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Page 4 The Clarksdale Press Registal Monday Afternoon, July 3, 1972 Break-In Investigated Here Today In World History "i111 54-45i Nov. So. Motorola Quasar Autharh Silts and tcrvlc Youngblood Electronic! Hijacking Over Vietnam Thwarted Police reported break-in Sunday at the Delta Wholesale Hardware. According to police the entry was made by breaking out a window on the South side of the building. There was $35.00 in change taken from the coke machine but there were no arrests made in connection with the crime.

The coke machine was broken into at Hobo's Standard Station on First St. Friday. Reported missing was a couple of dollars. No arrests were made in connection with the break in. Over the week end 56 arrests were made, most of which were only routine.

There were six minor accidents reported. Hospital Notes DISMISSED Mrs. Robert E. Bobo Sr. Mrs.

Viola Burroughs James Floyd Roberson John Boyd Roberson Mrs. John A. Stevenson Mrs. Lee Etta Hunter Mrs. Charles Ashcraft Mrs.

Claude Jones Mrs. E. E. Allen Mrs. Lillian Lumpkin R.

F. Workman Sr. James L. McMinn By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Monday, July 3, the 185th day of 1972. There are 181 days left in the year.

Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1962, Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule. On this date: In 1606, the fTench explorer, Samuel de Champlain, laid the SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed pas OPEN ON TKE 4th OF JULY 8 A.M. TIL 8 P.M. Mil li -iliT- i apiyi ii law HWUHW tt'Wfe- 6- i jr I I i 1 ki.

Jf v-t foundations of the Canadian city of Quebec. In 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass. In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg ended after Confederate Gen. George E. Pickett's troops suffered severe losses in his famous charge.

In 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state. In 1898, the U.S. Navy defeated the Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, dur i Miss Retha Mae Dugan Miss Rearlie L. Brassell Wayne T. Wagsrener Sr.

i Lenard Rochelle I Mrs. Pinkey Lee Mrs. Carl Milton Morhead Ernestine Spencer Larry Brasher I Chris Scarbrough Rev. Leslie Nabors Jr. Mrs.

Jessie Tolivar I Lanny Cotton Mrs. James McGregory Mrs. Mary Etta Bailey Mrs. Pauline Franks Frank Sanders Mrs. Mary W.

Welch Mrs. Ward Hudson Mrs. Estella Wulbert Balmer Whitman Mrs. Jon H. Barnwell and baby girl Kam C.

Wong Joe Stephanie Reid Frank Weston Miss Mary Elise Farmer Edward Giles senger aunaay. hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S. government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The 135 other passengers were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion.

To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two home ing the Spanish-American War. In 1950, U.S. and North Korean troops clashed for the first time the Korean War. Ten years ago: The Soviet government denied that North Vietnam was supporting the rebel movement in South SPRING AND SUMMER MERCHANDISE! GIRLS' and BOYS' INFANT and TODDLER WEAR GIRLS' DRESSES, PAJAMAS, GOWNS, SHORTS, TOPS, SHORT SETS, SLACKS, SKIRTS, SWIM WEAR BOYS' SHORT PANTS, SPORT COATS and SUITS, SWIM WEAR JUNIOR JR.

PETITE DRESSES, PANT SUITS, SHORT SETS, HOT PANTS, SLACKS, JEANS, BLOUSES, TOPS MISSES DRESSES, PANT SUITS, SLACKS, JEANS, SHORTS, BLOUSES, TOPS, PANT DRESSES All Sale Items Cash and Final Master Charge BankAmericard Welcome. Five years ago: North Viet namese forces attacked a U.S. Marine base just below the de militarized zone in Vietnam, in flicting 200 American causal- Busted Louis Damesworth (right) was arrested Sunday in what was termed "the largest drug raid in a non-metropolitan area of Mississippi." The arrests were made in Louisville by local and state officers. Damesworth was charged with selling marijuana. ties.

Mrs. Claude Mansker David Dyess Miss Nancy Bland Mrs. A. L. Ward Mrs.

Willie B. Ford Mrs. H. B. Bouchillon Miss Mary Alice Williams Rayfield Averyhart Irvin Jacobson Lisa 0Brian John W.

Massey Miss Michele Worden Mrs. Lillian Suddoth Mrs. Dorothy Aust Shannon Baronuski One year ago: Indonesians went to the polls in that coun try first national election in 16 years. Today's birthdays: Russian circus clown Oleg Popov is 42. Eight Charged In Drug Case former New Jersey Gov.

Rob Flooded Area Prompts Action WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. ert Meyner is 64. Thought for today: Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, 1854-1900. James O. Eastland, said today he supported quick made grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded.

But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its San Francisco-to-Saigon flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu grabbed a stewardess as a hostage and sent two notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi. The hijacker, in the rear pas-s compartment, also talked with the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scottsdale, over the intercom.

"I am doing this for revenge," Vaughn said he told him. "Your bombers are maiming and killing our people of the congressional action to approve PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES CAMERAS EQUIPMENT DARK ROOM SUPPLIES FILM AND FILM PROCESSUS FRANCHISEO KODAK Smuggling Ring Destroyed (Continued from Page One) Diaz on May 30 had told Harper in Eagle Pass, that he had "two letters of credit, each for which he was going to use to purchase the LOCATED IN WESTGATE SHOPPING CENTER KONICA POLAROID ROLLEI MINOLTA VASHICA OMEGA See Bob Friedman At Film Associates. Inc. LOUISVILLE. Miss.

(AP) -Eight persons face charges of sale of marijuana today following their arrests in Winston County by state Narcotics Bu- reau officers. The eight were among the first charged under Mississippi's new drug control law, which relaxes penalties for simple possession of marijuana and tightens statute on sale of illegal drugs. Conviction cn a charge of sale of marijuana carries maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and or a $15,000 fine, under the new law. Six of the persons arrested Sunday were from the Winston County-Louisville area and two ere from Starkville, according PLENTY OF FREE PARKING! emergency mnds or tlood-rav-aged northeastern states. The Mississippi Democrat praised the Senate for its action on a presidential request for $200 million in supplemental appropriations to aid victims of widespread flooding caused by rains from hurricane Agnes.

The request for emergency funds came in the wake of the season's first hurricane. Eastland noted that "when Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf coast in 1969, America opened its heart and its pocketbook to help us recover. I firmly believe that we should do the same for the victims of the floods of 1972." Clarksdele, guns. Federal agents said that the charges also alleged that there was a conspiracy also to sell around 3,000 rifles and 1,000 submachine guns, with 500 rounds of ammunition for each gun, valued at approximately $625,000. This was in addition to the explosives mentioned in the 4a Democratic Kepublic of North Vietnam.

You are going to fly me to Hanoi and this airplane will be destroyed when we get there." Authorities withheld the tijime of the "passenger who shot Binh. The pilot said the man had checked his .357 Magnum pistol with him when he boarded the plane and that before confronting the hijacker he returned it and asked the man to help. charge. Recent Move The complaint said that last to tne iMarcotics Bureau. Officers labeled the roundup the largest made yet in a non-metropolitan area of the state.

The arrests reportedly climaxed a two-month investigation during which some $5,500 in illegal drugs was allegedly bought. Paratroopers To Keep Eyes On Convention U.S. Spending Must Be Cut WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon said cuts will have to be made in other federal programs to finance the 20 per cent increase in Social Security benefits voted by Congress. Nixon issued the warning Saturday in signing the increase which will go into effect in September and is the biggest money increase in the history of the Social Security program. He didn't mention the other programs that might be trimmed.

Nixon, who favored a 10 per cent hike, said the increase voted by Congress will increase the budget deficit by $3.7 billion. The Social Security increase was attached as a rider to a bill to extend the nation's debt ceiling of $450 billion through Oct. 31. The bill was vital to Friday Kessler told Carlos Diaz that he had no M-16 rifles, but he had the C-4 as per their agreement." A rental aircraft was flown that afternoon from Hammond, to Shreveport, the complaint said. "A rental van then went to the South Western Pipe Co.

in Shreveport and then picked up 13,500 pounds of a plastic explosive commonly known as C-4," the complaint said. "The explosive was then transported back to the site where the DC-4 aircraft was being kept and per an agreement between Kessler and Diaz, the explosives were loaded onto the aircraft," it said. Federal agents then moved in. Arrested in Shreveport were James M. Miller Jr.

and Joseph Mazzuka, both of Baton Rouge, Arthur Henry Lus-sier of Fort Lauderdale, Chess Match Near Collapse REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world chess championship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Bobby Fischer's deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer, the American chess was reported sticking to his demand for more WASHINGTON (AP) -The Army will station between 1,000 and 3,000 paratroopers near Miami by the time the Demo cratic National Convention opens a week from today. Defense officials said the timing and eventual size of the fed eral-troop movement from North Carolin. to Homestead FOR A BETTER DAY-EVERY DAY! AFB, will depend on how Miami Beach authorities size up the threat of disturbances the government's fiscal operations and Nixon could not veto the Social Security increase without killing the entire bill. The Social Security increase also provides for future automatic hikes linked to increases and Antonio Maldonado and Juan Martinez, both of Vera Cruz, Mexico.

They were released on personal recognizance bonds. money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield. The six-man board of the sponsoring Icelandic Chess Federation was reported unanimously opposed to paying Fischer the extra money. The board met until the early hours today with Fischer's lawyer, Andrew Davis.

A spokesman said there was no progress. As the deadline approached, the board was in session again to decide whether to pursue negotiations with Davis, a man they say has no written credentials from Fischer. in the cost of living. Nixon praised this aspect as providing a hedge against inflation for older Americans. by militant groups and whether outbreaks develop.

"What happns this week will dictate whether the task force will go down from Ft. Bragg early or not," one official said. There are indications the Army will keep several thousand additional troops on standby at Ft. Bragg, ready to be flown to Florida if needed. The Justice Department, acting for the federal government, will decide whether to send the troops into Miami Beach.

Pentagon officials say troops will be committed only if disturb EfUOV COCA-COLA! Agents said also they had a warrant seeking to arrest Francisco "Paco" Flores of Piedras Negras, Mexico, on the conspiracy charge. Kenneth A. Miley, a Customs Service agent here, said officials in Mexico helped coordinate the investigation. Nixon Ahead In All Polls rKlNCETON, N.J. (AP)- Fresident Nixon continues to be favored by voters over his pos- Federal officials said that Kessler was held Sunday in the federal prison annex in New Orleans in lieu of $100,000 bond ances grow too big for police GO and that Seal was held under $50,600 bond.

They were arrested near the New Orleans International Airport Saturday. INSURANCE and Florida National Guardsmen to handle. Four years ago, the Army flew 6,000 soldiers from Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado to the Chicago area on the eve of the Democratic convention. But these troops were not used on the streets when fighting erupted between antiwar demonstrators and Chicago police. We Are Pleased To Be A Part Of Tha Newspaper-ln-The-Classroom Program.

COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI rioie Democratic rivals, according to a recent Gallup Poll. The results of the survey released Sunday indicate Nixon would gain 53 per cent of the popular vote if his opponent in the presidential election were South Dakota Sen. George McGovern. Th survey showed McGovern receiving 37 per cent of the ballots with 10 per cent of the voters undecided.

Against Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, the poll showed the President with 55 per cent of the vote, compared with 33 per cent for Humphrey and 12 per cent undecided. According to the spokesman, the statistics were based on interviews June 16-19 TV INTERRUPTED Reception of four Memphis television stations was interrupted last night by lightning striking pre-amps on the local tower. The Cable-Corn Co.

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