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108th YEAR SERVING YONKERS—NO. 80 YONKERS, N.Y., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1971 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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Victims
U.S.-Aided Yiet Troops
Return
Cracked Dam
Threat Ended
Swarm Over Red ases
LOS ANGELES (AP> -
Eighty thousand people have
returned home after three
nights in motels, tents or
friends' houses wondering
whether an earthquake-dam-
Supply
aged dam near their prosper-
ous suburb would burst.
Officials ordered the evacua-
tion of a 20-square-mile area
after Tuesday's earthquake
Strikes
cracked the concrete facing of
the earthen Van Norman Dam
containing the city's largest
reservoir. Workers pumped
Pay Oii
out 1.3 billion of the reser-
voir's 3.6 billion gallons of SAIGON iAPi —SouthViet
water. Officials said Friday namese (ones operating under
there was no more danger of a an umbrella of U.S. air sup
rupture and flooding. port swept through North Viet-
IT'S THERE: COUNT IT The death toll throughout namese base camps, supply
the Los Angeles area rose to depots and warehouses today
. . . Budwit returns bags 61, including 42 who died when on the Ho Chi Minh trail in
a veterans hospital collapsed. southern Laos.
Two persons are still missing.
Saigon headquarters said
Gets §18,300 One man freed after being
trapped beneath rubble at the
the day's haul was the most
lucrative since the South Viet-
hospital for 58 hours told news- namese drive into Laos began
men Friday. "I was hollering Monday. A s]X)kesman report-
an Returns and hollering and nobody
could hear. I was kicking and
nobody was around. I kept
ed finding hundreds of tons of
munitions, fuel, clothing and
food stockpiles, including 2,000
chickens and ducks. The poul-
thinking, 'I'm through now.'"
But Frank Cabonera, a 68- try was distributed on the spot
$183,000'To year-old kitchen worker, suf-
fered only a broken hand and
the loss of 20 pounds.
to South Vietnamese troops, he
said.
The headquarters reported
The county engineer has halt a dozen clashes along the
•v
Brink's Inc. said the earthquake damage in
Los Angeles County could
reach $1 billion.
Cars were lined up for three
ANOTHER FLAG FLIES ON MOON AS LUNAR MODULE LEAVES
shadow of landing .crafL(bottom),. experimcjitoj^geor shown on the surface
trail north and south of High-
w a y 9. It said 142 enemy were
killed while South Vietnamese
losses were seven killed and IG
CHICAGO iAPI —Norman Budwit. a blocks at the edge of the evac- wounded. Many of the North
$3.50-an-hour clerk who returned $183,000 lie
found, says he considers himself an honest
uated San Fernando Valley
area in 90-degree afternoon
heat a s police removed the
Pictures Vietnamese were Victims Of
American Ixunbers and heli-
copter gunships and some
man "within reasonable limits." barricades. were guarding base camps
Then he added: "Well, philosophers down
through the centuries have been looking for
an honest man and they haven't been success-
As officers continued patrol-
ling to discourage looters, cars
streamed in slowly, laden with
Of Moon and war stockpiles about 10
miles from the South Vietnam-
ese border.
ful." sleeping bags, bottled water The U.S. Command an-
Budwit 35, got a re-
ward of $18,300 after Au
and clothing. Kids ran down
the streets to greet friends
they hadn't seen since Tues-
Released nounced increased air support
for the South Vietnamese, re-
porting 1,100 helicopter mis-
he returned to Brink's, day. Householders drove off to sions into Laos Friday, more
Inc., Friday the two markets for supplies. SPACE CENTER, Houston than double the number of the
Associated previous day.
sacks containing the Some immediately turned I A P ) — The desolation, dust
$183,000, mostly in cash sprinklers on parched lawns. and darkness of Fra Mauro South Vietnamese soldiers
but with some checks. Press But most found they had no were captured in graphic pic- f o u n d several warehouses
w a t e r because of broken tures taken on the moon by the stocked with canvas boots and
He had found them Apollo 14 astronauts and re- gloves, three tons of canned
Monday. mains.
Special One returning man talked leased today by the National pork. ..3,000 gallons of gasoline
Budwit said at a Aeronautics and Space Admin- and other items.
about a brief visit Thursday
"flews cunfuieiiut! he hid—• " ~Trtght~foT-a-speci aLreason .-^l— istration.
hesitated to return the windfall for fear other told the officers I had to get
bags might be missing ami he would he held some medicine," he said, "but IC nine color and four
accountable for them. I fed the cats."
Another who had been back
black and white photos were
snapped by Alan B. Shepard
Under world
ASKED I F HE c V t - considered keeping earlier recalled, "It was like .Jr. and Edgar D. Mitchell as
the money he replied: "In that situation I
suppose everything enters your mind but 1
you were the only person left
on earth—almost like a movie
they explored the surface a
week ago. Figure Slain
I saw where an A-bomb blast-
never opened the seal."
Officials of the Brink's, Inc., figure Budwit
ed all life and one man re-
turned."
The photos showed why
Shepard was moved to re-
mark: "It's certainly a stark
In N. Jersey
picked up (he money Monday within an hour place here at Fra Mauro. It's ROSELAND, N.J. CAP) —
of the time it fell out the back door of an ar- marie more stark by the fact Police and county prosecutor's
mored truck in suburban Elmhuret. A guard
felt a draft, turned to find a door of the ve-
U.S. Drops that the sky is completelv
black."
detectives searched today for
three men who shot to death
hicle wide open and noticed the bags-were__ I/)uis Luciano, a reputed un-
missing. Bank Rate And why Mitchell said:
"Nothing like being up to your
derworld figure, outside his
plush home in this wealthy Es-
Budwit said that while driving from his armpits in dust." sex Countv suburban commu-
nity.
home in Downers Grove to his job on the night"
shift at Shell CnTCo.. in Des Plaines he found To 4 % Pet. The skv appeared ink black
and contrasted sharply with
Police said Luciano, 47, with
a companion was walking in
the bags marked "Brink's" and threw them in
Times-Post Wire the sun-bathed landscape, the his driveway from his car to
the car "just to get them out of the road." golden landing ship Antares
WASHINGTON — The Fed- the front-door of his home,
HE SAII) HE forgot them until Tuesday eral Reserve Ik>ard acted yes- and the white-clad spacemen. when he was felled. Several
terday to make money more neighbors, according to police,
and then refrained from telling his wife, Kay, reported that the two assail-
plentiful by lowering its dis- The dust was everywhere,
about them "because it was just something clinging to the boots of the ants emerged from a car con-
count rate to i% per cent from
else she would have to be concerned about." 5 per cent. The decision was moon walkers and clearly taining three men wearing ski
Friday, when he saw news stories about seen as aimed at helping to re- showing the imprint of their masks.
the missing money he phoned Brink's and told vive a relatively flat economy. lootfalls and the tire tracks of It is not known if the victim
Security Director William Cole, "I would like The Fed's quarter-point re- the two-wheeled equipment is the nrothor of Charles
duction—its fifth in just over cart they pulled across the "Lucky" Luciano, notorious
some clarification on the reward."
three months—continued a re- surface. underworld chieftain who
The news stories quoted company officials cent board policy of making died after being deported to
as saying it would be "liberal." small changes "from time to Most of the shots in the first Italy.
time to keep it in closer align- release were taken near the "John Prestone, SI, of Miami,
After a brief conversation with Budwit lunar module and did not give
ment with short-term money who police said was aceompa-
they said recovering the money would be rates." an impression the astronauts n y i n g Luciano, also was
worth 10 per cent to them and they hastened The discount rate is that $&*$%?%? <r.'..": were in a highland region.
to his home to pick up the bags. charged to member commer-
•>»&mm&^ ¥&__&«£
Photos to be released later
caught in the gunfire. He is
listed in good condition at St.
cial banks for money they bor- will sliow the sloping boulder Harnabas Hospital. The two
Budwit said he would consult his wife and field they tried without suc-
row from Federal Reserve dis- were returning from a bake
three children ranging in age from 7 to 14 on trict banks—and there has EDGAR MITCHELL PULLS MOON WAGON cess to climb in an effort to shop.
how to spend the reward. been very little such borrow- _. . below, o long distance view of the 'Lem' reach the rim of Cone Crater.
Joseph Lordi, Essex County
ing recently. Whether the na-
prosecutor, said the slaying
t i o n ' s major commercial
had "definite" underworld
hanks—in such cities a s New
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and San Francisco— will now
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rate they charge their biggest
Astronaut Tried Mental Telepathy tones.
Luciano was said to be a
lieutenant of Anthony Capo
negro, a reputed figure in th<
Horoscope 17 Theaters..-^ *- and best customers was not higher echelon of organi/ec
Money li-lfi Weather 2 known. By HOWARD BENEDICT thai Mitchell tried to send to the ial) until Feb. 26 on the The container opened Friday crime in New Jersey. Accord
OhttWlT 14-Wom»« -Talk 6JL Al* Aerospace Writer symbols ay mental telepathy remote chance they brought had about nine pounds of the to Lordi, Luciano was heac
' ~SP_-CE~CENTWtr-HotB(tor •Chicago maa_4_J__L£ia»n1S germs back to earth. Few sci- 95 pounds of material brought of a "gambling syndicate ii
(APt — Moon rocks and astro- to tie a psychic. e n l i s t s believe there are to earth by the astronauts. Rut the Ironlxnind section of New
nauts come under careful A space agency spokesman germs on the moon. in it was a three-inch-long chip ark."
The Weather scrutiny again today as evalu- in the lab said Mitchell con- The astronauts are spending
off a large white rock which
Roseland Police Chief Wa
ation of the Apollo 11 mission firmed he did conduct an ex- the moonwalkers described
the first few days in quaran- ter Crichett said two of th
SHOWERS TODAY, high 50s. Showers to-
night, low 30s. -Variable cloudiness tomorrow,
Cashwords continues in the isolation of
the Lunar Receiving laborato-
periment in mental telepathy
but the astronauts declined to
tine discussing technical and
engineering details of the nine-
while on the surface.
Geologists have speculated
three-* men got out of thee*
and walked toward I__ciar
high 30s. ry. discuss it further. day mission with experts. Dis- It might be port of the primi- and Freslone, firing as th.
Pot Now During the first day in the
two-week quarantine in the lab
The experiment was de-
scribed as a personal project
and in no way interfered with
russton is conducted through a
glass panel equipped with a
tive lunar crust that they
theorize underlies the area.
drew closer.
One of the two was arm,
Friday, astronaut Edgar D. communications system. with a 12-gauge shotgun ar
Today's Chuckle Mitchell acknowledged he had Mitchell's duties on the moon "Nobody knows what the
You can meet friends everywhere, hut you
At$2J25 conducted a personal expori
ment in mental telepathy riui
flight, which ended Tuesday
with splashdown in the South
In another section of the lab-
oratory, scientists opened the
rock is and obviously there is
going to have to t>e a lot of
the other with a .38 catib.
pistol.
work," said Dr. Robin Brett,
•'•"•• - - — — — . —
ing the flight and scientists Pacific. lii st box of moon rocks collect- The two w e a p o n s we
cannot -meeLencmies anywhere — you have to chief of the geochemistry thrown from the car a sho
became intrigued by a mystc Mitchell and his now mate.. ed by Shepard and Mitchell in.
make them. • Page .5 rious white rock. Alan B. Shepard Jr. and the Era Mauro highlands A branch at the Manned Space- distance from the scene of t
It had been reported earlier Stuail A. Roosa, are confined week ago. craft Center. shooting.
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