f 9 Evangelist: Elvis said9 We don't have long, do we? By LINDA DEUTSCH tioned us to follow him. We went Into a very small room, said as he recalled Elvis' comment. "We don't have long right, honey ' Bui she turned and said. 'Why is my daddy like a closet, and he pulled the door. then, do we?" crying?' " LOS ANGELES — Tht television evangelist who "For M minutes,'.' said, Humbard, "Elvis talked of "I said, 'No. we don't,' " Humbard recalled When the prayers were over, Humbard said Elvis apote tt Elvis Presley's funeral said he and the singer nothing but the Scripture* He quoted the Old Testament After Elvis had spoken of the. Bible for some time, (old him this was "the greatest Christmas present Elvis wept and prayed together at a Las Vegas hotel and Elvis- of the Btb|e. the evangelist said. "I Just reached over and look both Presley ever had." Mid, "Christ Is gonna come real toon, Isn't he?" his hands In mine and 1 said, 'Elvis, right now, I want to Himbini said br UM Ike sttry if Elvis' prayer al The Rev. Rex Humbard, who preaches to millions 0/ pray for you.' tke private faneral service la Memphis. Ten., aid "I TV viewers around the world said In an interview yes- Stymie theft of Elti*' body, page 5 "He MM, 'Please d*,' aid ke started weepiig. He cried - I last ctaldi'l kelp II." terday that be wai summoned by Presley last December, hist emoUmully skMk aid trembled. All •( is li tke He said he decided to tell the story publicly after re- jut before Christmas. "He said, 'Christ is1 gonna come real soon, Isn't he?' " room were weeping. It was a tremendMs eiperieiee." ceiving approval from Elvis' father, Vemon Presley. Bfcaatanl said ke aid his wife well le Ike reek 'a' Humbard recalled "I said. "Yes, I think so.' " "Vemon said. 'My boy's not an angel, but tell it like it is,'" n* star's iiesstag r**a at Ike Las Vegas.HIIUi Htirl Hambard tald Presley spake *f blblkal prediction of Humbard said the prayer group Included his wife and Humbard said. •e saM Presley greeted them with warts 0! praise f»f. evens wklek W'MM precede Ike Seend Ctralag, la- a musician In a gospel group that sang with Elvis. Reflecting on the incident now, he said. "I think it •e TV ektw, uylig ke was ai avM viewer. rladiig laaalie, pestljeare lad other Ills, aad asked, At one point, he said Elvis' 8-year-old daughter. Lisa, was a premonition or something. He was reaching for "Then, he sort of paused, staring off Into, apace," "lki walked In on the prayer session. "She saw him weeping something spiritual and I think he found some of what be was Humbard recalled. "Suddenly, he turned around and mo- could sense- the urgency of the hour," Humbard and she ran up to him. and Elvis just told her. 'It's all looking for."

VOL 100 NO: 55 • SHREWSBURY, N. J. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1977 15 CENTS During Carter's N.J. visit Byrne: I'll see President about Ft. Monmouth By JIM OSTROFF BELMAR - Gov. Brendan T. Byme yesterday agreed to lobby President Carter to ac-. cept a new plan for the re- vamping of Ft. Monmouth s Electronics Command (ECOM) during the Presi- dent's swing through the state in'M month, according to Rep. James J. Howard, D- N.J. Discussing the ECOM situ- ation with Gov. Byrne- over the'telephone from his district BILINGUAL PROOF — Heriberto Rlvas chats with Mrs. Gladys Ar office, here. Mr. Howard said rleta-Braga about what he learned in school this year. The eight-year- the governor agreed to urge old, who speaks both fluent Spanish and English, learned English In the President to consider a Long Branch's Bilingual Program under the direction of Mrs. Braga. new ECOM plan suggested by Mrs. Brago was fired by the Board of Education from her post as the the congressman. Bilingual Coordinator. This plan was outlined by Mr. Howard in a letter mailed to the President yesterday. Its main premise is based on a recent statement by Mr For Mrs. Braga Carter that the new Depart- ment of Energy will occupy WOMAN LED AWAY — Kathy DeCorleto, former officer after she learned ex-husband had killed the James Forrestal Building wife of holed-up sniper Is led from scene by police their child and his present wife. By ANN BRENOFF Her dismissal came on the heels of in Washington, displacing demands for her resignation made by the about 6.000 Army and Navy LONG BRANCH - "Ella es la per- Spanish Fraternity of Monmouth County personnel. sona mas capai pan este trabajo y la — a group composed largely of Puerto Since these people will need queremos otra vaz en el puesto." Ricans who compalined that Mrs. Braga new accommodations, the Or in English, the Spanish-speaking lacked rapport with the. Puerto Rican Police waiting out sniper Jersey shore Democrat pro- mothers who support Mrs. Gladys Ar community and the parents involved In poses they be moved to Ft. "it's a rotten, stinking rushed to the scene but was rieta-Braga, yesterday insisted that "she the Bilingual Program. Belvoir, Va.. In the area now EAST HARTFORD, Conn ammunition in his second- la the moat capable person for the Job (AP) - About 100 police floor apartment. world." not allowed through police Mrs. Braga who is from Uruguay, de- slated to receive ECOM's la- barricades. and we want her back." nied these charges and maintains that waited out an ex-convict who DeCorleto telephoned the "They're dead," he said ser laboratory and about 100 "I'm all boarded up. I've She sat instead, in slacks Mat Matters »f utadeats li Ike Bill the officers of the Spanish Fraternity job positions was holed-up with an arsenal Hartford Courant and told a reporter than he shot his 22- killed my four-year-old son. and sandals, her face in her sgul Pragnaa auktUli that tkey will "never even visited the program." It the President agreed to of weapons today in an apart- Mt MMi Ikelr cklldrea U srkMl uless ment where he said he had year-old wife, Shioehon, first, He's bleeding all over the hands, weeping, on a side- Her supporters want the Spansih Mr. Howard's plan, he would place." Un Brag* >• relnuted. Fraternity. leaders, specially Dimas Mon- killed his wife and son. then his four-year-old son, walk curb two blocks away. further modify a "com- Frank III, when the boy "They let him go and they Mrs. Braga was fired last month lalvo and Raul Pacheco. to "butt out." promise" plan announced by "God hates me, life is ter- The gunman's former wife, from her post as coordinator of the city's "They don't have children in the Bill- rible, it stinks," said the gun- came running toward him. Kathy DeCorleto, 24. first let him take my son," she Deputy Defense Secretary heard the news on television, told reporters. "I told them sckool district's bilingual program. See FIT Mrs. Braga, page 1 Charles W. Duncan last man, identified as Frank De- He said he shot his wife be- Corleto, M. cause "she gave me a hard where police appealed to the this would happen again in month. This plan would see gunman to surrender. She ECOM moved to Maryland as "He's intent on taking his time," and the boy because court. Nobody listens." a new organization called the own life. He feels he doesn't Electronics Research and De- want to go back to jail," said velopment Command (ERAD- police Chief Clarence COM) Drumm, who spoke with the Probe Tinton Falls fire gunman by telephone. In addition, it calls for the T1NTON FALLS - Police Sgt. Donald Mueller, who saw fort's laser lab to be aban- DeCorleto, who said he damage on (he first floor. served 10 years of a life sen- and fire officials are in- smoke as he was driving Chief Wilson said the fire doned and reconstructed near vestigating a suspicious (ire through the intersection, and Ft. Belvoir. Va.. which is tence for the slaying of a appeared to be set from the woman in Georgia when he that broke out shortly before when the borough firemen ar- outside, noting that there is about 10 miles from the heart midnight yesterday at the of Washington. was 21, began his siege short- rived, they found the base- no electrical wiring in that Monmouth Radio Supply ment door on fire. area that could have been a - A total of 414 jobs would be ly after 4 p.m. Monday. "We'll wait him out. We'll Company, at the intersection Smoke drifted