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ok 1 MONDAY mm nn UU (( I 1 LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WEST, 1.00? ,31 9 DAILY, 1,208,209 SUNDAY. i i nil i- ii" i nr I 1-. I II 1 Copyright 1971 Let Anaelet Timet 76 PAGES PART ONE JUNE 28, 1971 tr 5 stranded three days in southern they were riding on Green River and capsized. One boy drowned. (flWirephot Police in Compton Re iect 4 Raise.

v2) Ml MONDAY MORNING, mm. 5 troop who were Utah. The rafts hit' floating trees WARD Writer connected by the victims' past dealings in dope. Gardner was the eighth fatality in the "Detroit massacre" the worst mass killing in the city's history. It occurred in the early hours of June 14 when four killers came to his home at 1970 Hazelwood, on the upper West Side, knocked, then three bullets into him as he opened the door.

The killers then entered the first-floor apartment and tied up and shot to death seven narcotics users who were there. Four other people narrowly escaped by jumping through a window and racing down a back alley. Gardner was left for dead. Although he lived a week, he was never able to talk to police. Please Turn to Page 12, Col.

1 Seven of 23 on Craft Saved in Ocean Rescue BY TED THACKREY JR. Tlmti Staff Writer A chartered DC-3 airliner crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Eureka Sunday, killing 16 of the 23 aboard. The plane went down shortly after taking off from a private airstrip at Shelter Cove, a real estate development on the coast 50 miles southwest of Eureka. Of the 23 aboard, 20 were real estate executives and salesmen many of them from Los Angeles and a crew of three. Coast Guard officials said that 16 bodies and at seven survivors had been recovered several hours after the crash.

Injured survivors reportedly stayed afloat for 40 minutes before being picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. Taken to Hospitals Some were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Eureka, others to Southern Humboldt Medical Center at Garberville and some to another hospital at Areata, near Eureka. The dead were taken to a mortuary in Garberville. The pilot was tentatively identified as Les Hall, 45, of Long Beach.

Five of the survivors were reported in serious condition. The other two were in good condition. (The pilot and co-pilot were killed but the stewardess, believed to be Elizabeth Deauville of San Francisco, survived, according to i Press International. (Another plane, carrying prospective land buyers, took off just before the crash. It then returned to the airport and a pediatrician aboard aided in treating survivors.

liiiiiii DAILY 10c CRASH DC-3 crashed into Pacific shortly after takeoff from Shelter Cove development 50 miles south of Eureka. Times map (Airlifted to St. Joseph's Hospital were Billy Nelson, 29; Steven Reid, 41, and Anthony Sanchez, 61, all of San Diego, and Irving Grossman, 36, Los Angeles. Nelson and Reid were in good condition with leg injuries while Sanchez and Grossman were reported in serious condition. (Taken to Southern Humboldt Community Hospital were Miss Deauville, Herbert Huber, Fairfield, and Joseph Duplane, no address.) Witnesses reported that the aircraft, a twin-engined type last manufactured at the end of World War II and no longer in regular airline service in the United States, floated about 30 minutes before sinking.

A flotilla of Coast Guard craft, helicopters and amphibious airplanes sped to the scene to search for other survivors in rough seas and heavy winds. Witnesses said that the chartered plane struck part of a sewage disposal plant on the Shelter Cove property and crashed about 150 yards offshore. Please Turn to Page 15, Col. 1 CHRISS Writer the moon July 20, 1969. David R.

Scott, commander of. the coming Apollo 15 flight in July, has about hours of practice, in the same simulator. "Don't be nervous," my copilot assured me again. I thought of the pilot who had written a book tfalled "God Is My Copilot" and I began to realize why he wrote it. My copilot the LM safely, brought itup again to.

10,000 feet and handed me the controls. "Fuel looks okay. Here we go," he said casually. Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 1 THE WEATHER National Weather Service forecast: Low clouds and fog this morn, ing and near the coast tonight and early Tuesday otherwise fair through Tuesday.

High today, 80. High Sunday, 73; low, 64. I OREGON )CAIJF0RNIA NEVADA Aeureka SAN VRANCISCO LOS ANGELES 9 VOL XC FIVE PARTS MAJOR CHANGES Once Notorious Pendleton Brig Now a Model BY W. B. ROOD Timet Staff Writer CAM P-PENDLETON The morning of Dec.

15, I960, group of prisoners barricaded themselves inside their tin-roofed quarters at Camp Pendleton brig's Company compound. A violent confrontation between prisoners and guards was the. last thing brig officials wanted at the end of a nightmarish year of notoriety spawned by rioting and charges of guard brutality. A congressional inquiry was underway and several military investigation's had already been held into conditions at the brig. So, on that troubled December morning, newly appointed brig commander Maj.

Robert E. Finney substituted movie cameras and tape recorders for force. Finney's assistant, Capt. Samuel Saxton, encouraged taunting prisoners to yell loudly enough for microphones to pick up their words, and to make defiant gestures in full view of the cameras. Last Holdout Visibly Skaken One at a time, the prisoners surrendered to the silent siege.

The last holdout, visibly shaken by the cameras and recorders, gave up within an hour. The incident at Company compound signaled the birth of a new order at the Camp Pendleton brig. Since 1969, the brig that a congressional inquiry labeled "probably the most repeatedly investigated facility in the Marine Corps" has gradually evolved into an innovative model for the military corrections system. For instance, the brig's prisoner population, whiah swelled to more than 900 during 1969, now hovers at about 450. Dormitories, once packed with more than 200 prisoners, today seldom have more than 50.

While the prisoner population has fallen off, the number of guards and other brig staff personnel has climbed from 350 in 1969 to 421 enlisted men and 15 officers today almost one staff member for every prisoner. Under the old system, guards were often castoffs from other Marine commands. Today, more than half are designated specialists in brig duty. But the most dramatic changes at what is now called the Camp Pendleton Correctional Facility have been in the area of training and in fundamental concepts of what can be done for a prisoner. "We are a jail, but we're not a warehouse for marines," said Finney, a 39-year-old tank officer, whose background includes a tour as commander of the Navy's largest brig in San Diego.

"We differ from a lot of jails and because here the correction process begins the day a man arrives." Prisoners, who once received only four to 10 days of classroom training, now receive up to three weeks. Subjects include law, drugs, human Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 DOLr-iO of a RESCUED Tim Golden, 15, of Albuquerque is carried by on Air Force helicopter crewman who helped rescue youth and 24 others in Boy Stout in; 3 'l it If II Greed, Fear and Death Mark Savage 'Dope War' in, Detroit REPORTER 'FLIES' LUNAR LANDER Computer Alarm, Tailspin, SweatThen: 'We're BY FRANCIS Timet Staff DETROIT Robert' Lee Gardner, 28. a middle-level narcotics dealer, lingered in critical condition for a week, then died, becoming, sadly, this city's 329th homicide of the year. Less than a day before, the name Gerald Williams was added to this staggering list of killings.

Both were victims of a "dope war," savage struggle by major narcotics dealers and some up-and-coming hustlers like Gardner to control the distribution and sale of drugs in Detroit's sprawling black communities on the East and West sides. There have been from 40 to 50 casualties in this war since the first of the year, all of which are loosely Begin Slowdown BY ROY HAYNES Timet Staff Writer Compton police officers rejected a 4 pay raise Sunday and took action aimed at slowing operations for the next 2V2 weeks and stopping all but emergency service July 15. The first step, which began Sunday, had the effect of a slowdown as officers began "professionalizing" their reports, making each complete even for minor incidents, a spokesman for the Compton Police Officers Assn. said. Beginning July 13, all officers except, a few needed for emergencies will call in sick, according to the spokesman, Det.

John R. Baker. The association designated an officer to call on Mayor Douglas F. Dol-larhide this morning to set up an emergency meeting to negotiate a contract before July 15 to avoid the "sick-in." The decision for the work action was made at a special meeting of the association members called by Det. Joe Banovic, the president, at -the Compton police station.

"We want the people to know that we don't want to hurt anyone, but if we don't get more money the department will lose its best personnel," one officer said. The Compton city council recently offered police officers and firemen a 4 pay raise. This fell far short of their request. The association had asked that Please Turn to Page 19, CoL 1 Index to The Times BY NICHOLAS Timet Stiff MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, Houston My copilot said, "I'll take it up to 10,000 feet and bring it down, and then you can try it." He did. And I tried.

But it was hard. I had never flown anything before. Even if I had, this was more than just another airptene. It was the lunar lander, the grotesque-looking ship that lands American astronauts on the moon's surface. We were inside, my copilot and making a simulated flight in a trainer on the ground.

But it was so realistic that we might have been some 250,000 miles away from earth coming in for a tricky moon landing. Often during the flight it seemed, indeed, that I was coming in for a moon landing. "Don't be nervous," said my copilot, a young man who trains astronauts to fly the lunar lander, called the LM by astronauts. Neil Armstrong had had a couple of thousand hours in the LM Simula-tor before he landed the Eagle on BOOK REVIEW. View.

Page 5. BRIDGE. View, Page 10. CLASSIFIED. Part 5, Pages 1-20.

COMICS. View, Page 15. CROSSWORD. Part 5, Page 20. EDITORIALS, COLUMNS.

Part 2, Pages 6, 7. FILMS. View, Pages 9-13. FIXAXCIAL. Part 3, Pages 10-12.

METROPOLITAN NEWS. Part 2. SPORTS. Part 3, Pages 1-9. TV-RADIO.

View, Pages 14, 16. VITALS, WEATHER. Part 1, Page 18. WOMEN'S. View, Pages 1-8.

250,000 Lose Homes to Freeway Growth Part 2, Page 1. World Ignores Cambodian Plea for Angkor Neutrality Tart 1, Page 5. Taxpayers' Investment Plan Reshaping Brazil fart 3, Page 10..

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