Hattiesburg American (Newspaper) - March 1, 1973, Hattiesburg, Mississippi ehance of showers ending early partly cloudy Friday 52 MISSISSIPPI 1/1973 I- MEET tHE former POWs talk with members of the press Thursday morning at Keesler AFB prior to returning They from Lt. Col. Thomas J. George R. Hall of Hattiesburg and Maior Thomas E. Collins of Clinton and Hall wUI be home ELLIOTT CHAZE KEESLER George Robert Hall said today at a news conference that he expects to be home in Hattiesburg Friday afternoon and that he attributes at least a part of his mental fitness to the fact pretended to holes of golf every day in his POW attended the conference with two other POW Thomas J. Curtis of and Major Thomas E. Collins of Hall explained golfing adventure this He measured his cell and using that laid out his imaginary golf He did not simply sit and He had himself a stick and he paced his cell with the He would meet people he knew from the past as he strolled the they He his indoor sport as the result of I divorced myself from my three of the POW returnees were sunburned and dressed in their Air Force blues They looked slim but say hello to hair was neatly was a dream he program is set for March 5, has been declared Colonel George Robert Hall Day in Hattiesburg and Forrest it was today by Commissioners Walter Parker and Bud Gerrard and Board of Supervisors President community will officially welcome the returning prisoner of war on that day in ceremonies which have been ty the colonel and his main event will take place at 5:30 in the Claude Bennett Auditorium at the University ef Southern A brief welcoming program is as well as a prayer for all other POWs and MIAs and for the families of those who did not and will not be in the Hattiesburg area is urged to be at the auditorium the Administration to welcome Colonel Hall back home to the city and County officials they urged everyone to fly an American flag that day and for businesses with marquees to uSe these to welcome Colonel signs already have been up for a week or so on most of the marquees in 10,000 Welcome Unmo been received by Southern Cares POW-MIA group and these are being offered to the They can be secured at the county city Chamber of Commerce bafie 14) but it by n his scores on the imaginary golf ho said he every hole said Ite also kept mentally alert by posing mathematical problems for himself and reviewing his knowledge of was asked if the other prisoners knew that he was solf rests case in Parchman Miss. defense rested its case today in the murder trial of a state prison inmate after the young convict testified he did not fire the shots which killed a civilian guard at Parchman last a black 24-year-old former took the stand in his own He is charged with murder in the Sept. 12. 1972, shooting death of his James Amos biracial jury that wife shot her 42-year-old husband and that he had been offered to take the of his testimony today was similar to a statement he made to doctors at the state hospital at Whitfield following the The statement was introduced in court Wednesday by a staff Scales told the biracial ho was in back yard with the two small children at the time of the Sunflower County Sheriff Sessums Wednesday had statements allegedly made by Scales in which the inmate said he killed the guard at convict told the court that he had had sexual relations with the 24-year-old wife on three previous He said she had offered him money to kill her husband and that the day on 14) the bright lights set up for the television colonel as moderator for the POW and newsmen during the He thanked the press for our He said that as far as news were he wanted to get it all today and then wanted to be left alone for a couple of months to be with his family and saiid when asked how he thought his old friends would treat him when he got that he imagined they would have a lot of about him but that this would soon wear off and the relationship would soon return to expect them to treat me good sometimes and bad just they always he opening comments had to do with his delight about the news that another batch of POWs soon would be He said that the courage and character of some of his cellmates had played a large role in his own that and the others would answer on 14) Writer SAIGON United States announced tonight that the North had turned over a list of American prisoners and two Thais released over the But it said the Viet fang hini not yet turned over a list of 30 Americans to be freed from camps in South U.S. delegation had initially said lOB Americans be freed by North Vietnam and 34 by the Viet but it was discovered later that these figures included two Thais held in and two West and two Filipinos held in the Viet Cong spokesman said American prisoners scheduled for release by them included 26 servicemen and lour U.S. announcement Democratic Republic of Vietnam representative on the POW ' Joint Military presented to the U.S. representative a list the names of 106 U.S. and two Thai The United States has not been advised of the time place No new information has been received detained the is the government ol Viet Cong in South chief spokesman for ihe North Vietnamese Bui said the POWs would be freed over the after the - ' was turned over to the American mitted to Washington so that relatives of the American on page 14) MICHAEL Press Writer PAKIS - foreign ministers of 12 including world's initialed a nine-point declaration today endorsing peace establishing a procedure for examining of State William P. Rogers and the foreign ministers of China and Union were among those who initialed the Dakota senators to attempt of rail crossings reform forces pin hopes to direct says FBI arrest of reporter is JOHN CHADWICK Press Writer ' WASHINGTON - The arrest of reporter Leslie Whitten on charges of possessing stolen Bureau of Indian Affairs documents was valid even though a jury did not return an says Director J. Patrick Gray and Indians Hank Adams and Anita Collins were arrested Jan. 31 of apartment as they were loading three boxes of the stolen into A grand jury refused thou documents were to be delivered the columnist for a sum of said the FBI had no information the documents were being returned to the Gray the arrest of with a box of documents in his was made on the authorization of an assistant U.S. also confirmed after Whitten's Anderson's telephone records were subpoenaed in an action initialed by the government who was in charge of the said the mem iney wui v they were returning the Anderson io inquire Indian occupation of tp the Whitten's Jack wrote several columns about the BIA told tha Senate Judiciary Committee day that the arrest was made after District of Columbia II llEli to try to locate other stolen BIA committee is hearings Into appointment to succeed the late J. Edgar Hoover as FBI The hearings continue Miss. reform forces pinned their hopes today on a direct lending and Gov. Waller's special session threat after losing again on a to interest Mississippi House gave the interest reduction measure a 66-48 vote Wednesday on its second trip to the but for the second time it failed by three votes to win the required coming despite efforts of the governor to rally votes behind prompted a new press conference and a new appeal for people to contact legislators in behalf of the which weather a.m. temperature 40 Highest 67 arid lowest 36 during preceding 24 No River Stage 6.4 ft. Sunset today 5:58. Sunrise Friday 6:28. ' cloudiness today with chance of showers few mainly west this most sections tonight and ending west tonight and cast early Friday followed by Continued Highs today and Friday upper 60s to mid 70s. Low tonight 4()s north and 50s on a motion to said he would accept direct lending as an alternate although he preferred And he calling a special session if we can't give the working people some I'm that the working people elected timing of such a he would depend on a number of said he defeat of was due pressure from loan fims do see in halls around here so an example of he representative from Hinds County abstained from voting because he owns an interest in He voted Emmett of the Only Hinds lawmaker with that voting said only figured he would say He declined further 11. Merideth chairman of the Judiciary said he would call up the direct lending when reached it on would leave the present of securing loans through u broker and sot up another Southern Railway morning timbering and surfacing of the seven crossings in Hattiesburg and expects too have the job completed by middle of next railroad spokesman said the tentative schedule calls for completion of the Scooba St. crossing and Fourth on Southern and Ronie on Monday Main St. on and Market St. on is subject to change in case of train will take from one and a half hours to three hours to complete a crossing and only one crossing will be closed the spokesman present operation of smoothing out the railroad crossings will complete a - project several weeks ago of laying new rails from Hill to a distance of approximately 14 track was laid with 1,440 foot long sections of ribbon of the loog rails wes completed about two weeks ago and now virtually the entire track from New Orleans to Meridian is M JOHN Associated Press Writer WOUNDED S.D. South Dakota's two senators were flying to this tiny community today in an effort two-day siege hy militant Indians holding 11 residents have this assurance through an intermediary and I know the American Indian AIM are aware of he confident we can negotiate the release of the rest once we get plane was expected to touch down around 200 have demanded a Senate probe of the Bureau of Indian Affairs In return for freeing the Aside from one brief meeting with an FBI the Indians have kept law enforcement officers at a and was an of gunfire Wednesday in Washington before his Abourezk said he and fellow Democrat McGovern would be accompanied by of of Edward M. and J.W. Indians also had demanded that Kennedy and Fulbright come to the reservation to discuss their which include the of and the way in which the Oglala Sioux elects its of the American Indian Movement who seized of Wounded the of tragedy for red mer wane of the great push of the 19th they had ranging in age from 12 to 82! least six of the captives over 65, the FBI spokesman said there had been Wednesday were no reports of estimated 250 federal FBI agents and BIA police from the Pine Ridge and other Indian cordoned off. the tiny yalley They kept to the heights more than half a mile along four 14) with the Viet Cong and ' four members of International Commission of Control and Poland and pledging i peace and to reconvene ' any six of them lodge a is to be formally at a ceremony in International Conference on v i- and its Communist allies their previous insistence that conference recalled by a majority of 12 this would have given each the United States and its allies agreed mention the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary conference declaration signatories do hot necessarily each compromise was Continued on 14) r * person was killed and others in area traffic accidents afternoon and Patrol officers said 52-year-old Gertis of in the wreckage of his tractor trailer truck shortly Stevens rig went out of control and ran off U.S. 9B near the County Another trailer truck driver discovered toe a.m. Rescue Seven helicopter ambulance went to the One Hattiesburg fire truck also was Firefighters used saws in an attempt to remove Stevens from the crushed cab of his but he died before they could get him said the truck went down a 12-foot intn in broke loose and crashed through ripping and crushing the tractor's A native of Stevens is survived by his of three and his of He was a World Warr II He was a contract hauler and owned the tractor trailer rig he was driving at the time of the Funeral Home of of Amy 33, of Rt. 1, was in serious condition at General Hospital this following a accident on Highway 49 south of Collins shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday Bridges was taken to the hospital hy a Covington 14) m photo by nf in man HipH f ' - - i
