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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 6

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Q-A Sunday, July 5. '64 DETROIT FREE PRESS A AH Fre Press Photo by JERRY HEIMAN Rusk Urges End to Bias. Poverty Continued from Page One tained by the U.S. and Its allies. Rusk said America will aid victims of all aggressions, such as those now going on In Laos and South Viet Nam which he cha racterized as "gangster wars." PRESIDENT JOHNSON spent the weekend at his ranch in Johnson City, Tex.

Texas Gov. and Mrs. John B. Connelly were invited to the LBJ Ranch for the day, along with the governor's brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.

Merrill Connally, of Foresville, Tex. With Mr. Johnson at the wheel of one of his white Lincoln Continentals, the governor beside him, and the brother in back, a tour developed. At one point the President and his guests stopped, got out of the car and had a look at some of the presidential cattle. New York City observances included a ceremony at Central Park mall by the New York chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a 50-round salute, one shot for each state, fired from a howitzer at Fort Totten.

Thousands converged on- the St. Louis-East St. Louis waterfront for the bicentennial water and sky spectacle featuring jet planes, water ski show, boat race, fireworks and an air show. Near Colorado Springs, auto race enthusiasts were on hand for the 42nd annual Pikes Peak hill climb, with many of the nation's top drivers competing for $25,000 prize money. Among the chimes which rang in honor of the nation's Independence was the 134-year-old bell at the First Presbyterian Church at Vandalia, Choose cotton knit sleepers for girls, boys, toddlers THEY DISCOVERED the bodies of Sheldon Robert Miller and Francis Patrick Brown, murdered in a northwest Detroit playground.

Arthur IValdman (left), of 19923 Cooley, and David Hudson, of 19275 Cooley, both 16, were walking a neighbor's dog when they came upon the bullet-riddled bodies of 3Iiller, 14, and Brown, 17. A Feiv Treasured Memories Live on for Boy's Mother Target sale 1.97 to 4.97 set ground at the end of their Toddlers' Youth Park Pak-knit sleepers. Grow-waist, plastic soles, elastic ankles. Choose assorted print tops with solid maize, mint, fawn, pink pants. 0-4 2.27.

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Pink, canary, blue. 4, 5, 6, 8. Set, 4.97. Hudson's Downtown, 4th Floor; also at Northland, 3rd; Eastland, 2nd, TVVT fill If all the time their bodies were right there." Next door, at Pat Brown's house, the dead boy's grandmother, Mrs. Harry Lennon, talked from the doorway.

Pat's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Brown, were too distraught to talk. "HE WAS A good boy, a good son," she said, fingering the rosary beads she held in one hand.

"He planned to get up early today and go to the golf course (Plum Hollow) where he caddied. He was saving the money for college." At the end of the block a crowd of quiet and curious youngsters stood and looked toward the playground. There was nothing to see and nothing to wait for. But they stayed anyway. The children from the neighborhood tried to tell others what the boys looked like, who they were.

But they had trouble Continued from Page One boy who will never use these things agrain. "I just bought him a tennis racket," Mrs. Miller said as she sat dry-eyed, close to exhaustion in a front room chair. "He was such a sports-minded boy." SHE recalled the things that were unimportant Friday. Saturday they were all she had left of 14 years of love.

"He was still sleeping when I left for work (as a bookkeeper for an auto supply firm) at about 7:30 In the morning." Mrs. Miller said. "I called home about 11:30 (a.m.) and he and his sister Linda (17) said they were just sitting around reading comic books." Friday evening, at about 9:30, Sheldon and his sister drove to the ice cream store at W. Outer Drive and W. which awakened Abraham Lin coln when he served in the State Legislature there, i 1 rn street.

LINDA TOLD through her tears of the last moments of her brother's life. "We met Pat (Brown) and he said to Sheldon: 'Have you got any Sheldon answered Then Pat said, Let's go buy some and Sheldon said, 'ok, ers," and Sheldon said, 'OK, Linda watched the two friends walk south on Huntington, pass briefly under the bright yellow circle made by the street light, and then disappear into the darkness. Mrs. Miller said she called from her front porch for Sheldon when he was not home by 10:30. "I thought be was on the Brown porch, so I went to bed," she said.

She awoke shortly before midnight, looked in Sheldon's room. He was not in bed. Then she and her husband, Abe, got dressed and went to look for the boy. "We drove around for an hour," Mrs. Miller said.

"We saw the police at the playground but they wouldn't let us in. We told them we were looking for our son. A policeman told us to go home and call the police station. And FORMER PRESIDENT Harry S. Truman delivered an Independence Day oration from the steps of the Truman Library at Independence, Mo.

Tens of thousands lined Milwaukee, streets to wratch history's biggest circus parade. The War of 1812 "Bombardment of Fort. McHenry" was reproduced in fireworks at Chicago's Soldier Field. Los Angeles claimed the nation's largest fireworks display. In Miami, Cuban exile musicians and actors readied a holiday entertainment to raise funds for arms against Fidel Castro.

McNichols. They returned at 9:45 p.m. Sheldon had brought an ice cream cone for his mother. At 10 p.m., Linda and Sheldon walked to the park-play Blast Kills 2 SORGUES, France fAP) At least two employes were killed and 10 injured Saturday in a gunpowder factory explosion. Jrfrlr I 0 i 4 Waterproof baby pants Target sale Famous Silk Softex pants keep little ones dry and comfortable.

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