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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1979 Page 9 RISK m 1alloween events around the world ffl* United Press International ack Thum Thee Clown, suffering n terminal cancer, slipped into hobo rags and floppy hat for sev- 1 hjundred young trick-or- treat- attending the Halloween party Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital. kCrjass the Atlantic in Britain, s and warlocks generally ig- the annual ghoul day. ''Jew York, some magicians Ike their wands over Harry ■ni’s grave, and in Michigan a lawmaker used the occasion to Jbast the oil companies as “vam- )etroit, an off-duty police ^nt chaperoning a Halloween was shot and critically ided outside a church. Police [17-year-old youth in custody and were seeking a second suspect, a 15-year-old boy. Both youths ap parently “crashed” the party, police said. A 4-year-old boy dressed in a Superman costume was kidnapped on the way to school in Philadelphia and held for $75,000 ransom for several hours before police rescued him unharmed. Police in Kansas City, Kan., said a man fired into a group of eight youths who were breaking windows on his house, killing a 17-year-old boy and injuring a 14-year-old boy. There were a few reports of crim inal pranks, and police nationwide warned parents to check their chil dren’s candy for possible tampering. An 8-year-old Lakeview, N.Y., boy was given chocolate candy con taining straight pins when he went trick-or-treating, police reported. He was not harmed. Jack Thum Thee Clown, a much-beloved Chicago celebrity for years, appeared for 20 minutes in clown makeup and costume to the delight of some 300 area school chil dren and hospital patients. He was in a wheelchair; an intravenous bot tle was attached to his arm, and a nurse stayed close by his side. Thum, 54, and his wife, Shirley, appeared with a cast of youngsters “taken in” by his family through the years. Thum’s 15-year-old granddaugh ter, Jackie Thum Thee Clown, entertained the schoolchildren and hospital patients with magic acts and clown antics. yoming murder suspect ;uarded in hospital room first plae use Art t Ruddf a $25 gif Krarnt; se CretmJ iti United Press International I CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Authorities, fearing for the man’s life, are guarding the hospital room of a Sheridan man arrested for shooting three elk hun ters to death at their campsite in the Big Horn Mountains. 1 Ronald Andrew Selig, 41, was charged Wed nesday with three counts of first-degree murder in the Oct. 20 slayings of Joel Nicholas Ely, 32; his brother, Thomas Martin Ely, 26, both of Greybull, and Kenneth George Windjue, 33, of Manvel, N.D. P The warrant was served at Selig’s room in Sheridan County Memorial Hospital where he is listed in serious condition from injuries received Saturday when his car plunged over a 1,500-foot ‘cliff near Sheridan. s A search warrant also was executed at Selig’s Residence, said Anthony Malovich, chief special agent of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Inves tigation. He declined to comment on the evidence that led to Selig’s arrest, but said Selig had been hunt ing in the general area at the time of the shootings. Malovich said Selig was not linked to reports that the victims had made about another hunting party shining spotlights on their camp. “We had numerous reports of hunters harassing each other,” he said. “At this point we re not con cerned about that. We’ve discounted that as a mot ive for the killings. As far as the motive, I’d have to decline comment.” The victims’ bodies were discovered Oct. 21 by the Ely’s father and brother, who had been camp ing about a mile away. Because of the remoteness of the campsite, in vestigators were ferried to the location by helicop ter. After completing their analysis of the crime site, they began interviewing hunters who were in the area at the time of the deaths. “This culminates an investigation involving many hours with no days off and came to a suc cessful completion with the cooperation of Big Horn County Sheriff Jon Dahlberg and his staff and Sheridan County Sheriff Bill Johnson and his staff,” Malovich said. o the ti is ahani a short | ja. congressman takes stand \ote butting is denied i the carl ficials sai Smitl gh he» e hanli United Press International sual tbUKE CHARLES, La.— lay. eshman Congressman Claude feared uddy” Leach has vehemently de- ?al an d any knowledge of a scheme to le “desflij 440 votes in the 1978 election t elaix t sent him to Washington. l,each, a Democrat, said he knew i e-buying existed in his home a of Vernon Parish and other t/ vv ts of Louisiana, but he consid- :d the incidents insignificant. ‘Yes, I heard of vote-buying l#^|||feigh the years,” Leach said dur- ; his five hours on the witness nd Wednesday. “Not so much i was n mey as using half-pints of whiskey anders; half-pints of wine — I guess I ea fpl at'd about that.” Leach was the 36th defense wit- ss to testify in his 3-week-old con- of the racy and vote-buying trial. The of Anl former state representative is ac cused of paying $5 each for 440 votes cast in the Nov. 7, 1978, elec tion in which he defeated Republi can Jimmy Wilson by 266 votes. Leach told the predominantly blue-collar jury about his childhood in Leesville, the death of his mother at age 9, contracting polio in under graduate school and taking over the family plumbing and appliance store business when his father died in 1963. He contradicted testimony from the Justice Department’s star wit nesses who have testified he supplied nearly $5,000 to finance an elaborate scheme to haul voters in the black section of Leesville to the polls and pay them $5 each to vote for him and several other candi dates. Leach denied a meeting ever took place between him and former Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr., during which McRae testified he re ceived the first of several payments for the vote-buying scheme. U.S. Attorney John Lydick grilled Leach extensively about his activites on election day 1978. Prosecution witnesses have testified Leach de livered money late in the afternoon — about 4 p.m. — on Nov. 7. Defense witnesses however, said Leach left Leesville about 3 p.m. in order to make several campaign stops and drive the 2 1 A-hour trip to Shreveport. “Do you drive fast Mr. Leach?” Lydick asked. “I try to drive very safely, but I have been known to exceed the speed limit,” Leach answered. e of Ana of San ' of Auif: of An ; and K Fricks, treats —new delight it dental office United Press International PROVIDENCE, R.I. — De ntist Larry Levin’s patients booked their appointments early for this year’s Halloween. For the occasion, Levin was decked out Wednesday in magi cian’s top hat, black suit and clown makeup and his assistant, Linda Cullen, wore a Peter Pan outfit. Levin’s patients were also invited to wear costumes. Each child got a treat: sugar less gum, balloon animals and a Halloween toothbrush. “We actually do work,” Levin said. “It’s not just a party. But we’ve scheduled the appoint ments a little longer so I can put on a magic show for each kid.” Levin first tried the Hallo ween idea last year, but he said some of his patients didn’t be lieve him when he urged them to wear costumes. This year, it was apparently different. “We were booked for this day a lot earlier than for any other day,” Levin said. “I have a lot of children in my practice and I thought it would be a way to make it enjoyable to go to the dentist.” «&!MSC AGGIE CINEMAWmWVM--.. Vv- ■ ! Sunday Nov. 4 8 p.m. Theater $1.25 with TAMU I.D. Tickets available at MSC Box Office Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tickets available 45 min. before showtime A representative of Mayor Jane M. Byrne presented Thum with a plaque proclaiming Halloween “Jack Thum Thee Clown Day” in Chicago. In London, the high priest of a witches coven postponed the celeb ration of Halloween until Saturday for a general lack of interest. The holiday is not widely acknowledged in Britain. “It’s much more convenient,” said High Priest David. “Most of our witches have ordinary jobs and their bosses wouldn’t be very pleased if they turned up on Thurs day morning exhausted because of our rituals.” Magicians gathered at New York’s Cypress Hills Cemetery to pay trib ute to Houdini, who died 53 Hallo weens ago, by breaking their wands over his grave. The ceremony, said magician John Bohannon, signifies the end of Houdini’s powers and was first used at the master magician’s funeral. The American Society of Magicians now performs the ceremony at all funerals of magicians. In Michigan, state Sen. Basil Brown used the occasion of Hallo ween to introduce a bill empower ing the Public Service Commission to control oil and gas prices. “Vampires are a dime a dozen on Halloween, but each day we are faced with vampires known as major oil refiners who prey ruthlessly on the average consumer in the true fashion of folklore vampires,” Brown said. Moslem inmate to fight pork in diet United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court says a professed Moslem inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has the legal right to contest a guard’s order that he place a serving of pork on his dinner plate. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday reversed a lower court decision that threw out the civil rights suit filed by Chris topher X. Kenner, the Moslem inmate, who claimed he was moving through the dinner line when he asked not to handle a dish of pork, which is not allowed in the Moslem diet. The suit says Lt. 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