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Tuesday, November 21, 1978 Ukiah Daily Journal, Uklah, Temple's stoic reaction to suicide news SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Cloudy skies hung over the Peoples Temple, and there was a sense of doom and gloom among the 25 faithful inside Monday when news came that their leader, pastor Jim Jones, and many of the flock were dead at the church's mission in Guyana. "They reacted as if they had lost a family member as well as a leader," said Clem DeAmicis, a police official who visited with the temple personnel. "They seem to believe the reports, and they are reacting very stoically." But he said that, as far as he could determine, "These people have no intention to commit suicide or injury to themselves or anyone else." The Temple, located in an old brick former synagogue in the predominantly black Fillmore District of the city, is being guarded by police. Entry and exit is mostly through a yard in the rear where several temple buses and cars are parked, along with material in boxes addressed "People's Temple Agricultural Mission, Guyana." A nervous young white man, wearing an olive-colored woolen cap and casual clothes, guards the gate, along with an older black man. All visitors are being turned away politely.

Among those who came to the gate Monday was the Rev. William P. Clancy, an Episcopal priest who said his son was inside. He was told that his son was not available but would get in touch with him later. Bishop Paul Miles of the Church of God in Christ approached with several other black clergymen.

"Some of our members have relatives in there," Miles said. "We don't want our people coming down here themselves. What can we tell them?" But he was turned away also. DeAmicis said he had asked the group in the temple to come out and talk to newsmen, but "they chose not to." He said he was told that the temple headquarters radio, through which it communicated with the Guyana mission, was in working condition, but he was told no messages have been received for the past three days. "These people are really waiting for information," DeAmicis said.

"They are listening and watching the television broadcasts and reading the newspapers." DeAmicis said the temple occupants on Monday "were more apprehensive and more depressed" after learning of the many deaths at the mission. Father Clancy, reluctantly leaving the temple gate, said his son was an acolyte at All Souls Episcopal Church in Berkeley before he went "off the deep end for a while and then joined the People's Temple. "They straightened him out. He cut off his beard and shaped up. I was favorably impressed by the social good works and the practical racial integration." But, like many other relatives of Temple members, the Rev.

Clancy had deep misgivings about the "fanatical devotion to one man, Jim Jones, and I wondered what would happen when it blew up." He said his son's wife, Mary Lou, was one of those at the Guyana mission. Some of Jones's flock had followed him for 20 years, from Indiana to rural Mendocino County, to San Francisco's Fillmore District. They gave up all their earthly belongings. They sold raffles and turned out enthusiastically when Jones asked them to help a political candidate or cause. When stories of mysterious happenings in the congregation began to circulate, Jones departed with his flock for South America, many sent their children and wives along.

The faithful insisted they were working for the good of humanity and that all the stories about forced slavery and beatings were the ravings of disgruntled former members. Congressman Leo Ryan was attempting to find out for himself last week. As he lay murdered at the wheel of an airplane in Port Kaituma, the answer began to emerge. NEW CIRCULATION MANAGER Hank O'Day, seated, has taken over duties as the Daily Journal's circulation manager. O'Day comes from the San Rafael Independent Journal where he was a district I manager and dealer for 12 years in the circulation department.

Dan jUpdegraff, shown standing next to O'Day, remains as home service supervising Journal carriers. Honor roll announced forRV Middle Schol Messner, principal of Redwood VJdley Middle School, has announced the honor roll and principal's list for the first quarter. Students on the honor roll must maintain a average in all subjects wjth no grade lower than a C. fTo be placed on the principal's list a student must have all A's and B's. on the principal's list are five students with all A's.

They include seventh graders Gretchen Maurer and Sandy Studer, and eighth graders Valerie Case, Yvette Rubio and Jessica Taaning. EIGHTH GRADE iHONOR ROLL: Walter Barnes, Paulette Chamberlain, Rodney Dfeshiell, Ben Frey, Jean Goree, Patsy Gbtt, Heidi Kuck, Rusty Martinson, MJchelle Miller, Tina Robotham, David Stjolpe, Mike Miller. PRINCIPAL'S LIST: Toby Brandon, David Burke, Valeria Case, Del Chase, TVaci Doster, Richard Edwards, Steve Fpeh, Cheryl Grossi, Mia Hughes, Kinney, Red Hawk Palleson, Dearma Palmer, Yvette Rubio, Jessica Thompson, Sheri Thornton, David Ulm, Lisa Vargas, Ted Walker, Richard Williams. SIXTH GRADE HONOR ROLL: Devvi Allen, Becki Bfiggs, Jeff Brockrog, Tina Burris, EjFQy Davis, Carrie Dipman, John Dpdds, Christy Grijalba, Darcell Hausauer, Dan Heimbecher, Martha Lopez, Christine Lyle, Stephanie Lyly, Denise Phillips, Lennete Rankin, Diane Reaves, Denny Schimka, Cassie Taaning, Gina Testa. PRINCIPAL'S LIST: Stephanie Aranas, Denise Barron, Amy Burke, Susie Goodell, Trina Huey, Larry Kraus, Robby Loijos, Yuri Makino, Manly Thomas, Woodra Woodward.

SEVENTH GRADE HONOR ROLL: Willie Bivin, Kim Ferguson, Kim Fields, Troy Framke, Danny Myers, Mike Nichols, Angela Orozco, Chrs Pimentel, Charlotte Riley, Joey Sanchez, Kelly White, Toni Wood. PRINCIPAL'S LIST: Susan Amundson, Warren Galletti, Makino, Yoshi, Gretchen Maurer, Stephanie Saegert, Sandy Studer, Lisa Testa. War of 1812 The War of 1812, coming 30 years after the United States had achieved independence from Great Britain, had three major causes: 1) British warships blockading Napoleonic France seized American trading ships; 2) Britain, refusing to recognize naturalized American sailors, seized and impressed thousands into British service; 3) Britain armed Indians who raided the U.S. western borders. WTlclt lXLclk flight transcript released people We're hit, man, we are hit' join cults? WASHINGTON (UPI) Cults by definition are extremist religious organizations.

But even in the world of cults, the massacre of Rep. Leo Ryan and four companions and the mass suicides and murders of some 400 cult members and their leader Jim Jones, puts the Peoples Temple on the fringe of cult activity. Yet Jones' Peoples Temple shows a certain continuity with other "fringe" sects, continuities that have fascinated religious sociologists in the 1970s and created a great deal of concern among parents of many cult members. Cults, the sociologists say, arise out of a radical dissatisfaction with mainstream, traditional means of religious expression. In the United States, such groups have been on the rise since the end of the 1960s when political activism of young people, who now constitute the majority of such groups, began to decline.

While the numbers of adherents are considered small in relation to the total members of America's three established faiths Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism they have in many respects exercised an influence far beyond their numbers. Mild cultist activity, such as a belief in astrology, is believed to involve as many as 32 million Americans. But hard core cultists, those aligned with such groups as the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, David Berg's Children of God or the Way all of which have a national following are in the tens of thousands rather than the millions. Sociologist who have studied the cult phenomenon say much of the influence of the small groups is due to the disciplined characteristics of cults in general.

Christianity itself began as a cult phenomenon within the Jewish religious framework and the political environment of the Roman Empire. Not many of them end up in a bizarre tragedy such as the one surrounding the Peoples Temple in Guayana. By EDWARD K. DeLONG WASHINGTON (UPI) He knew something was badly amiss, but at first Pacfic Southwest Airlines pilot James McFeron could hardly comprehend that his jetliner and the small plane for which he had been searching had collided in mid-air. "Easy baby, easy baby," McFeron said as he fought to regain control of his stricken craft two seconds after the Sept.

25 collision. "What have we got here?" he asked his crew. "It's bad," answered co-pilot Robert Fox. "Huh?" McFeron said. "We're hit, man, we are hit," Fox replied.

Two seconds later, after the grim facts finally sank in, McFeron radioed: "Tower, we're going down. This is PSA." The tower responded: "Okay, we'll call the (crash) equipment for you." An official transcript, released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board, showed a sharp contrast between the calm radio reports to the ground and the emotional last words the crew members spoke among themselves. The crash was the worst disaster in U.S. aviation history. It killed 144 people in the two planes and on the ground.

Plunging earthward in flames, 12 seconds after the mid-air collision and five seconds before hitting the ground, McFeron radioed his final message to the tower: "This is it, baby." Someone in the cockpit shouted: "Whoo!" McFeron called to his companions: "Brace yourself." Half a second before impact, one unidentified voice cried: "Ma, I love yah." Another yelled: "Hey, baby." Then silence. The transcript, prepared from radio transmissions and the onboard cockpit voice recorder, covered the final five minutes before the crash, which occurred exactly 4.5 seconds after 9:01 a.m. PDT. It showed the PSA crew lost sight of a nearby plane 27 seconds before the collision over San Diego, but may have spotted the small craft again just before impact. The pilot and copilot of the jet nervously wondered whether they were clear of the light plane, but they failed to tell the ground of their uncertainty, according to the transcript.

The dramatic transcript indicated the PSA crew may have spotted the small Cessna just two seconds before the two craft slammed together too late to avoid tragedy. Less than four minutes before the crash, the three members of the PSA cockpit crew and an off-duty pilot in the jump seat were discussing the way their insurance policies would pay off in the event they lost their lives. At 8:59:30, the control tower told the jetliner to look out for a Cessna a mile ahead. "Okay, we had it there a minute ago," McFeron replied over the rauio. "I think he's passed off to our right." The transcript reflected less certainty in the cockpit conversation involving McFeron, co-pilot Robert Fox of La Mesa, who was flying the jetliner, engineer Martin Wahne of San Diego, and visiting pilot Spencer Nelson of Escondido.

McFeron: "Is that the one (we're) looking at?" Fox: "Yeah, but I don't see him McFeron: "He was right over here a minute ago." Fox-. Fox: "Are we clear of that Cessna?" Wahne: "Supposed to be." McFeron: "I guess." Christian Science sen ice Thurs. Members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ukiah, have scheduled their annual Thanksgiving service for Thursday, Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. The service, open to the public, will be held in the church edifice at 204 S.

Oak St. The hour-long meeting includes Scriptural readings and hymns of thanksgiving, as well as excerpts on the topic of gratitude from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The readings include passages from Psalms, and from "Science and Health." TRADITIONAL THANKSGIVING MAST Thursday Nov. 23rd-4-i all Inttudlngt Herb Dressing, Candied i Fresh Cranberry Chutney. $oup, Salad, Fresh Be' Assarted Deaeffi jtM Complimentarf Here's How You Can SAVE GAS and MONEY Top Burner Igniter wJTk CROWN PJIOTUSS RANGES Crown's electronic spark system uses only 0.5 watts of electrical energy against as high as 367 watts used by some other systems.

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