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i Ti Wl v'-' wp y-r' iy Jr" wr --m i r- C'i Lv "fcv INSIDE A- Gulfport Local News Pg 8 Biloxi Local News pg 10 Coast Entertainments Pg 12 Jackson County News Pg 17 tacal National Pg 19 Served By Associated Pfess Volume Number 121 WEATHER Mostly cloudy with chance of rain tonight and Sunday Cool tonight 38-50 High Sunday 52-82 Details on Page 27 1 Single Copy 10c 1 Mississippi Coast Saturday Afternoon February 22 1969 3 50 Pages On Settlement Of Strike if WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon-planned to put toe finishing touches on two domestic messages to Congress today and complete last-minute preparations fin his five-nation European trip that starts Sunday The two messages deal with the national debt ceiling and Post Office changes and will be sent to Capitol Hill sometime next week while Nixon "is abroad An official of one longshore-1 titude based on the resump-men's local expressed guarded turn Monday of talks with rep-optimism today a settlement I resentatives of stevedoring of the 64-day strike may befirms' Containerized cargo reached Monday permitting I handling is reported to be a key general cargo work at the state issue Port of Gulfport to resume Harold Oliver president of Tuesday international However an official of anoto- Acvgtinn Local 795 said local was more cautious jjfc Monday for us every and adopted a wait-and-see ITriPri Oliver said discussions with stevedoring firms are continuing informally and said a joint announcement on an over all agreement could be made Monday In event agreement is reached longshoremen could expect to resume general cargo work on the docks Tuesday he said A slightly harder view was Would Ban Waving Of Rebel Flag By PHYLLIS AUSTIN Associated Press Writer The presidential jet Air that will likely prompt discus-Force Ont takes off early Sun-1 sions at toe first stop 1 day morning for Brussels first French President Charles de stop in initial venture in I Gaulle reportedly to personal diplomacy toe British ambassador in Paris His itinerary will take him that the Common Market and from Brussels to London Bonn eventually the North Atlantic West Berlin Rome Paris and I Treaty Organisation be replaced back to Rome for a Vatican City I by a four-nation directorate visit with Pope Paul VI comprised of England France Nixon and his top aides were West Germany and Italy presented Friday with a last- NO REACTION minute surprise development There was no immediate reaction from toe White House to the plan rejected by Great Britain But the suggestion coming on the eve of departure appeared to pose a potential threat to a main presidential goal of shoring up the sagging Western alliance Both NATO and the Common Market are headquartered hi Brussels With the tour 1 obviously in but before toe De Gaulle suggestion became publicly known the White House said Friday it hopes both friends and adversaries will heed George admoniiton to a standard to which the wise and honest can The statement was issued in observance of birthday today Besides diplomatic discussions Nixon also faces on his trip the threat of student demonstrations in London and West Berlin Massive security precautions however have been made in all toe cities he will visit path has been Yugoslavian Colony Besides lending an influential foreign in-' fluence on the Mississippi Coast Slavonian (or more correctly Dalmatians) have often been referred to as the backbone of fishing industry a chief economic business asset in the community Many of the families still follow the customs of their country converse in the mother tongue and freely acknowledge pride for their heritage Today Emily Germanis of the editorial staff brings a story of their achievements and contributions on the Gulf Coast Feature Report Page Together French President Charles de Gaulle and British envoy Christopher Soames were in close conversation this year at toe Elysee Pdace British sources reported that De Gaulle had sought British help to form a new alliance that would scuttle toe Common Market and NATO De Gaulle reportedly saw in toe new grouping toe collapse of NATO and toe whittling away of American influence in Europe (AP Wirephoto by cable from Paris) COLUMBIA SC (AP) The takenby WiIson Evans presi-Confederale flag dear to ttie jla Local 1303 who hearts of gemeratums South- discussi0ns have broken Ctf IV off til 9 am Monday on the University of South (biro Uson there are a few lina campus points both sides need some One campus group the Asm-elation ot Afro-American Stu-L Ms has pefittonedtix imfvw- wbafs sity to ban the waving of the flag and the playing of HOLD MEET at athletic events and official! He said union representatives university functions They say have been meeting separately the Stars and Bars is a remind- with representatives of toe er of slavery and a symbol of (Walsh and Ryan stevedoring whitl racism I firms which handle general AWARE an organization of I cargo white students wants the flag! Wilson said he expected a removed from all state property joint announcement if agree-and plans to raise toe issue in I men is reached Monday end toe South Carolina Legislature said he is keeping open An administration spokesman on negotiations 'said toe university is studying Longshoremen at Pascagoula the request from the Afro-Amer- and Mobile Ala scheduled Sat-icar orginzation to which most I urday meetings in an effort to of the 264 Negro stu- break toe dock workers dead-dents belong Total enrollment I lock and end the crippling is 11 500 Two Confederate flags strike have been burned publicly -at Ronald Robinson presi-the university during toe past two weeks FLAG BURNED After toe first flag burning the night of Feb 12 in front of toe home of the university President Dr Thomas Jones some white students countered with a flag waving rally at toe Confederate memorial on State House grounds CAPE KENNEDY Fla (AP) Widow Testimony Contradicts Russo By BILL CRIDER Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) Lee Harvey pretty Russian widow says he stayed home nights in New Orleans sometimes brooding over his rifli By DAVID LANCASHIRE Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Foreign Secretary Michel Stewart said today Britain refused to trade its friendship with the United States far a European trade alliance with French President Charles de Gaulle statement' was the first by a British government official since disclosure the eve of President Nix-i8 trip to that De Gaultehad sought British help to form a -new alliance that would scuttle the 1 European Common Market and toe North Atlantic Treaty Organization French Foreign Minister Michael Debre denied the report and criticized Britain for releasing it 1 Stewart told a seminar of toe Fabian Society a Socialist intellectual group: cannot accept what appears to be Gen De thesis that friendship and alliance with America is necessarily the same as dependence on America Stewart defended the policy oi Four-Lane Road West i i I I Two Bases Hit As Cease-Fire Ends and never was a dirty bearded smoothed by 70 advance men beatnik who left Washington Feb 8 The former Mrs Oswald now aboard Air Force One Mrs Marina Porter of Richard-1 Air Force One will be accom-son Tex testified Friday at toe panied by at least four other big Criminal District Court trial of jets: A backup plane in case the Clay Shaw charged with con-1 presidential jet develops trou-s i i to murder President I blea Star lifter transport to car-John Kennedy ry limousine and the Se- Her testimony contradicted Service cars and two com-the key witness for the prosecu-1 mercial airliners chartered to tion Perry Raymond Russo He carry press described Oswald as an un- washed beatnik who lived with I an eccentric New Orleans waQ II Cl vUiy homosexual David Ferrie mm me if you ever saw Lee Kefll 111 45 Harvey Oswald with more beard 1 than he has said defense lawyer Irvin Dymond showing her a photograph of Osyald made after his arrest in Dallas I The first Harrison County That is more beard than I grand jury to meet in Biloxi ever saw on said Mrs late Friday returned a partial Porter report and 45 indictments TESTIMONY At toe request Circuit Despite the vigilance of the ran prosecution determined to 19 a Thursday dude the Warren Commission will resume its Report as hearsay echoes of tt got into toe trial in toe testi-L-0 mony of both Mrs Porter and winch Robert Frazier an FBI ballis-fc wffl tics expert from Washington Frazier whose work hdped shape the report I inPelon public remainsd on recall today for fadictaenls de tag of President Kennedy STEMS Shaw 55 wa charged with bajsade public until Monday Sing jury made its report at Ferrie to murder Kennedy He I said he never so much as laid 5 pm Sixteen men and four 1 1 4 Western European allies on maintaining close ties with toe Americans United States alone among toe super powers in toe world is a democracy For example people who disagree with the policy of the US government on Vietnam can and do say he said -r POWERFUL REASON is one very powerful reason -why -we: should -want good British-American relations and it is one powerful reason behind toe existence of In the British version of the French proposal De Gaulle was quoted as saying France alone of the Western European states had established a position of total independence from toe United States British sources quoted him as saying that the of European friends represents toe main obstacles to a true European unitv and independence The French president also was said to have urged Britain to join with France in talks aimed at achieving a consensus defense economic political and monetary policies for Europe Debre denied this Whether true or not the report shook Common Market nembers who feel De Gaulle no anger has faith in toe economic alliance 1 Diplomatic sources iredicted the market cannot rcntinue operating in its present orm without French support jarticularly as-the six member nations are already deadlocked over De refusal to let Britain join the trade pact Qualified informants in London said the French presiden confided his plan to British Ambassador Christopher Soames 18 days ago They said it called fen: a loose European free trade area to be- run by a council of France Britain West Germany (Continued On Pace Three) iotAat nruTnf uni vend-1 Apollo 9 launch team to-ttTjS started the lengthy count- Snt JtS £twewoLSd down that is to end next Friday JfnJwith toe blastoff of three astro- bLm State law enforcement divi- imsHintn! 0 IbaHm nf COUIltuOWn 8IArt6Q Wll0D Shh the electrical power was fed to the JonShrS- 9 spaceship perched atop flag burning at Dr Jones mam 2stOTy-tall Sat- Afro-American students In asking toe university to toe Confederate flag said it tribute to a movement that Saturn 5 were repulsive to Mack ato- UfO hours Several holds some said Tom Richardson member of toe Afro-American bujtt the ure to pro- I vide for crew rest and to correct Robert Salley problems that might devel-Ident of the university Young Republican Club and a partic pant in toe flag pep rally' salt the issue is so much the flag as what underlies Salley said white students defended the Confederate flaj they were tired 0: some groups which are always breaking campus op The three astronauts' Air Force Cols James A McDivitt and David Scott and civilian Russell Schweickart today practiced in a spacecraft trainer Their main job during this flight is to prove toe flight worthiness of toe Lunar Module toe By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) Enemy roops attacked two US bases early today five hours before toe Viet Cong-proclaimed Jet cease-fire ended Spokesmen said these and seven other fights cost the enemy 249 men killed 1 One attack was on toe Phan tang air base where former President Lyndon son-in-law is stationed But spokesmen said Airman 1 Nugent was on a eave and not on base at toe time Seventy-five mortar shells hit he base 160 miles northeast of Saigon wounding five airmen and causing minor damage to some aircraft Air Force gun-ships raked the enemy firing tositions and South Korean roops sweeping the area this naming found blood trails leading from two mortar emplacements In the second attack enemy troops charged under cover of a 30-round mortar barrage and blasted their way into a base of the 101st Airborne Division 97 miles east of Saigon The enemy killed two American paratroopers and wounded 29 others before being driven bade by toe paratroopers and helicopter gunships Twelve enemy bodies were found Battlefield communiques said allied forces killed at least 237 other enemy in seven fights north and south of Saigon five of them Friday and two Thursday 1 V- US LOSSES US losses were six killed and eight wounded and South Vietnamese losses were four killed and 22 wounded US spokesmen credited fighter-bombers for the 24-to-one kill ratio' A spokesman for the US command said the incidence of enemy actions against American and other allied forces was about the same or a bit higher during the seven-day cease-fire which ended at 7 am compared to recent weeks South Vietnamese military (Continued On Page Three) Highway construction which wifi provide Mississippi Coas residents with a four-lane route to New Orleans and other points west even before Inter-state 1 1 is completed is scheduled to start March 3 Southern District Highway Commissioner Pyron made' the- announcement from his office in Hazlehurst The dual project in Hancock County calls for four-la ning am oaving Mississippi Highway 607 from S90 to Interstate 10 and paving 23 miles of I-ll from toe 607-1-10 interchange west to toe East Pearl River nidge 1 i issippians win benefit from this four-lane facility because they can visit heir own Gulf Coast then New Orleans or Commissioner Pyron said when issuing toe work order The completion target date midsummer of next he added Both projects total 8717 miles which means Highway 607 measures approximately 55 miles from Highway 90 to 1-10 Mississippi highway department supervision will be handled by Project Engineei Dan Hillman of Poplarville while on a district level Brownlee District Six engineer will administer tiie project Description of the dual project follows: 8717 miles of incidental gradingdrainage culverts box bridge base hot bituminous surface treatment double bituminous surface treatment erosion control concrete pavement guard rails- traffic striping four-legged vehicle which later this year is to land two men on toe moon Schweickart plans a two-hour space walk during toe mission in which transfer from toe Lunar Module to the main Apollo command module and back again eyes on either man both now women are serving on the juiy dead The Warren Commission I named Oswald as toe assassin! and said he was a lone sniper with no credible evidence that a conspiracy was involved The Oswalds lived in New Orleans from May to late September 1963 Marina and her chil- PORTSMOUTH Va ZAP) (Continued on Fie Three) I Swedish freighter Farida abandoned -ship today after its pumps failed 45 miles southeast of Cape Lookout NC the Another Arrest In 1 Holdup Yachtsmen Will Be Released HONG KONG (AP) A Hong Kong government spokesman said Friday 15 yachtsmen eluding six Americans who were taken prisoner by toe Communist Chinese last Sunday may be released after toe Chinese lunar new year holidays that end March 3 expert that toe release of these yachtsmen will be speeded as toe mainlanders return to work after toe lunar new year toe spokesman said Other government representatives would not say if they received any news of the detainees Hong Kong residents who returned today from visits on the mainland reported toe 15 were being held in Heung Chau village a few miles north of Macao The travelers reported they had heard toe prisoners were not being maltreated The Americans aboard three yachts seized by toe Red Chinese were: Simeon Baldwin about 55 a native of Los Angeles Bessie Hope Donald about 40 a native of Bristol Va Joan Hopkins von Sydow formerly of Spokane Wash Mrs Von daughters Christine 15 and Sarah 12 and Carol Pauline Zlnky 10-year-old AaMrican stepdaughter of a British government official in Hong Kong Coast Guard reported Earlier 17 crewmen were taken aboard the freighter Pioneer Commander the Coast Guard said The skeletal crew tried to guide the 357-foot Farida' COVINGTON La (AP)-The Morehead City NC but two St Tammany Parish sheriffs fewer cargo holds flooded and office 'says police in Texarkana pumps stopped according 1 Ark have arrested William a Coast Guard spokesman Club 43 of Texarkana for au-ta New York thorities in Louisiana where he The 11 men were picked up is wanted in a trailer park I by the Coast Guard cutter Gal-holdup-slaying I which was headed for San Club was one of four persons Juan PR Another cutter toe -wanted under murder warrants I Chilula stood by toe abandoned issued by the sheriffs -depart-Farida -toe Coast Guard said ment here after last Meanwhile toe Coast Guard holdup at a carnival reported that toe tanker Trans trailer camp near Covington Champlain floundering after and the shooting of Mrs Margie (her boiler began leaking was George 44 -r i being towed to Norfolk by com- -A half dozen men wearing mercial tugs The 523-foot-long masks chained 24 persons to-1 ship is owned by the Hudson getoer by their necks at the I Waterways Co of New York camp woke into seven safes The Trans Champlain beaded and fled with $12000 I for Newport News Vat report- The other three named in the led her trouble when she was murder warrants were still at I over the dangerous Diamond large Shoals The area to the south Bobby Gwinn 37 of Harvey has become known as the grave- -was arrested in Jefferson Par- yard of the because of teh Wednesday on charges of toe many shipwrecks in tricky robbery and murder In toe case currents and shoals Viet To Up Forces SAIGON South Vietnam wifi increase its armed forces by about 71000 troops the end Of this year to fill he gap left by the withdrawal of some American forces Sen Tran Ngoc Nhuan said today Nhuan chairman of the Senate Defense Committee said his would raise South 821000 to 892000 men South Vietnam has another 82008 men in its paramilitary iorces including mercenaries police pacification teams and armed propaganda teams Nhuan said the boost will be carried out in two phases in August and December With-1 rawl of some corn-sat troops is expected to begin next July Before And After An expensive home overlooking 1 Pacific Coast Highway the destruction it comes down (right) with a cable on the 'oceanshore of Los Angeles teeters on its piers late doing toe pulliig The actum will permit reopening of toe hillside conlinuea to slifo busy highway which had been dosed because the danger yesterday as the rain-dampened down A short time later after the City Council authorized (AP Wirephoto) A.