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Tupelo, Mississippi, Week-End Edition, September 16-17, 1972
Vol. 99 No. 144
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FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT REJECTS INJUNCTION
Waterway Clears Final Court Barrier
. The last roadblock to beginning of construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway apparently was Friday when the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of l .cleared Appeals in New Orleans refused to issue an injunction blocking the work. · The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took bids on Sept. 7 for the first work on the $387 million project. \ And now the Corps of Engineers apparently will be able to go ahead and let the contract for construction of the lock and approach canal at Gainesville, Ala., \ near the lower end of the waterway. It is still possible that the groups protesting against the project on grounds it would damage the Northeast Mississippi environment may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an injunction to block the work. But this was considered unlikely by attorneys working in behalf of the project. Friday's Appeals Court ruling rejecting the request for an injunction was given by Judges Widsom, Godbold and Rhoney. It was issued on presentation of , briefs without appearance of attorneys to argue the case, according to Fred Bush, local attorney who has
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been active in Northeast Mississippi's efforts to defeat legal efforts to block the project. If the environmental groups should still push their efforts to obtain an injunction to delay the project, their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court apparently would be heard by Justice Powell, an appointee of President Nixon. Approximately sixteen million dollars is available to get construction started. And it was felt here Friday's ruling will permit the Corps of Engineers to move ahead rapidly. Still to be heard by the appellate court is the environmentalists' appeal of the lower court ruling that the Environmental Impact Statement drawn by the Corps of Engineers is sufficient. EDF and CLEAN maintained during a June hearing that the EIS did not sufficiently spell out the impact the waterway construction will have on the environment, wildlife, marine species and the land. Unless the Fifth Circuit reinstates six complaints dismissed by Judge Keady, only the question of sufficiency of the EIS will be decided by the appellate
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court. Should the appellate court uphold environmentalists' appeal on this question, some legal authorities have said it still would not stop construction on the waterway, but would simply mean that the Corps of Engineers would be ordered to re-draw the EIS. On August 28, U.S. District Judge William Keady had refused to grant an injunction to stop construction of the Waterway. Attorneys for the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund and for the Starkville-based Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Clean had indicated then a stay would be asked of the Court of Appeals. The long-planned 253-mile waterway project was first stalled in the courts last September when U.S . District Judge John Lewis Smith issued a temporary injunction in Washington, D.C. The case was subsequently transferred to Aberdeen, and Judge Keady dismissed six of the seven complaints. An eight-day trial was held in Aberdeen in June to consider the remaining complaint: that the En-
vironmental Impact Statement written for the waterway by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to fully disclose the environmental effects of the waterway, and that the Corps had violated other provisions of Section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act. Judge Keady issued a ruling in early August lifting the injunction granted by the Washington court and rejecting the environmentalists complaints. Meanwhile, the Corps of Engineers accepted bids on the lock and approach channel in Gainesville, Ala., on Sept. 7. Conflex Division of U.S. Industries of Jackson, Miss ., submitted the apparent low bid of $16.3 million for the work in West Alabama. The Gainesville project will consist of a combination concrete and earth dam with a gated spillway across the Tombigbee River. Designed to connect the Tennessee River with the Tombigbee and the Gulf, the waterway will stretch more than 200 miles through West Alabama and Northeast Mississippi.
Seven Indicted In Bugging Aftempt
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PRISONERS FREED ..i.Two of the seven prisoners the hijackers of a Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) DC-9 jetliner on flight from Goteborg to Stockholm had demanded the release of from Swedish jails arrive by car at
Barkarby Airfield·:- The two Croatians are Miro Barecic (in back seat) and Andelco Brajkoviv (not shown), convicted of murdering Yugoslav ambassador Vladimir Rolovic in Stockholm last year. -UPI Telephoto
Hiiackers Release 31 Hostages lri Trade For 3 Freed Terrorists MALMOE. Sweden h a \' e be e n d e m a n d in g (UPI )Three Yugoslav independence. terrorists who hijacked a Premier Olor Scandinavian Airline s Palrrie - f'ollowin g an S\·stem (SAS) DC9 jetliner emergency cabinet demanding fr eedom for meetin g - said hi s seven fellow countrymen government would release held in Swedish jails. the prisoners in return for released 30 of the 81 the release of' the hostages. assengers on the airliner Two police cars with three Saturday in return f'or three pri s oners in each drove of the prisoners. slow ly out on the unlit The three terrorists took tarmac at Malmoe · s over the plane at pistol point Bulltofta airport and parked and said they would blow it near the jetliner. Three prisoners we r e up if the seven pri soners - including two transferred lo the airliner. In convicted political assas- r e lu rn . the hija c ker s sins - were not freed . Both released the first group of 30 the hijack ers and the pa ssengers . which climbed prisoners are from Croatia aboard a bus that took th em in northwestern Yugos la\'ia to the airport building 500 wh ere separati st groups °yards away .
Land To Be Sold Monday For Payment Of Taxes A number of parcels of l and will be sold for elinquent taxes in Tupelo nd Lee County Monday morning . Mrs. Byrdie L. Lawhon, city tax collector. said all prop erly inside the city limits will be offered for sale al 8 :30 a .m . and owners can still pay the late taxes until time for the sale. Her office will open around 8a.m . Bilbo McCullough , Lee County Tax Assessor-Collector, said the county sale is at 11 a .m . His offic e opens at 8 a .m. Monday to receive late tax pay ments. The delinquent tax list will be published for the final time in the Daily Journal Monday morning. Both lax collecting offices are closed on Saturday. The taxes due are for 1971 and the 1972 laxes will be
There were 90 persons aboard the twin-e ngi ne jetliner. including the• three hijackers a nd a c rew of' four. when the pilot radioed he was being forced at pistol point to go to Malmoe. The plane was e nroute fro'ln Goteborg to Stockholm . H o w e \'er , whil e negotiations were underway ror t h e exc ha nge. th e hijackers r eleased t hree sick pa ssengers and a na\'Y phy sic ian . Or. Torbjoern Burm an . Not lon g aft erwa rd s. two mor e passengers an elderly man and a middleaged wom an - were also allowed lo lea \·c the aircraft. The man was taken away in an ambulance and th<: wo man sped off in a police car. The hijackers- identified onlv bv their surnam es as Simmi c. 13a j ic and Braunco negotiated over th e plane ' s radio · with Swedish Minister of Justice
collected in January. 1973. The land up f'or sale had taxes payable in January. 1972. Af'let Monday , all tax payments for 1971 will be collected in \he Lee County Chancery Clerk's office_ An additional fee will be added to the taxes and delinquenl cha rges . EW ALB A Y - A Potts McCullough said properly Ca mp man was killed early owners have three yea rs to Friday in a pedestrian-car redeem the land from the accident near Holly Springs. sale and the highest bidders according lo Mississippi will pay the taxes and may Hig h way P atrol officials charge the properly owners here . interest. He said the state He was identified as Roger law does not set a limit on the W. Handcock, 25. amount of inte rcs1 which can Dri\'er of the car was be collected. Jam es Bradford Westbrook, When three years arc up 25. of Tyronza . Ark . the bidders are issued tax Th e accide nt occurred deeds and legally own the, about five miles north of real estate. s he added. Holl y Springs on Slate City property will be sold Hi ghway 311. in front of City Hall and Cause or the accident was County property at the South li sted as pedestrian in Door of the Lee County roadwa y and no charges Courthouse . g have been filed. authorities
Gunnar Geijcr . who ha d ru shed l o the airport's control towcr whcn he heard of the incident. The hijackers initially set a deadline of la. m. Saturday (8 p .m . EDT Friday) for the release of' the p risoners and the go\'e rnme nt's decision came well bel'ore that. How eve r . th e actua l exchange was not lo lake place before 4 a .m . ( 11 p.m. EDT ). Police cleared the a irport building hours before that time . The prisoners-were being held at separate jails for a \'arie t y of crimes . Two were con\'icted o f murd e rin g Yugosla\' Ambassador V ladi mi r R o I o \' i c i n Stockholm las t year. Geijer said later he had a r e port that two of the prisoner s were reluctant to lea\'e their jails. lie did not identify the men ot her than to say the two were not the Continued on Page 12
Potts Camp Man Killed In Accident said. II ighway Patrolman J . D. Green investigated. Fun e ral services fo r Handcoc k will be al 2 p.m . Sunday at Be thlehem Methodist Churc h near Potts Camp with burial in the church ce metery . The Re\'. Greek Mullens will officiate and Holly Springs Fune ral Home is in c ha rge. He is survi\'ed by his fa ther. Th eodore Handcock ; two brothers , Bobby Gene and David Murry of Potts Camp ; two sisters. Mrs. Annie Lau rie Spears of Laws Hill and Miss Ali ce Fa~· Handcock or Potts Camp . h
objecli \'e and thorou gh WASH! GTON (UPI) A es pionage. The indict ment did not i1n·es ti galions in many federal g rand jury Frida~· indicted seven m en. deal with the .SI 14.000 at years. ·· There appeared to be no inclu ding two former While issue. Congressio nal House a ides. on charges of auditors ha\·e told the chance that' any trial or the breaking into De mocratic .Justice De partment that the federa l charges will begin nati ona l he adquarters to monc~· was fu nneled lhrough before the No\'. 7 general steal doc ume nts and install :"<ix o n· · s r e-elec ti on election. Sen. George S. Mc Go \·ern . committee before it was bu gging de \'i ces. The grand jur.r. wh ich th:pos1trd in the Miumi bank the Democratic presidential r eturn ed th e eight-count account of one of the th·e nominee. told reporters in indictment at U.S. District m c n arre s t ed al the Baltimore " the indictments Court he r e. said some Water ga te . A Justi ce point up the seriousness in t e l ep hone con \·e rsalions Department spokesman said the matter . Whal now needs originating in De mocratic its in \·estigalors were still lo be pursued is how it was offi ccs al the Wate1·gate looking al that aspect of the funded and whether there arc \'iolations as there seem hot e l-apartment complex case . .\tlorne~· General Richard to be :· already had been monitored Asked whether he thinks f'or thrc(' weeks before five of G . Kleindienst defended the the men were arrested in the go\'er nm e nl s effo r ts to the indictments intensify the buildin g Junl:! l7. Th(' two un ra \·e l the 111,\·sler y. saying matter as a campaign issue. White Ho use aides were th e indictment c limaxed McGo\·ern said "'yes, I do:· The two new figures accused of fle eing the SC('lle " one of the most intensi\'e. m ome nts before po lice arri\'ed . The indictment did not sa \· how or whe n the earlie·r li sten in g d e \·ices were installed. Neither did it mention former Attorne\' General J o hn N. Mitch e ll. who resigned July 1 as President Nixon ·s campaign manager. or Ma urice H. Stans. the former Commerce Secretary who now is the President's campaign finance c hai rman. D e mocr a tic lea d ers. partic ularly former ational Chairman Lawrence F . O' Brien. ha\·e accused Stans of con sp iring t o di\'ert Sl14 . 000 in Republi ca n cam paig n contributions to finan ce the Watergate affair and other · ·political
named in the indi ctment. besides the five suspects actually captured in the h eadq uarters . were E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy . Hunt. 54. is a former Central Intelligence Agency em ploye and . sen·ed until last spring a a SlOO-a-day consultant to Charles W. Colson. s pecial coun. el to Nixon . Liddy. 42. is a form er FBI agent. T r easu ry De partment official and Whjte House consultant who was lired June 28 as counsel lo the Finance Committee f r the Re- Election of t he President when he refused to a nswer FBI questions a bout the Watergate case. Continued on Page 12
Pension Reform
PLANNING SESSION .::....Three officials involved in a program of degree credit courses which will be made available to part-time students here are shown finalizing plans. From left are : President W. 0 . Benjamin of Itawamba Junior College ; Chancellor Porter Fortune of the University of Mississippi ; and Chairman R. L. Qualls of the Education Committee of the Community Development Foundation.
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benefits to workers with at least 15 years e mplo~·menl under a pension plan. Th e l 6 · 0 \' o l c demonstrated th e bi! 1· s e lection year appeal despite the misgivi ngs of businesses . which feared its cost. No chance existed f'or House co ns id e r a tion but sponsors felt Senate appro\'al this year would assure the bill's adoption in the Senate in 1973 and pa\·e the way f'or House action. A committee study showed that on ly 15 per cent of the 30 million workers covered by pri\·ate pen sion systems actually receh·e benefits. Man y lea \·e their jobs before they ha \'e worked long e nou g h to establish a guaranteed right to al least partial payment. The bill would req ui re a pensi on plan pay a worker a full pension after 15 years employment. Workers would be e ntitled to 30 per cent of a full pens io n after eight years service and to an additional 10 per ce nt ror each addi t io na l yea r of employment. Workers who a re 45 years old when th e bill beco mes effective would be c redited for their prior ser\'icc.
T h e Co m m un il y De\·e lopment i'~oundatio1l°s Edu ca tion Co mmittee in cooperation with Itawamba Junior Colle ge and the ni\'ersity of Mississippi will begin this month offering deg ree credit courses in the e\'e nin g lo part -tim e stude ntsintheTupeloarea . Committee chairman R.L. Qualls of T upelo sai d President W.O. Benjamin of Itawamba Junior College and Chancellor Port e r l•o r t un e of the Uni\'ersity of Mississippi ha\'e committed the r eso urces of th eir insti tutions lo pro\'id ing this area with a well rounded off-cam pus program . "We arc providing a program lo allow ind1\'iduals to continue their education • on a part-time basis in an off -cam pu s s ituati o n ... Benjamin said. "'because in our societ~· there are those who cannot gel l o the ca m pus. or once hadng left and ass u m e d n c w responsibilitiessuchasa job and family . they c~nnol physical ly or financially make it back ... E\'enin g l'Ourses . ranging from the freshman through the g rad uate le\·el. ha\·e
been scheduled for offering ~h e U n i\'ersitv lo t h(' at th e Itawamba J unior continued succe~s of th is College Vo -Tech Center program . h e r e. Freshman and Qualls sai d the range of sop homore courses will carry Itawamba Junio r courses picked offers a College credit. and upper d h ·e rsit y of s ub jects . di \·i sion and grad uate ··Acco untin g. secretarial courses will ea r n · r esident sc ie nce. education . home credit with the Un.i\'ersity of economics. h istory. mathematics. languages and Mississippi. Registration wil l be he ld at the physical and social 6:30 p.m . September 27 and sc iences are being offered 28 at the Vo-Tech Ccnlcr. Monday through Thu.rsday Courses taken under junior nig hts in \'arious courses on college credit will cost S12 m a n \' I e \' e Is . An \'one p e r semester hour. with inle1·~sled in continuing his upper level cou rses costing education s hou ld look at the S18 per semester hour. schedule(see page 25) to see Graduate course charges a re how these courses could benefit him . Both schools S24 per semester hour. Chancellor Fortune said and the CD F ha \·e gone to a ··we are enthusiastic a bout lot of work to pro\'ide t hese wo rkin g with Itawamba courses. an d onlv J unior College in prodding parti ci pation can repay e\·cn this program for th e Tupelo part of the effort expended .·· He added that futur(' a rea . We feel the area is ready, a nd the courses benefits of the program offered will sene as the v:ould be semina rs and short beginning of a sound courses. offered fo r no foundatio n for this program . credit. "'We can de\'clop the Suc'h a program offers direct whole s p ect rum or benefits to t he people o r th is educational ser\'ices he re if a r ea and is a nother \' ital step they will be used. I cannot in the full utilization of all st ress parti ci pation enough. o ur state ·s r esou rces . .. Only the lack of students can Fortune conclude d bv hinder this program :· Qualls offering the full support of added.