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The Berkshire Eagle, Tuesday, June 14, 1966 3 Private School Aids Ruled Legal for State Sen. Donahue Manager for McCormacks a D-Holjoke, as his maaagei The actl0n Jined Governor Among Join Forces By FRANK BOSTON (AP) McCormack, the conventions choice has moved swiftly strength for election by naming President Maurice Sergeant Awarded Bronze Star for Fight With Cancer WASHINGTON A veteran Army, noncommissioned officer has been awarded the Bronze Star on President Johnsons orders, not because of particular acts of heroism while under fire In Viet Nam but for his battle against cancer. Special Forces Sgt. 1C. Philip A.

Hesse, 29, of Fayetteville, N.C., received the medal Monday at Walter Reed Hospital from MaJ. Gen. Philip W. Mallory, commanding general. He faces an almost certain leg amputation.

Last September, when Informed that he had contra chondrosarcoma during duty in Germany, Sgt. Hesse refused medical discharge and volunteered for Viet Nam. Although part of his hip was gone from surgical operations, he finally was allowed to go. Under mortar fire at Plelku, he was unscarred. Then his cancer became his chief foe and he was returned to the States for treatment.

He wants to go back to Viet Nam, if on one leg. the McCor-mack-Donahue forces in opposition to Kenneth P. ODonnell, who will battle McCormack for the nomination in September. Donahue was named cam-private Pain manager Monday follow-Brooke mg a meeting of the two men who battled it out at the week-gram. end convention for the endorse- ment fr governor, Donahue finished second to McCormack in the convention balloting and ODonnell was a distant third.

Its for Real FORMING A TEAM for the fall election campaign are Edward J. McCormack, right, the Democratic state convention-endorsed candidate for governor, and Senate President Maurice A. Donahue, his defeated rival for the convention endorsement. McCormack announced at a press conference, with Donahue by his side, that the latter will be his campaign manager. Associated Press Wirephoto) McCormack said the campaign managers post is not a titular position, he is going to actually be the campaign manager The move also struck a blow at ODonnells claim that 99 per cent of the Kennedy support will come to me.

Donahue served actively in successful campaigns of both the late President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. When asked about ODonnells claims, Donahue said I dont Boston Submits New School Plan; Busing Included BOSTON (AP) The Boston Reluctant Fowler 1 Accepts House Ceiling on Debt 7 Die in Rains Across Nation By The Associated Press Drenching rains fell from the Great Lakes to Texas Monday, causing seven deaths.

Seven boys, including two sets Rivals Democrats CREPEAU Edward J. Democratic for governor, to gather the primary Senate A. Donahue, campaign think were going to be talking about factions of the party. Asked about his owji political plans, Donahue said vIts safe to say Im going to be a candidate for the senate, but I pre- sPeed Trains Sel For FARMINGTON, Conn. High speed, turbine-powered trains the PH8RaSeb0en- the New Haven Railroad between Boston and New York by late next February or early March, Dr.

Robert A. Nelson, director of the S. Commerce Departments office of highspeed ground transportation, estimated Monday. He said the running time will be cut to 3 hours and .15 minutes. In Boston, Thomas Wheaton of the United Aircraft which is building the new trains for the high-speed trips in the megalopolitan corridor, said they will run at an average speed of 160 miles an hour at a 30 per cent reduction in operating cost.

of brothers, drowned near Shreveport, in a sudden WASHINGTON (AP) Score1 bary 0f Treasury Henry H. power told the Senate Finance1'1 2 Is, 2 lit n-t toZ bise -a i', S.ll f'' 0,4 7 wi fjr. i Ki ism 0 jfu' 1 T. 1 8 BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts school committees can offer time education in which private school students attend public schools for certain courses, according to a ruling by Atty. Gen.

Edward W. Brooke. Brooke also ruled Monday that local school committees can authorize public school guidance counsellors to work in private schools and that school committees can distribute fed-s Mississippi March Split Over Route OAKLAND, llfss. (UPI) -The Mississippi Freedom March Monday during the ninth day of its mission to stir Negro voted registration in this Deep South state ran into indecision and dissent. The 300 marchers planned to reach Granada today where' some decision was expected regarding the route to Jackson, tions and improvements which destination of 'the 220-mile hike from Memphis, Tenn Bickering over march strategy has caused dissension among Negro leaders.

Some leaders want the march to swing off US 51, the route proposed by James Meiedith befoie he was wounded by shotgun pellets on the second day of the hike June 6 This group, led by the Mississippi Freedom Democi a-tic party, wants to go westward into the Delta farmlands to recruit voters. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) opposes this. We decided last week we just didnt want to march, march, marph with no purpose, said Floyd McKissick, chairijian of the Congress of Racial Equality. Everyone has their own ideas about what we ought to do. Its a matter of reaching agreement and making a decision which everyone will accept.

William Hocking, Philosopher, Dies 'MADISON, NH. (UPI)- Funeral services will be held on Thursday for retired Harvard University professor William Ernest Hocking, the last link to the "Golden Age of American philosophy. Hocking, who retired in 1943 as Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, died here Sunday in the all-stone retirement home he helped design. He was 92. According to many of his colleagues, Hocking was the last remaining link to the Golden Age of American philosophy.

He was a student at the turn of the century under Harvards Philosophical Four, Josiah Royce, George Herbert Palmer, William James and George Santayana, and psychologist Hugo Munsterberg. Non-Materialistic Realist He maintained that his own philosophy was both idelaist, in the tradition of Royce, and pragmatist, the tradition of James. His first book, The Meaning of God in Human Experience, eral money for private, elementary laboratories, shops, kitchens and cafeterwrs. opinion was in response to six questions asked by Commissioner Owen B. Kiernan of the Department of Education.

Kiernan asked for guidance on the implementation of federal laws granting certain school aid. The attorney general said a private school student can attend a public school on a part time basis and can take certain classes in the public school if the proper arrangements can be made. school teachers and concluded that state law does not permit such a pro- As fo public money being used to install laboratories, shops or kitchens, Brooke said such money may not be used for the purpose outlined. Neither state nor local funds may be used for the installs- Brooke also ruled that books and other instructional maten- als purchased with state or municipal funds cannot be loaned to private institutions. But he said there is no con- stitutional prohibition against Ruby Sane; Way Geared For Appeal DALLAS, Tex.

Jack Ruby murder case, plagued by legal complications and wrangles among defense lawyers, appears finally to be on its way to the Texas Court of Cnminal Appeals. Rubys conviction and death sentence for the Nov. 24, 1963, killing of Lee Harvey Oswald has not yet technically progressed beyond the trial court level. Oswald was named by the Warren Commission as the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963. But one major obstacle to the movement of Rubys trial was removed Monday when a Dallas District Court jury ruled that the 55-year-old former strip joint operator was legally sarie. Barrier Removed The Texas Court of Cnminal Appeals the highest court the state for noncivil cases had indicated that it would not take up the appeal of the murder conviction until the sanity issue was settled. Ruby was convicted of murder March 14, 1964, in the same court Criminal District Court No.

3 that adjudged him sane. The defense, claiming that Ruby was insane, had requested a samty heanng a month after the conviction. It was repeatedly delayed for vanous reasons. Committee Monday he would along reluctantly with the $33(p billion temporary national debt" ceiling voted by the House. The administration requested a $332 billion limit for the coming year and Fowler said he would have preferred that figure or at least $331 bit downpour and windstorm.

Five partment died when their 12-foot fishing boat overturned on Caddo Lake. Two others drowned in a drainage ditch. Nearly 3 inches of rain fell within an hour at George West, Tex about 75 miles northwest of Corpus Chnsti. More rain flooded U.S. 385, 18 miles south of Odessa in west central Texas.

Parts of Arkan- states State $4 4 million schools, of a plan The new fer to make a formal announcement at home McCormack said he was not distuibed about Ted Kennedys decision to withhold endorsement of Democratic candidates until after the primary. He has indicated he will enthusiastically support me in November, McCoimack said, and frankly, thats -iwlien I need the support when I go against John Volpe. The Republican governor has not announced that he is a candidate, but is expected to seek re-electioji McCormack indicated that he would not become involved in primary fights faced by the candidates endorsed for the SenatC 3nd attW gen GI Fare Home Asked In Emergencies WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Veterans of Foreign Wars wants the government to pay the airline fare home for servicemen on emergency leave or those given leave before going overseas. Retired Marine Bng. Gen.

James D. Hittle, representing the VFW, made the proposal Monday at a hearing before a House armed services subcommittee on the problems servicemen face in flying on commercial airlines at reduced fares. Rep. Willis Subpoenaed In Klan Case WASHINGTON (AP) A federal court has subpoenaed the chairman of the House Committee on Un-Amencan Activities to appear at the contempt of Congress trial of the Ku Klux Klan Leader Robert M. Shelton.

At Sheltons request, Rep. Edwin E. Willis, the committee chairman, was subpoenaed along with committees staff director, Francis J. Me-Namaia. They were told to bring along all committee records on the Klan.

The House group held hearings last fall into the Klans activities. Shelton was called as a witness but refused to testify. The subpoenas ordered Willis and McNamara to appear as witnesses for Shelton when he goes on trial in U.S. District Court here Sept. 12.

Willis said the subpoena was served at his home last Sunday shortly after midnight. Silent on 100 Questions Shelton refused some 100 times last Oct. 19 to answer committee questions and failed to produce subpoenaed records. He later was cited for contempt by the House and then indicted by a federal grand jury. If con victed, he faces affine between $100 and $1,000 and a prison sentence of one month to one year.

Shelton was not available for comment. His trial is consid- cred soe, Justice Depart- ment officials to be a test case Six other men identified Klan members refused present subpoenaed records during the committees hearings and were cited by the House and later indicted for contempt of Congress. They are to appear for trial in as to S. District Court at weekly intervals beginning Oct. 3, Truman To Host Ikes Anniversary NEW YORK (AP) Former President Harry S.

Truman will serve as honorary chairman of the Eisenhower Golden Wedding Committee, it was announced Monday. The committee, with Bob Hope and former Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Ander- son as chairman, is planning the celebration of Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhowers 50th wedding an- niversary July 1.

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The temperature hit 91, breaking a 92-year-old record. es the pending bill before that time. The secretary said that feder- al revenues are well up fron earlier estimates and 1 would help cut to $3 9 billion thj deficit the current fiscal year. ending June 30. President son, in January, had it at $6.4 billion.

Hurricane Alma, no longer busing 341 pupils from overconsidered a threat to the crowded schools in September. Northeast, hovered off the New The committee also voted to Jersey coast gradually losing hire 46 new teachers as part of strength. the move to cut class sizes. School Committee has approved and sent to state Education De a second plan designed to comply with the racial imbalance law. officials have withheld in aid to Boston pending state approval to combat racial imbalance in 46 city schools.

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