Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 278, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 July 1979 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 31,1979

Reunited: Kidnap victim rejoins parents; teen-ager charged

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) As tears streamed from her parents' eyes, little Caroline Thompson hugged a playmate and smiled at reporters after her rescue from the teen-ager who allegedly abducted her from a hotel parking lot. The blue-eyed, blond 5-yearold clung to her father as she left the Myrtle Beach, S.C., police station where she had munched contentedly on a hot dog and asked for a chocolate milkshake follow ing the ordeal that ended in that resort city Monday. "She's fine," said Rachel Thompson, her voice cracking and her eyes red from crying, who along with her husband Russell was flown by chartered jet to Myrtle Beach where they were reunited with their daughter and met some neighbors who had been vacationing there. “She wanted to have her picture in the

Carter to hold town meetings WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter, rejecting complaints from a small minority that he curb his travels to save energy, is flying to Kentucky for a “town meeting” with citizens. Carter’s early evening ques-tion-and-answer session al Bardstown. Kv., will be his first since the Camp David “domestic summit" that he says brought him a record 39,000 unsolicited telegrams and letters of reaction. In reporting this Monday, the president said 77 percent of the messages were favorable. Without elaborating, he acknowledged 4 percent urged him to personally save energy by avoiding trips around the country. But he had rejected such thinking earlier, as he told a news conference last Wednesday: “My decision is now to go to different places around the country ... to answer questions both from professional members of the press and also from American people in a town hall meeting format." .The president said that in addition to Bardstown, he would be visiting Miami; Bangor, Maine; San Francisco, and possibly Des Moines, lowa, in the weeks ahead

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MIAMI (AP) Twice deadlocked between life and death, a jury has voted to send smiling former law student Theodore R. Bundy to Florida’s electric chair for strangling two sorority sisters. Now a judge must decide whether to take the jury’s advice. Judge Edward D. Cowart said he would announce today whether Bundy is to live in prison or die in “Old Sparky,” the oak chair in the state’s death chamber. Bundy seemed unconcerned. "See you next trial,” he said with a grin on the way out Monday after the jury recommended his execution. The jurors were out for just under two hours. On the first ballot, six jurors voted for Bundy to live, said juror Mary Russo. Six voted for death. Another vote produced another 6-6 tie.

Thatcher arrives in Zambia

LUSAKA. Zambia (AP) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived for the Commonwealth Conference amid an unprecedented chorus of condemnation from the Zambian government’s press mouthpieces. Conservative British newspapers responded in kind. Scores of welcoming blacks at the Lusaka airport smiled and applauded as the head of Britain’s Conservative government arrived Monday for the 39nation conference at which her policy toward the new government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia will be the chief issue. But the government-con-trolled Times of Zambia accused her of “blind and pusilla-

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newspaper a while back but we didn’t know it would be like this.” James Keith Tucker, an 18-year-old High Point, N.C. man whom officials said was on parole for an earlier auto theft conviction, was arrested Monday evening and charged with kidnapping and car theft. Tucker was to be arraigned in Florence, S.C., today before a U S. magistrate. FBI Special Agent David Brumble of Jacksonville, Fla., said before the rescue that authorities believed the man only meant to steal the car, and did not plan to abduct the girl. The Thompsons returned to Daytona Beach several hours after Caroline was found and were whisked by police to the

“Each time we voted secretly,” she said. “The third time we came up with a majority.” Jurors would not say what the final vote was. Under Florida’s two-stage trial system in capital cases, a unanimous jury vote is required for a conviction. But only a simple majority is needed for the jury’s non-binding recommendation on a penalty. Cowart gave no hint whether he would accept the jury recommendation. He has sentenced three people to death, once overriding a jury that recommended life in prison. Florida electrocuted convicted murder John A. Spenkelink on May 25, the first time in 12 years an inmate in an American prison was executed unwillingly. Bundy seemed without emotion when the jury’s recommen-

nimous arrogance.” The Zambia Daily Mail said she was “racially biased.” And President Kenneth Kaunda in a newspaper interview said her fear of the Russians was very sad “because when people become frightened, they lose their reason.” As Mrs. Thatcher arrived, Kaunda was meeting at his residence with the leaders of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania, called the frontline states because of their proximity to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and their support of the two guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow the elected bi-racial

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dation was read. As he had when he was convicted six days earlier, he remained serene, chewing idly on a mint and scribbling notes on a yellow pad. Then he rose but only to speak in calm tones. He wanted to make sure his family could visit him in jail. Cowart said they could. Prosecutor Larry Simpson reminded jurors of Lisa Levy, 20, and Margaret Bowman, 21, who were battered, choked, and bitten in the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee. Three other young women were beaten the same morning around the Florida State campus. Bundy wouldn’t let his lawyers introduce results of his last psychiatric test, but public defender Margaret Good tried to depict a client with a troubled mind.

government there. Although Angola and Mozambique are not members of the Commonwealth, they met with the other three to work out joint strategy for Zambia, Tanzania and Botswana at the conference opening Wednesday. Mrs. Thatcher has indicated that because of the installation of an elected government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, the Conservative majority in the British House of Commons will let economic sanctions against the former colony lapse in the fall, and her government may even recognize the new government headed by Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa.

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Holiday Inn where the incident began Saturday hoping finally to begin their vacation. The parents had remained at the hotel in Daytona Beach until word came that their daughter was safe. At a motel news conference on their return, Mrs. Thompson said she was thankful that the abductor took care of her child. “He didn’t hurt her in any way and tried to comfort her by telling her that he was taking her to her mother and daddy at home,” she said Asked how Caroline reacted when she saw her parents again, she said: "She was just as normal as ever and is just beginning to understand that many people have been looking for her.”

Ten die as fire sweeps Ohio motel

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) - Fire swept through a crowded two-story Holiday Inn in this southwest Ohio city today, killing at least 10 persons, authorities said Others escaped by smashing windows and leaping to the ground below Six adults and four children died in the pre dawn blaze, including one man who apparently had a heart attack while try-

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A Firefighter Battles flames last week near Omak in Washington's largest forest fire this year. Approximately 6,500 acres of rangeland and timber were destroyed.

Thousands of acres destroyed

Idaho, California fight fires

By The Associated Press Fire crews finally have gotten the upper hand on a costly forest fire in dense timber along the Middle Fork of Idaho’s Salmon River, and have snuffed out another blaze in the western part of the state. But a third fire, which went into its 15th day today, continued to burn farther north on the Salmon, at Ship Island. And in California, firefighters hoped to gain control today of a 1,300-acre fire in the Sequoia National Forest the last of the major fires burning in Southern California. Forest Service officials in Idaho said the 2,250-acre fire on the Middle Fork was controlled at 6 p.m. Monday after an effort

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ing to escape, the authorities said. Guernsey Memorial Hospital officials said 61 persons were treated for injuries and 11 were hospitalized with cuts and broken bones. A baby was found safe in the arms of his unconscious mother, lying in a pool of blood. In Columbus, Gov. James A. Rhodes this morning called the

mat involved up to 600 firefighters over the weekend. That fire started Thursday about 40 miles northwest of Stanley. Officials said a careless camper or a tossed cigarette started the blaze. Forest Service spokesman Dale Dufour said the bill for the blaze so far is $505,575. “It costs us about $150,000 per day,” he said. “That covers aircraft charter, food, a catering service, equipment and salaries,” he said. The cost of the second Salmon River blaze, at Ship Island, was put at $253,000 by Vera Crandall, Salmon National Forest fire information officer. That blaze has been burning 14 days, in steep mountain slopes.

Caroline, cradled in her father’s arms, appeared sleepy and said nothing. The Dunwoody, Ga., family’s two-day ordeal ended when Donald and Edith Howell of Goldsboro, N.C., told FBI agents they noticed a man and Caroline as they checked into a Myrtle Beach motel Sundav. But it wasn’t until the couple saw pictures of a suspect and Caroline on television Monday that they realized she was the missing girl. The Howells quickly notified police, who spotted a man driving the Thompsons’ late model Oldsmobile station wagon near the motel

fire “a tragedy for our state.” Trapped guests were seen banging on widows and screaming after the fire broke out about 3 am. One youth picked up an iron bar and began smashing windows. Passersby found an old scaffold and rescued others. Only four of the motel’s 104 rooms were unoccupied, but the exact number of guests in the

Blazes are now raging along the Middle Fork of Idaho's Salmon River, at Ship Island, Idaho, and in the Sequoia National Forest in southern California. (AP Wirephoto).

One firefighter reportedly suffered an injured knee and cuts after he slipped and rolled down a slope Monday afternoon. Last Thursday, 29-year-old Kyle Pattee lost his life fighting the fire. Ms. Crandall said the Ship Island blaze remains perilous. “This fire goes from 3,200 feet to 8,500 feet elevation.” she said. “They are having trouble with rattlesnakes, too.” Firefighters said that if the weather remains cool for a couple of days, they might keep the Ship Island blaze within its present boundaries, covering about 6,500 acres. “But that is contingent on a lot of variables,” Ms. Crandall said.

Dinosaur may be largest known c. 1979 N.Y. Times News Service 'NEW YORK A Utah paleontologist, digging in an ancient dry river bed on a windswept Colorado mesa, has found bones of the biggest dinosaur that has yet been discovered. He found skeletal parts of a huge animal that he estimates would have been able to look into a top floor window' of a building five or six stories high. It was approximately 50 to 60 feet tall, had a 40-foot-long neck, was about 80 feet long and probably weighed 80 tons Dr. James A. Jensen, the paleontologist, identified the relic as ■; having come from a species of Brachiosaurus. a genus in the ; sauropod family of long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs. Jensen. | who is curator of the Earth Sciences Museum at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, believes the creature may have been the largest animal that ever walked the earth. He based his conclusions on the fact that the first bone uncovered. a scapula, or shoulder blade, was nine feet long Seven years ago, near the same site, the scientist had found a scapula of a different dinosaur that was nearly eight feet long At the time, dinosaur experts agreed that that animal was probably the largest discovered. *. ; But a few weeks ago. scrabbling around in the rocky soil of the mesa, located in a remote section of southwest Colorado, he and his crew' uncovered what resembled a giant, bone-shaped dog biscuit. It was the scapula, or shoulder blade, of a dinosaur. Quickly identifying it as having come from one of the Brachiosaurids. the largest of the dinosaur families. Jensen * calculated that the length of the scapula indicated that the animal’s leg bones alone must have been 20 feet tall

motels was not immediately known. Most of the dead were found in hallways of the 10-year-old brick and wood structure Fire officials said the blaze apparently started somewhere in the rear of the building. The building was badly damaged but not destroyed.

“It might keep going until the end of August,” she said. A third forest fire in Western Idaho was controlled Monday evening by quick action by smokejumpers and aerial drops of fire-hetardant material. “That fire had us worried for a while.” Dufour said. In California, the fire in the Kern River Canyon near Miracle Hot Springs threatened some homes for a while Monday, but firefighters were able keep the blaze away. Sequoia Forest spokeswoman Alice Buckley said. Earlier Monday, firefighters started mopping up a stubborn 1,900-acre fire that had burned for four days in the El Cajon area of San Bernardino County