Laurel Leader-Call (Newspaper) - June 10, 1961, Laurel, Mississippi TODAY'S THOUGHT The man who looks up H likely to Rive Free Downtown Parking For Our Customers High Today 80* 50th Year No. 54 Serving Southeastern Mississippi June 10, 1961 c Weather Details under Daily Since 1911 Five Cents Guardsmen Off To Encampment Off to summer encampment at Ft. are guardsmen of Headquarters and Headquarters First Battle 3rd 155th Mississippi National On departure from Laurel Saturday David their ing and 1st Lt. Jack Hurst inspect the packs seen on the side of the truck as already loaded look The unit will be in encampment two Additional pictures on page Photos by morning Wildcat By KliSIK JOHNSON Staff Writer Two more penults were Issued for Jones County * one n wildcat on State School land and one in Pool Creek Field bringing the number of oil operations in the county to 16. Some half dozen locations have been staked In the new Pool Creek miles east of Laurel in Rustin but permits have not been Hess Product ion Company has permit for the No. 1 State a 13,500-foot wildcat located in the SW SW of 8-7N-12W. Gulf Coast Drilling unci rigging The new permit for Pool Creek is Placid Oil Company No. 1 J. N. NW NW of Sec. 23-0N-1OW, an offset which will be drilled to 12.000 On the Placid Oil Company's No. 1 George SE NE of Sec. 22-&N-10W. Brooks Drilling contractor is below 3960 Jones County wildcat tests show the following p r o g r e s s Central Oil Company is waiting to rig to drill the No 1 Unit 9-0, A 9,000-foot, in NE SE of Sec 9-fl.N-llW, in the vicinity of The Offshore company No. 1 Masonite Corpora NE SW of 22-7N-12W, three miles of is drilling 9947 Sinclair Oil and Otm No. 1 C C. H. NW SE of Sec. 10-0N-13W, near Soso and la at 7435 Also near Gulf is the No. and at 10,220 feet on D. Sec. 27-9N-13W; and Gns Company on E. S. Sec. Is and Company Drilling drilling 1 J. W. Triad Oil the No. 1 34-10N-HW, near below 11,960 Fields In Ovett Warren has secured permit to deepen to 13,000 an abandoned the No. 1 S. NE SW of Sec. 17-6N-11W. bottomed at 9805 Oliver Drilling Company has moved rig onto location and is cleaning out hole in preparation to Same operator has location for the No. 4 L. L. a 9100-foot test in the NW SE of sec. 29-6N-11W. In Reedy Creek testing is underway on two and The California Company is drilling below 6600 feet on the No. 2 Board of Supervisors 2, Sec. 16-9N-11W. Production casing has been set on the Lone Star Producing Company and Central Company No. 1 R. H. Sec. 24-10N-10W, Bryan Contract depth was 11,000 Charter Oil Company Is completing the No. 22-8 Bryan Sec. 22-10N-10N. Central Oil Company has spudded the No. 1 SW SW of Sec. 3-7N-9W, Wayne and Jett Drilling Is drilling at 1250 Test is In District of Desoto National some three miles west of the Jones County It is scheduled for 10,300 Oil and Refining Com- pany is abandoning the No. 1 Board of Supervisors Sec. 16-9N-9W, after drilling 12,000 Preparing to spud in Smith County is Monsanto Chemical Company No. 1 a 13,000-foot test In NW SW of Sec. 23-10N In Simpson Corporation is drilling at 12,641 feet on the No. 1 Sec. 10-10 Drilling in Pearl River County on the Albert M Stall No. 1 Southern Sec. 2-2S-16W Is below 9105 Man Shoots Wife After Family Fuss A Laurel Negro woman was shot acid seriously wounded as the climax to an argument with her husband Friday Police Capt. Jerry said Lee age not of 624 S. Fourth was shot once in the head with a Her Roosevelt Cooley is being sought in connection with the The woman was admitted to Southeastern Benevolent where her condition Saturday was Officers said the shooting occurred in the Cooley Assisting in the investigation were City Billy Carr and James Hold Chief Defense CIUDAD Dominican Republic Dominion n Republic former defense secretary was held for questioning in the government probe of Dictator Rafael Maj. Gen. Jose Rene 60, a career was fired from the top defense Job two days without The mastermind of the assassination Gen. Juan Tomas D la repo 1 y tri ed to contact just before intelligence agents shot him dead on a city Roman's accuser was Dr. Roberto Rcld whom police said committed suicide after four accused platters seized his home ns a ' One of the captured assassination had told reporters at his prison that the plan was to kidnap Trujillo and force the 69-year-old dictator to Rumors circulated in Ciudad Trujillo on the Trujillo was Gen. Roman was a Dominican official's home near the scene of the Roman and his host went to see the shooting was Leland civilian aide to Gen. Rafael Trujillo new armed forces chief and son of Uie late said Roman has been replaced as defense chief by Maj. Santos Melido Marte Pi canard o. also has been serving as the new regime's liaison man with the special team sent here by the Organization of American States to Investigate the status of civil liberties in the Dominican which Trujllo ruled with an iron hand for 31 The OAS committee will report on whether past nine Continued on Page River Tragedy McLain Miss. - The bodies of two men and a 12-year old boy who were drowned Friday while on a fishing trip were recovered from Leaf River near here Saturday John L. 33, prominent stockman of his 12-year old John and his L. M. 35, drowned when their boat from Greene Sheriff W. Douglas said a search was begun about midnight when the men and the boy failed to return They had gone to the river al about 5 p.m. The bodies were carried to man Funeral Home at Volunteer rescue together with Laurel Assistant Police Chief Police a M. I and line The body of Daughdrill floated to the surface north of the Highway 98 bridge at about 10:20 a.m. Some 10 minutes a rescue including Laurel police and recovered the bodies of the boy and his father with grappling The boa fc had been found In brush some 200 yards downstream from where a trotline had been set three Laurel Thomas L. Arthur chens and James Flowers were dispatched with the department's saving equipment about 7 a.m. They were accompanied by Street Maintenance Supervisor Tommy and several Rescue from and surrounding moved in to assist in dragging in the vicinity of the h F * P P Deadlock Break His First Look Marvels of the This is one Cuban refugee that wasn't bothered by the newsmen and crowds of but moving stairs were something else The little boy after the long flight from Cuba and then stood fascinated by stairs and had to be pulled Fire Destroys Guard Armory Rules Sheriff Of T enies Rumors or Riders BRIEFS Miss. - more were en route from to Jackson today to raise the number testing travel facilities over the 100 The five white riders and their three Negro companions left Nashville after instruction in technique froim the student nonviolent a petition asking for a incite federal court to protect Freedom Riders from arrest and police interference was expected to reach Dist. Judge Mizo In location on is Mrs. and York in event but said publicly the prisoners are R would be the Constance Baker Motley Thu Ma rsh a 11, N e w attorneys for the Partly cloudy through Sunday with scattered much change in Lowest 08 to 7'l Highest Sunday 80 to 1)0. Temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 7 high low 71, at 7 77. Rain Wind at 11 and R. Jess Brown of Jackson and filed the petition I hat charges and coercion of Freedom Judge refer the to Chief Judge Elbert P. Circuit Court of Orleans for con- Sunset SKIKS June 11 today 7:02 p.m. NAACP Joins With COKK The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed the in District It was the first NAACP movo to align directly with the Congress of Equality in tests of Deep South 1 aws and The NAACP has favored legal rather Mum the more direct although goul of travel In the wake of Sheriff J. it. Gilfoy said rumors thai freedom riders would be transferred this weekend to the 16,000-acre state penitentiary at parchman wore will he until sanitary and other conditions get so we wHl make arrangements The situation not specify and new of the 5th U.S. Appeals in New Since May 24, there have been for other isn't riders convicted on breach of the peace charges stemming from failure to obey an officer's order to move Three Jackson Samuel Joseph and Burnett L. are in the attacking what they call unconstitutional state laws requiring segregated railroad rest and waiting rooms and the posting of segregation signs at The defendants are State Gen. Joe Mayor Allen O. Thompson and the Jackson City Police Chief W. D. Trail ways and Greyhound bus Illinois Central Jackson Oily Lines and an airport In a group of Freedom Riders says the white riders in city jail will Join a hunger strike on Monday unless the federal government takes some action by Continued on tomorrow a.m. tomorrow a.m. At midnight tonight the Milky Way can be traced across the eastern sky from Sagittarius and Scorpio in the south to Cassiopeia in the The Milky Way is easy to find on clear moonless June 13 Sunset 7;02 p.m. tomorrow The Moon will not be seen being in conjunction with the Sun (New at p.m. The has moved into the and Is now not much brighter than the North Mars is now nearly 180 million miles Miss. - A fire destroyed the interior of Uie National Guard armory here early but quick action by n sergeant and over in equipment from the The 7r>-man Magnolia unit of the Guard war scheduled to leave early for two weeks nl Fort Ala. Fire out at 1 and a short while later 1st Sgt. Doyle Foreman and fireman A. J. Flowers opened the rear doors to face a wall of They entered the mial building and removed two 2>.{,-ton trucks loaded with equipment for 1,'he two weeks training and a jeep with a mounted 105 George wild the vehicles were so hot paint was baked off In spots and the windshields wore clouded over from the over 5,000 rounds of 30-caliber was stored in a The ton of the vault melted in. hut Cause of the fire ihas not been but officials speculated lightning from a set off Uvo Lightning knocked out an electrical In the area about the same Despi to 11 re f i 65 Na tiona 1 Guardsmen left on schedule foi Fort HAVANA - Fidel Castro said early today he will receive a team from the United States to work out details of swapping 1,200 captive Cuban rebels for 500 But the bearded prime minister raised anew his alternate proposal to trade the rebels captured in the April Invasion for held by the United Puerto Nicaragua and Castro notified the U. S. Committee that he would receive its provided they have full power to negotiate the deal as by the Cuban prisoners mission sent to Uie United States to broach his committee Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Milton come to that is not He that the bargaining mission have powers to discuss the quality and amount of indemnification Cuba is Your cannot decide by itself what kind of equipment Cuba is going to accept as compensation for all the material damage done by the aggressive actions launched from the United States against Castro Fly to Havana Monday The freedom committee announced in Detroit its team will fly to Havana In his note to the freedom group Castro said he would have preferred leading members of Uie I Must Be Requested Your committee ought to know that we are the ones to decide over our own business and that we only accept technical advice when we ask for it The signed by also called for an answer to his proposal for exchanging the invasion captives for Cubans held in the United States and Continued on Page - A possible break in the deadlocked international conference on Laos appeared in the making least in the talking U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman Friday delivered to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko a note President Kennedy personally Then Harriman spent an hour backing it American sources said Gromyko responded to the extent of expressing eagerness for going on with the 14-natlon talks but he oM specific in the way o f com p rom British Fo r e i gn Secretary Lord Home planned to fly here from London Sunday to see Violations or the cease-fire in Laos the rebels caused the Western powers to call an indefinite postponement of the conference last The decision followed the capture of a mountain village 20 miles south of rebel headquarters at America n so u r c cs u n d e rs t o od thai Soviet Premier Khrushchev instructed Gromyko to indicate a desire for resumption of the Geneva conference as a result of his talks with President Khrushchev and Kennedy were agreed on the importance of a cease-fire when they met in though some observers doubted that the words in their joint communique held the same meaning for Gromyko told Harriman Friday that U. S. parachute supply drops to defenders had provoked the attack by the The Soviet foreign minister suggested that an effective cease-fire would be simple to get if merely told ington and Moscow both sides in Laos So far the Russians have refused to send the International truce teams in Laos any new instructions and the equipment they have requested to do their Harriman declined to speculate about the chances of getting tho stalled conference going again after seeing delivered the note and we discussed Harriman commented Stanford JFK WASHINGTON Kennedy is understood to have chosen Carl B. dean of the Stanford University Law as assistant secretary of state for Announcement of the appointment is expected The post has been vacant since Thomas Mann left it in March to become ambassador to The New York Times said today 54. had been picked after least 20 others had heen approached or considered by Whitc Mouse Reports of appointment stirred that it would be followed within a short time by resignation of Adolf one form e r t Franklin D. Roosevelt's brain and now head of President Kennedy's special force on Latin American Berle has said on numerous occasions his stay in Washington is My JACK AP News Writer NEW YORK Tho econ recovery rolled on during the week and expectations of I equipment is not speeding ment predicted a good gain in sales by the fourth This was despite indications that investment for new plants and Former Laurel Girl A Joint meeting of the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee of the Laurel Channber of Commerce's Industrial will be held The meeting will be held in Uie Board Room beginning at 11 a.m. All are expected to Dave program director of will present the program at Monday's meeting of the Lions Winchell scooped us on this one: of a Carl 2t>th - Fox Girl Thomson Pa New Orleans weds John Fletcher Leonard in her home town in Betty will be remembered as the of Bobby and Lacey who resided for several years on Sixth Ave. in She was born here and attended Laurel Friends have followed her climb to the ton with much interest and have known for some time that she was closely associated with Poet tout this squib WW is apparently the first announcement of her approaching wedding to reach more rapid improvement later in Uie your Tho gross national product - total of all goods and bo setting a record in the current quarter ending June 30.' Walter W. chairman of the President's Council of Economic said tho GNP for the quarter might reach an annual rate of nearly It was a little under billion in the previous Heller said that by the quarter the rate may bo Tho National Retail Merchants Association surveyed its membership of ] 1,500 specialty and variety stores and found high optimism about for the second half of the The majority of merchants look for a per sales and a five per in cent gain in cent increase Orders Employment Dp The National Association of Purchasing Agents reported that new production and kept on Increasing In Producers of machine construction equipment and other manufacturing machinery Lingering The First National City Bank of New York commented that the industrial performance in the last two months has any doubts that the economy is in a very rebound recession Dr. Marcus economic consultant to the Hanover Bank of New said he expects a but that major boom is in the The momentum administration that it will briny a revival of Heller said direct price or control is not under a wartime Presidential assistant Rostow we go into the new wage the question is whether wo will negotiate our way into or whether we can discipline without wage and price Auto Workers Contract Time With contract in the automobile General Ford and Chrysler omitted usual annual raises June 1 for 138,000 salaried employes not covered by union Automobile moved up during I he week to an estimated 128,000 passenger This was only per cent below on page Press Time Flashes has aroused anxiety of recovery in the Ken State Man Gets Appointment WASHINGTON T. will be appointed a member of ihe Mississippi Frank said Friday the nomination will sent to the Senate soon by President Archie Makes The Weight NEW YORK heavyweight champion Archie Moore weighed 174 M pounds today and Italy's Giulio 173 3/4, for 15-round title tight Madison Square Garden
