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The Pensacola News Soturdoy, June 7, 1969 si jr.v--.. Arrested 70 Are Search Pressed For SAC Plane Tax Bill to Kirk In Indianapolis mm LV 0. Boy and Girl of Year Miss Jean Buettner and Andy White, Woodham High School students, have been named Boy and Girl of the Month of May by the North Pensacola Exchange Club. Miss Buettner is valedictorian of her class this year and won three scholastic awards in French. She plans to attend Newcomb College in New Orleans next year.

White plans to start at Auburn University in the fall. He is president of the Woodham National Honor Society and was president of the Key Club his junior year. He won the outstanding teen-ager award this year and was one of 10 top graduating seniors at Woodham this year. Miss Pensacola Evenis To Be Held Tonight Youth Advisory Boards Planned By President FROM PACI ONI sons not over 30 years of age. The President said in his announcement that he hoped the establishment of the nationwide youth committees "will answer questions about the conscription process which are now held by many of our younger citizens." The woman in the delegation, Debra Anderson, 18, Lansing, said she thought women should help decide about the draft "because it our bov friends and our husbands that are being drafted." Asked by a newsman if she fa vored drafting of women, Miss Anderson said she wouldn't mind going into the Peace Corps, "but most young ladies I've spoken to think universal service would be women shoot ing guns and they don't favor this." Lloyd told newsmen.

"I don't think anyone here is asking at the present time that we junk the whole draft system." But Harold Studley, 27, New York City, a veteran, said "the whole system seems inequita ble." Jesse Green, 26, New York City, said he asked the Presi dent to include representatives of all minorities on local draft boards. Green is a Negro. Nixon sandwiched the meet ing between sessions with advis ers in preparation for the summit conference on Midway Island Sunday with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Others who met with Nixon were Bernard B. Blackwell 21, Jackson, Marvel Lang, 20, Bay Springs, Jon Bogle, 21, Lansing, King Hung Lum, 19, Lawton, John Patrick Livingston, 21, Norman, Okla.

Annapolis Honors 3 Pensacolians Three U.S. Naval Academy graduating seniors all of Pen sacola received special awards this week during an awards ceremony at Annapolis, Md. They are Ensigns Edwin Ste vens Potts. Michael I.nni Sloneker and Richard Dale Gano. Ens.

Potts was awarded the Capt. Robert Cecil Brixner track trophy which is presented to a graduating midshipman who has done the most to pro mote track and field athlet'cs at the Naval Academy. Lns. Sloneker received the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veter ans of Foreign War prize pre sented to the midshipman who shows the greatest improvement in weighted average marks. Ens.

Gano, who was commo dore of the A a Power Squadron, won the Adm. Thom as L. Gatch award for profi ciency in powerboat squadron operations. in addition, Sloneker and Gano were awarded advanced educational opportunities in the education program at the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School at Monterrey, Calif.

Physical, Mental Problems Linked To Accidents WASHINGTON (UPI)-The government says research shows truck and bus drivers' health and emotional problems are an increasing cause of accidents. Federal Highway Administrator Francis C. Turner proposed Friday drivers be required to get physical check ups every year instead of every three years and that procedures be set up to remove drivers who become a threat to safety through drunkeness, use of drugs and bad driving records. Sales Goes FROM PACE ONI the House bill. The senators passed a bill which was the same as present law.

The House refused to accept the Senate version and passed a bill which contained the agri culture and Industry tax. Again the Senate refused to go alone and a conference com mittee was named with Sen. John Broxson of Gulf Breeze one of the members represent ing the Senate. The conference committee recommended acceptance of the Senate bill. This was the report that caused the House to rise up in a minor rebellion, contend' ing the senators were not re-s 1 1 the wishes of the House.

Middlemas made the motion that the report be rejected. Middlemas contended the House on two occasions over whelmingly voted for adding the tax on leased agricultural lands and the tax on heavy equipment purchased by the in dustries lor pollution control Middlemas claimed it has been the history of the consid eration of tax measures that "small groups have succeeded in blocking the movements to include these groups in the tax bills." Middlemas claimed he was tired of having government by conference committees. He said whenever a conference committee makes a report the Legislature has to accept or reject it in full. He contended that was government by 10 people instead of the two houses. Rep.

Don Reed of Boca Ra-tcn, Republican minority leader, pleaded for acceptance of the report, saying the intentions were merely to repass the law which has been in effect since February 1968, It was originally passed at a special session to provide more money for the schools. Middlemas said he wished the Legislature was considering a bill to really revise all the tax laws to laws so as to remove all inequities. However, he said, the action of the House was a step in the right direction. House members rejected the report by a vote of 76 to 37 with House members saying they would no longer continually give in to the Senate. Northwest Florida representatives voting to reject the report were Roy Hess of Pensacola, Middlemas, James Reeves and Cordon Tyrrell of Pensacola.

Voting to accept the report were Reps. Joe Chapman of Panama City, H. D. Elmore of Crestview, Ed Fortune of Pace, Jerry Melvin of Fort Walton Beach, Wayne Mixson of Marianna, Tom Tobiassen of Pensacola and R. D.

Woodward Jr. of Quincy. The conference committee held another meeting and this time came back with an amended report which provided for the fourth cent of the sales tax on heavy machinery purchased by public electric plants. The House approved this report. This time the Senate had its chance to oppose the report.

Sen. W. E. Bishop of Lake City contended this was an "unfair, undemocratic way to extend the sales tax. He contended the original intention was merely to repass the present law.

He called this system of placing the tax on leased agricultural land was a back door approach which increases the real estate tax on farm property. Sen. Mallory Home opposed it callinc the action of the House and "unmitigated dis play of political pomposity." He said the House was assaulting the dignity of the Sen-ale. He said thev placed the tax on leased agricultural lands "but it noted that they relused to place it on newspapers." Broxson pleaded for accept ance of the report. He said that during the meeting of the con ference committee he voted wr Dlacinn the tax on leased agrt cultural lands "although I do not favor it," thereby breaking the tie vote.

"However," he said, "on two occasions we have made attempts to get together. As a result it was time for someone to take action to stop this Mexican standoff. When two immov able objects meet one or the other must give some in order to move." He pleaded for acceptance Instead of playing a delaying ac-tinn "This is the last day In fart the last hours of this session," he said. "People are not interested In us. staying here another day at a cost of some M5.000." The report was rejected by he Senate by a vote of 18 to 26.

Vntine to reject the report were Sens. Reubin Askew of Pensacola, Barron, Sen. Wil liam D. Barrow oi uresiview, Bihnn and Home. Voting to FROM PAGE ONE I earlier it had received a report from one of the search planes which said it had spotted a life raft in the sea with four or five men aboard.

The agency said the message pinpointed the alleged position of the raft and Japanese fishing boats already were en route to the scene. Nineteen men were aboard the' RC135 Thursday when it took off from Shemya, a one-by-three-mile speck of land at the western end o( the Aleutians, headed for Fair- banks. Seven were officers, 12. enlisted men, according to" accounts from Washington. The four-engine jet, a Boeing-707 in civilian parlance, van- ished shortly after takeoff, triggering a search by Ameri- can planes and ships that covered square miles between Alaska and the Soviet Union.

Earlier in the search, spotters sighted an orange-colored object in the water and at first thought it to be from the RC135. It turned out to be a fishing float. The Pentagon in Washington ruled out the possibility the plane had been shot down. Normally a reconnaissance aircraft carrying electronics "snooping gear," the plane was serving as a courier flight this time, military spokesmen said. The Soviet ship Georgy Ordjonikidge and the Japanese ship Shiyo Maru joined two S.

Coast Guard cutters and 10 Navy planes in the search area, about 700 miles from the Soviet mainland and 800 miles from Alaska. The hub of our galaxy lies in the constellation Sagittarius. Funerals Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday from St. Mary's Catholic Church with the Rev.

Father Patrick Cunningham otfi- Ciatmq. Burial will be tn the Beal Memorial Cemetery with McLaughlin Mortuary rj. reeling. Survivors Include the widow, Mrs. Annie Mae Kirti; a daughter, Mrs.

Ruth C. Duke; a son, John Peter Klrtz all of Fort Walton Beach; two brothers, Leo Klrtz and Bernard Klrtz, both ot Austin, four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Underahl, Mrs. Mary Hobbs and Mrs. Lona Keist, all of Austin, and Mrs.

Madlvn Adams of Mclntlre, Iowa. Active pallbearers will ba Don Fischer, James c. McLellan, B. M. Helms, James Gillis, Buddy Lowery and Ray Helms.

Honorary pallbearers will bt W. R. Brown, William McLellan, Earl Helms, M. T. Duke, Howard Jordan, and Bert Hawkins.

Mclaughlin mortuary Fort Walton Beach Second Lt. John Hayes Lak'n FORT WALTON BEACH Second Lt. John Hayes Lakin, USMC, 22, of 10 Lin-wood Rd died In action In Vietnam May 2. He was a native of Waterloo, Iowa, but had resided in Fort Walton Beach since 1955. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

Funeral services will be at noon Monday in First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. James Anderson officiating. Burial win oe in Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola with full militarv honors. Survivors Include the parents. Mr.

and Mrs. John Lakin, A brother, Robert La-kin and two sisters. Miss Judith and Virginia Lakin, all of Fort Walton Beach; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marry Lakin of Waterloo, and Mr.

and Mrs. O. H. Harned of Cedar Falls, Iowa. The family request that flowers he omitted and memorials be made to the jonn Laxin Memorial Fund First Presbyterian Church.

BENBOE FUNERAL HOME Mrs. Estella White Estella White of 101 W. Bears St. died in a local hospital after a short Illness. She is survived by ont daughter Mrs.

Laura Elder; three sons, John Miller and Nathan Dortch; three sisters, Mrs. Beuah Bettis of Gosport, Mrs. Ja-nie Richardson of Pensacola, Mrs. Willis M. Thompson of Snead, Fla.t three brothers, John and Amost Thompson of Pensacola; Henry Thompson of West Palm Beach, nine grandchildren, i Services will be at 4 P.M.

Sunday at the Benboe Funeral Chapel with tht Rev. S. P. Ellis officiating. Burial will be In Zion Cemetery with Benboe Funeral Home directing.

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The conference committee then met again and the last report 1 1 the tax on heavy equipment purchased by industries to fight pollution in addition to the tax on leased ag land and public electric plants. This time, even though still a member of the conference committee, Broxson fought ap proving the report. He contended the state should encourage industries to install machinery to fight pollu. tion. He said unless polluting of waters is stopped there will be few places for fishing.

He cited instances in which fish are being killed in large numbers. "I oppose that tax on indus tries. The incentive for an ac celerated program against pol lution should not be taken from industries" he said. Barron, however, said that industries can afford to pay this tax. He said he had re ceived numerous pressures to oppose this tax.

"Citizens can pay a tax for muffler being placed on a car," he said. "This is a safety measure One must do it to obey the law. Big industries can pay sales tax on heavy machinery which they pur chase so they too are obeying the law which says they must stop polluting air and water." Barrow fought the report saying if the senators voted for it they were fools. "How in the world can the Florida Legislature in 1967 tell industry if they come here and install machinery to fight pollu-tion they will be exempt from the sales tax while purchasing that machinery. It's not right." Barrow said he would rather stay in session another day than to rush this bill through merely because it was time for adjourning.

Barrow said many compa nies are now in midst of anti pollution work. He said thev get the exemption but a firm which has not started the pro gram at this time will be required to pay the tax. He called this discriminatory. uoth houses adopted the con ference report with the tax on agricultural leased lands, on heavy machinery purchased bv industry for pollution control, and on heavy machinery our- chased by oublic electric plants, such as those operated oy cities. Shouts of joy greeted the de cision as the legislators then quickly adjourned their 60 day 1969 session of the Legislature.

Red Pressure Is Kept Up FROM PAGI ONI Despite being outnumbered more than 10-to-l, field reports said U.S. forces repelled the regiment-sized attack with artillery, bombers and helicopter gun ships bringing heavy fire on the enemy. Military spokesmen reported 63 rocket and mortar attacks overnight on bases and towns, including Da Nang, South Viet nam second largest city. The U.S. Command said cas ualties and damage from the shelling were light.

The new upsurge in enemy ac tivity, which began Thursday night, has been linked to Sun day conference on Midway be tween Thieu and Nixon. Military analysts described it as a continuation of attacks that periodically reach a high point of intensity aimed at "lnflucnc ing the political situation and making an impact at the time Nixon and Thieu and their advisers are holding key strategy talks. In the attacks on Da Nang, Vict Cong gunners fired 45 rock ets and mortars into military in stallations the city. Terrorists staged seven attacks. Five persons were known dead and 37 wounded.

First re ports said four of the dead were U.S. Air Force men killed when eight 100-pound rockets slammed into Da Nang air base. While U.S. and South Viet namese forces had their hands full in fighting along the corri dors leading from Cambodia to Saigon, a new threat appeared to be developing along the de militarized zone. North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire fatally wounded an observer aboard a U.S.

reconnaissance plane that was flying over the zone. The plane returned safely. Enemy troops also launched an attack on a U.S. Marine night bivouac 15 miles 60uth of the zone, killing 10 men and wounding 24. Enemy casualties were five men killed.

The aerial observer was the first American killed on a reconnaissance flight over the DMZ since the halt in the bombing of North Vietnam last November. Ten of the light single-engine craft have been hit by enemy fire since that time. were injured one fatally came after the university put up a fence around the disputed three acres. Dissidents then used the "peo ple's park annex" for a staging area with the permission of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, which owns the land. It was the first series of clash es since the last of 2,80 National Guard left Berkeley Monday.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -Hartford, under an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, was quiet Friday night after four straight nights of looting and vandalism in the predominantly Negro and Puer to Rican section. A thunderstorm struck the city about 9 p.m.

and a police spokesman said "the rain reduced tension to a minimum." Mayor Ann Uccello declared a state of emergency earlier in the day, imposing the curfew and calling police to standby duty. Some 80 troopers reported but were not called into the streets. City Manager Elisha Freed-man said the curfew would be in force again tonight. The state of emergency will also continue to enable the calling in of state police if necessary, he said, although he hoped to be able to announce the end of the emer gency Sunday morning. Freedman had met with Mayor Uccello and other city official for more than an hour.

The report they heard: no injuries and no looting, although a few windows were smashed' and bottles thrown apparently before the curfew began. The worst of the disturbances during the week came Thursday night, when about 35 stores were looted and some 100 persons arrested. Deaths BENBOE FUNERAL HOME Misi Clara B. Jackson Funeral services for Clara Bell Jackson, 13, of 301 Gulf Beach who died by drowning Saturday will be hela at 1 p.m. Sunday the Jesus Christ Free Will Holiness Church with Bishop $.

A. Walnwright officiating. The bortv will he takan tn tha rhurrh at 10 a.m. Sunday. She is survived bv her mother.

Elder Clady D. Jackson Morrissette; her step-fattier, John D. Morrissette; four sisters, Mrs. Carolyn Klmbrough, Voncile Jackson, Eartfia Jackson and Johnnie M. Morrissette; three brothers, John E.

Jackson, Alexander Jackson and Larry Morrissette, all of Warrington and her grandmothers, minister Cora porter and Prophet C. B. Jackson, both of Warrington. Burial will be in Rest Haven Garden Cemetery with Benboe Funeral Home directing. BENBOE FUNERAL Lonnie B.

Frazier Lonnlt B. Frazier of 910 North St. died In a local hospital after a short illness. Mr. Frzier was a retired employer of Public Works Civil Service.

He Is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Arlene Finklea of Cleveland, Ohio; two brothers, William (Bill) Frazier of Pensacola and David Frazier ot Warrington; one sister, Mrs. Alice Hlgglns of Warr-inqton; six grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Benboe Funeral Chapel with the Rev.

J. W. Cole Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Zion Cemetery with Benboe Funeral Home directing.

WATERS a HIBBERT FUNERAL HOME Mrs. Elizabeth Holzer Cartwright Mrs. Elizabeth Holzer Cartwright, 60, died In St. Petersburg Wednesday night in a local hospital. She has made her home In St.

Petersburg, for the last 10 years and was a former rtsldent of Pensacola and member of the Episcopal Church. Survivors are her widower, Charles Cartwright, St. Petersburg; a son, Lt. Commander Claude Everett Edwards Jr. USN; her mother, Mrs.

Elizabeth Holzer, St. Petersburg; a brother. Curt Holzer, Orlando and four grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Chapel of Waters Hibbert WITH THE Rev.

Michael Boss of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church olficiating. Burial will be In St.Johns Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be Hugh Weekly, J. Leo Schwartz, Marco White, Jerome Duburg, Dr.

Ed White and Babe Hosier. Activepalibearers will be Norborne Brown, E. Lawrence, Ray Brigman, Paul Knight, Bruce Morrison Jr. and Ralph Weekley. Waters I In charge of arrangements.

BENBOE FUNERAL HOME Mrs. Anince (Pinkie) Sheffield Mrs. Anience (Pinkie) Sheffield of 1340 North st. died tn local hospital Thursday. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced oy Benboe Funeral Home.

HELMS FUNERAL HOME Lester (Rush) Walther MILTON Lester (Rush) Walther, 51, of Miami died Wednesday after a short illness. He was native of Santa Rosa County but had resided tht last 20 years In Miami. Survivors Include the widow, Mrs. Ca thy Walther of Miami; two sons, Michael and Patrick Walther, both ot Miami, two daughters. Mist Kim Walther and Miss Colleen Walther, both of Miami; parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. Walther of Allen-town; three sisters, Mr. Carrie Lee Car penter of Moss Point, Mississippi, Mrs. Irene Blaisdell of Pensacola and Mrs.

Emma Zarahn of Allentown; six broth ers, James Walther, Woodrow Walther and Cecil Walther, all of Pensacola, Gor don Walther of Baker, Earl Walther of Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Norman Walther of Chumuckla. The body will He In state at the Helms Funeral Horn Chapel until 2:30 p.m. Sunoay. Burial will be In tht Coldwater Reor ganized Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints Cemetery for graveside services at 3 p.m.

with tht Elder Leonard Wolft and Pastor Leslie Kelly officiating. Nephews will bt pallbearers. Helms Funeral Home directing. JOE MORRIS FUNERAL HOME Fredrick Jackson MILTON Funeral services for Fredrick Jackson of 301 Alice Street will be at 2-30 p.m. Sunday In tht Mt.

Pilgrim Baptist church with the Rev. J. B. Blount officiating. Survivors Include tht parents, Mr.

andw Mrs. Elbert Jackson four brothers, Elbert Elfert and Roger, all of Atlanta, Ga. and Calvin Jackson of Milton; grandparents, Mrs. Georgia Dun-lap of Milton, Mr. Sharlt Morrison, Ak ron, on io, Mrs.

Mamt Jackson of Atlanta, Ga. I both great-grandmothers. Burial wi'l be In Milton Cemetery with tht Jot Morris Funeral Home directing. JOt MORRIS FUNERAL HOME Mrs. Mary Ann Services for Mrs.

Mary Ann Faster of 1234 W. Sro't Street will be at 1:00 p.m. Sunday In trit Engltwood Baptist Church with tht Rev. E. L.

Causev officiating. Survivors Include the widower, Clarence Foster; daughter, Mrs. Jane Clark of Gary, Indiana; a brother, Frank Lester of Detroit, Michigan; four grandchildren and neicat and nephews. Burial will bt In Mt. Zion Cemetery with Jot Morris Funeral Home directing.

Mclaughlin mortuary John Peter Klrti FORT WALTON BEACH John Peter Klrtz. 55. Rt. Box 14 died Friday alter long illness. He was born in stnst creek, Minnesota, a retired civil service emptovee and a member of St.

Mary'i CarNHie Church. FROM PAGE ONI Fanther headquarters. Police reinforcements then arrived and went inside the Black Panther headquarters where they confiscated two loaded shotguns and arrested 20 to 30 Black Panthers. BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -Police raided a "people's park annex" where hundreds of young people have been camping out nightly, dispersed about 150 of the campers and dismantled some facilities they had set up.

About 30 officers descended on the area shortly before midnight Friday after police had broken up a torchlight protest parade at the original "people's park." More than 30 persons were arrested in both incidents, mostly for vagrancy and failure to disperse. Several people at the "annex" said later they were clubbed, but police denied hitting anybody. Witnesses said officers knocked over a half dozen newly planted trees with their nightsticks, overturned a slide, a swing, a table, and tore down a tool shed. A few bricks were tossed, police said, but there were no injuries or mass fighting. Police said they were acting on hundreds of complaints of noise and illegal burning at the area, where young people have camped in tents since a May 15 riot over the original "people's park," a mile away.

Before the raid on the annex, up to 1,000 persons held a rally at University of California's Sproul Plaza and tried to stage a torchlight parade to. the first park, on land owned by the university. Police in flak jackets kept the crowd moving past the park and gradually dispersed the marchers. The torches had been banned by the fire department a hazard. The raid came on the eve of a meeting by the UC Board of Regents' building and grounds committee to consider proposals for the university to lease the "people's park" land to the city of Berkeley to continue operating it as a park.

The May 15 riot, at which 130 Nixon Leaves For Midway Conference FROM PAGE ONE ceive full military honors. The drive immediately to the resident of the base commander for an hour and 45 minutes of private discussions just, the two of them. At the same time, their senior advisers will be in session at an officers' club. After a brief break, Nixon and Thieu will arrive at the club for a working luncheon with their delegations. This is billed for an hour and 15 minutes.

A final two-hour session is slated for the presidents and their senior advisers at the club. Nixon heads for Washington, breaking the trip to spend Motr day night here at his home over looking the Pacific. The schedule will get him back to the capital at 8:15 EDT Tuesday. Another question hanging over the conference is participa tion of the National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong, in the future government of South Vietnam. In his May 14 address, Nixon made no mention of a coalition government but said the United States is "prepared to accept any government that results from the free choice of the South Vietnamese people." He added that all political elements prepared to participate in political processes without the use of force should be permitted to do so.

During visits recently to South Korea and Formosa, Thieu said he would never accept a coali tion government with the Com munists. Rogers offered a possible compromise at his news confer ence Thursday. He said that perhaps a coalition commission that included the NLF might be set up to supervise the election The delegation with Nixon in eludes, besides Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird; Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U.S. delegate to the Paris peace talks; uenry Kissinger, presi.

dential adviser on national security; and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. Creighton W.

Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, will go to Midway from Saigon. The sile of Greenwich Observatory has served as England's prime meridian since 1800. Miss America beauty pageant hopefuls will compete at 8:30 p.m. today in swim suit and evening gown divisions during the Miss Pensacola beauty pageant in Municipal Auditorium.

The Fiesta of Five Flags annual event is a preliminary to the Miss 1 i a and Miss America Pageants which will be held later on this year in Orlando and Atlantic City, N.J. Peking Course Said Anti-Red FROM PAGE ONE ties "only in formal principles which, worthy as they are, are not always honest. He said his delegation could not subscribe to the document as it now stands and offered a series of major amendments, particularly seeking a clear statement on the, principle of nonintervention. Aarons said the document, which has been in preparation for nearly a year, "made a superficial and sometimes contra dictory analysis of the imperial ist world system and the inter national situation." Regarding China, Aarons was earlier reported to have said the issue would be best not discussed, but if it is brought up, the Czechoslovak question also should be aired. TOKYO (AP) Communist China announced today it has agreed to meet with the Soviet Union in a Soviet border city June 18 to discuss questions of navigation on boundary rivers between the two countries.

The announcement of the meeting apparently limited to navigation questions came Just one day after the Chinese charged that Soviet troops had fired across the border, intrud ed into Chinese territory and harmed and kidnaped Chinese in incidents "still occurring in cessantly." German Measles Vaccine Coming WASHINGTON (UPD-The nation's first vaccine against German measles, which endangers the unborn children' of pregnant women, is expected to be licensed early next week. Standards governing production of the vaccine were published Friday on levels of safety, purity and potency. Children will receive the first vaccine available. First prize will be a $400 scholarship to any accredited college and second place award will be a tuition scholarship to Pensacola Junior College. Miss Taris Savell and Jack Renney will serve as masters of ceremonies.

Musical enter tainment will be provided by the Fiesta Choir and Ray Park er orchestra. Judges will be Sharon Tench of The Pensacola New-Journal, Sally Henderson of WCOA Ra dio, Dr. Chester O'Bannon of Pensacola Junior College, Oliver Leonard and Lt. Tom McPherson. Contestants will be Cheryl Elaine Adkinson, Annete De Laughter, Anita Thornhill, Jane Hamilton, Duchess Dietz, Deb orah Freeman, Kathenne Ma rie Blanos, Eleanor Cushing and Deborah Lea Clark.

Also Helena Wallace, Carla Michele Knowles, Susan Eve lyn Wrzos, Meredith Ann Wil lis, Donna Kirkland, Patricia Ann Bellanova, Cathline Clara Mitchell, Penelope Gassman, Eva Elizabeth Thompson and Colleen Berry. 14 GIs Convicted In Stockade Strike FROM PAGE ONE ranging from nine months to 16 years, but three sentences were later reduced to two years each. A total of 27 prisoners were involved in the protest last Oct. 14 when they refused to report to work details and sat down in a circle in the stockade yard ard sang protest songs. All were charged with muti ny, 22 have now been tried and convicted, three escaped from the stockade and are believed to be in Canada and two are under medical treatment.

The two found guilty of lesser charges Friday apparently ben efitted from psychiatric testi mony on their behalf during the trial, one of the longest in U.S. military history. Pvt. Larry L. Sales, 22, Modesto, was found guilty of failure to obey a lawful order.

He had a long history of psychiatric problems and enlisted in the Army the same day he was released from a mental hospital. Pvt. Danny R. Seals, 22, Orangevale, was found guilty of willful disobedience. He was kicked in the head by a horse as a child and testimony indicated he suffered organic brain damage.

The defense had argued that all 14 were in a highly upset state the day of the demonstra tion and were not responsible for their actions. 'UU' If Chance of Showers A wide bell of showers is due Saturday night from the Pacific Northwest across the nation to New England with the exception of the Dakolas. Other shower areas are due in Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and southern Florida. It will be cooler in the North. fPenseeeit Hewi-AP WirtphMt Map).

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