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1 Oct. 15, 1977 DES MOINES KEGIS TtR 3A REGISTER PHOTO IV FLINT BORN Pie shoved in Anita Bryant's face by homosexual here she cries BABY NICKI WOULDN'T SIT ON FORD'S LAP 1 1 Memorial Auditorium, where other gay activists were to demonstrate. "One pie a day is fine," said Higgins. Asked if such actions don't hurt the cause of homosexuals, Higgins said the act was "a statement, and a rather eloquent one." He charged that "a million, no make that thousands of homosexuals are out of work because of Anita Bryant." Asked what he had proved by the pie-throwing, Higgins said "We have another bigot with a sticky face." Right after the pie incident, a young man rushed forward and opened his coat to try to shield Bryant from photographers. Bryant later identified him as Ken Kelly, a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, who is traveling with the Bryant entourage.

Kelly said the 'pie incident was "obscene" and he didn't think it should be photographed. Bryant appeared later on Jim Zabel's talk show on WHO radio. Zabel observed that "Iowa beat Minnesota last week in football. Maybe they're getting even." Shortly after the incident, Bryant showed she had regained her anti-homosexual sense of humor. "At least it was a fruit pie," she said.

She repeated the line later on Zabel's radio show. Green said he was frightened by the incident. "I saw this hand come up in front of us. I immediately thought of a .38 or a 'Saturday Night There have been so many death threats." Before the disturbance, Bryant had outlined her position on homosexuals. As she has said repeatedly, Bryant said she "loves homosexuals," but "hates their sin." She claimed that in Dade County, where she led a successful effort to overturn a homosexual rights ordinance, homosexuals wanted special treatment.

She said under the overturned ordinance, private religious schools would have been forced to hire gay teachers. Bryant said she is thinking and praying about setting up centers where homosexuals who want to change, drug addicts and runaways Too busy to think back Marshall and Alice King are busy with the harvest at their Boone farm, one year after President Gerald R. Ford visited there while in Iowa on a campaign tour. They enjoyed the visit, but there FAMILY Continued from Page One grain prices were too low, cattle markets were depressed and there was widespread concern over possible drought in 77. Things haven't improved since then, either, Marshall noted.

"Cattle prices are still depressed, the corn prices are so low and the weather's just been lousy," he said. "All in all, things are probably a little worse now than they were then." The King farm, four miles north of here, is on the edge of the worst-hit drought area in the state, i "We've got some cornfields that have been appraised at zero produc-, tion," he said. "Other fields we got 8 to 10 bushels per acre and ended up chopping it for silage. But we've got i some fields a little north of us that 1 have produced right up around 60 bushels." The King beans came in at 30-to-35 bushels per acre, "pretty good for this kind of year," Marshall said. The equipment around the 1,200 acre farm is not in the shiny shape it was on this day last year.

That's because Marshall, his son Jon, son-in-law Bill Herrstrom and a couple of hired hands are pushing it through the harvest instead of taking time to vacuum and wash it like they did for the visit. And the basement of the King home is in disarray again, Alice noted. "I sort of wish he'd come back again so we could get that cleaned up," she said. "You need that kind of incentive to clean your basement, I guess. We knew the President would never be down there, but we figured his security people would." The Kings wrote a letter to Ford soon after the visit thanking him for coming.

And they received gracious replies from both Ford and Governor Ray. On election day the Kings, longtime Republicans, pulled the Ford lever. Not enough others did, however, and Ford became a lame duck. Another letter, from a Ford lieutenant, arrived here telling the Kings if they could manage a trip to Washington, D. before Jan.

20, they would be given a special tour of the White House. "It was just too expensive to do that," Marshall said. The Kings did make it to the nation's capital last summer, however, as chaperones for a group of 4-H'ers. They thought about taking the White House tour the one the general public goes on but "the lines were too long," Marshall said. Now you may recall how the Kings' granddaughter Nicki, 1 year old at the time, spiced up that visitation day last October by throwing a fit when a photographer tried to put her on the important stranger's lap.

We can report that little Nicki is fine at age 2, that she has a new little brother and that Ford "is still the only person she's ever done that to," according to Grandma Alice. It was a fun day, the Kings both say. So, any special anniversary commemoration? "We'll be picking corn," said Alice. Sioux City, Omaha stations refuse to televise 'Soap' By WILLIAM SIMBRO Anita Bryant came to Des Moines Friday to sing gospel and patriotic songs, but received an unexpected pie in the face. The incident occurred as a 30-minute pre-concert press conference at the studios of the Iowa Public Broadcasing Network was about to erM.

A young man in the front row who later identified himself as a Minneapolis, homosexual named Thorn Archon Higgins stood, walked the few feet to where Bryant, and her husband, Bob Green, were sitting and pushed the banana cream pie in her face. Bryant, who successfully campaigned to have a homosexual rights ordinance overturned in Florida earlier this year, and Green told two off-duty policemen there for security reasons not to arrest Higgins and urged the 25 or so persons in attendance to allow him to go unharmed. Bryant began a prayer for forgiveness, but broke down in tears after a sentence or two. Though Green also suggested prayer and forgiveness, he wasn't in a mood to turn the other cheek. He grabbed a glob of the pie and threw it back at Higgins.

Higgins and three other men with him then left. Outside the IPBN studios, Higgins said "Archon" is a religious title denoting his position in the "Church of the Chosen People," which, he said, is a Minneapolis-based gay religion. "Pagan Religion" Higgins said it is a "pagan" religion and that the group's "gods" had ordered the pie throwing campaign against bigots. One of his companions, who said his name was Patrick Schwartz, had just taken a second pie from a box and was holding it when Green came outside and pushed the pie into Schwartz face. "How do you like it, fella?" said Green angrily.

There was a tense moment as Schwartz headed toward Green, who was walking away. Onlookers came between them. "I lost my head," Green said later "Remember, I did it, not Anita. She would never do that. I take responsibility for that.

It was a husband acting in anger." First of Kind Despite intense homosexual opposi tion nationally to Bryant, Green said the Des Moines pie incident was the first of its kind she had experienced. Gov. Robert Ray later told Bryant in a meeting in his office that the incident "appalls me. We're not ac customed to that kind of treatment of guests in Iowa." Bryant gave Ray a copy of her new book, "The Anita Bryant Story," apol ogizing because it has a little cream and pie crust on it. Higgins said his act "was an act of pride." He said his organization of militant homosexuals had "declared May 12, 1977, to May 12, 1978, as the year of the pie.

Schwartz said be earlier "pied' Bishop John Roach, Catholic bishop of Minneapolis and St. Paul. "There will not be a bigot left unpied in Minnesota," said Higgins. He said his group was returning home and wouldn't be at Bryant Friday night concert at Veterans Water supply improving WASHINGTON, D. C.

(AP) There are still some problem areas, but overall the nation's water resources are in the best condition they've been all year, the U. S. Geological Survey said Friday in a report that cited the Des Moines River at Fort Dodge as rising to almost normal after 18 months of deficient flow. 2 charged with murder; may be linked to another are still chores to be done. of its World Series telecast Tuesday night.

Turner said the station received several telephone calls Thurday after it announced the program would not be shown. "Some of the callers accused us of being censors, and others felt we were right in not running the show," he said. "But most of the reaction we get comes in the mail. We'll probably have a better reading on it by Monday." Turner said the station will not show programs or movies that "do not meet the standards of this station." KCAU substituted a "Candid Camera" program for "Soap" Thursday night, a move that cost the station $360 in network revenue, according to Turner. A spokesman for KETV in Omaha said the program had also been screened there and officials decided not to air it because "it would be objectionable to some segments of our audience." "Soap is shown on several other ABC affiliated stations in Iowa including WOI in Ames and KDUB in Dubuque.

Those two stations carry it at 9:30 p.m. instead of the scheduled 8:30 p.m. starting time. Other stations carrying the show are KCRG in Cedar Rapids, KAAL in Austin, and WQAD in Moline, 111. WQAD is owned by The Register and Tribune Co.

John MacGregor, a station manager at KAAL, said he has shown segments of "Soap" including the confessional scene to clergymen before putting the show on the air. He said he didn't get any reaction "of a derogatory nature," but he said there were no Roman Catholics in the group of clergymen that previewed the segments. KTVO in Ottumwa serves a portion of southeast Iowa and does not show the program at all. s- 'frtm- It 'vV Anita Bryant 4a wwwn Thorn Higgins could be treated by "spiritual counselors." Bryant said she wants to go about the country giving her Christian testimony and singing gospel and patriotic songs. She said she wouldn't bring up the homosexual issue on her own and does so only in answer to press questions.

She said she would be talking about "sin" at her Friday night concert, but "not about homosexuality per se." a suspect in the Weeks and Turk deaths, homicide investigator Lt. Ed Harlan said, "We tried to talk to Mr. Cuevas about both homicides. We want to talk to a lot of people who knew William Dougias Turk, one of whom is Mr. Cuevas." On Tuesday, Wallace said that police had evidence and information in both cases, but did not, as of then, have enough "supportable evidence and reasonable grounds" to bring charges.

After charges were filed against the couple Friday afternoon, Wallace said "We have additional evidence since Wednesday." Harlan said police feel they "now have grounds to bring charges," but neither he nor Wallace would elaborate. First assistant county attorney Rodney Ryan also declined to elaborate on the new evidence. "It's too fresh. It was just developed this morning (Friday). I don't want to blow this new evidence out of the water," he said.

Both Cuevas and his wife were arraigned before Polk County Magistrate Matthew McEniry and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murder. McEniry set the bonds for both at $200,000. Cuevas also is under a $10,000 bond on the previous auto theft charge. Cannot Be Released Mary Ellis Cuevas cannot be released on any bond because she is being held by prison officials because of her escape, police said. Another weapons charge also is pending against Cuevas.

On Sept. 4 he was arrested by Polk County sheriff's deputies on charges of carrying two concealed handguns. He was released on bond on that charge and was scheduled for trial in that case next month. Cuevas has served three prison terms in Iowa. In 1959 he was convicted of assault with intent to commit robbery in an incident in which the intended victim was shot.

In 1963 he was charged with robbery with aggravation in an incident in which the victim was beaten. Cuevas was convicted of a lesser charge of assault with intent to do great bodily injury. In 1966 he received a 10-year prison term for breaking and entering. His wife was sentenced last November to 10 years in prison on a forgery charge, police said. Shortly after her sentence began Mrs.

Cuevas escaped and remained at large until July 7 of this year, reformatory Supt. Ted Wellman said. On Sept. 8 she and another inmate overpowered a reformatory matron, took a key ring and escaped, Wellman said. She remained at large until Sunday.

Wellman said additional charges of escape, robbery and malicious injury to a building were filed against Mrs. Cuevas, under the name Mary Ellis, in Calhoun County. Ruling against searches leaves concerts in doubt By BUD APPLEBY Rwtaf Staff Writer SIOUX CITY, IA. Viewers in western Iowa did not see a highly rated television show Thursday night because officials at television stations in Sioux City and Omaha, said segments of the program were in bad taste. "Soap," ABC Television's controversial nighttime spoof of daytime soap operas, was not shown on stations KCAU in Sioux City and KETV in Omaha.

Bill Turner, president and general manager of KCAU here, said station executives objected to a scene that involved a young priest and a young woman in a confessional. "We felt it would be objectionable to Roman Catholics," Turner said. "It flaunted the confession and it took a direct shot at celibacy of priests." Turner said three persons at the station screened the program prior to air time and made the decision not to use that particular show. He said all of the "Soap" shows have been screened and Thursday night's program the fifth one in the new series -was the only one that has been kept off the air. He said the sixth program has been screened and will be shown Tuesday night.

"Soap" is normally shown on Tuesday night, but ABC moved this week's program to Thursday because 25 off-duty Des Moines police will be moved from the entrances to the main floor and other seating areas to watch for liquor, drugs and weapons. Typically, six to 10 off-duty Des Moines police frisk patrons at the auditorium entrance and the remainder patrol inside the auditiorium. Hanson's ruling permanently enjoined auditorium officials from searching rock show patrons. The injunction was sought in a suit filed against the auditorium's governing body by three individuals, the Iowa chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the Iowa Civil Liberties Union. "Burden on Kids" Commented Palmitier: "The burden is on the kids now.

Hopefully they will police themselves so the 95 per cent who come to enjoy the music can do so." The persons and groups that filed the suit originally had sought a temporary restraining order to prevent searches of persons attending a concert given by Frank Zappa on Sept. 20. U. S. District Judge Willim C.

Stuart denied that request. In granting the permanent injunction Friday, Hanson noted that his ruling did not mean the auditorium had to abandon rules against bringing certain items into the ball. And he said off-duty police could still be used to enforce such rules. But he said attorneys for the auditorium failed to prove the searches are necessary, in view of constitutional prohibitions against illegal search and seizure. He also noted that there was discrimination built into the search policy rock audiences have been searched and those attending other events at the auditorium have not.

Moreover, be ruled, there has been discrimination between patrons at rock shows some have been searched while others have not. International Newspaper Carrier Day By TOM SUK Resistor Staff Wrtttr A 37-year-old Des Moines man and his 28-year-old wife were charged with murder Friday in connection with one slaying, and they are under investigation in connection with another death, police said. Phillip Benito Cuevas, 1501 S. Union and Mary Elizabeth Ellis Cuevas were charged with the Dec. 31 slaying of George Weeks, 69, of 2449 S.E.

Vale St. Weeks, a one-time carnival pitchman, was found dead on the fender of his automobile at his home. He had been shot in the head. The couple are also being investigated in connection with the Oct. 6 slaying of William D.

Turk, 56, whose body was found bound and gagged in an apartment at 1910 Olive Ave. where he had been staying, police said. Bludgeoned and Stabbed Turk had been bludgeoned and stabbed numerous times in the chest and back. Dr. R.C.

Wooters, Polk County Medical Examiner, said the stab wounds would have been fatal, but Turk actually died from multiple skull fractures inflicted with some type of blunt instrument. About two weeks after Weeks' death, police arrested Cuevas on charges of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. The "Llama" automatic pistol found by police was later determined through ballistics tests to be the gun used in the slaying of Weeks, police said. Authorities said Cuevas told them he found the weapon in a garbage can. Cuevas entered a plea of guilty to the concealed weapons charge on Feb.

22 and was sentenced to five years in prison. He has been free on appeal bond. Ceuvas was arrested Sunday by Des Moines and West Des Moines police and FBI agents and was charged with larceny in the theft of Turk's 1974 Lincoln Continental Mark IV, which police said had been missing since the slaying. Cuevas wife, an escapee from the Iowa Women's Reformatory at Rockwell City, was arrested at the same time. Both were in jail at the time police charged them with the murder of Weeks.

In a search of Weeks' home after his death, police discovered $63,500 in stolen negotiable bonds. Investigating Link Authorities are also investigating a possible link between the Turk death and $150,000 worth of stolen negotiable securities. Investigators declined to release in formation on the type of securities or their theft, which apparently occurred in a state on the East Coast. Assistant Police Chief Billie B. Wallace would only say a connection between the securities and Turk's death was under investigation.

When asked Tuesday if Cuevas was By JIM HEALEY RtQlstM' Stiff WrHvr The future of rock music shows at Veterans Memorial Auditorium here was in doubt Friday after a federal judge ruled rock patrons can't be searched for contraband as they enter the hall. U. S. District Court Judge William C. Hanson ruled Friday that such searches are unconstitutional, and termed them "unjustified, random, coercive and intrusive." Auditorium Manager Dave Palmitier said future rock shows at Vets would be cancelled if patrons who attend the Blue Oyster Cult performance tonight cause trouble.

Kiss Scheduled The hard-rock band Kiss, which set an attendance record of 14,500 when they appeared here in January, is scheduled to perform Nov. 29. Rock guitarist Ted Nugent, who performed in Des Moines recently, is scheduled to return Dec. 16, according to auditorium officials. Altoona attorney Ed Skinner, whose law firm unsuccessfully fought the injunction on behalf of the audito rium, said he would recommend that auditorium officials "call off all future festivals (rock shows)." Skinner said that without searching patrons, there is no way to ensure they aren't smuggling in illegal drugs, alcohol or objects that could be used as weapons in the event of a disturbance.

Skinner admitted that banning rock shows could lead to problems in defining "rock" music and that the matter could end up in court again. Palmitier said Friday night, "I haven't seen the injunction yet, but I gather (the judge) is saying can't have these indiscriminate pat-downs any more. What we'll probably do instead is beef up our security inside." Police Moved i No additional police will be hired, he said, but a greater number of the Tomorrow's leaders.