European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 4 bodies unearthed near boarding House " " " Durtha my Malvo Punte 71, left photo is being sought by Sacramento Calif., police after the bodies of four elderly people were unearthed near the boarding House she manages. At of Oghli the search for More bodies continues. Sacramento Calif. Al the bodies of four elderly people one wrap Ped in a table cloth were unearthed near a boarding House Friday and sat urday police said else victims social Secu Rity checks had been stolen and cashed regularly. Police were looking for the manager of the boarding Home a Orlhac Montalvo Punte said police i. Joe Enloe. He said Montalvo 71, was not prevented from walking away from the we Cpl victorian House earlier in the Day but police later decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest her for investigation of homicide. We do not believe she acted alone Enloe said. Someone else probably had know ledge of what was going on. He did not elaborate exc Cpl to say thai robbery was believed to be the motive. Police said the victims social Secu Rity checks were cashed apparently after their deaths. Montalvo was convicted in 1982 of grand the Cal in a Case stemming from charges she drugged three elderly peo ple and took their possessions after meeting them in bars police said. The remains of an elderly woman wrapped like a Mummy All the Way up and around her head were discovered Friday when police received a tip a body was buried in the Yard Enloe said. The other bodies were discovered saturday one in a plastic bag and dig Ging was expected to continue for sever Al More Days police said. They did not release the victims names bul said the elderly woman May have been buried since april. The Vic Tims did not meet violent deaths. Enloe said. Police went to the House on monday after neighbors reported that former tenant Bert Montoya had been missing since August. There were eight rooms for tenants in the House and at least three people were living there police said. The bodies were found in Lii backyard and along both sides of inc House. Several recently planted Trees had to be removed and a Gazebo in die Back Yard was torn Down to uncover the Graves Enloe said. Story claims astronauts May have survived blast Miami Al the Crew aboard the space shuttle challenger which exploded 72 seconds into flight May have survived the blast and lived the 2l/i minutes ii took the Craft to crash into the Ocean according to a published report. Tropic the Miami Herald s sunday Magazine quoted unidentified Nasa investigators who said the seven Crew members survived the blast Only when the Cabin possibly Stilt pressurized slammed into the Atlantic Ocean at 200 Miles per hour. If it had landed softly they could have swam Home said one of the investigators the National aeronautics and space administration has maintained the astronauts died the instant the spacecraft exploded. The space Agency also has said that if the Crew Cabin had survived the blast intact it would have been ripped apart by aerodynamic forces upon its descent. Nasa officials declined comment when contacted saturday after Advance copies of the Magazine be came available " the Magazine reported that no evidence was found that the Cabin lost pressure. And if it did the Story continued it did so slowly without he Sud Den catastrophic loss of air that would have knocked Trie astronauts out within seconds. The astronauts would have remained conscious Long enough to. Catch a glimpse of the Ocean Rushing toward them during the 2 i minute fall if the compartment 1 was losing pressure slowly. Tropic reported. Nasa s official report indicated no cause of death could be determined from inc remains the remains were found entangled in the crushed Cabin on the Ocean floor six weeks later. The death certificates were issued from Johnson space Center in Houston. Or. Ronald Reeves chief assistant to the medical examiner in Brevard county where Cape canaveral and the Kennedy space Center Are located says the Public May never team exactly How the astronauts died Keevis said Nasa intentionally kept the re Mains from Florida pathologists whose records would be Public. The Law does t say we re allowed to do the autopsies Reeves said a says we Are required to do them. say. Miami Beach Fla. Up life guards at Miami Beach say topless Sun bathing for women is gelling More popu Lar probably because of a recent influx of tourists from Europe where it is an accepted practice ,.lifeguard Len Gambia says that on a weekend Day there arc anywhere from 25 to 50 topless women in his area alone. There Are definitely More this year than any of her year Gambia said police chief Ken Classman said top less against the ian1 in Miami Beach but it has riot been a prob Lem a lot of Northern europeans come Here and Don t find anything wrong with it. It s not against the Law in their coun tries Classman said. There arc no problems caused by this. We re not looking to arrest said arrests Are Only made if complaints Are made and hey Are rare. He said inc one or two a Yew usually come from families who Don t want their Small children exposed to nudity. European tourism was up 62 percent in the first five months in 1988, com pared with the first five months of 1987, according to he greater Miami Conven Tion and visitor s Bureau. this month a danish travel Agency booked 1,400 scandinavian tourists in Miami Beach Over inc neat year. Miami Beach commissioner Bruce Singer said americans have to Compro Mise 3 liitle if icy want europeans Otcel at ease Here. The City of Miami Beach has become very International in the last 12 months he said. To them it s natural. You do have people who gawk. They Don t understand that it s culturally accepted in other countries. People have to become tolerant.". Not All topless sunbathers Are from Europe. Mary Brooks of suburban Miami said several americans including herself have followed the european Lead. The More 1 come out Here the More topless women 1 Sec out Here she said. I just like to come and get an All Over Tan from inc Waist
