Saturday, July 3, 1976 T17HE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Saudy uy3 96TE IHGNDIYPg he Recallingthe ast death row EDITOR'S NOTE:'When the last prisoner in Ohio was graphs of the 314 men who previously had taken The Roman Catholic chaplain. executed in 1903, Associated Press reporter Alvin Orton t Jr. was a witness. on Friday telnowing the U. S. Su- Last Walk. quetly. preine Court's decision on the death penalty, Orton Only a few muted whi BeeaVIedNTthatJnightIN THE REAR of the building was a solitary cell Reinbolt as he strode to th Associated Press Writer where the 29-year-old Reirnbolt, who had spent a strapped in. A robber ho UB Sso -AnxosW e peere quarter of his life in prison, had spent his final head. His right hand tight] COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Anxious faces peered days. fix. through barred cellblock windows as our small Before we went to the execution chamber, the Again, the warden nod group walked briskly across the prison yard. The warden, E. L. Maxwell, briefed those of us required couple of slits in the wall inmates knew the arrival of the warden and his en- to ascertain that the sentence was carried out. was a hum and Reinbolt's tourage meant that the life of Donald Reinbolt He explained that the condemned man had been high current poured throt neared ais end, carefully conditioned emotionally and spiritually. Although Reinbolt, forn It was March 15, 1963, a cold night. Reinbolt, a The guards working on the execution were well-re- had been shaved where petty thief convicted of murdering a Columbus hearsed. No distractions would be allowed, placed on his body, a ste grocer during a $60 robbery, was to become the last the small room. man to die in Ohio's electric chair. If a witness fainted no one could go to his aid, THEN, SILENCE, sav In a little red brick building at one end of the No talkig. No picture-taking. clock. ancient Penitentiary complex stood the electric Now, we were lined up single file in front of and Dr. R. H. Brooks, thep chair, its mahogany finish gleaming, thick cables about ten feet away from the electric chair, viser, placed a stethoscope snaking into an adjacent room. tened, stepped back and w Lining the opposite wall, welcoming the newest THE WARDEN NODDED and the bespectacled More ticking, as the do member to an undesired fraternity, were photo- Reinbolt entered the room on the arm of the prison's dore twice before finally de walk Both recited prayers mpers were heard from he chair and quickly was od was placed over his ly gripped a small cruci- ded, this time toward a behind the chair. There body lurched forward as h it, ser car thief and forger, electrodes were to be nch of singed hair filled e the ticking of a wall prison's chief medical ad- to the man's chest, is- aited. ctor repeated the proce- eclaring Reinbolt dead. - - - --- - I - --- --- - ... ,... .... ... ..., .., ._.......J .aw U.S. may clean up Teamsters WASHINGTON 0't - The government appears ready to take whatever action is necessary to clean up a Teamsters Un- ion pension fund, ranking members of the Senate Labor Committee said yester- day. Chairman Harrison Williams, (D N.J.) and Sen. Jacob Javits, (R-N.Y.) also said the federal probe does not appear to have been compromised by Labor Sec- retary W. J. Usery's recent public praise of Teamsters officers. HOWEVER THEY both called Usery's comment unwise. Another member of the panel, Sen John Durkin, (D-N.T.) said Usery's com- ments already had tainted the investiga- tion. He called for Usery to "give seri- ous consideration to stepping aside as secretary of labor." Durkin also urged formation of a se- lect Senate panel similar to the former Senate Watergate committee to probe the scandal-plagued union. THE SENATORS commented after a closed-door briefing on the progress of a joint Justice - Labor Department in- vestigation into the Union's $1.4-billion Central States Pension Fund. That probe is focusing on allegations that organiz- ed crime figures have benefitted from loans made by the fund. "I was left with the solid feeling that the investigation is proceeding efficient- ly, effectively, with force and vigor," Williams said. Both he and Javits said they are con- vinced the government will prosecute any wrongdoers in the case and act firmly to protect the stake of rank and file Teamsters members in the fund - even if it means the government itself has to step and rt the program. in June "THE REMEDY will be tailored to the situation," Williams said. They also said the Internal Revenue Service, which recently revoked the tax- exemipt status of the fund, apparently without checking first with Labor De- partment officials, has now agreed to cooperate more fully with the two other agencies in the probe. See U.S., Page It *1 What! No Daily? When you wake up Tuesday morning your vacation will be over. With an ex- tended weekend of fireworks, tennis, and picnics behind, you realize that its time to get back to the old grind, and you aren't happy about it. Grumbling about work, and still half asleep you go to the front disor to pick up your copy of The Daily and it's not there! This is the last straw. "I have to work today, and so should they," you think to ysiurself while cursing us out loud. But stop a minute to think, and you'll realize that for you to get a Daily on Tuesday morning we would have to have worked all day Mon- day. Surely we deserve at least two days off to celebrate our nation's 200th birthday; it doesn't happen very often you know. We at The Daily thank you for being so understanding, and we pro- mise not to let it happen again. At least not for another 100 years or so. Happenings .today at 2:00, there willbe a dedi- cation of Cobblestone Farm on Packard Rd., followed by an old fashioned ice- cream social . . . also today, the Outing Club offer hiking and swimming. Meet at 0:30 at. the North entry to the Rack- ham Bldg. . . . at 3:30 tomorrow, the of- ficial Ann Arbor Bicentennial celebra- tion will begin. It will be at Buhr Park, and will feature music, dancing, magic, and fireworks . . . Tuesday, the Stu- dents' International Meditation Society will present an introductory lecture on Transdentental Meditation at 2:00-and 7:30 in the Mult-purpoise Rm. of the UCLI Weather or not It will be a suitable weekend for our nation's 200th birthday with sunny skies and warm temperatures. The high today will be 80 while the low will be near 60. What's lett Sue Alpert, who runs a mail order firm called the Left Handed Complement, sits behind various items in Anaheim sold by her company for use by left handed people. JOBLESS RATE RISES .2 PER CENT: Unemployment WASHINGTON (AP) - President Ford was confronted ic affair with a new election-year problem yesterday - an increase had bees to 7.5 per cent in the June unemployment rate. in empl The jobless rate rose two-tenths of a percentage point least for in June from the May level, the first increase since Sep- tember, the government said. It was the largest monthly THI rise since May of 1975, the worst month of the recession. told a Whit THE LABOR DEPARTMENT said the number of job- dent's a less Americans increased 280,000 in June to 7.1 million, go below while the number of employed dropped 200,000 to 87.5 mil- "We lion. without The White House sought to explain the increase as a statistical quirk, but other administration economists said UNE that could be only a partial explanation. Labor Department every c analysts declined to concede any problems in their num- agers. E bers, a rise Sidney ,. Jones, assistant treasury secretary for econom- ui -s, said that while an increase in the jobless rate n expected, it indicates that the recent rapid increase oyment and the sharp drops in unemployment "at - one month have leveled off." S "OBVIOUSLY IS A disappointing figure," he reporter. e House Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the Presi- dvisers still believe that the unemployment rate will w 7 per cent by the end of the year. did not expect the unemployment to go straight down a monthly uptick or two," Nessen said. .MPLOYMENT INCREASED in June for nearly ategory of the nation's labor force, except teen- Even worse, in the opinion of some analysts, was of nearly two weeks in the average duration of See JOBLESS, Page it