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4 Friday, 1977 PAMPA NfWS Protesters point to murderer On the record JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) White and black South Africans protested in swelling numbers today against the death of young black leader Steve Biko, and there were increasing demands for the ouster of Prisons Minister James T. Kruger. Protest meetings were held or planned at all four major English-language white universities and at the two main black ones. Slogans reading "Kruger murderer" and "Biko" were painted on the doors of four post offices in plush white suburbs around Johannesburg. In Cape Town, while students placed dozens of mourning notices in the Cape Times newspaper.

At Fort Hare University in eastern Cape Province, 1,210 students rounded up during a memorial service Thursday were charged with breaking the Riotous Assemblies Act, which prohibits unauthorized mass meetings. Univerity officials at the white Pietermaritzburg campus of Natal University banned open-air meetings shortly before a scheduled memorial service and protest posters appeared on the main gates. Stu- dents at Johannesburg's white Witwatersrand University planned rallies for today. Biko, 30, was widely regarded as one of the most influential black leaders in South Africa and as founder of the black consciousness movement. He died while under police detention Monday, and Kruger claimed he had been on an eight-day hunger strike.

He was the 21st black to die in detention in years. For the past four years Biko had been ed, to King Williams Town, and he was arrested three weeks ago. The anger over his death intensified Wednesday when ger went before a meeting of the ruling National party and told a laughing audience that Biko's death left him "cold." Ray Swart, acting leader of the opposition Liberal Progressive Federal party, said Kruger was an embarrassment to the whole of South Africa. "I believe his disgusting performance at this time will have disastrous repercussions among blacks and be calamitous for th image of South Africa," he said. Even the progovernment Afrikaans-language newspaper Transvaler joined in the criticism, berating National party members for laughing while Kruger spoke and terming the incident "serious." There was also widespread skepticism about official government reports that Biko died of a hunger strike and demands mounted for an inquest.

Kruger rejected he demands. He said Biko had been fed intravenously, but it was the black leader's "democratic right" not to eat. Official autopsy reports were not expected until next week. The black Johannesburg newspaper World declared: "Each passing week seems to deepen the gulf which is driving black and white dangerously further from each other. No one seems to be able to grasp at and articulate the things that could break down the barriers, reduce the terrible tension and draw the great body of well-intentioned people of all races closer together." Biko's death produced renewed calls at the United Nations for South Africa's expulsion from the world organization a move blocked by Western members of the Security Council last year.

Maria Callas dies at 53 Carter will vi sit DADIC? nnrf thara hnon nn Uint nt K.X Lance 6 as friend' PARIS IAP) Opera singer Maria Callas. 53. died today at her home of natural causes, the Pathe Marconi recording company said. A Pathe Marconi spokesman said the company had been notified of the death by friends of the singer. Born in America and Greek by blood, La Callas was among the most famous sopranos of the 20th century.

But much of her fame stemmed also from her stormy relationship with the late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, a nine-year romance that ended when he married Jacqueline Kennedy in October 1968. The dark-eyed diva was also famed as "opera's bad girl" because she walked out on so many performances in her career. Miss Callas had been living quietly in Paris in recent years. and there had been no hint that she was ill. Born Sophie C.

Kalos in Brooklyn, she renounced her American citizenship in 1966, apparently to ease financial complications connected with her divorce from Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian industrialist she left for Onassis. Miss Callas began to study music when she was eight and by 14 had won a number of amateur radio contests. Trapped abroad at the beginning of World War II, she studied at the Royal Conservatory. She made her debut in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana at the Royal Opera House in Athens at 14. But her career realy began when the great La Scala Opera House in Milan offered her a role in "Aida" and then signed her on as a member of the company in 1951.

She made her American debut in 1954, performing the title role of Bellini's Norma at Chicago's Lyric Theater and in subsequent years she was widely acclaimed for her roles in Puritani, Tosca, Lucia and many other operas. She also made numerous recordings, including 19 complete operas and 10 albums of operatic selections for Angel Records. Time magazine once wrote: "As actress, Callas is more ex- citng than any singer has a right to be." 0 her voice, the magazine wrote: "The special quality of the Callas voice is not tone. It is the extraor- dinarty ability to carry, as can no other, the inflections and nuances of emotion, from mordant intensity to hushed delica- ry." In 1965, Miss Callas retired from concert singing because of ill health. But she returned after nine years in February 1974.

Rookie saw Torres in water HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (AP) Rookie Houston policeman C. E. Elliott has testified he heard a splash and saw Joe Campos Torres "treading water" in Buffalo Bayou shortly after an officer said, "Let's see if wetback can swim." Elliott testified Thursday in the murder trial of two former Houston policemen accused in the May drowning death of Torres, a 23-year old karate expert. Torres' body was recovered from the Houston bayou May 8.

Terry Denson, 27, and Stephen Orlando, 21, are accused of killing Torres by pushing him into the bayou after beating him. The trial was moved here from Houston on a change of venue Elliott testified earlier that five fellow officers had beaten the handcuffed Torres at a secluded Buffalo Bayou site the night of May 5 after arresting him in a bar distrubance. "The whipping lasted about five minutes," Elliott said, referring to his earlier testimony. Ho said he and Orlando then look Torres to the city jail. At the jail.

Elliott said, Torres complained his leg hurt and the jail sergeant ordered them to take the prisoner to Ben Taub Hospital. Elliott said they put Torres back into the car and Orlando radioed one of the units to meet them again at the bayou site. Back at the deserted parking lot, Elliott said, Orlando told him to remove Torres' handcuffs and take him out of the car. As Torres leaned over the car trunk two other patrol cars appeared. Elliott quoted Denson as saying, "Let's see if this wetback can swim," and they all started down toward the bayou.

Elliott said he returned to the car to answer a call and handed Torres' wallet to Orlando. While back at the car, Elliott said, "I heard a splash and thought, Oh, my God, they've really thrown him in." He said he looked down and saw Torres "treading He said the officers were scanning the stream with flashlights and directing Torres to his billfold floating four or five yards away. Afterward, he said, Orlando told him to destroy his notes and Torres' medical card which he had accidentally kept. "I cut them up with a pocket knife and tossed them out the window," he said. Two days later, Elliott testified, Denson suggested a meeting to "get our stories straight." "You are told in the academy that for six months you should be just a warm body," Elliott testified Denson told him.

"Create no fuss. Do what you are told. Denson and Orlando told me to shut up and stick to the story that we dropped him at St. Joseph's Hospital no matter how hard they push." Elliott said he was "scared and embarrassed." "I got off work that morning and tried to go to bed," he said. "I couldn't sleep." After Torres' body was recovered, Elliott said he told his father, Louis Elliott, a veteran Houston policeman, what had happened.

WASHINGTON (AP) Bert Lance invited the people to be his jury, but President Carter says in the end he and Lance will sit down friend to friend to decide whether the budget director will survive in the job he is fighting to hold. "I am sure that the decision that I make along with Bert Lance will be satisfactory to the American people," Carter said Thursday in a question- and-answer session with members of the Radio and Television News Directors Association. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said he had no idea when the decision on Lance's future will be made except that it will be after the former Georgia banker's testimony to a Senate committee. Asked how much public opinion will enter into the decision, Powell said: "If we have shown anything at all in this, it is that we are willing to take a considerable amount of heat and shed some blood If we had ever intended to base what we were going to do on a public opinion poll, we wouldn't have gotten into it this far." Carter spoke by telephone to the association's annual convention in San Francisco. Hours before, in Washington, Lance had told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating his finances that he wants the American people to be "the jury in this proceeding." Lance, who got best wishes from Carter at 6:30 a.m.

in the President's study, denied to the committee that there were irre- gularities in his financial dealings when he headed two Georgia banks. He conceded that he and his family and the committee that handled his unsuccessful 1974 campaign for governor of Georgia had overdrawn their bank accounts by thousands of dollars. "Of course, there is no way for me to excuse my own or anyone else's overdrafts," Carter told the news directors. "This is something that was obviously a mistake. (But) I believe that, rather than my trying to judge at this point the accuracy of the charges that have been made against Bert Lance, it would be better to wait for his completion of testi- undei 1 cross-examination." The committee hearings may extend into next week.

Carter said he will read Lance's testimony. "If I believed all of the charges or allegations against Bert Lance that I have read or heard through the news media, I would have discharged him immediately," the President said. "Some of those allegations I know to be incorrect, and the ones that prove to be correct, of course, I will have to make a judgment on them. "But I have no reason to feel that Bert Lance is dishonest or incompetent, nor that he is acting unethically. The propriety of Bert's loans, overdrafts and so forth, obviously, will be assessed by me." The President said he still has not read the FBI file on its investigation into Lance's background before he was con- Riots rock Colombia Names in the news MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(AP) Cornelia Wallace says the reason her marriage to Gov. George C. Wallace broke up was "not incompatibility but the commission of actual violence and cruelty" against her by Wallace "with danger to her life and health Mrs Wallace made the accusation in a counter suit for divorce filed Thursday, three days after the governor filed for divorce on grounds of incompatibility. There was no elaboration on the charge. She asked the court to award her a divorce and to grant her "liberal sums as alimony support and maintenance Sterling Culpepper, one of Wallace's attorneys, said, "Of course, the governor will deny all the allegations An appropriate denial will be filed within the next few days." Mrs.

Wallace. 38. and Wallace, 58, were married on Jan. 4. 1971.

Each had been married NEW YORK (AH) After a week-long visit to Hungary, the Rev Billy Graham says he has learned "the church can exist in any type of society." The evangelist, strident in his criticism of communism during the 1950s, said he discovered that religious communities both Christian and Jewish were alive and well in the Communist country. "There is in Hungary a total separation of church and state," the Rev. Mr. Graham told a news conference Thursday. He added that he had discovered "certain aspects (of life there) one could applaud," citing the lack of pornography and the low crime rate.

PROVO. Utah (AP) Movie star Robert Redford fears pollution is destroying the "incredible heritage" of the Utah Valley, the only place "where I feel I can be treated as a human being and not in a goldfish bowl." Speaking to students at Brigham Young University on Thursday, he said pollution is beginning to creep up the canyon where he lives and "I'm not about to sit back and let that happen without at least speaking out Redford, who rarely makes public appearances in his home state, blamed the pollution on industry and automobiles. DETROIT (AP) lawyers for Johnny Carson want a Utica, toilet maker to stop talking about the television star's $12 million suit over a line of "Here's Johnny!" portable toilets. The attorneys contend Earl J. Braxton, owner of Porta-John Corp is using the lawsuit to gain publicity.

Carson's lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge James Churchill today to bar Braxton from talking to reporters about the "Tonight" show host's suit. Carson sued Braxton last January after he brought out a line of portable toilets called "Here's Johnny!" That is the phrase used by announcer Ed McMahon to introduce Carson on the TV show, and the suit charges trademark infringements. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Police battled scattered groups of rioters in Bogota early today as Colombia's worst violence since the 1948-1958 civil war subsided. leaders whose nationwide strike set off the disturbances vowed to continue agitating for higher wages.

Fifteen persons died and more than 120 were injured in two days of looting and rioting that began during a 24-hour strike Wednesday against President Alfonso Lopez' government. refused to yield to union demands for 50 per cent pay hikes to offset inflation running at 48 per cent a year, but the government agreed to resume talks with labor federations next week. The 63-year-old president, who leads one of only four South American nations under Green gets death penalty for shooting CONROE, Tex. (AP) G. W.

Green has been assessed the death penalty after being convicted of capital murder in the Nov. 19 shooting death of a reserve Montgomery County juvenile officer. The eight-man, four-woman jury deliberated just over three hours Thursday before returning the verdict. The panel had found him guilty Wednesday night. Green.40.

is the second of four defendants to be tried in the slaying of John C. Denson, 46. The victim's widow, Grace Denson, testified four men forced their way into the family home near Magnolia. She said they shot her husband twice and demanded money from her and her daughter. Susan.

Glenn Earl Martin, 28. was convicted -last June and assessed a life sentence. Two other men are awaiting trial. civilian rule, accused union leaders of promoting a "subversive upheaval" by right-and left-wing extremists and called their strike "a total failure as a labor protest." Labor leaders called the walkout a success, noting that it had brought public transportation to a standstill and forced most stores, factories and schools to close. Workers returned to their jobs, but labor leaders promised more agitation.

Commerce and transportation returned to normal Thursday, but rioting and looting continued. Downtown Bogota was relatively calm by late evening, but groups of rioters in poor districts and on the capital's outskirts ignored a citywide dusk-to-dawn curfew and stoned buses and military vehicles into the morning hours. Acting under a state of siege, Lopez mobilized 100,000 police and army troops across Colombia. About 4,000 persons were arrested, and the president ordered that they serve 280 days in jail. Lopez, serving the last year of a four-year term, heads an inflation-ridden government troubled by unemployment, strikes, student unrest, terrorist kidnapings and assassinations, official corruption and common crime.

HIGH MAGNIFICATION WASHINGTON (AP) A million books stored on a single sheet of paper? A movie of uranium atoms in motion? Both are possible with the new electron microscope which can magnify an object (or reduce it) 20 million times. The best optical microscopes, limited by the wavelengths of light, magnify no more than 2.000 times and the implications of the new microscope are enormous, says National Geographic The microscope will enable biologists to spot normal cells changing into cancerous cells and to identify genes that cause hereditary diseases. firmed by the Senate. But he said his staff has, and everyone interviewed by the FBI "gave Bert Lance an overwhelming endorsement." Student shoots self after disciplining DESOTO, Tex. (AP) A 17- year-old DeSoto High School student shot himself to death Thursday in the school parking lot as classmates looked on.

Scott Newberry walked to his pickup truck, picked up a 12- gauge shotgun and and fired a blast into his head, officials said. The Dallas County medical examiner's office ruled the death a suicide. Bob Browning, DeSoto High School principal, said Newberry had been taken to an assistant principal "on a discipline problem" several minutes before the shooting. School officials set Newberry's punishment at two days of detention one hour each day before school. Browning said he did not know what the infraction was but added it could not have been major.

"I don't know exactly what it was except that it was significant enough that a teacher brought him to the office," Browning said. Sterling Jeter, the assistant principal who set the punishment, refused to comment on the incident, saying all information had to be cleared through Browning. DeSoto Police Chief Steve McFadden said several students witnessed the shooting but "no one had time to stop him." Police and school officials refused to disclose the names of the witnesses. Death toll in Kansas City up to 23 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The death toll in the Kansas City flash flood rose to 23 Thursday while the damage estimate climbed to $50 million.

y-two bodies were found in Kansas City. The 23rd body was found in Leaven worth, about 35 miles to the northwest. City and county officials estimated that about 1,000 persons were still homeless because of the 12 inches of rain that fell in a 24-hour period Monday. The torrential rain caused Brush Creek to overflow its banks along the exclusive Country Club Plaza shopping center and pour into the Blue River. The National Weather Service named a five-member team Wednesday to find out why advance flash flood warnings didn't prevent the deaths.

Obituaries DENNIS SHANE JERN1GAN S. Reid, died at 9:20 p.m. Dennis Shane Jernigan, 15, of Thursday at Highland General Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Carmichael Whatley Colonial Chapel with Glen Walton, minister of the Mary Ellen North Amherst, Massachusetts, died as a result of an automobile accident.

He was born on November 14, 1962. Funeral arrangements are with North Amherst Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday in North Amherst, Mass. Dennis is survived by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John A. Jernigan; one brother, John; two sisters, Sherri and Allison, all of North Amherst, one maternal grandmother, Mrs. Auclair of North Amherst and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel Rose of Lefors. MRS. LOU ADA WHITE Harvester Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery. Mrs.

White was born on July 17.1891 in Kansas. She has been a resident of Pampa since 1929, and was a member of the Mary Ellen Harvester Church of Christ. She was the widow of Pearl W. White, who died April 13.1968. Survivors include one sister, Mrs.

Gladys Barden of Alice and one sister in law, Mrs. Mrs. Lola Ada White, 86, of 720 Earlean Barkley of Borger. Highland General Hospital Thursday Admissions Mrs. Ann Dawson, 1811 Christine.

Virgle Poole, 2421 Navajo Rd. Mrs. Helen M. Galyon, 317 Anne. Mrs.

Louise C. Sailor, 617 N. Wells. Frank H.Russell, Miami. Mrs.

Teresa J. Clark, 2016 Williston. Dismissals Mrs. Madeline Dunn, 1907 Faulkner. Joe Griffin.

2216 Hamilton. Mrs. Nelda Bossay, 1104 Sirroco. Eulas Morgan, Stinnett. Mrs.

Shirley Gourley, 1917 Lea. Coy Bennett, Perryton. Alvis F. Baird, 1105 Willow Rd. Ottice Kidwell Lefors.

Mainly about people Lone Star Squares will dance For Sale: Morgan Storage at 8 p.m. Saturday in the bull Building, 8x10, 429 N. Russell, barn with Sammy Parsley. Guests are welcome. Calico Capers Square Dance Club will dance at 8 p.m.

Saturday at the Pampa Youth Center. Sid Perkins, Amarillo, will call. The Retired Teachers will meet at 2 p.m. Monday in the Senior Citizens Center, 500 W. Francis.

Giant Garage Sale Sponsored by Rho Eta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. 20 girls lots of miscellaneous. Saturday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday afternoon. 1929N.Christy.

(Adv.) Police Jerry D. Mackie of 413 Magnolia reported to Pampa police that a 1975 Ford was taken from his car lot, Jerry Don's Used Cars, 400 W. Foster. James Tucker, 60, of 339 Crawford; Martha Gumn, 72, of 220 Houston; Ruby Lee Eastland, 51. of 716 S.

Gray; Sircy Crawford, 78, of 536 Maple and Viola Tucker, 60. of 339 Crawford, were fined $103.50 each in Municipal Court on a charge of selling alcoholic beverage on Sunday. A juvenile reported that two suspects took his bicycle from the parking lot of an Ideal store (Adv.) Garage Sale: Friday and Saturday. 812 and 816 N. Dwight.

(Adv.) For Sale: Good Nylon tarpaulin 26x12. Brown nylon 68" Simmons hide a bed, double Hollywood bed, springs, mattress. 665-8730. (Adv.) Your Personal touch is the warmest Holiday greeting. A new selection of personalized cards are now available at Las Pampas Galleries.

(Adv.) Granny's Korner, Shipment of boys Hooded Jackets, all sizes did not arrive. Only size 3 and 4. (Adv.) report and proceeded to vandalize it. Three suspects are in this case at this time. A Pampa woman went into a store leaving her purse in the vehicle.

When she returned her purse was gone. A non-injury accident took place in the 1400 block of N. Russell. Two juveniles were involved in a collision at 21st and Coffee. A 15 year old was charged with failure to yield to a vehicle.

Officers responded to 31 calls during ths 24-hour reporting that ended at 7 a.m. today. Marriages, Divorces Marriage Licenses Danny Tilman Boyd and Kimalea Dawn Snider. Kelvin Wayne Randall and Carol Kay Greenwood. David Wayne Alderson and Mary Louise Keeton.

Jimmie Ray Medley Jr. and Loretta Louise Crow. Gary Payton Jackson and Debra Lynn Martin. Clyde Alan Tidwell and Cathy Kay Rogers. Clyde Blythe Murray Jr.

and Jada Sue Mize. Divorces N.V. Kohler and D.B. Kohler. William Garrett and Betty M.

Garrett. Debbie Seitz and Aubrey Seitz. Barbara Pamela Harris and Johnny Lee Harris. Stock market Wonder sweeps grammies The following grain quotatloni are provided by heeler Grain of Pampa. "heat tt.llbu g.Mcwt Corn cwl The following quotations ihow the range within which theie fecuritlef could have been traded at the time of compilation.

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itock market quotation! are furnUhed by the Pampa Texas By The Associated Press Thunderstorm activity in West Texas ended early today, leaving most of the state under clear to partly cloudy skies, but forecasters warned of more thunderstorm activity later today in West Texas and in extreme Southeast Texas. There were no reports of significant rainfall early today. Early morning temperatures were slightly warmer than readings earlier in the week. Most of the state had readings in the 70s although a few readings in the 60s were noted in the Panhandle. Some early office of Schneider Bernet Hickman.

Inc. Beatrice Fooda Cabot Celaneae Cllka Service DIA Kerr-McGee Penney'a MM Phillfpi PNA Celly Southwestern Pub. Service Standard Oil of Indiana Teuco weather morning readings included 66 at Amarillo. 72 at Wichita Falls, 70 at Texarkana, 81 at Dallas-Fort Worth, 73 at Waco, 70 at Lufkin, 69 at Houston, 74 at Corpus Christi. 72 at Brownsville, 76 at Del Rio and San Angelo, 73 at El Paso and 69 at Lubbock.

Forecasts called for clear to partly cloudy skies statewide, with the possibility of widely scattered thunderstorm activity in West and Southeast Texas. Afternoon highs were expected to be in the 80s and 90s statewide. National weather LOS ANGELES (AP) Rock music, in the first of many, many awards shows in this new television season, has named Stevie Wonder pop-rock's singer of the year. So what else is new? Wonder, who swept last year's Grammy Awards, was a big winner in Thursday night's Third Annual Rock Music Awards, being named Best Mate Vocalist. His album.

"Songs In the Key of Life." won the best rhythm and blue award. Linda Ronstadt was rock's best female singer, according to a panel of rock music critics whose winners were honored in NBC's nationally televised production Thursday evening. Fleetwood Mac was named the year's best group. Fleetwood Mac, whose album "Rumors" was atop the charts through most of the year, was also named rock personality of year. Their album also won the best producer award.

As is common with television awards shows. Thursday's rock music affair was as much an excuse to spend two hours in front of the television cameras as it was an homage to an art. But rock impresario Don Kirshner's nationally televised extravaganza was at least a snappy bit of razzle dazzle offering some of the best rock acts available. Among those performing in the quick-paced show were Rod Stewart. Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, George Benson, and hog Peter Frampton.

Much to the delight of the crowd at the Hollywood Pala- dium. Wonder turned over his "Rocky" to Otis Black well, composer of some of Elvis Presley's most popular tunes. Wonder paid an emotional tribute to Presley who died Aug. 16 and gave his statuette to the man who wrote such Pres- ley tunes as "Don't Be Cruel," and "Return to Sender." Kirshner's music awards show, one of several awards shows honoring pop musicians, named Boston the best new group of the year and Yvonne Elliman. whose "Love Me" was a big hit this year, best new female singer.

Stephen Bishop, who had a tut with "Save it for a Rainy Day." was named beg new male linger. By The Associated Press Cool weather continued over the Pacific Northwest and New England early today. Temperatures in the 40s and SOs stretched from Washington and Oregon to the northern Rockies, and from northern New England into northeastern New York. The cooler air should move into the Dakotas and it's triggering some thunderstorms. Light precipitation fell early today in the northwest.

Isolated showers and thunderstorms were in Montana and a few showers dampened Oregon. Elsewhere in the nation, temperatures are closer to seasonal levels mostly in the 60s and 70s. Most of the precipitation nationwide early today was over the upper Ohio River Valley and through the southern Appalachians. But other thundershowers were scattered from western Texas through the Plains, and in Florida and the Carolines. Most of the nation had cloudy skies overnight, but California, the southern intermoutain region and parts of Texas and Minnesota were clear.

Here are some early morning temperatures and conditions from around the nation and Canada: Eastern U.S. Atlanta 71 drizzle. Boston 59 cloudy. Chicago 66 foggy. Cincinnati 69 cloudy, Cleveland 62 showery.

Detroit 62 foggy, Indianapolis 71 rain. Louisville 70 cloudy. Miami 89 cloudy, Nashville 72 cloudy,.