Laurel Leader-Call (Newspaper) - July 19, 1961, Laurel, Mississippi NEW TELEPHONE 428 0551 Laurel Serving Southeastern Mississippi Free Downtown Parking For Our Customers High Today 91* Weather Details Under 50th Year No. 87 July 19, 1981 Daily Since 1911 Five Cents United Britain and France made public the text of the West's note to Soviet Premier Khrushchev refusing to surrender to Russian pressures on NIKITA TOLD OFF West This view of the city shows the old Victory Column in the with the Brandenburg and East Berlin in Standing out the East Berlin area are City Hall and two of the tall white buildings on Stalin OR MILLAGE MOST RISE Mayor Boosting Scott Urges Sales Tax Unless the citizens of Laurel vote in a one-half of one per cent sales tax the will have to be raised from 44 to 52 Laurel's new Andy told Rotarians at their regular luncheon meeting Scott said he ran the city successfully in his previous administration on a 36 mill tax but that this increase is necessary now to continue to run the city as it is being run and to take care of Laurel paying it Scott pointed He said that many Laurel firms are already collecting 4 per cent sales tax rather than figure the one-half per cent. Scott the city is not getting it. He asked Rotarians to pay attention next time they made a purchase and see if they didn't pay 4 per cent sales tax instead of 314 per cent. According to Scott all the other cities in the state the size of Laurel already are collecting the extra Vi per cent and he pointed out that both Waynesboro and Bay Springs are collecting it. The Vi per cent sales tax increase would bring in another dollars to the city of in the next 12 months Scott He added that he would rather leave the millage a- because a lower millage is more attractive to new has to have new industries to Scott He said that he and the commissioners were going all out now to get new industries in Laurel and the way to do it was to work He said the entire city must and the Mayor and commissioners werel going to set the general manager of Masonite for the letter published in Monday's He said the Masonite letter was an example of what must be In referring to the many complaints about the property appraisals in Scott said he would make good his campaign promise of listening to complaints and trying to adjust cases that merit He said he and the commissioners would sit every day in October to hear Scott added that nothing could be and whatever the current appraisal of an in dividual property will have to stand Scott told Rotarians that he was grateful for the public's vote for him in the cam in his and that it was his aim to have this administration go down in history as making the most progress in the history of any Administration in Gene Tibbett was in charge of the program and introduced Mayor Scott presented the two Paul Smyly and C. M. Both the commissioners expressed their gratitude for their election and expressed a desire for working in harmony with the people of Kennedy Planning Military Buildup Scott thanked Dean | Laurel and with one Union Fanner Surrenders To Face Shooting Charge By JIM SELLERS Staff Writer The little man sat in a his head and body arched to the floor of the Jones County He was shirtless and barefooted ex cept for His body was scratched and and he held his Tears welled in his eyes and ran from behind thick glasses down his bearded just wish I could he ain't eat in three or four except for two tomatoes last night and my He stopped and lurched forward for a moment and gripped his stomach if though trying to rip out the my gall why I If I drink enough the pain The jail docket listed the little man as C. B. age 62. Beside his name were the charges of assault and battery with He was a farmer in the Union Community most of the County officers described him as a bootlegger at other But folks out where he lives know him best as Deputies I searching his house Monday said they found 27 gallons of moonshine it was Tuesday that didn't help stop and he was sitting in the county jail faced with a crime a little more serious than the possession charges he had faced He had a vague idea of why he was maybe he he Someone had told him he had shot into a truck Monday morning driven by Mrs. Beatrice Walters of his Nobody seemed to know not even Deputies found seven holes in the They said Shorty had used a Mrs. Walters suffered only Shortly after midnight Tuesday Shorty wandered out of the woods where he had fled after the He surrendered to his Otis Stringer and a R. B. Shorty was finally jailed after efforts to locate the sheriff failed and an attempt at the county jail where the night bell wasn't He was taken into custody by city BRIEFS Partly cloudy and warm through Widely scattered afternoon and evening except more numerous along the Low tonight 70-76. High Thursday Temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a. high 93, low 73, at 7 a.m. 79. Winds today at 11 a. m. Southwest at 2Vj m. LAUREL SKIES July 20 Sunset p.m. Sunrise a.m. Moonset p.m. First Quarter p.m. PROMINENT STAR below the VISIBLE PLANETS Low in p.m. Jupiter and in the p.m. a.m. between Venus and the Sun. Tunis Mans Blockade At Bizerte Base Tunisia Tunisian armed forces were ordered today to open fire on any foreign planes attempting to fly over the country without The order obviously was aimed at stopping France from reinforcing the garrison at Ihe big French naval base As Tunisian troops maintained a token land blockade around the base to support President Habib Bourguiba's demand that the French give up the the government radio announced the firing The broadcast followed by minutes an announcement in Paris that French paratroopers have been ordered to Bizerte to reinforce troops already stationed A French government spokesman did not specify how or when they would be but presumably they would move by The Tunisian radio did not spell out just what the government claims as Tunisian air Tunisia has only a token force of fighter In a companion move to secure a piece of the Sahara for of some 500 miles south of Tunis were reported on the march to plant the Tunisian flag at Marker 233, near the rich oil field being developed by The French have a desert post at the marker point and say it is 25 miles outside Tunisian Bourguiba this week claimed the area for The troops ringing the base kept a close check on all traffic and only three French military vehicles attempted to pass through the blockade in the apparently as a test. The three were halted and turned There was an unconfirmed report that the French government had told Bourguiba it would meet force with force if the Tunisians tried to oust the base garrison The base and its garrison estimated at 5,000 are supplied mainly by and there was no word of any attempt to block the channel leading from the unauthorized persons were not allowed to go to vantage points overlooking the harbor The French also can supply the base by air from nearby U. S. Defense Set For Berlin REHEARSAL Eddie the 14-year-old star of motion pictures and will guest star in the fourth production of Mississippi Southern College's Summer Theatre July 18-22. Pictured here is a al scene with Eddie is Page Jones of who plays Mrs. Howard V. Eddie plays the young son of Mrs. the same role he did on television with Helen Clouds Delay Rocket Ride II Rules Committee Vote Kills Kennedy School WASHNGTON - President Kennedy's billion package of aid to U. S. schools and colleges was reduced to rubble today but a few hardy optimists in the House were hopeful some pieces could be The ambitious program was blown sky high Tuesday when the House Rules Committee voted 8 to 7 to table all the education bills before it for the rest of the Chief casualty in the eyes of House Democratic leaden was a carrying billion in grants to the states for public school construction and The two other measures were a billion college aid and a billion extension of the National Defense Education which included million for loans to parochial Only the public school is considered to have any salvage Part of it is almost certain to be That's a section On Page RIVER STAGES Pascagoula River at 12.6 down slow Pearl River at Pearl 11.1 up slow The High School Red Cross urges recruits for the volunteer nurses aide class beginning on Tuesday July 25 to call at the office of the Jones County Red Cross to complete enrollment plans The Jones County PTA Council will meet Thursday night 7:30 p.m. in the Glade School All delegates and members are urged to The Standing committee chairman will be announced at this The Naomi Lodge No. 23 will meet in the Odd Fellows Hall at 7 p. m. Thursday for team Dad's Truck Kills Child Jerri Lynn 2^-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Route 1 was fatally injured Tuesday morning when her father was backing a one ton stake body truck out of the driveway in front of their and accidentally ran over the child killing her The 2Vi year old child asked her daddy if she could go with He told her she could not The young girl ran behind the truck and was Funeral services for Jerri Lynn were held at the County Line Baptist Church and burial took place in County Line She is survived by her mother and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry one Goodwin one Rita pa ternal Mrs. Oma maternal Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Jones Funeral Home was in charge of CAPE Fla. second U.S. shot was today for the second time because of It was rescheduled for 6 a.m. j High cloud cover which moved in over this launching site and prevented necessary visual observation of the shot caused the cancellation at 9 a.m. of today's attempt to hurl astronaut Virgil I. Grissom into The rescheduling of the space shot less than 48 hours after today's cancellation caught newsmen by They had been told by public relations officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at a briefing Monday that in the event of a postponement after the Redstone rocket had been fueled a minimum delay of three days would be The Project Mercury team worked the countdown to within 10 30 seconds of target then was forced to call a halt as a solid cloud cover closed over the missile launching making the desired photographic j tracking of the rocket His flight was first postponed Tuesday because of bad weather and had been rescheduled for 7 a.m. Grissom had been in the space capsule 3 26 when the decision to postpone was The announcement National Aeronautics and Space Administration has postponed at 9 a.m. an attempt to launch the space craft because of ble Broken and overcast clouds continue in the launch area at 15,000 to 18,000 These would have prevented optical tracking of the vehicle during the critical phase of powered Grissom will leave the space craft in a few minutes and return to the crew quarters at hangar At the time Grissom entered the Liberty Bell 7, at 5:38 a.m. the sky was clear over the launch As the countdown a thin layer of cirrus clouds moved into the area and gradually thickened and moved On Page WASHINGTON - President Kennedy urged today the Soviet Union to reconsider a course he said threatens to disturb world At the same he announced that he would make today the final decision on any bolstering of military forces required to meet the Soviet menace to Berlin and other areas of the Kennedy told a news conference in measured tones that he would place his decisions before America's allies later this He said he would speak to the American people next Tuesday evening on this matter and present the program to Congress the following Kennedy declined to go into details now on possible military The administration has been considering calling up reserves and national among other And again Kennedy made it though not in so many that this country is ready to if need to keep West Berlin from Communist intend to honor our Kennedy The President said that what the administration will propose in the way of taxes for deficit financing to pay for any boost in military strength will be disclosed with announcement of the He told a questioner that the present tax structure would bring in very substantial amounts if the economy proceeding at what we hope will be a steady rate of The decision on taxes and the President will be made in the light of what will produce the best economic situation for the United States in the coming A record turnout of 427 reporters attended today's news They filled the stale department auditorium as far back as a partition two-thirds of the way to the rear of the Kennedy started off with a lengthy statement on Germany and a followup to Tuesday's note to Moscow and in many ways repetitive of that In tone of voice as well as in Kennedy was tough without shaking any figurative He said that Russia's June 4 proposal to alter the status of and to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany as a possible contingency a document which speaks ot peace but threatens to disturb The real he is to absorb East Berlin into the so-called German Democratic Republic while West Berlin would be called a but would lose the protection of the West and subject to the will of a totalitarian The session with newsmen concentrated on Germany and U.S. military But it also ranged widely over other fields out into In this latter Kennedy said the still has a goal of putting a man into orbit toward the end of this GM Take Offensive In Attacking UAW Goals By DWIGHT PITKIN DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. has taken the offense along with General Motors Corp. in at tacking the contract bargaining goals of the United Auto Workers as inflationary and dangerous to the nation's Ford estimated it would cost some million over the next two years to adopt just part of the The strongest company statement since began in the auto industry three weeks ago came Tuesday night from Ford's vice president for labor Malcolm L. Denise accused the union of using a of discredited opportunistic and extravagant He said these represented clear sign of danger to the economy of the Denise figured the union demands would increase hourly labor costs more than UAW Vice President Ken director of the union's Ford I replied Denise's talk about inflation and his estimates of labor costs were ridiculous and Bannon accused the company of trying hide its responsibilities to its workers and to the economy behind a phony inflationary General Motors told its 335,000 hourly workers their wages have more than doubled since 1947 and employe benefit plans had skyrocketed to 40 times the cost 13 years GM declared rapid increase in wages and benefit costs experienced in recent years cannot be sustained without inflation and the of slowing down the rate of growth of our national UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock said he agreed with GM any settlement arrived at must not cause But he declared GM's pricing policies were a greater factor in inflation than labor ADD 50 PATROLMEN Chicago Has Uneasy Quiet LINER CRASHES IN ARGENTINA BUENOS Argentina - An Argentine Airlines crashed in flames today near Azul and officials feared all of the 60 passengers and crewmen were Officials feared some Americans may have been among the The a nonstop run between Buenos Aires and the Patagonian oil center of Comodoro was a favorite of U. S. oil experts who shuttle back and forth between the capital and the The crash took place at a farming center about 30 miles from which lies 160 miles south of Buenos By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago police taking no chances on a sudden widespread of racial have ordered another 50 patrol men into the city's Lawndale An uneasy quiet prevailed Tuesday over the integrated South west Side district where clashes between Negroes and white persons have been occurring for a Frequent attacks by gangs of teen-age Negroes have left more than 20 persons 300 Policemen More than 300 policemen have been assigned to the area to maintain law and order around the Police said there have been no reports of trouble in the area since Monday Attacks on white persons by Negro gangs began last week after the mysterious slaying of Matthew 17, a Negro Harrison High School who was shot to death on his way home from summer classes at the Harlem Gang Wars Court hearings have been set for Thursday at New York for 23 j members of a Harlem gang captured during a March into an in- Bronx neighborhood in search of a revenge The all were among about 60 members of the Harlem gang that invaded the southwest Bronx Monday night armed with base ball iron pipes and Washington's exclusive and Metropolitan recently criticized by Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy for its racial has admitted what is believed to be the first Negro guest in its It was learned Tuesday that George L. P. now awaiting confirmation as undersecretary of labor for international attended a luncheon there last week as the guest of his George Cabot Lodge is the son of Henry Cabot the 1960 Republican candidate for vice Weaver described the luncheon as very It was very he Nothing out of the At Cecil East Carroll Parish registrar of invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about the operation of his He is under court order to submit to a federal government oral The government sought to question him about reports that he had discriminated against Negroes ing to At City Judge James Spencer convicted two leaders of the Jackson Nonviolent Movement on one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sentenced both to six months in jail and The Bernard 29, of and James Luther 24, of Itta were to face similar charges They were accused of enticing 16-year-old Jackson to sit in at a drug store lunch counter July 11. I At the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County School Board reassigned 14 Negro students to four white grammar Despite the a group of Negroes staged a demonstration because integration of the Harding High School was not The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said a saturation program designed to register 30,000 Negroes to vote in St. Louis will start July 23. The rights of Jewish and American children have been brought into the federal court controversy over transfer of On Page Press Time Flashes Kennedy OKs Righto WASHINGTON Kennedy said today that regardless of whether others agree with their have the right to travel unobstructed in interstate
