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Frldoy.Moy IS, If II Berry: Crackdown fvSjJ State must on speeding working armed prison trustys declined from 317 to 17.6 and over 65 from 7.5 to 3.9 percent Berry said the drunk driving law, which goes into effect July 1, should reduce the number of drunk drivers on the highway and "thus improve the security of all of us." He also reported that the Highway wi New licenses Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Sidney Berry explains the state's new drivers license system at a news conference Thursday. Berry also said that speeding and traffic deaths have declined under a program of tougher enforcement. (AP Laser-photo) Inmate housing plans under study by panel JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Safety Commissioner Sidney Berry credits tougher enforcement and citizen participation with the drop in highway deaths In Mississippi. "The law enforcement officers are enforcing the law they were sworn to enforce and more and more citizens voluntarily are observing the law and respecting it," Berry said.

Berry said Thursday that the number of highway deaths had fallen by 4 percent in the first three months of 1981 compared with the same period a year ago. There was a 7 percent drop in 1980 compared with 1979. He said there had been a "significant increase" In the number of speeding citations issued. He also reported that the 1981 Legislature had been "a banner year for law enforcement" in Mississippi. He cited legislation to stiffen the state's drunk driving law, to require color photographs on driver licenses and Implement a photo identification card for non-drivers and to set up minimum standards of selection, training and education of law en focement officers.

The drunk driving law reduced the definition of DWI from .15 of 1 percent blood alcohol content to .10 of 1 percent It also toughened penalties for driving while intoxicated and requires a 10-hour driver education course for first offenders. He said a Highway Department survey showed that in the first three months of the year, the number of cars exceeding the 55 mile per hour speed limit had fallen to 50.9 percent compared with 63.9 percent in 1980. He said the number of speeders going more than 60 was down from 27.8 to 16.5 percent and those traveling more than 65 had fallen "most dramatically" from 20.1 percent to 4.5 percent. For trucks, similar declines were recorded in the first three months, he said. The number of truckers exceeding 55 miles an hour was down from 66.4 to 50.8 percent while speeding over 60 NEW ORLEANS (AP) A federal appeals court has ruled that if Mississippi is going to let armed inmates guard fellow prisoners, that state must obey a 1972 order requiring it to screen the inmate guards for Thigpen says prison program may be halted MERIDIAN, Miss.

(AP) The Department of Corrections is considering closing Matty Hersee Hospital satellite prison here because of a grand Jury's recommendation that the program remain a temporary one, says Corrections Commissioner Morris Thigpen. Thigpen said he was "very concerned about the statement made in the grand jury report that We recommend that the satellite system as it now exists continue on a temporary basis until such time as the planned renovations are Thigpen said "if this statement is an indication of future events, then it would be better to close the unit and relocate the inmates presently housed at Matty Hersee rather than be kicked out at some later date." The unit at the state-supported hospital has been the subject of local controversy in recent months, including the suspension of a guard and charges that inmates were not supervised and were allowed to drink alcohol. He has been working with the Lauderdale County board of supervisors to get another satellite unit and restitution center set up in the county. Those plans were scrapped this spring after corrections officials said they did not believe there was enough community support for the planned 100-man unit. Finch says he knew he wouldnh stand chance in campaign BATESVTLLE, Miss.

(AP) In a sworn deposition filed here in Chancery Court, former Gov. Cliff Finch says he mounted his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1979 to get enough recognition to be able to open an international law office. Finch said in the deposition that he knew there was not "one chance in a million" that his campaign for the presidency in 1980 would be successful. "The main purpose was to try to get some national recognition so that we would have some credibility in setting up an international office," Finch said in the deposition, filed in connection with lawsuits that he and his former partners have cross-filed. In the suit set for hearing on June 10, Finch's former partners contend they agreed to pay Finch $1,000 a month rent on the building they occupied while he was governor, and $3,000 a month for any cases that he left when he took office in 1976.

But they contend that the firm's accountant, under Finch's direction, actually paid him $76,000 in 1976, $161,000 in 1977, $133,000 in 1978 and $135,000 in 1979. Patrol was buying more speed-detecting radar and equipment to measure the alcoholic content In drivers submitting to breath tests. Under current law, a driver with a .10 to .15 blood alcohol content reading can be declared to be driving under the influence of alcohol, a lesser offense than DWI. Berry said that for a person of average height and weight, the difference between .10 and .15 percent was the difference between drinking four 12-ounce beers or four one ounce shots of 100 proof liquor and drinking seven or eight beers and seven or eight shots within one hour. He said that in 1980 about 5,000 persons were found guilty of DUI and 12,000 of DWI.

The law requiring color photographs on driver licenses will aid law enforcement officers as well as merchants requiring the licenses for check identification, Berry said. The statute will be phased In over three years, starting with the October license renewals. Drivers whose current licenses end with an even number will be required to go to a licensing station to have their photograph taken for the new four-year license later this year. Other drivers will get theirs later as their old two-year licenses expire. Miss Wagner said she gave a lot of thought to entering a pageant and finally did it last year when she had a break in her bowling schedule.

She won. '1 never dreamed of winning," she said. "It was just unreal." Miss Wagner, from Seattle, went on to win the Miss Washington USA title. She began bowling at the age of 10 with her parents. She enjoyed it, and decided at 16 that she wanted to give the pro tour a shot She turned pro two years later.

She said she hopes to help change the image of women bowlers, whom she says are given little publicity. "You don't have to be 6 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds to be a bowler," she said. "You don't have to throw the ball like a truck driver. Just look at me." Mi USA contestant professional bowler Pap 3 screen mental, emotional and other problems. But the 5th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals also said Thursday that Mississippi prison officials had no responsibility to staff Its state penitentiary with the sort of specialist who might have averted surgery to remove inmate Arthur Jackson's left eye. 4 Jackson arrived at Parchman penitentiary in October, 1972, to begin serving a five-year prison term for armed robbery, according to court records. "On Feb. 6, 1973, Jackson and other prisoners were boarding a bus to be transported to a vocational school at the penitentiary," said the appeals court "As was the practice at that time, another prisoner designated as a 'trusty shooter was guarding these inmates with a shotgun. "Noticing that some inmates were pushing to the front of the line to get a seat on the bus, the trusty shooter fired a warning shot.

One of the pellets from this 00 buckshot load penetrated Jackson's left eyeball. "Jackson was taken to the prison's medical facilities where the doctor oh duty cleaned and dressed the wound. The doctor called the University Hospital in Jackson, for advice and was told to have Jackson transported to that hospital He did so. The drive took approximately three hours. At the University Hospital, Jackson's eye was surgically removed." by Ballou ngravd Frt A place for your initials too! Also nice a gift mo? QOVERLEAF MALL 525 MAIN JVP Hattlatburg American JACKSON, Miss.

(AP) Corrections Commissioner Morris Thigpen has warned the state Building Commission that at the rate judges were now committing prisoners to Parchman, there soon was "going to be an increased need for bed capacity" beyond that on hand and under construction. Thigpen said Parchman now had beds for 2,450 persons, with room for about another 1,500 to come in Unit 29 scheduled for completion next February. "I have some strong feelings about where those facilities should not be located," Thigpen said. "If we continue to build facilities at Parchman, we are gong to find it hard to find staff. We are having to draw in large measure from displaced farm workers." Meanwhile, the Building Commission agreed Thursday to consider using both Corrections Department and outside experts in a long-range study of where and how to build future convict housing.

Gov. William Winter, the commission chairman, first suggested that the study "concentrate on creating a more decentralized penal system," but later directed the staff to submit proposals next month for a broader study. The question of whether to continue concentrating inmate housing at the state penitentiary at Parchman or to set up satellite units across the state has constituted a running controversy in recent years. The Legislature added $100,000 to the next Corrections budget for a study designed to provide guidance. While Winter made clear that he supports the Department of Corrections in its efforts to decentralize facilities, he concurred in a broader study when he questioned members and learned that some were not familiar with options.

He told them, "I've just dealt with it so much." He conceded that the authority of local officials to veto plans for satellite facilities would be a problem but added: "This responsibility has got to be shared." Commission director James Chastain said the staff felt there was sufficient information available from the Department of Corrections to provide the bases for decisions, and the Research and Development Center had agreed to help develop data on the number of people available in different areas for work in corrections facilities. Chastain said that the commission staff felt a study should have two major assignments: assessing what is available and whether there were enough people in the Parchman area to BILOXI, Miss. AP) Leila Wagner, Miss Washington, has a talent that makes her stand out from the other 50 contestants in the Miss USA Pageant. She's a professional bowler. At 5-foot-7 and 110 pounds, Miss Waganer doesn't look like your typical bowler.

You Just can't picture the strawberry blonde beauty rolling a 16-pound bowling ball in between the gutters. But it was her bowling prowess that eventually got her interest in beauty pageants. "When I was traveling on the tour from place ot place I would start talking with people and they would ask me what I did," said the 20-year-old, who has been bowling professionally since she was 18. "It just blew their mind when I told them I was a professional bowler. They told me I ought to be in beauty pageants." staff larger facilities; and "if Parchman is not there, what?" He said that by comparing Parchman as it was and could be with alternatives, "the commission members can choose.

Once we sift it down so we can really see the facts, we can come up with a plan." Chastain also said that while the commission might not want to hire a consultant to make the study there would be nothing but a piece of paper when he left, "we want his contributions." Winter suggested that the commission staff "be in a position to give us some guidance" at its June meeting on how to proceed with the study. On the staffing problem, Thigpen said the department already faced difficulty in finding the 320 persons it would take to staff Unit 29. Thigpen recommended that new facilities be located in areas from which large numbers of inmates were sent to Parchman, and listed Central Mississippi-Hinds County and the Harrison-Jackson County area as prime locations. He said Parchman would continue to house the violent and habitual offenders. He also reported that most other Southern states use decentralized facilities, that institutions with more than 500 inmates cannot receive ac-creditiation, and decentralization here is complicated because of the law letting local authorities veto plans for satellite units in their areas.

When Winter asked what could be -done to overcome local opposition to satellite units, Thigpen said, "I think it is, in large part, an educational process." Member Delos Burks of Picayune questioned local opposition to satellite facilities because of the overflow at Parchman "they use the county Jails anyway." And Thigpen said that many of these facilities "leave an awful lot to be desired." Thigpen said the that Corrections Department would like to supply a many of its manpower needs by promoting personnel through the ranks, but that in the past political patronage had made this impossible. Seen and heard Hattiesburg Lodge No. 397, will confer the Master Mason degree at 7 p.m. Monday, May 18, at the Masonic Temple, 700 Main St. All Master Masons are invited.

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