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TIIK RKPl'BLIC. COH'MBl'S. INDIANA. TUESDAY. OCTOBHH tt-jg l'AliK SIXTKKN Nero Wolfe' School Bombed In Book Protest Rex Stout Continues To Write i i 'I 4 iir Itvf jliMliK JLf' dffir fit nil CHARLESTON.

Va (UPI) A firebomb was thrown through a window into an empty grade school classroom Monday, shattering an uneasy calm that prevailed for several days in the dispute over school books here The floor of the classroom and tops of several desks were scorched by the gasoline-filled jar, school officials said. Damage to the Loudendale Elementary School was termed minimal bv the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department. Picketing went on at various school installations and an around-the-clock vigil was continued outside the Kanawha County Jail where the Rev. Ezra Graley, one of the leaders of the demonstrations against the books, was serving a 60-day jail term for contempt of court throughout the country In 1927, Stout retired from the world of finance and went back to writing His first novel. How Like a Cod.

was published in 1929 Stout does most of his writing at his home, called High Meadow, which he built himself He modeled it after the palace of the Bey of Tunis, which he saw during a vacation in the Mediterranean area The result is a concrete I '-shaped structure of 14 rooms built around an interior court REX STOUT, Nero Wolfe Author Stanford Student Graley, minister, violating a Church of God was jailed for court injunctions interfering with against Woman Killed in Church school operations candles and stabbed to death STANFORD, Calif (CPU The 19-year-old wife of a Stanford Cniversity student was assaulted with altar Monday "It's a typical if there is such a thing -sexual psychopathic slaving," said when she went campus church night Saturday. to pray at about mid-police said BOBBY RAY MII.I.KR and RONALD 0 Bl'RN'S BRF.WSTKR ilTI On a chilly afternoon in mid-November, a lean, amiable white-haired man of 87 will begin what he's begun every year about that time since A story about America's portliest detective. Nero Wolfe "I never write in the summer." said Wolfe's creator Hex Stout, in an interview at his home which straddles the New York-Connecticut border "I'll start one on November at 4 o'clock It'll prob.ibh be finished the middle of January Come out in the middle of June, something like that Provided I'm alive I could die good Cod. I'm 87 years old In fact if I didn't want more than my share. I'd have died quite a while ago Stout who sports a heard once deserib I'd as wishvwashy thing that looks as if he stole it off a billy goat," said he wrote a new Nero Wolfe hook each year Well that's what I did for 41) years, but I ve slowed down a little The fiction, il Wolfe weighs one seventh ol a ton and lives in a four-story brown-stone on West iifith Street in New York Citv His assistant Archie Coodwin.

does his legwork a chef cooks his meals and another assistant helps him tend to the 111. IKK) orchids he keeps in a rooftop greenhouse The stories have been so successful that other writers have written books about Stout books There is also the Nero Wolfe Cookbook Stout said he has cooked all the dishes mentioned in the adventures at least two or three times Some students of Nero Wolfe have argued that Wolfe is the illegitimate son of another fictional detective. Sherlock Holmes, since Wolfe was born in Montenegro about the time Holmes visited there in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries Hut the amiable Stout discounts that possibility as a coincidence "Oh. somebody's just having a lot ot fun If they think that's fun well, okay Wolfe is nothing like his creator Wolfe hates exercise and has a hot temper. Stout is agile and affable Wolfe likes gourmet cooking and insists on it.

Stout, too. likes gi)d food, but won't refuse a hot dog Stout said he could not explain Wolfe's origins "Alexander W'oollcott claimed I created Nero Wolfe after him Maybe because he's fat. I don't know "I honestly know nothing about where he came from Listen, you know damn well in all fiction writing, dramatic, narrative-- no matter what level of literature all characters are of two kinds They're all either created or contrived In the created ones, the writer really has no idea where he came from or anything else And the others, they're made up And. boy. how you can tell 'em apart In Dickens, for instance Dickens is full of contrived characters-the minute one of em appears, you can spot him Now as for created characters, they appear at all levels Tarzan was one, for example That's the two kinds Now, Nero Wolfe and Archie Coodwin are the created kind I don't have the faintest notion where they came from or any of that.

I know nothing about it Whic of his own books does he like best'' I have no idea I really have no favorites," Stout claimed at first But he talks fondly of "The Doorbell Rang," a mystery set in the mid 1960s in which W'nJfe tangles with the FBI Many critics believe it is Stout's best work "I once got a fan letter that said. 'Dear Mr Stout, I have read many of your Nero Wolfe mysteries and enjoyed them I have now read The Doorbell Rang (ioodbye It was signed John Wayne Rex Todhunter Stout was born, one of nine children, in Noblesville. Ind Dec 1, 188ti A year later the family moved to Kansas He read the Bible twice before he was and before he was 10 he read about 1 .200 other volumes of biography, history, fiction, philosophy, science and poetry in the library of his father, John Wallace Stout, a Quaker and a teacher At he was the state's champion speller At 18. he joined the Navy, and eventually became a yeoman aboard the Mayflower. President Theodore Roosevelt's vacht After leaving the Navy in 1908.

Stout roamed th country He was a cigar salesman in Cleveland, a guide to the Indian pueblos near Sante Fe. a barker for a sightseeing bus in Colorado Springs, a bookstore salesman in Chicago. Indianapolis and Milwaukee, and a stable hand in New York He created the school banking system and installed it in 400 cities and towns The demonstrators claim the books are anti-God, anti-American and contain unsup-portable passages on sexual activity. drugs and radicalism Attendance, which has dipped to 76 per cent with some protesters holding their children out of school, went up to 84 per cent Monday. Tensions appeared to ease last week when Board of Education President Albert Anson and Kanawha County Superintendent Kenneth Underwood resigned.

Citizens groups for and against the new textbook series, including 325 books, held public meetings to discuss the issue Face-to-face debates were conducted on television and radio stations Santa Clara County Hndersheriff Tom Rosa He said there was no indication that Arliss Perry was the victim of a satanist torture rite. Her body was discovered face up and ha If -nude Sunday morning near the altar of Stanford's Romanesque-style Memorial Church Two candles were found with the body and there was specula tion it may have been a Black Mass killing. "It has no cult-like overtones it just happened to occur in a church." Rosa said Investigators said there were few signs of a struggle and speculated the 110-pound hlonde was surprised by a "fast and sudden attack" when she went to the church about midnight Her husband told authorities she often prayed at that time when she had personal problems Mrs Perry was a receptionist for a Palo Alto Law firm and lived in a campus apartment with her husband, Bruce, also 19 The couple, from Bismarck. ND, had been married only two months USED FURNITURE Bargain Barn 2200 25th Street Old Fairgrounds 376-0800 2000 Sq. Ft.

of Furniture Washington Airport Security Inadequate? jj HAPPY BIRTHDAY -Youngsters view the U5S Constitution, affectionately known as "Old Ironsides," from behind a fence at the old Boston Naval shipyard as the nation's oldest commissioned ship celebrates its 177th anniversary. The ship is undergoing on overhaul at the shipyard. (UPI Telephoto) Kissinger Ends Arab Talks Get lift truck service out of your picture. Let our trained mechanics call at your plant on a regular schedule they know lift trucks! ing lot. one an armed off-duty FAA policeman who scared off the robbers He was not the first police officer held up in the lot Yet officers say the 25 acres of lots are seldom patrolled because of the personnel shortage "Even I'm afraid to walk out there at night unarmed." a police officer who investigated a brutal parking lot kidnaping last year said "Female airline employes constantly sav they're afraid to go to their cars alone." Inadequate supervision further weakens the security at the airport, according to several officers Standard police manuals say the ideal supervisor-officer ratio is one supervisor for every four to seven officers At the ratio is usually one to 20 or 30.

the officers said About 40 per cent of National's police force have had no previous law enforcement experience, according to statistics furnished bv police chief Raymond Pyles. who took over in May Rookies receive a 1 6-day training course from an instructor who has had no direct police experience Some rookies have been sent on duty before they qualified on the pistol range, according to one officer A recent graduate from the 10-day FAA course said he received less than 10 hours in firearms instruction CLARKLIFT of INDIANA Middle East peace talks Kissinger. who visited Egypt. Saudi Arabia. Israel.

Syria and Algeria, issued an optimistic report of his trip before- leaving Damascus Monday for Algiers He told newsmen at Damascus Airport of finding some positive and encouraging signs" during the trip and said the job now was "to put them into concrete focus 980 So.Marr Rd. capital and site of the coming Oct 26 Arab summit meeting, on the last leg of his eight day visit to the Middle East and North Africa "I want to be invited to the Arab suiumit because I think I know more Arab loreign ministers than do most heads of state." Kissinger told Boumedienne jokingly Arab arrangements for the coming Rabat conference have cut into Kissinger's mission, but the secretary of state remained confident he has made process toward arranging a new round of Bv JOHN F. BARTON ALGIERS d'PIi Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger wound up his eight-day Arab-Israeli peacg sion today, traveling to Morocco for a final four hours of talks before flying home Kissinger met Algerian President 11 a i Boumedienne for three hours Monday night, briefed the third world leader on peace negotiations and talked about oil prices The secretary of state was scheduled to fly this morning to Rabat, the Moroccan (812) 372-2846 Bv RICHARD RASIIKK WASHINGTON 1 1 PC After Rep Bill Alexander. I) Ark was beaten and arrested by Federal Aviation Administration Police at Washington's National Airport last December, he received calls and letters from more than 20 persons who related similar mistreatment The Alexander incident sparked a secret investigation of the airport police by the House Administration Committee, resulting in the replacement of the chief of police "I've never gotten into such a rat's nest," committee chairman Wayne I. Hayes.

D-Ohio. said after the hearings in February "It's a real horror story Today police at the airport say the potential is high for a hijacking and that the airport's dai-iv ioan nf passengers, including many congressmen, foreign diplomats and other government officials, is not safe because the police force is understaffed, undertrained and undersupervised Nation, il and Dulles, located 30 miles north of Washington, the only two public airports in the country run by the government with FAA police to watch the airfields, check the boarding gates, patrol the parking lots, catch petty thieves and direct the traffic Anvone can walk on the field and take a -plane." said an FA policeman at National with vears ol experience in other police foices He said a group of persons recently walked onto the landing strip at the North.Tenninal to greet a visitor without police restraint Another officer who spent 19 vears on a metropolitan police force, said f0 Brazilians recently passed through a checkpoint with the metal detector huing. while an officer in charge paid no alention 'There's no question anvone could hijack a plane. he said When police recently had to evacuate the airport twice in one dav because of four bomb scares he said, there was no evacuation plan and not enough radios for all the officers Officers received no evacuation training, he said There are 118 officers in the FAA force at National and some, who refused to be identified fearing reprisals, say the force needs from 50 to 8U more to make the airport safe Two people were recently held up in the park Several officers alleged that five fellow policemen have appeared to be drunk on duty with no disciplinary action taken by superiors, and that some officers are psychologically unfit to carry firearms Chief Pyles said the force is not as well trained as he would like because it expanded rapidly from 50 to 120 But he denied the force is understaffed and that security is poor He said he is sending his officers to special training schools in groups and that the FBI from neighboring Alexandria. Ya handles the few-serious crimes committed But a number of law enforcement officials, attorneys and congressmen say National's security problems, which include almost daily incidents of police harassment and physical abuse of motorists, and open warfare between police and cab drivers who work the airport, warrant a thorough investigation.

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