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Show employes aided I, paper says II Depression kids return iSuiie iuituiia jAClUsUnViLiiCi, f ia. lAri today filed a kidnaping charge against Jack McWilliams, accused of abducting the wile of a wealthy Jacksonville developer and keeping her tied to a post for four days and nights. State Atty. T. Edward Austin said federal officials would drop their kidnaping charge against McWilliams because there was no indication state lines were crossed during the kidnaping. Austin said McWilliams, 39, would be taken from the Baker County Jail in MacClenny, about 30 miles away, to Jacksonville. He indicated the transfer would be later today. Sheri Linda Jaffa, 35, was found Sunday morning . in a wooded area about a mile from her home. She was blindfolded and gagged, but officials said she ordeal. ' was in good condition despite her 91 We called opt . . . heard her groan and found her, Assistant State Atty. Wayne Ellis said. Police said the woman had been there since Wednesday when McWilliams, 39, the brother of her husband's business partner, allegedly abducted her gnd demanded $200,000 for her release. He was arrested in jail, where he was serving a ; weekends-onl- y jail imposed in another case. Investigators said Mrs. Jaffas rescue in a wooded area came after McWilliams girl friend, Edith Burton, 22, broke down under questioning at ' the jail in Macclenny, 30 miles west of Jacksonville. ' Mrs. Burton, who told police she helped In the abduction, hid under a cover in the back seat of the car because she didnt want to see Mrs. Jaffa again, Ellis said. Mrs. Jaffa, 35, was hospitalized for exposure and . abrasions but was reported in good condition and high spirits today. She never lost faith she would be rescued, her husband said. Rescuers said Mrs. Jaffa was badly bitten by mosquitoes and scraped on the back and head from , trying to work herself loose from the post to which - she was tied, which was similar to a railroad tie and six-fetall. Her bonds were nailed to the post. She wanted to know if her husband and children were all right, Touchton said. She was in excellent " condition for the situation. She had been exposed to rain, heat, cool nights and the tape over her eyes and mouth which naturally makes the skin sore. Jaffa said his wife will not meet with reporters to discuss her ordeal. and headed for tkp cities IKniit 100 of them gathered in Comiea this weekend for the fourth annual St. Bens Reunion, a gathering of old neighbors and distant cousins who once lived around the nearby town of St. Bernard. Many claim that theyre all related in some way. Pat I Schenk of Detroit said, counted 84 first cousins, most of whom Ive never met." But I ) ! , When Sy Preister left Nebraska in the Depression, he was wearing patched overalls and riding in the back of a livestock truck. He came back this weekend, wearing a leisure suit and driving a motor home with bunks, & chower and a bar. Ill 1939, Preister was one of many Nebraska Dust Bowl children whose parents lost their farms ' 1 $ 1 rr ir -- ) '' V: ' i , r yfc-- v W V . ' t vsrw 4 s' V- - .J. r r;.? 4 A. PASADENA, Calif. Scientists today (UP1) digging sequence of an important organic experiment that could answer questions about life on the red planet. Five of 10 pictures received at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sunday showed the sequence of the important soil scoop that digs up the Martian land for experiments aboard the Viking 2 lander. The pictures help confirm that the important scoop is working properly. In another experiment, the lander delivered a fresh soil sample to an organic analysis instrument sent back to earth via a relay i. and confirmation 'with the Viking 1 orbiter. This confirmation also tested how the relay-lin- k would work between the two crafts. By using the Viking 1 orbiter to relay information from the Viking 2 lander, a second orbiter could be utilized Jor a photographic mission over the north pole of Mars. Data from the first test in the organic experiment from the Viking 1 lander were expected Wednesday and scientists said they were very excited about seeing the test results. Scientists have already received background data from two biology tests that rely on radioactivity. - However, no results from actual experiments on that were expected until Wednesday. Two of the pictures received Sunday showed the ,r scoop on the red surface of Mars, a third showed a collector head in the surface and another was of the dumping the soil into the test chamber. The - scoop fifth picture was of the trench after the soil had been .scraped up. the last things seen of Bobel were his feet. lie did emerge to describe how boats to everything from elaborate showboats can be built for the . . . one-perso- n Great Milk Carton Boat Race Oct. 16. It said the taps were done under a law which allows the president or his designate to authorize wiretaps without a court order. All were providing is the electrical which have to path between two points be conrected in order to overhear the conversation by a third person, H.W. William Cammg, a Bell lawyer, told the Observer. Bell officials testn'ed in June before the House Commerce subcommittee that Bell employes who connected the FBI national security wiretaps did not have national security clearance. The officials said the employes were unaware they were installing wiretap connections, the Observer said. The paper said in its Sunday editions that Bell employes across the nation have legally listened in on thousands of of private telephone calls as part their jobs All our plant repairmen at anytime can overhear any call in the United States in their area, fully, and every operator (can) to some extent, Caming told the paper. CHARLOTTE, N.C. Co. employes ulu Uic for FBI wiretaps and cooperated with the FBI for more than 30 years m orsetting up wiretaps without court ders, the Charlotte Observer reported today. The Observer said these wiretaps were put on the private telephone lines of such people as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ah and Dr. Morton Halpenn. The newspaper said it based its information ou unnamed sources and statements by retired Bell official Horace Hampton. Hampton testified earlier this vear in a lawsuit against Bell filed by Halpenn, a former aide to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the National Secunty Council. iiia Tcl-Jiii- uue Hampton, who worked for Bell in Washington until 1971, testified that for more than 23 years he personally supervised, at the FBIs request, the hooking up of direct lines from an FBI listenmg post to private telephones in the Washington area, the paper said. 1970. much fat for Lisa? Mona Lisa, the 16th century matron immortalized in a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, may have suffered from a high cholesterol count, according to a Japanese heart specialist. Dr. Haruo Nakamura of Tokyos Keio University Hospital says Lisas condition can be clearly seen from the yellow in the corner of her left eye. Nakamura says Lisa, the third wife of the Florentme merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, probably overindulged in fatty foods. She began modeling for Da Vinci at the age of 24, shortly birth to a child. He said she may af.er also hue retamed the cholesterol built up during her pregnancy, which aormaliy decreases after birth. Pope Paul is 79 - 4V-- shots of test .examined pictures from Mars detailing the soil Former astronaut Frank Borman, now president of Eastern Airlines, won the 1976 J.H. Doolittle Award at the 20th annual banquet of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. The award named after the general who led the first air attack on Tokyo in World War II recognizes outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering aspects of aerospace technology. Borman was commander of the y Gemini 7 mission and later of the Appolo 8 lunar orbit before joining Eastern in gng -- Viking sends Pilots honor Borman Too John Bobel of Redwood City, Calif., built a simple boat out of milk cartons. But after paddling a few strokes, he lost his grip, slid backwards on the submerged cartons . . . and what ties them together brings them together is not so much their blood as their memories of hard times. I remember the grasshoppers that ate the trees and mulberry bushes bare, sead Preister, a former schoolteacher who bves outside Detroit. "And the dust. It was like a roll of tar paper descending from the sky, rolling across the horizon. Pope Paul VI marked his 79th birthday Sunday with a reminder to abortion advocates that for the Roman Catholic church human life is already existent in the mothers womb. In a message delivered from his study window overlooking St. Peters Square, the Pope thanked those around the world who has wished him a . . happy birthday. Then he told the 15,000 persons Pope Paul gathered In the square: More than ever at this hour, we want to testify to our sublime esteem for the life of man. We pray, and you all must pray with us, for every human life, which is already existent in the ' ' mothers Queen's dad Three-mast- er limps into port England (UPI) - The Norwegian sail training cries, again FALMOUTH, - Five COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) years ago, William Barry sat crying while he watched the Miss America Pageant on television. three-maste- d ship Christian Radich limped into harbor today at Falmouth, Cornwall, battered from a nightmare battle with a hurricane in the Bay of Biscay last If only my daughter could walk, Miss America," he said at the time. Saturday night, Barry cried again, but this time it was for joy as he watched his daughter, Beverly Marie Chapman, being crowned Miss Wheelchair America, a title first bestowed in 1972. A science research secretarial assistant from Orlando, Fla., Miss Chapman was chosen from a field of 32 pageant entries from the United States, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The other finalists were Mae Frances De Clue of Atlanta; Shelia Gilbert, a student at Auburn University; Susan M. Stephenson, a University of Montana student; and Crescencia Ging Knudson of Mesa, Ariz. Patricia K. Simonds of Spencer, W.Va., was picked by the other contestants as Miss Congeniality. Miss Achievement, June Trauemicbt of Nampa, Idaho, was selected for her accomplishments since disability. week. shed be t, square-rigge- d The ship lost nine of her sails and sustained severe damage to her running rigging as she battled against winds of 75 knots and w a es of up to 40 feet high. Capt Kjelld Thorsan, from Kristian-sansaid he felt sure that if the hurricane had lasted much longer the sessel would hae lost at least one of her masts. It was a miracle that no one was hurt, he said. "The 85 cadets on board, all aged 16 or 17, behaved superbly and no one was seasick. In any event, we escaped very lightly. 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