Russo testifies in Garrison case
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - A book salesman who is the prime witness in Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's conspiracy case against Clay L. Shaw admitted yesterday that in 1963 he did not consider an alleged plot to kill President John F. Kennedy serious enough to report to police.
The turnabout testimony from Perry Raymond Russo seemed a blow to Garrison's case against Shaw, a 55-year-old retired businessman charged with conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and pilot David W. Ferrie to assassinate Kennedw.
Cross-Examination
"You didn't consider it (talk about killing Kennedy) important enough to report?" defense attorney F. Irvin Dymond asked Russo in cross-examination.
"Right," replied Russo.
The slim, dark-haired prosecution witness admitted he never heard Shaw or Oswald plot to kill Kennedy. But he said he heard Ferrie say at a party in mid-September, 1963 "we'll kill him," and he said he heard talk
of killing Fidel Castro during the same conversation.
"Well, you didn't know how to take Ferrie," said Russo, "It was the same as trying to Invade Cuba—I couldn't say whether he intended to invade Cuba or not."
Bull Session?
"But you did not know whether in that meeting they were just shooting the breeze or having a bull session?" Dymond asked.
"Right," replied Russo.
Russo, 27, was a state witness Monday. He pictured Ferrie as a homosexual and as the lead in the alleged plot to kill Kennedy. Russo said Shaw attended the 1963 party at Ferrie's apartment while using the name "Clem Bartrand"—an alias Shaw has denied. Russo said he knew Oswald as "Leon Oswald."
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1968 officially dies next Tuesday
The last remnant of 1968, old license plates, must be shed by next Tuesday and replaced with the new white on black plates, Mrs. Edith Norman of the Douglas County Treasurer's Office said. 50c fines go into effect Feb. 18 and will be increased to $1 March 4 for tags purchased late.
Watkins to hire two new doctors
Watkins Hospital is attempting to cope with its personnel shortage by adding two doctors, bringing the number on its staff to ten.
"Country-wide health services estimate that one doctor for ever 1,000 persons is the ideal situation," Dr. Raymond Schwegler, hospital director,
said. KU's student population is about 17,000.
"We just can't harbor any more doctors because of the limited office space," Schwegler said. A proposed addition to the hospital, if approved, will be completed by 1971, he estimated.
Schwegler said wages at Watkins affect the size of the
staff. The budget for staff pay and hospital operating expenses is funded through student fees, he said.
The two new doctors are Dr. Sumil Chaudhuri, who began practice at Watkins on Jan. 1, and Dr. Margaret Haggan, who will begin full-time practice March 1, after having worked here part-time.
First 'Reconstruction' newspaper on stands today
A new bi-monthly newspaper, Reconstruction, will be available today to the people of Kansas, said Bill Berkowitz, New York, N.Y., senior.
The newspaper, which will have a first press run of 3,000 copies, is incorporated and headed by editors Berkowitz; Richard Langsdorf, San Matezo; Calif., graduate student, and Wayne Sailor, Lawrence graduate student.
Reconstruction can be purchased for 20 cents in the Kansas Union, the Sandalwood
Shop next to the Gaslight Tavern and from various vendors on campus, Berkowitz said.
"The newspaper is expected to be successful because Kansas is a communicational vacuum," said Rick Atkinson, Belleville senior.
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Covering five major cities in Kansas, "the newspaper will bring a solidarity to the movement," Berkowitz said.
politically oriented," Berkowitz said.
The five cities are Lawrence, Manhattan, Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita, Sailor said. "We have extensive news gathering services in Lawrence, Kansas City and Topeka," he said. "The Liberation News Service and Underground Press Syndicate are supplying us with material. In
"Our editorial policy will be toward the left, but we are split. We're not chained to any basic dogma," he added.
"Reconstruction will cover stories other papers refuse to print." Atkinson explained.
"The newspaper will follow the format of other underground papers, but will be more
"It will look like a regular newspaper," Sailor explained.
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