Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

WEATHER FRIDAY Scattered showers, cloudy and cooler, low near 50, high near 60. Saturday Partly cloudy and cool, low near 36, high in the 5u's. Thursday-High 75, low 49, Pearl River at Jack-son 3.2 feet, no change. SUGAR BOWL Ole Miss will open final preparation! for the 1963 Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans after Christmas with workouts on the Oxford campus. For details on this, and who will make the trip, see the sports section.

mum Mississippi's Leading Netvspaper For More Than A Century Established 1837 AP and UPI Leased Wires JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1062 VOL. CXXV NO. 253 36 PAGES PRICE 5c Legislature Approves Teacher Appropriation I- jrm i I MX EMPLOYMENT SHOWS RISE, PA Clears Deck, Prepares To Go Home For Yule 1 HIGHER ACROSS MISSISSIPPI By Unitert Press International Employment for Mississippi workers under the Employ-. ment Security Law was at a record high during the second quarter of the year, averaging 281,005, it was announced Thursday. The State Employment Service said the figure was a gain of 14,323 over the preceding quarter and 13,380 over the same quarter oi last year.

The service said wages for the second quarter of 1962 totaled $254,743,034, compared with $234,050,248 for the first quarter of the year and $230,305,188 for the second quarter of 1961. HOUSE By CHARLES M. HILLS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Under grim warning that the state will in the next administration face huge financial shortages, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a $4,750,000 appropriation for education here Thursday. Chairman John R. Junkin, Adams, of the House Appropriations committee said that he expects a $50,000,000 need for new revenue at the next biennial ses Phillips Is Running On Republican Slate 3 -Cs.

I Bottom Of Page) SENATE By BILL SIMPSON Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer The Mississippi Senate Thursday literally "cleared the decks" of most pending legislation of major importance as the Legislature headed for a possible sine die adjournment at noon Friday. In Thursday action the Senate: 1. Approved, by a vote of 35-3, a House-passed $4,750,000 teacher pay bill. The measure was held on motion to reconsider but is expected to gain final legislative approval in the Senate Friday morning. 2.

Adopted resolutions authorizing increases in maximum wel fare payments, from $40 to $50 monthly, for the elderly and permanently disabled. Both meas ures, similar to bills passed in the House earlier, were held on motions to reconsider but are expected to pass the Senate with little trouble Friday. 3. Adopted a resolution which would prohibit most future construction of federally-subsidized, low-rent housing units in Mississippi. The restriction would apply except in municipalities or other political subdivisions which officially announced intentions to en-Continued On Page 10A 4 V3 -3? 3 PRETTY AS 1 1 1 ering any connection with National Democratic Party." the Phillips will be the first announced Republican candidate for governor of the state since 1947, when the late George L.

Sheldon, the 70-ish former governor of Nebraska, drew less than 5000 votes in his adopted state. Mississippi has not seen a Republican governor since early Reconstruction, when Adelbert Ames served. Phillips was cricuit clerk in Alcorn County 1951-55, and chairman of the PSC in 1956-57, when he resigned. His brother, noted author Thomas Hal Phillips, was named to complete his term with the PSC, and was subsequently elected to a full term himself. However, Hal Phillips declared Thursday he would not seek reelection but would work on his brother's campaign.

TRADEMARK Rubel Phillips insisted Thurs day that the Republican Party's trademark is "conservatism. The conservatives of the South can assure that the philosophy of the late Senator Robert Taft (of Ohio) as advocated today by Senator Barry Goldwater (of Arizona) will continue to be the dominant influence in that party," he said. Phillips said he "and my four brothers" talked for an hour and a half with Goldwater during the Arizona senator's recent visit to Continued On Page 10A Gov. Barnett Raps Article In 'Look' A POINSETTIA Miss Brenda Scarborough, senior student at Mississippi State University, poses with a few of the 3,000 potted poinsettias raised by the Horticulture Department. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. James O. Scarborough, 261 Moss Avenue, Jackson. These poinsettias are raised by the students in their research work and some are sold to retail florists with the proceeds helping defray research costs. Color Photo by Claude Sutherland.

sion of the law-making body. "I don't question, as the governor says, that there may be a $6,500,000 surplus when the legislature meets in regular session in 1956," Junkin said. "But, under the spending schedules we have set up, we are going to find ourselves short on fiscal operations." "We have spent a $34,000,000 surplus we had on hand as this administration began," he declared. "We are employing a mos unsound method of handling fi- nances." Rep. Junkin said "we will be faced with need for $50,000,000 new revenue and will have to tax the people to get it." Observing that the bill in hand Continued on Page 10A Negro James Meredith to enroll at Ole Miss while protesting to the segregationists.

The governor, in a statement issued from his office, said "The world now knows that the Satur day Evening Post's hatchet job on Adlai Stevenson was a 'White House leak. The Look article on me is nothing more than a 'Justice Department He said he did not usually read Look because "its position is so prejudiced against Mississippi and the south that most anything it would say about us would be biased and utterly absurd." Barnett added, "I need only to remind Mississippians that when I was advised the federal gov-ernment had placed Meredith on the campus, with federal troops, I immediately addressed the following remarks to the federal government: "Gentlemen, you are trampling on the sovereignty of the great State of Mississippi and depriving it of every vestige of honor and respect as a member of the union of states. You are destroying the Constitution of this great nation. May God have mercy on your souls. "That expressed my sentiments on that day and it does today," Barnett said.

Against Ross Start Today (See Photo At By JERRY DeLAUGHTER Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Rubel Phillips fanned an early spark Thursday for next year's gubernatorial race in Mississippi by announcing his candidacy on the Republican ticket. Phillips, a Jackson attorney and former chairman of the Public Service Commission, told a news conference that his an nouncement "is the only way in which I may be able to make a contribution to the state of Mississippi and a contribution to the preservation of individual free dom, free enterprise and Ameri canism as taught and practiced by Thomas Jefferson." Phillips has been long rumored as a possible candidate for governor, but said his final decision to run as a Republican was made "only last Sunday." However, he said he had con sulted with Republican Chairman Wirt Yerger for the past six weeks, a fact which brought speculation from informed sources about his plans revealed Thursday. CUTS CONNECTION The handsome 37-year-old Kossuth native declared he was "sev- Pupils Stone U.S. Embassy ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, the Congo (AP) Shouting "Down with Kennedy!" Katanga Univer sity students stoned the U.S. con sulate Thursday and then sang the praises of the British and French.

ine demonstration were sparked by announcement that the United States is sending military aid to United Nations forces in the Congo to support the campaign to end Katanga's secession. President Moise Tshombe, at a news conference, blamed the United States for prolonging the Con go miseries and threatened to "apply the scorched earth policy" in his mineral-rich province rather than give in to military pressure. Tshombe own guards had to be called out to break up the attack on the U.S. consulate. Two Injured In Accident A Hinds County youth was injured critically and his brother seriously Thursday when their car went out of control, rolled over about four times and hurled them about 25 feet from the wreck.

Willie Horace Raney, 22, was still unconscious at midnight an hour and a half after the acci dent while undergoing treatment at University Hospital. His brother Warren, 18, was conscious and talking to hospital officials. Both are residents of Wynndale Community in south- em Hinds County between Tcry and cyram. Deputy Sheriff Roger Mills, who investigated the mishap along with Deputy J. W.

Richardson, said he was first one to scene. It appeared the car "rolled over about four times and threw 25 feet," he said. The mishap occurred on Spring Ridge Road. By United Press International Gov. Ross Barnett Thursday blasted as "typical example of irresponsible journalism, completely ridiculous" a recent national magazine article on the University of Mississippi integration crisis.

Barnett said the article, in the current issue of Look, was "in keeping with the consistently biased position of this publica tion." The article said there was a secret deal between Barnett and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy which Barnett agreed to allow The trio was turned over to city police who held them in lieu of $2,500 bond on grand larceny charges. The Justice Department said the aborted plot did not violate the Federal Espionage Act. The three men were identified as Homer Lee Young, 45, an unemployed ex-convict: James W.

Causey Jr. 22, a pressman: and Anthony M. Whitehead, 20, an employe of the Vickers plant here Continued on Page 5B Three Men Jailed In 'Spying' Plot Action Set To By BRANDT A YERS Clarion-Ledger Bureau WASHINGTON The Justice Dept. plans to start criminal contempt action against Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett and Lt Gov.

Paul B. Johnson Jr. Friday afternoon. It was learned exclusively, a hard decision to initiate the landmark case will be made Friday morning when Attorney General Robert Kennedy meets with Burke assistant attorney general for-civil rights, and. Edwin special assistant for public information.

Unless last minute detail snarls the plan, a citation will be filed about 1 p.m. in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans 'asking the two officials By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Capping an intensive undercover investigation, the FBI Thursday announced arrest of three men who it said were attempting to sell blueprints for Nike missiles to Castro's regime. The three were arrested Wednesday night as they tried to close the $600,000 deal by. delivering the plans to a Cuban they believed to be an agent for Castro. The unidentified Cuban, however, worked for the FBI.

SKYBOLT DEMAND DROPPED XI 5 BACK SAFELY AFTER FLYING TO BORDER OF SPACE EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. Calif. UP) An X15 rocket plane Thursday returned safely from the highest altitude yet attempted with its big bottom fin removed. A space agency spokesman said it was the first time the X15 had gone high enough and fast enough without the ventral fin to meet conditions future spacecraft will encounter reentering the atmosphere. Preliminary information indicated a top speed of 3,886 miles an hour and an altitude of 157,000 feet.

Crash Kills 11 Persons NAHA, Okinawa (UPP- A U.S. Air Force KB50 tanker plane crashed into an Okinawan farm house Thursday, exploding into flames and killing 11 persons all 7 American crewmen and 4 Okinawans. Seven other Okinawans from the devested house of Chojin Fu-kuhara in nearby Yara village were injured. As the plane approached Ka-dena Air Force Base en route from Yokota Air Force Base in Jaan, it was waved away on its first landing, try. As it came in for the second' approach, base officials said, one engine failed, the aircraft dipped, sliced off a 35-foot power pole, and plunged into the house.

Negro Plaintiffs Seek Integration In Orleans Case NEW ORLEANS (AP) A group of 116 New Orleans Negroes filed suit in U. S. District Court here Thursday to desegregate all of the city's public recreation facil ities, including playgrounds and centers of the New Orleans Recreation Department. NORD operates 106 playgrounds, 88 for whites and 18 for Negroes. City Park, which is under the jurisdiction of a separate board, was desegregated by a federal qourt order in 1958' 1 JFK, Mac Reach On Far-Ranging A to show cause why they should not be punished for criminal contempt.

Authoritative sources report that a press briefing has been set up at the Justice Dept. to brief reporters on the action at 11 a.m. Friday, and John Doar, an assistant to Marshall, is already in New Orleans. The action was originally scheduled for last week, but last minute changes shoved the timetable ahead. Among the decisions Ito be made at the meeting with the attorney general are wihch of two different versions the citation will be filed and the exact time they will be presented to the court.

The move will spark a history- nuclear deterrent which eventually can be included in an overall European force if the Europeans1 themselves ever agree to build one. Although he. will not have the bomber-launched Skybolt, Macmillan will have been given enough fire power to satisfy his country's demands for an independent nu-clear deterrent. Sources here believed that French President Charles de Gaulle's ambitions to become a INDEX Affairs Of State 6A Amusements HC Classified Ads 6-9C Comics 7D, 7B Editorials fiA Financial 6D Radio TV Logs 3C Sport 1, 2. 3.

4, -IOC Women 2, 3, 4, 5D making legal struggle that probably will drag out past Barnett's term as governor, and officials here expect will finally be decided by the Supreme Court. If convicted, the penalties for the state's top constitutional officers could mean jail terms, but they likely will be out of their present office when sentences are meted out, according to authoritative sources here. The Justice Dept. action is in response to an order of the federal appeals court which Nov. 15, directed the department to institute the proceedings against Barnett and Johnson.

The court earlier found the two in civil contempt for their Continued on Page SB Accord Strategy real nuclear force within the alliance were taken into account in the broad program which Kennedy and Macmillan had worked out. The big two meetings will go on through mid-day Friday. LEAVES FRIDAY Kennedy was scheduled to fly around 4:30 p.m. Friday to Palm Beach, to spend the Christmas holidays with his family. Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker will lunch with Kennedy and Macmillan Friday before the President's departure.

Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara, Britain's Defense Minister Peter Thornycroft and other top aides were drawing up details of the new nuclear program for inclusion in the final communique. The Anglo American leaders went into probable Russian moves and policies in the aftermath of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's backdown on long range missiles and jet bombers in Cuba. Or I fa NASSAU, Bahamas (UPI) -President Kennedy and Prime Minister-Harold Macmillan reached accord Thursday on far-ranging nuclear strategy after Britain dropped its demand for the Sky-bolt missile in return for the Polaris and a broad new program of American assistance. The Skybolt controversy which had deadlocked this summit conference was broken with British acceptance of Kennedy's unyielding standing that the United States intended to drop the project. American officials said the new defense program goes far beyond swap of Polaris for Skybolt.

The British will get the submarine launched weapon under the framework of an agreement whose details will be made known at conference end Friday. FEATURE CONSIDERED But the accord looks far into the future, American sources said giving Britain a better-rounded RUBEL IS 61N Attorney Rubel Phillips tosses his hat in tho ring for the 1963 governor's race in Mississippi as a Republican. Here the former Public Service Commission chairman delivers his statement to newsmen at a conference Thursday afternoon in Jackson. Looking on is his wife, Marcaret. Photo by Kim Sutherland..