Heavy quake in Hawaii; vast damage

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LONG BEACH, CALIF., FRI., APRIL 27,1973 Classified HE 2-5959 Phone HE 5-1161

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Nixon in air tour of flood

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President Nixon made an aerial inspection today of flooded areas in the Mississippi River valley where about 10,000 persons have been left homeless and damage estimates have climbed to more than $200 million. Ten persons have lost their lives in the flooding along the Mississippi, Pictures on Page A-2 Missouri and Illinois rivers and their tributaries in seven states. In some areas the highest flood-levels in recorded history were expected to worsen after new rains last week fell on top of earlier heavy spring downpours. The Mississippi River at St. Louis reached 42.16 feet overnight and was rising. The previous record of 42 feet was set in 1785. In Washington, Nixon declared flood-stricken parts of Illinois major disaster areas and moved to make federal aid available. THE HELP will consist primarily of temporary housing, unemployment assistance, low-interest loans, debris clearance and repairs to roads, bridges, dikes and levees. Nixon flew over some of the flooded areas en route to a ceremony at Meridian, Miss., honoring Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss. The crest, or highest flood level, of the Mississippi swept past Hannibal, Mo., during the night, but the saturated levees upriver at Quincy, 111., remained in serious jeopardy, a spokesman for the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers said. The Corps of Army Engineers at St. Louis estimated that if the river reaches its expected crest of 43.5 feet on Saturday $136 million in damages will have been done in Missouri and Illinois alone. "A few more inches can mean a hell of a lot when you're talking about the Mississippi," a spokesman said. To the south, the National Weather Service reported no rain expected in Louisiana or Mississippi through Sunday but said there is a chance of showers on Monday or Tuesday. THE ARKANSAS River continued to fall on Thursday and the forecast called for fair weather after 12 consecutive days of rain and flooding. The long-term effects of the flooding depend to a large extent on future rainfall. The South's cotton crop will be dealt a severe blow if the rain does not stop before the midMay planting season. Cotton prices arc already rising.

Bugging pair hit by claim

By LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES UPI The judge in the Pentagon Papers trial revealed a secret memorandum today saying that convicted Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy also burglarized the files of Daniel EUsberg's psychiatrist and took Ellsberg's psychiatric records. The revelation by U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne came after the government had submitted an envelope to the judge for his consideration. The judge said he could not accept it secretly, felt it concerned "the legal and constitutional rights of the defendants" and might possibly mean "a taint of evidence" in the fourmonth-old trial of Ellsberg and Anthony Russo. HE THEN read in open court the Justice Department memorandum dated April 16 and written by Earl J. Silbert, the principal assistant to the U.S. attorney. The memorandum said that Silbert had received information that on a date not specified Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt burglarized the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. He did not specify where the psychiatrist's office was located. The judge said he is demanding an immediate investigation of the circumstances and will have the results of the investigation submitted to him secretly "to determine whether this . . . could affect the legal or constitutional rights of any defendant in this case or the legal or constitutional rights of anyone else involved in this case." Jurors were not present when the revelation came, and it appeared that testimony would be delayed until the investigation is complete. The judge ordered the government to turn over the memo(Turn to Back Page, Col. 7>

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE IS SHOWN AT HILO ON THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII Roof of wooden building collapsed, pinning and injuring man inside -APWireptwto

Heavy quake in Hawaii; N. Viets vast damage reported to snub

HILO, Hawaii (UPI) Hawaii's second largest city today began cleaning up the debris from an earthquake that shook the island state Thursday, collapsing one building, causing landslides and injuring 11 persons. Mayor Shunichi Kimura declared a state of emergency on the island of Hawaii, the state's "big island," and said damage totaled more than $1 million. "It will take months and months to get the town back hi shape," Kimura said. "Everything from telephone lines, water pipes and power lines will have to be restored, not to mention the buildings." The quake, which measured 6.2 on the Richter scale, shook all of Hawaii's major islands at midmorning. Buildings were shaken in downtown Honolulu, 200 miles from Hilo. FOUR OF the schools in Hilo, a town of 26,000, remained closed by order of the State Education Department, but officials said they hoped to open them again next week if there was no structural damage. The quake was the strongest to hit the islands since 1951. The earthquake was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 12 miles northeast of the island of Hawaii, the largest in the chain of islands that makes up the 50th state. Six schoolchildren suffered minor injuries on Hawaii and extensive structural damage forced the closing of four schools. The town of Hilo was hardest hit. One building collapsed, water mains broke, walls cracked, plate glass shattered and stock rolled off store shelves. GLEN SHIROMA, 20, was trapped in the rubble of the two-story building but was pulled to safety within minutes and was reported in satisfactory condition. Kimuro said damage would amount to more than $1 million and declared a state of emergency on the island. He said more than 100 homes were damaged in and around Hilo. Gordon Morse was standing in front of the Hilo postoffice when "the (Turn to Back Page, Col. -1)
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PARENTS OF PORTLAND QUINTUPLETS Karen Anderson tells how she felt

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Kissinger
PARIS (UPI) - A North Vietnamese official said today there was no chance "for the time being" that Hanoi would send peace negotiator Le Due Tho to Paris for a meeting with presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger. The North Vietnamese Embassy said in an earlier statement that it knew nothing about a possible Kissinger-Tho meeting. The White House had announced on Wednesday that Kissinger and Tho, the principal negotiators of the Paris peace agreement on Vietnam, would meet in Paris during May to find ways to insure strict adherence to the cease-fire. ASKED ABOUT the possibility of such a meet-' ing, Nguyen Co Thach, North Vietnam's viceminister for foreign affairs, told newsmen: "For the time being, there is no question of anything like that." Thach made his remarks during a break in the first day of preliminary talks with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William L. Sullivan on the issue of cease-fire violations. Thach said it was too early to predict if his talks with the Americans would be successful. "It's too early to give an assessment . . . we have barely had time to sit down and start talking." P e a c e delegation sources said further meetings were expected between the two sides. The 10 a.m. meeting of Hanoi-Washington diplomats at a French Communist villa in suburban GifSur-Yvctte had hardly

BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR MOM: QUINTS

PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) Quintuplets born to a woman who had taken a fertility drug were reported today to be having respiratory problems but in stable condition. Mrs. Karen Anderson, wife of a Brush Prairie, Wash., salesman, was delivered of the three boys and two girls Thursday at Bess Kaiser Hospital on her 28th birthday. "I feel happy, birthdayish and motherly," Mrs. Anderson said. Dr. Phillip Brenes, a pediatriaican, said the infants weighed less than three pounds each and were delivered in twominute intervals. He said they showed evidence of respiratory distress problems but were in stable condition. "It will take several days before we can tell how good their condition really is," Brenes said. "But right now in the next 24 to 48 hours is a crisis' period for the babies." Mrs. Anderson had taken a fertility drug in July and August because of a condition which had caused her to suffer miscarriages, doctors said. Mrs. Anderson and her husband, Eric, have two small adopted children. "At one time our house was too big," Anderson said. "It's suddenly become too small. We'll have to do something about that." The quints were named Roger, Owen, Scott, Audrey and Diane.

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Ask public help in killings hunt

Southland authorities, joined forces Thursday to seek public help in finding the killer or tollers responsible for the sexually oriented slaying of at least four young men over the past five months. Bodies of the victims, all Caucasian between 15 and 20 years of age, have Secret Witness will pay a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of four young men in the Southland area over the past five months, all found nude and two who had been sexually mutilated. In the event different killers are responsible in the various cases, Secret Witness will pay $2,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of each killer. been found in Los Angeles and Orange Counties since December. The hackcd-up body of the latest victim was found in plastic bags in five different locations Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. Investigators said they arc appealing to the public because they don't

FBI CHIEF GRAY QUITS

WASHINGTON UPI L. Patrick Gray HI, acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today submitted his resignation as head of the nation's chief law enforcement agency. The resignation came after new disclosures that Gray destroyed sensitive political documents taken from the White House safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt shortly after the bugging raid last summer. (See story on Page A-8.) Gray made the announcement in a statement handed to reporters. He was not immediately available for questioning.

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Around noon on Jan. 31, a small dog bit my mother on the little finger. The bite wasn't really too bad but ^^^fgfP*m>m*nmH*miiiiM bad enough to go to a hospital emergency room. Dr. L. H. Glaser, 17303 Pioneer Blvd. in Artesia, came and put three stitches in the one-inch laceration. We paid the hospital $20. Then in late March, I got a bill from Dr. Glaser for $110. I checked with other doctors who told me a reasonable fee for this service would be $25 to $35. What can I do about this bill? J.A.S., Lakewood. The bill has now been reduced from $110 to $48. Your bill was excessive

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THIS SKETCH resembles one of the mutilated murder victims, found Feb. 6 near Terminal Island Freeway. think all the murders could have been committed "without someone, somewhere, having seen or heard something." The appeal was issued as investigators from Long Beach, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Los Angeles and the Orange County sheriff's office met in Seal Beach Thursday to coordinate a search for suspects in the cases.

because Vera Collins, Dr. Glaser's medical insurance secretary, has been using the wrong billing scale for emergency room treatment. At ACTION LINE'S request, she double checked and discovered the error. Dr. Glaser told us he didn't know the going rate for that service nor even "what I get for major surgery." He said, "I let the girls figure up the bills." However, he acknowledged your original bin "floes eem quite a bit, I guess." ACTION LINE found fees for similar treatment at a large local hospital and those listed in a widely used physicians' guide book range from $20 to $50 for simple wound repair. (Continued Page A-4, Col. 4)

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TONIGHT AND SATURDAY

L.B. AREA - Night and morning low clouds. Hazy afternoon sunshine. Low 55. High 70. MOUNTAINS - Fair. Afternoon winds. Low 35, High 75. DESERTS Fair. Gusty afternoon wlndi. (Turn to Hack Page, Col. 3) Low 48. High 102.