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Tupelo, Mississippi, Week-E_nd Edition , Sept. 13-14, 1969
Vol 96 No. 142
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ETV Bill Glides Past Senate 31-1 Act Se1s Up Television Authority As Separate Agency; Sex Limitations Kept To Please-House JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) The Mississippi Senate, winding up the eighth week _ of the special legislative session , gave overwhelming approval Friday to a bill creating a new educationa l television authority. The measure, guided to 31-1 approval by Sen . Bill Corr of Sardis, was an amended verALL SET FOR PARADE -This group is composed of · from left, Roy McComb, president of the local club ; Herb sion of the ETV bill approved 1members of the Lee Coun ty Shrine Club, w ho will be hosting Harness , ch airman for the even t ; James Farrar, H ank last week by the House. It must a 19-county Sh rine Cer em on ial to be held at the Natchez Waycaster and Bill Aubu chon. Hundreds of people are go back to the lower chamber for concurrence in Senate Trace Inn Convention Hall at Tup elo today . The fellows expected from all over the area , and it is predicted t h at t h e changes. h ave built th ese fo ur minia ture fire e ng ines-and ch ief's car pa r ade will be one of th e largest ever staged in T upelo . p,- · , The bill would remove ETV for the big p arade that will begin at 2 o'clock. Th ey are; - Photo by Sallis from under the Mississippi ________.:_:.______________,_________-'-------------------------------------------------------------.,.------------------:'.""'"""----:::::::::-~-iResearch and Development
President Rescinds B52 Lull WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presidenl Nixon ordered the end r'riday of a 36-hour suspension or B52 bombing raids in South Vielnam which lhe White House said was undertaken to test the Communists' intentions on the balllefield . "ALthis time the other side is back lo lhe pre-ceasefire period"' of offensive activity, 1 said White House press secrela- , ry l:lonald Ziegler. Accordingly, he said, "we have resumed the H5:l flights." An nouncement oI resumption of the raids was made while the Preside nt was reviewing the entire Vietnam situation during a lhree-hour , 40-minule While House mee ting with his highest military, diplomatic and i~telligence advisers from WashmgLon and Saigon. Future U. S. troops withdrawals from Vietnam doubtless figured in the discussion~, . but Ziegler said any dec1s10ns reached al Lhe mee ting would become apparent in the coming weeks. · Aller firs l refusing lo comment on reports of the bom.b_ing suspension as a strictly military maller, Ziegler summoned newsmen and sought lo counter impressions in Paris and Saigon lhal the hall was diplomatic gestur e of de-escalation aimed al encouraging a breakthrough in the Paris peace talks.. . "Our action was not m itself intended Lo be a signal to the other side," Ziegler said. Continued On Page 11
Auto T ags Will Be Renewed By Mail In ·county Lee County residents may obtain their 1970 pickup and 1 passenger car license plate~ by / ma il . it was announced Friday by the sheriff's office. Cards will be mailed to each license plate holder. l.a ter this month by the office . When ~he cards are received , information listed should be checked for errors. Any information listed incorrectly should be corrected in the shady area of the card. The card should then be ma iled along with check or money order to the sheriff_'s office and the license plates will be mailed. A small ma iling fee will be char ged . owner s , were Vehicle cautioned to read the back of the cards and to either mail or bring the cards to the sheriff's office. The cards will be mailed the last week in September . No truck tags will be included in the mail-out cards . Tags go on sale Oct. I.
salary the executive .director of for malional and Educational ETV would rec eive. Crook Council in the United States lashed out at certain state <SE lCUS l Other progral)1s agencies-an a pparent slap at deal ing with sex education the R&D center-for paying a pparently would be allowed if higher salari es than received a uthor.jzed by the new E TV by most top elected sta te of- board . fici als. Smith labeled the SElCUS Amendments by Crook to set provision as " censorship." a maximum sala ry of $16,500 Sen . Cha rl es Henley of and $16.000 for the ETV director Jac kson said the provision were defeat ed a fter other might be a "rather m inute lawma kers argued the lim its effort at censorship but it seems could make it difficult for the to be close to the hear t of the governing board to find the best House. ·· He suggested it be left man for the job. Continued On ~age 11 Sen . Theodore Smith of~-------------------Corinth failed in an attempt to remove a House-inserted provision involving sex education . The House proposal prohibits ETV from carrying any programs of the Sex In-
however, and found no trace of deadly gas. . <.... An all clear was sounded for all residents except about 200 persons who live within a one mile radius of the dera ilment , which occurred Thursday a half mile south of this Northeast Mississippi Delta town .
included Gl endora , Doddsville- where Sen. J ames 0. Eastland has a cotton plantation- Minter City, Schlater , Webb, Blaine, Drew, Ruleville, Itta Bena , Sunflower and parts of Greenwood . Although officiais refused for many hours to confirm it, the state prison at Parchman, 20 miles northwest of Glendora, also was evacuated . The death row and heavy security prisoners were transferred to a jail in Clarksdale , and about 1,400 others were taken to the town of Shelby and held on a lighted ballpark field . A prison spokesman said there
a Stenn .IS Comprom··1se 0- K--:.iAfter Carrier Bill Passes Man On Tracks Blamed ForGlendora Derailment ;it~rnc~i;;~~~~\~~l~~~~~b:; board to oversee the fledgling educational television system.
senators from key naval stales Backers of the anti-carrier in what amounted to yet amendment had not expected lo another severe drubbing for win, but thought they would gel military critics. more support than developed. " An issue has been drawn As the day progressed, it against the Navy," Stennis said became clear they faced GLENDORA, Miss. (UPI) in a lrembling voice. " The overwhelming defeat and they An aged man who wandered issue is whether we're going to Lried Lo withdraw their amendonto the railroad tracks was protect hi~ country .. .and the ment in ravor of a softer o.ne. But Chair man John Stennis, blamed Friday for a derailment only way to se ttle it is to have F irst the Senate turned down, a vole ." D-Miss., and other members of that toppled a string of 75 Lo 7, an amendment by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R- the Senale Armed Services chemical cars and forced the critics of defense spending to Ariz., said Pentagon critics J:iad Committee tasting blood, re- evacuation of 30,000 people in a hold up Lhe proposed new questioned "even the hones ty of fused to le't them withdraw it. three-county area. carrier CVAN-69 after one of lhe Armed Services Commit- They said Mondale and Case Gov. John Bell Williams the stormiest sessions in the Lee ·' • by their series of had started the fight and they ordered National Guardsmen to seven-week-old debate over the amendments Lo cul the bill. intended to finish it. aid with the evacuation when it $20bi llion military procurement The issue was forced to a Case angrily charged that was feared the burning tank bill . members refused 91 vole and Stennis was trying to "deny us cars. some of them loaded with Lo 34 to let Case and Mondale the ordinary rights of senavinyl chloride, were giving off Then, al lhe urging of carrier tors.·· He accused Stennis of withdraw their amendment lo deadly phosgene gas fumes. opponents, Sen. J ohn C. Stennis , going back on a promise not lo subslilule a softer version Soldiers armed with special calling only for a congressional D-Miss ., Lhe bill's floor mana- s lop him from offering a ger, offered a compromise substitute amendment when study 01 the ca rrier program . gas detection gear approached Stennis insisted on the to within 200 yards of the amendment under which his they ag reed to put a time limit derailment during the day, Senate Armed Services Com- on debate. showdown . millee- wh~ h favors aircrafl~~~~~------------------------~---------------------------------~~---------------------------------~ carriers- would conduct the study. The Senate approved, 82 WASHiNGTON (UPI) - The Senate overwhelmingly rejected a move Friday lo delay construction of a half-billiondollar nuclear aircraft carrier but ag reed to a comprehensive congressional study of the role of the carrier in modern warfare .
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The vote on delay of the carrier cons truction was virtually meaningless because mos t the amendment's backers voled against their own proposal when they saw they would go down to reso.unding defeat anyway. The original amendment was sponsored by Sens. Walter Mondale, D-Minn., and Clifford P . Case, R-N.J. They were defealed by Pentagon_alljes and
Putt Indicted On 5 ·Murder Charges MEMPHIS, Tenn . (UPI) The Shelby County grand jury Friday indicted George Howard Putt for first degree murder and murder in the perpetration of a robbery in five recent slayings here . P utt , 23, who was captu~ed shortly after the fatal stabbmg of Mrs. Christine Pickens, 59, Thursday. was also indicted on two·separate counts of carrying a dangerous weapon described as a hunting knife . · He is a former resident of Tupelo and Houston, Miss. The earlier m urders were those of Mr. and Mrs. Roy K. Dumas , who were strangled Aug . 14; Mrs . Leila Jackson, 80,
The board would include four. member s appointed by the governor , of whom t~~ "".ould be either teachers or pr mctpals of secondary and elementary schools'; one appointed by the junior college commission ; one appointed by the state college board; and the state superintendent of education. Under the House version, a five-member board would be created including two named by the governor, the s tate superintendent of education , one appointed by the junior college commission and one named by the state college board. The hottest argument came on an unsuccessful attempt by Sen . Robert Crook of Ruleville to put a limit on how much
strangled Aug. 25 ; and Miss Glenda Sue Harden, 21, stabbed to death Aug . 29. Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman paid tribute Friday to Mrs. Pickens , a . · t h ct· d d ental recep t 10ms 1e ·t on · hw o "d her birthday m er m1 -CI Y t t apar men · " If she had not put udi· a fight th and scr eame d , soun mg e f th t h alarm or o ers o . ear, shde h b d might not ave een 1scovere until long a ft er her d ea th and the killer would havE;,again had a chance to escape. d b Putt was capture y two policemen a bout four blocks · k , t south of Mrs. Pie ens apar ment. The slayer had been Chased from the death Scene by a 57-year -old nurse, Mrs . Emma Gross, who lived above the victim and a next door neighbor, Wayne Armstrong . Armstrong fired six shots as Mrs . Gross scr eamed for someone to "call the police." was identified FBI asP auttfugitive from by thetheHinds County , Miss . P ena l Farm where he was serving a sixmonths term for trespassing prior to his escape J une 26. Texas authorities said he was described as a juvenile sexua l psychopath capable of committing any crime. He spent four years prior to his 21st birthday in a Texas institution in connection with three abductions or molesta tions of women. P utt, who worked as an orderly a t Hous ton Hos pital earlier this year, was employed at North Mississippi Medical Cen ter in Tupelo from March 10, 1967 to April 14, 1967 as an attendant . NMMC administrator E . L. King said Friday the . usual chec k o,f references was mad e Continued On 1'8(_e 11
B52s Pound .Targets In Vietnam After Pause Fails To Slow War SAIGON <UPI> - American B52 bombers resumed raids over South Vietnam Friday night, pounding targets in two seclions of the country after a 36-hour suspension of the raids fai led Lo inspire any scaling down of the war by North Vietnamese a nd Viet Cong lroops. Military spokesmen said the eight-engine ., Stratofortresses flew one mission late Friday and two more Saturday morning, dropping al least 270 tons of bombs on suspected Commuh h nis t positions in Long K an province, about 28 miles northeas t of Saigon, and near Phu Ca l, 285 miles northeast of the capital. President Nixon ordered the raids resum ed earlier Friday because there had been no response from the Communis t side Lo the Allied move toward deescalation . The s uspension coincided wi th a White House meeting in Washington involving Nixon, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vielnam , and presidential advisors. The raids had been suspended earlier in the week during the 7"'-hour v 1·et Cong cease-fire in " memory of lhe late President Ho Chi Minh or North Vie tnam . L'our ra1·ds were 1·1own before r· l th 36 d awn 'fh urs d ay pnor o e ho!-'_r _suspension of the raids.
M11t tary s pokesm en said Communist troops shelled 16 targets in South Vietnam with rockets or mortar rounds Friday night and early Salurday. Commun iques . s howed, however, that ground fighting subsided Friday. Only four of the overnight shellings ca used casualties or damage, spokesmen said. The targets included th~ U.S. Marine base al Quang Tri, 85 miles northwest of Da Nang, where there were light casuallies reported . In Lhe only clash involving American forces reported Friday, helicopter guns~ips firing rocke ts and mac hme guns killed e ighl Communis t soldiers near Trang Bang a bout 28 miles nor lhwesl of Saigon. Spokesmen said there wer e no American casualties . 'flie c-l andes-ti·ne Viel Cong i·adi·o, ·111 a broadcas t heard r'riday night, accused U.S. and"oulh v1·e tnamese forces of ~ "sha me less violations" of /the three-day lJo Chi Minh cease1 1-·1re which had stirred "boiling ha tred " among Communist troops. 1'he broadcast said the Allies had " intensified" military actih H vities in the 72- our O ceasefire which ended a l 1 a .m . Thur sday. IL made no men_lion . l k of Lhe brief ha 1L m B52 s n es. Firs t word of the B52
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Funeral services for Roy Black. one of Mississippi's most highly regarded civic, business, educational,. political a nd religious leaders, will be held at the Nettleton Methodist Church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. Black died of cancer which Wq S d iscover ed only about a week ago when he entered the Monroe County Hospital at Aberdeen. Officiating today in a service which will be a r are, if not unique, tribute to a Methodist layman will be three bishops and Mr . Black's own pastor, the Rev . Kenne th S1.sse11. The bishops participating in . the service will be Bishop Edwin Pendergrass of J ackson, 81.·s h·op Elt1·s F1·nger of Memphi s , and Bishop Marvin Franklin, former head of the
Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Church. At Mr· Black 's personal request Mrs. S. J . McDuffie will sing "Beyond the Sunset, " with Mrs . Joe Wiygul as pianist. Burial will be in the Lee Memorial Park at Verona with La riri Me morial Fune r a l Dir ectors of Nettl eton in cha rge. · The family requested that i~ lieu of flowers a ny memoria gifts be sent to Wood Junior College in Mathiston , Miss., for construction of a boys dor, mitory to be known as the Roy Black Memorial Ha ll. Mr. Black, who dropped out of school at the age of fifteen to support the family when his father became ill of tuber culosis , later a ttended Wood Junior Colle~e but was una ble Continued On Page 11
resumption came from Washington in a White House announce ment as President Nixon opened Vielna m s tr ategy ta lks with top military and diplomalic advisers. Orders were flashed to B52 squadron commanders a t bases on Guam and Okinawa and in Thailand. There was no immediate word thal new B52 raids had been flown. It had been hoped that a hall in 852 raids, coming during a change in leadership in Hanoi following Ho's death, might ope n the door Lo r e ciproca l deescalatory moves . U.S. headquarters said North Vielnamese and Vie l Cong gunners s helled 46 targets in South Vie tnam Thursday night and early r' ridav with 13 of the Continued On Page 11
A spokesman for the rail line, the Illinois Central , said in Chicago that 16 cars of a 157-car freight jumped the track when the engineer slammed on the emergency brakes in a 'futile attempt to avoid hitting 74-year ·old Linwood Pierce ; who walked onto the tracks. The spokesman said the rear of the train jackknifed , and a spark from a fallen power line subsequently touched off an explosion in the leaking tank cars. Pierce was hospitalized in critical condition. The vinyl chloride shipment was destined for the Uniroyal Co . at Painesville . Ohio. A Uniroyal spokesman in New York said the chemical was " not lethal and presents no serious health hazards other than the fire and explosion tha t occurred. ·. " It is impossible to liberate phosgene, other than in inconsequential trace amounts , when vinyl chloride is freely burning in the air ." Mississippi authorities took no chances. " We had this big vapo'r cloud and we didn 't know what was in it ," explained,Clay Ewing of the Leflore (Glendora) County Civil Defense Union . " We moved fast. " Eleven towns , in addition to lesser settlements and communities were evacuated at the height of the crisis. The towns
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Ingalls In Running For New Destroyers WASHINGTON (UPil - The Navy today narro~v.ed to t~o shipyards a compet1t10n lo_build new-type destroyer s m a program that may cost $2 billion. The · survivors in the competition are the Bath iron works yard at Bath. Maine a.nd the Ingalls yar d a t Pascagoula , Miss . · The latest action eliminated the General Dynamics shipyard at Quincy. Mass . Earlier actions have eliminated shipyards at Avondale , La .. and Newport News, Va . , and the Todd Shipyard Corp. of New York, N.Y. The Navy plans late this year to award a contract for 30 of the new cla ss destroyer s designated DD-963. 'I_'h_e final winner of the compet1t10n will get the entire contr act.
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Robert Rice. Named Journal Carrier Of Month Robert Eugene ·Rice, J r .. of 1408 Francis Drive in Tupelo, has been named City Carrier of the Month of August by the Daily J ournal. He is 13 years of age and an 8th grader at Milam J unior High. He is a member of the Fi rst United Methodist Church and a member of . Boy Scout Troop 12-Rank (Life . l He plays football at Milam . Young· Ri ce deliv er s 75 papers in the Belledeer Hills area . He has been a carrier boy for the Journal one year . A number of requirements must be met to qualify to be na med City Carrier of the Month . These include : Al least six months service as a carrier ; Payment of monthly account on or before the fi fth of each month ; No complaints duri ng the month ; Must have a rel1a ble substi tute; Route book must be up-lo -date a nd in order ; Num ber of new subscribers obtained. Prompt report of stops , starts and transfers ; School gr ades must average "C" or better ; Must attend monthly car rier m eet ings whe n possible ; Cooperation with Daily J ournal Must be r e presentative : co urteous: Com ple tion of delivery by 6:30 a .m.
18 County Establishments Raided; 3 Held; $2,000 In Booze Seized La f t g c·es w en orcemen a en 1 searched 18 Lee County est a blishments Friday a fr· t d $2,000 ternoon, con 1sca e d . d worth of beer an 1iquor an arrested three persons. Lee County Sheriff J . E . 'Bill' Mitchell said agencies involved in the ra ids were his department , county constables and agents of the Alcohol Beverage
coz~~~·t ed wer e Calvin Deaton, ch arged with possession of illegal (untaxed) whiskey for the purpose of sale ; James Sander s , possession of gambling equipment; and Beatrice Dennis, possession of whiskey for the purpose of illegal sale . Mrs. Dennis entered a plea of guilty to the charge at Lee County jail befor e Third District J ustice of the Peace Jack S. Shirley and was fined $208 . Sheriff Mitchell sa id officers confiscated 10 1/2 gallons and 3 ounces of corn (untaxed l whi s key, 165 ha lf-pints of whiskey and a case of beer " s t ore ct for s ale a t a n unlicensed place." He said officers had " made 28 purchases before we made th~ searches . We tore them up 1·n Lee County today ." Continued On Page 11
BOOZE CONFISCATED - Law enforcement officials search ed 18 Lee County est ablis hme nts Friday and confiscate d 10 l/2 gallons of corn whis k ey, 165 h a lf-pi~ts of liquor and a case of beer . Three per sons we r e arreste d a nd a dditional warra nts will be issue d . - Start' llhoto by Latha m