Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 9

Friday, November 24, 1978 Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Temple attorney still insists over 400 cultists are hiding in iungle MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) Although officials are now discounting such claims, Mark Lane, an attorney for the Peoples Temple, insists about 400 cult members fled in the Guyananese jungle while another 409 members were dying Lane, who has defended such controversial figures as James Earl Hay, Thursday said there were 800 adults present at a meeting the night before the mass slaughter last weekend. "There were at least 800 people at a meeting Friday in Jonestown and that does not include infants and small children and very old people," said in a telephone interview. "They have found a few over 400 bodies.

At least 400 people fled from the mass murder not counting old people and small children." Lane, who escaped into the jungle with Charles Garry, another lawyer for the cult, said the chances of survival in the wilderness are slim. "There is no food. Nothing that grows there that you could eat. If you know what you are doing, you can get water. If you walk 10 feet into the jungle, you can get lost He said the area surrounding the settlement established by cult leader Jim Jones is infested with jaguars, scorpions, piranhas, vampire bats, flies, electric eels, rattlesnakes, ocelots and other animals.

Lane and Garry fled into the jungle just as the cult members began dying from the poison drink The suicide deaths came shortly after Rep. Leo Ryan, and four other Americans were killed in an ambush at a jungle airstrip. The two attorneys used strips of fabric to mark their trail. After a night in the jungle, they made their way out to the road to the national capital of Georgetown, where they were picked up by a government national guard truck Lane insists the deaths in Guyana were not a mass suicide, but "mass murder He said cult members were drugged with valium and other tranquilizers and were surrounded by men with cross bows and automatic weapons. "It was murder by the maniacs of the Temple," he said.

Lane also charged that the United States was doing little to help rescue those he claims fled into the jungle. He also said the United States had asked the South American country to bury the victims, but "the Guyanese government was so offended that they refused to bury them." Lane and Garry accmpanied Ryan to Guyana to investigate charges that cult members were being held against their will and tortured. Jones considered himself 'a recalls INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Cult leader Jim Jones considered himself "a Messiah" but "I completely mistrusted the guy," his one-time college roommate said. "It's part of my life I'd like to forget," said Kenneth E. Lemons, 45, an Indianapolis auditor who shared a room with Jones in 1949 at Indiana University.

Jones, who led a mass suicide of his followers last weekend at his Peoples Temple in Guyana, was only 16 when he entered college and was assigned to room with Lemons, who was 18. "Jones believed himself then to be a Messiah," Lemons said. "He considered himself above everyone else and pored over the Bible, often rambling about his religious philosophies." "But I completely mistrusted the guy because he just did things that were very unchristian," Lemons said. Among other things, Jones stuck him with a hatpin through a bunk mattress. Lemons said.

"It was just too much," Lemons said. He gained assurances from counselors he would not have to room with Jones the following semester. Lemons had earlier agreed to take the top bunk and let Jones have the bottom. Lemons said he walked into the room one day and found "this clown sitting in my bottom bunk, on my own sheets and blankets." "Jones spent the next three hours convincing me he was deathly afraid of heights and that he thought he was literally going to die from a typhoid shot he had to have to be admitted toI.U," Lemons said. "He was just kind of an embarrassment to everyone who knew him," Lemons said.

"But his classmates didn't make fun of Jones, they just ignored him. We had to do that." Jones, his former roommate said, "thought of himself as a leader. He was pretty much a radical." "I just thought he was weird. I had a very unusual semester with him," Lemons said. Redbud maternity care meeting set for Tuesday State Senator-elect Barry Keene today suggested that Lake County residents who want maternity care at Redbud Community Hospital attend a public meeting of the hospital's board of directors on Tuesday night, Nov.

28, when the issue will be discussed. Keene 'D-Elk) has written the hospital four times since Sept. 8, asking that it commit itself to providing maternity dare. The board has yet to reply officially. "I can help remove any state bureaucratic obstacles to maternity care at Redbud Hospital, but the decision on whether to proceed rests with the locally elected board of directors," Keene said.

"In the past, the board seems to have been split 3-2 on whether to proceed toward providing maternity care, so it may be essential that concerned citizens make their opinions known now," he stated. The Redbud board was scheduled to discuss Keene's request during a special meeting Nov. but the meeting was cancelled. Keene congratulated Jack Jones on his re-election to the hospital board Nov 7. Jones and board member Jeanette Jublonsky favor maternity care at Redbud Under the hospital bylaws and state law, the board legally can make a decision on the issue Nov.

28. Hospital administrator Paul Stormoen has promised Keene it will be on the agenda as part of his administrator's report. "The state Health Services Department has assured me it will send a review team to Redbud Hospital to begin the process of getting it any permits or approvals it needs to provide maternity care as soon as the board decides to proceed," Keene said. The public board meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 28, in the Recreation Room of Redbud Community Hospital, Clearlake Highlands.

Board members are: President Alvin Kuykendall of Middletown, Helen Payne of Clearlake Oaks, Jeanette Jublonsky of Clearlake Highlands, Jack Jones of Clearlake Park, and Kenneth Broberg of Clearlake Oaks. Service of Silence planned here to mark Temple suicides Psychic awareness classes offered here beginning Mon. Ukiah area residents are invited to a Service of Silence for those who have djed, or are missing, in Guyana. The service is being sponsored by the Ukiah Ministerial Association and will be held tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 25, at the United Methodist Church from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The service will give persons a setting for silent prayer and meditation regarding the tragedies of the past days in Guyana The church is located on the corner of Smith and Pine Streets. Many persons have been touched by the tragic suicide-murder deaths of friends and acquaintances who were members of the Peoples Temple. Organ music will provide the background for his time of silence. Following the service, a time of conversation is planned for those persons wishing to stay and talk. Starting Monday, Nov.

27 at 7 p.m. a new beginning class in psychic awareness and self healing will be offered in Ukiah classes, which will run six consecutive weeks, will deal with healing, and inner growth and development via psychic means. Students will work using basic tools such as psychic reading, channeling, colors, grounding, guides and work with the auric bodv and chakra system. Advanced classes as well as a reader apprenticeship program is offered to UKIAH AREA CHURCH NEWS Church of the Ne.w Covenant "The Court of Grace" will be the morning message this Sunday at the Church of the New Covenant. The message will be delivered by Overseer Timothy McCoy, and will focus on discerning God's will.

The Church of the New Covenant will not be holding an early morning class this Sunday on "What Christians Believe" due to the holidays. However, the class will resume next week on the subject of Holy Baptism. This Sunday's worship service will include a children's teaching by Gwyn Patterson, and a musical presentation by Joan and Toni Hoag. The Church of the New covenant meets each Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. in the conference room of the Home Federal Savings and Loan building at 607 S.

State St. Child care is provided during the worship service. For more information call 462-0907 the only gospel for the Christian, where no matter what others say or think, the desire is only to please Him and be loyal to Him at whatever cost. All visitors are invited to join the membership in their monthly coffee hour in McCray Hall following the 11 a.m. service.

Women of the Margaret Bollinger Circle will host the gathering this month. Pastor Duncan's Sunday evening message from his continuing series based on I John is titled "So We Are!" and is from I John College and high school young people will meet together at 6 p.m. Sunday to hear a talk by guest speaker Bob Wallen. His subject will be "The Creation-Evolution Question." Also meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday is the Junior High group and their parents.

Paul Zeek will share some thoughts on family communication for this periodical "Parents Night" feature Winter Camp Kickoff is also on the program monition to "Judge not appearances but judge righteous Religious Science teaches the unique value of each dividual and when recognize God as our source, we achieve a greater concept of ourselves. Services are held at the center at 741 S. Oak at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday. All are welcome.

m- we Cal ran Baptist First Baptist "The Only Gospel" will be the pulpit message Sunday morning at First Baptist Church, 300 Smith St In his sermon. Pastor William Duncan will define the gospel of Jesus Christ as Religious Science "Recognize Your Own Worth" is the lesson topic at the Ukiah Church of Religious Science Sunday Too often we judge ourselves by appearances, Rev. Susan Theilig believes, rather than following the Great Teacher's ad- "Like God in Our Walk as Children of Light" is the theme of the morning message in both the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services at Calvary Baptist Church, 465 Luce Ave. Pastor Donnell will be speaking on the characteristics of the light message that Christians should and must bear in their everyday walk The scripture foundation is based on Ephesians 5.3-14.

Sunday School hour begins at 9:45 a.m. with classes for all ages two thru adults. A nursery is provided for children under two. Sunday afternoon the Youth choir and Junior High "Son Seekers" meet In the evening service at 6 the message is entitled "The Problem of Backsliding and What to do About It." Church members will also be celebrating the ordinance of Believers Baptism First Christian In connection with the events in Guyana this week, Pastor Hugh Weston, at the 11 a.m. service, will preach on First Timothy 2:2, First Peter 2:13, Matthew 5:17 and Matthew 22:21 at the First Christian Church.

Those planning to attend church may wish to read these passages at home before coming to services, Pastor Weston said. These passages of God's word seem to indicate clearly, Pastor Weston will say, that God wants us to support the "establishment" unless "establishment" should terfere with public worship and public morality to the point where the Christian can no longer peacefully worship and serve'God, in church and home. Pastor Weston will indicate that the churches should support all those standards, values, and institutions honored by time and tradition in ordinary circumstances. Anyone needing a ride to church may phone 462-5830. those completing the beginning class as a basis for those who are interested in psychic work as a career or those who are simply going to use it for personal expansion.

Questions arising from the classes as well as information on trance, centering, clairvoyance, karma, astral projection, dreams, psychometry, past lives and meditation will be covered and tape recorders are welcome for all sessions. All classes are taught by Sandra Corder-Figone, who has been teaching in the Ukiah area for the last two years. For further information on class fees, registraion and where the classes will be held, call the Ukiah Community Center at 462-8879 or stop by the office at 665 N. State Ukiah. the in- Lions players will meet tomorrow Coach Brad Shear today asked that all Ukiah Lions Nor-Cal-Fed football players report at 11 a.m.

Saturday, for a short term meeting at Anton Stadium. Purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the Lions' participation in the Dec. 3, 6 p.m., Lions-Junior Lions Awards Night, at Nokomis school. Shear promises that the meeting will be short Saturday, but asked that all Lions be present to plan the party and take care of other matters. The Lions last Sunday played a tremendous game in losing a wild, 50-28, Nor-Cal-Fed Championship game to loaded, super-talented Campbell.

HOW OLD IS YOUR CAR? The average age of a car on the road in the United States, reports the National Automobile Club, is six years. BOLD SOPRANO Above is the cast of "Bold Soprano," a Theater of Bie Absurd production by the Ukiah Players, being staged Nov. 26, 27 30 and Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. in the Municipal Park Clubhouse, Ukiah.

Donations: $2.50 for general admission; $1.50 for students and senior citizens. Alliance spokesman calls for tolerance of cults WASHINGTON (UPI) The Guyana deaths "must be carefully examined so that some meaningful good will come from these horrors of brutal slayings and desperate suicides," says a spokesman for a religious freedom group. Rev. John Price, pastor of the Faith Fellowship Baptist Church of Philadelphia, said the tragic deaths of more than 400 Americans in Guyana cannot be justified, but can be explained despite what he called intolerance, government harassment and a "too irresponsible, zany press." Price, acting as national spokesman for the Washington-based Alliance for the Preservation of Religious Liberty, said Thursday: "Such acts cannot be justified but they can be explained. Any new religious group in America has suffered from an all too eager government ready to harass, an all too irresponsible zany' press ready to 'freakify' any new religion, and a majority all too intolerant of different ideas and philosophies." With the rise of the Sun Moon Myung's Unification Church and its sudden popularity, said Price, "there has been increased hostility to all new religions around the "The adherents of these new religions have been subjected to police raids, to legislative attempts to outlaw them and to massive critical comments by the media." he said.

"It is a modern day witch hunt based upon pseudo-scientific claims of brainwashing, mind bending and mental kidnapping'." Members of the new religions, he said, "have been subjected to kidnapping, imprisonment and mental and physical torture to change their religious views." Price called for tolerance and understanding from the government and the media for the Peoples Temple. "And if these incidents are investigated," he said, "let us listen to what the sociologists have to say, both about the chill upon First Amendment rights that government surveillance and harassment tactics have against groups and about the reaction of such groups to undue pressures for conformity." FBI investigating possible People's Temple conspiracy SAN FRANCISCO The FBI is trying to determine if an international conspiracy formed the framework behind last weekend's, killing in Guyana. Bureau spokesman Joe Aaron said this week that a massive investigation is underway surrounding the murder of Cong. Leo Ryan and four others. He told the Journal that the agency is trying to determine if a conspiracy involving Peoples's Temple members in the United States was tied to the incident.

According to Aaron, the FBI has narrowed its investigation down to the conspiracy theory. "We can't look all over," he said, "We have to go in one direction." Said Aaron, "There's lots of leads lots and lots of leads." He said the bureau is staying in contact with police agencies all over the state and will be conducting interviews in a number of places, probably including Ukiah. But he said the FBI has no plans for conducting a full investigation of the temple's activities in Mendocino County. Americans put almost 6 percent of their income after taxes into savings during the first six months of 1978, The Conference Board notes. Last year, their savings averaged only 4.7 percent over the same period.

All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. Romans 2:12. 13 "GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME" JOURNAL.