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Battalion/Page 11 February 22, 1982 national Soviets start search for oil, gas reserves on Arctic shelf United Press International offshore Arctic drilling cam- TULSA, Okla. — The Soviet paign, but predictions of large Union has launched its first ntid gas deposits probably will DON’T FORGET!!*! Schmaltz’s Special Is Tonight and Thursday Night A SCHMALTZ — ICE TEA — CHIPS 3 68 Reg. 3.58 ^ After 5 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. Culpepper Plaza 693-8276 t ►mai SANDWICH ! 8 a.in.-9 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 8 a.m.-l a.m. Sun. 12-9 p.m. We Love Phone-In Orders! not be realized this decade, the Oil and Gas Journal reported Sunday. The weekly publication, based in Tulsa, reported in its Feb. 22 issue that the Soviet Un ion apparently will work through to the 1980s to confirm geologists’ reports of large ener gy reserves on the continent’s western Arctic shelves. The Soviets appear confident that by the 1990s they will gain enough experience in non-arctic offshore ice conditions to de velop fields in the Barents and Kara seas without foreign assist ance, the magazine said. The journal said the Soviets are drilling a test hole in shallow water from a Soviet ship con verted to an ice-resistant fixed platform in the southeastern Ba rents Sea. The publication said drilling from a Finnish-built ship will be gin this winter in the Barents Sea. Study time The Sterling C. Evans Library has been getting a lot of business lately with the first round of semester tests. Why you should bring your wallpaper to the GTE Phone Mart. Now phones are much more than just something to talk on. They've become an integral part of today's home decorating schemes. So you should choose your phones as carefully as you would a new lamp or rug. And the GTE Phone Mart makes it possible to do just that. 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The bulky, sullen Corona, 48, victim of a fierce prison attack in which he lost an eye, has main tained since the day of his arrest he had nothing to do with the two dozen-odd bodies found buried in shallow graves in Cali fornia’s Sacramento Valley in 1971. Estimates put legal costs to re-try Corona at $3 million. Officials say it could cost $5 mil lion by the time the verdict is read in the Alameda County Courthouse where Colusa County Superior Court Judge Richard Patton will preside over the case for the second time. Whatever the trial’s outcome after an estimated four to six months of testimony, it will have been a long, hard road for Coro na, a Mexican national who built up a successful labor contracting business. Shy and deeply religious, Corona has spent much of his time in Soledad Prison sewing burlap bags for 50 cents apiece. Defense attorney Terence Hallinan said Corona’s mental condition seems fine although depressed over the long years it has taken for his retrial to begin. The lawyer said Corona is not crazy. There will be no plea of innocent by reason of insanity, he said. Corona was first convicted on Jan. 18, 1973, of committing the then-largest mass murder on re cord — hacking and stabbing the 25 victims and burying their bodies in crude graves in several peach orchards near the town of Yuba City, 50 miles north of SJac-j ramento. In July 1978, the California| Supreme Court ordered a ret rial for Corona, upholding a state Court of Appeal finding i that his defense attorney,, Richard E. Hawk, had made a “farce” of the original trial. ! The appeals court said Hawk failed to mount a defense, crey ated a circus atmosphere in the courthouse, sought to exploit the Corona story commercially, and according to Hallinan, ignored evidence in his client’s favor. Facing a mountain of circum- stantial evidence to the contrary, Hallinan said he will prove Corona innocent. The crimes came to light on the two ranches where the bodies were found, near the banks of the Feather River, be ginning on May 20, 1971, when rancher Coro Kagehiro notified police that someone had dug a hole and refilled it a day later in his peach orchard. Sutter County Deputy Steve Sizelove, investigating, spaded away a few scoops of dirt — and found a denim-covered pants leg about 2 feet down. It was the body of the first victim, Kenneth Whitacre. A gag order keeps attorneys in the case from discussing the evidence, but in a 1978 interview Hallinan said: “It seems this kind of case is going to demand an explanation. If Juan didn’t do it, who did?” Will the defense team headed by Hallinan disclose at the new trial who really did hack, stab and shoot the middle-aged workers to death and why? “Yes,” said Hallinan. He would not elaborate. Culpepper Plaza "Touch Calling available in most areas”