The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL VOL NO 23 MEMPHIS TENN MONDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 4 1868 VIETNAM EDITION Biographer Says FBI Hunting Others In Slaying rtf A ru '--i -h i' 1 "1' wv rr -i f- UNDER AN OCTOBER sky th Delta's white gold rolh to the Bel an near Marks The gin 2254 bales since Sept 15 SWtPtwta Marine Victim Of Looting Asks Applicant Screening Vietnam Edition: writing to voice a gripe against the Marine Corps and our other United States Armed Services been in the Marine Corps ancut 18 months Not long but long enough to have beat victimized by thieves more than 50 times I arrived at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa on Sept 7 1968 and was transferred to Camp Hansen During my second night at Camp Hansen my barracks was looted Eight servicemen including myself were victimized I got off the lightest with only $2 and my identification stolen (43 days later and I am still in the process of getting a new Tennessee Drivers License I left Hansen the following day for Dong-Ha Vietnam I have been here 40 days During those 40 days I have had my silverware toothbrush razor and razor blades skiv-ies utilities pen address book and cover stolen from me And here too I have been lucky One fellow serviceman had 500 dollars of stereo equipment stolen from him not a pacifist and I felt it was a privilege to be able to fight for your country but I only wish that the armed services do a better job of screening applicants in order to eliminate the undesirable elements in our services ted to do more than slap the bands of those who are caught Please refrain from using my name as the wrath erf the almighty Defense Department is A Memphian The Commercial Appeal wO make available space i Us Vietnam Edition for letters from service readers which might be of Merest to others letters must be signed and full mailing address included Compromise Asked To A mediation team after unsuccessful efforts to end a 6-week-old strike against City of Memphis Hospitals said it may ask the city and union for a last-ditch compromise on when striking workers can return to work What form the compromise may take was not outlined The mediation team headed by Councilman James Netters had hoped to obtain $50000 from a private donor to meet the estimated cost of returning all strikers to work compromise is the only Vf Dollars? Used To Cheat Coin Machines About 50 bearing the picture of Negro comedian Dick Gregory have been fed into coin-changing machines in Memphis according to Maurice Miller special agent of the Secret Service About 1200 of the bills were seized at the office at the Tennessee Council cm Human Relations at 280 Hernando and 30 Od more from the executive director Baxton Bryant in Nashville The confiscations were made under a law against advertise- ments in likeness of currency Each bill is labeled as one vote which cannot be bought sold or traded The seizure in Memphis came after Asst United States Atty Henry Klein decided they look enough like real money to fool money-changing machines then they should not be in Planter's Wife Shot To Death Mrs Oscar Houston Jr Passerby Disarms Her Wounded Husband A wealthy Mississippi planter apparently shot and killed his 47-year-old wife last week though formal charges have not been filed against the planter who had been declared incapable of handling his estate Police said a passerby disarmed Oscar Lamar Houston Jr at a 38-caliber pistol as his wife Mrs Mildred Ritter Houston lay dying on the pavement on Perkins about a half block from their $100000 East Memphis home Chief of Detectives Huston said formal charges awaited only an interrogation at which lawyers are present Mr Houston was taken to the prison ward of John Gas- ton Hbspital with a bullet wound in the leg Mrs Houston had been shot in the jaw and right breast police said In May Mrs Houston hat been appointed conservator of her 2000-acre estate in Tunica County Miss on the grounds that he was physically and mentally incompetent The action was backed up by a doctor who testified that Mr Houston the last three or four months has spent approximately 50 per cent of his time in bed with the shades drawn having crying spells and not wanting to see The Houstons who moved to Memphis last year had 10 children from 6 to 22 years old Water Supply Defended An article in magazine criticizing the water supply in Memphis and seven other Tennessee cities "unduly the communities said Julian Fleming director of sanitary engineering for the state Health Department He said tests prove no bet ter water than in Memphis within a thousand miles of the city Luck Plays Police To Accept fines With Smile Pleasant To Greet Visitors pleasant is replacing those little windows at the Central Police Station where you used to pay traffic tickets Sitting behind a row of glass doors in a reception room the left of the Washington Ave nue entrance be the firs person most visitors to the sta tkm will see The channe is part of a dp partmental desire to show policemen are friendly and Insp Leatherwood guarantees be Surrounding the receptionist will be displays suitable to a police department a number of clocks which will show how fast certain types of crime occur marksmanship trophies and others designed to show a community spirit Behind a paneled wall rooms will house such service-oriented agencies as the community relations bureau the internal security bureau (which investigates citizen complaints against policemen) the speakers bureau the planning and research bureau and the department library All are under the direction of Asst Police Chief WE Routt The community relations bureau headed by Lt Turner is primarily engaged in the drive to change the image Outside Plan For Prisoners Called Unbiased believe in discriminating against a prisoner just because he is This was the retort of Mrs Nancy Ratliff head of the work-release program at the Shelby County Penal Farm which is under criticism for letting well-to-do Leo Pieracci-ni convicted of receiving stolen goods go to work in his own office every day have 55 prisoners on the work-release said Mrs Ratliff Perac-cinl gets the same treatment as all the others Same food same type of cell same prison Like other work-release subjects he is forbidden to visit his home she said law passed in 1967 says we shall let prisoners who qualify leave the workhouse during necessary hours for the purpose of working at his em-ployment conducting his own business or other self-employed business is running Skateland Summer (5137 Old Summer Road) So he goes there instead of to a furniture factory in South Memphis where several prisoners Pieraccini 44 pleaded guilty last month to receiving jewel ry from two youths who confessed to stealing it from the home of George Churchill at 527 Thom Ridge Road Trial To Start Huie Writes About $12000 Offer To Make Mystery Trip To Alabama The Federal Bureau of Investigation is questioning acquaintances of James Earl Ray about other suspects in the murder of Dr Martin Luther King Jr according to author William Bradford Huie Mr Huie who has a contract with Ray to write the story of his life said at his Hartselle Ala home that FBI agents go every place he has revealed Ray has been They show photographs and play sound tracks of the voices of at least two other men and ask if they are recognized he added FBI certainly is looking for other people would be justified in concluding that the FBI does not accept Atty Gen Ramsey that one man acted alone in planning and killing Dr King Mr Huie said The first of three articles Mr Huie is writing has appeared in Look magazine The next will appear Nov 12 the day trial starts on a charge of fatally shooting Dr King in Memphis April 4 Mr Huie said in the first article Ray wrote him that he was tempted out of a Canadian hideout before Dr death by a $12000 offer to make a mystery trip to Birmingham Ray was quoted as writing that he was to make several trips from Windsor Canada to Detroit carrying packages of unspecified contents and then was to take a train or bus to Birmingham where he would lie low accumulate a little identification and await instructions by mail After a little with a man identified only as Raoul he would be paid $12000 given a passport and helped to go anywhere in the world The article does not quote Ray as mentioning Dr King byname Mr Huie said immediately after the first Look article leaked FBI agents went to the Indian Trail Restaurant in Winnctka a Chicago suburb where Ray washed dishes in May and June 1967 just after his escape from the Missouri State Prison at Jefferson dty FBI next went to 2731 North Sheffield where I revealed Ray roomed while working at the Indian Trail They showed their photos again there They asked the landlords Mr and Mrs Donnelly you see this man or this man (showing the photos) here with Ray? Did you hear these Mr Huie said both his reporting and the FBI investigation have been hampered by the refusal of Criminal Court Judge Preston Battle to allow new photographs to be taken of Ray in his Shelby County Jail cell He said people recognize the oft-published photos of Ray but there is no clear proof of recognition The trial starting next week will be in Judge courtroom on the second floor of the County Jail building It had been scheduled in Judge Perry courtroom The change apparently was because of the additional risk In transferring Ray from the jail to the building next door The courtroom will seat 77 spectators About half of the seats have been assigned to news media representatives The rest will be for the public with the demand far exceeding the supply A committee erf lawyers named by Judge Battle to advise him in administration of his order restraining pretrial publicity Is reported considering the addition of Mr Huie to a list of five men against whom contempt proceedings have been brought Mr Huie said he had the advice of expert counsel in eveiy wind he had written The commltee also is planning to investigate an article in the National Enquirer a national weekly newspaper It quotes Ray as denying he killed Dr King saying he left Memphis the day before the shooting Sheriff William Morris Jr said no representative of the newspaper or any other news media has seen or talked to Ray since he has been in the county jaiL vi 4 i -r 2Ai Federation of State County and Municipal Employes (AFL-CIO) The city moved 32 patients from Crump Hospital to John Garten Hospital and said 22 patients in William Bowld Hospital would be discharged Opening of full services at John Gaston which has been closed since Sept 22 was being prepared regardless of progress in the strike General Sessions Judge Wayne Lindsey placed 10 strikers who had been picket- tion got a long way to go Garry said The two former Marines said they spend most of their time together has a paid reader but I read to him whenever he needs me We have two classes together so we work on assignments together' whenever inseparable We go out at night and Garry said he would get me a date but yet to see her the lucky one Whenever not pushing him you can see some cute girl doing added Jim Both said their fellow dorm students treated them as equals play cards and the guys are always coming by the room to talk They even elected me floor senator a great bunch of said Garry The two are active members of the Veterans dub at MSU trying to get extension courses for Veterans Hospital Several professors have offered to go out there and teach It will be a lot easier for the guys when they start cotton gin at has banded End Strike ing the hospitals under peace bonds Another hospital employe was charged with disorderly conduct ted carrying a dangerous weapon in a confrontation with shoppers dur-ng a march Nov 2 on Main Strike leaders announced a boycott of downtown businesses and marched from Gayborn Temple to City Hall for the fifth straight Saturday Marchers also came to Qty Council meetings and at one of them defended the Rev James Lawson controversial head of the Memphis Area Pro South program who has critical of city officials A report by Rosenfeld Associates Inc of New York for which the city paid $60000 criticized Odell Horton director of hospitals and health services A summary of the Rosenfeld findings contained a call for the city to contract with an independent hospital authority or with the University of Tennessee to run the hospital complex or to work out a combination of the two plans Mr Horton would not comment on the report IRS Studying Employe Role In Peace Rally James district director of Internal Revenue Service at Nashville said he is studying the actions of Jim Gaylord of 647 Shotwell an IRS employe who led an anti-Vietnam War rally on federal property An employe of the government since 1966 Mr Gaylord stood in front of the Federal Building to introduce speakers opposing the United States position in Vietnam He urged about 100 protesters to oppose the war in every legal way Mr declined to speculate about whether Mr actions may have violated regulations for federal employes A rules-of-conduct pamphlet given to IRS employes does not specifically prohibit taking part in an antigovernment rally on federal property But the pamphlet says absence of a specific published rule of conduct covering an act tending to discredit an employe or the service does not mean that such an act is con denied or would not call for corrective action Including separation when considered necessary" Mr Gaylord said: agree with a lot of things the government does But I disagree with certain of its policies princi pally on the Vietnam War and I think I am within my rights to say Mr Gaylord has taken night classes at Memphis State since 1959 and now is a senior in business administration He is a member of the Students for a Democratic Society chapter at Memphis State which organised the rally LOEB ORPHANS ON DAY Mayor Refuses To Extend Official Status Mayor Henry Loeb who has endorsed with varying degrees of enthusiasm such festivals as Fish end Seafood Parade and National Beauty Salon Week withheld his support from United Nations Day It was the first known time the mayor had refused to proclaim a day a week or a month for almost anything that did not have commercial ties The mayor said: long as the UN is misused and abused with the United States paying a major part of the costs the Russians having more than one vote and a veto and the halls of the UN being used as a forum against us for example with the head of the UN (Secretary General Thant) suggesting a couple of weeks ago that we stop bombing in Vietnam I simply will not support the alternative to getting the said Mr Netters He said efforts to obtain the donation would continue The $50000 would finance paid furloughs for about 300 strikers during the three-week period it would take to restore city hospitals to the prestrike levels The union said it would end the strike if the city returned all workers to the pay roll at the same time said William Lucy special assistant to the president of the American Marines in November 1965 He went to Vietnam (to a site 20 miles southeast of Da Nang) in May 1966 and was injured the following February was a grenade firer and we were on an operation One of my grenades just The blast left him blind Garry joined the Marines in 1963 and served as a gun driver at Chu Lai Vietnam from May 1965 to July 1966 not He came home and getting hurt all through the service I got shot in the Garry was trying to disarm a man who was robbing a store in Providence Ky his hometown when he was shot Jim spent several months in Bethesda Md Naval Hbspital and Gariy was brought to Memphis Veterans Hospital here Both decided to go to Memphis Stite and then try to work with other handicapped persons majoring in psychology and hope to wrk in a veterans hospital with the blind when I snid Jim Garry to work in hospital ad-tion after getting a degree in business administra Part In TV Success Jim Cagle (Left) And Garry Bivins Guide Each Other To Class Winning Team Conquers Handicaps Barbara Anderson is just like the girl next door That is if your next door neighbor happens to be a television star with an Emmy to boot Miss Anderson a former Memphian was in Memphis to take part in the homecoming activities Oct 26 at Memphis State University her alma mater The 25-year-old detective and girl Friday to Raymond Burr on Ironside attended several homecoming activities including the parade a luncheon in the new University Center a tour of the campus and the game between MSU and Mississippi Southern won by MSU 29-7 She also attended the alumni homecoming dance Does she really miss Memphis? I really miss Memphis I like to come back but my parents (Mr and Mrs John Foster) moved recently to San Diego so I get much While in Memphis the former Miss Memphis accepted an award from the Army recruiters for being the "Outstanding Woman in (even though she wear one on the show) and posed for pictures A former Front Street Theatre actress Miss Anderson said that her advice to girls seeking fame in Hollywood is work hard and you have to be lucky was lucky just lucky but I kept a positive attitude That helped me because if an actor or actress out of work they treat you like Miss brother A By WOODROW PAIGE JR Jim Cagle and Garry Bivins are good friends Both are freshmen at Memphis State University both are 22 they live down the hall from each other in Central Towers Dormitory they have a couple of classes together they go out weekends and both have been Marines Jim is blind and Garry is paralyzed from the waist down About the second week of school they each other and ever since Jim has become and Garry has become They leave the dorm together each morning and return each afternoon Jim pushes Garry to psychology and Garry tells Jim when to go up and down curbs and where to turn really has meant a lot for both of us We were sort of in the dumps when school started but now we work as a team and getting adjusted real said Jim Jim who is the son of Mr and Mrs James Cagle of 1381 Russwood entered the Barbara Anderson mate tain troops just know about that I feel kind of funny about The Facts FVotn George is a helicopter pilot in Vietnam but she said she has no plans to go there to enter.