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Vol. 70 No. 140
Rhodesian leader accuses
Monday, August 8, 1977
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in the upper 90s. Low tonight in
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rivals of bombing store
United Press International
SALISBURY, Rhodesia — Black
nationalist leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa
is accusing his rivals of setting off the
bomb in a crowded Woolworth depart
ment store in Salisbury that killed 11
people and injured 79.
Muzorewa said yesterday “he would not
be surprised” if rival nationalist leader
Joshua Nkomo and his group, the Zim
babwe African People’s Union, were re
sponsible for the bombing, Rhodesia’s
worst urban terrorist attack.
“As for the terrible events in Salisbury
on Saturday,” Muzorewa said, “all I can
say is that what has been happening here
in Rhodesia to our people and to us in the
past harmonizes with the behavior typical
of ZAPU and Mr. Nkomo and I would not
be surprised — and this is no emotional
judgment — to learn that these people
planted the bomb.”
Police put the final death toll from the
bombing at 11, including three members
of one white family.
The other fatalities were black, includ
ing “two African females and one African
male juvenile” whose bodies were decapi
tated and could not immediately be iden
tified, police said.
Police said the bomb exploded in the
top floor of the crowded two-story de
partment store, pulverizing a large brick
wall and shattering windows over a wide
area. They said it contained Soviet-made
TNT — up to 66 pounds of it.
“I don’t think I saw a complete body on
that top floor,” a fireman said. “There was a
colored girl with a large gash across her
middle, a man without a head, limbs
everywhere. Two dead women were preg
nant.”
The Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, another
nationalist leader, condemned the bomb
ing at a rally in Salisbury yesterday and
said he would pass on to police any infor
mation that came his way about the per
petrators.
'New Aggie skipper at helm
rljarvis E. Miller completed his first week as president of Texas A&M
gVersity at the helm of the “Texas Clipper,” training ship of Texas
M’s Moody College. Miller and other guests boarded the 474-foot
el in Corpus Christi Sunday for the final leg of its summer cruise,
la-mile jaunt to Galveston. Assisting President Miller in guiding the
were Nick DeBerardinis of Galveston and C. C. Bryan of New
President visits in Plains
United Press International
PLAINS, Ga., — In some ways it was
like old King Solomon; in other ways it was
pure Jimmy Carter. He decided to go to
both churches and pray for their reconcili
ation.
That’s how the President settled the
dispute of whether to attend the Plains
is want women priests
omen s convention says
atican explanation poor
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S \\ ORLEANS — Women eventually
Wowed to become Catholic priests
of a growing women’s movement
he church and a decline in the
lerofmale priests, according to nuns
to bring abotit the change.
^hleen Keating of Springfield, Mass.,
i of the nuns attending a weekend
ion of the National Assembly of
en Religious. She said about half the
f jry s Catholic nuns are represented
HI organization which evolved from a
|-ordered 1968 evaluation of nuns’
ter Kathleen said women priests are
able.
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W
ick of priests
Hens ordination
more women
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JEW ORLEANS — Patricia
Hies, a former nun and graduate
4 Catholic seminary, fingered a
I ier medallion around her neck —
ift from her classmates who were
tained into the Roman Catholic
esthood from which she is
a A led.
She said the passage from Second
rinthians explains her motives to
ifthe ban:
■ A The love of Christ leaves us no
hortage of priests is nearing a
ses in the Catholic Church, and
ss Hughes said the first women
tholic priests will be ordained
hin eight years and she hopes to
one of them.
i was ministering to the family of
ian having a relapse after surgery
I when it looked like he was going
d|e, I had to call one of my or-
injed classmates to administer the
twites,” Miss Hughes said. “His
ather turned to me with a look of
ger, frustration and just plain
izzlement on her face and said,
by. Chaplain. Why doesn’t the
ureh ordain women?’.”
“When the question arises from
■people, it’s no longer why, it’s
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hi official of the National Assem-
y of Women Religious convention
Loyola in New Orleans during the
sekend, Miss Hughes predicted
omen will be ordained as Roman
atholic priests within a decade.
uring her studies. Miss Hughes
fid male students and teachers ini-
failed to understand the issues
Wved in her decision to seek the
fiesthood.
But in three years, there was a
owth in awareness and an advo-
icy,” she said.
fte said a call to minister is a
od-given gift and it is wrong for
echurch to bar women from fulfil-
g their call.
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Jfs
■ 'lies
“We said to Rome why — if women
can’t be priests tell us the reasons — and
last January (a Vatican) document said
there really weren’t any theological
reasons,” she said. “It was a poor docu
ment. But the fact that one said something
about it means it’s an issue.”
The Vatican document said only men
can be priests because they are a reflection
of Jesus Christ and He was a man.
“His image is a human image,” said Sis
ter Mary Augusta Neal, a Boston nun who
conducted a 1967 study showing more
than 3,000 American nuns wanted the
priesthood opened to them.
She said a shortage of Catholic priests
was becoming critical.
“We need a new priesthood,” said Sister
Mary Augusta. “Women are natural can
didates for a new priesthood.”
Sister Kathleen said the National As
sembly of Women Religious is now an un
official church-related group barely toler
ated by church hierarchy.
“Some bishops outrightly affirm what
we’re doing and endorse us, most don’t
and publicly oppose us and view us as a
threat,” she said. “Others perceive us as
having some influence.”
Sister Kathleen said the organization
wants to see a change in the monarchy-like
decision processes in the church.
“We believe in the priesthood and the
bishops, but as models of shared decision
making,” she said. “We want fuller par
ticipation of the people. We hear the
needs of the people but the people are not
involved with the decision making and it’s
unjust.”
‘Rags’ to ‘riches’:
hobo becomes King
United Press International
BRITT’, Iowa — Sparky Smith says he’s
gonna be the best darn king that anybody
ever did see.
Smith, sporting a long beard, was
elected king of the hoboes Saturday at the
annual Britt Hobo Days celebration, an
event that has given this northern Iowa
community of 2,000 national prominence
once a year for the past 80 years.
Smith, 62, of Harcourt, Iowa, will wear
the coffee can crown symbolic of hobo roy
alty for the next year. He beat 12 other
candidates for the coveted title, including
such stalwarts as Frypan Jack, Slow Mo
tion Shorty and the Pennsylvania Kid.
Mickey “Long Looker Mick” Denfeld,
of Rockwell City, Iowa, was chosen Queen
of the Hoboes — the sixth time she has
won the title in the last eight years. She
bested three other women, including her
daughter, for the crown.
The 1976 king, the popular “Steam
Train’’ Maury Graham, did not enter the
competition that highlights the convention
which drew 20,000 visitors, but only about
a dozen or so “real life” hoboes.
“I wanted someone else to have it this
year,” Graham said.
The hoboes, as usual, put up in Hobo
Jungle next to the Milwaukee Road rail
road tracks which run north of the busi
ness district.
The crowning of the king and queen fol
lowed a 1 Vi-mile-long parade and a noon
time Mulligan Stew feed. Townspeople
prepared 450 gallons of the concoction and
it went quickly as the hoboes and conven
tion watchers gathered around the kettles.
The king and queen of the celebration
were chosen in the traditional manner.
Each contestant, dressed in tattered
clothes and wornout shoes, gave a short
speech. The hoboes receiving the loudest
applause from the audience — were de
clared the winners.
Smith, whose real first name is Floyd,
gave a short, simple speech.
“I promise to be the best king you’d
ever see,” he said.
The 1977 Hobo Days came one week
after a five-time hobo king — the “Hard-
rock Kid” — was buried in Britt. The Kid,
whose real name was John Mislen, died
while sleeping under a tree in the Ogden
City Park on July 24.
Baptist Church or the congregation that
split from it in the bitter aftermath of a
dispute over desegregation.
Carter went to the Men’s Bible Class at
the Plains Baptist Church at 10 a.m. EDT
yesterday, and to the worship service at
Maranatha Baptist Church at 1.
On the fourth day today of his first
weekend back home in six months, Carter
was expected to sign clean air and public
works bills during a day of just otherwise
loafing.
The clean air bill gives Detroit addi
tional time, but not as much as it wanted,
to meet auto emissions standards. The
publics works bills provides funds for
about half of the 18 water projects that
Carter wanted to kill but no funds for the
Clinch River, Tenn., nuclear breeder
reactor plant he opposed.
Yesterday morning, Carter, his wife and
their daughter Amy went to separate clas
ses at the Plains Baptist Church, the
biggest church in town — membership
about 400, all white, where he has served
through the years as deacon, Sunday
school teacher and superintendent.
Carter was asked to give the opening
prayer. With his mind obviously on the
church split he prayed: “Help us remove
thoughts of jealousy and lack of compas
sion and love for our fellow human be
ings.”
The Plains church voted to desegregate
last November. But in the bitterness that
followed, several supporters of that action,
including the President’s cousin. State
Sen. Hugh Carter, split and formed a new
congregation.
Carter and his family drove south of
Plains to the old Bottsford Lutheran
Church, a 110-year old white frame build
ing where the new church, which calls it
self the Maranatha Baptist Church, holds
its services.
Maranatha means “our Lord come” and
is referred in I Corinthians 16:22.
Carter was asked to give the benedic
tion, and prayed: “Bless this small and
new church. Separate it, we all pray, not
out of a sense of alienation and hatred, but
out of a sense of love and rededication to
thee.”
Carter and his wife went later to the
Murray family reunion, the relatives on
her mother’s side, at the United
Methodist Church in Plains. In late after
noon, in a replay of last summer, he
played softball against the news media
covering him.
Authorities evacuate park
as volcano erupts in Japan
United Press International
TOKYO — Japan’s long dormant Mt.
Usu has erupted in a belching eight-mile
high pillar of fire and smoke, hurling up
baseball-sized rocks that cracked an air
liner’s cockpit window and dumped more
than a foot of ash on nearby fields.
The 2,378-foot mountain in the north
ernmost main island of Hokkaido burst
open yesterday in the midst of a series of
hundreds of tiny earthquakes that jolted
the region
Authorities evacuated the area of 20,000
tourists and 7,000 villagers, but had no re
ports of casualties.
Japanese Meteorological Agency offi
cials at Muroran City 12 miles southeast of
the mountain said volcanic activity slack
ened early today, but Usu was still smold
ering and temors rattled the region every
four, minutes.
Police said about half the people living
in the area had returned to their homes
after spending the night in schools and
Buddhist temples outside the volcanic
zone.
More than 1,000 light earthquakes
shook doors and windows in nearby vil
lages for a day and a half before the moun
tain began to spout fire yesterday, and of
ficials recorded more than 200 more tre-
Muzorewa made his remarks at a rally in
Bulawayo, Rhodesia’s second biggest city
located 235 miles southwest of Salisbury.
It was his first public venture into a
Nkomo stronghold.
About 200 Nkomo followers tried to
gate-crash the outdoor rally and were dis
persed by about 200 riot policemen firing
tear gas.
On the night before the rally, intrablack
violence apparently linked with Muzore-
wa’s impending arrival resulted in the
death of one black — killed during the
stoning of a bus by a mob — and injuries to
22 others, police said.
In Luvenve Township, two large groups
went at each other with rocks and police
opening fire to break up the fight injured
one man.
Muzorewa blamed the violence on
Nkomo followers, who, he said, were try
ing to intimidate his own backers into miss
ing the rally.
New student admission
expected to decrease
Though the projected enrollment for
Texas A&M University this fall will be an
increase over the previous year, admis
sions of new students has decreased.
Edwin Cooper, Dean of Admissions and
Records released statistics last week that
show the number of freshmen and transfer
students applying for fall admission has
decreased by 5.4 per cent from last fall.
“This is the first time since I’ve been
here that there’s been a decrease in any
thing concerning enrollment,” Cooper
said. He has worked in this department for
five years.
The total acceptance for new students as
of Aug. I was 10,137. The cut-off date for
admittance to A&M was July 31 except for
special cases Cooper said.
Last year the total was 10,726, almost
600 more students.
Cooper said that number was not ex
pected to enroll. He said about 70 per cent
of the freshmen applicants actually arrive
and register. About 75 per cent of the
transfer students will actually enroll.
He said the drop in the number of in
coming students didn’t mean a drop in
total enrollment.
Total enrollment for the University will
be about 30,000 Cooper said. Last year the
total was 27,500 for the main campus and
about 28,500 for the entire University. /
There has been a small decrease in the
percentage of women that applied and
were accepted. In 1976, 39.4 per cent of
the applicants were women. In 1977, 37.8
per cent were women.
New Jersey newspaper executive
named Student Publication head
Donald C. Johnson, reporter and editor
for more than 25 years with Gannett
newspapers, has been named director of
student publications and assistant profes
sor of journalism at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
Johnson, whose most recent post was
editorial writer and opinion page editor for
the Camden Courier-Post, New Jersey,
succeeds Gael L. Cooper who accepted
the position of publisher for the Indiana
University Daily Student. Cooper has
been director since 1975.
Bob G. Rogers, head of Texas A&M’s
Department of Communications, cited
Johnson’s varied background. “He served
in many positions of responsibility for the
Gannett organization, the nation’s
largest,” Rogers said. “We think his strong
professional background will be an asset to
both student publications and our teaching
program.”
Johnson began his newspaper career in
1950. Since then he has served as editor of
the Bridgewater Courier-News in New
Jersey, managing editor of the Niagra Falls
Gazette, city editor-assistant managing
editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette and Ad
vertiser, reporter-assistant managing
editor for the Binghamton Press in New
York and reporter-state editor for the
Kankaee Daily Journal in Illinois.
He received both his bachelors and
masters degrees from Northwestern Uni
versity in 1950. He is past president of the
New York State Associated Press Manag
ing Editors Association and holds mem
bership in the Society of Professional
Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), American
Society of News Editors, Associated Press
Managing Editors Association and New
Jersey Press Association.
mors in a 12-hour period beginning yes
terday evening.
Officials said Usu, located in a national
park, erupted four times yesterday, send
ing a column of gray smoke more than
39,000 feet in the air and dumping up to
15-1/2 inches of white ash on nearby corn
and bean fields.
Crop loss was estimated at about $11.3
million.
Winds from the northwest showered the
volcano’s ashes on towns up to 20 miles
away. In Muroran and the nearby com
munities of Date and Noboribetsu, resi
dents began the grimy job of clearing their
roofs and gardens of ashes.
The volcano hurled baseball-sized rocks
over a wide area. One stone cracked the
cockpit window of an All Nippon Airways
Lockheed tristar jetliner carrying 317 pas
sengers and crew that had just taken off
from Chitose airport near Sapporo, Hok
kaido’s capital.
The plane was bound for Nagoya, 180
miles southwest of Tokyo. It turned back
to Chitose and landed safely.
Rocks flung up by the volcano also broke
windows of several cars in Date City,
about four miles to the south.
The eruption of Mt. Usu was the 10th in
recorded history and the first since 1910.
Higher and higher
This is a view of the Agronomy Building now under construction on the
west campus. It will be open for classes in the fall.