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VOLUME 118-NUMBER 199 . ... - . PASCAGOULA-MOSS POINT, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1963 16 PAGES-2 SECTI0NS-5e
Pas Boy
Drowns
In Bayou
An 18-month-old Pascagoula boy
fell into a bayou and drowned
yesterday afternoon at his home
at Bayou Casotte.
George Edward Thompson Jr.
was dead on arrivial at Singing
River Hospital at 5:30 p.m.
A coroner’s jury empaneled by
Coroner J. Leslie Nelson today
at Fails Funeral Home in Pasca
goula ruled death was by ac
cidental drowning at 4 p.m.
Missing Briefly
The boy’s mother said he had
been missing only five or ten min
utes when she found him floating
face down in a bayou that is be
hind their property just east of
Ingalls Avenue. The bayou is two
or three feet deep.
Neighbors and Lewis Goldman,
on ambulance driver for Fails
Funeral Sendee, attempted to re
vive the baby. Goldman said there
was no response.
Funeral sendees are scheduled
et Fails Chapel at 2 p.m. Fri
day and interment will be in Jack
son County Memorial Park. The
body will lie in state from 6 p.m.
today at the funeral home.
Survivors Listed
Besides his parents, Mr. and
(Mrs. George Edward Thompson,
he is survived by a sister, Joyce
Elizabeth, and a brother, Richard
D. Thompson, paternal grandpar
ents, 'Mr. and Mrs. Fred J.
Thompson of Apalachicola, Fla.,
and maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Ladnier of Bayou
Casotte.
The boy’s father is employed at
!H, K. Porter plant at Bayou Casot
te.
Members of the inquest jury
were J. W. Thornton, H. B. Ben
nett, D. R. Broadus, E. P. San
ford, Lewis Goldman and Fred
Diamond. M. D. Johnson was
bailiff.
Warren' nkel
Funeral Today
Funeral services were to be
held today at 4 p.m. for War
ren Orr Hinkel, 65, who died
Wednesday at his home in Bayou
Casotte.
Hinkel was found dead in his
yard at 1:30 a.m. by his son,
Warren Orr Hinkel Jr. Hinkel
said at an inquest held by coro
ner J. Leslie Nelson that his
(father had been all right when
he left home at 7 a.m. for
work. They lived together.
The jury ruled that Hinkel
died of natural causes.
Funeral services were sche
duled at Fails Funeral Service
Chapel in Pascagoula with the
Rev. Hulon Sanford officiating.
Interment was in Machpelah
Cemetery.
A native of Handsboro. Hinkel
was a veteran of the World War
and a member of First Church of
Lord Jesus in Bayou Casotte.
Besides his son, Hinkel is sur
vived by a brother, Percy Hor
ace Hinkel of Pascagoula, and
two sisters, Agnes Hinkel and
Constance Rush, both of New Or
leans.
Mrs. Belly, 88
Rites Are Held
Funeral services were held Sun
day in Lucedale for Mrs. Edith
Betty, 88, who died in New Or
leans Saturday.
A former resident of Pascagou
la and Lucedale, Mrs. Betty is
survived by a daughter, Lois Hus
ser cf New'Orleans, and two sons,
Marshall and Cecil Betty, both of
Pascagoula. .
The Rev. Neil Maddox officiat
ed at the funeral and pallbearers
were Red Lee. Jack Goe. Lowell
Goodman. Loyd Jones, J. W. Cog
gin and John Yates.
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RESCUE CREWS PREPARE TO ENTER POTASH MINE
at Moab, Utah, in search for some two dozen construction
workers trapped at the 3,000-foot level by a severe ex
plosion. (NEA Telephoto)
Taking Dead
Out Of Mine
★ ★ ★
| May Send Men
Down In Shaft
To Get Bova
SHEPPTON, Pa. (UPI) —Res
cue officials may decide today
whether to let a volunteer de
scend the escape shaft now being
widened to Louis Bova more than
300 feet underground.
“Miners take care of their
own,” the townspeople here say,
and though the 52-year-old Bova
has been buried for 16 days and
not heard from for 9 days, the
effort to retrieve him continues
without official expressions of dis
couragement.
A few yards from the shaft
through which David Fellin. 58,
and Henry Throne, 28, were lifted
to safety early Tuesday, workers
today set about widening a sim
ilar 12%-inch probe sunk to Bova’s
presumed location Wednesday.
Today that hole was to be
widened to 30 inches to a depth
of 35 or 40 feet, then reamed out
for the rest of the distance to a
diameter of 22 inches. H. Beech
er Charmbury, state secretary of
mines, said a volunteer might be
able to go down Friday.
More than 20 men, including
Fellin and John Bova, brother of
the imprisoned man, have volun
teered to go down. The decision
whether to send one depends on
the risk of the descent and possi
ble signs of life from Bova.
When and if a man is chosen
to go down, his identity will be
kept secret, according to Gordon
Smith, deputy state secretary of
mines.
“If I have my way,” Smith
said, “no one will know he’s down
there until he comes up again.
If it were announced in advance,
his wife probably would go crazy.
I wouldn't want my wife to know
if I were going down there.”
MOAB, Utah (UPI) —A rescue
team, stymied 12 to 24 hours in
attempts to get at possible sur
vivors of a fiery potash mine ex
plosion, turned today to the trag
ic task of hauling the bodies of
the dead to the surface.
Eight men are known to have
died in the explosion and the first
of the corpses was brought up
early today after the searchers
reported a lack of oxygen made
it impossible for them to reach
the drift 3,000 feet underground
where five possible survivors
may be waiting.
State Mining Inspector Tony
Hatsis said further rescue at
tempts would be postponed until
adequate oxygen facilities could
be provided in the drift. The facil
ities were being prepared Wednes
day when voice contact was made
with two survivors, and emer
gency measures had to be taken
to free the men.
The survivors, lifted out of the
charred shaft Wednesday aft
ernoon, said five men were alive
and attempting to avoid deadly
gas fumes behind a barricade of
rubberized cloth.
However, four rescue workers
said they covered a “substantial
part” of the mine Wednesday
night without locating the barri
cade—but found egiht bodies scat
tered near the shaft mouth and
down the east drift.
This left 15 men unaccounted
for.
Allen Thompson
To Aid Johnson
JACKSON (UPI) — Mayor Al
len B. Thompson will go on a
campaign trail, if needed, in sup
port of Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson as
the state Democratic nominee for
governor in the November general
election.
Thompson announced his sup
port for Johnson Wednesday and
said he had not been asked to
participate in the general election
campaign butu would campaign
statewide for Johnson if asked.
Senate Committee OK
Put On Test Ban Pact
Johnson Has
Rest Before
Phillips Fight
Congress OKs
Bill On Rails
To Hall Strike
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Last
minute action by Congress and
President Kennedy kept the na
tion’s railroads operating today
and prevented a strike over the
bitter work rules dispute.
The House overwhelmingly ap
proved and Kennedy signed into
law Wednesday night legislation
providing for binding arbitration
on the two key issues —
firemen’s jobs and composition of
train crews.
The legislation removed the
threat of a railroad strike for at
least six months. After that per
iod, it would be possible for a
walkout to take place over other
issues such as pay schedules and
job jurisdiction.
It was the first time in
memory that Congress had or
dered arbitration in a peacetime
labor dispute. The railroads
hailed the action, but the rail un
ions termed it a “regrettable and
backward step” that could affect
labor-management relations.
Signs Bill Quickly
The President, who signed the
bill 90 minutes after the House
approved the Senate-passed
measure, said it reaffirmed “the
essential priority of the public in
terest over any narrower inter
est.”
Kennedy said that free collec
tive bargaining was preserved.
The railroads had threatened to
put into effect at 12:01 a.m. to
| day new work rules that
I would eliminate 37,000 firemen’s
' jobs. The unions said they would
strike if the rules were imposed.
When the House completed con
! gressional action with the strike
j deadline only eight hours away,
; the railroads promptly pulled
down their notices of the rules
changes and the unions cancelled
their strike orders.
Sets Up Board
The new law authorizes crea
tion of a seven-man arbitration
board, made up of two members
from each side and three public
members, to rule on the fire
men’s and train crew issues with
in 90 days.
Strikes or lockouts are prohibi
ted during the two-year life of
the panel’s decisions.
Pay schedules, job jurisdiction
and other secondary issues would
be left to collective bargaining,
with a strike banned for 180 days.
Both sides indicated after pas-!
sage of the bill that they werej
ready to start talks immediately j
on these issues. i
JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) — Lt.
Gov. Paul B. Johnson made plans
today to take a short vacation
with his family, then decide how
hard to campaign against Repub
lican Rubel Phillips for governor
in the November general election.
Johnson, who won a landslide
victory over former Gov. J. P.
Coleman in Tuesday’s Democratic
runoff, told a reporter he would
“assess the situation” in a few
days.
“We’ll see what needs to be
done when we get back,” said
Johnson, “we’re not planning too
far ahead at this time.”
Phillips, a former chairman of
the Mississippi Public Service
Commission, is a former Demo
crat who switched his party af
filiation earlier this year. He rep
resents the first serious Republi
can threat for governor of Mis
sissippi since Civil War Recon
struction.
/\noiner canaiaaie
Another candidate, independent
Ed Bishop, also is running in the
November race. The winner will
succeed Ross Barnett in January.
Friends of Coleman, who lost
to Johnson by a 4 to 3 margin,
said the former governor feels Re
publicans were chiefly responsible
for his defeat. Coleman was said
to believe that most Republicans
voted for Johnson because they
believed Phillips would stand a
better chance of defeating him.
Wirt Yerger Jr., state Republi
can chairman, said Wednesday
night he believes Phillips has “an
excellent chance” to defeat John
son.
“I’ve talked to a lot of Johnson
supporters in the second primary
who are going to vote for Rubel
now,” said Yerger.
Johnson, in a victory statement
Wednesday, called for Mississip
pians to “close ranks and fight
shoulder to shoulder for the wel
fare of our beloved state.”
He said his decisive victory
was evidence that Mississippians
want to “return to constitutional,
said this was a campaign issue
that “transcended all others.”
Next Four Years
“The next four years will be
decisive insofar as the future of
Mississippi and our sister states
are concerned,” Johnson said.
In the coming years, he said,
“We have to defeat the dark
(Continued On Page Three)
Here Is Vote Chart For County
The chart below shows how Jackson County voted
in the second primary Tuesday, with state candidates
listed in the top of the chart, followed by county-wide
boxes, and beat elections doubled across the bottom,
box totals listed under the name of each precinct, fol
lowed by the total for each candidate.
Top News
Of World
(MIAMI ('UPP—Debris believed!
to be from two missing jet tank
ers was spotted in the Atlantic
today and the Air Force dis
patched a team of paramedics to
the scene in hopes of finding 11
missing crewmen.
KOPAR, Yugoslavia (UP1) —
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush
chev arrived at this northern
Adriatic resort today on the last
leg of his “PRIVATE” Yugoslav
visit that has turned into almost
a triumphal friendship parade
with President Tito.
ATLANTA (OPI) — Federal
Judge Lewis R. Morgan today
gave attorneys for the Saturday
Evening Post additional time in
which to file arguments to over
turn the $3,060,000 in damages
awarded Wallace Butts in a libel
case.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI)
—'Russia was expected to back
Syria against Israel today in a
United Nations Security Council
debate on recent fighting along
the two Middle Eastern Nations’
common border.
MADRID (UPI) — Cuban Pre
mier Fidel Castro hopes to re
sume diplomatic relations with
the United States, according to
one of the American youths who
defied a State Department ban
to visit Cuba.
Schools Open
Here Friday,
Resume Tuesday
Over 10,000 Paspoint students
report fco 19 attendence centers
Friday at 8:30 a.m., according to
officials of both Pascagoula and
Moss Point school districts.
Pascagoula students will stay
a short time, mainly to check
registration, room assignments
and schedules, said Supt. of
Schools Virgil C. Gill. They will
report for regular classwork j
Tuesday, off Monday for Labor !
Day.
An estimated enrollment of 5600
students is expected at all 11 at
tendence centers — 400 above last
year.
At Moss Point schools, grades
1-0 reported for their first half
day of the 1963-64 school year
this morning, with 10-12 going Fri
day for a half-day.
School Principal Claude Stauter
said approximately 1300 is ex
pected at M3PH1S.
Full Approval
Now Predicted
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate Foreign Rela*
tions Committee today approved the limited nuclear
test ban treaty by an overwhelming 16-1 vote with no
formal reservations and chairman J. William Fulbright
(D-Ark.) predicted it would be ratified by the Senate by
an even bigger margin than he earlier forcast. Only
Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.) voted against the treaty,
saying he feared “it will jeopardize our ability to
defend the United States,” and that several wanted
2 Girls Found
Slain In Swank
NY Apartment
NEW YORK (UPI) - Two
young career girls, one the niece
of author Philip Wylie, were
found Wednesday night stabbed
to death and tied together in
their apartment on Manhattan’s
swank East Side.
The victims, found in the bed
room of the flat, were Janice]
Wylie, 21, an employe of News- ]
week magazine who hoped to be
come an actress, and Emily Hof
fert, 23, daughter of a prominent
Minneapolis surgeon, who had
planned to start teaching school
next month.
Hie bodies were removed from
the third-floor apartment shortly
after midnight and taken, still
bound together, to the morgue at
Bellevue Hospital where au
topsies will be performed later to
day.
Police virtually ruled out burg
lary as a motive in the slayings.
Dr. Milton Helpern, the city’s
chief medical examiner, said it
did not appear that the women
had been sexually molested.
Have No Leads
Lawrence McKearney, an as
sistant chief of detectives, said
police had “no suspects” and “no
leads.” Of the killings, he said:
“This is really sadistic.”
“We’re reaching for anyone,”
McKearney said, when asked if
he thought police would solve the
case soon. “It’s a tough one.”
The bodies were discovered by
the two girls’ roommate, Patricia
Tolies, 23, and Miss Wylie’s fath
er, Max Fylie, an advertising
firm executive and also an au-j
thor.
Miss Tolies, who has a job
with Time Book, Inc., said she
last saw her roommates alive
when she left the four-room, $250
a-month apartment at 9:30 a.m.,
EDT, Wednesday for work.
Returns In Evening
When she returned at 6:40 p.m.,
she said, she found the apart
ment in disarray and, frightened,
telephoned Max Wylie, who lives
just two blocks away. It was Wy
lie who pushed open the bedroom
door and found the girls, who
had been bound hand and foot
and then tied together back-to
back with sheets.
more time to study it.
The committee voted to send
the pact barring all but under
ground nuclear tests to the Sen
ate floor for consideration start
ing Sept. 9. The committee mem
bers agreed that their written re
port would contain “understand
ings and interpretations” regard
ing continued U.S. test prepared
ness.
Chairman J. William Fulbright,
D-Ark., said the committee mem
bers made the “usual” reserva
tion that they would be free to
vote for or against the treaty on
the floor, regardless of their vote
in committee.
No formal reservations to the
treaty were proposed in commit
tee but three procedural motions
were offered and rejected.
One by Sen. Bourke B. Hicken
looper, R-Iowa, defeated by a 10-7
vote, would have requested Pres
ident Kennedy to furnish the com
mittee copies of his treaty corre
spondence with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
Proposes Delaying Vote
A second by Sen. Karl E.
Mundt, R-S.D. proposed delaying
the treaty vote until 48 hours aft
er the printed record of the hear
ings was available. This was re
jected by an 11-5 vote.
The third motion, by Sea.
Frank J. Lausche, D - Ohio, pro
posed that the Armed Services
and Joint Atomic Committee
members —who sat in on the
three weeks of hearings on the
pact—be invited in for discussion
before the Foreign Relations
members voted on the treaty.
This lost on another 11-5 vote.
Sen. Geoge D. Aiken, R-Vt., of
fered the formal motion that the
treaty be reported to the Senate
without reservations. It was
adopted on the 16-1 roll call voie.
(Continued On Page Three)
I Weather |
CLOUDY, HOT
Mobile and Vicinity: Consider
able cloudiness and continued hot
through Friday with widely scat
tered afternoon and evening thun
dershowers. Variable winds 5 to
15 miles per hour. Higji today 94,
low Friday 78.
Middle Gulf—Variable winds 6
to 17 m.p.h. and widely scattered
showers today, tonight and Fri
day.
Coastal—Variable mostly south
winds 6 to 17 m.p.h. through Fri
day. Winds will be briefly higher
near widely scattered thunder
showers.
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Paul Johnson 402 226 154 95 205 130 211 75 73 178 221 87 234 255 198 115 160 118 142 187 97 176 238 156 202 93 136 218 62 203 201 171 63 163 74 131 108 143 201 201 160 142 137 34 42 7073
Evelyn Gandy 300 178 112 67 177 116 186 78 104 169 186 108 234 220 157 116 U2 127 144 157 137 202 196 186 237 146 135 195 83 203 197 173 62 151 77 149 96 128 158 88 156 121 78 34 32 6503
Carroll Gartin 254 210 110 72 174 131 196 130 127 216 176 134 233 179 143 127 170 145 136 153 160 101 167 1S7 201 140 112 165 01 146 174 136 45 168 67 144 101 134 143 210 118 132 98 17 16 0404
E. B. Golding 344 198 121 65 139 115 149 58 101 136 160 91 179 164 153 95 137 109 107 136 109 110 144 170 154 94 107 148 64 149 176 156 40 137 64 120 93 91 167 183 166 137 98 25 19 9668
J. M. Tubb 189 175 93 68 205 130 229 147 139 288 193 148 280 225 142 148 178 160 169 178 185 189 220 169 278 180 134 209 96 194 171 150 66 175 71 174 99 163 137 115 108 121 77 16 28 7014
L. C. Franklin 218 182 83 59 16S 111 181 118 134 252 174 142 234 178 169 114 149 129 160 167 147 163 205 236 243 172 143 190 107 160 161 69 27 78 32 142 43 57 95 69 90 108 44 11 8 9822
Marby Penton 320 187 130 72 172 123 200 89 91 167 174 94 229 206 128 1127 160 138 116 143 139 131 156 104 185 103 101 168 56 187 175 241 79 237 105 250 153 201 208 225 181 148 127 30 39 6791
J. Guy Krebs 244 160 84 56 189 124 170 132 156 231 195 130 236 189 140 137 170 182 132 135 147 159 180 138 225 152 110 176 74 168 1S5 142 96 167 87 163 100 132 120 106 142 107 88 16 22 6324
Ted Millette 305 222 130 78 157 120 213 76 80 196 161 107 221 201 156 103 142 100 140 170 141 137 173 199 209 130 135 181 88 180 188 163 46 144 51 126 91 124 112 104 129 144 86 25 25 6373
Fred Diamond 513 266 171 89 241 79 251 114 124 222 203 150 246 230 155 76 134 112 103 121 102 146 168 146 152 79 107 174 95 132 187 119 36 149 68 148 89 99 138 119 148 115 66 19 17 0472
Roy O’Bryant 51 112 52 47 106 97 128 91 106 102 131 86 213 164 136 168 180 167 175 193 19? 134 194 194 176 202 140 181 107 214 1S8 187 70 157 57 129 97 149 150 171 122 135 106 22 29 8197
Cecil Byrd 199 250 189 87 223 151 272 128 135 266 232 183 258 302 220 138 168 130 158 157 108 174 217 159 251 109 199 222 62 217 215 183 39 100 67 164 76 102 191 194 169 124 106 25 27 7197
Owen Davis 361 140 36 51~127 97 111 84 101 167 135 54 203 92 79 105 150 147 114 159 137 130 144 103 179 177 108 138 102 135 136 127 68 213 79 121 122 159 198 167 109 136 69 16 21 5714
Charles Ely 165 218 170 553 Sidney Ashley 111 143 154 74 110 147 74 104 173 156 186 137 101 ISO 75 168 194 2215
H H Parker 386 172 50 618 Leslie Nelson 190 98 165 204 171 167 223 194 189 183 248 141 144 208 03 183 193 2984
H L Pittman 339 133 26 553 Henry Fletcher ISO 80 121 136 122 121 144 128 154 173 202 106 105 160 95 147 162 2311 Leo Byrd 126 108 100 19 16 369
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Clyde Oliver 177 78 91 170 140 115 190 184 1606 ____
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