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WEDDING INVITATIONS anG ANNOUNCEMENTS BARRETT BAKER 310 MAIN STREET 2 GREENFIELD RECORDER WEDNESDAY MARCH 11 1970 Bomb Making Caused Blast Patriarca Witness Denies Making Deals By DAVID BARRY konk motel with Sciarra Lerner Associated Press Writer and two other men indicted but PROVIDENCE RL (AP) never apprehended in connection John Kellev who admitted in with the slayings to discuss the court Tuesday to planning plot to murder Marteo or successful bank robber- You're not worried about David's Hair Stylist is pleased to announce being prosecuted there as an-ae-cessorv before the fact though are Chishom asked The court sustained an objection bv prosecutor Richard Jsrael assistant attorney general Kellev told Chisholm earlier that he planned or robberies and probablv the same amount that did not including other armored car holdups Kellev was tried and acquitted for the unsolved multi-million dollar Plymouth mail robbery in 1961 "Did vou plan the Plymouth Mall Chisholm asked rather not answer Kelley said During the cross-examination Chisholm probed Kelley for details of the time he spent mapping a getaway route for the killers of Marfeo and Melei Kelev told Chisholm that he usually spent weeks and often months planning robberies often observing the scene or 25 before going ahead with the plan Kellev said he saw the grocery store once at night and the next day drove around the area and observed the locale for about half an hour before deciding on a getawav route Miss Carol (wium) Kostecki Will be with us on Thursdays and Fridays Blast Ice Jam Ice and snow billow into the air from dynamite charge to break up ice in the Connecticut River at White River Junction Army engineers began the blasting program to ease the threat of flooding in White River Junction and in West Lebanon The blasting caused much ol the ice to begin moving down river to areas where the stream is wider and the danger from flood was lessened AP Wirephoto ies says he made deals with law enforcement officials in exchange for testifying against Raymond LS Patriarca Kelley 55 of Watertown Mass currently under indictment for the holdup of a Brinks' armored car in Boston in December 1968 testified that he helped plan to murder a Providence man for Patriarca Patriarca 62 John Rossi 29 and Robert Fairbrothers 32 all of Providence Rudolph Sciarra 46 of Johnston and Maurice Lerner 33 of Brook-lirfe Mass are charged in Ihe ieaths of two men killed in Providence April 20 1968 Ronald Chisholm of Boston attorney questioned Kellev about his testimony in which he said he helped plan the slayings of Rudolph Marfeo 41 and Anthony Melei 26 for Patriarca and Sciarra after being recruited by Lerner Kelley told Chisholm he discussed the killings with federal agents for about three hours He said he was arrested for the Brinks' robbery in Massachusetts and placed himself in US custodav after being released on bail The FBI told him Kelley said that promise me anything but thev would see that any testimonv I might give would be brought to the attention of the proper Kelley said he meant the jurisdiction of the Suffolk County Superior Court where he Is under indictment The US government Kelley said "promised protection for me and my Kellev is excorted to and from the heavily-guarded courtroom bv two US marshalls who constantly scrutinize the courtroom while he is on the stand At least 20 law enforcement officials are on hand at all times Chisholm noted that the immunity under which Kelley testified for the Providence County grand jury about the Marfeo-Melei killings did not extend to Seekonk Mass where Kelley said his part of the planning began Kelley said he met-in a See- By ARTHUR EVERETT Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A bungling effort at producing homemade bombs has been blamed by police for an explosion that took two lives in a $100000 Greenwich Village brownstone a luxurious setting for a strange mystery The cause of the blast came to light Tuesday when a large amount of dynamite was uncovered in the wreckage of the 19th century townhouse owned by a wealthy advertising executive In the building at the time of last explosion were at least two known members of the Weatherman a militant faction of Students for a Democratic Society and Asst Chief Inspector Albert Seedman said of the occupants would say they were making bombs Yes One of the militants was Theodore Gold 23 whose body was recovered from the debris shortly after the blast He was a leader in an SDS uprising at Co: lumbia University in 1968 The other victim was an unidentified woman whose headless body was dug out of the rubble Tuesday Missing since she fled the townhouse after the explosion was another youthful Weatherman radical Cathlyn Pratt Wilkerson 25 daughter of the master of the house James Pratt Wilkerson by his first marriage He was on a long vacation with his second wife in the British West Indies when the explosion occurred A fire official said that to 66 sticks of dynamite and 100 blasting were recovered from the Wilkerson home enough to have leveled the buddings on either side As it was one of them was condemned because of the damage that radiated from No 18 Evacuated as a result were actor Dustin Hoffman and his wife next-door neighbors of the Wilkersons West 11th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues is a tree-lined oasis in the residential heart of the Village It consists of some high rise apartments three restaurants and a small cemetery of a Spanish-Portuguese synagogue But mostly it is a block of townhouses whose residents en joy an aura of gra- cious llilng' and a sense of architectural pride denied most city dwellers Besides the Hoffmans residents include playwright James Goldman and actresses Anne Bancroft and Barbara Harris Residents of West 11th said they had seen a number of young people entering the Wilkerson house during the senior protracted Caribbean vacation Soggy leaflets and pamphlets published by SDS were found in the basement after the blast At least two young women were reported io have fled ihe townhouse immediately after the blast and both disappeared One of them was believed to be Cathlyn Wilkerson Like Gold Miss Wilkerson had been arrested several times during antiwar demonstrations A Catherine Wilkerson was listed among members of an SDS delegation which visited Hanoi in 1967 As part of their investigation into the house on West 11th detectives made a flying trip to Woodstock NY scene of last tumultuous rock music festival There among the hippy communes that dot the area they reportedly sought some clue as to the whereabouts of Miss Wilkerson In a public appeal to his daughter to contact the family Wilkerson said: still believe in you and want to help any way Both the New ork Times and Daily News identified the missing Miss Wilkerson as now a stepdaughter of Harlan Logan majority leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives who married her mother In 1959 Logan was quoted by the Times as saying from Meriden NH that Miss Wilkerson visited him and her mother about three weeks ago and appeared frail and overwrought press he said it was obvious she is going through some kind of He said she had fropped her involvement with the Weatherman and think she has gone into hiding in fear of her Powerful Explosion At Md Courthouse ties expressed fear of new disturbances if it took place in Cambridge where two blocks of buildings were burned in the 1967 disorder In Cambridge Atty William Yates the trial prosecutor said when told of the courthouse explosion it was and peculiar that two of but that it was early to speculate on their Kunstler declined to say whether he had been in contact with Brown He said he telephoned his wife in New York Tuesday to warn her husband to out of Bel Court Test For Vietnam War Likely BOSTON (AP) The controversial bill to set up a clear US Supreme Court test of the legality of the Vietnam war has drawn a favorable report from the Judiciary with some amendments It is scheduled for debate in the House Thursday The bill filed by Rep James Shea Jr D-Newton would make it illegal for a Massachusetts resident to have military duty in a war zone unless there was a Congressional declaration of war The measure has undergone some heavy revisions since a public hearing Feb 11 and Shea submitted a complete new-draft a week ago However the basic substance of the bill is unchanged It would allow an aggrieved soldier to seek relief in the courts through his own attorney or by the state attorney general Gov Francis Sargent told a news conference Tuesday he did not want to comment on the bill before it comes to his desk but said do know there are some complicate constitutional questions At the public hearing on the bill a standing room only crowd heard a succession of legal experts from other states support the measure and say it was needed as a court test The group also heard Senate President Maurice A Donahue D-Holyoke support the basic policy of the bill but say it would probably not pass in the form as filed He said he believed it should be a resolution memorializing Congress to change the Proverbs In Schools Average Drug Addict Starts With Tobacco CAMBRIDGE Md (AP) A powerful explosion attributed by authorities to a time bomb tore a huge hole in the Dorchester County Courthouse early today A state official who declined to be named said he thought the blast was with a car explosion Monday night which killed two Negroes near Bel Air Md The car blew up a few hours after the opening of the trial in Bel Air of black militant Rap Brown on charges arising from racial disturbances here in 1967 The courthouse explosion ripped a hole 30 feet across In the front of the twb-story 118-year-old building There were no injuries Sheriff Ira Johnson who said the device had been placed in a rest room on the second floor asked for an Army demolition team from Ft Meade Md to investigate He said the building was locked Tuesday afternoon when county offices closed and that the explosive apparently was planted in the rest room before then Johnson added that a policeman had made a routine check of the locked doors minutes before the explosive charge went off The state official who requested anonymity expressed the view without elaboration that the courthouse explosion was for the two deaths in the Bel Air car blast One of the dead was Ralph Featherstone 31 a friend of Brown and his associate in civil rights campaigns The second man was unidentified Col Thomas Smith of the state police said it was believed the explosive which killed them was transported in the by the victims but authorities did not rule out the possibility that a bomb had been planted in the automobile The whereabouts of the 25-year-old Brown remained a mystery His presence had not been required at the Monday-opening of his trial on charges of arson and inciting to riot William Kunstler attorney obtained a postponement of further proceedings to next Monday after telling the court Tuesday the car blast help but affect the The trial was sent to Bel Air 70 miles from Cambridge on a change of venue after authori BOSTON (AP) Teachers in Boston public schools may read hon-denominational proverbs from the Scriptures to their classes by School Committee authorization The committee approved the reading by a unanimous vote Tuesday Voting Rights Attacked WASHINGTON (AP) Despite Nixon administration support Southern senators are running into a stone wall in their effort to weaken legislation extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act for five years But the Dixie bloc kept up the pressure Sen Sam Ervin Jr D-NC leading the Southern fight against extension prepared an amendment today that would base the automatic coverage formula on the 1968 rather than 1964 presidential election This move in effect could eliminate all but Georgia and South 'Carolina from coverage Ervin suffered another round of defeats Monday as he tried to change the law he said is punitive and discriminatory Republican Leader Hugh Scott has teamed up with Sen Philip A Hart D-Mich in pushing a five-year extension of the 1965 act as a substitute for the House-passed administration bill bill which bans literacy tests In all states and permits the attorney general to send federal registrars to anv state squeaked out a five-vote victory In the House One Ervin amendment rejected by a 48-32 vote permitted states and counties covered by the 1965 Act to go into US district courts in their own localities to seek rulings declaring changes in their election laws are not discriminatory will not necessarily lead to the use of other drugs as many of you drank intoxicating liquors before you were 21 and still went on to lead constructive lives college kids who are using marijuana necessarily misuse other he told a narcotics and drug abuse seminar sponsored by the state attorney office Valante said the marijuana problem should be handled as underage drinking or as a parking meter violation All the evidence places it in this category of criminal "The government is all wrong if it feels we can solve the problem by destroying all the poppy fields in he said suicide a capital offense would obviously not do much to reduce the suicide he said Valante who conducted studies on heroin addicts said the studies showed "there are no dangerous drugs only self-destructive About 35 Greater Boston police officers attended the BOSTON (AP) A Tufts University psychiatrist says the average heroin addict started with tobacco at age 6 moved up to alcohol at 10 and was using marijuana when he was 13 years of age Dr George Valante said however that the use of marijuana Students Get Offer BOSTON (AP) Gov Francis Sargent has called for college students to take part in a summer public service intern program working in government jobs The governor said Monday the state Department of Community Affairs has opened applications for the jobs beginning in June and running for 11 weeks He said he hopes that "hundreds of 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