 the year before he became governor of California rather than comply with the blind-trust requirements set by the Federal Elections Commission for those who prefer to avoid the procedures of annual disclosure of their holdings William French Smith personal attorney to the Republican nominee and one of three trustees who manage his investment affairs discussed in a telephone Interview Friday the Reagan plan "They are in a blind trust but they're not in the kind of blind trust that the FEC calls Smith said of Reagan's investments the extent of which were disclosed Thursday when the candidate made public copies of his 1979 federal income tax return Although he has filed financial disclosures as required by the commission in the last two years it was the first time Reagan had followed the example of most other national candidates of the post-Watergate years and released copies of his tax returns In view of those disclosures and subsequent ones that must be filed each May 15 with the federal commission if Reagan is elected Smith said it "wouldn't make any sense to go through all the bureaucratic procedures involved in setting up a blind He said the decision to stay with the present financial arrangement was not a philosophical one made by Reagan but a one made by the trustees Smith characterized the election commission requirements as a Police Department said that at one time Munro "was close to Bonin" "He did work at some point in time with Bonin" as a truckdriver Lewis said AI Albergate a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Munro was "an associate of sorts of Bonin's I guess you could say a friend but I don't know how lung they knew each other" Albergate and police investigators declined to say how how Munro became linked to the case It was believed that Munro was visiting this area ut the time of the Wells homicide police said Los Angeles Municipal Judge Nancy Brown ordered that the criminal complaint against Munro and the attached court documents be sealed Aaron Stovitz the Los Angeles County district attorney said he made the request protect witnesses" in the case In July 1979 Bonin and his brother Paul a plumber briefly ran the Alpine Inn a neighborhood bar in the rural Silverado area of Orange County However the brothers could not get a permanent liquor license reportedly because of William Bonin's record of sex offenses and soon sold the bar though Paul Bonin still goes into the bar frequently according to its current manager Richard LaC-roix Terri McLaughlin who lives across the road from the bar said Inn has been here a long time with several owners but it never attracted so many motorcycle gangs as when as when Paul and William Bonin were But LaCroix said McLaughlin been working on this (trying to shut down the bar) for two years" By BRIAN BUND Associated Preu LOS ANGELES A 19-ycar-nld truck driver held as the third defendant in the grisly "Freeway Killings" case was once "close" to the man accused of 14 of the slayings an investigator said Friday James Munro was charged with one count of murder Thursday in Los Angeles Municipal Court and was later arrested in Port Huron Mich 50 miles north of Detroit He was charged with the death of the most recent freeway victim Stephen Jay Wells whose body was found JuneS Munro who was arrested at a relative's apartment offered no resistance and was unarmed Michigan State Police said St Clair County Prosecutor Peter Deegan said Munro appeared to be eager to return to California and face tnal Munro told arresting officers he would nut fight extradition to California but it was uncertain when he would leave Michigan A special five-man detective team from Southern California interviewed Munro in Michigan on Friday said Deputy Los Angeles County District Attorney Aaron Stovitz The freeway killings case involves the deaths of 44 young men whose bodies have been found along freeways in Southern California since 1972 Most were strangled or smothered and many were nude and 'sexually molested More than half were hitchhikers The other two men accused in the case are William Bonin 33 who is charged with 14 of the killings and Vernon Butts 22 an acquaintaince of his who is charged with six of the same murders Lt Ron Lewis who is in charge of the investigation for the Los Angeles A Coast Guard boat near a buoy marking divers' location Divers begin chemical-spill cleanup spill like this he said "There have been big oil spills before but a chemical one of this nature never been anything like it" Reporters photographers and other civilians were barred from the area when the work began because of the danger the PCP would spray about wildly Bandos said vacuuming up the chemical was the recommended procedure but the size of the spill made planning difficult by the spill Traces of PCP have turned up in shrimp and oysters nearby The Coast Guard said the unprecedented cleanup would take at least 48 hours There were several false starts including a seven-hour delay after divers found the vacuum hose was about 20 feet too short Coast Guard spokesman Doug Bandos said the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies involved had to improvise cleanup procedures as they worked has never been a chemical SHELL BEACH La (UPI) Divers in special hard hats and wet suits Friday began the two-day Job of sucking terns of poisonous chemical and muck from the bottom of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet with a giant vacuum cleaner An estimated 25000 pounds of pentachlorophenol a wood preservative known as PCP was spilled in a ship collision at the site 25 miles east of New Orleans 10 days ago All shrimping and fishing in the seafood-rich area have been halted Survivors recall rescue from sharks no enemy so he and the others went below to cut loose the rafts He was so busy he notice his helpers had left him when the ship began listing Alone belowdecks on the keelir he grabbed a line to prevent being i against a wall When the water level rose to his feet he gulped a breath of air and swam toward a hatch but the water sucked him back inside blacked out saw my life pass before me and said a he said It must have been a prayer of contrition he said because he gained consciousness in the sea to watch the stern of the ship going down as a sailor pulled him onto a raft The next day Kuryla found 34 cans of Spam tins of hard biscuits and malt tablets stashed away in one of the life rafts and a black oil-coated onion floating in the water He made these into sandwiches for the men There was nothing else to eat He also caught rain in a big battle bandage and squeezed the water into a can Lack of food and water the heat open wounds shark attacks and having to turn dead comrades loose in the water and watch their bodies drift away and sink turned some men delirious he said trembling at the memory Kuryla kept enough of his sanity to avoid Joining men who swam away deluded by visions of an island or beliefs that fresh water awaited them six feet below the surface He remembered spotting a plane that landed in the water and rescued 56 of the men His buddies told him it was only a bird and that he was hallucinating Like many of the men Kuryla saw a psychiatrist several times after the ordeal: The Indianapolis was the 5th flagship and saw service at I wo Jima Tarawa and the Battle of the Philippine Sea On her last mission she carried elements of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The ship was sunk while bound for Guam to discharge some men before heading to Leyte in the Philippines to jinn the US 10th Fleet for the invasion of Japan By LAURA A WILKINSON United Press International INDIANAPOLIS They survived four days clinging to life rafts and floating in the deep shark-infested waters of the Marianas Trench in the last days of World War II Every five years the survivors of the sinking of the cruiser USS Indianapolis gather for a memorial service More than 200 showed up with wives and children Friday for the fifth reunion On July 30 1945 two weeks before V-J Day a Japanese submarine torpedo attack sank the cruiser in only 12 minutes Only 316 of the 1196 men survived Robert Kuryla of Hillside III a coxswain on the cruiser was one of those few He and a buddy had just got off watch and lay on the top deck to sleep when the torpedoes hit went flying in the air and came down on our feet like a Kuryla said He manned his gun immediately but saw I BLACKJACK PLAYERS I Cluster of quakes in Sierra felt in Fresno Sacramento COME TO ONE OF OUR SEAAINARS TUES-WED-THURS AUG 5th 6fh 7th HOLIDAY FRESNO LEAtl AMAZING KITING SYSTEM BEGINNERS PLAY LIKE PRO'S IN MINUTES GOOD PLAYKS BECOME BETTER UL uja bmb sbJ Iua mAm MM Lim nmp yov wmjnjj wn in iwi wiwn yw wav And whnt it' dl about in blackjack Saa our ad bi papar Bee news services CONVICT LAKE A sharp earthquake and several strong aftershocks jolted the High Sierra early Friday causing a flood of calls to focal authorities but no injuries or damage Mono County deputies said The quake was felt in Fresno but local officials said there were no reports of damage or injuries The 9:39 am earthquake measured 51 on the Richter scale and was centered near this fishing resort seven miles southeast of the Mammoth Lakes resort area said Dennis Meredith spokesman for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena The Caltech seismograph recorded four aftershocks ranging from 38 to 45 on the Richter scale within half an hour of the first quake said Meredith (Later Friday a quake registering 57 on the Richter scale rumbled through south-central Alaska shaking the Anchorage area but causing no damage or injuries) Felt as far away as Sacramento 125 miles west and Fresno 80 miles southwest it was the fourth major quake in the region since May when a succession of quakes injured nine people and triggered landslides near Mammoth The center of Suake was close to Convict Lake our miles southwest of the May epicenters Meredith said the quake was an aftershock of the 61 magnitude quake on May 26 but was considered a major earthquake in its own right Mono County Sgt Dan Paranick said the quake was not as intense as the earlier quakes and no reports of injuries damage or landslides were received Our latex wall paint 10 colors flat 1-coat coverage 99 Washable finish gd Quick cleanups 1 Rag price Latex Ceiling While l-coat coverage True-whitejflat Q99 Heavy-bodiedfor Oaal reduced dripping Reg 1009 12 price Acrylic latex caulk 99 Js Durable flexible sealer can be painted quickly Handy 105-ob cartridge Conferees approve weapons measure WASHINGTON (AP) House-Senate conferees approved a $528 billion weapons bill Friday including an 117 percent pay raise and a limit on 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