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ORLANDO EVENING STAR Final Page 16C ACTION CENTER OF FLORIDA 93rd Year -Number 67 Classified GA 3-8511, Others GA 3-4411 Orlando, Florida, Thursday, March 20, 1969 10 Cents Copyright 1969 Sentinel Star Co. KILLER'S MOTHER JAILED Apopka Only Two In Gary Murray's English On Marijuana Pot Boiling Last in a Series By ALTON BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Writer Some controversies over marijuana are growing warmer. Should "pot" be legalized? Or, at least, should severe penalties for possessing it be reduced? PROPONENTS of legalizing it are apparently growing in number. They argue it is less dangerous than alcohol, Weather Report Orlando and vicinity: Mostly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.

High temperatures both days near 80 degrees, tonight's low near 60. Variable winds 5 to 15 m.p.h. (Observations at Herndon Airport) ORLANDO TEMPERATURES High Wednesday 72 Overnight low 50 Mean 63 Normal 9 10 11 53 53 52 50 51 51 51 55 62 68 71 74 Barometer: a.m, Thursday 30.13 inches: 10 a.m. 30.18 inches; noon 30.16 inches. Relative humidity: 7 a.m.

Thursday 93 per cent; 10 a.m. 59 per cent; noon 45 per cent. Precipitation: 24 hours ending midnight None; month's total 4.99 inches: normal for March 3.41 inches: year's total 10.51 inches; excess through February 1.10 inches. Highest wind velocity Wednesday: 17 m.p.h. from at 7 a.m.

Sunset Thursday 6:37, sunrise Friday 6:287 moonrise 7:38 a.m.. moonsel 9:18 p.m. Evening stars: Venus, Saturn. Morning stars: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter. National weather, state and marine forecasts, tide tables on Page 5D.

Stocks 68 Pages Boycott Star Photo by Richard Shepherd Sings CIA? LIZA MINELLI Gorton's "glad" but the debate was carried out "under privilege" which means the substance of the charges could not be made public. Carries Gun Into Court Two High Schools Still Open By GLORIA MELTZER Star Education Writer A parent-backed boycott of Northwest Orange County schools kept 3,270 children out of classes. Thursday protesting the school board's latest desegregation plan. Normal attendance is about 5,500. Two Apopka high schools were almost empty but still operating in the second boycott which has struck this school system within three weeks.

ATTENDANCE was more than halved at several of the elementary schools. Black and white citizens of Apopka Wednesday night gave resounding approval to the boycott plan at a mass meeting. They are protesting proposed closing of all-Negro Phyllis Wheatley JuniorSenior High School. THE MOVE would mean all Apopka area seventh and eighth grade students from Wheatley and predominantly white Apopka Memorial High School would attend classes next year in an all-portable school. All senior high students would attend Apopka Memorial if the court approves the plan.

Leaders of the Apopka citizens committee said the boycott will continue until A Roll Call School Absent Normal Apopka Mem. High 1,254 1,589 Wheat. H. 624 740 Dream Lake 436 735 Apopka 97 434 Lovell 310 833 Wheatley Elm. 410 769 Zellwood 96 280 Douglass 43 124 the school board responds to their demands.

FEB. 27-28, an all-black boycott of Negro schools was staged with between students from Orlando, West Orange and northwest Orange Negro schools. This resulted in both the NAACP and the school board dropping an earlier controversial plan. Another countywide boycott of schools is planned for Monday by black students and the Orlando Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. They, want the school board to maintain black schools, with full integration.

School Supt. James Higginbotham said Thursday no legal action against boycott leaders was planned at this time. WEDNESDAY night, at the request of school officials, the county solicitor served notice at the Apopka meeting persons who encouraged students to stay away from school would be subject to criminal prosecution. Higginbotham encouraged parents to send (3,270 HEED BOYCOTT Continued On Page 2A) By DON RIDER Staff Writer Ada Mae Arrant, mother of convicted murderer Harvey D. Arrant, was jailed Thursday morning for carrying a concealed weapon into the courtroom of the judge who sentenced her.

son to life imprisonment. Mrs. Arrant and Harvey's wife, Mary, returned to Judge Roger Barker's courtroom as spectators Thursday while he had a new trial under way. HARVEY ARRANT was found guilty the day before, sentenced and carried back to custody by a U. S.

Marshal for return to Atlanta, where he has eight months to serve in the federal penitentiary on a moonshining conviction. The two Mrs. Arrants left the courtroom during a recess and bailiffs Bill Simmers and Mrs. Marseille Sabin escorted them to a witness room where they looked into their handbags. The bailiffs found a 25- caliber Beretta automatic in the elder Mrs.

Arrant's purse and put her in county jail. COUNTY Solicitor Collis White filed a direct infor. mation against her for possession of a concealed weapon and had arrest papers served on her in jail all within an hour after the incident. Criminal Court Judge Warren H. Edwards set a bond for $5,000 returnable Monday at 9 a.m.

Attorneys Herb Gillis and Bill Barnett, whose firm represented Mary Arrant during the trial when she refused to testify, immediately tried to raise bail. Class At Apopka Lodge Reports Progress PARIS (Reuters) Chief U.S. delegate Henry Cabot Lodge said there was "some progress" at the ninth session of the enlarged Vietnam peace talks today despite continu'ing charges each side was intensifying the war. Lodge said no firm offers were exchanged but each side has "a better understanding of each other's positions and of facts." AFTER leaving the fourhour session, the U.S. delegate said he sought, to correct allegations that the Nixon administration had intensified the war.

"This was very definitely not the case as, of course I was able to demonstrate," he said. The Viet Cong charged the U.S. with planning to maintain American troops in South Vietnam indefinitely. TRAN BUU KIEM, chief Viet Cong delegate here, said the presence of U.S. troops in South Vietnam was "brazen violation of the independence and sovereignty of South Vietnam The 'demands came a day after U.S.

Defense Secretary Melvin S. Laird said he saw "no indication" the U.S. could make a "significant reduction" in its commitments to South Vietnam. Memorial U.S. War Toll Hits 33,063 SAIGON (P) The U.S.

Command announced today that 351 Americans were killed in action in Vietnam last week, pushing the total of U.S. battlefield dead to 10,112 in the 10 months since the Paris peace talks began and to 33,063 in more than eight years of war. The American toll last week was 15 more than the previous week's total and raised the number of Americans killed in the first three weeks of the Viet Cong's spring offensive to 1,140, only 240 less than the 1,380 U.S. troops reported killed during the eight weeks of 1969 prior to the offensive. IF THE current casualty rate continues the total of American dead in the Vietnam war will exceed the Korean war toll of 33,629 by the end of this month.

More Americans then will have been killed in Vietnam than in any other war in U.S. history except the Civil War and the two world wars. The U.S. Command said 1,401 Americans were wounded last week, compared with 1,694 the week before. The enemy toll for the first three weeks of the offensive is 15,099 dead according to allied figures.

As the enemy's offensive rolled into its 26th day with no end in sight, U.S. headquarters reported about 30 rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns Wednesday night. Liza For which kills thousands of Americans each year. No one becomes physically addicted to pot, they add, and it doesn't kill anyone unless he accidentally harms himself under its influence. MARIJUANA, they assert, is safer than smoking regular cigarettes.

Proponents hold that people should have a right to enjoy a mild drug that of brings them a sense well-being, that offers a way to relax, to fantasize, to have social and intellectual communion with other people. They argue that if pot were made legal, many drinkers would give up alcohol -in favor of marijuana. OPPONENTS counter that alcohol is so badly abused that five to six million Americans are outright alcoholics, and that marijuana has the same potential to produce an equal or greater number of people who would have problems from pot. "Because we have rumheads, there is no reason to have is one argument. Opponents question that many alcoholics would give up booze, and that six million "marijuanics" might come along atop all the alcoholics.

THE cigarette smoker, they add, can go about his (POT BOILSBack Page This Section) CANBERRA, Australia (P) The Australian House of Representatives voted today not to investigate scandal charges involving Prime Minister John Gorton and actresssinger Liza Minelli. One of the charges was that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency paid $15,000 for an article about Gorton which Miss Minelli had written and then sold it to African, European and American publications. Defending himself in the House the 57-year-old Gorton said he had been the subject of a scurrilous whispering campaign. "I am glad it has now been brought into the open," he declared.

Gorton said he was satisfied with his own conduct and that Miss Minelli, the 22-year-old daughter of singer Judy Garland, had said the whole thing was "a pack of lies." An opposition member, Albert James, told the House that an Australian gossip sheet called Things I Hear had reported that Miss Minelli, who visited the country last year, had written the article for the British magazine Private Eye in which she "recounted what she claims were her experiences with the leading Australian political figure." The alleged contents of the article were discussed NO EXPLANATION was given as to what the two women's intentions might have been. In the courtroom with Judge Barker was State Attorney Robert Eagan who prosecuted Arrant and all the jurors who found him guilty. The Arrants live in Walton County in northwest Florida. BULLETIN Tumor Found WASHINGTON (P) Sen. Richard B.

Russell, one of the most powerful men in Congress, announced Thursday he will immediately undergo balt treatments for a lung tumor. "I think it is fair to assume it is the senator said in a tape recording played to newsmen by his press aide. WHAT'S NEW INSIDE ME THE GLENN MILLER sound lives on. The Miller influence is mulled by Bill Frangus in Jazz Is My Beat Page 19A. Classified 5D A GOOD time was had by Comics 20C all at Orlando Pre- Deaths 22C sents Page 3A.

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