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I COJiP Weather DELTA Partly cloudy and mild today and Tuesday. Highest today and Tuesday 78 to 86. Lowest tonight 56 to 66. High Sunday 80. Low Sunday 47.

Yazoo River 22.13 ft. Insid 'GREENWOOD Pages 6 and 7 in today's Commonwealth are devoted to the upcoming Greenwood Festival of the Arts for 1971. Our thanks go to Mrs. W. H.

Gallaspy and to Mrs. Ray Narro, along with many other officials of the Festival, for making his two-page layout possible. "The Latest NeWln The Delta VOLUME 75 NUMBER 94 GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, 38930 MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1971 TEN CENTS WSm si Ssns tt 1 Wreck Awimo J-4i Jk, -t iN. 1 A Dump it 128 .4, 7 -V' i Commission said the substance backed up through Tippo, Goose Pond, Elm Lake, Never Fail and halfway up Mclntyre. It also continued into the Yazoo River.

An investigation is underway to determine the guilty party, Johnston said. Photo By Game and Fish Commission. ANOTHER FISH KILL Fish were killed by the thousands in Leflore County lakes during the weekend when a poisonous substance came down the Yalobusha River and backed into several lakes. Shown here are a few dead fish in the south end of Mclntyre Lake. William Johnston of the State Game and Fish Three-Judge Panel To Hear Primary Suit ITTA BENA BELLES All dressed up in centennial finery for celebrating the Leflore County Centennial were these employes of the Ilia Bena City Hall.

They are, left to right, Louise Weber, Myrtle Steele and Mary Etta Strickland. 97 Demonstrators Are Arrested In Turnpike Blocking J. JL is i i 1 1 the peak of the demonstration, built a bonfire, drank beer, shouted antiwar slogans and stopped cars behind them for about five hours. Witnesses on the scene said the demonstration seemed to "just happen" with no visual evidence of organization. But a girl who identified herself as Abi Eddy of New Britain.

said the idea for a "stall-in" was formulated in a roadside restaurant in Delaware. She said about 50 persons had sat on the floor of the restaurant but left under orders from Delaware police. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) A presidential commission recommended today that Communist China be brought into the United Nations, with the continued membership of Nationalist China imperative. 2 at- 7GIs injured SAIGON (AP) The enemy doubled his attacks in South Vietnam over the weekend and inflicted heavy losses on the South Vietnamese and their American allies. One attack early today wrecked the biggest ammunition dump in the central part of the country for the third t'me since January.

Communiques and field reports said at least 49 South Vietnamese were killed, 168 were wounded and more than 100 houses were destroyed in attacks since Saturday. The casualties included five civilians killed and 56 wounded. Ttie U.S. Command reported seven Americans killed, three missing, and 60 wounded. Two U.S.

heavy duty bulldozers, two Sheridan tanks, one armored personnel carrier, a UHl helicopter and an F4 Phantom fighter-bomber were lost. O'ily 54 North Vietnamese ere reported killed. The attacks were concentrated in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon and along a 300-mile stretch of the coastal lowlands from Cam Ranh to Da Nang. South Vietnamese headquarters reported 54 "enemy-initiated incidents" between 6 a m. Sunday and 6 a.m.

Monday, the highest number this month and more than double the average of 24 a day earlier in April. The U.S. Command announced five "significant" rocket and mortar attacks on American forces during the night, the most in nearly three weeks. Viet Cong mortars set off scores of 500-pound bombs at the coastal Qui Nhon ammunition dump 265 miles northeast of Saigon. The exploding bombs wiped out civilian houses in a 21 2-mile radius and shattered buildings of the U.S.

Support Command. Die, 60 piro Defends JL Edgar NEW ORLEANS (AP) -Vice President Spiro Agnew said today that recent criticism of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover "gives off an unpleasant political odar." "It comes mainly from presidential aspirants whoapparent-ly foresee some political acceptance from the radical left if they challenge the integrity of the FBI and its long-time director," Agnew said. The vice president flew here to address the Southern Gas Association convention and devoted his entire speec to a defense of Hoover. Agnew culed reports of FBI spying on members of Congress and said the fact that Hoover is 76 years old poses no handicap.

"You don't judge a man's worth or his competence by his age and that certainly holds true in Washington as ell as elsewhere," Agnew said. Parade Winners Told Winners named in the Centennial Grand Finale Parade Saturday were announced today by Sullivan Barry, chairman of the event. First place in the float division went to "Old Home Place" sponsored by the Leflore School Belles and Loyal Order of School Brushes; honorable mention, "Marascalco Saloon," sponsored by Baldwin Piano Co. Honorable mention went to "Fuzzy Fuz," as the "most original" by the Greenwood Police Dept. first place went to Oliva Farms, and honorable mention to "Charter 21 Mules and Wagons." fect required a majority rather than a plurality for election.

Rogers "'Off On Journey An authoritative source sered notice in Egypt that Cairo ill be sticking to its settlement demands when Rogers arrives. Egyptian officials indicated his visit will be a waste of time unless he presents clearcut views on how to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Most Israeli newspapers agreed with Rogers' own cautioning against expecting a peace breakthrough from his trip, though the semi-official Devar saw the journey as further proof of 1 top priority interest in a Mideast settlement. Pravda accused Rogers of being hypocritical by pretending to have sympathy for Egypt while arming Israel Jeports from Lebanon and Jordan told of expected demonstrations there against the touring secretary of state. U.S.

officials said Rogers does not expect to come home with a Suez accord. Dear Bo' I have a good plan for you to take to who ever is in charge of our city streets. Please tell who ever is in charge the best way to get the streets fixed is to start at the first street running east and west at the sawmill and fix it, black top it, and don't leave that one street until it is fixed. Then leave and go to MeGhee Street and do the same. Never leave one street until it is finished.

First fix all the streets either going north and south or all the streets going east and west. The streets are all one complete mess. Time and money is lost in putting a little cinders in each hole and it complicates too many things putting gravel on our city streets. On the corner of Avenue I and Broad. I thought I was going down a rocky, dusty country road and not to speak of the big holes that you drop off in on every street.

It will save money and time to take all your equipment and men to one street and see a job well done before leaving instead of running here and there all over town doing nothing, that is not any good. I see Mr. Craig take all his tractors and put them together and in no time he gets the work done. A Citizen P.S. I know who ever is in charge of the streets knows exactly how to get streets fixed and I am hoping that in no time we can ride smooth in Greenwood since our town reads "The Total City." Let's try every way to make it that way.

Then probably we can work on getting the town to conduct a successful clean-up campaign. Dear Citizen: Here's your suggestions and they will be read. Bo's sure, by the street commissioner and the one in charge of street repairs. As mentioned numerous times it is going to take more than patching and lots more than just a little money to get the streets in tip top shape. In the meanw hile, check the shocks on the car, fasten your seat belts and ride the trails.

Bo' likes to get letters. We ask that you be sure to sign your name. Bo' will not reveal a name if requested. Accidents Kill 11 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weekend accidents in Mississippi resulted in 11 deaths, 10 in traffic and one in a bulldozer accident. Authorities said Breelan Smith, 47, of Carthage was killed Sunday night in an apparent hit and run accident inside the city limits of Jackson.

A two-car collision on a Lauderdale County road Sunday killed Mrs. Mary Jane Mur-phree, Toomsuba. Investigators said she was helping her son deliver newspapers near Meridian when the accident occurred. In other accidents Saturday: Jerry Webb, 24, of Cleveland was killed at Clarksdale when his motorcycle was struck by a car. William Taylor, 51, of Jackson died in a two-car crash near Silver City on U.S 49 West.

David D. Runger, 61, of Jackson was killed in a three-car (Continued on Page Twelve) MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) Ninety-seven persons were arraigned today on charges of disorderly conduct arising from a massive "stall-in" on the New Jersey Turnpike by demonstrators returning from a peace rally in Washington. Those arrested, mostly young persons whom police said remained on the four -lane highway after traffic began moving again about 11 p.m. Sunday, were taken to the municipal court house here.

Thirteen cars and one bus were towed from the scene, police said. The Now Jersey residents, 28 in all, were released on their own recognizance. Others were held in lieu of $50 bail and taken to jails in Mount Holly and Camden. Twenty of the youths were able to make bail and were released pending a hearing, tentatively set for May 19. court officials.

Police estimated that about 1 persons left their cars at one field, rt'gardioss of their party affiliation or independent status. If no candidate gets a majority, the two high men would enter a general election runoff. The panel is composed of Circuit Court Judge Charles Clark and District Judges Dan Russell Jr. and Walter Nixon Jr. The stale had requested an early hearing because of the electionsapproaching this year.

If the court throw nut the October open primary balloting and reinstates the August party primaries, there would be little time left to prepare or campaign for the August voting. State Ally. Gen. A. F.

Summer said he felt "We have a good and valid defense, and we believe the state will win the lawsuit and the elections can be held without delay." Earlier this month, two Loyalist Democratic leaders asked permission to join in the attack on the law by Evers, who is Democratic National Committeeman and now Loyalist candidate for governor. National Committeewoman Pat Derian and attorney J. Wesley Wat kins III, both hite, said they considered the law unconstitutional because it had the effect of changing feder-allyset dates and qualifications. They asserted if a candidate got a majority in October, he would in effect he elected then, rather than in November. And, they said, allowing only two candidates in November in ef 4- i BILOXI, Miss.

(AP) A three-judge federal panel will hear testimony Tuesday in a civil rights suit seeking to throw out Mississippi's new open primary election system. The suit, filed by Negro leader Giwrles Evers and others against the State Board of Election Commissioners, charges the open primary law is unconstitutional on grounds it would reduce the weight of black voting. Under the 1970 law scheduled to go into effect in the governor's race this year, all candidates for an office would run in Stations Combine Facilities Officials of WSWG-FM, Greenwood radio, announced today the inauguration of 24-hour broadcast service beginning May 1. WLEF, the AM facility of the Saunders McCullough Broadcasting Group in Greenwood, will join WSWG-FM for its programming and application has been made to the Federal Communications Commission for a change in call letters to WSWG (AM). Don Spcir, general manager of WSWG and WSWG-FM, said this will offer the strongest possible combination of radio service to the total population of the Mississippi Delta.

"The fact that WLEF will join WSWG May 1 will make it possible for every automobile with a radio to receive the highly popular WSWG simply by dialing 1540 on the AM (car or home) radio dial" Speir said, "and will increase WSWG's audience even more." Speir and Jim McCullough, national vice president of the Saunders-McCullough group, jointly announced that Sidney Stevenson, widely known as "Stevie Soul," has been retained as a sales representative and air personality with the newly-combined station, and with Johnny Williams, another well-known black radio personality will conduct a nightly "After Hours" music program to run from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. daily. McCullough said "this is just one more step in a plan-nedprogram of total community service on the part of WSWG and WLEF and one we are sure will meet with great success." W. lh L3J 1 V- i in hi ,1 i mi MyAtMr tured on the front of the float are Mazie Holly, Coleen Jones, Frances Murphy and Gladys Knight.

Staff Photos By Bonnie Tate. PICNICKIN' The Century Belles and 'Perkins Raiders' decorated this wagon using a July 4th, 1871, theme for the Centennial Parade here Saturday. Pic TRAVELING SALOON This traveling "Marascalco Saloon" was decorated for the Centennial parade by the employes at D. H. Baldwin Co.

Pic tured (in back) Margaret Sims, Tammy Sims, Mrs. Ray Roberts and (front) B.K. Stephens, Mrs. Flora Hunt and Gregg Haddon..