Laurel Leader-Call (Newspaper) - October 8, 1962, Laurel, Mississippi Laurel call NO. 241 TELEPHONE 428-0551 OCT. 8, 1962 WALKER RETURNS TO DALLAS Walker Denies Federal Charges Tex. - Former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. who denies he's guilty of federal charges evolving from riots at the University of will undergo psychiatric examination here this The former Army with inciting an Insurrection and seditious conspiracy flew home to Dallas Sunday and was greeted by about 200 He was released late Saturday from the U.S. Medical Center in on posted by his Release came only after he agreed to submit to a psychiatric Walker was Jovial and talkative the point his lawyers would Amid signs of home Gen. he told his happy to be back in The air is bright and was supposed to be a short trip to but it was ex tended to to my During a news his attorneys repeatedly advised him not to answer questions surround ing his actions at Ole where violence erupted when the federal government forced the enrollment of Negro James H. Meredith in the previously Walker has been accused of leading rioters against U.S. His only reference to the night's rioting was that he advised students on the pus nobody has come to Mississippi for any violence and no one intends Asked if he was guilty of the federal Walker I'm First Week Of Campaign Is Successful At the end of the first week of one third of the United Givers Red Cross campaign goal has been pledged and hopes ti the chairmen and volunteer workers are to complete the drive as soon as The employes division which Includes those businesses and industries on payroll deduction is now in full swing and six have signed up this year under the deduction plan in addition to the 21 already under this According to nine tenths of the money pledged by employes eomes from those who give under payroll Several of the workers of this division including one of the Billy has been of town serving with the National but the other Bernard Shuff and Joe Frank have been busy getting this phase of the campaign The National Guard is being given special recognition by as this group doubled its pledge over the past year and all members contributed 100 J. M. Caughman and his Joe Murray have met with all the principals of the city in the education division to urge each school to participate 100 percent through the Those schools that have 100 percent solicitations will receive a Paul Smyly and B. O. Berg of the city employes di- have distributed their pledge cards and expect to complete their by mid employes began their part of the campaign Friday and one unit has already reported 100 percent Masonite initiated the payroll deduction plan for and 26 other organiza tions have followed the same The chairmen expect 10 other firms to join this plan of giving during the present cam Those on payroll deduc tion are E. L. Bruce Commercial National Coca Cola Bottling Dixie Electric Power Fine First National Laurel Brick and Tile Laurel Building and Laurel Country Re Mississippi Power Office Sanderson Bros. Southern Bell United Laurel Federal Savings and Credit Confederate Savings and James Reeves Con struction and Southland State Fair Open For Business Miss. - The 1962 Mississippi State Fair opened today in a full display of agriculture and industry scheduled for six full MAY BE FINAL WEEK Slim Senate Rushes Finish WASHINGTON mental money measure appeared to be the key to adjournment as Congress today headed into what may be the final week of its tst continuous session since 1951. With many members of both houses already home campaigning for the Nov. 6 these were some of the tasks facing those who remained in Senate action on the foreign aid Half a dozen appropriations including a supplemental on which adjournment may A public works authorization The Senate U expected to act today on the compromise foreign tid appropriation which the gouM patted 17H0I. PRICE SEVEN CENTS 5400 Troops Ordered To Leave Oxford Area Giants Lead Yanks 2-0 After Three NEW YORK - The San Francisco Giants led the New York Yankes 2-0 at the end of three innings of the fourth game of the 1962 World Series today by virtue of Tom Haller's homer in the Haller's smash into the lower right field seats off the ace Yan ke Whitey scored Felipe who had opened the inning with a A crowd approaching 70,000 watched in almost perfect weather as the the Yan kees by one game to two in the sent Juan Marichal to the mound to oppose FIRST INNING flied to Tresh Hiller lined to Boyer threw out No no no none YANKEES - Kubek Richardson struck out and Kubek was caught in a run down between first and Haller to Hiller to Cepeda to Hiller to Marichal who made the Tresh Mantle struck No one no one SECOND INNING Alou Kubek threw out F. Alou holding Davenport struck Haller smashed a 3-2 pitch into the lower right field stands for a home scoring F. Alou ahead of him to put the Giants in front 2-0. Pagan bounced out to Skowron Two two no none made a fine running catch of Pagan knocked down Howard's hard smash behind then ered the ball and retired the runner with a underhand throw Skowron Boyer flied to No one no one THIRD INNING GIANTS - Marichal flied to Boyer threw out Richardson threw out No no no none YANKEES - Ford flied to Kubek flied to Richardson Tresh flied to F. No no no one The now calls for 928,900,000 in foreign aid spend less than President Kennedy originally Much attention was focused on the supplemental ap propriation which two Senate B. Russell of Georgia and George A. Smathers of trying to delay for different Russell was trying to bring pressure on the House while Smathers eyed the money measure as possible leverage while he jockeyed with the President over | a pension Russell blocked attempts to hustle the measure onto the Senate floor last week and threatened to insist on compliance with a rule requiring three days to elapse before the Senate act oa such a Stringer Man Dies In Wreck Miss. - Funeral ser vices were scheduled Monday for Roy N. 59-year-old String er farmer and carpenter who was killed in a truck collision Saturday Services were to be held at 3 p.m. at Edon Baptist Church in Jasper west of String with the Rev. Artis Brewer Burial was to be in the church cemetery with neph ews acting as Highway Patrolman R. C. Austin of Bay Springs said Adkins apparently was killed instantly when he lost control of his pickup truck and crashed into an three miles east of Raleigh on Highway IS Saturday Adkins was returning home after visiting a son in a Thompson Funeral Home spokesman Survivors Include his Mrs. Roy N. Route 1, one R. Eddie four Mrs. Velton Mrs. Claude Mrs. Bob Bay and Mrs. Thomas three Lloyd L. L. Darrell two Mrs. Onie Ruff New La. and Mrs. Lamar and 14 Thompson Funeral Home is In charge of TODAY'S HUMOR To make a long story there's nothing like having the boM walk in. Units Not Identified SCHIRRA FAMILY TOGETHER AGAIN Pilot Insists Flight Was Without Problem Tex. - Walter M. Schirra America's most widely traveled space says he came back from his six times around the world with one suggestion for the next U.S. space Just move up its launching He came back from that flight said the 39-year-old Navy would like to have gone for 12 more he Schirra also told newsmen at a nationally televised news conference Sunday that at one point in his 9-hour, 13-minute flight he completely cut himself off from ground To conserve the power supply of his Sigma 7 he he threw a switch cutting off the electrical system which would have allowed ground control stations to bring him out of orbit in an the he wanted to turn off the armed squib which means that it is my capsule and no one can bring me back until I put the switch He left it off until Christopher Project Mercury flight told think you have proved our old As he told the story of Wednesday's Schirra made 9 hours land 13 minutes in the weightless world of space sound like a drive to the corner drug had no no uneas no said had no I was ready to continue through one He had no moments of But the flight did lack In an aside to a 12-year-old boy in Schirra my I did not see any green flight was the longest flown by an American though a short journey by comparison to the 64- and 48-orbit flights of the Soviet Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel It was a link between the flights of John H. Glenn Jr. and Malcolm Scott Carpenter and 18-orbit Death Claims Well Known Laurel Pioneer Resident Laurel lost one of its ing civic and religious when E. D. Sr. 79, of 2320 North Fifth died Saturday afternoon following a short He was probably one of the best informed men on the city's Mr. a graduate of Clarke class of 1913, first came to Laurel in 1903 and entered the insurance and real estate In 1929 he went into business with T. W. operating under the name of Hurst & Yates Inc. He served as manager of this firm from its Mr. Hurst helped to organize and served as Secretary-Treasurer and Director of the Home Building and Loan He also helped to organize the Laurel Federal Savings and Loan Association and served as its Managing Officer and Director for 16 He was active in civic programs and and took a vital interest in the work of the the Chamber of Commerce and in welfare He was a member of the First Baptist the Laurel Real Estate a deacon of his a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of a member of Laurel Lodge No. 134 of the Knights of Pythias and the Laurel Lodge No. 140 of the Funeral services were hold al 4 p.m. Sunday from the First Baptist Church with burial in the Lake Park The Rev. T. R. his Mr. Hurst is survived by his three Mrs. L. H. E. a HURST SR. Mrs. W. O. and Miss Minnie Kay two E. D. Jr. and Thomas Gates two Mrs. Bessie H. Hattiesburg and Mrs. Fronie 11. three Frank Fred J. and J. 1. Summit and six 1 Active pallbearers wore Sam Bernice Tony W. W. Phil Berry and Deacons of the First Baptist members of the Brotherhood Bible Sunday School Class and members of the Laurel Kiwanis Club served as honorary sion planned for early next possibly in late February or early The flight began at 7:15 Wednesday at Cape and ended at 4:28 p.m. 275 miles northeast of Midway Island in the Schirra was picked up by the carrier and taken to Hawaii where he was placed on a plane which arrived in Houston shortly after midnight Sunday this new home of the Manned Spacecraft Center out to give the astronaut a friendly Police estimated 300,000 citizens applauded Schirra as the motorcade wound slowly through the city to the Campus of Rice WASHINGTON - The Army announced today the first withdrawal of regular troops sent to Mississippi and Tennessee a week ago because of integration riots at the University of * Secretary of the Army Cyrus R. Vance said about 5,400 troops now at and will leave for their home stations by air t About 14,000 troops will be in the vicinity of site of the university and scene of the riots which killed two and injured n The Army announcement did not identify the units being nor the stations to which they will be about miles north of was used as a staging Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Ft. were sent along with other Columbus has an air base 70 miles southeast of Oxford and a number of paratroop units went there during the crisis Although the Army has never put out a strength it is known that about 15,000 paratroopers of the 82nd and the 101st Airborne divisions were sent into the area last The 101st is based at Ft. Ky. In two battle groups totaling about 2,300 infantrymen from the Second Infantry Ft. and three tary Police battalions totaling about 1,500 plus various truck and other support were drawn into the Mississippi The late last released about 3,500 Mississippi Guardsmen called into federal service after mobs attacked federal marshals attempting to enforce federal court orders for admission of Negro James H. Meredith to the University of Another 7.500 Mississippi Guardsmen still are under federal NO WORD YET ON GUARDSMEN When the Laurel unit of the National Guard gets any definite information concerning its future or release the will be immediately This information came Monday to this newspaper in the wake of a rash of telephone calls to the unit stationed at The Public Relations officer made the have been with calls from concerned wives and relatives of our but there is nothing we can tell he He reported the physical condition of the unit as well as morale at a high Meredith Begins His Second Week WEATHER Partly cloudy through Widely scattered showers and thundershowers more numerous in north No important temperature Lowest tonight 68-76. Highest Tuesday 84-92. Temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at 7 high 91, low 71, at 7 a.m. 72. LAUREL SKIES October 9 Sunset p.m. Sunrise a.m. Moonset 2:28 a.m. Full Moon Saturday The due south tonight at 7:13 is now beginning a slow eastward movement among the stars that will continue until June 3, 1963, RIVER STAGES Pearl River at Pearl 3.4 down slight Pascagoula River fit 3.4 no Fore slight Miss. - Negro James H. Meredith resumed without incident at the University of Mississippi starting the second week of desegregation at the 114-year-old Justice Department officials plan to talk to student leaders to enlist their help for student acceptance of The federal men contend they are asking them to like hut we're hoping there will be some respected who can silence the catcalls and A scattering of boos greeted Meredith when he came out of the university cafeteria Sunday About 130 persons waited outside for him to Two unidentified white students shook hands with Meredith as he walked toward his apartment in Baxter a few strides from the Federal military forces remained in snuggled in the north part of the state about 170 miles from The weekend what wiht the homecoming football game between Ole Miss and the University of Houston transferred to Jackson by orders of the Defense Ole ranked seventh nationally in last week's Associated Press won its third straight game by routing the Texans 40-7. Meredith's personal bodyguard of about 20 U.S. marshals reportedly is seeking permanent one Justice Department spokesman said responsibility for Meredith's safety eventually might shift to Mississippi In New Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said he believed there will be less trouble integrating South Carolina schools than Ole Miss. i we would have almost as much 1 in Alabama as in he said in a transcribed radio PRESIDENT Adams Residents Get Gas Masks Miss. - Residents of Natchez and Adams County began receiving gas masks today in preparation for possible escaping gas from the raising of a barge in the Mississippi River near Jews Observe Yom Kippur NEW YORK the world even behind the Iron today observed Yom their holiest They for 24 hours and prayed for elimination of hunger and and for attainment of world Yom Kippur culminates a 10-day period of repentance beginning with Rosh which marked the start of the Year 5723 oa the Jewish SIX YOUNG CHAMPIONS Those carrier boys wore winners in a To School Contest in which they were tops in getting new They were given a fishing trip to the Coast and proved to bo Fishing from the President Kennedy they caught almost 50 while trout and ground With the buys on their trip were Solly circulation and Mrs. Myron his and Mrs. and sports and Mrs. Left to right are Mickey Tim Charles Jerry Schwebel and Lowery t
