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World bids^welcome tonew year

Associated Press

•People around the worldgreeted the new year withparties, revelry and pri-

. vatc resolve to face thefresh challenges of 1974.j ;Aboul 50,000 celebrantsbraved rain and chilling\\Hnds to . gather in New•York's Times Square and

• watch the traditional ballof light descend at mid-jiight New Year's Eve.

;Hugc billboard and dis-play lights at the midtownManhattan intersection,previously d i m m e d to..conserve energy, were

• turned up to full brillianceJlor the occasion.- Bad weather kept the'crowd much smaller thanlas t yea r ' s turnout ofsome 300,000.

• '.ORBITING hundreds ofmiles above the weather,astronauts aboard Skylab3 shuttled back and forth1C times between 1973 and.1974 as they crossed'theInternational Da te Lineand each of the worldl i m e zones every 93minutes.

Mission Control at theHouston Space Centerradioed a variety of NewYear's greetings to astro-nauts Gerald P. Carr, Wil-l i a m R.,Pogue and Ed-ward G. Gibson as they'marked their third holi-

day in space. They werealso aloft on Thanksgivingand Christmas.

Eai'thbound t r a v e l e r s ,trying to use highwaysacross the United Statestoday o f t e n had to bew a t c h f u l and patient.They were faced in manyareas wi th a near-totalshutdown of gasoline sta-tions.

IN I S R A E L , t roopswere on full alert alongthe Egyptian and Syrianbaltlcfronts whi le theJewish state voted in anational election.

Midnight New Year'sEve came and went in Je-rusalem without bell-ring-ing, horn-blowing or otherpublic celebration, MostIsraelis observed the new

.year by the Jewish calen-dar in September.

In France, New Year'sis Revcillon and traditioncalled for a midnight sup-per — usually with oys-ters and pate de fois gras.

The Year of the Tigerreverberated over Japanwith the customary 108gongs to drive away the108 passions cataloguedby Buddhism and withcalls to forget materialaff luence.

Times Square at midnightAbout 50,000 celebrants braved rain and chillingwinds to gather in New York City's Times Squareand watch the traditional ball of light descend atmidnight as they welcomed the New Year. Huge

billboard and display lights at the midtown Man-hattan intersection, previously dimmed'to con-serve energy, were turned up to full brilliance forthe occasion. . -AP wir«i»ta'

6th mutilated body found;tied to L.B. area killings

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elusive. In some states, there have been court casesdating back to the late 1800s that have upheld the rightof a married woman to use her maiden name, but some •judges are still ruling otherwise. Hawaii actually is theonly state with a. statute specifically requiring awoman to adopt her husband's name. In a number ofcountries, including France, Norway, Sweden and Is-rael, a woman's right to retain her maiden name isguaranteed by law.

Street peopleI saw the puppets from Sesame Street on the Julie

•Andrews' television show Nov. 23, and I'd like to knowhow these little creatures are maneuvered. E.W., LongBeach. . :

The larger muppe!s, not puppets, have adults in-side them and the smaller ones are maneuvered byfingers, hands and arms of one or more muppeteers,.according to a spokesman for the Children's TelevisionWorkshop in New York City. The muppets are createdby James Henson, chief muppetccr, for CTW, and heand three other veteran muppeteers provide the energyand voices for the lovable assortment of Sesame Streetcharacters. The 8-foot-tall Big Bird covers a much'shorter man who supports the bird's head with a raisedwrist, moves the beak with fingers; and uses an out-stretched arm and wires to move the wings. A newmuppet, Snuffle-Upagus, who is a big fantasy charac-ter seen only by Big Bird and the children and not bythe adults on the show, takes two men inside him toproduce his lumbering gait. The CTW spokesman saidmuppetcering is "a physically demanding job." Themuppets and Sesame Street is seen on KCET, Channel28.

What's fare is fair?In November'the Long Beach Unified School Dis-

trict purchased roundtrip tickets from Los Angeles toFresno on PSA for four of us to attend a readingconference.

1 We flew to Fresno on Nov. 8. On Nov. 10 wepresented our return tickets and were told that ourflight was canceled and the only other flight was full.We turned our tickets in and received a refund.1 We hadto rent a car to return to Los Angeles. Does the airlinehave any liability to pay for our transportation and, ifso, who should we contact for reimbursement? B.M.,Long Beach.

Since PSA is an intrastate airline it falls under thejurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commis-sion. Under commission regulations the only legalliability the airline has is to refund the unused portionof your ticket. However, a spokesman for the commis-sion told ACTION LINE that if you would send aninformal complaint to the Public Utilities Commission,Air Carrier Unit, 350 McAllister St., San Francisco94102, it would be referred to the airline to see if someadjustment could be made because of your circum-stances. The company has made such concessions inresponse to complaints in the past.

StoredIn August my 1965 Volkswagen stopped running

while I was driving on the freeway. It was towed to BillBarry Volkswagen, 3940 Cherry Ave. Due to financialdifficulties I did not authorize any work to be done onthe car. Later my co-signer on the loan for the carassumed payments and went to get the car. He foundthe engine had been removed and parts of anotherengine put in. Also, many parts on the car weremissing including the starter, generator, gear shift,front bumper guards and spare tire and rim. Theservice manager professed ignorance as to why theparts were missing. In addition, my co-signer was toldhe owes storage charges of $225. Now they say they arehaving difficulty getting replacement parts. I don'tthink the agency intends to replace the parts and fix(he car. Could ACTION LINE please help? F.M.,Wilmington. •. Chick Sisler, vice president and general manager

of Bill Barry Volkswagen, offered to waive the storagefees and charge you only for towing. But he maintainsthat you virtually abandoned the car when you failed tocontact the agency about it and (he agency doesn't feelresponsible for any parts missing after it placed a

. mechanic's lien against the car for the towing andstorage charges. Your co-signer has refused to accept(he offer to waive the storage fees if he will take thecar away in its present condition or authorize theagency to rebuild If .

A homicidal m a n i a cwho has killed and muti-lated f ive young men inthe Long Beach area, inthe past year appears toh a v e murdered a sixthvict im,- detectives saidMonday in Los Angeles.

The l a t e s t victim inwhat police call a stringof sex-related killings wasfound Saturday in the SarfBernardino Mountains.

Hikers found the batter-ed body of a young man ina gully 150 f e e t belowHighway 18, between SanBernardino and Crestline'.

He had been strangled,his head was beaten in,and his hands were sever-ed, San Bernardino Coun-ty detectives said at apress conference they andLos Angeles officers heldMonday afternoon.

Investigators officiallylinked the killing with fiveother murdrers of youngmen since Dee. 26, 1972 inLos Angeles and Orangecounties.

Los Angeles Investiga-tor John St. John said themurders were linked by"identical evidence," in-

cluding, the method of at-tack. He called this themost gr is ly s e r i e s ofhomicides in Los Angelesarea history.

San Bernardino Countyofficers described the lat-est victim as a Caucasian,20 to 25 years old, with atattoo on his foot. Theysaid the tattoo appearedto be of an astrologicalsign—probably Virgo.

The earlier discoveriesof bodies, and appeals tothe public for help, leftpolice without leads to thekiller.

Detectives theorized asex butcher was loqse inthe Long B e a c h area,probably a homosexual.However, they didn't ruleout the possibility the kill-er was a woman.

Of the five earlier vic-tims, only two have beenidentified.)

The first was Edward

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Standard ELEVATOR FALLhikes gas KILLS DAUGHTER2 cents OF BALL STAR

SAN FRANCISCO Iff! —Standard Oil Co. of Cali-fornia is starting the NewYear off with price hikesoh its petroleum products— including a 2-cent-a-gallon increase in gaso-line.

W. G. Toland, a compa-ny spokesman, said theincreases effective todayfollow the announcementMonday by the energyczar William Simon thatserv ice stations couldraise prices 1 cent a gal-lon to increase profits.

Toland said the 2-centhike was permitted underCost of Living Councilrules allowing recovery ofincreased costs for rawmaterials. He said domes-tic crude oil had gone up,?1 a barrel during Decem-ber.

The company also saidit would raise diesel fuelprices by 3,5 cents a gal-lon and No. 2 heating oilwould go up 3 cents -a gal-lon.

Meanwhile, Shell Oil an-nounced it would charge 1

'cent a gallon more forgasoline and Union Oil ofCalifornia said a gallon ofits gas would cost an addi-tionaM cents.

Motorists also were ex-pected to have troublepurchasing g a s o l i n e onNew Year's D a y , espe-cially in urban areas.

"Only 10 to 15 per centof the gas stations willbe open New Y e a r ' sDay," said a spokesmanfor the California StateAutomobile Association.

Dick Van Dyke isnow a grandfather

P H O E N I X (UPI ) —Comedian Dick Van Dykeb e c a m e a grandfathertoday and the new arrivalwas the first baby of theyear in Phoenix.

The baby girl, namedJessica Lee, was born at1:09 a .m . at P h o e n i xM e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l t oCaroline Van Dyke, wifeof t h e star's son, Chris-t i a n . The y o u n g VanDykes live at Carefree, adesert community nearhere.

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — The 17-year-old daughter.ofFrank Thomas, who played for six National Leaguebaseball teams, was killed early today when she fell 35feet down an elevator shaft at a restaurant-motel insurban Ross Rownship.

Police said Sharon Thomas and six others were inthe elevator of the Sheraton North motel when it gotstuck between the second and third floors.

A man forced open a ctoor and jumped to thesecond floor to summon help. A witness said Sharontried to land on the hallway floor but fell 35 feet downthe elevator shaft.

Sharon was taken to North Hills Passavant Hospi-tal where she died an hour later.

The victim's father began his major league careerwith the Pittsburgh Pirates and later played with theCincinnati Reds, the Milwaukee Braves, the ChicagoCubs, the Philadelphia Phillies' and the New YorkMets.

.New. Watergateindictments due

WASHINGTON W -Special Watergate prose-cutor Leon Jaworski saidMonday that grand juriesare expected to vote onindictments in Januaryand February "in a sub-stantial number of majorinvolvements." . .

Jaworski did not saywho or what the indict-nienfs would involve but itis known that several one-t i m e t o p p r e s i d e n t i a laides and intimates havebeen the target of grandjury investigations.

Meanwhile, Nixon faceda subpoena by the SenateW a t e r g a t e c o m m i t t e eseeking around 500 WhiteHouse documents andtapes. Aides have indicat-ed the White House willattempt to block any ef-fort by (he committee togain wide access to presi-dential files, perhaps trig-gering fresh court battles.

THE COMMITTEE isdue to wind up its investi-gation and report its find-ing by Feb. 28, but thedeadline may have to beextended.

In addition, the HouseJudiciary Committee isstudying whether there ise v i d e n c e warranting im-peachment action againstNixon. Chairman PeterW. Rodino says his com-mittee hopes Jo submit itsrecommendation on im-

peachment 'to the Houseby April 1.

Congressional Republ i -cans are known to wisht h a t the impeachmentquestion be settled wellbefore the fal l elections ofHouse and Senate mem-bers.

Jaworski's year-end re-po r t said investigationsare continuing "in variousareas within the specialprosecutor's jurisdiction. . . including the reviewof White House files."

THE ORIGINAL grandjury, impaneled June 5,1972 — 12 days before thesecond Watergate break-in — has been hearingevidence about the inci-dent and cover-up.

Another grand jury —soon to be joined by athird — has been investi-gating the White Houseplumbers, including theEl lsberg p s y c h i a t r i s tb r e a k - i n ; f i n a n c i a l as-pects of "the Nixon re-elec-tion campaign, includingthe ITT and milk fundcases , and c a m p a i g nesp ionage and d i r t ytricks.

I n d i c t m e n t s in theWatergate case were firstreported imminent afterthe resignation last Aprilof top White House aidesH. R. Haldeman and JohnD. Ehrlichman.

Daniel Moore, a 20-year-old Marine on leave from-Camp Pendleton. Hisbody was found Dec. 26,1972, on .Seventh Streetnear the San Diego Free-way, in Seal Beach.

He had been strangled.On Feb. 6, the nude

body of a second youth,known only as "John DoeNo. 16," was found on theTerminal Island Freewayin Wilmington.

John Doe 16, a youth 18to 20 years old, also hadbeen strangled.

VICTIM number threewas found April 14 at alonely Huntington Beachintersection. His body wasnude, and had been muti-lated.

The fourth victim, stillknown only as "John DoeNo. 52," was found inparts. One piece afteranother, each wrapped ina plastic trash bag, turn-ed up in Wilmington, LongBeach, Sunset Beach andCarson, from April 22 toApril 26.

A fifth body was foundin Seal Beach July 30, afew hundred yards fromwhere the first victim'sbody was found.

La te r i d e n t i f i e d asRonnie Jean Weibe, 21, hehad been strangled andbeaten on the head..

TODAY police under-stand little more thanthey did a year ago when(he first body was found.

The Independent, Press-Telegram's Secre t Wit-ness program will pay$2,000 for informationleading to the arrest andconviction of the massmurderer who killed theseyoung men.

If you have such infor-mation, ca l l Secret Wit-ness at 436-2526 between 8a .m. and midnight onweekdays or between 3and 11 p.m. on Saturdaysand Sundays. Or write toSecret Witness, P.O. Box67, Long Beach, Califor-nia, 90801.

Winds buffetBorrego Springs

BORREGO SPRINGS tf!— Furious winds whichswept portions of South-ern California with the ad-vent of 1974 tore a roof offa house in De Anza Coun-try Club and blew win-dows out of seve ra lhomes.

No injuries were report-ed in the winds clocked atup to CO miles an hour.

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Laborites who oppose re-turn of any of the occ-.upied territory. He claim-ed only 52 members wouldsupport Mrs. Meir's moreconciliatory policy.

Ana lys t s suggestedthree possibilities for agovernment:

1. The t r a d i t i o n a l al-liance of Labor, the Na-tional Religious Party andthe Independent Liberals.The election returns indi-cated this coalition wouldhave about 65 seats in theKnesset, or a majority of1 0 . . . . . . . ' .

2. The exclusion of De-fense, . 'Minis ter MosheDayari from''the prospec-

: f ive government by Labor-ites who hold hifh-'responisible for Israel's initialsetbacks in' the October-war, followed by him andhis fo l l ower s j o in ing

.Likud, the ReligiousP a r t y and independentright-wingers in a coali-t ion tha t would h a v eabout 60 seats.

3. A minority coalitionof Likud and the ReligiousParty which would takeover if Labor could notform a gove rn ing al-liance.

GLOOM HUNG over theLabor P a r t y headquar-ters, and Mrs . Meir re-fused to .comment.

Begin elatedly told ap-paluding supporters: "Afateful, crucial, historicevent has befallen us ...Let the world know, letWashington and Moscowknow, that the nationalmajority is against divid-ing the Land of Israel."

About 80 per cent of Is-rael's more than two mil-lion voters turned out forthe election. No Arab ter-rorists attacks were re-ported but the troops onthe front lines voted amidthe u s u a l intermittentshooting. In some forwardpositions, a soldier tookthe ballot box to the menin the trenches. In others,the troops voted singly tokeep f r o m f o r m i n g acrowd for the Arab gun-ners to shoot at.

A TOTAL of 21 partiesor factions competed inthe elections. One of theminor leaders who appar-ently was elected wasRabbi Meif Kahane, lead-er of the militant, right-wing Jewish DefenseLeague who emigratedfrom the United States in1972 after a JDL cam-paign of harassment andviolence against Soviet^representatives in Ameri-ca.

Munic ipa l electionsalso were held Monday,and the government wasdisappointed by the re-sponse among the Arabsof East Jerusalem, whichIsrael seized from Jordanin the 1967 war and says itwill never relinquish.Only 10 per cent of the43,000 eligible voted.' Teddy Kollek, Jerusa-

lem's blunt, autocraticmayor for the past eightyears, was re-elected.

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an Italian' :born highschool coed, was the 1974Rose Queen.

The first.float in the pa-rade — "Happiness Is aBed of Roses".— portray-ed "Peanuts" characters.Snoopy, Linus, Lucy,Woodstock and CharlieBrown. The parade endedtwo hours later with"Happiness Is the CircusParade," a g i a n t band-wagon pulled by a hitch, of40 Belgian draft horses.':

The pa rade also f«ea-turcd the usual number ofcelebrities — among themLt. David Rehman, a for-mer prisoner of w a r ;sports stars Bobby Riggs,Rosemary Casals, RandyWil l iams and DwightStones; musicians Law-rence Welk and, the Jack-son Five , and beautyqueens Maria MargaritaMoran, Miss Universe,and Amanda Jones, MissUSA.

Most of the spectators,along the parade route ar-rived early today, fillingthousands of grandstandseats and pressing behindblue lines painted eightfeet in from the curbs onboth sides,of the street.

The Sweepstakes-win-ning float from St. Louiswas a tableau in wintrywhite featuring 10,000whi te roses, b a b y ' sbreath, Queen Anne's laceand starburst chrysanthe-mums. Four icy treeswere'decorated with whitestock and pompons andfalling snow was createdby l .unaria s t rung onmonofilament fish lines.

The bands and floats ofthe University of SouthernCalifornia and Ohio StateUniversity, which metlater in the day in theRose.Bowl, got the big-gest cheers of all the unitsin the parade.

Tennis player Riggsalso got many cheers buta few boos too. Few of thespectators apparentlyrecognized Miss Casals,who was on the Florists'Transworld Delivery As-sociation float with Riggs.

N.either did many of thespectators recognize Lt.Rehman who representedall the prisoners of warwho were freed early lastyear. Rehman, who spentsix years in a North Viet-namese prison camp afterhe was shot down Dec. 2,1966, was on the SanDiego float.

Warren atrites fordead jurist

I A K L A N D (UPI) —Former U.S. Chief JusticeEarl Warren was amongthe m a n y persons con-nected with the judiciarywho Monday paid last re-spects to the late JudgeOliver D. Hamlin Jr. ofthe U.S. Court of Appealsfor the Ninth District.

It was Warren who suc-ceeded Judge Hamlin asdeputy district'attorney ofAlameda County in 1920,when the latter returnedto private priactice. Itwas Warren; who, asgovernor, named JudgeHamlin to the SuperiorCourt bench in AlamedaCounty, from where hewent to the U.S. DistrictCourt' and later the dis-trict appellate court.

The 81-year-old juristdied at his Piedmonthome Friday after a pieceof meat lodged in histhroat.

The Rev. JerroldKennedy officiated atMonday's requiem massand said in his eulogy thatJudge Hamlin's long ca-reer had been devoted tothe pursuit of justice andexpressed the hope that ."justice be pursued inmemory of this goodman;"

Fire marshalkilled by blaze

WALLA WALLA, Wash.Ufl — The city's fire mar-shal was killed and threefiremen seriously injuredearly today while battlinga tavern fire, authoritiessaid.

A f i r e depar tmen tspokesman said Fire Mar-shal Gabriel ,Tichi diedwhen a two-story wall col-lapsed into the street.