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Presley fans take flowers with them MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) The fans got to see Elvis Presley's burial site for the first time Friday. When they left, the sea of flowers went with them. Some 80,000 mourners poured through the gates of Forest Hill cemetery with permission for each to take one blossom from the funeral flowers. But many got away with handfuls and even took styrofoam wreath forms, bundles of fern and petal scraps.

When the cemetery gates closed at 5 p.m., the grounds had been stipped clean. people have just run rampant through the cemetery." Police Director E. Winslow Chapman said. just run wild But cemetery general superintendent Ralph Davis disagreed TOP TEENS-This Miss National Teen-Ager LaVelda Fann, 16, from Gadsden, left, is congratulated by Kellie Thomson, Bountiful, Utah, winner. Miss Fann won the title over girls from 49 other states and the District of Columbia.

The competition was held in Atlanta. Literary agent checking 'Sam' tape proposal NEW YORK (UPI) Scott Meredith, one of the leading literary agents, says someone is trying to sell him 10 hours of an interview purportedly taped with of suspect David Berkowitz. Meredith said a person the case, whom he would not name gave him what was said to be transcripts of a tape in which the suspected 44- caliber killer says: I saw the families on TV I wanted to kill them too. I felt bad that there were so many wounded. I wanted them all dead.

I didn't want to cripple them because I'm not the type of person to cause anyone unnecessary pain. My job was to Meredith said he thinks the tapes are authentic but wants to discuss the matter further with his lawyer before deciding whether to make an offer to publish the contents. original lawyer, Philip Peltz, allegedly tried to sell to the press tapes of an interview he had with Berkowitz, with the asking price said to be up to $100,000. Peltz, who has denied he tried to peddle the tapes, subsequently asked to be taken off the case and has turned his tapes over to court officials. Meredith said the new tapes did not come from Peltz and one of current law-, yers said he did not know who was involved.

It was also disclosed Friday that authorities in Yonkers, N.Y., wanted to get into apartment four days before his arrest as the of Sam" killer, but could not obtain a search warrant. The search was sought in connection with threatening letters and an arson attempt against a neighbor of Berkowitz, but the Westchester County district office said there was not enough evidence to sustain a warrant. A few days later, New York City police, acting on leading stemming from of last attack which came days before the planned Yonkers raid seized Berkowitz and turned up materials in his apartment they said linked the 24-year-old postal worker to the case. In another development, the private, publicly-funded agency which recommended the morning after arrest that he be released on his own recognizance pending trial said Friday it would no longer make recommendations of any type in homicide case. Mayor Abraham Beame said he was at the recommendations.

At any rate, Berkowitz was ordered held without bail for evaluation on whether he is mentally competent to stand trial. CPA grant Jerome Case, a student at Indiana State University, has received a grant from the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountants Educational Foundation for his senior year of study Case, a graduate of Rosedale High School, has been active in the Accounting Club. Junior Class Council, Curriculum and Academic Advisement Committee, accounting help sessions and intramural sports at THE NATION Mine board meeting set By United Press International The United Mine Workers International Executive Board will hold an emergency meeting in Charleston, W.Va., next week in an attempt to bring an end to a spreading wildcat strike that has idled 90,000 miners in five states. An estimated 10,000 Alabama miners walked off the job Friday to swell the ranks of strike-idled miners in Appalachia. The UMW board said it will convene Monday, the start of the ninth week of the walkout called to protest cutbacks in health care benefits.

In addition to the 60,000 West Virginia miners on strike, roving pickets now have idled 10,000 miners In Kentucky, a like number in Alabama, 5,000 in Pennsylvania, and 3,000 in Ohio. Meanwhile, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association has rejected a suggestion by West Virginia Gov. Jay Rockefeller that coal wage contract negotiations with the UMW begin immediately in Charleston as one means of halting the strike. Plane crashes into vehicles MODESTO. Calif.

(UPI) Three persons were killed and three injured Friday when a disabled twin-engine plane attempting a forced landing on Highway 99 smashed into several autos and trucks. saw the shadow of a plane getting bigger and said trucker Bill Canaday, of Los Banos, who was not hurt. looked up and saw the plane in front of me. It missed the cab of my truck and hit several cars and trucks ahead of The pilot, Walter J. Van Heukelem.

40, of Ripon, and his passenger, Louis Bus hijacker ordered to enter pleas SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (UPI) A municipal judge has has ordered Thomas B. Wilson, 26, the bus hijacker who held 63 hostages in a religious retreat, to enter pleas to 53 felony counts Tuesday. The defendant responded with a to the few simple questions put to him at Friday's arraignment. He said he had no money and Judge Richard Kessel appointed a public defender, John Bohrer, to represent him.

The judge maintained bail at $500,000 and said he would receive his pleas to the kidnap and false imprisonment charges on Tuesday. Bohrer, who had visited Wilson in the county jail, said the former mental patient was in good spirits but On Wednesday, Wilson commandeered a Santa Cruz city bus, its driver and three passengers with a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. He ordered the driver, Ann Gagnon, to drive to BREEZE-WAY the World Faith Retreat 15 miles north at Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountins. There he burst into a dining room where he seized the hostages. Eventually they were released in groups and Wilson surrendered peacefully to a posse of officers assembled outside.

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No 1 Ljy crowd was the most orderly ever he said. wasn't even any trash on the cemetery grounds when they Forest Hill officials had feared the immaculate grounds and gravesites would be trampled by the throng of Presley followers. Thousands more were expected to come today. The doors oMhe gray marble mausoleum where the king of rock roll was entombed Thursday will remain locked at the request of his family, but fans evetually will be allowed to file past the tomb. When the cemetery gates were closed Friday, scattered groups still were combing the grounds for a keepsake of their idol.

Some managed to get past guards to sneak up to the mausoleum and peep through small windows. Though most did not know it, one of the windows looked directly on Presley's crypt. Mary Crosby, 22, of Memphis clutched four pink roses and stood dazed for more than two hours near the mausoleum. just make mG7sk away from she moaned. did he have to By weekend, the shock of death Tuesday was beginning to wear off and the atmosphere outside Forest Hill Cemetery began taking on a caPnival air Shriners in town for a convention rode down Elvis Presley Boulevard shouting at the cemetery gates.

Hawkers sold black bumper stickers with Lives. Long Live the King lettered in gold. Chapman said officers were cracking down on hawking souvenirs in questionable taste who have offended the family He said no one had been arrested but laws requiring permits for outdoor sales would be enforced He said more than 350 police and Shelby County sheriff's deputies had been on duty outside Graceland, mansion, and the cemetery since the entertainer died. The entire Presley drama resulted in only four arrests of fans for disorderly conduct, police said. Two teenagers standing on Elvis Presley Boulevard in front of the mansion were killed and another critically injured on the eve of Presley funeral when a car slammed into a trio of mourners The 18-year-old driver was being held without bond in the case Wheeler jailed without bond eneral CINEMA MEMPHIS, Tenn (UPI) Olivia Wheeler said her son had been strange She asked a judge to put the young service station worker in jail without bond in the hit and run killings of two teen-aged girls outside Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion.

The judge took her advice City Court Judge Horace Pierotti Friday revoked $20.000 bond set earlier for Treatise Wheeler. 18. Wheeler is charged with two counts of second degree murder in the deaths Thursday of Alice Hov- artar and Juanita Johnson, both 19. They had come to Memphis from Monroe. when they heard of death.

The youth was brought back to city jail until a preliminary hearing Monday. Police told Pierotti at the arraignment Friday that Wheeler rammed his car into three teen-agers standing on Elvis Presley Boulevard, where a crowd of mourners had gathered on the eve of the funeral. Funeral services were set today in Monroe for the two victims. A third girl, 17-year-old Tammy Baiter, of St. Clair, was hospitalized in critical condition with a shattered pelvis.

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