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Last Rites Our Amazing Planet nee, was among the missing, out of respect for Senator Kennedy's funeral. i i NEIVS OF THE VJORLD Jit 'T-L May's War Toll Most Costly The month of May was the most costly in the long history of the Vietnam war in terms of Americans killed and wounded. In the four weeks May 5 June 1, 1975 Americans were killed and 11,064 wounded; The nation observed mourning for Senator Robert Kennedy, who was buried in Arlington cemetery 60 feet down-, hill from the grave of his brother John. His accused assassin, 24 -year -old Jordanian "Sirhan Sirhan, was arraigned under 1 maximum security in the chapel of the county jail. His plea will be entered in three weeks.

ried two forged Canadian passports and a loaded gun. He was spotted by British immigration officials, who had been alerted after went to Canada and then-Portugal. Extradition proceedings were under way. Congress Passes 'Weak1 Gun Bill v- In the wake of the latest Assassination, Congress hastily passed the omnibus anti -crime bill, including a gun law which would ban mail-order sales of pistols, and prohibit sales of handguns to minors or out-of-state residents. President Johnson angrily declared that the law was not strong enough, and appealed to Congress to include rifles and shotguns.

DeGaulle's Enemy Returns to France Georges World War II French resistance leader, twice Premier and nine times Foreign Minister since that played a major role in bringing DeGaulle back to. power in France. Since. President DeGaulle gave al-geria its independence in 1962 Bidault declared him a traitor and went into exile in Belgium. Last week he returned, surrendered to police and was re-, leased.

It was speculated that he had made a deal to support DeGaulle in the -pre sent crisis. Death Along The Tracks A man and a woman were killed' while waiting for the Kennedy funeral train to pass. They were struck by a train going in the opposite direction as they stood on the tracks waiting. Hope Abandoned The Navy gave up hope for lives of the men aboard the nuclear submarine Scorpion, lost somewhere in the Atlantic, but a search continued. Drysdale Breaks The Big Record Dodger Don Drysdale pitched inning after scoreless inning through six full games to break first the team, then the League record for sequence of scoreless innings.

Facing the Phillies Saturday he broke the all -time major league record of 56 scoreless innings set by Walter Johnson in 1913, went on to 58 23 before a man came home on a fly ball to end the long shutout. AlP Nominates Absent Leader Suspected King Killer Arrested The accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray, 40, was captured in London as he prepared to BrusselsIIe car The American Independent Party held a quiet convention in Fort Worth, with about 1200 people attending. George C. Wallace, the party's nomi MEWHAU THE LENCIA EGNA And SAUGUS ENTERPRISE It it nvr I0! Per Copy Telephone (805) 259-1234 NEWHALL, CALIFORNIA MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1968 VOLUME 49 NUMBER 69 8 PAGES Homeowners1 Onslaught 2 The Tragic 'Souvenir' A Bitter Challenge 'McCarthy Wins How Votes Went In Valencia Valley 3X A SIGNAL STAFF WRITER Valencia Valley's Democratic voters went against the statewide trend and voted for the Presidential aspirations of Senator Eugene McCarthy instead of Robert Francis Kennedy in last Tuesday's California primary elections.

To The Rehab Plan Saugus Rehabilitation Center used for six weeks this summer as a rehabilitation camp for 3000 ghetto children. They had their reasons too. Continued on Page 3 tion, one of their spokesmen said, would be the same even If the children coming to the camp hailed from Beverly Hills instead of Watts. They didn't want to see the 'V- 'V. captured 46TT here approved State Super in McCarthy percent of the Democratic tendent of Public instruction vote with 2,196 ballots in Max Raffertrs challenge to incumbent U.S.

Senator by better than two to one. Approximately 67.1 percent Continued on Page 2 Mass Rehab Meeting Planned For Saturday Watts Community Labor Action Committee chief Ted Watkins will make another appear-; ance in Valencia Valley next Saturday morning. Valencia Valley compared with the 38.5 percent (1,809 that went for Kennedy. The slate headed by Attorney General Thomas Lynch -generally considered to favor the Johnson Humphrey administration won 14.8 percent of the vote yiM 695 ballots. The only precinct in Valencia Valley Kennedy won overwhelmingly was in the.

predominantly Negro and Latin-American immunity of V'i Rehearing Fight Wotr By Bonelli H' This time he will hopefully be speaking to undreds of Valencia Valley resides inside BY LIONEL ROLFE Signal Staff Writer They came to the Rose-dell School in Saugus Friday night as the rest of the nation was mourn-. ing for a young man whose body lay in a casket on the other side of the continent. They came to the school planning to hold a closed meeting after which they were going to announce their opposition to using the Saugus Rehabilitation Centex as a summer camp for underprivileged) youths. None of them would corfie right out and say why, even, though everybody knew why perfectly well. Those men and who are active in a few ufPAimMMnelr assoc ia -tions in Valencia Valley were obviously upset that so many kids mostly black kids from the gfiettoes of Los, Angeles' -were going to be housed behind a high chain link fence that surrounds the 600 acres of the Saugus site on the fringe of their tract home world.

The men of the homeowner's association, of course, denied all this. Some of the more articulate among them vehemently denied that race had anything to do with their opposition. Their reasons for opposi- Val Verde. Eighty-five cast Hi: Qtnallf tine wnn i. capturea eigm votes were, i -1.

Utilities Comriiission on This, of course, would prove ntj WOUNDED ELIZABETH EVANS 'being wheeled out of the Ambassador Hotel minutes after Senator Robert Kennedy was shot: She is reported in "excellent" 'condition now. to be the pattern that put Ken- 7 int iVater nedy over the top statewide be, SJSJSS fore his tragic assassination rPi nf woHnortav mnmincr in the North Oaks area oi early Wednesday morning. Saugus last August. the gates of the Saugus Rehabilitetioh. Center and will show them around the facility where his group will be running summer cainp program starting iidS.

The dramatic decision to open up the center normally kcJpt closed and guarded -came out of Friday night's turbulent meeting at the Rosedell School. The Saturday gathering was suggested by a member of the audience after Watkins challenged the group to come up to the site that night so he could show them how well organized things were. The concept was dramatically seconded by Continued on Page 3 the possession of the prosecutors of Sirhan Sirhan, the accused assassin. And until his- trial is over, the bullet that was removed from Mrs. Evan's head will remain the property of the People of California, Everhard insisted.

PETITION After that, however, she could petition the court to get the bullet back to her. "I see no reason once all the final appeals are done -she couldn't get possession of it at that time." Time and place for the hear -ings has not been announced yet The rehearing was granted on the basis of an appeal by Bonelli of the decision handed down in March which would have required him to invest more than $100,000 in efforts, to prevent last summer's outrages oc curing again this summer. The PUC Friday declared "there appeared to be good cause for rehearing." Bonelli had alleged several errors in the commission's finding of Kennedy edged out McCarthy 46 percent to 42 percent in the final state -The Signal will a complete precinct by precinct chart of how voters cast their ballots in Valencia Valley in Wednesday's issue. primarily as a result of his big showing in the minority communities. On the Republican side of the electronic balloting in Valencia a 1 1 Republ icans led Kennedy in a crowded hall way at the Ambassador Hotel.

-She was one of six persons hit by eight bullets that the assassin fired. The bullets reportedly came from the "barreTI bf a relatively cheap Iver-Johnson ,22 caliber ver. Mrs. Evans never actually saw the bullet, but she painfully carried it around rn.be ded in her forehead from the time of the assassination until it was removed a day later by surgery. Elizabeth Evans of 16032 Placerita Canyon in Saugus may get her wish after all, a top Los Angeles police official declared Friday.

The wife of Canyon Country Chamber of Commerce president Arthur Evans -may possibly one day become the proud owner of a bullet that came from the revolver allegedly used in last week's tragic assassination of New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy. "I guess she'll probably want it for a charm bracelet," Lt Jack Everhard, chief executive assistant to Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin observed. But for the present, he continued, it will remain in Harmer Support Big Compromise On Tunnel Plan Everhard was commenting on Mrs. Evan's desire to keep the bullet which hit her when an assassin kil The surgeons at Memorial Hospital in Continued on Page 2 BY A SIGNAL STAFF WRITER Man Dies State Senator John.

L. Ilarmer who had no trouble last week riding out a threatened voter revolt in the Antelope Valley for his opposition to the great $1.75 billion tunnel plan today faces the November finals with more confidence. Friday he -announced ihata Harmer will, iace opposition, compromise had been worked, from Democratic candidate out on the tunnel plan and as Tom Blodgett Capital Punishment 4 Sup ram Court Ruffles Russell BY A SIGNAL STAFF WRITER Assemblyman-Newton Russell is apparently, ruffled about that Supreme Court decision early this week which says that it is unconstitutional to exclude citizens from juries who object to the death a result he was going to sup Building Activity Booming Plans for new construction took a dramatic upswing in Valencia Valley last, month. More than $5 million building permits issued by the County engineer's, office here, twice as much as the month before. It was the second month in a rWin which, Valley held the number two spot in unincorporated county territory rankings, although the total value of permits county -wide was down considerably.

Calabasas beat out Valencia Valley with almost $9 million worth of pe rmits. Valencia Valley followed with $5, 480, 021, and far behind was Lennox for third place with $1.7 The big boost in Valencia Valley's outstanding showing came from permits taken out for new tract homes. Altogether, permits were taken out for 254 new houses, valued at $5,066,800. The total county wide values in May were In April they had 632. This last May, however, was a little ahead of May in 1967, which saw $23,385,142 in permits issued.

fact RERUN Presumably, the rehearings will be a rerun of those held in Newhall last winter. The original hearings came several months after the original outages, which saw hundreds 1 of households without water for several as temperatures soared well over the one hundred degree mark. iThs PUC, Bonelli' office -and local politicians received hundreds of irate phone calls. But by the time the hearings rolled around, just a handful of people turned out to testify in the The session was held as a result of a complaint by the Canyon Country Home -owners' Association. In its March Decision, the commission ordered the Sole-mint Water Company to file monthly progress- reports on construction of a reservoir.

The original order gave Bonelli until May 1 to build. the reserovir, or to provide alternate supply and storage facilities by June 30. Bonelli argued, however, that the order was unfair because he said the problems were not his fault, but that of a subdivider who failed to Placerita School Invaded 2 By A Signal Staff Writer Six projectors, a number of tape-recorders and head-" sets are missing from Pla-' cerita junior high today after vandals broke' into the school rooms Wednesday and roadeifff. with theequip-- ment. Michael Shuman, principal at the school said all of the classroom doors but the library annex chould have been opened with a master key.

The' east window of the library annex has been kicked in and two metal louvres were removed and stacked north of the door. Once inside, the vandals ransacked room and took the equipment from various classrooms. Two of the tape machines were found outside behind a trash can about 50 feet from the building. Value of the stolen property was placed by Shuman at After Cafe Accident By A Signal Staff Writer A 21-year-old Thatcher Glass employee died Tuesday of in juries sustained-last Saturday when his car smashed into a small cafe on Sierra Highway. William Leon'caw of 25645 San Fernando Rd.

died from massive head injuries sustained 'in the cafe accident which was the final in a trio of near misses for the driver. After first clipping a parked auto that got in his way, Gaw then barely missed hitting an on-coming car when he tried to pass Karl Orr of Saugus. Gaw started around Orr just as another car was coming from the opposite direction. Continued on Page 3 And it was a Democrat in the first place who. sponsored SB 555 which Harmer felt he was compelled to oppose in its "original from.

It was Senator Ralph Dills, a veteran solon, who wrote the bill that Harmer had opposed just before its final vote on the Senate floor because instead of just authorizing a feasability concept of a tunnel, it actually would have1 seen construction started. The tunnel would be two or. three times as long as the longest traffic tunnel in the world which currently happens to be in the French Alps. Estimated to cost $1.75 bil-' lion, it would run between some pla in the Los Angeles Continued on Page 3 port Senate Bill 555 which previously he opposed. Actually, there was no way 'for him to tell how much Antelope Valley antipathy he had raised as a result of his earlier adamant opposition to the concept of building the world's longest tunnel to the Antelope Valley, the high desert valley over the hill from Valencia Valley, a place he also includes in his senatorial district This is because Harmer was on last Tuesday's Republican primary ballot with no opposition, and little possibility of a write-in.

OPPOSITION The next time he goes up before the voters, however, penalty. Ruling on death sentences must be unanimous. Russell said in objecting to the decision that he was echoing the same concern express -ed by Justice Black in his dissenting opinion. The assemblyman also claimed his thoughts on the decision coincide with the fears of numerous legal authorities thoughout California and the nation. did not name Continued on Page 3 Russell, who obviously favors the death penalty, said the decision is "a back door method for eliminating capital punishment "If capital punishment is to be outlawed, it should be done in direct fashion," Russell commented.

Russell's commentary came on the heels of widespread speculation by legal minds that the court's ruling would elmininate the death meet county ordinances in Continued on Page 3.