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NO RAIN IN AREA Belia RED STREAK 74th Year United Press International Greenville, Mississippi Wednesday, May 29, 1963 Price 5c No. 231 Condition Of Pope Improves VATICAN CITY (UP1) The Vatican reported today that a "distinct improvement" was noted in the condition of Pope John XXIII. The statement was the most optimistic: to dale about the condition of the 81-year-old Pope, who is suffering from internal bleeding and a stomach tumor that could be cancerous. IN a communique issued slmrlly after 2:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m.

EST, the Vatican said: "At 10 a.m. (4 a.m. EST) today, a disrinct improvement was iinicd in the general condition of (lie august patient, thus confirming yesterday's prediction." It said that Dr. Piero Mazzoni visited the Pope and then left the apostolic palace vith no plans to return until tonight. THE announcement pointed out that the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church spent a "night of quiet rest" and had "no need for This was In contradiction to car'icr reports from a i a sources that said Pope failed to respond to numerous blood transfusions jring a "very bad" night.

day of Iruj august patient, ns already said," the communi- que added, "is spent in serenity, in prayer, in constant docility to the l.ord. "THE Pope is engaging (in prayer) in an orderly way, with full mental presence and lucidity. never suffered (mental) abser.r: or confusion, as perhaps error. reported by some, even in the acute moment of the cr yJiccUcd that he at least was hn'dbn his own in the grim battle against the inroads of age and the ailment that medical reports indicate is cancer. Grocer Accused Of ShooSmg Hoe Hand A Washington County rural grocer was free under $500 bond today on charges of pointing anil aiming and assault with intent lo kill a 21-year-old field Sheriff Al llollingsworth said PPIO Peterson, operator of a grocery store Foole, Highway 1 south near Lake Washington, was arrested by deputies Albert Tackc-ll and Glenn Copeland yesterday after a complaint was filed by Mrs.

Roberi Fortner, wife of a Lake Washington planter. i Hollingsworlh said Peterson is accused cf shooting John Henry Williams in the hand during an argument over a $10 debt. Williams was treated by a Roll- inn Fork doctor, the sheriff said. Jackson Police Arrest 11 As Racial Tension Grows Stores Close Counters, 'Cocktail' Explodes GHS Graduation Paul Louis Kossman, left, spoke on "The Moment of Truth" at Greenville High School's 72nd annual commencement last night at the high school auditorium. At the right, John Collins Williams Jr.

received the first of 187 diplomas presented by Roy Campbell, president of the School Board. (Stalt 1 nolos) Greenville High Graduates 187 One hundred eighty seven grey-robed reenvillc High School graduates proudly walked across the stage hugging diplomas presented by Hoy Campbell, president of. the School Board, at the annunal commencement exercises last night. Wallace Neblett I I I a Louis Kossman and Jerome Charles Hnfler gave the traditional graduation speeches based in thcinr class motto, "If a man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask and he will find both," a statement by Horace Mann. NEBLETT told the seniors that by seeking nothing for oneself with no thought of reward, man can find and lasting greatness.

He said that worldly prominence has no part in lasting greatness and urged class to seek to serve mankind instead. This moment symbolizes our departure, Kossman told the group. He said that everyone has certain goals hut that the manner of attaining them is the important factor. "Our methods directly effect society" as well as ourselves, he said. KOSSMAN said that the desire for a heller life makes men look for material gains but that he also desires comfort for i soul.

He said that man is never satisfied with the present horizon and left the audience with the question, "What is the fulfillment of man's search?" Two State Officials Warn Of Integration Weather 1 North Mississippi:" Partly cloudy today and tonight; high today 80 lo W. A litlle cooler tonight; low 58 to 64. Thursday cloudy to partly cloudy with scattered afternoon Ihundcrshowers. The high temperature yesterday was 76 degrees and the low was 64 degrees. Yesterday's rainfall amounted (o .06 in the 24-hour- period.

Weather observer Brodie Crump reported a temperature of 63 degrees at 7:45 this morning. MONTGOMERY. Ala. (UPI) -Gov. Ross Barrett of Mississippi said here loday he was "in sympathy with the people of Alabama" in the struggle against the federal government over racial matters.

"I am one thousand per cent behind your governor and the people of Mississippi stand with you," Barnett said. He referred to the impending showdown hclween federal authority and Gov. George Wallace over court-ordered integration of the University of Alabama. Two Negroes are scheduled to enter the all-white university June 10. Barnett met with Wallace to talk over plans for financing Mississippi and Alabama's share of raising more a $2 million for development of the Tennessee.

Tombigbee an-1 Warrior rivers. Barnelt is chairman of Ihe Ten- nessec-Tombiehec Waterway Development Association. MOORHP.AD (UPI) State Welfare Commissioner I Ross said today that guards are needed in the hallways of Washington, D. C. high schools lo keep Negroes from molesting white stu- dcnls and leachers.

Ross told the Moorhead Rotary Cluh he was "shocked" to learn that high schnols for pregnant girls are maintained at Toledo, Ohio, ami Washington. i He chided what he called Ihe "Warren court mongrclizing missionaries" for trying to sell the District of Columbia school system to America as a model of integration. Ross cited figures which he said showed Misissippi Negro births arc per cent illegitimate against only 1.5 per cent legilimacy for whiles and asked, "Does this fit Negroes for white schools Fishing Is Good PRINCETON, Ind. (UPI)--John Yeast, 77, went fishinp Tuesday for his rod and reel. He lost il while fishing Monday in Gibson Conservation Lake.

He dragged the lake Tuesday and found Ihc equipment, a 10- pound catfish slill hooked lo it. Barred From Home THETFORD, England (UPI) Pensioner George Hitchcock. 73, asked the court lo stnd his daugh- ler, Winnie. 39, to jail because she refused lo leave his house. Judge Carey Evans ordered her scnl to jail Tuesday for six weeks but suspended sentence on condi- lion she leave her father's home.

llaftcr conlinued with Kossman's thought, saying thai "our horizons recede as we move forward and we must follow them." He told the graduates that for the seeker there is greatness and Ihat "we shall find our greatness in (he search and in the truth." HUGH Kenneth Johnson presented the class gift, including $100 to the Washington County Educational Fund, a set of The Great Books of the Western World to the school library, and $100 lo be used by the library to bind books, to Val Vest, next year's student body president. Titan Rocket Explodes On Launch Pad CAPE CANAVERAL (UP!) America's mighty Titan-2 rock- el, Ihe powcrplanl for future orbital voyages of U.S. astronauts, blew up in a spectacular ball of smoke and flame today shortly after launching. The 103-foot missile rumbled from its launching pad at about 11:55 a.m. EST, but aboul 30 seconds later, its massive booster stage cracked open and sent a towering ball of black smoke and brilliant red flame soaring into the sky.

It was Ihe first time a Ti(an-2 missile has ever blown up in flight, although others have failed for various mechanical and electrical reasons. THE initial explosion apparently cracked the 10-story rocket in two. The second stage, one of Ihe most powerful ever built for a U.S. military missile, continued a high, arching climb and then started a downward plunge, still intact. A range safely officer al Cape Canaveral and quickly plotlcd Ihe palh of (he falling slagc-- then triggered two swilch- es Ihal touched oft a "dtstruct" package inside Ihe stage.

JACKSON (UPI) Police today arrested 11 anli- segregalion pickets and broke up crowds of white persons in downtown Jackson as disagreement between Negro lenders and Mayor Allen Thompson threatened to touch off more racial disorder. A group of six pickets was arrested early this afternoon and live more were taken into custody a few minutes later. All were charged with Mocking sidewalks. The dcmonslralors carried signs boosting a Negro boycott of downtown stores which allegedly discriminate against Negroes. Police were out in large numbers lo prevent further violence along Capitol Street, the city's main thouroughfare.

Tlie whiles gathered around a bid department store, H. L. Green's, where a sit-in apparently was expected. But the store closed for the day and about a dozen policemen were dispatched lo the scene lo break up the crowd. Passersby were told to "keep moving" by the officers.

"There will be no gatherings, the policemen said. Early today, a "Molotov cocktail" exploded at llie home of Medgar Evers, stale field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored 1 oople (NAACP), but no one was injured and litlle or no damage was done. A long-threatened scries ol demonstrations Iwg.in Tuesday when a biracial group of nine persons staged a lunch counter sit-in. Three of them were beaten, others were manhandled, and all were dn-jsed with catsup and mustard. LATER, several hundred Negroes were told al a civil rights rally that Ihe demonstrations were being suspended because 'Ihumpson and (he two city commissioners had agreed to make several changes in the cily's racial policies.

Thompson denied mosl of Ihe "agreements. The Rev. G. It. Haughlon, who headed a delegation ol six Negroes wlw conferred with Thompson and the commissioners Tuesday, announced (he alleged agreements.

Several civil rights lenders urged it the rally thai Negroes lest the "agreements" by attempting lo use previously segregated facilities today. "If the mayor has denied what we say. then all is lost," Haughton said alter the rally. "I'm almost certain there will be a resumption of dcmnnsuations." DOWNTOWN stores began closing Ihcir lunch counters following Tuesday's violence. Workmen removed the 52 stools from the counter at Woolworth's, where Ihe violence occurred.

Walgrcen's drug store posted sign saying its lunch counter had been shut down "for Ihe public protection." This left H. L. Green's as Ihe only downtown store with a lunch counter in ojwralion. This may have sparked the (ear of a demonstration there. Woolworlh's lunch counter today had been turned into a display counter for merchandise.

A crowd of whites, which swelled lo about 200, abused participants in (he sit-in for three hours until Woolworth's closed the store at mid- afternoon. Police made no lo break up Ihe crowd. Authorities said this was because the store manager did not call for officers. But they said policemen would move in imediately if there were moro sit-ins. Waitresses had immediately closed Ihe counter when the sit-in was begun by Ihrce Negro students from the predominantly Negro Tougaloo College near here Memphis Norman, 21.

and coeds Pearlina Lewis, 22, and Annie Moody, 22. -t WHITES began lo gather around the three. They hurled taunts and jeers, then roared Ihcir approval when a while man yanked Norman from a stool, knocked him to floor and began kicking him in the face, drawing blood. A detective rushrtl into the store, stopped the beating, and arrested both Norman and the white man. later identified by authorities as Benny G.

Oliver, 2G, a former Jackson policeman. Oliver was charged with assault anil released under bond. Norman was charged with disturbing the peace ami taken to a hospital, where he was heated and released. Haughlon told the rally Thompson had agreed to use his influence to desegregate lunch counters lut the mayor lold Unilcd Press International later he would "not cnlcr into (hat" but would leave the queslion up lo individual store managers. er News In Police Gird For Action Ry United Press International Bcoicd-up police units today guarded against further racial violence in Mississippi and Florida.

At Birmingham, a federal judge was to decide today whether the federal government can sue lor desegregation of public schools under its "impacted area program pertaining to military base environs. There were Negro demonstrations Tuesday night in Raleigh and High Point, N.C. A federal judge ordered the enrollment of a second Negro at the University of Mississippi. And a group of hotels at Knoxville agreed to drop racial harriers. A demonstration at Tallahassee, Tuesday night almost erupted into violence when 50 whites chased 250 Negroes past the Capitol.

Police broke up the gathering but made not arrests. The Negroes had been demonstrating in front of two segregated theaters in downtown Tallahassee. Earlier, a 17-year-old girl was knocked to the ground by a while man when she and about 32 other Negroes tried lo enter a theater. Further demonstrations were expected today and police patrolled the streets with orders to do everything in their "to keep law and order." More than 400 Negroes marched and picketed Iwn theaters at High Point, N. Tuesday night, and around 1,500 whiles gathered lo watch and heckle.

Some rocks were thrown and one Negro was slightly injured. Police arrested two whites. In Raleigh, more than 300 Negroes marched down a rainswept streel lo protest segregation and were left pretty much to Ihcmselves. A spokesman for the Knoxvillc Hotel-Motel Association said I a four hotels ami a national motel chain have voted lo dcsogrcgale their facilities Demonstrations In The North PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Demonstrators, charging discrimination in hiring practices, clashed with liOO policemen at a school construction silo here loday. Eight policemen and two pickets, including a minister, were injured.

Cecil B. fioore, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said demonstrations would continue until Ihe Board of Education ends alleged racial bias at the school sile. He said more than 4,000 pickets would lake place in demonstrations Friday and that 20,000 persons would stage protests at school projects next Monday. THF, Negro leader said there won't le enough police in Philadelphia lo face all the pickets. Today's injuries came in a series of skirmishes which followed attempts by pickets lo storm a police barricade.

The pickets included an estimated 100 ministers, aboul 10 attorneys and about IOO mcmhc's of the association. An estimated .100 policemen faced the pickets loday when they hurled Ihcmseives against the barricade to prevent construction workers, including 28 Negro laborers, from entering the sile. Race Issue New Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (UPI)---The Kennedy administration is expected to submit its new civil rights bill to Congress next week. A spokesman said laic Tuesday the administration hoped to get the details of the bill worked out this weekend. The manner of.

presentation has not been decided, the spokesman said, but he indicated the administration wanted lo get the bill lo Congress before Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy testifies before the House Judiciary Committee Juno VI. THERE also was some indication Ihal President Kennedy might bfl considering a special aiklress to (he nation on civil rights before ths attempt is made next month to desegregate Ihe University of Alabama.

There were these other civil rights developments in the capital: --Senate Democratic Lender Mike Mansfield, said there would bo an attempt to get congressional approval of a broader civil rights bill this year. --Rep. Emanuel Ccller, said he hoped to complete work on a civil righls bill soon after his judiciary committee concludes hearings on aboul 100 righls' proposals 13. -State- City- CUR PACK MEETING Cuh Scout Pack 5-1 will meet at p.m. Friday at the home of Major J.

W. Mock, 1G35 Day St. SUMMER SCHOOL DATES All Greenville secondary school pupils wishing lo attend the summor school session beginning June 5 must register by Friday, May 31. PLENTY OF REPORTS Report cards were issued loday to 11.400 Greenville youngsters, marking the close of the currenl school lerm. High School diplomas were awarded last night lo 187 seniors, representing over 2000 years of work by (he graduating class.

MEMORIAL DAY IS TOMORROW Business in Greenville will flow along as usual on Memorial Day tomorrow. Cily Hall and County Courthouse offices and most businesses in the downtown area will le open. Greenville hanks will also be open. However, Ihe hanks' will close Monday, June 3, to commemorate Ihe birthday of Jefferson Davis. CONTEST SLATED FOR JUNE 8 The Miss Washington County Contest and the Little Miss Washington County Contest will be held 8 and not June 2 as previously reported.

Those inlercsted in competing in the Little Miss County Contest should conlacl Mrs. George Weathers III at ED 2-5713 or ED 2-7S65. Latest Developments In The Nation's Capital Taxes Slashed On Profits WASHINGTON tax writers held out hope today of hig tax savings next year for long-term investors who nave paper profits in the stock market. The House Ways Means Committee voted late Tuesday to slash millee would apply PTM' 1 5 taxes on profits made from sale on sale of property which Ihe tax- of slocks, bonds, homes and other real estate. The tax reduction, which would be effective next Jan.

1, would amount to 40 per cent for most taxpayers and to 22 per 'cent for Ihose in high tax brackets. THE actual savings would be even larger for most taxpayers i because levies on capital gains would be reduced still further by culs in income tax rates that the commitle plans to approve later 1 in drafting its compromise vers- ion of President Kennedy's tax bill. The lax cut voted by the coin- payer had owned for al least three years. This was not calculated lo make Wall Street happy. Officials of the New York Slock Exchange had told (he committee they would rather forego the relief than accept a longer holding period than the present requirement of six months.

KENNEDY, in proposing the reduction of taxes on long-term capital gains, had recommended the holding period be extended to one year. The committee tentatively approved a compromise under which present tax treatment of long- term capital gains would remain unchanged lor property held for periods ranging from six months to just short of three years. The relief recommended by Kennedy would apply only to property held for three years or more. Under present law, a taxpayer who receives long-term capital gains--profits on the sale of property or assets held for at least six months--has a choice of paying his regular tax rale on one-half of Ihe profits or (2 paying a 25 per cent tax on Ihe full profit. With regular income tax rates for individuals now ranging from 20 to 01 ptr tent, this results in an effective tax rat on long-term capital gains Ihal ranges from 10 to 25 per cent.

Bill To Raise Debt WASHINGTON (UPI)--The Senate passed Ihe baton (o President Kennedy today in a neck-and-neck race lo get (he national debt limit raised before it is broken. administration wants the ceiling President Kennedy Is 46 Today It was up to Kennedy lo sign a bill raising fie limit to $307 billion before the debt bursts its present ceiling of $305 billion, which it was cxpcc'ed to do sometime today. The Senate passed the legislation Tuesday, but it had lo back to the House for a forma 1 procedure today Mere il can go to the While House. THE Sfnale passed the House- approved bill without change Tuesday on a 60-24 vole. It raises the legal limit lo $3CO billion until June 30, then lo V109 billion for Ihe months 11 July and August.

Chairman Harry F. liyrd. the Senate Finance Com- inillec said he has been given assurances that ihe next lime the raised, his committee will have at least two weeks to hold hearings and discuss the issue. This may be very soon. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon already has said he may be hack in August for another increase, rossibly lo $320 nillion.

i BYRD, a staunch economy advocate, indicated Tuesday's aclion was just a skirmish; Ihe real battle comes August. He indicated full-scale public hearings would be held to cxplort government deficit spending on Ihe next round. The present bill represents the ninth time Congress has voted to boost Ihe debt ce.ling in 'he lasl eight years WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presiden briming with vigor and in "excellent back ailment. A tiny red skin blemish which appears from time lo i and is again in evidence on his lefl check is the only outward sign of a physical problem for. the Chief Executive.

But this was dismissed by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger as insignificant. Salinger's asscs.nent: "The President is in excellent health and his hack condition is improving." MRS. Jacqueline Kennedy arranged a family celebration of the President's hirlhday for this evening hut Salinger declined to provide any details. The Prcsidenl was gelling one Kennedy is '16 years old today- health" except for his persistent gift loday that was unrelated lo his birthday--the "Father of Ihe Year" award by the National Father's Day Committee. The presentation was lo he made at the While HO-JSC.

Kennedy's chronic b.irk disorder, stemming from a strain iwn years ago which aggravated an old injury, has kepi him from Ihe golf course and forced him to take various precautions to avoid harmful twists find Bui. parity as therapy for his back, Kennedy slill conducts an active physical exercise program --swimming twice day in ihe healed While House pool, ami per- a i luilMmir's daily calin- Ihenics prescribed by a medical spccialisl. THE President, Salinger emphasized, has missed only two days from work because of illness--one day as the result of a virus in June, 1SGI, and the other because of a cold and ear infection in December. 1551. I President lips the scales al I7r, pounds slighlly above his ideal weight but seven pounds under what he weighed when he rook (jflice 28 months apo.

He had gained during his election cam paign. Kennedy continuously watches and haiiles his waistline, diel- ing when he considers it ncces sary lo counler Ihe effects of French cooking at banqueu and of the moro sedentary life than he is used to. I.