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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 11, 1968—PAGE 5 Strange Sequence Perhaps they’re not, but there has been a strange sequence of official rejection of Communist blame in many recent dastardly acts. It will be recalled that when Presi dent John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas the “right wing” was immediately blamed (Chief Justice Warren took the lead in making such a charge, just hours after the shooting); later the Warren Commission appeared to play down the fact that a Communist who had renounced his U. S. citizenship had shot the President, and even today, the alleged killer’s connection with World Com munism is discounted in some Federal government circles and is challenged in many quarters. From early press reports on the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King one got the im pression that the fugitive was a Southern white “racist” motivated by personal hate. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, just a few hours after the shooting, said “no con spiracy” was involved, that it was the act of one man. Hired Killers? Scarcely anyone has sug gested that Communism could have had a hand in the King slaying. The TV documentaries and the press generally have not explored the possibility that the suspect might have been a hired killer. Yet any person half-way informed on Communist tactics knows that assassination is a common practice of Communist agents; and the thousands of dollars traced to the ex-convict held for the shooting would seem to indicate conspiracy and pay off. By whom? And now the Robert Kennedy killing. For the first few hours after the Los Angeles shoot ing, reports said that the suspect held was a “swarthy, Spanish-looking” man. Then most of the news reporting switched. The unknown man in custody became “a Cauca sian” in news and TV report ing. It was not until he was identified positively that his true origin was reported —- a Jordanian, bom in a section of Jordan now under Israel rule. Will the Trial Tell? * Mayor Yorty, who had dis pleased many in Washington by declaring in April that Com munist organizations had been active in the Negro rioting and burning of American cities, ' may have felt that the infor mation in Sirhan’s personal notebooks which, he said, showed the young man to be “inflamed by contacts with the Communist Party and Commu nist fronts”, would have been suppressed. When he was at tacked for having made the disclosures, Mayor Yorty said he was determined that the American public should get “some of the background in formation” on the motivation of the Senator’s assailant. The Mayor said that in the notebooks, Sirhan had set a deadline date for the assassina tion — “before June 5, 1968”, Testimony at the arraignment of Sirhan, though the “diary” was not mentioned, did bring out the dramatic information that Sirhan had engaged in ex tensive target practice with a 9-shot 22 pistol, and was seen at a target range the day be fore the shooting of Kennedy. Probably most Americans will side with Mayor Yorty, who told his critics that “there is so much evidence that I don't see how revealing some of the background can be pre judicial.” It all gives added interest and importance to the Sirhan trial. :andard offers a savings plan to suit every income and every budget. From ;nny-savers to lump-sum investors, there’s a profitable savings program for 'eryone at each of Standard’s four locations. ssbook Savings Accounts n 4.50% per year, compounded or paid rterly. Open your account for any amount. High Yield Certificates Earn 5.00% per year, available in amounts of $5,000 or more. Maximum Yield Certificates Earn top savings pay—5.25% per year—avail able in amounts of $10,000 or more. Standard Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION NEWBERRY 1117 BOYCE STREET. COLUMBIA. ORANGEBURG