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Show Page 52-- THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday. October i:, 1978 Bicyclist Pedals Across U.S., Discovers a Better America - Joe SPOKANE. Wash. (UPI) Keba, pedaling across the roads and highways of the nation for nearly six months now, reports he's discovered a better America. "Before I left home, my perception of this country was what I read, how messed up this country's supposed to be," said Keba, 20, who set out from his home in Warminster, Pa., two days before Easter. "But what I've seen with my eyes, well, most of the people are friendly and the country is beautiful. They've never killed anyone. And I've yet to meet someone who's killed someone else in an automobile accident. Seems like that's all you read. "It's not as messed up a I thought it was. And the further I go, the better it gets." Keba has traveled 12,000 miles through 40 states including "all the states east of the Mississippi" since kissing his mom, dad and sisters goodbye on his bicycle tour of all the 48 adjoining states. Before him lie Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. "That's my travel itinerary," the lean, college sophomore said. His goal is to return home by in time for his 21st birthday and Christmas. When he passed through eastern Washington on his way to Oregon this week, Keba looked like he had pedaled ot a lot of miles. He smiles through a gritty, road-teste- d Carter Keeps South Bronx Promise By RANDALL V. EERLACE The South NEW YORK (UPI) stances" that have created two-wheel- open-spac- Nf S SM A KgkJfiV JOE KEBA, 20, Warmimter, Pa., checks his bicycle for defects during a recent stop in Spokane, the rat-infest- Rockies But so far. the further I go, the more beautiful it becomes." Keba said he's not the only one checking out the country on a face and calls the shirt, sweat shirt and cutoffs his uniform for temperatures above 40. he has changed tires "about 20 to 30 "There are plenty of bikers out there. times" and wore his first bicycle out I was talking to a fellow just the other after the first 5,000 miles. His brother day. His son is only 14 and they rode in Ohio got him new one. coast to coast." Keba said he usually stops at a gas "In Jackson, Wyo., I ran into a fellow station for repairs, and that's where he the other day who just turned 10,000 attracts the curious. miles. It's like that all over the "People in the Midwest mostly asked They feel the same way I do. me what the ocean looks like. That sur- country. Nice place. Not like you read about at prised me. I told them to go out and all. Even the truckers are pretty nice, take a look for themselves." although a few of them nearly blew me Keba's main diet has been peanut off the road." butter and bread. "It got to be tiring after a couple of months, so lately I've been drinking milk and eating doughnuts, too," said the wiry 135 pounder. When he runs out of money, which is fairly often, Keba says he hires on as a ranch hand. But his needs are few and so his money is used mostly to pay for food and bicycle repairs. His "hotel accommodations" have mostly been freeway underpasses and his trusty waterproof sleeping bag. "Worst one I slept under was right here .n Washington last night, along Interstate 90. Awfully rocky." The beauty he has seen hasn't stopped yet, Keba says. "Yellowstone Park and the Grand vetons they were beautiful. 1 also liked the mountain ranges, like the hand-washe- d the forces and circum- "overcome cities of America. are "Jobs private sector jobs devastation in the borough over the the key to a long term revitalization efBronz, whose arson-scarrefort in any city," Watson said, as he anyears landscape tookslike the afterPart of the administration solution nounced new federal loans to major math of war, will receive nearly $20 calls for the "greening" of some 15 corporations and small businesses in million to fulfill a promise by President e sites in various South Bronx the borough to "retain and create Carter to eliminate one of the worst eyesores in the nation's largest city, it neighborhoods for use as "everything jobs." from urban gardening to football was announced this weekend. He also unveiled an $8.2 million fields." Watson said. Making good on a promise the presito rehabilitate 4.000 housing program dent made a year ago after a tour of the Using federal, state and city funds, units at Claremont Village, a southern part of the borough just north each site will be developed and mainhousing project. dilapidated of Manhattan, Carter assistant Jack tained by local community organizadewould will Watson's and convert words were received success acres of rubble tions, Watson said Tuesday and on into effort" on an by the politicians and enthusiastically green garbage space. "extraordinary pend Watson said for the first time, the bureaucrats who packed the rotunda of the part of residents of the ghetto the Bronx Criminal Courts building. Department of the Interior neighborhood. Watson said the federal commitment responsible for maintaining federal But his words also fell on the skeptical an effort wilderness lands will work to ears of several hundred community was "only the beginning" to "rebuild from the bottom up" and to develop open space within the inner residents. - Wash. Keba hat traveled to 40 states so far since last Easter and plans to reach the other eight in the continental 1 UJS. and be borne for Christmas. FllT He says so far the United States and its citizens the ones he meets are "not as messed up as we're always reading about. It's really nice." R ClGAr -- TTES I I" (UPI Teiephoto) Los Angeles Police Search For Old Grizzled Eccentric controversial Synanon, the MARSHALL (UPI) rehabiliation drug and alcoholic organization once ranch in western Marin County, was founded in Ocean Beach in 1958 by an Charles E. 3,300-acr- e dedicated to nonviolence, has amassed Dederich. A decade later, Dederich, an outa large arms cache and is waging a bitter campaign against "sensation-mongerin- g spoken man, claimed 8,000 members members of the news for the organization and real estate media." holdings around the U.S. valued at $8 The object of controversy since its million. Synanon, a communal living group, founding 20 years ago by a grizzled giant who calls himself an "eccentric was originally praised for its success in old loudmouth," Synanon was back in curing alcoholics and addicts, its the news Wednesay night after Los volunteer fire forces and community bullecture programs. Angeles police issued an letin for a Synanon vehicle which may But reports of bizarre behavior in the have carried two assassins who tried to organization, including mass shaving of kill a lawyer with a rattlesnake. heads and mass all ord The lawyer, Paul Morantz, was dered by the Dederich, seriously injured when he reached into created a negative image and Synanon his mailbox Tuesday night and was bitmembers, in recent months, have comten by a rattlesnake which had plained of a media conspiracy to disits rattles removed. Neighbors said two credit them. In January of this year, Synanon men driving the Synanon vehicle were seen in front of the Morantz home. spokesman Skip Ferderber announced Last month, Morantz won a 1300,000 in San Rafael the group had amassed judgment against Synanon on behalf of $50,000 worth of firearms and ammunia woman who had sought counseling for tions to set up "a responsible, private mental depression at the center's police force". facilities in Santa Monica. Ferderber said the private army was Frances Winn said she had been kid- needed because of an "escalating patnapped, beaten and falsely imprisoned tern of violence" against Synanon while her husband, Ed, was falsely told facilities and residents inspired by "sensation-mongerin- g she did not want to see him. members of the In a related development in San press." In April, Synanon members blocked Francisco, radio station KCBS reported that a group of 60 former traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge for 30 Synanon members has presented a minutes and distributed leaflets report to the state attorney general's complaining of the allegedly office purporting to document "dozens defamatory media campaign. The leaflets said Synanon had sued of acts of violence" by the organizaTime Magazine for $76.7 million and a tion. n outlet Synanon, now headquartered on a San Francisco for $42 million for printing or airing libelous stories about the group. English Spoken Marin County supervisors, alarmed A ST. LOUIS (UPI) by the reported weapons buildup, calhistory of St. Louis in led on Synanon in May to disband the French, German and Japanese is arms cache. They also obtained a court available on telephones at Lambert order to allow state health officials Field. onto Synanon property to inspect their The Convention and Visitors Bureau child care premises. of Greater St. Louis installed the mulDederich, in recent months, has tilingual display because the number of maintained a low profile and been international flights into the city has generally inaccesible to the media. doubled. A brochure published by the The display, near the customs center organization in 1973 said Synanon had in the international wing of the airport, only three rules: (1) no drugs or features a message to British-accentealcohol, (2) no tobacco, and (3) no three other physical violence or threat of physical English in addition to the violence. languages. ts iron-fiste- LOW TAR CAMEL QUALITY J radio-televisio- - I two-minu- tape-record- d mmmm II Jj Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. mf wtJ- ' , 4fPf? 9 mg."tar",0.8 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette by FTC method. |