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Show Page 24-T- HE Provo, Utah. Wednesday. HERALD. February 15. 1978 8 Killed, 33 Hurt Bella Abzug Loses Third Election Try - NEW YORK (LTD Republican S. William Green, drawing unexpected support from Democratic voters, staged a stunning victory over Bella Abzug Tuesday to capture the congressional seat for Manhattan's Silk Stocking District. The defeat was Mrs. Abzug's third consecutive loss at the polls in 18 months and may have dashed forever her hopes of returning to elective ofd fice. But the wearing one of the hats that have become her trademark and clutching a crumpled three-pag- e victory speech, refused early today to concede the race and called for a recount. Despite her optimism, Mrs. Abzug facing a crowd of stunned and saddened admitted, "It's not what supporters you'd call a very happy Valentine's Day." With all the votes tabulated, Green, a former state assemblyman, had 30,240 or 53 percent to Mrs. Abzug's 28,970 or 48 pprcent, a margin of 1.270, according of returns reported to the to a News Election Service. Republican National Chairman Bill Brock hailed Green's win as a "victory for Republicans everywhere and said it "proved that Jimmy Carter can't take New York City for granted." "In a period of five weeks Bill Green emerged from an unknown candidate with only 2 percent public recognition to defeat the most prominent liberal Democrat in the country," Brock said. "Voters decided that the age of confrontation politics is dead," Green said in claiming victory. And Pat Wichter, Green's campaign manager, noted that his candidate made inroads into several presumed Abzug strongholds. After trailing in returns most of the night, Green staged a rally, picking up momentum as results came in from the East Side neighborhoods that comprise the district, which boasts one of the most affluent and influential con Blast at Tannery Laid to stituencies in the nation Green finally edged Mrs. Abzug with y9 percent of the vote reported, but the outcome remained in dmiht until the last election district tabulated its return:,. The Abzug defeat was a stunning turnabout. With more than a quarter of all votes counted, the running in a district in which Democrats outnumber Republicans 57 per cent of the vote to Green's 41 percent. But late returns, coming mostly from the northern and southern ends of the district, turned out to hold the key to was carrying the election. Mrs. Abzug was trying to return to the House 18 months after she resigned her s 't to run for the Senate, only to be defeated in the primary by Daniel Moynihan. Last year she lost the seven-waprimary for mayor of New York to Edward Koch. who gave up his Silk Stocking congressional seat to become y mayor. Mrs. Abzug, holding a lead of 2 400 votes in the early going. aw that edge dwindle and evenutally evaporate. At one point, as she was on the verge of claiming victory, she locked herself in her hotel room while stunned supporters milled about below. The Silk Stocking district has produced two of New York's last three Koch, who held the seat for mayors nine years until January, and John Lindsay, who represented the district for 10 years. In another special congressional election, State Sen. Robert Garcia was chosen to fill the seat vacated by Herman Badillo, the first voting Puerto Rican member of Congress. Garcia, a Democrat who had Badil-lo'- s support but was denied his party's nomination because of political squabbles with local Democratic officials, won easily over Democratic party nominee Louis Nine and former City Councilman Ramon Velez. - Put in Wrong Vat - Hydrogen sulfide CHICAGO (LTD fumes the product tion from chemicals wrong vat seeped Side of a violent reac pumped into the through a North Tuesday, killing eight the defendant "lacked the substantial capability to perform his conduct to the standards of the law." The six witnesses testified that Olds appeared normal for the two or three showing days before the crime spree. GA1 fumes. Police Sgt. John F. Serafini said the fumes apparently were produced when sodium sulphydrate was transfered from a tank truck to a vat that contained chrome liquor an acid used in at the Horween Leather Co. tunning sion, Serafini said. Many of the 178 persons in the building began passing out from the toxic gas that smelled like rotten eggs, witnesses said. was passing out," one worker said. "I knew there was something wrong. I couldn't get no air. It knocked me out. It was a while until the other guys got me to a window and I got some fresh air. Thank God I'm alive. I heard some guys are gone." Police said the truck driver, Charles Estes, 51, of West Virginia, told them he knocked at a plant door and was instructed by an unidentified man to hook his hose up to a particular intake valve. First Deputy Fire Marshal Charles Pierce said mot chemical tankers are designed so that heses cannot be fitted to incorrect outlets. When he arrived, Pierce said, "it was an eerie scene. People were lying on leather belts. One man had a severe cut over his eye. They were all unconscious." Dozens of emergency vehicles conthree-storverged on the block-lonbrick building but policemen who answered the first call for help had to wait for gas masks before they were able to enter. Five persons were dead on arrival at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. St. Mary of one Nazareth reported two fatalities and Grant of them dying early today - Hospital received another. St. Elizabeth treated another five injured victims; St. Mary of Nazareth, 16; Grant three; and St Anne's Hospital, one. Sales Dip; Denies Prices Cut - three-mont- h slow-sellin- g price cut "pure and simple speculation." The Big Four automakers domestic car sales fell - reported in early down 18.6 perFebruary to 182.908 cent from a year ago. It was the ninth period in a row that sales declined from the previous year. For the year to date, domestic car sales trail last year's figure by 11.8 cr o) c; :i m, ; V A VTi , - - $ M n 1lm "iti 'in ii mi hi ram urn run I T"1 ....in ii " fi h Youth 'Lost' 3 Months; Illness Still Unexplained - JohnSTILLWATER, Okla. (LTD ny Wilson, 10, was happy to return to school but he was a little embarrassed because he couldn't explain to his friends what happened during his three-mont- h absence. Johnny abruptly lost his memory and body control Oct. 30 and just as suddenly regained them Saturday. "It was just like I went to sleep and woke up the next morning, except there was three months in between," Johnny said Tuesday. "I feel just fine now, but I just can't remember," he said. Sally Wilson said doctors never were able to diagnose her son's illness. "Just about the time he would start to fit the classic symptoms of one disease the brain patterns would not be right or something else would change," she said. "The night before he recovered he sank to his lowest point. He hid lost all control, his bladder, everything," she said. "He was babbling. I went to bed without much hope." But the next day he woke up and asked his parents why it was snowing in October. They realized he had recovered. Johnny returned to class Tuesday and learned school hadn't changed "except I think I'm three months behind." "Everybody asked me if I remember if they came to visit. I tell them I don't know, but I hope they didn't," Johnny-said- . "It embarrasses me." "They told me I was just like a baby or something. The kids at school asked me a lot of questions like if I still remember them," he said. The athletic blond had been ill with an acute ear infection and pneumonia the week before Oct. 30, the day his memory lapsed and loss of muscle control began. After that day he could not speak normally because his vocabulary was reduced, and he could not climb steps, throw a ball or hold a glass, Mrs. Wilson said. "There were times when he was doors violent. We have some kicked-iand broken windows," she said. n 'Father' Slashes Stepdaughter on Valentine's Day - UPI Police say a man screaming "I am not your father" slashed his stepdaughter vulli a sickle Tuesday after she presented him with a Valentine's Day card addressed "To Daddy." Dorothy Cory was in fair condition at Roseland Community Hospital with a wound to her chest and facial cuts. Police said a heavy coat she was wearing may have saved her from more serious injury. James J. Judy, 32, was arrested and held on charges of aggravated battery, cruelty to a child and simple battery. Police said the girl returned home from school about 3 p.m. and gave her school-madcard to her father, a CHICAGO ( "'" i'i faculties this past weekend parents and doctors called 10 YEAR-OLJohnny Wilson sits in the bed where he laid for part of a illness which left him without memory or body coordination. He regained his BUY 3 Take the coupon at right to your store. Pick up 4 Big Rolls and pay for only 3. ScotTowels. . . heavy paper for heavy work. W fIDDWB mo " ' He said the combination of the two chemicals created the deadly hydrogen sulfide fumes which quickly wafted through the facility. There was a violent chemical reaction but no explo- Blames Weather for Car DETROIT (LTD The General Motors Corp., joining other major automakers in blaming the weather for plummeting car sales, denies reports it will cut prices to pull the industry out of a sales slump. Robert D. Burger. GM vice president of marketing, said Tuesday the No. 1 automaker will rely on "traditional aggressive merchandising efforts" to boost sales of midsized cars. He called reports of an impending j .L' tannery persons and injuring 33. Many of the injured were treated for burns, nausea, vomiting and irritated eves suffered from breathing the y Michael Olds Murder Trial Opens With Testimony by 6 Six witnesses VALE, Ore. (LTD from Washington state were called to the stand Tuesday as the murder trial of Michael Andrew Olds, 34, got underway following opening arguments. District Attorney Byron Chatfield told the jury of eight men and four women that the state will attempt to prove that Olds was not insane at the time he committed the murder of Mary Lindsay, 75, lone. Olds had pleaded innocent to the charge on grounds ot mental disease or defect following the April incident. Olds was arrested in Pennsylvania and been convicted in a La Grande trial for the murder of Stephen Schmerer, 23, a taxi cab driver, Walla Walla, Wash. Chatfield told the jury they would have to decide whether the defendant intentionally caused the death of Mrs. Lindsay and whether he was sane at the time the murder occurred. Doug Combs, Olds attorney, told the jury the defense will present evidence Chemicals ) e bricklayer. - totally a ,. in what his miracle. (L'PI Telephoto) Mystery Girl Fli9ht Set by Possible Dad - A man MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) who believes he is the father of a mysterious girl found wandering a downtown street last month with cigarette burns dotting her body will fly to Memphis next week, courtesy of the fire department. Jeannette Birge of the Tennessee Department of Human Services said Tuesday the department is "pretty sur-e- " he is the right person but she declined to identify him or say where he lives. Ms Birge said during the weekend that the unidentified man could not afford to travel to Memphis to positively identify the young woman, who was taken into custody Jan. 20 after suffering a seizure on a snowy midtown street. But, members of Fire Station No. 3 came to the rescue and donated $200 for an fiiie. The girl, who claims to be Lisa Relm. has suffered periodic seizures and had refused to eat or talk at first. She is now living at an undisclosed location and is "communicating very well" to the people who are working with her, although she still has been silent about her background, Ms. Birge said. The caseworker would not say if the man being flown here next week is James Watson, an Albuquerque. N.M., man who identified Lisa as his daughter. Cynthia Watson, several weeks ago after seeing her picture in a newspaper HljMBH STORE COUPON . m..r, ' " ' "" ' a BUY 3 1 FREE BUYTHREEPACKAGES 0FSC0TT0WELS BtTAItEB (BIGR0LL0NLY) AND USETHIS COUPON rtsa nunrny :urr en o TO GET A FOURTH ROLL THf USC. BfOrMPTION OR MNt)UNri or COUPON NOT AC COKIUNO 10 ITS TfPMS CONiT.TuMS ON.T ONt COUPON Pf rOUK ( l UH( MAS! D MtCMA PRODUCTION Of COUPON PPOMld'HO t MlT ONE COUPON I Tift AMlLT AOOKf SS OPOUP OR ORGANIZATION P((((S BUY 3 L1FREE RETAIL FtlO PRICE OF ONE BIS ROLL OF SCOTTOWELS D A 374 |