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Williams may be linked tolo other Atlanta victims

c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service ATLANTA Prosecutors in the trial of Wayne B. Williams, who is charged with murdering two black youths, said Friday that they wanted to introduce evidence linking him with the deaths of 10 other young blacks. The authorities said earlier, in an investigation of the deaths of 28 young blacks in Atlanta, that the two deaths in which Williams is charged appeared to be linked to 18 other murders. District Attorney Lewis Slaton of Fulton County said Friday, in arguing a motion, that he wanted to introduce evidence involving the 10 other youths to show that there was “a plan, scheme, pattern, bent of mind and identity,” in the cases similar to the two cases in which Williams is charged. The cases of nine of the victims named Friday were investigated by a police working group. They are Alfred Evans, 13; Eric Middlebrooks, 14; Charles Stephens, 12; Lubie Geter, 14; Terry Pue, 15; Patrick Baltazar, 11; Joseph Bell, 15; Larry Rogers, 20; and William Barrett, 17. Another victim, John Porter, 30, whose case is not on the police list, also was linked with

Enough's enough, Hudnut laments

CLEVELAND (AP) - Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut 111 said Friday he once backed President Reagan’s proposals for cities to tighten their belts for six months, but now he says “enough is enough.” “I give him high marks for trying,” said Hudnut, a director and immediate past president of the National League of Cities, Presbyterian clergyman and former congressman. Hudnut said the effects of currently planned budget cuts has been to “put municipal finances in an unprecedented vise.” Hudnut, in an address to Cleveland’s City Club, said Reagan can take credit for warning municipal officials that federal deficits will have to be erased. Reagan also let mayors know that “we’ve got to abandon that tin-cup syndrome that characterized all city officials when they went to Washington.”

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Williams, a 23-year-old talent promoter, the prosecutor said. Williams is accused of strangling Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and throwing their bodies into the Chattahoochee River. Arguments were heard after Judge Clarence Cooper of Fulton County Superior Court excused the jury for the day. He is expected to make a ruling on the motion this weekend. Assistant District Attorney Joe Drolat said the evidence should be allowed because the other victims were black, poor, “street

It’s also true, he said, that Reagan’s program has not had much time to take effect and that it “may well work.” Hudnut said he and other mayors were willing to do their share up until June or July of last year. After that, however, Hudnut said it became apparent that the “American economy can no longer adhere to the projected growth that is inherent in the budget.” “The cities and states are caught in an exceedingly tight squeeze.” the Republican mayor said. Hudnut said the federal government withdrew aid at a time when local governments were decaying. Although cities like Indianapolis instituted their own cuts, he said, “gradually it dawned on a lot of us that enough is enough.” “The name of the game in local government is to deliver the nitty-gritty services to the people,” he said.

An epidemic Avalanches, blizzards, tornados and floods hit U.S.

By MASHA HAMILTON Associated Press Writer Avalanches trapped thousands of people in Utah and the Pacific Northwest, a tornado hit Arkansas, roads flooded in Illinois and a second record snowfall buried the Midwest as the winter of ’B2 pulled out all the stops. A light snowfall covered the East Coast early today, and flash flood warnings were posted in the South. The National Weather Service said this winter has set yet another record by dumping so much snow that three-quarters of the surface of North America was covered with a white layer on Friday. That was more than ever before reported in the month of January. And an official of the Federal Insurance Administration in Washington, D.C., warned that the deep snowpack could lead to serious spring floods. One of nine avalanches in Utah’s ski country Friday brushed a two-story employee-housing building, but caused no injuries or damages. A tornado blasted a discount store in Hot Springs, Ark., Friday afternoon, also damaging several nearby homes and cars but injuring no one seriously, police said. Snowslides buried a highway on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon about 60 miles east of Portland and closed passes on two Washington highways, including Snoqualmie Pass, Washington’s major east-west route. At Snoqualmie, an uniden-

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The Prophetstown, 111., wedding of Sandy Wessels and Joel Flynn, both 21, is believed to be an original. The marriage ceremony was administered by their mothers, both ordained Methodist ministers, Rev. Sue Wessels (left rear) and Rev. Joyce Flynn. (AP Wirephoto).

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hustlers,” came from broken homes and did not have cars. The 10 others suddenly disappeared, apparently without signs of a struggle, and were later found in areas easily accessible to highways. The defendant has said he knew none of the victims. But Drolat said there were witnesses who would testify that they could link Williams with three of the youths, Lubie Geter, Joseph Bell and Larry Rogers. Eight of the 10 youths died of asphyxiation, as did the two victims for whose deaths Williams

tified driver of a pick-up truck escaped without injury when his vehicle was engulfed by an avalanche. For the second time in three days, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., received a record amount of snow the record of 17.1 inches set Wednesday. Rural Midwesterners were isolated as travel was limited at best. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was cut off from the Lower Peninsula when state officials closed down the Mackinac Bridge Friday night. “It’s storming real bad here. We have winds over 40 miles per hour and the visibility is down to zero,” said State Police Sgt. Basil Onyderman from his post in St. Ignace on the northern end of the bridge, the only link between the two peninsulas. Heavy rains in southern Illinois left some roads impassable Friday, with water reaching as high as car windows. The weather service posted a flash flood warning there, and flash flood watches in Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Tennesse, Kentucky and Indiana, where rainfall Friday evening caused several streams to overflow. Don Weisnett, a weather service satellite expert in Washington, D.C., said Friday that snow cover in North America had reached 18.5 million square kilometers, or about 76 percent of the surface. He said that record has only been topped four times in the 15 years of satellite records of snow cover, all in February.

is on trial. All of them were found with fibers andor dog hairs that the prosecution says could be associated with the Williams house and car. Drolat said that John Porter and William Barrett showed signs of stab wounds and that blood had been found in Williams’s 1970 Chevrolet station wagon that matched their blood. A defense attorney, Alvin Binder, asked Cooper to deny the motion on the ground that the prosecution had not been able to prove, first, that the Cater and Payne deaths were homicide cases and, second, that Williams had been responsible for the deaths. Binder argued that the prosecution had not presented one witness who could say he saw Williams kill anyone or engage in any sort of criminal activity. Moreover, Binder told Cooper that the cases of the 10 other youths did not show any similarity to the Cater and Payne cases. “You have to have corpps delicti and you have to have something more than a fiber to identify the perpetrator of the crime,” Binder said.. Corpus delicti is a legal term meaning evidence of criminal activity.

Analysis underway D.C. crash cause still mystery

WASHINGTON (AP) Although most of the wreckage has been recovered, federal investigators say it will be some time before they can determine why an Air Florida jetliner crashed into the Potomac River, killing 78 people. Francis McAdams, who is overseeing the investigation, said Friday that the National Transportation Safety Board has “a great deal of factual information” about the crash. But he said investigators still have to analyze what they have. Military divers on Friday found the second engine of the aircraft, but the search for the body of an infant, the only one still to be recovered, was unsuccessful. The search was to resume today. The Florida-bound jet crashed into the 14th Street Bridge seconds after takeoff Jan. 13 and then plunged into the river. Seventy-eight people, including four motorists were killed. Two U.S. Park Police helicopter crew members received the Interior Department’s Valor Award on Friday in honor of their dramatic rescue of five crash survivors from the icy waters of the Potomac. Interior Secretary James G. Watt said pilot Donald W. Usher and paramdeic Melvin E. Windsor exhibited “a spirit and determination” that demonstrated that “Americans will risk their lives to save others.” Watt read a message from President Reagan commending “the selflessness of...public servants who risk their lives to protect the safety and security of others.” But Usher said later that he did not consider himself a hero. “We just did our job. We do this (helicopter rescues) all the time. And unfortunately such a tragedy as it was brought the notice there. But two days later we did a medevac and.. .we were justa rescue helicopter again.” At a news briefing Friday, McAdams confirmed that “preliminary information” supplied to federal investigators by the District of Columbia medical examiner’s office showed that only one of the 73 people whose bodies have been recovered drowned. With the exception of Arland Williams, 46, of Atlanta, the

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Jeffrey S. Bragg, head of the Federal Insurance Administration, on Friday disclosed “Operation Snowmelt,” a program of warning residents in flood-prone areas of the danger of floods this spring. The program is also intended to make people aware of the availability of federal flood insurance, although he also said rates were being raised and coverage reduced in an effort to cut government subsidy of the insurance. House trailers were banned on Illinois state highways because of winds clocked at up to 30 mph. In Indianapolis, bus service was halted for only the second time in the city’s history. Up to 15 flights were canceled Friday night at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after ice caused a fire that destroyed circuits feeding a hangar area, officials said. In Minnesota, the National Weather Service warned, “This continues to be a very dangerous storm and visibilities will frequently be reduced to zero in blowing and drifting snow. Travel will continue to be extremely hazardous tonight and Saturday.” The Utah snowslides trapped about 2,000 skiers at the Alta and Snowbird resorts in Little Cotton Canyon. Snowbird Resort spokesman Packy Longfellow said it was the second time that the employees housing building has been brushed by an avalanche. Snow plows couldn’t keep the roads cleared, and plows were called off roads in some areas as all but emergency travel was ; banned.

Maybe Jan. 4 was 'canceled' - BOONVILLE, Ind. (AP) Somewhere in the U.S. Postal Service sits a single bag of mail. Maybe two, but nobody’s sure. In that bag, is most of the mail sent from Boonville, Ind., • Jan. 4. The problem is, nobody knows where it is. Evansville Postmaster James Gard, who oversees operations at the Boonville office, doesn’t know what happened. He says the mail was “misdirected.” He promises that everything possible is being done to find the mail. “We’re on top of it,” Gard said. “We’ve got tracers out on some of the things now, and hopefully, we’ll find it soon. ’ ’ Boonville resident Bob Hamilton probably thinks there’s about the same chance as finding the Loch Ness monster. He mailed his monthly bills that day. “I just consider everything lost,” Hamilton said. Other people feel the same way. So many people have been calling Boonville banks to stop payment on checks, the banks have quit charging for the service. The problem was compounded by the post office failing to tell anyone of the mix up, assuming postal workers knew about it.

Human error cause of subway tragedy WASHINGTON (AP) Last week’s fatal subway crash could have been avoided if the train operator and a supervisor operating a track switch followed proper procedures, transit officials say. The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority announced Friday that human error was responsible for the Jan. 13 crash, which left three people dead and more than two dozen others injured. The preliminary assessment was released by a fivemember panel of transit officials from across the country through Metro’s general manager, Richard S. Page. The panel said a final report is at least a month away but recommended that Metro’s rules and procedures, breakdown reporting, evacuation procedures and certification and training of personnel be reviewed by the transit agency. The errors caused the train’s lead car to hit a wall dividing two tracks near the Smithsonian stop, according to the panel.

other victims died from the impact of the crash, McAdams said. But he added that medical examiners are expected to provide more detailed information on Monday. Williams, a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Board, was memorialized Friday in his hometown of Mattoon, 111. Authorities have speculated that he may be the middle-aged man who repeatedly handed a lifeline to other survivors and then drowned before the helicopter could come back for him. McAdams and other federal investigators reiterated that they would not reveal the contents of any of three recordings that are being examined in search of clues to the cause of the crash. The recordings are a tape of conversation between the plane and the airport control tower.

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