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Clues indicate foul play
United Press International
TRINIDAD, Colo. — A bullet
and a wallet are among the few
clues investigators have to solve
an apparent murder case more
than 30 years old.
Lou Girodo, chief investigator
for the state’s Third Judicial Dis
trict based in Trinidad, said the
murder occurred so long ago the
killer or killers may well be dead.
If not dead, the guilty person
or persons certainly would be
old, Girodo added.
The investigators — whose
only physical evidence is a skele
ton with several small bones mis
sing, a bullet, wallet, ring, belt
and shoes — said the victim may
be Rudolph R. “Snooky” Yalotz,
of Pueblo.
Officials said Yalotz was a tough
amateur boxer and ex-convict last
seen by relatives April 24, 1949,
when the 34-year old left home to
walk to a neighborhood tavern.
Yalotz’ brother, William M.
Sr., of Pueblo, said he thought
remains found Jan. 18 might be
those of his brother.
“I’ve often wondered about the
disappearance,” he said in a re
cent interview. “At the time, I
thought he just left town. I
thought he just got tired and went
somewhere else and got a new
start.”
Detective Sgt. Edward Arriaga
of the Pueblo Police Department
said Yalotz had been divorced
and was living with his late
mother when he left the house en
route to the bar and disappeared.
Relatives reported him missing,
but there were no more reports of
him until his possible grave was
found last month.
Hikers told the Las Animas
County Sheriffs office they had
spotted what they thought was a
human skull.
Officials said the remains dug
up Jan. 23 showed the victim had
been shot in the head. A bullet
believed to be from a high-
powered rifle was found in the
mouth and the victim had suf
fered severe fractures of a thigh
bone.
Girodo said a leather billfold
found at the scene bore the hand-
tooled inscription “Snooky” and
shoes were found tossed on top of
the body. He added the killer
probably never expected the
body to be found or the wallet
would not have been left at the
scene to aid identification.
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Abortion issue heats up after
judges medical decision
United Press International
A federal judge Jan. 15 declared
poor women in the United States are
entitled to abortions paid by tax
money.
That made the highly emotional
abortion-vs.-fetus-rights battle more
furious than usual nationwide.
Who’s winning? Who’s losing?
And what’s the score anyway in this
tug of rights since the Supreme
Court of the United States declared
Jan. 22, 1973 — in a 7-2 opinion —
that criminal abortion laws on the
books in 50 states were unconstitu
tional?
After that Congress passed a law
— the Hyde Amendment — saying
tax money couldn’t be used for abor
tions for poor. But women who could
pay out of their own funds could get
abortions.
Charging this constituted a double
standard, proponents of abortion
took to the courts to overcome the
Hyde Amendment. They said they
won with John F. Dooling Jr. in the
federal district court in New York.
The jurist held excluding abor
tions from the otherwise compre
hensive medicaid program violated
First Amendment rights of freedom
of conscience and Fifth Amendment
rights of privacy, due process and
equal protection.
Reaction from adversaries on the
abortion front were quick.
The Center for Constitutional
Rights, American Civil Liberties
Union, Planned Parenthood Federa
tion on America and Planned Parent
hood of the City of New York joined
typewriters and put out a joint press
release the next day.
On the same day typewriters and
copying machines churned out a
press release at National Right-to-
Life Committee, Inc., headquarters
in Washington D.C. The words were
from Dr. Carolyn F. Gerster presi
dent.
“Plainly what the Constitution re
quires and what the people desire in
the area of abortion funding are not
in conflict,” she said.
“We will not rest with any judicial
ly imposed resolution of this sensi
tive issue however temporary that
resolution will be.
“Nor will we rest so long as the
lives of the unborn can be placed in
jeopardy by any exercise of raw judi
cial power.”
Typewriters of the ACLU, Plan
ned Parenthood and so forth pun
ched out an almost jubilant reaction.
“Poor women in the United States
won a landmark victory yesterday
when federal district court judge
John F. Dooling Jr. ruled the denial
of medicaid funding for abortions un
constitutional.
“Judge Dooling’s decision means
that the federal government and all
states participating in the medicaid
program are again required to pro
vide funds for abortions that are
necessary in the professional judg
ment of the pregnant woman’s
attending physician — exercised in
the light of all factors: physical, emo
tional, psychological, familial and
the woman’s age relevant to the
health-related well-being of the pre
gnant woman.”
The decision came as a result of a
nationwide class action lawsuit —
McRae v. Harris, formerly McRae v.
Califano — brought in 1976 by attor
neys from the Center for Constitu
tional Rights, the ACLU and the
Planned Parenthood of New York.
Plaintiffs in the case are women
who want medicaid abortions, doc
tors who want to provide medicaid
abortions to their poor patients and
the Women’s Divison of the Board of
Global Ministries of the United
Methodist Church.
The judge took 328 pages to pre
sent his opinion, which centered on
findings of fact on both the medical
and religious aspects of the abortion
question.
Arguments were presented to the
court in a trial conducted between
August 1977, and September 1978.
More than 30 witnesses testified, in
cluding doctors and theologians. The
trial transcript is some 6,000 pages.
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NEW ORLEANS — In the “City
That Care Forgot,” most citizens
never will forget it was their striking
police force that killed last year’s
Mardi Gras for the first time ever in
peacetime during the 20th Century.
The cancellation was a knockout
blow to civic pride — one most
thought never would happen. But
one year later, Mardi Gras has re
turned stronger than ever, with
police guaranteeing security for the
estimated 1 million parade-goers on
Fat Tuesday, Feb. 19.
“We made a commitment to the
community that we will give them a
carefree Mardi Gras to the best of
our ability,” said Peter L. Dale, vice
president of the police union that
instigated last year’s strike.
“I would tell you that the average
policeman loves Mardi Gras. It’s a
part of New Orleans.”
The two-week strike in 1979 came
down to a faceoff between the police
union and Mayor Ernest Morial.
Morial refused to bargain with the
union and ordered all parades in
New Orleans canceled — including
the traditional reign of Rex on Mardi
Gras.
Some Carnival organizations —
called “krewes” — made llth-hour
plans to roll in the suburbs, but most
just kept their two-story floats'Wrap
ped iw black paper insfd6
age dens, waiting for next year.
Next year is here, and police will
be manning parade routes instead of
picket lines this time.
Dale discounted fears that a group
of dissident officers would call in sick
or resign on Mardi Gras to disrupt
the festivities.
“I’ve heard no talk of it,” Dale
said. “The commitment was made
last week that we were going to give
the people a Mardi Gras.
“Everybody works on Mardi
Gras," he said. “If you’re not work
ing, you’re sleeping.”
Morial and Police Chief James
Parsons also said they have contigen-
cy plans if some officers invoke the
“blue flu" on Carnival Day.
“We re going to have Mardi Gras
regardless,” Parsons said, “because
we re going to have people here to
handle it.”
The city’s entire 1,300-member
police force will be deployed on
Mardi Gras — many covering the
parade route from St. Charles Avg-
nue to Canal Street and the others
covering the residences left empty
by the revelers.
Both Dale and Flubert Badeaux,
the business agent for the police un
ion, agree that last year’s strike,
which destroyed a tradition as old as
the 1800s, went a long way toward
piercing public confidence in
officers.
“Professionals should not strike',
Badeaux said. “A militant attitude js
good, if it’s responsible. It’s not
throwing onions at the mayor’s
house.”
The only persons throwing things
this Carnival season will be float rid
ers, who will toss thousands <jf
beads, necklaces, trinkets and rain
bow-colored aluminum medalions
— calfr‘d :,|V d<hibloohs* to the
crowds. About 50 parades ate sche
duled during the next two weeks
With parade addicts coming off of
a one-year freeze, it could be quite a
sight. But police aren’t worried that
the crowds will be too much to
handle.
“The reveling that goes on ever)’
year can’t be outrevcled, ” Dale said.
Badeaux added: “Mardi Gras can’t
be measured in decibels."
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