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Wake of King's Slaying Ntortini to Ill" 1l -an ircarifttr 1 WSfianntne eeTCwMTetiftJJoSedr- "The back window of this Tting Tram 'a second floor win-?" 'dow of the building three hours later and then disappeared in the resulting confusion. The murder weapon apparently was a new Remington pump rifle with telescopic sights, Holloman said. The as- Related Stories On Pages 3, 5 ence. vnftouglinFwas a lireK cracker." King, he said, had just bent over adding, "If he had been standing up, he wouldn't have been hit in the face." "The bullet exploded in his face," Branch said. "It knocked him off his feet.

All he said was, King died at 7:05 p.m., less than an hour after being rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital. The search for the slayer technically was nationwide, with the FBI acting on personal orders from U.S. Atty. Gen.

Ramsey Clark. But It was centered in the west Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas area around Memphis. A white car was pursued on the outskirts of the city until it was lost. Holloman said the investigation the assasin checked into a main street flophouse at midafternoon, shot WASlilNGTON (AP) Presi- -dent Johnson called on the nation today all men 'and all races-to "stand their ground to deny violence its victory" in the wake of the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The President's statement was issued after a hastily summoned meeting at the White House of civil rights leaders, government officials and members of Congress. He voiced again his sorrow at the death of the Negro apostle of non-violence, assassinated by a 'rifleman Thursday night in Memphis, Tenn. Johnson meanwhile kept in abeyance his plans to fly to Honolulu later in the day for Vietnam policy talks. Police issued an alarm for a single white man, who Memphis Police Director Frank Holloman said checked into a flophouse opposite the motel three hours "caTafea ofThe BlaylrigV'HolUK" man said. He said one of the 30 to 40 officers on duty in the vicinity of the motel saw the bullet strike King, and all Immediately converged on the scene.

The fatal shot was fired from the window of a common bathroom in the flop-house, Holloman said. King's room was 205 feet away, through trees and across a street but in "clear" view of the window. Holloman said the assassin was a white male, between 26 and 32 years of age, standing six feet tall and weighing 165-175 pounds. Police radios said he had dark to sandy hair, medium build, a ruddy complexion and was wearing a black suit and white shirt. King, 39, leading advocate of nonviolence and Nobel Prize winner, died in a Memphis hospital Thursday night less than before the slaying "We were just getting ready to go to dinner," said the Rev.

Jesse- Jackson, directorof King's "Operation Breadbasket" campaign to uplift poor Negroes. And the conversation was, in part, trivial. "It's kind of cool, Dr. was the comment of Solomon Jones, King's chauffeur. "Yes, it is," King replied.

Then, the civil rights leader-mindful of the fact that he was in Memphis to lead a civil rights march and address rally. Thursday night turned to Ben Branch, another Operation Breadbasket official. "My man, be sure to sing, 'Precious Lord' tonight and sing it well," he said. "Then we heard what sounded like a shot," said the Rev. Andrew Young, executive vice president of King's Southern Christian Leadership Confer neck byJa white gunman while standing on the balcony of his motel.

President Johnson led the nation in mourning and tribute. In a nationwide television and radio appearance he called upon "every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck down Dr. Martin Luther King." But violence flared in Memphis and the convulsive reaction reared also in Nashville, Newark, Washington, Boston, New York's Harlem and Bidford-Stuyvesant and more than a half dozen smaller towns and cities. Gov. Buford Ellington alerted the Army and Air National Guard of Tennessee and ordered 4,000 troops into Memphis and the same number into Nashville.

A curfew, first clamped on Memphis after a King-lea march turned into a riot last flop-house faced the front of the motel In which Dr. King was staying," Sheriff Morris said. "We feel the assassin crouched in a second-floor window, sighted through some trees and fired the shot that killed Dr. King." "He' got a straight shot," Morris said. "King was standing on the second floor, leaning over a railing in front of his room.

He was talking to two men on the ground. When the shot hit him, it knocked him backward. Officers heard the shot." King was in the city preparing to lead another march in support of the city's 1,300 striking garbage collectors, most of whom are Negroes. His party was about to go out for dinner when King walked onto the motel balcony. sassin also carried a new set of binoculars and a new suitcase.

A Remington pump rifle was one of 15 weapons stolen a night earlier from a Memphis sporting goods store, (tut Hollo-Irian refused to say imrnedta'tely that the stolen gun was the death weapon. "As far as we know, and from the evidence at this time, there was only one man in the physi- ILLINOIS MATT00N Have a Dream' King Had Hope ilZSS crmi for Justice 10 CENTS PHONE 235-5656 14 PAGES 113th YEAR 67 FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968 NEW YORK (AP) Following are excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther king's "I have a dream" speech at the rally, Aug. 28, 1963, climaxing the civil rights march on Washington: is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial" justice.

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children. "There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of 1 1 ful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. "Again and again we must rise to the majestic heignts of meeting physical force with soul "We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police biutality.

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. "We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. "No, we are not satisfied and (Continued on Page 5) Mi MARTIN LUTHER KING I still have a dream' stand on the threshhold which leads to the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our right- revolt will continue lo shake foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. "And that is something that I must say to my people who Wake of Murder Violence Breaks Out Miss and Mr.

Central Presented Miss Central and Mr. Central Debbie Hunt and Bob Church were formally presented at p.m. Thursday as the climax to the annual Central Junior High School ninth grade spring party. Debbie and Bob are seated. Flanking them are Mike Snapp, Debbie Moore, Jeff Harris, Nancy Hill, Polly Farmer, John F.

Church. Special guests at the party, which drew one of the largest crowd's in the school's history, were members of the board of education, parents of the top 10 students and Supt. John Wargo. Sue Pfeiffer, a teacher at Central, was chairman of the event. Dave Janice Oliver and Curt Watts.

Behind Miss and Mr. Central are Police Capt, Ed Horn, Mattoon juvenile officer, who made the presentation, and Robert Cavitt, principal of the school. the daughter of Mrs. Warren Lowry and the late James Hunt Bob's parents are Mr. and Mrs.

By BRIAN SULLIVAN Two Negro students of Missis- (J-G Photo) sippi Valley State College at Itta Bena, were wounded by 'State of Unit' School District Finances Outlined In Memphis, where King died, police shot and critically wounded a man they said had been caught behind a store with a rifle. More than 90 persons were arrested in Memphis and a like -number in New York, and scores in other cities in the midst of the violence, As word of Dr. King's death spread through Memphis, Negroes in scattered areas looted stores, stoned police and fire trucks and threw fire bombs. The violence continued today. National Guard troops were rushed back to Memphis after, having been pulled out only Wednesday.

Troops also were sped into Nashville, where violence flared shortly after the shooting. local tax sources. "Your schools, he said, "can The first tax anticipation war More than 60 business, profes Associated Press Writer Violence burst out in cities across the country in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as bands of Negroes smashed windows, looted stores, threw firebombs and attacked police with guns, stones and bottles.

A white man was stabbed to death in the midst of violence in Washington, and a Negro died of stab wounds in New York, although it was not known if the latter death was related to the violence. A white youth'died in a fire at Tallahassee, which police said was started by a firebomb. Scores were injured, including abjut 50 in Washington, and several score in New York. Flat grants are made, to the district- on the basis of $47 per pellets from shotguns fired by highway patrolmen trying to halt 300 student marchers. Police said shots had been fired from the crowd.

Snipers used guns and bows and arrows against police on the campus of Florida A. M. University at Tallahassee, but no policemen were hurt. Tallahassee Mayor Eugene Berkowitz and another city official were treated for minor cuts after rocks shattered the windows of their car. In Detroit, two policemen were shot and wounded as they patrolled a Negro section, but that city escaped the street violence that erupted elsewhere.

rants in the education fund The tax rate in the education were sold in 1958-59, in the elementayry student mulitplied fund per (100 assessed value sional and community leaders in Mattoon Community Unit School District No. 2 this morning heard school administrators by 3,485.25 in average daily at amount of (125,000. In 1962-63, the school district sold a total he said, was (1.38 for the 1966-67 school year. Cash actually of (400,000 in tax anticipation describe the "State of the Unit." The 7 a.m. breakfast session, warrants.

the first in a series of such in On Feb. 2, 1963, the district went to the voters with a ref be as good as you want them to be and as bad you allow them to be." Discussed in greatest detail during the meeting was the situation of school finance in Community Unit No. 2. Dr. Wargo described finance as "the most critical issue facing education in the state today.

"We know here, for example, that in 1970 we have to provide kindergarten and we now have no space for he said. James Arnholt, unit business manger, outlined the sources of received from taxes levied in the education fund for 1967-68 is (1,246,588.05. In response to another question, Arnholt told the group that the school district is not levying the maximum available to the erendum seeking a tax rate in crease. The proposal was de tendance (ADA), and (54.05 per high school student multiplied by 1,611.77 in high school ADA. State aid to the district in the form of flat grants for the 1967-68 school year totals (250,922.91.

Special equalization to the district totals (861,948.85 bringing the over-all total of state aid to (1,112,871.76. Arnholt, in response to a question, told the group that while the state had established (400 per pupil as the foundation feated on a 2,052 1,250 vote margin. district. A total of (1.60 per In 1963-64, the district sold an November Factor (100 assessed valuation is the other (400,000 in tax anticipation legal maximum allowed without warrants. During the next formal meetings, was designed to acquaint persons in the community with the general nature of the school district's operation.

Di John Wargo, superintendent of the district, told the gathering that the purpose of the meeting was to give the community "some idea of where we are and perhaps some indication of where we want to go" in local education. Dr. Wargo noted that the school district operation con-stitued the largest single public-supported unit in the area. school year the amount soared to (530,000. the district's (4,630,000 annual budget.

cost for education of one stu Campaign Disrupted Approximately 25 per cent of In the 1966-67 school year, the district sold a total of (750,000 in tax anticipation warrants in referendum, After outlining the other funds in which the district receives tax monies, the question of the amount of levy in the education fund arose again when Arnholt outlined the history of tax anticipation warrants in the district's financing. dent, the actual cost to the district was (518. Turning to the local share of the budget income, he said, comes in the form of state aid. State aid, he said, comes to the the education fund. WASHINGTON (AP) The here was abruptly called off.

the cost of education, Arnholt violent death of Dr. Martin Lu Why, Arnholt was asked, did district in two forms: flat grants noted that about- 50 per cent of President Johnson canceled a scheduled appearance at the ther King Jr. disrupted the 1968 the district not levy the full and special equalization. the budget was received from dinner. politicareampaigrrand some po (1.60 allowed when the maxi mum was enacted in 1965? King's assassination dwarfed liticians say it could remain a factor through the November Mental Hospital Strike Leonard Miller, a member of the biggest political news of the elections.

the board of education, said he day, which occurred hours be A felt, the maximum should be Political leaders, expressing fore the slaying: Humphrey's nam talks in Hawaii. California Gov. Ronald Reagan, considered a potential contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said King's death was "a shocking act of violence that solves hone Of the nation's problems." Reagan added the assassination is more evidence of what he termed a moral sickness affecting the nation. A Democrat agreed. "We are steeped in violence," said Sen.

Frank Church of Idaho. "It is the curse of the land." shock and sorrow, also stressed near announcement in Pitts levied in a way that would be "as easy as possible" for the the assassination could spur burgh that he would seek the Union Ignores Court Order taxpayer. Congress to pass a pending civil Democratic presidential Had the maximum been levied rights bill. immediately, he commented, Otherjs viewed the assassina The vice president told an tion as one more indication of a the school would have SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) audience of labor leaders' "If pitals stayed off the job Thursday "and we anticipate a great been looking for a new board society too often prone to resort with the injunction papers, and of course our attorneys will file a motion tq dissolve the Injunc -Striking-workeraftLstate men we stick together a little longer, we will be together a lot long- to violence rather than lawful means" toTsettle deep problems.

tion," Wine said late Thursday tal hospitals were ordered back to work Thursday, but a union official said "the strike will go er." of education. r-zzZZ "They would have been run out 'of town," he said. Arnholt noted that the school district may borrow in the form night. The immediate plans of the several presidential contenders But Humphrey indicated he was withholding his announce on regardless." Wine estimated that- 1,400 workers at 17 of the 19 state hos- were not clear but it seemed ment until after Johnson's Viet Judge William Chamberlain of likely campaigning would be of tax anticipation warrants up Ecoppi's Walker Deluxe fifths (4.99, Vodka quarts (3.79, Fabtaff six pack (1.28 case (5.00, Schlitz six pack (1,40. We sell the best for less, drive up or park, Broadway at 13th.

4-5 to 75 per cent against the tax illegal. Kerner told newsmen in Chi cago he had warned the strik ers he "would not negotiate" if they vwalked out. la answer to that warning, Wine said, "They have to negotiate sometime." Visotsky said all wards were staffed Thursday despite the strike and care" was provided by the professional- staff assisted by volunteers. Union 'workers, at the state sctibohat Djxonvoted unanimously Thursday night riot to join the walkout levy for the coming school year. The total, in warrants sold Jn The strike was called Wednesday night to back up union demands for wage increases.

The petition for an injunction filed by the Illinois attorney general's office said the union, "attempted to force the state jnto a contract which it has no right to enter because it hasn't sufficient funds." Gov. Otto Kerner and Dr. Harold Visotsky, director of the Illinois Department 'of Mental Health, described the strike asl Moose Members Dance Saturday night. Wil-hoit's Band. Dining room serviced to 10 p.m.

4-5 halted for a time. Sen. Hugh "Scott, proposed a week of national mourning. Vice President Hubert IL Humphrey gave news of the assassination Thursday night' to the" last school-year, he said, represented 60 per cent of the Circuit Court issued a temporary injunction Thursday directing the workers to end the strike and picketing and to stop making threats' to nonstrikers said Roy Wine, director of Council 34, Illinois State "We are waiting to be served tax levy. COLD -Clear-to partly cloudy and cool tonight, low around 32 with James Martin, assistant sup 115 Club Country Swingers, Friday night.

Softiques, Saturday night erintendent, briefly, outlined the 2,700 people attending the big chance of frost Saturday lair, Joe's. Pizza spaghetti and Open 4 p.m. AD 5-5100 curriculum study now underway gest Democratic fund-raising ravioli, 1-16U warmer, high in 50s. in the district" dinner of the year and the affair 4 IV.