Tuesday. December 7.1976 2 nt, Gilmore asks his mother to abandon appeal SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Convicted killer Gary Mark Glimore has asked his invalid mother to accept his fate and disassociate herself from the appeal that prevented his scheduled execution yesterday. "I wish to be dead," Gilmore said in an open letter to his mother, Bessie Gilmore, which he dictated to his attorney, Ronald Stanger of Provo. "The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed Gilmore's death by firing squad until it decides whether to consider the appeal filed in Mrs. Gilmore's behalf. Mrs. Glimore, crippled with arthritis, lives in a trailer court in a Portland, Ore., suburb. She has said she opposed the death penalty and wished her son to live. "Dear Mom, I love you very deeply. I always have and I always will. Leaky roof starts shower at KU Printing Service A surprise shower watered down activities at the University Printing Service Sunday night when a light rain entered the campus. Campus building through a leaked roof. "It was as if someone had turned a hose on," Robert Jaeger, acting director of the printing service, said yesterday. "Water was all over the floor." Officials decline to estimate damages, but said there had been problems with the rupture. Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning, said that some repairs were made to the roof last year. He said that eventually the building would need a new roof. Crews have been working on the roof of most of the week but they can only make temporary repairs until the weather warms up, as it gets cooler. Crews operate in operations for buildings and grounds, said. "There's been damage to the insulation from getting wet for several years," Orokie said. "The cold temperatures freeze the water and then it melts slowly from the bottom because the building is so much warmer than the outside air. "It's a pretty good mess. There's sheeting raped all over everything. It should catch the light." “Please, Mom, just accept the fact that I don’t disagree with the law and the sentence that has been imposed upon me, and I wish to keep it out of my big deal. Sometimes it is right and proper.” Again, Mom, I love you very deeply. Please go eat my fat. All my love. Gary." Gilmore, who turned 36 Saturday, was transferred to the prison infirmary as a security measure. He had been under 24-hour-a-day observation until Friday afternoon when Smith, citing costs, ordered Gilmore sent to maximum security. Childish eves Jerry Spurlock he recalled the "crazy" KU students that threw firecrackers and bottle rockets from dormitory windows on the Fourth of July. "I happened to get sick when he was talking about dissecting and stuff," he said. Not all of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters teach the youngsters academic things. Larry Grammer, a fourth grader and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Grammer, 332 Maiden Lane, said many KU men "speeded, got in trouble, and sometimes robbed." "Some of them were in a bad mood walking around. They looked like they were in trouble." Smith said he put Gilmore under tugger security for at least yesterday, where he would be more isolated, with less chance of injury. He also withdrew with drugs he could use to attempt suicide. "I would like to talk to you and to see you, but for some reason I can't; I can. I'm sending this letter to you, so that the newspapers and the media will get this message to you" From nage one the date of execution," said Warden Sam Smith. DOUG BRYANT, a fourth grader and the head of a math class in Iowa, joined Holmes 1980. Loving father and angel, "My men taught me how to succeed." He said the KU students looked weird and were "funny clothes and short pants, and I had to give them all a shampoo." Kim Higgins, a third grader and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Higgins, 438 Walah Sk., said, "When me and my Big sister go up on campus she teases me and says she's goma throw me in the water fountain." who showed him some of the things he studied in biology. THESE KINDS of actions may account for the fact that many of the kids saw KU students as being wild, and sometimes even dangerous. University Daily Kansan Meanwhile, Gilmore was put under tight security because "he's kind of melodramatic, and I assume if he was going to wipe himself out he would likely do it on Smith said he couldn't continue such extra security for long and Glinne would not. --me not to talk to anybody when I go up on compose because they might try and do something The KU women, however, seemed to be more angelic in the eyes of Krista Pope, a third grader and the daughter of Bernice Pope, 318 Locust St. "I like the KU girls because they are so pretty. They have so much make-up and I like the way they dress up so pretty. I like them too. Their clothes are them wear no socks at all," she said. To most of the third and fourth graders, KU is a colorful world of activity. RONDA BRYAN, a fourth grader and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Bryan, 214 N, 6th St., said. "I like sliding down the basketball court so I can see all the things on Homecoming Day. I like to see the shows, too. I like to see the basketball games. I like to walk around in the summer and look at the pretty green floor at home." In the place that has all the bells in it." One student, Nancy Barnes, a fourth grader and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Barnes, 303 Lincoln St., liked KU so much that America itself. it with the glory of America itself. 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