THE WEATHER Northeast Mississippi -Showers t od ay, diminishing to n ig h t"; decreasing cloudiness and cooler Tuesday. Highs in mid sos; lows near 40.
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Cooke, Young Matched In Runoff For DA Post State Rep. Michael 't:ooke, Tupelo, and Corinth attorney John Young will meet later this month in a runoff election for the office of District Attorney of the Mississippi First Judicial District, following Saturday's election results in which none of the three candidates seeking office received 51 per cent of the votes cast. Attorney Tommy Gardner, Tupelo, polled the fewest votes in the special election, leaving Cooke and Young to face each other in another election Saturday, March 22. Cooke led the field with 5,979 voles, but failed to obtain the required
majority. Young polled 5,300 votes and Gardner received 4,609, according to unofficial returns. Official returns will be announced today. A light voter turnout, as had been expected, was reported with about 20 per cent of the eligible voters in the seven -county area casting ballots. The election had been called to fill the vacancy created when Neal Biggers was elected to the office of Circuit Court judge last fall. The First District includes Lee , Alcorn, Tishomingo, Prentiss, Pontotoc, Monroe and Itawamba counties. Cooke led in the voting in the counties of Lee, Monroe
and Itawamba while Young polled the most votes in Alcorn, Tishomingo and Prentiss counties, according to unofficial returns. Gardner led in Pontotoc County. The largest number of votes received by Young in an individual county was in Alcorn County, where he was shown to have polled 2,497 of the 2,900 votes cast. Cooke received his largest number of votes in Lee County ·with an unofficial tqtal of 2,365. Gardner's largest single county vote also came in Lee with l , 794 votes reported. Young received 240 vot1::s in Lee County.
Based on other unofficial figures reported to the office of Lee County Circuit Clerk Fay Estes, the county-by county breakdown of voting was : Alcorn; Cooke - 283, Young - 2,497 , Gardner - 120 ; Pontotoc; Cooke - 513, Young - 283, Gardner -722 ; Itawamba ; Cooke -901, Young - 199, Gardner - 579; Tishomingo; Cooke -496, Young - 526, Gardner - 243; Prentiss; Cooke - 509, Young - 942, Gardner - 561; Monroe; Cooke - 912, Young -613, Gardner -590. The polls opened at 7 a.m. Saturday and closed at 6 p.m. Unofficial returns were completed shortly before 8 p.m .
Kissinger Totes Eygpt Peace Ideas To Israel
F;ACES OF FEAR -Terror is etched in the taces of these Cambodians seeking s helter in a doorwa:v during a recent rocket attack on Phnom Penh
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Weeks of indiscriminate sbellings and siege has brought the Cambodia capital to its knees.
Arlhri.fis Hits 1st Lady WASHINGTON (UPI) First Lady Betty Ford. suffering from a severe flair up o· r a chronic osteo-arthritic condition, was treated at the White House S unda y by a rheumatology speeialist. Dr. William Lukash, White ouse physician, said the esident's ife had her • est night's sleep" Saturday but was still feeling discomfort from the ailment in the neck and back.
He said she was treated Sunday by Dr. William Felts, head of rheumatology and professor of medicine at George Wa s h i n gto n University Medical School. Felps has treated Mrs. Ford for this condition for the past eight yea rs. Luk ash said that . Mrs. Ford "can't be going out" and will be forced to cancel public engagements for the next few days. She is taking "pain medication." he said,
and has been undergoing Barbra Streisand in " Funny routine therapy including hot Lady." packs a nd massage. She also · The First Lady also had is doing what he ca lled her planned t o deliver " William s exercises," a welcoming remarks at a common therapy routine to Cabinet wives concert for keep her muscles in shape. fourth graders in the "She's had quite a bit of Washington area at the trouble," he said. He added Kennedy Center Monday . that she was " disappointed" morning but she had to about having to miss an cancel it, and is said to be appearance at the Kennedy disappointed that she will not Center Sunda y for a be able to attend a swearingprogram in advance or a Continued on Page 12 world premiere starring
Corinth Man Fatally Hurt Getting Car From Ditch CORI TH - A Corinth man , Lem McKenney, 51, was killed Friday night on U.S. 45 just south of here . County sh~riff 1 Alcorn utho rities said that McKenney was attempting to pull his car from the ditch and walked into the path of a
car driven by George Gardner. The Sheriff's Department of Al c orn Co unty investigated the accident. Arrangements are incomplet e and will be a nn o un c ed by Gra yson F uner al H<>rt;le in Corinth . w
Single-Car Accident Injures M an Critically A Lee County ma,, is in critical condition at .North Mississippi Medical Center as the result of injuries received i n a one-car accident Sunday afternoon. He was Identified as Sherman Culp, 45, of Belden. Deputy Sheriff Ronald Ray said the accident occurred about 4 p.m. on a county road nort h of the Shangri La when Culp came over a hill and
apparently lost control of his car, hitting an embankment. He was transported to the hospital by an ambulance te a m of emerge nc y technicians. Hospital authorities said Sunday night Culp was in Surgical Intensive care with fractured vertebrae in the neck and head injuries. His condition was listed as critical. h
secretary's mission. More than an hour before his arrival, a small bomb exploded among trees in the Abu Tor quarter of J erusalem about a half mile from the King David Hotel where Kissinger makes his headquarters while in Israel. There were neith er casualties nor damage. Ki singer arrived four days after an Arab guerrilla attack on Tel Aviv ' s beachfront to which the Israelis, to the urpri e of some , have yet to retaliate. Tighter security than us ual fot Kissinger's stays in Israel was in evidence in Jerusalem , with armed
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troops guarding maJor intersections and additional border police, wearing green berets, posted around the King David Hotel. Kissinger attended a working dinner at the home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with Rabin and his chief negotiators - Defense Minister Shimon Peres, lion . the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur, and several aides. Allon said after the meeting that Kissinger gave them a preliminary report on his talks in Egypt and Syria which will continue at Continued on Pi>~e 12
Inside Toda.y 's Journal Repeat Trip Complete
DETROIT (UPI) - Just two of the nation's 58 car and truck assembly plants will be closed this week- the fewest in four months- and more· than 43.000 U.S. auto wo rkers will return to their jobs. Industry officials say the jobles toll in the slumping industry will drop to 214,600 worker this week, with all but 5,450 on open-ended layoffs, some dating back to last winter's energy crisis cutbacks .
bombs on the dense.thickets of wooden houses and shops on the northeast side of Tokyo. High winds and aviation fuel dumped from the bomb rs fed the flames. The result was an unstop'p able hurricane of fire. · The March 10 bombing became known as the "Tokyo Dai Kushu" (great Tokyo raid) - the title of Salome's book. Until that raid, the U.S.
Last week, 19 car and truck assembly plants were closed and 258,000 workers were off the job, 46,200 on temporary layoffs and 211·800 on indefinite layoffs . The only assembly plant closings this week wiu involve two of Ford Motor Co. 's 23 plants- the Chicago 1 ~~;75 as:e0~ ~ ~ / a;~d "~~~ Norfolk, Va., truck plant, with 875 wo r kers. ln addi t ion. Ford's Fairfax, Oh io, transmission plant, with 1,050 workers, also will be down for one week. While Ford is closing the three plants, it is recalling 2,000 workers to step up · output of small cars at its Dearborn, Mich. and Kansas City, Mo., plants. Ford said it has enough orders from its recen!I Y completed sales
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Tokyo Raid 30 Years A go Today SaiO Worst Single A ttack Ever them civilians, burned to death during the next two and one half hours, according to police estimates at the time. The March 10 raid on Tokyo was the deadliest ever carried out by Americans, and may have been the most letha l single air raid in history. The number of persons illed outright topped the highly publicized atomic bombings of Hiroshima <78,150) and Nagasaki (37,425). More than 100,000 were wounded and about a million were left homeless. German authorities say
silver jet landed at tsen Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv at 8:45 p.m. (2:45p.m. EDT) " We are here to see whether together we can make so m e progress· towards peace," Kissinger said after being welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon . From the airport. Kissinger drove to Jerusalem and presented to Israeli leaders the proposals given him by Egyptian President nwar Sadat for an agreement on a further Israeli pullback in the Sinai Desert east of the Suez Canal- the object of the
The tiny Golden Hinde II (at left) sailed under the Golderi Gate Bridge at San Francisco to the sounds of a 21-gun salute after completing a 5-month duplication of the voyage of its namesake 400 years ago under Sir Francis Drake. P lease turn to page seven.
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TOKYO (UPI) - When air raid sirens blared in Tokyo 15 minutes after midnight March 10, 1945, 13-yearold Katsumoto Salome ran for his family's kitchen "ether than the air raid ,1 elter. "If I'm going to die, I want it to b with a full stomach," he houted to his mother. Mom's reply was : "Get out of here. you dope.' Satomc did. and lived to write the definitiv history book on the worst air raid inflicted on Japan by the United States in World War II . Between 80,000 and 100,000 Japanese, most of
, JERUSALEM (UP() Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Israel Sunday and delivered .E gyptian ideas on a second stage peace agreement to Is raeli leaders after meeting continued opposition from Syria on the way. Syrian President Hafez Assad told newsmen while meeting Kissinger in Damascus that Syria opposed partial and interim agreements that did not include Israeli withdrawal on all three fronts-the Golan Heights and West Bank of Jordan as well as Sinai. Kissinger' s ~lue-a!1d-
about 145,000 persons died in the fire bombing of Dresden, now in East Germany, in February, 1945. However, the Dresden carnage was spread over three raids, two by Britain' s Royal Air Forc e, and one by U.S bombers. The toll for the RAF born bing of Hamburg in 1943 was 43,000 killed outright, and 975,000 homeless. Flying fro m the Mariannas islands, wave after wave of B29 bombers showered fire -igni t i n g
Q uestions Unanswered O n Kill ings The parents of 13-year-old David Hilligiest want answers to questions surrounding the mass murders that led to their son being found in a limelined grave. Please turn to page five.
Jobless Tempering Seen . '!'lJough initial uni.on demands won't be reduced, Labor Department off1c1als expect the high unemployment to temper final contracts. Please turn to page nine.
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Dan Gerber z:arely has ~nyone to look up to, but in a blind date with · ~ndy · Allen his.7-foot, 2-mch frame was three inches shorter than hers m the world's tallest blind date.
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AS SESSION ENTERS 10 TH WEEK
Lawmakers Move To Curb Spending JACKSON (UPI) -Mississippi lawmakers move into their 10th week Monday with a strong move under way in both chambers to curb state spending in view of a recent decline in revenue estimates. Acting House Speaker C.B. " Buddie" Newman of Valley Park warned that excessive expenditures this year would leave the state in serious financial trouble if present economic trends continue _ This could mean, Newman said, that the 1976 legislature would be left in the uncomfortable position . of either having to make some severe cuts in state appropriations -or enact new tax increases. Similar warnings were issued last week by other fiscal leaders following the signing by Gov. Bill Waller of the multi-million dollar teacher pay bill and a reduction of nearly $30 million in revenue projections for the next 16 months. The teacher pay increases are expected to cost about $18 million more than budget commission recommendations for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The major concern was over a substantial drop in sales tax collections -the state's top revenue
producer -during the past few months. Receipts are still r unning higher than last year, but the rate of increase is down sharply from prior estimates. Both chambers resume work at 2 p.m . Monday with only four weeks remaining in the 90-day session and final action still pending on many key bills including e!hics, open meetings, election law changes and reapportionment. The Senate is expected to open debate Tuesday morning on the long pending confirmation of Jack K_ Reed as state prison superintendent. The Correction Committee conducted a lengthy hearing on the controversial appointment of the former California penal official, then voted 5-4 against confirmation. The full Senate still must act on the matter. Reed has been accused by opposition forces of ignoring various state laws dealing with prison operations, including the "goodtime" statues under which inmates can earn time off their sentences proponents contend Reed bas brought vast improvements in the operation of the long-troubled Delta penal institution. There were r eports of an attempt may be made
Tuesday to avoid a direct vote on the appointment by again tossing it back to committee. This apparently would allow Reed to remain until next year when it would be up to the next governor to reappoint him or choose another superintendent. Other lawmakers indicated a motion may be made to "table" the nomination, which apparently would have the same effect as rejecting it and would mean Re ed' s ouster. Reed has held the post since December 1973_ The legislators face another major, self-imposed deadline this week in their push to expedite business and wind up the session by April 6. Thursday will be the last day for floor action on general bills and constitutional amendments previously approved by the opposite chamber. The cutoff does not apply to appropriations and revenue bills. The deadline is March 19 for floor action on revenue and appropriation bills already passed by the opposite chamber. The last couple of weeks would then be devoted largely to concurrence in amendments and handling Senate -House conference committee reports.