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The Daily herald INSIDE Page Pg 12 TV Listings Pg 14 Coast Entertainments Pg 14 Business Financial Pg 23 Local Nat'L Sports Pg 25 Classified Pg- 28 WEATHER Partly cloudy today through Friday with a warming trend Highs today 58 to CO Lows tonight mostly 40s Highs Friday 60s Details on Page 6 Serving Biloxi-Gulfport and the Mississippi Coast Since 1884 Served By Associated Press Volume 87 Number 130 Mississippi Coast Thursday Afternoon February 11 1971 2 Sections 32 Pages Single Copy 10c Gulf Regional Discussed At Meet '''y f' 1 1 V1' i 1 I 1 1 1 -V' it j- S- mittee and the House Ways and Means committee The bill which would create the district now being considered by both committees would create a project-oriented agency embracing the six counties of the Mississippi Gulf Coast area which could bring as much as $500 million in federal money into the area during its first five years of existence proponents contend As the bill is now written within the first 90 days after passage each of the 19 local governments in the area would be required to adopt a resolution declaring intent to become a part of the district An election would not be held unless petitions in each of the 19 governmental entities were submitted bearing signatures of 20 per cent of the voters or 1500 signatures depending on which was less After a local government be- By BILLY RAY QUAVE Daily Herald Staff Writer JACKSON Miss Several Coast residents including representatives of two cities made ideas Wednesday for the people to decide if their local governments should become affiliated with a Gulf Regional District being considered by the Mississippi Legislature They spoke out at a hearing held Jointly by subcommittees of the Senate Judiciary Com Nations Sign Pact On Ocean A-Arms final great step in the control of nuclear arms the control of nur clear arms on earth" Nixon said He particularly expressed hope for progress toward this goal at the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) which resume in Vienna March 15 The Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin signing for the Soviet Union here spoke in like vein after referring to previous atomic-age treaties harming nuclear weapons in space and atomic explosions in the air WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon joined with representatives of Russia and Britain today in voicing hope that a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons from ocean floors will be followed by a pact to control such weapons on earth was a modest step it is an important step" Nixon said at a State Department ceremony at which 62 nations signed the treaty barring emplacement of mass destruction weapons oh the ocean floor hope that we will be in the future the Dismissed Students Deciding what action to take next these students of Long Beach High School were dismissed this morning to violations of the school dress code A delegation of these students appeared at The Daily Herald this morning to present their case seeking a relaxation of the dress code to permit longer hair The girl at center was one of two dismissed for wearing blue jeans The girls admitted they were wrong and planned to change clothes and return to classes after supporting the case for longer hair (Staff Photo by Ron Elias) (See Story Below Other Photos Page 2) Moon Men To Samoa Patton Demands Ban On Prisoner Use On Beach after that now is the time to come down closer to earth and apply more efforts toward disarmament" the Moscow envoy said ambassador Lord Cromer termed the seabed accord valuable step toward enhanced and voiced hope that the momentum of disarmament negotiations will us to tackle the task facing us in the years ahead" The United States the Soviet Union and Great Britain nuclear powers are the chief treaty sponsors The treaty goes into effect after 22 nations ratify Secretary of State William Rogers signed for the United States as Nixon looked on in the flag-decked international conference room at the State Department The other signers ranged from Japan a major maritime power to landlocked Afghanistan and Laos France Red China India and Israel were among those not joining the treaty at this time Earlier in the day in Moscow the treaty was signed by the United States Britain and the Soviet Union and Premier Alexei Kosygin said he feels a sense of satisfaction that the pact was agreed upon and signed The treaty Kosygin told the Moscow diplomatic corps a first important step toward complete demilitarization of the He said the Soviet government the future too will not spare efforts to find solutions to urgent problems connected with stopping file arms race and disarmament" Ambassador Jacob Beam signed for the United States in the Moscow ceremonies while Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko signed for the Soviet Union and Ambassador Sir Duncan Wilson for Britain came a part of the district in order to withdraw it would be necessary for the city officials to hold an election The counties wMch could comprise the Gulf Regional District are Hancock Harrison Jackson George Stone and Pearl River The proposed Gulf Regional District would be comprised of presidents of the boards of supervisors of each participating county the mayors of each participating city and three people from the area appointed by the governor Another point of the legislation attacked by the opposition was authority given the district to issue general obligation bonds without an election unless one was forced by petition "Unless essential Fd like to have it Rep Walter Phillips of Hancock County a member of the house -subcommittee stated at the hearing in regard to the issuance of the general obligation bonds without an election 1 Ruble Griffin Bay St Louis attorney who answered technical questions on the legislation stated he felt it would be all right to include a mandatory vote in the bilL Senator Martin Smith of Pearl River County inquired about the district including areas where local governments did not wish to become a part of the- district He was told governments not wanting to be a part of the district would not be included It was stressed during the hearing that the Gulf Regional District was not another layer of government not a metro government not a super government but an agency in which the various local governments could unite to accomplish more through a joint effort Proponents further noted that no local government would be required to pay for any project in other areas The 50 cent per capita tax would cover administrative costs of the agency The legislation has resulted from efforts by an Ad Hoc Committee which was formed at the recommendation of the Emergency Council to study the proposal for such a district and foster efforts to achieve this goal if the agency was believed to be feasible Roland Weeks Jr -who along with Ray Butterfield served as co-chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee led the proponents in their testimony for the legislation Weeks said the bill was needed for next vital step in the Coast's redevelopment People of the Gulf Coast have worked in unity to recover from the 'great storm he continued and have recovered to a great extent and the Gulf Regional Development is needed for the next step Hurricane Camille taught the people of the Coast that problems existed before the storm For instance he pointed out the need for adequate sewerage facilities and recreation facilities plus others Weeks explained that the Ad Hoc Committee was formed to study the need for a Gulf Regional District upon recommendation of Meta Systems Inc a firm which did a study of the area for the Emergency Council following the hurricane Six attorneys from the counties Included in the plan were brought together to write the bill which was put into final form by the Ad Hoc Committee before it was introduced for consideration before the legislature Weeks stated There would be no additional cost to the state Weeks con- Continued On Page 2) US Marines Back To War SAIGON (AP) US Marines of the 3rd Division have returned to the Vietnam war for the first time in more than a year poised for combat should the North Vietnamese charge across the Demilitarized Zone in retaliation for the South Vietnamese campaign in Laos 1 A helicopter carrier and other ships of the US 7th Fleet brought a 1500-man landing team with tanks and artillery from the division headquarters on Okinawa to the coast below the DMZ The Marines remained aboard the ships ready for a landing to reinforce US and South Vietnamese troops should the Communists launch an offensive with elements of three North Vietnamese divisions believed to be within striking distance of the DMZ Nine thousand US troops that normally operate along the DMZ were moved west to the Laotian border last week to act as a blocking force for the 10000 South Vietnamese troops that have crossed into Laos in a campaign to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail Another 3000 to 5000 South Vietnamese troops were shifted to the east this week to protect the eastern border of the DMZ The 3rd Marine Division once patrolled the rugged mountainous jungle below the buffer zone It was i withdrawn from Vietnam in November 1969 In the Laotian operation South Vietnamese headquarters announced that its forces had captured six Russian trucks used by the North Vietnamese 14 82mm mortars and four 122mm rocket launchers South Vietnamese troops who Wednesday occupied the town of Sepone 25 miles inside the Laotian panhandle reported they blew up two large ammunition dumps on their drive to the town There was no announcement of the amount of ammunition in the Tlblier said a search of the area revealed the gun the saws a knife and pliers Ladner said he found four hacksaw Made with worn down The pieces were concealed in a cracker box at the bottom of a trash can Patton and Tiblier said five of the prisoners suspected of the escape attempt have been separated and placed in single cells There have been no jail breaks at the county jail on 24th avenue in Gulfport in recent months However the sheriff said this is the third time in the past six months that escape tools have been found He said he has information that guards in control of misdemeanor offenders working on the beach under supervisors' orders are allowing prisoners to go into service stations and small stores on the beach drive to make purchases He said some of the purchases are suspected to be small articles like the tools and toy guns sold to other prisoners and found in the attempted jail breaks Harrison County Sheriff Luther Patton said he is demanding county guards no longer allow beach work details of prisoners to make purchases while on detail after a third recent jail escape attempt involving hacksaw blades knives and a toy gun was foiled late Wednesday The sheriff said he believes a realistic plastic gun and the tools found in a large cell holding federal prisoners were brought to the jail by misdemeanor prisoners working for beat guards on beach clean-up Chief Deputy Junnie Tlblier said he has information indicating aa much as $15 each was paid by the federal prisoners to the work detail prisoners for the toy gun and 89-cent hacksaw Tlblier and Jailer Sullivan Ladner said they received help from Gulfport Asst Police Chief Craig Monroe and six city officers when a mass escape was suspected from the 15-man second-floor tank" where two cell bars were discovered sawed through in the hallway side of the compound By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABOARD USS NEW ORLEANS (AP) Apollo- moon astronauts today fly off this recovery carrier to Samoa and transfer to a plane for a flight to Manned Spacecraft Center Alan Shepard Jr Edgar Mitchell and Stuart A Roosa depart the ship when the New Orleans steams within helicopter range of Pago Pago American Samoa The astronauts have been quarantined In a trailer-like isolation van aboard the ship since they were plucked from the South Pacific Tuesday after a landing that climaxed third moon-landing mission For the helicopter transfer they wore special biological masks to prevent them exhaling germs At Pago Pago they move into 'another quarantine van aboard a C141 jet transport for a trip to Houston arriving about 1 am Friday' They will be quarantined in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory until FCb 26 with 12 other persons including engineers medical technicians and cooks Apollo isolation might be the last for astronauts returning from the moon It was ordered for this mission just as it was for Apollos 11 and 12 because the astronauts visited a new type of lunar terrain Some scientists believe that the ancient Fra Mauro highlands where Shepard and Mitchell explored could possibly harbor organisms that live in the relatively flat plains where the earlier astronauts landed BEVERLY BRISCOE Briscoe To Head Fund Drive By KIT BARKER Daily Herald Staff Writer Beverly Briscoe general manager of Dees Chevrolet Biloxi was named president of the board of directors of United Fund for Harrison County during the sixth annual meeting Wednesday at Edgewater Gulf Hotel Biloxi Briscoe succeeds McRae Turner Jr Gulfport Also elected were new directors to replace eight retiring directors Those elected include: Rober Massingill James Montgomery Cummings McCall Jr Beverly Briscoe Robert Hayes John West Jr Olon Ray and Charles Dusse Other directors elected to fill unexpired terms1 were: Dr Mercer Miller and McCutchon two years Harvey Ford and Charles Hewes one year Engraved plaques were presented to the top ten campaign leaders for 1970 including: Olon (Continned On Page 2) Dedication Of Highway Link Scheduled Tuesday allied commands said Sepone was a major supply center and transshipment point on the enemy supply network from North Vietnam down to Cambodia and South Vietnam The drive into Laos was in its fourth day but still no major ground fighting was reported Smith Vietnamese headquarters said its total losses were 20 killed and 60 wounded compared with 60 enemy killed while field reports put US losses at 13 killed two missing and 47 wounded US helicopter gunships' operating over Laos attacked three North Vietnamese tracked vehicles apparently armored personnel carriers and light amphibious tanks the pilots reported Two of the vehicles were wrecked by the rockets the reports said A South Vietnamese helicopter carrying four foreign news photographers and seven other persons was shot down Wednesday over the Ho Chi Minh trail and all 11 men were missing and presumed dead They included three of the best known combat photographers of the war: Henri Huet 43 of The Associated Press Larry Burrows 44 of Life magazine and Kent Potter 24 of United Press International Others aboard were Keisaburo Shimamoto of Tokyo a Japanese photographer on assignment for Newsweek a Vietnamese army photographer two senior Vietnamese officers and the four crewmen A second South Vietnamese helicopter was shot down at the same time and its four crewmen were killed It was not known if it was carrying any passengers The US Command reported that 24 American servicemen were killed in action last week the lowest weekly total in nearly two months Another 19 Americans died of nonhostile causes and 367 were wounded in action the command said ceremony for the state-linknig highway Mississippi Highway Department director Boteler will also take part New construction in Mississippi included the upgrading of 65 miles of four-lane section of Mississippi Highway 607 that ties 90 into Interstate 1-10 and paving of 23 miles of Interstate 1-10 from the Highway 607 interchange to the Mississip-pi-Louisiana line Completion of the $26 million project was announced last November by Commissioner Py-ron who programmed construction to coincide with the completion of section of I 10 Mississippi and Louisiana Highway Department officials will witness the beginning of transportation on a four-lane highway between New Orleans and the Miss Gulf Coast on Tuesday Feb 16 A hand-shaking ceremony between highway department leaders between the two states will be stated Tuesday morning in the center of the new East Pearl River Bridge on the Mis-sissippi-Louisiana state line Southern District Highway Commission (Shag) Py-ron of Mississippi and Louisiana Department of Highways board chairman James Moore will participate in the dedication The joint endeavor enables motorists to leave downtown New Orleans and journey along the Gulf Coast to Orange Grove in Jackson County via four-lane highway Only about five miles of 90 between Orange Grove and the Alabama line is not four laned In Louisiana about five miles of two-lane highway remains before 1-10 will be four-laned from Canal street eastward to the Mississippi state line Proper signs will be erected throughout the project simultaneously with the openings by Mississippi State Highway traffic and safety forces Earthquake Area Still School Leader Acts Long-Haired Suspended for a family not to' risk its life before this 48-hour period is he said Huge pumps sucked water from the Van Norman Lake Dam reservoir 10 miles from the center to lessen the chance of a flood disaster City officials said aftershocks from the tremor had caused chunks of earth to slide away from the lip of the fractured earthen dam Yorty met with Dr Charles Richter the seismologist who perfected the scale which measures an earthquake's magnitude and with police and fire chiefs and other orf'cials It was the consensus Yorty -said that earthquake of any magnitude would make it dangerous for people in this area to be in their Police originally ordered an evacuation until Wednesday afternoon after cracks were delected in the dam and half a 3000 foot concrete apron slippjjf into the reservoir By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) With the known death toil in the California earthquake at 53 Mayor Sam Yorty has extended for 48 hours the evacuation order for 80000 persons living below a cracked dam which might crumble if another sharp temblor occurs The 'count of those injured in the quake rose to 1000 Workers continued to sift ruins of a Veterans Administration Hospital wing where 35 bod ios had been found Five patients and five nurses were still missing Estimates of property damage in the quake area exceeded $300 million Yorty said Wednesday residents would not be arrested if they are found in the 20-square-mile area of the sprawling San Fernando Valley menaced by the cracking of the dam in tha earthquake Tuesday manning it would be very prudent By JIMMIE BELL And RICHARD GLACZIER Dally Herald Staff Writers The Long Beach city school administration remained firm Thursday in upholding the policy of file school board on excessive hair lengths of its male students and by 10 am had or-derd at least 33 students to leave class and obtain haircuts before returning to school Resumption of the restrictions after what Supt Thomas Reeves reported was an apparent period of several weeks of laxity was underscored by the school board at a meeting Tuesday night when a student body delegation reported it had polled male nt and learned that 280 approve long hair and 14 disapprove The hair-length guidelines go back to August when the school board authorized a handbook for high school students with the instructions will be allowed to the bottom of the ear no pork chops hair no longer in back than the top of the collar and no longer in the front than the eyebrows and it may not cover tip When the school board heard a 17-member delegation Tuesday representing the student body the officials at one point proposed according to Asst Supt James Brent the board could either table the measure until other schools in the county could be contacted to determine a countywide policy or It could say yes or no to the It chose to say no Supt Reeves our position is that the board has a policy and it Is our job to enforce it I hae a personal opinion but my personal opinion should be kept out of school policy" The superintendent contacted this morning by telephone on a business trip in Amory Miss told The Daily Herald that the board meeting Student Council President James Loflus made a proper and adequate report of the survey At the time feelings were high I felt the youngsters might take the recourse of seeking public exposure for their cause I also had a feeling that In the administration of our duty which is the enforcement of the school (Continued On rage 2) ASST SUPERINTENDENT JAMES BRENT.