WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1968 SCisig Murder Suspect May' Be Bounty Hunter DALTON, Ga. < AP) A con- were prisoners at the Missouri vieted murderer who was in State. Penitentiary when John prison with the mysterious F. Kennedy was assassinated James Earl Ray, now hunted in Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Tex. the slaying of Dr. Martin $1 Million Bounty Luther King Jr., said yesterday "Another boy s jid, ‘Well, he heard Ray say, he would be there’s a million-dollar bounty willing to try to collect $1 mil- to get King.’ King was running lion for killing the civil rights his mouth pretty good then, leader. • Ray said, ‘lf there is a million- Raymond Curtis, 40, the dollar bounty on King, I believe same age as Ray, is serving a I can collect it,’ ” Curtis said life sentence at Whitfield Coun- in an interview. ty jail. Curtis said he and Ray Curtis said he met Ray in U Thant Says Talk May Begin 'This Week' PARIS (IP) U Thant, optimistic about preliminary talks between the United States and North Vietnam, said yesterday he hoped they will begin shortly, “perhaps even this week.” Rumors rippled around world capitals that a site al ready had been agreed upon, but a State Department spokesman in Washington declared:- “You can say flatly that no agreement has been reached.” Talking with reporters at the airport before leaving for New York, the U.N. secretary-general appeared to be little the haggling that has gone on between North Viet nam and the United States over a meeting place. North Vietnam's Proposals He said that Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, Warsaw, Paris or Geneva “are the cities where these preliminary talks could be held.” The United States has rejected Phnom Penh because it has no relations with Cambodia and Warsaw because as a Communist nation it is riot neutral in the war. The North Vietnamese have cold-shouldered the U.S. suggestion they meet at Geneva. A high French source said as far as he knew Paris has not been chosen and the government has done nothing to encourage the' two to meet in the French capital. How ever, Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said last week France would be happy to have Paris as a meet ing site. I Paris Not Mentioned Paris has been mentioned more and more recently as a possibility. Both North Vietnam and the .United States have diplomatic missions in Paris and there are ample communications, a point Washington has stressed as neces sary for a site. ; Sorority Suites Open For Sunday By NANCY. SCHULTZ bons, pins and pictures of Greek activities, Collegian Staff Writer such as Homecoming and Spring Week. <ai , , , Scrapbooks on sorority life and articles on I.J ee^en c A WI c ak f, P' ac , e philanthropic projects will also be shown. T 3 i -30 , in South, Pol- Lynne Moeller, first vice president of ? as * Residence, hall areas. Two the Panhellenic Council, will give a slide sorority suites in each area will hold m- presentation in the other participating soror formal open house for all, girls planning to jty suite. It will be shown at 2:30 p.m. in rush sororities and for those who are merely South Halls, 3 p.m. in Pollock and 3:30 p.m. interested m learning about Penn State’s in East Halls. ' Gieek system. : , The presentation was compiled by the The Chi Omega and Gamma Phi Beta council to show various aspects of sorority suites in South Halls, Alpha Phi and Kappa life. These slides will also be shown to the Alpha Theta spites in Pollock and Alpha Commonwealth Campuses by the Panhel- Omicron Pi and Phi Mu in East Halls will lenic Council. be open. Two representatives from each of the .Displays, bilges 26 sororities will be present at open house In one of the open suites in each - area, to answer any questions concerning the .-the sororities will present a display of rib- rush system, pledging, etc. 1955 when both were prisoners in Jackson County jail at Kan sas City. Mo. He said they shared a cell for. seven months. Then, Curtis said, Ray was transferred to the Leavenworth federal priron to serve a. term for forging .postal money orders. Curtis said that two weeks later he also Was sent to Leavin vorth. Adjoining Cells Curtis said he and Ray were in the same 81-cell building-at Leavenworth and at one point were in' adjoining cells. He said after about six months he was transferred to the Atlanta prison and did not see Ray again untH late 1961 or early 1982, when Curtis went to the Missouri State Penitentiary on. a rO-year armed robbery sentence. . Ray was there, Curtis said, serving a 20-year armed rob bery sentence. Prison records confirm that Curtis arid Ray were.inmates at the same time. It was in the orison yard, Curtis said| that he and Ray saw television news reports of Kennedy’s assassination. A few days later, he said, a new pris oner came iii and said that a' SI million bounty had been put on King by a “KKK businessman’s association.” Ray Was ‘Loner’ Curtis said. Ray did not asso ciate freely with other inmates. “You could pick him out of a crowd of 2.000 men in the prison yard. He would be off to himself walking and his mind would be somewhere else.” Curtis said he heard Ray mention a King bounty several times. At one point, Curtis said, Ray referred to the Kennedy assassination by saying, “Boy, probably somebody made a nice little penny off of. that! I sure wish it was m3.' THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA SEN. EUGENE MCCARTHY Winner of Pennsylvania Democratic Primary McCarthy Wins State Primary (Continued from page one) affect every resident of the commonwealth, all received varying affirmative leads as .the votes trickled in. The reporting was a slow, tedious pro cess, made more difficult by the nationwide tele phone strike. Voters also elected delegates to the Democrat and Republican national conventions. The Penn sylvania Democrat delegation has 130 votes, and, like the Republican, is not bound by the primary vote. The Republican delegation represents 81 votes at the convention. Legislature On the state Legislature level, political con trol of the House of Representatives was indecisive in returns'from six special elections.'Early returns had Democrat candidates leading by slim margins in the 17th and 22nd districts of Allegheny County, and the 79th of Blair County. Alabama Appeals Welfare Ruling' WASHINGTON (IP) Alabama appealed to the Supreme Court yesterday to discourage unmarried sex by approving cutoffs in aid to needy children. If welfare payments to the children continue while the mother is having an affair, said Asst. Gen. Mary Lee Stapp, government is financing illegitimacy. “The theory over the country for years is that a child does mot get aid if there are two able bodied persons in the house,” Mrs. Stapp said. WDFM PROGRAM SCHEDULE 4 - 6 a.m.—John schutrlck with Top Forty/ news capsules every 30 minutes 8 • 10 a.m.—Dave Handler with Top Forty/ news capsules every 30 minutes Spotlight on the Miracles 4 - 4:05 p.m. WDFM News 4:05 • 4 p.m.—Music of the Masters with Chris Aupperle Imbrie—Violin Concerto; Milhaud—Cello Concerto; Vfeuxtemps— Violin Concerto #4 4 . 4:05 p.m.—WDFM News 4:05 • 7 p.m.—After Six (Popular, easy-listening) 7 • 7:15 p.m.—Dateline News (Comprehensive campus, national and Infer* national news, sports* and weather) 7:15 • 7:45 p.m.—After Six (Continued) 7:45 - 8 p.m.—Focus with Marian Ewing focus op the USG Spring Arts Festival 8 - 10 p.m.—Two on the Aisle' with Ray Laird (Music from film and Broadway Theater) featuring the soundtrack from "The Pawn broker." 10 • 10:05 p.m. WDFM News 10:05-12 midnight Symphonic Notebook with Samuel Edelman 12 - 12:05 a.m.—WDFM News The brothers and pledges of PH! SIGMA KAPPA wish to thank the brothers and pledges of KAPPA ALPHA PSI for a solid time last Saturday night "In initiating "The Shelter" we propose that some forty students from various backgrounds be brought together for an experiment in community living. These students would be reponsible for ihe maintenance and social-educational programming of ihe house. A room with bath on the main floor of the house will be reserved as a guest room for visitors who will contribute, from iheir current thought or action, to the intellectual life and social leadership of the house. The theme of our inquiry will be "the crisis of social and political revolu tion." All available resources of society concerned for human issues will be integrated into the explor ation of our current crisis. The house will explore what ihe common life and thoughts together can offer in attempting to provide intimations of new directions toward social change as well as how the members themselves can personally participate in the process. By joining "The Shelter" one commits himself to an identity. He commits himself io a positive stance in the midst of the maelstrom. He becomes a member of a community of peers dedi cated to the intellectual analysis of. the current hang-ups and to service on task forces that might be formed to fulfill the needs and aims of the house. He will learn to respect himself and others for their basic humanity. Although our task is great, ihe opportunities for service and personal growth are boundless. 'Where there is no vision the people perish'." -Applications are at the HUB desk. For information call: 238-5655, 238-0786 Peace Dialogue (Continued from, page one) funding problems for the ghet to, education problem; in time of war, military research on the campus, and similarly re lated issues.” . “We will try to get a num ber of varied presentations,” said Bodner. “We hope that this will lead to the balancing out of some sort of consensus,” he added. Films, Panel The panel discussions will be on issues related to'the Penn State students, according to Bodner. Suggested films to be shown are: “The Battle of Coldon;” “Eye Witness,” the first film- made in North Viet nam by a Western journalist: “Inside- North Vietnam,” a documentary;. “Good Times, Wonderful Times,’ an attack on smugness and complacency; and “Come Back Africa,” a racial'film. Suggested speakers for" the dialogues, which will take place at the Hetzel Union Building,' are; Tom Hayden, former Stu Republican nominees held slight edges in the The Republicans held a 101-96 margin In the 89th-Franklin and Cumberland counties—and the 203 member house and needed to win one of the 10th district encompassing-Bradford County. There six special races to regain a bare 10 vote consti were no returns from the 190th district in Phila- tutional majority. delphia. Tabulators there concentrated on the The Democrats expected to win in the 17th, other contests on the. ballot, namely the . Clark- 22nd and 190th and were optimistic about the 79th Dent confrontation and the presidential prefer- and 89th. Republicans appeared to have a lock on ence voting. the 110th. - • RFK Puts Focus on Elderly In 23-Gity Campaign Tour HUNTINGTON, Ind. (TP) Sen. Robert F. price increases ” Kennedy aimed his campaign guns at the'elderly voters Tuesday on the second leg of a three-day, 23-city tour of Indiana cities before- the May 7 primary., “I am going to help the elderly,” the New York Democrat said. Kennedy, much of whose appeal has been ernization of facilities with another 8,000 beds, aimed at the younger voters, put heavy emphasis Kennedy ran into a sprinkling of demonstra on the plight of elderly persons whose incomes have tors for another Indiana primary rival, Sen. Eugene been shrunken by inflated living costs. J. McCarthy, D.-Minn. Proposes Increase in Social Security He gontinded to attack the position of favorite He'told a Huntington audience Social Security son Gov. Roger D. Branigin, the third Democratic payments should be a minimum of $l5O for cou- primary candidate, who has been asking Hoosier pies and $lOO for individuals “so that the promise voters to support him and give him control of the of Social Security will not be a hollow one.” state’s 63-vote delegations to the Democratic Na- He said Social Security should include a cost- fi° na l Convention, of-living adjustment feature “so that Social Secur- Kennedy repeated that now, is the time to ity payment levels are not constantly eroded by discuss the issues. ) F WED, April 24th LAMONT and the KINGS u —— THURS., April 25th T BQ, THE GO-GO U FRIDAY, April 26th D Tom Collins and the Mixers A MONDAY, April 29th THE RHYTHM FACTORY dents, for Democratic Society national president; the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, chap lain at Yale and member of the Resistance; Susan Sontag, Mas sachusetts Institute of Tech nology linguist; Noam Chom sky, linguist and Resistance member; Marcus Raskin, con sultant for the Institute for Policy in Washington, D.C.; James Forman from Snick; the Rev. Abernathy, top man in the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference; and James Bevel, who organized the 'march ’on New York last April 15. Other possible speakers in clude: Dave Mcßeynolds of the War Resistance League in New York; generals Schoup and-Hester, troop commitment experts; Gabriel Kolko, author; and William Davidson, of the Anti-War Activities organiza tion at Haverford ' University and several others. ’ Other Events Bodner said that they are be ing aided locally by Steve . Must Aid Elderly At Elwood, home of 1940 Republican presi dential candidate Wendell V/illkie,’ Kennedy said the health needs of the elderly must be met. He noted that Indiana will need 3,600 more hospital beds within the next five years, along with mod- ' ‘ ' 1 " - Ojl**- yt ...3 Gerson, Awareness through In vestigation and Discussion and the Citizens For Peace in Viet nam. He said almost , veryone in the SCLC <is being contacted by Ed Widmer of the Lutheran- Student Association. Coalition is also in the process of con tacting a speaker service deal ing with coordinating peace and anti-war movements, Bodner said. Events planned in New York include a parade and a rally at Sheep Meadow. Dick Greg ory and Mayor John Lindsay are supposed to speak. Other speakers will include Mrs. Martin Luther King, Rabbi Maurice Reisendrath, coordi nating chairman of Student Mobilization .and Stanley Wise f r o.m Student Non-Violent Co ordinating Committee to name a few, Bodner said. In 16 other U.S. cities such as Philadelphia and Los An geles similar activities - will take place, but not on the same level as New York this Friday Bodner said. 'V N PAGE THKcc
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers