European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              , july the stars and stripes Page 7 gun turn in appeals yield meager returns in . New York a appeals for american gun owner to cast a vote against violence by surrendering their weapons have yielded meager returns an associated press Survey indicated saturday the Public response has been particularly unenthusiastic incites with a recent history of racial violence. Indications that a propose Federal gun registration Law faces hard sledding in Congre shave prompted some cities and counties to action on their  so far such instances of gun control at the local level Are few and far Between. The Board of City directors of Pasadena Calif Home town of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan accused of assassinating Robert f. Ken Nedy turned Down a proposal to require registration of guns., a Resolution calling for investigation of possible gun control ordinances lost on a tie vote 3 to  san Antonio tex., a City councilman asked for an Ordi Nance prohibiting the Sale of hand guns to the insane mentally incompetent narcotics addicts or convicted felons. The proposal failed for Lack of a Sec Ond after the City attorney expressed doubt that such a Law would stand up in , looking ahead to the Republican National convention in August the Miami Beach fla., City Council adopted a ordinance requiring police per mits for gun purchases and registration of All guns and pro Viding jail terms for Possession of unlicensed arms. In Chicago a City gun registration Law became effective May 15 and City residents turned 1,211 guns in to police who planned to melt the Wea Pons into scrap Iron. But another 60 persons were soon arrested for ignoring the ordinance. Los Angeles has a City Ord Nance against carrying a concealed weapon without a police permit. Few permits Are issued but police inspector Otho Wood estimated there Are probably in excess of 2-million weapon sin the  proposed ordinance los Angeles county officials Are discussing a proposed county ordinance which would prohibit ownership of guns not registered with police. Mayor Joseph Auto of Sanfrancisco issued a plea for City residents to give their guns tothe police. A total of 90 Wea Pons have been surrendered including one rocket launcher and Afitoto said we re expecting lots  Benny Bufano a san Francis co sculptor proposed melting Down the surrendered guns an making a statue of St. Francis out of the Metal with Heads of John f. Kennedy Robert f. Kennedy or. Martin Luther King jr., and Abraham Lincoln decorating the Saint s Robe. The mayor approved the idea and said he would ask the City to provide a site for the statue. Mayor Alesandro Thomas  of Baltimore asked citizens to turn in their firearms As a positive step to Ward meeting the problem of violence in american  a police spokesman said the a peal has had nearly negative results. Father John a Huhn a roman Catholic priest in Detroit sought to launch a gun turn inon june 16, but City officials said so far no weapons had been surrendered. Joseph k. Brainard a gun Smith in Columbus Ohio ran a newspaper advertisement prom Ising to destroy any unwanted guns turned Over to him. There was no response. The Minneapolis Star an Tribune announced it would no longer accept advertisement for the Sale of hand guns. Pay son Sawyer a Maine toy whole Saler said he had decided to junk his inventory of 10,000 to guns. In Middletown conn., a Man walked into police Headquarters and handed Over a 45-caliber automatic saying i lost i to friends by assassination in thelast five  it was William Manchester author of death of a presi Dent the Story of the assassination of president John f. Kennedy. Manchester was a Friend both of the president and of his senator brother. Police pick up Joe Savage one of 211 fired garbage main St. Petersburg fia., is carried to a police Van As 45 of More than 300 demonstrators were arrested during a March of Chomali led by the Rev. . King brother of slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. A Cohen fears medicare Cost control Washington a Wel fare Secretary Wilbur j. Cohen said saturday that if already in creased doctors fees for Mil Lions of medicare patients get out of line there will be Public pressure for government control Over such charges. He said that unless medical societies and other professional 1i u. K., Sweden vacation guides full a smut Tutt a must u groups see to it that doctors act with restraint in this regard. We Are going to see pressure for some kind of control which i would not like to  Secretary made his Asser Ion in connection with a Whitehouse news briefing to Mark he second anniversary july 1,of the medicare program which provides health benefits for nearly 20 million aged 65 and  his comments american about Doc tors fees. Cohen was referring to that portion of the medicare program under which beneficiaries can sign up on a Volun tary basis to pay a monthly amount towards doctors Bills. The government pays an equal amount. All medicare beneficiaries receive Hospital benefits. The doctor fee Premium Wasset at $3 a month when the pro Gram started two years ago butt was raised to j4 last april 1, because of rising doctors fees. Of 19.7 million of the nation elderly enrolled in the medicare program. 18.6 million have signed up for the supplementary medical insurance program Cohen reported. Gop figure indicted in assault on his wife White Plains . A Luis j Ulia identified As the finance chairman of the Commonwealth committee of the re j publican party in puerto Rico has been indicted Here on i charges of trying to chloroform his wife a gop National com \ Init Tec woman. Police said Julia 42.  his j wife Gilda. 41, have been estranged for Over a year. Their daughter Maria. 12.reached saturday by Telephone in the Julia Home in suburban Harrison said she last saw her father in san Juan a few Day Sago. The julias have seven  indictment for assault in the second degree was handed up Friday. According to the Westchester county District attorney s office. Julia climbed up a ladder to his wife s second Story bedroom in the Harrison mansion on Tim Ber Trail on the night of May 9. There the indictment said he Podgorny flies to e. Berlin Moscow a soviet presi Dent Nikolai v. Podgorny Satur Day flew to East Berlin to participate in the 75th birthday Cele bration of East German presi Dent Walter Ulbricht. The suet news Agency Tass retorted. Tried to smother her with a dish rag soaked in chloroform. Mrs. Julia awoke and fled into a Hall Way where she found Aid. The District attorney s office  to the court the julias Are multimillionaire. Gang figure slain in Tell Norfolk. Mass a Joseph Dermandy. 39. An inmate at the Norfolk prison Colon Yand a brother of one of greater Boston s Gangland murder Vic Tims was found stabbed to death in his prison bunk Satur Day a prison spokesman said. His body was lying face Downin his Barrack s bunk with a knife from the prison s leather shop Sull in his Back the spokesman  any. George Burke of Norfolk county was immediately called in to investigate and an autopsy was  s brother Ronald was shot to death sept. 4, 19lw.in water town one of the first victims of the area s four year old War among local Gangland  officials said Dermandy was serving is to 25 years a Norfolk for armed robbery