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Jest For Today Weather Rain Snow Developing; Highs, Mid 30s Women learned long ago that the best place to save face is at the cosmetics counter. Metropolitan Lancaster 1970 U.S. Census 320,079 LANCASTER, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1975. 181st YEAR-NO. 149 Prico 1 Sc Daily Homo Dolivortd 90c A Week CITY EDITION f.

Police Seek Suspect, Motive 7otnarA Killer Still At Large By KEN COOKE Infell Staff Writer Police on Sunday apparently were still lacking a suspect and motive in the murder of Lindy Sue Biechler Friday night. An autopsy Saturday showed that Mrs. Philip D. Biechler, seemed like very nice people. Biechler had worked for Hertz for about three years.

No one interviewed by police was able to remember anyone who might have disliked the Biechlers or may ha.e had an argument with Mrs. Biechler. Burglary, however, has been ruled out as a motive, since there were no indications anything was missing. No Signs Of Struggle Police also feel Mrs. Biechler may have known the murderer, since there were no signs of a struggle other than a hurricane lamp knocked onto the floor.

Police also theorize that Mrs. Biechler may have been More WOMAN'S Page 2 20, 104-A Kloss Drive, Spring Manor Apartments, was stabbed 11 times in the chest, abdomen and neck. Her murderer used an eight-inch butcher knife which had been hanging on the wall of the kitchen. According to police, Mrs. Biechler seems to have been killed between 6 and 7 p.m., while she was putting away groceries after a shopping trip.

Husband Was At Work Her husband, an art student at Millersville State College, was working at the time of the murder. Roger Bruce, manager of the Lancaster Hertz Rent-A-Car office, where Biechler was employed, said Biechler was in the office when he got word his wife had been killed. I didnt know them very well, Bruce said, But they Fear Lingers At Murder Scene problems with burglars or suspicious people loitering around the apartment complex in the time shes lived there. What are you going to do now, she was asked? I'm going into my apartment and lock the door and keep it that way, she replied. A man who was leaving his apartment with his wife said the murder was almost enough to make him go out and buy a gun Mora FEAR Page 2 Friday evening when the murder is thought to have taken place.

Yes, Im scared after what happened the other day, said a young woman as she made her way from her car to her apartment. You read about these kinds of things in other places but you never think theyll happen here. Especially just down the way. The woman, who appeared to be just a few years older than the victim said shes never had any A number of the residents who live near Mrs. Biechlers apartment were not at home Sunday afternoon.

Others, when they came to their doors, did not want to talk about the murder. The streets in the complex were deserted in the chill afternoon. The few people who would talk all declined to give their names. All said they did not know Mrs. Biechler, or her husband Philip, a Millersville State College student.

No one heard or saw anything suspicious early By CHARLES R. SHAW Intel! Staff Writer Residents of Spring Manor Apartments on Millersville Road were frightened and reluctant to talk Sunday about the tragic slaying of one of their neighbors, Friday night. Police have few clues as to who might have stabbed 20-year-old Lindy Sue Biechler 11 times as she was apparently putting away groceries in her first floor home at 104-A Kloss Drive in the large apartment complex. 5 Jtvmal phefet Department. The sign says it all.

Police were still searching for clues Sunday. The apartment, at left, where, 20-year-old Lindy Sue Biechler was found stabbed to death last Friday has been sealed by investigators from the Manor' Township Police Pacific Doctrine Proclaimed by Ford the future rather than to the past. VISITED ARIZONA Before going to the East-West Center, Ford stopped at the sunken hulk of the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor, a tomb for some 1,200 Navy men, and predicted that the next generation will see peace come true. Because he woke up Sunday on the other side of the international dateline, Ford earlier in the day was able to lay a wreath at the site of yet another World War II defeat, the island of Corregidor near Manila, where Americans and Filipinos made a last-ditch stand against invading Japanese in 1942. With defeat in Indochina a fresher memory, Ford's major address here emphasized that the setback in Southeast Asia did not portend any U.S.

retreat from the Pacific area. He said: I subscribe to a Pacific doctrine of peace with all and hostility toward none America, a nation of the Pacific basin, has a vital stake in Asia and a responsibility to take a leading part in lessening tensions, preventing hostilities and preserving peace. World stability and our own security depend upon our Asian commitments. After stating that American strength is basic to a stable balance of power in the Pacific, he listed these five other tenets of his Pacific Doctrine: Partnership with Japan is a pillar of our strategy. "Normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China." A "continuing stake in the stability and security of Southeast Asia." Peace in Asia depends upon a resolution of outstanding political conflicts," with the United States ready to consider constructive ways of easing ten- More PACIFIC Page 2 Moynihan Defends Blunt Talk UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

AP) U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan on Sunday defended his use of blunt language, declaring, We think that the United Nations matters and we want to stay there. We think that the only way to stay there is to stay there and fight. Other nations normally behave the way we have been behaving recently at the world organization, Moynihan said in a prerecorded appearance on the ABC television news show Issues and Answers.

Accompanied by Pearl Bailey, the entertainer recently named special adviser to his U.N. delegation, the ambassador asserted: ATTACKS HARSH You have to go into that building, the United Nations to know that harsh attack, spewing hatred is the order of the day over there. It has been, perhaps, an American hope that if we didnt respond to attacks upon us, maybe they wouldnt be made if we acted like this language wasn't being used, maybe it would stop being used. Thats not true What we have said is we will respond to untrue charges against us. We will, when attacked, defend the good name of this democracy Praising the Moynihan style, Miss Bailey said, I think he does speak from the heart.

I think the greatest accomplishment that will happen there is to More MOYNIHAN Page 2 HONOLULU (AP) President Ford, on the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, proclaimed a six-point Pacific Doctrine on Sunday and suggested that an old adversary like Hanoi could become a new friend like Japan. Returning from a journey to three Asian nations, Ford flew from Corregidor in the Philippines to Pearl Harbor and said on the 34th anniversary of the 1941 attack: The first premise of a new Pacific doctrine is that American strength is basic to any stable balance of power in the Pacific. HEAUNGTIME After crossing the Pacific for the first time since the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia, Ford said in an address at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii that the healing effects of time are required in Indochina. Having pointed to Japans transformation from enemy to ally, he said of Indochinas Communist rulers: Our policies toward the new regimes of the peninsula will be determined by their conduct toward us. We are prepared to reciprocate goodwill particularly the return of the remains of Americans killed or missing in action, or information about them If they exhibit restraint toward their neighbors and constructive approaches to international problems, we will look to AMciotd Prnt Wiraphot President Ford gets a kiss and hug from Jean Ariyoshi, wife of Gov.

George Ariyoshi, of Hawaii, Sunday, on his arrival in Honolulu. At left is Susan Ford. Good Chance Tonight New Cost Cutting May Hit State Colleges New Democrats Support Bayh NEW YORK (AP) In the first major test of strength in New York among liberal presidential candidates, Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh got the majority of support of the New Democratic Coalition, but forces backing former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris denied him the group's endorsement.

Snow In Forecast The seasons second snowfall may come to Lancaster County today, but weather forecasters aren't sure how much. The National Weather Service predicts today will be cloudy, with temperatures only reaching the 30s during the day. There will be a 50 per cent chance of snow or rain during the day, increasing to 70 per cent chance of precipitation by tonight. The rain or snow is expected to remain in the area until Tuesday. Winds will be northeast, 10 to 15 miles per hour.

gy conservation program. Some of the suggestions will affect staff as well: establish performance standards for administrators, improve faculty productivity, do not replace teachers on sabbatical leave with equivalent-level professional instructors, regionalize placement offices, establish regional computer centers. Gov. Shapp has already react-More PA. COLLEGE Page 2 down into two types: those recommended for the total state college system and those suggested for individual colleges within the system.

Among the system-wide recommendations are to discontinue state funding of laboratory schools, adjust the tuition at state colleges to reflect operating costs, adjust residence hall fees to meet actual costs, standardize meal fees throughout the system, enforce a uniform ener Thornton Wilder, Playwright, Dies Knight Newspaper Heir Slain in His Apartment By FRAN PENNOCK Intell Education Writer The financially troubled state college system may face another wave of cost-cutting measures including charging students for parking and for using the infirmary, closing down laboratory schools and raising the overall tuition. A list of 65 recommendations for higher education from the Governors Management Review Team was released to Millersville State College trustees recently by president Dr. William H. Duncan. These proposals, part of 412 suggestions from a team of 76 businessmen throughout the state, were given to the Governor in October to help save a projected $414 million.

The specific recommendations for the 14 state colleges have been turned over to Secretary of Education John C. Pit-tenger for review and possible implementation. It is my understanding Secretary Pittenger will assign one of his staff see how the state colleges can comply with as many of these (suggestions) as possible, Dr. Duncan explained. I think the governors office is going to make a sincere effort to implement many of the recommendations and I have no doubt some of them can be implemented at considerable savings to the Commonwealth, he added.

The suggestions are broken NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and author Thornton Wilder died in his sleep at his home Sunday. He was 78. Wilder, author of Our Town and numerous other plays and novels, died of a heart attack, a family spokesman said. He was brought by ambulance from his Hamden, home to the Hospital of St.

Rachael here, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 7 25 p.m. Wilder won three Pulitzer prizes, The first was in 1928 for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The others were for the plays Our Town in 1938 and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1943. NUMEROUS AWARDS He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian citation, in 1963, and was the first recipient of the ational Book Committees National Medal for Literature, which was presented at the White House in 1967. People in Larchmont, N.Y., have found a fascinating way to meet the Hollywood stars.

They rent their homes out for commercials. Page 24. Former Penn State star Lydell Mitchell becomes first running back in Baltimore history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season as Colts win seventh straight in a 21-0 beating of the New York Giants. Page 26. Remember the wig boom of the 1960s? Wigs are back and theyre lighter and curlier.

Women are taking a second look. Page 16. Cuban expeditionary force helps Soviet-backed faction win civil war in Angola. Page 3. and ran about 250 feet to an elevator.

but one of the assailants ran into the elevator and stabbed her in the chest. Mrs. McKinnon was reported in fair condition Sunday night at Graduate Hospital. CALLED FOR HELP Police said she staggered off the elevator at the third floor, and the assailant stayed on the elevator. Mrs.

McKinnon reached the lobby by means of a fire escape and summoned help. It could not be determined whether Mrs. McKinnon had fled the apartment before or after Knight was stabbed. Mrs. McKinnon's husband, Dr John McKinnon, 29, resident psychiatrist at Yale University Hospital and Knights roommate at Harvard, was not injured, police said.

Mrs. McKinnon told police she had gone to bed, leaving both men talking over drinks. More NEWSPAPERS Page 2 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -John S. Knight III, a member of the Knight publishing family, was killed Sunday in an apparent robbery attempt, police said. His body was found bound and stabbed five times on the floor of his luxury apartment bedroom.

One of his two house guests, the wife of his college roommate. was stabbed as she tried to escape from Knight's 23rd floor apartment. Knight, 30. was stabbed once in the chest and four times in the back, police said. Police Capt.

Donald Patterson of the homicide division said three suspects had held Knight and his guests captive for at least an hour Knight's two-bedroom apartment was ransacked, but police would not say what, if anything, was stolen. Patterson speculated that Knight knew his assailants since there was no sign of forced entry Neighbors told a reporter that the building, which faces on cx- JOHN S. KNIGHT III THORNTON WILDER Wilders 1954 play The Matchmaker was the basis of the musical Hello Dolly, which opened in 1964 and even- More THORNTON WILDER Page 2 elusive Kittenhouse Square, has no security system. Rosemary McKinnon. 27.

of New Haven, Conn escaped ftom the five-room apartment.