The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 June 1968 — Page 4

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, June 6, 1968

I - -Kennedy dies| senator’s death came as most sympathizer, may have been

of the city's residents were asleep. A saddened mailman, making early downtown rounds, summed up the tragedy for many when he said, ‘‘It simply takes the life out of you.” Deputy Police Chief Noel McQuown of the Los Angeles Police Department, said he assumed charged against Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the 24.year-old Jordanian immigrant accused of the shooting, would be changed to murder. Sirhan was being held in the Los Angeles County Jail, about five miles from the hospital where the senator died. Study Notebook Authorities pondered an entry written in a notebook found in the accused man’s apartment: “Kennedy has to "be assassinated before June 5, 1968.” June 5 was the first anniversary of the start of the six day Israeli. Arab war. There was speculation that Sirhan, an outspoken Arab

angered by Kennedy’s campaign remarks that the United States should supply the Jewish state of Israel with weapons so long as the Arab world continued its aggression. The Kennedy clan, for whom tragedy has struck repeatedly, rallied around the senator’s wife, Ethel, who is expecting her 11th child. Mrs. Kennedy was “amazingly calm” and “extremely brave,” according to Msgr.» Joseph J. Truxaw, who said Mass and served communion in the Good Samaritan Hospital Chapel for members of the family. The senator’s wife slept fitfully in a lounge-type room near the fifth floor intensive care unit where Kennedy was treated. President’s Widow Arrives Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, widowed when President John F. Kennedy was felled by a Dallas gunman Nov. 22, 1963, flew from New York in a private jet

to be with her fallen brother-in-law. She was accomapnied by Prince Stanislas Radziwill, husband of her sister, Lee. At the hospital, the former First Lady joined Sen. Edward Kennedy; Jean Smith, the senator’s sister; and Patricia Lawford, another sister and the former wife of movie actor Peter Lawford. Another visitor It the hospital when Mrs. Kennedy arrived was Mrs. Coretta King, the widow of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Seventeen hours after the 42-year-old Kennedy entered the hospital, doctors said they were concerned over his failure to show improvement in his “extremely critical condition.” The second medical bulletin noted that the “results of a series of tests undertaken by the medical team are inconclusive and do not show measurable improvement in Senator Kennedy’s condition. “Live forces—pulse, blood pressure, heart—remain good,” The bullet, which entered the right side of Kennedy’s head just behind the ear, severed several major arteries, caused extensive loss of blood and

oxygen and caused several blood clots to form. Dr. Henry Cuneo, who assist, ed in the operation, said Kennedy also suffered injuries to the spinal cord, but there was no hospital confirmation of rumors he was paralyzed. Sirhan, suspected of being the gunman who emptied eight shots at Kennedy from a .22caliber revolver from a distance of three feet, was an Arab refugee who came to the United States 11 years ago. He lived with his mother and two of his four brothers in nearby Pasadena. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty said Sirhan had a newspaper clipping critical of Kennedy and four $100 bills in his possession when he was apprehended seconds after the shooting in a small room directly behind the main ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel. Five other persons were injured in the shooting only minutes after Kennedy spoke to an overjoyed crowd of wellwishers celebrating his victory in the California primary election. The wounded, all in satisfactory condition today.

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were standing near the candidate. End Questioning Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin, who would not elaborate on the mayor’s disclosure of the notebook with the implied assassination threat, said his men were no longer questioning Sirhan because “an interview may damage the case.” Sirhan was spirited away from Los Angeles police headquarters and arraigned secretly Wednesday morning about an hour before the courts officially opened. He was arraigned on six counts of assault with intent to commit murder and bail was set at $250,000. Reddin said police had no absolute knowledge that Sirhan acted alone. “We’ll never say only one person was involved in this shooting until we’re absolutely sure,” Reddin said. Neighbors said the Sirhan family was “quiet and very normal.” Sirhan, however, was known to his friends and a former employer as a passionate Arab partisan. —Sirhan

“Long live Nasser,” a reference to Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of the United Arab Republic and dominant figure among the Arab nations in conflict with Israel. The mayor’s office also reported that Sirhan carried a clipping of a newspaper column suggesting that Kennedy was inconsistent in opposing the Vietnam War while supporting U.S. aid to Israel to match the Soviet building of military strength in Arab states. When police arrested Sirhan early Wednesday morning he had a .22 caliber pistol, and witnesses said he had just used it to pump a bullet deep into Kennedy’s brain. Neighbors said he was a high * school graduate who had attended Pasadena City College. John H. Weidner Jr., owner of the health food store, said Sirhan told him he had to flee Jordan as a child and had seen Jews kill members of his family. “He was not a citizen and didn’t like the United States,” Weidner said. “You had to be careful not to walk on his feet. He wanted you to respect him intellectually.” Justice Department records in Washington showed Sirhan was one of a family of eight Jordanians admitted to the United States for permanent residence. None was ever naturalized. New name FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI)—Extremist students defied police orders Sunday and repainted the name “Karl Marx University” in large green letters over the entrance to Frankfurt’s Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University.

LBJ appeals to nation

WASHINGTON (UPI)—“Let us, for God’s sake, resolve to live under the law.” With this solemn invocation to a troubled nation, President Johnson Wednesday night dispatched a select nine-member panel on the mission of seeking causes for violence of the sort that struck down Robert F. Kennedy. In a TVz minute address on nationwide television and radio, the President said: “My fellow citizens, we cannot, we just must not, tolerate the sway of violent men among us. We must not permit men who are filled with hatred, and careless of innocent lives, to dominate our streets and fill our homes with fear. “We cannot sanction the appeal to violence, no matter what its cause and no matter what the grievance from which it sprang . . . “A great nation can guarantee freedom for its people and the hope of progressive change only under the rule of law. So let us, for God’s sake, resolve to live under the law.” Choose Commission To head the special commission, the President chose Dr. Watkins named INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—Governor Branigin named former Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins, Bloomfield newspaper publisher, to succeed James W. Shanks, Terre Haute, on the Indiana War Memorials Commission. The appointment was one of five made by the governor Wednesday. Shanks had been considered a friend of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union in its long battle to be permitted to use the auditorium of the World War Memorial. He had made the failing motion to allow the ICLU to use the facility and which now has become a part of a pending court suit on the question. Branigin also named Dr. J. Hartt Walsh, Indianapolis, to succeed Dr. C. R. Maxam, Indianapolis, on the Indiana State Board of Education and the Commission of Teachers’ Training and Licensing. Other appointments included Ivan Moore, Franklin, reappointed to a three-year term on the State Egg Board; Delmar Ice, Evansville, to succeed the late Fred Hougland, also of Evansville, on the State Fire Prevention Commission, and Mrs. Clarence Sweeney, Michigan City, renamed to the Northern Indiana Children’s Hospital Advisory Committee.

Milton S. Eisenhower, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and brother of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other members are Archbishop Terence Cooke of New York; Albert E. Jener Jr., a Chicago lawyer who was on the Warren Commission; Patricia Harris, former ambassador to Luxembourg; Eric Hoffer, the West Coast longshoreman-philos pher; Sens. Philip A. Hart, DMich., and Roman Hruska, RNeb., Reps. Hale Boggs, D-La., and William M. McCulloch, ROhio, and A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., U.S. District judge for Eastern Pennsylvania. Guard requests INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Indiana National Guard in its biennial budget request filed Wednesday with the Indiana Budget Agency proposed construction of five new armories. The construction and rehabilitation proposals by Indiana Adj. Gen. John S. Anderson, Shelby, ville, total $649,830. The major portion consisted of these new armories: Shelbyville $140,550; V i n - cennes $66,000; Elwood $82,000; Rennsselaer $74,000, and Portland $66,000. Anderson proposed that the Army Aviation Maintenance Facility now at Stout Field, Indianapolis, be transferred to Shelbyville and that another part of the facility at Greensburg also be consolidated with its parent at Shelbyville. The Greensburg armory would be sold. Present Guard operations at Elwood and Tipton would be combined at a new Elwood armory and the Tipton facility would be sold. Also, old armory buildings at Rensselaer and Portland would be sold or otherwise disposed of and new larger ones built which would be more adequate and economical to maintain.

The President said it would - be self-deceptive to ignore the connection between lawlessness t and hatred in general and the shooting of Kennedy. Then he added: “It would be just as wrong, just as self-deceptive, to con- - elude from this act that our country is sick, that it has lost its sense of balance, its sense of direction and common decent ' cy.” Not All Bad “Two humdred million Americans did not strike Robert Kennedy last night any more— - than they struck John F. Kennedy in 1963 or Martin Luther King in April of this year. “But those awful events give >- . us ample warning that in a [ climate of extremism, of disrespect for law, of contempt for the rights of others, violence may bring down the very best among us. A nation that tolerates violence in any form * cannot expect to be able to confine it to just minor outbursts.” Johnson said the commission “will look into the causes, the occurrence and the control of physical violence across this nation, from assassination that is motivated by prejudice and ‘ by ideology, and by politics and . by insanity, to violence in our cities’ streets and even in our homes.” —America citizens (President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King J.r) • who stood pre-eminently before [ the world as the embodiments ■ of American idealism—and because last night we tried to murder a third. “It is almost as if a primal ' curse has been fixed on our nation. We are a violent people with a violent history, and the instinct for violence has seeped ~ m into the bloodstream of ouiv«v- *. national life.”

Recession possible

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI ) - Associate director Charles H. Bonser of the Indiana University Bureau of Business Research said Wednesday the state and nation may, under certain circumstances, be hit by a mild recession next year. Bonser mentioned three possible events he said would depress the economy: — Imposition of a 10 per cent tax increase as contemplated in federal legislation, and request, ed by President Johnson. — A proposed $6 billion cutback in federal expenditures. — A drop in defense spending next year if the Vietnam war picture brightens. Bonser said he believes the economic growth for the last six months of this year will be only about half of what it was

in the first six months. His comments came as state—- ~ government was beginning to^ look toward preparation of the next biennium’s budget against a background of rather discour- ■* aging statistics. Included is a - school financing report stating’ ^ that $21 million extra would alle- ' — viate but not answer the money v " problems of schools next year, but in any case there would be * Z. no general fund surplus from ■* * which to draw such a sum. Governor Branigin has not replied to the request of several • ~ school officials to call a special | ~ legislative session. He said he .« — wanted to hear from them first * “ if they had found any errors of • - fact in the report on school fi- l Z nancing prepared by a committee he named from three state agencies. I ~

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