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Tuesday. November 21. 1978

an Independent student

Kentucky author reminisces
with students about his work

By DAN HODGE
and MARTIN BOOE
Staff Writers

“Mr. Still. I remember seeing you
when l was a sophomore in high
school and you used to sit around at
my grandfather‘s store and tell
stories.“ one girl at the seminar said.

The store is closed now but James
Still hasn’t stopped telling stories.

During Thursday's informal
seminar at UK sponsored by the
Appalachian Studies program. the'
author recalled the old store. some
other memories and a little of himself.

“I’ve been doing a lot of talking.
saying more than I know really." said
the 72-year-old Still.

A native of Alabama. the author
first came to Kentucky in the early

' l930‘s because of a friend he knew
working in Knott County. While he
was there. the Hindman Settlement
School offered him a job as a school
teacher. Even though the county had
no money to pay a salary. Still
accepted the job with room and board
as payment.

That was where Still. then 26. began
writing. He just sat down one
weekend, wrote a short story. and sent
it to Atlantic Monthly where it was
published. Inspired by’publication. he
continued to write and managed to
earn enough from his poems and
stories to stay stocked with razors and
socks.

Unlike many writers. Still does not
set specific hours of the day for
writing. “I don‘t sit down and say I’m
going to write a book or a poem. It‘s‘
not until an idea overtakes me and I
get to thinking about it.

“If something boils over inside. it
starts to bother me and it just comes
out. It‘s like a cold. I can tell when I’m
ready to write because I can see those
symptoms come on again." Still said.

After six years of teaching. Still said
he figured out he had earned six cents a
day for each day of those six years but
didn‘t mind because “That‘s where'l
wanted to be and I enjoyed the work
I was doing.“ However he said he
found he needed more time to write. '
He moved to a log house in the
wilderness and has lived there since
I939.

Although the Appalachian setting is
the consistent link in most of Still's
stories. he doesn‘t consider himself an
Appalachian writer. “Just a writer." he
said. “Appalachia just happens to be
what I know.“

Publication technicalities come
second to the actual book. each of
which he regards as a child. “You help
him all you can and try to get him in
the best school you can. and when
you‘ve done all that he's on his own.“

He noted a particular fondness also
for the “youngest of his children,".lark
and the Wonderbeans. a recently
published book for children.

Dissatisfied with 868 program
Three task force committees

to review A&S course options

By NANCY GWINN
Staff Writer

The development of new degree
options. departments and interdisci-
plinary curriculums are major
considerations being examined by
three task force committees in the
College of Arts & Sciences.

The three task force committees
were appointed last spring by Arts &
Sciences Deans Don Sands and Art
Gallaher. The committees were
organized to determine what college
programs would be neccessary for the
expansion of eduucational
oppurtunities during a l0 year period.
According to Sands. the objectives of
these committees have been loosely
defined so the committees could
determine for themselves what
programs were in need of expansion.

Historian Raymond Betts. Honors
Progam director, chairs the task force

committee for humanities. Betts‘
committee has been scrutinizing the
posibilities of an interdisciplinary
studies degree for undergraduates
which would be similar to a program
already available at the graduate level.
Members of the committee have
expressed disappiontement in the.
current attempt of such a program. the
Bachelor of General Studies degree.
Betts said his committee will discuss
action the University may take to
resolve the problem of educating
future students who may show a
declining ability to perform basic
educational skills. Betts said such a
problem would be considered in terms
of University instruction and the
professional interests of the students.
The social sciences task force
committee has been divided into six
subcommittees examining current
University programs. enrollments and
educational trends. The research is to
identify needs in various programs.

However. he is proudest of another
“child.” River of Earth. a critically
acclaimed novel which “people tell me
I wrote. but I still can‘t believe it.“ Still
said.

James Still probably won‘t mention
his novels being published or awards
he has won for short stories as being
the most meaningful events of his life.
He will probably mention the time he
set boxes of books out for each of the
several one-room school houses
scattered down the main road in Knott
County. in hopes that the children

. would have the opportunity to be

exposed to something other than text
books. And how he would walk once a
week from one school to another to
swap those boxes. Or about the time
he took a boy with rheumatic fever to
the clinic and ended up helping him get
through school. He can tell about any
of the numerous children he has
helped in his life. how they grew up.
where they live now. who they're
married to and that he is still interested
in them.

Still speaks bitterly of Appalachia‘s
present condition. The land
surrounding his farm has been
stripped and though he has never been
up to the strip mines. he said it‘s
enough to know they‘re there. “I resent
it like hell." he said. “And the worst
pan is that ldon't know of one thing I
could have done now or in the past to
prevent it."

The subcommittee on interdiscipliary
studies has currently completed its
report of existing cross-departmental
programs.

Both the humanities and social
sciences committees have been
considering several other recommend-
ations. The possibility of special
seminars for new instructors to
acquaint them with procedures and

methods of teaching is another.

suggestion to be discussed in Betts‘
committee.

“We are trying to get our hands on
some concrete programs for graduate
and undergraduate education.“ said
Dr. James Wells, chairman of the task
force committee on natural sciences.
Wells said his committee has been
discussing the opportunity of
establishing a graduate level degree
program in environmental studies.

The committee has also considered the '

development of a School of
Mathematics.

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Unlversity of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

86 offices
announced

Elections were held last week for
college-seat vacanices left after
Student Government generalelections
last spring. Special elections were also
held for the two newly~created
freshmen seats on $0.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SPECIAL ELECTION RESULTS
FRESHMEN OFFICES

MARK ROCK ................ 224
DOUG WATTS ............... 206
Caren Cunningham ............. 87
TJ. Uram ..................... 78
Connie Gumm ................. 74
Byron Evans ................... 67
Mike Bratcher ................. 66
Mark Vonderheide ............. 65
Gary Baker .................... 56
Linda Grasso .................. 45
Jack Heath .................... 40
Chris Schalk ................... 37
Chuck Lambert ................ 27
Chris Barclay .................. 27
Greg Likins .................... 20
Bruce Walters ................. l2

GRADUATE SCHOOL

VINCENT van .............. .12
William Ruf .................... 2

DENTISTRY

CHRIS STEWART ............ 45

Ted Raybould ................. l5
others .......................... 6

SOCIAL PROFESSIONS

By MARTIN soot/Itemi'snrt

JAMES STILL

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today

campus

BASKETBALL TICKET DISTRIBUTION for the UK —
laSalle. West Texas and Kansas games will be Sunday. Nov. 26
at Memorial Coliseum. Full story on page 6.

local

EARLY PRICES WERE REPORTED well above last
year‘s opening-day record average as tobacco markets opened
yesterday across the eight-state burley belt, said Ed French of
the Federal-State Market News Service.

Volume was medium to heavy statewide, but lighter than
normal in Lexington. the nation‘s largest burley market.

Only one of five starter warehouses here had enough tobacco
to conduct sales the entire day. said Bob Nickell. sales
supervisor for the Lexington market. . '

French said yesterday‘s offerings were of higher quality than
last year. “particularly as less house burn was noticed.“

state

THE STATE DEPARTMENT for Natural Resources and
Environmental Protection reports it collected $26.l00 in
October from eight coal companies for violation of strip mine
regulations.

The largest fine. Sl0.000. was paid by Peach Orchard Coal

Co.. Inc. of Louisa for strip mining without permit in Lawrence
County.

nation

STARTING NEXT SPRING new postal rules will go into
effect limiting the size of mail a person can send.

 

Under the rules a minimum size must be met before mail can
be accepted. and officials are planning an extra charge for large
and odd-size mail. .

Both rules will take effect sometime next March or April.
according to postal officials.

The delay will allow mailers time to prepare for the change.

world
JEERS DROWNED OUT THE APPLAUSE when former

'Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned to India‘s parliament

yesterday to take the seat she had won in a special election
earlier this month. It was the first time she has held an elected
post since her ll-year rule ended 20 months ago in a stunning
electoral defeat.

“Skunk! Murderer! Go back!” members of both the ruling
Janata Party and the Communist Party shouted as Gandhi
walked down the aisle and took her place in the first row of the
opposition benches.

Gandhi, unfazed by the harsh reception and appearing alert
after an all-night flight from London, recited the parliamentary
oath and took the seat she won in a special election Nov. 5.

Gandhi's stormy re-entry into the parliament is part of a
political comeback that her supporters hope will lead to the
prime minister‘s post.

weather

PARTLY CLOUDY TODAY with highs in the upper AO‘s.
Mostly cloudy tonight with lows in the low to mid 30‘s.
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Fire destroys almost half
of warehouse building

By JAY rosssn

Staff Writer

At approximately 7 p.m.. Brumfield Hay and Grain Company
at the corner of South Broadway and Bolivar erupted into flames.
The fire. which brought most of Lexington‘s fire equipment to the
scene. was under control about an hour after the alarm sounded.

The fire. which started in the southwest section of the building.
was fueled by hay and grain stored in the adjoining warehouse and
loadir g dock. When the fire was finally under control. nearly half
of the building was destroyed.

Awarding to Chief Gene Glass of the Lexington Fire
Department. no one was injured in the blaze.

Glass said although the fire was contained early, the fire
department would probably remain at the scene all night dousing
the hay and grain with water to avoid any rekindling.

He said the department did not know how the fire started but
said an investiption team was looking into the incident.

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'HEWisatitagain

New guidelines for equal spending
may mean end for some programs

The Department of Health. Education and
Welfare is showing renewed interest in
discrimination between men‘s and women's

intercollegiate sports. News reports ,last week‘

indicate that HEW is preparing to take a much
stronger stand than in the past on what constitutes
“financial" equality between university athletic
programs.

A set of proposed new guidelines. to be sent to
colleges and women‘s groups for a 60-day comment
period. would force schools to spend more money
on recruiting women athletes and on overall sports
problems.

According to a Washington Post story. colleges

would be in compliance with regulations if they are
“allocating substantially equal average per capita
amounts of money to participating male and female
athletes for financial assistance awarded on the
basis of athletic ability, recruitment and all other
financially measureable benefits and
opportunities."
‘ That‘s a stronger policy than in the past. Until
now. colleges have been required to meet vague
requirements of “comparable equality." under
'which women‘s sports programs could receive
considerably less money than men’s programs. The
justification allowed was that there was
comparatively less interest in women‘s sports. they
drew less money and had less of a traditional base of
support.

Evidently. HEW now considers that rationale
insufficient after studying the compliance of
institutions. which it began doing this year (Title IX
.was passed in I972. but compliance has been pushed
back). Perhaps the federal government believes that
college sports programs need some prompting to
take steps in the right direction.

Not severe steps. mind you. The football Wildcats
won‘t have to alternate with female gridders each
weekend at Commonwealth Stadium. But the new
guidelines would affect dual-sport sexes like
basketball. tennis. and swimming.

The government may be a little ahead of itselfin
requiring the equal spending for men‘s and women‘s
sports programs. Athletic departments are already
strained by the tight national economy and from
preliminary efforts to comply with Title IX. HEW
should be careful that in its dedication to bring
women’s sports to parity. it doesn‘t drive some
collegiate programs to bankruptcy.

One requirement that seems dubious is HEW‘s
assertion that colleges be required to spend equal
amounts of money to recruit .male and female
athletes. Recruiting expenses seem to more closely
associated with the competitive quality of a
program, not with a school's position on equal
opportunity.

As long as a program gives equal consideration to
established men‘s and women‘s teams. it‘s efforts
toward recruiting top athletes should be immaterial.
In other words. a school might try and retain a
traditionally strong women‘s tennis team. but could
show less interest in fielding a comparatively
competitive men‘s squad u as long as the men‘s
team received equal treatment.

To it’s credit. HEW has shown interest in other"
areas. Reports say it wants equal opportunity and
facilities for intramural and club sports. and equal
access to practice, coaching. academic tutoring.
locker room facilities. medical services and housing
and dining. Killing off the vestiges of sex
discrimination will be a long process. and HEW
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No regrets, but a few suggestions

Modern journalism problems remain while student convention refuses to search for ’vitality’

The national leaders of. the Society refusing to name their sources for corporation had considered buying a
of Professional Journalists are the judges and prosecutors. “gag orders“ failing newspaper in another city. but
rotarians of American Journalism. have been issued restricting coverage backed away when it was discovered

and when they hold a convention. as 0f trails "
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in the brackish flow of toastma..tery.
award bestowing and self
congratulations.

Stewart Bowman. a graduate of the
University of Kentucky School of
Journalism. former Kerrie/staffer. and
one of the most promising news
photographers in the country. won
one of those awards. and certainly he
and other outstanding student
journalists deserved their plaques. But
what the convention really needs is an
H.L. Menken award for smugness. to
be presented to the Mediacrat of the
Year.

The issues are serious: Reporters are
being threatened and sent to jail for

    
    

 

But what enbenched Dodo is
courageous enough, to drag newspaper
reporters into court andjail them ifit is
clear that the press truly represents the
public interest? In fact. members ofthe
press traditionally have held the public
in good-natured contempt. and the
priestly remonstrations of the Society
of Professional Journalists may be
construed. partly. as sign of the
slippage of that particular smugness.

The press does not use its great
wealth to serve the public interest in
any significant way when that interest
departs from corporate interests. In
Birmingham. I talked with a
newspaper editor who said that his

the question. Yet this is the very same
wealthy newspaper company which
spends perhaps $|5.000a yearto hire a
half dozen journalism students as
summer interns -— and is praised for its
generosity in doing so.

I thought as I looked at the brightly
hopeful faces of the students who
crowded the exhibition hall at the
Birmingham convention that instead
of rescuing another dreary daily. it
would truly benefit American
journalism for this wealthy
corporation to spend about $5 million
starting a dozen or so exitingly
independant newspapers around the
country. papers which would be
inquiring and imaginative and

outspoken. and attract young
journalists to the adventure of
journalism.

The proud old Society of
Professional Journalists is nothing if
not the defender of the assumptions
which motivate corporate journalism
its expansionism. its preoccupation
with technology (microwave and
satellite transmission. computeriz-
ing).its worried defense of privilege.

As I wandered from one session to
another. I thought of a few issues
which might have been discussed
instead ofor in addition to those which
appeared in the convention program.
They might not have the genuine
urgency of Myron Father. the New
York Times reporter who was jailed
for refusing to reveal his sources to a
New Jersey court. but they could
redirect the Society of Professional
Journalists away from the corporate
peerage and toward the rediscovery of
the vitality of journalism.

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students for their inability to spell or to
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convention session to the paralyzing
dullwittedness. the priggishness and
the cautiousness of American daily
journalism to the replacing of
imagination with cuteness. of sharply
intelligent commentary with
flatulence? For it is not only in the
schools but on those venerable
newspapers that the language is
constricted and debased to such a
degree that it very nearly justifies the
indifference of students.

2. Instead of calling for a united
front ofjournalistic organizations to
intimidate the press‘ potential
regulators in Washington. why not
discuss the deathly consistency. the
utter failure of editorial vision. which
gives every newspaper which can
afford one a “Lifestyle“ or “Accent"
section. which virtually assures that
when powerful regional television
stations emerge in the next few years
they will spawn news staffs of
Cronkiteers and. Brinkleyites. making
them minor key copies and not the
networks” challengers?

3. Instead of almost any other
discussion about journalism
education. why not ask why it is that
not one journalism student in five will
on the day he or she receives a
university degree ever will have read
Heywood Broun. Westbrook Pegler.
Mencken. John Hersey. Lillian Ross.
Dorothy Parker. Ida Tarbell. James
Agee; will ever have spent five minutes
studying a photograph of Brady.
Margaret Bourke-White or
Eisenstadt: will ever have seen a
documentary by Flaherty or

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Wiseman? Why not ask the journalism
schools why they glorify technique.
why they embrace the alienating
measuring devices of academic social
sciences while disregarding the literary
and humanistic traditions of
journalism?

It is pitifully true that American
journalism is the best in the world and
that. as one convention speaker said.
that Americans are “the best informed
people in history.“ I never have
regretted a moment I spent as a
reporter and editor for American
newspapers and magazines. which by
and large are staffed by bright.
tolerant. conscientious and honest and

people who know and value the world .

for what it is.

And I believe that all of us. readers.
listeners. viewers and journalists.
ought to have a convention livelier in
its assumptions than the Birmingham
Bash.

Next year the Society will meet in
New York City. the corporate home of
the networks. home office of most
national magazines. home base of
newspapers as disparate as The New
York Times. Screw. and the New York
Review of Books . . . That sounds likea
good place for a counter-convention.
which might embarrass the Society
into a few indiscretions. I propose that
one be held.

Micheal Klrkhorn Is a professor in the
School of Journalism and has been
published In many of this country's
leading newspaper: and magarlnes”
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(AP) — A Guyanese cabinet
minister said the reason
California cult leader Jim
Jones was permitted to
establish his ill-fated commune
in Guyana was some 60
reference letters attributed to
prominent Americans.

Among the names on a list
released by Minister of State
Christopher A. Nascimento.
who is visiting New York, were
those of first lady Rosalyn
Caner; Vice President Walter
F. Mondale; the late Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey. D-
Minn.; Sens. Henry M.
.lackson. D-Wash.. and Mike
Gravel. D-Alaska.

Also mentioned were: Reps.
Phillip Burton. D-Calif.. and
Jonathan B. Bingham. D-N.Y.;
Joseph Califano. secretary of
health, education and welfare;
San Fransico Mayor George R.
Moscone; former San Fransico
Mayor Joesph Alioto. and Roy
Wilkins. a former director of
the NAACP.

Nascimento said he was
providing some of the names
and texts because people were
asking why the government let
Jones build his settlement,

'Cult leader’s references

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politicians

known as Jonestown. in
northern Guyana last year.
He said most of the letters
were submitted by Jones‘
People‘s Temple at the time
approval was being sought for
Jonestown. and a few were
written directly to the
government in Georgeti wn.
Generally. the letters

referred to Jones or his
followers‘ activities in
California. and made no
mention of the planned
settlement.

Nascimento said a letter with
the signiture of Rosalynn
Caner was on White House
stationery. dated April l2.
I977. and addressed to Rev.
Jones in San Franisco.

It said. “Dear Jim. Thank
you for your letter. I enjoyed
being with you during the
campaign and do hope you can

comments about Cuba are
helpful. I hope your suggestion
can be acted on in the near
future." It apparently referred
to Ruth Carter Stapleton. an
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Piano pickin
UK‘s Jazz Ensemble II took center stage at Memorial
Hall last night under the direction of Gordon Henderson.

It was more than just finger exercises last night for Larry
Harris. a Fine Arts freshman. who playes the piano

during the performance.

Louisville teachers

cut class to force
increased pay talks

(AP) Jefferson County's
teachers. attempting to force
the school board back to the
negotiating table. skipped
classes yesterday and two-
thirds of their students stayed
away as well.

Chief Deputy School
Superintendent [)ai'id
DeRuno said only l0 percent
of the 5.700 teachers reported
for duty. Only 25 to 30 percent
of the ”3.000 student
'population showed up. he
added.

There were reports of
vandalism at 12 schools.
including broken windows.
damaged heating units and
televisions. and broken glass
and nails scattered on parking
lots.

Jane Charmoli. president of
the Jefferson County Teachers
Association. accused school
officials of using “smear
tactics" in reporting the
incidents

Charmoli claimed that
equipment reported damaged
at some school was merely
unplugged or turned off. She
also said that school system
employees were photographing
broken windows met the

weekend - windows that had
been broken for some time and
hadn‘t been replaced,

At a rally later in the day.
Charmoli told cheering
teachers that the one-day
protest was a success '

“There are many schools

where no teachers or students
showed up." she said. “'I'heie
were some schools where
students came in and principals

were asking them to get on the
bus and go home because there
were no teachers there to teach
them."

Special education classes
were canceled for the day but
officials lined up about 450
substitute teachers and l25
central office administrations

to serve as replacements. This
gave the system about one
qualified substitute for each 7"
absent teachers.

lhe major issue iii the
dispute is the school board's
refusal to adopt a fact-finder‘s
recommendation that it
increase the teachers‘ pay scale
by 9.8 percent.

lhe board. howeier. \oted
to boost salaries no more than
9.5 percent. lhe teachers
contend that under their
contract. booth sides must
agree before a new pay scales
can be imposed on them.

lhe demonstration went
ahead as scheduled after a
proposed compromise fell
through Sunday eyening
during an informal meeting of
both sides at the home of board
chairman (' H Young .lr

Young said the compromise
would hate cost about
334.000. or $5.000 more than
the 9 ll percent pay scale
increase would base cost

News story sparks Ryan ’3

(AP) ~ Rep. Lee Ryan‘s
interest in the Peoples Temple
was sparked by a newspaper
story about the sect‘s effect on
the family of Associated Press
photographer Robert Hous-
ton.

“I told him I was very
concerned about the welfare of
my two granddaughters in
Guyana.“ Houston. 61. said
yesterday.

“He told me that he had a
relative « a nephew. I think «
who had been involved in some
other religious cult like this. He
was going to look into it."

The story was written by Tim
Reiterman of the San
Francisco Examiner. who was
shot twice in the arm Saturday

at the jungle airport near'

Jonestown in Guyana where
Ryan and four others were

killed. Reiterman is a former
Associated Press reporter who
had worked with Houston.
After reading the newspaper
article. Ryan came to see
Houston. Ryan had taught
high school English to
Houston‘s two children.

Houston told Reiterman
that his son. 33. had worked to
the point of exhaustion and
had given $2.000 a month to the
Rev. Jim Jones. leader of the

Peoples Temple. Houston also
said his son had been beaten at

Students hurt in attack
at UK’s Seaton Center

Graduate student Kathy
Flynn and her brother Kevin.
an Arts & Sciences sophomore.
were allegedly attacked by
three young black men at the
Seaton Center Sunday.

Both were treated and
released from UK‘s Medical
Center for cuts received on the
head. They had been hit with a
piece of metal pipe while

jogging around the indoor
track at the Seaton Center. Sgt.
William Maxberry of UK
police department said there
had been a disagreement
between the Flynns and the
three men.

UK police said Sunday night
the case was under insestiga-
tion but no arrests haye been
made.

Cult members commit
suicide at jungle camp

GEORGETOWN. Guyana
(AP) — The bodies of 300 and
'400 men. women and
children —some shot to death.
most reportedly poisoned by
their own hand~ have been
found at the jungle camp of a
California sect whose members
ambushed and killed five
‘ Americans. including Californ-
ia Congressman Leo J. Ryan.
government offficials said
yesterday.

Guyanese Information
Minister Shirley Field-Ridley
said the whereabouts of the
remaining 500 to 700
Americans at the camp was not
known. but they apparently
fled into the surrounding
jungle. in the northwest corner
ofthis South American nation.

Prominent American lawyer
Mark Lane. who was at the
People‘s Temple camp just
before the mass deaths
occurred. told reporters today
that sect member discussed
mass suicide before he fled. but
that he also heard many burst
of automatic weapons fire frt‘i‘m
the camp. Jonestown.

He said he heard the sect‘s
founder. the Rev. Jim Jones.
chanting over the loudspeaker.
“Mother! Mother! Mother!
Motherl." seconds before the

’gunfire erupted.

The hundreds of bodies were
found by Guyanese troops who
raided the camp Sunday. Field-
‘Ridley said some had gunshot
wounds but most showed no
signs of violence.

“A witness said that people
,in the area were having mass
suicide.“ she said at a news
conference. “He said the poison
was being administered to
them. that they were lining up
for it.“ The poison. whose type
was not known. reportedly was
brewed in a large vat.

According to Lane‘s
account. the mass deaths must
have occurred an hour or more
after the Saturday afternoon
ambush of Ryan and his group.
which had gone to the camp to
investigate reports of alleged
large-scale abuse of sect
members.

Among the bodies found at
the camp were those of the
seet‘s fanatical founder. Jones.
his wife and one of their
children. said Police Chief C.
Augustus.

Soldiers counted I63
women. I38 men and 82
children amoung the dead.
They were all believed to