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UP AND OUT Heavy seas failed to keep many weekend sailors on land. At left, all but the sails disappear as a boat enters a deep trough near Playa del Rey. At the right, undaunted crew comes to view. Times photo by Boris Yaro LA. County Probes Charges of Poor Hospital Emergency Care Hundreds Return f0 Homes in North 25-Cent Bus Fare Designed to Cut Auto Traffic Takes Effect Officials Expect 100,000 to 300,000 More Daily Riders Under 3-Month Experiment Subsidized by LA.

County Two Serving Life Sentences Escape From San Quentin SAX QUENTIN UPi Two brothers who were serving life sentences for conspiracy to murder two Los Angeles Black Panther Party leaders have escaped from San Quentin, a spokesman said Sunday. George Stiner, 27, and his brother, Larry, 26, disappeared from the prison's minimum security family visiting area Saturday night. The spokesman said they left a note for their parents, who were asleep in another bedroom in the family visiting center outside prison walls. The Stiners, both of whom belong to the black militant US Party, were convicted of conspiring to murder Alpentice (Bunchy) Carter, 26, a deputy minister of defense for the Black Panther Party, and John Jerome Huggins, 23, a Panther area captain. Carter and Huggins were each killed with a single shot Jan.

17, 1969, at the end of a meeting on the UCLA campus about a proposed black studies program. At the time, a power struggle was under way between the two organizations. The dispute seems to have died out in recent years. The note, hand printed and unsigned, said: "Sorry we had to do it like this, but circumstances demanded it. We have considered all possible alternatives and this is the best way.

Please, understand and continue to have faith in us, as you have proven that you have. "This prison system is going through a strong repressive stage and we know for certain that we will do another five years if not more. We love you more than you could ever imagine." WARD Writer vestigation that would look at the situation from "all sides." According to a Sheriff's Department report, four persons were taken to the hospital March 16 after a van in which they were riding struck a concrete wall and utility pole on Valley Blvd. in La Puente. Please Turn to Page 28, Col.

3 DELAYED SALES TAX HIKE BECOMES EFFECTIVE TODAY SACRAMENTO California's sales tax climbs one cent per dollar starting today, and that means you will pay more for just about everything you buy except food. The sales tax goes to six cents per dollar in most of the state and 6V2 cents in the three counties that make up the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Although food is exempted from the sales tax, you will pay about a penny more per six pack of beer, $5 more on the average color television set or about $30 more on an average new car. Rut chances are you have been paying less in property taxes if you are a homeowner. And if you rent, you probably got some tax relief.

The money from the sales tax increase is earmarked to pay for those tax reductions. As originally enacted in 1972, the $1.1 billion school finance and property tax relief scheme would have raised the sales tax first and chipped property taxes and hiked state Please Turn to Page 28, Col. 1 BY MIKE Tlmti Staff A county investigation has started into allegations that a La Puente hospital prematurely dismissed three accident victims without providing proper care for their injuries, it was disclosed Sunday. The three, who reportedly were told they had suffered only bruises or minor injuries, subsequently were taken to other hospitals. Two are still hospitalized with fractures more than two weeks after their release from the La Puente hospital.

The third was treated for a cut and an infection for two weeks at another hospital. The inquiry into emergency care, procedures provided toy Doctors Hospital of San Gabriel Valley, located in La Puente, opened Friday afternoon. It is being conducted by a five-member team, including a doctor specializing in emergency care. The hospital is under contract to Los Angeles County to provide emergency service. John O'Connor, director of contracts and community relations for the county Department of Health Care Services, said his office had received a complaint of "inappropriate medical treatment" at the hospital.

The inquiry was started at the request of Supervisor' Pete Schaba-rum, who said a former assemblym-rum, who said a former assemblyman, Bill Campbell, sent him a tele-Campbell, former chairman of the Assembly Health Committee and now a health care consultant, is a candidate for the Assembly. Dean Garrison, hospital administrator, declined to comment on the allegations but said he has asked the Los Angeles County Medical Assn. and the Hospital Council of Southern California to take part in the investigation. He said he would welcome an in as Floodwaters Ebb BY JOHN MOSQUEDA Timti Staff Writer As many as 600 persons returned to their homes in Shasta and Humboldt counties Sunday after flood-waters from Saturday's Northern California storm began receding. Some areas remained flooded, including lowlands along the Eel, Sacramento and Van Duzen rivers, but property damage evidently was minimal.

Sections, of Interstate 5 and U.S. 101 were reopened when the flow of runoff waters abated, and service began again along a main north-south rail line after Southern Pacific workmen cleared mudslides between Redding and Dunsmuir. The storm seemed to have caused the worst monetary loss at the Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery, officials said, where 50,000 king salmon were lost in floodwaters. In Chico, an unidentified young woman was missing after her car disappeared in a current of rising runoff water in the Sacramento River early Sunday. Two others in the auto had jumped out and managed to grasp a tree.

A search was begun for the missing woman. The storm so far has been blamed for the death of two young men, whose van smashed through a guardrail on rain-slick U.S. 101 late Friday and overturned at the edge of the Eel River, spilling one of them into the water and trapping the other in the vehicle's wreckage. Another storm was expected today in the far north, but the National Weather Service said it was unlikely to bring significant rainfall. Meanwhile, mostly fair weather was predicted through Friday for Southern California.

Temperature maximums along the coast will range in the lower 70s. the weather service said, with slightly cooler highs inland. Desert winds will diminish for the second straight day. Sunday's gusts averaged 35 m.p.h. On Saturday they reached 52 m.p.h.

Beaches from Zuma to Newport reported a combined attendance of 170,000 Sunday. Air temperatures were mild and the day was mostly sunny, but choppy surf and riptides necessitated 22 rescues. MARTINEZ Staff Writer crowd in the Sunday sun. "Much will come of it. It's a chance to prove that county transit can work." Gilstrap cited the El Monte bus-way, the 10-cent Sunday fare, the minibus program and the park ride service as additional proof that it is; working.

And it was Gilstrap who promised that the 25-cent fare program also will work and will continue beyond the three-month test period. I "But nothing can work without city, county and state cooperation," he said. "As taxpayers and residents you can be proud of the level of transportation you are seeing An additional 150 buses twr thirds of which were' pulled from storage and refurbished are part of the new service today, he said, and other new buses are on the way. Some were placed in service on heavily used commuter routes and others on standby to be used where necessary. More buses will be fed into the service over the next four to six weeks, Gilstrap said.

"And we're still looking for more." Sixty members of the SCRTD supervisorial staff, he said, are in strategic locations today to make certain that the system functions smoothly under the new program. Gilstrap cautioned the public to be patient if snarls develop. "It's a whole new kind of service," he said, "and we'll just have to feel our way along." He added that the SCRTD does not expect to make a profit from the low-fare program. "This is a public service the way the Police Department and the Fire Department are public services "The benefits lie not in profit but in service for those who cannot or choose not to use their cars." Neusom promised that the three-month test would determine what new levels of financing are needed. Under the new system the cost of Please Turn to Page 28, Col.

6 nor had any of his professional colleagues. He therefore set out to determine if any such research was being undertaken in the United States. A search of a master list of all scientific and technological grants and contracts supported by any branch of the U.S. government revealed two entries about which the City of Hope scientist sought more information. One, funded by the U.S.

Army, dealt with maps portraying the geographic distribution of human blood types and other inherited blood characteristics. The other, partially supported by the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, concerned large-scale screenings of blood proteins in different Asian peoples. Hammerschlag emphasized that Please Turn to Page 29, Col. 1 BY AL Times Los Angeles County's new 25-cent bus fare went into effect at a minute after midnight today. The program is a massive test of the notion that low fares will minimize automobile traffic by sending additional thousands scurrying to public transportation.

A $9.6 million subsidy provided by the Board of Supervisors is making the three-month experiment possible. Officials of the Southern California Rapid Transit District already are proclaiming the program a success and promising that the bargain fare will continue after the 90-day period. The 25-cent fare will be effective Mondays through Saturdays. On Sundays, the fare will remain 10 cents. More than 500.000 already ride SCRTD buses each day.

Estimates are that the new fares will bring out anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 new riders. Some fear that the rush of new commuters could cause insurmountable problems on the first few days of the cut rate service. But SCRTD General Manager Jack Gilstrap believes that the public will take a wait-and-see attitude then gradually take advantage of the low fare. He estimates that by the end of the three-month period the system will have an additional 100,000 passengers. A dozen city, county and state officials joined with rapid transit people at the 6th and San Pedro Sts.

station Sunday to sing the praises of the plan. Thomas Neusom, president of the RTD, praised what he called a new era of cooperation between all of the transit agencies in Los Angeles County. He was referring to the fact that six municipally owned bus systems in the Los Angeles County basin also inaugurate 25-cent fares today. "It's a good omen," he told a small The article, Hammerschlag told a press conference opening the American Chemical Society's national meeting here, appeared in the November, 1970, issue of Military Review. He said it was brought to his attention only last summer.

The Military Review identifies itself as the "professional journal of the U.S. Army." The article was written by Carl A. Larson, head of the department of human genetics at the University of Lund in Sweden. It contained lines such aa this caption beneath a photograph: "Innate differences in vulnerability to chemical agents between different populations have led to the possible development of ethnic weapons." Hammerschlag said he had never heard of the concept before then, FEARS MISAPPLICATION OF RESEARCH Scientist Warns of 'Ethnic Weapon' Potential BY GEORGE ALEXANDER Timet Scitnci Writer A scientist raised the frightening possibility here Sunday that research currently under way in human genetics could be perverted into weapons which could selectively incapacitate large numbers of a specific ethnic group, such as Orientals or blacks. While conceding that he had no hard evidence to indicate that the U.S.

Defense Department was developing such "ethnic weapons," Dr. Richard Hammerschlag, a neuroche-mist with the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, said he became concerned when he discovered, somewhat belatedly, that a U.S. military journal had carried an article on thi3 subject several years ago. ON TARGET Saeeter Vaughan (Gray Otter) demonstrates knife-throwing ability as Adriana Van Hemert (Sun Girl) smiles confidently. This was part of program featuring Indian entertainers and teepee village at Buena Vista Park in Burbank sponsored by American Indian Scholarship Assn.

Times photo by Bill Tarie.