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Show Wednesday, Deeember 13, 1972. THE HERALD, Prove--. ? ' Director of San Francisco Opera Has His Hands in all Operations v ( ? ..... t 1 ' f cm jTvA ; ft ' :- - v edit iUiitt tiiii fn:, it . . i.n tl m m Bv i SAN As the " v ...- ,', ,i , ,,,,.,;x,ni'.v,v. i'tsClMiiMi;fmM iF i ? .... M the White House during the Yuletide season. It stands front of the mirror in the State Dining Room. MRS.PAT NIXON proudly displays the Gingerbread House, which once again will be one of the Christmas features at Five Girl Hitchhikers Strangled In Boston Area Since Last July BOSTON (UPI) -- Five girls, all known hitchhikers, have been strangled in the greater Boston area since July. Another, who also hitchhiked, is missing. Officials fear there will be more. The number of girls thumbing rides has grown tremendously over the past few years in this metropolitan area which annually experiences an influx of approximately a quarter-millio- n college students. It was only a matter of time, officials said, before some become of victims would violence. Five have met such a fate. What happened to the sixth is as yet unknown. Victims The victims include: -- Kathleen O'Gorman, 19, of Brockton, who disappeared July 3 on her way to work. Her body was found in the Blue Hills in Milton July 9. -- Debra Rae Stevens, 19, of Lynn, whose body was found Sept. 16 near her home. She Boston was ? University student. -- Kathleen Ann Randall, 19, of Centerville, also a BU coed, found dead Oct. 1 in Nashua, N.H. She had disappeared Sept. there are similarities their inalienable "one murderer" theory hitchhike." cannot be discounted in these He said and. the right a in some to don't." . costumes, sets, place- Hopes Aren't Too High for This Mother - An Idaho BOISE (UPI) mother of a soldier missing for three years in Vietnam says she isn't getting her hopes up over a reunion with him this Christ- mas. Mrs. Eleanor Bodahl, state coordinator for the League of Families of Prisoners of War and Missing in Southeast Asia, said Monday, "No, we don't think this thing will be over. "We have had our hopes up so many times just to meet with disappointment," she said. Mrs. Bodahl, who said she is concerned about making sure all prisoners are returned or accounted for when final settlement of the war is reached, would like to see a provision in the final settlement to allow a neutral organization to go to Vietnam to conduct a search for the missing. Another Epidemic Boston homicide Detective Lt. Jeremiah McCallum said, "It looks like we're going to have another epidemic." McCallum's boss, Lt. Edward F. Sherry, who headed the Boston Strangler investigations in the '60s, Few Stop compared the present lack of "But," Rosenblith said, "I clues and the similar lack of haven't noticed anyone who clues in the Boston Strangler said they're going to stop murders, and sr id it is hitchhiking because of it." Rosenblith said quite a few "frightening." He believes someone has have taken to "carrying Mace" information that could break or other protective devices. the case, "and I know it's An ordinance last year eating at them, but they're imposing a $2 fine on hitchhitrying to protect the guilty kers was enforced for a couple party and that false sense of of weeks but then virtually loyalty may cause the deaths of ignored, Rosenblith said. The other young college students." Boston City Council is consider-imposin- g Why do these girls continue, a $10 fine. "If to hitch rides with strangers? they pass that," Rosenblith Dr. John Burkett, dean of said, "it'll probably be enforced students at Boston University, for two weeks, if that, and then said there is the feeling that: stopped." "Well, these sort of things Several women hitchhikers, in happen but they never happen interviews, indicated they are to me." Burkett also said he now more reluctant to feels the students believe "it is LAS VEGAS, Nev. (LTD "! ' v If I i I I f i s cost-ime- 13 dramatic art form." a Adler. who began his conducting career for Max Reinhardt's theaters in Vienna and has always been concerned- with opera's dramatic side, suggested a changing audience may be one reason for the shift from the days when only the voices - mattered. "Opera used to be an art form for the establishment," he said. "But it isn't any more. Now anybody comes. We get lots of young people not necessarily dressed for the occasion -- next to old timers in fancy dress." Adler has worked hard to broaden his audience and develop young talent with student matinees during the fall the season, Spring Opera season, a regional auditions program, and Western Opera Theater, a touring company of young performers that has played before 700,000 people in 135 cities and towns in five states since 1967. Despite drawing nearly 100 per cent of capacity for 52 peiformances of 11 operas this San Francisco Opera fall, collected only of its budget at the boi office. The rest came from city tax receipts, federal grants and private philanthropy. two-thir- can never be if performed on a decent artistic level," he contended. "But the government alone cannot subsidize the arts. It must be done on a matching basis with private donations." Opera : 1980. The Las Vegas valley water district recently completed the giant study at a cost of more than $1 million and forwarded ! j 1 the report to Gov. Mike O'Callaghan. The Environmental Protection Agency had ordered the Vegas Wash cleaned up within 180 days. The water district study was in line with the federal di- rective. The study called for initiation a $63.13 pollution which abatement prugram would include construction of two reservoirs near the Clark County Sanitation Department in . of ! , f' ' . r ULU 5 , C y Treatment plant, transportation of effluent to dry lake 25 miles northeast of Las Vegas, construction of a 1.5 million gallon-a-da- y treatment plant, and construction of a desalination fisher's stereo compact delivers quality sound plant. ' t . - " - V- - ' I - ' stereo compact features loudness control switch, stereomono input and output for two separate tape sources. 5 Automatic changer has Pickering with and control cueing magnetic cartridge stylus pressure gauge and adjustment. Speakers include 8" woofer with magnet and 3" tweeter. Stereo compact in ZCMI Major Appliances - all stores except The Fisher 100-wa- tt V-1- anti-skatin- g 2-l- Valley Fair. y! - l.rtw' jaJtisf X There is no general panic now in the 1960s when, period, 13 women were strangled. Most of those stranglines were attributed to the "Boston Strangler." Albert DeSalvo, believed by some to be' the strangler, is in prison on for other than convictions as existed during a - i ' - superb listening pleasure fisher's compact 4-w- att murder. ; discus- fund-raisin- g 49.95 . your sions will influence the music." The conducting and interpretations by soloists are about the only things that Adler doesn't have his hand in directly-fro- m and press releases to and staging. He has a plaque on his office window sill describing him succinctly as "The Boss." Under his leadership. San Francisco Opera's fall season has doubled in length, its budget has quadrupled to $3 million, and several programs to develop designed young talent and young audiences have been started. Adler, who was born and educated in Vienna and conducted in Europe prior to coming to the Unied States in 1938, joined the company in as chorus director and became its general director a decade later. Features Young Performers He has the emphasized theatrical aspects of opera fall season during the and created the Spring Opera and the Western Opera Theater, which feature young performers singing in English. "The emphasis used to be entirely on singers, but that's no longer true," said Adler, who has earned the reputation of a stern taskmaster who requires opera's biggest names to spend more time in rehearsal than they often like. "The audience today is more interested in the orchestra, chorus and ballet, in the acting and the looks of a production. Except for certain exceptional singers in certain operas, the public and press is demanding A survey of pollution at Vegas Wash on Lake Mead has shown it would cost $63 million to end the pollution by several? Stevr: artistic relations, Study Made -- Ellen A. Reich, 19, an Emerson College student. Her body was found Nov. 13 in a nailed closet in an abandoned What exists new is a sense of concern, apprehension, indignaThe and tion ace p::.::..; wort stranglings of l:v general spread throughout populace while the current rash of slayings has bewn confined to women hitchhikers. Most police officials doubt all five murders were committed bv one person, but seven.!, '' ' " V n inr!.:'! -- N.ish'; ' : ':. :' Capl. !v lir...'.' ' of ;h- -, ::!.!. murdets uf Miss Randall, Miss Adler it and Pollution 13. building. She disappeared five days previously. Sandra J. Ehramjian, 21, of Cambridge, whose body was found in Brockton Nov. 28. Missing since Nov. 29 was BU coed Damaris Synge Gillispie, 22, of Bedford, N.Y., who disappeared while hitchhiking to work. Her family believes she was kidnaped but police note they have about 574 missing persons reports in Boston so far this year. Solicit Rides Young women, though concerned and apparently more cautious, continue to solicit rides. For most it's a cheap of transportation. It form makes all of them, a police official said, vulnerable targets of rape and murder. Many, realizing this danger, have taken to carrying chemical repellants, such as Mace. Some have quit and many have cut back thumbing rides. Is there, some ask, another ."Boston Strangler" on the prowl? Is there one murderer or of ment of extras in crowd scenes, the soprano's acting and singing talents, and the veteran conductor's languid tempo. Some of Adler 's commands were relayed backstage for immediate action: others were written down by the secretary for him to follow up the next day. "My nose is big and it's in Lake Mead Murry Rosenblith, editor of the independent run newspaper, "The News," said that since the murders have increased, "women are becoming more reluctant to hitchhike alone and after dark." He said they are pairing up with men or other women. cases. bare-legge- d the San Francisco Opera. But they were dutifully jotted down by a secretary seated beside Adler taking notes by flashlight, and by a half dozen assistants across the aisle at a bank of telephones linking them to backstage personnel. For the next three hours, the Adler wriggled in his seat, paced up and down the center aisle, conferred with his young stage designer wife and other aides, and kept a steady stream of comments and commands some shouted and some whispered flowing toward his production staff. He worried about lighting, make-up- Lawi HVRFV everything," the smiling ITI -- said later. "Some like general director gray-haire- fttrrttvrj'i TO FRANCISCO Successful Season He spoke in his office a few days after the dress lehearsal with lack a of concern understandable in a man who has run the company his way proclaimed loudly: "We must cover his thighs for 19 years and is having his His costume must be longer... most successful season. "I have a good working or maybe we could make him a with little shorter." directors, relationship conductors and artists, but you Mercifully, the singer-w- ho was a full orchestra and 21 can't force them," Adler said, if you have good human and empty rows of seats away couldn't hear the comments on his physique by the portly, if A . pi tenor stivky, strode onstage at the San Francisco Opera House for his first scene in "Aida." Kurt Herbert Adler winced, fidgeted briefly in his seat, then l.j mi v. I ft r. 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