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I97S Voice "me BG news Volume S9/Number 17 Oswald warning destroyed Kennedy threat investigated WASHINGTON (AP)-A former whom the Warren Commission said lead to perjury charges and that FBI ADAMS SAID Sullivan reported assistant director of the FBI acted alone in killing Kennedy, or Jack agents in Washington and Dallas have that the agent in charge of the Dallas apparently was aware that Lee Harvey Ruby. Oswald's assassin, were paid been disciplined in connection with office once mentioned that "he had an Oswald left a threatening note at the informants of the FBI or any other their handling of assassination internal problem involving one of his agency's Dallas office shortly before government agency. evidence. agents who had received a threatening President John Kennedy was -The only motive found for He said destruction of the note message from Oswald. assassinated, a deputy associate FBI destruction of the note was a desire by violated FBI rules. director said yesterday. the agent who received it to avoid Adams said Sullivan, who was in But Sullivan never asked to sec the The note has been destroyed and embarrassing the bureau or himself. charge of the agency's intelligence message because thcic were "rumors the official. James Adams, said FBI ■-The Department of Justice decided division, "said he thought it was galore" after the shooting, he said. employes presented conflicting the statute of limitations prohibited it common knowledge at FBI information about the note's contents from prosecuting any FBI employe for headquarters that a threatening Adams said Sullivan also said the and its destruction. possible destruction or withholding ol message had been received from Dallas agent-mcharge "seemed The note's existence was not evidence. Oswald." disinclined to discuss the matter" revealed until last July. But two supervisors named by except to say that it was being handled Adams said former assistant FBI HOWEVER. HE said that Sullivan as possibly knowing about the as a personnel problem by an assistant directot William Sullivan reported conflicting reports the employes gave letter denied having any such to the late director of the FBI. J. learning of the note at the time of the during interviews conceivably could information. Adams said. 1-dgar Hoover assassination investigation from the agent who was directing the FBI in Dallas. BUT THAT agent, now retired, has ACT scores dropping denied any knowledge of the note, its destruction, or a visit by Oswald to the By Renee Murawski "A greater cross •- section of scores may be a blessing in disguise. agency's office at which time the Staff Reporter students from different "This might be a very healthy message was left. Adams said. socio-economic levels are going on to spinoff. It could give some vehicle for Adams testified under oath before Since 1970 there has been a steady higher education because of the wider high schools to evaluate their own the House Judiciary subcommittee on nationwide decline in scores resulting variety of educational opportunities academic programs." he explained. Approaching mid-terms, papers and cold weather put this student constitutional and civil rights. from the American College Testing available, such as the two-year and Performance on the ACT test is not into the dumps as he wistfully contemplates the hud life of a He also said: (ACT) assesment Program community colleges." Martin said. llie main criteria for acceptance into student. (Newsphoto by Lance Wynn) --He had no knowledge that Oswald. The University, which requires the "Colleges had an elitist aspect the University, according to Martin. completion of the ACT battery in its several years ago. Students in the "Wc primarily use a student's high admission procedures, has experienced lower part of their high school class school academic record for admission. a corresponding decrease in test scores didn't consider going on to college. Wc don't feel that one Saturday from a mean of 22.6 in 1970 to 20.6 When students in this lower part take morning test will give us the best Library wants books back in 1975. the ACT test, their averages bring indication of how someone will Despite the downward trend in down the national average," he perform in college," he said Since 1973 the University Library either return the book or pay for it. inconvenient to the faculty, we are not scores at the University, students here explained. has been trying to break up private according to Collins. going to be able to do anything." tend to score higher than the national libraries which some University Collins said. average, according to John Martin, Martin said he did not believe that professors and instructors have started IF THE instructor fails to contact In a survey taken before the recall director of admissions. the test itself, which measures a with library books they have charged the library, his privileges are revoked. system began. Collins found that 52 student's understanding of English, out. Collins said, adding that six professors per cent of all faculty books taken out 'THE DECLINE at Bowling Green mathematics, social studies and natural Weather At that time, the library was currently arc denied the services of the were overdue. has not been as substantial as sciences, has become more difficult. Partly cloudy and mild today and recalling books from as far back as library. Fourteen have had their No estimate has been taken of the elsewhere. We arc well above the tonight. High in the upper 60s and 1967. Currently, the library is recalling privileges revoked over the last two monetary cost of these overdue books college-bound mean of 18.6 for all "THE TEST IS continually revised. low 70s. low tonight SO to 5S. books overdue since 1971. years. to the library, but according to ACT takers," Martin said. but I think the people in the Tomorrow variable cloudiness and a No fines are issued for the overdue Collins, "the real cost to us and the One of the major reasons for the think-tank who mike it up hive chance of showers, high in the mid "We are getting into the years where books. "That is the reason why we student is inconvenience." decline is that the base of students safeguards built into their system and 70s. Probability of rain 10 per cent there are quite a few books out." said have so many books out," Collins Collins added that they soon hope seeking a higher education has do not make it harder," he said. today and 20 per cent tonight. Evron Collins, the library's head of added. to recall all books overdue since 1974. increased, according to Martin. Martin said that the decrease is circulation. Collins noted that mdst faculty Instructors are sent notices from the members do not respond to the library and are given about a month to notices. "Until it becomes Spain's Franco falls ill- power transfer imminent MADRID. Spain (AP) - Pardo Palace outside Madrid. Included Generalissimo Francisco Franco. was Dr. Cristobal Martinez-Bordiu, Spain's ruler since the country was Franco's son-in-law and a heart torn by the 19.(6-39 civil war. fell specialist. seriously ill with a heart ailment Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the South yesterday, setting off rumors that a African heart transplant pioneer, also transfer of power to Prince Juan was at the palace but left later for Carlos de Borbon was imminent. Johannesburg. He has been traveling The office of Premier Carlos Arias outside his country. Navarro said reports abroad that Franco was dead were untrue. A government source denied reports The seriousness of the 82-ycar-old the general was in anoxygen tent, had chief of state's illness was underlined undergone a tracheotomy, had been by two visits from Arias and a incapacitated by the heart ailment or gathering of Franco's family at his El was dead. Bayh announces candidacy for presidential nomination INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ■■ Sen. Birch western Indiana farming community Bayh of Indiana returned to the scene nearTerre Haute. of his political beginnings yesterday to Well-wishers who had decked out announce his candidacy for the 1976 the town with banners proclaiming Democratic presidential nomination. their support for Bayh gathered at a Bayh's declaration came after he tent on the Bayh family farm to hear received a rousing reception from his the senator tell them of his intentions. home town of Shirkieville. a small The crowd was estimated at about 600. THE THIRD-term Indiana senator, "One is not enough" for this young newspaper carrier taking along an extra bicycle. (Newsphoto by Lance still fighting laryngitis, saved the Double duty who remedied her overloaded cargo problem by Wynn) formal announcement for a speech in Student killed the Indiana House of Representatives where he started his political climb 22 in hiking mishap years ago. James Stoffers. a transient "I am running for the presidency to student from Kent State University, provide the kind of leadership that will was killed in a mountain climbing not be content to tell the country Voting information provided accident in Bad Richenhall.