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Show Monday. August 23. 1982. THE HERALD. Provo. Utah-P- age 5 Triple Murder Has Town's Citizens Scared and Armed IOLA. Kan. (UPI) - Police little bit fearful about what could happen next." he said. "1 heard one mother say sh was going to keep her children away from the park. In a little town "like this, where everybody knows everybody else, it's really a shock." Marie Flores. 16. who works at the Dairy Queen restaurant, said one of her close friend's, a sister of victim Thomas Walsh. 17. reported Walsh had been missing since July 28. His car was found at a city intersection, but he was gone, she said Residents talked of reports that police were questioning the brother of a suspect, but authorities maintain they have no definite suspect. Authorities speculated the slayings the first homicides in 12 years and the beating were related because of the time element and the proximity of the bodies. dis- covered the bodies of three homicide victims in a leaving people scared and armed in Iota, a town where mass murders are not supposed to happeriod - pen. Allen County "Sheriff Ron Moore spent Sunday poring over evidence and interviewing local residents about the killings and the severe g of a boy. Asked whether a suspect would be apprehended soon, he said solemnly, "We hope. We just hope." The mood in Iola, a town of 6.500 about 110 miles east of Wichita, was tense Sunday because of the slayings. said the Rev. William Travis, pastor of the First Baptist Church. "Some of the people say they're a pistol-whippin- U.S. Brieis - pected to be released Tuesday or Wednesday. He was admitted to the same hospital at least twice in 1980, for observation of an irregular heart beat in August and for sciatica pain in his back, hip and thigh areas in September. 'Good Ship Lollipop' Sinks at Fair KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) Good Ship Lollipop sank. said. Oklahoma, Alaska Having Primaries Picking opponents for veteran and Rep. Jim Jones, Democratic Gov. George Nigh highlight Oklahoma's primary Tuesday, while in Alaska, the primary race focuses on choosing a successor to Gov. Jay Hammond, a Republican. , Nigh faces only token opposition in his effort to for become the first governor in the state's history to win a second term. But there is a fierce race on the Republican side between Auditor and Inspector Tom Daxon and House Minority Leader Neal fund the state s recent big surpluses, from oil and gas taxes. In the Alaska governor's race, leading the field on the Republican side are Lt. Gov. Terry Miller and former state House Speaker Tom Fink, while on the Democratic side: the favorites are former state Rep. Steve Cowper, former Lt. Gov. H. A. "Red" Boucher and hotel manager Bill Sheffield. Hammond, ineligible to run again, has quietly endorsed Miller. Alaska is the Libertarian Party's strongest state and state Rep. Dick Randolph, the first Libertarian elected to public office in the United States, is the party's candidate for governor. The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's oil wealth on Mc-Cale- In the state's 1st congressional district, three Republicans are fighting for the right to oppose Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a target of the National Conservative Political Action Committee. He is expected to win anyway. Oklahoma voters also will decide the fate of the state's "rainy day" amendment, a proposition desiped to stash away in an irrevocable trust such things as government programs and capital improvements. Ten-ye- House veteran Don ar Young, a Republican is unopposed and heavily favored to win election in November. Officials at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where Short was hospitalized, refused to release his condition Sunday. to win $500. 65-fo- Salvage crews today were trying to figure out how to raise the ship, a World's Fair excursion boat, from the Tennessee River. "There's no way of knowing what caused it to go down." Aan Bernstein; one of the boat's operators Walsh's body was found Saturday near an abandoned rock quarry. Authorities said the body was so decomposed it was difficult to determine the sex and race. The cause of death was still undeter in woods pistol-whippe- g The boat went down sometime Saturday night or Sunday morning at its mooring place on the Tennessee River next to the World's Fair. It was moored next to a sister excursion boat, the Becky Thatcher. Both boats have taken World's Fair tourists on river rides for the last four months. The The body of Steven Mangus. 16. of Gas. Kan., was found shot and floating in water next to the rock quarry about 1:30 p.m. Friday. Both Mangus and Mrs. Fisk had been shot and authorities said the woman may have been sexuallv assaulted. multi-colore- 500-pie- Jimmy Stewart in Hospital for Checks SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) -Actor Jimmy Stewart was admitted to St. John's Hospital for a routine checkup and an adjustment of his medication, an official said today. Stewart, 74, checked into the hospital Saturday afternoon and was listed in good condition. He was ex blood-spattere- d . ATHENS. Ohio (UPI) Barbara Armstrong says it takes an analytical mind and a crazy personality to be a good jigsaw puzzle solver. She apparently has both. Ms. Armstrong. 24. of Athens, Ga., completed d her crayon puzzle 23 seconds ahead of her competition to win the first National Jigsaw Puzzle championship Sunday and a $1,000 prize. "I've always done jigsaw puzzles," she said. "My mother used to say you're never going to amount to anything with that. "When I was a kid. I hated to take them (puzzles) apart and I left them all over the floor. That was my whole floor. I walked across them rather than the floor." Ms. Armstrong, who recently received a master of business administration and is looking for a job. said she started by working with the green pieces of her puzzle, because there were fewer of them than of red and orange pieces. She started inside and worked out to the border. "To work puzzles and win takes an analytical mind and a crazy personality," said Ms. Armstrong, who majored in accounting. Racing against 14 other finalists Sunday in the Dairy Bam cultural center, Ms. Armstrong needed three hours. 35 minutes and 42 seconds to piece together 500 cardboard shapes to form a picture of a clutter of crayons. Just 23 seconds later, Martha May, 20, of LaFayette. Ind.. yelled out the contest-endin- . Gilbert the victims." officer-C.Csaid. "Everybody thought he was trying to help." Witnesses observed the "Good Samaritan" tossing wallets and purses behind a bus stop sign post but were apparently too busy to think much of it. he said. Authorities said the accident occurred when a car ran off a northwest Houston street Saturday afternoon and struck a ditch HOUSTON (UPI) Police today searched for a "Good Samaritan" who rushed to the side of three mortally injured accident victims and stripped them of valuables and identification. Police said Sunday that witnesses reported noticing a man helping the victims at the scene of a one-ca- r accident, but when officers arrived it was discovered the bodies had been robbed. "The suspect was working around "I'm scared to death and it scares me to think that a lot of parents don't seem to know where their kids are. even now." Children who had been attending the Allen County Fair in Iola. which ended late Friday. found Gerald Short. 15. of Iola sitting at the edge of the Neosho River, his face badly beaten. Authorities said Short, who with Mangus had exhibited sheep the day before at the county fair, had been severely but did not say what he had told them. Puzzle Champ 23 Seconds Faster - Samaritan' Thief Police Seek 'Good About 13 hours earlier authorities found the body of Adeline Fisk. 59. of Iola about 50 yards behind an abandoned house. 2 miles from the car was quarry. Her discovered earlier at an Iola car wash, authorities said. the house after dark. is just flipped out." "Her family mined Sunday. she said. "They re a real nice family. My parents have a .loaded shotgun in the front room cf our house and they won't let me out of re- In doubles competition. Lisa Heiser and her sister. Lori Reeves of Columbus, Ohio, put d village scene puzzle some together a 45 minutes quicker than anyone else. They needed two hours, 53 seconds to work their puzzle, while another team of sisters from comLinda and Diane Jackson Columbus in 37 two minutes. the same hours, puzzle pleted Mary Fisher and Greg Cole of Des Plaines, 111., took three hours. 18 seconds. 1.000-wor- Lisa Heiser hugs sister, Lori, after they won doubles jigsaw contest. Weather Gets Blame in Three Deaths A man and woman try- - blocked every exit from a ing to ward off a late- - small basement apart- summer chill died today ment in New York, trapp- when an electric heater ing an unidentified man, d and set 21. and woman. 26. their tiny New York City The two apparently apartment ablaze plugged in the heater to chill Firefighters in Oregon fight a and California contained that sent temperatures short-circuite- late-summ- the last of several tumbling to lightning-sparke- d forest and brush fires that char- acres. sudden thunderstorm Sunday set off a mudslide that dumped up to 6 feet of debris and tumbled boulders the size of a small car. stranding 200 people in Cedar Grove. Calif. At least one death in Southern California was blamed on sweltering temperatures. Flames touched off by a faulty electric heater red 16 350 A r 66 degrees when the fire broke out at about 3:45 p.m. Firefighters in Oregon I fsr a hamlet on Mount San Jacinto. week. 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