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Vol. 99 No. 135
Tupelo, Mississippi, Wednesday Morning, September 6, 1972
FUTURE OF 20TH OLYMPIAD IN DOUBT
·) 9 Hostages Killed In Shootout 16 Killed In Day-Long Holding Of Israeli Athletes By Guerrillas
BUS TO DEATH -Arab extremists and their eight Israeli hostages ride this German army bus on the first leg of a trip to a NATO airport
where four of the Arabs and all of the hostages were killed in an ambush by German forces.
County Lets· Tupelo Use Landfill For $30,000 By DWIGHTGENTR.Y Journal Staff Writer • Lee County Board of Supervisors has offered to let the city of Tupelo use the county landfill for $30,000 a year, Tupelo Mayor James Ballard told the Board of Aldermen Tuesday night. B allard sai d county officials agreed to extend t he city land near the county facility at Skyline to let Tupelo build their own fill to bur y " wet ga rbag e" collected in the city. Alderme n did not take any action and generally consented to studyin'g other sites for a new landfill which would comply with federal regulations. The Envir onmenta l Protecti onal Agency has ordered t he city to close the landfill now used: It is on Park Lake Drive and the site of old "G um Pond ", north east of downtown Tupelo. Ballard said the additional transportation costs to
Skyline would shoot expense of collecting garbage up even higher. Raymond · Merchent , Sanitation Department manager, said his studies indicated the cost for the first year would be $189,000 for more employees, three trucks and related expenses. After that, he said it would cost $80,000 a year.. · Ballard said he had offered county officials $1,000 a month to u se the federal -local financed landfill. " Under this federal program they are s upposed to provide this to Tupelo. But the problem is the federal money runs out next year ," he said . Ballard said no court action has yet been taken, a lthough t he federal officials threa t ened to go into litigation to shut down the landfill. The EPA charges water is seeping through the garbage and getting into Town Creek in violation of an 1894 statute.
45,000 Tickets For Fair Already Sold By ULDIMA SALLIS Journal StaffWriter More tha,n 45,000 gate admission tickets ha ve already b ee n so ld to industries for their employes and their families to attend the Mississippi -A labama Fair and Dairy Show which opens Tuesday, Sept. 12, J . M. (Ikey ) Savery said Tuesday. " T h e 65th a nnu al Exposition of the Miss.-Ala. Fair and Dairy Show will open Se pt. 12 and last ; through the 16th and for many reasons we know that his will be our biggest and best fair," the manager said. " On the Midway the Amusement Company of America will present the world ' s carnival , whi ch consists of 60 shows and rides most of which have never been seen in Tupelo," Mr. Savery said. " Since the Midway has been paved, all shows and rides a re accessi bl e , regardlessofweatherandall rides and shows have been reduced in price, especially for C hildr en ' s Day , Wednesday, Sept. 13, after the parade," Mr. Savery continued., He pointed out that the Grandstand s hows will be held nightly, beginning a t 7: 30 with the Western Horse Show (Open ) Tuesday. The I nt ernationa l R o d eo Association will present a
state are what state officials He said no time limit has term below pollution been set. Ballard interpreted the standards . The problem is in no way unique to Tupelo, a federal position as meaning state spokesman sai d the city must do something earlier. " pretty shortly" . In other action at the Alderman H . C. Clayborn~. Jim Wilson and Continued on Page 10 Paul Clayton said they wanted to go to court to make EPA prove the claim . "I' m just not willing to give up wit h out a fight ," Clayborne safd. Ballard has maintained he is not interested in going to court, but he claims the allegation against t he city would be ha rd to prove. By NORMA FIELDS " There's no doubt there's Journal Staff Writer some seepage, " he said, I UKA, Miss . - A "but not that much." Tishomingo County circuit Alderman Davis Earl . court jury is faced today Nash suggested the city find lwith deciding the " fair an alternate landfill location. market value " of 107 acres of Ballard said treating the land involved in the proposed seeping water to take out the Yellow Creek Port Industrial waste has been virtually Park . ru led out by a representative It is the first case to be of the State Board of Health. tried in the state under the The Mayor emphasized the new E m inent Domain law present landfill can still be passed by the 1972 used for dumping what legisla ture, and the first officials call " hard garbage" emi n ent domain case or refuse from industry, invol ved in the proposed construction , brush and 2,000-acre Industrial Park , other similar type garbage. a n a djunct to Yellow Creek Home debris is called " wet Inland Port. garbage". Testimony began- and The issue will be reviewed ended- yesterday in the suit later. brought by the Agricultural Meantime, Ballard said a nd Industrial Board against city officials must appear at Mr . and Mrs . James a hearing today to explain Herschel Mc Duffy, owners plan s for waste water of the farm in the North facilities. Most cities in the Crossroads Community of
MUNICH (UPI)-Arab terrorists trying to flee the country killed nine Israeli Olympic team members they were holding hostage Tuesday when German police opened fire on them. At least 16 persons died in a day of terror that jeopardized the 20th Olympic games. The Bavarian government announced early Wednesday that Arab guerrillas killed nine members of the Israeli Olympic team with a hand grenade when they discovered they were caught in a police trap .at the airport from which they were led to believe they could fly to safety. It earlier had been announced eight Israeli hostages were killed. Four Arab guerrillas also died and three others were captured, Interior Minister Otto Merk told a dramatic 3 a.m. news conference. ·. Two other members of the 42-member Israeli Olympic team died when the Palestinian terrorists burst into their quarters at the modern, concrete apartment building Olympic village with guns blazing at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The 16th dead was a Munich policeman. Olympic officials said a decision on whether to continue the games would be made after Wednesday 's memorial service for the dead Israelis. The revelation that nine Israelis were killed at the airport climaxed a day of confusion brought on by conflicting reports and apparently intentional misinformation from German and Olympic officials, who had said earlier that all the hostages were safe after the airport shootout. Apparently even International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage went to bed without knowing the trl!th. Merk offered no explanation why spokesmen had officially announced that the kidnaped Israelis had been rescued safely. The refusal of the guerrillas to back down on their demands for planes to transport the hostages to an Arab country like Tunisia, and for the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, led German police to concoct a trap bait~d with sharpshooters brought in from Wiesbaden. They pretended to accede to the Arab demands and late Tuesday night three helicopters left an improvised landing pad in the Olympic Village for Fuerstenfeldbruck Airbase, a North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) installation 28 miles west of Munich. The eight guerrillas and their eight blindfolded and bound hostages rode in the first two helicopters, German officials including German Interior Minister HansDjetrich Genscher rode in the third. A Boeing 727 was waiting at the airport and two of the guerrillas went to inspect it. The sharpshooters thought they had the Arabs isolated from the plane and the helicopters and opened fire. But, according to one version, at least one Arab managed to toss a grenade into the helicopter carrying the hostages. The shootout on a deserted but well lit airstrip 28 miles from the site of the Olympic games climaxed a day of tension and bloodshed. The guerrillas-members of the militant Black September Movement which has engineered a number of terrorist acts, including the assassination of Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tel -shot their way into the Israeli headquarters, killing two Israelis. The Arabs then herded the survivors together, tied their hands in front of them and held them at gunpoint for 13 hours while they made a five-point series of demands and tried to n~gotiate for their escape. The Arabs said they would kill the hostages if they were not allowed to leave Germany and if the Israeli government did not free 200 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails. While the negotiations for the release of the hostages. continued, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage suspended the 20th Olympic Games for 24 hours. Brundage later called the release "a triumph for the Olympic movement" and announced the games would continue as scheduled Wednesday.
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt rushed in from the capital at Bonn and offered an unlimited cash ransom and even proposed Germans be substituted for the Israeli hostages. The suggestions were rejected and for a while it appeared the guerrillas were going to succeed. Leading their blindfolded and bound hostages, the terrorists slipped out of the three-story white stone complex onto a waiting bus in pre-midnight blackness. Then they transferred to three helicopters for the brief ride to the Furstenfeldbruck Airport, which is used by U.S. and West German forces under an agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) . At the airport, the group was scheduled to transfer to a Boeing 727 jetliner, apparently for a flight to Tunisia . When two of the guerrillas went to inspect the floodlit three-engine plane, the sharpshooters brought in specially from Weisbaden, the European headquarters for the U.S. Air Force -opened fire. Tishomingo County. appraisers, placed t he land's Conrad Ahler, chief spokesman for the West Circuit Judge L. T. Senter, value at $39,400 and $41,400. Jr . of Aberdeen is presiding The land"s area was also German government, said it was never intended to over the case brought pegged variously at between let the guerrillas take the Israelis away. " It was not
·1st Contest In New Eminent
Law Over Yellow Creek Port
p r o f e s s i on a I rodeo Wed ne sday, Thursday , Friday and Saturday nights. This will include many famous western acts, and admission for all has been reduced to $1. " All concession a nd ex hibit space has been reserved , with not one inch remaining vacant, thus insuri n g th e greatest agric u l tural , industrial , commu nity and livestock exhibitions and all of these LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) · are free ," the fair manager - Elvis Presley will perform declared . for more than a billion " In fact, the fair will ha ve per sons in about 50 countries almost 100 things well worth on the world's first satell ite seeing that will cost nothing concert, possibly including but one admission charge of audiences · in Russia a nd $1.00 at the gate for China. · everybody,''' Mr . . Sijvery The· announcement was said. He noted that va s t made at Presley's third news additions, improvements conference in 15 years. " It's hard to believe," and repairs have been completed and reminded Presley said . " It's fantastic . that a new service is being I hope it comes off good . Live offered fairgoers . There will concert is my favorite part of b e a building devoted show business because of the exc lusiv ely to anyone electricity." wishing to check parcels, The swivel-hipped singer, excess clothing and personal wearing rings on every effects . finger of his r ight hand, This will make it possible blue -tinted , silver-framed for people who come to the glasses and a glittering fair to go shopping if they white suit, made t he wish and then check their announcement on his closing packages free of charge until night of a month-long they are ready to leave the engagement at the Las Fairgrounds. He said there Vegas Hilton Hotel. will be reliable checkers in The 60-minute live concert charge. is sc heduled for Jan. 14, Continued on Page 10 originati n g from th e
directly to the circuit court, by-passi ng justice of the peace em inent domain courts in accordance with the new 1972 statute . . The six-man, 91x-woman jury is s la ted to view the disputed prop erty this morning, then hear final argum ents a nd instructions before deciding the case. The M c Duffy case will be followed today by a similar suit involving lands in the Yellow Creek Port Industrial Park. Four witnesses for the A & I Board, all qualifying as expert la nd appraisers, gave estimates of the McDuffy farm 's fa ir market value rangi n g from $24,000 to $25,000. Two witnesses for McDuffy, a l so l and
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YOUR NEWS QUIZ 1 Senator George McGovern eald he would name •. ? . . Secretary of Treasury If elect ed President. a-John Connally b-John Galbraith c-Wllbu r Mills
3 Tbe President also announced that lbe draft will be ended by .• ? •• If Congre88 approves legislation lbat would complete lbe proce86 of turning the Armed Services Into an all- volunteer force. 4 On September lat, the Boy Scouts of America
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In Telecast To 50 Countries a pp ea ranc es, Presley replied : " My sideburns grew a little longer. Now they shoot me all the way, and not just below the waist and I would like lo think I have improved ... my stage presence and vocal ability. " Of the recent breakup of his marriage, Presley said , " It's just one of those things . It didn't work out in this case . We are still very good friends . I have nothing against married life." Presley, who recently filed for divorce to e nd his 5-year marriage to Prisilla, blamed his career for the breakup. " I was gone too much ," he said. R occo La gi nestra , president of RCA records, said an album entitled " Aloha From Hawaii ,·• would be released worldwide shortly after the satellite telecast and would include mu sic from the live broadcast.
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Billion People To See Elvis Honolulu International Theater. No money figures were revealed. It will be viewed live in Austra lia , Japan, Korea, ew Zealand , th e Philippines, Thailand and South Vietnam . The following night, audiences in 28 European countries will see the s how via a Eurovision s imulcast. Negotiations are under way to beam the show to the Soviet Union and China . NBC · TV will show the program in the United States at a later date.
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