TOKYO — Booming land and sea-gun salutes and hushed memorial services are being offered throughout Japan through Tuesday in tribute to the late President Kennedy.
One-gun salutes are to be fired every half-hour from reveille to retreat Monday at Hq., U.S. Army Japan, Camp Zama.
Rear Adm. Walter H. Price, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Japan, said Saturday that gun tributes. would be fired each half-hour from 8 a.m. until sunset Monday at U.S. Navy ships and stations.
In Tokyo Solemn Requiem Mass was planned for 8 a.m. Monday at St. Anselm’s Catholic Church of the Benedictine Priory (opposite the Gajoen Hotel). The Mass will be said by the Very Rev. Hildebrand Yaiser.
On Tuesday — the day that funeral Mass for the slain President will be said in the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington — 21-gun salutes will he fired, Price said.
Another 21-gun salute will be fired at Camp Zama at noon Tuesday. A .50-gun salute will be fired there at retreat. U.S. personnel unable to participate in honor ceremonies at USARJ installations have been encouraged to attend ceremonies at Navy and Air Force installations.
Navy memorial services will be held Tuesday at the Chapel of Hope, U.S. Fleet Activities, Yokosuka NB.
Protestant services will be at 9 a.m., Catholic rites at 10 a.m. and Jewish personnel will attend services at 11 a.m. Rear Adm. James W. Kelly, director of the Chaplain’s Div., Bureau of Naval Personnel, will deliver the eulogy at these services.
Requiem High Mass will be sung at noon Monday at the U.S. Army Medical Command Chapel at Sagami-ono. Requiem Mass will be said at the U.S. Army Depot Japan Chapel at Sahamihara at 5 p.m.
At Camp Zama, Protestant services will be held at noon Tuesday and Solemn Requiem High Mass will be sung there at 5 p.m.