Oregon daily emerald., October 21, 1975, Page 3, Image 3

Plot against Ford's life disclosed
Government shooting foiled
when 2 jailed in Santa Barbara
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two
men were indicted by a federal
grand jury Monday on charges of
plotting to assassinate Pres.
Gerald Ford in Sacramento the
same day that Charles Manson
follower Lynette Fromme
allegedly pointed a gun at the
President.
The indictments handed down
here named Gary Steven DeSure,
32, whose last known address
was Warm Springs, Mont., and
Preston Michael Mayo, 24, of
Prince William County, Va. They
are tentatively scheduled for
arraignment on the indictment
Oct. 28.
Both men are in custody at
Santa Barbara, Calif., where they
were arrested Aug. 26 in con
nection with the theft of a
television set from a motel room.
They pleaded guilty to a burglary
charge and were sentenced to 90
days in the county jail.
A Justice Department
spokesman said in Washington
the alleged plot had no known
connection with Miss Fromme's
alleged attempt on Ford's life.
The indictment alleged that
DeSure and Mayo conspired to
plant a bomb in a sewer near the
California state Capitol during
Ford's visit. DeSure "would
detonate the explosives and stand
as a lookout" while Mayo "would
fire a shot at the President," the
indictment added.
It was not known if the alleged
plan to blow up he sewer line was
meant to harm Ford directly or to
serve as a diversion.
The indictment said the alleged
plot was launched about Aug. 12,
the day before DeSure and Mayo
entered Glacier National Park in
Montana. Shortly afterward they
embarked on an auto trip east to
Cincinnati, south to Tennessee
then west to California.
The pair arrived in Cincinnati on
Aug. 17 and two days later arrived
at a motel in Dickson, Tenn.,
where they "wrote details per
taining to the equipment and
plans necessary to accomplish the
assassination attempt," the in
dictment said.
On Aug. 20, they arrived at a
motel in Midwest City, Okla., and
the next day stayed at a motel in
Amarillo, Tex., the indictment
said.
Teaching, high school programs
UO, OSU want more religion
By JEFFREY BEGLEY
Of the Emerald
The Department of Religious
Studies has been co-operating
with the Oregon State University
Department of Religious Studies
and College of Education in a
preliminary program to develop a
secondary school curriculum in
religious studies. They also want
to provide for secondary cer
tification of religious studies
majors.
According to Jack Sanders,
head of the religious studies
department, a curriculum will be
developed first. Pennsylvania and
Indiana already have such a
curriculum and California will
have one later this year. Sanders
and a professor in the religious
studies department at OSU
assisted in getting out surveys to
junior and senior high school
principals, and social studies and
language arts teachers. The
purpose of the survey was to find
out what is now going on in
religious studies and public
opinion of secondary school
religious studies.
They have also sent letters to
several foundations about the
availability of funds for the
program.
Sanders said that in about two
months the surveys will be
tabulated and replies from the
foundations will be received. Then
the program can be planned.
"I expect whatever goes on from
here on will include the (U of 0)
College of Education,” said
Sanders. When asked why the
College of Education hasn't been
a part of the program up to now.
On Aug. 23, DeSure and Mayo
reached Burbank, Calif., and
Mayo rented a car from a Ford
dealer in Woodland Hills, Calif.,
the indictment said. The pair then
traveled to Santa Barbara where
they stayed on Aug. 24.
In Santa Barbara, Detective
Robert Zapata, who arrested the
pair in the stolen television set
incident, said he had "built up a
rapport" with DeSure, who told
him of the alleged plot
Zapata said DeSure told him he
had escaped from a mental
hospital in Montana where he had
been committed for allegedly
threating the President. There is a
mental hospital in Warm Springs,
Mont.
Sanders said, "I think the thing is
that they are so busy with their
accreditation problem that they
don't have time for anything
else.”
"A student who gets secondary
certification in social studies now
majors in one of the social studies,
such as economics or sociology.
A religious studies major does
not now satisfy the secondary
certification requirement in social
studies,” said Sanders he would
like to change that.
On the legality of religious
studies in public schools, Sanders
said, "What Public
Schools cannot do is to in
doctrinate pupils in a particular
religion, and they cannot en
courage or promote religious
practices, such as prayer. But the
study of religion is both legal and
proper in public schools. In one of
those decisions in the 60s
(Abington v. Schempp, 1963) the
Supreme encouraged the study of
religion in schools.
Boyd okays Morse chair
WASHINGTON (API - A
Wayne Morse Chair of Law and
Politics will be established at the
University, Pres. William Boyd
and Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.,
said here today.
The chair, which will feature
various prominent figures from
year to year, will be under joint
control of the School of Law ana
the policical science department.
Backers hope to fund it with
$500,000 in contributions. Some
of the money was raised after
Morse died in 1974.
Morse, who served in the U.S.
Senate from 1944-1968, was
former dean of the law school.
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The detective said DeSure told
him of plans to obtain dynamite
and weapons for the attempt by
breaking into an armory in San
Francisco, then obtain plans of
the Sacramento sewer system
"so they could dynamite where
the President might be."
The alleged plot was the third
involving Ford in the past two
months. In addition to the pur
ported attempt by Fromme in
Sacramento Sept. 5, Sara Jane
Moore, 45, was arrested in San
Francisco Sept. 22 and charged
with firing a shot that was
deflected by a member of the
crowd watching Ford leave a
hotel.
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