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The Reporter from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin • 6

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Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
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Greatest exodus in history under way throughout world By PETER ARNETT Ptj it. a s.d.r, My Tne Reporter Is U.S. sweet tooth going sour? going our, victim of celery By ROBERT C. RADCLIFFE the Mekong River in Thailand to see 300 shivering hill tribesman who had just swum over from Laos. In Malaysia, we rode a launch into the South China Sea for three hours to visit the island of Bidong, where 30,000 Vietnamese refugees were crammed.

We had many moments on our six-week journey. Greek Cypriot schoolgirls practicing homecraft decorously fed us tea and cakes in their schoolroom. We received numerous proposals of marriage at Botswana' Dukwi camp, where there are 5,000 single women. When Adams accidentally left his personal papers on the Bulywao express, we frantically chased the train in an automobile for an hour through the clear African morning, to be told by the guard at the siding where we flagged it to a stop that "I was about to mail them back to you anyway." There were heavy moments. The aura of hopelessness at many camps was difficult to shake, despite the usually shining faces of the children.

We saw the very young dying in primitive hospitals. And heard terrifying tales of man's inhumanity to man. The only real setback came at Dacca, where Bangladesh authorities refused to allow us to visit the camps near the Burmese border, where 10,000 refugees had recently died from disease and malnutrition. Almost everywhere else we had a sense that a real effort was being made to try to come to grips with the ever-enlarging problem of the world's homeless people. AND EDDIE ADAM8 AP Special Corm potidcnts We traveled 45,000 mile along the back roads of four continent to find the world' homeles people.

The assignment grew out of stories on the desperate plight of thousands across Indochina' land and sea borders. What about others In similar plights around the world? So we started down a trail of tears and found that the most widespread exodus of refugee in history is under way. They are spilling over international borders all over the globe and filling a "fourth world," where millions of homeless and hopeless live in poverty, fear and frustration. Our journey began in Geneva where officials of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees was struggling to unravel the political and logistics tangles of the refugee world. We went on to Austria, where families who had fled Eastern Europe years earlier had ended up stateless and unwanted in the West.

In Cyprus and the Middle East we found refugee populations locked in baleful confrontation. But elsewhere, they were tucked in remote corners of the Third World, rarely visited by journalists. In the tiny Red Sea country of Djibouti, we rode in jeeps past the last outposts of the French Foreign Legion to windswept border camps. We chugged through the green gamelands of Botswana on a 14-hour train ride to Rhodesian border settlements. A young American missionary drove us boldly 150 miles along eyes, sherbet dab and jelly babies.

"Behind their mythologically stiff upper lips," dentist wrote the London Times about his fellow Englishmen, "hang some of the sweetest, rottenest teeth in the world." Americans produced about 3.1 billion pounds of candy during 1978, says the Commerce Department, all sold at an average of $1 a pound. Biggest-selling candies of all time are Life Savers, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, which calculates that if all 25 trillion rolls sucked on from 1923 to 1973 were stacked on top of each other, the hole in the middle would be million miles deep. of science, checking out test-tube research suggesting there is something in chocolate heat-resistant, water-soluble protein that, In the language of toothpaste, "fights dental decay." If true, candy makers speculate, perhaps this wonder substance could be added to non-chocolate candy to help protect against cavities. (Candy makers, incidentally, spend each working day alternately tasting batches of their production and brushing or rinsing their teeth.) Meanwhile, candy lovers everywhere keep demonstrating "how sweet it is." World' champion candy eaters are the British, who are fond of gobbling toffees, licorice bootlaces, bulls' National beographlc News Service WASHINGTON Candy is dandy, but maybe not as dandy as it used to be. Americans aren't eating as much of it anymore.

Last year, say the Department of Commerce, we each consumed only 14.9 pounds of chocolate and other candies. That's down from 15.4 pounds per American in 1977. Nobody yet knows why we are consuming less, but the National Geographic News Service wonders whether: We think we are eating as much candy as ever, but are fooled by the ever-shrinking American candy bar. The American sweet tooth is sticks and other health foods. Dieting fans and nutritionists are making their weight felt.

Dentists are gradually getting their way, just as the nations kids have always feared. Candy makers, far from being tongue-in-cheek about any of this, nevertheless don't sound worried. The country's 15,000 chocolate candy stores report their best-ever sales for Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day. Beyond that, candy makers hope they may soon be able to announce that "chocolate is good for your teeth Volunteers in Boston are munching away in the interest Face of homeless This is just one of the faces of the world's homeless people. According to AP special correspondents Peter Arnett and Eddie Adams, the most widespread exodus of refugees in history is underway.

First person i tup What is Great Pyramid saying? AT COMMUNITY SAVINGS "V' aw By EMMY HENSCHEL Reporter Staff Writer KIEL "Is the Great Pyramid really prophesying the physical destruction of the world, or simply a dramatic change in man's relationship to man by the turn of the century? Only time will tell," says Max Toth, a pyramidologist and professor of parapsychology. Toth, a New York City resident, showed more than 300 slides, limestoe and granite "pyramid rocks," books used in his research and discussion of the prophecies of Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus (a contemporary of Michelangleo and Leonardo da Vinci), ancient manuscripts, translations and interpretations during a recent weekend retreat and workshop at Munedowk Foundation Retreat Center, Route 1, Kiel. The workshop revolved around Toth's new book, "Pyramid Prophecies." Toth also is the author of "Pyramid Power," a book published in several languages around the world. Toth is professor of parapsychology at St. Francis College in New York.

He will lead tours to the Great Pyramd in Egypt in October and again in 1980. He also plans tours to Mexico and South America in 1980 and China in 1981 to explore ancient civilizations. 1 In his new book, Toth lists what he calls the "most current predictions based on the Great Pyramid." The list includes: 1979 to 1991 The world will be turned on its side because a cataclysm will alter the earth's axis. There will be major changes in the climate of the world. A new spiritual influence will infiltrate and enlighten the world's leaders.

Lands will rise and sink because of war, and cataclysms will be brought on by rain. 1995 to 2025 A new human society with a purely spiritual allegiance will form. Natural eruptions, electrical storms and other natural disturbances will become a way of life. Civilization will continue to decline, reaching its final collapse around 2025, and then a new civilized society will be established. 2034 A sign of the Messiah's appearance will be emblazoned in the sky 2040 The Messiah returns incarnated in a physical body.

2055 to 2080 Materialistic progress reawakens with expanded growth of prosperity and achievement. 2080 to 2115 A new spiritual attitude expands and mankind's consciousness will rise to new heights. Circa 2116 The Messiah passes, but is reincarnated again. Jean Dixon, who is known nationally for her predictions appeared at Munedowk last year, and several persons concerned with extraerrestrial phenomenon have participated in conferences at Munedowk. Toth told his audience that symbolic data interpreted from the Great Pyramid are so complex that they allow many variations, regarded by many as inconsistent and scarce in detail.

In his book, Toth points out that 16th century predictions by a man named Nostradamus parallel in many ways predictions from the Great Pyramid for the turn of the century in the year 2000. According to Nostrdamus, who based his predictions on astrological signs, a great war will occur around 2000 and nuclear holocaust could precipitate 40 years of rain followed by 40 years of drought. He predicted that between now and 2000, a new land would be seen in the Middle East near Syria, Jordan and Israel, said another new land would develop in the Western hemisphere with a new city as its capital. According to Toth, the predictions by Nostradamus say the new city in the West will be bombarded by earhquakes and volcanic eruptions. Nostradamus also said war would break ouit in 1999 and continue through 2044.

"We should be aware that all the pyramid scholars refer to the King James version of the OPTf3 FOR SAVING $300 OR MO I Choose from a tremendous selection of handy and practical summertime gift items, when you open an account or add to your present account in the amount of $300 or more. $5000 DEPOSIT PLUS FREE FOR SAVING $300 FREE FOR SAVING $1000 FREE FOR SAVING $5,000 OR MORE ADDITIONAL COST Max Toth, pyramid author Bible," said Toth, "which, according to canonical scholars, has long ago been rejected as not being the best translation available. They use in its place the Revised Standard Version and even the Jerusalem Bible because they believe them to be more reliable. Toth says some pyramidologists since the 1800s have visualized the Great Pyramid as a Bible in stone. They believe the pyramids were used as temples, not as tombs.

They sought to prove that the Bible and the Great Pyramid were equal. According to Toth, the Great Pyramid has come to be seen as representing the planet earth, with the missing capstone as Jesus Christ. The internal passageways and chambers of the pyramid have been defined as the soul's progression through earthly life. Toth asked, "Is the Bible the best possible link to the code of the ancients? The correlation of the metrics of the Great Pyramid and the Bible seem to to conform quite readily, and it appears that the Great Pyramid prophesied events as written in the Bible or does it?" Toth told his audience of one account by author Paul Sedir of the importance of the Great Pyramid. Sedir wrote: "Inheritors of the antediluvian traditions, they (bedouins and nomads) knew that the pyramid, together with the Sphinx, was one of the stony books in which the patriarchs deposited all the keys of their knowledge.

The geodesic position of the pyramid, its orientation, exterior and interior measurements, the angularities of its edges and passageways, the position of its rooms, all give the elements of general and earthly astronomy, geography, sociology, laws and political and religious history, as well as those of physiology and psychology." PRESTO 6-OT. CHICKEN FRYER WEED EATER CLIPPER TRIMMER GOURMET CARVING SET 3 PC. GARDEN TOOL SET MEN'S UMBRELLA 18" TABLE-TOP BBQ GRILL OWENS VARSITY MULTI-PURPOSE BLANKET 6 WILSON GOLF BALLS 3 PC ANCHOR HOCKING BASKET BUFFET MELNOR AOUA QUEEN OSCILLATING SPRINKLER 1 DOZ WILSON GOLF BALLS RAIN FOLD UMBRELLA AND SCARF 72" 90" BLANKET TELESCOPE HIGH BACK LAWN CHAIR SWING-A-WAV ICE CRUSHER PICNIC BASKET AND PLASTIC UTENSILS BLACK AND DECKER INSULATED JIG SAW NORTHERN ELECTRIC 1200 WATT FOLDING HAIR DRYER Community Savings now pays 1 Af Compounded daily Compounded daily taf to an annual yield of to an annual yield of ON ALL PASSBOOK SAVINGS ACCOUNTS Community Savings is offering a new 4 year Certificate. The rate for this new certificate is announced on the first of each month. The A substantial interest penalty is required for early withdrawal of certificates.

Community Savings hos adopted a new lower minimum balance of $100 on all certificates of deposit. quoted rate will be guaranteed for the full 4 years of the certificate. Call or visit any of our offices for the current rote. Coastermaniacs meet 'The Beast' COMMUNITY SAVINGS the feeling of dropping into a hole beneath the ground when you're looking down on it from 135 feet!" "The Beast" takes riders over 7,400 feet of track in three minutes and 40 seconds, also a record, and as a windup plummets them down a last 141-foot drop, the longest in the world, to go caterwauling through a 540-degree helix where centrifugal force and gravity combine to make true believers out of even such veteran coasters as the members of the Chicago-based American Coaster Enthusiasts. Kings Island, the family entertainment center situated at Kings Mills, 20 minutes north of Cincinnati on 1-71, also offers its white-knuckle Twin Racer Coaster which, when it opened in 1972, inaugurated the new age of roller coasting in America.

While, no doubt, "The Beast" will grab the limelight at Kings Island this season, the park also is the land of Hanna-Barbaras Fred Flintstone and Yogi Bear, and is as well-known for its live shows as it is for its thrill rides. The park's American Heritage Music Hall offers the hit Broadway revue, "New York, New York," featuring some of the nation's brightest young stars as well as the new "Yabba Dabba Doo Caperoo." Huckleberry Hound's debonair appearance at a Parisian sidewalk cafe is a highlight, but so are episodes in a haunted house in Dracula's Transylvania and a Chinese New Year's Celebration in Hong Kong. The audience gets into the act oo, much to the delight of young visitors, who cheer the favorite Hanna-Barbara characters that have come to life before their eyes. Admission prices at Kings Island are $9.50, with children two years of age and under admitted free; $5.95 after 5 p.m. on Fridays only; and senior citizens 60 years of age and over, $7 The 22-minute monorail train ride requires an additional $1 ticket.

Special rates are available for church. Scout, school, company or other groups. KINGS ISLAND, Ohio -America's 50 million roller coastermaniacs are lining up for a close encounter of the screaming kind with "The Beast," which opened this season at Kings Island, Ohio. The lair of "The Beast" is a heavily wooded jumble of ravines and cliffs carved out of the hills by the Little Miami River.There "The Beast" starts by whooping down a 135-foot vertical drop, plunging into a tunnel in the ground at 70 miles per hour. "When you're at the top of one of those hills, and you see those tunnels, they'll look like rat holes," says Gary Kyriazi, nationally known coaster historian and expert.

"Imagine AND LOAN ASSOCIATION MAIN AT DIVISION FOND DU LAC PHONE 922-5400 Lobby Hours: Open Mon. Thurs. 8:30 a.m. to 4 Friday 8:30 a m. to 7 m.

Drive-Up Hours: Open Mon. Thurs 8:30 a.m. to p.m.; Friday 8:30 am to 8 p.m.; Saturday 9 am. til Noon Offices in Fond du Lac. Campbellsport and Omro MEMBER FSLIC.

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