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Wednesday, Sept. 18. '63 Air Force Marks Sixteenth Anniversary As Separate Unit Note: The following irlicle was prepared by Ihe ol- See of information al Greenville Mf Force Base, Mcognliing lo- lay us the 18th anniversary of Jie United Stales Air Force.) By LT. NOEL WORKMAN --They wore olive drab uniforms H'ith brown shoes nnd polished jrnss but you could distinguish ihem Irom Army troops by their cd In 1947. Today, the U-68 Hut-! ler flics at 1,300 MPH ond cros- MS ihe counlry in jnsl over (wo hours.

ANOTHER 1B7 addition lo Ihe Air Force vtts Ihe F-88, the USA F's first sweplwing fishier which later gdlned fame during Ihe Korean War. 1963's century scries fighters, all supersonic, arc big- lew nearly Iwo million font of supplies lo the isolated cily. In the Korean F-86 Sahcrjct tcJIar iiulgnla. Thoy were trie gcr, falter, and more flexible lhan Ihli early )el flghler. Since 'Us blrlh 13 years ago, Ihc Air Force has hnil Ihe opportunity to prove ll.iclf.

During Ihc IIM8 Berlin Airllfl, Ihe Air Force jrst airmen In a new service -Ihe United Slates Aif Force ivhcn it began 15 years ago lo-. jay. i jThe Air Force officially came into being Sept, 18, 1817, when Stuart Synllnglon of Missouri pas sworn in Is the first Secretary of the Air Force. A week later, 'General Carl Spaatz was ippoinicd first Chief of Staff, llie biuo uniform familiar lo Greenville was not adopted, however, until IMS. Strategic Air Command SJl i supersonic Hound Dog mlisilei be ocaih their wings patrol lha Free World.

Atlas and Thor mltsilcs propel scientific mtelllloi manned capsules around I earth. Lost December, the Mlnulcrnan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile joined (ho arsenal lor peace ai America's first aolld fuel, i weapon system Today, A1 never Ixjfnre, high ly skilled men are needed for th Air Force. Greenville AFD, long a pilot training bale, now iralna over 5,000 men annually In Us I'" technical (raining courses In Ihi Fire protection, personnel an medical fields. America's youngest mllilarj service has become tho nallon' line of defense and Its hard cst hilling, longest reaching arm of protection, IN IM7, lha Ball XS-1 had Jus broken the sound barrier. It wa tho Air Force's Ions auporsoni aircraft.

-Today, X-15 rockc research plane (lies faster tha 4,000 mlloi per hour, Student pilots al. 8JO MPH, r.v marked change frrim Ih- 60 to MPH which ostly it 1 dent pilot i traveled when the Texan Tne'-B-M, tho only ever capable of attacking la get od another conllnent and returning friendly, baics wilhou aerial refueling was first deliver Cormminiil MIGi pilots onlslwt 14 lo one. The lint 18 years have been ones of change as Ihc Air Force provided protective canopy under which American. 1 could live and work. Concepts and weapons have changed.

Only man has remained constant. The demand upon Greenville 1 0 bv lnc World Briefs SAIGON, South Viet Nam and South' Vietnamese i i a wore reported near agreement today on a major shift in military strength to the Mekong Delta south of Saiyon, where Communist pressure Is growing. U. 8, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge made his first lour of tho region Tuesday, viilllng fortified villages and Impeding Vietnamese troops and their U. S.

advisers with Gen. Paul D. Ilarklni, of Ihe U. S. Military Assistance Command herd The government claimed victory In an engagement wilh Ihc 'Jommunuit Viet Cong Monday night In the delta and said IH jucrrillaj wore killed.

Out the Communists have won other re- battles, wilh government casualties nearly as high. U. S. onil Vietnamese military sources said the two governments ore working out details of a move lhat would add a full jlvision o) Viclnamcio troops lo the Iwo divisions now In the delta. According lo Ihcso sources, the plan reflects Ihe uncaslnois of both Vietnamese and Americans over tho major military effort being delta, whcro Ihe majority of nml other Air Training Com- baies conlinuos lo be "Prepare (he Man." Along The Waterfront Arriving at Warfield at 9 o'clock tonight, Greenville Towing Company's motor vessel, Ben McCool, Will make a stop to change crews and take on supplies.

The McCool radioed at a.m. at mile 005 and south bound on the lower, Th Walter Williamson of the GTC fleet reported at Ironton, Ohio, loading cargo. Till Mining! ing! VHl 11.10 South Viet Nam's population UN Opens With Call For World Harmony UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) cnmmiltecs would take each Hem --Carlos Sosa Rodriguez of Vone- or preliminary debate. h' myor paitt on main honnit of Elvir, 5 nvUl iQuih of G'ttnvlllt, Why "Good-Time Charlie" Suffers Uneasy Bladder or drlnklnv bo mr.d uneonr wllh ri in or wolEMul DpMlf an ruH I II.

I. 1-T Ki ri uela. new prenlden( o( (ho U.N, enaral Assembly, said today he wpcd the Ulh U.N. session would rovldc a harmonious atmosphere or lurlhor Cold war agreements. Sosa note! thai (he recent Mos- ow treaty banning nuclear te.i(s (he air, in oulcr space nnd tin- er water had III beginning! In he political commit- Sola began bis (crm Tuesday with "understand- eo, He said leps toward perliaps Including furthir under tells will be made at Ihli "AIM to ijt Mta-nlltT- mtmuiar I A nIM JlottiU ifcUl Urk 1 Vldatri, Uftdlat Jht i( mtitt JJ rillif asfUWi rtr Qtt DMI Urttkf tvtpvt It.

IM )arl4 OUT J.N. session. In regard to tho role the Unliei Gallons can play in any East West detente, Sosn laid tho work arllamcnt provides forum for world public opinion on such cru clnl Issues ns nuclc.ir tests, The assembly, whoeo openlnt mcclinj; Tuesday was marred by tin nnli-Cnslro demonstration, go down to (lie business of its new session today. The 11-nntlon slcer ng commllleo was examining lli 82 Items proposed for the agenda seo which of the slandlnj JFK To Meet On Birmingham WASHINGTON (UP!) The White Hotue announced lixla; that President Kennedy wouli meet 'late 'Thursday 1 with sovo Dlrmlngliam Negro lenders on Ih racial criili (here reiultln from the church bomb-dcnthi four chlhlnn. Tlic Negro lenders, most Iliom clergymen, wlrcJ the ctilo eXMUtive Monday aikltig for "a mmtclinlc conference." li While House laid lorfay I i mecling has been Kl lip for p.m.

EDT Thursday. Because Kennedy pre paring teveral major Epecclus one on lax reduction I delivered lo.a nationwide tele vision audience (might, he wn unable set up the racial con fercncc any sooner, a spokcsma tdr llie announcement came shot ly after Negro lender Roy Wilkin urged tho President, at new conlorencc, to cut olf "everj nickel" of federal funds lo All bama nnd lo fight harder for strong civil rights bill. Wilklr called Alabama a "police stale. ng, harmony, ami mutual re- peel" among tho 111 U.N. mem- tiers.

But there wore three Instances I disharmony on Iho lirst day. Albania demanded that Nationalist China lx expelled the U. N. and Communist China admitted In its place. Indonesia ob- ecled to tho presence ol Malaysia, And Cuban exiles In balllc Ircsi leaped Irom Iho public gallery, dattiing inlo the delegates' section wilh jhotil.i ol "Long live Cuba." PARIS (UPI)-Francc and West Germany appeared loday lo have reached agreemenl on blocking any East-west pact lhat would confirm Soviet territorial conquests In central and eastern Europe.

Observers said this Iho rcsull of Tuesday's live-hour discussion Ktwcen French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve Mur- villu and Wcsl German Foreign Mlnller Geriiard Schroedcr. WASHINGTON (UPl)-A House judiciary subcommittee failed today lo lake tho difficult final toward tentative approval of I'reildcnt civil rights bill. The subcommittee, which has given conditional approval lo six of seven sections ol Ihe measure, was unable lo ngreo on the holiest provision o( all-- a proposed ban on discrimination In public accommodations. Chairman ITmanucl Coller, who had hoped lo com plclo Ihe tentative, drnlt today, adjourned the eurKommiltec until Monday. He said he hoped lha group could wind up its work next week.

I I A (UPI) Hundreds nf sacklcncd Negroes galhor loday in this violence -torn city for the funeral of three of Ihe four children killed Sunday in Ihc bombing of a Negro Church. The act-vice wfls lo be held at Sixth Avenue Daptlat Church at SO CbT. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. waa to deliver ihe main eulogy.

J. A. 01 i wxl I J. (. OrUafT.cn, ftayo and Dlona tVinl.

Warrill lyrd lalrj ai ond 19wi(XI ((xrpaflln 6 a.m. poiiMovit wirt or Ihi to iru J. E. Vkkiri, noflhbWKxJ on M'niirpplj Jlrrmy Vkktn, mill $4 vnd oo rhl and Niro JuwnbiwrvJ ol irlli an lllr.oli ftlvir. Unloading of a of lln pan woi 10 fiKd lodai.

Klnff told al rwar tvj lodoy four firtnl Touring vtlll'l h-arf rod'Old tht i poll Horn Ann btrt, Tin-M Barbara a.id on rhl Illm loadkig atio Cltyj arvf Joy Woiion, mill ond PC unbound on lowof Jury Hears- (Continued From Fago 1) officers onid Negroes hail ufcd ho park facilities before and aflor the 25 Inciilonl without creating a disturbance. After leslimony was concluded, trial was -cccsscd until 1 p.m. THE TRIAL Is Ihc fourlh In series of six clly court appeal cases ittmming from racial demonstrations hero during June anil July. Earlier Hits week, Clmrlc.i MeLatirln nnd Charles Earl Cobb, both field representatives of Ihe Sludenl Non-VIolon 1 Coordinating Committee, were convicted on broach of conduct charges, Tuos day, Amye Leo flynum, Ono Ihe six Negroes who went to the I OFFICE SUPPLY CO. fireen Tag Special Should Have Read jftU Ofi Oh All School Binder Paper park June 29, was convicted of iroacli of conduct charges.

As in Iho previous cnsea, 11-whllo jury deliberated less tian 35 minutes before returning vcnlicl of guilly at charged gainst Miss Jiynuin. And, ns in it previous cases, Cily AllOrnoy Wilkes and special attorney umes Robcrtshaw argued that (icse were not racial, cnies at that Ihc defendant was cstcd bcc-uiso she foiled lo obey he orders of an officer, and lhat arresting her and other dc iwnslrators a lense racial situ- llon, which might have resulted violence, wns eliminated. Drown compnrcd the arrest of ho Nogrocs to the. arrest of bank officials if bank were being robbed, or Iho arrest of a wo- mnn about lo be raped by a group of men. "By arresting Ihe bank olli dale or the woman, tho cause ol the possible disturbance would be eliminaled," ho nrgucd, "but, in ihose Instancci, ns In this one (he parties would be thrown In jnil." Judge Price reserved sentencing Bynum unlil later in tin: week.

Brown hns said ho will nppca lo circuit court Ihe cnscs of those found guilty in court. Around 1,500 Negroes and about 100 whites attended the funeral Tuesday of H-ycar-old Carol Robertson, the other girl killed in Ihe Wasl al tho IHh Strccl Uaplisl Church. JACKSON (UPI)--The Mississippi Planning Conference charged today Ihc Federal Housing nnd Home Finance Agency Is withholding funds from Mississippi without good reason. Tho conference, in nowtldlcr, snid the agency lias not approved an applicnlion from Ihe slate since April 1062. It aald applications for a total of arc pending from Mississippi.

WASHINGTON (UPI)--Scnnlo leaders were Irapcful today thai an answer hml Ixxn found lo demands by Sen. Richard B. Russell, and that any future amendments lo the nuclear test ban ircnly with Russia be subiecl lo Senalo ralificntion. Their formula seemed unlikely lo shake Russell's firm opposition lo Iho pact. Russoll, chairman of Ihe armed service commilleo, is pressing an amendment lo llio Ircoty retolulion of ralllicalion, It would assure tho Senate the righl lo pass on any fulure amendments lo the rC sources said it was finally decided that a preamble should be added lo lire resolution of ratification reasserting the Senate's constlluiional rlglit to pass on amendments to the treaty as well on llio original agreement.

WASHINGTON (UPI)--President Kennedy will go before the nallon on radio and television tonight lo appeal for public support of his proposed 111 billion tax cut. The Chief Exccutivo ia expected lo stress once ogam his beliei Ihnl taxes musl be cut to boost Ihc economy. He will also probably press for passage of Iho measure without Ihe anii-spcnuing -Irings proposed by Republicans during Ihe 6 p.m. HST address. Bui it appeared that Ms appeal was doomed to failure belore- XGW lowlna Co-noanv'i WIF Lo-ry Today ihe radioed at 4 o.n.

toddy mill 220 nor-hbownd (hi MHiHiipPl tet Co-n- wot mbfWqp, 01 9 lontohl ortd Wat u-laad TO eaigo Ihi BftVv al rY 635 end ronhbowd on Irtffti Will rrna'Fed ol 311 ond Hara WfljirMi Shy'i dny't noior vanel, leovi City Bargi Line Nancy, fad'ced early rodav rrile 543 cr wboal, i ire "I rrile 578 and upboond en thfl' Wl- idvrf; Mo.A'k, below Kaniat Clw, 3o7 ond vpbcvnd on tta MlitCL-ri Eivei. Ella blow! Mlcrr.l, down- bound al irt 1 2-45 en Mi- lindo near HcxKenorl, nl'o a.id upbcl-nd on iKe SNri McCool. Cllv, Io3 and upccLfxJ on thi Mil lo rxm lon'gh', ort ol rowing Cc.trxiny'i KKtot ventl, rod 6 O.M. loday 31 relict nwih ol Vkl wfrj, 4A1 end il- ow.r Miiillilppl. hand as far ns ihe House's GOP membership is concerned.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI)-A howling mob of 10,000 voters, protesting llie formQlion of the new nation of Malayan, sacked and Wrnct the British Embassy lodny. The embassy slftU fled to snfcly under potice protection. Some embassy employees wcro Injured in Ihe rioting. The rioters atagcil their attack In retaliation for a demonstration against the Indoncitan Embassy In the Malaysian capita, of Kuala Lumpur Tuesday, Indonesian authorities made no attempt to put out the lire Liimpus Malaysian Prime Minister Tengku Rahman announced totlay Hint his government has decided to put the new nation Into a "slnte of preparedness" because o( the increasing Funerals, Obituaries Economics (Continued From Page 1) living in Ihc nroa which is rapid- a 1 g. Tlie initial enrollment by is expectsd lo bo 550-600.

Should parents in 'avor c4 Ihc Board's ilccision band together as Ihfl opposition has done? P. T. A. 's should not, ns a nilc, endorse or condemn such things. However, as individuals do as you (col is right.

ARE there any long range plans lor school in Norlh Greenville a the Greenville Addition? There are none at thi time. If the addition continues grow, plans will be made. Why was tho Alexander sit chosen? There are Iwc-lhrce subd visions in a mile radius. It wa also the most Icasible site tha could be purchased. School Board president Roy 1 Campbell also cxplalnni tru Board's decision lo a P.

T. John Sweetner Funeral services for Sweetner, 31, will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. in the New Hope First Baptist Church with burial to follow in the Delia Memorial Walsor. Greenville is In charge. Mr.

Sweetner, long time resident and businessman of Greenville, died at a.m. Tuesday in the General Hospital following a long illness. Born in Greenville, he most of his life here, establishing cleaning and tailoring business still in operation after 40 years Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Eliza P. Sweetner; Iwo daughters, Jonnelle Carmelila Swd Iner and Mrs.

Mae Mildred Jackson of Toledo, Ohio; his mother, Mrs. Nellie Sweetner; a son, James Sweetner of Ohio; one brother, Oralon Sweetner ol Cleveland, Ohio; and three stepchildren, Oscar Charles Puce ol Rolling Fork, Doris Peace Marva Peace of Greenville; two grandchildren. Paper For Phillips INDIANAOLA, Miss. (UPI) The Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin, a weekly newspaper, today dorsed Republican Rubcl Phillips for governor of Mississippi. Editor-Publisher Whilfield Chap man said in a front-page column 8'X24'X5' 8'X24'X6V 8'X28'XB' oo 00 00 00 COTTON WAGONS 656 686 '696 B'X28'X6' 736 CHECK THESE QUALjTY SPECIFiCATIONS HIGH TENSILE STEEL FLOOR DESIGNED TO ASSUKB DRAINAGE 13 OAOE EXPANDED METAL SIDES BACK BUMPER TO PROTECT TRAILER BODY HEAVY DUTY RUNNING GEAR 800 14" NEW 12 PLY NYLON IMPLEMENT TIRES ALL WELDED CONSTRUCTION FRIEDMAN CO.

Greenville, Mies. Street Dial ED 2-8106 tew DOD Order blockbuster At Segregation WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Dfr ensc Dcparlmenl, in a new ruing certain to be a blockbuster, "IBS forbidden military units from inrlldpating in any cvenl where ludicnces or facilities are segrf- or admission is denied (o Jegrocs. Dctcnsa Secretary Rnbert S. orilcr cnme in the 'orm of a one-paragrsph "arnend- menl" lo an eight-year-old directive, ft was made known Tuesday hortly after a move was beguij in Congress to block action on his controversial July anll-sogrcga- tlon off-limits order. The new ruling seemed sure 'o provoke hot controversy becaussj It apparently extended also lo National Guard, nominally under (he control of state governors.

It bars participation of "armed; forces bands, troops, exhibits, aircraft, or other equipment, Including the aircraft or equipment ol! Ihe Nalional Guard" in events before segregated audlencea. DAIRY KING SI'KCIAt, HII9 I I 'It If, COI. JVM10 SHUIMf I I I "I UA FOOD riATrll r.nk Filti W1K Earh O.J., IT fS.nl--£0 A. wller Scliool. Citizens in tlie Trlgg area havo set A meeting lo discuss tlie problem for 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Washington Counly Court House. he believes Phillips "will fill the office of governor wilh dignity." tnrei, Kraletui. QuUk, fttptr Morelfaf, lird-aij petieletin JetLj. Fleered tEmei for exits purllr. SATM under aell Uldinj; l)Tlad 201.

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