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19 onffiessmen Too, ir marry i rum an i 1 1 fc JiLrn ill-' 11 -mir K- i an Llalie rors VITH OPINIONS 1 At Blast yen ft fl SI vx Willi By JOE 5ARTIN WASHINGTON (AP) Yes it's true what you always thought sometimes Congress doesn't know what it's doing. Charges Tre-Arrangad Affair' The House learned Friday that Accident Near Greenwood Kills One I in voting to raise the minimum wage to $1.15 an hour, it had also approved an amendment that and distinguished ambassadors Six Men Aboard American Plane Said Missing Writing daily column as we are attempting to do is no easy task from several standpoints. When one views the news and injects and opinion here and there it is only natural that the writer's views many times are not those held by others. We have always been a firm believer in the expression that we may disagree with you violently, but we will always fight for your right to express your thoughts. INDEPENDENCE, Mo.

(AP) Former President Harry S. Tru would cut off 14 million workers Truman lolted the Democratic presently covered by the law party with his announcement that Rep. Frank E. Smith (D-Miss) man said today he resigned as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention "because I have he was resigning as a delegate and would not attend the conven had ottered the amendment lhurs day in the closing minutes of de Th traffic dath tall was mounting with alarming regularity across the nation as th hours cf ih long holiday weekend clicks away. An Associated Press survey showed that 61 had been killed on the nation's highways since 6 Friday.

Indications are that 'the country's death foil may reach the 373 predicted by the National Safety Council for the weekend. no desire whatever to be a party tion starting July 11. Changes Tune, Courts Shimiers HAVANA (AP) Fidel Castro's bate. He had only one mmute to He immediately ruled out health to proceedings that are taking on the aspects of a pre-arranged af explain what he thought the as the reason. OSLO, Norway (AP) An Amer- amendment would do tighten 'I feel fine.

Mrs. Truman feels fair." Truman, in a formal statement ican reconnaissance existing exemptions irom tne law me. mere is no neaitn reason, Mississippi Highway Patrol this government was reported wooing which disappeared on a mapping of agricultural processing work- he said. released in advance of a press We have been taken to task several occasions for our opinions. We think that thi3 is healthy.

It indicates that the column is being read, and it further indicates that the reader is mission was last heard from di- ers 'I'll give my special reason at morning reported only one traffic death in the Greenwood area. shipping circles in the United States and Europe today in a bid for tankers to avert what could he press conference. You can ask rectly north of the Soviet Kola Friday Smith took the floor to Peninsula, a spokesman for the say his amendment had been, as Mrs. Ila Ruth Bruffey, 2G, me all the questions you want to be a disastrous oil famine in Cuba. Norwegian air force said today, he put it, 'improperly drawn." Rains Dampen Holiday Spirits Saturday morning," he added.

Jackson was killed when the 1933 Renault she was driving went out The reports spread ds Cuban The six-iet RB47 plane, carry- Rep. James Roosevelt (D-uaiii), Speculation since the announce officials and petroleum tech ing six crewmen, gave its last po- floor manager of the bill, said of control and crashed into a ment has covered these nicians insisted they are capable ridge abutment about a mile sition as 73 degrees 30 minutes the Labor Department nad tola of running three foreign oil re north and 35 east, the spokesman him Smith's amendment would re- That he has given up hope his north of Sidon on Highway 43 at 2:30 Friday afternoon. conference, said a convention "which is controlled in advance by one group, and its candidate, leaves the delegates no opportunity for a democratic choice and reduced the convention to a mockery. 'I have always believed that the Democratic party should stand for an open convention and should resist any band wagon that thwarts and stifles a free and deliberate process of this great instrument." In his statement the former President said he wanted to make said. That would put it over the move presently covered workers ellow Missourian, Sen.

Stuart fineries seized by Castro. They claimed they could find tankers to We have been called regarding references to our Governor Ross Earnett. We have been told that we never have nothing good to say about the Governor's administration. There is nothing that we would rather do than to 6incerely Barents Sea north-northeast of from the protection of the law ex- Her husband, Clifford Paul Bruf Symington, can win the Demo cratic nomination for president. bring in the 60,000 barrels a day Norway's northernmost province cept in cities of 250,000 or more.

fey, was injured, though not criti to fulfill the country's domestic of Fmmark or north of the Kola Smith said it had not been ms That he believes the convention needs. cally, and taken to Greenwood Leflore Hospital. Peninsula. intention to remove any workers will be rigged to nominate Sen. be able to lament on the out- But Castro's government appar from the act's coverage.

Not John F. Kennedy of Massa Born at Charleston, Mrs. Bruf uai A. V-7 All A UlXlViaiiJ 1 a Standing accomplishments obtained and be able to vision how these ently must act quicky to head 4 wDcf nrmonv thflv counung nmua amenumem, uie chusetts. fey, deaf since birth, was serving By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thundershowe.s dampened holiday weekend spirits from the Rockies to the East Coast today.

Although much of the previous night's storm activity was diminishing, the Weather Bureau reported, rain still fell in the southern Rockies, parts of the central and northern plains', the Lower Mississippi Valley, the upper Great Lakes, the South Atlantic states and New England. off disaster. The Prime Minister That he does not like the idea lieved the plane was down. Asked bill actually extends the coverage accomplishments will benefit the as a student missionary to the deal tod a TV audience June 24 that of being bound by the unit rule future of our state. Another old whether it might have strayed be- luA7 it clear "that my disappointment Mississippi.

She attended the Mississippi School for the Deaf in Cuba had a 66-day suppy of gas- esaying: we don't make the news, providing that, all of Missouri 39 convention votes be cast for the oine and 34-day ration of fuel oil. hind the Iron Curtain, a spokes- mcvcic man said 'I don't think so." f.enaprs and see to it that they Tn wocWnBtnn a npfPnc to. fix the goof when the bill comes we just report it: at the manner in which some of the backers of Sen. John F. Kennedy have acted involves in no Jackson and the Gallaudet School for the Deaf in Washington.

candidate favored by the major The couple, married three weeks ity. partment official said that he was UP ine senate. way, in my own mind, the person We were informed that Governor Barnett would go down in history as the greatest governor Only last week Truman told a sure the bomber had made no The Weather Bureau warned of ago today, was en route to Charleston. Mr. Bruffey, also a or qualifications of the senator himself.

I think, to a great ex Symington rally: "I'm for Stu and dehberate attempt to fly over severe thunderstorms with dam Little Changes deaf mute, is serving as a special I'm going to be for mm until the Soviet territory. aging winds and hail in parts of tent, Senator Kennedy is a victim of circumstances brought on by last dog dies." And Symington, Baptist missionary. North Dakota and Minnesota and forecast more rain in northern after talking to Truman by tele Murray Snyder, assistant secretary of defense for public af Services lor Mrs. Bruffey wilt some of hisr over-zealous backers An oil shortage could be disastrous as the nation's power is supplied almost entirely by fuel-oil-operated plants. The crisis threatened following the government takeover Friday of American-owned Esso Standard anl Dutch-British Shell last two foreign oil refineries in Cuba.

They were seized for refusing to process state-owned crude oil Castro had obtained in a sugar-for-oil deal with the Soviet Union. The move came two days after seizure of the 26-million-dollar phone following Truman an be held at 3 Sunday afternoon at In Prices Paid which is unfortunate and unfair Missouri where more than fairs, answering a newsman's in nouncement, said: Paynes Baptist Church near to him." in the state of Mississippi. We most sincerely hope that this will come to pass. From present indications though we would have to stop at the first "as" above. We know that he will go down in history There is no one more interested in our immediate area, the state and the nation than this writer.

quiry, said that "we know that 000 acres of farm land are flood ed. He went out of his way to as The statement ended three days there are no overflights" of So Charleston. Hie Ilev. M. L.

Greer will officiate. Burial will be in of speculation over the former sure me that this decision on his part did not in any change his viet territory. If this happened. Magnolia Garden Cemetery near To State Farmers Army engineers have estimated flood damage from the swollen Chariton and North Grand rivers President's surprise announce Snyder emphasized, 'it would not unqualified support of my candi Charleston with Williams and Lord ment of last Wednesday that he De deliberate." dacy." in charge. in Missouri at $3,400,000.

had quit the Missouri delegation He said his opinion was based Truman would feel the last aog to national convention and In addition to her husband, she Friday night heavy, rains American-ownea Texaco proper was dead if he believed the con received by Mississippi farmers western Virginia washed mud arid wpuld not attend the session in leaves her parents, Mr, and Mrs, vention was rigged for Kennedy, gravel across some highways and Lios Angeles. Soviet Union had been ordered for 'commodities sold in mid-June were mostly unchanged or below ties Santiago de Cuba and ended virtually all normal imports of Western oil. swift wind felled some trees. and there have been rumors that be planned today to charge party halted after the U2 spy plane was It also confirmed rumors hotly denied two days ago that Truman prices a month earlier, the Mis Heavy rains, and winds also hit downed last May. The Soviet Union has offered sissippi Crop and Livestock Re- the Dakotas Friday.

Grand Forks, considered the convention had The missing bomber took off cX. vZa" Chairman Paul Butler with, rigging it. N. reported 2 1-3 inches of ram been rigged for the Massachu We do not think that anything constructive can -ever i be done in any 'facet-of life if we just take, end think of the good things and disregard all the bad. We don't believe that we should be content with any type proposition that just balances when we weigh the good against the bad.

It is only through correcting these faults and trying to remedy the bad that we can ever move forward to betterment. Calves, at $21.50 per hundred, Butler has emphatically denied Cuba petroleum, but reportedly can't spare the tankers needed to deliver enough oil to meet Cuba's requirements. setts senator who is a front-run six hours and clocked wind map electromagnetic fields north were down $1.60 from May and up to 60 miles an hour. any rigging. His denial was just as emphatically supported Fri of Norway.

ner for the Democratic presiden tial nomination. registered the sharpest decline of Search plants began arriving to day by the permament convention all commodities. day at Bodoe air base in north- chairman, Gov. LeKoy Collins of ern Norway to comb the bleak muht Holiday In Store Party Chairman Paul Butler Thursday called these advance reports "nasty, mean and vicious" and asserted they were an Florida. waters off Norway's wild coast fori fVini si 32 Zl m.

I don't think anything has For Most People the plane. whpat 41 7(1 hnchpl been rigged for any Luna L. Jennings of Charleston, a brother, Luna Jennings Jr. of Charleston, a sister, Mrs. Lucille Ftoberson of El Paso, Texas, and an uncle, John Tedford of Greenwood.

The count of traffic deaths rose with quickening speed today while millions of mobile Americans enjoyed the first full day of the Independence Day weekend. Most areas had dry weather, but many wet patches were scattered in the North and East. But, wet road or dry, safety officials figures all of the nation's 73 million motor vehicles would be in motion at one time or another during the three-day period. The National Safety Council estimated Americans will cover more than seven billion road miles and warned that as many as 370 persons might die in traffic mishaps. The estimate of 370 traffic Crewmen were Identified as: mmm' Mntc.

tj nont5 'absolute falsehood." Truman, in his formal state Collins said on arriving in Los Capt Eugene E. Posa, 38, San-UrKai i nn -fn State.7 Federal and County of Don't misunderstand, this writer certainly does not claim the gift of always knowing the answer. Far from it. If what we sav ment, reiterated his endorsement Angeles-. "There has never been any discussion with Mr.

Butler, fices will be closed Monday in of Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) expressed or by implication, that observance of Independence Day, p3' ard cents, unchanged. S.f'RKf SV Soybeans $2.05 per bushel, un- JAr it' E1" changed; aU hay $21.30 per ton, mira, N. Lt. John R.

McKone, riown fi(J centg. '-h a $1Tc0 for the presidential nomination. Government officials appeared confident they could acquire shipping either in the United States or Europe. Ernesto Guevara, chief of Cuba's National Bank, insisted that the Soviet Union had not only the petroleum but indicated the Soviets could ship it in an emergency. Guevara also made a point of referring to the takeover of refineries as "intervention" and not expropriation.

He said the government was merely operating the refineries, but warned that if the foreign companies continued to refuse to handle Soviet crude, the plants valued at more than a The Post Office and banks will He then added: also observe the holiday. I'd be expected to be partial in any sense. I'm absolutely free to serve with complete impartiality, "We must be absolutely certain Most stores will remain closed that all our good men be properly longanoxie, Kan Lt. Dean B. hundred, up 80 cents; cows Phillips, 2o Inwood and n4.40 -per hundred, down Lt Oscar L.

Goforth, 26, Sardis, teers Fand heifers $21.20, down and that I am determined to do." sized up on the convention floor all day- Drug stores will be open until 11 a.m., and most service before the final choice is Wa. 11. knsf nftln t1fi naf stations will be open until noon He mentioned one of them as can make you think and respond, we have accomplished something. column, we reiterate, is (Viewing news with opinions. i Unless we all forget our selfish interests we are headed for one the worst depressions that has Wer faced this country.

With the depression will come the breeding grounds for communism. We have got to get back to the grass roots cf living. The Air Force said all the offi- 'STA Mpnday. Sen. Lyndon B.

Johnson (D-Tex) cers were married and their home n' ie vuiii-ixii. tiai u-i uiiti aU(i vuio whom he described as a man base is Topeka, Kan. The men OLE MISS GETS CANCER GRANT UNIVERSITY, July 2 The per pound, unchanged; tarm who has grown in skill and es deaths, the council said, would be were based temporarily in Eng hundred million dollars would be chickens 14.5 cents per pound, eem in his services to the nation land Commonwealth Takes University of Mississippi has been confiscated. and party." 60 more than counted on a non-holiday weekend of the same length. The weekend is computed awarded a grant of $19,817 by the "Intervention," as interpreted He mentioned another as for A Holiday July 4th ouiu ovuuanu ana uediii ill I in nn by Castro government, can mer Gov.

Chester Bowles of Con from the 78 hours between 6 p.m. National Cancer institute for a three-year project to be directed by Dr. Joseph Sam, associate range from token supervision to wholesale scavanger-urKney isianas area 1 Today, government, whether It necticut, now a congressman from that state. He described Friday and midnight Monday. In a comparative survey, The $4.35 per hundred, down 5 cents, outright takeover of an operation.

'to look for six survivors in ding be city, county, state or national, is BIG business and should be so professor of pharmaceutical chem- Still on the brink of seizure is Prices paid by Mississippi farm Bowles as "one of our far-seeing hies from the missing air force! Associated Press counted 343 traffic deaths on the nonholiday week lsiry. the 300-million-dollar Cuban Elec ers for poultry feeds in mid-June plane." trie the largest since Ameri conducted. Think what is best for the country, not what is best politically. There is certainly a wide were up 5 to iu cenis per nun end spanning the hours between This area is far west of the Hit enTAtiis fr0m PreViUS 6 p.m. Friday, June 17, and mid can investment in Cuba.

Observers believe Cuban Elec trie will fall as soon as the U.S epread between the two. The COMMONWEALTH will not be published Monday, Independence Day. In keeping with established practices, this newspaper will give its employees a holiday on July 4. It Is the wish of the staff and personnel of the COMMONWEALTH that all, of its readers and their friends enjoy a safe holiday weekend. the Norwegian spokesman and GWIN LUMBER CO.

VICTOM OF BURGLARS and middlings Bran at $3.05 well west of the Iron Curtain, 5 Th." lasteVposiUonTf the fSSfi! 1, Congress passes its new sugar act which would wipe out the Cuban Burglars lat nioht used a 60 il ILtms auu auv ucau mcai at. v. Hagerty Blasts Solons Action In Pay Fight ve will soon fce experiencing, '(in fact we are now), promises, promises end more promises from candidates. From past experiences we should all know that promises sugar quota in the Umted States window to gain entrance into Gwin Lumber Co. Police said about 275 miles north of the hundred was down 10 cents.

sula and the same distance west $6. CO in coins was taken from a night Monday, June 20. This is the second of three Saturday Sunday Monday holidays during the warm weather s'eason. Memorial Day was the first, Labor Day will be the last. Over the Memorial Day weekend, 3G7 persons perished in traffic accidents.

In all 579 persons died in mishaps that weekend, including 77 drownings, 43 boating accidents and 87 deaths from miscellaneous accidents. Scout Research Missile Fails; of Novaya Zemlya Island, which drink machine. Nothing else was are only an expedient in accom reported disturbed. is also Soviet territory. Iplishing a specific goal that is 'election.

CITY PARK OPENS The City Park will be opened Marshalls Mew Proving Ground SATURDAY ROUNDUP Monday, July 4, from 9 a.m. to By STANLEY MEISLER WASHINGTON (AP) A rare p.m. All other parKs win De Fort Fembarion To Ba Improved Here Is the type news that we fnjoy reporting. A total of in bond issues to finance city improvements and repairs were closed. WASHINGTON (AP) A Scout wrong.

move by Congress has assured The Scout had a 193-pound pay- research rocket, programmed for pay raises for li million govern As Confederate Memorial Park load. This first package was designed mainly to test and report an ambitious flight miles down the Atlantic from Wallops ment workers. Congress had to sweep aside a veto by President approved by Aberdeen voters Fri day. on the performance of the rocket. Island.

went askew Friday Eisenhower to do it. Eventually, NASA hopes to use It was only the second time that night and was destroyed as a By TOM R. FARREL JR. An Associated Press release to the versatile Scout to put 150- Congress has overridden an Eisen safety measure. dav Ears that thundershowera ar An officially designated Confe Street river crossing-.

pound satellites into orbit, and to Earlier at Cape Canaveral, 'dampening holiday weekend spi hower veto there have been 169 of them. The action Friday came Greenwood may join the ranks fire instruments as much as 10,000 a mighty prototype Titan missile derate Memorial Park for Greenwood is on its way to reality. of other cities which have desis miles above the earth. also went haywire and was blown with comparative ease. rits for the Kockies, to the East Coast today.

Personally, we would most happy to have our spirits For a decade the Marshall I A recent Act of the The action immediately drew nated supervision of the airport up intentionally just 300 feet above to a board appointed by the muni- its launching pad. ture authorizes Leflore County land area had been used by the angry comments from administra dampened, in fact really saturat Atomic Energy Commission for cipal government body. Mayor in other U.S. missile develop- ed, here in Greenwood: Board of Supervisors to construct and maintain the park at the site of Fort Pemberton. cnariie bampson, at Friday dtyjments nuclear weapons tests.

No nuclear tests have been made there since tion leaders. A glaring example of fiscal irresponsibility," said Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty, who phoned Mrs. "Walter Pillow and fa 1958 because of the voluntary U.S Is this statement true for you? Council session, made a motion l.

The Defense Department an-calling: for the creation of such a nounced it has taken over the commission. Marshall Islands proving ground Speaking of airports, the mat- in the Pacific as a target area mily have deeded an acre of land moratorium on such explosions, "'Promises of today are forgotten me said it has no four years from today. for the park which will overlook the Tallahatchie River. plans for nuclear warheads on its the news to Eisenhower, later as ter of Greenwood's airport plans for tests of intercontinental ballis-amounts to a big question mark, tic missiles, to be fired from 5,100 House Bill No. 922 also allows ICBM shots, and added that the proving ground will be returned We hope you are with us Tucs- Will the air terminal stay where miles away in California Leflore County to spend $1,000 for improving the site.

ay to the AEC if nuclear testings re County Engineer Dan Kelly said sume. it is, be moved to the old Army 2. The atomic submarine George Airfield, or will still a third site Washington headed, to sea from be the future home of the Munici- Cape Canaveral, familiarizing its The rockets will be fired from the Highway Department will fill in the area for the park located serted 'this is the second time that pressure and pork barrel tactics" have prevailed. His statement referred to the first veto Congress beat last year. That involved a public works money bill, often called a pork barrel bill because it is crammed with pet projects of congressmen.

The pay raise bill will cost the vanaenoerg Air force uase in next to the four-lane highway un lAemiior California, a distance of about pal Airport? crew with the Atlantic rocket Hardy Lott, Greenwood attor- range. Later this month the sub nev. and Conzressman Frank will try the first underwater 113 der construction. 5,100 miles. Nike-Zeus antimissile rockets will be fired at them from E.

Smith have been designated as launching of the Polaris missile Work on Fort Pemberton is expected to start as soon as the fill Kwajalein Island, about 500 miles delegates to the 1960 National 3. The Pentagon reported that ing is completed. away to test the efficiency of the government 745 million dollars Democratic Convention which con- labor disputes in the aviation in-venes in Los Angeles July 11. dustry are threatening to upset Nike-Zeus defense system. Airline service for Greenwood may be restored sooner than at yearly.

A million while collar workers will receive an average increase of IVi per cent and a Moscow announced this week it will start tests of its own in the first anticipated. Ed Maxwell, A race is shaping up P.na. Th sorrif 400 mm manager of Municipal Airport, same general area starting July fr.rj will rhnns an flMprrr.sn to in the nation's defense picture. haf-million postal employes will CLOUDY '-te'ry 'C 5r yStSi -V-'', in i il il i in 5. The Soviets previously have said yesterday that Southern Airways may resume flishts here fill the unexpired term ef E.

G. The Wallops Island shot was the receive 8.4 per cent. In cash, this means an increase fired their rockets into the Pacific longest yet attemped from the CTarkl Minvard. Marlin Aldridsre. next week.

Earlier this week it from central Asia, about 8,000 and Space J. J. Cox and Marlin Gibson are National Aeronautics from $225 a year to $1,200 a year was announced that it might be Administration installation there. seeking the post in for individual workers. In some cases, the new pay scales went The 72-foot Scout is a four -stage balloting.

Polls will open at 7, a few weeks before the airline, which has been struck by pilots since June 6. would re-establish into effect Friday. IK- and close at 6. Deadline for filing rocket, relatively inexpensive yet as a candidate was Thursday. capable of putting a satellite into MISSJESIPP1 CUtr to partly fhrhts here.

Beth votes were more than the needed two-thirds, eight more in Kafm-nal Safcftr CssnneW WDlt S30 IUlleS Up tUudly Sunday with isolated thun Ci rshiwfrs in the psrticn The wrinkles have been smooth miles. It was understod that underwater listening equipment, to detect the splash entry of missiles into the sea, has been installed at the Marshall Islands since the tima cf the first Soviet tsrts in anuary. The United States has fired an Atlas missile from Cape Canaver PTtta 270 caoula who were alive This was not an orbit attempt. ed over on Kesster Th th Senate and 3 mere in th Hcuss. Si st much hsR3 in temperatures, strst depart srt compistsi ths Friday tp be statistics liissasy.H-..

rr. sw Actios first, tl? Kc-uss rcte-i That's hor many the? say cccU pea ucces3i.uuy, cuwt hot-mix fcsshalt application en Svrviay in th S43-C3 to override. The Senate vote Ci- me a result ct trail ic accidents p-- vwisc i sui; floor of the bridge this week. Miss Universe Contestants Latin America, Spain and Portugal contestants arrive in Miami to participats La tha Miss Universe contest. Learinf tha plane bottom to top ere Mfria Terosa Del P.io, Miss Spam; Iris Teresa Ubal Cabrera, Miss Uruguay; Maria Teresa Motta Cardoso, Miss Portugal; Mercedes Teresa Buggia, Miss Paraguay; Nancy Aguirra, Miss Bolivia and Stella Marque, Miss Colombia.

Greeting the international beauties are Gladys Tender (left), Miss Universe of 1037 and Tsti Moore (right), Hospitality. CAP was saut down ceiore lgruiea. Anrintr thfi hdlliV wpekcnd. Or 3 1 i. wr million cars will crowd the Thus it fell into the Atlantic of those siding with stWa hiVhwavs.

boostmr chan-urom a height of about SS0 miles ths President were Republicans Many members cf his party, how ty Engineer Frank Jones said the new surface is expected to last for some time. Residents who had to take the lor. detour around by the bypass bridge "Wednesday, realiz tha vslrss of th Fnltem al past the tip of Africa into, the Indian Ocean, a distance of about 9.000 miles. So far as is known, this is the distance record for a missile shot. TSMPSnATUnCS: TtuSay Max, Si Mix.

53 Mn, 74 Aid. 72 ces of fatal and injury-inflicting 1,500 miles southeast cf Wal-accidents, if caution is Island. NASA scientists have by holiday-wipdea rot yet determined went ever, joined the Democrat? Ivo'inj a gainst th veto..