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This is one letter but concerns two of us Kellogg Community College students since our stories are almost the same,
word for word. The other student and myself are sophomores
at KCC, married and rely heavily on the benefits we are
supposed to receive un/der the GI bill. At the start of each
semester we've had to wait about two months after school
started for our checks. This time I've not received any money since the semester began in January. I might add we're
not the only veterans who are having trouble of this kind.
P.A.S., Battle Creek.
You and your chum can look for checks covering 25 days
in February and all of March along about April 10. The
Veterans Administration office in Detroit says that students
approved for GI bill benefits are informed to expect at least
a two-month waiting period before the checks begin to arrive
after a new semester begins. The schools attended by the exGFs have certain procedures to go through before the papers
are sent to the VA where processing takes about 30 days. In
your cases, the school sent the papers March 7 and processing began the next day.

Sixteen persons have died in

racial disorders since King
was killed Thursday night, including nine in Chicago, and
four in Washington. Parts of
both cities were heavily damaged by fire. Twp youths died
in Detroit and one in Tallahassee, Fla.
Police in Washington had at
least a dozen reports of looting
within 90 minutes of the lifting
Saturday morning of a darkto-dawn curfew imposed by
By BRIAN SULLIVAN
city officials.
Associated Press Writer
In Pittsburgh, roving bands
Racial violence spawned by of Negroes smashed -windows
the murder of Dr. Martin Lu-' and looted stores in several
ther King Jr. subsided at sections before police restored
order. A white man driving to
dawn today in most cities work was" shot, but he was rewracked by disturbances. In ported in satisfactory condithe nation's capital new loot- tion. Police said about 90 aring was reported after a cur- reste were made during the
night.
few was lifted.
W A S H I N G T O N (UPI)
Crack paratroopers and
marines moved into the nation's capital today to help
army and national guard
troops prevent any renewal of
violence which claimed five
lives. Looting and arson began
to increase again after an allnight curfew expired at dawn.
In Chicago more Guardsmen
were called as sniper fire and
looting broke out again.

See pictures on Pages 2 and

10.
National Guard troops and
police restored a measure of
calm today in Chicago after a
night of firebombing, shooting
and looting. "The situation is
under control, said Brig. Gep.
Richard T. Dunn, emergrtcy
commander of the Guard.
Chicago was hit by waves of
fires, shootings and looting iii
a predominantly Negro West
Side area Friday night and
early today. Some 3,000 Nat i o n a 1 Guardsmen shuttled
from one trouble spot to the
next. At least 20 buildings
were burned to the ground.
Federal troops, ordered by
President Johnson, guarded
the White House and Capitol
after aiding police and National Guardsmen to bring a rag-

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I'm calling about an article tb?>t annparpil in thp nan*r

several weeks ago about the Roman Catholic Church's stand
on Catholics joining Masonic orders. I haven't seen anything
since and wonder if the Vatican has permitted' Roman Catholics to join the Masons or if the ban is still in effect?Richard Kline, Battle Creek.
A United Press International story from Vatican City
that appeared in the Enquirer and New March 11 stated that,
according to Vatican sources. Catholics are now free to join
the Masons in the United States, Britain and most other
countries of the world. The Vatican sources said that there
had been no official revocation of the excommunication law
but that the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith "has let it be known that Catholics joining Free Masons are no longer automatically excommunicated."

I was laid off from work at VI tJ.S. Army Corps on Feb.

23. I am eligible for unemployment, compensation but as yet
neither I nor anyone else who was laid off has been able to
draw any money. We've been told the money has to be appropriated but where's the money gone which had already been
put into this fund? People who are without funds have no
income and still have to report at the unemployment office
each week and they are told they will have to wait. When will
we be getting our money?Mrs. E.M., Ceresco.
Funds for unemployment compensation payments to federal employes and veterans were exhausted in the U.S.
March 15. And there won't be any additional funds until Congress can act on a supplemental request for funds. Meanwhile, it's required that unemployed federal workers must
continue to report and file their claims as long as they are
unemployed. The branch Employment Security offices will
be notified soon as funds are available. The compensation
money is just a part of the supplemental aid bill which is still
in^committee. Jlep. Gary Brown said it won't take long to
report the bill out once it can be determined how much is
needed and that figure hinges on manpowei^eeds in Vietnam.

About a year ago we had our kitchen floor tiled. The

cement began oozing through the tile and I called the company in November. I was told the only way to correct the
situation was to replace the Entire floor. After Christmas the
manager told me the tile company representative would have
to look at it. I'm still waiting for his visit. MRS. R. G.,
Battle Creek.
Company records show it's been somewhat more than a
year. Installation was completed in June, 1965. While the oneyear labor guarantee of the firm that laid the tile expired
June 22, 1966, the tile manufacturer representative will be out
to see you the next time he is in town. A snow storm
prompted him to cancel his previously scheduled visit here.

INSIDE T O D A Y
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Three persons injured in two area accidents. P. 3.

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ing banner^ with Mrs. Donald Schoonard, right front of 153 McAllister Rd.
a charter member of the Morning
Challengers; and left rear, Mrs. Edward Melville of 580 W. Main, Mendon, and Mrs. Louis Ormsbee of Bellevue, president of the Button Poppers.
(Staff Photo by Jack Stubbs)

More than 2,500 delegates to the

TOPS and KOPS state convention
signed in here Friday with club banners for display at the Post Tavern
official headquarters. Mrs. Henry
Wildschmtz, from left, of 217 Bradley St., displays some of the outstand-

"Neat, Clean Man" Hunted

As FBI Widens Its Search
MEMPHIS, T6nn. (AP) A
neat, clean man with a long,
sharp nosethe type of man
who seems out of place in a
flophousewas the object of a
widening search today as the
assassin of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
Both U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsay Clark and Frank Hollo-

man, city police director, said

they were optimistic of a
break soon. But no arrests
were announced and police declined to reveal details of their
investigation.
King, the chief exponent of
nonviolence in the civil rights
struggle, was slain by a single
bullet Thursday night as he
leaned over the second-floor

balcony of a motel, talking

with aides on the ground.
He had come back to Memphis to lead a mass march in
support of striking garbage
workers, and he was killed
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ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. will
return for the last time Monday to the small Negro church
where he and his father
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King's widow asked that his
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funeral
be held at the Ebene14'
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Baptist
church, which had
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been a touchstone for her husband throughout his turbulent

career.
That career was ended in
Memphis, Tenn., Thursday by
an assassin's bullet.
The Rev. Martin Luther
King Sr. was pastor of Ebenezer when the slain Negro leader was bom. It was in this
church that the younger King
grew up and it was where he
returned as co-pastor with his
father after his role as a civil
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This is an artist's conception of

the man believed to be Dr.
Martin Luther King's assassin.
Memphis Commercial Appeal
artist Bill Herrington drew
this pencil sketch.
(AP Wirephoto)

Peace Talks Crawling Forward

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
giers the United States had not
replied to his government's
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. proposal for preliminary disofficials report arrangements cussions.
"In accordance with the
with North Vietnam for pre- President's statement of April
liminary discussions on peace 4," the State Department said,
talks are "moving forward" "We immediately proceeded
very slowly but are still on the to take steps to establish contact. ApparenUy the deputy
track.
The State Department offi- foreign minister is not fully incially disclosed Friday night formed."
Johnson announced Sunday
the North Vietnamese have
been notified through diplo- a limited bombing halt over
matic channels that President North Vietnam and asked for
Johnson has agreed to "estab- peace talks. Hanoi responded
Wednesday morning with a
lish contact." -statement it was ready to

The unintended disclosure make contact. Several hours

was forced, officials said, by a later Johnson announced: "We
vreport that North Vietnam's will establish contact."
That was followed by the ofD e p u t y Foreign Minister
Hoang Van Loi had said, in Al- ficial word through diplomatic

channels and officials said

Friday night they were waiting for President Ho Chi Minh
to make the next move.
President Johnson's cancellation Friday of his- Hawaii
conference with his top Saigon
officials did not affect the
peace talk prospects in any
way, administration officials
said.

trip to the Pacific could be

achieved in Washington.
Diplomats said they thought
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker
would also show up in Washington in a day or so though
they had no definite word on
his plans.
Johnson canceled his Pacific
trip because of developments

follpwing the murder of Dr.

Martin Luther King. But the
subsequent announcement that
Westmoreland was coming to
Washington meant that despite his preoccupation with
the homefront crisis Johnson
intended to spend as much
time as possible on the crisis
in Vietnam ..

The White House announced

G e n . W i H i a m C. Westmoreland, the U.S". commander in Vietnam who was to
have attended the Honolulu
conference this weekend, was
coming to Washington instead.
He arrived at the White House
this morning.
So it appeared a major purpose of Johnson's abandoned

Evening Prayer
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ing Negro outburst under control. Some 350 persons were

injured, 2,000 arrested.
Washington, Detroit and
Memphis were under cjirfew.
National Guardsnrfen were
also backing up police in Detroit and the greater. Boston
area. A unit of 500 guardsmen
moved into Pine Bluff, Ark., to
keep peace after police and
Negroes exchanged sporadic
gunfire during the night.
Guard troops operating from
armored personnel carriers in
Nashville flushed snipers from
buildings on the campus of
Tennessee A&I University.
Two students were wounded,
neither seriously.
Five policemen and National
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Forces
Calm
Detroit
DETROIT (AP) . Detroit,
less than nine months ago the
scene of the nation's worst recent outbreak of racial violence, was calm today after
authorities moved state and
l o c a l police and National
Guardsmen swiftly to quell
violence following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh,
saying, "We think it is better
to overreact than underreact,"
and Gov. George Romney,
c a l l i n g his moves "precautionary steps," quickly
committed city police. State
Police and National Guard
troops to action in Detroit.
Gov. Romney today extended his curfew and state of
emergency orders in the Detroit area at- least through
Sunday night. He said he will
determine Monday morning
whether the curfew will be
continued.
Two persons died, both of
them 18-year-old Negro youths
shot by police at the scene of
lootings. One of the youths
backed into an officer who
was searching him, causing
the officer's gun to discharge,
officials said.
Otherwise, the city remained calm overnight. "It's
quieter than normal," a Detroit Police lieutenant said this^
morning.
T h r e e p e r s o n s were
wounded, all of them shot by
police. Three policemen^ere
reported injured by flymg^objects or splintered glass, none
of them seriously.
At 5 a.m., police reported 38
fires, only three new ones
since midnight. There were
311 arrests, well over 100 of
them for violation of curfew or
o t h e r emergency restrictions.
Police officials said both the
number of fires and arrests
were about normal for a Friday night.

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Capitol Guard
WASHINGTON Soldier with a machine gun,
stands guard on the Senate steps of the Capitol.
Federal troops were called into Washington by
order of President Johnson during a day of arson
and looting Friday. Four persons were killed during the turmoil. (AP Wirephoto)

Weary LB J
Vigil
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI Whita H o w * R c p o r t t r

W A S H I N G T O N (UPI)
President Johnson, weary
and red-eyed from lost sleep,
kept vigil over the national racial crisis today from a White
House ringed with federal
troops.
. As reports from tense cities
around the nation streamed
into the White House situation
room which normally keeps
track of international upheavals, Johnson was never far
away. .
Even the Vietnam War took
a back seat to the domestic
violence flowing from the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.,
,
The President went on television to address the nation
for the second time in 24 hours
Friday, telling his listeners
"America shall not be ruled
by bullets" and calling on Congress to hold a joint meeting
to consider new measures he
will propose to improve the lot
of the Negro.
He asked Congress to meet

no later than 9 p.m. EST Monday "to hear the President's

recommendations and suggestions for action, constructive
action instead of destructive
action in this hour of national
need." His address will be
broadcast live on radio and
/ television.
Before addressings the meeting Johnson met with civil
rights and governmentleaders
summoned from across the
nation to help deal with the
violence, arson and looting
sweeping the nation's cities.
Later the group went to the
Washington National Cathedral, where Johnson, his face
haggard from fatigue, bowed
his head in sorrow as Dr. King
was eulogized by one of the
slain civil rights leader's closest aides. The Rev. Walter
Fauntroy of Washington.
The President did not indicate what he had in mind for
his address to Congress, but it
was almost certain a priority
item would be an appeal for
House passage of the Senatepassed civil rights bill.
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City Pledges Disturbance

Charges Will Be Dropped

Funeral Set Tuesday

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Racial V i o l e n c e
Gradually Ebbing

Is there any place in Battle Creek where canoes can be

rented? Three friends "and I are planning a canoe trip on the
Kalamazoo River from Albion to Saugatuck, but have no
canoes. Dave Egnatuck, Albion.
Couldn't find anyone in Battle Creek who rents canoes,
but you'll be hearing from Bob Wikstrom, the tennis coach at
Albion College where you're a freshman. He knows of some
college people who own canoes and maybe something can be
arranged.

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O God, the sunlight of Thy smile comes again in spring

as all the loveliness of the earth shines for Thee. The freshness of the breeze, the d^uisihg rain, the bloomsall speak
of Thee. Amen.
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Mayor Kool t o d a y proclaimed Sunday "as a day of

prayer for racial tolerance
and racial peace in our town"
and urged "that all citizens
attend their churches tomorrow."
By DICK COLBY
Local leaders both black
and whiteanticipate another
quiet night here after an "11th
hour" decision by city commissioners apparently quieted a threat of racial violence
Friday night.
Mayor Preston J. Kool climaxed a tense, yet calm meeting with a Negro delegation
in Lincoln School by announcing steps to dismiss charges
against most of the 33 people
arrested during a demonstration sparked by the Memphis,
Tenn., murder of Dr. Martin
Luther King.
Dismissal of the charges
was termed the key demand
in a list of 20 presented by
the delegation, which included, among others, William E;
Boards Jr., executive director of the local Yoimg Adult
Council of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Herbert L.
Tillman, chairman of the local
chapter of the Congress of
Racial Equality, Timothy R.
Laws, Young Adult Council
president,. Milton J . Robinson, executive director of the
Battle Creek Area U r b a n

League, the Rev. Gilbert L.

Jackson, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Mrs. Lillian McGee and Mrs. 'Selena
Smith.
Present along with the City
Commission were members of
the Battle Creek school board.
Other demands ranged from
removal of a Battle Creek
High School coach to establishment of a Negro youth ad-

visory council to serve in an

advisory capacity to the Civic
Recreation Department.
Some demands were accepted, others partially agreed to
after negotiation and still others not aired at all.' None was
completely rejected, however.
The delegation spoke for
a group of approximately 250,
predominantly-young Negroes
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USS New Jersey

Is Recommissioned
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
The battleship USS New Jersey, bound for Vietnam duty
after 10 years in mothballs,
was recommissioned Saturday
in colorful ceremonies viewed
by several thousand invited
guests at Philadelphia Naval
Base.
"We salute her captain and
her crew," Navy Secretary
Paul R. Ignatius said in prepared remarks, "wish them
Godspeed and smooth sailing,
and express our confidence
that she will be a worthy
champion of her country's
cause in the difficult days that
lie ahead."
Ignatius' coupled his remarks with a plea for the
United States to see the Viet-

nam war "through to a satisfactory

conclusion."
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The morale of the crew is
excellent," he said. "They are
ready to do their job. But their
patience, determination and
courage must be matched by
our own.
"For neither this battleship
nor all the ships of the United
States Fleet, nor all our men
in uniform, can succeed without the support and understanding of the American
people."
The 1400-man crew of the
New Jerseyhalf the normal
ship's complementlined the
b a t t l e w a g o n ' s freshly
scrubbed decks for the ceremony. Guests viewed the
traditional naval pageantry
from dockside.