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Court Hearing May Be Goal Fage 10 The Clarksdale "rest Register Thursday Afternoon, July 6, 1972 District Court Favors loyalists Regulars Plan Appeal To Gain Convention Seats New Orleans Strippers Claim Rights Violated Man Charged In Hijacking In Buffalo Pending Further Tests Soft Lens Contacts To Be Taken From Market Chess Match Set Sunday After Apology REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess champion er disadvantages, we see in this type of product a potential for development for broader use in ophthalmology." However, Wolfe said that only now through sales to the public are the lenses being subjected to "the massive clincial trial" they should have had before FDA approval." Wolfe said a sample of 500 people fitted with Soflens, the Bausch Lomb product, showed that 118 gave them up, 104 complaining of poor vision. In addition, he alleged that some FDA consultants and in-dustrv-hired evaluators held didate for president and vice president of the United States to run as a national Democrat." Russell said there is a difference in what the national party and state law call for. He had ruled two weeks ago that the Regulars were the legal Democratic party in Mississippi. Russell said while state law might well say the Regulars should be the official party, the national party has the right to choose any group in Mississippi to represent the Democrats of the state. "Since the national Democratic party is a political organization naving no statutory rules or regulations to follow, but only rules made by its own membership," he said, "these rules are subject to change at the whim of those in power and control at the time." He said the rules of a political party are usually made "by and through political motives" and are usually determined by "political motives and expediency." Russell said he did not feel that his ruling deprived people in Mississippi of their vote, "since the vast number of individuals who are deprived of the NEW ORLEANS (AP) About two dozen strippers from French Quarter night spots put on their clothes Wednesday and picketed the federal court building here.

The girls were seeking to knock down a city ordinance which prohibits mingling with their customers. Their picket line coincided with the filing of Vote Count For Runoff Completed JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Of- ficial vote totals of the Demo cratic primary runoff elections June 27 were announced here by the state Democratic party executive committee. The runoff elections were for 1 1 i congressional nomi nations and a state Supreme Court seat from the Southern District. Mate Sen.

Ellis Bodron of Vicksburg won the 4th District nomination in the closest of the three congressional nominations edged state Rep. Walter Brown of Natchez, officials said Wednesday. Other congressional races had State Sen. Ben Stone of Gulfport defeating Circuit Court Judge Howard Patterson of Hattiesburg, and David Bowen of Cleveland capturing the 2nd congressional nomination with a margin over Tom Cook of Star-kville. Stone won the 5th congressional nomination.

The state's 1st and 3rd congressional did not need runoff elections. In the Supreme Court race, Circuit Court Judge Harold Walker of Gulfport collected 47,475 votes to defeat Circuit Court Judge Darwin Maples of Lucedale, who polled 44,916 votes. All three congressional runoff winners face Republican oppo sition in the Nov. 7 general election. Bodron faces Jackson attorney Thad Cochran, Stone runs against Trent Lott, former aid of outgoing congressman, William M.

Colmer, and Bowen, former federal-state programs coordinator, has opposition from Carl Butler of Columbus. Landslides Hit Japan TOKYO (AP) Three days of landslides and flooding from torrential rams have left 40 persons dead and 67 missing in southwestern Japan, national police said today. Police reported the bieaest landslide occurred Wednesday lage near Kachion Shikaku, in Tosayamada, a farming vil- otie of the four Japanese main islands. It buried 59 persons, police said. A record 39 inches fell on the region during a 48-hour period ending 9 a.m.

today. BANK CALLS WASHINGTON (AP) Three government agencies issued calls today for the condition of banks as of the close of business Friday, June 30. lhe Comptroller of the Cur rency asked for condition reports on national banks; the Federal Reserve Board for re ports on its member banks; and tl; Federal Deposit Insur ance Loip. for reports on insur ed state banks which are not members of the reserve sys tem. BILOXI, Miss.

(AP) Mis sissippi Regular Democratic party faction will appeal the denial of an injunction to block seating of the state's Loyalist party faction at the National Democratic Convention to the U. S. 5th Circuit Court of Ap peals, attorneys for the Regu lars say. Announcement of the appeal was made by Melvin Bishop Wednesday, shortly after U. S.

District Court Judge Dan M. Russell Jr. turned down the Regulars' injunction request The Regulars had sought to block seating of the Loyalists in Miami Beach and also to bar use of the designation "Demo cratic Party of the State of Mississippi." Russell noted in his four-page decision that the Regulars had not requested that they be seated, but only that the Loyal ists be denied the seats. He said such a move "should pro hibit each and every Democrat in Mississippi from naving a voice in the selection of a can- Gravel Asks Second Spot On Ticket WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Mike Gravel announced today he would seek the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the national convention in Miami Beach next week.

The Alaskan told reporters he would give delegates an oppor tunity to select the vice-presi dential nominee in an open con test instead of "rubber-stamp ing" the presidential nominee's choice. The 42-year-old freshman sen ator's formal announcement at a news conference confirmed what he had been informally telling reporters and Democratic party officials around the country, that he was actively seeking the vice-presidential nomination. Gravel said that as vice pres ident he would "add mean ingful dialogue to the chief ex ecutive's deliberations rather than pay lip service and em barrassed obedience to un known policies, as is the case today. "As VP I would seek to open new vistas of communication and information to the news media and the people," he said. "As vice president I would hope to be my own man." Carter Seen As Running Mate JACKSON, Miss.

(AP) Confirmation of reports that Greenville, newspaper editor Hodding Carter III was being mentioned as a possible vice-presidential nominee by some Democratic leaders was made here Wednesday. A number of delegates to a Democratic Credentials Com mittee meeting in Washington were reportedly approached by Joe Fitzpatrick, chairman of the Virginia state delegation. Carter said he was "very flattered" and would accept nomination if offered. The 37-year-old Carter, a delegate to the national convention on the bi-racial Mississippi loyalist party slate, had been rumored earlier as a possible candidate. He is editor of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times and is vice-chairman of the Democratic Credentials Committee.

Stock Prices Soar As Result Of Rumor NEW YORK (AP) Stock market prices skyrocketed in active trading today in the wake of a news report from London that the Russians and the Red Chinese had told Hanoi to get down to business in its peace negotiations with the United States. However, Western diplomats in London, representing countries with missions in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi, discounted the report. These officials have been speculating about the chances of such peace moves, but say they have seen absolutely no evidence suggesting the Russians or Chinese are exercising any effective pressures on North Vietnam. WESTGATE CINEMA STARTS SUNDAY only if you like gripping suspense and surprise A UnwsalHII Bo Tf CHNCOLOfl PANAVISION" iprJ. WE CHALLENGE YOU TO GUESS THE ENOINGI a suit in their behalf in federal court.

"Don't put us in a cage when we're off stage," read the picket sign carried by one of the girls involved in the unusual daylight public appearance by the strippers. Another sign read "Equal rights for dancers." The dancers, through attorney Charles J. Pisano, contend that they are being deprived of equal protection under the 14th Amendment, since the city law, they say, discriminates against females. Pisano said the law forbids strippers or female employes of burlesque ar striptease clubs to "sit at or occupy any table, counter or other seat when any is occupied by any patron or spectator." The law also says that no stripper or female employe in a striptease club "shall mingle with any patron or spectator for any purpose." Pisano said the city ordi nance is discriminatory, since male entertainers can feel free to mingle." The way the law reads now, Pisano said, a girl can be arrested for sitting at a table while being interviewed by her attorney or while talking to her father. In fact, Pisano said, he knows of a girl who was ar rested for having a drink with her husband.

He said she went into a club with her husband on her night off. A vice squad offi cer recognized her as being one of the entertainers there and arrested her for mingling in spite of her protests that she was not working and was with her husband. The attorney said tne arrests are running as high as one a week, and it's this which prompted the suit and the pick et line. "The girls got off work be tween 3 a.m. and 6 Wednesday, then went to work on their picket signs," he said.

They were a little tired, and somewhat bleary-eyed, but they feel that something has to be done. He said he and his clients are looking forward to far-reaching consequences when a judgment in their favor can be cited as precedent in cases involving strippers in other states. Pool Operated By City Now The management of the swimming pool on the comer of iycamore has changed hands again, and this time the city of Clarksdale has taken over the running of the pool. In a special notice released to the public Wednesday, VFW Post 8590 Commander Robert Harris announced that the post was not in the swimming pool business, and therefore relinquished the duties of managing the pool to the City of Clarksdale. Management of the pool will be handled through the City Park Commission under the direction of Charles Turner.

Rules set for the pool by Turner will be that it will be open from 1 to 6 p.m. and that admission to swim will be 25 cents. The city officially took over running the pool on June 27, and is presently employing 16 people for lif eguarding, maintenance, and ticket-taking. Turner made special note that no-one was to enter the pool area without a ticket, and persons were only to be in the pool area from one to six. it would be largely a propaganda opportunity for the Soviets.

A former secretary of the Treasury, Kennedy complained that economic considerations have not always had the weight he thinks they should get in formulating U.S. world policy. "We are holding a costly umbrella over the world," he said, "not only nuclear, but naval and military." But Kennedy added that U.S. military strength cannot be determined by financial considerations, important though they are. And he said he has no plans to ask other countries to take on a larger share of the U.S.

defense burden. Kennedy wears three hats as presidential envoy in Brussels. He is head of the U.S. delegation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a member of the President's Cabinet, and ambassador at large with a major responsibility for U.S. foreign economic policy, especially in Europe.

By JOHN LENGEL WASHINGTON (AP) The soft contact lens should be pulled off the market until it can be tested more thoroughly by impartial scientists, a health researcher told a Senate subcommittee today. Dr. Sidney Wolfe said the product has been rushed onto the market without adequate testing of its safety and effectiveness. He accused some evaluators of "apparent conflict of interest" by holding stock in the comoanies manufacturing the products they were testing. Wolfe is associated with the Health Research Group, a branch of Ralph Nader's consumer-advocacy organization, and formerly worked for the National Institute of Health.

Testimony about the soft lens was prpared for a hearing before the Senate Small Business subcommittee on government regulations. The Food and Drug Administration so far has approved for sale only the soft lens produced by Bausch Lomb, but several other companies are moving into the field. Roughly 50.000 pairs of the lenses have been sold since the FDA approved them March 18. 1971. Buoyed by FDA approval, Bausch Lomb's stock zoomed in one period from $46 a share to $160.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Charles Edwards told the subcommittee that during the two years of FDA evaluation, "our staff was continually confronted with the test of weighting the many advantages and disadvantages of this type of lens against its usefulness, which is limited at this time." He continued, "Despite certain potential risks in us, the maintenance involved, and oth U.S.-China Trade Heads Upward Now WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and mainland China may ring up a total of $200 million in trade during 1972, highlighted by a proposed $150-million deal for Boeing 707 jet aircraft. The Commerce Department Wednesday announced that an export license has been issued for the Boeing jets, destined for civilian-airline use by the People's Republic of China. Boeing officials have been negotiating for months with the Chinese government for the sale, spokesmen said. The Commerce Department said it did not require contracts in hand before issuing a license.

Boeing Co. officials say they are optimistic the sale will go through rapidly since they now have official approval. American officials estimate Chinese sales to the United States this year will be between $40 million and $50 million. The United States has bought an average of $2.5 million worth of Chinese goods per month thus far this year. A large number of American businessmen are going to China in August and there will be a larger number of American firms represented at the Canton Trade Fair in October than were present at the April Canton Fair.

Chinese sales to the United States are mainly of such commodities as tungsten, handicrafts, canned and some frozen foods, silks and pig bristles for cosmetics and brushes. Hospital Notes DISMISSED Mrs. T. H. Sullivan Arthur Nix Mrs.

Dick Coomes Miss Georgia Baines John W. Langan Miss Devella George William F. Scruggs Mrs. Raymond Sands baby girl Miss Dorothy Jean Jones Mrs. Lillie Mae Bushree Frank C.

Marley Richard Doggett Mrs. Jessie Hooker Claude Franklin Mrs. Charles Newton Mrs. H. W.

Reaves John Morganti Mrs. Allan Shackelford Mrs. Larry Justice baby boy W. B. Mobley Mrs.

Donnie Wood Olin H. Skiquefield Mrs. Frances Trawick Sam R. Huddleston Mrs. Frank Browning Mrs.

Nell Peters Miss Lorene Williams Arthur L. Broadway Jr. of BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -Charles Smith, accused of attempting to hijack a parked passenger jet by holding his baby daughter at knifepoint, also has been charged with as sault, burglary and kidnaping in connection with the case. Smith, who remained in jail today in lieu of $250,000 bond, faces a federal hearing on air piracy charges July 14.

The additional charses were filed by local authorities for al leged events leading up to the attempted nijack. Police charged that Smith. 23, of Buffalo, went to the home of his ex-wife, Ethel, before dawn Wednesday and stabbed her and a man there, Dennis Keeys, 23. Then he took his 13- month-old daughter, Jetuan, and proceeded to the airport. After the air piracy charge was lodged against Smith, Buffalo police charged him with two counts of first-degree as sault, one count of kidnaping and one burglary count in con nection with events at his ex- wife's apartment.

FBI agents said that after leaving the apartment, Smith, armed with a four-inch switch blade, made his way onto an empty American Airlines jet at the Buffalo airport and held authorities at bay for more tl'an two hours while asking for a pilot to take him "out of the country." Smith gave up after coaxing by agents, his mother and a minister. Mound Bayou Hassle Causes Sharp Words JACKSON. Miss. (AP) -Gov. Bill Waller was accused Wednesday of being willing to "settle for no less than complete control" of a controversial Mound Bayou hospital and health center.

Owen Brooks, chairman of the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center, was critical of the governor's veto last month of a $5.5 million Office of Economic Opportunity grant for the facility. Brooks said during a news conference here Wednesday the veto crimped the center's finances and said closing of the center, which primarily serves poor blacks, would be "a severe economic loss to the Mississippi Delta." The health center chairman said Waller's approval Monday of over $1.3 million in OEO funds for the center could finance the facility through May, June and July of this year, but that more money would be needed after July 31. He predicted the governor would veto the center's upcoming request for OEO fund ing for the nine months immediately following July. Brooks repeated an earlier charge that Waller was acting in conspiracy with national Democratic and Republican party leaders with "1972 presi dential politics a major factor" in the Mound Bayou controversy. Board of supervisors of the counties involved at first urged the governor to reject the center's $5.5 million request for a year funding on ground that the figure was too high.

But the boards later urged Waller to approve a lower amount requested. Henry Confident Of Seating (Continued from Page One) of the national party will be clear enough that whoever carries the mantle of the Democratic Party of Mississippi will abide by the rules and regulations." The 150-0 vote by the creditionals committee precluded any possibility of Waller appealing the ruling to the convention floor next week. No Control Asked if the street riots of Chicago in 1968 might be repeated this summer in Miami, Henry becomes irked. There was no way we could control what was happening in a park 15 miles away from the con vention hall," he said. "At the Republican convention that same summer several blacks were killed.

No one was killed at Chicago but when a few white kids got kicked around, the press went wild," he said. Who will win the party's nomination next week? George McGovern, probably on the first second ballot, Henry predicts. I ship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move. The young American, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." Fischer, whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion, asked the Russian to "accept my sincerest apology." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers," he wrote.

The written apology from the American challenger was one of the chief conditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with Fischer. Fischer told Spassky: "I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position." The temperamental American also apologized to Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, the Icelanders, "the thousands of fans around the world and especially to the millions of fans and the many friends I have in the United States." However, Fischer brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a tremendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's i champion desires such an ad vantage in order to play me." "I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with you," Fischer concluded. Casualty List Compiled In Vietnam SAIGON (AP) Fourteen Americans were reported killed in the Indochina war last week and four more were listed as missing in action, the U.S.

Command reported today. U.S. wounded in action last week were put at 23. South Vietnamese communique reported 2,765 enemy killed last week and listed government losses as 523 men killed and 2,199 wounded. Seven Americans were reported dead "not as a result of hostile action," a category that can include deaths in combat situations not directly caused by the enemy as when a helicopter goes down from mechanical malfunction during a battle.

U.S. authorities have ac knowledged more than 60 American fliers missing in North Vietnam since the stepped-up bombing campaign began April 6. Hanoi claims to have captured many of them. The allied commands now have listed these total casualties tor the war: American 45,806 killed in action, 303,190 wounded, 10,229 dead from "nonhostile" causes. South Vietnamese 147,865 killed, 381,813 wounded.

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong 858,100 killed. Consumer Credit Reported On Rise WASHINGTON (AP) An increase in loans for automo biles and other consumer prod ucts sparked a record rise in consumer credit during May, the Federal Reserve Board re ports. Consumer installment credit from banks and retailers totalled $11 billion in may, a record increase of $1.44 billion over the previous month. The figures, seasonally adjusted, comprise the loans made by financial institutions and credit extended for retail purchases. Real estate mortgage credit is not included.

The Federal Reserve Board said auto loans during May totaled $3,239 billion, compared to $3,194 billion in April, and credit for other consumer goods totaled $3,938 billion, compared to $3,824 billion in ApriL 1 stock in companies involved with soft lens production and called for an investigation of the "apparent conflict of interest." Auto Industry Says Sales Are Soaring DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp. reports its combined passenger car and commercial vehicle sales for the first six months of th year were an all-time record and its sales chief says he expects 1972 to be the best yet for the auto industry. GM's combined passenger car and commercial vehicle sales also set June records, and separately they established new marks for the April-June quarter. Ford Motor Chrysler Corp. and most of the importers said their June sales figures could be expected shortly.

GM passenger car sales of 375,482 in this year's first half failed to match the six-month record of 2,453,121 set in 1965, but commercial vehicle (truck, van, bus, etc.) January-June sales rocketed to 561,481, against a previous record of set last year. "We continue to have every expectation that 1972 will see new sales records for General Motors and the industry," said Mack W. Worden, chief of GM's marketing staff. American Motors also reporting Wednesday, said its June sales were the best in eight years and for the January-June span were 19 per cent ahead of last year's first half: 153.218 vs. 128,312.

GM sold a combined total of 2,936,963 vehicles in the first half of the current year, compared with a previous record of 2,844,122 set in last year's second half. The auto giant reported a 6.7 per cent passenger car gain with 450,872 sales in June, compared with 422,409 for the cor-respondong month a year ago. GM's commercial vehicle sales were up 32.1 per cent for June: 106,922 against 80,958 in June of last year. British Win ECM Battle LONDON (AP) The taking Britain into the ropean Common Market bill Eu- has cleared its last major hurdle, and apparently the nation will join the European Economic Community on Jan. 1.

The legislation now will get a routine third reading in the House of Commons and then go to tne House of Lords for a vote. Approval is certain in the upper house. The House of Commons ap proved the bill late Wednesday night. Patrol Shake-Up Defended By Official LAUREL, Miss. (AP) Mis sissippi's public safety commissioner says that any implica tion that recent highway patrol reassignments were politically motivated has "no basis in fact." W.

O. DHard made the comment here Wednesday in response to a Jackson newspaper report that "a massive shakeup currently underway in the upper echelon of the highway patrol" involved 12 plainclothes- men who had "reportedly supported Charles Sullivan for governor in the 1971 election." Dillard said the transfers were made because of mounting traffic fatalities. He noted that such reassignments "have been made from time to time under previous adminis trations." He said none of the officers was demoted, but moved to "either parallel positions in other departments or promoted There is no shakeup involved." Dillard also denied that two four veteran officers in the patrol's headquarters had re signed. direct vote in nominating a candidate from a party standpoint are still not without the right to vote for or reject those individuals selected as candi dates for them by their party choice." Ckiramounl CLARKSDALE'S ONLY FAMILY THEATRE Now Showing 7:30 9:15 rhe Greatest Concert of the Decade NOW YOU CAN SEE IT AND HEAR AS IF YOU WERE THERE! apple presents GEORGE HARRISON ond friends in THE -CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH raMvry fi relent TfdHMalw Onytwl Sew. Awilablt 0 ppU Uc4x TYSON 3rd St.

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Clarksdale NOW SHOWING Together For The First Time! DOUBLE FEATURE BILLY Also GENE HACKMAN In "HUNTING PARTY" fie I I'J I. I.i IM, fSl Atlantic Cohension Sought NATO Ambassador Points To Latest U. S. Efforts BRUSSELS (AP) David M. Kennedy, President Nixon's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, says the United States will try to keep West European countries from accepting Soviet offers of economic "pie in the sky" that might endanger Atlantic security.

The scene of such offers, he predicted, will be the projected European conference on security and cooperation in Europe. Ambassadors from 34 countries will probably get together in Helsinki late in November to make plans for the opening of the conference next year. Kennedy said in an interview that some Western countries he did not name them might be tempted by Soviet promises of increased trade. He added that a great deal of effort is being concentrated within NATO on preparations for the conference. The whole idea of such a meeting was long resisted by the U.S.

government and some of its allies on the. ground that.