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Autopsy begins on possible
21st Atlanta slaying victim
United Press International
ATLANTA — The medical examiner’s
office began an autopsy today on the body of
ablack youth who police believe is the 21st
victim of Atlanta’s child slayers. Identifica
tion of the victim was expected to be estab
lished later today.
The body, clad only in undershorts, was
found Monday afternoon floating on some
debris in the Chattahooche River in south
west Fulton County, the same general area
where a number of other of the victims’
bodies have been found.
Two young blacks are listed as missing
by the special police task force investigating
the string of killings that has terrorized the
city’s black neighborhoods for the past 20
months.
But authorities said the body could not
be that of Darron Glass, who vanished in
September. The other youth, Joseph Bell,
15, disappeared March 2.
Assistant Fulton County Medical Ex
aminer John Feegel said before the autopsy
got under way that there did not appear to
be any signs of gunshot wounds or sexual
molestation.
He said the victim was five feet, five
inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds.
Feegel said it appeared the body had been
in the river more than three days, but not
three weeks, as some earlier reports had
indicated.
Feegel, echoing police reports of Mon
day night after the body was recovered,
said the the victim was “obviously reminis
cent of some of the other cases by age, sex,
clothing and the place where the body was
found.”
He said dental records, body x-rays and
fingerprints were being used in the identifi
cation process.
But, he said, “finding fingerprints of a
suspect at this time is totally hopeless” be
cause of the body’s decomposed state.
Monday night, Fulton County Police
Chief Clinton Chafin, asked if he believed
the slaying was the work of the child killers,
said, “I don’t think there’s any question
about that.”
Most of the bodies of the 20 previous
victims found have been fully clothed. But
the last body discovered, that of Curtis
Walker, 13, was also wearing only under
wear. He was also found in a river — the
South River, on the other side of the metro
politan area in DeKalb County. The body
found Monday was only the fourth child’s
body to be dumped in a river.
April 10 receives boost
for space shuttle launch
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
The Kennedy Space Center mana
ger for the space shuttle project
said he would recommend today
that April 10 be officially set as the
blastoff date for the Columbia’s
oft-delayed maiden test flight.
Robert H. Gray said a review
Monday showed the winged spa
ceship, the ground launch equip
ment, and solid rocket booster re
trieval operation were ready for
the 54V2-hour voyage of John W.
Young and Robert L. Crippen 36
times around the Earth.
“We are prepared and ready to
commence a launch countdown
this weekend,” said Gray, who
spent last Friday helping search
for survivors in the rubble of a
collapsed condominium in nearby
Cocoa Beach.
Gray’s recommendation goes to
acting space agency administrator
Alan Lovelace for consideration at
a today’s meeting of shuttle offi
cials. They plan to review the state
of readiness of all aspects of the
Columbia’s preparations, includ
ing the worldwide tracking net
work and Houston’s mission con
trol center. The project is already
214 years behind schedule.
Launch director George Page
said technicians began working
Sunday toward the April 10 launch
date.
At the oceanside launch pad,
technicians wearing protective
suits were to complete hazardous
hydrazine fuel-loading operations
today. Work fell several hours be
hind Monday because of a variety
of minor difficulties.
The corrosive liquid, which
gives off poisonous fumes, is used
to drive turbines, which in turn
power hydraulic system pumps in
the Columbia itself and in its twin
solid-propellant booster rockets.
Because the Columbia is part
airplane as well as part rocket, it
uses hydraulic power to operate
the control surfaces that it re
quires for flying in the atmos
phere. A separate hydraulic sys
tem steers the nozzles on the shut
tle’s twin rockets.
Young and Crippen were in
Houston Monday for still another
rehearsal in a computer-con
trolled spacecraft trainer.
Farmers call for crop protest
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Amer-
d grouplf|an Agriculture Movement is
on farmers to withhold
lircrops from market to protest
resident Reagan’s decision to
laintain the embargo of grain
les to the Soviet Union.
Marvin Meek, leader of the
nn group that two years ago tied
pWashington with a tractorcade,
lidMondaythe new effort, called
“iarmers’ embargo,” is intended
i pressure Congress to raise
Mrs under crop prices to com-
ensate farmers for losses from the
t£
Meek estimated farmers have
lost $12 billion in potential crop
receipts because of the embargo,
which he said translates into a $60
billion loss to the economy.
While he conceded past efforts
to get fanners to withhold crops
from market have failed. Meek
said the current situation is diffe
rent due to short supplies of crops
after last summer’s drought.
It would be a success if only 5
percent of farmers participated,
he said. He also denied it would
hurt consumers by causing high
prices.
A spokesman for the American
Farm Bureau Federation, the na
tion’s largest farm group and an
opponent of the embargo, said the
AAM effort probably will not
work, primarily because farmers
are in such bad financial shape
they cannot afford to hold back
their crops.
“It just doesn’t work,” the
spokesman said. “Farmers are too
independent to organize that
much. If they want to try it, they
can try it.”
In a weekend interview in The
Washington Post, Reagan said lift
ing the embargo, as he promised
to do in the campaign, would send
the wrong signal to the Soviet
Union.
President Carter imposed the
embargo after the Russian inva
sion of Afghanistan.
On a related front, Meek said
Kansas farmers would lobby the
Kansas Legislature to enact an un
usual bill setting the price of
wheat sold in the state at no less
than 70 percent of parity, or $4.89
per bushel. The current average
price is $3.60.
He said he hoped other states
would follow the lead of the na
tion’s largest wheat-producing
state.
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ST. LOUIS — Two candidates
for mayor have said no thanks to an
invitation to follow Chicago Mayor
Jane Byne’s example and live in
public housing.
Both said they could not afford
to maintain their homes and an
apartment in the Vaughn public
housing complex.
The Rev. Dr. Buck Jones, dire
ctor of the welfare reform group
called Operation Live, Monday
invited the winner of the April 7
mayor’s race to move into Vaughn.
Jones said junkies sometimes
order residents not to park in front
of the buildings and hamper their
drug trafficking. He said shootings
at the complex were “an everyday
affair.”
In a letter to Democratic candi
date Vincent Shoemehl and Re
publican Jerry Wamser, Jones
said moving into the complex
would be an impressive “humani
tarian decision.”
Wamser demurred, saying he
already had a mortgage to pay off.
Schoemehl also declined.
“Unlike Chicago’s Mayor Jane
Byrne, I cannot afford to maintain
two homes and therefore respect
fully decline Reverend Jones’ in
vitation,” Shoemehl said.
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