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— Griffin Daily News Friday, May 23, 1975
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Wearing a skull cap to keep the hair out of eyes and goggles to protect his eyes, 35-year-old
Freeport, N.Y. policeman Ben Huggard reaches out for a towel held by a friend to wipe off
the excess suntan oil he lathered on just before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean for the
beginning of his 165-mile swim attempt from the Florida Keys to Freeport, Bahamas. (UPI)
He’s off
MIAMI (UPI) — Nude,
greased and goggled and
listening to John Denver music
to keep from getting bored, Ben
Huggard swam at a steady
pace inside a special shark
cage early today in his 165-mile
quest of the Bahamas.
Swimming at 48 strokes per
minute, or about 4.5 knots,
Huggard covered more than 30
miles in his first seven hours
after plunging into the Gulf
stream off Marathon in the
Florida Keys at 1:22 p.m.
Thursday.
The 35-year-old plainclothes
cop from Freeport, N.Y., was
making better time than
expected because of the push of
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the north-flowing Gulf Stream.
Huggard said he hoped to be in
Bimini by early evening.
“Don’t pull me out unless I’m
dead,” Huggard told trainer
Dick Boullianne shortly before
he dove into the water.
His destination was Freeport
on Grand Bahamas Island, 165
miles from his starting point.
He hoped to make it in 50 to 60
hours and break a record of 91
miles swimming set by Walter
Poenisch in the Florida Straits
in June of 1972.
“Ben’s very high in spirits,
everything is going well and
we’re ahead of schedule,”
Wally Butler, captain of the
support vessel “Fintales,” re
ported late Thursday night. '
“He likes company and
enjoys talking to us,” Butler
said. “We’re playing John
Denver tapes —his favorite
music —over a loudspeaker to
Americans barred
from leaving Laos
VIENTIANE (UPI) - Com
munist troops barred hundreds
eliminate boredom.”
Before jumping off, Huggard
explained that boredom was his
worst enemy. He underwent
hypnosis to sharpen his wits.
There was no danger of
boredom in the first few
minutes. Someone sighted a
shark circling the support
vessel, a hammerhead estimat
ed at 8 to 10 feet long, then
several other big sharks
showed up.
Huggard wasted no time in
ducking into a steel mesh cage
being towed by the “Fintales.”
The sharks soon disappeared
after they found they couldn’t
get at the six-foot, blonde figure
crawling through the water in
the nude, which Huggard says
cuts down friction and chafing.
“I’ve run into sharks before
and I’ve always been very nice
to them and they’ve always
been very nice to me,”
Huggard had said last week. _
of Americans from leaving a
housing compound outside Vien-
tiane today and striking airline
workers delayed the evacuation
of U.S. citizens from Laos.
“The situation may be out of
control of the coalition govern
ment,” a U.S. embassy official
said.
The Pathet Lao troops kept
Americans virtual prisoners in
the Kilometer 6 residential
compound about four miles
outside the city. It was not
known who issued the troops’
orders.
U.S. officials said the Ameri
cans —mainly employes of the
Agency for International Deve
lopment —had plenty of food
and water at the 140-home
compound.
Laotian maids were allowed
to leave the compound to buy
supplies. They passed the food
back across the compound’s
wire fence to the Americans
inside.
U.S. officials trying to eva
cuated many of the 850
Americans in Laos reported
being stalled by a strike of
Laotian employes against Royal
Air Lao, the national airline.
The Americans still in Laos,
the last nation in Indochina to
fall under Communist influence,
include embassy officials, AID
personnel, dependents and pri
vate citizens.
American AID officials who
had been kept under loose
house arrest by leftists in
Savannakhet flew to Thailand
Thursday aboard two U.S. Air
Force C 47 planes.
Searchers find graves
ONSTED, Mich. (UPI) — A
telephone call to Texas police
from a woman who said her ex
husband buried four bodies
under their bedroom window
led Michigan searchers Thurs
day to the makeshift graves of
two women.
Sheriff Richard L. Germond
said the two bodies were found
in plastic trash bags buried in a
shallow grave in the yard of the
Cambridge Township home
near Onsted.
Deputies continued to search
for two more bodies, Germond
said.
Also found were two plastic
bags containing womens’ clo
thing, a library card issued to a
missing Toledo, Ohio, girl, and
an empty shellbox, authorities
said.
The search began when a
woman who identified herself
as the ex-wife of Gary A.
Taylor, 39, once known as the
Phantom Sniper of Royal Oak,
Mich., called police in Houston,
Tex.
Taylor had been arrested in
Houston three days ago on
warrants charging him with
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Evergreen Garden Club was
held at the home of Mrs. Louisa
Melton. Co-hostess was Mrs.
Ginger Goodman.
The meeting was called to
order by the president, Mrs.
Debra Johnston. Club business
was discussed by the members.
Refreshments were served
following the business meeting.
A white elephant sale was
held autioning off personal
items and plants.
Fourteen members were pre
sent.
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past three months. He was held
without bond.
Germond said authorities
were checking the possibility
the Michigan bodies were those
of four missing persons from
Ann Arbor, Mich., Toledo,
Ohio; and a suburb of Seattle,
Wash.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.—The first Vietnamese
wedding at this military base since the huge Influx of
refugees started in April, turned out to be a double affair.
At left following the ceremony are Groom Nguyen The
state police crime laboratory at
Lansing for an autopsy. Ger
mond said one of them was tied
with a piece of rope and the
other was bound with electrical
cord.
The woman who called
Houston police said Taylor
buried the bodies of three
women and one man last
summer in the yard of their
Refugee weddings
Michigan home, where they had
lived for three months.
Taylor had a string of sex
assault charges in Michigan
and once told authorities he had
a “compulsion to hurt women.”
He spent at least 13 years in
state institutions and was listed
as a fugitive from the State
Hung, 21, and Bride Nguyen Thi Kieu Anh, 19. At right are
Groom Phuong Van Hal, 20 and his bride, Nguyen Thi
Tuyet Oanh, 19. (UPI)
Forensic Center in Ypsilanti,
Mich., in December, 1973.
Taylor was tagged the
phantom sniper after he was
arrested in 1957 for shooting at
12 women and girls. He was
ruled innocent because of
insanity and sent back to a
state institution.