European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse June 10, 1968 Salute Juk the stars and stripes Page 5 weapons easier to buy than drugs guns kill 1 every half hour in . I"-3 4 i mis Idren Caroline and knt i paving homage at thei John in. 6 husband m Ston National cemetery in night after services i is afoul ulc i lady s final resting place. 1 mrs Kenney has visited the it Only on rare occasions an when she could have . Wii ii of sum privacy since pres ident Kennedy s assassination Inge and the children Knelt before the Bronze Marker inthe full Glare of television lights and before hundreds of spectators As Well As millions watching in their Homes an bowed their Heads with their arms resting on part of the Chain Barrier surrounding the selected Flowers from a Small Floral plot beside the Marker and placed them on the i late president s grave and the Graves of two of his children who died shortly after birth Andice beside him. By Alfred Krusenstjern Washington up Day after Day week after week More americans Are shot dead in their own country than in the War in Vietnam. Guns claim an average of 50 lives a Day More than one every half hour. In the United states firearms can be bought As easily As cigarettes As president Johnson observed last week. People in other countries find this hard to believe but it is True. In this country guns Are easier to obtain than penicillin tablets for which a doctor prescription is needed. Few registration Laws anyone who wants to buy an drive a car in the United states has to pass a Driver s test an Register a vehicle. But no test is required if you buy a gun and inmost parts of the country you do not have to Register seven of the 50 states for bid the Purchase of a handgun a revolver or a pistol with out a police permit. And even i these seven states no permits Are necessary to buy a Rifle or Shotgun. Nobody knows How Many fire arms there Are in the . Estimates Range from 50 Millionth 200 million one gun for every Man woman and child inthe United states if the higher figure is Correct. Last year More than 6,500 acts of homicide were committed with firearms in this were fewer than 100 each in Britain West Germany Japan and Canada. About 10,000 americans committed suicide with some Type of firearm. And approximately 2,500died through gun accidents. Thus a total of about 19,000people in the . Died last year from gunshot the turn of the Century about 750,000 people have died in horizontal 1. A Metal 5. Disease of chickens 8. Weeps 12. Persian poet 13. High card14. American Indian 15. Opera Singer 16. Disregards 18. Vast tracts in Asia 20. Accumulate 21. Lamprey 22. Summer in Paris 23. Ward off 26. Foretell30. Be vie tortious 31. Roman bronze32. The present 83. Account books 86. Piebald 38. Girl s name 39. Conifer 40. Carpenter Stool 43. Oversees 47. Softened in temper 40. American author 50. Jewish month 51. Shoshone Indian 52. Jacket or school 53. Naomi chosen name54. Couch 55. Stitches vertical1. Deities 2. Leave out 3. Wash4. Dry goods dealer 5. The whole jury 6. Frosts7. Wooden pin 8. Appeared 9. Killer whale 10. Morsels 11. Soap Frame bar answer to saturday s Puzzle. Average time of Volution 9,1 minutes 17. Tardy 19. Caress 22. Bitter vetch 23. Pointed tool 24. Compete 25. Conclusion 26. Foo like organ27. Hostelry 28. Small bed 29. Cardinal number 31. Constellation 34. Plural of Genus 35. Equal 36. Trans fix 37. Sultan s decrees 39. Grew dim 40. Baby Carriage 41. Mother of Helen of Troy 42. Wing like 43. Apportion 44. Portal 45. Enough poetic 46. Appel 48. Small cask so 34 lib 51 54 20 3b 52 55 32 44 a 26 45 the United states by firearms 14 times the number of Ameri cans killed in world War 1, an almost three times the number slain in world War Johnson last week described this situation As in sane and appealed to Congress to enact a Strong and effective gun control Law governing the full Range of lethal swiftly responded. The legislation outlaws interstate mail order sales of handguns limits counter sales to persons Pope commands Kennedy s ideals Vatican City a Pope Paul i said sunday that Robert Kennedy John Kennedy and Martin Luther King were heroes whose Christian ideals he prayed the world would follow. The pontiff spoke from h i Swindow to thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter s Square for his sunday noon Blessing. He said the figure of Rober Kennedy along with that of his assassinated brother and King has become a human and Chris Tian condemnation of violence and Pope said that the latest Kennedy to die by violence was a witness whose voice we do Well to recall on behalf of the poor the disinherited the segregated on behalf of urgent in Short he was a witness for social Justice rendered not with violence and divisive struggle
