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What do you think about the Delta Democrat-Times? Is it fair? Does it have enough of the news and features that you want to read? Is it biased? Does it allow full opportunity for different viewpoints to be presented? What do you like the most? The least? What's missing? These are but a few of the questions the editors want to ask you--the reader--this Tuesday in the most comprehensive readership survey ever presented by the DD-T. The survey is important, according to Managing Editor Pic Firmin, because it will serve as a guide for years to come about the content of the DD-T. "Every reader who is concerned about what the DD-T does print and does not print should participate in this survey and make his views known to us," Firmin said. "Your opinions will help us make long-range decisions about what kind of news, features, columns and comics the DD-T should be presenting each day." The success, or worth, of the survey depends on as many opinions as possible from as many readers as possible, Firmin said. "If we receive only several hundred replies, then the survey is a failure and the editors must continue determining the content based on their own experiences, biases and guesswork," Firmin said.

"But if we can muster at 1,000 responses, we feel we will have a broad enough base to apply the consensus of those 1,000 opinions to general readership." The survey does not ask personal questions such as name, address, sex, race or age. "Opinions are all we are looking for," Firmin said. The survey itself is easy to fill out, Firmin said, and is designed to be returned postage-free by mail. Each of the five categories of questions is seli-explanatory and'the instructions for folding the page into an envelope are simple, he said. "Some of the questions will seem to overlap, but that is intentional so we can get a fuller appreciation of the reader's opinion on a certain subject," Firmin said.

The questions, Firmin said, simply ask: "What do you think?" On the front page of the survey, the reader is asked how much he reads various kinds of news: L. Always, 2. Often, 3. Seldom, and 4. Never.

On the back page, the reader is asked how often he reads each daily and Sunday comic strips, if the DD-T is fair in several categories, and if the DD-T has too much, not enough or the right amount of 13 different kinds of news. The three final questions ask the reader what he likes most about the DD-T, what he likes least, and-what he thinks is missing. There is space to write in items the reader thinks should be printed in the DD-T. The survey will be printed only this Tuesday on a single sheet that can be easily removed from the paper. Dotted lines will show how to fold the sheet to make it into a self-addressed pre-paid envelope, and where to staple or tape it.

Greenville, Mississippi Rationing rumbling revived WASHINGTON (UPI)-Some members of Congress are again calling for fqjl scale gasoline rationing, bul federal energy chief William E. Simon says service station lines can be reduced without that. "I think rationing is the only answer, because in that way you a get a a i inequitable distribution which a a a i situation over the past several a a i a i a i I i a interview. Mansfield said some areas of the country have more gasoline than (hey need while others have lines of cars at filling stations and rationing is needed "which would treat all people alike and give them assurance instead of chaos." Sen. Clifford P.

Case, said the i to start full rationing "was two months ago in i i I been advocating it strongly for the last two weeks or more. When you have a less than adequate supply it makes no sense but to ration." Their were in response to Simon's assurance a a a government's existing allocation program will be able to deal with the i which have appeared in recent weeks at filling stations in some parts of the country. "We are going to make certain that we put the supplies out there that are going to reduce these lines," he said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." He conceded there were "inequities" in distribution of gasoline among states and within states. But he stressed that the allocation program is only three weeks old and should be given a chance to work. As to national rationing, he said, "Basically, I just think it wouldn't work." He said that with 100 million cars on the roads, rationing would be much harder to administer today than it was in World War II, when were a 23 million.

If Congress ordered President Nixon to impose rationing now, he said, he would recommend that Nixon veto that legislation. On Friday Simon ordered an extra 240 million gallons of gasoline allocated out of reserve supplies to fuel scarce states, and on Saturday he ordered a 2-cent a gallon increase in retail gasoline prices. a i a i a i a responded by calling off a threatened pump.out and urged stations to return to normal operation Monday. Other dealer i a i a Indiana, Illinois, Maryland and California indicated approval. a i a a Mansfield's call for rationing.

Sen. a F. a i a "standby" rationing program, i a i i a i already is developing. Sen. John Sparkman, said: "I have felt all along that we could gel along without gas rationing." )'1974 Delta Deniocrat-Times.

All Rights Reserved. 105 Years 1974 No. 149 Cold 'n content Staff pheto When the sun's out and things start to turn green, lots of folks' thoughts turn to fishing. Jackie Orr of 328 Louise couldn't resist putting a hook into water at Lake Ferguson Sunday despite a cold wind blowing across the water. Cold maybe, but definitely content to try his luck and enjoy the day.

New peace trip Kissinger is off WASHINGTON (UPI)- Secretarz of State Henrs A. Kissinger took off for Britain today en route to the Middle East optimistic that he can surmount another obstacle to peace and begin to bring Syria into talks with Israe. Kissinger's Air Force 707 lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base for the flight across the Atlantic to London ahere he will stay overnight and confer with British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home before flying to Damascus on Tuesday. U.S. officials said that the Secretary was going to the Middle East at the specific request of four Arab heads of State, including President Hafez Assad of Syria.

They were hopeful that Syria aould give Kissinger the list of up to 80 Israeli prisoners of war captured during the October war. Israel has refused to discuss troop disengagement on the Golan Heights until it gets that list. If Kissinger does break the Syrian-Egyptian deadlock, there was widespread expectation in diplomatic circles that the Arab oil embargo to the United States will be ifted, too. U.S. officials said that Kissinger would not be going if he did mi bclcvc there was a good ctiace for success, ifted, too.

Afcr Damascus, he is cxpeccd to go to Jerusalem, and if he gets the list, he will transmit to the Israeli government there. The optimism that he will get the list was heightened by a report in the semi-official Egyptian newspaper, A A a that he will. Israel has insisted that Syria release the names and allow the International Red Cross to visit the prisoners before beginning any talks on disengagement of troops. From Jerusalem, U.S. officials said Kissinger would probably fly to Cairo.

There he and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt may officially resume the diplomatic relations broken in 1967 after the Middle East war before last. Kissinger and Sadat agreed on the resumption of relations on a previous Kissinger trip and they have already exchanged ambassadors. Depending on how much progress he has been able to make on his firs stops in Damascus and Jerusalem, Kissinger may then return to those capitals. In January, he had to fly back and forth between Israel and Egypt repeatedly to get agreement on the disengagement of Egyptian and Israeli troops along the Suez canal. U.S.

officials said Kissinger did not expect to negotiate the actual disengagement on this trip. What he hopes, they said, is to get nn agreement to start negotiating the disengagement. Feb. 25 The nation Nixon attorney pleads guilty WASHINGTON (UPI)--Herbert W. Kalmbach.

President Nixon's personal attorney, pleaded guilty today to violating campaign practice laws during the 1970 congressional elections. Kalmbach, a long-time friend and fund raiser for the President, was the sixth person close to the Nixon administration to plead guilty in a compromise with the Watergate special prosecutor's office as a result of investigations growing out of the scandal. More Watergate indictments are expected soon but the prosecutor's office has held off on them until a jury is sequestered in the New York trial of former Nixon Cabinet members John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans.

The two charges against Kalmbach --that he solicited $3.9 million in funds for an illegally organized campaign committee and offered a European ambassadorship to J. Fife Symington Jr. --were related to the 1970 congressional campaigns and not directly with the Watergate case. Nixon on TV tonight WASHINGTON (UPI)-- President Nixon will hold a news conference at 7:30 EOT tonight in the White House East Room, a spokesman announced today. GeraldL.

Warrendeputy presidential press secretary, told reporters that Nixon's first news conference of the year the first since Oct. 26--would be available for live televisvn and radio coverage. Nixon was spending the day in his hideaway office conferring aith key advisers, including Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig, and press secretars Ronald L. Ziegler, preparing for the meeting with Warren the same time declied comment on the guilty plea entered today by the President's Californis lawyer, Herbert W.

Kambach, to two charges of violatv campaign laws in 1970. The Mid-Delta Judge Zelma Price is dead Zelma Wells Price of Greenville, Mississippi's first woman judge, died at General Hospital Sunday after a lengthy illness. She was 75 years old. Judge Price was born in Calhoun County, daughter of Walter Bunyan Wells and Mattie Lou Rish Wells. She came to Greenville in the early twenties as manager of Western Union Telegraph- Co.

In 1929 she was admitted to the Mississippi Bar and began the practice of Mrs. Price was elected to the Mississippi legislature in 1943 where she served 12 years and authored the Mississippi Youth Court Act. JudgB In 1933 Judge Price was appointed county judge of Washington County by Gov. Hugh White. She was elected to that office successively until she retired in 1970.

Prior to becoming a member of the judiciary she was a law partner in the firm of Mcllwain Price. Judge Price was a member of the American Bar Association; a member of American Judicature Society; a member of the National Association of Women lawyers and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1952. Judge Price was organizing president of Governor Thomas Welles Chapter, Colonial Dames XVII Century; a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Judge Price was a member and past president of Business Professional Women's Club of Greenville and of the Altrusa Club. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at St. James Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Greenville Cemetery under direction of Wells Funeral Home. While Judge Price was a member of the legislature she was hospitalized with a broken back as a. result of an automobile accident.

However, she was taken on a stretcher to the House of Representatives to cast the deciding vote to establish the University Medical Center at Jackson. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Morgan David Roderick of Arlington, and Mrs. Lawrence Victor Schuetta of Clearwater, one brother, Herman Wells of Clarksdale; three sisters, Mrs. Willard L.

Mcllwain and Mrs. Hazel W. Carlton of Greenville, and Mrs. Paul Walton of San Gabriel, and five grandchildren. Inside today- Who's lying--(he admiral or the yeoman? Story on page 8..