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WEATHER Weather for Jackson and vicini'y should be fair and warmer with little chance of showers. Wind at the Ross Barnette Reservoir should be about five knots over the weekend. HOME Edition Mississippi Leading Newspaper For More Than A Century Established 1837 AP Leased Wires Wirephoto JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1972 VOL CXXX NO. 212 30 PAGES PRICE 10c mm Two Perish As Plane Crashes Into Reservoir to- 1 Vi Vfii Sportseaster, Pilot Victims Of Accident A small aircraft owned by North Jackson Air Service and demonstrating aerobatics prior to a weekend show plunged into the Ross Barnett Reservoir Friday afternoon. Two persons were aboard.

The bodies were re- Airman Rescued In North Shopping Center Planned ifej Jt2l AT HELM OF MEA Mrs. Anne Hardy of Jackson, an English teacher at Hinds Junior College, will bring the experience of many years of teaching and professional leadership in the field of education to bear on her new duties as president of the Mississippi Education Association. Mrs. Hardy, a president of the Mississippi Department Classroom Teachers, technically MEA president Thursday, she won't formally accept from outgoing President Allan until the board meets June 7. See story on Photo by Claude Sutherland.

WRECKAGE RECOVFRY The broken pieces of a Fair-child PT-19 which crashed in the Barnett Reservoir Friday afternoon were recovered by fishermen and scuba divers. Two men were killed in the crash. Photo by Jesse Worley. -r senatorial nomination. SENATE SENATOR JAMES 0.

EASTLAND, running for re-election, was at another of the many Jim Eastland Appreciation Dinners that have characterized his campaign. The dinner, given for the senator in Columbus was attended by the large crowd of supporters that has set his campaign apart from that of his contenders. At the dinner, Eastland again told of the many benefits that the state has received during his 30 years in office. He said the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is one of the most envisionary projects ever planned for the South. He said, "It will provide Mississippi with INDEX former of became but the gavel McClure next Wednesday, Page 6.

Candidate Pre covered late Friday. TkA 1 down a few hundred yards from Overlook Point in the reservoir. The crash location was just south of the Natchez Trace village and a few miles east of the Interstate 55, reports said. Authorities said the dead men were a Jackson television station sportscaster, Dick Thames, and the pilot, John Waller. Another TV Channel 16 newsman was shooting film from the ground at the Madison Airfield.

The open-cockpit plane apparently spun out of control and took a nose-dive from 3,000 feet reports said. An unidentified pilot who was flying over the area reportedly plane crash, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. The crash reportedly occurred about 2:30 p. m. It was reported that a Jackson televiscn station sports and new feature crew was filming the aerobatics from the plane and the ground at the time of the crash.

The show will be held as scheduled, officials said. Fisherman were reported to have picked up pieces of the wreckage of the plane, which was said to have hit the water nose-first. Waller has been an employe of the North Jackson Air Service for about two months, according to Doug Iludgins owner the flying service. See CRASH, Pg. Worker Killed In Plunge Here Sammie Williams, 50-year-old Jackson laborer, fell to his death Friday on a construction project at St.

Dominic Hospital here. A hospital spokesman said Williams was working on scaffolding on the fourth floor of a new building when a timber fell from the roof and hit him. On his plunge to the ground, Williams knocked another worker from the second floor, the spokesman said. The second man, Terry Lee Lewis, 23, of Carthage was hospitalized with fractures. The hospital said both were employed by Becknell Construction Co.

Boston Mix Action Taken WASHINGTON (AP) In the first noncompliance action against a major Northern school system, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Friday cited Boston public schools for a hearing on alleged racial 1 discrimination against LackliateF Campaign By BILLY SKELTON Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Site clearing is continuing and construction is due to begin in the next few weeks on a $6 shopping center on the southeast corner of Interstate 20 and Ellis Avenue. W. H. Holman who with W. B.

McCarty Jr. is the owner of the giant development, said a food center, one of the largest in the world, will be the central attraction of the shopping complex. The huge store, three times the size of the largest existing grocery in the city, will feature a wholesale concept of shopping on a warehouse basis, according to Holman. A meat distribution wholesale within the food center will be a leading feature of the volume basis enterprise, he said. Holman said the store is de signed to attract trade from three states and to accommodate, in addition to the regular shopper, those who "buy $125 worth of food at a lick." A total floor space of 300,000 see SHOPPING, Pg.

14 Litton Plans New In Pascagoula The location of a major engineering facility at Pascagoula bv Litton Ship Building was announced Friday by Gov. Bill Waller. Waller said, "After extensive neogitations and hard work by many individuals in state government and otherwise, we ore happy to announce the final decisions by Litton Ship Building to locate in Pascagoula, a maior office facility housing approximately 1,000 engineering personnel. Waller said, "This decision to locate this major facility in Mississippi came after manv days of hard work by the staff of the Agricultural and Industrial Board and by many private and local officials. The decision by Litton was not easy and it Sec LITTON, Pg.

14 SAIGON (AP) A huge U.S. Air Force rescue armada plucked a downed airman from i.ec- behind enemy lines northwest of Hanoi, spokesmen disclosed Saturday. He had spent 2" days evading North Vietnamese forces and lost 15 pounds during his ordeal. The airman was rescued Friday. In other major action, 359 enemy troops were reported killed in two battles.

Meanwhile new fighting broke out Friday along South Vietnam's central coast, claimed 359 enemy troops killed in two clashes 80 miles apart on north-south National Highway 1. The biggest battle occurred near Binh Son district town in Quang Ngai province, about 75 miles south of Da Nang, after enemy forces shelled and assaulted a South Vietnamese position defending the town. The Saigon command said government forces backed by artillery and air strikes killed 286 enemy soldiers and captured 23 weapons in beating back the attack. A communique said eight South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded. Eighty miles farther south In Binh Dinh province, South Vietnamese forces clashed vith enemy troops a mile souflwest of the threatened district town of Phu My.

The command 73 North Vietnamese and Viet Cone troops were killed and two prisoners and 20 weapons were captured there in daylong fighting. Four South Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed and 60 wounded. Phu My was reported under heavy enemy pressure and two U.S. advisers were evacuated from the district headquarters. A saboteur blew up the Binh Dinh province command post in the city of Qui Nhon.

Between 30 and 40 Air Force planes and helicopters flew through heavy North Vietnamese fire to lift CaDt. Roger C. Locher, 28, of Sabetha, out of the steep mountain terrain at about noon. "I was never so haopy in mv life as when I hooked myself to the rescue cable and they hoisted me up to the big Jolly Green Giant chopper," Locher said. Locher's F4 Phantom was shot down Mpy 10 on hi" ip7'n combat mission.

He had been credited with shooting down three North Vietnamese MIG interceptors. The second crewman aboard the F4 still is missing, the Air Force said. Butane Truck Explodes In Mendenhall MENDENHALL (AP)-A truck driver was burned Friday when a butane tank truck exploded, setting off other explosions and sending 60-foot long butane storage tanks hurtling across a street into a wooded area "like rockets." Officials said earlier one man as believed killed by the explosion, but later changed the report. The series of explosions forced evacuation of a nearby hospital and curing plant Fires begun by the exploding tanks, one of which landed just short of an old folks home according to reports, set fire to the curing plant and destroyed a house adjacent to the Mississippi Hydratane Co. The force of the tank explosions knocked out window at Simpson General Hospital, and patients were evacuated from the facility.

No injuries were reported by authorities, who said fires were still burning Friday night One wall of the curing plant reportedly crumbled during the blaze which was later black and Spanish-speaking schools. William H. Ohrenberger, the city's school superintendent, was told in a hand-delivered letter that the district's application for federal funds "for new programs and activities" will be deferred three months pending a hearing before a fed-era! examiner. "It is my conclusion that the Boston public schools are not in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that efforts by the staff of this office to secure your compliance by voluntary means have not been successful," wrote J. Stanley Pottinger, director of HEW's Office for Civil Rights.

"The office of (HEW) general counsel has completed outlets for our goods and open new economic doors for our state." Commenting on the Yellow Creek Port, to open in Tishomingo County next year, he said, "When the Yellow Creek port becomes reality next year, fol lowed by that great Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway, it win mean an economic boost for our state like no other in our his tory." TAYLOR WEBB, 44, a former president of the Mississippi Economic Council, said Friday he would work diligently to upgrade the economic level of all Mississippians. "Mississippi did not make the economic progress in the 1960s which we have been led to believe," Webb said. "If you compare Mississippi with itself, it appears great progress was made, but when that progress is that Mississippi is not closing the economic gap but is lagging further and further behind." "It is time that Mississippians have younger political and economic leaders who will work and dedicate themselves to util South and nation, we discover compared with the rest of the izing our natural resources, preserving our clean environment, and at the same time See POLITICAL, Pg. 14 BY WILL SULLIVAN Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer With only the weekend and Monday during which to campaign before Tuesday's primaries, congressional and senatorial candidates are working hard to tie up loose ends and get the vote out. By the standards of last summer's governor's race, the elections this summer are not grabbing the imagination and emotions of the voters.

Many of the candidates express fear that there will be a light turnout, and the men who have the most friends will be the winners. Unlike last summer, when various political issues kept cropping up, most of the candidates this summer are stressing which man has the most experience, who is the youngest, and who is the hardest working. Other factors that may figure into the election to some smail degree are: the traumatizing battle between two factions of the Democratic party for national recognition; Mississippi's long history of voting Democratic; a Republican primary being held in the state for the first time; and the battle in the Republican party between black James Meredith and white Gil Carmichae! for the Republican -f Amusements IS Classified Ads 23-29 Comics .....22 Editorials II Financial 20 Miss. Notebook 10 Radio-TV Logs 17 Sports 15-21, 31 Women 13 Churches 12 GM Plant Ground Is Broken Members of the staff of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors and a number of top GM executives were on hand Friday afternoon for a groundbreaking ceremony at the Clinton Industrial Park site to mark start of construction on Packard's new plant. Packard Division makes elec-tic components, connectors, switches and harnesses for all divisions of the parent corporation.

Its headquarters are in Warren, Ohio. General Motors currently has 113 plants in operation 19 states and the-e are assembly plants in the Southeast and Southwest, See PLANT, Pg. 14 its review of our case and con curs in this conclusion." The district has 20 days to re spond to the allegations. rottwge- sain through an See BOSTON, Pg. 14 tK til v.v i a butane tank truck which was demolished.

Wreckage of houses destroyed by the blast are at left See other photo on page 2. Photo by Jesse Worley. EXPLOSION AFTHEMATH Butane tanks smoulder at the Mississippi Hydratane Co. in Mendenhall following an explosion Friday afternoon. Next to the smouldering tanks, in the center background, is the remains of NEAR CRASH SCENE Larger pieces of the aircraft which crashed in the Barnett Reservoir Friday afternoon are spread out on the shore as divers searched for the bodies of the two Jackson men killed when the plane hit the water nose first Photo by Jesse Worley..