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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 50

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CORPUS CHR1ST1 CALLER Thun Apr IS im Crime spreading like wildfire in national park system leave their things out like they wouldn't do In the city" said Larry Hakel chief ranger of the Shenandoah National Park Hakel said the most serious crime in the last three years was a rape last season but lesser offenses have risen dramatically should be aware when tney come to the park they cannot anticipate as in years past that they will be free of the possibility of Hakel aid In the National Park Service's three urban park systems violent crime is Increasing and Washington has been the site of most of it US Park Police reported increased because of a hiring freeze Meanwhile park officials are experimenting with a novel "physical security' program All park service employes are supposed to "imagine themsflvei as criminally to make them more sensitive to possible examples of lax security 61 rapes in the capital's parks last year compared to only me in San Francisco parks and none in Near parks Washington also account ed for more than 60 per cent of the robberies and assaults in national parks Of-' ficials said these statistics might be misleading since they Include a massive number of Incidents that occurred on Human Kindness Day 1979 last May on The Mall The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Park is an excellent example of the problem park officials say they face Stretching 189 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland Md the park Includes both urban and rural areas while msny more have been up pretty Mid a park ranger Officials want Congress to appropriate money to hire more park police and rangers While the number of visitors at the almost 300 national parks reached a record high last year the number of park law enforcement officials has not Near Georgetown rapes assaulU and robberies are the major types of crime But in rural areas park police say vandalism has become the worst problem Only 10 rangers patrol the strip of parkland Last month two of the park's 200 historic buildings were burned down in what officials believe was arson WASHINGTON -They're not planning te bring Smokey the Bear out of retirement but official! of the National Park Serv-iee would like to promote their lateat prevention campaign ThJi time it ii not foreat 1 firea although they arc still a haurd but crime that is threatening the wilderness' dent want te create a panic among the public or be Big Brother" said a spokesman for the parks service Although violent crimes such as rape and murder still are rare in the wilderness they are occur ring more frequently on an- tional parklands accessible te large cities Offenses such as bur glary and car thelt have ri sen significantly out the national park system and vandalism has become almost epidemic -Since 1173 for example burglary and larcencies have risen by about S3 per cent and auto thefts by more than 71 per cent Park officials estimate that the damage to public and private properties caused by vandalism ex -ceeded 1116000 last year and that the total loss for all 1 crimes would run into the millions The officials largely blame the carelessness of the people using the parks especially the folk" who leave their double locked homes for a week end in the wilderness people really are lulled when they arrive in the wilderaessand they THESE ITEMS AVAILABLE ONLY AT LADIES' MIX MATCH SETS SOFT PWR 166 POLYESTER FOR A PRETTY FEM-HNM LOOK AT A VERT SPECIAL PRIO-SiZBi 110 II A mourn JACKET BUTTON TAB SKIRT ht a fashion sma arjcQ PANTS nuim iiaa SHELL ua sr9 HATCMMO Aaa SHIRT uai 0 OOOO THURSDAY THRU WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 THRU APRIL 21 LADIES' FASHION T-YOPS 99 GIRL'S NYLON MISS-UP FOR EASTER WITH WHITE OR ASSORTED G0L0RS-0UR REGULAR 79c Adviet horn Ann Landsn to twlp you cop in Uw Corpus Chritti Cellar LAMES' POlYESia GABARDINE Read ft April It in SCRATCH AND SNIFF GIRL'S TOPS 27 sn-oa vsbt ssaa near ream ana bmmtim uops caow not asn JSRKMTCSMSMHITSN imam mu mu ust usa sms I It It 1 14 ItLtf SHORTS fspsf MS 1tf LADIES' MOCK TWIN SET 33 naar ansa an ai aborts 14-tSI pssru smrt sunn ties st MUMS ftAEM JEANS SaLLRaRHRRIN LAMES' POLYESTER FASHION SHORTS 14-OZ K1VT esan BBICB CUTfUtf on OGSIAIf warn nu mama um nTmm am GUAYADERAS manual Richard Rodgan: StiniMdMf "Ihskal Stiff" Kinf mJ had I Kfilf mute Flat JU I hw 1 bent SUmrtt muief He's been stage-struck since the ago of seven and ever since then nothing has prevented Richard Rodgers from fulfilling his early musical promise Even today In his seventies the genius who collaborated on such hits as Pacific" Sound of Music" "Oklahoma" is indefatigable He's got a new musical based on the life and loves of Henry VIII Read about the musical magician who lives inside the modest genteel Rodgers Find out why he feels he owes much of his success to his wife of 46 years Dorothy and why for him work is a matter of sur-! 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