Fitchburg Sentinel (Newspaper) - April 7, 1970, Fitchburg, Massachusetts PUBLIC LIBRARY 7 i ORIGINAL VOICE 1838 Vol CXXXI FITCHBURG MASS TUESDAY APRIL 7 1970 THE WEATHER Fair SEE REPORT ON PAGE 2 10 CENTS Suit Claims JFK Conspiracy Victim Propose Reduction Of Grass Penalty WASHINGTON API the violators who are also proposed reducing the House committee calling mari- jailed has hern widespread dis pi juana traffic an million a respect for law in general report said The committee recommended misdemeanor with a first offense possession of mari- present two-year minimum year maximum jail lerm for marijuana possession or use to juana be made a misdemeanor It suggested federal legislation be patterned after a Nebraska law which provides for a mum seven-day jail sentence segregation of drug violators from other prisoners and a re- that the violators take a drug abuse education mum one-year prison sentence In both cases judges would have wide discretion to impose lesser or no sentences or take j such action as requiring the to take an education course The figure of an an- marijuana traffic of million is one of the first mated but the committee said year business preying on the young people less suggested today reducing the penalty for first-time sion of the drug to no more than a week in jail The House Select Committee on Crime said marijuana traffic plays a major role in leading Increasing numbers of young Americans into tragic drug de- and into lives of crime and degradation But the report pared for release today called the present stiff and unevenly enforced penalties for sion of marijuana a threat to re- spect for law in general The growing drug culture laid Chairman Claude Pepper is rapidly undermining respect for law and is doing rious damage to the ability of the justice system to safeguard the lives and ty of the American people Savagely laws cannot be defended that the CAC was Joyce Atkinson VISTA as a solution to the steps to bring together con- leer Circo Barone Fitchburg the report leaders Committee Robert said and act upon the clerk of courts Rev It blamed marijuana arrests i of usc ert Brodsky Faith United fora 322 per cent increase in all i ish John J BusTi Jr Legal drug arrests from 1960 Wednesday there will be B when persons were first meeting of a rested including under 18 of school law enforcement Joanne and 6.243 under 15 court social agency and VISTA Mr The Nixon administration has lit could be far higher Drug Seminar Planned Arthur E Shapland Jr Among those invited to attend ident of the the first meeting are James An- ity Action Committee today guidance teacher Miss Kopechne Jury Data Is Secret Judge EDGARTOWN Mass AP Two more surprise es were slated to testify today as the Dukes County grand resumed its study of the death last summer of Mary Jo Kopechne Because the jury Is In clal session the court took the unusual step of assembling the panel in the courtroom to have the roll called CHICAGO A suit filed in U.S District Court contends the National Archies in ington is withholding tion which shows that the late President John F Kennedy died the result of a conspiracy and not at assassin The suit filed Monday by legal Sherman Skolnick demands that the Warren Re- port be declared void The suit asserts that five con- kill Force Police Police also escort him to and from his home Still up in the air Same n n question whether the grand But tne a would ask to be allowed to it iri the of A trip because of a cold the inquest over which he pres in January The Warren Commission pointed by then President Paquet last week in Boston B Johnson to investigate sued a statement in which said Kennedy said that the impounded was Billed by a single man Lee ments could not be turned over EDGARTOWN Mass AP grand jury without an Harvey Oswald and it could true and that the committee I the use of drugs in bur com- found judges seldom jail young sen ice people even for selling the drug Atty H Dudley Dis- The result of such practices Expressed Court judge Stephen which said discriminates Marlboro Power KO Unattended She Escaped Mrs Glenn S Hoag describes how she fled her home near Saugus Cal shortly after Jack Wright Twinning a suspect In the slaving of tour California Highway Patrol it the house and took refuge la it holding bet ai hostage Six hours later Twinning committed suicide after he special session of the Dukes Grand Jury resumes its today after hearing a arning from Superior Court udge Wilfred Paquet that goes on jury room must remain secret not just or today but forever The grand jury was in its losed session less than three ours on the opening day ay after hearing a more than an hour long charge and in- from Judge Paquet in ts own independent ion of the death of May Jo 28 who drowned last illy 18 when Sen Edward M Kennedy's car plunged off a narrow bridge into a tidal pool in Chappaquiddick Island The grand jury called in two witnesses on the opening day both by telephoned invitation bypassing the usual subpoena processes The witnesses were Mrs Nina Trott whose home is on son Lane in near the Shiretown Inn where Kennedy had roomed the night of the ac Stephen Gentle Hoag unharmed AP Wirephoto Concern about the use ot dale Jewish Community drugs by young people fills the Mayor William G pages of our newspapers Lt Jonathan Gaylord TV screen and our radio re- Massachusetts State Police Increasingly it Mary Gibbons comes more difficult for officer Fred Gillis children's pie to assess the seriousness of Aid F a m i 1 y Dr Paul I the situation in their home com- Girling Fitchburg State Col- munities or to know what to do Thomas to reverse the trend toward Social Service Miss WASHINGTON AP Foes] Foes Aim Vofe Sen Clifford P Case of New 4 creasing drug he said BOSTON AP Power was knocked out to part of Marlboro today with no immediate t it could be restored! because of a strike against the New England Electric Hall director of nursing Judge G Harrold Jersey one of eight Republican Because we see in our many bank Hospital Pres Court nomination voted to send the nomma Hammond Fitchburg State in today on a handful back to the Judiciary Com Alan Held Narcotics reversing an initial setback indents can vision Police bitter Senate fight told a newsman oppo amendment of the order of find no evidence of any Supreme Judicial Court last fall which omitted the grand jury from the list of those it said The suit states that less than an hour before the President's should be permitted to and three secret inquest records Something New For The Brides Something new has been added in the city clerk's of- fice at City Hall When prospective bride's arrive to pick up their riage license they arc ed with a gift package for It contains dry detergent soap tooth paste hair dressing products coupons and a magazine sub- scription City Y nave heard about the gift age at a convention and de- to stock U for local brides weeks before the assassination a Thomas Arthur was arrested in Chicago for a minor traffic violation Vallee was charged with a concealed weapon after police a hunting knife on the front seat of the car Skolnick contends Vallee was one of the conspirators and was a double for Lee Harvey now being suppressed show that the car driven by Vallee hart New York license plates that were traceable to Oswald Skolnick initiated an gation of two Illinois Supreme Court Justices last year and charged them wilh impropriety in their business dealings with a Chicago bank The justices later resigned real estate agent who handled the rental of a small cottage on Chappaquiddick to the group The cottage was rented to Kennedy and a group of cam workers and political who gathered there that July weekend for a reunion and cookout There was no hint of the ture of their testimony Jurors News Digest Measles May Delay Moon Trip CAPE KENNEDY Fla is usually a childhood leaving the courthouse at the specialists hurried ment but is now carried hy one end of their first day wouldn tests on the Apollo 13 of their backup pilots astronaut even confirm that the to determine Charles Duke would continue Courthouse whether their exposure to If show the immunity of theiman js going to delay of the three is low their ply recessed to the moon chief physician probably will w James A Lovell Jr Thomas recommend that they not ifi Whether other witnesses n ahd Fred W launched to the moon on sources however grand jury had sim for the night Although losing 52 to 44 in vote of Arkansas be railed is unknown Sheriff E Palmeira whose office serves summonses who voted to Monday workers and the ide clear pic ny were slated to resume turc problem to parents By THE ASSOCIATED trucker strikes spread to Haise Jr have been exposed tolday as scheduled Labor Disputes Piling Up town Marlboro were reported f CAC effort but High School William wo without lights failure was traced to a tion that could not be corrected immediately because repairmen were not on the job The ny power may be restored come time today Representatives of both sides were to resume talks this ing in the Boston office of eral Mediator John Sullivan There was no progress during negotiations in Sullivan's office Monday night the mediator caid Meanwhile some 150 pickets nt the power plant on Route 9 were reported ing traffic a community Community Services of agency acting as Sgt Stephen Longley rather as with our agency acting catalyst DRUGS Page 2 supporters said they thus kill it was not will be conclusive because three firmed although they conceded I senators who voted against a tight margin Surveillance Increased To Breaks Four more breaks were Oil Co 681 North Main taken from machines Investigation by Leominster where a ripped Pti and an undetermined gating Thomas J Dodd ram L Fong and Robert W already had announced they would vote against tion And a number of tors some of whom voted on both sides of the recommittal question had declined to say how they stand on the down vote lice today in a series of n irom Thirty-three Republican Harold G senee is 19 Demo of them tract on railroad continued craft workers I stoppage In other labor disputes Now He Says U.S Census WASHINGTON The elite Green Berets is band of a girl and three mav hP as a suspect had killed fte other Green Berer Murder Suspect FT BRAGG AP MaeDonald of Patchogue The Army says a doctor in its New York had said that a hip- 1970 census may be of the failure slaying of his wife and of his family in their Army un dauhter seven weeks post apartment and wounded art gal residence Rep Louis C Wyman said Monday In a House speech Wyman said it is possible the way the census is now Being voung daughter seven weeks post apartment and wounded ago jt were and eight at the tral and nc and land strike began day night About New England Electric members of the Brotherhood of Utility ers of New England walked off their jobs The company em- ploys 7.800 persons In Rhode Island a union cial accused the Narragansett Electric Co a unit of the New England System of Ing strikebreaking techniques The union said a complaint was filed with the Justice De- after incidents in 01 we of cash taken The At noon police were against certain slates may gain spread in various ieft several a hreak at the young lennin throu Police Chief Alan door break 15 Gallagher announced that a bv company officials at tion available as stepped-up program of am and is being probed by what had been taken or means I3 lance during the nighttime Lt Louis H Cocci and entry has been in operation for several Pti Stanley Harris It was lUn days Another The latest breaks were at the reported into a vending with office which pickets allegedly were struck by cars outside electric senators who have to though not actually The doctor Capt Jeffrey Pilot Flies With Gun At Back PITTSBURGH AP said Bybee 42 of of an pilot John Bybee of Trans World Monday He said the gunman Airlines flew his Boeing 707 apparently thought the San The pressures from both sides where near the number to calm to Pittsburgh flight dents required young man who stood was bound for Boston and he the West Side assignment the require tW the state mat West Street during spread of the breaks in night Ptl Harris said entry sections of the city into the machines was not The chief asked for comment isaid we have stepped up the The latest breaks were at the Roadblocks Set In Area County After Jailbreak WORCESTER Mass AP through a side door have been initiated and I am Two escaped early to in cash was they will bring results day from Worcester County Jail after overpowering a guard po lice reported The men were believed to be A third break was reported considerably case of a tie Restaurant the past few weeks in an I At his home Street 10.14 to curb Entry was of breaks Several plans ports of the Ser plants Monday further company union said further that were bringing workers from Massachusetts to Rhode Island plants The electric company said the charges were false on foot and SOUSht Massachusetts State Police TODAY'S INDEX Almanac 2 Amusements 2 Bridge 14 Classified Comics 14 Crossword 14 4 n 2 Sports Television Women's Page S pistol stolen from a Worcester police officer after the escape police said and Leominster police were notified of the incident shortly after 6 thu morning and immediately set np roadblocks in their tive cities The men were identified as Robert Paul about 30 and Richard Durrell Sheley had been charged with house ing assault and parole tion police said Both the jail guard and Worcester police officer were for that Chief fake a stand is to be Wyman entered a lo re- behind him waving a gun did not want to go to mpt this before the roll is called the census include a He was very disoriented on the night Sen Robert J Dole a question of legal residency and no at all sure what he on nigm ihp outcome could depend on Vice President Agnew's vote The Vice President presides over the Senate and votes in gal residence get credit for the individual being counted j Under the current practice said the -census takes into BRADENTON Court Order Hits Kirk Seizure Fla AP Kirk was ordered hy U.S Dis- Court Ben count only he place where the Armed with a federal court Court le near Tallahassee person is being questioned Dr Jack Davidson fought man lo appear in his Tampa away from his Claude R Kirk Jr to block interfering declined comment Wednesday confirmation vote lown state Touch Up A papier mache turtle gets a last dab ef from artist Joan who has her 1 In a man it art gallery She nyi Claude R Kirk Jr to block a for interfering desegregation decree Bomb Threat Halts Dow Jones NEW YORK AP The resumed Jones news service halted Bomb explosions have ations because of a bomb a number of major New threat it at 30 York buildings including offices Broad Street in the financial of district General Telephone Corp The news service in an International Business sory note nn its wire said chines Corp in recent weeks Education Faces Vote WASHINGTON AP The school aid programs for another House geared for final three years live on the nation's j Although it expands largest single for education spending authorization beyond the wishes of tha dear of the school prospects tion controversy that plagued o f a presidential veto seemed the measure in the past j it Over from the Senate where lakes another separate to a vote cleared it last the actual the billion measure ues elementary and secondary I mani wearing animal AP Wirephoto
