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fore the nominating convention
started that Senator johnson
formally announced his candi-
dacy. though he had done some
campaigning. He said he hadn't
announced earlier because Con-
gress was in session and some
body has to tend the store. I"
This was an oblique gibe at
three members of the Senate
who we're actively seeking the
nomination. including Senator
Kennedy.
Those who have engaged in
active campaigns have missed
hundreds Of these (Senate)
votes" Senator johnson said.
Some Of Senator Johnson's
Senate colleagues thought him
overbearing as Majority Leader
and accused him Of running a
one-man show: others were
lost in admiration for his eff
cheney.
1t was generally agreed that
he had formidable assets in
his personal charm and COM
manding bearing, his capabil-
ity for logical argument, his
shrewd timing and cure poll
teal sense amounting to a
touch of genius at times.
Senator johnson once half
jokingly told an audience Of
home folks in Texas that he
seldom thought of politics
more than 18 hours a day."
(For once a Texan might have
been guilty of an understate-
ment.)
He was a fretting, fidgety.
nervous Senate Majority Lead
er who found 1t difficult to
sit still. His dark head bobbed
about in the Senate continually
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tied a love of adventure and
public service as well as an ed
ucation background.
After finishing high school
at is. he and a group Of other
youths went on a jaunt to CAL
ifornia, camping along railroad
tracks and burying their small
board Of money each night to
prevent its being stolen by 9TH
er wanderers.
None Of us had been off the
farm for a trip longer than the
road to town." Mr.. johnson
recalled.
When their funds ran out
the boys went their separate
ways to find jobs. Mr.. johnson
tramped up and down the coast,
doing such chores as dishwash-
ing, waiting on table and farm
work when 1t could be had.
Much Of the time he had little
to eat.
THE trip back home was the
longest ! have ever made" Mr..
Johnson said. 1t was accom-
plished by walking and hitch
hiking. He was away for seven
months.
Upon his return, he went to
work as a laborer on the high
ways. His Job entailed such la
bors as pushing a wheelbar-
row, driving a truck and shoY-
cling gravel.
1t was as a result Of a heart
to-heart talk with his father
about his future that Mr.. John
son decided TO go to Southwest
Texas State Teachers College
at San Marcos.
To help pay his expenses
there he took a job as a jani-
tor and worked parttime as COL
lege secretary. His interest in
learning was aroused in COL
lege and he became politically
ambitious also. practicing
speech-making as he swept the
classroom floors and wiped
down the walls.
After graduating with a
bachelor Of science degree IN
1880, Johnson taught public
speaking and debating at the
Sam Houston high school in
Houston for two years.
When Richard M. Kleberg
Of the King Ranch fame went
to Congress in December of
1881, he took young johnson
along as his secretary.
In Washington Mr.. johnson
found himself in the midst of
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Presidents last journey into
the Executive Mansion where
he had hoped to come and go
for another five years.
The Presidents brother, At
torney General Robert F. Ken
nedy, accompanied Mrs. Ken
nedy in the ambulance.
The bronze casket was placed
in the East Room, and the hour
from 10 to IL am. was re-
served for the Kennedy family
to be alone together with the
body. National dignitaries will
file by to pay their respects all
during today.
The body will be moved to
the Capitol Rotunda at / pm.
Sunday, there to lie in state for
public viewing until IL am.
Monday. 1t will be taken to
the st. Matthews Cathedral on
Rhode Island avenue for a
pontifical requiem mass at
noon Monday. Richard Cardinal
Gushing. Archbishop of Boston,
will celebrate the mass.
Burial plans were not an
nounced Immediately.
johnson Arrives by Helicopter
Mr.. johnson and the new
First Lady, known far and wide
as Lady Bird, may not move
into the White House until next
week.
An Army helicopter landed
the new President on the White
House south lawn shortly aftel
$3.50 last night.
He walked toward the preSi.
Dental office wing with Sec.
rotary of Defense Mcnamara
Undersecretary of State Bal
and Mr.. Bundy, Mr.. Ken.
nedy's special assistant for ma.
tional security affairs, with
whom he had conferred durins
the helicopter ride from An.
drews Air Force Base.
But he paused only briefl!
in the office with the Kennedy
rocking chair, walked through
the cabinet room and con.
tinued on across West Execu.
tive avenue to the vice presi.
dental office.
Mr.. Mcnamara, Mr.. Ball anC
Mr.. Bundy presumably gave
Mr.. johnson an urgent briefine
on the state of the Nations
security.
A little later the Democratic
and Republican leaders of the
Senate and House came to the
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rolled away. President John
son and Mrs. johnson walked
down steps that had quickly
replaced the power lift. He
stopped to shake hands with
waiting Democratic and Re-
publican congressional leaders.
Then the new President,
grim-faced, walked over to the
spot where a battery of micro
phones waited to convey his
first public words as Chief Ex-
ecutive to the Nation via tele-
vision and radio.
The motors of helicopters
waiting to take him and other
officials to the White House
made so much noise he could
not be heard. Mr.. johnson said
something to a Secret Service
agent, who Immediately ran to-
ward the helicopters. Soon the
motor noise halted and Mr..
johnson read his brief state
ment from a small piece of
white paper cupped in his right
hand.
Dignitaries Greet New President
Chief Justice Warren, other
members of the Supreme Court,
some cabinet members and a
group Of other dignitarieS
shook hands with the new
President before he and Mrs.
johnson had used the elaborate
radio communications equip
ment aboard the presidential
plane to telephone Mrs. Joseph
P. Kennedy, mother of his slain
predecessor. II wish to God
that there was something
could do" he told her. Il just
wanted you to know that"
This was the third of the
nine children of the former
Ambassador to Great Britain
and his wife, Rose, to die a
violent death. Their eldest son,
Joseph, was killed on a bomb
ing mission during World War
II A daughter, Kathleen, died
in an airplane crash.
Warmup for Campaign
Ironically, assassination cut
short the life of John E, Ken
nedy in the midst of a manned
two-day touy OF Texas cities
widely regarded as a warmup
for the 1864 election campaign
which he hoped would give him
another four-year lease on the
White House.
Mrs. Kennedy had joined
him on the Texas tour. for the
first time on a major speaking
trip since the 1860 primary
campaigns. When she walked
with her husband along a
chain link fence shaking hands
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PRESIDENT
Continued From Page Al

Continued From Page Al
portico by Sargent Shriver, the
dead Presidents brother-in-
law; Maj. Gen. Chester v.
Clifton, military aide to Mr..
Kennedy, and Angie Biddle
Duke. chief Of protocol.
The new President and Mrs.
johnson waitd inside the Ex-
ecutive Mansion. Later Gen.
Eisenhower drove with the
Johnsons to the Executive
Office Building.
Cabinet Members Return
On his arrival at Andrews
Air Force Base early today,
after a flight to japan had
been Cancelled while he and
other cabinet members were
over the Pacific, Mr.. Rusk
urged that President johnson,
whom he described as lone Of
our greatest Americans" be
given fullest support.
Flying back from the Pacific
with Mr.. Rusk were Treasury
Secretary Dillon. Commerce
Secretary Hodges, Agriculture
Secretary Freeman. Interior
Secretary Udall, and Labor
Secretary Wirtz.
President Johnson continued
to hold his conferences in a
suite Of offices on the second
floor of the Executive Office
Building just across West Ex-
ecutive avenue from the White
House-one Of three offices
used by Mr.. johnson as Vice
President for nearly three years
The new President could not
bring himself to work in the
oval presidential office in the
West wing Of the White House,
where so often he had con-
suited with Mr.. Kennedy, Sc
soon after the latter's violent
death.
Still Home for Kennedys
For another day, the White
House was the home of the
slain President and his family.
Mr.. Kennedy's body was
taken into the White House
during the night while Mr.,
johnson slept in his own
Spring Valley home at 4040
Fifty-second street NV, ringed
by Secret Service agents.
Mrs. Kennedy. who Graded
her husbands bloody head in
her arms with a cry of "oh,
no." when he fell MORALLY
wounded, accompanied the
body from Bethesda Naval
Hospital to the White House
at 4:25 am. 1t was the fallen
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the high privilege Of serving
closely with President Kennedy
will always cherish the GAL
lantry and wisdom and grace
with which he carried his ave-
some responsibility.
This is a great Nation with
great strength and much UNI
finished business and one of
our greatest Americans is now
President.
President johnson needs and
deserves our fullest support as
he takes up his high response
bilities on behalf of all Of us
Americans"
Hours before the six cabinet
flew In, Mr.. johnson
had left his office, at 9:24 pm,
to drive behind a police motor
cycle escort. accompanied by
Secret Service agents, to his
Spring Valley home.
The full burden of the
highest and perhaps the lone
Hest office In the land had
fallen upon the tall, soft
spoken Texan in the brief
space of rifle shots few hours
earlier.
At about 1880 PM, Wash
ington time. as a presidential
motorcade led by Mr.. Kennedy
and Texas Gov. John B. Con-
nally, with their wives. was
leaving downtown Dallas, a
hidden gunman fired a high
powered rifle from a ware
house window.
President CrumpIes in Car
Mr.. Kennedy crumpled, with
bloody holes in the back of
his head and in his throat
whether from one or two bull
lets doctors were not sure. Gov.
Connally was wounded in the
side. Neither Mrs. Kennedy
nor Mrs. Connally was hit.
The Secret Service agent
driving the presidential car
the famous "bubbletop" Lin
coin. but with the plastic top
removed-stepped on the gas
and sped to Falkland hospital.
There reporters saw Mr.. Ken
nedy stretched out face down
and motionless on the back
seat before he was carried into
the hospital emergency room.
Mr.. Kennedy was pro-
nounced dead 30 minutes later
after doctors struggled vainly
to save his life.
His Vice President, Mr..
Johnson, was riding a few cars
back In the motorcade and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-23
Suffered
Heart Attack

Liberal elements Of the DEM
Dcratic Party simetimes ae-
cused him of excessive mod
Grafton" and Of making too
many compromises with the
Republicans. But he declared
there we're times when party
matters should be subordinated
in the interest Of the national
good.
-"I am q free man, an Ameri-
can, a United States Senator
and q Democrat. in that
order" he said. II am also q
liberal. q conservative, q Tex
an, Q taxpayer. q rancher, a
businessman, q consumer, q
parent, q voter and not as
young as I used to be or as old
as I expect to be-and I am
all those things In no fixed
order"
Exhausted by his hard driv-
ing duties as Majority Leader,
Mr.. johnson suffered q mod
erately severe heart attack
seizure in the summer Of 1855
and spent several weeks in q
hospital. It reuired all the
discipline he could muster to
curb his restless energy and
remain absolutely quiet for
hours at q time. He quit smok-
ing cigarettes and reduced his
weight from 220 to 100 pounds.
Mr.. johnson made a strong
come back and In a few years
appeared fully recovered. He
paid no attention to doctors
advice that he slow down q bit.
His inner drive kept him going
at top speed all day and 1t was
only after shutdown that he
seemed to relax.
Mr.. johnson said in 1860
that his health. in the estima-
ton Of his physicians. was too
good"
They say I feel too good
and go too much and work too
long," he told a news confer
ence In Los Angeles.
Asked If his working hours
were limited because of his
heart attack five years earlier,
he replied: "Yes-to Is or 10
hours q day"
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Never Questioned
Who Was Boss

This is attributed partly to a
decision by Mr.. johnson not
to hold news conferences where
reporters might Jockey him into
positions at cross purposes with
Mr.. Kennedy. The President
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Democratic National Conven-
ton. Governor Shivers had
bolted the party and led Texas
in a Democrats-for- Eisenhow-
er sweep in 1852.
Mr.. johnson was regarded as
one OF the top dark horse
candidates for the Democratic
nomination for President in
1856, but the convention again
chose Adlai E. Stevenson as
standard bearer.
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was not harmed. He hurried
to the hospital.
Then, after Mr.. Kennedy'S
death, Mr.. johnson was
whisked away to the presiden-
tial plane waiting at Love
Field. He waited aboard the
plane until the bronze casket
bearing Mr.. Kennedy's body
was loaded into the rear Sec
ton.
Mrs. Kennedy, who rode with
the casket to the airport, fol-
lowed it aboard the plane.
Standing in a crowded COM
partment Of the plane, Mrs.
johnson on his right and Mrs.
Kennedy on his left. Mr.. john
son took the oath Of office as
President at 1888 pm. (EST
The oath was administered by
United States District Judge
Sarah T. Hughes Of Dallas.
Moments later, Mrs. Ken
nedy returned to the rear COM
partment and sat there beside
the bronze casket throughout
the flight to WASHINGTON.
The big blue and white jet
plane took off at 3:47 pm. and
landed at Andrews Air Force
Base at SOL pm.
When the plane stopped
under the glare of a battery
of television lloodlights, a huge
cargo lift rolled out and its
platform was raised to align
with the planes rear door.
A six-man honor guard, rep
reSenting all Americas armed
servicves. stood at attention as
Brig. Gen. Godfrey T. McHugh,
Mr.. Kennedy's Air Force aide,
and Secret Service agents
gently placed the casket on the
platform. Mrs. Kennedy
stepped out on the platform
after the casket. The plat
form was lowered.
Ambulance Backs Up
A gray Navy ambulance, its
curtains drawn, backed up to
within a few feet of the casket.
When it was loaded into the
ambulance, Mrs. Kennedy
walked around to the side door
and stretched out her kAEi to
open it.
Attorney General Ken7edy,
the slain Presidents k5Eher,
Joined her to ride wSCh the
casket to Bethesda Naval Hos
pital, where the body was given
final preparation for burial.
One minute after the cortege
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Maryland Slayer
Is Given 5 Yeurs

DENTON. Md, Nov. % Cap.
"A Caroline County Circuit
Court judge sentenced Walter
Clyde Davis, jr, last night to
five years in the Maryland pen
itentiary for the Staying of a
Kensington man last July.
A jury of seven men and
five women returned a verdict
of guilty of manslaughter after
celebrating for two hours.
Davis, a 3-year-old unem-
ployed mechanic from Glen
Echo Heights. was accused of
killing 32-year-old Robert P.
Moline, whose body was found
in the backyard of Davis
home.
Mr.. Moline had been beaten
and cut and a pick had been
plunged through his heart.
Davis was found asleep inside
The blood-spattered house.
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President Johnson Trained in Ways of Political Power

as his long-legged stride car
ried him. almost leapins at
times. to the side Of q col
league threatening to defect
from the johnson line.
He had a natural knack for
manipulating and bringing
about q desired political end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-23

vIIp hundreds of admirers who
turned out on Love Field to
welcome them to Dallas, a re-
porter asked her how she liked
campaigning.
Its wonderful" she replied.
Just three hours later she
was back at that airport with
her husbands body, her dress
spattered with his blood.
Her life, the history of
America and perhaps the
world, had been inexorablv
altered by a rifle bullet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-23
Presidential
Contender

At the Democratic National
Convention in 1860. Mr.. john
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

fraternities and sororities and
our colleges in the state make
the student union building the
most outstanding and complete
in Mississippi.
The most welcome change for
old and new students is the ad-
dition of the Walter Siller Fine
Arts Building a building
complete in every detail. There
is the art wing where every op-
portunity for developing the
creative genius, in the area, is
provided. The language labora-
tory, which is equipped with the
latest instruments for teaching
foreign language and with we'll
equipped conference rooms, pre-
sents a unique picture in the
history of modern education.
The band room and the "a
pianos in private rooms for stu
dent practice, the offices for
teachers with their private
pianos and the choir room with
it's huge piano and the latest
pipe organ present an opportun-
ity to the Mississippi Vocational
College students unsurpassed in
high education in the nation.
The business education build
ing and the dormitories in blue
print raise eyebrows and give
hope that this swiftly develop
ing institution of higher learn
ing will become an educational
Continued On Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09
Mississippi Vocational College
States Youngest Fastest Growing
Institution For Negro Education

Itta Bena, Miss. - 1t is ex-
tremely significant that the
1946 legislature appropriated
money to purchase 450 acres Of
land for the location and es-
tablishment of Mississippi Vo-
cational College on q "snake-in-
tested" cotton patch which was
entwined and interviewer in the
fabric of American history. That
it was a part of the portion OF
land the United States bought
from the Choctaw Indians
through the Treaty of the
Dancing Rabbit Creek, a por-
tion of the first finland Cotton
Plantation" purchased in 1845,
and destined to become the scene
of q foundation for knowledge
is already enshrined in the edu-
catiOnal record.
Ex-Governor Fielding Wright,
Board of Trustees, Institutions
of Higher Learning and Presi-
dent J. H. White, in the dedi-
cation of a portion of this evil
derness" for the education of
Negro boys and girls to serve
Mississippi and the nation, char
tered the course of the nations
youngest and fastest growing
institution.
Located 18 miles from the
geographical center of the Del
ia, Indianola; IL miles from
Greenwood and one mile from
the town of Itta Bena on high
way 81, Mississippi Vocational
College is the consumation of a
hope, realization of a dream and
the perseverance of James Her
bert White. 1t was DIR. Whites
faith in his fellow citizens, his
state, in humanity, and God
that transformed a cotton patch
into a seven million dollar plant
with 27 buildings, 1906 students
and over a hundred members Of
the faculty during the 13 try
ing and tempestuous years of
MVC's awe-inspiring history.
Today, the students at MVC
enjoy high class physical ac-
commodation. The dormitories
are new, well-appointed, beauti-
full, clean with necessary loun-
ges and opportunities for ideal
studying conditions.
The MVC students this year
will enjoy a four-lane bowling
alley, a sunken ballroom, and a
guest house for the public. The
guest house with rooms identi-
fled by the insignia of national
Jackson advocate., 1963-11-09

nhsmous speech he Atlanta States Exposition 1885,
Booker Washington the great Negro leader
and development the best continued progress goowbe
tween Negro and White people Of the south.
Observation-Disclosures and development achieved only through
nhsyea ohe observance he centennial anniversary signing mancpa
to Proclamation wish extend the Mississippi
gatatons tor The made during the hundred for
them continued toward the hghesteIg and development
education.
We happy the birthplace and home MISSISSIPPI VOCATIONAL
the fastest growing higher Negroes The state
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HODGES DOWN TO SIX ABLE MEN
Senators 3 Lame HurIers Learn Fates Today

know we have to have some
help in the bullpen."
The Senators are believed to
be interested in Bob Turley,
the ex-Yankee, who pitched
two shutouts for the Angels
this year before he was re-
leased. Hodges thinks Turley
can help.
Mike Fornieles, released last
week by the Twins, asked
Hodges for permission to work
out with the Senators, but
Hodges did not give him any
satisfaction.
With Ron Kline favoring q
pulled hamstring muscle, the
Senators are down to six able
bodied pitchers, although Kline
made an appearance against
the Twins yesterday and dis
posed of two men on one pitch
a double-play ball.
Stenhouse, who has wor
three and lost nine this season
has pitched only one inning
this month. He hasn't ever
been throwing in the bullper
lately. because every pitch sends
pain shooting through his Ell.
bow.
Moeller has been reporting
daily to Trainer Tom McKenns
for treatment, but has showr
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Rudolph Stunned
By Defect on
Twins H.omers

|
Heart and savvy have been
Don Rudolph's greatest assets
as a major league pitcher, and
a fellow who lacks a fast ball
and seldom pitches in any luck
must lean heavily on his
Iplusses.
Don will bounce back, but
for a while yesterday even he
was stunned over the Senator's
80 loss to the Twins in Min
neapolis.
IT took care Of the big boys"
the lefthanded Rudolph said.
Their big hitters, the right
handed Sluggers-Rich Rollins,
Harmon Killebrew, Bob ALI
son, Earl Battey and Wally
POSTPAID one hit among them.
who beats me?" Don asked
out loud. THE seventh and
eight-place hitterS, Don Min
cher and John Goryl, and Min
cher is a lefthanded hitter. It
doesn't figure. What a way to
lose q ball game"
Mincher on Spree
While Mincher was the
Twins seventh place hitter
yesterday, he has not been act
ing like a weak hitter Of late
The big ALBANIAN hit four
home runs against the Sem
ators in the last two days.
Since taking Vic Powers place
in the lineup over a week ago
Mincher has 10 hits in 81
times at bat, six Of them home
runs.
"Mincher Is so big and strong
he didn't even take a good cut
at the first ball he hit for q
home rum" Rudolph said. IA
for the second homer, I let one
get away there and he hit q
bad PITCH" Rudy said.
THAT stunned me a little
and maybe I grew careless fol
a minute. Then Goryl hit his
and that was It,"
Mincher's first home run was
in the sixth. He and Goryl then
hit back-to-back jobs in the
eighth.
Rudolph now has given up
20 home runs this year, includ-
ing a surprising number to left
handed hitters.
For the first five innings
Rudolph faced only Is batters.
Zoilo Versailles opened with q
bunt single and was erased on
a double play. The Twin had
only two left the entire game.
Spectacular Ending
The game ended happily for
the 1920 Twins fans as
Manager Sam Mele's ninth
inning defensive requirements,
Jimmy Hall in center and Vic
Power at first, teamed up on a
spectacular. game-ending dou-
BILE play.
Pinch-hitter Mary Breeding
was on first after q single with
one out. Ed Brinkman hit q
soft liner to center that looked
like a hit when it left the bat
However, the ball appeared
to hang in the air and Hall,
running at full speed, caught
it as it was sinking and made
an excellent throw to first.
Breeding scampered back, but
Power made a good tag to
double him up.
The Senators worked hard
for a lead run in the sixth,
scoring it on singles by Dick
Philips and Chuck Hinton and
a deep sacrifice fly to center
by Jim King. Mincher erased
that run on one pitch.
The Senators came back with
another hard-earned run In
the next inning on singles by
Ken Refer and Brinkman and
Rudolph's sacrifice bunt. Min.
cher also erased that with one
pitch.
Gerry Roggenburk, the 6.
| foot-6, lefthanded reliever, wal
the winner. Jim Perry left
after Brinkman's single in the
seventh. -WHITTLESEY