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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1981
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Rare plane used as crop duster DC-4 aircraft used in spraying
United Press International
VANCOUVER, Wash. — The
bright, red paint job on E.J.
“Buzz” Gothard’s biplane crop
sprayer seems only natural — it
was built in the Soviet Union.
Gothard found the single
engine plane in New Delhi, India,
two years ago and just finished a
year’s worth of restoration in time
to show off what friends call
“Gothard’s Goose” during a
weekend air show at Evergreen
Airport.
The huge, red and silver plane
is the largest of its kind in the
world and one of two such models
flying in the West. It was built in
1966 from a design that had not
changed since 1949.
Medfly quarantine expanded
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California deployed World War II DC-4 cargo planes to
spray the Mediterranean fruit fly Tuesday and expanded its
produce quarantine zone to 3,000 square miles. Sen. S.I.
Hayakawa, R-Calif., called for an even larger spraying
campaign.
The Medfly eradication program also may be getting
financial help soon now that a legislative committee desig
nated $28 million to the campaign.
Richard Steffen, a spokesman for the Medfly eradication
team, said extensive spraying was set for early Tuesday
using three of the huge DC-4s and 11 helicopters to keep
up with new infestations.
The quarantine area now includes the northern portion
of San Benito County and all of Santa Cruz County.
Hayakawa, a consistent critic of Gov. Edmund G. Brown
Jr. and state Medfly officials, immediately called the bor
derwide quarantine of the Redwood-shrouded coastal
county “unjustified.”
In an impromptu news conference in Sacramento,
where he was taping a television interview, Hayakawa said
there was no justification for quarantining all of Santa Cruz
county but called on Brown to order an immediate aerial
pesticide attack on one-third of the state’s agricultural
regions.
“We must start tomorrow preventive aerial spraying of
all agricultural areas north of Bakersfield to Sacramento,
he said. “There can be no delay. The spraying must begin
tomorrow.
The enlarged Medfly war zone — now 3,000 square
miles, one-third of which is under orders to be sprayed —
came in response to more discoveries of flies that have
defied intensive spraying and moved into new territory
along the central California coastal valleys and mountains.
A legislative committee added $28 million to fight the
Medfly Monday and sent the bill to the Assembly floor.
The estimated cost of the Medfly battle so far is $68 million.
The areas being sprayed extend from the west side of San
Francisco Bay near Palo Alto south past Hollister and the
Salinas Valley with two separate areas near Livermore and
Fremont and an isolated section around Boulder Creek in
Santa Cruz County.
The discovery of three fertile flies and one larva during
the weekend outside previously sprayed areas were the
first in the rich coastal region, which grows much of the
nation’s lettuce and fresh vegetables.
During the night Monday spraying was completed om
new area near Ben Lomond in Santa Cruz County andina
area farther north near Woodside in San Mateo County ami
a section of Santa Clara County, spokesman Dan Dickey
reported.
Highway checkpoints were moved southward to
edges of the new quarantine area. Dickey said more cheek
points would be added.
Meanwhile, negotiations continued in Japan
U.S. and Japanese officials over importation of California
fruit. Meetings during the weekend were inconclusive, hi
a source told UPI in Tokyo that Japan would pro
to let in fruit from non-quarantined zones if U.S. officials
could prove scientifically that no danger existed.
In Dallas a federal judge said he would give Texas
the U.S. Department of Agriculture time to negotiate
compromise on how large the California quarantine zona
should be to stpp the spread of the Medfly.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Patrick Higgin
botham came a day before he was scheduled to rule in ash
by the state of Texas against the USDA demanding thattlit
quarantine zone be increased.
Chapman gets 20 years in prison
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NEW YORK — Mark David
Chapman, the self-proclaimed
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heavily guarded solitary cell Tues
day, awaiting transfer to the state
prison system where he will serve
a minimum 20-year sentence for
killing ex-Beatle John Lennon.
Chapman, 26, who pleaded
guilty in June saying God had
ordered him to confess, was kept
under 24-hour guard after his sen
tencing Monday. He was held in
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the same isolated Rikers Island
cell where he has been since the
Dec. 8 slaying — a lone inmate in
a unit meant to hold up to 18 pris
oners.
The one-time Beatles fan was to
be transferred Tuesday to the
Ossining Correctional Facility, a
prison that serves as an entry point
for all inmates beginning sent
ences in the state system.
Chapman clutched a copy of
J. D. Salinger’s novel “The Catch
er In The Rye” throughout his
sentencing in a state Supreme
Court chamber in Manhattan
packed with spectators, including
a small band of Lennon fans.
Chapman read a passage from the
novel as his “final spoken words.
Chapman — who was carrying a
copy of the book when he was
arrested for Lennon’s shooting —
has said the key to the killing of the
rock idol can be found in the
novel, an account of a young man’s
troubled adolescence.
“I keep picturing all these little
kids playing some game in this big
field of rye and all,” Chapman
read. “Thousands of little kids,
and nobody’s around — nobody
big, I mean — except me.
“And I’m standing on the edge
on some crazy cliff. What I have to
do, I have to catch everybody if
they start to go over the cliff — I
mean if they’re running and they
don’t look where they’re going, I
have to come out from somewhere
and catch them. That’s all I’d do all
day. I’d just be the catcher in the
rye .”
The words echoed in the quiet
courtroom.
“John, John,” a young woman
murmured, weeping softly.
Before the sentencing,
psychiatrist Daniel Schwartz, cal
led in an effort to prove the de
fense contention that Chapman is
insane and therefore not responsi
ble for the slaying, testified he be
lieved he was the ruler of a king
dom of “little people” and
destroy them at will.
Schwartz also said Chapman,
who had no real control over
actions, actually became Lennon
in his own mind, and decided
destroy the real Lennon becauss
he was “evil” and “a phony.”
Assistant District Attorney
Allen Sullivan, disputing the de
fense contention of insanity, said
Chapman was a publicity-seeking
opportunist who killed Lennonlo
gain fame.
Justice Dennis Edwards, cal
ing the killing a “knowing, volun
tary act,” said, “There is no doubt
in the court’s mind that lie
accountable, responsible.”
He also said Chapman woi
“benefit” from psychiatric treat
ment.
Flanked by armed guards
Chapman remained impassive
Edwards ordered him to serve
years to life in prison.
Convict asks for death by gas chambe
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A con
victed murderer who still main
tains his innocence has been sent
enced to die in the gas chamber—
at his request.
“I cannot show remorse for the
crimes charged in this case be
cause I am innocent and have
already testified to that fact,”
Michael Ray Burgener said in a
statement read to the jury Mon
day by his attorney.
“I ask you to impose the death
penalty so the remaining years of
my life, whether short or long,
may be spent with some dignity on
death row rather than warehoused
in the general population of a max
imum security prison.”
Burgener, 31, convicted earlier
this month of murdering a con
venience store clerk during a $50
robbery last October, also asked
his attorney not to let his parents
testify as character witnesses in his
penalty-phase trial.
“I do not wish to beg for my
life,” he explained to the jury,
cannot ask anyone else to beg;
my life.”
State prison officials s
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victed of six previous felonies
eluding the attempted murderofa
pawn-shop employee and battery
on two San Quentin Prison
guards, has been a target of prison
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