Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 86, No. 280, Ed. 2 Tuesday, January 13, 1976 Page: 2 of 8
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Tuesday, January 13, 1976
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But the biggest miracle of all Is
that the bullet fired at pointblank
range struck Lowrey in the thickest
part of his skull, shattering before
entering his brain.
Also on the list of miracles is that
a passing motorist traveling on NE
44 in the vicinity of Westminster
happened to see Lowrey moving as
he rolled over on his makeshift bed.
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MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — James
Salamites, an unemployed teen-ager
whose car collided with President
Ford's limousine last October in
Hartford, hopes to make money
from his wrecked 1968 Buick.
Salamites will put the car on dis-
play at the Hartford Civic Center
auto show Jan. 23-25 and plans to be
there with it. He said Monday he
hopes to Sell the car as a collectors'
item, but he didn't say how much he
hoped to get.
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with one odjustable shelf.
Below, three drawers.
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robbers had used Lowrey's car to
rob Park State Bank of Nlcoma
Park at 2 p.m. that day, Lowrey re-
gained consciousness in the outhouse
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Islands of
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We really can't adequately describe
these handsome wall units. You must
see them to really appreciate them.
They're brand new, solid pine, with a
deep, gleaming satin-smooth finish.
More than a delight in your den, living
room, or wherever, they're a joy just
to run your hand over. Obviously
there is something special about own-
ing fine furniture. Constructed of heavy
top-grade pine, thicker everywhere
then you expect them to be. See them
at closeout prices during our January
Clearance. Prices are FOB our dock,
good till 9 pm Wednesday. No phone
orders, please.
Drop lid desk with
adjustable shelf
behind two doors.
Below, three drawers.
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will be eloeed 7'ues.
Jan. 1.3th in Remem-
brance of Fred S.
Miller our owner A
very deamt friend.
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that Moynihan's name
be restored to the Mas-
sachusetts primary bal-
lot. Moynihan had his
name removed from
the ballot earlier.
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to security guards, but found nothing But he says the state won't pay for
suspicious.
The bombs, found shortly after 10
a.m., were near an emergency sub-
way exit, each wrapped in an air-
line-type tote bag and placed togeth-
er in a paper shopping bag. They
were near the library's basement
wall but not on U.N. property.
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Lowrey said the men, two of them-
wearing ski masks, hit him over the
head with something, knocking him
out. When he came to, he was in the
trunk of his car.
Using tools In the trunk, Lowrey
managed to remove the latch on the
trunk, and for a short time was able
to see where the car was headed.
Hrs plan was to jump from the trunk
the second the car stopped, but in-
stead, "evidently the car hit a bump,
and I was knocked out again."
The next thing Lowrey remembers
is waking up in a small, dark room
and thinking he had been locked in a
closet. He didn't know then the sav-
age beating his body had taken. Doc-
tors and law enforcement officers
later pieced together what apparent-
ly had happened.
After his kidnapping at 8 a.m., Lo-
wrey was driven by his captors to an
■ abandoned farmhouse in northeast
Oklahoma County.
"The doctors found mortar in my
head wounds, like brick mortar,"
Lowrey said. Bloody bricks found in
a pile near the house indicated the
robbers had used this to beat the al-
ready unconscious man on the face
and head.
"They kicked me In the groin area
so hard they dislocated my hip and
I was black and blue from knee to
knee. Then they dragged me about
80 feet over rocky terrain by my feet
to an outhouse, dislocating one knee.
"The last thing they did, and this
is what the FBI told me evidently
happened, two of them held me
propped up while the other one shot
me pointblank in the back of my
head with a .25 caliber pistol."
Sometime later, certainly after the was beaten and kicked.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) —
one-man grand jury has cleared
. John M. Bailey, former Democratic
J National chairman, of charges he
took a $200,000 payoff to help a pro-
moter get a gambling permit.
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words, 'We're not wanting to hurt
you. We just want your ear.*
"I guess somewhere along the line where he had been left for dead.
He managed to open the door, and
saw the farmhouse about 40 feet
away. "I thought that if I could just
make it to that house. . Lowrey
recalled. "I must have passed out
three times within that 40 feet be-
cause the FBI found three pools of
blood where I must have been lying
for some time."
Once Inside the abandoned build-
ing-, Low l ey searched desperately
for water to quench a burning thirst.
But the taps were dry and so was
the catch basin in the hot water
heater. The only water he could find
was two inches of liquid under a lay-
er of crust in an old coffee can.
Finding that life-saving water is
one of the "miracles" Lowrey cites
about the harrowing experience.
Another is finding an old sofa and
discarded rug that served as bed
and blanket while he waited, semi-
conscious, for help or death.
Still another miracle is that the
temperature, which had dropped be-
low freezing the morning of Lo-
wrey's abduction, rose into the 50s
by the afternoon and stayed there
until he was found the afternoon of
Feb. 14. Two hours after his rescue,
the mercury plunged.
Later, doctors told Lowrey that
due to loss of blood, his body would
not have withstood the bitter cold
and he would have died in a hard
freeze. He was also told that he was
losing blood at such a rate that he
would have probably died within
three hours had he not been found.
Lowrey counts as still another
miracle that he was in good enough
physical condition to tolerate the
savage beating he experienced. And
it was a miracle if not pure luck that
he was already unconscious when he
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nylon knit. From the company
that made this kind of shell
famous. All, with back zip for
sizes 38 to 52. Assorted colors
including brights. lights, darks.
A. Sleeveless, jewel neck. Reg. $7. 4.60
B. Sleeveless, mock turtle. Reg. $7, 4.60
C. Short sleeve, jewel neck. Reg. 8.50, 5.60
EVEN MORE FOR YOUR MONEY.
Suspect
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half before he was taken away. Then
they were greeted by Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Armstrong of Madison, par-
ents of two of the other three men
charged in the bombing.
Their son, Karleton Armstrong, 27,
was arrested in Canada in 1972. He
was later convicted and sentenced to
23 years In prison. Karleton's broth-
er Dwight, 24, and Leo F. Burt, 27,
formerly of Havertown, Pa., are still
being sought.
"My son has been gone for a long
time and this Is very emotional,"
Fine's father said. "Wa came here
because we love him — okay?
You've got to realize this is very
emotional."
Those years away from his par-
ents and others who knew him as
David Fine, years in which Fine had
become one of the nation's most-
wanted fugitives, ended last Wednes-
day.
FBI agents, alerted by an anony-
mous tip, knocked on the door of the
$150-a-month studio apartment he
rented in the San Rafael home of
David and Joan Cudhea and told
them they thought he was David
Fine. He denied It at first, then ad-
mitted his true identity just before
he was brought before a U.S. magis-
trate in San Francisco on Thursday.
The Cudheas remember Fine as a
soft-spoken young man who played
his rock music at low volume, talked
about sports, not politics, and liked
to look after the plants he kept in his
sunny room.
"He seemed to be particularly sen-
sitive toward the plants," said Mrs.
Cudhea.
An executive at the Santa Monica
electronics firm where Fine worked
as Will Lewes remembered him as
being "rabidly anti-Nlxon and anti-
Republican."
The executive said Fine was an
excellent worker, well-liked by his
fellow employees.
"We wanted to promote and ad-
vance him but he wasn't really inter-
ested," he said. "He was satisfied
with the salary he was getting and
didn't have any ambitions for a bet-
ter job."
After Fine left, the Santa Monica
firm discovered that his personnel
record and withholding tax forms
had mysteriously disappeared from
its files.
Fine apparently was In California
at least since 1972. He was regis-
tered as a student at Los Angeles
City College from September of that
year until January of 1973. His job
with the Santa Monica firm lasted
from October of 1973 until last May.
Little Is known of his activities
prior to then, although he is believed
to have spent some time in Canada.
And FBI agents said they found two
New York state draft cards and a
driver's license from a southwestern
state in the name of William Lewes.
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Incredibly, Lowrey says he looks
on the entire experience as "a gift
from the Lord" to be used In wit-
nessing for Christ. A religious man
before his abduction. Lowrey said he
had had trouble getting people to lis-
ten to him about his faith. Now,
since his life was "miraculously"
spared, people listen.
Lowrey says he feels he was espe-
cially picked by God to go through
the ordeal, rather than someone else
less likely to survive.
"The Lord prepared me for this—
my body was in good shape and I
have recovered with no problems.
The Lord also picked someone with
a boss good enough to pay me while
I was off work, and someone with
enough medical insurance to cover
most of the bills."
Lowrey is helping repay the "gift"
by working parttime as activities di-
rector for Highland Hills Baptist
Church.
But what of the still-unidentified
men who tried their very best to kill
him?
"If I ever see them, I'm going to
walk up to them and say, 'Don't you
know you knocked out 14 of my
teeth? Don't you know you shot me
in the back of the head? Don't you
know you really messed me up?'
"And then I'll tell them, ’I love
you, every one of you.' I really feel
sorry for them; they're pitiful. I'm
so fortunate I'm not like them.
"I think the Lord put that In my
heart. Maybe if I could remember
the pain, I wouldn't love them. If I'd
been conscious during the beating
and if I remembered the pain, may-
be I wouldn't love them and would
want revenge.
"If I saw them doing something to
someone else, I might try to kill
them. But I'm in great shape," he
said with a shrug. "I don't hate
them."
And what if some February morn-
ing while Lowrey is sitting In his
car, reading the paper, someone
comes up to him and asks for help
fixing a flat?
"I'll help him," Lowrey said.
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they were set to explode.
"There was enough explosive in
there to knock down half the li-
brary," he said.
The U.N. Library building was
evacuated until a police bomb squad
dismantled the bombs. The entire
U.N. complex already had been
closed to the public because of the
presence of PLO delegates on hand
for the debate.
The JDL spokesman said his
group applauded the bomb planting
as in line with its own position that
"there is no Palestine and there are
no Palestinians."
A U.N. security patrol had passed
through the IRT Flushing line sub-
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three pipe bom Im which were discovered in a subway tunnel beneath the
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Thickening fog produced travelers
advisories in several sections of the
southeast this morning. Much of Ar-
kansas and portions of Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia were affected.
A winter storm watch covered
parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Il-
linois. Heavy snow was considered a
possibility by tonight.
Colder temperatures and snow
spreading into a portion of the plains
prompted a travelers advisory for
northwestern Kansas today. An advi-
sory was also posted In southeastern
Idaho, due to gusty winds with snow
flurries. In Oregon, travelers were
advised that snow in the eastern
mountains could be locally heavy.
Heavy snow warnings covered the
Cascade and Siskiyou Mountains in
Oregon this morning. A heavy snow
warning also covers the Colorado
mountains.
Gale warnings were issued over
the Pacific Northwest coast and the
western Great Lakes.
Support goes to Moynihan
BOSTON (AP) — A
group supporting U.N.
Ambassador Daniel
Patrick Moynihan as a
Democratic presiden-
tial candidate asked
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