The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 3

V- Vv fs 4: irvi-j s-( 00 i 'aT 1 1 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 12 1970 3 Searchers Comb Rock Faces For Lost Scout MID-SOUTH Valley College Closes Firm Stands Are Taken By KENNETH TOLLIVER and SARA CRISS 1TTA BEN A Miu Feb ll-President White ordered all-black Mississippi Valley State College closed until Feb 23 Wednesday and leaders of a six-day-old student boycott said the shutdown would last If their demands aren't met Dr White said students wishing to return to classes this semester will have to reregister on Feb 19 He said readmission would be made on a selective basis have not yet decided what we will base readmission hers Thursday to pick up their NEWS son County was filed by County Atty Jack Manhein in federal district court in Jackson Wednesday Judge McRae has ordered the Madison County joard of Education to totally desegregate its school system by no later than March 9 The motion filed Wednesday asks Judge McRae to amend his ruling by accept 1 Ing the zone lines proposed by the county school board for three elementaiy schools and two Junior and senior high schools Instead of the Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW)-drawn lines adopted by the court Mr Manhein in his motion said the HEW changes would compel the school board to school children away from schools in their nelghborhoodto schools miles away for the sole purpose of achieving a greater degree of racial bal- snee in the schools to which -they are bused" James Harpiter Harpster Gets EectionsPost Fire Department truck quit operating as firemen battled the blaze Just as it had during the 1953 school fire FBI agents dismantled the pumping apparatus but found no evidence of sabotage Amendment Sought JACKSON Tenn Feb 11 A motion to amend United States Dist Judge Robert McRae's recent school desegregation ruling for Madi belongings and leave the campus Student Body President Tyrone Gettis of Utica vowed to continue his movement to obtain of the student body by Dr White" Young Gettis said that the students would not reregister and would not return to classes until their demands were met or negotiations begun The students have demanded 30 changes are still registered and we are still students" young Gettis said He added: have been Integrated In Mississippi by the federal courts and whites are concerned about the quality of black teachers the college president said Dr White closed the college after only a handful of MVSC's 2900 students reported for classes Wednesday noralng Black campus security officers had arrested 839 students Tuesday The students were charged with obstructing a public street and interfering with vehicular traffic said a county official Bond was set at $200 each The offense is a misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty of $400 or four months in Jail or both The students were photographed and fingerprinted by 1 ot the Leflore County sheriffs of- as a mandatory course at the university The question was first brought up last September when a group of students presented a petition to the faculty senate an elected group representing the entire faculty asking for abolishment of mandatory ROTC The faculty senate recently voted to recommend to make ROTC voluntary by a vote of 13-7 Wednesday's vote was conducted by the senate to obtain the feeling of the entire faculty Expect Announcement MONTGOMERY Ala Feb 11 (UPI) -George Wallace probably will choose Feb 24 as the day to announce his candidacy for governor of Alabama reliable sources said Wednesday The sources noted Feb 24 is the anniversary of the qualifying date for Gov Lur-leen Wallace in 1965 If Wallace runs as a Democrat which seems likely he will have until noon Feb 28 to file his qualifying papers and $530 fee Gov Albert Brewer already has tossed his hat into the ring for a four-year term after serving the past 21 months as successor to Mrs Lurleen Wallace who died in May 1968 Maben Clues Elusive MABEN Miss Feb 11 -FBI agents and local officers pressed their investigation into the Maben School fire Wednesday failing to turn up any concrete evidence of arson The school housing grades 1-12 was heavily damaged by fire early Tuesday morning only hours before the first day of court-ordered faculty desegregation was to begin The pump on the Maben GATLINBURG Tenn Feb 11 (UPI) About 100 searchers battled the rugged snow-covered Smoky Mountains for a fourth day Wednesday hoping for some sign of a missing 16-year-old Explorer Scout But fears mounted that he may have fallen over a precipice along one of the treacherous trails Geoff Hague of Morriston on his first camping trip in the Smokies was last seen Sunday morning when he fell behind a small Explorer group as they hiked from Ice Water Springs shelter on the Appalachian Trail to Newfound Gap The boy warmly dressed and with extra clothing and a sleeping bag already had spend three nights lost in the wilderness two of which taw new snow fall on the Smokies Nine inches of snow has fallen since he was reported lost Two Army helicopters from Ft Bragg ferried men and supplies to Newfound Gap on the North Carol ina-Tennesee border but their giant rotors kicked up such clouds of loose snow that they could not set down as had been hoped The search center In an area of the trail about 25 miles from where 7-year-old Dennis Martin of Knoxville vanished last June on a camping trip with his father grandfather and a brother The Martin search continued through last September the most massive effort ever in the Smokies William Martin father of the lost child Joined the current effort Wednesday searching for the Explorer Scout Traffic Jam Eased WEST MEMPHIS Feb 11 A measure of relief came Wednesday to travelers and truck drivers who have been frequently plagued by traffic snarls around the Arkansas truck weight stations on In- Whiplash Brings Award Guaranteed Income Geoff Hague -wrl terstate 55 at the eastern edge of West Memphis Two new stations on Interstate 49 near Lehi were opened at 9: 39 am Wednesday Roy Johnson chief of the weights and standards division of the Arkansas Highway Department had said earlier that after the new stations went into operation those at the west end of the Rock Island Railroad overpass between Memphis and West Memphis would be closed and dismantled One of the old stations (the one for eastbound traffic) was closed Wednesday A Hudson assistant chief of the weights and standards division said the north-side scales (for westbound traffic) will be kept open port of entry business only such as issuing permits for house trailers and any wide equipment until the new stations to be built on Interstate 55 (between West Memphis and Marion) ROTC Status Upheld JONESBORO Ark Feb 11 The faculty of Arkansas State University Wednesday voted 147-118 in favor of recommending that the Reserved Training Corps (ROTC) be retained Mack teachers who fice and then bused to the Mis- will be teaching their children sissippi State Pentientiary at are studying at Mississippi Parchman Tuesday night valley State College" Wednesday night Circuit pr white said that some de-Arthur Clark ordered- uj madc gtudents the students to be bused from wnn mnnrmcd by him He were approvi NASHVILLE Feb 11 -(AP) James Harpster Memphis lawyer was named by Republican legislators ednesday night to the traditional East Tennessee seat on the state Board of Elections Harpster a member of the Shelby County Election Commission will succeed the late Carl Mclnturff of Erwin in the Republican seat on the three-man board Harpster drew 43 votes at a Senate-House caucus Jack Seaton of Johnson City was given 16 and Fred Ingram of Oak Ridge received three votes All 12 Republican senators and 49 House members cast ballots as did Representative Kimbrell an Independent from West Point Of the 61 Republicans in the legislature 48 are from East Tennessee Most Republicans agree that the strategy under which the East Tennessee seat was yielded to the West was an attempt to gain backing from West Tennessee for House Speaker William Jenkins (R-Rogers-ville) who plans to run for governor Harpster will be elected formally at a Joint convention the Senate and House next week Parchman to a Greenwood Catholic school and released on bonds not to exceed $25 each Judge Clark said the students would be allowed to return to MVSC in small num- also said one reason this year's demonstrations came to a climax with the closing of the school in contrast to the situation last year when student demands were settled peacefully was looked like this same thing would happen every year unless we put our A whiplash neck injury received in a traffic collision was the basis of a $30139 damage award in Circuit Court yesterday A Jury in Judge Irving Strauch's court awarded Mrs Debra Dawn Robbins 26 of West Helena Ark $20 COO damages for the injury and her husband Augusta Robbins 31 $10139 The defendants were the Carrier's Ready Mixed Concrete Co and Eddie Shipp driver of the company truck that collded with the Robbins car The accident happened at Highway 51 South and Brooks Road May 1 1968 Mrs Robbins said she thought at first she was uninjured but later had neckerd back pains requiring the remo- massive employment program val of a broken disk i for the Inner city area" Proposed By Muskie' NEW YORK Feb 11 -(AP) Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Mainc) Wednesday proposed reform of the welfare system including a $3200-a-year guaranteed minimum in- come for all Americans Speaking at a 190th anniversary celebration at Hunter College the senator urged that the federal government also establish surplus food programs medical aid for the impoverished and day care centers to aid working mothers Muskie the vice presidential Democratic nominee in 1968 also said the administration should encourage the development of towns" and provide for a more orderly migration of work forces plus Torture Charged LOS ANGELES Feb 11 -(UP1) An aide to Defense foot down Secretary Melvin Laird ac- Dr White earlier said that cused North Vietnam and the he preserving the college Viet Cong Wednesday of for the students and protecting turing" American prisoners of them from foolish ideas" war men have been tor- He fingered a cigar but did tured" Richard Capcn Jr not light it "This is a hard day said know that our men for me" he said have been held in isolation for: (Picture and Additional Story long periods of time" I on Page One) TRAfSTTCBATTIE STFCDfflRIE A SHOP TODAY 10 'TIL 9 lay-aways COD's phone or mail orders TODAY THRU SATURDAY All items subject to prior sale All sales final Sorry no MEN'S and STUDENTS' SUITS and SPORT JACKETS EUR CLEARANCE orig $45-550 WOMEN'S and MISSES9 FALL-WINTER DRESSES orig $554165 15 io 70 orig $65-575 19 $22 24 Oifl Quan Offered 4 Mink Beat 80 1 Black-dyed Broadtail Proceued Lamb jacket $250 2 B'ack-dyed Broadtail Procesied Lamb Jacket! 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