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LOCAL WEATHER Partly cloudy through Highs today 70 75. Lows tonight in the 50s. Some warmer Thursday with highs 75-80. AMEKICAN VOL. LXXV-No.

251 10c HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY OCT. 21, 1970 Associated Press Mows and Wirephoto -few (Mr? trrei in ujRT WHiits, nyi la ut still will not resume peace talks until Soviet missiles out By TOM HOGE Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS. they could not be guilty of any violation, The Middle East log jam was due for a detailed going over today in the Security Council, which scheduled the first meet (AP) Israeli Premier Golda ing at the foreign ministers' level in its history to discuss war and peace issues. At least 12 of the 15 nations of the council were to be represented by their foreign ministers, including Rogers, Gromyko, Sir Alec Douglas-Home of Britain and Maurice Schumann of France. The meeting, called as part of the silver anniversary session of (Continued on Page 12) Meir announced today her government is prepared to extend the Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire indefinitely.

She insisted, however, that Israel will not resume Middle OPERATION Paratroops OFFSTAGE MILITARY brought from Edmonton check activity on rooftops and hered for the funeral of Pierre Laporte, Quebec labor minister killed by political terrorists. Soldiers and police in large numbers stood by near the church. (CP upper floors of buildings Dame church Tuesday, as East peace talks until Egypt surrounding Montreal's Notre scores of political leaders gat withdraws 5AM2 and SAM3 missiles allegedly shifted in the C. I r-m Administration denies Viet cease-fire report ouez wanai zone in violation of the Aug. 7 standstill agreement.

Coroner report says Laporte Mrs. Meir spoke at the silver anniversary session of the 127. nation U.N. General Assembly. She rejected Egypt's charges WASHINGTON (AP) South- that Israel and the United east Asian experts speculated States had undermined the talks today the United States and the strangled to death with chain fire in South Vietnam-but the White House promptly Issued a denial.

Presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, referring to wrucn oegan Aug. under the Saigon government would de guidance of special U.N. envoy clare shortly a unilateral cease MONTREAL (AP) The ter uunnar v. jarring, it was Egypt, she said, who was re- rorist kidnapers of Pierre La sponsible.

porte strangled the Quebec la- the five-point peace proposal made last month by President Nixon said: "We plan no announcements beyond the ones we already have made on Vietnam." Ziegler said the White House believes that negotiation "is the quickest way to gain a peace in Vietnam and Indochina and that is the path we are pursuing." "We do not plan to announce any further initiatives," he said. In Saigon, meantime, there were indications the South Viet called police three times during the night to discuss the provincial governments offer to give safe conduct to Cuba for the kid-But shortly before noon police said the calls were "probably a joke in very bad taste." The Quebec Provincial Police said a man believed to be the anonymous caller had been picked up. "The Arab states violated th Police believe auto killers used found armistice agreements of 1949." she said. "They nullified the ar rangements concluded in 1957, they unilaterally destroyed the cease-fire resolution of 1967 by Provincial police said they were still holding 245 of 343 persons arrested in their investigation into the kidnaping of Cross and the kidnap-murder of Provincial Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. Members of the Quebec Liberation Front, or FLQ, took Cross from his Montreal home Oct.

5 and kidnaped Laporte five days later. They murdered Laporte after the Canadian government refused to release 23 FLQ men serving prison terms or awaiting trial, invoked the War Meas. ures Act, and launched an inten 12,000 Iraq troops pull out of Jordan surgeon with a thriving practice, had been shot once more than the rest. He had an extra embarking on a 'war of attrition's against Israel, and now Egypt is undermining the Amer oor minister with a chain twisted around his neck, the coroner's office reported today. The chain was still around the tieck when the body was found early Sunday in a Montreal suburb, Coroner Laurin Lapointe said.

First police reports had said Laporte was shot in the bead. The body bore three superfi-cial wounds, on the right hand, the left wrist, and the upper right chest, all inflicted before death, the coroner added. Time of death from asphyxiation was given as between noon and 11 p.m. Saturday, a week! shot in the back. Sheriff Douglas James of San ta Cruz County said two fire By JACK SCHREIBMAN Associated Press Writer SANTA CRUZ, Calif.

(AP) -Investigators say they have found the car killers apparently used4o8scape-from a 'burning hilltop mansion where a wealthy eye surgeon, his wife, two young sons and secretary were bound, shot to death and dumped into a ican peace initiative by flagrantly violating the cease-fire standstill agreement. "It is these violations wh'wh arms may have been used ap By HARRY DUNPHY Associated Press Writer AMMAN. Jordan (API ThP namese government was preparing for a one-sided truce. Several Saigon newspapers carried reports today that Pres' ident Nguyen Van Thieu had instructed all province chiefs and mayors to give maximum protection to the land and people under government control in order to be ready for a cease-fire. Informed sources said Thieu's war.

Since then they have been involved in a handful of artillery clashes with tiu parently a .38 and a .22. have halted all progress toward peace despite Israel's earnest Autopsies and other aspects of the investigation continued un wvwc auu have been more of a headache 4- II ii A commitment toward its quest. 12,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan since the 1967 Middle East war are pulling out and swimming pool. As lone as the present hrearhps io nussin man to Israel. Syrian forces stationed in The green oldsmobile station continue there can be no hope sive police and army manhunt across Quebec Province.

Laporte was buried Tuesday after heavily guarded funeral services at Montreal's Notre i will compete their withdrawal wagon belonging to Virginia for the resumption of meaning- Northern Jordan and the Iraqis Thursday night, informed Jor atter Laporte was kidnaped by a cell of the seoaratist Oi were supposed to torm the instructions were to eliminate as efficiently as possible any unta was found Tuesday by the engineer of a Southern Pacific tui negotiations. Her statement aDDeared to much talked about "Eastern Liberation front from in front of Viet Cong or Viet Cone sympa train in a railway tunnel a few der close secrecy. Authorities did not link the Ohta slayings with another of similar characteristics discovered Tuesday morning 30 miles north of Santa Cruz at Saratoga. A filling station attendant, Thomas DeCecco, 19, was found bound and shot in the back of (Continued on Page 12) danian sources said today. The informants said Jordanian troops were stationed on the border with Iraa to super- Dame Roman Catholic church attended by his family and nearly 300 politicians headed by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott thizers who attempted to "show miies norm of here.

front against Israel." But quarrels broke out between the Iraqis and the Syrians earlv this the flag'' or claim land as being The engineer said the car was vise the withdrawal. year, and there were mutual ac not there when he went up the under Viet Cong control following a cease-fire. They said Jordanian officers Trudeau and Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa. cusations that the other country was not rinino itc cham I tighten still further the deadlock over the missile controversy. Egypt has stated flatly that it wop not mo-e a single missile.

Mrs. Meir directed a special appeal to Arab leaders to join in trying to restore mutual confidence and in seeking to guide the Middle East "to the horizons of peace." narrow, forested canyon at p.m. but was burning in the tun had foiled an attempt bv the (Continued on Page 12) (Continued on Page 12) 'ft lo uutut, bis home. A brief, two-minute statement the coroner read to reporters said the chain on Laporte's neck had been twisted from behind. In the continuing hunt for the kidnapers of Laporte and James Richard Cross, the British trade commissioner in Montreal, police picked up two men in suburban St.

Leonard. nel when he came back down at Iraqis to crate up Jordanian equipment and take it home Rep. Montgomery 4:45. He used the train to push the car out of the tunnel. with them.

T' ftine Hussein tnrt a name No one was seen at the time, conference last week the Iraqis September living costs rise again WOUld be askerf to Ipave and Her speech, to be followed by the major policy of Andrei A Gromvko. of southern Pacific officials said. Sheriff's deputies out un Says radical students seek to destroy ROTC Prime Minister Ahmed Toukan met Monday with Iraqi dinlo- roadblocks and began question fered a preview of the formal Police would give no details except to report that the men were being questioned in the kidnaping of Cross Oct. 5. The arrests came after a man mats to present the request for mally the informants reported The report of a grand iurv By NEIL GILBRIDE AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (API The Maj.

Gen. Hassan Naqib, on the rioting at Kent State university is further evidence of biased conclusions reached pace of rising living costs ouick- Middle East debate slated for next week. Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister, was certain to echo Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad's denial that either Egypt or the Soviet Union had violated the cease-fire. Gromyko is re ened again in September, going by the President's Commission commander of Iraqi forces in Jordan, was ordered home during the weekend after a power struggle in Baghdad in which Vice President Hardan Takriti was ousted. Leaders of Iran's ruline Raath on Campus Violence, Rep.

G. up tour-tenths of one per cent because of hieher Drirps fnr monthly hikes in several years of two-tenths of one per cent. The September rise pushed the consumer price index to 136.6, meaning it cost $13.6 last month for every $10 worth of typical family purchases in the 1957-59 period on which the index is based. However, the bureau noted there still was an easing of the nation's worst inflatinn in V. (Sonny) Montgomery said clothing, housing and consumer today.

ported to have told Secretary of ing pedestrians and vehicle occupants along nearby California 9. Mrs. Ohta, 43, her husband, Dr. Victor OTita, 45, their two sons, Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11, and a secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader, 38, were found, bound and shot in the back of the head, in the swimming pool at Dr. Ohta's $250,000 hilltop home a few miles east of here Monday night.

The home, several hundred yards from the nearest neighbor, was burning fiercely from fires set throughout its 10 rooms, sheriff's officers said. Dr. Ohta, an ophthalmological The lawmaker spoke at an services, the government reported today. party came under sham criti State William r. Rogers that since the Russians were not a that it runs contrary to the conclusions reached by the Scran-ton Commission," Montgomery said.

The Congressman pointed out that under the law grand juries must reach conclusions based on evidence presented and are instructed not to let personal prejudices enter into their decisions. "We in America are lucky to have a court of laws to determine the guilt or innocence of people rather than having to rely on conclusions reached by highly questionable and ob -(Continued on Pace 12) ROTC luncheon at the Univer The Bureau of Labor Statis cism after the Iraqi force failed party to any cease-fire deal, sity of Southern Mississippi hon tics said last month's rise was Bill Colmer announces for re-election Congressman Bill Colmer, of the 5th Congressional District, today formally announced his candidacy for re election in the Nov. 3 general election. Colmer has sarved in U. S.

Congress longer than any Mississippian in history. He is the third ranking member of the House of Representatives. oring Distinguished Military even higher on a seasonally ad- Students. jusiea oasis-tive-tenths of one "The indictments returned by per cent. the Kent, grand jury against John Vaught suffers mild come to the aid of the Palestinian guerrillas in the civil war in Jordan last month.

The Iraqis had repeatedly pledged assistance for the guerrillas, but when the fighting broke out they did nothing. The Iraqi forces came to Jordan after the 1967 Arab-Israeli The September risP somewhat years. It said the seasonally-adjusted annual rate of increase had declined to 4.2 per cent in the third quarter of 1970 from 5.8 per cent in the second quarter and 6.3 per cent in the first dampened Nixon admini stratinn some 25 students and the grand jury's exoneration of the Ohio National Guard is significant in hopes for its anti-inflation cam paign that had been raisprf in quarter of the year. August by one of the smallest heart attack the September report said grocery prices declined three- tenths of one per cent, but be cause they usually drop more in Native of Hattiesburg Body of missing 16-year-old girl is found in the woods nidi monm it was figured as a where seniority is the most po-tnet asset a Congressman can have for the benefit of his constituents and the country By virtue of the fact that the people of South Mississippi have kept him in Congress these many years, he four years ago became chairman of the powerful Rules Committee of the (Continued On Page 12) OXFORD, Miss (AP) -Coach John Vaught of Mississippi suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday night and will miss the team's game at Van-derbilt this weekend. The University reported today.

Vaught, 62, was stricken with what the university termed "a mild angina attack" and was hospialized at Oxford. The university announcement PASADENA, Md. Officers rise ot tour-tenths on a seasonal basis. In other major categories, clothing prices rose 1.6 per cent for the month, housing six-tenths, medical care five-tenths, transportation three -tenthc anH said today there are no appar ent clues or suspects in death of 16 year old Pamela Lynn Conyers whose body was was found Monday night off an unused portion of Maryland Highway 177 after about 100 law officers launched a search. The fully clothed body was found at 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday about '200 yards from the spot where the car was located. Det. Sgt. Vince Frantom said recreation four-tenths. gave no other information on his condition but Chancellor About 70,000 workers with (Continued On Page 12) The weather lound luesday morning in a wooded area in this sector.

The girl, a native of Hattiesburg, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Conyers of Glen Burnev. mh Porter Fortune said assistant (Continued on Page 12) coach Frank "Bruiser" Kinard would be acting head coach Sa turday. The university said The family moved to Maryland Vaught had no history of heart trouble and there was no word years ago from Mississippi.

Both the girl's parents are frnm on how long he would be hos Hattiesburg and survivors in pitalized. ciuae me grandparents The Vanderbilt Eame. which live in Hattiesburg- Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Haeenson and Official weather report: 9 a.

m. temperature 58 degrees. Highest 68 and lowest 56 during preceding 24 hours. No rainfall. River stage li.l ft.

Extended forecast: South Mississippi: Partly cloudy Friday through Sunday. Lows Friday in the upper 50s and highs in the lower 80s. Turning a little cooler Saturday and Saturday nieht with lows 4 would be Vaught's 250th at Ole will be the first he has missed since becoming coach in 1947. Mrs. H.

W. Gilmore. Discovery of the body follow lii ed a three day search. Vaught's attack came a week Miss Conyers. a hieh schnnl junior, vanished in the familv after athletic director C.

M. "Tad" Smith suffered a heart attack at his home. Smith was car last Friday night while on BEFORE LUNCHEON Rep. G. V.

(Sonny) Montgomery, left, talks today with Col. James Echols prior to addressing Distinguished Military Stusents at USM. Col. Echols is chairman of the Depa ment of Military Science at the university and is showing the Mississippi congressman a brochure used to encourage ROTC enrollment at the schooL (Staff Photo by Robert Miller) Sunday in the UDDcr 40s tn un- BILL COLMER a stropping errand. The vehicle PAJIELA CONYERS per 50s and highs in the 70s.

reported in good condition..

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