The Yazoo Herald from Yazoo City, Mississippi • 1

MISSISSIPPI DSPT OF AliCUIVSS HI3T03Y 0 BOX 571 EX JACKSON MS 39205 OUR 107TH YEAR, NO. 71 MEMBE-K ASSOCIATED PRESS YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1978 -FOUR SECTIONS .24 PAGES 'PRICE 15 CENTS Gold going on auction Good afternoon FAIR THROUGH THURSDAY. High Low tonight near 70. Winds light and today and Thursday upper 90s. variable.

THE NETHERLAND SPENCER FAMILY REUNION will be held at Coxburg Community Center on Sunday, Aug. 27. All relatives and friends are invited to come. THERE WILL BE AN organizational meeting Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Yazoo Bowling Alley for people interested in Friday night mixed couples league.

For information call Liz Duncan at 746-1141. American manufacturers have been able to raise their prices as well. Hours after the announcement the second in a series of government measures designed to bring stability to the dollar and cure other economic problems the dollar rose on the Tokyo foreign exchange market. Opening at 191 yen to the dollar Wednesday, the dollar quickly went to 192.40, up from Tuesday's close of 191.70. One dealer attributed the rise to the announcement of increased gold sales.

The dollar hit a record postwar low of 184.65 yen to the dollar on Aug. 2. On Friday, the Federal Reserve said it was moving to protect the dollar by raising interest rates to make foreign investments more attractive here. By MICHAEL DOAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The federal 'government, hoping to restore some health to the ailing dollar, is putting 3 million of its 278 million ounces of gold on the auction block. While the sale, announced by the Treasury Department Tuesday, will have little immediate consumer effect because the United States is not on the gold standard, any success in rescuing the dollar would eventually moderate retail price rises for imported goods.

As the dollar's value has slipped overseas, foreign manufacturers and importers have raised their prices for goods sold in this country. And because many of those products compete with domestically produced goods, And the U.S. is promising additional actions to protect the dollar, which has fallen more than 30 percent against the Japanese yen and 15 percent against the German mark in the last year. The government believes too much American currency is held overseas and hopes its gold sales will persuade foreigners to spend some of their dollars for the U.S. gold.

The government also hopes Americans will buy U.S. gold instead of purchasing it overseas. Tuesday's announcement means the government will be selling 750,000 ounces of gold monthly from November through February, an increase from six, monthly sales that began in May. May's sale marked the first time in three years the government disposed of any of its gold stockpile. The U.S.

trade deficit, which totaled $26 billion last year, topped $16.4 billion for the first six months of 1978. Most of that is due to deficit trading with Japan, Germany and Arab oilproducing countries. The U.S. also hopes the sales will bring down the price of gold, which sold for years at $35 an ounce, but went for an average $213 at the government's August auction. Because the price of gold is still widely used to measure a currency's strength, a reduction in the number of dollars needed to buy a given amount of gold reflects an increased value for the U.S.

currency. I 1 Second Dycus trial set for November t7 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The attorney general's office reports recovering $50,000 in public funds held improperly allocated to four segregated private schools. The recovery was reported by Assistant Attorney General Giles Bryant, who said U.S. District Judge William Keady had ordered the funds for the education of handicapped children returned, after reviewing institutions which received it.

The academies were declared ineligible to get the funds on grounds they practice racial discrimination. The four were Pillow Academy in Greenwood, Manchester Academy in Yazoo City, Washington Academy in Greenville, and Central Academy in Macon. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Republican congressional candidate Jon Hinson predicts voters will not be influenced by the decision of Sen. John C.

Stennis, to campaign for his son, 4th District Democratic nominee John Hampton Stennis. "A seat in Congress is not a birthright," Hinson said Tuesday. "It is a matter of qualifications and that is what the voters of the 4th District are going to be looking for this fall." Sen. Stennis, who had kept a low political profile during the primary and runoff campaigns, announced last weekend he would actively support his son and other Democratic candidates in the November general elections. Hinson said in reply, "I've enjoyed working with Senator Stennis and his staff over the past 10 years when I was an administrative assistant to Charles Griffin and Thad Cochran.

I am looking forward to working with him next year." JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Fire Department reports three firebombs have hit a service station where a black man was killed by a white attendant last year. LL Buddy Bayliss said only minor damage was done to the building early Tuesday, and the station opened for business on schedule. No injuries were reported. The firebombs were bottles filled with a flammable liquid, with burning fuses attached.

Two were found inside the building and a third about 20 feet away when five fire units arrived minutes after receiving the alarm. Insurance protection for middle incomes planned by Cassibry to reporters, demanded the release Convicted murderer Earl Dycus will face a second capital murder trial when the Yazoo County circuit court convenes in November, District Attorney Ed Peters said today. "I don't know where we'll try this one; we'll probably have to go to Iuka or some other place on the Tennessee border." Dycus' trial for the death by fire of 16-month-old Rhonda McBride was concluded in Vicksburg last week. The trial was moved to Vicksburg on a change of venue motion because of pre-trial publicity in Yazoo City. That trial ended with a guilty verdict and a sentence by Judge Dan Lee of life imprisonment for Dycus.

The judge's legal right to sentence the defendant is still being contested by the district attorney's office. Dycus will be tried in November, Peters said, for the murder of Martha McBride, mother of the infant, Rhonda. Both of the victims died when the McBride home was burned last April. The prosecution contends that' Dycus started the fire to hide the alleged rape and attempted murder of Mrs. McBride.

Peters said today he was sure Dycus' attorneys would move for a change of venue for the upcoming trial. However, he said, there has been so much publicity about the double deaths, the Vicksburg trial and Peters' subsequent Montgomery: No MIA's By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Writer HANOI, Vietnam (AP) The leader of a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Vietnam says he believes none of the Americans missing in the Vietnam War are still alive. But two others say they think some might still turn up.

Rep. G. V. Montgomery, head of the eight-member group, said Tuesday the Vietnamese are trying to resolve the MIA issue to clear a major stumbling block to normal relations with the United States, and that he believes none of the MIAs are alive. But Rep.

Sam G. Hall, DTexas, said he had a "gut feeling somebody might still turn up." And Rep. W. Henson WASHINGTON (AP) The second largest postal union has turned down a tentative three-year contract, increasing the threat of a nationwide mail strike. The National Letter Carriers Association today rejected the proposal by a 4-3 margin.

WASHINGTON (AP) The District of Columbia has won an important round in its fight for congressional voting representation, but the war goes on in state legislatures. The Senate approved the proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday 67-32, but ratification is needed in 38 states before it becomes law. PEORIA, 111. AP) It may sound like heresy in the age of the manicured lawn, but a chemist has a good word for weeds. Russell Buchanan is turning milkweeds into rubber and quackgrass into the golf ball covers of the future.

According to Buchanan, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher at the department's laboratory here, dozens of common weeds and wild plants are' likely candidates for development as replacements for imported rubber and By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) State Sen. Nap Cassibry of Gulfport says he hopes to introduce legislation in January establishing some form of catastrophic health insurance to protect middle and lowermiddle income families from costly medical emergencies. Cassibry said such programs have been implemented by five states in order to provide emergency health coverage for persons whose regular income disqualifies them for Medicaid but whose financial resources would be serverely taxed in event of a major illness.

"I think Mississippi must look at that type of plan," said Cassibry, adding that he hoped to join three Medicaid Commission officials planning to attend a health care conference in Seattle next month at which the insurance plans will be discussed. Cassibry, who raised the topic at Tuesday's Medicaid Commission meeting, said he was not familiar with the details of the five existing state plans but that he hoped to learn their modes of operation during the conference. "If I find something that I think Mississippi can afford, you can bet I will prefile a bill in the 1979 session." he said. "I want to find out what they are doing for the middle class, for the forgotten people who carry the burden of paying for other health programs." In other business Tuesday, the Medicaid Commission adopted new regulations which will allow eligible recipients to obtain dentures paid for sex Expert petroleum based chemicals. disagreement with Judge Lee, that finding a trial location acceptable to the defense would be difficult.

The district attorney filed an answer yesterday to an offer by Judge Lee to reverse the court's decision and return the sentencing of Dycus to the trial jury. The state law concerning capital murder provides for sentencing by the jury only. Peters claims Lee broke this law by taking the life or death decision away from the jury which had convicted Dycus. Peters turned down the judge's offer to return the verdict to the jury "in the firm belief that this offer comes too late." The answer to Judge Lee said, in part, "It is the state's position that in view of the trial jury having been released from sequestration and thus obviously tainted, that the law would require an entirely new jury to determine the sentence to be received. "In view of this and in view of the massive publicity given to this case, another, change of venue would in all probability be required.

Should the state accept the belated offer of the court to reverse itself, and at this late date overrule the defendant's motion and thus order the trial to now proceed into the penalty phase, the state would have to assume and overcome the heavy burden of proving a lack of vindictiveness." still alive Moore, said he had not given up hope. About 2,500 American servicemen are still unaccounted for in Indochina. All except 355 are listed as dead although their bodies not recovered. Premier Pham Van Dong told the congressmen that his government will give them the remains of 11 more U.S. servicemen as proof of its desire to establish full relations with the United States.

Montgomery said a C141 Air Force transport will arrive in Hanoi Saturday to get the remains. In Washington, the Defense Department said they would be taken to Hawaii for examination and identification. Montgomery said identities of the 11 would not be announced until the identification procedure in Hawaii was completed." Since the end of the war in 1975, Hanoi has turned over the remains of 38 other Americans. Dong also confirmed a report that Vietnam was dropping its demand for $3 billion in U.S. aid for postwar reconstruction.

This had been reported following a meeting in Washington Aug. 7 of Vietnamese diplomats with State Department officials and members of Congress. Montgomery and his group invited Dong and Vice Foreign Minister Phan Hien to visit the United States, and Montgomery said Hien accepted. Montgomery said the Vietnamese were "frank and in their desire for normal relations, and Hien told the Americans at a reception, "Two years ago we would not have thought that it was possible but today the day of getting together has come." Foreign Ministry spokesman Ngho Diem told U.S. reporters accompanying the congressional delegation that China is trying to get "everyone around them to follow their line," but the Vietnamese "are not the tools of any country, including the Soviet Union." Diem said there are no Soviet bases in Vietnam and denied reports the Vietnamese might grant the Russians access to the deepwater port at Cam Ranh Bay, developed by the Americans during the war.

However, diplomatic sources in Hanoi said there are several thousand Soviet and Cuban military advisers in Vietnam. NEW PASTOR Rev. Arthur Winters has been appointed pastor for St. Francis Catholic Church in Yazoo City. Rev.

Winters, who came here from St. Joseph's church in Meridian, has been a priest for 33 years. He succeeds Rev. Ed Delaney, who is now the pastor of Immaculate Conception parish in Clarksdale. through the Medicaid program.

The program, authorized by the 1978 Legislature, was approved unanimously by the commission and is scheduled to take effect Oct. I. It was endorsed recently by the commission's dental advisory group but has yet to receive the support of the physicians' advisory council. Under the regulations, all requests for authorization to participate in the program must contain a verification from the patient's physician that the dentures are a medical necessity. Commission member Donald Williamson suggested that commission delay approval of the program pending consideration by the physicians at an upcoming meeting.

However, other members agreed to proceed with the approval. The regulations stipulate that the dentures will be covered only in order to alleviate medical problems stemming from an inability to eat properly. The program will cover no more than one set of dentures every six years and will not cover partial dentures or repairs of damaged dentures. Commission officials acknowledged that the program would be costly but said it would provide a much needed service. Also, the commission delayed consideration of new regulations dealing with reimbursement of nursing homes.

The new policy, recommended by federal officials who expressed concerned win rising payments to Mississippi nursing homes, would provide incentives for home managers to control their charges. new votes become controlling, I would also guess it would be over by noon Monday," said Campion. The cardinals will be locked into the conclave area of the Apostolic Palace after a prayer service and procession Friday afternoon. Voting four times a day will begin Saturday. There had been some speculation earlier that the voting would be prolonged, due to the widely expanded international representation among the cardinals, the lack of an outstanding favorite and the controversy among the church's rank and file over such issues as the ban on artificial contraception, priestly celibacy and modernization of the church ritual.

But comments from several cardinals indicated a general middle-ground accord among them, an agreement on firm adherence to doctrine but with latitude in methods of applying it. Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York reported a "very brotherly and friendly atmosphere" and said: "We're all hopeful that the conclave will not be prolonged, but I wouldn't want to be a prophet." pect Nicaragua (AP) Three Roman Catholic bishops were attempting to mediate today with left-wing guerrillas who shot their way into the National Palace and took more than 100 hostages, including a nephew and a cousin of President Anastasio Somoza. The guerrillas, in a statement released of all political prisoners, estimated at more than 120, safe conduct out of the country for those freed and for themselves, plus $10 million in cash. lis: 1 1 i a if msm i --mv i tf, in. w- ji pope by Monday noon By GEORGE W.

CORNELL AP Religion Writer VATICAN CITY (AP) Experts estimate that the conclave of Roman Catholic cardinals will elect a successor to Pope Paul VI by Monday, the third day of balloting. "We look for a peaceable conclave," said Msgr. George Leonard, an aide to Cardinal Basil Hume of England. "There are no vibrations of tensions or feelings boiling up. It should be over by lunchtime Monday." Although the II conclaves held in the last 150 years averaged about 11 days, the six previous ones in the 20th century averaged only three days of balloting.

The shortest was in 1939, when Pius XII was elected in one day, but he went into the conclave the big favorite. No one is in that position this time. Leonard spoke at a news conference along with the Rev. Paul Boyle, superior general of the Passionist Fathers, and two Jesuits, the Revs. Vincent O'Keefe and Donal Campion.

"With no sign of struggle and without the likelihood of the cardinals getting into a situation in which small swing tl -il i a. Photo by Lisa Nicholas secretary; Robert McClure, office manager; George McClintock, county Farm Bureau president; Katie Milner, secretary; Mayor Charles Fulgham, and W. A. contractor for the building. GROUNDBREAKING Construction started today at the site of the future Yazoo County Farm Bureau Building on Washington Street.

Participating in the groundbreaking ceremony were (from left) Grace Harris, Farm Bureau.