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wrf. is. By Same Dog Handler CAPTURE SITE--Sammy Joe Chapman, the guard and dog handler from Brushy Mountain State Prison, spreads his arms showing how James Earl Ray was laying on the ground when he captured him. (APWirephoto) ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) John F. Kennedy Jr.

has enrolled in a 26-day wilderness training program this summer at the Hurricane Island Out- ward Bound School. The 16-year-old Phillips Aridover Academy junior and son of the late president is expected to begin the course in said Pen Williamson, school develop- ment director. He said the course includes i i sailing, navigation, rock climbing and emergency first aid. Other special features include a treetop obstacle course, and a three-day solo spent alone on an island with only the scant necessities. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) TJ.S.

Sen. S. I. Hayakawa says he believes it's all right for employers to refuse hiring homosexuals because of sexual preferences. "Civil rights doesn't entitle a person to a job and never has," the California Republican said Monday before speaking to the Wine Institute here.

"I would be very, very hesitant to allow homosexuals in the teaching profession," the 70-year-old former educator added. Hayakawa said he would have voted with singer Anita Bryant last week when Miami voters repealed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in housing and employment. NEW YORK (AP) Back in 1941, recalls Edith Beale of "Gray Gardens" fame, the Americans were dropping depth bombs on Nazi sub- marines off the beaches of East Hampton. "Mother thought the house was going to be bombed," she said. "The depth charges shook the whole house.

So I said 'We'd better put everything in the On Wednesday, the William Doyle Galleries on East 87th Street will auction off the sterling silver that Miss Beale and her late mother, Edith Bouvier Beale, aunt of Jacqueline Onassis, put in the Valley Bank in 1941 to keep it safe from bombs and Nazi invaders. "It was still wrapped in 1941 newspapers when I went to the bank with Miss Beale to ap- praise it," says Doyle. "It was her mother's wedding silver and some jewelry we are going to sell on Sept. 14 more mementoes than valuable, but very nice." Doyle said he charged her "as little as possible $100," for the appraisal and then drove her back to the sagging house, overgrown with weeds, that was the setting for "Gray Gardens," a documentary film about Miss Beale and her mother, their innumerable cats and a lifestyle far removed from that of her famous cousin. "It almost killed me to have to give it to Mr.

Doyle," Miss Beale said Monday in East Hampton. "The flatware was given to mother by her Mary Bouvier. But since Mother died I'm all alone here and I have to pay the taxes. "I think the next thing I will have to pay is the inheritance taxes and I don't have any money just a small savings account I have to save for an eye operation. Jacqueline helps me out a little bit." "The Only Thing Wrong With The Davis IT'S ALIVE" 7:00 and 9:00 Virgmio-Corolimi Fiddlers Convention Uatntrwood Park Off Rt.

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A 7:30 P.M. Sat. Adm: 3 per day 5 for 2 days SlOOOfcCithPrfzM DRIVE-IN THEATRE 360 2 GREATEST LOVE STORIES Of AIL TIME Last Of Ray Escapees BRUSHY MOUNTAIN, Term. (AP) The most extensive manhunt in Tennessee history ended in triumph Tuesday when the same dog handler who ran down James Earl Ray caught the last of six inmates who fled Brushy Mountain Penitentiary with Ray five days before. Douglas Shelton, 32, was recaptured about 9 a.m.

by guard Sammy Joe Chapman. Shelton, Ray and and Ray's cellmate, Earl Hill are believed by prison officials to have planned the breakout. But Warden Stonney Lane said in connection with that theory: "I don't think we'll ever know for sure. They are the only ones who really know and they aren't saying anything." A lawyer for Ray, the confessed slayer of Martin Luther King said his client denied participation in the planning. The lawyer also said he didn't think Ray had outside help.

Lane said a small map of the immediate area cut out of a state highway map and $290 were found on Ray after his capture 'Monday. In Ray's left front pocket, officers found a wad of $80 in a rubber band, Lane said. The remainder was located during a strip search before a physical examination in the prison in- firmary. The warden said inmates are allowed to have up to $70 in cash but guards routinely find more money in cells than the rule allows. Ray was paid $35 at the first of each month for work in the prison laundry.

He was also entitled to draw $35 in the middle of each month from a prison account provided each prisoner for income from relatives and prison work. Money also changes hands.among the inmates for various purposes, including gambling, Lane said. Shelton's capture kept unblemished the maximum security prison's record of no successful escapes. Officials said the hunt had been the biggest in state history, involving 175 searchers and costing $175,000 in overtime pay alone. Shelton was found after a van he stole in the Beech Fork area of Anderson County ran off a state highway and over an em- bankment as guards gave chase.

Officials said Larry Phillips, the owner of the van, had just gotten in when he was grabbed from behind and thrown out by Shelton, hiding in the back. Shelton was caught about 18 miles down the winding highway from where Ray was captured and about 7 miles northeast of the prison. Ray conferred with his attorney, Jack Kershaw of Nashville, for less than an hour Tuesday, but he refused to meet with in- vestigators from the House Select Committee on Assassinations at the prison to inquire about the escape. "I think we can discount the theory that he got any outside help," Kershaw told reporters after talking to his client. Prison officials discount such theories as well.

Ogden Files As Independent "It was a routine escape as far as tlie prison was concerned," Lane said. "What we have still to determine is if there was any negligence on the parts of any guards or other The prison and House committee staffers will continue separate investigations of the escape throughout the week. Kershaw said he will file a petition within the next 60 days asking for a new trial for his client. He said the petition will be filed in Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis, where Ray was convicted in the April 1968 King slaying. Ray contends he was pressured into a guilty plea by officials and Percy Foreman, his lawyer at the time.

He says he was in Memphis and purchased the rifle that killed King at the direction of a mysterious man whom he knew only as Raoul. Until he heard radio news reports, Ray says, he did not know of King'sdeath. Kershaw said Tuesday that he had obtained a picture of Raoul about 10 days ago through what he called a combination of luck and "investigative brilliance." But he said he would hot the picture public now. Kershaw said the House investigators Robert Lehner, deputy chief counsel, and Edward Evans, head of the King probe wanted to talk to Ray but there'would be no meeting this week; "He's mentally exhausted," Kershaw said. "He didn't feel being subjected to extensive questioning from Washington lawyers." RICHMOND (AP) -Alan Ogden has filed a petition with the State Board of Elections to become an independent can- didate for governor.

Ogden has announced as a U.S;; Labor party candidate. State' Jaw requires that he appear oh the ballot as an independent, because his party did not receive enough votes in the last election to be named on the ballot. The petition, with the 9,842 signatures needed for cer- tification as an independent candidate, was filed Monday. The deadline was 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Mrs. Joan S. a a secretary of the Board of Elections, said Ogden would be certified as a candidate if the signatures on the petition were those of registered voters. HOLIDAY INN RESTAURANT is pleased to invite HAROLD SMITH WBTM's Honoree ot the Day to dinner any evening. UiilAN Innkeeper PRESTIGE POOL CO.

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on Tuesday filed a new plan for a fuel adjustment clause that 'the utility said is designed to "minimize fluctuations in customers' bills" and provide incentives for efficiency, Vepco filed the proposal with the State Corporation Com- mission, which must approve fuel adjustment charges before they are applied to customers' The SCC suggested earlier this spring'that Yepco propose revisions in the clause, which was instituted during the initial stages of the energy crunch several years ago. It was supposed to afford a way to adjust their prices in accordance with fluctuations in their costs without going through the laborious rate- setting process. But the clause's critics have claimed it often, served as an easy way for utilities to in- crease their rates, thus making operating efficiency less im- perative. The proposal submitted Tuesday by Vepco would in- clude a fuel adjustment charge that' would be based on projected 12month fuel costs and remain the same each month duringa normal year. the proposal also calls on the, SCO to review actual and estimated fuel costs -at its; quarterly fuel hearings.

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