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v1 N-j 36 PAGES TODAY Jackson County News Pg I Biloxi Local News Pc IX £ot Entertainments Pc 14 Gulfport Local News Pc 20 Local it National Pg 28 I vRAIN expected ax niRUn'R lYtMICUT Repercussions In Devaluation Of British Pound Heavy Casua Ities Paratroop Battalion side the US perimeter possibly causing heavy casualties It could not be determined immediately what caused the blast VICIOUS FIGHT The fighting perhaps- the most vicious yet in the high- lands campaign came as US planes bombed the Hanoi-Hai-phong area for the fifth straight day on Sunday The attacks included blows against the fifth and six targets to come off the restricted list in four davs They are a concrete plant and a barge yard near Hanoi The US Command announced the loss of four planes bringing the total number of losses over the North to 749 aircraft The four planes carried six crewmen all of whom are missing The belief grew among American commanders that the Communists at Dak To are trying to do what they achieved earlier this year just below the demilitarized draw large American forces away from thickly populated areas and pin them down in the sparsely settled mountains Some 6000 Americans and 4000 South Vietnamese how are kt Dak To 270 miles north of Saigon opposing an estimated 6000 to 8000 North Vietnamese DIG IN North Vietnamese soldiers dug in on a hill 14 miles southwest of Dak To killed 40 paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and wounded 42 to an alktay battle Sunday Tha paratroopers swept the battlefield today but there was no 'Continued On Pi Eight) servatives and angry men-in-tli street The announcement Saturday that the pound would be devalued from $280 to $240 provoked matching devaluations in Spain Ireland Den-mork Israel and the British colony of Hong Kong Fifteen other nations said they were undecided whie other nations kept their ratio to the US dollar steady Prime Minister Harold Wilson went on television Sunday night to explain that the devaluation is meant to spur British exports and that the limping economy will have a chance to out of the of boom and bust Most countries that devalued with Britain are suppliers of food and raw materials meaning British buyers can import from them at the same old prices British salesmen stand to gain in countries that hed fast The government is in effect giving them a 143 per cent subsidy to undercut their competition increase their profits or a combination of both PRICES GO UP However many prices on the home market will go up result- Continued On Page Eight) Exchange Closed A lone stock exchange messenger walks across deserted floor of the London Stock Exchange this morning after a royal proclamation ordered the building closed to avoid wild dealings in the market after the devaluation of the British pound (AP Wirephoto by cable from London) LONDON (AP) Repercus ions to the 143 per cent devaluation in the British pound rolled around the world today and bitter discontent brewed at home among Laborites Con- Rate Hiked By Board WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Reserve dis- count rate moved up a notch today in what officials described an effort to protect the dollar in the wake of the British pound devaluation The rise from 4 to 4V4 per cent is identical to one put into effect on Dec 5 1965 but that was for a different reason-to stem inflation It triggered a year of tight money This time however the move Is designed to prevent a heavy flow -of dollars overseas in Search of higher interest rates expected to have little Immediate effect on consumer Interest rates in this country When it devalued the pound on Saturday from $289 to $240 Britain also raised its discount rate from to 8 per cent RATE The US discount rate is the Interest commercial banks must pay the Federal Reserve for money they borrow fro mthe System Other rates are pegged Upward from it In this case however the board is bringing its rate more In line with interest rates elsewhere in the world economy rather than tracking new ground Interest rates generally are at theiF highest level in almost half a century But some officials said the higher discount could tend in the long run toward an increase in rates consumers pay for loans In this connection it could have an anti-inflationary effect but officials emphasized that would be only a side effect The Federal Reserve acted at an emergency Saturday night meeting and its decision was announced Sunday There was no immediate reaction from the White House A statement by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler said nothing about the discount rale and mentioned worldwide cooperation to help the British He expressed confidence the United Kingdom would achieve its objective of improved competition in world markets But Chairman Wright Pat- Continued on Page Six) Doll Toy Fund Grows Slowly Gradually the fund for the Gulfport Doil- and Toy Toys for Tots is growing It is a long way off from the approximate $2000 needed for the purchase of new toys and for repairs to bicycles donated Previously acknowledged $9200 Logan and Ann Loposser 500 Andrew P'ice Jr DDS 500 A'an Breiand a paper carrier 200 Mrs Latimer 1000 Total $11400 Module Placed On Rocket GAPE KENNEDY Fla! (AP) a The first model of a manned lunar landing craft has been moved to a launch pad aiming for a mid-January launching date The space agency and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co the prime contractor placed the first Lunar Module atop a Saturn 1 rocket on launch pad 37B Sunday1 The racket is the same one that was on pad 34 last Jan 27 when three astronauts died as fire erupted in their Apollo 1 spacecraft The Saturn 1 is to place the module in an orbit more than 100 miles high for a flight scheduled to last 65 hours During the test the two main engines each are to be ignited twice The 200 million figure includes not only US residents but American servicemen abroad In the first census in 1790 the Bureau eounted 3929214 Americans it took until 1915 to reach the first 100 million but the bureau said the 300 million mark could be reached by the tuni of the century in only 33 years: SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese regular surrounded a US paratrooper battaljon on a hill near the Cambodian border in South central high-' lands today and with heavy ground assaults and mortar attacks apparently inflicted heavy casualties An American relief force reached the scene at dusk The battalion of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade was cut off tor 24 hours before the reinforcements arrived to break tbe Communist attack and bring out dead and wounded Heavy enemy ground fire kept rescue helicopters away Associated Press correspondent John Lengel reported from Dak To about 15 miles from the fighting the heavy communist fire set off a huge explosion in- Bond For Three Men Expected By JOHN LECHNER Daily Herald Staff Writer Three Laurel men identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as Officials of the Ku-Klux Klan were expected to be released from the Jackson County jail at Pascagoula Monday afternoon after bonds were set for the men charged with kidnapping a Pascagoula resident Travis Buckley 33 a Jasper County Lawyer also under kidnap and perfiury indictments in Jackson County was released from jail shortly after 11 am on bonds totalinjg $30000 Circuit Judge Darwin Maples of tin 19th Judicial District set bond for Buckley on the perjury charge and for the three Klansmen on the kidnap amd two misdemanors charges at a hearing on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed on their behalf by Albert Sidney Johnston III of Pascagoula defense counsel for the defendants SETS BOND Judge Maples set bonds totaling $20000 on the three Laurel men: Samuel Holloway Bowers (Continued on Pm Two) Pascagoula Junior Miss Crowned Miss Lana Anderson daughter of Mr and Mrs William Anderson Longfellow House was selected as Junior Miss for 1967 at the annual Junior Miss Pageant Saturday night at the high school auditorium Miss Anderson a brown eyed blonde enrolled as a senior at Pascagoula High School this year She previously attended school in Baton Rouge La where she was chosen as one of the top ten beauties and served as cheerleader for three years Miss Anderson writes editorials and features for the Panther Pen the Pascagoula High newspaper and is a member of tiie Theater Guild Future Business Leaders of America and the Quill and ScrolL She plans to attend the University of Mississippi and study marketing Horseback riding is Miss favorite sport and she en- Continued on Pege Two) AOtyearsfflgo IN THE DAILY HERALD NOVEMBER 20 1927 There are eleven pupils in the senior class this year at Pass Christian ten girl and one boy This is the largest class to graduate in many years 20 YEARS AGO IN THE DAILY HERALD NOVEMBER 20 1147 The Mississippi Dental Association has named Dr-Lei Smith of Biloxi Outstanding Dentist the Year Boro in Louisiana he finished Jesuit High New Orleans took pre-dental work at Loyola and was captain of the football team in 1133 He finished Loyola School of Dentitry iB 1934 and began practice In Biloxi la 30 Dr Smith is vice president of the State Dental Association and of the Gulf Coast Denial Society Hospital Bond Vote On Dec 19 The Harrison County board of supervisors today adopted resolutions which set a special election for Dec 19 on a proposed $2 6-million bond Issue for expansion of Memorial Hospital at Gulfport' The- Gulfport city council is expected to take similar action Tuesday on a $26-million city bond issue The planned $6-million expansion program would be financed by the city-county bond issues supplemented by a $800000 federal grant Both issues are general obligation bonds and the special elections will require approval by a simple majority of those voting VOTERS Voters residing within the Memorial Hospital at Gulfport taxing district which includes all of beats two three and four and certain precincts in beat five will ballot in the county election A plan developed for the hospital by Overstreet Ware Ware Lewis Architects-Engineers Jackson calls for adding about 100 beds to the existing hospital tacility and another 164000 square feet of floor space The plan is based on studies made by the hospital consulting firm of Gordon A Friesen Internationa Inc Washington DC and will change much of the existing layout to conform to the most modern and efficient concepts of hospital operation Home At Jackson Is Bombed JACKSON Miss (AP) -The investigation of an explosion that wrecked the front of a two-story house here goes on but some law enforcement officials fear there may be more bombings yet City police who have the prime responsibility for investigating the blast at the Robert Kochtitzky residence here 2aid late Sunday they had made no arrests The bombing done with dynamite was Saturday night Some investigators said they were afraid it and a similar bombing in Laurel last Wednesday may be the opening rounds of a reign of terror planned by an undisciplined band of extremists They were puzzled Sunday because the bombings last week and others before that did not seem to fit into the mold set by racial bombings in past years Only the victim in Laurel the Rev Allen Johnson has been active in civil rights work He works with a voter registration (Continued On Page 13) Sign Williams Got 70 Of Votes JACKSON Miss Gov-elect John Bell Williams swept 796 per cent of the vote and took all 82 counties in defeating Republican Rubel Phillips in the Nov 7 general election official returns showed todav Secretary of State Heber office said the official returns gave Williams 315318 votes to 133379 for Phillips making the total votes cast 448-197 The general election turnout compared to almost 685000 vote cas' in the August Democratic primaries Phillips came closest to taking Washington County which gave Wil'iams 5529 to 5460 for Phillips Tne race was the onlv statewide contest Unopposed Democratic nominees and theil votes included: For lieutenant governor Charles Sullivan 254512 for secretary of state Heber Ladner 229442 ior attorney general Joe Patr terson 237638 for state treasurer Evelyn Gandy 235180 an for state auditor Hamp King 226 637 200 based on 1960 census figures indicating there were far more Negro women than men and concluded some Negro males must not have been counted -The Census Bureau conceded the possibility of a higher population but stuck by the basic fact on which the 200 million estimate is base a I960 population by its counf of 179323175 Sees Non- Stop 90th Congress WASHINGTON (AP)-Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said today Congress may nave to drop its mid-December adjournment goal and remain In session Jo act on a tax increase because of devaluation of the pound as I hate to say so much as I abhor the 'possibility I think the welfare of tha country and the stability of the dollar comes before any adjournment the Montana Democrat said Mansfield told newsmen that could mean a nonstop 90th Congress with no extended recess between the first and second sessions TAX STALLED President 10 per cent income tax surcharge proposal is stalled in the House Ways and Means Committee and Mansfield had conceded earlier it appeared likely to remain there But he said the British devaluation of the pound from $280 to $240 may force a reassessment He said a tax hike is necessary to head off increased prospects of inflation Mansfield said 14 per cent devaluation means that the British will be able to undercut US exports by that amount Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois disagreed Dirksen said weekend economic developments including increase in Federal Reserve interest rates ease the pressure for ft tax increase but only for a Dirksen said he still believes Congress may be able to adjourn its current session about Dec 15 1 Voters School By BILLY RAY QUAVE Daily Herald Stafler An $850000 bund issue for additional facilities repairs and extension of existing facilities in Ocean Springs school district was appro' ed in a special election Saturday There were 547 voting for the issue and 289 against 45 votes more than was needed for the issue to pass with the required 60 per cent favorable vote Voters had gone to the polls faced with giving the additional facilities having their' children go on a double Ishift schedule in the schools Dr James Waddell school bond' president had noted there were as many as 40 students in a clasj and that under the present conditions the school system stood a chance of lasing its creditation City Clerk Tue pointed One Dead One Hurt In Crash 1 Obituary on Page 2) A young Escatawpa resident was killed early Sunday in a one-car accident at the corner of Mclnnis and Elder streets in Moss Point Moss Point police reported He was identified as James Lewis Byrd 19 a Moss Point city employe son of Byrd of Escatawpa and Mrs Mary Reid of Biloxi Investigating officer Lt Franklin Miller said young Bird was a passenger in a car driven by Terry Leslie 17 of Escatawpa son of Mr and Mrs Cecil Leslie of Escatawpa Lieutenant Miller assisted in the investigation by Ptn Paul Riley said the car apparently went out of control and struck a utility pole Young Leslie is confined to Hospital in Mobile Ala for treatment of injuries received in the accident A member cf the family said young Leslie suffered head and chest injuries a broken arm severe cuts and is still unconscious An inquest into the death of young Byrd was conducted by Jackson County Coroner Fred Diamond The jury ruled he died of injuries received in the auto accident Jurors were Thomas Huntly Thomas Palmer Earl Turnage Ernest Hover Louis Goldman and Terrv Nicholson lieutenant Miller served as bailiff WEATHER NEWS South Mississippi: Partly cloudy through Tuesday A few showers Tuesday Not quite so cold tonight with low 44 to 54 High Tuesday 70 to 78 Weather Station located at Navy Base in Gulfport 24 hours ended at 5 pm High Low Noon Prec Nov 18 76 54 Nov 19 76 37 Nov 20 35 64 Biloxi Temperatures: High Low Noon Prec Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20 74 60 55 42 41 61 (Other Weather On Pg 24) Favor Issue out that the issue passing with a 6-4-2 favorable vote received a majority vok in all six precincts although some were not the needed 60 per cent He also noted that the 836 who voted represents only about 30 per cent of the registered voters in the school district Li a breakdown of wards Tue reported there were 97 votes for the issue and 58 agamst-it in Ward One 49 for and 44 against in Ward Two 86 for and 73 against in Ward Three 74forsnd 27 against in Ward Four 167 for and 75 against in- East Elementary precinct add 74 for and 12 against in Fountainebleau precinct The school board plans to proceed with the approved program immediately Taconi superintendent said very important- that these class rooms be completed by next he said class rooms have Taconi added that the proposal should provide about 30 additional class rooms The school board has contacted its attorneys and instructed them to proceed with necessary legai work without detoy in order to expedite the program the superintendent noted Tne issue piovides for additions at the high school and East Elementary School repairs to the schools a 3000-seat concrete football stadium and for a nucleus of a school The nucleus of the new school which will be built with $75000 state assistance will be located on ten acres on Old Highway 90 west of tiie Magnolia State Park entrance Superintendent Taconi stated He said the school owns this site and that the mi-ney included in the bond issuj was to purchase land for future building- Taconi said that the number of ciass rooms to be built at the new school nucleus has not yet beer determined board of trustees and the administration was pleased with the outcome of this election and appreciate the confidence the patrons of the school district have in the school board and Taconi stated We assure the patrons that we receive dollar value for every dollar FFA Fund Raising WASHINGTON (AP) The fund raising activities of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) are being supported illegally by a federal agency an Illinois congressman charged today Rep Donald Rumsfeld R-Ill said the education office of the Department of Health Education and Welfare 'has provided about $50000 annually in assistance to the Future Farmers of America Foundation Inc which he said was the fund raising arm of FFA 7 The agency he said is providing free office space furnishings and supplies to the FFA foundation along with the telephone fa-cilities postage and part-time services of at least four federal employes -Population Reaches WASHINGTON (AP) The United States celebrates today a milestone some experts contend khould have been observed more than two years population of 200 million people About 11 am EST this coun try officially at becomes 'he fourth nation in the world behind Communist China India and the Soviet Union in that to reach and pass 200 million Alexander Trowbridge secretary of commerce under whose jurisdiction the Census Bureau falls is to lead the celebration in the Commerce Department lobbv where a census dock has been ticking off population gains for 40 years The dock now registers a net gain of one person every 14tt seconds based on one birth every 8Mi seconds one death every 17 seconds an immigrant 60 seconds and an emigrant every 23 minutes Timing is based on recent averages rather than actual births deaths arrivals and departures and the timing is changed as the averages change A private group the Population Reference Bureau contends the basic calculations are all wrong It says the Census Buicau missed 57 million Americans in the 1960 nose count Actually the reference bu- eau said the United States population probably surpassed 200 million in ihe spring of 1965 and could be s' least 20 mP'ion ov It ds 1 Is Over The Top The population passed the 200 million mark this morning according to the demographic counter at the Commerce Denar tment Building in Washington Photo was produced by multiple printing from tiro negatives (AP Wirephoto) The Rev John Adams of Washington a Methodist Department of Public Affairs official tacks a defiant sign on the front of a bombed house In Jackson Miss He was a guest in home of Kochtitzky when it was bombed No one was injured (AP Wirephoto) ii 1.