East Lansing, Michigan October 6,- 1966 Price 10C Ruby Retrial Ordered; Court Violated Rights
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Thursday Despite rumors.... Partly cloudy ... to the contrary, every . and warmer with student who has a ticket will MICHIGAN high near 60. see the game. - B ill Beards ley, ticket manager. STATE EWS UNIVERSITY Vol. 59, Number 55 East Lansing, Michigan October 6,- 1966 Price 10c Ruby Retrial Ordered; Court Violated Rights AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - The Texas Court Phil Burleson, a Dallas lawyer who has on a similar fraud charge selling fer manded with directions that venue (the of Criminal Appeals reversed Wednesday the very first, said of the decision: tilizer tank mortgages when the tanks trial site) be changed to some county the death-penalty conviction of Jack Ruby "I’m tickled pink. I’m extremely excited did not exist. other than Dallas,“ the court's order for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. and pleased at the action of the court.“ said. Oswald was identified by the Warren He shortly went to the county jail to In the Sheppard case the U. S. Supreme Compared to th e voluminuous rec Commission as President Kennedy's as tell Ruby. Court reversed the Cleveland-physician’s ord and appeal briefs in the case, Mor sassin. He said Ruby’s sister, Eva Grant of murder conviction on grounds that ex The state's highest court for criminal Dallas, was equally delighted when he told rison’s opinion for the court was un tensive newspaper coverage had created usually short—three pages. cases sent the case back for retrial her the news. “She nearly fainted with such climate of opinion that he was denied in some county other than Dallas, where glee and happiness," Burleson said. “She a fair trial. The high court reversal of Judge W. T. McDonald, who lost a it originally had been tried. was extremely pleased. She was very, the Estes case concerned television cov re-election campaign this spring and goes Jack Ruby: His legal rights Judge Joe B. Brown: He The three-man court held that the trial very happy.* erage. out of office in January, entered a con refused to move the trial court had erred in admitting as evidence In Detroit, Sol Dann, one of five at curring opinion based on the refusal of were violated during the testimony by police officers of conversa torneys who argued Ruby's case before “ For the errors pointed out, the judg the trial judge, Joe B, Brown, to move t r i a l . e l s e w h e r e . tions with Ruby shortly after the killing. the Court of Criminal Appeals last June ment is reversed, and the cause is re the trial elsewhere. said; “I’m naturally very pleased that the Texas Court of Appeals followed the law AVOIDS COAST STATES of Texas and protected the legal rights of Jack Ruby, which were violated during the trial.“ Apartm ents too hot, d r y ; The Court of Appeals opinion said recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Inez threatens return Court in the cases of Billie Sol Estes and Dr. Samuel Sheppard as well as the record in the Ruby trial make it “abundantly clear" that the trial court health problem s result to Florida from Gulf “reversibly erred in refusing Ruby’s motion for a change in venue" to a trial By LYLE HANSEN system were: runny noses, nosebleeds, others devised home-made ones by boiling MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Inez, a killing rampage the length of the Car site other than Dallas. ibbean Sea. and cracked lips, sinusitus, dry throat, flaky water on their stoves. The improvisers wild and weird as any twister ever spawn Estes’ state conviction for fraud was E DYE EDWARDS skin and scalp, insomnia and mental preferred a little more heat to extreme ed by the tropics, threatened Wednesday But, from her present position, a his reversed and a new trial ordered. He is State News Staff W riters strain. dryness. another crazy turnabout — back to the toric track of hurricanes points back to in prison on a 15-year federal conviction ward Florida. If she takes it, and crosses One mother confided that the combi Florida coast already raked once by her nation of heat and drafts caused her to Dissatisfied families expressed a feel clawing winds. the state, she will be back in the Atlantic The heat’s on the residents of the Ocean where she sprang into violent life University’s married housing apartments lie awake nights worrying about her child ing of helplessness, having decided, Caught in a natural power vacuum, with 12 long days ago. and many are not happy about it. ren’s health. "There’s nothing we can do about it.” forces that steer a storm in perfect In the few hours since she hammered Zone bom bing Complaints about the apartment's heat Since opening windows and doors to One man who complained to the Married balance, Inez crawled ominously almost Key West with 90-plus mile winds-but or, to be more precise, excessive heat, expel excessive heat increases the dry Student Housing Office reported getting to a dead stop in the Gulf of Mexico. did surprisingly little damage-Inez had led to a State News survey which re ness of the apartment air, many students And, as she stood there, lashing thou halts to allow reported attempts to combat this condi grown more vicious as she fed on the vealed that 65 of 100 questioned families (continued on page 12) sands of square miles of seas with winds warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. were unhappy about their apartments’ tion, Some purchased humidifiers while gusting up to 126 miles an hour, fore Weather Bureau advisories estimated heating. casters warned south Floridians not to the top sustained winds slamming around violations check And of the 35 satisfied families about take down the storm shutters. her large and irregular eye at 100 miles WASHINGTON UP) — The United States DENY STRIKE REPORT an hour. But a tiny observation post i tie half admitted that they were new to Weathermen were wary, for Inez has said Wednesday bombing of the eastern married student housing this fall. manned by the U.S.Coast Guard in the part of the Demilitarized Zone between crossed them up consistently since last Dry Tortugas clocked gusts up to 126. A frequent comment was, “It’s too Friday, when she howled into Cuba after North and South Viet Nam has been hot and dry during the winter, and these Inez wasn’t the terror she had been halted to allow international inspectors in th e Caribbean, when she slugged heating systems lack adequate controls. Nigeria Peace Corpsmen to check for alleged violations, As a result, we open all of our windows Guadeloupe, Haiti and the Dominican Re “We would like to see that zone fully and the door. This creates drafts, and public with winds that at times screamed demilitarized again,” Secretary of State at a 175-mile-an-hour pitch. we begin to worry about our children’s Dean Rusk told newsmen in New York health.’’ Big Joe plays But she was rapidly regaining some of rebel at proposed wage cut after a luncheon meeting with United Na Eight of the questioned families ex her old meanness and Floridians feared tions Secretary General U Thant. that if she struck again it would be a pressed beliefs that the heating system Of the volunteers aboard the qharter Rusk accused Communist North Viet was to blame for severe respiratory WASHINGTON (If) — Peace Corps vol Paul Revere deadlier blow. Nam of flouting the provisions of the unteers, particularly those in Nigeria, flight, 82 will be going to Nigeria for a The Coast Guard station in the Dry problems which they had suffered in two-year tour of duty, thus increasing 1954 Geneva agreements which set up past years. are up in arms over recent administra Tortugas, 68 miles west of Key West, the 35-mile-long, six-mile-wide strip as tive decisions dealing with transporta the number there to 175. was in the wall of the eye at noon, when a military-free buffer zone between the Respiratory infection, muscular con tion and living allowances, it was learned The changes which have stirred the for Big Inez Inez stood near latitude 24.4, longitude two Viet Nams. traction and interpersonal discord were Wednesday. volunteers in Nigeria are: 83,4 west, 22 miles west-southeast oi The Geneva accords are supposed to be cited by Dr. James Feurig, director The volunteers have been writing con 1. The restricting of the number oi Miami. of Olin Health Center, as the major vehicles, mostly motorcycles and motor KEY LARGO, Fla. UP) - Big Joe supervised by a three-nation international gressmen, their parents and Peace Corps health hazards associated with the apart scooters, to those who really need them. Lescinsky is a hero to the 5,000 res A slight decrease in winds and a small Control Commission. One small team has headquarters to express their dissatis ments’ heating problem. “This was done as much because of idents of this area-the Paul Revere of rise of barometric pressure indicated that headquarters at the southeastern end of faction over the restriction of vehicle Inez was still drifting westward, but very the zone. It has been largely inactive. Apparently, respiratory infections have use, the closing of hostels and a pro the number of accidents as it was for Key Largo. slowly. economy,“ the spokesman said. “The re It was Joe who said two days ago that Charging that the Reds were sending not become a major problem this fall— posed cut in living allowances.