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Tuesday, July 5, 1983

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COUNTY: Busy beaches

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FOURTH: A booming holiday

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In Huntington Beach early Monday, Dehra townsend of 16000 Villa Yorha, was awakened by the sound of a fire on her roof. She and her I'/z-year-old daughter, Sara, escaped uninjured. The fire caused about $10,000 in damage. An estimated 350,000 people celebrated Independence Day at county beaches. The turnout was down slightly from previous Fourth of July 80 ("'.'.I 90 / crowds as gray clouds hung over Rain 1OO' 10 *' the coastline, lifeguard officials 9 jimi/i.-- /Mr-* v^ said. Showers No drownings were reported, but vj go' G3I lifeguards reported making 560 Snow Cold Occluded rescues from Seal Beach to San El w~ Flurrtea Warm Stationary Rgurm show high temperatures for Area Clemente. Newport Beach lifeguards reported some sets of breakers The nation Showers are predicted along the East Coast in a band reached six feet high, but surf stretching from Maine down through northern Florida and across the Gulf along the county's coast was genCoast states through eastern Texas. Showers also are forecast for northern erally 3 to 4 feet. Idaho and western Montana. About half a dozen Huntington Beach police were pelted with botBO/;,,/to,,,,M / , QQ

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ties Monday night by youths and partygoers when officers attempted to break up a rowdy party in the area of 17th and Orange streets, according to Huntington Beach police Sgt. Jerry Evans. The bottle-throwing incidents occurred once in the early evening and again about 11 p.m. Lifeguard Chief Dave Perry said what appeared to be a "bomb" was removed from the south end of Bolsa Chica State Beach by explosives experts from the U.S. Naval Weapons Station at Seal Beach. Perry said the object, spotted in shallow water by a couple of beachgoers, had U.S. Navy markings and measured about 10 inches in diameter. A veteran Orange County sheriff's deputy said the "bomb" probably was an auxiliary fuel tank off an aircraft or a practice torpedo. Holiday ocean water temperatures ranged from 68 to 70 degrees.

The crowd for Monday's free concert and the later fireworks show was estimated at 300,000. Spokeswoman Anne Hammett said the U.S. Park Police estimated the crowd around the Mall at about 215,000 and the U.S. Capitol Police gave an estimate of 85,000 for areas near the Mall. While Newton was performing, Watt was hosting his annual fireworks-watching party from the balcony of his office. Watt spokesman Douglas Baldwin said there never had been any plans that Watt would attend the concert, primarily because of security concerns. Officials in the little town of Itasca, 111., saw their plans to release a giant American flag go with the wind. Nearly 1,200 people, including nearly every child in the school district, blew up 300,000 red, white and blue balloons, tied them to a string grid and planned to re-

lease them in the shape of a giant flag. But winds up to 20 mph undid part of the work, unearthing stakes and prematurely setting free entire sections, organizer Phil Valenti said. That failure aside, it was a day spread with superlatives like the mustard slathered on millions of hot dogs. Emil Gomez, 25, of the Bronx, a 210-pound accountant, got his share of the food. In 10 minutes, he ate 10'/z hot dogs with rolls to win the hot dog-eating contest at Nathan's on Coney Island, U.S. District Judge James Turk led 99 people in the oath of citizenship at the annual Fourth of July naturalization ceremony at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va. Across the nation, 391 traffic fatalities were reported between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday.

Orange County -- Tonight and Wednesday morning low clouds mostly cloaring in afternoons Highs 70 to 80. Lows 60 to 67 Los Angeles Today and Wednesday nighi and morning low clouds with hazy sun during afternoons. Low In the m!d-60s Highs noar 80 today and in upper 70s Wednesday Valleys Today and Wednesday late night find early morning low clouds, then hazy afternoon sunshine and warm with highs in the low to mld-80s. Overnight lows 60 to 66 Coastal Fair today through Wednesday except low clouds in late night and morning hours. Continued warm Highs 05 to 93 Lows 57 to 65. Mountains Continued lair today through Wednesday with worm days. Highs 84 to 9<t Lows 45 to 60 Owens Valley Fall today through Wednesday with sunny warm days Highs 9B to 103 Lows 60 to 65 Colorado River Valley Today through Wednesday fair and continued quite warm Highs 105 to 112 Lows 00 to 78

ANDROPOV: Soviet leader cancels Kohl meetings, may be

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Southern California Tonight and Wednesday morning low clouds mostly clearing in the afternoons. Coastal: Fair today through Wednesday except low clouds in late night and morning hours. Continued warm. Mountains: Continued fair today through Wednesday with warm days. Deserts: Today through Wednesday fair and continued warm.

plans by NATO to begin stationing 572 U.S.-built Pershing 2 and Tomahawk cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning late this year if the Soviets don't reduce their force of several hundred new SS-20 missiles already pointed at the West. In his speech, reportedly the one prepared for Andropov, Tikhonov echoed Kohl's appeal for a compromise on the missiles by saying,

"There still is a possibility for ... an agreement at Geneva and we call for making use of it" before it is "too late." The premier said the first round of U.S.-Soviet talks had been "of a substantial character and confirm the possibility of developing mutually beneficial relations in various fields." He did not elaborate. He urged West Germany to help make agreement possible a hint

that Bonn should pressure Washington to seek a compromise with Moscow. Tikhonov also repeated a Soviet warning that failure to reach agreement at the Geneva talks and subsequent deployment of U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles "will inevitably result in a sharp deterioration of the situation in Europe and all over the world." The premier stressed that Moscow would respond to any U.S. mis-

sile deployment "not with concessions at the Geneva talks, as certain figures in the West sometimes claim." The speech followed the lines of a statement issued last week by Warsaw pact leaders meeting in Moscow, coupling an appeal to the West to come to an agreement at Geneva with warnings that the Soviet bloc would respond with new weapons if U.S. medium-range missiles are deployed.

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Thursday Through Saturday Southern California coastal areas Night and morning low clouds and local fog along tho coast. Elsowhoro fair witli warm days Highs in Iho 70s noar tho coast and mid-BOs to mid-90s in inland valleys. Ovornlght lows 5S to 68. Southern California mountain areas Fair oxcopl a chnnco of isolated aftornoon thundershowers in southern ranges Highs mostly in 80s. Lows 48 to 60. Southern California desert ureas Fair oxcopl chance ot isolated thundorshowors in eastern and southern deserts. Highs near 100 in Owens Valloy, 100 to 108 In high deserts and 105 to 113 In lower deserts. Lows 55 to 65 in Owens Valley, 58 to 68 in high dosorts and 68 to 78 In lower dosorts Northern California Fair through Saturday except tor variable clouds with a chance of showers near tho Oregon border Friday. Night and morning low clouds or fog along the coast decreasing by Saturday. Temperatures near normal.

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CRASH: Neighborhood still bears scar of Pan Am Flight 759

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Tuesday July 5, 1983 High 3.2 tt., 6:16 a.m./5.4 ft., 6:09 p.m. Low 1.3 ft., 12:32 a.m./1,8 tt., 11:23 a.m. Wednesday July 6, 1983 High 3.3 tt., 7:28 a.m./5.9 tt., 6:48 p.m. Low 0.6 ft., 1:21 a.m./2.0 tt., 12:11 p.m.

after the first anniversary we are not going to be able to do that," said Janie May, whose family was unhurt in the crash. The Mays rebuilt their house, in part with money from a settlement with Pan Am. May doesn't fear airliners overhead, but she admits to feeling uneasy when she looks up and sees the Pan Am emblem. "Then I have a feeling that I can't quite tell anybody what it is," she said. "The others really do not bother me. Pan Am flights do but I can't let them run me away from home, either." Pan Am has discontinued Flight 759. An insurance company put new shingles on George Moate's house

and planted a new Japanese plum tree in his back yard to replace one uprooted when one of the Boeing 727's engines careened across the wet grass. The engine nestled up against Moate's house so gently it left not a mark on the brick. Three blocks away, Isabel Landry still lives with fear in a neat little house near the spot where 81 tons of airliner slanted down out of the rain and hit the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board said the crash was due to sudden wind turbulence the plane encountered seconds after lifting off the runway in a rainstorm. The 727 took out the house next door to Landry as it smashed

through two blocks of the neighborhood, but the Landry home suffered only small damage. Landry, a widow, wishes she could say the same for herself. "I hold my breath every time a plane comes over," she said. "I wanted Pan Am to buy me out, but they wouldn't do it. All they would do was repair the damage. I settled with them. I was told that inconvenience and grief means nothing, you had to be actually hurt to sue and get anything out of it. I didn't want to sue, anyhow. I thank God I am alive. I don't hold no grudge." The Mays, Moate and Landry were among the very few who have settled their legal claims. Those

with suits pending were wary about discussing them. Claims range from cracks in the sidewalk to death. In the latest suits, filed last month, two deputy sheriffs asked for $250,000 for the emotional trauma they said they suffered from having to help deal with bits and pieces of bodies after the crash, the worst in the nation since an American Airlines DC-10 crashed May 25,1979, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, killing 273 people. The final cost of this crash may not be known for another year but it is expected to reach into the hundreds of millions.

MARINE
Point Conception to the Mexican border and out 60 miles Winds over outer waters from Point Conception to San Clemente Island west to northwest 6 to 12 knots and 4- to B-foot seas through tonight. Elsewhere southerly winds 8 knots or less night and morning hours becoming southwest to west 8 to 16 knots with 1 - to 3-foot wind waves during the afternoon and evening hours. Southwest to west swells 2 to 3 feet. Considerable low cloudiness with only local afternoon clearing.

KRAFT: Families, friends share the grief of losing loved ones

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Police speculate that Hall, who would have turned 30 in I TEMPERATURES MONDAY ' I April, had hitchhiked and had been suffocated by whoever picked him Rn Tulsa 84 68 .06 Clr Birmingham 91 73 Clr Washington 92 7B ,02 Cdy Bismaick up. 75 54 County Clr Clr Wichita 84 68 368 Boise 87 48 Weighing about ISO pounds, their High Low Boston Hn 98 74 Annheini nu nti orownsvne Cdy '' '' 5-foot-ll-inch son was fit enough to 93 81 El Toro 80 61 Buffalo 89 76 ^WorW fight off an attacker if he wasn't Rn Kullerton na na Burlington 95 76 Clr 80 42 6? Casper intoxicated, the Halls said. Like Huntington Beach 70 HI Lo Wthr Charleston. 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Juneau 67 46 .07 Clr Ml Wilson 72 69 "!' Lima 82 61 Kansas City 81 65 .15 "It's not just our tragedy. There Cdy 72 61 Needles 110 78 Cl! " 103 74 Las Vegas Clr 82 63 Oakland 84 62 are many other families." Cdy j | ^ ' Liltte Rock 90 76 Clr 82 66 Ontario 85 59 Louisville 91 71 2G After more than three years, Clr ^. Manila 95 75 Palm Springs 10-t 75 Lubbock 93 1\ Clr 77 57 ,T Mexico City Pasadena 84 62 Robert and Barbara Loggins still Memphis 90 79 53 41 Clr ' Montevideo Paso Robles 98 W Miami 86 78 84 64 haven't been able to talk about the Cdy Riverside lJ Montreal rw riii 7H Milwaukee 80 69 82 61 Cdy Moscow Red Blult 101 67 Mpls-SVPaul 75 59 loss of their 19-year-old son, Wyatt. 03 Hn P, New Delhi 88 73 Redwood City 88 58 93 75 Clr Cd Pans 81 153 After years of silence from the Sacramento 99 61 New Orleans W 77 87 68 Clr Salinas 86 56 New York 95 78 family, neighbors no longer bring Rn p .,'!,'^ Clr 63 52 91 58 San Bernardino Norfolk 95 76 Rn p| 06 82 61 Cdy San Gabriel 83 64 up the subject. North Platte 79 47 Clr 86 59 San Qiego p' Rome 72 65 87 76 Oklahoma City With straight blond hair and vi57 41 Cdy ^,'' Santiago San Francisco 80 57 Omaha 79 56 73 62 Cdy ' Sao Paulo San Jose 90 58 brant blue eyes, Wyatt Loggins 92 75 68 Orlando Clr 74 57 81 66 Santa Barbara 94 74 Rn! *"< Philadelphia 03 was a heartthrob in his Montclair 88 75 Hn , binyapote 79 58 Santa Ciuz Phoenix 111 77 66 50 Cdy pj| Slocktolm 80 52 Santa Mana neighborhood in San Bernardino Pittsburgh 85 65 61 50 Rn Santa Monica n 64 87 62 Portland, Me County as early as junior high 95 79 Clt Stockton 101 64 Portland, Or u 81 50 82 68 Clr 74 40 Tahoe Valley school. Providence 94 74 Clr 81 68 Torrance 75 61 Raleigti 93 10 ^y Toton\o "He's just the type you would 86 '0 Cdy Rapid City 74 53 P, VaiKOUvor 66 52 Cdy picture succeeding," said neighbor 98 45 Reno 8,' 61 p. Viunna Clr Nation Richmond 97 70 77 57 WtKStlW Clr Sandra Ham. "He was such a wellStLouis 82 74 1C Hi Lo Prc Otlk StPele-lampj 91 76 fln 03 behaved kid. 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copter mechanic two months later. One August afternoon in 1980, Ham worried when she saw two Marine officers pull up to the Loggins house. Later, neighbors learned that Loggins' nude body, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag, had been found at the end of Paseo Sombra in El Toro. Police speculate that Loggins was killed as he hitchhiked to the El Toro Marine base after weekend leave. Nearly three years after Loggins' death, Rodger DeVaul Jr. was eating breakfast when his father broke the news that his mother had left them. "He just kind of brushed it off," Rodger DeVaul Sr. remembers. "He said she'll be back after she cools off." That night, 20-year-old DeVaul disappeared. Three days later, on Feb. 12,1983, DeVaul read that an unidentified man fitting his son's description had been slain. He was relieved when police told him the victim, later identified as Geoffrey Alan Nelson, was not his son. The next day one day after DeVaul Sr.'s wife served divorce papers police found another body. It was their son. Nelson, 18, and DeVaul, last seen at a video-game hall, apparently were together when they died, police said. Nelson's nude body was found near the Euclid Avenue entrance ramp to the Garden Grove Freeway. DeVaul's body missing only shoes was found 35 miles away, near Mount Baldy. The two slender young men from Buena Park had met only one week earlier, family members said, and apparently they didn't have time to discover their mutual interests. Both left behind girlfriends they talked about marrying. Both hoped to play guitar in a band and loved to tinker with electronics. And they were sentimental enough to write poetry to those they loved. Almost prophetically, both sons wrote words that touched on their own deaths. Nelson wrote of "valleys full of pain ever growing close to me." DeVaul kept a poem that urged bereaved friends to dry their tears "before the sun of happy memories that 1 leave." They came from large, closeknit families despite the split of their parents. Knowing Nelson wouldn't want his relatives to grieve, his family gathered at Disneyland on what would have been his 19th birthday last month. DeVaul1 s special friend was his grandmother," who now rarely

leaves his bedroom, where she is closest to his memory. "I told him to take care of himself, and he would say, 'Grandma, I'm 20 years old now. You have to let go sometime.' Well, I had to let go, didn't I?" Eva DeVaul said. After being discharged from the Navy because of a borderline case of hyperglycemia, DeVaul was between jobs. Based in San Francisco and proud of his uniform, his biggest disappointment was the discharge. He was studying auto mechanics at Cypress College this year, but as the weather warmed, friends lured him away from job hunting to the beach. Nelson, who lived with his father after his parents' divorce, also was on the verge of big decisions. The day he died, he called his mother, telling her he had decided to accept a job in his uncle's computer company and to enroll at Cypress College. The talented, contagiously cheerful Nelson was only one year out of high school, but he knew what he wanted. He dreamed of blending his computer skills with his artistic talents to create graphics for films. "I expected to see his name in lightsin stardom not his name in the newspapers like it has been," said his aunt, Sue Centoni. Both the Nelsons and the DeVauls were surprised their sons apparently were hitchhiking when they were killed. "I don't want to say he was scared it makes him seem like a sissy but he was afraid something might happen if he hitchhiked," DeVaul's father said. "They may have done it together because there was safety in numbers." Nelson's mother, Judy, said of her son, "He was a walker. He would never take a ride." Eric Church was different. Church, 21, was a drifter who hitchhiked across the nation from his Hartford, Conn., home. His only tie to California was a woman in Sacramento he met while traveling, Seal Beach Sgt. Ron Lawson said. "He was just the basic kid out looking for a good time. No ties, no responsibilities," Lawson said. "We don't know an awful lot about him because nobody did. His parents didn't, and the girl he came to visit didn't." Church stayed with the unidentified woman for a few days, then left without telling her where he was going, Lawson said. His body was found Jan. 27 on the Seventh

Street on-ramp to the 60S Freeway in Seal Beach. Terry Lee Gambrel, of Crothersville, Ind., didn't have much choice about hitchhiking. Home on leave from the Marines in 1976, he had parked his 1976 Bobcat at a shopping center for about a week, and it had been impounded and sold as scrap. The car was his treasure; he still had $900 to pay on it. Fellow Marines said Gambrel was a "chronic hitchhiker" trying to save money. Earning about $1,000 per month as a clerk at the El Toro base, the 25-year-old corporal saved almost every cent so he could return to his tiny Indiana hometown of Crothersville and marry his childhood sweetheart. It wasn't until after his death in May that he was worth more money than he ever imagined. To his twin brother still living in the Indiana farmtown, Gambrel left $35,000 in military life insurance. In a town where the biggest excitement was a Friday night high school basketball game, Gambrel was the talk of the town whenever he returned home, said Timothy Curran, a friend in the Marines who once visited Cambrel's hometown. But Gambrel felt isolated from his younger co-workers in the Marines, friends said. He had left the service in 1979 and returned three years later, losing two ranks. "He already went through the phase of rock concerts and stereos, but he had lost two ranks and wasn't married, so he didn't fit in with the staff officers," said Capt. James Pettingill, his supervisor. "It was difficult for him to make friends." Because Gambrel was over 6 feet tall and athletic he lifted weights and played Softball his fellow Marines were stunned to learn he had been overpowered and strangled. Police believe Gambrel was hitchhiking to the Marine base when he was picked up and killed. His body was found May 14 on Interstate 5 near Mission Viejo. The discovery of Cambrel's body in Kraft's car led to a break in the cases that forever bond the six sons. As the families and friends wait for the memories to be laid to rest and futilely search for some purpose to it all, they feel disturbingly grateful to Gambrel. "At least," Pettingill said, "maybe his death will have served some purpose."