European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. November 15, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 3 repeat of mass suicide called possible Washington a the suicide of hundreds of cult members 10 years ago at Jonestown. Guyana could happen again the daughter of a congressman murdered in Etc said sunday. We need to keep working keep educating keep helping so the question How could something Tike Jonestown have happened again is a question our children will never have to Patricia Ryan of Washington said at a both anniversary memorial serv ice for the Jonestown Klims. Her father. Rep. Leo j. Ryan a Calif was killed by followers of the Rev Jim Jones on nov. Is 1978, in Guyana a country on the Northern coast of South America. Guyanese officials investigating the deaths of Ryan and four journalists at a Jungle air Field found that Jones and almost All his followers were dead. An investigation revealed that most had committed suicide by drinking a poisoned soft drink. However some had been shot some injected with Poison and of hrs forced to drink the deadly beverage. 1 Riall 912 people d cd at the people s Temple. In an interview after the service on the Sieps of the Jefferson memorial Ryan was asked whether the Mas Sacre Eoutz happen again. "sun1." she replied if a Leader decides to use decontrol he has Over his we need to keep working keep educating keep helping so the question How could something like Jonestown have happened again?1 is a question our children will never have to Patricia Ryan Lea j. Ryan in her talk she said experts estimate that More than 10 million people May be involved in destructive culls today. That s 10 million people whose minds have been taken away from them. To million people who have lost All sense of what is she said Cults arc a problem that target he Young 1lie vulnerable and the friendless. But it also captures the minds of Bright apparently Normal people who fell prey to seductive and deceptive promises of a better life and easier answers the experts she quoted had higher estimates than Many. The cull awareness network one of the Spon sors of the service has estimated that there arc 3 Mil lion cull members nationwide. Jane wills a former cult member who spoke at the ceremony recalled that while watching news coverage of the deaths she and her husband wept at the sight of the bodies because icy knew How difficult it is to break free of Cults. They had just left a cull called the children of god. She said. I would have taken he Poison devoutly she said. Bui she added that 10 years after her break "1 trea sure the Freedom god has Given me to think Tor my the service Marks the beginning of a week of remembrances thai wind up with a candlelight service in san Fransco where Jones Kempte started and where Many of his followers came from. Bush Quay a family frees have surprising roofs Boston a president elect George Bush and vice president elect Dan Quayle May be More than just run Ning mates. A genealogist who special lies in the lineage of presidents says Bush and Quayle arc 10th cousins once removed. The two also Are related to Abraham Lincoln and the Man thought to be mar Ilyn Monroe s father said Gary boy Roberts a genealogist at the new eng land historic genealogical society in Boston. Bush a Yankee and Quayle from a wealthy Indiana newspaper publishing family both have 17th-Century roots in new England. Roberts said. Roberts has spent almost a decade re searching Bush s ancestry which will be included in his upcoming Book on presidential lineage limed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of George Washington s inauguration april 30. Roberts is director of publications no the genealogical society the nation s old cil and second largest. Part of my Mission is to show How one goes out from one s self to one s fam ily to the Community and to various groups around the nation Roberts said. If you look til Pedigree you can Tell about patterns in Bush he said is Only the third of what he Calls social Register presidents the first two Republican Theodore Roose velt and Democrat Franklin p. Roose velt who were Distant cousins were closely connected to new York society both Bush and Quayle arc wasps White Anglo Saxon protestants with a Wist. They both have Strong ancestral stemming from the same tree Abraham Lincoln tics to the South As Well As new England Roberts said. According to Roberts Bush is distantly related to 10 american presidents including Franklin Pierce the nearest rela Tion fifth cousins four times removed Lincoln Ulysses s. Grant Rutherford b. Hayes Graver Cleveland William How Ard Taft Calvin Coli idec Franklin Roosevelt Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford the most Distant relation 11 the cousins once removed Bush also is descended from British Royalty going us far Back As the 12lh Cen Tury and King Henry i the son of Wil Liam the conqueror said Roberts. Jay la almost certainly has some Roya ancestry but Roberts has not thoroughly researched his family tree. And head ancestors on the Mayflower including Miles Standish and John aider Quayle s father is a member of the Mayflower society. But that Honor As Roberts explains it is not uncommon. There arc an Esti mated 20 million to 3d million people descended from the 23 families who sur Vived passage on the Mayflower Roberts said. " Bush s and Quayle s common ancestor was James Hamlin who died in Jamsia blk in 1690. Bush and Nixon As Well As former presidents Hayes and tall. Arc descended from Robert foot from Shalford in the English county of Essex who died in 1603, Bush and Franklin a Roosevelt share an ancestor in Anne Marbury the note religious reformer heretic and a founder of Rhode Island who was killed by Indi ans on Long Island in 1643. Roberts discovered one of Bolh Bush s and Quayle s More celebrated relatives Marilyn Monroe through another genealogist affiliated with the society Richard bran Zenun. Arc Nicman has documentation to show that Bush and Quayle share a common ancestor with Monroe s supposed father Charles Stan Ley Giffard who was born in Rhode is land in 1888 and died in California in 1965. Most Monroe biographies cite Gifford As the Man Monroe s Mother claimed was her father. Monroe s Mother never married Gifford but Monroe and if Force had some Contact with each other Over the years. New citizen fights to win right to vote Cincinnati a a new . Citizen took a Federal judge at his word when he told her and other new americans during their naturalization ceremony about their responsibility to vote. But it look Sonia Schultz 10 hours and More than 70 phone Calls nov. 8 before she could cast her ballot. And she had the help of two Federal judges and their staffs three lawyers one of whom is a Kentucky legislator and a sympathetic stale official in Frankfort who grew up in India walked out of the naturalization ceremony last month in . District court in Cincinnati and registered to Vole right outside the courtroom. But she lives across the Ohio. River in fort Wright by. -. And when Schultz went to Vole near her Home the morning of nov,8, she was rebuffed by poll workers who said Ohio registration was no Good in Kentucky. Schultz called . District judge Carl Rubin s of fice in Cincinnati where she enlisted the Aid of Rubin s administrative assistant Linda Dacron Kolh. She really came through for me Schultz said. Schultz s Case finally reached Charlotte Mullins executive director of Kentucky s elections Board who solved the Puzzle. She said Schultz could havea ballot if Herdsman would sign an order affirming thai Schultz made a Good Faith Effort to comply with registration requirements and the problem was not her fault. A a with Sci Icsman s order in hand Schultz re Lumen to her poll ing place before it closed at 6 . Finally when i did gel to where the voting lists were the lady i talked to originally cheering me on and hat really made it ail Worth it Schulz said i voted for Bush and he
