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DEPT ARCHIVES i HI3T03T COMP 0 IX ,71 GREENWOOD Inside Want to visit the Far Kast? The Commonwealth is sponsoring a Grand Tour of the Onent in September and October. See Page Six. Weather DELTA: Fair today with increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Slight chance of thundershowers Saturday. High today and Saturday in the 80s.

Low tonight 60s. High Thursday 80. Low Thursday 59. Yazoo River Stage 18 27. 'The Latest Ncws'In The Delta VOLUME 76 NUMBER160 GREENWOOD, 38930 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1972 "HO' Tltm Trf fflVJDl 5.

TEN CENTS (Bit scheduled to leave for Miami Beach Saturday, James P. Feden, a Jackson attorney who filed the appeal here, said he wasn't concerned about stopping the delegates from starting the trip, but only whether they would be seated when the convention begins Monday. In his four-page ruling Wednesday, Russell said he would not order the Regulars (( oiitlnurd on page 10) LEFLORE COUNTY, El NEW ORLEANS (AP) A federal appeals court today ordered a hearing in Jackson, Saturday in the legal fight over which faction of Mississippi 's Democratic party will have its delegates seated at the national convention next week in Miami Beach. The appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was filed today by the regular, or predominantly white.

Democrats after a U.S. District judge mii the Mississippi Democratic party; and requiring the national convention to seat the regular Democratic delegation. The chief judge of the circuit named an emergency panel composed of Judges James P. Coleman of Ackerman. a former Mississippi governor, Irving L.

Goldlwrg of Dallas, and Lewis Morgan of New-nan, Ga. The Loyalist delegates were Wallace In Montgomery On Way To Convention MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) George C. Wallace returned home to Alabama today and resumed his duties as governor after 54 days of hospitalization in Maryland following an attempt on his life as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination. After a brief stop at the state Capitol, he planned to fly on to Miami for the Democratic National Convention.

With a band playing, a cheering crowd estimated by police at more than 5,000 greeted the partially paralyzed governor. He landed at the Montgomery Municipal Airport aboard an the party to make its own determinations in such matters. The emergency hearing was sought because the National Democratic Convention opens in Monday with the civil-rights-oriented Loyalist Democrats delegation scheduled to represent the state. The appeal asked for an injunction forbidding the Loyalist faction from using the name Democrat; from holding themselves up as the delegates of flight south in an Air Force hospital plane. But Wallace, wounded May 15 at a political rally in Laurel, first paused briefly to thank government and hospital officials and staff members for the care they accorded him.

In an accompanying written statement at Holy Cross Hospital Wallace said "Sister Helen Marie, the doctors, sisters and staff of the hospital will always hold a very dear place in my heart. They saved my life, and I wish God's blessings to all of them." As he shook hands with hospi-f Continued on page 10) pected, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics figured it as a decline in the jobless rate on a seasonal basis. Livestock prices climbed 4.7 per cent, poultry rose 6.9 per cent and processed meats, poultry and fish rose 3.6 per cent, the report on wholesale prices said. Industrial raw materials rose three-tenths of one percent and consumer-finished goods those ready for retail markets increased five-tenths of one per cent. throughout the world and to demand better security measures.

It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agents stormed aboard a PSA jetliner at San Francisco international Airport, killing in Biloxi, said he would not become involved in what he judged to be an intraparty struggle. Judge Dan M. Russell said that in his view the Regulars were the rightfil representatives of the party in Mississippi. But he refused to order them seated.

Russell saidparty regulations are set solelyby members of the party and that it is up to Air Force hospital plane made available by President Nixon. Before leaving Holy Cross Hospital at Silver Spring, where he has been under treatment since the assassination attempt May 15, the governor thanked his doctors and others on the hospital staff who "saved my life." "I feel good, I feel great," Wallace declared. The disabled governor was pushed in his wheelchair to a limousine amidst the applause of several score spectators for a motorcade to nearby Andrews Air Force Base and the The Labor Department also reported that the nation's unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent of the work force last month for the lowest figure in more than a year and a half. The improvement was entirely due to seasonal factors. But the actual total of jobless Americans climbed 1.1 million to 5.4 million in the annual summer flood of school youngsters seeking work.

Because the rise in the work force was not as large as ex Association and secretary of transportation ha vecaused consternation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt action." Some ALPA members last month took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy '-r Prices Reported Up, Unemployment Down AT) A renewed surge in livestock and meat prices led an over-all rise of five-tenths of one per cent in wholesale prices of food and industrial products in June, the government said today. The unemployment rate dropped during the month. It was the second straight substantial monthly price increase, following a three-fifths of one per cent hike in May for the largest two-month increase since last January and BRIDGE BLAST The bridge across the Tallahatchie River at Money fell three weeks ago, but it didn't fall apart. A team of the U. S.

Corps of Engineers from Vicksburg began blasting the bridge Thursday to make sections small enough for removal from the swollen river bed. Staff Photo By Jimmy Thompson I Spassky Gets First Move REYEJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night giving Boris Spassky the first move and the world chanpionship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. The on again off again meeting billed by chess lovers WELCOMED HOME Alabama Go. George C. Wallace is welcomed home to Montgomery.

Friday in his wheelchair by Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley. Wallace made a brief stop in the state capital enroute to the Democratic convention in Miami after leaving a Maryland hospital. AP Wirephoto Weather Reason For Lack Of Flags Blame it on the weather that flags were not flying on the Fourth of July.

Eddie Ambrsoe, responding to a Bo Weevil question and answer said members of the Civitan Club sponsor flag flying in the city. "We fly the flag ten times each year and in doing so we put the (lag up on various business firms who have subscribed to the service. On the Fouth of July there were Civitan members downtown waiting for the rain to stop so we could put the flags up, but it never did until late in the morning, Ambrose said. "We are looking for another special dale this month to fly the flag, and if anybody has a suggestion other than his birthday or my birthday, please let us know," Ambrose continued. "The flag as flying at the Post Office and I'm sure at military bases on the Fourth.

They fly the flag in all weather, but we do not fly ours in the rain, nag regulations state that you need not put a flag up in the rain on a designated holiday, however, if it does rain and the flag is up you do not necessarily have to take it down," he said. The Civitan Club project is available to any business firm. The organization not only provides the flags, but the stand and put the flag up and takes them down. All you do is contribute the $10. The flags will then be seen fly ing 10 times a year on special dates when such honor is indicated.

"If anybody knows a date between now and Labor Day, which we can fly Old Glory, let us know," Ambrose added. AWOL Soldier-Hijacker Surrenders To Hostage as the match of the century was delayed for months by disagreements over a site prize money and personal hurt feelings on the part of the participants. S. Vietnamese Report Gains SAIDON (AP) The Saigon comman claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spear headed by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City and seized control of two thirds of the northern provincial capital. ji But field reports and senior U.S.

military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front he had no information to indicate a thrust into the north half of the city. A senior military source said there were no South Vietnamese units of any significant size in the city. He left open the possibility that lij reconnaissance teams might be operating there. Nixon: 'Only Jawboning' SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) The Western White House turned a spotlight on meat prices again today, with no indication it was prepared to go much further than jawboning. Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz, acting in his role as chairman of the Cost of Living Council, promised to Jt deliver to President Nixon a report with specific recom- mendations on damping the rise in meat prices. However, Shultz ruled out in advance resort to any stiffer controls than have already been imposed on meats and other foods. Dear Bo' Weevil: Recently 4 children, apparently ages 8 to 12 years old were prowling Virginia street looking into cars in the driveways and got into my car. My daughter saw the brake light come on and went on the porch.

The youngsters ran. Two went west on Martin Street and two went east on Martin Street. Time was 1:30 a.m. My daughter was watching the late movie. The question I ask is where are the parents of those children? Within the past two months the children, also teenagers have been prowling at all the houses in the neighborhood.

The police say they can't do anything until they catch them doing something. They have stolen five young rabbits from coops in my yard. They have prowled through the cars on the parking lot of the Shamrock Apartments and last week went into the apartment yard and threw lawn furniture and flower pots into the pool. I think it is time something should be done even if we have to have a What kind of people are parents of these children, to let them ramble around at all hours? They do most of their devilment after 12 a.m. Yes, they are white children and the police know the names of some of them.

It isn't the value of the rabbits they took from me, but (Continued on page 10) OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said. The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army. FBI agent-in-charge Robert Gebhardt said military cards were found on Goodell, including one from Ft. Riley, Kan.

The entire $450,000 was recovered, the agent said. The hijacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money, obtained from PSA along with one parachute, "would be given to two organizations involved in the Mideast crisis," a Federal Aviation Administra tion offical said. The note continued: "Recent actions by the Air Line Pilots i 4--. i In Leflore CD Directors Attend Staff College Ed McCafferty, Director, and Mrs. Doris H.

Henderson, Deputy Director of the Greenwood-Leflore County Civil Defense Council, were members of the third group of 21 to graduate June 23, 1972, from the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, Staff College, Battle Creek, Michigan, Civil Defense Career Development Program Phase IV. The majority of the participants in this class were a carefully selected group of Civil Defense Coordinators from throughout the country. This Program, four phases of two weeks each, is designed to increase the professionalism and competence in all levels of civil defense and emergency planning. Only 47 from the 50 states have graduated from this comprehensive program prior to this group. They represent a new degree of professionalism in this field.

The next step in the professional development of the graduates from this Program will be directed readings, followed by seminars on petinent topics, all of which will permit the latest concepts to.beknown at the local level. McCafferty and Mrs. Henderson are the first and onlu two from the State of Mississippi to complete this course of training. Kennedy First With McGovern MIAMI BEACH, Ha. (AP) Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy will still have "first refusal" on the vice presidential nomination of Sen. George McGovern captures the Democratic presidential nod, sources close to the South Dakota senator said today. Despite Kennedy's repeated statements he won't be available, the offer will probably be made because polls show he would strengthen a McGovern ticket, the sources said. CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS Mrs.

Doris H. Henderson, Deputy Director of the Greenwood-Leflore Civil Defense Council, and Ed McCafferty, Director, graduated June 23 from Defense Civil Preparedness Agency Staff College in Battle Creek, Michigan..