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LOCAL WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy and cx4 Ihrough Thursday. Low tonight 38-12. High 58-62. ttiesbmrar A1IE VOL. LXVIII-No.

44 5c HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1963 Associated Press News and Wirephoto IE 1 JiiLSb in 3d ii Foster hints West would for less than 8 on-site settle checks 1: introduced the proposal for a non-aggression treaty between the Warsaw Pact powers. The treaty draft said the two groups of nations would "solemnly refrain from attack, the threat or use of force, in any manner inconsistent with purposes and principles of the United Nations charter, against one another or in their international relations in general." A British delegation spokesman said the pact proposal "is not a in battling the blaze and the pumper-truck supply was soon exhausted. No one was at home at the time of the fire, (rhoto by Joe Lingle) TOTAL LOSS Fire of undetermined origin Tuesday night destroyed the home of the J. A.

Bradley family on Holmes Street in Petal. The alarm was sounded at 7 p.m. Firefighters aaid there was no water connection which could be used Train hits car; driver hurled into creosote pool Cuban surveillance raises nuestioEis adore gap Ora Ray Riley, 24, of Rt. 2, Sumrall, tangled with a freight train Tuesday afternoon but attendants at Methodist Hospital today described his condition as good. Attendants said shortly after the Movie Star hearing 4 i in i mi i rn ii today resumes hearings on Cuban-inspired subversion in other Latin American countries.

One of the committee's newest and most outspoken Republicans, Rep. H. R. Gross of Iowa, said in an interview he has detected a pattern in the testimony of administration witnesses so far. Gross, longtime critic of foreign aid spending, said the pattern is to combat Cuban Communist subversion by pushing the Alliance for Progress.

"This is just a big buildup for asking more millions for the Alliance for Progress," Gross said. Weather Official temperature for 24 hours ending at 6 p.m. Tuesday: High 55, low 38. River stage 8.01. up 1.10.

No rain. Unofficial 7 a.m. temperature, 33 degrees. Extended forecast for the period Feb. 20-25: Southern Mississippi: Temperatures 4-8 degrees below normal.

Normal highs 64-68. Normal lows 41-51. Mostly minor day to day changes. Precipitation generally light in a few showers about McNamara was asked about the gap by newsmen in the question and answer session that followed. He answered that aerial photos had been taken on a number of days within the Sept.

5-Oct. 15 period, but that because of lack of time a selection had to be made From Cuba Workers tell of job loss threats accident that Riley, who sustained cuts and bruises, was covered from head to toe with creosote and that cleaning him was a task of majr proportion. Paul Kinsey, policeman who investigated the car-train collision 1962, and asked the NLRB for union elections. The union countered with unfair labor practice charges. Company officials claim that many of their workers are dissatisfied with the union; and that the union no longer represents a majority of the employes.

Testifying at the hearing Monday was E. T. Kehrer of Atlanta, southeastern regional director for ILGWU. He told of numerous meetings with company officials in an unsuccesful attempt to negotiate a contract Congressmen want all troops removed disarmament measure but might have some value in reducing international tension." Foster was to fly to Washington later today to report to President Kennedy. He is expected back in Geneva early next week.

at the Scooba Street Crossing shortly after 3:15 p.m., said this is what happened: Riley was traveling north on Scooba and the Southern Railway System fopight was headed east. They met at the crossing and the train struck the left-rear fender of the automobile, knocking il into a creosote-puddled ditch. Riley was catapulted out of the car, which remained on its wheels. The front, side and rear of th car were damaged. Riley was taken by ambulanct to the hospital where the first job was that of cleaning creosote from his eyes.

Half-blinded and in extreme pain Riley did not lose consciousness. The train, a New Orleans to Hattiesburg local, was operated by Engineer H. I. Ethridge of Meridian. The accident occurred near the old Gulf States Creosote Co.

plant which has been torn down to make way for new construction. For some time bulldozera have been cleaning the area, pushing aside the creosote sludge. In some places it is several feet a depth. turned up a large electric generator, an arsenal of heavy weapons and tons of ammunition and an evacuated 200-bed enemy field hospital. Several thousand Rangers are operating in the 50-mile-long jungle tracts.

More clashes are expected. Penetration of Zone is an important psychological step for Saigon's forces. The area is shown on Communist maps as a "liberated zone" in which Viet Cong forces can operate with complete safety. Roads through the zone, including an important arterial route, have been subject to a bloody series of Communist ambushes. By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH GENEVA (AP) The United States indicated today it would settle for fewer than eight on-site inspections a year within the Soviet Union if the Soviet Union accepted a completely foolproof inspection procedure.

Chief U.S. Delegate William C. Foster presented the idea in a meeting of the 17-nation disarmament conference. He stressed that any Americai. willingness to compromise would depend, among other things, on a satisfactory number of inspectors, the areas where they could operate and the criteria under which they could be dispatched.

Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov ignored Foster's suggestion. He tried to move the debate away from the test ban and into a discussion of an East-West nonaggression pact. The Soviet Union has advanced the pact idea frequently, but the West wants it considered only in the general framework of disarmament treaty. The talk In the corridors around the conference was that the United States and Britain ultimately might compromise on five or six on-site inspections per year on Soviet territory to check on suspicious earth tremors indicative of underground nuclear explosions. Such a concession never has been spelled out to newsmen by members of the U.S.

delegation, however. The negotiations have been deadlocked for weeks between the Soviet maximum offer of two or three inspections and the Western minimum demand for eight. Foster released only extracts from his speech in the closed conference session. These included an oblique reference to American readiness to go below the minimum of eight inspections. In a move unrelated to the dis cussion of a test ban, Kuznetsov Mississippi's most recent GOP legislator was the late George L.

Sheldon of Washington County, a former governor of Nebraska. He served 1920-24 during the administration of Gov. Lee Russell. Sheldon, in the early '30s, organized the Lily White Republican faction in Mississippi. President Herbert Hoover recognized that group.

McAllister, state Young Republican chairman, received a plurality of the votes in the Feb. 5 first primary. Three other Democrats defeated in that election united to support Goldman in the runoff. Vietnamese crack tough Red section Several women employes of Movie Star, testified at a National Labor Relations Board hearing here today that they were told they would lose their jobs unless they withdrew from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO. The hearing is the result of union charges that Movie Star, which operates six garment factories in Mississippi, failed to bargain in good faith when it refused to accept a new work contract last summer.

It began Tuesday in the Forrest County Circuit Courtroom before Miss Rosanna Blake of Washing ton, D. trial examiner for the National Labor Relations Board. Attorneys for the complainant said they expect to question the last of their witnesses this afternoon. At noon some eight or ten remained to be called. About 15 or 20 witnesses have been summoned by the company.

One of the witnesses said today a supervisor at Movie Star's plant in Poplarville talked with her and informed her that unless she dropped out of the union "you will no longer have a job." Mrs. Josephine Harold of Poplarville, Rt. 3, said she asked the supervisor, going to fire "The woman just laughed and walked off," the witness added. Other witnesses gave similar testimony. The dispute between the company and the union began last year.

Movie Star broke off negotiations with ILGWU on Aug. 28, Republican elected to state legislature By GEOFFREY GOULD WASHINGTON (AP) Intelligence chief John A. McCone has been questioned at a secret House briefing about a so-called "picture gap" in the aerial surveillance of Cuba during the Soviet missile buildup, It was learned today. Informed sources said McCone was pinned down on the issue Tuesday, but because of security considerations the sources would give no further details. The Central Intelligence Agency director briefed the House Foreign Affairs Committee behind closed doors and answered questions for more than three hours.

The "picture gap" is a blank atretch from last Sept. 5 to Oct. 15 in the aerial photographs made public two weeks ago in an extraordinary two-hour television briefing by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and an intelligence aide. In all the 60-odd photographs flashed on the screen, none fell In the "picture gap," a critical time period at the end of which the Soviets were discovered actually to have readied intermediate range missiles that could reach deep into United States territory.

New work slated on 49 near Wiggins Work is expected to begin within a few days on additional four-laning of U. S. Highway 49 between Wiggins and Brooklyn in Stone and Forrest counties, according to John D. Smith, Southern District highway commissioner. The State Highway Commission has authorized Dennis Brothers, Contractors of Jackson, to start construction on the project, which includes 11.257 miles of grading, drainage, culverts and two box bridges.

Dennis Brothers was low bidder on the project with an amount of $369,180.03. Smith said the project engineer for the Highway Department will be Pratt Moseley of Gulfport. This is another step in a long-range project to four-lane Highway 49 from Jackson to the Gulf Coast. Work is in progress on about 30 miles in Rankin and Sinmpson counties; and completed on about 70 miles in Covington, Forrest, Stone and Harrison counties. Posf Offices, other federal agencies to bo closed Friday All federal agencies, including the Hattiesburg and Petal Post Offices, will be closed Friday, Washington's birthday observed as a national holiday.

Mrs. Lillie Yelverton, Hattiesburg postmaster, said that there will be no mail delivery Friday. of which photos to show on television. That explanation has not satisfied some observers in Congress and elsewhere, including some generally friendly to the administration. A Foreign Affairs subcommittee committee, said the Soviet move was only a first step.

"Our policy must be to insist that they all be withdrawn," he said. 'This is the only thing that will really remove the menace." Killer of five says he always felt 'left out1 GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -A high school youth whose brood-ings, over his place in the family circle exploded into a burst of gunfire, has told authorities how he shot and killed his father and stepmother and her three children. Harry Hcbard, 16, described by his minister as "a good, quiet boy who was real active in the church," apparently had planned the slayings for some time, according to Dist. Atty.

Robert Killed by shots from an auto matic pistol and rifle were the boy's stepmother, Joyce, 35; her three children by a previous marriage, John Rudcll, 15, and Judy and Janice, 11-year-old twins; and Harry's thrice married father, Jack Hcbard, 38, a part-time auto mobile thrill driver and stunt man. The boy told the district attor ney he "had a general feeling of being left out of the family cir- cle." teeth comes home chain behind over him," the mayor said. "I believe he had himself a ball." The story of Sam's flight appeared in the paper about noon Tuesday. After the account was made public the mayor received a number of phone calls from residents of the area who had spotted the chain-dragging dog. Someone saw him next door to the First Baptist Church.

Another party saw Sam on the U. S. 49-11 cloverleaf. Sam is two years old and is intensely interested in dogs of the opposite sex. Therein lies the trouble, the mayor says.

"You can't really be mad at him, after all he is a normal redblooded German Shepherd." SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) For the first time in their four-year war against the Communist Viet Cong. President Ngo Dinh Diem's troops appear to have made real inroads into the Communist area known as Zone." In the past week Ranger companies operating close to Viet Cong bases in the jungle area north of Saigon have wrecked Communist installations, destroyed ammunition and supplies and forced the guerrillas to keep moving. Although contact with the guerrillas has been light, the government claims more than 30 of the enemy died in the operation. The government claims its troops have WASHINGTON (AP)-Leading congressional Democrats joined several Republicans today in call ing for the withdrawal of all and not just part of the 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba. A written communication to President Kennedy that Soviet Premier Khrushchev plans to ship several thousand Russian soldiers home soon was hailed as a sig nificant development.

But members of both parties said the Kennedy administration must continue to press with all of the force at its command for complete evacuation of Soviet mil itary men from the island. Some informants said the Soviet Union had given assurance that several thousand troops would be out of Cuba by March 15. There was no official comment from the White House or the State Department. John A. McCone, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was reported to have told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday that several empty Soviet merchant ships were on their way to Cuba.

While urging the administration to press for the withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Cuba, no members of Congress came forward with any concrete proposals as to how this could be accomplished short of force a policy Sen. George D. Aiken, said he is convinced the Democratic administration shares. Sen. John Stennis, head of the Senate Preparedness sub- With a paper in his Mayor's dog wagging his Mayor Claude F.

Pittman Jr. said today his dog Sam has returned home anv, that the German Shepherd apparently reads The Hattiesburg American. Sam checked in at 5 p.m. Tuesday dragging his 15-foot length of steel chain, a current copy of the paper clamped in his jaws. He scratched at the screen of the side door wich opens into the carport where Sam broke away the preceding night, tearing loose the morring of his chain.

On his return he handed (toothed?) the paper to one of his owners and signified that he was ready for supper. "Ha had straw and mud all MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP)-Voters in Mississippi have named Lewis L. McAllister the first Republican state legislator in 43 years. McAllister, 30, a Meridian accountant, drew 3,086 votes in a runoff election Tuesday to Democratic candidate Dennis Goldman's 2,298 votes.

The election was to replace former Lauderdale County House Rep. Natie Caraway who resigned when he moved to Jackson to join a law firm. McAllister, who described him self as a Goldwater Republican, said: "This is an indication of a trend toward a two-party state and a two-party South." The only other GOP member serving in an elective post in Mississippi is Lowndes County Atty. J. O.

Sams Jr. Boyd Campbell dies at 73 JACKSON, Miss. (AP-A. Boyd Campbell, past president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, died today.

He was 73. Campbell, a native of Winona, had served as American delegate to chamber meetings abroad. He was the U.S. Department of Commerce envoy to a commission this year at West Germany. Gov.

Ross Barnett said "Mississippi has lost one of its most useful citizens. It is a real- loss. He distinguished himself as president of the U. S. Chamber." Services will be held Thursday.

Survivors include a daughter, two grandsons, two sisters and abroth- er. guiii.iiiiiwimMiTO ftrqpmwmmwmmM'mminm'iiw A il- ii- I L-, M'AT' 1 c'Y Ii muni nim ii iiiiii iiiiimi in i mmm rir-n-in 1 state tourney from this region were Meridian and Yazoo City. McMahan received a superior rating; Cress, Cameron and Tatum excellent ratings in the regional meet. The team compiled an overall rating of excellent. McMahan and Cameron are affirmative and Tatum and Cress negative debaters for the Hattiesburg team.

Other schools competing in the South Mississippi tourney were Biloxi, Moss Point, Natchez and McComb. (Staff photo by Robert Miller) IN STATE DEBATE TOURNEY Mrs. Carol Chappeli, Hattiesburg High debate coach, congratulates debaters (from left) Kent McMahan, Frank Tatum, Curtis Cameron and Gary Cress on their fine showing in last Saturday's South Mississippi regional meet. They earned a place in state finals this Saturday in Jackson. The Hattiesburg team won four of six debates and placed second to St.

Joseph of Jackson, which won five of six. Also qualifying for the i i.