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Pagt 20 Hattieiburg AMERICAN Thursday, March 3, 1966 Hattiesburg AMERICAN LOCAL WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder this afternoon and tonight, lowest 32-40. Fair and cool vSaturday, highest 52-62. 5c VOL. LXXI-No. 53 HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1966 Associated Press News and Wirephoto VI h.

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FREEZER QUEEN VEAL STEAKS mm PACKAGE Officers also feared mnre bodies would turn up in Scott County, to the east of Jackson. An Air Force Reserve CI 19 with a quarter of a million peo-transport flew into Jackson pie, was centered around the shortly after midnight, bringing Candlestick Park shopping cen Ti Si Ji ti a P' of at th SC 01 9 IS ai ai a pi By JAMES SAGGUS i into the millions from the JACKSON, Miss. (APi-Res- state's worst natural disaster cue workers moved through since a 1942 tornado left 75 dead sparsely populated areas east of in central and northwest Missis-here today, picking up the dead sjppj and giving aid to the living vie- "I 'think we'll find more The line of tornadoes moved two mobile Red Cross disaster eastward into west-central Ala- trucks and 20 pints of rare blood 1 MMM I lMM BIG CASH PRIZES watch V' i I Hit I A MM M-. ttt "at MM i I 1 iU i i MILD AMERICAN bama during the night. There from Mobile.

Ala ter at the southwest edge of the city. The Highway Patrol said 12 persons were killed in the shopping center, i (Continued on Page 3) tims of Thursday's savage tor- dead," said Deputy Sheriff Bob was one known dead in Ala Much of the destruction in I Jackson, the state's largest city down leaving a vast area of devastation and death. Parts of the center and autos were strewn for several blocks. (AP Wirephoto) REDUCED TO RUBBLE This is an air view of the Candlestick Park shopping center in Jackson that was reduced to rubble Thursday when a twister set WINNER OF 500 MRS. R.

T. CARLISLE 604 ADELINE HATTIESBURG, MISS. irasano. Dama and 11 injured Eartly this afternoon, the CHEDDER SE LB. Mississippi Highway Patrol reported 60 known dead and 497 injured from the twisters which struck a shopping center here and several rural towns at dusk.

Few survive Tokyo airport crash After cop killing 1 By T. JEFF WILLIAMS er being rushed to a hospital, 1 TOKYO (AP) Landing in police said. The six survivors fog, a giant DC8 jet of the Ca- included two Americans, Mrs. nadian Pacific Airline caught E. R.

Huebner, 27, whose des I I i sk 1 Negro gunman slain in wild three-hour battle i-j tvvj ing lights in Tokyo Bay along penetrating the main part of the the approach to the runway fuselage to get at the bodies, were broken and one wheel was It was the second major air found in the water. crash at Tokyo's International Reports at the scene said at Airport in a month. Four weeks least 30 passengers were hurled ago a Japanese Boeing 727 into the rear of the plane by the smashed into Tokyo Bay as it violent impact. was landing. It was the world's Rescue workers had difficulty worst single plane disaster, with H.S0 WtC MJULII tination was given as Miami, and a man named Berdell, 38.

Bordell was in critical condition. Airport officials said 15 land- ueom BATON ROUGE, La. comparison of bullets from The dragnet started at dusk A Nooro onnman rpfnsine to i Selders' pistol with bullets that Thursday when Bannister's New Crop PECAN HALVES POUND Property losses ran high. Hundreds of cattle were killed. Larry Parks of broadcast station WQFT-FM at Forest, in Scott County, said many homes "are just gone.

the people in them are missing, too." In Jackson, the state's largest city and capital, a tornado dealt death and devastation in a suburban shopping center. At least 12 persons were killed. Nearby, the modern brick Woodville Heights Baptist church looked like it had exploded. Homes across the street were untouched. A patrol spokesman said 411 were injured in Jackson and rural counties to the east of the capital city.

One of the tornado victims was Joe Bullock, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Mississippi's 4th District. Bullock, I 111 I 133 dead. The Canadian Pacific plane was Flight 402 bound from Hong Kong to Vancouver via Tokyo, then on to Mexico City, Lima, Santiago and Buenos Aires. surrender, died of multiple gun killed Lt. Bannister," Keyser barely audible voice sounded said.

"We know it's the same over the city police network: caliber gun." "Send me a unit, I'm shot Unleash greatest air power on Reds ks wheels in the approach lights at Tokyo International Airport tonight and smashed into a retaining wall. Police said at least 58 of the 71 persons aboard were killed A police tabulation showed six others were missing and presumed dead, leaving nine survivors. Jesse Zousmer, a vice president of the American Broadcasting was among those apparently dead, along with his wife. The $fi-million plane, bound from Hong Kong to Vancouver and South America, carried 62 passengers and a crew of nine, the Canadian Pacific said after a series of conflicting reports Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla Chocolate, Neapolitan Regular Price 69c y2 GALLON 59 shot wounds after a wild gun fight early today with scores of officers who sought him as the killer of a police lieutenant. Police Chief David J.

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(AP) The Rev. Martin Pruitt and his family were dressing to go to evening services when the killer tornado that wrecked havoc in Jackson touched down once again. The Rev. Mr. Pruitt, his wife, their three children and Mrs.

one phase of the war's greatest display of air power against Communist targets in North and South Viet Nam. "It was our maximum ef Mrs. Emma Siebe Rollings, Methodist Church with Rev. 518 Rebecca Ave died at 6 a.m. Homer Peden, pastor, officiat-today at Methodist Hospital, ling.

Burial will be in Highland Services will be held at 2:30 Cemetery with Hulett Funeral p. m. Saturday at Court Street 1 Home directing. NEW! The air strikes over a 24-hour period ending at dawn included one raid only 40 miles from the Chinese frontier. Some thrusts last year were closer.

The rail- said state police fingerprint checks amid bullet comparisons definitely identified the gunman, I David Selders, about 25, as the man who killed Lt. George Ban-1 nister Thursday night. Selders died minutes after his bullet-riddled body was taken from a wooded area at 2 30 a.m. 1 Lt. Bannister, father of four, died after he was shot down while making an accident investigation.

With a .32 caliber pistol and a box of cartridges, Selders 5 oz the state's Agriculture and Industrial Board, was killed instantly, the Highway Patrol said, when the twister blew his car off the road near the Fork-ville community in Scott Coun The four-engine plane ripped a 20-yard section from the breakwater wall at the edge of the runway and scattered flaming wreckage more than 1,000 yards down the runway. Seven survivors were taken msm 31c fort, In a spokesman said today. way line runs down the Red the ground war. two bat-j River Vallev from China. It Mrs.

Rollings, a native of Springs, came to Hatties Crest-Toothpaste burg in 1915 and with her hus- ty- 8 oz Enter Crest's 'SCENE FROM jjllgl 4fllMMMPiP MmI HI QMHEHS PUZZLE GAME SEE OUR DISPLAY FOR DETAIL! $1,000 Cash If you ara a grand priia wlnnar and put Delchamps' nama on your antry blank. Damage was expected to run from the plane but one died aft- talions of U.S. Marines report-; had been left undisturbed since ed hard fighting with a Viet resumption of the bombing of Cong force of about the same North Viet Nam Jan. 31 after size eight miles northwest of a 37-day moratorium. Quang Neai, 320 miles northeast With the first good weather in 49c band, the late Robert Evan Rollings, opened a jewelry store.

Following her husband's death some years ago, she continued Large Pruitt's mother probably never el ei 01 in the business with the aid of of Saigon. more than a week, American knev what hit them Thursday. A Marine jot attack bomber planes flew 55 missions-double Tneir home was blown about 40 and two helicopters supporting the usual number deep into sheared off from its foun- Close-up of Jackson tornado damage her son. Robert H. Rollings, although in recent months her health had curtailed her Del Monte Cut Green Beans or French Style Green Beans forces were shot i North Viet Nam.

For the first uduon. the ground time since the 37-day bombing One of the two Pruitt boys, down. The Marines, brought into the battle by helicopter, radioed Although Mrs. Rollings' about 14, was found in the top of a tree, hours after the storm pause ended Jan. 31, they ranged far north of Hanoi.

27c tick ai No 303 fired away as up to 150 officers armed with rifles, shotguns, tear gas and dogs moved into the woods. State Trooper Gene Waddell was wounded above the knee in the gun fight off the Airline Highway, a major traffic route. Chief Keyser said Selders' social security card was found at the scene where Bannister was checking a traffic accident. The officer was shot about 6:45 p.m. "We've checked Selders' fingerprints, he was known to state police, and the state police crime laboratory is making At MTF pi The weather Official weather report: 7 m.

temperature 55 degrees. Air Force jets pounded bridg-: had passed. The other bodies es, trains and other railroad in- were found in the wreckage of stallations on tracks along the their home. Red River line leading to Red The Rev. Mr.

Pruitt was a China. minister in the Church of God One flight went as far as the Church near here. He and his Lang Bun railroad bridge 120 family lived in the rural Lees-miles northwest of Hanoi and burg area, about 40 miles from the Chinese The six victims were brought Musselman Apple Juice 2 s49t Reg. Price 29c ea. Durkee Delchamps Black Spure Pepper hQe Pound Ar( Cake 45c 49c ogc Reg.

Price 49c Reg. Price 53c friendliness and i ty i EDrTOR'S NOTE Associaf-touched the lives of many PresR newsman James w. ticularly young people, the full Mangan toured a tornadn dpvas. measure of her devotion section of Jackson dedication has been to the work a( davbreak. Here is what he of the Methodist Church.

In her saw early life she concentrated on support of her local church, Court Street Methodist, but in i B-v JAMEs w- MANGAN the 1920s was awakened to the JACKSON. Miss. (APi -vUinn miinn, anH h0r ai Dawn broke today over a weird Cars were strewn in every direction some overturned, others crushed into the ground. A service station in the shopping center was leveled. Its gas pumps were torn loose.

A car which had been on the grease rack was lying crumpled 50 feet away in a field. Guardsmen sealed off the 1 open pipes from the underground gasoline tank with tin cans. Telephone poles were snapped in two. Pieces of debris large Highest 75 and lowest 55 dur MRS. EMMA ROLLINGS ing the preceding 24 hours Del Monta Vacuum Packed Corn 12-Oz.

245 Rainfall .45 of an inch. frontier, the spokesman said. Extended forecast for period There was no assessment of March 5-10: South Mississippi damage. to a funeral home here. They were the Rev.

Mr. Pruitt, his wife, their children Marshall, turned in that direction. scene of destruction here. What had been a prosperous neighborhood shnnninp renter less Mrs. Rollings served as dis- Wet secretary of the Woman's tnan 24 hours earlier is corn- -Temperatures 3 to 7 degrees But other Air Force planes, he Mark and Rebecca, and Mrs below normal.

Normal highs 64- said, knocked out a bridge 110 Pruitt's mother, Mrs. Mary 70. Normal lows 42-48 interior miles northwest of Hanoi and ford of Crystal Springs. tt fl ui 9 IT tr ai th is di hi tt fl plete destruction. New security and safety rules effective March 21 At least 12 persons died when metal snects and such were and 47-52 near the coast.

Cool another 85 miles from the capi- Officers later found a car, a society tor Lnristian bervice, conference student secretary and treasurer and was the first Life Patron in the WSCS conference. She constructed a in the caught in tree branches through weekend with warming tal on the same rail line, and pickup truck and a tractor surrounding area, Across the street from (Continued on Page 3 1 i trend thereafter. Precipitation cut the tracks and damaged standing undamaged in the Pru-light to moderate in showers cars 100 miles northwest of the itt's yard, where the vicious about Tuesday and Wednesday, city. 'wind had deposited them. Del Monte a tornado struck at dusk Jnurs-day.

The remains of approximately a dozen stores in the Candlestick Park shopping center were pushed into massive piles of rubble by bulldozers. Fatigue-clad National Guardsmen ringed the entire area throughout the night. small chapel in a Chinese rural community and for years paid the salary of a Bible woman, who went about the countryside in China and read the Bible. A consistent tither, she also (Continued on Page 3) Flaky Style Pillsbury Buttermilk or Sweet Milk 3s 25c 9 Prlc 10c each Frozen Foods Dartmouth Orange Juice-. 2 59c Flying Jib Breaded Shrimp Reg.

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As part of preparations now under way for impending static rocket firings at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mississippi Test Facility, officials announced today that starting March 21 no one will be permitted to enter the site located on old State Highway 43 without a badge or bumper decal. NASA officials stated that they had delayed this long-ex- J. M. Swilley rites to be held Saturday Services for J. M.

Swilley. who died early today at Methodist Hospital, will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday at Hulett Upton ct. 2 39c rineapple-brapetruit Juice Tea Vi Lb.

87c nstant Tea 6-oz. $1.29 JACKSON. Miss. (AP) The i identified dead from the Missis- Tea Bags 6c off 61c Instant Tea and Lemon 49c -mLJ Drink I j4iSS hi tr oi UI di a ti tr di tl of ot It 01 2 A 1 a tl si a tl tl A 48 ct oz. jar and connects the cities of Pica- sippi tornadoes: In Hinds County Morton Dinners a.bsteak-F 89c DeI Mo- X.

QQr ft. 5. Mrs. Pruitt, his wife 6. Marshall Pruitt, a child 7.

Mark Pruitt. a child 8. Rebecca Pruitt, a child 9. Mrs. Mary Alferd.

Crystal Springs, Mrs. Pruitt's mother 10. J. D. Ferrell 11.

Billy Stewart 12. Archie L. Bowen roien 4 yune and Bay St. Louis will be open prior to March 21. The opening of the new highway will actually bring the cities closer together by shortening travel time between the two.

1. Julia Anne Jones, about 30 2. Theodore Gaetz Sr. 3. Lewis Mosley Clinton 4.

Gilbert Burkes 5. Larry Clifton Burke. 10 Morton Doughnuts Frozen, 10-Oz. 39c Morton Bread Dough Frozen 3 Loaves 53C The main MTF complex cov- Chapel with burial in Roseland ers some 13.500 acres in Han Park Cemetery. JW AMP cock County and is located 19 miles northwest of Bay St.

Louis and 12 miles south of Picayune. Beginning March 14. the North and South gates of the test facility will be manned Mr. Swilley, who was founder and owner of Swilley Furniture was a resident of 813 West Pine St. A resident of Hattiesburg for the past 57 years, he was 85 6.

James Charles Calloway 7. Mrs. C. D. Parker 8.

Mrs. R. T. Bowen 9. Charles Bowen her grandson 10.

Luther Ray Boyd 11. Ronnie Hannis 12. Mrs. Charles E. Carpenter 13.

David Carpenter In Rankin County 1. Charles Dcason. Jackson 2. E. C.

Bishop 3. Bishop boy 4. The Rev. Martin Pruitt, Leesburg, a Church of Christ preacher 13. Robert Washington, Rt.

1, Pelahatchie In Scott County 1. Maggie Jean Chambers, Morton 2. Frank Kincaid. Morton 3. Ausby Stowers, Lillian 4.

Mose Lyle 5. Mrs. Mose Lyle 6. Daughter of the Mose Lyle: 7. Joe Bullock, Brandon 8.

Mrs. Mallie McCraw, Pea Ridge 9. John Milton Snelson. Russell (Continued on Page 3) ifoV Reg. Price iMMlMMVk py fj yM tc la years ot age.

He worked for the with round-the-clock guards and Singer Sewing Machine Co. for receptionists, many years and in 1943 orga- Flat Top Road will also be nized his furniture company, closed to all traffic March 21 He was a member of First Bap- and will be opened only for tist Church. employes with badges and de- (Continued on Page 3) I on Page 3j said his wife and child who were in a house nearby were thrown for a 100 yards without serious injury to either. (AP Wirephoto) r. THIS WAS A CHURCH Rev.

G. T. Bryon is dwarfed by the ruins of his Baptist church in south Jackson that was demolished by a tornado Thursday. Rev. Bryon.