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July 5, 1983 6 sections/64 pages 25 cents

Metropolitan Orange County's Watchful Newspaper

The Fourth: fireworks, fun and Wayne Newton

Thousands hit county beaches, but fireworks, fires keep others busy
By Jeanne Wright The Register

Is Andropov sick? He skips Kohl meetings

By Alison Smale Associated Press

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Thousands of Fourth of July revelers flocked to Orange County beaches Monday, and law enforcement and fire officials were kept busy with complaints about illegal fireworks and dozens of minor structure blazes and brush fires. About 63,000 viewed a fireworks display at Anaheim Stadium following the Angels ballgame, and in Santa Ana about 6,000 people celebrated the city's recent selection by the National Municipal League as one of eight All-America cities. The fireworks and music at the Santa Ana Stadium-Eddie West Field near the Civic Center, marked the first Fourth of July celebration the city has sponsored. In the most serious fireworks-related incidentreported by Monday night, a 14year-old Garden Grove boy lost the tip of a finger. The boy, whose name was not immediately released, ignited a "Piccolo Pete" in a pipe 18 inches long with one end capped, police Sgt. Ron Fleischer said. The explosion clipped off the end of one of the boy's fingers, cut his hand and shrapnel hit him in the stomach and chest, police said. The boy underwent surgery at UCI Medical Center Monday night. Fleischer said the boy told police he bought the "Piccolo Pete" from a fireworks stand in Stanton. "We are going to investigate that it is against the law to sell a minor fireworks," Fleischer said. Several arrests and citations for illegal fireworks were reported. Special teams ot police and firefighters patrolled Santa Ana and Anaheim streets. Anaheim's special force cruised in unmarked cars, confiscating a number of ilAssociated Press legal bottle rockets and other illegal fireworks. Two people were arrested for Fireworks fan out over the Washington Monument and a reflecting pool lined with spectators. use of illegal fireworks, and citations were issued to 14 others. Santa Ana Fire Battalion Chief Wayne Bowman said six teams of fire and police personnel were cruising the streets in marked cars. California Highway Patrol officers reported finding about 900 firecrackers and bottle rockets in a vehicle they stopped in By David L. Langford San Clemente Monday afternoon. There Associated Press was no report of arrests. Orange County Fire official Chuck MurImmigrants from 28 countries became U.S. citiphy said preliminary reports on structural zens in Virginia on Monday, and the Beach Boys, damage this Fourth of July appears to be bounced from the annual show at the Washington low compared to previous years. Monument, drew almost as big a crowd as their replacement, as the nation celebrated a booming County fire officials reported 10 strucFourth of July. ture blazes by Monday night, including a In the nation's capital, singer Wayne Newton perroof and garage fire at a townhouse on formed on the Mall in place of the Beach Boys, who Laurelwood Street in San Juan Capistrano. were dropped from holiday plans because Interior Damage was estimated at $50,000. Secretary James Watt thought rock bands drew the In Fullerton early Monday, bottle rock"wrong element." He drew an estimated crowd of ets were found near the scene of a roof 215,000. fire. Damage was estimated at $50,000 to "Through all this nonsense the two things I never the structure and $20,000 to the contents of lost faith in were the man upstairs and you," Newthe home. ton told the crowd. Arriving in Atlantic City, N.J., for their 7:30 p.m. Louis Orosca, 85, was evacuated from surf side concert, the Beach Boys glimpsed 100,000 the home by his granddaughter, Lucinda people gathered on the beach by 4:30 p.m. "It's nice Orosca. Neither was injured, according to to see everybody didn't go to the Wayne Newton Fullerton Fire Department dispatcher show," said Beach Boy Mike Love. The show opened Robert Leal. at 7:30 p.m. with about 200,000 people on hand. Please see COUNTY/A2 Watt apologized to the Beach Boys after learning Associated Press that the group's fans included President and Mrs. Huntington Beach couple hosts a Fourth Singer Wayne Newton takes a leap during Reagan, and the episode attracted a great deal of of July celebration for hundreds of handicapped his performance Monday evening on the publicity.

Immigrants sworn in as nation celebrates

MOSCOW Soviet President Yuri Andropov abruptly canceled two planned meetings Monday with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, touching off speculation that the Kremlin boss, who has appeared frail in recent public appearances, again was ailing. The Soviet Foreign Ministry summoned West German Ambassador Andreas Mayer-Landruth early Monday and informed him that Andropov had "personal reasons" for bowing out of the opening round of talks and an appearance at a Kremlin banquet Monday evening. Neither the Soviets nor the Germans provided any further public explanation for the absence of the 69-year-old Andropov, who succeeded the late Leonid Brezhnev as party chief last November and solidified his grip on power by becoming Soviet head of state in early June. However, Western diplomats who did not want to be identified said they had been told by informed sources in Bonn that Andropov had suffered from the temperature 82 degrees and humidity in Moscow on Sunday. Andropov reportedly suffers from Parkinson's disease and diabetes, and was said by Soviet sources to have been hospitalized several times since November, including once for a kidney infection. West German government spokesman Peter Boenisch said Kohl had been assured by the Soviets that Andropov would keep today's private appointment. The Soviet leader also proposed to hold a previously unscheduled second session in the afternoon with for-

Yurl Andropov Bows out of opening talks

eign ministers Andrei Grontykp and Hans-Dietrich Genscher ia afe tendance. <>'-.'-'? Kohl began his four-day Visjit Monday by issuing a strong appeal to Moscow to reach agreemenf^t the U.S.-Soviet talks in GeneVfrto limiting nuclear arms in Eur$pej*. "I appeal to the Soviet make possible a balanced result;; the talks," Kohl said in a speecthg the Kremlin banquet. Sovietl?^ mier Nikolai Tikhonov stepped 3n for Andropov to act as host dinner. "I agree with the Soviet ment that it is not too late" agreement, Kohl added. The chancellor said he wasl his visit could be "helpful" ing an agreement and stressettthttt West Germany and its NATOj$tti8S including the United Statfeji^ "want a substantial improveii^ril in East-West relations." At issue in the Geneva tal Please see ANDROF

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A year after Louisiana era; a neighborhood slowly heals

By Bill Crlder Associated Press

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KENNER, La. Jets taking off from New Orleans International Airport still pass low and loud over the neighborhood known as Morningside. Passengers can look down and see the scar left by the nation's second worst airliner crash. Fifteen houses were obliterated when Pan Am Flight 759 crashed at 4:10 p.m. on July 9,1982, killing 146 people on the plane and eight on the ground. Bulldozers later wiped out all sign of the houses, seven-eighths of a mile east of the end of Runway 10, and sweetened the crash site

with lime. Weeds grew in et lots. But a year after the bedroom community besidel^f airport, 12 miles from leans, gradually is healing. Three families have their rebuilt homes, and a i expected to be in soon, ilies have moved away or are 3 ing for claims to be settled. "We wanted to sort of put:i behind us, but we realize that-i
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Families, friends of 6 slain men share the sense of grief

By Maria Cone The Register

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Rodger DeVaul was smiling and talking about the picnic lunches he used to pack for his family, when he stopped in midsentence, pulled off his glasses and wiped his eyes. The memory of his son and two daughters playing ball in the park with their dog was coming back too clearly. The burly auto mechanic apologized for his tears, then stared at family photographs scattered on the table. "I miss him a hell of a lot," he finally said. "He was my only son." One thousand miles away in Idaho, Darwin Hall remembered the day his only child waved good-

bye and left home to fulfill his dream of living in Southern California. "There were just the three of us," he said. His wife, Lois, filled the silence as he struggled with the thought. "He was all we had," she said. The families and friends of six men spread across the nation from Connecticut to Southern California never have met, but they share the macabre, common bond of someone they loved being strangled or suffocated and dropped along Southern California highways. The youngest victim was 18, the oldest, 25. In May, Long Beach computer analyst Randy Steven Kraft was charged with all six slayings after

police discovered the body of Terry Lee Gambrel in the front seat of Kraft's car. Police say Kraft may have slain as many as 32 men in three states. The Orange County District Attorney's Office has thrown a blanket of silence over the cases. Police wjll say only that the killer used drugs to overcome, sexually assault and mutilate some of the victims all healthy, strong, young men who apparently were hitchhiking. As Kraft waits in an isolated Orange County Jail cell for his trial, the families and friends of the slain men are suffering their own kind of imprisonment. They spend the days wondering what their sons

and friends experienced in the last hours of their lives. Lois and Darwin Hall have had the most time to torture themselves with the thought. Word of their son's slaying reached them in their hometown of Pocatella, Idaho, in January 1976. Until Kraft was arrested this year, the Halls read about captured mass murderers even those as distant as John Wayne Gacy in Illinois and wondered if he had killed their son, too. With the arrest, the memories buried under the years but still very much alive have been dredged up again. "I don't think there's been a day we didn't think about it," said Darwin Hall, a Postal Service man-

ager. "We had a lot of sleejj nights." &i^' Mark Howard Hall was 19 ^ ' he told his parents he was mojjfi to California. Ever since hr1*"' ents gave him his first set of { when he was 8 years old, first love was music. Calif or decided, was the place for The Halls begrudgingly ace their son's decision as he pa his drums in 1973, leaving with only an aging poodle to* them company. Playing occs ally in bands, Hall took a job\ assembly worker at Emef8$ Electric Co. in Santa Ana,gft though they telephoned other week, the Halls weren't to visit him until May 1975. Please see

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