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VOL. 101-NO. 135 THE MUNCIE STAR "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Cor. 3:17 MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1977 PHONE 747-5700 FIFTEEN CENTS Queen Defies Bomb Threat, Then Blast Hits Campus BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) A bomb exploded Thursday on the campus of a university where less than five hours earlier Queen Elizabeth had defied a terrorist bomb threat by hosting a garden party and delivering a plea for "peace and stability." The bomb, which police described as "less than 10 pounds," went off as the queen sailed from Northern Ireland at the end of a violence-marred, two-day visit. Police sources said they believed the bomb was planted after the queen had departed and security had been lifted.

It exploded some 300 yards from the nearest building visited by the queen. The riots, arson and sniper attacks that exploded in Belfast Wednesday, on July Wholesale Price Index JULY INDEX 194.8 LOWER FOOD COSTS DOWN 0.1% the first day of her visit, were not repeated Thursday. But hours before the queen was to fly by helicopter to the University of Coleraine, the outlawed Irish Republican Army warned it had "breached the tight security" at the university and hinted it had planted one or more bombs on the 300-acre campus. The queen was told of the warning during the five-mile flight from the royal yacht Britannia to the school. Officials said she made a personal decision to carry on, but her landing was delayed and its touchdown point changed.

The queen, dressed in blue and white silk, appeared smiling and relaxed as she and Prince Philip toured the starkly modern university, opened in 1968, Another Drop in Wholesale Prices May Signal Mild Inflation This Year WASHINGTON (UPI) Lower food costs sent wholesale prices down in July for the second month in a row, signaling only mild inflation for the rest of 1977, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The July decrease of 0.1 per cent and June's 0.7 per cent drop represented the first consecutive monthly declines in 21 years. "This is reasonably good news," said Courtenay Slater, one of the administration's top economists. She said moderate inflation is likely for the rest of the year. Prices declined both for raw food at the farm and in various stages of preparation on the way to super- markets, the department said.

As a result, consumer-ready foods were only 0.4 per cent higher than April, at a seasonally adjusted compound annual rate, for the smallest gain this year. The easing food prices began showing up in grocery stores in recent weeks. Specifically, the report pin-pointed lower prices for poultry, oilseeds, raw cotton, grains, tea, roasted coffee and fish and dairy products. The important sector of industrial commodities metals, machinery, lumber and electric power also contributed to the good economic news, although the 0.5 per cent increase was slightly more than in June. Prices for metals, lumber, textiles, Hurley Goodall Chosen for HRC Top Executive By RICK YENCER Star Staff Reporter In a two-hour city's Human (HRC) voted to ley Goodall as succeeding Carmichael.

Dr. I. P. Broaddus, president of the mission, barred media representatives, HRC staff ployes and other zens from meeting, indicating the commission planning to executive session, the Rights Commission appoint firefighter Hurits executive director, Lanny comnews emciti- the GOODALL was discuss GOODALL the findings of a special committee enpaneled to recommend a new director. After the meeting, commission members refused to comment on what took place, although The Star learned the commission voted up to four times in an effort to name, Goodall as its executive.

The motion appointing Goodall included a clause indicating if Goodall did not accept the position before Carmichael's departure, he would be disqualified from the appointment. Several commission members during the meeting questioned whether Goodall could take the position since he is presently a fireman. But Goodall has over 19 years on the force and is expected to retire within the next few months. Goodall later told The Star he had not been advised of the HRC's action and had no comment on it except to say that he had sought the job and was aware of the problem involving his retirement. He said he had told the HRC in a job interview that he could not work full-time until he qualified for his firemen's pension.

Goodall was reportedly one of three candidates submitted in the committee's report to the commission. It was not known who the other two candidates were, although all three employes of the HRC office including associate director Bertha Mason and complaint investigator, submitted Rev. their Richard Howard had applications. Jack Blackmon, chairman of the special personnel committee released a statement following the meeting, indicating the commission had accepted the committee's findings and would contact the candidate at the top of the list to be appointed as executive director. Asked why the commission did not hold a public meeting to approve the report, Blackmon replied issue "was a personnel matter," and the commission was not to hold public meetings to take such action.

Blackmon also denied the commission voted to approve a candidate, but did say a candidate had been "selected." The appointment of Goodall to the staff was made by a slim majority, although there was no count taken in the actual voting. Mrs. Mason claimed Broaddus and other commission members have attempted to control the selection of a new director and have been strong opponents of her appointment. "This whole selection process has been secret and- now they are even making the appointment secret," said the associate director. Motive Sought in Murder of Pregnant Store Clerk PORTLAND Authorities refused to speculate Thursday on any motive for the apparent strangulation death of a pregnant department store clerk pending reports of an autopsy.

Jay County Prosecutor Robert Clamme issued a statement to the press Thursday afternoon saying only that the body of 29-year-old Ruth Ann Moses was found at her home at 211 W. Seventh St. between 7 and 8 a.m. Local sources indicated however that her body' was found lying on a couch with a piece of cloth wrapped around her neck. Police Chief Mike Lemaster, and county authorities denied such information had been released and refused to comment.

The body was discovered by her eleven-year-old daughter Susan Marie Lee at approximately 8 a.m. and sources indicated a two-year-old son Shannon Michael Lee, was sleeping in the house at the time of the discovery. County Coroner Robert Pyle said the body has been taken to Indiana University Medical Center at Bloomington where an autopsy is expected to be performed today. No suspects have been taken into custody and neither Clamme nor Lemaster would commit on possible motives. Clamme also refused to answer ques- Rain Thursday Totals Three and Half Inches By MIKE HILL Star Staff The thunderstorm that battered the Muncie area Thursday dropped more than three and one-half inches of rain and caused several incidents of wind water damage.

County and city police reported some trees and power lines down, but no injuries related to the storm. Numerous city streets were flooded, and at the peak of rush-hour traffic parts of Wheeling, Madison and Memorial were impassable. Muncie Fire Department No. 1 squad rescued three 'elderly citizens about 4 p.m. who were stranded in their car with water up to the dashboard at the underpass on South Madison Street.

Lt. Phil Granger of the fire department said they spotted the vehicle in feet of water while returning from a fire alarm. The car was stalled in the water and floating when firemen arrived. Assisting Granger were Sgt. Mitch Upchurch, and firefighters Tim Collins and Gerald Clemens.

High winds in New Castle brought a large sign at Payne Village Shopping Center down two parked cars, crushing the roofs of both. New Castle police said the cars were owned by Jane Farringer, 48, Rushville, and Ethel M. Clark, 71, New Castle. Mrs. Clark was in her car when the sign feel but escaped injury.

High winds in Henry County blew a garage wall off at a residence near the New Castle Airport, Henry County Sheriff's Department reported. The roof of an airport office building was also blown off. A Muncie lady who was taking off the CB antenna on her car during the storm received a shock when the antenna was hit by lightning. Nancy Connally, 1121 W. 18th St.

was taken to Ball Hospital where she was treated and released. Richard Hammes, Muncie Water Works Co. plant operator, said three and one-half inches of rain fell in Muncie Thursday. About one inch was estimated to have fallen between 3:45 and 4:35 p.m. Cutting Them Off Members of Muncie REACT help direct motorists away from the flooded railroad underpass on South Madison Street which remained closed due to high water through the night.

Torrential where she made the only speech of her two-day Northern Ireland tour. She turned her televised five-minute address into a ringing call for an end to violence and a return to normal life in the province wracked by eight years of strife between majority Protestants and minority Catholics. She said there was a "clear and continuing responsibility for us all to bring back peace and stability to this community. "People everywhere recognized that violence is senseless and wrong," she said. "Their clear message is that it must stop.

And that is my prayer, too." More than 32,300 British troops and Ulster police were deployed to keep that violence away from the queen. The Coleraine campus was ringed with four miles of barbed wire. Security men said they combed it "literally inch by inch." Police were everywhere. Their vigilance was spurred by the IRA warning to the queen, whom they called "Elizabrit," that this would be "your day to remember." "Clear the buildings of all civilians," it said. "Clear the grounds of children.

Any bomb fatalities or serious injuries will be your responsibility." But the only bomb reported was in Belfast, 54 miles to the southeast, where a filling station was set afire. There were no injuries. The IRA and its Catholic supporters want Britain to leave Northern Ireland and hand it over to an all-Ireland republic. Catholics comprise one third of the province's 1.5 million residents. Stickman Walter McMahon, who lives nearby, tries to unclog a storm drain to ease the flood Thursday at Elm and Columbus streets.

(Star Photo) Reporter machinery and hides put upward pressure on industrial commodities. But the department said this was partially offset by a slower rate of increase for fuels, transportation equipment and minerals and declines for chemicals, furniture and household durables. The 0.7 per cent decline in wholesale prices during June broke the back of a nine-month inflation spiral. That drop along with the one in July marked the first consecutive declines since February and March, 1975, The July Wholesale Price Index stood at 194.8 in July using the 1967 base of 100. That means wholesale buyers paid $194.80 for goods last month that would have cost $100 a decade earlier.

Essex Union Votes Down Company Offer ELWOOD, Ind (UPI) Striking auto workers union members Thursday again voted down a contract proposal from the Essex International Corp. playote by United Auto Workers Local 1663 was reported as 140 against the proposed three-year agreement to eight for. The company earlier said the offer restructured all economic and non-economic issues that remained unsettled before the strike started, April 6. The union leaders recommended rejection and said the proposal offered no gains for the four -month idleness. The company proposed a 62-cent-an-hour raise over three years, but altered a previous offer breaking down the increase by 35-15-2 to 42-10-10.

The strike has involved several periods of violence, including gunfire from both sides that prompted Gov. Otis Bowen to order the 60 riot-trained state troopers. One woman was wounded and hospitalized during one incident that the union blamed on private guards and company hired to protect its plant. The plant was reopened last month by using what it called "permanent replacement a statement late Thursday, Essex officials said it was "disappointed" the union membership rejected the latest offer. It added it had no alternative but to continue limited production by using the 90 non-union employes hired to replace the strikers.

Before the strike, Essex had 220 employes mostly women. The company manufactures plastic electronic connectors for the automotive industry. County Police Car Pops Pole, Breaks Hydrant A Delaware County police detective en route to answer a burglary call, Thursday night knocked down a power transformer that left several electrical lines down in a flooded area of South Walnut Street. Shortly before 10 p.m., Mike Kelso lost control of his unmarked county police car when he hit a flooded area at the 2600 block of South Walnut near 23rd Street. Kelso's car broke off a fire hydrant before running into a utility pole and snapping off the transformer and upper 15 feet of the pole.

Residents in the area said the accident caused the sky to light up several times when the electrical wires were snapped. Motorists were advised to stay out of the area until the damage could be repaired. Units from the Muncie police and fire departments were summonned to the scene to block off traffic. Indiana Michigan Electric Company was dispatched to disconnect the downed wires, and company representatives said power would be turned off in the area until the lines could be repaired. Kelso was not injured in the accident but extensive damage occurred to the front end of his county car.

A damage estimate was not available. Muncie Water Works Company was also notified to shut off the water flowing out of the broken hydrant. at the Underpass rain swept the city in the late afternoon causing several incidents of stranded cars and blocked roadways. (Star Photo by Jerry Joschko) Suspect Says Dog Told Him to Kill FROM THE WIRE SERVICES NEW YORK A former auxiliary policeman, charged with the six "Son of Sam" murders and believed setting out to stage a final gun bloodbath when captured, was ordered Thursday to undergo psychiatric examination. The suspect, David Berkowitz, 24, a postal worker, was arrested as he started his car for a night journey to a Long Island discotheque where he planned to "go out in a blaze of glory" by "killing everybody," according to an officer who questioned him.

Police said the suspect told them he had been ordered to commit the murders by a neighbor's dog. The neighbor's name was Sam Carr. Berkowitz was ordered held in maximum security without bail pending psychiatric tests. In a year-long reign of terror, "Son of Sam" ambushed 13 persons most of them couples parked in lovers' lanes in widely scattered parts of the city. Five young women and a young man were killed.

Seven other persons were wounded. Most of "Son of Sam's" targets were pretty girls with long, dark hair, and Berkowitz once joked to a female postal worker that she should tie up her hair to avoid becoming one of Sam's victims. Detectives quoted Berkowitz as saying he killed on command of "Sam, who was described as Berkowitz' 64- year-old neighbor's dog. "I was doing it for Sam. Sam can do anything.

I was driven to do it by Sam," officers quoted Berkowitz as saying. In the hours of questioning following his arrest, police said, Berkowitz showed no remorse, but revealed himself to be a person motivated by the bizarre fantasy that he had been given his orders to kill through the barkings of the neighboring resident's black Labrador retriever. Carr, the dog's owner, has a backyard that was just below Berkowitz's seventh floor apartment window. In the past Berkowitz had objected to Carr about his dog's barking. Carr, a cantankerous answering service owner, told police that he believed Berkowitz once shot at his dog, wounding it but not killing it.

Carr also said that "about three weeks ago" he went to police to report, that Berkowitz could be the killer. Police were checking their files to see if they could confirm Carr's claim. Whatever happened between the two men seemed irrelevant, police sources said, because Berkowitz claimed that he was getting his instructions to attack through the voice of Sam Carr's large black dog. "I'll tell you something," said one key officer in the investigation early Thursday morning. "This guy will never spend a day in jail.

You can't quote me on this, but I've listened to him and he's completely wacko. I mean gone. It's straight to the loony bin for (Other Stories on Page By DIANE LITTLETON Star Staff Reporter tions concerning the cause or time of death. Neighbors indicated Mrs. Moses was pregnant at the time of her death and said she had been living at the present address only since early spring when she married her third husband, Joe Moses.

He filed for divorce Aug. 5. Mrs. Moses had formerly been married Ronald E. of Portland, and divorced him earlier this year.

She was a clerk for Sutton's department store in Portland. "She was always pleasant and nice to talk to," Irene Heniser, 219 W. Seventh said. "I noticed her car sitting out there and I thought she hadn't gone to work yet. I didn't see or hear anything unusual." Mrs.

Glen Theurer, who lives across the street from Mrs. Moses at 204 W. Seventh St. said "I didn't see or hear a thing unusual. I was talking on the phone and I saw the police come up.

She seemed like a nice woman, kind of quiet. We didn't really neighbor that Her husband added that he left for work at 7:15 a.m. and noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Mrs. Moses was born in Flint, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. LeRoy H. Morrison, on April 19, 1948. She is survived by her husband and two children. Funeral arrangements are pending at Baird-Freeman Funeral Home.

Church Says He's Found Friend in Castro HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) Cuban President Fidel Castro, in a gesture of "good will," has agreed to allow the Cuban families of 80 to 100 American citizens to leave Cuba, Sen. Frank Church said Thursday. Church also announced Castro has released two American boats and their American crews. "I leave with the impression I have found a friend," said Church, D-Idaho, at a joint news conference with the Cuban president at Jose Marti International airport at the end of a fourday stay. The agreement to allow the Cuban families of Americans to leave Cuba represented "an important gesture of good will by President Castro," Church said.

Castro said, "It was a humanitarian question to which I am sensitive" and added the families could have gone back with Church if they could have been located right away. The families have been prohibited from leaving Cuba while their American spouses have been free to leave the island for some time. The new agreement will the Cuban relatives to travel to the United States. On his return to Washington, Church said Castro had told him Cuban authorities had released two U.S. boats, and their American crews, recently seized in Cuba's territorial waters.

One of those boats, the "Nita was seized last June 20 with a cargo of marijuana. Its two crew members were Donnie Rebozo, a close relative of Richard Nixon's friend Bebe Rebozo, and Byron Moore, both from Miami. The name of the other boat and its crew members were not disclosed by Church. Moore's wife, Monica, is suffering of cancer and her plea to Castro regarding her husband's whereabouts was brought to his attention by Church's wife Bettina. Castro said he had asked Church to convey to President Carter his views on the outstanding issues standing in the way of improved U.S.-Cuban relations.

Church said after leaving Cuba he had asked the President for a meeting. Castro said he and Church also talked: about such issues as Africa but declined" to be specific. "These are all complex issues and will take time to sort out," Castro said. Neither Church nor Castro said anything about 23 Americans held in Cuban jails on various charges, including seven accused of CIA-linked political crimes..