Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

Daily I HOME FINAL Tartly cloudy, warm, low to-night upper 5(is, high Thursday mid-7ts. Mississippi's Greatesi Newspaper flOth YEAR VOL. 80 NO. 5 AP WIREPHOTO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1972 ASSOCIATED PRESS 44 PAGES 10 CENTS Covering the CROSSROADS v- v-- 4 4 4 fill I 1 I I lll.ll I.I 11; WEATHER HEWS H( I JTZ m.r r-r- rmr i I -I With Jimmy Ward 7 1 ir r'X L. 1 ntro 1 V.

I iff CLM4GrC MOMENT Gov. William Lowe Waller, 45-year-old lawyer and former district attorney of the Jackson area and a native of Burgess in Lafayette County, took the oath of office Tuesday in inaugural rites on the south lawn of the historic Capitol of Mississippi. The noon event was the feature of a day of elaborate festivities under warmed-up Deep South wintry skies. The new governor the state's 56th and successor to John Bell Wlliams was scheduled to get really into the swing of his official activities at his Capitol office Wednesday. Daily News Staff Photo by Fred Blackwell.

Refaiers 3 ror We read that a booster for Mayor John Lindsay for the presidency is circulating campaign buttons saying, "Stop, Look and Lindsay." Golly, how ridiculous can political slogans get? Quote Magazine says of the many remedies that won't cure a cold, whiskey is by far the most popular. When friends tell you how to cure a cold, take it with a grain of salt. The salt may do some good. "You won't live a week," advised the doctor, "if you don't stop running around with women." "Oh, there's nothing wrong with me," protested the patient. "I'm in great physical shape." "Yeah, know," said the doctor, "but one of those women is my wife." The doctor called his patient, a railroad man, and protested angrily: "That check you gave me has come back!" "So what?" replied the patient "So has my lumbago!" A federal judge has thrown out a suit by inmates at the Trenton (N.

State Prison who wanted to be turned loose because they said the prison was in a high-pollution area and that their constitutional rights were violated by their having to breathe bad air. It's natural for any prisoner to want to breathe the air of freedom, but Judge Clarkson S. Fisher said the air wasn't any different on the outside: "I'm breathing the same air as they are," he declared. "Case dismissed." Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Russell of Vinton, Ohio, formed the middle names of their 11 children by spelling their first names backward. So, they have Laur Rual, Noel Leon, Novle, Levon, Norwood Doowron, Leron Norel, Noble Elbon, Odell Lledo, Loneva, Avenol, Annabel Lebanna and Leah Hael. A mother discovered her little daughter fighting with the boy next door. After parting them, she lectured her daughter. "Next time," she said, "I don't want you hitting Johnny.

Remember that you're a lady just out talk him!" The young married couple were advised by their friends and respective families to postpone parenthood. The bride, who had her heart set on having a child, in amazement at the lengthy list of expenses attached to children: doctors, orthodontists, music and dancing lessons, summer camp, etc. At last, she sighed and said wistfully, "Well, couldn't we just rent a baby?" Daisy Brown in the Wall Street Journal. Straight Ahead' Is Wallers Pledge 45 Per Gent Rental Units Also Excepted WASHINGTON (AP) The Cost of Living Council today exempted small retail firms with annual sales of less than $100,000 from price controls and about 45 per cent of all rental units from rent controls. The council announced that it accepted the recommendation of the Price Commission that small "mom and pop" retail firms should be exempt from price controls.

The exemption applies to about 15 per cent of all retail sales and covers about 75 per cent of i. 1 I part of their heritage said the Rev. Larry G. Rohrman, pastor of the church, during the service. "Religion is not a Sunday affair with our new governor," the pastor said.

"It's a way of life. He did not begin his church attendance when he entered the political arena." Rohrman warned Waller hat he would be under "very close scrutiny of a very cynical public Right as you see it will become wrong as they tell it. There will be some difficult hours when you will be alone except for God. "Only your integrity will enable you to stand erect. As you have done in the past, continue, sir, to resist the pressures that relentlessly seek to make you compromise your convictions." The choir sang "God of Our Fathers," "Battle Hymn, of the ON JOB Muni About check later in the dav with Allen Halliburton, not additionally identified but believed to be one of his security aides, who was with him at the Capitol Governor's Office door.

Asked about the immediate operation of the office, Waller said he had a "temporary staff" on hand. Obviously included were Herman Glazier, an administrative assistant to governors Paul B. Johnson and John Bell Williams, and two secretaries who were on Williams' office force. TWO 'BIG ONES' Top speculation about Wal ler's appintments this week had centered around two big See MUM, Page 20A Sma i NEWS BRIEFS INVERNESS, Miss. (AP) Authorities are dragging a lake about six miles east of here todssv for the body of a Mississippi Delta Junior College student.

Officers said Steve Mnd-sey and three other students at the Moorhead School were in an auto which left a county road, slammed through a bridge rail and settled In some 15 feet of water at Three-Mile Lake Tuesday night. Three of those in the car managed to swim to safety, See BRIEFS, Page Z0A said the whole state was desig nated a disaster area, but only the southwestern portion of the state affected by rain and floods was eligible for aid. Sen; James Eastland. said today the White House had informed his office that the southwestern portion of Mississippi would be declared a major disaster because of heavy rain damage in December. Eastland said President Nixon had ordered the Office of Emergency Preparedness to coordinate federal relief activities in the Former Gov.

John Bell Williams had requested the disaster area designation after ex- r- 1 1 Republic" and "I'm Thankful to be an Amecican." Just before the inauguration ceremonies, Sen. John Stennis, said in an interview that Waller was a "man of exceptional ability and he has strong purposes and has the confidence of the people. The See WALLER, Page 20A V.i silt fX1 IN NEW OFFICE Waller Sets Up Nameplate INDEX Amusements Pages 7-8C Bridge Page 7C Classified Pages 10-15C Comics Page9C Dear Abby Page GC Editorial Page 18A Hains' On Stage Page 80 Horoscope Page 8C Heloise's Hints Page 6C Jack Sunn Page 19A Markets Page 4B Puzzle Page 7C Sports Pages 5-8B Women's Pages 1-6C Wallers, Five Children Stayed On Move Through Spirited Fetes Phantom Jet Bags MIG In Air Duel Encounter Deep Inside N. Korea Third In 5 Days SAIGON (AP) A U.S. Navy Phantom jet shot down a fast M1C21 in a blazing air duel today deep inside North Vietnam, U.S.

Command said. It was the third encounter between MIGs and U.S jets in the past five days of intensified aerial warfare. In the two previous engagements, MIGs and U.S. jets fired missiles at each other but missed. MIGs have been trying to ha rass American planes striking at the Ho Chi Minn supply trail in Laos.

U.S. air blows are designed to check the flow of supplies believed intended for a new enemy offensive in South Vietnam. Previously, the MIGs had tried to avoid American planes. The last MIG shot down was on March 28, 1970. During today's engagement, at least five American planes were fired on by eight surface to air missiles and antiaircraft guns, the U.S.

Command reported. The planes were from the carrier Constellation, she was joined by the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise earlier in the day in the Gulf of Tonkin. See PHANTOM, Page 20A THEY SEEK all retail companies the 1 nation. Exempted from lent controls were single-family rental dwellings rented for longer than month-to-month periods where the landlord owns four units or less, apartment units ren'ing for 500 a month or more, and owner-occupied dwellings of four or fewer units having long er than a one-month rental agreement. The exemptions will remove from controls about 10 million of the 23.6 million renter-occupied housing units in the nation.

The council noted that about two-thirds of all renter-occupied dwellings are of four units or less. The council said the exemptions would remove much of the burden of enforcing Pres-' 1 See CONTROLS. Page 20A By HUGH MORGAN Associated Press Writer "Straight ahead." Those words, the theme of Gov. Bill Waller's hopes for the next four years in developing Mississippi, also described the governor's first day in office Tuesday. From the morning prayer service to the inaugural ball at night, Waller, his wife Carroll, and their five children were on the move.

And they had enough pep to close out the activities dancing. The inauguration festivities, called by Sen. James 0. Eastland, the biggest in the history of the state, began with a prayer service at the First Baptist Church of Jackson where the governor is a deacon. 'WAY OF LIFE' "It's like them (the Wallers) to start the lay with God.

It's NEW GOVERNOR Waller ENFORCEMENT 'TEETH' NEEDED, SOLON DECLARES WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Harrison A. Williams D-N. said today "the sad history of compliance" with a federal ban on discrimination in employment makes new enforcement powers urgently necessary. Opening debate on a bill to strengthen the hand of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he told the Senate that "this legislation is long overdue and can wait no longer." Foreign-Aid Extension Bill Before House Measure Asks Wealthy Nations To Share Burden WASHINGTON (AP) The House postponed final action on a $2.7 billion foreign aid bill today and a key leader said he does not want to act on President Nixon's foreign, aid overhaul plan until after the November elections.

''We could have a new president then," said House Foreign Affairs Chairman Thomas E. Morgan, "and he might want something different." The House had been scheduled to take final action on the $2.7 billion bill extending the present foreign aid program today but Morgan's committee said it was until next Tuesday. i Morgan had indicated he wa.s concerned about taking the vote this week because too manv foreign aid supporters might be out of town. Only 308 of the 432 House members answered the new session's opening roll call Tuesday. House approval of the bill would nearly complete Congress' revival of foreign aid after weeks of House-Senate maneuvering and deadlock since the Senate struck down the program last Oct.

29. The Senate has yet to pass a AID, Page 20A Southwest State 'Disaster Area' Key Appointments LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE JAYCEES IN THIS THEIR SPECIAL WEEK AND GIVE A HAND TO ALL THE GUYS IN ALL THE GOALS WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Nixon- today designated Mississippi a major disaster area because of heavy rains and flooding in December. The designation permits use of fed eral funds for relief and recov ery efforts. The White said Nixon acted in response to a request from former Gov. John Bell Williams, who estimated damage to public and private property, agriculture and livestock, had exceeded Naxon previously declared the state a major disaster area in February 1971 because of tornado damage.

A White House spokesman add: A White House spokesman By CHARLES B. GORDON Daily News Staff Writer Gov, William L. Waller entered his office in the Capitol at 9:25 a. m. apparently reasonably rested following the strenuous activities of Inaugural Day.

Waller told newsmen that he did not believe he would be ready to announce any of the numerous key appointments he is expected to make today. He said "it will probably not be before Thursday" that he will reveal some of his major and minor choices for important jobs In the new Mississippi government. 'As is his custom, however, Waller 'kept his options open" by adding that reporters could HINNY out juio.io 1 iti, rage.