European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday March 30, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 7 Kentucky puts open housing Law on books Frankfort by. Up a Mulican Jov. I Juie a Nunn i Kiniscky Lute wednesday it allowed to become Law shout his nature the first Latew Irto open housing Law South of the Mason Dixon line. Nunn i action at 11 50 p mime nearly a year after demonstrations in state s largest City which included sporadic violence. The Bill which prohibit discrimination because of race color religion or National origin in the Sale or rental of housing becomes effective june 13. Exempted from provisions of the Bill were sales of houses conducted by individual homeowners without using a real estate agent or broker. Also excluded were All rentals1 of housing of four units or fewer when one of the units is owner occupied direct rental by individual owners of six or fewer housing units and transactions by religious and charitable institutions. Under the Bill the state Shuman rights commission has the Power to Issue cease an desist orders to any agent or person violating provisions of the open housing Law is the second piece of civil rights legis lation in which Kentucky hag led Southern states. The 1966 general Assembly at the constant prodding of former democratic gov. Edward t. Breathitt approved the South s first statewide Public accommodations Law. 2nd Saturn 5 gets last test before launch Cape Kennedy up the second Saturn 5 rocket and its unmanned Apollo 6 space Craft underwent a rehearsal countdown thursday in the last major test before launch wednes Drill to be completed be fore the Saturn can be cleared for flight was aimed toward a mock blast off. The exercise included virtually everything but engine ignition. In another development t h e first stage of the smaller saturn1 rocket that will orbit the first manned Apollo this summer arrived at the spaceport on a Barge from nest Orleans. Its second stage is due Here april 7. April arrival the Apollo spacecraft that will carry astronauts Walter Schirra Dom Eisele and Walter Cunningham into orbit for 10 Days is expected to be flown to the Cap around april 15. The launch is now planned for next week s Saturn 5 flight is successful the Moon rocket i expected to be declared ready of launch the second Mann Dapollo into Earth orbit next fall. That Fli it will be made by astronauts Frank b o r m a a Michael Collins and William an Ders. The Saturn i s Maiden test flight last nov. 9 was flawless. Latest from Detroit Chevrolet s astr ii the second in a series of experimental sports cars is one of three autos to be introduced bythe firm next week at the new York Auto show. The two passenger prototype sports car. Which is not for Sale is powered by a liquid cooled v8 engine mounted just ahead of the rear Axle. It has a 100-Inch wheelbase. A photo Arkansas Rios Iii Book prison . Employees plan protest Washington up Aki quip of Federal employees today j announced plans to protest the administration s Vietnam poli cies in front of the White House Kates sunday on the Chanc Ethey May get a confrontation with president Johnson a spokesman for the group Shieh Calls itself Federal pm ploys against the War said 2,500 of the 340,000 Federal workers in the Washington Are have med u petition urging Amend to the War through a r e n u i n e political settlement rather than military Force. Full Page and their petition is to appear in ?., ful1 l a a advertisement in a Ashur ton newspaper monday. The and Cost the employees $2,818aiul i ears 1.600 names. These it Milan said they Hope to la of funds to so nor another us l carry the rest of the 2,500 antics. My in 200 of the employees it Anarch to the white11011 e sunday to attempt to Pinsent the first copy of the unto i. P tie american civil liberties1 Acle assured govern-111 it workers wednesday it will i sule us Ai assistance if they " harassed l y � Tor i Rute Miny the War. Little Rock Ark a John Haley chairman of the state Hoard of correction said thursday an investigation into reported murders of inmates a Cummins prison farm turned up enough evidence for conviction but that All persons involved Are dead. Some of the Graves in a Pau per cemetery on the 16,000-acre prison farm most Likely contain bodies of murdered inmates Haley said but documentation had covered up the cause of death in Many instances. Haley said his main concern now was to see that there Are no More such incidents in the prison system. He said evidence indicated murder and severe brutality in the system ceased around 191 7. Official fired the investigation was touched off when prison officials dug up three skeletons from unmarked Graves Jan. 28. But a pathological report said these three men apparently died of natural o. Murton was Dis missed As prison superintendent after he speculated that the skeletons were those of murdered from inmates indicated that murder victims u Vlies were often returned to rela lives or buried As paupers Sumi Delith car Tofu alas indicating cause of death us ments he said. Asked if thu came from former inmate around the country who testified that the witnessed murders at Rummes and thu Kei Piu of a feared for their lives if . Haley said he said the Fri had in or viewed former inmates now Liv ing in Texas. California and other places and that their testimony added to the report but that the final conclusions came from Long term inmates still in Pris new York times reported from Crady. Ark., that re Hirte Walter Yugaber s two month investigation had produced picture of prison officials yield ing to the darkest strains of the human spirit of inmates trapped in a Nightmare of cruelty and the times quoted Haley As saying that some of the murders Ere committed by trusted in mates still alive. Some has been released while others re main in reporter s inquiry Dis closed for example that a hard once killed a prisoner of Tvr a trivial dispute in a Cotton Field. He said later that the Pris Oner had tried to lived frugally a Deal Cor Iii. Ate other Dud Ofa uht uss s s he w. A trampled by a guard on horseback. Another death certificate lists pneumonia As the cause of a prisoner s death. In fact he had been brutally beaten and died with out medical the times said. During his gubernatorial Campaign last year Nunn a conservative expressed opposition to a statewide open housing Law contending such legislation should be passed Only in cities within the state where needed. To Date four such Laws have been passed in Kentucky including the state s largest two cities Louisville and Lexington. A act says secret talks threaten jobs Washington a a top Acap official charged thurs Day that secret negotiations involving the Federal government threaten to deprive negroes of construction jobs in the Multi Bil lion Dollar Model cities pro Gram. Herbert Hill labor director for the National association forthe advancement of coloured people said he had obtained copy of a memorandum that proposes to give rigid control of All rehabilitation work opportunities in the Model cities pro Gram to Al Cio building trades unions. Cites memorandum he said the memorandum dated March 1, 19cs. And labelled fifth draft and for discussion purposes Only outlined the pro posed agreement Between the unions and various contractors associations. I Hill said officials of the labor department and the depart i ment of housing and Urban affairs participated i i the negotiations. Peter Sci -t.--mar. N. President of the plumbers l on. Said there had been some of a trainee category but no nothing definite has been i i a by any ofbuildir1.- he said. Spuke ? be no the tunes report described i e history of the sordid y tem of leasing prisoners to private contractors As cheap labor. The system Vas abolished in 1912. It Saul. Wardens in subsequent year were faced with having to mar Ket enough crops to pay the lulls and under the pressures of production the Lesel of violence As slowly and Al most recently As last year. Prisoners were whipped repeat edly on the Bare buttocks with a Heay leather strap the dread id hide if they failed to pick their daily quota of Cotton the i Ness paper said. A labor Depa Man said there comment until the had seen i Iii s charges. Suit threat the a act will sue to Cut offi Federal funds if the government does t prevent the adoption of the proposed agreement be tween the unions and contractors associations. Hill said. I the Model cities act author in jes the Federal government to in i Der sprite most of the Cost of tearing Down shuns and rebuild ing them into neigh spokesman for the1 Al Cio building trades department act Knos pledged the proposed Uree i ment but said there was no a Sis for Hill s charges. We want to build need everybody so there Are jobs for he people can go through and become i is to Mill St. Yaj. S alone of is flu is vol retired Eun Anthony v. Tackes As a Bachelor and a Euin an old run Down Section died feh notice Scal . Tackes filed in Loun 10. His almost ill so is Bersimis who knew him Saul that he used Fri airy and ave no outward of being wealth James a. Kearns .1 r. Inse t Iceni broker and executor of Tackes estate said that takes i w As extremely astute in the Purchase and Salv of stocks and in Buist a c k c i hell coi stocks i value.
