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Show Thursday. iVtubev Inventor Wins Million-Doll- - ( ITI It took 15 yeari including an court battle but inventor Peter M Roberts finally made his million Wednesday. Roberts, S3, of Chattanooga, Term , was presented a $1 million check from Sears. Roebuck and Co. for a socket wrench he designed and sold to the mail-ordhouse 15 years ago, when he was an clerk at the chain's Gardner, Mass., store. "I just want to live a norma! life," he said after receiving the money with his wife, Maxine, at his CHICAGO eight-yea- ) r er side. In eight years of legal wrangling, Roberts charged he was misled by Sears when he accepted $10,000 for the rights to his invention in 1964. Court Case ar "They told me it was an idea with a limited value and led me to believe it would not sell.'- Roberts said Roberts, wh. operates a grocery and manages an in the Chattanooga suburb of apartment Red Bank said Sears made $44 million on sales of his wrench, which enables mechanics to change sockets with one hand In 1977, seven years after the original suit charging misrepresentation and fraud bv Sears was filed, a federal court in Chicago awarded Roberts $1 million. Sears lost on appeal and last week the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Roberts has a suit pending in federal district court at Washington asking further restitution and argu- - j Id " Director get Urges Tax Agency il'PI) f SUNDAY 9-1- 0; 49 -- ac- of the murdered men to determine the third man's last name, the C1D chief said ,n We do know which " Malovich farm he worked 'There are people know his entire said there who background." Two people who knew the migrants were flown by CID agents from Idaho Falls. Idaho, to Jackson, W'yo Tuesday to view the bodies and make the identifications. Malovich said On Monday, other people were flown to Jackson from Idaho Falls to look at the bodies They provided first names or nicknames, Malovich said The bodies were discovered in sagebrush and sand near C S. 187. 16 miles north of Farso. W'yo., Friday. No motive was established and no suspects were immediatly being sought. But authorities said the killings were performed in an execution manner. One man was kneeling when he was shot once in the head. The other two were prone when they were shot. "He knew them, he worked with them." Malovich said. All recently worked in the Idaho Falls. Idaho, area. Potter said another person was taken into custody at the time of the arrest in Monteview. a small town on the high plains of eastern Idaho. That person was held this morning while the suspect was questioned by Idaho and Wyoming officials, he said. Malovich said he expected the U S Hotel. OPEN DAILY tah Page Authorities would seek quaintances Malovich said the man arrested was also a Mexican national. "There is no workable way to legislate spending control, but we can politicize it," he said, explaining that lawmakers and bureaucrats must be persuaded that it is now more popular to reduce spending that to increase it. Ash, director of the Office of Management & Budget during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, said he doesn't believe a single action, such as Proposition 13, could be enacted at the federal level. M I Immigration and Naturalization Service to provide information about the dead men's visa status Maria St. Luiz. Mexico. Their bodies were found at the end of a dusty desert road 15 miles north of Farson. W'yo. The bodies were riddled with gunshots from a pistol. Former Budget Director it's time for creation of a Proposition "taxpayer advocate" agency within the federal government to "raise a ruckus" and force reduced federal spending. "There is nothing like getting inside the tent if you want to raise a ruckus," Ash said Tuesday in a speech to the international conference of the Financial Executives Institute at the downtown Bonaven-tur- e LOS ANGELES Roy L. Ash says - RIG BY Idaho I Pit A migrant farm laborer was being held tudav bv Jefferson County. Idaho, officials in connection with the execution-styi- e gunshot Mayings of three other farm workers in the southwest Wyoming desert last week Jefferson County Sheriff Joe Potter said the suspect, whom he refused to identity, was taken into custody Tuesday night at Montevtew. Idaho Potter said he made the arrest assisted by agents of the Wyoming Criminal Investigation Division At Cheyenne. C1D Director W'yo Anthony Malovich said three first degree murder charges would be filed at Pinedale. W'yo . against the man in the deaths of Salvador Garcia. 36. and Valantine Garcia, and a third unidentified farm worker, all from Jesus thought if anybody would know about how the wrench would do and all. they would.'' he said As for the million dollars'5 Well, first I've got to pav a lot of lawyers fees, court costs and things like that." he said "But there's still going to be plenty left over. I'm sure I'd like take a trip, then invest the rest I'm going to be really conservative with it " He said he invented the wrench on his own time and took out a patent on it He asked his boss at Sears for advice and said he was eventually persuaded to sell rights to the invention to Sears for $10,000 1 Ex-Bud- THE 1IKKALD. Truvu. Migrant Farm Laborer Held in Gunshot Deaths merits are scheduled in December Roberts said he tr:5ted the company, which said at the time it was accepting the wrench invention as a "gamble 12. iy78. 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