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3' DiS A 1 'J jieaping-. police busy BLUE POND SHOPPING CENTER OXFORD, ALA. Boy's Permanent Press FLARE LEG By DON MCLEOD WASHINGTON (API Carol Denise Spinks set out in the twilight of April 25 to the neighborhood grocery on an errand for her mother and never returned. She was the first known victim of the "freewav killer." Angella Denise arnes was second. Darlenia Denise Johnson third, then Brenda Fay Crockett and Nenomoshia Yates.

Finallv. Brenda Denise Woodard's body was found Tuesday morning beside the highway that was their common link to death. The body of the Spinks girl was found a week after she disappeared beside the Anacostia Freeway, the middle link in an, expressway span: from the lower side of Washington's Beltway, through the city's southeast edge and on toward Baltimore. of particular interest and have' led one psychiatrist to postulate that the killer, if it is one person, might have some psychotic hostile association with the name or the letter The patterns come from these sparse facts: -Carol Denise Spinks. 13.

sent by her mother at 7 p.m. Sunday April 25. to; buy some T.V. The following Saturday an 11-year-old boy walking beside the busy freeway found her body. She had been strangled and sexually molested.

Angela Denise Barnes. 14. left the home of a friend 11:45 p.m.-. July 12 to walk the 10 blocks to her home: near the freeway. Early the next morning a motorist spotted her body, beside a highway near Waldorf.

25 miles to the south of Washington. ehad been shot in thehead- Five of the victims lived near the route, and another wtoTTved in theThneY city was tound deaf near the (o)(o) REG. 387 MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS Choose from a wide selection of fall stripes and -sol id st- priced-low enoogh-fo'-boy- a-ward robe REGULARS HUSKYS-SLIMS 14-oz. Polyester and Cotton in selected solid colors and modern striped patterns, Sizes 6 to 16. Our Regular $3.87.

Sizes 1 4 to 1712- ONLY Darlenia Denise Johnson. 16, left her home, close by the Spinks home, to walk to her job as a counselor at a nearby recreation center. Eleven days later an electric-company lineman found her body in heavy brush beside the freeway only yards from the, spot where the Spinks girl had been found. The body was so badly decomposed police could only assume she had been murdered. Brenda Fay Crockett.

10. was sent to a grocery store five blocks 'from her home in Washington's Northwest the night of July 27. Her bodyjvas found early the nexrdMhnh a grassy shoulder alongside The Treevvay. She had been strangled and sexually molested. Adding a bizarre angle to the Crockett case are statements from relatives that the girl had phoned home three times the night of her disappearance.

They reported she told them that a man had picked her up after she left home but had promised to send her back home by toxical. Nenomoshia Yates. 12. was sent to the grocery for a bag of sugar, about 6:30 p.m. Oct.

1. Her body was found three hours later and five miles awav. beside Pennsylvania Avenue, just off the freeway across the District line in Maryland. A bag of sugar and her change were with the body. The girl had been strangled and sexually assaulted.

-Brenda Denise Woodard. 18. was taken by her father last Monday night to the high school where she attended night classes. She was last seen on a street corner about 11 p.m. Her body was found TuesdaV morning by a patrolling policeman on a shoulder of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

She had been stabbed sue times. In the pocket of her coat was the note-Like the Johnson girl, she had worked as a counselor last summer at a playground in the area. freeway. There may be more. Another slain Washington area girl was found some distance away near Bowie.

but she was last seen in May at a shopping center less than a mile from the spot where the latest body was found. Similarity is the catchword of the case. Four of the victims had the middle name Denise. Another had the similar sounding last name Dennis. Two shared the first name Brenda.

Like the Spinks girl, two others were on groryereandshen-tbey-disappeared. All were walking someplace. The six girls taken from the District of Columbia, and whose cases bear the greatest resemblance and probability of a common killer, were black. The other. -from suburban Maryland, was white.

At least four of the victims were sexually molested, and the possibility is held open in the other. cases. All were young or slight enough of build to be taken for about the same age. Thev ranged from 10 to 18. Each death remains unsolved.

The best clue police may have is a note found on the latest body, reportedly signed "The Freeway Phantom." Police are keeping the contents of the note as secret as they can. but various sources have said the three scrawled lines on a sheet of white notebook paper link the author to the other five slayings involving Washington girls, and close with the phrase. "Catch me if you can." Police aren't' saying publicly that the cases are connected, but D.C. police. Inspector Mahlon Pitts said.

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2. No cold beer would be sold. 3. Only one liquor store would be opened in Anniston, and its hours of operation would be from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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size. ASSORTED COLORS KIDDIE WRIST CRINKLE OR LEATHER-LOOK ALL OF THESE PROMISES HAVE BEEN BROKEN: ARE WE STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE NEW PROMISES BY THE SAME PEOPLE ON THIS SAME ISSUE? WATCHES HANDBAGS $900 WORTH DOLLARS MORE TABLE 1 I TABLE 3... A SUMMARY Cm 1 THE GROSS ECONOMIC MONEY COSTS OF AL- THE NET ECONOMIC MONEY COSTS TO SPECIFIED BEVERAGES TO SPECIFIED GOVERN- GOVERNMENTS AND TAXPAYERS OF THE CON- $9.99 MENTS AND TAXPAYERS IN CALENDAR YEAR SUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN 1969: 1969: A SUMMARY A COMPOSITE Scores of styles, roomy compartments and zipper sections, interesting hardware and more! Gleaming crinkle or leathery vinyls in black, brown or tan. Character faced watches for both boys and girls! Ballerina, Barbie, Cinderella, Spaceman, Collie, Superman and others. All handsomely styled.

Guaranteed. timhshi. win comixr mtimis $1,615,105.39 $1,459,982.01 $3,884,67521 256,343.15 35,007.99 124,154.64 $6,959,76261 415,505.78 1,183,506.31 3,449,476.33 243,104.05 17,055,078.68 Health Education Employment Welfare Works Safety Courts ToUl 288,896.26 130,347.55 764,262.50 2.416.254.2 1 57,922.30 85,063.12 4,437.15 153,603.78 2,408,727.85 3.108,385.95 11.537,964.88 544,519.77 1,078,525.25 166,23361 COOK BAKEWARE RIOT! YOUR CHOICE 1,789,278.63 $8,731,985.72 92 $31,095,712.39 -TTte costs arc not for the State of Tennessee as a whole, but are limited to the specified money costs arising out of Memphis and Shelby County that are net to the State of Tennessee government and taxpayers Tennessee: tvtu cost mi Alcohol Beverage Commission 54,113.30 81,962.20 Division of Miscellaneous and Beer Tax 117,766.99 Alcohol Beverage Tax 2.588,072.21 Mixed Drink Tax 86,249.05 Beer Tax 812341.19 Sub-Total County of Shelby: Alcohol Beverage Tax 405,882.61 Mixed Drink Tax 446.00 Distributors Beer Tax 200,442.00 Beer Tax 6.437.52 Alcohol Beverage Contraband 67.73 Sub-Total 613.275 86 City of Memphis: Alcohol Commission 9 Sales Tax on Beer 2.532,937.00 Alcohol Beverage Tax 738,663.00 Liquor By Ounce Tax 20,932.50 Liquor By Ounce Licenses 195.734.00 Alcohol Beverage Licenses 50,038.00 Liquor Tai Distribution 123,978.50 1 Beer Tax 159.401.44 Sub-Total $3,800,195.44 Total $7,754,517.86 SOURCE: Tennessee, annual Financial Report. 1968-1969 and 1969-197Q. These revenues are net for the State of Tennessee as a whole, but are limited to the money revenues arising out of Memphis and Shelby County that are retained by the State of Tennessee after distribution to cities and counties.

TABLE 2 THE GROSS ECONOMIC MONEY REVENUES TO SPECIFIED GOVERNMENTS AND TAXPAYERS FROM ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN CALENDAR YEAR 1969: REGULAR LOW PRICES UP TO $1.89 EACH 01 0 ZS EA. State of Tennessee County of Shelby CHy of Memphis Total iXEToSSS P.614.909.K $73733311 6U27SJC 6,791.985.72 U7I.70M6 3300,195.44 16.68M16.92 12JSU21.4I S7.7H517J6 $3W5V12. A variety of took and bakeware at a savings. 2 Flan Pans, Spring form 3 cake pans, 12 cup muffin pan, 3 qt. colander, 2 pc.

cane pan, bet of broiler pan, Roa tubed cake pan. cake pan, Set of orouer pan, Noasting pan, Bundt pan, 2 pc. tubed cake pan. One piece Si ftiil ws tpind $3.00 to collect ft will cost at least $3.00 for evtry $1.00 collected on liquor by the drink! trie tables below show that the cost to tax payers in Memphis, was $4.00 for every $1.00 received from all taxes on alcoholic beverages. Adjusting these to our city and state taxes and expenses reveal a cost of over $100 for each $1.00 collected.

Table No. 1 P. 43, Table No. 2 P. 44, Table No.

3 P. 45 summary P. 43. Those who profit from liquor sales goss over the true costs te taxpayers of alcholic beverages. But they must be considered if the people of Anniston are oing to cast an intelligent vote next Tuesday.

VOTE TO MORE LIQUOR, NOVEMBER 23.