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3 Vol. 135 No. 202 On Guard for 134 Years Tuesday, November 23, 1965 Ten Cents p.m. 46 10 p.m. 41 )Ch (FT) iTi BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Writer LAS VEGAS Cassius Clay promised to give Floyd Patterson a "whupping" and he did.

But no more will they mock Patterson as the man with the china chin. "ITT Xli(D)TI)ILlSii- They'll remember the hoy from Brookym as an old battler Tin who went out with an iron will, still on his feet and begging to i go on. mm CLAY LIVED UP to his pre A Tl cm To rrrnm fight prediction in the Las Vegas Convention Arena Mori' day night. He punished Patter 1 I NLJ LJ UL Two of the victims an eight-year-old girl and a 24-year-old mother of two were buried Monday, their relatives unaware of the cause of their deaths. The Oakland County Prosecutor's office said it may seek court orders to exhume the bodies.

The parents of the third victim were asked to delay the funeral from Tuesday to Wednesday. Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pontiac police scheduled BY MARY ANN" DAMME AND KURT LUEDTKE Fr Prtts Staff Writtrt Three Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital patients two of them children mysteriously died hours after surgery, the apparent victims of a contaminated anesthetic. All three deaths occurred In a 26-hour period Thursday and Friday, but were revealed only Monday when Free Press reporters questioned hospital officials. full-scale investigations and, angry Oakland County Prosecutor S.

Jerome Bronson demanded to know why the deaths were not reported to local officials. IN A FORMAL statement, hospital administrator Harry Whitlow said Monday: "We confirm three unexpected deaths in the last few days. All three patients received medications which appear to have been faulty. The hospital immediately called the Food and Drug Administration and we are conducting an investigation of our o.vn." The victims were: KIMBERLY ANN BRUNEEL. 8, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Oscar Bruneel, 2599 Ivanhoe. W. Bloomfield Township, son at every turn and retained his heavyweight title with a' technical knockout at 2:18 of the 12th round. But he couldn't put Patterson away, and even the jaded people in this money meeoa in the middle of the desert applauded Patterson's courage.

Clay hit Patterson with enough punches to knock out Sonny Liston a thousand times over. Even the screens In faraway Europe must have quivered from the violence of Clay's 1-2 combinations. But Patterson hung on gamely and even Clay, who had ridiculed his opponent all through the prefight ballyhoo, was the first to congratulate him. R.eferee Harry Kraus finally threw his arms around Patterson and signaled an end to the creul, one-sided bout. Patterson went down once.

He took a mandatory eight count in the sixth round, sagging to his knee, but it wasn't a Clay punch no "anchor punch," no "linger on" punch it was sheer exhaustion on Patterson's part. How he continued, no one really knew. For it was here that his back gave out on him and left him a crippled warrior. Patterson said later he's had a bad back since 1954. A handler worked on it between rounds, but Clay worked harder during the rounds, undoing what first aid Patterson received.

If A 1 i Na 1 4 I i ni Operations Death BY BILL PORTERFIEI.D AND STAN PUTNAM Frte Press Staff Writer! No one, not even the patients, took the operations seriously. They were simply bothersome things that had to be done before one could get on with living. Kimberly Ann Burneel went into Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital laughing. That nasty old appendix would have to go and then she would be back with the third graders at Our Lady of Refuge School. BILLY KETOILM'S parents had been putting off his hernia operation for some time.

"It i i -t '1 I 4 I i i 14 who entered the hospital to have her appendix removed. MICHAEL WILLIAM KETCHUM, 13. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ketchum.

250 W. Webster, Ferndale, 'in the hospital for a hernia operation. LUREA COVINGTON, 24. of 436 Roland, Pontiac, also an appendectomy patient. Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital is at 50 N.

Perry. Kimberly died Thursday and was buried Monday In Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Her father said: "The hospital told us she died of cardiac arrest. Our doctor hasn't been able to tell us anything about the death.

He didn't say there was anything unusual about it." Mrs. Covington died Friday, six hours after surgery, and was buried in Perry Cemetery. Pontiac. Mondav. Her mother, Mrs.

Annie Faith Clark. 720 DeSota. Pontiac, said the hospital explained that "complications had arisen. It took us all by surprise. We didn't expect it to be a serious operation." The Ketchum boy died an hour before Mrs.

Covington. His funeral was postponed at Prosecutor Bronson's request. His father said Monday: "I was told that he died from a reaction to the anesthetic. I was satisfied that they er PATTERSON' suffered a mus jwas just something that had to I be done, at one time or the other," the father recalled, "so I we picked this time around the (Thanksgiving holidays so he TRAGEDY STRUCK the Ketchum family of Ferndale when 13-year-old William, risht, died after surgery in a Pontiac hospital. With him in the pictur; are his mother and a sister.

Hunter Goes to His Death wouldn't miss too many days -of school." I For Mrs. Lurea Covington, it was more of an emersrencv. Her' A 43tt (tmt ii, i inj Free Pnoto TOM VENALECK nav aa hlrt, Wild shot (arrow) struck near rectory statue But people had appendectomies every da v. cle spasm or a pinched nerve in the 11th and couldn't straighten up. His attempts to hit Caly feeble lunges at best now became forlorn efforts.

The ring physician went into Paterson's corner at the end of the 11th round. The referee came over, too. "What's wrong, Floyd?" aked Kraus. Patterson just shook his head. "You want to continue?" Kraus asked.

Now Patterson shook his head again, only this time there was no mistaking the meaning: Out of the way, friend, we'll finish it out there. Kimberly, 8, was the first to By Breaking a 10-lfear Vov enter the hospital. She checked in Wednesday and had her ap-: pendix removed Thursday. The doctor came out and told her i parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Priest Wounded As 2 Rob Rectory Joanne, 15, and daughters Carol, 11. He was the 9th 'deer hunt- aomS everymmg mey couia ror him. It was the second child the Ketchums have lost. Their first child died 12 years ago, four days after birth. er and the third police officer to be slain in Michigan since the season opened Saturday.

Ten more deer hunters have died of heart attacks. BV BILL PORTERF1F.LD AND JOHN MUELLER Free Press Staff Writers John Buffa returned home from a deer hunt 10 years ago and told his wife, "I'll never go again." "Why, John?" Mary asked. "What happened?" "I almost shot a man," he said. "I had him in my sights, ready to squeeze the trigger, when he moved. I thought he was a deer." Bruneel, of 2599 Ivanhoe, in W.

Bloomfield Township, that she had come through fine. But Kimberly never left the recovery room. "Complies- tions developed," the hospital said, and she died there. It was the same story Friday with Billy Ketchum, 13, and Mrs. Covington, 24.

"The operation began ati 7 a.m.," Billy's father. William of 250 W. Webster, said. "I waited in the room for: REFEREE KRACSE warned Bl'FFA was shot by Ken- ALL THREE patients were into the Manistee County 250 miles northwest of Detroit. He was shot to death at 7:45 a.m.

by a hunter in the party who mistook him for a deer. Buffa wa wearing yellow trousers and a red coat. "Why did I let him go?" Mrs. Buffa asked through her tears. "I could have stopped him.

As he was leaving, I asked, 'Are you excited about and he replied, 'Not especiall Buffa, 40, a Detroit policeman for 18 years, lived at 20062 Patton. on the northwest side, with Mary and their two BY WILLIAM Sl'DOMIER Free Press Staff Writer A priest described by his fellows as a man "who can't stand injustice" was shot Monday as he tried to stop two gunmen from escaping with $4,000 from St. John Berch-man's Church on Detroit's East Side. The Rev. Father Dominic Manzo, 49, was wounded in the right arm by a shot fired by one of the gunmen, who surprised him in the dining room of the church rectory at 4820 Dixie, Redford Township, given a common surgical anes-whom he had met for the thetic called thiamylal sodium, first time when the hunting marketed by Parke, Davis and party met at a cabin on Glover 'Co.

under the trade name neth LaFever, 39. of 10011 Lake, near Pleasanton Town- The drug is medically saiS; ship. and certified by the FDA. In- The others in the party were vestigators said it was "impos- Turn to Page 4A, Column 1 Turn to Page 4A, Column 1 Buffa, a Detroit policeman, him to come. I started to get; kept his vow until Monday Lakeview, in the Warren-Chalmers area.

worried around 11 a.m. i when, at the encouragement "They came and said some of friends, he joined a party complication had developed. of deer hunters for a trek Father Manzo responded by picking up a heavy dining room chair with his left hand and hurling it at the gunman. went into the recovery room to see Billy at 2:30. He was semiconscious.

He died at 3." As he was wheeled into surgery at St. John Hospital, Father Mrs. Covington, a mother, of! Clay several times about talking to his opponent, yelling "Stop the chatter" time and again. "I was surprised he could take so many punches," Clay said after the fight. "I dare any man to take what he took.

I am a heavyweight Ray Robinson." "I don't want to make any excuses, but I waxit to say to my millions of fans that I trained hard," Patterson said. "I did everything I could to win it for my fans all over the country. "None of my plans worked. Maybe even without the back they wouldn't have worked." Asked about his back, Floyd said: "I've had trouble with my back since 1954. A specialist told me that rest was the best thing for it but it was never this bad before.

There is a very strong possibility I may quit." Draftee's First Day: Silly, but Scary two, entered the hospital Sun Manzo said he at first thought I jssyt if I "SKm- ''-XT' day, Nov. 14, complaining of the gunman was a prankster pains in her side. She underwent "This fellow was awfully nervous," Father Manzo said "It was like he'd never had a gun in his hand before. I didn't take it seriously until surgery at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

"We waited in her room for her," said her mother, Mrs. Annie Ruth Clark, of 720 De Sota, Pontiac. "About 11, the doctor came out and said she had come through the surgery fine and would be in her room within an hour. "She never came back. She C'j fit after he fired the shot.

"When I felt the shot, my arm I felt this sting. like when you hit your funny- Fr. Dominic Manzo died at one minute past four in the recovery room. We never saw her. We were shocked.

We couldn't believe it. It was ter bone I knew he was serious "I just picked up the chair and flung it at him. I just wanted to get him away from me. I thought he was going to shoot again." Specials 0 i i1'', -v 1 I fc St i 'JK' Yl 1 '1 rible, so unexpected." A'Aws-rrrra a ft Bi-Mr wb "Yffir'rYi 'nil llt'l'tirftii' ll Hi Father Manzo said he dashed bv the runman, running for help. He said he was worried about the housekeeper-c k.

Mrs. Estella Reiman, 74, who Third In a series BY GEORGE WALKER Free Press Staff Writer There it goes, bouncing east on Fort USMC 237646. an olive drab canvas-covered truck fall of conscripts who are laughing it up, laughing because it's all sort of silly and scary. The reason it's scary is because the big question, where the long, long trail will end, can't be answered, even though the sergeants produce crisp, immediate, correct answers to all the other questions the in-between questions of where do we go now and what will happen when we get there. IT'S FRIDAY, Nov.

5. a little after three in the afternoon. Only a few minutes before, the truck groaned its way out, the gate of Ft. Wayne. It's headed toward the Federal Building in downtown Detroit now, and the conscripts sitting in the rear of the truck are giving silly signals to the traffic behind them.

The truck stops on Fort behind the Federal Building and the boys pile out. One of them falls flat on his bottom, setting off an explosion of laughter, not realizing that this slapstick episode may follow him the rest of his military days. he thought was in the kitchen. After he told his story, doc JFK Tributes President Johnson led the world in paying homage to the late President Kennedy, who was slain two years ago Monday. See Page 2 A.

Mrs. Covington left her husband, Gerald, 25, a supervisor for General Motors, and two children, Tawney, 4, and Gerald 15 months. They lived at 436 Roland in Pontiac. Billy left his mother and dad, a brother and two sisters, Albert, 9, Jody, 8, and Kandy, 7. Billy was to be buried at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, but services have been postponed until Wednesday at the request of authorities. Kimberly and Mrs. Covington were buried Monday. Their bodies may be exhumed for tors took the slug from Father Manzo's arm. He is recovering, Lots of gags.

"Hey, you get sick on planes? I bet you get sick. I got lots of pills." "When that sergeant say, 'Gomer I'm gonna say, 'Yessah Out into the fourth floor cor-r i and into the waiting grasp of a tall sergeant. "You men were sent to us by the Selective Service System. Have you had chow We should be done here at 5:30." 5:30 p.m., a little more than 12 hours after Bob Stanczak, draftee, got up. had coffee, said goodby to his mom and dad and left his house at 20000 Wexford in northwest Detroit.

Now Bob Stanczak, a tall, dark-haired, good looking youth of 20, sits on a bench in a fourth floor corridor of the Federal Building, waiting, as he had done most of the day, while sergeants and cor- Turn to Page 10A, Column 1 Amusements 6-7C Ann Landers 2B Astrology 14C Auto News 5B Billy Graham 16C Bridge 14C Business News 5B Comics 13-15C Crossword Puzzle 14C Death Notices 7C Drew Pearson 17 A Earl Wilson 17A Editorials 8A Feature Page 17A Movie Guide 15C Names and Faces 16C Obituaries 16 A Radio 15A Sports 1-5C Stock Markets 6-8B TV 14A Want Ads 7-12C Women's Pages 1-4B HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6500 THE SHOOTING climaxed a wild morning at the peaceful parish where children march by twos to Mass at 8 a.m. and where the nuns play kickball on the blocked-off street with the kids at noon. It began at 7:45 when two men Dixie ISomlis Early morning explosions ripped large holes in the homes of four Negro leaders in Charlotte, N.C. See Page 15A. rang the bell and told the jani tor, David Michaels, 54, they wanted to arrange for a funeral.

Cold Tuesday Is in the Wind It's fall. Winter's coming. It'll be colder Tuesday a high of 43 and a low of 28. Need we say more? Yes. Details are on Page 15C.

Michaels told police he went to the dining room to get the Free Press Photo by TOM VENALECK Two-year hitch begins for Bob Stanczak Turn to Page 6A, Column 1 5.