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Carter declares six California counties disaster areas

By C.W. MIRANKER Associated Press Writer Caskets floated out of rainsodden graves as levees crumbled and dams overflowed in Southern California, forcing thousands of persons to flee before the rain subsided today A sewer line ruptured in Phoenix, Ariz., dumping 35 million gallons of raw waste daily into swirling flood waters. Drier weather was expected today in Southern California, as a high pressure system pushed the path of a Pacific storm further north. "This is great! The storm we were looking for (No. 7) has weakened to practically nothing. The tail end is moving north of us.” National Weather

Dialysis machine keeps Tito alive

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia LAP' President Josip Broz Tito’s doctors said today that an artificial kidney machine was being used to keep Yugoslavia’s 87-year-old leader alive. ( "Owing to the weakened function of the kidneys, hemo- , dialysis has been successfully , implemented in the past few . days,” the medical bulletin . said. “Other intensive measures of treatment are being applied as well The general state t of health of President Josip Broz Tito is without substantial change.” , A high-ranking official, who requested anonymity, told reporters, “I hope he will recover,

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New Yorkers fight against crime

; NEW YORK (AP) Amid a plague of ugly crime including what the mayor calls “an epidemic of gun violence” New Yorkers are fighting back with old fashioned posse ; justice. Rush-hour commuters in Grand Central Station cheered on Thursday as bystanders banded together to grab a walletsnatcher. Subway riders tackled a mugger and held him until police arrived. Earlier this week, a knifewielding assailant fled into the arms of police to escape an angry crowd. Crime both above and below ground has been on the front page and on the evening news here in recent days. —A man brandishing a meat cleaver slashed four riders on New York subways in two attacks, and managed to escape by jumping off the train only moments before it left the station. He’s still at large. —A still-unidentified man was decapitated when he was pushed under the wheels of an on-rushing train, and an 11-year-old boy who was shoved into the path of a subway remains in grave condition. —Two police officers have been killed and six others wounded since the year began. Mayor Edward Koch calls it “an epidemic of gun

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Service forecaster Eleanor Vostee said today. But 9 days of rainstorms pummeling the West have left at least 31 persons dead. Damage estimates have hit nearly $425 million, and officials predict “it will go much, much higher.” The rains have destroyed much ot California’s strawberry crop, with losses likely to exceed $lO million. Also threatened is the almond harvest, which represents the entire U S. output. Six California counties from Ventura just north of Los Angeles to San Diego on the Mexican border were declared national disaster areas Thursday by

but we are aware that every man has to die. Some die early, some die later,” Tito's left leg was amputated Jan. 20 in an effort to resolve a circulation blockage. After what appeared to be a robust early recovery from the operation. he developed digestive, kidney and heart problems and has been seriously ill for at least 12 days. Up to now there had been speculation, but no official confirmation, a dialysis machine was being used. As a result of Tito’s illness, the No. 2 man in the Yugoslav hierarchy, Lazar Kolisevski, has been authorized by the

20 injured in toll road bus crash

LAGRANGE, Ind. (AP) - Twenty people were injured when a Greyhound bus went off a fogbound section of the Indiana Toll Road early today after the driver’s attention was diverted, state police said. Fifteen of those injured were to be treated and released, while four others were expected to be hospitalized, according to state police spokesman Glenn Webber in Indianapolis. Webber said the condition of the 20th person could not be immediately determined, and no identities were readily available.

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President Carter. About 500 National Guardsmen were helping with evacuations and disaster work. More than 7,000 people some plucked from the water by helicopter fled their homes Thursday in Riverside County, which stretches from Riverside, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, to the Arizona border. Los Angeles has received 12.75 inches of rain in a nineday period. And the season total so far more than 21 inches is nearly a foot above normal for this time of year. The rain season runs from November through April. Meanwhile, the Northern California

president to conduct routine business on his own with foreign governments, officials said. It was the first time Kolisevski had assumed such authority while Tito was still in the country. The disclosure was widely seen as a Yugoslav effort to demonstrate the collective leadership apparatus can function smoothly without the president if necessary. A government spokesman said Thursday that Tito’s condition had become so grave he could not even sign messages he had earlier approved for transmission to foreign leaders. Spokesman Mirko Kalezic told the national news agency

possession and gun violence.” On Thursday, he asked the Legislature to set minimum one-year prison sentences for those who carry unlicensed guns. But citizens are also reacting three times Thursday and, just days after angry commuters and a subway conducter disarmed and captured a man who had threatened them with a knife. “Chalk this one up for the public,” said Transit Authority Police Officer David Orshowitz after the incident on Tuesday. “I’m sure if we hadn’t arrived, we could have found one suspect hanging from a subway beam. The suspect was escaping to us to keep away from them,” he said. Incases Thursday: —About 100 persons plodding through Grand Central Station on their way to work stopped to cheer as 20 bystanders chased and grabbed a man who tried to steal a woman’s wallet as she waited to get coffee at a terminal bakery. “It was a whole team effort,” said bakery manager Joseph Zaro, who helped hold the robber until police led the suspect away. —A band of eight to 10 subway riders chased and tackled an 18-year-old man after they saw him snatch two gold chains worth $2,600 from a woman’s neck, police said. The angry straphangers also held the suspect until authorities arrived.

The bus was eastbound from Chicago to Toledo and Cleveland. According to Webber, the driver’s attention was diverted for some unknown reason, and the bus veered off the right side of the highway, ran along a guard rail and then up onto a dirt embankment. The driver was one of the injured. The accident occurred shortly before6a.m. (EST) near the In-diana-Michigan state line, north of Middlebury. The injured were taken to area hospitals. A spokesman for the LaGrange County Hospital said about a dozen people were being treated at the emergency room, and none were seriously hurt.

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Tanjug that Kolisevski, who is vice president of the nine-man collective state presidency, had relayed messages of his own along with some from Tito to the ambassadors of the United States, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Guinea. Tanjug said the Tito messages expressed the Yugoslav leaders’ concern about world problems and the decline of detente. Their wording reflected official Yugoslav concern over the Soviet intervention of As ghanistan and East-West tensions over European arms arrangements, it said without elaboration.

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coast braced for more rain, and heavy snow fell in the mountains. In Idaho and Utah, the threat to brimming dams abated. At least 10 caskets were unearthed by floodwaters at the Verdugo Hills Cemetery just north of Los Angeles, and others bulged just below the topsoil. The area was declared a health hazard, and crews were removing the coffins as they slid toward a roadway. In Phoenix, Ariz., officials said there was no immediate health hazard from the sewage spilling from a broken 66-inch pipe into the raging Salt River. The waste was being diluted by floodwaters, but it could

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Firefighters' union leader is jailed for contempt

CHICAGO (AP) - Firefighters walked picket lines in front of fire stations today as their union president was jailed and the vice president urged a general strike of all organized labor in Chicago. The picketing began Thursday after a judge sentenced Chicago Fire Fighters Union President Frank Muscare to five months in jail for criminal contempt and allowed the city to withdraw from a strike-end-ing agreement with the 4,350member union. “Frank Muscare, you did this all by yourself,” Circuit Judge John Hechinger said as he accused Muscare of not acting in good faith after the truce was reached Wednesday night. “You, with your big mouth. You showed a total disregard for the agreement. You don’t have integrity and your men are the losers,” said Hechinger. Hechinger reimposed $40,000-a-day fines against the union and its officers that had been suspended during the truce. He ordered new civil contempt fines of SI,OOO to $5,000 for nine union officers.

Windfall tax faces last roadblock

WASHINGTON (AP) - How to help lower-income Americans cope with energy prices is the last issue blocking final action by congressional conferees on a “windfall” tax on the oil industry. The roadblock could be removed today, clearing the way for a final vote in the House and Senate that would send the tax bill to President Carter for his signature in mid-March. The Senate-House conference committee came within a whisker of final agreement Thursday, but deliberations over the energy-aid questions broke down after Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., a key House delegate, left the meeting. President Carter’s energy program calls for federal as-

pose a hazard when the flow eases, officials said. Travel across the Salt, which cuts through Phoenix, remained snarled and authorities said the Interstate 10 bridge over the river would be closed until next month because of erosion around its support piers. Gov. Bruce Babbitt has called for congressional action to help with the state’s perennial flooding. Damage in Arizona is now estimated at S9O million. In California’s Riverside County, the entire town of San Jacinto was awash, and its 6,-500 residents fled after a levee along the raging San Jacinto River burst.

Muscare was taken to the Cook County Jail immediately after the hearing, authorities said. Meanwhile, William Reddy, first vice president of the local, requested meetings with the Chicago Federation of Labor and the police officer’s union to set the groundwork for a general shutdown. There was no immediate comment from other union leaders. Reddy called the breakdown of the strike-ending agreement “part of a scenario to bust this union and all labor in this city.” The executive board of the Chicago Fire Fighters Union voted in a meeting after the court session Thursday to resume picketing of firehouses, according to a spokesman. Picketing in the eight-day strike was stopped earlier in the day after the judge said a halt had been part of Wednesday’s agreement. The agreement called for firefighters to report back to work under a plan to be devised by the city, for 24 hours of round-the-clock contract negotiations and for provisions

sistance to help lower-income families pay the rising fuel costs that will result in part from his decision to end price controls on U.S. crude oil. The conferees must decide two big questions on such assistance: —How should more than $3 billion a year for poor Americans those generally with annual incomes under SIO,OOO be distributed after 1981 ? —What, if any, program should be created for 1981 and 1982 to help working families with incomes up to $22,000, who generally do not qualify for welfare? On the first question. House members want to use the 1981 formula which channels money through the welfare sys-

In Palm Springs, water poured from a breached levee, inundating three foothill communities and sending more than a thousand people to evacuations centers. In a desert area in the southwest part of the county, homes were reported under water and about 5,000 residents were isolated by floodwaters. The Air National Guard and Marines were lifting people out by helicopter and ferrying in supplies to other residents. In San Diego’s fashionable Mission Valley, hotels, shopping centers and homes were flooded. Six major San Diego reservoirs reached their highest levels since 1941,

that the union not retaliate against non-strikers and the city not retaliate against strikers. Hechinger said at a hearing Thursday night that the city had kept its end of the bargain. Union Attorney J. Dale Berry said there was confusion over how the firefighters should report back to work and said the agreement didn’t prohibit them from picketing. But Hechinger said Muscare understood Wednesday that under the agreement there would be no picketing and that Fire Commissioner Richard Albrecht would have authority to design and implement the back-towork plan. Confusion over where firefighters were to report Thursday morning resulted when the union told firefighters in the nation’s second-largest city to report to their usual fire stations. The city locked the men out of the stations and later told the strikers to report to district headquarters to register and be assigned to firehouses.

tem for all future years. Senators insist no such action be taken until after the program has had a chance to work for several months. On the second matter. House conferees rejected a Senate plan for a S4O-a-year tax credit subtracted directly from income taxes owed for every household, regardless of energy costs. The maximum credit would have gone to those earning up to $20,000 and would have phased out at $22,000. The tax credit proposal, opposed by the Carter administration, would amount to an across-the-board tax cut for any household with income under $22,000 a year. Still to be considered is another option, weighted toward

Illinois escapees surrender LAWRENCEVILLE, 111. (AP) Five inmates who escaped from the Lawrence County Jail gave themselves up to officers in Mount Carmel early today, ending a sevenhour manhunt in Southern Illinois. The five had removed a hinge from a jail door and slipped through another door Thursday night, said sheriff’s dispatcher Bob Davis. Wabash County Sheriff Randy Grounds said one of the five placed a collect call to the Lawrence County sheriff’s of fice from a phone booth near the location of their capture and told authorities they where they were. He said officers surrounded the area and the inmates surrendered without incident and were transported back to Lawrenceville. Among the five were two meji being held without bond in th£ Feb. 8 murder of a LavJreneeville woman. Larry Shjmer. 21, and Keith Ridgley, 22. had been arrested in Vincennes. Ind., on Feb. 8 in connection with the killing of Mary Mieurg. 43. in her Lawrenceville'tavertf. The other escapees werfc cousins James and Jerry Cessna and Jeff Henshilwood. ajl being held on burglary authorities said. Grounds said the men allegedly stole a pickup truck near Bridgeport, southwest of Lavjrenceville, and drove it tfc Mount Carmel. 23 miles awag. They abandoned the truck oji Illinois 1 north of Mount Carmel when they encountered a police roadblock. Grounds said. '/*

The Kienast Quints pose with pictures of them taken when they were six months old at their Liberty Corners, N.J., home. They are (left to right) Gordon, Sara, Amy, Abigail, and Ted. The quints will be ten years old Sunday. (AP Wirephoto).

households that use heating djl. It would allow a tax credit of Op to S2OO a year for families earning up to $20,000 with the credit phasing out at $22,000. The s2e of the credit would depend on heating-oil expenditures. 2 Those homes not heated wish oil would qualify for a flat sso credit again, an across-the-board tax cut for any household under $22,000 a year. - The panel already has agreed that $57 billion the estimated $227.3 billion the “windfall” tax will produce tn the 1980 s should be set aside to help lower-income families cope with rising fuel costs Tlje question is how to allocate it. I Sixty percent of the tax woisd be earmarked tentatively for income tax reductions