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For News between The News Dial Published Daily Except Sundays Tele News 471-6666 10 PER COPY OUR 61st YEAR mu oa I JACK ANDERSON SAYS: secret psychological reports on calley; eminent doctors report he was unstable; one suggests calley seriously psychotic SIKESTON, SCOTT COUNTY, MISSOURI, II TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1972 20 PAGES NUMBER 72 i 'V i I 51 IMnm IS LONNIE HOBBS of Cape Girardeau does his thing for paint-up, clean-up, fix-up week by putting a fresh coat of silver paint on the junior high school flag pole. Hobbs devised his own rigging to get to the top of the pole and paint his way down. He has painted flat poles in 23 states and has fallen only once when a pole broke. Driver Protests Six-Month Term Richard Allen Jones, 210 N. West, was sentenced to six months in the county jail today in Magistrate Court for driving while his license was revoked.

Jones told Judge Lloyd Briggs he thought the sentence was too harsh. Briggs replied that it up to Jones to decide how harsh the sentence should be. Jones has had previous driving arrests in Missouri and in Illinois. Kenneth Lewis, route two, was fined $20 and costs for lending his license to his brother. The fine was stayed upon payment of costs.

His brother, Bruce Lewis, who was charged with using the license, was fined $20 and costs. Ann Jones, Bertrand, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail and fined $10 for driving without a license. The jail sentence was stayed by the judge providing Mrs. Jones does not drive for one year unless she obtains a license. Allard E.

Johnson, Morley, charged with car theft, case dismissed and costs paid by the state. Mary Javonne Robertson, 234 Dorothy, speeding, $15 fine and costs. Mary Jane Pearman, Kennett, speeding, $12 fine and costs. Catherine Gimlin, 618 William bogus check, dismissed with costs paid by the state. John Henry Webb, 315 Young, no operators license, dismissed with costs paid by the state.

Kenneth Eugene Grimes, 323 Helen bogus checks, two years probation. Man Detained After Break in Ronald Henson, route four, was arrested last night after he was found prowling near Liquor store, north of Sikeston. Glass on the front door was broken in, according to Scott County Sheriff John Dennis. Henson is being held for investigation of burglary. One Arrest Police announced that Eugene Travis, 217 Dye was arrested last night and charged with public intoxication.

To Select 55 DeMo Delegates JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) When the dust settles tonight after 10 district caucuses, 55 of 73 Democratic delegates to the national convention will be known. chief executive and state committeeman for the party says they will be uncommitted. But Gov. Warren E.

Hearnes, an early backer of Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, will be listening for news of meetings to be certain. Missouri Democrats realize that the national campaign remains uncertain and could undergo many more changes before the July 10 convention at Hearnes said, still sticking to his earlier prediction of a non-committed Missouri delegation. Hearnes is not even positive he will be a delegate under new reforms adopted by the national committee and echoed by the Missouri state committee. But observers have little doubt that he has to worry.

The new reforms do away with a practice which automatically sent party leaders as delegates to conventions past even under the new rules, most political observers look for Hearnes, 'state Committee Chairman Delton Houtchens of Clinton, U. S. Sens. Stuart Symington and Thomas Eagleton and the state Democratic committeewoman to be among the remaining 18 delegates sent to Miami. That selection will be made at the state Democratic convention in Jefferson City June 10.

Selection of delegates at congressional district caucuses begins today in both Kansas City and St. Louis with other meetings scheduled during the afternoon and evening. Candidates Will Speak At Dexter DEXTER Democratic and Republican candidates for statewide office will be in Dexter in mid- June, as part of two Meet the Candidates programs. The Democratic candidates for statewide office governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general and treasurer will be in Dexter June 14. On June 21, Republican candidates will be in a similar program here.

The public is invited to attend the Democratic program at 8 p.m. at the Dexter High School football stadium, and the Republican program at the same time and place. The programs are sponsored by the Dexter Statesman and Messenger newspapers, as a public service. Candidates will open the program with a general statement of their position on a variety of issues. Following the opening statements, a panel of newsmen will question the candidates.

The program will conclude with the candidates answering questions from the audience. Nixon And Soviets Reach 2 Accords OWNERS HAROLD BURK AND JIM MORGAN, both of St. Louis, turn the first spade of dirt at the new Cummings Diesel sale and service site. Standing behind them are, from left, Clem Beal, Councilman, Art Ziegenhorn, and Chamber of Commerce President, Bob McCord. The four-acre plot is across from the National Lock Co.

on Interstate 57. Break Ground For Cummings Diesel Ground was broken yesterday for the new Cummings Diesel Co. sale and service site southeast of Sikeston. The building, which will house offices, training and sale rooms large parts, and 12 truck bays, will be completed in October. The company will employ 30 to 40 skilled workers.

The 14,000 square foot building will be on a four-acre site near the National Lock Co. plant on Interstate 57. Company officials say the building was located there because of the easy access to highways. Employes will work only Cummings engines. Gumming engines power 65 per cent of the diesel powered trucks on the road, company officials say.

Since all Cummings buildings are nearly identical there was no architect for the structure. Grojean Engineers were consultants. Council Will Hear Merchant Needs MALDEN Representatives of the Inter-City Business Association met with the City Council Monday night requesting a meeting date with the board members to discuss needs of downtown merchants. Merchants will meet with the council Thursday night. Tonight the council will meet with citizens from the northeast section of the city to discuss plans for the 10-acre park in that area.

Jane Mitchell, Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation representative, See No. 1 Page 8. Lutesville Bank Robbed Of $9,000 MOSCOW (AP) President Nixon and Soviet leaders reached their first agreement of the Moscow summit meetings today -measures for joint action against disease and pollution. A Soviet spokesman said they then continued talks an unusual international apparently meaning Vietnam. The first two accords to emerge from the week-long sessions call for American-Soviet collaboration in combating dread diseases and other health menaces and in fighting all types of environmental pollution.

Announcing this, Soviet spokesman Leonid M. Zamyatin said Nixon, Brezhnev and their associates held their first formal conference in a and businesslike However, Zamyatin added, without elaborating, that the conferees found it to ignore the general international Tuneup For Steam Plant NEW MADRID Sounds of awakening industry will be heard Wednesday from the city of New Madrid when first steps are taken in the operation of the new 600- megawatt steam- generating station. Bill Jerome, project manager for Associated Electric Cooperative, Springfield, who will operate the plant on completion, said beginning Wednesday steam pressure will be built up in boilers, and boilers and lines will be cleaned out by release of steam throughout the system. According to Jerome, this cleaning operation will last about a week and an intermittent resonant noise, organ- like sound, sometimes can be heard for several miles, depending on wind velocity and direction. The sound may last from three to six minutes over a six- hour period on three days during the coming week.

Jerome said area residents should not be alarmed by the sound. It is normal. When placed in full operation the plant will provide electrical energy for the Noranda Aluminum, Inc. complex in St. Jude Industrial Park.

Zamyatin did state anew that the Soviets, like the Americans, approach the summit talks with the aim of finding ways to cooperate in promoting world peace. The initial agreements of the summit were drawn up for signature one on pollution by President Nixon and President Nikolai V. Podgorny and the other by Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Health Minister Boris V. Petrovsky.

The two delegations met for nearly two hours this morning in the first formal session of the Soviet- American summit. One of the initial agreements, it was learned, would aim at joint American- Soviet health research, with emphasis on combatting such major killers as cancer and heart trouble. The second would provide for collaboration in helping to clean up the global environment. Moments after a faraway chime sounded the hour of 11 a.m. Noxon and Brezhnev led their delegations into the ornate Catherine Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace from opposite sides of the big room.

SENIOR CITIZENSHIP AWARDS were presented to Milas Mainord, left, and Debbie Whitsitt during awards assembly today in East Praine High School. Awards Presented At East Prairie LUTESVILLE, Mo. (AP) The Bollinger County Bank was robbed of about $9,000 Monday by a masked gunman. The robber was described by a bank official as white, in his early 20s with medium build and about five feet, nine inches tall. He fled in a tan 1969 Ford Fairlane, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

The patrol said the vehicle had been stolen about an hour before the robbery in Cape Girardeau. No customers were in the bank when the man entered carrying a revolver and demanded money from a cage, a woman employe said. The woman said she tought it was a joke at first but when she realized it she called the sheriff the time he started out of the The employe said the robber was in the bank only about four minutes. Water Shortage In East Prairie EAST PRAIRIE Residents are requested not to water lawns, gardens and flowers until after 9 p.m. daily.

City Manager Gene Cullen said water volume and pressure is low and using water for outside purposes creates a shortage for household use. Inside Pete Cirrintano, 25, Jonesboro, has been named to succeed Bill Priday as the Sikeston high school football coach. Turn to page 9. Bill Hay and Charles Todd were among the plantation speedway winners. Turn to page 10.

And Outside Fair and warm tonight. in 60s. Winds light southerly tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday with a slight chance of a thunderstorm. High Wednesday around 90.

HIGH AND LOW YESTERDAY High and low temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today were 90 and 65 degrees. Sunset today 8:06 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:44 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 3:21 a.m.

Full Moon Saturday night The telescopic planet Uranus is about 6 degrees north of the moon this evening. Uranus circles the sun every 84 years and has been in the constellation Virgo since 1967. North Viet Rail Bridges Destroyed SAIGON (AP) U. S. fighter bombers destroyed six bridges on North northwest railway line to China and set off five large secondary explosions in an attack on the transformer station that supplies power to military installations in the Hanoi area, the U.

S. Command announced today. In the ground war, South Vietnamese forces reportedly repulsed new attacks on the northern line at the My hanh river and on An Loc, 60 north of Saigon. But much guerrilla fighting was reported in the Mekong delta 45 miles southeast of Saigon, and Viet Cong forces were reported to have seized about 30 per cent of Dat Do, a district capital. Second Miner Could Emerge BY DENISE BLANKENSHIP What tme Realtor claims be another Miner in the not too distant is developing north of Sikeston.

The Realtor, S. L. Dacus, is a member of the National Mortgage Company the company that bought 470 acres north of Sikeston for the development of one-acre tracts called After two months about 100 tracts have been sold. Land cannot be bought in any smaller division than this one-acre tract. However, many buyers own as many as to seven tracts.

Don Bohannon, president of company, says this one-acre tract cost about one-tenth of a comparable amount of land in the city. Other advantages pointed out by Dacus, also a member of the company, and his brother the land is in the Sikeston school district and the is big enough for a small farm or Whai seems to be most important to prospective buyers is that owner can keep a horse or pony on his land. Hezzie Dacus says trend is toward the country, people want room to do what they want sort of a do your own thing his brother added. Another characteristic is of the terrain. Instead of being flat, like most land in and around Sikeston, this area rolls gently, has scattered trees and is bordered on three sides by blacktop.

old Sikeston to Blodgett road borders two sides and route HH is on the third. St.John’s canal runs north and south on the fourth. Six homes are already under construction on the tracts. Some are being built by contractors, some by the owners themselves. A few homes will be built by the company for resale.

Two already on the 470 acre plot are being remodeled. Not all owners may choose to build. Keeping in line with the minifarm idea, one enterprising minifarmer is raising cantaloupes, which he plans to sell. buyers seem to range in age from their late twenties to early fourties with both husband and wife Si Dacus said. only ask that if a home is built it must have at least 900 square feet of living Hezzie Dacus added.

Other restrictions include the ban on mobile homes and allowing junk to pile up on a tract. All homes must meet Federal Housing Authority regulations. Each owner must dig his own well. Si Dacus said: good water about 20 feet Although the owner can have a horse, certain other animals are restricted. Si Dacus explained: can have anything they want out here, even an elephant, just as long as not goats or EAST PRAIRIE Valedictorian Robert Abernathy, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert F. Abernathy, received the Southeast Missouri College regents scholarship and the Dr. S. P.

Martin award today at an awards assembly in the high school. Miss Sandra Bard, salutatorian, received the H.S. Roberts award, Community Teachers Association scholarship, Missouri Farmers Association scholarship, homemaker award, bookkeeping award and yearbook award as editor. The University of Missouri curators scholarship went to Gary Baker and the general college scholarship to Southeast Missouri State college in Cape Girardeau went to Patty Johnson. Faculty awards went to Ronnie Wallace, agriculture; Sheila Patrick, home economics; Benjie White, American history; Cindy Bird, civics; Lionell Brown, art; Patty Johnson, mathematics; Bobby Conyers, physics; Claudetta Hawkins, physical science; Laura Servatius, Spanish; Linda Davis, oral interpretation; and Cindy Bird, English I.

Susan Bishop received the biology award, with honorable mention going to Debbie Kemp, Judy Norman and Karla Wood. The chemistry award was presented to Jeff Baker. Receiving honorablee mention were Jim Davis and Eddy Summerlott. Curtis Evans received the physiology award and honorable mention went to Jeff Baker, Steve Secoy, Don Willett and Tony Alford. Receiving the award for best actor in the senior play was Ronnie Wallace.

Debbie Bishop was honored as best actress. In the junior class, the best actor award went to Benjie White and the best actress was Cathy Glenn. The English II award was presented to Debbie Kemp and Susan Bishop was given honorable mention. Linda Smith received the librarian award, with Diane Russell, Pauline Hedges and Sarah Tucker receiving honorable mention. Other faculty awards included Jackie Proffer, drivers education; Debbie Whitsitt, advanced business, Patty Johnson, instrumental music; Debbie Bishop, drum majorette; Jean Saveli, drum head majorette, Tony Parker, yearbook publications; Jean Saveli, paper editor; Gary Bell, mechanical drawing; Mike Hogan, woodworking; Curtis Evans, metals; and Sharon Scott, general shop.

Steve ingle received honorable mention in general shop. Mark Hurt, Patty Johnson and Carla Howard received awards in choral music. Senior activities awards went to Jim Davis and Debbie Bishop. Senior citizenship awards were given Milas Mainord and Debbie Whitsitt. The Beauton Long award for seniors went to Leroy Griffin; junior, Deb Guy; sophomore, Wesley Stein and freshman, Debbie Robinson.

omore pilgrimage award went to Steve Myers. In physical education, Joni Owens and Bobby Conyers were honored, with John Fitzgibbons and Gary Baker receiving honorable mention. Perfect attendance certificates were given to See No. 2 Page 8. WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon today signaled a widening of bombing targets in North Vietnam, saying that U.S.

planes will hit industrial plants supporting the war effort. Until now, the revived U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, ordered by President Nixon after North Vietnam opened its spring offensive against South Vietnam, has concentrated on petroleum storage depots and transportation facilities, including bridges, railroads and truck parks. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said this kind of attacks will continue on a major scale and that U.S.

bombers be hitting some of the other targets such as power plants and some of the industrial facilities which support the military effort of the Over the weekend, U.S. bombers struck an electric power transformer station eight miles northwest of Hanoi. Friedheim's words indicated that this was the beginning of a new phase in the bombing which will aim at some of North basic economic resources, as well as more directly military type targets. During the 1965-1968 phase of the air war, U.S. bombers virtually knocked out about a dozen thermal power plants.

Most have been rebuilt and some have been protected with blast walls to minimize damage from bombing. Friedheim declined to go into any kind of detail on what kinds of plants will now be subject to U.S. bombing. At another point, Friedheim said he would not rule out any sort of industrial that supports the war effort. Nixon has ruled out any on dikes which control water tor North Vietnamese rice growing and administration claims all targets approved play a part in supporting the North Vietnamese attacks on South Vietnam.

On another phase of new U.S. effort against North Vietnam, Friedheim saul the United States intends to maintain active minefields off seven North ports and said that the mines still are lethal. There has been speculation that the mines dropped two ago would be allowed to inactive during current visit to Moscow. fm I IP Hezzie Dacus, left and S.L. Dacus, view the Roy D.

Wilhurns home under construction on a minifarm north of Sikeston..