Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 153, Ed. 1 Friday, June 27, 1980 Page: 6 of 14
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6—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texae, Friday, June 27, 1900.
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Famed gumshoe measures success by danger
VICTORIA, British Columbia
(AP) — Success, says super-
gumshoe Jay J. Armes of
Texas, is measured by the
number of assassination at-
tempts.
And Armes, a private eye
whose latest escapade is the
spiriting out of Greece of an 11-
year-old Duncan, British
Columbia, boy, has survived
many attempts in the last 18
years.
“There have been 15 attempts
on my life," says Armes with a
casual air.
“I was shot one-half inch
from my heart... I have been
taken out to sea with a cement
collar around my neck ... my
car has been rigged with a
bomb and with a shotgun that
would have blown my head off
when I stepped on the starter ...
I’ve been bludgeoned with a
baseball bat and left for dead,”
he said.
Armes, who looks more like a
short Pat Boone than a James
Bond type, is dressed in white
suit, shoes and tie, with a black
shirt to match his hair and a
gold crucifix tie pin.
The private eye says he lives
"comfortably" with a 26-room
mansion at El Paso, Texas,
with its own lake and landing
pad for three jets on the 14-acre
estate.
Not bad for a man who lost
both hands accidentally when
he was 11 — they are now
replaced by steel hooks — and
who had trouble finding a job
after he graduated from New
York University with a degree
in criminology. »
He is reported to have been
paid 150,000 for his 36-clay effort
in bringing the boy, Alex
Nikolopoulos, back to his
mother in Duncan. The boy had
been taken to Greece by his
father.
Armes says, he has solved
countless murders around the
world, returned Marlon
Brando’s abducted son from
Mexico and done jobs for the
late Elvis Presley and royalty.
He believes himself to be the
only private eye in the world
who guarantees his work He
pays expenses if he does not
solve a case, and says he has
2,400 agents working for him
around the world.
“I’m working on 40 cases
right now,” Armes said here
Wednesday. “When I leave
here, I’m going to Los Angeles,
then to Japan, then to Sweden,
then to Germany.”
Armes’ work as a private eye
has brought him fame as well as
money. A film, magazine ar-
ticles and a book have been
done about his life. He makes
expensive speeches — last year
he charged an audience of
Edmonton, Alberta,
businessmen $10,000 for 10
minutes — and a doll is being
sold in the United States.
'Dallas' plot thickens,
both on and off screen
LOS ANGELES (AP) - As
the plot thickened in the
mythical mystery of who shot
the chief villain in the television
soap opera "Dallas,” real-life
mysteries surrounding the
story also became more en-
tangled.
A l/os Angeles daily newspaer
Thursday turned over to police
an allegedly stolen copy of a
secret “Dallas" script, while a
New York weekly said it had
received two offers t<T sell it
copies of the episodes that tell
who shot J.R. Ewing, an un-
scrupulous Dallas oilman.
Frank Dale, publisher of the
Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
Name news
raises hope
son's alive
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A
Florida mother whose hopes
that the son she thought was
buried is still alive has received
more encouragement that a
hitchhiker photographed in
Texas may be her son.
Carla Elder’s hopes were
raised recently when she saw a
newspaper photo of a man
trying to catch a ride near
Dallas. She said the man in the
picture resembled her son,
Michael Elder.
A body identified by the
Marine Corps as that of Michael
Elder was shipped to Tampa
from Camp Lejeune in 1978. The
Marines said Elder had been
shot to death in an off-duty
incident near Snead’s Ferry.
Mrs. Elder said the family
had buried the body although
they were not sure it was that of
the son.
After seeing the newspaper
photo, Mrs. Elder sent out a
plea for more information about
the man.
The News and Observer of
Raleigh reported today that
Scott Haycox of Choctaw, Okla.,
has notified Mrs. Elder that he
picked up the hitchhiker and
took him to his home, where the
man spent the night of June 15
— two days before the photo
was published.
Haycox said the man iden-
tified himself as Michael Elder.
"He seemed to be a together
person but somewhat
disoriented (about) where he
was going. There was a
mystery as to where he was
going and where he was coming
from,” Haycox said.
Haycox said the man left
Choctaw on June 16, saying he
was going to West Virginia.
said the script had been ob-
tained “some time ago” from
an unnamed “news source.”
But, he said, the newspaper
did not realize the script might
be stolen until producers of the
popular television series
reported Wednesday that
scripts dealing with the crime
had disappeared.
Dale declined to say when the
script had been obtained or
whether the newspaper had
paid for it.
Earlier in the day, a New
York-based tabloid, The Star,
said it had received two offers
to buy copies of the secret
episodes.
“We got a call last week of-
fering us a script and another
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call from someone else on
Monday offering us a script,”
Malcolm Abrams, articles
editor for The Star, said in a
telephone interview. .
But he added, “We’re not in
the business of buying stolen
property.”
On Wednesday, Lorimar
Productions, which films the
popular weekly series, reported
that several scripts dealing
with the identity of J.R.’s at-
tacker had been stolen from
Lorimar offices on the MGM lot
in Culver City sometime bet-
ween June 3 and June 24, while
story editor Arthur Lewis was
on vacation.
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The Public Is Invited
To Hear
Gregg Tinsley
in
Musical Concert
Sunday Night, June 29 at 7:00
£
Gregg Tinsley
At The
i Central Baptist Church
Corner of Connally and League
Gregg was named the outstanding male choir member at SSHS, and received
a 1 rating at Regional and State Solo and Ensemble Contest. He also was named
outstanding Male Drama Student, Best Actor, Zone Competition, One Act Play,
All Star Cast, District Best Actor, Regional and Honorable Mention, All Star Cast.
He was elected to the Society of Distinguished American High school Students.
Gregg has recently joined the Sonlight Quartet and will be touring with
them.
Our Daily Bread
Scripture Reading forToday: Acts 16:25-34
REPENTANCE AND FAITH
Testifying both to the Jews, and ... Creeks, repentance toward
God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:21
A MAN I know went through such a long and agonizing
period of sorrow for sin that he lost 30 pounds and
became physically ill. He told me that everyone must
undergo a similar experience to be saved. According to
him, I was teaching an "easy believism." In reply, t re-
ferred to what Paul said to the Philippian jailer: "Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts
16:31). The apostle didn't insist that this frightened man
endure prolonged spiritual agony, nor that he had to re-
nounce his sins one by one. The urgency of the jailer's cry
clearly revealed that he knew he needed salvation and was
willing to turn from his sin. And that's what repentance is
all about! ..
A person obviously is not ready to accept Christ if he
says, "I won't admit I'm a sinner, and I'm going to con-
tinue my present lifestyle." He must recognize his lost
condition and the seriousness of his evil deeds. But we
can't prescribe the amount of grief he must feel, nor make
a detailed list of everything he has to confess before he
can be saved. For example, has a person suffered enough
if he's lost 20 pounds instead of 30? And what if he
doesn't know that some of his practices are w rong?
A full consciousness of one's sinfulness, a godly sorrow,
and a longing for holiness usually don't become evident
until after salvation. But you can't be saved without ac-
knowledging your sin and wanting deliverance from its
guilt and power. If you fulfill this qualification, simply
place your trust in Jesus Christ. If you haven't done this,
do it today!
'Tis not doing, 'tis not praying,
'Tis not weeping saves the soul:
God Is now His grace displaying;
Jesus died to make you whole.
THOT: Christ BELIEVED is salvation RECEIVED!
-H.V.L.
—Anon.
Herbert Vander Lugt; Copyright 1980, Radio Bible Class
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Used by permission.
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