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129TH YEAR ISO. 126 FINAL EDITION WEDNESDAY MOKNINC, AUGUST 13, 1969 I'RICi; 0 CExMS Lennon Sisters 9 Father Slain TOPIC Held i iw a state inner Course; grew to womanhood while working with the bandleader. All are now married. They have continued their act as a separate since leaving Welk last December. Police said witnesses saw Lennon struggling in the parking lot near a driving range with another man with a rifle.

When Lennon broke away and ran, officers said, the other man shot him, knocking him down, then came up and fired twice more into him. Other witnesses said Lennon appeared to know the gunman, who Suspect swore at Lennon. Lennon swore back. THEN LENNON reportedly shouted, "No, no, don't do it. Help, help." The gunman drove away and was pursued for a time by a witness, who lost him.

The course is located in Venice, Calif. The gunman was identified as white, about 6 feet, with a goatee and wearing green sweater and blue pants. THE SINGING sisters are Dianne, 29, Peggy, 28, Janet, 22, and Kathy, Will Be The Toughest Day 25. Lennon had seven other children. Lennon was a milkman, singing tenor in a professional quartet, when his boss heard the daughters sing and got them some singing dates with service clubs.

This led to an audition with Welk, and the girls were on their way. Lennon quit handling his daughters' act about four years ago. The girls have their own series coming up on television. Lennon was president of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce. AP Wirephoto To World lumbia to start the voyage home.

Most of the time, while Collins sat quietly listening, Armstrong and Aldrin talked about their epic walk across Tranquility Base. But there were moments of deep philosophy and patriotism. "To me it was one of the prouder moments of my life to stand there and quickly salute the flag," Aldrin said, looking at a picture of the three-by-five foot nylon American flag he and Armstrong planted. At Golf LOS ANGELES UP) The father of the singing Lennon Sisters was shot and killed Tuesday after a struggle with a man at the suburban golf course where he worked as a pro, police reported. Witnesses told officers that William Lennon, 51, was slain by a man with a rifle who then fled.

A little LATER, officers arrested a man for questioning at a market. Lennon's four oldest daughters began singing on the Lawrence Welk television show as children and TOP of She Bp- City-County COMPUTERS USED for vote tallying can be fixed, experts say, but it isn't an easy chore. Page 18. COUNTY BUDGET Commission gets requests of various political bodies for a share of the available funds. Page 18.

Nationwide DETECTIVES question some "pretty weird" friends of actress Sharon Tate in effort to solve Brutal massacre of Benedict Canyon. Page 2. Washington PROPOSAL by President Nixon would give states and cities much of the authority for running $2.3 billion a year in Federal programs to train more than one million Americans annually for Jobs. Page 10. FEDERAL Trade Commission adopts regulations aimed at insuring each consumer a fair chance of winning in giveaway games at grocery stores and gasoline stations.

Page 9. The Weather Sunny, little warmer today; low 62, high 87. Thursday fair, little warmer. Rain probability near zero today. Details, Map on Page 20 Page Action Line 19 Amuse 28-30 Bridge 9F Brumfield ...19 Business Classified Columnists ...7 Comics 16F Crossword Dear Abby ...14 Deaths 31 Page Editorials 6 Graham 8F Horoscope Horse Sense Jumble 8F People 2 Society 15 Sports 25-28 TV-Radio ....20 woHroi Women's 14-17 Word Game .16 Food Section, Pages 1-22F Local and Area News Pages 18, 19 MM iy- 'S Light Moment As Astronauts Talk left, Edwin E.

Aldrin Neil A. Armstrong and Michael Collins Moon 'Friendly' Place, Says First Man There I I He plans to fly in from San Cle-mente this evening and return to his summer home at the beach town later tonight. White House aides were mostly mum about just who all is coming to dinner. One who isn't is former President Johnson, who sent his regrets. But there's no trouble filling up any of the missing seats at the 160 10-place tables.

The White House has been besieged with requests from people demanding to be invited. Among those who will show are former Vice President Humphrey, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen 111.) and Sen. Mike Mansfield (D the Senates minority and majority leaders.

THE QUESTION piquing most everybody is whether Aristotle and Jacqueline Onassis will be no shows and how about Howard Hughes? He hasn't been seen at a public affair in 15 years. The food of the President and astronauts will be prepared personally by executive chef Walter Roth, but everybody will get the same five-course candlelit dinner, starting with such appetizers as walterspiel (pastry puff, filled with creamed horseradish, whipped cream sauce, shrimp and topped with caviar). After that there is poached salmon in champagne, filet, artichokes, green peas, salad, fruits and cheeses, all listed on the menu in French. Then comes the dessert clair de lune. That is a French vanilla heart of soft marzipan with kirsch-soaked raisins on a moon-shaped meringue, topped with fresh blackberry sauce and a small American flag (drapeau Americain).

The dinner, featuring California wines exclusively, will be served by 160 waiters in gold jackets, 30 wine stewards in red jackets and 12 captains in tuxedos. 'Red Berels' Baltle Police In Ckicago CHICAGO (UPI) Members of a crowd of 100 Negro demonstrators wearing red berets fought with police Tuesday at the gates of a University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus construction site. Seven of the demonstrators were arrested and three policemen were knocked down during the melee. The demonstrators attempted to storm the construction site at the near south side campus. They were repelled by police and fighting broke out.

The demonstrators did not gain access to the site of the $15 million science and engineering building. Officials of the construction firm chained and padlocked the gates when trouble broke out. oney that the withholding of (Federal) relief would all but bankrupt them (the communities)." Senator Maloney cited public expenses not evident to the casual observer. These, he said, included unbudgeted overtime to municipal workers, cost of the disposal of debris, damage to or loss of heavy equipment in almost constant use since Saturday night, and loss of tax valuation as the result of damage to or destruction of business, industrial or residential property. He said he expected the governor to take all the data into consideration in urging the Federal agency to take a closer look at the affected areas and to certify thera for aid.

Meanwhile, the Federal Small Business Administration that tacked the disaster label onto the tornado-stricken area completed plans for the receipt of loan applications from business and home owners. Richard C. Sensenbrenner, i al director, said that the branch office, 5026 Federal Office Bldg. in Cincinnati, would be open from 8:30 a. m.

to 5 p. m. Monday through Friday to assist applicants. Cheer Up Even though you find you have to part with your pet, cheer up! You can find a good home for him 'instantly with an Enquirer Classified Ad. Mrs.

William Hilvert gave away her basset hound in just one day. Call 421-6300 to find someone new for Rover to own. BY BOB ROSE Chicago Daily News LOS ANGELES Please, Mr. Nixon, pass the couer de filet de boeuf with perigourdine sauce. Certainly, Mr.

Armstrong, and would you like another helping of fueil-les de laitue de Kentucky? That, steak-and-saladwise, may be part of the conversation you miss when the TV cameras go dark as the President and the first man on the Moon exchange chit chat tonight at the biggest White House state dinner in history. "We didn't think it would be proper to show people eating," said a protocol aide. Another thing you may miss on the screen is the sight of the huge Century Plaza Hotel's full security staff in operation. "All six men will be on duty," said a public relations man. "But we'll be watching the hotel while the Secret Service and the FBI watch the President and the astronauts.

"Can you imagine what would happen if the crowd suddenly gets souvenir crazy? We'd be stripped to the bare walls." ONE OF THE hardest working men in the kitchen is pastry chef Ernest Mueller. He is supervising the creation of individual sugar tributes to Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, which will be placed in their rooms. Each will show the astronaut astride a cratered, crescent Moon, looking down on the Earth, which will be filled with candy treats for the kiddies. While Los Angeles is delighted to be host city for the dinner of the century, it is somewhat miffed that Chicago and New York citizens will get a chance to see the astronauts in person while L. A.

won't. "We would like to but there's just no opportunity for any public appearance here. There just isn't enough time," a NASA spokesman apologized. The astronauts will arrive at International Airport about 9:30 p. m.

(EST) today in Air Force One, at a private area of the field. They will immediately board a helicopter for a quickie trip direct to the Century Plaza. THEY WILL HAVE only a few minutes until 10 p. m. if the engraved invitations are to be believed to slip into black tie and show up for the reception and dinner.

This will be the windup of a 14Mi hour day. "This is going to be their toughest day, believe me," said a NASA man. President Nixon will join the astronauts only for the state dinner. Park, Deer Park, Sllverton and Am-berley Village, and that each emphasized a lack of funds. The "disappointment" referred to by Mayor Lindell was in interim verdict attributed to Frank Swatta of the Federal Office of Emergency Preparedness (Disaster Division) who toured some of the stricken areas Monday, then went to confer with Gov.

James A. Rhodes in Columbus. Under Public Law 875, a political subdivision must have suffered at least $250,000 in damage to public property to qualify for assistance in a declared disaster area. Swatta, according to information reaching Maloney of Hamilton County, did not find any such losses in the areas he appraised. This led Maloney to urge Governor Rhodes to re-emphasize the "desperate" financial plight of the Hamilton County areas stricken by the tornado.

SENATOR MALONF.Y'S letter to the governor stated in part: "I would expect in some cases running battle with a large North Vietnamese force. The Marines killed 147 Communist soldiers during the day, but lost 15 killed and 101 wounded. About 55 miles north of Saigon near An Loc where the Communists mounted their heaviest ground attack early Tuesday, troops of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment using tanks and armored personnel carriers, killed 53 North Vietnamese in an intense 30-minute battle. No Tornado Aid For 7 Hard-Hit Villages SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) The quiet, shy man who stamped history's first footprints in the gray sands of the Moon Tuesday said he found the lunar plains "an extremely stark and strangely different place." But, for Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong, the alien world of the Moon also "looked friendly and was friendly." In the Moon's weak gravity, he said, man can live and work more comfortably than on Earth or in the weightlessness of free space.

ARMSTRONG AND Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr. trod the rocky, pitted surface of their Tranquility Base for two and a half hours July 20. While they explored near their Eagte landing craft, Michael Collins ui uneu uie iviuuu in uic uuiumuia command ship waiting for their return. In an 80-minute, internationally-televised news conference the three explorers told the world for the first time since their return home Earlier, Cr.lvin Prem, assistant Hamilton County criminal prosecutor, said, "There are things that only the killer knows about, and we know about.

He (the young man) does not touch on them in his confession." An Enquirer librarian reported Tuesday that early in July a young man came to the newspaper's filing room and asked to see all the clippings relating to the murder of Dr. Shutt. Confession Discounted In Dr. Skutt's Murder what they saw and felt during their historic voyage. Then the astronauts pushed through crowds to their first of many luncheons.

After the luncheon, attended by top Space Agency officials and key contractors from the Apollo team, the astronauts faced a hectic tour Wednesday aboard Air Force One to tickertape parades in New York and Chicago and a presidential state dinner in Los Angeles with 1600 celebrities as invited guests. Armstrong said the adulation of the nation and the world was "certainly the part (of the mission) we're least prepared to handle "It was our pleasure to have participated in one great adventure. "It was an adventure," he said, "not just of July, but rather (of) all the past decade." Then Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins ticked off "the things that interested us most" from their mission: The launch that started "promptly" July 16 and the Saturn rocket Armstrong said "gave us one magnificent ride." The worries during Eagle's descent to the Moon that, in dodging a football-field-size crater filled with boulders, the craft might run out of fuel. It landed with 15 seconds of fuel left in the landing stage, Armstrong said. A string of alarms from an overworked computer during descent that Aldrin and Armstrong said made them consider calling the landing off.

The unexpected ease of Moon-walking, despite a bulky spacesuit and a lunar surface patterned with inky shadows cast by the low-angle glare of the Sun. The Joy of a perfect, straight-up takeoff from the Moon in the ascent stage of Eagle, leaving the four-legged descent stage behind, and the linkup with Collins in Co But heavy fighting during the day Tuesday sent casualty figures spiraling. Since the Communists broke a seven-week lull in the Vietnam war Sunday, communiques showed that more than 130 Americans had been killed and about 800 wounded. Communist killed had passed the 1300 mark. Military spokesmen reported one new ground attack Tuesday night.

They said the U. S. First Cavalry Officials of seven Hamilton County communities hit by the tornado are up in arms because of reports that their areas apparently do not qualify for Federal aid. Said Mayor Carl Lindell of Terrace Park: "It would appear that the Federal government is more concerned about spending millions than just hundreds of thousands of dollars. "Our village will have to spend about $50,000 for the removal of its trees torn clown or ravaged by last Saturday's tornado.

"If this happened in some foreign country, our government would not only pay to remove the trees but would plant new ones. "This is a tremendous disappointment." Sen. Michael J. Maloney of Hamilton County said he had been on the phone throughout Tuesday, talking to the mayors of Reading, Madeira, Arlington Heights, Terrace Division near Phuoc Binh, about 85 miles northeast of Saigon, was attacked killing two Americans and wounding 30. Most of the American casualties came during the day Tuesday as allied forces pushed out of their camps in an effort to blunt the Communist drive.

In the coastal plains, about 17 miles south of Da Nang, U. S. Marines, backed by artillery, fought a The prosecutor's office, police and detectives generally discounted a murder confession allegedly made by a College Hill youth Tuesday. The 25-year-old man, a student at the University of Cincinnati, called Walter Radtke, Post and Times-Star court reporter, and said he had murdered Dr. Jane Shutt, a psychiatrist.

Dr. Shutt, 43, was found shot and bludgeoned to death May 25 at her home, where she also maintained an office, 122 Glenmary Clifton. Police said Tuesday the confessor had once been engaged to Barbara Shutt, 23, who was charged with and indicted in the first degree murder of her foster mother on May 26. Her trial is scheduled to begin September 22. Sgt.

Russell Jackson and Det. Robert Groppe, of the Cincinnati Homicide Squad, questioned the student Tuesday afternoon. He had been questioned earlier in the day by two uniformed officers. "We talked to the youth, his mother and father," Jackson said. "Any further comment will have to come from the prosecutor's office." U.

S. Casualties Mount As Reds Attack SAIGON (UPI) American casualties mounted Tuesday during sharp ground battles throughout South Vietnam in the wake of Communist attacks which saw the heaviest fighting in six months. Communist forces drastically scaled down shelling attacks during the night Tuesday to 19. During the night Monday they shelled 137 targets throughout the country and mounted at least 15 ground attacks killing 30 GIs..