Ray sentenced to 99-year term
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) — James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in exchange for his life yesterday but he and the judge kept alive the possibility of a conspiracy.
A 12-man jury heard an hour and 55 minutes of token testimony and then, by prearrangement, convicted Ray and sentenced him to 99 years in prison.
Judge W. Preston Battle noted that although "it has not been established at this time that there was any conspiracy" by Ray and others to kill King, "this is not conclusive evidence that there was no conspiracy."
Both King's widow and his successor, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, insisted others were involved in the murder and said the government should continue to investigate. Negroes throughout the south called the sudden, two-hour trial a "cover-up."
After the trial, prosecutor Phil Canale said when asked if a conspiracy might ever come to light that "I learned a long time ago not to rule out anything."
In Washington, the Justice Department said "the investigation into the original allegations of a conspiracy is still open." The "original allegation" was an FBI warrant which said Ray, alias Eric Starvo Galt, and a man "whom he alleged to be his brother" conspired to kill King.
The "brother"-Ray actually has two-quickly evaporated from the investigation and then-Atty. Gen. Ramsay Clark insisted only one man was involved.
Ray was expected to be spirited away under heavy guard later yesterday to state prison in
Nashville 200 miles away, where a special, isolated cell awaited him. It was his 41st birthday.
He will be eligible for parole when he is 71. But Ray, once nicknamed "The Mole," fancies himself an escape artist. He is a fugitive from the Missouri State Prison.
Ray's attorney, Percy Foreman, said "I never expected, hoped or had any idea when I entered this case that I would be able to do anything other than save this man's life."
than 60 names and interviewed 8 men on campus.
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Scannell earned three degrees from the University of Iowa, a bachelor's degree with a double major in science and English in 1951, M.A. in 1955 in education, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology in 1958. He taught high school chemistry in Iowa City from 1950 to 1957.
His first collegiate position was acting assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1958. He came to KU a year later.
Landon Lecture at K-State
Senator calls for new policy
MANHATTAN (UPI) — Sen, Mike Mansfield of Montana called yesterday for a new policy toward Asia and the Western Pacific based on "mutual respect, mutual appreciation and mutual forbearance."
He said there was no other choice for the United States.
"We will not only continue to live in the Pacific, but we will also have to learn to live with the Pacific and the nations of its western reaches," he said.
Appearing as part of the Alfred M. Landon lecture series at Kansas State University, the Montana Democrat said the "very vastness of Red China projects its relevance not only over the Asian main land and the Pacific, but in fact throughout the entire world.
"It is not possible to talk about the future of international peace, let alone about our future in the
"China will not remain forever, as is now the case, in substantial isolation," Mansfield said. "Its proper role is as a leading nation in the council of the world. Sooner or later China will assume that place."
Pacific, without reference to the great nation which lies on its farthest shore.
Mansfield did not specifically say Red China should be admitted to the United Nations. He said that would be putting "the cart before the horse."
"The keynote of a new policy for contemporary Asia as I see it is mutuality ... with characteristics of respect, appreciation and forbearance."
In his only reference to Vietnam, Mansfield said, "The war has not contained China in any sense. If anything, it may be having the opposite effect."
Eisenhower improving
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Doctors treating former President Dwight D. Eisenhower said today he is showing steady progress and they are pleased with his recovery from high-risk abdominal surgery 15 days ago.
So well has the 78-year-old general come back from the operation—and a subsequent bout with pneumonia—that Walter Reed Army Hospital said there would be no further bulletins on his post-operative condition.
The pneumonia in the general's right lung presumably has cleared.
The "latest and last" bulletin by the hospital, came after the two-week "critical" period following the operation to remove an intestinal blockage.
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made locally. Civil service salaries are not determined by local institutions, Miller said, but on a state-wide basis.
Gov. Robert B. Docking earlier approved a 5 per cent pay raise and a provision for hospital insurance which was not acceptable to union officials.
Floyd Camp, local 1132 business manager, said they had drawn up a list of 13 demands:
- a 25 per cent wage increase for all Medical Center workers.
- Contract or collective bargaining.
- Hospital insurance paid by the state.
- Hospital insurance paid by the state
- Workmen's compensation benefits,
- Free medical services to all classified employees
- Premium pay for night shift workers (minimum 5 per cent)
- Free parking for non-professionals,
- Overtime based on a 40-hour week,
- That vaction or sick leave should not be used when employees go to the doctor.
- Revised Civil Service regulations (20 years since last revision).
- The Medical Center should supply local 1132 with names, addresses, position and length of employment of all classified personnel (previously denied by the Medical Center administration).
- A union representative should be allowed to conduct business concerning Medical Center employees on Medical Center time.
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