The Greenwood Commonwealth from Greenwood, Mississippi • Page 1

DEPT. OP A HI3T3ST COM? Weather DELTA: Partly cloudy through Tuesday with scattered showers and thun-dershowers. Chance of a few heavy thunderstorms this afternoon. High today in 90s. Low tonight 70s.

High Sunday 91, Low 75. Yazoo River Stage 1592. JACK. )A tiz-z Insid GREENWOOD Paul Bakiucci and Cooper IMjoach won the Greenwood Men's Doubles Tennis Tournament Sunday at the Greenwood Country Cluh, See story on Page Nine. St '0-r LiiU' TAe Latest News'In The Delta' VOLUME 76-NUMBER157 GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, 38930 MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 3, 1972 TEN CENTS Federal.

ITU LJLCIJL9 Judge i it liters opp I' MX I 1 I 1 i J' front-runner wiih 1,276,9 committed votes with 1.509 needed for nomination, indicated Sim-day he would be willing to compromise on the challenges to theCalifornia delegation, which he lost, and to the Illinois delegation, which his forces won. "If I thought it would serve the interests of a stronger party and heal some of these wounds and not do any violence to the rules of the party, I would support a compromise," he said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. In an effort to beef up his strength in advance of Miami Beach, McGovern said he will seek a meeting with AFLCIO President George Meany this week. Meany is officially uncommitted in the race for the nomination, although he is considered a supporter of Muskie, The Credentials Committee, still meeting in Washington, re fused convention seats to Mississippi's regular Democrats late Saturday, It voted unanimously to seat the 25 member Loyalist delegation order by the court was brought by McGovern supporters in California just a week before the Democratic National Convention is to convene in Miami Beach. The Credentials Committee threw out the state's wincr-take-all primary and ordered the California delegat es divided proportionately to the popular vote among the rival candidates, Hubert H.

Humphrey, George C. Wallace and others. A court recess was taken before Joseph A. Califano Jr. counsel for the Democratic National Committee, presented his arguments in support of the Credentials Committee's action.

WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge questioned today whether a constitutional issue was involved in the Democratic Credentials Committee's action stripping away more than half Sen. George S. McGovern's California delegates. District Judge George L. Hart Jr.

said, "It might not be cricket, it might even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional?" Attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr. seeking an injunction against the committee's action, maintained that a clear issue of due process of law as well as equal protection of the laws was at stake. The request for a trstraining wwiiMiwiniminiMini Fifteen Persons Dead In State Accidents APPOINTED TO PAROLE BOARO-Jack Killebrew, right, of Greenwood, is congratulated by Governor Bill Waller upon his appointment by the governor to the state's Probation and Parole Board. Richard W.

Hickman of Greenwood was named to the Veterans' Farm and Home Board. Marijuana Arrest Made In Vaiden in a traffic mishap Sunday in Jackson county. A motorcycle-bicycle mishap Sunday night one mile west of Flora resulted in two deaths. Authorities said the victims of the crash were Roger Brown, 14, of Flora and J. C.

Allen, Jr. about 25, of Bentonia. Stacy Lee Baker, a six-year-old Columbia girl, who died in a two-car wreck Sunday in Laurel. Clinton D. Adrams, 32, of Columbus, killed Sunday in a i ir -J marijuana and a $500 cash bond was asked.

The sheriff said Williams had $700 taped beneath the dashboard of his pickup truck. The sheriff said the marijuana was in a shaving kit under the seat of the truck. Meanwhile, authorities at Louisville announced the arrest of eight persons charged with the sale of marijuana in Winston County. The eight were among the first charged under Mississippi's new drug control law, which relaxes penalties for simple possession of (Continued on Page Eight) I NATIONAL BRIEFS S. Vietnamese Ncaring Quang Tri SAIGON AP) South Vietnamese murines, supported by U.

S. fighter- bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese troops, moved forward today toward Quang Tri City. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the northern front that the North Vietnamese were fleeing in small groups before the steady movement of the marines, apparently hoping to escape the U.S. air strikes and the shelling of American Navy ships offshore. U.S.

B52 bombers flew 13 missions around Quang Tri ij City, striking ahead of the marines to within three miles of the town's southeastern edge. U.S. fighter-bombers hit the North Vietnamese with antipersonnel cluster bombs, Truman Enters Hospital KANSAS CITY (AP) Former President Harry S. Truman has entered Research Medical Center for routine examinations for what his personal doctor said was "lower gastronintestinal problem," The condition of the 88 year -old Truman, who was taken Iv to the hospital last week After falling in hi home, whs termed satisfactory by his physician, Dr, Wallace II. jj: (jraham.

Dr, Graham said the former president's intestinal ailment is related to one which put Truman in the hospital for more than a week early in 1971. Hijacker Shot To Death SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S. government scholarship and graduated with honors last month.

Fischer Still Wants More Money REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world chess cham-pionship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Bobby Fishcer's deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer, the American chess champion, was reported sticking to his demand for more money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield. The six-man board of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation was reported unanimously opposed to paying ij: Fischer the extra money. CARROLLTON, Miss Carroll County Sheriff Lagrone Nunley said today a Biloxi man was free on $500 cash bond following his arrest at Vaiden Nunley said Deputy Sheriff Pee Wee Miller stopped David H.

Williams for reckless driving and on searching his vehicle, found four "lids" of marijuana and 10 rolled cigarettes, along with a pipe. The sheriff said Williams was arrested as he turned of State Hwy. 35 onto Interstate 55. Nunley said Miller brought the man here after finding the Auxiliary Sponsors Voices From Home A suit was filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington asking a restraining order to prevent the revised California delegation from being seated at the Democratic convention, which opens July 10 at Maimi Beach.

A hearing was scheduled this morning before Dist. Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. The suit alleges that the Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally when it overruled California's winner-take-all primary, won by McGovern. The committee apportioned 151 of the state's 271 votes among presidential contenders Hubert H.

Humphrey, George C. Wallace and others. McGovern, still the easy one-car smashup on Miss. 12 near his hometown. Jackie W.

Rainwater, 21, of Gloster, killed Sunday in a wreck six miles north of Liberty on Miss. 869 in Amite County. Gordon Jims, 36, of Carthage, killed late Saturday in an aulo accident two miles east of Carthage on a I.eake County road. Charles Davis, 53, of Como, who died Saturday night in a one-car wreck and place will be provided for the families of these service men and women where they may go and add their personal message to the tapes. Each tape will then be sent to the individual service man or woman from their families and the chorus of their choice.

Please cut out and mail immediately the information blank on page eight of this paper. Be sure to fill in all blanks as we must have this information. When your blank is received, a letter will be mailed to you confirming your appointment time. In connection with "Voices From WSWG will have an all day broadcast on July 31st which will be taped and (Continued on Page Eight) i 1 Two persons were killed in separate traffic accidents and a third drowned in the Greenwood Highway Patrol District during the first two days of the long Fourth of July holiday weekend. A spokesman in the district office here said Wilton Owens of Holcomb was killed Sunday night in a one-car accident on a Grenada County road south of Holcomb.

Injured and in serious condition in Greenwood-Leflore Hospital was Bob Scharest, also of Rt. 2, Holcomb, A Flint, man, Willie Lee Scurlock, 26, died in a one-car accident one-half mile north of Rome on U.S. 49W Saturday night. His body was taken to Nelson Funeral Home in Tutwiler. Willie V.

Everett, 21, of Belzoni drowned while swimming in a rain-filled ditch west of Belzoni Saturday afternoon. Across Mississippi, at least 12 other deaths had been recorded, according to authorities. Eleven other victims died in traffic and one youth was killed when he fell from a farm tractor at his grandparents' home. The victims included: An unidentified person killed No Paper On Fourth Following long-standing custom, no Commonwealth will be published Tuesday, July 4, in order to give employes a holiday. Publication will resume on Wednesday, July 5.

Dear Bo': I am amazed at our Health Department for allowing food handlers in Greenwood to be so careless and out of line with certain health standards which should be enforced by the Department. There is a certain drug store in ttu heart of our city that has a very nice, attractive lunch stand, which, as you know, is greatly needed in our neighborhood. The persons handling food-making sandwiches, milk drinks, etcalso act as cashier. They take in the dirty money, and without even wiping their hands on a clean cloth much less washing them, turn around, put together a sandwich, "dip their hands into the pickles" (believe it or not), place the pickles on the sandwich with their dirty hands, pat and wrap the sandwich. I certainly do not intend patronizing this lunch stand.

In fact, one such visit was enough for me. Do you suppose the management and the Health Department know that this condition exists in their attractive lunch room? It seems to me that it should be corrected. Maybe if you print my letter, (Continued on Page Eight) Pittman Says Charges Not Filed In Itta Bena ITTA BENA-Mayor Frank H. Pittman of Itta Bena said there apparently was a misunderstanding between him and a Commonwealth reporter in the statement he issued Saturday concerning a federal suit filed in U. S.

District Court at Greenville involving two Itta Bena policemen. Pittman said today he was not making light of the suit filed in Greenville, but he intended to say he knew nothing of the suit that had been filed in federal court. The mayor added no charges had been filed in Itta Bena city court by the plaintiff, Dorothy Preston against officer Bill McGarrity, Police Chief S. R. Scallion, Mayor Pittman or the Itta Bena Board of Aldermen.

The mayor said neither McGarrity or Scallion made any arrests in the alleged Feb. 4 incident involving the two officers and Miss Preston. He added Miss Preston has not filed any charges in Itta Bena City Court against the above-named defendants. The Greenwood Junior Auxiliary, in co-operation with WSWG FM and AM radio station and with the assistance of Delta Electric Power Association and the American Red Cross, is sponsoring "Voices From Home," which is a way of letting service men and women overseas know that not only their families, but the citizens of Leflore County, are thinking of them at Christmas. A short program of Christmas music has been prepared by the Junior Auxiliary Chorus and some gospel hymns provided by the Amanda Elzy Choir and these will be tape recorded to send to Leflore County service men and women who are stationed outside the contentiental United States and will not be home for Christmas.

A time Supervisors Take Bids The Leflore County Board of Supervisors met at its regular scheduled time in the courthouse this morning and approved and received several bids. Supervisors James Hooper, was not present due to his wife's undergoing surgery here. She is reported doing well. Gresham-McPherson Oil received the low bid on regular gas at 21.14 cents per gallon and Sun Oil and Sayle Oil turned in identical 23.50 cents per gallon bids on premium gas. Sayle had the low bid on diesel fuel at 21 cents per gallon.

Supervisor Ray Tribble said the U.S. Corps of Engineers is at Money today completing demolition work on the bridge ion work on the bridge inued on Page Eight) nney Insert (Continued Penney Today's Commonwealth contains an 8 page color "ft insert telling you to "Get a lot more out of summer at Penneys, where the values VJ v. -V- mm mtrnVf I i- IIiiYiiIIM Mil L.nTt-.rTitoMTHairtM,!, in Lt4 1 3v O.E Bog art, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Andrew McBryde and Dr.

Arthur H. Richter president of Greenwood Community Concert Association. Staff Photo By Jimmy Thompson. DISCUSS CONCERTS Mrs. Marge Brown, New York representative of Community Concert Association, was in Greenwood to discuss the membership campaign which will be held late this summer.

Taking a coffee break are Mrs. patient. Left to right are Emily Graserm, Sylvia Joelson, Ann Kimes, Mary J. Blanchman, Eleanor Hobbs, Elaine Geddee and Janette Pyron. Staff Photo HEART HELP These nurses completed a course last week which will enable them to care for cardiac patients at Greenwood-Leflore Hospital.

Dr. J. V. Ferguson, left, observes as the nurses, all RNs, examine a practice are. Penneys in Greenwood corner Church and Howard Streets.

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