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12 Hatticsburg American Wednesday, April 11, 1973 May be- Waller still undecided on veto of three bills Tennessee blonde is named new 'Miss AASU' Death- (Continued from page 1) 1. A comparison of the skeleton's teeth with an old sketch from Bormann's dentist. 2. Skull and bone measurements. 3.

The discovery of mended fractures in an arm and collarbone, fractures such as Bormann had suffered. 4. Reconstruction of Bormann's face on the basis of the skull of the skeleton. 5. Discovery of glass splinters from a capsule like those used by leading Nazis to commit suicide by cyanide poisoning.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP)- A 21-year-old Ger-mantown, blonde was holder of Mississippi State University's "Miss MSU" title today after a proposed boycott of the pageant failed to materialize. The campus newspaper, "The Reflector," called for boycott of the pageant, which it said cost too much "close to $3,000 for the two-night circus." The crown was captured by Karen Mitchell, a senior education major, before a Tuesday night audience of about 700. The attendance figure, according to spokesmen for the school newspaper, was a little less than the estimated crowd from the year before. Newspaper editor Don Dowdle said Monday night's first audience was "about normal, but they are going to go to something like that whether it costs $3,000 or $300." Despite failure of the proposed boycott, Dowdle said the paper felt "we got our point across." The paper's move against the pageant, according to Dowdle, "accomplished a lot.

More than 150 GOP candidates in Mississippi JACKSON. Miss. (AP)-The Mississippi Republican Party said today more than 150 Republicans would seek offices in the state's municipal elections this spring. Clarke Reed, chairman of the party, said 33 GOP members were running for mayor in 31 towns, including five incumbent former Democrats 24o have switched parties. Republican mayors seeking re-election, the GOP said, are Bill Patrick of Laurel, Paul Grady of Hattiesburg, Newton Dodson of Clarksdale, Joe Al-ford of Sidon, Julius Miller of Okland, W.

O. Williford of Drew, Mickey Thompson of Shelby and H. D. Magee of Fulton. Reed said incumbents first elected as Democrats and running for new terms as Republicans are Gerald Miller of Liberty, Kenneth Petty of Crosby, Grady Thigpen of Picayune, Ernest Layton of Mendenhall and Leon Robinson of Como.

Rescue workers search for body of Meridian man CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) -Rescue workers hunted today for the body of a Meridian, man missing since a fishing boat capsized on the Alabama River in north Wilcox County, The sheriff's office identified the victim as Lester Boyette. Officers said a companion, Cliff Sessions, also of Meridian, clung to the capsized boat for about two hours Tuesday and was rescued by a tugboat. At Columbia Coroner's jury rules suicide COLUMBIA A coroner's jury ruled the death of a Columbia businessman resulted from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police Chief Joe Sanders said T.

W. Mallette, 46, died Tuesday morning. The body was found by boys playing in City Park. They notified authorities. An inquest conducted by Floyd Day, coroner, decided that death was inflicted with a .12 gauge shotgun.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Colonial Funeral Home. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. in a Lucedale cemetery. Mr.

Mallette had been employed by the Rankin Co. for a number of years and was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Retha Mae Mallette, a son, Roger, a daughter, Deborah Carol, all of Columbia; his mother, Mrs. J.

K. Mallette of Lucedale; a brother, Paul H. Mallette of Houston, and a sister, Mrs. Jimmie Ann Eubanks of Lucedale. Agencies get federal grants JACKSON, Miss.

(AP)-Gov. Bill Waller today approved federal grants for community action and headstart agencies in Mississippi totaling $2,151,197. Mrs. Lee Sutton, director of the Office of Human Resources and Economic Opportunity, said community action agencies would receive $1,020,065, while headstart agencies were refunded for a full year at a total cost of $1,131,132. Waller said "I've insisted that he stay on," commenting on the status of acting penitentiary Supt.

W. I. Hollowell, who faced a Monday deadline to return to his job as Indianola Chief of Police. City officials said earlier Hollowell would have to return or lose the post. Waller countered probing by newsmen on whether he might call a special session with "I might and I might not." The governor also announced Mississippi had received its latest federal revenue sharing check, totaling $8,556,866, covering the first quarter of the calendar year.

Waller said the money would be funnelled into six-month treasury notes, earning $279,161 in interest. "To date the state has received $37,637,474 and through June 30 the state will have earned almost $1 million in interest for the taxpayers." Conspiracy- (Continued from page 1) vote. Dahmer at one time was head of the Forrest County chapter of NAACP, A pathologist testified in one of the murder trials that he died as the result of inhaling superheated gases in the burning house the night of the raid. Owen Cooper to address USM education group Yazoo City industrialist Owen Cooper will address the noon luncheon of Phi Delta Kappa at the University of Southern Mississippi Thursday. The education fraternity will hold its luncheon in dining room of the George Commons.

Reservations may be made by phoning 266-7146. Fraternity members may invite guests. Cooper, who will speak on the role and promise of industrialization in Mississippi, is president of the Mississippi Chemical Corp. and driector of the First Mississippi Corp. He also has served as president of the Mississippi Economic Council, the Mississippi Baptist Convention and is vice president of the Baptist World Alliance.

Legislation for limiting Nixon war powers endorsed Ellsberg- Continued from pagel) Pentagon papers the papers that changed my mind and changed our lives." He said Fulbright has expressed willingness to testify for the defense depending on his schedule and the judge's rule on relevance of such testimony. U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne repeatedly has ruled that the intended destination of the copies is irrelevant to the trial. Earlier, Russo had told jurors that the papers were destined for Congress, but his remarks were stricken from the record as irrelevant. On cross-examination, Asst.

U.S. Atty. David Nissen elicited from Russo the admission that he might have "leafed through" the Pen-'tagon papers and read a few paragraphs while copying them. A key point in Russo's defense against the charges had been that he knew nothing of the papers' content and helped copy them only as a favor to Ellsberg. Russo, 36, who worked with Ellsberg as a Rand Corp.

researcher on government projects, also conceded that he knew the Rand rules governing classified papers and had signed promises to keep such papers secret. The balding, bespectacled defendant pointed out that Rand rules are not law. "I believed we were breaking the rules because the rules were there to serve special interests in the government. If a person had information that served his purposes he would leak it if it didn't make him look good, then strict rules applied," he said. NtED A SHRINK? You only think you're Sanforized! The Weight Watchers program can help get you down to size.

For class nearest you, call TOLL FREE IN MISSISSIPPI 1-800-222-7694 CLASSES ARE HELD IN HATTIESBURG in tha TEEN CENTER TUESDAY 12:30 PM ft 6:00 PM Says- Continued from page 1 remainder of the school year. We will study the question and if we believe the trampolines are dangerous, we will take them out. "We have had thousands of youngsters using the trampolines and this is our first accident." (Continued from page 1 several deer had drowned after getting entangled in vines or fences. Chandler said turkey habitat was under water in many areas. Other animals such as rabbits, squirrels, opossoms and raccoons were reported coping with high water by moving to higher ground or trees.

At Greenwood, on the Yazoo River about 100 miles north of Vicksburg, water was reported below the 35-foot level for the first time in almost a month. The Office of Emergency Preparedness announced it would close its Greenwood disaster relief office Friday. Other disaster offices have been set up at Columbus, which was flooded three weeks ago by the Tombigbee River, and at Vicksburg. Bill Smith will give recital at Carey Thursday Bill Smith will present his junior piano recital at Thomas Hall Auditorium on the Carey College campus at 4:30 Thursday afternoon, April 11. The public is invited to attend.

Bill is the son of Dr, and Mrs. Gaston Smith, faculty members of Carey. He is a graduate of Hattiesburg High School and has been active in music circles in Hattiesburg as a young performer. On the Carey campus, Bill is a member of Kappa Mu Epsilon, Alpha Lambda Chi and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Nu Xi Chapter), honorary fraternities. He is serving as vice president of Sinfonia.

Bill is a member of the Carey College Chorale and is president of this organization. The program for his recital follows: Prelude (English Suite), J. S. Bach; Sonata in Major (K576), Mozart; Three Preludes, Kennan; Moderato (Concerto in Minor), Rachmaninoff. Stock market pauses in upward thrust NEW YORK (AP) The stock market paused today in its upward thrust, after three straight days of gains.

Analysts said the thrust of the market appeared positive. The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrials was down 0.75 at 959.74. Advancing issues on the New York Stock Exchange led declining issues 611 to 525. "The market deserves a pullback," said Robert Stovall of Reynolds Securities. "We've had three strong days in a row." The noon index of some 1,400 common stocks on the NYSE was down 0.12 at 59.61.

Says geography department now more practical Chairman of the USM geography department, Dr. William M. Roberts, spoke to the Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club Tuesday on advancing university community cooperation. He stated that he felt the university geography department owed a definite committment to the community to try and help solve problems. Southern's geography department is doing this by changing from a "classical" department to one that is preparing students for service and work in the field, he added.

Under Dr. Roberts, USM has added some 25 new courses. Among these are water resources, watershed management, industrial location analysis, advanced cartography, environmental climatology, computer applications in GHY, population and settlement, remote sensing of the environment, urban and regional planning, rural land use, transportation geography, resource, management, forest resource management, soils and vegetation, urban field methods and geographic internship. Three major projects the geography department is involved in now are: a map series, with -the University of Mississippi doing the research and USM doing the cartography; a whole series of computer atlases for the Mississippi Census Data; a land use map series for the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission. JACKSON, Miss.

(AP)-No decision on whether to veto three major bills has been made by Gov. Bill Waller, who told newsmen he was undecided on whether to call a special legislative session this summer. Waller, meeting with newsmen Tuesday, said he was "very much in doubt" on major bills dealing with a state income tax reduction, penitentiary reorganization and capital construction. "I've got to have time to study their long-range effects," the governor said. The tax bill would slice off $18 million in state revenue while the prison bill would place most of the power now held by the state Penitentiary Board under a director of corrections.

Some $103 million in projects was contained in the construction measure. Waller also announced appointment of J. Tillis Hill of Jackson as chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Commission, replacing Russel L. Fox. The governor also said today would be a critical day in regard to Mississippi's flood situation, noting "we are in a waiting situation now.

We will have to wait for the crest to pass and during this critical week we will have to wait on rain." A large amount of rainfall, he said, could create a critical situation if it came before flood waters receded enough to handle the extra water and permit runoff. Waller said "it will probably be as late as Sunday or Monday before we complete the graphics of where we are on spending and determine what effect" the income tax reduction measure "would do to the budget in the months and years ahead." Signing of the measure, he said, would depend in part on "how much spending is approved. If I vetoed some spending bills there would be a better chance that the income tax bill would be signed." "Dilution of the authority of the board" was the major question on the prison bill, he said. "I'm not fighting the bill. There is too much confusion about it to sign it at this point," he said, noting he "had the dubious disadvantage of not hearing of the bill until after it had passed." The measure, he said, left him with mixed feelings, especially concerning raising of the superintendent's salary from $17,000 to $30,000.

"If I veto it, we would have to go back to the $17,000 figure." Gulf coast is prefty old sfuff Indian artifacts uncovered at a site near Biloxi are 2,060 years old, plus or minus 85 years, as confirmed by Dietrich Luth of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. The ancient items were secured by the USM archaeological team during the past spring and fall quarters. "Now what we had formerly suspected is in fact true," said Luth. "Charcoal removed from the 28 inch level of the Mississippi Coastal site has been dated at 110 B.C. "This is not to be taken to mean that we have reached the levels of greatest antiquity on the Coast.

A third level at 34 inches was uncovered but this one remains to be dated. When that has been done, the oldest level of Indian Cultures will have been uncovered in Mississippi, and the gap between the cultures of coastal Louisiana and the Florida panhandle will have been closed." Among the highlights of discoveries were the distinctive turtle shaped fire-pit, bone tools and pottery. U.S.- (Continued from page 1) It's questionable whether they have that capability." But he said the fighting would continue until Hanoi stops supplying the supporters of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the deposed chief of state. Prince Sihanouk returned to Peking today from a visit to North Vietnam and Cambodian areas held by the Communists. The 50-year-old prince has been living in the Chinese capital since a coup in 1970 while he was in Europe.

For one thing it created a lot of discussion and a lot of thought. I don't think nearly as much money will be spent next year on the pageant. "Since the editorial, I have talked to promoters and they said that next year they would ask for the funds before they go out and get somebody, instead of getting the talent and then asking for the money." A school spokesman said 500-600 persons attended Monday night's activities, "which is about normal." Miss Mitchell, daughter of Lt. Col. and Mrs.

C. P. Mitchell stands 5-foot-4 and has brown eyes. She was first alternate last year. First runncrup was Judy Bailey of Clinton, 20, a sophomore marketing major.

Marilynn Winbush, a 19-year-old sophomore, became the first black to make the top five in the pageant's history and second black to make the top 10 by being named second alternate. Other runnersup were Julia Muse of Meridian, third alternate, and Kaye Hillman of Richton, fourth alternate. Twenty-three girls vied for the crown. Katzenbach was attorney general under the late President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Foreign Relations committee session was one of the two Senate hearings opening today on legislation to limit presidential powers. A bill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would put a 30-day limit on presidential use of the armed forces abroad without congressional approval. leaders of a special Senate committee proposed a similar limitation on extraordinary presidential powers upon proclamation of a national emergency. Sens. Frank Church, D-Idaho, and Charles McC.

Mathias, said staff research for their special committee on Termination of the National Emergency discloses that the United States has been in a continuous state of emergency for 40 years with at least 580 laws giving the president extra powers during such an emergency. Church and Mathias said under some of those powers the president may "seize properties, mobilize production, seize commodities, institute martial law, seize control of all transportation and communications, regulate private capital, restrict travel, and, in a host of particular ways, control the activities of all American citizens." Search halted for victims of plane crash HOCHWALD, Switzerland (AP) Swiss authorities halted the search today for victims still missing after the crash of a British charter plane in which more than 100 persons died. Rescue chief Kurt Lier, a Basel attorney, told a news conference continuing snowfalls had covered the twisted wreck of the four-engine turboprop airliner, making further search impossible. He said nine of the 138 not 139 as originally reported passengers and six crew were still missing and believed buried deep in the front section of the plane, which broke in two on impact near here Tuesday. A total of 39, including two hostesses on the Invicta Charter Co.

flight, survived in the tail section. Neither victims nor survivors were named. Most of the survivors were to be flown to England tonight. Auto- (Continued from page 1) grams per mile compared with the 3.0 grams permitted in 1974. Instead, Ruckelshaus has now set the 1975 standard at 1.5 grams, exactly half the 1974 level, and he set a separate standard of 0.9 grams per mile for California in 1975.

AUTOGRAPH PARTY HONORING Power Johnson Dorothy OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION OF HER COOKBOOK NNB 1 htm JUlnl 01 By HARRISON HUMPHRIES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -Former Atty. Gen. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach endorsed today legislation to limit the war powers of the President. He expressed doubt however, that it would be effective in preventing another Vietnam-type involvement.

"Of necessity," he said, "the language is broad and the president who wishes to exploit its ambiguities has plenty of scope do do so." Furthermore, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when a President claims authority greater than the proposed 30-day limit on emergency use of U.S. troops, "he may simply ignore" it. U.S. Embassy- (Continued from page 1) the failure of the army and the police to crush the Israeli invaders. Most local newspapers said he had asked for the resignation of a "prominent official," believed to be the commander of the army, Maj.

Gen. Iskandar Ghanem. But rranjieh was cniHtnhnvp rnnlinnpft aaainst nremature action. The Palestine Liberation Organization charge that the i ry i 1 I nmru I iiiMiiiu f. Agency neipeu tonj uui urc 1 1 1 1 ilia Israeli attack, in which three Arab guerrilla leaders were killed, and that the U.

S. Embassv in Beirut gave refuge to some of the Israeli raiders. 1 1 1 4 i 4 .,..1 without foundation," said State Department spokesman Charles E. Bray in Washington, "It is mischievous and it has been denied categorically by our Embassy in Beirut." The charge raised fears in some quarters that the guerrillas would attack American businesses in the East. Israeli Premier Golda Meir praised Tuesday's raid as "a marvelous operation of exalted aims" and "an attack against murderers who have already killed and who planned to murder again." The military command in Tel Aviv reported that three Arab guerrillas crossed into the occupied Golan Heights from Syria a few hours after the raid on Beirut, but it said they blew themselves up while preparing an explosive charge for a sabotage mission.

Egypt denounced the Israeli raid oh Lebanon as 7'premeditated aggression" and military escalation in the Middle East. A spokesman in Cairo said Israeli "aggressive acts were being escalated proportionately with the increase in armaments she receives from the United States." He said the latest raid was aimed at showing the Arabs that Israel was "the dominating power in the area, but this will only heighten the determination of Egypt and other Arab countries to increase their support of the Palestinian resistance struggle. 330 PM USM BOOKSTORE ON THE THURSDAY, APRIL IX 1973 1.30 xuu" -jinn 00 Dot Johnson's cooking skill is recognized throughout Mississippi. From her youth, through the years in the Governor's Mansion (Mrs. Paul B.

Johnson, until the present, she has been collecting and perfecting recipes. Dinner With Dot lists over 400 of her favorites. Each is a sure delight. Dot will be at the USM Bookstore (located In the Hub on the USM campus) to autograph your copy of this delightful new cookbook. A special discount price of $3.95 will be offered during the party.

Regular price is $4.95. .85 SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE THURSDAY ONLY: $3.95 (Reg, price $4.95) PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI.

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