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GREENWOOD GOMMONWEAT 1RI "The Latest News In The Delta'9 r-iyr fcert. of Arctifea iTutwf jacisca, Mit- C2-r VOLUME 50 NUMBER 292 GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 11, 1966 Mm mm Two Coast Guardsmen Killed During Attack First Liquor License Received For City The first legal license to sell whiskey in Leflore County in more than half a century was issued to a Greenwood resident today. W. Dewey Ellis received the license to operate a package liquor store at 101 West Claiborne. It will be known as the North Greenwood store formerly the North Greenwood Station.

Ellis said this morning he expects his first shipment to arrive from the state Alcohol Beverage Control warehouse at Jackson at about 4 p.nu this afternoon. He said he will be open for business as soon as "the trucks unload." Several other applications for package stores and on-premise-service (bars) have been filed in Leflore County and approvals are expected daily. At noon today, Dewey Malouf of Greenwood, told the Commonwealth he had also received a package liquor permit to operate at "The Village" off Highway 82 By-Pass. Malouf said he nas not certain when his first shipment would arrive. II PATROLMEN MOVE OUT Mississippi Highway Patrolmen move out in ficers moved several hundred whites from the area force to disperse angry whites gathered at the town after some tossed firecrackers at the demonstrators, suare at Grenada during a civil rights march.

Of- AP Wirephoto) fended Haiphong-Hanoi industrial belt Instead, the Air Force, Navy and Marine pilots worked over coastal targets in the southern panhandle, hitting fuel dump, bridges, barges and a 30-ca train, a U.S. spokesman said. For the second day in a row, no American aircraft were re ported lost after a total oi 10 planes were dowsed on Sunday and Monday. U.S. Air Force and Marina' pilots flew.

358 single-plane sorties is the south Wednesday and were out in force again today hitting hard is support of the infantrymen in the Pleiku area and the Marines southwest of Da Nang. The Marine battalion fought the Communists for seven hours Wednesday at such close quarters that the Americans were unable to use their They apparently had run into Detroit, Grenada Flare With Racial Violence Moon Orbiter Flying On Perfect Course Isif Tifiie for Apollo astronauts will be selected. Before the spacecraft swings low over the Apollo landing zones, however, its two lenses will be trained on the limb to check lighting angles and camera settings. Then, the first pic tures will be snapped but won't be relayed until the next day. One of the target zones in the Apollo landing area includes the crater in the Sea of Storms where Surveyor I landed last June 1 and televised 11,150 closeups that helped prove the lunar surface there was safe for manned landings.

4 Lunar Orbiter designed only to circle the moon and not to land is expected to pick up the shadows cast by Surveyor's wing-like solar panels. the bulk of one of the two North Vietnamese regiments in the area, Marine officers said. "Everything we had was engaged with the enemy," said Lt CoL Harlod Coffman, ,39, Huntingdon, commander of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment "We were virtually surrounded." The battleground was a tiny Vietnamese hamlet in the coast al flatlands 35 miles south of Da Nang and 25 miles northwest of the Marine base at Chu Lai. Associated Press correspondent Bob Gassaway reported that the bodies of khaki-clad Communist soldiers lay strewn in heaps among the rubble of the village, some still clutching their weapons. ,1 The enemy toll in Operation Colorado, a joint effort with South Korean troops, stood at 138 dead after six days, but Coffman said probably many more North Vietnamese were killed.

By EDMUND NOEL Staff Writer Today was a bad day to have trouble with Greenwood's usual- ly pleasant and smiling Police Department. Chief Curtis Lary is in a mad mood because some meany has been messing with the meters. And Police Court Judge Or-man Kimbrough is riled for the same reason. It seems that snaps caps on beer cans are causing officials to pop their top. Recent collections from the city's parking meters have yield ed, besides nickels and dimes, double handfulls of snap cap rings off beer cans.

With a little cutting they work as well as coins. However, before trying it out, would be cheaters would do well to heed an official warning. "The judge has informed Chief Lary said, "that the minimum fine for tampering with a parking meter is And, he added, "using beer cap rings, or any other type slug, is gross tampering." He indicated that persons found guilty of buying snap-cap time would find little mercy in their fine. King Absence Noticeably Slows SCLC Convention The Coast Guard cutter was identified as the Point Welcome, one of many small patrol boats that prowl the coast and inland waterways seeking Communist traffic. It was operating without lights in its patrol area at the mouth of the Cua Viet River, 35 miles north of Hue, when a pa V'" rol plane mistook it for a Communist boat, a U.S.

spokesman said. The air strike was or SAIGON (AP) XJ. S. Marines pursued an estimated 6,000 North Vietnamese troops in bloodied rice paddies near Da Nang today after some 750 Leathernecks fought off encirclement by twice their number through the night The Marines killed at least 121 Communists while their own casualties were moderate, a spokesman said. Off South Viet Nam's northern coast, three American planes mistakenly attacked an 82-foot U.S.

Coast Guard patrol boat, killing two Coast Guardmen and injuring five men, including a British correspondent The attack occurred less than 36 hours after two American jets bombed and strafed a friendly Mekong Delta village from which, the American com mand said, the Viet Cong were firing on a U.S. spotter plane. The attack killed 24 Vietnamese and wounded 82, most of them villagers. While jets supported the Marine drive near Da Nang, Air Force B52s and other American planes pounded the Central. Highland area west of Pleiku where outumbered South Ko rean infantrymen helped by five U.S.

tanks killed 170 North Vietnamese Wednesday in their bloodiest action of the war. Scattered firefights were re ported today in the plateau area where thousands of U.S., Korean and Vietnamese troops are in action to forestall a possible late monsoon season sweep by the North Vietnamese across the highlands to the sea. Bad flying weather limited U.S. air operations over North Viet Nam to 98 missions Wednesday and kept the Ameri can fliers clear of the hotly de civil struggle was entering new phase "A struggle for power. Freedom and power are inextricably bound.

One cannot be free without power. There can be no power without free dom to decide for oneself." The civil rights fight, he said, had brought the Negro closer to the white as "we are becoming even more aware of the fact that we are bound together in a single garment of destiny. The problems of which we speak can never be confined to the Negro alone." He called for continuation of the Chicago demonstrations to call the attention of the world to "the hypocrisy of the residential areas of the North. "Chicago has proven that not long can one section of this na tion wallow in pious condemna tion of another while it prac tices worse atrocities. "Riots are desperation at tempts of the poor of our nation to say 'here am do some Riots are the language of the unheard." Dr.

King said the United States could provide a guaran teed annual income for its poor, a program to "generate jobs and provide meaningful work. He said this was not too much to ask from a nation "which is now spending some $25 billion a year in Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Mississippi Atty. Gen. Joe Patterson charged that Dr.

King and the SCLC thrive on Patterson issued a statement Wednesday saying King's civil rights forces "have to have vio lence in order to attract atten tion. Therefore, they deliber ately provoke violence wher ever they go." He said that within a few hours after Dr. King's arrival in Mississippi Monday violence erupted in Grenada, 100 miles from Jackson. He said King had just come from the torn streets of Chicago." The sews media, Patterson said, were sot told "about the many instances of deliberate provocation wherein they hurl the vilest of epithets into the faces of law enforcement officers who are doing nothing but trying to protect them. when patience ceases to be a virtue with the law enforcement officer and the officer reacts, then King and his followers immediately scream i i i -1: mm civil rights marchers walked in the rain into, the downtown area to picket the Chicago Real Estate Board office.

Hardly anyone paid any attention to the demonstrators who arrived after the office had closed. They sang a few songs, then dispersed. The demonstrators, who have been complaining about alleged housing discrimination for three weeks, acted after a series of decision changes on which section of Chicago. would be their next target In Washington, the House-passed civil rights bill came under attack as administration leaders mapped plans for smoothing its path in the Senate, In an apparent effort to keep the bill from being bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Sen. James O.

East land, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield indi cated he may delay action on the measure for two weeks and possibly until after Labor Day. The attack came from spokesmen for the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People. They hit at the House-Weakened open housing provision and the amendment making it a crime to cross state lines to incite a riot Another section of the bill allowing the federal government to step in to assure fair selection of juries, had been under attack by the American Bar Association's House of Dele gates. However, after a person al plea by Atty. Gen.

Nicholas Katzenbach who flew to the meeting in Montreal the proposed condemnation was voted down overwhelmingly. GOP Convenes HereTonight Mississippi Republicans will meet in Greenwood tonight to select a candidate to oppose Democrat Tom Abernethy, vet eran member of the U. S. House of Representatives, in the November general election. The Republican delegation, representing the GOP in the state's first congressional dis trict, will go through formal endorsement procedure but it is an open secret that State Senator W.

B. (Bill) Alexan der of Cleveland will get the nod. The filing date for party candidates has passed but Alexander has entered the race as an independent. He has publicly espoused the Republican Party and is wel coming their support. Clark Reed, state Republican chairman called for the convention in Greenwood after Hal Phillips of Corinth withdrew his candidacy.

Phillips became ineligible when the state's con gressional districts were recently redistricted. The convention will open at 7:30 p.m. in the Travel Inn. PASADENA. Calif.

(AP) A. camera-toting scout, Lunar Orbiter, sped through space today on its mission to photograph the moon and help locate a level spot where astronauts may camp later in the 1960s. The mission of the 850-pound spacecraft, launched from Cape Kennedy, at 3:26 p.m. EDT Wednesday aboard an Atlas-Agena rocket combina tion, is to orbit the moon, photo graph possible landing sites, measure radiation and detect micrometeorite density. After liftoff scientists reported the craft in a trajectory that, without correction, would make it miss the moon by 5,600 miles at the end of its 90-hour, mile trip.

But a midcourse maneuver was planned for sometime be tween 20 and 30 hours after lift off, and after the craft's sen sors had locked onto the sun and a guiding star, Canopus. One of Orbiter's sensors locked onto the sun 49 minutes into the flight and, at 10:21 p.m the craft was ordered to roll 360 degrees while another sensor searched for Canopus. A National Aeronautics and Space Agency spokesman said two hours later that Orbiter had filed to find Canopus on its first roll. He added that this caused no immediate concern since several rolls have been required to locate Canopus on other space flights. After the first midcourse ma a second if its need ed, Lunar Orbiter is to fire its retrorockets early Sunday, when it is 550 miles from the moon.

The firing should slow it enough for it to be captured by the moon's gravity, putting it into lunar orbit Orbit around the moon, a goal not achieved by American scientists in seven earlier at tempts, would set up Orbiter's photo mission, to send back 352 photographs giving details of the lunar surface. The first pictures are to be taken Aug. 18 of the never-pho tographed limb, or right edge, of the moon. This is a zone of mystery because the moon al ways keeps the same side fac ing the earth. The backside, though more remote, is less mysterious.

Rus sia's Zond 3 spacecraft, launched July 20, 1965, and Luna 3, on Oct 4, 1959, took pic tures of this area. The Russians were also first in orbiting the moon. Tneir Luna 10 swung into an orbit around the moon last April but scientists said it apparently car ried no cameras. Lunar Orbiter is aimed at an orbit as low as 28 miles, they said, carries a precision camera package. The main photographic goal is to get pictures of a mile strip along the moon's equator, where the landing site Autopsy Reveals No Stimulants In Sniper officers said, shouting, "Come out, nigger, or we'll burn you out!" unitl the three Negroes emerged.

One of the three was carrying a rifle which he fired into the crowd, police said, wounding Gerald Vabnik, 22, and Peter Guardino, 21. Both were in fair' condition at a hospital. Police reinforcements quickly dispersed the crowd after the shooting. They arrested Theodore Watson, 20, and charged him with felonious assault in the shooting. It was the third straight night of violence in Grenada as highway patrolmen assisted by 75 state game and fish wardens forced hundreds of whites away from the city square where some 200 Negroes were holding a civil rights rally.

Many of the whites had come armed Wednesday night with slingshots which they used to hurl small bits of metal or fire crackers at the Negroes. highway patrolman with a bull horn warned the crowd against such action, and then the troop ers, carbines at the ready, swept the whites off the square, Civil rights attorneys have moved to have federal contempt of court citations served on city, county and state officials who are under an injunction to pro tect any legal civil rights dem onstration in Grenada. In Chicago, an estimated 200 State System To Be Studied JACKSON, Miss. (AP) A Delaware firm based in Chicago will receive $92,500 to conduct the first phase of Gov. Paul Johnsons recommended over all study of the state's educa tional system.

The Mississippi Research and Development Council voted in executive session Wednesday to allow Booz, Allen and Hamilton, to conduct the study au thonzed by a recent session of the legislature. The study. Gov. Johnson said. should range from organized pre-school training through the most advanced degrees and re search laboratories Editor Tom Hederman, of Jackson, vice chairman of the council, presided in the gover nor's absence.

The council said Editor Hen ry Harris of West Point had the original idea for the study. The council recommended it to the governor and the governor to the legislature Phase one will consist of an analysis of the organization structure and management of the state education department, college board and other agen cies directly concerned with ed ucation. Phase one will be completed by Dec. 3L Qualified state residents will be employed in gathering infor mation officials of the firm re ported. Mineral Board Studies Bids BATON ROUGE (AP) The State Mineral Board today took under consideration bids total ing $5.3 million on some 40,000 acres of state-owned lands.

The board had over 190,000 acres up for bids in the first lease sale of the 1966-67 fiscal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Negro man was shot, and fire bombs and other missiles were thrown at store windows and passing cars as violence broke out for the second straight night in a racially mixed neighborhood on the East Side of Detroit. There also was violence In New York's Brooklyn and in Grenada, Miss. The battle lines were being drawn in Washington over the new civil rights bill which has passed the House and now goes to the Senate. Tyrone Powers, 26, a Negro, was wounded in the shoulder, he said, when he was shot from a passing car in Detroit He said three white men were in the car. Riot-trained police, helmeted and carrying shotguns and rifles with fixed bayonets, kept most of the troublemakers within a five-block area.

They arrested 32 Negroes and seven whites five boys and two girls who police said were found with homemade fire bombs in their car; A white motorist was injured when a brick smashed through a window of his car. The plate glass fronts of several stores were smashed. New York police said a shoot ing in a mostly white section of Brooklyn came after a crowd of about 40 whites chased three Negroes into an apartment house where one of them had recently moved. The crowd. most in their teens or early 20s stood in front of the building.

tained an eparation. No narcotics or dangerous drugs were contained in the tab let. "No alcohol, barbiturates or amphetamine were detected in the specimen of blood." Deilana said the analyst said it would have taken a great deal of amphetamine for traces to show in a small bloo4 sample, He speculated that Whitman took the amphetamine to the tower to keep him awake for a long siege. De Chenar's finding that a tumor in Whitman's brain did not cause the outwardly easygoing youth to turn killer was disputed by Dr Gary E. Miller, director of the Harlingen State Adult Mental Health Clinic.

"Although flie scientific cor relation of brain function with behavior is still in its early beginnings, it is highly proba ble, on the basis of our present knowledge, that the tragic events of Aug. 1 had their origin in a two-centimeter tumor locat ed in a vital area of the brain of Charles Whitman," Miller said in a letter to Gov John Connal- ly. "The contention that Whit man brain tumor had little if any connection with his destructive behavior because of its fail ure to be located in the frontal lobes of the brain (where a large proportion of human thought processes are believed to take place) is not in keeping with recent advances in the knowledge of brain function." Miller also said there is no evidence of psychopathic or paranoid schizophrenic behavior in published accounts of tmaa's lif And background. dered. The newsman wounded was Tim Page, 22, a freelance corre spondent and photographer who had been woundedtwice before in Viet Nam.

His injuries were reported not serious. The other injured were three Coast Guardmen and a Viet namese, preliminary reports said. The cutter proceeded under its own power to Da Nang. An investigation continued into the bombing of the village of Truong Thanh, eight miles from the Mekong Delta Corps headquarters of Can Too, Tuesday night A U.S. spokesman said two, JACKSON, Miss.

(AP) Dr. Martin Luther King weak from a virus attack that kept him in bed for two days, was expected to deliver a closing address tonight to his Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence convention. A physician ordered Dr. King to bed Tuesday and the civil rights convention noticebly slowed in his absence. Meetings ran from minutes to hours behind schedule Wednes day and delegates failed to re spond to the secondary leader ship's presentations.

The Rev. Andrew Young, ex ecutive director of the SCLC, read Dr. King's report to the convention and issued a statement aimed at Archbishop John Patrick Cody of Chicago. The Roman Catholic arch bishop, a strong advocate of ra cial justice, chanty and equality of opportunity, had urged lead ers of the civil rights movement to reconsider staging further demonstrations and to discuss housing problems with real es tate dealers in meetings arranged by municipal authorities. Young said the SCLC appre ciated Archbishop Cody's stand, but hoped he also would understand the urgency of our plight, the desperation of our need and the extent of spiritual suffering which has made these (Chiacgo) marches necessary.

4We will consider the appeal to halt our demonstration, but we must consider it in the light of the total picture of justice and injustice in the City of Chi cago. Only a continued confronta tion with the evil which now resides in their (the white citi zens of Chicago) hearts will so arouse the leadership of the community and the forces of law and government to so change the structures of lives in Chicago that they may have the opportunity to live in harmony with men of other races." He said the day to day vio- ence and self destruction with in "the walls of the ghetto are daily manifestation that we are closed in on a reversation, virtual concentration camp of poverty and humiliation." Dr. King's convention statement condemned race rioting and the "black power" slogan, and called instead for a Negro-white alliance using nonviolent pressures. AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Charles J.

Whitman's blood con. tained no discernible alcohol, barbiturates, drugs or stimu lants when police guns ended his -deadly rifle fire, a labora tory. report says. The Texas Department of Public Safety released Wednes day its analysis of blood taken from the University of Texas sniper's body after a murder rampage that tcok 16 lives Aug. Justice of the Peace Jerry Deilana said the lab report on Whitman's blood completed his inquest into the 25-year-old architectural engineering student's death.

He said his finding was "homicide" ruled justifiable by the Travis County grand jury. Deilana said six brown and clear capsules, 14 plain white tablets and 11 white tablets stamped also were submitted for analysis "The six capsules were found to contain amphetamine (a "pep" drug also found in diet pills)," the rej 'it said. 'The plain unmarked white tablets and the tablets stamped 'E' con The Weather MISSISSIPPI ConsMarabU cloudiness, warm and humid with acattarad showara and thundershowers through Friday. Lew tonight 46-74. High Friday 14-94.

TEMPERATURES Today Max. IS Min. 72 Yesterday Max. 92 Min. 72 River stag 14.lt platoons of Communist gaerril- las entered the village, fired on a spotter plane, then held the villagers at gunpoint when the American planes attacked.

Three of the victims were Viet Cong. The U.S. military command announced that the number of Americans killed in combat last week went down but the wounded increased. A spokesman said 71 servicemen were killed, 615 wounded and 10 missing or captured compared with 99 killed and 534 wounded the previous week, when there was no report on missing. First Cotton Bale Is Here The first Mississippi bale of cotton for the 1966 season was received this morning at the Staple Cotton Discount Associa tion in Greenwood.

The cotton was crown and ginned at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman bv members of Cam a t. The va riety is Stoneville 7-A and was planted en April 11. The bale was ginned en Augutt 10 and Consigned to Staple Cotton Dis count Association today. The bale will be sold at later date an official af Dm County School Registration Wednesday, August 179:00 A.M. Seniors Wednesday, August 172:00 PM.

Juniors Thursday, August 189:00 A3I. Sophomores Thursday August P.M. Freshman Friday, August 199:00 A.M. 7th-8th Grades Monday, August 298:20 AM. Grades 1-6 Itta Bena Elementary Attendance Center report to school School starts Monday, August 29, 8:20 AJkL Short schedule jreav.