THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980
Page 7
Parents speak out
Much good'died at Jonestown, their children did, too
United Press International
INDIANAPOLIS — Much good died with
James Jones and his 900 followers at the Jones
town religious colony in Guyana, insist the pa
rents of two colony members.
Jonestown was no shantytown in the jungle,
said the Rev. John V. Moore, 60, pastor of the
First United Methodist Church in Reno, Nev. He
and his wife, Barbara, lost two daughters and a
grandson in the massacre.
“They had done a magnificent job of making it
habitable,” said Mrs. Moore. ‘‘It was supposed to
be kind of a proving ground for Third World
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She said there were good private gardens and a
library of 10,000 volumes, including university
texts.
The Moores’ daughters, Carolyn Layton, 33,
and Ann Moore, 24, a registered nurse, and
Carolyn’s son, Jim Jon, 4, died at Jonestown.
die officials Carolyn was married two years to Larry Layton,
who was indicted for the murder of Rep. Leo
Ryan, D-Calif., whose death triggered the orgy of
massmurder and suicide among Jones’ followers.
Carolyn and Larry Layton joined the People’s
Temple in 1968 or 1969, the Moores recalled. The
Laytons were students at the University of Cali
fornia at Davis and were attracted by the church’s
social outreach combined with good fellowship.
The Moores remembered a People’s Temple
home for the elderly and a home for retarded boys
in California as the best they ever had seen.
They said if older members turned over their
Social Security checks, they probably did so will
ingly, “in return for life-care, housing, and medic
al care, which is not unusual.”
“It was a support community. A real commun
ity for lonely people. This is the other side of the
coin that people did not know,” Mrs. Moore said.
Moore said the timing of Ryan’s inspection tour
— November 1978—contributed to the tragedy.
“I’m persuaded that if Ryan had gone in May,
when we went, there would not have been a
tragedy,” he said.
The Moores went in May because they had
heard news stories about the place and wanted to
learn if their daughters were staying voluntarily.
Between May and Ryan’s visit in November,
Moore theorized, “The pressures built up. Jones
was under increasing pressure. ’’ He felt an earlier
visit by Ryan to a calmer Jones would not have
triggered the debacle.
The Moores, in Indianapolis for a church con
ference, said a faction within the People’s Temple
colony was dedicated to its continuance but
against Jones.
“People there were convinced that there would
have come an end to Jonestown within six
months. It might have been a decision upon the
part of Jones and some other people to leave, ”
Moore said.
“The people who were there from its infancy
were committed to developing that project. They
had argued with the white leadership of the black
community.”
“I am not defending James Jones in any re
spect,” Mrs. Moore said.
But she insisted a recent television special dis
torted the real Jones and his Guyana colony. “If
he had talked in pious platitudes, he would not
have gained any following,” she said.
“It was not made clear that there were many
people surrounding him that were very brilliant
and well educated — blacks and whites.”
“We didn’t want our children to be a part of
People’s Temple,” Moore added.
“People’s Temple tried to separate children
from their families, but we always kept the lines of
communication open,” his wife said. “There was
every opportunity for them to tell us they wanted
to leave.”
Jordan to aid peace talks
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Carter, winding up talks Wednesday
with King Hussein, said Jordan can
not avoid playing a central role in
future Middle East peace talks.
Carter told reporters at a state din
ner honoring Hussein Tuesday night
their talks had been “much better”
than he expected. He said the Camp
David accord “envisions Jordan play
ing a role in the West Bank” auton
omy negotiations.
Hussein sounded the same note as
he downplayed differences with Car
ter over the peace negotiations,
saying, “I don’t think there are dif
ferences — only differences in the
approach to solve the problems.
We re very happy to be here.
Jordan will indeed play a central
role in the realization of the hopes
and dreams of all who want peace
and stability and freedom and secur
ity in the Middle East” because of
Hussein’s leadership and Jordan’s
location, Carter said in toasting Hus
sein.
“It is true that we may have differ
ences in approach but we respect
your dedication to the cause of peace
in our part of the world. It’s a dedica
tion we share,” Hussein said in re
sponse.
“We look into the future with
hope, with determination, to contri
bute our full share for the establish
ment of a just and durable peace in
the Middle East which will Effect not
only those who live there, but future
generations there and elsewhere in
the world.”
Aides said Carter and Hussein hit
it off Tuesday in a frank, two-hour
dialogue that “cleared the air” and
removed the strains which have de
veloped in the relationship over the
past 18 months.
Few clues for Georgetown
Strange ‘flu’gets town down
Jury selection continues
in Klan-Nazi murder case
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Among
he potential jurors accepted by the
iroseeution in the murder trial of six
(u Klux Klansmen and Nazis are one
vho thinks the defendants are guilty
and another who once worked with
me of the victims.
Prosecutors rejected one whose
arother-in-law is “very active in the
Klan.” They have accepted 13 jurors
ii all. Twelve jurors and four alter-
lates must be selected.
The defense has not yet ques-
ioned any of the potential jurors in
he murder case, which stems from a
'unfight at a “Death to the Klan”
narch and rally staged Nov. 3 by the
dmmunist Workers Party. Five
3WP demonstrators were slain.
“At this time I consider the defen
dants guilty,” said Daniel Stookey,
who was among eight potential
jurors approved Tuesday. “In my
mind there is a black and a white.
There is no gray. A crime has been
committed.”
But Stookey told Superior Court
Judge James M. Long he could base
a verdict in the case on evidence pre
sented in the trial even if it proved
contrary to his present opinion.
Those standing trial on charges of
felonious rioting and five counts of
first-degree murder include Nazis
Jack Wilson Fowler Jr., 27, and Ro
land Wayne Wood, 34, both of Win
ston-Salem, and Klansmen Jerry
Paul Smith, 32, of Maiden; David
Wayne Matthews, 24, of Newton;
Coleman Blair Pridmore, 32, and
Lawrence Gene Morgan, 27, both of
Lincoln ton.
Sixteen potential jurors were dis
missed “for cause” Tuesday, half of
them saying they could under no cir
cumstance vote to send a defendant
to the gas chamber. Prosecuting
attorneys have used 16 of their 84
challenges.
Willie Washington, a black man
who was the first juror approved
Tuesday, said he worked with San
dra Smith, one of the slain CWP
members.
Assistant District Attorney Jim
Coman asked Washington if he dis
cussed political issues with Smith at
the Cone Mills textile plant where
they worked.
“Do I have to answer that?”
Washington asked Long.
The judge said he did, but did not
have to tell what he discussed with
Smith.
Washington said they had discus
sed political issues.
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United Press International
GEORGETOWN — Health
workers are interviewing residents
to trace the strange flu-like illness
that has afflicted between 50 and 80
percent of Georgetown’s population.
Local officials are conferring with
the national Center for Disease Con
trol in Atlanta seeking to identify the
cause of the disease that victims say
produces crippling cramps, slight
fever or overwhelming chills and se
vere diarrhea.
Tests of local water supplies have
produced no clues, but health au
thorities plan further studies of the
city water and chemicals that were
sprayed last week to combat mos
quitoes.
“We’re going to try to follow up
every lead,” said Dr. Clarence Skro-
van, Williamson County health
director.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A union
leader, dragged off the convention
floor just before President Carter
was to address her group’s conven
tion last year in Detroit, has received
53,500 and a letter of apology from
the Secret Service.
Jane Margolis, a Communications
Worker of America officer, and attor
ney Charles Garry said Tuesday the
I. money and the letter settled her suit
1 against the Secret Service. They pro
duced a copy of the letter to her,
which termed her arrest “regrett
able.”
Margolis, 32, of San Francisco,
said she was held by the Secret Ser
vice on July 16, 1979, because she
bad planned to ask President Carter
|'a hostile question. But the Secret
Service said in its letter of apology “it
was his (the agent’s) belief that he
was assisting a Detroit police officer
in making an arrest. At the same
lime, the Detroit police officer be
lieved that the arrest was being made
for violation of federal law.
“In any event, it is now apparent
that no arrest should have been
made under the circumstances.
Margolis, executive board mem
ber of CWA Local 9410, said she was
surrounded by about a half-dozen
Secret Service agents, taken off the
floor and handcuffed in a back room.
She said she was released 40 minutes
later.
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The illness hit all ages in all areas
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Health authorities ordered checks
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“The flu was here before the
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illness June 6.
County health workers began sur
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