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(C14' A THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Mon Oct 17 1977 'The Fugitive' 'The 1 Cheering Crowds Party Protest Meet Castro In Jamaica Escapee Shows Up On Television Show 1110it'S U1) on Show 0XMINWePONIIMIP110' AJ0 (71 Ai 4 4 04' --1 itii SA ji Aer ''k I' 4te 44144'64'-v 1: fat tt I ylv AL 1 i kL i'Pei 44gAgota to' '''''N L)41 A0A14 wA0 1 484 41IN 4 l' 4 business-' t' Lf IA 1rr 1 seS I I 0 A A ttr 1 '4 Los Angeles Times Los ANGELES If officials at the Oregon State Penitentiary were closely watching the television film "Young Joe: The Forgotten Kennedy" last month they might have spolted a familiar lace The pleasant young face broadcast briefly into an estimated 17 million homes belongs to Bill Foulon a convicted burglar who escaped from the Oregon prison May 14 and is still on the run Foulon a likable 30-year-old Oregonian was himself sitting in a living room in the Los Angeles area watching "Young Joe" "I saw it" Foulon told the Los Angeles Times fact I called a lot of my friends and quite a few of 'em my cousin my folks saw me and everybody got a kick out of that" But mostly Foulon's life outside prison is one of disappointment "I find myself with nothing no money and I get frustrated I refuse to accept things that I fithought I would accept I to be with other people and softball play basketball and 'go out dance I want to do that which costs money" Fugitive life was not the first disappointment in Foulon's life A bright sensitive adventurous boy he grew up poor in Medford a southern Oregon town of 30000 Foulon went to college for a while was drafted in 1966 served in Vietnam came home and got married in 1968 He and his wife Shirley moved to Reno in 1973 She worked as a court reporter he registered for classes at the University of Nevada and dabbled at gambling and they fought In November 1973 the marriage finally fell apart Eventually Foulon entered a loose partnership with a loose-tongued acquaintance who wanted to collect fire insurance Los Angelo! Los ANGELES at the Oregon Sta were closely watl vision film "Youni gotten Kennedy" might have spoIl face The pleasant broadcast briefly mated 17 million longs to Bill Foul( burglar who escapi egon prison May 1 the run Foulon a like Oregonian was hi a living room in ti area watching "Yo "I saw it" Foul Angeles Times lot of my friends a of 'em my co saw me and everyl out of that" But mostly Foi side prison is one ment "I find myself money and I get fuse to accept fithought I would to be with ol play softball play out dance that which cost! Fugitive life wa disappointment in A bright sensi ous boy he grew I ford a southern 30000 Foulon went to while was dral served in Vietnar and got married in He and his moved to Reno worked as a cow registered for clas versity of Nevada gambling and th In November I riage finally fell ap Eventually Fou loose partnership tongued acqual wanted to collect benefits on his house Incredibly they succeeded in burning the house down and the insurance company paid off FouIon got about $1500 He and his partner then set off on a series of amateur mostly small-return burglaries of Medford-area bars and other businesses The jobs were pulled for the most part with Foulon's flair for the dashing: climbing down a rope through a hole in the bowling alley roof snatching a safe from a bar across the street from the police station But police began asking questions and Foulon's partner began to talk Foulon was arrested His ex-wife was the court reporter at his arraignment Eventually he was convicted of theft in a burglary he still insists he had nothing to do with He finally pleaded guilty to two other burglaries and was sentenced to five years and eight months le spent the winter of 1977 behind the walls of Oregon State Penitentiary hoping to be put into a student release program that summer When he was turned down he decided to escape with another prisoner They leaped off a prison wall and made their way to a nearby Bible college where a woman student was walking "1 said 'Hey do you have a dime for a phone call" Foulon recalled "She looks me up and down and so I said 'I guess you know where we're from don't And she says 'Yeah I got a pretty good idea by the way you're dressed' "And I said 'Well why don't you tell me what you're going to do about it so I'll know what to do' kind of laughing with her trying to win her confidence She says 'Well I guess I won't do anything' The woman's boyfriend arrived house they succeeded in louse down and the npany paid off Fou- $1500 partner then set off of amateur mostly burglaries of Med- and other vere pulled for the ith Foulon's flair for climbing down a a hole in the bowl- snatching a safe ross the street from Lion began asking clues- ulon's partner began Ls arrested His ex- court reporter at his he was convicted of he still insists to do with )leaded guilty to two ries and was sen AP Photo COM' iet Bit I Foulon As Extra In 'Young Joe' between Barbara Parkins and Peter Strauss Associated Press KINGSTON Jamaica Cuban Premier Fidel Castro arriving in Kingston Sunday for his first visit to Jamaica greeted Prime Minister Michael Manley with a warm bear hug Clad in green army fatigues Castro arrived aboard a Cuban Navy training ship to the dockside spectacle of a 21-gun salute and a Jamaica defense force honor guard maican officials diplomats including Castro smiled and waved to Ja- 1 US Ambassador Frederick Irving trutg Btas and hundreds of onlookers as he strolled down the gangplank Several thousand persons lined the I COM111011 main thoroughfare in downtown Kingston some shouting "Viva Cuba" and "Viva Castro" But Jamaican opposition leaders Carter 101(1 announced Sunday a boycott of Castro's six-day visit denouncing him as a Communist dictator with imperial- Associated Press ist designs on the Caribbean WASHINGTON President Car-Manley called the Jamaica Labor ter told by a federal task force that Party's boycott an "insult (to) one of hiring discrimination is still "a per-the greatest leaders of the 20th cen- vasive phenomenon" is being urged tury who is a hero to the people of to consolidate all federal enforce the third world of all political per- rnent of equal employment laws into suasions" one agency Castro is touring Jamaica at the The task force making its report invitation of Manley who visited as Carter prepares a civil rights reor- Cuba in 1975 ganization plan to send to Congress The political controversy flared as also said equal employment pro-the government mounted the most grams were "hampered by made-stringent security campaign ever quate leadership at the top poor seen on this economically troubled management at some of the major island of 21 million agencies and inadequate funding After a meeting of opposition "It leaders Jamaica Labor Party execu should come as no surprise tive Frank Phipps issued a statement therefore that discrimination in em- ployment is still a pervasive calling the Castro visit "mistimed and ill-conceived" phenomenon in American life" said the task force of the Office of Man-The statement called Castro "a man whose record was one of inter- agement and Budget (OMB) ference in the internal affairs of Ja- The task force also found overlapmaica and other countries and who ping programs with inconsistent preaches throughout this hemisphere standards of compliance inconsissubversion and revolution" tent investigative and enforcement Officials of the moderate pronatio efforts and repetitive paperwork repast party which received 43 per quirements cent of the vote in the December Employers must deal with 18 de-general election said they had not partments and agencies to meet been consulted about the visit nearly 40 equal employment oppor- The opposition also noted Presi- tunity requirements according to a dent Samora Machel of Mozambique draft of the recommendations was there last week and Jamaicans Adopting the recommendations were being asked to pay for a second would be a start in consolidating fed-state visit at a time "when the goy- ernment says it cannot afford to sup- eral hiring policy enforcement Car port the legitimate claims of the Ja- ter is considering consolidating en- maican workers" orcem en under the Equal Manley said plans for the visit Employment Opportunity Commis were kept under wraps because of sion (EE0C) security (The Wednesday Club a group of "Surely they (the opposition) must 22 Republican congressmen none know that with our proximity to from the Carolinas also have pro Miami-based Cuban terrorists who posed legislation to consolidate civil are openly hostile to President Cas- rights enforcement into one agency) tro and the Cuban government secu- The draft recommends transfer rity must be our paramount consid- from the Labor Department to EEOC eration" he said of responsibility for enforcing the Castro's close ties to Manley's Equal Pay Act and the 1967 Age DisDemocratic Socialist government crimination in Employment Act were a major issue in the December The recommendations also would election with opposition leaders abolish the Equal Employment Op-claiming Manley was leading the portunity Coordinating Council and country toward communism Man- transfer the policing of federal hirley who denied the charge easily ing from the Civil Service Commis-won reelection sion to the EEOC and drove the two escapees into Salem knowing full well they were convicts It is a felony in Oregon to aid escapees On Saturday May 21 after being on the run a week Foulon made his acting debut "We went to a place called the Millionaires' Club" said Foulon "It's for people who want work for that day this phone call came in that said 'We need some people between 20 and 35 to play parts of British soldiers in this movie ABC is filming At Seattle's Olympic Hotel Foulon and his partner were given haircuts and British uniforms He sat at the bar As it turned out the script called for stars Peter Strauss and Barbara Parkins to stop in front of the bar While Strauss is trying to talk Ms Parkins into an illicit affair Foulon is framed between them "In fact her shoulder is touching mine" Foulon recalled "And I'm right between them and the camera is not more than three feet away" Foulon cleared $26 in cash and a turkey buffet lunch In early August Foulon hitchhiked to Los Angeles where still another friend has helped him out "I don't consider Bill a criminal" the friend says "I know he 'did do the things he was charged with But I think back and he's been a friend" He Is trying to talk Foulon into giving up But he suspects Fou lon is getting a kick out of the whole thing: "I think he sees himself as a David Janssen (star of the late Ty show "The A Wednesday Will Also Be 'Sun Day' The New York Times WASHINGTON Denis Ilayes a leading promoter of Earth Day April 22 1970 is now planning Sun Day an effort to galvanize public opinion in favor of solar energy on Wednesday May 3 next year Since Earth Day Hayes 32 has been a Harvard graduate student an Illinois state energy director and a researcher at Washington's World-watch Institute He has just written a book "Rays of Hope" calling for a rapid transition from dependence on oil to an era of "safe nonpolluting decentralized energy sources" dominated by solar power "Earth Day was an almost extemporaneous el-fort based on college campuses" he said recently "Sun Day will be far broader-based involving labor unions religious and civic groups and consumer organizations as well as environmental groups" Plans for Sun Day Include fairs exhibitions demonstrations teach-ins lectures conferences debates and publicity all aimed at implanting the message that solar energy is immediately feasible in many forms These include sunlight-absorbing panels elec tric power plants generated by solar energy and "biomass" the solar energy latent in plants The nonprofit undertaking's projected budget of $150000 is being raised by grants from foundations and other organizations and from public contributors Hayes said that "two years ago the world appeared to have three energy alternatives for a post-petroleum world: coal nuclear and solar "Today" he said "we have one clear-cut option: the sun 1 k' 1101-4 A gt tv to e'i '0z 3 iiitA rkg ft it o' (Si4 ht 41 4 tr 444 100T--- Al Ti- triiior 44 a4 14-ii 0 ''''''''0 1' i 4 -lel: 1f A): t''4 1 1 It "I' ft tAbit iiiii Tit: v' N3 is t' 4 1 -i 4 4t 4f i 1: Ai: 4 i 1 '''1' 11: 4 0 1'''' 1k 1 el I ii 'k '4 a 1 It Itio -0 6 i tti': ::00) Ip 44 4r1 444 fikt4 4i 9 4i 4 -ill: 8 'Sk: -kk -'IN '1 (- 1 04 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I 9 Our 80th fez A nniversary Sale 41 ftot IN A 1 1 r' 7 10 ')''' 111 1 s'i i Great sayincrs continue in all department b' (ileePirt 11 ili Purchase New Fall Fashions from our regular stock and save up to 20 on selected groups 4 '5 6 Ire" 0 i A g- of suits sportswear shoes and furnishings I 411'111 Iti Ail i 'q11 ow 0-t 1 I '')'11 I ifr To name just a few: otk A I 4' i 0 J11' 1 4 14 1 7 14 t' CORDUROY VESTEI) SUIT: A' 1 '1 4 NOW: 115 1 i NOW: $8990 i 1 's 1 1 p' IJEATIIER OUTERWEAR: 1 -v--1q T- 6' Rea $150 to $225 sii 'I''' I I NOW: $11990 to $17990 i 1 I i CASIIMERE OVERCOATS: b' 4 '4 Reo $325 1 i NOW: $25990 i WINTER SUITS: 1c 4 it idle )1 i Reo $210 to $295 k- 6' :110 o' e' NOW: $17490 t() $23990 4 c- WINTER Sl'ORTCOATS: 4t attll Iteo $135 to $220 t- i( tik NONNI: $11390 to S16990 I 7' V4 1 11 4 11 'tile' Iv )'( li J1 I Al)DITIONAL SAVINGS ON: i- i KA i1 1 i 11 l''' ti 1 'it Dress Shirts I '''Ps 1 l''' 'tc Slacks I 0 1 Knit Shirts 1 ii r4 11 7 la Sweaters 0 IT i 1 i'TJ FRIT ALTERATIONS ON ALL SALE CLOTIIING! Where Is Ann Louise Harmeier? Nelolthors Intend To Find Out That question in bold black type is spread throughout the nation on bumper stickers posters and billboards all part of a massive campaign that began the weekend after Miss I larmeler vanished Thousands of posters with a picture and description of the blue-eyed blonde Miss Ilarmeler have been distributed Small search parties of area residents and Bloomington citizens are helping police comb remote areas in southern Indiana and Kentucky Miss liarmeler won the hearts of these people with her devotion to her church and her widowed mother her academic work as an A student and her love of music and theater The Rev Miss Taut said "It would be a horrible in sensitive community that wouldn't unite to find her In a larger town It wouldn't have happened but here we're like a family" Three state police detectives have been assigned full time to the case but leads are few and far between and evidence is scarce Mrs liarmeier said she plans to ask her neighbors this week to stop their efforts and leave the investigation to the police Associated Press CAMBRIDGE CITY Ind Ann Louise flarmeler 20 could be considered nothing more than a statistic one of thousands of persons reported missing each year But Miss I larmeier a lifelong Cambridge City resident symbolizes the determination of the 4000 residents of this small eastern Indiana community and adjacent towns They are searching for Miss I larmeler and they won't give up until they find her On Sept 12 the Indiana University junior loaded clothes and books into a car and headed for the campus in Bloomington about 105 miles away She stopped at service stations several times en route because she was having car trouble She was last spotted standing outside her disabled car along Indiana-37 less than 20 miles from campus The Rev Rose Taut of Cambridge City Presbyterian Church a family friend became alarmed when Miss larmeler didn't telephone her that night as planned The next day she and Miss Harmeler's mother Marjorie retraced the route Miss I larmeier had taken They found the loaded car emergency lights flashing abandoned by the roadside Where is Ann? 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