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Grand Hotel in Reno Nev where the tour stopped said there were 42 aboard were bodies all over the said Ala McEwan owner of the nearby Mountain Gate Lodge who helped remove the victims believe quite a few got washed out through the back when the windows popped out A couple of the people we carried out died at the side of the One of the passengers Valerie Webb said she was hurled into the aisle when the bus crashed and saw her husband Buster tossed out a window as people fell on top of her went out the window and I thought he was (See WRECK Page 12) WALKER (AP) A tour bus carrying residents of a retirement home careened at high speed off a twisting mountain road and plunged into an icy swift-running river Friday killing 19 people and injuring 22 authorities said The death toll made it the worst US bus crash in nearly six years There was confusion over the number of people aboard the bus and divers searched the West Fork of the Walker River for more victims Hie bus bringing passengers back to Santa Monica after a four-day outing to Reno was 90 miles southeast of Reno on US 39S when it bounced off a fence and plunged down a 15-foot embankment into the Walker River It flipped over and then lodged upright on rocks with its rear ripped apart in a few feet of racing water the California Highway Patrol said The river is near flood stage and seven feet deep in some spots Mono County Department investigator John Daniels said the accident was caused by excessive speed and no other vehicles were involved The condition of the driver was not immediately determined The CHP initially said that 49 were aboard but Bob Grunbaum a spokesman for Starline Tours of Santa Fe Springs Calif said the company believed the bus was carrying 44 people and a spokesman at the Bally Health fair in Mariposa SATURDAY MAY 31 1 986 WEATHER Mostly sunny and continued hot weather can be expected in the Valley over the weekend Highs both days will range from 95 to 104 with lows in the mid 60s to 70s AG TODAY Things are looking berry berry good these days for a dentist who gave up filling teeth to grow berries Page 8 Further charges for Ng SAN ANDREAS (AP) Three more murder charges have been filed against Charles Ng who previously was accused of killing eight people at a remote mountain compound where authorities last summer uncovered 11 bodies and about 40 pounds of splintered human bones Calaveras County District Attorney John Martin said Ng has been charged with the deaths of Harvey and Deborah Dubs and their son The Dubs were reported missing from San Francisco almost two years ago are three different places where you have venue for a murder charge One is where the fatal injuries were inflicted Another is where the victim dies A third is where the body is found We feel we have evidence of those things in Calaveras County" said Martin in a KCBS interview on Thursday we have alleged additionally is the burglary of the Dubs residence kidnaping of the Dubs family and the murder erf the Dubs family" Martin (See CHARGES Page 12) Maureen Spacke director of nurses inspects one of the redecorated in Mariposa A health fair is slated at the facility June 7 For more on Page 5 Wells acquisition of Crocker Bank now official rooms at John Fremont Hospital scheduled at the event see iun-Mv PM hr Jin SyM' son that they have to cut people makes sense Why havetwn managers when you're a half a block Fargo has a nice separation policy which I was pleased to accept I go out with a happy Booth-by said He said he will continue to Mve in Merced Although be said he regretted the disappearance of Crocker Bank as a sepa (See OFFICIAL Page 12) Hadsel is manager of the Merced Wells years said Friday he is looking for-Fargo branch at 1911 St as well as ward to retirement and to the opportu-manager of the South Val- nity to commit more time to a stock ley District registry company he formed several Charles Boothby a Crocker Bank yearI ag0 vice president and manager of the Hadsel declined comment and re-Merced branch worked his last day at erred all questions to Wells Crocker Bank Friday San Francisco public relations office Boothby who has worked for the have to make a staff reduc-company in various capacities for 39 Boothby said stands to rea By ANN CASSEL National Cwp was official Friday Sun-Star Buaineaa Editor when some 125 documents were signed by company officials in San Francisco The sign still will read Crocker Bank Wells Fargo spokesman Roger Cruzen when the financial institution at 555 said Friday 18th opens its doors for business Monday but the bank officially will be Management of both Merced owned and operated by Wells Fargo branches will be the responsibility of and Co Wells Fargo Bank vice president Wayne Hadsel Cruzen said in a tele-Wells acquisition of Crocker phone interview from San Francisco Spousal rape conviction overturned by Rose Bird Opinion means new trial for Victor Burnham and The join Weekender features Cyanide is discovered in Anacin-3 tests AUSTIN Texas (AP) Chemical tests showed a trace of potassium cyanide in one Anacin-3 capsule from the bottle taken from the apartment of a chemistry student who died after taking another tainted capsule federal officials said Friday Tests conducted at the US Food and Drug Admins tration's main facility in Cincinnati found only one capsule containing the poison said Donald Heal-' ton the regional director in Dallas found cyanide in a capsule in the bottle that was observed to have been there at the time that they were in possession of the student This was the bottle that was in the young residence" he said other 45 capsules in the bottle contained only the active ingredients they were supposed to Officials testing capsules from other bottles of die painkiller after the death of Kenneth Wayne Faries 24 said they have found no other traces of the pot? spn Tests on capsules taken from 10 Walgreen stores in Austin and on 5100 espsulea taken from ether plages re Sealed no ofeer trace of the palson wife allegations made by Ms then 20-year-old wife that he forced her to have am wife a dog and other men At the end of week-long trial he mi his dmhm mf attOP ney Val Dornay of Fresno and hired former Stanislaus County DistricLAt-torney Alexander Wolfe to represent him Wolfe has filed a number of appeala in the case an of which were upheld until the case reacted fee Cafifernia Supreme Court District Attorney Pat HaDford said fee Supreme Court however uphold convktknsof fete 1 ult fiiH THifltrntkfn flf pm: On fee subjeqt of putting trial Hafiford We Will try fegef it He added feat it feeape: dally diffkMR to fase ks old ag this one becuase many witnesses have memories" hare grewu i fent-TO-is hard for peopls fe reman wf her detain several years By SYLVIA WHARTON Sun-Star Staff first spousal rape conviction hi 1961 has ben overturned and returned to Merced County Superior Cburt for a new trial based on an opinion by California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird The opinion from the Supreme Court requires a new trial for Victor Burnham 40 who has hem serving a 13-year state prison sentence Burnham was convicted by a Superior Court jury here in 19B1 of one count of sexual penetration with a foreign object four counts of spousal rape felony assault and possession of a machine Bird agreed Wife the defense argument that fee jury should have been instructed feat if the defendant reasonably believed his Wife had con-1 seated to his sexual advances then acquittal wumandatory attorney silso argued that testimony during fee trial was prejudicial agsinst feeds- a Burnham was charged in connection cooking his drinking her shopping his girl-watching or the neighbors BC is the main character in work an individual he describes as a humble servant to naivete The strip also features a support-irig cast of Wiley a 'poet with 'U aversion to water in any form Peter a seif-styled genius Thor Jn-ventorof the wheel and tjm comb Ctaris fee wit Iheht1(BroadfposseMor nf an lihsasisniln it' run 'few 4Va unswervhfe devotion to the domtna- of mep The Cute Chkk a sex object ina world that had not yet discovered i Two new comic strips join the list of Sun-Star Weekender features today is a prize-winning strip which focuses on what cartoonist Johnny Hart calls merrymakers" "The is a spoof on -the Mate of marital bliss of Leroy and Loretta Loqkhorn comic strip is being terminated by King Features Prince Valiant Syndicate and being dropped i lheLoqkborns spend their bickering and baiting each other Their fights are most often about Hallford said if Burbham fe fried the reversal aQ but amounts tJ an acquittal of the t-T i 4 -H- ft.