Term, police surround convict believed to be Ray
BRUSHY MOUNTAIN, Tenn. (AP) Authorities sealed off
a 500-square-yard area last night where they believed two
escaped inmates, answering the descriptions of James Earl
Ray and a companion, were trapped. -
. The area is about five miles due north of Brushy Mountain
State Prison where Ray, convicted murderer of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., and six companions escaped Friday night
using a makeshift ladder
Earlier, a former cellmate of Ray’s was arrested by state
troopers.
Warden Stoney Lane said Earl Hill Jr., 34, was captured not
far from where all three men were spotted, in a valley of the
New River.
Hill, a convicted murderer, was alone when captured, but
the other two appeared to be separated- by several hundred
yards in the same area and trying to escape, Lane said.
“These three have been just sort of drifting along, like a
rabbit in front of the dogs, ’’ the warden said.
The third convict was tentatively identified as Douglas
Shelton, 32, serving 68 years for murder. He and the other
man, believed to be Ray, were inside an area of perhaps 500
square yards, Lane said
Police with dogs were closing in, Lane said, and “I would
say the chances for capturing Ray tonight are excellent."
.Earlier, authorities expanded the search for Ray to a 25-
mile ' radius of the prison in snake-infested mountainous
terrain an area of about 2,000 square miles. The com
munities of Wartburg, Oliver Springs and Caryville were in
the search area.
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In Caryville, about 20 miles northeast of the prison, police
said a car was stolen from a parking lot and a man’s plaid
shirt, a pair of pants ahd $3OO were stolen from another car
yesterddy. They refused to speculate whether"there was any
connection between the theft and the breakout by Ray and six
other inmates Friday night.
“The interesting thing is they only stole clothing from the
car and they left behind many dollars worth of camera
equipment and jewelry,” said Anderson County Sheriff’s
Deupty J.D. Mathis:
The escaped men were wearing denim jeans and workshirts
when they fled, according to prison guards.
One of the seven escapees was shot and wounded and taken
back into custody immediately after the breakout, and
another was apprehended on Saturday. The reputed
mastermind of the escape, convict Larry E. Hacker, was
captured early yesterday.
Warden Stoney Lane said the three have been placed in
isolation and will receive an administrative hearing and be
charged with escape.
Yesterday, Gov" Ray Blanton and Maj. Gen. Carl Wallace,
adjutant general of the Tennessee National Guard flew to the
prison, where officials were growing more pessimistic about
the likelihood of capture.
Blanton announced he had ordered about 150 guardmen with
helicopters into the search. He said it is possible thdt Ray has~
managed to get out of the Cumberland Mountains around the
prison but that he is convinced Ray is still in the area and will
be found.
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Collegian
WANTED FBi
Strike vote to he held June 30
Officers urge refusal
A 14-member negotiating team for the Teamsters
unanimously recommended that union members reject
the University’s final wage offer at a Local 8 meeting
Friday night.
Local 8 president Jane Pikovsky said the officers are
asking union members to vote for a strike and reject the
University’s offer of a 5 per cent wage hike for all job
classifications.
A two-thirds majority vote is required to reject the
offer and initiate a strike. The strike vote will be held
7:30 p.m., June 30 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
The wage offer provides for a $.31 per hour raise for
the highest job grade and a $.20 per hour raise for the
three lowest job grades. ' '
Teamster members now make between $6.06 and
$3.72.
Pikovsky said the University gave a larger per-
Projected water lack won't touch PSU
Recent predictions of a water shortage
in the State College area will not affect
the University, according to Ralph E.
Zilly, vice president for business.
The University has “what we think is
an adequate supply” of water and will
not be affected by decisions facing the
State College Water • Authority, Zilly
said.
The authority learned Thursday that
unless new water sources are developed
and conservation measures are taken, it
cannot supply new customers after June
1979.
C.P. Zielaskowski, authority engineer
from Gilbert Associates, Inc. of
Reading, told authority members that
the system’s, excess water supply of
690,000 gallons per day for future ex
pansion cannot meet the needs an
ticipated for new customers after June
1979.
According to the firm’s report, the
system’s average daily water use (3.63
million in' 1976) will increase to 3.87
million gallons in 1977.
The system’s current daily capacity is
4.32 million gallons, and average daily
water use is expected to reach that
figure by June 1979, according to
Zielaskowski.
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The firm predicts that because of a
projected rise in housing construction,
the water authority will be forced to
decide who will have access to the
system in the future.
Last month the authority stopped all
water mains extensions to hew housing
developments because of the uncertain
existing water supply in State College
sources at Shingletown Gap, the Thomas
farm and the Harter farm.
CONSPIRACY; INTERSTATE FLIGHT - ESCAPE
JAMES EARL RAY
By DAVE SKIDMORE
Collegian Staff Writer
By DIANA YOUNKEN
Collegian Staff Writer
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Officials said later that 150 guardmen assigned to a military
police unit in West Tennessee will travel by convoy in about 50
vehicles, including 40 Jeep-type trucks, early this morning,
arriving here sometime this afternoon. The MPs will be
commanded by Maj. Gen. William Kinton, who as a civilian is
district attorney at Trenton, Tenn.
They will be joined by about 50 officers, troops from the
National Guard headquarters in Nashville and aircraft
mechanics.
Long before they arrive, 16 helicopters are expected to
arrive from Smyrna, near Nashville. The choppers, which will
augment five already here, will include 12 LOH6 light ob
servation models, and four UHI Hueys, the Vietnam War
workhorse. These will include one command unit, with a
medical evacuation helicopter and one carrying mechanics
for the other craft.
Lane chose six to nine prison guards for what he called “a
special force raised in the mountains” to search the back
woods areas with bloodhounds for Ray and the three other
convicts still at large.
“What we’ve been doing is covering the hollers, .access
roads, creeks and railroads and this type thing,” Lane said.
“What I’m going to do with these six men is put them in the
back country.”
Local citizens earlier joined'manhunters tracking Ray and
the others four hardened criminals, two with life terms and
two with sentences totaling 119 years.
With the special force and the National Guard, the number
of official trackers climbed to about 350. Lane said he could
centage raise to the lower job grades to swing votes in
favor of the offer. A majority of union members are in
the lower grades, Pikovsky said.
Pikovsky said although a two-thirds vote would
authorize a strike, the union officers probably would not
call a strike until September when it would have more
effect.
If the membership authorizes a strike," Pikovsky said
the union would still negotiate with the University
before a strike is called.
“If the University comes up with another offer, we’ll
have to consider it,” she said.
About 2,600 food service, maintenance and technical
University employees are members of Local 8.
Approximately 250 members are employed on branch
campuses. Pikovsky said branch campus members will
vote by write-in ballots.
University officials refused to comment on the
negotiations or the threatened strike.
■ The freeze will continue for ap
proximately six weeks while Centre
Region planners are completing a ‘
survey of undeveloped land parcels that
may request access to the system, the
authority said.
In the meantime, the authority is
investigating new wells in the region to
increase its water supply. “We’re
looking for about two million gallons per
day to. sustain growth to 1987,”
Zielaskowski said. “One new well could
Dutch, Moluccans confer for 5 hours
ASSEN, The Netherlands (UPI)
Dutch government and South Moluccan
community leaders conferred yesterday
to try to prevent' both new guerrilla
attacks and racial backlash from the
longest mass terrorist siege in history.
A spokesman said, the nearly five
hours of talks between the government
and representatives of Holland’s 40,000
Moluccans were “valuable and con
structive.”
Most of those rescued by a 10-minute
assault by Dutch marines were allowed
to go home and doctors said they were in
“pleasingly good” health.
. One', Kees Huibregtse Bimmel, said a
bullet went through his hair just as he
heard fellow hostage Ans Monsjou '
scream “I am blind! I am going to die! ”
Monsjou was one of two captives killed
in the attack on the train.
Bimmel, 29, recalled parts of his or
deal in a conversation yesterday at his
home.
“A bullet grazed my hair and lodged in
the door one foot higher,” he said. “I was
lying right in the trajectory line. If I had
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take us up to that time, but we’re looking
for sources to take us past that time. ”
Centre Regional Planning Director
Ronald N. Short told the Centre Daily
Times that despite the housing boom, the
population will grow only about 11 per
cent by the year 2,000 if no major in
dustries enter the area,
However, water use will grow 52 per
cent, without a population increase.
Thus the. need for system members to
conserve water is inevitable, according
been atop somebody else, it would have
hit me.”
He said that gradually the hijackers
and many of the hostages learned to live
with each other.
“I sometimes felt I was living a kind of
dream, an • utterly ridiculous situation,”
he said.
“Just imagine a man with a machine
gun coming up to you and asking
amiably, ‘Feel like a game of chess?’
or seeing a chap with two big pistols
tucked in his belt laughing his hfead off
while cheating at a game of cards. ’ ’
One of the survivors' said the two
hostages- who died moments before
rescue Saturday were slain deliberately
by the Moluccan gunmen. Her account
differed with the story told by another
hostage, however.
“We must keep cool heads,” said
Pieter Lokollo, “vice president” of the
self-styled South Moluccan republic-in
exile after the talks in Utrecht with
Dutch officials.
“A bomb has fallen on the centuries
old bridge of confidence between the
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not estimate the number of volunteer trackers. “I don’t know
how many,” he said. “I saw plenty last night.”
Severe thunderstorms knocked out telephone com
munications in the Brushy Mountain area and grounded
helicopters yesterday afternoon, but Lane said the rain helped
the bloodhounds.
“A dog runs a better track when wet,” he said.
Another official said he was told be experts that rain clears
away dust in the air that blunts the dogs’ sense of smell.
Lane said one of the four men, Donald Ray Caylor, apparent
ly was separated from the others. Caylor, he said, was running
wild over the country while Ray and two others were “moving
slowly and very deliberately. ”
Blanton, who earlier issued instructions that Ray was to be
taken alive, said he believed Ray’s whereabouts were “one of
two extremes ... He is either in a foreign country or he is still
in the confined area around here.
“The breakout was concocted, designed and planned in such
a manner that he could be in Guatemala by now,” Blanton
said, but he added that he did not necessarily believe that was
the case.
He noted that “no person who escaped this prison has ever
successfully made it out of these mountains.” •
He said his decision to call out the National Guard reflected
the need for more airborne resources^
Blanton said he had briefed U.S. Atty. Gen. Griffic Bell on
the search and that Bell discussed with him the briefing Bell
had given to President Carter on the situation. The governor
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of 5% hike
“It’s not because of us tuition’s going up,” Pikovsky
said. “We have to put bread on our tables too.”
The wage offer also includes an increase in surgical
benefits. Coverage for each operation would.be raised
from $450 to $750, a 67 per cent increase. Maternity
benefits would increase 133 per cent.
The surgical benefits have already been extended to
non-union University employees.
The University and Local 8 signed a two-year con
tract last fall, but the contract had a re-opening clause
for wages and surgical benefits for this year.
A majority of union members voted to reject that
contract at that time, however, the vote fell 84 short of
the required two-thirds
The union officers had recommended acceptance of
the contract. The union had voted overwhelmingly to
reject the University’s first offer after the officers
recommended rejection.
Pikovsky said the present wage rate will continue
until a settlement is reached. .
PATTEE
At left, Deputy Waaden Herman Davis
points at an aerial photograph of the pri
son where James Earl Ray broke out
with five other inmates last Friday night.
He is indicating the break-out point. At
right, the "wanted" poster for Ray.
to the authority. State College residents
may be required to initiate conservation
efforts in their homes. Placing a quart or
half-gallon container in the toilet tank
will save about 10 gallons per day, and
placing a flow restrictor in shower heads
will save hot water.
According to William Sharpe,
University water resources specialist
water conservation measures will
maintain the authority’s operation on its
current sources for several years.
Netherlands and the South Moluccans
. . . People must be called back to peace
and order,” he said.
Dozens of police guarded steel fences
that cordoned off the Moluccan neigh
borhood in Bovensmilde, home of many
of the 13 terrorists who hijacked the
commuter train and- took over an
elementary school.
Mayor Pieter De Noord said the police
would stay on to reduce chances of
confrontation in a “still tense at
mosphere” and appealed to both Dutch
and Moluccan residents to show un
derstanding.
“We have only one wish now: to keep
bitterness and rancor from taking the
upper hand,” said Dutch Premier Joop
Den Uyl.
The flag of the phantom Moluccan
nation the “Spice Islands” of the
Pacific, a former Dutch colony now part
of Indonesia flew from some
Moluccan ‘ homes in Bovensmilde to
honor the terrorists, who had demanded
the release of 21 jailed comrades and a
flight out of the country.
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