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VOLUME 119-NUMBER 1 Audit Bureau of Circulation* PASCAGOULA AND MOSS POINT, MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 26, 1963__16 PAGES-2 SECTI0NS-5c
FLAG HALF STAFF—Jackson County Courthouse flag is among
many in the county to be flown at half staff 5n respect to the
late President. (Chronicle Staff Photo)
Shotgun Blasts
Hurt 2 In George
LUCEDALE (Special)—Two George County resi
dents were seriously wounded by accidental shotgun
blasts Monday.
Coy Havard, 14, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Havard of near
Lucedale was reported today in
critical condition in George
County Hospital after he was hit
in the left side by a double
blast from a .12 gauge shotgun
while hunting in the Pascagoula
River swamp, about 15 miles
west of Lucedale.
M. 0. Strickland, 35, of Rocky
Creek community was reported
in serious condition in a Mobile
hospital today. Strickland was
wounded while turpentining in
the Howell community east of
Lucedale with his three sons and
a brother, Leo Strickland.
Officers said that young Ha
vard was hunting with three
brothers and was shot through
the right hand and left side
when a double-barrel shotgun
which was against a tree fell
and both barrels discharged.
Hospital officials said his hand
was badly mangled and one
kidney was removed.
His brother, Houston Havard,
about 21, ran several miles for
help.
Strickland was wounded in a
similar manner, officers said,
when a .12 gauge shotgun fell
after being placed against a
tree.
The blast struck Strickland in
the forehead. He was given
emergency treatment at George
County Hospital before being
transferred to Mobile.
Mrs. Roberts, 90
Funeral Today
Funeral services were to be
held this afternoon for Mrs.
Sarah Jane Roberts, 90, who
died Monday at 3:10 p.m. at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Lee
A. Delmas, 304 S. Magnolia
Street, Pascagoula.
Born Dec. 8,1872 in Andalusia,
Ala., Mrs. Roberts had lived in
Mobile before coming to Orange
Grove where she lived for sev
eral years.
Mrs. Roberts was a member
of Orange Grove Methodist
Church. Her survivors include
two daughters, Mrs. Delmas,
with whom she had lived for
13 years, and Mrs. Jessie H.
Jackson of Lucedale; three
grandchildren, five great grand
children and one great great
grandson.
The body was to be taken
from Jackson County Mortuary
at 3 p.m. today to Orange Grove
Methodist Church where the
Rev. Harry G. Reeves will offi
ciate.
Pallbearers are Earl Roberts,
Paul Riley, Horace Dickens, J.
B. Jackson, Warren Green and
Charlie Lander. Interment will
be in Orange Grove Cemetery.
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President Sees
World Leaders,
Plans Policies
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Pres
ident Johnson today plunged
deeper into the intricacies of in
ternational diplomacy.
After arranging a formal
meeting here next year with
French President Charles de
Gaulle, the President scheduled
talks during the day with Soviet
Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mi
koyan, British Prime Minister
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, West
German Chancellor Ludwig Er
hard and other world leaders
who remained after attending
President Kennedy’s funeral.
The President’s first session
was a meeting with Emperor
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Oth
ers he planned to confer with
included Philippine President
Diosdado Macapagal and Prime
Minister Ismet Inonu of Turkey.
The Selassie meeting was
scheduled for 9:30 a.m., EST
and the Mokoyan meeting was
scheduled for 11:30 a.m., EST.
Johnson obviously was deter
mined to avoid any loss of mo
mentum in U.S. foreign policy,
to dispel any ideas that there
will be vacillation or confusion
following the assassination of
Kennedy.
Plans De Gaulle Meeting
The new Presdient announced
Monday night, following an 18
minute meeting with De Gaulle,
that the French leader would
come to Washington next year
for a formal meeting. Adminis
tration leaders predicted this
would take place within a few
months, possibly in February.
Johnson also met Monday
night with Japanese Prime Min
ister Hayato Ikeda and Cana
dian Prime Minister Lester B.
Pearson.
These meetings followed a
mammoth reception at the State
Department during which the
President greeted the leaders of
69 foreign delegations represent
ed at the Kennedy funeral.
After the reception, Johnson
met with a group of state gov
ernors. He was late for the
meeting and explained that he
had been talking with De Gaulle
Ikeda and Pearson).
“Canada is such a close neigh
bor and such a good neighbor,”
he said, “that we always have
plenty of problems there. They
are kind of like problems in the
hometown.” ' I
No Detailed Talks
Johnson, according to his
aides, did not contemplate de
tailed discussions of all manner
of problems with the leaders
here. But he wanted to make
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Pas Man Shot
In Hand Monday
Fred Gentry of Pascagoula
accidentally shot himself in the
hand when a pistol he was hold
ing discharged at Wade Monday
afternoon, Chief Criminal De
puty M. D. Johnson said.
Details of the accident were
not known.
Gentry was taken to Singing
River Hospital where he was
scheduled to undergo surgery
this morning.
A TRAFFIC DON’T—In this, the first of a series of Jaycee
photographs illustrating traffic violations, a truck attempts a
right turn from the wrong lane. Other similary posed pictures
will be published throughout the campaign. (Jaycee Photo)
JCs Launch 'Safe Holidays' Drive
By DON GRIERSON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Pascagoula’s Junior Chamber
of Commerce, in a combined ef
fort with The Chronicle and oth
er news media, today kicks off a
“safe holidays” traffic safety
campaign.
The program will continue
through Jan. 2, with a daily box
in The Chronicle to begin Dec.
1, listing the toll of traffic
property damage.
deaths, injuries, accidents and
In addition to the daily list
ings of accidents, feature arti
cles dealing with traffic safety
and related areas, as well as
photographs illustrating “don’ts”
in driving, will be published dur
ing the holiday season.
The National Safety Council
reports that the death toll on
holiday weekends exceeds that
of non-holiday weekends by 25
per cent. The organization also
reports that approximately one
half of all fatal traffic accidents
occur within 10 miles of the
driver’s home.
“We plan to campaign for
public awareness of the traffic
problems facing our city,” Erik
Engdorf, chairman of the Jay
cee Traffic Safety Committee
said.
“Since most accidents occur
near the driver’s home, we be
lieve the traffic problem is pri
marily a local one for each of
us, and steps must be taken on
the local level.”
The Jaycees plan to survey
the city and attempt to locate
the most dangerous traffic
areas and bring them to public
attention, to deliver talks and
slides to other civic organiza
tions and to furnish the news
media with pertinent informa
tion during the campaign.
i
FINAL RITES FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY—While the entire nation halts its normally hec
tic pace in memory of its assassinated President, in Washington’s St. Matthew’s Cathedral Mrs.
Jacqueline Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy approach the altar rail to receive
communion from Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston during a Pontifical Requiem Low Mass
for John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
'Eternal Flame' Is Burning
At Slain President's Grave
WASHINGTON (UPI)—An “eternal flame” burned
at the flower-banked grave of John F. Kennedy today
in lasting memorial to the assassinated 35th President
of the United States.
A white picket fence about
| two feet high surrounded an ar
1 ea of about five yards on each
side of the grave in Arlington
National Cemetery. Within the
enclosure were piled scores of
bouquets from other nations.
The grave was filled in, the
fence installed and the flowers
placed several hours after Ken
nedy’s burial Monday—a simple
sequel to the massive funeral
tributes witnessed by national
and world leaders.
Kennedy’s courageous widow
who maintained a magnificent
bearing during all her appear-i
ances since the tragedy made a
poignant visit to the grave
shortly before midnight—about
eight hours after the final rites.
She laid a sprig of flowers on
the grave and spent several
minutes, with Atty. Gen. Robert
F. Kennedy at her side, at the
floral-covered site.
Special Lights Installed
Monday night, specially in
stalled lights cast a blue hue
over the floral blanket while
the gas-fed flame ignited by
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy in her
husband’s memory burned
brightly behind. A military
guard will be posted at the site
around the clock for the next
week.
One such light bums at the
tomb of France’s unknown sol
dier at the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris. Another bums at Gettys
burg, Pa., in memory of Civil j
War dead.
An overwhelming silence en
veloped the throng of great and
simple people who came to see
Kennedy laid to rest after the
last rites of a funeral mass that
broke the composure of his
grieving widow.
Caroline Cried
Daughter Caroline, who will
be 6 years old Wednesday, also
broke down in sobs after react
ing as bravely as her mother to
their tragedy. There was added
poignance when John Kennedy
Jr., attending the funeral on his
own third birthday, stood at the
cathedral steps and saluted his
father’s coffin just as the sol
diers all around were doing.
Washington’s streets were
lined with an estimated 800,000
hushed mourners who paid their
respects as the slain President
was brought from the Capitol to
the White House, from there to
St. Mathews Cathedral, and then
to the cemetery.
There were kings, presidents,
ministers and princes from near
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Ruling Expected
To Scuttle Hopes
Of Rail Unions
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
railroad arbitration board hands
down a far-reaching decision to
day that is expected to scuttle
union hopes of keeping firemen
on most trains and preserving
present crew sizes.
The board’s ruling will be
binding for two years and may
set a precedent for labor-man
agement disputes in other indus
tries over alleged “featherbed
ding.”
The late President John F.
Kennedy appointed the seven
man panel to decide two key is
sues of the long-standing rail
work rules controversy under
terms of legislation rushed
through Congress to head off a
nationwide train strike Aug. 28.
Arbitration board Chairman
Ralph T. Seward said the deci
sion would be issued today as
Congress specified in the law.
The decision is expected at
4 p.m., EST.
It was the first compulsory
arbitration law ever enacted in
peacetime. Other issues in dis
pute-pay rates, work jurisdic
tion and seniority rules—were
left for negotiators to work out
before a Feb. 25 deadline. A
strike would be possible if no
agreement was reached by that
time on these issues.
An informed source said the
majority of the arbiters has de
cided to drastically reduce the
number of firemen aboard
freight and yard locomotives
along the lines the railroads
proposed.
Management contended that
the fireman was a “featherbed
der” who was not needed and
yet cost the companies $250 mil
lion a year to retain.
The rail unions involved—five
in all—contended that firemen
were necessary to keep the
trains running safely and effi
ciently. Their duties include sig
nal passing, temporary repairs
to diesels and lookout, union
leaders said.
Ruby Indicted
In Slaying Today
DALLAS (UPI) - A county
grand jury today indicted flashy
Jack Ruby for murder with
malice in the vengeful slaying
of President Kennedy’s accused
assassin.
Dist. Atty. Henry Wade said
he would ask the death penalty
and requested that Ruby be
held without bond.
Tom Howard, Ruby’s attorney,
said he will apply for a writ of
habeas corpus next week and
will ask that his client be freed
in bond.
“I think he should be,” he
said.
Trial has been set for Dec. 9,
but Howard said he will prob
ably ask for a postponement un
til mid-January.
The striptease nightclub oper
ator seemed unconcerned by it
all. He downed a hearty break
fast of cereal, milk, toast and
coffee and ‘‘seemed in awfully
good spirits,” said chief jailer
E. L. Holman.
Jake (The Master) Ehrlich
said today he is willing to con
sider defending Ruby.
President Johnson Begins
Job In White House Today
Congress Hears
Him Wednesday
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson began
work today for the first time in the presidential office
in the White House taking on burdens of the world
and national problems that have befallen him.
Much of the President s day
was devloted to meeting foreign
dignitaries and preparing his
first address to Congress and
the American people. Johnson
will speak at a joint session of
Congress Wednesday at 12:30
p.m. EST. He is expected to
outline his domestic and inter
national policies in the speech.
It will be televised nationally.
Until today, Johnson had been
working in the office he occu
pied as vice president under
slain President Kennedy in the
Executive Office Building, ad
jacent to the White House.
On arrival today at the White
House at 8:45 a.m. EST, the
new President moved without
fanfare into the oval office of
the President.
Johnson was sped under po
lice motorcycle escort to the
executive mansion from h i s
private home in the well-to-do
Spring Valley area of Washing
t6n. The seven-mile drive
through rush hour traffic took
only 12 minutes.
In his speech to Congress
shaping up as one of the most
important he will make as Chief
Executive—Johnson is expected
to urge top priority approval of
the civil rights and tax cut pro
grams spelled out by his dead
predecessor..
Veteran legislators were said
to feel there would be no slack
ening under the new President
of the drive for congressional
approval of the two corner
stones of the Kennedy program.
But whether Johnson would be
any more successful than his
predecessor remained to be
seen.
“I think continuity without
confusion has got to be our
password and has to be the key
to our system,” Johnson said
Monday night in explaining his
decision to appear before Con
gress.
Meets With Leaders
The Chief Executive meets
first today with the world lead
ers who remained after attend
ing Kennedy’s funeral, including
Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas
I. Mikoyan, British Prime Min
ister Sir Alec Douglas-Home
and West German Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard.
But from the domestic politic
al standpoint, his most import
ant meetings were to come la
ter in the day when he confers
with top aides and officials
about his speech before Con
gress.
The tenor of that speech
probably was indicated in the
new President’s remarks to a
meeting of the governors of 35
states Monday night.
The governors were hastily
assembled following the funeral
for the meeting at Johnson’s
former vice presidential offices.
Many were halted at airports
and summoned to hear the
President’s 30-minute appeal for
bipartisan backing in the days
of crisis following the assassin
ation.
The Chief Executive was re
ported to have stressed his
backing for federal programs to
aid education in expressing gen
eral support for Kennedy’s leg
islative goals.
To Urge Tax Cut
New York Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller, a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomin
ation, said that Johnson told the
group he would urge Congress
to act on the $11 billion tax cut
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10 to 18 knots and partly cloudy
weather today, tonight and
Wednesday. Widely scattered
showers in central portion.
Coastal: Easterly winds 10 to
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weather with a few showers to
day, tonight and Wednesday.
Mobile Vicinity: Mostly
cloud?‘trough Wednesday with
scattered showers, pist to
southeast winds 15 to 25 tules
per hour. High today i8» low
Wednesday 45.