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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 23

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The Boston Globei
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Boston Evening Globe Monday, April 1974 23 IS murder charge dismissed against V-' Waipole inm T'nitfv! Prsc International United Press International anv thine wrnnff with any thing wrong with NASHVILLE, Tenn. Convicted assassin James Earl Ray was in a hospital today as his hunger strike entered its fourth day at State Prison after staging a "fake" fainting spell. Warden Jim Rose said Ray was taken to the prison hospital last night for rountine "Ray was playing' possum acting," Rose said. "His vital signs are OK. The doctors couldn't find Hugh Shields of South Boston and Stephen Flem-mi of Dorchester.

Boston Police Det William Stuart was charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder. Shields and Stuart were tried in Suffolk Superior Court in 1970 ma trial in which Daddieco was the major witness and both men were acquitted. Flemmi is still missing but Salemme was arrested in New York in December 1972. At the time of his apprehension, Salemme had the entire, 13 -volume transcript of the Shields triaL During the Shields trial, Daddieco alleged that' six men were involved in Bennett's murder. He identified them as Salemme, Flemmi, Shields, Richard 'Grasso pf South Boston and Peter Poulos and himself.

A first-degree murder charge, against a Walpole, State Prison inmate was dismissed today in Suffolk Superior Court because the sole prosecution witness cannot be found. Chief Justice Walter H. McLaughlin allowed a motion filed by Atty, Joseph Balliro to dismiss the 1969 murder indictment against Francis P. Salemme, 40, "formerly of Sharon. First Asst.

Dist. Atty. Lawrence Cameron Informed Judge McLaughlin' that, the witness, Robert Daddieco, who was under Federal protective custody, has been missing for the past seven months. Daddieco against Salemme in Middlesex Superior Court in June 1973 in a trial which ended in the conviction of, Salemme for the dynamite bombing ot Atty. John E.

Fitzgerald Jr Fitzgerald lost a leg when a bomb exploded when1 he started his car. aAy a So. Westwood shop thrives for instant reservations 1 Grasso was shot twice in Jhe head and stuffed in the' trunk of an. auto found in Brookline six days after the Bennett killing and Poulos eventually was shot to death and buried in a Nevada desert. Bennett's two brothers, Edward (Wimpy) Bennett and Walter, both disappeared hV 1967.

William Bennett's execution reportedly- was ordered, when he made it known that he would seek ven- and keep. with the times. You can't stand still." 1 -Anastasia himself has taken, course after course, attended seminar after seminar as the styles chamged over the decades. "And as one thing fades out, you have to find something to replace it," he said. "Take shaves as an example.

In the old days a man would come in and ask for a shave. No one does that anymore. Now you see beards everywhere. So what I do PI HU LOW tO put your talent to work in the health field. 200 ways to put your taferittowork FRANCIS P.

SALEMME witness missing Salemme was sentenced to a total of 28 to 30 years in State prison." In the murder case, Salemme was indicted in ,1969 with three other men for the 1967 gangland-i Style slaying of William (Billy) Bennett to Matta-; pan. Salemme was charged with murder, as were i -Zip. 1 MwWng Corel him." Ray, serving a 99-v-sentence for the murder ot civu nSiits iautr Martin Luther King began his hunger strike Friday to protest his separation from other inmates. Rose and prison officials feel that Ray is eating stored up snacks. "We don't have any ptans to force feed him at this time," Rose said.

He dded that guards have reported "Ray looks fine." IN HAMBURG, GERMANY: Loews Hamburg Plaza IN QUEBEC CITY, CANAAAl Loews Le Concorde (Opening ApriM 974) or at many other fine hotels throughout the world fclOEWSHOTHS mr Ona 9o urn 9tmrm mom. ESrj EC A fn the health tieid Six barbers By Douglas S. Crocket Globe Staff WESTWOOD Mickey Anastasia is 56-years-old and twice a grandfather. But he's definitely keeping up with the times. i And in a day and age when others in his chosen profession are falling like middle-aged' hair, Mickey Anastasia is doing quite well very well, as a matter of fact.

Mickey, you see, is a barber. And anyone who has seen the hair of the young these days knows well that barbering as a profession is a receding tion. But Mickey doesn't understand that at all. Because here in a tiny section of Westwood Mickey Anastasia'S Islington' Barber Shop is thriving. It's so good fact, that Mickey doesn't have just one assistant clipping and styling and combing and all the rest.

He has four, five, even barbers all working at the same time. And right outside his window he has a neon sign promoting the fact "Six Barbers," it says. And they're all making a living. How can a barber shop, situated in a community of 8000 people, survive when others in major cities are failing? "You just have to keep up with the times," said Mickey. "You give people what they want.

If they want long hair styles you take care of that. If they want conventional haircuts, you give them that. "I've been in business here since 1955. When I took t)ver the shop, it had three chairs. Three months later I put in a fourth and then a year later a fifth.

Now I have six. We had to extend the building to get them in all." Where would he find enough customers to keep a six-chair barber shop operating? rrr geance. for his brothers' disappearances, apparently learning they had been slain. At a hearing in January. Cameron informed Judge McLaughlin that made arrangements with Federal authorities to have Daddieco available on the original trial date, last Oct 29, but two days before he was to appear Daddieco disappeared from his apartment, taking all his clothes.

instead of offering a shave, I of fer a beard trim. "It's like that that keep us going." Perhaps it is things like that. Ct perhaps It's a television set in the corner and old pictures on the walls or the "Six Barbers" sign in the window or even Mickey Anastasia's advertising slogan: "We Need Your Head To Run Our Business." But Whatever it is, it's working. WEST JiEWTON busy i3 1 I iSi use heads MICKEY ANASTASIA keeping up "I get them from everywhere," he said "Many of them come from Norwood and Dedham and West Roxbury. Most have' been my customers for years." Four men Joe Passa-nissi, Mike Bruno Denisovas and Pat Com-, pagnone work full-time at Mickey's shop right now.

"We had another man but he Mickey said. "Right now I'm looking for someone to replace him. That's not easy these days. "What 'we have to have is someone who can handle the new styles as well as give the haircuts. "I had a woman barber here who was just great on the new styles but did not Want to give conventional haircuts.

So. she left." There have been more than style changes in barbering since Mickey graduated from barber school in 1934. "In those days, you used to pay 35 cents for a haircut," he said. "Now it's "You know it's difficult to see men from the old days folding up their shops and quitting," he said. "But the name of the game now is to keep up i iiimh i riiiii.

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