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TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1978
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Father’s death causes
family to commit suicide
United Press International
From oldest to youngest, the
seven children of Immanuel David,
age 5 to 14, climbed a stack of chairs
on an llth-floor hotel balcony in
Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday and
allowed their mother to give them a
loving push.
The woman, distraught over the
suicide of her husband two days ear
lier, followed them, stoically plung
ing to the concrete roof of the Inter
national Dunes Inn coffee shop nine
floors down.
A policeman said he thought roof
ers had tossed a sack of debris off the
downtown hotel.
“As it approached the sidewalk I
realized it was a body,” said Officer
Leonard Todd. “Several seconds
later another body came falling
down. ”
In four minutes it was over. Be
fore anyone could react, Rachel
David, 38, and six of her children
lay dead or dying. A seventh child,
Elizabeth, 13, was critically injured
and underwent almost 10 hours of
surgery. -.
Police said they believe the
woman coaxed her family into mass
suicide because she did not know
how to exist without her husband —
a religious fanatic who kept his fam
ily sheltered from the world in
$95-per-day hotel suites. He was
being investigated by the FBI for
fraud.
David, 39, whose real name was
Bruce Longo, a native of Yonkers,
N.Y., was found dead of carbon
monoxide poisoning Tuesday, the
day after FBI agents had sought to
question him. He parked in a bor
rowed pickup truck in a canyon east
of Salt Lake City and ran a hose
from the exhaust pipe to the win
dow.
"To them it (the jump) would
have been a trip to meet their father
again and that’s all,” said Salt Lake
City Police Detective Brent Davis.
‘He was the center of the universe
for that family. Without him there
was nothing.”
"Witnesses said there were no
screams and no cries,” the detective
said. “The children went quietly.
Only the youngest clutched at the
balcony railing and that appeared to
be a reflex action.”
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Tuesday
DANCE: The Social Dance Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the
MSC 212.
FOLKDANCE: The Texas A&M Folkdaneers will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the MSC 228.
GROVE: “They Might Be Giants. ” George C. Scott and a cast
of loonies take to the streets in this comedy. Movie begins at
8:45 p.m.
Wednesday
FRISBEES: "The Aces”, a professional frisbee team will give a
demonstration on the drill field at 11:15 a.m. Their main
show will be held at 7:30 p.m. in DeWare Fieldhouse. The
MSC Summer Programming Committee is sponsoring this
activity.
CAB CLUB: The TAMU Sports Car Club will have a meeting
at 7:30 p.m. in the Rudder Tower 704.
GROVE: “Prime Cut. Lee Marvin stars in this 1972 movie
that features a scene where a Cadillac is totally destroyed by
a wheat combine.
Thursday
BAHA’I CLUB: The Baha’i Club will hold a public meeting at 7
p.m. in the MSC 141.
GROVE: “The Stepford Wives.” Katherine Ross stars in sus
pense thriller about a group of men who make their wives
perfect...literally. Movie begins at 8:45 p.m.
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Elderly Ohio man
third-time hoho king
United Press International
BRITT, Iowa — It appeared all
“Steamtrain Maury Graham had to
do was raise his cane and grin to win
the “King of the Hobos” crown
again this year.
Graham, dressed in an old suit
and hat with a jacket covered with
multicolored railroad patches, com
peted with 14 other candidates for
the honor during the 45th annual
National Hobo Convention during
the weekend.
There were three fewer hobos in
competition than in 1977, but the
crowd didn’t care.
Graham, who said he is based in
Toledo, Ohio, was elected to his
third term as the hobo king. He did
not give his age. However, officials
estimated he was close to 60.
Viewers in the large crowd said
Graham was well known by other
hobos for his visits to hospitals and
children’s homes and efforts to try to
organize a retirement area in the
South for elderly men with no place
else to go.
So, although he had to give a
short speech before the selectw
audience applause, Grahamvn|
crowd s favorite from the statin
Last year’s winner. Sparky
came to the convention, but
not to compete.
Ding Looker Mick of Rod
City, was re-elected queen o/i
hobos, taking the honor from
other hopefuls.
Long Looker, who said she
been attending the convention)
10 years, served as queen fa
first time in 1970 and has be«
elected several times inthefoSl
ing years.
She told the crowd they shoui:|
more concerned about brotheii
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each other like neighbors
friends. 'M
The northern Iowa townofS
hosted more than 25,000 tluru!
festivities, which this year
marked Britt’s centennial^, ,
The crowd quickly dispdblj
traditional mulligan ster ’
Saturday, downing 450 a
less than 30 minutes.
Remember
your grad!
We have graduation]
gifts for men and
women, plus just tht'l
right Hallmark cards
and party goods.
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