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(More weather data page D-4.) Sunday Edition 35c 131st Year. 81st Day Blobmington-Normal, Sunday, March 21, 1976100 Pages 6 Sections Patty found guilty of bank robbery If 1 i 3 1 i I IV II 1 i I I II Vs I II fi pf I I I 4 execution. "I was really scared," she told her jurors, insisting that these threats of death motivated her avowals of conversion to the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army which kidnaped her. She called her own tape-recorded words of revolution lies and disavowed her secret life as "Tania" of the underground. The tapes were forced by her captors, she said, and her gun-toting role in the bank robbery was a pose to please them.

Unique defense It was a unique defense. She never denied that she had walked into the Hibernia bank one spring morning and helped rob it. Nor did she deny it was her voice which bragged of the robbery on a taped "communique." What she did deny was that she did any of it willingly. Her defense was coercion, and she insisted that she believed even as she cradled her gun in the bank that she might be executed at any moment. "I was told I would be killed," she said again and again to explain her actions.

But the government, in its effort to convict Miss Hearst of armed bank robbery, told a different story. All but ignoring her kidnaping, Browning used the heiress' own words as the most damaging evidence against her. On the tape recording she insisted was forced, Miss Hearst's jurors heard her declare, "On April 15, my comrades and I expropriated $10,660.02 from the Sunset Branch of the Hibernia My gun was loaded and at no time did any of my comrades intentionally point their guns at me." The prosecution had other heavy weapons in its arsenal of evidence. There were bank surveillance films which clearly showed Miss Hearst in the guise of the bewigged "Tania," training her submachine gun on bank customers. And there were the words of a youth who quoted the fugitive Miss Hearst as confessing the bank robbery to him.

"She said she was a willing participant," testified Tom Matthews. four sisters paid a call to the jailed heiress on Saturday, as did her attorneys. Bailey later told a news conference: "When I was with her, she was sitting quietly, talking softly and able to manage a smile." The attorney said he had not expected a quick verdict because of the complexity of the case, but that he felt the jurors' desire for uninterrupted deliberations was a sign "they are not at loggerheads." The verdict climaxed a courtroom drama described by one defense attorney as "the trial of the century." The unquestioned star of the drama was Miss Hearst herself, telling at last her own terrifying tale of nearly two years in the underground. Torture Frequently tearful and gasping for breath, she recalled in detail her nightmare months of captivity locked in a hot stuffy closet where she said she was. raped, tortured and threatened with Inside Listening to the rumblings From the cabin of an Amtrak passenger train, Pantagraph intern Linda Kinsel got an engineer's-eye view of problems at railroad crossings on the Chicago-to-Bloomington run.

Her story appears on page B-15. From Blue Knight to model engineer, Lt. "Red" Bradshaw of the Bloomington police plays the part to the hilt. The gruff lieutenant is transformed into a gentle conductor of a model train in Steve Gleason's story on page A-3. From 1970 to 1976, the story's been about the same: the Main Street bridge over the Norfolk Western and Penn Central tracks still needs repairs.

Bill Wills compares past to present in his story on page A-2. And from marina to vacation spot is the transformation that Jerry Bergeron thinks could happen to Bloomington's marina concession at Lake Blooming-ton. Jim Flannery takes a look at Bergeron's plans on page A-12. Index Arts D- 1 Living C- 1 Births B-ll Opinion A- 4 Country B-16 Sports B- 1 Deaths. B-9, D-16 Sundries A- 6 Farm B-16 Weather D- 4 On this date 200 years ago, a New York printer complained to the Committee of Safety that local merchants had harassed him for printing a reply to Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." He was accused of disloyalty and all of his leaflets were destroyed.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)- Patricia Hearst was found guilty Saturday of charges that she willingly took part in a terrorist bank robbery. The defendant, who had watched proceedings calmly throughout the trial, showed no reaction to the verdict. She sat calmly and expressionless as the court clerk read the two verdicts of guilty on both counts of the indictment against her armed bank robbery and use of a firearm to commit a felony. Miss Hearst's sister, Ann, seated with her parents in the front row, clasped a' hand to her head in shock and began to weep openly. Another sister, Vicki, doubled over in her seat in the spectator session and sobbed.

Catherine Hearst, the defendant's mother, said aloud, "Oh, my God!" Bailey turns white F. Lee Bailey, the famed criminal lawyer who represented Miss Hearst, had come to court obviously expecting a verdict of innocent. He had seemed encouraged by the brief deliberation, but his face went white as the verdict was announced. The jury of seven women and fiye men returned its verdict at 4:45 p.m. PST after deliberating 12 hours in two days.

The case went to the panel on Friday, eight weeks after the trial began. Testimony began two years to the day after Miss Hearst's Feb. 4, 1974, kidnaping and included the defendant's own dramatic account of her abduction and captivity by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The maximum penalty for the two federal charges armed bank robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony is 35 years, 25 on the first count and 10 on the second. The minimum could be as little as simple probation.

After the verdict was read, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter told jurors: "As to the verdict you've arrived at, it is well within the evidence of this case and will be accepted." The 22-year-old Miss Hearst was sitting in a holding cell at the courthouse when she learned that the jury had reached a verdict. Bailey said that when she was told she would have to wait an hour to learn the verdict, she asked, "Why?" Jurors, in their swift verdict, apparently accepted the calm, methodical case presented by U.S. Atty.

James L. Browning Jr. 'That Browning, whose courtroom demeanor had been a low-key contrast to the theatrical Bailey, had left jurors Thursday with the admonition to follow the dictates of justice "That guilt not escape nor innocence suffer." The verdict was read in a packed courtroom. In a tense atmosphere, the foreman of the jury William Wright handed the verdict envelope to the judge's crier, Howard Frank, who handed it to the court clerk, then to Judge Carter. The judge examined the verdict, then handed it to clerk Eugene Driscoll, who arose and read in acalm voice "We the jury, find Patricia Campbell Hearst, the defendant at the bar, guiilty as to count one of the indictment, guilty as to count two of the indictment." Blast SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An explosion set off by bomb squad investigators to blast open a suspicious briefcase Saturday rocked a hallway near the courtroom where Patricia Hearst was found guilty of bank robbery only 90 minutes earlier.

No explosives were found in the briefcase, which a Federal Protective Service guard said contained some news reels and papers. There were no injuries reported. The small explosion on the 19th floor of the city's Federal Building took place about 25 feet from the courtroom where Miss Hearst's trial came to an end with a guilty verdict by the jury. WW I I Also facing Miss Hearst are state robbery, assault and kidnaping charges stemming from a shooting incident in Los Angeles one month after the April 15, 1974, robbery at the Hibernia Bank here. Those charges carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

Sentencing April 19 Judge Carter set sentencing for April 19 on the San Francisco charges. The jury's decision ended one of the most dramatic criminal trials in memory. In the end, it came down to which of two portraits of Patricia Hearst the jury found more believable. Her defense sought throughout to portray her as a terrified kidnaping victim forced into a terrorist pose by her ruthless abductors. Her participation in the holdup was a matter of "dying or survival," Miss Hearst's lawyer said in his closing argument.

To the prosecution, she was a scheming liar whose defense of "she didn't mean it" did not ring true. "Judge this case on the evidence," Browning told the jurors Thursday. The case had received almost un-paralled publicity and stirred emotions ranging from extreme support to extreme dislike for Miss Hearst, a fact noted by the judge in his final instructions to the jury. "The law does not permit jurors to be governed by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion," he declared. In the hushed courtroom, spectators gasped as the verdict was read.

There were tears from many defense supporters but also from a government employe, U.S. Marshal Janey Jiminez, who had guarded Miss Hearst throughout the trial. Stunned Bailey's partner, Al Johnson, bowed his head, and members of the large defense team appeared stunned. They looked at each other and shook their heads from side to side. The jury had reported for its second day of duty in the windowles deliberation room 15 minutes early, and worked through the noon hour after sending out for a lunch of hamburgers and french ties.

Jurors had ended their first day by listening to one of the many tape recordings of Miss Hearst's voice that were entered into evidence. Miss and two of her San Francisco (AP) Patricia Hearst is shown during the 1974 bank robbery of Hibcrnia Bank. Related stories are on pages B-11 and D-16. She was found guilty Saturday on two counts stemming from the robbery, lony. Contaminated turkeys not recalled last year VorrlVf I in VK2IUH.I lb III faced Friday afternoon in a hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight nd Investigations of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

The story was fleshed out through interviews with officials from FDA and USDA who were knowledgeable about the incident. The memo, dated July 22, 1975, and signed by Dr. C. D. Van Houweling, director of the FDA'S Bureau of Veterinary Medicine, was written after a meeting between the two agencies.

It disclosed that USDA scientists, during routine sampling of turkey flocks, found up to 48 parts of the drug Ipronidazole for each billion parts of turkey tissue in certain birds. Marlyn Perez, special assistant to the director filing funds His asserted expenditures included $65,000 for mailing 500,000 letters. A postal official in Buffalo said it could not be determined whether or not such a first-class mailing had taken place. Jackson also listed $32,642 in printing bills from Publishing 494 Masten Buffalo. That address is a long-vacant house in a deteriorating neighborhood, according to a city directory and the Buffalo police.

Attempts to reach Jackson at a telephone number listed on his campaign literature failed. The new federal election law makes it unlawful to furnish any false, fictitious, or fraudulent evidence, books or information to the Federal Election Commission in connection with matching fund payments. The maximum penalty is a $10,000 fine and five years in prison. Violations of other reporting requirements are punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 or up to one year imprisonment. Jackson had earlier appeared in Washington to announce his candidacy.

In his literature he describes himself as 49, a' registered Democrat and "a poor Black American, who will have much to say for the poor and the unemployed." Listing his experience, he said he "was president of Jackson Educational Foundation, president of two real estate corp. Operated a radio station briefly. Can type 60 words per minute." Data faked in for campaign By John Stowell Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-When the U.S. Department of Agriculture found illegal residues of a suspected cancer-causing drug in turkeys last summer, it mistakenly impounded thousands of clean birds while the contaminated meat was processed into turkey rolls and sold to consumers. But the Food and Drug Administration, rejecting the recommendation of one of its inspectors, decided not to recall the meat or prosecute the turkey grower because those actions might embarrass USDA.

The chain of events was outlined in an internal government memo that sur tions from any one state were generally all received the same day. The Associated Press checked a series of listed contributors in New Jersey. Edward P. Olszewski of 117 Talmadge Bound Brook, was listed for a $250 donation Feb. 24.

Mrs. Albert F. Olszewski of 115 Talmadge Ave. said there was no Edward in her family, that no one in the house had donated to Jackson, and that the house at 117 Talmadge had burned down last year. Paul Chester of 254 Penn Nixon, N.J., was also listed for $250 on Feb.

24. Mrs. Paul Chester of 250 Penn Ave. said "we haven't contributed and I don't know of any other Chesters." She said there was no 254 Penn Ave. Responses were similar from others as the pattern of slightly varied names and addresses continued.

Virtually every donor's occupation was listed simply as "worker." One man contacted on a basis of the list told a reporter no one in his household had been able to find work for a year. Federal law requires specific occupations and business address of contributors to be listed. In a letter to the FEC, Jackson said "many of these donations from members of the John Birch Society, who do not like people to know their name." Jackson's report claimed he raised $110,931 during February and spent $111,640. of the FDA's Bureau of Foods, said the disease-fighting drug is presumed to be a carcinogen, or cancer-causing compound, although no long-term studies on that potential clanger have ever been conducted. Scientists can detect illegal residues of the drug in edible tissue down to 2 parts per billion, she said, and levels higher than that would indicate that a turkey grower had violated the law by ignoring the label directions on how long birds should be withdrawn from the medication before they are slaughtered.

Federal law prohibits the use cancer-causing drug in animals if detec-. table levels are found in meat. The Van Houweling memo said that subsequent discussions with officials of USDA's Animal and Plant Health- Inspection Service "disclosed that initially they had inadvertently obtained ithe wrong grower name and that the lot'of turkeys which they were holding was not the lot sampled. The lot from which ah objective sample was collected was combined with other lots and processed into turkey rolls and shipped out from the establishment." An FDA inspector, according to the memo, thought that FDA "should assume responsibility for the lot that was processed and shipped." The FDA and USDA were not sure whether the turkey rolls should be recalled, it said, but at least two officials felt that the FDA Bureau of Foods "should be aware of the situation in the event that they thought action was indicated in order to protect the consumer." Van Houweling, however, argued successfully that the FDA had no "obligation" to take regulatory action on( products under USDA's jurisdiction. Ford Sold with a Pantagraph Want Ad Spring Time brings increased demand for wheels and lots of buyers are looking for Automobiles.

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Jackson of Buffalo, N.Y., filed the material with the Federal Election Commission this month. The FEC has certified more than $11 million this year to 14 presidential primary candidates. Commission staff members are making preliminary checks before starting the detailed audit which is routine before a candidate can be certified for matching funds. To qualify for the money, a candidate must raise $5,000 in individual contributions of $250 or less in each of 20 states a total of $100,000. The only nonpolitician to qualify so far is Ellen McCormack, an antiabortion candidate who has run in several primaries and so far gained one delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

Jackson's filing first aroused suspicion among persons who examined it because virtually all of the contributions were for exactly $250, because totals listed for a number of the states were exactly $5,300, and because contribu Sadorus (AP)-Ron Holt, left, held sewing machine as his son Danny, handed I'll i I him his hat Saturday as they sifted LlttlG tO SOlVQQQ through the remains of their home after a tornado swept through the town, which is southwest of Urbana. A story on the tornadoes in the Urbana area is on page A-3..