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iA i The Latest News In The Delta" VOLUME 46 NUMBER 31 GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 6, 1961 4 Ci-fiTnJ vJ 1 1. yf a once 10 US3 i Ut jjhjli; I i I i i i hn i i Mm 1 UiJ Li LitiUiLi ii KJ LZS Li Li L-i Big Sand Work Skied For '62 Smith Announces The first steps toward construction of the long awaited Big Sand diversion project will be made in 1062, Represent Frank E. Smith announced here Thursday. Representative Smith said the $300,000 allocated for the work during the current fiscal year will be largely to construct a new fcridge over State liiway 7 which the diversion canal will cross. Another bridge will be needed to take the highway over a supplementary Sections Dangerously Tenso BERLIN (AP) The three Western Allies sharply protested today to the Soviets against two shooting incidents involving Communist East German police in Berlin's French sector.

British Commandant Sir Rohan Delacombe called on his Soviet counterpart, Col. Andrei I. Solovyev, to deliver tha protest on behalf of all three West- Radar Unit To Control Seeding The City Council this morning decided to place radar in use controlling speeding: on the streets of the city. Police Chief Curti3 Lary was instructed by the council to take the necessary steps to rent for one month a radar unit. The cost of the radar unit is $1,440.

The city wdll rent one unit from the company for one month at the rate of $100 to determine whether they should go ahead and pur chase one. The council also set October 27 in uuiius. i ne council saw they have taken the $50,000 bond I issue for the negro swimming pool and put it with the recent sssonnd Krr $332,000 bond issue passed by the voters and will sell all these bonds on October 27. The council siso TPnrmnintWl Rev. Jones Hamilton to another 5 year term on the Greenwood Leflore Library Board.

Rev. Hamilton has been a member of this Board for the past 6 years. A representative of the Missis- sippi State Highway Department appeared before the council this morning to discuss the proposed I work that will be done on the Highway 82 bpyass. He told the council bids will be received on the work this month. The council was informed that the highway department wants to make Aven- 1 1 1 j.

Scouts Help The United Givers Campaign Members of Boy Scout Troop 40 gave their assistance this week to the United Givers Campaign. Three of the troop 40 members are shown placing a United Givers poster in Barrett's Drug Store, looking on is Hugh Taylor, of Barrett's. The scouts are right; Harry Roland, Yerger Morehead Jr. and Randy Clark. Kennedy weer soviet.

Minister On To Learn Red Position ue in, now a wirougn street, oniojance i'rogram. If tne goal is Highway 82 a dead end at the reached it will mean the United Highway Department rightaway when the new construction is com- pleted. The Highway Department wiu men mase Avenue ix a tnrougn street onto xngnway oa. i 1 1 1 1 1 TT 1 Or I At tne present time Avenue is a dead en(T street stopping- at tne we must devise increasingly ef-Highway Departments nghtaway fective ways of usin food foJ the U.S. Proposes Seven-Point Plan For United Nations By M.ILTON BESSER UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

(AP) The United States proposed to 4 3 seven-point program to put mtn option ProctHnnf onn Exposal for making the the United Nations' dec 1960s decade of development." It put emphasis on increasing funds for technical assistance to underdeveloped countries and making more use of food sur- pluses in combating want in the world. U.S. Ambassador Philip M. Klutznick outlined the program to the U.N. General Assembly's loo-nauon Economic Committee, where a formal resolution for as- sembly approved will be presented in about three weeks, Ranked No.

1 in the program is setting a goal of $150 million for 1962 for the U.N. special fund and Expanded Technical. Assist- States will contribute about $60 million. Klutznick attached special im- nnrtancP! to th fnnrt cur. vw pluses.

As we look ahead." he said. benefit of sll thp. unrlprrlpvplonp "2 nth f. tn ua tt w.u Estblishment of a fmancial service under the Special Fund to Provide guidance and advice to developmg countries The providing of expert ad- planning, taking into account both government and individual enterprise. 3.

Establishment of research and demonstration projects in areas of special promise, such as desalinization of sea water, development of cheap power resources and improved weather control. 4. The increasing of the supply and training of technicians, professional and executive manpower for developing countries. MOSCOW (AP) Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev told a group of Western "peace marchers" today that the Soviet Union was making no effort to build -air raid shelters.

"There is no defense in a nuclear war," said Nina Khrushchev, the wife of the premier. "Therefore we are not building any bomb shelters. We are not getting ready." Mrs. Khrushchev made her remarks after spending an hour exchanging pleasantries and debating disarmament with the marchers, who arrived here Tuesday. The debate took place at Moscow's "House of Friendship," where Mrs.

Khrushchev's aides served tea, chocolate and apples. Most of the marchers did their best to convince Mrs. Khrushchev that, if the world refuses to disarm, one country should set a good example by discarding all its armaments. Mrs. Khrushchev declined to agree.

'We do not want to be the only ones who throw our bombs into the ocean," she said. She added that in the past 40 years, the Soviet Union has had many unfortunate experiences with war and does not want to be in a position where it could be trampled upon again. Thirty-one persons from the United States and Western Europe participated in the march, which began in December of last year in San Francisco. Among those having tea with Mrs. Khrushchev were: Bea Herrick of Chicago, Millie Gilbertsen of New York, Jules Rabin of New York, and Regina Fischer of New York, mother of U.S.

chess champion Bobby Fischer. liana bo osiers Set For Game Band Boosters will return to their posts at concession stands at Bulldog- Stadium, tonight. The organization of Band parents will sell concessions, with proceeds going to a fund to finance trips for the GHS Band. Stationed on the East Side "wall be Mr. and Mrs.

Sam Vernon, Mr, and Mrs. Joe Couch. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bryan, Mr.

and Mrs. Wayne Shurtleff, Mrs. B. C. Cline, Mrs.

J. Q. Price, Mrs. Pittman, Mrs. Hilda Hill.

Working on the West side will be Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Cham- bless. Mr. and Mrs.

P. E. Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson, Mr.

and Mrs. II. W. Knigh, Mr. and Mrs.

W.L. Bowie, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.

Eankston, Mr. and Mrs Paul Mostjoy, and 21 Eonre Mo Shelters, Mrs. Nikita Says drainage canaL "The Big Sand diversion is the last link in our program to provide complete flood protection for Greenwood and the adjacent area," Representative Smith said. "It will not only protect the Gren-nada Boulevard area, an important residential section of Greenwood, but it will also offer many new possible industrial sites for future development diversion canal will protect the valuable farm land cast of Greenwood from flooding." "The most important aspect of this work is that it is a joint project of both the Corps of Engineers and the Soil Conservation Service," the Greenwood Congressman declared. "Completion of this work, which involves a total cost of more than $3,000,000, will set the pattern for another highly beneficial work on the hill tribu taries of the Yazoo system, such as Pelucia, Potacocowa, ADiaca, and others." The soil conservation service portion of the joint project is presently proceeding slowly because the Department of Agriculture has been appropriated funds sufficient for only one work party in Mississippi.

Major flood control work in the immediate Greenwood area during the current fiscal year will be on the Fort Pemberton cut-off, Representative Smith added construction plan will include a weir designed to keep a stable river channel in the Tallahatchie and Yazoo as the rivers make a circle around North Greenwood. Work is scheduled on the Quiver River, including its tributaries of Turkey, Marsh, Fighting and Parks bayous. Rev. All! ierson Speaks To Lions Rev. Eade Anderson spoke to the Greenwood Lion's Club today on the beauty and aspects of life in Scotland.

Rev. Anderson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church was a student for 15 months at the University of Edinburg. He told of the beauty in Scotland and of the life of the Scottish people. He was introduced by Granville Jordan. It was announced during the meeting that the Lion's will have a bag sale starting on Monday.

Each bag sold will contain 100 pieces of candy and the money received by the club will be used to furnish the work of the Sight Conservation project sponsored by the Lions Club. Services Today rui-iuis. maimed Funeral services were held at 11 this morning1 for Mrs. Adeline Brandes of Memphis. Services were conducted in Memphis with burial there.

Mrs. Brandes, the widow of Albert Brandes, died Thursday afternoon at a Memphis Hospital. She lived at 12S9 Peabody Ave. She was the brother of Eugene Erber of Greenwood. Also surviving: are a eon, a daughter, three sisters and grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Erber, and sons, Ira and Joe Martin, attended the services. Jewish Services For Weekend Told Sabbath services will be held at tonight at the Congregation Ahavath Rayim. Rabbi Samuel Leib will conduct the services and deliver the sermon.

Rabbi Leib said the scripture lesson this week will be from Genesis 1, verses 1-8, and the topic of the sermon will be "The Creation of the World." Following the service there will be an Oneg Shabat reception at the Sam Baikin Auditorium. Bar-Mitzvah class will be held Saturday morning at 10, with Junior congsegaticn at 11. Sunday School class will be held at 10 and the Hebrew classes will meet at 4 Honday. MISSISSIPPI fair and this afternoon and Saturday. Co-s! again tonight.

Lew 4S-55 inferior and 53-3 along the coasts tomcat. Hich Saturday in low 0s. TEMPERATURES: Today 77 47 Yesterday Max. 75 Min. 44 Vt" HAS ern commandants, an Ametf spokesman announced.

Delacombe told Solovyev that the incidents resulted from "dangerous and irresponsible action" by the East Berlin Communist police. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, this morning made an on the spot inspection of the dangerously tense sector the Bern-auerstrasse. The street, divided by the Communist-built wail now cutting through Berlin, has been the scene of two shooting incidents ia the last two days.

The State Department in Washington has called on Soviet authorities to avoid shooting incidents on the Berlin border. Max Maron, the East German Communist interior minister, sent sharply worded protets to West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and the French commandant, Gen. Jean Lacomme over the shooting. He said anv more such incidents will be "a threat to peace." Clay had discussed the explosive situation with Brandt before tha mayor flew off on a three-day vis it to New York. Today.

Clay drove to Bernauer- strasse. With an aide, he walked the whole one-mile length of the street occasionally going right up to the wall erected by the Com munists, which measures from 3 to 10 feet in height. He also talked to local West Berlin police officers to receive eyewitness acounts of the inci dents, which have sharpened ten sion this divided city. Gunshots rang out for the third time within 36 hours Thursday when Red police fired warning shots at a West Berlin policeman and at a workman laying a cable who stepped across the forbidden line into the eastern sector. East Berlin police also engaged in a rock fight with jeering West Berliners.

Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin asked the Western powers for authority to increase his 15,000 man police force as, tension mounted along the barricades dividing the city. The latest flareups began when a Communist policeman was wounded Wednesday night. West Berlin police said they opened fire when shots fired by Red police at fleeing refugees whizzed by them. East Germany sent a stiff protest to Brandt and to French authorities in Eerlin. The shootin occurred in the French sector.

The U.S. State Department held that the West Berlin police were justified in shooting back in self defense and called on the Soviet authorities to tell East Berlin police to avoid shooting incidents "which cholud jeopardize peace and public order." The gun play aroused West Berliners to the same angry mood they displayed when the Communists first erected their concrete and barbed wire wall in mid-August to halt the escape of East Germans. Crowds surged up to the border and began hurling rocks at East German police. The East Germans threw rocks back at the crowd. West Berlin police tried to herd the crowds into side streets.

When a Western policeman went to the wall and demanded the Communist police "stop that nonsense" of bombarding the crowd with rocks, a Red policeman fired a pistol shot info West Berlin. No one was hit. Communist police Thursday night shot dead two East Germans trying to swim the Spree River near Oberbaumbruecke Eridge, which forms the border between the U.S. and Soviet sectors, West Berlin police said. One refugee was killed only a yard from shore.

ine lied police swept the river with rifle and machine gun fire in the glare of searchlishts. an- parently after hearing SDlashin in the water. Itta Bena Sells Revenue Bonds Itta Bena Tuesday night sold $268,000 of combined water and sewer revenue bonds to Saunders Investment Co. of Greenwood, and M. A.

Saunders Co. of Memphis. The bonds were sold for a net average interest rate of 4.45 per centum per year. These bonds were issued for the purpose of improving, repairing and extending the water system. Also, the sewage system and the addition cf a sewage disposal system.

Plans also call fcr drilling deep well. Contracts for these improvements will be let not later than October IT with work to commence immediately thereafter. voters approved the bond is- sue in a cujwuou cuutr Nikita Olieys Berlin Wall LONDON (AP) Soviet Premier Khrushchev approved today the erection of the wall between East and West Berlin. This was not suprising, since the East Germans closed East Berlin's border with West Berlin Aug. 13 immediately after the So viet bloc Warsaw Pact members ordered effective border controls to stop the flood of escaping refugees.

Khrushchev also predicted a German peace treaty would be signed soon but without specifying whether he meant between the Soviet Union and East Germany alone. He has threatened to sign such a treaty before the end of the year. Khrushchev's views were stated in a telegram to East German Communist leaders on the 12th anniversary of their regime, and was reported in a Tass news agency story broadcast by Moscow. The broadcast coincided with the arrival in East erlin of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan as the principal guest at the anniversary celebrations.

In his arrival speech, Mikoyan said an East German peace treaty would stabilize peace in Central Europe, but he also made no reference to any time limit for signing such a treaty. Nasser Concedes ipnMic If Past By GEORGE MCARTHUR CAIRO (AP) President Nasser, virtually conceding the death of his United Arab Republic, says he will not oppose efforts of the revolutionary Syrian regime to join the United Nations and the Arab League. In a dramatic address whose conciliatory tone astounded observers in Cairo, Nasser declared there is no need for a political or diplomatic blockade of Syria Decause the Syrian people would suffer." Only a short time before, the Cairo press had been denounc ing the rebels as imperialists. The address at first delichted the Syrian revolutionaries, and Syrian Premier Mamoun Kuzbari offered Egypt the hand of friend ship. But he took a new.

skepti cal attitude this morning. A Damascus broadcast auoted Kuzbari as saying Nasser agreed not to oppose Syrian membership tne United Nations only be cause be realized it was inevita ble. Kuzbari said Syria had been promised free elections and 'our only wish is that the Egyptian people would have the same opportunity." Nasser, speaking slowly and with deep emotion, said that Cairo will not recognize any Damascus government "until the free will of the Syrian people is manifested and she herself decides her path." JNasser indicated he wants a Syrian plebiscite stamping voter approval on the outcome of the revolt before he would be willing to exchange envoys. The Syria regime has promised elections within four The Egyptian leader assailed governments that already have recognized the new Damascus regime. He termed Turkey fascist, Iran pro-Israel, Jordan a feudal republic, Nationalist China an outcast, and Guatemala a fruit com pany government.

In his broadcast, Kuzbari said Syria not only agreed to an Arab League committee investigation but "we demand it and that it investigate the conditions of Egypt and Syria. We will give them the facts." "If Nasser agreed to Syria's membership in the United Nations and the Arab League it is only because he realized recognition of the new regime in Syria was a matter of days anyway," the premier said. "He would have suffered a political blockade if he had severed relations with any country recognizing us." Nasser asked for an Arab League investigation of Syrian charges of oppression under the U.A.R. Kuzbari in rebuttal said Syria demanded that the' league "investigate the conditions cf Egypt and Syria. will give it the facts." BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) The Hungarian bench cf bishops is expected to name Bishop Endre Hamvas, 71, to succeed the late Archbishop Josef Grosz as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, informed church said today.

Archbishop Grosz died ft in mm Think fl Negroes Remain In IcComb Jail BULLET! Miss. (AP) City school officials suspended 118 negro students from classes today in the wake of their downtown protests against earlier suspensions of two negro sit-in demonstrations. Supt. R. S.

Simpson, who announced the action against the students, said, school officials would not permit Brenda Travis, 16, and Isaac Lewis, 21, the sit-inners, to re-enter school. At the same time, officers announced the arrest of negro leader Curtis C. Bryant of McComb on charges of contributing to the deliquency of the girl. Bryant is president of the Pike County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored' People. MCCOMB, Miss.

(AP) Nine teen demonstrators arrested for protesting the suspension of two negro students remained in jail today with no indication bond would be posted. The 18 negroes and one white man part of a group of 119 demonstrators arrested Wednesday afternoon for demonstrating on the steps of City Hall will go on trial Oct. 23 on disturbing the peace charges. Ten of the group have also been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The other 100 demonstrators, all juveniles, will go before Youth Court Judge Hansford L.

Simmons at a later date. Thursday the 19 were arraigned before City Judge Robert Brum-field. All pleaded innocent to the charges. Bond was set at $100 on the peace charge violation and $200 for the others. Negro attorney Jack Young, who represented the 19, said no arrangements had been made for posting bond.

All were returned to the Pike County Jail at nearby Magnolia. Most of the demonstrators were from Burgland Junior and Senior High School, located near a new negro housing project. The students had walked out of a school assembly Wednesday because they said officials would not allow Brenda Travis, 16, and Isaac Lewis, 20, to re-enter school immediately. Police had arrested the two Aug. 30 after a sit-in attenrnt at the McComb Bus Station.

They were released last Saturday after posting $1,000 cash bonds. ivilans Plan ies Flight The Greenwood Civitan Club will hold their first annual Ladies Night program Thursday night at Lu.k's Cafe. The Rev. James Brett, pastor of the Catholic parish at Shelby, last night spoke to the civic organization on the Philosophy of Communism. Rev.

Brett, who was introduced by Sam Vernon, traced the begin-ing of Communism from the birth of Karl Marx, through his formative years, culminating with writing his thesis of his doctorate which, set out the Communist doctrine. Father Britt's definition of Communism is, "An international political, economic and social conspiracy as its objective the destruction of all legitimate governments of the world and to replace them with a tyranny such as the world has never known before in the history of the world." A. if. laHGiiontmi uibh lousy Abraham Lewis Tanenbaum, 85-year old retired Greenwood. Greenville retailer, died today- in a Greenville Hospital.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mr. Tanenbaum is survived by hU widow, Mrs. Fanny Tanenbaum of Greenville; two daughters, Miss Sjlvia Tanenbaum of Greenville and jIrs. Mervyn Glass Green- Lao arm Kill GULICK affect West Berlin rights which the West deems vital.

American authorities will scan closely Khrushchev's forthcoming policy speech to the Communist party congress, which opens in Moscow Oct. 17. They believe he might shed some light in the speech on any change in Soviet policy toward Berlin and Ger-any. Channels for continued U.S.-So-viet exploratory conversations also remain open at lower levels. Among U.S.

representatives who might conduct such discussions was Llewellyn Thompson, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, who was due in Washington today for consultations. He will return to Moscow by Oct. 17. Officials were confident that the recent exchanges of gunfire be tween East and West Berlin police would not influence the Kennedy-Gromyko conference.

The feeling was that while the shooting on the border of East and Yest Berlin inevitably heightened tension, there was no sign indicating "trigger happiness on a higher level," as one official put it. FflcNamnra Puts Tighter Gag On Military WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namara has decreed that mili tary speakers at private seminars must stick to military subjects, avoid partisan expressions and must not challenge established policy. McNamara drew these and other boundaries Thursday for mili tary participation in seminars and other information programs sponsored by nongovernmental groups. He left with local commanders the responsibility for determining whether military personnel, equip ment and facilities should be allowed to take part ia such activities.

But he specified that no mili tary organization may sponsor or co-sponsor such programs unless he or a service secretary express ly approves. Pentagon sources said the rules, filling out what have been general policies, are intended to dispel any doubts or confusion the minds of local commanders. McNamara circulated the mem orandum at the top level of the Pentagon as a Senate subcommit tee was preparing to open an in quiry, perhaps next month, into Defense Department policies in this field. Sen. Strom Thurmond, has argued that the Pentagon has been stopping officers from es pousing anti-Communist views in speeches and lectures.

Other senators have complained that some military officers have been involved in seminars leaning toward the far right. Mrs. Riitlierford Diss In Jackson Mrs. Mable Rutherford, a former resident of Greenwood, died at her home Thursday night Jackson She was 65. Funeral services will be held at 3 Saturday afternoon at Wilson and Knight Funeral Home chapel.

The Rev. A. L. Meadows will officiate. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Mrs. Rutherford was the widow cf Robert P. Rutherford. She was a Methodist. She leaves a niece, Mrs.

Walton Daves cf Greenwood, two sisters, Mrs. Sudie Clifton and Mrs. Lula Myers, both cf Jackson, three nephews and two other nieces. Pallbearers will he Clifton Lorn ax. James Buckle Felix Woodell.

Curtis Whiitington, Gsora Kaapp aa-i Cilly Yasdeli, By LEWIS (AP) Presi-, WASHINGTON dent Kennedy meets Soviet For eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko today, seeking to learn if there has been any significant change in the Soviet position on Berlin. But U.S. officials did not expect the session, set for late afternoon at the White House, to provide a dramatic opening for peaceful settlement of the long-festering Ger-: man dispute. Kennedy is prepared to listen to any fresh instructions Gromyko may have received from Moscow and to prod the Soviet minister for further explanation of the Soviet position on Berlin.

Kennedy also was ready to re-emphasize to Gromyko Western determination not to yield on Berlin rights a message Gromyko will likely relay to Soviet Premier Khrushchev when Gromyko returns to Moscow Sunday. Another matter that may. come up in their conversation is the United Nations. The Soviet Union and the United States were reported Thursday night to be in agreement on a candidate for temporary U.N. secretary-general, a successor for the late Dag Ham-marskjold.

The candidate reported by in formed diplomats to be acceptable by both Moscow and Washington is Thant of Burma. Gromyko said Thursday he may bring up the whole subject of U.N. leadership when he calls at the White House. Kennedy plans only a single session with Gromyko. The President's schedule allowed for a meeting of about two hours before he was due at a state dinner being given by visiting President Ferik Ibrahim Abboud of Sudan.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk wil slit in at the conference. It follows three exploratory tails Rusk held with Gromyko in New York. No plans have been made for another separate Rusk-Gromyko meeting. Officials stressed, however, that this depends entirely on Gromyko. If he wants one, the State Department is ready to go along.

The objects of these sessions is to find out if the Soviets are willing to negotiate on terms acceptable to the West. U.S. sources said Gromyko has not yet spelled out the Kremlin position sufficiently to enable the Western powers to decide whether fruitful East-West negotiations are possible. For one thing, the Soviets have not been precise on how their proposed peace treaty with Communist East Germany would JayceesBoost lorna Sliov; Project chairman George Cupples last night told the Junior Chamber, of Commerce that the Jaycee Home Show is shaping up as one of the most successful community events ever sponsored by the Greenwood Jaycees. The Home Show chairman said some 30 local dealers, merchants, business firms and utility companies have made jlans to enter exhibit booths in the three-day exposition to be held at the National Guard-Naval Reserv Armory Oct.

20, 21 and 22. He said there are still exhibits space left for dealers desiring to show their merchandise. The I961-1SS2 Jaycee membership drive was launched last night at the rneeing in Carnaggio's Restaurant. Dr Tracy Moser explained a membership competition for Jaycees bringing in new "paid up" members. The Junior Chamber voted to enter the Civic Club Baseball Tournament sponsored by the Rotary Club.

In other action the Jaycees considered sponsorship cf Cub Scout Pack 40 and participating in a civic club bowling tournament. John Lowry, Jaycee president, preside! at the supper meeting. The next meeting will be Thursday, Plan1 i on niguway o-. The cost of closing Avenue at the highway and opening Ave- nue will be paid by the state, V.a ommr. Trroc OTlH tha cit.TT I wilL not have to make any cash tu closing and opening of these two streets would not be done until the paving is started on the by- pass project.

j.ms woum put tins action almost a year away. Team Work Toward Return To Production DETROIT (AP) Full bargain ing teams from Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers Union return to national contract talks Today. It promised to be the first ex tended session since 120,000 union workers struck Ford Tuesday Morning. Progress at the national level was expected to depend on how successful the two sides had been in reaching local agreements dur ing the past 48 hours.

National talks had been re cess, except lor two nait-nour sessions Wednesday, while both company and union officials tried to work out differences at 47 local bargaining units in the national Ford empire. Six members of the union's na tional bargaining team spent the recess in the field. The company, likewise, dispatched top management officials to key plants in ef forts to effect settlements. Monday 38 local agreements had been announced, including 12 locations which had no new demands. However.

MM. Cummins. Ford local relations manager, said two or three more plants have reached agreement but have not yet signed contracts. At about 10 or 12 of the other bargaining units, 'just a little movement" will bring agreement, he said. "I have the feeling we're making progress," Cummins said.

"I expect to see some of the plants resolve their local negotiations very quickly." The strike is expected to continue until the local differences are resolved and agreement is reached on the noneconomic portions of the national contract. Economic matters wages and fringe benefits were settled prior to the walkout. Mrs. H. Henley Dies Thursday Mrs.

H. E. Henley of Lexington died Thursday night at a hospital here after a long illness. She was 42. Services will be held at 10 Saturday morning at Southern Funeral Home in Lexington with burial there.

She leaves her husband, a son, Buck Henley of Lexington; two brothers, Lloyd R. Thomas of Greenwood, Earl Thomas of Greenville; five sisters. Mrs. James Rainer of Greenville, Mrs. T.

E. Murtagh of Ebeniezer, Mrs Robert Brock of Pickens, Mrs. Georsre Renacker of Columbus, and Mrs. J. A.

Jones of Atlanta, grid her father, W. B. Thomas cf Ebenezer. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) SEATO's top military planners ended tfceir 13ih semiannual con- iference today after a close studv of Communist threats in South Nan and Laos..