_ Nazi supporter
shoots classmates

By ROB WILSON

LANSING, Mich. (AP) —
When 15-year-old Roger
Needham showed up at
Everett high school wearing
a Nazi party pin and talking
about Adolf Hitler, his
classmates jeered.

Ona cold February day,
Needham heard one taunt
too many. He pulled a .22-
calibre Luger-style pistol in
a crowded school hallway
and shot two teasing
classmates. One of the boys
died, ‘

Today, Needham will be
brought from Ingham
County’ jail to answer for his
mrcontest plea on a murder
charge. He is being treated
as & juvenile, so Probate
Judge Donald Owens will
merely pronounce where he
will go for -detention and

therapy.

That will put Roger
Needham away until he is at
least 19.

But it will not answer the
questions asked at Everett
high school. Who is Roger
Needham; but for his Nazi
pin he looked like just

another kid in longish hair, .

blue jeans and tennis shoes.
When exactly did he slip
from a perhaps unnatural
intereat in war into a belief in
Nazism that could cause him
to kipl.

Authorities have described
Needham as a_ brilliant
loner. They said he once
made a detailed blueprint of
a Nazi extermination camp
complete with gas cham-
bers. A psychiatrist
described him as “highly
intelligent, hostile, intensely

angry al everyone.”
DIARY FOUND .

Aiter the shootings on Feb.
22, authorities found a diary
in which the box had written
about his school experiences.
One entry read: .

‘T almost abandoned
Hitler last night—out of
heing pushed too far by my
colleagues. I almost went to
school without my Nazi
party pin in my jacket. But
luckily again I had a burst of
courage and never again will
T think about abandoning
mein fuehrer and Nazism.”

The diarx, entitled My

. Struggle after Hitler's Mein
Kampf, also contained this

passage: “While Iinno way |

forgive my enemies, I will

refrain from killing them for

the moment.”

The entrx was written two
days before Needham fatally
shot 15-year old Bill Draher

. and wounded 16-year-old
Kevin Jones. Jones, grazed
in the head in the shooting,
later admitted he had been
looking for a fight with
Needham “because of the
Nazi deal."

Daniel MeLellan, chief
assistant prosecutor for
Ingham County, said
Needham probably became
aware of Nazism because his
_ father, a Cooley Law School

professor, is a Second

WorldnWar history buff. The

pistol used by the youth be-

longed to his father, he said.

Needham’s parents are di-
yorced and the youth
livednwith his father,
McLellan said. The elder
Needham has refused to
discuss the case.

A pity they _
were betrayed

NEW YORK (AP)
Victor Kuglernremembers
Anne Frank as “a vivid
girl,” a girl who ‘‘was
talking all day—talking,
talking, talking.”

“] did nothing special,”
said the man who hid the
young Jewish girl and her
family from the Germans in
occupied Amsterdam, “I
could not leave my best
friends to the Nazis.”

Kugler was recognized
Sunday. by the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion for ‘encouraging
the values and ideals which
derive from religious
teachings." The Butch na-
tive, now 78 and a resident of
Toronto, received a $10,000 -
award. 0 ' ;

In 1942, the Franks and
their friends moved into a
secret area behind a book-
case, upstairs from Otto
Frank’s spiceimporting
business in Amsterdam, For
the next 25 months, Kugler
maintained the business and
helped smuggle food into the

Smoldering fire

annex that served as both a
refuge and a prison for its
* accupants.

In July, 1944, an informer:
tipped the Nazis to the
location of the hideaway in
exchange for $12. Anne's
father was the only one of the
eight inhabitants of the
hiding place to survive the
concentrationncamps.

“Tt was sucha pity that we
were betrayed only a few.
months before the war was
over,” Kugler said.

Kugler himself was sent to
a labor camp, but he escaped
‘during a prisoner transfer to
Germany, He remained in
hiding until the end of the
war.

Otto Frank discovered his

daughter’s diary when he re- |

turned to the hiding place
after the war. Kugler ap-
pears as ‘‘Kraler”- in the
diary, which has been
published in dozens of
languages and has been
made into a play and a
movie.

threatens lives

CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) —
Under the Odd Fellows
cemetery, where
generations of minerf and
their families are buried, a
coal mine fire has smol-
derednfor 16 years, holding a
threat for the living.

“Tt gets so hot out there at
that. cemetery, no snow lies
there in the winter,’’ said re-
tired miner Tom Cook, ‘The

town wanted to know where’:

to put’ all the snow last
winter, and I told them to put
it out at‘ the cemetery. But
they wouldn't do it.”

But the heat is not the big
problem as the fire licks ata
manmade barrier of fly
ash— coal residue from
power plants—pumped into
the mine beneath Centralia.
. Retired mener Tony

Gaughan can watch two
holes about 35 metres from
his backyard puffing hot
-'yapor as a constant re-
minder of the danger of
deadly carbon monoxide
produced by the fire.

He had three neighbors

whose homes were even
 cloger, but they had to leave

and their homes were torn

down,

CAN'T BLOCK FIRE

In 1972, the U.S, Bureau of
Mines finished injecting a
wall of fiy ash into the
ground a short distance
behind’ the homes of
Gaughan and about a dozen
neighbors, hoping the fire
would burn itself out.

But monitors detected
leaking carbon monoxide
last month, so workers
returned with drills and
pumps to create a sublerra-
nean barrier of 100,000 tons
of fly ish even closer to the
homes.

Those efforts have con-
fumed $2.7 mellion so far—
enough to run Centralia’s
government for the next 77

years.

Many of Centralia's 1,100
residents are’ former coal
miners andntheir families,
and after 16 years, they say
the fire is just something to
live with.

“People say it’s ‘too bad,
but...”" said Cook, shrugging
his shoulders.

The community has been
spared any tragedy from the
fire so far; however, a
mining official warn’ that

carbon monoxide testing is.

not a fullproof*safeguard.
“We have not detected
carbon monoxide in the
homes that we are now
testing,’ said’ Walter
Vicinelly, director. of the
-state’s bureau of deep mine

safety, But, he added; ‘We .

could test in the morning and
you could find carbon
monoxide an hour later.”

Saves _
Mother

FRUITLAND, N.M. (AP)
—- A i¢-year-old Navajo boy
‘helped save a woman being
swept along by the rushing
waters of the nearby San
Juan River, then discovered
she was his-mother.

Sheriff's deputies said the
youth, Willard John, and two
other teen-agers, Priscilla

Jim, 13, and Lea Hoskie, 15, ©

were crossing :a bridge
Saturday when they saw &
woman pass beneath the
structure.

‘

Normally one doesn't
associate western Canada,
and specifically the city of
Edmonton, Alberta, with the
sour of African drums, the
calypso rhythms of a
Caribbean steel band, the
romantic | sounds of
Polynesia or the exotic.
music of the far east.

But then this isn’t a normal
year as far as Edmonton is
concerned. ‘

In addition to all the
regular annual happenings
such as exhibitions and
Klondike Days, Edmonton,
this summer, will host the
lith edition of the Com-
monwealth Games. From
Aug. 3-12, athletes from 48
countries will meet head-to-
head in athletic competition.

Part and parcel of the
Games is an almost equally
ambitious project called
Festival 738. -

Festival 78 will un-
doubledly be the largest arts
and culture: project in the
country this summer.

A significant part of the
Festival wil be the “Com- .
monwealth Carnival’'
featuring performers, visual
artists, crafls persons’ and
displays from. over 20
Commonwealth countries.

In addition to Edmonton,
other Canadian cities will
have a chance to see the
Carnival. For instance, the
Calgary Stampede's theme
this year is a “Salute ta the
Commonwealth.” The
grandstand show at the
Stampede (July 7-16) will
include performers from
several Commonwealth
countries as will the Ed-
monton Exhibition’s annual
“Coliseum of Stars”, during
Klondike Days (July 19-29).

In the Games city, the bulk
of the displays and events
will take place at shopping
malls during late July and
August, Because the.

Dancers from across Canada will be in Edmonton this
summer to participate in Festival 78 the cultural] part
of the 1ith Commonwealth Games.

The Games,

Commonwealth falls into
roughly’ .six major
geographical areas, each
mall will emphasize a region
such as United Kingdom,
Africa, Caribbean, Europe,
Oceania and Asia.

. The second major part of

the Festival 78 program is a
“Canadian Folk Arts
Festival.” Dancers, singers
and musicians from across
Canada will perform in
Edmonton July 31-Aug. 12.
All 10 provinces and the two
territories are expected to be
represented.
Appropriately, Ed-
monton's annual Heritage
Festival will launch the Folk
Arts program. Over 40
multicultural groups par-
ticipated in the one-day
affair last year and at-
tendance exceeded 40,000,
With the addition of in-
dividual provincial displays
and presentations this year,
the largest Heritage Festival
ever is guaranteed,
Following the one-day
launch, each provincial show
will be featured for one week
of the two-week Games
period in Edmonton. The
shows will be presented on a

. number of outdoor stages at

Hawrelak Park and in the
various athletic facilities

‘including the new 42,400-seat

Commonwealth Stadium.
Plans are also being made to
have’ the provincial shows
tour other Alberta com-
munities,

Other Festival 78
highlights range from a
Commonwealth Children’s
Art Exhibition to a classical
music competition.

There’s a cholce of half a
dozen art exhibitions such
as; Canadian art from the
Group of Seven to. 1970;
painting and sculpture from
both Canada and Great
Britain; a collection of
paintings and sculpture by

ticipating in 10 sports.

scheduled August 3-12, will have 48 natians par-

(Canadian Government Office of Tourism Photo}

Culture at Commonwealth Games

Alberta artists recently
hailed by European art
critics; the art of Canada’s
West Coast Indians; a unique
presentation of Australian
aboriginal art; a collection
of paintings photographs,
sculpture and lithographs
capturing the highlights of
Canada's sports history; and
Commonwealth children’s
art and sculpture in all its
forms. ‘

. As part of Festival 78 there
are three maior crafts
events planned including: a
presentation of top Alberta
crafts created specifically
for the Festival; a presen-
tation of over 250 examples
of .the very best con-
temporary works by leading
Canadian craftsmen; and a
Craft Fair where you can
purchase. Alberta crafts and,
art work.

Rounding out the program
are special events and at-
tractions including: a
concert series featuring top
popular and classical artists
and companies from Canada
and the Commonwealth;
presentations of the work of
more than 100 Canadian
writers, composers and
choreographers at the an-
nual Banff Festival, just a
triple jump from Calgary; a
Commonwealth film
festival; dance companies in
programs designed
specifically for children; and

music competitions with .

over 300 young classical
Musicians from across
Canada taking part.

For further information on

locations and times write to:

Festival 78, Xi Com-

monwealth Games; P.O. Box ©

1978, Edmonton, Alberta,

Canada T5J 55 or.call (403) ©

428-1979. .

A total of 10 sports make
up the Commonwealth
Games program including
athletics, badminton,

Pot can ruin teeth .

CMICAGO = (AP)
Marijkana and dental
treatment don’t mix, say tvo

’ dental researchers who warn

that marijuana users may
suffer serious side-effects .
because of reactions to drugs
used in denta] treatment.
For that reason, they
advise habitual marijuana

smokerf to abstain from use |

of the substance for a period
before and after treatment.
The reseachers review
marijuana in relation to
stress in dental treatment-in
the June issue‘of the Journal
ofnthe American Dental
Association, They are Drs,
Leonard Horowitz of the
Eastman Dental Centre in
Rochester, N.Y., and Robert
Nersasian of Tufts
University school of dental *
medicine in Boston. .
They point out that about
half pf college-age people in
the United States used
marijuana in 1972, with eight '
per cent smoking it daily.
And they say, it is projected

that 66 per cent of young

adults will use it by 1980.
For this‘ reason, they
advise dentists, more young
dental patients. will be
seeking elective or:
‘emergency dental treatment
while under the influence of
marijuana.
‘STUDY NEEDED
Marijuana, they say, ‘is a
potent, pharmacologically

‘active agent that could affect

and complicate a dental
procedure'’’ and it needs
further studs as it relates to’
dental treatment.

They say it interferes with
normal cardiovascular
mechanisms and those
responses involving the
involuntary nervous system.

Patients who have used.
marijuana may develop
irregular heartbeats and
may experience drops in
blood pressure te the point
where they. faint, Drs.

’ Horowitz and Nersasian say.

The chemically active in-
gredients in marijuana alone
are capable of inducing a
number .of abnormal
responses involving the

heart, lungs and blood
vessels, as well as other
physiologically . dangerous

* changes.

They ccte a studx that con-
eluded medicines commonly
used in dental treatment

containing atropine or

_ epinephrine in patients who

use marijuana might in-
tensify and prolong ab-

normally rapid heartbeats ©
“for a dangerously long

period of time.”

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boxing, cycling, gymnastics,
lawn bowls, shooting,
swimming and diving,
weightlifting and wrestling.
While some finals such as
swimming sold out shortly
after tickets became
available, there are still
tickets for other events,

In ather- Commonwealth
countries there are
designated agents and in-
formation as to how to obtain
tickets can be received by
checking with a local carrier
or a travel agent. Also
Commonwealth Games
Associations in the various

countries ean provide in-

formation.

U.S. residents wishing to
take in the games can write
directly to Commonwealth
Games, P.O. Box 1978,
Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 5J5.
Phone (403) 428-1978. —In-
formation can also be ob-
tained by contacting any CP
Air or Air Canada office in
the U.S.

For general information
on Canada as a travel
destination, contact the
Canadian Government
Office of Tourism, Ottawa,
Canada K1A 0H6.

For general information
on Alberta write to Travel
Alberta, 12th floor, Capitol
Square, 10965 Jasper
Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 0H4.

“There is always room at the
tap." Daniel Webster

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THE HERALD, Tuesda, (ure 4. 1978. PAGE 13

Food is love

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Peopie in the United States
treat food as status,
language and refuge and
such deeply ingrained
symbolism frustrates all but
a handful of dieters, say
researchers at the
Universily of California at
Berkeley.

“The way we relate to food
is deeply rooted and very,
very important,” nutritionist
Barbara Abrams said
Sunday. ‘Food is associated
with love for a lot of us,Some
people don't know how to feel
love from other people, so

_ they eat all the time.

“And it's our self-ex-
pression,” she told a con-

and

ference on nutrition and
health. "We rarely olfer food
tosameone we don’t like, but
with someone we like we use
food as a form of sharing.
“We also use. food as a
crutch. There are those who,
when they're under stress,
will eat everything in sight.
We even use food as reward
punishment for
children,” ; .

Such, habits and per. -
- eeptions are an integral part

of each individual, she said,
and must be dealt with if
changes in diet are to suc-
ceed,

The conference was
sponsored by the University
of California

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