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Hattiesburg American from Hattiesburg, Mississippi • 8

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Morning League pm I MITTIIMIR AMIIICAN "ridir, July I'll White man shot Crash near Vancover claims 52 Mew crisis has Bogalusa tense ition at a hospital in New Orleans, some 65 miles to the south. Two Negroes arrested after the shooting were held in an Jonnle Gail passes first big crisis, still doing fine NEW ORLEANS (AP)-Little Jonnie Gail Honeycutt passed the day of crisis Thursday with no sign her body was attempting to reject the kidney transplanted from her father. Rejection often occurs a week after such surgery. Members of Tulane's transplant team, which performed the operation July 1, were reported unofficially to be well pleased with the progress made by the 13-year-old Annis-ton, blonde. One medical authority said, however, at least 40 days would have to elapse before it could be felt that the girl was safe as far as rejection is concerned.

John H. Honeycutt, 48, who donated one of his kidneys in an attempt to save his daughter's life, was unofficially reported out of danger. Slow Pitch tournament pairings listed Noon stocks NEW YORK (AP) Ford Mot 53' Phill Pet 834 AUis Chal 20H Foremost 15' Polaroid 64'i Am Air 53H Frueh Cp 30 Proct it 74'i Am Baker 234 Gen Elec 100 Pure Oil 57H Am Can 48H Gen Fds 794 RCA S4'4 Am Mot 12 Gen Mills 62 Rals Pur 37H Am Sugar 22 Gen Mtrs 97i Repub Stl 40H Am 68'i Gen Tel 4 Tel 414 Rexall 344 Am Tob 36'i Ga Pacific 57' Reyn Met Armour 37'4 Goodrich 574 Rey Tob 404 Atl Line 614 Goodvear 51 St Regis Pap 34H Babcock 354 Gt A1P 37H Seab AL RR 374 Beat Fds 514 Greyhound 224 Sears Roeb 674 Bell it 304 Gulf Oil 564 Sinclair 584 Beth Steel 354 Here Pdr 424 Socony 864 Boeing 704 Honeywell 60i Sou Co 674 Borden 435i Indian Head 164 Sperry Rd 124 Burl Ind 684 Int Bus Mch 4674 Std Oil CI 714 214 Int Harv 37 Std Oil Ind 484 Caler Trac 424 Int Paper 304 Std Oil 774 Celanese 804 Kaiser 354 Stud Pack 204 Ches 4 Ohio 674 KVP Suth 27 Sunbeam 514 Chrysler 474 Ligg 4 My 834 Swift 454 Coca Cola 774 Lockh Air 46 Texaco 774 Colg Palm 484 Lorillard 444 Un Camp 384 Collins 254 Lou 4 Nash 73 Un Carbide 594 CBS 264 Macy 54li Un Oil Cal 394 Comw Ed 55 Martin 184 Unit Aire 74 Com Sat 49H Masonite 374 Unit Fruit 194 Con Edis 444 Merr Ch 4 20 Unit Gas Cp 364 font Can 514 Minn 574 Steel 474 Delta Air 874 Monsan 884 Warner 32 Dow Chem 70 Mont Ward 33 West Un Te 404 du Pont 2354 Nat Dairv 90 Weslg Elec 49 East Air 574 Nat Distill 314 Winn Dixie 404 East Kod 824 Olin Math 45 Woolworth 294 Firestone 444 Owens 111 Gl 544 Worth 584 Fla 464 Penney 694 Wrigley 964 Fla PiL 754 Pepsi Cola 81i Xerox 150 Dodgers win close one The Dodgers, Cardinals and Athletics won games today in the Morning League. The Dodgers edged the Red Legs 8-8. Wayne Nix was the winning pitcher.

Creel tripled and singled for the Dodgers and Perrin Lowrey slammed two triples and a single for the Red Legs. The Cardinals outscored the Giants 16-11. Marc Glatzer with a double and two singles and Mike Rodgers with a double and single led the winners. Billy Hammet singled twice and Saucier tripled and singled for the Giants. The Athletics turned back the Tigers 14-4.

David Hubbard doubled and singled to support the winning pitching of Steve Bozeman. Bush singled twice for the Tigers. Monday's schedule: Red Legs vs. White Sox, Cards vs. Giants and Athletics vs.

Tigers. A best two-of-three game series between the Braves and Yankees will start Tuesday. All games begin at 8 a.m. Pete Quinn. third baseman-outfielder from New Milford, N.J..

will captain Columbia University's 1966 baseball team. Fish'R SeaM jamboree SEAFOOD BUFFET Hors d'ocuvrcs Shrimp Fish Crab Meat Patties ALL YOU WANTI Speed's Restaurant ft hospitals 100 MILE HOUSE, B.C. (AP) Fifty two persons, some of them children, died when a four engine Canadian Pacific Airlines plane apparently ex ploded in flight and crashed in remote rangeland late Thurs day. None of the 46 passengers and 6 crew members aboard survived. The DC6B was Flight 21 out of Vancouver bound for White- horse, Y.T.

The plane was bought by the airline 12 years ago. CPA officials said they heard three staccato cries of "May day" the international distress call just before the plane van ished from radar screens. The tail stabilizer was found a mile from the main wreckage and officials said they believed an explosion had occurred. It came down in rolling cattle country near this tiny shipping town 170 miles northeast of Vancouver. Capt.

John Alfred Steele, 41. Vancouver, radioed about 15 minutes before the crash that he was changing course slightly to avoid turbulance ahead. The plane was flying at 15,000 feet. Then came the "Mayday" calls and the plane went silent. Services held for Mack Grantham OVETT Services for Mack Grantham, 77, of Rt.

1, were held Monday at Thompson Funeral Home Chapel in Laurel with Rev. W. M. Smith officiating. Burial was in Union Cemetery.

A retired farmer and life long resident of the area, Mr. Grantham died at 6 a.m. Sunday after a short illness. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Gussie Grantham; four daugh ters, Mrs.

Olzieree Stewart of Hattiesburg. Mrs. J. W. Blakely of New Orleans, Mrs.

Homer P. Stall of Norwalk, Ohio, and Mrs. Aven Templeton of Starkville; seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and two sis ters, Mrs. Erett Woodward and Mrs. Eran Tucker, both of Rt.

3. Ellisville. Pallbearrs were Thomas Ward Tyner, Glenn Tyner, Reginald Blakely, Bobby Stewart, Jerry Towne and Charlie Grantham. WSD cm TRAIN ROBBER ISCAPIS Ronald A. Biggs, above, one of Britain's Great Train Robbery engineers, climbed out of London's Wandsworth Prison Thursdsy and disappeared.

Biggs used a ladder, three getaway cars, a moving van and an unknown number of accomplices to escape. This is an official Scotland Yard photo. (AP Wirephoto by cable from London) Britain hunts great train robber escapee LONDON (AP) British police pressed a manhunt today for the second member of the great train robbery gang to es cape from prison. The escape of Ronald Arthur Biggs and three other convicts Thursday from London's Wand sworth Prison threatened to set off a major political row. Mem bers of Parliament were expected to demand a thorough overhaul of prison security.

London morning papers called for dras tic changes. Biggs, 35, was serving 30 years for his part in the August 1963 ambush of a mail train in which $7.2 million in currency was stolen. It was the biggest haul in British history. The three men who escaped with Biggs had been jailed for other crimes. Another 30-year man from the train robbery gang, Charles Wilson, was sprung from jail in Birmingham 11 months ago by accomplices who broke into the jail.

He has not been seen since. Both Biggs and Wilson es caped from maximum security prisons. Ten of the train robbers are still in prison, five of them for 30 years. Three others named by police as members of the gang have not been caught. More than $5.6 million of the loot has not been recovered.

One Cent Sale, a 2-year-old filly bred in Kentucky, is the daughter of Centime Fire Sale. Pairings were announced to day for the Slow Pitch Softball Tournament to be held here Saturday and Sunday of this week and Saturday of next week. Five games are scheduled Saturday, with Woodruff Ford meeting Laurel TAC at 4, the Laurel Redlegs battling Mort gage Brokers at 5:15, Red's Bar ber Shop of Wiggins taking on Poplarville at 7, Sports Shop of Wiggins to tangle with the Hattiesburg Independents at 8: IS and the Sport Shop of Hattiesburg to do battle with Collins at 9:30. Hub Vending Co. has a first round bye, but will meet the Wiggins Sport Shop-Hattiesburg Independents winner at 2:30 Sunday.

The Woodruff-Laurel TAC victor and the Red's-Pop- larville survivor will meet in the other Sunday game at 3:45. The semi-final contests are set for 5:30 and 6 45 next Saturday, with the finals to follow at 8:30 that night. MR. INABIND SAYS: COMPARE iLongttt Terms tLoweit Payments Include Iniurenc Mortgages BOG ALL'S La. (AP) A new racial crisis gripped Bogalusa today in the wake of violence In which a white man was shot when he attacked Negroes In a civil rights march.

Thomas D. Burbank, chief of the State Police, said 200 troopers had Joined the 36-man city police force in a special alert. The wounded man, Alton D. Crowe 25, of Pearl River, was In "satisfactory" cond- But widow sues Survivors say dead kin was drunk when wed CORINTH, Miss. (AP) A $100,000 lawsuit win be heard here next week Involving the widow of a man electrocuted last September and three relatives of the victim who claim his 1946 marriage was illegal because he was drunk during the ceremony.

Dewey Pyle of Decatur, was killed instantly when a crane on which he was working touched a high-voltage line. Brothers Paul and Willie Pyle and nephew Jackie Pyle claim the deceased was their only means of support. Attorneys for the Pyle men claim their brother was drunk during his 1946 marriage and separated from his 17-year-old bride the day of the ceremony after sobering up. He was 48 at the time of the wedding. Attorney! for the Southern Railway asked the court to bar the suit on grounds Pyle's widow, Mrs.

Margaret Bain Pyle of Burnsville, is his legal heir and the other relatives have no legal right to file a claim. Circuit Judge N. S. Sweat will hear the case Thursday. No trace yet of 9-year-old feared seized KANSAS CITY (AP)-Despite the tearful appeal of her moth er and an intensive search by more than 200 officers and vol unteers, no trace has been found of 9-year-old Denise Clinton, be lieved kidnaped in a motel rob bery early Thursday.

Maj. James Newman, chief of detectives, said: "We're urg ing all property owners within a 10-mile radius to search their own property. We'll appreciate any lead." A police spokesman said the FBI had officially entered the case. Denise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Clinton of nearby Independence, was abducted while visiting overnight with her grandparents who manage the motel on U.S. 71, about IS miles from downtown Kansas City. A bandit took $256 from the motel, tied and gagged the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chelcie Reynolds, and drove off.

The Reynolds' freed themselves and moments later discovered Denise was missing. Denise, a reddish-blonde with blue eyes and freckles across her nose, had been asleep on a couch in a room next to theirs. She was dressed in a blue and white checkered nightgown. Police Chief C. M.

Kelley said there was no apparent motive. The girl's father is a service manager for a car agency. Second C. of C. group endorses industrial plans The proposed new industrial development program for Hat-tiesburg and Forrest County was unanimously endorsed Thursday night by a second group of Chamber of Commerce members.

At the second in a series of dinner meetings for the Chamber membership, 35 persons heard an explanation of the recommendations of the Hatties-j burg-Forrest County Joint Committee on Industrial Development Councils and voted to endorse them. The "Dutch Treat" dinner was held at Speed's Restaurant. C. of C. president Hollis Brown said today that a third such dinner will be held Tuesday night, July 20.

FOR HOME OWNERS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ENTERPRISES JU 2-5344 undisclosed Jail for investigation of aggravated battery. They are Henry Austin, 21, and Milton Johnson, 26, both of Bogalusa. The president of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League, A. Z. Young, told a rally Thursday night that demonstrations will continue but that the league "is nonviolent and is going to stay that way." The heavily guarded Negro rally overflowed a small church.

Militant segregationists held an opposing rally across town In an open field at the same hour. A speaker, J. B. Stoner of Atlanta, urged the white rally "to consider all niggers as our enemy until the battle is won." The cheering crowd, which police estimated at 1,200 to waved Confederate flags. Rebel yells resounded.

The shooting was the most serious incident in the area since terrorists shot and killed Washington Parish's first Negro deputy sheriff, Oneal Moore, June 2. A white man charged with murdering Moore is free on 000 bond. Police Chief Gaxton Knight said Austin admitted firing the .38 caliber bullets which felled Crowe. He was hit in the chest, with two other less serious wounds in the neck. Knight said Crowe was unarmed.

FBI agents joined police and state officers in the investigation. Newsmen who saw the shooting said Crowe rushed in swing ing his fists at the Negro men after they stopped their car to take aboard a Negro girl who had been hit by a stone while marching. The Incident came about 10 minutes after the some 400 rain-soaked marchers most of them teen-agers had knelt in front of the City Hall to pray for "Freedom for all." The marchers, protected by state troopers in bright orange raincoats, were about two blocks from City Hall when shots rang out. Troopers, swinging billyclubs, quickly restored order after a moment of uproar. The column proceeded.

Officials of the Congress of Racial Equality, backing the league in the 6-months-old civil rights drive, called the shooting sell defense. Klan asks people to come to rail MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP)-The Ku Klux Klan appealed to citizens of Meridian and surrounding areas today to attend a public rally Saturday night. An advertisement in the Meridian Star said Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton of Alabama and Grand Dragon E. L.

Mc-Daniel of Mississippi would be guest speakers. The advertisement was signed by the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The meeting is set for a race track on State Road 19 north of here at 7:30 p.m. East Forrest residents urged to mail ballots Customers of the East Forrest Utility District were urged again today to return their ballots, indicating whether they favor or oppose establishment of a fire department by the district. James Ware, district secretary, treasurer, said as of Thurs day night only 473 ballots had been returned of the 1664 which were mailed out.

Ballots will be counted at the district office next Tuesday night, July 13. "Mail back your own ballot and remind your neighbors and friends to do the same," Ware said. Summit man among dead in Viet Nam WASHINGTON (AP) The Defense Department today identified Pvt. John D. Shaw of Summit, as one of seven U.S.

Servicemen killed in action In Viet Nam, for "Tun. At the METHODIST: New patients-Mrs. Jesse B. Cameron, Purvis; Mrs. B.

A. Runnels, Rt. Mrs. Calvin Windham, Petal; Mrs. Virdey Breazeale, 427 Newman; Mrs.

Alex McKinnon, Petal; Mrs. D. M. Garren, Petal; Haskel Mims, Rt. Mrs.

Henry T. Jones, 716 Walnut; Leo Daughdrill, Poplarville; Mrs. T. Price Dale, 402 Southern; Kimm Hudson, Sumrall; Mrs. C.

M. Hensleigh, Purvis; Melinda and Denice Lott, Petal; Cynthia Dubose, Rt. Stanley Henderson, Waynesboro; Lon-nie Trussell, Petal; Mrs. T. B.

Thornton, Heidelberg. Dismissed Harvey Breland, Purvis; Sidney Bufkin, 712 Du-ane; Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, Kokomo man critically hurt in collision COLUMBIA Forrest Turn-age, 64, of Kokomo was critically injured at 6:30 a. m. today when a truck and trailer struck his Chevrolet pickup about 12 miles west of Columbia on old Highway 98 West.

Marion County sheriff John Willoughby, who investigated, said Doyle Graves of Rt. 6, Tylertown, driver of the truck owned by the P. C. Smith Milk was uninjured. Damage to the milk truck was slight, he said, but Turnage's vehicle was demolished.

Turnage was taken to Marlon County Hospital and underwent surgery for general head and chest injuries. Willoughby said no charges had been filed but that the case is still open for investigation. Duplicate bridge winners announced Winners in the Thursday night game of the Hattiesburg Dupli cate Bridge Club held at the Community Center were: Sec. N-S Mrs. Francis Singleton and Mrs.

Percy Sen wing, first; Joe Morris and Dr. Nollie Fells, second; Mrs. Jessie Haralson and Fred Lane, third. E-W Mr. and Mrs.

Allen Moody, first; Mrs. Walter Sharff and T. H. Livringhouse, second; Mr. and Mrs John Bethea, third.

Sec. B. N-S Mrs. R. D.

But ler and Mrs. Lewis Rustin, first; Mrs. Brownie Jones and Mrs. Joseph Clark, second; Mrs. Aubrey Sievers and Mrs.

Mau ry Gurwitch tied for third with Mrs. Marvin Reuben and Sarah Gillespie. E- W- Mrs. O. J.

Bass. Jr. and Mrs. Cherice Garner, first; Mrs. Dan Currie and Mrs.

Warren McCleskey, second; Mrs. T. P. Harkins and Mrs. J.

L. Jones, third. Peter Thomson wins his 5th British Open SOUTHPORT, Eng. (AP)-Peter Thomson of Australia came out of virtual obscurity and won his fifth British Open Golf Championship Friday with a 72-hole score of 285. iiitiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiimittiiiiiiiiiiHiitiiiiiiiiiiittin Richton; S.

S. Crabtree. 801 Short Gulfport; Mrs. Mae Cork-en, Farmington, F. D.

Culpepper, 1005 Southern; Daniel Hidalgo, 413 Tipton; Mrs. Newton Holloway, Laurel; Mrs. Mae Johnson, Laurel; Lawrence Lee, Brooklyn; Linda Lmdsey, Waynesboro; Mrs. J. W.

McLaughlin, 600 Magnolia; Mrs. A. V. Pace, Houston, Mrs. R.

T. Price, 1024 Main: Kendrick Roberts. Wiggins; Robert St. John, 322 South 22nd; Mrs. G.

R. Shows, Rt. John D. Shows, Laurel; Randolph Smith, Petal; Mrs. Franklin Slay, Quitman; Carolyn Turnage, city; R.

L. Thrower, Petal; Mrs. Bessie H. Wallace, 119 Montague; Mrs. Macy Walters, 1100 Cedar; Forrest Wheat, Picayune; Mrs.

Vardie hid don. Sumrall Dwayne Williams, South 28th; Ave. FORREST GENERAL: New patients Noel D. Craft, Lucedale; Mrs. A.

S. Cascio, Seminary; Mrs. Levon Haddox, 106 Montague; Mrs. P. L.

Mo Rainey, Collins; Mrs. W. A. Le-Blanc, 712 Grace; Mrs. John M.

Boss, Purvis; Mrs. Joe H. Cum- mings 511 Tuscan; Mrs. C. P.

Walker, Purvis; Fred Kelly, 309 Unetta; Mrs. Curtis Barnes, Rt. Mrs. Helen James, Beaumont; Mrs. J.

E. Jackson, Pet al: Richard S. Dossett, 804 Du- ane; Gregory Dixon, Lucedale; Rita Faye Broome, Rt. Mrs. C.

Welker, Natchez; Mrs. Al len Jackson, 2324 Adeline; Mrs Claude Sanders, Columbia; Mrs. M. L. Stump, 502 Francis; Jon C.

Robinson, Rt. Elisa Dubuisson, 707 Magnolia; Harold Herrin Purvis; Larry Wil son, 512 North 19th; Eugene Spiers, Nicholson; Kenneth Green, Cleveland, Miss; Mrs. Ray Cox, Sumrall; Mrs. T. B.

Dickinson, Sumrall. Dismissed John W. Moon- ey, 2719 Alice; Joe Jordan, Lamar Park; Mrs. Edna Laird, Columbia; Mrs. L.

R. Downs, Rt. Ronald Hanna, 601 Long-wood; Rev. Murry Hux, Bass field; Arnold Lowe, Rt. Mrs, L.

W. Berry, 908 Short Gulfport; Quitman Pickett, 608 Ronie; J. B. Ladner, Lumberton; Mrs Joe Boone, Rt. Mrs.

Gas ton Collins, Moselle; Roy Cash, 812 Quinn; Jimmy Foster, Sumrall; Miss Lorraine Santa Cruz, 717 Arledge; Mrs Imogen Lee, Purvis; Paula Hensarling, Rt. 2. BIRTHS To Mr. and Mrs. W.

A. Le- Blanc, 712 Grace, a 5-pound, 5- ounce girl born Thursday at Forrest General. To Mr. and Mrs. Levon Had dox, 106 Montague, a 6-pound, 5-ounce girl bor Thursday at Forrest General Hospital.

Rites held for Dr. Stout Services for Dr. W. W. Stout, professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi who died Wednesday at Forrest General Hospital, were held at 4:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Hu-lett Chapel with Rev. Colton Smith officiating. The body was taken to Burlington, N.C., for burial. Dr. Stout is survived by his wife and a sister.

Pallbearers were Howard W. Bahr, Joe Berryman, Harry M. Thomas, Dr. Roy G. Bigelow, John E.

Gonzales and Robert Hayi. fe the yV i. a wh. wear i w. pj I TV Yk.

lZ rtrr--. Roscoe Moore Pontiac In? Phont 2-1501 W. Pint Si. at Broadway Drlva.

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