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People in the News Jazzed-up at White House WASHINGTON (UPI) With trumpet player Dizzie Gillespie and drummer Max Roach accompanying, President Carter stepped to the microphone and sang, "Salt Peanuts! Salt Peanuts!" in an impromptu finale to a great jam session at the White House. Gillespie, who cut the record in 1943. had to teach the words to Carter, a peanut farmer. The crowd, gathered in sweltering heat on the White House South Lawn, roared their approval and Carter flashed one of his biggest smiles. The two-hour concert, prefaced by a meal of jamabalaya flown in specially from Gonzales, marked the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival.

It was supposed to end as dusk fell. Carter, in slacks and a short-sleeve sport shirt, said anyone who wanted to leave could do so. "But going to stay and listen to some more music," he said. And so did everyone else. With that, singer Pearl Bailey, who was not on the program, dashed to the outdoor stage and grabbed one of the microphones.

Now a college student in Washington, she sang a song. Then, at Mrs. Carter's request, she sang "St. Louis Blues," which led into "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." Before the encores, Carter had stepped to the microphone and told the musicians, "What you have given America is as important as the White House and the Capitol building." President Carter welcomes 95- year-old ragtime pianist Eubie Blake to the White House Jazz Festival. (UPI Photo) Jazz buffs said never before had so many outstanding artists, who came at their own expense, ever played together.

About 35 of the nation's best were on hand. program began with Eubie Blake, who used to play at Warm Springs for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended with a jam that included Lionel Hampton on the vibes: Chica Corea, piano: Louis Bel- Ison, drums; Ray Brown, bass; Stan Getz and Zoot Sims, saxophones; and George Benson, guitar. Hollers his way to title SPIVEY'S CORNER, N.C. (UPI) Dewitt Howell let loose with quite a yell during the weekend.

Howell's "regular old-fashioned whoop and holler" made him the winner of the 10th annual National Hollerin' Contest. Howell, 66, said he learned to holler by listening to the whoops and shrieks his neighbors used to use to call in the cows, seek help, or just socialize. Winner of the women's division was Francies Barefoot, who had an assist from her dog, "Peanut." Eric Vernon, 25, won the whistling competition with a whistle so piercing he claimed it cooked food long before the ultrasonics of microwave ovens came along. He said one of his whistles was perfect for cooking "possum in wine sauce." Frances Barefoot lets out victory holler as her dog, joins in. Holding the microphone for "Peanut" is Jim Graham, North Carolina secretary of agriculture.

(UPI Photo) Robbie Goodman, 10, won the junior championship with a carbon-copy rendition of an ambulance siren. if Uncle Charlie" turns 1 10 DARLINGTON, S.C. (UPI) Charlie Flowers offers a simple explanation of why he was able to celebrate his 110th birthday Monday. "Simple food in the belly and the Lord's word in your heart that is all you need," Flowers said at the Darlington Convalescent Center, where he has lived since January 1977. Among the presents for the man known as "Uncle Charlie" were a harmonica and two large boxes of snuff.

"No, tobacco ain't bad for your health. I've been using snuff for more years than I can remember and I am stii'I walking God's earth," said Flowers, who has outlived five wives. New NBC president Fred Silverman chats with Dick Clark (left) and Bruce Jenner. (UPI Photo) Bob Hope Personality glimpses Comedian Bob Hope will be grand marshal for this year's Hollywood Christmas Parade, leading a stream of entertainers and dozens of floats down Hollywood Boulevard African folksinger Miriam Makeba gave her first U.S. concert in four years during the weekend at Madison Square Garden Fred Silverman, the new president of NBC, was at the NBC Television Network affiliates convention in New York during the weekend and two of the NBC personalities he met were Dick Clark and Bruce Jenner Lillian Carter, the president's mother, is spending a few days resting and relaxing in southwest Florida, a place she says is better than the "awful" East Coast Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was given her weight in rose petals 119 pounds by admirers in the town of Ahmedabad Sher Lynelte Patrick, 19, captured the Miss Ohio crown Saturday night in Mansfield with a colorful display of exotic dancing that left the audience gasping.

She will take her tummy-tossing talent to the Miss America competition in September. Sher Lynette Patrick left 'em gasping on her way to the Miss Ohio crown with a torrid dance exhibition. (UPI Photo) Bernard Shaw Patty Hearst, private guard plan towed? NEW YORK (UPI) Patty Hearst plans to marry one of her former bodyguards, Newsweek magazine reports. Quoting an unnamed "Newsweek source," the magazine said Miss Hearst, now serving a prison sentence for bank robbery, plans to marry Bernard Shaw, a San Francisco police officer who was her private bodyguard during the 18 months she was free on bond. Shaw.

30, has been granted a divorce from his wife and that divorce becomes final soon. Newsweek said he refuses to comment, but doen't deny the report that he and Miss Hearst plan to marry, possibly before she gets out of prison. She has to serve another year of her sentence before she is eligible for parole. Carters plan state visit to Germany BONN, West Germany (UPI) President Carter and his wife will arrive in West Germany for a state visit three days before the July 16-17 Bonn economic summit meeting, West Germany announced Monday. It long had been known that Carter would combine the summit meeting with a state visit, but the dates had not been confirmed.

The visit will include a trip to West Berlin, which lies 110 miles inside East Germany, the announcement said. Carter also was expected to visit American troops stationed in West Germany. After the state visit Carter will stay on for an economic summit meeting in Bonn of the leaders of the United States, West Germany, Britain, Canada, Japan, France and Italy. Shootout in East Berlin BERLIN (UPI) Russian soldiers and pursuing East Berlin police exchanged fire at a main East Berlin intersection Monday in a Shootout that wounded one soldier and at least three pedestrians, witnesses reported. One of the wounded was a West German diplomat, a member of the West German mission to East Berlin.

The witnesses said two Red Army soldiers, believed to be deserters, opened fire on pursuing police cars with submachine guns and the police returned the fire. The shooting took place at the intersection of Unter den Linden and Friedrich Strasse, perhaps the busiest corner in East Berlin. Pet dogs kill newborn boy MOUNT SINAI, N.Y. (UPI) A newborn boy was killed by his parents' husky dogs Saturday evening, police reported Sunday. Police said the 8-day-old child, Stephan Gatta, was pronounced dead of puncture wounds in his lower extremities at Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, N.Y., at 7:30 p.m.

The child, covered with blood, was found on the floor near his overturned crib by his mother, Ann. Mrs. Gatta told police she was in the kitchen of her home preparing to feed the female dog and her mate when the child was bitten. Car, cash, tools stolen A Salina man reported to police Monday that his car, a 1964 white over red Chevrolet valued at $250, had been stolen sometime Sunday night. The man said he had parked the car in front of his home at about 7 p.m.

Sunday evening. When he left home for work Monday morning, he discovered the car was gone. Another Salina man reported that $120 in cash was stolen from his apartment sometime over the weekend. He told police he returned from out of town and discovered the cash was missing from his bedroom. Fifteen wrenches valued at $80 were reported missing from a shop behind a Salina residence Saturday morning.

Police said entry to the shop was gained through one of the unlocked overhead doors. Big haul in gems LONDON (UPI) A well-rehearsed band of six gunmen raided a jewelry shop in an arcade adjoining the luxury Savoy Hotel Monday and escaped with gems valued at nearly $1 million. Preparedness agencies' consolidation proposed WASHINGTON (UPI) Five major preparedness agencies handling everything from natural disaster to nuclear attack would be merged into a single Federal Emergency Management Agency under a plan proposed Monday by President Carter. The new agency, which also would coordinate a federal response to damage done during any terrorist attack, will improve efficiency while remaining "accountable to the president and Congress for all federal emergency pre- paredness, mitigation and response activities," the president said. Consolidation will save between $10 million and $15 million and decrease the federal work force by 200 to 300 workers.

The new agency would combine the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, which administers the civil defense program; the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, which coordinates aid for natural disaster relief; the Federal Preapredness Agency, which coordinates civil planning for national emer- gencies; the Federal Insurance Administration, which manages flood insurance and hazard reduction programs, and the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration. Two other emergency functions not now specifically assigned to one federal agency would be shifted to the new agency including coordination of emergency warning and federal response to consequences of terrorist incidents. The organization plan would go into effect unless either House votes to disapprove it within 60 days. Lake building became a temporary morgue OTTAWA, Kan. (UPI) The bodies of 14 persons killed in the worst boating disaster in Kansas history were covered with canvas bags and laid in rows in a temporary morgue, waiting for ambulances to deliver them to funeral homes.

An Army Corps of Engineers concrete block building along Lake Pomona was transformed into the temporary morgue after an excursion showboat was capsized on the lake Saturday night by a quick-forming tornado. The canvas sacks containing the bodies, like zippered garment bags, showed dark red stains. Water-soaked shoes protruded. Dr. Dwight Adams, deputy district coroner, read through sheaths of yellow paper describing those aboard Saturday's ill-fated dinner and entertainment voyage, assisted by the owners of the Whippoorwill Showboat, Bruce and Vida Rogers.

The building was virtually deserted as the Rev. John Darby, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Osage City, called relatives of the identified victims. "We tried to get everyone together last night just long enough to find out where they all Were, and then we asked them all to go home, where they could be with their people," Darby said. "We told them we'd call them as soon as we knew anything." Osage County Sheriff's Deputy Jim Gardner, appearing green, ill and obviously bonertired, said in a cracking voice that he had been given the weekend off before the tornado struck. Gardner, who had been on duty for more than 24 consecutive hours, sat cross-legged in a corner, trying to match purses and personal effects with the 59 known passengers who left Saturday for a festive dinner and performance of the farce play "Dames at Sea." Reporters from national television networks asked repeatedly for permission to film the bodies, but Adams kept them standing behind a chain-link fence.

"I don't want to be obstructive, but I don't think it's necessary for the American people to see bodies wrapped up," he told them. "There 'ain't no way this could have been prevented, other than not having a boat," Adams said. "I feel for the Rogers. This is going to cause them a lot of personal, financial and emotional grief, and as far as I can tell, they were completely, totally blameless." Points with pride to safety record OTTAWA, Kan. (UPI) Bruce Rogers, the exhaustion of the past 24 hours clearly visible on his face, looked at his paddle-wheel showboat docked at Lake Pomona.

"Under normal conditions it doesn't wobble at all," he said. But Saturday night, conditions were far from normal on the east-central Kansas lake. A quick-forming tornado slammed into Roger's "Whippoorwill Showboat" during a cruise, capsizing the boat and spilling most of the 59 persons aboard into the lake's warm, storm-whipped waters. At least 14 persons were killed. Rogers, who along with his wife, Vida, owns the double-deck boat and runs the Vassar Playhouse in rural Vassar, paused Sunday and sat, his head cupped in his hands, and watched rescue workers remove the victims' bodies from the scene.

As officials pumped tons of water from the gaily painted red and white boat, it righted itself. The force of the tornado had bent the craft's paddle wheel and collapsed the red and white canvas awning that covered its upper deck. Chairs and tables hurled from their normal positions when the boat overturned were hanging at precarious angles amid the canvas. Bright orange life preservers were strewn about the deck, many of them brought to the boat by persons on shore who saw the tornado strike. Rogers recalled with pride the 60-foot craft had a record of safe voyages.

"The boat is never unsteady on the Emporia State faculty members among victims EMPORIA, Kan. (UPI) Three of four Emporia State University faculty members, looking forward to an evening of relaxation aboard a double-deck showboat, were killed by a tornado that struck the vessel on Lake Pomona Saturday night. They were identified as Sarah Reed, 64, director of the school of library science; Muriel Fuller, a visiting lecturer at the school, and Zubaidah Isa, 55, another library science faulty member. Donna Jamar, an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at the university, was rescued from the lake with only minor injuries. A spokesman for the school, about 50 miles southwest of the lake, said the four women had gone on the boat cruise to enjoy an "informal gathering of friends." Three drama students at the school Margaret Rogers, daughter of the boat's owners, Linda Wallts and Bernard J.

Wonsettler were members of the musical group that was performing on the Whippoorwill Showboat. They were all pulled safely from the water. Reed had joined the Emporia State faculty in 1975. Fuller, a full-time professor of library science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, had been at Emporia since 1976. Isa also joined the faculty in 1976.

King enters race for seat in House Jeff King, 22, Smolan Rt. filed Monday with the Kansas Secretary of State as a candidate for the Democratic nomination as representative to the Kansas House from the 73rd District. King is the second Democratic candidate to seek the nomination in the district which embraces rural Saline Salina Precinct One and all of Ellsworth County. John Carlin, Smolan, a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, has held the seat. King is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence King Smolan, and has been farming south of Salina. His father, a Salina attorney, is a past chairman of the Saline County Democratic Central Committee and has been active in party affairs. King is a graduate of Salina South High School and Washburn University. During college, he worked in the state treasurer's office and earned a certificate of merit from the Small Business Administration as an advisor in a Small Business Institute at Washburn.

He's a Jeff King member of Salina's University United Methodist Church. LeRoy Hoi com, Gypsum farmer, also is seeking the Democratic nomination. King said he has been interested in politics and feels more young persons should become active in the political process. "I had an opportunity in the state treasurer's office to observe the process first-hand," he said, "and I'd like to make a contribution." King is the second young person in the primary race. Jayne Aylward, 21, Salina Rt.

2, is opposing Oliver Hagg for the Republican nomination. water," he said. But Saturday night's surprise tornado flipped the craft. "I saw a spray out on the north shore, and then I told the pilot to turn around and go back to the south shore and then told the engineer to give it all the steam he could. Then we turned around and the next thing I knew it was going over," said Rogers, who was on the top deck behind the pilot's cabin.

"We just don't sail when it's bad weather." Rogers, who has owned the 65-foot, 25-ton boat since the summer of 1974, said he is unsure if he will try to repair the craft. Robbery victim beaten with own artificial leg DALLAS (UPI) Police have arrested three men who robbed a handicapped man of about $50 Sunday, then beat him with his artificial leg. Their names were not released. Salvadore Martinez, 28, who lost his leg three years ago in an automobile accident, was in fair condition at Parkland Hospital as a result of the beating. Pedro Zapata told police he had just left a bar when he spied the three men beating Martinez.

He said when he went to Martinez' aid, he also was attacked. Slain at Wichita WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) Police have arrested a 35-year-old suspect in a shooting death early Sunday in an unlicensed establishment known as a "party house" for its offering of liquor and gambling. Leonard Anderson, 31, was struck by at least one bullet from several fired early Sunday, apparently during an argument over a poker game. The Salina Journal P.O.

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