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FBI issues warrant in Tylenol extortion cases CHICAGO (AP) - Federal authorities issued an arrest warrant Wednesday and were looking in Texas for a man ac cused of trying to extort $1 mil lion following seven cyanide killings, Illinois Attorney Gener al Tyrone Fahner said But Fahner also said the ar rest of another man, a self-de scribed "closet chemist” who worked for the Jewel grocery store chain, was "another one of those (incidents) that are un related" to the deaths of the seven people, who took cyan ide-laden capsules of Extra Strength Tylenol Robert Richardson, de scribed as being in his mid 30s, allegedly wrote a letter to McNeil Consumer Products Co . manufacturer of Extra-Strength Tylenol, threatening to use the best-selling pain reliever for more poisoning unless he was paid the money The letter instructed the firm to deposit the money in an ac count at a Chicago bank The account, which officials said had been closed, was traced to a suburban resident questioned by the FBI last week Fahner said the man, who owned a travel agency that has since been closed, "has never been a suspect" in the extortion or the killings Fahner said Richardson s wife, Nancy, who was not named in the warrant, formerly worked for the travel agency The couple is believed to be in the vicinity of Amarillo, Texas, and is being sought by the FBI, Fahner said He said the extor tion letter was traced to Ri chardson through handwriting analysis. The Jewel employee, Roger Arnold, 48, was arrested late Monday night after police received a tip that Arnold was “known to have cyanide in his house,” said police detective James C. Gildea. Arnold has been‘charged with five counts of failure to register guns and one count of ag gravated assault. SAHALIE Natural Foods Fresh Mushrooms $1.29 a pound • Fresh Produce • Vitamins • Bulk Foods • Fine Wines • Coffee Beans 13th & Patterson 484-6460 Weekdays 9-9. Sat 8t Sun 10-9 TTT~ Couple claims condom in Coke; lawyer litigates, asks damages SEATTLE (AP) - A Seattle man and woman who claim they found a condom in a bottle of Coca Cola have sued the bottler and the store where they bought the soft drink Christine Van Vblsem and her husband. Charles Ramsell, jmnnrr-i asked the King County Superior Court to award unspecified damages and other relief for their suffering. The suit was filed Oct 1 Volsem said she drank some of the beverage before noticing the male contraceptive during ...... .1,1 * * ■»- - * <*~ 4 The Buffalo Is Stampeding In Springfield! GRAND OPENING NOW IN THE SPRINGFIELD MALL EVERY JEAN IN THE STORE 3.99 19.99 ALL STORES THROUGH SUNDAY SPRINGFIELD: Sprinqfield Mall 746-9505 EUGENE: 77 West 11th 342 8495 ALBANY: 122 East 1st 926-7355 MEDFORD: 36 S. Central 772-6200 SALEM: Salem Plaza 371 9500 CORVALLIS: 312 S.W. 3rd 758 1170 lunch on July 10, 1981 The condom was inflated, knotted and "not fresh from the box." the couple's lawyer, Jill A Salmi, said Tuesday Kete Okazaki, manager of the First Hill Food Center Thriftway, said he was unfamiliar with the case and had no comment Joe Wilkinson, spokeswoman for Coca Cola USA in Atlanta, said the company would not comment on any case in litiga tion. However, he said there is a round plastic "filler ring" used in the bottling process that re sembles the object found "It is possible a filler ring could be mistaken," he said There are 3.5 million Coke soft drinks served a day all over the world, he said "Every bottle used for our soft drink products is examined vi sually or by an electronic device after rinsing and cleaning and prior to filling to assure that foreign objects are not present in the bottle." Wilkinson said SF’s gun ban banned in court SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's handgun ban was declared unconstitutional Wed nesday by a state Court of Ap peal. which said it was up to the Legislature to make laws about handgun possession or owner ship While the three-judge panel said they were "sensitive to the political and social overtones of a case such as this, we are here concerned only with the narrow legal question of whether the state Constitution and state sta tutes permit San Francisco to enact such an ordinance We conclude that they do not " The judges told San Francis co officials not to enforce the handgun ordinance and to alert residents that it won t be en forced COPY TIME Self serve copies 3C MONDAY - SATURDAY 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. iriwde Sugar Pine Ridge Sports Phone 343-7131 Thursday, October 14,1982
