National report Valve installation not to standards OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A valve blamed in part for a school explosion that killed eight people was installed improperly and in violation of national standards, a manufacturer's representative said Monday. Joseph F. Keegan, sales vice president of the Watts Regulator maker of the valve, said its installation in a water heater at Star Elementary School did not meet national standards and plumbing codes. The temperature and pressure relief valve also was not installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, said Keegan, of Lawrence, who said the instructions require the valve's heatsensing probe to be immersed in the tank water. The heater exploded at the school in Spencer on Jan.
19. Thirty-four people were injured and a teacher and six children died the day of the blast. A seventh child died last week. Armenian pleads innocent to slaying LOS ANGELES (AP) A teen-age Armenian immigrant pleaded innocent Monday to a charge of murdering Turkey's consul general in Los Angeles, and the district attorney's office said it was seeking the death penalty. Hampig "Harry" Sassounian, 19, of Pasadena entered the innocent plea in Municipal Court to one count of murder and a charge of using a handgun in the commission of a felony in last Thursday's murder of Consul General Kemal Arikan.
"We think the case is strong," Assistant Police Chief Wes Harvey told a news. conference earlier. "We do have some physical evidence, some witness descriptions, and this morning we had some favorable witness response as a result of a Virginia rejects ERA vote RICHMOND, Va. (AP) The Virginia House of Delegates voted 62-35 Monday to reject a proposal that would have compelled it to debate and vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. It was the latest in a series of 'setbacks for the constitutional amendment to ban discrimination based on sex.
Legislatures in Oklahoma, Illinois and Georgia have recently refused to ratify the measure, which will die unless three more states approve it by June 30. Florida executions stayed ATLANTA (AP) Federal appeals court panels on Monday stayed the executions of two convicted murderers scheduled to go to Florida's electric chair Tuesday. One three- judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an indefinite stay of execution to Anthony Antone, 64, and a second panel granted a stay for Ernest John Dobbert, 43, a few hours later. Neither panel gave a reason for its action.
The second panel also granted a motion by the state of Florida to appeal Dobbert's stay and instructed court clerks to schedule the case for oral arguments. A date for the arguments had not been set. Dobbert was convicted in 1974 of torturing and strangling his 9-year-old daughter, Kelly Ann. He also is serving a life sentence for killing a son, 7-yearold Ryder Scott. Antone was convicted of planning the killing of former police detective Richard Cloud in Tampa, in 1975 on behalf of convicted drug dealer Victor Acosta, who later was found dead of a drug overdose in his jail cell.
The confessed triggerman, Benjamin Gilford, was found hanged in his cell while awaiting sentencing. Jurors tour von Bulow mansion NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Jurors got a rare glimpse Monday of the fabled mansion where Claus C. von Bulow allegedly tried to kill his wife, viewing the marble bathroom where she fell into a coma and the closet where her son says he found an insulin-tainted hypodermic needle. Superior Court Judge Thomas H.
Needham said opening arguments would begin Tuesday, and the prosecution said its first witness will be von Bulow's stepson, Prince Alexander von Auersperg. He was the first to voice suspicions that his stepfather tried to kill his mother, and enlisted a private lawyer and detective to gather evidence. After the 12 jurors and four alternates were sworn in, they rode a bus to Clarendon Court, one of the estates that line Millionaires Row in this resort city for the very rich. Salvage operation slowed BOSTON (AP) A broken piece of equipment Monday kept federal investigators from their first close study of a World Airways DC-10 that skidded into Boston Harbor and broke apart. A salvage crew used three big cranes and winches to pull the aircraft up an improvised ramp onto land Sunday afternoon.
The plane is to be transported by dolly to Bird Island Flats, a littleused area of Logan International Airport. Delta House disbanded at Amherst AMHERST, Mass. (AP) A six-foot obscene ice statute on their front lawn seemed to sum up the attitude of members of "Delta House" at Amherst College, officials said. And it was the last straw when the authorities found a headless skeleton, a moose head, two stuffed roosters and a motorcycle inside the fraternity house. So Delta Upsilon Delta has become the first fraternity in more than a decade to be disbanded for misbehavior at the exclusive liberal arts college where tuition and room and board cost $9,800 a year.
Chronicie-Tribune, Marion, -Indiana AP Photo Police check one of only four handguns turned in Monday. 1 Gun ban begins; 4 turned in MORTON GROVE, Ill. (AP) Two elderly residents of this affluent suburb surrendered four weapons to police Monday as the nation's only law banning sale or possession of handguns took effect. Village employees said they answered about 25 telephone calls in the morning, mostly from news reporters asking if any guns had been turned in. The law was passed last June 8 and has survived state and federal court challenges from opponents who say it violates the constitutional right to bear arms.
All weapons surrendered will be held for five years in case the ordinance eventually is overturned. Police said they expected few guns would be turned in and they weren't going out looking for them. "We haven't some kind of quota to fill," said Larry Schey, police chief in Tuesday, February 2, 1982 7, Ellsberg among 165 arrested LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) About 300 demonstrators led by a brass band blocked entrances to the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory on Monday in a protest against weapons research there, and 165 people were arrested. "Have nice day.
Don't make too many bombs," one demonstrator told laboratory employees as they drove to" work. Others chanted, "All we are saying is stop the bomb where it starts." No injuries were reported and the' human blockade, which was led by a band as it approached the installation at daybreak, delayed workers only briefly. Daniel- Ellsberg, an activist: who was instrumental in releasing the "Pentagon Papers" during the Vietnam conflict, said, "'This is a factory the first strike. Without actions. like this, bombs will still be falling on, Vietnam." Ellsberg was among those arrested by Livermore police and the university's security force and taken, to the Alameda County Jail.
The were booked for investigation of obstructing a thoroughfare, a misdemeanor that could bring a six-month jail term and a $500 fine. Those arrested will be asked to. sign a citation and go free with a promise to appear later in court, or post $500 bail, or be jailed overnight and appear in Livermore Municipal Court Tuesday, said Lt. Jim Rashe, of: the Alameda County Sheriff's ment. The lab, run by the University of'.
California, handles research contracts for the departments of Defense, and Energy. "There is never a weapon assembled here," said William a spokesman for the laboratory. About 41 percent of the work is related to weapons; the balance, to energy, ry said. The university staff manages and conducts weapons research at the Livermore facility and at Los Alamos Nalional Laboratory in New Mexico. this village of 26,500.
"'We won't be metal pipe hidden near one of the kicking down doors to get handguns." checkout counters; "but I'm waiting to see what all this will really Merchants, many of' whom opposed the ordinance as one which Jim Gordon, owner of Dempster would strip them of protection against All Sports, the only store here that criminals, said they would wait before sells guns, said, "The ordinance probdeciding if they needed extra securi- ably hurt my business by about 10 perty. cent." He stopped selling handguns Morton Grove had 189 burglaries after the law was passed, but the store last year, and the last violent use of a still legally sells rifles. handgun here came in 1979 when two "The NRA (National Rifle Asso-teen-age girls were killed with a pis- ciation) approached me and they tol. were willing to provide lawyers and "We're sitting ducks," said Joe money if I wanted to challege the law. Harrison, owner of Foremost Liquors.
But my shop is in this town, we have to But he added, "Being honest, I don't get along with people and I didn't expect we'll be descended on by ev- think it was worth i it." Gordon said. erybody itching to do an armed rob- Violators are fines of bery. to $500 for the first subject to and fines $50 offense, "We won't change our security of $100 to $500 and six months in jail (right away)," he said, displaying a for subsequent offenses. Most steam reactors' tubes corroded WASHINGTON (AP) Threefourths of the 48 steam -generator nuclear power plants in the nation are plagued with corroded tubes such as the one which ruptured at a facility near Rochester, N.Y., last week, the 'Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday. NRC commissioners and senior staff members, in a briefing for a House subcommittee, said deteriorating tubes, numbering in the hundreds or thousands in some cases, are actively sought out during routine inspections and plugged off if it appears they may develop cracks or leaks.
Expert links hair to Williams ATLANTA, (AP) Hairs from Wayne B. Williams' head match hairs that were found under the clothing of one of the city's 28 slain young blacks, an FBI fiber expert testified Monday at Williams' murder trial. The hairs found underneath 11- year-old Patrick Baltazar's shirt "could have originated from Wayne Williams," the FBI's Harold Dead1 man said. He conceded that "hair comparisons are not a positive means of association," but added. "I have rarely seen instances where hairs from two different individuals exhibit the same characteristics." Deadman's testimony came at the start of the sixth week of trial for Williams, a 23-year-old black free-lance photographer charged with murdering Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, two of the 28 young blacks whose deaths over 22-month period have been investigated by a special police task 1.
Prosecutors, who are expected to wind up their case this week, are pre: senting evidence on 10 additional slayings, including Baltazar's, in an effort to show a pattern that may fit the Cater and Payne deaths. Prosecutors have called nine witnesses who claimed to have seen Williams with six of the victims. Williams has said he knew none of the slain youths. Earlier Monday, Deadman testi-fied that fibers from 17 items found in Williams' home and cars matched fibers on the bodies of Cater, Payne and the 10 other victims. The FBI agent has conceded that fiber matches are circ*mstantial and cannot be used by themselves to convict anyone.
But he said it was his opinion that the fibers on 11. of the 12 victims "came about through contact with ei-. in the home of Wayne Williams' or the automobile of Wayne Williams." "I consider the 11 victims I consider them all to be related." Deadman said he excluded the case of 15-year-old Joseph Bell, one of the slayings with which Williams has not been charged, since only two types: of fibers were found on Bell's body when it was pulled from a river. But they acknowledged that the inspections failed to uncover a faulty pipe at the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester. The pipe burst last week, leading to the release of radioactive steam into the atmosphere.
"I think they would have found it, had it been severe," said NRC Director of Nuclear Regulation Harold Denton of the weakened tube. "'It passed at that time." Denton told a House Interior subcommittee that only six or seven nuclear: reactors are free of the pipe and no one has been able to, figure out what those plants are doing right that the others are not. the reactor's heat to the the vast majority (of reac- tive secondary coolant system, where tors), upon inspection, find tubes that steam is developed to turn generators need plugging because they do not and produce electricity. meet criteria," said Denton. Denton said the corrosion is not Later, John Kopeck, an NRC pub- caused by radiation or contamination lic affairs officer, told a reporter that of the primary coolant water.
He said the actual number of steam generator it apparently is due to impurities that plants where problems with the tubes seep into the secondary system, had been found was 36. That would where purity is not so carefully monmean 12 such plants were so far free itored. of the trouble, though Denton had said Denton said the corrosion problem only six or seven. was first discovered at Ginna in 1974, The pipes are part of the primary and the NRC then required the tubes coolant system that keeps the reactor to be inspected during each refueling core from overheating. They transfer operation.
Violet acetate fibers found on all victims matched fibers from a violet and green bedspread taken from Williams' bed, the FBI expert said. Other items found in Williams' home and cars carpet, clothing, vaccuum sweepings and a German shepherd dog contained fibers and hairs that matched fibers and hairs found on from one to 10 of the victims, he said. In addition to Cater and Payne, Deadman said fiber matches were made between Williams and 13-yearold Alfred Evans, 12-year-old Charles Stephens, 14-year-old Lubie Geter, 15- year-old Terry Pue, 15-year-old Eric Middlebrooks, 20-year-old Larry Rogers, 17-year-old William Barrett, 28- year-old John Porter, Bell and Baltazar. Porter is the only one whose case never was added to the task force list. On cross-examination, Deadman conceded did not ask if Williams' bedroom was used by the defendant at the time all of the slayings occurred.
Deadman told prosecutors that a search of Williams' home last summer produced a "slapjack," a leather-encased weight, which had been hidden above the ceiling in a small office at the back of the Williams home. Medical examiners testified last week that Middlebrooks may have been killed with that type of weapon. Clumps of violet acetate and green cotton fibers provided the strongest link between Williams and some of the victims, Deadman said. Acetate and cotton are not often found together. Looking Ahead.
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